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[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] MimiK:
PART 1: Downgrading to 8.2.3.9

The 8.2.3.13 update is currently unrootable so we'll need to downgrade to 8.2.3.9 first :)

2) Open up the file you downloaded in step 1 and unzip the Asus folder onto the ROOT directory of your microSD card. Make sure you copy the entire Asus folder and not just the files inside it!! The transformer will NOT detect the update file if there is no Asus folder on the root of your SD card.

3) Insert your microSD card into your Transformer. On the bottom right hand corner in the notification area, there should be a message saying that an update has been detected. Tap that message to start the update. Let it do its thing (it'll take about 5-10 minutes and reboot once it's done)

I have to downgrade from 3.1 US leaked to 8.2.3.9 WW the method that you wrote does not work (for me) I tried several times but the update stops almost instantly after reboot with an exclamation mark..:(

some help?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
Did you initiate the update from the notification? Also, do you have the US or WW version (hardware-wise, not the currently installed software)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] MimiK:
start from the notification, my hardware is WW (italian) with 3.1 US leaked
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
Did you download the WW downgrade file? I just added it to the guide
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] MimiK:
yes, but it did not work for me .. I solved it with a guide found on a French forum.

1. I renamed the file WW_epad-user-8.2.3.9.zip in EP101_SDUPDATE.zip

2. I put it in the root of microsd

3. restarted with vol down + power, then vol up

4. I waited until the end of the installation

5. I restarted with vol down + power and I did the wipe

now have 3.0.1 ww 8.2.3.9 and I'm ready to root, and primordial :D

thanks very much !
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] laxplaya116:
I'm getting to the part right after rooting and at the bottom it says:

[!] dance forever my only one

# _

when I go to type something in this window nothing happens...any advice?

UPDATE: FIXED! My cmd prompt must have frozen...Just had to run: adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/boomsh & adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/sh and start over from step #7. Have clockwork installed and am about to flash primordial 3.1.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] psycho2097:
dude.... awesome work...

But u wouldnt believe how retarded people can get.

So despite of the huge big red "do not close the shell", i closed it! :D

now when i start over from the beginning, i get "cannot copy boomsh. : permission denied". WAT DO I DO??? :( :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
Cool, good info to have :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
Run the following commands, and start over

adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/boomsh
adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/sh
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mike6200:
Can this be used with netformer kernal? I installed and it wouldnt boot. If it cant is there another kernal that will make it overclock.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] tycoonbob:
So I got my tablet downgraded to 8.2.3.9, and when I run the gingerbreakBB from the shell, it runs for a few minutes and it shows the following...

[*] vold: 0918 idx: -0021540
[*] vold: 0918 idx: -0021539
--code break--
[*] vold: 0918 idx: -0020901

[-] Bad luch. Fixed vold?
$

So the fact that it didn't show #, I'm assuming it failed. I ran the gingerbreakBB again from that $, and got this.

$ /data/local/gingerbreakBB
/data/local/gingerbreakBB

[**] 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!

[+] Detected honeycomb! Starting honeybomb mode (scale=10).
[+] 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: 0918 GOT start: 0x00017368 GOT end: 0x000175e8

Now I get a permission denied if I try typing su at the shell. What happened? What do I need to do??
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
3.0.1 kernels can't be used with 3.1. Until ASUS releases the source of the 3.1 kernel, I'm afraid we won't have any custom kernels :p

Reboot and try running gingerbreakBB again
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] tycoonbob:
After rebooting the tablet, rm the gingerbreakBB and recopying it to /data/local/, I re-ran the gingerbreakBB from shell, not showing any progress yet. Going to give it to 10:45 EST to report what's happened.

Thanks.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mike6200:
Can i just install a 3.0.1 over my 3.1

I am rooted
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] tycoonbob:
After 11 minutes, the prompt never did anything. Closed prompt, reopened and rm gingerbreakBB from shell. Turned tablet off, inserted sdcard (per instructions from http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/) says sdcard must be in at all times, which I did not have. Copied gingerbreakBB back to /data/local/, re ran the program from shell and now it's actually doing something.

Just finished, and showed #. That proves that you MUST have a MicroSD Card inserted at all times during the root process. Might want to add that to your guide. Now I will finish up, and let you know how it goes.

Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Nighte:
Nice guide! Wish it was out for me when i was doing this stuff to my TF the other night!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
Good to know! Will add it :D

Do you have CWM installed? Are you on official 3.1?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] king_of_tuxland:
Hi there,

i have a problem with the rooting and installing CWM. I surely did all what is written down in the tutorial. But after the dd command and the reboot i get stuck on the splash screen. I only can boot into the system, when i went to wipe mode and cancel the wipe and use the "cold booting linux" option

Another problem is, that if i try to get into the RCK mode (by pressing Vol Down and Power button) there is no option for RCK. I get directly into the wipe mode. SO it isn't possible for me to flash another EP101_SDUPDATE.zip file.

Can you please help me?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] 5hamz:
lol...check the Prime 1.4 thread. I answered your MD5 question.

basically...DO NOT FLASH CORRUPTED FILES! :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] idlefrog:
Got this website :http://implbits.com/HashTab.aspx

Download the HashTab program and install it on your PC. Now when you want to check the MD5 of any file you have downloaded you right click on the file, click on the properties option in the menu and from that click on the File Hashes tab and will generate the MD5 figure for your download. You then compare this with the one posted on the website and they should match. If not then your download went wrong - try again.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dja2k:
Followed the instructions in Post #1 and now I am rooted, running Prime 1.4, and running Clemsyn-Blades Overclocking kernel. Thanks for this guide and great work!

dja2k
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] greeny2010:
When I do the command dd if=/data/local .......

'dd' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

What's went wrong?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jhanford:
It sounds like you are not inside the adb shell.

This command should be run in the window that you previously ran 'gingerbreakBB'. You should have a '#' at the beginning of the line.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] greeny2010:
I've the # shown and still cannot run the last command.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] popophobia:
How do you return to stock kernel after flashing the OC one? I don't want to lose all my data. Can I just flash the zip file PRIME 1.4 over?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jhanford:
Yes, you can just flash PRIME 1.4 without losing data
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] repel89:
Thanks for the great guide...

Helped me out there :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] hoangtu2410:
I need to ask a question .

I bought a new TF and flashed to Prime 1.4 but after that in setting>about>Status , the Serial Number is not same as on the box . I don't know what is it before , same or not , can you help me ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] azizmulhim:
I have successfully rooted my friend TF using your steps & installed CWM.

But after rebooting, the TF screen is not responsive to my fingers touch. Rebooted couple of time & still. I even upgraded to prime 1.4 and the problem remains. I can only use the docking station.

Can anyone explain why this happens?

Another reboot and the problem seems to go away.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dja2k:
Does anyone know if there is a way to hide the Asus Spash screen after rooting?

dja2k
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
That serial number is for the ro.serialno property not the product's serial #

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=14754059&postcount=602
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Digiguest:
What a pain. After I finished downgrading all I got was Force close after force close and so on.

My Laptop kept on losing the connection to the Tablet after I got the # symbol. Unable to go on. Tried the whole thing over again and the same thing happens.

Okay I came to the conclusion that this is flawed somehow.

1.) You CANNOT use ADB in the ANDROID folder.....says that it does not exist....but DOES when it is in C:\Program Files ( x86 )/Android/android-sdk/platform-tools.....that is the ONLY way you can get the adb command to work.

2.) when adjusting for the directories.....when you use the push blob command it says device not found.

Help!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Once you downgrade 1st thing I suggest is a factory reset.

If not I recommend the new nvflash procedure to root
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Digiguest:
Got it working. Missed the part where you had to have a SECOND Dos Prompt window open. May wanna Bold/Red that or something.

Thanks for the guide!!!!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] chatch15117:
great guide, thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
Well, I think this guide has run its course! :p There are much easier ways to root/install CWM now
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] angerized:
Awesome guide.

I rooted both my brother's and my Transformers almost painlessly.

Though I modified the procedure a bit, and I think it should be better that way:

Running /data/local/gingerbreakBB BEFORE doing the transfer of the CWM_BLOB_V5 caused the first shell to timeout, while I was doing the checksum checks.

So I transferred the CWM_BLOB_V5 back and forth prior to pushing the gingerbreakBB and running it, so that, when the exploit was complete and I got root, I just had to go straight to step 12, pasting 'dd if=/data/local/CWM_BLOB_V5 of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4' and that was painless.

Just my 2 cents.

Thanks again for this great tutorial :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Actually the shell timeout is cause by

running line 4 together.

4. run “adb shell” followed by “/data/local/gingerbreakBB”

Should be

adb shell [enter]

/data/local/gingerbreakBB [enter]
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jcpq:
Big thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] live_free:
The guide says put the .zip for the kernel onto my internal and the guide says go to "Install for SD Card" but I don't see it in there.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
it must go on the removable sd card
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] rikardo1979:
or better,

u have to copy it on MicroSD card.slot in tablet not SD card slot in docking keyboard or internal memory!

In file manager u find it root/Removable/MicroSD ;)

:cool:
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] AllTheWay:
Which methods are you referring to?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] baseballfanz:
Nvflash method
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] AllTheWay:
True that. Just used that method. Was rooted with CWM in about 5 min. Very easy and simple to use.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] majikfox:
Thanks, this is the first guide I've found that actually works with the latest OTA update.

I went through a lot of root guides that are outdated before I found this one.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] majikfox:
Care to enlighten us un-godlike on where to find this?

I didn't see anything about it in the forum index.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Digiguest:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1123429

See if that helps you out.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1123429

:D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] -Perp-:
Thanks for the guide. Just received my transformer today and followed the guide and up and running! It's a gift for my dad so I had to be quick!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] vikdmon:
running 8.2.3.9.

Following this guide. ran

adb shell

/data/local/gingerbreakBB

its been sitting here for 20 mins

[**] donate to 7-4-3-C@web.de if you like

[**] Exploit may take a while!

[+] Detected honeycomb! Starting honeybomb mode (scale=10).

[+] 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: 0085 GOT start: 0x00017368 GOT end: 0x000175e8

Any idea.

second time around.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] droid_does:
I seem to have successfully rooted my transformer.....but the SU app isn't in the app list and one of my root apps can't acquire root? I side loaded the SU app, but no dice....any idea?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] kkiran:
NIce guide but for full root, do the following :

1. run “adb remount”

2. run “adb push su /system/bin”

3. run “adb shell chmod 666 /system/bin/su”

4. run “adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/”

5. reboot (you now have root and can run root apps)

## Please put all feedback in the comments ##
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] chrisplaya:
help

i can't seem to downgrade. i got my tf today and i got the ota update to 8.4.4.11 and i downloaded the file onto the root of my sd card but nothing comes up on my notification screen when i put it in. this is becoming frustrating. im in canada btw
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] walter6807:
Transformer stuck at logo startup + click sound!

On my asus transformer android 3.1, I installed from sd.zip the file to overclock to 1.6 (after making a system backup in CWM). Forgot (important?) tot wipe cache and dalvik cache. Installation was succesfull.

On reboot i saw a status bar very shortly between the top of the logo (EEE pad) and the Asus logo on the bottom. Than it looked like this system was going to start but the logo’s came op and freezed. After a few second a clicking/ticking sound comes up. Logo + clicksound stays and everything is realy stuck!

I'have tried everything many times: on/off with button and in recovery, restore backup (complete and advanced part by part), battery drain etc. NOTHING helped.

Whatever I do, when starting up the logo comes up and freeze + ticking sound.

WHO can help me (beginner) out ... or is this the end of my short life with this super tablet?

Many thanks for a helping hand.

Walter (am i in the right threat? please advise this first time XDA mailer)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] haensgn:
Have you tried this?

http://xdaforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=1107
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] holyevilcow:
same problem :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] radiikal:
Can't detect the downgrade file...

Hi,

My TF is 3.1 build HMJ37.WW_epad-8.4.4.11-20110711

My TF can't detect the downgrade zip file in my SD card and it was extracted to the ASUS folder as described in guide...

some one suggested i changed the name of the file and move it to the root of SD, TF can't detect

copied the file without renaming to the root, TF cant detect the file.

did the volume down and power then volume up, an android with a big exclamation mark appears.

anyone, any idea? thx
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] bultnisse:
i think iam going cracy. i have just folow these steps about 100 times. ang i never get it rigt..

until i take the pad of the dock!!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] decepticon:
Same here and I am in an all Mac house so NVFlash is a no go
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] zonte:
same problem over here, I have HMJ37.DE_epad-8.4.4.5-20110527
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] syntrix:
What am I doing wrong?

I have copied the directory over, even tried renaming and the volume down/power.

I'm on HTK75.US_epad-8.6.5.13-20110925

I can't get past the root part. My TF is 100% stock and I've been updating like normal. Remove/insert SD, nothing, rename to the file name in the root dir, ugh.

I guess this isn't happening unless someone has a suggestion.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jerdog:
Maybe you could start by NOT looking at OLD threads and instead looking at the stickies and newer threads which will provide all the information you could need and more. But that is of course just a suggestion. By all means keep trying.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] syntrix:
REALLY? And no link provided?

---------- Post added at 01:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:38 PM ----------

Most of the stuff here, even the roms say install CWM and root required, not seeing the latest root thread, please elaborate... yes I've read all of this thread.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] foobaz123:
You're asking for a link to a sticky thread are ya? For a link to one of those threads right at the top of the forum? You've 200 some odd posts on here, I trust you know what stickies are, no? As such, I'm sure you can find it or do you need us to do the flashing for ya?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] syntrix:
There's also a "new root" thing here on the first page... link is broken.

jerdog, please provide links. You are quick to say search, but you fail.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] foobaz123:
A link is broken on a post nearly five months old and several versions of Prime back? Surely that may be an indication that this is not the proper guide to be following. That, or the sticky at the top of this forum which speaks of Prime 2.1.0. It could be that too, no?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] syntrix:
Not seeing the sticky.

Maybe it was on rootz, but links are broken.

Did you have more to add?

---------- Post added at 02:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:11 PM ----------

Yup, link broken inside:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1035197

Is that what you were vehemently referring to as one of the few stickies here?

---------- Post added at 03:05 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:13 PM ----------

Guess I'll have to start a new thread since the noobs that try to bite can't help.

Wish there was a -1 here, ugh. Again, I've posted what I have, other links are broken here in the sticky thread, etc.

I'm happy with my stock TF, just wanted to spice it up a little. I got more than spice, I got hate where the hate didn't even know what was broken.

Now phones, that's a different area that I love. :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] oka1:
SYNTRIX, HERE IS A LINK : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaZ4B60OWmY

This youtube will guide you through an older method of rooting (as this seems what you are comfortable with).

Be Advised once links in posting get too old the link is often broken (a hint to look for more current information). There are other methods you need to search. DO NOT FORGET TO DO SEARCHES IN GOOGLE TOO !!

This will help you find what you are looking for. Please use all the tools.

I will look at the broken links and see about cleaning up the postings.

OKA1 Moderator
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] jerdog:
You want links? Hmm - let's start with the first sticky that says:

!!!!! SEARCH BEFORE POSTING !!!!!! All Questions Go In The Q&A FORUM!!

but let's move past that one for a second.

You say that you read all the threads and couldn't find anything relevant for rooting this device you just acquired. Ok - plausible. But these two threads here have stayed on the first page of the Eee Pad Transformer Android Development page since the threads were first created but you could have missed them:

ASUS Transformer Root ToolKit V7.1 Universal (Windows) [v6 WW,US,TW,TB,DE(8.6.5.x)]

[US/WW/JP/TW/DE/TB] One-Click Universal root for stock firmware - V4

Here's something you should probably understand about the forums on XDA. If you have to read through a few pages of threads in a forum that has a LOT of activity given it's a device that is very popular, to something that hasn't been touched in 3 months - chances are you're reading something that is too old to be valid and you should go back to the beginning and read again. Those two threads above have all the information you need and make it nice and easy for you - and were at the beginning of the page and you just missed them.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] syntrix:
Nothing against you, but neither of those were sticky, and search is obfuscated these days with so much content. The promising sticky one had the link to the files broken.

I'll try that universal, that should get me in the right direction next weekend.

Thanks for posting those links, really appreciate it. Sorry if I took a negative tone, but obfuscated threads like these (as reported), should be locked or a mod should update the first thread when it's way too old and when it comes up.

I completely understand, been through MANY devices here. This thread was the one that came up in search and even google.

Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] thebadfrog:
This isnt a current method then? I'm lost. Please help
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] syntrix:
see one click above. Haven't tried it yet. That's where mods are steering, yay! I will try tomorrow or the next day.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] sretlow:
Can I also root a transformer with 8.6.5.21 software? The same way, so to go back to earlier firmware and rooting afterwards?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] simemu:
I have too HRI66_DE_epad_8.2.3.13.

Can I use "WW_epad-user-8.2.3.9.zip" instead of "US_epad-user-8.2.3.9.zip" to convert my SKU DE to SKU WW and then upgrade to WW_8.6.5.21 ?

Regards
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mike6200:
I do have cwm and no official 3.1
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] danielsjam:
Thank you so much for putting this information in one guide. I rooted my TF using this guide and everything went smooth and I am back up and running (rooted on 3.1).

JD
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] tycoonbob:
Just wanted to let you know that everything has gone smoothly after that. Got the custom CWM installed without a problem, and I'm flashing Primordial v3.1 right now! Boy am I excited!

Hope my experiences will help someone out! Thanks again.

EDIT: I just had a nergasm watching the Primordial boot screen. All my PC builds use ASUS mobos, so it was awesome seeing the bios like screen, and the binary bee was awesome too!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] r34p3rex:
HAH I had the same reaction when I first saw it

Which ROM are you trying to install? An official ASUS ROM or a custom ROM (like Prime)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] mike6200:
custom. was thinking about prime