The step by step guide to using SHIFTpack.Liberate

1. First you need to send to your device with those files we mentioned. Either input your email address below...
   • E-Mail Address for SHIFTpack.Liberate files:
   or click these links to send them to yourself the hard way!
   • LNK file
   • CAB file
   Make sure you have these sitting in your inbox, downloaded and ready to be saved.
2. We're going to save one of these files in the 'Settings' directory that appears when you hit 'Settings' on the homescreen, so we need to do some cheeky stuff to get access to that. So...
   • Start a new mail
   • Select 'Insert Picture'
   • Browse to \Windows
   • With the keyboard, navigate so 'Settings' is highlighted, and hit CTRL-X. The folder icon will go a lighter colour.
   • Now navigate to \My Documents, and hit CTRL-V. Settings will appear.
   • Select 'Cancel Message' to close that new message.
3. We're now ready to save the files. Firstly, press and hold on the CAB file, Select 'Save As' and save in the default location. Next press and hold on the .lnk file, select 'Save As' but this time drop down the 'Folder' box and select 'Settings'.
4. We're now ready to put that settings menu back where it should be.
   • Start a new mail
   • Select 'Insert Picture'
   • Browse to \My Documents
   • With the keyboard, navigate so 'Settings' is highlighted, and hit CTRL-X. The folder icon will go a lighter colour.
   • Now navigate to \Windows, and hit CTRL-V. Settings will appear right down the bottom of the list.
   • Select 'Cancel Message' to close that new message.
5. Good stuff, we're now ready to actually carry out the Liberation ;) From the home screen, select Settings as normal, and you'll see a new option - 'Liberate'! Select it, say yes to the prompt, and let it finish. Then close the Settings page and reopen it before hitting the 'Soft Reset' item that has now appeared (you'll notice 'Liberate' has now disappeared from here!).
6. The device reboots, and it is liberated! Hurrah! You can use the 'USB Tool' option that is now in Settings to hook up to Vista (as in the video) and do all the normal stuff you'd expect to do with Windows Mobile!

Hi Paul,

I have my Shift for a few days now and I tried everything to get it liberated, but it won't work.
First I added an email account (gmail) to SnapView and sent the files to it. When I got them in my inbox I unpacked everything as described in the video. But when clicking on the 'Liberate' link I get an error message:
Installation von
SHIFTpack.Liberate.CAB ist
fehlgeschlagen
This is the same error message as posted a few times in this thread - but here in German, because it's a German device.
I've tried different email accounts and sent the files manually or by your service - it's all the same, the liberation will not work.

One strange thing I found: I wanted to see, how many bytes the CAB file is on the Shift and so I opened a new mail and opend insert->file to get access to the CAB file. When I attached it into the mail it's indicated with '(0 Bytes)'. Then I've done the same thing on my HTC Athena and here the file size is given as '(369 Bytes)'. Maybe there is something lost on the way. But how can this be, when I've tried differet email accounts and ways of sending the files?

I'm very frustrated and have no idea left what to try to get it done.
Do you have any messages from other users with similar problems, that may help me?
Many thanx in advance, Hiu.