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I just picked up my transformer tf300 yesterday, it is an amazing tablet. I'm just wondering if I should root and flash custom roms or keep it stock. And if i do want to root and flash what are some things i need to know before i do. I have experience with my HTC hd2 but i know Android native devices are almost completely different
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just my opinion
dive right in,
root - look for the debugfs thread and the process is automated for you
it does not require you to use the unlock tool, so you will retain your warranty
you'll also want to install busybox
and either superuser or Supersu from market place
currently there's a rom currently based on stock which is awesome,
incredibly fast
it's night and day difference
After you've rooted, if you want to flash custom roms
use the asus unlock tool
then install goo manager from the market place - it has an option to install TWRP recovery
reboot and make a backup
then flash away, any rom you like
i recommend flashing seamzscreams rom, it's buttery smooth plus it's based off the stock. 30 build.
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Ill be rooting then thank you
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Renegade99 said:
Ill be rooting then thank you
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If you plan on rooting I recommend you installing cwm recovery and keep a copy of the asus .30 firmware on your internal sd card. This way you can return to stock if you dont like what the custom rom offers. None of the recoveries can read the ext sd card at this time and you can only flash the stock firmware with cwm.
What about that twrp recovery it can't flash stock roms?
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It can't flash the stock Asus ROM. It just hangs. It flashes the custom stock ROM fine, though.
If you root/unlock, do you need an extra SD card to save a backup with from either CWM or TWRP?
Noob obv.
Can cwm install custom roms as well?
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Renegade99 said:
Can cwm install custom roms as well?
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CWM should be able to flash custom ROMs. However, some folks have had trouble using CWM to flash seanzscreams' ROM and had to use TWRP to flash it. Until either recovery fully stabilizes, you should be prepared to switch recoveries back and forth depending on which ROM you flash or when restoring backups. And you should always keep an extra ROM to flash on your internal storage just in case since neither recovery supports external storage yet.
Unless you have some specific app you really want/need root for, why do it?
Soo, twrp would be more reliable and if anything goes wrong I'll switch to cwm and flash stock firmware
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I couldn't get seanz rom to work with clockwork either i had to use twrp as well. Not a big deal but now I have both on my tablet.
If you unlock use seanz rom it's incredibly fast.
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Well I want to overclock , and having titanium back up would be nice
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Well then all you need to do is root. Use sparkies root tool it makes things super easy. I got mine to overclock to 1.5ghz with ez overclock but you must apply it after each boot.
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Link to sparkies tool would be nice, and have you noticed any stability issues when overclocked?
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Since QC issues are rampant with TF300T, I'm gonna stay stock + root for the first year. I have a feeling it'll need to eventually get sent in for repairs.
nullzorz said:
Since QC issues are rampant with TF300T, I'm gonna stay stock + root for the first year. I have a feeling it'll need to eventually get sent in for repairs.
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These are my thoughts exactly. I will stay stock and rooted unless a really smooth JB ROM gets released and I cant stand waiting for the official one.
How long did it take for the prime to get ics
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Renegade99 said:
How long did it take for the prime to get ics
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a few months
I just got a tf300 and it keeps telling me to do the update. Should I take the update or would this make it harder to flash etc?
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eyeisdasteve said:
I just got a tf300 and it keeps telling me to do the update. Should I take the update or would this make it harder to flash etc?
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that depends.
if you only want to root it but keep stock firmware and recovery, you should do it now before updating. as long as you are on version .17 you can use sparky root to root, OTA root keeper to backup root, update, use OTA root keeper to restore Root and enjoy.
if you want to Flash ROM's and stuff, you can do whatever you like. you will have to unlock the bootloader and as far as i can tell, that is supposed to work on any software version as long as it is ICS. unlock, flash recovery, flash your ROM of choice.
turdbogls said:
that depends.
if you only want to root it but keep stock firmware and recovery, you should do it now before updating. as long as you are on version .17 you can use sparky root to root, OTA root keeper to backup root, update, use OTA root keeper to restore Root and enjoy.
if you want to Flash ROM's and stuff, you can do whatever you like. you will have to unlock the bootloader and as far as i can tell, that is supposed to work on any software version as long as it is ICS. unlock, flash recovery, flash your ROM of choice.
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So if I want to flash stuff it won't matter? Most ROMs will come rooted, so then do the update?
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If you use this it will work on the latest firmware which is .30
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26918790
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robgee789 said:
If you use this it will work on the latest firmware which is .30
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26918790
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Awesome, thanks.
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You can update and still root on the latest firmware. I got mine and updated out of the box and was able to root it easily. I don't know why someone is saying you need to be on .17
Turbojugend said:
You can update and still root on the latest firmware. I got mine and updated out of the box and was able to root it easily. I don't know why someone is saying you need to be on .17
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Ok. I won't worry about it then.
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guess I can't install recovery here?
There is a video here for getting recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26315957
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robgee789 said:
There is a video here for getting recovery
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26315957
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Ok so there's no way to do it without unlocking the bootloader using the asus utility?
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Even if you update to .30, you could always root it via Debugfs method.
eyeisdasteve said:
Ok so there's no way to do it without unlocking the bootloader using the asus utility?
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The only thing you can do without unlocking the bootloader is rooting it, nothing else.
Turbojugend said:
The only thing you can do without unlocking the bootloader is rooting it, nothing else.
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And the only way to unlock is asus utility? There isn't another way?
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Not that i know of mate but if you just want root and tostay on stock then your sorted if you want to try some custom roms then you need to unlock the bootloader anyway mate
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Has any one been able to root Jellybean yet, or downgrade back to Ice Cream Sandwich for the transformer prime tf300. Ive tried the firmware update to the .17 for ics and its still locked to Jellybean. The only other thing i could think of is to use the kernals, but i found no way to install them. Should i even try unlocking the bootloader?
So far, it looks hopeless to try and downgrade to ICS. The source code has been released so we may have root in the not-to-distant future once the developers have a look at it.
jdk2 said:
So far, it looks hopeless to try and downgrade to ICS. The source code has been released so we may have root in the not-to-distant future once the developers have a look at it.
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Here's hoping. I didn't realize how much I really used until it was taken away.
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Why do you want to downgrade?
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seshaz said:
Why do you want to downgrade?
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If you can downgrade to ICS you could potentially get root back using the debugfs method. Then you can upgrade again and rescue your root with voodoo ota root keeper, but I had to wipe data after the jb upgrade, and that broke root for good, for now.
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funnel71 said:
If you can downgrade to ICS you could potentially get root back using the debugfs method. Then you can upgrade again and rescue your root with voodoo ota root keeper, but I had to wipe data after the jb upgrade, and that broke root for good, for now.
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Oh I see, you're bl is locked.
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heero117 said:
Has any one been able to root Jellybean yet, or downgrade back to Ice Cream Sandwich for the transformer prime tf300. Ive tried the firmware update to the .17 for ics and its still locked to Jellybean. The only other thing i could think of is to use the kernals, but i found no way to install them. Should i even try unlocking the bootloader?
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Rooting is very simple in JellyBean assuming you have your boot unlocked
moisaal said:
Rooting is very simple in JellyBean assuming you have your boot unlocked
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The ASUS site says:
1. Only suitable for Andriod4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich OS version.
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So if I got the 4.1 update, I cant unlock bootloader, and cant get root?
RenderOne said:
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So if I got the 4.1 update, I cant unlock bootloader, and cant get root?
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You should be able to. Despite the message, many others are reporting success.
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Yes, you can root JB.
I just bought my Tab, upgraded to JB right away then performed below steps:
1) Used the ASUS unlocker to unlock the device, make sure you have internet connection otherwise it will not work.
2) Follow 3rd part in below thread to root JB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1845377
sghi777 said:
Yes, you can root JB.
I just bought my Tab, upgraded to JB right away then performed below steps:
1) Used the ASUS unlocker to unlock the device, make sure you have internet connection otherwise it will not work.
2) Follow 3rd part in below thread to root JB:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1845377
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Question, is that all you did? I'm considering doing the same but I don't want custom Roms and such. I just want my root back.
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I think the big question is if its possible to keep the BL locked though. I know I tried via the OTA keeper, and no success. Tried updating binaries, superSU, regular SU... no dice so far...
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i want to downgrade my tf300t from jb to ics too,because i often watch some online videos with flash,but the jb doesn't support it.that's so bad.can anybody tell me how?
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jijitax4 said:
i want to downgrade my tf300t from jb to ics too,because i often watch some online videos with flash,but the jb doesn't support it.that's so bad.can anybody tell me how?
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Jb supports flash. Not officially.
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For locked u can only root ics and keep it using voodoo rootkeeper and than update. Thats how i did it.
Im not sure but u could downgrade using this method. It flash whole system again and clear all ~30gb of memory so it should work.
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thnx,but i have no courage to downgrade it by this thread.did anyone downgrade the JB to ICS sucessful?
1.a jb OS tf300t(upgrade by OTA)
2.unlocked
3.downgrade to ICS
can it be done?
i am a chinese.i used to see the Starcraft2 video at a online video site(www.youku.com,a website built by CHINA)i can watch the video without problem on ICS.but now when upgrade to JB.the video will sure stop at the beginning or after a few minutes and the browser will crashed. i tried several browser.no one worked.i am so depressed
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If ure unlocked u can dl .30 ics from asus and flash it in recovery i think
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funnel71 said:
Question, is that all you did? I'm considering doing the same but I don't want custom Roms and such. I just want my root back.
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Yes, that's all I did.
gunshy
Why am I still gunshy then?
Just a heads up, if ota rootkeeprr couldn't restore root... reboot your tab. I did and all of a sudden I had proper root access
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How do I completely revert back to stock? I have tf300t on JB now.
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not sure waht your after mate to get back to stock just download the firmware from asus extract it once and put on the root of your tablet, then boot into recovery and wipe it the flash the stock firmware.
What's the method to get to recovery? I haven't installed cw yet but it should have stock recovery, right?
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Yep it will have stock recovery mate, but for custom recovery you need to unlock your bootloader mate
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robgee789 said:
Yep it will have stock recovery mate, but for custom recovery you need to unlock your bootloader mate
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is there an app that will flash custom recovery for me? my graphics crd is shot so the screen glitchrs on and off and i need to revert to stock to rma it. also could you link me to the stock recovery as its hard for me to use my tablet adn search around for it.
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I have the bootloader unlocked rooted and have hydro ICS. If I want to move to JB and I just flash a JB rom? Or do I need to change to a different recovery? I understand that I can't go back to ics unless I do the nvflash back up. Also what JB rom has flash working?
Thank you
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swaser18t said:
I have the bootloader unlocked rooted and have hydro ICS. If I want to move to JB and I just flash a JB rom? Or do I need to change to a different recovery? I understand that I can't go back to ics unless I do the nvflash back up. Also what JB rom has flash working?
Thank you
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Which recovery have you ?
Have you read the different posts about your question ?
[DEV][TOOL][BRICKPROOF]TF300 NVFlash release!
[RECOVERY][TF300T/TG] TWRP 2.2.2 with on-screen keyboard + external sd! [2012-08-24]
[CWM][6.0.1.3 / 5.5.0.4] Official CWM Recovery for JB/ICS + ROOT
[GUIDE]Upgrade your TF300t to Jellybean, recovery, root & remove bloatware[Noobproof]
and all JB roms works well after it's personnal use.
twrp
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