yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Donations aren't necessary but thanks, what you needing for your PC?

I'm just glad with ccache enabled a build from clobber only takes 45 minutes.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I wish this was just a simple "upgrade" :P It's an interesting predicament.

My current PC's a BTX setup- basically, the whole system is "flipped." The motherboard's PCI slots are on the right, PC opens from the right side, etc. Thanks Dell.

I won an HD 7770 graphics card from a giveaway on Reddit (right now I'm using a PCI variant of the GT 610 that I bought a couple years ago as a "quick and sloppy" upgrade for my aging Pentium 4 machine at the time), so I tried popping it in there- nope. BTX wasn't happy- the way that the case is designed, it won't take dual-slot PCIe graphics cards.

At that point I tried "retrofitting" it. I got a PCIe extension cable, and a Molex to 6 pin (the power supply didn't have a 6-pin connector) and plugged it all in- and it worked, for a few seconds. When Windows booted up, the system crashed. I suspected it was the power supply.

I then ordered a 500 watt EVGA power supply- but, of course, it doesn't fit in the case, it's too long; because why would anything that I want to do work?

So, I need a new case... but since this motherboard's BTX I need a new motherboard... and at that point might as well upgrade the whole PC. Core 2 Quad and 4GB of RAM isn't necessarily the high-end. Well, at least I have the power supply :p
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
You can get a cheap secondhand socket 775 system for like $50 these days, and even the lowest Core 2 Quad (Q6600) with a minor OC on stock cooling won't bottleneck your card. Migrate over the RAM/HDD and you're good for 1-2 more years
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That is true... I've got $50. The only reason I saved up more is because I was aiming towards a different processor.

I might just do that.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
[MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION]

https://yadi.sk/d/W5tp8WxBnptw6 (from 4PDA. My own personal upload kept on crashing due to the 50kbps upload speed)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Here is 5.1 rom.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3320040
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Downloaded, but I've got to leave for school in a few minutes so I don't have time to make a Nandroid, flash it, then see if it boots and not bootlooping (since that'll take 10 minutes), I'll try it when I get home.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
[MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] If ROM works, I'll release it for 4pda with your credits
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Hi guys, it's been a while since I last posted, although I have been keeping an eye on this thread.

I'm still on the first version of Lollipop (.17), which I rooted and installed the xposed framework on last summer.

The reason I didn't update is because I experienced some problems with my desktop around the time the first update for Lollipop came out, and I didn't want to risk bricking my tablet whilst my computer was out of action.

My question is, what should I do now?

Should I attempt to update my tablet to the most recent version of Lollipop (.36), and then try to install the insecure bootloader?

Or should I stick with .17 and install the insecure bootloader on that?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
Insecure bootloader works on all versions of Lollipop
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
One of the problems with .17 is that the tablet frequently freezes and reboots itself.

So, I'm guessing it'd be safer to install the insecure bootloader via ADB, than via Terminal Emulator on the tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thegreatn_:
Here is no difference between ADB or Emulator
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It won't make a difference- if it decides to freeze and reboot, it won't matter whether it's being installed via ADB or Terminal Emulator.

The installation process is so quick that I'd go for it. In the unlikely event that something does happen, DNX mode coupled with the Phone Flash Tool can fix it- thanks to the UEFI, this tablet's theoretically unbrickable.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TalhaGirgen9:
Does Anybody Tried 5.1 Rom? It Boots? Or Not?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I have it downloaded, but won't be able to try it for about 7 hours when I get home.

In the meantime, feel free to make a Nandroid of the system image and try flashing the 5.1 ROM. Keep in mind, though, that the first boot of Android 5.0 and above will take about 10 minutes due to how ART works, so wait about 15 until deciding it's bootlooping.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TalhaGirgen9:
File is not flashable zip :eek:

and i dont have acces to my computer for now -_-

EDIT:

i managed to acces my computer. i flash the room. it bootloops :eek: (EFILINUX ERROR FALLING BACK TO MOS)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] smsalom:
i just flashed 5.1 ROM, it doesnt work

it complains about an efi linux error
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
TWRP in theory can flash system.img, I have never tried it so can't say for sure, the zip file isn't flashable, you need to unzip it before trying to install.

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Possible you need either Ares 8 or I708Q bootloader installed. If you know what you are doing you could install them if not don't.

Also you may need to modify your boot.img. I can't say for sure don't have your tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] smsalom:
I wish i could, i'm not a developer, justo an A sus tab owner.

It also fails to flash the entire system image
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
That is your bootloader, you don't have an unlocked bootloader, Ares 8 is unlocked. Perhaps some with more experience and your tablet can explain how to flash Ares 8 bootloader for you.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
So the insecure bootloader isn't doing the trick?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] smsalom:
Im using the insecured bootloader from social, i though it was enough to flash any custom rom :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Huh.

I'd wait until [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] finishes CM12.1 then (and he's pretty close)

[MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] to boot that ROM we just need the Ares 8 ESP?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
it has nothing to do with the bootloader it doesn't like to boot the aries8 kernel / modules the aries8 and and the iview are similar enough that only minor boot.img modification was need , the ME176 and other ffrd8 based tablets (YT2, SPARK, K013) will actually require a little more modification to the boot.img than just a kernel / modules swap you'll have to modify some of the .rc files as well as make the need changes to the system.img WiFi for sure the ME176 has BCM WiFi this ROM is RTL, plus a bunch of config file. i was playing with it last night, it should be able to be made to work but taking a rom from another device is generally more than a flash and go.

basically before you can even begin to boot this rom you'll need to at minimum swap out the kernel / modules from your devices boot.img i also recommend adding the selinux premissive to the command line to prevent errors caused by missing policies.

unless the changes i made last night make cm-12.1 boot i wont be able to work on it again ( well build again ) until Saturday have to go to FL for training tmrw so maybe i'll write a installer script to pull the need files from the target device to properly patch the Iview ROM to work on other devices.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
I think the problem is the bootloader, user can't install system.img, that's caused by the bootloader isn't allow him to, if he used an unlocked bootloader he could flash the system.img.

He hadn't got to the boot.img part yet, he needs to install system.img first.

I also said he may need to modify his boot.img, but before that he has to by pass the bootloader and install the system.img

Insecure bootloader is too limited, unlocked is better, I guess when I upload a TWRP back up, that will allow the user around the locked bootloader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Couple msgs up they say they're using the insecure bootloader and flashed the 5.1.1 rom

regardless the ROM is RTL and won't support the BCM WiFi both boot.img and system.img modification will be required to use this ROM.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Yes, and he couldn't install system.img that's my point, the bootloader is preventing the system.img from being installed.

Most likely a TWRP backup would install the system, but can't be done from fastboot, I will upload one later.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Its probably that twrp can't flash sparse images and the image has to be ext4
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
The way I have it setup is to flash through fastboot, I never tried to flash system.img through TWRP, so can't say.

Anyway I will upload a TWRP image, when I get home, they should be able to install it, then make boot.img changes as needed.

By the way the ares 8 can also run this tablets firmware.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Guess i'm reading these wrong i guess "flashed the rom" means they couldn't flash the rom.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] smsalom:
i have to clarify something about this, my bootloader does flash both items but it does not flash system img correctly, only 33mb from system is flashed to the device
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Correct the bootloader is locked, and won't flash system.img, this is what I am try to explain to sdc.

Same with other user that thinks he flashed system, he only flashed part of it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TalhaGirgen9:
Yeah, I Just Noticed That. I Try Flash Again And I Saw Flashing Error While Flashing System For One Secs Or Something

EDIT:

C:\Users\Talha\Desktop>fastboot erase system
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.344s]
finished. total time: 0.344s

C:\Users\Talha\Desktop>fastboot flash system system.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.266s]
sending sparse 'system' (517188 KB)...
OKAY [ 19.093s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: flash_cmds error!
)
finished. total time: 63.343s
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
uploaded the ext4 image here. Don't forget you need to extract the system.ext4.img from the .7z file.

but once again vamp it has nothing to do with the bootloader they're running twrp just fine, thanks for clarify that you did have an issue flashing the sparse system.img

only TWRP 3.0 supports flashing sparse system.img. twrp change log :

and vampirefo sorry guess i missed where it was reported they had an issue flashing.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
It would take several minutes to flash the system.img it's rather large,
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
thats an asus droidboot issue you could try to add the fastboot flash -S 200 system system.img or flash the ext4 image i uploaded from twrp.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TalhaGirgen9:
Im Downloading Your ex4 image.

Note:

C:\Users\Talha\Desktop>fastboot flash -s 200 system system.img
< waiting for device >

it stuck on waiting for device
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
sorry it's suppose to be -S but i think Asus droidboot might be locked down but again droidboot isn't the bootloader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TalhaGirgen9:
C:\Users\Talha\Desktop>fastboot erase boot
erasing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.094s]
finished. total time: 0.094s

C:\Users\Talha\Desktop>fastboot flash boot boot.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
sending 'boot' (10338 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.375s]
writing 'boot'...
OKAY [ 0.984s]
finished. total time: 1.375s

C:\Users\Talha\Desktop>fastboot erase system
******** Did you mean to fastboot format this partition?
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.250s]
finished. total time: 0.266s

C:\Users\Talha\Desktop>fastboot flash system system.ext4.img
target reported max download size of 536870912 bytes
Invalid sparse file format at header magi
erasing 'system'...
OKAY [ 0.266s]
sending sparse 'system' (486490 KB)...
OKAY [ 18.175s]
writing 'system'...
FAILED (remote: flash_cmds error!
)
finished. total time: 18.597s

Is There A Thing I Did Wrong?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
try to flash the ext4 through twrp,
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
TWRP backup now available, just restore system not boot.img, boot is for Ares 8.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Takes 10 minutes or more to boot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
This, how long did you wait on the first boot?

EDIT: Actually... The fact that it's accepting logcats means it's bootlooped, at least in my experience. Could just be a ZenUI thing though.

Watch the logcat feed- does it loop on a specific error?

Try doing a factory reset and then flashing it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Your going to need to make changes to both the boot.img and system.img

What's funny is my tab freezes on the next book screen with his boot.img and bootloops on the bootanimation with my devices stock boot.img

I'm working on a list of changes
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Estimate, but yeah first boot takes a while.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
My mom actually thought her G3 broke when it updated to Lollipop since the first boot after the update took a while :p
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
how should i flash this? boot and system with twrp? or system with twrp then fastboot flash boot.img?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Make sure you guys are doing a factory reset before flashing, any old data will cause bootloop. You all may just need to edit boot.img, add your kernel, modules, sepolicy
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i can easily unpack and do that, ill doo it
[MeMO Pad 7 General] smsalom:
when i try to flash the system ext4 img twrp shows me this options

select partition to flash imagen

boot

recovery

system isnt showing, how do i step? i already tried mounting system
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Twrp has terminal and busybox, you dan umount system and dd it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i just have an issue the boot.img you gave me, on /lib/modules it has a folder but on stock boot.img its a file and not a folder? what do i do and also the kernel is "boot.img-zImage"? do i delete the modules folder and replace with the modules file from stock boot.img?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
dev/block/mmcblk0p15

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It is supposed to be a folder, try to cd in the file to find out if it is
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Yes, sounds like your modules are built in, Ares 8 aren't. Yes boot.img-zImage is most likely kernel.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
repacked boot.img and i flashed it via fastboot it booted to boot animation but didnt got out of there (im still on zenui i want it to charge the tablet a bit..)can u tell me where i made something wrong? the only place i see where i couldve messed up is the modules file (i deleted the folder "modules" and replaced with modules file

attachment below of edited boot.img

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d8ri228ew1p4lgv/boot%20test-not-working.img?dl=0
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
How long did you wait? It typically takes 10 minutes for the first boot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Looks like you provided a symbolic link but no modules, link is pointing to /system/lib/modules

so you need to copy /system/lib/modules folder over.

Upload stock boot.img
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
If it bootloops with Ares kernel, it means the problem is most likely elsewhere. Try shell dmesg as soon as you get adb running

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If you wanna troubleshoot kernel maybe try to use Ares TWRP
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i only installed boot.img i havent installed 5.1 yet because i want to let the tablet charge a bit
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
If you get it working with fastboot boot recovery.img, and you check you have no dullicate files, we can just re-partition
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
You need to commit out :

# additional baytrail initialization

#service fg_algo_iface /system/bin/fg_algo_iface
# class core
# user system
# group system

in this file init.em_i8270.rc

I no longer have that error but an error related to audio.config and boot animation.

Is the ME176 Broadom WiFi or Realtek WiFi the iview ROM is Realtek so if your device isn't you'll need to use the kernel and modules from your stock boot.img
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
denied { write } fo

r pid=13370 comm="app_process32_x" name="system@framework@boot.art" dev="mmcblk0

p16" ino=57126 scontext=u:r:shell:s0 tcontext=ubject_r:dalvikcache_data_file:s

0 tclass=file result=0

May be?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
here it is stock boot.imghttps://www.dropbox.com/s/svlew2yx56d2ium/boot.img?dl=0
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Noob questions for the experts!

Once I installed the insecure bootloader and a rom, can I erase all asus room and stuff so i can have free space on my internal memory?

The new roms also include new kernel? Because my tablet freeze and restart all the time, i think that must be a kernel problem!

The new roms will be fully functional, like cam, bluetooth, etc?

I didn't root it, I am waiting for a rom to do all the thing and leave behind all asus crap!

Thanks a lot for your work!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
OK your problem is your modules are in your rom instead of in your boot.img so you need to copy them from your rom to your boot.img just like Ares 8 boot.img.

If you look in your stock rom /system/lib/modules you will see your modules, you need to copy those to boot.img, but you also must maintain permissions.

Or you could add them to the i708Q rom, also maintain permissions.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
root browser isnt allowing me to change it says some system files do not allow permission changes, also if i am somehow able to change it will it keep the permissions if i move it to windows via adb so i can repack boot?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
I don't know enough about Windows to say one way or other.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
do u know any small linux os i can use on virtual box to chmod?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I like AndimgTool for editing boot.img when I cant be on a *inux box.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
does this app set permissions?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Yes you can see an example unpacked boot.img here :

https://github.com/anomalchik/AndImgTool/tree/master/boot_

The only downside is you have to manually add you changes to a config file : https://github.com/anomalchik/AndImgTool/blob/master/boot_/cpiostatfile.txt
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
can u put the permissions and repack the boot.img if i give u the modules folder? (or if u have it already) (i tried doing adb pull /system/lib and copied modules file to boot.img and repacked and bootloop problably because of file permissions they problably changed when i transfered the files from android to windows
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Expert here :P

You don't even need to install the insecure bootloader to remove the ASUS bloat. All you need for that is root. The insecure bootloader is so we can have a custom recovery, and so we can boot custom ROMs that aren't based on ASUS's Android skin (ZenUI).

The 5.1 "ROM" that was posted will not work, that's what [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] and [MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION] are working on fixing. It's mostly just drivers at this point. That will include a "semi-custom" modified kernel with just enough to boot the ROM, no more, no less. More features will probably come in the future.

If the ROM's compatibility is the same as the Ares 8, the camera will not work. Not much of a loss, though- who buys this tablet for the camera? :P

Basically: for now, just root it. That can be done with instructions from this thread. Do keep in mind that in order to flash the insecure bootloader you need root access anyways, so no matter what rooting's a necessity.

Well, there are quite a few lightweight Linux distributions. The problem is if they can even connect to Android and ADB into them.

Some lightweight distributions include:

SliTaz

Damn Small Linux

Puppy Linux

You might want to try one of those. They're not the most user-friendly distributions, though, no package managers or anything- the majority of packages need to be found off of the internet or compiled from source. Fortunately, the Android SDK can be found online.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
so just putting those 2 files and folder with a file and add the permissions myself it will automaticly set them to 0644?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
You have to manually add an entry to the config file for each new folder and file you ask.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i did in another way i copied modules folder to system on android and changed permissions 1 by 1 and then i zipped everything copied to pc and extracted right into lib which i think it should still have the right permissions but it seems it still doesnt oot (im still on zenui should i retry with 5.1 installed or it makes no difference?)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Go ahead and try it on 5.1, ZenUI may be the problem. I'd also do a factory reset (make a Nandroid of /data or do a Titanium Backup if you're going to do that)

Remember: If it doesn't boot after fifteen minutes, it's bootlooped.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
cant make nandroid backup i have over 6gb used... but its ok, i guess ill have a fresh start :) and something quite weird happend, i booted to twrp and it started flashing an update zip on cache/recovery for no reason i rebooted again to twrp and didnt flashed again

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how do i know if its loading? is the boot animation just the name of the device?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Name of what device? Ours, or the one the 5.1 ROM originates from?

You're in the insecure bootloader so if it's made it past the Intel screen that's progress.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i think its stuck on logo that says "IVIEW SupraPad -i708Q"
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Give it ten minutes. You factory reset so ART has to rebuild stuff. This occurs on every ROM that's 5.0 and up. (I will say that if that's the boot animation it's rather weird, no animation or anything? That's changing once I flash it :p)

After about 15 minutes, if it's still stuck it's bootlooped.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i still think theres something wrong with the modules permissions... i think thats why they it doesnt boot, i tried changing permissions to 0644 (original from /system/lib/modules/) and i zipped and extracted on my pc right on /lib/ so that the permissions didnt changed) maybe they did change or theey didnt change and there is another error...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] NahuelMS:
Thanks for your answer! I don't want to disable/uninstall Asus Bloatware, I just want to erase asus rom from the tablet and install a custom rom, like if I buy it with that rom from factory.

It will be posible or we are going to have zenui and another rom like a pc with gruv dual system like windows/linux?. I am asking this because for me zenui work like **** since lp, my tablet is usseless, diabling asus crap only fix the baterry bug but it keep freezeng, restarting and 0 ram managment and it will ocuopy like 4gb of space.

I am really happy with what you are doing and will love to have a M.M AOSP like my motorola x play and old moto g that both perform amazing!

Camara is really bad, but I will love to use skype, etc for videochating in my tablet. At this moment i can't because the tablet has a bug that do a lot of zoom when videochating making the frontal cam almost useless! Obivously if i have to chose between AOSP without cam and Asus zenui i will choose Aosp with no doubt!

Thanks a lot for your work! It is going to save me from buying another tablet, that in my country (Argentina) are all chinese crap (that perform better than mine jajaja!!)

Also for some reasons worldwide there is no news 7' inch tabs with good specs, only maybe samsung and i hate it!