Hacking Android 10 Switchroot Build

[ZachyCatGames]

if you want you could ask on the discord.
It was mentioned for android 9 over a year ago.
Much time has past since then and this is a completely different build.
I Imagine at the time posted the switchroot team didnt expect to still be on the original Oreo build over 1 year later.
I wouldn’t overly stress too much either way.
I didn’t find pie building too difficult, but it is very time consuming requires an enormous amount of computer space, & multiple free SD cards, oh and obviously either linux or VM running on windows.

It's still strongly discouraged.
The issue is that many things are still broken and they don't want
1. a bunch of people who shouldn't even have it complaining that it's broken
2. people "testing" old builds and reporting issues that have already been fixed.
edit: 3. People who have no idea how to debug shit and have no experience with any of this

 

[Lumince]

Just make sure to keep all questions and suppoet related things here Once this becomes obsolete in a week or 2 the devs dont need people flooding them with "Why doesnt this work???" Or "this build is broken!"
Just because its out of date and its not meant to be public since it has issues. If you want android go install 8.1 lmao pie and Q arent thay better off than 8.1 really since deep sleep doesnt work half the time and the sleep of death only shows up in pie and Q

Out of respect for the devs I recommend deleting this so you dont cause cause in the future when these people cant upsate their builds and go ask why such and such issue is happening when it was fixed months prior.

 

[GCS]

Hello, I get an error when I click Android Flasher, it says that it couldn't find kernel, TWRP, DTB image.

 

[Lumince]

Hello, I get an error when I click Android Flasher, it says that it couldn't find kernel, TWRP, DTB image.

Make sure the switchroot/install folder actually has the boot.img, icosa.dtb, and twrp.img in it

 

[Nerdtendo]

does this build have mariko support?

 

[ZachyCatGames]

does this build have mariko support?

No.

 

[PiracyForTheMasses]

Is this version faster than the other one? I tried playing Genshin and it lagged like crazy, hope this one works better.

The tegra x1 is old outdated hardware from 5 years ago. It is under powered in every way. Genshin on tegra runs terribly, looks like complete garbage, lots of graphical issues. Needless to say, the Nintendo Switch version of Genshin will look and run terribly compared to mobile.

 

[Basketto]

It's still strongly discouraged.
The issue is that many things are still broken and they don't want
1. a bunch of people who shouldn't even have it complaining that it's broken
2. people "testing" old builds and reporting issues that have already been fixed.
edit: 3. People who have no idea how to debug shit and have no experience with any of this

Ya that is absolutely fair enough.
I'm honestly in two minds though at this point.
On the one hand when you provide something for others it is up to your decision how to distribute it & when(if at all).

At the same time, considering how long it has been since an official build, with incredibly little news, and the fact that excluding deep sleep and a few issues with the triggers, android pie had very few things that performed better in oreo(despite not being perfect).

Im not suggesting he goes against the developers, but even just requesting to upload a build and literally adding disclaimers
(Do not complain about this build or report errors, it is a known WIP), does not seem totally unreasonable.

I do understand where you are coming from though. Considering they have put in the time to distribute the groundwork at its very roots.

 

[ZachyCatGames]

Ya that is absolutely fair enough.
I'm honestly in two minds though at this point.
On the one hand when you provide something for others it is up to your decision how to distribute it & when(if at all).

At the same time, considering how long it has been since an official build, with incredibly little news, and the fact that excluding deep sleep and a few issues with the triggers, android pie had very few things that performed better in oreo(despite not being perfect).

Im not suggesting he goes against the developers, but even just requesting to upload a build and literally adding disclaimers
(Do not complain about this build or report errors, it is a known WIP), does not seem totally unreasonable.

I do understand where you are coming from though. Considering they have put in the time to distribute the groundwork at its very roots.

Eh. It has more issues than just deep sleep (and the trigger thing isn't actually a Switchroot issue, it's an issue in apps).
sleep, docking, and OpenGL don't work, there's also some smaller issues on the manifest gitlab.
It's not in a releasable state imo

 

[Lumince]

does this build have mariko support?

No

 

[mitts]

You know I did try but it wouldn't boot. Then again I did not wait long at all. I wanted it for overclocking but Android runs @1.78Ghz anyways. Feel free to try and let me know how it goes.

See. This right here is the reason it's not ready for public release yet. You're mixing up a number of stuff and you're even the one sharing in the first place.

Magisk works by following a specific procedure which is even pinned on Discord (I should know, I wrote it). But for reasons I'm not getting into right now, for Q it requires a couple extra hacks involving Android image repacks.

So Magisk works, it requires a hack for it to work, Magisk has absolutely nothing to do with overclocking, you're misinformed about it not booting too, and Q unreleased for a number of reasons including this one.

[Ranty grumpy]Is it even healthy for the community at large to generate extra noise when the signal hasn't been sufficiently understood?[/Ranty grumpy]

 

[GCS]

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[lulle2007200]

At the same time, considering how long it has been since an official build, with incredibly little news, and the fact that excluding deep sleep and a few issues with the triggers, android pie had very few things that performed better in oreo(despite not being perfect).

Thats not true. Oreo belongs into the category "barely works". Pie is (minus the bugs that arent fixed yet) better in almost every way possible. Also there are very good reasons that they haven't released it yet, otherwise they would have released it. To name one breaking issue: Can hard crash when entering standby mode. The Twitter might not have posted news for a while, but we are very active in the discord server. After all, everyone that works on it does so in their free time. I think it would be a good thing to atleast respect it, if they ask to not share builds (for good reason), instead of "releasing" their work yourself.

 

[mitts]

If I am not allowed to post it here for any reason mods let me know.

So, are you standing by your own words? May I point you to the very first sentence of the guide you based yourself on for providing this build.

Now, if you're actually this charitable to worry about people not having the resources to build on their own, and you're not at all baiting for pretence scene geek cred, why don't you choose an actual charity to be part of? Child's Play is reputable and goes nicely with the theme.

(Still grumpy. I really don't like when people blatantly break trust and cordiality then put a poker face and pretend they didn't know any better. And please don't play coy. Once again I point at the very first sentence of the guide. Which yeah, wasn't there before today, but was put there because of today.)

 

[Lumince]

Thats not true. Oreo belongs into the category "barely works". Pie is (minus the bugs that arent fixed yet) better in almost every way possible. Also there are very good reasons that they haven't released it yet, otherwise they would have released it. To name one breaking issue: Can hard crash when entering standby mode. The Twitter might not have posted news for a while, but we are very active in the discord server. After all, everyone that works on it does so in their free time. I think it would be a good thing to atleast respect it, if they ask to not share builds (for good reason), instead of "releasing" their work yourself.

and releasing it on here of all places.... He knew exactly what he was doing when he posted it here. Seems like its mostly for the attention and gratitude that would come with releasing something that is unfinished and easily built by the end user. Alls this will do is cause issues in the discord server... When people try this build either now or eventually later when its obsolete and have issues, they will run there for help for issues that have been fixed already or are in the process of being fixed. No one wants to be bugged by people that dont know wth they are using.

 

[JJO192]

and releasing it on here of all places.... He knew exactly what he was doing when he posted it here. Seems like its mostly for the attention and gratitude that would come with releasing something that is unfinished and easily built by the end user. Alls this will do is cause issues in the discord server... When people try this build either now or eventually later when its obsolete and have issues, they will run there for help for issues that have been fixed already or are in the process of being fixed. No one wants to be bugged by people that dont know wth they are using.

Not really guys. Not looking for any attention. I only put it up because it took 18 hours for me to compile, so I thought that that may have been the reason most people weren't using it. I posted it (not released) it because it's awesome. I suppose for me I understand that its not in a completed state but happy to preview. But I suppose that even though I do roam around here lot and see a lot of threads go in this direction, thought maybe people would just take it for what it is, a preview build.

Have taken it down, I did not mean to cause issue. But reading through it I can already see my posting it is causing other people to have to answer questions that they are not ready to. Apologies @ZachyCatGames. Awesome guide though.

 

[Basketto]

Eh. It has more issues than just deep sleep (and the trigger thing isn't actually a Switchroot issue, it's an issue in apps).
sleep, docking, and OpenGL don't work, there's also some smaller issues on the manifest gitlab.
It's not in a releasable state imo

was this pie or 10? I had docking working to some degree i think in the later pie.
The most annoying thing i found on Oreo was the slow system response at times even on fast sd cards.
The user interface speed improved significantly with pie.
But ya there were still issues.
Open Gl didnt work properly in oreo either if i recall.

 

[JJO192]

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[Basketto]

Thats not true. Oreo belongs into the category "barely works". Pie is (minus the bugs that arent fixed yet) better in almost every way possible. Also there are very good reasons that they haven't released it yet, otherwise they would have released it. To name one breaking issue: Can hard crash when entering standby mode. The Twitter might not have posted news for a while, but we are very active in the discord server. After all, everyone that works on it does so in their free time. I think it would be a good thing to atleast respect it, if they ask to not share builds (for good reason), instead of "releasing" their work yourself.

You said it yourself, minus a few bugs pie is almost better in every way possible(In my post i did mean pie was better, i meant “than not in” oreo”, apologies).
I never suggested disrepecting the developers.
Just requesting to upload a build with disclaimers.
Seems pretty logical thing to ask at least, specially considering how outdated oreo is.
If they say no, not a problem . I personally don’t see the harm. It has been so long since anything lineage related has been released at all officially, and could be forever until something else is.
If they say no, so be it.

 

[ZachyCatGames]

was this pie or 10? I had docking working to some degree i think in the later pie.
The most annoying thing i found on Oreo was the slow system response at times even on fast sd cards.
The user interface speed improved significantly with pie.
But ya there were still issues.
Open Gl didnt work properly in oreo either if i recall.

Docking broke in Q.
OpenGL generally worked in Oreo and Pie, but it's completely broken in Q afaik(fwiw last time I tried was a few days before it was publicly buildable, but I've been told it hasn't changed).
Q is just as fast as Pie was ;p