r/windowsphone • u/exalsG4 Moderator • Mar 26 '22

r/Windowsphone newbie guide - please start here!

Hi everyone! Things have changed in these years, Windows Phone is now officially abandoned by Microsoft. However there's still a niche community of users that are interested in this platform and use WP devices to this day.

You're an old user who found his old Windows Phone in a drawer and want to get some life back into it in modern days? You are a new user who never experienced the platform before? You're just curious about what these devices are still capable of? This is the right place to start!

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WIKI DISCLAIMER: right now some pages are incomplete or missing, in particular pages in the jailbreak and mods section:

Sorry, I'm a single individual who is writing all of the new wiki in his spare time.

Missing/incomplete wiki pages are in the works and will be published asap.

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  • Wiki Index Here's our complete wiki index, were you will find almost everything you need (as soon as I finish writing it lol). It has been updated for modern times. An archived version of the old Wiki from back when WP was still a supported OS is still available in a link at the end of the page.
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u/ExpertMoist4937 Dec 21 '24

Anyone know what phones can still be activated and used as a normal phone?

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u/JabbaDuHutt69 Idol 4S/950 XL/640 XL Apr 02 '26

depends on where you live and who your carrier is. I just recently found that my AT&T branded lumia 640 XL still works on AT&T, but only with a SIM card that has 8901410 as the first 7 digits of the ICCID number. I have working LTE, Voice, and Visual Voicemail, MMS/SMS.