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title: "Are the Android releases available in a ROM?"  
description: "Are the Android releases available in a ROM?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2015-11-07  
updated: 2020-09-15  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/interview/22888/are-the-android-releases-available-in-a-rom  
category: "android"  
tags: ["android"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Are the Android releases available in a ROM?

No, Android is not yet available in a ROM format.Currently Android is installed by using a clean SD Card, and booted from there.It is booted by running a special application called 'Haret.exe' residing on your SD Card which will terminate the Windows kernel and boot into Linux/Android.\
It can't easily be run from ROM because :a) it's too experimental to risk putting in ROM and then killing a device b) WinMo does some hardware initialization that isn't documented, but is needed before Android can run.

## Answers

### Answer by Anonymous User

No, Android is not yet available in a ROM format.Currently Android is installed by using a clean SD Card, and booted from there.It is booted by running a special application called 'Haret.exe' residing on your SD Card which will terminate the Windows kernel and boot into Linux/Android.\
It can't easily be run from ROM because :a) it's too experimental to risk putting in ROM and then killing a device b) WinMo does some hardware initialization that isn't documented, but is needed before Android can run.


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