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[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
few pointers though. when you receive the tablet, check first the edges of the tablet. Early versions of the tablet had hairline cracks on the outer corners of the tablet. But nvidia fixed it by putting a hairline gap so it would prevent cracking. That happened to people early on, but it doesnt hurt to check. If It does have em, nvidia would replace them free of charge.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
I just checked for an update and its lollipop!! Holy molly, imma install it and tell you what version is it. Sooo excited!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] baderfgt:
I'm updating too and it's a huge upgrade. It updated the firmware as well.

It is 5.0
[MeMO Pad 7 General] goodhur:
Please let us know what version lollipop. I hope it is still rootable. Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Probably 5.0.0 or 5.0.2 seems to be what all Intel are getting

Try my tether cwm for injecting root I think it has worked for all 5.x.x Intel to date but the backup and restore doesn't work on 5.x.x so it's just for rooting
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Uninen:
5.0 is what it is.

What i can tell, i only get about 60% of the score i got on 4.4 in 3d mark unlimited test with this update, 8000 something vs. 13000 something.. but i havent done factory reset, maybe i should, but not feeling like losing the progress on

~30 (kids) games my boys play with the tablet.

/edit

Few reboots and CCleaner "scans" and its up to 15786 in 3DMark Ice Storm Ultimate.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I'll wait to see if the update is still rootable and whether or not the memory leaks are as bad as some folks have been saying before I upgrade. A big "thanks" in advance to the early pioneers who will undoubtedly let us know? *smile*

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Rinfinite:
My Lollipop update failed when the tablet restarted. Do I need to unfreeze apps or unroot?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Could somebody capture the OTA? I'd appreciate it.

How's the memory management in the new version?

Has anybody had luck installing Xposed on Lollipop?

EDIT: Apparently Shakalaka, the person who made RootZenfone, has made an Xposed installer for the Zenfone 2. Perhaps it works here?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
My update failed, so I used Titanium Backup to unfreeze all of my frozen apps, however when I press 'check update' now, it no longer shows the Lollipop update.

What should I do?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
This happens occasionally. We have to wait for ASUS to put the firmware on their website or someone to capture the OTA. I'll do it tonight after downgrading and working back up worst-case-scenario.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
My brother's MeMO is now stuck on a command prompt-esque screen after updating. It appears to be normal. He didn't comprehend what it was (he has autism) but it appears to be fine for now, as it's saying "Updating firmware..."

THIS COULD BE BIG. It seems to be updating the bootloader, and my suspicions are being sorta confirmed by the fact that it says in capital letters not to unplug or power off. Two things could happen from this if I am correct: either A) ASUS is patching some exploits (I swear if this is it I'm done) or B) ASUS is making the bootloader unlockable if we want it to.

You can no longer download firmware for the tablet on ASUS' website, but you can still directly connect and download the update. The firmwares are still there, but not the pointers. I think ASUS is actually uploading Lollipop to their website for us to download :)

Hopefully we can get a bootloader unlock APK from them if I am correct.

EDIT: Has root been maintained after updating?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
All the slivermont devices require a bootloader upgrade for lollipop they now use a more traditional boot.img format that the old bootloader couldn't use I think sl_vmm.bin is the bootloader not confirmed also requires a full device repartition.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
So I received the update.

I'm afraid to take it, but it downloaded and says it will postpone for a maximum of 1 day.

Don't want to lose Root.

What do I do? Anyone take the update? Did I lose Root?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm not sure, but once this Titanium Backup finishes I will Guinea pig and capture the OTA. I'll report back. It will take a bit because updates fail for me, and I'm on an older version, so I have to downgrade to 182 and work up to Lollipop after rooting.

Worst case scenario Temp CWM might be able to root it. I'll test that as well.

Good to know. Well, I was wrong.

My point about firmware not being downloadable still stands, however. ASUS might actually be updating their support page for once.

EDIT: Crap, will we be able to downgrade to KitKat after the bootloader upgrade? Hopefully ASUS thought of that...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
If blankphone file are available you can probably do a full downgrade but the internal tools built into droidboot and such only support downgrade if it is an engineering firmware from all the source code I reviewed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Ooh. We don't have any blankphone files. Good to know. Once you go Lollipop you ain't going back. Probably why ASUS removed downloads from their site.

I am on .182 rooted and am now working on getting to Lollipop. HERE WE GO. IF I LOSE ROOT IT WAS FOR SCIENCE.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Just my luck. I buy the shield and lollipop comes out!

Hehe. Well, I haven't. Thankfully. I ordered one online, but I just cancelled. Anyways. I used to get 35667 on antutu before I stop using it with kk. Haven't updated to LL yet. But if the bootlader is truly unlocked, I'm gonna start working on a new 5.11 ROM right away.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It probably won't be if [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] is correct.

Either way it seems ASUS fixed memory management, thank God.

I have Lollipop downloaded, I am uploading the OTA to mediafire now.

Let's compare. Right now I am on 201, only tapatalk and root browser installed. 300 MB ram free. Let's see how that compares to lollipop after I restore my titanium backup.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
So anyone try rooting it yet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I am about to. Survival mode enabled. OTA captured.

Link to OTA if anyone needs it: mediafire.com/?2vcv6wl7vstf4d1
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
So this is uefi :) sold
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I noticed it was as well.

Root not kept. I will get rootzenfone and if that doesn't work I will try your recovery.

Would the old triggers work on Lollipop? I use the Linux version so I don't have t4

Edit: rootzenfone failed, I will try a newer version and if that fails I will try cwm tomorrow morning.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I'll look at the image tonight.

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So that my wife doesn't have my head for buying another tablet, what's the best way to pay for something in a store that doesn't take PayPal I don't want to wait three days to transfer to my bank. Any suggestion's?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I am assuming online store?

I usually use a credit card. Amazon also has their own PayPal clone called Amazon payments if you are buying from there.

Welcome aboard the much-less-salty-after-lollipop ASUS train. :D

EDIT: Almost forgot: 400MB ram free after update vs 300. Without Titanium Backup for obvious reasons... no root yet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Thanks, I'm currently downloading it.

EDIT: Silly question, but how do I install the update?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
How's the power management? It took huge amounts of tinkering to get the latest KK version to go Deep Sleep about 7% of the runtime when just lying around with WiFi off and hence the runtime of that thing is still atrocious . Has that improved?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] deflekt:
I had the lollipop upgrade notification then it failed. I factory resetted my tablet and now i can't see the lollipop upgrade using asus update manager. Do i have to wait for asus to send another upgrade notification or is there any way to receive the update again?

i am downloading jerbear294's OTA file (thank you), i think i need CWM to install it, right?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
Sorry to hear that. Thank you for trying.

Please let us know if you find another way.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lybad:
Disabling Apps

I'm not one for rooting my devices - but the update has removed and added some baked in apps.

On KitKat I had disabled some apps, but the update seems to have removed that option - any suggestion other than using the auto start manager to prevent apps starting, and then hiding them?

Charged tablet overnight, and waiting to see how much power it uses before I get home from work - used to be about 8-10%.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Are the instructions in this thread applicable to Lollipop?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Should be, but if [MENTION=688394]social-design-concpets[/MENTION] is correct it is no longer applicable for unbricking.

EDIT: Has anybody been able to get into bootloader mode after Lollipop? I haven't been able to. The only way I can is via ADB.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
OTA seems to have borked my tab. It failed at flashing the capsule (or something like that). I could flash back to 182, but I can't flash any OTA update after that. It would fail at checking the boot/fastboot image. Removing them from the updater-script would cause the flash to fail at the patching boot.img/fastboot.img part.

Might as well take it to warranty now, between this and my previous problems
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I've downloaded Universal Naked Driver, but I'm struggling to install it on my Windows 7 PC.

When I right-click on either of the INF files and press 'install', I get the message 'The INF file you selected does not support this method of installation'.

Is there an alternative method?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Try the ADB Driver Installer from adbdriver.com
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Has anyone had luck clearing the cache after lollipop update? If so, please post your procedure here.

A couple of glitches I'm seeing:

My 176c going through the 'updating apps' upgrade screen upon reboot.

A couple of times, the power button wouldn't wake my sleeping tablet, and I had to long press to restart.

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Okay, I'm able to enter recovery mode this way:

Power off your device.

Boot in recovery mode by pressing and holding Volume Down and Power Button at the same time.

I select 'recovery' and the it reboots to the sad android. Now, what's the combo of keys to select menu options here?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Uninen:
vol+ & power pressed together for a second or so and let go.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Thanks. That got me closer. I actually had to press power, hold and then press vol +. But now cache is cleared.

Tablet still feels a bit sluggish -- maybe I'll try a factory wipe (and give the new Asus Backup / Restore app a try).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The rule of thumb is that before a major Android upgrade (from 4.1 to 4.2 or 4.4 to 5.0) , factory reset. Keep SuperSU survival mode on and you'll keep root.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
My first attempt at a manual update has failed, so I'm going to try going back to .182 and working my way up.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Well, I guess I'll need to use new Root when it comes out... I didn't do either of these. But overall 5.0 feels slower than what was there before (4.2?)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It's snappier for me. Huh.

I will investigate rooting tonight.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
I'll do a factory reset and see if that helps.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
When I tried to manually update .201 to Lollipop, it failed to flash, and now my attempt to downgrade to .182 has suffered the same fate.

I followed all of the steps in the 'Collection of ROMS and Updates' thread both times, but to no avail.

Does anyone have any suggestions?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
This isn't good, tablets are dropping like flies...

Nothing you can do from what I know. When booting try Volume Up + Power. Also try Volume Down + Power if that doesn't work. If you can get into the bootloader, you can use temporary ClockWorkMod. That is probably your only hope.

Good job ASUS.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rootKRP:
Soft Bricked?

After monitoring this thread for a while, i read that Lollipop was finally available. I was running the .199 OTA and had root. I decided to factory reset, and after restarting the tablet booted to a blank android home page. Only the Home & Back button, along with the time and battery indicator , were visible. The Asus "features" i guess you would call it showed, telling me about the tablets features then went back to teh blank screen. After rebooting the tablet infinitely hangs at the Asus bootup. After finally getting it into recovery i get a "No Command" screen. After spamming the Volume + & - i was able to get a screen with options to reset/wipe and to load via ADB

Well running the recovery option brings me back to a blank screen with just the time, and when i select the ADB option, ADB doesnt see the device and im sure i have the right drivers and what not.

I guess why question is, after looking at other forum posts, am i ****ed? do i go the way of RMA now??
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You are still on Kitkat? If so this is fixable.

Go to the "Collection of ROMS and Updates" thread. Download the WW 182 rom and flash it using Temporary ClockWorkMod. You will lose root, but it doesn't matter as Lollipop wiped my root anyway.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Thankfully, my tablet's still working normally, it's just that I appear to be stuck on .201 indefinitely.

Each time I go through all of the steps mentioned, and after typing and entering 'reboot recovery', my tablet reboots to an update screen, but within seconds I get an error message and my tablet then reboots back to my home screen.

Is the process of downgrading supposed to be identical to flashing an update, or are there some extra steps that I'm missing?

EDIT: Ah, I didn't extract the zip file within the zip file when attempting to flash .182. I'll try again.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rootKRP:
Im technically on Kit Kat still. The instructions say to turn on USB debugging, but like i said, when it boots to android its blank. Nothing works. just a status bar at the top and onscreen controls at the bottom. So i cant get to the developer options. And since this happened after i Factory Reset, i doubt that option is still turned on.

Once in recovery, after the "No Command" option and spamming +&- i selected "apply update from ADB" i get a readout of "now send the package you want to apply to the device with 'adb sideload <filename>" and Windows makes the "device connected noise"

and "android-phone" is what comes up as plugged in, yet the command "adb devices" shows nothing

Driver issue maybe? or did i FUBAR the tablet by resetting it? im looking at multiple options, but it seems my problem is unique?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I realised I'd forgotten to extract the zip file within the zip file when attempting to flash .182, but when I tried flashing it again correctly, I got the exact same error message, before being returned to my home screen.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Factory reset seems to have done the trick. Much more responsive now! Though the Asus backup/restore didn't exactly work -- lots of apps didn't restore. I may actually do a factory reset again, and just manually install the apps I use.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I'm probably clutching at straws, but in the other thread it says:

When I did that, this happened:

So, instead I opened up Minimal ADB and Fastboot and entered "adb devices", and this time I got the prompt on my tablet and was able to see my tablet's serial number in the cmd window.

The reason I'm bringing this up, is that this is the only instruction I didn't follow to the letter, and I was wondering if this could explain anything?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] LI Lemming:
Lollipop

Hi, I've been following here for awhile.

FWIW my stock unrooted 176 had a smooth upgrade. So far, so good. Some of the interface changes (swipe up rather than across to unlock. How one gets to the buttons on the notification shade, that sort of thing) is taking a bit of getting used to.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm surprised ASUS didn't leave a custom setting to get the UX the way it was before. They left it with the default Lollipop interactions. I'm already used to it personally.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I've finally got back to .182!

After downloading a different root browser, I realised I was putting 'update.zip' in the wrong 'data' folder, and after rectifying this, I was able flash .182 successfully.

After making this discovery, I did try to update to Lollipop first, but I again got an error message (although I did get a lot further along the installation process).

So, right now, I'm relieved but exhausted, and afraid of pushing my luck, so I'm going to come back tomorrow and attempt to flash the remaining updates.

Hopefully, I'll be able to get Lollipop.

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I've just noticed that I've lost root after downgrading to .182, so I've transferred RootZenFone-1.4.2 to my tablet (which is what I used to root it last September), however it's not done the job.

I'm not sure, but I think I updated to at least .191 before rooting last year, so should I wait until I've flashed .191 before trying again?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Factory reset, and manually installed my apps.. Now much snappier. Now, to wait for Lollipop root.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
[MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION] confirmed here : http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61020996&postcount=422
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Wait no longer! The temporary ClockWorkMod beta trigger (T4) can boot into ClockWorkMod and root.

See my post here where I verify root. http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61020996&postcount=422

EDIT: Ninja'd. GG [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION].
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Oh god, I've just realised that if I haven't got root, I won't be able to flash .191, as you need access to a root browser.

Is there a way to root .182?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
RootZenfone 1.4.6.4r will root .182 just fine.

For future reference Temporary CWM doesn't need root, and can install OTAs. Keep in mind that after updating to Lollipop you will no longer be able to go back to KitKat AFAIK.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tb79:
My Update failed, so downloading jerbears from mediafire.

Any instructions how to install that update manually?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Thanks, that's given me root again.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
If your update failed odds are mine will as well. You need to downgrade to 182 and work your way back up. Look in the Unbrick thread for instructions.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tb79:
I am still on .201 ! Why downgrade to. 182 and update to. 201 again?

Gesendet von meinem K013 mit Hilfe von XDA Forums
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Downgrading to 182 will ensure that the system is in the same configuration it was when you first got the tablet. ASUS checks for system integrity before updating. If it detects something modified the update will go 25% through and fail. Downgrading to 182 and going back up will fix this.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
I cannot believe my luck I've just been able to update from 182/ all the way up to lollipop via ota one update after another ...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You're one of the lucky ones! It seems some people have been having issues. It's probably the same reason OTA updates failed before, but the problem now is that the bootloader is updated during the upgrade process, so the tablet tries to recover but can't. I'm going to be making a Nandroid backup of my tablet's current state once [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] is finished with his TWRP builds.

Next step is to root. I have confirmed the public beta of the Temporary ClockWorkMod working. Use Trigger 4, download SuperSU to your device, install it with ClockWorkMod. When it tells you that root was lost ignore it. You'll be rooted.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=61020996&postcount=422
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
When I downgraded to .182, out of curiosity I did a update check which again (wrongly) showed that my tablet was up to date.

I was just wondering if by running that check, I've set myself up for problems when I attempt to manually install the later updates tomorrow?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You should be fine.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
With all of this rigamarole, would simply unrooting a .201 device allow the update to work?

This morning I unfroze all of my apps, so as far as being "stock" goes, the only thing non-stock about my tablet at this point is that it is rooted.

Has anyone with .201 been able to update to Lollipop without error, or is it only folks who are completely stock and have never rooted?

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I rooted .201 in order to capture the OTA update for Lollipop. I was able to flash the update, but root was removed.

My Titanium Backup just finished restoring. I am now going to try to install Xposed- hopefully it works :)

EDIT: Xposed script seems to have worked. Question is- does it boot up?

EDIT 2: Seems to have worked. Right now my tablet is at the "Android is upgrading" screen. Not sure why, but my guess is it's part of the Xposed installation.

If it's installed properly I'll link the file.

EDIT 3: Got it! Xposed is installed. I will try some modules next.

I used a modified version of Xposed for the Zenfone 2 by Shakalaca.

Here's the link. The page isn't in English, so if you have a translator go for it.

Keep in mind that you must be rooted already for this to work. You must have USB debugging enabled and your computer authorized by your tablet to use ADB. Keep your device's screen on, as you will need to give ADB root authorization in SuperSU. After installing the framework you still need to manually install the Xposed application itself. It is included in the package.

Now if you need me I will be patching up some memory leaks that are in 5.0 via Xposed. :)

EDIT 4: For anybody who is interested: GravityBox for Lollipop can actually modify our status bar :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
In my case, my update failed after I neglected to unroot and to unfreeze apps.

The reason for my complacency, was that I'd installed previous updates OTA without having to unroot or unfreeze, and I assumed there wouldn't be a problem.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Those of you who are installing Xposed- If you are installing GravityBox it will be able to tweak our status bars. Now my UI is closer to how I had it tweaked to on Jellybean GravityBox on my old Sero.

All I need now is an AOSP status bar and navbar theme and I am golden.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
I unfroze all apps with TB, but trying the Ota from .201 failed almost immediately(rooted device) . :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Downgrade to 182 and work your way back up. That should fix it. I can vouch; the instant I heard an update was available I downgraded and went back up until Lollipop.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
I can confirm that works. Had some serious troubles though to get down to 182 and after that no OTA. But with the lollipop update.zip of yours it worked quite nicely.

Now I just need to figure out how to make it deep sleep the CPU since it is still burning away battery life due to permanently running the CPU.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Strange, it's going into deep sleep for me. Try a wakelock detector.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
Do you by chance have step by step instructions for this trigger 4 method please?