I have a MSI Windpad 110W tablet, I recently put a 128GB mSATA hard drive in and installed Windows 8 and Android OS and dual boot them both with the Android OS being rooted. Every thing works fine. But I want to install a recovery and be able to install ROMS just like I do on my phone.
I am not sure this is the right thread, but I was hoping that I could get some direction on this project.
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I have a Toshiba Satellite L505, running Windows 7 Home Premium (dual core 1st gen i3).
Recent events have made me need to run android-only programs on a semi-daily basis. Combined with the cool factor, I am seriously considering buying a Honeycomb tablet. However, money is limited and I can't really afford it, so I would most likely wind up with a rooted nook color, or just upgrading my phone (LG Vortex). Not terrible options, but my sister has suggested something that would work just as well, if not better, for free.
I know there's at least some version of android that is compatible with x86 processors, and i could get my laptop to dual-boot W7HP and Android, that would be wonderful. Obviously I would want 3.0 Honeycomb, but I would be willing to install 2.4, 2.3, or 2.2. if something newer is not available.
The problem is, I have scoured google and found nothing about this, at all. I have heard of people installing android on their laptops, and some netbooks/laptops are even sold dual-booting, so I know its possible. Now, how on earth would I go about installing android as a secondary OS on my computer? So far I have only been able to find instructions to create an Android Live CD/SD/flash drive, but i need something permanently on my computer, where i can actually save my work and apps to the hard drive. WiFi, keyboard, trackpad, and USB drivers are required, CD and SD would be greatly appreciated as well.
How would i accomplish this? Any and all help would be massively appreciated.
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Yeah thats because only google has a bootable version of their os on a pc. They implement their virtual tool with sdk tool so thats how they want you do it its crazy..There is probably a way though you just have to modify the boot.ini file on your hard drive thus pointing it to the android os. First youll probably need a new hard drive if it can be done on a usb it can be done on a hard drive plain and simple. Dual booting is done through the bios. The bios is what loads the HD which loads the boot.ini file telling it what to boot. Not sure if that would work but its a start there might even be a windows app that will help you do this. Like I said if people are making bootable usb drives its the same process on a hard drive the bios is whats booting that usb so if you direct the bios to an extended hard drive thus booting the android os. Its the same process as it would be on a usb that would make it permanent and there is a program called EasyBCD which easily allows you to change the boot.ini which will basically allow you to have the selection of both operating systems on boot you can choose between the two once you get it working!
Actually it is so much easier. The Android x86 project uses grub. You can boot it and run from livecd, usb or install android to your home pc. I started doin this today to see what the performance benefits would be from a developer point of view.
Installation is pretty straight forward, with loads of tutorials on the website. Have a look at it here http://www.android-x86.org/
I have installed Prime OS classic 0.4.5 works fine on my L505-LS5014
I know it's possible to unlock the bootloader for the FHD 10 but how would I boot windows? I noticed people flash rooted images after they unlock bootloaders, would booting windows be the same? Would I need to create a windows image and then flash it like one would a rooted image?
Here's how to root the FHD 10 . Flashing full versions of windows 8.1 on and android x86 device seems like something no one has done yet. It will be awesome when it happens though.
Technically the hardware could support Windows 8, but I doubt we'll be seeing anyone trying to bring the OS to the ME302C. There just aren't enough developers interested in the tablet and it's not as simple as putting windows onto a new computer is.
windows on mobile devices (all versions) does not get as much support as android. and they are not open source so their hacks and mods are very few.
A $250 Win 8 tablet will draw in developers. I believe a lot of Asus Transformer Prime Devs will be interested.
As for installing windows, your right, tablet bios' are very basic.Either a bios will need to be ported or something like twrp2 could be used to make flashing a windows image manageable.
The biggest problem is getting things to work on x86, even the asus bootloader unlock was written for ARM and needs to be recompiled.
Another problem is storage. Even 32GB is not enough for Windows (not RT).
If you managed to install OS on SD, it's a different story.
Windows 8.1 has a minimum storage requirement of 16 GB. Installing programs would be best on a micro sd card. Although the fhd comes in both 16 and 32 gb. Enough to install microsoft office and some other productivity apps without a sd card.
I am using a cube iwork 8 tablet and want to use remix os, a few problems tho.
1: touch screen wont work
2: battery camera etc wont work either.
BUT i do have the origional android rom installler files for this tabet (it was duel boot indows and android but now its just windows but i can make it run any 32 bit uefi os)
if you can get the drivers from my android rom it may work! just i dont know how to do it lol.
-jake
Hi
I recently installed Remix OS to my Asus X502C laptop and it all seemed really quick and easy so I decided to try it out on my old Linx 7 Windows Tablet and my iRulu Windows W1005 however I just cannot seem to get it to work.
I can get it installed to either the hdd or a bootable USB drive but when I choose the Android OS to boot from I get varying errors of missing things etc and then it hangs on a black screen.
I have also tried various other Android images listed to work on Windows tabs and other installers; Rufus, the Androidx86 installer 2.4 from a thread on this forum etc..
I can run MEmu no problem on my iRulu but I really would like a dual boot on it or just single boot on the Linx 7, I am a member on the Linx forum and Reddit but the Android discussion seems to be dead on there and guides/files are missing but people have said they have had Android running.
Can anyone point me to something that will work?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Holly
I've successfully managed to get Remix OS 2.0 to run on my Teclast X80 Power Win/Android tablet. This tablet is based on the X5-Z8300 Intel Atom chipset, and I've removed and cleared out the Windows partition and gave the entire storage space/drive to the Android image.
I've also successfully removed and disabled the Remix launcher and run Nova Launcher Prime on it.
What I would like to do next is to remove the Taskbar and Notification tray of the Remix OS 2.0. I've seen a few posts regarding why anyone would like to do this, the answer is simple, the Remix OS 2.0 Android distribution is the only other distribution that works with my tablet. I have the B2N6 variant of this tablet, so the machetekills custom rom for it does not run (it was designed for the B2N3), however, I do have this tablet rooted with machetekills toolbox and have TWRP installed. From that, I was able to install Magisk and have my tablet rooted. Also, the stock rom that this tablet came with is highly unstable (if you queue up a ton of apps to be installed in Google Play Store, the tablet will eventually lock up and go into its death-roll bootloop til the battery is dead, then after charging the battery up, it will just continue into the bootloop until it kills the battery again, if left in this condition overnight, there is a possibility that the battery is overstressed and can flame up), is a distro from China so security is very questionable, as well as the kernel used was a 32-bit kernel rather than the nice 64-bit kernel in the Remix OS 2.0 distro (shout-out goes to this Korean guy who made a small blog that lead me to the Remix OS 2.0 and he even provided the link to it on his page).
FOR THOSE THAT WANT TO TRY REMIX OS 2.0 on their TECLAST X80 Power, Model B2N4 or B2N6 (as far as I know, the N4 and the N6 have the same software configuration for the touchscreen, the screen rotation/orientation) here is the link to the blog (please be aware that it's in Korean so you may need to run a translate to your own language with Google translate or something):
http://blog.naver.com/starfall909/220911067943
Can anyone please help me with how to remove the taskbar/notification of the Remix OS 2.0 and replaced with the stock Android home, back, applist, and with the notification bar and tray at the TOP of the screen, like a phone? I really do not like using this tablet as a Windows replacement, since this tablet can do that already natively (I've had it running Windows 10 x64 exclusively for the past 3 years) and Android as a desktop is not very good compared to Windows (let's be honest, if Android desktop was a thing, it would be carving a huge chunk out of the desktop marketshare from MacOS and Windows).
Thanks!