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[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] nielo360:
EDIT: oops I think this may be fixed! thanks!! Im testing it out.

Thanks! But there is one issue these joycons have all their buttons mirrored (they are acting like a ps3 controller of sorts) A btn= B B btn=A I can fix it via gamepad remapper but I have no idea how to make a flashable zip to put in the proper keylaout. I request if you can remap the buttons to normal HID/Xbox controls. Also the Dpad is detected as an Axis, this can be edited too, so that games like Rockstar games GTA max payne that support normal controls will detect analogs and dpad correctly.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Laurin Neff:
I'd recommend magisk as well, just go to https://xdaforums.com/apps/magisk/official-magisk-v7-universal-systemless-t3473445, download the latest stable version and flash it in TWRP
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xxcrashxx:
I finally made it through all these posts. I just wanted to say great work on this. This is an amazing first release. Wanted to mention that the thumbsticks aren't working on the Pro controller.

This is the contents of the hekate_ipl.ini file

[config]

autoboot=0

autoboot_list=0

bootwait=3

verification=1

backlight=100

autohosoff=0

autonogc=1

Nope, it fails Basic Integrity and CTS Profile Match. The only thing I flashed after creating the sd card was the Shield-ifier and the L3&R3 fix on the front page now.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] razers7t8:
i flashed magisk. It worked. I now have root. This should somehow allow me to get an app that forces the system to take screenshots.

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I'm able to take screenshots now.

https://ibb.co/PWNb2FG

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Screenshot app [root required]

https://ibb.co/NnDPb8M
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xxcrashxx:
Here's how I did it. I copied the line from the /bootloader/ini/00-android.ini file into the hekate_ipl.ini

So my hekate_ipl.ini file looked like this

[config]

autoboot=0

autoboot_list=0

bootwait=3

verification=1

backlight=100

autohosoff=0

autonogc=1

[Switchroot Android]

payload=switchroot_android/coreboot.rom

Then I went into the options in hekate and turned on autoboot and was able to select Switchroot Android from that menu and saved changes. After that it autobooted for me on the next boot. Without doing the above mentioned changes nothing was listed in the autoboot section in the options menu.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] yanni95:
Which gamepad remapper did you use? Would be awesome to remap the buttons.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Swirklich:
Really rudimentary question from a very basic guy :)

When I connect my Switch to let's say my laptop, no drive pops up. Can this be done at all at this stage? Would be super convenient for transferring files from and to the Switch.

Cheers :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] singing-potato123:
MTP isn’t supported yet but there is a way to make usbs work, check all threads. I Meade one explaining how to do so
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Smoker1:
Nope. Not sure why either. Dont even know what a 'PI USB to Serial' is, and it is what shows up when I connect mine. For now, best bet is FTP (with Bluetooth turned Off). It will take a while and you will have lots of Disconnects. Still early, so hopefully, there will be many improvements soon to come.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Swirklich:
Thanks guys, I will have a look.

Yeah, no rush, just wondering, that's all. I am sure things will only improve over time, this is already really impressive stuff :)

Cheers!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] zebular:
Really great work on this guys, was not expecting this to run as well as it does for a first release. Having said that, for anyone with incredibly slow boot times and apps timing out, definitely look into upgrading to a U3 micro SD card. Evidently my old one was a U1 (and a terrible one at that), upgraded to a 128gb PNY U3 from Wal-Mart for like $23 and it's night/day difference.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] nielo360:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ru.elron.gamepadtester&hl=en_US

its called gampad tester, you can remap and save a keylout for your system folder if you are rooted.

On another note

Joycons dont behave like analog sticks, more like digital pads this is even after joycon flashable zip. This can be tested in the gamepad app itself.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] nopothegamer:
how to get rid of the red bar when using low power mode

red bars on the top and bottom of the screen when low power modes on

also, how can I change the save zone on my tv like how you can on the switch like this 1. go to the Switch system settings

2. TV Settings

3. Adjust screen size
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Swirklich:
I am using the SANDISK Extreme® UHS-I, Micro-SDXC 128GB, which is supposed to be really good and I find performance on the Switch... OK. I am sure a lot of it comes down to further optimization, unless this card is actually known for being complete garbage?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] zebular:
Looks like that is a U3 A2 card, better than the one I just picked up. Yeah, I would say the slowdown you are feeling will probably be resolved as it becomes more refined. Again, I wasn't even expecting this to do 1/10th of what I'm managing out of it.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HeadGrumble:
I can't seem to boot in to recovery. What is my problem here? Holding VOL- Doesnt work, advanced reboot options doesnt work either.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] nopothegamer:
hold +
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Aida-Enna:
I have a 256GB card - Can I flash the 128GB and then resize the FAT32 to 256GB? Also, is there a method to "reboot to payload" from Android? If I could solve those (and the A/B button swap on joycons), I'd be set \ o / Excellent work, thanks for all your efforts!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HarvinMalig:
if i install android can i used the memory card to open cfw like putting the boot and licence of sx os?

also can i access android thru sx os menu then choose hekate?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] swordepiic:
langer will the boot animation will be fixed and be normal?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Lawrs:
Thanks for this amazing breakthrough.

I managed to get everything working with the youtube video from Nevercholt Tech channel.

I have a simple question, if anyone could help to shed some light on:

How do i copy big files such as game obb data from PC to the SD card?

After flashing, the SD card is no longer recognized by Windows, and the smaller partition won't fit the 3GB game file.

Thanks again for this wonderful breakthrough!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] PlayGhost2:
Hi guys, I'm a bit confused about the payload. As far as I understand I can inject the payload via pc or a dongle that i can buy. This means that every time i want to boot to android I will have to inject the payload? So this means that the original OS wont be affected correct?

So with this is possible to have an "untouched" nintendo switch with the game i already have with online functionality? And if i want to boot to android I just to have to insert the sd card with the android and inject the payload (hekate in this case)?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] TheMadHeader:
Correct on all counts. :)

Theoretically Nintendo can't detect that you've been booting into Android, although I guess they may have a way to detect if people have used the RCM jig (which is needed in order to boot into Hekate)? Haven't heard of them ever detecting that though!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] SuperSkyraw:
Use a small FTP server on your switch android.

i transfert between 15-25 mo/s with it.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] John Farrant:
Out of interest I ran Antutu Benchmark v7.2.2. Total result was 106757. Not too shabby, eh?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] fma965:
this will give you some help i think, https://www.reddit.com/r/remoteplay/comments/8731bw/how_to_use_xbox_one_controller_with_ps4_remote/ i used this to make my xbox one controller work on my PS4 before so it should be the same since both are XINPUT
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] bylaws:
You cant currently

May be fixed with pie

Dock sound is likely and issue with the splitter

No way to expand atm

Setup an ftp server on your pc and download them through switch browser

magisk

extract from your shield i guess

mount system

Maybe fixed with pie, not sure

flash zip in thread

Hmm, ill look into headphones when in dock

not currently

Yrah, just reseat in dock

flash zip in thread

INSERT

look at video

ill look into it

flash zip in thread

not atm

it should work

yes

yup, will be fixed at some point

use magisk

use magisk

you can try enabling perf mode

soon
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] fma965:
Technically you can. In the same way you can for Lakka or L4T but it would require manual partition editing.

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This is restarted, you are back in RCM, re inject the payload and it will work.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] mcallbosco:
I'm assuming you forgot to paste something there but if you didn't could you explain what you mean?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] fma965:
Did you try this?

To pair the DS4 with your computer, first put the controller into pairing mode by press and HOLDING the Playstation button and Share button at the same time. Hold these buttons until the light bar starts rapidly flashing
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] pablozaiden:
I've just flashed the joy-con fix, but nothing changed. I've already removed and re-paired the joycons, but the L3, R3 buttons are still not registering (at least, in moonlight).

Also tried to use the Gamepad Tester app as suggested, but the controllers aren't even registering there (and they are working on most apps).

The only missing things are:

R3 and L3 working on joycons

swap B/A, X/Y so they can work with the same layout as any other controller
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Phillyrider807:
PS4 Remote play works directly from the app with some tinkering with Magisk. But joycons aren't working with it yet. It works fine with ps4 connected to the switch as bluetooth though.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] pablozaiden:
First part (R3 and L3) are working. I forgot to mount the "System" partition while flashing.

The swap would be awesome.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] TheMadHeader:
As is already known, the touchscreen can be erratic at times, phantom inputs are fairly common (on my Switch at least).

As mentioned yesterday, I've been having issues with touchscreen when watching YouTube videos - curiously enough I don't get as many problems when running the dedicated YouTube app as I do when using YouTube within a browser (Firefox for example). Within a browser what I find is that when I touch the screen to pause/unpause or simply try to access the lower time bar I often don't get a response (I prefer to watch YouTube within a browser as the dedicated app is rather limited). So I'm prodding away at the screen trying to get it to do something, which it often doesn't.

Just putting that out there in case it's of any use to the devs.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] shaggydiamond:
Interesting. Where did you get your apk, and what tinkering in magisk was needed? :)
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xx-eXhumer-xx:
Ace Attorney Spirit of Justice and Ace Attorney Dual Destinies doesn't work on the Switch with Android. Black Screen after clicking on New Game. Downloaded directly from Play Store. Any idea what the issue might be?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] PimpMasterSlick:
Docked mode isnt working with me :( I tried docking and undocking a 1000 times, the tv sees that there is an input but just shows no signal - was looking forward to making this my main media center

Any suggestions would be great !
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] thequickfox123:
I guess you can edit text file in .zip to swap buttons.

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

7. Should work. You can share your modified .zip for everyone if it actually works.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Phillyrider807:
Just follow this guide. You download the official app directly from the playstore. This guide does leave out one important step though. After u hide the remote play app u have to hide Magisk itself.

https://android.gadgethacks.com/how...s4-games-remotely-any-android-device-0162622/
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] nex86:
Anyone know how to fix the black borders in the bottom and right corner in games?

Tried extended desktop but thats not helping. Something just isn't scaling correctly.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] tiis:
Thanks for giving us Android on Switch!

One question: my left analog stick needs to be calibrated, I did this in HorizonOS but under Android it's off again. Couldn't find any app for this, though.

Cheers!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] pablozaiden:
Thanks! It worked just fine modifying only the first file.

Here is the file: https://drive.google.com/file/d/11wPmq157DD0voYo4FPdSb2xzMeiFZlZ7/view?usp=sharing
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] fma965:
I had the same idea, i'm at work currently but was going to try this once i got home.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HarvinMalig:
wow thanks for sharing, will install this also, im currently on process of image burn on sd card
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] fma965:
057e 2006 is LEFT

057e 2007 is RIGHT

Can be confirmed by googling 0573 200X.

Not sure exactly what A B X Y are in both though. Still would recommend changing both so you don't have any strange inconsistencies

This has both patched just in case, although i would have only thought 2007 needed to be changed, this contradicts [MENTION=10053377]pablozaiden[/MENTION] so i'm not sure.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/10DGQuod3IrLzC5IwXmRcIDe9ErsZNsm6/view?usp=sharing
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] KevPSG63:
Am I the only one who has this issue? It worked like a charm til I wanted to restart Android. Now I get a black screen instead of Lineage loading animation. What can I do? I tried reinstalling gApps and wipe, it worked once. But now it's no longer working. Black screen everytime. I don't want to reformat SD agai so please help me. Thank you.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] a8030799:
Hello, why can't my nvidia game be verified? And I downloaded the Google Installation Pack 700m, which version of the Google Installation Pack should I download
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] pablozaiden:
My mistake. The change was, indeed, in both files
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] ApoQCL:
You're not. I have the same issue. Solved by mounting System & Vendor again.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] baileyjr:
I have today tried both Borderlands 2 and Borderlands the Pre Sequel, both of which I purchased from the play store a couple of years back, on my SheildTV and both pass the licence check and work perfectly.

So I'm assuming the problem is somehow software related to this rom. When I get more time I'll pull the downloads from the SheildTV and put on the switch. However it does the verification check at each start so I'm doubtful this will solve the issue.

This actually gives me hope that the games can be got to run with an update to the rom. If anybody comes up with a workaround please let me know.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] flaviofifa:
Yes i try this.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] merauder75:
Hey, overall this works pretty well, other than the known issues. I did get a hard crash and shutdown playing portal after a while and had to reboot into RCM to get back into Android. Anyone else encounter that? Also do the Joy-Cons charge off the rails while connected via BT?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] bodenlaman06:
Where do you enable or get Vulkan from?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] baileyjr:
No they don't charge.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] zerocdv:
Edited
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jkcoxson:
I had the same issue, and what helped me was to get a faster SD card. I had the same issue but using a faster SD card fixed the issue for me.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] LPPanther:
I can report that streaming games from an Xbox One works great using the OneCast app (not on the play store, just Google it). Wasn’t able to get the Joycon to work at all in OneCast however. I don’t see anywhere in the app where you can configure or select a controller. If anyone else has figured it out let me know.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HarvinMalig:
just installed android, i paired both joycons, but how to use them at the same time?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jkcoxson:
Your game has to support them or you can pay for the app in the Google Play Store to combine them.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] ShadyGame:
How did you guys got the sticks to work with gta San Andreas? I flashed the joycon fix but they still don't work
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jkcoxson:
Make sure that you have the HALauncher installed and use that to start the app when you want it to broadcast to the TV.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HarvinMalig:
what app is that?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] BAMvsGAME:
Can't get my joycons connected for some reason, was there a special step involved other than the joycon fix? Bluetooth will only find my PS4 controller but not my joycon.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] evilfox:
hello, after setup complete i hit in lienageos start appears picture and after that im getting "to use this phone you first have to sign in to an owners google account" and its all from beginning again , why is that?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] CoNQueRa:
Mount And Blade Warband is giving black screen :( nvidia games menu is empty too. can i check shieldifier is flashed correctly?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] willy101:
Anyone figure out how to access files on the microsd? For some reason lineageos can’t see the root
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] SonsofOcelot:
This is likely because lineage is mounting a partition on the micro SD as the root and cannot see the other partitions as they are not mounted on boot. Someone else can likely verify this though it's merely speculation on my part.

If you are referring to the actual root though you'll need to flash magisk to grant root access to your file explorer of choice.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Navalier:
If I use a smaller image on a big sd card like the 64gb image on a 128 MicroSD card, could I use the other 64gb of space for the SwitchOS to install games on?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] KevPSG63:
I followed the Gadget Hacks tutorial to install PS4 Remote Play but even hiding it in Magisk, I still get error 88001003. Any idea?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jkcoxson:
Joy-Con Enabler for Android, download is free but to use it you have to pay.

EDIT: You must also have root access, so you will have to flash Magisk in TWRP or use another method of your choice.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Jordaneale:
Please?

Can we get a simple guide how to install the joystick patch and the shieldifier patch? Please no one seems to acknowledge the fact there absolutely no instructions how to do this other than "Place them on your SD card" Which does not work.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jkcoxson:
You must boot into TWRP again and flash the zip
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Jordaneale:
That doesn't work either, Says no digest file and aborts the installation.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Delk66:
There is a chance of installing it on an 8GB SD card? It's the only one that i have at the moment, btw amaizing job
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Future-Proof:
So, just to double check, this doesn't touch the internal memory AT ALL, right? Everything you do with this is 100% on the SD card? Because if that's the case, then holy crap, I'm going to be all over this. Thanks for your hard work!
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] merauder75:
Yes, it's completely external, doesn't touch your NAND at all afaik. It partitions the SD Card you flash it to with the actual android install. Do note it only leaves you with 2GB (in the case of the 64Gig image) for Switch Homebrew, the rest gets dedicated to Android (which makes sense tbh). I personally ordered a second card just for Android and left my main switch homebrew SD alone.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] Jordaneale:
Yeah, everything is based on the SD card,so i would recommend using a spare or buying a fresh one to reduce the chances of the SD dying and reducing headache.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jkcoxson:
Make sure that you mount the system and the vendor in Mount. I just did it and it worked fine for me. Otherwise, you may have a corrupt zip file.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] HarvinMalig:
thanks, i will stick to 1 joycon for now since the games i play on android can detect root access can result to soft ban
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] ThiDem426:
Now that I've successfully installed Android, do I have to go into RCM mode, inject the Loadout and all that EVERY time I want to boot Android? Or is there an easier way of switching between Nintendo and Android? Also, I'm using a 128gb SD... is there a way to still use part of the SD card to load Switch games onto it? Or is the SD card strictly for Android?
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] xx-eXhumer-xx:
Unfortunately, this breaks the vehicle camera in GTA SA for some reason. With the original files, the camera is fine. Hopefully, someone can investigate why it does that.

EDIT: NVM, seemed to fix itself. Forget I ever spoke about it
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] pusheax:
Hello, nvidia games asked you to connect to your steam when you start the app for the first time?

I never been asked to connect to my steam, now i cant play games with geforce experience.
[Nintendo Switch News, Guides, Discussion , Develop] jkcoxson:
You will still have to boot into RCM mode and injec the payload every time you want to boot to Android. This could be made easier with an RCM loader and a jig if you want to "switch" frequently. Currently, there is no way to share the SD card between OSs.