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[Asus Transformer TF700] rlm0n0:
Cromi-x and Youtube

Thought i would ask this question here since it was never a problem before i installed Cromi-x (which is AMAZING!!!). Id like to downgrade Youtube to a version before they dropped the '"Labs" feature but i keep getting "application not installed". I cannot uninstall through Google, how would i get the older version installed?? Thanks in advance and feel free to move this if it is in the wrong section. Big thanks to all who work on this ROM!!!
[Asus Transformer TF700] butcherbird:
Were you / are you using Tapatalk 4 to access these forums, by chance? When I use Tapatalk 4 to access XDA (on a tablet or phone), the forum has been extremely slow to load for about 2 weeks now.

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I replied earlier to say that disabling Wi-Fi optimization changed my Wi-Fi performance from 3Mbps to 16+Mbps -- consistently -- even after several hours of non-use/sleep. No relapses back to the slower speeds. I'd say it's a permanent improvement for me (running miniC 1.1).

Is the ROM+Kernel combination the reason? Or, is the good performance due to the fact I have few apps?
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Thanks for the feedback. I will update the post with your information....:)

Yes, the ROM and Kernel are the main reasons for the speed. However, if you have too many apps are actively running on the background, they are consuming your CPU resource and using up your memory in turn forcing your CPU working harder to clean up the dirty memory. Oh well, I will leave it to our experts to give a better explanations....:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] johnlgalt:
Having any number of apps installed is not going to affect your bandwidth on WiFi. However, as LMK states, having apps that actively run in the background can. I say can, b/c it would take some strenuous CPU loads to actually affect bandwidth, but it takes very little CPU loads to affect things like display, rendering, etc. Apps that run in the background that actively uses WiFi will have a chance at slowing your download down by a small percentage, but if you have a slow connection, even that small percentage can seem like a lot.

However, unless you are abusing the hell out of your WiFi connection, there is no reason that you should have to experience what I did - 70% - 80% bandwidth loss. By abusing the hell out of your connection, I mean music, synchronizing your entire google photo album and watching a full 1080p video simultaneously (and my connection can sometimes let me get away with doing that if the router is not too overtaxed :P)

And my issues were on a device with 2 - yes, 2 - non-ROM installed apps - Speedtest (to verify I had issues) and ManagWatcher (which I always have to install manually b/c Google removed it from play store b/c of content availability (that was part of the reason, anyway - there was a second stipulation, but it is moot now).

I normally have more like 200-300 user installed apps on my tablet, so....

[MENTION=5313285]LetMeKnow[/MENTION] - don't know if you saw my reply to your post about disabling optimization being the trick for me on my end, but I am still testing further.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
It's either the name bug I mentioned or you are looking in the wrong folder. Can you see them in a file manager? What's the path?

You will have to manually remove it from /system/app. But you will keep getting update messages on the store.
[Asus Transformer TF700] johnlgalt:
TiBu will let you disassociate it from the Play Store *and* remove the existing install.
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
I updated your information on post #2378.. Thanks for the update....:)

[MENTION=3918753]butcherbird[/MENTION]

Please ignore my reply. I misread your post and thought that you talked about the performance of your tablet. However, you talked about your wifi performance. johnlgalt is correct about the wifi. It should not affect your wifi performance much unless you have a lot of threads sharing your wifi bandwidth...

It is my bad and sorry....:o
[Asus Transformer TF700] xRamz:
I'll attach images of whats going on :/

The image with no files is the restore section of TWRP if you didn't already know :silly:
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
First screen shot is internal and the second one is your micro SD. Click the storage button and switch to internal ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] xRamz:
Oh wow haha -.-

I'm not sure how that happened :/

Thanks heaps :p
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
:p lol.

BTW you are much better off backing up to external in case your internal data partition gets corrupted.
[Asus Transformer TF700] xRamz:
Yeah I think I'll do that now. Didn't realise I could actually swap what storage is used.

Btw the Xposed notification blocker doesnt work with the 4.1 gui. Is there a way around that or can it only work for 4.2 gui? No biggie if it only works on 4.1 gui

I find the 4.2 gui is slightly laggy while 4.1 is smooth as butter, weird
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
I find a lot of xposed modules only work on 4.2. 4.1 has always been butter smooth. Why I'm staying with it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] faustus1005:
For me the 4.2 launcher is nice and snappy... but I just can't stand the layout. Every time I try it I head right back to 4.1.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Jeffruby:
is it normal that when im running the rom off my sd card- and i go to settings/ memory- i only see the 16gb portion (cant see the ext4 portionts)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes as they are now seen as system and data.
[Asus Transformer TF700] BoosterSilver:
For the past several updates, my gallery app keeps crashing. The camera app works fine. Just the gallery. I'm using the stock camera. Several months back I used the 4.2 camera mod but since then I've kept to the stock camera. I just updated to 5.1.2 and I'm still having the same problem. Anyone else having this issue?

Sent from my iPad shaming CRMI Transformer Infinity
[Asus Transformer TF700] butcherbird:
No worries ... I appreciate the reminder re: system resources. I could tell there was some confusion, and I could have asked the question much better. :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] nevertells2:
Interesting, not saying that what you are seeing is not happening, but it's my understanding that WiFi optimization has nothing to do with what speed one's connection runs at. I found this " WiFi optimization is that it doesn't actually optimize your WiFi connection; instead, it optimizes battery usage. This means that, when enabled, your device won’t actually maintain an active data connection all of the time. "

What I found on another tablet that my WiFi connection was slow to reconnect after deep sleep. After turning optimization off, it turned on much faster. I find what works best for me is optimization turned off and "keep WiFi turned on during sleep" set to "never".

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Sorry, have not read all 240 plus pages of this thread, but in what I have read, have not seen what the benefit of Data2SD that you guys have been discussing in the last few posts. One would think that the internal storage would read and write faster than an SD card. If it has been discussed, just point me to the post. Thanks :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Clear your data on gallery and media storage to fix.
[Asus Transformer TF700] woodsonmh:
Xda has been having problems. Ive made no changes and its loading 10 times faster today than yesterday. This change may have made a deference but im not sure this is a valid indication.

Woody
[Asus Transformer TF700] drewski_1:
this tablet has notoriously slow internal memory.

I can't remember if it's specific to the memory chip or the memory bus architecture (or something else)
[Asus Transformer TF700] butcherbird:
On my phone, I cleared data on the Tapatalk app ... much improved load times, now. May be a useful reminder to anyone using Tapatalk.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lartomar2002:
Chromecast

Has anyone used our Cromi-x rom with the Chromecast dongle? If so how is it working? I have XBMC installed on my tab and I would like to stream over wifi to the Chromecast that will be plugged into my avr. I did a general search on the whole Asus TF700 forum and did not find much that is why I posted here.
[Asus Transformer TF700] tiernan22:
Chromecast has worked flawlessly for me, however, I'm only using it on the more traditional supported apps.
[Asus Transformer TF700] awilson77584:
I use it everyday. It works great! I flash so often that some times I have to re-run the app to reconnect. I have two. I travel with one and have one in a home TV. I use it on the road with my S3 tethering a non-routable network.

Plex has committed to enabling ChromeCast and is working with Google to enable the protocol. That way you could stream any Plex media. Using the Chrome extension works well to display a stream that you can see in your PC browser. The Android Chrome doesn't support it.

What type of issues are you seeing?
[Asus Transformer TF700] drewski_1:
It works fine with our tabs, but it needs to be enabled in the App. Does XBMC have it as an option?
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
miniC v1.2 Released

miniC v1.2 released :) Enjoy! :D

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2520828
[Asus Transformer TF700] lartomar2002:
No issues yet I wanted to get some info before I ordered the Chromecast. So, you are using XBMC and are able to mirror it yor tv?

Enabled in which app? I want to mirror XBMC on the tablet to the Chromecast not to an XBMC installed on Chromecast.
[Asus Transformer TF700] woodsonmh:
To the best of my knowledge charmcast has to support app to use it and xbmc is not one of them. There are only a few apps and when somebody has hacked it, google has changed chromecast.

You would be better off in xbmc groups or the chromecast forums, for better info.

Woody
[Asus Transformer TF700] andriel:
Exactly what you posted here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47421598#post47421598

Nothing else, unless it's by accident.
[Asus Transformer TF700] woodsonmh:
After my last episode i almost hate making this report. When i installed minic i installed gmail from play. When i installed 5.1.2 i checked install gmail. Ive been having a lot of email problems so i decided to reinstall gmail. I did it from play page because i knew i was going to reinstall. However after i uninstalled gmail my choices were update and uninstall.

It appears i had two versions of gmail installed. And who knows what other problems it was causing. This may have happened due to different version numbers and one was in in system?

Updated and tablet is running so much better. If you made the same mistake as i did, maybe this will help.

Woody
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
No, it is not by accident.... :) There are 4 options on that post. I just want to know what you select and use on your device..:) I am always using option 3 but now I just add option 4 on top of my setting..

Thanks for a reply,

LMK

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Thanks for the information. I will try to keep the records from others users what method is actually working best on the tf700t....:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] ccrazythunder:
Can someone provide an explanation as to why gparted should be used instead of minitool?

I have done a reasonable search on forums within xda and other forums as well as the internet and have not found any nonsubjective reason or explanation. Outside of people reporting that minitool had corrupted or made their sd card completely unusable I have not been able to locate a direct explanation as to why gparted is the way to create a partition without issue.

I can understand the developers reasoning to direct users to use gparted as this method minimizes or eliminates the possibility of destroying a good sd card and would thus want users to be successful in installing the rom. But outside of that is there something that minitool does in creating a partition that is incompatible with roms that are using data2sd? I have been successful using minitool without issue and without causing any issues with data2sd. However, I would like to know if there are any longterm consequences that I have set myself up for by using minitool because of the way minitool creates partitions?

Any thoughts or directions to information that addresses this is appreciated if I have overlooked existing documentation. Thank you in advance.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Felborn:
I'm currently running Cromi-X 5.02 and think it's time for a update. I'm also on the previus bootloader as well as TWRP 2.5. To updates those two, is it as simple as just booting into TWRP and flashing the bootloader and TWRP 2.6.1.0 .ZIP file? Then reboot into Cromi-X, back into bootloader then flash the new 5.1.2?
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
Correct!
[Asus Transformer TF700] andriel:
Sorry - I see that I did not do option 4. I did the turn off/turn on of wifi, then unchecked optimization and never sleep.

I guess it's a combination of 2 & 3 for me. I did not edit the build.prop. It takes a few minutes after deep sleep for Exchange to catch up & the tab to come to full readiness because of #3, but after it does my wifi is rocking like it should. Honestly, I read the post too quickly & didn't realize it was a list of potential options... I was thinking it was a single option in the form of a list - but I somehow overlooked part 4. Yet - it worked, so it must be the combination of 2 & 3 for me.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Narsil:
Physical keyboard layout

Hi,

Just upgraded to 5.1.2 (from 5.1.1) and loosed the physical keyboard's layout (I'm QWERTZ).

Changed it in settings (as default, it was set to QWERTY), but this changed only the soft keyboard, not the physical.

Any suggestion welcome

Diego
[Asus Transformer TF700] smalis:
Works great for me, although I only use it with the Youtube app. I think right now it only works with (i) Youtube (laptop and tabler) and (ii) Chrome browsers on laptops. Does not work with Chrome browser on tablets. Don't know about XMBC, so not sure if it will integrate.

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sbdags, I have to say that 5.1.2 (minimal install, fsync off, _that v5, using Android Tuner for maximum free RAM, animations set to .5 in developer settings) is by far the best running iteration yet. Minimal if any lag, very quick and smooth. Another donation sent 468493058E285052R!

Given the install options in 5.1.2, is there still a need for mini-C?
[Asus Transformer TF700] drewski_1:
enabled in XBMC

according to the Chromecast site (http://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromecast/apps.html) it currently works with Netflix, YouTube, Hulu Plus, Google Play Movies and Music, Pandora, and Chrome browser (windows, mac or Chromebook Pixel)

the apps it's enabled in have the little Chromecast symbol, the rectangle with the wireless in the bottom left corner. open up YouTube app and you'll see what i'm talking about at the top next to the search button.
[Asus Transformer TF700] johnlgalt:
^^^^ this. And a backup of that microSD card would not be a ba idea....

This, too. I want to use 4.2, but the ASUS panel in 4.1 is really, Really REALLY addictive.

Uh, did I read that right? 0_o ( :P just picking on you - not being a fanboy, because I hate all fanboys, even Android fanboys.)

^^^^ this. If you have lots of pics (or alternatively, lots of pics in your Picasa / Picasaweb / Google+ accounts, and have them synchronizing with your Google account to your device, you'll have a *** ton of cache files that are doing absolutely nothing. Clear all of those out (may need to do it manually as well, let me know if you need help with it) and you'll find the gallery runs *much* faster.

Data, or Cache?

Any particular reason to be using 2.6.1 over newer versions, other than the (now mostly inapplicable) storage location bug?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Felborn:
Any particular reason to be using 2.6.1 over newer versions, other than the (now mostly inapplicable) storage location bug?[/QUOTE]

Everything in one .ZIP file directly on this thread, not sure how I would go about getting a fresher version of TWRP. I'm very fresh at this still, so I'd rather not tempt fate by diving into something that could possible brick my tablet as I dont stand much of a chance sorting it out myself :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] butcherbird:
Data. So, I had to log in to my Tapatalk account and the forum afterwards.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Many thanks for the donations! :good: You have donated more than enough mate.

miniC serves as a test ROM now. It's really quick for me to update as I don't have to mess around with aroma and options. But yes you can pretty much build miniC yourself.

Reinstall but choose the Asus Keyboard. You'll get your layouts back. Or pop over to the miniC thread and install the Asus Keyboard patch from there.
[Asus Transformer TF700] woodsonmh:
It hard to imagine what more of an explanation you need than trashed memory cards.

Handling low level task like partitions is very critical operation in any os. Android was developed from linux. Gparted is commonly used in the linux world do these tasks, so it very well may do android/linux task better than a tool developed primarily for windows. One tiny bit of code not properly done can cause major problems. Experienced people in the android/linux world apparently believe gparted is far more reliable at doing these tasks. I think i would prefer to follow conventional wisdom than risk data loss or a trashed sdcard.

On the other hand if it works for you, that's great. However if a problem occurs you will not know if it was minitool or not and you will be left wondering.

Woody
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
When we first started using data2sd we had a number of people suffering crashes and in some cases permanent damage to the card where it could no longer be used. The one common theme was minitool.

As recently as last week a user was struggling with rom2sd - bootloops and he used minitool. Re did his card in gparted and it's been as good as gold since.

I believe minitool does something strange to ext based partitions. In have seen this with partition magic on windows before as well. Maybe you got lucky, but the easiest solution is to use a linux based solution for a Linux based partition.
[Asus Transformer TF700] woodsonmh:
A while back there was a discussion on full screen viewing on HDMI. I found an app that takes tablet to full screen without status bar. It works on hdmi and may be useful at other times as well. The app is "full!screen".

May work for xbmc as well.

Woody
[Asus Transformer TF700] jtrosky:
[MENTION=259002]Drewski[/MENTION] - did you even get anywhere in determining exactly what app caused your battery drain? I know that you were pretty close!
[Asus Transformer TF700] ccrazythunder:
Thank you for your response. I was looking for objective reasoning rather than something subjective based on the experience that persons who may or may not have any ideal of what they are doing. I did not know if there was something that directly contraindicated not using gparted. I don't doubt that the majority of issues the developer is asked regarding problems with the rom is user related. If an issue occurs where some users don't have problems and others do when all other variables are considered equal then I try to find something objective to look to for understanding of the issue.

I appreciate your input and consider your introspective helpful. Thank you for taking the time to reply. I have used the tool hundreds of times without issue and do not consider myself to just be lucky in my use. Your response has given me something to consider. Thank you.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rlm0n0:
I cant seem to find the system folder to find the app using es file explorer to remove it manually. I have it set to show hidden files. Using TiBu i could uninstall it but it warns that it could destabilize my ROM..... will i be ok to uninstall and reinstall an earlier version of maps?? Sorry for the nub..... thanks in advance....

ETA:

Nevermind im a donkey.... i think i found it. Is it called GMS_Maps.apk?? And Im ok to delete and install the earlier apk???
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Thanks for the clarication...;)

My wifi is back to a full power as soon as it reconnects...:) You may want to apply the option 4 also...or take a look at this post 2189:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2425383&page=219

Good luck...:fingers-crossed:
[Asus Transformer TF700] workdowg:
I'm still keeping track of the apps I install and haven't had anything near the drain issues I had before.
[Asus Transformer TF700] johnlgalt:
OMG, I used to be a PartionMagic junkie many years ago, until it irrevocably hosed my system as I was preparing my box to dual boot XP and Fedora Core 3. After that, I learned to do it either from inside *nix itself, or, later, when I discovered it, gparted....

Fun days.

As for installing an earlier version, I don't know if you can install it to \system like the original one is, but it should be installable. Once you ahve it installed, then run TiBu again, and you can then disconnect the newly installed version from the play store so it will not ask you to update it.

Ditto that for me - instant on and instant fast. Never been happier :D

I might go back and do option 3 and 4, but I am fist going to write a script for option 3 so I can do it every time after flashing a new version of cROMi. The best script would be one that I could run via TWRP right after installing the ROM so that the line is appended to every time and works immediately....
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Let me know if you need anything on that idea....:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] johnlgalt:
I need everything on that idea - as well as your other amendments in post #2189 - at least until we can convince [MENTION=518363]sbdags[/MENTION] to incorporate them directly into his ROMs :P

I have a basic (very) understanding of the scripting used from playing around on both my OG DROID as well as the BIONIC, but I have not looked at the scripting for the installations for our tabs (assuming it should not be too different, as the same Superuser.zip installer used used on both devices to install Koush's Superuser and so binary) but I'm a bit lost as to whether I can have the script append to specific lines (like commenting out the one line for the WiFi issues we were running into) or completely delete lines (like in post 2189).

In retrospect, I suppose even if it can only comment out particular lines, that would be enough, b/c then instead of deleting those lines in 50cleanTWEAKS file they could be commented out as well, right?
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
TiBu only gives you that warning because Maps is installed as a system app. Removing some system apps could "destabilize" your rom, but not Maps. I usually forget to untick it as an option on a clean install, so I always end up removing it with TiBu and restoring Maps 6.14.1 (can't live without My Maps). But I don't see a difference in installing in /system or /data.......
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
I always add tweaks into script but I never try to remove or comment them out...:crying: I will take a look into it.

Maybe sbdags can help us out....:)

Edit:

I meant that I can create a zip file to append those tweaks for you from the recovery. I don't know how to remove or comment out from the existing one...:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] johnlgalt:
Well, the *easy* way would be to just take and create an edited version of the file and script in a file replacement (well, two file replacements, build.prop and 50cleanTWEAK)....

But I like doing things the tricky, more involved way - and plus, I could use such a trick in the future for other edits that we might come aross...
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
Adding new tweaks are easy. I have no glue how to remove the existing tweaks. I need to read more about it....:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] johnlgalt:
Yeah, Append is simple - but modifying existing lines is a bit more tricky. I *THINK* that I actually saw it being done in an updater-script on the BIONIC at one point or another, but I'd have to go back and look again. I may be mis-remembering something else....