yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gregpilot:
Thanks, some clarification

OK, thanks for that, allow me to clarify.

My tablet boots either OS just fine **with** the keyboard attached. Android is already set as the default OS in grub.cfg....I know you are not supposed to directly edit that however if you do its easier to test different kernel parameters, etc without regenerating grub every time.

My problem is the device will not boot Android without the keyboard attached. I **do** get to the grub menu when undocked, the default OS (android) "loads" but hangs there.

For now I plan to leave p1 alone for efi, and delete p2 and p3 (windows) and p4 (win recovery). I dislike Win8 and find the UI annoying. I have not decided yet if I want to put W7 x64 in its place or not...first things first, I need to get Android booting w/o the keyboard.

I have a suspicion: After first installing Android to mmcbl0p5, and Kali to mmcblk0p6, I could not get the tablet to boot either OS without the USB (magic stick or Kali efi usb) inserted. The stick was recognized then the tablet booted from its mmc I am positive as after the initial read of the USB its activity led was dark..also Kali was not installed on the Magic stick so it *had* to be booting from mmc. I got to the grub menu (on the mmc) and selecting either OS led to the same blank screen.

I had to go into the UEFI "bios" and re-select the default boot device to "kali" , referring to the tablets efi partition, without any USB stick inserted. I might have regenerated grub without the USB, after ejecting, I can't remember. After that the tablet would boot either OS so long as the keyboard was attached. Also I notice that while Kali's grub entry refers to the Kali partition by UUID, my grub entry for Android x86 is referring to its partition by (hd0,gpt5) and if I insert a USB stick the USB becomes HD0 and I have to manually change the Androidx86 boot entry to (hd1,gpt5).

Another suspicion: the system.map in the /boot folder may looking for the same device configuration (with keyboard) and when it is not present grub hangs? Like I said, grub does load but booting any menu line (I have two that work...Androidx86 and Kali wth a patched 4.0 kernel) without the kb result in a hang. All of my grub files are in the kali partition, my menuentry for Androidx86 does not use the grub files installed by the magic stick in its partition, possibly a chainload to those might work?

I admit I'm a bit weak when it comes to chainloading grub instances.

I am not aware of any way to get into the "bios" without the keyboard.

Thanks for your comments!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
I'm not sure if this has been posted elsewhere. I had been trying to get the Android-x86 5.1 image to load on the T100TA. It just kept booting to a blinking cursor. Turns out I had downloaded the x86 image but the kernel parmater has a reference to x86_64. Removed the "_64" and I got the bootlogo and all. It works!

EDIT: Couple notes. With headphones plugged in audio goes to both internal speakers and headphones. Screen lock turns backlight all the way off down and locks screen but keeps the LCD active https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6RiZl_Ja-I
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cheatman:
So, having UUID and device reference in a grub configuration is not a problem (just confusing for humans when reading:D). The two formats are equivalent for grub2 and it's not a problem. You can actually install two grub2 instances in parallel. They appear as two separate boot devices, even is they are on the same partition. This is an advantage of using UEFI & GPT. To find out if this is a grub2 configuration/setup/modules issue, backup the current grub2 configuration (EFI and boot folders) and replace them with the attachment while editing the menuentries to match your configuration. Then try to boot using this grub2 config.

If it works, you can use it as it is or set up two grubs (no chainloading, different boot "devices") one with Android default and one with Kali default. I am suggesting this, because if you do this, you can use the efibootmgr to set the next reboot "boot device", thus allowing you to reboot from Kali directly to Android when needed. To do this, leave Kali default in BIOS setup and use efibootmgr in Kali to set boot device ONLY for next boot to Android and then reboot. After you boot, Android will start (set as the next boot, boot device) and when you reboot again, it will go to the default Kali and so on. Easy to reboot to Android without keyboard.

Test the attachment (a basic config I use for the magic stick) and let me know if you can boot Android without keyboard.

Cheers,

C.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gregpilot:
Ill have a look

Thanks, I'll have a look into this. At first glance my /boot/grub and /boot/ folders appear similar to what you sent...for an installed Androidx86. I'll have to check further.

I would like to explore your suggestion of having 2 instances of Grub installed in the efi....can I manually add the files after /boot/efi is mounted (kali) and "create" a new "device" (Androidx86) or must I run grub-install? Since I have a working install (with keyboard) I'm hesitant to run it.

One more thing....I manually added the menuentry for Androidx86 into grub.cfg, I'll add to 40_custom when this is working. Previous runs of update-grub, which also runs OS-prober, do find my Win8, Linux (kali) but does *not* find AndroidX86. Currently in Kali /dev/mmcblkop1 is mounted at /boot/efi. Android x86 is in (hd0, gpt5). Curiously, either I initially formatted gpt5 as ext2 or your installer did, would ext2 or ext4 make any difference to grub2 except for the journaling? I found a way to convert ext2 to ext4 without losing data however the benefits of journaling will not happen with current files, if there is a compelling reason to go with ext4 its probably better just to backup the files and reformat to ext4 and restore. What are your thoughts?

I'll play around a bit. Curiously, while there is a system.map for each Kali kernel the original 3.xx and the patched 4.0 which solved the mmc read timing issue, there is none for the android.

Ill post back in a few days with my results.

Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
Remix OS leaked image from a couple weeks ago boots! http://imgur.com/a/skttG http://imgur.com/a/smNGO

Wrote up a sloppy guide https://www.reddit.com/r/RemixOS/comments/408dkp/will_remixos_run_on_an_asus_t100/cysemww
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] collindv:
I see the camera light still stays on. I assume it has issues sleeping still as well (high battery drain)?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Any news about the last remix os's build?

Inviato dal mio A0001 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] tutorialbs:
hi first of all THANK YOU to the creator of this cheatman i can't tell you how much i appreciate being able to install ubuntu when i thought i would never have it on this device.

my problem is with android. i

have ubuntu and grub2 installed on 1 boot partition (mmcblk0p3) and the files for android OS in a folder on another empty ext4 partition (mmcblk0p4)

i'm having problems adding the correct menu entry to grub2's 40_custom file.

i added the menu entry from the android's grub2 40_custom file (see below) but it is not working. the path is correct because it gives me no "not found" error , it just boots to a black screen and android never loads.

menuentry 'T100 Android 4.4-r3 Live' --class android-x86 {

insmod part_gpt

insmod ntfs

#set root=/dev/mmcblk0p4/x86/system.img

search --file --no-floppy --set=root /dev/mmcblk0p4/x86/system.img

linux /dev/mmcblk0p4/x86/kernel CMDLINE quiet

initrd /dev/mmcblk0p4/x86/initrd.img

}

what's a menu entry i can use that wil work here?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mmm286:
Many thanks for your work.

I've installed successfully but I see that have a lot of lag for all.

Is normal?

Thanks

Enviado desde mi E5823 mediante Tapatalk
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mcnico:
Wow good job!

What are the major issues?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Aerandir14:
Thanks for your work !

Unfortunately, it doesn't work on my T100HA ... :(
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Hi, I recently tried to help a guy here with a T100HAas well.

Seems to me that this version has a regular 64bit uefi. Can you try to boot on a basic linux live usb or even remix OS?

Check this as well:

http://www.transformerforums.com/forum/asus-transformer-book-t100-alternate-os-s-development/48417-any-success-alternative-os-t100ha.html
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gregpilot:
Found it..

I don't know why this "fix" worked. I had two versions of "bootia32.efi" in /boot/efi/ EFI/Android/. I don't know where I got the different versions however they are different. I had one version named differently. I swapped the versions and now I can boot Android with and without the keyboard docked. My grub entry to boot Android (installed) was "borrowed" from your original stick install, thanks C.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Aerandir14:
Hi,

Yes, I saw this thread, that's how I arrived here :)

I tried to install Remix OS and I also tried a live usb of Ubuntu, none of them work.

For remix OS, it tells me "error : not such device : system.sfs", then it tries to launch Android-x86 and then I have a black screen.

For the live CD, the Ubuntu loading screen appears during 4 seconds, load a little, and then, black screen ...
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gregpilot:
How did you install Androidx86?

Hi. I had a similar problem. Try the x86 installer again, but select making the system partition writeable. This will actually extract the filesystem as in a "normal" linux install. Otherwise, the install will only copy over the .img files, which require more steps to access. Sorry for the non-tech answer. I did **not** install grub with the x86 installer, just the OS. I might add I created an ext4 filesystem using gparted, and then used the x86 installer to install to the ext4 partition **without** formatting. Much fewer errors than on my first attempt using the installer to install an ext2 filesystem. I already had a Debian distro installed, using its grub.

Once you have installed x86 with that option, try this grub.cfg. I know you are not supposed to directly edit it, but I find it easier for testing, once my entries are set, I can copy them into 40_custom. I might add that os_prober (runs with update-grub", never found my x86 install.) So for me a manual menuentry was needed.

Try this menuentry with the above install: Credit to Cheatman.

menuentry 'T100 Android 4.4-r3 Live' --class android-x86 {

insmod part_gpt

insmod ntfs

set root=(hd0, gptXXyour x86 partition)

linux /android-4.4-r3/kernel quiet root=/dev/ram0 androidboot.hardware=android_x86 SRC=/android-4.4-r3

initrd /android-4.4-r3/initrd.img

}

I do not have the insmod entries like shown above, they can't hurt. You can see the x86 installer creates a folder "android-4.4-r3" in whatever partition you installed x86 into. The only issue with this menuentry was (for me) if you boot with a usb stick inserted the usb becomes (hd0) on my grub and you have to edit the menuentry to read (hd1,gptXXX) Of course you could go to a UUID designator for your mmc x86 partition, its more complicated to do but then this problem goes away.

As far as the grub menu showing, and then booting into a blank screen, I had a similar problem. You probably installed x86 from a usb stick. Without the stick inserted, go into your "bios" and re-select the boot OS, also try boot override. I'm new to this EFI stuff, as my other PC's use truecrypt and that only works on old style MBR.

I would also caution you my install is a bit different, I am dual booting a debian distro, all of my grub stuff is in its filesystem, and the grub.cfg was edited as above to boot Android. So my EFI is not aware of the Android install, only after grub loads to boot Debian the grub menu appears, I have edited the Android entry to boot by default as I cant select anything on the grub menu without the keyboard attached. My grub is grub-efi, based on grub2.

Android boots much faster on this tablet than on my old TF700 and there is absolutely no lag and it screams. The only issue is finding a way to theme x86, I **hate** the black/white look, and the white icons on the statusbar. I like holo blue.

Hope this helps.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Sacob:
i know this isn't exactly thread related but did anyone managed to get rotation working in remix os? the changelog from this thread says it's working on android x86, so it there any fix for remix os?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] stibuz95:
i think should be in OP in major issues: device doesn't go to sleep. because the screen uses a lot of battery with screen off too.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Atlem:
Darn Grub

android working well when using the installer tobad grub isent working . kinda wird you kan use installer to boot the local android. Wy not change installert to boot android and not instaling system. . [IMG\=. i.imgur\com/gReF32h.jpg ]i dont know how this stuff work. Hope it wasent a to stupid idea.

i use bootinstaller to boot android it will install new system but all settings aps is the same. Boot faster than Windows . an a good almost stable system. From time to time bether than Windows. Hope grub issue get å fix
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gregpilot:
Anyone get adb over usb to work??

Has anyone gotten adb over a USB connection to work? I tried installing intel android usb drivers however they are for Atom chipsets, Device manager (win 7) does not recognize my x86 OS and yes I have enabled USB debugging.

Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Atlem:
Disable proxy

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] koren88i:
headphones and speakers works together

hey, instaleed 4.4.3 android.

when i plug in headphones - the speakers still work.

do you know how to fix this?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] joshsg3:
Hey all, so I have an issue with my t100ta

recently the graphics was playing up on it in windows, so I decided to re-do the tablet with windows, which, really didn't go so well, the graphical issues remained whenever I updated the video driver to anything above the stock windows generic display driver, all the other drivers went in fine

and then, when I tried the magic stick, on both ubuntu and on android, these graphical error continues, I can take a pic later of the issues or more like glitches

I have gone through the debian netinstall installer with no graphical issues, but that is all so far

any idea if this is hardware related? windows keeps on throwing errors of video tdr failure or video scheduler internal error whenever it bluescreens out, which is right after the video driver gets started, ie on boot or right after it is installed

any ideas?

EDIT: nevermind, going back to asus for repair
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] branpurn:
Works great with KitKat, anyone know what files I need to replace to use it with Lollipop or Mashmallow?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
You can directly go to the Android x86 project website. Their Lollipop hybrid image works well.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] branpurn:
Where's the "hybrid" image located? When I try 5.1-rc_1, it hangs on first boot after installing
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Which one did you try? The installation iso or the efi img?

Try both, I don't remember which one works, but for sure one does.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] branpurn:
Tried the ISO last time, I'll give the EFI image a shot, thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] oijjio:
Hi. Awesome work, android very smooth. Is there an easy way to increase available space to install apps though? Mine under Storage it says it has 180mb left out of 1g. Thanks
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] oijjio:
Can't change system.img partition size. In Ubuntu it says read only file system. Please dumb the tutorial down
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] oijjio:
apparently only NTFS works for resizing img partition. Fat32 will say ro filesystem in ubuntu.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] kusarigama:
Someone already try to install ElementaryOS on Asus T100TA ?

I have this problem after installing it:

error: file '/grub/i386-efi/normal.mod' not found.﻿
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
The T100TA is 32bits uefi. Is the ElementaryOS installation media you used able to boot on that?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] kusarigama:
I really don't know, I just choose the 64bits version and add the bootia32.efi like for the ubuntu tutorial. Well.. I'm a beginner.

I'm thinking about using RemixOS now. I had some issues (lag, video stop worked etc..) with ubuntu and I wasn't satisfied.

I saw some review about ElementaryOS and it seems really more light than ubuntu that's why I wanted to try.

The only point that I prefer linux than android is because of LastPass module.

Android architecture is much more efficient with this computer.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I would say... If you want a light linux distrib, try Debian or Archinux. There are "many" tutorials on how to install it on the T100. Both are light and have a crazy big community.

On the Android side, the new RemixOS version (released early march) is supposed to boot on 32bit uefi. You can try this.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] julow49:
Thanks for your topic!

I just install Android using the Magic Stick 1.5 on my Asus T100.

Installation works fine but I have an issue.

After installation, I tried to reboot and run Android X86.

But after text message "Android found at....", screen freeze with the Android logo screen (I think, because the image is flashing).

At the moment where begin graphical mode...

Anyone else have this problem?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] kevin95463:
Magic Stick link dead

Hi,

I can't download Magic Stick, the download link seems dead.

Thanks for your help.

Kr,

Kevin.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cheatman:
I was just uploading a small update v1.6. Test it out, let me know if it works fine.

Cheers,

C.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] erjohn23:
I still cant download both links (T100 Magic Stick and V1.6). please help. thanks.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cheatman:
I had an additional " in the link. My bad...
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Shanesgc:
Has anyone solved the issue with sleep? Screen just dims a bit.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] kusarigama:
I was wondering if it's possible to install ubuntu and android on same partition ?

I have the 32go version of T100TA and it's complicate to have separate partition..

And I get that I just need to copy past android file.. I'm not a expert but it seems to be makable. And it could be like a reusable live usb.

Btw what is the feature of the 1.6 version ? Because I'm thinking about downloading the Brain WrecK ubuntu version from google group. (and migrate to xubuntu)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] kevin95463:
Doesn't work on my T100 HA-FU030T

Hi,

I tried the Magic Stick v1.6 on my T100HA-FU030T, and it didn't work.

The key is detected, I had a message : "Android x86 found ...."

Then, I had a black screen...

Thanks for your help.

Kevin.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] hawsey:
Great work on this for your device T100 , thanks

Tried this on a Baytrail Linx 1010 L with 64bit and 32 bit UEFI so similar device

My findings

1: Selecting Android , not booting and hangs but unplugging and plugging back in the stick gets it to start booting but then black screens .

2: Selecting Ubuntu , boots straight up to Ubuntu load screen then hangs if you leave it , however unplugging the stick then back in gives it a kick and it boots up right to desktop :)

It boots in portrait with no WiFi but changing the display in settings corrects the screen.

I then got a tiny Edimax wireless USB off my Rasp Pi and plugged that in to the spare USB port , that was detected and allowed me to connect to my router .

Power cycle loses the above unfortunately.

Quite pleased so far :)

Sent by SlimKat FirePhone
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] BBarylowicz:
Unity 3d

Hello,

I am using the magic stick with t100ta. It is working fine. Unfortunatelly applications using Unity 3d crashes on start. Is there any solution for this issue?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mccloud00:
Wifi Issues in 1.6

Thank you your latest build, just wondering if anyone else if having issues with the wifi when running the android version, everything else runs like a dream except I have no wifi at all..
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
It says file not found on the download link.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Are you using XDA Lab app? Sometimes it does not redirect well in the webbrowser for AFH files.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
I'm just in my normal browser (Firefox on desktop) https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_NLqfSyZfYARGt4VmZheFJMNjQ/view?usp=sharing does not work

I just realized. The 1.6 download link works. The first step is what's broken. "1. Download the Magic Stick zip file from here: T100 Magic Stick download"
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Siyao:
I accidently deleted windows, is there anyway to get it back?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
You what????

What did you do exactly? Did you format any partition or just messed up with the UEFI entries?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Hady17:
[MENTION=490310]cheatman[/MENTION] is there anyway to increase the storage when running android ? maybe to 4gb or more ?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] HughR:
Thanks for your work!

I'm trying to run debian on my T100TAF.

Good news: the standard debian 8.4.0 multiarch install .iso works when booted from a USB stick. By "works", I mean that the installer seems to do all the right things. That means the .iso includes support for 32-bit UEFI. Furthermore, I think that debian multiarch can install a 64-bit system that will run on top of 32-bit UEFI.

Bad news: neither the UEFI boot menu nor the debian installer see the MicroSD card. That's where I want to install debian since I don't want to Wipe Windows (so I cannot install to the eMMC) and I don't want the carry around a USB stick (so I don't want to install to a USB stick).

Reading this long thread confirms my understanding that the SD card is not seen by UEFI.

Is there a Linux kernel driver for the MicroSD card? That would allow some partitions to be placed on the MicroSD card (/home, swap?, /usr?, /var?). In the good-old-days, the point of /usr was that it contained things that didn't need to be present at boot; that usage seems to have decayed.

If the kernel does have a driver for the MicroSD, and If we could have a grub module with a MicroSD driver, then everything but the EFI partition could be on the MicroSD. That would be a fine tradeoff.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Emprex:
Same issue on the Asus T100-TAL

I have exactly the same problem. I found out that i am using the Asus T100-TAL, which , apparently, uses a different wireless device.

I noticed this when i reinstalled Windows and the common Asus T100-TA drivers from the Asus support website didn't work.

I hope this problem can be fixed in a new release! I really prefer to use Android over Windows in most cases, especially on a tablet device.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Siyao:
Yeah lol, i deleted everything, I reinstalled new windows, but the problem is that the drivers install didnt went so succesfuly, some1 can help with drivers? for example, the touchscreen isn't working.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I recently reinstalled Windows as well.

It's an Intel driver you'll have to install. Check the web for "windows 10 clean install T100" . You'll find some valuable how to's with direct link to this specific driver.

If you don't find it, I can link you some french ressources.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Siyao:
It will be nice if you can send me the links, because I cant find it, the problem is also, when i try to install audio driver, they say you have to restart windows, but after reboot windows, the audio driver still doesn't seem to be installed.