Androidx86 on Dell Venue 8 Pro works nicely. A status report.

[dieter heidelberg]

Hi,

I recently got my hands on the Androidx86 Asus T100 image (Kitkat). It boots nicely on my Dell Venue 8 Pro (Intel Atom Z3740, 2GB Ram) and the performance is very good. Some things don't work sadly: Wifi, Bluetooth, etc.

I am hoping now that it will work with the new Android 5.0 release of Androidx86. Fingers crossed :)

Any idea how this will work?

Cheers,
Dieter

[Phil R]

How did you get that image to boot on the DV8P?  Whenever I try the display is always scrambled.  I would love to know how to get it to work!

Thanks,

Phil

[dieter heidelberg]

How did you do it?

1. I think I used this image: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/android-x86/t100/android-x86/j-iKHx23hMg/XtHgCHikw-EJ

2. then I wrote the image to a USB stick using Linux Mint's (also comes with Ubuntu) USB image writer

3. from Windows 8.1 > Settings > Recovery > Advanced Boot (you need to plug in the USB stick at this point)

4. it boots into UEFI startup and allows you to select the removable device as boot source

5. it boots into Androidx86. Works :)

[dieter heidelberg]

Wait. I used this T100 image: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-x86/FUiFCtrgc6I/Fqt8Rg-fpQkJ

[Zeeshan Ahmed P]

Does it really work on DVP8..? last time I tried some image.. The display was all messy but still I could see the start screen through the messy display.. Is display working in the image U linked here.. I hope it does

[Phil R]

Neither of the images worked for me.  Did you change something in order to get it to boot correctly?

I was able to get the Lollipop image to boot on my DV8P and the screen showed up correctly, although it was so slow it was pretty much unusable.

[dieter heidelberg]

Yes it works. The screen is perfect and the performance is very good. The problem is the missing Wifi with this image. I heard people fixed the Wifi in later builds...but those builds are not downloadable yet. And without Wifi you cannot do anything useful.

[zeethe...@gmail.com]

Can you please tell me how you got it working..

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[Phil R]

I could not get either image to work on my DV8P either.  Both images had distorted screens after boot.

I was however able to get Android 5.0 to boot, although it was so slow it was unusable.  At least the screen was not distorted.

[dieter heidelberg]

Yes. I already postet it above:

How did you do it?

1. I used this T100 image: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/android-x86/FUiFCtrgc6I/Fqt8Rg-fpQkJ

2. then I wrote the image to a USB stick using Linux Mint's (also comes with Ubuntu) USB image writer

3. from Windows 8.1 > Settings > Recovery > Advanced Boot (you need to plug in the USB stick at this point)

4. it boots into UEFI startup and allows you to select the removable device as boot source

5. it restarts and shows the boot menu. Use the volume buttons to execute the boot process

6. After about 60 sec. you are in Androidx86.

[zeethe...@gmail.com]

I tried the same procedure given in the previous post but I'm getting distorted display.. and Phil can u

 please link me to the lollipop image that worked for U?

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[Phil R]

Hi Zee,

I used this Android 5.0 image:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4VR-WNTOX0qVnkyWExEZHdLTms/view

Once I created the flash drive, I copied over the EFI directory from the T100 image and was able to get it to boot on the DV8P.

[zeethe...@gmail.com]

Thank you for the link and your reply

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[zeethe...@gmail.com]

I copied EFI folder but it doesn't boot up.. it shows some blue box saying “press any key for mdk management”

I used both unetbootin and Rufus to write the ISO.. same result on both

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