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[Q] Dual boot your xoom

Can I dual boot my zoom? How about Android 2.2 or Linux and Android 3.0?

wally69 said:
Can I dual boot my zoomXoom? How about Android 2.2 or Linux and Android 3.0?
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FTFY
But at the moment we do not have the necessary things in place to dual boot.

I want to bump this thread.
I would like to know if anyone is working on a dualboot spcifically for windows 7.
Rumors as they are are pointing that Windows 8 will be tablet friendly or atleast touch screen friendly. I would like to see something like this come out for the Xoom if for nothing more than proof of concept for now.

You want Win7 on ARM? huh?

almostinsane said:
You want Win7 on ARM? huh?
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Yes.
hxxp://blogs.nvidia.com/2011/01/tegra-2-cameos-at-ballmer-ces-keynote-with-windows-on-arm-demo/

Will we be able to boot ARM Ubuntu with an SD card when 3.1 is released?

xxpawzxx said:
I want to bump this thread.
I would like to know if anyone is working on a dualboot spcifically for windows 7.
Rumors as they are are pointing that Windows 8 will be tablet friendly or atleast touch screen friendly. I would like to see something like this come out for the Xoom if for nothing more than proof of concept for now.
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Windows 7 doesn't support ARM........windows 8 will.........so you could probably see a windows 8 xoom.....but windows 7 on any honeycomb device.......I don't think so....
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ics with mac!

i need help getting it on my phone using my mac! please help!

Dual boot windows
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You could try running windows in a virtual machine. That's what I used to do on my Mac

Borrow a friends pc?

jason.hamilton said:
Borrow a friends pc?
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He might only have internet friends.

mattrb said:
He might only have internet friends.
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Lmao, thats fvcked up. haha

You can either do Boot Camp or Parallels (which is what I used) and install Windows 7 for like a hour. http://www.parallels.com/products/desktop/

use heimdall brosky

being a mac user, i suggest you find a buddy that has a pc. it is 100X easier. now, if you don't know anyone that is willing to help you out then...idk haha. however, i do wish that us mac users had a way to use odin and etc. just like pc users.

[Q] DEVS only

I was just wondering do you need to be running linx to do any type of developing or can you use a windows based pc?

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1. it depends what you are trying to do.
Theming is going to work fine on PC.
if you want to build something, you're gonna need Ubuntu.. Preferably 10.04(LTS)

if you set up your build environment using Cygwin you can use windows to develop on

If you're gonna be trying to build ROMs/kernels from source though, you might wanna do it on either OS X or Linux.

FBis251 said:
If you're gonna be trying to build ROMs/kernels from source though, you might wanna do it on either OS X or Linux.
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it differently does simplify it just a note ONCE U GO LINUX you wont go back to win anything lol..

I think ill leave it up to you guys to dev i would love to learn but cant afford the new hardware so keep up the good work guys.

You don't need new hardware. Linux runs on everything.

FBis251 said:
You don't need new hardware. Linux runs on everything.
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can you recommend a link for linux and will i have to reconfigure all my computer files and programs to run or will they just work automatically

http://www.ubuntu.com/
you could dualboot windows and linux

ooohhaaahh said:
http://www.ubuntu.com/
you could dualboot windows and linux
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X2
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[Q]Help getting started with ROM developement

Hi, I am interested in starting some custom ROM work for our device. I am just looking for a little bit of direction on where to start. I understand things are a bit more complicated with our locked bootloader, but I know there is still a lot to be done. What are some good places to start tweaking performance? How about graphics and theming? if there is anything else I should know that would be great. I am not an extremely experienced programmer, but I have some experience and I am fairly comfortable tweaking system stuff. Lastly, Is there any way to get an emulater going for the A2? this would be very helpful for development to save the pain of boot loops and errors on our real device. thanks for everyone's help! Hopefully our development will take off for this phone once we get the bootloader bypass working or get it fully unlocked.

This needs moved to general.
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tmease1 said:
This needs moved to general.
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ok sorry

I just want to get one thing out there. If you want to develop you will NEED Linux. It makes things a lot easier than using windows.

Moved to General to OP's request.

farshad525hou said:
I just want to get one thing out there. If you want to develop you will NEED Linux. It makes things a lot easier than using windows.
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I am currently quad booting Windows, my custom arch build, ubuntu, and debian, so I am set there! I prefer linux to windows anyways, i mostly use windows just for compatability, but I am in ubuntu right now

lkrasner said:
I am currently quad booting Windows, my custom arch build, ubuntu, and debian, so I am set there! I prefer linux to windows anyways, i mostly use windows just for compatability, but I am in ubuntu right now
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Wow impressive.. I just use Ubuntu on a virtual machine..

farshad525hou said:
Wow impressive.. I just use an Ubuntu virtual machine..
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Arch is pretty awesome if you have the patience/time to set it up. It's not that hard, just takes some work to figure it out

lkrasner said:
Arch is pretty awesome if you have the patience/time to set it up. It's not that hard, just takes some work to figure it out
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You'll also need a ROM kitchen to decompile ROM's, or you could just extract the zip and rezip... only problem is that if you make any major changes you need to write a new updater-script...

Windows 8 on sg3

I want this so bad!
what is the first step?

jackrabbit72380 said:
I want this so bad!
what is the first step?
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It's not going to happen unless you port it, and it's basically the same question as "I want ios on my phone so bad, how can I get this?
If you want ios buy an iPhone.
If you want windows buy a windows phone.
There's a reason we all don't have either one of those.
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BadUsername said:
It's not going to happen unless you port it, and it's basically the same question as "I want ios on my phone so bad, how can I get this?
If you want ios buy an iPhone.
If you want windows buy a windows phone.
There's a reason we all don't have either one of those.
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I think can port it but not entirely sure I have never done a port before but I really want to attempt it. I will need help and support and questions answered. I am a windows phone rom developer. I know I'm not the only one who wants to see this.
That's why I start this thread and ask what is the first step?
I know that we need a dump and drivers to work with. and something to cook with.

Well I suppose a windows compatible boot loader would be first then porting the drivers from android to windows this phone has full source released so your not going to get any thing new for it.
The thing would be is getting windows to recognize this as valid hardware.
Also I don't want windows 8 on my phone I have used it on my laptop it sucked making me think about going to Linux since Microsoft has decided touch interfaces are the future and made windows go full retard.

jackrabbit72380 said:
I think can port it but not entirely sure I have never done a port before but I really want to attempt it. I will need help and support and questions answered. I am a windows phone rom developer. I know I'm not the only one who wants to see this.
That's why I start this thread and ask what is the first step?
I know that we need a dump and drivers to work with. and something to cook with.
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If you honestly want real development help try posting this In the developer section, rephrase the question a little better though so you get some real responses.
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mirrin said:
Well I suppose a windows compatible boot loader would be first then porting the drivers from android to windows this phone has full source released so your not going to get any thing new for it.
The thing would be is getting windows to recognize this as valid hardware.
Also I don't want windows 8 on my phone I have used it on my laptop it sucked making me think about going to Linux since Microsoft has decided touch interfaces are the future and made windows go full retard.
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wait what? windows 8 and windows phone 8 are totally different OS's ?
why is our current boot loaders not compatible?
what is needed to make them?
im guessing your talking about clockwork recovery and twrp?

jackrabbit72380 said:
wait what? windows 8 and windows phone 8 are totally different OS's ?
why is our current boot loaders not compatible?
what is needed to make them?
im guessing your talking about clockwork recovery and twrp?
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Delete system 32
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jackrabbit72380 said:
wait what? windows 8 and windows phone 8 are totally different OS's ?
why is our current boot loaders not compatible?
what is needed to make them?
im guessing your talking about clockwork recovery and twrp?
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I was talking about the whole thing. The bootloader and partitions are not compatible you are going from android to the mobile version of windows 8.
You said earlier about winmo and win 8 being totally different android and winmo is also totally different.

get a launcher or theme.
thats probably as close as youre going to get if youre actually serious.

I see Calvin and the windows logo here
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