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[Eee Pad Transformer General] JAnthony419:
how do you get the logcat, I have this issue atbut least once a day so I can wipe mine and when it occurs again I can wordpad and post it here. But I need to know the procedure to do this.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] gls9:
You can use adb for logcat, see here

But also in the market there are a lot of logcat viewers (search fort logcat)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] chmilz:
I used to have some SOD issues, but haven't had any in months. I do recall though that I only had SOD when screen lock setting was enabled, and I always used the pattern thing.

That said, power button is garbage and everything about the on/off system in the TF101 is disappointing.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mrevankyle:
a MUCH easier way to do this is in the android sdk folder hit tools then open the ddms.bat
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jcarrz1:
If you combine the WIFI speculation with the Fancy Widget speculation you get:

periodic data usage while screen off.

IT COULD BE ASUS' WIDGET!!!

someone who gets them All the Time should try deleting their widget
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ratindahat:
i could be wrong here, but i'm pretty sure my first 2 SOD's were on the stock, original rom that it shipped with. (first iteration of rom, no updates)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
I had the same idea and switched from the asus widget to my beautiful widget. Since then SOD didnt happen again... I will keep you updated.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] curti.nogg:
I had sleep of death this morning when I woke up. I was running build#8.2.3.6-20110414 (if I remember correctly I turned wifi off before I went to bed). I updated it this afternoon to build#8.2.3.9-20110423 and it wouldn't turn on again. This time I know the wifi was on on because I received an email and some notification earlier.

Both times I've had to plug it into the computer and press the power button to get it to boot.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Scottland:
Sorry to disappoint but I'm not using any Asus widgets and I'm still getting the problem. :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dfin13:
I had my first SOD in over a week this morning. The only thing I've done differently was set the ice cube wallpaper last night as I was reading in bed (normally just have a static wallpaper). I shut it down for the night, booted it this morning and read the news on the crapper, and when I got to work about an hour later, it was in its little coma.

I sure hope 3.1 fixes this so we can stop chasing our tails on this one. Nothing seems consistent with this issue.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ratindahat:
i'm guessing not everyone is using the ice cube wallpaper? I am so i can't say.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] curti.nogg:
I am not. I'm using the stock tree wallpaper.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] spuniun:
Anyone with latest OTA get a SOD yet?

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[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
@http://android.modaco.com/content-page/337025/playing-dead/page/20/

Could be the problem. Since I ajusted my brighness to about 20% I didnt have a SOD for 2 days now.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] UKseagull:
I got the SOD after installing UltimateJuice, I'd set it to disable WiFi whilst the screen was off. Is the WiFi the cause?

Sent from my HTC Desire
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jcarrz1:
it's either any application that uses the wifi while the screen is off, or it's the screen is going to 0 brightness.

imo wifi is more likely. try and shine a flashlight on it once you push the button and it's supposed to "wake up" and see if the display shows stuff or responds to your touch.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] lordgodgeneral:
I'm pretty sure its something with wifi. I've never had a SOD till last night. Ever since I've got my transformer I've always left the wifi on on sleep policy set to never. Last night for s&g decided I'd turn on airplane mode to see what my battery life was overnight. Got up this morning and it was unresponsive. Did a hard reboot and turned off airplane mode and wifi back on. No problems since.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] spokenwordd:
I have not yet rooted my TF and so far have had SoD with both stock releases. I'm currently running the 8.2.3.9 and have had SoD the same as I did when I unboxed my TF.

I have tried both leaving WiFi on as well as cutting it off with both builds. I've tried changing the wallpaper. I've also tried removing the lock screen altogether as well as changing it to PIN mode. Initially I thought this was either WiFi or the lock screen but I have no clue now.

Hope Asus figures this out and I hope this is not hardware.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] dreamtheater39:
I'm running stock os with nothing installed....woke up this morning to find it dead. Wifi on and 8.2.13
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
So obviously the update didnt fix the problem.. :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] diomark:
I get the sleep of death only when charging via the dock (after latest .12 and .13 updates..)

-mark
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
Can you reproduce it? What are your brigtness settings and your wifi policy?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] randalla0622:
Stock, latest OTA (8.2.3.13), I'm getting it every time I leave it alone with the screen off for awhile. Also have had it happen with the 8.2.3.9 while on the charger with the screen off. It's getting to the point I can't use it since I have to reboot it every time I need to use it, then wait for it to boot up.

I did not have this happen on 8.2.2.x. I guess I should wipe the thing and see if that solves the sleep death, and then add apps on one by one.

WiFi sleep policy is never

I was running my display at around 20% when it died this last time.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Reverence12389:
I noticed that mine had the sleep of death when I muted the notifications at night, and then when I finally got the tablet back on, the notifications/sound were un-muted. Has this been the case in anyone else's situation?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] jcarrz1:
did anyone get the logcat yet?

a lot of speculation, but the log should undoubtedly tel us what's going on.

i don't have my tablet yet, on order from J&R... but if someone can do this... we'd all be grateful
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tony_k55:
hi jcarrz1

i get every day SOD on my Transformer.

Stock Rom unrooted 8.2.3.13 via OTA

I think it happend just when the device is discharging.

- battery wasnt empty

- wifi is always connected

- just one task open (nagroid)

I got the log but i dont understand it.

pleas give me your email adress, the log is to big to post it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stanleywinston:
not sure if this helps but was in the process of holding down the power button to restart the device for the third time today and I ejected the SD card to see how things reacted. To my surprise my screen came back on with the restart dialogue on screen. So cancelled that and didn't have to go through restart. Lasky's are coming out to replace my device tomorrow so hopefully I wont have to find out if this is a different work arouns
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
Interesting! I also thought about an issue with the sd card. I will install Prime 1.3 and delete all the asus sync stuff, perhaps it gets better!

Reporting back when I get another SOD.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stanleywinston:
people are getting the issue without the SD card being present though so at best it is something that forces the wake up. SD card is not the route problem
[Eee Pad Transformer General] t0dbld:
Just me two sense ... I wont have my transformer till tuesday, how ever i know there is a short cut key on the dock to "put device to sleep and lock" so would some one please with a sod and a dock than try putting it on the dock and pressing the wake button lets see if that brings it back to life with out resets or micro sd ejects . i think there is a good chance that this is what some how is getting triggered with an error in the software
[Eee Pad Transformer General] spuniun:
Can you explain how you're collecting logs after SOD?

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[Eee Pad Transformer General] Dexter_nlb:
as a contribution from Folio100 users that had the "SOD" issue for ages..

try this one..

SetCPU mini 608 or

cpumaster mini

608

On Folio100 the SOD problem was found to be the CPU handling, so underclocking solved it.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] spuniun:
I under clock when screen is off which is when SOD happens so I doubt that has anything to do with it.

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[Eee Pad Transformer General] jcarrz1:
dude who has a log, use pastebin, then post link to share with us.

sd is interesting, and so is dock button. hopefully someone can try this.

the cpu clock is likely, and worth a try... dexter says to :)

you mean clock it to 608 MHZ? or did i misunderstand
[Eee Pad Transformer General] physman:
I used to get the SOD at least twice a day. Since that last OTA .13 I haven't gotten the SOD once.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] pronacyk:
Not the case with me. I switched to manual brightness before the new OTA update and stopped getting the SODs for a while. However after the update it has happened 3 times over the weekend. Starting to suspect that this is more hardware related than software.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] tony_k55:
http://pastebin.com/3q8mt0W3

taken after a SOD
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mblaster:
The boundary clock might be different on your device. For some Folio users it seems to get better at a min clock > 618 (I am using 750 atm) which is using a slightly higher voltage than 608. But still this does not really solve the issue.

You should check your kernel source for the voltage/frequency dependency and try at which combination the SOD minimizes for you. For me it is at 900mV, but this seems to be highly device dependend. I also get a lot less SOD if i overrride the voltages for the lower frequencies with 900mV like here, but it din't work for everyone...

mblaster
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
But as stanely stated in his post earlier, his device came back to life after he removed his sd card. As a result the device doesnt seem to be completely dead.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Dexter_nlb:
Nvidia posted some information on faulty Tegra2 boards having issue with standby, and that in some cases it helped to push out the sdcard where possible (not all devices gets sdcard).. so maybe its partly suffers from the faulty boards nvidia produced early on..

sad, but maybe a fact.. so some people will se it now, and some experience it later on.. which makes it impossible to test..
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stanleywinston:
ive been unable to verify the SD card thing as mine hasn't had sod since but I should have plenty of time as my replacement is not arriving until next monday now :(

Is anyone not planning to return their device for this problem, I'm getting the impression that not everyone suffers from it so it points to some sort of hardware issue
[Eee Pad Transformer General] thegrumpyyoungman:
i dont plan on returning just yet. yes its annoying and nothing something to simply "put up with", but i'm going to wait it out a little in hopes that Asus will put out a statement or firmware update, or recall, or something. if its as widespread as we see here, then Asus just cant ignore this problem...they'll have to do SOMETHING. i would hate to ship my TF back for "repair" when they dont even have a fix yet.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
http://pastebin.com/jcWWYMvr

But it seems like the crash was not recorded! I had airplane mode enabled so it cant be the wifi -.-
[Eee Pad Transformer General] spuniun:
The sdcard eject does not wake me from a SOD. I have found a way to replicate one though: my HDMI port is loose and when jiggled just so it kills the system immediately, requiring the same extra long power press to reboot. Now how do I go about collecting those logs? After reboot any app that I have directed Log Collector to previously does not have anything stored.

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[Eee Pad Transformer General] t0dbld:
anyone try waking it using the dock sleep/wake button for me yet? my tab will be here as soon as UPS gets around to it but dock has not shipped
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
The only time I experienced the SOD was the only night I had my TF off the charger and turned wifi off... every other night, it's plugged in with wifi on and it never gets the SOD. So is it a wifi issue or a battery charge issue?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mikewong27:
I have my TF for a week and half now and I have not seen this issue at all.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
Hmm.. Thats weird, perhaps it is really a hardware issue and only some devices are broken.. :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
I doubt it's hardware. My wife had a coby tablet and many coby users, including her, had this problem.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] razorguy:
I get my TF tomorrow. I'm hoping mine isn't plagued by this:(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] LightningXCE:
Hasn't happened to me at all until I updated to the Prime 1.3 ROM. I had been using Hr4 without any issues until I did that.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] king_dani:
it worked! thanks all
[Eee Pad Transformer General] agentofboom:
Sharing my experience-

Dead stock I got the deep sleep the first morning after i bought it. I then wiped and got it again.

I then updated to .13 (the latest OTA? i cant remember now, im at work...updated it friday i think) and got the deep sleep on sunday.

Last night I had the charger problem happen too. wouldnt charge until I left my charger unplugged for about 20 mins.

Meh, its new, Im an early adopter, this sh*t happens. Im sure it will happen again soon and Ill make a logcat. I dont have any burning need to root it quite yet, so Ill see if I can come up with some more info while still bone stock.

I know the button works as when its already powered up, the on/off switch is near instant reaction-every time. If it was the switch it would be flaky then too.

Hopefully (or not) ill have a logcat soon :) This has to be a software power mgmt issue . The collective power of XDA will solve this soon, Im sure.

Why doesnt Toast have one of these yet?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] xheavenic:
ive tried, doesnt work :(
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Putzy:
Just to note - I've gone 4 days now without a SoD by disabling the Asus Weather Widget Auto Update, and then actually removing it from the homescreen. No problems since.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] smudger1000:
Removed the Asus weather widget 20 to 30 minutes ago came back tablet had the SoD now trying again with no Asus weather widget and no lock screen I will let you know the results
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rilot:
Mine is SODing every other time it goes to sleep. I'm getting mighty fed up with it now.

I have no weather widget running.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
Ok guys, I did some testing the last days, here are my results:

-Using pin lockscreen -> SOD

-Using pattern lockscreen -> SOD

-Enabling Airplane-mode -> SOD

-Removing the Asus Widget -> SOD

-Underclocking the CPU at 608Mhz max while screen off -> SOD

-Disabling all Asus Apps -> SOD

-Setting Wifi policy to dont notify me -> SOD

-Stock rom -> SOD

-Prime 1.3 rom -> SOD

-MCR v.5 rom -> SOD

I got about 1-2 SOD per day and sometimes I believe that they happen around the same time or while I move my transformer. Of course they also happened while it was just lying on my couch.

They seem to only appear when I dont use it for more than ten minutes (of course not everytime).

I am now trying to use no lockscreen but I kind of dislike the idea that everyone could access it.. Is there perhaps another lockscreen app??
[Eee Pad Transformer General] t0dbld:
Thanks much for trying
[Eee Pad Transformer General] freeza:
I haven't had a single SoD since I got my TF yesterday :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] lordgodgeneral:
I've been trying to test for SOD the last week, and I've tried all these optoins. I'm currently running Prime 1.3 and docked/undocked the only time I've gotten the SOD is turning airplane mode on. I'm just not able to replicate this so don't know whats going on. Except for the times trying airplane mode, I have had 0 SOD issues.

My thoughts are this is either something to do with hardware (Tolerances maybe?) or an app or cominbation of apps. Right now I've only got about 10 apps installed other then the preinstalled ones. That may be the way to start looking.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stanleywinston:
im pretty sure I've read of people who've got sod before they've installed any apps.

Weirdly I've gone from getting it 4 or 5 times a day to nothing for 4 days. My usage has not changed and I haven't uninstalled any apps.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
I got a new suggestion: Maybe its the auto screen rotate function.

We ll see, I ll give it a try!
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rj3005:
Also I suggest trying to disable auto brightness, the first Android releases of the Acer liquid one were also unstable when using auto brightness so it´s worth trying.

I have not read all the pages of this thread but if not don already it might be useful to try to get a SOD while the transformer is connected to a computer and logcat is running
[Eee Pad Transformer General] rilot:
I have auto brightness off, still getting the SOD nearly every time the device sleeps.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] smudger1000:
Have had lock screen off since last post just got SOD

So far I have tried

No asus widgets got SOD

No lock screen and no asus widgets got SOD

I (like others I am sure) have contacted asus awaiting a reply.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mrgilmorean:
I have had two devices so far, both brand new and completely stock and they've both had this sleep of death issue. It's really annoying and basically kills the potential of using this as a note-taking device. I don't have the dock so neither device ever saw one. The problem has happened no matter what the WiFi policy is, whether lockscreen is on or off, regardless of the settings for the Asus Weather Widget and without any correlation to Auto Brightness status.

Another thing is that my second Transformer doesn't reboot after the 10-12 power hold. It just shuts down and the time/date information is wiped when I turn it back on. I have had the problem on the .9 firmware and the one before that. Have not been able to update to .12 or .13.

How do I set up a logcat? I really want to contribute to solving this problem. It 's happened four times to me today.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
To those with this issue. Does it happen when on the charger? I've never had this issue when plugged in- the only <one> time this has happened was when I was on battery power overnight.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] mrgilmorean:
I don't think I've ever had the SOD when it's charging or plugged into the computer.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] freeza:
You guys might want to try Autostarts, and disable some stuff from starting up.

It's the first thing I did when I powered on my TF and have not experienced a single SoD on or off charger. Infact, I haven't experienced a FC of any app either, except for apps I've tried to install that weren't quite HC compatible. Other than that, it has been pretty much flawless for me, except for the speaker issue everyone else has though.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] The-Nazgul:
Ok guys, since the last three days I didnt experience any kind of SOD!

What I did was kind of easy, I suggested that the SOD happens when the device wakes up after some sleep.

As a result I installed "WidgetLocker" (https://market.android.com/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker&feature=search_result)

And since then my transformer wakes up just fine!

Of course I could be that I am just extremely lucky at the moment, and that I will nevertheless experience SOD in the future.

But three days without any is really nice. I used to get them twice a day before I installed WidgetLocker. I didnt install or delete any apps, nor changed anything other than installing this app...

Hope it helps :)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Atruong:
i find that i only get screen of death when not in use for around 7 hours, i have hold down the power button 3 times in order to switch it on, anyone know a cure for this?
[Eee Pad Transformer General] stanleywinston:
weirdly, i did nothing, and mine went 4 days without the SOD. but then it came back again. my replacement arrived yesterday and so far all is good (and no creaky back cover as well!)
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Chief85:
My experience has been the opposite. The ONLY way my screen doesn't crap out is if I enable auto brightness.

Earlier yesterday, for the first time, my screen turned off after like 4 seconds. I pressed power and it just flashed momentarily and turned off immediately. Every time I pressed power, it did the same thing.

I rebooted. The ASUS startup screen showed fine. Then as soon as it booted in, same thing.

I tried wiping all data, and then rebooted. Same problem.

Since it only does this when booted in, I'm thinking it's a software issue. But how the hell do I fix it if I can't get the screen to do anything more than flash on for less than 1 second?

For some reason, when I turn on automatic brightness, the problem goes away. But the second I turn off auto brightness, the screen immediately shuts off and the problem repeats. And auto brightness keeps the screen on a really low setting. When plugged in, everything seems to revert back to normal.

Urrghhh
[Eee Pad Transformer General] EP2008:
FYI: Since getting the keyboard dock, I've had two SOD in as many days - this is comparing to the one SOD I had in 2+ weeks without the dock... I hope this problem gets sorted out as it's a huge pain to have to reboot the device when you were working on stuff before the SOD.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] BlueHawk:
I haven't had any SOD's except when running the JuiceDefender for Honeycomb. Then it happens without fail after one or two sleeps. Reset will make it come back up. Running 8.2.3.13.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] ToddW2011:
Look for my replies in the "Dim of Death" thread in the General forum. The logs I posted may be relevant. My interpretation of the logcat is the webcore asks the sql configdb for BL_PROPERTIES and gets a permission denied error. It then sets the backlight to 0 (as it received "nothing" for the setting, layman terms.) Pressing the power button once emits a SLEEP event; second time is a WAKEUP. Unfortunately, the app with focus will start the display brightness request again (except for Angry Birds; I don't know why).

HTH,

Todd.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] Tenny:
I installed the Netformer kernel and O/C'd my device to 1.4ghz always. During this time I experienced a ton of SoD's. So I decided to play around with it and set SetCPU to go to a really low clock during screen off.

When I woke up this morning ( I heard notifications throughout the night), I was excited to see if it was SoD or not... and alas it was dead. However when I turned it on, it said the battery was dead. So perhaps it never did SoD, it just drained the battery and turned off.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] xreflection:
I've had my transformer for 2 days and I might have had 1 SOD. I'm running stock 3.0.1. I did have the tablet go to a black screen while I was fooling with one of the edges, but I don't know if that was because I pressed the power button and turned it off. When I tried to press the power button, it wouldn't wake up, and I had to hold the power button for 6 or 7 seconds before the boot screen came up.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] glitterballs:
Hey everyone,

I can almost 100% guarantee you this is a kernel level problem. I solved something similar (maybe?) on Captivate, I'll have a new Transformer and a hopefully working wall charger from Asus tomorrow and I'll start to look at this. But you guys can stop your good intentioned but ultimately futile attempts to stop it from happening by turning off auto rotation and such things.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] freeza:
Pretty sure netarchy has conquered it in his latest kernel: 1.2.
[Eee Pad Transformer General] glitterballs:
Based on the commits, it was actually Nvidia. But hey, one less thing for me to do.