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[Miscellaneous Android Development] tonybot:
amazing work, congrats, thanks for making it available. I have the version with the lg display. In addition to the problems reported in the summary, I have noticed that via bluetooth it often does not detect some devices, does not pair with input devices (e.g. mouse) and does not maintain connection with other paired devices (e.g. smartphone or TV). is there any way to fix?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xmill:
Hi , This is realy a great os.Thanks for the great job! I finally can use my ME173X again. Since autoratation is not working, is there a way to run the device default in landscape at startup?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
Most BT issues are related in this order:

1: New software (The OS) --> on very old BT 4.0 Hardware ( Backwards compatibility, what's that? ) ...

2: Major workarounds on code where done to just get BT to work

3: Add on top All the MediaTek crappy issues one had to forward port on code :/

4: Old Kernel 3.4 ( unsure if i can do anything more, that i already had done)

5: Simple incompatibility between brands/ products ( eg. using the top and latest smartphone that my company is developing i still can't properly pair with some major brands / products)

Sorry i had planned to update this device LOS14 on December, have been overseas, and i need some time to get up to date with the changes i had made locally on my test builds.

was working on some nice needed cool stuff ( mainly sound related ).

Will keep ya up to date

cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Evg4oxw0lF:
Hi guys. I'm having a problem on my new (haha, okay, not really new, but I recently bought a second) tablet. I tried to install LOS 14.1, everything was fine, but the wifi, unfortunately, doesn't work. Here's a screenshot. Could you please help me solve this problem...

P.S. I also installed an extra kernel because the tablet has an LG screen.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Evg4oxw0lF:
Thank you so much for your invaluable work. You are the only one who helps such an old tablet get a new life and become a small multimedia device. Your work and enthusiasm really deserve respect!!! ❤️
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Evg4oxw0lF:
Dear Superdragonpt... I have a very strange request for you... Could you create a version of Crdroid or an AOSP Extended for this device... I just want to be able to customize the system settings as well as the interface. Please do not take these words as some kind of dissatisfaction. I am very grateful to you for the Lineage OS you created. thank you sincerely!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Kiciputek:
The ROM is still randomly waking up from sleep, even after clean install. This makes it unusable for me.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Evg4oxw0lF:
I was helped by the installation instead of the service ROM - native from the manufacturer
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cou:
I'm testing LineageOS 14.1 and it's working fine.

the only bugs i have it doesnt load off.

It does not rotate the automatic screen is always vertical.

But I'm happy because it gave life to the tablet
[Miscellaneous Android Development] nyantyu:
great roms. Can you make a crdroid of this?Anyway, thanks for making Android7 for old device.

edit:Is it possible to make this ROM compatible with dual speakers!?

I really appreciate this ROM.

Don't worry about my request (:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MarkR7:
My me173x is not seen by fastboot.

MTKClient for backups says handshake failed.

I never upgraded it past 4.2.2, rooted with Framaroot.

I think it's the VCOM drivers.

Which actual MTK drivers are we using for this tablet? MT6577?

I dealt with plenty other MTK devices/phones and the new MTK drivers work. Are the new MTK drivers not working with me173x?

Am I the only one that has VCOM drivers problem, or do I have too many bloody drives installed?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] _AI_:
What modifications to this ROM would be required to rebuild it for the me375cl variant of this tablet?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Grigori Pe4erin:
Есть новые прошивки на наш аппарат?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Evg4oxw0lF:
1. Communication here is in English.

2. No new ROM is available yet. I think there will be something new soon
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ericshorse:
Ref Asus Memo Pad ME 173x

I have successfully flashed Superdragon’s stock rom but unable to unlock Bootloader due to Flash Tool Error 6010.

I have tried everything without success.

Any helpful suggestions?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MarkR7:
Did you try Fastboot oem unlock, or Fastboot flashing unlock?

I was wondering if that's possible on this tablet.

BTW, I couldn't get it recognized by Windows 10 in fastboot mode. Supposedly works on Linux. Haven't tried that yet.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ericshorse:
I have asked Asus for Bootloader unlock code. Hope it can work with Flashtools.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ericshorse:
CAN ANYONE HELP?

I am trying to install SuperDragon’s LineageOS 14.1 Rom for Asus Memo Pad ME173x.

I have successfully flashed the SuperDragon’s Stock Rom 4.2.4.06716_20130918 (Locked Bootloader; Stock Recovery) and this is working perfectly on my tablet.

I am now trying to ‘Unlock the Bootloader & flash Custom Recovery’.

The Flash Tool setup seems correct but when I select ‘Download’ I get the following error message……

—————————————————————————————————————

BROM ERROR:S_SECURITY_SF_CODE_DOWNLOAD_FORBIDDEN (6010), MSP ERROE CODE : 0x00.

(User) To download code area is forbidden in this phone!

————————————————————————————————————

Is there any other way to unlock the Bootloader? ( I have tried several without success)

ANY SUGGESTIONS?

ERIC
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ericshorse:
I started again from the very beginning and all flashed ok now.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ericshorse:
I have flashed this rom without Gapps but still has Google ,Play Store and google services. How is this possible?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Evg4oxw0lF:
So, it's been a year since the last update..... Not so much in the context of this tablet, however the question pops up by itself.... Will there be any attempts to create android 8 on this device? Yes, I know, we've gotten cocky and want a lot, however time spares no one.... For example YT music stopped supporting android 6, at the same time many applications are slowly trying to move to android 8+.... In addition, for experimental purposes, I would like to look at the go edition.... (only as an experiment, it is clear that it is much more comfortable to use the normal version :)

I would also like to point out the autonomy, which can probably increase due to the suspension of processes when the tablet is turned off.... Although you can see better, I don't understand much about the code (for me it's already an achievement to learn how to work with logcat XD)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] victorsueiro:
Hello everyone, I wanted to thank OP for all the hard work and I wanted to share 2 things that I found out so far:

1) I'm on windows 10 so I had to find compatible VCOM drivers on my own, the flash tool wouldn't work without them. It wasn't hard, just an fyi for anyone having trouble with that step.

2) USB tether doesn't seem to work, I'm probably the only one here with a use for that lol.

Thanks again to OP for everything. My tab is useful again thanks to you :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Gang-star:
Hello,

I just want to confirm that it still works by the end of 2023! I just installed LinaAge OS 14.1 (Nugat 7.1.2) on my son's old Asus ME173X to be used as a remote supervisory device for security cameras, running HIK Connect app which could not be ran on an old Android 4.x.x. So thank you very much! I am running Carliv Touch Recovery v. 2.1B based on MTK CWM v6.0.4.4. The cameras are not working for me but I dont need them. And for some reason I am not able to install even pico gapps. But again, I dont need them. The wifi works quite well on the other hand and that is the most important thing.

Regards
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Evg4oxw0lF:
In the process of using the device some problems were revealed… The touchscreen does not work correctly with a stylus (a normal one, not requiring bluetooth or anything else, the one that usually costs about 2-5$)...

However, by rebooting I managed to increase the sensitivity of the sensor, but it resets?.. (restores to previous state) while putting the tablet on charge (10w, 5V2A)

@superdaragonpt, could you please look into such an oddity?..

P.S. I have a tablet with LG screen, maybe it makes a difference too?..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] davidsummers:
Alas no windows machine. do you know how the flash programs writes the files - e.g. is it just a case of writing the file to the correct offset in mmcblk0 - or does the rest of the partition need to be filled with a certain character, e.g. 0x00 or and 0xff ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] OlliWi:
I can confirm that.

Device boots when plugging USB cable in and can´t be shutdown (reboots instead) when attached to cable.

No camera working.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] franco_bez:
Thanks a lot for providing the lineageOS images, great job.

I just installed lineage-14.1-20220911 with the LG Kernel and open-gapps-nano.

Front camera is working.

As I already had a custom recovery on the tablet I did not need to use the PC for the installation.

After having installed the TWRP_3.1.1_ME173X I noticed that the display tends to flicker a lot when using the recovery, but anyway it works. At first I had the same flicker effect in the lineageOS, after installing the LG kernel the flicker problem got fixed in the OS. Just in TWRP it's still present. I assume that TWRP uses the wrong kernel for my hardware. Is there a way to replace the kernel in the TWRP ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] k1dehner:
I would like to install LineageOS on my old Memopad ME173X. Unfortunately I don't understand the instructions.

I have downloaded the zip folders TWRP_3.1.1_ME173X and lineage-14.1-20220911-UNOFFICIAL-me173x

and installed the Minimal ADB and Fastboot tool on my computer (Windows 7).

In the instructions I read

I guess it means the lineage-14.1-20220911-UNOFFICIAL-me173x?

With adb reboot boatloader I get into fastboot mode and then it should be possible to unlock the bootloader with

fastboot oem unlock to unlock the bootloader.

If that worked, the next step would be to flash the recovery.img from the TWRP folder to the device. Then carry out a wipe and finally use

adb sideload lineage-14.1-20220911-UNOFFICIAL-me173x.zip

to install the LineageOS.

Unfortunately it doesn't work, the device gets stuck in fastboot mode. According to your instructions I also need to

download the Stock+Asus+Rom-and-bootloader.zip

This is again more than 700 MB, because the archive includes the

Asus stock firmware ME173X_WW_user_4.2.4.06716_20130918

But I don't understand why I need the Asus firmware again, since it's already on the device anyway.

What have I got wrong? Would be very happy if you could explain this to me?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] franco_bez:
As you can read in my previous post I did not use adb at all for the installation.

I copied the lineage-14.1-20220911-UNOFFICIAL-me173x.zip to a µSD card.

WIth the µSD card in the ME173X's card slot I booted into the TWRP recovery and installed the zip.

I did not need the stock firmware. I assume this is only needed if the tablet is bricked and does not boot at all.

good luck
[Miscellaneous Android Development] k1dehner:
Thanks for the answer. But the first problem is how can I install the custom recovery TWRP_3.1.1_ME173X on the tablet? From what I have learnt, this is only possible with an unlocked bootloader. But I have not found a way to unlock the bootloader of the ME173X with the SDK platform tools.

How did you manage this without resorting to the Stock+Asus+Rom-and-bootloader.zip first?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] franco_bez:
In my case I already had an unlocked bootloader and a custom recovery on the MemoPad since 2012.

With the old custom recovery I installed the TWRP from the µSD card.

I cannot remember all the details about rooting the MemoPad and installing the custom recovery back then.

There are several video instructions on rooting asus memopad on youtube. i.e.

Unlocking the bootloader is just the same as on new android devices.

Tap build-number several times to become developper, then in the developper settings unlock the bootloader and enable USB debugging.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] davidsummers:
I flashed TWRP:

And Its rebooted, but stuck at the ASUS boot screen! What now?

Ah - and power cycle, and into recovery - and I get TWRP!

And its just booting LineageOS for the first time, busy doing updates ....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] davidsummers:
OK Something odd going on:

So partition 7 is 12GB in size, but only 1GB is mounted. So whats happening?

OK can see pass of it - the ext4 block count is 261888 * 4096 block size gives a 1GB ext4 partition, that must be living in a 12GB partition. Hmmm now to see how to fix ...

OK - booted into the TWRP terminal, unmounted p7, did and 'e2fsck -fy' then 'resize2fs', then 'e2fsck -fy' again. Then reboot and:

So only question, is why was this partition so badly set up? Not sure what messed up here!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] davidsummers:
On lineagoes 14.1 in the developer options change "Root access" to "ADB only". Then ADB shells get root access.

This seems better than the Magisk: v.23 - as it doesn't change the mounting of filesystems, which is confusing.
[Realme X7 Max 5G] CHA12138:
My English is not very good, now I am using translation software, it may be strange, please forgive me.

I think the RMX3357 can be swiped into the gsi system, but we have some problems, that is, TWRP does not adapt to the RMX3357, resulting in us not being able to brush into the third-party system package, and I used orange fox rec to successfully brush into the RMX3031 Crd8.7, but the camera, flash and fingerprint can not be used.

So we need our own TWRP to flush the system package, but TWRP does not adapt to the RMX3357, although the TWRP driver of the RMX3357 has long been open source on github.

I have a hard time communicating with the TWRP team in China, so I hope you can try to communicate with them and get TWRP for the RMX3357 so that everything can be solved.

Or try removing the RMX3357 driver from the card swiping package and replacing the RMX3031's system package so that we can use the RMX3031's TWRP to flash into the ported system package so that the driver won't have a problem.

There are many people like me in China who suffer from TWRP problems, China's localization system is too bloated, and the phone is stuck and hot.

If you have any questions you can also ask me, I can provide some help in China, I have many system packages for RMX3357 and RMX3031, and the gsi. It's just a matter of how to brush it in.

If you can reach out to the TWRP team, get them to fit the RMX3357 and that's all right.

Thank you very much！！！！！

And don't upgrade the RM3357 to c18, the anti-rollback mechanism added to the new c18 will make it impossible for you to use the MTK deep brushing tool to save your device, I was one of the victims of the upgrade.
[Realme X7 Max 5G] aacprime:
There's TWRP for gt neo 2t, but it only works if you have rui 2.0 (android 11). If you can't downgrade - no luck for you
[Realme X7 Max 5G] CHA12138:
2t Android 11TWRP is driven, but I did not find him on the official website of TWRP, and the folk TWRP has many bugs, I have the tools to downgrade to ui2, I just lack perfect TWRP.
[Touch HD General] nin2thevoid:
I might have missed this in another thread but could not locate it.

Why on Earth is the Manila home screen background so terribly unsharp?? I've tried images of all sorts of resulotions, the outcome is always the same.

It does not scale the images, it seems to be the exact size, but the backgrounds are ALWAYS unsharp...

Can anyone confirm this, and does anybody know how to fix this??

Try viewing a 480x800 image in the album view, 100% sharp. Then set it as home screen, and it looks more like a stretched, compressed 240x400 image. I never noticed this on my Diamond. Is this one of the "software optimizations" HTC talks about? That's a no brainer, making a device faster by reverting to low res images...
[Touch HD General] wfhowell:
IMage on background

FOr now I dont have any problem with images on background. Everything is sharp, even contacts are great. Not sure what the problem is there
[Touch HD General] darthbane2k:
no he is correct. the wallpaper isnt sharp at all
[Touch HD General] maziboss:
I have the same problem !!

Pictures in Album looks great but on wallpaper not ! I dont know why :(
[Touch HD General] nin2thevoid:
Can anybody else confirm that the diamond did not have this problem? could there be some setting to change or to port from the diamond manila?
[Touch HD General] utvol06:
Its because the larger screen size decreases pixel density at 480x800 resolution. Where as the tiny 2.8" screen on the diamond and pro have a higher pixel density. You have more resolution spread over a larger space. Just look at an iphone images aren't that sharp.

I have no problem with the image quality on the homescreen background.
[Touch HD General] maziboss:
No, you dont have right. Tell me why picture in album looks great (very sharp and clear) and this same file looks terrible on the homescreen background...
[Touch HD General] tkalli:
For the Today Screen:

Programs > Pictures & Videos > menu > Set as Today Background

Set Transparency Level to 0%

​
[Touch HD General] snootch:
That's for the today screen... What about the TF3D home screen? Two different images. I think the OP was talking about the touchflow screen.
[Touch HD General] pitt1983:
i can confirm and many of us also

in can confirm that images viewed with album or whatelse are very good. but when setted in tf3d homescreen background images of differents resolutions are terribles..
[Touch HD General] jackthekayman:
yes same thing here
[Touch HD General] Cap Loz:
Shoot me down if I've got this wrong :)

I was getting the same thing when I first attempted to change the wallpaper, BUT I'd made a basic error and just "Saved As" the thumbnails instead of properley clicking and downloading the correct sized file.

Just a possibility.
[Touch HD General] ammar:
same thing here also!!!
[Touch HD General] elmarko99:
I don't think it is an issue with resolution. It seems like the image has been converted to another format and lost some image quality. See the attached jpeg for a comparison between the two.

When you choose a wallpaper does it get saved somewhere? If it did you could check it to see whether it's been altered in anyway from the original.
[Touch HD General] elmarko99:
You may be able to see more of the wallpaper in this image...
[Touch HD General] SiliconS:
Maybe this is an optimisation performed to reduce the memory overhead for the TF3D process by reducing the quality of the image.

You can guarantee that if HTC's software didn't do this then someone somewhere would have assigned a 4MB jpeg as their background image and then be complaining about a lack of memory, sluggish performance etc.
[Touch HD General] stu420:
I found out what manila does with our backgrounds, it reduces it's resolution.

When you save a background (resolution 480x800), manila saves it as the file "HomeBackground.img" in your windows folder and uses it for your background. I copied this file back to my computer and changed the extension back to HomeBackground.jpg (I can't open *.img on my pc). This picture has a resolution of 307x512 !!!

So that's the reason why our backgrounds get this low quality look

Like i mentioned in another thread, changing your original 480x800 picture to HomeBackground.img and placing it in your windows folder doesn't solve the problem :(

I've put 2 files as attachement: original pic and the "manila-pic"
[Touch HD General] elmarko99:
Good find. I wonder if it'll be possible to make manila use full resolutions pics. what happens when you place an image named HomeBackground.img into the windows folder? Does it resize it or just not open at all?
[Touch HD General] Eclogue:
This may be related to the work to get a 512x512 image on the background, or am I misunderstanding?

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blackstone_Custom

(near the end of the page)
[Touch HD General] stu420:
it resizes it and placing HomeBackground.jpg in the windows folder doesn't work at al
[Touch HD General] elmarko99:
Not sure I understand this... but would a 512px wide image have to be shrunk to fit in? The display is only 480px wide! And it would need to be stretched to 800px to fit the screen height-wise.

Have I got this right?
[Touch HD General] Eclogue:
I'm still working on understanding it too :)

But I'm putting it in the Wiki, so hopefully everyone won't have this hassle in the future!

I think they have only managed to alter the manila (system) file in a certain way, to double the resolution from 256 to 512, which is then used.

(I'd like to be corrected by an expert though...)

Please update the Wiki if you find any more details, I've just updated it a bit.

http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=HTC_Blackstone_Custom
[Touch HD General] nanoo-eg:
I made the best at my picture of the test.

Resolution ...250 pixels/in, picture size 1920X3200, Png format. NOTHING:(

The true is TF3D background, can't give us the real resolution of the picture.

Maybe the backlight, the graphics....I don't know.

The software it is only for these black wallpapers of HTC.

I try also without TF3D and it is worst. It looks washed with chlorine.:)

Of course my picture don't looks so bad, but it isn't the same like at the album.

If I try more, can be done better, but ........ let the subject to the developers.
[Touch HD General] marco899:
Found the solution

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=3060518#post3060518
[Touch HD General] CEPi:
It doesn't seem to be working for anyone.
[Touch HD General] ammar:
Official answer from HTC !!!

This is what HTC said regarding the low res wallpaper:

"Thank you for contacting HTC Corporation Middle East Support In regards to your inquiry, kindly be informed that some graphical and high resolution phone features like reaching most of your phone menus with one touch requires high display capabilities for the mobile to be performed. And we don’t have separate VGA driver in our mobiles, this is normal to lower the TouchFlo wallpaper resolution to avoid any hang up or problem with mobile performance while using this feature. Please note that you could also contact us by phone; for more information on that service please go to http://www.htc.com/mea-en/CA_Hotline.aspx?region=MEA Thank you for choosing HTC the PDA maker to the world HTC Corporation Middle East Support Team Sincerely,"

sorry for the bad news :(
[Touch HD General] PowLee:
I've been wondering about this myself, comparing full-screen pictures in the Album with the wallpapers.

Too bad we don't have anything to fix that, not yet anyway.

But I've managed to find a "solution" to this problem, sort of, for myself atleast:

Using space/planetary themed pictures as the background. This way the "roughness" of the lower quality picture blends in pretty well with the stars and whatever space objects you might have in the picture. :D

I know, this might sound funny but I suggest you try it. ;)
[Touch HD General] stu420:
So it's completely impossible to get e high-res background??!

damn HTC!
[Touch HD General] Vinski-:
I changed the HomeBacground.img to a bigger resolution 480x708 image, but cant see any difference after soft reset. I checked, the tf3d didint change the image back, its still the same 480x708 resolution image. Ill try later with better tools, when i get home, im now stuck with MS office photo editor.
[Touch HD General] albeys:
Hi, try using a png image. It works for me. Found it around here,can't remember the thread, sorry.

Hope it helps...
[Touch HD General] Terra1:
Somebody out there should be able to hack HTC's file so it will give us a full res pic..........