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[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
reinstall the stock .161

http://www.asus.com/Tablets/ASUS_MeMO_Pad_7_ME176C/HelpDesk_Download/ => Version WW_V3.1.23.161

put it on a sdcard to reinstall the rom, then root and update
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
OK. Why the hell got an error and now don't update? Even so... Asus support don't mine WW 182 version.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] wbc1228:
The problem is that the steps above are not working for a lot of people.

The update process failed during the firmware flashing a couple of weeks back.

And now whenever I manually check for an update, the tablet is telling me I'm already up to date.

What is weird is that a couple of days ago, I received a notification of an available update in the notification area. I downloaded the update but sadly, it failed again during the flashing process.

On the bright side, the tablet works perfectly fine (other than not updating).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
if you come from a CN to a WW for example (because sku) you can't update (from asus)

"*Please note that the firmware update cannot do *SKU conversions* or downgrades of your current software version. Using the wrong SKU may cause an update failure. You can only update your software version if you use the same SKU. "
[MeMO Pad 7 General] wbc1228:
I'm not doing a sku conversion.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
Lots of changes, most of them positive including the Default Installation Location a.k.a moving apps to SD.

I was looking at the apps on the list and saw one called battery an another one really strange.

The battery was there before? I can't recall.

The second one appears to be a built in app, and I still don't know what it does.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
That is a widget. It does not exists in previous build.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
WARNING

FEEDBACK

My phone was unrooted after the last update firmware. Apparently it's 50/50, some here are still rooted, another don't (me) :crying:

It's not possible to root with RootZenfone 1.4.6r if your are in V3.2.23.182

After reboot the device is still in demo mode and not rooted, if happen to you don't freak out.

To deactivate demo mode

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vptHAKTvoyw

So, think twice if you want update and keep root ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Wait...so you mean that the device can't be rooted on 182 AT ALL? Or that it can't be rooted if you had root before, on 161?

I didn't root my tablet yet, that's why I'm asking. So even if I didn't root it previously on 161, I still can't root it on 182?

Edit: Found the answer, checked the zenfone root apk comments on asuszenfoneblog and yeah, 182 can't be rooted.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
on .182 you can't root the tablet

if you are root on .161 after update it's 50% chance you are still root, I'm my case I was not root anymore, so actually I'm in .182 and I can't root. (I'm ****ed atm)

hope it's clear for you :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Yes it is, thank you for the explanation :) Hopefully the next version of the root apk will work on 182 as well.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
I hope too :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chewbaccabe:
Hi there,

Does somebody have the same problem i have : was root on .161 version, deleted some asus bloatware and had the update notificaiton to .182 yesterday. I tried it and it crash just at the begining.

The log said that it was a problem with asus account app update.

So i re-installed the WW_V3.1.23.161 found on the asus website after a cache/data wipe factory reset from the recovery menu.

I'm now totaly .161 stock with no other app installed. But when i try to check for update, it says me that i'm up to date ....

Does anyone have a trick for this situation ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Some one know if it is posible to install windows 10 on this tablet? It is similar in specs to hp stream 7. I am wanting to do something with this tablet because know it is a paperweigth!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
How to rollback to KitKat from Lollipop

​

FIRST OF ALL:

Make sure that ADB Asus drivers and Intel USB Drivers are installed on your computer

Download this archive with all required files

IMPORTANT!​

IF YOU HAVE UNLOCKED BOOTLOADER AND PERMANENT TWRP - RECOVER STOCK ESP AND RECOVERY

I'm not responsible for all problems, if they will happen with your tablet

Instruction:

Unpack WW_ME176C_V12.10.1.17-userdebug-201505051557-rawdata.zip from archive

Connect via USB-cable, press and hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power Key for 3-5 seconds, you'll get smth like "Fastboot starting..."

If Android robot doesn't appears - launch debrick-flashall-FW-no_wipe.cmd

If Android robot appears - launch debrick-flashall-no_wipe.cmd

Check firmware version in setting, it must be like here

Unpack FWI_to_UEFI_ME176C.7z

Launch flash_ME176C_IFWI.cmd

After completing plug off USB-cable and turn off tablet

Press and hold Volume Up + Volume Down + Power Key for 3-5 seconds, you'll get ASUS logo

Plug in USB-cable, copy debrick-flashall-FW-no_wipe.cmd from FWI_to_UEFI_ME176C.7z

to WW-ME176C-3.2.23.201-release-user-20150115-signed.zip. Launch .cmd

Done...

Credits to AKASer and Skyrimus from 4pda

IF YOU HAVE GOOGLE SERVICES CRASHES - DELETE 9.9.56 VERSION AND INSTALL 9.9.55
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Will try this! Love you!! Thanks a lot!!!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Vidddd:
[MENTION=7293167]thegreatn_[/MENTION]

Thanks,but you wrote same thing at 3rd and 4th steps.What must i do?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Vidddd:
Somebody could upload the stock recovery image for me?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Firefighting_74:
what version firmware?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Vidddd:
Official .36 version.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Firefighting_74:
http://d-h.st/0lKR
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Vidddd:
Thanks a lot! :)

---------- Post added at 02:21 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:23 PM ----------

[MENTION=7299150]Firefighting_74[/MENTION]

Sorry,but i forgot transferring the ESP backup to PC. :( Could you upload it too? I will try downgrade to Android Kitkat.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Firefighting_74:
http://d-h.st/LonU
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Vidddd:
Many thanks. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
del
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Vidddd:
It worked like a charm. :)

[MENTION=7299150]Firefighting_74[/MENTION]

[MENTION=7293167]thegreatn_[/MENTION]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
You're welcome
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
What version of kitkat is? Once downgraded is it posible to flash older version, before zenui?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
Before ZenUI? this tablet allways had zenui... when you dowgrade you are able to go to any kitkat version you want safelly with temporary recovery session...

---------- Post added at 07:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:54 PM ----------

does anyone know how to build a recovery from source? i need help making one for a device i have, theres no threads or anything about the device
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Problem, i was on the Russian Lite version, try to install original LL versión .36 to downgrade to kitkat after, downloaded from Asus site. Enter temporary TWRP, wipe the tablet, etc and when it tried to flash the LL versión it said error, "this versión is for k013 and you have k013_1" or something like that. Now i have the tablet without android system. Try installing .33 from asus site and give me same error as before... Tried the russian version again and error again :(

Someone know hot to fix it or i just thrown this ****ty tablet from the window!

EDIT: Tried downgrading to kitkat, enter recovery (vol down+power) and run debrick_flashall-no-wipe not debrick-flashall-FW-no_wipe because it didn't work. Do all the process but in the end it said "capsule not dispached". System start normally, tried the second step (executing flash_ME176C_IFWI.cmd) everything seem fine.

The problem arise in the last step, pressing vol up + vol down+ power enter asus logo and the pc didn't detect so... enter recovery and run debrick-flashall-FW-no_wipe in WW-Me176C-3.2.23.201.-release-user....... etc and it seems everything was fine. Now the tablet is in bootloop and don't know what to do! Maybe thrown it from the windows...

EDIT2: After tryng last step again i am on KITKAT :). I don't delete this message because it maybe can help other with same problems!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
Sorry, I forgot to add link to repacked .36, its created for restoring from lite .36 to stock .36

Post with links

But it cant help u right now, yes?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
hahahaha i am on kitkat, thank you!

Have a couple of cuestions!

1- Is this version rooted? How can i root it?

2- If i want to go LL again, i just run OTA and it will install uefi, etc, or should i do another thing?

3-Is it posible to downgrade to an older Kitkat version, when Zen**** UI was a lot more ligth?

4- I am thinking on delete all the bloat**** that come with the tablet, if i want i can flash again the original kitkat .201 with all the blot again? How?

Thanks for the help!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
1. No. ZenFone root app

2. Just run OTA...

3-4. Yeah, I have an instruction "How to restore fw", just need to translate it. With help of this you downgrade to .182
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
I am having play services problem... So to fix it i need to root the tablet, unninstall google play services .56 and search the web for an -apk with .55 and manually install it?

Also i am having visual problems with the animatios, they work king of buggy speacilly when i press windows button. When i did last step of the donwgrade the tablet display "could not open /sys/devices/virtual/backligth". Maybe it is related to it?

Thanks very much, i have this tablet dead for one yeah, so i am happy!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
Yes. Problems and "could not open /sys/devices/virtual/backligth" are not related actually
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Ok, it was not easy to root .201, stuckk in demo mode like 3 times. This is the correct way:

-Download this version of root zenfone:https://cloudup.com/files/ivrnLUAwMDS/download

-Download supersu from the playstore.

-Install and open root zenfone, let the app run and don't put OK when it enter demo mode. Let it run for 10 seconds and restart tablet.

-If everything is ok you will be rooted.

-In case things go wrong and you enter demo mode, you have to press back button for 10 secondos, then it will ask you for a code, put 741603 and confirm. It will factory rest your tablet and demo will be gone. In case it not enter factory reset you will need to do it manually, after puting de code.

For me google play service bug dissapear when disabled google as device administrator.

This tablet work 10 times better with Kitkat, it doesn't restart, it is stable, a lot better ram manager. The only problem i figure out ia battery stats, it's very buggie. I can use the tablet 1 hour with 1% of the battery.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
Or you can just reboot on attention (when your tablet goes demo mode). Keep it simple...

I can give advice, do battery calibration
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Sory didn't understoond you. If you factory reset without entering the code the tablet keep demo mode on!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
no need to recover esp and recovery if u downgrade it will install everything...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
On this attention you should reboot to avoid demo mode
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Yes, it is wath I wrote, don't press ok. But if you use another version of root zenfone or press ok for error you will be stuck in demo mode. I get stuck in it with 3 root zenfone before i found that in the link!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bryandroid98:
Any news about CM rom o another development rom??
[MeMO Pad 7 General] russy23:
Its not going to happen, not a fully working rom anyway, if you want a stock android experience move tablets

Anyway, downgraded, rooted and debloated..:)

i used this to root,extract, click root.bat, so easy: http://www.mediafire.com/download/lp7ngv5l6vm5lin/AsusIntelRootKit.zip
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
So it's official now, we'll never get a proper custom ROM on this thing? Jerbear and Social Design Concepts' efforts ultimately came to nothing? That's a darn shame...?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Well i think android-n is going to bring alot of intel support into aosp so i've been waiting for the android-n release to see what goodies it brings, so been working on kernel.

With intel's kernelflinger efi bootloader supporting android-n boot policy and seemless updates and now this code drop from android-ia for the audio-al

Merge branch b31793b into android/n/m
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
So there's still hope, I can breathe again! ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Nice to finally hear from you!

I might have to hold off on a SHIELD tablet purchase, then. My main problem with my tablet isn't the hardware (I don't really need anything more than these specs, I mostly use my tablet for media nowadays) but ZenUI. Good thing they're out of stock- otherwise I would've bought one by now. Now I might not have to.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] russy23:
Guys have a day off lol..its not going to happen
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Not with that attitude.

We never thought we'd even have root, let alone an insecure bootloader and permanent TWRP... yet here we are.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] russy23:
2 years later not to bad
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Well, I'm officially not getting a SHIELD any time soon. I spent the SHIELD money on a Nexus 5X, since I don't have a smartphone, and I'm certainly not getting any of Verizon's locked down "offerings." The Nexus 5X was one of the only phones that I could find that has an unlockable bootloader and a large community on XDA with Verizon support. I would've gotten a OnePlus 3 but it has no Verizon support, unfortunately.

So, whether I like it or not, I'm stuck with this tablet for a while :P
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Welcome to the 5x club.....
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm loving it- took it out of the box, unlocked the bootloader, rooted it, and put Pure Nexus on it.

I still use the tablet for media (that's for the most part all I've used it for in the past few months) due to the bigger screen, but going from the Nexus to the MeMO at night is... not seamless, to say the least. The Nexus is buttery smooth- especially with ElementalX kernel with the Dark Spice profile installed. The MeMO? Well... not so much.

I might attempt the Advanced Interactive Governor Tweaks on the MeMO if I can find the time. It might help a ton- and since I'll be applying the tweaks with EX Kernel Manager, they're completely reversible if something messes up.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Near enough the same as I did ...I did try the nougat experience with dp5 which is great so just waiting for the pure Nexus nougat experience...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I haven't flashed DP5 on there, although I'm tempted to. I think I'll just wait for the Pure Nexus to come out for Nougat- shouldn't take long knowing BeansTown.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
Long time no see. After I downgraded it to 4.4 everything has been going smoothly. I don't root it because I don't have reason to. Amount of bloatware isn't that severe to me. Disabling them did the job.

Still, it'd be nice if I can install Windows on it. I'm intending to give it to my mom and I can't be bothered to teach her how to use Android. :P
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
Is there a big difference in performance and stability between kit kat and the russian lite lolipop rom?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
I didn't use Russian .36 but I had .36 and rootuninstall almost everything apart from essential services so I got more than 460MB available ram.

Somehow the memory management in Lollipop still isn't as good as in Kitkat. For instance if I use music player while surfing the music process will be terminated almost immediately. I never have this problem with 4.4 even it show that I only start with about 260+ MB of ram available.

5.0 is fast and fluid but can only do one thing at a time. With 4.4 sometime when I scroll through pages it stutters a bit but at least it can do what I need which is music and reading at the same time.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
Thanks for the feedback!

I'm now back on kit kat with root and like you said, switching between apps is much better than in lollipop.

The only shortcoming is that there isn't a permanent TWRP recovery for kit kat yet.

But after all, the important thing is that my tablet is usable again in multitasking.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I may have found a solution to the battery drain / tablet being warm to the touch during "sleep" mode (sleep being in quotation marks because with those symptoms there's no way the thing is sleeping) issue.

...yes, yes, I know, I've said I found the solution before. Pretty sure that "finding" was a placebo. But I feel confident this time. I've mostly been using my phone all day, but I've left my tablet on. It was draining and was rather warm, but now it has only drained one percent in the past hour and isn't warm at all.

I was experimenting with kernel settings in EX Kernel Manager, and found that the kernel is forcing the tablet in to what Intel calls "turbo boost" mode- 1.8GHz- at an even basis, even when the screen is off. My theory is that this is preventing the tablet from going in to deep sleep. I have a hunch that this is also why none of the "battery saver" applications have done much, either.

I've disabled a couple of kernel instructions relating to the turbo boost. I've disabled quite a bit, and some of it might be redundant, but it's just in case the kernel decides to be stupid and re-enable some of the settings. With this tablet... you never know. As an added bonus, I have disabled touchboost, which increases the clock speed when the screen is touched. In this case, touchboost went to the turbo boost frequency (of course, because that makes sense ASUS) which means this poor thing was at 1.8 GHz constantly. I'm pretty sure Intel designed that frequency to be a short boost to make an intensive task go quicker for a few seconds, not a constant thing. Touchboost may have been causing the tablet to become unstable and crashy due to this, but we'll see about that over time.

So far, I have had nothing but good results, but I'm going to be testing this for a few days to make sure it's really the cause of the problem and not a coincidence. Considering temperature is involved, I don't think this is a placebo, but regardless I think the best course of action is to keep the profile private for a few days. Just in case.

If results are good, I will be releasing the fix in two forms.

For those of you who have EX Kernel Manager, I will release an EXKM interactive governor profile (currently I'm calling it K013Redux since it appears to fix the majority of the problems people had with Lollipop, but I'm open to suggestions for the name). That way, the fix will be "plug-and-play."

For those of you who do not have EX Kernel Manager, I will have the parameters that I changed laid out in the post. Keep in mind that I have only tested the results on EX Kernel Manager, so your mileage may vary.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
Will it work with 4.4? I currently go with the method leave the wi-fi on.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm not sure. I'm not on KitKat (nor do I plan to be any time soon) so I haven't tested it.

I'm sure you could use EX Kernel Manager or Kernel Adiutor and try to find the same settings in that kernel, but I can't guarantee it'll work.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bryandroid98:
Hi, plz upload the settings of EX Kernel Manager. I'll be appreciated.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
Ok, I'll find sometime to try it but first I have to get it rooted.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Not yet. I plan to in a day or so, however. I'm still testing it and tweaking some of the kernel parameters.

Now, on to a status report.

So far, results are still good. I made some changes to the interactive kernel governor that go past just messing with boost options. I've changed when the CPU goes in to the 1.8GHz "turbo boost" mode, and I've also told it to only go to 1.3GHz as the maximum clock speed (what the clock should be) unless it needs to be at 1.8GHz (which I've currently defined as 80% CPU usage) in an attempt to emulate KitKat's turbo boost behavior. It seems to have worked, the tablet hasn't gone in to 1.8GHz since I set that- but I also don't really use the tablet for anything this intensive these days.

If all is good, I will release the kernel profile tomorrow.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tim_h:
Sounds promising! Keep us posted! :)

I have had good results with DS Battery Saver - and I thought you did, too?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
DS Battery Saver has had mixed results in my testing. It would work some of the time, but looking at the kernel manager it definitely wasn't staying in deep sleep usually. It could have been due to Viper4Android, though.

Essentially, my kernel profile acts as a "smarter" DS Battery Saver (going in to deep sleep only when necessary, without needing manual configuration and blacklisting, while simultaneously improving thermal temperatures and restoring Turbo Boost functionality back to how Intel designed it to be.

I had too much on my plate to release the profile yesterday- fingers crossed for a release today, though! :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
How do I get camera and bluetooth working on the Russian Lite .36?

I was on Kit Kat .182 and followed each Kit Kat OTA till .201.

After that, I installed the .17 Lollipop ROM, then I installed the repacked .36 ROM.

Once the .36 was installed, I flashed the Russian Lite .36. Everything works fine exept bluetooth and camera.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] idoetzchen:
I had the same problem, only after rollback to kitkat -> http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/general/how-to-rollback-lollipop-to-kitkat-t3422498 <- Bluetooth and camera works
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
What I've done to get camera and bluetooth working again on Lite .36:

1. Rolled back on .201 Kit Kat

2. I messed things up on .201 Kit Kat so I couldn't boot anymore :p

3. Followed the unbrick tread to get back on de CN .182 Kit Kat

4. Flashed the WW .182 Kit Kat, followed each OTA till .201 Kit Kat

5. Used the .17 Lollipop ROM in the collection ROM tread to update my tablet to Lollipop

6. I took the official .36 Lollipop ROM from the ASUS website and put it in the internal storage

7. Tablet detected a system update on the device and installed it

8. Unlocked the bootloader and permanent TWRP

9. Wiped dalvik cache, cache, system, data and internal storage and flashed the .36 Lite ROM

Now, everythings works fine. :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Lautaro Mondaca:
hi! any news about this?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yeah. I've been doing some minor changes here and there, but I'm happy with the results now. I'll release it in a few hours.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Gah! Due to a bug in XDA Labs the profile isn't uploading. I'll have to release it in the morning.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Lautaro Mondaca:
no luck?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Found the problem.

XDA didn't recognize the file as it has no extension. Tomorrow I'll upload it as a text file, the extension will have to be removed for the profile to work.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] castaway1:
guys i looking for most stable and fast customROM or stock ROM for this tablet. Its horrible nearly unusable . zero multitasking i have to do with it something. Can you suggest me? maybe old kitkat? i dont care about android version.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
here you go...

http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/general/how-to-rollback-lollipop-to-kitkat-t3422498
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Here's the profile!

Remove the .txt extension, be sure you have EX Kernel Manager, then drop this in the ElementalX/gov_profiles folder. After that just apply it via EX Kernel Manager.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
5% in 6 hours standby. Really good for this tablet! Thank you!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] intNERD:
Thanks jerbear for sharing!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
I have a problem, I can' t open the play store (google services error)... I try deleting data and cache, making wipes from recovery, and even try to flash gapps from recovery, but had no luck, still the same error. I have the Russian little rom, and TWRP (with the bootloader unlocked).