Steps in Reflashing Android / Installing Win10 on X98 Air 3G?

[Mike Murley]

Done and done.

Everything went fine.  I didn’t have to flash the BIOS (I had a later version anyway).  Took two tries but I flashed Mireck190’s v7,07 ROM (full partition), and then installed Win10 again (in the unallocated partition).

Only glitch was that I didn’t need the TouchSetting.gt file – that actually screwed up my touch screen – deleted it and its all good.

[Agustin Cordoba]

Hi Mike, I’m very interested in how your install of Android went on your dual-boot. My machine is C5J6, and I am hoping to reinstall an Android system after accidentally trashing stock from Windows.  Mine came with Windows 10 (works very well) and Android 5.0 (worked more or less ok but full of Chinese stuff). I was unable to obtain root, by any method, so I installed Paragon ExtFs software on Windows to be able to view and edit the contents of the Android partitions. Probably a great idea but things went wrong when I accidentally relocated a number of config files. I tried to reset to factory but ended up minus the Android. Now I would like to install either an updated stock or else one of Mirek’s roms. What would you suggest? MTIA.

[Mike Murley]

Agustin

I have done this once.  So I am not an expert.  Chris’ complete YouTube tutorial (which is not linked from TECHTablets that I could find) is here.

As good as it is, I also relied on TecKnight’s Teclast tutorials .

First, I did not flash the BIOS as it was already dual boot.

Second, I reflashed Android using the method (Intell Manufacturing Tool) described in TecKnight’s xda forum tutorial .  I used his “how to” tutorial procedure to flash Mireck’s V7 Lollipop ROM.  Those are also linked here on TECHTablets.

The above was done from a Windows (Win7, actually) PC with the charged Teclast connected by a USB cable.  I got an error the first time, but the second flash went fine.

Third, I reinstalled Win10 in the largest (unallocated) partition, using a powered OTG USB hub, greater than 3 Gb flash drive, and USB keyboard and mouse (wireless worked) as described in Chris’ YouTube tutorial.

I used the Windows 10 Media Creation Tool to make a single language (English in my case) Windows 10 Home 32-bit installation on a flash drive.  I had extracted the Chinese single language version key using the free version of the Magical Jelly Bean key finder tool, but it wouldn’t work.

Apparently it is forbidden to link to TecKnight’s “Reference: Teclast X98 Air 3G 64GB dual-boot default partition map” on xda forums as the link here goes nowhere and when I posted it before it disappeared?

When I was installing Win10, the display was tiny – I had to use a magnifier to read it (I tried using a mini-HDMI cable but it didn’t work).

One thing – I had to change all the sleep settings in Win10 immediately.  Somehow the default was 2 minutes!

Another thing – I bought a Win10 key online from the Netherlands for about 50 euros (even downloaded Win10 from the .NL Microsoft site they linked to).  It didn’t work and the people never responded.  Be careful.

[Anonymous]

Mike Murley wrote:

Agustin I have done this once. So I am not an expert. 

Hi,

so at the end of the day, if a user want to fresh install Android and Windows you have to:

1. Flash Android with repartitioning in order to get unused space
2. Install Win 10 32 Home in the unused space created by the repartitioning of Android

Right?

[anorganick]

Hello, I am turning to you for help prozbou.
We did it before a long time to erase the Android tablet.
I uploaded android windows without problems, but still unable to load Windows. At the same time adhering to the manufacturer’s instructions. This error causes the photo to see.Help?

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