I still use my Windows 8.1 Phone.. Was forced to go for hard reset. Lost Website to PDF and File Utilities.. Desperate to have them back. Microsoft Store deactivated for Windows Phones. So cannot download it.
Any way out??. Thanks in Advance.
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Not sure if this is the correct forum or website, but I am desperate :) I would like to restore a backup of my windows phone to the WP emulator but cannot get it to work. The phone is supposed to prompt you for a restore when you set it up the first time, but the emulator does not.
The emulator doesn't support this scenario
We paid a developer account in Windows Store (enterprise).
We created a Cordova 3.7 app for Windows Phone 8.1 and even we could test directly on a phone with Windows 8.1 from Visual Studio 2013 and everything worked in the hardware.
therefore, We begin to fill in the details for the App We need to publish in the store.
There is a section in which we are asked to upload a packaged App so here We have the chance of selecting it on the disk.
Our problem is We don't know how to create the pack and where in the disk Visual Studio left it.
We started to search in msdn.microsoft.com and these are the ideas we could get (but still couldn't make a pack):
1) Every where in MSDN they talk about a STORE option on Visual Studio. We can see this option in the ppal menu but all its options are disabled.
But in a forum, after searching a lot, We could figure out that this is normal for Cordova Apps on Visual Studio 2013 because they are considered as Silverlight Apps.
Then We find out again a doc in MSDN about uploading Silverlight Apps to Win Store. They say this kind of Apps must be packed and uploaded by hand.
2) So We focused in find out how to prepare a Windows Phone Silverlight 8.1 app for publishing.
This is a link in MSDN :http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/dn655122(v=vs.105).aspx
But a new problem comes out, We don’t have any Package.appxmanifest.xml file in our project but only have aWMAppManifest.xml file.
We finally find out only Windows Phone 8.1 projects on Visual Studio have the Package.appxmanifest.xml file and it seems that my Cordova Project was generated like a kind of a Win Phone 8.0, what is not that bad because we want our App to be supported by Windows P. 8.0 and 8.1 devices.
But at the end of all this journey, we are stuck at the first step again. So we realized we don't know how pack a Windows Phone 8 (Cordova) App in order to be uploaded to Windows Store.
How and where Visual Studio 2013 make the pack and what is the extension name of this file.
The App, as I said, is ok and can be deployed and executed OK in a real phone from Visual Studio (run button)
Sorry, We know the question is large but We wanted to clear what We had reached so you know What We are asking and What We could have done bad just in case.
Thanks in advance, We think a lot of people could profit of the answer of experts in this matter because a summary is needed, the info in MSDN seem disperse.
You cannot upload a Windows Phone Silverlight xap to the Windows Store, only to the Windows Phone store. To upload to the Windows Phone store you won't need the Package.appxmanifest for a Windows Phone 8 app (only for a Windows Phone 8.1 app).
You'll upload the xap file created when you build for release with the normal build process. You don't need to do any further modifications for a Silverlight app.
You can create either Windows Phone or Windows Store apps with Visual Studio Tools for Apache Cordova
Use Project->Store->Create App Packages.. from visual studio menu.
http://taco.visualstudio.com/en-us/docs/tutorial-package-publish-readme/#package-the-windows-version-of-your-app
I have a Windows Phone 8/8.1 App in the Windows Phone App Store. Unfortunately, I have lost the source due to system crash. Now, I want to decompile the XAP file. For decompilation I have downloaded JustDecompile from Telerik. But it fails to decompile the XAP file that I get from the store. I have an idea that the file is encrypted.
Is there a way to get the original file that I created using Visual Studio, as it is still available somewhere on the dev center (It shows the file name as published app)?
Is there any other workaround to get the source back from XAP?
Any suggestions are highly appreciated. I really need my app project back.
Install the app on your SD card. Then plug in the SD card into PC, change view property to show system files. Now, you can get into apps installation folder and get your dll's now.
Windows phone store xap files are encrypted. So you will not be able retrieve the files using store installed xap file. You might be able to contact the Dev center support team to see if they can provide the original xap file. I'm not sure if it is possible but you can give a try.
http://dev.windows.com/en-us/community/support ==> Publishing apps as support option.
I've been working on a Windows Phone 8 app, which I now want to change to be Windows Phone 8.1. How can I do this?
Should I create a new Windows Phone 8.1 app and copy all my existing files into it? Or is there an automated way for me to upgrade the existing solution to 8.1?
There are two ways to do that:
like in comment - right click on oyour project and you should see Retarget to Windows Phone 8.1
or you can open Properties window of your project and the in dropdown box Target Windows Phone OS version you can choose Windows Phone 8.1
In every case the VS should ask if you are sure to do that - it's one-way operation, so it's worth to make a backup of your solution. As WP8.1 has backward compability, in most cases there shouldn't be any problems.
Some clarification for the followers:
As WP8.0 apps are Silverlight, after retargetting it will still be a Silverlight app but WP8.1 (some new features and enhancemens).
Thought, if you want to retarget to WP8.1 Runtime, it's a totally different thing - it's a different type of an app, different API and more. You will have to port it manually. Note that not all features from WP8.0 are yet available in WP8.1 Runtime - here is a good article about that.
About 1 month ago, I see my app (xap file) hacked and published on too many sites that distribute XAP for windows phone 8, if you download the XAP from windows store, you can't unzip it's content, but When I download the xap from hacked sites, I can unzip and refactor the code! and the app bypass windows store then the user can use it without paying its price!
When I started WP8 dev. I heard that WP7 can be hacked but WP8 cannot!,
Its too frustrating, is WP8 hacked now?
Thanks
Yes, there were a couple of older (non-Nokia) Windows Phone 8 devices that were rooted. I think one was one of the older Samsung phones. Anyways, because they rooted it, you are able to copy the contents of the XAP files from a device unencrypted and view their contents. It sucks but there is not a lot that can be done about it.
The good news is a) You can only install these XAPs on other rooted or developer-unlocked phones, and b) all Windows Phone 8 devices will be upgraded to Windows Phone 8.1 this year, which uses a new packaging format (mitigating the issue somewhat).
HTH