PRIME Rooted! - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

"Sure, the Eee Pad Transformer Prime won’t actually ship in the US for a few more weeks, but when it does it looks like you’ll be able to root the first tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 3 quad core processor on the day it arrives.
Android Central’s Phil Nickinson received a review unit from Asus, and discovered that you can root it with a one-click tool called Razorclaw. All you have to do is download and install the APK file on your tablet and run it.
Razorclaw was designed to work on the Asus Eee Pad Transformer and Eee Pad Slider, but apparently it works just as well on the new Transformer Prime."
I don't have my "8" post in yet for a newbie on this forum so must do it the hard way!
Read about it here:
liliputing.com/2011/12/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-rooted.html
Get the software here:
androidroot.mobi/2011/11/14/introducing-razorclaw-v1/

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that was quick and easy.

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This is great news bit I hope the Asus people don't see this and find someway to close it up just as fast. I already have razor claw APK. Stored in my iPad for when I thought I was going to get original transformer. So it'll still work once I get the prime. All I have to do is email the APK. To the Prime, from my iPad, install, and BAM! I'm rooted. Lol. I might wait though till after ICS. oTA updates won't work after you root and too much hassle to initially go thru with ICS being so close. I'd rather have ICS rooted than honeycomb. ICS is the largest update/change in Android since it began. It's a merging of gingerbread and honeycomb, hence the sandwich name. A most everything is changed/optimized with ICS and more.
Here the links the op tried to post:
Read about it
http://liliputing.com/2011/12/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-rooted.html
Link to getting APK
http://androidroot.mobi/2011/11/14/introducing-razorclaw-v1

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demandarin said:
This is great news bit I hope the Asus people don't see this and find someway to close it up just as fast. I already have razor claw APK. Stored in my iPad for when I thought I was going to get original transformer. So it'll still work once I get the prime. All I have to do is email the APK. To the Prime, from my iPad, install, and BAM! I'm rooted. Lol. I might wait though till after ICS. oTA updates won't work after you root and too much hassle to initially go thru with ICS being so close. I'd rather have ICS rooted than honeycomb. ICS is the largest update/change in Android since it began. It's a merging of gingerbread and honeycomb, hence the sandwich name. A most everything is changed/optimized with ICS and more.
Here the links the op tried to post:
http://liliputing.com/2011/12/asus-eee-pad-transformer-prime-rooted.html
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Being new to the Transformer arena, I take it there is NO way to unroot Razorclaw? If OTA updates does not work after rooted, how do you get updates?

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joepic said:
Being new to the Transformer arena, I take it there is NO way to unroot Razorclaw? If OTA updates does not work after rooted, how do you get updates?
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Lol that sucks and im not waiting for a ICS rom!
So no rooting for me till ICS OTA!
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joepic said:
Being new to the Transformer arena, I take it there is NO way to unroot Razorclaw? If OTA updates does not work after rooted, how do you get updates?
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I think it can be unrooted if I remember right from cruising the original transformer threads. As far as OTA updates go, there's supposedly some tool or something to allow it or at least keep your root after OTA update. Thing is most of the time OTA updates always throw up errors on rooted devices. The OTA update contains some type of language or files or something that checks for stock/OEM stuff and checks to make sure no changes made to internal hardware programming or whatever. Once it does detect a change, it'll through up the that android error with icon and exclamation mark. Now what ive seen people/developers up here do is take that firmware/OTA amd take out the piece that checks for original stuff to still be the same. Or even if Asus has the site support for updates, it would work through there. I know like my Atrix phone is rooted and OTA update to gingerbread always throwing up errors on me. But if I wanted to I could go to motorola site and install the update thru the pc and it will work since it doesn't contain that extra coding the OTA update has to make sure everything is stock. Going thru motorola site to update overrides all of that. Hopefully Asus has the same or I'm sure people up here will have updates here to flash to your device once they take out the unneeded pieces.
Also if someone more knowledgeable can give more insight into this, please do. Or of I'm incorrect on some pieces, please correct me as don't want any confusion or misleading info. This is just what vie gathered from owning my Arix rooted and reading the original transformer forums extensively.

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You are still able to get OTA after rooting. What usually breaks OTA is removing Asus system apps. If you root, then freeze the apps with Titanium. You will get the benefit of freeing up memory of the apps you do not want, but allowing you to still get ICS OTA.

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Tuning in to this thread to see the outcome when I get my Prime!

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pesto242 said:
You are still able to get OTA after rooting. What usually breaks OTA is removing Asus system apps. If you root, then freeze the apps with Titanium. You will get the benefit of freeing up memory of the apps you do not want, but allowing you to still get ICS OTA.
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That's right. With system apps meaning bloatware?

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Screw rooting, lets get the bootloader unlocked, flash CM9 when it comes out, and who care about the OTA update at that point.

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demandarin said:
That's right. With system apps meaning bloatware?
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correct, well, any change to the ROM will result in the OTA failing, but just root access doesn't cause it to fail, but it may break root in the process of updating.

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I've asked this question on androidroot.mobi about this possibility.
For the moment, no answer.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium

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I'm pretty excited about the notion of rooting my future precious but I'm guessing we'll all be too busy drooling over it for a while... once it gets into our hands.

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philos64 said:
I've asked this question on androidroot.mobi about this possibility.
For the moment, no answer.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using xda premium
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Your question already been answered and conformed here. Just check out the links. Plus we even have link to the Razorclaw APK. Tool needed to root it. All you have to do is install it on the Prime and run it. No PC needed at all for rooting. Now of you want to unlock boot loader to flash a custom rom, PC will be needed. People already have original transformer over clocked n optimized so I can see the same and more easily being possible with the Prime.
Edit: lol I see you already own original transformer so you should already know the great things they doing with it in that section of forum.

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demandarin said:
Your question already been answered and conformed here. Just check out the links. Plus we even have link to the Razorclaw APK. Tool needed to root it. All you have to do is install it on the Prime and run it. No PC needed at all for rooting. Now of you want to unlock boot loader to flash a custom rom, PC will be needed. People already have original transformer over clocked n optimized so I can see the same and more easily being possible with the Prime.
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That's true, I have had no problem for rooting my TF101 with Brk Tools, but about the new TF201, nobody had to try rooting the new Prime with Razorclaw One click.
So how are you sure that we can root the Prime with this tool ?
I know, the Prime get out with HC 3.2.
That's why I've posted this question on Razorclaw forum.
You make only an supposition.
And if you read the OP, nowhere , you find Transformer Prime words.
[Tool]Razorclaw - One click Root for all ASUS Transformers, 3G and Slider(16-11-2011)
At the moment, if you find someone who's sure to rooting a Prime, I say OK.
Have you tried to root a Transformer ?

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Well according to THIS thread, the Razorclaw does work on the new TS Prime

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doeboy1984 said:
Well according to THIS thread, the Razorclaw does work on the new TS Prime
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Yep, we just had a fellow member here root with that tool and do a system dump on a display model today.

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there is some problem here.
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and here is the system info
Android: 3.2.1
GPS: V5.8.12
Wifi: V5.1.2.46
Bluetooth: V7.2.6
Camera: TF201-0x9883
Kernel : 2.6.36.3-0003-g339298c [email protected]#1
Version: HTK75.TW_epad-8.8.3.27-20111122
Tablet EC Version: TF201-PAD-0213
I got this TF201 two days ago.
There is a popup msg on my 1st boot.
seems like a firmware update about wifi or something else.
I did it before I search the web for how to get rooted.
And there it is.
Anyone can help ?
thx a lot.

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zjason.yang said:
there is some problem here.
and here is the system info
Android: 3.2.1
GPS: V5.8.12
Wifi: V5.1.2.46
Bluetooth: V7.2.6
Camera: TF201-0x9883
Kernel : 2.6.36.3-0003-g339298c [email protected]#1
Version: HTK75.TW_epad-8.8.3.27-20111122
Tablet EC Version: TF201-PAD-0213
I got this TF201 two days ago.
There is a popup msg on my 1st boot.
seems like a firmware update about wifi or something else.
I did it before I search the web for how to get rooted.
And there it is.
Anyone can help ?
thx a lot.
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Hmm, it worked for Unknowns on display model at GameStop. Maybe that update had something to do with it. Hopefully someone help you soon. Did you use the most current tool version? Or find out what version unknowns used to root the display model.

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I didn't do a system info snapshot sorry. It just worked; that 3rd line just said root was successful. Maybe someone can get the system info from the system dump I provided.