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[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
So, the droidboot menu is fine until you try to load TWRP, then errors... (You're using T4, right?)

Oh dear...

Well. Based on this, I give a warning: DO NOT update to .36. It apparently breaks temp TWRP.

Is it still possible to get TWRP? Absolutely, but it's much harder and you'd need to be technical, and since .36 wipes root you'd also need a USB drive to load Linux and install it. It also involves modifying the ESP partition and the ESP boot order, and the recovery partition itself would have to be replaced, so... Yeah. ASUS made things harder, but not impossible. Hard enough to deter those who aren't tech-savvy, though.

[MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but this OTA doesn't seem safe. It's as if ASUS knows we're on the advent of a custom ROM and is specifically trying to stop us. Fortunately, though, we seem to know more about this tablet then they do. There are still other ways to get a custom recovery.

Now, in theory, you can also revert the changes that are doing this while still being on .33, but again you'd need a Linux USB drive to do so.

TL;DR STAY AWAY FROM THE LATEST UPDATE. FREEZE CMCLIENT AND DMCLIENT TO GET RID OF THE NOTIFICATION.

EDIT: TWRP seems to be working for some and not for others.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
jerbear,

Are you saying that if we are in .36 we can't do a tethered recovery any more? Because I can and did. Is not the tethered Intel T4 thingy TWRP?

After being fully on .36, I was able to boot into recovery and still establish root again. Is that not what you are talking about? Yes, it would seem this update is finicky about using the /data and /cache/recovery method of updating, but tethered recovery worked.

Am I missing something? Something you found in the dlpkg file?

I have to go to sleep now, but I'll be back. No lurking. *smile* But do know that .36 is working fine for me, though maybe that means I am now a doe-eyed cow doing the bidding of evil ASUS and their anti-EFI establishment!

Later,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
I updated to.36 earlier - rooted no problem and TWRP is working fine. Xposed also works perfectly from what I can see.

Should I really revert back to .33? I have a .33 nandroid standing by, it should work, right?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
I think that he wouldn't tra to update to .36 if he was already there. It seems he is not using T4 to me. We could "tether" the permanent recovery too if insecure bootloader was publicly usable - but that's up to others. Even you still didn't share the permanent twrp. The geekish way would be using grub2, but without permanent twrp.. But I am willing to make a tutorial on using grub2 if it won't be solved
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
I checked the updater script. It only getprops the device model and if the android version is 5.0. So it can be installed from original recovery as well. Even if you are rooted or deleted some apps.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Seems like TWRP is working for some and not working for others :S
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
If it helps any I flashed the zip sutekh137 posted here yesterday via temp TWRP after wiping data/cache/dalvik cache, that's all. I think maybe he'd tweaked the zip a little? Re. restoring .33 nandroid, will this be possible if I have to do it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] momo2016:
help i just fastboot erase system. and my tablet only turn on in bootloader and i have no access to recovery mode anymore

can i have a system.img or recovery.img to flash with fastboot ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
could u do something for me pls? can u tell the person who is making the custom kernel to maybe add support for otg and charge at same time? ive been in hell trying to charge and otg at same time.. i wanted to load keyboard and mouse and charge at same time and i cant because it only allows 1 thing at a time and tablet battery drops down too fast..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Well, can you still access temp TWRP?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Well once it will work, we can focuse on this. You may try to compile the kernel source from asus support page and add it yourself - if it's not already in the source (some functions are not selected to compile)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
I can, no problem. So going back to. 33 is a straightforward matter?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
i got the 3.10.64 kernel from aosp booting into twrp but it has some graphic issues to work out.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
ASUS seem to have updated their firmware page: https://www.asus.com/support/Download/28/6/0/23/3HzHuNmdcAgeMhJ1/32/
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Wow that's nice. Can you send me a recovery build to test when you find time?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
A kernel compiles?

It's just a matter of time, now... Well, that, and getting the insecure bootloader publicized.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
I did the same thing. No problems.

I didn't use the update file because it didn't work, as usually. So I put the whole Rom 36 in the root directory of my sd-card.

Found. Updated.

T4 . Sideloaded SU.zip .

Rooted.

All fine.

36 is much better.

Better battery. And faster.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] M1chiel:
I installed jerbear's file. Had to reroot and debloat, but everything works fine, including xposed. Tablet seems to respond faster and has not crashed yet (it used to crash randomly at least once every hour).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Don't know if this is of any use to anyone but I've noticed with .36 that when the 'GravityBox' Xposed module is activated the percentage battery indicator in the statusbar is affected, i.e. it comes and goes randomly. Weird.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
can i have the pink with of xposed? and am i the only one that notices some delay in everything when xposed framework is active?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] xristos2:
I'm on .24 can I take a nandroid flash .36 and if something goes wrong to return on .24? Finally does .36 removes the ability to boot on TWRP?

Chris
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Eh?

I haven't noticed any delay, to be honest.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i meant to say "can i have the xposed link?"
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i updated to .36 now just tested xposed twrp and cwm all working.. im just with a bug of .36 everythime i start the tab it shows a fast uefi notification and its allways optimizing apps when i reboot.. problably i need to reinstall
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I have always had the "Optimizing apps" flash on rebooting (after a few runs it does not optimize them any more, just displays for a bit...) This was true with everything since Lollipop, in my experience...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] xristos2:
Thanks!

Now that more people installed .36 do we know if battery is better than .31? Because on .24 it's super although the lag is massive.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I can't vouch (haven't updated yet) but supposedly it's better. Worst case scenario, a downgrade is just a nandroid away.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
I have just updated and rooted.

I have to disable and/or delete some system apps. I have been using app freezer but it is not so good. Can you offer any other option than TB? Is there any xposed module to do the job?

Regarding xposed, it doesn't seem to be deleted. Should install it again via batch file again or what shall I do? And which version should I use? Which modules are must to use?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
Sorry for the late reply.

I didn't have any "update.zip" file in my /data folder but after several restarts on both tablet and my computer

and after the flash that I had in my mind to put the update directly to the root folder and not the sd card, I finally got to the cwm!

Then I had the K013_1 but eventually I managed to update it through the System Update itself while I was in the middle of downloading your updated script.

I still got the root and everything went fine.

Thank you, and everyone else who tried to fix my issue. :good:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i actually fixed it, (i clear dalvik cache, dowgraded to .33 and updated to .36)

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battery seems actually the same lol, what ive actually noticed is that i was able to get some multitasking without apls making reset (i multitasked at least 3 apps without reset)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Lautaro Mondaca:
For me battery drain keeps in .36 but everithing runs more smooth and no lag
[MeMO Pad 7 General] xristos2:
Comparing with .24 the battery is just unacceptable! 40% overnight with greenify and wifi off... Maybe I'll give it one more chance by disabling some services that mentioned at a post and if not .24 it's the only way although .36 it's really snappy
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i found a really cool app that places a folder called layers in /system/vendor if u put an apk layer and reboot it can change systemUI stuff framework settings app (ill leave a screenshot), and also many other themes for apps like whatsapp youtube twitch etc (btw the navbar buttons i changed them myself manually the systemui) [IMG="Settings themed with Layers RRO"]http://s17.postimg.org/rru9jji33/Screenshot_2016_02_09_14_45_31.jpg[/IMG]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
What.

Which app is that? The closer I can theme this to look like AOSP, the longer I can deal with ZenUI.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Whats the app?

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My thoughts exactly! It really ticks me off having WHITE, WHITE, WHITE shoved in my face at every turn.. ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
the app is called RRO Layers (seqrch on play store, it uses advantage of the theme manager support of 5.0 and 6.0) and if u want the settings apk i actually got it from a zenfone RRO theme u need to flash via twrp link for the settings:http://xdaforums.com/zenfone2/themes-apps/layers-overlay-rro-black-themes-asus-t3162374 i tried downloading rro kayers of systemui of the zenfone it kinda works, the icons are the ones that dont change... this app could be way better if we had aosp rom of 5.1 or 6.0... because this devjce has zenui some stuff doesnt work well..

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OMGOMGOMG the settings theme it doesnt only change the personalization it also added some new stuff now we have support for adding other fonts !!!!!!! its on screen tab

/////

Nevermind doesnt actually work... it shows the fonts but when i select it doesnt change them...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
I think I saw some app for changing system font, but it's everywhere then.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Jerbear, hows your build going? Sorry for the lack of updates, I've had a rather crazy fortnight. This project just takes hours of time I just didn't have spare.

I've set up a linux box (finally!!!) and have got a kernel building on it currently. Have you successfully gotten a kernel (or even more?? :D) to build?

Ruben, thanks for that awesome discovery :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Can't say that I have. Java's been complaining about being out of memory, which is strange, because my old build server had the same exact specs as I do now, and I was able to compile PAC-ROM and CM11 fine :S
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Even after removing the original 'AsusSettings' the settings.zip just isn't installing properly for me, it always force-closes. :(

Tell me, which zip did you download here? https://my.pcloud.com/publink/show?code=sDUrtalK#folder=50292425

It's not necessary to have 'RRO' installed, to apply the dark AsusSettings apk, right?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
no its not, just flash it on twrp, rro u can get themes by searching for them in play store and i downloaded the zenfone2 dark settings 156

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sure np, i actually have a request when theres a kernel working can u add functionality to otg and charge at same time?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
*EDIT* Doesn't work - crashes after reboot.

*EDIT* Works! Only after I installed it manually & changed permissions etc.

It's great having a dark background on settings, far easier on the eyes. :)

I did flash it via TWRP. It doesn't work - always force-closes. Are you sure it's a K013 tablet you're using by the way?

And from the download page, which version did you flash?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
http://appslollipop.com/Apps_Holo-Themer-Xposed-Module_Lollipop.html

i don't know if it works good on lp but i use it for system settings ui on kk and it works fine... www.fotos-hochladen.net][/url]

if i use background images i use images i stored in emmc if they are stored in external sdcard everything is very slow
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
How to make the tab less laggy when using just xposed (no modules installed just the framework)? i really want the xposed but the delay on navbar buttons and touch delay is horrible

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im glad it worked ^^
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
on my galaxy note i use Theme DIY with this app you can make your own themes very easy unfortunately it runs only on lp...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Here's the version of Xposed & framework I used, if it's of any help? If your version is different I suggest replacing it with this one.

P.S. Black settings is crashing again - and that layer app is good for soft bricking my pad but little else I'm afraid.. SystemUI always crashes on reboot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Jerbear, I'm confident you will figure it out :) - Maybe give your box more swap?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
can we get something like this

for our device?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruwin:
Sure, whenever we have a custom rom... :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Odds are that's it- I didn't give the thing ANY SWAP and I haven't gotten around to adding some :p

Arch likes to break whenever the Nvidia drivers update (just goes to a black screen after a reboot) so whenever they update I have to pull out my recovery CD, purge, and reinstall them. That's my best opportunity to install SWAP (since you can't shrink partitions while they're being used) and I keep forgetting to.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
Do you guys want me to start making customized systemUI, settings, etc into a more dark theme? ill maybe make it also in a flashable zip cuz its easier to install
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Perhaps you could make it as a Layers theme? That way it'll be easier to install and other applications can be made darker as well.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
as a layer theme it isnt really good because the systemui some stuff cant be changed
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
The blacker the better my friend ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
wat

[emoji14]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
I should probably clarify that statement a little.. I meant the blacker the theme the better. Ahem!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] csamolot:
You can always use a swap file instead of a partition. This way you don't need to resize the partitions.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
True, but I'd prefer it as a separate partition.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Opensystem:
Hey guys so how is 36 for everyone? I decided to give it a go but I'm guessing because it detected root it failed, so I'm curious if it's worth the effort...although I like what I'm reading about custom kernels ☺

I would have to download a stock zip, flash, and then update correct?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
i lost root but didnt needed to remove the root :/
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Opensystem:
Actually just saw a post back on page 368 with a zip I can supposedly flash and then reroot? Thinking of trying that. Just hate messing with a good thing lol
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Is this the post? http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65169841&postcount=3671

I used it to upgrade from .33 to .36 without any problems. Rerooting procedure was the same as it was with .33 and Xposed runs fine too.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
How did we do the root? I forgot, using the temp twrp + flash SuperSU? Also, what did they change in .36?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
That's it, exactly. Dunno what they changed but .36 feels more stable & a little quicker.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Or maybe its a placebo effect; still, gonna try it out soon. How did you install it and root the tablet again? Can't find the post with that tutorial.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Here's the root guide.

http://xdaforums.com/memo-pad-7/general/root-asus-memo-pad-176-lollipop-33-t3271207
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Opensystem:
Cool thanks... Most people seem to agree it's better, if not exactly in what way lol. If ram management is improved that would be pretty huge
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
The battery percentage is showing because under options > battery there's an option saying : "Show battery percentage" disable that and you're good.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
You misunderstand me. I had chosen the 'show battery' option because I want to see the battery percentage at all times. My point was that the percentage display on .36 disappears for no reason when the 'Gravitybox' xposed module is enabled.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
GravityBox has percentage code as well, but it never interfered for me.

For reference, I'm using .33, and I'm using dashed circle battery with percentage. Try that battery setting on .36
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Can anyone make a user app as a system app on the .36? Neither link2sd nor titanium backup can move either AcDisplay nor Nova Launcher from user apps to system, it just breaks them and I need to reinstall them to user,; bottom line: I can't make the apps stay in system and to be working.

update1: Titanium backup's update.zip can't be installed in the temp twrp; Why the hell can't we move apps to /system now?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Jesus managed to change the quick settings tiles to a different theme...thanks to you guys and that dark settings mod:):)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
How'd you do it? And did you have to mod 'systemui' in any way?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
i have xposed, think that counts?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
Moving apps to system hasn't worked since Lollipop came out in general for all devices I'm pretty sure.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
I moved Multiling keyboard, Nova Launcher, CPU Control to /system and it worked fine; I falled back to .33 and applied .36 with xposed disabled and modules deleted, maybe that's what caused the issue. Will update.

Confirmed. xposed was giving me the trouble, after I disabled it and reapplied the update I can normally transfer to /system.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
he installed a layer
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Yep I used a layer...this one.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=64485917
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
I know you installed a layer, but did you tick the boxes to install ALL the elements of that layer, i.e. did you tick the box to change systemUI in any way?

By the way, are any of your APKs deodexed?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
Nope I copied it manually and changed permission it didn't work when I tried to flash via temp recovery.. And no none of my apps are deodexed. There are a lot of layer themes about you can use but be careful some will cause bootloop if so you will.need to go back to temp recovery and remove the theme under system/ vendor/ overlays..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
In my experience ALL of them kill your systemui if you attempt to tweak that APK in any way. How do you use TWRP to remove the theme under system/ vendor/ overlays? That would sure save me restoring a nandroid any time something goes wrong! ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
That one theme is from Asus layers which seems not to cause any issues.. When I'm im temp recovery go to advanced/ file manager then you will find overlays ect use it like any other file manager and delete what you need..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That's what I did. It really helped since I was messing with themes at school and have TWRP permanently on here so I don't need tethered TWRP.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
And how may I ask you have permanent twrp did I miss something in these thread's...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
[MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] gave a few of us an "insecure" bootloader prototype. It functions the same way as an unlocked bootloader does, but it's not necessarily "unlocked" in a sense. In my case I was one of the first testers of it, and as such I've got the stable version as my main bootloader. I'm not sure when he plans to release it publicly.

With the insecure bootloader installed we can flash recoveries and boot custom kernels.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Or you can use grub2 ;)

Please will you send me the twrp dd backup?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Just PM'd you . .
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
can i have the perm twrp? wanted to try skme stuff but im tjred of needing to go into temp recovery...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Actually, that's what he PM'd me about.

I got his permission to distribute the insecure bootloader and TWRP builds, but only in .img form.

When I get the chance I'll backup the files and link them here.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Opensystem:
Thanks used the zip in recovery worked great, loving it

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That will definitely save some time. Time to buy a new micro SD
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Nice.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
Interesting, what other form is there for them?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
There's an .img that we flash via adb, there's zip that can be flashed via recovery, and there's a I think a "*.tar.md5" that you can flash via 3rd party program like Odin for Samsung. I think that's every form, someone may correct me if I skipped any.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Actually, I wouldn't recommend fastboot for this, I'd use dd. The only problem with that is if you don't know the partition numbers you can brick your device.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Will you provide the tutorial on how to flash the recovery? Are we able to flash it via flashify or any other app?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I originally wrote an script/update.zip that is ran through the tethered twrp that generates an emergency PFT (Phone Flash Tool) package, then installed the .efi bootloader into the esp partition, and then would generate a twrp recovery from the devices stock recovery and then flash the generated twrp.img.

unfortunately some devices / some versions of the tethered recovery concept didn't like the scripting and would error on md5 checking so i scrapped that and am working on making it into an actual app that will also check if a device meets the requirements of the insecure bootloader to try to make it as safe as possible for unconfirmed devices.

if you want i can send you a update-binary script that will do the flashing of the images through the tethered recovery instead of having to manually dd the images. i would like to eliminate and chance of bricking a device.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Opensystem:
That would be so awesome
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
I would more appreciate if I could just dd the recovery etc, just do it manualy. Noob-friendly auto installations tend to be not-so-flexible, so I hope there will also be the files seperately (don't mind a guide but just a label what is what may be enough) and then also a nice flashable zip for less experienced people who don't want to try new things not thougjt of by script creator - why not :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Opensystem:
Can someone who has it handy please link the working Xposed for our device? Had it set up but then upgrade. Like what I see so far
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
that's why i'm not a fan of one click roots, there is no control, and i don't like not being in control of my device, essentially the script / install.zip method would just be dd of the images really all it is, is

dd if=esp.img of=/dev/block/by-name/ESP

dd if=twrp.img of=/dev/block/by-name/recovery

of course don't quote me on the /dev/block/by-name part not near my tab at the moment. . .