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Don't think I'm crazy, because I DID manage to do it. Everyone says that Wubi isn't available for an installation of 13.04, but really it is. Not sure if this is official, but here goes:
Download an Ubuntu ISO disk image, and extract the contents using an archive manager.
There should be a "wubi.exe" in the root of the disk image contents. Run the program, and configure regular Wubi settings as per normal. Everything should install well.
Once it's done, it'll say you should reboot now or you can reboot later. Your PC will automatically boot into Ubuntu once you reboot.
Ubuntu will install itself alongside Windows (it should actually just install in a folder called ''ubuntu'' on the root of your Windows hard drive) without any danger of ruining your precious data.
TL;DR: Extract wubi.exe from an Ubuntu 13.04 image.
Congratulations!
For some real fun, you should try installing it as a stand-alone OS on a different disk/partition and customize your own boot menu!
Either way, enjoy your Ubuntu experience...
zyrzox said:
Congratulations!
For some real fun, you should try installing it as a stand-alone OS on a different disk/partition and customize your own boot menu!
Either way, enjoy your Ubuntu experience...
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I've tried that before, but I messed up my bootloader. I'd much rather use Wubi as it is safer, and easier to remove. Their are also some hacks to increase the Wubi disk size (even more than 30 GB). I think that newbies to Ubuntu would much prefer trying out Ubuntu with Wubi, so please refrain from your harsh sarcastic remarks. This thread, after all, is just to show that there is Wubi for Ubuntu 13.04 (and possibly for newer or upcoming versions).
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I've tried that before, but I messed up my bootloader. I'd much rather use Wubi as it is safer, and easier to remove. Their are also some hacks to increase the Wubi disk size (even more than 30 GB). I think that newbies to Ubuntu would much prefer trying out Ubuntu with Wubi, so please refrain from your harsh sarcastic remarks. This thread, after all, is just to show that there is Wubi for Ubuntu 13.04 (and possibly for newer or upcoming versions).
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I'm saddened that my comments were interpreted as being harsh and sarcastic. I was merely encouraging you to further broaden your technical horizons by installing Ubuntu utilizing a more advanced technique, which is [also] quite gratifying once you get it working. I'm a big fan of Ubuntu and have it installed on all of my machines for when I get the urge to tinker.
I know the pain of botching your bootloader, I've done that myself more times than I can remember over the years and yes, it definitely sucks! Now I use NeoSmart's EasyBCD to customize my boot menu and I haven't had any problems for a very long time.
if anyone has experienced the same thing with me? often when I shutdown ubuntu 13:04 .. seemed very long, in fact I've been waiting about 30 minutes .. but .. still can not ... I was forced to shut down leptop hard reset. I know it can cause damage to the hardisk
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if anyone has experienced the same thing with me? often when I shutdown ubuntu 13:04 .. seemed very long, in fact I've been waiting about 30 minutes .. but .. still can not ... I was forced to shut down leptop hard reset. I know it can cause damage to the hardisk
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Maybe close all active programs before shutting down?
get 10
Codename13 said:
Maybe close all active programs before shutting down?
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Still close before shutdown.. but this problem still come to me
As that this is unrelated to mobile devices OT is a more appropriate section for this thread
Hello
I bought a Teclast X98 Air II . It says it comes with android installed. Does anyone knows any way to install windows 8.1 on it?
I managed to obtain win8.1 from the teclast forum, the firmware for this specific Air II.
But there was nothing mentioned regarding the bios part. Any ideea?
I will upload 8.1 firmware soon on some share.
Any help? Anyone else with an Air II?
Thanks
Subscribed to this topic as I will also receive my air II very soon and want to install Windows onto it.
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good news:
1. received my teclast x98 air II
2. managed to install and fully run windows 8.1 bing edition.
will post in the short future a full tutorial that will include rooting, installing, activation
will also provide every software / files needed.
does anyone recommend any file sharing service?
Try firedrive.com - as far as i remember you get 50gb for fairly fast storage.
And most of all - thanks for your help, it would be great if you could write a tutorial here.
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Subscribed too, I'm also very interested in how you managed to install windows. I ordered my x98 air 2 a couple of days ago. I will be going to install windows as soon as I get it.
bios brick
can someone send me a right bios for the teclast x98 air 2? i only find x98 air or x98 3g.
i want the bios for android or for windows or both, i take all i can get.
now my tablet cant startup, without a bios. i need a new for external flash.
sorry for my bad english, im from germany, i hope u can understand me
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if i get the bios data i can install any other windows not only the bing version. but with the brick i cant do anything, and i cant find any bios for windows and cant find for android...
i get the hardware driver from another(german) side for display and so on, i just only need the bios data ...
Thanks. I'll be watching this thread as well.
I am seeing conflicting information on whether this tablet has GPS capabilities or not. I would love to have someone confirm what it actually has. If this doesn't have GPS then I'd be curious to know if there are any alternatives.
I am too new to the forum to post links but you can search on YouTube for videos from user HONGKONGEEK where they have posted an Unboxing video for this version of the tablet.
that's awesome, mkdk!!
Instead of the Win8.1 Bing version, is there any chance of flashing a Pro version instead?
I bought this tablet with the high resolution with the intention of installing Win 8.1 so I don't have a pay a premium price for a nicer screen.
Can't wait until instructions are released!
This will be my first post of many .
Awesome work mkdk, did you follow instructions for the first air or the 3g version?
Bought the 3g version for my girlfriend and the android version works well for her. No luck for me with my air II since google play wont work, so now im looking to install windows instead .
Looking forward to the guide!
YYCLeo said:
that's awesome, mkdk!!
Instead of the Win8.1 Bing version, is there any chance of flashing a Pro version instead?
I bought this tablet with the high resolution with the intention of installing Win 8.1 so I don't have a pay a premium price for a nicer screen.
Can't wait until instructions are released!
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yes u can u only need the chines bios for windows, than u flash it and u can bootup all windows installations u want: xp, vista, win7, win8, win8.1.
u only need the bios file, than flash, than boot up windows from stick on a 3-usb-hub (u need mouse, keyboard and win-install-stick)
after installing u can take the chines hardware drivers for touchpad, sound and so on and its ready and u dont need anymore the mouse, keyboard or stick. than u can have a winxp tablet with touch, but it isnt usefull, may better win8.1 and all is easy or u can take win8.1 pro, what u want.
only need this .................. bios file... :crying:
bios
hi!
Here is the bios file for the x98 air ii
YYCLeo said:
that's awesome, mkdk!!
Instead of the Win8.1 Bing version, is there any chance of flashing a Pro version instead?
I bought this tablet with the high resolution with the intention of installing Win 8.1 so I don't have a pay a premium price for a nicer screen.
Can't wait until instructions are released!
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AFAIK you can install Pro if you integrate the Teclast drivers into the image (use Wintoolkit & Rufus).
nandika6 said:
hi!
Here is the bios file for the x98 air ii
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Thanks for the bios nandika6!
So how do you go about his, are the instructions from teclast x98 air 3g also valid for the air 2 when it comes to flashing the bios?
FIY i did the latest OTA from teclast on android and google play/services still does not seem to work so i guess android is a big nono, atleast for now.
nandika6 said:
hi!
Here is the bios file for the x98 air ii
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very nice, i love you!
best man! you made my day! thanks!
*** I would count these instructions as obsolete due to some gripes with drivers, please refer to JonMichaels instructions in a later post. I will however leave this post if someone needs it as reference or has problems with the other method ***
Ok, so i managed to install both windows 10 32-bit and windows 8.1 pro N 32-bit!
I would not recommend windows 10 since i had a couple of issues there, but win 8.1 works very well with some small gripes that we might solve together!
First a small guide .
Guide to install windows 8.1
For the most part i could use the instructions in the thread for teclast x98 air 3G. I did however not use Teclasts bing version of windows, i created a win 8.1 pro iso instead and embedded the drivers.
Step 1: prepare the image
I only used one usb-drive for my installation (not the WINPE way as described here ), at first i tried with a 32gb drive but it did not work, a 8gb kingston memory did however work. So you might have to test a couple of drives to get it to work. Checkout this post to grab Wintoolkit and Rufus, you will use wintoolkit to inject drivers and refus to prepare a bootable drive.
Once you have these tools you will need to find a windows 8.1 pro 32-bit image to use, i took mine from dreamspark (for students), but you should be able to get one from microsoft directly. Do however mind that i could not bypass the "insert key stage" for a trial version, i had to get a key for this. If you want a fully working win 8.1 pro you will need a key when you install the OS (I don´t know where they are the cheapest, perhaps G2A).
Download the drivers for Teclast x98 air 3G and extract them to a folder. Start up wintoolkit and press all-in-one-integrator to start the embedding process. Browse and select the image that you downloaded earlier. Select the drivers tab and press the Add selection in the menu bar, select the folder with the teclast x98 air 3g drivers, then press start and select a place for the modified image to be storded. Once this is completed (takes some time) close the all-in-one-integrator and select ISO maker, select a place to create a new iso and name it something like "win8.1".
Insert the drive you want to use as a boot-device for your newly created image. Go ahead and start up Rufus and select the drive you want to use. Under partition schema make sure that the GPT partition schema is selected, also make sure that you format it in FAT32. Press the little CD symbol and select the image that you created earlier and press start (this will also take a while depending on the drives writing capabilites). If all goes well you will now have a bootabel usb-drive with win 8.1 pro that the tablet will accept.
Step 2: Flash the bios with the one given to us by nandika6
The next step is to flash the bios to the version that nandika6 gave us. Follow the instructions in this post and use the commands for "if you have not rooted your device".
I had some gotchas with this, simply downloading the adb driver did not work as i could not detect the device in the command prompt. This was solved when i ran the intel manufacturing tools and got the correct usb drivers for the tablet. I did however not do anything with these tools ( look into this if you dont want to keep windows forever, said something about that, i will however not switch back to the buggy Android).
Step 2: Install windows
Once the flash is complete you will have to shut down the tablet and insert the boot-drive. If you end up in the EFI-Shell this will probably be due to the usb-drive not being compatable (this happend to me), in that case repeat step one with another drive. It could also be because the drive is not first in the boot priority, connect a keyboard and pres ESC when booting to get to bios, select the drive and reboot.
If all goes well you will only need to connect a usb-drive since the drivers for touch will work on the fly, if not you will need a mouse and keyboard. The drivers can be manually installed via the device manager (alot of warnings here if this is the case, solve them all by inserting a usb-drive with the drivers folder from earlier).
When this is done you will hopefully have a working istallation of windows on the tablet!
Some gripes
Screen rotation does not work for me at the moment. I solved this in windwos 10 with a file that comes with the drives, this did however make the tablet rotate the wrong way. I will look into this and post a solution if i can, please feel free to inform us if you find a solution first .
The camera is not working for me right now, will look into this.
The tablet will automatically adjust screen brightness even if you turn this of in the power management. This is caused by the intel driver that overrides this, open the intel controll panel and disable active dimming here to solve the issue.
@Thundermeister: helpful guide. Maybe your gripes can be fixed using an updated driver (from the Air II Windows image).
Did you by any chance look into making a WIMBoot image instead of a normal install?
mtr33 said:
@Thundermeister: helpful guide. Maybe your gripes can be fixed using an updated driver (from the Air II Windows image).
Did you by any chance look into making a WIMboot image instead of a normal install?
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Thanks for the tips mtr33, will take a look at that image (if i can find it ). A WIMboot looks very nice, the space saving would be real nice to have. Right now the install takes up around 8 gb on the tablet. I also found some Onda users having the same problem with the rotation, gonna take a look at that image as well, the tablets seem to use the same sensor for orientation.
For all of you having problems with Google Play store, I have a fix here : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=56779242
This works on both 4.4.2 and 4.4.4 ROMs.
Easy instructions & 100% working Win 8.1 install coming soon...
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Hello
I bought a Teclast X98 Air II . It says it comes with android installed. Does anyone knows any way to install windows 8.1 on it?
I managed to obtain win8.1 from the teclast forum, the firmware for this specific Air II.
But there was nothing mentioned regarding the bios part. Any ideea?
I will upload 8.1 firmware soon on some share.
Any help? Anyone else with an Air II?
Thanks
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I successfully installed Windows 8.1 Bing & Pro versions on my Teclast X98 Air II using the files & drivers straight from Teclast. Everything is working 100%! I will post instructions in a bit...
Easy Windows 8.1 install on a Teclast X98 Air II Android Tablet...
JonMichaels said:
I successfully installed Windows 8.1 Bing & Pro versions on my Teclast X98 Air II using the files & drivers straight from Teclast. Everything is working 100%! I will post instructions in a bit...
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How to install Windows 8.1 on a Teclast X98 Air II Android Tablet:
You will need:
2 USB Memory sticks - 1 small (no more than 8 GB) & 1 large (6 GB or more)
1 USB Hub (preferably USB2 & powered)
1. Go to this web address 1drv.ms/1EQ1X5v (Microsoft Onedrive) & Download all the files to your computer.
2. Plug the small memory stick into your computer & format it (Right Click on the drive's icon then scroll down & Click on Format) using FAT32 File System & set the Volume Label to WINPE (all caps).
3. Decompress WinPE_User_20140814.rar to your computer & copy the files to the root directory of the memory stick. Eject & remove the stick.
4. Plug the larger USB memory stick into your computer & format it using NTFS File System.
5. Decompress X98_Air_II_Windows_20141022.part1.rar to your computer & copy to the root of the 2nd memory stick. Eject & remove it from your computer.
5. On your Android tablet, go to Settings, Developer Options, & check USB Debugging (then Ok).
6. Decompress X98-Air II-WIN8 bios.rar to your computer.
7. Connect one end of the USB data cable to your computer & the other end to your tablet (close all running programs on your computer & make sure the tablet has at least a 50% charge).
8. Open the X98-Air II-WIN8 bios folder & Right Click on X98-Air II-WIN8 bios.bat & Click on Run As Administrator (enter password if prompted).
9. Type 1 & press enter to install the USB driver (Install driver dialog box should pop up, click Next to finish the installation).
10. Type 2 & press enter to Root the tablet (wait for it to finish).
11. Type 4 & press enter to flash the tablet's BIOS (do NOT disturb tablet or do anything on your computer while it is flashing!)
12. If there are no error messages, press the tablet's power key for 10 seconds to turn it off & pull out the data cable.
13. Plug both USB memory sticks into the USB Hub (& plug it in to the wall, if powered) then plug the Hub into the USB adapter (that came with the tablet). Plug the other end of the adapter into the tablet's micro-USB port.
14. Turn on your tablet & leave it alone until it is done installing windows (should take several minutes).
15. Hold the power button for 10 seconds to turn it off, then turn it back on.
16. After Windows 8.1 loads, change it to your desired language (it will be in Chinese) & enjoy!
ArchLinuxARM for the tenderloin (HP TouchPad) - Native Boot with moboot
This is only tested on the Wi-Fi version. With a kernel swap, it should work on the tenderloin3g (LTE) tablet, though mobile data is highly unlikely to work. I also don't know if there exists a 3.4 kernel for the tenderloin3g, and you'd have to cherrypick many, many commits.
THIS REQUIRES A DATAMEDIA ROM.
Working:
3D Acceleration (OpenGL ES 2.0, Mesa) - can be unstable, however.
Wi-Fi (with NetworkManager)
Bluetooth
Audio (requires manual intervention)
Installation
MultiROM must already be installed, and you must already have a hardboot-capable kernel installed as well.
You will need a Terminal Emulator or ADB Shell to install.
This assumes that arch_tenderloin_20141210_root.tar.gz and uImage.Arch are already in the root of your internal storage (/data/media/0).
Code:
su
mkdir /data/local/arch
tar -C /data/local/arch -xpzvf /data/media/0/arch_tenderloin_20141210_root.tar.gz
mount -o remount,rw /boot
cp /data/local/uImage.Arch /boot/
mount -o remount,ro /boot
Booting
Select "Arch" on the moboot menu.
Read Me
If you WIPE DATA, it will also WIPE OUT THIS PORT, any applications installed with it, and all data saved under /home/arch!
Logging in
The username is "arch" and the password is "archlinux". Change the password ASAP.
For root, the username is "root" and the password is also "root". CHANGE THE PASSWORD ASAP!
You'll probably want to enable the On-Screen Keyboard (onboard) and set your Session to "MATE" up in the top right corner.
Making audio work after boot requires you to open a terminal, run alsamixer, set speaker_stereo_rx up by one, and then set PCM Playback Sink Rear up by one. The headphones are controlled by the mixer channel named Headphone. The speakers are controlled by the mixer channel named Output.
Downloads
datamedia install tarchive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4WUjKii92l2RFZ6T2ptSjZZVWM/view?usp=sharing
uImage kernel: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4WUjKii92l2ZFlOYlFETzZyeG8/view?usp=sharing
Kernel Source: https://github.com/willcast/kernel_tenderloin branch: desktop_3.4
Also available for:
HTC HD2: http://forum.xda-developers.com/hd2-ubuntu/development/unofficial-archlinuxarm-htc-hd2-t2970483
Samsung Galaxy S III LTE: http://forum.xda-developers.com/gal...unofficial-port-archlinuxarm-release-t2969290
Nexus 7 2013: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nex...fficial-archlinuxarm-release-n7-2013-t2969301
Nexus 10: http://forum.xda-developers.com/nexus-10/general/unofficial-archlinuxarm-release-nexus-10-t2969450
Great job!!
Very nicely done!
I'm just wondering:
Why is the graphics so smooth in Android but not in X11?
Anyway, keep up the good work :good:
Frickin' SWEET! I was hoping someone would continue what the CrimsonRed dude started! I'm in process of trying this out! Will report back soon!
Cool. I'm assuming an otg usb keyboard/mouse would be required?
Thanks!
Okay so I want to try this out, but I need to clear out some space/partitions first. When running novacomd I get this:
[email protected] ~ $ /usr/local/webos/usr/sbin/novacomd
[2014/12/30 7:56:47] nice(-4) returned an unexpected value: -1
[2014/12/30 7:56:47] failed to open gadgetfs ep0 node - retry
[2014/12/30 7:56:48] failed to open gadgetfs ep0 node - retry
[2014/12/30 7:56:49] failed to open gadgetfs ep0 node - retry
[2014/12/30 7:56:50] failed to open gadgetfs ep0 node - retry
[2014/12/30 7:56:51] failed to open gadgetfs 5 times - giving up on usb
Can anyone help me straighten that out? Also how hard would it be to get Funtoo Linux running in this fashion? The last time I tried I could only get it running under a chroot on a 15GB partition...
hey, i exactly followed your steps, but it turned out to be emergency mode by default, i could do nothing without otg keyboard.
could you pls kindly help me out? bzw, i already have cm11 installed on my toouchpad.
MY BAD, the webos was uninstalled, now it's fixed, thanks a lot for this excellent work!!
I'm waiting for permission from the OP, but....
I'm working on setting up a weekly to bi montly rolling release with updated packages.
I won't be doing any kernel or driver work, but Just polishing up packages as well as including updates to my own themed Desktop Environment(Trying to make something more tablet friendly).
actzer said:
hey, i exactly followed your steps, but it turned out to be emergency mode by default, i could do nothing without otg keyboard.
could you pls kindly help me out? bzw, i already have cm11 installed on my toouchpad.
MY BAD, the webos was uninstalled, now it's fixed, thanks a lot for this excellent work!!
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I'm having the same problem. So does webos need to be installed for this to work?
Unfortunately, even though web OS isn't required for any functionality (back in the TP ubuntu days it was needed for audio), I stupidly left /dev/store/root (web OS root) in the /etc/fstab file for this build.
Next build will include optional portable VSXu player, several emulators, newer Mesa GL, and an audio patch. I'll archive it as soon as I can slim it down.
GNOME 3 even sorta works, but don't actually use it because there are unrendered black squares and it's quite slow on this device.
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Unfortunately, even though web OS isn't required for any functionality (back in the TP ubuntu days it was needed for audio), I stupidly left /dev/store/root (web OS root) in the /etc/fstab file for this build.
Next build will include optional portable VSXu player, several emulators, newer Mesa GL, and an audio patch. I'll archive it as soon as I can slim it down.
GNOME 3 even sorta works, but don't actually use it because there are unrendered black squares and it's quite slow on this device.
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Cant wait! My touchpad is awesome now. Arch ftw. :laugh:
This is awesome! Thanks a lot, castrwilliam! Nearly everything is working well for me, even KDE!
Chromium has very good touch support. You can enable pinch-to-zoom in chrome://flags . Extemsions, such as uMatrix, work fine. Finally, a good web browser on HP touchpad!
However, I do have a couple small questions.
In KDE, when I enable compositing in kwin_gles using opengl, the colors are reversed (blue is displayed as orange). Is there any way to fix this? When using xrender, it's ok, but I have to disable lots of effects to get decent performance. HW acceleration would be nice.
In future images, could you please include touchegg-gce from AUR? It's really helpful, and I'd imagine that pretty much anyone using this without hw keyboard and mouse would find it useful.
Stupid newbie question (Sorry, I'm new to Arch Linux): Speaking of AUR, is there an easy way to automatically set arch to 'armv7l' in PKGBUILDs in yaourt? It's kind of a pain to edit them every time.
castrwilliam said:
Unfortunately, even though web OS isn't required for any functionality (back in the TP ubuntu days it was needed for audio), I stupidly left /dev/store/root (web OS root) in the /etc/fstab file for this build.
Next build will include optional portable VSXu player, several emulators, newer Mesa GL, and an audio patch. I'll archive it as soon as I can slim it down.
GNOME 3 even sorta works, but don't actually use it because there are unrendered black squares and it's quite slow on this device.
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Are you planning on reviving Ubuntu for the Touchpad?
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Started running this last night. But, it takes a little extra work. I run evervolv 5.0.2 dulaboot with webos. I also use twrp. With all those, /boot is too small to add. About .5Mb too small. My solution was to cut uImage.TWRP from boot and store a copy elsewhere until needed. That gave me the nesecarry room I needed. When I need TWRP again, I will temp move uImage.Arch and put twrp back in.
Is anyone still working on this? I'm what I hope is charging my TouchPad and I want to try this again.
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Is anyone still working on this? I'm what I hope is charging my TouchPad and I want to try this again.
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I started working on some stuff with it the other day.
blmvxer said:
I started working on some stuff with it the other day.
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Cool. Are you around right now to help me get it installed? How would we talk about it? iRC via PMs?
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BTW, for my current attempt I'm basically using this https://github.com/crimsonredmk/ArchLinuxARM-TouchPad/blob/master/Installation.md but when it talks about the uImage and rootfs I'm using castrwilliam's. I'd ultimately like to use the latest rolling release available for ALARM, but I want to see what happens with that's currently available.
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Aaaannnnd I can't seem to get my root partition on /dev/store/arch-root to mount under the requested by kernel /local/arch without it kernel panicking first... >_>
Shiggity said:
Cool. Are you around right now to help me get it installed? How would we talk about it? iRC via PMs?
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BTW, for my current attempt I'm basically using this https://github.com/crimsonredmk/ArchLinuxARM-TouchPad/blob/master/Installation.md but when it talks about the uImage and rootfs I'm using castrwilliam's. I'd ultimately like to use the latest rolling release available for ALARM, but I want to see what happens with that's currently available.
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Aaaannnnd I can't seem to get my root partition on /dev/store/arch-root to mount under the requested by kernel /local/arch without it kernel panicking first... >_>
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I'm working on making it work currently.
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I'm working on making it work currently.
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Sweet. Let me know when you have it working and I'll try it on my 32 GB TP.
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I also messaged you on your FB a few hours ago. @blmvxer
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Sweet. Let me know when you have it working and I'll try it on my 32 GB TP.
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I also messaged you on your FB a few hours ago. @blmvxer
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I have to charge my tablet up so I can reinstall webos, but from what I can see it should work with the link you have me.
Hey guys. Sorry to bother you in the X98 section, but since there's no section for the X80 yet and maybe the devices have some similarities, I hope it's ok.
The tablet worked fine, but to remove any possible bloatware under Windows or Android, I reset Windows. Somehow the device must have crashed (low battery?) and now I can't boot to Windows anymore (black screen and / or boot loop). Of course I made no backup / recovery disk. Android still works fine and I still get into BIOS / UEFI.
I tried reinstalling Windows via OTG with USB stick. I got to the point where I can choose a partition. Problem is, there are lots of partitions (Android, recovery, System and so on). I located the Windows partition, formatted / deleted it and tried to reinstall Windows on this partition. Just the exact way I would do it on a PC. Somehow it won't install on this partition. The error message says something about "the partitions are not in the recommended order. Further information for installation on GPT-volumes..." (I don't know the exact English phrasing because everything is in German). I chose "continue anyway". Then I get the message that "the EFI-system is not formatted in NTFS. Format the partition to FAT32 and start install procedure again". I press ok and get back to Windows Setup (Install now).
I also tried different repair and recovery options. One time I got error code 0xC0000034. Funny thing is, Windows still seems to be there because while trying to repair / recover I tried to load some drivers and could see the hard drives and folders under Windows.
I tried downloading the original roms here: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1qYEa8gc
You need a Baidu account for the larger files and after days and days I gave up to create such an account as it seems to work only with a mainland China number. There's an option for oversea mobiles but that's not working. I tried a QQ-account, but Baidu wants to link with it and you need that telephone number again. So apparently there's no way to get the original files that way.
I found some stuff here: http://www.needrom.com/download/teclast-x80-pro-dualboot/ but that's only a tutorial file in Chinese and some flash programms / drivers (also got them from Baidu - smaller files are possible to download without an account).
Long story short: I guess recovering Windows 10 is too much effort, so I want to make the tablet Android only and of course want to use the whole capacity for Android. I found a thread on reddit about removing Windows on the X98: https://www.reddit.com/r/teclast/comments/479eua/teclast_x89_how_to_remove_windows_10/
But I have no idea which partitions are definitely needed for Android and which ones I can safely delete. I found a partition map here: http://wheresmykeyboard.com/2015/08/teclast-x98-air-64gb-dual-boot-default-partition-map/ but that doesn't help me that much because they look different.
Attached you will find a photo of all the partitions on my device. I guess there are some which were created during the failed Windows installation because I had about 20 GB free space and now only 17.7 GB.
So is there anybody out there who knows if it's possible to remove Windows completely and which partitions I have to delete?
Did you ever figure this out? I just bought an X80 Pro and was thinking of doing something similar since I plan on making it an android-only tablet.
Deathgazer said:
Did you ever figure this out? I just bought an X80 Pro and was thinking of doing something similar since I plan on making it an android-only tablet.
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Hi. Sorry for the late replay. Yes, I figured it out and my X80 Pro is now running Android-only with 32 GB. In the end, it wasn't that hard but a long way to success.
metalaxi said:
Hi. Sorry for the late replay. Yes, I figured it out and my X80 Pro is now running Android-only with 32 GB. In the end, it wasn't that hard but a long way to success.
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Please do describe how you achieved Android-only with 32 GB memory
Cheers
metalaxi said:
Hi. Sorry for the late replay. Yes, I figured it out and my X80 Pro is now running Android-only with 32 GB. In the end, it wasn't that hard but a long way to success.
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Yes please tell us how metalaxi , it'll be much appreciated.:good:
Ok, guys. Since some of you are asking how I did it, I'm going to try to explain it. It's kinda embarrassing that I don't remember the exact way but I hope it helps somehow. I used the tutorial from this site: http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/x80-plus-android-os-only/#login
Even though it's supposed to be for the Plus model, it also worked on the Pro. Btw, the guy Alex in that thread is me .
You can download all the files from my Google Drive here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxEFqy4Rt9w_cnh3VG9ySk5sOHM
You need
- Android5.1 Upgrade Tool.rar
- X80 Pro (E3E6)- Dual OS - Android5.1-V1.04 Firmware.rar
- gpt.rar (Credit goes to Allember @techtablets-forum; hope it's ok to spread the file)
First you have to install the flash tool. Unrar the firmware and replace the gpt.bin. Then flash the firmware by checking BLANK.
Problem is that when I did all that, my Windows was already crushed and wasn't working anymore. I can't remember anymore if I erased the Windows partitions or any others beforehand. If you're not interested in Windows anymore, just flash it without changing or erasing any of the partitions. I guess by replacing the gpt-file, you do all that automatically.
I hope this somehow helps you. Feel free to ask for more help.
Have a good night!
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Ok, guys. Since some of you are asking how I did it, I'm going to try to explain it. It's kinda embarrassing that I don't remember the exact way but I hope it helps somehow. I used the tutorial from this site: http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/x80-plus-android-os-only/#login
Even though it's supposed to be for the Plus model, it also worked on the Pro. Btw, the guy Alex in that thread is me .
You can download all the files from my Google Drive here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxEFqy4Rt9w_cnh3VG9ySk5sOHM
You need
- Android5.1 Upgrade Tool.rar
- X80 Pro (E3E6)- Dual OS - Android5.1-V1.04 Firmware.rar
- gpt.rar (Credit goes to Allember @techtablets-forum; hope it's ok to spread the file)
First you have to install the flash tool. Unrar the firmware and replace the gpt.bin. Then flash the firmware by checking BLANK.
Problem is that when I did all that, my Windows was already crushed and wasn't working anymore. I can't remember anymore if I erased the Windows partitions or any others beforehand. If you're not interested in Windows anymore, just flash it without changing or erasing any of the partitions. I guess by replacing the gpt-file, you do all that automatically.
I hope this somehow helps you. Feel free to ask for more help.
Have a good night!
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Hi @metalaxi. Do you think its possible to like "reverse" and use the same files to remove Android instead and maintain the Windows 10? Appreciate to hear from you. Thanks!
Do we have to change the gpt before doing what you said in your PDF? Or I have just to follow your PDF?
Hi guys, got mine a few months and want to get rid of the Windows part, but the instructions are insufficient for a joker like me.....
1. Download the firmware, its 4 parts of rar being zipped together
2. flash the firmware HOW?!?!?! I have no Idea...... please give us some closer instructions.
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Hi @metalaxi. Do you think its possible to like "reverse" and use the same files to remove Android instead and maintain the Windows 10? Appreciate to hear from you. Thanks!
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Sorry, I can't answer that sufficent enough. As far as I know, you can just delete all partitions except the ones from Windows. Then format the unallocated space and merge it with the one from Windows. No guarantee!
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Hi guys, got mine a few months and want to get rid of the Windows part, but the instructions are insufficient for a joker like me.....
1. Download the firmware, its 4 parts of rar being zipped together
2. flash the firmware HOW?!?!?! I have no Idea...... please give us some closer instructions.
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1. Which 4 parts do you mean?
2. To flash any firmware, you need to install all the upgrade tools:
IntelAndroidDrvSetup1.5.0
iSocUSB-Driver-Setup-1.2.0
PhoneFlashTool_5.3.4.0_internal_win32
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1. Which 4 parts do you mean?
2. To flash any firmware, you need to install all the upgrade tools:
IntelAndroidDrvSetup1.5.0
iSocUSB-Driver-Setup-1.2.0
PhoneFlashTool_5.3.4.0_internal_win32
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it's too long ago, so I don't know what I exactly did there, but since there was no reply for a long time, I just took a shot and worked out well, now I have an Android only tablet.
I just got lucky I guess....
partition help
Hi, please help.
I have x80pro e3e8
I managed to erase a complete disk partition.
You are trying to revive again, fail.
installed here:
iSocUSB-Driver-Setup-1.2.0
IntelAndroidDrvSetup1.5.0
PhoneFlashTool_5.3.4.0_internal_win32
downloaded here:
Firmware (20161020_SZ)
Tablet joined and tried to flash.
* failed - failed loadet.efi
Please help. I can not download from Baidu
* If I use phoneFlasTool and flash a blank disc - Create Flash partition and dual boot and replace recovery?
What to do with an empty disc?
Thanks for any advice
It is not so hard. By mine it was only trial and error. Installiert all drivers an go in the bootloader with three Finger method. Go two levels up and go into bootloader. Then connect to PC and look in Intel flashing tool if connection is reconiced correctly. Select the downloaded file and select flash. Thats it. Device will reboot and you are ready to go.
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It is not so hard. By mine it was only trial and error. Installiert all drivers an go in the bootloader with three Finger method. Go two levels up and go into bootloader. Then connect to PC and look in Intel flashing tool if connection is reconiced correctly. Select the downloaded file and select flash. Thats it. Device will reboot and you are ready to go.
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Thank you for the advice. That's right, I did it was marked. I found a reason. rom file was saved on desktop, and had a long name (as I downloaded it) It must copy the file to C've renamed the firmware. Everything went alright. I downloaded and used the GPT files for resizing disk and now goes all right. Thank you for responding to my question.
hi, I have problem while flashing.
Phone flash tool always gives ERROR
Automatic reboot is not supported on this device, please reboot the device manually
ERROR : [Port 0/1/4] Failed to reboot the device
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Any idea what to do? I followed all the steps, tried many times, still same problem. And it's not possible to reboot device manually, because then it lose connection with PC
Restock OS Without Android
Hi there.
I have to restock my Device, but the Intel Flash Tool does not recognize my Device.
I cannot boot into Android to turn on USB-Debugging or go into fastboot mode
How do i flash my device without any OS installed?
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affe2000 said:
Hi there.
I have to restock my Device, but the Intel Flash Tool does not recognize my Device.
I cannot boot into Android to turn on USB-Debugging or go into fastboot mode
How do i flash my device without any OS installed?
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Ok, got it working... dnx fastboot mode is there
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hello guys by accident i deleted windows 10, how can i reinstall them? i dont have the windows 10 icon in the dual boot select i only see the android icon
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hello guys by accident i deleted windows 10, how can i reinstall them? i dont have the windows 10 icon in the dual boot select i only see the android icon
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Straightforward if you can obtain a USB stick capable of storing over 7GB (some 8GB sticks may not); USB hub (ideally a powered hub); USB keyboard; OTG cable.
1) Obtain the Windows files of the correct firmware. The procedure outlined here is for E6E9 firmware, but other firmware will be similar. Download the circa 6.5GB E6E9 firmware Windows files from https://yadi.sk/d/XEvRsoiD3Q4vKX or https://mega.nz/#F!I0AXGR5C!YiNFkZL9DIvzepH28qAjEQ (or from appropriate source for your firmware version).
Decompress the downloads as required to obtain six folders and two files.
2) Format the stick to FAT32.
3) Name the stick WINPE (five uppercase characters).
4) Copy the previously mentioned folders and files to the USB stick.
5) Plug USB stick and USB keyboard into hub; plug hub into OTG cable; plug OTG cable into tablet whilst the tablet is off.
6) Turn on tablet and immediately start tapping << Delete >> key on USB keyboard. This should open the UEFI config section prior to Android boot option. If the tablet displays the Android boot option, turn off the tablet, wait a few seconds, then turn on and start tapping << Delete >> key on USB keyboard again.
7) When in UEFI, touch the title menu option of << Save and Exit >> and look in the << Boot Override >> section for the name of your USB stick, then touch the name of your USB stick. The screen will immediately go blank as the tablet starts to boot from the USB stick.
8) After a few minutes, a numerically display of progress will be displayed in a CMD window.
9) After reaching 100% and nearing completion of the overall installation, the tablet will prompt for acceptance, so accept that prompt.
10) The setup will run a few final operations for a few seconds, then automatically reboot.
11) Done.
You will be prompted to complete the OOBE on each Windows boot until you complete OOBE.
Hello.
I know this forum is for X98, but i didn't found more proper one to ask about X80.
Does anyone have original firmware (Android/Windows) for X80 Pro E6E9?
The link on official website doesn't work anymore (https://www.dropbox.com/sh/swbmvr0eha8zgk4/AAAEl6UfFjHZ0BHcmOP_Cfuma?dl=0).
I've found it on baidu.com (https://pan.baidu.com/s/1dFEeKPb#list/path=/), but I cannot download it.
Can anyone help me?
I've found it and i've uploaded it to mega:
https://mega.nz/#F!I0AXGR5C!YiNFkZL9DIvzepH28qAjEQ
Thanks a lot torzech!
By the way where did you manage to find it??
I'm looking for a custom rom for this tablet but cannot find many things...
I don't speak English well.
Please help me, I don't find firmware Lineage 13 or 14.1 on Teclast X80 Pro.
Please, help
Do we have any Teclast X80 Pro (E6E9) users here?
I'm looking for the best Android ROM, but it is very difficult to find one.
Can I ask you for help?
Install
Hello,
How can i install the rom you have sent from the mega server?
X80 Pro: Windows 10 1909 19H2 (18363.476), 10GB free with Android
For those of you still using these tablets with Windows the following might be interesting. On 4PDA (Russian equivalent of XDA, more or less) there is a recent post on how to refresh the Windows installation on the E3E9 and E6E9 versions of these tablets. While I lost my original X80 Pro (by leaving it on a car roof, driving off and only thinking about the stowaway once we were on the motorway) I recently got back the second one I bought for my father (who recently passed away, sadly). While I had customised the Android installation on my own version I had not really touched Windows as a) I don't have much use for it, having used Linux since v0.92 and b) the lack of storage space in the Windows install meant it couldn't even update itself without running out of space. Now that I once more have one of these things taking up space in my laptop bag I thought to give it a workover to see if it could be used in a different way, seeing that the ageing Android version is not likely to get an update and not feeling particularly driven to try to port a more recent version of Android to this dying platform. I have an old Galaxy Tab 3 (which is Intel-based just like the X80 Pro) lying around which runs Android 7.1.2 just fine so it is not entirely impossible to create a port for this platform but... why bother?
Poking around 4PDA I happened upon a recent post describing how to install Windows 10 1909 (19H2) on these tablets and decided to give it a go. The post includes a download link (8.4GB) plus a short description on how to install the thing without the need for external USB hubs or keyboards. The relevant part of the description goes as follows:
Included versions:
Windows 10 Home
Windows 10 Pro for workstations
Windows 10 Enterprise 2019 LTSC (17763.864)
Partition a USB memory stick (minimum capacity 16GB) with a single GPT partition and format it to fat32. For reference, this is what it looks like on my system:
Code:
Model: General USB Flash Disk (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 16.0GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:
Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 1049kB 16.0GB 16.0GB fat32 win10_2019_LTSC_X80 msftdata
Extract the downloaded archive onto this partition. Have a look at the file named install.cmd, this is the script which initiates the install procedure. It is in Russian and uses code page 1251 so it will probably look like gibberish (e.g. Linux does not use Windows code pages). The essential parts of the script you'll want to know are the initial selection of which Windows version to install (1 for Home, 2 for Pro, 3 for Enterprise LTSC), the following question on whether to delete Android ('y' to delete it, 'n' to keep it) and the fact that it expects you to press 'y' after copying the two large DISM install files (sources\install.swm and sources\install2.swm) to the tablet. It will say something along the lines of Windows установлена. ... ерезагруз те устройство... which comes down to 'Windows is installed, press y to continue'. Do so when prompted or you'll be waiting and waiting and waiting...
Put the memory stick in a USB-OTG adapter, connect that to the tablet and boot the thing to Windows.
In Windows go to Settings => Update and Security => Recovery => Restart Now
A blue screen appears with a number of options. Select Troubleshooting => Advanced Options => UEFI Firmware Settings => Restart (the tablet will reboot into UEFI firmware settings).
In the UEFI settings screen go to 'Save & Exit' and select the USB memory in the 'Boot Override' section (somewhere lower down on the screen). The thing will boot to the Windows installer and the above-mentioned 'install.cmd' script will run. Press the keyboard symbol on the bottom of the screen to pop up the on-screen keyboard and select the Windows version to install (1: Home, 2: Pro, 3: Enterprise LTSC), select whether to erase Android ('y') or keep it ('n') and let the thing copy those two large archive files. Once greeted by Windows установлена. ... ерезагруз те устройство... press 'y' and the thing will reboot into the new Windows version... which only speaks Russian for now. If you know any of the Cyrillic-using languages select your favourite and be happy, otherwise select Russian (the top option). It will ask about localisation (I chose объединенное Королевство which stands for 'United Kingdom') and which keyboards to configure. Unless you're used to a Cyrillic keyboard you'll want to add one (select Добавить раскладку which means 'Add Layout') which you're more familiar with, e.g. США ('USA') or one of its derivatives. Once through this hurdle It'll ask for your WiFi settings. The rest depends on how you want to install Windows. For me that comes down to not using a Microsoft account, instead choosing to use a local account and saying нет ('No') to just about everything.
Don't know any Russian? Don't worry, just install one of the photo translator apps on your phone and point it at the screen when it says something you don't understand.
Windows is installed in the Compact mode, after the installation ~10 GB is available in Windows with Android installed.
Once ready you'll want to configure the thing to use your language of choice in the 'Time and Language' section in 'Windows Settings', recognisable by the clock-A-Chinese_ideogram icon, select 'Language' (A-Chinese_ideogram icon). Add the needed localisations to the device in the 'Add a language' section ('+' icon) and (once everything is installed) set the Windows display language to your language of choice. On the same screen select 'Administrative language settings' to set the language for the welcome screen, new accounts and non-Unicode programs to your language of choice. The thing will reboot and with a bit of luck it'll come back to greet you in a language you're comfortable with. This being Windows it sometimes gets stuck in the dreaded "Updating Windows, don't switch off the computer" screen. Should that happen you're probably best off repeating the whole procedure after force-rebooting the thing.
ONLY TRY THIS WHEN YOU'RE CONFIDENT YOU CAN найти выход из трудного угла
MAKE SURE THE TABLET IS FULLY CHARGED BEFORE TRYING THIS - IT CAN TAKE QUITE A WHILE
I used this procedure on a E3E9 version, it is advertised as working on E3E9 and E6E9. I have no idea whether it works on other versions, YMMV.
Once Windows has restarted you can remove the USB-OTG cable and plug in the charger.
Windows will need to be activated. Do what you have to do...
Is there a way to get 2004 on it?
I'm using the russian image, but now I have the same space problem by upgrading to 2004 as before