@@i_got_worms7106 I said the same yesterday but my comment didn't come through. I 100% agree, and not only that but think that if you want to develop games or other kind of apps for Raspberry you need to use complex tools or build your own on top of available frameworks. But with an official Android build you could even use Unity, Godot, GameMaker or maybe even an optimized UE4 game, and export to Android with a click of a button. And there are dozens of other development environments that would work instantly. I find it weird because Eben Upton has said multiple time that he expected to have many native games for Raspberry but instead is mainly used for emulators and ports of old games. With Android this would definitely change. I've been telling the Godot community that we need an export for Raspberry and other SBCs but if we had an official Android this work wouldn't be needed. Raspbian and other distros are nice and all but having to compile your code for ARM Linux with GLES2 and all the debugging and so on is a PITA. Even if technically they'd not be "native" Raspberry games it'd be much better that what we have now.
Hey ETA Prime, I have been following your videos for a few years now and just wanted to let you know that whenever i come across a problem that i cant solve, your the only one who seems to have the answers. Thanks again for your helpful videos!!!
OK - apologies if I am repeating or maybe other viewers may have said the following already. . 1) You can still tweak the config.txt file (if you open the SD card with a linux distribution like Ubuntu and a) Can modify the config.txt and add the 3 famous lines that allow for overclocking (I take no responsibility if you break your board) b) Expand the partition that contains your data again using Ubuntu with Gparted (I did it twice with no-data-loss)- Again I don't take responsibilities if you lose your data. 2) I have downloaded the kernel adjutor app that allows you to have the CPU speed match that maximum that you set in the config.txt at boot time and also change the kernel to "performance" mode. This made the experience much smoother (for me). I also upgraded the firmware of PI4 to the latest (I'm still not sure if that is relevant when running Android, but as the config.txt is still there .. I would assume it is relevant as the firmware is likely CMOS flashed to the RPI4 (maybe?)
Great tutorial but I have some questions: 1. In the official raspberry pi website, they said that Raspberry Pi 4 Model B used 64bit core, does that mean we have to use Opengapps arm64 build? 2. Can we install Magisk on this things? ( It have TWRP so I'm thinking that it might possible to do that) Thank you for answering those questions T
A tad slow, but great to have one more option for the os. Thanks. Also I did not get the warning for Google Play, worked without the device ID step, hmm pretty interesting
Thank you very much. It is ok. But I have a question. I use a sd card 32 gb. After installing Lineage OS 16, the remain capacity of internal storage is only 4 gb. Can I expand the internal storage by using unallocated space?
This is because you are flashing an image of another SD card onto your card. The file system is from the original card, which is unable to be expanded to fit your SD card volume unfortunately.
MiniTool Partition Wizard on Windows; GParted on Linux-once lineage OS is setup, I would think either of these would do the trick...(?). I'd make a backup before resizing partitions though.
Awesome video! I was able to get everything working, but boy was it sloooooow. I tried running the official Sonic the Hedgehog 1 app from Sega and it was maybe 2 fps. I also tried Periscope... it was horrible, but it felt like dial-up speed video. Also, I'm not sure how to get the sound out of the 3.5 jack rather then HDMI. I was hoping to stream from my pi 4 using Android, but I guess I'll have to find another route to that. But seriously great video. It was super straight forward and everything worked!
fyi as of 3/9/2020. I've installed everything as said but you no longer need to use deviceid after rebooting i went right into playstore and works perfectly, but remember to overclock your pi using eta primes video. and if you don't get video make sure you're plugged into hdmi 0 next to the power plug. and using a very good cpu cooling system, as always overclock as your own risk. thanks for watching..
Awesome video! I was wondering once android is installed how quickly does it boot up. I have a use for this and have been trying to figure out from power to fully booted, how long that would take.
Also, for the record, your posts are usually spot on and extremely informative and I am in no way blaming or holding you responsible. Any assistance you can provide would be greatly appreciated. I need this particular build because I'm trying an experiment. I loved that piece you did on the Car Dongle and I ordered one but, again... late to the game, it won't ship until the end of July. Sooo, I thought I'd make an Android 9 build on my Pi 4B and see if I can make it work in my 2020 Taco until the real deal gets here. I tried the AndroidTV 11 build and alas it didn't work, so I thought I'd drop ten and punt.
Love your videos, great info and easy to follow, most of the time. I am missing something on this one. This is my first time using terminal on android and so when you said you will just remember the decision, I got lost because I have no idea what you did to get the dialogue box to open, I would love to know how you did that. Thanks
hey eta prime, i love your videos man, they get me so happy. I dont play any retro games but you have all the most fun and creative ideas for your videos. I just finished doing this project on my raspberry pi but I was wondering if flashing custom roms would mess it up. If you end up reading this would you do a video on this idea? i want to flash corvus os rom. I have been getting a really bad stuttering as well any tips? thanks again man your video are helping out so much my mental health.
The install keeps hanging on the reboot after: rpi4-recovery.sh boot Reboot Reflashed twice and the same thing happens, the ball on the line animation plays. Left it alone for 1/2 hour each time.
this is great. now if you could use it to cast movies to the tv/chromcast/etc, and attach a large hard drive. this could be the ultimate offline media server.
please help me after all steps on recovery , command ‘´rpi2-recovery.sh boot´´ not work i must make for root apps and abd but this option was not here ! after reinstalling i install roblox with aptoid but roblox work just with google play services ! i cannot install linux its just multicolored light how i can install a system other but with roblox or virtualbox ?
I would recommend using a USB instead of using an SD card because the USB runs way more faster than an SD card does and you can get some pretty good USB that run really good
I really wanted to try this out but personally I've given up getting Android to run, I've tried both 9/10 on multiple SD cards and I get no monitor output at all, reinstall raspbian/manjaro/ubuntu, works like a charm
Make sure you have a 1080p monitor, try and bypass EDID in config.txt file, make sure your sd card is formatted to fat before flashing it. These things worked for me
Protip: if you don't wanna install google apps (i personally don't like them) install F-Droid (open source package manager like cydia for android) and install Aurora Store (Open source play store alternative that downloads apps from google services anonymously)
Hello, I was able to follow your instructions and all went well, Thank You.. I have a question related to overclocking the CPU and GPU, can it be done with Android? I guess my question is, is the overclocking that you explain in the other video also applicable to this? - I guess this would depend on where the settings for overclocking are stored. - Normally in the Androids phones it's at the Kernel parameter level. Thank You
@L.Springer Well, I did the change myself on the same \boot\config.txt file that you use with noobs. Downloaded and installed a kernel adjuter (something like that) to verify that the overclocking worked and it seems to work. The max CPU though that I could achieve in other distributions seems to be limited to 2000Mhz in this. Anything over that and it won't boot. - I also seems, that the "caffeine" boost also works (which I really don't understand how/why) as well. In overall though the performance doesn't seem good enough (at least for me).
Hello, I followed your work instruction to the T but not able to get out of recovery mode after installing the Gapps. When in terminal, after typing in “rpi4-recovery.sh boot”, I get an error “rpi4-recovery.sh: not found”. I did remember to click “data”, “system” and “boot” before entering into the terminal. Any idea what could cause this issue?
Able to follow this on my rpi3 right up until the install of gapps, it always fails, give an error 64 then says no changes were made. Anybody plz help.
When I insert my SD card into my Pi and plug it in, it just flashes a thin white line on screen about every 2-3 seconds. I've tried rewriting the card 4 times with no effect, tried a different card, didn't work. I got my card with Retropie on it and that worked fine, but then tried android again and was met with the flashing again. Any solution?
Hi, I need your help. Web camera is not working with zoom, ms teams, google duo... Neither picture not audio are being broadcast. Unable to understand.. what is issue.
What are the pros of an raspberry pi 4 running android vs a android box, like the mi box s 4k. They are similarly priced and the mi box sounds like a lot less work with the benefit of real tv android.
Hi man I'm a big fan and I have questions, I would really appreciate if you answer because you are the right person. so next school year I NEED a laptop for school and I really love coding so is the raspberry pi 4 4gb worth it making a laptop with? because my dad won't buy it because he thinks it's not worth the price. I have a 3d printer and I can 3d print the casing and I have a battery already. so is it worth it making a laptop and using it as a student with windows 10 or kali Linux 🤔 I only have 4 months left for next year and I really need a laptop and 200$ is actually a lot for me so please answer me so I can buy it and build it and have time to fix it if it has issues btw I subscribed 😀
well...idk what is baldurs gate but I know that even rpi 4 4gb version is not strong enough to run Graveyard keeper (and i didnt even said that both of those games would not run on arm processor...there is needed 64x86x or Amd core)
The latest version is not overclocked by default. You need to edit the config.txt file like you do for any other os. After I did that it works way better. Aida 64 says it is maxed out at 2294 MHz now....lol. Make sure you have active cooling!
hey idk if you ever respond to people on here however there are many people who are having problems with downloading this for their pi including I. I do understand this video is way out of date but may you do a trouble shooting video please would love to install this to my pi. thank you for your time.
I find the same error occurring even though there is space available in the partitions. Did you manage to resolve this? Tried other youtube vids and can't find the solution
i dont find the root option,not the terminal or other stuff,so many have changed to be honest.i tried multiple ways to install the play store,but nothing seems to be working anymore...or it cannot be found,tried already 5,6 methods and each was missing someting......
I use raspberry pie immager, and it doesn’t detect the operating system when I put it in the pie. I’ve tried both balina and raspberry pie immager, and it won’t boot android. What did I do wrong?
I haven't read all the comments listed but, and I understand I'm late to the game, the latest build of GAPPS doesn't fit in the partition and fails time and time again, even if I try to load it from a USB flash drive. I've tried to use GPARTED to increase the size of the partition but it won't allow me to make any modifications to the existing partitions in that build. I even went as far as to try to find the exact version of GAPPS you described in your video but alas too much time has passed and it no longer exists, not even in archives. Suggestions?
I have a Raspberry pi4. I installed the whole thing but when I connect It di the 10 inch screen I only see the rainbow screen. If I connect It to a PC screen It works fine. What should I do?
I've just purchased my 1st raspberry pi 4 and followed your instruction but, since there's a newer Adroid version I went for 11 and once inserted the sd card and pressed the power button it seems to load that colorful screen the same as it did for you and that Android loading animation but, then after 1 sec it just turned the screen off and did nothing, no signal on the screen. any idea? is it the Android version I am using? can raspberry pi 4 run Android 11? I have the 4gb version. Thanks
Well done on the video. Really informative. Can you tell me how you got the HDMI audio to work. Mine is not working at all, yet it plays on the headphone plug
Hello, I have a question, I have a 32 GB sd card, however in the android it seems to me that I only have 8 GB available in total, I check on my pc in the partition manager and I get that I have like 20 GB without assigning I try give it a format and I get invalid this is normal?
Hi, after wathing the tutorial I decided I'd give it a go, but here's the problem. My Pi don't wanna boot at all. it's just dark screen. The lights on Pi are blinking like it's doing something. I have a 4GB version and I'm using a SanDisc microSD, so the card isn't a problem. Thoughts?
I don't know if you're up to answer questions, but do you think this could run Minecraft? I have the mobile version and a friend of mine would like to play it but he's got nothing to play it on, so I was thinking maybe I hook him up with a raspberry pi and let him use my account to play.
Mine is restarting in a loop after lineage animation. I have pi 4 8gb. It reaches the screen where it tries to find nexus player remote over bluetooth. Either I am having issues with bluetooth or the display resolution. Could you please help me. I have tried konstakang's 16, 17.1 images, for both android tv and android.
@@codyyoung1122 now mine was solved when disabled wifi in config file. Its some wifi ssid which is causing this. Although this is resolved by konstakang in higher version.
Same but Play wouldn't work. Had issues if I connected to network during setup; would not log in to Google. Skipped network set up, got to the home screen, went to Settings > Accounts and added Google account there. Was going to add the GSF code to g.co/AndroidDeviceRegistration that I saw in the video but didn't have to.
my raspberry is 8 gb version but still, it's lagging very much... I have it hooked up to my Samsung tv...the scaling is also wrong...cant figure out how to scale the display
Does anyone know if this would allow me to install and use Chrome Remote Desktop? I've exhausted the options of Chrome OS And Linux as it doesn't function on those operating systems. I feel like Android/Lineage OS would be my last option here.
I followed step by step and it stays with the rainbow screen, any ideas what this could be? It's the first time i use my pi4 and my 32gb micro SD has nothing else but what this tutorial says
I have been working on this for a while and can't come up with a solution. Google play says that the device is not certified. However, when I go to register it, it says that the number is already in use...It also let me download some apps with it uncertified, but restarts the tablet every time I try to use them. I assume this is because it is not certified. Why is this happening and how can I fix it?
Hey good folks i have rpi4 8 gb i have tried for at couple of days to install opengaps on 16 gb and 32 sdcard dropped the gapps in root af rpi go to recovery and try to install gaps but every time i been told (fail70) that i have insuff memory ,and used gparted to use all partition with no luck can somebody help me to tell what i am doing wrong please
Great vid. Wondering if you had success getting any sound out of this config via the 1/8" jack on the Pi? I know you can tell a pi explicitly which device to output sound to but not sure if can be specified via Lineage/Android.
I dot get anything after the rainbow screen, just a black screen, I wasn't able to get 16 to install, 17 worked, but GAPPS keeps failing on installation.
When i first initialize i was on the Android Menu for configuration, and suddenly it open the TWRP, and i cant get back to de Android menu it alway boot on TWRP, i tried to format the SDcard and reinstalling the Linage OS and it didnt work
