[Windows 8 General] MeM-TecH:
16GB Nextbook tablet running Winsux

Hi there.

I did indeed get hold of one. Apologies for the delay in getting back to the forum, but work has been rather hectic. The hub I purchased doesn't quite work exactly as I would have liked it to, however, the image I managed to get hold of never worked, even the "Live" version got stuck on boot (I was kind of hoping I would be running android on this tablet by now, but as luck would have it, there are some issues I never anticipated). I heard somewhere that this tablet has an "8GB" counterpart that comes pre installed with android on it. If you know of a place we can get hold of this image, I am almost 100% sure it will work on the 16GB tablet because they are one and the same unit, just with half the amount of storage space. I am still quite stumped as to why android was never pre-installed on the 16GB unit as I truly believe it would be "Twice" as awesome as the one on the 8GB....... well, ok, not twice as awesome maybe, but have twice the amount of storage on it. I have been a bit busy of late so I haven't had time to go searching for this image, but would appreciate some help in locating it if possible.

Thank you.

Gadget.

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I am currently sourcing a copy of the "Nextbook 8GB" which I have heard has android on it (Also being the exact same unit baring the 8GB/16GB on-board memory difference). This should allow me to write the image on to the 16GB tablet, wiping windows off the face of the planet hopefully. If you find this in your internet searches please let me know, as this is the only thing keeping me from installing android on this device. Once I have an image of this, I will gladly submit a "How To", but you will have to bear in mind, this is not my forte' so it will be "Really" dumbed down. On the bright side, everybody should be able to follow the procedures.

Regards.

Gadget.

Edit:

I found a site that recons it has the "Update" image for the Nextbook 8 Quad Core NX785QC8G. (I am assuming that the previous version of android had it's own set of issues hence the release of the "Update"). The image is currently downloading, which might take a while seeing as living in a 3rd world country does have it's limitations (Even though they swear blind we aren't.... Got to love their humour). Obviously, we can't follow the "How To" on this as we have "Winsux" installed on it and they are merely upgrading their existing firmware, but here is the link if you would like to mess about with it while I wait patiently for mine to download. http://www.freaktab.com/showthread.php?15184-Nextbook-8-(NX785QC8G)-Official-Firmware-Update-Is-Out

Hope this works "Holding Thumbs".

Edit:

Might also want to check why the one image from mediafire is 800 odd MB and the one off of NextBooks website is 1,6GB

http://www.nextbookusa.com/software/NX785QC16G/NX785QC8G_WM_20141010_V1.1.4_4.4.2_co.zip

or their main page

http://nextbookusa.com/download.php

Ok, with a bit of further research, it looks like the 8GB NextBook isn't compatible, but they do have a 1.6GHz NextBook with 16GB of storage which is apparently only sold in Canada. I will endeavour to get hold the person who purchased one of these and see if they can make an image of the Android OS for our use. Also have downloaded the "Update" which I found but I need an adaptor for the memory card I use to write the image to normally (Long story, but I had to use the adaptor for my operating system for my one server I use as a network storage until I can get the new thumb drive delivered to replace the one that failed). Also just had to re-start the 1,6GB image that is on NextBooks website as we are currently experiencing "Rolling Blackouts"....... First World Country indeed!!!

Further update on this. Weird thing, is now, no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to replicate the boot screen I got originally by pressing the "Windows" button and the "Power" button simultaneously. I now currently get a prompt grub>_ which I can get a very minimal assortment of commands to run, of which I have no idea what or which command to run. I can get the tablet to boot via the EFI boot screen and then if the source I wrote to the memory card has got an EFI folder in it (This way around by the way does get me to the all too familiar screen where it has a list of "Run Live", "Install", "Windows 8"), I can get it to go as far as it saying "A N D R O I D_" (after running the "Live" selection,) but not further, so any help there would be appreciated.