yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] terpio:
How do I properly get back to stock rom after I have flashed CWM and custom rom 1.1?

Hello, I am currently on a custom rom 1.1 by superdragonpt and I am satisfied with its performance :)

However, I would like to be able to safely return to the stock rom and the original recovery from Asus - if I ever need it.

I found the following set of instructions from sogoku_vn:

But I have a few questions:

1. What firmware should I use? I have ME173X_WW_user_4.2.4.06716_20130918_ASUS_STOCK_4.2.4 from superdragonpt's tut but there is also service version ME173X_WW_eng_4_2_3_36139_20130823 from the Russian?

2. Do I go only through that set of instructions or do I have to first go through superdragonpt's tut PART1 with Special Format #1 and #2 ?

3. When I go back to stock rom bootloader will be locked, right? And I will have to go through all superdragonpt's tut when I want have 1.1 rom again?

Sorry for my bad english. And Tnx for any help :)
[General Questions and Answers] superdragonpt:
Thanks for the support guys, it really means alot to me.

You can now download Rom v1.1 R2 from the Rom thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2503668

This is the ROM version 1.1. but with some minor fixs:

-Camera aplication DPI fixs (now you can see the full camera buttons layout)

- Email Sync fix (added missing AsusCalenderProvider.apk)

Thanks again, i will see you guys soon
[General Questions and Answers] kanefan67:
1. If you want to be able to receive updates you should use superdragonpt's ROM. The service ROM (which I also had on my PAD when I got it back from repair) did not receive the update to 4.2.4

2. I had to do the Special Format #1 and #2 to be able to flash the stock ROM.

3. There is an alternative way to have recovery and unlock the bootloader:

http://www.android-hilfe.de/asus-memo-pad-hd7-forum/486823-cwm-recovery.html

(have not tried it, but when this works it should be able to flash stock rom, unlock bootloader and flash recovery. Make nandroid backup of stock rom, flash superdragonpt's ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] invalidlinks:
failed ota

my memopad hd7 just now received an ota update.. i unrooted my phone.. and installed the update.. but during the process it got an error.. can anyone help me on this. i only rooted my table.. did not remove any stock software also i did not flash anything on it.

really appreciate it. thanks. :)
[General Questions and Answers] RyukiriYukiko:
I updated my tab yesterday with the 4.2.4 but now I can't root the tablet like before ç_ç
[General Questions and Answers] KalleEatingBrain:
I don't know if somebody archieved this before, but I managed to compile the kernel source from the Asus website.
[General Questions and Answers] numero2:
I rooted my tab (updated yesterday also) with framaroot wuthout problem.

Retry
[General Questions and Answers] alidsd:
That's great. Plz share your compiled kernel with tweaks.
[General Questions and Answers] tweakradje:
Check your update log files in /cache/recovery to find the problem :)
[General Questions and Answers] tonydd:
Say what now:what:

Just did my other tablet today. Thanks again :thumbup:
[General Questions and Answers] terpio:
Thanks for the help :D

I'm currently on a custom ROM v1.1 R2 and everything works great :D so I'm not going back to the stock rom in the near future :fingers-crossed:

But superdragonpt upgraded his wonderful Tut and now in post No.5 it is clearly explained how to get back to the stock rom from custom rom :)

All needed files can be downloaded from here: http://xdaforums.com/devdb/project/?id=1503#downloads
[General Questions and Answers] KalleEatingBrain:
Hey,

I added the missing source files from an OPPO smartphone that uses the same CPU, so I did infact build a complete kernel. Patching the kernel to a new version shouldnt be too hard, once you get the idea. I will set up git and will try to integrate with AOSP 4.4 and once I'm done with that I would be glad if you could help me with the device tree.

At first I'd like to build a clean rom without tweaks, thats working OK. So from there in wie have a proper base for tweaks, Miui, CM, Ubuntu Touch, PA, Kang and everything else.

I know, that from a kernel to a good ROM, it's a long long way but I will try.

Best regards,

Kalle
[General Questions and Answers] tweakradje:
[MENTION=5101644]KalleEatingBrain[/MENTION]: great news. Do you have also FM radio support in the kernel?

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Finally. Big thanks for posting this non "destructive" method of getting CWM installed.
[General Questions and Answers] superdragonpt:
Thats nice, but im sure you didnt managed to get the buildable sources ( hwcomposer, framework), mediatek only releases the kernel sources and most of the sources required some work, eg: the Mtkconfig...

To build CM/ PA its required to have all the sources, you cant build it with just kernel.

But hey, its an nice step forward let me know if you need some help.

As for kernel itself, yes we can add some extra features, but i really dont see anything usefull that can be added.

Dont take this wrong, but i already had my share, trying to add/ compile an MTK kernel in the past...

Let me get some time to check better our kernel sources, i only give it an quick look ;)

Thumbs up !
[General Questions and Answers] invalidlinks:
Thank you for replying , how do i check the logs like you suggested just now? I am not that good with this kind of stuff.. can you elaborate more on this. thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] KalleEatingBrain:
I hope the sources for hwcomposer and surfaceflinger can somehow be created since there are plenty devices out there to use the same chipset.
[General Questions and Answers] KalleEatingBrain:
JFYI

Hey guys,

I just gatherd my resources and while I am waiting for the sourcecode to sync, I'll do a small write up on what I am trying to do.

The first thing I've already done is to compile the kernel form the ASUS homepage. It uses some special skripts, which IMHO seem quite good and usefull. A small presentation on how to use them can be found at chinadmd, but there are other resources, too. At first I tried to follow those instructuions on with source code that's know to be complete and working, so I came accross the OPPO R819, which has a mediatek chipset, too, but opposed to many other manufacturs that sell MTK devices, they seem to care about open source. Here is the github for the OPPO R819, which I used to check, whether my build environment was sane and to get used to the skripts R819-Kernel-Source-4.2. (btw. reading the README and looking through the source code is good for understandig, too. Not the hardcore ****, but some python skripts can be quite helpful).

In the next step I extracted the ASUS source code, linked the build skripts to the root of the directory and tried to run a build. Of course it failed, so I added in bionic, from the AOSP. Still not compiling. I looked at the difference between the OPPO source code and the ASUS source code and moved some folders around. The /mediatek/misc/ folder contains the scatter file and the EBR and MBR files, so you have to replace them with the ones for our device. After you've done this you can compile a kernel by uttering

./makeMtk r k

or by changing into the kernel directory and doing as the readme told you.

So. Now we have a kernel. :highfive:

Next up is creating a whole rom from source code, but I've never done that before, so I'll just try to work my way along this and this and probably also this. Especially the last one is interesting and I will check if we can profit from the development for the Acer Liquid E2.

I think the biggest problem will be the integration into a bigger project like AOSP, CM or else, since the mediatek alps environment heavily relies on custom structure.

I hope some of you will follow along. As soon as I have a boot.img for you, I will share my github and start a new [dev] thread.

Best regards,

Kalle

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@tweakradje I haven't even flashed the kernel until now. I just got it compiled ;)

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@tweakradje I haven't even flashed the kernel until now. I just got it compiled ;)
[General Questions and Answers] tweakradje:
Great news KalleEatingBrain. It is a good start.

I see the oppo source has FM Radio support :eek: Great news. I like to use that one day.

Really looking forward for FM Radio to use the tablet in my car.
[General Questions and Answers] aigaming:
You can"t use fmradio it does not have hardware for it;)
[General Questions and Answers] quranmobin:
help

Hi everybody. I have an Asus memo pad hd7 me 173x. I have installed chainfire 3d on my tablet but now it cant boot up. Is there anu one to help me to boot it up?do you know how to install its original firmware?:crying:
[General Questions and Answers] tweakradje:
Yes it has. Search Google for mt6628 chip :)
[General Questions and Answers] shiki87:
We have the mt8125...

On some pages it says it does have FM radio.
[General Questions and Answers] tweakradje:
mt8125 is the (4 core) cpu.

mt6628 is a 4-in-1 wifi/bt/gps/FM, google it!
[General Questions and Answers] coolizard:
You can install the official/stock firmware following the instructions is post #5 in this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2503668. There are pictures in the first posts, all very good explained. Before, make sure your drivers are correctly install following this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2206421.

All this thanks to superdragonpt, our master for this device.
[General Questions and Answers] quranmobin:
will it run if I use a back up file?if yes is there anyone to do me such a favour and upload the back up file?:crying:
[General Questions and Answers] coolizard:
I don't know about any backup file, and the stock recovery only backup user data. If you flash the stock firmware the pad is like when you bought it. Just install all your stuff again.
[General Questions and Answers] superdragonpt:
What backup file?

The Stock 3E Recovery, only backups /data, but you wont be able to use the /data backup after installing the Custom Rom+ CWM Recovery.

You can simply backup your apps to the external SD card, just use titanium Backup, or another similar app.

Then backup your personal files, likes pics, video, etc

;)
[General Questions and Answers] AgroCPU:
so... on superdragonpt´s rom , we have the 4.4 launcher ...

so my questions:

1.how to make the nav- and the status-bar transparent ??? -found out by myself XD

2.have anybody a flashable zip of the 4.4 font (and that can be sideloaded ? or??)

3.have anybody the settings.apk in black :D

4.on stock , when i change dpi for settings , i have two sides ..blah blah you know what i mean ... and how to change this on sdpt´s rom (when i change it to 160dpi it is only smaller)

thanks in advance and a big sorry for my extremely bad english :D
[General Questions and Answers] parsifal968:
anyone know if fstrim is needed on our tablet?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2104326
[General Questions and Answers] jellysheep:
Hi KalleEatingBrain,

This sounds really great! Could you please share/upload your work and source codes so we can all work and experiment together?

A custom kernel would be awesome. ;)

Thanks, jellysheep
[General Questions and Answers] kukuroo:
swap

anyone tried switching memory,making the sdcard as the internal memory and vice versa?
[General Questions and Answers] aigaming:
Fstrim is needed until android 4.3:)
[General Questions and Answers] benyamin_azari:
my tab back to life again tnx for upload stock rom...evrything is goood.and ur post so gooood and full:good:;)
[General Questions and Answers] kukuroo:
Is there a way to use my sd card as my primary memory for apps.
[General Questions and Answers] Jasperdb:
I have an option to change standard tot use memory between intern or SD card
[General Questions and Answers] tweakradje:
With adb

pm set-install-location 2 (external/sdcard)

pm set-install-location 1 (internal/data)

pm set-install-location 0 (auto)

pm get-install-location
[General Questions and Answers] jrk190:
So, is CyanogenMod Available? I'm thinking of buying this tablet, but I want CM on it... And what's broken on CM?
[General Questions and Answers] shiki87:
There is no cm for this tablet. But a customrom.
[General Questions and Answers] jrk190:
Sweet. I'm buying it, so hopefully we can get one built. If I understand correctly, Asus opened their kernel source. I've never built a ROM before, but I could try to give it a go. It's a good tablet, great price, but AOSP would FLY on this thing.
[General Questions and Answers] shiki87:
Its difficult to build a ROM for this I think. But its good to see another builder is come to us^^
[General Questions and Answers] jrk190:
I've never built before, but I'm wanting to learn. I'm learning Java and etc... Never played with Android though. I'm experienced in Ubuntu and Linux though, so that's a plus. I've put Cyanogenmodon Several devices. I'll just need to learn how to build from source. And If I DO build from source, it'll probably be Carbon ROM or CyanogenMod source. I'm in school though, so That comes first.
[General Questions and Answers] StegoStegmeier:
Anyone tested latest update? Can you root again afterwards? Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] parsifal968:
Framaroot ROOT ok with last update ;)
[General Questions and Answers] StegoStegmeier:
Thank you very much, think I'll have a try after work
[General Questions and Answers] StegoStegmeier:
Is latest update 4.2.4...918?
[General Questions and Answers] slade9220:
Hi guys, i want to buy this tablet for Christmas...

I want to know if the usb-otg now is fully work (for joystick)

Ps: For Cyano, it's impossibile now because mtk cpu haven't suorce!

Inviato dal mio VOW V5 utilizzando Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] jrk190:
I thought that Asus released the source?
[General Questions and Answers] yydroid:
The latest update is 20131030 doesit ok to root?
[General Questions and Answers] turbo manual:
Nice asus for having a cheap tablet...love it
[General Questions and Answers] jrk190:
Has anyone tried making a theme with meta morph?
[General Questions and Answers] tempurastylez:
New Device Forum Requests Thread

I think we have to ask for a new Memo Pad HD7 forum in this thread and hope it's gonna be accepted:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354
[General Questions and Answers] vutrinh289:
Auto screen on apps for Memo pad HD 7

Hi guys,

I have got this one but it has only magnetic, accelerometer and orientation sensor,so i can not find any turning screen on app for it.

Can you recommend someone?

Thank u so much!
[General Questions and Answers] KalleEatingBrain:
Locked down Bootrom

Hey guys,

I have been playing around with flashtool and the other tools and (while softbricking my devices for the third time) discoverd that we won't have any custom roms on our device as long as the bootrom ist locked. Since there are plenty of other MTK tablets around in these days (Lenovo, Acer) I would like to team up with them and start a petition to the manufactors and Mediatek to unlock the devices and maybe even opening up the sourcecode of the bootloader so we could have unbrickable devices. Mediatek claims to be opensource friendly and this seems to be right for their WLAN chips, but for the CPUs we have to convince them to do the same. I will try to contact Asus and Mediatek to see what would be a amount of user response that would lead them to open up the devices, then do the same with Lenovo and Acer and start a petition that aims for the highest claim and addresses all of them.

Please spread the word so we will have a huge user response.

For now I will do some futher research, maybe there already is a guide on how to unlock the bootrom.

Best regards and have a nice day my fellow MeMo Pad users,

Kalle
[General Questions and Answers] tempurastylez:
Thank you for looking into this matter and for taking the risk for softbricking your device ;)

Mediatek is selling billions of MTK8125 chipsets and I am sure they already have an unlocker somewhere, which hasnt been released.

Apart from that, maybe Asus may be willing to release an unlocker, if we consider their previous history, where the Padfones all got their unlockers released after launch.

I just fear that unlockers are prevented from being released intentionally for low-cost devices, because manufacturers want to keep the life-cycle short, so the last thing they want is that you start flashing the latest roms yourself. So they are kind of stuck in the middle, do they want to release the unlocker to drive the current sales, or keep a small software advantage for their next new device.

But if we look at the bright side: It was able to unlock the predecessor Memo Pad ME172v, though I don't know if it was released from the manufacturers directly.

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In the following link, the user SeraphSephiroth was able to enable the recovery on a Lenovo S6000 tablet, which has the same chipset (MTK8125) as the Memo Pad HD7, using the MTK Droid Tools ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2160490 )

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2381441&page=2

So looks like it's possible?
[General Questions and Answers] tomrev:
Could you post contact links (websites, email, etc.) ?
[General Questions and Answers] RobHands:
Really noticing the plastic display, very smugdy and glary
[General Questions and Answers] tempurastylez:
An anti-glare screen protector and you are all set. Works like a charm.
[General Questions and Answers] shakeador:
Just a question: how did you manage to recover from softbrick?

Enviado desde mi ME173X usando Tapatalk 4
[General Questions and Answers] KalleEatingBrain:
My Reseller replaces every faulty device sub 200€ within warranty :D

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I already tought the same but decided to irgnore this possibility and get going. At some point Asus will own us a answer

The MTK Droid Tools work well to backup your device, the recovery does not work, though. The guy at the Lenovo thread is stuggeling with the drivers of the device and it's a question thread, so don't be too euphoric to find a thread with CWM nad MTK ;)
[General Questions and Answers] tempurastylez:
Xposed Installer + AppSettings module

Has anyone tried to install Xposed on the Memopad HD7 and then use the "AppSettings" module? Does it work?

I thought I better ask here first before I softbrick my tablet.
[General Questions and Answers] BlackLodge:
Been there, done that.

Please, do it if you haven't. The more petitions we write, the more possibilities of having a subforum for our Memo HDs!
[General Questions and Answers] astronman:
Maybe, come in handy.

pass: xda-developers

ALL MTK USB Driver 2013

[URL="http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/65152945/file.html"]http://www18.zippyshare.com/v/65152945/file.html[/URL]
[General Questions and Answers] a.mcdear:
Apparently the front screen dimensions and camera position are IDENTICAL to the 2012 Nexus 7. I went to Ghost Armor, they didn't have an HD7 screen protector.. I asked if they had any 2012 Nexus 7 protectors, which they did, and what do you know? It is a PERFECT MATCH.
[General Questions and Answers] testadeferro:
Done!
[General Questions and Answers] aigaming:
Guys,otg is working on our memo pad hd7 and all you need is a otg cable and y-usb cable http://www.ppctechs.com/images/items/USB-YCABLE01.jpg couse the tablet does not have enough power ;)

You can also use powered usb hub or power adapter(supplied with memopad) to provide more power to usb flash drives or other usb devices...

Stock kernel supports it and with usb otg helper(app) you can mount everything ;)

Rooted memo pad hd7 is required,cables and otg helper app...cheers

Been playing with if for few hours(external hdd,usb flash drive etc)
[General Questions and Answers] testadeferro:
I m waiting for somebody to create a recovery. After that I can create some tweaked roms. Stripped ftom some useless stuff and battery life. Waiting for it...
[General Questions and Answers] julianosplendido:
I found this in the Lenovo S6000 thread: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44390519&postcount=16

The Lenovo Ideatab S6000 has got the same chipset as ours, maybe this could work on our device as well. Or am I confusing things?

So, at least we would have a functioning CWM recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] testadeferro:
Go check and see what we can get!

Didn t have luck with the drivers. MTK tools doesnt recognize the tab. Tryed the other drives bit don t Work. Keep trying later on other PC.
[General Questions and Answers] aigaming:
This driver works for me,http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME172V/ASUS_Android_USB_drivers_for_Windows_20130415.zip

Just put in camera mode(usb) and install the driver and mtk tools will recognize it ;)

Uberizer also can recognize our tablet but the functions(most of them) don't work ;)

ps. I can't backup in mtktools couse i don't have spare sd-card...
[General Questions and Answers] aigaming:
Anyone managed to install and mod custom recovery for this tablet?
[General Questions and Answers] bauuuu:
really love this tablet.... i'll buy it on Christmas...
[General Questions and Answers] kukuroo:
please teach how to do that,thanks a lot.
[General Questions and Answers] tweakradje:
I hope you don't expect me to explain adb to you :) It is a ll over the place on this forum.
[General Questions and Answers] RobHands:
Guys is there any system dump available so I could flash back to factory state?
[General Questions and Answers] kukuroo:
Please give me a link that has a complete and proper instruction of doing adb on our device.

Btw have you done it with your memo pad hd 7?
[General Questions and Answers] parsifal968:
YES!
[General Questions and Answers] yydroid:
Thanks to everyone who done the great job
[General Questions and Answers] gabripranzo:
Sorry for asking, maybe It's a Faq and I wasn't able to find it:

in case my Ota update doesn't work, may I manually update to 4.2.2 just using only the latest (5) point of your unbrick guide?

Or is there anything to do before updating?

Thanks for your help.

Sent from Galaxy Note 8.0 GT–N5100
[General Questions and Answers] shoxxy:
update

here is a link to a post from me in german forum, there is the update (20131030) as zip.(Only the Asus update file)!!! when you are on Custom Recovery, you can easy update by this way ;)

update.zip
[General Questions and Answers] gabripranzo:
Thanks, I haven't rooted the tablet yet: it's for my daughter and I didn't want to mod it, so I was looking for a way not to avoid the warranty.

Anyway, is there a working custom recovery for the Memo Pad? I had seen a post saying it had some bugs. About rooting, is framaroot the best way or is there anything else? Sorry for the questions, but I'm used to samsung devices and usually they have modding threads here in xda with FAQs and so on.

Sent from Galaxy Note 8.0 GT–N5100
[General Questions and Answers] swooby:
I just got a Lenovo Yoga 10" Tablet which has the same MediaTek processor.

Together, maybe we can get this working.

My attempt is at https://github.com/paulpv/android_device_lenovo_b8000
[General Questions and Answers] XRay437:
There is any method to installa a cwm recovery on MemoPad HD7?

I want to try to flash PurePerformances..
[General Questions and Answers] coolizard:
Check this thread, there is a custom recovery by superdragonpt: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2503668.
[General Questions and Answers] XRay437:
Its required to wipe?
[General Questions and Answers] shiki87:
It does it automatically.
[General Questions and Answers] XRay437:
So i can't installa a cwm recovery without a wipe?
[General Questions and Answers] AgroCPU:
yes XD btw FULLWIPE :D
[General Questions and Answers] XRay437:
I dont know why but every day the status bar clock freeze and I need to open settings>clock>then set the time.. But happen more times in a day...

How can I fix?

I have the hd7 with root..