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[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
48 watts?! 10 ports?! That's some serious sh*t!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Sure is... I did go ahead and order one, should have it by Sunday. I'll post back if I remember, especially if I end up having any trouble with it. Crazy enough, my 7-port hub is all filled up, though it has served me well. Amazing the number of external devices these days, especially on something like a Mac Mini where there isn't anything built in (unlike an iMac or other all-in-one, for example...)

Thanks,

sutekh137

EDIT: Just an update about the Plugable 10-port USB 3.0 hub I linked to in a previous post:

http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-SuperSpeed-Charging-firmware-Motorola/dp/B00JEPIOOQ

I got it on Sunday and it all hooked up fine. Comes with a USB 3 cable. I had actually never seen one of those connectors before, but I did use it to hook up the hub (even though all my downstream stuff is pretty much USB 2.0, including cables). Everything hooked up fine with no power warnings, though my scanner doubled up in the Scanner area of my Mac Mini and wasn't detected at first. A reboot fixed that. I have a couple powered USB drives directly plugged into the Mac Mini, but one of them (my Time Machine Backup drive) is on the hub. It didn't throw any errors and Time Machine has still been backing up fine.

I am not really taking advantage of the swivel "powered" jacks. I leave them flat and have four things plugged into the back and then other stuff like keyboard and mouse in the front, now with three jacks open. I leave my machine up all the time, so I have no reason for always-on jacks at the moment. USB Debugging mode showed up on my tablet, though I didn't run Android file explorer or any of my adb backup scripts. Should probably do that tonight and make sure that all works through the hub.

I also can't really test the USB 3.0 capability since, as I said, I don't have any other USB 3.0 cables or enclosures. USB 2.0 is plenty fast, especially for transfers to and from my NAS where the USB 2.0 seems able to keep up with the Ethernet throughput the NAS manages.

Oh, one nice thing about the Plugable 10-port USB hub: they do the power adapter in the "smart" way where a standard plug goes into power (no "wall wart" effect), then plugs into a brick (which isn't all that big, actually, for a fifty-watt source), and then a thinner cord plugs into the back of the hub. All the cords are plenty long, and I appreciate anything that avoids the bulky multiple-outlet eating style. Though, I also have those octopus cord thingies to help with that -- love those things.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
So after my tablet had a huge buzzing fit yesterday I decided I was delaying the inevitable, made a backup with Titanium Backup, factory reset and restored the backup. So far no problems. It could be placebo but the tablet seems smoother.

Apps like cf.lumen, TimePIN, and Seeder no longer need to be manually opened to start, so that's a plus. It could be that I froze everything in sight so RAM is better managed :)

I imagine this thing could be great with a custom kernel. ASUS is taunting us with the kernel source solely to comply with the GPL.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Could this tablet work with Windows 10? Since it's kind of an universal OS...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Most likely yes. Only problem is the bootloader...

You could try to see if they are any native x86 virtual machines on the Play Store. Only problem is if they are made for ARM the processor would be going x86 - > ARM - > x86.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] djlilyazi:
signed it

Done !
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Perhaps, the architecture is right for it, but why would you want to run Windows?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Android is made for small app, they run quick, but if you want some serious work to do than windows is better.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Not to mention that this device is capable of running some of the PC classics. I would play Half Life 2 on here all day with my Ipega controller or my keyboard and mouse via OTG.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I have seen this CPU on 15 inch laptops with Windows 8.1. If we could write a routine to bypass or to fool it that it's loading Windows instead of Android ... But that's probably assembly code. Oh I miss dos. :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jordandroid64:
Hi, I have a question on this tablet, what game isn't compatible with this devices ? and for example how turn real racing 3 . I need to choose between this tablet and the asus fe375cxg and somepeople said the fe375cxg have problem with some games. thank you very much !
[MeMO Pad 7 General] MajorDeity:
So far, I've had a problem with at least three games. The walking dead crashes early on, Hearthstone crashes in the middle of the game and star wars galactic defense won't run at all. (Stuck on connecting to server 0%)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
What you're asking is for us to go thru all the games on the Android universe and see what is and what's not compatible!?

Just look for "x86 compatibility".

The only way to make sure that the game is compatible with this tablet is to look if the game is x86 compatible. Or before buying it, use the free/trial version.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mhawkins95:
Hi, I'm stuck with the DMClient message. I've tried all the setps you've posted here but nothing happened... What to do?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
This tablet gets better and better. I'm on .198 rom now.

Latest antutu v5.6.1 benchmark:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I am on 198 as well as I am too lazy to redo from 182.

Did you do any optimizations? I can get in the 50000s with GLTools but that would be a last resort to get newer games to run in a couple years because I forced resolution to a quarter of what it was.

---------- Post added at 11:47 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:45 PM ----------

Which Walking Dead? Season 1 works for me and I've played through all 6 episodes without trouble but I haven't tried Season 2.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Yeah 50000 lowering the resolution. In a normal use I get this. Which is very good for a $120 tablet. :P

When I buy a tablet, I don't expect it to last "years" Jerbear. Maybe a couple of years on this case then the tablet's battery probably gets dead anyway.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm the same way and my max for keeping a tablet is about 1.5 years, but typically I like to keep my old tablets in case something happens to the current one (take a look at my signature :S)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] peldo123:
Stuck on .182

Hello guys

I have been stuck on .182 and unable to update for a long time now because I used xblast. Is there any one who knows a way for me to update the tablet. I also can't seem to find the links for the updates .
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Gagge89:
Problem USB and GPS with ASUS ME176CX

Hi,

i have bought some day ago the Me176CX , but from the first evening start the problems :(

2 problems in particular :

1) i try to connect the tablet to pc in USB mode ( i take the option in MTP) but when i try to copy something in the tablet from the PC exit an error and i can only or ignor or stop the copy, but however it doesn't copy the files into tablet.

2) i try the GPS it works fine and fix very fast the satellite, but..... after few minutes if i retray to fix the GPS .....Boom!!! The GPS doesn't work and the programm GPS test or the navigator don't find the signal ! But if i shout down the tablet and reboot then it re-find the GPS the first time, but the second no again :( in few words i had to close and reboot tablet every time i stop to use GPS.....

How can i do???? :crying::crying::crying::crying:

Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Check this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3012965

First you say you connect via USB mode? You mean OTG? Or did you just connect to the pc and it won't find it? Check if the files are clean of viruses. Some anti-virus block a transfer if they find malware. It then corrupts the transfer itself...

Second. Try other GPS app. Google maps for example. If the same problem doesn't occur with Google maps then you might have a problem with the app you bought. If you bought a legit GPS app, you may contact the developer. He/she will help you. In any case we need more info, for the variables are many. In the worst case scenario, you might have to RMA it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
It won't be easy as you think. It's not like you can just boot the ISO and install it. First Asus have to give us way to unlock bootloader, without that we can't even change the rom, let alone instal any desktop OS.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
I'm assuming most of you want root to move apps and app data to the ext sd card? If so- what app do you all plan to use to make these moves the easiest/most thorough, etc? I know kit-kat made it a little harder to do this, but I don't know all the details- I took a break from Android for a while, but now I'm back at it with this tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I might be taking this the wrong way, but there is an app called Flashify that can flash a recovery with root so you can flash stuff without an unlocked bootloader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I hate to be a dense newb, but do we just install the APK and that gives root access?

And is is un-doable, e.g. so that I can still install ASUS updates? I imagine there will be several system updates over the next 6-9 months, and I'd like to stick with "official" updates for as long as possible. In other words, I am not doing this to play with ROMs, I am doing it to restore my backups (with data) that I cannot do without root access (I want my Angry Birds scores back!!!! *smile*)

So, just checking on how this all works...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
I used zenphone root, very nice, good find. First thing after rooting I disabled downloading updates automatically over WiFi, don't want to lose root with an automated update. Then used setcpu to turn down the maximum Cpu frequency from 1862mhz to 1596mhz. Quadrant dropped from around 18300 to 17000, but it feels just as fast, and I think it will help the battery last longer. Also should reduce heating which is always good for electronics.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
I am now ROOTED:) now most of us are waiting for a custom recovery & rom.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
I will say after getting root and milling around in root explorer, it's a really simple rom. Very clean. I took out some of the crapware and gained a much smoother feel. Taking out Asus web storage did the most good.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
What's wrong with the Asus storage? And post up what you deleted!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
It seemed like something was keeping the tablet really busy. I was has having small, but annoying problems with lag, especially in scrolling, just not smooth. After I took it out it got instantly smoother, booted faster too. I took out Web storage, e-music, firmware updater and a few more.

I'll post the screenshot of my system/app folder when I get home this evening. You can compare it and see. (I don't remember it all)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] golizza:
DMClient and CMClient, these 2 apps can eat all your battery. Just backup and then delete them.

These 2 use to check the System Update automatically. So,I'm not sure we can update after deleted.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Does ASUS have the ROM images up on their website? If so you can still update, you just won't be able to via OTA.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
They do,and you'll want to be careful updating. Root is lost that way sometimes.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
If somebody can grab me the stock recovery image I can attempt to create A ClockWorkMod port for you all, that is if CWM supports x86 (it should)

It'll fix the issue of losing root every update as well :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Here is the recovery folder from the rom zip
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Now that would be great. We could try rua1's android tools although I think thatls for the mediatek cpus, not sure though.

Enviado do meu K013 através de Tapatalk
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Thanks for the help, but that doesn't have everything I need :(

Can you please download Terminal Emulator, run

su

and then

cat /proc/partitions

and paste the output?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
all I get is "not found" after I type what you just wrote on the terminal emulator...

Sent from my Asus MediaPad 7 using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
u0_a133@K013_1:/ $ su

root@K013_1:/ # cat /proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

179 0 15392768 mmcblk0

179 1 229376 mmcblk0p1

179 2 32768 mmcblk0p2

179 3 32768 mmcblk0p3

179 4 131072 mmcblk0p4

179 5 1024 mmcblk0p5

179 6 131072 mmcblk0p6

179 7 662528 mmcblk0p7

179 8 307200 mmcblk0p8

179 9 32768 mmcblk0p9

179 10 1835008 mmcblk0p10

179 11 11988972 mmcblk0p11

179 48 4096 mmcblk0rpmb

179 32 4096 mmcblk0boot1

179 16 4096 mmcblk0boot0

root@K013_1:/ #
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
I'm sorry gang I'm at work, and I don't have the tablet here. jerbear294, I had the Rom on my pc, and I extracted the folders. I'm sorry it wasn't what you need. When I get home I'll follow your instructions and send it, if it doesn't get done before I get home, in about 6 hrs.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
it was cat / and I put cat/, thats why. thx shawn and jerbear.

Sent from my Asus MediaPad 7 using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Gagge89:
1) Nono..the otg has no problem. My problems are connecting the tablet to pc. The pc see the tablet,i can see the file and folders in tablet etc..but if i try to copy something from the pc to the tablet (throught USB in MTP mode and in camera mode) the copying stopped and appear the error that made me or i ignore the copy file or i abort the copy.

2) for GPS i try 2 different app GPS FIX and GPS TEST and with both them tablet don't fix satellite, while my smartphone LG G2 fix in 20-30 sec. I had to shout down tablet and when i reboot and try to FIX GPS the tablet in very fast and fix immediately (5-6 sec) 8-9 satellites. But after that if i close app and re-open and re-try GPS FIX the tabel see 0 satellites. I thinks that it could be that tablet have a block after first time using GPS and then you ghad to restart to use it... :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] athlonxp2300:
my phone does that sometimes with not getting a gps fix. I don't have to restart. I just turn gps off and back on. still a pain but worth it for the custom rom and kernel on my phone. no so good with stock tablet. also does turning usb debugging off or on make a difference with file transfer for you?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Gagge89:
For the gps : i try to open and close only it but it always appen that first time find the satellite,while the second one it doesn't find enything.

For the USB : i try to put on and off the debug usb, but the problem to copy into internel or esternal memory from the pc via usb doesn't go on and interrupted. :(

Also to you happens this things with this tablet or only to me? Because it is so i use RMA and change it!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] athlonxp2300:
just to clarify. I don't open and close the gps program. if I open the gps program and it won't get a gps fix, I turn gps off in the settings and then turn it back on. then the program will get a gps fix.

I don't have that tablet. just giving info incase it helped.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Gagge89:
Oh? thanks for idea, but yes i spoke that. I open gps, then close and then re-open gps function, but it never find the signal :( i thinks that the tablet has some problem.. someone can try le gps more time in the day (without shout down the tablet and without reboot it) and see if it find always the fix? Thanks![emoji1]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I have sygic GPS v14 and I get a fix in 5 seconds. It's legit. I paid for it. Before I had Ndrive v11 and I had a fix in 20 seconds. But then it stopped working so I changed to this sygic which is way better. I never had a problem with this tablet's GPS.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I also use Sygic, and it gets a fix pretty quickly. I don't use it a lot, but I've never had any problems...

Get a car charger and mount and with Sygic you've just turned your tablet into a full-fledged $75-$100 (or more) GPS device, no cellular or wi-fi needed...

No, I don't work for Sygic, I just thought it was a pretty good piece of software for what it cost (~25 USD forever...) :laugh:

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Gagge89:
Boys..perhaps now the gps is going on!!! I made only a factory reset..probably some apps had some problems!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
It reminds me my old Nokia 5800 XM... Sometimes I had to reset the whole phone to make the gps work again.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] trekminal:
No more "check for updates" option?

Yesterday I updated my tablet to the WW-3.23.199 (via OTA) and the option for manual check updates is missing. Is this normal?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] urlyisis:
Didn't think they removed the old link, but there us an update app now too.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
I ave the ME176CX-A1-BK 7 and it's current at WW-3.2.23.201 that I ordered from Amazon back in September. Is there anything I can do to increase speed? This is the worst tablet for response times, I hit home and 30 seconds later I end up with home. I can wake it up and it doesn't seem to wake up right away. When it does wake up it take several moments to refresh and display all the app icons.

I did try switching to nova launcher and seemed to have the same issues, Any ways to improve speed and response?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
That happened to me too.

Try to freeze all apps you don't need and feel the difference.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
Is it always like that or there is a sort time that the response is like that?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
My theory based on what I've observed is due to the power save system app. But also the amount of apps turned on all the time. Therefore I advise to freeze all apps you don't use.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
Thanks everyone I did freeze a few, but maybe not enough. One thing I did do yesterday was disable all power management and that seemed to make some difference.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Try using Seeder. It claims to make the tablet faster and it sure does. It's not placebo. Occasionally it won't activate on boot and I can tell that it is off.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
This has been wearing on me more and more lately. Sometimes when I re-open my Kindle app it takes waaay too long to open the page I left off at.. And this happens even if I'm only actively using 2 apps. I'm going to root and freeze very soon. Is root compatible with the latest update? I'm on 199 now..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AndrewRBX:
Sure it is! I'm on .201 and rooted! ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
Since I disabled power management, I haven't had as many issues. If I have a couple of apps open it takes longer to refresh, but not like it used to.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Just FYI, but freezing DMClient causes the ability to check ASUS for software updates to disappear. I mention that elsewhere on this thread. So if you want to be able to check for and download firmware updates OTA, I believe you need to leave DMClient UNfrozen.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
Yes. Better leave DMClient unfrozen.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
I'm trying to get into recovery mode and nothing's working, can someone tell me how?

Do I hold down the middle of the volume buttons and power button at the same time? Or do I release the power button at some point? Nothing's working. :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AndrewRBX:
These steps work for me:

1) Turn off your tablet (oh, really? :D)

2) Turn it on with POWER and VOLUME-UP buttons

3) Release Power when you see the first ASUS logo

4) You should see a menu, select "recovery"

5) Your tablet will reboot, and now you should see a "dead droid" screen

6) Now you can press the button placed between VOLUME-UP and VOLUME-DOWN

(you may need to press it more that once)

7) That's all, your tablet will enter recovery mode. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JarrelStudios:
Deleting the zinio and kindle app will make the next update fail...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
So- does everyone agree then that this is a safe list minus zinio, kindle, and dmclient? I finally rooted mine today (can't believe I waited so long- that was super easy..). I'm ready to do some freezing but want to avoid any problems with future updates.. Is there a thread or message with a comprehensive and up to date "safe to freeze/uninstall" list? If not, I'll just use conamju's list minus those 3 apps (thanks by the way).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JarrelStudios:
You can freeze them, just be sure to unfreeze them before you update, or make a copy of the update file
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
So I froze a bunch of stuff on that list... Seems to be making a pretty big difference. When you say unfreeze before trying an update, are you only referring to zinio and kindle on his list? Or do we have to go unfreeze everything before an update will be successful? Sorry, I'm sure this question has probably been answered in this thread, but there are a ton of pages and the search function is a little sketchy.. Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mfurmanek:
Unfreeze everything.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Ok I found a solution and it's made in xda so look for "lagfix trimm". Like "seeder" it does the job pretty good. Although the lagfix trimm is a paid app on the play store, being a xda premium member you can use it for free. Pretty much like GL TOOLS. Anyway, this works on both jelly bean and kitkat very well. Bye bye lag!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
On another matter. You guys know I'm a tinkerer, and that has cost me more cell phones and tablets that I wish to admit. But every now and then something good comes up from it. I have found a way to increase response times by 3x just by changing the build.prop with "Rom toolbox pro". Another tool made in xda. The following screenshot shows what I have changed. You may compare it with yours if you happen to try.

The conditions I'm on are:

Rom .198 and with over 100 apps installed. Including a lot of Google apps. I urge you to change only what you see on the screenshot. If you try to change anything else. You most surely end up with a semi dead tablet. Semi because you can restore it to health again, sort of speak. Most of the differences are on changing the dalvikvm figures. Increasing them to suistainable numbers. These numbers aren't arbitrary. I had to use trial and error to make it work. These are the best I could came up after semi killed my ASUS tab about 7 times (lol).

Good luck and feel the differences!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Trying both of these :)

Do Nandroids restore properly in CWM? (I assume that is how you restored your tab)

EDIT: Storage IO score in Antutu is better after Lagfix :)

Trying the build prop Dalvik mods now.

EDIT2: About to reboot and apply Dalvik mods. Hopefully I don't softbrick :S

If I don't edit this in 10 minutes you'll know what happened. I'm at school so I wouldn't be able to recover the tablet for a few hours.

EDIT3: Huh. Antutu score went down after applying the Dalvik patches.

Then again, the same thing happens when I change the CPU governer to Performance and lock the processor at 1.86 GHz.