Thanks James and Yusuf for the info. Would it be easy to scrub win mob 6.5 and install android? (instead of trying to run both)
On Oct 16, 11:13 pm, James Ausmus <james.ausmus.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 8:32 AM, P B <belgrad...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > > I'm buying a phone (the acer neotouch (a.k.a the F1 or s200)) which > > has windows mobile 6.5 preinstalled. Is it possible to install the > > Android O/S onto the same phone and be able to choose which O/S to use > > whenever - similar to partitioning the hard drive on a pc with Windows > > and Ubuntu for example? > > All you would really need is either > > 1. A boot loader that runs on your phone that allows you to choose > which OS to boot into, or > 2. A "main" OS that allows you to directly boot into another OS, such > as Linux (with kexec enabled). > > However, for #1, you have 2 problems: > A. There most likely isn't an "out-of-the-box" boot loader that will > run on your phones HW that you can dual boot, and > B. In order to modify/replace the boot loader, you have to modify an > area of the flash that, on a lot of phones, is protected > > #2 might be easiest, if you can get write access to the flash device > on your phone, and the bootloader on your phone knows how to boot > Linux, and there are sufficient Linux drivers to operate your phone... > ;) > > -James --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Beginners" group. To post to this group, send email to android-beginners@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to android-beginners+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-beginners?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
