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[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
Mean picture of that FastBoot screen yep? I will try those LP files and if nothing happens I will send it mate.

Sincerely, JayM

So now it looks like BRICK to me. Installed the original boot.img and the BootLoader NO longer works! BootLoop of... blah, blah

Does NOT matter - back on track so here is the picture (and yep, it looks like an LP BootLoader considering the release date - 20150505)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
maybe [MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION] could use the twrp i just posted and attempt a restore?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
Mean make and upload the working .img files for me to flash using FastBoot than?

Sincerely, JayM
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
No use the twrp to restore a backup on your tab
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Just to clarify- I am to back up the whole system except my data?

I'll do so when I get home, assuming I can get it to work on Linux.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
Hope I had a backup somewhere but I think I have. The question is how to install the TWRP when only FastBoot works?

Sincerely, JayM

PS: Yep, I thought we will use the method JERBEAR described above...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You can't install recoveries on this tablet. The bootloader is locked.

You can temporarily use TWRP/CWM by running commands from Fastboot. It is the only way to restore your tablet at this point.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
And how can I do that mate? Because I dunno how to use TWRP from FastBoot and in fact I think the TWRP is broken because the Recovery Reboot does NOT working... Im NOT a developer so do NOT know all the posibilites with BootLoader and so on.

Sincerely, JayM

PS: Know I could NOT install recoveries but I could use .img files for flashing ... or NOT?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Shodan81:
Has anyone else experienced severe battery drain and overheating with Lollipop? Rooted, the usual bloatware is disabled, yet the tablet gets uncomfortably hot even during mundane tasks such as using a file manager or reading a simple PDF, and the battery depletes at the rate of approximately 1% every 5-10 minutes. I tried all the different power saving modes, wi-fi and bluetooth on and off, even setting brightness to the lowest setting made zero difference. What's weird is that once the display is off it properly goes to deep sleep and in that mode battery usage is actually better than KitKat's deep sleep :confused:

For what it's worth, OTA failed for me so I had to downgrade and redo all the updates, then flashed Lollipop via the captured OTA. What I didn't do straight away was factory reset and re-root so everything was really sluggish, but battery usage was normal. I did the factory reset through recovery menu, rooted, everything became really fast and snappy, but that's when the battery and heat problems started.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
Hello dear mvrana

Hello dear mvrana.

Do you have the opportunity ? Can you give a link to your installed software?

Kotormo you worked with at the moment. To investigate us.

In addition you can write me in PM.

I think this software can be put on the HDA section razrabotaka and programming for the study of his guys. and as we give it to the people spesialisten.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
Tethered TWRP works. But without Kernel etc.

First thank you for the Info. It works perfect. The problem with this tethered recovery is the same as with cwm. It does backup and restore System and Data.

It does not backup the Boot-Partition. So, no Bootloader and Kernel Backup.

Nevertheless. It is Usefull to habe a Backup of System an Data. My Lollipop update failed and I had a bootloop. I could (repeatedly) restore the System with my data. But I´m stuck on .201 Kernel.

ASUS: Unlock The Bootloader ! If I make up my mind for Lollipop I will send in the Tabled to be "repaired". Unnecessary Work ASUS. Unlock now!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
All that is needed to backup is system and data, for boot.img simply use fastboot and flash boot.img.

fastboot flash boot boot.img

---------- Post added at 05:46 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:35 AM ----------

I really don't understand why you guys simply don't make your own flash able lollipop rom.

If I had the tablet I would make one.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Backup

So I have a cwm backup of OTA 191 for you, (if you need it), but as I'm stuck at OTA 201 kernel, I cannot flash any other OTA :(

I'll try to flash boot.img from lollipop firmware zip, maybe it will install then. Hope I will not brick this great device :)

And yes. ASUS! unlock that bootloader!

EDIT: it says one hour remaining, so then I can give you a link :)

EDIT2: http://www.mediafire.com/download/3waz5dw5fhqwrw6/clockworkmod.rar

put the folder clockworkmod (which includes a folder named backup) at the root of external sdcard or at /media
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
I didn't use any special software. I believe it was a freak accident. The tablet was running lollipop, rooted, and with xposed installed. I had the lollipop memory leak module installed, and had just installed the True Silent module. I rebooted, and got the bios screen.

I had also been playing with aparted and Roesoft Ram Expander, but I'm fairly confident I only touched my SD card with those.

Sorry, I wish I could help more.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
The problem is that the upgrade involves a transition from Intel Droidboot to what I'd assume to be Asus's own personal bootloader. For people like me whose upgrade borked at some point, we're in a state of limbo, where the kernel + fastboot version is stuck at 201. Making our own ROM wouldn't change anything.

In addition, bootloader is locked, so no chance of unsigned codes
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
You got to be joking, I have already seen your lollipop update.zip, so why you guys simply don't make a lollipop rom is beyond me.

Oh well it's your alls tablet, do as you wish.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
We do already have a full ROM.

The problem is that it doesn't contain the new bootloader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Your bootloader was in the update.zip along with everything else needed to build a custom flash able rom.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] solistarijoe:
Hi. My tablet is now on Lollipop (lost root), and I noticed that the Gallery has become very slow in loading the photos (let's say 50+, in different albums) to the point that it often freezes and I have to reload it so the photos would appear. The RAM says there's still 400 MB left, so I guess that's enough? What could be the problem?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
BootLoop

Could someone help me with my BootLoop PLZ? Jerbear? Anyone?

Sincerely, JayM
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I don't think the locked bootloader would be too happy about that.

Alright, I just plugged my tablet into my computer. I'll make a Nandroid for you.

EDIT: Nandroid's finished!

I just need to upload it somewhere now.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Droidboot isn't a bootader its a v3 based recovery but instead of android recovery services it's a fastboot over user space.

Thats what the tethered recovery is for update.zip wont require signing.

The OTA update contains the every thing the only thing needed is the system partition from a lollipop device and some editing of the updater-script so its more inline with a 3rd party ROM install.

The update binary should handle the firmware and osip-gpt to uefi-gpt repartitioning

I think [MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] was referring to a custom update.zip not a rom

I used this same technique to help dell venue users that got stuck in update limbo.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
THX much for the Nandroid mate but ... how I "recover" it now with FastBoot? Could U help me PLZ?

Sincerely, JayM

PS: For upload, U could use myairbridge.com - SUPERFAST!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Nandroid is up for anyone who needs it!

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=23991606952614445

You can recover it via Temporary TWRP. It will work in fastboot mode.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Apps have to be recompiled to work with x86 android devices, maybe that's the reason why some don't work.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2014/05/06/arm-drops-a-compatibility-bomb-on-intel.aspx
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Same thing happens here on My talking Tom, tried it after you mentioned the problem. Maybe it's not compatible because of the x64 processor?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I have not had anything crash upon startup other than as I was restoring from backups and one other case where I needed to install the app from Google Play:

-- BubbleUPNP (this is the one I needed to reinstall from the store instead of using a restored backup)

-- All the Angry Birds games, including ones that make the unit run pretty hard, like Go! and Epic.

-- Terminal emulator, ES File Explorer, Root ZenPhone, Root Checker -- all work.

-- Netflix

-- MyBackup Pro

-- All Google service stuff: Play, Drive, Office, YouTube, etc.

-- Widgets: Weather Channel, Retro Clock, Battery indicator

I haven't run into anything yet that doesn't run, and many of my apps (like Angry Birds) were restored from backups (rooted) in order to get my scores back. *smile* I guess I can list some issues I do have (things aren't perfect):

-- Angry Birds Go! does crash after playing it a while. Then other times it will go for several hours without dying.

-- If I restart the tablet, Angry Birds Epic disappears. I reinstall from Google Play and everything is back to the way it was (this game saves most data online, though...not sure what would happen if it saved locally). This issue is annoying and I can't find much on it anywhere.

-- It seems like when an app loses focus it is more likely to restart when I go back to it. For example, if I go back to the home screen while playing Angry Birds Epic, it almost always restarts even if I go right back to it. That's pretty annoying, too.

-- Setting wallpaper will crash with a cropper error unless I set the wallpaper from the "wallpapers" collection in Display settings. If something comes up in the cropper when trying to set something for the lock screen, it throws an error when clicking the "Set Wallpaper" checkmark. I think this is a Kit Kat issue, but am not sure, obviously.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
I haven't jumped ship, just slammed at work, 300+ cars with recalls, very busy.

I will tackle this weekend when I can focus.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
A word of advice. DO NOT CHANGE BUILD-PROP ON THIS DEVICE!

I did and end up with what I think is a soft brick. On top of it it's not accepting basic adb sideload commands... Which means, I'm screwed if no one helps me.

My problem is similar to the one betinho_14 had on this very topic. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55147187&postcount=118

and this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55149915&postcount=123

and this:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55150296&postcount=125

So, any help you can provide would be welcome.

Since I've must have read dozens of threads in the last two days about how to use fastboot and adb commands and none worked out... :eek:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Out of curiosity, why would you try and change build.prop?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
(scratching my head) why did you change the build.prop??????
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
Did you try to install stock rom using the tools on asus support?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
This is all I get. It seems romdump cant find the partitions either.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
WORKING LIKE A CHARM!!! Thank you very much!!!

I confirm I've been able to root the ME176C with RootZenFone , without any issues!

Very happy about that. mostly because I needed AdAway running, Titanium Backup, and access for apps to write on SD.

For those wanting to run Titanium Backup:

ES Explorer was able to write to SD after rooting the device, but Titanium Backup wasn't able to write backups to SD, the message was something like "no space in SD".

I followed the instructions in

http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=2617921

and that did the magic!!!!!

I'm still having one problem, and wanted to ask if anyone else is:

Some applications appear uninstalled each time I reboot the tablet.

In my case those are:

Plasmasound

Alone

Back to bed

Pinball Arcade

Reactable, and

Xone EP2

There is still a greyed android icon for each app after reboot, but they appear uninstalled.

I found those applications have something in common: they all write some files to /mnt/asec

Any solutions? Could anyoune try to install Plasmasound (or any other app from the list), reboot the device and see what happens?

One more thing: As far as I have found, flash will never work with ME176c, because flashplayer can't run on Intel.

The best solution I found was to use Puffin Browser when I need to view Flash content. It's not optimum, but it works.

Thank you!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
My opera beta always dissapears after reboot. Dunno why.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Yes, Opera also disappears on reboot here.

I found that aldiko, pdfmax, and Musicbox do the same.

All of them write data to /mnt/asec. On reboot that folder is emptied, don t know why...

only a folder named media remains..

any clue? Anyone else with this problem?

Thanx a lot
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Shards and Grabatron also disappear.

Dolphin browser also plays flash content.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Because I'm a tinker. and sometimes someone or something has to die or become a zombie (like the Me176c here) to discover new things and help others. I only changed the Timezone and Default Language which was EN = English to PT = Portuguese. I have done it to other tablets (BQ Maxwell 2 QC for example) and nothing as bad as this ever happened.

I have tried to push the UL-K013-WW-3.1.23.161-user.zip update into the tablet but all I get is this on the tablet:

and this on the pc:

I'm willing to bet that this is just my ignorance at work, because although I know something about the subject, I must be inputing the wrong commands. So if you can help me on that department, I'd appreciate. Me and the future peeps that end up with a soft bricked tablet... :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
You can change language and timezone easily from settings,no need to edit buildprop. The only time I've seen a reason to edit buildprop is to increase availability of apps, and that's unnecessary with this tablet. So I think you borked your tablet for really no reason.

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[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That would be the recovery denying packages. It would work on ClockWorkMod, but we haven't found the partition yet :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I'm aware of that. I can always change both things on the Android sw itself. But, I usualy do it because like I said, I'm a tinker, and that usually means to reset the tablet many times.

There isn't a way to push the zip file through a fastboot command?

Edit:

Nothing works, looks like I AM gonna have to send it to ASUS for repair.

But again, if anyone knows a solution other than the obvious, send me anything please.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Have you really been able to play flash content with Dolphin on ME176c? I installed the hacked flash apk and tried lots of browsers, dolphin included, and no one worked.

What I found googling the web was that flash itself isn't able to run on Intel. Puffin doesn't run flash in the device itself. It converts flash contents in Puffin's servers, and send them converted to the device. Performance isn't the best, but works.

Does anyone know how to play flash natively on ME176c?

Any clues/solutions for apps disappearing on reboot?

Thanks!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Have you tried FlashFox? It's a fork of Firefox with Flash built in.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] starwarz:
I am sorry to beat a dead horse, but nothing I do seems to fix my problems with getting apps to load to the SD card. I have tried everything I can find about this issue. Edited the platform.xml, run the SDfix app and another app to fix it, nothing. I have double checked permissions, formatted my 32 GB micro sdhc card, nothing.

I can't use the app manager program app2sd, link2sd or some other one I tried. I even have problems with some apps installing from the play store because they can't write to USB storage or SD card. If I unmount the card, apps will install just fine to the internal memory. I do have the camera able to write to the card directly, but so far that's pretty much it.

I have been working in this since last week after the root for this device came out. I had to do a factory reset once because of this, since I messed up the platform.xml file somehow, I had the WiFi issue and several programs crashing, the factory reset did fix all that, but my hair is falling (ripping) out due to this SD card issue.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
Could U PLZ write me how to install/use this TWRP? I really dunno how to do this ... sorry for my low skills mate.

Sincerely, JayM
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
I have already written how to get there, go few pages back.

P.S i have noticed there is a droidboot.img in lollipop firmware zip. Do you think it's safe to try fastboot flash bootloader droidboot.img?

EDIT: it has almost the same size as fastboot.img from WW 182
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
If its comment 2139 UR talking about Im still NOT following the process ... dunno what to do so PLZ if U could describe for an unexperienced user mate.

Sincerely, JayM

EDIT: Now Im running recovery using T4 option in the FB Tethered menu. So how to upload the Nandroid U send here to "recover" it? (mean copy the files to the tablet)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
This is slightly more complicated in your case since we can't access Android, but it will still work.

Download the TWRP files if you haven't already, and extract them somewhere. You'll need them to boot into recovery.

If you haven't installed the ADB drivers for your tablet, you will need them. If you don't have them, your computer will not be able to communicate with your PC. Just run the file I linked, then plug in your tablet . It should find your tablet and install the drivers. If it doesn't work, don't hesitate to tell me.

Once you have the drivers installed, and your tablet plugged in, run "launcher.bat" from the TWRP files that I linked to.

It will give you a screen that looks like this:

=======================================================================
standard disclaimer:

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.

by proceeding you accept that
it is carried out at your own risk
and you will not hold anyone else responsible

WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY.

type " ACCEPT " without quotes to continue . . .

type quit or exit to cancel and close this window

=======================================================================

Type "ACCEPT" without the quotes, and you'll be greeted with another screen. It will list out different files. In this case select 2 to launch a recovery in portrait mode.

After that you'll be greeted with another screen that asks for triggers. None of them will work on our tablet except for T4, so type T4 to continue.

At this point if you look on your tablet you should see some moving text at the bottom, and the file you ran should be spitting out commands. Once it's done, your tablet should reboot to a screen that says "Tethered Recovery concept by social-design-concepts"

It will stay at that screen for a little bit. Once it's done, you should see a black and blue screen with two arrows at the top that says 'Team Win Recovery Projects v2.8.6.0" next to it, as well as the time, your battery level, and the CPU temperature.

The problem here is that you need to restore a nandroid, but you can't restore it from a PC. We need to get it onto your tablet. Go ahead and click the icon that says "Mount" and mount Data. After that hit "Mount USB Storage." Your tablet should pop up as a flash drive on the computer.

Download the nandroid if you haven't already. It's compressed as a RAR, so download it and extract it somewhere.

When your tablet pops up as a flash drive, make a new folder on it and drag the extracted nandroid files there. Once that's done you can go back to your tablet and hit "Unmount." Be sure to hit "Safely remove hardware" at the bottom right of your PC. This is one of the only scenarios it is useful in.

Once you're back at the main screen hit "Restore" and navigate to the folder you went to. Once TWRP sees it, select the nandroid files and hit "Slide to restore". Once that's done, it should restore, and you'll be out of the water :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Why didn't you backup recovery and other partitions? and someone has to figure out if droidboot is bootloader so I will know if it is safe to fastboot flash bootloader droidboot.img ..

AND.. I think that the person who was in "bios" has got there becouse of the OS has accidentaly deleted. So noone knows right now how to get there without saying goodbye to android :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I didn't think about it. :(

I'll back up the others and reupload the full Nandroid in a little bit.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
Is it a Lollipop nandroid or something else? If it is, than would it be safe to do a restore via temp TWRP (at the moment I'm on 201 rom after failed lollipop ota update)?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Lollipop nandroid. It only contains the ROM and the bootloader, but it should be enough to get you out of the water.

As an alternative you might want to downgrade to .182 and work back up. It's a proven method- it's what I used to update to Lollipop, and I'm one of the few who didn't have to do anything else and had no complications. If that still doesn't work, then do the Nandroid.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
Hi and THX much for the post, I already ran the Recovery but ... when I try to mount the device the way U described (hit MOUNT, choose DATA and hit MOUNT USB STORAGE) nothing happens and I do NOT see the device in my computer mate! Why so?

Sincerely, JayM
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
The uefibootmgr I posted should allow you to set next boot to uefi setup / bios
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
That would be great but it says: fatal: couldn't open either sysfs or procfs directories for accessing efi variables

when i run ./efibootmgr from android terminal emulator :( and the same whe running from twrp terminal emulator

EDIT: And please say me, is droidboot bootloader or recovery? I have to be 100% sure
[MeMO Pad 7 General] janmatys:
Is there any other way how to copy the files to tablet? But why the device is NOT visible on the computer when mounted from Recovery?

Sincrerely, JayM

PS: The console says: Unable to find the storage partition to mount to USB - looks like it can NOT find the DATA partition? How to remount or solve this?

UPDATE: The device shows up on my PC right after reboot to TWRP so I copy the files to SD but when I hit RECOVERY there is NO folder visible to choose it... Btw when I tried to remount the data partition the thing is still the same ... NOT visible on PC with "Unable to find..." error again.

BTW: The restore option says: "Select Package..." so it looks like that NAndroid backup has to be in some format (.zip?) or some specific path ... or not? And as said I copied the files onto SD but could NOT locate them even with the TWRP file manager ... where to locate SD card (mean that part which is mounted to PC)?

Update: Looks like I could mount SD to PC only after reboot to TWRP and ONLY after a fresh format of the partiton ... mean format in TWRP, reload TWRP and than the device is visible but only after reboot and WITHOUT mounting!

Now found out that the device is visible as an MTP device and NOT as USB device (flashdrive). So where is the location of the files uploaded this way?

Update: I finally located the files but how to make the directory appears in the Recovery table? Is there some specific folder where it has to be to be listed in Recovery? Or specific format to be used? And finally ... could be possible to make the .zip from files somehow and install it using the install function (because using this one I could see all my folders/files on the device)?