Nokia Lumia 800 and 710 get 1st custom ROM with interop unlock

Lumia 800 with Custom ROM

The presence of WP7 Root Tools demonstrates this Lumia 800 is interop-unlocked

It has certainly been a very exciting 24 hours for Nokia fans betwixt the early release of the 900 data-prepare, that hilarous video from India or the prospect that "the Woz" may pick up a Lumia. And at present we can add together ane more.

Over at XDA they accept successfully figured out how to get the Lumia devices into unlocked bootloader way (or rather, to notice if your phone has an unlocked bootloader). In turn, you can install a custom ROM with build 12070 (RM819_059P453_1600.2487.8107.12070_002) on lath plus an interop-unlock.

The interop-unlock method goes deeper than developer unlocked on Mango phones but not as deep equally a full-unlock. However, it volition let users to install some more sophisticated homebrew apps (e.m. registry editors) equally opposed to simply sideloading signed apps.

Unfortunately a lot of Lumia 800'southward won't have an unlocked bootloader (you'll need to check your phone first) but biktor_gj and the rest of the crew over at XDA will surely get to devices with newer firmware on board and unlock their bootloaders eventually.

At fourth dimension of this writing, biktor_gj is still uploading the custom ROM for the Lumia 710 with interop unlock, though it should be upwardly shortly and use the same process.

Certainly this is a big day for Lumia owners and simply the tip of the iceberg for the custom ROMs to follow on these devices.

Source: XDA Forums; via Nokia Hard disk Web log; Cheers, niccolo, for the tip

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