LumiaWOA Announcements

2021-10-31 18:53:57 Lumia Drivers got updated to version 2111.1

Hello everyone, just a tiny update for this (upcoming) month.

- Bug fixes to the USB C Phy driver, should solve some reliability issues some people had

- New settings application

- Updated FM Radio application

More details: https://github.com/WOA-Project/Lumia-Drivers/releases/tag/v2111.1

Update available through WOA Deployer or Driverupdater, refer to the link above for instructions

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2021-10-24 00:30:58 For people curious, source code is already available for the app here: https://github.com/WOA-Project/LumiaApp Open / Comment

2021-10-24 00:30:31 [Coming Soon]

Due to some feedback I made the decision to combine all second party settings apps into a single main "Lumia Settings App". The app is also going to be accessible directly from the start menu and also is slightly redesigned.

Expect this to be out in the coming week along with more USB-C fixes Open / Comment

2021-10-20 22:34:01 Just a tiny disclaimer


Today Microsoft Corporation released the Windows(R) Subsystem for Android(TM).
This feature of Windows(R) 11 is designed to work with devices featuring Hyper-V(TM).

The Lumia(R) 950 and 950 XLs do not support Hyper-V(TM), which means you will never have this functionality working ever on your phone.

So it's not really useful to ask us about this, it won't happen.*

*at least without a lot and a lot of serious work

Q&A:

Q) But Windows(R) Subsystem for Linux(GNU/Linux) works, I don't understand, doesn't that use Hyper-V(TM)?
A) WSL v1 does not make use of Hyper-V(TM), and that's the sole thing that works on the Lumia(R) 950 and 950 XL, WSL 2, uses Hyper-V(TM) and does not work

Legal:

Snapdragon is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated. Microsoft, the Microsoft Corporate Logo, Windows, Lumia, Windows Hello, Continuum, Hyper-V, and DirectX are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States. Miracast is a registered trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance. Other binaries may be copyright Qualcomm Incorporated and Microsoft Mobile. Open / Comment

2021-10-14 09:03:09 Potential performance/thermal improvement test

Hello, an issue has been identified with power profiles for SD810/SD808 not applying under desktop.

In order to confirm this we would need feedback on performance/thermals after applying this fix.

Instructions:


- Go to \Windows\Provisioning\Packages on the phone
- Take ownership of PPMSettings-8994Profiles.ppkg / PPMSettings-8992Profiles.ppkg
- Move PPMSettings-8994Profiles.ppkg / PPMSettings-8992Profiles.ppkg out of the Provisioning\Packages folder (ie on the Desktop). If you get permission errors, recheck that you took ownership of the file and adjust permissions for users if needed
- Double Tap on PPMSettings-8994Profiles.ppkg / PPMSettings-8992Profiles.ppkg, answer yes on the user account control (UAC) prompt, wait for the provisioning prompt to popup, install the provisioning package
- Wait 30 seconds to ensure the package is installed
- Reboot the device

The package should show up under Settings -> Accounts -> Work or School Account -> Provisioning Packages as Power.Settings.Processor in Windows. If you get an error code after installing, make sure you moved the file, and not copied it Open / Comment

2021-10-03 19:53:58 More up to date than Surface Duo (any gen) Open / Comment

2021-10-03 12:39:38 For people that have had issues updating to this release using driverupdater:

Make sure you are using the latest version of the Driver Updater Utility

Make sure your uefi is up to date (https://github.com/WOA-Project/Lumia950XLPkg/releases)

After the update, check device manager

For each device with a yellow warning sign (yellow bang) right click, uninstall device, do not tick the option to also remove the driver. Repeat for all devices

Under USB devices, you will likely see a duplicated Type-C controller driver, find the one whose instance is ROOT\Tyc\1000 and right click, uninstall.

Reboot the device

Background:

The bulk of these issues are caused by an oversight/bug in previous versions of driver updater. If they were used in the past on the installation on the phone, drivers would be permanently sticking to the install and thus the update process would either not update any device, or would duplicate the devices, leading to issues Open / Comment

2021-10-02 11:01:46 Lumia Drivers got updated to version 2110.1

IMPORTANT: Driver Updater Got updated alongside this release. Make sure you are using the latest!

https://github.com/WOA-Project/Lumia-Drivers/releases/tag/v2110.1 Open / Comment

2021-10-01 23:03:12 Currently testing tomorrow's release

SD Card support?
Faster SD808?
More reliable device installation process?
USB C Fixes? Open / Comment

2021-09-30 18:11:05 Status update (09/30/2021)

Hello everyone, here is a small status update after a week with not much happening.

With the past prereleases we realized there is not much point to continue releasing daily releases because of the little benefits this gives to our users (lack of support is one) and less documentation available. That is why I will now proceed to adopt a weekly cadence instead with this time support for these at the condition that issues are genuine and not already known things.

Lately we have been working on reversing some of the acpi tables. Indeed one thing we would want to do in order to greatly improve the installation and upgrade experience is fixing missing or incorrect dependencies in acpi tables. More over we are also exploring the idea of putting more functionality in acpi tables themselves to improve a few things (not much to share at the moment). In order to do this we obviously need to edit ACPI tables. However decompiling the stock tables and recompiling the output of them turns out to create a lot of issues with a lot of the aml code, especially regarding pcie but not just pcie. The same thing would also happen if you happened to have the real main aml code, decompile it, and recompile it. As this is a very big issue especially regarding sleep, making changes to the tables require reversing all of the changes so we can get a source that compiles to something byte to byte identical to the original tables.

As of today this task has been successfully completed for Cityman.

Talkman and Hapanero (?) are remaining but should not take much time to complete.

Once this is fully completed we will then be able to add improvements to acpi enabling feature upgrades, reset functionality and much more.

The other key item of the week is some fixes regarding the usb c phy driver (uc120 fpga over spi) that should fix some issues with detection and pd communication after two role changes (two plug insertions) as well as issues with drp and alt mode.

That is pretty much it for this week. Hoping to release a new version during the weekend. Open / Comment