Hi All, This is probably a really stupid question, but i've been searching trying to find the answer, is it possible to install windows 7 or any other OS on this or any other android tablet?
Thanks in advance for any help,
AZ
AbsoluteZero said:
Hi All, This is probably a really stupid question, but i've been searching trying to find the answer, is it possible to install windows 7 or any other OS on this or any other android tablet?
Thanks in advance for any help,
AZ
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The yet to come out Viewsonic "Viewpad" tablet is to be dual boot Win7 or android...although differentprocessor. Hopefully they will do better than the g tablet with their android os overlay.
Should I stop thinking of all these tablets like it's a laptop, that the OS can be changed from Android, to Windows, to Linux? or is it basically the same as a normal PC?
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Would forget about windows but (a version of) Linux should be doable. Possibly CE6 but I don't think anyone is doing anything with it.
http://developer.nvidia.com/tegra/downloads
This is not an x86/x64 CPU so the OS has to support Tegra specifically.
These tablets have a different processor in them, so, no, they cannot run any Window OS except Microsoft's mobile OS, a.k.a. Windows Mobile, a.k.a. Windows CE, etc. These tablets are more akin to mobile phones than general purpose desktop/laptop computers.
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hello good afternoon everyone, thank you all for the beautiful work they do on this site, I apologize if I'm being a noob but I looked all over the net and still not found a concrete answer, I'm thinking about buying a samsung galaxy tablet 10.1V with android 3.0, and really needed to be able to install Windows XP or Windows 7, I wonder if there is any virtual machine for Android where I can install windows, it was very important for my work, if someone can help me would be great from already thank you very much and keep up the good work ...
fimacedo said:
hello good afternoon everyone, thank you all for the beautiful work they do on this site, I apologize if I'm being a noob but I looked all over the net and still not found a concrete answer, I'm thinking about buying a samsung galaxy tablet 10.1V with android 3.0, and really needed to be able to install Windows XP or Windows 7, I wonder if there is any virtual machine for Android where I can install windows, it was very important for my work, if someone can help me would be great from already thank you very much and keep up the good work ...
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Well at least you got the first part right...you are being a noob. Lol
Windows and android run on different architectures, so android on arm, and windows on Intel etc
So no, there is no way atm. Unless windows 8 (when it arrives) is truly compatible on arm architecture.
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Hello there,
I am not too sure if this is a vague questions however I was wondering if an Asus Transformer tablet can be made dual bootable with Android and Windows 7?
Has any one tried or thought of it or heard about it or if it do-able, please let me know.
Cheers,
Ashish
No. I believe our tabs run ARM, whilst Windows is coded to run on x86/64 architecture.
Thanks Chris, for your reply. is there a possibility to dual boot Android and Windows Phone 7 on Asus Transformer?
Thanks in advance,
Ashish
no WP7 is closed source. It also only supports 512 mb ram and a single core processor
It's exactly this sort of naive question that means Microsoft will able to sell more than 10 Windows 8 tablets.
It won't run Windows 7 because it runs ARM CPU. And Windows 8 tablets won't run windows applications for the very same reason.
Why do you guys want windows 7 on a tablet? I have played once with Win 7 tablet and it's pretty awkward though it's very nice to have the programs you use on your PC.
hi there the possibilities for our device is endless it is definitely possible for our to dual boot windows xp and android with our device maybe we could make it run on our armv7 processor if someone is able to do this project i can help
aaronjasper49 said:
hi there the possibilities for our device is endless it is definitely possible for our to dual boot windows xp and android with our device maybe we could make it run on our armv7 processor if someone is able to do this project i can help
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Windows XP ? Impossible not going to happen, not worth the effort.
Windows 8 RT, Possible, not worth the effort..
Recommendation: If you need or really want to have both, buy a Lenovo or Dell WIndows 8.1 tablet for less than $200 and you will be much happier.
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aaronjasper49 said:
hi there the possibilities for our device is endless it is definitely possible for our to dual boot windows xp and android with our device maybe we could make it run on our armv7 processor if someone is able to do this project i can help
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So you want to Dualboot Windows XP and Android ?
May I know which device you've ?
One thing is sure, YOU CANT DO THAT ON A TAB
Many members including myself got idea of running Windows 8 x86 on Tab 3 10.1 since it have a 32Bits kernel, but nothing happened.
Never
I think this will never happen, because of mainly two things:
1. No drivers available, you would have to write them all cause there are no preconfigured ones.
2. Windows is closed source.
You would need to be a Dev at Samsung, otherwise you will never have an insight into the specific hardware of those devices. Samsung but also Intel (in case of the 10.1) don't publish most of their documents.
No.
hey,
if you want to really understand what windows xp will be like run it through an emulator.
now, don't get me wrong, i loved windows xp, hated everything before it hated everything after it.
apple is bull****.
Linux is beautiful.
Android is commerce riddled slop and needs to die a horrible flamey cinematic death accompanied by bad lighting
and a third rate orchestra trying to play anything while being fed into the woodchipper of your choice.
anyway the point outside of my ranting is, maybe yes but seriously no.
as soon as i figure out how to get a decent lightweight linux distro running on this thing then i might be able to
get wine going. better to get a windows-able tablet pc and dual-boot android x86.
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Hi,
I got a tablet with an Intel Atom Z3745 Soc. The OS that comes shipped with this tablet is Android. I was wondering if it is possible to replace Android with Windows or a Linux Distro since the tablet runs on an Intel x64 soc? Any suggustions?
Tnx
Z37Z said:
Hi,
I got a tablet with an Intel Atom Z3745 Soc. The OS that comes shipped with this tablet is Android. I was wondering if it is possible to replace Android with Windows or a Linux Distro since the tablet runs on an Intel x64 soc? Any suggustions?
Tnx
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I don't know for sure, I'll do a little research..
But if it is possible, I'm sure that it would be quite difficult. :laugh:
I already did some research on Google and other sites. Couldn't find anything usefull. I think the problem lays on having no bios/uefi on the board instead there is Droidboot Provision OS. If there was a bios/uefi it would have been a piece of cake.But any thoughts are helpfull. Thanks.
Ah, I see.
Well, I better resign from this thread now before I cause any damage, as I am an avid Windows user and and avid Android user, but I don't have any experience with attempting to change a device's operating system.
Farewell, good sir.
thanks for your contribution.
Farewell.
Recently I read you can't replace android with Windows os on a phone because it's specifically made for Android
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Where would somebody get an image for Windows 10 Mobile if they wanted to try to install it on the Shield? Been curious about this, and not a fan of Android as much as I thought, but don't like Apple.
Nowhere. Someone would had to make a ROM with Windows 10 and I don't think that there were any ports of Windows on ARM for anything other than HTC HD2 few years ago.
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Where would somebody get an image for Windows 10 Mobile if they wanted to try to install it on the Shield? Been curious about this, and not a fan of Android as much as I thought, but don't like Apple.
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Not possible. Anyway Windows 10 Mobile is dead and boring to use compared to Android.
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Where would somebody get an image for Windows 10 Mobile if they wanted to try to install it on the Shield?
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Much too difficult and complex. It would require not only porting Win10, but also the drivers/firmware to make it work with the Shield's specific hardware. Which don't exist, so you would have to do that from scratch? Getting it to work would probably take hundreds of hours, if ever. Plus, Windows is closed source, so it's probably not even legal to port it.
Much easier to just buy a WIn10 device, if that is what you want.