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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cyberbrutus:
Here is my review after 10 days of owning Prime. I will try to keep a positive note !

Day 1: Super excited to unbox. Everything seems fine and upgraded to ICS without a hitch. WIFI was fast enough for normal browsing.

Day 2: Compared to my Samsung galaxy S2, the screen looked very bad.

Day 3: Watched youtube videos and started to see a lot of buffering lag on a 12mbps connections. Restarted router and moved closer to router. worked fine for couple of videos and same issue again.

Day 4: Downloaded ICS+, Xscope and few other browsers to see if the pages would render faster. Yes, they did render faster when ICS+ was used.

Day 5: The page scrolling was laggy. Decided to root it and install 1.5 and 1.6Ghz modes. Helped a bit with laggy issues.

Day 6: Changed from CFQ to LOOP to see if that fixes laggyness. Nope ! Tried 'Interactive' governer. Helped a lot with laggyness.

Day 7: Decided to watch youtube. No good..same old lag, same old bugffering issues ! I was kinda frustrated.

Day 8: Used TapaTalk to scroll through posts. Crashed over and over again...Same night I dreamt of Ipad which I owned a year ago and how smooth and easy it was to scroll.

Day 9: Decided to return Transformer. I hate Ipads so started looking at other alternatives.

Day 10 (today): Decided to buy Galaxy Tab 10.1.

I hope it 'Transforms' into a useful machine in near future. Nice hardware specs but I cant fool my self anymore. Good bye Transformer.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] codeman05:
I'm going to be brief, I don't feel up to a 10 paragraph review right now, and to be frank, everyone has just about everything there is too say by now.

I have owned the follow tablets personally:

Ipad1 (free), Motorola Xoom (Original), Asus TF101, GT 10.1, GT 7+, Asus TF201.

Out of the above, the TF201 is hands down the best I have used so far.

I have zero screen issues, zero wifi issues, I don't use GPS with it so I could care less and have never tested it.

I have a "BC" model and I'm running ICS. In the past 3 weeks, I have had maybe 1 force close and no issues.

My only complaint/fear is that with all the *****ing in this forum, all the devs will run off and when we finally get a unlocked bootloader, it won't mean squat. On the other hand, this is the first tablet that I've had in which I've been rather content with with only having root.

My .02
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Vaanhoot:
I have a e2000 router running ddwrt too and I have no connection issues. Try different security modes

Sent from my I896 running ICS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Feel the same way. Its only users complaining. I have yet to see one "real" recognized developer up here who owns a prime to complain yet.

Always the end user. Hopefully potential devs. Can see potential in all this and still come aboard. Prime is actually the perfect testing ground for developing for future tegra3 devices. The more developement that goes on with prime, the better it will be for future devices with Tegra3. Because developers will already have experience with Prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rachet:
Hey... this isn't a "positive" post. ;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
In a positive note. Asus is releasing a few more primes to the public ina few months, the TF700T (Big Brother) and possibly the TF300 (The better twin).;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] :
Using WPA2 with AES encryption. This is required for N speeds. Wondering if perhaps it is my dnsmasq and firewall settings. My wife's iPad has odd connection issues as well, but only intermittently.

Regardless, I'm extremely happy with the purchase.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Vaanhoot:
I just tried wpa2 and aes encryption and my prime is dropping wifi too. I was on wpa and had zero problems.

Sent from my I896 running ICS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] westcoastgeek:
Seriously! Not a prime issue? What are you smoking? Maybe it's not a issue exclusively to prime, but almost all phones and tablets stream wifi and Bluetooth happily together. This is one of the biggest flaws of the tablet., and will certainly hurt its resale value. I sold my original iPad for 80% of what I paid for it two years later on Craigslist. I doubt I could do the same with the Prime, unless they fix all these issues. I am glad your enjoying yours, it's an amazing piece of technology, but to make a silly comment like that just makes me laugh.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nytemare69:
what a beauty

I finally received my new BC TF Prime, and all I can say is...worth the wait. Ordered originally through seaboom.com on 12/09/11, cancelled 2/2/12 after 2nd extension. Ordered through Officedepot.com on 3rd and received today. Updated to IC, new camera update, and merged profile with no hitch. Wifi works excellent, but gps is clearly slow to nonexistent. I didnt purchase for gps. Had gtab since early 2011 and have never used gps. Currently i have no bleed either.

I know there are a few here with problems and I understand their frustration in not getting what they paid for. I feel fortunate that i am not in that group. But through all the bad press I've read here-somewhat understandably, i knew i was still going to get mine. I really appreciate all the information here in this forum and am super happy for this particular thread. We all know that with a bad experience, people will tell 10 others, and never pass on a good experience. This thread changes that
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] spencerj2001:
i feel the same way two, i love my prime no issues with wifi or gps it really bugs me to see all the negative press this tablet is getting. and really its only a hand few on this site who keep re posting and making it seem like its a bad device. even in this thread it clearly says positives of the prime and you find couple post with people talking crap. stick to the threads that addresses these things.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] guthrien:
I've still not encountered any real issues outside of gps. Wifi and Bluetooth are fine, possibly the wifi shows less bars at times but when I've run SpeedTest I get great speeds.

I couldn't go to a Tegra 2 as a daily device because of the video issues (it stinks for playing a range of video). This device has obvious power enhancements, a great screen, good battery, a good camera and sound and probably best of all there is nothing in the tablet space like the attachable dock.

My Galaxy Tab 8.9 feels better than any gadget ever in the hand otherwise this is easily the best Android tablet yet made. It suffers from only one big issue and it's not Asus' fault - the app store is feeble and filled with only the basics.

Interesting note, I'm a U.S. user and I wrote Asus about the gps. They apologized and stated it was a design issue and it was no longer advertised as a gps ready device. They offered me a free extended warranty.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] :
I think I solved it. When you enable wpa2 with AES, do you also have wmm 'no acknowledgement' set to enabled? With that enabled, I get drops. When I disable it things seem a lot smoother.

I think I'm a very happy man at this point.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] maxfac1234:
Been using my ATP (my first Android based device) for 3 weeks now. Been a steep but easy learning curve.

Before getting it from a local store here in London, I was going through pretty much every single post in here but eventually went ahead and got myself one. Am I regretting it? At times I feel like I have been conned (re: GPS), but overall, I am glad I got it.

Wifi - Considerable drop in signal strength when I moved into next room separated by a layer of brick wall. Not a big issue for me as long as long browsing speed is ok. Wireless router is currently on g/n setting. I haven't changed any channel on the router to see if signal strength improves.

GPS - I am not relying on it. I prefer paper maps - makes me feel like a man, lol. For the last 3 weeks, outside - I normally get an average of 9 to 13 in view with an average of 5 to 9 locks (we're talking cloudy days here in England). Inside - none. However,not until last night, just out curiousity again, ATP picked up 4 sats whilst sitting next to window... bizarre.

Bluetooth - Works fine - And no wifi/bt fallout issue.

Lightsensor/Brightness auto adjustment - Erratic - but not a big deal.

Battery - Amazing - But when docked, it seems the rate of power drain is quicker.

Display - Lightbleed on lower left corner measuring about 1.5cmx1cm otherwise fine. But as I understood it, IPS based display, including the ipad2(if we take it as a gold standard here) - suffers from lightbleed. This one doesn't bother me too much. Not affecting daily practical use.

Keyboard dock - Excellent.

Camera & Vid - Great.

Just a little disappointed with the usb power cord - a little short and when connected to the tablet, does not latch properly and easily falls off/out - and also when using the standard headphone jack, the full length of the 'pin' does not go in all the way (haven't read anyone else complaining about this though).

Interesting observation - Recently decided to delete the dalvik cache and see what happened - During reboot it displayed 'Optimizing application' (rebuilding the cache) and started normally. I previously did not have problem with random reboots - But after the first time I wiped the dalvik cache, random reboots kicked in. So I decided to wiped the dalvik cache again - it seemed to solve the problem. Not sure how these two are related though.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] enomai:
I am more than satisfied so far with mine. Just got it on Saturday. No wifi issues. The only testing I've done with the GPS is to open Maps and it has my position correct. I bought it primarily as a note taking / organization device and it has been excellent at that task. Other than that Gensoid works very well on it so I don't have anything bad to say at this moment.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Phoneguy589:
I've had my prime for about a month and haven't had any issues. Its a B serial number. I get good GPS lock in my house and no wifi issues. I can pick up my neighbors wifi so i'm guessing it is working good but its never dropped my wifi. I had a little light bleed when I first turned it on but it seems all good now. I just hope we get the bl unlocked and some cm9 on my prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Another poll. Show your support and give a honest vote.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=22284910#post22284910
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] marko!:
My schools wifi connection, nuff said

sent from my Transformer Prime
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tony1ant:
I got my Prime last month and all I can say its full of Awesomeness.

I've had no problems with mine works perfectly. I'm amazed at the battery life and the speed of it. I have no wifi issues or bluetooth issues or lightbleed issues. My Prime is a UK spec and updated to ICS.

The best tablet by far that I have owned and used. I cant fault it at all.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] silentheero:
Just got mine 3 days ago after much debating with myself and was apprehensive about getting a lemon, but I shouldn't have worried! It is a BC grey model and works perfectly. Updated, rooted, and benchmarked. Wifi is great, screen is nice and clear, buttons, battery, cameras, software all working as intended. GPS is non-existent, but I would never have used it and knew that it had issues.

The only thing I could complain about is the loss of the Riptide when I updated to ICS. Otherwise, very happy and looking forward to hacking it as soon as we get an unlock. :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] manso1102:
The prime is the best tablet in the market hands down. I almost didn't get it because all of the people complaining, I'm glad I didn't listen and got it anyway. Once the bootloader is unlocked it will be unstoppable.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Riptide works on ICS

YOU KNOW IT! WE TAKIN OVA..LOL
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cerberu5:
love it!

Got mine about two weeks ago and I've been postponing posting my experience with it since it's my first Droid, and I didn't want my bias of the OS to impair my judgement of the device itself. [I've been an iPhone user (hacker) for 2 years, so my standards are pretty high for a mobile device, and up until recently I just wasn't that impressed by the polish and continuity of the earlier droid OS's.]

While I was waiting my obligatory two months for the product to actually ship I spent my time here at XDA reading up. According the lore here, my serial is one of the early batches (BCOKAS#####) and I have to admit that I when I got it I was really skeptical about keeping it, especially after reading all the complaint posts about the Prime (especially the early batches).

Like a noob, when I first got it, I immediately updated the firmware to the latest and greatest (.11 at the time), and promptly locked myself out of root access. Luckily there was root exploit dropped a week ago or so, which I also promptly did. Since rooting it and getting real access to the filesystem, I've been on cloud 9 with the tablet. It's fast, really fast. Some games are even hard to keep up with on that 10 inch screen, but that's OK!

There isn't another device I would trade it for now! :cool:

The only thing that really pisses me off about the whole thing is the LOCKED BOOTLOADER. Seriously WTF ASUS!!? Where is our bootloader unlock? :mad: and I used to think you guys were cool... If I don't see a bootloader unlock soon, as we've been promised, I will have to seriously rethink purchasing another ASUS product again. Nothing upsets me more than company's acting like they still own something you paid for.

Also, for the record:

It's WiFi is a little weak, but not as bad as half the laptops I've used. I get fairly snappy response time from it within 50 feet of a WAP.

It's GPS does kind of suck, but it works decently enough when your moving less than 25mph, and great if your just standing outside.

I do also have a wee bit of screen bleed, but it's better than a ton of devices I've worked with over the years, and I only notice it when the device is booting anyway.

One last note, I still have some crashes in certain apps, but I can't really blame the Prime for those, as I suspect some of the apps I've grabbed haven't been updated for ICS yet.

Hope this opinion helps others make a sound decision.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chin_a_ling:
Had my prime from the past month. Never had problems with it. Sure sometimes apps slow down but I think that's due to lack of memory. Wifi is great and honestly not a big fan of GPS anyways. I think gps is only good for cell phones.

I love my prime. My only complaints are apps that have not made the compatibility change to ICS especially those that are developed by google
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] silentheero:
I'm sure it does, but the app was somehow removed in the process of upgrading, and since that was the first thing I did, I didn't get a chance to backup apps first. Oh well, I'll prob buy it anyway.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dhinge:
It's Awesome

I bought gray 32Gig from Amzon which reached to me on 2/1 and from that date i am not able to keep it down.

It's amazing from hw perspective. I have no issue wifi or ICS. GPS is locking down to 6/7 sats when outside didn't try it while driving.

TegraZone games are running on it like rocket :). Playing CS on it is also real fun.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Vcolassi:
Happy to be able to join this thread! I returned my Prime that i got two weeks ago to BB as my local Stales got a small batch of "C1" serial numbers in.

On my old one i would get "OK" wifi in my living room & "OK" GPS signal time to time.

Well call me crazy but my new Primes is flawless so far! Took it home upgraded to the latest ICS. Ive been going hard on it playing games, downloading some N64 roms, multiple tab web browsing & not one single lockup yet! Wohooo!

As for Wifi & GPS, great too!

In my living room i am picking up about 11mbps

Same room as router am i picking up about 12.5mbps

Pretty damn good if you ask me. As for GPS i tested this morning indoors while its snowing out. I picked up 13 signals in about 8 secs.

Enough bragging before i jinx myself hahah!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] benefit14snake:
I am now very happy with my prime. After swapping out 4 or 5 times (can't remember anymore lol) I got a c1 that works great! Screen is awesome, while it does have bleeding it is only on bootup in a dark room. I can live with that.. The wifi is pretty good, the same as my Droid razr, again I can live with that. Super fast, well built and everything I want from a tablet. Only thing I need now is development.

Overall probably about a 8/10.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pnharrison:
I thought I'd add a post here with my experience;

I've now got 2 Primes; and both of them work very well including Wifi & GPS.

The first is a Grey (it's purple!) 32gb BCOKAS that I bought on launch day in Jan

The 2nd is a Gold (it's silver!) 32gb C10KAS that arrived yesterday from a pre-order placed on 16/12.

I hadn't cancelled the pre-order since I wanted to compare 2 Primes side-by-side; and compare the colours. I think the silver/gold is slightly nicer, but there's not much in it.

Both Primes' WiFi is as good as my Galaxy S2 phone and my Acer laptop in terms of throughput and range.

- near the router all 4 devices (2 Primes, phone and laptop) get 10Mbps down and 1.1Mbps up on broadband speed test

- at the edge of range (20m, through a couple of brick walls); all 4 devices get slower at a similar rate; and all 4 drop the connection within 1m of each other.

Both of them have working GPS - this did surprise me; I'll going to try to attach a photo to show this.

(In the photo; the left is the newer Silver prime still with its protective plastic wrap on; the right is my one month old Grey prime. This was in my garden in London yesterday, a mildly cloudy day)

Having used the Prime for a month, I absolutely love it. It's a great for watching videos; email and internet around the house. The keyboard works really well, it's quite satisfying to dock and undock it. I've compared it with my friends iPad 2 and we agree - both are excellent, not a lot to choose between them for everyday stuff. But if you value the flexibility of SD card slots, USB port and Android (which I do) then the Prime is the best tablet out there. If you like to use iTunes, have Airplay/Apple TV in the house then an iPad might fit in better.

I'm lucky to have 2/2 working; and there clearly are issues with quality control because there are far too many duff units being reported. I've read pretty much every post about Primes on this forum since Dec and I can feel the frustration of people with units that aren't up to scratch. Asus are sitting on a winner if they can sort out these quality control (design?) issues.

My advice if you're considering one: go for it! (but be prepared to exchange if it isn't up to scratch.)

cheers,

Peter
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chucky7910:
I love mine! The battery is really really awesome, and it's fast. I'm glad i got one (despite the negative reviews I heard on this forum) now when I go on trips (especially with the ability to connect remotely to my PC at home) I can bring the TFP. It's like my full on quad core laptop in a smaller package with a touch screen. I thinks its hilarious that the grey is actually purple and most lighting situations. :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Good to hear. This list keeps growing. If you didn't update to latest firmware, might be a good idea to hold off for a while. Alot of people reporting issues with it. I'm on it n have no problems bit just a warning. If you already on it and everything working good for you, then that's good news.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Goatshocker:
Thanks for this thread.

I have now gone from "wow, this tablet seems to suck" to actually consider getting one myself! :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rcatron:
I have had my Champagne unit now for about 3 weeks. Initially, I was skeptical - my Xoom received the ICS OTA update, and it improved it dramatically. Within a few days, my Prime arrived.

Initially, I was disappointed - though thin, it just didn't seem like a huge upgrade over my Xoom. As the weeks go by, I must admit now that I am loving it. Though benchmarks prove it to be about 2x as fast as the Xoom, it doesn't feel that way...yet anyway.

I think the big difference to me is the dock. The dock (and trackpad) adds a whole new dimension to it that I just couldn't get with the iPad 2. I still use the tablet as a tablet more often than not, but the dock is nice when you have to do some major typing.

Wifi has absolutely no problems at all. It reads lower bars than the iPad or my other devices, but the performance, signal and through put speeds are the same - it just displays differently than I am used to. I honestly have not tried the GPS much yet. I need to test that out and report back

Is it perfect? No, but pretty darn close. The only down side thus far is trying to find cases. It is so disappointing to see the myriad of, what are bound to be fly by night case "manufacturers" pop up on Amazon selling the same, nor nearly same case. I bought one, sent it back, bought the Transleeve (and actually like it but I need a back cover which, at this point, though they are very popular and available for the iPad, I simply cannot find one from a legitimate manufacturer for the Prime).

I like Folio style cases - I love the Motorola Folio case for the Xoom (I do NOT want to cover the bezel) so I ordered another one from Amazon (some brand with "shield" in the name - who knows). So hopefully it will work well (it was only $15, so I am not expecting much, but I firmly believe it is the same case that others are selling for $30 to gouge).

So yes, I am pleased
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dgjl:
Is this ironic? As I recall Kane is the only one clapping with feeling...and she's no good.:rolleyes:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] BarryH_GEG:
I have a suggestion. Since there are an overwhelming number of threads with "good" vs. "evil" debates, can't this one thread be left for people that are happy/satisfied to share their feelings? Up until a couple of pages ago this thread was left alone by the dissatisfied. I'm not suggesting people who want to vent shouldn't, just leave at least one thread that's not riddled with complaints about Asus, the Prime, Nvidia, and/or Gary so those that are satisfied can enjoy their purchase.

Peace out.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
That was actually directed at a troller who came in here and trolled and said he was leaving the prime forums for good. Which he lied about because he still posting and trolling..lol'
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ttav:
Been using my Prime for over 3 weeks now and i`m still very happy with it. My previous pride and joy the TF101 just sits there gathering dust:)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rose4uKY:
I can't put mine down. I use it every day. I love it! My wifi at work sucks and it's slow loading pages but at home it's fast. I haven't had any problems but every once in a while and this morning it did it I get a message saying asus task manager has stopped then it goes away. But this thing is great and I have been recommending this too so many people. I love it! Also I updated to ICS but I still keep getting that I have a camera update. Should I do that? I did read in another thread some people updated and then had problems. I know this is a positive thread but I am leary on updating since everything is working fine right now. But I may do it I just don't really use the camera.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] scataldo721:
I was worried about it too then i realized that i have a C1 prime nd everyone else with a C1 never had an issue with updates so i updated and it worked great i absolutely love my prime!!!!!!!!