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[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
Here is my latest TWRP boot backup (on Zeus v4). System is uploading as well, but at 400meg it'll be a bit.

edit: and here's the system backup -

edit2: apparently i didn't hit save when changing the share options for the boot backup. it's fixed now.

EDIT3: I removed the links from this post. For some reason people keep requesting access to download them. People, one person has already bricked their device by restoring them while on the JB bootloader. Please learn from their experience!
[Asus Transformer TF700] jaxboater:
Using twrp

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Let me know if you need a copy of the back up.
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
Well you use TWRP to install firmware as well as restore backups so we were curious as to which it was. From your 2nd comment there it looks as though you're just doing a restore.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jaxboater:
Correct - just restoring ICS & JB via twrp.

Also found an app called Night Mode that works good on dimming down the brightness.
[Asus Transformer TF700] whitedragon33:
Anyone else missing the stock camera app after going to the TF300 firmware?

Not a deal breaker, I used a 3rd-party camera app, but I'm curious.
[Asus Transformer TF700] DMardroid:
Did you guys update after flashing the Hydro base ROM? Gets rid of the fc settings issue.

BTW I'm chiming in from the tf300 side. You guys are pioneers :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] fbi2010:
just my cent (french user) : with a tf700 just rooted, no problem at all with method 1, jb ok actually runs fine...

i even forgot to wipe and so so all my apps and setup and datas remained.... just like a normal upgrade.

of course i took ww tf300 version...

runs fine actually....

so just to confirm : my tf700 is NOT unlocked at all just rooted
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
Mine is there, weird...
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
Before you do a Data Wipe/Factory Reset check if you can change Brightness.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kabauterman:
I was not able to go into the JB Stock recovery, so maybe there is no way to wipe if you are not unlocked and on TWRP.
[Asus Transformer TF700] fbi2010:
of course, i have brithness pb.... temp solved by some apps...

i have no pb with stock camera and i did not do any wipe until now....

next is to load hydro, this time i will wipe if i can !
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
The reason why I asked is because stock brightness controls WERE working for me when I first upgraded the firmware. It wasn't until I Wipe/Data Factory Reset that it stopped working...

Or maybe I'm just crazy :silly:
[Asus Transformer TF700] kabauterman:
Nice, now I'm bricked...

F*** this **** up! Guys do not try to flash another backup!!

But my bootloader no more shows that it is locked... lol

€: I dont understand with a boot and system backup ****s up my bootloader, fastboot and all.. only this what works is APX Mode...
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
Mine didn't brick. It just hung on the ASUS boot screen...

Still didn't work though...
[Asus Transformer TF700] kabauterman:
and you can still go to recovery and your bootloader is still unlocked?
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
In this instance, by "flash" you mean restore, right?

You are correct in your assumption that restoring a boot (kernel) and system backup should not mess with the bootloader. Anyway, I have taken the backups down since they don't seem to work with the new bootloader.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kabauterman:
Yes I mean restore..

all seemed to be fine :-/ but after reboot just stuck at ASUS first bootscreen

bootloader seems to be relocked now but nothing does, no fastboot, no recovery, nothing

rebooting and APX works but it does nothing.

Does anyone have an idea?!
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
no more 'this device is unlocked' message eh? interesting. no adb access either?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
@ kabauterman : Sorry mate, but looks like a hard brick to me...
[Asus Transformer TF700] kabauterman:
no adb, no fastboot, no "The device is unlocked" just ASUS in the middle and nothing happens...

****...
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
no recovery either?
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
is there a way to revert back to stock .26 or any other ics rom for tf700t
[Asus Transformer TF700] jaxboater:
Only way I can 'revert' back to .26 ICS is to use twrp & revert to one of my backup copies.
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
Is there any reason for ASUS (or would it have to be nVidia?) not to release a utility for unlocked devices that performs the same functions as nvflash? Seems to me it could save a lot of people a lot of headaches and would really help foster extra development for these devices.

The functionality is built-in, it seems ludicrous to keep it locked down on devices that are no longer warrantied anyway.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
There really is no reason not to release a nvflash or similar tool. They must have it since APX mode still exists.

Speaking of I can't find an APX mode driver for the TF700. Even Universal Naked Driver won't work.

I bricked my SL101 once and couldn't get to anything but APX. Let the battery drain, recharged and recovery worked again.

Since your device no longer says unlocked I bet you could return it...
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
where can i find the boot blob for jelly bean??? or how can i flash the foot for jb?
[Asus Transformer TF700] scanta2:
If I change the light intensity I get in logcat:

dataChanged but no participant pkg='com.android.providers.settings' uid=10082
[Asus Transformer TF700] morkster:
Installed JB, now trying to install TWRP using the fastboot bootloader. It seems adb is not recognizing the tablet, I can run the fastboot commands succesfully, but nothing happens. tried all ADB drivers I could find, but to no avail. Anyone have a fix? Oh I'm on x64 windows 7...
[Asus Transformer TF700] wolfman87:
why dont you just install it w. GooManager?
[Asus Transformer TF700] morkster:
tried that, doesn't work either. it installs, but no recovery on reboot
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
has anyone figured exactly why we can flash jb on the tf700t???
[Asus Transformer TF700] hiemanshu:
I assume the update doesn't really replace all TF700T files that are needed for running, only updates the OS mostly and not the binaries, which well makes perfect sense, dont update what doesn't need to be updated. This is my assumption, I could be wrong too.
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
probably because the two devices are so similar. and you would think the stock recovery would check that the firmware matches before flashing it, but apparently it doesn't.
[Asus Transformer TF700] morkster:
Tried every method to install twrp to revert back to previous rom. nothing works so far. anybody else experience this?
[Asus Transformer TF700] saltxyz:
After installed JB firmware, I noticed clock is reset to 2000/1/1 when enter recovery mode (TWRP).

But it does not happen after revert to ICS .26 backup.

Also max CPU clock is 1.7Ghz with JB but 1.3GHz with ICS.
[Asus Transformer TF700] maxrdlf95:
Now Im want to come back to ICS and I can't Im going today to best buy to see if they have it on stock it looks like best buy canada doesnt have it anywhere I dont want JB it runs so laggy..
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
Is your bootloader unlocked? It HAS to be unlocked to install a Custom Recovery.
[Asus Transformer TF700] fbi2010:
well, having no BB close (i'm in france !), i just do a stupid test, i download ics tf700 zip from asus, put it on sd, boot my tf700 with jb300 and once booted, i got a popup proposing an system update, be quick to clisk ok becose it appears half a second but once i managed to leave my finger above the ok area, it told me i will downgrade and it just rebooted...

upgrade is running now (well back to ics...), i am at the beginning of blue line actually...

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well, upgrade stops after one minute on blue line, rebooted on .... my previous jv but all emty as new install....

i try again because it proposed me again to downgrade letting me time to click ok to confirm my choice twice this time....:o

let's see...next !
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Sure - make Best Buy pay for your mistakes! <sigh>

You knew exactly what you were getting into when your purposely flashed a firmware meant for a completely separate device and now that you don't like it, you think it's ok to simply exchange it at the local Best Buy??
[Asus Transformer TF700] kabauterman:
JB laggy?! ICS is laggy...

I think JB Kernel is not the best because it runs realy to much time lower than 475 MHz.. with SetCPU you can change this but maybe it would be tweaked when the final JB for our tablet arrives

But the unlock app just runs on ICS :D

so not unlocked and on JB means that you are very very limited to the system what you have now ;)

Maybe he is so stupid that he "accidently" don't know wich tablet he has and installed the TF300 ROM..

But If you are still on locked bootloader I think it is more ASUS Mistake that it is possible to flash the wrong ROM.

Just one line in the updater-script and it will never be possible to install it on the TF700 without changing the ZIP, what means checksum and sig is wrong and you can't install it anymore in stock recovery.

So, sure it is "bad" but otherwise ASUS haven't done anything against..
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
i would refrain from doing that. for one, the JB bootloader does not allow flashing a previous version and two, if somehow you did get it to flash, you'd most likely end up bricking your device.

better to just wait until the official JB firmware is released.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
The unlock app does work on JB. That's how I unlocked.
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
kabauterman - could you edit your post where you quote my post in which i provided links to my twrp backups and take out the links?

people keep requesting access to download them. no idea why. they are apparently more of the type that don't read all the relevant information first. i've already removed the links from the original post.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kabauterman:
Maybe they realy realy hardly want to brick there device :D

I edited
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
hah! yeah maybe they feel like offering your tab some companionship in the land of the bricked?

thanks. :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
I have seen some of you guys talking about flashing "hydro jb", i assume we are talking about:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1854212 ?

Is it safe to just flash it? Any tips/howto/noob-help doing this?
[Asus Transformer TF700] DMardroid:
Thats the one bud.

The "how to's" are all there in the op. Even a step by step video for ya.:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] maxrdlf95:
So I cant change my tablet because the 14 days already pass so I hope JB release soon cus the tablet isn't the same as when it had ICS..

Edit

I installed hydro and Now the tablet its so fast come developrr should fix the brightness problem :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
One last safeguard before hell breaks loose, did you use the TF300T TWRP? Flashing fails on mine with the TF700T one
[Asus Transformer TF700] maxrdlf95:
No use twrp forma tf700 not tf300
[Asus Transformer TF700] morkster:
tablet seems to be unlocked as I get that message during boot
[Asus Transformer TF700] ka1z0ku:
Anyone know if a developer is working on making a rooted or custom ROM based on this? Also, if I don't get a succesful flash using the fastboot method can you fastboot back to stock or are you stuck with a brick? Thanks!
[Asus Transformer TF700] DMardroid:
Done :D

HyDRO JB rom

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=30729425
[Asus Transformer TF700] tyfoxx:
want to try but....i will wit a while
[Asus Transformer TF700] vegandroid:
can anyone post screen shots of what this looks like after a flash with nothing changed?
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
so when im running the antutu benchmark test when running the graphics test it performs horribly. but when im actually playing games it runs just as it used to. is it possibly antutu is misreading something???

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it doesnt work. wont even flash. trying to figure out a work around at the moment though
[Asus Transformer TF700] rdejager:
I did methode one in the OP of that topic. and it works just fine for me :P

Though remove one line in the updater script the assert one :P
[Asus Transformer TF700] Diogenes5:
Can someone confirm that Hydro works on the TF700. I tried Zeus but every launcher I tried still crashes when I load too many widgets. He did a great job on the rom but I want jelly bean for the increased stability.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
It seems safe to try, looks like some people have done it, but to be honest jb stock isnt bad! Drains battery like a ***** though. And hanging around waiting for the official update kinda sucks, but no regrets rite?

EDIT: Mine fails at checking partitions or something, but it might just be me who is doing it wrong <- forgot to actually answer your question
[Asus Transformer TF700] Diogenes5:
Guess ill just stick to zeus for now. Was praying for jelly bean. Tablet has been frustrating ever since i got it. Woyldve kept my tf300 if i had known it was vetting jellybean so earlier and waited on the incinity otherwise.
[Asus Transformer TF700] bryan.let:
I am also having trouble flashing Hydro over top of the official tf300 rom

I get the same getprop("ro.product.device") == "tf300t" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "tf300t"

Has anyone else found a solution to this issue ??

Id really like to install hydro on my tf700

Bryan
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
C'mon guys this was on page 2.

:p
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
why doesnt the brightness setting work even on jellybean hydro??
[Asus Transformer TF700] lafester:
because its for the tf300.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
Man this really frustrating ... why are some people able to restore ics via twrp backup while others get bricked ?

I have a full twrp backup but i am afraid that trying to restore it will hardbrick my device...
[Asus Transformer TF700] dasunsrule32:
Doesn't this update fuse the PBL aka no more nvflash? SBL (fastboot) can still be unlocked using the code, but we'd need to have the SBK to do anything via nvflash now. Let me know if this is true or not. Thanks!

In other words, wait for CM10 for Jelly Bean. :) Don't flash anything that will permanently lock your device. fastboot is crap on tegra devices and without the SBK, it's impossible to write to the device partitions with it if fastboot takes a dive, which is fairly common on tegra devices.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
no need to worry. if you yourself did the backup. than restore it. done restore someone elses recovery.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
Well I just tried that and the good news is my device is not hardbricked ...

the bad news however is that the restored rom does not boot its stuck at the asus logg with device is unlocked written in the top left corner ...

I can however boot the recovery kernel and go back to jb ...
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
Im getting the same result as you, but i did have to flash stock jb to be able to boot again. Obviously it did something to the bootloader since

flashing hydro didnt work?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
I just got back to ics ... here is what I did :

1. boot to TWRP recovery restore my (OWN!) boot sector backup from before flashing to jb

2. factory reset

3. install zeus 1.0 rom from zip file ( 3.0 or 4.0 might work too only had 1.0 atm)

4.wipe cache/dalvik

5. reboot

at the reboot it showed very shortly the blue installing bar but then the screen went off and the tablet went back to the first asus flash screen ..

I thought i was ****ed but then the screen went off again, stayed black for quite some time (couple of minutes) and then suddenly bam welcome back to ics :)

*Update: After this I was able to restore and boot my latest ics recovery file over twrp normally
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
So in other words you've been able to downgrade by just doing a full nandroid restore,is this correct?

Edit: This wasn't possible with the previous official roms (i.e downgrade from 26 to 22) ...anyway i hope this works for everyone that tested the tf300t JB rom. ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
not quite : just the backup restoring thing did not work but in combination with flashing a rom after restoring boot did the trick for me at least...

But it seems that this method has hardbricked the device for others in this thread
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
I'm not sure the others did the same procedure like you did and if it worked for you should work for other too.I'm not 100% sure but i rmember that when you do a nandroid backup the "boot partition backup" is not selected by default and you have to do it manually so maybe you did a complete backup (boot partition included) and the others not...but it's just my guess.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
You might be right .. I dont know if the others actually did backup boot before installing jb ...

All I know is that after using the hydro jb rom beeing back on zeus 4.0 ics feels like walking through mud ... everything seems a little slow and unresponsive compared to jb :(

I would have stayed on the tf300 jb when it would not have had such abysmal batterylife
[Asus Transformer TF700] jaxboater:
That's also what I did and is why I can flip from ICS to JB and back (via twrp)

Find an app (I use Night Mode) to turn down the display and you'll find the battery is back to 'normal'.
[Asus Transformer TF700] okantomi:
Yes, even my now "ancient" OG Xoom on teameos JB just glides along as if on "melted butter!"

For smoothness, JB is the best OS yet. It will definitely improve the Infinity experience.
[Asus Transformer TF700] dasunsrule32:
Ugh, yes, need to worry. nvflash > fastboot. If you soft brick with fastboot, you've just turned into a hard brick... You guys need to make sure this isn't lighting the fuse in the PBL, if it is, I would stop flashing this and would seriously consider not flashing and official OTA for the tf700*. This will make it dangerous to even flash custom ROM's with nvflash lit..., just sayin'
[Asus Transformer TF700] morkster:
Can somebody please tell me what i should do to get twrp installed? Nothing worked so far (goomanager, fastboot et cetera) anyone else experience this?

Thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
I used the fastboot method
[Asus Transformer TF700] morkster:
hmm that doesn't work for me, it ADB cannot find the device
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
For me it didn't show up when I typed the devices command too but I could push files etc. anyway
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
Confirmed, working for me as well! Lufterfischer, you have balls. Thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] morkster:
I can push the files, but cannot reboot afterwards and recovery is not installed.. seems real odd to me
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
ics is not the same after you have the jb bootloader. zeuz rom will lag very heavily. your better off with the jb for now
[Asus Transformer TF700] lilstevie:
what did you backup exactly (& how) and how did you restore it?
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
Can someone pull the stock ICS /proc/config.gz for me?
[Asus Transformer TF700] jaxboater:
Can I use 7zip to pull the file.

I'm learning to play with Android
[Asus Transformer TF700] newellj79:
Here you go.

http://db.tt/1mm2Mrz6
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
I would just use Root Browser to copy it from /proc to /sdcard then pull it onto your computer.

I think 7zip will work to ungzip, I personally use PeaZip.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
thank you sir!
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
im thinking the guys that can't restore a backup and get it to boot are experiencing the same issue some had when we were testing CM10 builds. they all had to flash the stock image to get up and running again and then restore their /data & /system. for some reason their /boot backups were no good.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rdejager:
I always used this to do my kernel stuff for the Hero back in the day, commands are kinda the same I think on linux since its sorta linux in windows. good luck with it :D

Guide FYA boot.img
[Asus Transformer TF700] ultramegaman963:
why do i lag so much after i restore my zeuz 4.0 backup. its ridiculously slow. i know im running jb bootloader. so is that it???is there a workaround
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
that's what most people seem to think is the cause for the moment.
[Asus Transformer TF700] saltxyz:
According to CoolTool, max CPU speed is down to 1.17GHz@blanced and 1.37GHz@normal.

I don't know why max CPU speed is down even though use the same ICS kernel. But I guess it's the reason why so laggy with ICS kernel.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
Tried setting it back up with SetCPU ?
[Asus Transformer TF700] saltxyz:
No, I didn't.
[Asus Transformer TF700] puff8stuff:
Just as a quick recap.

I can flash the stock-mod TF300 JB roms on my TF700 with a few tweaks:

I use the updater script that is in this thread, OR rip the updater script from your mystic rom.

I flash the kernel in the OP after I flash the TF300 stock-mod rom.

The only bugs i should experience are wifi direct not working, auto brightness not working without a third party app and dpi needing to be set manually in the build prop?

I will also suffer poor battery life from the TF300 rom and the cpu clock won't go past 1300mhz.

In order to get back to a stock ICS I have to resore a TWRP system back-up that included the bootloader backup option aswell?

But the restored ICS wont run as well as it did initially unless i flash a .26 factory firmware from the official asus website

Am I missing anything?
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
That's about it. Kernel in OP fixes DPI not being able to be changed and should work in any JB ROM. Of course if the ROM has a custom kernel that will be lost.

Personally my CPU clock shows 1700 MHz without tweaking. Your mileage may vary.

Poor battery life seems to stem from Brightness.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
Yes you are missing that at the moment flashing back a. 26 (ics) bootloader seems impossible even with restoring an nandroid backup of boot so there is no way back right now
[Asus Transformer TF700] saltxyz:
JB bootloader can be replaced with .30 bootloader!!

I confirmed after installed .30 firmware, it replaced JB bootloader with .30 bootloader

and lag has gone with ICS kernel. I don't see any problem ATM.

Also TF300T JB works too but brightness issue still exists. (I restored TF300T JB backup by TWRP 2.2.2.1.)

NOTE: In my case, boot did not advance at ASUS logo with spinner at 1st time install. I need to install .30 firmware again.

P.S. Sorry for my English is bad, mate. :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] Lufterfischer:
Wow nice gonna try this asap ... if thats true then asus really are a bunch of nice guys :)

Edit: OK worked like a charm ...
[Asus Transformer TF700] Heiboe:
But its just us version out yeah? Has anyone tried flashing just the kernel posted under source?
[Asus Transformer TF700] almo40192:
I dont understand where this .30 firmware is coming from? Do i find this on the asus site? And another question, is this from the tf300 or the tf700?
[Asus Transformer TF700] MysticMgcn:
ASUS pulled it from OTA and their site. A few people have mirrors for it if you search in General. It is for the TF700.
[Asus Transformer TF700] urrlyx:
Pretoriano80 posted this link to a copy he has on his dropbox (I think its his dropbox anyway) in the Zeus rom thread:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/iwgp415cs4p56i0/dlpkgfile
[Asus Transformer TF700] Pretoriano80:
Those are kernel sources, don,'t try to flash that.
[Asus Transformer TF700] schulmane:
front cam fail

the front cam fail in 4.1
[Asus Transformer TF700] AndroidFileHost:
Thanks