Android-x86

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Release Note 7.1-r5

2021/02/14

The Android-x86 project is glad to announce the release of 7.1-r5, the fifth stable release for Android-x86 7.1 (nougat-x86). The prebuilt images are available in the following sites as usual:

Key Features

The 7.1-r5 is mainly a bugfixes release of 7.1-r4. It based on Android 7.1.2 Nougat MR2 security updates (android-7.1.2_r39). In particular, the bugs are fixed:

Unable to download native bridge libraries.
Camera app hidden on devices with only one camera.

We encourage users of 7.1-r4 or older release upgrade to this release.

Released Files

This release contains these files. Except the images built with kernel 4.9 as before (the first four files), we also provide experimental images built with kernel 4.19 (the last two files). If you have newer devices not supported by kernel 4.9, you may try the kernel 4.19 version. Most modern devices should be able to run the 64-bit ISO. For older devices with legacy BIOS, try the 32-bit ISO.

64-bit ISO: android-x86_64-7.1-r5.iso
sha1sum: 1e65cb2e37b415576939398baf4c8a92330fbb24
32-bit ISO: android-x86-7.1-r5.iso
sha1sum: 78b74d3ce94794482970f74bc2323b209b38de0c
64-bit rpm: android-x86-7.1-r5.x86_64.rpm
sha1sum: ed984f235271bb78af2ff5d7a0b6d8f1f89fadd2
32-bit rpm: android-x86-7.1-r5.i686.rpm
sha1sum: f0e19d24d10bd05b55bab08f76aa233fe265453c
64-bit ISO with kernel 4.19: android-x86_64-7.1-r5-k419.iso
sha1sum: c87a43693439e12bfb64bccb570eb27d1dd7814f
Recommended for newer devices
32-bit ISO with kernel 4.19: android-x86-7.1-r5-k419.iso
sha1sum: 983397265660248607c54b4be5c74c737eaa6eb5
Recommended for newer devices

To use an ISO file, Linux users could just dump it into a usb drive to create a bootable usb stick like :

dd if=android-x86_64-7.1-r5.iso of=/dev/sdX

where /dev/sdX is the device name of your usb drive.

Windows's users can use the tool Win32 Disk Imager to create a bootable usb stick.

In doubt, try the 32-bit files for legacy BIOS devices and 64-bit files for UEFI devices. Please read this page about how to install it to the device.

Except the traditional ISO files, we also package android-x86 files into a Linux package rpm. It allows Linux users to easily install the release into an existing Linux device with a standalone ext4 root partition. On an rpm based device (Fedora/Red Hat/CentOS/SUSE...), just install it like a normal rpm package:

sudo rpm -Uvh android-x86-7.1-r5.x86_64.rpm

This will update your older installation like 6.0-r3 or 7.1-r4 if you have.

On a deb based device (Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...), please use the alien tool to install it:

        sudo apt install alien

        sudo alien -ci android-x86-7.1-r5.x86_64.rpm

All files will be installed to the /android-7.1-r5/ subdirectory and boot entries will be added to grub2 menu. Reboot and choose android-x86 item from the menu to boot Android-x86. Alternatively, you can launch Android-x86 in a QEMU virtual machine by the installed qemu-android script:

sudo qemu-android

Note Android-x86 running in QEMU and the real machine (after rebooting) share the same data sub-folder.

To uninstall it :

sudo rpm -e android-x86

or (on Debian/Ubuntu/LinuxMint/...)

sudo apt-get remove android-x86

Known Issues

Google Play Service may crash sometimes on the 32-bit image.
Suspend and resume doesn't work on some devices.

Source code

The source code is available in the main git server.

        repo init -u git://git.osdn.net/gitroot/android-x86/manifest -b android-x86-7.1-r5

        repo sync --no-tags --no-clone-bundle

Read this page for how to compile source code.

To build 7.1-r5 with kernel 4.19, sync the source tree as above commands, and add KERNEL_DIR=kernel-4.19 to the build command like:

        source build/envsetup.sh; lunch android_x86_64-userdebug

        m -j4 iso_img KERNEL_DIR=kernel-4.19