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[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
1. Yes, I believe that's part of the solution. I won't know until tomorrow when I get my tablet though (USPS decided to go with 7-day shipping for the holiday season- so they're delivering on Sundays).

2. Greenify can freeze them I believe. I haven't used the app in months (ever since I got CM on my old Sero and upgraded to Android 4.4 AOSP shortly after, I didn't need it) but I think it can still freeze apps. Worst-case scenario it'll autofreeze them in the background. Titanium Backup can permafreeze them.

I don't think it does the same thing as Link2SD. L2SD's primary use is moving application data to the SD card. I've never used it, so correct me if I'm wrong.

3. Rooting won't cause trouble with updates unless you remove the bloatware. Freezing them (and unfreezing them when you receive an update) won't affect the updates. Removing the bloatware will cause the update to fail.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sistah:
Thanks for the answer even tho the first question was aimed to those who already have the device, just to double check that I have to leave it on as I already have. :o

Link2SD can freeze apps even though as you said correctly its primary job is to move apps to sd etc.

I asked cause someone in previous post said that he did it with this app.

Thanks again!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
It's normally already checked, so yes, I think most of us do have it checked.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mitt69:
The wifi optimisation is a bit of an odd duck but like everyone else I have it set to on.

But really for those of you with battery drain, honestly you can wifi this and bluetooth that but until you know what is keeping your tablet awake you will never truly solve your battery issues.

Ever since I found the Whats Next app was keeping my tablet from going into deep sleep over 50% of the time and I then froze it using Titanium Backup, battery drain is pretty much a thing of the past, regardless of whether I have wifi switched to this or bluetooth doing that.

Its all about the wakelocks, check out the Power Management setting and then Power Chart, this will show you what is keeping your tablet awake and eating your battery and then provided its not Google Play or Play services, or something you want to keep, then freeze it
[MeMO Pad 7 General] djyacko360:
asus memo pad 7 me176cx demo mede fix

when demo starts touch the screen once then

On the content page press [back key for 10 seconds

[pin code page] : key in [741603]  start auto reset

and you are done

took a lot of search to fid this info
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
me176cx

PLEASE HELLP. Can someone who is still on ww_3.1.23.161 upload OTA update.zip

OR

post a link from fota.asus.com/delta_package/eee-pad/WW_K013
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I got my MeMO in the mail today! Rooted and ready to go
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Hooray! Now you know what NOT to do to f$#k it up like the rest of us did. :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
A little too late. Mine was slightly brokenish. I think I waited too long on RootZenfone. This might be normal but when I rebooted that demo mode racing game was installed and a few live demo accounts were installed, but I had SuperSU and root and I was able to uninstall the racing game and remove the accounts. I was able to get to the settings and I still had full permissions. Holding back didn't do anything so it was in pseudo-demo mode.

Like I said this might be normal but I don't know and frankly I don't care.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Do any of you use this tablet to watch stuff? I can't get videos to look like they should. If i use hardware decoding, videos are too bright, and with software decoding they are too dark and look like sh*t (loss of detail).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I have used Netflix and Youtube, and things look fine without me doing anything (no idea if that is hardware or software decoding).

And we have used whatever the default video player is to play simple kids videos off the external SD -- they look fine to me.

Super stupid question, but have you played with the screen brightness while the movie is playing to see if you find a happy middle ground as far as brightness goes?

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] altor12:
I watch downloaded stuff with BSplayer: no problem at all
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
He's referring to MX Player.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] meaculpa16:
memopad

hey guys is there any way that i can install the obb/data files on my tablet directory bind doesn't work for me...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
FolderMount does just that. The free version only links three obb files but the paid version is well worth it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] omegastaralpha:
I have my me176cx arriving tomorrow. Is there any reason I shouldnt let it auto update to .191 and then do RootZenFone-1.4.6.4r and SuperSU?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That's exactly what I did. There shouldn't be a reason not to update it to .191 and then root it. Just don't wait too long or some demo mode accounts and apps will be installed (it might be normal, I don't know yet, but I think I waited a few seconds too long.)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
me 176 cx

Updated to .191 and did not lose root.:)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Leonidas2508:
Recover me176cx?

Hey guys im new in this forum. I have a problem that i already reported to asus, but they won't give any solution. Thing is, i messed the tablet (Memo Pad 7 me176cx K013) by deleting asus launcher or so, and the UI didn't work anymore. So, after doing a factory reset that didn't solve the problem, and not knowing any other solution, i wiped the system partition but i couldn't reflash it, and tried to update by adb sideload but didn't work neither cause the tablet was already updated to the .191 firmware and this one has not been uploaded to the asus support site. Does anyone know what options i have on this situation apart from waiting for the .191 firmware to be updated? If anyone could do some kind of backup of his/her tablet´s system updated to .191 and share it, or something like that... I've tried every single fastboot and adb command i know, there is allways some error. I really could use some help here. Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] toysnic:
When you start the tablet where does she stop ? Boot with the circle or do you have startup menu with choose your langage ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
You're screwed. You're going to have to send it in for RMA. I have no idea why they STILL haven't uploaded the 191 firmware files yet, but I don't think you can sideload those anyway. I've tried.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Leonidas2508:
Nah, it gets stuck on the asus logo, won't go any further

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Well thanks for the reply. So you say i wont be able to sideload the .191 zip?? The only partition screwed is the system one, all the rest are untouched. Tried with fastboot to flash it with an .img file i created with the system folder from the stock rom, but an error jumped out (something like "incorrect sparse file format"). Ain't there any other way to flash this partition?? Could someone make a backup of the system partition somehow and share it?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Do you have time to read few pages?

Please read my message number 1063, or here you link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=56955329 !
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
So I imagine there's still no way to unlock the bootloader. (Haven't been around here much and I'm lazy to check all the previous posts).

:p
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Right you are. As of yet the bootloader is still locked.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
I'm experiencing huge battery drains caused by Kernel (Android OS). I've been monitoring with GSam and during nights I can see wakelocks caused by the Kernel, making the battery to drop by ~40% over one night. I've been searching around the internet for solutions but none have really helped.

I've done a factory reset, disabling WiFi (also disabled the searching for networks when WiFi is disabled). Disabled Bluetooth and the whole location services. I've manually updated Google Play Services and Google Play Store to the latest version by downloading the .apk from www.apkmirrors.com. I have also been freezing/disabling some of the unnecessary bloatwares that are installed by default from both ASUS and Google, but it don't make any difference. Google Now and Google+ is also uninstalled. I've also disabled ALL syncing.

My device is currently rooted, but it was the exact same problem before I rooted it also. Anyone have any ideas of what I could try to do? I appreciate all help possible!

Cheers.

Edit: Maybe I should add that my tablet is running the latest version .191, but it had the same issues on the previous version.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Keep WiFi on. For whatever reason the battery drains when WiFi is off.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
Hm, okay. I will try doing that. Thanks for your response, I'll come back with results! :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
Me176c

I bricked my memo, and revived by sideloading CN rom from asus site.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Leonidas2508:
Are you serious?? you could sideload the chinese rom?? gonna try that right now, hope its not another disappointment.

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Thanks a lot man, you saved my tablet!!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Leonidas2508:
Is there any way to go back to WW from CN? Cause the play store doesn't seem to work now
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Well. This is great news. For some of us might be a xmas miracle!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It probably thinks you are in China but not at the same time. Try Market Helper. It can trick Google Play into thinking it is where it's not.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zorka:
Unable to root

I just bought an asus ME181CX, buildnumber WW-3.1.23.189, and I'm unable to root it with root-zenfone-142r, root-zenfone-144r or root-zenfone-146r.

I put the tablet in airplain mode, no wifi etc. Start the root process. I shows hacking.. for a second or so and then puts the tablet in demo mode. When I put the tablet off and on again, I have to perform a reset (746103) to get out of it.

Anyone rooted one of those succesfully ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It's the same hardware so it seems like the issue is your RootZenfone version. You need 1.4.6.4r
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Which version of ROM have you used?

.161 or .182?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
me 176c

.182
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zorka:
Tried that version allready, no luck.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
me176c

its a litle complicated becouse when you try to sideloade ww version it gives error for not having inough space. So you need to give command to recovery to instal zip from location you want.

1. root with rootzenfone.apk

2. turn on usb debuging

3. download ww rom and rename it update.zip

4. download es or some other file menager that has root access.

5. go to / (root) and manualy copy update.zip to /data folder

6. open ADB and type line by line:

adb remount

adb shell

su

echo 'boot-recovery ' > /cache/recovery/command

echo '--update_package=/data/update.zip' >> /cache/recovery/command

echo '--wipe_cache' >> /cache/recovery/command

echo 'reboot' >> /cache/recovery/command

reboot recovery

after this your device will reboot to recovery and automaticly instal ww rom. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] keijei:
Thanks!!!

My firmware is 191, It did work for downgrade too, just have to make factory reset & erase internal storage after. I needed to flash the firmware again because of rooting and I need to go back to defaults. Thank you!!!:good:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Dude, you are a freaking life saver.

I know 3 girls that I've made a bet with, in order to save their tablets, and now that they lost. we will get physical!!!

:good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good: :good:

:laugh::laugh::laugh:

Many thanks. :)

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Great job!

Thanks for the extra info.

Keep it coming. :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] MVT_Mr_zeng:
Thanks

Thank you very much;);)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
wut bruh y u no invite meh :P

In all seriousness, that is very good info to know. We can actually screw up the tablet without fear now! Thanks for telling us that ASUS *sarcasm*
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Leonidas2508:
Dude.. seriously... i love u. Where did you get all those weird commands?? haha my tablet is now as if nothing happened, could even upgrade to .191 firmware. A profusion of thanks!! :good:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] pjim:
Works from terminal emulator also
[MeMO Pad 7 General] slayeralive:
Me176c

Started a new thread

http://xdaforums.com/android/help/unbrick-asus-memopad-7-me176c-cx-t2970049/post57427666#post57427666
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
I've now been running with WiFi enabled all the time now and I got a maximum of about 3-5% battery drop over night (~8 hours)! Thanks a lot for the help. Just hope ASUS eventually fixes it anyway, since it shouldn't be like this.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
I've seen so many people say that keeping wifi/bluetooth on helped their battery issues and I wish I could report the same but it just doesn't work for me.. I have to stay in airplane mode when I'm not using it or it just drains like crazy.. So I've got another question/theory. Are those of you reporting success on stock launcher? The "main" thing if you want to call it that- that I've changed on my tablet is using the google now launcher. Very curious to hear which of you are either on stock, or not google now launcher and improved battery life with wifi/bluetooth on. I'm going to install a different launcher and see if it helps for my own sanity. If it doesn't, the next step is rooting and freezing apps and/or waiting for jerbear's magic which I know will come eventualy ;)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Flaxe:
That sucks :/ I'm using the stock launcher right now, haven't tested with any other yet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm on stock launcher. It's customizable enough for my needs.

You might want to root and freeze apps. If you go down that route, install a wake lock detector and let it do it's magic overnight. It'll show you what's keeping the tablet awake and preventing it from going into deep sleep. You can then freeze those apps with something like Titanium Backup.

DO NOT delete those apps if they're system apps. Only freeze them- according to multiple sources deleting them will cause the tablet to never boot again. There's a way to recover it but I'd be cautious.

*day made*

*happiness intensifies* :)

I wouldn't call it magic. I'm just helping out an amazing community.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] aneesathil:
does this work for memopad 8 me 181c?? any rooting and stock rom flashing guide for the same ??
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Theoretically it should. I don't have one but assuming it's the same version of ZENUI RootZenfone should do its magic.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ak6:
It works on the memopad 8
[MeMO Pad 7 General] aneesathil:
and any custom recovery (like cwm) for memopad 8?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Not that I'm aware of. If this is like its smaller brother the bootloader is locked and a custom recovery can't be flashed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] JaY_III:
This is not entirely true.

Deleting system apps will not cause your tablet to stop booting. I have done this and an just fine.

The problem is you can't use OTA updates if system apps are missing.

The no boot issue you are referring to isn't exactly that. It's people that removed the launcher. With no launcher you can't launch any apps. Such as the play store to get a launcher.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Actually. On this tablet, if you erase some not so much critical, you'll get a nice and stylish paper weight, as a tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
The tablet has been hanging a lot lately. For example, I was writing my twitter login and pass and out of the blue, poof!

The only way to get it "unstuck" was to manually reboot after pressing the power key for about 10 seconds...

Has anyone experienced this? I'm on WW.182 ROM.

Edit:

And the reason is because of SuperSU key. The premium file so that it becomes SuperSU Pro.

Somehow it's making the UI to crash.

I hate to say this but apart from not having any google apps, and the GPS wont work (at all), the CN.182 ROM is way, waaaaay more stable than this WW.182!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Happened to me a couple of times. I also had this strange issue where tablet would reboot when some app is launched. It turned out to be greenify in boost mode that caused it. Pretty strange stuff.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I found an xposed module that might work on the Memo! It's called OMZEN. It's made for the zenfone 4 and both that and the Memo run ZenUI and Android 4.4.2. The only problem is that it's in Indonesian.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] luxemm:
Re: ASUS MeMO Pad 7 ME176CX battery drain

I got a new ASUS MeMO Pad 7 ME176CX a week ago, and immediately noticed the excessive battery drain issue, which many experience. By reading this forum I found much useful info, and tweaked the settings. With the following settings the issue seems pretty well resolved; having only drained 8% over the last 24 hours. Would be interesting if others could confirm this too, that Wi-Fi can be kept off without excessive draining.

* Airplane Mode On

* Bluetooth On

* Location Off

* Wi-Fi Off

* Wi-Fi Advanced:

Network notification: Checked

Keep wi-fi on during sleep: Always

Scanning always available: Checked

Wi-Fi Optimization: Checked, and says "Minimize battery usage when Wi-Fi is On."

* Settings -> Accessibility -> Services -> Talkback Off

* Settings -> Accessibility -> Speak Passwords Off

* Settings -> Accessibility -> Text to Speech Output -> Google TTS -> Use Wi-Fi only, No Auto-update voices

* Settings -> Accounts -> Automatic Sync Off

* Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> Search -> Google Now Off

* Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> Search -> Voice -> OK Google Hotword Detection Off

* Settings -> Accounts -> Google -> Search -> Voice -> Speech Output Off

* Settings -> Location -> Google Location Reporting Off

* Settings -> Location -> Mode -> Device Only

* Settings -> Power Management -> Power Saver -> Ultra-saving Mode
[MeMO Pad 7 General] hollywoodfrodo:
New update out 12/15/14 - Keep root?

Got a notification today of a new firmware update for this tablet. Want to make sure I keep root. Wondering if anyone has taken the update and can confirm keeping root and what is needed to do so. Thanks.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Are you on .191? If so this could be Lollipop- that would be so great! Most likely it's a bug fix.

RootZenfone has a survival mode and it should work. Worst case scenario we have methods for downgrading the firmware. I haven't gotten an OTA notification yet but I'll check for updates.

EDIT: just checked. I'll see what this patch does later on. It's ~70 megs.

EDIT 2: I'm Guinea pigging. I'll report back with results.

EDIT 3: Well.

The update failed, but the tablet INSISTS that I updated successfully even though I'm still on 191.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I went to buy a new one today. (My Third) @ the local Staples 20% off! So, like most women, I couldn't resist the temptation of a sale!

Anyways, I tried the update too and it failed miserably. So miserably that it wouldn't boot again, and again I had to go to the Chinese ROM, go thru all those wacky commands, just to make sure I'll have the WW ROM all over again. I just wish the Chinese ROM had a working GPS module on its kernel... I'd forgo the Google apps altogether. but, it doesn't and so my Sygic GPS can't find any satellites.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
Hell, I'll try it. If all else fails, I can downgrade. I believe you have to defrost/re-enable everything first, though. I'll let you all know how it goes.

Have you tried any apps that install the assisted GPS libs? Maybe the Chinese ROM is missing the aGPS stuff.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
Downloeded and installing now the new update. Will report soon...

It is a 74mb update. So, not so possible that it is lollipop. will see soon :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Just a patch for system and some update for system apks (see last picture).
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
OTA Update to 198 no Problem!

Thank you salekojot! You gave me confidence to try the update. Works perfect. I Think it took a little longer then the last updates. Perhaps its only me subjective Feeling.

I had RootZenfone in survival-mode and SpuerSU in survival-mode. Still rooted like you.

I have no ASUS-Apps removed but a frozen Hell of ASUS-Bloatware.

:good: Thanks again! :good:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] GuyInDogSuit:
It failed for me, go figure, and now I can't get the stupid update checker to find it again. Why the hell does it always do this?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] ardicli2000:
After update;

-Root persists.

- YouTube multi-window problem solved.

-Ram management is tramendous as it was in .181.

-Task manager shows all of the apps now including keyboard app. (as is the case in .181, again)

- Icon for "display rotate" is changed, I think.

-Seems more fluid and responsive overall. Could be placebo though. Since cache is wiped..

-New build number is .198. Android version is still 4.4.2 (I think Asus implemented Android 4.4.4 security changes into 4.4.2). Kernel is also still 3.10.20.

That's all for now.

Regards
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
If anybody still has the 198 update zip do you mind uploading it? My tablet insists it's up to date but I'm still on 191.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] namenick16:
update

Why im getting stucked on 26% when i tried to update to the latest version. .198? Im already rooted. Should i need to unroot first before retrying to update?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] TimurLang:
update .198

Have you cheked if the battery drain problem fixed with deze update ?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
New 198 update. I am just renamed file, https://www.dropbox.com/s/i89pn3cpukmeem5/update.zip?dl=0

Updater-scripts.txt is file to use to check files installed on system before install new update file. You can see what you must have on system.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] siksy:
Hmm 1% drain for 1 hour 'till now with new 198 update.. Not definite conclusion but seems better.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] hollywoodfrodo:
Great to know the update doesn't change root. Just to double-check, I haven't removed any system apps or bloatware, but I disabled/froze a ton of them using Link2SD. Do I need to unfreeze them before taking the update or does that not matter so long as they are still installed? Thanks.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I've lost it...

Hey all,

I'm an idiot, but I can't find the spot to check for software update... Wasn't it under Settings --> About? For some reason I can't find the dang update to check for 198!?

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] siksy:
Just to confirm..for 2h only 1% drain. .wifi off..bt off.. finally :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
Hello jerbear294. You tell before that you know android develops? If this is true, way not you use signed key file from last big update and make some update file to test on stock recovery. I think that Asus use self made key for singing update zip and they key is in last big update file. I don't know now where is it, but I see it inside zip file.

If you make good zip file then you can make upgrade file without security check for installed files. I mean you can edit update-script!

I can't find time to do myself, because for now I am working with android just for fun, like beginner.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
OK, I must have frozen one of the ASUS services, and that made the System Update go away from the Settings --> About menu.

But I am pretty sure I only froze something on a list posted here... So, I unfroze anything with a green system-ish icon, even if its name was clearly something dumb like the social network provider service. Not sure which un-freezing brought the System Update back, but that did it...

System file for .198 found and is currently downloading...

Thanks,

sutekh137