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WARNING regarding the OTA update

Hey guys, do not flash the OTA update manually with CWM, it bricked my tab an will most likely brick yours too.
Make sure your tab is stock 3.0.1 and wait patiently.
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To clarify, I'm taking about the OTA zip from Google, not the cwm backup.
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Off course yunshouldnt flash OTA update with CWM!
IT WILL BRICK YOUR TAB!
If you are not sure what you doing don't do it!
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I'm kitchen this backup but there is the kernel bug!!

cooking
rs125 said:
I'm kitchen this backup but there is the kernel bug!!
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If you say you're cooking a new rom with this one, I'm going to wait...to sell it, but after having tested your 3.2 and this "update", believe me, yours is better!! I'm totally dissapointed with it.
Keep it real, man!

yes, i'm use cwm manually ota , my tap brick ,now can't open fastboot or odin mode
and use nvflash no respond. (use nvflash "show rcm version 0x4"
you can help me?

osmosis24 said:
yes, i'm use cwm manually ota , my tap brick ,now can't open fastboot or odin mode
and use nvflash no respond. (use nvflash "show rcm version 0x4"
you can help me?
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what the f+++ck you guys don´t understand:
DONT FLASH THE OTA WHITH CWM!!!
touth it was i nice way to stop whith the 10.1 v problem.....
now go to vodafone and say it was a horrible storm...in your head!!

madjose said:
what the f+++ck you guys don´t understand:
DONT FLASH THE OTA WHITH CWM!!!
touth it was i nice way to stop whith the 10.1 v problem.....
now go to vodafone and say it was a horrible storm...in your head!!
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I'm not sure what I must do to go back to stock rom and recovery so I can receive OTA, do you have any link you can point me to?
Is this what I should do:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1083517

Tbh it's not such a crazy thing to think that the OTA was ok to flash with CWM.on the galaxy nexus that was fine to do.
But I learned my lesson and I'm starting to understand the reasons why
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LILkillaBEE said:
I'm not sure what I must do to go back to stock rom and recovery so I can receive OTA, do you have any link you can point me to?
Is this what I should do:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1083517
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Yes you can flash this one, it will brings you back to stock.
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LILkillaBEE said:
I'm not sure what I must do to go back to stock rom and recovery so I can receive OTA, do you have any link you can point me to?
Is this what I should do:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1083517
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i hope you did the rigth thing just now online!
No point in waiting one year and f###ck everything in the last minute.
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ramonams said:
Tbh it's not such a crazy thing to think that the OTA was ok to flash with CWM.on the galaxy nexus that was fine to do.
But I learned my lesson and I'm starting to understand the reasons why
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Sorry. for your tab!
I did the same mistake twice,don't no why it don't brick.just abort flash
Maybe is a punishment for me just keeping on this update hell
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Just wondering if anyone has had any success in unbricking their tab yet. I was reading through old forum posts and there was a thread where fricorico had flashed a transformer rom and couldn't load fastboot or download mode. He said that he managed to get his tab into apx mode and could then eventually get the tab back up and running.
I can't post a link because I'm on the xda app but our forum isn't too big to find it and try. Also, not sure what or how to get into apx mode though so this post may be literally useless to most people. But maybe someone knowledgeable will remember something as a result.
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twigster said:
Just wondering if anyone has had any success in unbricking their tab yet. I was reading through old forum posts and there was a thread where fricorico had flashed a transformer rom and couldn't load fastboot or download mode. He said that he managed to get his tab into apx mode and could then eventually get the tab back up and running.
I can't post a link because I'm on the xda app but our forum isn't too big to find it and try. Also, not sure what or how to get into apx mode though so this post may be literally useless to most people. But maybe someone knowledgeable will remember something as a result.
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I've brought mine to repair already. Nvflash doesn't work because our chip is locked with a special key. I've looked up a lot of things already when isi's tab bricked.
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I have to send it to Samsung...
Waiting for the damn thing to discharge fully to see if I can get out of the APX loop..
It's been 3 days and the bloody thing is still recognised by the PC...

It's definetly possible to fix it!
I had this problem when I've flashed 10.1 rom on 10.1v.
Google it!
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Yanluk said:
It's definetly possible to fix it!
I had this problem when I've flashed 10.1 rom on 10.1v.
Google it!
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Instead of repeating the same thing you could actually contribute and post your solution.
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I said I don't remember. I was testing some rooms for seo and I think he told me what to do. As far as I remember it involved getting boot.I mg from stock room and than flashing that.
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Girl into Droid!

Hello everyone!
My name is Anastasia, I am 19 years old, from London.
Yesterday, I bought myself (thanks to my payday) a brand new Asus Google Nexus 7, 32gb, from Argos (shop).
I keep reading what you get with root, and it made me WANT to root it.
Here's my information:
Nexus 7
JOP40D
4.2.1
So, the tablet is brand new, and I HAVEN'T touched it, except when I downloaded few Apps. So, all I want, is to ROOT it in the safest and easiest way. I am scared that it brakes? Anyways, what is the FIRST step? I need it rooted and ready to rock. (Themes, Hide bar, etc.). What, Should, I, Do? Thanks a lot to everyone! I hope I can make it? Take care xoxo

Welcome to the NEXUS 7 BANDWAGON.
Did you want to root and stay stock ROM???
DEVICES:
NEXUS 7 32GB STOCK
(NO ROOT)
T-MOBIL LG G2X (LG-P999)
STOCK (ROOTED)
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I don't know? It's the Nexus 7 4.2.1 32gb WiFi version.
I want full themes (change nav bar color etc), GameCiH thingy, hum hide nav bar, and stuff like this. just these. the simplesy way to get these? thanks! Oh and safe of course xD what to do? its still brand new out of the boxxxxx cant wait to root! xoox

Astrocat said:
I don't know? It's the Nexus 7 4.2.1 32gb WiFi version.
I want full themes (change nav bar color etc), GameCiH thingy, hum hide nav bar, and stuff like this. just these. the simplesy way to get these? thanks! Oh and safe of course xD what to do? its still brand new out of the boxxxxx cant wait to root! xoox
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Don't worry. The Nexus 7 is almost unbrickable (can't break it by messing with the software).
You should definatly root it, and when you get the knowladge of what you are doing get a custom recovery, and flash a new ROM, maybe a theme. Trust me you just got a device running android. It's never ending fun. :highfive:
Here you go. http://xda-university.com/.
That site will help you learn what you are doing.

U can try wugfresh toolkit. That's what i used and has the instructions with it. You will need to have adb set up. there video on YouTube showing steps to set it up with the nexus 7As for roms i have smoothrom installed u can change your theme with theme manager. U can download the themes from playmarket or on the xdA website.
Welcome the the nexus 7 community
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AFAinHD said:
Don't worry. The Nexus 7 is almost unbrickable (can't break it by messing with the software).
You should definatly root it, and when you get the knowladge of what you are doing get a custom recovery, and flash a new ROM, maybe a theme. Trust me you just got a device running android. It's never ending fun. :highfive:
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Well thanks but how do I root it? Where do I start? Thanks! xx

Astrocat said:
Well thanks but how do I root it? Where do I start? Thanks! xx
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XDA-University I put the link in my last post.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeawrtNpLeE&feature=youtube_gdata_player
That should help u. To root it and set up adb and install the SDK
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Yeah just use Wug's toolkit, it's pretty great.
And welcome to the forums.

AFAinHD said:
Don't worry. The Nexus 7 is almost unbrickable (can't break it by messing with the software).
You should definatly root it, and when you get the knowladge of what you are doing get a custom recovery, and flash a new ROM, maybe a theme. Trust me you just got a device running android. It's never ending fun. :highfive:
Here you go. http://xda-university.com/.
That site will help you learn what you are doing.
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"Can't break it by messing with the software". Ehrm. I got recovery deleted + bootloop by flashing a kernel :what: By the way, welcome to Nexus 7 Astrocat!
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Thanks anyways everyone. I'm sad now lol. I'm using MAC OSX and not windows. awwww

Astrocat said:
Thanks anyways everyone. I'm sad now lol. I'm using MAC OSX and not windows. awwww
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VaderSKN said:
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Made me laugh
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Get WUG's toolkit
You're lucky you didn't do too much on it... since IIRC rooting will wipe data

ROOTED! Used BOOTCAMP to use Windows on Mac. ETAT = Perfect! YAY ALL

VaderSKN said:
"Can't break it by messing with the software". Ehrm. I got recovery deleted + bootloop by flashing a kernel :what: By the way, welcome to Nexus 7 Astrocat!
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Woah! Is that a brick? Nope. You can still go to the recovery partition and reflash a different kernel. Or you can boot to the bootloader and use fastboot to flash a new kernel. If you were bricked you would never be able to use your device again.

VaderSKN said:
"Can't break it by messing with the software". Ehrm. I got recovery deleted + bootloop by flashing a kernel :what: By the way, welcome to Nexus 7 Astrocat!
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You're doing it wrong.
I've had 3 nexus devices and two galaxy S devices and I have NEVER had that happen. Ever.
Secondly that isn't a brick, that, at most, is a mild inconvenience.
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Astrocat said:
Hello everyone!
My name is Anastasia, I am 19 years old, from London.
Yesterday, I bought myself (thanks to my payday) a brand new Asus Google Nexus 7, 32gb, from Argos (shop).
I keep reading what you get with root, and it made me WANT to root it.
Here's my information:
Nexus 7
JOP40D
4.2.1
So, the tablet is brand new, and I HAVEN'T touched it, except when I downloaded few Apps. So, all I want, is to ROOT it in the safest and easiest way. I am scared that it brakes? Anyways, what is the FIRST step? I need it rooted and ready to rock. (Themes, Hide bar, etc.). What, Should, I, Do? Thanks a lot to everyone! I hope I can make it? Take care xoxo
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Now that is how you get a lot of people to reply to your question, open by saying you are a 19yr old girl, and closing with x's and o's.
Well played!
Edit: Welcome!
Be proud to be in the crack flashers club.
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Yea seriously... Anyone else would get a quick go F yourself and learn to read the forum rules bit. I do like the info this forum provides but it comes with a price called bad attitude from some members.

girls ?? on teh internetz ??
anyway welcome to teh android club !

Never use a toolkit, its just as easy to do with adb and fastboot, and you have minimal chance of breaking anything or having issues.
Guide to setting up adb and fastboot on mac: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1917237
Guide to unlock bootloader and root: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1741395
Hope that works out.
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Just gotta new 32g nexus 7!!!!

I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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harley1rocker said:
I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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Haha calm down, look at wugfresh toolkit in the android development section.. It will help you root and unlock your nexus, then find a rom to flash
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harley1rocker said:
I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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Don't worry, the Nexus 7 is by far the easiest device to mod/flash/rom, IMHO. Wegfresh is by far my favorite.

Hi there,
If you got one than u have a fine taste. hehe. Its a brilliant piece of device. Congrats.
Regarding the flashing and stuff, gotta be honest, i have mine for two weeks now and still no flashing. It feels so great with stock mode still, so flashing will not happen for now. But good luck with it.
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harley1rocker said:
I love this thing already! I wanna root and custom ROM this bad boy! I'm familiar with rooting and flashing the Att note and s2. This thing looks tricky to do! Help pls!
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Great purchase
You don‘t really need to root for general everyday usage. Stock Android is already free of crapware unlike most other builds that OEMs use.
Enjoy it

Don't use tool kits man just follow this guide you can't go wrong http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816048
I am rooted but running stock 4.2.2 with bricked kernel and its great enjoy your device
Still see myself as noob but i try and help. Don't say thanks hit the THANKS BUTTON

OP - Try searching the forums before creating a thread. There are dozens of threads about this already.

ynrozturk said:
OP - Try searching the forums before creating a thread. There are dozens of threads about this already.
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Everyone aint like me tho! Lol. Sorry 4 real...

I rooted with wugfresh. The drivers were a bit confusing but overall a good method. Anyway,im a flashaholic wen it coms to my galaxy note. Flapps roms are most stable. I have yet to find a rom that is stable with the nexus. I get a bunch of FCs with all roms. WHY!! They all look sexy as hell! They dont function right tho. Yes twrp is installed. Thats wat i run on my note. I might do a full restore then redo drivers. I might have got bad drivers or something is not intagrating well with a DL

harley1rocker said:
I rooted with wugfresh. The drivers were a bit confusing but overall a good method. Anyway,im a flashaholic wen it coms to my galaxy note. Flapps roms are most stable. I have yet to find a rom that is stable with the nexus. I get a bunch of FCs with all roms. WHY!! They all look sexy as hell! They dont function right tho. Yes twrp is installed. Thats wat i run on my note. I might do a full restore then redo drivers. I might have got bad drivers or something is not intagrating well with a DL
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What? You are probably forgetting to wipe in between ROMs.

[Q] don't install TWRP!!!!

Installing TWRP 2.5 bricked my Nexus 7!! PLEASE DONT INSTALL TWRP 2.5 ON YOUR NEXUS 7, IT WILL SURLY BRICK THE MOTHER ****ER GOD DAmit! my key board is so fed up right now its not even funny, from all the frustration from my nexus 7 being so fed up from TWRP 2.5!!!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!

Than go in to the Bootloader or fastboot push cwm recovery from your PC. And your nexus will be back in working condition.
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TWRP 2.5 works just fine for me. Like above said, fastboot flash CWM.
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I have no problems with TWRP 2.5, maybe you did something wrong.
try flashing it again with Nexus Root Toolkit

bi11tacu1ar said:
Installing TWRP 2.5 bricked my Nexus 7!! PLEASE DONT INSTALL TWRP 2.5 ON YOUR NEXUS 7, IT WILL SURLY BRICK THE MOTHER ****ER GOD DAmit! my key board is so fed up right now its not even funny, from all the frustration from my nexus 7 being so fed up from TWRP 2.5!!!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!
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Would you care to elaborate on what you mean by 'brick'... and please attenuate you're inarticulate rage; it helps nobody.
Facts, details and specificity would be more useful.
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I have been running TWRP 2.5.0.0 since the 10th of April....., during which time I have performed many NANDROID backups and restores..., as well as flashed various ROMs and Kernels... without any problems at all.
Rgrds,
Ged.

2.5.0.0 is working fine for me.. No probs.

User error. Do as the others have said.
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You mean if you don't know how to read and follow instructions don't install twrp. I've installed every version just fine. Jhheezzee
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androidkid311 said:
You mean if you don't know how to read and follow instructions don't install twrp. I've installed every version just fine. Jhheezzee
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lol...works fine here, too.

I never encountered any problem with TWRP. Flashed many roms, kernels; I made many backups and restored them. You obviously did something wrong. But what? Can you still get in bootloader mode? What version did you flash? How did you flash it? So little information...

Um.... TWRP works great. The only way you could brick is if you tried to flash it onto the bootloader partition.
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Running twrp 2.5 multirom on my N7, Twrp 2.5 on my HTC Evo Shift, and guess what? Twrp 2.5 on my HP Touchpad.
No issues here.
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bi11tacu1ar said:
Installing TWRP 2.5 bricked my Nexus 7!! PLEASE DONT INSTALL TWRP 2.5 ON YOUR NEXUS 7, IT WILL SURLY BRICK THE MOTHER ****ER GOD DAmit! my key board is so fed up right now its not even funny, from all the frustration from my nexus 7 being so fed up from TWRP 2.5!!!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!
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TWRP had nothing to do with it.
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bi11tacu1ar said:
Installing TWRP 2.5 bricked my Nexus 7!! PLEASE DONT INSTALL TWRP 2.5 ON YOUR NEXUS 7, IT WILL SURLY BRICK THE MOTHER ****ER GOD DAmit! my key board is so fed up right now its not even funny, from all the frustration from my nexus 7 being so fed up from TWRP 2.5!!!!!!! BEWARE!!!!!
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I think you'll find the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.

it's a good thing you made this thread OP, the only one of it's kind warning us against twrp 2.5. all of us who don't have problem with 2.5 are clearly living in the matrix where our imaginations are taking over.

Lost Dog said:
I think you'll find the problem is between the chair and the keyboard.
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This.
Don't post **** like this op, you're clearly clueless.

Let's get a mod to close this thread please. it isn't even in the right section, user error.
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kidrobot52 said:
Let's get a mod to close this thread please. it isn't even in the right section, user error.
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I'm inclined to agree... it's running out of control, going nowhere and has no practical value...
I'm also uncomfortable with the general direction this thread is going in...
This thread should be closed, IMHO.
Rgrds,
Ged.

Thread closed.
I myself have never had any issues with TWRP, and personal issues with a recovery is no means to start a thread on the matter, however if you are having issues and would like help perhaps post in the Q&A section about your issue (providing as much information on whats happened and what you did as possible)
Thank you

Disable Asus theme in 4.4?

Just bought a tf701t tablet. It came with 4.2 I was able to disable the white default syustrm theme and use standard android colors. Then the update for 4.3 came. Settings stayed. Then this morning the 4.4 update installed now I'm back on this white theme? And the option is gone to disable it?
Anyone know what I'm talking about here?
Thanks.
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ronedogg said:
Just bought a tf701t tablet. It came with 4.2 I was able to disable the white default syustrm theme and use standard android colors. Then the update for 4.3 came. Settings stayed. Then this morning the 4.4 update installed now I'm back on this white theme? And the option is gone to disable it?
Anyone know what I'm talking about here?
Thanks.
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Nope!
I haven't seen anything like that in 4.4. I had to decompile the frameworkres.apk and systemui.apk and change the colours that way but if you are doing that you may as well load cromi-x. So no way to change them unless you can find an app for root that works with the asus framework which I doubt.

sbdags said:
Nope!
I haven't seen anything like that in 4.4. I had to decompile the frameworkres.apk and systemui.apk and change the colours that way but if you are doing that you may as well load cromi-x. So no way to change them unless you can find an app for root that works with the asus framework which I doubt.
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Ah OK cool. Thanks for the answer.
Quick question. I have the tf701t. Is cwm comparable and the ROM? So far I've just unlocked boot loader and rooted.
Cheers

ronedogg said:
Ah OK cool. Thanks for the answer.
Quick question. I have the tf701t. Is cwm comparable and the ROM? So far I've just unlocked boot loader and rooted.
Cheers
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See my CROMi-X 7 thread in the dev forum for instructions

sbdags said:
See my CROMi-X 7 thread in the dev forum for instructions
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Sweet I'll have a look tonight. I'm familiar with all this flashing stuff. On my 3rd tablet nexus 7 and 10 and 4th phone android. Galaxy s3 s4 and moto g.
Surprised there isn't more Roms and kernels, such a bad ass device, or am I missing something ? Hahahahh. but after a quick read I see the targa 4 drivers are extremely difficult to code.
Thanks again.
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ronedogg said:
Sweet I'll have a look tonight. I'm familiar with all this flashing stuff. On my 3rd tablet nexus 7 and 10 and 4th phone android. Galaxy s3 s4 and moto g.
Surprised there isn't more Roms and kernels, such a bad ass device, or am I missing something ? Hahahahh. but after a quick read I see the targa 4 drivers are extremely difficult to code.
Thanks again.
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Yeah - well flashing this won't be like anything on your nexus or samsung