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[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Take your time I won't be able to get you a patch until I get home from work tonight but yeah a few interesting changes in the 5.1.1 branch on android-ia, I'm hoping Intel is planning on merging the IRDA project with it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
So custom ROMs should theoretically be flashable without any kinks now after the bootloader's replaced? Sweet.'

Would that allow TWRP or CWM to replace the stock recovery permanently or is that deeper in the UEFI?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I believe kernelflinger still needs some work to be compatible with the Intel MCG (Mobile Computing Group) boot / reboot policies, support for the MCG formatted boot.img, add personally I think support for droidboot / fastboot partitions needs to be added too.

Resent changes to kernelflinger added support for locating the correct boot, recovery, misc partitions by label instead of GUID and added support for booting from sdcard which is great as it should allow easier testing.

So e eventually i think yes as of now no.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lambdadroid:
It's not perfect but basically yes. There is one major issue here, however - something that needs to be kept in mind. I was able to test with the custom bootloader without many risks because if something goes wrong I can always connect my powered OTG hub, boot a linux distribution and revert or update the bootloader. While it is theoretically possible to replace the bootloader without a powered OTG hub, if something goes wrong you don't really have any chance to fix it or revert to the ASUS bootloader. So if this is going to be released and nobody comes up with a different way to recover from problems with the bootloader without a powered OTG hub, it will require one for installation.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Fair enough. I'll have to pick up an OTG cable and a powered hub pretty soon.

Screw you ASUS, score one more for Team XDA.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] spookmeister101:
Thanks a lot for this, I used the Nandroid to get to 33 but root wouldn't take. After installing this, root finally worked. Tablet seems way more stable and snappy too.

Thanks to all of you guys and your hard work.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
No problem. I do relatively little compared to the true geniuses in this forum... Glad it worked.

I also did not use Nandroid for anything, just straight flashing as usual. And no problems with rooting the standard way after that.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] smsalom:
I'n getting battery issues using the nandroid backup, anyone else having the same trouble? How i fix it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mono0521:
I have just upgraded to .33 and rooted it. Is Xposed running working ok with this update?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Unfortunately Xposed will result in a bootloop on the latest update. I've been meaning to work with some other fellow Recognized Contributors to solve the problem but haven't gotten around to it. I've been too busy preparing for the robotics competition coming up next week for our team.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mono0521:
Ok thank you. I'll be looking out for it then.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] starwarz:
So I am wondering, does anyone have moving app the the SD card working correctly yet? I have tried all of the SD fix apps, edited the platform.xml, and have rooted this device, but I still can't get the apps to move. This has me so frustrated that I have taken out the micro SD and given it to my wife to use in her Samsung Tab running Kitkat 4.4.2, where it works perfectly.

I am curious about what someone is doing differently if they have it working.

I am also interested in seeing if someone has a list of the pre-installed programs that they have removed that has not given any issues.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] boyan_bg:
Exact same situation:) After all I unroot too, but first try everything with no luck. Platform.xml file is in firmware in asus web site and if you need it you can download and unzip from firmware, anyway I restored file from original, nothing changed.

I can adb pull platform.xml from device but strange was when mount /system as RW i still cannot adb push this file to /system/etc/permissions. So I adb push rootbrowser and I edited file on tablet himself.

You can Demo mode exit, when video starts you must press back button for 10 sec and then you enter 741603 to exit and factory reset tablet.

Today I send back to asus service center, and if they delay repair I will get another one, but thinking about acer a1-840 fhd this time ;)

Regards!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Thanks for the response! Wow, you know a lot more about troubleshooting than I do, that's for sure.

It is good to hear that I wasn't the only one with this problem. I used a third-party editor to edit the platform.xml, and it wouldn't save. So I copied the file, edited it, and pasted it back. That's when everything went haywire. I was being an idiot, because I could have just used the ES File Explorer editor (I thought it was just a viewer until I clicked on, duh, "Edit") to edit it in place and it probably would have been fine. Other folks have edited it without issue (but also without a lot of success, I think).

Great info about what didn't work (even bad news is good news in terms of learning). How do you know about the demo stuff? That's great to know!

I hope ASUS support doesn't give you any guff. Did you unroot before sending it in? I have to assume they have some sort of uber-flasher that can simply reset everything back to complete factory ROM. That's what they do, right? I can't see them caring about whether or not something has suspicious signs of rooting, unless they are just d-bags...

Thanks,

sutekh137

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I can't recall everything I got rid of, but her are some I was able to remove without issue:

eMusic

Zinio

Facebook app

Google+ app

Mirror (I mean, seriously?)

Do it next (something like that)

My ASUS

MyCloud (whatever that storage thing is).

Basically, if it didn't have a system android next to it in 3c tuner, wasn't installe dby me, and if it was a decent size, I got rid of it. I think you can get rid of anything with the colorful, cartoony icons like Quick memo, Audio Wizard, File Manager, and Super Note, as those are the built in ASUS apps as far as I can tell. I kept SuperNote because it is kind of cool, though I am sure there are a ton of apps out there like it (and probably better).

Overall I don't think I really freed up that much space, and I have not tried any moving of apps to the external CD card. I'll never touch platform.xml again after I soft-bricked my tablet a couple weeks ago. I probably won't even mess with recovery/ROMs until it is time to switch to a higher OS entirely (and even then I'll only do it if I need some sort of cutting edge functionality...)

I could have also got rid of the various Google apps like Newsstand and Movies, but I was afraid to remove anything related to Google or Play in case it removed some underlying services...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] boyan_bg:
I search google and found about demo mode, and its working for memopad hd7 too. Info is on asuszenfoneblog.com

Also agree with you about touching platform.xml again :) Never because here asus service working very slow, I am prepared to wait a month but I hope they will re-flash with some service tool that is not available public and that's why we can't flash all rom.

If you press VOL+ and power buttons when tablet is OFF you boot in droidboot and there is a recovery there. If you press it, tablet reboots in recovery and shows "no command" there and nothing happens, but if you press VOL+ and VOL- there appears recovery menu and there is option for clear cache and do factory reset. I am not sure if this is same as factory reset from android himself but I done this before send to service, also unroot first:)

I was angry at myself because I dont need more sd space and I touch platform.xml with no real reason:) but its done already and now I will wait for service to restore it to factory state.

You can't uninstall asus apps, but you can disable them and they will not run at all, also will disappear from apps menu. Just try to uninstall some one of them and then check disable app in uninstall menu. This will help to have more available RAM

Regards!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Thanks again for all the info, and I'll remember that this thread has instructions for getting to a menu on boot (even if it doesn't help much)...

I also disable apps I don't use, especially if they are small, rather than uninstall. I won't remove anything that looks remotely "system"-based for fear of causing more trouble than the space it saves (because I'm not really hurting for space either...).

Going to go check out that blog now, more to learn! I hope ASUS support gets you your tablet back sooner than later!

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] starwarz:
I can't recall everything I got rid of, but her are some I was able to remove without issue:

eMusic

Zinio

Facebook app

Google+ app

Mirror (I mean, seriously?)

Do it next (something like that)

My ASUS

MyCloud (whatever that storage thing is).

Basically, if it didn't have a system android next to it in 3c tuner, wasn't installe dby me, and if it was a decent size, I got rid of it. I think you can get rid of anything with the colorful, cartoony icons like Quick memo, Audio Wizard, File Manager, and Super Note, as those are the built in ASUS apps as far as I can tell. I kept SuperNote because it is kind of cool, though I am sure there are a ton of apps out there like it (and probably better).

Overall I don't think I really freed up that much space, and I have not tried any moving of apps to the external CD card. I'll never touch platform.xml again after I soft-bricked my tablet a couple weeks ago. I probably won't even mess with recovery/ROMs until it is time to switch to a higher OS entirely (and even then I'll only do it if I need some sort of cutting edge functionality...)

I could have also got rid of the various Google apps like Newsstand and Movies, but I was afraid to remove anything related to Google or Play in case it removed some underlying services...

Thanks,

sutekh137[/QUOTE]

Excellent, thanks for the list. Ever since I had problems with editing the platform.xml I have been a little shy on making many other changes.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Trust me, I hear that. As boyan says further up the thread, you can also just disable apps to get them out of the way. I don't think I freed up more than a couple hundred MB at most by doing full removals.With 8 GB free right now and an external card that can hold all non-app media, it certainly isn't worth doing anything that will freak something else out (including your own sanity :D ).

The 3c android tuner app I use does let you make backups of apps before you remove them, so you could always do that and remove the backups after you confirm everything works OK. Not sure how the backup/restore process works for system apps, but it seems to be a pretty good tool... I assume whatever you use to remove the apps will also have a backup you can take advantage of.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
I deleted many of Google Apps, some asus apps then... Install nova, and my root apps, like root explorer.

So far didn't get any problem. Don't have SD card, because I have the 16gb tablet. And see TV and series/movies all in stream.

So far so good.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Did those of you that removed bloatware find that the standby battery improved? I've tried turning off the power saver mode- I always leave wifi on- and this thing still just drains like crazy during standby..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] wbc1228:
i usually keep mine in the charger overnight.

What percentage is it draining at? (not sure what is crazy vs normal).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I'm the wrong guy to ask, sadly... After coming off my Acer Iconia A100 (power-draining to the max), I just always keep my tablet charging now. It helps that it just uses USB...

I am also always on Wi-Fi. I have not seen any large power drains when not doing anything, mainly because it is rarely not doing anything (I run Epic in the background as I work) and, like I said, is tethered to juice anyway...

I got rid of apps for space, not to try to cut down on processes...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
I'd say- if I sleep 7 hours or so, and go to bed with it at 100%- when I wake up it's down to the mid 80s % or so. Someone else on this thread recommended doing a factory reset- but I'm trying to avoid that if possible- so I don't have to reinstall stuff- resync my books, etc (plus I'm guessing that the drain would prob return when I put all my apps back on).. I'll keep playing around with it- it's actually not that big of a deal since I rarely leave the house with it- so there's always a charger around. It's more that I think the overall life of the battery will suffer since I'm having to charge it more with all the drain.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
I tried factory reset 3 times and nope, it doesn't help. I also went back and changed the tablet, but the same thing is happening. I think it's an OS problem. I didn't get rid of the problem, but in my case if I keep Wi-Fi and the second option of the power saver (the one that extends battery and leaves internet connection always on), the problem seems to disappear. It came back even in these conditions once, but after a restart it went back to not draining. However, if I turn Wi-Fi off /use the power saver option that turns Wi-Fi off, it will go back to draining the battery. With Wi-Fi permanently on, I still lose some battery (because of the damn Wi-fi being always online), but it enters deep sleep and instead of 20-30% over like 8 hours, it drains 3-4%. Don't know if this helped with the problem, but I also have the "search for network even if Wi-Fi is off" option disabled.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dexter20082001:
I noticed that when I disabled the Asus Web Storage app, my battery life went from draining about like yours to only draining by about 5-10% depending on if something was running. Your results may vary though. :)

Sent from my Rooted Asus MeMo Pad 7 176CX
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
I also had battery drain problem. I installed xposed + deep sleep battery saver (forces device to deep sleep when screen is off) and turned off asus battery saver. Also, installed Greenify to stop apps waking the device and it worked just fine.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] siksy:
So the only way to solve battery drain is to do root? Which apps did you exactly stop with greenify?

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No matter what I do - battery drain is constant (3-4% per hour).Is this common problem among other users?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Seems like yes- many of us have the battery drain.. I also would like to try to solve it without root, but nothing has worked so far- so I'm very close to giving it ago. Especially intrigued after seeing Profees post about xposed/greenify.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Is it possible for me to push the build.prop since that's what screw my tab in the first place. If so, can you teach me how and to where should I push it?

Thx in advance.

sent from my Mlais Mx28+ using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
It looks line build.prop is in /system. So, if adb works, and I have no idea if it does for system stuff like this, you would get a good build.prop on your PC, go to that folder in your command prompt, and type:

adb push build.prop /system/

You would want to save your existing build.prop somewhere like build.prop.bak in case a push of something different make whatever problems you are having worse.

I would assume root access is needed for all of this, but if you borked your build.prop I assume you are rooted already anyway.

Hope this helps, I'm relatively new to all this stuff myself...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] plopingo:
Hi,

It's normal after a factory reset, the root is still there with superuser ?

Can I try a factory reset in other way ? with the image file on asus support website ? or by the recovery ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rob0809:
Does this get flashed by installing in temporary TWRP?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] spookmeister101:
Yes, it worked like a charm for me :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dj_raph:
Hi i was trying to install your nandroid version with trwp, but installation is aborted... I m'm on 5.0..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Not much I can do without a log of what happened. I can't magically reach into your tablet to analyze it. [emoji14]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dj_raph:
Sure! Could you please tell me how I can send you a lot? Where can I find it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
TWRP should spit out an error message as to why it isn't applying- try applying the Nandroid backup once more and copy what it says here.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dj_raph:
-- Installing : /external_sd/lollipopUpdate3_Nandroid.zip

Finding Update Package ...

Opening update package ...

Installing ...

Aborted...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] EricLandis:
Is memo 8 an updated version of memopad 7?? I'm planning to buy memopad 7 but now i know there is 8 then i would buy memo 8 than 7..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] un4saken:
[MENTION=6013061]Mis012[/MENTION] Thank you for posting .201 CWM backup!!! I was stucked with .182, OTA and manual patches weren't working. Well, .201 cwm backup didn't work first time it gave me a .md5 error but i fixed it and then it worked!!!

Now i'm on .201 and going to upgrade to lollipop finally!!!

Thank you again!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] famac!:
I took the .33 update a few weeks back and my tablet is now a rebooting POS. I can't use it for 30 minutes without it rebooting at least 3 times. Never had this issue on the previous firmware. I can only hope ASUS is getting an earful and will put something out soon that stops these random reboots.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
There's your problem.

You're not supposed to flash it as a zip. You're supposed to extract the zip into TWRP's backups folder and restore it from the Restore menu.

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Same hardware. The only difference is screen size (8 inches vs. 7 inches)

The MeMO 7 seems a bit more exploitable as well, last I checked the MeMO 8 was having trouble getting root.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
When things got that bad for me (like going from KitKat to Lollipop) I had to bite the bullet and do a factory reset.

Going to .33 has not been bad (for me). The .33 version has been a bit more stable so far, but that might be because I stopped playing Angry Birds Epic on it (bloated sow of a game). Epic runs hella fast and smooth on my iPhone 5s so I just play it on there when doing daily maintenance type of playing.

Anyway, I can attest to the fact that .33 seems to work OK on my tablet, so a factory reset might help you. Back up all your apps and then reset and restore for a clean installation, and it might help.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I believe I've found the source of the battery drain! :D

Freezing "Asus Services" seems to have brought the battery drain way down, to the point that it drains at the same rate as .17. I'll need to do some further testing but for now try freezing that, hopefully it's not a coincidence.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
[MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION] mind telling me the Google play store version, along with services? I accidentally uninstalled mine and i dont what is the correct version as i have none right now.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
Play store version is the same for all devices from what I know, 5.9.12. The Google play services for Me176cx is -070. For example: 8.1.15 (2250156-070)

You can download them from apkmirror or other similar websites.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
[MENTION=4732413]Flaxe[/MENTION] 8.1.15 (070) updated itself to 8.1.18 (270), I have issues downloading from play store, it starts to download, downloads it and then starts the download again, if I touch the play store, or even stop the download the tablet crashes.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
Oh okay. I could've been wrong then, as my tablet is still running at kitkat, due to some upgrading issues before, so I didn't get lollipop to work. Maybe the play services version changed in lollipop, from 070 to 270?

The play service version didn't change when I upgraded my phone from kitkat to lollipop tho, so I didn't think this tablet would've changed play service version either.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Here the battery drain is not consistent. At times it would suck the battery empty in a few hours doing nothing right now it only drained 3% in the last 2 hours and CPU Spy tells me that it actually went to Deep Sleep most of the time (which is usually does not do). I just froze Asus Services, let's see what happens.

What I really don't get: I also have a ME572C and it never had those battery draining problems.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruwin:
Stuck at UEFI

Hey there,

I'll post this here too, maybe somebody has any clue? I managed to wipe the EFI system partition along with the other partitions on the memory chip, so now the tablet boots to UEFI only, and of course, there's no bootloader to load. The good part is that I can try boot up W10 on it, just for fun. The bad part is that I cannot navigate UEFI, neither with the two vol buttons or with a OTG keyboard/mouse. I think the USB legacy support is off in UEFI, so I cannot get to turn it on and boot some USB drive.

Any ideas on how to control UEFI or to restore a working firmware?

Cheers.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lambdadroid:
You need a powered USB otg hub, then connect a USB keyboard to it while it is powered on. If you want to restore your EFI partition, you can download http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/UL-K013-WW-12.10.1.33_KK-user.zip and flash the partition (only esp.img) back with a UEFI-bootable Linux distribution of your choice.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruwin:
I just got a powered USB hub, so I am able to navigate in UEFI. Unfortunately, I cannot boot any Windows setup USB: W8.1 USB is detected by UEFI but it is not a boot option. W10 USB is detected and listed as a boot option, but it just doesn't boot from it. That would have been so cool.

I'll make a Linux USB and try it that way, thanks! Any suggestions on the distro?

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I've just tried to boot an Ubuntu stick - UEFI compatible - but still no success. Whenever I try to boot any USB, the screen flickers and nothing happens.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lambdadroid:
I've generally always had luck booting after setting i915.modeset=1 as additional kernel boot parameter, see http://askubuntu.com/questions/19486/how-do-i-add-a-kernel-boot-parameter (assuming your Ubuntu stick uses grub)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
batterylife on .33 is gone to hell, my tablet was doing nothing the whole day, left it at 99%, came back 6 hours later to be on 50%, any way to rollback to .17?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
You seem to be absolutely right there. After freezing "Asus Services" battery drain is vastly reduced, about 1-2% per hour which is very decent.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruwin:
Booting Windows

Hey guys,

So I've managed to boot Windows 10 from an installation USB and it works fine. The only thing preventing the Windows 10 installation so far is the available disk space: 7,9 GB. Windows 10 requires at least 9 GB to install. Any suggestions?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lambdadroid:
Install it on a bigger sdcard? I'm not sure what you get by installing Windows 10 there, I don't think it will run really well at the end, probably a lot of drivers missing, and 1 GB RAM will make this not much fun.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Ruwin:
It should be run decent once it is installed, as other tablets with similar configurations run ok. I'm gonna try to use the SD card and see how it goes. I bet it's gonna run at least as "well" as Android did.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Tumist:
Still, there's no drivers for touch, accelerometer and wi-fi i think. I want to try installing W10, as i have 16gb version, but i'm afraid i won't be able to go back to android. Any advices?