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[Windows 8 General] masterchiefb117:
Sorry for the late reply, been busy working on my Note 3 and my computer wanting to catch on fire. So After bitlocker problems and running into ways to re partition the drive it became possible but in pre alpha stage. I was working with someone in my office who was trying to get it to work and he concluded that even if it semi succeeded there would be way to get drivers to work or maybe even get visual. We assumed that we would have no control over the touch panel so we would connect a usb hub with a keyboard, mouse, and usb stick with all the files to work but looks like we are not doing something correctly to get anything to write correctly. I even wondered if I could dual boot linux/ubuntu but i havent gotten past the frustration of this plus my computer dying. Ill post up the files as soon as soon as i can. maybe someone can take over my work.
[Windows 8 General] richardyiu:
Can we get video drivers from android-ia repo? Intel releases bay trail images, I think the drivers should be available in their source tree
[Windows 8 General] rillrill:
Hi,

im going to get one DV8P soon. It would be cool, if you can try Andy from andyroid dot net (which is basically Android + VirtualBox afaik). It looks like a better solution than genymotions imo.
[Windows 8 General] ZanyG:
I don't think Windroy has been mentioned yet. Didn't try it myself though.

hth
[Windows 8 General] richardyiu:
I just see a Chinese manufacturer releases Android 4.2 image and dual boot bios for their bay trail tablet. Since the Android image is 32bit, will it help us getting Android to work on our machines?

32bit Android 4.2 image

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1nt2VsKx

Bios

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1c09Zriw

original thread

http://bbs.cnweiyan.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=28669&extra=page%3D1
[Windows 8 General] waldschwein:
[MENTION=482033]richardyiu[/MENTION]:

would it maybe possible to use it on a lynx 3011w with clovertrail processor?
[Windows 8 General] Dr4g0n:
Hello guys,

here is a Thread in the DELL Support Forum to request a 64bit uefi.

The old 32bit uefi is the problem, if the uefi is switched to 64bit, we could use the Android Rom from https://01.org/android-ia (for bay trail).

More users, more priority on dell side. Please request the update too, and make the thread public!

http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/mobile-devices/f/4586/p/19579720/20644697.aspx

thanks dr4g0n.
[Windows 8 General] radfreak:
Good find, I think we need to push Dell on this issue, because they are already planning to re-release 64-bit versions of the Venue 8 and 11 with no plans to update the old ones.
[Windows 8 General] Dr4g0n:
thats the point, why we all should buy a new tablet with 64bit, when a simple update solves the problem...

maybe its dell politics to make more money, and ignore the community... thats bad :(
[Windows 8 General] etoolz65:
Android on any pc, etc, etc,,,

There's unofficial version of droid which will work on basically any PC//laptop, etc, etc,,,

Or you can load the version you want, even as a primary OS.

You might need apps to support reg//drivers, etc, etc, but most devices(most common) are using similar hardware//modules, and droid is very good at supporting such cross platformed driver packages that are needed.

I didn't read through each and every one of the replies to the person orig. posting the main question, but saw that some people think Droid is "linux based only" and "64bit", and won't work on any 32bit machines unless virtual, but that's not true.

ANYWAY, a good article to get started on experimenting running various droid based OS' on laptops and pc's is over at maypalo.

Just go there, and in the search bar, put "android on any pc".

Good luck, and it's a blast getting droid based gadgets to run on win(full os) and win based devices to run on droid based OS'.

I truly love Droid for its very simple design and easy to use interface, but I also love the Win OS and having the option to run both, full service, on devices like the DV8Pro and DV11Pro is a blast!!!

Next is trying to get Droid kit or later to function properly on a NokLum 1520.....
[Windows 8 General] thals1992:
Why doesn't someone just resize an image from the Venue 8 (non pro model)? It looks like they share the same hardware and therefore drivers for booting. The trick is getting both on the same tablet... Ive got the 64 GB model, because storage is kinda the limiting factor.

http://www.dell.com/us/p/dell-venue-8/pd

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Might this be what I'm looking for?

http://xdaforums.com/dell-venue/general/dell-venue-8-cwm-unsecure-boot-recovery-t2866925
[Windows 8 General] redjge:
hi, ive just a found a thread with a tablet which is running both android and windows 8 as dual boot.

we're requesring for a disk dump from him if possible

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2799404

or possibly you can ask him, currently ive receive no updates from him
[Windows 8 General] thals1992:
I've gotten a ROM from the Venue 8 nonPro (3830). We might be able to simply flash from USB, as we can't boot from MicroSD. Secure Boot will probably need disabled and Bitlocker WILL need REMOVED and DISABLED.

Here's the thread I asked in:

http://xdaforums.com/dell-venue/gen...nue-8-3830-t2972574/post57677299#post57677299
[Windows 8 General] richardyiu:
There's a tutorial in chinese on how to install android on venue 8 pro:

http://winstab.com/thread-847-1-1.html

the file needed is located in this link:

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1i3y13Bv password: gd3y
[Windows 8 General] Originalas:
DuOS on a Windows tablet. It's faster and way easier than dual booting.

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[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
dell venue 8 pro 5xxx android 4.4.4

i have been stuffing around on my venue 8 pro for a while now experimenting with different versions of bios and android images i find.... and its led to this!!!!!

a broken chair(i fell off) and a venue 8 pro with android !!!:D:D:D:D:D:D:D

and the performance is mind boggling id compare it to my nexus 5

what i did :

1 downgraded the bios to a03

2 downloaded this image for the t100 groups(dot)google(dot)com/forum/#!msg/android-x86/FUiFCtrgc6I/Fqt8Rg-fpQkJ

3 extracted all of the files onto a usb that was formatted with fat32

4 held the power button and bumped the vol up button and it brought me to an odd looking boot manager

5 choose my usb and booted from the first selected label

also i had found a image with wifi supoedly working so im gonna go and find it now

all that i have left to say to people is good luck!!

Oh ye this is my first ever post on xda.... So go easy lol

oh ye and sorry mods for putting the url there i just though this info was to good to lose

Now ...if any one can install it along side windows that would be amazing!! Not as a live copy
[Windows 8 General] Azurael:
I don't know if anybody has a Venue 11 Pro, but today they released a new BIOS update for the 7130/7139 (i3/i5) models which finally made the touchscreen work in Linux again. I'm running my own build of Android-x86 (EFI IMG) with a few patches and updates from git. After swapping the ath6k-based (SDIO bus?! I couldn't even see it in Linux with SDIO-capable ath6kl compiled in) Dell Wireless 1537 for an Intel 7265, it works fine. So my Windows tablet is finally and Android tablet. How nice it is to be able to use Chrome again! The only nonworking things appear to be auto-brightness and NFC but I'm not sure those are supported at all in android-x86...
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Did you end up getting it working? I was able to get the SDIO ath6kl loaded, which should mean the WiFi card is detected fine, but it doesn't turn on.

This is pretty easy. Just shrink the partition in Windows, then copy the stuff you see in system.sfs (after mounting, then mounting the system.img in it), preserving permissions, of course.

Then mount the first partition (boot), and install GRUB, then edit the config file, using the one in the original iso image as base.

I didn't know 713x came with 1537s, I thought they all came with Intel 7265s.

Touchscreen has also always worked for me in Linux, except when using the 3.19 RC kernels.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
I didn't use grub because that messed with the display... I ended up copying the contents of the USB to am empty 5gb partition

I have goten an old wg111v3 on a USB dongle for WiFi

None of the physical buttons work BTW...
[Windows 8 General] fgdn17:
that's basically FUD put out by ConsoleOS.....

android-x86.org has you covered....

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/android-x86/Venue$20Pro%7Csort:date/android-x86/NyF5dJ4FBII/0_4-HnXKuC0J

could also try the latest img files from here.....

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2evBKvIpdYkYWltaHNKMjV0MHM&usp=sharing

discussed here:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/kpPes4GcysY[1-25-false]
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Or use Gummiboot, whichever. Both GRUB and Gummiboot work on mine perfectly, except the buttons actions are switched around.

The physical buttons work if you compile with kernel options

CONFIG_SPI_GPIO=m
CONFIG_PINCTRL_BAYTRAIL=y

For those of you still wondering about ConsoleOS, just read Christopher Price's posts on the Android X86 google group, that should tell you (hint: all talk and nothing to show for it).
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Finally got WiFi (the built-in one) to work on Android on my Venue 8 Pro!

I just needed to make sure that it used the latest firmware.

So, at the moment, the only major things not working for me are bluetooth, autorotation (only works occasionally), brightness adjustment, and a proper sleep (pressing power button only blanks screen, backlight is still on, and battery still drains at same speed as when it's awake).
[Windows 8 General] Ray_Rx:
this is cool man! looking forward to hear your progress.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
Be sure to tell us when you do that would be awesome ... Better than using a huge USB WiFi adapter anyways :) good luck and also you gotten the screen brightness working?
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
I posted it on the Android x86 Google groups.

Brightness, I haven't bothered checking if Fedlet has it working or not.
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Brightness control working! I just needed to apply the patch that fixes the brightness from Fedlet. No autobrightness though.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
aww yeee this sounds great please (if your able to) chuck and img up so we can download

i have 4 other friends with these tabs and cant wait

oh and if you are putting the image up can you sort out the buttons by any chance if so that would be even better

and if you want i can my my v8p a crash test dummy !!

lol cant wait!!!!
[Windows 8 General] vinjurr:
Pl indicate detailed procedure with links as Google group details are not working properly. Thanks
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
http://d-h.st/uTd8

Remember to modify grub.cfg with the correct kernel options (e.g. i915.force_backlight_pmic=1).

As usual, I'm not responsible for anything that may/may not happen as a result of following that link.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
yayyy now for a 11 hour download time..... so much for adsl 2+ lol

cant wait to get it goin ...ill tell ya how it goes if theres a problem

i have been looking for a cheap android tab latly but it seems like i dont need to now..... more money in my pocket lol
[Windows 8 General] dv8p:
Is it possible to install it on micro sd card ?
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Nope, not as is. Boot menu doesn't list it, and GRUB doesn't see it either (did search.fs_uuid, couldn't find it).

I think modifying initrd.img to add the SD/MMC modules then hard pointing to the SD card should work.

Regardless, you probably have to install GRUB (or a similar bootloader) to the internal EFI partition.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
i think thats just a problem with the venue 8 pro not liking the sd card..... mine doesnt like it so i just shrank the windows partition by 10gb and made a new one for android and its listed as uefi boot

on another note the playstore crashes

and i cant get the screen to turn off (backlight on) and the brightness does not change

i might just be a complete idiot tho
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Same exact thing I did! Except I shrank by 16gb because I like base 2.

Might be the version of the GApps you are using, mine are fine, except occasional Gmail FC.

Did you add the kernel boot option to enable brightness control?

Yeah, screen doesn't turn off, just blanks.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
yep ive done it now and the screen actualy turns completely off

also do you know if the huodini libs are installed on this img? its getting very annoying that i can install stuff other than from and apk

do you know how to flash a zip file? i have no clue.... i have a nexus 5 and use twrp so other than that i have no idea tbh:eek:

also i installed a few bits like play services and playstore

ive just backed it up and im copying it to the partition again .....i did see before that when you restart it that it wipes what was installed before... is there any specific way i should make a new img for system ?

nope..... no joy with the fresh img

what gapps did you use? and if its a zip how do install?
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
I don't use the system image file. I just mount the system image, then copy the stuff inside over to the partition while preserving permissions.

My folder structure of the partition looks like this:

/initrd.img

/kernel

/ramdisk.img

/data (folder, initially blank)

/system (this is where I copy the stuff in system image to, like app, bin, lib folders)

Then I just adjust grub.cfg accordingly.

I think the screen still stays on. The screen appeared to glow faintly when I was in a completely dark room.

I used PA GApps Pico with proper DPI (the DPI to use is 160).

Libhoudini, I have no idea.

I don't know how to flash either. I just extract the zips, copy them over, then fix permissions.

There's an APK to emulate the flashing procedure I think.

This may help, my relevant GRUB entry (with my folder structure):

search --file --no-floppy --set=root /kernel
linuxefi /kernel quiet i915.semaphores=1 i915.enable_rc6=7 i915.enable_fbc=1 i915.lvds_downclock=1 i915.force_backlight_pmic=1 root=/dev/ram0 SDCARD=/dev/mmcblk1p1 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 SRC=/
initrdefi /initrd.img

Remove the SDCARD entry if you don't need/use it.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
where are all of the drivers on android x86 what file/folder are they in

i had another img from a t100 working perfectly without wifi

i just need to know how to move the wifi drivers to that

and how do you edit the system.img file
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
You mount it, it's a disk image.

Firmware files are in /lib/firmware.
[Windows 8 General] Ray_Rx:
I downloaded the image and got it into a USB drive and booted up from it. But the display is messed up. :crying: any idea?
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆∆

This is how I have gotten it to go with out a distorted screen (the first menu is a bit distoreded tho)

Hold down the volume up while holding the power button and as soon as you see the dell logo pop up you can let go of both buttons this will take you to a screen that has a label called uefi boot or something along the lines of that and then you do as normally

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Would I be able to get some help setting up the partition please...?

Its gotten me really confused I'm not sure if what your saying is that the files are the partitions or if your talking about a seperate ssd partition.

Also I'm downloading the gapps file now so that should be done by the morning thanks again
[Windows 8 General] dv8p:
Heyy BIOS A10 is released but still screen is blinking
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
To get the screen working correctly, we have to boot through the boot menu, even if the boot device is selected correctly. Fedlet also has this problem.

I have them at the root directory of a separate partition.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
But is it 64bit?

I cannot find that anywhere
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Is what 64-bit?

Everything should be 32-bit, whether it's GRUB, kernel, etc.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
never mind ...i was talking about bios update

how did you install gapps ,what program did you use?
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
I didn't, I just extracted the zip, copied over, then fixed permissions manually (through Fedlet).
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
ok how do you do that then????? im stuck

righto ive been trying to do it over adb
[Windows 8 General] Ray_Rx:
What I did was:

1. Turn off the DVP8 completely.

2. Plugin the USB with the image.

3. Turn on the tablet and keep pressing volume up until I got a menu where I can select the UEFI boot device.

But still Im getting a messed up screen.
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Even in GRUB? Just to make sure, it's the Venue 8 Pro 5000 right? The only possible difference I can think of is that I'm running BIOS A03.

Are you able to run the standard Android x86 KitKat image?

Did you try booting all the way into Android to see if it fixed itself?

I do get a flickering screen in the virtual console.
[Windows 8 General] Ray_Rx:
Thanks again for the reply, but I can see that it boots up to the setup screen even coz I can hear the touch sounds. May be the bios thing. I'll try to downgrade the bios. Standard image also had the same issue. Thanks. :) I'll keep track of the improvement of you guys. Cheers!
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Sorry, I don't know what to tell you then :(, if the standard image doesn't work.
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Welp, found out that if I force the sensors to load on boot, there's actually data for the accelerometer and brightness sensors. For whatever reason, those data are just not getting used.

I've hacked a shell script together to run in the background to emulate autorotation, but it's pretty ugly. I'm pretty sure a similar thing can be done to emulate autobrightness.

Now it's more like that these things work 90% of the time, and for the remaining 10%, the sensors just don't appear to be present, and modprobing them does nothing.

To get them working again, I have to power off then power back on.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
i am trying to use the install mode of android and it keeps getting stuck at mounting things like usbs and ssds its getting realy annoying . can you tell me how you installed your copy?

would be great if you can

thanks
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/thr...droid-x86-instructions-and-video-proof.65482/
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
right

and this is how you did it?

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ive just loaded the iso onto virtual box and im gonna install gapps through there and then copy the system.img over to the tablet .

if that does not work ill do it through the link
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
With some variations, but this should get to my folder structure.

You can also install GApps while you're at it, just make sure to fix permissions.
[Windows 8 General] fgdn17:
http://android-x86-forums.hostreo.com/downloads.php

as of Feb7th..

all rbg builds have been transferred to new forum....

http://www.google.com/url?q=http://...sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNF6GLQwYOLQ5UVpjjYoPLTtXJdVBQ
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
is there a way that i can move the wifi driver from your build to a t100 build because ive gotten brightness and all that working on that

and gapps dont crash

thanks in advance
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/android-x86/uemIpwo-ibw
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
Is there any chance of getting the screen drivers?
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
I just tried A10, and ended up with a glitchy screen as well. Downgrading to A03 fixed it.
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Open in new tab to see it rotated correctly.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
Can you give a link?
[Windows 8 General] Ray_Rx:
that is super helpful. thanks. :) :)
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
Uh am I missing something?

since when was there a lolipop build that started?
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
It's been up for about 3.5 months.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
Wow I've fallen behind...

Is there any chance I could get a link?
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Just google them or build from source. There aren't any official builds.
[Windows 8 General] Ray_Rx:
This is the google group.

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/NyF5dJ4FBII

One reply has the link to a google drive link. :)
[Windows 8 General] baldpenguin2:
I managed to install it without a USB hub (loaded from partition, installed to sd, copied installation from sd to another empty partition) but for whatever reason, I wasn't able to install grub. Every time I tried, it would send me down to the command line and I couldn't figure out how to get out of it. So I skipped, but now obviously i can't boot. Could I steal your someone's grub files? Or do you know how I could install it myself (preferably without using a Linux live disk)?
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
did the wifi just work?

or is there something i need to do to it?
[Windows 8 General] dinohunter117:
Have you guys tried using DuOS? It is like a virtual machine, but works way better than any other one I have tried previously. Blows genymotion out of the water. It runs native in windows and emulates arm so that all apps work. Camera, wifi, bluetooth and everything else basically work flawless. I haven't been able to try it on a venue pro cause I traded mine for a surface pro, but I don't see why it wouldn't work great on the venue. Lemme know what you guys think.
[Windows 8 General] Azurael:
The higher spec 7130s come with 7260AC, the base models come with the same wireless as the Atom Venue Pros, but in a removeable M.2 form factor (which is actually called 'Dell Wireless 1538', my mistake). I think all 7139s have 7260AC as standard.

For some reason, I couldn't get the touch-screen to work at all with BIOS A13, A14 makes it work most of the time... If it works at boot time, it keeps working through suspend. A surefire way to get it to work is to boot to Windows, suspend the device once, come out of suspend and reboot to the Android-x86 entry I created in the EFI boot list from Windows' 'Advanced Reboot' menu. For some reason if I boot directly to Android-x86 from turning the tablet on, by using the EFI boot menu (press volume up when the Dell logo first appears at power on) it only works about half of the time.
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
I did try DuOS, but the fact that it runs on top of Windows and that Windows is a memory hog itself makes it useless to me, unless I like having it force closed every few minutes and not being able to have anything else in the background.

Besides, now that I have native KitKat/Lollipop on it, I see no point messing with emulators.
[Windows 8 General] baldpenguin2:
Does lollipop Wi-Fi work for you? Maybe I'll find a gapps version of that and call it a day
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Yep. No fake sleep though, unlike KitKat.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
what file system did you use exfat,ext2,fat32?
[Windows 8 General] richardyiu:
Hi lvlrdka22,

Can you share your latest version of kitkat image(i.e. with auto rotate & brightness) ?

Thanks
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
EXT4 if I recall correctly.

forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/dell-venue-8-pro-dual-boot-with-android-x86-instructions-and-video-proof.65482/
[Windows 8 General] baldpenguin2:
What exactly would it take to fix the iso so that it will be r/w capable? I could try to fix it if I know what to do
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
I wouldn't know. Besides, if you install via ISO, you'll need to modify grub.cfg on your own.
[Windows 8 General] lvlrdka22:
Fun with latest mainline kernel, sticky touches fixed.

Messing about.
[Windows 8 General] spastikitten:
Nice!!! Do we get a link?
[Windows 8 General] 177aj:
Link

Nice! Can we get a link?