Remix OS on Teclast X16 Power\ Pro instead of Android

[Anonymous]

I remember reading a few posts of people installing Remix OS on their Teclast X98 Air last year on x86…

That Remix OS was released exactly a year ago January 2015 not 2016.

I have considered installing it on my X16 Pro and Teclast X98 a bunch of times but a release of an OS over a year ago is the equivalent of 5 years to me especially when its such a new OS, I just don’t like that kind of vibe, yes I want stability but I just can’t image it not being loaded with rough edges and I would feel better seeing a new release version.. I don’t buy the idea it has some magic update ability as if it was that clever then they would also be able supplement it with newer releases installers like Linux variants offer..

I think I am almost more interested installing this http://www.android-x86.org/download

 

[Francois-Xavier Boulé]

Hi,  i user twrp in the  past to backup and install Rome on my asus t700.

After reading  a few sites… It seems that the x16pro\power uses the same software as the  X98 pro.

Using the  x98 pro method, I successfuly rooted then device.

Using rashr flashify app, I installed twrp 2.8.7.

I did backup the Android with twrp (but no touch, used a USB wireless mouse).

I’m now looking to flash Mirek v3.0 ROM for x98 pro…

SO you  should be able to flash remix OS with twrp…

You should confirm this before you do flash anything on your tablet.

[Pedro]

Francois-Xavier, can you confirm that X98 Pro’s TWRP works on the X16? How did you boot to recovery? Tell us if you managed to install Mirek’s ROM.

[Anonymous]

I feel like giving Ubuntu Tablet version a go. http://www.ubuntu.com/tablet

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h384z7Ph0gU&hd=1

That said considering there are so many generic laptops these days with touch screens maybe just installing Ubuntu Desktop is the way to go?

[Francois-Xavier Boulé]

Twrp 2.8.7 installed. No touch response… I have to use a wireless mouse.

It worked to backup android to my sd card.

trying to install Mirek rom v3 x98pro but it’s not recognized by twrp…

Tried mikek flash tool… no result… waiting for device…

I’m looking into it, android usb driver seems to be an issu…

Tablet in DNX is not recognise by windows 10 …

Any suggestion of roms that would be seen by twrp and easy to install???

[Anonymous]

Ahh I see the OP was referring to Remix OS 2, interesting they do their releases on the exact same day one year before…

http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/remix-os-2-interesting/

http://www.xda-developers.com/jide-announce-multi-window-android-for-pc-and-mac/

 

[Duarte Bruno]

Mark Kalinsky wrote:

What I would like to do is dual boot it with Windows 10 and remove Android partition and change it for Remix OS. Does anyone have any ideas on how I could do this?

2 very important Words of Advice:

Before you try anything definitive that you don’t know how to revert, you must check first if  you can control your BIOS to boot from a USB pen with any kind of bootable OS in it. Try this first (even though you might want to prepare partitions before you go through that path).

Windows always comes first. Windows doesn’t like to play friends with other OSs, so if you install it in last place it will blatantly ignore other OSs when it rewrites the boot manager. Linux derivatives should be installed after Windows because they know how to merge themselves into the boot manager without wrecking the other OSs options.

Now, based on my regular experience on dual boots, you can choose one of 7 ways to die. Once there, I suppose you have two paths:

1. Remove any Android partitions. Create a new one for RemixOS. Boot from a pen with a burned RemixOS image and install from there into the new partition.
2. Don’t mess with the partitions. Boot from a pen with a burned RemixOS image and install from there into the Android partition.

Worst thing that I figure that could happen, is that your boot manager will call your dual boot entry Android, instead of RemixOS.
Anyway, booting to Windows 10 should not be affected.
More detail on that here.

 

[Francois-Xavier Boulé]

I forgot!

I reboot to recovery from within  rashr flashify app

[Francois-Xavier Boulé]

Anybody seen this video…

 

[Mark Kalinsky]

That video might be just what we need, anyone who is brave please report back

[William]

runs pretty good, no better than the stock android OS thats on there.  Its good looking, its pretty fast, but better I dont see it.  I loaded it on a USB and booted to it.  Again worked good, but for its purpose I went back to the original OS

[Anonymous]

I will assume u didn’t actually run the Remix OS on the X16 pro but some kind of PC?

I tried to install the latest Ubuntu x64 release on my X16 pro and it craps out at around the same time as the the Remix OS installer does..

 

[Anonymous]

I was browsing around on android-x86 and noticed there was a newer x86 Android testing ISO marshmallow dated “2016-01-29”

http://sourceforge.net/projects/android-x86/files/Testing/

I downloaded the ISO and placed it on a 8GB USB stick using rufus to create a bootable USB.

It worked on the Teclast X16 Pro, I was able to fully boot up into the GUI.. the built in Teclast X16 wifi device ( Realtek RTL8723BS ) wasn’t detected, I used an older asus wifi USB device to get internet on it.. the builtin bluetooth does in fact work so you can get internet on it that way via your mobile phone or bluetooth on any PC (even a $1 USB bluetooth dongle device shared on a PC will work)

The touch screen didn’t work though..

After trying the latest Ubuntu, Remix OS 2, with out getting much without significantly changing kernel boot options etc I was in fact happy to see this ( android-x86-6.0_20160129.iso ) load up as well as it did out of the box…

Here are some photos, not much I know as it was in the dark….

[ChenYuhan]

Thanks for sharing!!!

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