How to Install Android OS on your PC / Netbook / Laptop?
This tutorial will show you how to install Android 2.0 Eclair on your Asus EEE PC. It also works with most other netbooks.
Download the Android X86 port from http://www.android-x86.org/
How to Install Android OS on your EEE PC?
After downloading the bootable android-x86 ISO, burn it to your USB drive using Win32DiskImager – or UNetBootIn
Insert the USB drive in your netbook, set it to boot from USB drive from the BIOS options and then restart your netbook.
The installation process should start soon. You can use it as a Live USB to run Android without installing it or install Android to your harddisk.
If you choose to install it, select a partition to install it to and then format it using the EXT3 format. Choose to install the GRUB boot loader.
After the installation is complete, you can reboot your EEE PC to run the installed Android OS.
The OS is very responsive and works perfectly well, atleast with the EEE PC. Everything just works out of the box – Wi-Fi, Ethernet, Display, Mouse, Keyboard etc.
It can be used as a backup OS or just to show off a bit. It also has a makeshift version of the Android Market with a few apps compatible with the X86 platform.
February 20th, 2010 at 12:09 pm
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July 31st, 2010 at 9:05 am
Is this specially optimized for the EEE PC? I tried it in Virtual Box and it installed fine, but there were two problems. The App store doesn’t show any apps and the system gets extremely slow when I request a shutdown.
July 31st, 2010 at 4:58 pm
Works fine in my case. Yea, the App store is not the official one, but their own version, which sucks.
August 3rd, 2010 at 7:34 pm
i can’t connect thru wifi. my laptop is gigabyte m912. is a driver required?
September 28th, 2010 at 11:15 pm
thank for the information…but how to make it dual boot between windows 7 and android???
October 7th, 2010 at 10:39 am
Dual boots can easely be made with easybcd.
October 7th, 2010 at 2:03 pm
can you make a tutorial about how to connect to the intenet using netbook with android os? if possible, explain about make internet connection via wi-fi and portable USB modem. thx
October 18th, 2010 at 10:18 am
wtf is this about can it be installed on any other computers such as the compaq cq60
October 19th, 2010 at 11:13 am
wth is the ;we
October 27th, 2010 at 3:08 am
Worked fine off a CD on my Toshiba Satellite A130. Didn’t work on my Duocore Gateway. Next step is to INSTALL it. Works extremely fast.
There are tweaks out there to download the “official” google app store. Tonight I’ll try using astro file manager to get my apps off my phone and put them onto the Android PC…
November 8th, 2010 at 2:58 pm
I have tried to run from memory card .. but it’s running so slow …do u know why ?
my netboook is eeepc 1000HE
thx
November 8th, 2010 at 11:08 pm
how do you get oficial app store
November 14th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
How can i get the status of my connection like ipconfig in cmd for windows? Can I upload a file, how?
December 11th, 2010 at 9:38 pm
I am trying it to install from SD on my Eeepc 1000HA
Downloaded the ISO, and followed the instructions as states above but after choosing install the screen turns completely black and it takes ages .. I dont see any progress.
Can someone help me with this?
December 18th, 2010 at 3:49 am
So apparently the install with Grub will NOT work on Win7. Wonderful microsoft changed the way the bootfiles work.
Boo.
December 18th, 2010 at 2:09 pm
How to burn the usb using the Win32DiskImager – or UNetBootIn? When I run the program it only can choose one file but the downloaded files contain more than one file and folder.
December 28th, 2010 at 10:22 pm
nice post, thanks
January 7th, 2011 at 7:04 pm
Is it possible to install android OS as a fully function-able second OS on my laptop? I’m using a HP Pavilion dv6 series laptop with a 64x processor and win7 Ultimate 64x.
Or is it just to check out android as an OS but, not to really start using it as my operating system?
thx
January 23rd, 2011 at 12:51 pm
Its toooo slow in pc
January 27th, 2011 at 2:08 pm
Bagaimana cara menghapus OS Android Yang telah ter install di netbook ? dan kembali pada OS sebelumnya yaitu WinXP SP2 …?
mohon informasinya ?
January 27th, 2011 at 2:10 pm
How do I delete a Android OS Yang has been installed on a netbook? and return to the previous OS is WinXP SP2 …?
please information?
February 15th, 2011 at 1:02 pm
I have this working on my Asus eee 1005hab dual booting windows 7 and android
I was just wondering if anyone knows how to change the default operating system within Grub? it currently defaults to android, i wonder if it is possible to either change the default or turn off the default loading?
April 3rd, 2011 at 3:25 am
Guys with EeePcs700-900, i tried Android and it works very well on my old Eee900, all worked fine but mobilebroadband 3G-USB stick failed. It was going beside Joli OS 1.2 (*buntu 10.10 clon), that is truly amazing too, a bit heavier but I have never seen some better Linux-based distro. Give it a try too!
April 19th, 2011 at 9:32 am
This works well on my windows tablet.
But the touch options does not work.
April 25th, 2011 at 7:43 pm
Não vi nenhuma vantagem, mas valeu a experiencia.
Att.
Marcos
Brazil / São Paulo/SP
May 18th, 2011 at 5:26 am
How close applications when running on virtual machine?
I can open an app, but there is no button to close it.
Any suggestions?
May 18th, 2011 at 5:28 am
Got it!!
Just press scape key
June 21st, 2011 at 9:34 am
I’ve tested the Iso file on an PC with an AMD Athlon 2000+ CPU and 1GB of RAM and it works fine, there were no issues in case of the message, that the running System isn’t an Acer EEEPC good work!
July 7th, 2011 at 9:17 pm
Thanks for this helpful post!
Although Android is running on the EeePC, it is not listed with “adb devices”.
Settings -> Applications -> Development -> USB Debugging is turned on.
The EEE PC is connected to a computer running Ubuntu Linux 10.04 by a Belkin Easy Transfer cable.
The /etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules file contains:
SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ATTR{product}==”Belkin USB Easy Transfer Cable”, ENV{GLEN}=”%s{product}”, SYMLINK+=”belkin%n”, MODE=”0666″
SUBSYSTEM==”usb”, ATTR{product}==”LG Android USB Device”, ENV{GLEN}=”%s{product}”, SYMLINK+=”lgandroid%n”, MODE=”0666″
The SYMLINK and ENV{GLEN} are useful for debugging and assurance that the rule was executed. The only purpose of this rule appears to be to make the USB device is read writeable to everybody. Both /dev/belkin5 and /dev/lgandroid5 appear when the EEE PC and an Android phone are plugged in.
Only the LG Phone is shown by “adb devices”.
July 8th, 2011 at 9:57 am
Even after turning on “USB debugging”, “Unknown sources” and “Stay awake” the Android EEE PC is not listed by “adb devices”.
Android on the EEE PCI can get to the internet and App Store. Is there any diagnostic tool that might be helpful? None of the Apps I downloaded could be installed.
Does Android need to be installed on a partition in the EEE PC for the App Store or “adb devices” to work properly? Android is running directly from the Flash drive now.
July 8th, 2011 at 11:41 pm
@glen (#30,#31)
1) you can try adb over ethernet (google for instructions)
2) run Dev Tools APK and it has built in terminal where you can get logcat (painful)
i am yet to see a USB based adb solution for android_x86
July 9th, 2011 at 4:56 am
Thank you for your good advice. Ethernet worked much easier than USB.
adb connect :5555
then do
adb devices
to see that its connected…..
July 9th, 2011 at 4:57 am
Should have your Android IP address…
adb connect EEEPC ip address here:5555
then do
adb devices
to see that its connected…..
July 14th, 2011 at 9:47 am
T series Lifebook: bios not showing USB drive f… did all of above, but what / where is the autorun file ?
August 18th, 2011 at 11:25 pm
Hi Pathik,
I’m running Adroid on my pc and would like to know if I can read cds? or if there is an app to do that.
September 9th, 2011 at 2:13 am
when i install android on virtual pc of my toshiba a105 laptop wid 2.5 gb of ram and 150 gb of harddisk it does installing till 12% nd after dat the screen goes black what shall i do guide me the steps to install android on microsoft virtual pc
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November 14th, 2011 at 11:54 am
My netbook has this same problem, and this issue is not resolved.
I appreciate your post and answer to this problem.
November 26th, 2011 at 12:52 pm
so how is the progress on this? I’d run android on my laptop if I knew cd drive would work along with wifi, sound etc…I want a full install bye bye windows. I can’t care!
November 26th, 2011 at 12:54 pm
Down with Windows! Lol!
November 29th, 2011 at 2:42 am
Does anyone know what the ‘home’ key is for the EeePC Android installation???
I figured that the ‘esc’ key is the back button, but have not found the home button yet
BTW, on my ASUS EeePC 900A system, the OS is running fine, but it’s a bit slow, even slower than my Fedora Core9 previous install
thanks for any info you could provide!
February 6th, 2012 at 4:11 am
i like the blog and you info. i like to fix my iphone myself and have done a lot of repairs myself. Most funny thing was when i bought my iphone 4s brandnew …the first thing at home was open it and look inside:).