Android to Windows Hack or Dual boot Option?

[mrwinkle]

So im thinking of purchasing one of these when the come out here and i was wondering about an android to windows os hack. Will there be one in the immediate future and will dual booting be an option?

 

[Aeskulapio]

The hardware is exactly the same.
There must be a way to dual boot, hopefully others on this forum can figure out how to do this if Lenovo doesn't facilitate dual boot themselves

Best

 

[guitartng]

I believe there's a different BIOS for Win vs Android. Could have sworn I saw the Windows BIOS posted on the Lenovo support site prior to the Oct 17 launch. It seems gone now though, unless I'm missing something or went to the wrong link? Unlikely you can install Win without a different BIOS.

 

[Hitsuji666]

There is some clear hardware differences with the Android and Windows tablets. Specifically, 2 different physical layouts for the halo keyboard, where the windows one has defined left and right mouse click buttons. There doesn't seem to be any way of accessing the BIOS on the Android tablet, and it does have the usual Android power + volume up, power + volume down recovery options, so it looks like it boot directly to the boot loader.

 

[heavykick]

The Bios is still there ... but how would you flash it?

http://support.lenovo.com/de/de/products/Tablets/Yoga-Series/YOGA-Book/downloads/DS119182

 

[bisharat]

ok so there is also android open source code available in their site, any chance of making a custom rom?

 

[hajkan]

I wonder if we could flash the Chuwi 12 roms onto this given that Chuwi12 has dual boot already?

This is reallly really stupid to me, why not provide dual boot in the first place? I would not mind shelling out $100 more for a dual boot version. Now if I want the windows version I will need to spend another $550 to get another OS with the same device. I will end up having 2 same devices, but that is so anti-mobile really. Do I have to carry 2 hardware devices so i can have 2 OSes at the same time?

Lenovo get some grip please and provide a dual OS version.

 

[igelelf]

win 10 driver

Today, the windos 10 drivers are online..
The drivers you get with levono support with input of the serial number
It must now be possible to build a dual system

Tastertur chipset audio and more .

 

[bisharat]

Today, the windos 10 drivers are online..
The drivers you get with levono support with input of the serial number
It must now be possible to build a dual system

Tastertur chipset audio and more .

Could you post the link for the windows 10 drivers? also any idea on how to unlock the bootloader?

 

[heavykick]

Hi,
earthCallingAngela did unlock the bootlader. .

My background knowledge about booting is very low. But I think there are huge differences between Android and Windows. I think If a system can boot via PC-Bios or Android-Boot-Loader is "on the chip". If this is correct you would need a Android-Boot-Loader that does boot into a windows ... IMO this is no "easy to do". May be the guys who did create Remix OS found a way to do that ...?

 

[hajkan]

Can we use Chuwi 12's disk image somehow? It comes with dual boot.

 

[heldc]

Can we use Chuwi 12's disk image somehow? It comes with dual boot.

Are the two the same hardware? My understanding is that unless the hardware is very similar, you can't use other ROMs without a *TON* of work.

 

[thorpe24]

so i was able to install android x86 6.0 on my yoga book, unfortunately i managed to do it over my windows install so now i just need to reinstall windows lol.....

---------- Post added at 06:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:54 PM ----------

decided to install 7.0 over my 6.0 install i just made and messed everything up. now im back to just trying to get gparted to run so i can reformat and start over.

 

[parkps]

Could you post the link for the windows 10 drivers? also any idea on how to unlock the bootloader?

http://support.lenovo.com/kr/en/pro... and Software|Drivers and Software&beta=false

you can download yogabook win10(64bit) driver here.

edited--

you should change operating system dropdown menu from android to windows10

 

[ThomasHardy]

Hi & Happy New Year

Now it's possible to get root with android version

I have a YogaBook with Windows version ; Someone can make a backup Android version?

Maybe it's possible to create a dual boot with the windows version I cross the fingers :fingers-crossed:

 

[hajkan]

Where and how?

Hi & Happy New Year

Now it's possible to get root with android version

 

[McAnan]

someone can said me, where i found an android image? (original yoga book, of course) i try to install Remix OS and Android-x86 6.0-r1 released from Android-x86.org but, its can't run. graphics issues and reboot.

i install in a MicroSD and boot it booting yogabook hold volume up + power boton and select boot menu, but it fail on boot.

i have yoga book windows. any idea?

thanks

sorry for my english..

 

[pgrey2]

I'm exploring this as well.
Since the BIOS and drivers available (just tested with my serial#), it does seem like it would be relatively easy to dual-boot, provided you can get past the loader issue.

I've done many dual-boot setups, just not since the Win7 days, with the Win8 and forward it's gotten quite a bit trickier, the loader does a bunch of "extra" stuff, boot timing and such, to protect itself.
I've also never done an Android/Windows dual-boot, mostly just Win/Win or Win/Unix.

I think you'd have to figure out how to bootstrap these, so the custom loader can take over, and load from there, but this is a bit beyond my Android capabilities.
Has anyone even tried this? I assume the power/volume keys must work, to get at the loader?

 

[Totjoss]

Hi there !

I've just unlocked my Yoga Book's android bootloader and made a backup. I'm trying to install Windows 10 and replace Android with it. The problem is that I don't know how to boot the device from the USB drive.

Does anyone know how to do that ? Even if rooting is required ?

P.S. : I can't google it as all results link to "how to boot a PC from android device", which is the reverse...

 

[danjac]

Hi there !

I've just unlocked my Yoga Book's android bootloader and made a backup. I'm trying to install Windows 10 and replace Android with it. The problem is that I don't know how to boot the device from the USB drive.

Does anyone know how to do that ? Even if rooting is required ?

P.S. : I can't google it as all results link to "how to boot a PC from android device", which is the reverse...

simple...you can't do that! it's not possible to boot usb from android bootloader or recovery.