OS Change - Motorola Droid RAZR

Is it possible in theory to boot the RAZR to a different OS altogether, like windows 8 metro? Thinking dual boot, keep MIUI on one partition and windows on another. Might be totally impossible but worth asking.
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Lotok said:
Is it possible in theory to boot the RAZR to a different OS altogether, like windows 8 metro? Thinking dual boot, keep MIUI on one partition and windows on another. Might be totally impossible but worth asking.
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Since Windows or IOS is closed source systems nobody can run it on any other device but a preloded device with the OS unlike Android.

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[Q] Is HD2 Rom Dual booting possible?

I just read in the XDA Portal that someone found a way to dual boot between two different Android Roms on one phone and ,well...i was wondering if this is possible with Windows. i have Miri N Dinik's Rom right now but say i wanted to try out Energy's Rom too...but keep my previous Rom. Is that doable or is there something special in Android phones that makes it possible?
fusion06 said:
I just read in the XDA Portal that someone found a way to dual boot between two different Android Roms on one phone and ,well...i was wondering if this is possible with Windows. i have Miri N Dinik's Rom right now but say i wanted to try out Energy's Rom too...but keep my previous Rom. Is that doable or is there something special in Android phones that makes it possible?
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To answer your question no its not possible to dual boot between 2 WinMo Roms. Android runs of partitions so you can install an Android Rom on different partitions and then select which partition to boot from. WinMo doesnt work like that.
Mark.
oooohhh o.k. thanks ! i need to hurry up and take these IT classes to further my computer and systems knowledge. January can't come soon enough. iv'e learned so much from just this site alone though..i think i'll have a bit of a head start when i do start class.
fusion06 said:
oooohhh o.k. thanks ! i need to hurry up and take these IT classes to further my computer and systems knowledge. January can't come soon enough. iv'e learned so much from just this site alone though..i think i'll have a bit of a head start when i do start class.
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Just use xda as your reference guide and you will do fine lol.
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is there any way to install winphone7 on the ((evo3d))

any way to have the windows phone 7 or 8 maybe on evo3d or any android device or we will stay flashing android roms it is the same android but with a litle mods and launchers we have to flash new system like sailfish webos wp7 even meego y not
neonlove said:
any way to have the windows phone 7 or 8 maybe on evo3d or any android device or we will stay flashing android roms it is the same android but with a litle mods and launchers we have to flash new system like sailfish webos wp7 even meego y not
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This is the second thread you've started today about alternative operating systems for the Evo 3D. Maybe you should have bought another phone if you don't like Android?
ramjet73
Took the words right out of my mouth.
Jsparta26 said:
Took the words right out of my mouth.
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like to change and have dual boot :fingers-crossed:
neonlove said:
any way to have the windows phone 7 or 8 maybe on evo3d or any android device or we will stay flashing android roms it is the same android but with a litle mods and launchers we have to flash new system like sailfish webos wp7 even meego y not
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Try launcher 7..its good
"launcher8" is better IMO.
@neonlove Unless WindowsPhone OS become OPEN SOURCE then NO you can't get WP on your device.
Because Android is OPEN SOURCE you can see Android being ported to iPhone and even to WP phones.
Hreidmar said:
@neonlove Unless WindowsPhone OS become OPEN SOURCE then NO you can't get WP on your device.
Because Android is OPEN SOURCE you can see Android being ported to iPhone and even to WP phones.
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Them iPhone and windows users are envious

[Q] Can we get an Ubuntu Touch Port on the DX2?

This is just a general question. I dont have the know how or skill to create a port like this. Maybe DZK could use his CM10 A3 base and move from there otherwise just build from scratch. It would be nice to see Ubuntu on our device.
Slowbalt
It depends on the structure of the files, Ubuntu moblie itself isnt running on a Jb base. The ubuntu moblie OS isnt a ROM Its an entire system its self. If someone along the line were to create some CM10 ROM that look and or acts like Ubuntu mobile then someone could port it over. But that is about all we could see on that.
P.S. it is very likely that someone will create a Ubuntu ROM on top of CM10
AKShotgun said:
It depends on the structure of the files, Ubuntu moblie itself isnt running on a Jb base. The ubuntu moblie OS isnt a ROM Its an entire system its self. If someone along the line were to create some CM10 ROM that look and or acts like Ubuntu mobile then someone could port it over. But that is about all we could see on that.
P.S. it is very likely that someone will create a Ubuntu ROM on top of CM10
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not exactly the code with in ubuntu touch is a lot like cm10.1. in fact it is the same just modified some with the ubuntu ui skined over it. it also uses a chroot process like you would if you felt like running full ubuntu virtually on the phone. making it slow and ineffecient. it can be done if someone is determined enough but i really see no point it doesnt support over 95% of apps and it does not support 3g data. it most likely will not be any reason to port it to the dx2/mx2 because by the time ubuntu touch be comes stable enough to use as a daily driver most developers will have stopped working on these devices and most people whod use it will have upgraded to a new phone.
Its extraordinarily hard since we have a locked boot loader and cannot flash a new kernel. SO it would have to run on top of GB 2.3.4 and have a monster set of patches just to get partial function. Not worth the effort for this phone.
For the Droid X2, it's probably unlikely you will ever see Ubuntu OS on your device. Like what was said above, the bootloader is locked so you can't simply install it like you would for phones that it is intended for (unlocked phones). Ubuntu OS is also not something just running on top of android. The only android stuff that is used is android kernel and services. They do this so they can support a variety of android phones and allow Ubuntu to run natively on a phone made for Android. But Ubuntu OS is its own OS and not a skin on top of android. But the biggest thing right now is that the version they released is not a full OS. Its a developer tool so developers can have something to test their apps and develop for. You dont want this on your device right now unless you plan on doing some development for Ubuntu. The OS is not functional as a daily driver as it is right now.
Yeah. I saw the xda developers YouTube. I was wrong. I didn't really expect the code to be like that.
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Noob looking for guidance/answers

A bit about me:
Hey guys, I have a huge interest in hardware and software. I know about hardware and how it works at an intermediate level, but my software understanding is very basic. I'm going to teach myself how to develop apps on Android, and other OS's once I actually know what I'm doing. (Nexus 5, and Oneplus One owner)
Actual question:
I'm assuming that a Linux based operating system is the best way to go about doing this, correct me if I'm wrong. I currently run Windows 8.1, what Linux based OS do you guys think I should dual boot alongside it? Does it matter? A lot of people recommend Debian, but from what I read, Google actually does their 4.4 KitKat development on Ubuntu LTS 10, I believe.
Thanks.

Windows on Venue non-pro

Has anyone put work into bringing windows to the non-pro Dell Venue 8? I have a Dell Venue 8 3830 I can dedicate to testing if anyone is willing to attempt it. Not sure if it's based on a uefi like it's pro version counterpart or if it could be hacked to support it from existing images for the pro.
Shouldn't be restricted to Windows. I'm sure if a UEFI based firmware can run on this tablet, it could be used for Linux just as easily as windows.
They're not uefi sorry only the Venue 10 5050 is uefi
social-design-concepts said:
They're not uefi sorry only the Venue 10 5050 is uefi
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Very similar tablets by Dell exist (the Pro versions) which are UEFI based. In theory it's possible to adapt it's firmware for this tablet due to the nearly identical hardware.
Synthax said:
A very similar tablet exists (the 5830) which is UEFI based. In theory it's possible to adapt it's firmware for this tablet due to the nearly identical hardware.
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Good luck : but those two are not even close to identical hardware
3830 Clovertrail Plus
5830 Baytrail
social-design-concepts said:
Good luck : but those two are not even close to identical hardware
3830 Clovertrail Plus
5830 Baytrail
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Are you saying it's not possible, or that it would just take too much work by too many people and there aren't nearly enough people interested in trying it?
Synthax said:
Are you saying it's not possible, or that it would just take too much work by too many people and there aren't nearly enough people interested in trying it?
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All the above biggest hurdle would be that the windows bootloader doesn't support sfi and then there are the proprietary graphics.
Really the only way it could be done would be by building a intel android boot image that supported xen and then boot windows as a VM. The bootstub used on the devices does support xen kernels but there is next to no documentation on how to build or set it up. Also I don't remember if the virtualization of the clovertrail plus soc supports hardware pass through or not.
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All the above biggest hurdle would be that the windows bootloader doesn't support sfi and then there are the proprietary graphics.
Really the only way it could be done would be by building a intel android boot image that supported xen and then boot windows as a VM. The bootstub used on the devices does support xen kernels but there is next to no documentation on how to build or set it up. Also I don't remember if the virtualization of the clovertrail plus soc supports hardware pass through or not.
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Makes sense. Was hoping to run Windows on it just because I tinker with things in my spare time. Guess I'll search around for one of those Android/Windows dual boot tablets since those are usually not to expensive and less of a pain to get working than dual booting with Android manually. Thanks for the info.

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