[Asus Padfone X and S] JDubbed:
Rooted!

Also confirmed rooted! Thank you price0331 for this find! I figured out that the fastboot driver gets automatically downloaded via Windows updates. When I would plug my phone into my computer it would come up as a Samsung device in device manager because before my Asus I had a Samsung and I guess it was trying to use the Samsung driver. However, I removed the driver, deleted the driver from the computer, rebooted and Windows downloaded the driver and it showed up as an Asus driver. BUT, It still didn't show "status-fastbooot" on the recover launcher. So if it doesn't show it but instead a bunch of different letters and or numbers, it is just displaying the serial number of your Asus device and this should be normal because it worked for me. I rebooted into temp cwm recovery, installed SuperSU, rebooted, it showed quickly an OS update then I was back to my home screen. Firstly I checked root and it said there was no root access. I uninstalled, reinstalled Root Checker thinking it was cached for before when I checked it when I didn't have root, then checked again and then it said I had root access.

A couple things I did with my phone after root.

1. Froze all bloatware. I might remove it later but I felt safer just freezing it with Titanium Backup in case I find out later it screwed something up.

2. Installed a CPU tweaker like 3C ToolBox. If I choose any governor besides interactive, the phone crashes, freezes and just won't play nice. But I have it set to on boot interactive, 1.33GHz - 1.6GHz and no problem. Phone is much faster now. Also for screen off I have ondemand 800MHZ - 933MHz with 1 CPU online, 2nd free and 3rd offline. Ondemand seems to work fine in screen off maybe because I am not accessing apps on the fly. Before root this phone would suck away the battery life and I would only be able to get 6 hours out of it. I assume it was because all the CPU's were online running high and lows and draining the battery as well as the bloatware just lingering in the background sucking up precious resources. I was right. Once I forced the screen off settings my battery now last 3-4x longer. I can have a full charge in the morning and it still be at about 50% - 60% late at night with the occasional checking emails, checking on a game or two and surfing the web. Awesome!

3. On a more important note, I HATED the AT&T boot up sound. Dun dun dun dun snap. Awful! At night it wakes my wife up when I am in bed needing to reboot my phone. I had to smother it with a pillow to muffle the sound. There was no way to change or quiet it. It was a forced noise on a forced volume. However, I used X-Plore, gave it root and navigated to /system/media/audio and renamed powerup.wav to powerup.wav.bak. No more annoying AT&T sound at bootup! Whoohoo! It is quiet as can be. Love it.

4. I also hated the low battery noise. So I went to /system/media/audio/ui and renamed lowbattery.ogg to lowbattery.ogg.bak and now no more annoying low battery notifications. Only the popup window notifies me. Yay! Progress!

5. Installed SD Fix! Finally! My 3rd party apps can now write to my external micro SD card. This allows for installing apps to SD, moving their data and just overall more usage of the micro sd card that was stupidly blocked when KitKat 4.2.2 was released. I don't care if it has more security risks. Unless they plan on making 64GB+ a standard for all phones for built-in memory, I need my micro sd card to work as intended.

This phone is 100% better because of root. Happy rooting!

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