X98_PRO_android_5.1_mirek190_v6.0 rom

[Karl0ss]

valerima wrote:

Here< I would agree with Ferenc couple of posts above. I would be happy to remove Windows and stay with Android only here. Windows started to be more and more boring and Android simply would be OK for main tasks. ..and resources would be saved , too. It was some walkthrough probably somewhere, but it could be have prompt pointing to the process.

Flash the v6 rom using the “1,5_GB_system_56_GB_data_gpt” gpt file…

People really need to start reading the instructions for flashing this rom, everything people keep asking is answered in the thread…

[Karl0ss]

robert wisdom wrote:

Mirek, you are totally awesome. Bravo! You have once again, outdone yourself. Your commitment and dedication to constantly providing new and updated firmware is simply amazing. Each time you release another revision, it has most issues fixed and has a ton of improvement packed in as well. You must spend a lot of time testing, flashing, modifying, repeat. If I had any money at all, I would donate to you. Your rom is far superior to the stock rom or any other roms I have encountered. I have yet to run into any issues with the latest rom, and, as usual, they just keep getting better and better with each revision. Thanks again, and if there’s anything I can do to help with testing or whatever, let me know, I’m triple booting right now (with miui), and messing around with remix off a otg usb drive (effectively quad booting). As far as the guy who wants android only, yes, you can do that fairly easily. Install mirek’s rom. Then put bootable gparted on a thumb drive, boot into it. Be sure to have a keyboard and mouse hooked up too. Then wipe out all windows partitions and windows bootloader (efi). Now move the 3 partitions that separate the newly created free space with the android data partition. Be careful, one of them is going to say that it isn’t movable (the persistent partition). You need to change the partition type to “clear” and apply, then move it (and the other 2 that are movable without this step) to the right side of the free space, so that the free space and the data partition are next to each other. Now you can extend the data partition using the free space, and your tablet will now use the entire 64gb for android. You will notice though, that when going into android and looking at the storage, it still says the same amount as before. But you will find that it does indeed, use the entire disk. If you are expanding mirek’s and not the stock rom, you could run mirek’s installer again, and it will say the correct amount of space in storage after that, because mirek’s doesn’t flash the partition table, like the stock rom does. I’ve done it, I’ve flashed so many roms, and put windows back on so many times, a dual, and triple, and quad booted, and wiped everything and started over, many, many times (for fun, lol). If you go 100% android, you can go back to dual boot again, don’t worry, its no big deal. Just run the stock android installation and it will partition everything up for you and leave space for the windows installation too:)

What you describe will not working, modifying any of the partitions from windows or via a partition manager will kill the android installation, the only way to do it is via a clean install using the said gpt.bin file to repartition the tablet..

[robert wisdom]

I’m sorry, you’re wrong, I’m using gparted live, from a usb drive, connected with a otg adapter.  Works perfect, no problems at all, actually works with the other 14 tablets I have also.  It is not done within windows, it is independent, and works great, it is a linux distro.  I’ve modified my tablets, many, many, many times.

[robert wisdom]

You may be better informed if you went to the manufacturer’s forums, here is the link to the cherry trail forum: http://bbs.teclast.com/forum-107-5.html  You will discover that there are lots of other tools available, and they all work, I even have tools to load different versions of windows 10, before and after the android installation and a tool that loads both windows and android without user intervention.  I have other tools that will load whatever you choose by embedding the operating systems you choose within the various scripts.  The world is a very bid place and I think you have a lot more to discover.  This is a chinese table and being so, you’ll find way more development on chinese websites.  I do like this site very much though, I’m not taking anything away from it.  I could put the link that shows how to bootup gparted and modify the partitions to increase or decrease android’s available space and increase or decrease window’s space, if you would like.  It is on teclast’s manufacturer’s forums.  There is a wealth of information and tools available on that site, but most, if not all the tools are in chinese, so there may be a learning curve there too, the site is in chinese (obviously).  But google translate does a fairly good job.

Here is the guide to using gparted on the x98 pro and resizing the partitions AFTER ANDROID AND WINDOWS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED: http://bbs.teclast.com/thread-520084-1-1.html

When I first used gparted on this tablet, I resized the stock rom to a much smaller data partiton, I installed the stock rom, resized it to around 15gb, then I used a custom script to load windows 10 x64 enterprise (Its better to resize android before installing windows, because it may (or may not, never happened to me) run check disk at startup after resizing both android and windows (obviously after their installation).  After I had both operating systems installed and the size I wanted, I installed mireks rom over the stock rom, worked great (this was months ago).  Now, I am light years beyond this, but I don’t want to divulge all my secrets, lol (you can use a third party uefi bootloader on the “windows” side, it effectively allows you to boot into multiple operating systems, after the android/windows selection is made ((which I have disabled to speed up booting))).

[Karl0ss]

robert wisdom wrote:

I’m sorry, you’re wrong, I’m using gparted live, from a usb drive, connected with a otg adapter. Works perfect, no problems at all, actually works with the other 14 tablets I have also. It is not done within windows, it is independent, and works great, it is a linux distro. I’ve modified my tablets, many, many, many times.

robert wisdom wrote:

You may be better informed if you went to the manufacturer’s forums. You will discover that there are lots of other tools available, and they all work, I even have tools to load different versions of windows 10, before and after the android installation and a tool that loads both windows and android without user intervention. I have other tools that will load whatever you choose by embedding the operating systems you choose within the various scripts. The world is a very bid place and I think you have a lot more to discover. This is a chinese table and being so, you’ll find way more development on chinese websites. I do like this site very much though, I’m not taking anything away from it. I could put the link that shows how to bootup gparted and modify the partitions to increase or decrease android’s available space and increase or decrease window’s space, if you would like. It is on teclast’s manufacturer’s forums. There is a wealth of information and tools available on that site, but most, if not all the tools are in chinese, so there may be a learning curve there too, the site is in chinese (obviously). But google translate does a fairly good job.

I tell you what, you are the only person I have read about in the last year, that has successfully managed to do it then, this is why it has taken so long, and we were fighting so much on the teclast forum to get the modified gpt.bin..so fairplay to you.

It very much is possible with other tablets, as I have done it myself, but from what I understand, not with the X98Pro.

[valerima]

Guys, thank you for prompt reaction. Indeed Mirek’s Rom is a great one. Interesting which solution Guru would propose.

valerima

[robert wisdom]

Here is the guide to using gparted on the x98 pro and resizing the partitions AFTER ANDROID AND WINDOWS HAVE BEEN INSTALLED: http://bbs.teclast.com/thread-520084-1-1.html .  Its really easy, and I’m not the only one who has done it, psss…..there’s a guide.  Just playing man, it is very easy, I would suggest resizing after android is installed and before windows is installed, but now that there’s a modified gpt.bin, you can play around with resizing without the need for gparted.  It does come in handy after you’ve already installed both operating systems, and you go, DOH!, I want to change the sizes without jacking everything up.  It does work, and it will give you better idea of how all the partitions are made up and where they are placed and where the windows partitions are installed….. and how to make or modify your own windows installation script, with whatever version you choose, the drivers and all the software you want, pre-installed, all in the available freespace, without destroying android, and also, leaving addtitional free space, for, say, a third operating system…NO WAYYYY!!!!, that’s too crazy dude (please notice that “too” is spelled correctly, this may be an indication that you are conversing with someone who has eclipsed the majority of modern society, and in all earnestness, put forth the fourth grade education, (from which I learned when to properly use, “too” and “to”, and went further ((than most are able to comprehend and retain)) by actually remembering any of my education before high school, lol) , ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!!   Seriously, its just a computer, believe it or not, you can put any operating system you choose on it, including, android x86_64 (even 6.0.1, if you wanted to), cyanogenmod 12.1 (I’m having issues with cm 13’s drivers, it does load though, but the kernel and the drivers aren’t getting along….yet, MIUI, ubuntu, mint, ximer…. I mean remix (jk, did you catch that), phoenixOS, as long as the uefi (which ever you choose) is correctly setup, the sky is the limit, and the 64gb of space, lol, but, don’t forget about the elusive thumb drive.

I can get my surface pro3, surface 3 and my venue to boot off of the micro sd card (sp3 and venue both are i5), but I have yet to get grub or clover to properly address the micro sd card (internal, obviously).  I think if I modified the bootup script to mount the sd card, then let it pause to check the volume and initialize the file system, that it might be able to boot from it. Its perplexing though, that the surfaces and the venue don’t have any issues whatsoever booting from the sd card.  But I am only running remix on those 3 devices.  I have monkeyed around with android x86 and a cyanogenmod modified version, but they are not as refined as remix, because, everything, I mean everything works on remix.  accelerometer,  bluetooth, wifi (2.4 and 5), external keyboard and touchpad, brightness, surface’s and venue’s pens, the windows buttons next to the screen, vibration, the cameras, the battery meter, the volume buttons, the ambient light sensors, sleep, sleep on closing the screen, 10 point multi-touch, (in the case of the surfaces) pressure sensitive touch with the pens.  I think nfc works on them too, but I haven’t tried it.

Sorry, didn’t mean to go off on a tangent.  I spend the majority of my time on chinese forums, as they have more to offer in terms of development.  I really like this site, and I’ve found some excellent posts, but there is so much more nonsensical, obliviously incoherent absurdities within some of the posts, that it makes it difficult to find posts that contain intellectually stimulating and objective development and education, with a small amount of conjecture without needless obligatory remarks.

It’s nice though, when you find a piece of software, (even if its in chinese), that allows you to load all the operating systems, the software within them, the proper bootup procedure and efi loaders, and just about does everything automatically, that no english-speaking person has probably ever used, that works so perfectly and runs through all its scripts so concisely and methodically, that is leaves you feeling as if you’re cheating and starts to leave you with a slight feeling of boredom, as if you’re obsessive nature, to load as many pieces of completely differing software and operating systems as you can, and have them all work, results in a feeling of euphoria, and then suddenly and without any warning, becomes so unbearably boring that you set the device aside, buy another one, and procede to do almost the exact same thing, with a completly different device, and set that one down, get another, and repeat.  Thus you end up with close to 20 desktops, all quad to octo-core, 14 or 15 laptops, most core i5 or i7, and, I think 15 or so tablets, probably less than 18 months old, all of which, you take down that same road, benchmark the crap out of them and tweak them all, until you just about have the top score with that particular device and you’ve loaded it up with so many different oses and software, everyone thought impossible, and then you set it down, forget about it and move on to the next….story of my life.:)  After about 2 years, it has to go though. too old, too slow, difficult to even turn on at that point.  Most of the devices I’ve bought were broken in one way or another, and I’ve repaired them…all.  Routers too.  I think I’ve only got 12 though…. 90% of them have koolshare’s firmware on them.  Its a modified asus ac88u firmware that has been stuffed with so many features its mind-boggling.  They have modified it to run on just about any newer router, I’ve got linksys, netgear and asus routers, all fairly new, all bought broken, non-functioning, all repaired, jtag or cfe emergency firmware loaded, or tftp forcibly firmware loaded and working as good (way better with this firmware) as new.

[Adam]

For those interested in using my Linux flasher in the future:
Since Mirek seems to be updating the flasher fairly often I have decided to create a github repo where I will track the changes made and make a new github repo where I will make releases with the same version numbers as Mirek is using.

https://github.com/adisbladis/x98-pro-mirek190-flasher/

For those interested in downloading a specific release rather than the latest you can find releases here:
https://github.com/adisbladis/x98-pro-mirek190-flasher/

[robert wisdom]

As far as routers go, this guy’s my hero http://forgotfun.org/2016/03/NAND-Programmer.html

Nand programming is so cool.  He’s also doing some ram modifications with routers, swapping out sizes 128 to 256 and types and modifying the nand to properly accept the ram, with modified cfe and firmware, of course.  It’s the same principle with these tablets.  I have done very limited nand programming as an engineer with xyratex international.  Done some cmos/bios flashing and programming too.  I’ve used a programming tool that flashes cmos/bios chips with light, very cool, interesting concept, you put the chip in there, hop on the computer, select the file, hit enter, and in the blink of an eye a beam of light programs the chip, any size chip.  I don’t really understand it.  The engineers who designed that method of flashing are way beyond by intellectual capacity. lol.  Its actually quite similar in concept to the nand programming tool that these guys from forgotfun are using.

I’m limited to design and engineering of rack-mountable, enterprise-class, 2, 3 and 4u sans, nas and various other fiber-channel and sas storage arrays.  I’m forced to have my electronic gadget fun elsewhere and the data storage units are boring.  There are some with 4 – 8 core xeons (cpus, lol) and 16, 16gb fb-dd4 ecc ram modules, 48 1tb ssd, configurable in any raid array you’d like to choose, with 2 16x pci-e raid controllers (do the math, lol), leaving you with 32 processor cores (64 with hyperthreading) with symmetrical multi-processing, 256gb of ram and 48tb of disk space on 16gb fiber channel (controller cards distribute via backplane) or sas, and 10gb ethernet (whoa man, that’s highly frickin’ available dude), also has 2 hot-swappable 1200 watt psus.  Thing does pretty well, as far as energy consumption, you should have seen it when it had conventional hard-drives and socket 604 xeons, what an energy pig.  I actually have a couple dual quad core xeons with 12 – 2 tb drives and 64 gb ddr3 ram.  They run pretty good, fairly fast, and there’s room to put a 16x graphics card, but not practical unless you have a rack.

Sorry admin, way off topic.

[adam]

Can anyone help us to get same room on x16pro?

[Milo]

that would be really great to have this rom an the X16pro/power. But u will need to provide mirek the device if u want a port.

perhaps there is a tutorial how to port roms. isn’t the hardware base very similar except for screensize and RAM?

[Fabian Binder]

Hello!

Currently I’m using the custom ROM for our school newspaper. We do not need much power or more RAM in Android, because most of the time we work with Windows. But it would be great if we could record interviews and short stories for our school radio. Unfortunately most of the Apps don’t recognize the mic. Even if it works there is background noise when we use our Headset in Android.

Is this better with the custom ROM? We use REC Spreaker Studio.

 

It would be great if someone could test this, then we could probably convince our teacher to give this rom a try!

Thanks

[Samuel Devaux]

It will be great if any one could modify Mirek’s rom for x16 pro/power

[Manolete]

I´m starting to think all of the X16 guys are actually trolls trying to derrail this thread…

This or really too lazy to read the thread.

Or maybe something worse….

[Karl0ss]

Init, they really pissing me off…BUY HIM A TABLET AND HE WILL DO IT!! HE HAS SAID IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN!

[Author]

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