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[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Techronico:
I know this question will come with some confused comments and answers... so Ill ask the question and qualify my question with some examples why I am asking and of what I am not asking.

Question: What is the likelihood of getting/shoehorning Full x86 Windows 10 (or 8.1 until 10 releases) onto this phone?

Qualifying statements:

1. I am not asking about Windows Phone OS at all. Everyone knows Microsoft screwed the pooch during their shift from Windows Mobile 6.5 to Windows Phone 7 then again from Windows Phone 7 to Windows Phone 8. That is why so many of us jumped ship from Microsoft's Phone offerings over to Android in 2010. This is 5 years later and Microsoft might be able to get some market share back, but only if they pull their head out of their a$$....

2. (Example of irrelevant answer... Why do you want full Windows when there is Win RT or WinPho???lol!!!!LMFAO!!!! TrolllFACE!!!)

There are plenty of usage cases to justify full x86 Windows on a mobile device. Microsoft and Intel are pushing on the tablet market but for some reason they have not begun to crack the phone market with Full WinTel.... Simply put, If someone is willing to pick up a Windows 8.1 x86 tablet with 1GB or 2GB of RAM for $200 or $300 bucks then they should be ok picking up a similar device with 4GB of RAM and the ability to make calls.

3. (Another example of irrelevant answer...But Android!!!! It rulz!!!)

First off I am an avid android user. We started with My wife and I getting the EVO 4G in 2010, then EVO 3D in 2011 (I know...), then Note 2 in 2012, and My wife switching out the Note 2 for the Huawei Ascend Mate 2 last year. Im holding on to my Note 2 for the final stretch with its 9300 mAh Zero Lemon battery. All phones we've gotten have been rooted and customized by me. I use Bluestacks and/or Andy OS on all of my Windows PCs and have owned several Android Tablets. In short I prefer Android over Windows phone and iOS and whatever else is out there... Now in saying that, I feel a full Windows device in a phone with sufficient processor and RAM would be able to run Windows as its main OS and Android as an emulator to satisfy my Android needs.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] badrsj:
Very well put, I'm also interested in this.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AltCoyne:
Also interested in this!
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] panpjp:
I think this needs Microsoft's direct support. IMHO these are some blockades the community will be met with:

1. Since Android uses a boot.img as stage2, some work have to be done for the boot image to be able to chainload Windows. Vanilla installation goes out of the equation.

2. Figuring out how to chainload a proprietary OS properly is, well, hard.

3. It seems like the device uses some special Intel modem and wireless chipset. Porting won't be easy (Look at Intel PRO...)

4. Although 5.5in is GIGANTIC for a phone, maybe explorer or metro won't be able to fit in it?

5. Onboard storage is lackluster to host a full desktop Windows.

6. Windows doesn't even have a dialer.

But generally, this is a great idea! Being able to run x86 apps on a phone, oh the feels!
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] PsyCLown89:
I'd be very interested if it would run full x86 or x64 Windows! However as stated, I doubt that will happen.

Even then it would be a bit limited and the main issue I would imagine to be space. The screen is quite small for a 1080p window to display on. I'd want to probably run a 720p res for larger buttons and such, might fit a bit better.

Perhaps if you could have it all run off a memory card, but then it would be rather slow to boot and cache stuff?
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kazuken:
Here check out this small presentation. Something could be possible with the virtualization extensions that intel processor has.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chinabull:
This totally depends on :

- how well Asus releases the source code.

- Bootloader unlockable or not, i.e. ways to work around the secure boot.

I tried similar things on Lenovo K900 which is running Z2580. Lenovo's open source release was just horrible since even building the kernel was difficult due to lack of info.

I was able to eventually built the kernel with KVM enabled, but was having trouble signing the kernel for the bootloader.

Just force loading the kvm.ko was not successful either since the stock kernel had some feature missing required by KVM.

I would be interested to work on this phone again if we can form a group.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kazuken:
sure we can start a group on slack.com

some other things that also come to my mind:

wine for x86

docker for x86

debian chroot

wine already has some ARM support
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Blades:
This would likely be much easier... Notice the 'high end' system reqs?

http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet/operators-and-oems

I think the biggest problem for Windows would be wrestling with the PowerVR-based gpu.. Those stupid things are usually a roadblock in just about every interesting project..
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevethegreat:
Sorry for ressurecting this old thread but you would definitely be able to run Linux X86 on chroot. Then through wine you'd be able to run a lot of windows apps. Only issue is that performance would be low *unless* you'd output the GUI to android's framebuffer (FB0) which would require a kernel supporting this (outputting to framebuffer) which in turn would need Asus releasing the kernel sources so that to bake FB support.

So yeah it's all doable even with relatively good performance and by outputting the image (through MHL or chromecast) into the big screen would give us a X86 PC on the go. In fact I'd prefer it from running windows X86 natively because then you'd be losing calls and notifications... Imagine your *phone* running all your PC's software (well almost all as wine often has issues). You can buy one of those 128gb micro sds and your "phone" would have plenty of space for your (PC) data...
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kazuken:
I tried it out. you can get GNUroot and GNUroot wheezy x86 on play store. I was able to get fluxbox with tightvncserver running (though no apps, but was able to get an image in vnc) i am now going to try lxde and then see if nomachine 4.0 will work. wine should be able to run photoshop cs2.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevethegreat:
Problem with running your gui on a VNC server is that it is slow. It's (far) easier to setup though.

On my android machines I prefer to (basically) output an X Server window on the (machine's) frame buffer. You get real time performance (almost the same as if you had installed the OS natively), plus you get sound which is useful if one wants to run sound and video editing software (or plainly listen to music :p ). It's (quite) harder to setup but it has all been streamlined lately by a play store app named linuxdeploy (IIRC it has added X86 distros support lately).
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ycavan:
Yeah... Don't use vnc, use xserver-xsdl . It's in the app store. Best Android X server. In your chroot, export DISPLAY=:0 after starting it up.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stevethegreat:
That's a great solution too! Hadn't thought to recommend it. It's easy to setup too.

Still outputting directly to framebuffer instead of an xserver app is quite faster (even than that!). But I'd expect the Xserver-XSDL performance to be quite good too.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Norax:
OMG, this is SO interesting. I have been looking forward to put windows desktop in my phone since ages. Virtualization never let you go any further than Winxp. But now, this is another story. I am thinking of getting one of my own to help with the testing :D

Keep it up guys!
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kazuken:
I ran photoshop cs2, via xserver xsdl, takes a while to load but eventually does, but its very hard to drag windows via xserver xsdl. i tried with vnc and was able to open a picture taken from the zenfone's camera and adjust levels. its alot easier to use a physical mouse and keyboard. but here are some screenshots of it running all on the android. it took brute force to create the x with the paintbrush and to drag a window. I ran it at 720p, also at 1080p. photoshop loads a lot quicker using xserver xsdl vs vnc.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ycavan:
You can change mouse settings when you start up xserver-xsdl. By default it's set up like the screen is a laptop touch pad.

The other thing you might want to try is a different Windows manager. I prefer fvwm2 since it's very light.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madkat:
*irrelevant reply alert*

This takes me back to running Linux on the Windows-based XDA Exec. Those were the days.

Anyway, this is a great idea and you're finding some interesting workarounds, but I think you should be looking to get Windows to run natively. Sure, it doesn't have a dialler, but I'm sure someone can hook something up - especially if the interface is anything like the old Voice Modems from when we could only get our internets at 56kbps. (You kids don't know you're born! In my day, etc)

Meanwhile, in the Enterprise world where we try to reduce the costs of people having a whole processor each that they carry around with them, we're looking at using PCoIP to deliver a PC experience on a tablet. Sure, it's a little laggy (we're talking milliseconds on WiFi, though) but you get a lot of processing power, and if you're using Amazon you'll get NVidia rendering too. That's more for workstation graphics - CAD etc, rather than gaming. But then, if you're looking at installing Windows on a Phone, you're probably not going to be trying to play GTA5 on it.

Again, this reply is irrelevant because I realise you probably don't want to shell out $20-$40 per month on a virtual machine with a full Office suite. Plus, it's less fun to play with and not quite as much of an achievement to have set up something that works out of the box.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aziz07:
Native Linux 64 bit maybe, you get a much better OS, customizable, better resources management, open source, faster and waste less battery plus you can create your own mobile friendly interface just like Ubuntu Touch. Someone said it might be possible to port dialer, modem and other driver's concept since android is linux based. Microsoft is a handicapped development private code and as linux creator affirmed, its therefore a crappy OS lol There is steam on linux and it can run OpenGL games faster with the same hw due to uncluttered OS.

The hardest part will be GPU acceleration.
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madkat:
The .Net Framework is already Open Source. It's likely Windows 10 will go Open Source at some point. It's said to be the "last version of Windows" - probably similarly to the way MacOS X hasn't been replaced with MacOS XI. (There will still be a market for desktops when we have 128bit CPUs, and they won't just stick with the same 64bit kernel.)
[ZenFone 2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scandiun:
Running Windows XP with Bochs on Asus Zenfone 2
[General Questions and Answers] harsh7304:
i have galaxy s4 gt-i9500

its running on lollipop

i tried every possible way to root it but at the end while installing the superuser file from external memory it is showing signature failure.

do i have to unlock the phone like jailbreak. .it is an indian model. .

i also have a samsung galaxy tab p6200

can you tell me which one will be easier to route and how to do it ?
[General Questions and Answers] LS.xD:
Use CF-AUTO-ROOT

Start phone in download mode, connect it to your computer, start ODIN, select .tar file as AP, press Start.

You gets rooted :P
[General Questions and Answers] navi dl:
Simple get towel root ... You can root the phone without computer :D

sent from my GT I9505 5.0.1
[General Questions and Answers] tompretoria:
Towel root
[General Questions and Answers] tomisus3:
Search in youtube you can find usualess videos.
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iSuperAwesome:
My Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 T230NU is killed when I tried to install a ROM it didn't work and I had a backup on TWRP but the restore didn't work I now have my tablet killed is there anyway I can get my tablet back with any OS as my device is wiped I've also tried to get CM11 for my tab using TWRP but that failed. Is there anyway I can get my tab back?
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jackeagle:
Hi,

Thanks for using XDA Assist :) Please Standby when our moderators move your post to Samsung Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A

:)

Good Luck!
[Galaxy Tab 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thisisapoorusernamechoice:
Download this file and extract somewhere easy to remember (desktop works just fine). Download the Odin zip attached to this post and extract the folder to your desktop. Run Odin and use it to flash that tar.md5 file you extracted. More thorough directions can be found here. If you don't know what you're doing, read the directions carefully and thoroughly. Good luck!
[G 2014 Themes and Apps] will1384:
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Non-working Apps because of the Moto G 2014 gyroscope problem

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Google Cardboard

SwivelGun VR

Shadowgun VR

Crazy Swing VR

Roller Coaster VR

VR Cosmic Roller Coaster

VR Roller Coaster

Jurrasic VR

London VR

Tokyo VR

VR Cave Flythrough

Cartoon Village VR

VR Space Relaxation

Snow Mountain Cardboard VR

Virtual Tour Google Cardboard

Insurgent VR

Cardboard VR 3D Environment

Alien Apartment VR/Cardboard

Tuscany HD VR Cardobard

Tuscany Dive

Cardboard Theater

Jet Sprint

Durovis Dive Volcano VR Demo

Dive City Rollercoaster

Rajawali Virtual Reality Demo

Stellar Dive Experience VR

ユニティちゃんVR Durovis Dive -- unity-chan

Battle 360 VR

Juicebox VR

Little Vr Shooter

Brian the Ball VR Demo

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Working VR Apps

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[Cardboard]WAVEFILE/HatuneMiku ---- tracking seems very slow and not very responsive, but there is very little jittering.

I will keep adding to this list as I try new Apps.

I am not going to count media players, unless they play 360 videos with head tracking, for Side-By-Side videos I am using MX Player pro.
[Galaxy Note 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kalinskym:
Does anyone know of an application that can mimic the S6 quick launch camera by double tapping home button even when in the lock screen. Is there anyone who is thinking about making a port to the Note 4 of the quick camera of the Galaxy S6. I am sure that the community would be grateful, I know I will be :) Don't want to buy an S6 just for that feature. There must be a way of porting it. At the moment I am using home2 shortcut but it does not work in lockscreen when the fingerprint scanner is on.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrantB13:
Hey everyone. Tried a search but found nothing. I have a problem with my Moto X where in my car using an FM transmitter and aux cable that it is really off balance. Guitars are more on the driver side, vocals and most drums on the passenger and stuff like that. I came from an HTC One M7 with Viper4Android on it but even before putting that on it didn't do this. I've used it as a music player recently and it's only the Moto that does this. Has anyone had this issue before? It's not even extremely obvious either. Something just sounds off and then it's when you adjust the balance that you realize what it is.

I'm on AT&T Lollipop 5.0.2. I can't remember offhand if it's done this since day one because I've never checked the balance before. Any advice?
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrantB13:
Bumps.
[X 2014 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mazster43:
I have noticed a similar issue using headphones. The sound in the left channel will slowly drop off. I must bad first and the some mid range before there was nothing coming out of the earbud. At first I thought my headphones were dying. This has happened a couple times while I listen to Pandora. After quitting the app and starting again the sound is balanced.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kiffmet:
Source Code:

This project is now hosted on GitHub

The whole toolchain used for building aswell as my zip packaging scripts are available there too

You will even find the latest unmodified stock samsung kernel source there as a branch of my kernel if you dont like dealing with the slow-as-hell samsung servers.

My GitHub Profile

For building the kernel and using the toolchain you need the following software installed:

On 64 bit Linux multilib is required:

lib32-glibc

lib32-gcc-libs

On 32 bit Linux:

glibc

gcc-libs

As prerequisites for The linaro toolchain:

arm-none-eabi-gcc

arm-none-eabi-binutils

General stuff:

gcc

lzop

ncurses

zip

cpio

Recommended:

meld

heimdall
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kiffmet:
Reserved #2
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] pille1:
Wow!! Will try tomorrow ??
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kornelius1982:
Great!!!

simple and fast, and finally I can use Viper4android on stock sammy rom.

Huge thanks bro!
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] yazsers:
Why ? It wasn't possible with rooted stock rom ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Nite.Achilles:
This kernel is fast and snappy. So far so good. Another kernel developer. Thanks :good:

Edited

Camera not working on XXUDOB5
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kiffmet:
It wasn't possible because of SELinux. I made this kernel for Viper too xD
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] coroneta:
download link??
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kornelius1982:
Link is in download tab of the thread.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] usatencu:
Kernel is fast but camera not working. :(((
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kiffmet:
Which ROM version are you using? Front and back camera is working for me on XXUDOA6
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Napusmauno:
Is Xposed working with this kernel?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kiffmet:
Havent tried it out but if you find an xposed version for lollipop it might work.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] Napusmauno:
Work great for me. Much faster than stock kernel. I like :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kornelius1982:
No xposed for TW roms yet.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] XresaX:
Amazing!!

Thank you very much for your time and effort.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] korrupto:
It works perfect and Viper4 sounds again!!!!

Thank you.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] usatencu:
Thanks! Fast and stable!!!
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] merlinsbeard:
Feature list looks impressive! Will this work with the official Cyanogenmod rom for the i9506?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
Not at the moment. This kernel is only for stock rom. You could take a look at arter97's kernel for CM.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] yazsers:
Thanks man ! Good job ! Continue developping it ;)

I didn't understand the section about patches ?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
If you want to use my kernel as a base for your own kernel, all you have to do is to download the original Samsung Lollipop sourcedrop and apply my patches. These patches convert the samsung sources to my sources (e.g. adding a governor). There is also a patch for those who have already downloaded the original samsung sources and do not want to download the Update 1 sources as the samung download page is slow as hell; this patch does the updating to Update 1. If you have more questions, please feel free to ask.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] nakah1:
I love your kernel. Please continue with development :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] jjandemor:
What are the improvements over the official kernel?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] yazsers:
Thanks for your answer
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
You can use root without any restrictions (on rooted stock SELinux is still in the way), you get a little more performance due to optimizations and slightly better battery life due to more efficient use of hardware resources.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] jjandemor:
I installed this kernel some minutes ago. I'll tell you how this kernel run :good:
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] usatencu:
For me this is the best, fast and bug free kernel. I tried all kernels and in the end i revert to this. Thanks once again! And keep going!!
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Can add faux sound mod?
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
Faux sound is planned for the next release. It will be published sometime next week.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
[MENTION=3402658]kiffmet[/MENTION],

Initd seem not working.

Please advise.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
Please delete /data/initdworking if its not there again after reboot, you dont have init.d support. Also, try using one of my supplied init.d scripts from the kernel zip as a base for yours. Maybe there is something wrong with the syntax.

Edit: if you want to modify something in /system you have to remount it in rw mode. See my fstrim script for that.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] XTeK2:
[MENTION=3402658]kiffmet[/MENTION] would you have been able to match the wifi to work with rom arter97 of Galaxy S5 for Galaxy S4 LTE-A?

Very nice kernel and me and probably other wifi does not work.;)

Sorry for my poor English .;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
I will look into this and see if its feasible for me. Dont expect it before version 0.4 though.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] cmronald:
Thanks

Works great with the [ROM][i9506][LP][eXtremely Tweaked][De-bloated] by t-shock. :good:

Thank you
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
[MENTION=4411634]kotaxor[/MENTION]

Init.d fixed :)
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Will test it out later.

Thanks

Edit: initd is working now. Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
It seem fstrim in initd is causing wifi battery drain.

Even tho wifi switch is off, wifi seem to be running, see battery status.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] nakah1:
Hi kiffmet, your kernel is super and is going to be better. Please continue with tweak it.

How can I give you a beer
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] 3lambda:
Isn't a bit dangerous to offer him a bear ? Isn't better a beer ? :P
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] nakah1:
You are right my friend. Beer is less dangerous then a bear ?

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I am agree with you, that battery drain is high. I hope new update will solve it.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
No new update necessary, just delete the file in initd and reboot.

Wifi will return to normal.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] nakah1:
Sorry but which file are you referring to
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Go to system/etc/init.d folder and delete 01-fstrim. Then reboot.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
I had noticed some excessive use of wifi too, but after a reboot and some waiting it normalized. Wireshark didnt show anything suspicious, except for much communication with google servers. I will keep an eye on this with another traffic monitor app.

Edit: Bugfix release without fstrim for the meantime. For people who were using my older kernel versions, the faulty fstrim script gets deleted at install.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
Thats very kind of you but at the moment I am not taking a tip for my work as I am doing it as a hobby. Maybe at version 1.0 ;)
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] kotaxor:
Kernel 0.3.1 is working fine.

Battery consumption during deep sleep is about 0.8% per hour.

It's both stable and snappy.

No freeze or reboot for the last 18hrs of use.

Playing of movies and music is smooth.
[Galaxy S 4 i9506 Android Development] :
Thanks for the info and for testing out my releases ;D Will upload version with fstrim added back tomorrow.