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Hello all Intel atom owners,
I am the owner of a device destine for the trash heap (e-waste sucks) but I'd like to save it from that fate. My device is a z2560 soc asus Trio TX201LA. Its tablet half is what has been deemed ewaste by asus & id like to save it from that fate. Windows 10 has also ended support for clovertrail now so that also SUCKS..
This thread is being started to talk about development on these devices that intel gave up on. Android is primary focus but I don't want to limit it to that cuz the soc can do more. I'd like to discuss the following:
1. How the device boots? In what order? What files are used? Variations per device? Similarities between asus & Dell and Samsung (3 largest intel atom inside device makers during 2011-2016)?
2. What tools are available to us to save our devices and in save I mean upgrade.5 tools Ive found that are so interesting are the following:
2A. Intel Manufacturing Flash Tool lite (For dual booting devices specifically?)
2B. Intel Platform Flash Tool Lite (For both atom & intels Edison devices): https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/flash-tool-lite-user-manual
2C. Intel xFSTK Downloader (rescue flasher, seems to be primarily for bay trail but also clovertrail)
2D. ASUS Flash Tool, not sure about this one, I bet its only for zenfone, have to check.
2E.. Flashall for Edison devices only, so useless for atom tablets: /docs/DOC-25154 https://communities.intel.com/docs/DOC-25154
4. I'd also like to look at droidboot ver 2.0 and 2.1, whats the difference? It seems droidboot is intel and is intel own way of getting android to boot. What is also interesting is that some devices running android 5 got an update that changed droidboot a lot. So much so that it has a uefi partition (dell venue 7, asus memo pad 7 & maybe others) & after that update boots android differently using what seems to be a more generic x86 android (like a pc image).
5. Intel DnX (download and execute) mode. This seems to be a product of Device updates beyond droidboot 2.1 and android 5.0. Id like to discuss if its possible to add DnX to devices that don't have it. It runs from an image off the main disk just like droidboot and even android. So the theory is it could be simply added to other images & devices?
6. Alternative OS options (Reference: https://communities.intel.com/thread/120652):
6A. Sailfish OS devices that are atom based such as the Geeksphone Revolution & Jolla Tablet have sailfishOS, but so do dual boot atom devices including CHUWI hiboot, Hi8, a bunch of Lenovo devices, to many to mention here.
6B. Ubuntu this is possible but only if clovertrail can gain either DNX, droidboot 2.1 or uefi (my theory) .
6C. Remix OS see: https://forum.xda-developers.com/remix/remix-os/release-remix-os-pc-32-bit-t3305916 Remix OS can be run on our devices but again only if we can gain droidboot 2.1, uefi & or DNX (again my theory)
6D. MultiROM for intel (unknown) see: https://www.xda-developers.com/install-use-multirom-xdatv/ There is also support for galaxy tab 3 10.1 a fellow z2560 soc device. So getting multirom support could be added for almost all z2560 devices via this support see: https://www.getdroidtips.com/dual-boot-galaxy-tab-3-10-1-dual-boot-patcher/
6E. Others including second stage bootloaders. Google that term and many come up.
Ok so that is about it. I did not include a lot of links here purposefully, almost every term I used here can be googled for the info I found. The x86 android devices are flexable and able to do more but have primarily not been developed for because intel sucked at advertising them, failed to get them into apple devices and killed them off early. So we are where we are but intel is also very open. There are so many tools to develop for this platform if you know and understand x86. I believe I could rebuild my entire tablet image using the Intel Manufacturing Flash Tool include the newer droidboot 2.1, dnx image, and a updated kernel and system image of android with my device specific drivers and be up and running to a point where I could then dual boot other OS's. I theorize that if you tried this and failed you could still use the Intel xFSTK Downloader to rescue the device completely. Yes I'm a noob & its why I want to learn more via this thread. Think this development is a waste of time, see: https://www.asus-zenfone.com/2015/07/asus-zenfone-2-running-windows-7.html
I'd love to see other intel owners join and discuss these ideas, grab your intel device dust it off and join me in experimenting.
Bumpy boompop shazam.. Hello Atoms not DEAD yEt.. https://www.pcworld.com/article/315...m-chip-in-panasonics-2189-android-tablet.html
Yep, I'm still working on trying to get unsigned stuff to work myself.
pcwizzy37 said:
Yep, I'm still working on trying to get unsigned stuff to work myself.
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Any progress? Its a shame such a great device is meant to die...
UPDATE. I found this topic.. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-contrib/t6AEhwaILUs
Interesting..
madhits45 said:
Any progress? Its a shame such a great device is meant to die...
UPDATE. I found this topic.. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-contrib/t6AEhwaILUs
Interesting..
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Nope, no progress, my backlight also got messed up pretty bad by a diode being defective and letting current pass both ways, so now I cannot change brightness, or else the screen turns off. But nope, still stuck.
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Nope, no progress, my backlight also got messed up pretty bad by a diode being defective and letting current pass both ways, so now I cannot change brightness, or else the screen turns off. But nope, still stuck.
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Bummer, What tablet do you have? I have a Asus TF201LA its also know as the transformer trio. The tablet half has android 4.2 and its basically useless, the screen of the tablet is shared with windows 10 dock which I am still using daily. The atom z2560 cpu in the tablet is still pretty fast with 2gb of ram, but no updates or i should say no unlock keeps it useless.
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Bummer, What tablet do you have? I have a Asus TF201LA its also know as the transformer trio. The tablet half has android 4.2 and its basically useless, the screen of the tablet is shared with windows 10 dock which I am still using daily. The atom z2560 cpu in the tablet is still pretty fast with 2gb of ram, but no updates or i should say no unlock keeps it useless.
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I have an Acer Iconia One 7 (B1-730HD), which has the Z2560 as well, but a pitiful 1GB of RAM.
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I have an Acer Iconia One 7 (B1-730HD), which has the Z2560 as well, but a pitiful 1GB of RAM.
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VERY exciting info to come. I am working with a zenfone hacker who hopefully will help me adapt his bootloader unlock to my device. Ill update when I get something and document everything for you.
Keep us updated. I have a Asus VivoTab ME400c.
Any updates? I have an HP Elitepad 900 G1 with a Z2760.
I have ASUS Memo Pad 7 (K017) with atom Z2520, which is no calling edition with FE170CG...
I have found some new information and ideas for this.
https://docs.armbian.com/User-Guide_Getting-Started/#how-to-prepare-a-sd-card
http://www.linuxium.com.au/how-tos
I am trying to understand how you boot from droidboot to a SD card or via USB. I'm willing to try some of these because they do not evolve flashing a recovery which does not match mine. I also found a CWM recovery for the memo pad 10 FHD but whats the point without a new rom. If I can boot linux I could boot x86 android.
I have an acer w3-810 with some (fairly buggy) uefi firmware.
Since this is a windows device I've been able to disable secureboot and play around with unsigned uefi programs. If for some reason your device doesn't disabling secureboot, you might be able to change the variable in your firmware file via uefitool (popular in the bios modding / hackintosh community) and then reflash it if there's no signature checking pre-flash.
On the linux side I've basically gotten no where. The graphics module / kernel params should be set up similar to cedar trail (from my basic research clover is just a lowend version of cedar). But unfortunately that doesn't get me anywhere. Disabling uefi via the kernel param noefi or disabling uefi runtime services gets the display to spazz black and white lines. Going to try to compile a custom kernel later though and see if I can get preboot early efiframe buffers working for earlyprintk.
Interestingly the tablet (through some trickery (force it to boot to a non-present device)) will let you switch the graphics mode of operation between pci and agp
Hey Gemini-owners,
I am looking to find a suitable device for WLAN engineers, and this PDA seems like the ideal candidate.
Before I recommend this device to my bosses, I need to make one thing sure though, and for that, I need your help.
When running GNU/Linux, can this device's WLAN nic be set to monitor mode?
Could someone please try this out for me? I don't have the device myself, but I'll be happy to help if needed.
Thanks in advance.
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Hey Gemini-owners,
I am looking to find a suitable device for WLAN engineers, and this PDA seems like the ideal candidate.
Before I recommend this device to my bosses, I need to make one thing sure though, and for that, I need your help.
When running GNU/Linux, can this device's WLAN nic be set to monitor mode?
Could someone please try this out for me? I don't have the device myself, but I'll be happy to help if needed.
Thanks in advance.
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I can try it out if you know the debian cmds to set it that way and change it back ? or you might try looking or asking in this forum https://www.oesf.org
bled82 said:
I can try it out if you know the debian cmds to set it that way and change it back ? or you might try looking or asking in this forum https://www.oesf.org
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Hey Bled82,
Great to get a response so soon!
I'll list the commands here below:
( These commands assume you have sudo rights on the device )
$sudo apt install aircrack-ng ==> I know, it sounds a bit shady, but that's the name of the software suite, nothing I can change about that. :-/
$sudo airmon-ng ==> use this command to see the list of devices airmon-ng can detect. Your wi-fi card should show up in the form of wlan0 or something similar.
$sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
And that's all to it, if all of the above give no errors, then it should be OK.
You should now have an interface called wlan0mon, meaning the change to monitor mode was succesful.
EDIT ** If you want to undo the above commands just type sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon ***
Can you try these out?
Thanks in advance!
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Hey Bled82,
Great to get a response so soon!
I'll list the commands here below:
( These commands assume you have sudo rights on the device )
$sudo apt install aircrack-ng ==> I know, it sounds a bit shady, but that's the name of the software suite, nothing I can change about that. :-/
$sudo airmon-ng ==> use this command to see the list of devices airmon-ng can detect. Your wi-fi card should show up in the form of wlan0 or something similar.
$sudo airmon-ng start wlan0
And that's all to it, if all of the above give no errors, then it should be OK.
You should now have an interface called wlan0mon, meaning the change to monitor mode was succesful.
EDIT ** If you want to undo the above commands just type sudo airmon-ng stop wlan0mon ***
Can you try these out?
Thanks in advance!
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Doesn't work out of box on the debian Technical preview 2 , Maybe on the sailfish release it has available currently ? The debian build is still not fully baked FYI .
[email protected]:~$ sudo airmon-ng
Found phy0 with no interfaces assigned, would you like to assign one to it? [y/n] y
ERROR adding monitor mode interface: command failed: Operation not supported (-95)
Found phy1 with no interfaces assigned, would you like to assign one to it? [y/n] n
PHY phy1 will remain lost.
PHY Interface Driver Chipset
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Only mac80211 devices on kernel 2.6.33 or higher are officially supported by airmon-ng.
[email protected]:~$ sudo airmon-ng
Found phy0 with no interfaces assigned, would you like to assign one to it? [y/n] n
PHY phy0 will remain lost.
Found phy1 with no interfaces assigned, would you like to assign one to it? [y/n] y
ERROR adding monitor mode interface: command failed: Operation not supported (-95)
PHY Interface Driver Chipset
ethtool failed...
Only mac80211 devices on kernel 2.6.33 or higher are officially supported by airmon-ng.
[email protected]:~$
Hi Bled82
That was to be expected, I suppose.
Could I ask for one more test with an external adapter, should you have one?
I believe the Gemini does support external USB-devices, no?
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Hi Bled82
That was to be expected, I suppose.
Could I ask for one more test with an external adapter, should you have one?
I believe the Gemini does support external USB-devices, no?
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Yes it does , I have connected multiple devices and usb hubs that work well in android , mixed results in Debian , which is not a big surprised they are still working to provide a fully baked distro on debian , sailfish 3 is in the works also and looks promising .
Hi guys, can anyone help to install Windows 10 for ARM32 for Nokia Lumia 2520 RT tablet?
Same procedure as other devices but you will have to substitute the drivers with ones from the 2520 aside from qcpep which has to be replaced with an alternative one which I think came from the Lumina WoA project staff (From Lumia 930?). However, if your 2520 has been kept up to date with the latest patches under RT 8.1 then you won't be able to jailbreak it in order to use 15035
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However, if your 2520 has been kept up to date with the latest patches under RT 8.1 then you won't be able to jailbreak it in order to use 15035
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Hi JWA4 could you expand on this? Also is it the case for the surface RT as well (latest up to date version can't be jailbreaked) or just the 2520?
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Hi JWA4 could you expand on this? Also is it the case for the surface RT as well (latest up to date version can't be jailbreaked) or just the 2520?
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The short version as I understand it is that Nvidia screwed up in users favor which makes the Tegra Surfaces immune to permanent effects of the jailbreak killing Windows RT updates. On these devices reversing the negative effects of theses updates is as simple as a factory reset.
Sadly with the Lumia 2520, Qualcomm did the job right and at present there is no going back if a jailbreak killer has ever been installed.
I will try to find the detailed explanation I read and post it here asap.
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The short version as I understand it is
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Thanks for taking the time to fill me in the 2520 Jwa4
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I will try to find the detailed explanation I read and post it here asap.
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That would be awesome if your able to locate the info in more detail
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That would be awesome if your able to locate the info in more detail
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I was unable to find the explanation that I read but if I find it again I will post.
I could be wrong and there might be more to it but I think the general idea was that Nvida did not implement the mechanism that handles the revocation of previously issued certificates correctly whereas Qualcomm did. On a previously updated Lumia 2520 this prevents the Secure Boot Debug Policy from working because its certificate is no longer going to be valid on the device.
Telegram: Contact @L2520w10RT
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I installed Win 10 RT on Lumia 2520.
with any security updates! No problem.
But, I need help with drivers.
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Telegram: Contact @L2520w10RT
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I installed Win 10 RT on Lumia 2520.
with any security updates! No problem.
But, I need help with drivers.
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How were you able to do this? I thought the Secure Boot issue stopped any other installations?
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How were you able to do this? I thought the Secure Boot issue stopped any other installations?
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Go to Discord. I discuss all the sub-genes there. The system is not ready for public use. Testsign, secureboot and everything you need is there. No problem using Linux via grub uefi. It is much more difficult to find developers who will do this. And Tales about the impossibility of disabling Secureboot is just a fact of bygone days. The device is now free of these restrictions.
No touch, no modem, no BT, no audio, adreno 330 not work.
But yesterday qcpep and qcpepproxy did not work as expected.
Today they are working as expected.
I will start other hardware devices too. It just takes time.
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Go to Discord. I discuss all the sub-genes there. The system is not ready for public use. Testsign, secureboot and everything you need is there. No problem using Linux via grub uefi. It is much more difficult to find developers who will do this. And Tales about the impossibility of disabling Secureboot is just a fact of bygone days. The device is now free of these restrictions.
No touch, no modem, no BT, no audio, adreno 330 not work.
But yesterday qcpep and qcpepproxy did not work as expected.
Today they are working as expected.
I will start other hardware devices too. It just takes time.
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Cool. So does everything work fine on Linux, just not in Windows 10? Having never used discord let me know where to find out. If I can dump any files to help let me know
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Ho installato Win 10 RT su Lumia 2520.
con eventuali aggiornamenti di sicurezza! Nessun problema.
Ma ho bisogno di aiuto con i conducenti.
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Salve...mi potreste aiutare ad aistallare windows 10 oppure linux mine su nokia lumia 2520?
Salve ragazzi ... vorrei un aiuto per istallare windows 10 o linux mine su nokia lumia 2520 ... se è possibbile..grazie..questo forum e fantastico ... max
Do you have a guide to follow for this? I went to your Telegram site but all I saw was pictures.
i need help to install windows 10 rt on Nokia 2520
I know this device is so outdated and all, yet it'd be nice to get some use out of it. Anyone have a proper guide on how to accomplish what @CageOff was saying in order to bypass the security update patches and getting securebooot unlocked. I've tried so many different methods and gotten nowhere in my attempts to get working BOOTABLE USB media for 8.1. No guide clearly explains/points out that the Myriachan's Jailbreak is the exploit specifically intended for the Qualcomm Nokia Lumia 2520 to get the test mode exploit going (if it works). Longhorn obviously doesn't work as it can't install Golden Keys. I went to the Telegram group @CageOff mentions, but there is no way to talk to the person nor any clear info about how he managed to dualboot win10 arm/win8.1 arm. If anyone could shed some light on me here, It'd be much appreciated.
hugoBOSS1981 said:
I know this device is so outdated and all, yet it'd be nice to get some use out of it. Anyone have a proper guide on how to accomplish what @CageOff was saying in order to bypass the security update patches and getting securebooot unlocked. I've tried so many different methods and gotten nowhere in my attempts to get working BOOTABLE USB media for 8.1. No guide clearly explains/points out that the Myriachan's Jailbreak is the exploit specifically intended for the Qualcomm Nokia Lumia 2520 to get the test mode exploit going (if it works). Longhorn obviously doesn't work as it can't install Golden Keys. I went to the Telegram group @CageOff mentions, but there is no way to talk to the person nor any clear info about how he managed to dualboot win10 arm/win8.1 arm. If anyone could shed some light on me here, It'd be much appreciated.
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Myriachan is not specifically intended for Qualcomm devices, its just that it can't be permanently patched against but this won't help you for 15035.
I don't have a 2520 but from what I can tell CageOff seems to have booted 15035 on a 2520 but the details are getting lost in translation and a writeup doesn't seem to be forthcoming. From what I can gather even though he has booted 15035 on his 2520, he has done so without the installation of the QCPEP driver and without this driver virtually nothing else will work.
On QCEP - BetaWiki.net
This build does not support the Nokia Lumia 2520 Qualcomm Power Engine Plugin driver. Loading a newer driver for the Snapdragon 800 is mandatory.
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The newer driver I believe is harvested from the LumiaWOA project, specifically taken from the Lumia 930 package. It could be worth looking at how WFAv7_Installer installs 15035 on a 930? It might shed some light on the driver ordering, as far as I've been told Qualcomm stuff has to be dealt with in a certain order.
Before you put too much time in to this though remember 15035 is about as much use a chocolate teapot so remember its just for fun. If you spend a week figuring it and actually get it all working in the hope of making an ex-RT device useful you are going to be a little disappointed at the end of it.
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Myriachan is not specifically intended for Qualcomm devices, its just that it can't be permanently patched against but this won't help you for 15035.
I don't have a 2520 but from what I can tell CageOff seems to have booted 15035 on a 2520 but the details are getting lost in translation and a writeup doesn't seem to be forthcoming. From what I can gather even though he has booted 15035 on his 2520, he has done so without the installation of the QCPEP driver and without this driver virtually nothing else will work.
On QCEP - BetaWiki.net
The newer driver I believe is harvested from the LumiaWOA project, specifically taken from the Lumia 930 package. It could be worth looking at how WFAv7_Installer installs 15035 on a 930? It might shed some light on the driver ordering, as far as I've been told Qualcomm stuff has to be dealt with in a certain order.
Before you put too much time in to this though remember 15035 is about as much use a chocolate teapot so remember its just for fun. If you spend a week figuring it and actually get it all working in the hope of making an ex-RT device useful you are going to be a little disappointed at the end of it.
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That's definitely worth looking into in regards to the "WFAv7_Installer". I just tried the WOA Deployer v2.7.1 and it seems it could be of great use in getting Win 10/11 arm onto this device. Of course, if one can figure out how to access/enter a Mass Storage mode first.
I also read in another forum article that the IOT versions of Windows seems to be more useful for this device, rather than trying to get the standard Pro/Home editions. They also mentioned that one may need to apply the drivers from the original Win 8.1 RT in order to get all of the devices hardware working though. I would personally like to give this a try, but I can't seem to get to the point of being able to install Win 10 build 15035 onto my device. I can't enable test-signing mode, nor disable bootloader with any of the jail breaks available. I get the error code 0x000000000000d (not sure i put the correct amount of zero's there), which seems to give no existing info on the net for that error code, only a few forum posts regarding the variant to that code which ends in "f" which seems to be related to the Surface 1/2 devices.
I know I can format the eMMC properly via command prompt, diskpart, and dism (for Win 8.1 RT), then disable BitLocker (even though C:\ still says Bitlocker Encrypted). Yet, I just can't get the Win 10 media to work which i assume is due to secure boot. Does it make any difference if I'm using the install.wim or install.esd versions of the media?
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That's definitely worth looking into in regards to the "WFAv7_Installer". I just tried the WOA Deployer v2.7.1 and it seems it could be of great use in getting Win 10/11 arm onto this device. Of course, if one can figure out how to access/enter a Mass Storage mode first.
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WOA Deployer is specifically for deploying WoA on the Lumia 950 & 950 XL, it doesn't support Windows 10 15035 or ARM32 devices like the Lumia 2520.
Windows 11 is out of the question, only small parts of it were built for ARM32 (nothing close to a full client) and the bits that were built won't work with this SoC. I don't believe WFAv7_Installer ever had the 2520 in mind, I only suggested it because how it prepares an image for some of the Lumia phones might shed some light on how an image would need to be prepared for the 2520.
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I also read in another forum article that the IOT versions of Windows seems to be more useful for this device, rather than trying to get the standard Pro/Home editions. They also mentioned that one may need to apply the drivers from the original Win 8.1 RT in order to get all of the devices hardware working though.
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That's going to come down to what you define as useful but personally I don't see any point in running IoT on a tablet. At the time of writing only the 15035 client build is available and that's now over five years old. Drivers taken from the RT 8.1 recovery image would be required along with the replacement PEP driver mentioned previously but its possible not all drivers will be compatible with IoT.
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I would personally like to give this a try, but I can't seem to get to the point of being able to install Win 10 build 15035 onto my device. I can't enable test-signing mode, nor disable bootloader with any of the jail breaks available. I get the error code 0x000000000000d (not sure i put the correct amount of zero's there), which seems to give no existing info on the net for that error code, only a few forum posts regarding the variant to that code which ends in "f" which seems to be related to the Surface 1/2 devices.
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To enable test mode you would need either Golden Keys or the Myriachan jailbreak, unless you are lucky then the device you have might not be capable of using Golden Keys anymore. If I'm remembering correctly the Myriachan jailbreak is only useful for running third party applications under RT 8.1 and wouldn't assist in running another OS.
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I know I can format the eMMC properly via command prompt, diskpart, and dism (for Win 8.1 RT), then disable BitLocker (even though C:\ still says Bitlocker Encrypted). Yet, I just can't get the Win 10 media to work which i assume is due to secure boot. Does it make any difference if I'm using the install.wim or install.esd versions of the media?
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Windows 10 15035 isn't available as an ESD, you would need to take the 15035 installation files and properly add the drivers to boot.wim, install.wim and winre.wim before copying them to USB and attempting the installation. CageOff seems to have installed 15035 without the use of Golden Keys but even when booted the installation of 15035 is useless because he has not added the PEP driver.
A clean 15035 if you don't have one (No drivers):
Windows 10 Enterprise Build 15035 ARMv7 : Microsoft : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Windows 10 Enterprise Build 15035 ARMv7
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Lumia 2520 Drivers (Extracted from RT 8.1 Recovery Media):
Lumia_2520_Drivers.zip - AnonFiles
anonfiles.com
Replacement qcpep / qcpepproxy from Lumia project for 15035:
Lumia_930_qcpep.zip - AnonFiles
anonfiles.com
I don't know much at all about the 2520 and pretty much anything I say about it could be wrong
Hey you lucky S22 users!
I can't get my hands on an Exynos S22 here in the US (all are QCom..), so I'm asking any of you who already set dev options and use adb for help: I've set up an Android Device Database (http://NewAndroidBook.com/ddb), and could use output of a few commands - all harmless. You don't have to be rooted, though if you are, there are two other commands (my bindump and toybox's lsof) which will also generate valuable output.
Thanks in advance to anyone who can help me here,
J
I have used project 64 for years but I have been out of the loop since 2012. I heard wonderful things about Mupen64PLus Emulator. Unfortunately mine will not start any ROMS. It says it requires Vulkan 1.1 Support. I am unsure if this is why it will not start. I am unsure if my computer is able to use Vulkan. dxdiag shows Direct X12 (Standard for Windows), but it does not show any information on Vulkan. I can't tell if my CPU supports Vulkan or doesn't. Regardless I did start the process of installing the SDK for it.
My Questions are based off the info from this video:
Fix Vulkan 1.dll Missing
1. Where can I look on my PC to make sure it supports Vulkan API?
Best dumbed down Video/Article recommendation for Questions 1 A-C?
1 A. Is Vulkan only AMD Specific or just derives from their software knowledge?
1 B. Can Intel users still put Vulkan on their laptops?
1 C. Is it the CPU (Processor) what needs to support Vulkan (If I understand how API's work)?
2. I need a safe backup site for the .json and runtime file.
The site lunarg no longer has working links for either. I get a 502 Error.
3. Does Mupen64Plus run at all without Vulkan? Can it be another issue?