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[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] narupradeep:
My TF101 looks like bricked and can't boot in to APX or Recovery mode.

Hi Tim,

Thanks a lot for keep my old device up to date with the latest ROMs.

I was using your latest lollipop and every thing worked fine.

I tried updating lollipop to marshmallow (V019) couple of days ago. The installation of ROM looked fine but then the screen just gone blank and nothing could be done post that. I was not able to boot my device in to either APX or Recovery mode (TWRP 2.8.1.1) after installing this ROM. Every time i try to boot in to APX or Recovery, the screen just goes blank after initial ASUS screen. I have seen the kernel that you have provided to overcome this issue. But i don't know how to install that with out Recovery working. Any body, please help to over come this issue

Thanks again.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
Ah yeah, HDMI will needs more fixing it seems, one thing I always forget to test ;)

For youtube see 2nd post, it mostly depends on your network conditions and tablet load.

Some videos are also 720p60fps so you might need to switch back to 480p for these.

I've added the 19th version into the first post.

Yeah flashing the kernel on top of the early 019 versions or flash 021.

For booting into the recovery are you sure you're holding the correct keys ?

ie power and volume down, then volume up?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] narupradeep:
Yes, I am using the right combination of keys (Power+volume down). It just goes to blank screen after holding these keys instead of showing a line to either press volume up for recovery or volume down for APX post ASUS initial screen. I tried multiple times and kind of tired as i could not fine a way to boot either in APX or in Recovery mode. I have also tried to flash the original ASUS ROM using easy flasher but it's not working either as the device is not going to APX mode. I am not sure how to proceed further. Is there any other way of flashing kernel without using Recovery or APX mode.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
Hmm, that's weird as the rom doesn't change the bootloader nor the recovery it can't really bypass the hardware volume down holding to display the msg to boot into recovery mode.

Another way would be to force reboot to recovery through adb.

- plug your tablet into usb on your computer.

- let it boot to the "black screen" (it's actually doing things in the background )

and adb should be available after a few minutes.

Then try to type :

adb reboot recovery
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] gaia2:
Hi Tim!

Thanks a lot for keeping the TF101 alive! And another thanks for this workaround, as I have the same problem as narupradeep on my device since moving to KatshMallow...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Oebele63:
Hi Tim,

Thankx to keep our TF101running. Exeptional work. Running verry smooth.

Verstuurd vanaf mijn Transformer TF101 met Tapatalk
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] xbs:
Test it and it rotates fine in default launcher but not in Nova (Prime).

Very happy with KatshMallow :good: :D
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] daffy2:
Fantastic, thank you!

This flashed flawlessly onto the latest KatKiss Lollipop (following the installation instructions in the first post to the letter).

Device restore (via Google / device initialization) behaved erratically, though - I did try to restore everything, but would not make progress. Eventually I gave up and skipped this - only to be met with _some_ apps which were (re)installing from the Play store.

Right now I am struggling a bit with disabling of power saving. The tablet is the multimedia device / player / server and outputs via the headphone, e.g., TuneIn Radio or Spotify all day long, with the screen being off and being attached to a power supply. Well, it is at least supposed to do that:

The audio stream turns off after some minutes, something that it had not done prior to the upgrade. It seems to be tied to the screen being off / turning off. Any ideas? I'd rather not leave the screen on all the time.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] fxp:
Did anyone manage to output audio through usb to dac? I bought Asus connect dock and mouse/keyb works well but cant force it to play through dac (dacmagic). I tried SoundAbout app with no luck. Theres additional card2 appearing in /proc/asound after connecting. Any ideas? Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
Just tried it in V021 and HDMI works fine for me, so do the HDMI Out Modes.

What version are you using ?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] DoughMucker:
Awesome that you're keeping the TF101 going even though you probably use your TF300T and TF701 more! Thanks.

I think I see a bug with the SD card in the dock. Any time I close the dock, I get a notification "This device doesn't support this USB drive. Touch to set up in a supported format." My card is fat32. I took the card out and reformated in gparted and get the same error the next time I close and reopen. Formatting in Android doesn't fix it as I still get the same notification. I've tried a couple working SD cards and both do the same thing.

The card works properly. It's just the message keeps that reappearing.

Logs:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_2WZKRTYU6TY2UtTk1MdkU4UUU/view?usp=docslist_api
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] DowntownRDB:
[MENTION=3951330]timduru[/MENTION]. Just a quick post to let you know version 029 is still running buttery smooth. Even though my TF101 is getting a bit older and I'm sure the battery has wore down some I'm still getting 4 days out of a charge. I do a lot of reading on it, some gmails, and a little internet stuff but still I feel that is good battery usage I'm getting.

Off topic: Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, or Happy Quanza. Wishing each of you a happy holiday season and peace and prosperity.

Sorry for the off topic. Now back to the normal thread comments. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ludantes:
Hi, just telling that I use it for months and works pretty great, are there any future updates planned?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] doucettom:
Or a Nougat port :angel::cowboy: [MENTION=3951330]timduru[/MENTION]

I am hesitating between 4.4.4 katkiss or this 6.0.1 ROM for my old trusty device...

I honestly feel they are closely the same speed stock so... still wondering ! Thanks for keeping these old devices alive !
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ludantes:
I choosed the 6.0.1 ROM because older version does not support flash player (only feature I need to follow some let's player)

I don't understand why they don't guarantee compatibility with older version
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] doppelhelix:
OMG. Official support for the flash player ended 2012. This piece of software is ancient and shouldn't be used.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ludantes:
Well, with the lastest stock ROM Asus SLider SL101 can't access dailymotion, and using youtube was full of freeze
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] blackout_pt:
Testing it now. Thanks a lot for keeping our Asus Transformers alive and kicking :)

Testing it for intensively and works perfectly :)

Tim you're a life saver!!! :good::good::good::good::good::good::good::good:
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] doucettom:
Would you guys mind trying to install and run Amazon Kindle on your devices ? I wasn't able to make it work sadly :(
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dany90tm:
Can't install Chrome on tf101

I installed the latest KatKiss rom on my tf101 with the latest opengapps pico today, but I couldn't install Chrome. I installed Chrome beta but it won't start. I tried installing opengapps stock and mini (they include Chrome), but I don't have enough space on the recovery partition for that. Can I enlarge the recovery partition on this device? Could flashing google apps with Chrome even fix the problem?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] doucettom:
You need a pre-50 version of Chrome. Also if you need Kindle, you will need a version 4 and untick auto-upgrade to make sure it doesn't upgrade to 7.x !
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] dany90tm:
I think I'd rather use up to date Firefox. Even without bookmarks.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] doppelhelix:
You could import your bookmarks using Firefox on the desktop and use the inbuilt Firefox-snc.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ruffpl:
Hi. I had just instaled the newest version. After reboot I can not pass the "Welcome" screen. After I choose language and wifi it brings me back to "Welcome" screen and arrow button doesnt work. Any ideas??
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] doppelhelix:
Choose your language and skip the setup by pressing the four corners of the screen as shown in this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5XjF6sPef4.

You might have to go two or three rounds until your input is recognized.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Butel/=\:
My TF101 has definitely dead ?

It was a wonderful device with a wonderful ROM. I hope to find one that is almost fine...

Bye bye

Inviato dal mio Honor 8
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] wn1ytw:
After a period of inactivity I picked up my 101 and found no LMT! After fiddling about I found it had expired. I then went looking and could not find a new LMT Launcher. I really liked LMT. Anyone know a good replacement? I especially liked sliding in from the left side, only my left hand works.

Scott... wn1ytw
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] gladi8r:
Try here https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1330150

The latest is 2.8
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ruffpl:
Still problems with my device. I can not connect to wifi network/ it only say "saved". I install the ROM couple times. Before that I was able to connect, but wifi turns off after couple seconds. I can not send anything by bluetooth and there is no file manager on it.... I can not do anything on this rom.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] waterpolo:
Did you do a full wipe before installing?

Try another Rom.

I have no problems.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] ruffpl:
Yes. I made full wipe. Finally I was able to login to play store and download some needed apks. I tried to change build prop/ change wifi scan interval but it is still the same. It turns of and on every 5 seconds and there is no option in this rom to fix it...
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] got2b240:
For everyone with the TF101 / SL101, I found this NON NEON Tegra 2 port for Kodi 16.1 here

https://www.dropbox.com/s/2o9mw2kn0ci93h9/Kodi_v16.1_NON_NEON_FULL.apk?dl=0
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] devil-kin:
Is any more development being done for tf101?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] yanming26:
TF101 + KatKiss-6.0_029.zip + open_gapps-arm-6.0-pico-20160219.zip , without SuperSU

Everything worked, except Google app got 907 & 963

Already tried to use the newest open_gapps or unmount sdcard. but still...

Any Suggestions? Thanks .
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ludantes:
Using katkiss 0.6.022 can't install any app coming not from google store, for example I want to use adaway, but I can't select the install option

Any one having this issue? The out app security is disabled

EDIT: Simple reboot fixed it
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
Finally got Nougat working on the TF701,

so now I can resume background archaeological tasks on the TF101 Nougat :P

Errors 9xx usually are because there are leftovers from previous installs

if you didn't format /data

(full wipe is not format, you need to specifically format /data)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] amp1992:
please help me

ı have tf101 and dont install this rom

ı'm turkısh
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] doppelhelix:
We need a little bit more info. At least: What did you do & exact output of the screen.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] amp1992:
my tablet is not entry factory mode
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ceejay343:
Tim you "rock"!! :victory: :victory:
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] MatteoB92:
tim we're waiting patiently you, I installed the latest version of Marshmallow only a week ago but I'm so happy to hear a major release will come ?

Inviato dal mio LG-H815 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Ludantes:
Maybe it's too early to ask, but will be there a compatibilty pack for SL101?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Joh14vers6:
[MENTION=3951330]timduru[/MENTION] could you do this fix with you did for the TF701 too: - Fix widevine DRM ???

For this ROM and/or Nougat?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
problem is to find non-neon binaries
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] redsonya:
Is this still working? I've installed twrp 2.8, flashed kitkat fine and then decided to upgrade to this rom. I've done a reset (not wipe), flashed the rom, SU and a new pico gapps zips bc I couldn't find the exact one mentioned. Every time it boots I get constant pop ups about Google services or Google play store not working, no other google apps installed. Sometimes it starts the startup screens but won't go past where I put my wifi info. It's unusable. Why is this happening? Kitkat and the gapps for it work perfectly.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] irondog:
Having the same problem from... Today.... Yesterday everything was OK... Any help??
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] bigstones:
I'm having the same problem with Google Services and Play Store, but... I was on KatKiss 4.4.4_036 and gapps-KatKiss-4.4.4_20140913, then I tried KatKiss and just formatted everything and reinstalled open-gapps-arm-6.0-pico-20170124 (couldn't find the one specified in the 1st post). So maybe it's something on Google side?

I managed to get past the "first boot setup" screen (the one with the wifi) by installing gapps only after a first boot without them (so smooooooth! thanks Tim, you've already given at least a couple of years of life to my tf101! and more to come!)

-- I just retried formatting data again, but no luck.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] elondar:
Can confirm same issue with constant popup about Google Play services stopped today but all worked fine as of last night. Hitting ok makes it go away and tablet is semi-usable but it just pops up over and over.

Opening play store says authentication required. Using v29 of the marshmallow rom. Tried updating to latest 1/24/17 ARM pico open gapps and wiped cache/dalvik but still same issue. Did not try formatting or reflashing the rom yet, came here first.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] wn1ytw:
From OP.: Tips

First Install

Make sure you do a format /data the first time you install the rom

(backup your internal storage first if you want to keep something)

The first boot after a rom flash can take a few minutes as ART is slower than dalvik to optimize the applications, but is faster after the 1st time.

(First boot takes ~4-5 minutes without gapps and 10+ minutes with gapps)

Also keep in mind that after a fresh install, it might take a bit of time to get up to full speed as media scanner & google are checking/scanning and restoring stuff.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] Vero79:
Hi Timduru and fellow tf101 users.

I to have the same problem as others . All of a sudden the other night it started with a pop up saying " Unfortunatley, Google play services have stopped"

I tried all kinds of things after doing a google search. From clearing framework data to wiping google caches. Nothing worked. a full clean wipe and format. A new install of the rom. Still the same problem. Thought maybe it was my google account but that is fine and works. Tried a few new 6.0 pico gapps packs and they didnt work either. Tried logging in as guest and still the problem persists.

Worked great for a year straight. For some reason something happened the other night of the 23rd on googles end and it is messed, Cannot really use it with the constant pop up. Hopefully a fix is in the future. If not, well the old tf101 may need to finally be retired for good. :(

Oh and thanks for the 4 years of fun you gave me with this tablet! You rock!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
sounds like their latest services update with the wifi auto discovery thingy might contain neon code or something

I still don't have the issue here, but they said they are pushing it gradually.

Can someone with the issue do that:

reboot

wait until you get the crash popup

write down exact time

grab a logcat + dmesg

at worse for the moment could run without gapps, simply backup all apps with titanium & reinstall rom +supersu & restore apps.

or try freezing some/most of gapps & related services, but not sure of the exact list.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] MiM81:
Hello everyone,

I'm using [MENTION=3951330]timduru[/MENTION] 's ROMs since a very long time now, so thank you for this :)

I wonder if anyone but me has the problem, that - since at least the kitkat builds I think - youtube videos played with the original youtube app freeze, stutter and stop while playing in fullscreen or while trying to jump to another position in the videos? If I try using a web browser instead of the youtube app, playback in most cases simply totally fails and there are almost immediate freezes.

Edit: To be a bit more specific: with "freeze" I mean, audio is still playing, but video image freezes, for example.

Is this some very specific problem of my own tf101 or do some/many of you have similiar problems?
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] h_r_j:
I just rooted and installed KatKiss today after 4 years of stock, unrooted ICS. Looks like I chose a bad day to do this :silly:

I am facing the same Google Services and Play Store problem being reported today. At first I thought something went wrong with my rooting and ROMing process, so did the whole thing four times! Luckily saw these reports and came out of the loop. Will now wait for things to stabilise.

I would have gladly captured the logcat output, but the tab currently can't go beyond the initial setup screen. Is there a way to force skip it? (The skip button is disabled)
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] forfunbaby:
After several time flash Rom ,Super Su ,Gapps . i am still facing the same Google Services stop issues . even i tried to use latest open_gapps-arm-6.0-pico-20170125.zip but it still doesn't work. without the Google play services works , right now machine can not connect to play store to install apps there.

Hopefully timduru can help us to fix this issues soon.

Thanks
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] redsonya:
This is what was happening to me also. I'm a total noob and just figured out how to root last week. I installed Kitkat and felt so accomplished that I tried to flash the new ROM. I kept thinking it was ME, that I was not doing something correctly. I'll try to reinstall w/out gapps and see if I can do a restore from that point.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] RoyIT:
hello,

i hope someone can help me, and solve the mess i did.

i followed the tip to install this rom (i already tried in past 4.4.4 e 5.x.x) but i suppose to have done an error because now i'm in a boot logo loop.

if i try to put a sd card with files to flash them again it, twrp doesn't recognize it (formatted in fat32) if i link the table to pc in twrp mode, the pc doesn't recognize the tablet.

so any other suggest to try before to throw the tablet out to the windows???
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] bigstones:
Hi, I managed to get the logs out of the device. I hope they can help

Crash info: Google Services and Play Store keep crashing

Installed stuff: KatKiss-6.0_029.zip, BETA-SuperSU-v2.52.zip, open_gapps-arm-6.0-pico-20170124.zip

Crash time: during 20:53 and during 20:56

Device: TF101 + dock
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] elondar:
Hi Timduru,

Thanks for all your hard work on this rom over the years. I tried full reinstall after formating /data using katkiss6v29, opengapps pico from 1/24/2017 and SuperSU 2.79. As you metnioned, installing just the rom and supersu will get you in and let you use default apps without any errors, but of course no play store. After flashing opengapps error is back again on fresh install.

Have attached a top, lc, and kmsg dump as well as open gapps logs just in case those are helpful at all. Again much appreciated. As other have said you have already extended the life of these old clunkers well beyond what was intended so its no huge deal if this is finally the end, but thank you again for taking a look.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
yeah so it's neon code :

01-25 20:56:39.069 F/DEBUG ( 121): signal 4 (SIGILL), code 1 (ILL_ILLOPC), fault addr 0x5522cf8c

01-25 20:56:39.077 F/DEBUG ( 121): r0 436f42f0 r1 436f42ec r2 000003f4 r3 00000034

01-25 20:56:39.077 F/DEBUG ( 121): r4 426eacf4 r5 436f3ec8 r6 553b4cfc r7 436f3ec0

01-25 20:56:39.077 F/DEBUG ( 121): r8 00000002 r9 436ed040 sl 553b4da0 fp 553b4d90

01-25 20:56:39.077 F/DEBUG ( 121): ip 80000000 sp 553b4ca8 lr 551d27ab pc 5522cf8c cpsr 80000010

01-25 20:56:39.086 F/DEBUG ( 121):

01-25 20:56:39.086 F/DEBUG ( 121): backtrace:

01-25 20:56:39.087 F/DEBUG ( 121): #00 pc 0010cf8c /data/data/com.google.android.gms/app_extracted_libs/armeabi-v7a/libAppDataSearch.so

Interestingly on my device where I still don't have the issue, I don't have anything in /data/data/com.google.android.gms/app_extracted_libs/

it kinda seems as if they changed the way they install / update.

One thing I tried however is to install the google app / search from the playstore, and I can get it to crash when launched , also because of neon code.

"Good news" is that if you look on the comments for the google app in the playstore, we're not alone with the app crashing.

It seems to be since their 20th update.

So seems to be linked to our gapps issues too, if they changed the way they compile or the neon / non neon detection is borked.

One thing to try could be to chmod 000 /data/data/com.google.android.gms/app_extracted_libs/armeabi-v7a/libAppDataSearch.so as root

that way it can't access it, but I guess that will crash too if it's missing that jni lib, but could be worth a try. see if it changes something or not.

(if someone tries that, grab another logcat as root afterward if it still crashes)

For the moment until google fixes its crap, I don't see many other solutions, besides running without gapps and installing /restoring apk manually

eventually installing another store if you need to install newer apps.

Go report on the playstore too, on the google play services and google app, I guess they are aware of it now, but the more that report the better I guess ;)

Mostly mention that you're using a tegra2 device without neon support and that it's crashing.

That should be enough for them to figure out.
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] h_r_j:
[MENTION=3951330]timduru[/MENTION] So, if I understand right, the problematic code is being pushed by google to the tablet when connected to internet. Is there a way to disable this update or to skip the initial setup on a fresh install? I could just reflash without gapps, but I am hoping for something less disruptive. Thanks!
[Eee Pad Transformer Android Development] timduru:
yes, its updating the gapps / downloading itself.

And you can't uninstall updates for play services unfortunately.

You can skip the initial setup on a fresh install by tapping all 4 corners of the screen.

But there's not much point as it's not just the setup wizard that is crashing, play store and such will crash too when you try to launch it later on,

so not much point in having faulty gapps installed in the background on your tablet.

if you install fresh, simply don't install gapps for the moment.

And if/once it's fixed you'll be able to install the new fixed gapps.