Hacking Question Will Switch Hacking will allow us to install Android ?

[FAST6191]

I'll admit, maybe I'm only looking at this from my own POV. I have two Switch consoles, a pretty decent Android tablet, and also a Nvidia Shield TV. I guess if someone only had just the Switch device, they might want access to all the other things that Android provide. Where as I have a Android tablet and a Android phone. Having the Switch run Android would just turn it into another Android tablet. From my POV, there's nothing cool or exciting about that.

Can I borrow your phone for the evening? If you want you can pick it up when you see me on Monday.

Now replace phone with (hacked) Switch.

Less obtusely it has the makings of a great temporary/lendable device. This in addition to the things I was on about earlier with the ability to chain things together that correspond to my very specific and unlikely to be widely shared whims, and it being unlikely that there are many develops champing at the bit to start making things for the switch (practically speaking it is another android device as far as power and features go, with the added bonus that I can't sell my code very easily and probably also have to do the hack-counter hack-hack routine that locked down device developers go in for in the modern world).

 

[NeoSlyde]

Guys ever heard of emunand on sd card?

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When I made the thread I was waiting for answers from people that know what I am talking about
Not some people trying to tell me what’s the point of having a switch that cannot play games instead of buying a tablet...

 

[TotalInsanity4]

I'll admit, maybe I'm only looking at this from my own POV. I have two Switch consoles, a pretty decent Android tablet, and also a Nvidia Shield TV. I guess if someone only had just the Switch device, they might want access to all the other things that Android provide. Where as I have a Android tablet and a Android phone. Having the Switch run Android would just turn it into another Android tablet. From my POV, there's nothing cool or exciting about that.

Imagine, though, being able to sell your Android tablet, and potentially even your Shield TV, and just have it all in one device. Better yet, imagine being able to have not bought them at all and have saved the money

 

[Rune]

Imagine, though, being able to sell your Android tablet, and potentially even your Shield TV, and just have it all in one device. Better yet, imagine being able to have not bought them at all and have saved the money

But on the other hand, imagine the wife using the device in the living room as a media center to watch a movie on Netflix, and at the same time you want to go into handheld mode and play some games. And then whilst you're in the middle of this fight/tug of war for control of this device, the phone rings and the notification pops up on the TV. It's the girlfriend the wife doesn't know about.

 

[TotalInsanity4]

But on the other hand, imagine the wife using the device in the living room as a media center to watch a movie on Netflix, and at the same time you want to go into handheld mode and play some games. And then whilst you're in the middle of this fight/tug of war for control of this device, the phone rings and the notification pops up on the TV. It's the girlfriend the wife doesn't know about.

You said you had two Switches though

Although yes, there definitely is something to be said about owning a Switch and the low-storage variant of the Shield TV

 

[Rune]

You said you had two Switches though

Although yes, there definitely is something to be said about owning a Switch and the low-storage variant of the Shield TV

Just a hypothetical scenario (like the wife and the girlfriend ). I mean, its cool that you have a single device that can do all those things, but I'm trying to think about how I'd use all those things. I'd like to be able to use a Nvidia Shield TV (I have the 500gb one) without it interfering with my Switch. And also be able to use or give my tablet to someone else while I carry on playing the Switch in handheld mode. I'm a bit of a "power user".
Besides, the tablet I use has a 1440p display. The Switch can't really replace that.

The 2nd Switch BTW was bought purely for homebrew (it was bought off eBay as just the tablet only but on 3.0).

 

[Kioku]

Imagine, though, being able to sell your Android tablet, and potentially even your Shield TV, and just have it all in one device. Better yet, imagine being able to have not bought them at all and have saved the money

It's not money saved if it goes to my alcohol addiction... I mean.. Shit...

 

[Skiiermike]

shame you dont know how android works.

not anymore. that was marshmallow days
the system partition alone is more than 4GB, not to mention the data partition. people here think that you can just install android like Windows

to port youre gonna need kernel source, device and vendor blobs

You can get Nougat with minimal gapps for 1 -2 GB.

Sent from my SM-N950W using Tapatalk

 

[tunip3]

this is very useless. dual booting on 32GB storage? android alone needs 15gb for OS, data and cache

Sorry no lol how can their be 8gb or even 4gb android phones

 

[Rune]

Sorry no lol how can their be 8gb or even 4gb android phones

I had a Moto G that used to come with 8gb storage and no SD card slot.

 

[Rune]

Yeah

I know, right?

 

[tech3475]

Sorry no lol how can their be 8gb or even 4gb android phones

Never heard of Android Go?

https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/go-edition/

 

[zeveroth]

Would be nice to have a secondary OS .
Now as for my Android OS 6 marshmallow goes, mine takes up around 8 GB of my space

Shame there's no micro-sd slot /s.

 

[tunip3]

Never heard of Android Go?

https://www.android.com/versions/oreo-8-0/go-edition/

Dude I know this shit he doesn't

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[tech3475]

Dude I know this shit he doesn't

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Sorry, didnt realise you were being sarcastic.

 

[nightking]

buys a switch to install android and not being able to play switch games..instead of buying a tablet for half the price...priceless

This is just plain stupid!

 

[tunip3]

Got a chuckle out of this thanks.

It's just plain stupid though but I supossu if you enjoy stupidity go ahead encourage the troll

 

[Deleted-442439]

this is very useless. dual booting on 32GB storage? android alone needs 15gb for OS, data and cache

BS, I do a lot of work with custom roms, most roms never exceed 2GB in size, and the whole OS can work with 4GB of internal storage, you will not have much room for extra apps, but if you increase that to 8GB for data and cache you will be fine + most apps can be installed on the SD card. There is no reason for Android dual boot via a HB menu would be a issue. We already have the drivers ( Pixel C tablet uses the Tegra X1 drivers) so you could run that stock rom with little modification. There is not a single custom rom out there that is 15GB.

Just an example:

-3GB partition for system
- 3 GB partition for data
- 2GB partition for cache

That gives you enough room for a comfortable use case, if you slap larger apps on the SD card including .obb for games.

 

[ScarletDreamz]

this is very useless. dual booting on 32GB storage? android alone needs 15gb for OS, data and cache

What kind of android uses 15gb? Cyanogen used 200mb, Lineage its around 170/180mb, not to mention, that not even Carries Bloated OS are 15gb.

An official Image of a Samsung Note3+ [4,5 ETC] its around 2/3gb as installer, and around 3.5 / 4gb once installed, due the bloat they included, a clean install its only 1gb/1.5gb.

The why its just simple, its because it can / its possible.
Take in consideration https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...-of-all-the-devices-that-can-somehow-run-doom.

Now, if you are going to use the card of "The device its old as fuck", well i haven't see a device with a system image of 15gb as OS used.

Also, you can get easily a Custom ROM, Lineage of the last builds, as you can see here,they are around 300mb. [Also take in consideration that this builds include the modem/radio, which might not be used on the switch]

Now, you can take in consideration X86, which is a 809mb as the last release, android 7.1 for PC, and its 495mb as a Build of Cyanogen for PC.

Using android as a Dual Boot, will grant you access to plenty of new areas, i must remember you that Dolphin its already running on Android, as well as Dreamcast and other good emulators, its like telling F0F why would you install Linux on a device that runs a Nintendo Os, the answer is, Why Wouldn't you?

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Someone is working on an android version for the switch that is supposed to be released on April 31st.