Any Android OS for Radxa X4?

#1

I tried KUbuntu in it and it was great. I was amazed on how smooth it ran without any problems! I want to try Android now and play PUBG-like-games. Yeeah I know I could just use Waydroid emulator but I think It will lag soo much since the 8GB of ram is used by both KUbuntu and android. I also tried Prime OS Android 11 and 7 but none of them boots up. It shows the first boot screen which asks for live mode or installation mode, then after choosing any of it, just blank screen shows. Nothing changes after that. I have waited about 1 hour to see if it is working without showing UI but naah…

Soo, have you tried any way to install android? I have heard of Bliss OS but I am afraid it would be overkill for that tiny X4.

EDIT

I tried Android x86 but the results are the same.
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Ok then I tried BlissOS v14 but the results are also the same.

#2

You can try this version, it is work.
Bliss-Zenith-v16.9.6-x86_64-OFFICIAL-foss-20240715

#3

Thanks for the recommendation. This version showed the installation page while the others didnt even worked! But I failed to install it. It requires EFI System Partition (ESP). I tried formatting the SSD in EFI system through its cfdisk module or something. But when I return to the setup page again it shows it as vfat file system. So when I run the installation process it stop at middle and tell that it is not ESP and restart the installation prompts!

#4

Bliss installer will guide you to format disk, no need other tools.

#5

Noo it is not third party tools. It is in the installer page. I went to create/merge partitions and there it asked for whether to use cgdisk ot cfdisk. I choose cfdisk and then I deleted previus partitions and recreated them with EFI partion type. Then it went back to main installer page and I choose the partition…

#6

You can refer bliss-os docs below, we have verified that it can be installed on x4

#7

Okk… I will look into it

#8

Sooo… I was a bit of a dummy. I forgot to create two partitions at the start—one for EFI (512 MB) and another for the BlissOS installation. I just created the BlissOS partition and selected it for both prompts during the installation (i.e., for both the EFI and OS partitions).

Anyway, after a few days of struggling and failed attempts, I finally managed to get it installed!

One thing that really threw me off was the boot menu. The installed OS menu looks almost identical—like 95%—to the bootable USB installation menu. So even after a successful install, I was confused and thought I had booted from the USB again.

But today, I finally got it up and running and used it for a while.
Thanks again for your help—especially for providing the exact version of BlissOS I needed!

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