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[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
I'm not saying to stop trying...

But see people here that are changing things and getting trouble.

So I just told my experience and so far not any problems and the tablet is really better now.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Condolences, as I think I know what has happened to you -- platform.xml is not working right.

What did you use to edit platform.xml, and did you ever copy it out of its location and paste it back in?

Do you still have a backup of platform.xml? If so, delete the edited/changed platform.xml and rename the backup back to "platform.xml" in /system/etc/permissions.

I screwed up my platform.xml, and even though I reset its ownership and permissions, I would still have apps crash, and no access to mounted areas (internal or external). What crashed were anything trying to reach the internet: Google services, Play store, email, etc. Then, I made it worse by thinking I should unroot and try a factory restore. The unroot (or it may have been me trying to root again after that) got stuck and my machine went into "demo" mode, always showing the ASUS demo (from the rooting process) every 30 seconds. So, I finally just took the thing back to Best Buy and they treated me well even though I was a few days beyond their return-day policy (you can check my other posts in the thread about all this). I've got a new tablet now.

By the way, my machine was so screwed up that the factory reset option was gone from my settings, though it appears that wouldn't have helped anyway...

If you are still rooted and can still do an "adb push", you can try to push a platform.xml file into the right location (/system/etc/permissions). Let me know if you would like me to try to get my platform.xml file from my machine and put it somewhere you can grab.

EDIT: I put platform.xml directly onto my Google Drive from my tablet, and it can be found here:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_6GPHZj0BZyblU0a3hFUi1JMms/edit?usp=sharing

I am not sure if downloading the file and pushing it to /system/etc/permissions via adb will work. Please make backups of all existing files you change so that if pushing the file makes things worse you can go back. I have no idea what permissions an adb "pushed" file will have once it gets to its destination, but after pushing it, restart your tablet and see if that helps. This is the stock platform.xml file, so you will be back to not having the enhanced access to the external SD card.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Use this guide

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=62689651
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
I have a quick question. Can i restore my twrp backup of kitkat from lollipop?

The thing is, my /system/app folder dissapeared a couple of days ago. I tried to push it back via adb, and now when i turn the tablet on, it it goes straight to recovery., without even showung bootanimation.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] MKKLR21:
I installed official Xposed for Lollipop successfully on my ME176CX.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It depends, ASUS installed a new bootloader with the Lollipop update. I know the original Lollipop bootloader supported KitKat but the new Lollipop bootloader from the OTA hotfix might not. Nobody has tested that.

Good to know! I'll update Xposed as soon as I get home and get my new computer set up with the Android SDK and all that.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Thanks. Would it work if i restored someone elses backup. I remember you uploading .201, but i can't find lollipop. I will try restoring from my backup tommorow, but if i don't succed, may i beg some of you fine gentleman to upload your lollipop backup? I'll come here tommorow with the results.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] urlyisis:
I rooted with Root Zen phone app when on Kit Kat. I then re-rooted by following:

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

Mdpi and then T4.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dsmid:
Will rooting wipe data and apps ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
nope dont worry
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
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[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
Hello dear friends!

Tell me please

Is there a possibility ? To copy the dump a disk (eMMc containing android 5) with the help of the program Acronis ?

with an option to restore from (5 android dump)

Please tell me: Did not find any drivers windose 8 or 10 for our tablet

I found only for the graphics card on the website INTEL
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
What is the last update? I have to install it manually downloading and renaming de zip to update.zip, so anyone can bring me the links since the first lollipop update?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] MKKLR21:
You can download update file directly from ASUS website:

from KitKat to Lollipop: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/UL-K013-WW-12.10.1.24_KK-user.zip

from Lollipop (12.10.1.17) to latest 12.10.1.24: http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/UL-K013-WW-12.10.1.24-user.zip

http://www.asus.com/de/Tablets/ASUS_MeMO_Pad_7_ME176C/HelpDesk_Download/
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
could you help me? i reinstalled android lollipop manually and now each time i start the tablet it shows a black screen with some letters and it dissapairs and boots normally, it also happens when i pt it charging what can i do to fix? and also i could read a bit but not much because the letters show and dissapair too fast, (bios update something..).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] portenaert:
I installed lollipop 12.10.1.24 in my me176cx.

forward with kitkat my score was around 34800 "antutu"

now witch lollipop, my score was around 36300 "antutu"

Lollipop works very well.

i root Lollipop with this method:

http://www.htcmania.com/showthread.php?t=1029161
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Anyone still have the system/clock slowdown issue on the latest build of Lollipop?

Thought this was fixed but it's clearly not, my device runs in slow motion (more apparent in games), clock is 12hrs behind as well, slowly loses sync from real time, tried restarting but the issue persists, I'm not rooted.

Has anyone sent their device to ASUS with this issue & got it back with KitKat? (If so did you request it to be left on KitKat?)

I'm finding Lollipop way too buggy.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dj_raph:
ME176CX - Recovery Error

Hi there, I've since end of July a ME176CX, but after one of the update received my tablet was lagging, bugging etc. So I was thinking to make a recovery, but he was stopping after 2 seconds... "Error". I think i don't have any recovery mode. So i've now rooted my ME176CX but I don't know what i can do to have back a recovery mode like CWM, and also to have better performance. kind regards !
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
did you already used the cwm-tmp recovery or do you mean the stock recovery/bootloader?and on wich os version do you are kitkat or lolipop?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
so looking at the asus bootloader unlock app it looks like this devices bootloader is unlock-able? has any one tried?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
ASUS has a bootloader unlock app for this now?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dj_raph:
Currently the stock version... but didn't work...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
i mean wich android do you have installed version 4.x.x or 5.x.x?

---------- Post added at 08:28 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:21 AM ---------- [MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION]

i coudn't find a unlock-tool on the asus support site.

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will read this http://freeunlockmobile.com/unlock-asus-memo-pad-7-me176c-free-unlock-codes/
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
So it appears my stock recovery has some how be deleted or corrupt. The boots to recovery give me no options at all.

No one else have this issue?

Any way to flash the stock recovery back or put the tablet back to 100% stock.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
will read this http://freeunlockmobile.com/unlock-asus-memo-pad-7-me176c-free-unlock-codes/

this leads me to this site http://freeunlockmobile.com/unlock/

but nothing works maybe a kind of fake....? yes it's a trap,don't waste your time with it!!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
you have to install the adb drivers for our device to your pc and then install the cwm temp recovery also to your pc turn on the usb-debuging and follow the instructions when you enter the launcher.bat.for more details have a look at the cwm temp recovery thread for our device after that you are able to make backups and restore them to the device or install updates.

look at this thread http://xdaforums.com/android/development/intel-android-devices-root-temp-cwm-t2975096

so you could install a clean backup.i think jerbear294 posted a lp backup somewehre
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hruno:
Working with UEFI

people

If you do so:

You install busybox and android terminal (I did through the adb shell), you copy the file to the root of bootia32.efi file system, there is at the root, create a folder esp, open the android terminal (or the shell) and type:

su

busybox mount / dev / block / mmcblk0p3 / esp

cp -r bootia32.efi esp / EFI / BOOT / bootia32.efi

And checks whether to write back to the team:

ls esp / EFI / BOOT

and razmontiruesh: busybox umount / esp

Maybe it is thus possible to install all the necessary files to start the UEFI UEFI 32 bit ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
Yes, my clock is still lagging behind but it occasionally happens. I mostly notice it and turnoff -> clear cache partition -> restart and then it's fixed... for a moment until it eventually happens again.

The other problem I got is sometimes it freeze and come back with washed out screen. Also the tablet slow down for no obvious reason, just like yours. When I play games everything will become slowmotion so I laugh my a** off. Funny, but not practical.

I factory reset it many times but these problems still persist.

Oh, how I miss 4.4. Can I revert back without rooting or unlock the device?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
This a tutorial to remove simlock. So it is automatically generated post. Totally a lie.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Rule of thumb- if it didn't come from here or another trustworthy source, odds are it's a lie.

ESPECIALLY when it mentions carriers and SIM cards, on a tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] peldo123:
Guys I haven't been on this thread for a while,...... Did anything important happen, did we move to another thread???? Anyone get Windows
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Sorry so late to reply, but yes, I have the slowdown. It is sporadic, and I use ClockSync to stay close to the real time. Oddly enough, the last few reboots have left me staying close on time. But when the clock goes haywire, it loses about five minutes every fifteen minutes.

I have found this latest build to be more buggy as well, bu tthen there are times when I am up for three days, fairly heavy use in games, etc. and the tablet behaves fine. Then it will reboot and freeze/reboot 2-3 times in the next couple hours. Very flaky.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] artpopboy:
hey guys, i have a problem

my tab 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?

happened after 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.

PLEASE HELP ME
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TalhaGirgen9:
Big Update . LOL!

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BIOS Was Updated To Same Version AGAIN. Some Apps Updated. And My Tablet İs Really Fast Now (Noticable Lag Reduce)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Zatman:
Just tried to update

Tried to download the update, after downloading the the installation threw me an error and now I cant download it again, any solutions?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AndrewRBX:
Same here... :confused:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] p1xo:
Yes I got the same problem. It happened after last update. Dont know what to do.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Uninen:
Was there a changelog? What are the changes/fixes? I updated this, no problems, Android version still is 5.0 which is bit "meh", but certain kids game, "Fast As Lightning" that my boys like to play sure runs much smoother than it did before the update, but cant give any benchmark results cause i had to uninstall those less than week ago, to make room on the tablet...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'll attempt to capture the OTA but I can't make any promises. I'm still on the first version of Lollipop, since the second version didn't install because of Xposed. I'll try manually patching it and updating from there.

Now that Marshmallow's out, hopefully ASUS gives us the update (wishful thinking, right?). Marshmallow's nice.

EDIT: Good news: I ran the second update through OTA Verifier. Looks like the only thing that's messing the update up is the SD card permissions fix I installed- and I have a backup of the original file. I'll do some TWRP wizardry when I get home from school tomorrow.

From the looks of it, install-recovery.sh is checked as well. Mine was 0 bytes but a backup is present. My guess is clockworkmod's check that it does to see if the system flashes the original recovery. It doesn't matter for us anyways since we have to tether, so answer no or use TWRP next time and avoid my muscle memory mistake I developed from my old tablet. [emoji14]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Have you ever deleted any system app?

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Whoever updated, did you lose the root?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I haven't had the opportunity to update yet, but just like last update I'm assuming root is lost. It's easy enough to reroot though.

UPDATE: My tablet's NOT happy.

I had to remove some lines from the updater-script (the usual problematic ones involving k013_1 and the build.prop fingerprint, even though it's the same as the one the script wants)

It's updating the bootloader now, hopefully after this I can capture the latest OTA.

EDIT: Booting into Android results in being stuck on the ASUS screen. I can get to the bootloader fine though. I'm investigating now. Worst comes to worse, there is that old Lollipop Nandroid I took a while back.

EDIT 2: While I'm waiting for this Nandroid to restore, do you think one of you on the new update can make a Nandroid of it? It's probably the only way I'll be able to get to it at this point.

EDIT 3: I AM SO GLAD I MADE THAT NANDROID FOR SOMEBODY IN A SIMILAR BOAT. I have life again :D

Thanks ASUS (not)

This confirms to me that we can install updates through Nandroids, so again, if somebody with a working, close-to-stock system would like to make a Nandroid of the latest update I'd appreciate it :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
jerbear,

I have whatever the dlpkgfile is (I can unzip it and it is something).

Are you saying I shouldn't flash it? It will just cause more problems? I am rooted but do not have xposed installed...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
What I've learned:

If the update fails to apply even though it really should, just give up. You'll end up with a bricked device unless you've got a Nandroid on board.

In your case you should be fine. If it applies, you're good.

If it does work, would you be able to backup boot and system via Nandroid and TWRP? It'll help out me and others in a similar situation, especially since this update's supposed to smoothen things out (and my brother's tablet at least seems speedier).

So yeah, try the update, and if it doesn't work feel free to experiment, just remember that you'll need a Nandroid if anything goes wrong. Worst case scenario I have the one I made of the original Lollipop update if you need it (and it's what I'm running off of right now)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
What do you mean by "fails to apply"?

I did try the normal OTA channels (not sure why). As usual, it said updating then showed the dead Android and said "Error!".

So, should I still try to flash this? Is an official flashable file on their site (I'll check tomorrow, I'm dead tired)? The file seems small, about 113 MB. So, this does not seem to be a big update, not to say it isn't important. I just don't want to brick my device, as you say.

I know nothing about Nandroid, etc. So that's likely not an option for me in any case because I don't have the time nor expertise to pull it off...

And the updater-script looks different... I don't see anything about K013 at the top, though maybe I was looking at the wrong file. Again, dead tired. I'll take a look again tomorrow when I am more awake and at work (where I still have adb, etc to work with...)

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Now, if you could enlighten us how to make a Nandroid backup, I will try to be of help to everyone.

I did not install the last update. I am on 2nd lollipop, rooted and xposed installed. Some apps are frozen as well.

In my previous experiences, If you somehow interfered with the system, it is for the best not to install OTA update. Just wait for the full ROM from Asus and then install it. OTA update-script checks for md5 checksums aside many other things. Even if one of the file is missing or corrupted, then it fails. And you cannot OTA never again.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Allright..

I downloaded the OTA and tried to update. It failed. Here is the log:

Isntalling update...

ro.build.version.release=5.0

value is 5.0

ro.build.version.release=5.0

value is 5.0

Verifying current system...

file "/system/bin/app_process32" doesnt have any of expected sha1 sums;

chacking cache

failed to stat "/cache/saved.file": No such file or directory

failed to load cache file

script aborted: "/system/bin/app_process32" has unexpected contents.

"/system/bin/app_process32" has unexpected contents.

E:Error in /cache/dlpkgfile

(Status 7)

E:Install of /cache/dlpkgfile failed with status 1

I:Recovery faile file /cache/recovery/recoveryfail created

Installation aborted.

fota_status_log recording

I:Saving locale "tr_TR"

I am not an expert on this issues but what i understand from the log is that, updater-script checks for app_process32 file. I dont know what this file is. But since it is not same as default update fails. Could be due to root or xposed.

I checked once again if it is giong to find the update. No way. I t did not. Could be because of created fota-status-log and/or recovery-fail files.

Anyone to enlighten us?? :)

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I cheacked app_process32 file. It is related with Xposed. So whoever has xposed installed; DO NOT try OTA.

Regards.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It's fairly simple.

Launch TWRP Recovery through the tethered method from a computer (can be found in the Intel Temporary CWM thread)

From there hit Backup. This can take a while. I'd suggest not backing up Datang as that contains all your apps and isn't needed for this.

Let the process complete. The final backup can be found in TWRP/Backups.

ASUS does this every update. This is why I'm advising that from now on the only way for us to update if we installed Xposed or any other heavy mods is to restore someone's updated Nandroid.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Is there a link for tethered twrp method?

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BTW, could someone who is rooted backup ota file when he has the update? At least, we can check update script and can see if Asus is looking for root, etc.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Here's the temporary recovery. It'll give you some options- use HDPI TWRP Portrait and T4.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Can we use this tethered TWRP to install OTA file?

If so, We can update thanks to this method from now on.

Edit: I am already rooted and xposed installed. Therefore, it won't work even if I make a nandroid backup, or will it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Do you just mean the dlpkgfile thingamabob? I got that, found it in /cache after the download but before I tried to apply it (where it failed).

If that is what you want, I will try to find a place to upload it.

Here is the start of the updater-script inside that file (I gave it a ZIP extension and unzipped it and it worked):

if check_version()=="5.0" then
mount("ext4", "EMMC", "/dev/block/by-name/system", "/system", "max_batch_time=0,commit=1,data=ordered,barrier=1,errors=panic,nodelalloc");
else
mount("ext4", "EMMC","/dev/block/platform/intel/by-label/system", "/system");
endif;
if check_version()=="5.0" then
getprop("ro.build.fingerprint") == "asus/WW_K013/K013:5.0/LRX21V/WW_K013-12.10.1.24-20150623:user/release-keys" ||
getprop("ro.build.fingerprint") == "asus/WW_K013/K013:5.0/LRX21V/WW_K013-12.10.1.33-20150917:user/release-keys" ||
abort("Package expects build fingerprint of asus/WW_K013/K013:5.0/LRX21V/WW_K013-12.10.1.24-20150623:user/release-keys or asus/WW_K013/K013:5.0/LRX21V/WW_K013-12.10.1.33-20150917:user/release-keys; this device has " + getprop("ro.build.fingerprint") + ".");
else
assert(file_getprop("/system/build.prop", "ro.build.fingerprint") == "asus/WW_K013/K013:5.0/LRX21V/WW_K013-12.10.1.24-20150623:user/release-keys" ||
file_getprop("/system/build.prop", "ro.build.fingerprint") == "asus/WW_K013/K013:5.0/LRX21V/WW_K013-12.10.1.33-20150917:user/release-keys");
endif;
getprop("ro.product.device") == "K013" || abort("This package is for \"K013\" devices; this is a \"" + getprop("ro.product.device") + "\".");
ui_print("Verifying current system...");
show_progress(0.100000, 0);
apply_patch_check("/system/app/ASUSBrowser/ASUSBrowser.apk", "4f0d6bfe44eb0db5a4be7db7d090994b23ec0a7e", "34ab96f5aa7ced01ad9290631e637af9590255ee") || abort("\"/system/app/ASUSBrowser/ASUSBrowser.apk\" has unexpected contents.");
apply_patch_check("/system/app/ASUSWebView/ASUSWebView.apk", "a09ce74fc96ccc9a439baa24edceb4d36bfc0680", "0cb4ab3efdfdf9675e73ca243bf8b03edf7513dd") || abort("\"/system/app/ASUSWebView/ASUSWebView.apk\" has unexpected contents.");
etc.
etc.

It does a ton of those "apply_patch_check" commands, so I suppose any one could abort the process?

Will a downloadable ROM from the ASUS site be different? I can't even find where to download firmwares on the ASUS site at this point, just a couple driver tools like "source code". Where the heck are the firmwares to be found?

I assume it isn't worth trying to flash this dlpkgfile because it will abort if there is anything frozen or modified in its patch list. If someone does NOT have anything frozen or modified, could we just scrape off the top checks, and would it update then? Not sure it is worth all that...

Thanks,

sutekh137

PS. Never mind about finding firmwares, I found the latest ones here:

https://www.asus.com/support/Download/28/6/0/23/3HzHuNmdcAgeMhJ1/32/

There is no download for this latest OTA update yet that I can see...