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[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Okay, this time I did manage to get into recovery mode, and I've wiped the cache and done a factory reset.

I've rebooted from recovery, and I'm now waiting to see if the device boots normally.

It's been booting for about 90 seconds so far.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The factory reset will do it. You should still have Xposed and root, but you won't have the Xposed Installer.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Thankfully, the factory reset has done the trick!

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Thankfully, I'm still rooted and I've been able to restore most of my apps.

Despite what's happened, I'm tempted to try Xposed again, as last night, prior to installing Xprivacy, my tablet was smoother than ever thanks to modules like Fix Lollipop Memory Leak and Amplify.

Do I simply need to run InstallXposedInstaller.bat again?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You shouldn't have to. Just sideload the installer APK that is included with the script, and go into framework. If there are green numbers at the top under Installed you are good, otherwise rerun the bat.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AviarGS:
.

To be honest I have no idea how I got it to work, cause my ext2 became swap

What I did:

1) Installed latest BusyBox version

2) Installed AParted from Google Play

3) Partiton SD Card, then I made fat32, ext2, swap

4) Installed Link2SD

And since then I have permanent swap, but as I said it was weird. If you want the easy way, you can get Roehsoft RAM Expander from Google Play, it now supports our Kernel so all you have to do is make a swap up to 4GB and turn it on, without partition SD card and such.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jeremi05:
No OTA update notif

I cant update mine, system updater doesn't show any updates either, im still running on 201. How do i update this without rooting? Really need your help. Thanks.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Delichi:
I don't know if this method will help more people... first i did a factory reset and when I restart the tablet I set English (US) as my language. Then I complete the configuration and finally update all the Asus applications, about 10 minutes later I got the ota. All without root!

Sorry for my poor English, I hope it helps! ☺

Enviado desde mi Asus MemoPad
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mis012:
CWM backup

hello could you please anyone do a full cwm backup on lollipop? I've restored 182 rom while recovery is still at 201 and it looks like it prevents me from loading 191 etc.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Huzzah, glad to hear it!

I'm still struggling with battery drain. After a reboot last night, battery charged from 52% to 96% really fast, and I was at 100% when I went to bed. Woke up to 94% (so, still on USB charge, power lost ground), and battery usage said "Google Backup Transport" was responsible for 58% of the power usage.

I already restored all my apps from backup, so I am not sure what Google would still be trying to backup or restore. Has anyone else seen this sort of thing, and is there a way I can get it under control?

( I figured out the hand icon, that was just because I turned volume all the way down and then some, the "no alerts" icon, I guess...)

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AqueousTransmission:
Problems with OTA

I've already bricked two tablets with the lollipop OTA. On one of them, the boot image is no longer recognized for some reason. I would appreciate if anyone could post a CWM Backup of any version. These incremental updates are a disaster, ASUS. On the NVIDIA shield, for each version a full rom is provided.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jeremi05:
Finally got mine to update! Just restarted mine and it started updating. Thanks for the help guys, i guess mine was just delayed.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
with unmodified script for 201 it doesn't work for me it sais "can't find boot.img" so I tried with modified script and it flashes but when I try system updater there's no available OTA from ASUS ...soo I tried with the lollipop OTA zip from forum and got into bootloop ...soo I fastbooted into temp CWM and did a resore to 201 again and I'm extremely annoyed with ASUS/Intel for complicating my LIFE! Please! Can anyone help me with some advice?

My kernel at the moment is 3.2.23.201
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Try modifying the script again. Do the same thing as you did in 201 to the Lollipop script and it should work.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] DrBatson:
There's no fastboot line in lollipop OTA script.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] lybad:
Battery

I've got similar - I charged my tablet from my PC, used it for an hour, dropped to 90%. Noticed the lock screen said charging (when it was unplugged), and went to bed around midnight. Got up at 6.30am, and battery was down to 55% (and still charging while unplugged). I've switched it off while I'm at work, but will have another look when I get home. But I'm also seeing "Google Backup Transport" as biggest battery/CPU hog.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
During the past two days, my tablet has frozen on several occasions before automatically rebooting itself.

It's mainly happened when I've been watching YouTube videos, so I'm wondering if my YouTube Ad Away and Background Playback Xposed modules are to blame.

Another possibility is that Amplify or Greenify could be causing the problem.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jeremi05:
Is it possible to check if my tablet goes to deepsleep without rooting it and using wakelock? Thanks for the help, newbie here.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Hey [MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION]

Could you post your process for installing the modified xposed? I know you're on Linux, so I figure it'll be similar via Mac osx terminal.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
I´ve got the same Problem. Can I flash the .182 with tethered CWM?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] thebulletfromhell:
The lollipop upgrade flashes something that causes the kernel version to lock up. Best bet is to wait for the full release from ASUS, instead of trying to flash the same thing again and again.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
Does non-root ME176CX has recovery?

I tried to access recovery by holding volume down button and power on then it goes in to fastboot menu. When I select recovery it restarts and only show "error" with the belly up droid.

I just want to do the wipe cache partition.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
I unfreezed all applications,updated them, disabled all root applications, uninstalled root and tried to update over OTA from .201. Of course, it failed and now the tablet can't see the update anymore when I click on "Check Update". I saw that in this case I should downgrade to .182 and update from each update,one by one, to Lollipop. Does anyone have a guide on this? I've never done that ADB thingy and I'm afraid to not break something, don't wanna keep my tablet in warranty for 1 month.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Beaver_XT, you are close.

When you see the sad/error android lying three, press Vol+ and Power at the same time for about a second. The bootup screen should continue a bit and then you will be at the recovery menu. The keystrokes are not all that crisp (I wish the process were more clear/concise), but keep trying Vol+ and Power until you get there.

You can wipe cache and also do a factory reset from there...

Hope this helps,

sutekh137

EDIT: I am not sure if what I say above works on non-rooted unit -- I've always been rooted whenever I have used the recovery menu...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
YES! It works! Thank you very much. :good:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
You can click here to see a thread about what you need to do (a few of us have done this very thing, including installing Lollipop and then factory resetting for a clean install).

Couple points about the instructions:

-- Be sure to have a back up of all your apps and data before you do all this.

-- For the first flash update (182) be sure to unzip the downloaded file. The actual update zip is inside the downloaded zip. This is the only zip file you need to do this for. Basically, a proper update zip should have a bunch of files listed inside (not just one), starting with ones like "metadata".

-- For the instructions, I did not do any of the adb commands. All I did was take the "command" file and copy it into /cache/recovery, as that file already contains the commands.

I made a folder on my external SD card called "updates" and copied everything to it, including the "command" file. I named all the zip files "update_182.zip" thru "update_201.zip". From there it was simply a matter of manually flashing each incremental change up to .201 by copying the next zip to /data (and renaming it "update.zip") and copying "command" to /cache/recovery. You will also want the latest RootZenPhone APK in that folder so that you can root again if needed (some updates will unroot you, some won't). You need root in order to copy stuff into /data and /cache/recovery.

After I was up to .201, I UNrooted (using RootZenPhone again), and after the unroot reboot I tried the "Check for Updates" -- it found the Lollipop update and installed it. But I still needed to factory reset the tablet after that because Lollipop was beyond sluggish. A clean slate made all the difference. Then I restored all my backed-up apps and data.

Good luck!

Thanks,

sutekh137

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Good deal!

By the way, if you are clearing cache after the Lollipop update in the hopes it increases performance, odds are it isn't going to. I had to do a full factory reset (I did it from the recovery menu as well) to get performance levels boosted after the Lollipop update.

If you do a full factory reset, do not be alarmed if the tablet takes 10-15 minutes to reboot after that -- it just takes a while before it dumps you to the "Welcome" wizard...

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bnzgl:
hi guys there is any way to downgrade lollipop to kitkat or rooting lollipop on this device
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Beaver_XT:
Bullseye! But I wasn't for me though, I already did the factory reset on my device.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
No way to downgrade, as the Lollipop install makes firmware to the bootloader itself (I think I am saying that right)...

Yes, you can root Lollipop using the instructions listed here.

You will need the beta version of the ClockWorkMod package that supports trigger 4 (T4), but for the life of me I cannot find the link to that at the moment...

Good luck!

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It's very easy on Mac. Just download the modified Xposed script, hook up your tablet to your computer, and run install.sh.

Afterwords, your tablet will be on the Optimizing Apps screen.

Once you reboot, if the Xposed Installer app isn't there, you can sideload it. It's in one of the script's subfolders. After that you should be golden.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
I assume I need to be in recovery mode?

And also, I assume I just run the script from Terminal?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] hollywoodfrodo:
Okay, so I've read the last 10-15 pages of the thread, but still have some questions before I decide to go for Lollipop or not:

As background, I rooted my Memo Pad via RootZenFone method many updates ago (I think I was on .180 or .182 at the time) - since then I've gone through 2-3 updates and have kept root with no problem - currently running latest KitKat (.201 I assume). I have no problems with battery drain at all. I froze a million useless Asus Apps. The tablet overall works okay, but multi-tasking kinda sucks and I get lag or stalls here and there when trying to open an app or trying to use "Okay Google" always listening. (I've assumed this had as much to do with low 1 GB RAM as anything OS related.)

#1 Question - Is update to Lollipop worth it? KitKat doesn't have the memory leak issue so updating to 5.0 seems to be asking for this additional problem to deal with. And I have no issues with Battery drain or Wifi when tablet is not in use. Does Lollipop significantly improve performance in real world results? Does it add as many problems as it fixes making it a even exchange without significant gain?

#2 Question - Since I'm rooted w/Zenfone, what is the best way to update to Lollipop? The update is in my notification now - I've just been ignoring it. Do I need to unroot, unfreeze all the apps, and remove Zenfone first? Of course I want the simplest method, but also want to do whatever is necessary so that it works without any issues. Don't want to brick my device...

Thanks for any advice, input, experiences!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Treklof:
CWM Backup .201 ???

Can anyone provide a clean CWM-Backup of .201 before updating to LP = Lollipop ?

My Update was error 7.

I now went back to .182 .

No OTA anymore at all.

Updated manually to .201

Then the update to LP was error 7 again and bricked the tablet.

I was glad that I had made a tethered CWM-Backup at least after the first LP-OTA-update failed.

So. If anyone has the .201-CWM-Backup without the busted Kernel I would be very happy to try some things out.

Thanks a lot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
1. So far I like Lollipop -- it seems smoother and is simply the "latest and greatest". I have not experiences memory leakage, and the "Boost" tool keeps working all the time. Additionally, we can still root it and it also has the "Auto-start" configurator to stop things from starting that shouldn't. All in all, things seem to stay smoother, longer (so far). I AM seeing power issues, though. Sometimes I will turn on the tablet in the morning (after it has been tether to USB charging all night) and I have lost power -- while the tablet should have been doing nothing. The drainer appears to be Google Backup Transport, but I have no idea why it is doing that.

2. You can try unfreezing everything and then unrooting, and then the OTA update might work. But if it doesn't, you'll need to do what I and a few others have done -- manually flash down to .182, flash all the way back up to .201 (in steps), unroot, run the OTA update, then factory reset (to prevent bloat and performance issues). You can then root with a temp ClockWorkMod session that handles the Intel chipset.

Instructions for working up from .182 here.

Instructions for rooting via temp CWM here.

Good luck!

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AqueousTransmission:
Yes, someone please post a cwm backup as a lot of us have busted kernels and can't boot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
Everyone seems so sure that the updated bootloader doesn't support older OS versions. It would be very stupid of Asus to do that. Of course one should never underestimate the power of ultimate stupidity.

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Yes, that's indeed pretty weird. Seems that Asus' charger detection is completely broken; at times I could hook it up to the cable but it simply would not charge only hold the current charge at a low percentage other times it claims to be charging while being unplugged. One problem I see here: No matter what the "Smart savings" setting says, as soon as it deems itself on a charger it will pull all the stops and never go to deep sleep.

Fun fact: Even on a high amp smart charger it uses almost as much power as the little it draws from USB so charging takes pretty long even if it's not doing anything useful while using it even in a trivial way will often drain the battery rather than charging it... I've many times experienced a forced shutdown while charging due to that...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
I think jerbear said it wouldn't work to go back, so I am relatively sure he tried it or has some other knowledge as to why a downgrade would not work (because he's good like that). However, I have no clue, and am not going to mess with things at this point!

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] vampirefo:
I would think you could downgrade without many problems, as long as you have all older files.

Pretty much like going from 4.2 to 4.4, then going from 4.4 to 4.2.

I don't have this tablet or would have already tried.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Does anyone else use ViPER4Android?

I do, and I've found that it helps to freeze AudioWizard, AudioWizardService, ICEsound and MusicFX, in order to get the best sound quality.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
I tried to do all of that,but I failed. First of all, I never used ADB so I don't really know how to set it up. I did install the Minimal ADB and Fast Boot, but I have no idea what to do with the Naked Driver. Second, I connected the tablet to the PC, I opened Minimal ADB, wrote "adb devices" and first time it didn't recognize the tablet. After that, I thought it might be because it was unrooted (unrooted for the Lollipop update,which failed), so I downloaded the root application and gave it a go. I restarted after 10 seconds and now it seems that Minimal ADB sees the tablet (it says a code and after that "device"),but the tablet didn't root. When I use root checker,it fails the test, the only thing that installed was that car racing game that comes with the program. And now,when I try to re-root the tablet,after 7 seconds it says "Failed :(" . Restarted the tablet and tried again,no change. Now I have some errors too, which are spamming the tablet, I think those are Minimal ADB related. They're saying "Warning: APD or ADF does not exist or not have the right to access."

What to do now?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
You don't need to run the script from Recovery, just normal boot.

Run from terminal.

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Correct, it won't work- at least according to [MENTION=4821597]social-design-concepts[/MENTION]. He can elaborate much better than I could.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Sorry, I had assumed you were already rooted. None of the instructions work if you aren't rooted.

But once rooted, you don't even need adb start over at 182 and go to 201...

Back to root, did you use RootZenPhone to root the tablet? If so, were you sure to turn off all networking and reboot the tablet right after it says it is rooting? Are you stuck in demo mode? All of this sounds like it must be related to RootZenPhone not quite re-rooting properly.

I am not quite sure what else to do, unless a factory reset is a possibility. If so, you can try that, either via the recovery mode menu or in Settings. I do know that at one point with rooting and unrooting, I got myself stuck in demo mode and factory reset was no longer available from Settings.

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] therealprof:
If I find a spare SD card I'll try that. I've written too much boot loader code in my life to believe that Asus made an backwards incompatible change without necessity as that would open a huge can of hurt for them...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] zapz:
Yeah,I used RootZenPhone,latest version.Wi-fi was off and rebooted the tablet after I counted 10 seconds. No, I'm not stuck in Demo Mode,the tablet is working fine,it's just that I get that error sometimes + I can't root (and ofc I can't update to Lollipop either). If I can't do anything else, I might try a factory reset. And if the tablet is rooted, ADB isn't required? Then I just paste them on the sd card, rename the zip, move the code in data/recovery and then reboot and it auto updates? Or?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Mono0521:
Where can I find "modified Xposed script" to download?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Weird issue...I have not experienced that before.

And if you are rooted, you don't _have_ to have adb working, but it helps. To put it another way, I used the steps listed here, but never did step 7 except for the "reboot recovery" line. Because step 6 already does the other commands (creates the command file in /cache/recovery). So, yes, the following should work for you:

-- Factory reset.

-- Root

-- Copy update zips and command file to your external SD.

-- One by one, copy "update.zip" to /data and always copy command to /cache/recovery.

-- Either use adb to issue a "reboot recovery" or boot into recovery mode (read the comments on the thread linked above and you will see comments to that effect).

To get into recovery mode (from my memory):

-- Power the tablet off.

-- Hold down Vol- and Power at the same time. After a while, as the machine is booting up, let off Power, but keep holding down Vol- until you see the boot options.

-- Use Vol- to cycle through the boot options: normal, recovery mode, etc. Stop on Recovery Mode and press Power

-- After a bit more booting you will, see the sad/error android lying there (poor guy). At this point press Vol+ and Power for about a second and then let off. That should take you to recovery, though from there I am not sure what it looks like (because I used adb to reboot with recovery). I assume it just starts doing the commands in the command file, and that means installing the update.

Sorry that I was somewhat misleading -- I guess I did use adb for "reboot recovery". It would be a good idea to get root and adb fully working after a factory reset, as adb really is damn handy (and it is also needed if you want to root Lollipop).

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Bifi991989:
Dont do that, i brick my me176 with this f.....

and nobody can fix it ...... i work 2 days for repair my Memopad ...... Asus :crying:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
asus.com/zentalk/tw/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=80297&extra=page=1
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Well, I think I borked my pad. Last reboot brought me to Aptio Setup Utility (looks like an old bios screen from my PC days in the 90s!). There's absolutely no way to navigate anything other than up/down with the rocker.

Any ideas?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Pic? I assume this is Asus uefi bios utility no way to select? What where you dosing to get here?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
I can scroll up and down System Language, System Date, System Time with the volume rocker, but can't exit.

I had just installed an Xposed module 'True Silent Mode' and was rebooting.

Can't even get into recovery mode.

Photo attached:
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
The ESC and keyboard in the upper corner do anything? It be nice to navigate that and try to disable secure boot. USB OTG keyboard maybe?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
I can scroll up and down System Language, System Date, System Time with the volume rocker, but can't select or do anything else. AFAIK.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
This is big- you're in the UEFI, there's no way that's supposed to happen! The bootloader is locked, you're not even supposed to be able to access this menu!

Keep the thing plugged in. For science.

If you have an OTG cable try plugging in a keyboard and see if you can navigate to the other menus. This could be huge.

You might be able to disable Secure Boot. It would either be under Boot or Security.

EDIT: If you could change boot priority you could get Linux on a flash drive. THAT I want to see.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
Will keep it plugged in, and will see if I can track down an OTG cable and old USB keyboard. I've already emailed Asus support and will see what they say.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Knowing ASUS they'll say that it's bricked and you need an RMA, but if you get lucky they may be able to tell us how you got there in the first place.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
[MENTION=5479482]jerbear294[/MENTION] if youre brave you should be able to use this efibootmgr View attachment 3343463 to set next boot to setup , i've tested it on the Lenovo S8-50 but just like that user there is no way to select. setting next boot efi var is a run once so a power off should boot normal android.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
How do I use the efibootmgr? I'm on a mac.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Sorry forgot you use it on the device and run it throufh adb sheel or terminal emulator not on the PC.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] mvrana:
adb isn't even seeing the tablet, it seems. :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I don't consider myself a brave person :(

Would anybody like to test this to see if we can get into UEFI?