I have a nexus 7 and was able to get a Dual Boot installed which was able to let me keep android o/s and also install the ubuntu o/s.
Yeah the screen is way too small on the nexus 7 but wanted to try it and see if it could be done.
Now I want to get this TPT to do the same think being that it has a larger screen and the folio kb with it.
Has anyone seen any dual boot installers out there? I've searched and only came across someone just doing a install of ubuntu only.(taking out the android o/s)
I have spent about a week now trying to figure out if it's possible to boot Android-IA on a 32 bit UEFI system. I have seen threads on the mailing list and other sites that apparently have gotten it working on the T100TA, but the links to their compiled roms are dead. I specifically am looking at doing this on an HP Stream 7 and making a dual boot car install. Has anyone successfully booted Android-IA on 32bit UEFI?
If this is not possible, how do the Chinese tablet manufactures do it with the same Atom chipset? I need a 7" tablet that can dual boot Android and Windows. Is there any quality model I should look for? I have seen the Cube iWork 7 which looks promising, and seems to be perfect for my needs. I will need root in Android for the car install.
I've been a lurker on these forums for a while, but just now got around to making an account. Hopefully someone here can share their experiences or suggestions. Thank you all
May be it's too late to reply, but anyway.
iWork 7 DualOS BIOS has both UEFI64 and UEFI32 booting. If you load Android(i.e. Linux), then 64bit mode is using. If you boot Windows, then 32bit mode is using.
sorg said:
May be it's too late to reply, but anyway.
iWork 7 DualOS BIOS has both UEFI64 and UEFI32 booting. If you load Android(i.e. Linux), then 64bit mode is using. If you boot Windows, then 32bit mode is using.
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I have intel x86 based device Yoga tab 2 830LC, i used tethred twrp and made the back up of kitkat build, after some time i upgraded my system to official lollipop, but when i tried to restore to kitkat build in twrp, i am uanble to boot, and bios screen pops up, any solution will be much appreciated sir...
P.S. Sorry for posting in wrong forum, I was not able to pm you thats why i dared
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QuazIqbal said:
I have intel x86 based device Yoga tab 2 830LC, i used tethred twrp and made the back up of kitkat build, after some time i upgraded my system to official lollipop, but when i tried to restore to kitkat build in twrp, i am uanble to boot, and bios screen pops up, any solution will be much appreciated sir...
P.S. Sorry for posting in wrong forum, I was not able to pm you thats why i dared
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Probably, your backup isn't full, i.e., not all partitions are backed up. TWRP sees only standard partitions like boot, data, system. But there are many service partitions. For example, on my iWork7 there are 17(!) partitions used solely by Android.
So, i think, after downgrading you've got mess of old and new versions of partitions and they are not compatible to each other.
So, you need initial Android installer (like my iWork7 has). Contact Lenovo support.
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Probably, your backup isn't full, i.e., not all partitions are backed up. TWRP sees only standard partitions like boot, data, system. But there are many service partitions. For example, on my iWork7 there are 17(!) partitions used solely by Android.
So, i think, after downgrading you've got mess of old and new versions of partitions and they are not compatible to each other.
So, you need initial Android installer (like my iWork7 has). Contact Lenovo support.
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I have recovered from this mayhem, i had to flash official firmware but now I am in another difficult situation.
After updating to lollipop, I am facing a weird 'sim not ready' error, no mobile netrwork appears nor the setting of mobile network is configurable, no data(2g,3g,4g) no voice call support.
When i insert sim card it shows sim added notification, also telecom stk app shows that sim has been read,
but still I am unable to figure it out why the goddamn network doesnot shows up? Btw wifi is working nice.
Is any body also facing same issue? What causes this error?Any help to resolve this will be much appreciated.*
P.S. I am in good network and I have also tried different sim cards but no luck so far....
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So im thinking of purchasing one of these when the come out here and i was wondering about an android to windows os hack. Will there be one in the immediate future and will dual booting be an option?
The hardware is exactly the same.
There must be a way to dual boot, hopefully others on this forum can figure out how to do this if Lenovo doesn't facilitate dual boot themselves
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I believe there's a different BIOS for Win vs Android. Could have sworn I saw the Windows BIOS posted on the Lenovo support site prior to the Oct 17 launch. It seems gone now though, unless I'm missing something or went to the wrong link? Unlikely you can install Win without a different BIOS.
There is some clear hardware differences with the Android and Windows tablets. Specifically, 2 different physical layouts for the halo keyboard, where the windows one has defined left and right mouse click buttons. There doesn't seem to be any way of accessing the BIOS on the Android tablet, and it does have the usual Android power + volume up, power + volume down recovery options, so it looks like it boot directly to the boot loader.
The Bios is still there ... but how would you flash it?
http://support.lenovo.com/de/de/products/Tablets/Yoga-Series/YOGA-Book/downloads/DS119182
ok so there is also android open source code available in their site, any chance of making a custom rom?
I wonder if we could flash the Chuwi 12 roms onto this given that Chuwi12 has dual boot already?
This is reallly really stupid to me, why not provide dual boot in the first place? I would not mind shelling out $100 more for a dual boot version. Now if I want the windows version I will need to spend another $550 to get another OS with the same device. I will end up having 2 same devices, but that is so anti-mobile really. Do I have to carry 2 hardware devices so i can have 2 OSes at the same time?
Lenovo get some grip please and provide a dual OS version.
win 10 driver
Today, the windos 10 drivers are online..
The drivers you get with levono support with input of the serial number
It must now be possible to build a dual system
Tastertur chipset audio and more .
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Today, the windos 10 drivers are online..
The drivers you get with levono support with input of the serial number
It must now be possible to build a dual system
Tastertur chipset audio and more .
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Could you post the link for the windows 10 drivers? also any idea on how to unlock the bootloader?
Hi,
earthCallingAngela did unlock the bootlader. .
My background knowledge about booting is very low. But I think there are huge differences between Android and Windows. I think If a system can boot via PC-Bios or Android-Boot-Loader is "on the chip". If this is correct you would need a Android-Boot-Loader that does boot into a windows ... IMO this is no "easy to do". May be the guys who did create Remix OS found a way to do that ...?
Can we use Chuwi 12's disk image somehow? It comes with dual boot.
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Can we use Chuwi 12's disk image somehow? It comes with dual boot.
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Are the two the same hardware? My understanding is that unless the hardware is very similar, you can't use other ROMs without a *TON* of work.
so i was able to install android x86 6.0 on my yoga book, unfortunately i managed to do it over my windows install so now i just need to reinstall windows lol.....
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decided to install 7.0 over my 6.0 install i just made and messed everything up. now im back to just trying to get gparted to run so i can reformat and start over.
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Could you post the link for the windows 10 drivers? also any idea on how to unlock the bootloader?
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http://support.lenovo.com/kr/en/pro... and Software|Drivers and Software&beta=false
you can download yogabook win10(64bit) driver here.
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you should change operating system dropdown menu from android to windows10
Hi & Happy New Year
Now it's possible to get root with android version
I have a YogaBook with Windows version ; Someone can make a backup Android version?
Maybe it's possible to create a dual boot with the windows version I cross the fingers :fingers-crossed:
Where and how?
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Hi & Happy New Year
Now it's possible to get root with android version
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someone can said me, where i found an android image? (original yoga book, of course) i try to install Remix OS and Android-x86 6.0-r1 released from Android-x86.org but, its can't run. graphics issues and reboot.
i install in a MicroSD and boot it booting yogabook hold volume up + power boton and select boot menu, but it fail on boot.
i have yoga book windows. any idea?
thanks
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I'm exploring this as well.
Since the BIOS and drivers available (just tested with my serial#), it does seem like it would be relatively easy to dual-boot, provided you can get past the loader issue.
I've done many dual-boot setups, just not since the Win7 days, with the Win8 and forward it's gotten quite a bit trickier, the loader does a bunch of "extra" stuff, boot timing and such, to protect itself.
I've also never done an Android/Windows dual-boot, mostly just Win/Win or Win/Unix.
I think you'd have to figure out how to bootstrap these, so the custom loader can take over, and load from there, but this is a bit beyond my Android capabilities.
Has anyone even tried this? I assume the power/volume keys must work, to get at the loader?
Hi there !
I've just unlocked my Yoga Book's android bootloader and made a backup. I'm trying to install Windows 10 and replace Android with it. The problem is that I don't know how to boot the device from the USB drive.
Does anyone know how to do that ? Even if rooting is required ?
P.S. : I can't google it as all results link to "how to boot a PC from android device", which is the reverse...
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Hi there !
I've just unlocked my Yoga Book's android bootloader and made a backup. I'm trying to install Windows 10 and replace Android with it. The problem is that I don't know how to boot the device from the USB drive.
Does anyone know how to do that ? Even if rooting is required ?
P.S. : I can't google it as all results link to "how to boot a PC from android device", which is the reverse...
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simple...you can't do that! it's not possible to boot usb from android bootloader or recovery.
Is there or will be there any option to achieve 'dual boot' Windows/Android on the Lenovo Yoga Book?
I'm interested in the tablet but I don't know if the Windows option or the Android option would be better...
If you want to eventually dual-boot, you'll want the Windows version. Android can dual-boot alongside it from the BIOS, however you can't achieve the same thing from an Android recovery program like TWRP.
No one has dual-booted yet from what I can tell, but theoretically Remix or the Android x86 project would work.
Personally I got as far as trying to partition my C:\ and accidentally wiped my OS straight off, so I'm going to have a break for a while before trying again.
Hello, I was bored today and decided to dust off my old mojo, I thought about installing linux on it for running more stuff on it.
I've found two possible routes for achieving this:
Flashing linux through Tegra RCM: the tegra 4 SoC on the mojo has the same booting procedures to other tegra boards, by pressing the RCM button (the one under the USB 3.0 port) while plugging in the device to power, one can see it boots up into nvidia tegra rcm (like the nintendo switch rcm). There is software for flashing the device to run linux this way, but I lack the knowledge to use the nvidia dev tools for this.
Flashing postmarketOS through TWRP: I am also experimenting with building a postmarketOS android recovery zip for the mojo, using the methods for other tegra 4 android devices, haven't achieved much, but this way seems more promising.
If anyone has tried any of this or is willing to help me out with this I would greatly appreciate it. Running linux on the mojo is far from a necessity, but given that most tegra drivers are already integrated in the linux kernel, it should be possible.