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[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] mibses:
This is fantastic, thank you very much for this guide! It's absolutely wonderful to now have root (and AdAway and AFWall+) on my zenpad 10.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] glennexpert:
Thanks, what do you mean by installing manually? In the device manager the "unknown devices" dissapears after a few seconds. After another second or two it's back. When I disconnect the tablet and show the hidden devices, it sits there but still unable to update the driver as it does not recognize any compatibility with the intel adb driver.

So af for manual installation, I installed all the inf files but still no luck.

Tried on 3 different devices from windows 7 through windows 10. Unless I'm doing something wrong I guess my devies is either locked or has a malfunction.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] duff91:
Turn on you tablet and connect to pc, let's installing driver.. After that... Turn off your tablet.. Power on in fastboot mode.. Go in device manager.. Choose unknown device.. And choose manually Intel adb driver!

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[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] GartimusPrime:
Has anyone had luck with the firmware restore on the z300c? I bricked my tablet and can't get the restore method to work.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] zenocs:
Hi, I own Z300CL but this model uses a different cpu compared to other models (atom Z3560).

Has someone successfully rooted this model?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] InvisiBot:
Available original firmware for Z300C / Z300CG / Z300CL models.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] DiskusBilus:
MultiUser enabled

THX!

Rooted!!!

Had problem with fastboot on win10 x64 with drivers. Worked on win7 x86.

After rooted

I have also enabled hidden Multiuser function.

Link that helped me:

dev-viraj DOT blogspot DOT si/2015/02/enable-multi-user-setting-in-lollipop.html

You need to add this

fw.max_users=3

fw.show_multiuserui=1

into a file named build.prop

App you need that edits the files is called Es file explorer and this app must be added to SuperSU app so the file explorer is alowed to edit system files on your device.

Hope somone can explane better than me. Since im not good at this my self.

Hope this helps ppl that whant multiuser enabled on thair ASUS pads.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] QuillzToxic:
Just to make sure I don't mess up my device, what is the restore and root method that peeps are using? Because there are multiple on this thread. Also what apps can you remove to debloat?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] samurai.jack:
Thank you very much [MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION]. I've just root my z300cg. My official fastboot can't see the device. Your version can.

I used the v2 img file posted by you.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] krbo:
Many thanks for answering my question about multiuser, because of you I successfully rooted my z300c and now have proper multiuser usage.

Really couldn't understand Asus for disabling such important option. Maybe they hoped we will buy more tablets - no Asus, because of such behaviour and rude answers to people asking about it, your products will never again come to my house!

As I'm not Android expert biggest thanks goes to [MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION] & his instructions and boot images (v2 used flawlessly).

Thanks also to [MENTION=5928897]reaktor TuT[/MENTION] for his detailed instructions.

As I needed only root it was finished within a minutes from drivers install to reboot.

Great work!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Xnoss:
Any way to overclock cpu after rooted ?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] st872113:
Recovery failed

I have read [MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION] 's post,and I typed adb shell flashrecovery mod-recovery-z380c.img, is successful.

then I typed adb reboot recovery , but it doesn't work and it was stuck ,it also can't reboot,can someone

help me? maybe I need official z380c.img.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Xjasonxl7l:
Hi. I have red posts of this discussion.

First of all im italian so sorry for my english ahahah.

Im not expert about android so im asking you a tutorial forma root zenpad 10 z300cl.

Im scared about making mistakes cause the tablet it is new...if Simeone can help me..
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] afarkas:
Thanks thanks thanks thanks

After passing 6 months of searching on net, finally i found YOU, my personal Jesus :D

i am so happy and glad to find you and your guideline to root my f*****g z380c...

All glory to you, god bless you and your kids and kids of your kids and kids of kids of your kids and kids of kid of kids of your kids...

finally i rooted my f*****g z380c :D
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] duff91:
If you want help, send me a pm..

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[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] vittvittorio:
Z300c successfully rooted. Thanks.

A newbie question: is it normal not entering in recovery mode after rooting?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] afarkas:
Debloating and overclocking

Hi,

i have two questions

After rooting and debloating my z380c it still seems to me to have too many system apps and processes runing in the background...

Can anyone provide some kind of "Safe to remove" app list for z380c or similar?

The second question is about overclocking.

As many us knows Asus underclocked the CPU of z380c that is normally capable of 1,2ghz to 0,9ghz ...

Is there any way to fix this, to overclock it?

Thanks
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] InvisiBot:
This not normal ! You did something wrong.

Tell your model and firmware version.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] vittvittorio:
Z300c (P023)

Really, when I try to enter in recovery, the screen shows the droid and types "no commands available". And then normally reboots
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] InvisiBot:
I thought that the recovery partition damaged, but "no commands available" - this message from the stock recovery and therefore it works. When you see "no commands available", try to press the volume up or volume down, after that the menu should appear.

If this does not work, then clear the cache partition:

reboot to fastboot and execute the command:

fastboot format cache
fastboot reboot
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] vittvittorio:
@ InvisiBot

Still no recovery. Now it shows only the droid and nothing more and then reboots.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] InvisiBot:
You can flash the recovery partition. Version does not matter. But I think the problem is something else.

reboot to fastboot and execute the command:

fastboot flash vrl vrl.bin
fastboot flash recovery recovery.bin

Why do you need recovery menu? There's only one function: hard reset. But the hard reset can be done by means of android or fastboot.

This becomes a problem, when it is impossible to setup a future update, until then it will not interfere with the device.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] afarkas:
Hi InvisiBot,

thanks one more time for your tuto how to root.

just want to ask, is there any known custom recovery to flash for z380c, or custom rom?

thanks a lot again
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] vittvittorio:
[MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION]

Executed the commands but recovery doesn't work. I don't really need it. Hoping it's not a prelude of other mulfunctions. Now the tab works fine.

Thanks a lot.

For problems in future updates, maybe I'll have to flash the complete firmware before updating...... Is that you mean?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] glennexpert:
For all those that are having the same fastboot issue as I had

- Fastboot device disconnecting and reconnecting in windows device manager

- Intel drivers not recognized as being compatible with the faulty device.

- Fastboot recognizing device after fastboot device command but not able to boot image

After installing PDANet and updating both Windows and Zenpad drivers by the PDANET installation program it works just fine.

Device is now rooted.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] djmorre97:
Hi, anyone can explain me how to root my ZenPad 10 z000cxg? I could not find any tutorial

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[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] aubekin:
Anything for zd300cl?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] glennexpert:
How to enable multi-user mode

There are several ways to do this but let us go with something easy.

The one confirmed working is by [MENTION=4531857]rusty_banks[/MENTION].

http://xdaforums.com/crossdevice-dev/android-one-general/guide-enabling-multi-user-lollipop-t3064326

Some tutorials tell you to change the file permissions.

DONT'T!! It might cause boot loop and if it still works wrong permissions might allow apps to change the file.

You don't want apps to be able to change that file.

In case you already did, reboot into recovery as explained in this thread and execute inside adb shell:

chmod 655 /system/build.prop

reboot
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] StephanF:
Thanks

Root worked just fine,

still wondering when there will be custom roms to unlock the missing 40% cpu power.

Greetings
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] afarkas:
any way to make a full backup of the system?

Now we know how to boot into recovery to flash update.zip, is there a way to boot into that same recovery and make a system backup for flashing it later if something goes wrong?

Thanks
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] xkieran:
custom rom

Hi there! I'm new here and I'm glad I'm finally a part of the community.

Although I'm really afraid of bricking my Asus ZenPad Z300C, I think I could get the root done after your tutorials (thanks again for that).

But I would mainly do this to install a custom rom, as I really, really dislike the ZenUI of Asus. I couldn't find anything on Google about a custom rom, so I guess there is none. Is there any chance that there will be a custom rom in future?

EDIT: It's seems as if I were a bit premature there. I tried allday to root the Asus ZenPad 10 but fastboot just won't recognise my device, although I followed every possible step discussed in this thread. It has never been that hard to root a device as far as I remember. It appears in the ADB list though, so that is one step in the right direction I guess.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] afarkas:
I think the package that is responsible for the underclocking of the processor is the "com.intel.thermal"

The question is whether it will brick the tablet if this one is disabled or removed...
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] StephanF:
I just fiddeled around with 3C Tools,

disabling the Service "ThermalService" inside the com.intel.thermal package simply locks the cpu frequency to the lowest state (~400mhz), manual overriding won't work via 3C Tools.

Freezing the package all together locks the frequency in the middle state (728mhz) , manual overriding does initially work upto to prior max of 900 but jumps back to 728 immediatley.

Didn't dare to delete the Package alltogether.

Maybe we need to introduce a 4th state of say 1200mhz into the package.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tassos_chry:
Hello! I am trying to unbrick Z380C! The tablet is not mine and I have been told that the brick happened in a rooting attempt.

I am on this step: adb shell updatezip /sdcard/update.zip (I changed the zip name to update for easier typing)

And i get this message:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Minimal ADB and Fastboot>adb shell updatezip /sdcard/upda

te.zip

Archive: /sdcard/update.zip

inflating: META-INF/com/google/android/update-binary

mount: mounting /dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID068 on /s

ystem failed: Device or resource busy

* * *

/system/bin/sh not found

* * *

And it just hangs there. What should i do?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Emil Borconi:
That's not too good. Yeap I bricked mine while trying to root it first time.

You can try the following:

1) Download the attachment and extract the vrl.bin (Thanks to [MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION] for providing it)

2) Put the tablet in fastboot mode

3) Type (from the directory where the vrl.bin is located):

fastboot flash vrl vrl.bin
fastboot format system

- This should wipe and restore the system partition (fingers crossed)

Now try again everything as described.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tassos_chry:
Still getting the exact same error. Did an

ls -l /system

on adb shell and got the results showing in the first attachment.

Also, don't know if it helps but when i try to fastboot format userdata i get the results showing in the second attachment, while fastboot format cache works properly.

Any ideas? Thanks for the help!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Emil Borconi:
That doesn't sound good at all. Looks to me that the partition table is somehow damaged (might also be a damaged EMMC as well).

- Did the system formated correctly?

- What happens if you only try to erase the userdata (fastboot erase userdata), does it give an error as well?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tassos_chry:
Thought about the partition table being damaged too.

Results of commands you asked on the attachment!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Emil Borconi:
Based on the print screen so far looks ok. Can you try to:

- repeat the 3 command as you did here

- reboot into recovery (assuming you already flashed the mod-recovery-z380c.img, if not then flahs the recovery image accordingly)

- without doing anything else try to flash the update.zip?

If fails, try to redo the 3 command, boot into recovery then:

adb shell
mount
umount /system
mount

Now system should be unmounted, try to flash again.

If not I'm out of ideas (a RAW image will be nice but to the best of my knowledge there isn't one available for our tablet), I can try to create you a system.img with dd but not sure if flashing it will actually work, i think there is some pitfall in that, but if nothing works let me know and I can send you a system.img

[MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION] do you have experience with making DD image of the system partition and flashing it fastboot?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tassos_chry:
Thanks for your time and help! Did everything as you said and when i unmount /system i get an error: sbin/sh: unmount: not found

I guess i could try flashing a system.img. If it's not too much hassle can you send me one, kind sir?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Emil Borconi:
I wrote UMOUNT not UNMOUNT.

can you please retry... if not I will prepare a system.img for you.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tassos_chry:
Ooops sorry, my bad. umount /system didn't show any errors, but on updatezip i get the same error as before..
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] InvisiBot:
These messages speak about the successful start of the process. I think you yourself interrupt the process, you just need to wait for ~20 minutes.

fastboot does not work, but you can try using DD

Creating a dump:

adb shell su
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID068 of=/sdcard/system.img
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID071 of=/sdcard/boot.img
adb shell dd if=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID121 of=/sdcard/recovery.img

Restoring Partition from dump:

Reboot to mod-recovery and execute the command:

adb shell umount /system
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/system.img of=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID068
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/boot.img of=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID071
adb shell dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID121
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Emil Borconi:
Hi [MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION].

Yes we did exactly the same (except we did not dumped the recovery partition), and after restoring with DD he ( [MENTION=5282944]tassos_chry[/MENTION] ) was able to boot his tablet and install the update.zip. We will share all the informations and I will also host the partitions dump images, but currently I made a system.img from my daily rom, which contains all my personal information and all my paid softwares, which I won't share publicly. I need to create a clean system.img before I can share it with others, but that won't happen till the second part of this week when I get a bit of free time.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tassos_chry:
I will do a complete step by step tutorial of what i did, once [MENTION=842765]Emil Borconi[/MENTION] uploads a clean system.img.

I can't make a dump of mine, as i gave the tablet back to its owner..
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tassos_chry:
First of all, this is only for the Zenpad Z380C. My tablet after a rooting attempt got hardbricked and would only bootloop until the first booting image.

So, what i did was follow [MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION] steps written here, until i got ADB access.

Then, from the link at the end of the post, courtesy of [MENTION=842765]Emil Borconi[/MENTION], download boot and system binary dump images. From ASUS site download UL-P022-WW-4.9.1.0-user.zip. Copy these 3 files to SDCard.

ImcPartID068 -> system

ImcPartID071 -> boot.

***You have to unzip binary images to be in .bin format***

Once you've done the above and have ADB access, do the following:

adb shell
dd if=/sdcard/ImcPartID071.bin of=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID071
umount /system
dd if=/sdcard/ImcPartID068.bin of=/dev/block/platform/soc0/e0000000.noc/by-name/ImcPartID068 [COLOR="Red"]// Takes plenty of time//[/COLOR]
adb reboot recovery
adb shell
umount /system
updatezip /sdcard/UL-P022-WW-4.9.1.0-user.zip [COLOR="Red"]// Takes plenty of time//[/COLOR]

Voila, after a while, your tablet will boot normally!!

Binary Dump Images : https://app.box.com/zenpad

I would like to thank once again [MENTION=842765]Emil Borconi[/MENTION] for his precious help and guidance and [MENTION=7031497]InvisiBot[/MENTION] for his guide for flashing mod-recovery.

This guide is not a product of mine, just a result of the knowledge of the above people!!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] whiterabbheat:
Hi,

I tried to root my asus tab ZenPad z300cl but could not find the root.img file.

All link are down :/

Can you send me a link to download it? Thank you very much ! ;)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Romsss92:
Hello evrybody, i don t understand when my P023 is on fastboot my pc connect and disconnect the tablet and the device stay unknown and connect and disconnect again and again ... i have intall intel drivers ... i m on W10 plz someone help ;)

PS: Can you make a litlle tutorial because i don t understand everything THX
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] quazy99:
So to recap!

If I want to have mlutiuser support on my new ZenPad 10 Z300c (Shame on you ASUS for not giving us multiuser support, at least on tablets!) I have to:

1. Install adb (follow the reaktor TuT's instructions in post #66 - steps 1-4)

2. Unlock the bootloader (also reaktor TuT's post second step 4 [but it should be step 5] #66)

fastboot oem unlock
fastboot oem unlock confirm

3. Copy file mod-recovery-z300c.img from InvisiBot's post #83 to adb directory

4. Follow InvisiBot's instructions in post #89

5. Enable multiuser support in Lollipop (by rusty_banks found here)

Please correct me if I am wrong!

If it turns out that I am not wrong (and even if I am wrong I, will correct the mistakes) I will compile those instructions in one post

sow newbs like me don't have to hunt for all the data all over this thread.

Thanks to all of you who invested time to make our experience with ZenPad 10 better!

I second the idea to have a separate thread for this device.

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[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] AtomiX1984:
I have found all necessary at this post http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65188654&postcount=45
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] quazy99:
I have a problem with fastboot (version eac51f2bb6a8-android) recognizing ZenPad.

I have followed reaktor TuT's instructions in post #66.

ZenPad gets detected in ADBDriverInstaller as ASUS:ASUS Android Composite ADB Interface:eek:K.

In Device Manager the device is also listed as ASUS Android Composite ADB Interface.

But when I reboot ZenPad in fastboot mode it keeps reconnecting and disconnecting as unknown device

and

fastboot devices

shows nothing.

I have read that some people managed to root ZenPad 10 on Windows 10 64-bit.

If someone can post how is ZenPad listed in Device Manager?

How is it listed in ADBDriverInstaller?

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for help!

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[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] AtomiX1984:
I had read about some one using windows (not here anyway) which have your issue, and in order to see correctly the device with fast boot him had disconnect from computer then start tablet fastboot (wol+ and pwr) when fast boot start plug tablet and like this works. I reporting you just what I read I had use linux and just all work fine.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] whiterabbheat:
So [MENTION=5018930]AtomiX1984[/MENTION], the link for download the root.img on the russian site is down. The root.img is unfindable on the web... if you have a copy or a link thank you very much ;)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tanpro260196:
Same problem, I tried to boot to fastboot first and plug into pc, doesn't work.

Really need a solution. Or it's a hardware defect?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] duff91:
You have to install Intel adb driver manually, download from Intel site..

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[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tanpro260196:
How to get in recovery mode guys?

"adb reboot recovery" only show a robot with a text "no command" then reboot to normal state...
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tanpro260196:
I tried your method, everything goes smoothly until the end, I got a bootloop.

There is nothing wrong with the process, except when I tried to format /userdata, it's fail (data transfer fails).

Can you help me?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] InvisiBot:
My telepathy skills are not very strong :) Maybe in the screenshot / log I would have seen something.

I think at the moment this method is only useful for Z380C model. For other models now available to restore the firmware.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] fuffa9:
mission accomplished!!!

Well, I finally made the rooting + mult-user !!!!!

Thanks to all for the instructions, files, suggestions, support.

A special thanks to [MENTION=1912871]duff91[/MENTION] for his special support.

Now I have the tablet that I would like to have :)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] oldageX:
They are installed, but the tablet connects and disconnects repeatedly in fastboot without the intel drivers ever kicking in. When trying to select the driver manually it says it couldn't find compatible drivers.

Actually I messed up and found this screen now i.imgur.com/KKgCKAP.png

Which intel option do I pick?

edit: said **** it and went with intel Android ADB interface, pushed the root-v2-z300c with adb, installed SuperSU and root checker confirms that it has root. Hopefully no further issues arise.

Rebooted without issues. Lastly, has anyone tried xposed? I read that it can **** up.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] tanpro260196:
I don’t even know how to flash xposed without a custom recovery...
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] oldageX:
Oh yeah, guess I forgot about that.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] Asumos:
worked great, removed bloatware. now we just need twrp and cm...
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] G-FACE:
I have rooted my z300cg successfully. Thanks for sharing.

Removed some bloatware, but can everybody share what do they uninstalled/freez?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Questions & Answers] QuillzToxic:
D: I am in a bootloop how do I reset!!!!