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How to Upgrade Manually to Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray"

  With the development cycle for Ubuntu 26.10 officially underway, Canonical has published stonking/snapshot-1 . For early adopters, developers, and enthusiasts looking to ride the absolute edge of the open-source wave, the temptation to jump from the stable shores of 26.04 LTS, Resolute Raccoon, into the development stream is strong. Because the automated release pathways are not populated so early in the cycle, the standard do-release-upgrade -d tool will politely decline to find the new branch. To make the leap, we must step past the guardrails and manage our repository tracking manually. > Important Prerequisite: Upgrading to a day-one snapshot moves your environment into a highly experimental space. Ensure all core personal files, configurations, and local development repositories are thoroughly backed up before executing these steps. Ubuntu 26.04 has transitioned to a modern, structured deb822 formatting layout for core package sources. This means standard mod...

interop unlock Lumia 950/XL

This is the easiest way to interop unlock Lumia 950, 950XL since it can't be done with interop tools 




2. Extract the iutool.7zip

3. Extract the  acer.service.acersystemservice.spkg to "C:\acer"

4. Install the vcreg appx and dependencies in developer mode

5. Connect the Lumia to PC and copy the  NdtkSvc.dll and newndtksvc.dll to the Documents folder in internal storage

6. Open command prompt as administrator and type: 

"cd C:\iutool"
"iutool.exe -v -p C:\acer" the phone should reboot to gears. If not manually reboot

You should see the gears.

8. Go to step 2 in vcreg app and follow the prompts. It will ask to reboot device couple of times

Install interop tools appxbundle from here 

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