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cloudsfall2

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I want To install Windows or ubuntu but the methods I found require a unlocked. Bootloader or custom is that The Only way it's possible does anybody know Of other Methods sorry about grammar sent from motion on the way to school
 
It's not really the best thing to think about logically. (Personally I don't think windows even looks good on a netbook.) But from a realistic standpoint, this phone just achieved ROOT. The boot loader is locked, and there isn't a working recovery for it yet. Aside from that happening, you'd need to find someone developing the OS for you, or you would have to do it entirely by yourself... well I doubt others on here are even considering it. Windows is so far out of the question, and Ubuntu, while it is still Linux based, is built for desktops. There are a few tablets that were produced with Windows/Andoid Dual Boot, but even those were sketchy. (From what I've experienced, Windows isn't a very "tough screen friendly" OS) I'm not saying it's impossible, but only that it's very unlikely, and way to soon to be asking about that. But don't let me stop you.

If you are really adamant about this, you could begin reading "how to's" and pulling apart the OS to see how they work. You could maybe even start working on it. Who knows. Anyways, good luck and stuff.
 
if you root your phone you can setup a linux distro with one of the many installers on the market place. to view any sort of a gui like lxdm or gnome etc you have to ssh into it i think, i cant remember really.

but it'll retain complete functionality in the command line.

i dont know for sure what distro's are supported at the moment, it just to use be debian-stable/testing/unstable and a few ubuntu releases but i think they have arch supported now too.

the way it works is it set's up a loop in the sdcard/storage. it's pretty straight forward.. follow the installers directions, it's basically just click this click that, just search linux in the market place, they have a few different ones. the only one i used a year ago was just called linux installer, and i succesfully had debian testing and ubuntu working on it.

ubuntu might be coming out with a replacement o.s but at the moment all the linux distro's just run ontop of android, they dont replace it, and it never will untill they make their own phone/messaging utilities, that's why they DONT just replace it completly and they tell you if you were to do so, you wouldn't have a phone anymore.

if you go with ubuntu you should pick one that has a long term life support. remember it doesn't use the same repo's as a normal linux install would.
 
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