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[Android General] Ivalex:
Yeah... bit you can still dwld from their www and flash the zip via recovery. That's my understanding

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Doin that tonite. Keep you posted.

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[Android General] MrPhilo:
I'm quite annoyed because I found out a seller in the UK selling the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB for quite cheap.

64GB for the £609.00, my 32GB cost more than that, plus the VAT as well. I just thought i'd share so anyone else buying from the Taiwan sellers should consider these.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Asus-PadF...30832?pt=UK_Mobile_Phones&hash=item35c1f69ab0

Please be aware that there feedback isn't that high, 36 feedback but 100%, I did check there seller feedback and they did sell some item at high prices (Macbook for £750) etc. I hold no responsibility if they are actually a scammer.
[Android General] schriss:
Well, I personally wouldn't risk it. I only buy from sellers having at least hundreds of feedback. Maybe the person traveled to taiwan and brought few for sale. I'd rather pay 60 more and get from Taiwan seller who has 4000 feedback.
[Android General] schriss:
I can't wait! :fingers-crossed:
[Android General] MrPhilo:
Yes but then an extra VAT of 20% plus £12 custom fee. Thats gonna go over £800. I'm just gonna watch the item until he gets more feedback from his other products he is selling.

I found that he sold 13 Nexus 7, but the Nexus 7 was put up today. Hopefully they'll start giving him feedback when they receive it along with his Nexus 4 16gb (sold 6). So we'll see!

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ASUS-Goog...=UK_iPad_Tablets_eReaders&hash=item35c1efe85d

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Google-Ne...=UK_iPad_Tablets_eReaders&hash=item35c1f43d03
[Android General] Ivalex:
here's what I have:

1. put padfone in fastboot mode (power + vol up)

2. run "fastboot boot insecure.img

reply is

"downloading 'boot.img'...

OKAY [ 0.408s]

booting...

OKAY [ 0.018s]

finished. total time: 0.430s"

3. padfone restart, or it seems so. but then screen of, when i unplug it it restarts normally.

looks it is ok, or it looks so to me.

what about that?
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
I have to say, getting hold of that many Nexus 4s and selling them at a loss, with only 36 feedback... not good for the credibility.
[Android General] schriss:
I don't have experience with booting boot.img but it appears it did boot fine.

Did you try some ADB commands after it booted?

adb root

or type

adb shell

see if you have # instead of $

found these instructions:

Now we have to soft-boot an insecure boot image by typing fastboot boot boot.img into the command prompt

When the phone has rebooted, open settings, and go to Settings -> Applications -> Development and check in the USB debbuging option.

Now execute all of these following commands, after each other, in the command prompt:

adb root

adb remount

adb push su /system/bin

adb push Superuser.apk /system/app

adb shell chmod 06755 /system/bin/su

adb shell chmod 06755 /system/app/Superuser.apk

Now your device should be rooted and ready.

You can find SU and SuperUser.apk in this file (ignore other files in the archive): http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15110285/FYA Files/GNexus-root-package-FYA.zip

or in this flashable ZIP in relevant subfolders: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/45827235/SU_Busybox_1.20.2_Flashable.zip

So the procedure is to boot insecure boot.img, then follow steps to root the phone (push su and superuser) then boot normally and the phone should be running stock Boot and System, but rooted.
[Android General] jessada98:
just hope we can update to JB soon and root it !!!!!! :fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed:
[Android General] Ivalex:
So the procedure is to boot insecure boot.img, then follow steps to root the phone (push su and superuser) then boot normally and the phone should be running stock Boot and System, but rooted.[/QUOTE]

... OK that's one of the procedures I tried last week, unsuccessfully... but without an insecure boot.IMG.

Now with an insecure image.

By the way schriss, did you create your image basically with this:

ro.secure=0 in default.prop?

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[Android General] scottmog:
Damnit im so jealous right now...
[Android General] bluebobx:
I just headed over to Orange UK and I can't find any sign of that deal. That said - I've not been impressed with Orange's data allowances. :(

As to the PF itself, I'm not so sure that I'm willing to wait for it to arrive - still seems to be a lot of uncertainty over it. e.g. AmazonUK aren't even listing it - which seems a bit strange if the June availability in the UK is as certain as some people are suggesting. Ditto for Expansys (who are usually pretty quick off of the mark), the page is still at "pre-register for updates" which isn't a good sign if it's due "imminently".

So, I think I'm going to end up going for a lesser device - probably the Galaxy S3. But I'll still look enviously at the PadFone. Heck, if there's a "PadFone2" (which I really hope there is) next year, then maybe I can "trade up". :D
[Android General] olly230:
I worked that out as buying the phone and station (not keyboard) out right and sim only contract for 24mnths

I've never used more that 300MB in a month ever.

Too close to open wifi all the time.

THe apple deal is real though.
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
jlyne1234 - do you have the keyboard dock? What layout is it, US, UK or something else?

Most importantly, if you have the pad dock in the keyboard dock, closed, without the phone, does the battery drain? That was the big thing for me, the battery drain on the TF101. If the padfone docks don't drain battery when connected without a phone, that's a winner for me.
[Android General] Steven82:
why would it drain? surely it needs the phone to tell the dock to charge the tablet?
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
That's why I'm asking someone who has one ;)

No, I can't see why it would. But I'll feel better about it when someone confirms it.
[Android General] compact_wisdom:
For me, the padfone tries to be too many different things. But there's def. a market for such things, why not try it?
[Android General] Marlinn:
Yep, that makes it so special, it's a good phone, which turns into a good tablet, which turns into a good netbook :D About the weight, I mean I've never had a netbook but come on 1,5 kg? Thats not alot..
[Android General] tasul:
Hello,

I just bought a padfone from taiwAn and i am looking for rooting this device. Does someone know how to help to realease a rooting tool or If their is any universal rooting soft ?

Thanks
[Android General] Silverdragondk:
According to ASUS the Padfone gets released in Denmark in mid June, I can't see why the UK should be different?

"ASUS will expand a New Mobile Horizons with the PadFone™ and PadFone Station

2012/05/21

Eagerly anticipated Android™ ICS smartphone and tablet dock combination will be ready to ship from mid-june"

http://www.asus.dk/News/

regards
[Android General] Marlinn:
Still nothing on the Dutch site of Asus about the padfone :(
[Android General] cty.stuart:
1.5 is not a lot.. but it is quite a lot compared to the transformer prime ...
[Android General] olly230:
I had a little panic about the weight but phone and station come in at under 860grams.

200 grams more than the apple standard.

wearing a heavy coat whilst using it would probably create more effort than 200g
[Android General] ctraywick1:
Im still trying to get one sent to the us but this is good news for someone http://m.androidcentral.com/asus-padfone-and-tf700-set-australian-launch-july
[Android General] cty.stuart:
got my padfone today:)

just got hold of my padfone today. ordered the full set from taiwan. and since i pre ordered it, they threw in a free 16GB class 4 SD card and an extra original padfone battery for free :D

it's definitely worth the wait guys. slightly heavier (can't believe it's actually bulkier and heavier than tf101) but it packs a strong horsepower under the hood.

I believe Singapore is releasing it on 2nd June while Aussie is up in July. Meanwhile, Taiwan is still running low on stock in their market. so yeah, tat's the quick summary of current padfone availability.

Proud owner of padfone, padstation, keyboard dock, the cool bluetooth headset stylus and originl padfone leather casing :)
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Jealous. Really wanting to get rid of my Nexus S now...

So. Battery drain when screen docked to keyboard without phone?

Cheers :)
[Android General] jlyne1234:
I didn't get the keyboard as I was going to use my original transformer which does work but doesn't quite fit properly. Ill try testing for drain though as I also had that problem with my transformer.
[Android General] olly230:
how badly doesn't it fit?

Form 'that' video it seemed secure.
[Android General] Marlinn:
Sigh, I'd love to import the padfone from one of those countries, but if I do that, I'll need a Sim only contract and those are insane expensive, not to mention the slow internet speed.. Well I hope it's worth the waiting :)
[Android General] cty.stuart:
Not that i notice.
[Android General] schriss:
Yes and some other setting changed to 1 as in the instructions I Googled

You need to boot insecure, or won't be able to do anything.

Sent from my PadFone 2
[Android General] Ivalex:
OK. I'm inoculating the insecure boot tonite. And then rooting.

If you hear me crying....

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[Android General] Ivalex:
wow

.... gosh, nope. the insecure.img is not booting correctly. it is putting the phone in an undefined state, which looks like semibricked.

im trying now to create an insecure img starting from boot.img from WWE zip.
[Android General] schriss:
If you are running WWE Rom then it might be expected, I'm running TW and I created boot.img from latest TW zip. The instructions were pretty simple, just 2 free windows apps to download, cygwin and Notepad++ and the scripts to edit boot.img

Sent from my PadFone 2

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I used those instructions to create insecure Boot.img:

[DEV TOOLS] - Pack & Repack Boot.img Files - for Windows Users
[Android General] Ivalex:
damn, I tried with a pure WWE boot.img, but it doens't work. the modified img gives me the same result of your insecure_boot.img.

the phone is rebooting in QHSUSB_DLOAD state, which googling around seems to be a hard bricked state.

need to dig a little bit into other parameters to change...:confused:
[Android General] schriss:
maybe we're not editing/building the boot.img correctly? or we're making mistake when editing default.prop, which can, as the manual says, make it unreadable? The parameters are probably fine as I always see the same parameters used in any guide I find...

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according to google:

In my boot.img I also changed some other parameter as some guides suggested, not sure if that made a difference.
[Android General] Ivalex:
It's definitely the unpacking-repacking procedure. I made it without touching anything and the phone won't boot.

There's something in the script which do not apply to us. ..

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[Android General] schriss:
Could be the header thing, something the script adds when repacking.

There have to be other guides to read that value and store for using when repacking.
[Android General] Ivalex:
Ya. Hope google can assist us

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[Android General] schriss:
Strange, the how-to we used contains this:

So it SHOULD work. We're still missing something :) I'm googling for how to edit boot.img...

Maybe we're missing this: During the unpack, the original split_bootimg.pl outputs the kernel boot args as “Command line”, which should be included in the args of mkbootimg.
[Android General] schriss:
I have compared original Boot.img with my modified insecure_boot.img and command lines and base address are identical. So why won't the insecure boot.....

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by the way, this is modified split_bootimg.pl, modification is that it includes Base Address in output.
[Android General] schriss:
Good read on Boot.img editing here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1890553
[Android General] schriss:
I think the answer could be here: Android kernel: Find the base address to use with mkbootimg for your phone
[Android General] Ivalex:
hey maybe I caught something:

I made twice the extraction from boot.img to make sure addresses and sizes remain constant

then i took the new_boot.image and split it....

look at the image: first two extractboot are original, third is the "modified" image. ramdisk size is CHANGED. is that something that might prevent booting??:confused:
[Android General] schriss:
according to these instructions:

Base Address is: 0x80200000

I'm clueless why rebuilt boot.img won't boot... :confused:

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Yea, looks like packboot is doing some ramdisk compressing

Can you first unpack original boot.img

then edit packboot so the last line would use existing ramdisk? (not the new one which was recompressed).

If that repacked boot.img boots then we know problem is with ramdisk repack, this line here:

../mkbootfs ./ramdisk | gzip > ramdisk-new.gz

if so, we find other how-to or tool for ramdisk repacking :)
[Android General] Ivalex:
just did it. I let the pakboot taking the original ramdisk. still the same result, additionally the boot_new.img is lighter in size.

the fastboot is able to load this image on the phone, but then it doesn't boot correctly.

maybe the problem is within the kernel portion?

need to find out another tool:fingers-crossed:
[Android General] schriss:
That's strange, so packboot produces different size output when packing original boot.img and original kernel? that should produce same size I think...

I see mkbootimg being used with no problems, maybe the spliting/unpacking introduces an error. There are other tools for spliting boot.img
[Android General] schriss:
This is another method of spliting boot.img, I wonder if it makes any difference or at least outputs the same base address and other numbers..

http://linuxclues.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/split-bootimg-python-android.html
[Android General] Ivalex:
made some research.

here what i found:

if I take the two portion of the original boot.img kernel and ramdisk, and I merged again back, remember i told you the image is corrupted? as you said it is only in the boot header. using an hex editor, I corrected the wrong bits into the re-merged image and the phone is booting with it.

so I said to myself "why not using hex editor trying to change the original ramdisk, thus not falling into the size mismatch problem?

well, looks like it is hard-to-get as well. the ramdisk.gz file is a kind of CPIO/Gz archive, which is obviously hard to edit (can't find the ro.secure=1 of course). but I can edit the disk once I decompress the gz, and get the CPIO archive. here the ro.secure is well visible and editable. but then of course, still have the gzip issue, and once recompressed, I have the size mismatch back.

eventually, do you know about other archive manager other than gzip, to manage gzip compression? maybe using other software...

tks
[Android General] schriss:
I tried to find Gzip/CPIO archivers and failed. There was once WinTar but need full version to be able to write. So I gave up and started using the how-to's. CPIO is simply archived in text format, thats why it's also GZipped to make it smaller.

BUT if you install Ubuntu then according to how-to's it has all tools needed built in and its just a matter of executing commands.

So, if you follow steps and edit and then repack and then manually fix something with hex editor then its all good? If yes then still great as we wouldn't be doing this often.

You could manually pass header to packboot (by default it tries to read from original boot.img and maybe that fails) and then you wouldn't have to hex edit, right?
[Android General] hackbob:
I could help but I'm pretty busy with work today.

I've the VM with ubuntu that i use for sgs advance development, so I'm pretty sure that i can pack and unpack things following the guide.

I think it's best if you have space, to create a virtual box with xubuntu for future development (remember to make a big (at least 50gb) disk if you want to compile cm in the future
[Android General] schriss:
Can you document the manual hex editor fix that you applied that made the boot.img bootable again? Like a screenshot before and after you applied the editing?
[Android General] Ivalex:
here attached. above the new boot image. if you try booting from this you get blank screeen and that strange state.

if you modifiy the first two offset, by making them identical to the below, you get a perfect booting.

I tell you more: you get the fhone booting with modified boot_new.img even if the file size is different from the original one.

5.537.792 bytes (modified) against 5.539.840 bytes (original).

... now, are we maybe getting a wrong sized ramdisk when we split?
[Android General] schriss:
The file size I wouldn't be concerned about. Boot.img is 2 files put together and whatever headers or extra data is there wouldn't make difference as long as the phone boots.

So you can boot insecure too? That means you could easily root now by pushing few files.
[Android General] Ivalex:
... eh, here the problem, when you for whatever reason, modify the ramdisk, you get an unserviceable boot.img. that's why I was trying to modify it via HEX editor.
[Android General] schriss:
I see. Not sure if that would work if we modify compressed ramdisk with HEX editor then it could fail because archive would no longer be valid (not sure if gzip does checksum checks?)
[Android General] Ivalex:
we'll may give it a try. problem is that is hard to find that little "0" into the gzipped file... impossible let me say.
[Android General] schriss:
I can imagine. I'd rather find a way to compare 2 gzip files looking for differences. If in one file there is 0 and in the other there is 1 and everything else is the same, maybe the difference could be highlighted by those free tools used to compare 2 files looking for changes? Thing is that rebuilding ramdisk might use different compressing options than used in stock file, resulting in totally different file.

By the way, it might not be a 0, its compressed file so that can be any character, it might be tricky to find exact location and value to change with HEX editor.
[Android General] Ivalex:
exactly... I also noticed one discrepancy that might be nothing, but...

when you decompress via gzip command line the ramdisk it says "1194 block"

same gzipped back says "1191 block"

meaning that the decompression/recompression change something in the gz structure.
[Android General] schriss:
Then maybe can use different compression option until you get 1194 after compressing? Bigger number = more blocks = less compression I guess

Google found:

-1, --fast compress faster

-9, --best compress better
[Android General] Austech:
Smells like awesome in this thread.
[Android General] scottmog:
if anyone is interested in buying a Asus padfone 1 in great condition with dock and keyboard let me know.

Via PadFone on Tapatalk. Tablet/Laptop phone ftw!
[Android General] oroo708:
Anyone want to volunteer and test it?? Unlock Bootloader PadFone 1

but be warn. It may brick your device.
[Android General] vADimko:
it is a pity that such a great device has only one thread instead of whole branch. it is much harder to find interesting information, especially if your english is poor. I can't find some battery life screenshots. So please answer my question. Can smartfon (without padstation) hold 6-7 hours of web browsing or reading books/watching films?

thank you in advance.
[Android General] oroo708:
yes it can
[Android General] vADimko:
it's a very great news. are you a owner of this device or you read some owners replies? are there in this thread some screens of battery life that can give me more idea about it? I would be very grateful to you.
[Android General] allram:
I Bought the PF2 from TW yesterday and as of now i have 3hours on battery, wifi on all the time, 50min screen time (just sms and browsing) i have 92% left on my Galaxy S3 i had ~78% left at same time with the same use... so batterytime= very good
[Android General] schriss:
Regarding battery you can't really compare it simply, it all depends on Brightness setting and when set to auto then again depends on special asus auto-brightness setting and depends hugely on apps you have installed and if you reconfigured each and every one to disable notification or not and set to how often.

First thing to install is BetterBatteryStats and watch Partial Wakelocks configured to only count when screen was off. Then you know if and what is killing battery when you're not using the phone. That will extend battery life when actively using the phone.

When configured correctly, battery shouldnt drop much over night when AirPlane mode is enabled for the night. Get free app from Market to set schedule to turn AirPlane mode ON and OFF at specified times. Who would want phone be online from 2am to 7am and burn battery. I use this, it's dead simple.

That way you dont charge often and that means battery life in general is extended (fewer charge cycles).
[Android General] oroo708:
hey guy, when you unlock PF2 bootloader, is there any sign of registering to asus or any stuff like so?? and does fastboot work after unlock?
[Android General] Burley1:
I got mine last night and this thing is a monster "holy crap it's fast"

Both scores and real world, I thought my gs3 was fast..

Yes the unlocker works
[Android General] schriss:
You are unlocking with an app, not website, so I guess nothing sent back.

As far as I know it makes fastboot available.
[Android General] Ivalex:
Confirmed. Power+volup and You get fastboot mode

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[Android General] Burley1:
If someone is capable of playing with cwm recovery and some modems I would like to flash a t-mo radio on to it and am willing to pay for your time.

Rick
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Padfone 2 in The Netherlands and morev

[DEV/TEST] Unlock Bootloader PadFone 1
[Android General] schriss:
After you unlock Padfone 2 with the tool, is there option to re-lock?
[Android General] Ivalex:
Nope. Non yet

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[Android General] Burley1:
If anybody needs it I uploaded the unlock for the padfone 2 and it worked on my perfectly

https://hotfile.com/dl/181769479/5afb767/UnLock.apk.html
[Android General] schriss:
But re-lock can usually be done in fastboot, anybody tried that already?

fastboot oem lock

locking must be done after Boot.img is stock, or won't boot.
[Android General] Ivalex:
a right, oem lock... well forst I wanna root this f...g device, i'll try the re-lock only if needed. i.e. need to send back to ASUS for warranty repair.

i just start suspecting the unlock is not so full, as we're having problems booting with modified boot.img's.
[Android General] schriss:
If it didn't allow to boot insecure/modified boot.img, there would be no point in providing UnLock tool :)

It might be like on HTC One X, where its partial unlock, allowing to do plenty, including CWM and custom ROMs, BUT boot.img always needs to go via fastboot.

I'm fairly sure its the editing causing problems.

So far all of us used windows based tools, anybody followed how-to for Ubuntu? That would use native tools and might just work.
[Android General] Ivalex:
I tried yesterday with Fedora... no way

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