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[MeMO Pad 7 General] mindmajick:
Just tried towelroot and framaroot with no success.

Edit: I have to say that this thing is really really fast and solid. I can't believe this was a $150 tablet. Once we figure out root and hopefully a custom recovery it'll be even better. I haven't hooked it up to my pc yet to try adb.... we shall see
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mindmajick:
Fyi- adb works using the generic google usb driver. I installed manually and picked adb composite. Working a ok. Time to fiddle.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
If I have time, I'm going to make some wallpapers.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mindmajick:
Well.. None of the root methods that work on the me173 seem to work on this rom. I'm blindly trying to find root but what i have no idea about is custom recovery.

I really hope they open a thread for this device.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
I guess we have to sit and wait. Hopefully soon Asus releases the source code for this tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mindmajick:
Wait? That's not what xda is for. Me and a few others are at least TRYING to figure things out.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=54109736
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
We are going to have to get one of the high powered guys to help us. This is going to be a fastboot flash. Somebody will want a system dump to find an exploit. Trouble is this isn't going to be a hugely popular device so getting help with this might be tough. I have a couple good places to ask.

I'll let you know what I get.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
:crossing fingers:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mindmajick:
Well.. sorry guys. I just returned the device and paid the extra $50 for a nexus 7 16gb
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
I almost did the same thing the other day, first I bought a HP 7 Plus $99. I thought that would never get a rooted/rom. I gave it to my mom, and bought this Asus.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
To add, there are plenty apps in google play that may do the job (automatically "Change directory rw permission") :).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...es-boot-recovery-and-system-partition-images/

That link contains a program called Romdump. It should dump the rom and the recovery.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Platform.xml problem!

Hey all,

On a bit of a tangent -- I saw Titanium mentioned so tried getting MyBackup Pro working to the external SDcard (it can't write there as-is).

So, I added the line to platform.xml in /system/etc/permissions as listed on the Reware web site (I'm rooted).

In changing platform.xml, (I was using Jota), I couldn't write back to the file in place, so I saved as a file elsewhere, then used ES File Explorer to copy over the original platform.xml (with no backup -- I'm such an idiot).

Now I have no internet -- everything dies on me: Google Mail, YouTube, etc. I see this is related to a garfed platform.xml. I used ES File Explorer to make sure root owns the file and the permissions are rw-r--r-- as every place tells me they should be. Did a full reboot, still no luck. also did a chown and chmod 644 from terminal emulator on the file, still didn't help even though the ownership and permissions look right.

How do I get a working platform.xml file back? Even if someone sent me one, could I use adb "push" to push a file back to this system-based directory? Otherwise, what do I do? I can't see anything wrong with the file, and I have put it back as it was (removed the extra line for "media_rw"). Permissions still look good and ownership is right, but I'm still hosed. Help?

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
If everything is back to the way it was, but you still have no Internet, your only choice might be to factory reset. :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
Since the beginning I got a error to apply a picture to the wallpaper. Always get wallpaper cropper force close. Do you also? Only can use system wallpapers.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I'd love to do a factory reset, just did a full backup two days ago. *smile*

But how do I do a full factory reset? I checked the manual, and where it says there should be a "factory reset" option, I can't find anything. Is there some power-on combination that will let me reset?

Also, I'm not sure a reset will actually fix this, since platform.xml is already in the "system" area. Does that get changed by a reset?

Thanks for the response...

Thanks,

sutekh137

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Yes, got some sort of com.google.wallpapercropper error if I tried to ever set wallpaper from Gallery. For desktop, I used Nova Launcher wallpaper setter and it seemed to take, and for the Lock Screen wallpaper I went in from Settings somewhere and it seemed to take (can't recall where, exactly...)

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Factory reset only will erase user data and downloaded apps. I used Root Explorer which saves the file you edit with a bak extension. If only WiFi is affected that's weird.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I have seen several threads where people lose internet services after platform.xml gets hosed up. And sdcard and Removable/MicroSD are not mounting properly either. I'm not even root any more, so I can't do jack. Yeah, I should have just used ES File Explorer to edit the file, but it seemed to be read-only (because I didn't go under the menu and do "Edit", duh!) and I am betting it would have left things alone.

But now I am hosed and I don't even know how adb can help me because it won't push to a system folder, will it? Gah... In a way, I software bricked this thing! What else can I do? In trying to use the volume/power buttons to do a hard reset into recovery (didn't work), now my tablet seems to be in an infinite loop of rebooting! When I think it can't get worse, it does. And I'm on day 20 after buying it -- Best Buy only allows returns for a measley 15 days... :(

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Just run the command "adb shell" and it will be able to push to /system.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Hm, I didn't realize that! Well, we'll see if it keeps doing this reboot cycle, but I can try to push a good version of platform.xml and see if that helps!

Thanks!

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
OK, I can adb shell into the tablet (it stopped rebooting itself after being off a while).

But anything I try to do in /system/etc/permissions is met with an error saying it is a read-only file system. and 'su' is not found.

Even if I could write to the system, how would adb shell let me push a file? Dont I have to use "adb push" for that?

Regardless, does anyone have a clean platform.xml they can put somewhere for me, in the event I ever did find out how to write it over the existing file on the tablet?

Thanks for all the help...

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
A close to my saga....

Well, a nice end to my issues... Best Buy was a pleasure to work with tonight.

The associate mentioned me being a few days beyond the 14 day policy, but that was it. And I do think this thing was defective beyond my messings around because it was acting progressively crazier even as he checked it to make sure my profiles were gone. No factory reset option, no internet, and while things LOOKED ok, sdcard and Removable weren't mounted (scared the hell out of my my external SD had been wiped -- it's fine).

So, exchanged, and when I joked about getting a price match on an exchange (20 days AFTER the original was bought), he said sure. I knew Amazon had it for $125, and he looked and said, "actually $124". So, I made 26 bucks in the deal.

Sweet baby is restoring everything just now, and I had a backup (APKs + DATA) from a couple days ago. Doesn't get much better than that. I'll see if I want to root it again, but beyond that I am not messing with ANYTHING in the system folders any more. *smile* Though, I hope I can help out with figuring out ROM installs, etc. Everyone here has been great and super knowledgeable, and I appreciate everyone who took the time to respond to me specifically!

Sincerest gratitude,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] peldo123:
xposed question

Sorry one more noob question guys. Would installing xposed soft brick this tablet as it has no recovery and has anybody here installed closed. Thanks in advance:confused:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
I am using it without problems.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
Repost. Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Yeah, it seems the tablet has some deep sleep issues. I exchanged my first Memo Pad 7 after 2 days because of this problem, after the Asus customer support wasn't able to help me with the problem. They replaced it in the end and this one has the same problem too. Is it really because of the Wi-Fi? I tried using different settings, like turning off Locations, Sync, even uninstalling updates and/or disabling some services, it was no use. But...if I think about it now, I did keep the power saver on ultra battery mode, which turns off Wi-Fi when the phone is not used. I'll check and see if my draining issue is from Wi-FI as well.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
It seems that some services/driver/alarms/wakelock in android system is causing the problem. I've even tried to disable the whole google services and packages and it was not the one that causes the problem. I also disable the power saving service of asus.

For mean time, i'm just leaving the WIFI on regardless if it was connected to a network or not in order for the device to enter deep sleep.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
I think it's a Kit-Kat problem, I've seen people on other forums having this problem as well, on other devices. I called Asus twice, the first time the guy on the phone told me to hard reset the device (we have no recovery though...and I already did gazillions of Factory Reset) and the second time another guy told me that the fact that Android OS process is draining so much is something normal...seriously? Lost my faith in Asus customer support after hearing that :| He also said that all devices have this problem...hoping for a fix.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
Probably but its unusual that our device never enter deep sleep mode when WIFI is OFF and this is not intermittent.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nafayi:
Apps crashing and not working

Has anyone experience apps crashing/ not working on this device?

I've tried several times to get My talking Tom and Dice players to work on this device, but every time I open them they just crashed and stop loading. I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling still the same problem. I've tried restoring them from Titanium backup still no luck. So am wondering if the device is faulty, everything else works perfectly.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Emre Kızıltoprak:
solved
[MeMO Pad 7 General] onimorza:
Thanks, it worked great, but you can skip the step to adb to bootloader; you can just run the batch file if your tablet is normally powered on, it will reboot to bootloader and then CWM itself.

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What's wrong with the

[OFFICIAL] Xposed for Lollipop by rovo89 ? Did you try that one first?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
It seems that Lollipop version is better and snappier though PPSSPP performance slowdsown.

Not getting deep sleep when wifi is off is fixed in this version.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The official Xposed for Lollipop is compiled for ARM devices. As such it will not work on the x86 processor in this tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
My antutu performance now is 16k. CPU spy shows that it only uses 532mhz. Do we have a sort of performance settings here in lollipop? I will root later to force adjust the governor but i just want to monitor the stock performance first. Any idea? Thanks

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I reboot and rerun the test and now its 35k.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Yes, there're energysaver settings. Mine has no problems going to full speed but deep sleep not work at all.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
bravesoul:

"Yup. First downgrade to the CN.182 then use the WW.182 ROM. Buuuut, I can't seem to update up to WW.201... And then Lollipop... So, although you don't get a bricked tablet, you can save it up to the WW.182 version of KK. Life sucks when things don't work. ￼

edit:

Before I tried to update, I made a backup of the 198 with tempcwm. I've just restored it, so Im back on WW.198. Lets see if I can bring it up to 201 and consequently Lollipop...

If anyone needs it, I can make a clean CWM Image and post it here."

Hello did you manage to upgrade from 198 backup to 201 firmware (and possibly to lollipop)? If you did than would you please PLEASE give a link to your nandroid backup file? I'm on 182 and tempcwm works just fine (I also tried the other method but still the same stuck on 182).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
I already turned off the power saving.. I'll better root this tab to gain a better performance with ppsspp.

No deep sleep? Are you in lollipop?

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Unroot first and make sure you have not modified sd card permission and you have not deleted any built in apps. Do a factory reset and OTA should work.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Seconded. I too just ran "launcher.bat" from the package that supports T4.

It also did not seem to matter whether or not I answered "yes" or "no" when trying to reboot, where the script said root needed to be fixed. Either way, I seemed to have root (I did it twice, because I eventually did a factory reset to get performance back...)

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tb79:
is with lollipop now a chance for "double tap to wake"?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jeremi05:
Lollipop

Guys, i didn't receive any notification about the 5.0 update, and every time i check for update it says i'm using the latest firmware. Will i still receive the update? I don't want to manually update my tablet, i'm a bit scared of doing so. Please help. Thanks!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I've managed to install Xposed and the memory leak module.

What version are of the firmware are you currently running?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I don't think so, that depends on the kernel.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AviarGS:
32bit

Hello guys, according to Antutu, our Memo Pad runs Lollipop on 32-bit version, which is what I find pretty sad, cause one of the main reason why we waited for Lollipop on MemoPad is because that we will finally be able to take advantage of our 64-bit processor. Any explanations to this?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I think the Nexus Player ran 32bit till 5.0.2 I think their might of been issues with ART cause early reports from Intel was they were only supporting ART in 64bit , I don't think they had 64bit ART finished in time for the lollipop release.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AviarGS:
Thanks for explanation. Other than that Lollipop update is amazing and completely unexpected from Asus. Have it now rooted(thanks to you), running Seeder, Link2SD, Titanium Backup Pro and FINALLY Swapper is working, the 1GB RAM was a huge problem.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
When I press the 'Boost' button, I'm now getting 540-600MB free.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jeremi05:
I have firmware version Ww-3.2.23.201 on. I really dont want to manually update this. Thanks!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Have you rooted your tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
That probably depends on a number of factors (hardware and software). As of now it does not seem to be available.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] onimorza:
thanks, didn't know, will try now :)

EDIT: xposed working great, easy installer! thanks again for the link!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Funny, as soon as I installed the wakelock detector it actually started going to deep sleep. Battery usage thus has dramatically improved.

Thanks for your help.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
A few more observations...

-- Yeah, this thing runs more smoothly and the boost gets memory back (Boost also keeps working even after a whole day -- it used to inexplicably stop doing anything previously).

-- I like the Auto-start manager, but is that really very effective? Better to freeze things, yes? Anyone have a list of safe freezes yet?

-- What is the hand with a circle and slash through it mean? I have that icon in upper right next to the Wi-Fi indicator. Can't figure out what it is!

-- I am still seeing substantial power drain. Just sitting upstairs off charger with periodic AB Epic play, and the tablet went from 100% to 49% in about 6 hours. Between every play I do, I kill all processes, Run Boost, and put the tab on standby. Is there something I am missing in terms of power drain? What are the best settings to reduce the phenomenon?

Overall, though, I like it. And as I mentioned before, all of my apps still work fine, including Angry Birds Stella, which had stopped working on KitKat after a recent update from Rovio...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jeremi05:
No i haven't done anything yet
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
In that case, this might solve your problem:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lybad:
Pre-Installed Apps

I asked about this (kind of) earlier in the thread, and got no response - what I've done is used the auto-start manager to disable them from running, and then hidden them from the app drawer. They still do updates, but don't use memory, and are invisible.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
I believe they are actually a system app with updates. Just disable them.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jeremi05:
That is my default language. Any other ideas? i really hope i get the notification one of these days, i've been looking forward to this update since i bought this. Thanks anyway
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
Can you please post a link to that 198 backup, because I stuck on 182 rom? :banghead:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
Just get the update file and remove any mention of flashing boot and fastboot from the updater script.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
I already tried that... but maybe I missed a line or a something I'll try again when I get home. BUT as an alternative I still need that backup :o
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NyoMic:
I've had the same problem, i couldn't update to 191, i was stucking on 182.

So, you have to modifiy the updater-script as mentioned before. Here's the modified and working updater Script for OTA 191 (remove the .txt ending of course)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
Thank you! I'll try this and go for lollipop...again (fingers crossed) :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NyoMic:
The above file is only for the OTA 191 Update (from .182) but i can upload the other updater-files as well if request.

I'm on 201 now and in a few minutes i try to update to lollipop, hope it works.

EDIT: It works!!! Finally I'm on lollipop!! yeeehaaa :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
Good for you!:):thumbup:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
Sooo... did you change something in lollipop updater script, cause it's still status 7 error for me (one of the .xml files as I remember)?

I don't think the OTA straight from ASUS would work either...or am I wrong?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NyoMic:
no, i didn't change the lollipop file. I've formated everything with temp-cwm (format /system, /data, and so on manually), then i installed alle the roms from here:

http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/general/me176c-x-collection-roms-updates-t3012965

but with modified installer for 191, 198, 199 except 201 (cause thats where i came from, so i do not modify that file and installed it normally) and then i upgraded to lollipop via asus ota systemupdater
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
I started over and downgraded to 182, upgraded to 191, but it errors out at 199 and 201. Any thoughts?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NyoMic:
you have to upgrade in order, do you forget 198?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
Well DUH yeah I apparently completely overlooked it here http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/general/me176c-x-collection-roms-updates-t3012965
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Hey, could you share your settings for swapper? And did you partition your sd card first with an ext partition?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I've got a problem.

Yesterday, I installed Xposed on Lollipop, and initially everything was working fine. I installed a number of cool modules, each time rebooting to complete the installation via the reboot button in the Xposed app.

But after installing Xprivacy, without thinking, I instead used the restart button you get when you long-press the power button.

The result (or at least I assume it was because of this) was that I got the Asus 'Powered by Android' screen, followed by the Asus 'Intel Inside' screen, but after that I couldn't get any further.

Several minutes passed with the spinning loading icon going round endlessly, and I knew something was wrong because the reboot time for all of the previous modules had been roughly a minute.

Now unfortunately, this happened late last night when I was exhausted, so I decided to try and shut the device down until the morning, as I was scared that the battery would run down to zero if I left it running overnight (it was at 52% when I failed to reboot the device).

I succeed by trying various button combinations, until the device finally shut down after I held the power and volume up buttons together for around twenty seconds.

So, this morning I first connected the charger, and I got the normal battery screen you get if you connect your charger whilst the device is turned off.

After charging for a while, I then tried switching the device on again, only to get stuck on the Asus 'Intel Inside' screen again.

What should I do to resolve this problem?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Bootloader unlocked on Lollipop version?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Can you get to recovery mode:

Hold down Vol- and Power at the same time to boot up. Definitely keep holding the Vol-. It should get to the screen with the various options, normal boot, reboot, recovery mode, etc. Press power on "Recovery Mode". It will show an ASUS screen and then the sad/error android. From there, you need to press Vol+ and Power at the same time until you see the recovery menu. It is a bit weird, the keystrokes aren't as succinct as I'd like, but you'll figure it out eventually.

That will let you do things like clear cache partition and even factory reset. You could try one or both of those to see what happens. I am not sure why a factory reset wouldn't get you back to stock Lollipop...

But I don't know anything about Xposed, and your story is the very reason I probably won't try installing it. *smile* I'm happy just with root...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
During my first attempt to get into recovery mode, I think I held Vol- and power for too long, as it went into the boot loop again.

Then, the second time, I released both buttons when the Asus 'Powered by Android' screen appeared, and I've now got a screen that says:

I remember seeing a similar (or identical) screen at some point in the past few days.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Nope, ASUS confirmed it on their twitter when I asked them. The bootloader is still locked.

You didn't get the version of XPrivacy for Lollipop, at least that's what it sounds like.

Xposed does have a failsafe, I believe you hold down power for 5 seconds during boot then release power and hold Volume Up, but don't quote me on that.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Yes, the NORMAL BOOT screen is where you want to be!

From there, press Vol- to change the top box. It cycles through various modes, one of them being RECOVERY MODE. When it says that, press Power.

It will continue the title screen until you see the sad/error android, and that is where you press Vol+ and Power at the same time for about a second to get into the recovery menu (it looks a lot like the menu that used the temp CWM session to root). You could try clearing cache and then rebooting, and if that doesn't do it, do a full factory reset. NOTE: it takes a LONG time to fully boot up after the factory reset, more than 10 minutes for me...

Good luck!

sutekh137