Android 7.1. r1 on EEEPC 1005ha

[Nuno Craveiro]

I’ve recently discovered this project. Thank you for all the fantastic work. I really appreciate it!

I have a few beginner’s questions. I’ve installed android 6.0 x86 r2 on Asus EEEPC 1005 HA netbook, in dual boot with xubuntu 17.0.1. All is working, a little slow though, considering the dated hardware. I’ve tried the new 7.1 r1 (generic iso) live mode, booting from a USB pendrive. All seams to work fine with the exception of the sound control “fn” functions (Brightness controls are working). It isn’t possible to resume after sleep mode.

Is there any advantage of creating a customized kernel (I’ve looked into the tutorial and it was not clear if the customized kernel was droped for eeepc)? Will it make the sound control Fn keys, and sleep mode work? If so, is it possible to create using this machine as build environment?

Video playback stutter a little in live mode and youtube app has some lag, to the point that system keeps showing a message that the app stoped responding? The video playback in chrome browser works well. Will it work better after installing on the hdd drive?

Is it possible to upgrade de current 6.0 r2 installation using the 7.1 r1 iso? If so, is the new advanced option for upgrade installation suitable for that?

 

Thank you, in advanced, for your answers and patience.

[Chih-Wei Huang]

2018-02-09 0:32 GMT+08:00 Nuno Craveiro <ncra...@gmail.com>:
> I’ve recently discovered this project. Thank you for all the fantastic work.
> I really appreciate it!
>
> I have a few beginner’s questions. I’ve installed android 6.0 x86 r2 on Asus
> EEEPC 1005 HA netbook, in dual boot with xubuntu 17.0.1. All is working, a
> little slow though, considering the dated hardware. I’ve tried the new 7.1
> r1 (generic iso) live mode, booting from a USB pendrive. All seams to work
> fine with the exception of the sound control “fn” functions (Brightness
> controls are working). It isn’t possible to resume after sleep mode.
>
> Is there any advantage of creating a customized kernel (I’ve looked into the
> tutorial and it was not clear if the customized kernel was droped for
> eeepc)? Will it make the sound control Fn keys, and sleep mode work? If so,
> is it possible to create using this machine as build environment?

Did it work before?
Does it work in xubuntu?
If yes, you can try to find the driver and config for it
to build the customized kernel.

> Video playback stutter a little in live mode and youtube app has some lag,
> to the point that system keeps showing a message that the app stoped
> responding? The video playback in chrome browser works well. Will it work
> better after installing on the hdd drive?
>
> Is it possible to upgrade de current 6.0 r2 installation using the 7.1 r1
> iso? If so, is the new advanced option for upgrade installation suitable for
> that?

Just install 7.1-r1 to the same partition as 6.0-r2.
The installer will ask if you want to upgrade, say yes.

The auto update in advanced option can be used to upgrade
android-x86 in the first ext4 partition.
But I just found a small bug in 7.1-r1 that may freeze
the device on updating. So I won't recommend to use it.


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Chih-Wei
Android-x86 project
http://www.android-x86.org

[Nuno Craveiro]

Thanks for your help.

Fn functions did work with previous version (6.0) and with xubuntu.

I’ve upgraded the previous version (6.0 r2) to 7.1 r1. Made some changes to the Grub, adding “androidboot.selinux=permissive” and “GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=quiet splash acpi_osi=”.

Everything is working fine now. Fn sound control and brightness working as expected. Sleep and resume also working. This new version is more stable and fast that the previous one. Video playback is surprisingly smooth (youtube app is working great).

Can’t thank you enough for your fantastic job!