Questions tagged [android-x86]

The Android x86 project is a native port of Android for the x86 processor architecture (e.g. 32-bit PC processors). For questions about x86 in general, please use [x86-processors] instead.

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Android-x86 8.1: graphical glitches

I can install android-x86-8.1-rc1.iso, but when I boot it looks like this: What can i do to fix this? PS: I installed it directly to my Root-Server. Virtualization is activated and already works ...
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Android x86 on VirtualBox - Apps cannot access internet

I recently installed Android x86 through VirtualBox onto my PC. It runs mostly fine (except for some weirdness with the mouse, which isn't really an issue) but for the fact that apps cannot detect the ...
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Disable mouse acceleration on Android

I am using PrimeOS on my laptop. I have noticed that when I move a mouse slowly for about an inch, consider it travels some distance on screen line about 2 inches. But when I move the mouse rapidly ...
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How to close programs in the Android-x86 emulator?

This may seem like an odd question but I cannot resolve it. I am using the Android-x86 emulator in VirtualBox (https://www.android-x86.org/documentation/virtualbox.html). I open various apps like ...
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Getting VirtualBox ready with Android X86 and ARM without emulator

How is it possible to get VirtualBox ready with an Android-x86 ISO image which supports ARM v7 (armeabi-v7a)? Genymotion seems to do that, but as soon as I start the VirtualBoxfrom VirtualBox, it does ...
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Can't edit boot commands in VMware for Android x86

I'm attempting to install Android x86 from https://www.fosshub.com/Android-x86.html following the steps on https://hackmd.io/@StanS/Android-x86, and after getting to the point where I can reboot and ...
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How can I set my android x86 UEFI installation resolution to 1920*1080 in my VM?

How can I set my android x86 resolution to 1920*1080 in my VM? I tried this:Can't change screen resolution of Android-x86_64 installed in UEFI mode but it didn't work. BTW I have a UEFI ...
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Stuck on logo during Android-x86 boot on PC using removable disk

I'm trying to install Android-x86 on the POS desktop using USB. I am done with the installation, but after rebooting it stuck on the logo.
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Why Android x86 9.0 boots in command line and not in GUI?

i just installed android x86 9.0c and i don't know why it doesn't boot on GUI mode and it boots only in commandline then after some seconds i can only see just a dash appearing and disappearing. I ...
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Stuck on logo during Android-x86 boot

I'm trying to install Android-x86 on USB for my new HP laptop. I have followed the instructions on Android-x86.org. My issue is that after the initial install, it never boots again, it just gets stuck ...
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Android x86: remounting /system : /dev/loop1 is read only

I try to remove google apps from android x86 dowloaded from here and I managed to make it run over virtualbox, afterwards in installed it to a virtual hard disk. But I want on it to remove any ...
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Android X86 VM on Hyper-V has no network connection

I followed these instructions to install an Android X86 virtual machine on top of Hyper-V inside windows OS. However, now the VM has no internet connectivity. Here are my network settings: can you be ...
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AOSP x86 adb secure

I'm trying to build a custom ROM with secure access via adb. My goal is to secure the android image so that it can only be accessed with a certain adb RSA key pair. When I build AOSP with 'user' ...
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How to build Android-x86 with VirtualBox guest OS integrations

Androidx86.org says that to use 3D acceleration for my Android-x86 virtual machine, I have to install Linux guest additions. I would like to know how to do that. I am using a Ubuntu 20.10 (64-bit) ...
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Android O VirtualBox can't set up device - Google Play services keep crashing

I have an Android O Virtualbox and when I go to set it up, it asks if I want to set it up with data from my old phone or start new. I've tried both options, and it says that the Google Play Services ...
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Make mounted cifs/smb share visible for normal user in Android-x86

With ES Explorer not to be trusted any more, I needed another solution for easy access to my SMB/CIFS network shares. Mounting a SMB/CIFS network share in Android-x86 (version 9 R2) turned out to be a ...
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Android-x86 not streaming videos in apps

I have installed Android for PC from android-x86.org. The Android version is Pie. It is working fine, but videos are not being streamed. YouTube is working fine when opened in Chrome but no app is ...
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How to access the full file system in Android 7 and higher?

I am running Android Nougat x86.But in Android Nougat, one of the adverse changes is the inability to even view the files. They are invisible, apparently even to root app. I already tried root ...
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How to set screen resolution and density in /system/build.prop?

I want to automate the creation of virtual android devices (using Android x86 and QEMU/KVM on Linux), the device settings includes screen resolution and density. The common way to set these settings ...
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Android-x86 7.1 Unidentified video number - HDMI from laptop to TV

I'm trying to set up a nice little Android 7.1 system to attach to my TV using an HDMI cable, though I'm having a bit of trouble with the resolution. I'm getting a black border around the screen. ...
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How to create system users on Androidx86?

I am trying to create system users on an Android x86 virtual machine, but the binaries adduser and addgroup don't exist (neither useradd or usermod). I installed BusyBox to get access to these ...
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Chrome crash/close immediately on Android 4.0.4, Android x86

Chrome version 42.0.2311 running on Android 4.0.4 on Asus Eee PC 701 x86. Browser crashes and closes immediately. I have already uninstalled/reinstalled it. Cleared the data, force stop, reboot. ...
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How to multiboot 2 Android-X86 distro? (for instance PrimeOS and Bliss OS)

How to multiboot 2 Android-X86 distro? I tried to make a dual boot with Bliss OS and PrimeOS. I installed Bliss OS to its dedicated partition on my hard drive. It was perfectly booting and working....
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How to use KVM alone without Android Studio AVD to emulate official x86_64 android images

I want to use official (google compiled) x86_64 android images. I know that I can use AVD manager from Android Studio to easely run and manage them. However, I use virt-manager with KVM, so I can't ...
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How do I connect to PPPoE-based broadband on Android-x86 using ethernet?

I have installed Phoenix OS on my laptop. I don't connect to the internet with a WiFi router, but with a direct Ethernet port. I found How to connect Android phone to a Wifi network using PPPoE? but ...
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How can I run touch screen games in non-touch Android PC?

I have installed Android ×86 KitKat a few days ago on my Lenovo G580 model-20157 PC. Everything works just fine, but when I installed a game, I could not play it since it was meant for touch screen ...
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Android 5.0.2 x86, not working with wifi

I am trying to install the PC version of Android. I've found many links, but none of these versions work with my wifi. My wifi card is a Qualcomm Atheros AR9485WB-EG (I have an Asus PC). How do I get ...
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How to resize Android screen in VirtualBox with UEFI?

I have 64-bit Android 7.1.2, obtained from android-x86_64-7.1-rc1.iso. I installed it on VirtualBox (latest version, 5.1.2.8) with UEFI mode. (The host is 64-bit Linux Lubuntu 16.04.) The ...
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"Error: failed to write, posix_fallocate failed: ENOTSUP (Operation not supported on transport endpoint)" when installing APK on Android-x86

So, I've been wanting to play PUBG for a while now, but my PC is pretty awful, then Mobile came out, and TGB didn't work properly. I've been trying out several different Android OS, but all of them ...
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How to project screen in android x86

I have installed Windows as well as android x86 on my laptop. Everything was just fine until the LCD of my Laptop was not broken. Now with broken screen I use Specific key combination to project my ...
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kernel panic message during installing android-x86 in virtualbox

I was trying to install android-x86 inside my virtualbox last evening. But I wasn't able to make it right. I'm getting a 'kernel panic' message. How do I overcome it? The following is a snapshot of ...
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Android x86 isn't working in virtualbox

I have installed android x86 in virtualbox. But its not booting now. After installation it pop up a message "Android x86 installed successfully". Then I power off the vm and remove the iso ...
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Why can't Wi-Fi be enabled in Android-x86 inside VirtualBox?

If I enter the Wi-Fi settings of Android-x86 (currently v8.1-r1) inside VirtualBox (currently v6.0.4) and turn it on, why does it just immediately get turned off? Some Android apps try to find ...
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Android x86 change Keyboard layout

How can I change the keyboard layout used by Android from the command line? I installed the Android-x86 release from https://www.android-x86.org/ in a VirtualBox VM. Unfortunately, the VM only boots ...
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Ethernet on Android x86

I have recently installed Android x86 on my computer and I am not able to access my internet via Ethernet, I only have Ethernet I don't have any Wi-Fi Please help me
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android x86 6.0 doesn't support mouse integration?

A while back, I made a virtual machine on VirtualBox for Android 4.4. I had a little trouble getting mouse integration to work for it, but I figured it out. More recently, I tried Android 6.0 ...
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Is it possible to install an app compiled for ARM on an x86 emulator image

I tried to install an apk from online on a virtual device, but it wouldn't install due to INSTALL_FAILED_NO_MATCHING_ABIS. I'm able to install it on an ARM image, but ARM images are super slow on my ...
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Android-x86 stuck at black screen and a static underscore _

I have a very similar problem to e.g. here. I installed Android-x86 on a partition on my Acer Aspire Switch 10E next to Windows. I added Grub as trusted boot option in the UEFI and let Secure Boot ...
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How to make a bootable ISO from Android CLI? (via Termux or Proot-distro)

I know there are some .APK apps that do it, but none seems to work for me (but if you have any suggestions, I'll try). I have LineageOS on my PC. So, my question is How to make a bootable stick with ...
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How to create a bootable stick with a Linux distro?

I used to have Debian and Android on my laptop then somehow my Debian get damaged, and now I have Android-x86 only on my laptop. When I insert my USB stick (which contain ISOs of a few Linux distros), ...
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Android 9.0 x86 apps keep crashing - no native bridge

So I'm not an expert in Android or in OSes in general although I can make my way around a Linux environment, just to add as a pretext. I recently installed Android 9 x86 on a Linx 1010b tablet (Intel ...
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How to fix android-x86 install on VMware?

Using android-x86-4.4-r3.iso, I created a virtual machine in VMware Workstation 11.0.0 on Mac OS X. I just clicked Create virtual machine, chose my Android ISO, and just hit Next repeatedly until ...
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Mobile legends not compatible after unity fix

I want to play mlbb on pc, but it gets black after logo phase. Because its unity game I patched unity fix. Others game like granny now works but mlbb vanishes if installed. Its in data/app. If I ...
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How can i mount all partitions of harddisk in android x86?

i installed android-x86-4.2-20130228 as a live but does'nt read my partition of my hardisk i tried with Paragon UFSD Root Mounter but not work good in 4.2.2 and es explorateur does'nt read any ...
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How to manually transfer entire Whatsapp installation to another device (the hard way)

I'm using Whatsapp from a virtual machine since I lost my phone, and now need to transfer it to a new VM. The easy way would be to use the backup feature native to Whatsapp, but it is disabled since ...
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Can i run GTA Vice City on Android-x86 PC?

Recently i have installed Android-x86 on my Lenovo laptop and i want to install and play GTA vice city there. My OS in android 4.4.2. 4 GB ram and 3 GB swap memory 2.4 Ghz quadcore intel i3 processor ...
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Encrypt Tablet function in Android x86. Android 6 in Oracle Virtual Box

I am currently running Android x86 version 6 in Oracle Virtual Box. My intention is to run some software my company creates and to test it without the need for a physical tablet. The software i ...
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Install driver in android os [duplicate]

I recently bought a wifi adapter(Astrum NA150) which is not supported by linux out-of-the-box. But in the cd there are drivers for win,mac,linux and android. They also have makefile. But as i know ...
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Mobile Legends not working in android x86

I I'm trying to play mlbb on my laptop with android x86. But after the first extradition the screen goes black after the logo and it says keeps stop working. I enabled native bridge and tried other is ...
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Which IMG file from ISO to patch with Magisk to use on Android-x86 9 Pie?

Setup: Oracle VirtualBox VM with installed Android-x86 9 (Pie) Rooted out of the box (with SuperSU, guessing from the root access popup, but there's no manager app) .vmdk VM drive android-x86_64-9....