Monday, February 15, 2016

ASUS ME176C/CX- Unlock Bootloader & Install TWRP

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT responsible for anything that goes wrong with your device. This tablet's very resilient and theoretically unbrickable, but it can still happen.

@social-design-concepts is working on a bootloader "unlock" for all Intel Bay Trail devices running Lollipop. It's working fine on our tablet, so he's given me permission to release the unlock for this device, as well as a TWRP image.

Download the images from here:
http://ift.tt/1RGJalS

MAKE A BACKUP OF ESP AND RECOVERY IN CASE ANYTHING GOES WRONG. YOU'VE BEEN WARNED.

These images aren't in a Nandroid or anything, you'll have to flash them manually via dd.

REQUIREMENTS
ASUS ME176C or ASUS ME176CX with root (duh :P)
Terminal Emulator must be installed.

Optional: Computer w/ ADB and Fastboot installed

INSTALLATION
Download the linked file from above, then unzip them to somewhere on your tablet. This directory will be noted as /path/to/unzipped/zip in this tutorial.

Open up a command prompt and plug in your tablet (if you're on PC) or just launch Terminal Emulator on your tablet.

This first command can be skipped if you're installing this without a computer, but if you're using ADB, then first run
Code:

adb shell
The next steps are universal for both Terminal Emulator and the PC command prompt or terminal.
While we could use tethered TWRP to back up these partitions, it cannot properly back up the ESP, so we'll be backing up the partitions manually. To do so, run the following to get root permission and back up the original recovery and ESP.
Code:

them manually via dd.
su
dd if=/dev/block/by-name/ESP of=/path/to/unzipped/zip/stock_ESP.img
dd if=/dev/block/by-name/recovery of=/path/to/unzipped/zip/stock_recovery.img

Then, to install:
Code:

dd if=/path/to/unzipped/zip/ESP.img of=/dev/block/by-name/ESP
dd if=/path/to/unzipped/zip/recovery.img of=/dev/block/by-name/recovery

Finally, reboot the tablet to make sure it worked. The ASUS screen should be replaced with an Intel one.

Volume Down + Power will give you an option of either fastboot or recovery, instead of just booting to fastboot like the stock bootloader.


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