Step-by-step android on PC. How to install Android is a step-by-step instruction. Installing in a virtual machine

F.A.Q. In this article, we will try to set out step-by-step instructions with screenshots on the installation of the Android operating system on personal Computer, laptop or netbook. The discharge of the proposed operating system Android 4.4.2 - x86. In addition, it will be possible to deal with such issues:

How to create or record the Live CD & Install installation flash drive with Android 4.4?
How to download Android on a computer from under the flash drive (without installing OS)?

Language of the interface of this assembly (Android 4.4.2 x86 4.4.2 RC1 + RC2) - Russian.

No "tablets" is not required, just put and rejoice. Download torrent file android - x86 4.4.2 rc1 + rc2 + r1 + r2 (new) (LIVE & INSTALL) from here.

Runing your torrent client, you download two images:

First - Android-x86-4.4-Rc1 - This assembly is based on android database 4.4. Second - Android-x86-4.4-Rc2 - This assembly is more new Android 4.4.2

Both assemblies are recognized as stable and workers. The choice remains only for you.

To create a multi-load flash drive (MultiBoot USB) with an advanced Android OS We will still need a simple program - Ultra ISO or its analogues. In this instruction we will work with it. You can download the mentioned program for free on this link.

Image files are downloaded, Ultra ISO program too. Now directly create a bootable USB flash drive with Android x86 4.4.2 for the further installation of android on the PC. To do this, you need to start the "ultraisoportable" file, which was proposed on the link above. We put the flash drive to our PC, sufficient memory - 1 GB.

After starting the program, select the file "File" command - "Open" and in the window that appears, select the image file you need: Android-x86-4.4-Rc1 or Android-x86-4.4-Rc2. I, for example, choose the second. Click twice and see the following:

Further, in the Disk Drive field, you need to find your flash drive and put a tick opposite the "check". Then we choose to "write down" and in the window that appears by clicking on "yes." The process of recording the installation flash drive with Android 4.4.2 will go.

All data from the memory card will be erased !!!

When the green strip comes to the end of the stitch and in the "Message" field you will see "Recording Completed", then you can easily close the program. Flash drive is ready!

Now comes to shift a logical question: How to install or run Android OS on a PC, netbook or laptop?

Very simple. Without removing the same flash drive from a computer, reboot the Windows operating system and boot from our memory card. On the different devices This is done a little differently, but there is nothing difficult about it.

So, the flash drive booted and showed us such a window:

As can be seen from the image, the first three options from the list provide for the launch of the Android operating system on a personal computer without installing the OS itself. In these cases, you can enjoy the android functionality on the PC, install games and applications.

But all the changes will lose their power after rebooting PC

If you choose the fourth option - "Installation - Install Android-x86 to Harddisk", then you will start automatic installation Android operating system on a personal computer, more precisely on his internal memory — hDD.

That's all the simple procedure. With the new launch of the computer, the BIOS will offer you two of the installed operating systems: Windows or Android.

So the desktop of home computer with Android looks like:

By analogy, you can install android and on external disk (Winchester).

So, you wish to use mobile applications on your desktop or laptop. But the snag: it is impossible to just take and run the file.apk from under Windows. There is no other option, except to install android on a computer.

Good news: it is possible. Yet best news: You can even choose whether to install on the PC only Android or run it from under another system (below we look at both options, with their advantages and minuses) completely wonderful news: everything you need is free of charge (it is not necessary to Refers - they can be commercial).

Android emulators for PC

If your real purpose is to run on a desktop or laptop mobile applications Or games, then what to do android main system. You can simply install an emulator that runs as a Windows program and works as an environment for executing applications.

This method of work has a whole set of advantages:

You can emulate various devices that you do not have in reality (more precisely, their parameters are power, screen resolution, etc.)
You can choose different versions of Android
It is easier to establish Windows and Android interaction (for example, to create screenshots or video broadcast)

BlueStacks.

Probably the most famous emulator for today (although not the only one). It is he who recommends all novice enthusiasts who want to fully work on a computer, say, with Instagram or Musical.ly.

Among his advantages is a simple installation and use, support for many languages, various version of Android. Let you not scare that the site in English: when installing the program recognizes your system and, if this is Russian, will go to it.

Bluestacks page

2. Run the downloaded file

Run the downloaded file

3. Click "Set Now"

4. Wait for the end of the unpacking files

Final stage of installation

5. Click "Complete". If you need immediately after installation, run the program - leave the appropriate tick in the square.

When you first start the virtualization engine will be launched relatively long - a few minutes. In the future, the shell will be launched at times faster.

Then the program will behave as a smartphone or a tablet that you run for the first time, and will ask for permits for the definition of geolocation, and also suggest you in account Google.

Now you have a full-fledged working version of Android

To install applications, you can use multiple techniques:

Standard installation via Play Market
Dragging the file.apk in the running window of BlueStacks
Copy file.apk to folder general access In Windows and run it through Android Explorer

If the application is designed for vertical orientation of the device, the emulator will automatically select the desired virtual screen dimensions

With the help of the Knife Hit game, in which a very fast response is required, we also checked the system response rate to user actions. And found that on the test PC (Intel i5-6600k, 16 GB of RAM, MSI Radeon RX 580 8GB) smartphone Samsung. Galaxy S8 + is emulated almost perfect.

Applications (despite the double laying in the form of Windows Bluestacks) reacted without delays.

Memu.

The principle of MEMU is the same as other emulators. You install it just like windows program. We recommend downloading the distribution with the official website of the project.

The file takes a little less than 300 MB and contains the most actual version Emulator

1. Download the file from the site on the download button (in the upper right corner)

Run the downloaded file

2. Run the downloaded file. If Windows ask whether to allow the program to make changes to the system, answer "Yes."

3. If you want to change the installation folder or manually select a language, click the "Selective" button in the Installation window.

Installation process

4. Selecting the parameters, click on "Installation"

5. When the installation is over, click "Run".

Memu initializes faster than bluestacks. The desktop looks about the same - this is an imitation of Android in a tablet orientation. Similarly, you need to enter google AccountTo install applications from Play Market.

Pay attention to the menu to the right of the virtual desktop. You can configure both the parameters of the emulated device, and work with the physical keyboard, and full screen mode, and much more.

Section Settings

Memu is an emulator designed primarily for games. This can be seen by a special section for manipulators that can be very fine.

Section manipulators

Among similar products can be allocated Nox Player., Windroy, Genymotion and others.
In the work, they comply with standard criteria: control is emulated using a mouse and physical keyboard, there is access to common foldersAndroid has access to real or virtual hardware etc.
The principle of their installation and work is the same as in the considered BlueStacks and Memu.

Android as the main OS

However, there are reasons why you may want android to be on your device the main system. For example, you use a virtual machine on Windows and intel Platform x86 and dissatisfied with its performance.

Indeed, the same components can be quite sufficient for full-fledged work Android and hardly pull the system from Microsoft.

Desk android

Of course, it is extremely desirable that the device is equipped with touch screen. However, as seen by the above-described emulators, you can be controlled with them. traditional way - keyboard and mouse. In some cases ( text editors, browsers) it is even more convenient.

Android-x86 Project

For 2018, the most interesting project "Android-x86", whose task is to develop Android versions, which can be the main OS for a computer.

Website Android-x86 Project

There are a number of assemblies based on both the canonical version of the OS and alternatives (for example, CyanogenMod)

Consider the Android setting on the loading removable medium on the example of the X86-7.1-R2.x86_64 assembly.

We need:

distribution that can be downloaded by reference. You need a file with extension.iso - disk image
application RUFUS required to create a load flash drive
free flash drive, a volume of at least 2 GB (preferably, of course, more). We did not find a free flash drive in the editorial staff less than 16 GB: 2018, however.

Make sure that there are no valuable data on the flash drive: in the installation process, it will be first formatted.

The installation procedure looks like this:

1. Download Android Distribution and rUFUS program - Better B. versions portableto avoid another installation procedure

Site rufus.

2. Start RUFUS. Allow the program to make changes to the hard disk when Windows will ask you.

3. Click on the "Select" button.

Utility for writing an ISO image android on a USB flash drive

4. Using the conductor, select the downloaded file android-x86-7.1-r2.x86_64.iso (or another version you downloaded)

Open downloaded IS0-image

5. Check that the parameters are as follows:

Section section - MBR
File System - FAT32
Cluster size and disc label - at your discretion (better leave defaults)

Setting recording settings

6. Click "Start" to start unpacking the image

Run entry

7. If the system tasks you a question about recording mode, select ISO.

Click OK

8. Wait for the end of the unpacking

After graduation on the flash drive, it turns out less than 1 GB. This is good: more space remains for applications and media data.

Now overload your computer and go to BIOS or UEFI using the DEL or F2 key to select the boot disk. You have to boot from a freshly-edged USB disk.
Or using the F12 button for quick access To the Boot menu (downloads from a specific HDD, SDD or USB media)
Select a USB media: This is a flash drive to which the disk image has just been unpacked. Load from it. The screen will appear on your screen:

Choose a flash drive to which we recorded ISO-image

If you have come across the Linux Live CD practice, you know that it is not necessary to install it in order to familiarize yourself with the operating system.

Since Android and Linux are largely similar as close relatives, then you can try to start the system without installation (the first menu item).

Select Live mode (option without installation)

After downloading the system, your desktop will look like this.

This is a full Android on which your computer now works.

We note several important nuances of the control:

To simulate a long press, it is not the right-hand click of the mouse, but a long press left.
Gestles must be done with the left mouse button, which matches the screen touch.
Use multitouch will not work only if you do not have a real touchscreen.
Windows key on the physical keyboard matches button Home. In Android.

It is important to note that no one guarantees the full assembly job specifically on your computer or laptop. Although the Android_x86 project is the best that today is in its class, it is still experimental in nature. Therefore, a wide variety of failures and bugs are possible.

Most often, the problems with the video are most often: the image on the screen can "swim" or toastor due to incomplete compatibility with the video card. Especially often it occurs at the system loading phase.

Remix OS.

The task of this project, in general, the same as the previous one. Remix OS is a system that adapts Android to the mouse control and keys for an ordinary laptop. Developers declare compatibility with Arm and X86 systems (including x64).

We load Remix OS

Since November 2016, work on Remix OS is no longer being conducted, but it is still available in third-party sources - For example, SourceForge. The volume of the distribution is approximately 1 GB.

As a rule, Remix OS was installed on the transformers of Chinese origin, in parallel with Windows. The user experience was quite comparable: the creators of the remix spent good work By adaptation. Note that it was not a community of enthusiasts, as in the previous case, but a completely commercial company JIDE.

One of the advantages of Remix OS is portability. Flashlight is enough for 8 GB to wear it with you and store there installed applications And personal files. The disadvantage can be considered that the project has stopped in development on Android 6.0 Marshmallow and will not be updated to more recent versions.

How to install Remix OS

The archive that is invited to download is not only the image of the system, but also instructions in English, as well as a tool for installation. First, unpack the archive.

Run Remix_os_For_PC_Installation_tool-B2016080802.exe

In the window that opens, click the Browse button and select a file with extension.iso, located in the same folder. In the "Type" string, select "USB device". In the "Media" section - a flash drive to which you want to install Remix OS.

Record Setup

To start installation, click "OK". Be sure to keep everything valuable, which was on Flashke: it will be formatted during the process.

At the end of the installation, the system will restart in the freshly installed Remix OS, but you must confirm manually reboot.

After rebooting (similar to the Android_x86 section) on your computer, the Android version adapted to the computer will boot.

Submarine stones are the same as everywhere: OS is compatible with all sorts of iron. There are modified versions with a modified loader, however, they are not panacea.

RESULTS

As you can see, Android can be made as the main operating system on your computer and secondary, using a virtual machine. In the first case, the chances of successful installation Less, however, the gain in performance is worth trying. All major programs and services available to Windows are also for Android.

There are several popular methods for installing Android OS on smartphones and tablet PCs, namely: with CWM Recovery, through TWRP Recovery., through the ROM Manager program and with. These ways can be installed not only official, but also custom firmware from third-party developers. After that you need.

Installation Android through CWM Recovery

CWM Recovery is a multifunction menu, one of whose features is to install new firmware. The menu works only with ZIP archives, so be sure to check the extension of the downloaded file.

Installation new firmware occurs in several stages:

Because CWM Recovery is custom, then it must be added to download and install on the device.
Include in the reservoir menu by the method described below.
In the very navigation, the navigation is carried out using the enhance / reduction buttons, and select the switching key. Installation new system It implies the previous OS. Find the Wipe Data / Factory Reset section and select it.
Confirm the selection by clicking "YES - WIPE ALL User Data".
Next, come back to the main menu Recovery. And choose the "Install Zip" section.
In the list that opens, select the option "Choose Zip From / SDCard".
Specify the directory where you previously downloaded a new firmware.
Confirm your choice. Click "YES - INSTALL".
Android download starts on your phone. At the end of the process, the "Install from SDCard Complete" is notified.

To activate the recovery menu, turn off the phone and click the button combination that matches your model for the phone. Below are the most popular combinations:

Increasing volume + shutdown button;
Loud volume + shutdown button;
Increase / decrease volume + Shutdown button + "Home";
Voltage increase + volume reduction + shutdown button.

If you get to the Recovery Menu, it did not work, then use the search for finding the desired key combination.

The installation on this is considered completed. Return to the main menu and restart the system. First start new version May be unusual long. It is worth considering and do not succumb to an extra panic.

Installing Android OS through TWRP Recovery

TWRP is another custom recovery that works with installation files in zip-format. The flashing process begins with the installation of this menu to your phone. Next follow the algorithm:

Load the desired version Android, and then skip into an arbitrary smartphone directory or tablet PC in Zip-format.
Go to TWRP Recovery. The input method is no different from entering other recovery menu, so you will study the key combinations at the beginning of the article or find the combinations for your phone model in Google.
Reset settings. Press "WIPE" in the main menu of the program.
If you want to just restore the factory ("native") settings, move the selected slider to the right side.
If you want to completely clean the memory for the further installation of the new system, then click "Advanced Wipe". At the end of the cleaning process, simply click the "BACK" key.
Now you need to install a new operating system. In the main menu, click on the "Install" section.
Select the path to which the program will find the firmware saved.
Confirm the start of flashing by moving the slider to the right side. The process usually does not take more than 2-3 minutes.
At the end of all manipulations, the program will issue a notification of the successful completion of the installation. Select "Reboot System" to reboot and run a new version.

The installation on this is considered completed.

Refracting through ROM Manager

How to install android for phone with specialized Software? Prior to this, the ways were described exclusively to work in Recovery Menu, but if you like the utility with convenient interface, then the selection program is ROM Manager.

Before starting work, the following conditions must be respected:

To work with the application, you must get root-rights (this can be done through unlock root, vroot and other programs);
You must install any custom Recovery. The program performs all operations with it, but relieves you from the primitive interface and uncomfortable navigation;
The smartphone should be saved by the OS version that you want to install in Zip-format.

When all these items are executed, run Rom Manager and perform a step-by-step algorithm:

The program also allows you to download ready-made firmware for your model of a smartphone or tablet PC. Select the operating system in the "Download Firmware" section.

Thanks to rapid development software For Android OS, many users of desktop PCs rush their gaze on this platform.

In this connection, as defined by a natural issue: "How to install an android on a computer"?

Initially, Android was not created for use in a PC with a X86 architecture, and the versions of this OS up to 3.0 were intended exclusively for phones.

Despite this, the enthusiast group created and regularly creates the updated android distributions to install into a personal computer.

How to establish this "mobile" operating system to your PC and will be discussed in this publication.

Android OS Stages on PC

All work on the installation of Android OS on a PC can be divided into several stages:

Download to a distribution computer.
Creating a bootable media.
Preparation of HDD to the Android Installation.
Installation of the new operating system and its configuration.

Now about each stage in more detail.

In order to make your computer full android The device should select and download the OS distribution.

At the time of this writing, the OS version 5.1 distribution is available to everyone, but you can use another, more "rolled" version of the program.

Screenshot Pages with android-x86-5.1-Rc1.iso distribution

The ISO Image You need to download on the PC and create a bootable media.

Create bootable media

You can install android to your computer using an optical medium or loading flash drive.

Since most portable PCs do not equip DVD drivethen as boot disk We will use the usual flash drive to 2 GB.

In order to record the distribution image on a USB flash drive, you must use third-party software. Developers recommend UnetBootin or Ultraiso utilities.

Consider the process of recording the distribution on the Flesh card using the UnetBootin program:

Insert the formatted USB USB flash drive in the PC.
Download and run the UnetBootin program.
In the Utilities window, click the "Disk Image" window, click the button with the ellipsis button and select the downloaded distribution, clicking the "Media" button, select your Flesh card, then boldly press OK.
Upon completion of the procedure for creating a bootable media, click "Exit"

The loading media is created.

If the Android OS is assumed to be on a PC, then enough in the BIOS make your USB flash drive priority when starting and you can start the installation process.

Creating a hard disk section under Android OS

Create a section on HDD can be used by Widows 7. To do this:

Press Win + R.
IN dialog box Enter diskmgmt.msc then press "ENTER".
In the utility window, find the unallocated space, select from the drop-down list "Create a simple volume".

In the section Creation Wizard, click "Next".
Enter the partition size. To install Android, you must select at least 10 GB of your HDD under this section. Click "Next".

Set the letter for the new disk section and click "Next".
In the formatting parameters window, you can leave everything by default. "Further".
In the completion window of the section creation of the section, click Finish.

BIOS setup

In order to establish a "mobile" OS, you need PC to start with boot USB Flesh cards.

To do this, immediately before turning on the computer, you must install a USB Flesh-card PC connector and go to the BIOS by clicking immediately after starting the PC key F12 or DEL.

In some models of laptops to enter the BIOS, you need to press the F2 or ESC key.

Important! The BIOS entry key may vary depending on the manufacturer. system board and yourselfBios.. You can learn exactly the pump button from the documentation for your computer.

After entering the BIOS, enter the Boot section where the arrows set the load priority with USB devices, After that confirm the settings by pressing the F10, and exit the bios by pressing the ESC.

Installation OS android on PC

After starting the computer from the boot flash drive, a window will open, where from the entire list it will be necessary to select the last string.

To install Android to your computer must select need section HDD to install a distribution.

In the next window, the available sections are defined as SDA1, SDA2, SDA3. Select the desired and click "OK".

Since Android is scheduled for the second OS in our PC, then the question "integrate the downloader with Windows" needs to be answered in the affirmative. We click "Yes" and "Enter".

After the installation is completed, the system will suggest run android on your PC. Install the system is still half of the case. Now follows the setting step

Configure Android

With the Android OC setting, almost any user can cope. The first thing appears on the PC screen after installing the system is a screen with a language setting.

Choose the one that interests you.

On this process initial setting Systems are completed. In the window that opens, you need to click OK.

Tip! If you do not know how to behave " mobile system"On your PC, then after starting a computer from a flash drive, in the window that opens, select the first menu item Live CD - Run Android WITHOUT Installation. The system will not be installed on the computer, but it starts from the carrier. In this mode, you can always test the selected version of Anroid before it is finalized.

android on a laptop (Lenovo)

Instructions: How to install android on a computer

IN lately Smartphones and tablets working on operating android systemare widely popular. And this is obvious: high system performance, synchronization various devices, many games and applications.

That's why more and more computer users Interested in the question - how can I install the operating system android to the computer.

If you want to use the laptop or computer only the Android operating system - format the hard disk on which the old operating system is installed and set Android to this section. If you want to use android together with the operating system installed on your computer - you need to create a new hard disk section and install android to this section.

I have an operating room on a laptop windows system 7, so in the article I will describe in detail what you need to do to install Android next to the main operating system.

To download the android operating system for a computer, you need to go to the official website of the Android-x86 project developers:

http://www.android-x86.org/download

Here choose android versionwhich you want to install and click on the "View" button. After that, the image download will begin.

Creating a new partition on the disk

The site already has an article about how to split the hard disk to sections in Windows 7. Therefore, I will simply bring screenshots with a short description.

We go through the "Start" - right-click "Computer" - "Management".

In the next window, select item "Disk management".

You will have a window with information about the installed hard. I have one, divided into sections with: and D :. Choose the partition from which part of the memory will take to create a new one, click on it right-click and click "Squeeze Tom".

Now you need to wait a bit.

Further select the required amount of memory for the new section. It all depends on how you plan to use the Android OS. If you set a lot of games, select more, the main thing is not to exceed the available memory. For example, I have enough memory on the phone with your head, so I enter 5 GB. Click "compress".

Appeared new section.

Click on it right mouse button and choose "Create a simple volume".

Here we put the maximum value for the size of the volume and click "Next".

Now assign an unused letter for the disk and click Next.

We format the section, you can give it a name, click "Next".

To complete the creation of a new volume, click Finish.

In the list of sections hard disk You must appear another, with a given name and memory.

Creating a loading flash drive

Note that the selected USB flash drive is formatted and all data from it will be erased. In order to avoid losses important information, Copy everything files From her to the computer.

You can create a bootable flash drive using special programs. I will use the free RUFUS program. Insert the USB flash drive into the port of the laptop or computer and run the RUFUS program. Choose the desired device and file System FAT32. To create a loading flash drive, click on the disk icon and select the downloaded image on the computer. Press the button "Start".

If you have the following window, select the desired item and click OK. First I put a marker in paragraph "Write in ISO mode"But it did not work out from under the flash drive. Then he again created the bootable flash drive, chose "WRITE IN DD-MODE" And everything turned out.

Immediately, as boot flash drive Android will be created, the following window will appear, in it, click "Close".

Download priority

Here I will tell you brief: reboot the computer and go to the BIOS - press F2 or DEL; Go to the section "BOOT"; put in the list of flash drive for first place; We save the settings and exit from the BIOS.

Installing a new OS.

After you exit the BIOS, the computer will boot from the flash drive. The following window will appear. In it choose "Install Android-x86 to Harddisk" - Installing Android OS on the hard disk. Press "ENTER".

You can navigate between different points using arrows if you want to select the item, click on it "ENTER".

Next, you need to select the partition of the hard disk to install the operating system: SDA1, SDA2 ... I was afraid to be mistaken, so I chose "Create / Modify Partition" and pressed "OK".

The following menu has opened. Here are all devices connected to the laptop: SDA - installed hard Disk, SDB - connected flash drives, MMCBLK0 - memory card. I am interested in a hard disk, so I choose "Harddisk" and the "ENTER".

In the next window, we look at the same name of the hard disk section that we have just created. I set the amount of memory 5 GB, it corresponds to the disc partition with the name SDA6. To exit from this menu Using the "Right" arrow, select "QUIT" and press "ENTER".

A familiar window will open, feel free to choose the desired partition of the hard disk - I have this SDA6.

Next, you must select the type of file system. It is recommended to select EXT3 or EXT2 to install the Android OS, will not be saved in FAT32, and NTFS is not supported.

Now confirm the formatting of the selected section hard Disc to the desired file system - click "YES".

In the next window, you will be prompted to install the GRUB bootloader, since without it, Android will simply start on the computer, press "YES".

In order that when you turn on the computer, you can choose which operating system to download: Android or Windows, press "YES".

Now you need to install another bootloader, click "YES".