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[Asus Transformer TF701] Moscow Desire:
Now, if you have fastboot OEM unlock,

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Then perhaps you can pull your boot.img, separate zImage from Ramdisk, modify ro.secure=0, add RW comments, repack your boot.img, fastboot flash boot boot.img, then install BB and SU.

Just a thought.

MD
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Sad part the "Fastboot OEM unlock" won't work cause Asus has theirs encrypted. You have to use their unlocking tool to unlock your bootloader. Given fact it can work, been trying it for 2 days now and stupid app won't unlock my bootloader. Read my S/N may not be registered in their database so emailed them complaining about another service that doesn't work.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Moscow Desire:
They'll get around to it. Heck, when I had to turn in my A701 to service center, they didn't even know it had been released ;) Tried telling me it was a "leaked and illegal" tablet.

Good luck with the bootloader mate, but root after that should be pretty straight forward. (fingers crossed)
[Asus Transformer TF701] HaPe000:
I think that unlocking bootloader is bad idea. After that the warranty will be void...
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Yeah well tried to call them and got the usual "just send it back" well not waiting 2-3 weeks just get to get it back. Since there is something wrong with the charge port anyways just gonna send it back to amazon to have new one in couple days. Gotta love the return policy.

Um thats just lame excuse from companies to force us to keep their crap on the devices we purchase. All my devices are rooted and unlocked and not one has died yet. After going through and disabling 2/3rds of crap on this tablet now I want that few hundred megabytes back in space. For as much crap I disabled I wouldn't be surprised im more close to 1gb back.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Snah001:
What a morons sometimes. Strange because I had the issue with the connection between dock and tablet where the connection between the 2 for a split moment was gone when adjusting the tilt angle, I got an immediate replacement. This problem I guarantee you we will see more often showing up here.

And what the rooting concerns: when the TWRP devs have their version for the 701 finished, it will be not that hard anymore. Just takes some time before that is done.

And for the flaming thing sorry, but I don't like to get hit by childish behavior when just reporting and next to that by a guy that is probably half my age and just comes looking in here (look @ date I joined xda lol) :rolleyes:

Thanks for removing that post.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Moscow Desire:
Hate returns. Took 3 months to get a refund. (welcome to Russia). Honestly, it was all due to rush jobs on CWM for the 510 and 700's. Bozos were in a rush to be the first, and used the "fstab's" from the wrong device. Bricked several tabs before I put a stop to it. Basically ruined the emmc memory. Mainboard replacements.

Well, I know folks are itchy to get things going. What starts as a joke, turns into flaming.

You folks always remember, takes 2 people for an argument. You all have the "Report Post" button on the toolbar. Please use it. ;)

Honestly, I expect you folks to help each other out. Makes for a better forum.

Carry On!

MD
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
well next time you may want to think twice before asuming someone younger than you. guess i am to young to know where the movie that reference came from. i already have the boot.img altered and ready to try. also dont ask for it, havent tested it yet so going to have to wait till amazon gives me new one. it really isnt hard to alter, moscow already gave instructions.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Update Amazon has shipped my new tablet so may be here tomorrow (i hope) if my new boot.img works and gives me root then I will pass it on, sadly though it won't be in a format in which you can just use a custom recovery, you have to flash it manually but if it works I will post how to flash it (all i need to remember is which tools to zip up in the entire SDK) LOL.
[Asus Transformer TF701] xRevilatioNx:
Interesting discussion..
[Asus Transformer TF701] snake2332:
It is VERY lame. I sold my TF700 because of the slow I/O causing lag that I couldn't live with. Of course I had the bootloader unlocked, so the warranty was void. I divulged that info in the eBay auction for the most part (I didn't say the warranty was void because I didn't know that was the case. Ignorant, I know). Anyway, the new owner of my TF700 emailed me after a couple months asking me why ASUS was charging them $280 for fixing the faulty touchscreen. They said ASUS says it's not under warranty because of the unlocked bootloader. I felt bad for the new owners, having to fork out the money. They're $800 into the TF700 w/dock at this point.

So I would say: Think twice before unlocking the bootloader on the TF701, when custom-recovery even comes out for it.

Personally, with my TF701 that I ordered on newgg today, I am going to leave the bootloader locked for awhile. I can live with the stock ROM, hopefully with root access. Maybe after a few months I'll unlock the bootloader. It would be nice to do it in a way that didn't void the warranty. What an asinine policy by ASUS. There is no way the unlocked bootloader led to the touchscreen failing on my old TF700....no way!
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Gee thanks for the advice. Lets just say for practicality so you know when I got my Xoom 2 days later I rooted it. Couple years later works fine just slow now so time for new one. I have 701 right now and its blazing fast.

2nd let me shine some advise for you. For starters you can't "root" a device with a locked bootloader. Requires altering the boot.img to tell system to boot up differently and allow you access to the "restricted" file system. To access the flash portion of that requires you to open it up. One way or another you will have to unlock the bootloader to root the device. I myself just want root, I want to just remove the unwanted junk and free up that wasted space and install ad blocking software.

What each person chooses to do with the root is up to them, regardless if Asus wants to void the warranty or not. Just need little common sense and know how to use google to figure what you want to do. If your to cautious to do that then I highly suggest not touching it and leave it as is. To me its never a "think twice" once you root and have full access to the product you bought, it makes the device so much better to use and gets rid of unwanted bloatware. Especially the ad blocking apps which helps on phone contracts with capped data helps keep your data way down since ads use a lot of data.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Danforth:
Your statements sound completely wrong to me. Of course you can root without unlocking the bootloader. I have rooted two phones and my TF201, all without unlocking; I rooted the TF201 soon after buying it, and only unlocked the bootloader more than a year later.

Rooting doesn't force you to forfeit warranty service, but unlocking does. (Note that you can unroot a device before sending it in for service, but you can't "relock" an unlocked device.) So it makes perfect sense as Snake suggests to hold off on unlocking, at least until you are sure all the hardware in your device is working perfectly.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Moscow Desire:
You can use a windows app called Virtuous Ten Studio (created by Diamondback ) Senior Mod and RD. It'll unpack your boot.img to allow editing ramdisk. Heck, it'll also de-odex, decompile apks with built in support for most API levels in a windows UI. No need to mess with apktools and such.

Free version in the XDA forums. Think you have to install latest MS .Net though. Can't remember. Give it a go. If you're a ROM cooker, it's a must.

An unlocked bootloader is usually 90% of the battle when getting full root (full means system RW access). Locked bootloaders is why rooting can involve finding exploits, which is why so many root apps are out there. Not saying what worked on the Acer 500/501, 510/511 and 700/701 tabs will work for the TF701, but it's worth investigating.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Thanks for the windows tip but I use VMware with Ubuntu installed and have my harddrive mapped as network drive to transfer files between. Much easier this way. I will check out the program though may need it for some APK altering of certain app (I hope).
[Asus Transformer TF701] Moscow Desire:
Ha, I use a dual boot (win7 and Ubuntu). Old lappy didn't run too well with VM. :eek: Need any help, shoot me a PM. Will share what I know.

There's a few other things you can do im Ramdisk, like increase read ahead cache, run a service to update lto.dat automatically (GPS) and a few others.

I only boot to win7 when I want to unpack/repack and boot images when I do kernel builds. (I'm lazy)

MD
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Yeah that works just pain to have to shut down windows to boot ubuntu. My PC is a power house, set VMware with 4gb of RAM and still not slowing my PC down LOL.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
well new tablet in and little troubleshooting seems problem is bad charge cable, new one starts to charge 1/2 way in, other little flaky. but even new tablet fresh out of box wont let me unlock it so asus tw asked for screen shot of my ids, waiting reply.
[Asus Transformer TF701] zonyl:
Is anyone aware of any exploit for temp root on Android 4.2.3? I'm waiting as well to get debian on this ASAP.
[Asus Transformer TF701] HaPe000:
It will be hard to root this device without unlocking bootloader.
[Asus Transformer TF701] KGarloff:
Cydia Fails

Cydia Impactor fails -- both signature verification bugs are fixed (which SRT AppScanner also confirms).
[Asus Transformer TF701] gregpilot:
Has anyone decompiled the unlock .apk and tried substituting blank or other characters for the "Device is unlocked" which gets displayed on bootup? Then run the utility? Or is there some kind of check which is run to determine if the unlock utility has been tampered with?

Then the tf701 would not display any obvious signs that it was unlocked, it would appear, at first glance, to be locked. If you re-loaded a stock ROM I doubt asus would know it was unlocked if you sent it in for warranty. I agree unlocking has nothing to do with hardware issues, that's pretty poor serivce. But I suppose asus can adopt whatever policy they want for warranty service. The people here modding their devices are probably insignificant in number for asus to make any changes to their policy.
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
we have root on 47

hi guys,

this is what i have done, and what worked for me:

- installed the ww update

- do this --> http://xdaforums.com/nvidia-shield#root

- watch closely, there will not be penguins, but smeared graphics. at that point wait a minute or two

- hard reset transformer

- profit

- no warranty, i did it, you may try too

good luck,

luke
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
details

I figured out the shield and the tf701 are similar enough to be able to use the same minimal dtb. We have ways to unlock it, so i tried and succeeded.
[Asus Transformer TF701] gregpilot:
Did you have the ww sku or us sku or ? before you installed the ww update to .47? Did your tablet boot normally if you cross-flashed?

Before you ran "fastboot oem" unlock" was your bootloader stock (locked)? Or had you ran Asus unlock tool?

I am asking because I was under the impression you can't run "fastboot oem unlock" on a locked b/l?

Thanks and nice job!
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
it was the ww sku, as i bought mine in switzerland. i don't see why this would not work on the us, if adapted.

complete process (the first two steps can be swapped, that's what i did anyway):

- update with correct sku zip file

- use asus unlocker (my transformer made some extra reboots there, but it worked)

- fastboot oem unlock

- proceed with nvidia shield root instructions

- when graphics blur, wait 2 mins to be on the safe side

- hard reset

- it will tell you it's optimising apps on the next boot

- check root

i just debloated my tf701 using titanium backup (yeah i know, backup normally comes first). i also prepared a build environment for cyanogenmod today, so i'm going to have a look at compiling a recovery.

written on my rooted tf701, yeah
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
well i can confirm you cant install ww on us sku table. so our problem still stands cant unlock bootloader since asus has screwed up on their servers. i waiting for reply from them to fix my ids in their database.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Alta1r:
Make sur your battery is over 90% when tying to unlock. I unlocked this evening and it wouldn't unlock either with the battery at 65% (eventhough battery was charging). Tried again with battery at 97% and worked like a charm.

Going to try to root it tomorrow.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
i try first thing in morning with battery 100% and throughout the day and no luck. waiting to hear back from asus tw.
[Asus Transformer TF701] menollo:
Root :)

Thanks Ipdunwell, i managed to root my devices with the SHIELD method.

The unlock part wasn't working in the beginning, but suddenly it was (so most probably when the battery was full after a while).

After unlocking (from the .47 release), boot device to fastboot (hold volume down during power on).

And execute this line with the files from here https://github.com/linux-shield/shield-root:

fastboot boot zImage_dtb ramfs.img.gz

after a while with the graphical mesh, press the power button once (don't need a hard reset).

Now, the device is booting with the su app installed :)
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Well decided to do dramatic thing and reset my tablet and still no luck. even used my other account I have for my kids and still no go. Both tablets I have are 98-100% battery and both doesn't work. One has update 45(this is one I tried the WW and it didn't work) and other update 47. Now after lots of research today I came across a post in the TF700 forum. Explains this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=29886680&postcount=44

Funny though it says in order for the unlock tool to work you have to be able to get the OTA updates and my 45 tablet still says up to date so there is something wrong on Asus side of the devices since 47 is out.
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
[MENTION=553986]Tiger62651[/MENTION]: can you provide some extra detail how it doesn't work? error messages, screenshots...

[MENTION=296552]gregpilot[/MENTION]: i guess the unlocked message might just as well be somewhere else, and only gets enabled by the unlocker. i'm going to have a look at this...

seems slightly weird...

i had trouble with the ota, anyway. it simply didn't work. even after resetting the two apps somehow linked to ota (there's a post in a master guide somewhere here)

what worked for me, was to first unlock, then manual update.

the zip you get for manual update is close to 1GB, and it needs to be unpacked once, and then saved to the root of a real micro sd card.

plug it into a running tablet will show a message, plug it in and then boot should work, too.

however, asus chewed up their servers globally in the last couple of hours. i cannot find the required files anymore.

this is only an elevated guess, but i'd say you can use my method to root a 45 anyway, but you will probably lose root on later update.

the unlock tool should be the same for all tf701 sku. i don't know for sure if i'm allowed to upload the unlocker here, so try this: http://www.datafilehost.com/d/df096ded
[Asus Transformer TF701] Yezariael:
Great news! :victory:

Could you please make a Thread with exact instructions and working links (you link does not work...) in Dev. Section? I guess would be best, so people can find it and post their experiences :)

Thanks!
[Asus Transformer TF701] Alta1r:
You have to remove the ':' at the end of his link:

https://github.com/linux-shield/shield-root

---------- Post added at 10:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:20 AM ----------

What worked for me to .47 update OTA before was to first clear data and force close CMClient and DMClient found under Settings/Apps/All.

First my tablet wouldn't find an update, after doing this it was able to find the update.
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2516215
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Whats there to provide. Only error message I get is the "unknown error has occurred, may be network problem, try again later" on the unlock tool. As for the OTA it just says my tablet (45) is up to date. Which I know for fact it is not.

Yeah tried this and no luck, still says up to date I am going to try the google services linked to the OTA.
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
Do you use one time passwords/two step auth or anything like this for your google account? this will mess things up for sure.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Alta1r:
I had the exact same error last night when trying to unlock the first time. I must have tried about 4-5 times every time with the same message.

After an hour or 2 i tried again and then it worked immediately. Might have been lucky that the servers were working at that time and maybe had nothing to do with the battery...

Don't know if it can help, but the first time i tried it must have been around 8pm GMT, second time it was 10pm GMT.
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
Asus had some issues with the servers during the last 48 or so hours.

And ripping the actual unlocker app apart (oops, sorry asus) told me it connects to https://mdm.asus.com/ .

This made me laugh, as when you open that page, you'll see

I'm not sure what to think of that...
[Asus Transformer TF701] BLasterXXL:
confirmed, worked for me. I had problems understand that I have to have android SDK and path to the platform-tools installed :good:
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
No I don't just normal password nothing special

Yeah I been trying since last week and still won't unlock mine.

yeah I ripped mine open also looking for the check server lines to quote them out so it can by pass that and just start unlocking my bootloader.
[Asus Transformer TF701] lpdunwell:
Weird... well as unlocking will wipe it anyway, save all your data, and try with a factory reset (vol- and power). Maybe that helps... i assume you do have a serial number? There was some trouble with previous transformers. Also, have you tried a different wifi?
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Yeah done factory reset and all, different wifi and since I have a 2nd tablet still says same thing. Not sure if anyone in the US version has unlocked their boot loader, so far all I see is international one so far.

So decided to break down the APK and see whats going on and here is the section in which it tries to communicate to Asus.

Maybe we can alter it to trick it into just unlocking the boot loader without Asus's OK.
[Asus Transformer TF701] Tiger62651:
Well got reply back from Asus and they claimed nothing was wrong. Well last night before I went to bed it didn't work. Wake up this morning and it works. So need to check with TW cause even my 2nd tablet doesn't unlock yet.
[Asus Transformer TF701] below_radar_00:
Mine hasn't worked since day one either...tried MANY times. Did factory reset, etc, nothing. Today, I tried and BOOM! and it worked. I guess it was something with Asus' servers. I even opened a thread about this several days ago since I was having trouble: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2513948&page=2
[Asus Transformer TF701] zonyl:
Really doubt it. I think Asus relies on an encrypted key that only comes from their server.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] smegg:
Hi all,

Just thought I would share my ebook app files from the original tab 10.1 that they stopped developing but which gave the best eboom experience on android IMHO. To install you unzip this (doesn't work as a flashable zip). Then you need to remove the myfiles apk from system app (called sec-tablet.my files) and replace it with the one from this zip. Then install ebook.apk as a normal app. Reboot your tab and enjoy!

Download

http://d-h.st/WRl
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] MJ-12:
Used this for a while now. It is the best, nothing else I have used looks or works as good...
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] smegg:
I have made a cwm/TWRP flashable ZIP which you can find at www.echoerom.com
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] eragon143:
hi smegg,

can u post the link to the file here. i couldnt find it in the echoeroms.co website
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] smegg:
Yes, sorry its not up yet there.

http://d-h.st/hfW
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] eragon143:
Thanks a lot smegg. Will try it tomorrow and share my experience

My warm regards to you for your prompt reply
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] eragon143:
hi smegg,

i installed this zip files. but ebbok app force closec within 3 pages. what to do.

and am using the latest cm10.2 nightly. will this only work with tw based stock rom.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] Temetka:
Anyone have a link that doesn't require an account or try to download other crap? Thanks.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] smegg:
Sorry this only works in tw :)
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] smegg:
I find devhost fast and crap free. Also no account needed. Just press download button.
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] valter.carvalho:
Hi smegg,

I'm looking for the stock Ebook reader, version 3, for some time now. My tablet is on Android 4.1. So far I found two versions, one ebook,apk worked well but it's version 1.xx. The other one is version 3.xxx, it opens my books but does not show any "ç " or "Ç" (along with other missing accents).

I searched this thread but since it's old, the links are already broken....

Do you still have the tw flasheable version of this app? The app you have is at some 3.xxx versions?

Thank you!
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] smegg:
mot sure mate, i'll have a look
[Galaxy Note 10.1 Themes and Apps] valter.carvalho:
Hey smegg,

Very thank you for your reply! Turns out I found a way to fix the newer version's app. I decompiled it and saw that it was using system font, droidserif.ttf. Turns out that this font in my tablet is zero size, more like a placeholder, i don't know...

Since I didn't wan't to mess with these, I opened the .smalli on the apk which called this font (smali\com\samsung\ebook\reader\settings\font.smali) and changed it to Helvetica.ttf. Recompilled it with apktool and gave it a try. Don't have the correct MyFiles,apk so I have to import books by clicking on them from any explorer. Apart from that, it's all working very fine! =)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jwtiyar:
Hey

When the new google+ came up and wanted to update but playstore app not telling me to update and the day was same day was has to be updated , this problem happened to me alot of time but i thought may be my problem , after i saw an article in androidpolice.com was talking about this problem , so now i want to know any one have an idea what's going on ?

Now google+ updated but still i have previous version ,play store also say i have last updated app.

Hope you understand what iam talking about :)
[General Questions and Answers] Thunder guy:
Is there some kind of app or somekind of software I can flash to make iphone headphones and volume buttons fully work on my device thanks in advance!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zaxman22:
Hello. I have a Hipstreet Flare HS-9DTB4-8GB tablet. I used z4root (stupid me) to root my android. I rebooted the tablet, and I thought it was rooted. Nothing wrong. So I go to install my apps again and I get a message saying that my internal storage is full? I went and checked my storage and it said I had 0.00B left? So I can't install z4root again to un root. Please help D:
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