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[Windows RT General] jwa4:
I'm not involved with the Android side of things but as far as I know the main focus for non Windows OS on ex-RT devices is Linux with some Android work on the side.
[Windows RT General] nk567497:
Hello, I updated my Surface RT to Windows 10 without any problems, all the drivers are installed and working, Edge works, the YouTube site needs to be loaded as for a mobile device. one problem: all my computers see and open my surface on the local network, but the surface does not see my computers. I have been checked all settings and group policy... please advise. thanks.
[Windows RT General] chitamstpl:
please help me error, like the picture
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
I don't have 15035 installed at the moment but I don't recall having a similar issue, next time I have it installed I will try to check.

Your UEFI is not supported by Yahallo. You will need to update to v4.22.500 first, the latest UEFI attached.
[Windows RT General] chitamstpl:
when successfully installing windows 10, surface 2 cpu runs 100%, do you have any solutions please help me
[Windows RT General] nk567497:
Hi, I don't understand how LAN is dependent on UEFI if UEFI works at the BIOS level. besides that, all other computers see and open all shared folders on my Surface RT...

thanks.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
The UEFI reply was for another user, I will try to take a look next time I have 15035 installed.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
There may be some post install tasks but it shouldn't stay at 100% permanently.
[Windows RT General] chitamstpl:
when I upgrade to surface 2 window 10, can't get wifi, can you guide me to find the wifi driver for me?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
All drivers are already included, it should just work. Can you post a screenshot of device manager along with \logs\Info.txt and \logs\Info-Install.txt (these files will be in the output folder or on the USB).
[Windows RT General] chitamstpl:
I have successfully fixed the wifi, thank you very much, but the device still has a sound error, opening the machine to load into the window takes a long time to take 1 hour. hope you help.
[Windows RT General] chitamstpl:
Error
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Troubleshooter won't be functional on current date because the build is expired, you could try setting the date to February 2017 but I'm not sure it will help.

I've never seen the issues you are reporting, assuming its not a hardware issue the best advice I can offer is to rebuild the image and reinstall. Post \logs\Info.txt and \logs\Info-Install.txt from your existing image (these files will be in the output folder or on the USB).
[Windows RT General] notass:
I created a USB with W10 for a vivotab rt, after installing it, it doesnt boot at all. It keeps a purple line on top left. ANd if i press F10, the windows boot manager tell me winload.efi 0xc0000428, the digital signature for this file couldnt be verified.

What should i do?

With the w10 usb and the w8.1 usb doest do anything at all
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
For the VivoTab you need to make sure your 10 image was built using the "Modified Windows RT 8.1 Recovery Environment (WinRE)" option.
[Windows RT General] notass:
Thanks! but yes, I used that option. now it started,about 10 reboots later it had detect the pendrive and I reinstalled it, and then, it appeared a screen where i had to accept something that firstly didnt appeared.

Now I see I have to activate it.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
It will activate itself when connected to the internet but sometimes it might take an hour or so.

As for the secure boot accept screen not appearing this seems to be an issue with the VivoTab itself (just replicated it here), I'm not sure anything can be done about this but I will check. The workaround seems to be to toggle the vol keys which will cause the options to be show up when highlighted.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
It should just work out of the box, no manual installation is required. You can try grabbing the relevant drivers for your device and installing manually - https://files.open-rt.party/Windows_Media_Builder/Drivers/Extracted/

The troubleshooting wizard will fail due to the expired state of the build and is expected behaviour but it should work if you set the date back to February 2017 temporarily.

Have you confirmed the correct device was selected when building the image? There have been times where people have built an RT image for a 2 or a 2 image for an RT. If everything apart from sound is working then this would be unlikely but still worth checking.
[Windows RT General] keshun0307:
Thanks a lot for suggestion, i'll give it a try and let you know the result.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
No problem, worst case you can just nuke the site from orbit, rebuild the image and reinstall. If its still bad after that then you may have a hardware issue, one way to try and verify would be to use an 8.1 recovery image from Microsoft to see if the same problem happens there.

Surface Recovery Image Download - Microsoft Support

support.microsoft.com
[Windows RT General] khangro:
I made the media USB drive but when I boot my Surface RT there is no option to use the drive to reset the surface so I can install windows 10. I am not sure what I am doing wrong

The USB drive was not bootable.. fixed the issue and is now working
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
You might not see the traditional reset option, it depends on which setup mode you selected:

https://windows-rt-devices.gitbook.io/windows/tools/windows-media-builder
[Windows RT General] keshun0307:
Hi Jwa4,

As your suggestion, i reinstall the build 15035. The result, audio failure, is still the same.

I try to work around and do the windows update, and suddenly found it is updating the firmware.

I think this might be a fatal mistake to make it fail for future update of win10 15035.

I also use your suggested link to get the the image file. When i enter the serial number and found my surface is a "Surface 2".

I always think mine is a surface RT, so i choose RT image all the time. This is a big mistake as you told me earlier.

I am very grateful to you for the advice about this, thanks!

Then i use the "Windows Media Builder", https://jwa4.gitbook.io/windows/tools/windows-media-builder#device-support, to make an image file of surface 2, but encounter the failure to boot the surface from the USB drive.

here below is the situation:

insert usb drive, then go steps as below:

step 1: press volume then power key together to boot

step 2: "Keyboard Layout" shown, select "traditional-chinese/us" layout. (pic 1)

step 3: from "Choose an Option" page, select "Use Device".(pic 2)

step 4: from "Use Device" page, select "USB Drive". (pic 3)

*The screenshot is in Chinese, item selected is highlighted.

Then, the surface take about 2 min to reboot, but go back to step 1 above.

It comes an endless loop without booting from the USB drive.

I use UsbTreeView.exe to check the USB drive, it is version 2.0.

When i build an image on another USB drive which is version 3.2 Gen 1, the surface won't even show the pages of step 2 to step 4, it goes to windows startup screen directly.

The hub i use is USB version 3.0. Look the version of usb drive did matter in someway, but no matter which version, they are not workable.

in brief,

1. accidentally update the firmware from Windows Update.

2. incorrect use of image file of RT for surface 2.

3. different version of USB drives have different behavior, but all are not working.

Now, i come to a dead end if i can't reboot the surface from usb drive, i can do nothing, sad and frustrated.

Looking for help and will appreciate any advice to make surface bootable from usb drive.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Can you confirm your screenshots showing the blue recovery environment are the result of a USB which was created with media builder or is it a Microsoft BMR? If its media builder which one did you download? Windows_10_15035_Media_Builder or Windows_RT_8.1_IR5_Media_Builder?

In any case what you are seeing is actually normal behaviour, you are booting the recovery environment from USB by vol-/power on and then once booted using it to tell the device to boot from USB again on next boot so you are going around in circles.

Having Surface 2 means you need to either use the "Modified Windows RT 8.1 Recovery Environment (WinRE)" option in the Windows 10 media builder or alternatively make sure your device has been jailbroken. For the Surface 2 this means applying Golden Keys, applying Yahallo and then removing Golden Keys. There is something to help with this process here: https://windows-rt-devices.gitbook.io/windows/tools/tegra-jailbreak-usb

The steps to follow to complete the install are shown here (Select the tab that corresponds to the setup mode selected in media builder): https://windows-rt-devices.gitbook.io/windows/tools/windows-media-builder#installing-windows

A firmware update or even a fully updated RT install is harmless on Tegra devices and won't cause you any problems.
[Windows RT General] keshun0307:
HI jwa4:

The media builder which i downloaded is Windows_10_15035_Media_Builder_v2.4k, and i used it to create the USB drive.

I remember if the boot-up from USB drive is successful, a DOS cmd window will appear and show some options for me to install the new system. I am wondering if the boot-up fails from USB drive, it will go into the normal recovery procedure, then go around in circle.

I haven't done any stuff about jailbreak or Yahallo, since i use the media builder from the beginning, it does all stuff for me. Not sure if i used WinRE for my surface which now is a Surface 2 loaded with Surface RT system, a little complicated condition, not sure if there is any impact if i didn't use WinRE, but i will definitely use it afterwards.

As your suggestion, I'll try Jailbreak and Yahallo, but afraid of being stuck in boot-up procedure, since Jailbreak and Yahallo need to boot from USB, give me some time and luck.

Good to know firmware doesn't have any harm.

Thanks to all your help!
[Windows RT General] JonSmithJon:
So i successfully updated to w10 then mistakenly installed golden keys, any way to get rt to boot from USB again? Seems RT bypasses USB boot with Surface logo the reboots.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Only your local 10 install or 10 USB should fail, you can use this to remove golden keys:

https://windows-rt-devices.gitbook.io/windows/tools/tegra-jailbreak-usb

This will still boot because it uses 8.1 boot files. Once removed your local install or 10 USB will boot again.
[Windows RT General] JonSmithJon:
It’s still not attempting to read the USB (activity light indicator), multiple devices, any further ideas?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
So the jailbreak USB did not boot?
[Windows RT General] JonSmithJon:
No
[Windows RT General] JonSmithJon:
keys result in logo then restart, hardware leds never indicate reading for boot.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
In that case your USB or its formatting is bad or worst case your vol down button isn't responding.

Formatting: https://windows-rt-devices.gitbook.io/windows/miscellaneous/format-usb-drive
[Windows RT General] rezasafi:
Hi every one,when i want to use it i see a error:

Appx.cfg

Is missung

How can i solve it

Please help me

Thanks
[Windows RT General] rezasafi:
I solve that now i see this error

Please help
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Was that a bad extract or a bad download?

I think Error 8 is a bad response from the server, in this case it would seem the trouble is with the Microsoft download server in question but at least it does show your downloads from achive.org were successful. The first thing to try is to wait a few minutes and just try again, you won't have to download already download files again though.

I will try to check this on my end later today.
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
I am downloading with 20kb per second, it's the 90's all over again!

OK It's downloaded and now I am installing it on a Surface RT 64g. Thank you a million!!!

It gave me error 0x80070570 (Windows cannot install the required files). Maybe it's because I disabled Cortana and Bitlocker. Should I create a mew ISO with everything enabled?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
It relies on Archive.org for for the download of Windows 10 Build 15035 and Office 2013 RT and unfortunately the download speed can be quite slow. Downloading files located on Archive.org via BitTorrent instead of HTTP can sometimes be faster, this can be enabled via the settings menu in version 2.1 and above.

(y)

Removing those would not cause that error. It could just be corrupted files on the USB or even a bad USB drive, I suggest rewriting the USB or recreating the image if needed before trying again. If the issue persists try using another USB and also make sure the drive is safely ejected after it is written on the host.
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
OK thanks for your replies! I will try all your suggestions and give update.

OK It is installed!!!

Is there a place to find compatible apps?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
There isn't that much available. If the store is currently working then you will find very few apps for arm32 that support a build as old as 15035, as for desktop apps you may find some bits and pieces posted here on XDA and around the web but you won't find things like a viable web browser.
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
Playing for one day I manged these: VLC working, cameras working, WIFI working, Internet Explorer more stable than Edge, I haven't managed to activate the damn Windows, haven't managed to remove the 'insider' watermark. Tomorrow (it's past midnight here in Greece) I will post all the Store apps that I managed to install.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Activation happens automatically when connected to the internet for non KMS38 modes and KMS38 mode will be activated right away without connection assuming the activation option in media builder was selected when building the image. The insider watermark is not removable (Well, not cleanly anyway) even when activated.

If you used HWID mode make sure you used media builder v2.52.
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
Working Apps: Movies & TV, Groove Music, Voice Recorder, Dictionary, TuneIn Radio, Mail & Calendar, Maps, Calculator, Alarms & Clock, People, Photos, VLC, Internet Explorer, Edge, Windows Defender, Notepad, Paint, Wordpad, Powershell and all the Windows Accessories. I did not install Office and I also omitted the automatic Activation of Windows. Is there a way to activate Windows after installation? Everything I tried failed.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Try running this file (https://file.io/cjjUnSOjFpFr) as administrator while connected to the internet.
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
It worked. Thank you. After restart it appeared to have worked, but somehow it has reverted to 'non activated'.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Odd, what methods had you tried before this?

Try this one https://file.io/JdLDefctQAj0
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
All the Powershell methods and some KMS. But now I rerun your file and restarted and it shows activated! (Randomness is the worst computer enemy..). I will keep you posted about my progress and thanks again for your time and effort. I appreciate it!
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
This is what I've got now!
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
So not activated again or was that picture from before?
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
When I run the act file and reboot, the system seems partially activated and I can personalize Windows etc. After a little tinkering, it reverts back to non activated (I have never seen this before). I think I am gonna try Linux.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Maybe something about the other activation methods that were tried is messing things up. Did you try the second activation script I posted? https://easyupload.io/5bm89o
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
Yeah definitely something is messed up.. act2 says: 'There were no applicable genuine authorization tickets on disk licenses found to convert.'
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
That might be my mistake, try this - https://easyupload.io/hdkc1g
[Windows RT General] WorkerSoft:
Yess! It's done! Thanks!
[Windows RT General] itsmemario:
Greetings and thank you so much for this media creation script ! Awesome !

Worked like a charme on my Surface 2 RT.

Did anyone ever port any other "up to date" browser for these devices ?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Glad it helped! As for browsers there aren't really any options that I'm aware of apart from Otter which I see you already found. I think new browsers are very unlikely for these types of device.
[Windows RT General] dellenovo:
At the beginning of setup, after selecting the language, it says "The product key entered does not match any of the Windows images available for installation." Has anyone else had this or know how to get around it? Thanks
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
🤨 Can you post a screenshot? Had you made any changes to the settings in media builder before building? If possible please also post a screenshot of your media builder settings page.
[Windows RT General] Pailis:
Hey my surface RT's boot loader page shows cmd instead of the usual boot screen and gives me 4 options, install windows, command prompt, reboot, or shutdown. The install windows option, however, says "Disabled" right next to it. How should I fix this?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Your USB drive or its contents are bad, I suggest rewriting the USB and trying again. Did you let media builder copy the files or did you do it manually?
[Windows RT General] Pailis:
Hey thanks for the help, but I just solved it. I just started over and retried it. Thanks for helping everyone for this long!
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Store will be there if you use the app pack or install it separately.

Steaming - VLC might be able to do it but I haven't tried it.
[Windows RT General] Matinshb:
is it possible to install windows 10X on these devices?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Not even remotely possible. The best these devices are going it get is regular Windows 10 Build 15035 and that's not really more than a curiosity to play around with.
[Windows RT General] brysontyrus:
do I have to disable secure boot , format partition 4 and modify registry keys before I try to install the build?
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Are you holding volume down whist powering up? Recovery to RT 8.1 requires no special steps outside of the normal procedure.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
That's an interesting question. I only have a Surface RT and a Surface 2 and it seems an RT can install and run this build without requiring secure boot to be disabled or otherwise bypassed but the Surface 2 seems to require it. No why there appears to be a difference but you can apply the Longhorn jailbreak and use Yahallo to permanently disable secure boot on both devices if needed.

The mod kit makes all of the usual registry changes for you prior to installation and you can delete all partitions if you like and Windows setup will recreate them.
[Windows RT General] amouraclicks:
why i can't install facebook.appx on my surface 2??????? I try all solution!!! thanks for you.
[Windows RT General] amouraclicks:
CAN WE INSTALL FACEBOOK.APPX ON SURFACE 2 AFTER TO O WINDOWS 10?????? I TRY WITH https://store.rg-adguard.net/ but no result. THNAKS!
[Windows RT General] gelidd:
Thanks for the mod! I tried it on an AT&T version of the Asus Vivotab RT. Everything seems to work, including wifi and LTE. The tablet now runs much slower when compared to RT, but at least I can now browse the web. Great job!
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
No idea about facebook I'm afraid - never used it.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Thanks for letting me know. I only have Surface RT & 2 but I did notice a performance hit on the RT so its probably not too surprising that the experience would be similar on VivoTab. The Surface 2 on the other hand feels roughly the same if not slightly better under 10 than it does under RT 8.1 but when I was using it I only used it for web browsing, basic Office stuff etc.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Updated to v1.6, downloads only available via Easyupload at the moment. I've been told Easyupload doesn't work well in some countries but the uploads to XDA keep failing so I will have to try again later.
[Windows RT General] rt10:
Thank you @jwa4, I just tried on my surface RT 1 (which had been running RT8.1 with 2016 updates) and it worked flawlessly, no jailbreak or disabling secure boot required. Windows 10 and office run smoothly, all apps run as well once you have connected to the internet and activated. Feels faster than RT8.1 to me, although that may be down to the SSD being wiped during install. Both VLC and Netflix apps install from Store without complaint.

Do you know if this build of Windows 10 is capable of WSL? Assuming one can get a WSL app capable of running on ARM32.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Glad it worked, thanks for letting me know.(y)

Unfortunately WSL is not an option for this build, if you have source code for the app in question it might be possible to port it though.
[Windows RT General] amoroboros:
I'm having the exact same issue. how did you enabled the store?
[Windows RT General] Arny80:
HI,

I did the USB key in two ways with the sript : iso image and "create usb media". Both don't work for me.

I boot vol - and power , the spin appears and it's written down "waiting bitlocker" (something like that.). After, a blue page appears asking me to enter the recovery key to get going again. (Down in left side that page it's written "skip the drive".) Do I need to remove Golden Keys even if mine is RT1?

My Surface RT is from 2013 , it's the 1. I have installed 8.1 IR5 update and I want to dualboot W10.

thank you
[Windows RT General] amoroboros:
just skip the drive.

I don't think you can dual boot, tho.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Do you have your recovery key? http://windows.microsoft.com/recoverykey

Golden Keys will need to be removed to use the 10 setup and you will also need to leave an empty partition for your 10 installation during 8.1 setup - I just split it 50/50. You can try shrinking your existing RT 8.1 partition using disk management but I've found the results to be a little unpredictable when in comes to how much it will shrink.

Did you download the optional app pack? If you don't get this menu then either you didn't download it or the files were not correctly placed:

Dual boot works quite well although on 32GB devices you may quickly run out of storage.
[Windows RT General] nguyentrongthang:
Link die, help me link download. Thank you
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
The links are working here, what country are you in? I will try to find another place to mirror and will post when I have some new links.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
Alternative links have now been added and files updated to v1.6b.
[Windows RT General] its.mahmud:
Any chance of porting windows 11?

Thank you!
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
None at all.
[Windows RT General] vladimirmiff:
I found the solution for this

Microsoft only provides Recovery zip for Surface RT, which contains Windows RT 8.1.

With the steps provided by Microsoft, we can setup an USB stick that boots into Windows Recovery Environment.

However, this Recovery Environment only recognizes Windows 10 for recovery, but what is in the USB is Windows RT 8.1. The discrepancy leads to recovery failure.

Here are my steps:

1. Use jwa4's script, at "Choosing Windows Setup Mode" choose "1. Windows Setup" and continue to create an USB with typical windows setup mode

2. Use the USB in step 1, boot Surface into setup mode, choose "Custom", and delete all the partitions.

3. Leave the setup without installing, so we have a hard drive that is "empty" (file structure corrupted and unbootable)

4. Now, we can use the Windows RT 8.1 Recovery USB to recover the Surface with "Troubleshooting" -> "Reset your PC"
[Windows RT General] guyver76:
I haven't see instructions on how to install the store. Please advise.
[Windows RT General] jwa4:
The Store is in the optional App pack, have you downloaded this?