Help with everything. Installing a ROM on a TF201 for the first time ever.

[Caboose27]

Okay, I bought this Transformer Prime from my brother. I tried getting a custom recovery on it once, and I hard bricked it. I got a super lucky fix ($40), and it's back to being new again. Now, I really want Cyanogenmod on it, along with a good custom recovery (I'm partial to Clockword Mod, but open to suggestions). It currently has Android 4.1.1 on it, and I've looked up step by step instructions online on how to install CWM and CM9.1 and CM10 on it, but every description is way different than the various screens my Prime gives me. There is no Eee Pad screen, it just says Asus. When I hold down the Volume Down and Power, it gives me a screen with four different icons to choose from. This is where I died last time. Currently it has Root and the bootloader is unlocked, but that's as far as I've been willing to go. Anyone able to point me in the direction of more recent updates/directions so that I can be sure to get something that suits my tablet? And I'm pretty familiar with Android for phones, been rooting, hacking, what have you those for a few years now. Thanks!

 

[jjubenv]

Get your NVFlash blobs first, that will help prevent a brick again. Here is the thread in the development forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455920

 

[Caboose27]

Get your NVFlash blobs first, that will help prevent a brick again. Here is the thread in the development forum http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2455920

I've seen a couple things on nvflash, and been to that tutorial page before. What I'm confused on and haven't seen a clear answer to is, how in the world do I download it? Is it something that can even be downloaded, or is it embedded into the bootloader and I just need to access it?

*Edit* Nevermind, found what my brain was missing all this time. This is why I don't like attempting stuff after getting home from work, I usually wait till a day off.

Anyone know a good tutorial for my other two questions?

 

[jjubenv]

Once I figured out the NVFlash thing, I read around about ROMS (It seems like you already have some familiarity with these). I picked a ROM that is really well supported on this site (HairyBean http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2407248 ) and I read the whole devel thread. It's recently released and so the instructions are relevant and current. There is a good video link by wwjoshdew in the first post which showed me what I should expect and what a normal install should look like (the forum thread shows brief "Works for me, this is great!" posts and bunch of "I have this problem" or "that problem" posts which could be off putting). So I installed TWRP from HairyBean instead of CWM (I like the GUI touch stuff) and HairyBean after that and had great success. I don't have any affiliation with the Androwook team, or HairyBean, but I they have a stable ROM and it is very well supported (Thanks to flumpster and the team). Now I like my Prime even more.

 

[Caboose27]

How do you install TWRP from HairyBean, then install HairyBean? I'll work on NVFlash this weekend.

 

[jjubenv]

It's in the first install step in the first post of the HairyBean thread. Just watch the video in that first post and he shows you step by step. The HairyBean bootloader and TWRP are installed in the first step. The video (also in the first post of the HairyBean devel thread) shows you how to get into recovery, he goes into TWRP, which he had installed before. You will have a new recovery partition (CWM I believe) once you make your NVFlash blobs. You can use that to flash the HairyBean bootloader and TWRP at the same time (It's one ZIP file) from a MicroSD card. No need to unzip it, just put it on the root of the MicroSD card and select that to install. (I can't remember the exact steps to do this from the CWM install left over by the NVFlash process).

 

[Caboose27]

It's in the first install step in the first post of the HairyBean thread. Just watch the video in that first post and he shows you step by step. The HairyBean bootloader and TWRP are installed in the first step. The video (also in the first post of the HairyBean devel thread) shows you how to get into recovery, he goes into TWRP, which he had installed before. You will have a new recovery partition (CWM I believe) once you make your NVFlash blobs. You can use that to flash the HairyBean bootloader and TWRP at the same time (It's one ZIP file) from a MicroSD card. No need to unzip it, just put it on the root of the MicroSD card and select that to install. (I can't remember the exact steps to do this from the CWM install left over by the NVFlash process).

I got pretty far in the NVflash process, but when I try to direction that says to run "wheelie --blob blob.bin" while the tablet is in APX mode, I get "Error 3 receiving response from command". Google has been fruitless. Any ideas?

 

[jjubenv]

You may want to try asking for help in the flatline NVFlash thread in the Development forum, I didn't have any problems and I don't know the components well enough to help you you out. Sorry.

 

[Caboose27]

Yeah, I did that. There was one other guy on there having the same problem and I never saw a resolution posted. Here goes though.

 

[Caboose27]

Ugh, this always happens to me! I have a problem, I post about it on topics started by the developers that people had been posting on all day every day since it was started, and suddenly the posts dry up.