OMG
OMG is RIGHT - how in the world did you pull this off in less than 24 hours!
By neglecting my children’s education this morning. They’re enjoying videos on how the eye works. I’ll drag them through their work pages eventually.
That looks beautiful. Would love to hear your impressions once you’ve had a chance to play around with it a bit.
I installed Office and pulled a onenote notebook. I also did the sensor thing, which required much experimentation as that part is much more loosely written. I can plug it into my dock and to use the keyboard and mouse. I’ll try BT next because it would appear that charging in windows is not currently supported. I’m still trying to figure out what exactly is on this image since the Windows App Store isn’t here.
No - it is awesome!
It’s mostly ridiculous though, since it’s not fully baked. It’s not something you could use in place of something like a surface go. It comes with the Lumia project dialer, so at some point I might try to use it as a phone just to see what happens. I think Shane Craig showed it running the Windows Store in his videos, but I can’t get it to work.
But it’s just ridiculous to look at a phone(ish) and see it running full blown windows 11.
It runs office fine, but the screens are so little. Even running Android I sometimes feel cramped and that’s with the ability to span. So being stuck on two completely separate screens means everything stays small.
The biggest usability issue right now though is pen calibration. It’s off, and running the calibrator from settings doesn’t work. It just flashes the left screen a few times and nothing happens.
Are the screens two different brightnesses in that photo?
Don’t have the OG Duo, but that iClever keyboard and Ultra Thin Mouse goes with me everywhere. The Samsunt Galaxy Tab 8 with S-pen is probably close in size.
They’re pretty angle sensitive, but in this case I wonder if it could be due to exposure, like flickering screens and the picture catching one at a dark point. Then again, do AMOLED screens even flicker?
Yes. It’s a known issue. There’s no brightness control for the left screen. It kind of does what it wants, including flickering on occasion.
I’m very impressed with your sucess in this, @violajack Do you think you’ll leave it this way and how hard is it to revert to factory config? I’m also wondering how much trouble it is to update as the implementation improves.
I’m definitely keeping it this way. It’s a dual boot, so I haven’t lost anything other than storage space, and since this is a secondary Duo dedicated to the dual boot, I have no need for the extra storage. If the port to the Duo 2 progresses to enough usability, I’ll probably put it on that too.
I have no idea about reverting to factory, but I would imagine you would just redo the original partitioning and send a factory recovery image over. I’m kind of curious how Android was preserved in the partitioning process anyway, since it wiped the whole userdata partition and created new ones in front of it.
I’ve joined the telegram channels to keep up with development and I plan to install new releases if major usability updates come. Now that I know how to do the Windows install, and the partitions are already in place, it should be fairly easy to keep it updated.
It doesn’t charge in Windows, so I have to let it reboot to Android whenever I’m done playing with it anyway, so it’s a very specific thing to sit down at the computer and decide to boot it to windows. It’s still primarily an Android experience with a little bonus "fun"ctionality.
Don’t know whether you are more test pilot or mad scientist - probably both - but a great job. If the latest updates (according to Shane Craig - boot without PC and charging) make it to beta, I may just have to give this a try.
Quick question - do you have to do a 50/50 partition, or could you allocate 75% to the Windows side?
You can customize the partitions, but I chose to go with the prescribed 50/50 split since those numbers were given in the guide. I didn’t want to try to make up my own numbers.
My experimental toy is a 256gb Duo Uno so I was thinking 64gb for Android and the rest for the always hungry Windows. Who knows, maybe by the time I get around to this Gus will have a red pill to extract and save the Android blob and let you go 100% down the rabbit hole
I just tested writing in one note to see how bad the pen calibration is. It’s like the old Wacom - way off at the edges. Writing is just as smooth, just drifts to the middle when you’re at either edge. I’m going to look into calibration next because carrying full fat OneNote in this form factor would be pretty awesome. If only it would span screens like it does in Android.
It all makes me want a real Neo so much more.
Out of curiosity, do security updates etc get installed as normal, or does every change to the OS require a full new device image?
AMEN!