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[MeMO Pad 7 General] Lord_de_Wolf:
Custom ROM

Hi Guys!

Did anyone already tried install "custom ROM" on this device. I have found this "manual" and I'm not fully convinced to do it, so I would like to know your opinion.

Please see link below (I have to "adjust" the link cos I'm the newbie and can not post link (in next 9 posts :D). Just delete the stars and add "dot" behind the "www" and ahead of "html". :)

***www***rom-lollipop.org/mp3-0/asus-memo-pad-7-me176c-6412***html***

Thx for feedback. :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
We've seen this before. It's an auto-generated page with instructions that only apply to Nexus devices.

Don't even attempt the instructions (they won't work!)

The golden rule: if it ain't on XDA, it ain't legit. Of course, there are exceptions. This isn't one of them, though.

My brother got a MeMO Pad yesterday. I took it out of the box and put on a case and screen protector, but when I started it up it didn't show the setup screen. I invoked it manually from the launcher. After that he downloaded Subway Surfers, which instantly crashed. It's the same story for Angry Birds. It was sitting at .182, I'm updating it to .201 now since he has no plans of rooting it (nor does he know what that means). He's only 10 and has autism so he was VERY upset when his games didn't work. A factory reset, even though it went to the setup screen, didn't help. Worst case scenario, I'll flash .182 from the temp CWM.

My sister's MeMO was purchased at the same time, both from Amazon. Hers didn't have the aforementioned problem.

EDIT: OTA update fixed the problem.

Also, my Email app just updated. It looks more like Material Design, and we've heard that ASUS is supposedly working on Lollipop to be released in April (better be 5.1, this tablet can't handle the memory leaks of 5.0)...

Put two and two together and HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
I tried this but when i open the app and select the 3 options and press install, it says "Library building failed, send sdcard/gltools_crashlog.txt to the developer". Any ideas what might be happening here?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The XDA version of GLTools doesn't support x86. You need version 1.95 or higher.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
Thats why, im using 1.96.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nikolasbgg:
Freinds help me, my Asus ME176C is slower and lags a bit after unlocking screen, after some time it starts working normally again. How to fix this it annoys me?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] kvegeta:
Go Buy a tablet with a decent quantity of RAM :(

I'm losing hope about this device :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nikolasbgg:
I don't think its about RAM, I dont have any apps installed and it says that 400mb+ ram is free.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Crying out for the bootloader to be unlocked
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nikolasbgg:
Does it work a bit slower for you after unlocking? For example drawing notification bar isnt as smooth as it should be when the device is working normally.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] kvegeta:
Me too...but i think is about the ram management and his low quantity :/

The launcher is pretty laggy -_-
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Apprently ASUS has updated the ME572C to Lollipop. There is hope :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nikolasbgg:
We will get Lollipop for ME176C/X, no worries. ASUS said it should be ready by the end of the month.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Anyone tried this on our memopad to see if it helps standby battery? Uses xposed so hopefully it doesn't blow anything up.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2030696
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Amplify is good
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Amplify is so legit :)

I used to use it but then my tablet started randomly emitting a high pitched shrill even if the tablet was muted. It was a coincidence, however. Uninstalling Amplify didn't help. I had to factory reset.

I should really reinstall that. It helped so much :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Alrighty then- got amplify installed- let's see how it goes. I noticed I didn't really change any settings or profiles.. Is it kind of just a "set it and forget it" type of app?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Its set to save you battery from the off. I personally just leave it but you can manually edit or stop wakelocks in the app it self.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Any source for this information?

Either way I hope you're right :D

I would love this device to get Lollipop just for the updated SD Card permissions, I know I can root to change them on KitKat, but I'm keeping it stock for now as I've also got a Nexus 7 I can mess with.

It's a nice device but not great with memory management, possibly due to all ASUS bloatware taking up RAM, I can't even listen to music & browse with Chrome as music cuts out if you open a few tabs, plus 3 tabs open with Firefox kills the app even with nothing else running, they seriously need to tone down on all the useless crap especially with only 1GB RAM. Guess rooting would solve this by freezing/removing apps but you shouldn't have to.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
Yea, im happy with either lollipop or for them to unlock the blootloader. More for the bootloader though :P memory leak in lollipop is extreme. I can even feel it on my shield tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I would usually trade memory leaks and instability for Xposed. Not in this case. This tablet is SCREAMING that it NEEDS 5.1

EDIT: Well nevermind, there's a super alpha version of Xposed for 5.1. All I need is CM12.1 and I will be a happy camper.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] AtomicPC:
It's screaming that it needs Cyanogen... Or at least to me heh.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Hag77:
Umm.. Did you guys pay for the pro version or something? I have the free one and sad to report it's doing jack S so far.. Overnight stats.. Wakelocks acquired- 593, Wakelocks blocked - 0.. Alarms fired - 345, Alarms blocked - 0. Battery drain - high..
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Yeah mines pro. It blocks loads of wakelocks
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Mine is Pro. I also tweaked mine a bit. I found an Amplify guide on XDA that significantly reduced battery drain, on some devices battery drain was not noticeable with it. I forget the name of the guide, sorry about that :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I noticed that 182 makes the battery last 5 hours with gps on. 198 makes with last 6-7 hours. 201 makes for 4 hours. And the lag disappears on the 198. So I'm sticking with it for now. The tablet will lose perfomance with lollipop. 894 MB of RAM aren't enough to suistain a tablet of this magnitude. I could be wrong but judging by other tabs Ive been seeing...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] urlyisis:
Lollipop would make things soooooooo much better IMO.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I haven't updated past 198. The other updates seemed very minor and I was sticking to the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy.

5.0 would probably flop with the memory leaks but I can see 5.1 (ESPECIALLY CM12.1) potentially working wonders.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Would now be a good time to ask ASUS to unlock the bootloader? :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Yes!!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Any time is a good time! Should we revive #UnlockThatBootloader?

We need to make a collective event or something. A similar method was used to get the kernel source for my old Hisense Sero 7 Pro, but that was a GPL violation and we had a much larger community on XDA.

Wasn't the guy who made RootZenfone researching a bootloader unlock for us?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
Dont even mess with my feelings XD. You serious someone is working on this?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I am serious. He said he'd look into it. I haven't heard an update in a while though.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
It's a monumental job. You have no idea. It's like looking for a specific comma out of place in a 2 thousand page bible. Even if you create a routine to find the encrypted key... Let's just say it'll take its sweet time. I'm not saying it's impossible, I mean, a few months ago we were talking of a possible root and now we take it for granted. The same goes with the cn exploit Rom, the unbrick commands, and the temp cwm. Much was done and discovered since this tablet has debut last July 2014. Maybe if we had a supercomputer. Or better yet, a "hold" on an Asus engineer! We would get that bootloader unlocked real quick! :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
A Intel engineer would be better.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
An Intel engineer would be much better, especially considering that only Intel has the unlock codes (I believe)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Not really that Intel has codes for unlocking but Intel could release uos supported firmware for any soc if they choose to when looking at the firmware stitching tool documentation most parts of the firmware can only me signed by Intel and the parts that specify as signed by OEM also specify could be signed by Intel.

Can u list the out put of ls /sbin
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Using ADB to shell in and then "su" to get root, the command yields:

root@K013_1:/sbin # ls -l
ls -l
-rwxr-x--- root root 409822 1970-01-01 07:00 adbd
-rwxr-x--- root root 378621 1970-01-01 07:00 healthd
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 07:00 modprobe -> ../init
-rwxr-x--- root root 188396 1970-01-01 07:00 partlink
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 07:00 ueventd -> ../init
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1970-01-01 07:00 watchdogd -> ../init

Thanks,

sutekh137

PS. By the way, how do I turn off auto-complete in Terminal Emulator?? Man, it is annoying trying to run commands from there!
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Huh. I don't have autocomplete in Terminal Emulator. Perhaps there is a setting you hit by accident.

What keyboard are you using?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Hi jerbear...

I am not using anything special that I know of, just the normal keyboard that comes up when text can be entered. I thought I checked around in the Terminal Emulator settings, but do I need to change something in the Android/ASUS system settings?

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I can't help you there. I hate the stock keyboard (it's ugly and the keys are too small, that and terrible autocorrect) and switched to SwiftKey the first chance I got.

ASUS probably didn't build the keyboard with writing commands into a terminal in mind. SwiftKey might fix your issues. The (nonexistent in Terminal Emulator) autocorrect will be terrible for about a week but afterwords it will be much better.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Thank you so much! Yeah, SwiftKey works better, not sure why I've never tried it before! need to get used to where the ENTER key is now, I keep hitting backspace instead of enter...

But it works great in Terminal Emulator! problem solved! I might not even mind typing emails now! *smile*

Thanks,

sutekh137

EDIT: Google Keyboard works better, too, and I like where the ENTER key is on it. Wish it had more "hold for second character" capabilities -- the slash on SwiftKey (hold on "m") is very handy for command-line stuff, obviously...)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I went through that "transition phase" before as well on my old Sero. Boy was that fun (sarcasm alert).

You'll get used to it before you know it. You think it's great now? Wait until the autocorrect gets to the point where it can predict your next word spot-on.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] move_over:
I agree, SwiftKey does get pretty amazing once you use it for awhile.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
Can we run the game fm classic 2015 in this tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Yes we can. Or any other of its category.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
Are you sure? Do you try it? Because the game is not in the google play store. In the game specifications only memo pad 8 is present...
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
The MeMO Pad 7 and 8 are identical specs wise.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] artpopboy:
when we have a decent upgrade this tablet? a cooked rom based on pure android? this tablet model is a disgrace to the asus! slow, chrashing. This tablet with this specification that was not supposed to happen.

shame.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
We would've had one a while ago, but the bootloader is locked and we can't really do anything about it yet.

Supposedly Lollipop OTA is rolling out. Here's to hoping that ASUS did some SERIOUS RAM management upgrades.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Have you guys seen this yet?

:D

My brother and sister both have MeMo Pads. They're not rooted but if I can I'll temp root them and grab the OTA. I won't be able to as my tab doesn't update.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] social-design-concepts:
Somebody told me my temp cwm session was able to root the me372cg lollipop update.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Don't you hate it when all tabs around get updated except ours...? Sigh.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
It doesn't seem to be coincidence. None of my family's three MeMo Pads see the update.

I'm thinking of going Mythbusting. I'm going to hook up my tablet to a debug proxy and check for updates. It'll show what it's connecting to. At that point I just gotta go hunting.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
So there is lollipop ota, for real?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodrengo:
Ok but i can't buy it in google play because says it isn' t compatible....
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Going by the quote I made a page ago, that seems to be the case.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Well, i think that the guy who made the original post might not be aware that there are minor updates (like 191,198,201) and thinks that any update from kitkat leads to lollipop. He might be getting some of those minor updates we already have.

I hope he is right, but it is unlikely that no one other than him got it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
Newer Memo Pad 7 ME572 got lollipop on friday. I guess we'll be recieving it in the next few days. Can't wait.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
I hope so. I'm gonna go on a ill trip where internet is a mirage. And I'd like to take a "lollipop" on my wallet. :P
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I did some research as well, and I think that's what the guy was referring to.

I'm hoping that this tablet doesn't end up being "the one that got away" and doesn't get official Lollipop.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] nechvi812:
root

Hi, please how root this tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
Root zenfone app 1.4.6.4r
[MeMO Pad 7 General] linkinman:
I asked at the official FB page of ASUS Czech & Slovakia about lollipop update. They say "We are not expecting the update". :'(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
That just means they're not informed well. Don't worry, we'll get it soon.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Ask ASUS and ASUS USA.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Hmmm. My murder quota is kind of low this month... Asus, must I go into terminator mode!?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] SJMarty:
Is there an official list of apps that are safe to freeze? I have two of these tablets and would like to streamline things.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
In this very thread, a few pages back. Of course you cant freeze anything related to dlna or chromecast.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] reubenskelly1992:
I freeze chrome cast stuff fine
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm tired of how out of place the SystemUI looks with the Lollipop launcher I'm using, so I'm downloading CM12 for the 2012 Nexus 7 to get its SystemUI and theme ours.

Wish me luck! If we can't get Lollipop, the next best thing is a Lollipop theme. IMO Material Design is the top perk of Lollipop :)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
We'll get lollipop, but whole zenui is becoming boring for me, so some theming would be great. Zenui actually won't change much on lollipop, so if those jews don't unlock this thing, I'm gonna go crazy. This tablet seems crippled by their damned skin, and i can't stop thinking about how fast it would be with vanilla android.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
This tablet is like somebody with an IQ of 160 but is physically disabled. The power is there, but mobility is impaired.

The tablet has potential, IT JUST NEEDS CM12.1! DO YOU HEAR ME ASUS? #UNLOCKTHATBOOTLOADERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
Yep, it's a very capable tablet, there are times when it shows but it's seriously weighed down by too many system resources & apps by ASUS, a lot/all of it is unnecessary, didn't think I'd come across another tablet with as much bloatware as Samsung but ASUS have managed to take the cake! More fool me for expecting anything different :(
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
So... Are we talking about the Stephen Hawking of tablets here?
[MeMO Pad 7 General] sutekh137:
Did you really mean to make a slam against "jews", or was that some sort of typo?

Thanks,

sutekh137
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
That's the analogy I was going for.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] rodspi:
Tweak that reduce some of my lag.

Must have a rooted device. Install the app "pimp my rom" from play store. Go to the multitasking section and check "high" for OOM grouping, check "128" for min free value, and "128mb" for Zram compression. Check adjust kernel behavior and adjust Dalvik cache, then hit apply changes. You can also push the rejoice button to reprioritize the process for your current session. The rejoice tweak won't remain on reboot
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
[MENTION=2685592]bravesoul[/MENTION] already has values that he found through trial and error.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] profee:
That wasn't a typo, but i also don't have anything against jewish people, and didn't mean to offend anyone. It's just how some people call Intel guys.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
A few pages ago I made a post with pics on how and which values to change safely without getting a soft brick.

And these values don't get lost on reboot.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Yesterday something VERY strange happened to my tablet.

I was watching a YouTube video when an "Unfortunately, SystemUI has stopped" message popped up. I hit it, getting annoyed by the memory management and instability of ZenUI. Usually it'll come back up in 10 seconds, but this time the screen was still only backlight after 2 minutes. I force shut down the tablet, but when I hit the power button nothing happened. Charging? Nothing.

My first suspicion was the battery but I quickly debunked that after it wouldn't turn on while charging.

Yesterday I left it facedown on my dresser without its case to see if cooling it down/letting it drain would help. Lo and behold when I turned it on today it gave me a "critical battery" warning. I'll have to see what happens when I get back home tonight. If it still shows the battery as drained I'll know something's up.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I'm reporting my tablet as working! :)

There still seems to be some weirdness though. When I got home and looked at it, the screen said "Charging Completed." Two seconds later, still on the charger, it changed to "Charging, 100%". This is on the stock charger, so something may be up (that or what happened yesterday completely destroyed battery calibration).

I'll see what happens and report back. I REALLY don't want to go through ASUS's RMA process, especially since the issue seems to have rectified itself for the most part.

At least now I can continue working on the themed SystemUI.

EDIT: One thing I forgot to mention: This whole predicament wasn't using my themed SystemUI, either. I'm still using the stock one until I'm finished theming it.

On that note: It seems the SystemUI uses overrides for the tinted status bar. I'll try to implement it everywhere but I'm not sure how far I'll get.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
One more reason to change into nova or apex launcher and then freeze zenUI and ezlauncher. Thats what I did.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
I've already done that, actually! I've been using L Launcher with the Moonshine theme for the past couple months. I do keep the ASUS launcher unfrozen. Without it, wallpapers won't save to the lockscreen for whatever reason.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
wow still no unlocked bootloader. whats the point of an android with a locked bootloader? im looking a those phone carriers and asus. Its like if im going to buy a ferrari and the manufacturer capps the engine at 100mph.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] salekojot:
[emoji2]
[MeMO Pad 7 General] groovychap:
Great news! The latest update to GTA: San Andreas (1.08) has made it compatible with our tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT?

THE GLORIOUS DAY HAS COME (wait, scratch that, that's when the bootloader gets unlocked)

When is GTA V going to be compatible? :P
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Actualy im waiting on gta 4. Then when every tablet uses a quantum SoC we can aspire to play gta 5! :P
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
my pc has a hard time with gta 5. now imagine on a smartphone. ill give them 20 years before they can run that game.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
*10, Rockstar releases GTA games on mobile 10 years after their release, Chinatown Wars being an exception because it's always been a mobile game. GTA V should come out on mobile in 2023.

Liberty City Stories will be coming out soon.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] chuy409:
i doubt gta 5 will follow that trend. The game is 65g big, uses over 7.5gb of ram, around 40fps on a gtx 980 maxed out at 1080p. If smartphones could run pc games from 10 years ago, will we see crysis 1 on the smartphone in 2 years. I seriously doubt it.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
Thus the quantum processor. You guys never heard of such thing, have you? Look it up on google. And beware of what you say when you use the word "impossible" around such a trekkie as me. Star Trek idealized tablets called "padd" while iPads were still a glim in Steve Jobs eye. ;)

Quantum tablets are still 10 or 20 years away. But trust me. It will happen. And I hope im still around to see it. So I can remember this post. :P
[MeMO Pad 7 General] jerbear294:
Here's what I found while researching our tinted statusbar delimma:

I'll deodex our SystemUI and send it to the TintedStatusBar developer right away. :D
[MeMO Pad 7 General] Kittie-hime:
Hello, I'm an Android newbie and this is my first tablet.

I'm running out of space because of some heavy games. In the settings, I can copy data to the SD card, but for some reason, it doesn't free up that much space. Is it because of KitKat? The apps themselves don't take that much space but they have a lot of data (for one game it's 20.79MB for App and 765MB for Data). In the settings, there is always "0.00B" displayed next to SD card so what is actually being saved on there?

Will Lollipop fix this problem eventually (if this tablet ever gets it)? Or should I just give in and root the tablet? (but I'm scared I'll mess up and brick it)
[MeMO Pad 7 General] seamo123:
Speaking of deodexing the system.ui, is there a quick and easy way to do this? It's frustrating not being able to do much in the way of theming... :/
[MeMO Pad 7 General] :
A lot of Games and some Apps use something called OBB's (these files can be quite large depending on the Game/App) which don't get/can't be moved to the SD Card so can quickly consume space.

These OBB files are found in the Android/OBB folder in their respective folder, they are needed for the Game/App to work.

However, if you gain root access you can move/link these files to a SD Card via the use of a third party App, but doing so may affect the Games/Apps performance.

Also many free games have video adverts that are downloaded to /Data, with root these can be deleted or you can use something like AdAway to block them altogether.
[MeMO Pad 7 General] bravesoul:
By using "GL to SD" app, one can put the obb folder into an exterior SD card without losing performance. Providing you use at least a class 10 microSD card. I tried it with fifa 14. Works out great. No lag. But... you have to use "SD Booster" app to boost it to 10240 KBps.

In my experience, the best adblocker out there is in lucky patcher. Just manually kill everything inside an app with "ad" or "ad activity" and all ads disappear.

AdBlocker is good but you have to update the "hosts" file once in a while to keep up with app changing of ad servers. Lucky Patcher blocks all ads... Forever.