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I got a copy of Android - I think its 1.6 - running on my laptop - and it seemed to work ok and be stable so I wanted to put it onto the machine permanantly.
Trouble is its decided that nothing else on the machine exists and I can't get back into vista whatever I try
It boots into something called grub loader and the only two options are the normal boot and a sort of safe mode - that lists drivers much like the old one for Windows 95/98 where you could y/n each one...
I really need help to get vista back again since there is stuff I really need like internet banking that I don't think I can do any other way (to be fair I have yet to try)
Thanks in advance
Jemma
Please tell me you partitioned off your hard drive before doing this?
If not then its a reinstall I guess, which isn't to bad as it allows you to install a decent copy of windows such as XP
That quite simply isn't an option - I was told that there is a way of solving it by using a windows CD or boot disk to reload the MBR - I was also told that the file running GRUB can be edited to find windows.
The problem is I don't have another machine and I am on state benefits - I need this computer up and running and I need access to my documents.
I can't seem to mount anything in android - and as the only option is 'format sd card' I don't really want to take it..
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
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That quite simply isn't an option - I was told that there is a way of solving it by using a windows CD or boot disk to reload the MBR - I was also told that the file running GRUB can be edited to find windows.
The problem is I don't have another machine and I am on state benefits - I need this computer up and running and I need access to my documents.
I can't seem to mount anything in android - and as the only option is 'format sd card' I don't really want to take it..
Does anyone else have any suggestions?
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Well thanks for the sob story but what does being on benefits have to do with anything?
Anyway simply set your pc bios to boot from cd first, insert disk and boot up. From there you will be asked do you want to install or repair. Choose repair.
I'm unsure of the next step because I don't use Vista *spits* but if you can get to recovery console then you can run fixmbr from the prompt and also there is a boot manager that can fix your boot sector.
Alternatively you could from a dos prompt delete the 1.6 folders and rewrite the msconfig to open windows only.
There is also the root of trying the f8 safe mode boot into admin account and rewrite the msconfig from with windows if accessible from f8 safe.
But hell I ain't anyone else but I guess my 24 years in the business of building custom machine and my extensive knowledge of windows xp and below means nowt? Maybe try being a little less dismissive next time hey?
Add me on gmail - [email protected] if you want me to help you sort it out faster than we can here
Did you create partitions before installing android? if not then windows doesnt exist anymore, which is why grub didnt automatically add it to the list of things to boot (mine always listed everything, but sometimes it doesnt do that automatically)
this happend to me to. I had to use I linux live cd to delete the linux partition. and fix the mbr.
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DUAL-BOOTING WINDOWS 7 & LINUX
The following guide is to help would-be developers install Linux. If you are unsure how to partition a hard drive or run a backup, you probably should not attempt this. You've been warned, also I am not responsible for anything bad that may happen to your computer, this is simply a guide. If you have questions or run into a stumbling block, don't hesitate to ask. Lastly this guide was written for users using Windows 7, though it should work for other Windows versions I have no personal knowledge of how to accomplish this. Lastly read the guide the whole way through, there are two different methods one appears easier than the other.
METHOD 1 (TRIED AND TRUE)
Downloads for method 1)
Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS): This is the most current Ubuntu Linux release.
PowerISO: PowerISO is a small program that allows you to mount an .iso file as a physical drive, and allows for easy CD/DVD creation.
EasyBCD: EasyBCD is an excellent way to edit MBR so that it is easy to go from one OS to the next.
Prep-Step 1) Back up your work (This should be a no-brainer but all too many times have I seen someone in a sticky spot because they didn't have a good backup). Its not unheard of for a hard drive to become corrupted after repartitioning, but I can say that its not common either.
Prep-Step 2) Make a Windows recovery disc, if you have OEM installed Windows. If you did a clean Windows install or have the Windows disc for the operating system you are running, grab it. When installing a second OS you have to mess with the Master Boot Record (MBR), and the easiest way to repair the Windows MBR is with the recovery function on the disc.
Prep-Step 3) If you are like me and insisted on clean installs on your PC (I get not doing it every time on your phone, but I don't get in the habit of installing OS' on my PC), make sure that Windows is installed first. This step will save you a potential headache, and $50 bucks when you break your keyboard for not following Pre-Steps 1 and 2. The long and short of it is that Windows when it is installed will over-write whatever is on the hard drive its being installed on, including the Linux bootloader.
Optional Prep-Step I personally have found it easiest to partition my disc from Windows, so I am including this step.
a) [CLICK] "Start" in Windows
b) Type "disk management" and press [ENTER]
c) Choose the drive you wish to partition, in this case we will use the C drive, in the bottom pane, then [RIGHT-CLICK] on the main partition, [CLICK] "Shrink Volume"
d) Shrink the partition by entering how many MB you want to take from that partition, keep in mind for any of you people like myself who like to see even numbers on hard drives that 1 GB = 1024 MB, not 1000. Then [CLICK] on "Shrink" Please keep in mind that Ubuntu recommendsAT LEAST 10 GB and requires 4.4 GB If you are planning to do ROM development you should consider shrinking by around 100 GB or more if you have it.
You will now see unallocated space on your hard drive and for now thats a good thing. I typically do the actual format of the new partition during the Ubuntu install.
Prep-Step 4) Download Ubuntu and either a) burn it to a disc using an app like PowerISO, or b) put it on a USB stick. For ROM development you need to run the 64 bit version of Ubuntu.
OTHER RELEVANT INFO: While doing more in depth research I found several posts in forums about installation errors on hard drives larger than 1TB. The work around for this seems pretty easy. BEFORE PARTITIONING run a defrag, the goal is to get the new partition as close to the beginning of the disc as possible. Once again, if you have not already done so...BACKUP your data. If you have over 500 GB used on your hard drive you will most likely have issues booting Linux on a single hard drive, but you can still dual-boot when both OS' are on different hard drives.
INSTALLATION
Step 1) Insert the Ubuntu CD you burned into the CD/DVD tray of your PC and reboot your computer.
Step 1.5) If your BIOS is not set to boot from the CD drive you will need to tell the BIOS to boot from the CD, by pressing either F2, F12, Escape, or Delete depending on your BIOS. BIOS option are different for most PC manufacturers so I will not include how to change your boot order in this guide.
Step 2) Continue the installation and follow the prompts until you are asked this question: "How do you want to partition the disk?".
Step 3) If you followed the optional step and have room for Ubuntu then select the partition that you have already formatted select "Install Ubuntu alongside Windows 7" follow the installer through the rest of the steps. If you did not do the optional step, select "Something else" which will open up the "advanced disk partitioning tool"
Step 3.5) Not Applicable if you did the optional step in the preinstallation. When the Advanced disk partitioning tool opens you will see two (2) NTFS file systems (/dev/sda1, and /dev/sda2) DO NOT RESIZE /dev/sda1 unless you know what you are doing. It is ill advised to say the least and can cause boot issues. That said select /dev/sda2 (for most users this is their Windows partition) and [CLICK] "change". This will open a pop-up so that you can select how much of the Windows partition you want to use for Linux.
Step 4) In the "Installation Type" window at the bottom you should now see an area called "free space", select it, then [CLICK] "add" to add a new partition.
Step 5) The first partition we will add is the boot partition. For the partition type the default should be logical, if it is then leave it there, if not select logical. The recommended size is 500 MB. Keep the "Use as" box at its default which should be ext4, and the mount point is /boot. [CLICK] "ok"
Step 6) In the "Installation Type" window [CLICK] on "free space" and [CLICK] "add" to add a new partition, this partition will be / (root). Once again this will be a logical partition which will be used as a ext4 file system, and the mount point is /. The root partition does not need to be HUGE, 75% of the minimum 4.4 GB should be fine (Even if you are using much more than the minimum there is not much need for a / that is more than a few GB in my own experience. [CLICK] "ok" when finished.
Step 7) In the "Installation Type" window [CLICK] on "free space" and [CLICK] "add" to add a new partition, this partition will be /home. Once again this is a logical partition, using ext4 and the mount point is /home. The size of this partition is going to vary from user to user. You are only creating one more partition for Linux after this, and that partition is relatively small (1GB per 1GB RAM installed), so do not hesitate to use the majority of the space you allocated for Linux on this partition. [CLICK] "ok" when finished
Step 8) In the "Installation Type" window [CLICK] on "free space" and [CLICK] "add" to add a new partition, this last partition is for your swap. Once again this is a logical partition, but it will not be used as a ext4 file system, in the dropbox select "swap area". For the partition size I recommend using the rest of whats available for the swap, which should be 1GB per 1GB of RAM installed, for example if you have 4GB of RAM your swap should be 4GB. Once finished [CLICK] "ok".
Step 9) Once again you should be in the Advanced Disk Partition Tool ("Installation Type" screen), there you can see the partitions you have created. Because the /boot partition is logical it should be listed as /dev/sda5 (Always check...I can not express enough that anomalies happen). In the "Device for bootloader installation:" dropbox select /dev/sda5 or whatever it was labeled (EX /dev/sda#) [CLICK] "install now"
Step 10) Follow through the rest of the installation and enter your user information. After the install is completed successfully reboot your PC, it will reboot into Windows (which is 100% expected since we did not tell the MBR to look for our Linux system.
Step 11) Download and install EasyBCD from here, it is a free download.
Step 12) Open EasyBCD and [CLICK] "Add New Entry" , then [CLICK] the Linux/BSD tab. From the "Type" dropbox select "GRUB 2". I believe the name box comes filled with the OS info by default, if not in the "name" type "Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)" and [CLICK] "add entry" (Not "Add New Entry")
Step 13) [CLICK] on "Edit Boot Menu", select your default OS and set the time out options.
Step 14) [CLICK]"Save Settings"
At this point you should have a dual-booting computer with both Windows 7 and Linux...Congrats.
MAKE WINDOWS BOOT BY DEFAULT ON PREVIOUSLY INSTALLED DUAL BOOT SYSTEM
Step 1) Restore the MBR from your Windows installation disc
Step 2) Download EasyBCD from here its pretty easy to use. The non commercial version is free too. This program will allow you to select the boot priority.
If you require more detailed instruction please PM me and I will add to the OP
METHOD 2 (USING THE WINDOWS INSTALLER)
I want to start by stating that I personally have never used this method, but it seems like its pretty easy (perhaps easier than Method 1). Credit for this part of the guide goes to Ubuntu.com.
Prep-Step) Download the Windows Installer from HERE. I suggest using Internet Explorer for this since IE gives you the option to just run the installer, rather than downloading it, only to delete the installer off your hard disk later.
Step 1) Run the installer if you have not already
Step 2) When prompted, enter the username you would like to use and the password for that account. Then [CLICK] "Install"
Step 3) Wait...The download is about 500MB so it may take a while to download and install but apparently you can still use your computer while this install is taking place. Once prompted [CLICK]"Finish" to restart.
Since I have not used this method I can not tell you at this point if it is necessary to repartition your hard disk when using this method. I will format my other PC and try it out later today or tomorrow and update this post as necessary.
INSTALLING UBUNTU THROUGH VirtualBox
Please read through the entire guide BEFORE attempting to do the tasks detailed in this guide. For this portion of the guide I used Ubuntu 11.10-Desktop, which is no longer a current release. The steps should be pretty close to the same, but after Step 7, things may get a little out of order.
Step 1) Open VirtualBox and [CLICK] "New" to add new virtual machine
Step 2) In the name field You are going to name your virtual machine, generally I use the distro name (EX "Ubuntu 12.04 (LTS)"), if you name like this the next box will automatically change to Linux, and the version will say "Ubuntu" [CLICK] "next".
Step 3) Select how much RAM you want to use for your virtual machine, generally I will use 2 GB, if I am going to use a virtual machine (This is where a dual boot has its biggest advantages. Your hardware is only running one OS, when virtualized your hardware is essentially running two.). [CLICK] "next".
Step 4) Now you are going to create your virtual hard drive, keep in mind if you are running a virtual machine to develop (I don't recommend this), you are going to want to dedicate more than a few GB for Linux (100GB+). [CLICK] "create". I use the VDI disk image type so I made sure that was the one selected, and [CLICK] "next", now at this next screen you can choose if you want your virtual hard disk to be dynamic (Only as large as it needs to be), or a fixed size. I chose dynamic, but again this may not be effective for development purposes. I have no personal knowledge of this so I can not answer that question. Finally [CLICK] "create"
Step 5) In the VirtualBox main screen [RIGHT-CLICK] your Linux virtual machine and select start.
Step 6) You will be prompted for which drive the installer for whichever distro you are using, at this point you want to go to the box to the right of the drop menu and select the .iso for the distro you want to use. Now [CLICK] "start"
At this point you should have a virtual machine running and ready to install Ubuntu.
Step 7) You are going to select your language and [CLICK] "Install Ubuntu". [CLICK] "continue" on the next screen.
Step 8) At this point you will be asked how you want to install Ubuntu, whether you want to erase the entire disk and install Ubuntu or if you want to do something else. You can do either one, without risking damage to your PC on a virtual machine, which is part of why we had to create the virtual disk. For this guide I am going to choose to Erase the disk and Install Ubuntu make your selection then [CLICK] "continue", then [CLICK] "install now".
Step 9) Choose your timezone then [CLICK] "Continue"
Step 10) Select your keyboard layout then [CLICK] "continue"
Step 11) Enter the user information you wish to use then [CLICK] "continue"
Allow the virtual machine some time to install the OS and once installation is completed it will prompt you to reboot [CLICK] "restart now". Congrats you should now have a working virtual Linux desktop!
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Bro, can u show a guide to install inside virtual box cos i try to install it. Always fail at i686 kernel problem. Tks
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orbital_71 said:
Bro, can u show a guide to install inside virtual box cos i try to install it. Always fail at i686 kernel problem. Tks
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I can add in a virtual machine guide too. You're using Virtual Box, and not VMWare Player? If you are getting kernel failures I would try redownloading Ubuntu.
Also which settings are you using for your virtual machine?
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
I can add in a virtual machine guide too. You're using Virtual Box, and not VMWare Player? If you are getting kernel failures I would try redownloading Ubuntu.
Also which settings are you using for your virtual machine?
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i am using virtualbox V4.2, i am able to dual boot but when i try to install inside virtualbox no success. I had try i386 and amd64 uninstall ubuntu and try install inside ubuntu but still fail. Using the storage setting to mount the disc. Tks
orbital_71 said:
i am using virtualbox V4.2, i am able to dual boot but when i try to install inside virtualbox no success. I had try i386 and amd64 uninstall ubuntu and try install inside ubuntu but still fail. Using the storage setting to mount the disc. Tks
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Also a few things I forgot to ask...What kind of computer are you using, please be detailed and include things like Processor speed (chip number if you know it), RAM, and which OS you are using, and which version of Ubuntu (or other Linux distro) you are attempting to run in VM. I am going to try to replicate your error, so I can walk you through it.
Also you state that you had no success, please elaborate. Did the virtual machine not boot? Did it boot, but you could not get logged in? The more details the better...Thanks
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
Also a few things I forgot to ask...What kind of computer are you using, please be detailed and include things like Processor speed (chip number if you know it), RAM, and which OS you are using, and which version of Ubuntu (or other Linux distro) you are attempting to run in VM. I am going to try to replicate your error, so I can walk you through it.
Also you state that you had no success, please elaborate. Did the virtual machine not boot? Did it boot, but you could not get logged in? The more details the better...Thanks
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Mine system 2nd gen i5 2 gb ram window 7 home premium. since i already duat boot ubuntu 12.04 amd64 bit and how actually to install inside virtualbox? I f i follow the instruction from askubuntu i will get stuck at the boot image of ubuntu saying the kernel i686 kind of stuff error. Was vmware player are better to use it for? tks
orbital_71 said:
Mine system 2nd gen i5 2 gb ram window 7 home premium. since i already duat boot ubuntu 12.04 amd64 bit and how actually to install inside virtualbox? I f i follow the instruction from askubuntu i will get stuck at the boot image of ubuntu saying the kernel i686 kind of stuff error. Was vmware player are better to use it for? tks
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I have always used VMWare Player myself. Once I get home I will install VirtualBox and do a write up and walk you through it. Aside from RAM we have similar setups. Give me a few hours and I'll try to walk you through it.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
I have always used VMWare Player myself. Once I get home I will install VirtualBox and do a write up and walk you through it. Aside from RAM we have similar setups. Give me a few hours and I'll try to walk you through it.
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But if vmware is a good virtual machine to use then i just follow u with it. i can just uninstall virtualbox no problem for me.
orbital_71 said:
But if vmware is a good virtual machine to use then i just follow u with it. i can just uninstall virtualbox no problem for me.
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OK...I got home and booted into Windows for the first time in a few weeks to do this. I am going to do an install, just to see if I get any errors come up. Not saying its something you did or didn't do, maybe a bad download. I got my VirtualBox from HERE
Updating the OP here in a few minutes...
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
OK...I got home and booted into Windows for the first time in a few weeks to do this. I am going to do an install, just to see if I get any errors come up. Not saying its something you did or didn't do, maybe a bad download. I got my VirtualBox from HERE
Updating the OP here in a few minutes...
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i install this version VirtualBox-4.2.0-80737-Win.exe
orbital_71 said:
i install this version VirtualBox-4.2.0-80737-Win.exe
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When you open VirtualBox does it show your Linux install on the left side? Also are you getting to a terminal prompt when it tells you this? If it does give you a terminal prompt try typing
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox-dkms [ENTER]
sudo dpkg-reconfigure virtualbox[ENTER]
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ItzCrooK2UxD said:
When you open VirtualBox does it show your Linux install on the left side?
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No terminal prompt when i install it, i never install on mine startup bar but on mine desktop screen there are. Anyway tonight when i reach home i uninstall mine virtualbox and try install the amd64 version and see how to see whether is the version problem not.
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Bro, one thing i don't understand since i already dual boot window and ubuntu. When i try to install ubuntu inside virtualbox why must i install ubuntu again inside virtualbox with the iso. and repeat the installation for ubuntu again. Wasn't there suppose a walk through with it? Tks
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orbital_71 said:
Bro, one thing i don't understand since i already dual boot window and ubuntu. When i try to install ubuntu inside virtualbox why must i install ubuntu again inside virtualbox with the iso. and repeat the installation for ubuntu again. Wasn't there suppose a walk through with it? Tks
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You need to reinstall Ubuntu on to the Virtual disk you are creating, because the virtual machine is not looking at your entire disk. It only sees what you tell it to see on the virtual disk.
Also I edited my second post to include a walk through of a VirtualBox install
Bro, in step 8 installation of ubuntu inside virtualbox, if i choose erase. What will be erase of this selection? Tkd
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orbital_71 said:
Bro, in step 8 installation of ubuntu inside virtualbox, if i choose erase. What will be erase of this selection? Tkd
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It will format your virtual hard disk. Sounds risky but its not. Basically with a virtual machine the emulator (VirtualBox, in this case) uses a section of your hard disk and creates your virtual machine. The virtual machine has most of the capabilities as the host machine (your physical PC that you boot up), but is limited to the resources that you want to allow it to use (EX. How much RAM do you want to dedicate to your virtual machine, how much disk space will you allow it to have. So erasing it basically means it is going to clear that space within that virtual machine. It has no effect on other Windows or Linux OS' you may be using within the emulator...does that make sense? Bottom line, yes its safe to erase and in your particular case I would encourage it.
ItzCrooK2UxD said:
It will format your virtual hard disk. Sounds risky but its not. Basically with a virtual machine the emulator (VirtualBox, in this case) uses a section of your hard disk and creates your virtual machine. The virtual machine has most of the capabilities as the host machine (your physical PC that you boot up), but is limited to the resources that you want to allow it to use (EX. How much RAM do you want to dedicate to your virtual machine, how much disk space will you allow it to have. So erasing it basically means it is going to clear that space within that virtual machine. It has no effect on other Windows or Linux OS' you may be using within the emulator...does that make sense? Bottom line, yes its safe to erase and in your particular case I would encourage it.
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Ok and i should go with ur recommendation for 100gb space if i am gonna compile rom in step 4 right? Thanks u so much Bro.
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Ok and i should go with ur recommendation for 100gb space if i am gonna compile rom in step 4 right? Thanks u so much Bro.
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If you are going to be doing ROM development and compiling I would really lean more towards a dual boot than a virtual machine. Compiling is CPU intensive and on a virtual machine you aren't just running one operating system with the resources your computer has, but now you're talking about running two OS' and putting a heavy CPU load on one of them.
To answer your question, 100GB should be enough, but I do not know how development will go in a virtual machine...I have no experience in this. Perhaps someone who has developed on a virtual machine can chime in.
Description:
This Installer will let you install Android x86 on your PC like any other application, no risk to Damage HDD Partitions, Boot Data or User Data. It’s like WUBI (ubuntu installer) NOT a WUBI Based Installer.
After installation you will got an option at boot to select Windows or Android.
Requirements:
Android x86 ISO
Windows Boot Manager/NTLDR is the default Boot Manager
Windows 2000/XP/Vista/7/8 32-bit or 64-bit
.NET Framework 4
Screenshot:
{
"lightbox_close": "Close",
"lightbox_next": "Next",
"lightbox_previous": "Previous",
"lightbox_error": "The requested content cannot be loaded. Please try again later.",
"lightbox_start_slideshow": "Start slideshow",
"lightbox_stop_slideshow": "Stop slideshow",
"lightbox_full_screen": "Full screen",
"lightbox_thumbnails": "Thumbnails",
"lightbox_download": "Download",
"lightbox_share": "Share",
"lightbox_zoom": "Zoom",
"lightbox_new_window": "New window",
"lightbox_toggle_sidebar": "Toggle sidebar"
}
Instructions:
Install:
Go to http://www.android-x86.org/download
Download any version of Android (i recommended eeepc version 4.0-RC2)
Launch the Installer (Installer Link below)
Select the downloaded ISO file
Select the partition which Android will be installed to.
Select “User Data Max. Size” which will store download Apps and User Settings
Click Install and wait about 5 min.
Note: Installation time depends on “User Data Max. Size” may be more than 10min with 32GB
Uninstall:
Start->Control Panel -> Programs and Features
Select Android and click on “Uninstall”
Just press any key and wait until screen disappear
Know Issues:
Not Work if GRUB is the default bootloader
EFI Not Supported
Change Log:
Version 1.2:
- Support Windows 2000/XP [waiting for Users Reports]
- Logging Installation Process
Version 1.1: automatically detect if VGA Card require xforcevesa nomodeset, no more android black screen
Version 1.0: initial version
Some Notes:
you can install Android on "USB Disk" or "SD Card"
you can install Android on Windows partition (Drive C: ), no problems at all
Windows 8 and UEFI-Enabled Devices Note:
Most of Windows 8 Devices which use UEFI and GPT Disk is not supported till Now.
Check the new Version: [http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/winapp-android-x86-installer-uefi-t3222483]
Download:
Version 1.2: Installer Version 1.2
Hitting Thanks button encourage me
How to change Android Screen DPI ?
open C:\menu.lst
add DPI=120 or any value at the end of kernel line.
I'm waiting too much time and installation still not completed, what's going on?
installation time based on "User Data max. size" value it will take about 10min with 32GB
with 1GB it will take about 1min or 2min
Installer window not responding?
during installation installer may appear like not responding but it's still working. don't worry
Can it be installed with Windows 7 and ubuntu (installed with WUBI) ?
Yes,it won't mess up anything
What about UEFI Devices ?
I'm trying in my free time to find a solution for these devices
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iam on netbook ACER ASPIRE ONE 722 running windows 8 , What can I install android x86?? and which iso file one should I download, because too many choices
Re: [WinApp] Android x86 Easy Installer
I'm on company presario CQ42
I download the one for HP pavallion series and it installed but not booting to android..
I can see only a black screen.....
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sandyworsnop said:
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iam on netbook ACER ASPIRE ONE 722 running windows 8 , What can I install android x86?? and which iso file one should I download, because too many choices
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Latest Stable Release is Android-x86-4.0-RC2
i'm using eeepc version on my PC and my Netbook MSI U123
Thank you
glsnjoseph said:
I'm on company presario CQ42
I download the one for HP pavallion series and it installed but not booting to android..
I can see only a black screen.....
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This issue because of incompatible Graphics Card
tell me your graphics card model
and i will try to find a solution to work with all Graphics Cards
Thank you
New Version 1.1: add xforcevesa, nomodeset for Intel HD, ATI,Nvidia
ExtremeGTX said:
How to change Android Screen DPI ?
open C:\menu.lst
add DPI=120 or any value at the end of kernel line.
I'm waiting too much time and installation still not completed, what's going on?
installation time based on "User Data max. size" value it will take about 10min with 32GB
with 1GB it will take about 1min or 2min
Installer window not responding?
during installation installer may appear like not responding but it's still working. don't worry
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Another question here, can it be installed with Windows 8 and ubuntu (installed with WUBI), it won't mess anything right?
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mikevillarroel said:
Another question here, can it be installed with Windows 8 and ubuntu (installed with WUBI), it won't mess anything right?
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Nevermind, it worked like a champ! thanks!
Android_*^ Easy Installer
Finally, an alternative installer. I am having difficulty in installing my android_x86. The installer won't detect my local hard drives even if the grub menu says "Install to Harddrive". I only get endless dots after the "Detecting Android_86". The installer only detects flash drives and SD cards and is willing to install the system onto the SD card. I tried various .iso images that are compatible with my machine and they all have the same story. Then I thought of tricking my PC. So I installed Android_x86 onto my SD card. Then using Gparted, I copied the partition (where I installed Android) onto my local harddrive. Afterwhich I edited my Ubuntu grub menu to be able to boot the partition. It worked! But not fully. I am again stuck with the "Detecting Android_x86..............(endless)". Same story, it will not detect my local harddrives even the very partition where the kernel and initrd files were succesfully loaded from.
I next experimented with VirtualBox. They all worked and detected the virtual hard disks just fine. Its just that the jellybean system runs slowly. However I am still keen on running Android alongside my other operating systems without virtual machines.
So I was very happy to have heard this easy installer. I just need help. when I first ran the Android Easy Installer, it went looking for grldr(grub4dos). So I downloaded and decompressed Grub4dos. I ran the installer again and it copied the necessary files to C:\. But this time, it came looking for "menu_VESA.lst". I looked everywhere including the internet but I do not know how to provide this file. How do I generate it? Please Help, Thanks.
joarrafe said:
So I was very happy to have heard this easy installer. I just need help. when I first ran the Android Easy Installer, it went looking for grldr(grub4dos). So I downloaded and decompressed Grub4dos. I ran the installer again and it copied the necessary files to C:\. But this time, it came looking for "menu_VESA.lst". I looked everywhere including the internet but I do not know how to provide this file. How do I generate it? Please Help, Thanks.
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OK, I don't know what's happened in your PC but this is the first time i see result like this.
I tested installer with (PC/Laptop/Netbook) with different Version of Windows but this is new to me.
I think you are using GRUB as bootloader or something like that.
FYI, The Installer packaged with All Files Required including GRUB.
menu_VESA.lst is grub config file, i created it for devices which use Intel HD, Nvidia or ATI Graphics Cards (you will not find this on the net )
menu_VESA.lst (Attached)
1. extract menu_VESA.zip
2. copy menu_VESA.lst to root of C:
3. Rename it to menu.lst
I hope this fixed your problem
waiting for your feedback
Thank you very much
HELLO
I don't know why when i press Install Now
it appears a window
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what is it??
But i am not able to boot it when starting my pc it's giving me the option to boot android or windows 7 ,when i try to boot android a black screen appears and then same options.i installed latest android x86 4.2.2 pls help
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Thank you for the file.
Yes I am using GRUB. Actually, Windows XP occupies my first partition. My other partitions are populated by Ubuntu, Pear 6, Zorin 6, and Fedora 17. (in that order) We all know that these operating systems use GRUB2 and I installed each operating system's own grub in their own respective partitions (as you will see why later). The next partition is DATA. After that dwells Oracle Solaris 11 which uses GRUB 0.79. Since Oracle uses the ZFS filesystem, I thought that its not a good idea to have Linux GRUB2 boot Solaris partition since it does not recognize ZFS. In fact these systems cannot find the ZFS partition. So I decided to install Oracle last. Oracle's GRUB 0.79 on the other hand can readily "see" the Windows partition but also cannot see the Linux operating systems. However I found a way to boot them all using Oracle's GRUB 0.79. I chainloaded all of them from my Solaris menu.lst. And since I installed each Linux's own GRUB2 in their local partition, GRUB 0.79 simply chainloads booting to the GRUB2 of whichever Linux OS I choose. As I mentioned in my previous post, from GRUB2 I found a way to boot Android_x86 (on the hard drive partition copied from an SD card partition) and it worked. However, Android's kernel won't continue loading after the kernel and initrd, since it does not detect any of my hard drives. (I think) It only continues loading if it detects a flash drive or an SD card inserted. (and android is installed on that removable disk)
I am yet to try reinstalling using the Easy Installer. I will update you. Thank you very much
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Okay I tried over again. I followed your instructions and just to be safe, I also put a copy of menu_VESA.lst to the folder where the installer is located. (There is already a menu.lst in that folder from the Grub4dos package that I downloaded). Good news...it is no longer looking for menu_VESA.lst, so that satisfies it. Now however at the point where status says "Creating Android boot" an error window pops up: "System cannot find the file specified" and then halts installation. This time I do not know which file it is looking for. I have the iso image properly selected, the install destination has been selected (drive G:\ - a newly formatted 30GB NTFS partition) and User Data was set to 10GB. Now I do not know what file it is looking for. By the way, I downloaded and unzipped in the same directory of the Easy Installer a Grub4dos package since it was looking for these files. What do you think? Thanks for any help you could extend me.
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Okay I tried over again. I followed your instructions and just to be safe, I also put a copy of menu_VESA.lst to the folder where the installer is located. (There is already a menu.lst in that folder from the Grub4dos package that I downloaded). Good news...it is no longer looking for menu_VESA.lst, so that satisfies it. Now however at the point where status says "Creating Android boot" an error window pops up: "System cannot find the file specified" and then halts installation. This time I do not know which file it is looking for. I have the iso image properly selected, the install destination has been selected (drive G:\ - a newly formatted 30GB NTFS partition) and User Data was set to 10GB. Now I do not know what file it is looking for. By the way, I downloaded and unzipped in the same directory of the Easy Installer a Grub4dos package since it was looking for these files. What do you think? Thanks for any help you could extend me.
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I think i have to add Logging feature to the Installer, this will help alot
akshay.mehta9 said:
But i am not able to boot it when starting my pc it's giving me the option to boot android or windows 7 ,when i try to boot android a black screen appears and then same options.i installed latest android x86 4.2.2 pls help
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Can you tell me model of your Graphics Card ? or if you have kind of switchable graphics.
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This method is not worked in my desktop and i used android x86 .org method android is working but my Windows 7 is not booting bootmgr missing
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joarrafe said:
Thank you for the file.
Yes I am using GRUB. Actually, Windows XP occupies my first partition.
Now however at the point where status says "Creating Android boot" an error window pops up: "System cannot find the file specified" and then halts installation.
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That's True, the file is: bcdedit.exe which isn't included in Windows XP because it uses NTLDR not Windows Boot Manager.
The Installer Works with Windows Vista/7/8
Thank you
akshay.mehta9 said:
This method is not worked in my desktop and i used android x86 .org method android is working but my Windows 7 is not booting bootmgr missing
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i never used androidx86.org method before, but for my installer it can't mess up any boot data.
xiao23704955 said:
HELLO
I don't know why when i press Install Now
it appears a window
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StartIndex 不可以小於零。
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what is it??
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sorry i don't know about this problem
EDIT: After using Google Translator
there is a problem with bcdedit.exe
can you give more info about OS, Android ISO etc.
Thank you
I will try to get this working on linux, ive installed android x86 on my laptop/tablet next to linux mint but when booting android it said something about the kernel not loading, hopefully this fixes it
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ExtremeGTX said:
That's True, the file is: bcdedit.exe which isn't included in Windows XP because it uses NTLDR not Windows Boot Manager.
The Installer Works with Windows Vista/7/8
Thank you
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Okay, so does this mean that the installer works only with Windows Boot Manager and not with NTLDR? The way I understand it, the installer also invokes grub4dos to boot android_x86. From what I know, boot.ini can be edited to accommodate alternate booting with grub4dos and this is compatible with NTLDR right? What my Oracle Solaris GRUB 0.79 does is that it chainloads to the Windows partition thereby transferring control to NTLDR. Then, NTLDR via boot.ini, can boot grub4dos which in turn could boot Android_x86. I think this could work.
However, I want to know if simply supplying the bcdedit.exe will continue the installation of Android_x86 and afterwards I can just manually edit grub4dos' menu.lst? Also, what other files (not included in your installer) should I have on hand to satisfy a complete install? Thanks for your reply.
matgras said:
I will try to get this working on linux, ive installed android x86 on my laptop/tablet next to linux mint but when booting android it said something about the kernel not loading, hopefully this fixes it
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Can you give more info please, what is the main Boot Manager (NTLDR/WindowsBootMan/GRUB), what is the version of Windows ?
joarrafe said:
Okay, so does this mean that the installer works only with Windows Boot Manager and not with NTLDR? The way I understand it, the installer also invokes grub4dos to boot android_x86. From what I know, boot.ini can be edited to accommodate alternate booting with grub4dos and this is compatible with NTLDR right? What my Oracle Solaris GRUB 0.79 does is that it chainloads to the Windows partition thereby transferring control to NTLDR. Then, NTLDR via boot.ini, can boot grub4dos which in turn could boot Android_x86. I think this could work.
However, I want to know if simply supplying the bcdedit.exe will continue the installation of Android_x86 and afterwards I can just manually edit grub4dos' menu.lst? Also, what other files (not included in your installer) should I have on hand to satisfy a complete install? Thanks for your reply.
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thanks for this info.
I wasn't implement support of NTLDR, because i think a lot of people are using new Versions like Vista/7/8
just copying bcdedit.exe will not solve the problem, because bcdedit.exe is just boot config editor not the Boot Manager itself
Thank you
I picked up a TW800 from Micro Center and it has both a front facing and back facing camera but I can't use the front one for pictures or recording, the camera app just doesn't have such an option or at least I don't see one. Are there any 3rd party camera apps out there that would address this issue? Thanks in advanced for your help. :laugh:
I bought the same device - skype will work with the front camera. Running out of internal memory quick on this thing.
rsktkr1 said:
I bought the same device - skype will work with the front camera. Running out of internal memory quick on this thing.
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I know what you mean, I bought a 32GB SD card just to find out you can't really install apps on the SD card or at least I don't know how.
Format the SD card as NTFS, move the \Program Files\WindowsApps folder to the SD card (make sure you preserve security and other such metadata, not just the files themselves, thus the card needing to be NTFS), create a symlink pointing to the new location. Alternatively, do this for individual apps within that folder. You may need to do it from a boot disk or as true Admin (not "run as Administrator" but actually under the local Administrator account). Don't forget to make sure that local-to-remote symlinks are enabled (fsutil is your friend).
You can, of course, install desktop apps to the SD card just fine, even if it's formatted as FAT. You can also relocate and/or move+symlink other stuff to the SD card, like your user profile.
I took my TW800 back and got the TW801 with the 64G sd card. I was able to install Ubuntu in a virtual machine all running off my external sd card and its really cool. You could still do this probably on the TW800.
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Format the SD card as NTFS, move the \Program Files\WindowsApps folder to the SD card (make sure you preserve security and other such metadata, not just the files themselves, thus the card needing to be NTFS), create a symlink pointing to the new location. Alternatively, do this for individual apps within that folder. You may need to do it from a boot disk or as true Admin (not "run as Administrator" but actually under the local Administrator account). Don't forget to make sure that local-to-remote symlinks are enabled (fsutil is your friend).
You can, of course, install desktop apps to the SD card just fine, even if it's formatted as FAT. You can also relocate and/or move+symlink other stuff to the SD card, like your user profile.
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Thanks GoodDay, I managed to install office on the SD Drive but I'm still very low on space, any other tricks of the trade?
You're welcome!
Make sure compression is enabled on all relevant drives (Windows Explorer -> right-click any drive -> Properties -> "Compress this drive to save space"). NTFS compression is less efficient than things like ZIP, but that's because it needs to allow fairly random access into even big files without decompressing them first, and it's still pretty good. Also may actually improve performance in some cases; it uses more RAM and CPU when access storage but reduces storage I/O time, and the I/O speed is usually the bottleneck (on magnetic storage, compression is usually a significant speed-up). Note that doing this may confuse/break "file undelete" utilities, though those are pretty iffy on flash storage (when TRIM is enabled) anyhow.
If you don't mind losing hibernate, you can get back the space consumed by the hiberfile (which is to say, the amount of RAM you have) by running "powercfg -H OFF" in an Admin command prompt, or at least reduce the size of the hiberfile somewhat using "powercfg -H -Size 75" or similar (the last number is a percentage, must be at least 50). I don't know if it's possible to put the hiberfile on a separate volume, but I doubt it (since it needs to load before the kernel even resumes).
You can reduce the size of the pagefile if you don't usually need it much. Windows will also let you create one on another volume (which may let you shrink or remove the one on C: without running out of virtual memory space). May not work with anything that the OS recognizes as removable storage, though, as the system will almost certainly crash if it loses access to the pagefile.
Disk Cleanup, as always, is your friend. Windows Updates and various temp files all consume a lot of space.
Tools like WinDirStat are really handy for figuring out where your storage is going.
Problem resetting Windows 8.1
Hi, i recently purchased TW800 but it got very slow after it filled the storage with windows updates. Now i want to reset my tab but I'm unable to do so.
I'm getting an error saying "There was a problem resetting your PC". Checked online for solutions but most of them are suggesting to reinstall the OS. I have a windows license but can I use it for this tab? Else can you suggest any way out?
Anyone know if we can complete wipe out the winbook and reinstall windows 8.1 pro? I have my own licensed version of windows 8.1 pro. If we can do this, there are 16GB of space to use and we don't have to worry about space too much.
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Anyone know if we can complete wipe out the winbook and reinstall windows 8.1 pro? I have my own licensed version of windows 8.1 pro. If we can do this, there are 16GB of space to use and we don't have to worry about space too much.
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I don't know about installing Windows 8.1 Pro but I found info on another site on how to install Windows 10 technical preview and I think it should be the same for installing Windows 8.1 pro. http://www.tabletroms.com/forums/winbook-tw100/7314-custom-reload-tw700-800-801-win-8-1-win10.html
Enable RDP on Windows 8.1 Basic for Winbook TW700/800/801/802/100
I didn't see many threads on this tablet on XDA yet, so I figured I throw this on here. I picked up a Winbook TW801 yesterday and I was trying to use remote desktop to log into the tablet. I then came to the realization that Windows 8.1 Basic doesn't have RDP enabled. I did some digging and found a batch file that installs the necessary files and permissions to enable it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1749299/RDP Enable 8.1.zip
Just unzip and drop that folder on your tablet and run the install.bat file. After the install you can delete the files you copied over to save space. You are then able to RDP into the tablet. It works great if you don't have a keyboard and mouse to hook up to it and want to manage things on the tablet quickly.
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I didn't see many threads on this tablet on XDA yet, so I figured I throw this on here. I picked up a Winbook TW801 yesterday and I was trying to use remote desktop to log into the tablet. I then came to the realization that Windows 8.1 Basic doesn't have RDP enabled. I did some digging and found a batch file that installs the necessary files and permissions to enable it.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1749299/RDP Enable 8.1.zip
Just unzip and drop that folder on your tablet and run the install.bat file. After the install you can delete the files you copied over to save space. You are then able to RDP into the tablet. It works great if you don't have a keyboard and mouse to hook up to it and want to manage things on the tablet quickly.
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I bought this too thanks for the zip. I was wanting to run Linux on this tablet like with a dual boot - but no drivers really so I just use VMWARE and run Ubuntu and Mint on both 32 and 64 bit virtual machines (with Intel VT option selected even though windows is 32 bit). I put a 64 Gig sdcard in the external where the the virtual machines are installed.
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If you need drivers for Windows (which you may be able to use in a wrapper to run under Linux), you can grab them from here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview...dDU21IaGYxbmU5WlgzWDd5dkc3cGZnd0k&usp=sharing
Those are the TW801 drivers extracted from a system image. People on the Microcenter forums report they work for all the variants of the Winbook tablets, but I haven't tested them on anything other than the TW801.
rsktkr1 said:
I bought this too thanks for the zip. I was wanting to run Linux on this tablet like with a dual boot - but no drivers really so I just use VMWARE and run Ubuntu and Mint on both 32 and 64 bit virtual machines (with Intel VT option selected even though windows is 32 bit). I put a 64 Gig sdcard in the external where the the virtual machines are installed.
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wow, surprising that you can run VMWARE and install Ubuntun, how is the speed?
I have installed Ubuntu 64 Bit and 32 Bit virtual machines - takes forever to install Linux Image - but its not bad once its running. I can play videos, stream music. I also installed LinuxMint 64 Bit and its pretty good too. Only 2 GB Ram - so allocated 1.3 GB to virtual machine and the rest to Windows.
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w1retap said:
If you need drivers for Windows (which you may be able to use in a wrapper to run under Linux), you can grab them from here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview...dDU21IaGYxbmU5WlgzWDd5dkc3cGZnd0k&usp=sharing
Those are the TW801 drivers extracted from a system image. People on the Microcenter forums report they work for all the variants of the Winbook tablets, but I haven't tested them on anything other than the TW801.
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cool i will check it out thanks
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w1retap said:
If you need drivers for Windows (which you may be able to use in a wrapper to run under Linux), you can grab them from here:
https://drive.google.com/folderview...dDU21IaGYxbmU5WlgzWDd5dkc3cGZnd0k&usp=sharing
Those are the TW801 drivers extracted from a system image. People on the Microcenter forums report they work for all the variants of the Winbook tablets, but I haven't tested them on anything other than the TW801.
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I can even use Unity mode with Linux Mint. Also, the physical windows button on the tablet activates the Ubuntu app launcher, and all of the host devices work on the virtual machine. I have also installed XBMC and ProjectM and VLC. and Pithos (pandora) and they all work good. I even have a Delorme GPS usb that I installed GPXD and Foxtrot and can run GPS.
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Friends, I have TW800 tablet, but its broken. While installing Ubuntu I wiped all partitions and now device doesn't boot. Is there any recovery partition image for this tablet? Or I can simply install Windows 8.1 and apply drivers from upper links?
This tablet is useless now in 2019. I managed to install Windows 10 on it but now it sucks even more and is slower, the memory just fills up too quick. Wish there was a way to just run a Linux distro without having to boot into Windows at all.
I have a nextbook tablet running windows 8.1 that I got from black Friday. I hate windows 8 and bluestacks won't run on the tablet, so therefore I can't even run my android apps.
Is there a way to install android on this tablet and get rid of windows? I've searched online and came up dry.
Any help would be appreciated.
I also bought one form wally world and would love to run android on it
nolan714 said:
I also bought one form wally world and would love to run android on it
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This is where I got mine too.
Please anyone who can shed some light on this I would really appreciate it. This is a great tablet but windows 8 sucks.
For Bay Trail:
https://01.org/android-ia/ - Intel's build of Android for x86 devices. They have builds available for Bay Trail devices, which according to the specs I found for that device, should work.
It does support running as a live image, which will get it off the ground and running for testing to see if all of the hardware is supported, and an installer to drop the Android setup on disk as necessary.
Installing Google Play and such might be a bit more involved of a task, but it's doable.
Interesting... but how would I get the tablet to boot into the image? since I can't plug a flash drive into it or access a boot menu of sorts how do I do this?
I had a similar question. I got an HP Stream 7 for $80 on Black Friday, and it comes with Windows 8.1. The reviews on amazon were glowing, considering the low price and still running a 32-bit version of Windows 8.
However, I'm not a big fan of Windows 8. Perhaps some day it'll grow on me, but at this moment, I don't find it intuitive.
Since the HP Stream has Intel Atom, I found this page (which apparently I'm not allowed to share). Just do a google search for Atom and kit kat. That gave me an Intel page with some instructions, but it looks like virtualization, as opposed to replacing or dual booting the OS.
zonykel said:
I had a similar question. I got an HP Stream 7 for $80 on Black Friday, and it comes with Windows 8.1. The reviews on amazon were glowing, considering the low price and still running a 32-bit version of Windows 8.
However, I'm not a big fan of Windows 8. Perhaps some day it'll grow on me, but at this moment, I don't find it intuitive.
Since the HP Stream has Intel Atom, I found this page (which apparently I'm not allowed to share). Just do a google search for Atom and kit kat. That gave me an Intel page with some instructions, but it looks like virtualization, as opposed to replacing or dual booting the OS.
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This won't work because the tablet doesn't not have enough ram to run an emulator. If that was the case I would just use bluestacks :/
ItsJon said:
Interesting... but how would I get the tablet to boot into the image? since I cant plug a flash drive into it or access a boot menu of sorts how do I do this?
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Sounds like it's got a micro-USB port on it - given that the tablet is meant for running Windows, probably an OTG port.
Find a USB OTG cable and you should be able to plug a proper keyboard into it (to get into the firmware) or plug a USB thumb drive into it.
I think the same is true for the Stream 7 (a quick search tells me it's got the same sort of micro-B port on it).
As far as accessing the firmware for either (to do things like disable Secure Boot or change the boot device), I'm not sure - but the documentation for each device should have instructions on how to access the firmware.
For installation - the images I linked above are for direct installation, not running inside of a VM. (I don't think any of the images that Intel provides will run under virtualization because they expect certain hardware to be present that isn't typically provided by any of the VMs out there - graphics being the big one.)
android,ubuntu,windows?
irony_delerium said:
Sounds like it's got a micro-USB port on it - given that the tablet is meant for running Windows, probably an OTG port.
Find a USB OTG cable and you should be able to plug a proper keyboard into it (to get into the firmware) or plug a USB thumb drive into it.
I think the same is true for the Stream 7 (a quick search tells me it's got the same sort of micro-B port on it).
As far as accessing the firmware for either (to do things like disable Secure Boot or change the boot device), I'm not sure - but the documentation for each device should have instructions on how to access the firmware.
For installation - the images I linked above are for direct installation, not running inside of a VM. (I don't think any of the images that Intel provides will run under virtualization because they expect certain hardware to be present that isn't typically provided by any of the VMs out there - graphics being the big one.)
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i managed to get to the bios of it by trying android installer (wubi) but android wouldn't boot but it let me get into boot options it says it doesn't have usb connected when in fact i did via usb otg but still trying if it's possible to boot ubuntu i will report first thing lets hope the dev's figure this one out please note it has uefi bios ubuntu desktop maybe a possibility but that's just a wild guess
joeylikesubuntu said:
i managed to get to the bios of it by trying android installer (wubi) but android wouldn't boot but it let me get into boot options it says it doesn't have usb connected when in fact i did via usb otg but still trying if it's possible to boot ubuntu i will report first thing lets hope the dev's figure this one out please note it has uefi bios ubuntu desktop maybe a possibility but that's just a wild guess
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emergency i need a recovery image could someone that owns this create one and upload it to here i forgot to make a backup of os i'm not gonna lose any faith in xda not now anyways probally not ever i got this for a early christmas present and already screwed it up my own fault but i'm hoping we can all communicate and come up with a solution to solve these problems and figure out a way to get android or ubuntu on this device which can only be accomplished through unity
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ItsJon said:
I have a nextbook tablet running windows 8.1 that I got from black Friday. I hate windows 8 and bluestacks won't run on the tablet, so therefore I can't even run my android apps.
Is there a way to install android on this tablet and get rid of windows? I've searched online and came up dry.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Ditch Windows +1, I bought it with the intention of running XBMCLive on it (I have already tried the windows version of XBMC, Updated the HUGE library I have and it still runs at only 35% CPU usage and 76% RAM usage, so one can only assume that with the "Resource Pig" removed from the device XBMC should be in Idle 99% of the time) I found an article that said that if you press the Vol+ button and the Power Button at the same time it boots into what can only be described as a"Boot Menu" of sorts, which includes booting from Flash disk, DVD rom, etc. Now I just have to find my Micro USB cable to USB to test it out and see if I can destroy it, or alternatively the better option, install the live version of XBMC on to it. IMO this is the smallest form factor Quad core I have seen with HDMI out....... A bit of "Velcro" on the back, stick it to the back of the flat panel tv and hey presto.... XBMC I can't see, but works better than Winblows. If anyone has any info on this, it would be Greatly appreciated.... Before I go and brick the device or something, LoL.
MeM-TecH said:
Ditch Windows +1, I bought it with the intention of running XBMCLive on it (I have already tried the windows version of XBMC, Updated the HUGE library I have and it still runs at only 35% CPU usage and 76% RAM usage, so one can only assume that with the "Resource Pig" removed from the device XBMC should be in Idle 99% of the time) I found an article that said that if you press the Vol+ button and the Power Button at the same time it boots into what can only be described as a"Boot Menu" of sorts, which includes booting from Flash disk, DVD rom, etc. Now I just have to find my Micro USB cable to USB to test it out and see if I can destroy it, or alternatively the better option, install the live version of XBMC on to it. IMO this is the smallest form factor Quad core I have seen with HDMI out....... A bit of "Velcro" on the back, stick it to the back of the flat panel tv and hey presto.... XBMC I can't see, but works better than Winblows. If anyone has any info on this, it would be Greatly appreciated.... Before I go and brick the device or something, LoL.
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could you please make recovery file from inside windows and copy it an attach it to this thread
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joeylikesubuntu said:
could you please make recovery file from inside windows and copy it an attach it to this thread
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it has 3 options to boot from efiusb efidvd efi network i've pushed all of these and get the message system doesn't have usb boot option please select other boot option in boot manager menu my only option is to boot from a recovery partition on an sdcard it's a matter of making the partition in update & recovery and copying the root folder of the sdcard to a zip or img file shouldn't be that hardim stuck in a boot loop by the way
joeylikesubuntu said:
could you please make recovery file from inside windows and copy it an attach it to this thread
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it has 3 options to boot from efiusb efidvd efi network i've pushed all of these and get the message system doesn't have usb boot option please select other boot option in boot manager menu my only option is to boot from a recovery partition on an sdcard it's a matter of making the partition in update & recovery and copying the root folder of the sdcard to a zip or img file shouldn't be that hardim stuck in a boot loop by the way
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Are you referring to a windows recovery? I have this same tablet, I can make one for you tomorrow and post it if you'd like.
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Silentwidow said:
Are you referring to a windows recovery? I have this same tablet, I can make one for you tomorrow and post it if you'd like.
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Any way you could do a "How To" on that? It would be great if I also had a backup of the unit before I decided to wipe it and maybe render it useless if something went wrong! Also then I could supply an alternative image for "joeylikesubuntu" or anyone else that is thinking of messing with it and isn't sure if it will work or not. Thanks.
ItsJon said:
This won't work because the tablet doesn't not have enough ram to run an emulator. If that was the case I would just use bluestacks :/
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Try installing this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software-hacking/how-to-install-bluestacks-1gb-ram-t2885950
joeylikesubuntu said:
emergency i need a recovery image could someone that owns this create one and upload it to here i forgot to make a backup of os i'm not gonna lose any faith in xda not now anyways probally not ever i got this for a early christmas present and already screwed it up my own fault but i'm hoping we can all communicate and come up with a solution to solve these problems and figure out a way to get android or ubuntu on this device which can only be accomplished through unity
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I also uploaded the recovery files:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mc9cbhntkpxqcgp/nextbook+recovery.rar
Having problems
I'm not able to get the device into any type of mode where it will read an external storage device. I've tried all sorts of combinations of power and volume and home keys with no results.
It just keeps saying "attempting automatic repair" and "diagnosing your PC"
any suggestions? None of the images posted in this thread seem to help me
Here my lead.
I recently saw this video in youtube (can't post the link since this is my first post) but video ID is /PG1_2MDYMtk
The specs of the device used in the video are by far surpassing the ones of the NCW8QC16G but I wasn't able to locate any minimum requirements so I think and hope it's doable.
I would only need a Micro USB OTG adapter to be able to plug in a wireless mouse and keyboard (which is currently in the mail).
I could load the installation image into a micro SD and then go to PC Settings\Update and Recovery\Recovery\Advanced Startup(restart now)\Troubleshoot\Advanced Options\ and try to make it boot into bios from there. or try pressing the usual combination of keys in my keyboard upon boot to access bios on a regular computer might work although I fear the chances are slim. Once we get into the boot menu and confirm that we can boot from SD I think the rest would be easy as shown in the video.
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brik.m3 said:
I recently saw this video in youtube (can't post the link since this is my first post) but video ID is /PG1_2MDYMtk
The specs of the device used in the video are by far surpassing the ones of the NCW8QC16G but I wasn't able to locate any minimum requirements so I think and hope it's doable.
I would only need a Micro USB OTG adapter to be able to plug in a wireless mouse and keyboard (which is currently in the mail).
I could load the installation image into a micro SD and then go to PC Settings\Update and Recovery\Recovery\Advanced Startup(restart now)\Troubleshoot\Advanced Options\ and try to make it boot into bios from there. or try pressing the usual combination of keys in my keyboard upon boot to access bios on a regular computer might work although I fear the chances are slim. Once we get into the boot menu and confirm that we can boot from SD I think the rest would be easy as shown in the video.
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that would be great if we can get some form of linux on it if we can figure out how to do so then this tablet would be great perhaps maybe using an old ubuntu recovery might work but that's just a guess and the recovery might have to be in the same format as the windows recovery or file type but that's good that others are working on this
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why cant we just use part of sdcard as ram to run vbox
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Sloogle_Flugelmann said:
I also uploaded the recovery files:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/mc9cbhntkpxqcgp/nextbook+recovery.rar
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thank you
@Sloogle_Flugelmann
Thx for the recovery image link.
I've tried all the options and I'm unable to get the recovery image to load after extracting them to a usb.
I actually managed to get Win10 build 9926 loaded on my nextbook via the OTG and usb drive. Got the internal wifi working after using a wifi dongle via OTG first then doing and update. Win10 doesn't seem to update drivers like Win8 does.
Also, anyone know what are the drivers for the different hardware on the NXW8QC16?
Sucks that touchscreen, etc don't work in Win10 preview, but it's probably to be expected.
I'm going to try my Win8.1 Pro image and to see if it picks up the drivers then.
Btw, I'm also trying the 64 bit version of Win8.1 since the processor in my tablet says it's 64bit capable and had a 32bit operating system loaded. Yes, I know that I don't need a 64bit OS since the tablet's only got 1GB ram, but while I'm playing around (struggling withit) so why not