Hacking Switchroot Android 10 released

[urherenow]

https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/rom-unofficial-switchroot-android-10.4229761/

Big post to read. I'm not about to copy and paste the whole thing here. If you read nothing else, read:
"Shield games are broken, DO NOT BUY THEM."

A new Hekate was just released as well. Be sure you're using hekate - CTCaer mod v5.5.4 & Nyx v1.0.1
or above when setting up a card for this.


Have fun!

 

[GCS]

I am trying it on my spare SD right now, going to do an Antutu test after the installation. I personally just use it for Netflix and browsing so the power doesn't matter that much. But if it performs better then the Android 8.1(I don't think it will), I can use it for emulation too.

 

[lordelan]

@bylaws By choosing the Android TV image, does it become a Chromecast too to which I can cast stuff from my phone when the Switch is docked?

 

[hippy dave]

Excited to try when I have the time & energy. I didn't look in Nyx's partition manager yet, does it handle an emunand partition as well as Android/HOS?

 

[phreaksho]

Just wanted to say that it works great, use it for streaming games and such. It's a bummer shield games aren't supported yet but most everything else works great. The joycons have a deadzone now, and deep sleep work.. a lot easier to install too, compared to Oreo.

 

[urherenow]

Is everyone so far using the TV build? I honestly haven't tried yet. Spent so much time just a week ago getting it to build (had to buy more ram so I could feed my Ubuntu VM 16GB) and I built the tablet version. I'm interested in hearing what's bad/good/better between the choices. All I have so far is the note that Shield Games don't work. I've never owned a Shield, or played it's games, but "games don't work" sticks in my head and makes me cringe.

 

[nWo]

Stupid question: If I'm making a new partition for this, the entire sd card would be wiped up, no? Or is it a way to make a new partition and keep all the other files there?

 

[SkyDX]

If I already have an older Android 10 partition, this will just wipe the Android partition but not format my entire SD-card right?

 

[Rahkeesh]

Hekate seems to support partitioning for android and HOS on one SD card. Wondering whether android can still access the HOS FAT32 stuff, so for example I could keep all my roms there for emulation.

 

[zerox521]

Can I just create a partition on my switch's main sd to flash android 10?

 

[thaikhoa]

Hekate seems to support partitioning for android and HOS on one SD card. Wondering whether android can still access the HOS FAT32 stuff, so for example I could keep all my roms there for emulation.

It could read the partition itself. hope there will be an update for that.

 

[hippy dave]

The downloads got updated yesterday, IDK what's changed, but if you want to see if you got the updated version, you can go to https://download.switchroot.org/android-10/ and compare your zip's file size with the ones there (new, good) and the ones in the BROKEN-DO-NOT-USE folder (old, bad).

Hekate seems to support partitioning for android and HOS on one SD card. Wondering whether android can still access the HOS FAT32 stuff, so for example I could keep all my roms there for emulation.

According to bylaws on the xda thread, it's only accessible with root, at /mnt/vendor/factory

 

[urherenow]

The downloads got updated yesterday, IDK what's changed, but if you want to see if you got the updated version, you can go to https://download.switchroot.org/android-10/ and compare your zip's file size with the ones there (new, good) and the ones in the BROKEN-DO-NOT-USE folder (old, bad).



According to bylaws on the xda thread, it's only accessible with root, at /mnt/vendor/factory

bummer. But magisk works for that, so actually rooting it isn't a problem... unless you have a personal problem with it.

 

[hippy dave]

bummer. But magisk works for that, so actually rooting it isn't a problem... unless you have a personal problem with it.

I always root on principle
There's a thread in the XDA forum about mounting the fat32 partition as user-accessible, it's an older thread about older builds but might work on the new release, might have to adjust the disk identifier.
I should get around to trying this all soon.

 

[Rahkeesh]

Rooting is no problem but I'm not sure every relevant emulator is set up to ask for root permissions. Like I read conflicting things about whether Retroarch could even see root-only folders.

 

[Taorn]

Rooting is no problem but I'm not sure every relevant emulator is set up to ask for root permissions. Like I read conflicting things about whether Retroarch could even see root-only folders.

I don't think this would be necessary. Normally you would mount the fat32 partition with the correct access rights. That way any application should be able to access them.

Have a look here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ount-fat32-partition-in-android-easy.4019531/

 

[hippy dave]

I don't think this would be necessary. Normally you would mount the fat32 partition with the correct access rights. That way any application should be able to access them.

Have a look here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/t/...ount-fat32-partition-in-android-easy.4019531/

Yeah that's the thread I was talking about, have you tried it on the official Android 10 release yet?

 

[Rahkeesh]

Finally took the plunge and this is a HUGE improvement over Oreo. Just smooth, docks reliably, working sleep mode...

With root PPSSPP at least can directly look at mnt/vendor/factory and play ROMs from there. Will have to see what other emulators can do so.

edit: Drastic, ReDream, Dolphin, Retroarch, even Hataroid, with magisk installed pretty much every emulator is just letting me back up out of the SD card into root, and from there into mnt/vendor/factory to load whatever from the fat32 side. Dolphin performance is still dire but everything else works amazing.

 

[DPyro]

Can this be booted as a file like emunand?

 

[Rahkeesh]

Can this be booted as a file like emunand?

No you need to use Hekate to make a sizeable Android partition. Although as mentioned, Android can still read from Fat32 if rooted.