[Remix OS for PC] Zwulf:
Why another tutorial?

As I searched the net and XDA for a guide to actually install Remix OS and found nothing that worked for me I decided to share with you guys how I managed to install it in Resident Mode. Writing this from XDA Labs on my PC now... ;) For me I found out that the Remix OS installer is totally useless - with some copying from Remix OS folder to root folder of the created partition and manually adding UEFI entry I managed it to boot in Guest Mode but Resident Mode was still not working (bootloop). This started to make me mad as I tried so many tutorials already...

So I tried Phoenix OS and it seemed at first that this one was much better - no need for adding UEFI boot entry or experiencing Windows boot entry problems and such as it installs GRUB and boots the OS just fine. First entry in GRUB is Windows, second one Phoenix OS. Well, started it and it booted up... finally! Used it, wanted to install an app and ran into a random reboot. After a while I recognized that these random reboots happened quite often and the system was unusable for me. So my idea was just to replace Phoenix OS files with Remix OS files as the booting part was already working... and guess... it worked! You can't choose Guest Mode though, but I think you won't need that at all on your PC. ;)

Best one on this: you won't need to open your BIOS start-menu and can boot up normally, just choose your system in GRUB bootloader which appears automatically without the need to do anything before. I find it quite annoying to hit BIOS button to start Remix OS, don't you too? So if you are able to install but don't like that behaviour this tutorial is also for you!

So here it is...

On which machines does this work?

Should be working on all PCs / Laptops running Windows 10 with GPT and UEFI BIOS. Probably also works on machines with MBR instead of GPT partition table and legacy Bios, quite sure this works also on older Windows versions (7/8/8.1). Just let me know if it works for you or doesn't.

How to install

(1)

- Create an NTFS partition on which you want to install it (right, no FAT32 crap!). It should be at least 32 GB.

If you don't know how just search XDA or Google. There are several Remix OS installing tutorials on YouTube which show how to do that in Windows.

(2)

- Download Phoenix OS 1.0.9 RC

- Download Remix OS or Remix OS Hacked Edition if you like to have root and some tweaks for it.

I used Hacked Edition.

(3)

- Use Phoenix OS installer and install it on your created partition (make sure you got the correct drive letter! I'm not responsible if you don't and lose your data...), don't reboot.

- Open the created partition in Explorer.

Create a folder named RemixOS, move all files from PhoenixOS to RemixOS.

(Obviously Phoenix is based on Remix and expects it's data to be in RemixOS folder. Funny bug. ;D)

- Reboot. Choose Remix OS.

Enjoy the nice, buggy OS. For some this may be just everthing they need. If you're happy and experience no reboots or other bugs you should be just fine and don't have to follow the next steps.

(4)

- Reboot to Windows.

- Unzip Remix OS archive - should be 2 files: Remix OS image and installer. You could safely delete the installer as you won't need it.

Use 7zip or Winrar (or whatever) to extract the Remix OS image file into a folder.

- Move the contents of that extracted folder into the RemixOS folder on your created partition. Overwrite everything. You could also extract the image file directly into RemixOS folder.

(5)

- Reboot. Choose Remix OS.

- Done.

You now should be running a working Remix OS in Resident Mode. Works fine here.

Be nice and hit thanks if I could help you. :)