Samsung Galaxy View w/ DolphinBar

04-06-2017, 12:41 AM #1

Just picked up a discounted Samsung Galaxy View and I am hoping to test out dolphin soon. I think I've gathered that I will need to get one of the dolphin bars but that everything else should/may work. The CPU is 64bit so I guess thats a good start.

Has anyone used this tablet? It'd be a pretty fun table-top option if it ends up working well enough. I'll update with status once I get a chance to test it out.

**degasus** · (This post was last modified: 04-06-2017, 01:49 AM by degasus.)

Please don't buy any accessories until you've verified that this is device is 64 bit for real. Most mobiles with a 64 bit CPU are shipped with 32 bit Android, especially the older ones. As the Galaxy View is shipped with Android 5.1, I highly doubt it will run dolphin at all. It has A53 CPUs @ 1.6 GHz, which is the lower end of performance.

I'm sorry for ruining your hopes, but I'm very looking forward to your update, especially about it being 64 bit or not.

Edit: The more technical answer: Please check if the "arm64-v8a" ABI is supported, eg within AIDA64. If not, please complain at your reseller/Samsung. I guess most of them just don't bother with 64 bit because they see no need for it.

04-06-2017, 04:09 AM #3

(04-06-2017, 01:41 AM)degasus Wrote: Please don't buy any accessories until you've verified that this is device is 64 bit for real. Most mobiles with a 64 bit CPU are shipped with 32 bit Android, especially the older ones. As the Galaxy View is shipped with Android 5.1, I highly doubt it will run dolphin at all. It has A53 CPUs @ 1.6 GHz, which is the lower end of performance.

I'm sorry for ruining your hopes, but I'm very looking forward to your update, especially about it being 64 bit or not.

Edit: The more technical answer: Please check if the "arm64-v8a" ABI is supported, eg within AIDA64. If not, please complain at your reseller/Samsung. I guess most of them just don't bother with 64 bit because they see no need for it.

Thanks for the heads up. I will look into android version. I am also running dolphin with much success on my laptop so won't be devastating if it doesnt work. Need to figure out a USB sensor bar to buy eventually, if not dolphinbar, as the wireless bar I have is too large to use with laptop comfortably. General goal is to replicate switch-like experience as I prefer the old Wii games, especially with the improved graphics.

04-06-2017, 04:14 AM #4

According to AnTuTu I am currently running 32bit android 5.1 on the 64bit proc, 8 core arm v7 (VFPv4NEON) ARM Cortex-A53, 1600Mhz.

I'll have to play around with it more later and see if possible to install 64bit android. Do you know where I could easily find this out?

**JosJuice** · 04-06-2017, 04:18 AM #5

(04-06-2017, 04:09 AM)tgkcne Wrote: Need to figure out a USB sensor bar to buy eventually, if not dolphinbar

Keep in mind that a DolphinBar is the only way to connect Wii Remotes to Dolphin on Android. Regular sensor bars don't provide any Bluetooth functionality (since they're just sensor bars), and the device's built-in Bluetooth won't work the way Dolphin requires.

**degasus** · 04-06-2017, 04:43 AM #6

(04-06-2017, 04:14 AM)tgkcne Wrote: I'll have to play around with it more later and see if possible to install 64bit android. Do you know where I could easily find this out?

Heh, you can compile Android on your own if your bootloader is unlocked. But you'll have a hard time with all drivers, especially as there is a good chance that a few drivers aren't available at all for 64 bit for this device. So you need to build your android rom yourself, and the kernel, and you need to write a few drivers yourself.

tl;dr: no way to get 64 bit android on this device.

04-06-2017, 05:49 AM #7

I'm more wondering if any of the custom ROMs currently available are 64bit, although I'm guessing not. ah well only marginally bigger than laptop.

~~TheGamerPro~~ · 04-09-2017, 07:15 AM #8

(04-06-2017, 04:14 AM)tgkcne Wrote: According to AnTuTu I am currently running 32bit android 5.1 on the 64bit proc, 8 core arm v7 (VFPv4NEON) ARM Cortex-A53, 1600Mhz.

I'll have to play around with it more later and see if possible to install 64bit android. Do you know where I could easily find this out?

Would've been better to buy the item after looking up if it's 32-bit or 64-bit. I doubt that there would be a way to install 64bit android on your device.