yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
Yep, CrystalDiskMark, and yes the SD card quality counts here, but you won't get significantly better results than mine - so T100TA controllers suck, but well... it's a low budget device.

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
OK, I did some test tonight.

I used Cristaldiskmark to test the following:

- Micro SD card in the dedicated slot

- Micro SD card in a USB adapter, in a second adapter on the micro USB slot ==> Already tested to boot Android with this configuration and it works. I'll try later if it's fast or not in use.

- Micro SD card in a USB adapter, in the USB 3 keyboard slot

- A USB stick, plugged into the micro USB slot ==> This one has been tested under android a full evening and was perfectly usable. No lag.

I'll post reports to compare performances, so that we'll see that even if the SD card is way slower than the USB, in real use situation it's worth a try or not.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
So we now have a beginning of answer...

The top left is my reference USB2 stick. The one that works like a charm operating Android as a live system when plugged onto the micro USB slot.

Top right is the micro sd card, into the micro sd slot. It's faster than the USB stick.

The bottom left is micro sd, with usb adapter on the micro usb slot. It runs android well as well.

The bottom right is micro sd card plugged in usb3 slot.

What I can understand is that the micro sd card in its dedicated slot is fast enough to run a live android. And so... It's worth trying to boot on it.

Am I right?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
Sure it's enough. It's just that it could be seamless, but the sdcard slot has the transfer speeds limited, so you can get really angry when you'll buy a high end fast card which runs 3x slower than designed speed.

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Correct, as long as we keep in mind we are talking about DIY and not performances... We shouldn't be deceived. :D

So what would be a solution if the sdcard is not recognized at an early stage? A kind of chroot?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
I'm not experienced enough to say. I don't have an idea, but I've read that you can customize grub to initiate the sdcard slot. However that rather needs knowledge that I don't possess. And the drivers for the sdcard reader I guess.

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Hum.. I'll check that. Thanks
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
[MENTION=251363]blackdot[/MENTION] have you managed to do something with this issue? I'd like to go full Android instead of mixing my OS usage between Android and Windows, but with this no-sleep issue it ain't gonna work. The battery will die too fast when unplugged.

Maybe some of you guys has a solution for this problem?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dodgejcr:
Drivers?

Is there a way I can get a list of the drivers that the kernel peoples used to get things working on ubuntu?

I have a booting archlinux ISO and manjaro ISOthat works with ia32 grub but cant seem to do much with it for obvious reasons. I dont mind recompliling the kernel I just dont know what to use to get it to work. If anybody knows that would be great or if anybody has some contact with the kernel dev(s) for the ubuntu version.

As it stands right now, I can barely see the screen dont have any wifi and I cant tell about anything else.

Thanks again!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] alahkel:
no way

It looks like I'm the only one here not even able to get the stick to be visible by the boot selector into uefi.

I've tried several times in different ways. I'm on windows 10, asus t100ta 32gb with normal keyboard dock.

I've tried extracting the zip via windows default manager/winrar/7zip portable and normal then copying all the extracted files onto the root of a clean 16gb stick, both ntfs and fat32 fs, no profit.

I've also tried extracting directley the files to the stick selecting all of them, same result, the stick isnt shown as bootable at uefi.

Obviously I've disabled quickboot and secureboot.

What am i doing wrong? Simply at uefi screen, boot tab, it shows me the windows boot manager only.

Instead I succesfully made a bootable clonezilla live usb stick via tuxboot and a bootable rescue media for macrium, both are shown and booting fine.

Any solutions?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
No idea. Just extracting at the root of a ntfs formatted usb stick worked. Did you try the other live environments on the same stick?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] MarcoLoves360:
does this work on hp stream 7?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dodgejcr:
Finally got Archlinux installed. Wanted to say thanks to Asus T100 Ubuntu team for all your work and the Magic-Stick to get me a working live environment. You guys did amazing work!

If anyone else wants to try archlinux, heres a quick howto:

http://dodgejcr.com/index.php/2015/09/29/install-arch-linux-on-the-asus-t100ta/

Its not as easy and streamlined as the amazing work they did here but it works.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] aikeru:
Two issues - any fixes?

Hey there! Thanks for this awesome project! It's very cool to be able to use ubuntu and android on my tablet.

I wiped Windows and installed both Android and Ubuntu and so far everything seems to work well except the known issues I have two things...

1. Ubuntu wont "stay awake" after sleeping

After waking from sleep, I login etc. the tablet waits a few moments and then goes to sleep (no matter if I'm pressing keys or moving trackpad, etc.)

It stays awake if I reboot and never let it sleep.

I googled for generic Linux fixes (and of course tried to find fixes for T100) but was not able to find any. There is a "Caffeine" app for Linux but it didn't work when I activated it.

2. Android - some 3D apps do not work

I think this is expected but in case it helps troubleshooting, one free app that doesn't work is "Gears" by Jeff Boody in Play Store ( https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.jeffboody.GearsES2eclair&hl=en ).

Paid/etc. apps I would like to use that also don't work are: Googe Play Books with 3D page transitions (can turn them off) and Galaxy on Fire 2. Minecraft works as does the AnTuTu benchmark... :)

Is there any fix to issue #1? Having to reboot to get out of sleep (permanently) really sucks! Thanks!

(PS I also posted on the Google+ group for this - https://plus.google.com/communities/117853703024346186936 )
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
[MENTION=2063920]aikeru[/MENTION],

I don't have the 1st issue. That seems weird.

Hmm, do you have the latest BIOS?

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dokie80:
That's the quick one? I read halfway and got scared. Hahaha.

Thanks anyway
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dodgejcr:
It really isn't that bad ;)

Archlinux can be difficult to learn but it is great once you get it installed and configured to the way you want. I may try to get all of this together in an ISO so you can boot and figure it out from there. I have been working with the guys at Manjaro (arch linux based distro for beginners) and it might be able to be done with an installer similar to how this Ubuntu is.

In the meantime, If you want to try and are worried about the steps, let me know I will try and arrange a time where we can go step by step through hangouts or IRC or some other method.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dokie80:
Thanks for the suggestion.

This is live USB, right?

Can I do all things that can be done with normal version? Can I use swap with it? Are there limitation with live USB version compare to the normal one? Thanks
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dodgejcr:
If these questions are aimed at the archlinux guide I posted,

No this really isnt a liveUSB. I used this magic stick USB so that I can get a live environment with a terminal.

As far as if you can do everything like you can with ubuntu, yeah pretty much. Same issues exist (LED staying on and no multitouch on the touchpad). Swap works fine.

I am not really sure what you mean, since this is not a liveUSB yet, I would say yeah a few limitations. ;)

In order to prevent too much off-topic on this thread, I will probably create one very soon so that things can be discussed there. Thanks :D
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] joyrider3774:
Hi,

i just found out about this magic stick and went on and installed it on a usb drive, i can boot into android fine but i can't seem to be able to enable wifi. Wifi is turned off and turning it on in settings doesn't do anything.

I don't know if this matters but i have the asus T100TAF version.

I'll try to boot ubuntu now to see if wifi works there..

edit: just tried ubuntu and it says no network devices availible when i click on the *empty* wifi icon. I guess there might a problem with the T100TAF version or am i missing something ?

seems there is a kernel (source) for the T100TAF version availible here: https://github.com/pinkflozd/T100TAF_kernel/ is there a compiled version somewhere and can i somehow replace the ones on the magic stick with this 100taf version?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mischa_martin:
Anyone got android-x86 5.1 rc1 to boot?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] blackdot:
Yes, 64 bit version is booting for me...
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] joyrider3774:
it also booted on my t100taf and wifi was working with their kernel. changing brightness did not work either and no sound also i had no way to power off the device since the power button did not seem to react (volume down up did react). I managed to get it installed (grub did not show up after installing it but using easyuefi i could add an entry for it, it was installed just not used).

I also tried latest ubuntu nightly (live boot) on the T100TAF but there wifi was not working, the other problems from the android kernel were also present there i'm guessing the android kernel has drivers for the wifi while ubuntu does not in their kernel
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
Android-x86 has a 5.1-rc1 release but the system.img is named system.sfs. Can this still be used?

EDIT: I can't read. Disregard.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
How did you get it to boot?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
Sadly I didn't. It never made it to the boot animation. Just stopped at the initial tty login. I don't know enough about it to figure out what's causing it to stop.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
Does installing Android work at all?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Crossvxm:
Help?

I extracted the files, tossed them in to my flash drive, did all the rest but when I but to the USB I get some sort of weird "GNU" something black screen which only allows limited commands. Any ideas? I only want to test out Android.

Thanks in advanced.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ArpX:
Hello,

First of all, thanks for this amazing thing ... I always wanted at least linux on my T100, but I never got wireless to work and is was complicated. This seems easier.

But... I am kind of paranoid and how can we know that this boot stick does not have some spyware in it? Sorry if this seems insulting, but I am paranoid regarding stuff like that :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] dodgejcr:
Being paranoid is just fine but I strongly suggest doing some research in your case. Knowing what is in a linux ISO and what makes the system is the only way you can be sure. Asking someone who has an affiliation with the software if it is safe would be counter-productive as I am sure if the software was intended as malware, they would not be honest.

With all that said, I can assure you that this USB Magic Stick is nothing more than what it states. There is some debate as whether or not Ubuntu logs information about usage but that is just the same as most large OSs in order to provide features. This stick contains: Ubuntu, Software to boot Ubuntu and Android, Android x86, and supporting patches. Nothing else really. The operating systems it includes (Ubuntu/Android x86) is what you will need to research to find out if there is anything that you do not like.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Knux14:
You are my hero. It's been a while since I try to install Linux on my T200, and even if it's not the exact same model, every thing will work as you. Huge thanks!

EDIT: Actually wifi and bluetooth doesn't work at least neither on Android nor Ubuntu :(

Ubuntu cant go on eMMC :(
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Same for me...
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Did anyone manage to get the 5.1 rc1 booting?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
Yeah mate if you write the 64bit image to USB stick it should boot fine. For me it works OK except rotation causes a reboot :(
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Can you made a step by step tutorial? I don't know how to use unsquashfs to extrating the system.sfs :(

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
Just use this to write the .IMG to USB. Don't bother extracting it I couldn't get that to work but writing the 64bit .IMG it boots fine.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32diskimager/
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Ok, so far I did replace all the files from the magic stick x86 folder with the ones I extracted from the android x86 5.1 rc1 iso file.

To get the system.img, you can use 7zip to extract the system.sfs file.

But doing this, the android does not boot, Grub is ok but after choosing the android entry I'm stuck at a strange prompt where I can only type several commands without any effect.

[MENTION=5425895]Grantius[/MENTION]

Where did you extract the system.img? On a already installed android or the magic stick?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
I didn't extract the system image. I went to the android x86 website and downloaded the 64bit ISO which is a .IMG file. I burnt that to the USB
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I might be missing something really stupid then...

I did it as well yesterday and it boots perfectly on my pc but... As the T100TA has a 32bits uefi, this live usb doesn't boot on it.

Whats wrong? Did you install the 32bit uefi grub onto your live usb?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
>As the T100TA has a 32bits uefi, this live usb doesn't boot on it.

Yes it does. The 64bit image contains uefi32bit so it can boot and run the 64bit copy.

It's simple, just burn the image to USB
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Hem.... then I am blind... I'll go back and check again the download options.

Edit: I think I got the mistake... I took the .iso file, not the .img. Downloading the img now. I thought we were talking about system.img from the beginning and not the android-x86_64-5.1-rc1.img ... That was the dumb part...

Edit 2: It boots and works well!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
For those who want to test... You can just extract the content of the android-x86-64.5.1-rc1.img file on a USB stick by using 7zip. It preserves the full stick size rather than writing the 450Mo .img with win32diskimager. And once done, you can add the data.img grabbed from the magic stick, you'll then get persistance.

I did this yesterday and it works just perfect as a persistent android live USB.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] big.brother:
Does this runable with Micro sd card ? or any way to install directly android or ubuntu into T100 disk driver? I dont want using my T100 as a android tablet with dock. :D
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
The micro SD isn't recognized at boot....you can shrink the emmc in order to create a second partition for android

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
And if you don't want to install it, you can use a micro usb adapter, or a micro usb stick.

The micro usb port is host capable.

You plug your stick in and power on the T100 holding volume down button.

You'll then access to the same boot prompt than by pressing escape touch.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DePeep:
I tried to install android on my asus t100ta, but after I install, when I reboot, it says: no such device: Android-4.4.2-r3/kernel not found. Please help I wan't to install android on my device. Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] big.brother:
did you have any guide for this

Sorry, I'm not read hidden content in 2nd post. thanks you
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I believe everything is in the OP.

If not, just follow the "usual steps".

Defragment under Windows to store as much as possible data at the beginning of your Windows partition (don't know if relevant for a ssd, but it can't hurt).

The best/safest way to shrink your partition is under Windows

- right click on "My computer" and choose "manage".

- On the window that opens, go in the "disk management" section.

- Right click on your T100 main drive and choose shrink, then choose how much space you want to free.

This is the safest way compared to using Gparted under Ubuntu as Windows will manage itself the partition he is actively using. You have less risk to erase by mistake a system file.

Once done, then you can boot under Ubuntu and do whatever you want to the newly free partition with no risk for your Windows installation.

Then boot under Ubuntu and use gparted
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
There's a way to install windows 10 wimboot?

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I've quickly googled it but seems W10 already has an integrated compression tool and WIMboot has been kept for W8/8.1.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DePeep:
Can someone help me with installing Android on it? I tried to restart after I installed it but it gives me no such device Android-4.4.2-r3/kernel.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Did you install grub?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DePeep:
I clicked yes when it says: would you like to install grub bootloader. Is there something else I have to do?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I don't know, when you start your T100, does it show grub?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DePeep:
When II Boot up it shows Android and Android debug

---------- Post added at 08:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:28 PM ----------

Just checked, it is grub bootloader but it shows me that error when I Boot up to Android x86
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] DePeep:
Found a fix... You need to make the partition that you install it in to ext4
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
I tried to install android on my 4gb pendrive...it was installe succefull, but the pendrive is dead...don't try this at home

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
There is NO way for this install (or anything you do to your pendrive, unless you use a hammer) to break you pendivre. You're just writing data on it...

What's wrong with your USB? Can you explain a bit more?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
My usb isn't recognized by any O.S....only windows made a sound when i put in the usb, and it writes 'unknow device (Request descriptor failed)'..and the drive disconnected itselfe randomly

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Any OS, can you list what you've tried?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Android, ubuntu, linux mint and windows 10

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Yep, looks like it's dead. But it should have been just a conicidence, I don't see how writing files can corrupt a stick to the point it kills it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Idk...it surprises me too...by the way, the pendrive had 7years of life maybe..so, it's the time to change it :')

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
7 years!!! Great life indeed :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Yes, as my samsung nc10, still alive ahahahaha anyway, there's a way to boot android without the dock?

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Sure, the micro usb port is host capable. If you have a micro usb stick or adapter, you just have to power on your T100 holding the volume down (or up) button and you'll reach the "device boot" prompt.

Then use the volume key to select your stick and validate with the "home" button.

I do this as I don't want to have the dock as well.

I did not notice any performance decrease vs the dock option.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Great :D! The camera and the microphone work with lollipop? Can i extend the data.img file?

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
Unfortunately the camera and mic won't work.

About extending data.img size, look in first posts.

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
I shrink my emmc, so i created a 4gb fat32 partition and i put in the magic stick, but android go to a bootloop :(! Why?

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
What did you do??? If you shrink, you just have to use the new partition to install Android on, there are information on the OP.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] big.brother:
thanks for you tip. :good::good:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
When i boot android, the process android.media, android.acore e the google play store don't responde...why? Maybe for the fat32 partition?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I think you must be using ext4, not fat32. You can refer to the OP for more information or even the android x86 website, they have a wiki for installation. I can't help you further as I just use it as a live environment.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
In the OP there isn't a guide to boot an ext4 partition with uefi..easyeufi does't recognize the ext4 partition (it is as 'unknown') :/
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
So that's beyond my ability to help... Sorry.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Hey,

I just took time to look at the OP.

- First, it's confirmed, you have to create an ext4 partition for Android

Make space to install Android
In gparted, right click on the Windows system partition and select the option to shrink it down by at least 2GB. Make sure the partition actually has 2GB of free space, otherwise the process will not work.
Right click the free space and create a new partition and select to format it as ext4. It's important to make it ext4, so keep this in mind. Also give it a name such as "android".
Apply the changes and wait for the partition to be created.
Close gparted. You're done.
To have the partition available in Ubuntu Live, you have to mount it manually or just reboot (to have it mounted at boot automatically)

Then for installation:

Make sure you have the system.img, kernel, ramdisk.img and initrd.img files available. Make sure you have an ext4 partition mounted. The Android-x86 installation is in fact a simple process of copying the ISO/ZIP files onto the destination partition:

Boot the Magic Stick into Ubuntu
Open a console using the Ctrl+Alt+T shortcut
Copy the four relevant files to the ext4 partition using your method of choice
That's it, Android-x86 is installed (but not yet bootable!)

So now, we're sure you have to be in ext4.

Then, what did you do, you installed grub2? Grub2 is able to find ext4 partitions.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
unfortunaly, i only found a 64bit grub2 on internet (grub2win)...can you help me? :D:laugh:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
That's normal. Grub is 64bit uefi. But you can find on internet guidance to use a 32uefi loader to chainload the 64bit one.