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Flashing Windows 7 to Android

Hi all,
I have been using windows phone 7 for a couple of weeks and would like to flash back to Android NAND.
Does anyone have a guide on how to do this?
Thanks
Simon

simoran2 said:
Hi all,
I have been using windows phone 7 for a couple of weeks and would like to flash back to Android NAND.
Does anyone have a guide on how to do this?
Thanks
Simon
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Ummm flash back to stock rom 6.5 and then flash Android - unless wm7 is stuck once installed...
this should help ...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=920035

Thanks for the reply.
Can I just boot into MAGDLR and then USB flash NAND build as per normal? Do I need to do anything special with the memory card (i know windows phone 7 does weird stuff to it and dont want to nuke it...)
Cheers

I think you have to reformat your SD card, as WP7 makes your SD unusable untill you have formated it

05081983 said:
I think you have to reformat your SD card, as WP7 makes your SD unusable untill you have formated it
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Ok cheers
How do I do thins? When I connect the windows 7 hd2 to the pc it doesn't see the memory card.
When i flash to android, will i then be able to see the memory card and reformat as normal?
Also as above, am I ok to just reflash via MAGLDR straight from windows 7 to Android NAND? Or do I need to flash back to stock wm6.5 and then reflash to Android NAND?

simoran2 said:
Ok cheers
How do I do thins? When I connect the windows 7 hd2 to the pc it doesn't see the memory card.
When i flash to android, will i then be able to see the memory card and reformat as normal?
Also as above, am I ok to just reflash via MAGLDR straight from windows 7 to Android NAND? Or do I need to flash back to stock wm6.5 and then reflash to Android NAND?
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Put sd card into card reader on pc and format it there. You can use Panasonic SD Formatter (search xda for it)
You should be fine to flash to Android from WP7, I did this but to be safe I also ran a Task29 first.

ClydeB1 said:
Put sd card into card reader on pc and format it there. You can use Panasonic SD Formatter (search xda for it)
You should be fine to flash to Android from WP7, I did this but to be safe I also ran a Task29 first.
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Either that or put it in an SD card extender and put that inside a digital camera. Then do a "low level format". That would do it.

hmm whats a task29?
Im begining to think it may be easier to flash back to wm6.5 then flash to NAND Android

Task29 formats the NAND area where the roms are flashed to, so you start with a clean base. You can use this tool the do it and it is so simple (much easier than flashing to a stock rom again and then hspl and radio etc etc IMHO). Just be aware that as Task29 formats the rom when the phone reboots there is no rom to boot into, but just boot into bootloader and then flash magldr and then your Android rom.
Either way though you will still need to reformat the sd card after running WP7.

OK
So I flashed a NAND Android ROM, all went well and boots fine. The computer can now see the 16gb memory card in the HD2 but says its only 200mb (I think windows 7 must have used the rest)
When I format it in Windows (whilst its still in the phone - i dont have a card reader), it doesnt free anymore space than the 200mb.
Any thoughts how i can get the remained 15gb back?

simoran2 said:
OK
So I flashed a NAND Android ROM, all went well and boots fine. The computer can now see the 16gb memory card in the HD2 but says its only 200mb (I think windows 7 must have used the rest)
When I format it in Windows (whilst its still in the phone - i dont have a card reader), it doesnt free anymore space than the 200mb.
Any thoughts how i can get the remained 15gb back?
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You can format it using a digital camera if you have one that takes sd cards (put the micro sd into the sd card adaptor). If you don't have one then you will need to get yourself a card reader in order to format the card.

Or you could use a partitioning program, delete the 15gb unknown partition and then create a fat32 partition.

[Q] Upgrading SD Card without loosing existing data and settings

Wenn you have a Windows Phone 7 on HD2 working, but you need more space, is it possible to upgrade to a bigger SD-card without loosing your data?
Can you format the new SD-card and copy over all files from the old card to the new card e.g.?
Or do you really have to start from scratch again?

Speed_Sheep said:
Wenn you have a Windows Phone 7 on HD2 working, but you need more space, is it possible to upgrade to a bigger SD-card without loosing your data?
Can you format the new SD-card and copy over all files from the old card to the new card e.g.?
Or do you really have to start from scratch again?
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Read THIS thread. You just would not be copying over any android files unless you are going to dual boot.

jase33 said:
Read THIS thread. You just would not be copying over any android files unless you are going to dual boot.
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I think you missunderstood me, it's not about Android. It is not about creating a dual boot HD2 with Windows Phone 7 on NAND and Android on the SD card.
Think about currently having a HD2 with Windows Phone 7 installed and an SD card inserted of 2 GB. Then you realize your SD card gets too small because of installed applications and created alot of video's and pictures. Now you want to use a bigger SD card, a 16 GB e.g., how to "upgrade" to a bigger SD card?
Normally you have to start all over again, you loose all your installed applications and program settings wenn you insert a new SD card, because you have to do a hard-reset for what I have read.
But it is also possible to upgrade to a bigger SD card without loosing your data?

Speed_Sheep said:
I think you missunderstood me, it's not about Android. It is not about creating a dual boot HD2 with Windows Phone 7 on NAND and Android on the SD card.
Think about currently having a HD2 with Windows Phone 7 installed and an SD card inserted of 2 GB. Then you realize your SD card gets too small because of installed applications and created alot of video's and pictures. Now you want to use a bigger SD card, a 16 GB e.g., how to "upgrade" to a bigger SD card?
Normally you have to start all over again, you loose all your installed applications and program settings wenn you insert a new SD card, because you have to do a hard-reset for what I have read.
But it is also possible to upgrade to a bigger SD card without loosing your data?
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there is no way to save data yet. it has been voiced to MS for the ability to do this with zune or cloud services but nothing yet. you can get to your pictures and videos on the phone by using your pc. THIS tells you how to do that. you can then add them back on the phone without syncing with zune.

i think copying over the whole partition via easeus partition master while the device is in magldr will resolve your problem. you'll need to expand d partition i guess

jase33 said:
there is no way to save data yet. it has been voiced to MS for the ability to do this with zune or cloud services but nothing yet. you can get to your pictures and videos on the phone by using your pc. THIS tells you how to do that. you can then add them back on the phone without syncing with zune.
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From what i'm reading is what he's trying to say is No, My guess is you have to reinstall wp7 on your hd2 with the new sd card in there. Try that buddy.

aditya_r12 said:
i think copying over the whole partition via easeus partition master while the device is in magldr will resolve your problem. you'll need to expand d partition i guess
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Looks like it is possible what you are saying, according to the post of zole2112.

SD card is "invisible" to PC - how can I access it?

Hi,
I am running WP7 and AmeriCanAndroid on it. SD card is partitioned, so I have one partition for each of the OSs.
The problem that I have is that I want to update my Android version (I have to overwrite some files in "Android" folder) and I can not access the SD card.
I have installed Zune software, phone is visible (I am in WP7 mode), and Zune tells me there are over 3 GB available. But my Windows Explorer does not see is as mass storage device.
OS on PC is XP and my SD card is 8GB. Any advice?
Thank you.

Hi
boot your phone to magldr.Then choose point 4 (USB MassStg).Now you can connect your phone to PC and finally you can see the Android Folder.

Thank you.
I will try that to see if it works after my Android gets installed (waiting for 15 mins already).
I found an workaround. Put my SD card in a Symbian phone, which was able to access it, and used the Symbian phone as "card reader". It worked...

After WP7, used Partition Manager for formate to SD

[Q] is dual booting form wp7 possible?

is it possible to boot ubuntu via a xap that does the same as haret.exe ? yes i know that the sd card is formatted specially but you could partition the sd card the same way people use android from the same sd......

e1rokr said:
is it possible to boot ubuntu via a xap that does the same as haret.exe ? yes i know that the sd card is formatted specially but you could partition the sd card the same way people use android from the same sd......
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you can dual boot, but not via haret, perhaps in the future but idoubt it since magldr makes it quite easy as is, now what woud be useful is dual boot wp7 and WM6.5,

Using HD2 as a USB microSD Card Adapater

Note: This question doesn't relate to installing Android or Windows on my HD2. I already have Android running fine using NAND method.
I have an extra microSD card lying around, and also a microSD-to-SD card adapter. I want to create a USB Windows 8 installer using the microSD card. However, my desktop doesn't have a SD card slot. So is there a way I can some how use my HD2 as SD-to-USB adapter?

SD into phone, USB phone to PC, when you can see it as a rempvable disk in my computer that's it.

samsamuel said:
SD into phone, USB phone to PC, when you can see it as a rempvable disk in my computer that's it.
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Lol it's not that simple.
I put the microSD card into my HD2, and booted my HD2 into the MGLDR menu. I selected the "USB MassStg" from the menu. I tried to create a bootable Windows 8 installer using the tool Microsoft provides, and it failed.

ahh gotcha. Well i know its possible to use the hd2 as a boto source, cos i do it now and again. But that was made simply writing an .img to teh microsd, whereas you're using a boot disk creator, so who knows. Sorry

samsamuel said:
ahh gotcha. Well i know its possible to use the hd2 as a boto source, cos i do it now and again. But that was made simply writing an .img to teh microsd, whereas you're using a boot disk creator, so who knows. Sorry
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Actually i got it to work!!!
I just booted into the MGLDR then went to AD Recovery (option 8), then mounted the SD card using CWM.
Thanks