yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mihaifireball:
Thank you! I already have done that. Ubuntu Mate 20.04 is working great.

What about Android?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Andy Goh:
Asus T100-TA Magic Stick

Hi, i search for help in t100ta issue to recover my asus tablet(same problem as i cannot find drive c), finally get into your web site. However, i try to download the "Magic Stick" was unable to download from the URL, can you provide the download link again.

Thank for the great development work you people do.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Hi, what do you want to do exactly? Reinstall Windows or Linux on it?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Andy Goh:
Request for the "Magic Stick"

Hi, I need to put back to win 8.1 again. Thank for your help.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Did you try to reinstall Windows 8/8.1 with the public Windows live USB tool?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows8ISO

Another option is to install Ubuntu (at least to make sure your C drive is still alive).

https://github.com/5bentz/linux-asus-t100/blob/master/T100TA_guide.md

I personally have Windows 10/ Ubuntu dualbooting on my T100TA.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] mich35:
Could you please update the download link, because I would like to test android on my tablet.

Thank you!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] batking:
Hi guys,

This is an old topic, but is there any body who have the Magic Stick files?

The link in the first post is not more longer available.....
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] hasham11:
I'm interested in this too if someone still has the latest version please!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
I don't have it anymore, but since the magic exists, I now have Linux Mint installed on my T100TA and it works almost 100% out of the box.

Thread

While for Android X86, I did not test recently.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] gregpilot:
If anyone wants the version 1.5 of Magic stick, I can post to Mega. Its a 1.5 gig download, don't know about Mega's download limits but an willing to post. PM me if interested and I will upload it.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Anyone interested in getting rid of the read only limitation of the recovery partition? I finally found a tutorial on Internet that allowed me to perform a low level format of this partition and finally get read/write access on this 7gb volume.

Which is nice to add to the 32gb. :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Here we go!

T100TA 32GB Recovery Partition Notes

www.reckt.ca

The tool can be found easily on Internet, I took it from here : http://www.flashdrive-repair.com/2014/05/phison-format-and-restore-tool-v313.html

With this, you can finally get those unused 7Gb extra under read/write state and store what you want on it :)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Rigle:
Does it support any suspend state? That's the only problem I'm having with Android 7 x86 r4 atm.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Pistacchio1971:
Hi, sorry for my English, I try the last version, work fine, a lot of force closed, the sistem is very fast.

But 1Gb is very bad, the sdcard don't work, I'm very happy to see the persistent android sistem, there is a way to increase the only 1gb of memory, after all update I'm only 132Mb.

I hope in the next update solves these issue.....

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Orion_E:
Hi sorry for me english, solve you Problem is easy you need a make a new data.img file with the size you need no more of 4gb because fat32 not support more size

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Pistacchio1971:
Thank for your response, where's that file ? There is a way to increase the memory of a minumum of a decent tablet, for example 16Gb, I know fat32 menage only 4gb, if I try to format pendrive exfat or ntsf? Then copy al file and make the data.img of 16Gb.

The android system don't boot ?

Thank in advance.

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Orion_E:
the procedure is easy

1.- boot in ubuntu

2.- open the console ctrl + alt + t

3.- put te command " dd if=/dev/zero of=data.img bs=1M count=1 seek=1024 " seek is the size of your file

4.-format you file with ext2 with the command " mkfs.ext2 -j data.img "

4.- replace your data.img in the x86 directory with the you new data.img file.

i'am have installed the magic stick in a local mode in one a partition of the main disk, and have mi microsd 64gb class 10 with a partition of 16gb in ext2 mode, the app link2sd move all the data of apps to sd and the 1.4gb data.img only save the android configurations no app data.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Pistacchio1971:
Thanks, I will try

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Pistacchio1971:
But if i format pendrive in ext2, copy all content of the magic stick there is a mode to make the data.img 16Gb ?

It work ?

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] confunkinputer:
OP, Could you post file hashes/checksums for your downloads?

Thanks
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Pistacchio1971:
Finally I have made a 4gb data.img with program called Toporesize and work fine, in the pendrive (32gb) i have a fat32 partition with magic stick (17,9gb) and a 11.4gb partition formatted ext2, the problem is that ext2 partition is not recognise when I boot in android, and link2sd don't move the game in that partition, all the program and game is in the 4gb data.img, what wrong?

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This is the error and yes, I'm Italian ....

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[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Orion_E:
Not Move the app, create link.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] ShrekDTH:
Hi,

the Bluetooth fix doesn't work fpr me. The entry is already in there. Any Ideas? hope you can help me.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] huuuuuh:
try removing the second line (after hciattach...). for some reason it causes the init-script to fail

if this is not working for you, try activating bluetooth in system settings and reboot
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jardan:
Hi, thank you for all your hard work.

I installed ubuntu yesterday and the process was very easy and everything worked great!

I have a couple of questions though; since I am trying to use it as much as possible as a tablet version, do you have any idea how to enable the "right click" function in the touch screen? the only option I found so far is to have the virtual keyboard on and selection the mouse function there. Accessibility settings (enable right click with long press) did not help...

Second question, besides the Advanced_Reboot.bat, is there any other way to have touch screen function when selection the OS? For example when I cold boot and get the grub menu, is there any way to select the OS either using touch screen (preferably) or the volume rocker+windows button?

Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cheatman:
The right click problem, I really have no idea. I use Ubuntu with a keyboard, for terminal work, mainly.

About the reboot, I am working on a touch based method to reboot from Ubuntu directly into a different OS, better than the Windows method. The problem is that it doesn't work for Android as well and that it is not generic (script must be configured before it can work fine). Maybe... Maybe I will implement an automatic detection method, but I don't promise anything.

Cheers,

C.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jardan:
Thanks for the answer! Any idea at least on how to make the volume rocker and side button work in grub so I can select the OS?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
Hi all,

I installed the latest 64bit kernel from the Asus T100 Google drive onto my Magic stick install and did a dist upgrade to 15.10. Working well, I have zero crashes at all surprisingly.

Install zram-config and you get some free memory which helps if you have 100 tabs open in firefox :)

Cheatman, Thank you very much for your hard work. It really is appreciated.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cheatman:
Grub cannot handle complex drivers such as Intel soc and Asus hotkeys. Thus, volume rocker operation is not an option. The android recovery is much more complex than a bootloader (recovery is a small OS).

Cheers,

C.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] jardan:
OK, I understand. Well I will use the bat file or the keyboard until another solution rises (e.g. incorporating the bootloader to the windows boot menu perhaps?).

Thanks for all your help and your hard work!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] revolvingdoorslammer:
Cheatman, I have a question if you have time. I tried to use the magic stick tool to boot to Android on my T100TAF and it worked perfectly, but only thing is wifi doesn't work. When I try to turn it on nothing happens and it just automatically turns itself off. Is there anything I can do to make this work? Other than that, its awesome, but I need internet. Thanks!
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Pistacchio1971:
Hi, i'm a t100 TAM, i try this magic stick and work fine, i have made a data.img of 4gb.

I try some games but not all work, it force close, heros and titans don't work, i don't understand.....
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Eta for the installation's guide of grub2?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cheatman:
None, I'm afraid. I was hoping the latest r3 build for Android would have a working installer, but it seems it doesn't...

Anyway, on the bright side, a new version is out (you can get it here) with a lot of fixes and improvements for Android. Check out the changelog on the first page.

Let me know if the build works as intended and if anything is nuked or wrong so I can fix it.

Cheers,

C.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
Great, i'll try it
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
How is wifi working in Ubuntu? It works in both Ubuntu and Android from this stick but I cannot for the life of me get it working in an Arch install. Are there any patches that had to be applied?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
Yes, the kernel in Magic Stick is a patched version. You can find the kernel patches on the G+ page here:

https://plus.google.com/communities/117853703024346186936
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
Turns out I didn't even need a patched kernel. The efivars contained the file that is needed. https://wiki.debian.org/InstallingDebianOn/Asus/T100TA#WiFi
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
How can i make android (installed locally) bootable?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] AcreaperJB:
The x86 installed and is working well, my only problem encountered was after the installation I don't see the windows partition, that might be a mistake on my part as I think I had fast boot/ didn't fully shut down before installing the grub via the install disk. So I'll have to do a system restore since not even boot repair works.

Just posting this so people are warned.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] spastikitten:
hi i have a t100taf and cant seem to get the wifi working in android or ubuntu
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Pistacchio1971:
Hi, the game order & chaos online still not working, but great work, i have a t100 tam and android is so fluid.....
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] spastikitten:
any chance on that wifi for the t100 TAF ? would be really good just to get the files for it even ..i already have android installed and dual booted with windows 8.1
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Sacob:
hi!

can anyone help with clear instructions for installing grub and making android bootable?

i want to dual boot w10 and android. i've just made a clean install of windows using all of the internal storage in one partition. now i should shrink it and make a 8gb (for example) ext4 partition to put the android files?

thanks
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] spastikitten:
ok so..any progress on the wifi for the t100taf ? its kinda real annoying having to have the keybaord and a big old wg111v3 attached to it (i have no money left)
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] maxld:
Thank you for Android :) everything is working (I sometimes have to do few reboots to get working wifi but no drama). If you use rEFInd, install manually Android to SSD and create a BCD entry in EasyUEFI, you will even be able to choose OS to boot with volume keys (without dock attached) and the boot time is amazing. Combination of Win10 and Android is perfect. Thank you once more.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] feduss:
How do you install rEFInd and android?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] maxld:
You have to install EasyUEFI and create a new bootloader entry (for example named rEFInd). In a creator you will have to point the refind .efi file which is located in 100MB EFI partition (if you installed rEFInd there). Pick 32bit one. The last thing you need to do is to hold volume down button while restarting or powering on the device, then select the BCD entry you have created. The rEFInd will load and buttons should be working (volume down and start button for an enter).

One hint from me. I would rather suggest creating big data.img (I am using 11GB) file under Ubuntu because when I didn't use it, I expected random losses of userdata. WIth this file, everything is fine.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] thams:
This step by step is completely functional.

Great Thanks

Regards

T.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
The Android installer picks /dev/mmcblk0p1 as the EFI partition but with a typical Windows install the EFI is p2. Maybe have a way to select the EFI partition?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] cheatman:
The Android installer has not been tested and is not supposed to work.

As a side note, grub should simply detect the proper EFI partition correctly, so I am unsure what the actual problem might be.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] parkerlreed:
If you boot straight into rEFInd the buttons do not work. If you bring up the boot selection menu (Power + Volume Down) and then select rEFInd the buttons partially work. Down will navigate and home will select. I haven't found a way to back up (or go right) in rEFInd.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Excuse me for this completely dumb question, but I need to be 100% sure... :) My wife is almost the only one using the T100 at home and won't stand me screwing something up because I wanted to play....

I am completely used to Gnu/Linux, a bit newer with Android, but am anyway a rom testing addict.

But.... this works completely as a live CD right? It stores itself completely into RAM when unsquashing file system, but does not touch in any way to my T100 unless I launch an installation process?

Meaning... if I am playing around with the stick and my wife needs the tablet for any purpose, I can give it back to her, booting right away into Windows?

Thanks for this awesome development by the way!

Edit: I finally was too impatient and tried it out. Just.....WOW!!!!! Android is blazing fast and Ubuntu seems to work well.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Additional question.

I was just guessing, as the micro USB port is "host capable", can we boot using it if I have a micro USB adapter or key?

Cherry on the top of the cake... Does it works if we copy the content of the zip file onto a SD card? I know it is possible to create "linux live SD cards". With the persistance you integrated in the android version, it should be amazing.

Thanks

Edit: I tried and it does not work. Are you using grub in your stick? Would keep using the stick as a boot device but change entries in grub to point out the sd card work?

Edit 2: The micro usb adapter works perfectly. You can boot on the key without keyboard, using the button on + volume down to access the boot menu. Then volume down to select the device to boot on.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] vurp0:
I just want to note that even though the OP says the microphone doesn't work in Ubuntu, it works for me. I can use voice search in Chrome to search by voice, and I can use arecord to record from the mic. I never tweaked any audio stuff any more than changing the volume. I installed Ubuntu using the stick v1.4.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] blackdot:
I got a quick question to android users. I am using now 4.4.4 r3 version, but it seems that suspend is not working properly. My battery is eaten is a same pace even if the screen is on and tabled used for web browsing or if it is suspended.

Once I press power button, screen goes dark, but it is still visible, that backlight was not turned off completely. Screen is still emitting low light.

I tried also to disable the wifi during a sleep (automatically in wifi setting) and this didn't helped. Battery consumption is still the same. Moreover after resume, wifi never goes up. I had to manually disable it and enable it in order to make it work.

I anybody of you experiencing same thing? Thx.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
[MENTION=251363]blackdot[/MENTION]:

I don't use suspend so far, can't tell you sorry.

[MENTION=490310]cheatman[/MENTION]:

Still wanting to have this "live stick" working on a micro sd card, I had the idea to still use the usb stick to boot, but modify the grub.cfg entries to point out the files on the microsd card. So that once booted, I can detach the keyboard and use the persistant android from sd in tablet mode.

I tried using uuid and/or simple /dev/mmcblk1p1 path but unsuccessfuly.

Either grub tells me the uuid is unknown, or can't find the /dev/mmcblk1p1/x86/kernel file...

Any idea on what's going wrong?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
Guys, has any of you managed to boot Lollipop builds? I've tried all I found (a few) and only android_x86-5.0.2_r1-20141221 works graphically (android boot animation working normally), but I end up in a bootloop. Maybe I'm doing something wrong...

[MENTION=490310]cheatman[/MENTION] do you have a Lollipop build maybe? I've seen some gdrive DL link here before, but it's not working anymore.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
SDCARD test in grub

SORRY FOR THE POST UNDER POST - MY MISTAKE

[MENTION=4027505]Anghirrim[/MENTION]

Unfortunetly grub doesn't detect microSD drives as the card reader itself isn't loaded before booting an OS. We'd have to make a custom bootloader version that would load card reader with it.

You can check this for yourself easily:

1. Label your microsd card just to make it easier to identify. (just the name of the drive)

2. Have the card in slot and then power T100TA up.

3. In the grub boot selection menu press letter "C"

4. Type in

ls

and all avalible devices will be listed in form

(hdX) or (hdX,gptX) etc.

You are interested only in the 2 part ones

(hdX,gptX)

5. By typing f.e.

ls (hd0,gpt1)

you will receive an output detailing your drive - with it's label, filesystem type, size etc. You will be able to identify wheter you picked:

​

EMMC (internal storage) chip and the factory recovery partition (the 8GB one)

[*]​

The docking station HDD drive

[*]​

Finally the sdcard from the adapter (but I don't think you will see it, because I think that it's not even loaded before boot, as I said before).

BEFORE YOU TRY IT YOURSELF

I myself got annoyed by trying the ls command with my partitions (hdX is the device/drive,gptX is the partition), because some of them cause grub to freeze - you will have to force-close the tablet by longpressing the power button until it shuts down. Nothing wrong can happen, but you should remember which partition caused the freeze so you wouldn't have to lose the time again.

OTHER CLUE IN TESTING THIS:

If f.e (hd0,gpt2) will be "OS" or "SYSTEM" or other label you know, but isn't from the SDCARD then you can rule out all other partitions from hd0 - because sdcard would be on different device. MOST OF ALL - if there are just 2 devices (EMMC and HDD - hd0 and hd1) then sorry, no sdcard. You should be able to boot from the micro USB port, so here comes the 3rd device.

My opinion on the SDCARD as the booting device - unfortunetly I think it's a bad choice even if it's possible, because this device just sucks on the T100. It's limitations make it not worth the time. You will get better speeds by booting from a mediocre USB2.0 flash drive. Asus T100TA sdcard reader get a max of around 23MB/s R/W speeds, but terrible speeds for smaller file sizes.

I understand that people want to boot Android without the need to shrink the "Windows chip" and at the same time without the keyboard hdd dock. Sadly, the sdcard would be a dissapointment.

Little update:

I've just checked with grub installed from magic stick that it doesnt see sdcard.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
[MENTION=4666322]Ventricle[/MENTION]

Thanks a lot for this very detailed answer. I've spent some time of my WE trying to check and see how to chainload various Grubs. Without success.

But.... There is a but, as the micro USB slot is host capable, it works perfectly flawlessly booting on it using an adapter. Android is super fast and you completely get rid of the keyboard. It's not elegant but at least it works 100% as a tablet.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
[MENTION=4027505]Anghirrim[/MENTION]

I tottaly forgot about the micro usb port. Are you sure it works? I've just tried making a bootable stick and plugged it into micro USB port. It is detected by grub as a device, but grub doesnt list it's partitions (maybe if there is one, it lists withot the 2nd part and just stays (hd0) - dunno, I'd have to try booting, I don't have time yet. Not possible to pick the micro usb boot device via BIOS settings (override bios, or boot priority order). Also advanced reboot in windows won't let me pick the usb stick in micro usb.

I wish I knew if micro sd limitations could be somehow patched or something. I still don't know exactly where the limits come from - wheter it's Baytrail related or just the controller.

FYI man:

I'm using Android-x86 4.4r3 on my T100TA on an EXT4 partition with size of exactly 6,84GB. So 20,94 left for Windows partition and 5,5GB free storage despite I've messed up the Downloads and Desktop folders recently, so it's quite enough. To be more precise: I've got Lot's of free storage left on the Android partition. I think that I will go 90% Android since I finally got a nice, fast build and Windows will become just a necessity in special situations. That will definitely happen when I get a stable Lollipop build. This 4.4r3 is so fast. I'm loving it.

Also guys there are Android-x86 Lollipop builds avalible for tests - THEY ARE NOT T100TA DEDICATED, just generic, allpurpose.

1. android_x86-5.0.2_r1-20141221.iso - host onedrive

2. android_x86_5.0.1.iso - host onedrive

3. android_x86-5.1.1_r13-20150831.iso - host gdrive NOT WORKING - graphics all scrambled

I'm going to test them today.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
[MENTION=4666322]Ventricle[/MENTION]

You forgot one element here....my wife :D

She is the main user of the T100 at home and will barely stand a dualboot ( it took 2 years before she stopped shouting after this on the home pc).

I won't play that much with the T100. That's why I want something 100% removable just snapping fingers.
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Vioner:
I've made some data transfer speed tests on the T100TA and I though I'd share the results - I'm posting it here, because it might come handy for people chosing where to install Android.

[IMG="Asus T100TA data transfer speeds - EMMC, HDD in dock, USB 3.0 in dock, MicroUSB port in tablet, micro SD slot in tablet"]http://i.imgur.com/jqwS8Gg.png[/IMG]
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Anghirrim:
Seems writing small files onto SD cards is terrible. But performances really depend on the card used.

I'll maybe try tonight with mine. You used cristal disk mark?
[Windows 8 Development and Hacking] Grantius:
I think it's because the SD card is also using USB2 so may have some higher CPU usage as well