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[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
I came across this issue once and you need to manually install the ADB drivers from Windows Device Manager. Btw why do you need ADB in recovery mode?
[Asus Transformer TF700] wizardofkoz:
When I hold down the power and volume down for 5 secs this is where I end up. With an Android on his back with a triangle with an ! in it.

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ADB drivers are loaded. RootDebug tool says I need to load drivers. What else?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
I don't know why you are trying to root in recovery mode, for rooting you have to start the tablet in normal mode with adb debugging and unknown sources enabled, that's all.
[Asus Transformer TF700] wizardofkoz:
Got it. The first thread I read said to hold down power and volume down button and then run rootdebug tool. Then I tried without doing that and it still did not work. Tried running the tool with administrator privileges and still did not work. Deleted drivers from the computer through the device manager and started over. Ran the tool again and it finally worked. Don't really know why it didn't work the first 10 times, but finally it loaded and ran. Now I am rooted. THanks.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Vo01985:
So rooting the device does not void warranty but unlocking the bootloader does? I thought the main purpose of rooting phones/tablets was to install custom ROMs, like I did with my smartphone.

I'm such a noob :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] esoxx:
This is not clear from reading #6 in the OP:

No harm though, after a re-boot it worked like a charm. :good: Thanks guys!
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
Your are right that part shouldn't be there and i don't know how it got there. I already had to restore half of the content in OP because has disappeared and i still don't know how (but i have a backup of this guide on my pc so restoring was easy) that could happen.

Anyway thx for pointing that (that part is valid but for a restore with stock recovery) i will remove that part asap.
[Asus Transformer TF700] 3rdamention:
Thanks so much for the guide. I was using the LCD Density App and that thing jacked my Infinity up big time. I will never use that application again. It wanted SuperUser clearance to save the Pixel Density, then when I checked Save & Reboot, my Infinity never turned on again. It just got stuck at the ASUS screen and wouldn't turn off. If I tried to power down, it just turned back on and stuck at the first Asus Screen.

I used the following directions and was able to get back to stock firmware.

Thank god.

*** Factory Restore after a softbrick ***

When You Need This?

* if you get stuck on Asus boot screen (the one with the spinning wheel)

Note: You need to have a working recovery (stock or custom) in order to use this method.

========= Recover with stock recovery =========

1) Download the latest firmware from Asus site (based os your SKU,eg. ww 9.4.5.26)

2) Extract the .zip file somewere on your desktop (the result will be another .zip file,use it for step 3)

3) Rename the extracted archive to "EP201_768_SDUPDATE" (without the " ") and upload it to a MicroSD card

4) Insert the MicroSD card in your tablet and use this button combination to Power ON and go to recovery --> Start the tablet by pressing Volume Down and POWER togheter for 5 seconds ,a message will inform you that you have 5 seconds to enter the recovery,press Volume UP before the 5 seconds expire.

At this point the device will go in recovery and should start updating your firmware .

So yeah, thanks for this guide and beware of the Pixel Density Application. I know someone from here created it, but It could not have been more clear that it messed my tablet up since I had never had a problem until I gave it SuperUser Clearance then it never turned on again.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MattZTexasu:
I've notice different things that the TF300, TF200, and TF100 are able to do that the TF700 cannot:

Built-in bluetooth support for PS3 controllers Fixed in JB

HDMI out issues: HDMI over DVI does not work. Also, the TF700 is missing the HDMI menu option called "scaling". Both are fixed in JB

unable to lock the navigation bar Fixed in JB

can't change the mouse pointer shape it's in a different place - under asus customized setting

I hope these are addressed soon, since they appear to be software issues. The DVI issue is particularly troublesome as it prevents me from replacing my laptop. I have a theory that the HDMI driver in the TF700 doesn't implement the protocol that the monitor relies on to determine resolution.

I'll keep this list updated.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Keion:
Isn't scaling unnecessary because of the native 1080p resolution?
[Asus Transformer TF700] jjdevega:
Noticed also the ability to lock the navigation bar below is missing. I used it a lot when I had the Prime for games and watching movies and letting my 5 year old play with my tablet without accidentally hitting buttons. Missing it. Hopefully they bring that back with the new JB coming soon.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MattZTexasu:
I don't want it to scale 1080p on my 1920x1200 monitor.
[Asus Transformer TF700] darkkterror:
Your monitor may have a setting in its' on screen menu to disable or control its' own automatic scaling. For example, my monitors have a setting called Aspect Control which I can set to 1:1 to prevent stretching a lower resolution video signal.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Dachande:
I noticed that mouse pointer options in the settings menu is missing, on my prime I would use the blue ring as a pointer instead of the black mouse because it was easier to see
[Asus Transformer TF700] allan1313:
Yeah I miss the native PS3 controller over bluetooth. I guess sixaxis will have to do.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Those settings are still there on my TF700.... Settings->Asus Customized Settings (Touchpad/Mouse). You don't have those settings on your TF700??
[Asus Transformer TF700] zenaxe:
This is my biggest complaint, too. Other than that, I'm pretty happy. Hopefully this'll get ported over with the JB update.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sledgie:
No lock bar.

Wifi Direct connects but doesn't work. (might as well not be there)

No Face Unlock

When Dock connected it doesn't actually show that it's charging with the >> lit up. Also, my dock seems to drain while the TF700 drains. Only way I can tell it's charging is by looking at orange button on top of Infinity.

Would have been nice to have HDMI options when connected, although on a 1080 it doesn't need it (but it does have extra pixels)
[Asus Transformer TF700] -BoneZ-:
The dock charges the tablet and will keep the tablet charged to a certain level until it is completely discharged.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
I am missing all of these features too.. especially the hdmi options. Can anyone get their tf700 to output actual 1920x1200? I have monitors that are that res and it still only outputs 1920x1080! I can't find any way to change this but I would like to find a work around or some way to set the config in the tablet to output native res only.
[Asus Transformer TF700] neo1738:
As of now the software on the TF700 will ONLY output 1920x1200 resolution. Unless you have a monitor/tv that can adjust the input itself and downscale it then no you can't use it. I don't know of any android apps out there that allows this to happen at this time.
[Asus Transformer TF700] allan1313:
Bring back the native PS3 already! !!!!
[Asus Transformer TF700] xRevilatioNx:
It doesn't make me a sandwich or transport me back to my spaceship. Dammit Asus! Slackers... :mad:
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
That is not true!! I want to see someone with a native 1920x1200 lcd that has it connected to the infinity at native resolution!! It will only output 1080 on vertical resolution. I have tried several 1920x1200 native monitors and even bought a brand new one for $300+ and it will not fill the entire screen no matter what. I want video proof of this claim-- someone, anyone, have a native 1920x1200 monitor that they can hook up to an infinity and use the monitor's menu to display the current resolution as 1920x1200?

There may be no apps that currently support that resolution but the launcher and other infinity screens should run at native res.

Word to the wise neo- test it before answering. You need a monitor that will support the native res... not very many monitors out there run at that resolution natively.
[Asus Transformer TF700] pileot:
Bluetooth support is there, get the sixaxis app its better than the default support anyways, lets you customize screen touches, etc. and set different profiles for different games.

HDMI over DVI does not work on newer devices because it costs manufacturers LESS to have the security / id profile included in their HDMI devices. Basically, when you plug in a device over HDMI the two devices talk to each other and set up a sort of security protocal. DVI does not have this and a lot of legacy devices do not have this which is why DVI to HDMI works but barely. You also have this problem with MHL adapters for your samsung phones, some MHL adapters support this newer profile, some do not. Those that do not don't work with some TV's. Just do your research and make sure the tech your connecting is compatible. Its like saying "My truck doesnt run on electricity! Why do i have to use gas?"

Scaling was needed when the HDMI signal being transmitted was lower resolution than 1080p. Since were transmitting a full HD signal there is no need to scale. Its already 1:1. No need to choose between upscaling or sending a smaller resolution and having it stretched or having it windowed or whatever. That is like asking why you get no money back when you buy your morning coffee and give the person exact change. I dont understand why so many people complain theres no scaling feature when if you stop to think about it you realize its a useless feature on this tablet.

Lock the navigation bar would be nice. Its about the only "feature" i can tell were missing.

Mouse pointer shape can be changed. I forget where the setting for it is, someone posted it on the forum here somewhere, mines currently the circle instead of the pointer. You can also root into the tablet and change what image it uses. Theres a thread about it somewhere....
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
So your answer to this thread about features we are missing was to tell us that you are not missing the features... save 1... then discount the need for features that others find useful and needed??? Nice post.

Scaling is needed on any device that may need to output to a different resolution than what the device is at natively.... not like asking for money back when getting exact change... pretty bad analogy. Saying there is no use for this function is silly. There may be no use for you, but many others out there would love that option and I think you are in the minority of users who think it is useless. A more tactful way to approach that would have been to ask if there was a reason that people need it. I can say without a doubt that it is a feature that I am asked about frequently since I support a large number of these tablets. I have had very little luck getting hdmi output to be reliable and compatible with full size monitors. The suggestion on the first page to set the ratio to 1:1 is no help since most monitors do not have that option... it is the monitor's default mode already and starts in that mode.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MattZTexasu:
A couple of things you wrote are wrong.

You are referring to HDCP. DVI does support HDCP. Both monitors I tested with are HDCP enabled and work fine with other HDCP devices over the same HDMI-DVI adapters that I used to test the TF700 with. Here is an informative article http://tv.about.com/od/hdtv/a/hdmidvihdcp.htm. You have to have a really old display not to support HDCP.

A scaling setting is needed for connecting the TF700 to a 1200p display. I have yet to experience this; but I've read that the TF700 will scale 1080p up to 1200p. It would be better if it did 1:1 on 1200p monitors. see this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=31420239&postcount=8

This may not be wrong; but it would be a lot more helpful if you provided the location or at least a link to the thread. You might as well be wrong about this too.
[Asus Transformer TF700] PAPB0007:
The TF101 had 2 speakers, and although there were issues with the balance it was nice to not muffle a speaker when stood it up in my lap in portrait mode.

Not a tablet feature, but the TF101 dock had 2 USB ports.
[Asus Transformer TF700] AnakiMana:
The TF700 has two speakers, too, doesn't it? They're just in the same spot, which I agree is poorly placed. I play games on mine and the sound is usually muffled to various degrees as I shift my right hand around.
[Asus Transformer TF700] pileot:
it could be that the HDMI / DVI cable / adapter your using does not support the HDCP? And i didnt know HDCP worked for DVI then again i've never really had cause to research it much. Learn something new every day! Thanks for the link :)

As for the ponter style go to settings / Asus customized settings / touchpad pointer style, change it from the arrow to the circle and back again. I knew it was somewhere but didnt have my tablet handy and was just about to rush off to work when i wrote my initial reply.

I also know over in the prime forum there was a way to change the cursor image to anything you wanted given root access tho i didnt care enough to bookmark it. A simple search should find it tho, logic would dictate that it would be very similar practice to apply to the Infinity.

And to jordanmw

Bluetooth controller support has always been there. The default controller settings given through android were nice but barely worked and were unsupported in most games and applications. Suggesting an app that lets you connect a PS3 controller and have more control than any default support is, in my opinion, a much better solution. Im sorry you disagree.

Additionally, my PS3 controller DOES show up in my bluetooth pair list. Perhaps your doing it wrong? This is without the sixaxis app installed so i know its not from that.

As to the scaling issue.... Honestly i dont know anyone with a higher than 1080p display so theres no way i can test it either way. I think as QHD displays become more widespread, or perhaps in the JB release it might be an included feature but for now i personally would love to see features that the greater population could use be implimented instead of something that only a handfull of people could enjoy.

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Reguarding the speaker issue

There are devices like this:

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/1x-Speaker-h...y_Zubehör&hash=item3cca81de18#ht_11844wt_1159

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/AMAZING-IPAD...ccessories&hash=item3f1c2f812c#ht_5341wt_1392

that can redirect the sound from the back of the tablet around to the front so it doesnt get muffled when you hold the tablet the wrong way. Bruce (an XDA member) is making a case for the prime with one of these integrated into it. Im sure i saw some standalone redirects you could stick to the back of any tablet on Ebay but lord help me i cant find them now.... When i do i will post them here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1839755 Bruce's case design. Something like this for the infinity would be great to help with the audio issue!

I know its not the best solution for the speaker issue but its an idea anyways to help with it. Lemme see if i can find the original one i was looking for....

EDIT

Not what i was originally looking for but relivant

http://www.trendhunter.com/trends/boast-sound-reflector

EDIT2

http://www.ebay.ca/itm/3-5mm-Tablet...aCables_JN&hash=item33799d670e#ht_3812wt_1392

Now THATS an interesting solution to a common enough problem :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Einride:
HDMI and DVI(-D) is the same picture signals, and HDCP is transparent to the cable, it just transfers the signal, encrypted or not. There are plenty of devices that doesn't support HDCP though, and if the TF700 enforces HDCP on TV-out, that's going to be a problem in many cases.

USB works fine (well, except that the mapping is a pain) with my Dualshock 3 controller, Bluetooth does not. I can't pair the controller in any way. Not sure what you've done to get it working. On the TF300 the controller could pair after connecting it via USB once if I understand correctly. On the TF700 this doesn't work. I do agree that an app like the Sixaxis controller is a better solution though, with the remapping and app profiles. That requires root, though.

It doesn't even make sense that the tablet, with a 1920x1200 display, is outputting 1080p. That means it's already scaling it down. Why not add proper settings for it? Make it actually useful for everyone? (And don't get me started on this stupid 16:9 FHD display abundance thanks to marketing bull****. I had CRT-monitors that had higher resolution than most displays today, and that was, what, 10 years ago? Apple certainly has done something right the last couple of years, even if this "Retina" thing is bull****. Okay, I did get started on the display thing :P )

Add the black/white crushing that happens on TV-out and the experience is less than optimal. I don't know if it's a limitation of Android or a choice by Asus but the lack of TV-out settings is certainly an issue. This half-assed option of TV-out that the tablet has now is pretty useless in my opinion.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Einride:
Cheers for the insight, jordanmw. Although, realising it's a hardware issue isn't uplifting of course :p
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
Below are links to the ps3service scripts from the TF300 and the TF700. They vary quite a bit. If you drop the TF300 ps3service script into /bin and double check permissions on it it should work. I'm assuming ASUS has different teams for different devices as I'm noticing a lot of the configs are the same but with options in a different order while others have more "functionality".

TF300: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ay9iolwcfbxu0wm/neZbWRkOON/ps3service-TF300

TF700: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ay9iolwcfbxu0wm/A2r-_mLTmH/ps3service-TF700
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
Wow... thanks for the info on the ps3 controller support. I can see the differences, hope that the next update to the infinity includes even more than the 300 did!
[Asus Transformer TF700] pileot:
Hmm.... Could we not use this method to get the taskbar lock or HDMI scaling back from the prime? Or is it more complicated than that?
[Asus Transformer TF700] scott.m:
WHAT?!?! I bought the tf700 because I saw people on YouTube using their ps3 controllers with their transformers. I bought fpse to play ff7 with it. I was literally about to go out and buy a ps3 controller for this in the next hour. Are you joking?

Asus is consistently REMOVING features from the transformers. WHY?!

- Tf700's home screen wallpapers don't shift with the changing home screen any more ether.

- And the tf300 lost support for wifi direct with the jellybean update. I imagine this 'improvement' will be included in tf700's jb update as well.

Is this just a way to force people to unlock their boot loaders and void warrenty? I know Asus must be suffering with all the defective units. I can't imagine why else they'd be stripping features out of new models and updates
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
It is a bit more complicated than that unfortunately, and I really just want the support in a stock rom that does not have to be rooted to support those features. Modifying the /system/bin is tricky and modifying anything there requires root. There are ways to easily brick your infinity messing around in there.

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The support is there, just limited. Best bet is to buy sixaxis from the app store and you will be all set!

They are adding features to some updates.... just not consistently. They actually did not remove anything from the tf700, they just did not add the features that I loved on the prime. I agree on the sentiment with Asus basically screwing people out of a warranty because they are left with no solution but to unlock and flash a non-asus rom. As far as the moving wallpaper, not sure what you are experiencing but mine does move. Try to change the wallpaper to a different one.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
Whoa whoa. You just have to watch what you buy. I personally have this: http://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-Call-Duty-PrecisionAIM-Controller-3/dp/B0043QT2GU

Yes it's not "true" bluetooth because it has a dongle, but it works GREAT!

And I know how to fix WiFi direct. It was one stinking line in a config that they took out. But that what I'm noticing comparing these two systems, they seem to have two teams working on these devices who don't seem to talk with eachother and don't seem to be sharing a common code base so they are constantly reinventing the wheel. Take the ps3 scripts I posted for example. They both "should" but the TF300's was written much more elegantly and in a way where more devices work. It's dumb.

Bottom line is that the TF700 is still an awesome device and with the right devs we can do or fix just about anything ASUS "breaks".
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
Not running custom, and you are right about the scrolling wallpaper.... just didn't really notice since my wife has had it on the animated grass one since we got it.

I agree with your post 100%, Asus has always been one of my favorite brands but they are really screwing the tegra 3 tablets up royally!
[Asus Transformer TF700] pileot:
Welcome to android. I know of very few android devices that are not "made better" with customizations from the community. Rooting, in all honesty, is not a difficult process and relitively safe. Sure there are a few things you can bugger up but all in all if you read about what your doing and make sure your informed you should be safe.

Sixaxis is, by far, the best PS3 controller app i have ever used. Lets you do much more than the default bluetooth control would ever let you do.

Just make sure wherever you get your sixaxis controller from if its not the brand name PS3 controller it might not work.

Alternatively pretty much any USB gamepad, wireless or otherwise, that i have tried has worked. Just plug it into the dock (chances are your using the dock to hold the tablet anyways) and away you go!

As far as Asus goes... Im with you on that one their computers rocked, it boggles my mind why they are dropping the ball so hard with these tablets. Poor customer service, inconsistant service (helping some people with repairs when they used the unlock tool, denying simple fixes because someone was rooted, wtf?) In all it makes me think maybe its worth getting the aftermarket warrenties on this thing, i just dont wanna have to deal with Asus' incompetence.
[Asus Transformer TF700] CandyAndy:
I dont have a scrolling wallpaper either. I don't think anyone has that on TF700. No idea why have to remove it. It was one of the cool things about Android.

Same with new touchwiz on SGS3. For some reason take out the scrolling wallpaper. I feel it is a bit boring.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jordanmw:
Now that I have realized it is gone.... of course I miss it! Darn, maybe if nobody had mentioned it, it would not have bothered me.