Depressed because you can’t install Subway Surfers on your newly bought Lumia Phone. Freetechy again comes to your rescue.
Update: Kiloo Games has updated their “Subway Surfers” with 512 MB RAM support. You can download the original game here.
So, yeah no need to use this guide for this purpose now. But again, You can actually get Windows Phone 8.1.
What really is the problem with Windows Phones while Android Phones could handle this game.
Windows Phone 8 does have a limitation regarding RAM. It gives less memory to the 3rd Party apps and reserves more for the System. This is done to maintain the phone performance. You see this is why Windows Phones are optimised and are lag free. But you do sacrifice few things. Games are not really apps, due to their power hungry nature they require more power, and since this platform limits the use of RAM, they are become incompatible.
Where as Android takes a very different approach it gives more RAM to app and often gives poor performance during normal use. So a friend of yours who is carrying a cheap android phone can boasts some nice games to you.
What is the solution then?
Well I don’t have an actual solution as it’s the work of the game developers to optimise the game to run on low hardware. But I do have a workaround to run this quite an addictive game on you Lumia Phone.
While the Windows Phones having 1GB RAM like L1020,L920,L820 could download it from the Official Marketplace. But low or mid range phones like L520, L620, L625, L720 are not having enough resources to install it.
Well, the thing is we have to developer unlock our phone. Developer unlocked phones have to ability to sideload apps and this apps can use more system resources. We will use this advantage to install Subway Surfers on Windows Phones.
Enough talk, Let’s do this. Follow the steps and You would be soon playing this game on your phone.
- First we need to make an App Studio Account. So, fire up your favourite browser and go to App Studio site and register with your Windows Id. The site may change its look so you have to figure out and find to register with app studio.
- After registering, we need to install an app called “Preview for Developers”, don’t worry it’s an official app from Microsoft Corp. Download it and install it on you phone.
- Open the application on you phone and go through the whole phone registration process. If everything goes fine, you will soon see this message in the app.
- Now some dirty work. Since we need to sideload apps, we need to download Windows Phone SDK. But the official SDK is too big about 1.2GBs. So, we are going to download one smaller version which is about 60mb. Here is the download link.
- Before installing we need one extra thing, .NET framework 4.5.1, download it again it’s only about 60mb. Here is the download link. Then install this Framework first.
- After installing the Framework, install the SDK which you have previously downloaded.
- After installing the SDK, you will find two applications on your desktop. If not then search in the start menu. If you have windows 8 or 7 search for “Windows Phone Developer Registration” and launch it.
- One windows will open and would ask you to connect your phone and unlock the passcode on the phone. It will then proceed and ask to sign in.
- Enter your windows id and password, the one from which you registered the app studio. Then click on “Unlock” and your phone would get developer unlocked. You would see something like this, the next time you open the same application.
- Now, we are very close to installing this game. What we need is the .xap file of the Subway Surfers game. Here is the download link.
- After downloading this we need one more tool to install the xap file on you phone. It’s called WPV Xap Deployer. Here is the download link.
- Now is the happy time, download it and open WPV XAP deployer. You will something like this.
- Click on “Add XAP files”, locate to your download subway surfers xap file. Make sure you have connected your phone to PC and check Target is Device.
- With sheer pleasure, Hit DEPLOY. Wait for a moment (90 sec) and Tada you have successfully installed Subway Surfers on your Lumia Device.
- Jump, Play, Dodge, Hit, Surf, do whatever to enjoy your Windows Phone.
Note: I am in no way supporting piracy here, the game is officially free and I don’t hosts the xap files. All the copyrights belong to their respective owners.
You may do the whole process on Windows 7. But Windows 8 is recommended.
