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[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Adobe Flash on ME176C!

I've managed to install Flash following some steps from:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5575064/install-flash-or-air-on-intel-android-android-x86

I copy below the instructions extracted from that URL.

I've tested it with several browsers, and the only one that was able to use Flash was Firefox (I have Firefox Beta installed)

It crashes very often, maybe half of the times.. Although, I've been able to play flash videos and games.

Hope it helps.

Cya!

Instructions:

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[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Hey people, I have a question. Does anyone have problems on this tablet with most of the games crashing? There are some games that don't crash, but most of the ones I tried DO crash. Some examples : Kritika, Soccer Spirits, Taichi Panda and others that I've tried, but can't remember atm (the ones I mentioned are the ones I kept and I'm playing them). Some of the games crash after a while after I log in/open them and after that the work fine (Soccer Spirits for example), others crash from time to time, others crash constantly. Doesn't matter if I use FolderMount (it's similar to GL to SD) or not, they still crash even if they are on the tablet's storage. If i try these games on my ARM processor smartphone, they all work fine...could it be related to the Intel Atom processor? Does anyone have a solution to this?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Don't blame the processor. Blame ASUS's terrible Android ROM with even worse memory management.

Memory gets so bad on this tablet that apps can crash even if they're in the foreground.

If you haven't already, freeze all the bloatware with Titanium Backup. There is a list of apps that are safe to freeze in this thread.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] windwarrior:
Hi everybody

I currently have a Nexus 7 2012 and am looking to buy this memo pad... So far as for design, specs and price, i'm sold, but I have doubt's about support. How is Asus support? Is this tablet stuck in KitKat? Are there custom roms? I'm having trouble finding the answer to those questions because there are quite many memo pads models. I appreciate your help :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Kittie-hime:
Is there a way of knowing whether a microSD card is class 10 or not? (I got mine with my tablet so I have no idea if it is).

I think I will root my tablet since the game I'm playing is taking more and more space (up to 1,31GB now). What's the safest way of doing it? I'm using the build WW-3.2.23.201

Is there a way to restore the tablet if I accidently brick it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
At this point it's unknown whether ASUS will update this tablet to Lollipop.

The bootloader is currently locked, so there are no custom ROMs as of yet, but we do have a temporary ClockWorkMod session (linked below).

On most MicroSD cards you can see a circle with a number. That number is its class. Mine's a speedy UHS-1 as signified by a 1 inside of a U.

There are two ways that I know of to root this tablet. One is RootZenFone 1.4.6.4r, but I don't know if it works on the newest firmwares. The other is the temporary ClockWorkMod. Again, I don't know if this works on the newer firmwares.

There is a way to recover the tablet if it gets bricked.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
It's May the 7th and still no joy on the Lollipop version for this Tablet. I only have a few more days of waiting until I buy the nvidia shield tablet. Afterwards. I will NEVER buy another product from Asus again. Either laptop, tablet or phone. You (Asus) people are spoiled brats that have more money than wisdom. That usually is a combination for doom. I'll damn you if you don't update this tablet to LL or at the very least unlock the bootloader! If you don't know how, ask Intel how. >_

Btw! This petition, just became viral. I will slander the name Asus all over the freaking planet!

Wanna sue me? Come find me! I'll be the guy holding a gaitling machine gun pointing at your bouls!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
I have an nvidia shield tablet. While it is a blazing fast tablet, i wouldnt just recommend it, just yet. The tablet freezes quite often. It has the infamous problem of memory leak on lollipop. Chrome freezes like no tomorrow. Nvidia already said they were going to release lollipop 5.1 so maybe it will fix all those things i mentioned. They said it was going to release in may so it must be close. Maybe hold out until the update so i can tell you if those things get fixed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Thx chuy. I'll wait for you feedback then. BUT IM STILL HOLDING MY GAITLING GUN AIMED AT THEIR (ASUS) NUTS! :P
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I don't want to start any wars on this thread, but ASUS kinda implied that they'd update the thing. After all, this was their top tier device last summer.

It was also implied that the bootloader would be unlocked, as the 2013 model was.

[MENTION=2685592]bravesoul[/MENTION] the petition went viral? Hmm. I checked it yesterday and IIRC it was close to the 500 mark. Not exactly viral.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I will get you the sources once I get home- the Internet Archive Wayback Machine is blocked at school for "Web Proxies." Theheck?

On a side note, we need to do something about this, or nothing will happen. I think it's clear that the petition is not working. I forget the person who said this, but he said something along the lines of "Evil can only exist in the world if good men do nothing." We need to metaphorically bomb ASUS with links to the petition and requests for the bootloader and Lollipop. I am about as fed up as [MENTION=2685592]bravesoul[/MENTION] at this point. Unlike him, though, buying another device is not an option.

We need to figure out a way to get what we need. This is a NEED at this point. I am fed up with this ROM and its terrible RAM management. Only CyanogenMod 12.1 can fix this tablet now. And we will get it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
Where is it located? I can extract it now!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
This is what I got when doing the command you asked:

major minor #blocks name

7 0 67631 loop0
179 0 31166976 mmcblk1
179 1 31162880 mmcblk1p1
179 16 15392768 mmcblk0
179 17 229376 mmcblk0p1
179 18 32768 mmcblk0p2
179 19 32768 mmcblk0p3
179 20 131072 mmcblk0p4
179 21 1024 mmcblk0p5
179 22 131072 mmcblk0p6
179 23 662528 mmcblk0p7
179 24 307200 mmcblk0p8
179 25 32768 mmcblk0p9
179 26 1835008 mmcblk0p10
179 27 11988972 mmcblk0p11
179 64 4096 mmcblk0rpmb
179 48 4096 mmcblk0boot1
179 32 4096 mmcblk0boot0
253 0 67630 dm-0

Hope this helps...

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Is it possible to do a cm11 port from another x86 phablet/tablet?

Sent from my Asus MediaPad 7 using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
We need someone willing to do it
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Thanks for the input! There's only a few possible partitions that hold the recovery: mmcblk0rpmb, mmcblk0boot1, or mmcblk0boot0.

Could you please execute the following?

su
cat /proc/mtd

That should eliminate even more possibilities.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
It says no such file or directory
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
Getting error package on install the APK to root. Can anyone help?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Try re-download, maybe file is bad.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
Send me yours. Maybe is ok
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Same as shawnsac2000.

u0_a107@K013_1:/ $ su

root@K013_1:/ # cat /proc/mtd

tmp-mksh: cat: /proc/mtd: No such file or directory

1|root@K013_1:/ #
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
It's really was a bad download. Make it on the phone, push to tablet. And I'm with root.

Thanks

---------- Post added at 03:04 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:44 AM ----------

Now is about to know what bloatware to remove.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Not related to rooting, but I have a question. When i try to check the system update, it says something like "Internet connection problem or server is busy.Please try again later". Does any get this message? Is it normal? If not, any idea what's wrong?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
I get that sometimes, there's no update! So you got nothing to worry about.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] peldo123:
noob question:

When you root using this apk does the bootloader get unlocked as well:(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Alright then, we'll take the safe route.

Download Flashify from the Play Store, give it root, then hit Backup, then Backup Current Recovery.

Attach the resulting file here.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
I'm afraid things aren't improving.

Also, this device uses a fastboot setup, much like HTC. There is a fastboot img. But it's too big to attach.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
Same here
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
WIFI OFF No Deep Sleep Issue

Could someone verify if your experiencing the same issue:

1. Go to WIFI Config, Uncheck "Scanning always available"

2. Make sure WIFI is OFF.

3. Turn off the screen and leave it for awhile "at least 1 min or better more".

4. Using Wakelock Detector or BetterBattery or CPU Spy, observe that there is no Deep Sleep or is not anymore increasing "meaning device remained wake when screen is turned-off".

Leaving the WIFI on increases the deep sleep time..

Thanks in Advance.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
Done!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
When I tried to use the external sd card to be the location for Titanium backup, it said that it couldn't write to the card. A little searching turned up an answer in this thread-

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2572354

A little editing of the permissions file and a reboot does the trick. May also help other apps that have trouble accessing the external card.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
I dont have this tablet but my friend and he is also fed up with it too. I will join the effort as well.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Just sold my Asus.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yeah, that may be true, but the point still stands that if ASUS is doing something, they haven't announced it. Plus, it would still be ASUS's build of Android, which means memory management can be kissed goodbye. Hopefully they address these things. I guess it is nice to see a glass-half-full perspective.

I tried to get you those sources by the way, but the Internet Archive's copy of the ASUS website from July 2014 is broken. If you head over to the ME173X support site, however, you'll see a bootloader unlock apk listed for download.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I'm trying to grow. But Asus won't let me. I'm trying to cook a nice

Rom so that everyone enjoy this tablet getting 40 thousand antutu points. But so far, all we see are promises and staff meetings.

Your words towards me were so kind, that I almost burst into tears. Anyways. I was making all that to pressure Asus. After all, some of them are always snooping around XDA looking for new ideas and to test tube what others made and didn't patent.

I'm not 9 years old to not understand that these threats fall in deaf ears. My way was an (almost) funny way to say "I'm desperate Asus"!

No chance of war jerbear. I'm all for peace. (With a gaitling gun on my SUV, of course). :D

I was bluffing about it went viral.

Sometimes, I wish Asus looked from time to time at the ants their stepping at, for not at least unlock the bootloader and let us make our creativity run wild.

You know, Asus moto is "In search of incredible"! Well... Keep searching.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
True that. I might get the next MeMO ASUS comes out with but ONLY if it's unlocked. The next device I get, I will make sure that it's got an unlocked bootloader. I didn't have to do that before- coincidentally when I bought the Sero I didn't know what a bootloader even was (it was my first device), and turns out it was unlocked by default.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
I got the Asus Vivo tab 8. Its a windows 8 tablet with the same exact cpu as this tablet only with 2gb of ram. Windows is for sure optimized for x86 so I can run some benchs if you want to see how optimized android is for x86
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
I froze all of the applications in the list mentioned a few pages back (except for the weather one and the system update one) and unfortunatelly, I see no difference, the games that were crashing before still crash.

I also tried using a RAM booster, but when the memory gets bad,it gets force closed, so it doesn't help with anything. Same thing happens with the Asus memory booster, so that doesn't help either...any other suggestions?

Tired of 80% of the good games crashing each 5-10 minutes....good thing that at least my favorite ones somehow don't crash.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I hate to say it, but the only way I get back to smooth flowing (and I mean smooth) is by rebooting the tablet, at least daily. It's almost soul-crushing (hyperbole is fun) to see how smoothly taps and drags and program loads go right after a reboot, just to see things get laggier and less responsive a few hours after playing some games (and I am just talking sporadic app use, not heavy duty, set-fire-to-the-back-of-the-tablet grinding).

The worst thing is that even ASUS's little memory reclaimer app ("Boost") stops working after just a half day or so. To try to keep up performance I tend to close all apps and run Boost as often as I can, but after a while the tool doesn't even display itself. It's pretty sad when the memory tool ASUS specifically added in a recent update can't even stay up -- a very good sign that they've got some nasty leaks and/or a severely bloated ROM. And I've even got quite a few things frozen...

The tab does reboot relatively quickly though. At least it has that going for it. *smile*

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm surprised Tasker doesn't force close itself. I keep my tablet rotation locked at night to watch YouTube videos on my side (It's pretty comfortable) and usually forget to turn rotation back on. I wrote a Tasker script for it to turn rotation on at midnight, and it works fine. Hmm.

I'm tempted to write a Tasker script to reboot the tablet after turning the rotation on at midnight (Is that possible?)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I don't know much about Tasker, but did find this:

http://www.slideshare.net/automatips/automatically-reboot-android-at-scheduled-time-with-tasker

Will that do what you need? I just reboot whenever I think about it and know I am putting the tablet away for a while. Come back to a smooth interface -- for a while.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I'd recommend 3D Mark. Antutu isn't as accurate as it used to be. I'm not even sure there's a Windows version of it... Use extreme on 3D Mark please.

I'm on ROM WW.198.

I use something that avoid those memory leaks and deficient memory management.

It's a tool embedded on Rom toolbox pro to edit build.prop that allows me to retain almost every time 400+ MB of RAM. I made a post on this thread about what to change and how much one can increase without having the tablet blowing in our face.

Also, I use a task killer which doubles as a rebooter, that has proven to be a way better program than the original from Asus.

In what game performance concerns, I play a lot modern combat 3 and 4, also NFSMW and asphalt 7 and 8. Colin McRae Rally and Defense Zone 1 and 2. Not all of these are installed right now, of course but I have played them all in this tab recently. These are very demanding games. I observed that with these "dalvik tweaks" and task killer, things roll as fast as my NFSMW Porsche 911 turbo. As Fast and Reliable as possible.

And believe it or not. Not one game crash has occurred after playing an hour or two. Maybe I'm on to something, maybe it's just coincidence, but it improves reliability.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That's exactly what I need, thank you! :)

I'll write the script when I get home tonight.

I'm on .198 as well.

Unless you posted other build.prop mods, it didn't work for me- I'm still averaging 150 MB free according to GravityBox's RAM bar addon. I applied the values a few months ago.

What's the name of the task killer? That would be handy.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
It's a simple program someone created (don't know who. There's no "about"). Here are the pics:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shange:
firmware questions

1) Which version is latest? I've 3.1.23.158 and cant find any new OTA FW.

2) When are we expected to get Lollipop ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
1) Latest is ww.201

2) According to Asus. Soon. Less than a month.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
yes, thats what im trying to find also.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
It's hearsay, of course.

And DO NOT try sites like this:

http://www.rom-lollipop.org/mp3-0/asus-memo-pad-7-me176c-6412.html

It's BS! Just an elaborate scam to rip off your money.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Has anyone tried KK launcher with lollipop theme? I did and the notification panel looks like this:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yuck!

Try L Launcher with the Moonshine theme. It has all the Lollipop icons and some others that follow the Material Design guidelines.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
No. I like too.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Those arent the original lollipop icons.

I like it too. Its just... well, it's a little limited.

I guess they're working on one that doesn't have those pesky memory leaks.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The majority of the original Lollipop icons are, however, available as alt icons in the app.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Here are Asus MemoPad 7 K013 GsmArena quick specs:

http://www.gsmarena.com/asus_memo_pad_7_me176c-6412.php

You can compare your results with these device's results:

http://www.gsmarena.com/benchmark-test.php3?idPhone=6378

I'm gonna stop using antutu benchmarks. Instead, I'll be using basemark benchmarks. And this tablet gets:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
wow, thats impressive memory score. On my shield tablet, i got 693 only :eek:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I Have used 3d Mark. And GL bench, and a few more. If sites like GSMarena use basemark, it's because it's good. Plus, it's cross platform. Meaning. If you really want an accurate test, you should test all of the competition. Not just android and Windows as in 3d Mark. ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
+1
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
So it is. I stand corrected. Thx for the info. The last time I checked iOS wasnt available.

But. It won't change my mind. I'm still fond of basemark though.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
Like he said, 3dmark is basically the standard when it comes to pc benchmarking. It is one of the most repected pc benchmarks. Also, you can directly compare results wfrom your tablet or phone to a pc. Results are lightyear different but still cool that you can compare them.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Yeah. I used to run some benchmarks with Sandra and PC Mark, but also 3d Mark and did some oc with nvidia GPU tool. To overclock my laptop gfx card and desktop. Though the desktop wasn't much of challenge. After all you can change almost everything in a desktop pc. I haven't done any oc in android since my Huawei g300. Lately, antutu doesn't let us publish oc results from android. Basemark does. So, I'm sticking with basemark until something better shows up. In my opinion we could debate all day about what's better. I.e. If the 3d Mark is better than basemark, I dunno. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. 3d Mark takes almost half hour to download the files for extreme. Basemark takes two minutes. 3d Mark takes 5-10 minutes to do a test while basemark takes 3. It's the little things like patience (or lack of it) that matters too.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Personally, if they are looking to bring it to our device I hope they've scrapped 5.0.2 & focus on bringing 5.1/5.1.1, even if it takes a few months longer.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
True. For what I've been reading, they can suck lollipop 5.0 altogether. Kitkat never was brilliant. But lollipop is starting to feel like a Windows ME, Vista and 8.0!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
So Android 5.1 is Windows Blue/8.1?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
hopefully :p the new zenphone 2 has its bootloader unlocked! Am I seeing this correlation wrong? this tablet should be unlocked!!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
5.0 was also memory leak heaven. The leaks were patched in 5.1.

Considering the current memory situation on this tablet, do you think 5.0's memory leaks will help much?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
No wonder android tablet sales dropped 30% worldwide in the Q1.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Asus is suposedly trying to get intel to release bootloader unlock tool. Maybe there's still hope.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Saw your original post... 4chan is a very reliable source [emoji14]

Hopefully they're right in this case. I'd like some official confirmation though.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
from what i know this isn't the case and it is at the sole discretion of the manufacturer if they release the unlock for a device or not asus new droidboot even contains checks for determining if a device is bootloader is unlocked ,

upgrading a device to different android versions from what i now understand requires a manufacturer to purchase licensing so when a manufacturer updated from JB to KK they had to buy a license from Intel so to update from KK to L they have to buy a license from Intel , updating from 5.0.0 to 5.1.1 does not require purchase because they are both L but L to M will.

but interesting piece from android builders summit android 5.1.x verified boot :

this part interesting to me:

this suggest that either GMS Licensing Certification currently can restrict a manufacturer from unlocking a devices bootloader for what ever reason or We could only hope that Google is going to step up and make bootloader unlocking or at least the ability for a user to add their own keys a future requirement of GMS Licensing Certification much like the way Microsoft did for Designed for Windows 8 / 8.1 Certification
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Yep, but this was actually pretty nice discusion about zenfone 2 launch in America. It seems that Intel is not just practically giving Atoms away, but controlling most of the process (including unlocking the bootloader). If the bootloader is unlocked, and custom ROM installed, some security tech on the chip will be disabled. I know that much is true, because i remember reading about it about two years ago. The only important thing is that there is still some chance it might happen.

Edit: Sorry for incomplete posts, my connection is terrible.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Kittie-hime:
I managed to root my tablet with RootZenPhone. However, I had to unroot because I needed to take the tablet back to the store. The micro-SD slot broke (it must have been the fourth time I inserted a card in it since I got the tablet). I already had to send this tablet back to the store in March because the motherboard died, and Asus changed it. Did anyone else ever had problems with this tablet's hardware or am I just a very unlucky person?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You're just a very unlucky person. Sure, we have sporadic issues, but a broken MicroSD slot and a dead motherboard seems a little overboard.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Actually. You know, this is my third tablet. I had problems with the internal "spring" with all of them. They all broke. I had to install a mechanism that allowed me to use the microsd card. Boy. Am I an unlucky person, huh JB?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
Well, 5.1 finally hit for the shield tablet and all i could say i dam. Every single thing i said what was wrong with the tablet was fixed. There no freezimg when switching between apps, chrome doesnt hitch at all, wifi was a bit improved, memory leak on lollipop was fixed. At this point, i would definitely recommend the shield tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Thx 4 the feedback chuy. I'm gonna buy one tomorrow.