Hi,
I need some help with my tablet. I have the tf300t that I bought while living in China about 3 years ago. When I got it originally, it had I think Honeycomb and later Asus released the ICS. I didn't know before buying it that a chinese tablet would not have the google apps. At the time I found a method to change the SKU and installed the WW package. I was able to upgrade to ICS and then I was able to load the firmware updated manually, until 4.1.1. At that point I could no longer update by placing the file in my sd card. I read somewhere it was because of the partition size.
Anyway, I stopped using the tablet for about a year because I was away for work and now that I started using it again, it was painfully slow. I did some research and unlocked the bootloader, rooted, installed TWRP and upgraded to the latest asus stock, WW_epad-user-10.6.1.27.5.zip
So, after all this, the tablet rebooted and optimized the apps, etc. I was able to upgrade one app, FB, and then it didn't download anything more. This is inside the Play store, it says it's downloading but it's not doing anything.
For instance, I see the maps app needs to be updated and then I tried to be clever and get the apk from my phone. I copied it to the sd card but ES file explorer says that it can't be parsed.
I also tried to update the superSU and gave me many install errors. I tried to root again using the motochopper and it fails. I would like to upgrade further but first I need the root to work. And also in case I can't, at least the apps I would like that are installed could continue to update normally.
Any advice would be appreciated.
Thanks
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Hello everybody, before all, I hope there isn't a thread already with this topic, if there is, my apologies.
I have an european (ww) stock rom Transformer on 3.1, I did the first update (3.0 to 3.1) manualy, it worked great, but now, its been since the 3rd of august (OTA 3.2 release date in France) that I've been waiting for my tranformer to receive the OTA, but it just won't.
I've tried to push the "search for update" button thousand times and reboot it almost everyday since then without result.
Do someone have had the same problem and solve it?
By the way, I don't have the keyboard dock yet; doest it play a role in my problem?
I bought my transformer 2 weeks ago i was in 3.1 and i had the update to 3.2 as soon my tab was connected on wifi. But i have the dock.
Are you sure that you never rooted your tab?
You can also ask asus france on their facebook page.
Yes I'm positive, unless the manual 3.0 to 3.1 update implied to root. But I'm quite sure it doesn't.
Apparently you are only offered the update once, if it fails it wont offer it again unless you delete a certain file
Not sure which one it is, but a factory reset should sort it if you can cope with wiping it
that's the odd thing, I wasn't offered it even once. I will search for the file you mentioned and in last ressort, go for a factory reset. But honestly I would prefer not to go that far. That's why I asked for other solutions.
Tried updated manually? ie downloading update from
http://support.asus.com/Download.aspx?SLanguage=en&m=Eee+Pad+Transformer+TF101&p=20&s=16
I've tried it too, I've followed the steps, I've put the "asus" folder on a micro sd card, put it in my transformer, but it did not detect the update, I've tried different ways to put the update folder on the sd card so that the tablet can find the update, but still, it didn't work. I just can't figure out why it doesn't want to update.
Thanks for your clues anyway, I will keep searching for a solution or a way to make this manual update...
If I find the thread with the location of the offending file, I`ll update this thread with it
Thanks, it will be very helpfull
seagle77 said:
Thanks, it will be very helpfull
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You may already know about this forum, but Im beginning to wonder if the posts I am remembering are infact here
http://www.transformerforums.com
Great place either way
Yes great place indeed, i'll try to find it there
I had a similar issue. The tablet update section said 'There is an update available. Please check notifications'. The search for updates button was therefore greyed out. However, nothing ever appeared in the notifications.
I updated manually in the end. However, the update section remains the same: Telling me there is an update and not allowing me to check for any further updates. I'd really like to get this functionality working again.
OK can you please tell me wich folder did you put on the micro sd card for the tablet to detect the update?
Seagle77 go to settings/applications/manage applications/all and scroll down to DMClient click on it and hit clear data and clear catche if i remember right thats what i cleared when the ota failed to install for the first time, once you clear it u might have to restart but it should show you the ota notifiction after that, hope it helps.
V.
I tried it, but after the reboot, there is still no notification of the OTA and nothing more on the update menu.
Update.zip file you downloaded for manual update should go under /removable/microsd/update.zip try placing it there and seeing if u get the notification after a reset , if not then try booting into stock recovery and starting the update from there using update.zip
I've downloaded a file nammed "UpdateLauncher_WW_epaduser8659.zip" on asus website. Do I have to rename it before put it on the micro sd card, or leave it like this?
Ok, problem solved here, someone told me to check the update version on "transformerforum", and the origin of the bug was my first manual update, were I used the US update, istead of WW version.
Therefore, I just needed to update with the US 3.2 file and it worked perfectly.
Thanks for the help given here. Have a good one everybody
Enjoy 3.2 !
Today I got a message to install a new firmware for my transformer. However, if I do so, the installation aborts after one third of download, and I get a Android man, and a triangle with a yellow exclamation mark. The reason is probably that my system is rooted (running stock rom B80 with 8.6.6.19).
I do not really want this update. But how can I stop the update message? I can only delay the OTA for one day in the update activity.
And, does anyone have an information about the update? Is it worth going back to unrooted? And can I root again afterwards?
pretty sure it fixes the app backup hole that you got root with so i wouldn't update.
To prevent notification Freeze DMClient app with titanium backup
also there should be a .zip labled update or something like it in your /asus/ folder if you could post the number on the file name
I am not happy to admit that, but I messed around with build.prop until the system no longer reboots. I have to restore my backup. When I am back, I will report.
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OK, I am back.
Installed Titanium Backup, but did not find the option you are referring to. Can you explain, please? Thanks.
I found only one asus folder on /sdcard/asus, and this is for web storage. It is empty. Where do you want me to look for the file number?
You can use this app to temp un-root your device. If you read the subject, some transformer users used this tool for OTA updates.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1241517
Looks too dangerous. I need a rooted device for Cisco VPN. And maybe that small update is not worth the trouble.
Things might be different, if OTA updates to Android 4. But by then, there will be ROMs available too.
can you upload your dlpkgfile? Also, which locale are you in?
Update
I' ve had the same information about update.
It's still 3.2.1.
Just to finish this discussion: I purchased Titanium Pro, and found an option to disable (it is not called "freeze") the update client. Thanks for the hint.
HI
I am using a transformer with
Build Number: HTK75.CN_epad-8.6.5.1-20111216
I have used Natchoroot to root it and it was ok, everything run smooth by then, after that i downloaded, superuser, Voodooo root keeper which specifies that my transformer is rooted, i also did titanium backup successfully which is also an indication that my device is rooted as far as i can tell
Now that the ICS is already here, i still didnt get the update, however i think it'd take a while to come to china with all the restrictions they put on the device (No maps, No Market, No youtube, No facebook, and you name it)
Anyway i thought it'd probably be a better to just flash a WW version of ICS
but a few minutes ago i tried to download CWM from here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346180
And as soon as i try to open it, it tells me that my device is not rootes although like i mentioned before everything indicates that i am rooted because when i open voodoo ota keeper i get the message that it was granted superuser permissions.
So can anyone refer me to other mean to install a CWM ? i've searched the forums but all of the ones i've found are newer version and they all require to already have an older version of CWM
Thanks for your help
I rooted my asus transformer pad tf300t two months ago. Lately my tablet has been promting me about an available update from Asus. I have my doubt about updating my rooted tablet using an official update, so I did a bit of research. And it seems that normally we are adviced to NEVER update directly from a rooted tablet...
Is that true? Do we need to reflash to get rid of the root first before we update?
Thanks in advance for any advice.
1. Remember to get your /system/apps and /system/lib back to stock state before any OTA update.
2. Make sure apps (especially those that came with the stock, however irrelevant e.g. Netflix) have not been frozen / uninstalled with Titanium Backup or other applications. Sometimes some stock apps (even after factory reset) don't match SHA1 sums. Replace modified apks in /system/app to those that originally come with your stock version of tablet as found in About Tablet.
3. You will need a build.prop that hasn't been modified too! Look around to see if you can find one for your SKU.
4. If you have Chainfire 3D installed, you'll have to uninstall the 3D driver, wipe data and cache for the Chainfire 3D app, and uninstall it before update.
In any case, just go for it.
I did that naively. Update failed miserably (worry not, boots back into your pre-update state!). Looked for a way to put the update file manually into /cache partition, update still failed cause of modified/frozen apks.
Added default apks from some dropbox shared link somewhere on these forums, update still failed due to the Chainfire OpenGL driver issue.
On correcting that problem though, update booted to Jelly Bean!
Oh, and if you wish to keep root after update, remember to change Superuser app to SuperSu, then install OTA Rootkeeper from Google Play, save root. Temporary unroot just to be safe (possibly not essential). Then update!
Hi,
I deleted some apps with Root Uninstaller, and now cannot do OTA update.
Is there a way to download stock apps? Om still on 9.4.3.26 firmware back from April, but it is very buggy - crushes all the time - really need to update it. Please let me know were I can find stock Apps
Thanks
I tried to do some digging, but the firmware just looks a bit dated for any meaningful results to show up. A few build.prop dropbox links have been taken down now that it isn't much used. Even the Asus support site doesn't have a US SKU image of the .26.
I guess your best shot may be to try one of the manual upgrades to .29 and then to V10.4.2.9, or to unlock your bootloader. However, I have not done a manual upgrade yet so I wouldn't know the troubleshooting bit. These instructions seem simple though.
I got a notification this morning saying google play services wanted to update. I thought the google play services app itself was wanting to update, so I went ahead plugged in my watch and let it start.
As it turns out, it was the official update from AT&T to android wear 2.0! Finally! I already had android wear 2.0 on my watch, I flashed it using a kdz that someone had uploaded that had already gotten it on a w200L.
Anyway, once I realized what it was doing I was worried it might brick since I had already updated it previously to a different android wear 2.0 version.
I'm happy to report that it updated successfully. I still had stock recovery so that remained the same. I had used TWRP before, but only booted twrp recovery to flash supersu. I never flashed TWRP to my device, I'm not sure if having TWRP recovery installed would've caused the update to fail.
Changes: I lost root access. That is OK because I only rooted my watch so I could add a new APN to use my watch with a Freedompop sim card. Actually it was a good thing because before the update Android pay didn't work because of my root access, and after the update android pay allowed me to add a credit card and looks like it will work, since I no longer have root, even though my bootloader is still unlocked!
Anyways, I just thought I'd bring this up in case someone else has a question about it. My experience may differ from yours, I am not responsible if you have different results.