Visual Voicemail and VoIP For WP7 Confirmed Via Homebrew Registry Viewer
by David K on December 11, 2010
Nicolas (@twiniico) provided a Windows Phone registry viewer with source code and it’s released with a XAP (this is based on some other homebrew code floating around which we’ll talk about shortly). That means I can sideload and play with it. So you know, this is read only access so you cannot change the registry settings. Also, you cannot view all content as access is denied to several areas. Anyway, while digging through the Microsoft Software registry entries I noticed an entry for Visual Voicemail is there. It points to a file and shortcut within the phone as well. My take – it’s here and they haven’t activated it yet so expect it to go live with one of the pending updates. And so you have an idea as to what the registry looks like in Windows Phone 7, it’s maybe 1/10 of the size of WM6.5’s registry. It’s nowhere near as complex or large and only contains HKLM and HCKU. HCKU has only System and State but access is denied to many of these items. HKLM has only system and software. Within HKLM-System-State there is an entry for ActiveSync – so much for it being dead I guess. Within Hardware there’s an entry for ‘clamshell closed’ so that indicates there’s room for another chasis of phone in a clamshell factor. There’s also a directory for ‘VoIP’ so let’s hope that’s on the way. That’s within a ‘state’ sub though so there’s likely more out there related to this within the file systems.
If you want to download the XAP/source code to the registry viewer it is here. Click on the words ‘telecharger ce fichier’ to start the download.
Expect a file explorer (read access, not write) shortly. Very exciting times. Credit to Dave Amenta (the dev behind Send to WP7 f/k/a Chrome to WP7) for starting me on this venture and his assistance.
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December 12th, 2010 at 3:58 am
[...] Read more at MobilityDigest here. [...]
December 12th, 2010 at 5:29 am
Visual Voicemail and VoIP For WP7 Confirmed Via Homebrew Registry Viewer http://tinyurl.com/27j7wea
December 12th, 2010 at 6:42 am
RT @MobilityDigest: Visual Voicemail and VoIP For WP7 Confirmed Via Homebrew Registry Viewer http://tinyurl.com/27j7wea
December 12th, 2010 at 1:03 pm
[...] MobilityDigest was able to go through Windows Phone 7′s registry via a homebrew application and found some interesting entries. First of which is Visual Voicemail, which would potentially allow users to view their voicemail inboxes without having to go through the automated command system. (Short editorial: this needs to happen, like, yesterday; coming from an iPhone, I didn’t realize that I missed this feature — though I hardly get voicemails because people are courteous not to leave them anymore, I can’t make heads or tails of the command system!) [...]
December 12th, 2010 at 5:31 pm
[...] MobilityDigest was able to go through Windows Phone 7′s registry via a homebrew application and found some interesting entries. First of which is Visual Voicemail, which would potentially allow users to view their voicemail inboxes without having to go through the automated command system. (Short editorial: this needs to happen, like, yesterday; coming from an iPhone, I didn’t realize that I missed this feature — though I hardly get voicemails because people are courteous not to leave them anymore, I can’t make heads or tails of the command system!) [...]
December 12th, 2010 at 10:44 pm
Visual Voicemail and VoIP For WP7 Confirmed Via Homebrew Registry Viewer http://bit.ly/fHByii
December 13th, 2010 at 5:54 am
[...] : Mobility Digest [...]
December 13th, 2010 at 5:21 pm
[...] at MWC 2011 – might bring even more interesting features to Windows Phone 7. According to Mobility Digest and the registry entries seen below, WP7 supports VoIP calling and Visual Voicemail, but they’re [...]
December 13th, 2010 at 11:55 pm
@jeffwilcox There was someone who found a hint that visual voicemail might be available in #wp7 from the wp7 registry http://bit.ly/fRyuh4
December 14th, 2010 at 2:25 am
[...] ソース [MobilityDigest] via PocketNow 管理人コメント: ついに一部ではあるが、レジストリを探索できるようになった。このアクセスできない領域は、以前から指摘されていた「昇格」ベースといわれる WP7 のセキュリティ機構に関係していると思われる。 [...]
December 14th, 2010 at 5:00 am
[...] MWC 2011 is expected to offer a lot to the smartphone market and lets hope that this update also becomes a part of it. Source: Mobility Digest [...]
December 14th, 2010 at 7:33 am
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December 14th, 2010 at 10:11 am
[...] Voice-over-IP-Funktion und Visual Voicemail erhalten. Hinweise auf diese Features hat das US-Blog Mobility Digest in der Registry des aktuellen Windows Phone 7 entdeckt. Offenbar sei der Code bereits im jetzigen [...]
December 14th, 2010 at 10:40 am
[...] Voice-over-IP-Funktion und Visual Voicemail erhalten. Hinweise auf diese Features hat das US-Blog Mobility Digest in der Registry des aktuellen Windows Phone 7 entdeckt. Laut Blog-Eintrag sind die Funktionen [...]
December 14th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
Possible future voicemail and VoIP in Windows Phone 7 http://bit.ly/f2cPwu.
December 17th, 2010 at 5:50 pm
[...] for WP7, destined to land next year? Mobility Digest took a homebrewed registry viewer for WP7 and started nosing around, and saw some very interesting things. Buried inside the registry are entries for Visual Voicemail [...]
December 18th, 2010 at 6:40 am
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January 13th, 2011 at 11:20 pm
@alexalbrecht Visual VM will be on WP7, they just need to turn it on. It's in the registry: http://bit.ly/gbYxpI
January 18th, 2011 at 7:00 pm
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May 10th, 2011 at 4:27 pm
[...] join the famed “Mango” update for Windows Phone. We’ve known for a while that these keys are present in the registry, but when they were to be implemented has remained a mystery.The above tweet certainly doesn’t [...]