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[MeMO Pad 7 General] AtomicPC:
Is there a guide for root? The ZenPhone thing didn't work after the update. I apologize if this was answered, I didn't see it or find it in searches.

EDIT: I think I know how, I'm a bit rusty from using 1 click stuff.

Boot into Temp CWM through ADB

Flash SuperSu from Temp CWM

.

Profit

Correct?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yes, that is correct. Make sure that you're using the beta ClockWorkMod and you selected T4. T2 and T3 will not work after the Lollipop update.

Download the flashable version of SuperSU from Chainfire's website.

In the temporary ClockWorkMod thread there is a beta package that says "Trigger 4 beta. Works on Lollipop for some devices" or something along those lines. Download it, put it on your desktop.

You need ADB and Fastboot drivers installed on your computer.

Open up a command prompt and type "adb reboot bootloader" with your tablet plugged in or shut the device down and hold Volume Down + Power until you see the ASUS screen. At that point let go of Power and hold Volume Down until a screen that says "Normal boot" at the top pops up.

Connect the tablet to your computer and run the batch file that you downloaded. When it asks for a trigger press 4 and hit enter. Your tablet should be printing out commands and will eventually boot into ClockWorkMod. From there navigate to where you downloaded SuperSU and install it. When it's done hit reboot. If it tells you that root is broken, ignore it and hit no. Root will be fine.

I also got Xposed up and running, see my posts on the last page and the first one on this page.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Will do, but for a device with a completely fresh installation in factory default without any customisations and only F-Droid and CPU Spy installed that is really strange behaviour.

Just checked: Over the last 7 hours it went a full 15s into Deep Sleep. :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I've done it!

After downgrading to .182, I've managed to work my way up to Lollipop without any problems.

I even managed to keep root after enabling survival mode in SuperSU.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Result especially keeping root:):)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Or at least I thought I'd kept root.

CPUID is showing root access as 'Yes', but having just opened SuperSU for the first time since upgrading, I've received a message telling me I need to manually re-root my device.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Looks like you will have to go the clockworkmod way haven't rooted mine yet hoping there will be an update to the zenphone apk:):)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Temp CWM can reroot.

EDIT: Ninja'd again.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
Sorry if already been asked before

When i was installing lollipop appeared a mistake and i could not reinstall...

So i was reading here would have to reinstall .182

I ask you please if show me step by step how it is done by ADB, and how can i root once again in lollipop.

Sorry for my google translator english
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
As someone who is stuck in limbo atm, your best bet would probably be to wait for the official full package release. You could try however.

Grab the Temp CWM, use it to flash 182
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Well, I was downloading the OTA update last night (via "Check Update") after having unfrozen all apps and backing everything up.

Then I remembered I wanted to also unroot, but like an idiot, forgot that unrooting would need to reboot the device. So, it rebooted, and the OTA download never came back. Now the 'Check Update" button doesn't do anything, so I appear to be stuck on .201.

Questions:

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Can I just try the Lollipop update file that jerbear recently captured, and what are instructions for that? Is that just the update.zip manual updating process?

Do I need to do this whole "down to .182 and work my way back up", and where is that documented again?

Could I wait until ASUS allows a download of a full, manual Lollipop update (I think I used that WW firmware dealie-o to upgrade to .198, for example...)?

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At this point I am inclined to just stay with .201 for the rest of the time I have this tablet. I'd rather be able to still use it on an older version Android rather than brick it or something.

Thanks in advance for any help...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I was in the same position as you, but I've managed to manually upgrade to Lollipop.

Before you can flash Lollipop, you will need to downgrade to .182, before flashing .191, .198, .199 and .201 in that order.

All of these updates are available to download in this thread, and are accompanied by flashing instructions.

Something to watch out for is that .182 is stored in a zip file within a zip file, so make sure you extract and rename the inner zip file.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
I've failed twice to update at the same spot, it reboots and says updating system then just says error. I am currently on 201 rooted with device encryption
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Is it possible to downgrade to .182 after installing lollipop?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You have to manually downgrade to 182 and work your way back up. See the above post.

Not that I know of. AFAIK the new bootloader that is flashed during the update doesn't support it. I wouldn't even attempt until [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] finishes his temporary TWRP, as it can make a Nandroid.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
I'll have to wait, then.. I have a broken USB port and can't use temp CWM. Do you think rootzenfone will work eventually?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Was a nice surprise to finally see this tablet get Lollipop, haven't bothered to root mine yet on KitKat so went from .201 to Lollipop without issue, really liking it so far, especially like how you can completely remove the 3 non ASUS "pre-loaded" apps, although strangely after rebooting they appeared/were installed back again so maybe that's a bug (will check again later).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I don't think it will ever work, unfortunately.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
First of all, you guys are all great. I am going to be getting out my "thanks" clicker and using it generously. *smile*

Two additional questions:

Does any of this flashing nuke my apps or data, or is this just pure firmware update?

Once I am flashed back up to stock .201, will the 'Check Updates" work again, or will I need to manually flash whatever it is jerbear captured for the Lollipop update?

THANK YOU!!!!

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
I did see those posts and I did that once back some time ago for another 192 (I think) issue. So your saying I should do it all over again huh? Do I manually update to each next level or just do Ota?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
For me, the only apps were negatively affected were those that require root access, however as it's possible to root Lollipop, this is only a temporary problem.

You will have to manually flash Lollipop after getting back to .201.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
*gulp* I am manually flashing .182, and the little green android with a blue swirly in his belly is telling me "Installing system update..." But the status gauge is stil at about 25% and hasn't moved for 5-10 minutes. Is it supposed to take this long?

I moved the .182 update ZIP to /data (being sure to use the zip inside the zip), copied the command file to /cache/recovery, then did a "reboot recovery" via an "su" adb shell...

Did I do something wrong? How long does the .182 flash take? What can I do to cancel the update if it never progresses, and what state will my tablet be in at that point?

Thanks!

sutekh137

EDIT: Of course by posting this the status bar eventually started moving and I appear to be in .182 now. THANKS!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
How can i manually flashing .182? Via ADB? Please tell me how
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
Hi,

fyi. The update to LOLIPOP take up to 30 minutes! After the regular installation (~5 minutes) the devices reboot and update some partition and maybe also the bootloader. After that the next reboot takes up to 10 minutes you see the boot screen with the circle only. Then there come a message that the application has to be optimized. (~6 minutes). After all this step the installation of lolipop is finished.

After update root doesn't work anymore! I didn't try to root again, because the root process is for Android version 4.X only.

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The lolipop system is a 64 bit system and very smooth, fast and nice. I'm missing root of course, but everything else is very very nice. ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
See my posts from the past few pages. I was able to get Xposed and root to work on Lollipop.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
The manual flashing is a mix of downloading zip files, copying to your tablet, and then running some adb commands.

Instructions can be found here:

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

I am up to .198, so it is working. Be prepared for the .182 flash to take a while (~10 minutes on the green Android guy with spinning blue wire ball in his tummy)...

I created a folder on my external SD card to house the RootZenPhone APK, the "command" file, and the update zips. *** Don't forget that the .182 update zip file downloadable on the page listed above needs to have the file inside pulled out as the update.zip (when you view a proper update.zip file in WinZip you should see a bunch of files, not just another zip file...)

Good luck!

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Well, I got Lollipop installed by just building back up to .201, unrooting, then clicking "Check for updates..." It updated.

But now things seem flaky:

-- An alert is saying I need to update Google Play services, but when I click the alert it doesn't do any updating.

-- Can't download anything from Google Play store.

-- Angry Birds Epic does not seem to work, am trying to uninstall and reinstall.

-- Battery appears to be draining fast (USB connection cannot keep up with it, though I am not using the ASUS charger...)

Any help about the Google Play services issue? I'm dead in the water at the moment... Grrrrrr.... Knew I should have just stuck to KitKat...

Thanks

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Im sure they're just bugs. Perhaps apps that arent designed for LL. Be sure to use only apps downloaded for the x64 system.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
I've rooted Lollipop!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NyoMic:
Hello,

i have a problem installing the OTA 191 update. I've downgraded my device successfully to 182 (from 201) but everytime when i want to upgrade to 191 via a temp-cwm session it tells me that the boot image is corrupted.

Status 7

Installation aborted

Verifiying boot image...Image is corrupted (bad magic)

Invalid boot image

Couldn't read image boot

I've downloaded the files from this thread: http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/general/me176c-x-collection-roms-updates-t3012965

Every time the above message appears and the upgrade fails (file downloaded from 3 different hosters).

Can somebody tell me whats going on?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'd attempt a factory reset, if you haven't already. Resets tend to fix 99% of problems.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I'm trying to avoid that, because if I can't get root to work for whatever reason, then I am screwed when I try to restore my games. I play several games where progress is not stored on a server somewhere, and I can't get data to restore without root.

I have things working a bit better on the tablet and it seems a bit quicker after a few reboots, though now it is taking FOREVER to simply download a game from the Play Store. I am on a very fast connection at work, yet it is crawling at slower than modem speeds trying to re-download Angry Birds Epic.

Is there a chance that root won't work for me? I was able to flash update from 182 all the way to 201, so I have some abilities, but I have not messed with temporary ClockWordMod stuff before...

Not to mention it seems sort of nuts that when the update worked OTA that I should now need to factory reset again to get things running smoothly. That's extremely disheartening...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
My tablet is now incredibly smooth and appears to have markedly improved battery life.

This is what I've done:

1. I installed Lollipop and did a factory reset.

2. I rooted Lollipop.

3. I installed Seeder and Titanium Backup Pro.

4. I froze most of the tablet's bloatware.

5. I used Auto-start Manager to stop a number of apps from loading at boot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
There's virtually zero chance that you'll break anything. The only thing that can go wrong is that the recovery won't boot up.

Use the public trial release, as it has the beta ClockWorkMod for Lollipop. Download SuperSU and flash it. Problem solved.

I almost thought it was ricidulous that an update would cause this much trouble, but remember we completely changed runtimes during the update, and some apps aren't too happy about it.

I have no clue whether or not ASUS patched the memory leaks in Lollipop, but just as a precaution I installed Xposed (instructions a few pages back) and a memory leak fix. I too installed Seeder. Silky smooth.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
Thank you very much!!!!

Lollipop is great!!!!

Lost root, how can i root again?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
See my posts on the last several pages. They'll walk you through. If anything happens, feel free to ask. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Thanks, jerbear, you make me feel better.

Looks like I got root to take via trigger 4, so I will likely go for the factory reset. Wiping cache did not help. Tablet is more sluggish than ever now after rooting, slow to ask for permissions when trying to "su" the adb shell, for example.

I have nothing to lose with a factory reset at this point since I can't go back to KitKat. Just wish I had never flashed Lollipop!!!!!

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The reset should make you change your mind.

Be sure to install Seeder and install Xposed (can't be done through traditional means in this case, needs to be installed through a PC) and get a memory leak fixing module.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Reset is nice, and I rerooted.

I just want to get games restored now and see where I am at on everything, then I'll look into further hacks.

Thanks so much to just about everyone -- great stuff!

BTW, all I did to root was install the stuff from zip file found here:

http://xdaforums.com/android/development/intel-android-devices-root-temp-cwm-t2975096

and then follow the instructions here:

http://xdaforums.com/android/development/intel-android-devices-root-temp-cwm-t2975096

That was it. Had root. Didn't need to run any adb commands of my own (already had adb, etc. installed...)

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Nice to hear everything is now up and running for you! :)

You'll need ADB for Xposed later down the road.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Yeah, I didn't mean to say I don't like using adb or anything -- I love it. I wrote a script to backup all my Angry Birds game data with it, and it is fun to poke around the shell, etc. Haven't done much with sideloading and all that, but it usually ends up being fairly easy after doing some research...

AB games are restoring right now, we'll see if MyBackup Pro gets them back up to snuff! Otherwise I will have to restore from the "ab" files I created with my script...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm not sure that the ab backups will work. If they don't you can use Titanium Backup Pro to interpret the ab and have it restore from there.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
So, just to make sure. If we upgrade to lollipop, we cannot go back to kitkat. Right?

You ought to do a thread about how to update to lollipop, jerbear.

You are by far one of the foremost experts in the matter. Not forgetting others of course.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
They worked when i tested them. I just use "adb backup" to generate the files and then "adb restore" to restore them. Last time I restored my apps, MyBackup Pro restored all apps and data with the only thing missing being the data for Bad Piggies. It ended up being a pleasure going through that game again, though. *smile* I really dig games that store data in the cloud, because then backup/restore issues are no big whoop.

OK, enough padding the thread...have a great weekend!

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Correct. A new bootloader is flashed during the update that doesn't support Kitkat. Likewise, the old bootloader doesn't support Lollipop.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AtomicPC:
Worked a treat. Thanks again.

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I wonder, is there a list of the bloatware I can get rid of or freeze or am I not looking hard enough for it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
There is a list in this thread, but it hasn't been updated for Lollipop.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AtomicPC:
Ok, I'll keep digging. Half the battle is finding information sometimes heh.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
You're telling me.

I don't know if many ways I can type

"temporary ClockWorkMod beta"

And deliver zero results.

It's pretty amazing.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AtomicPC:
Temp cwm and then it's the first link I think in the thread

http://xdaforums.com/android/development/intel-android-devices-root-temp-cwm-t2975096

There you go
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
Thank you. Found it.

Tried to update to Lollipop and the update failed. I'm on 201.

Guess I have to do something different first.

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So will this process wipe the tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yes, but if you are rooted you can use Titanium Backup to make a backup and restore it on Lollipop.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I don't know if this is pertinent information but I've notice something. For those of you who are on .201 and about to update to lollipop, change your tablet's language to "English USA". Because lollipop through OTA in my language (Portuguese) isn't working. I haven't tested other languages but, there it is...

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[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
SO...I'm wondering...why not just do a factory reset.

Do the OTA to Lollipop, Root using Temp CWM, and then restore from titanium?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
Can anyone check for me what's the kernel version/build date for 201 is? I think I found out what the failed lollipop update did to my tab. Boot and Droidboot can't be overwritten for some reason, which is why the flash is failing. I stripped the update and flash it, and it still boots with 182 kernel. Flashing the 201 kernel that I manually patched did nothing, the write finished, but the kernel version remain the same. I can't flash the capsule, because it needs a dnx file. I can't erase droidboot/boot to try and override it either
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AtomicPC:
You'll need to root, then backup with Titanium Backup, OTA to Lolli, root using Temp CWM and finally restore apps from TB.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Well, after doing the lollipop update for almost 30 minutes, it's official. It soft bricked! :mad::mad::mad::mad:

Edit: There's hope for you lollipopers... I just applied the CN.182 ROM with TempCWM T3 option. And it worked!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
Thanks for your help.

I did a factory reset and believe it or not, the table remained rooted.

The OTA doesn't show up, so I tried to flash Lollipop as an update.zip file in adb and the updated failed as well.

I tried to flash 182 via adb, and 182 failed. So I guess I'm going to stay on 201. I don't want to mess this up.

I wish there was a way to just flash Lollipop on top of rooted 201.

Funny thing is that I am just rooted. I didn't freeze anything. I just rooted for TiBu and Ad Away.

Asus really complicated this thing.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Strange. Can the ROM itself still be in Portuguese? It wouldn't be very smart of ASUS to release an OTA with limited languages available.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
IDTS. I think the ROM is the same. What must be happening is the OTA update trigger isn't working for some regions yet. Not necessary by language itself.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I saw your post earlier about downgrading to 182... So it is indeed still possible?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] 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. :P

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.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
OK, that is fascinating. When I saw your idea to just reset and then try, I thought "Of course that should work!" But it didn't?

I re-flashed everything from .182 up to .201, but I then was sure to UNroot before trying the OTA "Check for update" button again. It worked for me. Of course, I _still_ had to reset AFTER that for things to not be swimming in molasses. It was so bad that just trying to install Angry Birds Epic would crash the tablet-- every time. Now after the factory reset, all games work, AND a game that didn't work back on KitKat now does too (Angry Birds Stella).

Things are pretty snappy now, and I have everything back. And [MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION], my backup restore for Bad Piggies worked a charm. A simple "adb restore <filename>" did the trick in four seconds.

Overall I am pleased, but it took the better part of the day to get here. It's gawd-damn Stockholm Syndrome, trying to love this tablet.

ymDroid, my advice is to do what [MENTION=5612563]groovychap[/MENTION] and I did -- flash everything from scratch from .182 up to .201. Then, if it works for you as it did for me, unroot and try the "Check updates" OTA update. Then factory reset (I used the factory reset from the recovery menu -- don't fret if it takes 20 minutes to boot after that...it did for me). Finally, restore your apps.

After all that, Lollipop is no worse than whatever .201 was. Might even be a bit better, though I have not had a chance to see how fast it drains power (but it seems worse). By the way, because I must have missed it, here is what the "Build number" says now:

LRX21V.WW_K013-12.10.1.17-20150505

044030456_201502160111

0010000200001

...whatever the foosball that means. Looks like maybe they had this build solidified back on the fifth of May? *shrug*

Again, a HUGE thanks to the giants whose shoulders I trod upon to get my tablet back to normal and on Lollipop...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] Misterjunky:
re: flash tmobile rom without pc

Yes you can flash custom roms without a pc using "Mobile Odin".

You can get Mobile Odin at the playstore at this link below:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.chainfire.mobileodin.pro

Be sure to read the full description of Mobile Odin,

it also contains the full instructions how to use it.

Good luck!
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androidtaker:
Does anybody know that is the Xperia Tablet Z compatible with the upcoming Android L ?

I've heard that only devices which have 4.4 kitkat at lunch would be updated to L, is that true ?
[Xperia Tablet Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Felimenta97:
That's not true. If it was like that, not even the Nexus 7 2013 would have Android L. We have the same exact hardware as Nexus 4 (Snapdragon S4 Pro, 2 Gb of RAM, 16/32 Gb internal), so our device is more than enough to run it.

I'm sure we will have some custom ROMS with Android L. If Sony will update it, it's another story. They should. But who knows? If not, there will be plenty of app (and maybe some framework) port from newer Sony devices to Xperia Z, for example, which should work pretty well on our devices.