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[Asus Transformer TF700] fq9228:
Me too. .... it is much better, faster and smother than previous versions.

I have noticed that _that's kernel shows better results on Quadrant test . . about 9000 (Omi about 7200).

Specifically so called IO test have a long delay when Omni kernel is installed - with _that's kernel passes almost immediately to the next test? Perhaps this issue could be considered for next version improvements.

Thanks for all your efforts Mr sbdag and company! Perfect job!
[Asus Transformer TF700] sapiora:
Every update improves the usability.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
If it didn't it wouldn't be an update but a scr** up :p

I guess that's why b5 never saw the light of day :laugh:

But it is amazing, isn't it? I cannot remember how often I thought: "This is the best this tablet has ever run" during the last 2 years.....

Here's to many happy returns! :beer:
[Asus Transformer TF700] mbutash:
Just moving into trying this as a suitable 5.x rom (cm12 seems a basketcase atm for tf700), but this is proving not much better. I've always found this thing laggy, but it's so far proven very quirky to even get working.

The first install it soft-rebooted while even trying to skip through the initial welcome, and on restart would take 20-30 seconds to even responds to a button press.

After being frustrated waiting for molasses to drop or diamonds to be made, I wiped it, and let the damn thing sit there for an hour after done to settle. This proved much better! At least until I imported my gmail account profile.

Suddenly before it was done even syncing, it soft-reloaded again, and has been a basketcase of unresponsiveness, fc's, and soft/hard reloads.

Anyone else seeing this? Is mine simply cursed? Running the right bl and cm versions far as I can tell.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
And your bootloader and recovery would be?????????????????

Ditch CWM, install lj's kang twrp 2.8.6, format data, then convert data to f2fs and reflash the rom. This needs to be a super clean install - anything less than that.... see above
[Asus Transformer TF700] yurem:
I saw soft-reloads in random scenarios too. The easiest way to reproduce it is to start copy to exFAT external sdcard. After few minutes it should do soft-reload.
[Asus Transformer TF700] yurem:
It looks like it show only network IO. Is there tool which show internal sdcard IO activity to understand what case high IO after booting TF700t.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
I found (with b6) that when installed with DATA2SD, the mmcqd/2 process would block and hog EVERYTHING and bring the thing to its knees. Wouldn't wake, the whole nine yards.

When installed internally, mmcqd/0 doesn't make nearly as much of an impact. FSync is off, which it wasn't on the DATA2SD install.

The microsd is yon Sandisk Ultra 64gb UHS-1. I wonder if it's on it's way out?
[Asus Transformer TF700] mbutash:
Sorry, didn't think to try twrp, always used cwm for most things. 6.0.5.1 cwm for supported features, and bl is 10.6.1.14.4. I was attempting cm12 prior mostly, but as I stated, it wouldn't boot right, seeming from kernel bugs unfixed as of yet. Seemed not quite beta yet.

I had a heck of a time coming from 10.2, after updating the bl and cwm, I couldn't get either to recognize my partitions. It wasn't until I let it reboot fully into android (which I was surprised it did), was I able to reboot and get cwm to work and mount the mmcblk-p1-8 partitions. I tried TWRP then as well, it was equally buggered, I thought I was going to have to reformat the flash myself, even after a hard reset with a pin.

I'll try twrp, and f2fs, haven't looked at how to convert to f2fs, but sure google knows. Thanks!
[Asus Transformer TF700] rjspring:
I had nothing but issues with CWM after moving off of CM. The beauty of TWRP is most apps natively support it (if they need to reboot into recovery to do anything).
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
You can change what you see in Settings - there's a label and a gauge for I/O activity. It may not show which process is responsible for the I/O load though.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rjspring:
just dirty flashed beta 6, default options (and no beta enhancements applied). so far so good, seems to boot up MUCH faster than beta 4. (at least for me)
[Asus Transformer TF700] hardslog:
If quadrant passes the I/O test quickly that simply means you have fsync turned off. Since the Omni kernel is geared towards stability it will keep fsync on. No point in making all the kernels support the same things too ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Update your bootloader to 14.10. See post 2 for instructions (and then redo twrp if you need to).
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Forgot about this one, eh? ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55238386&postcount=3

Download the package for your region with TWRP 2.8.4 and flash it. Then reboot.

Then you are on a combo to flash a LP rom.

I would format data though to clear out the cr****.....
[Asus Transformer TF700] FordPrefect:
After some problem with a first try I finally have the beta6 up and running. First of all thank you for that great ROM! We can see improvements with every new beta, good job!

I have observed something which is really a super minor thing, but I thought I would bring it up here. When it's booting, the boot animation (at least for me) goes through several phases, I can determine from some stuttering before it continues. Now, in the later phases the image of the boot animation seems to be off from the center of the screen, to the lower right. That includes the final "android" text coming up. It's almost like the device would think it has a bigger screen.

I have picked 1600 * 1000 screen size and 213 dpi if that matters.

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On beta6 (after clean install) I have one app consistently crashing the device (it reboots). That app is LinkedIn ... is it just me?

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[Asus Transformer TF700] davstar_apps:
Dirty flashed B6 with the default options over B1 and everything seems to be working great! Definitely the best rom put on this tablet yet.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Consistently? Great! Where's the logcat and last_kmsg? ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] adelancker:
I finally completely resurrected my tf700 along with this awesome rom.

At first, it was kind of lagging of DATA2SD (with F2FS file system), so I went to internal again, which was actually better, but not great.

Then I noticed that my bootloader was at .8 instead of .10, don't know how that happened, but I updated the bootloader, reflashed it internally with the 1000p setting and everything was very smooth!

However, I just noticed that - after adding a second user to the tablet - it started to lag a little again. Is it most likely the multi-user that's killing the smoothness? Or does everyone else has a smooth experience even with multi-user?

Thanks in advance

and thanks in any case to sdbags and the crew for the great work!
[Asus Transformer TF700] n0xlf:
I was having all kinds of spontaneous reboots with B4 and high IO. B6 seems to be better...Installing/updating apps is still painful though and brings it to its knees (F2FS here, internal).
[Asus Transformer TF700] mbutash:
Not forgot per se, but rather I suppose underestimated the importance of the bootloader here. Guess I don't understand how the bootloader still impacts a kernel launch past that though, unless just not setting kernel flags?

Thanks for the tips, I grabbed the bootloader, but decided to experiment some. I loaded twrp and migrated to f2fs, reinstalled, and still ran like poop, fc's on welcome without even touching it. Ok, definitely still bunk.

Installed, and went to wipe the data (again) for nice, clean install, and sadly twrp isn't smart enough to figure out I had already flashed f2fs (I ass-u-me'd it would since it can see the fs is f2fs already), and decided to reformat it to ext4 with a default wipe. Ugh. Now I'm waiting the purported hour and a half to see if it is less painful to use. I don't use the tablet much except for webex meetings (since cisco is a good linux scab, using it in everything, but won't support linux clients), but hoping to breathe some new life into it, as it's been painful since jb.

Thanks again for the comments and suggestions, sorry for the redundancy!
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
TWRP is not smart ... :confused:

TWRP is only as smart as the user using it ,,,, :D

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] mbutash:
I thought about it for 2 seconds, like "hmm, nah, they wouldn't leave that landmine there for people...". Yep, they did. I'm still watching it format.

Normally under linux I'd just run mkfs.$whatever myself anyways, but his has me pushing buttons. I lose myself.

Subtle feature request/suggestion for twrp folks if watching if you (and in general) are telling folks to go f2fs, they might want to check first if appropriate to use ext4 by default.

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So like wow, holy crap, the tablet is actually somewhat responsive now. Still a bit laggard, but nothing quite as dysfunctional as before. Now I'm wondering how much this was screwing things up prior too.

Now I'm really more interested in just what is occurring in the android bootloaders. I think bootloader, like grub, sort of irrelevant once the kernel kicks off.

Tremendous thanks again on the recommendations, now maybe I can actually enjoy the fruits of your labours and/or this old chunk of dated silicon.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
Oddly enough your accident with the ext4 format may well have been what made the difference in performance. That long wait actually does mean the tablet is doing something; it is checking and trimming each individual block in that partition, and if that hasn't been done in a while it can make the (otherwise lousy) flash media much more responsive. Read back a few pages for [MENTION=4878287]_that[/MENTION]'s explanation.
[Asus Transformer TF700] mbutash:
I've been using it for a bit, and once loading my apps back on it, it's pretty darn laggy again, but definitely not nearly as much as it was before.

At this point I'll take it, especially to play with lollipop on it until I decide to drop some change for a new one.

I was wondering how much formatting the flash really is good vs. something akin to a ssd secure wipe at a hardware level writing zeros, ala the intensive format this apparently does. I am curious though the process, as unless that is what the mkfs is doing, writing zero's across the partition sectors, but I don't think so. I've never seen a format on linux with any fs short of a large raid assembly take that long unless a wipe is included.

Almost every android I've owned somewhat "deteriorates" over time, and simply is never "fresh" again as much as out of box. I refuse to believe that cannot be resolved somehow, unless the mmc flash is deteriorating actually as flash does over time. Is there an equivalent of smart in flash to see when they're truly just gone to pot? Even wiping dalvik didn't do much eventually on this thing, but seems this bl issue might have affected more than I thought prior too.

Thanks again all, love learning new things here, sometimes screwups are good like that.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Android's make_ext4fs does a secure erase, that's why TWRP's "format as ext4" takes so long. And it doesn't write zeros, it erases blocks - erasing is not the same as writing on flash memory.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
[MENTION=2690752]mbutash[/MENTION], you indicated that you were familiar with command-line Linux filesystem tools. Try e2fsck. You'd have to do it from TWRP's terminal and make sure /data is unmounted. I don't know if the included e2fsck supports f2fs or not. I'm betting you don't have more that 3 or 4 bad blocks, and probably none.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kansasboy001:
Asus apps 3.0 will not come for some time, as I have been informed that there is no way to deodex x86 apps and framework at this time. When Asus releases a lollipop rom for an arm device we will have apps.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Of course it doesn't. That's why it's called e2fsck. There is fsck.f2fs though. :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] Frobbit:
HD video playback

First I would like to thank the developpers for this great ROM and all the previous ones. My tablet has been so great for the past 1.5 years now and still is! I come from Zombi-X and I wanted to give Zombi-pop a try. So far so good. Quite fast and responsive, no reboots, no significant lag. Overall, so much better than the previous ROMs.

The only problem I have with it so far is the playback of HD movies. The movie starts fine, but if I want to move forward it hangs and it can take up to 1 minute or 2 to resume playback and sometimes it does not even resume (I have never waited for more than 3 minutes). The movie app is not frozen as I can exit from the movie panel and return to the homescreen fine. Lower quality movies run fine by the way, but the This was never a problem on zombi-X or Cromi-X. I tried several movie app with the same issue. I am currently on B6 internal F2FS using SDbags best's, installed on a fresh clean on bootloader version 10.6.1.14.10, butI have tried all available kernels with the same results.

Has anyone noticed this?

Thanks a lot for your help!
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
HD playback has never been the best on the 700, but maybe a logcat of this would help ....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
See why I keep you around?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Frobbit:
HD playback

Again, Zombi-X could run my 15 GB+ movies without a hickup, so the tablet can take it! I have the logcat ready, but I can't seem to have the "permission" to attach a file yet (haven't reached 10 posts?). Is there another method than pasting the logcat text here which would be very long...?
[Asus Transformer TF700] finotti:
You could try http://pastebin.com/
[Asus Transformer TF700] JBT1:
hdmi

Hi,

HDMI is working fine, even if I don't know how to manage it. I just plug my cable and that it!

However, I wondering if there is a way to switch off tablet screen and keep only the HDMI output ?

Thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] GreenHornZounds:
damn is too bad! i liked the widget battery.

thks kansasboy

maybe asus will releases a lollipop soon
[Asus Transformer TF700] Frobbit:
Good point! Thanks. oh, but no I can't even paste outside links...

Here is the log cat on pastebin, just add the pastebin adresss before.

kySZ3aw1

Hope this can help!
[Asus Transformer TF700] asus700:
Running performance Governor and hoop I get 21541 antutu and 7500 quadrant. Using beta 6 f2fs 213 DPI that kernal optimal best auto install 1700 max.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Kraka:
Does it erase every block in the partition including those already empty or previously unused blocks?
[Asus Transformer TF700] yurem:
Finally I found problematic place which led to lags and high CPU load.

I converted /data FS to F2FS and reinstalled b6 again. Now TF700t works without lags.

Also tried to convert /system to F2FS and comment out lines in installer to format it to etx4. Installer installed b6 much quicker and without errors. But it can't load, I suspect kernel expects that /system should be ext4...

Also it's not possible to convert /cache to F2FS due to error during boot up.

Can you add F2FS for /system into next beta :) ? It should allow to boot TF700t quicker.

Than you for custom firmware. Asus forget about this device I suppose.
[Asus Transformer TF700] aiglelille:
Hello.

How to do to convert the tablet to F2FS?

il's a TWRP option? 1 can't find it..
[Asus Transformer TF700] yurem:
I used TWRP: http://xdaforums.com/transformer-tf700/development/recovery-kang-twrp-tf700t-2-8-x-xarea51-t3049395

And these instructions: http://obihoernchen.net/1032/convert-your-nexus-4-to-f2fs-without-loosing-data/

I tried to convert /cache to F2FS but after this system can't boot.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Jamteck:
Only convert /Data. On tf700t. No nexus 4 There.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
There is no reason to convert /system or /cache to f2fs. The bottleneck is the process of writing to /data which is significantly faster under f2fs. Why ask our devs to go to all that kernel-level work for no noticeable gain?
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
So iam back my device has a new life. New mainboard in it :)

I have reflashed the krombi rom it works fine.

When i install the viper audio driver the system give me an tooltip system error. And device has lagged. Whats that?
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Sbdags and everyone else responsible here... my tablet has gotten boring. I mean, no reboots. No freezes. No -- you get the picture. Let's go back a few iterations so we can have some excitement around here! But seriously, this baby runs boringly great and it is your fault.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Lol - that's a novel response I suppose! :D
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Yes.

You can try to make all the required changes in fstab and in preinit (the source is on my github) and see if you notice any improvement. Too much effort? Yes, that's why we didn't do it. :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] DavidHart:
I'm having a problem with MX Player Pro + Tegra3 Codec on Zombi-pop beta 6.

I did a clean install (formatted everything) of _that kernel, ext4, journaling on, fsync on, overclocking off. Everything else seems to work fine.

I'm running the latest version of MX Player Pro and opening a M4V file (H264 Video, AAC stereo). Files under 2GB will open and play properly. Files over 2GB result in a format not supported error.

To eliminate MX Player being the problem, I've reinstalled CROMBi-KK, the ROM version that I was running before the upgrade, and installed the same version of MX Player (latest). I can open and play the exact same video files with no problems whatsoever.

Something seems to be limiting MX Player from opening M4V/MP4 files larger than 2GB on Zombi-pop.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Maru-san:
Hmm, Is the movie on an external SD-card if yes what filesystem is on it?

Well on the other hand, given that the file is less then 4GB this should not be an issue even with FAT32. What kernel are you running with with Zombie?

Nevermind I should read... so you are running _that's kernel. Hmm can you try with one of the other kernels you can select. I am still wondering why you cannot open the file. There was 2GB limit once for 32bit systems but that was a looooong time ago.
[Asus Transformer TF700] msssm:
Hi, I tried this Rom for the first time on TF700T. Before it was just too slow to use Firefox for example.

But Zombi-Pop is not much better. What can I do to improve? Firefox crashes from time to time.

I have converted the ext4 data on MicroSD to F2FS using Desktop-Linux after TWRP was not able to do that. Installing the Zombi-POP re-formats to ext4 again, so I converted to F2FS on the Linux-Desktop again. Can I just re-install new Zombi-Pop releases making changes in the options without wiping data? That would make testing easier.

I read that minimal Gapps breaking the Rom is already fixed. The F2FS not working in TWRP was a bug as well, I should try the latest versions. But why does Zombi reformat to ext4?

What should I select about browser2ram and fsync (with f2fs), for performance?

I clocked the CPU to interactive and 1,8GHz. If this is the cause for the crashes, Clocking back to 1,7 doesn't work, highest frequency in the debug monitor is still 1,8, even after restart. Then I tried changing the voltage for 1,8GHz, pressed apply, but the current voltage for that freq does not change.

Some minor things I miss:

* Is there any way to get the second battery icon, eventually by app? This is Tranformer-specific and should be added to a Transformer rom.

* How can I get rid of the software buttons if the keydock is mounted? CM had an option "extended desktop", not automatically switching with the dock however but manually, as I have the dock most of the time. This would give some more space on the screen. Transformer-specific as well, and not even supported by the stock rom.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Not the best post mate ....:confused:

Cannot fix third party apps like firefox,

TWRP can do most of what you said it cannot do :confused::confused:

Why are you messing with voltages :confused::confused:

The dock battery is not an issue, it has not been ported to LP, feel free to port these option .....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] Frobbit:
That is pretty much the same I get and reported it above with logcat. same with MKV files by the way. When I use MXplayer software decoder sometimes the movie starts after 1-2 minutes of waiting, but not always. On hardware decoder, it does not work at all. I did try all available kernels as well as other movie players without success. And simlilar to you, Zombi-X could run all my movies no problems.
[Asus Transformer TF700] adelancker:
Are you sure you're on the latest bootloader (ends with .10)? Seems like you might have the same issue (even though worse) than what I had some time ago :)

Trust me, everything works really good here!
[Asus Transformer TF700] lmmohr4:
Really Clean?

Still confused. With a dirty Internal B6, can a Clean install on External really be clean?

Just had a FC/reboot while loading Swiftkey. Logs attached. What am I looking for and in what?

Thanks,

lmm
[Asus Transformer TF700] terribell:
It seems you have the infamous out of memory - kernel panic.

I have also seen it appear a couple of times, especially with some memory consuming applications like Facebook and Swiftkey.

My solution was to uninstall them and greenify some of the others that were wasting precious memory without any benefits.

Hope it helps.
[Asus Transformer TF700] yurem:
Thank you for good idea :) Now I know more about Android, customizing kernels, and changing Zombi POP.

Finally, after playing with blob/boot tools, changing init source code and putting updated it inside ramdisk and changing fstab.cardhu I have next mount otput:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 /system f2fs ro,relatime,background_gc=off,user_xattr,acl,errors=continue,active_logs=6 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 /cache f2fs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0

/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 /data f2fs rw,nosuid,nodev,noatime,background_gc=on,user_xattr,acl,errors=panic,active_logs=6 0 0

In my TF700T all FS are f2fs now.

The system is still working fine....

First estimation is that boot time takes less by 15-20 seconds. But I will measure it again after few days.

After playing with kernel I rebuild Zombi POP with customized omni511 kernel and updated installer to skip format /system to ext4. If it's interesting for you ... Installer works fine with f2fs file system.

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Thank you for reply. You gave me incentive to try to do that myself :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] hardslog:
1) Have either of you tried to play these larger files on a different video play such as VLC?

2) Have you tried mx player on lollipop on another device? It might be an issue with MX and lollipop