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[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
I personally think that games on this tablet run pretty well. Now, if you're comparing with a 500+ dollars tablet, then that's a different story, but for the tablets in its price range, it handles them well. Can run Asphalt 8 on medium settings with no FPS drops, can run Kritika (which is pretty graphic intense as well) and many other games. The crash problem also happens on other devices, depending on the game. In this tablet's case, there are more of them that don't start or crash because of the x86 processor, not because the tablet would be bad or something. The graphic processor is definitely better than a Powervr SGX 544 MP, that's for sure, had a few tablets that ran this graphic processor in my hand and I can say that the Intel HD on Asus Memo Pad 7 is similar to it, but it runs a bit better.

Power Saving mode has an impact on performance? I played with both Power Saver on and off and I didn't notice any difference, also started wondering if that Power Saver really does something or not. I usually keep my Power Saver on the second option, the one with extended batter, but network always being on.

Edit : Since I'm the last person that posted, I preferred to edit and write about this here and not post again.

A while ago, I encountered a problem with my tablet. After not using it for a few hours, I wanted to play a game for a bit. When trying to open that game, it instantly crashed and the message saying that it's not responding appeared. I tried to re-open it several times, same thing happened. After that I tried to open another game and the whole tablet restarted when I did so. After restarting, all the applications and games that were moved on the SD card were grayed out and showed that "SD" sign on them. I restarted the tablet again. This time everything seemed normal, so I entered the game that I tried to play the first time. It worked for a bit, then it crashed, saying that "Asus Launcher has stopped". This time, the applications that were on the SD had green icons, which had the android robot on them and also had names like com.kritika.google.whatever (you get the idea). I tried to re-enter the game, but this time it said that it detected a hack (never happened before and no, I have no hack, the only thing that my phone has is the root) so I quickly closed it to avoid getting banned or something. After this I restarted the tablet AGAIN and things went back to normal, things seem to be working fine now.

Just wanted to ask, what do you guys think about this? Did anyone encounter something like this before?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That's very strange. The only thing that comes into mind is a failing SD card, but the chances of that are very low.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
That's right, especially since the SD card isn't old, it's a 16 GB class 10 Sandisk that I bought half a year ago. And after that thing happened, it's working normal again. Hopefully it was something that only happened once and won't happen again...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] cambridge79:
yep. it worked, i used a piece of a cutter blade since is so thin, put it between the back of the tablet and the cover ( is the plastic shell type ) on the top left corner ( that's where the sensor is ) taped with a bit of scotch, now it works like a charm. :good:

talking about the games i've tried Real Racing 3. it works but tend to crash quite frequently. I've also tried Farmville 2, it also works but gets laggy from time to time, in different occasions the touch screen stop working for some seconds than comes back to normal and things like these. Once in a while, let's say every half hour it crashes to desktop. Not a big deal to me, i've not bought it with this in mind, i was just using it as a benchmark. i'll give a try to game booster just to see if it makes some difference ( does it work on not rooted devices? )

by the way i tought energy saving mode only changed the screen brightness according to wich type of app you open, does it affect performance too?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] muydipalma:
does anyone with .182 tried xposed framework?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Yep we've covered that only a hand full of mods work its covered a few pages back any luck on getting anymore than we no that work let is know....
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yeah, very few mods actually work. GravityBox does almost nothing. YouTubeAdaway works, though.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
Hi, anyone knows if root to me176cx is stable at present? Which version of rootzenfone it´s better?

If it´s in chinese, what option i have to select?

And the last one, exists a cwm for this model?

Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Latest RootZenFone. It's in English. No custom recovery exists for this tablet as we haven't unlocked the bootloader yet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
no custom recovery atm, bootloader not unlocked.

Use the latest rootzenfone to root http://www.asuszenfoneblog.com/2014/10/download-rootzenfone-1464r-apk.html
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mitt69:
In theory a locked bootloader should not prevent us having a recovery solution. Just take a look at the Xperia phones, many of them have locked bootloaders yet they have recovery solutions. My own Xperia SP has a locked bootloader that cannot be unlocked, yet I have Philz, CWM and TWRP recovery on it XSP Recovery for locked bootloader

So even with a locked bootloader my XSP has a fairly large selection custom stock roms that I can install

They have even developed a way to hijack the Ram disk which allows XSP's with locked bootloaders to install Cyanogenmod

The only thing we cannot do is install custom kernels but the hijacking of the Ram disk, along with some customisation, allows for Cyanogenmod to be installed with a stock kernel.

So I am hoping that at some point we will get some experienced developers to help us with this, despite the locked bootloader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
you r correct but atm it's the kernel the main issue :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
Thanks!!!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Anybody know the proper way to hard reset the tablet? It's stuck on the boot animation, I did something I shouldn't have with the system fonts (trying to install Android L fonts) and now I can't figure out how to restore it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
On the bootloader you can wipe cache / factory reset
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I figured it out. Mitt posted the instructions in this thread. You have to actually boot into Droidboot (fastboot) (hold Vol + and Power, then release Power when screen turns on), then select Recovery. Then tap the center of the volume keys (or maybe it's both). It takes a few tries, but it brings up a hidden menu with the option to update via adb, wipe cache, and factory reset. It's rebooting now, hopefully it's fixed.

EDIT: Nope. Did not work. I'm trying the adb update/sideload option now with the full .182 ROM. Basically works the same way custom recoveries do, with the same command (adb sideload filename.zip). It's at 65% now, so hopefully this works.

EDIT 2: Got to 91% and this happened:

"E:end of footer from /tmp/update.zip not 0xFFFF (File exists)

E:signature verification failed. Installation aborted."

F$#@!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Damn. Maybe you can try with 161?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I did. Got to 93%, same error.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
There's not many options in that situation. I wouldn't know what to do next.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Im sorry dude. The same thing happened to me. Its a paper weight. Unless someone come up with a custom recovery, your tablet is like mine: OFFICIALY FU**ED UP BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION...!

The solition is buy another... Or wait for the recovery.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nogarder:
One question. If i do a hard reset, ill lose the root?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Can you use warranty? If you can, contact service and play dumb. If it isn't physically damaged, you'll be OK.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I'm going to try returning it to the store, but it may be too late for that. In either case, I'll likely be contacting ASUS support today.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Good luck.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mitt69:
Are you sure that using the ADB sideload was the correct way to load the image? On other tablets (and phones) that I have flashed full images on it has always been using fast boot rather than ADB or via the devices particular recovery program which are usually similar to CWM and allow the image to be selected and loaded via the recovery partition program.

The Kindle springs to mind in particular as I recently hacked one of these for a friend to install Cyanogenmod and the method I had to use was fastboot to load the image on to it. Also the Huwaei G300 I had to use fast boot also as I recall.

As the Asus doesn't appear to have the ability to load an image from a recovery partition then fast boot might be the option you need.

I will admit I haven't researched other Asus devices to see how they do it bit it might be worth a try if you can get fast boot to recognise the tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
What I did was went to the store where I bought the product, I then bought another 176cx replaced the back cover that contains the serial numbers with the new two days later went back to the store and told them I want my money back. They compared the serial number on the back cover with the one on the receipt and voilá, new tablet and money back. I know it's not cool to do that, but neither is to refuse to unlock the bootloader...

None of it works. I've tried all conceivable scenarios. Either using fastboot or adb sideload commands. The only way is to spawn a custon recovery and try to use update.zip tool. And even then, I don't know if it'll work.

F***ing asus should have known better before launching this tab on the market...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Serves them right. Job well done.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] wbc1228:
yea, fuc* the next the customer that buy the open box tablet, he/she totally deserves it!

:p

....................

hopefully, the return was processed as a defective return.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Someone asked in one of these threads about storing app/game data on the SD card. I found a solution:

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/modules/mod-obb-sd-v0-1-t2884004
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I forgot to mention that for this to work, there can't be your name or contributor id number on the receipt. Otherwise, asus might know about the exchange and warn the store.

Btw, the tablet was updating to .182 when it stopped half way. So Im pretty sure they will label it as a defect.

Another thing, I do not feel like a hero by doing this, nor am I grinning about it. In fact its sad I had to resort to this way of doing things. Life isn't fair, its just more fair than death...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JaY_III:
Come on guys, we can't talk about or promote piracy. So how can stealing/fraud be OK.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I agree at some point. But what asus is doing to its customers isn't fair either. No matter any amount of morale one can dig up...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JaY_III:
What did they do?

Make a tablet that would sell for $150 that is actually worth buying. While making no promise to unlock the bootloader as they have no requirement to.

Unlocked boot loader ends up with more people modding. More people modding ends up with more RMAs that are the users fault not Asus.

So how does adding another not Asus fault but the users into the mix help get the bootloader unlocked?

And yes they will know went on when it makes it's way back to repair for refurb.

But that's just my .02
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
I believe both of you make good points. No reason Asus shouldn't release it with an unlocked bootloader, and provide a flash tool in case you mess something up. I'm sure they have that and will use it to return bravesoul's tablet to original condition.

On the other hand, if you know the device isn't unlocked, you are taking a risk when you mess around with it. And if you screw it up, you have no one to blame but yourself, not Asus.

Another .02 :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Apparently GTA San Andreas works on this tablet. Was there an update for x86 compatibility?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
I can't play gta with this tablet...when i run the game, returns to desktop (all configuration in low)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
I have made a small experiment.

Recenlty, to increase the battery life, and since i am not a havey gamer (actually playing not at all :) ), I decreased max CPU freq to 1,33GHz. I obviously observed a decrese in performance but it was acceptable.

While I was setting the max-min frequencies, I realized that the default governor is interactive which is a good preformer. Though, when you set the max freq to a lower level it takes a bit longer compared to defaults to initiate the apps, espedcially the heavy ones. Therefore, I searched for governors, and decided to give OnDemand governor a try.

After closing all recent apps I cleared the Ram and reset the CPU Spy Timers. I launched YouTube. With OnDemand Governor, Cpu only processed at the max freqand stayed there for 9 secs, whereas, with interactive governor, it processed every step for a sec before reaching to max freq. After it reached the max, it stayed there for a longer period of time, 11 secs ( this is expected with interactive governer.).

So if you are not a heavy multitasking user, you can give OnDemand Governor a try and lower your max CPU freq, so as to increase your battery life.

Regards.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Another reason it would be nice to have unlocked bootloader. with custom kernels you can have lots of governors and schedulers to suit your use needs.:(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Just a little update regarding xposed there's a module called HKTheme manager which seems to work quite well its like the tmobile theme manager in cyanogemod there are 100s of themes all over xda and the playstore some may work.. the one im using is a theme called thyrus holo black ...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JaY_III:
I don't think anyone would dispute that. Will Asus deliver is the question
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Does it have the capability of altering the navbar? If so I'm installing Gem Flat on thus beast.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
It may work it may not if not have you tried softkeyz that may change the navkeys ...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
How did you make it work? I set the theme, choose full update and restart, and after rebooting it's the same old theme.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
What theme are u trying to use...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mitt69:
Have you got the exposed framework installed?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Sorry, made it work. You, dear friend, deserve a cookie. Thanks for this ☺
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Theming would be nice, I'd like an Android L look like I have on my S5. I tried HKThemeManager on my Shield, but couldn't find any working themes as it seemed a lot of them are deprecated or abandoned projects that only work on ICS or Jellybean. I'll look into that again later for the Shield, and again when I get my tablet back from ASUS.

The one thing I would REALLY like is to customize the navbar buttons. Even PIE controls would be nice, but alas, nothing of the sort seems to work. Why Google and device developers decided that the menu key was no longer needed, I will never understand. F$&king stupid move.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
You can use the android L navkeys on exposed and as for the theme's I've only tried a few all we're cm10 themes..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yeah, those change the appearance, but not the buttons themselves. I can't add a search, menu, etc.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
True on the last paragraph. Except that my only sin was to update from .161 to .182 rom. Am I to blame if I go to asus and they just laugh at my face saying I've done something wrong while updating. When I haven't. That actualy happened with a friend of mine that owned a asus 173x tablet. Sad but true. On any case. It's someone else's problem now. Like you said more_over, both points are valid. It's just when it happens to us, we tend to get a little pissed off!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
where can I find a theme list for this module ? thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Here you go

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1801752
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
thanks because I've try CM11 theme, not compatible :/
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nogarder:
Anyone can play Lesabel? I have force close (I bought it). Thanks

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.forever.iesabel&hl=es
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Looks interesting. I'll give it a try when I get my tablet back.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Those who face battery drain problems can try Deep Sleep Battery Saver.

It has different profiles. You can choose the one suits you. Besides, there is a paid version. You can create your own profile and make changes within the existing ones. It really works.

Regards.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Or just leave bluetooth on. It doesn't need to be paired with anything, just turned on.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I still say cpu master pro by antutu is the best for the battery drain problem. You can even choose between I/O schedulers.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] g3k:
After a lot of effort, I could not find any method other than KEEPING BLUETOOTH ON ALL THE TIME to prevent battery drain pb. Nothing else helped. Above mentioned tools do nothing special. I tried them and uninstalled after verifying Bluetooth trick. Deep sleep is now activated instantly after screen off. Cpuspy confirmed... My verdict is that Miracast thing may be guilty, given that it interferes with Bluetooth and wants to turn it off to turn itself on. I think even when deactivated, wireless display module is there to keep the CPU from deep sleeping. Watch close com.intel.widi thing running constantly in background!

PS: Turn wifi on-off didn't help me. Even Wifi left open, my battery was eaten quickly. Only Bluetooth on works. At least for me, on 182 update.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Ok, dont get mad about it. I say cpu master and you say bt on. Ive tried both and other apps, and it is strange bt on really works. But since bt is another hw activated, the results were a lil diferent. Cpu master won by being able to save 47 minutes more, than bt on. At the time, I ran the test three times to make sure. And then calculate the average, and 47 more minutes was the result.

P.S. I know bt is within wifi as a hw part. And not a seperate part like in some phones/tablets.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mitt69:
Well I must be one of the lucky ones, in 18hrs I have only lost 18% battery.

I am rooted on 182 using optimised power saver with wifi always on but no bluetooth on and no changes to CPU or scheduler,

This is not to say I haven't had some problems with battery life but I narrowed it down to apps keeping the GPS on for location services. I stopped this via their properties in apps and all is good now :good:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
I believe each tablet- even though it's the same model number, etc has it's own sleep problems.. No offense to anyone here- but the claims of "wifi always on fixes it!" or "bluetooth always on fixes it! " is not a catch all for everyone unfortunately.. I've tried all the suggestions here and it just doesn't matter. The only thing that works for me is airplane mode- and it's still not perfect.. I'll try that deep sleep app that someone mentioned next- but I believe it's misinformation that wifi/bluetooth is a fix for all- though I'm glad it did help some of you.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mitt69:
I understand what you are saying and to a degree I think you have hit the nail on the head, every tablet is different and that is because every tablet has different apps installed so creating a unique environment.

If battery issues lie anywhere my belief is that it is in wakelocks which is what happened to me with the TV guide app because it was preventing the tablet from Deep sleep due to use of location services.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I've tested on .161.

We're all forgeting a principle in science that says something like this: "even testing something under the exact same conditions, the result will always be different". If anyone knows what is called come forward. I think this applies to what we're trying to do here.

We can all test various and exactly the same tablets, but things like humidity, heat and other stuff are what makes the differences. We in our human arrogance think we're all masters of the world, but that control is as much of an illusion as believing in a politician!

Being said, and I speak only for myself, all the test I've done and shared the results here, can only be an aproximation of what things really are, I'm affraid.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] RadioactiveToy:
Has anyone bought a real smart slim case for our Asus?

Hi I have 2 Asus memopads 7 176cx and bought 2 slim cases http://www.ebay.com/itm/291208824176?_trksid=p2059210.m2749.l2649&ssPageName=STRK:MEBIDX:IT

witch don't work well, as when I flip the cover to the back of the tablet, the displays turns off indicating that the magnet used in the case is rather stronger than it should.

So, I would like to ask if anyone has bought a slim case from an ebay store that works as it should and if yes please post the link to make a safe buy.

Thanks in advance

Chris
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Try to read some past threads, because I've seen someone here with the same problem and some solutions were presented.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] RadioactiveToy:
Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JaY_III:
http://www.amazon.ca/gp/aw/d/B00JUJI6K8

What is use and works great
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
I own the same cover. It is really good and works great.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Jirbo:
Can only create 2 user profiles

I received my MeMo this week. It is running the latest (182) software. I can only add 2 user profiles. As soon as two profiles exist the "Add new..." option is gray and when I tap it nothing happens. Anyone else seen or heard of this? ASUS support chat did not say it was a limitation, but instead recommended a factory reset which I did, but the issue remained and they had long since ended the chat by the time it finished.

I appreciate any insight folks may have.

Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I got this one that works real well, was pretty cheap, too.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nogarder:
Phone arena

Lollipop = Me176C/CX ??
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Given that ASUS packed a 64-bit processor in this and Lollipop has full support for 64-bit, it would be stupid for them not to update the tablet. :fingers-crossed:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jordandroid64:
I think i buy this tablet if it will have lolilop , and they are a custom rom for this tablet ? Someone work that ? Thank you very much and sorry for my bad english
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
No Custom ROMs yet. Unless we delve into a bunch of workarounds, ASUS needs to unlock the bootloader before we can do anything special.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Any one had any issues with supersu update not installing the binaries stuck on screen for twenty minuses had to manually uncheck the updates on playstore and uninstall it backto the original one ....just a head's up if anyone has any issue's...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] alex71184:
I have problems with some games !! first games that were now no longer go !! how come ??? what can I do !!