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[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Deesie:
Hey all, cool project you've got going on here

I've been able get the OS installed, pair my joycon controllers and pro controllers successfully with no issues, but when using Netflix, i'm unable to scroll up/down through the menu options using either the pro or joycon controllers. I've tried installing the joycon fix to no avail

Just also wondering if anyone has any ideas on how to use this as basically a Shield with a remote? Or maybe even get Android TV instead?

Docking the device also doesn't seem to work, although I have messed with the display settings on the switch as suggested in earlier posts to make it smaller, so maybe that's broken it
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xxcrashxx:
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To answer both of you, from everything I've read about the switch system and Horizon bootloader, this is how I understand it; Nintendo cannot detect that you have booted into RCM mode to launch android because RCM mode doesn't have read/write access to the emmc. Therefore, no logs can be written to the emmc. When you use this android hack it circumvents the horizon bootloader and boots with the android bootloader. Only when the horizon bootloader is loaded will there be anything written to the logs on the emmc or any info possibly being able to be sent to Nintendo.

You might want to check into the Caffeine exploit. You will need to boot the switch into a cfw like atmosphere, sxos, or Reinx and upgrade the console to version 4.1.0 by using the offline update homebrew called ChoidujourNX. I haven't read much into this because my switch was never below 5.1.2 since I had it, so I'm not 100% sure if it will work on your unpatched switch.

If it doesn't, you can enable AutoRCM in Hekate and have Hekate set to auto boot into android. This way all you need to do is turn on the switch with the power button and inject the Hekate payload. No need to use a jig, no need to hold down the power and vol + buttons on boot(unless you're trying to enter TWRP).
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BashfulLine143:
When im on the switch os the fan runs perfectly normal. But with andriod it just goes haywire.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] danker1990:
How do you transfer apk files from pc to android switch port?

I want to install some apk files that i have on my pc to the switch port of android however can't seem to do this despite there being two partitions. How do I achieve this if possible?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] codyham:
USB

Is there anyway to make the USB work?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BashfulLine143:
You will be left with a ton of unpartitioned (unusable) space left over.

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But when im in the switch OS the fan is perfectly normal. However in andriod it just goes haywire

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Hekate is the only good known boot loader i know of. Id suggest using that.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xdanilva:
That's normal because l4t which is used for Linux and Android use up much more of the cpu than the switch's os
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] zebular:
I go SX OS > Hekate > Android to boot mine, though I have an internal payload injector and it makes sense for me.

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First min of my video shows how I boot in. I made my right joycon short pins 1 and 9 with the catch release button when pressed in and I have a SwitchME installed internally to load the SX OS payload.

https://youtu.be/blSYMymq4uE
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BloodRose:
I've installed this and it's incredible however I have a couple of issues.

1) Games aren't detecting my joycons even though I've paired both L and R via Bluetooth.

2) The Nvidia Shield games I own are downloading from Google Play but are failing the license check. I've tested HL2, and Doom 3 BFG so far. Portal seems to fail installation entirely.

Does anyone know of a way to fix these problems?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Mantralunar:
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Also having the same issue! What apk did you use?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Renato2005:
Did you find any solution?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] helloxdadevelopers:
apk mirror NVIDIA Games 5.22.26891545

July 30, 2019

Same problem here with tv 720p ! have you found a solution ?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] indierocker774:
Has anyone had issues with their FAT32 partition not showing up in windows? Mine now pops up as an unformatted drive, but originally worked and I’m not quite sure how to proceed. I’d really appreciate some guidance if anyone’s familiar work this issue.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BloodRose:
The XKit One loader might be a more attractive option.

https://s.click.aliexpress.com/e/zys2r1e
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xdanilva:
Aka RCMloader
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
I appreciate all of the work that has been put in thus far since my Nintendo Switch has been the gateway into this domain of Android. I had zero knowledge beforehand and I've been watching this unveil since 7/27. I decided to take the plunge a week after the beta was released. I've done some fair share of research and reading on aspects I had no idea existed.

I've been testing out different applications that are supposed to preserve battery life consumption during sleep mode. The parameters were:

-airplane mode

-lowest battery setting (left most option)

Here are two tests that I have performed:

1) Greenify: 3 hours and 3 minutes of sleep, from 98% to 79% battery depletion.

2) Servicely: 2 hours and 49 minutes of sleep, from 68% to 50% battery depletion.

I'm not sure if the applications helped, but I've been attempting to try and find a temporary solution for the deep sleep problem until we receive a new update or patch. If this is futile and it's solely Lineage OS based, please let me know so I can shift my focus on other aspects.

I do have a few questions pertaining to some applications that I just can't seem to get working.

1) How are people running DraStic flawlessly? I've downloaded over 10 different APK files and none of them have worked correctly. I'm currently using nds4droid, but I can't get it to run flawlessly.

2) Is there a way to make the UI for the three touch buttons at the bottom (the back, the home, and the multitask buttons) smaller? I found an application called Navigaiton Bar Remover, but it only removes it. I do need the buttons, but I'd like them smaller.

3) What are "must have" applications on Android/Lineage OS that are a major quality of life improvement?

4) How else can Lineage OS be utilized on the Nintendo Switch? (How are YOU using your Nintendo Switch?) It's essentially a computer that can be stationary or portable, but I'm sure there are other ways of use that I'm not even aware of.

So far, I have done the following with my Android Switch in both handheld and docked modes:

-played GB, GBC, GBA, SNES, N64, Gamecube, PSP, and Dreamcast games on various emulators

-browsed the internet

-watched Youtube and Twitch

-played Old School Runescape

-tried out the PokemonMMO

(SNES9X did not work when docked as the connection to the TV just dropped. I don't have a fancy computer, so I'm not able to test any of the game streaming applications.)

Is there anything else that I, a random user, can do to help out aside from just wait until the next update gets released?

Edit: My peripherals are as follow:

-Original launch Nintendo Switch console

-Nintendo Sandisk Yellow Mario Star 256gb Micro SD card A2 U3/V30

-Windows 7 computer for injecting Hekate through TegraRcmGUI

-Generic RCMJig
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] hayful59:
Hey, is anyone having issues with nvidia games crash always on launch, ive cleared both data and cache for the play store and nvidia games but it still doesnt work from longer than a second? thanks
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
Oh, no... I'm in a bind now... I was looking through the developer options at what is included in the list and my screen went sporadic and hit "simulate secondary screen" a few times. My touch screen is completely useless right now. I had to force shutdown by holding the power button down. I tried to restart, but upon bootup, my touch screen is still not registering any inputs whatsoever. I tried going into TWRP to reboot into the recovery mode, but that doesn't seem to work. The ABD Sideloader also failed both times that I tried it.

Is there any way to disable developer options outside of settings in Lineage OS? What am I supposed to do in this situation?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
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[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xk0niR:
I guess you could reset all settings by deleting the settings file with TWRP (I am not sure where it's located it should be somewhere at /data/system I think)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] akghar:
Your SD card has multiple partitions. Windows wants to format the ext4 one. Don't. And the fat32 should be visible in the explorer.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] VicomteTV:
I can't get to boot on the SD

Hi,

I flashed the 64Go img.gz with etcher on my 64Go SD Card, put the Gapps on it just after the flashing was complete, but when i boot my switch i'm just booting on the Switch OS hand nothing happen...

Is there a step i missed? i havent find shield-ifier

Thanks
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] ZpanicZ:
Did you flash GAPPS or did you just put it in the sd ?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] VicomteTV:
I just put the Zip file on the SD card on the partition that Windows can RW, cause i guess i have to flash by TWRP but i can’t even boot on it

I tried to re-flash 2 Times the switchroot img on the sd
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BloodRose:
They don't crash in my case but they are failing the license check and therefore don't work. It seems like they're unable to connect to the Google Play Games service and fail authentication.

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It sounds like your console isn't booting into fusee gelee mode.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] indierocker774:
First of all thanks for the reply. I think my memory somewhat failed me somewhat. Fat32 is visible, but it’s showing I only have 1.99GB in total in that partition. I used the 128gb image on a 128 card so I’m not sure what’s up with that. Is there anyway to access the exFat partition?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] akghar:
The fat32 partition is supposed to be 2 GB. It's only useful during the switch boot.

The rest is an ext4 (not exFAT) partition. And nope, it can't be mounted on Windows.

Use a cloud drive (GDrive, OneDrive, etc...) or FTP to transfer files on it. For now. It's the first beta. Maybe it will be easier on next revisions.

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This is not how Switch hacking works.

So yep, you missed a few steps.

You need to push Hekate payload while your switch is on RCM mode, then launch Android.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] SonsofOcelot:
Gotta admit the switching payloads feature looks nice, but since I use Hekate as my initial payload for everything it doesn't make sense for me. Others may find it useful though I'd still recommend the ns-atmosphere.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] thatmellon:
Sounds about right, how much do you know about hetake, atmosphere, rienx and SXOS? If you’re gonna be successful then you should at least know what I’m talking about. You need to put your switch into RCM mode with a jig and push the hetake payload to it using either an R4 adaptor or a payload pusher installed on your computer. Your switch also needs to be manufactured before July 18. Search “switch homebrew” in google and you’ll probably find everything you need if you search enough.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] akghar:
You tagged the wrong person. Anyway, you're right.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
Thank you for the suggestion. Please see my response below as to what my solution was.

First of all, thank you very much for the plethora of options to choose from regarding the navigation bar!

Second, I managed to disable the simulated secondary screen setting. I plugged in a wired keyboard and wired mouse into the dock. I don't know exactly what buttons I pressed in conjunction with dragging the mouse pointer around, but the console finally unlocked. Mouse clicks wouldn't register and keyboard key strokes wouldn't either individually. Once unlocked, the console was laggy, but I was able to use the keyboard to navigate into the settings and disable the option. My console is now back to normal with a huge sigh of relief!

Third, I checked out the display size option, but the smallest setting seemed too small. I do have the Boot720p zip file installed and I like the interface for it. So, I decided to go with the autohide option by enabling the expanded desktop option. I really like this one and I think I will stick to it for the time being.

Fourth, as of right now, I'm still learning the basic features and don't want to complicate myself with more things than I can handle at once. I will look into Xposed because what you've done sounds like a major quality of life improvement!

Fifth, I'll continue to keep testing remedies for the quick battery depletion. I have to find more reputable applications by doing more research.

Sixth, I tried to backup to TWRP, but since it displayed the memory card with only 2gb of storage, I was left with an error of no enough storage space. I also downloaded an application called Titanium Backup since quite a few other users recommended it.

Finally, could you post a picture of your home screen menu on your Android Switch? I'd love to see how other users are utilizing their home screens. Here is mine:

Edit: So, I managed to initiate a backup successfully. However, the system shows there is only 58mb remaining. Do I need to do something in order to clear up space?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Count_NOOBula:
No need to delete anything :) You'll be pleased to know that in addition to being able to backup to the SD card, you can also backup to the "internal storage", i.e, the partition that doesn't show up in windows. Simply tap Storage (shown in the bottom left of your attached TWRP screenshot) and select internal storage. Viola! Enjoy JIGAbytes of extra storage space for backups. To rename the backup, tap "autogenerate" in the top left of your screenshot befoe starting your backup or navigate to/sdcard/twrp/backups with file manager to rename it if you've already made a backup. You can also select " internal storage" by tapping "mount" on the twrp homescreen.

If you're worried you won't be able to move backups to the PC since widows doesn't recognize this " internal storage" partition, have no fear: you can use any app that allows WiFi file transfer/FTP to move your twrp backup to the PC. To restore from PC, simply reverse the steps and out the backed up folder in /sdcard/twrp/backup via ftp or WiFi file transfer. These invaluable backups have saved our collective behinds more than once.

Glad to have helped. Thanks for sharing your experience; because of it, others can learn to undo their mishaps instead of freaking out in those inevitable WTF moments.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
For some reason, I had the notion that "internal storage" was referring to the actual Nintendo Switch's internal storage despite the large storage amount. Thank you for the clarification. I've just updated to the latest Webview APK as you suggested in another post (I didn't realize you're the same person at first!) with the helpful tips for new users. Have you performed any other modifications in the past couple of days in regards to speeding up any other processes. I'm currently messing around with Running Services.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Huseyn050:
Could we please get a 200 gb image as well? The only other micro sd card I currently have on hand is 200 gigs and I would like to use it to its fullest capabilities
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Dabman:
I'm just wonder.

Can i use one card for SXOS and Android? i mean few partition and boot it like emuNAND (Android) ?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Count_NOOBula:
As a matter of fact I, too, am currently messing around with running services. I know that services suck up a significant amount of ram RANDOMLY because their associated apps "wake up" in the background. Sometimes this waking up is very useful (wall street journal app woken up by play services when a WSJ notification arrives in the status bar) but other times they serve no purpose at all. The whole point of apps like greenify is to prevent less useful background apps from waking up, kinda like a soft freeze. I'm currently experimenting with three simple mods and have already recovered 600mb of "free ram", as depicted in running services.

In addition to using the xposd module Prevent Running, I'm:

1) using Xposd Edge to freeze unwanted apps so they don't wake up. Greenify does a sort of "soft freeze" but apps do wake up randomly and use resources when I'd rather milk my NX to the max while in dolphin or while playing PUBG Mobile. I'm not only freezing apps I've installed myself, but also some relatively useless system apps that I don't need when I'm doing something specific while in some other app. I'm thinking of sharing my list when I'm not at medschool (don't have my switch with me atm)

2) using a free app called Disable Service (blue android icon in play store) to disable useless services WITHIN apps. Facebook, instsgrsm and twitter have a TON that can be disabled saving battery AND ram. As an example, NO ONE needs all the Android Auto based services which are a few of the 250+ google play services you'll see when you install Disable Service. Ditto for Spotify (one can safely disable the "detect physical activity" services that are meant to track your workout while listening to Spotify on your phone.)

3) also manually uninstalling system apps via Titanium Backup. These apps, like the ones I've mentioned in my other post, serve no purpose on this non cellular device and are responsible for much of the usage of "System" ram in Running Services. For a frame of reference, on my old phone, Android 8.1's "System" used 820mb of ram according to Running Services. But here, it's using 1.5GB! I know this build is based on Nvidia's other tegra device, but for me, there are things in this build i have no need for. So I'm freezing or uninstalling them to optimize ram AND battery life. As an example, I use Moonlight to stream PC games to the NX. So I don't need any Tegra System app or services used for Geforce Now etc . Which is why I've disabled them so they don't suck up background resources until the license verification issue gets resolved for Tegra Shield exclusive games.

Oh and before anyone reading this freaks out, every thing I'm uninstalling WILL be reinstalled automatically as soon as I flash Beta 2 when Team Switchroot releases it. So I'm not worried...as long as I backup TWRP.

I'm sure many of us would love to read up on your research so please do share anything else you can dig up to optimize performance.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
I'm not having any luck freeing up any RAM. I've disabled a lot of services and the OS is still hogging up 1gb. The application you were referring to is called Service Disabler and the main ones that had a lot of random background services were: Google Driver, Gmail, Youtube, and Google Photos. It's possible that it's all programmed internally the OS where I, a random user, does not have access to. I uninstalled applications that I deemed unnecessary or useless with the System App Safe Remover. I'm not entirely sure what else I can do at this point. I've wrung out through the system settings a multitude of times as well over the past couple of days. I've also disabled UI effects so the feedback is instantaneous.

I also randomly found out you can use the multitask tool and run two emulators at the same time.

I started having the deep sleep issue as of a couple of hours ago, where the screen doesn't wake up upon the press of the power button. I had to hold in the power button for the console to turn off completely and then go through the process of booting back up. It's been on and off and I'm not sure whether it started because of a specific setting that I disabled. There are way too many to recollect now, so I'm going to have to hope it doesn't occur often. Right now, it's working fine. I'll update later if I come across any newfound knowledge after reading more on Android services. For a Windows 10 laptop I had about a year ago, I did some thorough reading and ended up disabled over half of the Windows 10 services that were useless for my application and use of the laptop. So, I'm hoping a similar aspect is in correlation with the Android services and we can get a breakthrough to freeing up more RAM.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
hi any ideas how make this work?

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/980mar/tutorial_phillips_cdi_on_android/

i get to load content but the next screen open and close?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Count_NOOBula:
I've had the same issue since the day I've installed this build. This likely doesn't have to do with us disabling any of our settings. Most likely one of those "known bugs" in this build. I've also had to manually turn off the system.

Since deep sleep doesn't work in this build, i recommend setting the screen timeout to a very high value, so it'll turn off only when you want it to. It seems like the system tries to access Doze (deep sleep) but since that's broken in this build, it just crashes the whole OS.

I've set the screen to wake up upon press of any of the volume keys (Settings > System > Buttons > under Volume Keys slide on Wake Device). This has solved the problem for me; whenever the power button is irresponsive and i think the system has crashed, i press the volume button and 9/10 times the display lights back up cuz it apparently hadn't tried entering deep sleep yet. Try it out. Maybe it'll help.

Really wish the devs would give us an ETA on the new build.

As far as my avg ram usage: last time i checked, running services showed my system usage at 950mb (a huge improvement from the 1.8GB it showed the day i instslled it) and 2.8GB free, but i know it can disable more (like download mansger services, wallpaper service etc). I thought about sharing what i disabled, but decided against it in case needed a service that i could care less about (like Print Spooler) << i won't print SHYT from my Switch. Keep trying whenever you have some free time. I've made two TWRP backups: one to use and one to test optimizations/debloating on.

Hope the devs debloat the next build so we don't have to. Tablets and phones really won't feel like miniPCs to me til we can install modular components like we can on PCs. It boggles my mind that someone can't just install the new X1 from the revised Switch and put it our switch or slap on a couple of extra 2-4GB of RAM modules by popping the metaphorical hood and upgrading. Still, I'm grateful for what we have in front of us. I shouldn't sound like an ingrate.