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[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
I need linux to do this so, does puppy linux(less time to install) make the job or not? Which one should i install? And i have no idea where to put the last command or where to getthe manifest (im horriblew with linux.. Im more of a windows user)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
Jerbear can u make a backup of /esp/ partition (with custom bootloader, and recovery). Thanks, cant understand right how to compile the source files to make eflinux.efi...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
I have got a generic build of ASOP building on my VPS, there will be no drivers so probably nothing will work if the build succeeds..

Other than that, once it completes i'll build that bootloader from [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Yeah, the build(s) (bootloader and asop) didn't work!.. I presume you [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] or [MENTION=3148998]jerbear[/MENTION] are using a different linux flavour than me? I am using the latest ubuntu?!

The other interesting thing I noticed was that the sources from [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION]'s github reference cyanogen mod 12 rather than 12.1 which is the latest, so the local_manifest file required editing on my end.. does the uefi_oslauncher build require cm to compile or can ASOP be used..

I stopped my port of Cyanogen because I hit numerous issues with compiling on OS X :(.. If ASOP doesn't compile for me, Cyanogen wont!!! :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I've been building against cm source cm-12.1-YOG7D on Mint 17.1 , i don't think aosp has this commit here needed for adding private build definitions which is needed to build the bootloader.

sorry probably should of mentioned that.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Oh, I'll give that a try then :), because I am using a VPS, it is super easy to spin up another instance of mint and download the cyanogen mod source in minutes with it's gigabit connection!!!

I'll retry tomorrow!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
Hello,

I have a question about xposed on the ME176CX.

I have root on my device but which xposed framework should I install? The sdk21-x86?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Right.

Make sure it's v78 of Xposed, otherwise you'll bootloop assuming you're on the latest version.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
Yes I'm on .33 and I've installed this version of xposed (flashed with tethered TWRP command T4) but now the xposed installer app says:

Xposed is not (yet) compatible with android SDK version 21 or your processor architecture (x86).

CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE: could not load library "libdvm.so" needed by "/data/data/de.robv.android.xposed.installer/cache/app_process"; caused by library " libdvm.so" not found

What did I do wrong?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
I have a build of Android 6.0 (asop) actually building (yay!!) for a generic x86 device, lets hope it works on the hardware....

Presuming it does boot, touchscreen, wifi etc probably won't work...

[MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION], I'll get back to you, but If the build does finish, could you PM me a build (buggy is fine) of the osloader? I would like to make it compatible and I cannot for the life of me get it to compile!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I can't wait, AOSP is pretty nice!

I think I'd take it over CM13 actually because it's stable, and GravityBox for Marshmallow is out now which can hold me over until CM13 has a milestone release.

I wouldn't mind CM12.1 either.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
If possible can you explain how your making the roms for the device? I would like to see cm12 but i would also like to see the cm version of kitkat because of the ram...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
KitKat isn't more memory friendly though. Lollipop has the same minimum requirements.

ASUS's ZenUI builds of KitKat were a bit more memory efficient but that's because of ZenUI, not Android. Besides, if the HTC HD2 can do Lollipop, pretty much anything can.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] spookmeister101:
I just wanted to say, the stuff you guys are doing is so far over my head. But thanks a lot, and I can't wait to see the results, and experience my tablet running fast.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
I'm getting stuck trying to update from .201 KitKat to Lollipop (tried installing .17 and .24). I've been reading through the past 100-150 pages and also some other threads and for some reason I still can't get this to work.. I'm probably just missing something small.

Right now, I tried to just put the .17 zip in the root of my external SD-card and installed through the notification I received. The installation finishes without any problems but the tablet ends up in a bootloop. Any ideas what I should do now? Should I try to flash .17 or .24 through tethered TWRP instead of the built-in recovery/updater?

I got my own Nandroid of .201 if I need to go back, and also the Lollipop (.33 I think?) Nandroid that jerbear294 posted earlier in the thread in case that's needed (thanks for that one btw!).

Edit: I restored jerbear's .33 Nandroid and it successfully installed/restored, but it's still just bootlooping when I restart the device :/ When I do a backup, the filename includes version .33, so it did successfully install that version I suppose.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
The Build Succeeded! YAY!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
did u flashed it? or u just made it but didnt tested it? #confused

if u flashed it what bugs does it have?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
your installing the nandroid backup that needs the bios update... download the official .33 update extract it and delete the 1st line of updater script and make zip file... put it on tab and install using the thethered recovery.. it will install and after its installed delete dalvik and cache (and maybe factory reset just to be sure) and then reboot and it should make bios update (it makes update to same version for some reason)... then it should reboot and seem that its bootlooped but its not.. u have to wait at least 10 min for it to boot..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I'm getting ready to send out the latest test build of bootloader
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
:D

I'll be waiting for it. I won't be able to flash it for about two hours though- I'm at robotics after school right now.

[MENTION=7057426]Penguineh[/MENTION] be sure to report back about the ROM's stability.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
Thanks for your answer. I did all this now and the installation was successful. After install I did a factory wipe (data, dalvik & cache) and then rebooted... and it went into bootloop (keep rebooting every minute or so). I waited for about 30min but it just kept rebooting all the time.

I used the .33 Lollipop to Lollipop release. Maybe that was wrong? Maybe I should use the Kitkat to Lollipop release ^^
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mono0521:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

Install XposedInstaller_3.0_alpha4.apk. That worked for me.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
Maybe u need to install that first.. (.17) then .24 and then .33
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Latest test build of the bootloader can boot to recovery! :D

Can't boot to fastboot though, but it's progress.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Really wish i had this tab so i could figure it out. It's always worked as expected on my Lenovo S8-50F , I'm going to check a couple of things, but might look at just making the combo / magic key press display a menu to select desired boot option.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Something like rEFInd or Grub for fastboot/recovery booting would be pretty sweet.

Another option- ASUS didn't bother with recovery booting, we only had one hotkey and that was to get to fastboot. I don't think it's the most elegant of solutions but it's an option.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
It wouldn't be anything like grub or rEFInd it would basically be the menu your presented with in fastboot for reboot selection.

Almost all Intel Android tablets have the single magic key option to boot into fastboot then selecting reboot into recovery from there. the problem is that i don't know why your device isn't booting into fastboot on hold magic key combo, the way it should be working is if you release less than 5 sec it should boot into recovery if you continue to hold more than 5 seconds it should boot into fastboot but for some reason it is booting into recovery under both conditions on your tablet. getting ready to send you another build to test if it has the same result i'm work on fixing logging on userdebug / eng build. after this test i'll clean up and push the latest changes to git.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
It's late now, so Ill test the rom tomorrow :), Exciting days ahead guys!

Edit: For anyone who has a clue about what I am talking about, does anyone have a clue where the proprietary blobs are stored (i.e. device-specific drivers) on the memo pad?, else a highly similar device to cherry pick from (Dell Venue 8??). I'll upload a link to my "rom" provided I can get it to at least start the boot process tomorrow!

Someone should really have a go at building CM (I just couldn't get it to work - at all), so this tablet might have a few roms to pick and choose from :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I actually have no clue where the blobs are in this tablet. They'd be nice to have though...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] daspex:
the lp rom for the htc hd2 work's with NativeSD the magloader supports booting from sdcard,the htc wildfire s has a 800 MHz cpu and a few 100's MB system memory which is a joke against the hd2 and it has a lp rom made for it and it work's because of using NativeSD.......
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Well realistically the tablet needs these blobs, I can get the hardware model ids for audio, wifi etc, but I am wondering if the touchscreen is custom or will work with a generic driver.. Has Anyone tested Android-X86, does it's touchscreen work, audio, wifi etc?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Just use root browser and look in suspicious places for them. I think I actually saw something somewhere. I am not sure what exactly you need and I think it's not all in the same place (that would be so kind for ASUS, but they gave us UEFI with secure boot of so that's the most kind thing they could possibly do)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
I have seen some drivers before on the tab, and i'll try and integrate them into my build, but currently I am trying to move my build system to my local computer - it is too expensive to keep building on a remote computer :/.. (I know how to do it now though :D)

I will report back once I get another clean build completed, then I'll test it and add drivers as necessary.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
I tried today to install .17 first, but it's still a no go. This time it won't even successfully install it, just giving me a error message.

flash_partition failed.
[COLOR="Red"]E:Error executing updater binary in zip '/external_sd/...'[/COLOR]
Error flashing zip '/external_sd/...'
Updating partition details...
...done

I guess I might just give up getting Lollipop to work :> Maybe my .201 is broken somehow, so I maybe need to go back to .182 and flash all the updates one-by-one from there :/

Edit: Or maybe there is a .201 Nandroid somewhere I could try to use :o
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
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[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Get on the Hype train.. Here is a couple of screenshots of my build of Android 6.0 AOSP.

Works in emulator, waiting for [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] to get back to me before I try it on real hardware.. (I have to make sure I have obtained the correct device-specific-blobs).

Best part? Fully stock + No bloatware!

We will have a pretty awesome tablet pretty soon for $150!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Nexive:
Thanks! It works great now.

But what happens if I do a factory reset with xposed installed? I do'nt want a bootloop or something. :p
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Hype train boarded! Can't wait to see how this works without zenui.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
There still is a large amount of work to go, but I have got the basic build-system setup. Now It is just getting it to work fully - something that may take 80% of the time!

I am really excited to have a stock rom on a decent tablet! Time will tell I think..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Xposed will still be installed but you won't bootloop.

---------- Post added at 07:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:26 AM ----------

:D

You think you could try getting 6.0.1 to run?

This tablet was awesome before as well, when you first get the thing ZenUI is snappy. A lot of the issues are only apparent after a few weeks.

I consider this tablet to be in the high end of the mid-range tablets. It should really perform better than it is. I can't wait for this ROM.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
RAM menagement is the worst thing here. I mean, just look at memory status in developer options. And this is from my 'optimized' tablet (bunch of stuff frozen + no fb messenger and other memory hogs). And my phone with 512 mb of RAM on CM12 is constantly at normal/moderate.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That's the first thing I noticed about it- the terrible memory management. It's not Facebook, because that's not installed, and like you the majority of the bloatware is frozen.

My friend's HTC Desire 610 has much worse specs and also has 1 GB of RAM and can actually store things in the memory without them closing. Same with my old Hisense Sero 7 Pro- much worse specs, a gig of RAM, and actual memory management.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
The launcher looks old xd
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
AOSP's launcher hasn't changed for a while. The launcher you're used to is Google Now Launcher which is Google's proprietary one. It's not included here because ROMs don't include Google apps, they're installed separately.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
Alright, thats for the info :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
[MENTION=7057426]Penguineh[/MENTION] I was just looking at the Open GApps project to see if they had x86 Marshmallow compatible GApps (they do) and they say that to correctly install them another commit must be made to the ROM so it doesn't force close. The commit in question is here. It's in CyanogenMod by default but the commit isn't in AOSP, unless it's in 6.0.1.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Yeah, It doesn't include GAPPS, I was going to just get users to install it separately (At least for now).. Anyway, I this afternoon I am going to try and flash the rom to my tablet (fingers crossed :D)

I will have look at that commit after I test this build.. I will probably need to recompile from source anyway.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
Is it gonna have bugs or only missing drivers?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
We'll have no clue until it's actually put on our device.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
I have a DD backup of /dev/block/mmcblk0, that would be enough to restore my device if anything went wrong right? I have the ability to boot off a usb so I **should** be able to restore the image?? Does it include the current bootloader/esp partition?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
ESP partition is included in /dev/block/mmcblk0, correct.

BTW [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] said he contacted you about some proprietary blobs but you never got back to him, just so you know.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
[MENTION=7057426]Penguineh[/MENTION] [MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION] can share the lastest insecure bootloader build and the permanent twrp recovery with you if he likes, with the insecure bootloader a restore from twrp backup should be enough if the device doesn't boot your flashed ROM. Hopefully i'll get the thread up covering the insecure bootloader sometime with in the next day.

Thanks again [MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION] for working with me on getting everything tested and working lots of users owe this working on this device to you.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
Jerbear can i have the modifed /esp/ partition? (I have full backup of my device)

I need it to test some stuff ive been creating :3 if something goes wrong ill just restore.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
Kinda hijacking the thread, but is there anyway 6.0 can be built for the ME181CX since it's exactly the same hardware (well except for that extra inch) ? I'm fairly familiar with a *nix systems but my low level knowledge of Android doesn't go far enough for such a undertaking
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I have to check is the ME181CX full uefi?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Penguineh:
Yes, my presumption is that the build would work on a architecture sense, but it comes down to "borrowing" the drivers from a current and working build for your tablet. Since they are very similar, once I get a build "working" feel free to try it.. Social-design-concept's bootloader mod should work since it is a universal efi binary?? (Correct me if i'm wrong). I'll post a list of all the drivers I have borrowed from my current tablet soon, I just wish to make sure they work first!! :D Edit: The tablet would either need to support the UEFI spec as [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] has said above, or have a orthodox unlock code for it's bootloader.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
For what I was able to gather it's the EXACT same hardware as the ME176C/X, I was even able to install the most recent version of the KitKat kernel from the ME176C .zip using a modified updater-script but I had to delete some lines from the updater-script (something related with boot.img and partition tables, I didn't knew what those lines did and deleted them) , unfortunately SystemUI and a lot of other apps would crash after a couple seconds. It's a damn shame since it didn't even get Lollipop, Kitkat is so badly optimized it makes me want to rip my hair out
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
While that may be true, that tablet still needs a UEFI to be compatible with the bootloader unlock / ROM.

Does the tablet have an ESP partition? Go to TWRP Recovery and see if there's an option for ESP under Backup or Mount.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
Not that I can see, but I'm using a old thethered TWRP built for the Dell venue 8
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruben Craveiro:
If u cant see esp partition in the mount stuff.. It means u dont ha e it.. I think it doesnt matter thr twrp version it allways shows all the partitions of the tab
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Not always, there are versions of the tethered concept that don't use my twrp.zip assets and if the version includes a recovery.fstab or twrp.fstab in the twrp.zip asset then those fstab over ride the one that my recovery.launcher generates, I also have to look back but I think my 7/24 release only properly supports twrp.fstab generation.

From the CLI run ls /dev/block/by-name/ESP that is the label for the ESP partition.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
For what I was able to gather, I don't even think it is possible for Intel Atom based devices to boot in non-UEFI mode. I can post terminal output or the base system images for research

Edit: I think this is the EFI partition

drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JRe_LYXFJtU0J3b2YzanJfMDA/view
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
There are several atom chips that are not uefi what does ls /dev/block/by-name/* return? Older kernel would of had by-label
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
It returns "No such file or directory". The Atom is the same one as the ME176C (the Z3745), I don't know if I'm being pushy but it would be a shame porting M to the 176C and leave it's 8 inch brother out
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Send me your fastboot back up from twrp
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
Which one of these is the fastboot backup ?

BTW here is the fastboot.img from the stock imagem in case it helps

drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JRe_LYXFJtY256VEtEME1mbGs/view?usp=sharing
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
none of them the twrp version your using isnt even backing up the kernel images boot / recovery / fastboot i think i know which twrp your using and it is intended for clovertrail tablets.

you need to use the one from : Intel Android Devices Root / Temp Recovery Session
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
This is the files the new recovery gave me :
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
post your recovery.log but it looks as if your device isn't full GPT which means it's more than likely GPT-OSIP which would not be full uefi or at least i have never seen an intel device that was OSIP with full uefi.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
pastebin.com/uAx0990k
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
you can see if you can manually mount this "/dev/block/platform/intel/by-label/FWUP" if it is an ESP partition, I've never looked at the contents of this partition before. but the reserved partition is a BIG FLAG that the ME181CX device is GTP-OSIP and uses a bootloader integrated into the devices firmware. With out it being Full GPT there is no way to boot images not signed by asus. suspect the kernel on your devices is 32bit too.

whats this output

ls -l /sys/firmware/*
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Well that's probably why ASUS never bothered with Lollipop for it right there.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
It didn't sell well enough to justify the cost of the licensed parts of the intel bsp.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Omicron2:
drive.google.com/file/d/0B4JRe_LYXFJtUF9YZ2JLWFk1ZVU/view?usp=sharing
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
It also depends on the settings. If you have Wi-Fi on, but the power saver is on Ultra Mode, it's basically the same thing as having Wi-Fi off when you're not using it. Also uncheck the "always scan for network connection even if Wi-Fi is off" option from the Wi-Fi settings.

You say the problem got worse...in my case it seems like this : I have Wi-Fi on. For around a week, the battery drain is reduced, but then all of a sudden it starts to drain again. After I restart the device, it goes back to slower drain (same condition, Wi-Fi needs to be on). After that for a few days I won't have big battery drain, then it happens again, I need to restart it...and the process repeats. So even if I have Wi-Fi on, I need to restart it from time to time, because if I don't, the problem will reappear.

I also played with the settings, disabled/unistalled applications/google service, used a few battery monitor apps (I don't remember which ones I used, sorry) and I couldn't find anything to stop this. This Wi-Fi on is the only temporary fix that I could find :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
I use "Settings-Power management-Power Consumption Table"
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Hmm- now that you mention it- I don't think I've restarted the tablet in like at least 3 weeks.. If that's what it takes to get back to slower drain I'll give it a shot. I'll try it tonight and report back.. Thanks for the suggestion.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
Do you know guys if this memopad have otg usb support ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
Working USB Storage
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
Only with hdd ?? No gamepad or USB stick ??
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexnb:
Storage is not only and not so much HDD - USB flash also. USB-modems not working.

I have no information about the other devices, sorry :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] siksy:
Ha, ha, ha...good old asus's customer support:

" Dear Customer,

it's our pleasure to help you solve your problem.

If you still have any technical issue, please feel free to contact Asus technical support team at http://vip.asus.com/VIP2/Services/TechQuery .

Thank you.

Kind Regards,

Asus Technical Support Team"
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
Thanks for the feedback it help

I've bought the otg câble and à PS3 controler I Will give you my feedback for this device ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] siksy:
Here is snapshot from greenify. . These system apps are running in the background. Should I hibernate some of them?

p.s. and what is this "mobile data" about?