yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jodidosusernames:
i don't know why or if they are different but you need another payload for reboot

Go to sdsetup

Download the kosmos defaults (maybe hekate 5.1.2 for rcm if you don't have it already)

Extract the zip and you'll need to copy from the sd folder

bootloader to the fat partition in your microsd (replace the existing one)

and from the atmosphere folder copy the reboot_payload.bin to android's /vendor/firmware

that worked for me
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] tzolak:
If I were to do this, would I still be able to boot into the normal Switch OS to play switch games still?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] multiwirth:
Everything that has todo with android will ONLY be on a sdcard and the hekate payload (which boots android) is also only temporary and has to be injected every time you want to boot into android.

So if you shutdown your device, remove the sdcard and power it on, you'll see a stock console.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] tonygesto:
I got fully install android on switch but i have 2 problems:

-Normal reboot from android doenst reboot again to android...getting Black screen..

-Then i went to install reboot2payload for hekate 5.1. 1 (i modded reboot_payload.bin from hekates 5.1.2) and i get the same fcking black screen...

NEED HELP CANT REBOOT IN ANY WAY
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] techjunky90:
You need to enable advance power/reboot.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] tonygesto:
I did it advanced reboot by develop option but still stuck at blackscreen..

Btw i have xposed framework/xposed installer too.. and get same result... =(
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] knightnz:
I don't think anything newer than 5.0.2 works without issue?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] DeathToy:
[MENTION=8033907]tonygesto[/MENTION] I just installed Android on my switch last night and I can most definitely say xposed is your issue. Tried multiple installs and as soon as I installed xposed and rebooted, I'd get the black screen. I used a magisk recovery script to disable Xposed and was able to get back into my switch. For some reason, I can't post links so go to duckduckgo and search "disable magisk modules twrp". 2nd link should be from XDA. Google does not show this search result.

[MENTION=2211505]knightnz[/MENTION] I started with hekate 5.0 and upgraded to 5.1.2 after the install process and all works well. Even autobooting into Android.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] lazerface90:
So I've been trying to get this to work since yesterday. Not had any luck. I used etcher on my windows 10 pc to load the 128gb image to my 128gb SD card. aside from taking a long time, it didn't fail either time i did it. Tried to push the pay load from both Rekado on my phone, and TegraRCM pushing the hekate payload. And that's where I'm stuck. Doesn't seem to want to take the payload.

Note that my experience is limited with homebrews on the Switch. I have loaded hekate to my Switch before and was using the emuMMC to play Morrowind with OpenMW. Got Lakka/Retroarch to work just fine.

Any tips would be great. Thanks in advance!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] sport93:
So after installing joycon fix it hasn’t fixed my R3/L3 issues still doesn’t work, any idea?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] DeathToy:
Manually copy the files over, set permissions, then restart. I had the same problem. TWRP said the file was successfully flashed, but it didn't actually do anything.

Anyone know how to map the Capture button to Back?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] bigguynak:
You could create a .kl file for the joycons or modify the existing one. Also, I think apps like "Gamepad Tester" can more or less automate this process since you should have root access.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] sport93:
Well, I tried TWRP again, this time I checked ‘System’ in ‘mount’, did actually work.. thank you for help tho
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] TheTrueForm:
Any way to improve internet speeds?

It is so slowwww!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] sport93:
Strange, I have no issues with the internet, what I do have is damn slow charging.. even using the original charger
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] egd4:
Hi,

I accendentaly deleted all the Bootloader file content when i updated hekate on my SDcard...Can someone show or give me files that where essentials to launch switchroot in the bootloader file please?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] FiveOhFour:
Compatibility

Forgive my ignorance, and please be gentle, it’s my first time with another 20,000 men and women. I’m trying to make sense of some seemingly contradictory info. Do you need a particular version of the switch to be able to root it/load android etc? My understanding was you need to drop it like it’s hot unless you find a very early model. Is this accurate? Thanks for your time and help in advance.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] hene193:
Yes you need early hackable model.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Androidlover99:
Is there going to be an update to Android 9 or 10 soon? Might help with battery life/performance.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] oleost:
Hi. How can I "reflash" my sdcard so all the space will be avaiable as normal for regular use?

Edit: https://www.easeus.com/partition-master/format-corrupted-unreadable-sd-card.html
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] fabnaz77:
Does anyone know if there is a forum like this one talking about linux on the switch ?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] ceanth:
Hi all,

I am giving this a go (yes quite late to the party). I am using Etcher on my mac to flash the 32gb image on my 32gb SD Card but it appears to be stuck at 98% Flashing.

Ive tried it a few times and getting the same issue. I don't have a spare SD card so i can't rule that out at the moment.

Anybody have any suggestions?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] multiwirth:
Pie is still in development and there´s no official release yet but if you follow them on twitter or discord you should know you can already build your own pie rom from source but it´s still buggy and stuff to figure out.

At least they got wifi working for some of us having issues after debugging a lot on our specific console that has issues so i wouldn´t recommend pie yet, since it´s still not 100% stable and things like magisk is impossible right now, could be lucky open gapps didn´t break anything.

It´s already close to a state it can get a official release but some things just need a bit more time.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] ceanth:
Ok I managed to get this the image flashed however I can't seem to flash Gapps. I've downloaded ARM64 8.1. nano but I get:

"Zip file is corrupt!

Error installing zip file ........"

I've tried downloading the zip file twice, I have also made sure that I have mounted System and vendor, not sure what else I need to check. Might try and download another version of Gapps and see how that goes
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Jose64141:
Etcher is a nice writer, with some cool features, but it's nice just from the outside ;P. I had a lot of issues with it, so I keep using Win32 Disk Imager. It's a simple yet useful program that works way better that Etcher. Or else you can try to burn the image a lot of time and get the last version of etcher (I also tried that and after some tries, it worked XD). The other thing, I don't know if you mean you can't load the Hekate payload or the Android one, but if its the first which fails, you can download the last release of Hekate and replace it on the SD and load that payload c; . If you mean it doesn't load Android, probably is beecause etcher can't finish to burn the img and some Android partitions are just bad ;p
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Phillyrider807:
I really wanted to wait until pie got released but it doesn't seem it's gonna be released anytime soon. A quick question for the current android thats on the switch. Im very interested in using "Moonlight" when RE3 coming out so i can play the game on my bigscreen instead of my monitor.

I'm aware analog on the joycons aren't working but what about bluetooth controllers? Can i connect my ps4 or my switch pro controller through bluetooth and will analog work?

Also does moonlight work when docked?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Hylianer:
Hello, give it a other way to actived a virtual gps to actived Fake Gps?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Ronovsky:
I'm becoming desperate. I've bought 128GB SanDisk Extreme with A2 just for this and I can't for the life of me flash the image onto it. BalenaEtcher takes very long to complete the process and once it's done, the card is unusable and I have hard times even formatting it back. What's going on?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] fabnaz77:
It happened to me once that the switch didn't want my SDcard because partition was in GPT instead of MBR
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Count_NOOBula:
Can confirm that analog sticks work perfectly if you pair some other controller with this 8.1 build. I tested this with an Xbox One (2nd gen) controller and an ipega red controller. Analog sticks work perfectly in moonlight, dolphin AND select android games that support BT controllers.

I don't play docked and don't have time to test docked moonlight play, so hopefully someone else can help you answer your question. But I can't think of any reason why moonlight wouldn't work while docked.

Have fun and stay safe :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] AndyOHart:
Are analogs working fine on Pie build? Might download and flash to it if they are working.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Phillyrider807:
The one where u have to build yourself does have analog working. It’s even working on rails I think now
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] AndyOHart:
For real? That's great. Is there a list of the issues with it currently and a good guide to build from?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] cencil182:
I'm having this exact same issue. I've tried everything here as well and yet still cannot reboot from Android to the bootloader.

Can anyone please help us with this?

Edit: Figured it out. You have to download & open the "reboot2payload_final_hekate511_hotfix.zip" file on your PC first before simply copying it to your sd card, go to the "Vendor" then "Firmware" folder within the zip and remove the "reboot_payload.bin" that's currently there. Copy your "payload.bin" that was in the root of your SD card to this Vendor>Firmware folder and rename it to "reboot_payload.bin". Now zip the "reboot2payload_final_hekate511_hotfix" folder back up and copy it over to the root of your SD card. Go back into TWRP on your switch, make sure to mount vendor and system, then reflash the zip file.

Now when I restart to bootloader within Android, it will bring me to Hetake instead of a black screen.

I find it very odd I had to dig through many forum & reddit posts for this information. It wasn't laid out in detail anywhere on the guide/setup, just left for people to figure out for themselves lol...
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Cubuss:
I have android dual boot setup and was wondering if i could backup and create an android image of just the android partition so i can do a clean android setup and restore the backup
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Danny.69:
use TWRP, to make a copy and restore again
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
https://twitter.com/switchroot_org/status/1245351004901642243

"While spending months developing pie, our team slowly came to the conclusion than Android could not provide the stable experience we needed. After much deliberation we chose to focus on iOS instead.

It's match kernel with custom metal GPU drivers, and abstract HALs provide a high level performance increase over Android, with emulators like dolphin running full speed.

As can be seen, there are several glitches and the screen is rotated due to FIFO limitations; we are trying very hard to fix these and a complete build should be available in the not so distant future. Hopefully you are as excited for this as we are!"

Are they trolling us for April first?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] techjunky90:
April fools
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Danny.69:
that can't be true, an arm & arm64 soc would never know how to interpret ios

it has to be an ios layer on android
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
https://twitter.com/switchroot_org/status/1246763763644215297

"We just successfully completed the repo transition on Switchroot Ubuntu.

You don't need to do anything other than apt update and apt upgrade to switch to it.

It has some newer packages on it that include some bugfixes, and all future updates will come through it.

We were using mini-dinstall and it was causing some pain when we tried to update packages and such, so we moved to reprepro (thanks to [MENTION=8647765]bitc[/MENTION]ynth

for recommending it).

Note, to get both the package list and the new packages, you'll need to run something like "sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade && sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade" once.

The change isn't on the old URL (http://repo.switchroot.org) and has a completely new folder structure."
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Flamaxius952:
So uh, I keep on getting this error:

E:Primary block device '/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.0/by-name/userdata' for mount point '/data' is not present!

Essentially, I cannot mount anything on my SD card, much less the system and sd card. If somebody could tell me how to fix this that would be great.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Danny.69:
enter twrp and mount the data partition.

if it is already mounted, you will have to format data
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Flamaxius952:
That's the thing, I can't mount anything from the system/sd card/vendor/AND data. It keeps on saying "Failed to mount 'data' (invalid argument)".
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] seanp2500:
just wanted to share that stadia works!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAMoE2SSG3E

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnLEAB9CCQs
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Danny.69:
Well, try to do a wipe data / factory reset.

if this is not solved, you will probably have to go back to flash the micro sd
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HyperShad0w:
I'm having a worrying problem as the battery seems to have drained whilst on android, and now my switch won't boot as it does not seem to want to charge. I've left it charging several hours already and tried holding the power button for 12 seconds before that to make sure it's powered off but it really doesn't seem to be charging. I also have auto rcm enabled which might be an issue? Any help would be really appreciated as I've never gotten this close to actually bricking my switch before!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Danny.69:
that is a known problem of the autorcm.

Try connecting the charger to the base, as it gives more power.

and while it is connected, press the power button for 15 seconds
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Crimsøn64:
How do I use Joy-Con fix?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HyperShad0w:
A good charge brought it back, thanks!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Danny.69:
you have to flash it from TWRP
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] naxeras:
Hi,

It is possible use the joycons with analog controller?

I used joyconfix but analog are detected digital in remote play.

Regards.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Danny.69:
currently not possible, they will work in the new version 9.0 pie
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] naxeras:
Any news for this versión or is dead atm?

Regards.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jaynthree:
Is there a way to skip setting up the wifi, mine is stuck on checking for updates, but I don't see any skip buttons
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] dfgged:
I'd just do a wipe in TWRP and try to do setup again. Don't even try to connect to wifi during the setup; there's a skip button on the bottom left when you can select your wifi network name. Don't think there's a way to skip after you select a network.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] rastla:
How are you all dealing with the delay in the Nvidia Streaming Application and Steam Link?

I usually have nearly no delay when using my Steam Link (Hardware) or Steam Link on my Razer Phone II.

But on the Nintendo Switch via 5GHz Wifi the delay is VERY noticeably:

https://photos.app.goo.gl/sMHbuB5UCPECeN1n8

Is the WLAN of the switch just so bad? Or do I need to change any important setting?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] sanelss:
works great with the trinket m0 modchip

Got this setup and going with the trinket m0 mod. I ended up destroying the 150ohm resistor when attempting to solder the volume up button but got it bypassed and fixed. There still seem to be a lot of hiccups doing various things but i'm suspecting that's due to the fact it's running off an SD card. Wondering when an ssd mod will be available to have it run smoothly.

This also works with 2fa devices although it's buggy and hacky. it would keep closing the registration window or not recognizing the device or not taking input but eventually i was able to make it work.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] willy101:
Where do I put the payload bin for reboot to payload?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] stewacide:
First, I want to say what a life saver this has been, trapped with a bunch of people as I am in a hostel in India, the Switch+Android serving as our movie machine and laptop.

The problem I’m having is that the power button has stopped responding in Android. Messing with button settings in >System doesn’t seem to help. The button isn’t physically broken, I can hold it to hard reset, but I can’t wake Android or shut down properly.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] gegegary:
i already installed android on my switch. but i can't install an apk. i can't enbale install from uknown source. anyone can help? thanks before
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nila-sama:
There is an option in settings to enable the Volume buttons to act as a way to wake up the screen. It occurred to a few other users, including myself. This was the temporarily workaround. I haven't entered Lineage OS on my personal Switch in a long time due to waiting for Pie to be released. Maybe [MENTION=10064142]Count_NOOBula[/MENTION] has tinkered around? It has been quite a few months!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] pbotias:
I'm not able to screen mirroring. Ir I use Youtube I can send my vídeos, but if I try to send my screen via Android, it doesn't recognize my Samsung TV. Any ideas?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] silver12345678:
is there any difference in charging the battery in android as in the nintendo os?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] OmegaF0RCe:
Followed the steps and I am able to boot into Android. The issue I can't seem to get past is "Google Play services keeps stopping". I have tried rebooting, stopping Google Play Services and clearing its' cache and data, clearing the Google Play Store cache and data -- all to no avail.

Any time I try to open the Google Play Store, or try to finish Android Setup ("Switch setup in progress") it just gets stuck on "Checking for updates..." and repeatedly displaying the "Google Play services keeps stopping" message.

I am using a Samsung 256GB u3 micro USB card.

---------- Post added at 09:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:19 PM ----------

I tried something else and it worked. I went to Settings -> Apps -> See All Apps -> (ellipsis - Show system), and then I went down to Google Play Store and disabled it. After disabling I cleared cache and data from it. I then went to Google Play Services and cleared all data from it.

After doing this I went back to the Android Setup / Switch setup in progress and was able to complete all of the steps until I got to the Google Assistant. From there it kept going in a loop until I force-quit it.

BUT -- I then enabled the Google Play Store and was able to successfully open it without getting an error message!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] IS33D34DP30PL3:
I cant get an image to output in docked mode it passes usbs through like my ethernet adapter but no audio or video. Any settings I gotta change to make this work?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Count_NOOBula:
Hope this works for you. This was the advice I gave to [MENTION=10069138]Nila-sama[/MENTION] and has worked for me.

This issue is related to Doze (deep sleep) being broken in this Android 8 build. Thankfully, this problem and deep sleep has been fixed in the upcoming Pie release. Like everyone, the devs are also cooped up inside their homes and are sheltering in place. Hopefully, that means a faster Pie release since their day job isn't as much of a distraction these days. One thing is certain: we're far closer to release than we were just a few weeks ago thanks to some paradigm shifts in development. The devs know our consoles are precious and they don't want to release something that could brick even a fraction of Switches out there. Considering the quality of this Android8 release, we can feel safe about Pie's stability whenever it launches.

Read their tech jargon-laden Discord for day-day updates. Tip to not get lost in their Discord: search "Pie" and tap on individual posts to see devs' most recent updates. A significant number of people have independently built Pie using their instructions and are currently sharing feedback with devs on what does or does not work to polish the final release.

Have fun and stay safe :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Nespoy:
Guys, how to connect to 12-13 wifi channels? (I tried editing build.prop - it did not help)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] chrisssj2:
I hope OTG functionallity will be here soon. So I can install android on my harddrive.
[General Topics] frouta:
Super link for mobiles & PPC : games , applications , themes , ringontes

http://www.themers.org

enjoy
[Asus Zenpad 8.0 Questions & Answers] ahgahg:
how to enable calling on this tablet
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] Laplacetor:
Thank you so much!!!

Need more aosp based rom after sony xzp stop pushing update

…………………………………………

This is a dual sim(g8142) rom now, my phone(g8141) cannot recognized the sim card, but I think it is easy to fix it.

No support to 4K nor higher Hz, no hires audio, if you like these thing, don't flash it.

Color controller from AEX, not stock, but useful.

It has three camera app, aosp camera,sony camera and los camera, but .....emmm you know, google camera has the best HDR.

Based on AOSP, without any extra, useless transplant components, nice rom
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] rcmiku:
2.4GHz wifi use for some time will be disconnected
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] fei5seven:
Great rom,but it will carsh working on my G8142(Chiniese ver,dual) and reboot again and again.

Well, it looks like I didn't wipe the data ,but I have done and try this there times and it's still doesn't work.

I wonder if you have any idea to solve this problem.
[Sony Xperia XZ Premium ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, ] Park_Jun:
Thanks for you feedback.