[ROM]★[TF700 KitKat 4.4.4][ZOMBi-X OMNI KANG b9][Oct 10]★

[sbdags]

YOU MUST BE ON THE ASUS STOCK JB 4.2.1 BOOTLOADER VERSION 10.6.1.14.10 AND TWRP 2.6.3.2+ OR CWM 6.0.4.6+ BEFORE FLASHING THIS ROM. SEE UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW IF YOU ARE UNSURE

You must do a full wipe in recovery if coming from another ROM base. Do not do a full wipe from the bootloader. Don't forget to do a Nandroid Backup first and give the ROM 10 mins to stabilise!

Features and Tweaks

• This ROM is based from OMNI AOSP sources
• Supports EXT4 and F2FS Data partitions
• Based off omni-4.4.4-20140824-zombi_tf700t-KANG source by lj50036/hardslog
• Full Aroma Installer for main rom including choice of 3 kernels and ROM2SD/DATA2sd/F2FS support
• Remixed _thatv10 kernel with OMNI ramdisk - repacked by sbdags
• Grimlock kernel with OMNI ramdisk and _that init - by hardslog
• DPI Size: 213 (TF700 recommended small fonts), 240 (Stock fonts), 224 (Medium fonts) & 200 (Small fonts), 180 (Tiny fonts) & 160 (Specsavers fonts)
• Launchers: Omni, Google Experience Launcher, Apex , Nova
• Boot Animations: ZOMBi-X, Android-L, Nexus Phase Beam
• Gapps (updated by me to Google latest apks and libs)
• Misc Apps: ESFile Explorer, Adobe Flash, AdAway, Titanium Backup, Keyboard Manager
• Asus Apps: Compiled by kansasboy001; Asus Battery Widget, Asus Calculator, Asus Calendar, Asus Clock, Asus Dayscene Live Wallpaper, Asus Dictionary, Asus Email, Asus Gallery, Asus Keyboard, Asus Photo Story, Asus Sound Recorder, Asus Tasks, My Frame, My Water I & II, Asus Supernote Pro, Weather & Time Widget, Asus Framework, Asus Settings, Asus Audio (V4A), Asus Contacts, Asus File Manager(Root Browser), Asus Camera, Asus Browser
• Tweaks: File system and performance optimised, Init.d support!, Zip Align, Force GPU Rendering, Browser2RAM
• Continued Best Support of any ROM!

• 
  
  Warning - experimental tweaks
  [*]Option to enable / disable data journaling on /data during install - CAN CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS IF SUDDEN SHUTDOWN OR CRASH
  [*]Option to enable / disable fsync during install - CAN CAN CAUSE DATA LOSS IF SUDDEN SHUTDOWN OR CRASH
  
  [*]Tip 1: Go to Settings - About Tablet, Click build number 7 times
  Now you will see Developer Settings & Performance menus
  [*]Tip 2: In Dev Settings, enable advanced reboot & change window animation,
  transition animation & animator scales down to 0.2x for extra snappiness
  [*]Tip 3: FLOATING WINDOWS: Settings - Interface - more... - Omni Switch
  
  Bug List
  [*] Bluetooth is flakey - fixed
  [*] Dock works as do most special keys - just no battery available in the system bar

Change Log

20141010 Beta 9 changes
- Rebased off latest source omni-4.4.4-20141008-zombi_tf700t-KANG updated by hardslog/lj50036 - omni windows much stabler
- Reduced NV Interposer log spam - thanks for the link BxMxK
- Fixed dock battery reporting with app/widget ! Thx @hardslog
- Rebuilt framework-res and settings apks with red theme
- Changed the Force GPU option to comply with build.prop source changes
- Added _that kernel v11
- Added Grimlock v4 kernel
- Added latest omni/cm11 kernel
- Fixed BT not turning on without rebooot
- Fixed Dock battery reporting (needs an app/widget to work)
- Updated Dolphin Browser to version 11.2.3
- Updated Google TTS to 3.2.12
- Updated Google Music to version 5.6.1523P
- Updated Google Chrome to version 37.0.2062.117
- Updated Google Mail to version 4.9
- Updated Google Search to version 3.6.14.1337016
- Updated Google Talkback to version 3.5.2
- Updated Google Play Store to version 4.9.13
- Updated Google Core Services to version 5.0.89
- Updated Google Maps to version 8.3.1
- Updated Google Search to version 3.6.14
- Updated YouTube to version 5.10.3.5
- Updated ESFileExplorer to version 3.2.1.2
- Updated Apex Launcher to version 2.6.0
- Updated AdAway to version 2.9.1
- Updated GravityBox to verison 3.4.3
- Note : Google Hangouts cannot be updated to latest version due to Google breaking apps packages with incompatible shared libraries. Going forward it will be a store app only
- Beta 8 not released

20140827 Beta 7 changes
- Fixed issues with Android Terminal Emulator crashing
- Fixed issues with Root being lost - reverted to cm11 ramdisks rather than omni as this was causing the issue
- SuperUser and SU Binary updated to version 2.0.2 + new installer script
- Dynamic fsync properly enabled on Grimlock kernel when fsync disabled selected in installer

20140825 Beta 6 changes
- New Base - Rebuilt from latest source which has updated bluetooth config - thanks lj50036
- 90% of dock should be working - battery display is not
- Added CM11 Kernel as option in installer - runs well
- Removed Omni Stock Kernel for now as was causing root issues

20140825 Beta 5 changes
- Themed framework with a splash of RED
- Final Tweaks to Aroma Theme
- Public release beta

20140824 Beta 4 changes
- Rebased off latest source omni-4.4.4-20140824-zombi_tf700t-KANG updated by lj50036
- Updated GravityBox to version 3.3.3
- Removed DropBox as bloatware (30MB!) - still available on the Play Store
- Removed Google Plus as bloatware (33MB!) - still available on the Play Store
- Small changed to aroma themes to fix dark text on dark backgrounds
- Changed the transition config in aroma to see if it fixes screen freezes

20140823 Beta 3 changes
- Fixed installer script to allow rom2sd on grimlock kernel install
- Fixed aroma freezes - or reduced them
- Re-themed Zombi-X aroma theme

20140822 Beta 2 changes
- Updated performance switch for CPU to allow OC to 1800 on _that's kernel
- Fixed correct rom version in the build.prop
- Updated SU Binary to latest version
- Updated Chrome, Gmail, Google Now, YouTube
- Added Android Terminal to ROM
- New Red Aroma Theme for Zombi-X - requires less memory

20140822 changes
- Initial release - omni cromified after source build
- Added SuperUSer and su binary for root capability
- Browser tweaked for speed and touch smoothness
- Added all the CROMBi/CROMi goodness to the base rom
- Aroma tuned for ZOMBi-X

The Team

• @sbdags - Creative Mastermind (From CROMi-X/CROMBi-kk ROMS)
• @lj50036 - Source Guy (From CROMBi-kk ROMS)
• @hardslog - The Canadian (From Grimlock ROMS)

Credits

• Google, wow is all I can say!
• Omni Team - Thanks!
• @_that For all the great advice, watching over us and fixing everything we break!!!!!
• All the beta testers for your patience and feedback : BxMxK, canito10, duckredbeard, mikew29, nameneeded, cgf, cyberknight2001, Mikey1969, Ozark_8125, tiernan22, boldnuts, tonyh51, Vathan, erisi, Thibor69

To Do

• Fix Buetooth and other little bugs

XDA:DevDB Information
ZOMBI-X, ROM for the Asus Transformer TF700

Contributors
sbdags, hardslog, lj50036, _that
ROM OS Version: 4.4.x KitKat
ROM Kernel: Linux 3.1.x
ROM Firmware Required: JB 10.6.1.14.8 - 10.6.1.14.10 bootloader
Based On: OMNI AOSP

Version Information
Status: Beta
Current Beta Version: 20141010 Beta 10
Beta Release Date: 2014-08-25

Created 2014-08-25
Last Updated 2014-10-08

 

[sbdags]

DOWNLOADS!

UPGRADE INSTRUCTIONS

Steps

1. If you haven’t yet, unlock your TF700 by following these instructions.

2. Install the latest version of Team Win Recovery Project (TWRP) 2.6.3.2+ or ClockWorkMod Recovery 6.0.4.6+ Note this ROM will NOT install with older versions of recovery!

TWRP 2.6.3-that3 By that

lj50036 also made a flashable zip of _that's TWRP recovery Just flash from any recovery.

Flashable TWRP 2.6.3-that3 By that

CWM Touch XDA Thread

CWM XDA Thread

TWRP XDA Thread

Download the recovery file from above, put it into the same folder where you have adb and fastboot files. Please rename it to twrp.blob or cwm.img and follow the instructions below:

CWM:

Connect your transformer to your PC, reboot to the bootloader to enable fastboot by either holding down [power] and [volume down] or opening a command prompt in your adb.exe folder in windows:

adb reboot bootloader

To flash the recovery:

fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery cwm.img

or

fastboot -i 0x0B05 flash recovery twrp.blob

A blue bar will go accross the screen on the tab and the command prompt will indicate it was successful in about 10 seconds

Then reboot the tablet either back to the bootloader or to android to complete

fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot-bootloader
fastboot -i 0x0B05 reboot

You can now access the recovery by pushing [volume up] on the RCK icon in the bootloader screen

FLASHING THE ROM FROM RECOVERY

Steps

1. Download the ROM below and save to your internal or external SD Card. Do not unzip the file.

ZOMBi-X ROM DOWNLOAD
Note: The first boot after install will take 10 mins whilst everything is built. Some people might think it is looping but it is not

ZOMBi-X Beta 9 20141010 Full Mirror 1

ZOMBi-X Beta 9 20141010 Full Mirror 2

MD5 Sum: af7efdd0264cf2a98b8e7b0bdb2ba59d

BOTH FILES ARE SIGNED. IF YOU ENABLE SIGNATURE VERIFICATION IN RECOVERY IT WILL VALIDATE THE FILE BEFORE FLASHING.

ASUS APPS DOWNLOAD - Flash from Recovery : Compiled by kansasboy001

Don't forget ROM2SD1.zip / DATA2SD1.zip first if you are not running an internal setup

Asus Battery Widget, Asus Calculator, Asus Calendar, Asus Clock, Asus Dayscene Live Wallpaper, Asus Dictionary, Asus Email, Asus Gallery, Asus Keyboard, Asus Photo Story, Asus Sound Recorder, Asus Tasks, My Frame, My Water I & II, Asus Supernote Pro, Weather & Time Widget, Asus Framework, Asus Settings, Asus Audio (V4A), Asus Contacts, Asus File Manager(Root Browser), Asus Camera, Asus Browser, Asus Wallpapers, Asus Boot Animation, Polaris Offce, Asus MyCloud, TF701 Fonts and Sounds

Asus Apps Thread LINK

ROM2SD/DATA2SD USERS PLEASE READ!
ROM2SD only works if you have ZOMBi-X, CROMBi-kk, CROMi-X or miniC flashed on internal with a THATv10+ kernel. Just choose ROM2SD in the installer of ZOMBi-X to flash it to ROM2SD and the installer will do the rest.

- Install ZOMBi-X and choose ROM2SD or DATA2SD install

The ROM2SD1.zip below is only needed if you need to switch your recovery to between normal and rom2sd mode. For Example you want to backup or restore a rom2sd installation. Flash once to go rom2sd and flash again to go back to normal. A reboot always puts you back to normal. Thanks to _that!

ROM2SD1.zip Download Mirror 1

ROM2SD1.zip Download Mirror 2

MD5 Sum: 7b699136d59ea3d5538570ccaf422acf

The DATA2SD1.zip below is only needed if you need to switch your recovery to between normal and data2sd mode. For Example you want to backup or restore a data2sd installation. Flash once to go data2sd and flash again to go back to normal. A reboot always puts you back to normal.

DATA2SD1.zip Download Mirror 1

DATA2SD1.zip Download Mirror 2

MD5 Sum: 9d5e9e2fd32593f981624499b37924b2

2. Boot to recovery – Either choose Boot to Recovery from the Power Menu if available on your current ROM or from the tablet power off hold the [volume down] button and press the [power] button. Once your see the flashing RCK icon, press [volume up] to select. If another icon is flashing use [volume down] to move between icons.

3. Using your recovery make a Nandroid Backup of your current setup

4. Select install and navigate to where you saved your ROM zip file.

5. Choose the ZOMBi-X zip file and follow the on screen prompts to customize your installation.

6. Reboot and enjoy.

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Using GParted to setup a micro SD for ROM2SD or DATA2SD support

First and foremost - DO NOT USE MINI TOOL!

Formatting a micro sd card for ROM2SD
Note for DATA2SD just do one partition in stead of 2

We will be using a GParted Live boot USB and a FAST good quality micro sd like a Sandisk or Samsung Class 10 - SDHC/SDXC UHS-1 card with read speed of at least 20MB/S. If you have a cheap chinese eBay card don't bother - they are not good enough.

You will also need a USB Stick with at least 1GB size. Note this process formats the USB disk so don't keep any important files on it. It will also wipe your micro sd so make sure you are prepared.

1. Go to the link below and download the GParted Live CD/USB/HD/PXE Bootable Image and save it somewhere you remember
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/download.php
2. Download Linux Live USB Creator and install it
http://www.linuxliveusb.com/

3. Fire up LiLi USB Creator:
a. Choose your USB key - I,e, the drive letter for your USB (not sd card)
b. Choose your GParted iso image for the source
c. Choose the check box to Format Key in FAT32 and hide files
d. Click the lightning bolt to create

4. Now you have a bootable disk you need to boot from it. You may need to alter you BIOS Settings on your PC to boot from a USB Stick but mine did it without messing.
5. Insert your micro SD card into an SD Card adapter and insert into PC
6. Boot into GParted

7. Choose Gparted Live <Enter>
8. Don’t touch keymap <Enter>
9. Languge <Enter>
10. Start Gparted Automatically
11. Change device to your micro sd )it will default to you hard disk - hda– mine is /dev/sdc

12. Delete all existing partitions

For a 64GB card: (resize as needed but /system doesn't need to be bigger than 1GB)
13. Create new, always select primary: do this 3 times.
14. FAT 32 : Size 16GB – this will be /dev/sdc1 in gparted and will be your sdcard for storage in Android
15. EXT4 : Size 42GB – this will be /dev/sdc2 in gparted and will be your /data partition in Android
16. EXT4 : Size 1GB – this will be /dev/sdc3 in gparted and will be your /system partition in Android (not needed for data2sd)

Apply, wait until it finishes and then reboot. Remember to remove the usb stick

*Images stolen from elsewhere as I couldn’t get it to save mine

Now you are ready to install ROM2SD. Note if you want to use DATA2SD then only do 2 partitions 1x FAT32 and 1x larger EXT4

Then reinstall ZOMBi-X but this time choose the ROM2SD / DATA2SD option

 

[sbdags]

IRC

Join us on IRC for a chat or if you have questions:

Freenode
zombi-x

There is no Q&A section for this rom as it is still in dev so you are ok to post your questions here!

 

[sbdags]

Both Download links are up! :good:

 

[lj50036]

All Kernels included in this ROM package are unofficial, as they are complied from source, thay may not match the source that they were forked from. I will be linking the kernel source code as per the GNU GPL License.


Unofficial @_that Kernel Source CLICK ME @-V1.0

Official @_that's Kernel Source CLICK ME @-V11

Unofficial @hardslog Kernel Source CLICK ME@V4.0

Official @hardslog Kernel Source CLICK ME@V4.0

 

[ishamm]

How does this compare performance wise to cm11? Is it mostly different features, or does one handle the io issues better? Thanks for continued work on this device!

 

[ne0zone75]

Hi all,

I really want to test it out AND... i like the codename :good::highfive::silly:

Across how many Transformer Pad models is it / will be available ? TF700T for sure... TF300T ? TF701T ?


Huge thanks to the DEV team and congratulations for your very hard and unvaluable work,


All the best

 

[hardslog]

Hi all,

I really want to test it out AND... i like the codename :good::highfive::silly:

Across how many Transformer Pad models is it / will be available ? TF700T for sure... TF300T ? TF701T ?


Huge thanks to the DEV team and congratulations for your very hard and unvaluable work,


All the best

TF300 is coming, and we hope to get it working for the TF701 as well. @lj50036 just has to work some more of his magic

 

[lj50036]

Hi all,

I really want to test it out AND... i like the codename :good::highfive::silly:

Across how many Transformer Pad models is it / will be available ? TF700T for sure... TF300T ? TF701T ?


Huge thanks to the DEV team and congratulations for your very hard and unvaluable work,


All the best

For now it will most likely just be the 700 & 300 which will mostly work for the 201 on the hairybean bootloader ...

I am looking into the 701 and have started the port but there are some issue with the vendor blobs ..

One day at a time ...

Thx Josh

 

[zabolots]

Just curious, but why create a new ROM from another base? Is OMNI better than CyanogenMod? If so, in what way?

Thx...Scott

 

[sbdags]

How does this compare performance wise to cm11? Is it mostly different features, or does one handle the io issues better? Thanks for continued work on this device!

Just curious, but why create a new ROM from another base? Is OMNI better than CyanogenMod? If so, in what way?

Thx...Scott

IMO it runs faster and smoother But other s have a very good experience with CM11 as well. I would say it is no as stable as CM11 though - hence the BETA name. It is quite different as well - floating windows, etc.

 

[sziggins]

Cool!

Hi,
Thanks for this ROM. I recall a discussion I had with a friend about OmniROM vs. Cyanogenmon (an idea with a simple google search...). First impression is that is really smoother in my opinion and I really like the toggle view in the performance in settings! So, clean install with f2fs internal, _that's kernel and usual settings from crombi-kk. just one question , will the profile chooser be available or I am too blind too find it?
Anyway, I am impressed of your work and wanted more to say thanks rather asking a question.

Regards.

 

[big_sea]

IMO it runs faster and smoother But other s have a very good experience with CM11 as well. I would say it is no as stable as CM11 though - hence the BETA name. It is quite different as well - floating windows, etc.

In for more reviews on this one, just updated to the latest crombi-kk and ROM2SD last night, runs pretty well, but will go to the ZOMBI if its snappier.

 

[toolmanz]

Hi,
Thanks for this ROM. I recall a discussion I had with a friend about OmniROM vs. Cyanogenmon (an idea with a simple google search...). First impression is that is really smoother in my opinion and I really like the toggle view in the performance in settings! So, clean install with f2fs internal, _that's kernel and usual settings from crombi-kk. just one question , will the profile chooser be available or I am too blind too find it?
Anyway, I am impressed of your work and wanted more to say thanks rather asking a question.

Regards.

A question - couldn't find it in OP - if I am currently running Crombi-KK (Aug 10) with F2FS ROM2SD - do I need to do a clean install of Zombi or can I flash directly - same as an update to Crombi-KK?
Wanna give this new ROM a try and see if there is fact an improvement - my ROM2SD install of Crombi-KK works so well now - no glitches and runs like a champ.
Thanks to all the devs for their hard work!

 

[big_sea]

A question - couldn't find it in OP - if I am currently running Crombi-KK (Aug 10) with F2FS ROM2SD - do I need to do a clean install of Zombi or can I flash directly - same as an update to Crombi-KK?
Wanna give this new ROM a try and see if there is fact an improvement - my ROM2SD install of Crombi-KK works so well now - no glitches and runs like a champ.
Thanks to all the devs for their hard work!

Hey, what options for tweaks do you use? Ive only done the disable fsync. Curious if the gpu ones or others work better. Im also doing browswer to sd

 

[lj50036]

A question - couldn't find it in OP - if I am currently running Crombi-KK (Aug 10) with F2FS ROM2SD - do I need to do a clean install of Zombi or can I flash directly - same as an update to Crombi-KK?
Wanna give this new ROM a try and see if there is fact an improvement - my ROM2SD install of Crombi-KK works so well now - no glitches and runs like a champ.
Thanks to all the devs for their hard work!

I would highly recommend a full wipe as they use diff vendor blobs....

If you do dirty flash and have issues, you know what we are going to say to do...

So I leave it to you, but if you do find out things along the way let us know .. :highfive:

Thx Josh

---------- Post added at 01:07 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:04 PM ----------

Hey, what options for tweaks do you use? Ive only done the disable fsync. Curious if the gpu ones or others work better. Im also doing browswer to sd

I use them all ...

I dont get a lot of time with one version of the rom or the other as there is some much testing that goes on...

I myself have not had any issue with any of the tweaks ...

Thx Josh

 

[sziggins]

A question - couldn't find it in OP - if I am currently running Crombi-KK (Aug 10) with F2FS ROM2SD - do I need to do a clean install of Zombi or can I flash directly - same as an update to Crombi-KK?
Wanna give this new ROM a try and see if there is fact an improvement - my ROM2SD install of Crombi-KK works so well now - no glitches and runs like a champ.
Thanks to all the devs for their hard work!

Well as I wrote I did a clean install but in internal using f2fs. Latest TWRP, a factory reset and advanced format as I wasn't sure if DATA had f2fs format because of the twrp's bug of not showing it right. Using Titanium Back Up I restored the preferred app+data. But I see there is not adaptive backlight choice plus the profile for the cpu frequencies but overall for a beta I am really impressed. I suggest with a nandroid backup and TBU you should give it a try!

Good luck.
EDIT:
Clean installation for me is mandatory of not having issues when changing ROMs.. Josh was faster!

 

[toolmanz]

Hey, what options for tweaks do you use? Ive only done the disable fsync. Curious if the gpu ones or others work better. Im also doing browswer to sd

Just like Josh I nuse them all including both GPU tweaks and pretty much all of the others (zip-align etc.)

The setup works flawlessly.

I will try a dirty-flash just to see what happens (I'm a masochist I guess and I may learn a few things and share with the community :sly: .

 

[big_sea]

Ok so here's probably a dumb question. Im running ROM2SD now with the correct partitioning. If I want to clean install, how do I do the equivalent of "factory wipe" on the SD card? Previously I would just click factory wipe and then install the rom, im guessing now that its on SD i have to do something different...

 

[ishamm]

Does this have a theme engine, to use an L based theme for example? Thanks