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[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
As of today 6th May 2011 the Eee Pad is pretty much cracked. We can flash boot and recovery and have a working root and unsecure boot and koush's Clockworkmod recovery.

The one thing we can't do is use nvflash to try custom bootloaders etc. This is because APX has been locked with a SBK and we have currently no method to get around that. Thus nvflash will fail with the error

rcm version 0X4
Command send failed (usb write failed)

It is interesting to note that the ASUS German blog claims that the bootloader and root privileges are both openly accessible, which (at the moment) is not true.

Here a few key combinations for anyone interested:

VOL_DOWN + POWER (continue holding VOL_DOWN when it starts booting until you get a prompt) = Bootloader which offers two prompted options: (1) Recovery if you press VOL_UP within 5 seconds or (2) Data wipe if you press VOL_UP later. None of these seem to offer any USB devices like fastboot etc.

VOL_UP + POWER or VOL_DOWN + VOL_UP + PLUG IN USB = NVFlash mode. It clearly is the NVFlash APX device that we see appearing, but it barfs as soon as we run any sort of nvflash on it (Many Windows and Linux versions have been tried). Please note that in this mode the screen stays completely blank and the only way to get out of it is the following option:

Hold POWER for ~10s = Forced power off. This always helps if you are stuck in some weird mode and nothing on the screen :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
I'll repost this in here then, as it adds a bit more info to the post above:

-Volume down button + power button for 5 secs = Life surges into the pad

Eee Pad logo + Asus logo ... keep holding buttons for 1 more sec = New screen with:

Android_WWeeepad-user bootloader < e> released by ww_epad-8.2.2.6.1-20110325".

Checking for android ota recovery

Checking for RCK... Press key <VOLUME_UP> in 5 secs to enter RCK

-Pressing up = next screen below

Booting recovery Kernal Image

Image in middle of screen and some sort of loading bar

(then goes straight to)

Exclamation mark (!) + android logo on screen

-Not touching any other buttons = screen then goes to:

Press <VOL_UP> to execute or <VOL_DOWN> to cancel wiping data (with a pulsing "Wipe data" icon in middle of screen)

-Pressing volume up = well... I didnt do that for obvious reasons.

-Pressing volume down = boots linux... and back into honeycomb normally.

-Volume up + power button dont seem to do anything.

-Power button for 5 secs = normal boot up.

-An 8-9 second hold down of the power button seems to switch it off from any screen.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] checkbox111:
'Rooting / Flashing'

I was expecting to see an HD link to some video's from spankwire :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Cpasjuste:
Maybe a stupid question but we do not need the dock to get an adb shell isnt it?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Badwolve1:
Great find :)

Need to learn about Android now, I'll chuck this in the reference thread (When i make one :p)

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
No, adb works fine without the dock. Now we just want to change that $ to a # :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Cpasjuste:
Hehe thats great, just ordered one an should get it around the 5 april :)

The # will be easy to get and will be available very soon believe me. Ill also make an oc/uv kernel !
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Bumble-Bee:
The root from me and paul should be out late this week early next week :)

its not perfect but it will do for now :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Cpasjuste:
Thanks. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Badwolve1:
Great work :)

I'll create a Sticky / Rollup thread later this week.

Badwolve1
[Eee Pad Transformer General] zambezy:
Can some one run fastboot and type...

"fastboot getvar secure"

"fastboot getvar all"
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
We cannot activate fastboot on this device until we have the right nvflash tool... Once we have nvflash there shouldn't be any further obstacles.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] zambezy:
What NVFlash commands have you tried... can you even run these?

nvflash --bl fastboot.bin --go -w

nvflash --bl fastboot.stock.bin --go -w

You would need those files in your directory... Its like booting image with fastboot without writing....
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
As I said, nvflash doesn't work. Not a single command.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] zambezy:
So it doesn't seem that open after all. Nvflash has not changed this much. Have you only ran those commands in Nvflash mode.

Is the device recognised when you boot in recovery.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
yes, it's either locked, or as simple as a new revision of nvflash is required.

Recovery and normal boot both offer ADB. We get the right device in NVFlash mode, it's just the software we have cannot talk to it after the first few bytes...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Madbaires:
Thanks ;)

Enviado desde mi Desire HD usando Tapatalk
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Bumble-Bee:
My current root method will be out today :D

p.s. its nothing special .... in fact stupidly simple :P
[Eee Pad Transformer General] H3llb0und:
Sweet Jesus!!! :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] djdevine2:
I know Apache14 has already said this but Paul's just posted on twitter "Transformer ClockworkMod Beta and MCR Beta online this afternoon... @BumbleDroid is posting root too. :)".

Very fast well done guys! :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bplewis24:
So, was this bootloader "unlocked"? What even constitutes and unlockable bootloader?

Brandon
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
We're not sure yet whether the Eee Pad is 'unlocked' as such. It does look like the eMMC is not write protected and it also looks like we can read/write any part of it. The difficulty currently is that the individual boot/recovery partitions are not exposed in system/recovery and so we cannot (safely) flash them yet. The ultimate goal is to get nvflash working though, since then you can use any custom bootloader and use fastboot to flash whatever you like.

An unlocked bootloader can mean a few things, but what people mostly mean by it is that the NAND/eMMC is writeable and you can flash anything to the boot/recovery/system/... partitions.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] bplewis24:
Thanks for the response. Look forward to hearing the progress from this thread :)

Brandon
[Eee Pad Transformer General] zambezy:
So from what I have read so far... Unsigned images are can be flashed through recovery... Its just figuring out where to write them...

Does anyone have a full device dump... How many partitions are there...

I cant wait to get one and start chopping at it. It sucks that I have to ask all these simple questions... =)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
FYI ... the latest update enables signature checking. So, if you apply the FOTA update, you may no longer be able to apply custom ROMs.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Madbaires:
BumbleDroid:

Asus Transformer owners do not install the ota untill we can stop the recovery from updating!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
It's easy to stop recovery from updating (though losing updates to /boot and radio as well). Nevertheless all of this does not solve the flashing problem just yet. NVflash is still broken...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
Ah well I took the plunge and updated. Hopefully some bright person will figure out a nice full rooting solution for all versions at some point.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
OTA Update

If people want to tinker (I am away at the moment and have very limited time), I'm posting the OTA Update here. Please

DON'T APPLY THIS IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO RUN THINGS AS ROOT. THIS IS POSTED FOR RESEARCH ONLY. IF YOU COPY THIS TO YOUR SDCARD AND REBOOT INTO RECOVERY IT WILL UNROOT YOUR DEVICE AND THERE IS CURRENTLY NO KNOWN METHOD TO ROOT IT AGAIN!

http://www.mediafire.com/?aq61tyb5ogagvc6

I will post a safe update.zip at a later point, if you want to get the software updates without updating recovery etc.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Bumble-Bee:
Ill have a update.zip that will update all the files bar the recovery :D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] MN_Evolution:
Damn this thing needs to be released in the U.S. ASAP!!!! WANT!!!

Thanks all for working on this already.. Hopefully by the time its released here you guys will have kicked its ass and it'll be ROM flashing fun!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] TheShamsMan:
http://www.talkandroid.com/38031-as...available-in-the-us-and-canada-on-april-26th/

Soon!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] sundar2012:
So if I understand this correctly (please excuse my ignorance, i'm in the states and i dont have the device yet):

we can run apps/commands in honeycomb that require root privileges

we cannot (yet) overwrite the recovery or bootloader partitition, but can hijack the boot process to get into a custom recovery mode (similar to the droid x)

Why do we need nvflash and why can't we access fastboot through the bootloader and adb? Is this a limitation of the bootloader asus put in? The xoom can use fastboot from the bootloader.

nvflash driver support blows for 64 bit machines.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Scourge1024:
Yes, it is! But far enough away that the North American ones will have the OTA update already applied. :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Magnesus:
Probably all devices sold now have it already.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] TheShamsMan:
Sh**! Good point. I didn't even think of that!!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Bumble-Bee:
I'm working on getting nVflash or fastboot working so we can regain root after the OTA

Tho not having a device doesn't help :-(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] MN_Evolution:
I'm looking at picking this up tomorrow for my trip to Hawaii. No need for Root and fun and games yet as i'll be using it for games and video on the plane etc but when i come back i'd be willing to use mine for all purposes nefarious... :p

Let me know Apache14 if you need anything from it or i can be of help. I'm no programmer, spend my life on the network side of things, but i can follow directions and i'm confident i could get you what you need. ;)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] johnsto:
Has anyone given the GingerBreak exploit a try? I know it's designed for Gingerbread, but the vuln might still exist in Honeycomb...

Edit: just trying it now. Seems to get stuck at the end and not terminate:

$ cd /data/local/tmp
$ ./GingerBreak

[**] Gingerbreak/Honeybomb -- android 2.[2,3], 3.0 softbreak
[**] (C) 2010-2011 The Android Exploid Crew. All rights reserved.
[**] Kudos to jenzi, the #brownpants-party, the Open Source folks,
[**] Zynamics for ARM skills and Onkel Budi

[**] donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like
[**] Exploit may take a while!

[+] Plain Gingerbread mode!
[+] Found system: 0xaff181a1 strcmp: 0xaff37b85
[+] Found PT_DYNAMIC of size 240 (30 entries)
[+] Found GOT: 0x00017368
[+] Using device /devices/platform/sdhci-tegra.2/mmc_host/mmc1
[*] vold: 0083 GOT start: 0x00017368 GOT end: 0x000173a8

Edit: apparently only works if you have an SD card inserted, which I don't have! Can take up to 10 minutes to work too...
[Eee Pad Transformer General] RedMist:
i HAVE AN sdCARD INSTALLED, BUT i GET fc WHEN i RUN IT. (oops caps)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] johnsto:
I ran it manually via the shell (rather than installing an APK) - original here
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
Gingerbreak works fine to re-root after applying the OTA. We're still finalising details, and will post them as soon as we're ready. (We would like to be able to do more than just re-rooting).
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
We're now able to flash custom recoveries and boot images. Will try fixing a clockworkmod one and then release details.

http://twitter.com/#!/BumbleDroid/status/62896499188695040
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
New update was out today. Will probably break root etc again so be warned.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] seshmaru:
Does that mean access to bootloader? Linux distros? (shameful wishing)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
Here is the second OTA.

DON'T APPLY THIS IF YOU WANT TO CONTINUE TO RUN THINGS AS ROOT. THIS IS POSTED FOR RESEARCH ONLY. IF YOU COPY THIS TO YOUR SDCARD AND REBOOT INTO RECOVERY IT WILL UNROOT YOUR DEVICE AND THERE IS CURRENTLY NO KNOWN METHOD TO ROOT IT AGAIN!

http://www.mediafire.com/?n09j2qi8vv6i49k
[Eee Pad Transformer General] b1ackplague:
Has anyone made progress with NVFlash. For those of us with bricked devices I think its our only hope. I've tried different APX driver versions and modifying the .inf drivers to no avail.

Does anyone else have other suggestions? And do we just need the NVFlash driver? Or a specific recovery image as well?

We can use NVFlash to install CWM right?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] b1ackplague:
Can we do anything as far as NVFlash goes using these USB drivers? I pulled them from Asus' website.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5492432/Android.zip

http://support.asus.com/download.asp...h4q7I8dvWJzhdV
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
No, NVFlash doesn't work at the moment. How bricked are you? Do you still have access to recovery?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] hecatomb:
No, unfortunately those of us that are bricked don't get access to recovery. It gets as far as "Booting recovery kernel image", and then we don't get the prompt for Vol Up, and if you leave it it doesn't go to the wipe screen.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] t0dbld:
Just browsing thought id help you to understand your nvflash trouble. . . I can tell by your error it is locked by an sbk :-( sorry i told a few others that a week or two ago but noticed it had not made it here yet. . . Anyhiwbim sorry and im bummed as i was going to buy one
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
Thanks, yes, we suspected this would be the case. I am not sure why ASUS would do that tbh, there is clearly no carrier intervention with this tablet as it doesn't even have 3G yet. It's a shame that ASUS are missing an opportunity to be an example for other manufacturers.

Well, luckily we can flash boot and recovery now, which is enough for most people.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Noxious Ninja:
Sorry for the ignorance... what is SBK? Encryption/signing key?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] r34p3rex:
Yup basically a signature key
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Noxious Ninja:
Ah, OK. Found some more info. "Secure Boot Key". It's a pity.

I guess the only thing to do is write/call Asus after I get my Transformer in and register my discontent. :( Hopefully the next batch of US Transformers will be rootable before too long.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] b1ackplague:
So we would need the sbk to use nvflash?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ivan.volosyuk:
I see a reason why the locked APX mode - without sbk it would be possible to extract user data from stolen device. On the other hand, non-rooted device, disabled adb and password protected is much harder to break into to extract user data: saved passwords, auth tokens.

It's a pity it makes moding more dangerous. It would be nice to have 'fastboot oem unlock' functionality here. I also have Viewsonic Gtablet and today used nvflash to restore it after I soft-bricked it. I hope it is possible to disable SBK somehow.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
That is true, but the whole point is that it is possible to allow for free flashing and yet keeping things secure. See Sony Ericsson and others who allow you to flash freely. Also now that a full filesystem encryption is possible on Honeycomb, it will be trivial to protect your data properly.

So in my opinion the SBK is completely counterproductive. After all, we don't expect manufacturers to secure our laptops or desktops for us. It is the responsibility of the user to make sure the data is safe, not the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
Wouldn't this ultimately let people get around the hardware encryption that can be enabled and is present in the device?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stridger:
No, if you encrypt something properly you need a key (and/or a passphrase) to decrypt that data. Without the decryption key/passphrase you won't be able to get to the original data, even if you had full partition access.

After all, it is possible to safely encrypt your data on any latop/desktop even though anybody can steal the HDD and get access to the encrypted data.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
Ah ok. Can't think of any other reasons why they won't unlock it either then. Let's go egg their headquarters til they give in. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] KnightCrusader:
Maybe if we all ask them nicely, and let them know about HTC's decision to stop locking things down, that they'd give us the key to get nvflash to work? Or a way to turn it off?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] t0dbld:
lol... no they wont give it to us.. and as of now we dont even know if its burned or not any how so might not be able to get rid of it or change it .... any how doesn't really matter we dont need nvflash it is not important as we have access to what we need and right now can still do anything we want with the device so i dont see any reason to waste time on it
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stuntdouble:
NVflash is released. :D Windows and Linux versions.

http://androidroot.mobi/2011/06/13/nvflash-on-asus-transformer/
[Eee Pad Transformer General] skybuster:
Great work!

Downloaded the flashing tool and flashed from stock transformer to Prime v1.4!

:D
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Canadoc:
if we are already on 3.1 will this wipe all of our apps and settins?

would hate to have to setup all my apps to insall and ser settings again.

Anychance we will see one clcik root that preserves the data partition?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] SWEATTAIMI:
sh-3.2# adb devices

List of devices attached

43c708	recovery

Possibiity to root from recover, must bee, this was the way we got on Optimus one
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voluptuary:
Anyone know if there is some setting in registry or otherwise to change this? I don't know why this isn't the defualt anyways.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cgibsong002:
It sounds to me like whatever song or songs you are playing do not have album art associated with them. For me, album art is always displayed unless I downloaded a song that has no picture. In that case then yes, they just display a name.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voluptuary:
I'm not talking about within the Zune Player on the phone, I'm talking about when you are at the home screen and the Zune Tile shows the artist you are listening to or listened to last, I want it to show the album inplace of the artist.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warco:
hi i've the same issue within zune it shows the artworks but the tile and the lockscreen don't :S
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Warco:
anyone has a practical solution for this problem?
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rio911:
Hi all knowing xda gurus,

I have a question for you: Is it possible to connect the Transformer and use the internet from a mobile phone?

I trying to use the WiFi Router application on my HTC HD2, to share the internet with my Transformer and I can't get them to see each other???? :confused:

Any suggestions?

rio
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] foxmeister:
I can tell you that my Transformer connects perfectly to the mobile hotspots on both my HTC Desire and Galaxy Tab.

Does your WiFi Router application create a real hotspot, or is it an adhoc network? If it is adhoc, it probably won't work out of the box, and I think you'd need to be rooted in order to make the necessary changes.

Regards,

Dave
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rio911:
Hi Dave,

I can't actually distinguish between the two (real hotspot vs adhoc network), but I did start a Desire HD rom on my HD2, then started the WiFi Hotspot app that comes with it.... and surprise, surprise it works....:rolleyes:

Good catch and thanks this will have to do until I figure out what to do with the WinMobile WiFi router.

rio
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GtaSpider:
Hi there,

Does usb tethering work? Well, for sure, the native usb tethering won't work, because there are no drivers, but is there an app to make it work? (@HD2 with DHD Rom)

greetz

Spider
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rio911:
I don't know, there is no usb on the tablet only on the keyboard (which I don't have). As far as I can see in the Adnroid settings "usb tethering" is available though.

Hope this helps,

rio
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] WilliamNell:
Hi Guys,

Did you work out the original problem with the Wi-Fi router on the HTC HD2 and the Asus Transformer, im using the exact same combo and they will not see eachother (Wi-Fi) No Wi-Fi at work cos of Security but now i dont have comms to my tablet :( :(

Thanx Guys
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kovla:
I achieved this by using the Wifi Tether application, it requires root on the phone (Android phone here, sorry). The biggest problem with mobile-to-wifi internet is that most applications will create ad-hoc Wifi networks, as opposed to hotspots. Transformer with stock software will not even see an ad-hoc network, I imagine this is your issue, too. There two options here:

1) if you want to root the Transformer, it is possible to make it see an ad-hoc version, but changing one of the configuration files.

2) you can use Bluetooth tether instead of Wifi, for most situations it will do the trick. No need to root the TF then.

See this thread for more info: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1074317&page=1 (it is about droids, but may help anyway).
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoundSurfer:
I'm also using the Wifi Tether app that came with MDJ ROM for HD2 and it works great... too bad the small battery on the HD2 :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] moehagene:
I havea motorola Atrix,i can tether using barnacle a rooted app, stock mobil hotspot, and through blue tooth. Havent had an issue yet.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oromis:
Same problem here :( HD2 (WinMo6.5) + Transformer :(

I don't want root my transformer :( (yet)
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oromis:
:( Secound option doesn't work :(

"Faild to estabilish Internet Sharing connection to remote device as it supports only Network Access Point (NAP) mode"

:( :( :( :( :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oromis:
Somebody help us! :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kjones2k1:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1093778
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] W4LLY:
You don't have to root your transformer to use a mobile hotspot (takinga 3g signal and converting it into a wi-fi router)

If you have any rooted Android phone, you just need to install either Baranacle, Wireless Tether, or Open Garden. All are root-only apps, and you sometimes have to try each to get it to work. At first only open garden worked, wireless tether/barancle didn't. It's very doable though.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] anewconvert:
You do have to root your transformer for barnacle.

Barnacle creates an ad-hoc connection which the transformer won't see without first rooting and replacing the wpa_supplicant file. Most wifi tether applications do the same thing.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AcIdC0R3:
I had the same issue until I tried the settings below. I have a EVO 4G so I don't know if the HD2 is anything like it but if it is then you can try these:

Go into setting

Go into wireless and networks

Go into Hotspot Settings

Go to Menu and click on Advanced

Select LAN settings

Click on DHCP

After that you should be able to connect. If not then your setup is different then mine and won't work. It's worth a try though.
[Eee Pad Transformer Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depulle87:
not much helpfull I guess but works fine on my xperia arc stock rom unrooted android 2.3 so no need to use apps at all
[Galaxy Tab Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] junjlo:
Ota update buggin me to update any way to stop it?