[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insomniacno1:
Hi, I have the following tablet with Windows 8.1 with Bing - that ultimately I like to have android or linux on, but in the first run test from LiveUSB.

I have already tried many distro and always run into the following troubles: wi-fi, bluetooth, sound, rotation drivers not installed. Touchscreen not working. LiveUSB boot to black screen, and if you get it to the desktop with kernel parameter nomodeset or i915.modeset=0 then you can't change resolution or rotate screen.

So I like to know if anyone here got Android working fully on this tablet - ignore the name as it most likely is a china tab that has been rebranded - look at the spec instead. I know some of these tablet came with Android installed from factory and if the owner can make a ROM dump then I hope it's possible to make a LiveUSB/install from that with the help of the developers here - if anyone will take that task:)

I got Puppy Linux Slacko to boot on this one with the kernel parameter i915.modeset=0 - on this one sound, rotation, wi-fi and bluetooth do not work

Linuxium 16.04 and 16.10 boots with either i915.modeset=0 or nomodeset - on this one wi-fi and bluetooth work, sound and rotation do not work.

Most of the other distro's I have tried, Android x86 , Remix OS, Phoenix OS, Fatdog64/32, Puppy Tahr - cannot complete boot to desktop.

HW:

The Odys WinTab 8 is an 8" Windows 8.1 Tablet powered by Intels Bay Trail-T platform with an Intel Atom Z3735E quadcore processor. Built in is a microSDHC slot for expansion of storage of up to 32GB. 1GB of RAM. In terms of ports there is only 1 microUSB port which is host(OTG) capable and a 3.5mm headphone jack.

Manufacturer Odys

Model name Wintab 8

CPU type Intel Atom Z3735E

CPU speed 1330 Mhz

Graphics Intel HD (Gen 7 Baytrail) - I's actually HD Graphics 4600

Fanless YES

OS Microsoft Windows 8.1

Display Size 8.0" 1280 X 800 - 1280x768, 1280x720 and 1024x768

Screen Type LED-Backlit LCD

Touchscreen type Multi-touch

Touchscreen FTSC1000:00 2808:1008

RAM 1024 MB

SSD 16 GB

Battery capacity 16 Wh

Wireless Interfaces:

802.11 b/g/n - Realtek RTL8723BS

BT 4.0 Realtek RTL8723BS

Wi-fi/bluetooth drivers for developer to use as kernel patch https://github.com/hadess/rtl8723bs

No Wireless WAN (e.g. 3G cellular)

Soundcard: Realtek RTL5640/42

Drivers: http://12244.wpc.azureedge.net/8012244/drivers/rtdrivers/pc/audio/0001-LinuxPkg_5.18rc8.tar.bz2 - Not working in Ubuntu, no sound.

Accelerometer: Kionix KXCJ9

It has 32bit UEFI bios, so in order to boot it on anything it needs the /EFI/boot/bootia32.efi - here are the files needed with grub.cfg files with examples - its made by Ted Dog and I have modified it to work on this tablet. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/94851101/extract2usb.tar.gz

The bios can be accessed by holding both volume buttons and power ON, so you don't have to boot to windows first.

The partition scheme is as follows:

1. 100MB EFI

2. Windows C: - Windows 8.1 with bing - 9.30GB with 3.20GB free

3. Recovery - 5.15GB used

Seems to be using Wimboot.

I have the HW set up and are willing to work with an developer to get this working, I'm online most of the day besides for 6 hours I sleep.

I work in Linux on my own laptop, so please take this in mind regarding answers.

Hope someone is up for this:)

JBJ