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[Chromebooks] fritsp1989:
Removing Fyde Account ( or hide )

Is there a way to hide the Fyde login or completly remove it ?
[Chromebooks] lucaoldb:
Yes, you can have a look at post #40

Anyway, it's not a true FydeOs account, it's just a local account (no sync to their servers).
[Chromebooks] ItsaSEDworld:
Did it break Android functionality for you? For me that's what happens after I remove the FydeOS controller extension - Android extension seems to just hang at launch at the initial license agreement screen (my guess, as it's all in Chinese). Have tried repeatedly the procedure and various steps, but the android part gets broken every time...
[Chromebooks] lucaoldb:
No, it did not.

You should follow the how to step by step, because it works. The only pc on which I have so far been unable to let android work is an old AMD.

So, please try again and remember that you'll be able to install the android runtime only reverting back to the old settings of chrome_dev.conf.

I.e. you have got to remove the 2 hashes in the following lines, save and reboot

#--fydeos-account-enabled

#--fydemina

After this step, you will have the chance to install the android runtime. Once you get it working, please log in with your own account and then comment again the lines above and reboot.
[Chromebooks] ItsaSEDworld:
Thank you. Perhaps I've not explained myself clearly. I WAS able to get Android run-time running just fine- install apps from the Play Store, etc. I may be a newbie on this forum/board but I used to be a Unix/Linux system administrator for many years and am very familiar with editing config files and all that jazz (hence the It'saSEDworld monicker- see what I did there ;)

I've repeated the process numerous times and even bypassed the whole FydeOS user creation by going to the terminal screen before the said account is created (as per post No 40). But the end result is always the same- as soon as I disable/remove FydeOS System Controller Extension in the Chromium browser, at next launch of Android (settings) app it just hangs at the License Acceptance screen (in Chinese) and I can't proceed. Re-enabling the FydeOS System Controller makes it all work again. However, the whole point of this installation, to me anyway, was to remove all these FydeOS "loose ends" and cut the umbilical cord, so to speak. I understand the cord might've been cut, at least to some degree, by commenting out the respective lines in the chrome_dev.conf file, but the FydeOS browser extension is still there and can't be removed without affecting Android run-time it would seem.

I would add screenshots, but don't see an obvious way to attach files here...

Reference info- I'm using 5.31 version of FydeOS.

There are 3 extensions I see added to Chromium browser, namely-

1. FydeOS System Controller 3.0.3

2. Android 2.2.3

3. and lastly FydeOS Store-something extension whose name I can't remember as I removed it altogether.

The FydeOS System Controller can't be removed or even disabled without Android extension getting broken (by hanging at the initial License something or other screen).

I've repeatedly tested this- if I enable FydeOS System Controller, Android launches just fine and every time I disable (or altogether remove it), Android doesn't launch.

Hope this clarifies my situation.

Thank you
[Chromebooks] lucaoldb:
I did not mean you were unable to edit the files. sorry: maybe you are much more skilled than me, I am a lawyer:p

I can't understand why it does not work for you and the only thing I can do is writing down the steps which have worked for me 6 or 7 times, just to be sure that's the same route you have gone.

So, please have a look at the words typed in bold, this could be the difference: after inserting the google account as secondary account, I uncomment the 2 lines referring to fyde os settings and reboot; then I install the android runtime. I log in android with my account[ and let it update a couple of apps... Maybe you were too fast? It's the only thing I can guess, sorry.

Then I comment the lines again and reboot, I go to extensions and remove from the browser the 2 extensions you mentioned, then I go to the shelf and long press the chinese app and choose to uninstall it. After rebooting android is still there.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Can't rewrite chrome_dev.conf

Hi, I managed to succesfully create an account with google by commenting the fyde lines in chrome_dev.conf, but now I can't uncomment those lines, I can't save the file no matter what, here is what I did:

shell

sudo su

sudo mount -o remount,rw /

cd /etc

sudo vim chrome_dev.conf

And while in vim I uncomment the fyde lines by pressing "x" on the "#", then I went:

:wq

and got the following error:

"E505: "chrome_dev.conf" is read-only (add ! to override)"

so I did that:

:wq!

and then got the following error:

""chrome_dev.conf" E212: Can't open file for writing"

and it doesn't save the file, I don't know what I'm missing, it worked the first time for commenting the lines, can someone help me out?
[Chromebooks] zipeee2:
Did you remember to

sudo mount -o remount,rw /

?
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Yes I did, everytime, I don't get any answer after doing that, I mean it just goes to the next line
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Hi, thanks for answering, I did sudo mount, here are some screenshots of what I did:

[IMG="Shell commands"]https://i.imgur.com/15CzE8C.png[/IMG]

[IMG="trying to save in vim"]https://i.imgur.com/oUvY7Xx.png[/IMG]

[IMG="save error in vim"]https://i.imgur.com/doaUCG8.png[/IMG]

I don't know what's going on!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
Please try these commands and take a screenshot of the result like you did before, so we can try to figure out what's going on:

sudo mount -o rw,remount /
cd /etc
mount | grep " / "
ls -al chrome*
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Thanks a lot for your help, this are the results I got from those commands:

thanks again, I´m looking foward for your answer!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
Looks like everything is fine, try this now:

sudo mount -o rw,remount /
sudo vim /etc/chrome_dev.conf
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Thanks, I've tried everything! Still not working, I tried on a different USB drive, but Everytime it only allows me to change the chrome_dev.conf file only once, looks like the drive locks for some reason after doing it once, don't know what's going, but I'm still checking out what could be causing it
[Chromebooks] lfom:
You have dev mode enabled, right? What is your device? You may need to to what is explained here (chek the part about "Making changes to the system"):

https://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device

PS: when I had to use the command, it only worked with the "force" option, then I could remount filesystem rw and the changes persisted after reboots. Make sure your read and understand all the info before trying to do any changes to any system file, specially on a Chromebook device.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
I'm booting from a USB device (Kingston DataTraveler 100 G3), I'm using a Samsung Notebook NP300EA4C, after trying it a lot of times and some image rewriting from scratch, I was able to Login with my google account and was able to rewrite again the chrome_dev.conf uncommenting the fydeos lines, now after several reboots I was able to install the google play store and the google config, when finishing the configo on google play store my system just rebooted and seems to be uninstalled again, so I'm gonna be working more with the system to see how it works, at least running from USB doesn't seem very stable, thank you all for your help!
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
*Update:

After yet again a couple of reboots I've been working alright with Chromium, I don't think I would switch to it from Windows, but is workings, have some of you installed on your hard drive? How was your experience with Android apps? Because it's a little unstable from USB, thanks a lot for your time and patience!!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
You may want to do a powerwash and then login with your Google account again. I got stuck once, probably due to low space on disk, and it requires an Internet connection of course.

I just love how clean and fast ChromeOS runs on a low end device, being able to run Android apps just like Android x86, Linux apps and even Windows apps via Crossover is amazing. I have already installed it on my internal drive and it boots really fast! I just need better support for my hardware: so far no battery indicator, no trackpad click (but I managed to add tap-to-click), no automatic screen rotation or tablet mode detection, but now sound somewhat works, although I have to alternate manually between internal speakers and headphones.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Well, I've been testing during this day, and it seems everything is working better, still got some minor freezes every once in a while, but I believe is because I'm using it from a USB device, all the hardware is working perfectly, sound, wifi, track pad, keyboard and even Bluetooth, I'm gonna keep testing it for a while more, I would love to have the chrome web store in the app drawer instead of the Fydeos one, thanks a lot for your help!
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Another question, does anyone knows if you can make a dual boot with Fyde Os and Windows 10? I´m asking because I saw it was possible with Cloud Ready, thanks for all your time and patience!!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
Synce FydeOS 5.31 you have an "experimental" dual-boot installer. I have not tried it, actually you only need the EFI, ROOT-A and state partitions on the internal drive, as some say. I did a manual installation (not easy due to to the UUIDs), copied the OEM partition too (small) just to be safe and it worked. Sadly the kernels provided doesn't have the EFI loader built-in, so you must rely on GRUB for booting.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Ok, that's what I was considering, using Grub to boot, last time I did something like that it was a pain in the butt reconfigure and fix Windows 10 boot entry, but if it's possible it definitely worth trying!

Do you know how to do it? I mean using the dual boot installer, thanks!

Will the same instructions for the old Flint OS would work for Fydeos? I mean the following:

https://flintos.io/howto/dual-boot-flint-os/

*Update:

Downloaded the "Fydeos installer" from the app store, but is all in Chinese!! XD If someone knows what are the instructions to follow for dual boot I woul really appreciate!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
I think that the easiest way is using FydeOS installer from their web app store, use a phone with a camera translator to help. But I still think that doing it manually is safer, and you only need to copy two partitions to your internal disk: ROOT-A and STATE, then copy vmlinuz.A and configure GRUB accordingly.

PS: I am using a chromefy installation now, seems to be much more reliable and more features. I could not get Google Drive to work using FydeOS 6.0 and the instructions from OP, although Play Store seem to work fine.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Thanks a lot, I tried with the Fydeos installer, the install completed and on reboot got the Quefi boot menu, which is great and works great when booting to Windows, but the files in the partition weren't copied, when trying to boot to FYDEOS it just goes to black screen, and exploring the partition it looks empty, do you think that copying manually the partitions will fix it? Thanks again!!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
No idea, since I never used FydeOS installer... I forgot to mention in my previous comments: I had to also edit write_gpt.sh as explained in the chromefy dual boot guide in order to boot Chromium after moving/installing the partition to the internal disk and also adjusting GRUB (unfortunately the kernels don't have support to EFI boot, so we can't use rEFInd directly, for example). I mainly used this tools available in both Linux and Chromium to install (must be run as root to work):

fdisk -l

lists all partitions with size and label

lsblk

list all partitions with mount points, if mounted

blkid

list all partitions with the type and UUID needed for GRUB kernel line

cgpt

manipulate partition labels, names and types

e2label

manipulate partition labels
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
*Update

Hi, thanks for your answers, I was able to successfully installed the dual boot and boot Fydeos from HD, but after booting Windows 10 again, it seems that rewrites something on the EFI partition, cause after booting to Windows 10 I can't boot again to Fydeos using rEFInd, I remember that something like that happened to me when I did a dual boot with OSX, so I will try to add a New boot entry for Fydeos in Windows boot loader and see if that works!

PD in my bios settings I have "Secure boot" disabled, and selected "UEFI and CMOS", not sure if that has something to do with it, thanks for everything!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
From my previous reply:
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Thanks!! Do you have a link for the guide? I'm a little confused, cause as I told you I was able to boot FydeOS directly from rEFInd the first couple of times, I actually change the chrome_dev.conf and started with the google account, then change it back to allow the installation of google play, rebooted the system, and booted FydeOS again directly with rEFInd, installed the play store and worked a little bit with the system, then rebooted to see if I could boot to Windows 10 and I could, but when trying to boot FydeOS again from rEFInd just couln´t do it, thanks again for your patience, hope can make it work, thanks!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
Then you did some magic or you were not using vmlinuz.A: the kernel does not have support for EFI booting, so you can't use rEFInd to boot it directly, you must use GRUB. And as the stock GRUB configuration used in Chromium distributions is very limited, I kept it just to boot Chromium and use rEFInd for the rest, including starting GRUB itself.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
I did nothing but to run the dual boot setup of FydeOS, do you have a guid on installing GRUB to boot FydeOS? Thanks again!!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
I don't know how you installed if, if you have used the FydeOS installer for installing in the internal disk and dual boot I cannot help since I have never used as I said previously. With the default rEFind configuration it will find any instances of GRUB and add it to its boot menu, that's what I used. So the computer starts, it reads rEFInd, rEFInd lists the GRUB entry and I use it to boot Chromium.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Hi, I've benn checking out what's going on with the dual boot, so turns out it actually boots on Grub, it just goes really fast to the boot that I didn't notice, here's how the rEFInd menu looks like (sorry for the poor quality pic):

after selecting the FydeOS dual boot entry, it goes to GRUB to this menu:

If I try to boot from the first or second option, it goes to black screen and can't do anything, not even shut it down by long pressing the power button, I have to take out the battery manually, but if I prees "e" I can edit the boot entry, and it looks like this:

I don't see the problem there, it should boot correctly from sda5, where FydeOS install is, the good news is that I can go to Recovery Tools, where I get the following:

that's where I typed fdisk -l and checked out that it was on the correct partition, many thanks for all your help, sorry for all the inconvenience!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
[MENTION=8823982]superjames2040[/MENTION] Hmmm, interesting this recovery tool, makes me almost want to install in again on internal disk, just to be able to use it for maintenance...

The only thing that I can think of that could cause a problem, based on your report, is this line:

search --label --set root FYDEOS-DUAL-BOOT

It searches for a partition labeled FYDEOS-DUAL-BOOT to be the root partition. But if you can boot recovery and it has the same line, then probably something else is wrong... If you can't figure it out, please post screenshots of the GRUB entry for the FydeOS recovery, as well as the results of "fidisk -l" and "lsblk".
[Chromebooks] DiogoSilva48:
I got FydeOS to dual boot with Windows and still being able to use Google Sync like a Chromebook, new update also has Widevine support, so, there's Netflix for everyone. Living this update 6.0.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
How did you do it? With the FydeOS installer?
[Chromebooks] lfom:
I just tried the FydeOS 6.0 Dual Boot installer but it failed due to timeout (I was trying to install on an external USB disk). Anyway, it seems that it creates an image with the same size os the partition that was chosen to be installed to, probably it's the only solution to avoid partitioning the disk, but it is still weird...

Anyway, there are two big issues that prevents me to use this procedure:

- chrome://flags do not work, it only shows a blank page even in incognito mode, but it works in Guest account (what is useless anyway);

- No Google Drive sync: it is listed in the the Files app but it can't sync anything and it simply disappears after a while when I try to access it.
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Hey!! Thanks for everything!! I figured it out what was wrong, I was using a partition software I'm Windows 10 called EaseUs partition master, and I think that softener deleted the content on my partition 5 (FydeOS partition), so a reinstall did the work, I'm just not gonna use that software anymore, now everything is working, but I can't uncomment again the lines of FydeOS on chrome_dev.conf file, I don't know how to enter DEV mode on FydeOS, big thanks for everything!!

---------- Post added at 08:58 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:48 PM ----------

After several attempts I figured that is better after downloading the installer to deactivate WiFi and close everything but the installer to ensure nothing is going on the background, try it like that!
[Chromebooks] lfom:
As far as I know, all Chromium are in developer mode by default: if you can hit Ctlr + Alt + T then type "shell" then you are in dev mode, unless I missed something... So as long as you mount root as RW you should be able to edit the file in /etc:

sudo mount -o rw,remount /

Last FydeOS 6.0 install I didn't connect to WiFi, used the procedure to enable Google sync but Google Drive still does not work. As I cannot access "chrome://flags" I searched online and added this flag to chrome_dev.conf: "--sync-support-secondary-account".
[Chromebooks] superjames2040:
Thanks, I rebooted and did it on the FydeOS console before signing in, with Ctrl + Alt + F2, and this time it worked, now I finally have what I was looking for, full Google account sync, Android apps and no FydeOS account once or ever! Thank you a lot for your time and patience!!

---------- Post added at 11:44 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:11 PM ----------

To have Google Drive sync you need to uncomment the FydeOS lines in chrine_dev.conf again, that worked for me!
[Chromebooks] DiogoSilva48:
Yes, I did. Sorry for just answering right now, didn't saw this until now.
[Chromebooks] primod808:
In fydeOS 6.0 did they take out the option to install apks manually? Usually you'd right click and gives The option to use package installer in 6.0.
[Chromebooks] :
My touchscreen isn't calibrated properly, tapping on the top makes the device think it's the bottom being tapped. How can I fix this?
[Chromebooks] ophetdroge@hotmail.com:
FydeOS 6.0 requires sms token, logged in as a guest...

The problem is FydeOS 6.0 requires a sms token, which doesn't work with my dutch phonenumber Logged in as a guest to get developer mode, followed the instructions. I can get Google sync, but there is no way to get android working, because I cannot get to a fyde os account.

---------- Post added at 07:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:32 PM ----------

In FydeOS 6 nothing is there
[Chromebooks] DiogoSilva48:
You don't need to introduce sms token if you do the first boot with Google account enabled, the disable Google account to enable play store, after that reenable Google account, easy, everything working and no sms token needed.
[Chromebooks] ophetdroge@hotmail.com:
Did it with USB with Fyde OS 5.31

Everything went fine the only thing is..........

Playstore doesn't install:(

I wonder mayby hardware isn't suitable Asusx54H i3(first gen)

Tried it in my Asus N76V i7, playstore installed, same usb
[Chromebooks] kiodo1981:
Please share 5.31. Thanks.
[Chromebooks] animatrix999:
Someone should make a video on what they did to install this with Playstore. That will be great.
[Chromebooks] rene.m.castillo:
Thanks for the guide, i've installed FydeOS with full Google Sync and Play Store, also without to create a FydeOS Account.

This are the steps that i used:

1. Download, Flash USB, Boot.

2. Change Language, Select Keyboard Layout and Next

3. Connect to Wifi

4. In the "Create a FydeOS Account, select "Access as a Guest"

5. In the guest mode, chromium browser will open.

6. Followed your guide

Thanks for the guide!
[Chromebooks] sanslar:
I have after a clean installation, in chrome: // flags white page, without anything. Do you also? Is this generally normal?:crying:
[Chromebooks] omar20033:
here is why you cant make it right

Symptoms are:

- Blank page when trying to use chrome://flags, only the search field and the reset button are shown;

- Same problem when using Incognito mode;

- Same problem with a newly created account or after powerwash;

- It only works in the guest account, but then it's useless.

https://github.com/imperador/chromefy/issues/40

https://xdaforums.com/hardware-hacking/chromebooks/blank-empty-chrome-flags-page-t3911200
[Chromebooks] DiogoSilva48:
Starting with chromium/chrome v73 that bug is fixed, so the only thing we can do is wait.
[Chromebooks] omar20033:
thats a good news i hope so
[Chromebooks] DiogoSilva48:
On regular chromeos that bug was also happening with v72 and v71, flags weren't working anywhere, came version v73 and fixed that bug.
[Chromebooks] jamesross85:
Are you all using prebuilt images (from the releases on GitHub) or have you built your own? And if I do this using the prebuilt r72 test image for RPI, will that then be secure enough to use with my credentials (not forwarding my credentials to the Chinese servers?)
[Chromebooks] gchalita:
I'm using Version 72.0.3626.122 (FydeOS unlicensed version) (64-bit) and I had some issues when following this guide, several other lineas appeared in the conf file:

--gaia-url-https://account.fydeos.com

--google-apis-url=https://apis.fydeos.com

--device-management-url=https://m.fydeos.com/devicemanagement/data/api

--sync-url=https://clients4.fydeos.com/chrome-sync

--fydeos-online-account-enabled

--fydemina

And if followed the guide when commenting the last 2 it didn't worked. So I decided to comment all of them and adding in the end:

--google-account-enabled

and followed the guide, flags etc..

Didn't worked, but i uncommented the last 2:

--fydeos

--fydemina

After boot I could login with google account, set up android store and delete chrome extension FYDEOS and it is still working.

But I want to double check if this is correct.

PS. Any other combination of comment or uncomment didn't worked.

[IMG="conf file final"]https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CHH5K-S0rUSI_y1Bdam8IK_ZPoFQc39j/view?usp=sharing[/IMG]
[Chromebooks] omar20033:
The same thing happens with me but the problem is i cant make google drive work with files app

with or without commented the last 2:

--fydeos-online-account-enabled

--fydemina

in fydeos 6.1 if i comment fydeos play store will not work

so now i need any way to fix google drive sync
[Chromebooks] gchalita:
I confirm this same problem, I use drive as a chrome extension but not native in files app
[Chromebooks] kienkhuat:
If you still want google drive in your file manager, try the File app from andriod system. This app and the native one on chromium are almost similar.

Try this:

Android (the fyde app which enable google play store, a.k.a Settings once the Google service is enabled)->Storage->File

Now just pin the File (andriod app) to the taskbar and you're ready to go.

The File app from andriod system even supports many service (ex: OneDrive :D)
[Chromebooks] SrdjanPsy:
Did anyone try V7 yet? I cant get the USB to boot?