Dual boot Windows Mobile and Android OS
Gen.Y DualBOOT v1.03[QVGA|VGA|WVGA] – Dual boot solution for Windows Mobile devices with XDANDROID.
Android on Windows Mobile devices is getting more and more popular, especially with the latest developments, and it’s almost ready for daily use. If you want to have an app so we could easily boot into both Windows Mobile & Android, and Gen.Y DualBOOT was the solution. This release is made for VGA devices, and supports booting Android both from Internal Storage (moviNAND, e.g. Touch Diamond) & Storage Card (SDMemory, e.g. Touch Pro). WVGA version and QVGA version is also ready. This app has been tested on WM6.1, but will work perfectly on WM6.5.x as well.
Keep in mind that your android setup must be installed already at the root of your storage card in order for this app to work correctly (e.g. Internal Storageharet.exe or Storage Cardharet.exe respectively).
This app is launched by a registry key created in [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINEinit], so it launches directly at boot after shell gets initialized.
Chefs: If u are going to cook this app into your ROM, make sure that this key gets added DURING your customization procedure (and not before!)
There are 2 checkboxes, enabling automatic boot:
AutoBoot: enabling this mode will automatically boot the OS of your choice after a 10 second countdown
> disabling autoboot will remove the countdown completely
FastBoot: enabling this mode will automatically boot the OS of your choice after a 3 second countdown (requires AutoBoot to be enabled first)
Now apart from these 2 checkboxes, u have 2 radiobuttons, which allow u to choose which OS gets automatically booted.
And last but not least, u have the 2 manual launch buttons. Pressing these buttons will directly launch (overriding autoboot) Windows Mobile or Android.
Registry
Gen.Y DualBOOT checks for 5 registry keys, which allow some form of customiation. Apart from the last key (StorageBootMode), all keys can be modified utilizing the radio & check buttons in the GUI. All of these keys can be found in:
[HKEY_CURRENT_USERSoftwareGen.YDualBOOT]
Here’s quick list describing what the keys are for
- “AutoBootEnabled”=dword:1 (1: enable autoboot | 0: disable autoboot)
- “FastBootEnabled”=dword:0 (1: enable fastboot | 0: disable fastboot)
- “AutoBootAndroid”=dword:1 (1: boot Android | 0: boot Windows)
- “StorageBootMode”=dword:0 (1: boot from Storage Card (SDMemory) | 0: boot from Internal Storage (moviNAND))
- “AndroidBootFolder”=dword:0 (1: boot from Android folder on storage (e.g. Storage CardAndroidharet.exe)| 0: boot from root of storage)
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February 15th, 2010 at 11:14 pm
does this work on the htc hd2/leo ?
February 15th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Yep, this one works with HTC HD2
February 18th, 2010 at 10:26 pm
where do you get the files for the HD2?
April 23rd, 2010 at 4:05 am
I tried opening with the HTC HD2 but says that Android is missing.
June 15th, 2010 at 9:16 am
I dnt understand. I had a hd2 but I didn’t like windows,so I took it bk. I love the phone. So my? Is step by step how can you get andriod on the hd2? I’m not a computer geek so ill need hlp. Thank
June 15th, 2010 at 11:16 am
Check out this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=651632
June 24th, 2010 at 5:47 pm
Thanks for this info! Now I can boot my phone with windows mobile AND android!!
June 24th, 2010 at 6:42 pm
thanks dude really helpful…i love android
June 24th, 2010 at 6:52 pm
i love this application ,this is the advantage of having an windows mobile ,we can enjoy both android as well as windows on the same phone