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Android 4.4.4 on PC

jefboyardee

jefboyardee

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Don't really know what subforum this belongs in...

I've tried various Android X86 ISOs to no avail, until I bumped into a download labeled This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as "patch hosting for android x86 support".

And this one, for the most part, actually works! Freakish sensation to see a phone OS on my PC screen. But I couldn't really log in for at least two reasons...

First, it thinks it's running inside a pad but it's really in a desktop -- it interprets most mouse clicks as taps, but not all.

Second -- my fault -- although it lets me in through my main email address, it doesn't see my other address, where Google Play and all my apps live.

It also did a good job of messing up my Grub menu, but that's something I learned to fix a hundred distros ago... anyone else tried it?
 
jefboyardee said:
Don't really know what subforum this belongs in...
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This one's good. :)

I've tried various Android X86 ISOs to no avail, until I bumped into a download labeled This is a project to port Android open source project to x86 platform, formerly known as "patch hosting for android x86 support".

And this one, for the most part, actually works! Freakish sensation to see a phone OS on my PC screen. But I couldn't really log in for at least two reasons...

First, it thinks it's running inside a pad but it's really in a desktop -- it interprets most mouse clicks as taps, but not all.

Second -- my fault -- although it lets me in through my main email address, it doesn't see my other address, where Google Play and all my apps live.

It also did a good job of messing up my Grub menu, but that's something I learned to fix a hundred distros ago...
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Very cool! Post some pics if you'd like.

anyone else tried it?
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Not yet. :D
 
I tried this once and got pretty much the same results as you.

I was only interested in setting up a dual boot, but there were too many issues to find it viable.
 
Digital Controller said:
I tried this once and got pretty much the same results as you.

I was only interested in setting up a dual boot, but there were too many issues to find it viable.
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I think it's the "cool, wow!" factor more than usefulness that makes this attractive. I'd love to see Android running on one of my computers, just for the hell of it. (But I'm not motivated enough to tackle DOING this right now. :))
 
I think it's the "cool, wow!" factor more than usefulness that makes this attractive.
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You nailed it, although in my case, I did have the extra time to confirm its uselessness. I take it this concept will never work because Google is just waiting for X86 PCs to fade way, so they Chromeplate the world.
 
I actually downloaded the RC2 for this project but have never messed with it. I planned on doing it but really never found the time to play with it. I have an old external drive I may try to mess with this just to see what happens. Will need to do some reading up on it first I imagine though.

wonder if it would be better in a VB environment?
 
argedion said:
I actually downloaded the RC2 for this project but have never messed with it. I planned on doing it but really never found the time to play with it. I have an old external drive I may try to mess with this just to see what happens. Will need to do some reading up on it first I imagine though.

wonder if it would be better in a VB environment?
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I've always run Android x86 in a VM, everything seems to work, and I think that's how these betas have been intended to be run, specifically VirtualBox, rather than trying to support so many PCs different hardwares. I've only been using it to try out various Android apps before I put them on my actual phone, cluttering it up. The Android environment you get is a tablet rather than a phone, and that's what Play determines it as.
 
Last time I did this it was an old Android 2.1 boot CD, the results weren't pretty.

I do have a more useful net book that runs 4.1, but with specs quite similar to the Windows CE net book it shares storage space with.

BTW your links only work for EEEPC and Asus net books among others, not common laptops.
 
Actually if your running Linux the CD install is not necessary. Just blogged about this cause saw so many take such a hard way of doing it.
 
They just announced the release version of Android_x86 KitKathttp://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-4-4-r1
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It also doesn't play well with others. If I tell it not to install grub, kitkat doesn't show up in my existing grub, even if I launch a linux distro and its grub customizer and refresh it.

So I reinstall kitkat and tell it to go ahead and install grub, but it can't see those linux distros, even though it does see windows. So away it goes again...
 
jefboyardee said:
It also doesn't play well with others. If I tell it not to install grub, kitkat doesn't show up in my existing grub, even if I launch a linux distro and its grub customizer and refresh it.

So I reinstall kitkat and tell it to go ahead and install grub, but it can't see those linux distros, even though it does see windows. So away it goes again...
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If you are running Linux, you don't need grub. You need to add the menuentry to your grub.d.

I wrote a post on it on my blog:

http://elizabethswikis.blogspot.com...ual-boot-android-x86-on.html?m=1#comment-form
 
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