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[Android General] Rekka00:
Anyone having screen issues when docked. Such as, the right side of the screen on the tablet when in horizontal position flickers with many "colorful lines". Mostly this is happening when I have the tablet undocked. Anyone else with this issues or any suggestions why are greatly appreciated. This "issue" maks me a little nervous and mostly sad that my padstation may be faulty.
[Android General] cty.stuart:
no i havent got that problem. have u ccontacted asus re that?
[Android General] Someone09:
So, which performance mode is everybody using?

I tried all 3 and didn´t notice any difference at all. Neither in performance nor in battery life or heat.
[Android General] abrigael:
Hi, please confirm keyboard tf201 is compatible with padfone? Tks :confused:
[Android General] SparkyRih:
No it's not...
[Android General] oroo708:
anyone knows the range for the bluetooth stylus?
[Android General] cty.stuart:
the answer is no. it is not compatible. but if u willing to do some serious remodelling of the tf201 dock, it might work, considering it uses similar 40pins and latch
[Android General] cty.stuart:
One of the taiwan advert source quoted 5m. I tried that and it kinda went a bit further but definitely no more than 10m...
[Android General] Someone09:
So, after a few days of playing around with my Padfone, I can confirm what a lot of you already said: Battery life doesn´t seem to be bad. But battery indication definately is.
[Android General] 3mL:
infidelsomeone09;28145061]So, after a few days of playing around with my Padfone, I can confirm what a lot of you already said: Battery life doesn´t seem to be bad. But battery indication definately is.[/QUOTE]

No problem here.
[Android General] SparkyRih:
No problem here either... Battery life is perfect, and the widget indicator is reliable...
[Android General] Someone09:
As several others said, the problem is the following.

Just as an example, today I went out and with it being in standby almost the whole time, it dropped from 96% to 75% in only 2-3 hours.

Then, 3 hours later with exactly the same usage (or probably even more) it was still at 75%.
[Android General] Seifer1975:
Yes, same kind of problem! I tried battery calibration app to delete the battery stat file but still the same.
[Android General] lunarken:
even u off then on again.. the battery indicator also changes...
[Android General] acky85:
Has anyone else noticed light leak around the edge of the phone when the screen is black, so maybe if you are playing a movie or have the clock on full screen?
[Android General] Someone09:
When it is docked, yes. Not on the phone itself.
[Android General] jerrylhl:
After googling for few days, finally I found someone has the same issue as mine. The battery can drain very fast even just on facebook app for few minutes.

Did you notice in the settings -> Battery, the item that consume most of the battery percentage is "Cell Standby"? and it will not shows all the apps that you've opened and used?

Where did you get your padfone? I got it in Singapore. :(
[Android General] Someone09:
Hm...you are right. That´s weird.

But I suppose that would explain the battery behaviour.

Estonia.
[Android General] KingsnakeW:
If cell standby is consuming so much, it might be that cell signal is poor or it keeps switching between 2g and 3g, because of unreliable 3g signal. My girlfriend had this issue with her smartphone at work with the previous provider.
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Has anyone noticed that if they move out of wifi range and then back in, or between different access points, it doesn't always reconnect?

Several times after getting to work, it seems to hang on "obtaining IP address", and if I disable and re-enable the wifi, it connects fine.
[Android General] jerrylhl:
My padfone firmware Build number is currently "IML74K.SG_PadFone-9.18.8.30_SG_9.1.12-0", but I saw a firmware update for Taiwan in asus support website which is "CHT-PadFone-9.18.8.41_CHT", not sure if I can update my padfone with that Taiwan version firmware update???

anyone can advise??? :confused:
[Android General] lunarken:
think i exp this problem today... facebook awhile like drop 20%. Singapore set too.
[Android General] jerrylhl:
but I do not think that the 3G signal in Singapore is unreliable, most of the time I have got 3G signal.
[Android General] Someone09:
It´s not like the cell stanby uses most of the battery, it´s the only thing listed.
[Android General] jerrylhl:
you got it from Starhub too? What is your padfone firmware version? do you have garmin installed in it?

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:DI did the same too. I've got Galaxy Note for a month, and passed it to my wife, and then welcome my padfone ...
[Android General] lunarken:
ya starhub set... fw is .30. didnt install garmin,
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
How does the Padfone organize its internal flash memory? Is it unified like on GNex? Or is there a set amount of memory (say 1GB) reserved for apps?
[Android General] Someone09:
Yep, 1Gb for apps.
[Android General] SparkyRih:
I guess this means that it uses the whole flash memory
[Android General] Someone09:
Hm...you sure? Ever tried to install more than 1GB of apps?
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
What does it say on the Storage item? Could you please add a screenshot of that too?
[Android General] SparkyRih:
I do have more than 1gig installed:
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
Great! I just wonder why they went with this special treatment for Garmin maps, why not just put them in the regular memory area? Just for copy protection? With inevitable root, that is laughable.
[Android General] phoxy84:
Danm, don't want to wait for my padfone, they shipped it last saturday, but i want it now :D
[Android General] SparkyRih:
If you bought via Taiwan, it will probably next week on tuesday, if the customs are as slow as mine :P
[Android General] AzMean:
how did you get Garmin installed? :confused:
[Android General] phoxy84:
I know :(, If they get the package tomorrow, according to your EMS data, perhaps saturday.
[Android General] SparkyRih:
My package arrived at the customs 2 days after the planes arrival, customs took 6 days... And make sure you don't miss the postman like I did XD
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Wow, does that mean that British Customs are actually efficient at something?

I ordered mine late night on a Friday. It arrived at my office the following Friday. Less than one complete week from Taiwan to the UK, including Customs! :o
[Android General] KingsnakeW:
Austrian customs are efficient, they kept my package less than one day.
[Android General] Krad213:
You guys are lucky to live in Europe, I ordered mine 21.06 and 25.06 it was in Moscow at customs, today it arrived at my city Saint-Peterburg but EMS here sucks so much ... it will get 2-3 days before I can actualy get my package.
[Android General] scottmog:
Nado proverit chto padfone ne bomba lol
[Android General] hrrsppzgl:
LOL

http://www.expansys.com/s.aspx?search=padfone

too expensive???:(

whereas

http://www.pccomponentes.com/asus_padfone_smartphone_tablet.html :good:

i hope they include keyboard too in expansys.... :cool:
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Zou je dat naar het Engels kunnen vertalen, want zelfs google translate kan het niet goed vertalen...

The first one is just to much...

Second one... but for that price, I don't think that they will include the keyboard...
[Android General] phoxy84:
Not according to the description. But stille good price, only 16 gb.
[Android General] Wolfram1:
Does pccomponentes.com ship to other countries in the EU?
[Android General] hrrsppzgl:
As stated in their site no. I just emailed them...
[Android General] Krad213:
He said: "they need to check if padfone is a bomb", google translate failed because he used latin letters instead of cyrillic :)
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Haha, ok thank you... It always annoys me when people speak in their own language in a public conversation :P
[Android General] cty.stuart:
it comes as stock.app on taiwan set :D
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
The european price is developing quite nice - first there was the preorder in Spain for €650 (just PadFone and Station), now there is the Italian offer, €750 for PadFone, Station and Dock. Sadly, neither is delivering outside of their respective region. But I decided against importing anyway.

Just a shame that Asus Germany is sleeping happily, giving vague answers like "maybe late July, if we feel like it". Especially since Asus said on MWC that Germany would be among the first countries to get it. Come on, Asus, please let me buy it before Merkel and the Banksters destroy the economy! :o
[Android General] phoxy84:
It's 16 GB, but price looks good. You sure it's with the dock?

Mine is at customs now and full package (32 Gb) with sleeve costs me € 764,- without taxes.
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
Yeah, I really don't know why they went with 16 GB in Europe, it's not like we like to have less data, but we still have MicroSD. And I am sure it is with dock... ;)
[Android General] phoxy84:
Ok, nice
[Android General] feeta:
Just about to order mine from PChome but they're out of stock :(
[Android General] lunarken:
this phone is so hot selling till it will out of stock?
[Android General] TNTPOP:
Looks like noone in europe is selling with the Stylus. Why?

That stylus is part of the whole idea of the padfone. C'mon!!
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
Oh yes, someone does, that eBay seller from Estonia. The package with the stylus is a whopping 120 Euro more expensive than without, that's why I don't link to it. I can even understand that some people (i certainly don't) are willing to add 60-70 Euro to the price tag if they really want it and talk a lot on the phone, but 120 is pure nuts. It will be available on its own eventually, you probably can live without it for a while, or not?
[Android General] Someone09:
Too late for that. :p
[Android General] phoxy84:
I know, it was out of stock when I looked last thursday. When I looked again on friday morning, there was stock again (only 1) :p Don't know when they receive new one and cannot find an e-mail address.....
[Android General] TNTPOP:
Sure 120€ is crazy ...

But I was hoping to get the complete set all in one go just to be sure to have it and get over with it.

But it looks like I'm gonna have to go piece by piece...
[Android General] phoxy84:
Since my padfone is from Taiwan, I need an other plug. Can I just use a USB (or micro USB) to EU plug adapter?
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
He has that, too - and it is a tiny bit more reasonably priced: $1199 (€952) for the whole package, phone, station, dock, stylus, sleeve (that one is in all of his packages). But please don't ask me why he is selling in US Dollar while his own currency is indeed Euro. Also I still find it overpriced - if you get the phone and station (and sleeve) from him for $900 (€715) you can pick up the keyboard later on for €150 with your local layout (I want my QWERTZ) and still have saved €90 for the stylus (which will retail for less).
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
I charge the phone with my Kindle wall plug and the micro USB cable from the box. I had a spare UK adaptor for the station, but I recently picked up a £9 third-party Transformer charger from Amazon, and that works fine.
[Android General] phoxy84:
Ok, thanks. can you sent a picture of the cable u use for the station or a link?
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
Ok, it was £10, not £9.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/40Pin-Charg...ZFC8/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1341313249&sr=8-2
[Android General] phoxy84:
Great, thanks.

Think I need this in Holland :) http://www.ebay.nl/itm/40-Pin-15V-EU-Charger-For-10-1-ASUS-PadFone-Station-UK-Seller-/221035829447?pt=UK_iPad_Tablet_Accessories&hash=item3376c318c7
[Android General] SparkyRih:
Or just the real thing: http://www.asusparts.eu/product_info.php?cPath=222155_222301_222302&products_id=57796 :P
[Android General] oroo708:
Just got this morning. And its itching my a** just seeing it!!! Arggghhhh

Why you no good gorilla glass??!!!!:mad:
[Android General] phoxy84:
Great, that works too? Did you order it and receive it?
[Android General] SparkyRih:
No, my Padfone seller did include a transfer adapter, so I don't really need it, but this is just the real adapter part...

I did ask them to see if they can send me a new backdoor for my padfone station, they are looking for me atm... they respond pretty quick...
[Android General] acky85:
Mobi City have the stylus and ship to europe.

http://www.mobi-city.co.uk/asus-padfone-stylus-headset.html
[Android General] lord_neno:
pccomponentes have stylus+phone+tablet (649€)
[Android General] Mr.Clark:
HOW MUCH?? :|
[Android General] lord_neno:
£74.95 stylus in mobicity LOL
[Android General] aeon101:
Mobi City ships to european countries in 5 days, just had been chatting with them, but 850 eur for just phone and dock tablet with car charger is quite much, isn't it...?
[Android General] reaveronline:
Yippiee!!! Just got mine this morning and this is my first post ;). Padfone 32GB with station + bt stylus + sleeve. After detail checking, the padfone station have several dead pixel. Since i got this not from my country, don't know to how claim and return. :(
[Android General] aeon101:
Oh no...that's too bad! It' s definitely worth of returning. That' s why I'm afraid to buy it from foreign country, but waiting till the end of august is horrible...
[Android General] SparkyRih:
you can just contact your local asus repair centre... asus has worldwide support...
[Android General] TNTPOP:
looks like they'll have stock on monday only and they don't ship to France :(
[Android General] kearon:
European rom and problems?

Hi, I found the WW rom easily enough on the Asus website the other day, then just flashed it as an update. Not managing to locate it on the website now. The only firmware available there now appears to be one for Taiwan Chunghwa Telecom only.

I'll post a link to the rom file I downloaded as soon as it finishing uploading, BUT - I'm having more force closes than I expected and some programs / games I expected to work are not working - just a few examples:

- Mass Effect - Infiltrator : makes it all the way to the in-game play screen, then bails

- Modern Combat 3 - can't download from Play, restored from backup - starts then gives message saying not compatible. Why?

- Pretty much any game that is demanding seems to bail before getting properly started.

- can't get any launcher other than the stock one to work - I read somewhere other people have said that Nova Launcher worked for them, but it wasn't obvious for me.

Really having a low about my Padfone at the moment. The idea is fabulous, but I keep running into walls that stop me being able to do what I want to with it.

If any of you have had similar - or other problems - please share. If you fixed them - even better, I need my faith restoring ->got close to selling mine today :crying:.

We need the wonderful XDA devs to stop obsessing with the S3 and embrace this ground-breaking device.

We also really need our own forum here on XDA. I've put my +1 here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1660354 -for what it's worth - don't really know how to get a new forum to happen.

Hope the rom helps.

Kearon.
[Android General] bluebobx:
I've yet to see any video that does anything other than dock the phone and talk about the difference between tablet mode and phone mode. As to photo's there's quite a few different designs out there - e.g. there's one set (which I think was a prototype shot) which

clearly

shows a MicroUSB under the headphone out.

I think the basic problem stems from the confusing way that Asus is giving out specs. E.g. the specs in the MWC2012 press kit make no mention of the MicroHDMI output on the phone that's clearly visible on photos.

So a lot of folks (me included) have taken the statement that it's got USB and HDMI ports on the station to mean

pass through

ports, when in fact (as you're stating) what they're actually referring to is the USB+HDMI combo that's in the "pocket" of the tablet which are dedicated to docking the phone. The smart move is, of course, to wait and see. I for one will be a little disappointed if the Station doesn't have that HDMI-out.

The other thing that's worrying me is the confusion whether an existing TF101 keyboard dock will work with the Station or not. I've seen a couple of reports that Asus were intending to do that, but then discovered that the extra weight of the PadFone itself meant that a heavier keyboard dock was needed to prevent the combination tipping over. I've even seen one author claim that while the PadFone's keyboard dock will work with the TF101's tablet, you can't go the other way. Again, I guess we'll just have to wait and see what transpires.

See above. :p
[Android General] timboyce94:
The videos from the MWC version are the ones you want to look at it, it changed a lot since it was first announced, youtube > padfone MWC = success. Hands-on videos of what will essentially be the released version.

Me too, but all the hands-on's (see above) show all around the station and there's no HDMIO-out :( it's sad. Maybe we'll eveantually get WiFi display - kinda dreaming though: http://androidandme.com/2012/01/new...play-will-be-powered-by-qualcomms-snapdragon/

I remember at one point the demo's ASUS were doing with the device (might have been CES) - we were told it was using the TF101 dock but only temporarily and that later it would have its own, then i think at MWC it was confirmed to be its own seperate dock.
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
Then you have missed a few.

Which part of "show me" didn't you get? And please don't bother with the old prototype that

clearly

shows the Padfone will have dedicated touch-sensitive buttons. Any feature of that is no indication at all to what we are getting this summer.
[Android General] bluebobx:
Yep, work and family (especially the former) tend to get in the way of trawling YouTube... ;)

And to be equally rude - which part of "you can't post URL's on xda-devs until you get more than a certain number of posts" have you forgotten? :p So if I could have posted links I would have, xda-dev rules mean I can't atm (although at this rate I will be able to soon!)

Try a Google image search for "padfone station" and you'll see what I mean, there's images on page 2 onwards that show a ported station with no hardware buttons. Or if you're busy, don't...

Me, I'm going to chill out and see what eventually my local Asus branch are able to deliver, when it finally appears (not happy it's going to be delayed - see earlier in the thread).

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Dammit. :mad: That means that it's going to be more expensive to get the "full set". Don't suppose they (Asus) gave any hints whether it's merely a heavier base on the PadFone dock - because having a spare for my TF101 could be useful (although I see any PadFone I buy eventually replacing the TF101).

Thanks for the feedback - useful, albeit, unwelcome information.
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
People are not the same and some people consider things rude that others find quite OK. I personally think it rude to make broad claims without proof, and when asked for a source, answer "it's out there, go find it yourself".

I read the rules, it says nothing about posting links as a new member. So you could have just hxxp-ed the link without offending any rule.

Naturally, it is full of shots from the old prototype. You claimed the current model had HDMI and USB, remember?

Do that, and until then, try not to present your expectations as facts, please?
[Android General] timboyce94:
I feel I should just point out if you want to see a controllable 360 degrees animation thing of the padfone, station and keyboard dock, check www.asus.com/Mobile/PadFone/

It's official and the model that's going to be released.
[Android General] timboyce94:
OMG the suspense builds. Review units have started going out. Here's the first - only pics of unboxing, but shouldn't be long now till we have vids and reviews of commercial product.
[Android General] lemonoid:
I just really doubt that it does not going to have an HDMI-out. ASUS produces the highest quality in Android tablets right now, and to leave out an HDMI port would be like any new phone not having a front-facing camera. Yeah, it could happen, but if they don't want to lose sales then they will have it. Economically, it makes absolutely no sense that there would not be a HDMI-out port. Since the PadStation runs off of the processor of the actual phone, the PadStations is actually pretty much a skeleton EXCEPT for all of the connection ports. with all the extra room, it really wouldn't make sense. I'm not arguing that it WILL have one, I'm just saying that the world would be surprised if ASUS's next ground breaking device leaves off something as important as an HDMI-out. And in regards to the TF101 keyboard working with the Padfone, I saw an ASUS representative in a YouTube video stating that it would be compatible. Of course companies say stuff and aren't supposed to, but there's something that pushes us more towards it will, than someone saying that it won't.

EDIT: I just went back and looked at the image on the asus.com/mobile/padfone page. And if you look at the still image, not the animated, but the one at the top. Look at the top left, and there is a wide, thin port that is in the same place as the HDMI-out port on the original TF101.
[Android General] scottmog:
sorry for that annoying question that I'm sure alot of people have asked...

if I import one of these next week to USA, will I at least get 3G on US Tmobile network?
[Android General] bluebobx:
off-topic: expectations and realisations

I didn't know that XDA allowed that kind of trick with not-quite URLs - thanks for the info, I'll know in future. I know about the URL block because the first time I tried it the forum software gave an error message and refused my post until I deleted the url.

Second point - again, read my posts and you'll see that

I've only repeated what Asus and others have said in print

, these are not "my expectations". Note that in my last post I did admit that Asus's spec could be ambiguous. So if the station IS portless then I'll be more than content to hold my hand up and say "I'm wrong" - it's only a gadget not a religious belief! Although in my defence I'll say that, if you're right, then there's also quite a few journalists (I'm not one) who've also been misled. And that's probably a good point to end this (off topic!) diversion.
[Android General] PlanetJumble:
As these rumors just wont die, look here at 0m 44s and you will have every port and button named.