Comments on: How To: Install Windows 7 on HTC Shift [UMPC]

By: 除臭

除臭 — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 20:19:03 +0000

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By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:16:36 +0000

Hi all,
I’ve had my Shift for a few weeks now, and have tried a few of the methods described here and in other forums to update from the HTC supplied Windows Vista to Windows 7.
I’ve consistently hit the problem that Shift Control Center (ShagCtrl.exe) crashes once I upgrade beyond a certain point, no matter which upgrade route I choose. I really want to have ShagCtrl to have control of Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and USB etc. But I also really want to have Windows 7!
I’ve tried starting with an absolutely standard Vista as supplied by HTC. This is a pretty nice implementation of Vista, (as far as Vista can be nice!) and everything works as expected, with ShagCtrl available and working.
I’ve also tried taking a clean install of Windows 7 Ultimate onto a freshly formatted disk and installing all the drivers and programs as described.
Going the update route, everything (and in particular ShagCtrl) works until I apply the Vista SP1 update. At this point, ShagCtrl crashes with the message “ShagCtrl.exe has stopped responding. Click OK to search for a solution or…”.Of course, no solution is offered!
If I go the fresh install of Windows 7 route, something similar happens. As soon as I install ShagCtrl and restart, ShagCtrl crashes in exactly the same way. I’ve tried running ShagCtrl.exe in Vista compatibility mode – still no go.
From comments here, it seems that some folks have a working Windows 7 with a working Shift Control Center. Can someone please give me a point-by-point description of what they did to achieve this? I really don’t want to be stuck with an old version of Vista!

Thanks,
Richard

By: Pelle4495

Pelle4495 — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 10:20:08 +0000

First I want to thank you for the guide. Without it I would never know what the right sequence is for installing the drivers.
When using the newest build (7200) shagctrl works fine so the internet sharing is not nesasary. I have liberated my SnapVUE when I still was using Vista but now usb tool won’t work. have installed WindowsMobileDeviceCenter, connect trugh usb is on but still no connection. I do hear the “hardware connected” sound and an ‘unidentified device’ is found but no connection.
I used this guide to liberate. I can reccomend it: http://www.modaco.com/content/windows-mobile-news/266537/liberate-your-htc-shift/ and used this rom to get all of my stuff easy: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=480525
Exept USBTool everything works!

If you have more questions first read this guide and my links before you post here. I will be here for some time so if you can’t find the solotion anywhere you can post it here.

By: Eggie

Eggie — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 02:06:45 +0000

On the previous OS [VISTA Business], the touch screen of my HTC Shift is working smoothly but after installing the fresh copy of windows 7 and following the instruction above… The Touchscreen never function again… Please Help me…. Im stuck with this problem….

By: DougB

DougB — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 15:49:17 +0000

the install went perfect, no problems on the win7 side. Liberating snapvue got as far as the instruction to F5 in computer screen to show pocket_pc… nothing comes up in win7 as the instruction is for vista…

Can’t finish the liberation… is there an updated 2010 workaround to turn snapvue to wm6

By: Steve Masters

Steve Masters — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:49:18 +0000

oh and comm manager has disappeared and wont reload even though the control centre file seemed to load up ok?

By: Steve Masters

Steve Masters — Mon, 10 May 2010 14:47:18 +0000

Hello, have installed win 7 on my shift and it runs like lightening :-) thats the good news! The bad news is that I have followed the recommended steps for getting the thing back functioning as before and nothing seems to work. no wifi, no lan, no touch screen, the lan extension drivers seem to loop on loading and subsequently dont load, there is a “shag” error! never had this outside of the bedroom before :-) (sorry!) Any help appreciated. cheers S

By: Zeyad Kambouris

Zeyad Kambouris — Mon, 03 May 2010 10:13:38 +0000

I forgot to enable WiFi & BT in Vista before installing Win7 as i also didnt make dualbooting just installed Win7 .. what can i do to install both drives and use them….

Please Advise….

Thanks

By: ahmad

ahmad — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:48:19 +0000

Hello.
Is there any way to boot windows 7 from usb drive?
I have a boot-able USB and i use it to install win7. I couldn’t find any boot option for USB…
Thanks…

By: adi

adi — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:53:42 +0000

how i want to format my htc shift

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By: Leo van Rooijen

Leo van Rooijen — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:44:25 +0000

Everything is working fine. Your instructions are great.
My question is: How can I connect to the Internet 3G in Windows 7 since the option under the top right button is disabled.

Thanx in advance,

LeonardJ

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By: JM

JM — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 00:21:59 +0000

I followed these instructions to the letter. But before I considered “liberating” my SnapVue, I thought I would try opening the communication manager (using the top right button on the shift – just above the resolution changer button. The communication manager opened (Shagctrl.exe) and did not blue screen… I then tried enabling the modem. It switched to “on” state and connected perfectly. I got the reception bars with the little “H” icon to confirm HSPDA connection.

About 2 seconds later, a message bubble popped up in the task bar and said new hardware is found and is now connecting to the internet. After that I could browse the web etc…

NOTE: The only difference I can see is that I am using the newly leaked Windows 7 Ultimate Build 7057