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[Asus Transformer TF700] daviessm:
Is it installed on internal? I seem to be cursed with a tablet which has dire performance on the internal flash (we're talking 15 seconds to open the app drawer then another 20 to launch an app) but with ROM2SD it runs a lot faster.

Are there any apps or scripts which can do a simple read/write performance test of the flash?
[Asus Transformer TF700] xda___:
Since the new update? and a few re-boots (includes dalvik and cache wipe) performance has greatly improved...

Little to no lag at all and pretty snappy...

Less overheat as well, at least in general, it was getting pretty warm after running wifi for a bit, and moderate use, not sure of the exact temp, but getting very noticeable...

Keep up the dev and we should have quite a solid rom soon...

BTW, with any updates, can I just apply the update through the rom itself, or a whole new install needed?
[Asus Transformer TF700] asus700:
Overall a great Rom

I did the second option with the maximum tweaks and the 11.6 that kernal and internal memory install.

I have had it just about 24 hours and it seems to be quite stable and runs all my apps with no real problems. I have noticed a few issues.

-that it sometimes will lag heavily out of nowhere then be ok in a few minutes. It doesn't seem to matter what you are doing.

-Sometimes it will go to a grey screen when you hit the power button after a screen timeout instead of "waking up".

-It seems to have alot of lag for several minutes after booting

Besides that it is much better than the factory jelly-bean and doesn't progressively slow down the longer it is used. I've just tried a few games but sims freeplay runs considerably smoother along with Gta San Andreas which used to run good but slow down the whence you play more than 10-15 minutes. Network runs quickly, stays connected also framerate and video playback are great.
[Asus Transformer TF700] mmfcordeiro:
Please read this thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2749606

Once I was able to recover mine from the TWRP loop.

adb shell # connect to a shell on the device
killall -19 recovery # suspend the recovery so that it doesn't interfere with formatting
make_ext4fs /dev/block/mmcblk0p8 # format /data
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p3 bs=64 count=1 # remove "wipe data" request
reboot
[Asus Transformer TF700] corb06:
Thanks a bunch!! Actually got it working thanks to you guys. Had to force install the adb interface drivers, and the play around with the code and adb devices. At first i got erros on DD command but all of a sudden in worked.

Tablet is booting right now into the rom. Summer is saved. Gonna change to Sony Z4 Tablet this fall.

Thanks again!
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
Why change horses when you're just now getting this one trained?

BTW, it might be a little late but had you tried a Linux distro you would not have had any driver problems. If anyone is interested I have put together a Puppy Linux live-CD with Fastboot and ADB installed:

http://www.mediafire.com/download/62oh30gzjzvsbew/sulu2-528.007-android.iso

Boot the PC to the live-cd, do not try to run it in a virtual machine.
[Asus Transformer TF700] eRPeeX:
How to use it with (bootable) USB? I've extracted it to USB but not booting.
[Asus Transformer TF700] finotti:
You can try http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/
[Asus Transformer TF700] nate39:
Well after dirty flashing B4 with "that" kernel with overclocking like I usually do, the tablet took a turn for the worse after a couple of days with reboots, black screens and extremely lagginess. So I dirty flashed the omni kernel without overclocking with its automatic settings and I cannot believe how fast and stable my tablet is. It is like taking it out of the package new again. I would definitely recommend this kernel if you are having trouble. thanks guys
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
Easiest way is to borrow a PC with a CD drive if you don't have one, burn the .iso to a CD, boot the PC to the CD, and use Puppy Linux's built-in tools to install it to your thumbdrive (or whatever). I did that so I could use my netbook with it (MSI Wind) with a SD card.
[Asus Transformer TF700] glecko:
Sounds like a big mission.

A bootable USB drive is the easiest way. Spend some time reading the first few pages of this thread. Under "Using GParted to setup a micro SD for ROM2SD or DATA2SD support" you will find all you need to make a bootable USB drive.

Please read the first few pages. Though people here are quick to help, at this point in the game we shouldn't be spending so much effort on discussing and troubleshooting problems where solutions are clearly available. Just spend the time to read the information that has been compiled in the initial pages.

At the end of the day, you risk not getting any answer because people get exhausted trying to answer questions that are available via a simple search or attention to details.
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Amen to that, brother!!
[Asus Transformer TF700] MegamanReplicant:
Update process

I read through a large amount the data in this thread, but only saw one mention of updating from one version of zombi-pop to the next.

I'm currently still struggling on cm11 and it allows updating through the settings menu (like stock)

Does/will zombi-pop work the same way? I am itching to install it, but not so excited about starting over every time new version drops.

Any info would be greatly appreciated.
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
You shouldn't have to start over every time.

But no we don't support updates like that, but it hardly takes anything to choose a zip and flash it from twrp. ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] msuguy71:
B4 gets toasty

Hi all, installed B4 over B3 using _that's kernal after reading in the change log that the kernal was fixed to reduce heat. Set the max CPU to 1600, and the glass in the corner by the power button got hotter than I have ever felt. I backed the CPU max back to 1400 and it became much cooler in that area. Seems like the heat issue is going the wrong wah as I keep having to reduce the max CPU with each release. Any thoughts? I am going g to try it with the omni kernal next. Sigh...two kernels down now (grimlock and _that's). How is it people can have drastically different results with these things? I read some posts that stated grimlock was really fast, but it lagged like crazy for me.
[Asus Transformer TF700] MegamanReplicant:
awesome, i'm fairly familiar with twrp flashing, etc.

i guess my main concern was that i have only gone that route when doing a complete wipe to install a new rom and already knew i was going to be redownloading all of my apps.

So, you're saying that i should be able to go say from Beta 3 to Beta 4 to stable release etc by flashing over the existing version without losing everything in the process?

I know to make a backup anyway...just always have my fingers crossed hoping i won't need it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Yuxing:
It is installed on internal. I don´t have any sdcard for my tablet.

Anymore idea?
[Asus Transformer TF700] iadegesso:
768MB seen when 1GB RAM installed???

Hi,

today I checked the free RAM of my TF700 with the B4 build of this ROM and the DiskInfo app told me something like "93% of 768MB used"... but the TF700 was with 1GB of RAM... where are the missing 256MB ???

Iade
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
If you have not done that already:

Change the file system on /data to f2fs in TWRP

Format /system in TWRP. Leave that on ext4

Reflash the rom

Reboot

Walk away.

I'm serious. Let it settle for 20 minutes before doing anything. The first boot will take a long time and then the rom will do a lot of background work. Let it settle itself, then begin setting up your apps and such...
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
Surprise! and welcome to the real world. You may have paid for a full gig of RAM but you're not going to get it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
I don't know what the diskinfo app does, but run "cat /proc/meminfo" and you'll see how the kernel is using memory.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Anders Williams:
So after a few days of testing some things regarding power states I have found some things that might be bugs.

I assume this is kernel related rather than actually the rom. Running _That Kernel with SBDAGS tweaks, clocked at max 1,6 GHZ on a /DATA formatted with F2FS

so for a few days I have had trouble waking up the device post a night of charging (not in dock but directly attached charger) and have been forced to forceboot it (10 sec holding down power button) so I was wondering if there was a power state issue and decided to try BetterBatteryStats and let it do some analysis over some various situations. What I experienced is rather odd, when the device has been charged it appears to never go into "deep-sleep" state and appears at times to have trouble waking up again aka long'ish black screen before anything shows up. However when rebooted post charging "deep-sleep" is working just fine and the device is behaving much smoother.

I was wondering if anyone running Omni or other kernels have seen similar power state fluctuations? and of course if others running _THAT are seeing similar issues?
[Asus Transformer TF700] RunnyYolk:
Hello good people!

I've got myself into a bit of a pickle. I tried to install B4 yesterday, and somewhere using data2sd and f2fs, and somewhere along the way the sd card became corrupted. So today I tried to do an internal install of B4, but I can't get into TWRP. It gets to the loading screen, then bootloops. I don't have an OS at all at the moment, all I can do is get to the bootloader screen, with options RCK, Android, and wipe data. So I guess I need to reflash TWRP, but I don't have easy access to a PC! Is there any way to do it straight from the tablet? Thanks for any advice, and a massive thanks to the developers for breathing new life back into these tablets!
[Asus Transformer TF700] Anders Williams:
I am not familiar with any option of flashing a new recovery not using ODIN, Fastboot, ADB or from within the existing recovery, so I think a PC connection is your savior when you get access to one
[Asus Transformer TF700] bradslinux:
Hi, I had been running _that 11.6 and did not have any wake issues. I did have some small and rather short lag at times, opening apps, changing home screen (Nova)...etc

I just did a reflash to try out the Grimlock kernel. If I see issues, I'll post. I haven't had opportunity to try the Omni yet, but plan on it.

I have seen wake issues before in different roms on this tab, but not with Zombi-pop :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] jp071848:
I am running the same setup as you are (though I haven't lowered the clock speed down to 1.6) and I definitely see exactly the same symptoms you do. Someone on this forum suggested maybe it's just taking a loooong time to wake up, and so be patient after pressing the power button, but that is not the case for me. After a long downtime, usually after charging, it's "dead" and I have to hold the power button down for many seconds to force a re-boot, just as you do.

I'm waiting until this ROM leaves Beta, then I will do a full and complete wipe, cleaning, polishing and a fresh install to see if this fixes the problem. Right now, I'm only dirty flashing each new release, and I still do have the message on every bootup saying "Android System: There's an internal problem with your device, and it may be unstable until you factory data reset", so maybe a completely clean install will fix both these issues
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
So you're saying it doesn't even react on adb logcat?
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
I would heed this warning and try a full format.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Anders Williams:
Come Beta 5 or RC1 I shall be doing so for sure and will update on any issues regarding "deep-sleep" I should encounter, thanks!
[Asus Transformer TF700] ikkeT:
Count me in. I have had this problem for ages. Now that I had been wiping and reflashing the device often, the issue went away. But I haven't wiped the data now for three weeks, and the issue is back.

I don't reboot though. I wait the device for few minutes, once in a while pressing power or volume. The sceen is gray, almost black, and power button blanks it. But most of the time it comes back. Sometimes it reboots. This is frustrating.

You could perhaps try still if you can avoid the reboot like my case. And if we all get logs from the occurrence, we could possibly compare and find something useful info.

I'm on omni kernel now. Previously I used that's kernel. And Im running it max freq enabled.
[Asus Transformer TF700] iadegesso:
I will check it soon, but a new idea took place in my mind... is the RAM shared among Tegra3 cores and the GPU? If yes, it is possible that the GPU uses 256MB of the total amount of 1GB?

Iade
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Hmm I don't think so - you should have 1GB avaialble to you to use.

If you go into settings, apps you will see it split between System, Apps, Free, the total being 1GB. The rom will try to keep 350 - 400MB free at any given time as this is a good sweetspot. For some reason if you drop below 200MB free on our tabs things seriously start to lag.
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
Here's an interesting one...

I don't get Wifi unless i'm using _that 1.6.

It just won't turn on - it sits there saying "Turning on..." but never finishes.

question: If I use TiBu to back up my current setup on B4, then wipe/reinstall B4 and restore just my apps & data (mostly games, some stuff like Audible, tapatalk, etc...) does that seem relatively safe? I've been doing dirty flashes since B1.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Yes, memory is shared between CPU and GPU. I don't know if the GPU uses 256 MB - that depends on the amount of textures allocated by programs.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
Seems like most of the people having problems with this ROM have dirty-flashed it. Starting over with a clean flash (I'd also format everything then go back to f2fs on /data) is a very good idea. A TB restore may also restore some of your problems, you are better off re-installing from scratch.
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
Whats the stablest and best kernel in that install level
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Too early to tell, but I seem to see few problem reports with the Omni kernel
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
Wellllll... as fate would have it :D

Turns out I got a little overzealous wiping partitions before I reinstalled, and killed the downloads folder where I actually stashed Zombi-pop, not to mention my TiBu folder.

In the end, what with one thing and another it turns out this is a pretty clean install :silly:

So far, so good! :good:
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
Today i have installed this rom. Flash with kangs twrp 2.8.6.0. the desaster begin... The rom was very great! Thank very much to the developer. But it was the lastest rom they have my device see.......

Byebye my good tf700t and it was in a perfect condition. No scratches nothing:(.

After this not goot worked rom. Was the kernel issue? The twrp? ???.

I musst wiped all. An then the twrp has error in start. He sad cant mount cache, syst, data....

I have flashed cwm in fastboot mode an then the recovery end in the android logo., :((((.

Cant load rck mode nothing. Always he start and goes direct in recovery with this logo...

What can i do? Have everyone a last idea? Pls help me... Thats my greatest and oldest device :(.
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
See there, in this logo the device is hanging:(
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
I have no blol files.. For nvflash..
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Leave it alone on that screen plug it into power and walk away....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] kevinthefixer:
Yes, for a LONG time, maybe all night. I'd forgotten that CWM can sometimes recover like that...
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
Have any an idea?

Asus tf700t is a very great device.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
What are you on about ?

These one sentence post do nothing to help ?

Are you doing what I said to do ?

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
Has everybody blob files? For nv flash?
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
You need to start reading the post that are for you ??

Or you need to start a different thread in the Q&A section .....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
I'm an idiot. Impatience while mucking about with Kexecboot and Zombi-Pop. Kexecboot blew up on reboot due to me botching its settings. Locked out of TWRP by Kexecboot's dead end (no Android selection on menu). So... what does this genius do then?! Fumbled about a bit, and then.... Warned NEVER to format data from recovery. WARNED, ya know? A moment's forgetfulness, impatience, maybe death wish? Did it anyway.

And now? Endless boot loop - Twrp (the latest one, I think) is there somehow... but only stays visible for around 20 seconds before looping. There is NO Fastboot anymore, though ADB works for about 15 seconds (most of the time the Twrp "blue curtain" appears on screen. (Have I mentioned I am an idiot?)

I did manage to pull a recovery.log via adb shell, which (again) is evidence that something's still working on the tablet:

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for localtime!

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for GMT!

__bionic_open_tzdata: couldn't find any tzdata when looking for posixrules!

Starting TWRP 2.8.6.0@AREA51 on Sat Jan 1 06:51:52 2000

(pid 119)

BOARD_HAS_NO_REAL_SDCARD := true

RECOVERY_SDCARD_ON_DATA := true

I:Lun file '/sys/devices/platform/usb_mass_storage/lun0/file' does not exist, USB storage mode disabled

TW_INCLUDE_CRYPTO := true

I:Found brightness file at '/sys/devices/platform/pwm-backlight/backlight/pwm-backlight/brightness'

I:TWFunc::Set_Brightness: Setting brightness control to 255

Starting the UI...Pixel format: 1920x1200 @ 16bpp

Pixel format: BGR_565

Not using qualcomm overlay, 'tegra_fb'

framebuffer: fd 4 (1920 x 1200)

=> Linking mtab

Renaming regular /etc/recovery.fstab -> /etc/recovery.fstab.bak

Moving /etc/twrp.fstab -> /etc/recovery.fstab

=> Processing recovery.fstab

I:Processing '/system'

I:Processing '/cache'

I:Processing '/misc'

I:Processing '/staging'

I:Processing '/data'

I:Setting up '/data' as data/media emulated storage.

I:Created '/sdcard' folder.

-end-

I also tried various other commands via adb shell, including one set that seemed to work very well for another guy (who probably hadn't messed w/ kexec like this nimblewit). None of them worked for me.

And there you have it. I have probably just turned my tablet into a rectangular frisbee. And it isn't like I wasn't ***WARNED***!

So here I am, hat in hand, hoping someone else can help bail me out of my own technological version of receiving a Darwin Award.

(Signed) The Neighborhood Imbecile

ADDED:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9iXDBTh1JWY

Here's a youtube video of exactly what's happening to me. A solution for this guy (and links to it) are in the comments under his video... but they didn't help me at all - got error messages and "not found" messages for my troubles.
[Asus Transformer TF700] awilson77584:
On the booting to internal and having use of the sdcard: If we format the mmcblk1p2 (/data) partition to something other than ext4 or f2fs will the script proceed the same as if the sdcard was not present?

Thx
[Asus Transformer TF700] hanswurst1979:
I did something similar a week ago. Formatted data in TWRP and it went wrong. Bootloops were the result and no TWRP working anymore.

But Fastboot was still working.

Needed to flash stock via

fastboot flash system [I]"blob from stock zip"[/I]

But now im on stock and bootloader is relocked without ability to unlock again (made a call to ASUS on that. hope it helps).

try to load bootloader only. do not start recovery. fastboot should work on bootlloader selection screen.
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
That's the trouble... there is no bootloader selection screen (the three small icons). The tablet reports in the usual tiny white type that it is unlocked, as it always has (I got it second hand), but that boot loader screen never appears. It just goes straight to the TWRP screen and runs for about 20 seconds, then reboots. Over and over and over....
[Asus Transformer TF700] bradslinux:
:laugh:

I'm laughing with you....

You have adb, all is not lost..

cmd adb shell

cat /proc/partitions

What does "cat /proc/partitions" say?

B
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Thank you for your kindness!

cat /proc/partitions

error: protocol fault (no status)

error: protocol fault (no status)

Not too much info there to work with....
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Try this ....

adb pull /proc/partitions/

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] shonkin:
Thank you. That works if I hit the enter key at about one second after the teamwin blue curtain appears:

major minor #blocks name

179 0 31039488 mmcblk0

179 1 786432 mmcblk0p1

179 2 438272 mmcblk0p2

179 3 2048 mmcblk0p3

179 4 835584 mmcblk0p4

179 5 5120 mmcblk0p5

179 6 512 mmcblk0p6

179 7 5120 mmcblk0p7

179 8 28924416 mmcblk0p8

179 9 8192 mmcblk0p9

179 10 8192 mmcblk0p10

179 32 2048 mmcblk0boot1

179 16 2048 mmcblk0boot0
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
I need to understand a bit more ...... :D

Lets move this off the dev thread ....

Shoot me a hangouts at jl52741@gmail.com

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] bradslinux:
I digress, you are in hands much more capable than my own. Sorry, Sunday night family stiff er stuff........:o
[Asus Transformer TF700] terribell:
Tablet not waking up

After a few days on a clean internal F2FS install of B4 version of Zombie-Pop I get a symptom which has been described previously in this forum, the tablet does not wake after pressing the power button.

This as happened on the OMNI Kernel, logs from 08-04-2015, and on Thats_ kernel, logs from 12-04-2015, both were not overclocked at 1600Mhz and using noop as recommended on the first thread.

On both cases I waited for more than half an hour for the tablet to wake up with no visible signals of any progress, after that I did a long press on power to provoke the restart and after the reboot it started optimizing the apps already installed, so it may have done any damage to system.

I would like to point out that FSYNC is on, to prevent this type of corruption, and aside from the Browser2RAM (which I'm not using due to RAM constraints on our tablet) I've not changed any of the default options, so I am using both tweaks present on the AROMA installler.

Can anyone help?

After this happens the tablet seems to loose performance and start to lag much more than before.

Thanks for all the help.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Anders Williams:
So I reported something similar to this last week, and my experience is that post hard-reboot using the longpress option, a soft-reboot recovers a lot of the performance loss, the optimization process post hard-boot does seem to kill the tablet for hours. I have not had any "blackouts" for a few days. Been very careful to turn on screen when the power is plugged in and only unplug when screen is on after which I get the tablet back to doing deep-sleep and so far at least not do "blackouts" on me for now, obviously this could all be coincidences.
[Asus Transformer TF700] terribell:
I also had that same effort of not plugging or unplugging the tablet without it being with the screen on and even then I had this problem, I also tried 2 kernels to see if the problem was due to that.

My last hope is that I took the logs to see if they can help the developers on this forum figuring out the problem on the ROM.
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
Asus tf700t was died, softwarebrick from trwp or the kernel.......

But not for me i repair it, buy a new motherboard for them :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] BenFFMRaptor23:
Its very good quality:)
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
You need to make your own thread, start you own conversation about this issue ....

The tablet was not bricked it still booted.... :confused:

Thx for not posting anymore about hardware repairs that were not needed ...... :confused:

Thx Josh