[How-To] Install Windows on Android version [YB1-X90L/F]

[saw tha moo]

asking help

could you guide me step by step with picture? because I m not advance user
I want to change my android Lenovo to window version

 

[saw tha moo]

could you help me to install window 10 step by step for yb1-x90f, in simple way because I m not an advance user, with many thanks

 

[saw tha moo]

Hi Poz1, could you tell share how to install window on Andriod version YB1-X90F in simple way, when I read all of the post and other, its really impressed to me but I am ordinary user, could you help me or does anybody wanna to help???? thanks

 

[*JoKeR*]

Hi Poz1
Please upload guide try again.
Thanks.

 

[pflatlyne]

Is the bios (or UEFI) contained on a separate 8pin soic flash device and is the hardware the same between the windows and android devices? If so, the best solution might be to use flashrom with a suitable to programmer (FTDI devices can be had for less than 20 dollars) ,dump the contents of a windows tablet and flash then to the android tablet (after of course backing up the original contents) After that, it should BE the windows version.

 

[tartartartar]

they work

So... It seems both pen mode and keyboard mode of holo keyboard won't work... Am I right?
It's sad that if they won't work even we install the drivers from the lenovo website

the keyboard and touchscreen work in dual boot mode. The drivers are plug in play. Just reefer to any of the posts on the previous page which state clearly that keyboard and touchscreen dont' work... idiot.

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try recreating the dev environment. There is a toolchain in the kernel source of this kernel posted on lenovas web site. They do not use windows, they do not use mac (suprise). Get over it. Recreate the EXACT environment. that is ubuntu 14 LTS, gcc 4.8.2 and gcc 4.9. You need to have kernel headers under 4.10, 4.15 is all bad. 3.2.6 would be ideal. Yes seriously this is a requirement of you doing anything. This tablet came out pre spectre so try creating it on a os which was compiled over a year ago. that is unpatched without security updates. Then and only then compile intel compiler from source. and try again. It would also help to check out the toolchain lenova was so kind to provide instead of shooting in the dark. you will find it on this forum. learn to fish already.

 

[tartartartar]

atoms are not x86_64 newbs

try a ataom enabled kernel. Any x86_64 kernel should panic on a atom. That is the expected behavior. atoms are backported and as far as I know no distro offers binaries that were compiled on a atom for a atom 'with atom kernel headers'. That could be why it keeps crashing. ./configure && make && make install are your friend for this reason. Go over to linuxfromscratch and just make your own. Linux fwi is what is meant to run on this thing not windows. Why go though all this trouble just to put windows on here when you could just buy the one with windows and throw it straight into the trash to save time. You guys are silly. Similarly. The preinstalled windows 10 on a atom pc, and the one you downloaded from pirates bay is not the same. You are having architecture problems. GRUBS universal nature is not helping. Again. Compile grub from source at least with the appropriate headers and maybe not ijected SMBIOS as is often the case. You are trying to run tinycore bios when you boot using grub. circimventing all that nice work you just did. Better yet don't use grub. For the love of lilo, anything but grub. But if you do write your grub.conf file by hand. If you don't know how to do that you need to learn. Check what modules are loaded. Remove ALL that you don't need. If you have a bios screen check that vtx and virtualization are disabled until you get it going. Try installing linux before windows just so you have a base line. But again. Atom is a architecture not a kernel. There is no reason to believe a regular windows CD would ever install on your yoga book regardless of what you do to it. Your approach. EVERYONES approach here is fundamentality flawed. Yall should go back to the shallow end of the pool where architecture doesn't matter. Try some php or jquery perhapse. The catch 22 is you need tinycore grub as you need to pass acpi back to the os from uefi and yet... your binaries will fail you. If you can't compile it from source in this case, its not going to work for you unless lenova themselves bless it. You guys are shooting in the dark and this will never work properly. There is a amazinly insecure work around via kernel configuration for the problem above. Its advanced and requires you compile your entire operating system from source sooo think DRI not DRM. The SPI-soc interface required by atoms is not some thing you can simply drop in via a kernel mod. and good luck.

 

[EricCheung2016]

is it that everyone gives up this great android device ???

 

[pelops71]

When it comes to tablets, Windows 10 is the real joke! Android does it a lot better and it is far more stable than any Windows 10 tablet I have ever seen. I haven seen any tablet with linux though.
When power computing comes into play, then a tablet is not the choice to go with, no matter what OS.

 

[pelops71]

the keyboard and touchscreen work in dual boot mode. The drivers are plug in play. Just reefer to any of the posts on the previous page which state clearly that keyboard and touchscreen dont' work... idiot.

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try recreating the dev environment. There is a toolchain in the kernel source of this kernel posted on lenovas web site. They do not use windows, they do not use mac (suprise). Get over it. Recreate the EXACT environment. that is ubuntu 14 LTS, gcc 4.8.2 and gcc 4.9. You need to have kernel headers under 4.10, 4.15 is all bad. 3.2.6 would be ideal. Yes seriously this is a requirement of you doing anything. This tablet came out pre spectre so try creating it on a os which was compiled over a year ago. that is unpatched without security updates. Then and only then compile intel compiler from source. and try again. It would also help to check out the toolchain lenova was so kind to provide instead of shooting in the dark. you will find it on this forum. learn to fish already.

Well, I can handle all of my documents wherever I am. Only photoshop and a few others cannot be managed in android, but it is not my main computer. Being as thick as a tablet with the keyboard makes it more like a tablet and not a laptop in any case. Perhaps you think of this concept wrong and you expect more than you should.
I have an HP hybrid too and when it comes to portability, android beats it hands down.

 

[pelops71]

Well, Android might be stable (as long as not running on x86), but there is simply no point in Android tablets. It's just wasting resources.

Who was talking about power computing here? That's something that is handled by desktops/servers. Still, even when it comes to the simplest tasks, like handling office documents on the go, Windows wins. There is nothing that can change this fact.

Additionally let me point out that this device is more a laptop/netbook than a tablet as it has a non-removable keyboard

A keyboard, or should we say a virtual keyboard does not make it a laptop/notebook. There aren't really any keys, it does not have a physical keyboard, it is just a digitizing surface that also works like a keyboard. Folding it at the back makes it an ultra thin tablet. It is as thick as my iPad.
Windows 10 in tablet mode is the biggest joke of all:
- Rotate it and some stuff gets out of view
- All apps are simply ugly and dysfunctional. Start from all pdf readers for example, epub and others are even worse with te pitiful edge providing the best user experience of all.
I could start writing a long crapload of stuff for windows 10 in here, but let it be.

The office suite for android woks pretty well. It even supports VB script what doesn't work for you, what did you expect and you did not find it in it? Not to mention that if you are a 365 subscriber you get even more.
Android is a far more mature OS for tablets than Win 10 is. Win 10 have still a long way to go and most parts of it are not optimized for a mobile user experience.
I ditched my HP X2 for it and I am happier than ever. I miss a couple of things though from win 10, but nothing that will make me go back with it.

 

[nemogamo]

Whoa...
Why r u guys, debate over OS.
Please make another threat!
Don't do it here

Please.....

 

[hditti]

Problem

Hello everybudy,

I am try to install Windows on a andrtoid YB but by the first step I get a error.

"Anyway to enter the bios from Android we have to write this command in a terminal (Termux app from the play store works really well if you don’t have one already)
printf "\x07\x00\x00\x00\x01\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00\x00" > /sys/firmware/efi/efivars/OsIndications-8be4df61-93ca-11d2-aa0d-00e098032b8c

almost I get the error "acces denied". I think I have no root but I have. I tryed with twrp and the same..
Can everyone Help me?

Thanks...

 

[egrath]

Hi,

just two Ideas, Questions:

1. Anyone ever tried flashing the InsydeH2O Bios after getting Windows running with this Guide?

2. Anyone ever tried flashing the Windows Recovery Image with DnX?

egrath

 

[jamespmi]

1. Anyone ever tried flashing the InsydeH2O Bios after getting Windows running with this Guide?

The Android YB has no Insyde H2O Bios, it's a totally different EEPROM than the Windows Version.

 

[egrath]

Yes, the Android version has a Tianocore based BIOS, but the inner Hardware is exactly the same, so a cross flash should - at least theoretically - be possible without bricking the device.

 

[Poz1]

Yes, the Android version has a Tianocore based BIOS, but the inner Hardware is exactly the same, so a cross flash should - at least theoretically - be possible without bricking the device.

Actually the Windows BIOS is much more feature limited, I believe we are the lucky guys
And I also believe that the problem with keyboard is that the driver checks for some kind of id with the hardware in order to load the proper key mapping (since it's a a big touchpad it needs to know "where" the keys are) but cannot find "our" id among the ones it has. (since we have a different "trackpad" design).

Anyway there are some people who found the driver source and make a keyboard driver for linux, we could use that source to try to understand how to modify the windows one to solve the problem