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[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
If you format /data you have to reflash the rom afterwards. Some files do get installed to /data and you wiped those.

Try to format /data in an adb shell in recovery, then flash the rom to internal.

Boot to recovery and connect tablet via USB

Check adb connection, then run these commands

adb shell
make_ext4fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p8

When you formatted data - did you let it finish? How long did it take?

For the external, did you flash as rom2sd or only data2sd?

If rom2sd: Did you select the same kernel for both internal and external?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Yes - but also you have to reboot into recovery after formatting /data. You'll have problems if you don't. Go to the twrp home menu, reboot / system, and make sure you're ready to hit the down vol button to get back into the boot menu! Then you can reflash.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Narsil:
Thanks for your help, but I face a new one ... of course, without a valid Android installed, I'm unable to activate USB debugging !

$ sudo adb start-server
* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *
* daemon started successfully *
$ adb devices
List of devices attached
015d2a50875bf20b	sideload

$ adb shell
error: closed

I'm using TWRP, Is there a flashable CWM that could be installed via TWRP ?

[edit]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Detecting filesystems ...
mmcblk0p8 /data on internal (UDA) -> unknown
mmcblk1p2 /data on microSD (for Data2SD/ROM2SD) -> ext4
mmcblk1p3 /system on microSD (for ROM2SD) -> ext4

Need to find a way to reformat mmcblk0p8 ...

[edit2]---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Ok, I'm back to stock (reflashed Asus stock)
[Asus Transformer TF700] mrjayviper:
Is it possible to flash/use the _that kernel with stock/recent cm11 nightly? if yes, where do I find the flashable zip? thanks! :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55513454&postcount=484

I just love seeing users fixing there own issues ...

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] Narsil:
I was thinking out loud ... be sure everybody's suggestions has been helpful !

Thx.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
.... and share it! :D

+1
[Asus Transformer TF700] Narsil:
Then, let's say DON'T DO WHAT I DID NEVER FORMAT /DATA :crying:

But if you did and even if these are obvious operations for all of us ... I tried many others before

- Flash stock with TWRP (hoping it's still alive) -> 1) don't select latest version, take V10.6.1.14.8 2) beware of WW/US/TW versions and 3) the zip to be flashed is inside the zip you download (they zipped a zip ...)

- Reroot running the run.bat file of motoshopper

- If you did they way I did flash the wrong stock version (higher than V10.6.1.14.8), it's not rootable with motoshopper, you'll need a Win machine and Kingo

- Reinstall TWRP with TWRP manager

- Reflash a civilized ROM

- Hope you have some TB backup somewhere :highfive:

And have a nice day !
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Why not format /data???? I did it 3x in the last 3 days... ;)

You just have to do it right! LMAO
[Asus Transformer TF700] Narsil:
I would be interested in what the right way it's then ! (mean from a rom2sd / data2sd install)
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
I'm not really sure what it was you did, but let's assume you want to wipe or format external /data on a data2sd installation and then flash the rom in the same TWRP session.

* Boot to recovery

* flash data2sd1.zip - this will orient TWRP towards the external /data partition

* format /data in recovery (TWRP will format external /data)

* Flash the rom - since TWRP is still oriented towards the external partition you can install "normal", without the data2sd option.

* Reboot

Note: At some point (don't remember when...) sbdags added a script in the Aroma installer that checks which way the recovery is oriented during that flash session and Aroma acts accordingly. So if your recovery is oriented towards external already and you select data2sd in the installer options, the installer will leave your recovery oriented towards external. Without that script, if you flash data2sd1.zip first, then select the data2sd option in the installer, Aroma would run data2sd1.zip again resulting in TWRP acting on internal.

Flash data2sd1.zip once - TWRP acts on external /data

Flash data2sd1.zip again - TWRP acts on internal /data

Now let's say you did the data2sd installation already and want to format your internal /data.

* Boot to recovery and take the microSD out during boot

* Format /data in TWRP

* Reflash the rom

* Reboot

Personally, I would always do a basic setup of my rom with /data on internal - even if I plan to run it mostly with /data on external

* Put the microSD back in and reboot

I don't know what went wrong at which point for you, but formatting either data (internal/external) should be a straight forward process....
[Asus Transformer TF700] Fhurzel:
Problem installing ROM2SD on TF700T

I am running cromix 5.4 with that11+ kernel on ASUS TF 700T. I am trying to install crombi kk. However when the installation just crashes. I have had various results but most of the time I have a black screen with the time shown and the return and home bar shown. But the touch screen does not work.

Please find attached the log file. Hoping someone can help me out.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
What's your bootloader version? If you don't know, boot with Power and Vol Down and read the small white text.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
You have to format data... double check the OP!

Only thing I would change is that you need (I think... there's a warning message that should come up also) to reboot into recovery after formatting /data to make it usable again.

You didn't wipe data from the TF700 recovery, did you?
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Where does it say anything about formatting in the OP?

And why should it be necessary?

I think you mean the bootloader, right?

Recovery should be the

only

place you perform wipes from....
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Yes, that. Bootloader menu, thanks for the clarification.

Changing Cromi-x to Cromi-kk? OP:

Since he was having problems and switching bases, therefore the recommendation to format data (from the TWRP menu)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Mikey1969:
Hey guys...

From an install standpoint, the best things about this ROM are the easy GUI interface, the bundled GAPPS, and the ability right there to pick exactly which GAPPS to install, and which not to install. I love it, it makes the flashing part a breeze. Since I've never seen this on other ROMs, I'm wondering if it is unique to the ROMs in this particular family. Does anyone know of other ROMs with this nice of an install process? I'm turning my wife's old Razr into a music player/GPS system, and there is a lot of junk that I don't need.

Thanks!
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Any ROM that uses AROMA installer. There should be many out there, but I like to think I have my own special version with unique features... Thanks!
[Asus Transformer TF700] Dubster93:
This ROM it's better than CM 11? This ROM have lagging or something?
[Asus Transformer TF700] kansasboy001:
Yes it is better than cm11 it less lag. Lag is bad.
[Asus Transformer TF700] 3vilhomer:
how can i cast my screen using chromecast? once i hit "cast screen" the whole tablet freeze and reboot
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
It's not working on the TF700. Never has.
[Asus Transformer TF700] iadegesso:
Hi,

I use this rom on my 32GB TF700 and it is very nice, but my tablet lags a lot (despite I flashed the R1 test patch on a clean R1 installation). Moreover, i installed the rom in the internal memory and enabling F2FS in the aroma wizard. I also installed a small part of the ASUS App 2.1 package.

ZenUI crashes frequently and the rom takes too much time to start. It lags on showing the unlock screen and during the activity of the Google Play Store (app install).

Iade
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Did you format the internal to F2FS as well?

You should ask in the asus apps thread if they are causing issues as I can't support them here.
[Asus Transformer TF700] biggyrat:
This was meant for iadegesso.

I posted this in the zombi thread when I was trying to find out why these tablets had lag problems.

Just ran across some information on Asus tablets and lag while reading about the lollipop update for my nephew's nexus 7.

More recently users have been noticing very poor performance with ASUS Android tablets whenever there's substantial background IO going on, particularly multitasking while writes are taking place (e.g. downloading a torrent and browsing the web). The slowdowns range from multi-second long pauses to sluggish response time. The video below shows you what can happen on a Transformer Pad Infinity while downloading a bunch of large files in the background:

Even though downloading a large file is a largely sequential write operation, any other action performed while that download is in progress will effectively turn the IO stream from purely sequential to pseudo-random. Most of these eMMC and other cheap MLC NAND flash controllers are really glorified SD cards, primarily optimized for reading and writing large images as if they were used in a camera. What they're not designed for is to run and be used in a full blown multitasking OS. Some manufacturers seem to do a better job of picking their storage solution, and the Kingston eMMC in the Nexus 7 is faster than the Hynix e-NAND ASUS has used in previous tablets. Neither is perfect however. There's a tangible impact on simple multitasking if you're downloading a lot of files or installing apps in the background. Even operations in memory are quite negatively affected by background IO.

What the developers have done to make these tablets usable is amazing.

I have taken the suggestions of some of the people on the forum and bought myself a good sd card and I am now using data2sd. The difference is incredible.
[Asus Transformer TF700] winfan:
I have a huge issue. My tablet was laggy so I did a wipe dalvik and wipe cache in twrp. Then I got a bootloop when it said upgrading android apps. After app 25 it would reboot.

So then I did a factory reset and got a bootloop from the boot screen. I tried to wipe data and format data but it took too long ( waited 30 min) and then restarted into twrp. Now the data partition and system partition are gone. I'm on ext4 filesystem and...

Twrp 2.7.1.1 and boot loader is 10.6.1.14.10

Can't mount data or system so factory reset no longer works.

What should I do to get it back? Appreciate your help.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Can you boot into the bootloader (and fastboot mode) or does it just boot into TWRP?
[Asus Transformer TF700] winfan:
Yes I can see the rck, wipe data option and android icon. Selecting rck loads twrp
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
So you cannot mount /data from TWRP ....

You can boot to the BL ......

Can you format /data in fastboot like this ?

fastboot -w

Give this command at least 120 seconds to finish ...

Post the output of this command .....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] winfan:
Thanks, will try this after work tomorrow and report results.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
I think fastboot -w just wipes user data and he probably needs to format.

My vote goes for:

While in recovery connect via adb and issue these commands:

adb shell
killall -19 recovery
make_ext4fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
reboot bootloader

Then enter TWRP again and reflash the rom which you have ready to go on yoour microSD.

Edit: [MENTION=2504216]winfan[/MENTION] Just for future reference, never interrupt a format process. It can take TWRP 90 minutes or more to complete it. If you interrupt, you end up with what you got now.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
I disagree ...... :D

jl52741@gmail ~ $ fastboot -w
erasing 'userdata'...
OKAY [ 22.349s]
formatting 'userdata' partition... <---- Maybe this ;)
Creating filesystem with parameters:
Size: 29618601984
Block size: 4096
Blocks per group: 32768
Inodes per group: 8192
Inode size: 256
Journal blocks: 32768
Label:
Blocks: 7231104
Block groups: 221
Reserved block group size: 1024
Created filesystem with 11/1810432 inodes and 157662/7231104 blocks
sending 'userdata' (139133 KB)...
writing 'userdata'...
OKAY [ 24.986s]

I am not sure if it will work or not .... ;)

But I prefer to use fastboot over adb, but that is just me .....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] winfan:
If I hit format data again and let it finish will it work?
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Well TWRP does not need to mount the partition to format it .....

That may work, you will have to find out .....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Ahhhhh you never cease to learn. ;)

Maybe I was looking at information about an older fastboot version.

Good to know!
[Asus Transformer TF700] iadegesso:
No, I did'n find this option in TWRP... My idea was that Aroma was able to format the /system partition again when I selected the F2FS instead of the classic ext4.

I posted this info just as an info about my present installation :) I will solve the lag issue before... later, I will solve ZenUI crashes.

Iade

---------- Post added at 10:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:34 PM ----------

I will try at the next wipe :)

Iade
[Asus Transformer TF700] winfan:
So this did work. I hit format data again, let it finish, did a wipe of system and data again just to be safe. Then reinstalled and it booted up just fine. My only other question is this. It is super speedy right now, as a fresh install without even logging into my google account. How do I get it to stay this way over time? My experience with this ROM since it came out is that it will start lagging shortly after using it like normal. Is there a change to the IO Scheduler or any other piece I can make to ensure it stays this speedy for a long time? Thanks for all your help last night guys! I really appreciate it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
I can say there are a few things that one can do .....

Dont restore 20 apps at once ...:D

Install one app at a time use it make sure it works, then move on to a diff app .....

I never have time to use a ROM for that long as I do lots of flashing and testing ....

f2fs on /data is an option that I would use ...

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] winfan:
To use the F2FS on /data do I do another format and then reinstall the ROM?
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Yes that is how I would do it ....

You can change /data in TWRP under adv wipe .....

Then flash the rom and choose the correct settings in aroma .......

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] winfan:
Would you change /cache to F2FS also? or just /data?
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
The only thing that uses the /cache partition is the recovery .....

There would be no point in doing so ....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] kansasboy001:
F2fs system would be nice if the kernel supports it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
/system is read-only in normal operation. f2fs improves write performance, garbage collection, how the system handles "dirty" versus empty blocks on flash memory that stores frequently changing data - which is the /data partition in Android.

In other words (as far as I understand it) f2fs on /system wouldn't do much if anything.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kansasboy001:
Maybe it was just a pseudo effect, but I swear that my old galaxy nexus had less lag with f2fs on /system and /data.
[Asus Transformer TF700] 3vilhomer:
where can i get the latest Asus weather clock?
[Asus Transformer TF700] kansasboy001:
Asus Apps 2.1 on the second post of my asus apps thread.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Soul TKR:
Guys, I'm about to throw my Infinity in the trash. Does this ROM fix the lag I'm experiencing? Currently on Cromi-x
[Asus Transformer TF700] kansasboy001:
It does , but zombie fixes it better
[Asus Transformer TF700] wenchien:
Just like to share that by enabling swap my tf700 seems to be more stable than before.

Since it works great with a clean CROMBI-kk install but there will be lots of weird FCs after using it for a while, about three weeks ago I decided to give swap a try to see if some of these FCs are caused by OOM. By creating a 512MB swap file and restoring swappiness to 60 on my DATA2SD install, I must say that there are noticeably less FCs since then. It may cause some laggy due to the poor IO performance though. I've ever saw it consumes up to 100MB+ swap in some situations.
[Asus Transformer TF700] nevertells2:
Hey lj, don't you think closing the Q&A thread to discussion is a little premature? Some folks may not want to move on to Lollipop right away and won't have a place to ask questions and discuss things. I own a rather old HP tablet which right now has three unofficial( two CM based, one is a 3.4 kernel and the other a 3.0 kernel and one ASOP based) builds already, all are rather buggy. One was out almost two months before Google released it to to development or should I say CM released their builds for downloading. I understand if you don't want to participate, but there are others who are willing.

Thanks, NT
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
No development is done for crombi-kk ....

No need for the thread anymore ....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] iadegesso:
Why no further development for this good rom?

Iade
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
CM11 is dead. KitKat is dead. We are focussing on omni based roms for now.
[Asus Transformer TF700] nevertells2:
I understand that development on CM11 has moved on and that your focus is on a new Rom base(omni?), but what about the hundreds/thousand of folks who have installed this great Rom who might have questions or problems?

NT

P.S. Since you brought it up, what is omni and is there a thread for it yet?

thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] Josephigloe:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3006593

This rom is way better and faster for the tf700t

This is the link for the omni rom.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Omni is closer to aosp source that google use.

You can ask questions here about Crombi-kk if you want and I will try to answer them but no more source development is going on and most devs have moved onto cm12.

We have chosen to go to omni - partly becuase cm is a lot of work due to the sheer amount of changes that get committed. A lot of them breaking the rom so lj50036 has to work all day fixing them.

You would not believe how many hours he puts in maintaining the github updates. I'm guessing thousands for crombi-kk and that is just not sustainable.

So if you want kitkat then crombi-kk is fine as R1. But there will be no more updates and limited support.

If you want lollipop - omni is where it is at via zombi-pop.

http://betanews.com/2014/07/08/omnirom-the-alternative-android-rom-you-should-be-running/

:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] nevertells2:
So, the link to crombi-kk in the OP now has the R1 patch incorporated?

I understand you all moving away from CM based Roms., although I like the configurability they provide compared to most ASOP based Roms. Have you ever looked at the Evervolv group? They are ASOP based and support a lot of devices, however, i don't think Asus is one of them. Cheers

NT
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Never heard of ASOP ..... :p
[Asus Transformer TF700] nevertells2:
Yeah,yeah! Ten 10,000 comedians out of work! Would you believe I'm Dyslexic? Ok its AOSP ha,ha. :o

And the answer to my question is...?

NT
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
Heyo - NTFS support is baked into this one, correct? I'm using _that's kernel with ROM2SD.

(Been bouncing back and forth between this and Zombi-pop... and having trouble with a dock SD card.)
[Asus Transformer TF700] yaqb:
Did anyone had problem with dolphin browser and flash player?

When I try to open any website which contain anything with flash, browser try to install flash and it fails due to flash is already installed. And it doesn't play or show any flash content??
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Make sure you enable flash in the dolphin settings.
[Asus Transformer TF700] yaqb:
I did still no luck :(
[Asus Transformer TF700] tinkerman61:
I was having the same issue. I think there is something amiss with the flash/dolphin combo install from the aroma installer. The solution I found was to not select Dolphin from the aroma installer when installing the ROM. After the ROM is installed and settled out, install Dolphin from the Play Store and then side load the flash player. You can find the flash player apk from an internet search and will need to check the box to allow installation of apps from Unknown Sources in the security section of setup.
[Asus Transformer TF700] yaqb:
Thanks [MENTION=5637261]tinkerman61[/MENTION]
[Asus Transformer TF700] Feanob:
On ROM2SD speeds...

Hi guys,

I am owning this tablet for long, and I always tried to make it work decently - without really succeding.

Too often happens that my patience threshold is overcome and feel the need to throw this 700€ thing out of the window.

My current setup is this thread's ROM installed with ROM2SD on an external 64GB sd card - link - so partitioned:

/data in f2fs

/system in ext4

plus the internal memory being in f2fs.

I just tried running a benchmark using a microsd speed tester (A1 Speed tester) and it results the internal memory seems actually faster than the microSd. Shoudn't be the opposite? I'm confused. Is there some cache acting thus distorting the results?

Anyway, the purpose doing all this partitioning and ROM2SD was to make this tablet usable but actually, it isn't.

Any advice? Am I doing sth wrong?

Thank you in advance
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes that card should be pretty decent.

Without any logs it's hard to guess what your issues might be.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Closing this thread as no further development will happen for CROMBi-kk :(

All dev is now moving to ZOMBi-POP and omni based lollipop! :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Incoming - new version will be released tonight (UK Time)

Remember to use the Q&A thread for questions.

This is the smoothest yet ;)

Based off cm-4.4-20140331-crombikk4.4.2-tf700t source by lj50036

20140402 changes

- New base from latest CM11 compiled by lj50036

- Updated the _that cm11 kernel to _that's v9 OC variant

- Added _thatv9 cm11 kernels for data2sd, f2fs and data2sd-f2fs into installer

- Added _that's CM11 Keyboard dock special keys fix if _that kernel is selected

- Added kernel tweak io_is_busy = 1 to improve touch responsiveness - thanks LuciusZen

- Added Res Changer to installer for extra speed : 3 RES available (1920x1200, 1600x1000, 1280x800)

- Increased the dalvikvm heap growth limit to 128MB to see if it stops out of memory errors for certain apps like news360

- Updated CROMBi-kk bootanimation to new one by psudeke

- Updated GApps to offcial CM11 20140105 based and then updated with latest play store versions including lib files

- Updated GApps installer to include Google Ears

- Updated Android Terminal Emulator to version 1.0.59

- Updated Dolphin Browser to version 10.3.0

- Updated Google Core Services to latest version

- Removed Optimized Remounts from init.d as no longer needed
[Asus Transformer TF700] robertolices:
Hi, the same here. My external SD card is OK, but I get random reboots (clean install with wipe of internal SD card, no DATA2SD or ROM2SD, JOURNALING = ON, _that v9 kernel, browser tweak, zipallign apps, force GPU)

Another thing is that with ART enabled some apps give me error -24 when I try to download/update them from the market (e.g. Facebook). I have a GNex with a 4.4.2 ROM and ART enabled as well and I don't have any problem there.

Will try the new version and let you know if it will solve these problems (this is the first time I found one on a CROMI rom) :good: :good: