I had a TF-101 rooted with 3.1 with recommendations from this forum. I could still run Netflix on it and watch my interlaced avi movies with moboplayer without problems.
Then i thought to upgrade to TF300 and pass on the old transformer to a family member. Then i learned with the TF300 running ice cream sandwich that i could not root and still watch netflix, and all media players like moboplayer/mx player crash periodically or do not do deinterlacing (bs player). So i thought o pass on the TF300 and keep the more useful TF-101. And then the TF-101 was lost on a flight (stolen from baggage).
So now i wonder what to do:
Is there any workaround for netflix on rooted TF300 ?
If i am going to buy another TF-101, i fear that it will come with 4.0, Back in 2010, when i rooted it, it was said that you could not root a TF101 from 4.0. So, what do i need to watch out for if i am going to buy another TF-101 that i want to get rooted ?
Thanks!
Sounds like you've been away for a while. You need to read up a little.
You can root the TF101 up to the latest firmware.
Thanks
Yes, have been away quite a whilte. Once i had the 101 rooted and set up with everything i was happy. And the TF300 is fairly recent. It also seems as if it possible to root a TF300 without unlocking, which hopefully should allow to keep Netflix running, or at least i can try and if it doesn't work, return it.
What i am mostly puzzled about though is why all these video player apps (moboplayer,...) do seem to crash/stop on my files whereas this never happened with TF101. I guess i have to investigate more forums for that problem *sigh*. One would have hoped that things got better with TF101->TF300 and 3.1 -> 4.0, but unfortunately, not so much *sigh*.
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Hey guys , i took the plunge and bought a WIFI only Xoom a little under a week ago and so far i really like it . though i did question the purchase after seeing the lack of apps in the market that scale to the xoom's 10 inch screen .
I have been reading around the forum and trying to decide if i want to unlock and root my xoom .
I love flashing kernels and such to my HTC Desire but I was wanting some input as to whats really out there for the xoom and is it worth doing .
I think the xoom is rather speedy as it is stock , so is the tiamat kernel really worth doing ?
also , reading around the net i see that the Google Movies addon (when it comes to wifi only xooms) will not work with rooted devices .
this is a big negative to me and the family as we justified the purchase of the xoom on a lot of features including the movies in the android market .
so , please chime in if you dont mind and let me know what you think about the above .
At the moment the main kernel available is Tiamat's, or some other variations on more or less his work. These are great kernels, but are mainly useful for overclocking. If you do not intend to do a lot of intensive gaming and are happy with your current speed on the Xoom, then overclocking really isn't a big need for you.
Considering your situation, if I were you I would leave my Xoom as it is, unrooted for now. That way you can get the Google Movies when they arrive as you stated that was a very important feature for you. If after a while you decide you are not getting as much value out of that feature as you expected, or if Google changes its policy, there will always be time to root your device later. Also by that time there may be more kernel options or Ice Cream Sandwich hacks to flash.
You are not closing any doors by not rooting/flashing right out of the box. I just can't see any compelling reason for you to root at this point....and a couple good reasons why you shouldn't for now. The Xoom is a great device and has more then enough to hold your attention without flashing.
I haven't rooted my Xoom, nor have I rented out any flix. The tiamat kernel (from my understanding) enables SD card and allows you to overclock.
I don't ever 'rent' any content, and I'm willing to wait for an update that will enable the SD card. You can watch your own movies just fine on the Xoom, and watch TV shows from the network television sites.
Android Market tablet apps are still too few, but that should change quickly this summer as many more Honeycomb tablets are released (of course, we thought that would have happened already with the release of the Acer and Asus tablets).
That was my main thing the sdcard not working and is what keeps me on the fence about xoom or galaxy tab 10.1. So does rooting it get the sdcard working fully with little to no bugs? Cause that may help me decide
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dased14 said:
That was my main thing the sdcard not working and is what keeps me on the fence about xoom or galaxy tab 10.1. So does rooting it get the sdcard working fully with little to no bugs? Cause that may help me decide
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Once I rooted and flashed the Tiamat kernel I have had no problems at all with the external SD card.
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Hey guys , i took the plunge and bought a WIFI only Xoom a little under a week ago and so far i really like it . though i did question the purchase after seeing the lack of apps in the market that scale to the xoom's 10 inch screen .
I have been reading around the forum and trying to decide if i want to unlock and root my xoom .
I love flashing kernels and such to my HTC Desire but I was wanting some input as to whats really out there for the xoom and is it worth doing .
I think the xoom is rather speedy as it is stock , so is the tiamat kernel really worth doing ?
also , reading around the net i see that the Google Movies addon (when it comes to wifi only xooms) will not work with rooted devices .
this is a big negative to me and the family as we justified the purchase of the xoom on a lot of features including the movies in the android market .
so , please chime in if you dont mind and let me know what you think about the above .
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As long as you are willing to take responsibility for your actions if your brick or otherwise roast your device I dont' care what you do with it. If I may rant for 5 seconds I'm becomming increasingly irritated with people who are coming in here... breaking their Xoom's and then crying for advice and the advice being given is "take it back to the store and swap it out". No, that's called theft.
I think rooting is probably 100x safer than overclocking though which is where most of these people seem to get in trouble.
Other than that, welcome to the Xoom and I hope you enjoy it. I really love mine and could probably go on for half an hour about what I use it for.
Here is a quick and dirty list of apps that I find myself using daily:
- Pulse
- Paradise Island (lol)
- PocketCloud (paid ver)
Entertainment I find myself dabbling with almost daily:
- Pinball HD
- Riptide GP (both paid, very fun)
- Splashtop (for remote WoW, lol... also paid)
Other stuff I use daily but isnt downloaded apps include the browser obviously, I also use Firefox to access intranet sites (like sbs2003/sbs2008). I use the heck out the mail client. I also switch back and forth between the facebook app and using the page in the browser.
There are probably more tablet oriented apps than you think by now, as I find that new ones are coming out every day and some of them are really good.
If there's anything particular you think you'd like to know about just ask
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That was my main thing the sdcard not working and is what keeps me on the fence about xoom or galaxy tab 10.1. So does rooting it get the sdcard working fully with little to no bugs? Cause that may help me decide
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No it doesnt. The possibility of data corruption exists. ASUS and Acer have implimented Kernel hacks to enable SD support. My personal vote is to wait for Google to properly impliment SD support and be satisfied with the more than ample 32GB of on board storage.
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I haven't rooted my Xoom, nor have I rented out any flix. The tiamat kernel (from my understanding) enables SD card and allows you to overclock.
I don't ever 'rent' any content, and I'm willing to wait for an update that will enable the SD card. You can watch your own movies just fine on the Xoom, and watch TV shows from the network television sites.
Android Market tablet apps are still too few, but that should change quickly this summer as many more Honeycomb tablets are released (of course, we thought that would have happened already with the release of the Acer and Asus tablets).
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About the availability of apps with coinciding tablet release.... some developers just aren't in a position to go out and buy tablets I guess which is why I'm very happy to see Google give 5000 units away at their I/O even if someone of them went to dip**** bloggers.
What about that tiny little charging plug was looking at that and looks to be easily broken. Has anyone had a problem with it?
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What about that tiny little charging plug was looking at that and looks to be easily broken. Has anyone had a problem with it?
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None at all so far
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None at all so far
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thats good to know,thing just looks really small
im in the market for a tablet and I keep coming back to the transformer.ive done some research but I just need a few questions answered by actual owners to make me take the leap. i need the following in my tab:
eye candy
hdmi out
cwm/roms
no annoying bugs. ( by annoying i mean reboots and such. no stock g2x crap )
from the threads i know it has the 1st 3. but ill need some clarification on the bugs part. now to the deal breakers. I NEED certain apps to work on this bad boy
hbo go
netflix
longevity ( it doesnt have to be as good as the lets say HD2 but u get the point)
ps3 sixaxis controller (ESPECIALLY THIS ONE, ill pass if it doesn't)
also all in all are you guys happy with the tablet? would you prefer another one and if so why? any features that just make you want to smash it against the wall? lol thanks
uploder said:
im in the market for a tablet and I keep coming back to the transformer.ive done some research but I just need a few questions answered by actual owners to make me take the leap. i need the following in my tab:
eye candy
hdmi out
cwm/roms
no annoying bugs. ( by annoying i mean reboots and such. no stock g2x crap )
from the threads i know it has the 1st 3. but ill need some clarification on the bugs part. now to the deal breakers. I NEED certain apps to work on this bad boy
hbo go
netflix
longevity ( it doesnt have to be as good as the lets say HD2 but u get the point)
ps3 sixaxis controller (ESPECIALLY THIS ONE, ill pass if it doesn't)
also all in all are you guys happy with the tablet? would you prefer another one and if so why? any features that just make you want to smash it against the wall? lol thanks
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Does HDMI well, there is CWM and ROMS but the newer models have a different secure key so regular root methods may not work...but when you do get root, the custom roms fix all those bugs. And if not, request it!
As for eye candy, I love showing it off. The key is having it in the dock. Then undocking blows their mind. they go, woah!!! I need to get one! haha.
Havent tried hbo go, sorry.
I hear the last update enables netflix without root!
last long i suppose, no one knows since its been out for a few months. but you could RMA.
The PS3 controller works. Tried it. that was one of the first things I did. I hear they even have an app for the wireless, you dont need the usb cable plugged in to the dock. Wii works too. Not sure about xbox.
Love the tablet. best thing ive bought in a while. use it all the time. its an extension of my main gadgets. My desktop, tablet and phone have all the same stuff, all synced. And when i leave my desktop, my tablet has the things the desktop was doing (either by chrome to phone or remote desktop). The thing makes calls too. And google voice works, so text and voicemail. Overall, I see this as the future. Dock when you need to type fast/add precision. undock for portability/touchscreen. smoooooth. best of both worlds. remoting into windows works perfect, remote RDP supports right click. splashtop is better for streaming however, plays videos like a boss. everyone will get one of these eventually.
thanks for the insight. im definitely looking into this tab
1 have not tried hbo go
2 stock firmware has netflix support now, find the .apk installer in google and download then install
3 longevity, don't know to early to tell, it is not that old. but i would think so because it is a low price and has a unique dock.
4 havent tried this one but honeycomb should just recognize it. somewhere i saw an app to let you connect through bluetooth, but you needed root.
as far as rooting goes some b70 models all ones above were changed so you couldnt root them at the moment. the people who rooted it the first time are trying to get a working root for the newer models to. he may get them to be rootable again and asus may block it again. only time will tell.
some b70's becouse ming was rootable.
Very happy with this tab. I dwelled for hours on it - trying to chose between this and the acer iconia. Both have their merits but in the end decided its rather have this for the dock. At times a proper keyboard can be handy and the extra battery life is also nice. I don't envisage bring away from power more than a couple of hours but good to know I can go probably a few days without needing to look at a charger if I had to.
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yeah i plan on getting it from amazon so im assuming I would get a newer model b70 or b80. hopefully these will be rootable in the near future....i have plans for this bad boy
Well, I'm not... Asus support sucks, mine has been broken since mid July and asus have failed to fix it twice now. Waste of money its spending all its time broken.
^^^^^^^what exactly is broken on yours?
get an ipad.
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yeah i plan on getting it from amazon so im assuming I would get a newer model b70 or b80. hopefully these will be rootable in the near future....i have plans for this bad boy
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Just bought mine yesterday from a local best buy store and it happened to be a B60 model. So excited when I saw this. Used it all last night and really love the thing. Best buy I have made in a long time.
Alright, so i have two brand new asus transformers both on old 3.1 versions of honeycomb so i know they are both rootable. (us versions i assume) now some are saying we should use the razorclaw method by upgrading then using it but some people are having terrible results doing that because its upgrading them to unrootable firmwire. (i think .18 rather than .13). others are saying use the nvflash but that seems dated. so which method should we use? I'd be very annoyed if i upgraded then i couldnt root. also has the market been fixed so we could watch movies and download books even though we are rooted? or is it still not going to let us watch or read them?
Just bought the transformer today. It has jb preloaded. It was extremely laggy. Google search took several seconds to start etc. I returned it and got a new one. It's currently charging so I haven't set it up. Is this a common problem or did I just get a lemon? Thanks
gunnyman said:
Just bought the transformer today. It has jb preloaded. It was extremely laggy. Google search took several seconds to start etc. I returned it and got a new one. It's currently charging so I haven't set it up. Is this a common problem or did I just get a lemon? Thanks
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i only had the stock rom for a few hours but as i recall it wasnt real slow. but i can attest to the fact that this tablet runs twice as well on clean rom 3.0.3
well this 2nd one is just as laggy. I can't believe I'm about to say this, but the Kindle Fire HD 8.9 I returned in favor of this was faster.
Try doing a factory reset. See if that makes it better. Also, the pad suffers from a bad I/O. Currently the only way to make it fly is unlocking and installing custom ROMs and kernels.
I'm seeing blank pages with "loading" written on them in google play books.
So, this thing is unusable unless I root/rom?
gunnyman;3604947 seeing blank pages with "loading" written on th google play books.
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Well tbh ive never owned a android, apple or windows device i didnt customize, overclock, ect. It just makes for a better machine. But in this case if you have done the jelly bean update keep in mind you WILL lose your warranty when you unlock your bootloader. Good luck man.
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Oh I'm no stranger to ROMS or rooting, and this thing came with Jellybean. I've just never seen something be so unusable out of the box.
Did you try factory reset?
Yes. No difference.
It sucks to hear its not running smoothly man! maybe it has to deal with a hw problem itself? i was between buying a kindle fire, a nexus 10 and this tablet, im not new to flashing and such either, my tablet came with stock jellybean, it ran smoothly since the first boot!, i unlocked it for the fun of it but I had no need, im very happy with the tablet.
maybe you should return it or try another one? maybe theres a problem with the one you got
I've not installed any custom roms, so I don't have them to compare it to, though stock rom seems to work smoothly for myself. I don't find it lagging or slow, so maybe a fresh install will help?
The only other device I use that has Android is a Galaxy S2 and the Asus TF300 feels much quicker and responsive.
I have googled my balls off and searched XDA but I have found surprisingly little info on how to get Amazon streaming video to work on the Infinity. I am an Amazon Prime member and when I signed up, I wanted to check out the streamed content. It works fine on the PC but I use my tablet more. I am running JB 4.1.1 and I have sideloaded the latest, though unofficially unsupported Flash player, but Amazon's Instant Video website still says I dont have it. I have tried several browsers and user agents. There is another forum on XDA discussing that and some are getting it to work (with some lag issues) and some, including me, are not. Even if it did, it would only be in low-res from the website. "HD compatible "only runs on certain devices (as if the Infinity can't handle HD). I bought my kids a Kindle Fire HD for Christmas, so I tried it on that and it ran great streaming Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol in HD very nicely. So it seems there should be an apk I can pull from it and load on the TF700, right? Both tablets are rooted, so I used Titanium Backup Pro to backup the Amazon video app from the KFHD and Dropboxed it to my TF700 and restored it. I ran it but it force closes; doesn't even initialize. Does anyone know how to get the app to work as it does on the KFHD? Or is it because the KFHD runs Android 4.0 and it just wont run on the TF700's 4.1.1? It is irritating not to be able to have this work on the Infinity and, if it can work at all, I want it in high-res, so I need it to run as if it was a KFHD. I am still playing with it but any ideas?
Is it only prime users who have this service? Are you rooted or unlocked at all?
I have had no problem streaming amazon video on my Infinity. I'm rooted/unlocked and on CROMI. I paid for a few episodes of "Breaking Bad" I wound up having to buy them again through google play however. The streaming worked perfectly through Amazon however it would not let me download for offline playing unless I was on an actual Kindle. Google Play allowed for offline downloads so I stuck with that. To answer your question though, streaming from Amazon worked well for me.
I just tried it for the first time, TF700 totally stock, Flash side loaded, Amazon Prime member, it played Upstairs Downstairs using the stock browser just fine.
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Is it only prime users who have this service? Are you rooted or unlocked at all?
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I am rooted. I have not unlocked the bootloader and dont plan to. I have no luck with various browsers, even playing with permissions. My kids KFHD play HD vids really well. I think it is a combination of "stock" apps but IDK which ones.
550driver said:
I just tried it for the first time, TF700 totally stock, Flash side loaded, Amazon Prime member, it played Upstairs Downstairs using the stock browser just fine.
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I got the standard def with the stock browser at least. Idk why I got "flash is missing" on the others. I just cant get the Amazon Instant Video app to run as on the KFHD though. I cant pin down what I am missing, unless its bc I run the latest version of android, which the app doesnt support. Maybe its just that but Idk how to find out.