Remix OS/Windows 10 Anniversary update installation

[Jean Paul]

Thank you very much, gonna try this but with cm13 instead, the usb hub can be a normal one ?

Pd: any case you know any tutorial on how to keep just windows and merge all partitions under win 10 anniversary?

[John Maugeri]

Hi Phillip.  Thanks for your post.  You have done exactly what I have been looking to do for quite some time now.  I was wondering if you might have some insight if there may be an easier route for me to get where you are.  I presently have my Cube iWork8 ultimate with TWRP installed and RemixOS installed and running and windows 10 installed and running.  I would love to just somehow accomplish the partition resize without completely starting from scratch and I was wondering if you might know of a way for me to do that?  If not then can you guide me through your directions a bit and explain which steps I might be able to skip since I already have TWRP installed.  Thanks for any guidance you can give.

 

 

Thanks,

 

John

[John Maugeri]

Ok just to let you know where I am at.  I am almost there.  It took a bit of finagling, maybe because I already had TWRP and remix is installed.   So I just started with installing original android with you gpt_o4g.bin.  It installed but it somehow wiped out TWRP so I had to reinstall that and then put Remix OS back.  Which is all good now.  Now when I am trying to install Win 10 it seems like the install is not seeing the 16gb Ntfs thumb drive as I get an error that it cannot find \scripts\main.cmd.  I thought maybe it was because it was Ntfs format and windows isn’t installed yet so I tried formatting fat32 but then the install.wim is 6gb too large for single file under fat32.  Any ideas?  I am so close!!!  Lol!!!

 

thanks,

 

john

[John Maugeri]

Finally figured it out!  Had to be NTFS GPT!!!!!!!  Dopey me!!!! Anyway windows 10 is installing and the last piece of the puzzle is anniversary update.  I will let you know how that goes.

 

Thanks,

 

John

[Kaylee]

Thanks for this very helpful guide!

Is there any way to complete this tutorial without a Micro SD card? Can another USB stick be substituted? My Micro SD card is jammed in the slot and I can’t get it out…

[OptoMan]

if it’s actually jammed .. if it’s just flush with the slot something like a finger nail to push it in further and eject, or if caught on inside of plastic maybe an exact-o knife to straighten, unsnag and release.  there are such things as low-profile sd cards just for tablets btw

however — you should skip the win10 1607 update part anyways I think — it will come through after you setup your pre 1607 windows as a giant update, and you will more than likely need to free some room depending on how you set things up (well, clean up temp files and uninstall any bundled apps, okay …) .. asks for external storage.  I ended up using a usb drive myself for the *update* instead of an ‘addon’ish installation from modern windows install media.  usb is faster than sd anyways!!

shouldn’t take 9 hours.  try 1.

 

 

[OptoMan]

like to add that yes, flashing the android (or remix even) firmware erase all known partitions .. and well also at the same time overwrites any of the twrp stuff because that part of the ‘whole dual flash’ has the stock bootloader in it .. so it really should be stock android or remix, then root or windows 10, bios will go from any working windows

[OptoMan]

what have you done? why is windows missing?

cube’s supported method is from the windows program included, there are files in the bios package that lead to believe flash from efi shell is possible, but that doesn’t mean that cube’s efi will want to do that for us

android or in this case remix. THIS first half of the flash sets up more than just android. it defines most of the storage layout for later. partitions, much important information. and the boot loader, which is a misnomer .. this is a boot manager that is able to find your android and windows as cube expects them to be, and actaully finds _their_ boot manager/loaders .. and that whole thing is on its own partiton, and tied to the EFI system partition — one of the major difference between efi and bios is that bios doesn’t ever store any of it’s requried stuff on a drive, it’s all on the [small] flash chip. limited for how much code they can put in there ..

I’ll check what you posted, but it has to flash android (assuming remix) first, then windows .. if windows first, android flash erases knowledge of windows and only sets up for you to install windows next.

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you know what’s wierd .. the instructions are for an iwork air and use the ult firmware that has bios in it, that will definately break some stuff .. windows learns of hardware different than the android .. have you tried a windows installation with a garbled screen and kb with usb disk and hdmi?  modify the stock main command script to run without interruption .. headless and hdmi on the way .. sheeit don’t remember if bios will output to hdmi, I think it does.

[OptoMan]

the remix available from cube is the only one I would remotely suggest.  I like android.  =P

 

there’s no way you can guess my joke right now

 

[OptoMan]

afraid to see what’s in the remix flash but that just looks all wrong — modified gpt binary, tantalizing — but ordering is all wrong.  what a runaround!

repeating random parts that seem to not work might work but, what if once was all that’s needed … dono no remix flash but stock andriod flash replaces gpt (guid partition table, any data is as good as released) so wipes everything.  someone get that — stock android flash does new partition layout, boot choice, android boot loader and all the android partition, and that gpt stock or modded leaves room for windows.

that means that stock flashed cleared all the effort from twrp and rooting stock android .. I don’t care how remix gets flashed but those things were erased.

oh my good gosh

I’m not going to look at the gpt but I’ll look at the remix .. I’m not seeing it

[OptoMan]

http://www.modaco.com/forums/topic/377513-portrom157-remix-os-20-android-511-for-cube-iwork8-ultimate-iwork8-air/

instructions are to unlock _android_ boot loader (this thing has two and a half okay, I say 20) and flash twrp recovery over android recovery, and from the new android recovery flash a non-stock android

couldn’t see if remix is rooted — twrp can help with that

and further, get the remix from cube not a port from another device

[Tony]

I followed the steps and now I have a 4Gb partition for remix os and 20.9Gb partition for win10 with the latest updates.

But, I couldn’t install Windows 10 Anniversary with your way so I did it through windows update.

some problems:

1. when I restart remixos or win 10 and I select to boot remixos I get a message:
   ‘Unknown oneshot boot target: ‘Received ACTION_REBOOT.
   However, remixos boots after 2-3secs.
   Is this normal?
2. when I installed stock android, touch panel was not working. How can we fix that? For remixOs there is a patch, but for android…?

 

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