yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] twisted89:
Uninstall any PlayStore updates, download and install this version, works fine.

https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/nvidia/nvidia-games/nvidia-games-5-22-26891545-release/
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] ughwire:
has anyone else had issues with using geforce now while docked? it works really well when i'm in handheld, but using it docked introduces a lot more latency and jitter, whether i'm on ethernet or wifi (5ghz), and the access point is no more than 5 feet away from the dock. android resolution is set to 720p and stream quality is 720p60 in both scenarios.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] milestonefail:
Kotor hangs on launch (after it verifies the game files) for me as well. I saw someone have it working on youtube though, so I thought it was just my SD card issue or something.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] George35000vr:
Add it to the magisk hide list and retry. Make sure you pass safetynet
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] milestonefail:
I didn't even install magisk :D But I'll install it and try that later. Thanks.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
*This was performed after a fresh wipe and reinstall of Lineage OS. I still disabled a lot of services and deleted a lot of bloatware applications, so not a completely stock ROM. I realized I forgot to download Servicely after the test was finished, so I'm not sure how it would've impacted the results.*

I just finished conducting a movie playback test on VLC now. Here are the results:

-lowest brightness from OS settings

-airplane mode

-lowest performance mode in OS settings, power saver

-Pixoff at setting 7, which is 50% of the pixels on the screen disabled

-Twilight at 40% extra screen dim setting

-all notifications disabled

-disabled all UI effects

-47% volume (VLC odd increments)

-Dragon Ball Super: Broly, 720p, 1 hour and 41 minutes in length (5 minutes of credits)

-started at 12:40 with 99% battery life

-ended at 14:16 with 83% battery life

10.66% battery depletion per hour watching a 720p movie through VLC.

Edit: [MENTION=10064142]Count_NOOBula[/MENTION] , I have a backup of a completely stock ROM and one with most of the services disabled now, so there should be no more reasons to completely redo everything from my end ever again (since it was quite a big time waste). Were you able to reduce and finesse the RAM usage any more?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Yayo70136:
Hi, I managed to install Android but I have a problem. while browsing the android interface it suddenly turns off! And it forces me to launch with tegra again. this happens to me often someone knows why? Help!! :/
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Child0fTheMind:
I'm trying to use balenaetcher to flash switchroot to a 32gb sd card but it keeps failing. I selected the 32gb switchroot, I have balenaetcher 1.5.53, I open balenaetcher as admin, I've verified the card with H2testw, and I've redownloaded both switchroot and balenaetcher... any suggestions?

Etcher says that it is completing the flash but then gives me an error stating "failed device physicaldrive3: unknown: unknown error, write" afterwards the sdcard isn't detected by my PC with a "Please insert a disk into USB Drive (F: )" popping up when I insert it.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BashfulLine143:
Can u plz tell me how to use it? My device is already rooted
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] techjunky90:
https://xdaforums.com/nintendo-swit...ent/mods-fix-problems-switch-android-t3954140
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
*Interesting glitch... I wasn't able to swipe down on the screen to bring up the in game emulator menu... So, I had to play with the controller icons on the screen. This was with the latest Dolphin emulator development build.*

I just finished conducting a test involving the Dolphin Gamecube emulator. These were the parameters and results:

-lowest brightness from OS settings

-airplane mode/bluetooth (still don't know how these work together in tandem)

-highest performance mode in OS settings, performance

-Pixoff at setting 8, which is 63% of the pixels on the screen disabled

-Twilight at 40% extra screen dim setting

-all notifications disabled

-disabled all UI effects

-Servicely activated

-25% volume

-The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess as the game

-16:9 forced widescreen

-Flux at 1200k

-Joy Cons connected through bluetooth to the console and fixed in their rails

-started at 00:55 with 66% battery life

-ended at 01:25 with 47% battery life

Wow... 19% in 30 minutes...

I only played 30 minutes and the fan was on (what seemed to be) maximum speed the entire duration. 25-30 FPS with dips as low as 17 and still can't get it to run flawlessly.

38% battery depletion per hour (presumably) playing Twilight Princess on the Dolphin emulator. This is extremely poor battery life even with my methods of trying to preserve as much as possible!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xKillerXSmileZx:
Can the Shieldifier zip be flashed or modified to work on a different Android device in order to access Nvidia Games for Geforce Now or does it absolutely rely on the same hardware specs?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
did in a livestream n it dont work
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] George35000vr:
It's either incompatible gpu (work around this by using GLTools and simulate adreno gpu) or software bug (opengl)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] matssa:
Wait, just trying to understand, you managed to make several partitions on your 256Gb stick in order to have like 16Gb for Android and the reste for Nintendo Switch games and homebrew? I just bought a 256 stick and I want to do the same (i.e. flash the 16Gb image in order to have the rest as an ext-fat partition so that I can have 1 stick with everything on it, no need to swap SD cards anymore).

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Did you find an answer? Want to do the same :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Moronig:
There is a guide for this. (It's not simple or easy, though)

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Does anybody at all here manage to get good performance with the 16gb image? If so, which card did you use? I tried a few, none were usable.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] techjunky90:
I do not think you can have a fat32 partition and an exfat partition on the same sd card. Reason being horizon os will only detect the fat32 partition.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] matssa:
Well horizon can detect exfat if you apply an update using Choixdujour. I'm not sure if you can apply exfat compatibility afterwards though.

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Ah nice thanks I'll try it out later, possible on Windows or better using a Linux VM? Not simple or easy but not a problem, I'm used to building Android and debugging the commits and all, though I'm not all mighty concerning partitioning...

I'll use the 16Gb, I'll give you what happens, I'm using a 256Gb from Samsung, class 10 and number 3 (not sure what that number represents though) however I flashed the 16Gb image and it was super fast, like 10 times faster than with a regular class 10 number 1 SD card.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xlim3y:
Any solution to the joy con sticks working as analog instead of as d-pad? 3rd party app perhaps?

If the pro controller and Dual Shock 4 can do it, it should be feasible on Joy cons?

Any way to emulate a dual shock 4 with the joycons?

Other thoughts? This is the final fix needed for this to be truly amazing for my purposes.

Thanks.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] techjunky90:
That's not what I'm saying. What I'm saying is android has a fat32 partition. If you also add an exfat partition to the same sd card it will not be detected in horizon. Fat32 takes priority over exfat & horizon can only see one partition not two. So you will have to format the fat32 partition that android uses and make it exfat. I tried a couple of months ago to have a fat32 partition for atmosphere & homebrew & exfat partition for sxos and xci but horizon would only detect the fat32 partition.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] matssa:
Ah true sorry didn't understand :) I'll have to try and reformat the fat32 to extfat and see if it works, Android should be able to detect and use the extfat
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] George35000vr:
Here's some goodies. The bootanimation resembles the boot sequence of HOS. Performance mode xml is a task(for tasker) that enables 2GHz and Perfomance governor when open configured apps (needs root). And last but not least is a Nova Launcher minimalistic configuration.

Enjoy :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
This no work i also tried template of shield gpu

Does making this kind of game work require owning an actual shield or is there something i am missing? Can someone reveal this? Pretty please with suga on top? I am asking to play legit purchased games here. This is absurd...
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] George35000vr:
As i said it might be bugs on software level... Like how dolphin wont recognise opengl and bugged graphics on some games. I can try testing it on my hardware, its Star Wars: Kotor right?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
Correct in this case it is a purchase from amazon app store there is a thread open for this as well thanks for any help
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] SuperSkyraw:
Do the bug with mounting partitions in TWRP and booting android on Fast "U3" MicroSD cards have been taken into account ?

I'm not the only one with this problem : https://xdaforums.com/nintendo-swit...eport-thread-switchroot-t3952564/post80067621

This person tried his U3 with a low TF expansion card and it worked.

And i have no troubles with another "U1" MicroSD Card.

Looks like too fast read speeds on Sd cards can cause problems when mounting partitions...
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
Wow thanks for sharing how exactly would i use the performance governor? Sorry a little lost here android noob.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] George35000vr:
Um you need tasker, you import the xml file, then tap on it and include the apps that you want to use with "perfomance mode" enabled. In case you're asking at what the performance governor does, it makes the cpu running at max freq (2GHz) all the time.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] TheMadHeader:
Does anyone know what's happening with Android on the Switch? Are the devs still working on it? Are they taking a very well earned break?

They haven't posted here for nearly three weeks and I know that many of us are simply curious what the plans are. :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] George35000vr:
They are still working on stuff like reboot to payload as i seen on their discord server. You should join the discord too to get more info.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] TheMadHeader:
Thanks, I'll look into that.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Mechaghostman2:
Ok, so the Switch can recognize my Joy-Cons via Blutooth, but then from there the Joycons refuse to do anything. I can't get any emulators, games, or even gamepad mapping aps to detect inputs from them. Also they can't recognize any other Blutooth device, like my cheap knock-off pro controllers. I even bought a $5 app that would let me pair the Joycons and map them, but apparently Android itself has to be rooted to use it. :/
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] TRexombo:
Did you flash the joycon fix?

https://download.switchroot.org/android/extras/fix-joycon.zip
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] tomoya1230:
Cannot VC
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Xedros:
Hi guys!

Is there a way to root this version?

Thanks!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] multiwirth:
https://https://https://www.xda-developers.com/how-to-install-magisk///

Download apk, install and magisk manager will download the flashable zip to /sdcard/downloads

Flash via twrp and you have root.

It would also be possible to install Lineage SU addon from lineageos.org but i don´t know if it does work on this build since it´s unoffical and customized so i highly recommend magisk.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Xedros:
It worked! Thank you!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Chesaone:
Hi. I expect somebody help me

I have a issue when install lineageos. When searching updates the first time, google's services stop working. If I skip this step, load a screen with stars but android configuration stop working too. I use a new sd, a sandisk a2 64gb for lineageos. I install gapps, shielfielder, magisk and joycon fix via twrp. Whats the problem?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] multiwirth:
Did you pick the right gapps?

You need arm64, 8.1, and whatever your choice (recommend nano).
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Chesaone:
hmmm. I use arm64, 8.1 but stock...I will try nano....yes! it works!

thank you!

Edit. Sorry for many questions but...is normal that android is starting >1 hour?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] enekomh:
If your goal is to play Nvidia Games on an Android device other than the Shield (or look alike device such as the Nintendo Switch), you can download this version of the app (https://www.apkmirror.com/apk/nvidi...dia-games-5-17-25366013-android-apk-download/) and install it on whatever device you're looking forward to play in.

It's an older version of their app but it still works on any device. It's a bit on beta state and the first boot takes ages. Just open the settings on the menu, log in with your account and then wait for the app to load the settings, game list and whatnot.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] matchcase:
Hello, I managed to install this no my Switch but Google Play services keeps no crashing. I tried stock and nano and still crashes. Help?

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I don't think that's normal, mine boots within a minute or two.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] tomoya1230:
Does this OS recognize voice?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] MasterZeroFX:
Switch doesn't have a built-in microphone, so that's a no.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Elkasitu:
Is it possible to install the image to the eMMC? Seems like it's possible to upgrade the eMMC module, if so, it would be very interesting to install LineageOS on it and being able to dual-boot, all while benefiting from the increased speeds of the eMMC vs SD card.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] zocker7:
Is it possible to use joycons in moonlight to play pc games on this android? I can connect but no controls in games.

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But no joycons support?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Vuul:
Sorry if this has been asked before.

I installed Joycon-fix, remapped the buttons to be like an xbox controller instead of the switch layout since the backwards buttons where confusing the heck out of me in Witcher 3.

It's all very comfy, except I have one issue, maybe it's just how things are supposed to be right now, but my Joycon Analog sticks aren't analog. It's either 0% or 100%. So I can't walk or slowly inch forward in game.

Other than that, I'm seriously impressed by how everything just seems to work.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BigDyno:
Could you write up a tutorial on how to remap the buttons on the joycon? I can't seem to figure It out. Thanks.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Vuul:
1. Unzip fix-joycon.zip

2. Edit files:

system\usr\keylayout\Vendor_057e_Product_2006_Version_0001.kl
system\usr\keylayout\Vendor_057e_Product_2007_Version_0001.kl

3. Find text:

key 304 BUTTON_A
key 305 BUTTON_B
key 308 BUTTON_Y
key 307 BUTTON_X

4. Replace with, in both files:

key 304 BUTTON_B
key 305 BUTTON_A
key 308 BUTTON_X
key 307 BUTTON_Y

5. Zip it all again

6. Install it from TWRP

here's my modified file
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] thatmellon:
How can I use a full 200gb card for space in android? Is there a 200gb version available to download? I don’t get how to resize the partitions and even the guide page didn’t help as I’m on windows 10 and can’t use gparted, thanks!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] pablozaiden:
Pair them as bluetooth devices
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] vestan:
I've got Bully running but it doesn't seem to be detecting my Joy Con inputs in-game. If I connect my Joy Cons through Bluetooth, it works during the menus but controls aren't actually working in-game like the analog stick etc. Any ideas as to how I can get this working?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
hi hoq long should gapp flash take? and can i use pro controller?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Keeiva:
How do I add a google account so I can use the playstore? When I go to add an account the screen says checking info and then turns black with the nav bar still on the screen. After waiting awhile it says google play services isn't responding.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] GuitarXxX:
Now I get it, thanks!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] langer hans:
To boot into twrp, you hold VOL+ after selecting the android option in hekate. Rebooting from Android doesn’t work yet. That will need reboot2payload.

To pair joycons, hold sync button for a while. Then Just pair in Bluetooth menu.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] rommy667:
Wow after yrs of hanging about here ( from s2 days) I never though id see droid on my switch thanks to all this is amazing :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Revolted5:
I've got a question, none of this changes the default OS / OF of the console right? I'll be able to boot SX OS back at any point?

EDIT: To answer my own question and anyone else wondering, it does indeed run EVERYTHING from the SD card, amazing work, I can just swap back and forth!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Matipolit:
Any good tutorials for a complete beginner? Never modified my Switch in any way.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] katatonic1:
IMO it would not hurt to mention requirements to use this ROM, that's all. Many people do not know this. And in my opnion it's a pretty crucial piece of information that some Switches can be hacked and other not.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Thomgeek:
Hello, thanks for work

Installed on my 128 GB sd and used twrp to flash gapps and shieldfier but After 20 minutes it doesn't even show bootlogo.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] erclalle:
[MENTION=588187]Lager[/MENTION]hans and the rest of the Switchroot team, this is amazing, the experience is mostly stable so far, but I would like to submit a couple issues in case they're not reported yet. what's the best place for this? On the gitlab repo? here?

Don't want to pollute this thread with logs, but for now:

- End of the boot cycle always ends with a resized ~VGA boot animation over the first elements of the loading lockscreen instead of remaining a full screen LineageOS overlay until boot is complete

- Did a first boot without GApps, then installed them (nano flavor) and I'm never able to sign in to google, 'play store services keeps crashing' and I always get an error at the end of the signin flow (right after submitting password and accepting the terms)

- Mistakenly rebooted, and it froze on a black screen until force power off (10 seconds power button press). I realize that reboot to payload isn't available yet, but it would be safer to disable that entry both in twrp and android until this is fixed.

Not to take anything away from the amazing accomplishement of this release, keep up the great work and thanks for open-sourcing this! Can't wait for what's next here!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] thequickfox123:
This is normal, and works this way with every other device AFAIK. You always have to flash GApps on clean system, before first run.

I'd like to add to this bug list:

L3/R3 not working, A/B and X/Y mirrored

Sometimes black screen on boot

NVidia app crashes sometimes

MTP/PTP does not work

OTG does not work

Also LineageOS is very, how to put this, bare? I miss some functions from other ROMs, like ability to change volume buttons to always modify multimedia volume. I would like to hide Navbar - there is also no option for that.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] marvi0:
Am about to go out and get a switch. Just to confirm, I will need to get a switch with firmware below 4.1?is that all the needed requirements please?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] crazyguns:
Use google dude. But no that's not it, you need to check if it's patched. Find out the serial number of the one you're buying, put it in here https://ismyswitchpatched.com/ if it's patched fugedaboutit!

I can confirm the rom works great! Moonlight getting 2ms latency on 5ghz, joycon ab/xy are swapped but theres prolly a work around for that, so far super happy with this!!! Awesome stuff team switchroot!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] SYLOK:
recorded some fortnite gameplay for ya with perfomance mode

https://youtu.be/ElanIAOX8RU
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Stratium:
Getting constant hard locks, even in TWRP, using the 64gb image on a Samsung EVO 64gb SD using gapps mini 8.1 and shieldifier. Furthest I've gotten so far is WiFI setup. Reinstalling from scratch and will update here

UPDATE: Still suffering with it, although not as bad. Usable, wish I could pin down the issue!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] NyxTheShield_OFFICIAL:
After messing for a while with this:

-Use the quick or performance profile on the battery settings. Much more responsive.

-Gamecube Adapters wont work with dolphin, the prompt to allow the use of it never pops up.

-Joycons wont work with Dolphin. Both sticks arent detected correctly

-Dolphin performance is good tho! Melee runs at almost 60 fps constantly!! Video: twitter dot com NyxTheShield.com/1155214408651608065

Will be testing more apps and games today!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] KirovAir:
Congratulations with the release! Amazing work!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] NickS4:
Did you have to do anything to get Dolphin to work? I get an OpenGL error when trying to start Mario Party 5.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] tomoya1230:
In FORTNITE, when you connected a headset, voice chat was possible
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] carrierfry:
Is it possible to install Lineage and L4T (Ubuntu for Switch) on the same SD card and then choose which OS you want to boot in Hekate?