Raspberry Pi 3


This page provides a device-specific tutorial for installing RTAndroid on the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B.

Single-board computing devices provide low-cost easy-to-use hardware:

  • ARM Cortex-A53, 4 x 1.2 GHz
  • 1 Gbyte LPDDR2 RAM
  • Ethernet + Wireless
  • 40-pin GPIO header

Downloads


Type Images for "rpi3" Uploaded Size Downloads
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170404 2017-04-04 08:25:21 282.67 MB 15304
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170331 2017-03-31 02:13:08 282.66 MB 1193
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170315-windows 2017-03-15 22:15:09 300.11 MB 6493
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170315 2017-03-15 18:08:00 282.66 MB 2308
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170310 2017-03-10 15:32:06 282.65 MB 1165
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170309 2017-03-09 12:32:47 282.64 MB 80
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170307 2017-03-07 13:25:41 282.4 MB 49
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170305 2017-03-05 08:05:07 282.4 MB 25
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170303 2017-03-03 08:08:07 282.4 MB 16
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170217 2017-02-17 07:48:01 282.38 MB 42
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170208 2017-02-08 04:44:35 282.34 MB 14
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170122 2017-01-22 05:17:12 302.47 MB 85
rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20161224 2016-12-24 05:47:25 302.45 MB 122
rtandroid-n-20161014 2016-10-14 02:23:44 221.85 MB 290

 

Flashing RTAndroid


This section describes how to flash RTAndroid. Please use a Linux destribution for the installation process. Windows users should use a Live-CD or VirtualBox.
Once you have downloaded the package, it can be flashed as follows.

  1. Make sure you have a micro SD card with UHS speed class of 4 or higher. Slow memory cards will slow down the system significantly.
  2. Unpack the downloaded zip package.
  3. unzip rtandroid-[VERSION]-[DATE]-rpi3.zip -d .
  4. Edit the file "boot/config.txt" for desired resolution. You can find more information here or here.
  5. Insert the memory card into your computer. All data on this card will be lost.
  6. Execute the install script from the downloaded package:
    • Find the device name where the card is mounted (example: /dev/sdc)
    • sudo fdisk -l
    • Use the "-p" flag to partition your card.
    • Use the "-f" flag to format your card.
    • ./install.sh -p -f /dev/sdc
    • Wait for the script to terminate. If everything went fine, put the memory card into the raspberry pi and power it on.
  7. Execute the gapps script from the downloaded package, if desired.

Depending on the memory card the first system boot can take up to 15 minutes until RTAndroid will be fully functional. Feel free to use the comment section below or the RPi discussion group for feedback and further questions.

Frequently Asked Questions


  • Audio Jack
  • HDMI Audio
  • Ethernet
  • WIFI
  • Bluetooth
  • Video playback
  • Music application
  • Gallery application
No, we dropped the support for Raspberry Pi 2 because of the bad performance.
Check whether the video configuration script supports your device:
  • Execute in the console: "./video.sh -a"
Try following modifications in your "system/build.prop" file.
  • Find out the supported resolution of your screen
  • Change this line: "debug.drm.mode.force=1280x800"
Try following modifications in your "boot/config.txt" file.
  • Change the default hdmi drive / group / mode
  • Increase the HDMI boost level (max is 7)
  • Add "hdmi_ignore_edid=0xa5000080" option
More information can be found here.
We are currently working on a GPIO API for Android, which will make it easy to work with GPIO directly in Android application. For now, you can use GPIO the usual (Linux) way via the adb shell. Here is also a good tutorial for Accessing the Raspberry Pis GPIO.
We are still working on a proper API for UART. But starting with the build from 20170315 you can use UART in a common Linux way. See our sample application.
Common ADB setup using USB is not supported. But ADB over network is enabled by default. Just use "adb connect [IP]" on your host machine.
No, packaging Google Play Services by default is not allowed. But we include an additional script "gapps.sh", which can be used to install OpenGApps.
RTAndroid uses the HDMI audio by default. If you need the 3.5mm audio jack instead, please add the following line to the "boot/config.txt" file:
  • hdmi_ignore_edid_audio=1

  • Silviu

    Hi. I have installed your latest image to my rasp pi 3 B. Quite impressive so far. After about 10-12 minutes for initial booting the device is loading the OS very quick. I could install Aptoide in order to download and install other app.
    However, my goal was to put a hikvision client software onto my Raspberry Pi to be able to watch on my TV set the NVR with my ip cameras. For no reason, the ivms4500HD could not start. Gives a message “the app stopped” and there seems no way to make it run.
    Do you have an ideea about how can I make that app running ?

    Thank you
    Silviu C.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi Silviu. I’m glad the system in general is working fine. The whole distribution is quite new and there are still a lot of work in progress.
    Unfortunately, I’m not familiar with hikvision / ivms4500hd, so I can’t help you without specific log messages. You may try using ADB Logcat to check what is going wrong there. I know other guys managed to get a camera working with RTAndroid, but I think it was a USB camera. You can find details in the forum. You are welcome to post there or just open a new thread for your specific problem.

  • Raymond

    does the composite jack work?

  • zidane

    hello , thank you for your work, this image looks very good but
    I am unable to install it on my ubuntu I ‘m a newbie on linux, can you tell me how to install it on Windows ? Thank you

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi Raymond. I have to admit I didn’t test it yet.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Zidane, I should be able to install it just by executing one command. There is no way to install in using Windows.
    Please refer to the discussion forum for further details. Don’t hesitate to post your questions and include command output if possible.

  • musakilic

    hello , thank you for your work, this image looks very good but
    I am unable to install it on my ubuntu I ‘m a newbie on linux, can you tell me how to install it on Windows ? Thank you

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi musakilic. Can you please post more details about your problem in the discussion forum? The only way to install the image on windows is to use VirtualBox with Ubuntu 🙂

  • Dvirus

    Nice work!

    I have installed gapps (open_gapps-arm-6.0-pico-20160901.zip)
    then Installed youtube.
    Igor Kalkov did you successed to play an video with youtube app?

    Tnx a lot for your works.
    Dvirus.

  • whatsthat

    Hello , this project is so great! I tried many other Pi-Android projects , this one is the best.

    I have a small problem here.

    I need to change /etc/hosts to add ip-hosts map for app development. when I tried to remount the /system as rw , I failed. Here is the outputs:

    whatsthat$ adb shell
    rpi3:/ $ su
    rpi3:/data/data # cd /
    rpi3:/ # mount -o remount,rw /system
    mount: ‘/dev/block/mmcblk0p2′->’/system’: Device or resource busy

    What is the cause there ? What should I do? please give me a hint, thanks!

  • http://qtechofficial.ddns.net logan2611

    Question, how do I fix the “Cannot find /dev/sdc” problem? The SDCard is mounted on that but even if I run the script as root it has the same error?

  • bosco

    Please tutorial Step by Step Install Como. I am new in linux . hug

  • Igor Kalkov

    Igor Kalkov did you successed to play an video with youtube app?

    No, there is an known issue with the video driver. None of the available RPi Android images supports video playback 🙁

  • Igor Kalkov

    I need to change /etc/hosts to add ip-hosts map for app development. when I tried to remount the /system as rw , I failed.

    Don’t remount it manually. Try using “adb root” with “adb remount”.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Question, how do I fix the “Cannot find /dev/sdc” problem?

    Well, I assume the card is mounted to another node. Run “sudo fdisk -l” to see the correct name.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please tutorial Step by Step Install Como

    Which step of the given tutorial are you having troubles with?
    Please post your detailed questions to the discussion forum:
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-rpi

  • http://qtechofficial.ddns.net logan2611

    Card is mounted on /dev/sdc , says it cannot find it after it unmounts(lol?) then errors

  • Igor Kalkov

    That sounds pretty strange. Could you please email me the full installation log?

  • http://qtechofficial.ddns.net logan2611

    Couldn’t get your email, so I uploaded it to pastebin,
    http://pastebin.com/iF4wRMRs

  • Igor Kalkov

    I’ve sent you a private message.

  • http://www.youtube.com/c/ETAPRIME ETAPRIME

    So I followed the instructions “several times ”
    And I’m stuck on the RTandroid boot screen, I let it run for an hour with no luck. Am I missing something?

  • Igor Kalkov

    I’ll contact you directly to resolve the issue.

  • Owen Cook

    Using rtandroid-n-20160905-rpi3

    Like ETAPRIME, the boot screen has been running for over an hour.

    I will keep my eye on this forum, maybe try the next release.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Using rtandroid-n-20160905-rpi3 Like ETAPRIME, the boot screen has been running for over an hour…

    I’ve just tested different images on my device:

    * Micro SDHC class 10 (8 GB)
    * Used “-f” flag for installation
    * RTAndroid N 20160905: about 7 min 45 sec
    * RTAndroid N 20160906: about 7 min 50 sec
    * RTAndroid 7 20160906: about 3 min 20 sec

    The RTAndroid 7 image will be online soon (build is already running). Make sure you are using the “-f” flag for the installation and a high-class SD card.

  • John

    Are there variants of the RPi3 – or is the “Please choose the correct package for your device” just boiler plate from the other devices?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry for the confusion. We used to support Raspberry Pi 2, but it was way too slow.
    Right now this hint is useless, but maybe we will provide support for other cool Raspberry Pi boards eventually.

  • Owen Cook

    Using rtandroid-7.0-20160906-rpi3 it booted up ok, I suspect my previous failure was due to finger trouble. I am pretty sure I installed it with sudo which I found was not necessary.

    Sorry for the noise

  • Song Lusic

    The download speed is too slow at my place… 20 KB/s at most. When the connection is broken (it always happens), I failed to resume the download by using both aria2c -c and wget -c. Can you please enable download resume? Otherwise, I will never be able to download it. or maybe more mirrors or .torrent file? Thanks a lot.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Our server supports download resume by default. I’ve just tried it:

    Start downloading:

    kalkov@workstation:/tmp$ wget https://git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/rtandroid/files/rtandroid-7.0-20160907-rpi3.zip
    --2016-09-07 17:11:57-- https://git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/rtandroid/files/rtandroid-7.0-20160907-rpi3.zip
    Resolving git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de (git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de)... 137.226.57.23
    Connecting to git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de (git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de)|137.226.57.23|:443... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
    Length: 305007143 (291M) [application/zip]
    Saving to: "rtandroid-7.0-20160907-rpi3.zip"

    18% [===================================> ] 57.384.960 10,5MB/s eta 24s

    Resume downloading:

    kalkov@workstation:/tmp$ wget -c https://git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/rtandroid/files/rtandroid-7.0-20160907-rpi3.zip
    --2016-09-07 17:12:11-- https://git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de/rtandroid/files/rtandroid-7.0-20160907-rpi3.zip
    Resolving git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de (git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de)... 137.226.57.23
    Connecting to git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de (git.embedded.rwth-aachen.de)|137.226.57.23|:443... connected.
    HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 206 Partial Content
    Length: 305007143 (291M), 247138855 (236M) remaining [application/zip]
    Saving to: "rtandroid-7.0-20160907-rpi3.zip"

    24% [+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++=========> ] 74.342.400 11,2MB/s

    Which error do you receive when trying to resume the download on your side?

  • Song Lusic

    I did reply in detail, but my previous reply is holded and is waiting to be approved. I am not sure if you are ever going to read that post and why this happens. Maybe because I posted a link address. Just let you know that the raw link is working fine and I can resume the download now with the raw link. I thought I had to use the generated link which has a very long url. Thanks.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Glad to hear that. I hope you’ll like it.

  • Song Lusic

    Some issues or questions:
    1, gallery failed to start.
    2, music failed to start.
    3, webview browser can not download apk file. So far, I can not find a way to install an app. There is no google play by default. I can not access remote samba storage. I can not put app files in the sd card partitions. So, I don’t know how to install apps.
    4, crashed once when I launch Downloads app.
    5, crashed once when I click the top-right corner.
    6, not sure how to shutdown, so far, I just simply unplug the power cable.
    7, UI/system is not that smooth.

    I think I will find more problems when I am able to install apps…

  • Igor Kalkov

    Thanks for your feedback. The most of those points are known issues caused by the lack of stable drivers. It’s not RTAndroid specific – please visit the discussion group for more information.

    It seems to me that you might need to lower your expectations. It is normal that the first official release of a new platform isn’t stable. Especially if running on an officially unsupported low end device like Raspberry Pi. I hope guys from Google will fix some of those issues in upcoming releases, but the things like the video driver have to be fixed by the community.

    Concerning the Google Play – preinstalling Google Services without paying Google licencing fees is illegal. This is why all of the custom ROMs have no GApps included. Nevertheless, all our packages include an GApps installation script. There is a recent video on YouTube by ETA PRIME showing how to set up everything: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SI2oFBkc6EA

  • Thomas Brower

    It’s been over a half hour it still first boots for me on Pi 3 is there a problem?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please check out my comment below: http://disq.us/p/1bm10sn

  • Song Lusic

    Thanks a lot for your reply. Why can’t the browser download apk file? When I click the apk file url, the browser does nothing. There are many app stores apks available online. If I can download them in the browser, it will be much easier. Thanks.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I have no idea. Google excluded the original browser (because not compatible with Android 7.0) and included a “WebView Tester”. I don’t think it is designed to be fully functional – they might currently develop something new. At least I hope so. In the meantime you could download the apk file to your host machine and use “adb install” to bring it to the RPi. This is exactly what my gapps script is doing.

  • Markus Dorr

    Hello, i had the same problem several times, the only procedure that works for me is, delete all partitions on the sd card with gparted, don’t format the card, use it at this state and follow the instruction as provided, works great, thanks

  • Oikonomou Jim

    Hi, i don’t have linux, and although i tried with a virtual machine and ubuntu desktop, i can’t make it work.
    Do you have an the downloadable file in img type?

  • Georg Eckert

    Is it possible to update to a new image?

  • Edo

    Interesting project, unfortunately I don’t have any audio through hdmi and 3.5 connector. Any configuration that can fix the problem?

  • Muhamad Fadzil Ramli

    installed rtandroid-7.0-20160906-rpi3 on rp3, fast even for 1st time boot, using dell touch screen monitor and work fine.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I’ve deleted your post below, because it had the same content.
    It takes a while after the installation, but usually only 5 to 10 minutes. Maybe too slow sdcard? On my machine everything works fine.
    Did you try older builds? There were several posts about successful GApps installation last week.

  • Igor Kalkov

    No, we don’t plan to publish IMG images, as I don’t know a way to automatically create one IMG file for different sd card sizes.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We are working on a preinstalled Update application, but currently we can’t find a possibility to flash a new system image without a recovery. For now you can update manually.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, we can’t test it for now. Does it work with other distributions?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Glad to hear that. Thanks for sharing.

  • Filko

    Need a little help………….I have install Ubuntu 16.4 onto Virtualbox on my acer aspire 5755g Laptop but its not picking up my SD card. laptop has a broadcom SD host controller………………..how to I access the sd card?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry Filko, I’m not an expert in such things. You probably should ask this in the VirtualBox’s groups.
    Maybe you have to explicitly forward USB devices (SD controller) to the virtual OS?

  • Ethan Gruenemeier

    Does this work for the official RPI touch screen?

  • Oikonomou Jim

    I finally make it work, but i didn’t manage to install google play as you describe. the commands for the adb server don’t work right.
    it gives me an error, so after i can’t install gapps.
    Also after i tried and made it to install manually es file explorer, in no way i couldn’t make it work with my network.
    Although my network works fine. Something is wrong with the services of internet. i can’t understand.
    Wireless keeps disconnecting and wired connection seems not to work for android.
    Can you help me?

  • Edo

    yes, I don’t have any problems with the other distributions. It’s just with this that I don’t have sound, looking forward for an upgrade 😉

  • Igor Kalkov

    Could you be more precise about “the commands for the adb server don’t work right. it gives me an error, so after i can’t install gapps.” Which error do you get?

  • Igor Kalkov

    I was talking about other Android distributions. As they all base on the same source, there shouln’t be any differences.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t test it in our setup, but you can check out the discussion group – there were several posts concerting touch screens.

  • Byron Robinson

    ok I have installed 7.0 successfully. Now how do I install gapps?

  • Igor Kalkov

    There is a script for this included into the package.

  • Paolo

    Hello, the script does not work.
    I got this msg at the end:
    “ERR: an error occured while formatting system partitions.”
    In fact, if I put the SD card on my raspberry pi3 nothing happen
    Do you know what is the problem?

  • Igor Kalkov

    The installation script works on my machine, I’ve just tested it. As you can see in the comments others also had success using it.
    Which Linux distribution do you use? Which device node / installation flags? You can try partitioning manually.

  • Oikonomou Jim

    the error is the: ** (appstreamcli:6076): CRITICAL **: Error while moving old database out of the way.
    AppStream cache update failed.

  • Paolo

    First of all thanks for your reply.
    I have mint rosa 17.3.
    Installation flag … sorry I don’t know what it is.
    I can try manual partition but, at the of the script partions are done…it seems they are empty.

  • Oikonomou Jim

    i managed to fix it
    i enabled after many hours of search the “universe” and then installed succesfully gapps
    the thing i can’t set is the right resolution for my tv
    i change config.txt but nothing changes.
    i have a plasma 60″ tv
    do you have an idea?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hey, I’m sorry it took you so long. I’ve never heard of this error before.
    Did you test all possible resolution options? You can find a list here, make sure you use the correct mode for your TV: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md

  • Igor Kalkov

    I mean those:

    Use the “-p” flag to partition your card.
    Use the “-f” flag to format your card.

    If your card is partitioned correctly, but there are no files on it, just run the script without the partitioning flag:


    ./install.sh -f /dev/sdX

  • Paolo

    I did it! At the end I have just copy/paste the entire dir /boot in the right partion and flash the system.img (unsing dd) in the system partion. I even successed to install the googlePlay. For sure it is not very stable, but I don’t think it is due to my installation. thanks a lot.

  • Oikonomou Jim

    Hi, i have already try many options following the instructions from the link that you have sent to me.
    But i haven’t see any changes. It cuts all around tv a little from the image.
    I hardly see the wireless notification.
    Do you have any ideas what to choose to my 60″ plasma tv?

    Many thanks

  • Brian Regan

    Hi, when running the command ./install.sh -p -f /dev/sdx I am receiving an error saying ” failed to recreate the partition table!”. Any help on how to fix this would be great.Thanks.

  • igor

    Hi Igore,

    i tried other bilds same result.. I run gapps.sh -a ip of rpi, berfore thst i run adb connect .. it copies everything and reboots but doesn’t want to boot, just hangs on RT Android logo screen and I can see on rpi device that it is reading and writing all the tiem to sd card (green light is blinking) I left it to run like that for 2-3 hours and nothing.
    I am using Fedora linux distribution.. which one are you using?

  • Igor Kalkov

    I’m using Ubuntu, but that shouldn’t make a difference. Can you please post the full output of the gapps installation script to pastebin and provide me a link please?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Did you change “sdx” to the correct device name you have? If yes, you can try to partition your sdcard manually and install without “-p” flag.

  • Anthony Riley

    wifi not working on lastest build after reboot

  • Igor Kalkov

    Wifi is working. Automatic reconnect doesn’t.
    It’s a known issue of Android 7.0 after Google introduced QNS.

  • Anthony Riley

    i keep getting error device offline while trying to push gapps

  • Anthony Riley

    I am using Ubuntu

  • Igor Kalkov

    Before or after reboot? Wifi or ethernet cable?

  • Anthony Riley

    I got that working script was not right it’s just really slow compared to geek till it hurts build and play store is there but it’s so slow not useable even for testing . I noticed wired connection is not available either .

  • Brian Blues

    Yes, I noticed that w/fi would not reconnect after each reboot, so I manually reconnected it, and the script picked up and continued to run through to a successful build. (and the “Push” stage took a very long time!. It appears that they added more packages to install

  • Brian Blues

    I used the PNPtutorials YouTube tutorial as a guide. For a client computer, I used a Raspberry Pi 2B running latest Rasbian Jessie and installed the

    Android tool packages as he suggested (these are in the Raspbian repository) (Installing Android on an RPI 3.) (His tutorial uses Kalli Linux.)

    I’m a personal computer enthusiast that runs scientific projects under Berkeley University’s BOINC platform. Typically workunits for each project run for a long time… 20 to 40 hours on a workunit are not uncommon, and some run a lot longer. I hope to complete some workunits before my time is up!! Some have suggested that workunits typically run faster on Raspbian than Android on the same hardware. That’s what I hope to discover.

    Installing Google Play was critical to my projects, as without it, I could not install the BOINC Platform. Your “gapps” script perform marvelously .. and so, I got BOINC installed and is now running on some workunits!

    There seems to be an issue with wi/fi reconnecting automatically after a reboot, but that’s easily solved by manually connecting. .. the gapps script just picks up where it left off, and execution completed successfully!

    PNPtutorials video:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU7CEOmtmRk

    Cheers!

    // Brian

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hey Brian, thanks for your feedback. I’m glad you got it working.
    Android definitely brings a lot more overhead than Raspbian, so I’d guess you will experience worse performance.

    I also hope they will fix the wifi autoconnect issue in upcoming releases. This is very annoying.
    Please check this out concerning the time limitation: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-rpi/LLH39EEj8rI

  • Brian Blues

    Thanks for that. I completely understand.

    I have an interesting race running… 🙂

    Against the time limit, I have two workunits from Asteroids@Home running.. When I chose this project for the test, I did a quick calculation that suggested that the average runtime would be around 40 hours. .. but that was based on a Samsung tablet (a Galaxy Tab A) .. when I looked at my results on the Raspbian/Pi 3, that average is more like 47 hours … with workunits running as high as 58 hours and a minimum of 41 hours.

    If the current “Percent Completed” chart on the BOINC Manager indicates correctly, these workunits should complete with a runtime of 39.3 and 40.9 hours. We just might win!

    This chart of their web page will indicate either it’s still running (even if it ran out of time) or if shows “completed”, then we have won!
    http://asteroidsathome.net/boinc/results.php?hostid=359302

    Cheers!

    // Brian

  • Igor Kalkov

    I hope you win that race!
    If you need to do such things more often, we can imagine providing you an extended version with more than 48 hours. I do also belive that our real-time extension can be useful to gain the best performance out of your application. Calculation time for the same operation may significantly vary, depending on the system state. If you take a look at our benchmark results here, you see that the same computation can be performed way faster using our API.

  • Speedys

    Where’s the changelog for every update?

  • Igor Kalkov

    We don’t have one yet.

  • tonyhoblog

    Is the bluetooth working?

  • Gio

    I have black screen but android starts because I can connect with adb

  • Igor Kalkov

    Yes, it is.

  • Igor Kalkov
  • Gio

    Thanks I saw that thread but it seems I can’t find the right settings. Actually I get

    [drm:vc4_hdmi_bind] *ERROR* Failed to get pixel clock

    in the dmesg.

  • Willnot End

    why the new image of Android 7.0 slim down too much than before,i mean the zip file。is there special change?

  • Willnot End

    I talking about the size of zip

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, I don’t understand the question. Which versions (zips) are you comparing?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Seems to be the driver issue. Maybe somebody in the discussion group can help you with this.

  • Speedys

    YouTube, MXPlayer, etc.. are also affected by “Video playback” bug?

  • Alex Bro

    sound dont work ((( very upset(((

  • Igor Kalkov

    YouTube yes, I didn’t test MXPlayer. It’s a driver issue, so probably yes.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Did you try HDMI or 3.5? There are some post saying sound over HDMI would work. I didn’t test it myself.
    The headphone jack was confirmed to be non-functional on all Android distributions.

  • Alex Bro

    I try dont work anyway, i see that they say))))) android 6 the same non-functional ))) and the same situation with android 7 non-functional. Maybe android 100 we see functional with raspberry pi))))

  • TheSky

    bad device in /dev/mmcblk0p4
    or
    failed to recreate the partition table!

    it makes me hard :[

    i just want to add at ‘installed_os.json’ and it can choose os when i turn on my raspberry pi.

    but i cant make install rtandroid with raspbian and Windows 10 IoT Core.

    what should i do?

  • TheSky

    it only works at empty sdcard?
    i cant do anything devided partition memory on my sdcard that using raspbian?

  • Igor Kalkov

    About which one?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Should be possible with Raspbian. But it erases the whole sdcard, because it needs 4 different partitions.

  • TheSky

    So i need to install rtandroid first
    And then install raspbian?

  • Igor Kalkov

    We don’t use several OS at the same time, so I don’t know. But as I said, Android uses 4 different partitions. If Raspbian won’t overwrite them, it may work.

  • TheSky

    Thx for reply 🙂

  • Mike

    Got it flashed onto an SD card but stuck on the boot screen… left it running for 2 days.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Could you please be more precise? Which version? Any error messages during the installation?

  • Patrick

    I got latest version 9/26 flash on sd when booted up in raspberry pi 3 display is off, as though everything is ver y huge and menus are off the screen. I am using my tv monitor Panasonic Viera. Tried so many different settings in the boot/config.txt but keep getting the display being off. Below is my config setting:

    hdmi_force_hotplug=1
    hdmi_drive=2
    hdmi_group=1
    hdmi_mode=16
    disable_overscan=1
    config_hdmi_boost=4
    kernel=zImage
    device_tree=bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
    dtparam=audio=on
    dtparam=i2c1=on
    dtparam=i2c_arm=on
    dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-256
    initramfs ramdisk.img 0x01f00000
    mask_gpu_interrupt0=0x400
    avoid_warnings=2
    gpu_mem=256
    enable_uart=1

    Bit frustrated as i don’t know what settings would make it fit with in the screen of the TV.

  • Евгений «jenccnej» Черный

    Hello! Can I use a Logitech USB Webcam as a microphone for “Ok, Google” commands? And how, if it so.

  • Billy Hamlin

    Is the Raspberry Pi LCD screen supported for display or input? If not, are there plans to support it in the future?

  • Daniele

    OTA update doesn’t work? (RPI3 Android 7.0)

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hey, we are currently working on that. As there is no recovery available for RPi, we have to invent a new way. It can take some time.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t add any additional support. If peyo’s distribution supports RPi’s LCDs, then RTAndroid also does. We usually don’t develop new device-specific funktionality. If you know a way to fix it or add support for new hardware, please create a pull request on GitHub. This way it can be integrated in all available distributions.

  • Daniele

    Thank you! So if I need to update to rtandroid-7.0-20160928-rpi3 from rtandroid-7.0-20160926-rpi3 I need to do a clean install?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi, there was a post in the discussion group about working USB webcam. Not sure about microphone though.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Yes, at least for now. We are also working on change logs, such that you don’t have to update on minor changes.

  • Igor Kalkov

    This issue has our full attention at the moment. New Android versions don’t allow to use system libraries, so there will be a workaround for this soon. Until then you can use normal Java threads and set your real-time features (priority, power lock, …) manually using the RealTimeProxy.

  • stark chan

    i have just tested on USB sound card, it not work, the USB have detected on /dev/usb and the volume button on the sound card is working, but not the audio output/input. could anyone please give me so advice about it? what should i research on? what kind of keyword should i google?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Did you check Logcat or dmesg output for errors?

  • Fabian

    Hi I have the official pi 7″ touch screen, is there anyway to get this to work with rtandroid ?

  • Daniele

    Thanks 🙂 keep me posted about this topic!

  • Martijn Smit

    Having a 1280×800 default resolution 213 dpi right after boot, but a smaller centered 962×601 viewport. How can I fix this to have it stretched out in full? And how do we crank it up to full HD?

  • Pratik Shirore

    Can anyone please tell me does it support google speech recognition API ??? or any cloud based speech recognitions.

  • Bhaskar jyoti dutta

    Remote Login not supported (Failed connection via putty)
    Not able to install apps from google play as no device detected caution seen while downloading.

    Please help !

  • Skeptical Beans

    I have a couple of issues with the install. The installation went smoothly, and the Gapps script appeared (in the terminal at least, it was pushing what looks like a pico Gapps suite) to install the suite of G apps, but the only thing actually in the apps folder on the Pi is Play Store. Not an issue, I could easily install the apps I want from Play, but when I try to select an app to install in Play, the Pi reboots, which is the real issue. Is this a known bug or (as seems to happy occasionally) something only affecting me? It makes it fun but not terribly usable. I installed rtandroid-7.0-20161008-rpi3 using Debian Jessie. I notice this is built on CyanogenMod; is it possible to sideload a different CM compatible Gapps apk? Or, is this an issue that is in configuration and only looks to be an issue with Play and Gapps? Any help and or suggestions welcomed!

  • Fabian

    Does anyone knows how to load a driver for the dsi(Display serial interface) into android?

  • Евгений «jenccnej» Черный

    No, it’s does not work.
    Do you have any plans for the implementation of USB sound and webcam microphone support?
    It’s a critical issues for me.

  • Chetan

    Can anyone post there working config file text….????

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, we didn’t test it yet. Please check out the discussion group – maybe someone there can help you.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Did you try changing the resolution in the config file?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Mh, would be great to know that. We didn’t test it yet.
    You may want to ask this in the discussion group.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Where exactly are you trying to login? The gapps installation script is for host machine.
    There are some YouTube tutorials for how to use it.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We use the pico package on purpose. If you need a bigger one, just edit the gapps script.
    Unfortunately, I can’t reproduce errors while installing apps from Play Store. Can you provide an error log?
    RTAndroid for Raspberry Pi is not built on CyanogenMod.

  • Igor Kalkov

    You may want to ask it in the discussion group.

  • Igor Kalkov

    The default config file is working. But not with every monitor / display. You have to find the correct configuration for your device.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Can you provide me an error log? Or any hint on how it can be fixed?

  • Igor Kalkov

    I think there was a similar issue in the discussion group.

  • Solus Regnator

    Hello, I have a Problem with RTAndroid. I bought a new 64GB Class 10 micro sd and installed the OS on there, tried to boot it but even after 1 full day its stuck on the gray screen which says “Android”. Is there any fix to this ?
    Hallo, das ganze nochmal auf deutsch: Ich habe eine neue micro sd über ubuntu installieren lassen und das Script gab keine Fehler aus. Mein Fernseher zeigt aber auch nach einem kompletten Tag nur ein graues Bild mit einem weißen “Android” welches blinkt.

  • Willnot End

    May someone teach me how to inatall the Google play use the script “gapps?”

  • Melsy

    Hello. I just downloaded the 101416 rtandroid and i followed instructions to get it on my sd card using mu KALI machine. After what looked like a successful install to the card(albeit very fast ~2 minutes) i put the card into my pi 3 and i get no boot up. No lights on ethernet and the main red LED is solid and i get no green lights.

    For reference both the raspian and the retropie sd card images work great on this rpi.

    Anyone know whats going on?
    Need the install terminal log?

  • Paul

    So, I have flashed rtandroid-7.0-20161014-rpi3 onto two different sandisk ultra 32gb uhs-i class 10 cards. When booting for the first time, the screen remains black and says “ANDROID_” with the cursor flashing. For good measure, I left the pi on for 30 min per card. Neither of the cards advanced beyond that.

    I attempted to reformat and reflash the cards, however now the install script errors out because it states there is not enough space on the card.

    Thank you for your time.

  • Marko Polo

    How i can change display refresh rate via ADB or editing some file?

  • Andrew Artyushok

    Can i use this system for make real smartphone? What the IMEI, Device ID and work this with GSM/GPRS module?

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t test it with TVs yet. Please refer to the discussion group for more info.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Did you read the usage info when running the script? There is also a video on youtube.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Funktioniert es denn mit einem Monitor? Es gibt grundsätzliche Probleme mit Ausgabe auf Fernsehern.
    Mehr Infos dazu gibts hier: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-rpi/ciILTnABiKA

  • Igor Kalkov

    Are you using a PC monitor or a TV? There are some issues with video output to TVs.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please refer to the official documentation for raspberry pi: https://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/configuration/config-txt.md

  • Igor Kalkov

    I don’t think RPi3 has a GSM or GPS module included. We didn’t test external ones.

  • Igor Kalkov

    You have to reconnect your device to the Wifi or ethernet and wait until it is booted.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Try running “./install.sh -f /dev/sde”. It will at least format existing partitions. Do you see the rainbow screen or android boot animation?

  • Igor Kalkov
  • Igor Kalkov

    Thats very strange. If you see the RTAndroid boot animation, everything should be fine. Did you use the “-f” flag during the installation?

  • Tim Wadle

    yes sir, just removed the -p. unfortunately, haven’t been able to find any boot logs or similar files to review. I have done a little more digging, and have set the hdmi_mode in the config.txt to the optimal settings for my monitor, and have just restarted. Will let it run a bit and see what happens… Thank you for the repy!

  • Igor Kalkov

    Well, accessing Android logs depends on how far android is actually booting or how deep you need to go into it.
    * Way 1: Connecting an Ethernet cable and using ADB. I’m not sure when exactly ADB service is started…
    * Way 2: Using serial console (additional hardware may be required) as explained in http://elinux.org/RPi_Serial_Connection

  • Tim Wadle

    This last attempt showed the same results. I did connect the Ethernet cable and was able to find the ip address from my router and attempted an adb connect, to no avail. It looks like it makes it far enough to load the dhcp client, but not far enough to load the adb service. I am going to do an overwrite format on the sd card and give it another shot. also going to do some more research on a boot logger and see what I can find…

  • Tim Wadle

    Well, that did it… something must have been messed up on that card, and the overwrite format fixed it. Woo Hoo!!!

  • Igor Kalkov

    Nice, I’m happy to hear that.

  • Andrew Artyushok
  • Igor Kalkov

    Nice! Please let me know if it works.

  • Andrew Artyushok

    Okey, but the concept of this project has changed, so i’m not sure that once it i do

  • Ben Simmons

    I got the same thing when I tried to change the resolution using /boot/config.txt on a TV and monitor. I just left the /boot/config.txt the way it was. It would look stretched out or squished together if you did it this way, depending on your monitor or TV, but it works fine.

  • Paul

    No, I was using a pc monitor to boot with. The bigger problem is that I have attempted to reformat the sd cards, but due to the way they were partitioned, even when cleaned with diskpart, the RTA Image thinks it is too big for the 32gb card.

  • Łukasz Trick Bołwako

    i know it but i have bootloop. gapps with script is pushed to system partition to sys folder this is error see:

    /system/sys/: 28 files pushed. 0 files skipped. 2.0 MB/s (121209916 bytes in 56.773s)

    gapps shuld be pushed to /system/ not /system/sys/

  • Paul

    What method did you use to overwrite the card? I have been using diskpart, but the problem is when attempting to load the image, terminal says there isn’t enough room. This happens regardless of the -p command being in the string.

  • Tim Wadle

    i formatted the card on a windows machine using the formatter from https://www.sdcard.org/downloads/index.html. I selected the “Full (Overwrite)” option and turned the “format size adjustment” option to on. i am having the same issue now (not going past the animation boot screen) after the reboot portion of the gapps.sh script, so now i am wondering if there is something not quite right with these samsung cards. i have a sandisk card on the way and am going to test that in the next day or so…

  • Igor Kalkov

    Can you post the installation log for a clean sd card with “-p” and “-f” flags to the discussion group?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Just tested the script on my machine and gapps are being pushed to /system/. I don’t know why is ADB behaving differently on your machine. Nevertheless, there was a severe bug with the package installer, which I fixed an hour ago. You are free to test it directly or wait until it is included into the tomorrow’s OTA package.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Can you please post the installation log to the discussion group?

  • Igor Kalkov

    There was quite a bit bug in the gapps script I fixed an hour ago, which might have caused the boot loop. The new version is on github and will be automatically included into the next build.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Just posted a similar answer below:
    http://disq.us/p/1d8pt7u

  • Colton Griswold

    I keep trying to boot with my pi connected to a tft lcd monitor via an hdmi cable with a dvi adapter but keep getting frequency out of range after seeing ANDROID_ on upper left, any ideas on whats wrong. I used default settings and tried with -f and -p and -f -p and with out either and multiple times. used the 10/30/16 build

  • Tim Wadle

    sweet, will pick that up and give it a shot.

  • Tim Wadle

    I modified the date in the script to pick up the 1030 pico package, and got it all installed, and all is well now!! Thank you Igor!!

  • Mackenzie Meyer

    No dice, still hanging during boot… is there some way I can help debug this?

  • Marko Polo

    I left the default config but still became a black screen.
    Remove from config all lines with HDMI, but still a black screen.

    I see only “Android_”and after screen becoming black, (rtandroid-7.1-20161031-rpi3)

  • Mario

    i have this problem. What can i do?

    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar (child): lzip: Cannot exec: No such file or directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    tar: Child returned status 2
    tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    * Creating local system partition…
    ls: cannot access ‘gapps/tmp/*’: No such file or directory
    – including gapps/tmp/*/
    rsync: change_dir “/home/mario/Downloads//gapps/tmp/*/” failed: No such file or directory (2)
    rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1183) [sender=3.1.1]

  • Igor Kalkov

    You have to change the default resolution to a supported one for your monitor.
    Read this: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-rpi/LLH39EEj8rI

  • Igor Kalkov

    sudo apt-get install lzip

  • Tim Wadle

    I had the same issue and discovered that the lzip package was not installed. I installed the lzip package using sudo apt-get install lzip.

  • Colton Griswold

    I have tried already with no luck, I will keep messing about with it and see what I can do.

  • Colton Griswold

    eureka! I’ve gotten it to display RTAndroid POWERED BY android!

  • Igor Kalkov

    Nice! I’m glad you made it. Could you please post the correct configuration to the discussion group? It would certainly help other people finding the correct configuration for their TVs or monitors.

  • Colton Griswold

    It’s been about 15 minutes and still on that same screen… using today’s build

  • Colton Griswold

    was an eternal boot for some reason… currently doing a fresh install

  • Colton Griswold

    tried the 10/31 build and it worked

  • Colton Griswold

    Typed up a tutorial in the discussions group

  • Mackenzie Meyer

    Is there a change log somewhere?

    Also my pi still won’t boot after trying to install gapps, any ideas how I can troubleshoot this?

  • Mario

    Android is too slow, what should I change the file Config.txt that it would be faster?

  • Roy

    I am having the same issue. it’s very slow.

  • Nimbus Conflict

    So it seems audio works for this build (via HDMI), and some touch monitors? Are these monitors connecting back via USB? Perchance has anyone tried a USB audio card, as I am looking for various alternatives for a Car PC using my pi.

  • Brett Salyer

    I am doing the same thing as well. Still trying to figure out a solution for an FM receiver, if you have any thoughts on it?

  • Pokerfjes

    I have not been able to make gapps install at all on the Android 7.1 releases. Anyone else with the same issue?
    I haven’t tried all 7.1 releases, but at least 5-6.

  • Pietro Piere

    Hello, the script no correctly format all partitions to ext4 on the sd card, only the boot sector in fat 32 is correct. Try with gnome disk utility.

  • Keniniean Pakan

    My android 7.1 on rasp.3. Everything ok on Full HD LCD TV..but, no sound.. Any comment?

  • Marko Polo

    set in config hdmi_drive to 2 (hdmi_drive=2)

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, we don’t have a changelog yet.
    Unfortunately I can’t reproduce your issues with gapps. Installed a fresh version without any issues just 5 minutes ago.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I think the main issue is rather low-end hardware and not the configuration.

  • Igor Kalkov

    @Marko, does sound work in your setup? There is a discussion group where people try to figure out how to make it work: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-rpi/x8H3iRjuv-k

  • Igor Kalkov

    Yes, the maintainers of opengapps have removed several versions. Just open your script and change the timestamp to something new (20161117). Just tested the today’s release on my PC.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please install ADB first: sudo apt-get install phablet-tools

  • Christopher Swierczynski

    Just installed on my RPi 3 with the Official RPi touchscreen display. However, I’m not sure if it’s working properly. In the top left, it looks like there is some type of cut-off loading screen with the bars with circles on the ends. Is that a normal loading screen, or what is it? If that’s normal, how do I fix the issue with it being cut off then?

  • Iridium

    Thanks. My Bad: Realised after I posted. I also had to install lzip and it all worked as expected.

  • Viroj Fernando

    no, i tried a usb sound card. its not working either.

  • Fabian

    Hi is there a changelog already ? Or a feature request list you’re working on?

  • Fabian

    Hi I’ve got the same issue, you got it working already ?

  • Endre Porsche

    can it be installed with Win32DiskImager? Or any way from windows

  • Pietro Piere

    Hello, if anyone has an idea for how to remove the popup message “version evaluation”, I would be very grateful.

  • Lusen Wang

    rtandroid-7.1-20161122-rpi3, system installed successfully, but GAPPS installing give error message: “ERR: is not a valid architecture!

  • Gps It0001

    Hello, can i Change the display-Resolution only during install?

    Tried to edit bootconfig.txt

    from: hdmi_mode=28

    to: hdmi_mode=35
    my Display says not supportet Resulution please set 1280×1024 with 60HZ.
    this sould “35”
    Do i realy have to instal the hole System new for a Change?
    lg erich

  • Endre Porsche

    you can edit the config.txt before/after installing based on my experience

  • Endre Porsche

    It is just a file which is evaluated before(or during, not sure) boot, it is independent of the other parts of the OS

  • Endre Porsche

    For the future releases: I think it would be cool to implement gapps to not install through network, because the by my experiences the wifi of the raspberry pi is not so stable and if the device disconnects, you have to start it over.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We are working on that.

  • Igor Kalkov

    The script was tested on Ubuntu. Does the “boot” directory exist in the same folder?

  • Igor Kalkov

    No, changelog is on our internal list, but not in the top 5.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We will offer activation licenses in early 2017.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Yes, I agree it would be easier. Any idea how this can be done?

  • Endre Porsche

    I’m not so experienced with raspberry pi yet, but couldn’t the apks be copied on the device when flashing the OS, or after, and it maybe would be easier. Or with USB connection to a PC(not sure about this, cause a usb-usb cable is not so common). Btw are these apks downloaded and copied when the script runs or downloaded before?

  • Pietro Piere

    Ok, but I do not have time to wait unfortunately. I found an alternative version of android that works fine. I found that rtandroid is much slower than the version I currently have. You have to work on it.

  • parapac

    it does in the unzipped folder but all the folders on the sd card are empty, I tried to copy the boot files across but then noticed the system folder is empty as well and the img file is of cause still on the pc and too big to go in the system partition.

  • Dennis Lüdtke

    Has anyone got the egalaxtouch to run? Can’t get init.rc persistent. Would be thankfull for any help.

  • Trương Nguyễn Anh Hoàng

    no sound, how to fix it.

  • RanjithKumarRagavan

    Any suggestion how to install it from Mac machine. Getting “partprobe” command not found error.

  • Matthias

    What is the name of the alternative version? I would like to test it.

  • Richard Condie

    Having trouble installing rtandroid on Ubuntu 16.04
    I keep getting this eror message when trying to do the install on to a sd card

    Any ideas

    Many thanks
    Richard C

  • mike Lgkw

    Can anyone Upload a working Image with gapps ? Would be much more easy…

  • mike Lgkw

    I cant get it running…
    Boots forever
    Only Splash rtandroid

  • Jens Skov

    Tell us more please 🙂

  • Dennis Dunbar

    Using fresh Ubuntu 16.10. D/L both most recent versions. Everything goes OK until I get:

    * Validating partition sizes…
    cat: /sys/block/sdd/sdd1/size: No such file or directory
    ERR: can’t detect the size of the boot partition!

    Using GParted there doesnt seem to be any data written, just a partition table.

  • Laurent

    Hi,

    i have the same problem. Do you have find a solution ?
    regards
    Laurent.

  • Niklas Nyberg

    exactly the same for me. New Ubunto, same error

  • Sarshar

    Downloaded 3 times 5Dec version but zip file seems to be currupted

  • Özer Ekrem Güngörmüş

    i had the same issue ; but when i checked my sdcard i ve seen a some partitions ; so i ve deleted them and rerun the script … everything went smoothly…

  • blade

    Same

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry for the late response. There is no USB connection available and the installation process has to be splitted because of some legal issues.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Maybe not sufficient space on the drive?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Known issue.

  • Igor Kalkov

    You can use a virtual machine with Linux.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Could you please send me the full installation log and the directory listing? Which OS are you using?

  • Igor Kalkov

    What error message?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Preinstalling Google Apps without payments to Google is not legal

  • Igor Kalkov

    Just uploaded a fresh build. Please check this one.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please check the today’s build.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Try re-running the script without the “-p” option.

  • parapac

    I tried the latest version and it works great.

  • Sarshar

    Downloaded 7th Dec version, the same story ! Whats the problem. Zip file won’t be open even.

  • Niklas Nyberg

    Success, tried with the the build from today. Removed all partitions, tried, not working. Same thing. Dismounted the USB drive and remount, tried again and it works.

  • Rohit Dhingra

    I tried with rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20161208-rpi3 & rtandroid-7.0-20161014-rpi3
    First One shows that no adb found and other one shows error can’t detect the size of sdcard!
    & failed to recreate the partition table!

    i tried this with 3 different sdcards of different storage space 4GB, 8GB & 16GB
    But these listed problems are encountering again and again

  • Richard Yates

    I have no audio. HDMI, or 3.5MM, whether I try to force either or not. I get nothing. version rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20161210-rpi3 I think

  • Erfan Nazari

    for god sake, somebody post IMAGE file for us to flash it on Windows!

  • Richard Yates

    it’s probably illegal in some way, or they might feel like they would then have to support unofficial versions. Just a thought lol

  • mike Lgkw

    Yes… Please

  • Martin Gerwallner

    Is it possible to set a static ip for the raspberry. Maybe with a shell command or by changing a init file. I tried the usual linux commands, but it doesn’t work. Thanks for your help.

  • Niklas Nyberg

    Can someone confirm if its illegal? Otherwise I can make a image file

  • Erfan Nazari

    No reason to be illegal. Installer script does exactly what an image flashing do. I think dev guys do not love Windows lol…

  • Igor Kalkov

    No, it’s not illegal. We just didn’t find a way to create windows images automatically on every build and I don’t like the idea of spending extra time to do it manually. I think it is way easier for you guys to use a VirtualBox with Linux.
    But if you prefer Windows images, feel free to create one and post it here. Or find a way to create them automatically from the shipped zip file and we will integrate it in our build process.

  • Igor Kalkov

    See my answer above.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, this is a known issue.

  • Jaromir

    I tried the todays version, works great.
    Touch screen isnt working though, is that a known issue or are there any steps I could try to get it to work?

  • Richard Yates

    Thanks for the answer, I’m just happy it’s not my equipment

  • Fabian

    Yes I’m curious too, because in this post there was told the changes which are making the touchscreen working, where going to be implemented in rtandroid:
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/android-rpi/c5E6HjG7MHM

  • Igor Kalkov

    Don’t use “sh”.

  • Igor Kalkov

    You need a different configuration for that. We will release a script for this soon.

  • Igor Kalkov

    The implementation is finished. Everything is working. But as we publish a generic version for all resolutions, it has to be explicitly set after installation. We will soon release a script for this.

  • Niklas Nyberg

    gahhh. Now I having problem accessing the SD card from Windows! Have tried to reset the data on the SD card but its not possible to to that either.
    If I succed, where can I store the image-file?

  • Yosri Tabbene yosri tabbene

    I m waiting the gpio api for android

  • FilleDK

    First i did what was in the guide and it wont work, i get
    ERR: adb not found. Please install: “phablet-tools”
    i cant install the “phablet-tools”

  • Daniel Tad-y

    can i asked how you solve the issue of touch screen problem ?

  • Daniel Tad-y

    did you release the script for the touch screen problem ? thanks 😀

  • Richard Yates

    see my post down below, it finally got accepted by the admins

  • Richard Yates

    Is it okay if i make an image of 20161219 with 20161217-pico? >>>More importantly, can I share this image? With instructions on how to re-size the user-data partition

  • Fabian

    Thanks in advance, maybe if you can send me the modifications needed I can help making a script ?

  • Viroj Fernando

    is there a version with audio in and out support with a DAC usb sound card?

  • Dave4262

    What I’ve done is set the Static IP desired for my LAN connection (eth0) to be served-up from the DHCP-Address Pool allotted by the gateway/router. I’ve set it for both the LAN and the WiFi interfaces. The router’s assignment of IP Address is handled based on the RPI’s connecting interface MAC Address. All seems to be working well ….

  • MrPikz

    Hello 🙂
    Thank you for this version.
    But, when I launch rtandroid on my rpi3 it say “Evaluation version”…
    What does it mean?

    is it really an “Evaluation version”?

  • Keith Alexander Jr.

    will there be a long term serviced version with google play with it? if so, i may even purchase it if stable enough.

  • Llibert

    Hi. I installed the latest version but I have no sound over hdmi on my TV. How can I fix that?

  • Richard Yates

    are videos playing for anybody? or is it just me. when i try netflix and youtube, it plays (i can see CC) but even vlc plays no video :-/

  • Luis

    Hi,
    thank you for this release, I’ve installed de Google play but it stucks in cheking info…,

    Regards

  • Fabian

    Hi Igor, I was wondering on how it goes with this work, is it already released ?

  • angelheart82

    I am on windows 10 and i have a problem with my virtualbox on formating I have the vm crashed with VERR_ACCESS_DENIED anyone can Help me?

  • angelheart82

    No it’s not illeagal beacause it is based on aosp open source software. I am trying to install on virtualbox without success VERR_ACCESS_DENIED on formatting. Do you had this error?

  • Albert GC

    Where we can send bug reports?

  • Speedys

    Please, read FAQ.

    “Is there a list of known issues?”
    Video playback

  • Igor Kalkov

    We don’t develop the platform itself, only the real-time core. Please contact me directly, if you experience any problems with it. Otherwise, you may want to create an issue here: https://github.com/peyo-hd/device_brcm_rpi3

  • andman

    ERR: no block device was found in /media/ubuntu/BC… name device
    help me please

  • Jeff Smith

    Ok, so I installed the latest build (rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20161230-rpi3) on a Pi3 with the official 7″ touchscreen. Upon boot, I get a text “Andriod” with a flashing cursor for about 10 sec, then screen goes white and it reboots…

    When i read the posts that the touch screen did not work, i assumed the “touch” part, not that the screen would not. I have played with config.txt with no luck.

    Any suggestions?

  • Richard Yates

    Sorry, I should have looked there first. I already knew about the audio and should have checked out the rest lol

  • Glenn Leino

    Can’t get tasker to work on latest build, every plugin works but not tasker itself

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi Glenn, could you provide a error log please?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry guys, we were busy with other tasks. I hope we can finish it this or next week.

  • Igor Kalkov

    It is on our list. You still can use the sysfs as in Linux.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We will release a script for this issue soon. All details will be in it.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Publishing images with pre-installed GApps is illegal. Please don’t share any RTAndroid images with GApps in them.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Audio should be fixed in the latest release. If you know how to add USB sound card, we will be glad to integrate the solution in our builds.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Are you using Mac? You can try partitioning your sdcard manually and removing all lines with “partprobe” from the script.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Thanks for the hint. I changed the script to use “./boot” by default.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Yes, it is. RTAndroid was made for industrial applications and contains proprietary extensions.

  • Igor Kalkov

    No, pre-installing GApps is not legal.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Should be fixed in the latest build.

  • Igor Kalkov

    What command are you using to start the script?

  • Igor Kalkov

    We will release a video script for enabling the official 7″ touchscreen in a couple of days.

  • Laurent

    Hi,

    it’s good, i missing to make a partprobe on the sdc … now, i can write the image, thanks !!

  • Richard Yates

    Good thing that I asked then lol, I haven’t shared any images.

  • Rich Acres

    Has anybody else had the issue of the error “Bluetooth Share Services Stopped” on boot and the Bluetooth won’t switch on from the settings menu? That’s regardless of whether WiFi is enabled or not.

  • Shawn Kar

    How can I make sure the system doesn’t reboot after 4 days? I have it installed on Rasberry Pi

  • Youri Gidding

    hi,

    is the video playback issue something you are currently working on fixing or is it a (for you) less important feature? i would love to use RT android for a media center setup but i’d obviously need video playback. i did notice that video playback did work in chrome when playing youtube, i havent tried other websites.

    thanks.

  • Bill Smith

    I noticed that the official 7″ touchscreen is starting to show signs of life with the rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170105-rpi3 release, but the screen sizing and registration are off on my setup. I do see responses to the touchscreen input. For example, I can see characters when touch typing, but the character touched on the screen does not match the response to the touch. Similarly, the screen size information does not work for rendering the Android graphics. Perhaps I have the wrong config.txt display settings for that, but I have not had much luck with getting the display settings to work properly with the official 7″ touchscreen display.

    Any suggestions here would be appreciated.

    Thanks.

  • Keith Alexander Jr.

    I usually check up on the updates periodically. Should I be updating Gapps as well or is one from a older version okay? I now have sound which is great. Keep up the good work. This is my favorite RPI project.

  • br st

    has support for the official raspberry pi touchscreen been added yet?

  • Bill Smith

    I have been testing the daily builds to see if this has started working yet. I currently see some promise. For example, the touch screen responds to a swipe down from the top of the screen by showing the android system menu. However, the screen configuration parameters are wrong. The RPi touchscreen is supposed to have an 800×480 resolution, but the default screen settings appears to be something like 1280×800 or so and I have not been able to change the display size settings through the /boot/config.txt file. It is as if the display settings in that file are being ignored by the system.

    If some one has a working set of /boot/config.txt settings for the RPI touchscreen for rtandroid, I would love to try them to see if they would work.

  • Chris Sparks

    I’d be interested in this too.

  • Chris Sparks

    I used my regular monitor attached to the HDMI port of my RPi3 and it is spinning that icon image for over 20 minutes. How long does it take to install itself? How can I see where it is in the process?

  • Jigar Shah

    I am trying to format and setup fresh microsd card

    /dev/sdb1p1 1948285285 3650263507 1701978223 811,6G 6e unknown
    /dev/sdb1p2 0 0 0 0B 74 unknown
    /dev/sdb1p4 28049408 28049848 441 220,5K 0 Empty

    * Detected 3 partitions on /dev/sdb1
    – ignoring this count due to upcoming partitioning
    * Destroying old partition table…
    * Create a new partition table…
    Error: Partition(s) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64 on /dev/sdb1 have been written, but we have been unable to inform the kernel of the change, probably because it/they are in use. As a result, the old partition(s) will remain in use. You should reboot now before making further changes.
    ERR: failed to recreate the partition table!

  • Chris Sparks

    Tried rebuilding SD card again and redoing. Took over 15 minutes and it is still spining the splash screen.

  • FerranGL Garcia

    A microsd card with 811,6G???
    are you sure you are trying to install in your SD card or in your secondary HD?

  • Bill Smith

    Do you have a fast microSD card?

    I have been able to successfully boot some of the daily builds using an HDMI monitor, but other daily builds don’t boot and hang as you describe. Which daily build are you using? The rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170109 build booted for me using the supplied /boot/context.txt with the HDMI display. It does not take very long for me to boot (couple of minutes first time, but I have a fast microSD card).

  • Chris Sparks

    I tried the 20170109 and 20170110 builds and they both hung. I saw that cute icon and that is it. It would have been nice to see any text so I had an idea of where it was having issues. I also tried rtandroid-7.0-20160912-rpi3 and that didn’t build for me either. I think 20 minutes is plenty of time in either build. Now I don’t have an HDMI monitor specifically. Mine is DVI with an HDMI adapter so I can plug the cable into it.

  • Anna Graf

    i tried several builds (including the most recent one), tasker does not work, shows a black screen. all other plugins seem to be ok

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry to hear that. Any error messages in the log?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Did you manage to install the image?
    If not, please open a new thread in the discussion group with a full installation log.

  • Igor Kalkov

    The latest build now include the beta version of a video configuration script for enabling the official 7″ touchscreen.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Yes, this error message appears sometimes after boot. But on my device the Bluetooth seems to work.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi Shawn, we will offer activation licenses in a couple of month.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi Youri, we don’t develop any of the Android platform features, just the real-time core. I hope the community will be able to fix the video drivers soon.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I think you should try updating. Unfortunately I am currently pretty busy with other tasks, so I can’t test newer versions.
    EDIT:
    If you provide me a timestamp of a working version, I’d be happy to replace it in our scripts.

  • Igor Kalkov

    @br_st:disqus, @disqus_EYxOxDV6W1:disqus, @disqus_AbHWacC1KD:disqus: A new script for video configuration is now included in the latest builds. It should provide the beta support for the official touchscreen.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Thanks for sharing. I’ve included the information about the audio jack in our FAQ.
    We also have a new script for video configuration with beta support for the official 7″ touchscreen, which is automatically shipped with our builds.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Can you please provide us an error log or similar?

  • Igor Kalkov

    It may be related to your video setup. Please try another monitor or TV, or (alternative) try to boot without a monitor connected (connect an ethernet cable first and check after 10 minutes whether the RPi has received an IP).

  • Chris Sparks

    I can do that. I do see the splash screen and it is animating, just that it never stops doing that. I can try with my samsung TV as that is a direct HDMI.

  • Chris Sparks

    I tried to use my samsung and it seemed on to work with Raspbian image. I kept getting “Mode not supported” on TV. And I started tweaking the config.txt and that was no help as I don’t know what to comment or uncomment.

  • Chris Sparks

    The “rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170115-rpi3” version?

  • Chris Sparks

    I am installing the above version. Stock with no changes to config.txt. I see that when I have my RPI3 connected with HDMI cable to TV I can see the blue animated RTAndroid logo. I’ll see how long it takes to finish up. If this doesn’t work what do I need to do to get it to recognize my RPI touchscreen?

  • Chris Sparks

    It is over 30 minutes of building and nothing. Still shows the blue animated object.

    I’ll try the LCD screen to see that is at least showing the object.

  • Chris Sparks

    interesting. I see the blue animated object but it is way offsetted to the right. Is this what others are getting?

  • Ali Şihab Akcan

    how to set default camera application?

  • Anna Graf

    hi Igor, I would love to, can you direct me somewhere? Tasker has an internal log (which I can’t access as it’s not properly starting), what would i be looking for? Thank you

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi Chris. That sounds very strange. Please connect the official RPi touchscreen (make sure no HDMI is connected at all), do a clean install and run the new video script:

    ./video.sh -c raspberry-7inch-touchscreen /dev/NAME?!

  • Igor Kalkov

    Try a clean install, then use the new video configuration script:
    /video.sh -c raspberry-7inch-touchscreen /dev/NAME

  • Igor Kalkov

    Is the RPi connected to any kind of network (Ethernet or WIFI)? You can try ADB:
    adb connect
    adb logcat

  • Chris Sparks

    Thanks for the video script. That helped with the display of the animated icon. Still after 30 minutes nothing seems to be installing. It would be helpful to have some sort of status being display so that we know it isn’t hung up. I’ll let it run for another 30 minutes then I am not going to try again. I don’t know why I am having so many issues.

  • Chris Sparks

    It ran for 2 hours. Nothing

  • Bill Smith

    This script worked for me. It took me a couple of minutes to realize the script was in the unzipped directory with the gapps and install scripts.

    Thanks!

  • Chris Sparks

    how long did it take to build? How long did you see that blue icon with the swiriling circle?

  • Bill Smith

    Assume you mean “boot” instead of “build” – it was only a couple of minutes max on first boot, and subsequent boots when installing gapps were pretty quick. But I have a fast micro SD card.

  • Chris Sparks

    I rebuilt again but this time using the 1/17 version. Got the screen with the blue icon and swirling circle. Lasted over 4 hours. I don’t think it can work.

  • Chris Sparks

    I thought the first time it does some configuation/building. After that then it would be just boot up time. Couple of minutes is great. Mine didn’t even finish after 4 hours of being on. I have a fast micro SD card, Class 10.

  • Victor

    As I see new nightly build released only if something changed, am I right?
    So where can we see what was changed?

  • Victor

    Is it possible to set up Android TV as launcher?

  • Frederik

    Hi, I have the same problem. Have you found a solution for that?
    Thanks a lot and have a wonderful day!

  • Walter Buttazzo

    Is it possible to use RCA/Composite video instead of HDMI?

  • Paul DeCarlo

    I got the same issue using rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170119-rpi3

  • Alan Kim

    Is there an answer to this??

  • Anna Graf

    sorry for the delay, got caught by a (very) bad flu.
    here’s the error:

    01-22 17:03:29.118 136 136 W GLConsumer: [net.dinglisch.android.taskerm/net.dinglisch.android.taskerm.HTMLView] updateAndRelease: unable to createImage on display=0x1 slot=1
    01-22 17:03:29.151 136 136 E GLConsumer: error creating EGLImage: 0x3003
    01-22 17:03:29.151 136 136 E GLConsumer: Failed to create image. size=1216×720 st=1216 usage=0x933 fmt=2

    funny thing is, same story seems to happen also with droidvnc.

  • Yosri Tabbene yosri tabbene

    can i use gyroscope in this os like a smartphone?

  • Hisyam Ali

    after install gapps, it keep got pop up errors Google play services closed randomly. it is just about google need update or just a bug?

  • Paul DeCarlo

    I am getting the same behavior, tried a few different builds (7.1, 7,0 and n) and same result. Tried on 3 different SD cards as well.

  • Andrey Polishchuchenko

    Does the 3.5mm jack composite video out work?

  • Andrey Polishchuchenko

    +1 I would like to know

  • Homer59800

    Hello, I don’t have a sdA, sdB,… on my raspberry but i have mmcnlk0, mmcnlk1,… I want to install Android in mmcnlk2 where is 28G of free space but i have a erreur:
    Installation script for RPi started.
    Target device: /dev/mmcblk2
    Perform partitioning: true
    Perform formatting: true

    * Checking access permissions…
    * Checking the device in /dev/mmcblk2…

    ERR: no block device was found in /dev/mmcblk2!

    Please Help

  • Lauro Moreno

    you dont run this on the PI. you have to run it on a separate linux pc. this will erase all data on the drive btw.

  • Lauro Moreno

    i think he did.

  • Alan Kim

    in setting, grant app permission for google play services on EVERYTHING. That fixed it for me. My guess is you don’t need to turn on all if them, but I didn’t take the time to figure out what is needed.

  • Alan Kim

    I have not been able to use ANY launcher on this except what it comes with

  • Alan Kim

    FYI automatic wifi connect on boot works with 20170126 build

  • Sonia Lucas

    is possible install with win32diskimager ?

  • Jeremy

    I just took a try on 20170126 build. No success so far, the circled arrow keeps spinning for ages.

    Any idea what could be wrong?

  • Hisyam Ali

    hi Alan thanks, it worked,
    btw I just had another problem video play on youtube is black, looking for answer again

  • Hisyam Ali

    i got this on debugging it when play youtube

  • Alan Kim

    i dont think video playback works.

  • Chris Sparks

    Same here. Can the builder of those files get rid of the splash screen and just output text?

  • Alexander Pelevin

    Does it support DRM?

  • Armin

    I have sound problem,3.5 and hdmi sound does not work i have edited config.txt but nothing happened

  • Dave

    We have to format sdcard on FAT32, ext3 or ext4? The script doesnt work to format and repartition, I made partitions and format manually but in FAT32 format. rpi3 starts and rtandroid logo stays and keeps on the TV display infinitely, the system doesnt start.

  • Dave

    It would be better to say how to format SDcard, we knew it on raspand website.
    Partition 1 formatted FAT32 and flagged with ‘boot’
    Partition 2 any filesystem, ext4 recomended
    Partition 3 and 4 ext4 format,
    greetings.

  • Chimney Swift

    Hi, Looks like it works well, however I cannot enable overscan so the monitor I would like to use cuts off about a centimeter around the edge. Is there any way i could enable overscan? I’ve tried enabling it in config.txt but it didn’t change anything…

  • Chimney Swift

    I know it’s been a while, but i recently had this issue too 🙁 Usually you would enable overscan by making “disable_overscan” to equal 0 (or placing a # in front of that line) but i have tried this and it does not affect the Android operating system once it’s booted. not sure how to fix it as of now :/

  • jollywombat

    Trying to install droid vnc server on this so I can do some headless testing of the device for a project. The application however does not display anything however when launched, this appears to be the case for a number of other applications as well, almost like it cant correctly utilize the display area, can pull up the settings bar within the app, but nothing for the main display. Any suggestions on what I might be missing here?

  • Victor

    interesting why?

  • sammo1

    What is minimal size of the SD card needed?

  • Chimney Swift

    Should by 8gb

  • Manoj Kumar

    hi i m new at Linux and Pi system
    tried following process mentioned above but my terminal did not show any process

    manoj@manoj-VirtualBox:~/pios$ ./install.sh -p -f /dev/sdb
    manoj@manoj-VirtualBox:~/pios$

    it also not showing any errors
    please help

    i have sandisk ultra 16GB class 10 SD card

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry Victor, we don’t generate changelogs yet.
    It would be a great thing to look into in future.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Alan, do you have any error logs we can take a look at?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Does RPi3 have a RCA/Composite video output? We didn’t try it yet, but you are free to test it and let us know about the result.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t test it yet. I don’t think RPi3 has a gyroscope included.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I think the Raspberry Pi 3 doesn’t have sufficient video memory for YouTube.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t test it yet. Please give it a try and post your results here.

  • Igor Kalkov

    No, please read the beginning of the “Flashing RTAndroid” section.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Just a random guess… Are you guys installing from a VirtualBox or similar?
    You may need to wait until Windows finishes the write process as it might cache the data between the VirtualBox and the actual hardware. You may want to try out a Live-CD.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Not sure. How can we test it?

  • Igor Kalkov

    It does work in my setup. Please try the latest version.

  • Igor Kalkov

    What exactly are you trying to achieve? If you are using the official touchscreen, please use the shipped video script to update the configuration after a clean install.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Might be caused by the instable video driver. AFAIK it is developed by the community and isn’t capable of seamless video playback.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Do you get any output for just “./install.sh” ?

  • Alan Kim

    I don’t. It doesn’t error. When I install lets say Google Now Launcher and I go to the settings to set default launcher, I don’t see any other launcher listed.

  • Chris Sparks

    I do all my building from WM Player so that might be it. I can try again. I’ll do a sync when it is done.

  • Chimney Swift

    I’m trying to make Android fit in the middle of the screen without being cut off at the edges. I’m not using the official touchscreen, it’s just a normal monitor but will the video script still work? If so, that would be perfect :).

  • jollywombat

    Switched on dev mode and forced hardware rendering and this appears to have at least allowed programs that previously did not display anything but a black screen to launch then. VNC Server however will not activate, I have logs from it and am reviewing to try to figure it out yet. To others however if you experience issues with apps launching black this may help however.

  • jollywombat

    Are you actually in the directory where the folder is unzipped to run the install script? Based on your above output it does not look like a full folder path.

  • Boris

    Have you tried the youtube android app with forced hardware rendering?

  • Boris

    hasn’t anybody tried it yet?

  • Awesome Awesome

    Great OS for RPi. Got it up and running fast, but my touchscreen does not wwork. Have a 10.1in Waveshare with USB touch interface. A mouse works but the touch does not, weird. I changed the config.txt file to match what Waveshare has on site. Also fiddled with build.prop file but no joy. Any advice? Really like OS , the best I have encountered of the RPi Android builds.

  • Martin Knowles

    If you install Kodi. Then install the kodi youtube video addon, youtube works quite well. As mentioned in another comment the video flickers a little.

  • Chris Sparks

    @igorkalkov:disqus I haven’t been back in a few days and it looks like the RTAndroid hasn’t changed, given the size of the download?

  • Anna Graf

    any way for a fix here? thanks

  • roxette

    Works great for my RPI3 although that “Bluetooth share has stopped” message drove me crazy
    Anyway to solve that please?

  • Samson Chiu

    Hi guys, thanks for the great work.
    I am new in android development, may I ask you guys about is it possible to rotate the screen portrait? and how?
    also, is it possible to change the resolution to 1080*1920?

    thanks

  • Alan Kim

    anyone know what’s changed in 20170208 and 20170207 from 20170126??? Everything is working fine for me on 20170126 and I don’t want to update unless something significant has changed

  • Mike Lou

    Hi Igor, is official RPI3 7″ touch screen LCD supported now in your build or do we need wait for your release of license? Right now, I only get “android” text in the left middle side of screen.

  • Mike Lou

    This is what it looks like with 800×400 settings.

  • Mike Lou

    I am getting close, still there is something missing, but close…

  • Mike Lou

    Wonder if anyone got this display settings nailed with RPI 7″ touch screen display??? Anyone?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Why don’t you use the included video script?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Don’t update if everything is working fine. We have an automated build server and it generates a new image on every change (not only by us, but also by Google). There is no way to tell what has been changed.

  • Igor Kalkov
  • Igor Kalkov

    Disable bluetooth?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please check my answer to Alan above.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, my Waveshare 7inch screen is working fine. Here are my config changes:
    https://github.com/RTAndroid/android_vendor_brcm_rpi3_scripts/blob/aosp-7.1/video/waveshare-7inch-hdmi-lcd-c

  • Igor Kalkov

    May even be possible with 4gb… but we didn’t test it.

  • Igor Kalkov

    You could try changing the build.prop.
    Here is an example for my config for RPi touchscreen: https://github.com/RTAndroid/android_vendor_brcm_rpi3_scripts/blob/aosp-7.1/video/raspberry-7inch-touchscreen

  • Igor Kalkov

    You don’t have to format manually. Just you the contained install script.

  • Chimney Swift

    OK, cool, thanks, I’ll try that.

  • Mike Lou

    The default script from the download works fine with HDMI, but not with this LCD. Can anyone confirm this? Thanx!!!

  • Chris Sparks

    20170126 didn’t work for me. I guess I can try the next versions to see if it works.

  • Chris Sparks

    Isn’t that fun! 🙂

  • roxette

    But i need the bluetooth on to connect my Logitech bluetooth keyboard
    Anyway,I think the keyboard shortcuts helper doesn’t work
    How to switch between two different languages using the physical keyboard?

  • roxette

    Is there a working VNC server?
    Because i tried many and none is working.
    Thx.

  • Chris Sparks

    I tried the next version. Did the install and then the video shell commands. sync’d a few times to make sure VM got the updates done. Plug it in and it sat with the blue icon for several hours and didn’t finish installing itself. I am stuck.

  • Alan Kim

    works fine

  • driversat

    hi pals,
    i bought a USB soundcard and want to make it default to profit from its microphone.
    any idea please?
    thx

  • Mike Lou

    This is what my config.txt looks like, is this the same that you use??? Thanx!

    hdmi_force_hotplug=1
    hdmi_drive=2
    hdmi_group=2
    hdmi_mode=85
    disable_overscan=1
    config_hdmi_boost=5
    kernel=zImage
    device_tree=bcm2710-rpi-3-b.dtb
    dtparam=audio=on
    dtparam=i2c1=on
    dtparam=i2c_arm=on
    dtoverlay=vc4-kms-v3d,cma-256
    initramfs ramdisk.img 0x01f00000
    mask_gpu_interrupt0=0x400
    avoid_warnings=2
    gpu_mem=256
    enable_uart=1

  • Mike Lou

    With a little digging, Igor got a modified config.txt for 7″ LCD that work!!!
    Yeehoo!!! 🙂 Thx!!!

  • Colman

    May I know how to remove the desktop Water Mark ?(RT Android-Evaulation version. Not for commercial use. System reboot after 4 days)

  • Dave

    I want to apologize, I had to make format manually because I think I select wrong external storage, I put sdb1 and the right would be only sdb. I will try with whole script on new version. thank you.

  • Iván Sánchez

    Hi all,

    first time that I turned on my TV I saw a rainbow square. And after nothing happened.. All was black.

    I’ve seen in a post that is due to usb power.

    In rasbian I’ve been working well with my iphone power adapter 5V – 1A.

    Do I need to look for another adapter with 2A or higher, or could I change the properties to put the power android system lower..?

    Thank guys!!

  • Chris Sparks

    Did your config.txt work?

  • Chimney Swift

    Ok, so it didn’t work 🙁 i’ll try the video script for the sake of trying to get this screen to work but i’m not too worried if I need to use a different screen.

  • Marek Kemik

    Does not work for me. Do you use official RPi 7″ display connected via onboard DSI port? Or dou you use other display connected via HDMI? If I connect HDMi device, everything is fine, but not for official RPi display

  • roxette

    Hi,
    Is it possible to use Vodafone mobile broadband USB stick to receive and make calls?

  • Henning Viljoen

    Is there any changelog available to see what has changed between builds. We are still unable to view video and would like to monitor the build releases for a fix.

  • Victor

    As I see, Author doesn’t do any changes with video view. Only realtime features.

  • Mike Lou

    Everything was done as recommended by RPI3. No monkey around and short cuts. Do exactly as documented in Igor’s scripts. Use the correct config.txt and build.prop, it works. Read Igor’s scripts carefully. It can support either or, not both at this time. Have fun and good day!

  • Henning Viljoen

    Im not sure what you mean ? As i understand it there is a known issue with “Video playback” – and i was hoping that there would be release notes available for each new release, so that one can monitor what changes between releases…

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t test it yet. Feel free to fix it and we will integrate your configuration into the platform.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We will provide activation licenses in a couple of months. Are you building a commercial product?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please refer to the discussion group – there is a dedicated thread for video issues.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t test it. Not sure if Android supports such setups.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I think what Victor is trying to say is that we are not working on the video drivers. Even if we would provide changelogs (which is something we definitely want to take care of in future), I’m not sure whether our changelogs will reflect fixes in third-party projects. It sounds like it would be a good idea to do so, but we don’t have a plan for it now.

  • roxette

    I used Logitech USB headset with Skype however the microphone wasn’t recognized.

  • Colman

    Yes. I am planning to use raspberry to build commercial product.
    Please let me know when activation licenses is ready.
    I am also a android developer. Please let me know if need help on development.
    Thanks.
    I already pay there http://raspex.exton.se/ for a rom.
    But that rom is not good.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry to hear that. I hope we can provide you the product that meets your requirements. And of course you can test everything before the licensing cost will be charged. May I ask what your plan is about? Feel free to send me a private message using our contact form.

  • driversat

    same here, microphone not working.

  • http://www.fjassociatiin.com fonfonsd

    Hello i’ve got a problèm i can’t Start Molotov TV because not DRM

  • roxette

    Hi Igor,
    Do you have wpa_supplicant which enables ad-hoc connection?

  • roxette

    How about using the simcard for 3G data?

  • Matthias Marin Blasco

    Hey ya all 🙂
    Currently considering using Android on my RasPi… but just wanted to make sure my usb sticks / harddisk still can be accessed… (FTP, …)
    So… can the usb slots used to access the disks? 🙂
    I found a APP in the Google PS: Servers Ultimate Pro that might fit for using the RasPi as a FTP Server.
    Any guess if this might be usable? :))

  • Jorgen

    Hi

    I have problem to get Bluethoot to connect. I can see my devices but when tring to connet it will not 🙁
    Is there some other settings to be checked? I have installed a Terminal emulator so where can I find the configuration for bluethooth?

  • Thiemo Engelke

    Hi,
    after installing a couple of Apps via Google Play Store and rebooting, my RasPi is stuck in the Boot Process showing the Chip animation.
    How can I find out where or why it is hanging there?
    Is it possible to overcome the Spash-Screen and open a CLI?
    Or could I mount the SD-Card on my linux box to get some clues from there?

  • Valmir Sartori

    (RT Android-Evaulation version. Not for commercial use. System reboot after 4 days) What does this warning mean? After 4 days does the system stop working or does it reset all settings and still works? Please someone explain to me because I do not want to have the work to install and sistem and to be able to use only 4 days.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Please try posting it in the discussion group.

  • Igor Kalkov

    No, sorry. Let me know if you find one.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I think you should give it a try and post your results here.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, simple connection is working on my device. Please refer to the discussion group for help.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Nope, sorry. I think you could try installing your applications one by one and check which one breaks the boot.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Hi, it means that your device will be reboot every 4 days (if you don’t reboot it yourself earlier). The system will continue working and no data will be erased. It is just a reboot.

  • Valmir Sartori

    thanks you Igor. I installed RTAndroid, but I am not able to run videos in MP4 does it need an installation of some codec?

  • Valmir Sartori

    Is there no way to solve the problem of video playback?
    mp4 or avi

  • Purgatory25

    did you try VLC for Android it’s in the google play store

  • Chris Sparks

    I tried the 3/3/17 version and the software doesn’t do anything except display the splash screen. It has been going on now for 15 minutes. Unless someone can tell me what is going on, I may have to stop trying and just give up on this project. I don’t understand how others have success and I don’t. I follow the directions to the letter.

  • Igor Kalkov

    I admire your tenacity and I’d like to solve the puzzle.
    Please visit the discussion group and create a new thread for your issue. I’ll help you debugging it.

  • Chris Sparks

    Discussion group? Isn’t that what this site is? Or is there another site?

  • Igor Kalkov

    I think the comment section isn’t well suited for longer discussions. Here you go:
    https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/android-rpi

  • Alex Upps

    this software is full or have few days with test and after this reboot because i see a video on youtube thats have this watermark on your os (i need this software for raspberry pi 3 to put on car with touchscreen)

  • roxette

    Hi,
    How to stop google play from updating itself?
    As the updated version isn’t compatible.

  • Rene Heffernan

    With the new update i became a 7Gb big image ?! Is it right ?

  • TheOldMan

    I am new to this forum,,but I wanted to let the developer know,,The last 3-4 builds seem to be stable thus far..I am running the latest Version Repository uploaded last night..although there is still issues with Gallery App..I am just begining to understand the Linux Terminal commands,,I have had little problem loading these Builds to my Raspberry Pi3 via my Linux Laptop Host Machine..I am still learning,and used the install guide available on Google groups,,I would like to see more guides uploaded to help us unterstand the code to do our own builds..I would like to load the video/audio codecs I use on my film editing machine,applied to this Android build,,more formats..I am using this RTAndroid Build to install My Parish App for my Church,,and I would like to be able to code my own apks for groups,and classes..This Raspberry Pi3 clear case I have,,I want to be able to get 50 or so to give to Parish Members who don’t have nor use smart devices,,nor can’t afford them..This would be Perfect!!..Thanks to all the coders contributing to this Project>>God Bless You!!

  • Igor Kalkov

    This is a full version, but it reboots itself once every 4 days. No data will be lost.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry, we don’t provide support for third-party applications.

  • Igor Kalkov

    It was a test to create an image for Windows users. It wasn’t very successful though 🙁

  • Igor Kalkov

    Did you run the script in the same directory as your unzipped files?

  • Steven Cook

    Yes

  • Igor Kalkov

    Don’t use “sudo -i”, it changes the working directory.

  • Alex Upps

    its not possible to get a version without reboots ?

  • Speedys

    Is Netflix working?

  • SwendtLeit

    Is there anyway you can stop Apps to turn the screen 90* around?

    It is pretty hard to use sideways, and my neck hurts now 🙂

  • Kladizkov

    VLC player didn’t work for me. I get audio, but no video. mxplayer plays video and audio without any issues. Just have to change to software rendering in mxplayer.

  • Kladizkov

    Try mxplayer

  • Nithin

    Can you help us in getting an image with any watermark stating it as evaluation version. As like raspex

  • Nithin

    It would help me in reaching out my audience in my project, by the way amazing job with the build loved it when compared with other builds.

  • Steven Cook

    Whats the Windows version do???

  • petheg

    Check “RPI3 IMAGES FOR WINDOWS (BETA)” in the News section:

    RPI3 IMAGES FOR WINDOWS (BETA)
    For a long time we didn’t provide RTAndroid images which can be flashed on Windows since our build infrastructure cannot create them automatically yet. After receiving a huge number of requests we’ve decided to upload a beta image based on the last build. It is created manually and we would like to hear actually makes the flashing process easier for you. Please don’t hesitate to post a comment below.

  • nicolajo

    Hi, is it possible to use the Raspberry Camera with RTAndroid ?

    Great work btw, the windows version work great.

  • Encore Consultants

    Stumbled upon this today. Downloaded the Windows version, put into a Pi 3, booted up without issue. Wow!!
    I had a couple of issues – we have an android app that we download through a browser and for some reason didn’t want to work (possible security setting, not sure) but managed to get it onto the Pi with a thumb drive. We’re using this as a stand-alone display status panel and am wondering since it says no commercial use, can this be classified as an open-source project so we can adjust some things? Just trying to figure out how we can use this as a product at some point and not run into any grief.
    Also, i tried to SSH into the Pi and couldn’t connect. Has that been disabled?
    Thanks again!

  • hongtai

    I have installed the RTAndroid window version.
    My raspberry pie is used by the Official Raspberry Pi DSI Display.
    The screen appears to be slanted on the right side.
    The touch works well.However, The screen appears to be slanted on the right side.

  • Igor Kalkov

    If your system doesn’t provide “partprobe”, you can partition your sdcard manually and use the script without the “-p” flag.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We didn’t look into it yet, but it is on our TODO list for the next 1-2 months.

  • Igor Kalkov

    This is a pure research project, but we will commercialize it in 1-2 months and offer activation keys for commercial and personal projects. If you could look into the Logcat to identify the cause of download issues, I’d be happy to fix it. As far as I know, Android doesn’t provide SSH server by default.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Exactly! This is why we have hesitated releasing the version for Windows. There are basically no scripts available right now. Neither for gapps nor for video settings (see the comment above). I hope we can fix it in 1-2 months, but right now we don’t have enough resources to do it.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Linux version has a bash script included for changing the video configuration. Unfortunately, this script isn’t available for windows yet (see the comment below).

  • Barend van Jaarsveld

    Much appreciated Igor. And again, thanks for the initiative.

  • jasonX

    whats the new Windows file?

  • Andreas Ballermamn

    in booth (windows and Linux Images) rtandroid restarts if i activate Wireless LAN … then the system reboots , rtandroid screens comes and the system reboots again .-..
    Any ideas ?
    Using the lan interface works …

  • Alfred Rüthlein

    You don’t need a Linux system for flashing. For windows just unzip the downloaded file and then use Win32DiskImager to flash the SD card.

  • Igor Kalkov

    You can find the corresponding announcement in the news section.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Thanks for sharing, Andreas. Unfortunately I cannot reproduce the issue. Can you please record a log of the crash?

  • http://twittwer.com/nighthard Diego Costa

    Hello, I installed the RTAndroid 7.1 and installed the gapps, but after installing it I went to googleplay and installed youtube, it opens, it loads the video outputting the audio, but the video is not displayed, it’s a black screen. any suggestion? thks

  • mattytech computers

    Everything works except USB Touch support
    please add this in next build

  • Igor Kalkov

    Its a known bug in the video driver.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Touch is working fine with the official 7″ RPi touchscreen as well as with a 7″ touchscreen from Waveshare. Which one are you using? Did you check the log for errors? Is the screen displayed correctly?

  • TheOldMan

    Can you describe to me further of the Issue with this Video Driver??..I to am not able to see any Video,even using VLC player..Can this be resolved??..I believe if you can create the script to correct this,you could possilbly be able to include several Video,and Audio Codecs as well..I have a Windows rig I use for Film Editing/Encoding,,,and I install along with VLC,K-Lite Mega Codec pack..it has a download for all Video and Audio Codecs,,it uses Windows Media Player Classic…I am trying to install ANDROID STUDIO on this Linux Mint Machine,and then reading thru the Tutorials,and guides to understand it,another question is do you know about this app Android Studio??,and if I can use one of these RTAndroid Builds to run in it??..Or can you recommened the Apps/Tools to understand how to design these opensource Builds??,,Thus far I still have Build 7.1 still running on Raspberry Pi3>>Thanks for all the work you guys do on this Project>>Gods Blessings to you!! 🙂

  • TheOldMan

    One idea is,,Make sure you go into settings whilst running Rtandroid with Lan,,Your’e router should assign an Ip address to the Device,,make sure whilst you are in settings you write down the ip adress..Then reboot the device,and you should see your’e network in wireless mode,along with Other networks in the area..,you want to click on the router you are connected with,a pop up asks for user password enter this info and click enter..Takes a while to connect…I am not sure why the Device would reboot after enabling the wireless button..But you can also make the ip address you wrote down Static,and in router properies,so that after you reboot,and remove Lan cable youre router should pick up that same Ip Address..I hope you get it sorted..God Bless

  • DAVIZINHO

    hello. i have a error when i try to ./install – p -f

    ERR: Can’t detect the size of the sdcard!

    any idea?
    thanks a lot!!!

  • DAVIZINHO

    solved my sd card is /dev/mmcblk0p1 in fdisk command
    the error ocurs when i use this mmcblk0p1 but not ocurs if i use /dev/mmcblk0

  • Daniel Kim

    Um hello? I have an problem with display resolution. I am using the windows version and I edited config.txt so it would show the right resolution for the official display but the resolution is so much bigger and it is offset by many pixels… Please help.

    Using RPi 3 and the official display

  • Daniel Kim

    my official display isn’t display correctly…

    I have an problem with display resolution. I am using the windows version and I edited config.txt so it would show the right resolution for the official display but the resolution is so much bigger and it is offset by many pixels… Please help.

    Using RPi 3 and the official display

  • Jayreez

    could someone please help me install ggogle play store on my rpi3? i installed rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170331 on my pi3 and attempted to push a system with google play store but it does not show up on my pi3

  • Jayreez

    Could u please explain how you installed google play?

  • Dan C.V.

    the download speed is VERY slow……before it doesn’t happened

  • Beldin

    All fine, very well. There is the possibility to remove the impressed message of “evaluation version and not for commercial use?”

  • Daniel Kim

    nvm fixed it

  • Daniel Kim

    nevermind I already fixed it

  • Harald Kirschner

    Hi folks, I use rtandroid with the standard LCD 7 inch display, but I have some difficulties setting it up correctly. It seems that the output is not in the middle of the screen, but too far to the right. So I would like to shift it to the left. How can I do that? Also installing Google Play does not work. The script fails unpacking a zip file after downloading it. It seems that the downloaded zip file is not valid. Any idea – especially for the screen resolution?

  • Harald Kirschner

    Hi Igor, could you please let us know what the correct configuration is for the 7 inch touchscreen?

  • http://www.serverdrivers.com asriahmi

    Is rt androidsupport apk from xibo player for android, if work, how i can install apk file on rt android?

  • Marcel Urlitzki

    How can i use the RCA Output?

  • Roberto

    Really ? Please read the last FAQ….

  • Milan Joaquin

    I am using a 7″ touchscreen as well. I haven’t set it up yet so it’s hard to say but as with raspbian it needs a driver. Did your screen come with a driver disc? You can just go online and get the google play store APK and that should work, but make sure you turn on “install from unknown sources” first. Hope this helps!

  • Milan Joaquin

    You can just go online and get the google play store APK and that should work, but make sure you turn on “install from unknown sources” first. Hope this helps!

  • Milan Joaquin

    Under known issues it contains a few items related to video playback, is this just a slow GPU problem, as the pi doesn’t have much of a graphics card, or a bug in the OS. Like could you give the GPU more RAM and overclock it to fix something like this?

  • Frantisek Namespetra

    Hi guys
    a few days ago I have instaled latest version of android on my RPi3, everything went fine I was able to install gapps as well. The problem has been started when I wanted to play video with app Youtube. I can see no video only sound. The same behaviour is fo all my apps downloaded from google play which plays the video. I have been solving this issue for three days and i dont have a clue what could be a problem. Thanks fo help.

  • Milan Joaquin

    Look at the second FAQ

  • Milan Joaquin

    I’ve gotten it all set up but i’m having a few problems. When I turn it on it says “process system isn’t responding” and i get “close app” or “wait” I can’t click either or do anything. All I see is this and a search bar in the background, the rest is just all black.

  • Frantisek Namespetra

    Thanks for answer, but it means I can do nothing with it.

  • j Gummersbach

    hello my pi always gets stuck on the rtandroid bootscreen. what can i do

  • Keith Alexander Jr.

    That would be nice because I have a fan installed on my pi with heatsinks.

  • John Brown

    I downloaded and installed the windows version after hours of messing about with trying to load and format a disk, the linux instructions are pretty poor.
    When I finally got RTA on RPI3 running, I ended up hooking up to my 60″ Sony TV which matched the various HDMI modes as the RPI cycled through different video modes while booting up.
    The MAIN faults are:
    – no wifi, no bluetooth, no SSH, no VNC, no Raspi-config, no repositories..
    Trying to get Wifi or bluetoooth to run causes the system to boot cycle about 3 times and then there is no way to configure the either feature without and immediate reboot that knocks you off the GUI
    Raspbian Jessie is much superior as it has the above features and is very reliable.
    There goes a day I will never get back.

    This RTA for RPI3 is a total waste of time.
    Perhaps you will have it running on a RPI4 next year?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Sorry for the late response. We will release an activation plan in several weeks.

  • Igor Kalkov

    Unfortunately it is a bug in the video driver. I hope it will be fixed soon.

  • Igor Kalkov

    We can’t reproduce this issue on our devices. Can you provide us a part of log for debugging?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Try a fresh installation (maybe try the windows version)?

  • Igor Kalkov

    Well, although I don’t quite understand your high expectations in a free research product with focus on the evaluation of industrial applicability, I’m willing to answer to your comments.

    1) after hours of messing about with trying to load and format a disk, the linux instructions are pretty poor
    Maybe you can tell us which step exactly caused you so much trouble, such that we can improve our tutorial for others? Until now I didn’t receive any constructive suggestions and the vast majority of our users seems to able to install it.

    2) no wifi, no bluetooth
    It works just fine on all of our devices. Even if you experience problems in your specific setup, we might be able to find the problem and fix it for everybody else. Generalized statements like yours without further details are nether useful nor true.

    3) no SSH, no VNC, no Raspi-config, no repositories
    Can you please provide an example of another Android distribution which has these features included by default?

    4) There goes a day I will never get back.
    I assume you could have contact us earlier or refer to the discussion group for help?

  • kenjiru

    I’ve connected it to a Sony 4k TV, but it always default to 1280×720@60Hz, no matter what I choose in /boot/config.txt.

    My current config.txt contains:
    hdmi_group=1
    hdmi_mode=16

    But I get the same results with the default config.

  • Keith Alexander Jr.

    Thanks for all the work you guys put into this. I always look forward to a new update, so far the 2017.04.04 works great. While I understand this isn’t a perfect build I am happy to see this project supported. Please keep up the hard work, I will be checking in daily.

  • Keith Alexander Jr.

    Also, I noticed video works through the chrome beta browser. I’m able to watch YouTube videos there.

  • kenjiru

    I’ve fixed this issue by commenting out the following line in build.prop:
    debug.drm.mode.force=1280x800

    Here are the commands, so you don’t have too look for them:

    adb connect {RPI_IP}:5555
    adb root
    adb connect {RPI_IP}:5555
    adb remount
    adb pull /system/build.prop
    vim build.props # comment the offending line
    adb push build.prop /system/build.prop
    adb reboot

  • Andreas Schwarz

    Hello, is it possible with rtandroid use an usb dac and play a radio app oder something else?
    Thx.

  • Ganti Ravi Teja

    Can i use webcam through any apps? After installing RTa andriod?

  • Aaditya H.G

    I installed the latest image and ,but my Pi doesn’t boot. Even the green led doesn’t blink. Happening only on RTAndroid images, every other OS boots & Works fine. Any idea why??
    TIA.

  • Milan Joaquin

    Try re-downloading and installing it. If not, It’s could be an insufficient power supply, android does take up lots of CPU, therefore power.

  • Milan Joaquin

    Is there a way to edit build.prop without abd, through the sd card.

  • Milan Joaquin

    Nevermind, I fixed it with a new SD card and an edit to build.prop!

  • Jason Case

    What do you mean by “the windows version?” I have the same issue they do. I’ve tried to install this multiple times on my RPi3 with no luck. Waited the 15 minutes, but that turns into 30, then by the next morning it’s still just cycling on the bootscreen

  • Aaditya H.G

    Power is not an issue because I have an official 2.5A supply, which I suppose should be plenty. Anyway, will re-download and try once again.

  • Milan Joaquin

    I’ve tried. There is no camera app on it. You could download one from the play store or an APK but I think it crashes, because of the video playback error.

  • Milan Joaquin

    What’s a good gpu_mem for this? Of course it needs more than raspbian, but how much is optimal? 256? 320? 512?

  • Tamer

    Hi, i have a problem that i can’t connect using ADB connect IP, it gives ”
    No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it”
    using Pi3 with the latest version

  • Bianca Berdugo

    what you did? i’m trying to make my display works but only a blank page is displayed

  • Milan Joaquin

    Like chromium, the embeded browser, or just the chrome beta?

  • Milan Joaquin

    It could also be a slow SD card. Get one with at least UHS-1 for maximum speed.

  • FrediTM

    rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170315-windows can’t watch youtube and any video

  • Keith Alexander Jr.

    Chrome beta. The official apk download from Google play.

  • Milan Joaquin

    Read the second FAQ

  • Milan Joaquin

    On the windows package it’s saying system is using 10.7 GB… is this right?

  • Milan Joaquin

    On the windows package how do you put gapps on?

  • David Porter

    Trying to flash RTAndorid v7.1 (20170404) onto a 32MB SD Card using Etcher for Windows 10. Etcher says it all works perfectly but Raspberry Pi 3B will not recognise SD card at all. Also, same problem with Pidora. Have tried 2 different SD cards. Any thoughts?

  • Milan Joaquin

    Do mean 32GB because I can GUARANTEE you that 32MB is not big enough…

  • Milan Joaquin

    what are you installing it with? If your using win32 disk imger you’ll need the windows package

  • Aaditya H.G

    Yes I used the win32 disk imager. Which windows package are you talking about??

  • David Porter

    Apologies: 32GB.

  • Milan Joaquin

    That would make more sense, are you flashing the img, not just copying it?

  • Milan Joaquin

    rtandroid-aosp-7.1-20170315-windows make sure it says -windows at the end

  • Aaditya H.G

    Oh!, so that means the latest 20170404 package isn’t yet compatible with windows?? Anyway will try it out today..

  • Igor

    My TV has a resolution of 1920×1080. Raspberry Pi3 is connected via HDMI. After running RTAndroid on the screen, the resolution is 800×480 (or 800×400).
    How to configure RTAndroid to 1080p (or at least 1080i, or 720p)?

  • rv

    can anyone suggest a method for ssh connection to rtandroid installed on Rpi3. Rpi has an ip address connected to my router and the only open port which is open is 5555/tcp port.

  • Tom

    I have the same problem as other user : “ERR : an error occured while formatting system partition”. Help 🙁 ???

  • Tom

    Hello, i have the same error as other user : “ERR: an error occured while formatting system partitions.”, help 🙁 ?

  • Igor

    The problem was solved by selecting the parameters in /system/build.prop.
    My FullHD TV is 42 inches.
    Optimum video mode in android 720p. I set the parameter ro.sf.lcd_density = 102 (before it was 213).
    By default, debug.drm.mode.force = 1280×720 is installed.
    If you comment out (#), the video mode is set to 1080p. But then the icons and the font of the android are very small.

  • Igor

    Is it possible to encrypt data?
    In the settings of the android (security item), encryption does not work.
    Android immediately reboots.

  • Syed Mustafa

    What’s the current status of video playback? I’m looking for something that can play video off of certain android apps to my tv

  • Keith Alexander Jr.

    Same here. And to play real racing 3 with my Bluetooth gamepad.

  • marc-o-polo

    Hello,

    i have an RPI 3 with Android 7.1 but the Ethernet over LAN is not activ…can you help to activate?

    Thanks Polo

  • Anton Emilio Gonzalez

    How do i set it up with a touchscreen (its a 3.5 inch touchscreen from Kuman)

  • Milan Joaquin

    Just follow the steps it gives you, android has great touchscreen drivers, you should have no problem.

  • Anton Emilio Gonzalez

    Okay as well I can’t figure out why it’s stuck on the boot screen. SD card is fast enough by the way

  • Anton Emilio Gonzalez

    I used the Windows version

  • Patrick S.

    When Is full version coming?

  • Tamer

    Thank you very much for your help in this. your work is helping me a lot.Thank you

  • K.M.

    How can I install gapps in windows verion?

  • FrediTM

    How I can make to working
    issues

  • Jürgen Huemer

    Are using RTAndroid the Internal GPU or only CPU? Because with Display Resolution 1920x1080p i have very poor Performance….

  • ANIRUDH PARLAPALLI

    i have installed RTANDROID-AOSP-7.1-20170404-RPI3.ZIP on Raspberry pi 3
    but when i connect it to my tv (sony bravia )
    first some code runs then
    it flashes UNSUPPORTED ACCESSORY
    what should i do ?
    Email : anirudh.parlapalli@gmail.com

  • Christopher Rolando

    Help. I am new to Raspberry Pi and I am trying to understand the installation. VERY sorry for asking rudimentary questions:
    1) . I am trying to configure the SD card for the Rasberry PI 3
    2) . I am trying to do this from a MAC (is that my problem?)

    Can youi break it down just a hair more so I can understand this? I HAVE been able to configure and SD card for a Raspberry Pi running Rasbian. I am just lost on this next step.

    Thank you so much

  • Matthew Roh (AKA NovaRate0315)

    I have heard there is a new thing called android things, which supports GPIO. Sadly, It can only run apps );

  • stéphane Galan

    Hello,

    I installed a microphone usb which works with some applications. On the other hand with Skype, I understand the person but her do not hear to me. The microphone is not recognized. In what direction do I have to look?

    Thank you for your help

    use a pi3

    Stéphane

  • carlos white

    Hello, after a couple of false starts I managed to get it up and running with a kuman 7″ touch screen 800×480, everything runs well except for the one app I really wanted to use it with in my truck, torque.

    It looks like torque is trying run at a different resolution, everything is scrambled, noisy, short of trying a different screen does anyone have any ideas how to get the torque app displaying properly?

    Thanks.

  • David Wilde

    I’ve been having the same problem you have with the official touchscreen, torque won’t run. I also think it’s a resolution thing. I’ve been trying to get it to work for 4 months with no luck. DashCommand does run which is a decent alternative.

  • Dionisius Wahyu Adi Saputra

    Hello, I’ve successfully installed rtAndroid to my raspi 3, and gapps running perfect. But I have a problem with the touch screen on my 7.0 inch touch screen display. The display is perfect, but the touch screen gesture seems not matched. Swipe vertically becoming horizontal, and when I swipe horizontally, becoming vertically. How to adjust the X and Y touch screen calibration? Where do I change the settings? Anyone?

  • john hardiman

    Thank you very much for making these images, I spent a good chunk of time today getting this to work with a nice little touchscreen rendering in correct sizes, orientation, altering settings to make it work with various apps, I look forward to hearing the licencing options as we hope to implement a handful of these.

  • Milan Joaquin

    Then you want androidTV. RTAndroid has some driver problems with video. Just google androidTV RPI3 and you’ll get loads of downloads.

  • David Wilde

    If you’re rotating the display with display_rotate in config.txt you also need to add an lcd_rotate string with the same setting as display_rotate, this rotates the lcd and touchscreen mask.

  • Remi Jonquieres

    Hello Stephane, if your microphone is USB can you give more details about the model?

  • Dionisius Wahyu Adi Saputra

    Thank you, will try it soon.

  • Dionisius Wahyu Adi Saputra

    can you share any of setting changes you made?

  • Mc Duran

    Where did you read this article? I am looking for this kind of applications or api because im not really familiar with linux programming. And whot dow you mean by it can only run apps?

  • Fernando

    Hello, I can not change the resolution for the original LCD raspberry pi 3, anyone help me?

  • Jarret O’Shea

    Just tried the windows img, imaging process completes fine, but once in the Pi and hooked up, I get a bunch of terminal output and then nothing. I’d post the output, but I don’t know how to pause it before it goes away. Ideas?