Try running Windows 10 ARM on more Android-based phones: OnePlus 6

We have seen in some articles a striking experiment that allowed Windows 10 to run on phones with ARM processors. An action that had a common factor was that all the models used were based on the Microsoft mobile platform: were models that had been released on the market with Windows Phone. This was the case with the Lumia 950, 950 XL and the Acer Jade Primo.

Now, months later, this experiment takes a new step and that is that Windows 10 is once again the protagonist when it comes to mobile phones, but with the difference that this time the terminals used are based on Android.Signature mobiles such as the OnePlus 6 and the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S and in the waiting queue, the Samsung Galaxy S8

Windows 10 ARM on Android phones

We know that Windows 10 has a version compatible with ARM processors thanks to the joint work of Microsoft and Qualcomm. This makes it possible for developers to port their x86 applications to ARM64 devices And now, tests are done on devices that originally should not be compatible.

If we already saw tests carried out on a OnePlus 6T or a Google Pixel 3 XL running on Windows 10, now the software developers have decided to bring Windows 10 ARM to the OnePlus 6 and also the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S.

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A developer known as Lemon1Ice has been responsible for making it possible for Windows 10 ARM to work on a OnePlus 6 and announcing that it will in the future on the Xiaomi Mi Mix 2S since it uses a Synaptics touch controller, which shouldn&39;t be difficult to get working."

In the case of the OnePlus 6, which we remember, it mounts a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC, it has been chosen to use the drivers that the Lenovo Yoga C630 Always Connected mounts. The result? So far only got touch screen and UPS working.

That in the case of Lemon1Ice, because another developer called Evsio0n, has announced on his Twitter account that he will try to run Windows 10 on Samsung Galaxy S8, although right now the process is still very late and you cannot start the desktop

In fact, in Windows Latest, they have reported about it by contacting the developer, who has detailed the problems he is facing during the process :

It is above all a curiosity, an open door to what can be achieved with a terminal that has nothing to do with Microsoft's proposal but which has more than solvent hardware even though it has been on the market for months.A task carried out by expert users that may be extended to more Android-based phone models in the future.