[TOOL][GUIDE] BareNox - Modded Nox Android Emulator

[jenneh]

Hello Friends~!

Today I bring to you the Latest version of Nox, made portable, with a Cleaner Script to remove all the junk on your Main Machine as well as for Clones

DOWNLOAD BARENOX:
BareNox.zip (200M)

If you would rather build your own, I will now provide a written guide for how BareNox was built.

"BareNox" went through a lot of testing and a script was made to automate much of what is written below

Spoiler: WRITTEN GUIDE

Made using the latest version of Nox, which can be downloaded off the right side of this page:

System Requirements of Nox App Player – NoxPlayer

Open Nox's Multi Drive Manager and select "Add Emulator" and "Android 9" or whatever you prefer

When it is done building the machine you need to click on settings and enable root.

Spoiler: HOW TO CLEAN THE PREINSTALLED MACHINE WITH AN APP (NOT RECOMMENDED)

This method is advised against, due to the amount of time it takes to physically remove each directory within the gui, when we could remove all of these directories with a simple script. The knowledge will still be provided to show what the adb method is doing for us.

Open Nox and install a launcher app like nova, and a root explorer by selecting the apk button on the right side panel.

Spoiler: PIC

If you need the apps:

Nova

nova.apk

drive.google.com

Root Explorer

RootExplorer.apk

drive.google.com

Now open Nox's settings by clicking on the gear icon at the top right.

We need to go into General, and then put a check on root.

Spoiler: PIC

Next click on the Gaming tab and enable high fps and rendering cache. This is to allow you to be able to play higher end mobile games

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Save settings and restart the machine

Select Nova as the Launcher app always

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Open root explorer. Grant Superuser access forever

Delete all the items highlighted in the pictures below and close the machine.

Spoiler: PIC

Spoiler: HOW TO CLEAN THE PREINSTALLED MACHINE WITH ADB (RECOMMENDED)

This comment explains it

Spoiler: HOW TO USE THE SCRIPT AND NOVA ON ANY VERSION OF NOX

Make a new machine and enable root in settings
Make a text file and call it run.bat
Paste in this code.

adb root
adb shell rm -r /system/app/AmazeFileManager
adb shell rm -r /system/app/AppStore
adb shell rm -r /system/app/BuiltInPrintService
adb shell rm -r /system/app/CarrierDefaultApp
adb shell rm -r /system/app/CompanionDeviceManager
adb shell rm -r /system/app/CtsShimPrebuilt
adb shell rm -r /system/app/EasterEgg
adb shell rm -r /system/app/Facebook
adb shell rm -r /system/app/Helper
adb shell rm -r /system/app/LiveWallpapersPicker
adb shell rm -r /system/app/PrintRecommendationService
adb shell rm -r /system/app/PrintSpooler
adb shell rm -r /system/app/Traceur
adb shell rm -r /system/app/WallpaperBackup
adb shell rm -r /system/app/newAppNameEn
adb install nova.apk
adb reboot

Paste run.bat into the bin folder of Nox
Paste nova.apk (10M) into the bin folder of Nox
Now Run run.bat

Spoiler: VERIFIED WORKING GAMES

If there is a game you want me to test, leave a comment below.

Spoiler: BEAT PARTY

at the end of the video

Spoiler: DIABLO IMMORTAL

at the end of the video. guide is outdated

Spoiler: EPISODE STORY APP

Spoiler: MKX ONLINE

There's more that can be finessed here, have fun!

VT-Error fix

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How To Build and Root Your Desired Flavor of WSA and install the Playstore Using LSPosed & Magisk. Plus a Premade

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[Twistt]

Works pretty well for me, except for trying open the multiple instances. I've wiped things clean a couple times and even tried on my other pc. Luckily the app I was trying to install had an x86 version so it'll do for now. I'll have to look into it when I have a bit more time.
Thanks for the post!

 

[jenneh]

Works pretty well for me, except for trying open the multiple instances. I've wiped things clean a couple times and even tried on my other pc. Luckily the app I was trying to install had an x86 version so it'll do for now. I'll have to look into it when I have a bit more time.
Thanks for the post!

Thank you for testing it!

Note that this issue has now been corrected

 

[jenneh]

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[jenneh]

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[jenneh]

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[jenneh]

NotNox has had a Proper Update and is now at V2 "BareNox"

Includes the cleaning script commented on earlier.

Spoiler: HOW TO USE BARENOX

UPDATED 08/04/2022

BareNox.zip

drive.google.com

(196.2 MB ZIPPED)
Open BareNox and then bin, run MultiplayerManager.exe and add new emulator of choice

The first time you make a machine, nox will have to dl the "base" of the android version you selected from nox's servers. You only have to do this the first time you try to create an android 9 or 7 machine. You will then be able to create clones quickly as the BareNox folder will now contain the base disk and data folder.

Make sure to click on the gear icon and enable Root in system settings before running the machine

Run the remove.bat script when this lady appears on your new machine (this is when you have full read write access)

This will go through and remove the crap apps and install nova launcher for us

Spoiler: HOW TO CLEAN THE PREINSTALLED MACHINE (OR CLONES) WITH ADB

Spoiler: WRITTEN GUIDE

Go into the Binary folder of Nox or Not Nox and add a new text file called remove, paste NOVA.APK into this folder as well

Paste the contents of the script into the remove file

change the file extension from txt to .bat by renaming the file

add a new emulator and wait for it to make it to this screen, you need to hit Login later in order to get full Root, otherwise our batch will fail.

Run the remove.bat file after hitting Login Later and waiting for the garena lady to appear

this is what will be shown as the batch runs, don't do anything the machine will reset itself

select nova always and you're all set!

Spoiler: THE SCRIPT AND NOVA DL LINK

Spoiler: FILE EXPLORER OPTIONS PREREQ

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You need to have hide extensions for known file types unchecked, in order to be able to change a file from text to batch

nova.apk

drive.google.com

adb shell rm -r /system/app/AmazeFileManager
adb shell rm -r /system/app/AppStore
adb shell rm -r /system/app/BuiltInPrintService
adb shell rm -r /system/app/CarrierDefaultApp
adb shell rm -r /system/app/CompanionDeviceManager
adb shell rm -r /system/app/CtsShimPrebuilt
adb shell rm -r /system/app/EasterEgg
adb shell rm -r /system/app/Facebook
adb shell rm -r /system/app/Helper
adb shell rm -r /system/app/LiveWallpapersPicker
adb shell rm -r /system/app/PrintRecommendationService
adb shell rm -r /system/app/PrintSpooler
adb shell rm -r /system/app/Traceur
adb shell rm -r /system/app/WallpaperBackup
adb shell rm -r /system/app/newAppNameEn
adb install nova.apk
adb reboot

Spoiler: HOW THE NOX ADB SCRIPT WAS MADE

Hello Friends! I have created a guide on how to make your own Script to clean up your Nox machines (pre-installed and clones)~! Please note there is much much more that you can do here, this is just to teach you the basics to help you come up with interesting ideas!!

This video is Nerd Knowledge, and unneeded for folks that just want to quickly clean up their clones. Check out the next comment for the quick cleaning method

"BareNox" has this batch file pre-installed for your convenience

 

[HoangNK]

NotNox has had a Proper Update and is now at V2 "BareNox"

BareNox.zip

drive.google.com

100 mb zipped!

Includes the cleaning script commented on earlier. Watch the video to see how to use it.

Note that:

THIS IS NOT A PREINSTALLED MACHINE, like "NotNox".

You will have to use multiplayermanager and add a new emulator with your choice of android version.

The first time you make a machine, nox will have to dl the "base" of the android version you selected from nox's servers. You only have to do this the first time you try to create an android 9 or 7 machine. You will then be able to create clones quickly as the BareNox folder will now contain the base disk and data folder.

Run the remove.bat script when this lady appears on your new machine (this is when you have full read write access)
This will go through and remove the crap apps and install nova launcher for us

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i got this error

 

[jenneh]

i got this error

edit I am working on a fix

This issue has now been fixed

 

[jenneh]

@HoangNK I apologize, I didn't mean to dismiss your VT error, I sincerely thought it was due to that mode not being enabled on the user end.

I now realize, after reinstalling windows on my laptop which has vt enabled, that I did indeed create this error. I didn't realize it at the time due to sharding, as I had nox installed in the main directory as well as the portable, so I didn't notice the problem.

I have rebuilt and verified BareNox, here's the new dl link:

BareNox.zip

drive.google.com

(196.2 mb ZIPPED)

 

[jenneh]

For anyone Still experiencing the "VT Error" check your Windows Features settings. I unintentionally caused this error to myself while playing with WSL. Open up windows Features and uncheck these options, then reset

Spoiler: show

 

[jenneh]

Something to consider about Emulators, they can be used to program virtual machines that have windows preinstalled faster usually than on your android device. Then you could pull your machine from the emulator and port over to any android device. I'm working on a detailed guide but it will take some time as I work to make the virtual machine's parameters more feasable for work use, i.e. a 10gb max hdd is not gonna suffice~!

To Do List: get win 10 working

Proof of Windows 7 Working in Nox:

How To Guide:

How To Install Windows Or Linux ISOs on your Android Devices - Windows 10 Nox Lab + Working Arm Distros for your phone using Termux

Update: A new thread is created to house "premade" linux distros. The first premade environment is an Ubuntu distro, installed using proot-distro in termux, Takes only a few minutes to restore the backup, else instructions are provided to build...

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[jenneh]

A note to anyone checking this out from this date forward, Nox has had an update since I wrote the script. So when barenox downloads the android image from nox's server, they are different than before. Meaning that Even though one selects ROOT on startup, the ADB will not recognize the READ WRITE status thus rendering the .REMOVE.bat script useless for the time being. The adb root command does not help, I didn't bother to su into the shell bc the time factor, I could just delete in root explorer

A TLDR use the manual removal method with root explorer and manually install nova as the original thread shows how to do if you want to remove the crapware.

I'm not going to update the script, instead I am going to stop being lazy and just make my own emulators in android studio and share some builds in another thread. I'll leave a comment below whenever that happens.

 

[jenneh]

Listen Linda.

I found an Amazing OS that I am trying to work out a few kinks for. It runs in vmware, has root, can play the games, has a traditional desktop feel, can run multiple apps in separate windows.

It's called prime os! I am not a creator. Just a testing a producto~!

I will make a new thread with prebuilt images of this and like 5 other prebuilt android x86_64/ chrome os forked os's that I played with this week. Putting out the word about prime in case anyone has any ideas how to get openvmtools or vmware tools to work on here. I am trying to build a stack in termux to accomplish this myself, key word trying. Maybe someone knows how.

other os's tested and built -- may add more if I find them
google chrome os - cloudready version
bliss os
android x86_64 9.0
flint os
fyde os

 

[jenneh]

Spoiler: notes

as an Edit ---I am well aware that the tools are not "officially supported" so lets make them work anyway ok

This is 12 years old but still relevant

'As an update, I was able to locate the vmware tools iso for pre glibc linux distros (like our android vms) It comes with vmware workstation 17

had to pkg install tsu then run this command and am a step closer

I went through and pointed the script to the requested binary's location /system/bin/more and the others all for the most part in bin with depmod being in xbin. the program seemed to have an error at the end. going to take all the requested binaries out from system now and add them to the vmtools folder

using root explorer can copy the binaries from bin into the vmtools folder

 

[jenneh]

So here's my notes on getting vmware tools to work in the android emulator.

In vmware tools on your windows pc there are isos that contain the tools.

Inside the iso is a file like this. extract it and extract the file it makes

So here is what I did, You can see the tools have an etc folder and a bin folder. and in pictures in the notes comment above, we know that the tools need certain binaries to run, or access to.

It is not just enough to point the tools to the /system/bin/binaryname because the stock binaries aren't executable.

So I obtained all the binaries the code calls for and put them into the bin folder of the tools.

I also built the missing directories such as /var/log

i changed the name of install-vmwaretools.pl to run.pl and added mkdir codes for the needed folders

Now running perl run.pl gives this interesting error

Anyone have any ideas?

It also really Did create that many folders, haha

 

[noxlar2]

hey there.. is there still possible to use your script to use older version of noxplayer and make that work? i get it that no more noxplayer updates will be compatible. but, that is just perfect for me.

i used noxplayer every day since 2016 and run 12 instances. it was and still is Ver. 3.8.3.1
but google as of last month has now removed games that is no longer supported by the google play.. so no more game updates for me. so i have no other choice to upgrade too.. i had off course followed guides and hacked it.. so no adds what so ever.. so hoping that you can still your very useful software to get rid of ads and malwares that they usually bring to free version.

thank you

 

[jenneh]

@noxlar2 anything is possible, however i would need a copy of the version you want to fix to be able to advise better. as far as the current version i will for sure look at fixing the script for it tomorrow. kinda got super carried away on other projects and should take the time

 

[noxlar2]

@jenneh

wow.. fast reply back. well, just buildt me a new pc.. so, it will be with a fresh win11 and fresh noxplayer.. so i have no idea what version i must choose.. i will have my old pc system untouched in case of fall back on nox.p.. reason i always used the version i did was because of superior stability vs recent (back then + few years forwards)

also i did test latest free version on my minipc.. and it worked great as well. but, i have not done extensive testing so i don't know.

 

[jenneh]

@noxlar2 Hey Congratulations on your new PC! That's always an amazing feeling. Thank you for clarifying which version. I was able to successfully get the script working again on the Latest nox and Lol it was silly, all the script needed was "adb root" added to the top.

i had to do the VT-Error fix bc of playing with WSA

got the original barenox updated -- link in the op and HERE Just remember to select root in settings before running the machine or the script wont work