Jan "Jenkings" Škoda - blog

I have tried some next step to install software to Lumia 630. The windows 8.1 mobile was absolutely 'bricked' in the way of installing software. I have tried all possibilities, read hundreds of articles and watched hours of youtube tutorials, but i was inable to make any installer of app working. So i have decided to try to update to Windows 10. After trying some semi-official command line tools to upgrade the phone, without any result, i have found some chinese tool on XDA developers forums, which finally worked.



After few tries and many hours of updating, the phone is finally running Windows 10. However it has changed almost nothing. The store does not work either. The end of support of Windows 8.1 store was announced in 2019, the Windows Mobile 10 store was silently closed at the end of 2023 without any announcement.

The only progress i have made by updating to Windows 10 is, that now i have the File Manageer app, which was not included in Windows 8.1, so now i can access the files, transfered from computer. Now i can see the .xap .appx and other installer files, i can open them, see the dialog for installation, however after clicking "install" button, nothing more happens. I have alo found some developer feature, which runs webserver, which allows to sideload apps, however it returns various error codes for every install file.



I feel lost. I still cannot understand, why there is no option to sideload apps, when the official stores are closed. Whe the Microsoft has not released some "update", which would turn off the "security" functions, making impossible to install any apps? It is dead platform, with dead environmens, so why not to make the installing apps possible? Where is the "eco-fanatism" now ? I have completely working phone, with no use, because you cannot install any software...

Of course, the phone is for collection purposes, but the idea remains... why have fully functional hardware that is "bricked" with software?