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[MeMO Pad 7 General] AqueousTransmission:
Thank you jerbear294 for uploading the TWRP backup! I finally unbricked my tablet!! I was not able to boot lollipop but at least your backup fixed some corrupt kernel files and now I can at least install and boot Android 4. Will try to update to 201 manually and then if the automatic Lollipop update will work.

Update: so far no success booting lollipop using any method, however at least I am at least booting 201 now.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] j3j00:
Hello,I updated to Lollipop and I'm getting choppy video playback on youtube, anyone experienced something similar ?

P.S: I went from 182 to Lollipop, and made a factory reset at the end of the process
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
BIOS

What is that mean The tablet's back to ASUS now for RMA replacement.

How today feels tablet, how's that ?

Can you now or at any time to get into the BIOS ?

What function did the program xposed at the moment of the surprise hits in the BIOS ?

Thank You very much for the answers !!!

We have on Russ 4PDA one person got the same in the BIOS.

He has no idea how he did it.

When downloading games from the play store and in the process of charging via power adapter.

He pressed the power button of the tablet and held for 10 seconds appeared and arrow

he was in BIOS
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
The thing is completely screwed (for now). You can literally flash an empty 0 bytes file on fastboot, it'll tell you flash complete, and it won't budge on reboot
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
What Kernel before?

I want to try the same.

Could you please tell me on what version your kernel was before proceeding and what version of droidboot you had?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
Did anybody notice something like that ?

After Lollipop update failed:

shell@K013:/ $ cat /proc/partitions

cat /proc/partitions

major minor #blocks name

7 0 2111 loop0

7 1 2111 loop1

7 2 38493 loop2

179 0 31166976 mmcblk1

179 1 31162880 mmcblk1p1

179 16 15392768 mmcblk0

179 17 145408 mmcblk0p1

179 18 1024 mmcblk0p2

179 19 33792 mmcblk0p3

179 20 16384 mmcblk0p4

179 21 16384 mmcblk0p5

179 22 16384 mmcblk0p6

179 23 32768 mmcblk0p7

179 24 32768 mmcblk0p8

179 25 131072 mmcblk0p9

179 26 1024 mmcblk0p10

179 27 131072 mmcblk0p11

179 28 662528 mmcblk0p12

179 29 307200 mmcblk0p13

179 30 32768 mmcblk0p14

179 31 1835008 mmcblk0p15

259 0 11997147 mmcblk0p16

179 64 4096 mmcblk0rpmb

179 48 4096 mmcblk0boot

179 32 4096 mmcblk0boot

253 0 2110 dm-0

253 1 2110 dm-1

253 2 38493 dm-2

shell@K013:/ $

Before Lollipop update failed:

7 0 2111 loop0

179 0 31166976 mmcblk1

179 1 31162880 mmcblk1p1

179 16 15392768 mmcblk0

179 17 229376 mmcblk0p1

179 18 32768 mmcblk0p2

179 19 32768 mmcblk0p3

179 20 131072 mmcblk0p4

179 21 1024 mmcblk0p5

179 22 131072 mmcblk0p6

179 23 662528 mmcblk0p7

179 24 307200 mmcblk0p8

179 25 32768 mmcblk0p9

179 26 1835008 mmcblk0p10

179 27 11988972 mmcblk0p11

179 64 4096 mmcblk0rpmb

179 48 4096 mmcblk0boot1

179 32 4096 mmcblk0boot0

253 0 2110 dm-0

what are the extra loops for?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mediolanos:
Hello, after lollipop update i lost every gps signal, every connection with satellites. Also i tried to root with zenfone root without success. ANY Help ????? I am novice with android rooting.Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Kittie-hime:
I got my tablet back from the store. Asus changed the motherboard (again). So I'm on version 182 and the tablet says I'm up to date. Is there a way to make the update(s) appear or do I have to root and flash the updates one by one? (I really hoped I would not have to do that)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
Teoreticaly you can just do a factory reset and choose Engilsh as device's language. Then go to settings and update. BUT first of all, you could make a complete TWRP backup and post a link here, we would really like something like that :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Kittie-hime:
I did the factory reset earlier, and chose English but still no update showing. I even updated all the Asus apps and I still get nothing. Can you tell me how to make a TWRP backup?

Edit: just rooted with rootzenfone
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ramenthief:
Hello everyone. I'm new to this forum and also android in general. I just got my memo pad on Lollipop and it's kinda unstable but I'm sure most of you already know that. I've been having crashes daily and the added bloatware is annoying but I can still tolerate that. Right now, the most annoying issue I have is that my clock is behind. I woke up this morning to find that it was already a few hours behind. Also, I'm really low on memory (127mb lol) I hope I can get help from you guys.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Shodan81:
Same thing happened to me; go to settings/apps/all, find Clock, clear cache, reset.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dsf3g:
Hmmm... they look nice.

I'm a fan of the 7" form factor (because I can comfortably carry the tablet in my back pocket) and there don't seem to be many manufacturers interested in making them these days. It seems to be mostly 8" tablets and above (probably due to the popularity of 5.7" Phablets). I'm mostly happy with my 176CX, except that Chrome crashes a lot on me these days. I suspect that the 1Gb of RAM is the culprit here, with the Intel chipset a possible suspect, too (I suspect Android might not be as well optimized for Intel as it is for ARM based processors). A 7" model with 2Gb of RAM would definitely pique my interest.

In any case, I've just updated to 5.0 and performed a factory reset. So far Chrome seems to be fairly stable. We'll see if it stays this way.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
How exactly did you upgrade?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dsf3g:
I searched for system updates the standard way yesterday and found one available. I upgraded OTA. This morning I did the factory reset, because I was unhappy about the performance post-upgrade. So far it's feeling smooth and fast, but I've just started re-installing my apps, so we'll see. One nice thing about doing a factory reset is that if forces you to clean up your phone. Those Amazon "free app of the day" deals have me installing a bunch of apps I'd never have considered otherwise, and mostly don't need lol!

Quite coincidentally my Samsung Tab 4 10.1 also got a Lollipop update this morning, and a few days ago I upgraded my Note 3. So all my devices are on Lollipop now... yaaay!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Kittie-hime:
Managed to flash my way to Lollipop. Now I want to root but when I run the bat from IntelAndroid-FBRL-01-17-2015 in the Temp CWM thread I get a case of "DEVICE INFORMATION: UNKNOWN" (status is ADB-ONLINE). I thought I had all drivers installed (since I could use the Minimal ADB and Fastboot to flash the updates). Is there something I need to install to get this to work? (or can I do it using OS X instead of Windows 7?)

Ignore this, I'm stupid and got the wrong file.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Sounds you could would need a factory reset. Asus' update routines are pretty crappy and seem to sometimes leave residue behind which makes the tablet behave oddly...

FWIW I have not experienced a single crash and I've had much more memory free even before freezing most of the crap.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/UL-K013-WW-12.10.1.17_KK-user.zip Full Lolipop 5.0.1 Rom that can be flashed with my unbrick method using command file(this is not ota it will wipe all)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bnzgl:
how did u root lollipop i tried a lot of way but i failed
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mono0521:
I have the same issue with the clock. Do I have to reset every time is slows down? It has slowed down twice for me.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
Does the ME176C have publicly available IFWI/DNX files? I think the capsule(etc..).bin may be the IFWI, but you can't flash it without a DNX. There doesn't seem to be any others inside the ROM zip file like other devices like the Zenfone or the Orange San Diego.

EDIT: Nevermind. Aside from /system and /data, device is write locked. I just flashed two random 2mb files onto DNX and IFWI, nothing changed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
capsule.bin is the firmware when its flashed through fastboot / recovery it is loaded into the esp and written to the bios on reboot.

Before your device was updated to full uefi it was flashed using fwupdate.

I've not figured out how to flash the uefi based devices from a blank phone state yet.

The uefi device I bought seems to check the USB stick when it first boots. Also see if this device has I three button power on. On my s8-50 I found a limited fastboot mode.

The various baytrail bsp available give some insight into the inner workings of the firmware update procedure.

Minnowboard might have so insight into blank phone loading an Intel device.

My device device doesn't seem to boot into intel-soc mode the way my venue 7 does.

Oh xfstk-downloader only uses 1 file on baytrail
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
My original flash failed on capsule. That may have caused the write brick, since if it is as you stated, fastboot is only a layer to interact with the real UEFI "bios" undernearth.

The intel flash tool document mentioned a DNX mode, which we don't have any access to as far as I know, aside from when someone bricked their device and droidboot can't boot. A complete flash from there should in theory fix any problem I (and a couple of other posters) am having, at least in theory. However, I don't actually have anyway of bricking my device right now, as pretty much everything flashed from fastboot is discarded.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
I just did reboot dnx from a root shell and booted into the limited fastboot mode I described earlier using the 3 button power on.

I suspect this mode is used only to flash droidboot.img so that you can continue with device provisioning on my device it uses fastboot commands it installed a different driver than used in droidboot.

Are devices stuck in droidboot mode?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
No, we can boot normally. Its just that, nothing flashes. I can flash a file full of garbage onto any partition, and it'll report complete, but nothing is actually flashed onto the device. Only system and data works from recovery, not sure about fastboot

---------- Post added at 01:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:00 PM ----------

Do you happen to have a link to the Intel SOC driver + the flashing tool? The one I found don't have driver for baytrail, and xfstk downloader solo doesn't detect my device. I don't have a linux box atm, so I'm stuck with Windows tools
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tonzky24:
stuck on asus , powered by android

hi, i need help with my device, i tried updating to Lollipop with OTA and it failed, so i tried following the steps to downgrade to 182 and continue flashing to lollipop, however during the update to 191, error came up and then i was stuck on the ASUS Logo with the Powered by Android at the bottom, i tried going to recovery using the combination of vol butons + power that was mentioned here but it seems that it doesnt respond.

i appreciate any help im currently downloading the full rom uploaded by slayeralive just in case i would need it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Shodan81:
Actually, it was only a temporary solution... if it really was a solution at all. The clock worked properly for a few hours, then it started lagging behind again :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
201 backup

It looks like someone has posted OTA 201 backup :)

https://yadi.sk/d/63tXpfZzepTa6

P.S please help me Iwant lollipop so muc!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tonzky24:
OKi have tried every single thing to boot to anything other than being stuck on ASUS Powered by Android, the unit is still under warranty so should i send it back to where i bought it? would they even know if it was rooted or anything that voids warranty?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
They would have no clue unless you told them or they went far enough as to open it up and look for root in the NAND. You're fine.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tonzky24:
so i can just tell them that i tried updating to lollipop via OTA and then an error came up and then i was stuck with the asus logo?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
So is the Lollipop firmware from the Asus website ok to download and install on the tablet now? Or does it still bootloop because of the bootloader?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yeah, that'll be fine.

I'd assume that the bootloader update is included, but I haven't dug into the firmware's files to verify that. If anyone would know, [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION] would.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
lol I actually just looked at it, it is full install everything included should be able to flash a device from any version (but of course check the download page to make sure they don't spec a minimum firmware) users that suspect had improper flash durning lollipop can even apply it , it also does a full format of /system so it shouldn't matter if you are rooted or exposed install everything under system is erased. It flashes boot, droidboot and esp by the block device offset and performs a full capsule firmware update and repartitioning.

Haven't dug into the uodate-binary but since so many of the update features didn't exist before lollipop everything is probably built into the update-binary, so somebody who's device will only boot to droidboot could probably flash from one of the tethered recovery methods.

Now I don't own the device but it looks promising .
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
There is a droidboot.img, but droidboot doesn't change after flashing so bootloop for me :crying:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
You can't flash droidboot by its self if your device isn't already on the full lollipop ROM different image format new signatures that the old firmware doesn't have or know how to boot.

If the device is in limbo you have to flash all
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Regarding downgrade: Unfortunately I could not verify or refute the claim that the .182 version would not work with the upgraded bootloader since recovery refuses to flash that version. If anyone knows a more radical version to force the flashing let me know and I'll try...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
So I am one of those who was on 201, tried the OTA and it failed. Now I downloaded the lollipop zip from Asus' site, put it on the sd card root, rebooted and ran the update. It took very long, I thought it was in a loop, but it finally finished. Then used the temp CWM to root. Seems to be running a little hot right now.

Guess I'll give it a day or so to see if I want to factory reset or not.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Try Temporary ClockWorkMod/TWRP. They can flash anything as far as I know, it's just a matter of whether or not the bootloader will run what you flash.

Since this is .182, it's officially signed by ASUS, so if it flashes but doesn't run, then we can't downgrade.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
My lollipop OTA failed, and i am too scared to try zip from ASUS support page,because I'm not home and if something goes wrong i won't be able to downgrade or use temp cwm. How long did it take to finish updating?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
The android spinning image was on for at least 15 minutes, I would say. Then came a screen when I guess it was repartitioning, had a lot of writing in small letters, maybe another 5 minutes. Then it went to the first Asus boot screen, and sat there for a good 4-5 minutes before getting to the point of "Android is updating apps" which took forever, but the first time always does depending on how many apps you have installed(147). So you really have to be patient and let it do it's thing. Be prepared for at least a half hour of sitting around chewing your nails.

The temp cwm rooting was easy and quick, just remember to put an su zip on your tablet beforehand(which I forgot to do).

Just finished updating all my apps from the playstore, and letting it charge back up. Free ram is sitting around 400mb, not too bad.

I have 5.1.1 on my nexus 5 and it's awesome, so hopefully lollipop will be better on the Asus than KK.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thelegendy:
I used IntelAndroid-FBRL 05-16-2015 Public Trail Release from here
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
How do you install xposed on these days on this tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
Now my lollipop flash is failing on updating partition, instead of being successful then not doing anything.

At least that's progress
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
I feel for you guys, I wanted to get this tablet but couldn't find it any where in my area. I wanted to see if I could help, I did find a great deal on another Intel tablet today at Walmart. I bought it instead.

8 inch unlocked, Intel tablet with lollipop, hard to pass up price was well unreal $78 how could I say no.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
Couple of screenshots.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
So I'd need to flash it with ADB in order to install the Lollipop from Asus website from scratch (I'm on .201 with failed OTA)? And if I just wanna do an upgrade, I should just run the file from the sd card (forgot where the file needs to be placed though)?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Kittie-hime:
I rooted lollipop, and froze a few apps. So far, games work better than on KitKat. However, I still have the same issue with browers crashing (be it Firefox or Chrome or even when opening a link in Facebook). Is there a way to prevent that?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] tb79:
Try Maxthon browser!

I use it on this pad and on my oneplus one without issues!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
ppsspp really slowdowns in lollipop, are you experiencing the same behavior? This is still fluid in kitkat.

Oops my mistake, forgot to tick one setting.. Im now getting 60fps in tekken 6
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
I decided to update the tablet using the Asus website firmware and it worked, I had no problems! One thing though...seems like Google Play doesn't want to start up, maybe it's still working on something? It says that there's no connection, but browsers work fine.

Edit:

Now I see what's going on, all Google services aren't work. On Google play an error says "Google Play services must be updated in order to run Google Play Services" + the Maps application isn't working either,it says that there's no network connection...

Edit nr 2:

Nvm,found the problem. The clock wasn't set,lol. Now everything is okay and Lollipop runs good without even needing a factory reset.

I have a question though, I see that we can now uninstall Amazon Kindle, Data Transfer..and all the others that were preloaded on KitKat...is it safe? Or it may cause problems on future updates?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
I just froze the apps with titanium backup after rooting the tablet. That way you can unfreeze them later for updates.

So far lollipop seems ok, with a couple little problems. Every reboot I get "android is optimizing apps" message, kind of annoying.

Also the clock was running slow. Installed clocksync and now it is good. Overall I don't see any need for a factory reset.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
The optimization should stop after a while, it stopped in my case. I also rooted it and it works flawless. One complaint though : OMG what's with that horrible sound? No matter what mode I use (gaming,music mode etc), the sound is so horrible now...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] byXick¨:
will work on this device 4G USB modem (Vodafone K5150)?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Viper4android will fix that. Just go into AudioWizard and hit "Disable" to turn off its "enhancements" and install Viper4android.

After you have the drivers you might want to install a Material themed one. I like my UI to be consistent.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lybad:
Slowed down once, rebooted and was fine. Rebooted several times tonight, and running slow every time. Drifts amazingly quickly too.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I started to get the drifting clock yesterday- tablet insisted it was 6:30 PM when really it was 11:00 PM.

As mentioned above Clocksync fixes that for me. I haven't ran into any problems since.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] t68kv:
Is this clock drifting problem only occurs when rooted? Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
TWRP is failing the lollipop flash at partitioning, while CWM is successful but bootloop. Both with the OTA and the full package.

Here is the log:

Partitioning is not started

Partitioning is not started

script aborted: flash_partition failed.

flash_partition failed.

Also, the thing freezes at fastboot boot boot.img/droidboot.img from DNX mode. Partitioning straight from Droidboot doesn't seem to help.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
Hi,

the GPS problem was solved by a factory reset. The same for the performance problem.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Ever since I upgraded to Lollipop, the tablet freezes sometimes (kind of often) and after that it restarts. I even did factory reset and it didn't help. Any idea about this?

Oh and I also disabled the Audio Wizard and installed Viper4Androix FX. What settings would you recommend in order to get a clear sound? I played with the settings a bit (enabled and disabled V4A Speaker FX,speaker optimization and eXtra Loud to try different sounds), but so far it seems that having Audio Wizard disabled + not enabling any Viper4Android main menu options (the 3 i already mentioned) gives me the best sound. The tablet volume is on max,but it's still lower than it was on KitKat I think...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Huawei 3g USB modem won't work on lollipop.

After factory reset GPS still can't find satellites.

I have ota update with no problem.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lybad:
Time Drift

Nope - mine is not rooted.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Not for me. Here it's still dead.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
So... About the new update on Asus website... Can I update say from ww.198 into Lollipop 5.01 directly?

Because I'm stuck on WW.198. It wont let me update 199,201 and LL 5.0. The Kernel is 3.2.23.201.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
It should work from whichever version you are on, at least theoretically. If you try it, let us know how it goes. I'm on .201 with '201 #1' kernel and i am scared to try it because i won't be able to unbrick it if it bootloops since i won't be home till july.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pogo8303:
Did you check GPS settings? I did HR, GPS still not worked and then I look to GPS Settings and there was battery saving mode (GPS only via WiFi) :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Quick question:

If I root this tablet on Lollipop & for any reason need to get back to being completely stock can I just flash the full system update on the ASUS website via stock recovery? Should/Will that work?

Thanks for any input.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Have you tried GPS DOCTOR? On kk it made miracles!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Actually I did. The other (privacy problematic) modes actually work only it does not find any satellites -- tested outdoors of course.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
So the new uefi dnx mode / minimal fastboot only accepts 2 commands

fastboot flash osloader filename.efi

fastboot boot droidboot.img
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dms76:
My GPS also didn't work outside, I installed 2 gps applications and it started working. I don't know which one may have fixed it. I installed bluetooth gps Check out "Bluetooth GPS"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=googoo.android.btgps, and https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.meowsbox.btgps. It started working with GPS Status the next day.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alexadro:
As there and UEFI boot and Butloader live ?

Welcome forum HDA

Please tell me : to break through anyone else in the UEFI tablet ?

Managed or not to deal with UEFI, Will go to him?

What prospects looking ? Is there any hope to break the Bootloader?

What tablet guy who came in BIOS? People voices I hear the voices , tablet dead , and he bore it to a service center for repair . ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
Yea, I tried fashboot boot droidboot.img. Nothing changes on screen, the file doesn't boot, but the connection locks up and require a hard reset.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
That's in dnx / download mode not droidboot correct?