Android x86 6.0 RC-2 on Core M

[Andrew W]

Forgive the dual post.

This is mainly tageted at core M based users/devices (since there are so many dual boot atom Android/Win10)

My Device: Cube i7 Book

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Android x86 6.0 RC-2 has been released.  http://www.android-x86.org/releases/releasenote-6-0-rc2

This is only a release candidate – But for ‘out of the box’ it works pretty good.

This is the first Android x86 I have been able to get work on an x86 device in a LONG time

Booting LIVE from SD!

Unfortunately there is no ‘persistence’ when using a live boot.

This maybe because I made the Android boot disk from Windows – hence FAT32.

I read Android x86 may (still) have a problem writing changes if installed on a FAT32 partition.

THEREFORE: Perhaps if someone tries to make a ext3/ext4 boot disk from linux there may be ‘persistence’.

Working:

Wifi (2.4 & 5Ghz) & Bluetooth.

Touchscreen. USB. volume keys, Windows Button = Android home

Power saving. Sleeps fine. In fact I seem to have less power drain with this than I do with Windows

Sound & Video : OK could be louder. Youtube playback was fine albeit max quality was 720p (although the resolution of Android 1920×1080 in the settings)

Needs work:

Rotation control: Rotation Control is 180 degrees OUT – so you can lock it in portait or landscape using stock settings.  I prefer “Rotation Control” from the app store.

No Camera: I only tested one app. I can’t remember if on hardware analysis if the sensors showed up or not.

Graphics? – There is a doccumented occasisonal bug for skylake GPUs – BUT I only saw it once. when

on power button – only good for bringing up Power Off but this could be tweaked.

Utilities show 4 cores running between 1.9 & 2.2 GHz… This is obviously the kernel being confused or something.

After all the Core M 6y30 is a Dual Core – Albeit supporting hyperthreading – so more like a quad core.

 

 

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Install Fail

Unfortunately my install hangs at the Android logo and I can’t work what is going on.

I’ve never had success installing Android to a hard disk – except maybe one Acer laptop – which I seem to recall there was some decent support for

The Android x86 7.0 Source code has been released which should be very interesting with Multi-window support. This raises a question about how projects like Remix-OS will go competing with Android 7.0

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Is it worth downloading the source code and manually building Android?

 

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