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Porting Windows XP

Would it technically be possible to port a stripped down version of windows XP onto one of the high end android (or winmo) phones?
If it is a matter of incompatible hardware it could be emulated, it was done on the psp with its (now) ancient hardware

How would you handle the cursor? As far as i know, Xp doesnt support touches

You would write a device driver for the ts and slipstream it in to the install media.
The biggest hurdle is the architecture, for sure - there's no arm port of xp.

Leo can run Windows 95/98

why do you want to run XP on a phone though? What does that buy you that you can't get from a platform specifically made for mobile computing?

however it would be great to see windows xp on a sgs xD

natet1 said:
why do you want to run XP on a phone though? What does that buy you that you can't get from a platform specifically made for mobile computing?
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It may be the infamous "because we can (maybe)!"
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I think statistically per specifications it can be done on the HD2 US and only the HD2 US...

orb3000 said:
Leo can run Windows 95/98
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Which goes through a emulator...
I think OP is meaning something like native XP port.

try dis
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1459153

OP, Are you serious? Want a full OS, Get android, lol

Abe's exoddus
-I think Windows XP is not good because this is discontinued

Try Ubuntu!

Windows XP doesn't support ARM and would be impossible to port it over without the help of Microsoft. Running XP in a emulator would be extremely slow on ARM systems.

before it was taken down, there was an app in the market called xp mod. Luckily, I downloaded it before they took it down, because it is one of the coolest apps I have ever used. Check it out here: http://www.androidauthority.com/xp-mod-launcher-android-xp-96817/

You would only have hope of running Windows XP via an emulator. Even then, running a full XP OS would drain your tablet/phone battery since the emulation would be quite CPU-pegging (100%).
You might get away with porting Windows CE 6/7 to a high end android phone, problem there is that you'll need to make your own drivers for the hardware. And besides, Windows CE is like a really stripped down version of Windows 95 for mobile devices... even the CE version of Internet Explorer 6 can't render things properly.

I think you want to run PC Games on ur Phone..isn't it ?????
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Possible to port Windows 8 ARM?

Just curious about this, do you think it might be possible to port Windows 8 ARM to our Transformer, Xoom and so on? What would be the system requirements of such a thing?

I love this future questions that nobody know

Just a guess mostly likey yes
I guesses most of the drivers will be exist the development will start fast
But lets wait

Windows 8 comes out when? Early 2013?
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microsoft demod windows on arm using a tegra 2, i donno if it was windows 8 as they didnt show the interface only a desktop environment

removed.

mikeseth said:
Actually, we can still start now.
Many people (incl. myself) already have the leaked build 7989
CPU: 1 GHz or faster
RAM: 1 GB ( for 32-bit) and 2 GB (for 64-bit)
Hard disk: 16 GB (for 32-bit) and 20 GB (for 64-bit)
DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver
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1) Is it the arm version?
2) is it a legit version.
Between now and forever...depending on licencing...there would prabobly zero development with windows 8 on xda.
Unless the device speciafically comes with it...or ms allows people to install/buy it into a specific target device, distributing a rom containing windows 8 would be like posting a pirated copy of windows.
So as far windows 8 development on the tf, not gonna happen
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Well at least until can put ubuntu on it. That leaves the door open for other Distros.
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With the leak of build 7989, i'd love to see a port for the transformer. In fact, i bought the transformer exclusively because of win8, as I need one note.

why did you buy this for windows 8? Asus has many almost identical tablets (albeit a bit thicker) that run windows 7 fine. And microsoft said that any computer that could run windows 7 could run windows 8.

david279 said:
Windows 8 comes out when? Early 2013?
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March 2012 is the latest I heard (Mary Jo Foley post)
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jerrykur said:
March 2012 OS the latest
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Um thats my birthday.

newtonc said:
With the leak of build 7989, i'd love to see a port for the transformer. In fact, i bought the transformer exclusively because of win8, as I need one note.
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the leak is x64, not arm.
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A msft video which shows a prototype tablet powered by a kal-el quad-core arm soc running windows 8, was really stunning. That should be it.

Sounds like a neat project. There's got to be a significant amount of driver porting work to do though.

Dyskmaster said:
why did you buy this for windows 8? Asus has many almost identical tablets (albeit a bit thicker) that run windows 7 fine. And microsoft said that any computer that could run windows 7 could run windows 8.
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the only other asus tablet runs at $1000+, and has poor battery life. win 8 with arm support will be the way to go.

6 months from now the transformer will look like a piece of crap compared to what will be out. If you want windows 8 the best option would be to buy a new tablet that has it on there. The best point was made on the previous page which stated porting windows will be considered piracy and therefore banned from the forum. IF Microsoft releases windows 8 ARM as an installer (usb,cd,flash chips, who knows...) then there could be guides on here but NO ROMS as Windows is not FOSS. Then there's the price to consider... Don't get me wrong I would love Windows 8 on my TF but be realistic, it's not gonna happen.

it wouldn't be piracy if you were able to provide a legitimate proof of purchase.windows requiresaproduct key so if you went to the store and bought the disk then if someone found a way to modify the install process to run on transformer you could enter your product key and it would be perfectly legit. Allot of hard work but legal nonetheless

I am 100% there will be no Windows 8 development for Asus transformer at least on xda, and the other thing I am pretty sure about that Asus TF won't be able to run it, seriosly you think that Microsoft will make windows 8 so optimized that it work on "smartphone" processor Tegra 2? Nothing against windows, love it, but I think that tegra 2 processors are not powefull enough to run desktop OS. If there will be anykind of port of windows 8 on TF I would install it right away, but what can you do on it having only 1gig of ram? Check email on glitchy IE(I personaly hate it)? And by the time Windows 8 is going to be released, there will be new TF2. So insted of hoping for port of windows 8 on TF, better start saving money for TF2 or Windows 8 tablet which would give full new windows experience insted of ported one!
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Who cares about windows 8, can we boot windows 7 on our TF? as much as I love android 3 it can't be compared to windows.. could we boot it? the TF as duel core cpu while same 10' mini laptops as less powerfull single core..

Which OS is used more?

This thread is actually aimed toward developers and advanced users, but anyone is welcomed to respond. I am curious about which OS is preferred by those that help us all. Overall, windows is more prevalent. But I suspect that a lot of people here use other things.
I will start off. Up until a few weeks ago, I used windows solely. Then I developed an interest in Linux. I just updated my dual booted Win XP/Ubuntu machine today. But, up until a month ago I used a Win7 machine. I still have a lot, and I mean a lot, of learning to do with Linux.
Now, who's next?

Ubuntu, might change with Windows 8 we will see.
I am not amused with your phones performance

Linux
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I will try Ubuntu whenever I get a new computer or finish school. I need to have Office for my school and from what I have read it just isn't very good, or its tough to get to work properly. More trouble than what I can troubleshoot right now. So for me its Vista...bleh.

flashman2002 said:
I will try Ubuntu whenever I get a new computer or finish school. I need to have Office for my school and from what I have read it just isn't very good, or its tough to get to work properly. More trouble than what I can troubleshoot right now. So for me its Vista...bleh.
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You could always dual boot Ubuntu using the WUBI installer.

mrhaley30705 said:
You could always dual boot Ubuntu using the WUBI installer.
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That is beyond my scope at the moment.
Glitch kernel let me OC to 1.4!

windows 7 ultimate 64bit on my main desktop which is my gaming rig.... its like a nuclear reactor..
all my laptops run ubuntu 64bit. one of them is 11.10, my big dev laptop is 10.10, google chromebook (obviously runs chrome OS). i have another laptop that i try out different distros on. my 12" laptop runs backtrack5 used them all, but ubuntu works the best with the least amount of dickin around. when i want to have fun i run arch, when i want to pull my hair out i run fedora... lol
my servers are a mix of arch, fedora, debian...

Pirateghost said:
windows 7 ultimate 64bit on my main desktop which is my gaming rig.... its like a nuclear reactor..
all my laptops run ubuntu 64bit. one of them is 11.10, my big dev laptop is 10.10, google chromebook (obviously runs chrome OS). i have another laptop that i try out different distros on. my 12" laptop runs backtrack5 used them all, but ubuntu works the best with the least amount of dickin around. when i want to have fun i run arch, when i want to pull my hair out i run fedora... lol
my servers are a mix of arch, fedora, debian...
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Do you have a computer for each phone?

At the moment I am dual booting Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows 8 Dev Preview but when I get the chance I plan on installing PCLinuxOS when the dev preview is locked out.
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Well Windows is the chosen primary (cuz my family uses the computer too) and dual booted with Ubuntu (my primary)!
When i buy a new desktop (HP 6 core 3.4 GHz each core) i built it to be top of the line so i could do anything i need! Ubuntu will be the Primary OS on that!
If you know where i can get a good desktop or laptop, let me know, ok?
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mrhaley30705 said:
Do you have a computer for each phone?
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LOL....kind of. i got rid of some devices. just down to galaxy s2, captivate, aria, atrix, touchpad, ipad1 -64gb3g, iphone4, oh and i still have a mytouch4g or 2

b-eock said:
Well Windows is the chosen primary (cuz my family uses the computer too) and dual booted with Ubuntu (my primary)!
When i buy a new desktop (HP 6 core 3.4 GHz each core) i built it to be top of the line so i could do anything i need! Ubuntu will be the Primary OS on that!
If you know where i can get a good desktop or laptop, let me know, ok?
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Well you would save a lot of money if you built your own computer. Your options are a lot less limited, and you get to have fun doing it. I don't know how much you plan to spend on the HP but I built my computer for about $1100 and I have a six core processor overclocked at 4ghz with a 2gb radeon HD 6950 graphics card, 8 gigs of corsair vengeance ddr3 1600mhz, a ssd and a 1tb 7200rpm western digital caviar black hdd. Lots of fun stuff when you build your own PC.
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bradleyG said:
Well you would save a lot of money if you built your own computer. Your options are a lot less limited, and you get to have fun doing it. I don't know how much you plan to spend on the HP but I built my computer for about $1100 and I have a six core processor overclocked at 4ghz with a 2gb radeon HD 6950 graphics card, 8 gigs of corsair vengeance ddr3 1600mhz, a ssd and a 1tb 7200rpm western digital caviar black hdd. Lots of fun stuff when you build your own PC.
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Where did you get your components? Store bought or Online.

I chose everything online by specific parts,
Six core non OC at 3.4 GHz
16 GB RAM
3GB Video processor
2 TB 7200 rpm hard drive
costing me about $1800
edit will get specifics in a bit!
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b-eock said:
I chose everything online by specific parts,
Six core non OC at 3.4 GHz
16 GB RAM
3GB Video processor
2 TB 7200 rpm hard drive
costing me about $1800
edit will get specifics in a bit!
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thats too much.
3gb video processor?? wtf is that? sounds like nvidia quadro which wont run games the same way a desktop card will.
somebody needs a lesson in PC building 101

I have a netbook with XP ...LOL...
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Captain_Nero said:
Where did you get your components? Store bought or Online.
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It was a combination and just a little waiting for the right deals.
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b-eock said:
I chose everything online by specific parts,
Six core non OC at 3.4 GHz
16 GB RAM
3GB Video processor
2 TB 7200 rpm hard drive
costing me about $1800
edit will get specifics in a bit!
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I don't know what you plan on doing with this PC but I'm positive you won't need 16gb of RAM ditch the 3gb video card and get something like a 6970 or a top notch nvidia card. Post the parts in detail you chose and what you will be using the PC for
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I dumped windows a few months ago for Ubuntu. My 6 year old desktop runs Ubuntu 11.10 and my two year old Laptop runs the same thing. I just wish I people would focus on Heimdall than Odin.

I'll use anything but Linux.
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[Q] Windows RT is compatible with ARM architecture

Steven Sinofsky, responsible for the Windows RT said that this version of Windows is compatible with ARM architeture.
Maybe it's compatible with ARMv6, the same from our phone.
May we'll, someday, see a Windows RT ROM for P500?
It's a dumb question, since I'm not a developer...
But what do you guys think? It's possible or just a dream?
I'm meaning a hibrid ROM, like Paranoid (Tablet UI and Phone UI)

Jajaja i dont know if it.is possible
JB have many lags imagine windows 0.o :surprisemother****er:
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i feel its a long shot
but themed roms are always possible

The first thing that I felt after spending a couple hours of testing Windows 8 @ my notebook is: Wow!! This is so fluid! So smooth...
And my notebook it's a simple AMD Dual Core E-350 @1.6GHz and 2GB RAM.
Windows RT is a more clean version of Windows 8, it will run smooth on any device with, at least, 1 GHz and 512MB RAM.
Maybe our device could run WinRT too, with some lag, but running nice! hahaha

How can you guys even think of WinRT to work on our phones? We aren't able to run even B2G..!!!

Pedrorudi said:
The first thing that I felt after spending a couple hours of testing Windows 8 @ my notebook is: Wow!! This is so fluid! So smooth...
And my notebook it's a simple AMD Dual Core E-350 @1.6GHz and 2GB RAM.
Windows RT is a more clean version of Windows 8, it will run smooth on any device with, at least, 1 GHz and 512MB RAM.
Maybe our device could run WinRT too, with some lag, but running nice! hahaha
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Our device is quite a way off 1ghz, but if it works i'd like to see it

Wickedude said:
Our device is quite a way off 1ghz, but if it works i'd like to see it
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Yeah, but with OC, our phone gets up to 729MHz without frying the CPU.
As I said, maybe it will run Windows RT, a bit laggy, buuut...

Windows RT system is about 6Gs(with basic apps to work) big. It would be a miracle to see a Transformer Prime run RT, let alone this phone.
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AgentCherryColla said:
Windows RT system is about 6Gs(with basic apps to work) big. It would be a miracle to see a Transformer Prime run RT, let alone this phone.
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Sorry, forgot this "little" detail, forget it, we'll never see a port to our phone... =/
But, mods is not discarded. hahaha

Question with windows 8 and Android

This is a question on the Computer CPU with the new Windows 8 and Android.
I am considering upgrading my tower to a new CPU and wondering if the Windows 8 and Android have any problems? I don't know a h**l of a lot about the OS and running Windows 7 now. I have read several articles that preinstalled Windows 8 can't be downgraded as there is a built in glitch on the OS and the motherboard that prevents the downgrade and will kill the CPU. I am maybe considering building a system and installing Windows 7 but I don't know a lot about competely building a computer unit. I have installed various components and had luck with that. I can find only one factory built that meets what I want in a CPU but like most its preinstalled with windows 8. So I was just wondering if there is any problems with flashing roms and such from a windows 8 unit before I ditch out 5 or 6 hundred for a new computer.

leesumm said:
This is a question on the Computer CPU with the new Windows 8 and Android.
I am considering upgrading my tower to a new CPU and wondering if the Windows 8 and Android have any problems? I don't know a h**l of a lot about the OS and running Windows 7 now. I have read several articles that preinstalled Windows 8 can't be downgraded as there is a built in glitch on the OS and the motherboard that prevents the downgrade and will kill the CPU. I am maybe considering building a system and installing Windows 7 but I don't know a lot about competely building a computer unit. I have installed various components and had luck with that. I can find only one factory built that meets what I want in a CPU but like most its preinstalled with windows 8. So I was just wondering if there is any problems with flashing roms and such from a windows 8 unit before I ditch out 5 or 6 hundred for a new computer.
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The only issue I have seen is USB drivers not recognizing Android Devices and problems installing the drivers.
Here is the link for the way to resolve the issue http://kwangzspace.wordpress.com/20...alling-android-usb-driver-in-windows-8-64bit/
Hope this helps.

Venomtester said:
The only issue I have seen is USB drivers not recognizing Android Devices and problems installing the drivers.
Here is the link for the way to resolve the issue http://kwangzspace.wordpress.com/20...alling-android-usb-driver-in-windows-8-64bit/
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Ok, thanks, I haven't taken the step yet to upgrade but been debating the issue. My computer is slow and getting slower with all the software and such today. Being computer illiterate , I don't really know if to try to keep win 7 or go with win 8. However which way I am considering a 1T HD and about 16 gig ram with an i5 or i7 chip. I am hopeing when done it will fly and pass a F-18. With my present set up it takes about 45 seconds to copy a zip to the phone. AT 65 now and retired I feel the need for speed.

leesumm said:
Ok, thanks, I haven't taken the step yet to upgrade but been debating the issue. My computer is slow and getting slower with all the software and such today. Being computer illiterate , I don't really know if to try to keep win 7 or go with win 8. However which way I am considering a 1T HD and about 16 gig ram with an i5 or i7 chip. I am hopeing when done it will fly and pass a F-18. With my present set up it takes about 45 seconds to copy a zip to the phone. AT 65 now and retired I feel the need for speed.
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With that setup you could run a small country lol.

Crazy processor and way overkill on ram only to be crazy bottlenecked by a mechanical drive lol
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exad said:
Crazy processor and way overkill on ram only to be crazy bottlenecked by a mechanical drive lol
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Yes indeed. SS would be the way to go.