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[Android General] roustabout:
Just an option if something were to go wrong with your device and you needed to wipe and reinstall. I'd download a copy of the official ROM to have on hand.

You can probably get rid of the Tegra zone app with titanium backup, but you probably don't need to - just disabling it in Settings .. apps ought to be enough?

On my phone, disabling most google services helps a great deal. also, the paid version of Greenify, together with Xposed, does support forcing system apps to hibernate - for those you'd rather not disable (like the Play store) just hibernating helps battery life quite a bit.

I find the deep sleep on the Tegra 4 works really well. If I'm not using it, the tablet holds a charge for many days.
[Android General] zaccika:
Hi,

Thank you for response!

Which Google services you may want to disable?

zacci
[Android General] roustabout:
I disable pretty much everything but the play store - chrome, books, movies&tv, magazines, music, talkback. I also have the tegra wireless display services greenified, though that's probably unnecessary, but I don't use them.

Honestly, though, the deep sleep on this tablet was great before any of the mods. I just don't want to have most of the services running. I leave location alone because it's fun with maps. :)
[Android General] zaccika:
Thank You ! :)

Think working with a 64GB micro SDXC card :confused:

Officially up to 32GB of capacity, but this is incredible :D

Sorry, my bad english :(
[Android General] roustabout:
I'd recommend a Sandisk class 4 32 gig card over just about anything else (unless Sandisk makes a class 4 64.)

If you have access to a 64 gig card you might try it, but the high speed SD cards are problematic across a range of devices. I've had both an HD+ and a Galaxy Note that did a lot of spontaneous reboots when I was using my higher speed 32 gig card in them - back down to class 4 and all was fine.
[Android General] zaccika:
Thank You ! :)
[Android General] handlolo:
Im trying to root my Slate pro 8 but i have a problem with the drivers, when i connect the tablet, is recognized to mtp device, and appear hp slate how a memory than i can use.

Im trying to install the naked usb drivers but i cant.

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another question, when the tablet is rooted, is possible to install another custom roms like cyanogen o kernel like the faster faux123??
[Android General] roustabout:
Did you get debugging turned on before connecting your slate? If debugging is not on, all you will see is the MTP device. the Android composite device only shows if debugging is enabled.

And remember - the root technique only works from bootloader, not from booted android.

There are no custom roms or kernels that support the Slate that I'm aware of.

However, once rooted you can install Gravity Box and modules tied to it; I find that GB is most of the customization I want from a ROM.
[Android General] handlolo:
[MENTION=3652237]roustabout[/MENTION]

Finally i rooted the tablet :), was the driver that i not had installed well, because i dont select well the custom device drivers...

Thanks for the advice about gravity box, ill try it.. ;), you know another utility for overclock the tegra 4?

I have another doubt, why i get a poor perfomance in emulators like Drastic or Mupen 64??, in my previous device (nexus 7 2012 with tegra 3 overclocked) i have an emulation more speeder, No is the Tegra 4 more powerful than tegra 3?

Thanks.
[Android General] roustabout:
The t4 is much speedier than the t3. It's a brand new architecture, though, and the emulators may have been tuned to take advantage of the t3 and are not yet tuned for the t4? I'd ask the devs.

Until there are custom kernels there probably won't be overclocking. I don't know of anyone working on a custom kernel for the Slate at this time.

HP marketed it abysmally - there are no reviews of it that I know of which means HP didn't bother to ship review samples.

We are extremely lucky that the device is reliably rootable at all. I happen to like it a lot because of the wide aspect ratio and the acceptable screen but will be interested in the pricing and spec on the tab 8.4 pro when it hits shops. The infrared support in particular on the samsung devices is super nice.

Ah, tab 8.4 pro:

$400, sdcard and ir supported, snapdragon 800, 2560 x 1600 display.

The downside is they are using Knox and I'm not sure what the implication is for modders (other than Samsung saying your warranty is void, which I knew.)

Another issue will be the battery. My memory is that they went with a very weak battery on the 8.4.
[Android General] leagon:
hey guys, i am not able to select android_winusb.inf file as driver. when i connect my slate to the usb port windows is installing a driver and my slate is connected as mtp device. when i try to manually "update" the driver, i always get the error message, that the driver is not compatible with 64bit (running win7 64bit).
[Android General] roustabout:
Did you create the .ini file you need to describe the hardware?

Did you enable USB debugging? If you're connecting only in MTP mode and not in debugging mode, the driver won't install because there's no debug mode device for it to install to.

Also you may need to uninstall the HTC software package - I just set up adb on a desktop with Samsung and HTC software installed and needed to remove their driver packages to get the slate recognized.
[Android General] groumfi:
Works also for 1.00.09

Hi there,

Successfully rooted my Slate 8 Pro received a couple of days ago

For info, it is running 1.00.09

Many thanks for this thread

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S.
[Android General] zaccika:
OTA 1.00.12 fail

Hi,

I am get OTA update (like 1.00.12), but the install is fail.

"hp/kadota_w_c/fig:4.2.2/JDQ39/1.00.09:user/release-keys" ||

file_getprop("/system/build.prop", "ro.build.fingerprint") == "hp/kadota_w_c/fig:4.2.2/JDQ39/1.00.12:user/release-keys");

What do I need to run it for installation?

(Rooted device)

updater-script:

assert(!less_than_int(1386933288, getprop("ro.build.date.utc")));

assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "fig" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "fig");

assert(getprop("ro.product.name") == "kadota_w_a");

show_progress(0.500000, 0);

format("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP", "0", "/system");

mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/platform/sdhci-tegra.3/by-name/APP", "/system");

package_extract_dir("recovery", "/system");

package_extract_dir("system", "/system");

symlink("./libNativeLibraryWrapper.so", "/system/lib/libCxImageKRF.so",

"/system/lib/libKRF.so", "/system/lib/libKindleReaderJNI.so",

"/system/lib/libft2KRF.so", "/system/lib/libicudataKRF.so",

"/system/lib/libicuucKRF.so", "/system/lib/libjpegKRF.so",

"/system/lib/libpngKRF.so",

"/system/lib/libskiaKRF.so");

symlink("Roboto-Bold.ttf", "/system/fonts/DroidSans-Bold.ttf");

symlink("Roboto-Regular.ttf", "/system/fonts/DroidSans.ttf");

symlink("mksh", "/system/bin/sh");

symlink("toolbox", "/system/bin/cat", "/system/bin/chmod",

"/system/bin/chown", "/system/bin/cmp", "/system/bin/cp",

"/system/bin/date", "/system/bin/dd", "/system/bin/df",

"/system/bin/dmesg", "/system/bin/du", "/system/bin/getevent",

"/system/bin/getprop", "/system/bin/grep", "/system/bin/hd",

"/system/bin/id", "/system/bin/ifconfig", "/system/bin/iftop",

"/system/bin/insmod", "/system/bin/ioctl", "/system/bin/ionice",

"/system/bin/kill", "/system/bin/ln", "/system/bin/log",

"/system/bin/ls", "/system/bin/lsmod", "/system/bin/lsof",

"/system/bin/md5", "/system/bin/mkdir", "/system/bin/mount",

"/system/bin/mv", "/system/bin/nandread", "/system/bin/netstat",

"/system/bin/newfs_msdos", "/system/bin/notify", "/system/bin/printenv",

"/system/bin/ps", "/system/bin/reboot", "/system/bin/renice",

"/system/bin/rm", "/system/bin/rmdir", "/system/bin/rmmod",

"/system/bin/route", "/system/bin/schedtop", "/system/bin/sendevent",

"/system/bin/setconsole", "/system/bin/setprop", "/system/bin/sleep",

"/system/bin/smd", "/system/bin/start", "/system/bin/stop",

"/system/bin/sync", "/system/bin/top", "/system/bin/touch",

"/system/bin/umount", "/system/bin/uptime", "/system/bin/vmstat",

"/system/bin/watchprops",

"/system/bin/wipe");

set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0755, 0644, "/system");

set_perm_recursive(0, 2000, 0755, 0755, "/system/bin");

set_perm(0, 3003, 02750, "/system/bin/netcfg");

set_perm(0, 3004, 02755, "/system/bin/ping");

set_perm(0, 2000, 06750, "/system/bin/run-as");

set_perm(1002, 1002, 0440, "/system/etc/dbus.conf");

set_perm(1014, 2000, 0550, "/system/etc/dhcpcd/dhcpcd-run-hooks");

set_perm(0, 2000, 0550, "/system/etc/init.goldfish.sh");

set_perm(0, 0, 0544, "/system/etc/install-recovery.sh");

set_perm_recursive(0, 0, 0755, 0555, "/system/etc/ppp");

.....
[Android General] VU HEO:
Hp Slate Pro had just update to 1.00.12. My tablet seem smoother and very fast
[Android General] zaccika:
Hi,

your machine is routed ?
[Android General] heino69:
I'm still on 1.0.9 and no option for update to 1.0.12. ?!

Anyone else with the same problem, or how can I force an update?
[Android General] roustabout:
When I get home I'll post a flashable zip of the last update I was offered. If you're rooted, you probably need to do the updates manually (unpack, edit the updater-script to remove the device checks, repack, flash.) I needed to.

If anyone needs it, 1.00.12 as a Clockwork flashable zip:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/85yten5syvwabuk/Slate8pro.flashable.1.00.12.zip

I ripped out os level and file checks and the update to recovery. If you've flashed CWM you can use it to flash this and it won't overwrite your recovery.
[Android General] GrievousMcG:
Hey mate, thanks for doing this. It seems that the same rooting method work on the HP Slatebook x2 as well. :good:

"At long last!" you can hear the Slatebook users say...
[Android General] roustabout:
No kidding? That's great to hear. We had someone upthread with a slate 21 that it wouldn't work on, but I wondered how many of HP's Tegra devices some of this would translate for.
[Android General] heino69:
Thanx again!

OTA 1.0.12 update on rooted 1.0.9 failed two times for me.

Now I booted to the recovery CWM and used your ZIP and everything worked.

THANK YOU :D
[Android General] zaccika:
Thanx !

Perfect ! :)
[Android General] Motawa88:
why are there no custom rom devs for this device?
[Android General] roustabout:
Dunno, Motawa - what's taking you so long to make one?
[Android General] raipcpkiha:
you really save me. thank u!
[Android General] kirollos56:
well i want to know if hp pro8 has supported otg (usb on the go) so u can connect a flash drive and read its contents .please reply ;)
[Android General] ig6677:
Well ... it does support connected to the OTG mouse and keyboard ... but it doesn't recognize any of my USB flash-stick :( ... maybe we need the powered USB hub.
[Android General] drvsbsm:
Edit - Problem Solved Mostly... This forum is pretty dead for such a powerful a low priced device, I only paid $180 for mine on Amazon. I know HP wants like $350-$400 but Amazon had them on sale and I could not pass up the deal for $180 delivered. Are there any other Slate 8 Pro Forums?
[Android General] drvsbsm:
Got it finally I was thinking it was more than what it was. I’m Rooted and Unlocked now but I have a new issue, hopefully someone can help me get this solved. But.........

New issue hopefully a fellow HP Slate Tegra 4 Powered owner can help me out with this, I’m rooted and limited CWM, the issue is that now for some reason I have to use my PC to boot into CWM every time I need to boot into Recovery Mode. If I boot into Recovery using my tablet with Reboot Pro or a similar app even from Bootloader I get the Fallen Android/Andy with an Explanation Point (!) is there a way around this? Can I flash CWM and have it Install Permanently on my Slate Pro? I'm rooted and can get into the Custom Transformer CWM only by using Fastboot on my PC.

I just thought if I can flash the uploaded 1.00.12 CWM flashable update Originally Posted by roustabout that everyone is using to update from 1.00.09 to 1.00.12 will that install CWM Recovery on my Slate permanently? I looked in the .Zip file it has a Recovery.img File in it, is that Recovery File a CWM Recovery file that will flash to my Slate with CWM as my Recovery?

Is there any way that someone can help me out getting recovery to stick, I would really appreciate it, thanks in advance?

Oh, The HP Slate 8 Pro can be Rooted with Version 1.00.12 that’s what I actually Rooted Software/Bootloader 1.00.12…….

If anyone can help thanks once again!!!
[Android General] sahib071:
Will try

Gonna try this thanks
[Android General] roustabout:
You might want to fill folks in on how you resolved in case someone else gets stuck in the same place?

That's not an issue, it's by design; this rooting approach boots from a custom recovery but does not write it to disk. The recovery is not just non-stock recovery - it is not actually written for this device.

Yes, you can write it to your your disk; I think doing it is risky and see that I have not documented it here. Doing so makes the device much harder to return for repair since it means you may have a LOT of trouble restoring it to stock configuration.

If you really want to do it, you will need to read very carefully on the syntax used.

You should probably also ask yourself why you want CWM to be resident. There are neither custom ROMs nor custom kernels for this tablet, and I don't expect there will be. I don't expect to need CWM except on those occasions when I want a full nandroid backup, which is not very often.

My update will not overwrite the stock recovery. I changed the update file only enough to get it to be flashable and to prevent the file from overwriting whatever recovery is already installed on the device.
[Android General] drvsbsm:
I really don’t know how I did it to be honest, like I said it was giving me a headache ADB would not list my device? I did uninstall PDA.net from my PC My SDK is in a completely different location than what is written in the main thread, although I have downloaded a "Basically Complete SDK" that is the only thing I can think of when I did "ADB list devices" it never showed my Slate or anything at all, nothing. Although all of the other commands worked just fine to unlock, and root? But anyways I have this Issue now if anyone can help out....

I don’t have any recovery on my device at all, I get the fallen Android laying on his back with an Explanation Point (!) when I boot into recovery mode now, because I thought I could install CWM permanently.

I don’t know if there won’t be any roms for this device? I really don’t think it would be hard to port a Slate 7 Extreme or maybe even a Shield Rom or any of the Tegra 4 note devices if a Rom is created or already exist, I’m not sure I haven’t got that far yet but I’m sure one of those devices will get Roms eventually if not yet. There are quite a few devices that are basically the same devices with minor variations. Are there any roms for any of the Tegra 4 devices? I'm no Rom Chief, but it seems someone could do this with a basic Rom Port if a Rom for one of these Tegra 4 devices is eventually created if there is not any as of now, a custom kernel would be nice also? This device just needs more attention it’s hard to beat for the price and it is pretty powerful so it should hold us over for a while.
[Android General] roustabout:
The device has been out for 6 months, and the price you paid suggests that HP has discontinued it. There's no forum for it here, and we're lucky that I figured out a way to root it by plugging in different recoveries until one worked...

The android lying on his side is actually the HP stock recovery having booted - if you connect the device to your PC when that's onscreen, you can issue ADB commands and get very limited responses - you can't change anything, but you can read lists of files.

The fellow who does pixel rom is willing to work on a CM build and a Pixel build if he has a device - this week he was asked about the Slate 8 and he basically said he needed the device but would be happy to work on it if he had one. IF Amazon's got 'em for 200 bucks it's probably the only way to get a ROM for the device.

Is it worth taking up a collection?
[Android General] okusare:
If only somebody could provide us with a clean image of the new pro business rom 4.4.2, I am sure it would install in our devices without a hassle. And if not just changing a few lines would be enough to make it work. So please any corporate employee out there giving us a hand? ;)
[Android General] drvsbsm:
That would be really nice we need to find that corporate image! Someone post it please! I've looked everywhere for it. Maybe someone will come along with it? That Corporate image has to be in someones hands we just got to get that! Although 4.2.2 runs pretty damn smooth on my Slate 8 Pro. I would like to see at least a couple roms and a couple Kernels This is one of my favorite devices yet. Its super fast, smooth I love the 8 inch screen with Exposed Modules-Expanded Desktop makes it look even bigger!

HP should want to stay in the game and this would be one reason for people to grab this Slate 8 Pro I’m very satisfied with the Slate 8 pro even running 4.2.2 its pretty much butter and fast. I was worried about the 1GB or Ram but I don’t even notice it - it feels the same as my phone with 3GB ram I can’t really tell any difference. If it was unlockable and custom roms were available, or even an upgrade at least. Personally I think it’s fine with 4.2.2 mine is pretty Damn fast during user experience and AntutuX 34000 is a decent score, it will get me buy until next year. Although why would HP not release 4.4 to the community, especially if corporate have 4.4 on the same exact device? HP has their priorities messed up is corporate the target customer base for their devices? Or are the users that buy them their priority? They have things backwards, they have to see updates are Important? I got this device as a gift and I like it a lot , don’t see myself upgrading anytime soon but if HP does not change their outlook and treat customers right, I won’t myself an HP Tablet.

On the other subject I don’t have any recovery at all right now I get Andy on his back with an>!< Explanation Point….. I can boot into CWM from my PC - although when I go to Recovery from the menu I get the fallen Andy with Explanation point (!)

QUESTION

Could I just pull the Recovery from the 1.00.12 Official HP Recovery from the 1.0012 Update and Fastboot Flash that Original HP Recovery using Fastboot Flash Recovery Recovery.img

QUESTION 2

Or could I fastboot flash CWM Custom Recovery from TF 701 if so I can always flash back to original HP Recovery if the Fastboot command works when flashing these Recoveries. I wanted to ask before I tried. I have flashed many Recoveries many times, but with it being the entirely different device using the TF701-CWM Recovery will it stick if chose to Fastboot Flash Recovery Recovery.img? I don’t have any Recovery on my Slate 8 pro as of now..... I just get Andy on his back? With the (!) Explanation mark
[Android General] roustabout:
As I understand it, the Andy on his back is all the display you get from the HP recovery, but it is the HP recovery.

You can test that by getting to that step and seeing if the ADB drivers see a device in recovery mode.

My memory from when I softbricked my unit is that the device is in recovery with that displayed. I was able to pull a lot of information off of mine via ADB with nothing but him onscreen.
[Android General] roustabout:
Interesting, had not been aware of this in development.

It's not yet released? Ship date June 26 from what I'm seeing?

Once it is released, HP will have the firmware available for download, and since the hardware spec is basically identical with the 8 pro, my guess is that there will be a KitKat update for the 8 pro released at the same time.

I don't think I'd want it, though. I actually like Jellybean more than Kitkat, having experienced both. I would miss Flash support that I have across all my browsers on the current device. And I would miss having kernel support for NFS shares, as I have currently.

I don't use the NFS too much, granted, but it's nice to have and in some ways the current device is more flexible than the devices that have replaced it.

Any rate, I'd be surprised if anyone at HP wanted to risk getting in trouble for releasing a firmware that'll be available on the HP website once the tablet is released.

Of course, the release date may be pushed back now that Geohot's rooted every device with a compile date prior to June 3!
[Android General] mygoldkenn:
Fallen Andy Never Shown

Dear all 8Pro owner,

Please confirm if the recovery step given on HP support website properly work.

I got 8Pro a few weeks ago. I found some lag while navigating or switching apps or rotating the screen. My rom version is 1.00.12 which I believe it is the latest OTA one.

However, I saw HP is providing 1.01.01 for download. Therefore, I tried to get into recovery mode to update from zip file.

While the device is off, I press power and volume down at the same time.

The bootloader menu appeared.

Then, scroll down to "recovery kernel" and press power button.

At the step, HP says "fallen android logo" should appear in a few seconds.

My device only showed entire black screen.

Now, I cannot do anything but to turn it off.

Anyone experiencing the similar issue, please kindly share and advice the solution pleasssss.
[Android General] roustabout:
Interesting - I actually looked for updates last night and was not offered that.

Can you give us the link you downloaded from? Edit: Found it,

http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/...en&cc=us&dlc=en&sw_lang=&product=6608624#N147

This was my experience with the Slate 8 when I tried to force an OS reinstall with the HP-provided recovery, but I'd already meddled extensively with the device by that point, including unlocking the bootloader.

Have you rooted the slate?

If you are able to get the drivers set up as outlined in post 1, it is worth trying, with the device on but unresponsive, to connect the cable to your computer and see what, if any, device is reported.

If you've already unlocked, you can try booting from the alternate recovery via

fastboot boot

and then use that recovery to manually select the update.zip file to install.

This is how I've been updating my tablet.

If you haven't unlocked and rooted yet, you should be able to get a repair authorization.

If you're still locked, don't unlock if you want HP to do the fix.

Very interesting that there's a firmware update for the device that HP is not announcing over the air!
[Android General] roustabout:
The image for the new Business Slate 8 is up at HP.

http://h20566.www2.hp.com/portal/si...x.portlet.endCacheTok=com.vignette.cachetoken

For grins, I tried editing the installer script to remove the device checks and installing it.

Fail:

- there's a long set of "set_metadata" and "set_metadata_recursive" commands which bombed out early on. Don't know where these are broken, didn't try too hard to troubleshoot them

as a result:

- the boot extraction fails

- the blob extraction fails

I tried manually flashing the boot and blob.

No luck there.

I tried applying the 1.01.01 firmware HP has available for the 7600 US - that firmware also won't install or won't boot, even after manually forcing the boot.img and blob updates.

I've just rolled back to the 1.08 firmware and woudl advise that currently

- we should wait for HP

- the 1.01.01 firmware appears to fail

- remember to flash the boot and blob back to your device that accompanies the recovery - flashing the 1.08 with the 1.01.01 boot and blob led to a no-boot.

Another thing to be aware of: on the Transformer device that the current recovery is pulled from, Jellybean and KitKat have different recovery requirements.

The KitKat update for the Slate 8 we have may be a one-way trip as it may break our recovery.