Android and WM7 dual-boot - HD2 General

I saw this post in Engadget, but I can't find the original thread (if there is one here) with regards to the video in the article.
Has anyone else tried the steps in the video?
Also, it says that there are other dual-booting methods. Where can I find them?
Thanks!

link to video for those that dont want to look:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0YI-SV4KiU&feature=player_embedded#at=160
wish i had a 8 gig card to try this with...seems pretty straight forward

This thread will give you instructions on how to ready your SD card for both OS...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
Instructions on installing WP7 are in the HD2 WP7 Dev forum.
Then you just need to find an Android SD build that you can boot from Magldr. It's also possible to modify existing SD builds so that they can run from Magldr, but you'd need to search the HD2 Android SD Dev forum for that.

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[Q] DualBoot Wp7 and android?

Just Installed Windows Phone 7 on my HD2 and I was wondering if there's a way to Dual boot Windows phone 7 and Android Either SD builds or NAND builds.
Thanks in advance
Can you not run Haret or whatever other android loader you have from your wp7 file explorer? P.S. I haven't installed WP7 yet, I need to know if Dual Boot is possible
I can't even find a file explorer
so far I like really the looks of WinPhone 7 but I miss the Functionality
There is a guide for this under the android dev forums, its one of the stickies.
You can still run android from SD with magldr... you just have to either partition your sd card or switch sd cards used for wp7 and android. WP7 doesn't run winmo apps. And doesn't come with file explorer, but schaps made a file explorer called touchexplorer that you can install. Read around the forums, there are directions allover for this stuff. I have WP7 on my nand right now with a 16gb card, and I'm about to setup my 32gb card to run android off of.
Thanx, so I have an 8 GB card and i'm Currently runing WinPhone 7
I don't Know exactly how to partition it and the method to run android too is there a guide?
and will it be NAND or SD build?
and if both of them run will Both OS's be able to see same Music, Photos, etc.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
Here's a guide.
And no, they won't be able to see same music or anything... they will be completely seperate partitions and can't read each other. WP7 will be on NAND and Android is ran from SD card.
Thank u so much
just another Question plz
Android can't be run from NAND also as a second operating system, it must be an sdcard build right?
Edit: Ignore that found the answer in the thread which is no it must be ran from SD
Thanx again

[Q] About to Flash WP7 couple of questions

I have done a ton of reading today but can't seem to find some last answers.
I do apologize, but I've been coming in and out of these forums for years and flashing various phones on occaision so I'm comfortable but no expert.
I have a TMOUS HD2 (yellow reset key) with the stock wm6 rom installed.
I've been running Android MDjGingerbread v.1.0 for a couple months and it's GREAT.
Now I want to try out WP7.
Questions:
1. I have everything downloaded and ready to go but am not sure about the radio. as I understand it I (as a tmous owner) have to MAKE SURE that the radio that's packaged with the WP7 doesn't get written? how do I do that? Or am I confused on this.
2. As I'm currently happy with the install I have on the SD card for android I'm going to remove this SD card prior to flashing WP7 So it doesn't get overwritten. HOWEVER I'm wondering will I be able to re-install this SD card after getting WP7 all set up and unlocked and doing everything needed to the SD card I use for the WP7 install.. .Can I remove that SD card and replace it with the one that has the Android Rom I've had such good luck with? and then boot to that android build from WP7 like I did from Winmo6? Or will I have to sort out a fresh android install to the SD card.
3. Are DFT WP7 roms already registry edited so they appear as HD7's or does that need to be done prior to trying to get an unlock code from MS. If so where's a link to that? I can't seem to find instructions on that.
LASTLY. I understand you can actually run all 3. winmo6 in nand and WP7 partition/Android Partition off the SD card.
What I don't get is if you have to Nand flash the WP7 first to get all the settings straight and copy that install to the partitioned SD card... THEN put the android build I want on the other partition? Or Can WP7 be run from SD card for the whole process? I'd prefer to just leave the stock rom alone. Although obviously not completely against it.
Any/All help is greatly appreciated.
Mods feel free to delete and PM me with links if I missed these answers in an obvious spot.
You do expect a PM from a mod, sending you links to obvious spots?
Hmmm... I guess that won´t happen. But maybe you read too much, overlooking some of the "obvious" spots inside the stickies of each subforum.
Anyway, now to your questions:
1) WP7 ROMs don´t come with Radio ROM parts.
Note: To install MAGLDR, check this thread here. Here you´ll learn about requirements. If you had a NAND Android build, you´ll be familiar with this - but please make sure to use MAGLDR 1.12 or higher with WP7.
2) There is a tutorial to dual boot WP7 and Android: Click!
3) The very first "Leo70" ROM is not jailbroken, virtually all others are
4) No triple boot possible yet, only WP7 and Android or WinMo 6.5 and Android.
Thanks So much.
Shoulda just kept reading. It's up and running 100pct now.
Just got to figure out why I cant get it to see the SD card.
but I think I saw some notes on that. I'll go back and read tomorrow.

Purchasing HD2 today and need some newbie pointers

Yes, I did see this sticky with links, but that is by no means a starting point for a total newbie, and by newbie I don't mean someone that's incapable of following instructions, as I've gone through several ROM's on my Pre, G1, myTouch 3G, EPIC 4G, iPhone/3G/3GS. I am just new to WP7 and that sticky doesn't really explain where to start.
Specifically, I am getting a used HD2 with WM6 on it and I want to end up with a dual-bool WM7/Android system on it. I just saw that was possible, but saw different combinations and different methods: WP7 on NAND & Android on SD and viceversa, etc.
Any tips would be appreciated.
First install hspl,than flash a good radio, then magldr,then clockwork mod and then flash a great android rom
Or for win phone stop at magldr and flash win phone ...i know its very short but you will have Tor search for a tutorial for each because there is much to say )).if there is a special question write me a PM
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jonas2295 said:
First install hspl,than flash a good radio, then magldr,then clockwork mod and then flash a great android rom
Or for win phone stop at magldr and flash win phone ...i know its very short but you will have Tor search for a tutorial for each because there is much to say )).if there is a special question write me a PM
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Short yes, but actually, that should give me a starting point, even though it did not explain which OS I should flash on NAND and which on SD or why, which sounds like one of the first things I need to decide. But yes, I guess I will need to do a lot of reading before knowing my path. Thanks.
Hi,
First of all you can't have WM7 and Android at the same time, or else, if you had a TMOUs you will find some tutorials to doi it.
I recommend you to search, you will find aht you are looking for.
At xda-developers.com first page you will find a link to how to do it... ok I give you a tip : http://www.xda-developers.com/android/complete-guide-to-installing-nand-android-on-hd2/
And I think this is not the correct forum to ask this
See you
ok lets clear this up, HSPL, radio, MAGLDR, flash WP7, then follow tutorial to install android as well
Ive not bothered, since i moved to WP7 from android you couldnt pay me to go back, but i think the process is basically, install WP7 with a working small SD card, take SD card and clone it to a bigger SD card and then install android on the SD, there are plenty of tutorials on all this,.
also to be clear, you MUST install WP7 to NAND, it uses the SD card as well, you cant use it just on SD, so if you want android its (or it was the last time i checked) NAND+SD for WP7 and a alternate partition for android.
OK, doest your purchase seems to you as some sort of DEVELOPMENT? I guess not. SO why the hell are you placing your question in development section?
And are you joking about that you dont know where to start? You want dual boot WP7 device. Ok, what about looking for a thread about -fanfare- how to dual boot WP7 and android? And yes, it is present on this forum and I gues it has sticky on it.
YOU ARE LAZY!
dazza9075 said:
ok lets clear this up, HSPL, radio, MAGLDR, flash WP7, then follow tutorial to install android as well
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You might have to flash a older original hd2 rom first(1.66....something).
chumaj001 said:
OK, doest your purchase seems to you as some sort of DEVELOPMENT? I guess not. SO why the hell are you placing your question in development section?
And are you joking about that you dont know where to start? You want dual boot WP7 device. Ok, what about looking for a thread about -fanfare- how to dual boot WP7 and android? And yes, it is present on this forum and I gues it has sticky on it.
YOU ARE LAZY!
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The man has got a point.
chumaj001 said:
OK, doest your purchase seems to you as some sort of DEVELOPMENT? I guess not. SO why the hell are you placing your question in development section?
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Because I'm USING developers' work and asking them about it, like 90% of the users of this forum. Not everyone who posts here is a cook.
chumaj001 said:
And are you joking about that you dont know where to start? You want dual boot WP7 device. Ok, what about looking for a thread about -fanfare- how to dual boot WP7 and android? And yes, it is present on this forum and I gues it has sticky on it.
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Definitely not joking and that thread (which isn't stickied, by the way) is hardly the starting point I'm looking for, since it starts assuming you already have Gingerbread on your HD2 and you know that's now how they come from HTC or your local carrier. See part 1 video for yourself.
chumaj001 said:
YOU ARE LAZY!
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No need for this.
caedanne said:
First of all you can't have WM7 and Android at the same time, or else, if you had a TMOUs you will find some tutorials to doi it.
I recommend you to search, you will find aht you are looking for.
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Searching is how I found out you definitely can have both.
It should be in general,
but just used two working SD cards it easy one for wm7 on nand and the other for Android on SD
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Your solution lies here...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=913815
if you want to run both wp7 and android it is possible but you will have to flash wp7 nand as uptill now it is the only way to flash wp7 on (nand) and android on your sd card that way you will have both the worlds..
So I have both WP7 and Android booting now (woohoo!), but I still have one problem left, as explained in this thread. Could you guys advise? Thank you.
Here's your problem.
it looks like you didn't have an SD card in your phone when you flashed WP7 or something, you should have like a 3.5gb "unknown" partition if u used a 4gb card the first time. Here's how are/were supposed to do it.
Flash WP7 with a smaller micro SD card than you plan on using (you have to use 2 micro SD cards for this to work, one "big" and one "small") let's use a 4gb for this example and a 16gb.
put your 4gb small microsd in the phone and flash WP7, load up WP7 for the first time and do some set-up.
turn off your phone
put the 4GB card into your computer's SD card reader, and open up that partition manager, you will see a 3.5gb partition. If you have another card reader put in your 16gb and copy the parition from the 4gb to the 16gb, if you don't have a card reader then copy it to your PC or any flash drive with more than 4gb, then take out the 4gb micro sd and put in the 16.
copy the 3.5 partition to your 16gb big card and when it's done, you should see like 11gb unallocated and 3.5 unknown and 200mb ntfs or something.
resize the 200mb as high as you can (11.5gb) or something), then reformat it to fat32.
copy your Android build to the new fat 32 and put the 16gb card back into your phone.
You should now be good to go. WP7 has 3.5gb of space and Android has 11.5 or something. Do not EVER start WP7 without this SD card in there or it will hard reset and you will have no space for WP7
I am finishing the entire process again. This time, I used a different guide for the partitioning. It's very similar, but I think there's one little step in this one that was excluded from the other one and it's critical. Specifically, I'm referring to steps 2, 3 and 7 of Method # 3. Basically, after you've done the partitions in step 4, you must let WP7 reset again. I actually forgot this and experienced the 10GB... 10MB problem again. At that point, I manually reset settings again and was able to get my exact total and available storage right after the phone booted back up. Right now, I'm booting up my Android OS for the first time, but I did boot up WP7 twice successfully, with the right storage amounts.

[Q] Need help with installing a rom

I want to install the MAGDLR version of this ROM, MccMBoxmaX GS V8 (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1038694) and i cannot figure how to install the thing without having the DAF file such as the one in this video at 7:15 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvS4EvS0PAw). Please if someone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Also i realize that there are better places for this to be posted, but XDA won't let me post anywhere else more relevant.
That's an SD card rom, not a flashable rom,hence being in the android SD development section. You want the android nand development section. Keep researching,you aren't there yet.
Doesn't MAGLDR mean that it is a flashable rom? Also if it is only a SD card rom is all i do is drag and drop the rom onto the SD card root and im done? Could you possibly point me in the direction of a tutorial on how to do this or give me instructions that are better than the one on the thread? Thank you for your reply
I've never used SD android,but as far as I know you drop the rom in "android" folder on SD then in magldr theres a setting to choose the default SD folder to start from, or you can boot SD android by running haret from within winmo.,,,, or something,,,
Go to the SD section,first thread "sticky roll up thread",which as it's name suggests is a roll up of all the guides and howtos you could ever want.
You, also, have to have the proper "rootfs" file to run it with magldr, otherwise running it with Windows Mobile is fine. Read the OP of that ROM or search through it, it was probably mentioned.
Good luck!!!

What's the latest guide to create a dual boot system?

Please don't eat me alive for asking something that's already in these forums. The problem is I've seen several guides in different forums (WP7, Android SD, Android NAND) and these are usually old threads in old stickies. I was wondering if there was an updated, moar better guide that would make the process either easier to follow or provide other benefits that were not available when these were first created.
By the way, I have followed these in the past and used to have WP7 on NAND and several Android builds on SD, but it's been a while now and don't really remember much of it.
Thank you.
P.S. If this happens to belong in the General section, by all means please move it there. I wasn't sure.
Razor1973 said:
Please don't eat me alive for asking something that's already in these forums. The problem is I've seen several guides in different forums (WP7, Android SD, Android NAND) and these are usually old threads in old stickies. I was wondering if there was an updated, moar better guide that would make the process either easier to follow or provide other benefits that were not available when these were first created.
By the way, I have followed these in the past and used to have WP7 on NAND and several Android builds on SD, but it's been a while now and don't really remember much of it.
Thank you.
P.S. If this happens to belong in the General section, by all means please move it there. I wasn't sure.
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The best guide to follow is linked in the rom below. I have used this method many times with CAB Sender to resize the non win7 partition - i.e. driod sd boot option. I believe new Magldr may rework these functions and allow upto 8 partitions meaning 8 different OS. :good:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1356833
Thanks! Turns out all I had to do was use my Nokia phone to format my SD card. LOL I am not sporting WP7 and Jelly Bean! Except now, I can't boot up WP7. It says the SD card is corrupted. Ugh.

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