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[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] megasxlr01:
I work 12 hours day shifts so I would only be able to help you on the days that I'm off.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mr.R™:
This is a DEVELOPER forum, the key is in the site name... xda DEVELOPERS, therefore your comment on it not being user friendly is irrelevant, if it works, release it and let the people able use it, those that are not able will have to wait for a *user friendly" (read: idiot proof) version but if it works why not let the people that are capable of using it do so? Just put the usual disclaimer to protect your self and let loose. Unless you know, your chatting s**t.....
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] txx3:
yeah u can post it and see what happens...u can add some guide to clear things up ...no problem :)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
Guys, I will not be posting anything until I know it works on this tablet. And there's no guarantee that it will. This is not a 10-step process. I need someone who knows what he's doing to provide

incremental feedback

on what happens when you try doing certain things that include running my software, and also to get some data off the tablet flash. This will help me develop my solution for this tablet. Baby steps only. That's my offer. Take it or leave it. No one has contacted me yet. And the couple of people I asked in private did not want to do it.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] txx3:
alright keep it.

:D
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
OK, a small update. I have a working SP Flash Tool scatter file for this tablet. SPFT was tested to read back and flash to it successfully. This is not useful for root right now, as you can't boot unofficial images from flash.

A couple of notes:

You can use a recent version to read back from the EMMC, but you have to use v5.1532 to flash anything.

The download agent should be DA_PL.bin, I believe.

As always, anything you do with this is at your own risk.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] txx3:
thanks for sharing
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] toineh:
If I had time to going deeper into than last months, i haven't tried anything out of debricking my device. Delayed on time and work. Well this could be the reason to make time for getting back my tablet. Thank you!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] danimihalca:
I understand that this topic refers to P027 version (Z500M), but how about Z500KL? Can it be rooted successfully?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] carpediem:
Apologies for the noob question but would HUGELY appreciate a reply.

Can I use this ROM for my Unlocked ASUS ZenPad 3 8.0 ( Z581KL )? I would really like to get rid of all the bloatware on my device and start fresh. Thanks!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] toineh:
Actually we try to get this device rooted. Much later there's a chance that roms for this tablet become available. But for now we only have stock firmwares coming from Asus website. And a damn locked bootloader.

Don't think this will work for you because fingerprints aren't compatible. also many other device specific development need to be done before. Maybe it's never possible.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] carpediem:
Thank you. I appreciate the response! :)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
Good news!

OK, guys, I got a major development. My unofficial method does unlock the Z500M! We got one bootloader unlocked with permanent root working!

:victory: :victory: :victory:​

I will be posting the method some time soon (no time frames yet). It will probably be in the form of a script and some binaries. I just have to make it work automatically and more user-friendly.

A special thanks to [MENTION=5217150]amartolos[/MENTION] for being my "hands and eyes" on this tablet!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] toineh:
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! Awesome! And also pretty Awesome!

Good job, nice to hear!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] amartolos:
I'm a very happy guinea pig hahaha :D

Just to add a bit of clarification, there is still no way to execute fastboot flash. However, flashing in the android OS (such as through dd) and through SPFT (SP Flash Tools) currently works.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] mgs250:
Stuck in Fastboot

Hello Everyone! I just bought the ZenPad from Japan just a few days ago. With many bloatware, I decided to try to root the device using the guide through Magisk. I retrieved boot.img from the JP firmware and created patched_boot.img which I entered "fastboot boot patched_boot.img." After this, the device is stuck in the "fastboot mode" and my pc cannot detect anymore the device through ADB or Fastboot... Any ideas how to solve this? Thank you!

------ EDIT -------

I simply used my OSX which detected my device... Windows couldn't configure the proper setup for the drivers... So I guess I'll be using my Mac more often for these things! Anyways, I can't wait for further developments for this device!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] toineh:
Don't no matter how... After a long time it's there! Thnx to you!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Takiyon:
Just got one of these for christmas. Sweet tablet, does what i need but i would love a permanent root. Right now i got the temporary root going but every now ans then the machine resets. Then i have to plug in in and fastboot the temp bootloader again. Any ideas? Also is there a script yet?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] megasxlr01:
That's great news, thanks for the hard work. :D
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] ExtremeRyno:
I'm very pleased with the news. Just got mine for my birthday and am looking forward to a full root! You're awesome, @diplomatic.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] txx3:
nice
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Tabarka:
I just bought this tablet for Christmas and I see your very good news. You rocks. Very good job. Happy New year everyone:)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
Thanks, guys. Still working on it...
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] cdensel:
Thanks for all your effort! Very much looking forward to root on this device.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
Unlock tool posted

OK guys, check this out. Version 0.1 of my tool has been posted. :cool:
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] amartolos:
Tested and confirmed! :D

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] marcusvld:
Hey all, I hope you can help me. I've run into a big problem. I was going to try this but as soon as I tried booting my tablet into fastboot , It booted into a screen that just says => fastboot mode... and has the Asus and android logos, but it's stuck. I can't do anything to get out of this. I can't power it off and there is no response from any of the buttons. Any ideas?

EDIT: NM, all good now. I was able to finally get my PC to detect the Zenpad and was able to get out with a fastboot reboot.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] megasxlr01:
Thank you sir
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] txx3:
this is awesome thank you sir
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] sronweb:
I'd like to test it soon. Please is it also possible to unroot?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] amartolos:
Yeah. If you didn't use the unlock tool in the other thread, simply reboot your tablet...otherwise just write the stock boot image to the boot partition and then reboot.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yngwieromeo:
I have the Chinese version of this tablet. Could this unlock allow me to install the WW firmware, or at very least install Google Play? I wrote ASUS asking them about installing Google Play, and this is what they said:

"Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you for contacting ASUS Service Care.

My name is Ashley and it's my pleasure to help you with your problem.

To approach your questions……

Because of the regional policy limited, asus can’t build Google GMS Service Pack in product that be sold in Chinese mainland.

So there is no Google Play app in your pad. And the Google Play could not be used on the pad.

You can download apps through browser.

Sorry for any inconvenience."
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
No, the unlock tool won't do that. (And you probably can't use it because as far as I can tell, the CN firmware is still Android M(?) and the tool has not been tested on it. Also, does it even have tethered boot? Because you need temporary root to run the tool.) It should be possible to convert the tablet to WW region by some other means, like with SP Flash Tool....
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yngwieromeo:
I'll look into SP flash tool. Thank you.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Narcotrix:
Thanks a lot, I was stuck @ Recovery screen (android with red exclamation mark), 'No Command'...

So, did you try another working method to root your Zenpad ?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] amartolos:
You're welcome.

Sounds like you made a mistake similar to my earlier ones. You can reflash the stock firmware by sideloading through that "No command" recovery... You need to press Vol_Up + Power together for a few seconds (and you may need to try many times) and if you did it correctly you'll see a menu. I've outlined my steps in an earlier post, that you can search for.

Additionally, there is a tool to "unlock" the bootloader in Asus Zenpad 10 3s Z500M (P027). You may find it using a simple search.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
I think he already found it... LOL
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Mdknight:
Don't hold me to this, but if you manage to get this working on your tablet, you might be able to flash a compatible GAPPS via Flashify. I've read about it used as such for other Chinese region devices. Just make sure you read up on it first, just to be safe.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yojalata:
Can anyone help me figure out how to remove the dreadful tru2life system app (its the one making your apps like YouTube look like over sharpened nightmares) without custom recovery? (Its what they use on the z300)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] loner.:
All that is needed now is TWRP for this device.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yojalata:
can't wait to remove all the bloatware ruining this tablet. I hate tru2life so much.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
Yeah, I couldn't agree more about Tru2Life. I can't believe this premium tablet has the same bad image processing as the lower-end ZenPads. The screen looks like someone who doesn't know anything about image quality was put in charge of calibrating the display settings... on their entire Android line! And it's not some special image processing chip as they claim. It's just using the picture quality (PQ) post-processing feature built into the Mediatek SoC (at least on ZenPad 8/10). And also, from what I read on this forum, the 3S has the same cliff-drop battery capacity issue as the other ZenPads. Why are they charging more for this again?

So it should be easy to disable Tru2life. You only need temporary root and a root-level app manger app to turn it off. The package name is com.asus.visualmaster. Once you disable it, you don't need root anymore. That's easier than using a custom recovery.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] blakegriplingph:
Talk about snake oil salesmen. That crap sure makes Billy Mays sound legit in comparison. Not that I have anything against him though.

On the subject of temp root, wouldn't that be intrusive or leave any traces to your /system?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yojalata:
ah well guess I'll just try it. from what i read the tablet goes crazy when you freeze it so i was thinking it would not like it removed.

PS: I'm perma rooted thanks to the lovely work.

Edit: was able to get rid of the command agent but the actual visual master fails to.

Edit#2 got it with another app no more weird sharpness and brightness changes when switching apps. Feels great now. For some reason Splendid changed to super saturated that threw me off for a few mins.

Best reason to root, i can actually watch YouTube now.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
The Tru2Life video mode looks like your mom's TV screen after she has been fiddling with the picture/sharpness settings... Although I do like the Splendid app and bluelight filter on my tablet, and maybe other T2L modes are not that bad.

Cool! (command agent, idk what that is) I actually have to admit that I didn't disable T2L completely. I went a step further. I edited the db file that contains the app profile database. There are about 5 different color profiles in that database. I simply changed the profile type for youtube and other apps that I use to the default "0" profile. I suspect that it applies some kind of a color calibration for the default profile.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] blakegriplingph:
I've had Splendid on my old computer some ten years ago. Haven't actually tested it but it came bundled with the ASUS 7300LE card. And I was kinda' surprised you made a "your mom" joke lol. But yeah, features being marketed like this is cringe-worthy; I'm glad it's something a simple fix can't remedy.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yojalata:
Well every profile that it applied looked horrible so I wanted to destroy the app no second chances. Also splendid is pretty good I use it without issues. I would have paid to get rid of tru2life.

ps: (visualmastercommandagent)

Does anyone know why this tablet restart so much during sleep or deep sleep? Never restarts while in use.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dayvidno21:
I just got perm root and have installed the Xposed installer. Is there a script I need to run to finish the process. Also which Xposed zip version do I use?

Thanks in advance.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodrigoeblanco:
China Android version

Hello, I was just wondering if you got your zenpad with the Chinese Android version, and you were able to install the regular android version?

If you could help me with this, I'd really appreciate it.

Cheers!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodrigoeblanco:
Did you find a way to get google store working?

Hello, did you find a way to get the WW version working on a CN Android version? Or anything that can bring the google apps working?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] toineh:
You can install version 89 sdk24 arm64 directly to the system. Reboot and done. There's no script to compleet anything.

Hope this is helpful to you
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dayvidno21:
Got it installed. THANK YOU!

Thanks for everyone who gave us root! This is a great tablet.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] drewbarton1100:
Bootloader unlocked..?

I have my bootloader unlocked as I see the orange state appear as it boots up. But it gets stuck on the Asus logo, like the root is still tethered and I need to fastboot it back with the patched boot.img created in magisk. So what am I doing wrong?

I have even tried to run the unlock script again but it shows my bootloader being unlocked. But I cannot flash the patched boot.img to my device. Thank you for any replies guys!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Locklear308:
This is SO very exciting. Have you had any luck after this?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] drewbarton1100:
I have not. I was assuming this root method would be permanent correct? (Untethered)

I can only reboot by my computer. And it's a bit frustrating when I install modules.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
How did you install root to your boot partition when in temporary root? The best way is to start with stock boot partition and let Magisk Manager modify it.

LOL... he posted like 5 minutes before you!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] drewbarton1100:
I installed my firmware to my computer and extracted the boot.img. Putting the boot.img onto my downloads, I used Magisk 15.3 to create the patched_boot.img, and it installed and asked to reboot. Before rebooting I took the patched_boot.img from the MagiskManager folder, and used that to reboot my tablet with root.

I am unlocked now, after running the unlock through my terminal but I still cannot reboot without my computer. How can I get this tablet to be untethered to maintain root access after a reboot?

Because every reboot gets stuck at the ASUS logo and doesn't not boot up.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
Hmm... not sure what went wrong there. From your description, it doesn't sound like like the boot partition was changed at all. It may be something else.

Try starting with a stock boot image...

In root shell, run:

dd if=boot.img of=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.MSDC0/by-name/boot bs=1048576

Then reboot normally.

If that succeeds, install Magisk from tethered boot again.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] drewbarton1100:
So I'm going to reboot myself to the stock boot.img not modified by Magisk?

If I boot into the stock image won't I lose root access and not be able to run a root shell?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
Yes. We're just trying to restore your tablet to a clean state from the unbootable mess you have now. Once you've done that, you can think about installing root.....
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] drewbarton1100:
My tablet is still bootable! I am able to run everything fine with root, my only problem is having the root only tethered and not permanent.

I will first try and flash the stock boot. Then fastboot boot the stock boot and enter that code into the terminal and get back to you all on if it is rebooting correctly. Thank you all again.

*Sorry for all the boots*:good:
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
You know what, I think your boot partition is fine... it's just failing to boot because you modified system or something while rooted. (You didn't mention any mods.) In this case, you just need to install Magisk to your boot partition while in temporary root (using fastboot boot).
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rakomancha:
Here's my personal procedure for establishing permanent root on the z500m from scratch, given the Bootloader is already unlocked to Orange State. If you're just going to permanent root your tablet, steps 7 - 12 are all that's needed.

My notes are unconventional, and are best read by those familiar with the linux shell. I'm saving better public formatting for a separate thread once I have all my ducks in a row.

Exercise care in any procedure that overwrites data of bootable partitions. You are responsible for how you implement these instructions if you choose to.

OEM_FW = manufacturer official upgrade [v30] ~1.5GB

PCH_BOOT = desired bootable image ~14MB

1. boot into recovery

2. @ dead android, press Power & Volume Up to reveal menu

3. activate adb

4. in linux

1)

adb sideload $OEM_FW.zip

5. when done, reboot

6. go thru initial setup, avoid online connect, get Dev Options, enable USB debugging

7. in linux

2)

adb reboot-bootloader

(boots into fastboot)

3)

fastboot boot $PCH_BOOT

8. Rebooted tablet will have root. Install Magisk Manager apk & ensure root

9. cp $PCH_BOOT to the SDcard

10.with su root privileges,

adb shell

11. in android shell

1)

su

2)

dd if=<$PCH_BOOT> of=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.MSDC0/by-name/boot

12. With reboot, should now have permanent root. Confirm in MMgr
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] drewbarton1100:
How would i go about installing Magisk into my boot partition? The stock boot image fails to boot, saying

FAILED (remote: invalid kernel address: not lie in memory)
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] rakomancha:
Try one of these patched boot images, choose for your current firmware version:

https://mega.nz/#F!SQlyDapC!XbbW0fftZWFfVx2lmL_JUQ
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] drewbarton1100:
Doing this with my patched_boot.img got my root to be permanent after every reboot! Thank you again!
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yojalata:
Working nice. Dont wanna get rid mof magisk tho so cant say about that part.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Locklear308:
So excited, tablet is worth getting now :D
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] txx3:
does anyone know a good stylus ...the zpen is garbage ...anyone ...anything :crying:
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] jjohn7293:
I just got my ZenPad 3s 10 in the mail. I'm super excited to get this puppy rooted... Any updates?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] yojalata:
Would be great is someone made a stock debloated,rooted rom now :wink:
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jsilver73:
Hmm that would be a nice thing to have.

My shiny new tablet should be arriving Wednesday :D

Oh I'm not saying I'm skilled enough to be able to build stock ROM BTW, just agreeing toast it would be nice to have if Somone could make this ?
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] afxtwn:
This might be a long shot but I'll try anyway.

I bought a tablet from an auction that has a store display on it. I can't get out of the display but I can get into the Android MTK Engineer mode. The info inside tells me it's a board made by innocom and their website says they only made Asus Zenpad 10's. I can get into boot recovery and fastboot but I can't seems to find where to go next. The ONLY thing I want to do on this tablet is open Chrom to display a webpage. Any help is greatly appreciated!

Under ROM it says

"stm231alps.kk1.mp10.v1.52"
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] diplomatic:
afxtwn, it would be great to know what tablet you have exactly. Maybe a picture would help. It's probably not a Zenpad 10. All I can tell so far is that it's a Mediatek chip, probably an MT8127, running a KitKat firmware. If you can identify it, you might be able to find a ROM for it.
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] dragonF6:
FW .30 Patched Boot Image

I'm going to make this post short. Will list my experiences rooting in another post.

But attached is the link to a signed and patched boot image for the .30 firmware update released in January.

It was patched from Asus firmware listed on Asus site.

Hopefully this small contribution will help pay back the many main contributors to getting this tablet rooted.:good:

NOTE:

Unfortunately, I do not have enough posts to allow me to include an outside link. It has been a long time since contributing using this forum. Sorry.

---------- Post added at 12:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:56 AM ----------

Just a brief post to say thank you to all those you provided major contributions to achieving permanent root to our device.

Major Kudos to:

overkillZ for making us aware it was possible.​

topjohnwu for developing the Magisk program​

toineh for all the early work and directions on getting temporary root​

diplomatic for a get deal of work to get bootloader unlocked along with amartolos. And then to get TWRP with help from rakomancha. Plus a lot of hand-holding within the forum itself.​
[Asus ZenPad 10 Guides, News, & Discussion] Jsilver73:
ho hum - having been successful in unlocking bl and rooting with latest magisk and installing custom recovery I think I went a bit too far with debloating by uninstalling zen launcher (I think there must be some ui stuff tied into it as afer doing this I lost home button functionality then installed xposed and everything got a bit funky after that as can often happen with that gigantic hack lol)

TL;dr - I restored the original backup I took however that ended in bootloop, returning to TWRP it asked for a code to decrypt which I entered my lock screen pin which has always sufficed on other devices I've owned but refused pin and would not decrypt.

Please could someone help me with how to flash the original image back onto my device - I've downloaded the most recent one from asus website but when I unpack it I dont see a system img - just boot img - so I'm a bit stuck :eek: