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[MeMO Pad 7 General] gustheru:
Do you have any scrolling lag in Google Play?

Mine lags a lot in Google Play almost all the time, and sometimes in Chrome immediately after I unlock it.

The same happens in some of the games: for ex in Real Racing 3 it's running very very well, with high fps, but after a while I got lag for 10 seconds, then again back to normal with high fps.

Have you experienced the same issues?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I'm getting that sometimes when I have a lot of apps installed. The memory manager usually fixes it. Before launching any big app just use it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Pippinkid:
I need to connect to ADB to fix my device. :eek: If there's anybody that could point me into the right direction it would greatly appreciated!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
http://adbdriver.com/downloads/

Download and install it on your pc.

Connect to your memopad and do the magic. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Pippinkid:
So close yet so far... :(

EDIT: I got it working! :D Thanks so much for the help!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Pippinkid:
Have you guys signed the petition? (https://www.change.org/p/asustek-co...ootloader-on-the-asus-memo-pad-7-me176c-cx?)? Just trying to get more supporters and spread the word. The petition will be sent to Asus once we have gotten 100 supporters! I found out about it today. Please sign it if you can! :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Done:) hope this works
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I've signed it as well but I doubt it'll work. Especially when they have other tablets to launch this year...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Well, it's either don't unlock the bootloader or have our tablets die trying.

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And speaking of tablets dying, mine is still randomly making a high pitched noise for no reason.

It's not even when my screen's frozen. It's just random and even though my tablet is muted it's as loud as ever!

I also get random sound popping occasionally in both the speakers and headphones, but I haven't had the squeal happen with headphones in.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
I've noticed noise popping from the speakers!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm taking drastic measures now.

I've noticed that the high pitched noise seems to coincide with the triggering of internal alarms in the system for What's Next.

See ya What's Next. Frozen.

I've also uninstalled Amplify which was an amazing wakelock/alarm blocker so it might have something to do with it as well.

If that doesn't work then I'll Titanium Backup/factory reset, then if it's still squealy I'll do a normal factory reset, then if it's still a jerk flash from 182 back up to 201, then RMA it.

I don't want to RMA it :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Pippinkid:
That's the spirit!! But I mean it's really our only hope. Aside from a miracle.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Done!

Sent from my ASUS Memopad7 K013 (Me176c)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
For the gamers out there: GLTools now supports x86, so we can run THD apps on the MeMO!

I believe some of the apps are locked to a certain FPS , either that or the ARM emulation is exactly on par with the Tegra 3. Shadowgun THD runs at 30 FPS in the Tegra 3 and it's running at 30 FPS here with GlTools

I'm tempted to see how well Portal runs.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I have unlocked the tablet's performance potential with GLTools! My friend was raging when he saw my Antutu score was better than his iPhone 6+ :D

A picture is worth a thousand words...

Sorry for the quality but I was forcing a quarter of the normal resolution. The 3d benchmark went from a squealing 10 frames to a solid 60.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] RadioactiveToy:
Hello, after a successful over the air update (.201 rom) I rebooted to droidboot and recovery in order to do a cache clean. As the process stacked for 5 minutes in "formatting" message I had no other option than to turn it off. Since then I can't boot the tablet, nor I can enter the recovery menu. Is it bricked? Is there any way I can fix it and avoid sending it to asus service? Pls help.

P.S. 1:

Now in droidboot when I choose recovery, it shows the droid but at the end it does not wait for a command

P.S 2:

Well I managed to fix it. All I did was choosing recovery in droidboot and when the fallen droid was shown i kept pressing vol+ and vol- so i managed to get in recovery menu. I choosen wipe data format and although the droid kept working for minutes, I kept pressing again vol+ and vol- so the screen finally showed formatting data message. After a while it booted in first android welcome screens.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
I have the noise popping since day one!

Last time was when pressed to change the language on the keyboard to write this message.

It is so random and annoying but it's not so frequent as it was 4 or 5 months ago.

Also I got many bugs with the keyboard itself
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Thx for the info, but some of us already experienced. Nevertheless there are those who don't read all the posts from page 1 who will appreciate it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I installed GLTools but my Antutu score didn't change at all. 3D score actually went down (where is the FPS score, don't see that...?).

What plugin did you use when GLTools asks that first install question? I used the second one, since the first said it didn't do anything.

And what subsequent settings did you use in the GLTools prefs? Did you set the prefs specifically for the Antutu benchmark app?

Finally, do you think this tool could impersonate a different GL vendor such that Angry Birds Epic and Angry Birds Space would work again? Those both stopped working in recent updates, and it appears that is because of the Intel chipset... Not sure if it is the graphics or CPU in general that is cause those games not to work any more, but I don't know much about any of this stuff.

Any tips/tricks you know would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks,

sutekh137

EDIT: And when I try to turn on FPS in something like Angry Birds GO!, the game crashes... Interesting. I think the Angry Birds games are hanging by a thread already due to the Intel architecture...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I forced Antutu to quarter resolution, disabled anti aliasing and optimized glsl shaders.

For the FPS I used the FPS Counter built in to GLTools.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Well yes, at quarter resolution I suppose things run pretty fast. But how did you even read your score? I went back to GLTools and put things back to make Antutu readable, but then it had cleared my last score... But I could tell by the blue bar it had topped the charts...

I am trying it again with full resolution but still keeping anti-aliasing off -- got a worse score...

Still, a fun little tool, though I am not sure it is going to help me with anything, really...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dexter20082001:
Possible Unlock for Bootloader

I was talking with shacalacca/23pin on his site briefly about the unlock for zenfones. It seems as though with a little more research we might be able to use it to unlock our device as well. Also as side note we now have our own device section now! Woo!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] caiefh:
any one help me...

my device stock in .182 version, when i try to update it, it keeps ERROR.

any one can teach me how to update it in a latest version. hope you help me guys thanx a lot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Wait, how does this tablet have its own section but my old device the Sero 7 Pro didn't? The Sero had SO much development!

To be on topic, that is great news about the unlock! ASUS SHOULD BOW TO OUR POWER [emoji14]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
My tablet is still making random frequencies even if it's muted. Looking at the log cats it always coincides with alarm manager spamming a bunch of alarms.

Any ideas? Perhaps something I froze or something I need to freeze?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dexter20082001:
Some things to try

well I would suggest undoing any changes you made to the system to see if that stops it. Mine had a problem with zenui services not working and the only thing that fixed that was a factory reset. As a side note, would you be interested in helping me in this endeavour of unlocking the bootloader?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
Done !
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
If the bootloader doesn't get bricked I'm possibly in.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I'd say unfreeze everything and see. If it still happens, I'd RMA that sucka. No way it should be doing that, period.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm tempted to freeze Alarm Manager and see what happens [emoji14]

I will unfreeze everything soon. It happened TWICE yesterday. One of the times was during my Physics class. My teacher thought it was one of those emergency beeper for when someone is having a medical issue - never had that happen before!

She almost took it away until I showed her there was nothing I could do about it.

EDIT: Everything defrosted, I'll see what happens.

RIP smooth interface and memory management :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dexter20082001:
Well I was hoping another set of eyes could take a look at what exactly would be going on in this method. There is a chance it could brick it, but I am not sure how high the chance is
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
ne176cx

If your device is not charging you must disconect batery and than hold power button for 15 sec while battery disconected to drain remaning power in motherboard. Conect battery and

plug in charger, hope it helps.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TheAviar:
Increase RAM, GLTools crash

Hello guys, I got MeMO Pad for a month or two and it has been good experience although it lacks of RAM . I have tried many ways to make SWAP work on the MeMO, but none has worked. If anyone knows how to make the SWAP work, please let me know!

Also, I purchased latest GLTools version, but when I try to install the plugin, I get library build error. Looking forward for replies!

Thanks in advance!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I have also tried to get a swap file to work. Short of a custom kernel (which we can't do yet due to the unlocked bootloader (we're close though :D)) I don't think you can.

Which version of GLTools are you using? Only 1.95 and up is compatible with x86.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Well, my tablet is still ringing.

Last thing I will try is a fresh start from 182 back to 201. If that doesn't work I'll RMA.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TheAviar:
Thanks for reply, and I am using 1.96 GLTools.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] hugo_bjk:
otg charging

hi all,

a friend of me has this tablet and he wants to know whether this tablet can do otg and charging simultaneously with usb otg y cable? he wants to put it on car's dash while driving for multimedia and navigation purposes.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Do you mean can you still use it while charging? Yes. I have used several different USB chargers of varying amperage including the charger that comes with the tablet. The trickle from standard USB 2.0 sometimes has a hard time keeping up with heavy use, but that just depends on the charger (not totally sure what you mean by "OTG" -- is that a brand name?)

You could always buy an inverter, too, they are as cheap as 20-30 bucks. Then you could use the charger that comes with the tablet and be assured of having plenty of current... Inverters are nice for various purposes, though not always convenient to have in the car...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yes, it can, but using a Y cable can limit the amount of juice the device is getting. Be warned that it might drain the battery faster than the cable can charge it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] hugo_bjk:
Does it has to be a device spesific y cable or any y cable does its job? And is there a custom ROM or kernel for this device with fastcharge, And otg charging support?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
No, we unfortunately don't have a custom ROM or kernel for this device yet. I don't think the cable brand matters. Not sure about OTG, I haven't tried it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] celli0987:
Bricked

Hey guys I'm having the same problem that sleepless987 had.

http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/gen...-t2814046/post58395040?nocache=1#post58395040.

I was trying to restore to factory settings in the recovery menu. Thought I could have just flashed the zip file firmware. So i restarted the tablet, and now it's a black screen with the backlight on. Looks like a slight purple tint. If I hold the power button it turns off, but as soon as I press the power button again, the screen is just black but I see the backlight still on. Can't access recovery mode, pc doesn't recognize the tablet either. I guess it's safe to say I'm screwed and have to send the tablet to ASUS?

Ok I let the battery completely drain. Now when i try to charge it, the screen is black, and you can see the backlight flash 3 times, and every couple seconds it just keeps flashing.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Pretty much screwed. That happened to me too but in a phone. I manage to recover it but the method is different from this tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JarrelStudios:
factory reset solved it for me
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Must be the combination of certain softwares!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Debian on ME176C WOW!! - Probably burnt USB port FCK!

Hello everybody.

Last days I've been trying a Debian on ME176C, using Linux Deploy and Wheezy x86. It works wonderfully, and what really impressed me is how capable the ME176C is to run it and that audio works with very low latency.

For those interested in audio apps, in the short time I've been able to test it I installed succesfully:

Audacity

LMMS

Pure Data

Muse score

and Midori for internet browsing, with Flash plugin.

In order to be able to use the mouse, a keyboard and a MIDI keyboard I bought a powered USB hub, and it worked like a charm. I could use them all at once. Everything was very promising and I was very enthusiastic as a whole new world of possibilities was opening for the tablet. :D

The really bad part of the story: :(

After a while, I noticed the tablet charged very slowly, and then found out I had no more data connection in the USB port. The computer doesn't recognize the tablet (it is as I don't connect anything to it), shortly, no USB device works anymore in OTG.

As a side effect, the tablet now charges slowly when connected to the AC adapter, I suspect it can't recognize that it's not connected to a computer and so, charges as slow as when it's connected to one.

I suspect that the powered USB hub -a cheap one- burnt the USB port.

I have two questions to the community:

1st Has anybody used the tablet with a USB hub succesfully? In that case, could you tell me the model name?

2nd: Does anybody think that the cause of the anomalies could be in software (i have almost no hope, but maybe someone ran into this and could solve it with a full reset?)

Thank you all.

-EDIT-

Very good news!!!! The USB port is NOT burnt.

After two days, suddenly, the USB keyboard started working again, and all OTG functions came back to life.

The tablet still behaves a little strange as it is not recognized by the PC as MTP, or PTP, and also cannot enter debug mode.

Has anybody have such a strange behaviour?

I'll keep you updated if I find the root of the problem.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] celli0987:
Can you tell me the method you used for your phone? Maybe I could try it for the tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
how to fresh start from .182 ? I'm in .191 actually
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
@ acavan:

Hi,

did you setup a change root environemt for Debian Wheezy or did you boot Debain Wheezy on the device? If you boot Debian Wheezy how did you do it?

thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
Wall chargers have Data+ and Data- pins connected through a 200 ohm resistor to let the device enable fast charge (for the asus is 1.2 A with the resistor and around 500 mA without) you can read more about that in the usb charging official documentation. So i doubt that there is any cable that allows high current charging AND data transfer. But maybe it's possible to force the fastcharge via software regardless of what kind of charger is detected.

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i have used linux deploy which works flawlessy (only lxde seems to work though). I haven't understood how this chroot exactly works, but it l09ks like some sort of virtual machine to me, meaning i can't access to the tablet drives for example. I can mount some partition, but if i run df in the terminsl for example, i see the partitions mounted in the "emulated" system, not in the tablet. 1 month ago or so there was a user who has been able to use gparted on debian running on the tablet using chroot and he was able to access the actual partitions on the tablet (he posted a list of all of them, qlso the ones that are not normally accessible). How do i do that?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
that was me

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Short description for Linux users only (BY YOUR OWN RISK, YOU WILL BREAK YOUR DEVICE! :D ):

Newbies don't ask!

*** you need root and a functional busybox installation (see post before)

create a Debian file image for i386 on your Debian Linux system (f.e.):

dd if=/dev/zero of=/var/tmp/debian.img bs=1k count=1024000000

mkfs.ext4 /var/tmp/debian.img

mount -o loop /var/tmp/debian.img /mnt

debootstrap --arch=i386 wheezy /mnt http://ftp.debian.org/debian

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

# copy this image to your tablet and mount ...

# As user root:

# copy loop devices to /dev

cp -a /dev/block/loop* /dev/

# create additional loop devices:

cd /dev

busybox mknod loop9 b 7 9

# mount Debian image (stored f.e. under /sdcard/Debian/debian.img):

mkdir /sdcard/Debian/mnt

busybox mount -o loop /sdcard/Debian/debian.img /sdcard/Debian/mnt

busybox cp -a /tmp-mksh /sdcard/Debian/mnt/

mkdir /sdcard/Debian/mnt/system

busybox mount --bind /system /sdcard/Debian/mnt/system

chroot /system /sdcard/Debian/mnt /bin/bash

export PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:$PATH

Maybe I forget one or more steps (is a month ago ;) ), but evey good Linux user could follow this manual and knows all missing necessary steps ;).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
I used Linux Deploy to install debian. My ME176C is rooted and had a busybox installed.

I'm no expert at linux, but the process was very straightforward. Also a VNC viewer was needed. Both VNC Viewer and bVNC Free work OK!

To make audio work I had to make a workaround. I created a silence wave audio file and played it looped constantly in Android. It seems to me that Android has to have the audio port open for debian to be able to produce any sound.

As I told, my USB port stopped working for two days, and then started working only in OTG. I haven't still managed to make it fully work.

Do you think this could be reversible by software

(a full reset, maybe?) or

is it possible that the circuitry has been damaged by the powered USB hub in just one of the USB functions

?? By one of the USB functions I mean that the computer doesn't see the tablet, BUT all OTG devices work.

Thank you all!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
I don't know Linux Deploy, but it is possible that this environment override the default settings or damage your hardware.

Maybe a poweroff solve the problem :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I doubt. The phone was a Mtk based chip and I've used Mtk tools.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] celli0987:
Can't turn on at all.

Ok guys, update. I left the tablet for a while, and now it cannot turn on any at all. Won't even charge, just cannot turn on at all.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
You're gonna have to RMA it. Pain in the ass, but you should still be covered under warranty.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] romdroid.:
Nvm
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
USB port behaving weird.

As I told in a post some days ago, I installed linux using Linux Deploy, and used the tablet a couple of times with a powered USB hub.

It worked very well at first, but then, suddenly the USB stopped working correctly.

What's happening:

* When I boot the tablet, if the first USB device I connect is OTG, then I can use OTG devices during the session, BUT when I plug the AC adapter the battery icon doesn't show it charging. I'm not clear if it does charge, though.

* When I boot the tablet, and the first thing I connect is the charger, it charges correctly, and the icon changes to "charging", BUT OTG will not work till next reboot.

* USB never works when the tablet is connected to a computer. Not for file transfer, not for ADB debugging.

I have factory reset the tablet, and also flashed .182 and all the way up to .201 again, with no success.

I'm suspicious of the powered USB hub having burned out the USB port, although I don't know whether this "burn" can be "selective". I mean, USB OTG still works. But also have a doubt that maybe someone with more knowledge could help me answer:

Could it be possible that Linux changed any configuration and so the USB port is behaving in this way? In that case, is there any solution?

Thanks a lot
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
OK, I've been reading your posts, and my first suspicion was that you overloaded the USB port. I would look into RMA'ing your tablet, and checking with ASUS tech support on what the device can handle at one time.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
Hi,

the thema is very complex. So I guess a firmware for the USB devices is involved. Maybe the Debian system has override the Android compatible firmware, and the new firmware is not full compatible to the Android firmware.

A powered USB hub connected to the OTG shouldn't burn the devices.

You say that both, OTG and recharge over USB, works but only after reboot. That's right? That sounds for me like that firmware thing. But I'm not a hardware/USB expert. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] MojUk:
Hi there dude, I have an ME176cx and have now rooted it and removed the bloatware as I got fed up with the laginess!! I've been looking into trying to load Cyanogenmod but see that this isn't currently possible - is this down to Asus not releasing source for kernel?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Pretty much. That and some super geek helping us out on doing a workaround for the bootloader. :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
stoffel010170, yes, on any given session, either USB recharging OR OTG work. I have to reboot for the other function to work.

The connection via USB in the non-OTG way (connecting the tablet to the computer either for ADB or for file transferring) has stopped working.

What I found weird is that when I connected my USB hub to the tablet the tablet started charging. That is not something I would expect, and don't think it's a normal behaviour. I never had any powered hub before, but I thought it would only power the mouse, keyboard and other OTG devices.

Some people told me it is not advisable to use USB hubs. Has anybody here used a USB hub with success and no damage?

GuyInDogSuit, thanks for taking your time reading my posts.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Do you mean just connecting via a USB hub and having charging and adb work? Yes, I connect my tablet to a hub, though it is a well-powered hub, the kind that can even handle USB hard drives, etc. without the dreaded "Not enough power for your device" errors popping up. can't recall the brand, but it was highly rated on Amazon for being well-powered. Let me see if I can find the order... Ah, it was a "Cables Unlimited" unit:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001DWLHBU/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Very highly rated, but no longer available. But it seems to power things fine.

This is a highly rated hub on Amazon currently:

http://www.amazon.com/Plugable-Tech...patibility/dp/B00483WRZ6/ref=cm_cd_ql_qh_dp_t

Even comes in a USB 3.0 flavor with a honking 48W power source. I might snag one of those even though my hard drive enclosures, etc. are still USB 2.0, just to have plenty of power (and USB 3.0 hubs used to be a lot more expensive, this think is under 50 bucks and has 10 ports...

Thanks,

sutekh137