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How to unlock & revive SD card after install Windows Phone 7?

Can’t detect your SD card at PC after installed Windows Phone 7? Windows Phone 7 build 7004 XBmod-Yuki ROM v2 will encrypt SD card and make it like a real WP7 phone. Therefore, your SD card is locked. And can’t be detected at all. How to unlock and revive SD card after install Windows Phone 7? You need to install StorageLock in WP7. Then use it to unlock the SD card. Or lock it if you want. After unlocked, you will see 2 partitions on your SD card. You may delete both of them and create FAT32 file type partition so that you can use the SD card again on PC, Android or Windows Mobile. Just follow below step by step guide to do so…

Note – only perform these tasks when you don’t want to use WP7 anymore. Or want to dual boot WP7 and Android (note – just unlock and don’t delete any partition). Else just skip these…

Prerequisites

  • Windows Phone 7
  • Zune Software (link)
  • WP7 Update Cab Sender

Download XBmod Windows Phone 7 ROM for HTC HD2

XBmod Windows Phone 7 ROM is another custom WP7 ROM for HTC HD2. As usual, ChevronWP7 built-in is a must have for custom ROM. So installing applications in xap format is not any issue at all. It is based on OEM version – 2250.09.07401.605 and Windows Phone version -7.0.7004.0.

XBmod WP7 on HTC HD2

Download Football Windows Phone 7 ROM for HTC HD2

I promised that I will be back to Windows Phone 7 when new stuff comes out. Yup, there are 2 custom Windows Phone 7 ROMs out there now. Here is the one cooked by xda-developer, Football. Good news, you don’t need to unlock it with ChevronWP7 by yourself. Ease our life a little bit. It is based on OEM version – 2250.09.07401.605 and Windows Phone version -7.0.7004.0.

Football WP7 on HTC HD2

How to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on HTC HD2 with 1 SD card?

How to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on HTC HD2? Simple, just get 2 SD cards. One for Windows Phone 7 and another one for Android. By default, phone will boot into WP7 when power on. To load Android, change to another SD card and power on (don’t let go power button) then load into MAGLDR bootloader. Select ‘Boot AD SD’ to load Android. However, it is not very user friendly to bring 2 SD cards all the time. So here is the step by step guide to dual boot Windows Phone 7 and Android on HTC HD2 with 1 SD card. Check out the screenshots for SD card partition details (Disk 3 is the SD card ~ 3.7GB).

Prerequisites

  • Partition Wizard Home Edition installed on PC – link
  • Windows Phone 7 installed on HTC HD2 – link
  • SD MAGLDR Android ROM for HTC HD2 – link

Download SHCameraApp ~ Camera for Windows Phone 7 HTC HD2

The best part for Windows Phone 7 on HTC HD2 ~ 720p video recording. However, the built-in camera application will capture VGA size video by default. And you need to change it to 720p every time you launch it. Haha… This problem solved with the help of SHCameraApp. SHCameraApp is a camera application for HTC HD2 with full resolution up to 5MP and auto-focus & touch focus support. Furthermore, you can save camera settings for photo and video. So no more changing to 720p manually.

SHCameraApp

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