ASUS MeMO Pad 7 (asus-me176c)
USB Networking |
Works |
---|---|
Flashing |
Works |
Touchscreen |
Works |
Display |
Works |
WiFi |
Works |
Xwayland |
Works |
FDE |
Works |
Mainline |
Works |
Battery |
Works |
3D Acceleration |
Works |
Accelerometer |
Works |
Audio |
Works |
Bluetooth |
Works |
Camera |
Broken |
GPS |
Broken |
Mobile data |
Unavailable |
SMS |
Unavailable |
Calls |
Unavailable |
USB OTG |
Works |
Contributors
Users owning this device
Installation
Preparation
The device has a locked Android bootloader. To boot other operating systems, you need to replace the bootloader entirely with a custom one.
- Make sure that you are running Android 5.0 (Lollipop) - older versions did not have UEFI firmware.
- Install me176c-boot.
- Set up the
APD
partition as additional ESP (EFI System Partition), see me176c-boot - Setting up an additional ESP partition.
Pre-built image
There are pre-built images that can be easily installed without pmbootstrap. Currently, there is only an image with the Phosh UI. If you want more control about the installation (e.g. no proprietary firmware, different UI, extra packages, ...) consider using the pmbootstrap installation method instead (documented further below).
First, download an image for your device:
- edge bleeding edge version (has latest features, but may break more often).
- v21.03 (TBD) stable version, less updates, more stability
Download 2 files:
<date>-...-asus-me176c-bootpart.img.xz
(boot partition)<date>-...-asus-me176c.img.xz
(rootfs)
Unpack them using unxz *.xz
.
user
, and the default password is 147147
.pmbootstrap
- Follow the Installation guide.
- Use
pmbootstrap export
to get the same files as in the pre-built images section.
Flashing boot partition
The bootloader cannot boot directly from a SD card, therefore the boot partition must be always on internal storage.
Boot into Fastboot mode, and use fastboot flash APD asus-me176c-bootpart.img
(or pmbootstrap flasher flash_kernel
with pmbootstrap) to flash the boot partition. Then you need to create a boot entry for postmarketOS. Create a file pmos.conf
:
title postmarketOS volume 80868086-8086-8086-8086-000000000007 linux /vmlinuz-asus-me176c initrd /intel-ucode.img initrd /acpi-me176c.img initrd /initramfs-asus-me176c # Comment this out to get more output on screen while booting options console=null
To install the new boot entry, boot into TWRP recovery, mount the ESP partition, and push the new configuration using ADB: adb push pmos.conf /esp/loader/entries/
Now you can choose if you would like to install the root partition (asus-me176c(-root).img
) on internal storage or a SD card.
Internal Storage
Normally you should be also able to flash the rootfs using Fastboot:
- System partition:
fastboot flash system asus-me176c.img
(pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs
) - Userdata partition (larger):
fastboot flash userdata asus-me176c.img
(pmbootstrap flasher flash_rootfs --partition=userdata
)
However, if you get an error you may need to flash it using dd
via the TWRP recovery instead:
$ gzip -c ...-asus-me176c.img.gz | adb shell "zcat | dd of=/dev/block/by-name/system bs=4m"
SD card
Write the root partition image to a partition on your SD card:
- Find the correct block device (usually
/dev/mmcblkXpY
but sometimes/dev/sdXY
) - Write the image to the partition (Warning: Existing data will be erased):
dd if=asus-me176c-root.img of=/dev/mmcblkXpY bs=4M
See also
- Linux on ASUS MeMO Pad 7 (ME176C(X))
- Arch Linux on ASUS MeMO Pad 7 (ME176C(X))
- LineageOS 16.0 (Android) ROM (uses the same kernel)
- Unsupported features: GPS, Camera