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[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
I have this tablet for almost 2 months now and i had it rooted the first week i got it. As i found no useful tweaks or improvments of rooting, i removed my root access and carried on. It seems asus now detects any hacking or so and it wont let me update my system. Could someone make a novice-friendly guide to manual updating of android version? My current version is ww 3.1.23.158. Thanks!
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
Unzip and put the firmware on the root folder of your tablet

Reboot

It will detect the file and do the update ;)

Version WW_V3.2.23.182
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/ME176C-WW-3_2_23_182.zip

Version TW_V3.2.23.182
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/ME176C-TW-3_2_23_182zip.zip

Version JP_V3.2.23.182
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/ME176C-JP-3_2_23_182.zip

Version CN_V3.2.23.182
http://dlcdnet.asus.com/pub/ASUS/EeePAD/ME176C/ME176C-CN-3_2_23_182.zip

Root with: http://www.mediafire.com/download/70xzy32jxv8q8jh/RootZenFone-1.4.6.4r.apk
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
Rebooting isn't necessary. Just unplug the USB cable and the prompt should pop up.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
So i need to root my tablet again? Do i need a special file manager to put stuff in the root folder or not?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
If you already have ZenRootFone installed, it should maintain root through the update. You just need to connect the tablet to the PC and copy over the zip.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
Oh i meant should i reroot the tablet to be able to do the manual install?because i unrooted it way back, like i said in the first post. Oh and also, i downloaded the first firmware version asus offered as it said it was for ww versions, im guessing that ones mine.

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Ok, so i rooted my tablet again successfully using the rootzenfone. I first tried copying over the entire unzipped download, then uplugging and after nothing happened, i rebooted. Neither of those yielded any promps. Then i unzipped the file, and coppied it over to the root folder (E:/) of the tablet internal storage. Disconnected the usb, waited a bit, and after nothing prompted, i rebooted. Again, nothing. I can't seem to get the update to prompt, could I get some assistance please? I'm new to this :D
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
you don't need to root to update but it's not important

what is the name of the .zip on your / internal storage plz ?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
The name is:

ME176C-WW-3_2_23_182.zip
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
it's not unzipped like I said before ;) it's why it's not working you need to have the zip inside the "ME176C-WW-3_2_23_182.zip" on your /
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
Should i make it a folder with that name? Cuz I did unzip it and copy the insides. There were 2-3 folders and 2-3 files. The tablet didn't recognize those.

I also tried wrapping them up in the same name as the zip i downloaded. The end result was the same named folder just not zipped. Nothing happened after copying it over and rebooting
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
You need to have UL-K013-WW-3.2.23.182-user.zip for it works not ME176C-WW-3_2_23_182.zip
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
Ok, it's working now. :D Thanks a bunch, mate! :)
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
:good:
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
I've successfully installed the WW_V3.1.23.161 version following the steps you told me but the latest version, WW_V3.2.23.182, is still giving errors upon installing. Is this only me or?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
Why didn't you just go directly to .182? You're still rooted, right? You're trying to update to the FULL zip, right? Normal OTA fails?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SyCoREAPER:
I am torn whether or not to try and root.

DOES/do we predict flashing 182 again remove all traces of root/allow for OTA?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lpinho:
Brightness not working? Root problem or update problem?

Hi,

does any of you have problems changing the brightness of your memopad 7?

I try to change it and nothing happens and when I try to activate the reading mode, the setting throws an error.

Can this be an update issue or a root issue?

Thanks for your feedback,

Luis Pinho
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
Yeah, what the hell?! Doesn't do a thing for me, either. Though toggling reading mode does nothing, either.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Anyone has problems with the contact app that is always crashing even if I don't open it, I never ever installed a contact app on my tablet either, not sure why it crash like that even if I don't use it.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lpinho:
I installed a 3rd party app to change the brightness Brightness Level, changed the brightness using the app, and now, everything works... strange behavior
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SyCoREAPER:
Anyone able to answer my question above?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namagakumon:
I have a Japanese ME176C still running 3.1.23.144.

Root ZenFone worked like a charm. :D

For people thinking about unlocking the bootloader, have you thought of using Intel's Phone Flash Tool? It's a company's internal tool used to flash their Android prototype boards. There is a leaked version available somewhere (I've seen someone linking to it once here at xda). Phone Flash Tool performs Direct System On-Chip Flashing on each partition, which can bypass any protection.

Just a random thought.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
Update to .182 rom it work much better :)

I think it need some knowledge when you use this sort of program, not for me ^^
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
Some news about unlocking bootloader from rootzenfone dev ( shaka Huang dev)

Asus have release the unlock tool for zenphone but the kernel is totally unusable, you can't even build the kernel with default configuration file.

So he can flash recovery but without the working kernel can do much.

End of report
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namagakumon:
True. I've tried to compile the kernel source code available from ASUS's website, but the defconfig files that come with their package are not sufficient. Also, there is no /proc/config.gz on the installed image; therefore I cannot dump a valid kernel configuration. Finally, scripts/extract-ikconfig.sh won't work on boot.img.

I ran out of options. The only thing we can do is to nag ASUS and ask them for a valid Memo Pad 7 defconfig.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
maybe you can try to contact the about the defconfig ?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] namagakumon:
Already did. Waiting for a reply.

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Just talked to technical support. The poor lady on the other side had no idea of what I was talking about. :p

She promised to escalate the inquiry. Hopefully someone knowledgeable will contact me soon.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
Awesome. Thanks for looking into it. I have no clue what all that meant but it sounds like you're on to something.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caiefh:
what next to do?

it seems that after updating to build 182 i still have root access.

now wat next to do?

i want to remove useless apps

swap internal to external or use link to sd

is there a way now to make it happen?thank you
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
For remove useless apps you can use titanium backup or a more friendly apps like Root Uninstaller

For swaping internal to external I don't know, I don't need that personally so... maybe someone will help you on that.

But as far I know it's not working on all device and you need a custom recovery
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
Someone mentioned something called.... Folder Mount, I think?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
FolderMount is a nice solution to move app on external but it's not like swaping but it's more simple because it use only symlink :)
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SyCoREAPER:
DOES/do we predict flashing 182 again after rooting remove all traces of root/allow for OTA?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
flashing .182 over .182 it's not possible, and root allow OTA

If you want back to stock do a factory reset on the recovery
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zapz:
Folder Mount is WAY better than swapping...I tried to swap storage from internal to external once using a certain application (forgot the name) on my HTC Desire 310 and I messed up something. Now when I use Folder Mount on it or similar applications, the phone freezes and I need to factory reset it or it will always freeze after 20-30 seconds after rebooting the phone.

Because my HTC Desire 310 has NO firmware released, it's completely messed up : I can't do updates because certain files were modified and I can't use Folder Mount or any other link application. This phone is quite good (Quard Core processor and has a Mali 400 multi graphic processor), but it has VERY low storage (2 GB usable out of a total of 4 GB), so without any application like Folder Mount, I can only use it normally (if Folder Mount or any other link app isn't installed, the phone can be used without any problems).

What I'm saying is that in the end, Folder Mount is better, it won't mess up anything (it might patch a file, but a backup is available, the original file gets named "sdcard.backup" I think..so if you ever wanna go back to how things were, you can delete the old file and take out the .backup from the original one and you're done!) and it can also link many applications (free version has a limit of 3 though, you need to buy the Pro version to get unlimited link).
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SyCoREAPER:
That'd odd, regarding the flashing portion. A factory reset on recovery is all it takes to go 100% back to fresh? All seems to easy compared to other devices I've used.

Thanks
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
no unlocked bootloader, no custom recovery so a factory reset do this job flash to stock remove root that it
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] caiefh:
because im having a problem in terms of saving data on sd card, the apps still cant read the data on sd card, thats why i still cant install hd games on my tab :(
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SyCoREAPER:
Failed a couple times initially but working great now.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=jrummy.sdfix

This works for me, every time. Google pulled a stupid move for the sake of "security" and disabled writing to the SD card in KitKat. This fixes that.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jballer0602:
mod

any roms available for this tablet yet?

I kind of screwed up one thing about this tablet by rooting it. I was removing apps and I guess I removed an unsafe app that allows the Reading mode to not work :| If anyone knows a way to get this tablet back to stock rom, then please do tell.

Other than that, are their any roms available for this tablet yet? It seems cyanogenmod isn't supported. Bummer :(
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
I've just started reading about alternative roms, most look really awesome but I wouldn't recommend any to anyone, seems that all the alternative roms have different problems on different hardware, you never know exactly what will not work on your tablet/phone until you install it, I don't even understand how so many people keep recommending cyanogen, on some phones, the wifi doesn't work once cyanogen is installed, on some models its the data network that doesn't work, sometimes the phone randomly reboot itself...
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
Ive updated my tablet .182 version and ive noticed they did a good job on optimization. Ive also noticed the tablet starts bottlenecking somewhere if not restarted once in a day or two. Anyone else?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
I reboot my tablet randomly,I can't tell you, I'm using the ram cleaner in the .182 sometimes work great

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How it can be possible you have found custom rom since the bootloader is not unlock & no custom recovery out there oO
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Did I say anything about finding a custom rom for the Asus MemoPad, sadly, I didn't since its not unlocked, but generally was looking at infos and comments about the main roms that are available for various devices, and read all the bad comments (they are the ones you need to read first if you want to know what can happen really to your device), clearly it looks like whatever you may choose for your device, you will have some kind of problems that the stock rom didn't have at all.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] profee:
You are not informed well, my friend. Custom roms are the best thing that happened to android. Not all of them will work great, but big portion will. And nothing will happen to your device if you know what you are doing.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaY_III:
#1 many custom ROMs work 100% perfect.

Just read the release notes before you install.

#2 with that attitude, what are you even doing on this site?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Sorry about this, was pissed off when I wrote this yesterday, I tried more than 15 times to root my Galaxy S4 without success (its a SGH-I337M from Bell), I did root it once when I got it, but it updated recently (didn't update the version or anything, its the same firmware just without root anymore) but now I'm stuck and that is getting on my nerves...
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
Are any of you guys able to actually play Angry Birds Epic? Mine crashes most of the time while loading the frickin' title screen.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yishay:
Hello

You can try rooting your device with Root Android phone, flash custom ROM and manage your Android devices, Rooting Freeware Download - Kingo

http://www.kingoapp.com/
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jerbear294:
A) Some people have tried that. (Spoiler: it doesn't work on this tablet.)

B) Kingo and VROOT are both potentially malware according to the very site you're posting on.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
Considering the earlier question, are there gonna be any custom roms for this tablet?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Looks like a spyware or scam, sorry, won't ever trust something of this kind on my phone, if it was so easy to root a phone, it would be on the google play store, a couple of apps already there that claim they can root your device, but I don't think it can work on new phones were the damn company do everything they can to prevent root of their phones, if I had spare cash to grab a new phone I would probably try my luck with a OnePlus from One, it already comes with Cyanogen and they worked with the Cyanogen team so I guess they made sure the whole hardware was supported by Cyanogen roms.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yishay:
Did you try it to define it as spyware or scam ?

The program is based on android tools with adb commands to push the relevant files.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
After reading a little bit about it, I think I was wrong, but I'm still unsure about this kind of app, seems that it doesn't work with the Canadian version of the S4 I have and I would still need to use Odin to flash, which is what I'm trying and I always have to recover the phone, anyways this thread isn't about the S4, sorry about this hijack.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaY_III:
Try http://www.slimroms.net/ for your S4

If you want everything 100% working, grab the stable release. If you want features sooner, try a weekly at your own risk of not everything working.

Don't waste your time trying to get root on an S4. Worry about getting CWM or TWRP installed to replace your stock recovery. Then simply flash the ROM you want. The custom ones come rooted.

Lastly sorry for getting off topic.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Would really appreciate help for this, I'm scared to brick my phone now that I've tried 15 times with Odin already, the file I used to root the first time and it worked nicely is CF-Auto-Root-jfltecan-jfltevl-sghi337m.zip I got it from a website can't remember which one, now trying again and I get nothing but troubles, I use Odin 3.09 and the damn thing keep stopping at around 70-80% and it makes me freak out each time cause I'm so scared of bricking it, can't afford a new phone and I don't have any that could replace it. Also I can't use a sd card cause I have none in this phone, could probably find one 2gb or something like that somewhere but I never found where to put the card, my other phones had a slot on the side but not this one, suppose its inside somewhere.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
I've played Epic for atleast 4-5 days and haven't experienced a single crash or restart. Although, I managed (with all your help) to install the latest .182 update and I'm also running a ram booster (root) to optimize ram and also a CPU tuner which I personalized to run a performance governor when I'm gaming. That might be the solution.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JaY_III:
http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/175

Its pretty simple. If flashing the tar with Odin is above your head, your going to need to do some more research. But once your have a custom recovery installed, it's pretty hard to brick your phone.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plopingo:
is not the thread to talk about Samsung Galaxy S4 issues guys !
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
Correct, please take it to the S4 thread or PMs.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Sorry about disturbing the thread, I give up with flashing my phone for now, will try to locate a more appropriate thread for this.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
No worries.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mdotph:
So i installed gta san andreas on my me176c but it doesnt work unless i put the obb files on internal. Is there any way i can get it work on my sd card?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
I had read about an app that allowed this, but can't remember the name, I was sure it was link2sd but after reading about it I'm not sure, I think the app was doing same thing we can do in Windows and make the android system think a folder was on the internal memory while its location is on another drive, not sure if this would work with Android 4.4 since Google screwed up badly with this, I got the same problem with Asphalt 8, can't move it to the SD card.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] profee:
Wait, San Andreas actually works on this tablet.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Should works really well, like GTA Vice City and GTA III also, I think the minimum requirements for GTA San Andreas was a Pentium III 1GHZ and 256MB of Ram, this tablet does have a quad core CPU that runs at 1.3GHZ and up to 1.83GHZ
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toysnic:
Hi all,

I just bought this tablet.

thank you for all your work done previously.

I correctly root the tablet and verified.

I installed Root unsinstaller and wanted to remove the usual applications (facebook, ... )

the application has stopped from the start uninstalling and the tablet restarts.

But it gets stuck on the ASUS logo, after the appearance of Intel logo.

A circle is running continuously.

I tried to restart with Power and Vol +, and I get all messages at the bottom of the screen in the Droidboot.

Whatever I do, I always crashe in the same place.

Have you any idea?

Thank you and sorry for my English.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toysnic:
Lastest new the tablet restart, I dont kown how.

But I probably delete a wrong apk, because the home page (deskop) dont want to appear, I can open lot of apk but not the launcher...
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] move_over:
Download a launcher from the play store and use that.

Sent from Asus Memo Pad 7
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuyInDogSuit:
If you go to play.google.com and log into your account, you can install a launcher like Nova or Apex.

Someone asked in one of these threads about storing app/game data on the SD card. I found a solution:

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/modules/mod-obb-sd-v0-1-t2884004
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toysnic:
Ok, Thanks, I downloaded and installed holo launcher and this problem is solved.

But I think it miss something in the system. I tried to install the lastest Asus uptade, download completed but when the tablet restart in installation mode, the update fail, and restarts in normal mode.

Is there a way or software on laptop for example in order to re-install everything as the begin?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mcdodge34:
Yes, you can do a factory recovery from the recovery menu, not sure how to access it on this tablet but I'm pretty sure it involve holding some of the keys while pressing the power button. Be aware that you will loose everything on the tablet while doing it and I think also the rooting you've done will be lost, but the tablet will be like brand spanking new like it was when you got it out of the box.
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] toysnic:
If only we have a factory recovery mode on this device... Or easy way to enter it.

Edit: I found how to start the factory mode in an other thread.

-Switch ON with Vol+ and power buttons

-Release power button since you see ASUS. you should arrive in Droidboot mode.

- choose recovery mode

-when you are on the droid press both Vol+ and Vol- button, you should see factory instructions appears.

So in my case I tried a Factory reset, but it's like the backup is not completed: it always miss the launcher.

Anybody know the name of the APK launcher?
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mitt69:
To access the recovery mode you need to do the following

1./ Ensure the tablet is powered off

2./ Hold the volume up button and then press and hold the power button until the screen turns on

3./ Release the power button but keep the volume up pressed until you see the Droidboot (fastboot) screen

4./ Go down to Recovery and press the power button to select it and the tablet will now boot into recovery

5./ Once in recovery, if you press the centre of the volume rocker (it may take a couple of tries) you will bring up a hidden menu of recovery options, these are

Reboot

Install from ADB

Factory Reset

Wipe Cache
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruger94:
ZenUi, its Asus Launcher on Memo pad 8....here is a zipped copy of the apk and odex file.. Original location is system/priv-app... should work on yours...good luck...

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/24995257/stuff/ZenUi.zip

S3 running Vanir ROM
[MeMO Pad 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theyanis:
Im experiencing some bottlenecking in regular use with this tablet, mostly after unlocking it. Also, some games run terribly or dont run at all. Is this all due to intel emulating most of android or something else? And what should we expect from the new the new android l?