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[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gian90t:
Hi all

Updating to KitKat my s4 Mini i got a terrible battery drain, my phone becomes hot and draining fastly with connection data on.

I switch to the S5 Proyect Rom, with BrisK kernel, and the problem is partially solved, but sometimes the phone becomes really hot and loose a lot of battery percent.

I can use another kernel on my rom (i've never flash a kernel, i suppose to making this flashing it on Odin, right?) to fix the battery drain?

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just use App Opp, Wakelock Detector, BetterBattery Stats... it's not made by an app this battery drain, i think is related to the network management
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 96DANGER96:
Try another rom, like Cm12 lollipop and f4k pre4 kernel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] asabhy:
Hello

Please, i need your advice

I have an asus fonepad 7 (fe375cg) it has Intel Atom Z3560 ((really beast))

running android 4.4.2

i don't know if asus will launch lollipop for it or not

so here is my question

how difficult is building a lollipop rom for my asus fonepad 7(fe375cg)

is it very hard or just imposible ?

my nowlage in devloping is too low

but i will learn if it possible.

asus has put the Kernel Source Code on its website for download (a zip file about 100 Mb )

contains folders named ( linux : kerenel , moduduled

does this Kernel Source Code will make bulding lollipop rom easier ?

or it will only works on kitkat?

and they put also the firmware

a 1Gb zip file contains (META-INF . Recovery , system , boot.img , splashscreen.img , fastboot.img .... )

thank you.
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] hummer5:
I am in deep trouble. I was trying to update the rom on my wizard to faria but while it was 75% done i don't know what happened but my computer shut down and after that all i see is 75% completion bar. Now when i reconnected it to my computer it is showing the multicolor screen on my wizard and the updater is refusing to update it. Please help me.

thanks
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] mfrazzz:
YOu need to give us the IPL / SPL numbers so we know more about your situation... But at this point since you have the bootloader screen (rainbow screen you describe) just plug in the USB cable (you should see it say USB above the left soft key) and then flash an official (not a custom, but an official) rom like the TMobile 2.26 one. That will get you back to stable ground and a working device again. Once you do that, then you can go back to trying to put the Faria rom on if you want.

http://www.t-mobileapps.com/downloadcenter/Software_List.cfm?selDevice=24
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] kammillo:
Hi,

Like in subject, I can't log to Live account after activate phone. There is information about email or/and password is not corrected, but i'm sure there are correct (I can log to outlook.com).

ROM: Lang HD2 pdaimatejam Rom Wp7.8 OS 7.10.8862.144 v8.9

I was remove previous phones from account.

Thanks for any help :)
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dxdy:
you tried hard reset?

are you sure password is correct? try login via PC to https://login.live.com
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] kammillo:
After hard reset still I can't log to account :crying:

Every day i'm using this login and password
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] dxdy:
after hard reset, you enter live activation code?
[HD2 Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting an] kammillo:
Of course :)

Oh no, I forgot I had 2step verification turn on :)

Sorry, for the problem. Thanks for any help
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Hi Devs!

I'm wondering why not more people here working to get android lollipop working on our beloved tablets

I started to read a little bit into the topic and found quick easy solutions on the web to get ordenary android-x86 images boot very well.

Draco wrote an How-To that is easy and works also perfect with the Surface-Pro

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/D85Jq02cLrE

I modified the UEFI files to work better with a out of the box intallation of the Surface and put it together with Android 5.0.2 test builds.

Collect everything I've uploaded in a Folder:

https://drive.google.com/folderview...V3VU0wYV9MY2VVVkY2eGJPT0EyTkQ4WnM&usp=sharing

working

multitouch screen

sound

internal Wifi from SP2 (88W8797)

Bluetooth

Type Cover 2 (on installation also)

Touch Cover 2 (on installation also)

Inclinometer (= rotation sensor)

Ambient light sensor

Front Cam (tested with open Camera)

Rear Cam (tested with open Camera)

OpenGL (tested with Antutu)

Issues so far

Accelerometer [HID-SENSOR-200073.0]

Gyroscope [HID-SENSOR-200076.0]

Magnetometer [HID-SENSOR-200076.0]

MS Pen not working

YouTube Videos not working (only low resolutions, working over chromecast)

...

Are there more people interrested in getting latest Android working better on our Surface Pro?

I can support and provide with modified files and my modified How-To if someone like to join.

Remix OS link:

Remix OS with working WiFi

Bliss-x86 link:

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/x86-bliss-x86-pc-s-t3534657

regards

Sandman01
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
bootmanager, gapp[EXT4], WIFI [firmwar+module], Type/Touch Cover 2

How-To

Here to download a Testbuild for Android 5.0.2 from Google Groups from rgb

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-x86/3xClAbl5D_w

Info:

If an microSD card is inserted the boot process will fail, because the microSD replaces the SSD to be the hd0 device.

Solution: change the grub.cfg entry from hd0 to hd1 and also do the mod in the loopback cfg

[EDIT]: sinc latest UEFI Firmware update, booting from microSD isn't working anymore

gapps can be used from any place, just copy the contens of the .zip file to there correct places.

atm I use a small gapps package from paranoidandroid (PA)

http://d-h.st/o72

WiFi: (not required any more on available builds)

I compiled a build on my Ubuntu intallation and extract the files for you, hope copy the files works also on the downloadable iso.

Please give me feedback if the files are working for you.

usb8797_uapsta.bin replaced in /lib/firmware/mrvl/

mrvl folder replaced in /lib/modules/3.10.58-android-x86+/kernel/drivers/net/wireless

Touch/Type Cover 2: (not required any more on available builds)

hid folder replaced in /lib/modules/3.10.58-android-x86+/kernel/drivers/
[Microsoft Surface] snailx:
Genymotion is a good choice
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Genymotin is only a emulator as far as I see!

I'm one of the users who want to run an os natively like i did with osx. :D
[Microsoft Surface] snailx:
Hi,

I'm very interested in this!

Could u pls post a tutorial of installing OSX on surface pro 3 ?

I have only installed Max OS 10.9 in VMware, but it's not smooth verywell.

Does WiFi work well within your OSX install ed on the Disk ?
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Hi!

For OSX Yosemite go to

http://www.insanelymac.com

I'm on the SP2 and WIFi only per external USB Stick sorry

I hope similar tho the SP2 kex Files for SP3 are available

For me OSX with the use of touchscreens is not very comfortable.

Is like Win7 to small buttons

Also at Android I only get WIFI working via external USB Stick atm.
[Microsoft Surface] snailx:
Thanks a lot, I'll try it.. someday..
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Solution for gapps found by the guys from google groups.

Use a EXT4 Partition on the USB-Drive/SSD to get gapps working like a charm. :)

Post 2 with HOW-TO updated
[Microsoft Surface] epic118:
Surface Pro 3

I can verify that this does not work on the Surface Pro 3. The touchscreen doesn't work, the type cover doesn't work and the pen doesn't work, so I can't even choose my language on the first screen. :(
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
I'm sorry for that, if you have time, can you also test a available Android 4.4.4 installation if olso there touchscreen is not working?

I correct the title and update the OP that everyone sees that on SP3 ther are more problems.

Touchscreen is working on SP2 but Type Cover 2 did not so I also need an external USB keyboard for analysing things in console (ALT+F1)

regards

Sandman01
[Microsoft Surface] epic118:
Sure, I've got time! :)

I'm just going to try installing 4.4.4 and seeing if it works.
[Microsoft Surface] calikevin:
I'd like to see Lollipop for my RT :)
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Haha, I understand you, but I have to mention that I'm a noob.

As far as I understand, creating/porting the drivers/firmware/kernel modules for the surface rt will be much more difficult than starting from an existing project like android-x86.

At the moment I split my SSD into more partitiones, installed the third OS (Ubuntu 14.10), get the complete code from git repository and try to set up the build environment to learn more about things are working together.

Also on Ubuntu the WIFI (USB version of MARVELL 88W8797) wont work out of the box but after replacing the firmware from git.marvell.com I get it up working.

Unfortunately this is not working on Android that easy. :(

The kernel modul for WIFI is loaded (mwifiex.ko) but no additional network interface is showing (mlan0 should be created)
[Microsoft Surface] dimex:
Haha, so glad I found this thread. First things first, is your avatar a paragliding or skydiving canopy? If so, end cells look fantastic and very nice acrobatics with your leg straight up...how did you manage that? :p

I spent all evening and well into the morning finally getting 4.4-r2 running successfully on my SP2 using Draco's guide. Very nice work there from him.

It's unbelievable how smooth the Android experience is natively. When people recommend the emulators they just don't understand until they experience it themselves.

I have the Type Cover 1, and it's fully functional, but bluetooth and WiFi do not work. I have an Edimax EW-7811Un which does work, but the internet speeds are unusable; it maxes out at .25 Mbps. Is there something I need to do or is there another WiFi dongle which works better? Which one do you use?

Do you know of any combo WiFi/BT dongles that work?

If I can solve the WiFi issue (don't really care about having a small dongle plugged in for android), I will be one happy camper.

One more question: I read the 4.4-r1 had some drivers or something that 4.4-r2 didn't. However, I couldn't get it to boot from USB (it would hang on the android screen). With that said, I just replaced the files within the 4.4-r2 files with the 4.4-r1 on the USB. Do I have to rebuild the thumb drive or can I just replace files?

I will try the Lollipop build later. Good to find someone else doing this! Too bad we're both newbs lol.
[Microsoft Surface] shasen1235:
Hi there!

I got 4.4-r2 working on my SP3 and about the internet issue you can use usb tethering with your Android phone

Both LTE and Wifi work and I get the same speed as my phone
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
:D

Thats a paragliding canopy, and what you can see is the basic you have to manage when you want to fly acrobatic style.

Its a full stall where the canopy is not flying forward any more an the pilot is falling backwards untill the body stabilized under the backflying canopy :D

At the moment I use a USB2.0 HUB to connect the USB-Drive and the WLAN Stick at the same time. because after the last firmware Upgrade of my SP2 the Tablet do not boot any more from the microSD card. ?!?

The WLAN Stick is a original Samsung WIS12ABGNX for my Samsung TV/BD Player I used to test what can be done with them.

on Win8.1 I got a Speed of approx. 8-9MByte/sec (internal Marvell Wifi)

on Android 5.0.2 I got 4-5MByte/sec (external Samsung Wifi)

on Sony Xperia Z2 5.0.2 (unofficial) I got 2-3MByte/sec (internal ... Wifi)

when copy a file between my NAS (100MBit Network LAN structure)

so there is room for improvement, but first I really like to get more familiar with building Android from source by my self and try to get the internal Wifi working.

Also on Ubuntu 14.10 WiFi is working but not very stable but it does. (with including the firmware from git.marvell.com)
[Microsoft Surface] dimex:
I'd rather get a small nano USB WiFi dongle and "set it and forget it." I don't want to have to carry around the SP2 and my phone with a USB cable just to use the internet.

Ya, the image was blurry, I was pretty sure that was a paragliding wing. I was a competitive high-performance canopy pilot (swooper) but have been out of the sport for a number of years. Some of the canopies now have radically different designs and the different wings between skydiving/paragliding/etc are merging now to make some cool stuff. Made a few paragliding flights, but never got into it.

You were able to boot android directly from a microSD and keep the SSD untouched (didn't even think of that)? Did the upgrade affect the partitions at all? Maybe the set root=(hd0,gpt#) and root=/dev/sda# changed, but I'm sure you already looked at that.

Ok, I just want to make sure we're on the same page here. So on Android you were getting 5 MBps (40 Mbps)? That's super fast, unless you meant 5 Mbits, which is still faster than what I'm getting. Right now, I'm getting 0.25 Mbps (0.03125 MBps) which is unusable. I have another WiFi dongle arriving today, so maybe that will help. If it doesn't, why am I getting such slow speeds?
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Hi!

I did a 2nd x-check

Defenetly can receiver a 260MB file Form my NAS with ~3,2 Megabyte (~2min) per second and transmit the same file with ~4,5 Megabyte per second back to my NAS with the external Samsung USB WiFi stick

I would say its also possible to installiert Android to the microSD on a EXT4 partition and boot it via Grub.

Yes its all about the (hd0,gpt2) and /dev/sda2 or similar.

Just try it and if the numbers are not correct Boot into Grub and adapt the setting by pressing "e" and thest the setting with "F10"
[Microsoft Surface] dimex:
Well I just tried the TP-Link TL-WN725N and it did not work at all.

Tried within 4.4-r1 that's installed to SP2's SSD and Lollipop booting from USB. WiFi just hangs at turning on and doesn't recognize the dongle.

Why am I getting such slow speeds on the other dongle? And do you know of any specific nano WiFi dongles that work well for this application? I tried searching on Google and in the Android-x86 group but came up empty.

I just want WiFi!!!! :crying:
[Microsoft Surface] Pistacchio1971:
Hi sorry for my english,there is a guide for install android on surface pro 1 ?

I think is same of surface pro 2, thanks.......
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Hi.

Just as you like.

You have to install a boot manager (grub) that is able to boot android from an GPT formatet partition.

If you haven't erased your windows partition, the bootmanager is also able to boot windows also.

If you decided to delete the other partitions, the bootmanager can only boot from the remaining partition. If there is android installed than you are able to boot android.

Its a little bit complicated to install, but after that you are very flexible what to boot.

Regards

Mario
[Microsoft Surface] prohackerbro:
the 4.4 3.18 build is working flawless. the only thing is the rotation, sometimes work,sometimes not. wifi works and only crashes every 5 sleep. much more better than on ubuntu with 3.18 kernel. but when is lollipop going to have an working sleep? i need sleep cause the device has a reallly bad battery compared to other high-end tablets with android. not speaking of windows.

sorry for my grammar, also from german sides :)
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
Currently I'm working on porting Bluetooth (BlueZ) also to Lollipop.

Its hard at the moment because also non modified builds are crashing while boot. Don't know exactly what is broken on the android-x86 sources atm.
[Microsoft Surface] prohackerbro:
im here, if you need a tester or anybody that helps, just say it.

i also want our surface to run android perfectly :D

i will look into the new lollipop images soon. Mfg
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
it :D

At the moment my builds are not booting anymore, so I cannot provide you with a testable image.

Also images build without modifications stuck at the android boot logo. :(

As far as I know for BlueZ integration, this is the way it should work:

git.kernel.org/cgit/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/android/README

compared with some searching in the Android-x86 Kitkat branch:

mods in init.x86.rc & init.sh

the build is not booting

Now I tried to integrate also the kernel changes like mentioned in the BlueZ post, I'm not able to build the kernel anymore.

So the next step for me is tho get a working kernel with the flags needed for BlueZ but this is not working like it is mentioned in the android-x86 kernel customation How-To

if some one has the experience in building/modifier kernels please help my how.

regards

Mario
[Microsoft Surface] prohackerbro:
Hahah :D

give me a day, will have to shrink C: and install any kind of linux on the surface.

then i will look into kernel building, i did it already once, for a galaxy note pro 12.2, only unlocking permissive mode, so it cant be that difficult. I think a virtual machine does its job aswell, ill try doing all i can ;)

P.S.: My old PC was a netbook with an 1,6 atom inside, so the difference is there ahahah
[Microsoft Surface] Ranomez:
[MENTION=716651]sandman01[/MENTION] great job on this, I have a SP2 also and was really sad android x86 could not run even close to usable on it, can't wait to get mine back and install this.

I have a few questions and perhaps ideas and I hope you could answer me:

First thing is I don't have a keyboard cover and can't afford it (if there isn't any cheap copy out there, which I couldn't find) and carrying a usb keyboard with me always is kinda impossible to me (and I have one of those flexible rubber ones that doesn't weight too much, but other reasons) so I was thinking about doing a install where I would have grub 2 set up to default boot android after 1s but keeping the windows boot manager too for booting windows and switching between them from within the booted OS and I know I can do that in windows with easyUEFI but I want to ask if the android build contains the efibootmgr binary and if it mounts the efi partition (and if it does if the mount point is /boot/efi) because my plan is to then use "efibootmgr -o 2,1" to switch back to the windows efi boot manager?

And if it does not could you try to compile it? I know I can use easyUEFI to boot android just once but sometimes having to re-enter windows every time I want to boot android could be a big problem (battery wise, I sometimes need to do a lot of reboots to test different hacks or update xposed modules, etc).

Now an other question: as far as I could read the hardware decoding seems to be broken in these builds (at least the 5.1.1 ones) so couldn't we switch the whole OS to software decoding (with ffmpeg, etc) instead at least until (if) hardware decoding is fixed, I know many media players have the option to switch to software decoding but youtube and other things don't so they will be broken?

This idea came because I know it can be done as it was done on my note 4 on AOSP as a temporary fix before hardware decoding was fixed, the thing is I don't really know if there are any builds of the software decoders for android x86, that's why I am asking, I also might attempt to do some of these things on my own when I have the time (I have quite a bit of linux knowledge but not enough android one to help on mobile devices so I hope I'll be more useful here).
[Microsoft Surface] :
[MENTION=2621033]Ranomez[/MENTION]: Untill Sandman reply to you. I dont remember now how, but i could select inside windows to boot in android mode. So if you dont have the keyboard, this is a way to boot in android.

Second: Almost everything i have try works ok. If hardware decoding doesn't work, software do..
[Microsoft Surface] TheTobii:
How is it with heat generation? I tested some earlier build and the Surface tended to get very hot doing some basic tasks.
[Microsoft Surface] Ranomez:
Oh, ok, thank you, my information about hardware decoding not working was actually about basic Android x86 lollipop 5.1.1 and not specifically this surface version (I have installed it on my laptop and my PC, one having a i5 CPU and one a i7 and on both it was not working, I tested it with MX Player) so perhaps he managed to fix it or applied the same fix I suggested of disabling the hardware decoders and building software ones.

Also supposing you are on a 5.1.1 build can you tell me if sleep mode works, that is something that (also) seems to be broken in the normal Android x86 sources, my laptop and PC never go to sleep and if I try to force it I get an android crash and soft reboot?
[Microsoft Surface] :
No i have kitkat version as it works better for me than lolipop. I don't have surface here now so i don't remember which kitkat. It also work ok sleep mode. If i remember well lollipop had problems with sleep.

Yes it is heatier than Windows and battery worse. I think cpu always works in max..

I actually have installed also duo os lollipop version which is probably better in many things.

It is much slower than this, but it share folders of Windows. You can see pictures, documents and music of Windows and share files between..

On the other hand many games which work in android from here, don't work in duo os. So i use both..
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
a testbuild from rgb is available

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B2evBKvIpdYkZ3lxSDRnQlk0Rzg&usp=sharing#list
[Microsoft Surface] tarynin:
The Android-x86 5.1-rc1 released:cool:
[Microsoft Surface] :
So, has anyone tried it?
[Microsoft Surface] flamm82:
I tried, but having problems authenticating WIFI.
[Microsoft Surface] Fuyuri:
Same here, Surface Pro 1. I tried copying over wifi files from a post towards the beginning, and again from my own ubuntu laptop, but with both of those wifi doesn't turn on. I honestly just want to see if one specific game runs well on a larger screen lol.
[Microsoft Surface] Jimmy Mossiba Floyd:
I think I'm missing something that is in front of my eyes but.... I did everything like it's written and I'm getting stuck at "detecting android-x86........" endlessly looking for android....

it already worked for me like since a month ago, I deleted android, now I can't remember how didi I configure it to boot!!! :(
[Microsoft Surface] sandman01:
try to disconnect the usb stick and connect them again when the line

"detecting android-x86........"

is shown
[Microsoft Surface] Jimmy Mossiba Floyd:
the problem happens after the installation process, when I reboot, there is no grub menu (which is obvious on my Surface Pro 3). I go through the manual installation of GRUB2 (with the Surface theme), but the thing missing is the menu entries which seem to be erronous :(

here is my grub.cfg file

insmod png

loadfont /boot/grub/themes/surface/ubuntu.pf2

if loadfont /boot/grub/font.pf2 ; then

set gfxmode=auto

#insmod efi_gop

#insmod efi_uga

insmod gfxterm

fi

terminal_output gfxterm

insmod gfxmenu

set theme=/boot/grub/themes/surface/theme.txt

set timeout=3

menuentry "Run Android x86" {

set root='(hd0,gpt9)'

linuxefi /android-5.1-rc1/kernel androidboot.hardware=android_x86_64 SRC=/android-5.1-rc1/system

initrdefi /android-5.1-rc1/initrd.img

}

menuentry 'Android-x86 5.1-rc1' --class android-x86 {

set root=(hd0,gpt9)

linuxefi /android-5.1-rc1/kernel root=/dev/sda9 androidboot.hardware=android_x86_64 SRC=/android-5.1-rc1/system quiet DATA=/android-5.1-rc1/data

initrdefi /android-5.1-rc1/initrd.img

}

NB: the ext4 Android-x86 partition is on the 9th partition on the GPT :/ don't know what am I missing :(

Edit: I put both entries to show you that both with quotes and without quotes, both entries give the same "Detecting Android-x86...." endless screen