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[Asus Transformer TF700] lmmohr4:
Musings on Beta 10

Zombi-Pop Beta 10. Rom2SD, -thatv11, defaults, + Apex Launcher

I've not had a good experience with Beta 10. Wifi flaky, generally laggy, touch takes 2-3 sec, Battery consumption terrible (lost 30% in 30 min.) (with Performance set at 1050 max) Don't think I can get 3 hours out of it. (I get 5-6 + hours out of Zombi-x b9)

Strangely enough, a lot of B10 problems got much better or disappeared by switching to Nova from Apex. Battery is still a problem. Charging now, will look at it again later.

Dags, what's happening with Beta 11?

lmm
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
Nothing at the mo.

Why did you throttle it at 1050?

That will explain some of the poor performance. At least give it 1.4 or 1.5 GHz.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lmmohr4:
Actually, I ran it mostly at 16-1700 max. The 1050 was just recently to see if it effected batt life. Didn't see a lot of difference anywhere. The Nova is running that now and seems ok, but I'll still use the Zombi-X B9 for daily use till Zpop gets there.

lmm
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Praising God for you both! We've been on a family vacation in the Caribbean for the last week and got home to 5" of ice and snow tonight, but saw this bit of sunshine here in the thread before knocking off! What a great community to help share happiness with through the peaks and to fellowship during the troughs. Helps to keep the oom / surfaceflinger / etc /etc all in perspective! :cool: Hope you guys have some good plans for celebrating this first big hurdle. One thing I've noticed through the years of working with my patients is that when it gets close to time (maybe a month out or so) for the routine cancer checkups, give her lots of love and support when she starts acting anxious for 'no good reason'. It always looms heavy for most people, and not much you can do but to love and listen. Cheers to having the first big one out of the way!!! :highfive:
[Asus Transformer TF700] msuguy71:
YouTube lag

Hi all. Does anyone else have frequent buffering with the youtube app? I googled the issue and see a lot of people have an issue with the latest few versions of youtube. I have a 20MB DSL connection and don't have other Internet issues. Youtube is impossible to use. sbdags: is it possible to include the original unupdated app in the rom and not the newest version? Everything I have read on the Interwebs suggests to uninstall the updates, but there aren't any because the rom includes the latest version.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
I see the push redirect gateway in the log, and it says successful, but when I try to browse, no connectivity. Open term, ping google, no response.

Here's something interesting, when I try Psiphon, it says 'root mode not supported in this version of android' yet the store page says compatible with 5.0, and if I uncheck the 'tunnel whole device' mode, and use the browser inside Psiphon, it works and changes my public ip address. I'm stumped. Is everything ok with routing in this ROM? I know I have root...

Just found out Psiphon is proxy, not VPN, at least if you don't have it tunnelling the whole device.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ikkeT:
In case you want to debug the openvpn issue, take these commands before and after initiating the vpn:

ip a

ip r s

and take the openvpn log. Set the vpn log level higher, e.g. verb 4. Also better if you can show the log from server too. Also, do check connecting to web sites using ip instead of name, to see if vpn breaks name resolving.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
I went to Zombi-x KK to test on that ROM, no difference in behavior. Same issue. I'm not sure how to check if the tun module has correct rights.

both commands, before and after: (see thumbnail)

re: name resolving, I think you nailed it. I pinged google's IP instead of www.google.com and I got a response. Any idea what's wrong now?

I also was able to browse to Google using the ip address in the browser instead of google.com, and yes, my ip address changed to the vpn public ip address. So why is name resolution broken?

Got it working on KitKat, using Google's DNS servers instead of the DNS servers supplied by the VPN service. This didn't work for me on Z-pop, I'm not sure why.
[Asus Transformer TF700] jrotante:
Awesome Rom!!

Hey, I just wanted to say thanks to you guys for putting together a badass rom! I have had issues with my Tf700t but all seems to be working well now. I used the Omni launcher and left pretty much everything else default for the install, I was curious if one launcher worked better than another with this Rom and if anyone has had better performance with stable use using any other settings. Always trying to squeak out more power, but don't want to sacrifice stability. Any recommended setups are appreciated.

Again, thanks for your hard work...it definitely shows. JoeR.
[Asus Transformer TF700] drewski_1:
I like Nova

Sent from my Nexus 10
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
I like omni for now as we are really just getting underway in seeing what we can do with zombi-pop ....

As omni launcher is built with the ROM one would hope it would be the most stable ..... :D

Thx Josh

Let us have a look at this, see if there is an issue upstream ....

Maybe [MENTION=4227727]ikkeT[/MENTION] has some insight, I will have a chat with him when hes on next .... :good:

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] ikkeT:
there you can see you did not change the default gateway. Your VPN is only directing your VPN subnet traffic into your VPN tunnel.

Please no screenshots, but copy paste text instead.

this sounds a bit weird. I don't know how to verify nameserver settings in android, as it does not use the resolv.conf file. I can dig that up later, or someone please just add the info here.

I sounds like your tunnel would set the DNS server to something behind the tunnel, but your tunnel does not take name queries there. It could be due the default gw not being set to tunnel.

Try setting the default gw to tunnel manually. I need to hurry now, but can help you with the "ip route add default via..." command later, if you don't know how to.

And provide me proof that you configure your VPN to serve as default route :)
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Try this:

getprop | grep dns
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
I put the redirect gateway def1 command in the vpn config file with the other commands but it didn't seem to change anything. If that function requires root access on proxy apps, I find it odd my VPN app never asked for it. As far as the IP route command, I am familiar with the command but not sure what ip numbers and interfaces to use.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ikkeT:
Do you have the routing options set the same way both at the server and the client end in openvpn config file?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
Well, I downloaded the vpn config file from vpnbook, and added the redirect gateway in it, that's all I changed. As to what their config file looks like on the server, your guess is probably better than mine. I'm assuming it's the same if it works on KK. I'm surprised FordPrefect hasn't been part of this recent discussion, I wonder if it's working for him now on Lollipop.
[Asus Transformer TF700] FordPrefect:
Sorry I have been quiet ... my Lollipop ROM died on me. When it at some point ran out of battery, the restart only ended in a boot loop. I had to re-install, which I only did today. Will be reporting back as soon as I can turn back to the vpn question.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ikkeT:
check this: https://openvpn.net/index.php/open-source/documentation/howto.html#redirect

It says the redirect option must be given in *server* config. If you add it on client config, it will likely not have effect.

I don't personally do that, so I can't confirm.

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btw, did you check your dns settings before and during tunnel? Do they change? Do what _that showed to check it.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
In the log, I see

PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REPLY, redirect-gateway def1, dhcp-option DNS 89.xxx.xx.xx, dhcp-option DNS 91.xx.xx.xxx, route 10.x.x.x, topology net30, ping 5,ping-restart 30, ifconfig 10.x.x.xx 10.x.x.xx

So I'm assuming the server is sending that. And it works on KK without having to add redirect-gateway in the client config file.

And 'getprop | grep dns' reports the same numbers before the vpn is up as afterwards. OpenDNS (yes I use OpenDNS on my network) numbers for dhcp.wlan0.dns(1,2,3,4) and Google DNS numbers for net.dns(1,2,3,4)

Now, that's on KK. I'm not sure about the results on Z-pop right now, I'd have to do a backup, reformat, and restore to check on Z-pop.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Ozark_8125:
Sorry, I didn't see where this all started, but did you try one of the VPN apps that are out there rather than manually configuring just to test it out? This site was helpful for me when I had a trip to China last fall on picking a VPN service. You might try out one of the free services if you can access the play store to at least test out a free option.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
Oh, forgive me, I forgot to mention that all this testing I'm doing is with OpenVPN for Android, and I'm just testing out with a free service at the moment, vpnbook. Works flawlessly on KK now, with Google's DNS and ignoring VPN server's DNS addresses. I never got the VPN in the Android settings area to work, it creates a ppp0 interface and that never did anything useful that I could tell, so I didn't progress any further down that road. Although... if there was a similar setting in there, maybe I could have gotten that to work. :confused:
[Asus Transformer TF700] lmmohr4:
Just noticed that no one had responded.

I''ve had a lot of buffering on my Tab, so much so that I had begun to suspect some flaw on my high-end Asus AC wireless router, then yesterday saw it on a wired connected PC. At least that tells me it's not just a wireless problem.

Guess I'll go back to blaming Comcast throttling. I feel they are treating Streaming Media (mostly Youtube) different than other data, but that's just subjective. I've got no proof.

Sorry for the off topic rant.

lmm
[Asus Transformer TF700] Rubister:
I was waiting for someone else to mention any problems with it, I haven't seen any issues with Youtube on mine. If I understand the recent ruling on net neutrality, ISPs aren't allowed to throttle services, you might want to see if you can nail that down and figure out if they are doing that or not.
[Asus Transformer TF700] ikkeT:
It sounds to me that either A) your VPN app does not properly forward the routing rule to IP stack or B) Omni ROM has a bug there.

In case of A, try e.g. openvpn connect app, and in case of B, file a bug in Omni ROM.

It is unlikely that this ROM modifications would break routing, thus I blame elsewhere. If it is not your app, then you need also all the logs from the time you try the connection. It could be also some security setting, like routing changes not allowed by apps or smth.

On the other hand, yout old KK version bugs too. Why does it not use the DNS it is told to use? Anyhow, good luck.
[Asus Transformer TF700] FordPrefect:
OK, finally I have my ROM up and running (completely unrelated issue).

As for the OpenVPN I observe the exact same thing. The 'getprop | grep dns' shows the exact same output with or without the VPN tunnel connected. Am I right in assuming this means that setting DNS and/or default gateway never succeeded?

Just wanted to highlight that I'm trying to use the same server (and thus server config) as with the KitKat CROMBi ROM. Same is true for the client openvpn config. This makes me believe -with my limited knowlegde- that there is something buried in this version of the ROM. Even if it has absolutely nothing to do with modifications made for the TF700.
[Asus Transformer TF700] das chaos:
Probably it has nothing to do with the ROM (for other ROMs have that issue also) but with new requirements of Android L, that are not met by most apps:

http://xdaforums.com/google-nexus-5/help/lollipop-vpn-doesnt-t2940307
[Asus Transformer TF700] das chaos:
Yes, he can^^
[Asus Transformer TF700] leipy:
[Q] default browser history

Anyone know where the browser history is, on this ROM. And i mean on the default browser.

Or is it by design that it is left out.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Maru-san:
Bluetooth audio not working

Hi,

I just upgraded to from Crombi to the latest Beta10 to give it a test. One of my setups here in the office is to connect the TF700 via Bluetooth audio to my notebook so I can use the better speakers there. This used to work without any issues with Crombi but with Zombi I get no sound output. I can control the player from my PC just fine (pause, forward, rewind) and I also see that audio is playing on the TF700 but there is no sound output. a logcat shows tons of the following messages..

BluetoothAvcrcpServiceJNI: btavrcp_register_notification_callbak

BluetoothAvcrcpServiceJNI: registerNotificationRspPlayPosNative: sBluetoothAvrcpInterface: 0x50fb20c

BluetoothAvcrcpServiceJNI: registerNotificationRspPlayPosNative: sBluetoothAvrcpInterface: 0x50fb20c

open(/proc/bluetooth/sleep/btwrite) for write faile: No such file or directory.

The also got this error with Crombi but audio worked. One thing I noticed that is different. Next and previous are switched in the remote control and the progress bar does not move . Could it be that we are actually sending a negative playerposition and therefore there is no sound output? Just guessing here.

---------- Post added at 07:17 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:09 AM ----------

Ok some update it plays for a short time and then it stops when connected so the connection IS there.

Another update. I switched to the grimlock kernel and audio works again now. Previous and next are switched around though, is there a way to configure this and I found out that previous and next are also switched around on the keyboard.

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Ok I put this in a separate post so it is better visible. In the last comment I mentioned that previous and next is switched around. Looking at the sourcecode of asusdec I see that the keycodes are switched around in the omnirom code compared to the crombi code

https://github.com/zombi-x-lp/andro.../java/org/omnirom/asusdec/KeyHandler.java#L96

https://github.com/sbdags/android_d.../com/cyanogenmod/asusdec/KeyHandler.java#L109

See that previous and next is switched around here. This is for the keyboard but I do not know where this has to be switched for the Bluetooth remote control.

Ok final update. Even with the other kernel BT audio stops working after going to standby and coming back. After that pairing still works but audio cuts out after the first second. The track is playing but no sound output.
[Asus Transformer TF700] Xeyrruken:
I flash the rom and everything was pretty until i install, facebook app and skype app, those two apps sometime freeze the tablet and are extremely slow.
[Asus Transformer TF700] vladomirus:
Cyclic reboot

Experts, tell me plz. Tablet Android 4.0

Updated custom recovery stage to the latest version via Fastboot (twrp-2.8.5.0) during recovery do the "Swipe to Factory Reset" and put from the root ZOMBi-POP BETA, the installation went fine, click finish and the tablet reboots. After rebooting, the screen saver "ASUS", then the penguins, small labels and the plate is again overloaded. And so 30 minutes. The system does not boot. Tell me what's wrong? Where to dig?
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
You are on the correct bootloader yes ?

Try to wipe /data

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] vladomirus:
Thanks for the reply. What is the bootloader ? I load file.zip from Castom recovery. There do wipe - advansed wipe/system, data, cache, dalvic cache
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
On the screen you boot to before entering recovery, in the upper left has the bootloader version...

Should start with 'epad'

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] vladomirus:
'epad' - ???

Tell me please, what should be the bootloader for ZOMBi-POP and how to install it?
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
This is from the OP..

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thibor69:
Yes, when you first turn on the tablet in the upper left corner of the first screen you will see in a bunch of numbers. They are very small and hard to read, but that is the version number of your bootloader. You MUST be on bootloader version 10.6.1.14.10 - or this ROM will not work. If you are on a lower bootloader, just update it via the "

INSTRUCTIONS

" in the first post here.

YOU MUST BE ON THE ASUS STOCK JB 4.2.1 BOOTLOADER VERSION 10.6.1.14.10 AND TWRP 2.7+ OR CWM 6.5.0.0+ BEFORE FLASHING THIS ROM. SEE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW IF YOU ARE UNSURE

You must do a full wipe in recovery if coming from another ROM. Do not do a full wipe from the bootloader. Don't forget to do a Nandroid Backup first and give the ROM 15 mins to stabilise! The first boot will take 15 minutes!

​

Good luck
[Asus Transformer TF700] sapiora:
When I try to synchronize some of my games with Facebook, the game restarts and nothing is hapening. I'm logged in my profile in Facebook. It hapend with two games: Real Racing 3 and Sky Force 2014.
[Asus Transformer TF700] vladomirus:
Ок. Many thanks you very much for the help!
[Asus Transformer TF700] moondance48:
Beta 10 severe lag

Hi

I am new to this and have got so fed up with the poor performance on my 700 that I have finally decided to flash a custom rom! I decided to go for Zombi-pop as it is the latest and hopefully greatest! This is my first rom flashing so all i did was follow the instructions. The process went ok without issues. After the final reboot, I was surprised to find all my app still present (expected to have to re-install). However, even after leaving the tablet to settle for 30 mins or so, I am finding that the performance and lag is actually worse than the original stock rom! Have I missed something? Would I be better to go for another rom until this one is out of beta?
[Asus Transformer TF700] sbdags:
You need to format /data which is a full wipe. If you have any apps left then you haven't, so you now have a mess ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] moondance48:
Just to be clear - from TWRP is this a Format Data, a Factory Reset or an Advanced Wipe selecting all partitions (except the Micro SD Card of course :))?
[Asus Transformer TF700] yaqb:
Advanced wipe, select everything except micro SD ;)
[Asus Transformer TF700] mannes8:
can't install OS after wipe

I recently installed beta 10 and have been happy with the rom, but realized that I had not done a full wipe as mentioned in the above posts. Unfortunately, it erased the Beta 10 file that was on the internal storage, and my tablet will not read my sd card in TWRP... now I can't install an OS until I figure out how to get my tablet to read the sd card. Has anyone had this issue?
[Asus Transformer TF700] fatboyinlycra:
While in twrp you can connect to your pc and copy the zip back on
[Asus Transformer TF700] berndblb:
Two possibilities:

1. adb push the rom zip to your tablet while in recovery

2. format your microSD to fat32 or try a different card
[Asus Transformer TF700] kbboykin:
So, coming from Crombi-KK and having been off this tab for at least 2-3 mons, I assume I can just wipe the Crombi_KK off and go straight to Zombi-POP Beta 10. I don't have to do a sequential install of all the betas, right? Also are folks using Kansasboy Acer apps, or are most folks sticking with just Zombi-POP as is from sbdags? Many thanks
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
Dont forget about MTP, post 2.8.0.0

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] rprussell:
I've never been able to reliably stream youtube on my tablet, no matter what ROM.

We use AT&T Uverse, not comcast.
[Asus Transformer TF700] lj50036:
One answer for you mate, 'its a beta' :)

It is never going to run like you want it to ever .....

The hardware is old and now android is becoming more and more difficult to work with. ....

Yes the stock email app is not working not here not stock omni, it will be fixed just dont know when .....

Thx Josh
[Asus Transformer TF700] NightRogue:
Cool that's all I needed to know thanks! Just wanted to be sure I've got everything installed/working correctly.
[Asus Transformer TF700] eternalbl:
Hey guys, I'm pretty green when it comes to the inner workings of android and I'm wondering if my experience with this tablet is normal or if I should be looking further into it.

I'm currently running Zombi-pop beta 10 installed with _that v11 and rom2sd install, but I get an IO score in quadrant of 1888, whereas in Cromi-X I was hitting about 7k with data2sd. Is there a way to check whether the tablet is loading from internal memory rather than running properly with rom2sd?

BTW, when installing because of my limited knowledge, I've mostly chosen the default options.
[Asus Transformer TF700] NightRogue:
Generally speaking, if you open your file explorer and look at your folder options, if you see a "SDCARDi" and that folder holds your internal data then you are properly set up with datas2d. Im set up F2FS with Datas2d and get:

TOTAL:7641 CPU:25681 MEM:2556 I/O:6324 2D:575 3D:3068

Make sure you have started from scratch completely and done a fresh install.

oh and of course make sure you have a class 10 memory card in there for data2sd for best possible performance
[Asus Transformer TF700] eternalbl:
Just did that, in ES file explorer, I see 3 options that are shown as seperate SD cards, one called just '0' which seems like the main storage for the installation (I'm assuming since I took a photo and it was placed in that partitions DCIM/Camera folder), one called 'sdcard1' which doesn't seem to contain much, and a third called 'sdcardi' that contains OS files also, including its own DCIM folder.

Would the fact that it didn't save the pic to sdcardi indicate that it's not using that as the system partition?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thibor69:
As long as you are on the correct bootloader you simply do a clean wipe and flash Zombi. As for the apps, I use sbdags default's and some others that I have backed-up. Not sure what launcher you use, but I recommend Nova (Prime) with Zombi. It is the best, ... at least for this ROM.

Cheers.
[Asus Transformer TF700] _that:
Maybe you're comparing fsync off and on?
[Asus Transformer TF700] NightRogue:
that seems right to me. how many times have you run the bench? I've got fsync off since im on data2sd and I am still getting over 6k scores.... must be something wrong with your install? If you are on data2sd then your pics would not be saved to sdcardi so yeah looks like you are set up correctly.

What class of sdcard are you using? that makes almost all the difference in the world as long as your install is correct. I gotta tell you it took some doing for me to get all of this stuff correct. lot's of mistakes were made learning how to get my tab going the way i wanted. Have you run any of your own tweaking programs and changed anything? are you overclocked on the right kernel?
[Asus Transformer TF700] eternalbl:
I initially tried Zombi with fsync on, decided to go to cromi-x with fsync off and finally installed zombi again when I realized I was flashing with an older version of twrp than was recommended, this time with fsync off.

The card is class 10/UHS3. I haven't been doing any tweaking since I wanted to get the tablet more stable first.

It's become a moot point, though, since either I've messed it up or it just got messed up and I'm working on getting the tablet booting to an OS again now. At least I'm learning some stuff about adb shell, though.
[Asus Transformer TF700] kbboykin:
I am on CWM recovery, but was on TWRP. Which is better with this ROM? OR does it really matter?
[Asus Transformer TF700] Thibor69:
Hi -

I really could not say for sure. I ONLY use TWRP. I have not used CWM in over a year. I see no reason though why CWM wouldn't work just as well. I would stick with latest TWRP as I for one know it works for sure, unless someone else can confirm CWM. I am sorry I have forgotten what was your original problem again ?