Most updates are given first and foremost via our dedicated Announcement Telegram Channel. We try our best to also announce things elsewhere, but telegram remains our primary way of interfacing with the community at the moment. You can find the channel at https://t.me/DuoWOA_Announcements
Note: This note is provided for informational purposes only, it does not in any way represent any commitment from any entity working towards the development of the Windows port on Surface Duo and does not mean that all functionality will be available or the development will ever finish, you should not buy the device for the sole purpose of using Windows on it with hopes of it eventually being fully functional or having XYZ hardware feature working in the supposed future. What is available today is what should be considered as the most you can get. Purchase with this in mind, and don't assume we will get everything working. We may, but don't impulse buy with this thought. In either case, we cannot be taken responsible nor accountable for functionality we never promised to you. The device is sold as a fully working Android™ Device, not fully working Windows device from Microsoft.
The development for the Windows Port is currently scheduled as follows:
Milestone #0: Early UEFI/OS bring up, proof of conceptCompleted!- Milestone #1: SoC hardware bringup in Windows OS, end goal is to have all hardware blocks/components of the SoC in a functional or communicating state by the end of the milestone, but not have it interface with the OS if it isn't already done. In progress!
- Milestone #2: Bug fixes, this is where we will fix major issues like crashes, etc
- Milestone #3: Calibration/Tuning, calibrate everything to work as it should be.
- Milestone #4: To be defined?
No ETA will be provided for any of these development phases
Global progress: 80.88%
| Feature | Description | Working state |
|---|---|---|
| ⌨️ Side buttons | ✅ | |
| ♋ Cellular Calls | Call provisioning is work in progress, if calls do not work for you at the moment, you may need to provision the call functionality manually. (Same as on Lumia 950s: https://woa-project.github.io/LumiaWOA/guides/ican0/, value is not different between 950s and Surface Duo either, so if you already have such value, you're good to go, this is temporary!) | ✅ |
| ♋ Cellular Data | ✅ | |
| ♋ Cellular eSIM | ✅ | |
| ♋ Cellular Texts | ✅ | |
| ♋ WiFi | ✅ | |
| ✏️ Left Pen Digitizer | Precision needs to be refined (far right area may not respond), otherwise works fine | ✅ |
| ✏️ Right Pen Digitizer | Precision needs to be refined (far right area may not respond), otherwise works fine | ✅ |
| 🌡️ Thermal sensors | ✅ | |
| 🎆 GPU | ✅ | |
| 👆 Left Multi Touch | Precision needs to be refined (far right area may not respond), otherwise works fine | ✅ |
| 👆 Right Multi Touch | Precision needs to be refined (far right area may not respond), otherwise works fine | ✅ |
| 💤 Modern Standby | ✅ | |
| 💻 Lid Hall sensor | Closing the device will put it into sleep, opening it will wake it up | ✅ |
| 📌 GPS | ✅ | |
| 📦 UFS | ✅ | |
| 📲 Left Display Panel | Color calibration is missing | ✅ |
| 📲 Right Display Panel | Color calibration is missing | ✅ |
| 📳 Vibration motor | ✅ | |
| 📸 Camera Flash | ✅ | |
| 📽️ Miracast | ✅ | |
| 🔋 Battery 1 | ✅ | |
| 🔋 Battery 2 | ✅ | |
| 🔌 Charger | ✅ | |
| 🔵 Bluetooth | ✅ | |
| ♋ Cellular VoLTE | Untested due to lack of App / Software currently | |
| 📺 HDMI / DP out | Incubating (not available but work is being made) | |
| 🧭 Sensors | Calibration isn't being automatically copied over. Pedometers and Motion sensors are not currently functional. | |
| 🧮 SoC Cores | Prime core frequency isn't scaled up | |
| 🪵 USB C | Some of the features are work in progress (USB Powerless Dongles) | |
| 📸 Camera Sensor | Requires CDSP Secure Camera/NPU to work | ❌ |
| 🔊 Audio | ❌ | |
| 🧑💼 Hyper-V | Requires Microsoft Corporation Signed device configuration binary | ❌ |
| 🧬 Fingerprint scanner | ❌ |
| Name | Model | Supported? | Firmware Updatable? | Pairable? | Auto Pairable? | Pressure Sensitivity | Tilt Sensitivity | Hover | Eraser | Side Button | Secondary Side Button | Zero force inking | Pressure Configurable? | Tactile signals | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Surface Pen V2 | 1616 | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | 256 levels | Not applicable | ✅ | Not applicable | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ (Surface App) | Not applicable | N/A |
| Surface Pen V3 | 1710 | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ | ❌ | 4096 levels | Not applicable | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Not applicable | ❌ | ✅ (Surface App) | Not applicable | N/A |
| Surface Pen V4 | 1776 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 4096 levels | 1024 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Not applicable | ❌ | ✅ (Surface App) | Not applicable | N/A |
| Surface Slim Pen | 1853 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 4096 levels | 1024 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Not applicable | ❌ | ✅ (Surface App) | Not applicable | N/A |
| Surface Slim Pen 2 | 1962 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 4096 levels | 1024 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Not applicable | ✅ | ✅ (Surface App) | ❌ (HW) | N/A |
| Surface Hub 2 Pen | 1865 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | 4096 levels | 1024 | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Not applicable | ✅ | ✅ (Surface App) | Not applicable | N/A |
| Surface Classroom Pen | 1896/NWH-00001 | ✅ | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | 1024 levels | Not applicable | ✅ | Not applicable | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ (Surface App) | Not applicable | N/A |
| Surface Classroom Pen 2 | 1896/8U3-00001 | ✅ | Not applicable | Not applicable | Not applicable | 4096 levels | Not applicable | ✅ | Not applicable | ✅ | ✅ | ❌ | ✅ (Surface App) | Not applicable | N/A |
The following Surface Pens are not compatible due to their use of a different technology than N-Trig:
- Surface Pro Pen (Original Pen Launched with Surface Pro (1st Gen) and Surface Pro 2) (5PT-00001)
- Surface Hub Pen (Original Pen Launched with Surface Hub (1st Gen)) (Model 1640)
| Accessory Model | Description | Working state |
|---|---|---|
| 🔌 Surface Slim Pen Charger | Firmware Updates available within Windows (Unlike in Android) (Can be used to enable charging Surface Slim Pen 2 or newer pens on outdated charging cradles), Automatic Bluetooth Pairing, Automatic Device wakeup on pen removal from the cradle. | ✅ |
| 🛞 Surface Dial | No support for on screen radial ui yet. | ✅ |
| 🎧 Surface USB-C Audio Adapter | ✅ | |
| No thunderbolt 4 support (unsupported by the hardware itself), USB 3 supported, Firmware updates available in the Surface App, Display out not functional due to USB C Video out not being functional. | ✅ | |
| Untested, Display out not functional due to USB C Video out not being functional. | ❓ | |
| 🧳 Surface Travel Hub | USB 3 supported, Firmware updates available via drivers, Display out not functional due to USB C Video out not being functional. | ✅ |
| 🔈 Microsoft Audio Dock | USB 3 supported, Firmware updates available via drivers, Display out not functional due to USB C Video out not being functional. | ✅ |
| 🔈 Microsoft Modern USB-C Speaker | Untested | ❓ |
| 📺 Microsoft Presenter+ | Untested | ❓ |
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