@@maximtarna6669 Yes. Or even better you could debloat the Windows 11 you have running. Tiny 11 is not really recommended as a daily driver since you can never know what the developer has packaged in with it. If you debloat it yourself you know what is installed and what not.
@@TechKingdom35 Tiny 11 has recently come under some heat. People have found some kind of sketchy things going on with it. I'd suggest the Ghost Spectre myself. It's lighter than tiny and has it's full source code up all the time and no one has ever found anything wonky with any version of the ghost versions.
@@TechKingdom35 I mean it is somewhat has its own desktop environment the continuum which i think is far ahead of its time and really similar to a samsung dex which is mature too. i don't think windows on arm is a very good choice for phone. I rather just have pure windows mobile, it's just sad that only few big developer would care about it. Heck even google created youtube for ios but not for windows.
I like that you said that it was powered by the 810 chip and at the same exact time on your always-on display it said 8:10 on the clock, that was satisfying
Yes absolutely. I love this phone. Sadly many of the different projects for it are now down and can't be easily downloaded. I will make a video about it at some point.
The only phone I ever got that actually had dual boot (WP7.8/Android)! Though to be honest none of these options were very good... WP7 had no software and Android was sluggish as hell...
Just give it a try as daily driver. I still use it that way. Nothing wrong with it. The absence of apps is actually a big plus, it transforms you into the next gen post-smartphone human.
i really dont understand people still barking about absence of app. 669,000 apps were available in the store. would people install the all 669,000 apps on the small screen? how many of people use those daily? how much time people spend on those 669,000 apps daily?
@@userwest626 deffo remember being happy google finally added maps. Microsoft had their own version but it wasn’t as updated. So probably little details like that where even if real apps or clones were available they weren’t up to date and updates would come after the companies took the time to release windows updates (after other os got an update) or clone apps weren’t up to par. And there’s probably a whole nother argument for people who actually use their pocket pc phones as a computer for business and computer work.
I freaked out when you said HTC HD1 at first haha + This is a GREAT video, it was so fun too see the process and the end result, you deserve loads more subs :D
I had a HTC HD2 for a while and enjoyed experimenting with different operating systems on it. I used it for a long time with Windows Phone 7, only getting a new phone when Windows Phone 8 and the Nokia Lumia 920 released, which had a mail in bonus for a wireless charger (Windows Phone got into that super early). I was gutted when my HD2 finally died, and even then it was just the charge port that stopped working. My 920 is still kicking with a broken microphone though and I bought a 950 XL just to experiment with not long ago so hearing about Tiny11 is really cool. Definitely giving this a try later.
926 If i recall correctly, you still get this on the windows 11 installer if you continue to hit F12 after selecting the USB device, basically it is a sub menu that allows you to select multiple ISOs if you have it set up that way. I think the menu still pops up even if you use the microsoft media creation tool with only the one ISO
I guess I could say, that Pocophone F1 is the real successor to HTC HD2 when it comes to modding. I mean come on, It could run almost any OS you throw at it. From the latest version of Android, (Given the fact that Poco abandoned the phone on Android 10) to Windows 11, and Even Linux. (PostMarket, Ubuntu. ArchLinux). plus that bonus active devs.
The biggest problem of installing an unsupported OS on Lumia phones, is not that the OS starts and runs as this video proved, but whether the windows 11 Tiny kernel does support and allows the function of typical smatphones components as the camera, the wifi, etc., and these functionalities were not shown to work on this video.
this looks like an exciting Sunday afternoon experiment! The camera of 950XL is outstanding even by today's standards and it probably becomes unusable after the Win 11 installation ? Is a rollback of windows 10 mobile possible once I am done with ?
Yes, it's a fun project. The camera sadly stopps working. But you can go back very easy by flashing the original firmware again. Just make sure that you find the correct one for your phone and region first.
I recently got a Retroid Pocket 3+ which is an android device and I thought it was going to be awkward using android in landscape and with physical buttons, but wow it felt so good. There's a built-in virtual mouse which almost makes it like a desktop and it's so much fun to use. Microsoft said they plan on making a handheld version of windows because of all these Chinese windows PCs coming out and I hope they make it good. I always hated how limited android and iOS were. I don't understand at all why they can't just give us folder for certain things. They've VERY VERY VERY slowly added more folder-like features to stuff, but it's just so annoying how some picture files are impossible to find if you don't organize them.
Really cool video but I wouldn't recommend downloading a tiny 11 ISO (they are often very sketchy) and its really simple to make your own tiny 11 with the builder which is made by the original creator
I had a couple of the Lumia phones and liked the layout . Easy to set up and find things on it . I recently bought a Sony Vaio VGN-ux72 from a Japanese auction site . Stupid me did not check the version of Vista that is on it so i can not change the system language . It runs a small hard drive and i am thinking of converting it to an SSD . The hard drive connects via a ribbon cable , 40 pin i think so i will have to get a converter from that to M.2 . Windows tiny would be good for it i think
If microsoft tries and put more effort into making there own in house arm architecture design and make windows work on it with the drawbacks we are facing right now thay can easily compete with apple in laptop and mobile space
Hey.. am a big fan of windows phone. Sad that they don't make it anymore. I was wondering can I have the Windows mobile OS in today's phone? I really love their UI.
Hi :) Sadly windows mobile is dead and you can't install it on a modern phone. If you are on Android you can replace your phones menu with a lookalike to windows mobile by installing a windows mobile launcher.
Would have been nice to see the windows 11 experience on portrait mode rather that landscape though. I mean, a smartphone is mainly meant to be used on portrait mode
@@user-fx9lc4gg6umost people use portrait mode. Not only that but Windows 11 is clearly not optimized for primarily touch interactions, let alone being on a sub 8" display
Sadly I cant find my Lumix 950Xl FFU searching the net cant seem to find it here's my phone details Product type: RM-116 Productcode : 059X458 and Operatorcode: 000-SG, for now I will have to find to find another way 🙂@@TechKingdom35
I want to get Lumia 950XL, because it can be used as thin client with USB C monitor. I have Dell P2723QE, that supports USB C input, with DP alt mode and 90W PD.
@@arnislacis9064 I did a quick google search and there seem to be some usb c powered mini PCs but they are way more expensive than the Lumia 950XL. What you could do is buy a notebook with usb c power but broken display and use that. Or a single board conputer
Checkout how it runs on a newer phone ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PPZu7xGHHq0.html The video is about Windows 11 on the Pocophone. It ran so well I could run modern games on it. Edit: I now also turned a foldable phone into a mini laptop using windows 11. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mfj_6Ga6ID0.html
Great video! you think it's possible to get this working on a 950 non XL ? In France the 950 XL is not findable, but the non XL is quite cheap (around 50 euros)
Absolutely. The tutorials work for both phones. The website states that "processor management is broken - only the 4 A53 cores are working, but locked to 763Mhz". So the performance is probably worse.
interasting. can it also run an external display? because if it did that, it would be a super efficent PC. not sure how many apps have an ARM version but at least you get an interface that is meant for mouse and keyboard(interfaces that aren't meant for it tend to be a bit of a pain to use).
@@2kBofFun well its even more super cheap if someone already owns the phone. but than again, they would have to buy a dongle to connect stuff to the phone. i have a Surface tablet that works pretty well when docked with a full sized monitor so i probably won't be spending any money on more efficent options. but hey, might help someone i guess.
I'm pretty sure it worked with all of my USB-C hubs (Microsoft Display Dock and some generic dock), also Windows 11 can run x86/desktop apps via emulation.
Yes its super cool. They also port them to newer phones. I did a video on a Pocophone with full windows 11. I even played games drom a dvd. Tiny Windows devices are awsome :) I have a few videos on some of them like the GPD Pockets.
I had the Lumia950 in 2015. It was a great phone, too expensive if you compared its stats with other brands, but the OS was great. Softwaresupport was the biggest issue and MS was too proud to open up to android. Microsoft appstore is not good now but it was an even bigger joke back then. They wanted to create their own ecosystem and become a competitor to Google and Apple. Even the idea thats possible in a saturated market is dumb, but they tried anyways. And failed miserably. However, the Lumias had an always-on display, AND wireless charging in 2015! + a badass camera, so hardware-wise a pretty neat phone. Seeing your Vid now makes me kinda regret giving away the phone. I had it sitting in a drawer til last year.
Very true. The hardware was very good. Even the software was. Android has much improved but back in 2015 I think windows 10 was the better os. Sadly the lack of apps killed it
Actually back then the idea was not dumb at all and they even started selling some good numbers in some markets.... I think in France they even outsold Apple at 1 point. Issue was that MS never put any real effort in it. Even their own employees, outside of windows phone team were using mostly iphones and androids as daily drivers so even integration of their own products like Outlook/exchange worked much better on competitors devices than their own. And you can't have successful product if only 1 department is driving it. Projects like this one require initiative from the entire company. If they have done that form the start, made all their products work best with their devices, invested a bit more into app ecosystem and marketing, maybe even made a deals with larger app developers to pay them to make a native apps, instead of bad ported ones, we would definitely have a 3rd equal player on the market... maybe even a new market leader. Because WP definitely had potential and in a lot of aspects it was years ahead of competition. WP UI is still by far the best UI for phones and there were tons of features that both Apple and Google straight-up copied and monetized, while no one outside of WP enthusiasts even knew existed on WP. Just look at the Google maps live view.... it's only now arriving on android, and only in some markets..... "Nokia maps" had this feature almost 10 years ago. And there are tons more of similar examples.
Overall great phone, camera was just wonderful. If not considering the original battery after 6 months of use just went crazy and phone started randomly turn off and last time it happened it started to swell up and almost blew up, good thing you can take the battery out 😂
the coolest part of win phone was it let you install apps on the sd card it self which was too much work to get done on android I was hope full MS will do something like conver phone into mini pc on your hands and may let pc apps to work on phone but that never came and lack of apps led to switch back to android
True, that was a very cool feature that was implemented way better than in android .I had the same hope. They would now have the technology to do that. A phone that is a phone on the go and can dock at home to be a PC. That would be so cool.
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It was a bloodthirsty battle bewteen the big 3, they didnt fail it. It was a good battle and they fell to treachery. They just should have put apps in containers and had done with it.
Interesting, I am going to pick up a 950XL purely for the camera because it had a 2 stage shutter button and was a great camera, I tried to keep going with the 950XL for a long time but eventually I had to switch to a NOKIA 8.3 running android using a windows launcher (Launcher 10 which is very good) but for the camera alone, I will buy a 950XL
Nice video, but can you install tiny win 11 pro on any old phone even with less ram and rom? I have an old phone that i can use and recently found back. I saw in other videos that they installed it on really old hardware with less than 1gb of ram. Or perhaps that was the tiny win 10 version. For me it just looks like fun to try out. I do not care if i brick the phone. And i need something to see my nas and play music from it on my music system. And yes it is easier to use a win laptop but that is not the point.
Thanks for the comment :) The short answer is no. This sis the oldest phone you can install Windows 10 or 11 on. The reason you see people using tiny 11 on super old devices is the CPU architecture of those devices. They are all X86 (Like a desktop pc). The video here installed it on an ARM device (so a phone). There the requirements are quite different and as far as I know the Lumia 950 from this video is already the absolute low-end.
Microsoft edge doesn't fully close unless you check off the option to let it run in the background on the performance/system setting section in the browser.
:D Yeah, many people notice that. The screen was just so reflective that I overlayed it with captured video so it would still be visible in the video :)
@@agoddamnferret A few. Celular is a bit buggy with dual-sim devices. My 950 XL is dual sim and sometimes the SIM random stop working and I need to restart. But it works well. Also you will never be able to use 2 SIMs at the same time, it only detects one. There is also a bug in Tiny11 where the Glance Screen settings in Lumia Settings app can't be opened. This makes me unable to disable Glance Screen. But it doesn't matter at all. Also sometimes when I plug it into charger and after I unplug the screen just doesn't turn on. Ctrl+alt+del (power+vol down) works sometimes but when it doesn't I need to force reboot it. Overall it works.
SIM Card works, calls also but sms not as far as I know. But the camera is also not working and the battery life as well. So not useful as a main phone
I've seen another video where a guy installed a Windows 11 (full version) on a OnePlus. I think it was a OnePlus 8. He also played some Crysis 3 on it. It wasn't super smooth but it was playable.
Aaaahhh. The HD2 what nostalgia. I had one from new and was so angry with Microsoft when they did nothing with their mobile OS. But it continued to be my main phone for many many years running all manner of different OS. I wonder where I put it?🤔
you have made a multiboot. ending up with only 4 gb free. would you still recommend multiboot? or ditch wm11... i want to install photoshop also but likely on sdcard .. what is your advice (reason i want photoshop and w11 is because i want to hook this phone up to my display tablet for drawing (huion kamvas 11) extended screen to draw on)
I would not recommend multiboot since, as you said the space is very limited. I also wouldn't realy recommend using this phone productively. Photoshop can be demanding and this phone does not have that much power.
@@TechKingdom35 ill try that. no multyboot, im just hoping i can get it to work. just need it for sketching coloring , no fancy effects/filtering. might not work but gotta try lol. if its not what i want can i still get wm10 back on , reinstalling phones rom?
@@TechKingdom35 damn its been 6 months i see.... (never got to it due to renovation of house.) however i did go back to this video.. the best ever description on how to get windows on lumia... and last night i did just that... flawless following your video.....and it works... toasty phone with windows ..thanks.. will put on a arm version of a drawing progam on later on this week.. will be playing with it tonight with it hooked up to a tablet display . only annoying thing so far is if the phone is off and you want to charge it (not turn it on) putting in a charging cable turns on the phone... and if i dont put the startmenu in dummy itl start the windows automaticly.... but hey its still freeking awesome i now have a windows phone with real windows...making a cast with a bluetooth keyboard/mousepad thing in it this weeken so it looks like tiny laptop tooo hehe...(i willleave a comment as soon as i tested drawing on it with pentablet how it goes) love your videos
@sadev101 Hey, thanks for that comment. Really made my day :) Cool that it worked. And yes, the charging solution is a bit annoying, but as you said, real windows on a phone is awsome.
I miss using my windows phone. It had the best keyboard. Android keyboards are ok and ios spelling correction is dumb beyond belief. I was pretty sad when I realised I installed a broken version of windows 10 mobile on my lumia 1320 and I had no way of reverting it back to something that worked. It’s neat seeing people still working on their lumias. Wish I could do something with mine.
Windows Phone was so good. If only Google hadn't sabotaged the thing, it would be such a great alternative to the iPhone. Imagine, every single Windows PC having seamless connection with your phone, and all you need is a specific phone with also a banger of a camera for a fraction of the flagship prices.
True it was a very good operating system. And it is very sad to see its downfall. The seemless switching between phone and PC would have been a killer feature and I'm sure the technology is there now but Microsoft probably won't do anything with it
Arevyou sure? Because there is some coil looking thing on the backcover that connects to those pins. But I haven't tested if wireless charging stops working if I would block the pins
does the front and rear camera both works on this distro? anyway looks cool. the lightweight version of win11 looks promising..however, if i flash this on my lumia 950 XL will i able to revert back to normal or is it irreversible? thanks anyway for the tutorial.
thanks for the nice video. I have 2 Questions. First of all, is it possible to connect to HDMI and second, can you still boot into the Windows Phone OS for using it as a phone?
great stuff. I love(d) my Lumia ... what a Camera! Would really like is to be able to use it as a phone within in tiny Win11 ... I guess, it would just have to be a whats app fone... as MS dropped Microsoft phone updates at least 4 years ago.....
Yeah, what a phone. It can do calls and sms wfrom tiny11. But there is no WhatsApp app for this version of windows. Sadly microsoft is known for dropping support of relatively new devices. The most recent example being the Surface Duo
wish theres a phone, phablet or small tablet (or the size of the gpd pocket) that has hardware and software of the surface go 2.. that would be awesome... lenovo had a phablet with full windows OS but the specs with 2 Gb ram was bad and rough years ago...
@@TechKingdom35 current option is the Lenovo ThinkPad X1 fold and duet 3i 2023 model.. the ThinkPad 8 tablet was ahead for its time.. something similar with Sony Vaio UX and the grid compass pc laptop..
@@drifter4training A X1 fold sounds very cool. But the durability would be my concern. Vaio VGN is still one of my favorite pieces of tech. Such a unique device.
Next time plug in the usb-c adapter and keyboard dongle before booting, otherwise the phone doesn't know what you plug in, is not plug and play, that's working only with desktops, laptops and tablets pc.
Damn you! I ended up buying a brand new one to go along with my Nokia Windows phone from 2014, I blame you......................................... thank you. 😁👍
Sadly not possible for now. It uses the Snapdragon 820 (the Lumia has the 810) which seems to be incompatible with windows on arm. I have seen people ruining android on it though.
Hi there, enjoyed the video, i used to own a 950, it really was the best phone i have ever used, even all these years later i still think how awesome that device was/is, i knew it had hidden potential which you proved here installing W11. 1. The Tiny11 iso was 4.2GB which is the same size as a normal W11 iso?? I wonder why the file is so big? (Tiny11 file) 2. Does edge work? 3. Did you connect to wifi or insert a sim? Would appreciate if you could get back to me, thanks in advance.
Thank you :) 1. I would assume there are scripts or configs that just skip warts of the installation. That would explain why the iso has the same size. But I sadly don't know. 2. Yes edge works , but is a bit slow 3. For the video I used wifi. But simcard should also work. Even ethernet via a usb adaptor should work
Windows could have redesigned their lumix into some lumix tab that would pretty much be competent with the iPad and S9 I can imagine how dope it would be..... Clean camera big battery, slick design with some latest processors and big storages. Uh 🤦♂️Micro slept on this one.
