yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] goleador:
Hi,

thanks for the advice, I have tried to contact asus a few weeks ago but without success. My email have been "transferred to the correct department" and then no answer.

Any other idea where I can find this kind of info ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I haven't done anything with the CPU.

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I use an IVSO cover. It protects the edges and has the build in stand as well.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] SJMarty:
I purchased two of these in white to match my two white tablets. The tablet snaps securely into a plastic shell and the flip cover protects the front of the tablet. The inside is a nice and smooth cloth/microfiber-like material. The magnetic closure automatically turns off the screen when it's closed.

When I purchased them, they were $5.59 and free Prime shipping. It looks like they are up to $9.99 now but IMO, that's still a very reasonable price for the quality of the case.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vesko2000:
Please HELP me! I've bricked my Me176C by deleting the recovery

Bricked my ASUS by deleting the recovery. ASUS refuses to let me have the recovery.img , there isn't one in the official firmware. So PLEASE, PLEASE if it isn't so hard could someone post his NANDROID backup recovery.img or anything that can restore the recovery. Also deleted system and user data. I've had this tablet for only three days! Thank you!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Go here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=57427666

and get saved!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
He has no recovery mode, and he can't flash another even if we had it due to the locked bootloader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Short than a recovery sideload, I don't see how. So... RMA? It's only three days old so he probably can get his money back. If he can't, try my old way. Buy another tablet, change the back cover with the new one, keep the new tab and have a nice day.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vesko2000:
Why can't I just do

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img <-- captured by nandroid?

Or can I boot without recovery? In order to do so, I need system.img, which also isn't included.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The bootloader on this tablet is locked. This means that you cannot flash a recovery unless we find a workaround.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vesko2000:
Ok, but can I boot without recovery, if so can someone upload a system.img of the tablet, to fastboot flash it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Unfortunately, no. Only recovery can flash things.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vesko2000:
That can't be true. I am certain you can do like so on your PC:

adb reboot-bootloader //to get to the bootloader

fastboot flash system system.img //to flash the stock image
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vesko2000:
System.img for ME176C

Can somebody please post his system.img from nandroid?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
If we could, we would. We poke around 20 ways to workaround the bootloader. I'm not saying it's impossible. XDA community doesn't know the meaning of that word. Just not possible at the moment.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rigbyrobot:
We can't pull a nandroid with out a custom boot loader, have you tried finding as system dump?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I've tried finding one, doesn't seem to be one anywhere.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
So I know you all have root but I know the tethered recovery works on this devices the trigger is T3

IntelAndroid-FBRL-01-17-2015.7z

Maybe you all can use it to back up the system partition for that user if your not familiar with it, it's a temporary cwm recovery session
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The temporary CWM session should definitely work. The ME176C is listed as supported. Thanks for putting this tool together!

I know what I'm trying when I get home.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I've just tried. Got an error saying "the oem drivers aren't installed".

Trying again...

Edit:

Still no joy after 6 tries...

But I might be doing something wrong, therefore you guys should try it too, maybe you'll get lucky.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
For those of you who have bricked your tablet, there's a new workaround without freeky geeky Linux commands!

All you need is a MicroSD card and an internet connection.

For more info go to this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=58318165 !!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
Thanks ;)

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interesting... but how did you install parted?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
Debian chroot environment

Debian chroot environment. I also take a look at the partition content via hex editor (xxd), f.e. boot partition.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
FYI it seems like the case [MENTION=4193208]SJMarty[/MENTION] mentioned is virtually the same as the older IVSO cases. It seems like this style of case uses the same layout as GPUs. A reference module is made and it's up to the manufacturer to actually make it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Jerbear did you made the cwm work?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I haven't had the chance to try it.

Does it not work?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
All I get is a strange oem driver error. I tried 10 different ways, and the outcome is always the same. That's why I was asking. Wondering if you got better luck. ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Can I see a screen shot of where that error occurs?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sleepless987:
Hi all,

Just wanted to update on my bricked tablet issue. I had it sent back to Asus for RMA and after a month they returned it with a changed mainboard+battery, free of charge. Although I signed a paper saying they can't access the OS so that might have prevented them figuring out that it was my fault the tablet didn't work (and charge me).

So I have the tablet back and will later root it. I am seeing people recommending freezing apps instead of removing them completely. Is this the case now as well?

Also, what is the best way to do a full image backup of everything on the tablet? I want the stock stuff archived away so that I can restore it whenever I like. Online NANDROID or Titanium?

---

Sleepless.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Freezing the apps will prevent updates from being botched. Generally you want to not any patches to Android and freeze apps instead of removing them. If an update comes in, unfreeze them and apply it.

A couple posts back there is a link to a temporary cwm session that is supposed to work with every x86 device. I haven't tried it myself, but the memo is listed as compatible. If it works, it'll take you to a tethered cwm. I'd recommend doing a Nandroid from there. If anything goes wrong restore the Nandroid. It'll work even if you delete recovery... at least is should . :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jay_snake:
I've gotten myself a me176cx today, updated it with system update, rooted with latstes rootzenfoon. Root is working fine, but nog with titanium backup, whenever I try to backup an app or something like that I get the error "not enough disk space" But it still has plenty...someone know a way to fix this?

Never mind:

This proved to be the solution; http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2675778
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yeah, you gotta fix the SD write permissions.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] peldo123:
recovery without bootloader unlock...?

Hey guys I was just wondering if it's possible to create an unofficial recover without boot loader unlock. Like safestrap on kindle fire hdx. Before their boot loader was unlocked they utilized safestrap to make recovery and stock kernel based Roms . I'm new at this stuff so I was just wondering. http://blog.hash-of-codes.com/how-to-safestrap/. If it's possible could one of you higher end techies give it a go
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Something similar to safestrap probably exists in the bootloader. We just have to find it

Here on XDA our motto is "nothing is impossible", not even finding an exploit in a locked bootloader on an amazingly developer friendly tablet *sarcasm*.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sleepless987:
Nice. Confirming the temporary CWM session works, as well as making a backup of the FS from there. Also what's working is rooting from there. All in all, pretty pleased with the tablet so far. Even without the bootloader unlocked I think I have a pretty decent backup now against some problems. Root survives after update to the latest FW, also I think the latest FW solves the battery issue as well.

---

slpls
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Where's that CWM session post? I forgot to copy it to try later.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Is this the post (previously in this thread):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58242746&postcount=1410

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] emreng:
hi all,

I'm just wondering that if there is anything we can do about a warning message especially seen on Asus apps in Play Store. When I list all apps on play store, it says there are updates for some Asus Apps, but when I click to them, it says "your device is not compatible with this version". If you are not allowing me to download the latest version, why do you say there is an update? :) btw, my device is 176cx.

not a big deal, but I want to do if there is any possible solution.

Thanks.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I have that, too, not a big deal though since I froze most of those apps anyway.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Malerien:
Any suggested xposed modules?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
None work with this tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Malerien:
I noticed that none seem to work. :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
You can change the fonts with Rom Toolbox font installer. For example, I'm on ChinaCat and it looks like this:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm going to chime in and mention that the only ones that don't work are the ones that modify the status bar. There is ONE that works called OMZen, but it's in Polish.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
About XPosed, I had several modules working under .182

-Gravity box, some functions worked (show free RAM and close all apps buttons on Recent Apps for instance). No function involving a modification of the status bar worked, though.)

-Youtube Adaway OK

-Greenify OK

-xMultiwindow OK

-SecureSettings OK

Under .199, I had random reboots, that made it very difficult to uninstall Xposed, because many times the tablet rebooted before giving time to uninstall it.

After several tries (the behaviour has been very random) I managed to get xposed installed again, with no bootloops, but:

-Gravitybox doesn`t work at all. It just can`t load its framework and exits.

-xMultiwindow doesn`t work well. It loads the first app on a half of the screen, but the second app loads on fullscreen].

-Youtube Adaway seems to work OK

-Securesettings OK

I recommend to place xposed on the home screen before attemping to install it, to have a quickier acces to it to uninstall it in case your tablet starts to reboot randomnly.

Hope this helps.

Sent from my ASUS Memopad7 K013 (Me176c)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
This is why I'm still on 198 :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
jerbear, is there a .198? Otherwise, which version are you using?

I didnˋt try .191, I made the upgrade from .182 to .191 and to .199 without trying .191...

Didnˋt see any substantial changes from .182 to .199, though.

Thanx

Sent from my ASUS Memopad7 K013 (Me176c)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yes there is. 198 was before 199 and fixed a bunch of issues in 191. 191 broke a lot of things that were in 182 like memory management.

199 was very minor and when I found out it screwed up Xposed I reverted.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JaY_III:
I use crappalinks and the YouTube adblocker no problem
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
New update 201!

Link https://www.dropbox.com/s/ukm066yeh8bkzrw/update-30.01.2015.zip?dl=0

Some minor updates for apk.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Jerbear, do you have a link to 198? I think i'd better go back...!

FYI, I updated via OTA to .201. Root stayed. XPosed works just as good and bad as on .199

Sent from my ASUS Memopad7 K013 (Me176c)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I would expect 201 to be a major update... Silly ASUS.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I'd expect 201 to be the lollipop OS !! For when, I dare to ask??
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I meant that none I WANT to work... lol. I really want to change the soft keys so bad. I NEED a Menu key, not a Recents key.

I wish it was. But more than anything, I'd rather have CM12!!

4.86 MB?! That's IT?! Where's my Lollipop, damn it?!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
On the line with ASUS Customer Support about unlocking and Lollipop. I've been on hold for about 5 minutes... wish me luck!

EDIT: The hold message is saying that they deliver INCREDIBLE ideas. You want an incredible idea? UNLOCK THE BOOTLOADER DANGIT

EDIT 2: I think I've stepped into hell. None of their "technicians" are available to take the call, I'm on hold for another half hour. TECHNICIANS DO NOT TAKE PHONE CALLS ASUS. I've got one of my friends with me, we'll tag team ASUS.

EDIT: WASTE OF MY TIME.

I will give the guy credit. He was friendly about it, but after I asked about a Lollipop update he told me how to update the tablet. After clarification they said no of course.

I asked about the bootloader. He then wanted clarification as to if I meant when ASUS would make the steps available. Guess what he said after that?

(100 percent accurate by the way (sarcasm) [emoji14])

"NOPE NOBODY CARES ABOUT YOU NOBODY CARES ABOUT DEVELOPMENT AND NOBODY CARES ABOUT A LOCKED BOOTLOADER"

In all seriousness he said unfortunately no plans as of yet.

He was the only customer support representative that didn't yell at me "NO" so I'll give credit where credit is due
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
So, I got the 201 update notification after unfreezing my apps and rebooting.... Of course, it failed. Failed the manual recovery way, too, and the fastboot method (MOFD_SDUPDATE.zip on external storage, boot into fastboot, etc) didn't do anything.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Damn, it's gonna be one of those weekends we always get disappointed about everything!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
No problems at all with xposed, gravity box and 199... have you tried uninstalling everything and doing a clean install? Btw i currently have xposed 2.7exp1 and gravity 3.5.1... updating to 3.5.3r1 right now
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AndrewRBX:
Successfully updated to .201.

I unfreezed all the apps, rebooted the device, and the update was there.

The device is still rooted. :good:

Fingers crossed for Lollipop... one day... maybe. :confused: :fingers-crossed:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
No problems with gravity box 3.5.3 as well, both with 199 and 201... the ones who have problems should try a clean install with xposed 2.7exp1
[MeMO Pad 7 General] acavan:
Thank you! I'm on .201 and had trouble with xposed. I uninstalled every module and the framework itself, reinstalled and it's now working, with some limitations, as it did on .182 here.

No random reboots. Thanx!

Sent from my ASUS Memopad7 K013 (Me176c)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Hey guys! What's the methods to manually update ota please
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Here, might have been missed with this title.

http://xdaforums.com/android/help/unbrick-asus-memopad-7-me176c-cx-t2970049
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
There is a tutorial at this website explaining how to install a custom rom on 181c.

http://www.rom-lollipop.org/mp3-0/asus-memo-pad-8-me181c-6413.html

I am not sure if both tablets have the same SoCs, but this could be a light of hope for a custom recovery for our tablet. We can ask Rom Maneger team to consider supporting our device as well.

What you say?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
So do I downgrade to 182 then the ota works?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
They both have a Z3745. To my knowledge the only thing different between us and them is the screen size and the camera.

Is anybody willing to be a Guinea pig? Make sure you Nandroid with the tethered CWM if you do :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
it did that to me too. The problem was greenify in boost mode. Switched to root mode and reboots stoped.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Not sure if the custom rom is real.

The website says you can unlock with fastboot oem unlock and the three downloads for the ROM are all on survey sites.

Also, look at the DPI on those photos. The buttons are positioned for a phone, not a tablet.

The ROM is "huge" so it's split into 3 parts. Really the guy just wants the money for the surveys. ROMs are only a couple hundred megabytes.

I'll look for further evidence.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Its fake its floating around list for several devices its an automatically generated page.

But this device I suspect should get an official 5.x.x build at some point , I heard rumors the intel lollipop release delay has something to do with the Nokia N1 some back room deal I suspect as part of the agreement for Nokia using an Intel chip over another soc.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Emre Kızıltoprak:
comments are really fake "there is no problem so stable so fast " (?)

GT-S5830i cihazımdan Tapatalk 2 ile gönderildi
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Pippinkid:
It's painful to see such a solid device go without any dev love. :crying:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I personally think people need to stop thinking of Intel devices as just their device , when you look at the devices as a group they all share similarities , some similarities a specific to soc generations, some specifics to whether is osip , uefi, aosp boot based , some similarities cross soc generations and boot types, I think it be beneficial if the community as a whole could come together and work on Intel support and not just Asus, Acer, Dell, etc , Device build support.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Pippinkid:
How exactly do you perform a hard reset on this device?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] juanjo1024:
if you mean factory reset, its explained very nicely in page 45, check it out, if you mean cold reboot, just keep the button pressed for 10 secs.

Juanjo
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
From the moment Lollipop was revealed,

Asus said that we'll see it on zenfones in April of 2015 and in June also.

Be patient.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
We're not on a Zenfone though, and the Zenfone 2 already has it, so they have no excuse.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
We are not, but they'll start distributing in major in April.

Therefore I don't expect it sooner than Q2.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mayurj:
Tablet stuck on logo load

Hi developers. My tablet is stuck on these logos. I tried to go into recovery mode, but nothing happens when I hold the power and volume down buttons. The logos come up, and then dissappear after several seconds. The unit seems to power off if I hold these two buttons. Can someone help?

Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Do Power and Volume Up. Select recovery with the volume rocker and power button to get to recovery. You should see a "no command" screen. Hit the center of the volume rocker to show options in the recovery.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mayurj:
How long do I hold VOL UP and POWER? When I do that, the 2 logos appear, and then they disappear and the unit goes blank screen. I have tried releasing power when I see the two logos (and still hold VOL UP), but it doesn't change the outcome.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
If it's going to a black screen you might be screwed. You'll have to RMA it to ASUS.

What did you do to it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mayurj:
I just did the recent Asus recommend software upgrade. The system rebooted, and then a blue bar appeared at the bottom of the screen over the two logos. It stayed like that, so I restarted it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Typically it stays on the blue bar for a while. I had to leave mine overnight once.

You've bricked it good. RMA it and ASUS should take care of it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mayurj:
Dammit.. I knew I was messing with fire. There should be a better notification screen then a stupid blue bar. Thanks so much for your help.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Sorry to butt in jerbear. But the very same thing happened to my gfs tab (as you know) and I've saved it (and my sex life)! <inside joke>. That said, mayurj could try the unbrick solution.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
He cannot go into droidboot, it black screens.

The very last thing he could try that I thought of is the temporary ClockWorkMod.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
i don't have this device so i haven't checked if the downloads on Asus site contain all the unbricking files, but unbricking isn't done through droidboot , it's done with one of the xfstk downloader tools. MFT ( manufacturing flash tool ) , PFT ( phone flash tool ) , xFSTK-downloader , etc if the device can get into droidboot it isn't brick it's when you can't get into droidboot that is bricked and even then it's only soft-brick.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Guy who works for Asus confirmed on Serbian forum that lollipop will come to our tablet 'in the next few months', so don't worry.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
One problem down, one to go!

Somebody has made a petition on change.org to ASUS about the bootloader.

Send the link to everyone you know!

Tweet the hell out of it under #UnlockThatBootloader!

WE can be what makes this device amazing in the end.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Emre Kızıltoprak:
Really :p
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mayurj:
So are you suggesting that I can still recover this tablet? Is there any chance that the instructions here could be the trick?

http://xdaforums.com/android/help/unbrick-asus-memopad-7-me176c-cx-t2970049
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
this is the process i'm refering to it's not your device but the concepts the same : http://glsputra.blogspot.ca/2014/11/how-to-un-brick-zenfone-4-a400cg_49.html should only be used if your device cant boot into droidboot or recovery. . .
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
About a month ago I was pretty close to rooting so I could take steps to improve battery life.. Since then, the latest updates have helped the standby battery enough that I continued to put off rooting. So, now I have perhaps another reason to, depending on the feedback here.

My question is: Does the app freezing that most of you all do once rooted improve the multi-tasking / memory performance? I can tell you that running stock, the multi-tasking is laughable. Example- I can't even go back and forth between 2 apps such as Kindle app and Chrome (only running one tab) without everything having to be re-loaded into memory. Like in the case of chrome- whatever web page was up has to be re-loaded, and then in the case of Kindle- switching back to it requires the book/bookmark etc totally having to be reloaded. Once, the app is loaded back into memory- it's always nice and speedy- but app switching is just awful. If app freezing helps improve this, I think I may give it a go.. Thoughts?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Ok. I thought he/she could go into droidboot.

Sorry to butt in.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mayurj:
So the tablet has a dead battery right now. I'm going to plug it in and see if I can get it to respond. This is what I see on screen (see attachment)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Well your not in need of a full firmware flash at least
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mayurj:
Because I see the battery icon?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
That was exactly my source other than the table.

Another site claims that another memopad model will get the lollipop in May.

So, as I said, my bet is at least after April.

My two cents tho, don't take it for granted.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Pippinkid:
So can somebody help me out? ADB is not recognizing my device. I downloaded the driver zip but don't know where to go from there.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Probably just some quick fixes before they roll out the Lollipop update.... I hope.