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[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
Someone in the same situation?

Someone else needs to try this to confirm it's working on all .182 previously rooted devices.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
Reply from Asus

Asked asus about boot loader, disappointed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Mine is going back to staples where I have bought. I'll stay away from Asus from now on... too bad it had lots of potential... I'm gonna try Acer now. It has the same specs but it's cheaper.

sent from my Octacore Smartphone using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Actually their 7" have lower spec Intel chips, the z2560(dual core) versus the Z3745(quad core) in the Asus.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Windows/android is a no-go, but Ubuntu could be possible as it can just use the Android kernel.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
Looks like people are, and want to buy this tablet. It is a great tablet, that does need a great OS.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stephanes:
I bought this tablet and let me tell you the white/blue/green ui look so horrible. Also it's full of bloatware that you can't freeze or remove.

I finally return the tablet to the store and now I have a nexus 7 2012 with cm11/m-kernel/xposed and I'm 110% satisfied.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
That is one thing I hate about it, there is way to much bloatware.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
Has anyone tried this method? http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2344950
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Motochopper doesn't work. Installs everything and pushes the file to the system, but no root. I'm sure the exploit it used has been fixed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nogarder:
+1

I need root and i will wipe the bloatware winth autostart and titanium.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] buggatti:
towelroot

Has anyone tried geohot towelroot
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Yes, no go.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dusty8:
me176c's firmware is available on asus support page!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
Has anybody tried z4root??? Joking?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Speaking of lesser known root methods:

Has anybody tried Poot on here?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Tried poot, no root. 3 versions.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
Has anybody tried PurpleDrake, WeakSauce, Wugfresh, slapmymoto, towelpieroot, mototool aio, rootkitXperia,
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Do you try all this tool for rooting? I did not know that they exists!

It is possible to root with zip file, that use on http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53639853&postcount=66

I can make file, but I afraid to flash that. [emoji12]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] shawnsac2000:
I have not tried this! I it looks like it might work, I'm also scared to flash it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Amazon has white versions of this tablet for 139.. Man I'm tempted but I'll really want root/recovery.. Going to keep a close eye on this thread
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
I wouldn't flash this, it's for a different firmware number, and if it's wrong and can't be read, you run the risk of not booting.

Good part is the firmware is available to restore it if something happens.

I read further into the thread and it wouldn't root one with the K012 model number. Ours is K013, so probably wont work.

Something about a nonpublic key Asus uses now to prevent access.

I feel good that it won't be much longer. Progress is being made on some pretty new devices.

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It's a great little tablet for the money. I'm happy with it. The software is pretty clean, not a lot of bloat, the ROM is only a little over 800mb. My HTC M8 is 1.5gb! Asus put some of their own productivity apps on it and they are actually useful.

Root or not, you will like it for the money.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Thanks for the recommendation. As it turns out, I stopped by BB tonight to see if they had it in stock. Not only did they have it there in the store, but they had it in black and said they would price match amazon even though amazon's sale was on the white one.. Couldn't resist so I picked up. Gonna play around with it tonight- hoping you're right about the dev/root process happening soon!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
No you have not understood me. I will make zip file with key for our firmware. Of course k012 is different firmware, but now when we have our firmware I check for update scripts and I found couple different scripts between k013 and k012.

One more problem is that we have not driver for our tablet. I have Windows 8.1 64 bit and drivers from Intel site is not working for adb. Maybe if I make on virtual box some other system...

I try something.

Послато са K013
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
You must be mistaken. Today i saw one on redcoon.pt and it has the same specs exactly except for the screen that does not have those anti smudge coat on. But "under the hood" it's all the same.

sent from my Octacore Smartphone using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
which model is that?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nono83:
So can you confirm that you have root on .182 ?

Can you describe your case step by step ?

Thanks. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
i just looked at redcoon.pt, no tablet listed under Acer tablet has the same specs that i could find
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tristanduncan30:
Willing to test anything anyone developes.

I really love this tablet but would love to have custom recovery and custom roms. If anyone makes any sort of developments I would be more than willing to test them.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
Buddy what WW version you running? And have you tried rootzenfone yet?

Does your firmware version end in .162 or .182?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tristanduncan30:
I had used rootzenfone before .182 and then updated by accident. But I had somehow retained root.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
How did you do that? Any ideas?

Do root apps like titanium backup and everything work? How did you found out you still had root after you updated?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mitt69:
I too have root with 182, for me I think it was selecting survival mode in SuperSu pro that kept it and yes I have access to titanium backup and have verified the root with Root Checker.

Has anyone managed to switch the tablet over to ART from Dalvik? I tried a couple of times but it kept causing the tablet to hang on the reboot so I had to do a factory reset to get it up and running again
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
I did, and it gets stuck in bootloop too. Maybe Asus forbade it on purpose. This is rather strange tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
lucky .

You are one lucky guy, This tablet has a stock recovery, do you think I should go on the asus website, download the .162 firmware and flash it using Droid boot 2.0?

Any suggestions
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
How? There's no custom recovery to do so. You'd have to install it by the normal means.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
This app has nothing to do with clockworkmod, but the people that made it are the same people that made cwm

It's an app called superuser by com
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yeah, I know what it is, but you said to install it through recovery. Normally that requires a custom recovery to flash files like this.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Has ota survival mode been confirmed working? I'm officially getting this tablet in a couple of weeks, and that apps on SD feature would be incredibly useful since I have a 32 gig SD card. I'd like to keep FolderMount as well. I didn't buy FolderMount Pro for nothing.

If OTA survival mode works this could be a breakthrough.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
A few people have reported that they still have root after updating, so it seems to be the case. But hopefully Shaka will have something new in the meantime.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
Windows ---- me176cx

:laugh: Guys will soon release a new tablet asus vivotab 8 ( m81c ) who has a device programmer. May be you try to install the BIOS taken from the asus vivotab 8 ( m81c ) and install it on the Asus MeMO 7 (me176cx). Waiting for the results of experiment urgent need !!! Similar test to try Bios from ASUS VivoTab Note 8 (M80TA) ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Wait, what? What good would that do us?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Shodan81:
For people who want to avoid battery drain with wi-fi off, try to keep bluetooth on, that's what (finally) worked for me and now I'm seeing 2% battery usage over night. I'm on .161 with root, bloatware removed, sync disabled, power saver and airplane modes on - basically I've followed all the advice previously posted in this thread prior to leaving bluetooth on. I'm not sure whether it makes a difference, but you should also try pairing your tablet with another BT device just to make sure - I paired mine with a BT keyboard and accidentally forgot to switch BT off, that's how I discovered this :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
Long story short, my tablet, is in such an awkward status:

- has su and superuser.apk in /system/xbin

- all root checker apps say I'm NOT rooted

- on stock .182 firmware

- whenever an app requests root, it got automatically denied by SuperUser.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Did you try going into Superuser's settings and change the default prompt to allow? And delete those apps from the SU app?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
I can't even get into supersu in the first place
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Looks like you only have SuperSU app installed, but aren't rooted. Antutu probably just looks for the SU app and says you're rooted if it's installed, whether or not it's actually working :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yup, without the binary, it's pretty much useless.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Well, I decided to be a guinea pig, so I put the 182 update on my sd card, and ran it. Coming from 161, rooted, Supersu pro in survival mode. After the update, I am not rooted anymore. I had previously tried the ota update, and it failed to install(like for many others). So maybe if you can update through ota, root holds, but from the sd card, it seems it doesn't.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Root can't survive flashing stock image. I would be first to try it if it was possible. Only OTA update have the chanse to maintain root and only new rooting method can give us those privileges on 182 rom,
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
http://androtab.info/memopad/fastboot/

Guys what do you make of this?

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**Hey guys

Just got my tablet last week and fell into the trap of allowing it to update to 182 and then rooting and then getting stuck with the demo mode continually looping and not being able to turn it off.

Thankfully I managed to blag my retailer into replacing it as faulty

Obviously I switched off OTA updates on the new tablet and it was on 161 still.

Anway a couple of questions,

1./ has anyone successfully managed to turn on ART on the ME176CX. I have tried a couple of times but the tablet just hangs on the screen with the whirling circle under the ASUS logo after the reboot.

2./ Has anyone on 182 with the demo mode loop tried the factory reset options in recovery?

On 161 to get into recovery you need to do the following

1./ Ensure the tablet is powered off

2./ Hold the volume up button and then press and hold the power button until the screen turns on

3./ Release the power button but keep the volume up pressed until you see the Droidboot (fastboot) screen

4./ Go down to Recovery and press the power button to select it and the tablet will now boot into recovery

5./ Now in 161, once in recovery, if you press the centre of the volume rocker (it may take a couple of tries) you will bring up a hidden menu of recovery options, these are

Reboot

Install from ADB

Factory Reset

Wipe Cache

I used the factory reset option to reset my tablet when it got stuck on the switch to ART and it made me wonder if this option was still available for those stuck in the Demo mode on 182 as it may be a way for them to reset their tablets and get rid of the demo once and for all.

Incidentally since using this factory reset option my Build Number now shows as WW-3.1.23.124 and not 161 anymore, the kernel shows the same number of 124 also.***

Read this recently.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I decided to give Asus another shot. Just bought another one but this one is the "CX" instead of the "C" I had before. (Plus it's cheaper). Based on the screw up I made before, I'll just root it and NOT change the build.prop.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
Wise choice man!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Interesting- I'll give that a shot. I have resorted to just putting the tablet into airplane mode whenever I'm not using it. After trying everything in this thread- it's the only thing that slowed the drain (not totally, definitely not 2% overnight, but better). I'll throw on bluetooth tonight and see what happens, even though I'm not on .161 anymore- we'll see what happens. Thanks for the suggestion.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
ASUS Serbia*said:10.8.2014.*08:17

We have just received information from the service that is causing the problem with excessive depletion was a bad battery.*There is no serial error and reason for panic.

This is message (Google translate) from site in Serbia about battery drain.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Hmmmm. I don't think so. It's being reported in more than one device... I mean, it can't be an isolated incident.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] goodmamba:
I just bought this tablet for my mom, updated to 182 via OTA. It would be great to have root.

I can wait but the bloatware is killing me. I never seen so much bloatware.

So far the battery is OK, but I have to do some more research after 4-5 charging cycles.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Anyone try the dual app mode? For the few apps that are compatible it's pretty good. Having the calendar open on half the screen while reading emails to schedule jobs on the other half is pretty neat.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
What is dual app mode and how do I run it? Build .158
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
new thing in .182
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Did you do anything special to make that work? Mine took the OTA and wouldn't update (like all the others). I downloaded the update from support, put on the internal, doesn't see it. uznzipped it put on the internal no dice. put both of those on the ext sd nothing. did you rename it? What steps did you take. I would like to use the new features, root isn't as imoortant as it was, I only used to block ads. Ad block plus works without root now so......
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Only thing I did was unzip the file and copy it onto the external SD card. Don't put it into any folder on the card, and don't rename it. It has to be on the root of the SD card. Then reboot and it should show up in the notifications.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
Windows ---- me176cx

:laugh: While this will give You the monitoring of available programs Bios. You need to choose the most suitable Bios that would not from a few to make one Bios. Depending on the equipment in me176cx. It is not excluded that it can match all. What steps were taken xda developers forum for leading us to install Windows on (me176cx).? It seems there were talks that you must unlock (bootloader). Perhaps it's easier to erase it ? Why is it needed ? And then you just make a program that would massively to introduce people to the Bios !!! after the tests have to open the tablet and reflash the chip back or give in service. If there :laugh:The following errors occurred with your submission:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nogarder:
How can i use multiwindows? Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Update to .182 and most likely you will lose root... But in a screen so small I really don't see the advantage.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
You have to be updated to 182 firmware. Then, you activate from the recent apps button. So you first have to open several apps, then close them. When you touch the recent app button, they appear on screen, and you press and hold one. It then can be moved into one of the two sides of the screen, and the screen splits. A lot of apps say something like"App only works in full screen". Google apps all seem to work.

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It definitely is limited on a 7" screen. But I think Asus built the feature into all their new android versions, and it would be a pain to take it out of the firmware for smaller devices.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dexter20082001:
Umm... the boot loader is necessary for things to boot. You can't just simply put a new one on the device. It is locked and encrypted if I am not mistaken and fastboot is limited. So, this is not a very plausible idea. Sorry if I miss understood what you are saying. Your English was a little rough, no offense.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I agree. Only politicians give one time and retrieve it later. :D

sent from my Octacore Smartphone using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm assuming every app that's bugged in XMultiWindow will be bugged in Asus's multi window.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
About battery drain, I might have a solution. I've used CPU master pro app by antutu to lower from 500 MHz to 1.3 GHz. And so far, my battery has still 39% and has been working since 8 am. Being now (local time) 3 pm. This, using in normal use web, email, Facebook and WiFi always on.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Update .182 and disappearing apps?

Quick question:

For folks running .182, do you still have the issue of some applications disappearing on reboot (Angry Birds Epic and Threes are two that come to mind). I had to move apps to the internal card using something like 3c Toolbox for them to stay persistent, and app updates will cause the app to once again be in a "disappearable" state.

This was somehow related to /mnt/asec and other mounting issues, so since .182 apparently offers better use of the SD card, I was wondering if this seeming bug was also fixed...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5G23fyE72tncGkwRjVwN0xSZDlUZXFfa2ZjM085MlBoNTJB/view?usp=sharing
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Just for you ;) i installed Angry Birds Epic, then rebooted, and it's still there. I remember that one of the changes was fixing that sd card problem, and it seems to be good now.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Thank you for doing that!

Well, that's another reason for upgrading to .182, and another reason for not needing root. Since I've worked out a way to back up Angry Birds data without needing root (just use ADB), I suppose I could try the .182 upgrade via SD card and start from scratch... Having root is nice, but I could wait until another method was figured out...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
That was a really annoying bug I had with this tablet. I ended up converting those apps and games to system apps and they remained after reboots.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
How do you do that?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
TitaniumBackup I think. Right?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Yes. Unfortunately that requires root, but it seems with the latest update apps aren't disappearing so it's not needed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
:) Hello ( dexter20082001 ) I'm use avtomaticheskij translator. And on this sorry for my English.

In our case, we won't load ( bootloader ) required to download ( android ) and we will erase delete it. We will install the Bios instead of ( bootloader ) and boot start from the Bios needed for Windows. Us in this case ( bootloader ) is not necessary. All protection ( bootloader ) voltage applied to 3 foot WP ICS ( 25Q64FWIG ) if enabled then need to complete the 3 foot by 8 to firmware. You can try yourself if You have ( device programmer ) don't worry chip prosyatsya. Or if You have a volunteer and we can agree (as we don't speak English. We can get him to flash the chip remotely using TeamViewer software. You have nothing not even need the programmer does not need. You can sleep on the bed. As for restoring back to Android you need a programmer or service. :laugh:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Again, we DON'T want to erase the bootloader. Most of us would agree that we would prefer to keep this tablet on Android OS, not Windows. However, considering this is an x64 Intel-based chipset, the possibility of dual-booting Android and Windows is pretty good. At this time, however, we do NOT want to do something like what you're suggesting. Like you said, that takes programming and hardware/software and knowledge that few of us have. So please, don't push this issue any further as you're only cluttering the thread with confusing suggestions. If you have an idea on how to UNLOCK the bootloader, then by all means, please share. But stick to the topic, please.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
windows - me176cx

:)

As an option to Install the bootloader on the windows and Android at once with dual boot. But the bootloader is already unlocked. !!! More I will not write although you should be interested in this !!! :laugh:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
Как я понял, речь идет об аппаратном разлочивании?

U mean HW unlocked?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
Windows ---- me176cx

:eek: Хотя в этом я не уверен что будет работать новое содержимое но содержимое микросхемы заменить можно с помощью программатора или программой intel овской от teklast. :eek:

Нам сейчас нужно бинарник для прошивки в spi ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
As I understood there is a Intel's program that will allow put new bootloader (BIOS for example) for the Windows installation?

Как я понял есть интеловская программа для "заливки" нового бутлоадера, для последующей установки Wondows?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Wait, so how does this unlock the bootloader? What if that's all we wanted to do?

All we need is to unlock the bootloader so we can install custom recovery and ROM development will pick up from there.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dexter20082001:
A bios is already on the system. Bios and boot loader are different terms. BIOSes are included on computer systems, it is a necessity. If anything were needed to change, it would be the boot loader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
(me176cx -- windows)

with this program have the opportunity to do anything to erase the contents ( 25Q64FWIG ) then pour something new, anything without opening the tablet :laugh:

in the case of fill outside of the content which is causing the error (not loaded Bios ) will have to open the tablet and change the chip independently using (device device) or to give in service.

:)

Просто этой программой можно делать что угодно стереть содержимое ( 25Q64FWIG ) потом залить что либо новое что угодно без вскрытия планшета :laugh:

в случае заливки нерабочего содержимого вызывающего ошибку (не загружается Bios ) придется вскрыть планшет и перезалить микросхему самостоятельно с помощю программатора. либо отдать в сервис.

ссылка инструкции

http://cngadget.info/2014/06/20/windows-8-1-firmware-for-teclast-x98-3g-instructions-english/

на 4pda.ru в теме teclast x98 3g ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
U right :) Lost In Translations ©

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So we need anyone who's write new decrypted bootloader >_<
[MeMO Pad 7 General] unlikelymist:
Can you explain please, what do you mean device is unlocked anyway?

whats this program? What does it let you do?

Whats the most it can do without physically opening the hardware?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
http://cngadget.info/2014/06/20/windows-8-1-firmware-for-teclast-x98-3g-instructions-english/ this is instructions for device with similar hw, I think
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
That tablet, the Teclast X98, must already have an unlocked bootloader, and the flash tool is supplied by Teclast, for that tablet. nothing to help us, I believe.