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/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*
*/
LineageOS is a free, community built, aftermarket firmware distribution of Android 7.1.2 (Nougat), which is designed to increase performance and reliability over stock Android for your device.
NOTE: LineageOS 14.1 is no longer updated. Consider using LineageOS 16.0 instead.
About this project
This is not a regular ROM. Usually, ROMs are based on certain components of the stock system (e.g. the kernel and certain proprietary components). This is a completely new ROM with a new Linux kernel and new implementations for all system components. It is not goal of this project to reach full hardware support or to make it perfectly stable. I will try my best, of course, but I mostly see this as a research project for myself to see how much you can implement with open-source components.
New features
- Android 7.1.2 (LineageOS 14.1) with latest security patches
- Linux 4.14 kernel
- Vulkan graphics (experimental)
- Less/no bloatware
- Full backlight control (allows much lower brightness)
- F2FS (with a compatible recovery)
- USB OTG
- Rootless Substratum theme engine
- Signature spoofing (allows using MicroG instead of proprietary Google Play Services)
- WireGuard
Everything not mentioned here is likely not working.
- Device boots
- Graphics (OpenGL etc)
- Charging
- WiFi
- Sound (Speaker + Headphones), Microphone (quality is pretty bad though...)
- Bluetooth (incl. Bluetooth Audio (A2DP))
- Accelerometer (used for device rotation), magnetometer (needs verification that it is reporting values correctly)
- Backlight control
- SD Card
- Hardware video acceleration (experimental)
- DRM (e.g. for Netflix and other streaming apps, experimental)
- Full disk encryption
- Suspend/Deep sleep states
- Camera: See issue #47 on GitHub
- GPS: See issue #48 on GitHub
- How is the battery live? Screen-on time is probably similar if not longer, but there is a lot of battery drain in standby mode (even worse than on the ASUS system). I recommend that you turn off the tablet when you're not using it.
- How do I obtain root access? There are various ways, but the recommended way for LineageOS is to flash addonsu. For some reason Lineage's x86 addonsu isn't working correctly. Download and flash addonsu-14.1-me176c-signed.zip instead. However, note that this will break SafetyNet. Use Magisk alternatively.
- Can I use Netflix with this ROM? Yes.
Preparation
- Make sure you are running Android Lollipop (5.0).
- You need an unlocked bootloader. The recommended bootloader is me176c-boot, but in case of problems you can also use the older bootloader.
- Install TWRP. I recommend downloading the latest version of TWRP from the separate thread.
- Make a full backup of the ASUS system. You may want to go back to it.
- Do a full factory reset. Wipe data and cache partitions.
- Install the ZIP provided below.
- System image (install as ZIP in recovery): lineage-14.1-20180926-UNOFFICIAL-me176c-signed.zip
- TWRP recovery image: Available in a separate thread.
- Optional: Download Google apps (x86 for Android 7.1): Open GApps
- Optional: Root access: addonsu-14.1-me176c-signed.zip (Magisk is also working if you prefer that)
- Optional: Custom build of Xposed that doesn't cause boot loops: xposed-v89-sdk25-x86-me176c-signed.zip (flash it in recovery)
XDA:DevDB Information
Unofficial LineageOS for ASUS MeMO Pad 7 (ME176C(X)), ROM for the Asus MeMO Pad 7
Contributors
lambdadroid
Source Code: https://github.com/me176c-dev
ROM OS Version: 7.x Nougat
ROM Kernel: Linux 4.x
Based On: LineageOS
Version Information
Status: No Longer Updated
Created 2017-07-07
Last Updated 2020-05-12