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[Asus Transformer TF700] ludvig82:
Hi

My first post on this forum, but surely not last. Pretty new to the android modding, have had some phones and a tablet with cm though.

I followed the instructions on the first page, and installed the latest RC ROM in hope that i would revive myTF700T. Sadly it dont work very well for me, it is lagging badly. I read that the rom needed time to stabilize, so i left it over night, but it is still very laggy.

Is there somehow somebody could help me find out why?

Cheers

Ludvig82
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Well, you are pretty late.. This rom has seen the last update in Dec 2015 and will not be developed any further.

I would recommend you go for one of the KatKiss roms. timduru is the only dev still working on/for the Transformers and the roms are great. Try Nougatella, Android 7.1

The reason Zombi is not working well most likely is that you did not format the data partition. Wiping is not enough if you switch roms.

But it's really hard to say what might be wrong if you do not state what you did and how. In detail..

Bootloader version:

Recovery version:

Rom and version:

How did you wipe/format?

Did you restore anything and what?

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[Asus Transformer TF700] ludvig82:
I have tried to answer this post tvice now, with pretty much text. Trying the short version normal reply instead of quick reply.

I will try the rom you suggested, i think one of the faults was that i followed the download link in the upgrade instructions for the recovery, but found out now it was an earlier version than the one the text clearly states that i must use. I did not notice that before. Also i did not format. I will give more info if i try this rom again. Thanks for replying :)

Edit: How to format btw?
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Follow the instructions here: https://xdaforums.com/transformer-tf700/general/guide-convert-data-to-f2fs-twrp-2-8-t3073471.

How to format is under the "Optional but recommended" button in step 3.

You can still use the TWRP version recommended there although it is getting a little dated now, or flash the latest 3.0.x from TWRP website, that's up to you
[Asus Transformer TF700] skapika:
Fine, not the faster but fine
[Asus Transformer TF700] oggioffshore:
Tnx for this rom

Seems I`m lazy too, finally managed to flash my TF700, after months with on and off trying.

Same experience with this Zombipop, its lagging.

So I will try the one mentioned above.

Anyway, it was a good lesson follow all the steps.

Had some issues during booting, but after update TWRP to 2,8. It was ok.

Tnx for all the help we are getting in this Forum

Cheers. :cool:
[Asus Transformer TF700] RBraverman:
I just checked back in ... I am so so sorry. At least she at peace.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sparksd:
Our prayers are with your wife, you, and your family.
[Asus Transformer TF700] RBraverman:
This seems cold, but I've a question ...

I just learned about Yukari, I have not been around for a while and (having been through this WAY TOO many times, I offered what little solace that I can) as I came here to see if Darren had posted any updates on her condition, I'm devastated, my tears will in time cease.

But I also came to ask a question and while this may seem cold I hope it does not seem so, and be assured I have not intended it to be so.

1. I added a user, then deleted them. Now I can not have "No" lock screen. I have to swipe to enter. Can't change it to none.

2. When I tap the (after all this time I don't know what it's called), the square button next to home, instead of pulling up all that are running, it only switches between the last 2 I used.

What in the world did I do?

****************** UPdate *****************

Sussed the switching between the last 2 apps, I'm posting should anyone else end up like this: the navigation bar was set Omniswitch (I'd looked at it, but did not think I changed it), changed it back to AOSP and I got what I like.

Now that lock screen ....

Again, this was IN NO WAY meant to lessen my grief and condolences to Darren!!!!!!!!!!
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Sounds to me as if you're running a Katkiss rom. What do you have in About Tablet?

If so you can control the buttons in Settings > User Interface
[Asus Transformer TF700] RBraverman:
Zombi-pop 5.1 - I wasn't aware that I needed to go into the guest account to disable it/remove it. That gave me back "none".

I'm trying to trouble shoot a display problem. When AquaMail checks mail or Titanium Backup backs up, ... and others, there is a "spinning circle" while it is working. NO apps display this - which gets confusing at times. It DID work, up until, well some where about 4 months ago if I remember correctly. I have tried everything in settings (which kinda got me in this mess), so I was going to start with a different account and see if I could track it down an app maybe. I've another T700 that is identical and works fine.
[Asus Transformer TF700] SilviuG:
Can you tell me and others what ROM you found faster? I have the same issue, I would like the fastest ROM (no lag etc). Thanks

---------- Post added at 03:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:41 PM ----------

Which ROM did you find to be faster please?
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Go for a Katkiss rom. Either Katshmallow or Nougatella
[Asus Transformer TF700] SilviuG:
Thank you, what about KatKiss 5.1 (Lollipop)?
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
That one is great too - your choice
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
No offence taken mate. Thanks for the kind words.
[Asus Transformer TF700] bradslinux:
After being away for a long time, I log in...

Darren, I am so very sorry for your loss. You and your family are in our prayers. All other concerns pale.

May God keep and bless you and yours.

Brad
[Asus Transformer TF700] oggioffshore:
Sorry for late reply.

It got stuck in TWRP bootloop. I`ve tried some methods to get out it out from that. But gave up.

Its now sold, hope the new owner manage to fix it.

Cheers
[Asus Transformer TF700] N0.53LF:
I have the same issue whereby the first system boot after install never seems to finish (after hours of loading animation), did you get help with this elsewhere?
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
This rom is pretty old and no longer supported. Recommend you move to Nougatella or Katshmallow
[Asus Transformer TF700] Bikeboy200:
Thank you so much. I bought one of these tablets a couple years ago and the previous owner had installed it before I bought it. I then wiped everything from the tablet including the Internal Storage, which was a mistake. I then researched how to put an OS on it. I found ZOMBI-X and installed that using TWRP. That ROM was super laggy, so I looked for another one and I found the KatKiss Nougatella rom. That was fairly laggy as well, so I wiped everything again and installed the ZOMBI-POP ROM, and downloaded L Speed and tweaked the performance a bit to make the tablet faster. I really like this ROM and greatly appreciate the effort that the developers put into this ROM.

Thanks,

Ian
[Asus Transformer TF700] megaequs:
Mate, try KatKiss - Nougatella #038, and follow the instructions (format Data and change the File System from exFat to F2FS). And if you want a really fast device (really fast!), don't install GAPPs. It's a huge difference, I tried everything on this old Tablet, but F2FS + GAPPs-less it's like a new device.
[Asus Transformer TF700] yongyek:
Anyone please help me to unlock bootloader ME301T .I have tried all methods, all unlock tools v6, v7, v8, using mitmproxy py all failed. Please help me. Is there an unlock bootloader for ME301T with PC flash tool,with EDL mode?
[Asus Transformer TF700] grayfoxmg1:
He mentioned it briefly in the old Zombi-KK thread, that the first public beta didn't have portrait mode; so I was aware of it going in. Other than me having 1 random reboot while it was re-fetching my apps from the Play Store, it has run great for me. The only nitpicks I have are the already mentioned lack of portrait(because I hate reading books in landscape) and that I prefer a tablet UI. But this is a phenomenal rom, especially considering he calls this a Beta and not a full release.
[Asus Transformer TF700] BULL3TPR00F:
I have done quite a bit of research and read a bunch of tutorials on how github works in the past when i was a lot more active but was never able to really understand it.

i apologize for my ignorance, but all you had to say was that's not how it works and not be so condescending.

regardless, thanks for the hard work, rom is working great.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Its all good, I was not the one that posted in a dev thread without doing my homework ....:p

I just want users to understand this thread is not just for posting in .....

I am willing to help anyone that want to learn but most users just want everything feed to them....

I hope you do not fall into this class of end-users ......

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] grayfoxmg1:
Just to let any readers here know, if you have FBreader installed you can still make it display in portrait mode as long as you change FBreader's display settings from 'system orientation' to 'Portrait'. Now all I need is a way to force Pocket to display portrait and I'll be golden, those are the only two apps I don't use in landscape.
[Asus Transformer TF700] BULL3TPR00F:
theres a few orientation setting apps on the play store, im sure you can use them to force the rotation and disable when done.

havent tried it myself.
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
And awwwwwlllllllRIGHT! ZOMBI-POP!!!!!!!!!

Here's my night of experimenting in a few sentences.

First, I went for an internal install. Flawless. No issues, no hickups. Nothin'. Just runs smooth. I let it install my apps. Didn't play around after that, because what I really wanted was...

The rom2sd install. I have a 128g Samsung EVO, so my formatting is not really covered in the tf700 rom documentation. Cutting to the chase, that doesn't matter. In the end, I got it running. I'm writing this on my Zombi-Pop rom2sd install right now. Not without a few issues, however...

Really, one issue. About three times, I got as far as inputting my email address and password. The tab paused thoughtfully, paused in a stupor, and then cold booted. Took about a minute or so each time.

My next step was to bypass the user name and password, go in and activate root privileges, and even (this was foolish but I'm impatient) up the default speeds. I then rebooted the tab myself. Once I'd rebooted, I activated the network and offered up my email and password. It worked. Don't know if my "solution" really had anything to do with it... maybe it was just synchronicity.

At any rate, up and running. A few more observations:

Though it is reported this rom doesn't support portrait mode, I noticed Tapatalk comes up in portrait initially. I never use portrait (hardly ever detach my keyboard, frankly) so not much of an issue for me.

What I want is my three icons in tablet mode, over there on the far bottom left of the screen. Hehehe.

But seriously.... ZOMBI-POP Team RULES. (I can't believe someone as old as me just wrote that.)

Blessings.

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ADDED: I'm not getting any remount w/ my dock sd card once the tab has gone to sleep and been reawakened. Zombi-x used to do that occasionally, but manually removin g and reinserting the card did the trick. Not so far with Zombi-Pop beta. No biggie. Just a heads-up if others get the same issue...
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
A couple more notes / issues. To be expected of course, w/ a beta after all.

The dock sdcard will not mount no matter what I do (rebooting, trying to mount via settings, and so on). Mine's a 64g card that works fine w/ Zombi-X.

There is some instability with the rom; when pushed very hard, it spontaneously reboots. I did it again with Amazon Apps (an app itself) while restoring from Amazon's cloud some, uh, apps. I did say apps, didn't I? Sheesh.

I may clock it down to 1700 and see if that helps re the instability.

Blessings for all your hard work. Pizza money coming soon.

***RE-ANIMATE!!*** I raised my TF700 from the dead with *ZOMBI-POP* Rom!!

(But will it eat my brain?)
[Asus Transformer TF700] BULL3TPR00F:
i also noticed the tablet heated up a lot more and quicker than before, i had it plugged in charging while using which would add a bit more heat but it got to the point where it shut itself down. havent installed any other apps yet either.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Please post logs of issues

All,

The ROM is still in BETA and by flashing it you are helping the BETA Testing process ;)

It may still have some bugs, spontaneously reboot, drain the battery faster or heat up a bit. The aim is to make it better and fix them.

If you find a bug and want to report it here please post a logcat (after it occurred) with a description of what you were doing at the time and the rough timing in the logcat to look at (these things get huge!).

You can also post a dmesg which is the kernel boot logs and can indicate issues with data corruption or hardware.

If you get a reboot then please post a last_kmsg from the /proc folder.

How to get a logcat

How to get useful logs

Thank you!! :good: :fingers-crossed:
[Asus Transformer TF700] sapiora:
Do we have to make Factory Reset from TWRP?
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Short answer: Yes.
[Asus Transformer TF700] raptor22:
Hi there been looking everywhere but no tutorial found, can someone tell me which partitions are to be formatted to F2FS to use it? /data only or do I do it for /cache and /system as well?
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Use on /data only.
[Asus Transformer TF700] nate39:
I am downloading now but I have a question for Zombi-x since I see that thread is now closed. My bluetooth is not working. It will come on but won't search for other devices; it just sits there. Supposedly the bluetooth was fixed so what should I do? thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] texasfight:
Data2SD

Hello--is it much faster and optimized to install the rom from Data2SD? I'm currently on Crombi-KK.

Thank you so much for putting this together!
[Asus Transformer TF700] hardslog:
Try a different kernel, see if it makes a difference. If not post a logcat.

The whole reason why we have data2sd is to make it faster. The internal storage of this tablet is very slow and data2sd helps alleviate this. If you want to give it a try, read post #2 VERY CAREFULLY. Read and read again to make sure you know what you are doing ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] J73:
i'm not quite sure if this is one of the bugs, but i cant seem to install any application from the playstore :( it says unknown error 972
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Yes, This is an error that lots of users have had .....

This is not one shot solution, here is how I fixed it when I was doing some very early testing of lollipop ....

I used fastboot to erase some partitions ...

fastboot erase system

fastboot -w

The fastboot -w command may end in an error, that is ok just boot back into

recovery and then go to wipe//format type yes ...

This may take sometime so be patient .....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
My apologies, I did misunderstand you. But yes, it should be fat32. Did you have a reason for using ntfs over fat32 as the instructions specified? I'm just curious.

On another note, sbdags, I was switching from Youtube to the recent apps screen, I think a video was playing at the moment. I'm set at max 1500 Mhz, attaching log files.

I also occasionally get 'process system isn't responding (wait/ok)' message on a reboot. Happened after the reboot from the crash.

fsync is currently on, I have trickster mod for turning it off, but it was on when this happened.
[Asus Transformer TF700] anderpool1:
No access to external Sd card from TWRP

I have read through this entire post a few times and am still unsure about how to access my SD card from TWRP.

I tried Data2Sd for the first time recently and when I went to update the Jan25 upgrade I down loaded it and went to TWRP and I could only access the internal SD data. When I went back into the UI I could only access the External SD. Does that mean I need to use Fastboot to transfer the rom to the internal sd? If I am using Data2sd does that mean I can not ever use the internal memory. That would almost be like throwing away 32gb memory.
[Asus Transformer TF700] aracy:
i'm using ntfs for large movie files..

i can't see any reason why use this old fat32..

btw,

just checked about the ntfs support, the tablet can see the 64gb ntfs DOK i have, but can't see the 2tb HDD.

at chromi's old versions it works.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
Another log file, the home screen came up after a reboot but no icons, no dock, and anything from the notification drop down tab would not open. Power button brought up reboot menu, so that's how I rebooted. Hope the log files help.
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
After switch to _that kernel from grimlock kernel I get the following error on reboot. It is not apparently a problem as far as the rom2sd1 install booting up, but odd enough I thought I'd better report it.

One other interesting issue here... with grimlock, SDCARDi didn't even show up, much less let me write to it. With _that kernel, it shows up and there are no issues with reading or writing, even after tablet sleeps and is awakened again.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Oh OK that is a script that shouldn't be running if you choose grimlock - I'll fix that up - it won't do any harm - thanks for reporting! :) It should work fine with _that though.

The scardi issue will be the way the grimlock init.rc is set up I'll look into that too :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Thanks for the logs but I can't really see anything to go on.

I think we have a few issues (it is beta) with the way android is killing apps when running low on memory (possibly because we only have 1GB of ram avail and lollipop apps tend to be larger). I need to go away and do some analysis and testing around the optimal settings.

Overall stability feels ok to me but maybe my tweaks are still a bit too aggressive. The more I turn them down thought the more the speed and smoothness will drop.

Guys can you do me a test and re-flash the rom without the kernel tweaks and try to stick with one kernel (try that's with max freq set at 1700), and with fsync on (unticked in the installer).

Can you try using it for a day or so and see if that brings back some stability please. There are a lot of posts and logs and I can't keep track of who has flashed what.

Thanks! :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
ntfs is not supported unfortunately. Asus put in some propriety drivers into their kernel that are not open source so we can't use them.

So you'll need to use FAT32 unless must have files larger that 4GB.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
yes it is a bit complex.

So first things first TWRP knows nothing about Data2sd (or rom2sd) and can only see the first partition on the sdcard (fat32).

So you should flash the data2sd1.zip in the second post which then forces TWRP to see the partition on the external card and treat the second partion as if it were your internal /data partition. If you are just flasshing the rom the installer takes care of this step for you but if you wanted to wipe that partition on the card you would need data2sd1.zip.

Once you have flashed the rom and booted to data2sd it is now seeing the external /data as internal. Normally it wouldn't be able to see the internal /data, but I have set mounts points for it as /datai and sdcardi. So if you are using an app that can access cards look for those folders to see your internal partitions. Like es file explorer etc...

Hope that makes sense.
[Asus Transformer TF700] fatboyinlycra:
That's exactly what I've been running for the last 24 hours. I have not found any degradation in smoothness and I'm still scoring 21k on antutu. I had one reboot (last_kmsg attached) but I think that was to do with me trying to use various apps to resurrect a faulty micro SD. The SD was fine but now has a problem in that it can't be written to, nor files deleted from it, nor can it be formatted.

In fact I've typed this message and attached the file through chrome on my tablet. When i was running with tweaks on and fsync off, this would have caused the tablet to hang and go into a bootloop. Its not as if chrome is the only thing running either I'm listening to blood on the tracks through poweramp and have es file explorer open too and still not seeing any lag!
[Asus Transformer TF700] LetMeKnow:
By curiosity, I thought that _that and hund kernels support ntfs and exfat on JB. So _that's kernel could not load exfat and ntfs on LP now...:crying: Did you mean only Asus stock kernel does not support ntfs and exfat? Just confusing....:confused:
[Asus Transformer TF700] fatboyinlycra:
I'm running my dock SD card as NTFS. I use paragon NTFS mount. But in zombi-pop it doesn't get seen until it is mounted as a USB drive in file explorer.

For some reason I don't think I needed paragon under zombi-x but can't confirm that until the morning as my zombix tab is sitting in my locker at work
[Asus Transformer TF700] aracy:
Thanks,

Returned to FAT32.

the 2tb HDD problem I solved with chainfire's stickmount app.

I guess it's kernel/rom related because it worked on the kitkat version
[Asus Transformer TF700] mlinfoot:
I (almost) understand this, from your description here and from an answer you gave to one of my earlier posts. When one boots into recovery, TWRP can initially only see the internal card. Flashing data2sd1.zip toggles this so TWRP can see the partitions on the external (microSD) card. Flash it again and you toggle back to only seeing the internal card. I'm still a bit uncertain though about which state (internal/external) TWRP should be in when doing a nandroid backup. I'm guessing it should be external so it sees the "live" /data partition on the microSD card, but I think it should also capture anything you've kept on the internal card. Can you clarify?

Starting to make a LOT of sense now :) So, from the system (ZOMBI-POP, not TWRP recovery) anything you place into /datai or /sdcardi will be accessible when you first boot into TWRP (internal mode) as /data and /sdcard. This is VERY useful for accessing ROMs to flash. Toggling TWRP into external mode, you can wipe the /data partition (which now is the one on the microSD card) without wiping away the ROM(s) from the /data partition on the internal card. A good reason to save your Titanium backups to the /sdcardi partition. ;)

Thanks again for all your help answering my questions.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes you almost have it :)

Once in data2sd mode TWRP will back up system from internal and data from external. It will not back up data from internal (because it cannot see it ;) ). If you chose to back up to internal it will actually back up to external ;) And if you chose to back up to external it will always back up to the first fat32 partition on the sdcard :)

Easy!
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Yes they do support it on JB as Asus provided the modules.

These modules are not included in the Kitkat or LP versions of the kernels as we do not have permission to use them from Asus.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
I just actually reflashed with _that's with fsync on and the extended kernel tweak at the bottom unchecked. Although when I selected the kernel I left it at 1800... oh well, if I go into performance and set it at 1700 for testing, that's the same thing, right? I'll be working with it tonight, I'll post on stability and battery as well.
[Asus Transformer TF700] f_padia:
Got it, thanks. I'm going for data2sd + f2fs. I assumed that f2fs on sdcard wasn't necessary since the speed of the internal memory of the tablet is the issue - didn't think f2fs would on sdcard would offer anything more. This was based on the fact none of the instructions for running data2sd suggest formatting the sdcard f2fs. But it makes sense that all I need to do if I want f2fs on sd is format to that file system!

Thanks for the help