Running Windows apps on Galaxy Note 8?

[everway9]

Hey y'all.

I was wondering if any of you have found a way to successfully run any Windows applications on the Galaxy Note 8?

I did some searching and found an app called 'Wine' (v3.0) which I believe is not an emulator but a compatability layer app type thingy. It is supposed to let you run .exe apps full screen.

I installed Wine and ran the app. It said 'Setting up the Windows environment' then after that the message dissapears and there's nothing but a black screen. I left it running thinking that maybe it was still loading in the background but after 30 minutes the app window was still a black screen.

So if anyone knows about running Windows apps on the Galaxy Note 8 and has any suggestions for getting Wine to work or know any other apps which might work I'd be very grateful for your help.

Many thanks in advance.

 

[Tsepz_GP]

Hey y'all.

I was wondering if any of you have found a way to successfully run any Windows applications on the Galaxy Note 8?

I did some searching and found an app called 'Wine' (v3.0) which I believe is not an emulator but a compatability layer app type thingy. It is supposed to let you run .exe apps full screen.

I installed Wine and ran the app. It said 'Setting up the Windows environment' then after that the message dissapears and there's nothing but a black screen. I left it running thinking that maybe it was still loading in the background but after 30 minutes the app window was still a black screen.

So if anyone knows about running Windows apps on the Galaxy Note 8 and has any suggestions for getting Wine to work or know any other apps which might work I'd be very grateful for your help.

Many thanks in advance.

So I will say right off the bat that I have never tried this, but I would like to know what apps do you want to run that don't exist as Android MS ports?

Have a look at this: https://www.techradar.com/news/sams...martphones-can-now-run-windows-10-more-easily

And this:
https://www.xda-developers.com/run-windows-apps-on-android-wine/

 

[everway9]

So I will say right off the bat that I have never tried this, but I would like to know what apps do you want to run that don't exist as Android MS ports?

Have a look at this: https://www.techradar.com/news/sams...martphones-can-now-run-windows-10-more-easily

And this:
https://www.xda-developers.com/run-windows-apps-on-android-wine/

Hi @Tsepz_GP

Thank you for your post.

On my PC I have a really good app called 'Human Anatomy Atlas' by Visible Body. The same app for Android is available but right now I cannot afford the £23 it costs. I'm just trying to save a little money. I saw the Wine app and thought it would be interesting to see if it worked.

I wasn't expecting anything to work. It all seemed too simple and too good to be true.

The first link is about a cloud based running of windows, it's not native. And yeah, thats what I saw about the wine application layer being compatible with with android in version 3. But it doesn't work on my Note 8.

 

[Tsepz_GP]

Hi @Tsepz_GP

Thank you for your post.

On my PC I have a really good app called 'Human Anatomy Atlas' by Visible Body. The same app for Android is available but right now I cannot afford the £23 it costs. I'm just trying to save a little money. I saw the Wine app and thought it would be interesting to see if it worked.

I wasn't expecting anything to work. It all seemed too simple and too good to be true.

The first link is about a cloud based running of windows, it's not native. And yeah, thats what I saw about the wine application layer being compatible with with android in version 3. But it doesn't work on my Note 8.

Got you

Will do some digging to and see what I can find

 

[everway9]

Got you

Will do some digging to and see what I can find

Thanks. But it's not massively important that I get Windows apps running on my Note 8 so please don't feel like you have to spend much time. But otherwise... yeah, go for it!

 

[Tsepz_GP]

Thanks. But it's not massively important that I get Windows apps running on my Note 8 so please don't feel like you have to spend much time. But otherwise... yeah, go for it!

Haha! You got me curious about this, it would make the DeX Station even more useful

If I do find anything worth sharing I'll post it here. I do see some OnePlus users also have issues getting it to work.

 

[everway9]

There is a so called emulator app called limbo which aparently can run WinPE. The website I found it on looked a bit dodgy though so I gave it a miss.

 

[Lee Chappell]

I'd really like to run Internet Explorer 9 but not sure if that's possible. Has to be version 9 or earlier.