Im wondering if its possible to create windows to go on android phone. I need as test device for laptops. But it would be awesome if this is even possible. Maybe creating additional partition from storage and them making that partition in rufus bootable. When connecting phone so u have option to make thar partition behave as usb stick so it will boot windows directly from that phone storage. Is this possible
Get drivedroid it's on the play store. IT REQUIRES ROOT ACCESS!!!!
wallor77 said:
Im wondering if its possible to create windows to go on android phone. I need as test device for laptops. But it would be awesome if this is even possible. Maybe creating additional partition from storage and them making that partition in rufus bootable. When connecting phone so u have option to make thar partition behave as usb stick so it will boot windows directly from that phone storage. Is this possible
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Awesome! Why not have a try and let us know the result!
Hello, booting an iso or any kind of image file from your phone to pc is possible, but you may encounter some problems.
DriveDroid is a good app but it requires root
here is a guide
http://www.geekomad.com/2013/08/how-to-make-android-phone-as-bootable.html
good luck!
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I have seen it in several places on this forum that it is not possible to partition an SD card, or any other removable media in windows. This is incorrect. It is possible.
TRY THIS AT YOUR OWN RISK
First...
BACK UP YOUR CARD - YOU WILL LOOSE ALL DATA
Download windows enabler from softpediahere
second...
navigate to the folder you downloaded to and start the EXE. this app doesn't install, you just run in. You will notice a new icon in your SYSTRAY (the area by the clock). click on it once and you will see the icon changes to read "on".
third...
Be a bit careful now because you have just turned on every greyed out option in windows. (this can be useful for all sorts of things but be carefull)
Go into control panel>administrative tools>computer manager.
on the left click on Disk management.
find your SD card. If there is already a partition on it right click and click on delete partition. This is usually greyed out but if you followed all the instructions it wont be.
Fourth...
right click again and click on New Partition. select primary in the wizard and leave the drive letter as is (or change if you really feel the need).
In the next screen you will be given the option of changeing the size, but... you guessed, it's greyed out. Never mind though, click there anyway and magically it is not greyed out any more. type in the size you want and format the partition.
you can now repeat step four for the next partition but when you get to the partition type all three options are grey, again if you just click on them they "come alive" because of windows enabler. There are various tools wich allow you to format to EXT2 from windows once the partition is created. I'm not gonna reccomend one becase I actually used one from panasonic and it was a bit rubbish, I dont know of a good one - go google and past here if you find a nice one.
I suggest deleting windows enabler at this stage as it is a dangerous peice of software. Keep the zip for future use!
You can also do this by editing the registry and skip the windows enabler part but I don't like the idea of giving directions for that, too easy to get it wrong and this is probably quicker, even including the download time for the enabler.
It works up to this step:
find your SD card. If there is already a partition on it right click and click on delete partition. This is usually greyed out but if you followed all the instructions it wont be.
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I've got message like:
The operation is not supported on removeable media
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What now?
This nifty little program does allow me to use the grayed out functionality, but still I cannot create 2 partitions on 1 SD card.
I have however been able to set the partition on my SD card to active with the help of this tool.
Robin
mrwam said:
It works up to this step:
I've got message like:
What now?
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I got the same message... Windows Vista 32-bit
try paragon partition manager 9 to create partition for the sdcard..
or download ubuntu and you can format it using ubuntu.
robpet2 said:
try paragon partition manager 9 to create partition for the sdcard..
or download ubuntu and you can format it using ubuntu.
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Live CD? I'm not willing to completely ditch Windows just to partition a lowly SD card.
U don't have to ditch windows... ubuntu let's u dual boot, and then u can delete ubuntu when u want to
robpet2 said:
U don't have to ditch windows... ubuntu let's u dual boot, and then u can delete ubuntu when u want to
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Still not interested and that doesn't answer my question really. Can formatting through an Ubuntu Live CD be successful? I have an Ubuntu Ultimate CD handy.
Thought u would have figured it out but u didn't.. the answer to your question is yes u can format using ubuntu... paragon worked for me easy.. but its up to on what u want to use to partition the sdcard...
Paragon (trial version) worked very well for me. It was intuitive and easy to do, I'm not the best with things like this but I didn't need more direction than "use Paragon, make EXT2 partition, no bigger than 2gb on Class 6 card".
uberingram said:
Still not interested and that doesn't answer my question really. Can formatting through an Ubuntu Live CD be successful? I have an Ubuntu Ultimate CD handy.
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I used Ubuntu but not running it on the live CD. Install it as a program in Vista. Then u can boot into Ubuntu after a restart.
thanks
Okay,
So I played with linux literally once or twice in my life and I never really dig into any deeper than that...
However I am aware / have made bootable Linux OS's in the past on just a normal USB, this was a few years back following some guides.
I have a Galaxy S and I know my computer tries to run the USB driver at boot because if my phone is plugged in the PC stalls at the Lenovo splash screen.
therefore it must be possible for it to run as a normal USB Boot so long as the right image in on the SD card in the phone.
My question is, how?
Any help greatly appreciated, going to start researching but any one with any quick ideas please let me know.
regards,
EDIT, I guess I will need to partition the SD Card, can I do this and not affect the Android OS? I presume it would have to be an external one too?
I guess that you could do it as long as your samsung mounts your SD when you boot your PC.
You could use a tool called UNETBOOTIN to create a USB-bootable version of any linux distro.
I would do this as follow:
- back up EVERYTHING in my SD card to a folder on PC
- run UNETBOOTIN and create a bootable linux on a usb stick
- copy everything from the usb stick to the root of your SD
- restore the files you have backed up earlier
If your Galaxy S mounts the SD card right at the boot of your PC then everything should work.
FYI you will not be able to see what is inside your SD, afaik, since linux will stay in a compressed filesystem image. So you won't be able to access your files on your phone, neither use it via ADB or fastboot.
Hope this has been helpful
Based on that last statement does that mean you cannot save anything on your USB boot versions of linux, since they are image files?
Hi all,
To start with, I'm in India and tried to unlock my Verizon S3.. at first, got it rooted, tried to unlock, didn't work and it caused a bunch of connection problems, etc. with the phone, so I did a factory reset, thinking it would wipe the problems I was having.
Lost some files I forgot were on my internal memory I needed, so I wanted to do a file recovery. During this process, I re-downloaded the drivers for the S3 I needed and then found that my phone would connect, but wouldn't connect as a driver and only as a media source. So the recovery software can't find the device to inspect. Even when I debugged, it would only register as a bootloader and wouldn't recognize it as anything more.
I'm trying to figure out what other steps I need to take to either remove something that I tampered with before the factory reset, or if I need to install something new to configure my device to register as a driver, or do something else I can't figure out?
And I'm still trying to recover those files from before the factory reset too.
Anyone have any suggestions? I can explain in more detail if needed.
Thanks for all the help!
Are you trying to recover personal files that were wiped?
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Trying to get my computer to register the phone as a driver so then I will be able to recover the files.
djteotancolis said:
Are you trying to recover personal files that were wiped?
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You may be out of luck. When google went to Android 4.x, they switched to the MTP protocol which mounts the phone to the computer as a media device, rather than a mass storage device (as in previous versions of Android). As far as I can tell, devs have only been able to figure out how to get the external SD card to be seen as mass storage (and that's built into a rom, not a stand alone mod, I believe).
Is there any file recovery software/app available for Android that you can install directly on the phone, rather than needing to run it from a computer?
Well, that's not a good sign. But I will check into the direct software to the phone and let you know I find anything.
Thanks for the tip!
letinsh said:
You may be out of luck. When google went to Android 4.x, they switched to the MTP protocol which mounts the phone to the computer as a media device, rather than a mass storage device (as in previous versions of Android). As far as I can tell, devs have only been able to figure out how to get the external SD card to be seen as mass storage (and that's built into a rom, not a stand alone mod, I believe).
Is there any file recovery software/app available for Android that you can install directly on the phone, rather than needing to run it from a computer?
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I have a 160 gb hard disk on my desktop with windows 7 and puppy linux installed today I wanted to extend the size of my c volume where both were installed, by mistake I converted my c partition to dynamic the os' s weren't booting up - boot mgr was missing, then I inserted my windows xp disc and when I was in the partition part I deleted one partition of 40 gb then it showed me 157gb unallocated space I have not installed windows now as I thought I have formatted my whole hard disk now please anyone suggest a way to recover the data on all other drives
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prajyotsingh said:
I have a 160 gb hard disk on my desktop with windows 7 and puppy linux installed today I wanted to extend the size of my c volume where both were installed, by mistake I converted my c partition to dynamic the os' s weren't booting up - boot mgr was missing, then I inserted my windows xp disc and when I was in the partition part I deleted one partition of 40 gb then it showed me 157gb unallocated space I have not installed windows now as I thought I have formatted my whole hard disk now please anyone suggest a way to recover the data on all other drives
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Check with google
Backtrack or Kali Linux distributions will boot from USB or CD and come with tools for 'data recovery' that maybe able to help. If the data that you want to recover has been written over by other data; then things can be a little tougher. The best stuff for doing what I think you want to do is going to run in a terminal window not a GUI, so hopefully you're comfortable with the command line
Let me know if I need to be more specific and I'll see about adding better instructions, otherwise, google up some 'forensic data or drive recovery or imaging' software for one of the above suggested distributions and you should be able to recover the important stuff.
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Debian Kit Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240397
Or
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ssVeIhdBuuy8CtpBP1lWgUkG6fR6oHxP20ToYPPw6zI/edit?usp=drive_web
Try loading any linux from usb and download testdisk recovery tool its a cross platform supported program that saved me many times. Google for testdisk and how to use it.Hope this helps.
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I'm back from helping someone else with something similar. Had an sdcard go out, saying "damaged sd" and here is how they recovered nearly all the data...
From Backtrack Linux...
dd was able to make a forensic image of the SD card, and testdisk was able to show and save unlinked files from the image file, so we were able to get all her photos and videos back!
http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk
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The "unlinked" files when scrolling through should have the first two characters or letters messed up, and the link provided should have directions on how to recover lost data. The thing to do is "dd" as this will make a full copy of everything to another drive, this will alow you to try different methods of recovery on the copy without risking the original drive.
Hope you get it all back
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Debian Kit/QEMU Linux Install guide for all android devices that I'm writing:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2240397
Now have working Installers for ARM Java 7 JDK + Maptools + jMonkey
In windows , there are many tools
In windows , there are many tools,but in linux ,I dont know much
How can I use my OnePlus One as USB mass storage device? I dislike MTP.
I do like this-
1. Switch off the phone.
2. Connect to PC
3. Enter recovery mode
Now drivers will load automatically and you can exchange data in Mass Storage Mode.
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id2xda said:
I do like this-
1. Switch off the phone.
2. Connect to PC
3. Enter recovery mode
Now drivers will load automatically and you can exchange data in Mass Storage Mode.
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Really? It will be detected as a USB drive??? Is this with a particular recovery or will TWRP do it? I'd like to add a partition to my phone that will contain a bootable Linux distribution so that I can use my phone as a rescue disk. Would this be possible?
uudruid74 said:
Really? It will be detected as a USB drive??? Is this with a particular recovery or will TWRP do it? I'd like to add a partition to my phone that will contain a bootable Linux distribution so that I can use my phone as a rescue disk. Would this be possible?
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Hi. I am using latest TWRP recovery and Oneplus is responding well invariably.
I have not tried adding partitions and also dont know much about it.
Goodluck if u r planning to try it.
id2xda said:
Hi. I am using latest TWRP recovery and Oneplus is responding well invariably.
I have not tried adding partitions and also dont know much about it.
Goodluck if u r planning to try it.
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Will look into this. Thanks!
I just looked into it and got nothing. It talks over usb, but no USB Mass Storage support (reading Linux dmesg to test). I looked over TWRP, and it looks like the disabled USB Mass Storage when Android shifted away from having a separate FAT filesystem you could mount under Windows. Your SD Card is now a directory under /data and most kernels don't have the ability to even export USB Mass Storage anymore because, as ext4, Windows will tell you that the drive is unformatted and ask you to format it for you!! And that would mean losing the entire /data partition. Basically USB Mass Storage is gone. I'm thinking with a custom kernel and maybe compiling TWRP myself, I might be able to get it back, but its going to be far from trivial. I think the end result (a recovery system that I can boot a PC from in an emergency with plenty of tools) will make a great addition to my phone.
TWRP is supposed to support MTP now, but its not working for me. I end up using USB OTG for "bare clean wipe" flashes.
Any news? Unfortunately, since it was upgraded to lollipop I can not connect the OnePlus one to my car radio as a removable disk. It remains uncomfortable leaving your phone in recovery to use UMS