Android x86 iso image for Dell Inspiron Duo

[Sarcasticphoenix]

Hello, I have been looking at Android x86 and I have found it
interesting.
I have tried it on a virtual machine, and I am planning to install
Android x86 to my computer.
However, my laptop is a Dell Inspoiron Duo. There is a iso image for
Android 2.2, but there is not a iso image for newer versions of
Android.
Could the developers develop a version of Android 3.2 or 4.0 for Dell
Inspiron Duo as well?
Or is there another iso image that works for the Inspiron Duo as well?

[leepaul]

Try the ICS TegaV2 RC1 image. That has pretty much everything working on the Duo.

[Ron M]

Search for some Dell laptop thread here below, I posted something like a month ago and understood it works well on a fair amount of Dell's.

If you can send the output of lspci -k we may be able to further help you on this one.

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[Sarcasticphoenix]

Is the Android x86 compatible with different operating systems?
My Inspiron is currently dual booting Windows 7 and 8 Consumer
Preview, will Android conflict with any of these?

[Ron M]

It is,
But you'd have to read about GRUB and dual booting with it.
Anyway, to test your live CD, you don't need to worry about compatibility.
Experiment with a live CD first - see if you like what you get - and
then consider dual/triple/.../booting.

-R

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Just install it, it will be fine...
But backup your data, if anything goes wrong...

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[gws]

Hi,

 

My Duo is running the same setup. As long as you install Android as the last OS (after your windows installations) it works like a charm.

 

Win7 & Win8 work fine to but the preferred route is:

 

Win7

Win8  (Now with dual boot Win7/8)

Android 4.0  (android-x86-4.0-RC1-tegav2.iso or later)

 

Good luck.

[Ryota Goto]

Ok, thank you for the help!

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[leepaul]

If you're worried about losing your data install it to a memory stick nd boot from that every time. That's what I do.

[Ryota Goto]

Hi, I have run into another problem.

I have tried to boot from dvd via my bios settings, but windows won't let me boot from it.

Instead, it goes straight to "choose your OS" screen with only windows 7 and 8 as a choice.

What do I do to actually boot from the dvd?

[Ooop Yooo]

You burned a DVD just for a some MB iso ? lol

Anyway, this has nothing to do with Windows, BUT the way you burned the iso file....

You have to burn it as an image, not as a file data.

You'd better buy a small USB stick than wasting money with DVDs. ^^

A 1 or 2 GB USB stick is more than what you need.

2012/4/9 Ryota Goto <blueja...@gmail.com>

[Ryota Goto]

Well, I will try the flash drive.

It seems that with the DVD even if I choose to boot from DVD/USB in BIOS it boots straight into the Windows 8 OS selection menu.

[Andrew Diaz]

Sparta was the one that worked on my Dell

[Ooop Yooo]

2012/4/13 Ryota Goto <blueja...@gmail.com>

Well, I will try the flash drive.

It seems that with the DVD even if I choose to boot from DVD/USB in BIOS it boots straight into the Windows 8 OS selection menu.

Possible you missed the prefered boot device in Advanced Bios section (different section)... ^^ ;-)

[Ryota Goto]

Well, sorry about that, I read other threads, I formatted the disk fat32, and it worked.

However, now it says:

Remove disks or other media.

Press any key to restart

Now I am simply confused. I tried letting Windows 8 boot from uncertified drivers, or whatever that is, but no progress.

What do I need to do to let my computer boot from my USB?

On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 5:45 PM, Ryota Goto <blueja...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thank you for the advice.

I did see the preferred boot, but I could not switch the order because I thought Enter was used to select it.

I changed the order with f5 and f6, so USB will boot first.

However, now I have another problem.

When I try to boot from the USB I made (I made a USB, following the other's tips), it says:

BOOTMGR is missing

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

What?

Will someone please solve this problem for me?

[Ryota Goto]

Thank you for the advice.

I did see the preferred boot, but I could not switch the order because I thought Enter was used to select it.

I changed the order with f5 and f6, so USB will boot first.

However, now I have another problem.

When I try to boot from the USB I made (I made a USB, following the other's tips), it says:

BOOTMGR is missing

Press Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart

What?

Will someone please solve this problem for me?

[gws]

Looks like your USB is not bootable

 

I created mine with 4.0 RC1 image and put i on a 2 GB stick formattes Fat32 with unetbootin-win-549.exe

Did you install GRUB as boatloder at the end of the install procedure. Without that it will not boot correctly.

Can you repair the Windows boot sequence and reinstall Android? If yes that is the way to go.

 

Good luck with that,

 

GWS

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[shurl]

I installed this on my duo, everything is great except...I do I shut
down. I have just been holding in the power button, is that okay?

On Apr 8, 7:37 am, leepaul <naughtyboy...@gmail.com> wrote:

[Ryota Goto]

I now know that I forgot to set grub as the bootloader.

I will report back once I set bootloader to grub using unetbootin, not iso2usb.

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[Ryota Goto]

Actually,

I might not be able to try it soon...

Now what???

http://goo.gl/kOAy5

Also, I might need a quick tutorial about that GRUB thing.

I've read about it many times, but it's really hard to understand.

[Ryota Goto]

Finally, I got the USB to boot.

I think it comes with GRUB.

Anyways, I run live CD, and I realize:

1. My computer doesn't have external volume buttons

and

2. The keyboard doesn't actually work.

Maybe I can fix those later.

However, I have a really bad problem:

-Windows is currently "dead", hence whenever I try to boot it it shows that error, and I am 100% new to linux, so it might be a pain to redo the partitions.

I am using the original 320GB hard drive. There is a 84GB partition for Windows 7, 50GB for Windows 8, and roughly 150GB of unpartitioned space lying around. What I was planning to do was to expand the Windows 8 section, and to leave around 50GB for the Android partition, but the partitions seem crapped, and I am scared to fix my computer using Windows 8 install disk, because that might destroy my Windows 7 partition (Not that I want to use it, but I feel like keeping it just in case.). So before I risk everything on my computer, is there a way to

1. Fix the partition sizes

and to

2. Fix the boot problem with grub?

Thank you for your help.

[Ryota Goto]

Well, in the process of fixing partitions, I managed to destroy the original bootloader, so I decided to redo everything.

I reinstalled windows 8 on a new partition.

I deleted windows 7 off my computer and made a new partition for android x86.

I installed android x86 to the empty partition and set GRUB as my bootloader.

Now, I am pretty much done fixing my computer except...

1. When I boot into android, the com.android.phone crashes right away and it won't let me do anything.

2. When I try to go to windows 8 to fix the problem, it says bootmgr is missing.

What is the solution here?

[Ryota Goto]

I have managed to install Android x86 on my inspiron, as said on another thread.

Everything seems to be working fine, except:

>Wallpaper isn't working greatly. When I use a normal wallpaper (not live) and scroll with it on default launcher, the wallpaper disappears and I am left with a not-so-pretty black screen.

>The physical keyboard doesn't function when typing on anything within the Android OS. I need to use the on-screen one. However, the keyboard works when I am using the command-line with alt+right arrow.

>The auto rotate doesn't work. I didn't really expect it to work, but it is kind of annoying when launching apps and they are locked in orientation and I need to turn my heavy inspiron.

>Powering off and locking is not so great. This is the biggest issue I have. I can lock by pressing the power button, but it immediately turns on when I touch the screen, and even if I leave it alone, it seems to wake itself. Also, I cannot long-hold the power button to bring the power off menu up (it sleeps immediately), so every time I have to turn it off I need to go to the command line and send a reboot -p.

Everything else works great though, and I am happy with what I have. Could there be any ways to get rid of some of the problems I have?

[shumifan schumacher]

Some further feedback:

youtube works for some videos when in fullscreen mode.

On Wednesday, October 31, 2012 12:41:32 AM UTC, shumifan schumacher wrote:

Sorry forgot to mention:

Left/right arrows switches to landscape
up/down switches to portrait

[luis393luis393]

Hi, i put a patch version that canyou esasy modify physical keyboard in http://sourceforge.net/projects/androidx86rc2te/files/   . If you not can modify your physical keyboard with this vesion please sendme  a mail to luis393...@gmail.com and i try to solve it. Or if keyboard for your language not exist please say me it.

 

You tube run if you begin in landscape screen, when video run you can return to normal screen, and for HD videos you may deactivate it with click in blue leters "HD" 

[shumifan schumacher]

Thanks very much for your work and the translation is perfectly understandable.
I will try it some time over the weekend and see how I get on.
Thanks again to all that contribute to the x86 project.

[shumifan schumacher]

@luis393luis393:

Sorry: Tried the .iso, burned it to CD and tried to run off CD, but it only got partially through the boot and then reset and started boot again and booted to isoLinux partially and then hung.
Did I maybe misunderstand and is the iso not bootable?

Some good news:
I have synced with yesterday's version of tegav2, compiled and run the CD and the clock is now fixed (running off CD as I have not installed to hard disk yet), so it looks like the clock issue is fixed.

[shumifan schumacher]

Sadly:  I installed the image that had a working clock onto hard disk and the clock stopped working.

[shumifan schumacher]

I found source code for a driver for the ST Microelectronics freefall sensor, but I do not know how to integrate it into the build. Any help appreciaed on how to do this. It should make the screen rotation work.

[gerhard smith]

A complete image is available for the DUO. Elsewhere on this group is a topic with the link.

[gws]

Hello Gerhard,

 

I was not able to find the link to the image (searched for Dell DUO image etc.). Could you please post the name or the link to the image?

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Gert-Wim

[gws]

On Saturday, December 1, 2012 1:23:06 PM UTC+1, gws wrote:

Hello Gerhard,

 

I was not able to find the link to the image (searched for Dell DUO image etc.). Could you please post the name or the link to the image?

Or where you referring to https://rapidshare.com/files/3777967975/tegav2.iso the Tega V2 image from a week ago?

[gerhard smith]

that's the one. I am still trying to work out how to de-activate the physical keyboard automatically when you flip into tablet mode. note that the firefox I uploaded works quite nicely with this iso (its called fennec by mozilla for some reason and shows up as mightly in the apps menu as iit is the bleeding edge nightly build).

[gerhard smith]

[gerhard smith]

Link to this thread to get the links to the iso and other useful files for the Inspiron DUO.
https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/L70P7Zq8FII

[crispy flake]

Thank you All for your help !