guide.md

Running Windows on the Nothing Phone (2)

Partitioning your device

Prerequisites

• A brain (most important of all)

• ADB & Fastboot

• OFOX ( TWRP analogue )

• Parted

Notes

Warning

Do not run the same command twice unless specified.

DO NOT REBOOT YOUR PHONE! If you think you made a mistake, ask for help in the Telegram chat.

Do not run all commands at once, execute them in order!

YOU CAN BREAK YOUR DEVICE WITH THE COMMANDS BELOW IF YOU DO THEM WRONG!!!

Flash TWRP recovery

Open a CMD window inside the platform-tools folder, then (while your phone is in fastboot mode) run

fastboot flash recovery path\to\twrp.img reboot recovery

Backing up important files

Use TWRP now to back up your Modem and EFS partition (as well as anything else if you have important data). Move this backup to a safe place (e.g your PC) as the next steps will wipe your data.

Warning

All of your data will be erased. This is your last chance to back up.

IF YOU PROCEED WITHOUT BACKING UP MODEM AND EFS, YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN IF YOU MESS UP

Partitioning guide

Your Nothing Phone (2) may have different storage sizes. This guide uses the values of the 512GB model as an example. When relevant, the guide will mention if other values can or should be used.

Unmount data

• Go to "Mount" in TWRP and unmount data, if it is mounted

Preparing for partitioning

Download the parted file and move it in the platform-tools folder, then run

adb push parted /cache/ && adb shell "chmod 755 /cache/parted" && adb shell /cache/parted /dev/block/sda

Printing the current partition table

Parted will print the list of partitions, userdata should be the last partition in the list.

print

Removing userdata

Replace $ with the number of the userdata partition, which should be 13

rm $

Recreating userdata

Replace 7837MB with the former start value of userdata which we just deleted (it is probably 7837MB)

Replace 505GB with the end value you want userdata to have

mkpart userdata f2fs 7837MB 392GB

Creating ESP partition

Replace 392GB with the end value of userdata

Replace 392GB with the value you used before, adding 1GB to it

mkpart esp fat32 392GB 393GB

Creating Windows partition

Replace 393GB with the end value of esp

Replace 505GB with the end value of your disk, use p free to find it

mkpart win ntfs 32.3GB 505GB

Making ESP bootable

Use print to see all partitions. Replace "$" with your ESP partition number, which should be 14

set $ esp on

Exit parted

quit

Formatting data

• Format all data in TWRP, or Android will not boot.
• ( Go to Wipe > Format data > type yes )

Check if Android still starts

• Just restart the phone, and see if Android still works

Next step: Installing Windows

Last step: Setting up dualboot