[TUTORIAL] Booting/Installing Android Bliss on Chuwi Vi10 Pro

[ZeroTheSavior]

Another tutorial. It’s different from the last one, so read carefully. You should also know some computer knowledge before this and not try this if you don’t know what you’re doing since this changes your bootloader and modifies your EFI partition.

What’s working: The brightness, USB, and graphics drivers.

What’s broken: Wifi, bluetooth, sleep, touchscreen, volume buttons, rotation, everything else you’d expect. It also seems to hang after a while on certain kernels.

Notes: THIS REMOVES THE ABILITY TO REBOOT INTO ANDROID FROM WITHIN WINDOWS. I HAVEN’T FOUND OUT HOW TO FIX IT. Volume buttons can be made to work since they’re detected in the kernel, but that’s beyond my knowledge.

Step 0: disable secure boot from the BIOS if you haven’t already.

Step 1: Download the ROM from this post. MAKE SURE YOU READ EVERYTHING CAREFULLY. I downloaded the latest bleeding edge iso, but they all work mostly the same, only difference I could find was that some kernels are missing support for the power button. https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/software/x86-bliss-x86-pc-s-t3534657

Step 2: following the install instructions in the post, use the “easy install” method by using the installer tool, picking your iso, and pressing install.

Step 2b: if the installer gave an error for some reason, here’s a workaround I tried. Install 7zip (if you haven’t already) and right click the self extracting rar exe and extract to new folder. In that folder there should be an Android_UEFIInstall.exe, right click, run as admin, do the same thing as step 2.

Step 3: Download EasyUEFI (google it) and set Android-OS as the top boot option.

Step 4: Insert keyboard and mouse and reboot. You should reach the grub bootloader. Luckily this time there’s nothing special you need to do, so select android-x86 and press enter to boot.

It should take 5-10 minutes on first boot. After that you’ll see the setup screen.

Afterword: Even though GRUB supports the volume buttons for selecting boot options, you need a keyboard to start it, making this very inconvenient to use.

You can uninstall the whole thing using the easy installer, but reboot to android service will still be broken.

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