{"id":4378,"date":"2013-01-16T08:14:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T07:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4378"},"modified":"2013-01-15T16:26:12","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T15:26:12","slug":"when-windows-phone-asks-for-a-cd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/?p=4378","title":{"rendered":"When Windows Phone asks for a CD&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-Post Icon wp-image-3687\" title=\"MSFT-Windowslogo-new\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MSFT-Windowslogo-new-64x64.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MSFT-Windowslogo-new-64x64.png 64w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MSFT-Windowslogo-new-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MSFT-Windowslogo-new-24x24.png 24w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/MSFT-Windowslogo-new.png 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 64px) 100vw, 64px\" \/>&#8230;or: &#8220;Hey Windows, you know what you&#8217;re running on, eh?&#8221;. When a user<br \/>\ntried to flash the ROM of his Windows smartphone, the phone suddenly asked<br \/>\nfor an installation media. The problem is: Windows 8 comes on a DVD. So how<br \/>\ndo you get a DVD recognized by the smartphone?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->While tablets have USB host connectors which may probably recognize external drives, Windows phones don&#8217;t have such a connector. So in this case, the only thing to say is:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Boy, your smartphone is bricked!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The problem is, that you won&#8217;t be able to make the pone fetch the required files from a source as ther&#8217;s simply no source to install from. How do you get files on the flash memory of the phone if there&#8217;s no subsystem on the phone itself?<\/p>\n<p>Tampering with the BootROM of a flash-memory-based device is most likely to fail as you can&#8217;t control what&#8217;s happening during the flash process and if something may go wrong.<\/p>\n<p>The phone where this message has occured however won&#8217;t beep anymore&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-4379\" title=\"Windows-phone-installation-disc\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Windows-phone-installation-disc-360x480.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Windows-phone-installation-disc-360x480.jpg 360w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Windows-phone-installation-disc-768x1023.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Windows-phone-installation-disc.jpg 769w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 360px) 100vw, 360px\" \/>Oh&#8230; and one more thing: Also Microsoft has recognized, that smartphones have become a computer by now. Or how do you explain the message that Windows Phone is asking you to restart your computer? <img src=\"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/wp-includes\/images\/smilies\/wink.png\" alt=\";)\" class=\"wp-smiley\" style=\"height: 1em; max-height: 1em;\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;or: &#8220;Hey Windows, you know what you&#8217;re running on, eh?&#8221;. When a user tried to flash the ROM of his Windows smartphone, the phone suddenly asked for an installation media. The problem is: Windows 8 comes on a DVD. So how do you get a DVD recognized by the smartphone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,767,2211,3],"tags":[1908,1054,2295,2294],"class_list":["post-4378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-curiosities","category-fun-2","category-gadgets-2","category-news","tag-installation","tag-media","tag-recovery","tag-windows-8-phone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.netspark.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}