★★ CROMi-X 7.x Q&A Thread ★★

[jenowa]

Hello,
Few questions regarding:
CROMi-X 6.0b2 from here

1. Version from Jan12 and Jan9 show in Antutu score around 20k - my stock has 34k - I used antutu from store (maybe different version?)
2. Is it possible on that ROM (from JAN12) change resolution to 1920x1200?
3. Is it rooted?

Sorry if these are noob questions but I couldn't find any information and I wanted to be sure before I precede with upgrade.

 

[super0dd]

Be careful what you are flashing! Where did you get those files? WW T4???? That can't be an Asus firmware...???

I downloaded it from the ASUS official website. Go there, you can find the so-called "WW T4" file. It’s the SD update pack, which is DIFFERENT from the normal update pack.

According to my previous experience on TF201, the SD update pack should be almost universal and can be flashed in regardless of the SKU version. But it seems no, for this time on TF701T. Good grief.

I downloaded the SD update pack for WW version and the CN version.

It was not a mistake. I donwloaded two versions in case that one doesn't work.

I flash the CN version first and failed, then I tried the WW SDupdate pack, it failed, too.

I wonder if the CWM is only compatible with the US or WW version, but I have a CN bootloader.

What a conundrum.:crying:

But still thank you for your continuous help.

P.S. I wonder if the official update pack is valid and recognizable for CWM recovery.

 

[sbdags]

I downloaded it from the ASUS official website. Go there, you can find the so-called "WW T4" file. It’s the SD update pack, which is DIFFERENT from the normal update pack.

According to my previous experience on TF201, the SD update pack should be almost universal and can be flashed in regardless of the SKU version. But it seems no, for this time on TF701T. Good grief.

I downloaded the SD update pack for WW version and the CN version.

It was not a mistake. I donwloaded two versions in case that one doesn't work.

I flash the CN version first and failed, then I tried the WW SDupdate pack, it failed, too.

I wonder if the CWM is only compatible with the US or WW version, but I have a CN bootloader.

What a conundrum.:crying:

But still thank you for your continuous help.

P.S. I wonder if the official update pack is valid and recognizable for CWM recovery.

Did you unzip the file first?

 

[super0dd]

Did you unzip the file first?

Of course I did.

 

[AngryDinosaur]

Of course I did.

I wonder if you can flash stock recovery with fastboot, then use put zip on sd and let tablet detect method to upgrade

Sent from my Note II using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

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Hello,
Few questions regarding:
CROMi-X 6.0b2 from here

1. Version from Jan12 and Jan9 show in Antutu score around 20k - my stock has 34k - I used antutu from store (maybe different version?)
2. Is it possible on that ROM (from JAN12) change resolution to 1920x1200?
3. Is it rooted?

Sorry if these are noob questions but I couldn't find any information and I wanted to be sure before I precede with upgrade.

Yes benchmark is wonky because of xposed

Yes you can change resolution

Yes it is rooted, both the custom stock and cromix


To change resolution type the following in terminal emulator

Su
Wm density 240
Wm size 1920x1200

Change numbers to reset to revert back

Go here for resolution change
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2594194

Sent from my Note II using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

 

[super0dd]

I wonder if you can flash stock recovery with fastboot, then use put zip on sd and let tablet detect method to upgrade

Sent from my Note II using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

---------- Post added at 09:17 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:13 PM ----------



Yes benchmark is wonky because of xposed

Yes you can change resolution

Yes it is rooted, both the custom stock and cromix


To change resolution type the following in terminal emulator

Su
Wm density 240
Wm size 1920x1200

Change numbers to reset to revert back

Go here for resolution change
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2594194

Sent from my Note II using XDA Premium 4 mobile app

Sorry I don't know where to find the stock recovery.

Can I extract it from the official 10.14.1.47 firmware pack? If yes, how?

 

[mattaw2001]

Restoring ASUS stock after CWM + CHROM-i X

Sadly the CHROM-i X ROM seemed to get stuck into a loop:

Boot, run for 1 minute, reboot, etc. You could login and do a few things and new email was received but then it would reboot again.

Sometimes however I was able to get it to stay running and it was great, very stable, then it would fall into this mode again. Perhaps I have bad hardware?

Tried:

1) Reflashing recovery
2) Wiping everything I could through CWM
3) Redownloading rom and reflashing
4) Factory wipe.

In the end reloaded ASUS stock by using CWM to sideload ZIP. It never rebooted during Aroma, CWM or ASUS recovery.

Got assert failed ro.buildprop = KC00C so had to hand edit out the model name from the updater script. It then look liked the update had failed with error 7 but it rebooted into the ASUS stock. I then quickly shoved an sdcard with the manual update from ASUS on it and it asked me if I wanted to install it. Of course I said yes and it worked without error or hand edits.

So Unlocked and on ASUS stock for now. Will try the next version when you have time,

Matthew

 

[AngryDinosaur]

Sorry I don't know where to find the stock recovery.

Can I extract it from the official 10.14.1.47 firmware pack? If yes, how?

When you open the stock firmware zip one file should say recovery. Flash it the same way as cwm with fastboot. I'm not sure if this will work. Wait a bit when @sbdags or other more experienced user come on

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---------- Post added at 11:46 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:43 PM ----------

@mattaw2001 can you simplify what you are trying to say. Also list the version of bootloader, cwm, unlocked, before flashing

Because you shouldn't have flashing issues if you met all the requirements he listed in the rom thread

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[sbdags]

Sadly the CHROM-i X ROM seemed to get stuck into a loop:

Boot, run for 1 minute, reboot, etc. You could login and do a few things and new email was received but then it would reboot again.

Sometimes however I was able to get it to stay running and it was great, very stable, then it would fall into this mode again. Perhaps I have bad hardware?

Tried:

1) Reflashing recovery
2) Wiping everything I could through CWM
3) Redownloading rom and reflashing
4) Factory wipe.

In the end reloaded ASUS stock by using CWM to sideload ZIP. It never rebooted during Aroma, CWM or ASUS recovery.

Got assert failed ro.buildprop = KC00C so had to hand edit out the model name from the updater script. It then look liked the update had failed with error 7 but it rebooted into the ASUS stock. I then quickly shoved an sdcard with the manual update from ASUS on it and it asked me if I wanted to install it. Of course I said yes and it worked without error or hand edits.

So Unlocked and on ASUS stock for now. Will try the next version when you have time,

Matthew

If you got an assert failed message then your machine doesn't think it is a TF701T. What boot loader and SKU were you on and what have you now flashed.?

 

[berndblb]

Sorry I don't know where to find the stock recovery.

Can I extract it from the official 10.14.1.47 firmware pack? If yes, how?

I believe you would have to unpack the system blob for that and that's way over my head....

On the Asus download site, they provide the T4_SDupdate file only for WW SKU. All the other SKUs have only one firmware file version. And the update instructions for the T4 version are different too. This version seems to be designed to be used from your microSD versus the other ones from your internal. I wonder if that is because Asus pushed out an incompatible update to WW users which was only recoverable by wiping data from the bootloader and reflashing the firmware from the microSD...

None of that helps you though...
If you done everything correctly: Downloaded the CN firmware twice (just to make sure your problem is not simply a corrupted download), extracted the downloaded file once and you are unable to flash that file in CWM we may be dealing with a new situation here...Namely CWM not being capable of flashing a firmware zip.....
If all of the above is true, the only way I know of to get the latest bootloader on your tablet would be to flash the system blob in fastboot.
You would have to get the necessary fastboot drivers working on your PC, extract the Asus firmware file twice and copy the file named "blob" to the folder where your fastboot.exe is.
Now, I would feel a whole lot better if somebody with more experience than I have - namely @sbdags & Co - would confirm this, but I think the commands would be, from a command prompt opened in your fastboot.exe directory

fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash system blob
fastboot reboot

But please - don't take my word for it....

 

[super0dd]

I believe you would have to unpack the system blob for that and that's way over my head....

On the Asus download site, they provide the T4_SDupdate file only for WW SKU. All the other SKUs have only one firmware file version. And the update instructions for the T4 version are different too. This version seems to be designed to be used from your microSD versus the other ones from your internal. I wonder if that is because Asus pushed out an incompatible update to WW users which was only recoverable by wiping data from the bootloader and reflashing the firmware from the microSD...

None of that helps you though...
If you done everything correctly: Downloaded the CN firmware twice (just to make sure your problem is not simply a corrupted download), extracted the downloaded file once and you are unable to flash that file in CWM we may be dealing with a new situation here...Namely CWM not being capable of flashing a firmware zip.....
If all of the above is true, the only way I know of to get the latest bootloader on your tablet would be to flash the system blob in fastboot.
You would have to get the necessary fastboot drivers working on your PC, extract the Asus firmware file twice and copy the file named "blob" to the folder where your fastboot.exe is.
Now, I would feel a whole lot better if somebody with more experience than I have - namely @sbdags & Co - would confirm this, but I think the commands would be, from a command prompt opened in your fastboot.exe directory

fastboot eratem
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash system blob
fastboot reboot

But please - don't take my word for it....

Uh, how should I extract files from the blob?
Thank you anyway.

 

[sbdags]

I downloaded it from the ASUS official website. Go there, you can find the so-called "WW T4" file. It’s the SD update pack, which is DIFFERENT from the normal update pack.

According to my previous experience on TF201, the SD update pack should be almost universal and can be flashed in regardless of the SKU version. But it seems no, for this time on TF701T. Good grief.

I downloaded the SD update pack for WW version and the CN version.

It was not a mistake. I donwloaded two versions in case that one doesn't work.

I flash the CN version first and failed, then I tried the WW SDupdate pack, it failed, too.

I wonder if the CWM is only compatible with the US or WW version, but I have a CN bootloader.

What a conundrum.:crying:

But still thank you for your continuous help.

P.S. I wonder if the official update pack is valid and recognizable for CWM recovery.

I believe you would have to unpack the system blob for that and that's way over my head....

On the Asus download site, they provide the T4_SDupdate file only for WW SKU. All the other SKUs have only one firmware file version. And the update instructions for the T4 version are different too. This version seems to be designed to be used from your microSD versus the other ones from your internal. I wonder if that is because Asus pushed out an incompatible update to WW users which was only recoverable by wiping data from the bootloader and reflashing the firmware from the microSD...

None of that helps you though...
If you done everything correctly: Downloaded the CN firmware twice (just to make sure your problem is not simply a corrupted download), extracted the downloaded file once and you are unable to flash that file in CWM we may be dealing with a new situation here...Namely CWM not being capable of flashing a firmware zip.....
If all of the above is true, the only way I know of to get the latest bootloader on your tablet would be to flash the system blob in fastboot.
You would have to get the necessary fastboot drivers working on your PC, extract the Asus firmware file twice and copy the file named "blob" to the folder where your fastboot.exe is.
Now, I would feel a whole lot better if somebody with more experience than I have - namely @sbdags & Co - would confirm this, but I think the commands would be, from a command prompt opened in your fastboot.exe directory

fastboot erase system
fastboot erase recovery
fastboot erase boot
fastboot erase userdata
fastboot flash system blob
fastboot reboot

But please - don't take my word for it....

Uh, how should I extract files from the blob?
Thank you anyway.

The TF701T firmware files are packaged differently to previous Tegra 3 devices so the above won't work.

What are you trying to achieve? Upgrade your bootloader to 4.3? Currently I don't think you can easily change SKUs and I'm not about to risk trying it as we have nvflash backup method, so if you are on the CN SKU then your options are to upgrade using Asus's CN firmwares. There is no point in trying to flash official WW packages as they won't work as it will check your SKU and fail as it does not match the one on the device.

On the Asus website they list your firmware which you should be able to flash. (flash the zip in side the zip)

Version V10.26.1.18

Description ASUS Transformer Pad(TF701T) Firmware: V10.26.1.18 Only for CN SKU (Android 4.3)
Steps of Update:

1. Check SW version of your ASUS Transformer Pad(TF701T)*
2. Download ASUS Transformer Pad(TF701T) Firmware: V10.26.1.18 Only for CN SKU and Update version of SOP (From “Manual” Item)

※Firmware update cannot do *SKU conversion* and downgrade version.
Wrong SKU may cause update failure, You can only update your SW version on the Same SKU
*How to check SW version of your Eee Pad Transformer Infinity TF700T?
Path: [Settings]-->[About tablet]-->Build number
Example: You should be able to see the build number CN_epad-10.X.X.X_2012xxxx, where “CN” means SKU.
File Size 863,18 MBytesupdate 2013.12.31
Download from Global

 

[AsteriCS8]

compatibility with TW SKU for TF701T?

Hello,
I have a TF701T with TW SKU, just updated to the official 4.3 version.
I am interested to try your ROM CROMi-X 6.0 but I don't know if I can install it on my device (due to possible compatibility issues).
What can you advise?
also, do you know how long will take until you will release a stable / final version?
Thank you

 

[gui3gui]

I have created a tutoriel based on yours Sdbags, on Frandroid to help french users who want flash your rom !
Thanks a lot for your work ! Very stable and smooth

 

[LetMeKnow]

I get 33,000+ Ah xposed modules do cause performance hits.

Let see if I can push it up to 40,000....:silly:

 

[sbdags]

Aiming to get a patch out for beta 3 this weekend. Got a few more tweaks sorted for performance as well as other bug fixes

 

[super0dd]

The TF701T firmware files are packaged differently to ious Tegra 3 devices so the above won't work.

What are you trying to achieve? Upgrade your bootloader to 4.3? Currently I don't think you can easily change SKUs and I'm not about to risk trying it as we have nvflash backup method, so if you are on the CN SKU then your options are to upgrade using Asus's CN firmwares. There is no point in trying to flash official WW packages as they won't work as it will check your SKU and fail as it does not match the one on the device.

On the Asus website they list your firmware which you should be able to flash. (flash the zip in side the zip)

Version V10.26.1.18

Description ASUS Transformer Pad(TF701T) Firmware: V10.26.1.18 Only for CN SKU (Android 4.3)
Steps of Update:

1. Check SW version of your ASUS Transformer Pad(TF701T)*
2. Download ASUS Transformer Pad(TF701T) Firmware: V10.26.1.18 Only for CN SKU and Update version of SOP (From “Manual” Item)

※Firmware update cannot do *SKU conversion* and downgrade version.
Wrong SKU may cause update failure, You can only update your SW version on the Same SKU
*How to check SW version of your Eee Pad Transformer Infinity TF700T?
Path: [Settings]-->[About tablet]-->Build number
Example: You should be able to see the build number CN_epad-10.X.X.X_2012xxxx, where “CN” means SKU.
File Size 863,18 MBytesupdate 2013.12.31
Download from Global

What I am trying to achieve is, to update to 4.3.
I assume that the official CN update pack is really flashable for CWM 6.0.3.7(I did unzip once first).
And I did try to download that file for more than twice in case of corrupted file.
Well I’ll try again to flash it after I back up.
Thank s a lot.

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Finally I made it to flash the zip after I shut down the signature.
Thank you all.

 

[sbdags]

Beta 4 posted in the dev section.

 

[Calp]

What I am trying to achieve is, to update to 4.3.
I assume that the official CN update pack is really flashable for CWM 6.0.3.7(I did unzip once first).
And I did try to download that file for more than twice in case of corrupted file.
Well I’ll try again to flash it after I back up.
Thank s a lot.

---------- Post added at 03:00 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:14 PM ----------


Finally I made it to flash the zip after I shut down the signature.
Thank you all.

Hey man! I might have a similar problem to what you had; I explained my problems in the official CROMi-X thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2608129&page=9

In order to flash CWM properly I have to update my bootloader to version .18 which is not possible with CWM, though. So it seems like my only possibility was to flash the blob within the bootloader (?) which I'm quite scared of. How did you flash the zip file "after shutting down the signature"? Do you think it could help me with my problem? If not, can you (or anyone else) tell me which commands to use exactly?

 

[Snah001]

Hey man! I might have a similar problem to what you had; I explained my problems in the official CROMi-X thread here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2608129&page=9

In order to flash CWM properly I have to update my bootloader to version .18 which is not possible with CWM, though. So it seems like my only possibility was to flash the blob within the bootloader (?) which I'm quite scared of. How did you flash the zip file "after shutting down the signature"? Do you think it could help me with my problem? If not, can you (or anyone else) tell me which commands to use exactly?

You must flash the original ASUS firmware from your SD-card.
Atm there is no other way, but probably later on it will be made possible to flash a new bootloader seperately.
Get the .18 firmware here and follow the guidelines: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2554930

You can't flash Asus firmware through CWM!!!
Oh and there is still no JP Asus firmware of .18 so when that is the case you can't flash this Rom.