Not that long ago after screwing up my android while fooling around with ZTE merit codes on my ZTE Z990g that was rooted with the ZTE avail, I screwed up my touchscreen calibration firmware and cannot figure out how to reinstall it, oops. After figuring out how to get my rooted devices to work with android screencast on my computer so that it could be accessed, I than proceeded to try different techniques to unroot my android to see if there was any way to get into FTM mode. Just for kicks, my SD card reader decided to take a dive, great, now I have an android, that is unrooted and can't do a thing until my new phone and new touchscreen comes in. Anyways, while doing many searches on how to fix my issue while waiting, I discovered the world of installing the Android Operating system on the computer. My oh my, this is so cool, had to try it out. Tried it in Virtual Machine, way to slow, sheesh, if one wanted to go back in time and get that nostalgic feeling of installing windows 98 on a 486, why not do just that. Okay so there had to be a way, and let me just say, it was easier than I thought. There are a few ways I discovered, that one would not find in a search but had to know what they where searching for, search for all those little pieces and put them together, so I did just that, got Android KitKat running on my Desktop computer. Now let me make it easier for you, in one Blog Post, just how to the same thing I did, without doing all those searches one how to do one thing only to have to put them all together. There are a few ways this can be done, my preferable way is using a Linux operating system, since Android is a linux operating system, this technique is a little easier than if you are running Windows. If using windows, it is probably a better idea to just use the steps to create an ext4 format on a USB stick, setup your bios settings to boot to USB stick as first or second boot option. As for using Gparted to partition off your Windows drive, not really sure, again, if in doubt use a USB stick. Burn your Ubuntu ISO to a CD, DVD or USB per instructions on the Ubuntu download link above. When Ubuntu shell loads, click on the menu and open up your terminal: sudo gparted Gparted will now open, this is where you can partition your harddisk to suit your needs. Lets say you have a 1. For a fresh new install, you will need to right click on any partitions that are used and delete them, right click and delete until all the partitions are combined into one large unallocated space. Right click and delete unwanted partitions, you want to work with unallocated space. If resizing, right click the partition you want to resize, create an extended partition then create a new ext4 partition. This method is useful if dual-booting with windows. If your going to install windows just select OK no need to enter any values. Right click one last time and make your file system Linux Swap. This is how your final result should look Part Two: Setting up Android X86 4. In the newly created folder Android create another folder called data. If you did create a partition to use an emulated SDCARD, then below in the following command, sudo fdisk -l identify that partition and replace X with the number, mine is sda3. Lets say you partition off 20gb of your hard disk just for Android-x86. Then in ubuntu you open up that partition in your file manager. Just create a folder called android-x86 and inside that folder make another folder named data, leave it empty. Outside that folder put the four files, system. In the post also update a picture how it should look. My BIOS is corrupted, I can't save any settings, so I can't boot from USB or CD, and everytime I need to login to my Ubuntu-MATE 14. Simply type the menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change the 'exec tail' line above. What did I did wrong, can you please help me? Was having problems with the dual boot myself.. Had installed Android to a USB stick. When I restarted the PC with the USB inserted, Android booted from my partition. Another words, if Android is installed on a partition of 80gb and a without grub, and a USB stick with grub, android will boot from the USB stick and load off the partition. Syntax error at line 440 Syntax errors are detected in generated GRUB config file.
