In one events, i saw my friend use a brand new IPad 3. His IPAD helps him a lot, when he tried to remember an important topic or a concept to the audience, he used his IPad as a notes taking tools. After that day, i visited a local exhibition and saw a good devices called Samsung ATIV. However, the price is too high for developer like me (it cost 799$-1399$). Trying to forget about ATIV, i opened my old device. It called HTC Shift, it runs Windows 7 and Windows Mobile 6,5. My mission is to make this old device run Windows 8 RTM with his full power. In this article, i will show you a several tips to make your work easy to install Windows 8 in your own devices like HTC Shift. Tips No. 1 – Installing using USB You can use Windows 7 USB Download tools, just prepare at least 4 GB Flash Disk use that tools and you are ready to go by booting it from your USB through a BIOS. Tips No. 2 – Downloading your old driver Luckily I still can download my old driver at HTC website. Driver from Vista might be work, Driver from 7 should work. Tips No. 3 – Installing Features in Offline Mode Several features need you to install in online mode (e.g. NET Framework). You can by pass it by using offline installation. To do that just follow this simple steps Open command prompt using Administrator role Insert your USB drive that contains Windows 8 installer Type this code, replace G: with your USB drive letter dism.exe /online /enable-feature /featurename: Net FX3 / Source: G:\sources\sxs / Limit Access Tips No. 4 – Altering the Drivers Driver can work really bad. for example in my HTC Shift, the SD Card, and WIFI cant work on Windows 8. After several attempt I can make it work by tampering the new driver with the old one. To do that just follow this tricks. Running Command prompt with an administrator role Preparing your old driver (anything.sys) Typing type: takeown /f.
I'm happy with my Shift, with Windows 7 without blue screen. I love HTC products, love Shift - it's larger than my HTC HD2 but more smaller than my HP HDX 18 All drivers below are working fine on my Shift. Sorry if my English is bad, hope you know what I write IMPORTANT: Once you finished installing Windows 7, you MUST install the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver for Windows 7 package first of all. Then restart now as the package required. A DOS window will be appeared for enabling Win SAT and configuring Aero. Everything will be nice, please wait. If you leave the Aero mode enabled before installing this driver, you will be welcome by the blue screen of death crash when Shift boots into high resolution mode. NOTE: After installing the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator Driver, you can continue with any driver package without the order. You should install Synaptics Touch Pad driver before installing the Shift Control Center. You need only to install EC Driver, Touch Screen and Shift Control Center with Vista Compatibility mode and Run as administrator ( Right-click the setup file -> Properties -> Compatibility tab, select Windows Vista and check Run this file as Administrator). For other packages, need only ENTER- TO- RUN because theyre supported Windows 7. If you need only finger reader for logging into Windows, you can go now to Control Panel -> Hardware and Sound -> Biometric Devices and set your fingerprint data. Need more fingerprint, as logging into Web sites, password forms on any programs. you need a 3rd software as Digital Persona Personal, etc. (only select one of them) If the high resolution screen make you carzy, and the natural resolution (800x480) do not display when click right on Desktop > Screen resolution, let find it in the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator: click right on Desktop > Graphics Properties. -> Display Settings) Marvell SD8686 Wireless.
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