[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Diamondback:
Hey guys,

it's me and my german Prime again. I want to share some of my impressions and findings with the ICS upgrade after some days of use.

First lets think again about the issues I had with HC:

Wifi range was worse than other devices (speed was way better btw)

HDMI screen mirroring was cut at the bottom

HDMI audio was only on the left channel

GPS not working at all (barely one single satellite)

Boottimes were horribly long (2 minutes or longer)

Bluetooth + Wifi lead to massive bandwidth drops

Touchpad was kinda crappy (two finger scrolling in mouse mode)

Okay, all these issues weren't really any kind of deal breaker for me, I really enjoyed my Prime since the .33 update :) (before the .33 the touchscreen really sucked)

I got (as I expected) my update somewhere around 8 PM PST on January 11.

The updated installed without any problems in about 10 minutes.

After ICS booted up

I did a full wipe

to ensure I have as less problems as possible.

Now lets talk again about the pre-ICS issues:

Wifi: Pre-ICS I was not able to connect to my home network due to the Prime not seeing it all. (Range issue)

This is now fixed with ICS. So in fact this means the Wifi range is better now (at least for me). The connection is also a bit more stable.

Both HDMI errors are gone now. Playing 720p and 1080p mkv files with DTS or AC3 sound works perfectly with Diceplayer.

Not a single issue anymore

Touchpad performance is way better now.

I can actually use the mouse mode now for scrolling etc. Nice!

Boottime almost halfed for me. It boots up way faster now.

Wasn't a big issue before, but nice to see they are making improvements here.

As several member here pointed out, the

Bluetooth Wifi issue is not a Prime specific issue

.

Every single other device I tested had exactly the same problem. No matter if a Desire, Desire HD, Lumia 800, even my Laptop to some extend...

So this "issue" is a non issue for me.

Now to the GPS part: (Please note that this issue is a non issue for me too, I don't care for my tablets GPS, it's only that I want everything to work).

It's actually too cold outside to test the GPS more than two minutes, but after this time I still can't see a single satellite...

So far I never had any kind of GPS lock with my Prime. I am not sure if it just needs more time...

I will test that later.

I tested the GPS for several hours now (actually I just put the thing outside under clear sky and let it rest there for some hours)

It searched constantly for GPS satellites using the "GPS Status" app and didn't find a single satellite. Not even one.

The only reason why I think I don't have a broken GPS chip/antenna is that I saw

one

satellite back in HC times...

Since then not a single satellite anymore. (Wifi on/off didn't make any difference btw)

As said above, I don't really care, so this

totally faulty

GPS (it really just doesn't show anything) is a really good point to return it some time later to get maybe a completely new one ;)

I've found also several non-issue related things:

ICS just looks

beautiful

Damn ICS is fast! Everything is just that important bit faster than HC. (not that HC was really slow, but ICS is just noticable faster)

The ASUS taskmanager widget just does not work at all.

It just shuts down as soon as you add it to your homescreen. That's a bit embarassing :P

Some other facts and information:

Do you know about the

"Deactivate app"

feature? (Settings->Apps->Click on single app) It's awesome!

You can deactivate (like freeze in titanium) almost every app on the prime. Even the system apps.

I deativated quite a bunch of them (about 20) and the system feels even faster now :)

I just tested my PS3 controller on the Prime. The native (via USB cable) support works quite well for GTA3 or Shadowgun.

Unfortunately the "Sixaxis" app is not completely compatible yet, touchprofiles won't work at all.

The dev already promised a fixed version for next week :)

The browser performance is really nice :) No lagging or skipping :)

After some fiddling around finally browser sync with chrome works too :) That's really cool! (I needed to delete chromes bookmark data first in google's dashboard, then resync my local chrome. After that the syncing to the Prime worked perfectly.)

So all in all I am super happy with the ICS update. There's still room for improvement, but ICS really made my Prime the device it should have been since the beginning. :)