[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Theziggy:
Wee word of warning for anyone who missed all my updates appended to my

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I dirty flashed #36 and when tablet loaded desktop - I say a SU notification symbol, then my calendar advanced floating events and then the KissKat audio notification appeared and then - reboot. This happened about 7 times. Then I flashed the nandroid I had made of my system running #35 (which it had been for weeks with no problems) - and the same thing - SuperSU hashtag in notification area, KissKat audio notification symbol, my calendar updating floating events and reboot. This happened about 4 times. So I tried reflashing the last good known working ROM 35# and the same thing has occurred. I'm just wondering why the SuperSU keeps popping up at startup saying the binary needs to be updated? Could this be causing the reboots? Can I flash a better binary?

Any ideas or help would be most welcome. I know I should probably be doing a clean flash of the ROM - could someone talk me through a clean flash - is it wipe dalvik, cache, system and factory reset. Wipe dalvik and cache again, flash rom, gaps and wipe dalvik and cache and reboot?

Thanks in advance. As I type the bleeping thing is still rebooting.

Went through a few more dirty flashes of older non linaro versions that worked - but same result -boot loops when the desktop had loaded and notifications were being seen. Going to try one more thing before I clean wipe and flash - I'm going to flash the latest updateSupersu to see if that helps. (You'd nearly think that my littel TF101 knows that I have got a TF300 a few days ago and now is making me pay attention to it lol)

UPDATE

So - after trying to update to version #36 and getting bootloops, flashing my nandroid - still bootloops, reverting to flashing older versions of the ROM - still bootloops - I did the clean flash.

Now for my experience:-

This worked - I flashed version #36 Non Linaro and Gapps and everything booted fine and dandy. I did discover a few cons to the wipe and also to nandroid.

After wiping I went to reinstall my apps with Titanium Backup - and discovered that the Backup on my SD card was a year old - but I had did a backup before trying to install #36. Titanium Backup had reverted to storing the backup on the Internal Memory - and this had been wiped!!!

Not to be daunted I researched and discovered that Titanium Backup can extract backups from Nandroid - after some trial and error I got this to work and got (most of my apps back up and running again).

Nest thing I discovered was some of the apps - had no information/data. These were apps which created a folder in the Internal Memory for their data - e.g. I had a database app which stored associated images, databases in a folder on the Internal Memory. Again - not to be daunted I got an app which claimed to allow you to extract files and folders from a Nandroid backup. This app mounted the backup and I went searching for my database app's data - only to find after a few hours that the data was stored in the Nandroid as a 'link'!!! That's when I discovered that a Nandroid does not store any data that an app stores in the Internal Memory of the tablet, I discovered I was missing data from database apps, dictionaries, calendar, and also the DCI< was gone - all my lovely pictures were wiped.

Just to let you people know what I went through and to warn you - make sure you set Titanium Backup to store on your SD card, and to backup app specific folders from the Internal Memory (as well as the DCIM) - though I didn't search specifically for the DCIM - I will tomorrow and make sure that the pictures are actually lost - I remember seeing a folder in the Nandroid called media - maybe the DCIM is there? Fingers crossed.

Also, I have discovered that if your system gets as screwed up as mine - that Nandroids don't even work.

So, as of now I am still trying to piece data together to get my databases back (some of there are gone forever I fear), and my calendars etc.

Quite a difficult time, but I learned a lot from it and maybe you will learn a bit too.

I guess what I am trying to say - is that a lot of programs that use KitKat can only store on the Internal Memory and Nandroid does not (can not obviously - could be a ridiculous size) back this up. So you do lose data thanks to KitKat. Is Lollipap the same?