[Android General] optoman69:
Finally managed to update to Windows 10

Hi everybody,

I finally managed to update my Cube i6 to Windows 10, and I'm going to explain the procedure so I might help somebody else.

First of all, you should read stalker2106 guide on the first pages of this thread.

Unfortunately, it didn't work for me. I was able to update the Android system but not the Windows system, because I was always getting the error I described in a previous post.

So, when tzole posted the link to the geekbuying (Android + Windows 8) image file I tried to "revive" my Windows system using Windows 8, and it was successful.

I then remembered the problem with updating from Windows 8 to Windows 10, with the normal Microsoft tool, was the lack of disk space.

But by now I knew I could change the partition sizes using the partition.tbl file we need to use during the Android update. Therefore I decided to use just 5Gb for Android, and leave the rest for Windows.

Still, no luck, but the problem now was that the Windows 10 installer "couldn't change the System Reserved Partition". Another search on google, and I found a lot of people saying that it was a "normal" problem (not specific of this tablet), and that all that was need was an increase on the size of that partition. So I manually edited the partition.tbl file to increase the size of that partition, reducing the size of the Windows partition (see below the code of that file). And it (almost) worked... or at least it got me past that error.

I still encountered another problem: during the installation, the update program would download a lot of updates, the disk would get full, and the update fail. So, I decided to try starting the Microsoft update program, let it download the Windows 10 image, and then (before it starts to download the updates) disconnect the wifi connection. Et voilá - It really worked!

One final problem was that after starting on Windows 10, the wifi adapter was not working. I had to go to the Device Manager, uninstall the device, then check for hardware updates (so it would be installed again), and finally reboot the tablet. It now works without a problem.

I still haven't tried the 3G modem some people have said they had problems, but on the Device Manager I don't see any errors or alerts.

I hope this helps somebody, and if you have any questions, just let me know.

Regards,

Luís

partition_table=gpt
create -z /dev/block/mmcblk0
create /dev/block/mmcblk0
boot -p /dev/block/mmcblk0
reload /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 40 -s 262144 -t efi -u C12A7328-F81F-11D2-BA4B-00A0C93EC93B -l ESP -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 262184 -s 131072 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-FFFFFFFFFFF0 -l reserved -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 393256 -s 32768 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000100 -l boot -T 3 -P 15 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 426024 -s 32768 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000101 -l recovery -T 3 -P 14 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 458792 -s 32768 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000102 -l fastboot -T 3 -P 13 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 491560 -s 32768 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-FFFFFFFFFFF1 -l reserved_1 -T 3 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 524328 -s 131072 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000104 -l test -T 3 -P 12 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 655400 -s 65536 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000001 -l panic -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 720936 -s 32768 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000002 -l factory -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 753704 -s 32768 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000003 -l misc -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 786472 -s 32768 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000004 -l config -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 819240 -s 204800 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000005 -l cache -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 1024040 -s 524288 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000006 -l logs -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 1548328 -s 2097152 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000007 -l system -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
add -b 3645480 -s 10108928 -t data -u 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000008 -l data -T 0 -P 0 /dev/block/mmcblk0
reload /dev/block/mmcblk0