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Hacking Switchroot Android 10 released

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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.
 
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:bow:, and deep sleep work.. a lot easier to install too, compared to Oreo.
 
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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.
 
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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?
 
If I already have an older Android 10 partition, this will just wipe the Android partition but not format my entire SD-card right?
 
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.
 
Rahkeesh said:
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.
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It could read the partition itself. hope there will be an update for that.
 
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).


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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.
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According to bylaws on the xda thread, it's only accessible with root, at /mnt/vendor/factory
 
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hippy dave said:
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
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bummer. But magisk works for that, so actually rooting it isn't a problem... unless you have a personal problem with it.
 
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urherenow said:
bummer. But magisk works for that, so actually rooting it isn't a problem... unless you have a personal problem with it.
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I always root on principle :rofl:
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.
 
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.
 
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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.
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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/
 
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.
 
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