yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
You can manually update using this method here. Instead of the Chinese zip, you're gonna use your update.zip instead. I don't know if you HAVE to, but I did it incrementally, from .182 to .191 and finally to .198, repeating the same adb commands each time. Haven't had any problems with losing root, either. Let us know if you need more help.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm positive you need to do it incrementally. Unless the updates patch the same exact files you'll end up with an incomplete update if you don't incrementally flash them.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
I've found 198 here http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=57541680&postcount=1169

But what about 191?

P.s. it would be awesome to keep these link at hand in the recovery method post ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
Where have you found 191 zip?? Can't find it in this thread...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I uploaded a mirror here:

http://www26.zippyshare.com/v/49210353/file.html
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Dicky S:
Help!

Don't know whether or not you can help!

I work in IT so I have some skills but I haven't fixed this issue and it is driving me wild....

The family have 3 Asus ME173X 7" tablets.

I bought an ASUS Miracast dongle.

For 2 of the tablets it works flawlessly.

For the third (mine!) when it connects over Miracast there is an error messages which pops up twice - "AMDfirmwareupgradetool has stopped working"

I have the tool (v.1) on my tablet - I don't know where it came from.

The other tablets instead have ASUS Miracast dongle Tool (v.1.0.4)!

The Asus App on Google Play won't let any of our tablets update the Miracast Tool or install it fresh on mine.

Any ideas??? Do I need Android SDK tools to do something?

The tablets all run Android 4.2.2

Please can you help in any way as it's the only error on all the tablets!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Since the Miracast app is free you can extract the app from Google Play. Just Google "Google play APK extractor" and copy-paste in the Google Play link of the Miracast tool.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
Awesome, thanks! ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
This one? I have one that's an extension for Google Chrome, though it's a bit of a pain to set up. This web app makes it a lot easier.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That's the one.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Has anybody seen the permissions for the Asus Services built in app? They're crazy. Half of these aren't even justifiable.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Dicky S:
Thanks for that.

Do you have any idea how I can get rid of the AMDfirmwareupgradetool app? Or prevent it running?

Many thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Freeze it with Titanium Backup or Greenify.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Is it possible to switch from Dalvik to ART on this tablet? I don't see it under Developer Settings.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Very weird, I don't see it either. It should be between the "Stay awake" and "Enable Bluetooth..." settings according to this picture:

http://cdn.gottabemobile.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/stock-ART-Nexus-620x364.jpg

Could having a system app frozen prevent this setting from being available? I don't think I have any system-ish apps frozen anymore, though, unless they were obviously related to third-party stuff I don't need.

Can anyone see the "Select runtime" setting on their developer options? I'd like to give ART a spin, too!

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I have nothing frozen as I'm trying to prevent another update from failing on me.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
There's another update?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
So ASUS just locked that down? Do they think it would be a support issue, not trusting Google's own new ART mode of running executables? Does ART increase app size so much that they thought customers would balk at the loss of storage..?

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
I just found something odd. I can't find the "about tablet" section in the settings anymore. I have no way to check for a system update. WTF!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
What do you have frozen?

I'm downloading 199 now. I'll mirror the zip file if I can.

EDIT: THE UPDATE FAILED YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

On the bright side it seems 198 fixed the bug where updates don't show up. Just to test I hit update again and it downloaded :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
A lot of stuff. I'll try defrosting and updating myself.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Update to .199 went fine from .198, OTA. I still have root, and do have a few apps frozen...

Don't see any obvious changes, smallish patch, I guess.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm tempted to update manually by unzipping the ota and replacing the files myself.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Be sure to let us know if that works... Your tablet can't get any more cursed than it already is. *smile*

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'll definitely attempt once I locate where the zip is stored. Worst case scenario is another downgrade to 182. YAYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

I made a complete Titanium Backup so I'm fine with a factory reset.

EDIT: Looks like a very minor update. A couple frameworks and libraries are patched.

In case anybody needs it here is the 199 OTA file.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
It's in /cache, called dlpkg or something like that. Just copy it and rename to update.zip. Unfortunately, the manual update method from the unbricking thread did not work.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I did some poking around and found the recovery logs under cache/recovery. Open lastlog- for me I did a patch to the Android core.jar in order to install the same APK version over each other so the recovery failed on core.odex.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
That probably is the same for me, as well. I'll see if I can revert that change then attempt it again.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
I tried to switch to ART on .161 while it was available in developer settings, and tablet got stuck in bootloop. I guess that ART on kitkat is not compatible with x86, so we'll have to wait for lollipop to try it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I just reverted, the recovery fails but it doesn't even seem to be trying. The last log just spits out my build.prop and nothing else. I'll try again...

---------- Post added at 02:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:13 PM ----------

Can anybody who hasn't patched their core.jar upload their core jar and odex? I'd appreciate it and I'd probably be able to update. It should help [MENTION=1464372]GuyInDogSuit[/MENTION] as well.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Where is the core.jar and odex file? I did a system restore, it wouldn't detect an update still. Also failed the recovery flash. F#$k. All for nothing.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I believe they're in system/framework

---------- Post added at 03:41 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:37 PM ----------

What so you mean by system restore? Flash down to 182?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
i haven't understood what you need exactly, but here's mine v198 and i don't think it's pstched (from what?)

http://www.mediafire.com/download/rfg75rx87e9sb8g/core.jar
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Factory reset. Downgrading to 182 now.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm closer now, do you also have the core.odex?

(I manually patched it with a hex editor.)

---------- Post added at 04:52 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:25 PM ----------

[MENTION=2656128]Ruwin[/MENTION] has formulated a plan...

The more people that can do this the better :)

EDIT: ...success?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
For me, OTA update to .199 was successful! (first time since .161)

I didn't expect it to work, but it did. I just defrosted all system apps and voilà.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
yes, but i've flashed v199 already... here are the 2 files (core.jad is different from 198)

http://www.mediafire.com/download/16xq6nfg967a72a/v199.zip
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ICavalera:
Didn't unfrozen any app. Just update and everything is OK. ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AndrewRBX:
I've just updated via OTA to .199 (2 steps... from .182 to .191, from .191 to .199).

Everything went fine, I freezed a lot of ASUS apps, no problems with that. And I also still got root.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ymDroid:
Did you use Zenfone Survival mode or Supersu Survival during the jump?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AndrewRBX:
No, I did not! :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Elanzer:
So I bought this thing and was annoyed by all the bloatware, and ended up using RootZenFone5KitKat.zip so I could install titanium backup, but I think I've bricked the device? The script basically stopped half way, and I realized this script attempts to unlock the bootloader by what it says in the cmd prompt.

Now when I try to boot the device I just get the first ASUS bootscreen with a blinking red line. I can't seem to enter recovery but I can get into fastboot. Is there anything to fully recover the device or is it done? I can't seem to get the device to show up on the "fastboot devices" command, I've tried manually installing the drivers (manually "ASUS Fastboot Interface" in device manager") but I can't get fastboot to take any commands.

edit: did nothing to fix it... it just started booting. Can't complain.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Is the bootloader unlocked? Try flashing something like SuperSU.

If it's actually unlocked say hello to a development boost.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Elanzer:
Recovery doesn't seem any different, just the usual stock restricted recovery that doesn't let you choose a specific zip. I just ended up booting into Android and running "RootZenFone-1.4.6.4r.apk" which installed SuperSU and now my device is rooted. This was all done on the latest firmware (.199). There was error messages when I ran the root script, it successfully flashed a few files but failed others so I'm not sure if it actually did anything.

It's amazing how much bloatware this ME176CX has over my older ME173X. Froze an entire drawer page of crap... suddenly the device is using 100mb less RAM on boot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Do you mind going into /cache/recovery with a root browser and attaching lastlog?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Elanzer:
There's 3 of them, so I've attached last_log.3, guessing that's the most recent. Seems like this is just a log of the OTA update.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The latest is always called lastlog. The recovery puts numbers behind older logs.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Elanzer:
The first one is short and doesn't seem to contain anything, but maybe you're looking for something I can't see so here it is
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I don't see anything. The recovery didn't seem to do much.

What about lastlog 1 and 2?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] c0rrupt.cz:
few problems with battery and keyboard

Anyone else have still problems with high battery drain after WW-3.2.23.199 ? Any solution?

I got another problem, when I plug tablet to usb, my soft keyboard getting crazy. It means keyboard typing random letters, like I pres "e" and it types something like "rrersd" and etc. (Its not 199 problem, I have it form start, last week when I bought it with version 183 I think) .

Last thing, is somewhere update changelog? Like in version 183 improve bla bla, 191 repair bla bla?

Thx for help
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
ASUS hasn't posted an official changelog since 182 unfortunately. The only ones we have past that point are user made.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
I'm reading me173x has unlocked bootloader, but development of CM is stuck because of unopen hw problems... http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2689789

Are we sure intel is better tham mediacom? Cause i've tried googling quickly and i couldn't find any custom rom for any baytrail device so far :s
[MeMO Pad 7 General] altor12:
daimelt among

Just received .198 and .199 (together) but after rebooting a message says that application DM is blocked, so i'll not be able to check for updates anymore???
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dog121:
The only device that I know of with cm. And Intel is the RAZR I which has cm11 still I'm development...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] athlonxp2300:
I don't have that device. I have 2 old asus a100s and when I bought some aftermarket chargers they would both do that with the screen. not just keyboard but touch anywhere wasn't accurate. plug in original charger and no problem. try a different usb port / charger and or cable.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
I'm trying to mount a partition from the sd or usb host using the mount command from the terminal emulator but it doesn't work. No errors, it even shows the mounted partition if i give mount with no parameters, but the folder is empty. Also umount trying to unmount the sd partition automatically mounted by the system itself doesn't work. playing around with commands i also got a few "read only file system" errors...

What's going on? Some permission or kernel problem i guess... everything works if i do the same commands on my phone, but it has a custom kernel and cm so maybe it's something locked on the asus? do you know what?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] altor12:
I already did this but no luck:

1. Settings

2. Applications

3. Running services

4. All

5. DMClient

6. Clear data

7. Force stop

8. Shut down and restart the tablet

Any suggestion?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
My point exactly! I mean, it seems no one gives a flying f... about baytrail architecture hardware... Despite it being very fast for what we pay... I guess galaxies s4 and s5 and some LGs have the priority!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Sounds like a defect :(

Exchange it at where you bought it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Betinho_14:
I bought it on Amazon, Im from venezuela, so...its kind of hard to return. I have acces to to the droidboot provision OS and the recovery menu, but nothing happens, dont know what to do there. a friend of my told me that i have to reinstall de OS. How???:confused::eek::rolleyes:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Betinho_14:
I got this so far, and when i go to the recovery screen, the dead android dude appears with the sign (no command)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Attach a picture of your recovery, please.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Betinho_14:
there you go mate, anything to bring back to life this amazing tablet:crying::crying::crying:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I'm telling you beto, you're stuck on fastboot mode. I almost returned mine because of the same thing. Somehow I got it unstuck by doing what I told you before.

Sent from my Asus MemoPad Me176c using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Betinho_14:
i'm doing the same exact thing you told me, but nothing happens 8 sec, 10 sec, 20 sec....
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Ok beto. good luck.

Sent from my Asus MemoPad Me176c using a brain!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Betinho_14:
hello

Q: it has to be the same firmware to update from adb? because my is WW-3.1.23.158 and the one that i'm using is WW-3.1.23.161. it say E: signature verification failed. Anyone here has the WW-3.1.23.158?:crying::rolleyes::eek::confused: im close to fix this .....i think
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Hello Betinho!

I didn't try to flash original zip file and I don't know is it show verification error. Do you unzipped file that you download from Asus site? On second attached picture you have commands in recovery. I mean when you enter in recovery mode, you must press volume+ and volume- button to show commands, then with volume buttons navigate. Do you try a factory reset?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Betinho_14:
yes I try, but is stuck on the screen: Asus powered by android. when I try what you say, with the cmd , its start loading and then stop with the message of error
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
No it doesn't have to be the same. Does it have the option to update from SD card?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Betinho_14:
nop, doesn't show me that option
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
OK, I got mine to the same condition. At the menu with reboot Droid boot, reboot, recovery and power off, select reboot, not reboot droidboot, it should come back. And remove any SD card just to be sure.

Sent from my Asus Memopad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Do you try to boot in droidboot and use command

Fastboot flash update file.zip?

I don't know name of file right now.

And you must unpack file from zip when you downloaded from Asus support site.

Послато са LG-P990 уз помоћ Тапатока
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dusty8:
Hi guys!

root-zenfone-142r

I GOT ROOT above tool at last!

Please try it!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
And there is link http://d-h.st/1MK

It is working!

Послато са K013
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nafayi:
Thanks, It works. Now it is time to play around with this device.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Congratulations! I can actually buy this now :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Alpha111111:
Guys now that this device is rooted what u can do actually with it, it has intel which is not suported by apps and no cyanogen too.But one thing i know sure that with this rooted device u can install windows 8 cuz of Bay trail , any guide how to do it or maybe someone will write? Much thx.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] aspeakman:
Do you have a copy of the 198 OTA?

Many thanks for your upload of the 191 ota. Do you have a copy of the 198 ota as well? I found an upload of the 199 ota but don't think it includes the updates made in 198.

I stupidly broke ota updates when I was on 198 by uninstalling some default apps on a rooted device and had to revert to 182 using the 'unbrick' method. Unfortunately now when I check for updates it says I'm fully up to date even though I'm only on 191.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
OTA 198:

http://www21.zippyshare.com/v/f1NwNFH5/file.html
[MeMO Pad 7 General] aspeakman:
Thank you GuyInDogSuit, downloading now!

---------- Post added at 08:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:47 PM ----------

Thank you again GuyInDogSuit. Manual updates worked perfectly and I'm now on 199 with root retained from installing rootzenfone on 182 and manually patching 182-191-198-199.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I've had a weird issue going on lately.

Rarely, the tablet speakers will emit a high pitched shrill even if the tablet's on silent. It will stop by itself in about 10 seconds or after a hard reset.

I'm thinking about a factory reset and hoping it fixes it, otherwise I'll have to RMA.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] stoffel010170:
Partitions on k013 device

fyi

# parted -l

Error: /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: unrecognised disk label
Warning: Error fsyncing/closing /dev/mmcblk0rpmb: Input/output error
Retry/Ignore? i

Error: /dev/mmcblk0boot0: unrecognised disk label

Error: /dev/mmcblk0boot1: unrecognised disk label

Model: MMC MMC16G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 15.5GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 20.5kB 235MB 235MB reserved
2 235MB 268MB 33.6MB FWUP boot
3 268MB 302MB 33.6MB panic
4 302MB 436MB 134MB ext4 factory
5 436MB 437MB 1049kB misc
6 437MB 571MB 134MB ext4 config
7 571MB 1250MB 678MB ext4 cache
8 1250MB 1564MB 315MB ext4 APD
9 1564MB 1598MB 33.6MB ext4 ADF
10 1598MB 3477MB 1879MB ext4 system
11 3477MB 15.5GB 12.0GB ext4 data

The partition panic seams to include the kernel boot message - strange. The partition FWUP include the Intel(R) OTM Boot Loader Development Kit for Bay Trail-T.

The partions reserved and misc seams to be empty.

There is a busybox install on your Asus 176cx but under a directory that is not included in the PATH environment (/system/scripts/monkey/busybox). If you have rooted your devices you can copy this to /system/bin and chmod (755). ALL at your own RISK. Don't ask for any kind of support!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] aspeakman:
Hi jerbear294,

I don't know if this is related but I've noticed audio noise when listening on headphones, I've heard the same kind of thing with headphones plugged into laptops, kind of whines, pops and farts that are only obvious at quiet points when sound is playing. It's different from the laptops in that once sound has stopped playing it goes completely quiet as if there is some battery saving feature that shuts off the audio, I've never heard noises like this before on an android or ios device and wonder if it's related to the fact that it is using an intel platform with poor quality onboard audio similar to the laptops.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The sound's not quiet at all. It only happens randomly and the sound SQUEALS as if it were cranked up all the way.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
It's the government and its new sonar feature. They want to map every aspect of our lives. Beware if you're in an awkward position!

Is it the speakers or the screen itself? I used to have a laptop that made a humming. First I thought it was the speakers, but after I cut the wires to the speakers, the noise still lingered. So I went piece by piece until it remained only the screen. The most unlikely place to produce an almost UHF noise but there it was. Since the laptop's warranty was over, I had no choice but to buy a new LED kind of screen. I read somewhere that the laptop's illumination is sometimes built by the lowest bidder, and that annoying sound by a diode that heats up and and gets torn. Not doing a 100% connection with the circuit. And therefore producing that humming noise due to the electrons motion.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That does make sense- it seems to only happen when the screen freezes up.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] goleador:
Usb otg fast charge.

Hi everyone.

I'm working on an application for a healthcare product involving a serial communication between an asus me176cx and a ftdi device. The ftdi device is the slave so the tablet is used in usb otg mode.

The tablet can be charged while communicating in otg mode, but only at 500mA. I would like it to charge without limitation.

I found /system/bin/ChargerModSwitch.sh that was promising but it didn't do much.

I also tried to play with /sys files. The script is changing the content of /sys/class/power_supply/bq24155/mode. Setting it's content to off stops charge, and setting it to dedicated starts the charge again. But I wasn't able to make the charge faster. I tried to set the file to auto, host and boost as found in bq2415 driver (first link googleing bq2415 android) with no success.

I know this is a very technical question but if anyone has an answer or a lead, it would be wonderful.

Many thanks :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
You're right. That is a very technical issue. Have you tried to contact Asus? They, better than anyone could help you with that. But of course, it wont be for free as you are trying to do here by saying it is for a me176cx...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] fedcas:
cover/case suggestions?

First tablet and i'm a bit confused... i've been dropping each of my phones hundreds of times and never used any cover (when i switched from nokia 6600 to e51 i realized slim is the way to go :p and then e71 etc... ) but tthese things don't look like they'll particularly enjoy abuses... so do you use a cover/case?

Those i defidenitely don't like: they are prorective, but way too thick and bulky, and the large border gets in the way when swiping from the borders

most of these kind of covers don't protect the edges i guess, sso the whole thing is pointless (btw how is the flip ij the photo attached? Looks like the galaxy phone one, but on the tablet theback cover is not easily detachable)

any idea?

---------- Post added at 02:49 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:30 AM ----------

Forgot to say, it must be cheap :p i'm not spending 1/4 of what i payed the tablet for a plastic case

http://www.ebay.it/itm/ULTRA-SLIM-C...es_Covers_Keyboard_Folios&hash=item41898c06ab

That looks interesting... it has a rigid shell on the back... but i'm worried it may be too easy for the table tlo slip out of the shell during a fał orrì even just grabbing it?

I'm also considering to us just a neoprene zip pouch for carrying around, tossing it in my backpack etc and then just use it with no protections
[MeMO Pad 7 General] dexter20082001:
CPU Frequency?

By any chance did you change anything to do with CPU frequency or power consumption, including changing cpu governors?