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[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Ok.... Using gparted (despite your best arguments) I made an ext4 partition of 300 MiB. I flagged it as bootable and then made the remainder a separate drive (which I labelled as jane). I then installed from the Android x86 64 bit version of Nougat for Android. It is now completely bootable! GPS also works. The home key works. So far so good.

Any questions?

Issues: Can not access the tablet via PC.

This will be the first bit of research.

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Ok, change that. It switched itself off and now is in a never ending loop of trying to restart. I will investigate that.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
300 MiB for a bootable partition? Go a bit further. Make it at least 2 GiB. It may be an accomodation problem. Also, the data.img partition is the one you will store your apps on. Be sure it's big enough.

Also, if GParted works for you, then good job, as I was never able to get the tablet to even boot from it correctly.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Ok, I will make it bigger. Will let you know how it goes. Will be tomorrows job now. Getting to be family time :) I'll start with 2 GiB and see how that goes. Do you have any link that suggests the boot drive needs to be large (other than my tablet not starting?).

Cheers
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Just tried it. Everything works fine, except for the camera and the rotation sensor. Help with the rotation sensor?

EDIT: Just saw your reply. Here's a link: https://xdaforums.com/remix/remix-os/endless-boot-loop-booting-usb-t3300623/amp/

But since the Android x86 is 1.something GB in size, it clearly is your partition size. To me, it boots just fine and for half an hour it hasn't shut down.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Cool!!! Glad you got it working.

The EFI isn't 1 GB though, but I will still make that partition larger (though I have my doubts currently if that will work as previous installs would not install if there was not enough room).

Have you been able to reboot? Not sure about why your rotation isn't working. I'll let you know if I get mine going. Going to do the partitions now.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Yes, I have no problem rebooting. One thing I will mention is that I have kept Windows on the tablet as well. Another thing is that I think I know what the "reboot loop" of yours was. It appears when you lock the device. Hopefully, I'll find something.

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Found your issue. You are using Android 6 and I was using 7. Don't go to 7 except if you want to habe a hard time with the sensor. That thing you are facing can be fixed trough an Xposed app, called GravityBox.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
That's cool. I set the partition to 1080 MiB and things have gone ok so far. I have no problems with rotation but I can not access the camera at all.

The other thing is I still can not access the tablet via the computer and USB. I am unsure why that is.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Ok, nice! But when you put it to sleep, doesn't it bug out? If not, may I get a link to your build, please? My tablet is running out of battery soon.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
No bugging out when sleeping at all. Will see if it switches on in the morning.

The links are:

I used http://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-7-1-rc1 clicked on the fosshub link (second in the list) https://www.fosshub.com/Android-x86.html downloaded the 64 bit ISO.

I burnt the ISO to a USB drive to create an image using Win32Diskimager https://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/

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Hold that thought, I just shut down and rebooted and I have an error. So this is a morning job I think.

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Hold that thought again.... I switched on and off and it rebooted. *sigh*

Seriously, unpredictable springs to mind. Bed time now. Will see how you go in the morning.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Well, I guess more things to report to Android-x86 devs then.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
So I reinstalled two fresh copies, I tried Marshmallow (really buggy, not worth it) and I tried Bliss (which said it was 7.2 but it was a Marshmallow platform set up to look like a Google Pixel (well, a Google Pixel Launcher). But again, that would not reboot (but that install didn't seem to use the first partition for the grub).

So I reinstalled the working Nougat and this is the boot command https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5nf-g1bXqlub3lseFZEVDlnajg

What is it I need to change to make this boot?
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
I want to explain what I saw sometimes happening with the Android image. When booting, the thing sometimes stops giving power to the USB devices, so if you're trying to boot from USB, it will never be able to tell you "found Android at /dev/sda1" because there is nothing to find. So, when that happens, you must power off the tablet and then power it on by pressing the power on and volume up buttons, so it goes into the select bootable device screen.

Also, if your image works just fine, you can reboot by launching "Emulator Terminal" and typing in "reboot". Also, as I have previously mentioned, you can download Xposed and the module called GravityBox to modify the power on menu.

I have sent a message to the devs at Android-x86 yet again and explained them what's going on. I'm waiting for a stable release for this tablet from them.

But what is that "Bliss" thing you are talking about?
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Here is Bliss https://xdaforums.com/android/software/x86-bliss-x86-pc-s-t3534657

I need to look at this Emulator Terminal. Can you explain how to Launch this?
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Emulator Terminal is already installed in every version of Android x86. I guess you know how to open the applications drawer and find Emulator Terminal there LOL. In the meantime, I'll look a bit into Bliss and when I have time I'll test it out, thanks for the link!
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Oh, yeah, I do know how to open the applications draw. I just can't get to the applications draw because I can't boot into Android as I get a never ending bootloop.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
I seriously don't understand your never ending bootloop. Can you describe a bit more? Maybe take some pictures of the boot text?

Also, are you sure you disabled secure boot?
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
So when you switch on the tablet I get a choice of Android or Debug, if I don't have a keyboard attached I can wait 5 seconds and Android will then try to start. I'll get some screenshots. But essentially, Grub finds Android and tries to boot. But something there prevents the boot from continuing and the tablet reboots itself completely and displays the choice for Android or Debug. I don't do anything, wait 5 seconds, then Android tries to load. It finds Android but the tablet seems to start again.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Well, try going into debug, you can use the volume keys to select another option. Also, again, are you sure you disabled secure boot?
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Secure boot was disabled a long time back. I went into debug but not a lot seemed to occur. Will try that again and leave it longer.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
So? What did it do?
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Nothing... took about 10 minutes to do the nothing, but it did nothing. It scrolled through a series of things and then the screen went blank. Back light was still on but nothing happened.

I have re-gparted the hard drive I am going to try yet another installation of Bliss. I have two more experiments up my sleeve yet.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Try adding "nomodeset" argument to boot. Maybe that will help, but I doubt it. I don't understand why is it doing this to you and to me it isn't. Are you 100% sure that you selected the "EFI GUID2" at installation?
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Actually, no I am not 100% sure I selected the EFI GUID2 at installation. To be honest I am unsure where that is selected?
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Here, follow this video: https://youtu.be/NbVxnbG8Gu4
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Ok, I am going to try again with that method.

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So far so good, but I have not tried to reboot. I used the exact method as that video (the only difference this time was I used DD Image instead of ISO and I used RUFUS instead of Win32Disk Imager.

I need to see the root menu to see if it will reboot. What is your suggestion here? I can use ADB devices over WiFi. ut what about this boot emulator you talked about earlier? I need to look at that.

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:'( no luck. I tried the reboot from the emulator and it has failed again.

Seriously. I really do not know what I am doing differently.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Here, check these out, might be of help: https://android.stackexchange.com/questions/119770/turn-screen-off-without-android-sleeping

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.crape.rotationcontrol&hl=ro

These will help with the rotation problem and with the "reboot after locked for more than 10 seconds" issue.

About your bootloop, I'm stuck. I really don't know how to help you no more. Sorry.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5nf-g1bXqlub3lseFZEVDlnajg

There has to be a line there somewhere that needs changing. That is all I can think of.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Well, try adding "--nofloppy" after --set=root.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Keep going - rack your brains :) it was a good try, but no cigar :(

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5nf-g1bXqlubTJib09DSDhnc3M

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5nf-g1bXqluNUFBMVdwcElWZGc

Don't give up on me :) we can do this! I'll buy you a beer after! Maybe two!
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Whoops, sorry, I should have said "--no-floppy" LOL :p

To me, it's done. All that needs some work on is the graphics driver (brightness control). The rebooting when locking device problem I managed to fix by downloading "Wake lock" (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dambara.wakelocker)app from Google Play and the rotation one, using "Rotation Control", from Google Play as well.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Haha ?

I'll try that next. Can you take a photo of the boot command you have so we can compare?

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Update: I installed the Udoo version of Bliss-v7.2-android_x86_64-OFFICIAL-20170716-1404_k4.9-ax86_m13.0.6_UEFI_01 and this seems to work and reboot.

Rotate does not work. GPS does. Lots of extra gadgets installed too which is nice.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Glad to hear you got it working. Check those apps that I mentioned above to help you fix some issues.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Have you managed to get the microSD card to operate? I wonder if my card is damaged? I am going to use diskpart to clean it and format to FAT32 to see if that is the issue.

Haven't tried the rotation app yet. Will use that wake locker though.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Yeah, I did get it to work without a hitch. It needed to be formated by Android tho.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Even with the rotation app I can not get rotation to work on this install.

I got the SD card to work but only as a removable device, so I can not store apps on it like on the Galaxy. Which is a shame in a way, but I can store documents etc there. Still, compared to when Windows was on there I have over 20 GB free plus the 32 GB for music and photos.

Need to work out how to get the rotation to work through scripts and GPS is buggy (sometimes works and sometimes doesn't). Would also like to get the camera to go too. Not sure where to start with that. Any ideas to point me in the right direction?
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Camera is impossible. Auto rotation as well, you need to force it in landscape. Also, if you installed Android read-write, then you can use Apps2SD from Google Play and it will link your apps to the SD card.

If you really want the camera to work, then you better wait for an rc.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
I've decided to go back to square one to solve the impossible boot.

I have tried many combinations, but nothing works. Something happens in the update when Android first loads. How did I test? Well, I installed Android as per instructions and then instead of starting Android x86 I rebooted. Everything rebooted and started. So it is somewhere after install that something gets changed.

How do I find that?
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
So right now, I don't understand what you mean. You just said that it works perfectly fine and now you say it still does the impossible boot. I don't understand what you need right now. To get an installer fixed? Well, that I can't do. I can come up with improvizations, like those apps are, but not full-fledged fixes, at least not in Android. In Windows, we're talking, but just not Android.

I don't see anything wrong with the boot up arguments that GRUB sets up. They are the exact same for me. And for me it boots. Maybe try creating another partition of 50 MB in size (it might be a GRUB problem tho), so it stores the GRUB separately from the OS.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Ok, I have already stored the grub in a separate partition. I currently have one 500MiB partition where I install the EFI and the major partition where I install the main OS. As far as working perfectly, it does. The whole OS works wonderfully. It just doesn't reboot. So other than that, it is great :)

So, I also don't really know what I need - just to find out why Bliss works and reloads (but the OS is glitchy) but Nougat doesn't reload (but OS is fine).
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
So, please follow carefully. I am not saying this one more time, as I got mine working and you should get yours now.

So, have 2 partitions: a small one and a huge one (29-30 GiB). Install Android x86 (Bliss) as per instructions from video, except don't install system as RW, because it will make root programs bug out. Better use TowelRoot or KingoRoot later. After install is finished, select "Reboot". If GRUB is not automatically installed to the small partition, let it where it was installed, if you move it, the system won't boot anymore.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
I think there was something wrong with the boot partition or the way that the drive was set up. I used gparted to set up partition tables but this time I did it in MSDOS, found that install didn't work so I went back and redid the partition tables to GPT (as I had done before). I set up the drives, but this time I left 50MiB vacant at the end (like you suggested). I did a full install, and I installed GRUB to the small partition (as FAT32).

This time it seemed to work, despite, funny enough, not doing anything different. I am currently using the Android x86 version of Nougat as Bliss I found to be extremely buggy (ie WiFi stopped working).

The only things I did differently this time after boot up was install some Reboot apps and Device manager apps. But I hardly tweaked anything (if at all). I have installed as R/W as I only just saw your message now, and so far so good. But if I do reinstall I will consider not making R/W.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
What do you mean by "WiFi stopped working"? It kept disconnecting?
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Exactly as I said, I could not turn on WiFi after about three reboots. The setting refused to allow WiFi to turn on. Plus many other things began failing like GPS as well. But that could also have been a condition of the format of the eMMC too.

Let's just wait and see how this install goes. So far, so good, fingers crossed.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Ok, please update me, as the WiFi drops sometimes for me.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Yeah, this is a very helpful thread for users who want to try this themselves on their Toshiba.

I have a different installation to you, and the WiFi seems to remain intact. So far so good.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
It keeps dropping even on original Android x86_64 7.1. What image did you use?
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
I used the Android x86 image. http://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-7-1-rc1

https://osdn.net/projects/android-x86/downloads/67834/android-x86-7.1-rc1.x86_64.rpm/

Does this help? Is this the one you used? If so, it shows how individual tablets are. Though.... we did a few things differently.

In my final install I used gparted, made device partition table in GPT, a FAT32 partition 512 MiB, an ext4 partition of the remainder minus a 100 MiB free space allocation.

On the install I installed EFI Grub 2 but DID NOT format. I installed the Android image on the next partition and did format and I did use R/W.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Yes, that was the one. On the 64 bit one, the damn rotation worked. I have also tried the 32 bit one, but it acted the same way, just the rotation wouldn't work. But at this point, I have made a decision. I'll keep both Windows 8 and Android on the tablet, just so I can watch my movies (online, only Windows 8 can) and play my games (downloadable, offline, only Android can fit games on 8 GB left of storage and install Nitro Nation - it doesn't exist on Windows Store for Windows 8.1, just for Windows Phone).
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
I still think we try to keep this thread alive:

Known bugs -SuperUser continually needs permissions for every reboot. And other Super User apps need special assistance on install (will look into this).

Dimming does not work from Android Settings. But does work with Screen Filter (here).

WiFi needs to be turned on after every reboot (not sure if this is an issue or not yet, WiFi comes on automatically with my other Androids, but they're not rooted).

Pretty minor so far.

Some apps do not work. For example a game I have been playing, Resources, will not load. But then other apps work near perfectly and faster than on my S7, like MapsMe.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
You should report the bugs you found to Android x86 at contact@android-x86.com and yes, keep the thread alive.

About that app, most Android apps don't have an x86 version, so no surprise it didn't work. Nitro Nation, CSR Racing, big games usually have x86 versions, so those are no worry.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Looks like the Android x86 devs have released a new version of 7.1, will test that soon and get back with what I could find.
[Windows 8 General] slim6y:
Oh.... didn't even see. I have been using Bliss with pretty good outcomes. Some glitches. But pretty happy with the overall OS.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Same bugs, except the screen rotates on the stock build of Android x86, no need for some 3rd party modder to get that. Will report these to the devs again. As for your Screen Filter, Twilight is a better option, as Screen Filter is either enabled, either disabled. In Twilight, you can adjust the brightness.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
On 6th February of 2018 (speaking for 2018, Happy New Year, thread participants!), Android x86 devs released another build of Android 7.1. And it's great! For one exception: it rotates the screen the other way round than it should (180 degrees difference). Other than that, everything works. If I'm correct, even the cameras (yes, both) work. The backlight is controllable, so that means fully adjustable brighness without Twillight or some other dumb programs. I'm not sure about the wake-lock, as I have yet to install it on my tablet, I only tested it VIA USB, and the tablet seemed to fully freeze when locking, so I cannot confirm anything, it only happened once though. The 180 degree bug can most definetly be fixed very easily, I will have to look a bit into it. Will come back tomorrow with more details. This is a very big release in my opinion.
[Windows 8 General] Spunkybob:
Hi all.

I also have this tablet and I am wanting to turn this I to android (is it possible to have duel boot?)

What is the current best steps to complete this.

All I need is android and wifi.. don't need root or anything if that makes it hard.

Just want to play some games.

Cheers all.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Root is easiest thing to do with Android x86. The hard thing is the drivers. The developers are trying to create universal drivers and that's where the mistake is. It's much harder and slower to create universal and fully working drivers than a driver for each device. Of course, there are many devices that need to be taken into consideration, but it is much more possible than thousands of "if"s and "while"s. You can try it for yourself and see if it meets your expectations. There is a "Live" option, that just boots Android off of the USB and doesn't install it.
[Windows 8 General] Spunkybob:
Is it possible to boot from microSD? I'd be happy to have it permanently inserted that way and just select it at boot.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
No.
[Windows 8 General] gamr13:
Hey everyone,

I have a Toshiba Encore on the way and android-x86_64-7.1-r2 downloaded ready to go!

Has anyone tried this build? Any issues that are still happening on it?

Cheers!
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Hi mate! No, sadly none of us seem to have tried that build. Me personally, I can't continue this experiment (how I like to call these "try and try" things), because my Toshiba Encore has a dead display, so there's no way I can test anything. But you can create a bootable USB (you can get some instructions on the first pages of this thread) and boot in Android-x86 live, meaning Android will run off the USB drive, without getting installed. Could you please post back with the results, if you'll try the build?
[Windows 8 General] gamr13:
I would be absolutely more than happy to keep this thread alive with my results, should I come across any issues I hope we'll try figure them out and get them resolved, I shouldn't have any issues getting it installed to the tablet, it's just a case of when it arrives (should be next week). I'm just hoping I can get WiFi, audio, the display/touchscreen, preferably Bluetooth and my typical apps like Snapchat, Discord etc working.
[Windows 8 General] antoniu200:
Of course, but I want to give you a heads up first: expect issues to exist an not all to be fixable by us. I'm not too sure whether Bluetooth works or not, I must say I don't use it all that often, so that I cannot guarrantee. But what I can advise you is to download the x86_64 version of Android and not just x86, as the rotation sometimes doesn't work under x86.
[Windows 8 General] gamr13:
Well, naturally there's gonna be some issues, and I obviously don't expect that you'll all help me fix 'em haha.
[Windows 8 General] gamr13:
Hey everyone,

So, after installing a few versions of Android X86 I can't get the tablet to find any install of it, but despite that after installing Android X86 and booting Android from the setup it stays on a black screen with the backlight on. The Live CD for stock Android X86 and CM 14.1 both boot to a black screen, bliss got to a boot animation but I didn't give it enough time to boot because I was admittedly in a hurry. After installing Bliss though it did the same as the others, black screen, backlight on. Would appreciate it if you lot could give me a hand with this.

Cheers.
[Dell Streak 7] SlickClick:
Well my old streak 7 went in the parts bin from a bad charge port, but got a wifi for cheap recently... I also been playing with win10 and win10ph was just released it has ARM processor support, any thoughts in wiping out these ds7 to win10..?
[General Questions and Answers] Satya318:
I am using Bluestack 0.9.7.4101 which is already rooted.I want to change its Wifi MAC Address as that of my moblie.So is there any way to change Bluestack Wifi MAC to a specific one,for example,11:22:33:44:55:66.I installed BusyBox and Terminal Emulator,but unable to change Wifi MAC,as it has two MAC address ,so please help to change only the wifi MAC.
[General Questions and Answers] vaslobas:
bump. Any solution?