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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] MFortuna:
Update 2017

Hello! It's been a long time since nobody posts...

I've been trying to dual boot Android and Windows on my Acer Aspire P3-171 (i5-3339Y, 4GB RAM, 120GB SSD) (similar to Iconia)

Like 2 years ago I succesfully installed Android IA with this guide but when I updated to the last version it crushed and never could make it work again. :crying:

Now I've installed Android x86 with no trouble at all, well I can tell my experience: :)

-Android x86 Nougat (yet a RC): Everything working except for using the power button to lock the screen. After some time I couldn't boot anymore.

-Android x86 Marshmallow: Almost everything working! (YouTube and Netflix :good:) Cannot lock screen with power button (can use an app), the rotation sensor is working but values are too low to rotate the screen (using an app for manual rotating for the moment).

-Android x86 4.4: Everything working, but kinda old...

I will keep Marshmallow but might need some help: :confused:

-I'm using grub2win for bootloader because I don't have Ubuntu (or space for it). Tried to follow [MENTION=1074261]cert_[/MENTION] tutorial with Ubuntu live USB but couldn't make it work (always something missing, m4, o bisson, even after installing them). Someone knows how to set up grub2win or how to do [MENTION=1074261]cert_[/MENTION] tutorial from windows/android?

-Also tried with [MENTION=347468]inteks[/MENTION] files but didn't know how to install them!

-How do I change the "driver" of the rotation sensor in Android?

-Can I map correctly the power key so Android locks?

Thanks you all in advance, and sorry if I didn't make myself clear, my english isn't the best!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] CitiGaming:
If anyone still checks this thread, having a little issue during install.

I choose interactive installer > dualboot > resize windows > install Gummiboot and the install proceeds, but it hangs at Reserved Block group size: 63 with a blinking cursor a line below. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cert_:
Android X86 8.1-RC1

Android X86 8.1-RC1 working well on Acer W700 but boot time is much faster on OLDER Android versions. I'm dual booting Windows 10, Ubuntu 18.04 and Android 8.1-RC1 now. You still have to modify menu.c to get the hard buttons to work in GRUB (see this post). You will get an error if you want to compile GRUB 2.02 (ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-2.02.tar.gz) with Ubuntu 18.04:

error message: "statement with no effect [-Werror=unused-value] #define fprintf(...) 0"

change line 19 in file /grub-core/grub_script.yy.c from

#define fprintf(...) 0

to

#define fprintf(...) (void)0

and compilation works fine.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cert_:
Many years later :) My device (Acer Iconia W701) is still working and i reinstalled operating systems yesterday. Now i'm running Ubuntu 22, ChromeOS 94 and Windows 11. ChromeOS can be installed with full App Store Support with "brunch" (https://github.com/sebanc/brunch). Only ChromeOS 94 and brunch 102 is working with this device.

Chrome OS 94 (rammus):

https://dl.google.com/dl/edgedl/chr..._rammus_recovery_stable-channel_mp-v2.bin.zip

brunch 102:

https://github.com/sebanc/brunch/re...e-20220625/brunch_r102_stable_20220625.tar.gz

Installation (UEFI enabled) is easier right now: First i installed Ubuntu in a new 45 GB partition, then ChromesOS (brunch) in a 20 GB partition and finally Windows 11 for the last partition.

If i had to restart and had to choose a boot device i used "efibootmgr --nextboot ID" in ubuntu console because UEFI device boot menu is not working.

GRUB still needs to be modified and compiled to get the hard buttons to work in the boot grub menu (see my old post)

1. install git with:

sudo apt install git

2. clone grub and edit menu.c (see older post):

git clone https://git.savannah.gnu.org/git/grub.git

3. install needed packages:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install make binutils bison gcc gettext flex autoconf autopoint pkg-config grub-common libfreetype6-dev unifont gawk

4. run bootstrap:

./bootstrap

5. configure:

./configure --with-platform=efi --target=x86_64

6. make:

make && sudo make install

7. install grub

sudo grub-install

grub config menues i added

If you don't see you grub boot menu edit "/etc/default/grub":

1. remove or comment line: GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=hidden

2. set timeout higher than 0: GRUB_TIMEOUT=5

That's it! I hope this will help someone :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] danieleal:
Hey man, thanks for your instructions, I was able to make the modifications and they are working (I think), as c=cycles down the menu and b selects the option... I'm on a surfaceGO2, in windows with KeyPose.exe it reads C=volume down B=volume up, in grub it doesn't recognize my volume buttons as anything, so maybe I'm missing something, can you give me a hint? Thanks! 🫡
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] baffone001:
Thank you very much Six . I'll read it with attention and I'll try to do something in the weekend. I really hope to not spend the whole weekend crushing my head on the screen :) :)

Cheers
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] baffone001:
Ok. The Ubuntu guide is useless to me, it is a simple guide for beginners. Nothing I didn't know before. Still no chance ubuntu could recognize my hard drive partitions. And I wouldn't gparted let do them: happens sometimes that it couldn't manage properly NTFS partitions. What I need is Ubuntu installer could SEE partitions and get installed in a FAT32 or EXT3 or EXT4 partition I choose for him.

There was a guy in askubuntu that stated he could fix the problem doing partition with Easeus/Acronis(etc) leaving an EXT3 one, another swap and an unallocated 1gb (no reason for but this workaround worked for him). This doesn't work on my Iconia w700 either.

http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/confused.gif
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Jonous:
I also lost audio, no sounds at all and also lost usb storage mount! And boot takes ages. I'm going back to ia1 :rolleyes:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] MattBooth:
Just out of pure, stupid, interest.... Could I run this on my SandyBridge CPU Desktop?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
It *should* do. Many of the Android-IA images are tailored to specific devices but there is a guide to building from source for unsupported devices and I think the only part that is device specific is what i2c ID to use for accelerometer data etc. It should boot fine.

Otherwise, Android-x86 is another project. They have an image stated to be for either acer or asus netbooks (I forgot which, I think acer) and it is a perfect standard x86 image which works fine on all systems.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jekuper:
on my asus transformerbook tx300 i7 i get this error when boot , invalid signature detected. check secure boot policy in setup
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
you didnt follow the instructions fully then. You need to disable secure boot.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jekuper:
Tanks For the answer , now i get , no loader found . configuration files in \loader\entries\*.conf are needed

in entries there are 3 conf files

0live.conf

1install.conf

2interactive.conf
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Methisfaction:
WOW! AMAZING...

Thats such a stunnig device, under android.

I saw some videos with games running on it [MENTION=4410708]Android..[/MENTION].

The games runs faster than all android devices together!!! Nova 3 for example..70 fps.

Stunning hardware :)

Question: should it work on any x86 based win8 tablet? Maybe on an older win7 tablet too?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dragon_76:
The Surface Pro works best with Android-IA. Android x86 targets specific netbook architectures and uses quite a few dirty hacks to run. Stick with Android-IA, it is Intel's build of Android.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Kraize:
Eh. Maybe I did something wrong, but I was able to boot into Android using this tut, but the majority of things that needed to work didn't. Like the touch screen, wifi, and bluetooth. None of them worked, but I was able to get into android and use the mouse and keyboard to make it work. It might have just been me, but I got a mini heart attack attempting this because afterwards, my surface refused to boot into windows and it took a few frantic manual restarts to get it going.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
Anyone figure out a good way to install gapps?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Its pretty well documented online how to install gApps on unsupported devices. The procedure here is the same (although the maps app doesnt work unless you happen to find an apk for it from an intel device, it has native code)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
When I download the play store and install it. It will open for half a second them close. What am I doing wrong here?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Did you install it as a system app using the various methods outlined all over the internet or just try running the apk? I expect the latter which is the wrong way.

You also need the google services framework. Generally, look for a guide to install gApps from scratch, tehre are tons of them and its not like a regular app install.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Thatgrass:
Download the framework and the play store both and put them in system/app/ directory, change permissions and reboot into android, now it should be working!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Kraize:
Uh, so I did that, but then it didn't exactly work. Also, when I rebooted back into Windows 8.1, now my screen orientation sensor is nowhere to be found and in the charms menu, the "screen" slider became a "brightness" slider. Any idea how to fix?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dragon_76:
So you are trying to say that somehow installing Android on a separate partition has caused physical hardware changes? What is a "screen" slider?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cosmos10040:
the writer keeps saying it cannot locate the file even though i point it to it!:confused:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Kraize:
Nope. This was after just running it. Not physical hardware change at all. This person had the exact same problem and was unable to fix it. Except the difference for me is that in device manager, Simple Device Orientation Sensor is nowhere to be found, and again if I run it in Android-IA, auto rotation works just fine.

Did you make sure to extract the *.img out of the archive? Or try drag and drop the *.img into the field.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
Thanks for the help. I had searched for some time how to do this but the way you explaned it was super simple. Now the only problem I have is that when I try to sign in it says that it was unable to make a secure connection, any suggestions?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
Got it working.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cosmos10040:
It says disk image is corrupted. i have downloaded the file twice already just to make sure.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Kraize:
Are you downloading the proper one (aka generic uefi one). Maybe try on a different pc or redownload the image writer software.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Haldi4803:
I have the same problem (also on tx300c), but I have additional

3secureboot.conf

4mismanaged.conf

on 4.2.2-r1-ia2

any ideas ?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cosmos10040:
I downloaded the writer software again and it still says the same thing. Are there any specific requirements to get this to work? Something missing?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ricola7:
Iconia W700 - i3 and/or i5

Hey Thatgrass,

thx for your tutorial. If I am gonna buy the Iconia this will sure help me out.

I am currently thinking about buying a tablet and would love to dual boot, cause I am used to dual booting WP7 and Android with my HD2.

My question is: Does the dual boot work with both Iconia models (i3 and i5)? What device did you use?

A little bit off topic but are you satisfied with the Iconia? Critics say that the fan is pretty loud...

@ all: Do you think the Surface Pro will be able to dual boot in the near future?

Thx in advance.

Ric
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jonthe838:
Okay so I got this working now but is there any way to make the standard OS W8 but still be able to boot android (without having to connect a keyboard to press f12)?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
[MENTION=2129430]ricola7[/MENTION]: The Surface Pro can dual-boot just fine right now. If you meant "do you think there will be a version of Android that runs well on the Surface Pro in the near future?" then I really don't know, although I'd expect that if it doesn't already work (and it should, at least mostly) it will soon. "Normal" Linux distros work just fine on Surface Pro.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] FrankNL:
No keyboard necessary after install. During setup you've been asked if you would want boot manager installed. I'm guessing you've said yes to that. Now go back into bios (hold windows key on tablet while powering up) and switch boot priority, it will say Android-ia on 2nd slot, this one should be in 1st. When you do that, every restart you'll be asked which os to start. Works flawless.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
It works on my I3, the I5 is just overclocked with turboboost. I am almost completly satisfied with the w7, I bought it before the ativ pro came out, I would prefer the ativ pro because it has the Spen and keyboard dock. The acer just has a keyboard case.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
i5 isnt overclocked, it does use a higher frequency clock generator natively. Other than that the i5 supports a few more instruction set extensions (many of which arent even used) and like you say, supports turbo boost.

Although looking at a few other forums some people have had issues with the i5 version of the W700, seems it runs warmer on its own so thermal throttling kicks in and underclocks it below the i3 tablet under some circumstances. The i3 can run at max load for longer before throttling kicks in. Not sure if acer released an update adjusting the throttle threshold or not.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DJDrew:
This is great! Before I do this... Is there a way to select Windows or Android to boot as default?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
Yes, in bios.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Thatgrass:
Hey,

I am using the i3 iconia but it works on i5 too I've heard. It's amazing, definitely a good choice! I think surface Pro will get dualboot, but it has kind of the same specs ;) go for the cheapest one, I'd recommend.

Byee
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Haldi4803:
maybe this: http://pcavdisor.blogspot.ch/2012/11/beginners-guide-to-installing-archlinux.html

or this: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=1185027

might work for this android version too. Didn't have time to try that yet.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jekuper:
Thanks , when i get home from work i will try this
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DJDrew:
Is it not possible to add accounts? It doesn't seem to let me do it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
you need to install the gApps
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DJDrew:
Thanks! Is there a ClockworkMod Recovery available for the W700 in order to flash the gApps?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
You dont need clockworkmod to flash gApps. There are several links both in this thread and the W700 thread in the windows 8 general forum to guides on how to install gApps, there are also several guides posted in the replies and absolutely hundreds of them if you use google.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] marcus70:
Hi anyone manage to get Version: android-4.2.2_r1-ia2 working on the w700? Version: android-4.2.2_r1-ia1 was working for me but not ia2
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Thatgrass:
OP has been edited: Q&A section added, how to install google play and gapps already, more QA's to come.

Hope it helps

Marcus,

Ia2 is working for me, did you follow the guidelines exactly? What problems did you encounter?

-Thatgrass
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DJDrew:
I have tried the stuff mentioned in this thread and googled about. When I try to move the apks from the 'gapps-jb-20130301-signed' and reboot, I just get all the google apps saying they aren't responding?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Thatgrass:
Try changing permissions to rw-r--r--
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Sometimes when adding gApps to the system folder it helps to tap them to install them once, the install will fail, then reboot.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
You could also try only having the user permissions checked that fixed things for me.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DJDrew:
Thanks again everyone, the Play Store seems to be working now but Voice Search and the rest aren't.

Does anyone have the camera working or is this a rom specific issue? I didn't see anything mentioned in the release notes.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
camera is rom specific.

Voice search I think uses the NDK which means it is likely ARM only. You might be able to find an x86 version or I might be wrong entirely.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DJDrew:
Thanks again! Do you know if flash player not working is rom specific? I've done all the usual steps for setting up flash on 4.2.2 using the flash archive but I seem to be unable to use it on browsers that usually work with other devices on JB.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Flash is *highly* architecture-sensitive. Unless you have an x86 build of Flash for Android, it will not work.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
Adobe did not release an x86 build either. ARMv7 only for current builds, older ones have ARMv6hf available I think.

The commercial x86 devices can only run it because intel include a proprietary ARM emulator core for NDK apps on clovertrail devices. Reasoning for it not being included in android-ia is on their site, I think it was a mix of android-ia intending to be an exact port of the original AOSP to x86 devices which does not have the emulator, combined with some licensing issues too. Off the shelf intel android devices will run ARM NDK apps, albeit not at the same performance level as their ARM counterparts, when x86 binaries are available it will use those instead, it does at least possess the ability to switch between emulator and native on a per app basis.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] umneycreep:
Does anyone have wifi working on Surface Pro?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] marcus70:
thks for your reply,maybe i should check again since ia2 is working for you,btw there is a new update Version: android-4.2.2_r1-ia3.Will try this new version...thks
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] minimaster123:
Thanks for all the guides to get Android and Gapps installed.

I currently see three issues:

- the tablet keeps reverting the keyboard setting to physical, disabling the on-screen-keyboard (needs to be re-enabled manually)

- in Google Maps, I don't get the navigation option

- since I own the W701 with 3G, I was wondering if there was any way to enable and use 3G

Plus, one more question: How do I do an update? Just install right over the current installation?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] baffone001:
Just to let you know that with new update (July, 11th) bluetooth works on Iconia W700 (didn't install, just run as 'live' and it worked).

Cheers.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Thatgrass:
- The keyboard is a bug in the software, I'm experiencing the same problem for a while

- google maps navigation isn't compatible with this I think (not sure)

- android IA is build for W700, so the 3g drivers aren't on there

It's possible to install it over the other installation or you could remove everything and install it again (to clean things up)

-Thatgrass
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] invicible:
how to revert back to win8

Pls help I need my win8 back and unable to get in uefi now ...

installed the latest android IA on my p3 last night ..

In the 1st step ``dual boot windows and android``i was selected "N"

And 2nd option "install gummy bootloader?" I choose "Y"

will it replace the bootloader with my selection?

Just android boot up now...

And now only can acess to android boot screen when keep press power /window key when booting..

1android

2fastboot

3recovery

4something like hash check menu

Help :(

Had tried fedora19 live USB and win8.1 USB bootable when boot ..but I failed to do that ....:(
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Thatgrass:
Only you can do is reinstall the whole windows os when you can boot from dvd or usb (delete all partitions and let windows do it's thing)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] SixSixSevenSeven:
As you selected N for dual boot android and windows 8, you will now have completely wiped your device of windows 8, congratulations. You no longer have windows 8 at all, you only have android. The recovery disks supplied and recovery USB's cannot restore windows 8 onto a device completely missing it. Your going to have to buy a new copy of windows 8 on DVD, buy a USB DVD drive and reinstall from scratch.

If you had selected Y, it would effectlively split your SSD in 2, leaving windows 8 on one half and then install android onto the remaining half. Select N, it deletes windows 8 entirely and sticks android in its place. This is why it is important to follow instructions to the letter and if you dont know what your doing dont do it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ricola7:
Bootloader

Hey gus,

just bought the iconia. First thing was an upgrade to Professional, now I wanna set up android. Apparently there is a new Version of bios available for the iconia with some improvements. Thatgrass, do you know which bios Version you had installed when you set up android?

If I set up android first and then do the bios update, will the dual boot Option go away? Sorry for the stupid question, but I havent figured out yet how bios and the bootloader work together...

Thx and greetz

Ric
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] olarf:
Even I dont know how this dualboot work exactly, I cant imagine that an BIOS update can have influence on a dualboot system. The Boot options will start after the BIOS was loaded.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] airicd22:
Try this, get/borrow any windows 8 DVD and begin a custom installation in one of the settings you can choose to delete format all the partitions, then do a new windows partition, this will give you 4 partitions, then exit the installation. Then boot up with acer system disk and do a complete new install. This is kings vague but should give you enough to fix the problem. I've done this process several times.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ender7:
Iam very interesting on this device.

What about battery on android?

Any noise fan?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Thatgrass:
Ric,

Sorry for the late answer, it was night over here ;) I didn't update the bios, I used the bios with which my device came out of the box. So don't worry about that!

I am not absolutely sure about updating the bios, but, if I were you, I'd wait with updating until your dualboot is gone, then update, and then install android again if you'd like. In my opinion the update isn't that necessary. (correct me if I'm wrong ;))

Hope it helped you out!

-Thatgrass

Hello,

The battery life is pretty good on the Iconia, I can get around 6 hours moderate use ;)

And android isn't that big of a deal for this tablet, so the fan isn't really used while running android (of course, you will hear it some times, but not as in windows 8)

-Thatgrass
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] invicible:
wrong post
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ricola7:
Bootloader

Hey Thatgrass,

no hurry, it's Weekend ;)

I think the Major improvement is the ability to easily make a screenshot (win-key + volume down). But I guess one could use snipping tool and "print" aswell.

So I guess I skip the bios update and directly go for android.

Will Report back, maybe using the xda-android app ;)

Take care and thx

Ric