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[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Battery drain -- something has gotten better...

Hey all,

I run a fairly weak charger (1 amp) on my tablet all day at work. I also run games all day, usually Angry Birds Epic where I am running auto-play battles. I do have my tablet underclocked to the 1.197 whatever-unit setting, but it still gets warm, so by the end of the day I still had times when I was down to 50-60% battery even while on the charger here at work.

I also had the issue where every once in while I got a pop-up saying "Contacts has stopped working".

Last week I ran a lot of updates -- updates for the built in ASUS apps all dropped at once on Google Play, and I went ahead and installed them all. Contacts was one of them.

Since then, Contacts has not stopped working with the popup error. And my battery drain appears to be less than before -- I can run all the work-day and still end up around 70-75%. In any case, I appear to have more juice than normal, and have not changed anything else that I can think of.

Has anyone else updated all the built-in apps, and have you seen better battery performance? I don't see how it is related, but my Jetpack Joyride has not crashed recently, either.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
You're not the only one. The .182 update seems to have broken Chaos Rings for me, which worked beautifully before.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] alex71184:
solutions !!!! It is resolved with a full wipe ??? or useless ???:(:(:(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I won't know until I receive mine back from ASUS repair.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] uramis:
Wifi problem - leap config

Hi Guys, I own the mec176cx version and my build is still at the .151 stage. I have trouble connecting to the wifi in our office which is configured with leap and have tried various suggested solutions but all has failed. It is a bit of a known bug from 4.2.2 onwards to kitkat of having troubles connecting to wifi with leap config. Except rooting though, I'm leaving rooting to my last resort as some of my coworkers report that even after rooting they are still unable to connect thru our wifi. Most of the suggested methods i've tried are using some apps to config leap wifi (the default wifi manager does not have leap in its options) or trying various configs on the wifi some of which include acquiring certificates for the wifi config. Personally on my phone I can connect to the wifi, but I was using ROM's based on JB 4.1.2 or below which I think was the factor on me being able to connect to the network. Even if the method works on my phone, it doesn't on my mec176cx .

Any ideas? I'm particularly interested on upgrading the firmware as it might lead to enabling some of the other configs that my phone has on it wifi setup.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
Internal memory

Hello, guys I have an em176cx device (the 8GB version), and it looks like the freely usable space and the app install space are not separete. I have 3.8GB total listed for both purpuses and when I install an app my "for other purposes" space reduces too. I have other tablets as well and on them it seems like app and freely usable spaces are separete things (for example I have a 16GB device where I got 12GB for videos,pics etc. and 2GB for app installing). Would you be so kind to help me with either a screencap showing a cat proc/partitions command result so I can compare or a settings/storage screencap (from a 8GB device of course)?

I'm on .182 firmware and have root permissions.

Thanks!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
On mine 16Gb tablet ME176C also the same. The 16 gb is dedicated to both ways.

Like my s3, is the same space for both sides. When install game lose on other side. If I make a video, lose also.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] cambridge79:
probably you already know cause i think it's a problem of android in general and not this tablet in particular but apparently you are not able to write on the SD card.

i've put some ebook on it and wasn't even able to underline or take annotations with moonreader. I moved them on internal memory and now i can do whatever i want.

also i've been able to finally test the GPS and it's fully functional, i got up to 12 satellites and it was quite precise.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
That's a function of newer android versions, and has nothing to do with just this tablet. It's actually way better than when you had only a limited amount of storage set aside for apps, now you can fill up all your storage with Flappy Birds :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
Still bugged....

Thanks for the answers :good: , I think that is one of the kitkat features I will never learn to love. But I forgot to mention in my first question an other thing... Is the 3.8GB total(ly) usable storage space normal on a namely 8GB device (I know about those thingies named SDcards and I know a 8GB card is not really 8GB just in it's name)? On the other hand got a fairly big chunk of system reserved partiton too (4.17GB)... I presume that's for the OS. Am I right?

Sorry to bother you with such noob questions, but I got no other me176cx owner to ask in person :(.

P.s.: For gaming I use RAM manager pro's HARD GAMING option (of course it won't solve compatibility issues, but games like Heroes of Dragon Age seems to run smoother with than without) + I'can confirm that a downclocked to 1.46 ghz device won't heat up so much than before

Thanks for any advice or answers! :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Between the os and system apps, that sounds about right. Another reason to root your device, and get rid of unneeded system apps to gain more internal storage.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
OK, so no worries eh? I accept the fact that this device will be a bit crowded on the inside... :D Between the battery drain problem and the compatibility issues I still think it's a good bang for my buck tablet.

By the way mi tablet is already rooted, and I got rid of every useless junk on it... not much improvement on the storage capacity though.

Anyway thanks for your answer/advice. :good:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
It's a "security feature" that Google added in KitKat. Quite frankly, it's annoying. Search for SD Card KitKat Fix by JRummy (the ROM Toolbox guy) on the Play Store and run it. You'll have to do it every time you update the firmware and re-root but it's not really a big deal.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
I have an annoying issue.

On 26th we had the Daylight Saving Time and since then, the Weather widget refuse to sync with the actual date!

For example, the date/time in the actual tablet is correct, even in the drop down - quick settings area.

In my country it's Friday, 31 October but the Weather widget says its Friday 30 October.

I tried to wipe all the cities in the Weather app, remove the widget, try another country, set manual date/time in Settings but nothing helped.

On the other hand, the Weather widget in the lock screen shows the correct date ONLY if I don't specify a city.

It's a stupid issue but can be frustrated cause I tend to look at the date from the widget pretty frequently.

Any suggestions?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
you can try wiping data and cache for the app itself.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
I just tried but no luck. I'm not willing to reset the tablet for this tiny issue even tho its annoying. :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
You can always get another weather app that will show the date on a widget, there's plenty available at the google store.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I use EZ Weather HD. Give that a try.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
Thank you for the suggestion but I was aiming to find the issue on the app itself since its kiiiinda unacceptable.

I already use Weather & Clock Widget Android on my phone but that look nice too!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
One odd thing is that you have to manually set your timezone in settings. And when DST ends tomorrow, it'll be even more confusing. But that actually might fix the problem, I hope. If not, I would contact ASUS support and tell them their weather widget is broken.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
Ooops didn't know that in US DST ends days after ours in EU. Let's see what happens.

I might contact ASUS though.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yeah, that might explain why! It probably goes by US standards... odd, because ASUS is based in Taiwan, I think. I guess they figured the US market was their biggest bet, then, so it's geared towards US consumers.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jballer0602:
Get back to stock

I rooted this tablet and removed some bloatware. It seems like I've removed a key module that doesnt allow "reading" mode to work. Its also been a little more buggy so I'd like to know if someone knows how to maybe flash the original ROM back onto this thing. I don't mind losing all my data. I'd just like to have the stock ROM back with all the bloatware added. Anyone know how to do this and can show me? Thanks.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
If you want tablet work without problems, leave all apks in system!

Processor is powerful and 1gb ram memory is enough for fast and smooth work. Anyway you have space on internal memory for more application that everyone need for normal work.

Removing system applications you get only problems!

I have root and last one update without problem. My tablet, as I write before in my post, is awesome! Normally get some force close on some games because compatible with Intel processor, but all other apks works just fine.

Leave Asus application on tablet!

If you want experiment, you must do backup with some programs for backup, titanium backup for instance.

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[MeMO Pad 7 General] jballer0602:
Get back to stock

So is there no way to get the stock ROM back onto this?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Just download last version of stock rom from Asus support site, unpack zip file. Then go to recovery, do wipe cash and factory reset, then install with command

adb sideload UL-K013-WW-3.2.23.182-user.zip

You have step by step manual on this tread. Use search option.

Before use adb command, you must clean temp cash with wipe cash memory, because duo install you get message that you have update.zip file in temp directory and install will stop.

If you have problem with command adb sideload, use our friend Google!

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[MeMO Pad 7 General] gherzidatitan:
ASUS Memo 7 firmware

Hey guys, I'm looking for firmware UL-K013-WW-3.1.23.158-user.zip.....does anyone know where I can download it? I've tried ASUS' website, but it's nowhere to be found.....
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I only have .161 and .182. Sorry.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] gherzidatitan:
Need a little help

NUTZ.....
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Dont mean to be a wise ass, but have you tried googling for it? I think I saw a thread on here about a user that had it. Not sure though. But try searching this topic.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jcp2:
I'm trying to get this tablet to work with "Grooveip" from play store. I have a ph. # assigned to it and can make outgoing calls, the problem is that incoming calls don't work. :crying: There is no ringtone sound coming out to tell me there's a call incoming. Has anyone else been able to get this app or another call app to work with their tab?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] gherzidatitan:
Yep...already tried that....no dice
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jakmayhopher:
Hey everyone, I've had the tablet for about a month now and ever since I rooted I have lost sound. No games I play will have sound, music doesn't play (it simply won't play on Google Play Music), youtube, anything with sound. I just unrooted and did a factory restore but no luck. Has anyone else had this problem?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] toysnic:
Hi,

I try to update (UL-K013-WW-3.2.23.182-user.zip) with the sideload cmd on adb, but each time at the end there is an error: fail to write data 'protocol fault'

I installed the latest version of adb on XDA 1.4.2

And i dont understand how to do the push.

I place the same file on my SD and when i write: adb push UL-K013-WW-3.2.23.182-user.zip /sdcard/ I have error: closed

Before I make a Wipe data/factory and a wipe cache partition.

How can I do ?

Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Don't do it from the SD card. Do it from the PC. adb sideload UL-K013-WW-3.2.23.182-user.zip
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
If only that would work...

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That happened to my daughter's too. Turns out, it was the inside jack that malfunction. It was another tablet, not an Asus, but I've used a pen to repair it. A writing pen. Not a pen as in pendrive.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Sideloading is possible, in theory, but it would likely give an error anyway. But he's trying to push it to the SD card, which isn't working, either.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] KiritoRuki:
hello. i recently made a mistake i have the asus memo pad 7 me176cx and i was searching about root this device and i found the rootzenfone 1.4.2 and basically i install it yesterday the result was the device is not rooted and i get a game istalled along with advertisement about the same device the me176cx and for some reason the factory reset was deleted or hidden i don't know :/ . i installed a app from the google store to make a factory reset but the problem didnt disappear. any one have a solution for this ? thanks for the time
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Sounds like you're in demo mode, search the thread for demo mode and you'll find the way to get out of it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
Yes after exit demo mode, root with the latest version of rootzenfone
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jakmayhopher:
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[/COLOR]

That happened to my daughter's too. Turns out, it was the inside jack that malfunction. It was another tablet, not an Asus, but I've used a pen to repair it. A writing pen. Not a pen as in pendrive.[/QUOTE]

Thank for the tip. How would I that exactly?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Interesting- maybe trondnj and I got problematic ones.. Might be taking it back up to BB for an exchange. Thanks for the feedback.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodspi:
If motochopper pushes the supersu file to the system you may be able to get it to work if you can "fix the permissions" through adb. I have a similar issue on Motorola zoom original running Omni rom. Every time the rom update over ota. I lose root. I can boot into recovery and flash my supersu.zip, but it won't be root on reboot eventhough the supersu file has been pushed. If reboot into recovery and fix permissions then reboot the supersu.apk is active. I have no idea how to fix permissions through adb. I have own a Asus 173X and would buy a 176 if it can be rooted.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
That's a great thought. I'll play with it this weekend and see if I can get it to fly. Best idea so far. The problem might be the actual permissions may not allow adb su commands.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
Fast Battery Drain on standby compare to ME173

Have you observed that it drains so much battery on standby screen off? Without any apps opened or wifi, bluetooth, or gps?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Shodan81:
Mine drains it completely after 20 hours of standby with GPS/wi-fi/bluetooth/screen off, zero background apps, zero widgets... It's like it never enters sleep mode for whatever reason.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
You are right, according to Cpu spy there is no deep sleep.

Edit-actually there is deep sleep, so it should do better.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
Mine drained from 100% down to 74% for only 6 hours.. Already killed background apps that do not restart and already disabled wifi..

This is too bad as compare to me173 standby with background apps and wifi.

Is it due to kitkat OS? The atom processor?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] s1rnem:
Mine has been unplugged 7 hours and 21 minutes and it's at 91% still, even with Wi-Fi on.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
I got a similar drain, in 7 hours 23 minutes, at 80% with 45 minutes screen on. So maybe it's some app draining the battery.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
Could you post a screenshot of running apps in background? Also the firmware version? Thanks? Is it the 8gb or 16gb version? TIA
[MeMO Pad 7 General] trondnj:
From the specs on the ME176C I see that the rear/front cameras should have 5/2 MP resolution, but in the settings on the camera app I can only find 2/0.3 MP. Am I doing something wrong?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
No you don't. There is two versions of our tablet. We in Serbia only get with light version, me176cx. It is probable that you buy this version.

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[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
More than 24 hrs
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
I noticed that standby battery usage were better when WIFI is ON. Probably there is some background apps that increases usage when it does not see a wifi? :confused:

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Hi pjim

Can you post screenshot of your firmware version and running apps in background? thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Here you go
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dusty8:
Kernel code is available on asus support page!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lavalamp69:
It would be nice to have this thing rooted. I wonder why this tablet isn't more popular?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Good question. For the price its pretty much unmatched by anything else available, in my opinion.

sent from hdx+ with tapatalk
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bencus11:
Maybe the low screen brightness is the cause.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
The brightness isn't automatic you know. pull down the right side of the status bar and the brightness is adjustable. Mine is so bright I have to turn it down a lot. Works great outside too. I live on the water and it's very sunny, I can see it fine.

Maybe you got a defective unit.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jballer0602:
Cyanogenmod??

Hey guys, Does anyone know if Cyanogenmod will be able to work on this? there seems to be no roms for this tablet :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] peldo123:
Cyanogenmod

There isnt even a recovery available for this device...not only that asus still has not unlocked the boot-loader. We can all try to begin by unlocking bootloader by emailing Asus in regards to unlock the device and give us freedom.:(:(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dave260:
Excellent write-up! I haven't taken the jump with mine yet but will. Using Automate It to turn off wifi most of the time has helped. Plus Power Save option 2. Now battery drops 10-15% a day.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jballer0602:
lollipop

Any ideas if Lollipop 5.0 will come out for this?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It would be stupid for ASUS not to update to 5.0. Lollipop has full support for 64-bit processors and since this is a 64-bit tablet, right now there's wasted potential.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Sirpld:
New firmware update today .191

Anyone has any information on it? Cant find anything on asus site
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
Better question is, does this new 191 update break root?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
For me yes :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
I have the paid version of SuperSU, with survival mode enabled.

Can anyone verify if Survival Mode keeps root?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
survival mode of supersu is not working, use rootzenphone survival mod (working in theory)

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Break root with rootzenphone survival mode enable ? have you removed some bloat on .182 before upgrade ? frozen app ?

I will talk to rootzenphone dev asap

Need feedback
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
RootZenphone survival mode? App? Link?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] peldo123:
Lollipop...or kitkat

Im assuming this update is still a KK update
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
RootZenphone is the app you have use to root your device.................
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
I try to update but i have error when it restart. Then i can't run update again (it restore to .182)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
What a strange mode? I used last APK for rooting but can't see any survival... I rooting 182 then OTA updated to 191 and lost root
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
WW_user_3.2.23.182_20140916-user-WW_K013-WW_user_3.2.23.191_20141030-user-WW_K013-20141104

update.zip

http://fota.asus.com/delta_package/...191_20141030-user-WW_K013-20141104/update.zip

mirror: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5G23fyE72tnUWliSzhLc1V3SWM/view?usp=sharing
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
And again: OTA update successfully, only loose root
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
full stock when updated ? or some app removed/frozen ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Same thing hapened to me with .182 update. It is beacuse update.zip checks the md5 integrity of every single file to be updated. If you delete any of those files, update aborts. Just freeze apps, dont delete them. This is what I did after manuel .182 update, and now I successfully updated to .191.

Regards.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] toysnic:
And if you want to recover all apk pre-installed, how can you find it. I deleted Asus launcher and others, those apk arent re-install with a factory reset.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
Good news. Last rootzenon working. I restore root successfully :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ytab:
Successfull update .182 -> .191, stay rooted

Just successfully updated from rooted .182 to .191, stayed rooted. And all frozen apps from the past still frozen.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
C or CX ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
Just updated from 182 to 191.

SuperSU survival mode saved the root.

I have only frozen Apps. No Apps removed.

Cheers.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
Just updated from 182 to 191 too

Root ZenFone survival mode saved the root.

I have only frozen Apps & No Apps removed too
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
I don't understand what have to do...what apps i have to freeze??? And how?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
it's only feedback... situation of the phone before upgrade.

You don't have to do anything special before upgrade.....
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
So what's new in .191?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
But i can't upgrade....doesn't recognize .191 when i search updates
[MeMO Pad 7 General] siksy:
Battery drain still present so nothing important for me in this update :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
So what version or Root Zenfone and SuperSU are you guys running?

My Zenfone says v14604 and my SuperSU is v2.16

Both have Survival Mode enabled.

Am I good to update?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I have yet to order my MeMO, but will be doing so in a few days.

I'm not sure if the latest RootZenFone can root .191,so I've got a question. Let's say I'm on .161. If I accept an update, will it update to .182 or directly to .191? If it's the latter I'll just manually update, no big deal.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
I thank you for your purchase, sir. ?

I'm 99% sure it will update one version at a time.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Mine stayed rooted through the update to .191, but I have both supersu and zenphone in survival mode, so who knows which kept it rooted. Since it sounds like zenphone still works, doesn't really matter. At least Asus is pumping out updates for the device.

Sent from Asus Memo Pad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
So Zenfone 1.4.6, and SuperSU 2.16, both with Survival Mode enabled.

Did the OTA from 182 to 191.

Kept Root.

Recommended having both of these enabled before the update.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
How i can install the ota manually? Some help please

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[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
You should be able to download the update.

Rename it.... update.zip

Place it on the root folder of the tablets storage. (not the sdcard).

Boot into recovery, and apply the update by selecting it.

Just wondering, why not update via the OTA?