Project ' Let's Jailbreak NoDo ' aims to unofficially developer unlock devices running NoDo

Everybody remembers Chevron unlocker which provided a simple way for users to developer unlock their device and sideload applications to their devices without paying the 99$ registration fees. Sadly, the void / security hole that led to the hack was fixed in the NoDo update and consequently the flourishing and growing homebrew community suddenly came to a standstill. XDA Forums user, Jaxbot, started a thread on XDA Forums today commencing the Project ' Let's jailbreak NoDo '.

The aim of the project is to " jailbreak " or unlock your Windows phone 7 device running NoDo unofficially. Read more about his project here

Hope we some progress in this thread, we will keep if you updated if we find something useful. Homebrew community is something that plays a significant role in the growth of the platform and looks like the WP7 community hasn't given up yet. Let's see what those bright and talented people at XDA come up with.

By Rahul Mathur

Microsoft : Used Chris Walshie's method to force Nodo update? You are screwed.

Remember Chris Walshie 's infamous hack that let users force update to Nodo update? Read more about it here. Well, it's become a serious issue now for users who applied the hack.
The aftereffects of the hack? Well, the users got what they want, their wait was over, but Microsoft wasn't too happy with this. Chris ended up apologizing for this ( which is ridiculous, IMO - Microsoft failed to deliver on promise and users were desperate for the long awaited yet stuck update ). Now there were news that this would result in no further updates for the devices that have been forced updated to NoDo via this hack.
For those of you who did, we have a bad news for you :

Brandon Watson tweeted today few hours back, confirming the speculations :

@Strider_Aus our guidance remains - Walshed phones will not update past NoDo (specififcally build 7390)

I hope they come up with a solution soon enough because a device with support for no further updates is no more useful than a piece of junk. We will update this as soon as we get more information on this.

By Rahul Mathur