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@gus33000 gus33000 released this 26 Nov 18:13
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Hello and Welcome to the first preview of WPinternals 3.0!

We plan to update WPinternals further to resolve many issues in this series, as well as bring new functionality to WPinternals, to support more Operating Systems.

While this preview build may not contain much in terms of features, some rework has been done and more is to come in the next previews.

This release being a preview build comes with caveats, known issues, and will expire on December 21, 2023.

Without further ado, let's dive into what's new in WPinternals 3.0 Preview 1:

What's New

  • We now support creating Custom ROM backups for more than just Windows Phone. In this release, we added support for known partition names for Windows Core OS. The tool will now attempt to backup the known partitions for these OSes, namely MainOS, Data, OSData, PreInstalled, BSP, PLAT, and more! Please note you can easily brick your phone by flashing PLAT and EFIESP files not meant for a device that is of the exact same model as yours, and is not production unlike your device. Proceed with caution when flashing packages intended for an unfused engineering device, or a different model!

  • In this release, we are expanding on the new feature we added in WPinternals 2.8 (GPT backup and restore feature). Starting with WPinternals 3.0, creating Custom ROM backups will also include a backup of the GPT of the device, in xml form. This file will be named "Partitions.xml" and be present in your Custom ROM zip packages. WPinternals will then use it, as if you were restoring it manually via command line when flashing Custom ROMs. This is especially useful when flashing ROMs with different partitions than what is available on your phone currently, or differently sized partitions.

  • In this release, we are making it easier than ever to edit GPTs, we added a new command "WPinternals -ConvertGPT" designed to allow you to obtain a Partitions.xml file, from a full device image backup (RAW img) or a single GPT.bin binary file. Thanks to this command, not only you'll be able to flash GPTs of foreign images more easily thanks to the existing Backup and Restore commands added in 2.8, but you'll also be able to edit them to fit your phone. We can't wait to see what you do with this.

  • In this release, we are also bringing back the WPinternals SDK and Root Access Test application

Known Issues in this release

  • Due to the now public nature of the tool, we do not need a NDA agreement page anymore. You will notice this preview build asks you to register and sign a NDA. This release is not under NDA, and the registration information is not going to be sent anymore because the website is long gone. We will fix this in the next preview build.

  • Lumia 532 is unsupported.

  • Having WPinternals and plugging a Lumia with Bootloader Spec B in Qualcomm Download Mode (9008) may hang the Sahara statemachine and prevent further recovery course til you hard reboot the device using the power and volume down buttons.

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