From what I can tell, the hardware looks almost identical between the tablet versions.
Would that mean, it might be possible to flash android onto the windows version, and vice versa? I would only see a problem going from android -> windows as the internal storage is not 32gb, it is 16gb. Or possibily dual booting both using the sd card for one?
Speculating further, I wonder if multirom would be able to boot windows after some type of modifications? Or would a custom bootloader need to be written? or could the windows bootloader work somehow?
Also, we really need our own forum for the yoga 2 tablet.
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Is it possibile installing a different O.S. on a SD?
Is it possibile booting from an O.S. installed on a SD card?Just like a powerful PC can we create a dual boot loader?
It would be wonderful making a choice to start from resident O.S. or from an installed O.S. in the SD.
Thanks in advance for your kind reply.
i doubt it
never heard about the bootloader being able to use the sdcard for anything but to take an image from and flash the rom with it
also sdcards are very very much slower then internal flash so it would mean a very very slow start if it was possible
well. actually i had such idea. the idea is to integrate sd drivers to xip, create imgfs and 2 fat partitions on sd and launch xip from xip. unfortunately, because of some strange bootloader behavior on my asus 525, i have not yet managed to start a xip from ram, it keeps falling to the one on DoC..))) but i think everything is possible. just you need to be very careful when migrating from flashdrv to sdmemory - it`s hard to set up the driver for os root correctly
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Hi there folks,having spent 2 days figuring out the dual boot for win phone 7 and android,i have finally managed to have wp7 on phone and android on sd card,i have wp7 correctly identifying storage on the phone as 4.0 gb, but when i boot to Android, it can not find any storage AT ALL, this is the only thing left to do for me to be very happy with the dual boot on my HTC HD2
Dual booting with 8gb SD card:
Android sd and WinPhone 7
Android 2.2.1 Kernal 2.6.32.15 Build1.72.405.3 CL29690
Windows Phone 7 .D F Team T9292
OS Version 7.0.7004.0
Moonlight v1.00Boot loader 0.96.2250.0
Chip SOC Version 2.2.5.0
Hardware Version0002
Radio Software Version 5.51.09.29_22.32.5010U
ANY HELP WOULD BE APPRECIATED.
as well as know winmo 7 on nand changes to sd to an unknown format except 200mb. so there is a special method to run an sd android with win 7.search for it.
Hi there,as stated,i already have the htc hd2 running winmo 7 and android,all i need to try to get sorted is the fact that android,sees No storage,and winmo 7 sees 4gb,so there is 3 gb not seen and it is on the same partition as the android install,there has to be someone who knows why this is...
So i have a device called the kobo vox. it has the exact same specs as the nook color. Cortex a8 clocked at 800mhz, single core. 1200 by 600 display. running android 2.3.4. I was hoping to add another processor to the device. i have a really old laptop that has an intel pentium 4. laptops do not have fans so i think heat is not a problem. but i want to know if there is enough space in my device to add it, and if i have to modify my software to use the processor.
My other question is if i can alter the os entirely. so in the inside of the device there is a little card slot. a micro sd card slot that has all the os packages and files. if i take it out and turn on the device, all i get is just it turning on but nothing happening. so technically the device is a block of hardware. there are no other files stored in the device cause it is all on the memory card. so i was think of holding on the first memory card for back up, and putting in another memory card with stock android. is it possible? im planning on downloading android from the website and using it but i don't know how to download it. or should i just download the nook's os because they have the same hardware but the nook is rootable. please tell me how to download android from the website and/or provide the os files of the nook color. thanks
Dude all your plans are bull****. all intel based laptops has fans.its x86 architectre. Your chinese tablet is having an arm processor. Android is primarily an arm based os.
You cant just download and install android from somewhere to your device using memory cards.
I suggest u to read and learn xda and whts hapening in it. Read abt rooting , cynogen mod and custom roms. Then kernels ,compiling kernels nd then aosp. U will be finished by then
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Sorry, Dragon, I like your enthusiasm, but just adding another processor to a device is not realistic.
I'm interested in installing the 8.1 preview on my Samsung Ativ tablet. Its an 11" tablet with a 1.8GHz Intel Atom 32bit CPU, 2GB Ram.
My concerns are regarding roll-back of the previous OS should there be a problem. That and removing the preview build once the RTM gets released. Anyone have an ETA on that???
The tablet does not have a CD drive obviously, nor do I have any restore media on thumb drive. It has a reinstall partition on it that I've used before, I just want to be sure that this partition doesn't get removed when I upgrade. Will that partition ALWAYS live on the device regardless of what kind of OS I install? Is it on a read-only partition?
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/sam...iv-smart-pc-atom-does-work-windows-8-1-a.html
Hold windows button while powering the device on, that will then open your bios instead of booting into windows 8 supposedly.
Windows 8.1 will overwrite your old recovery partition. There is no protection such as it being read only etc. If you wish to keep the 8.0 recovery partition (highly advised) then you will need to create yourself a recovery USB, I think you need an 8gb thumb drive for that. Before proceeding into the 8.1 install make sure that you have tested that you can load into your recovery USB, even if you dont actually perform the recovery. A few people have made their USB's, updated to 8.1 and then wanted to go back only to realise that their recovery USB is corrupt or that they have no idea how to use it or in more extreme cases havent made one at all.
There are alot of guides including a good one from microsoft on how to create a recovery USB, it essentially just duplicates your devices existing recovery on your thumb drive. It is highly recommended that you do this anyway as you can then delete the existing recovery partition and free up a whole load of space for your tablet (I'm guessing your not very happy with the amount of usable space on your tablet already)
Full release, well, RTM is in late august apparently so it should be 1-3 months after that. Some point this autumn anyway.
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Will that partition ALWAYS live on the device regardless of what kind of OS I install? Is it on a read-only partition?
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I am not sure how your device is setup. I made a recovery USB like the directions advise before installing the preview on my Surface Pro. It seems like Internet Explorer is hanging on more sites than before but it hasn't bothered me enough to reload the recovery from the USB partition.
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Hold windows button while powering the device on, that will then open your bios instead of booting into windows 8 supposedly.
Windows 8.1 will overwrite your old recovery partition. There is no protection such as it being read only etc. If you wish to keep the 8.0 recovery partition (highly advised) then you will need to create yourself a recovery USB.
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First off, I'm putting this on a tablet, thus there is no windows key, no keyboard at all. So I would need to use a USB keyboard and hope that its initialized early enough in the post so that it recognizes the keypress.
Second, and I highlighted the most important part of all, if I hose the recovery partition then I'm kinda screwed for future recovery efforts. I need to tred very lightly here. I will wait if need be for the win 8.1 RTM if there is a way to keep the recovery partition intact. Perhaps I could make a new recovery partition that contains windows 8 AND 8.1, thus anytime I need to recovery after that point it will install win 8.1. Is that possible?
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I'm guessing your not very happy with the amount of usable space on your tablet already.
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Nope, not really I got a 32 GB Micro SD in there so that helps. I have a 64 GB micro and it died about a week after buying and I threw away the box and receipt. Paid cash so no way to look it up by credit card.... oi:crying:
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I am not sure how your device is setup. I made a recovery USB like the directions advise before installing the preview on my Surface Pro. It seems like Internet Explorer is hanging on more sites than before but it hasn't bothered me enough to reload the recovery from the USB partition.
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Can you explain what you mean by that? The part about IE...
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First off, I'm putting this on a tablet, thus there is no windows key, no keyboard at all. So I would need to use a USB keyboard and hope that its initialized early enough in the post so that it recognizes the keypress.
Second, and I highlighted the most important part of all, if I hose the recovery partition then I'm kinda screwed for future recovery efforts. I need to tred very lightly here. I will wait if need be for the win 8.1 RTM if there is a way to keep the recovery partition intact. Perhaps I could make a new recovery partition that contains windows 8 AND 8.1, thus anytime I need to recovery after that point it will install win 8.1. Is that possible?
Nope, not really I got a 32 GB Micro SD in there so that helps. I have a 64 GB micro and it died about a week after buying and I threw away the box and receipt. Paid cash so no way to look it up by credit card.... oi:crying:
Can you explain what you mean by that? The part about IE...
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I know its a tablet. There is a windows key on all tablets, what did you think the massive button below the screen was, it just returns the key code for the normal windows key on a usb keyboard.
Make a recovery USB, then you can hose the recovery partition safely, the recovery usb is essentially that partition moved from tablet to USB memory stick (or you can do DVD but you would need a usb DVD drive in your case and it seems you can't always boot from usb DVD drives for some reason, so I wouldn't advise it). 8.1 will overwrite the old 8 recovery, move the old 8 recovery to usb and then update to 8.1 and you can use the usb to roll back to 8.1.
The internet explorer thing, well, windows 8.1 and all new software in it is beta quality. The pre release is not for consumers, its buggy. Things crash.
I bought myself a new yoga plus LTE yesterday.
I've been working on the big file issue with larger files than 4gb on sdcard.
I fixed that issue by formatting the card as a internal drive and move all apps there.
The thing i dont like is that i lost all the 32GB on ghe original drive as that wont show up anymore as a usable space.
On my friends tab his internal and card got put togheter and he got one large drive containing both the card and the internal storage. (Lenovo tab 3 x50 i believe)
So my tablet seems slow, it hangs on Facebook and messenger and it disconnects wifi etc.
Its buggy...
So, i just recently had a Nvidia shield tablet and it was also slow, so i downloaded the stock rom and adb flashed it with recovery flash and it became superfast again.
I believe after updates some files gets overwritten and it causes problems.
Normal factory reset wont fix it either.
It needs reflashing..
So here is my questions.
I need stock recovery files, and then i also would like to root it so i can get to use my internal drive as internal and to have a Exfat sdcard to be recognized do i also need to know how to get there as well.
Im sure this tablet after full recovery with latest updates, a exfat support will be very nice.
I also maybe need TWRP to flash it with the files needed to get it to read exfat??
I don't wanna return it as i like it but it only needs exfat for me to be perfect​.
Please help me out so i can collect all files with links and to have some tutorials of Wich to do first etc.
I will then make a good thread containing all these so we all can enjoy the best of this nice tablet that really gets killed by not recognizing exfat.
I mean i like to have 4K material and i dont wanna be limited by Lenovo beeing to poor to buy the exfat license.
Its been a Lenovo issue for many years i cant understand why they wont fix it.
My tablet is the YT-X703L
MANY THANKS ALL OF YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!!
veralynn said:
I bought myself a new yoga plus LTE yesterday.
I've been working on the big file issue with larger files than 4gb on sdcard.
I fixed that issue by formatting the card as a internal drive and move all apps there.
The thing i dont like is that i lost all the 32GB on ghe original drive as that wont show up anymore as a usable space.
On my friends tab his internal and card got put togheter and he got one large drive containing both the card and the internal storage. (Lenovo tab 3 x50 i believe)
So my tablet seems slow, it hangs on Facebook and messenger and it disconnects wifi etc.
Its buggy...
So, i just recently had a Nvidia shield tablet and it was also slow, so i downloaded the stock rom and adb flashed it with recovery flash and it became superfast again.
I believe after updates some files gets overwritten and it causes problems.
Normal factory reset wont fix it either.
It needs reflashing..
So here is my questions.
I need stock recovery files, and then i also would like to root it so i can get to use my internal drive as internal and to have a Exfat sdcard to be recognized do i also need to know how to get there as well.
Im sure this tablet after full recovery with latest updates, a exfat support will be very nice.
I also maybe need TWRP to flash it with the files needed to get it to read exfat??
I don't wanna return it as i like it but it only needs exfat for me to be perfect​.
Please help me out so i can collect all files with links and to have some tutorials of Wich to do first etc.
I will then make a good thread containing all these so we all can enjoy the best of this nice tablet that really gets killed by not recognizing exfat.
I mean i like to have 4K material and i dont wanna be limited by Lenovo beeing to poor to buy the exfat license.
Its been a Lenovo issue for many years i cant understand why they wont fix it.
My tablet is the YT-X703L
MANY THANKS ALL OF YOU BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE!!
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Regarding the slow down, flashing an image won't help you there because you will end up with exactly the same system that you have now. This is due to the block based updates. We all have exactly the same system and boot partitions. The only thing you can do is a factory reset
The exfat issue is big annoyance I agree. It's only half Lenovo's fault though. Microsoft is the bad guy here since they conspired to get the exfat file system set as the default file system for large SD cards and want royalties from the OEMs. I don't want Microsoft to get a single dime for something as trivial as a new file system without any special features.
What is Lenovo's fault is giving us old kernel sources that prevent us from easily building custom kernels that include exfat. There were FUSE based solutions for older Lenovo tablets that could potentially be updated to work for us but FUSE isn't ideal since it's slower than a kernel based solution.