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Dual boot understanding

Hello everyone,
Can anybody explain how dual boot works.
Whether android is booted on top of windows mobile as some upper layer or does it rely on hardware as it is native OS installed. Is there any difference between native android phone and android booted from windows mobile, except missing some functionality?
Thanks
Cheers!

when you use heret to boot android winmo is shut down, then android runs as the native os, this is nessesary as without android being flashed to the devices rom there would be no way to boot it obviously. in theory if android is made stable enough on a device it would be possible to make an android rom for that device

To add some additional information:
You are probably talking about the Gen Y dual boot software.
Gen Y dualboot is nothing more than an application that runs immediately after Windows is booted. So before you get to the dualboot, Windows is actually already booted.
Then, after pressing Android, Windows Mobile launches the Haret, by which Windows Mobile shuts down and the Android Kernel loads up.
So to have it in a schematic view:
-----------------------------------------------------Stay in Windows Mobile
Kernel WM --> WM booted --> DualBoot <
-----------------------------------------------------Launch Android Kernel --> Android booted

[Q] Windows 8 - Toolkit?

Hello all together and happy new year!
First of all -> Sorry for my english skills!
I currently work on some tools and images, specially for Windows 8.
1. Is there any requirement for Windows 8 Custom Toolkits?
2. Is somebody interested or has ideas in managing, deploying and cooking Images of Windows 8?
I am working with and using Windows 8 since its first beta (Developer Preview) and it is (yes, but in any user opinion) a new Vistaster. Technically it has a huge set of advances, like
1. Boot on any supported computer hardware (in case only neccessary drivers should be installed in OS) which implies Point 2:
2. Ability to boot from any bootable media (Tested on DVD (damn small Windows 8 / PE), BD, USB-Stick, SD-Card aso...) your Bios is supporting.
3. New, touch-friendly (and often buggy) boot menu (supporting USB 3.0, using it since grub4dos couldnt...)
I'm playing around Windows 8 PE, now downloading ADK for further development. My first milestone is to create a recovery environment which is able to make incremental OS backups and restore (using Microsoft WIM), flash an custom image to OS partition, all in a user-friendly, open-source UI application made with .NET-Framework 4.
Please tell me that nobody tried this before! And what do you think about this?

Ubuntu Touch Dev Preview released [info/supported devices/restoring to android/more.]

Hello xda,
Recently We have heard about ubuntu for phones and tablet now this is the time that the first developer preview has rolled out!
Your device must be unlocked! (you can do thiscalso by installing this preview!)
Supported devices are:
- Galaxy Nexus maguro
- Nexus 4 mako
- Nexus 7grouper
- Nexus 10 Manta
What are the Fuetures at the moment?
Shell and core applications
Connection to the GSM network (on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4)
Phone calls and SMS (on Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 4)
Networking via Wifi
Functional camera (front and back)
Device accessible through the Android Developer Bridge tool (adb)
How to get the developer preview image?
Deploying Image to Device
To install the Ubuntu Touch Developer Preview on your device, you will need to execute the command below. Please note, this will wipe the contents of the device so ensure you have made a back-up. To install and get updates,
run the following command: phablet-flash -b The -b performs a full bootstrap on the device.
If the device is already unlocked it will carry on.*If you have already bootstrapped once and want to install a daily just do:
phablet-flash, This will deploy the latest build onto your device. Your device should reboot into the Ubuntu Unity shell.
Note: the files are saved in*Downloads/phablet-flash.
Rolling back to android?
The Ubuntu Touch Preview image is not for everyone and may not suit your current needs (yet). If you wish to roll back to an Android factory image, follow these steps:
- Recall the version that was installed before flashing.
- Download the factory image corresponding to your device's model and version (initial table has links).
- Ensure the device is connected and powered on.
- Extract the downloaded file and cd into the extracted directory.
- run*adb*reboot-bootloaderrun*./flash-all.sh*(use*sudo*if lack of permissions on the workstation don't allow you to talk to the device).
Your device should boot into Android after the process is finished.
For more info see:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Install?action=show&redirect=TouchInstallProcess
Left behind in the comments what you think about Ubuntu Touch
Greetings SK.

Porting Ubuntu Touch:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting

How to port libs to Android x86

Hi! Take a look at this situation: I have an Android x86 tablet (model Multilaser M7i Nb190) Intel, Android 4.4, but the internal emmc memory i'snt working anymore, but the rest of the device still 'works', Generic Android x86 boot up, even Ubuntu n' ZorinOS Lite, but I can go after setup screen because there's no touchscreen support for my device, I have the original rom, but the structure of the device rom and of the Android x86.iso seems to be different. How to port the device drivers (libs) to the Android x86 generic.iso rom? I have version of Android x86 4.4, its better to use it because it is the same version of the device rom (in general)? Thanks for any help. ... And why xda app still giving network error after trying to upload an image?!

Bliss OS Install on Dell Venue 8 (7840)

I've downloaded the ISO for Bliss OS 11.13 (64bit for Intel Atom processor), created a Live USB using Rufus on Win10 and am trying to figure out how to install it to the my Dell Venue 8 7840 (running Android 5.1, unlocked and rooted). But the installer doesn't recognize there's an android tablet connected via usb.
I've ensured that the my Dell Venue 8 7840 (unlocked, rooted running Android 5.1) has both the MTP Dell drivers as well as the ADB drivers in Windows 10 and I can launch a terminal and run typical ADB/Fastboot commands and the device responds.
I've tried using all of the available "Allwinner" usb tools (PhoenixSuit, Phoenix USB Pro and LiveSuit) but none of these will accept the iso file I've downloaded directly from the Bliss OS site. Am I doing something wrong? My tablet isn't supported by CWM/TWRP or any of the major custom ROMS (LineageOS etc) so I can't update passed the current Android 5.1 as Dell no longer manufactures Android tablets.
Please tell me if anyone has been able to successfully install Bliss OS on an Intel Atom based Android tablet
Thanks

any update on this?