Android rom – upgrade – lollipop

[mekabe remain]

Hi,

Is there any chance of upgrading the Android OS on the Hi8  ?

any CyanogenMod availability ?

thx.

 

[mekabe remain]

I would appreciate any feedback.

 

[Stefan]

Well, guess we will have to wait and see. But judging from the quality of the Kitkat implementation, how much effort went into this, I wouldn’t recommend holding your breath.

[Jason]

Has no one tried the system.img from the Teclast tablets as they are similar ?

[mekabe remain]

I am willing to test.

Where can I download ?

And how do you flash an image to this ?

 

[mekabe remain]

What about root ? Can we root the official Chuwi rom ? (4.4.2)

[John]

Yes, you can root the Hi8. See this topic:

http://techtablets.com/forums/topic/android-root-for-hi8/

[tukull]

don’t put your hope.

those guys in chuwi company are busy making newer devices, i mean just look at the official support page, there’s not even single software support, let alone the lollipop update.

and the CM team won’t even take a look on those generic chinese brands.

[djluke]

I could be wrong but as I read Intel haven’t released Lollipop binaries yet, so no one got it for Bay Trail device, not only Chuwi.

And for above, no one will release anything Lollipop based until Intel pulls out sources.

[Jason]

http://techtablets.com/forums/topic/android-5-install-guide/

Teclast tablets have the Lollipop upgrade.

[tridex]

Hi guys just install this

http://amiduos.com/# and android lollipop and it workds pefrectley ieven on the HI tablet!!! i have no problems with it and not yet even optimized android as advised by DOUS maker, but it rall y is amazing that it runs on HI with no problems!!!! MU AntuTu score un optimized on windows tend version of HI8 is 26626 but sure i can get higher with android tweaks…

[CardinalFang]

tridex wrote:

Hi guys just install this http://amiduos.com/# and android lollipop and it workds pefrectley ieven on the HI tablet!!! i have no problems with it and not yet even optimized android as advised by DOUS maker, but it rall y is amazing that it runs on HI with no problems!!!! MU AntuTu score un optimized on windows tend version of HI8 is 26626 but sure i can get higher with android tweaks…

you know how much battery that would suck….

[Syed M. Aahab]

Well I bought a Hi8 two days ago and I find the android ROM to be quite functional as-is, rooted it yesterday with the guide on these forums, so now I have a lot more tinkering opportunities 🙂

But for anyone interested in getting a generic (or Hi8 specific) lollipop build going, I suggest you start here :

http://www.android-x86.org

Or specifically :

http://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-5-1-rc1Their EFI image is 64bit so you would most likely have to change the EFI to 32bit after dumping the image on a usb drive. Since Android is linux, try this tutorial for the EFI change :

https://sturmflut.github.io/linux/ubuntu/2015/01/21/installing-ubuntu-15.04-on-baytrail-tablets/

Note : Just the part about changing the efi on the usb drive in /boot/efi is relevant for the purpose of trying lollipop.

Full Disclaimer : DO NOT try to install Lollipop without having backed up your entire Win10/Kitkat Partitions, backup all your data aswell.

As I said I haven’t tried this. And this is just some possibly helpful info for anyone driven enough to give this a go.

[Arvind Rajan]

Has anyone tried this out yet? Did it work?

[Clement]

I’ve juste tested Androidx86 lollipop and :

• It’s booting !
• “GPU” is working
• Volume buttons are ok

but :

• No sound
• No touchscreen
• No power button
• No Wifi
• No Bluetooth
• System instability

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