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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pceasar:
Yea I noticed that,I guess I have to wait on the next patch since this one made my non rooted prime reboot more frequently. At any rate thanks Gary for officially supporting us with these reboot issues glad to hear the word reboot in your update it helps.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] thejamhole:
I'm in montana and I got the update this morning. Had to manually check but it found it. Lots more stable now or so it wants me to believe. I enabled the asus apps I disabled just to see how it goes. Will report back.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] thejamhole:
after the update glowball still crashed. Then I checked the market and there was an update. Had to search for glowball but now it works fine. Everything seems good now. Let's hope it stays good. I'll test more fully after work.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] thejamhole:
Not sure if this is an issue with my prime or my galaxy nexus, but anyone else try pdanet tablet? It used to tether just fine but lately it connects but won't give me internet. Sorry if this is the wrong place.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] otgwindow:
So there still another update pending because this last update did not cure my random rebooting issue but did help GPS abit but GPS is not a issue with me because i have my Epic Touch for GPS.Thanks Gary for keeping us up to date.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dandrep:
Thank you ASUS! Shadowgun is playable for me again. After the ICS update, I would lock hard after resuming my game. Now I can play with no locks, lags, or stutters.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] woofer21:
What to do?

I am getting my prime tomorrow. I am reading several horror stories about the ics upgrade, firmware update and rooting. This may be a stupid question but what is rooting? What should I update when i receive it?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] iam76:
Mine also reboots alot since updating.. this is my second prime. The wifi is slightly better. Hopeful we get patches or patch to solve the sudden reboots. I have them even surfing this site
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hiphopshaker69:
What about the UK?

There is no F/W update in the UK. x(

Should I get an RMA or not????
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jynlude:
Downloaded the ota 14 update this morning and was able to let my tab sleep for 5 hours and wake up successfully. In the meantime, it lost 4% in battery life. Unsure if this is normal or not but i'm happy either way!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] r_simoes:
I can hardly believe the f'ing piece of crap that the transformer prime ended up being. A 600€ machine that continuously features bugs in almost every aspects of usage. My equipment reboots several times a day, features the worst wi-fi performance of all electronics in my house, from 5 year-old pdas to laptops. They clearly rushed this product to market, to be the "first" quad-core, but I'd rather have a functional two-core system than a very expensive paperweight.

In addition, Asus clearly couldn't care less about EU customers. Don't they understand we're living in a global market, and that everyone in the EU learns about firmware releases the day they happen in the US, and that it is incredibly frustrating to wait days (or forever in the case of .13)? Is there a rationale here? Or pure discrimination?

I will NEVER ever buy another Asus piece of crap of any type, and I will endeavour to make sure everyone I can reach to will do the same.

Partial blame goes to the people who write in forums that although they are having a few "minor" glitches like random reboots, freezing, etc, that is perfectly ok. Have you never tried a non-asus product? And why would someone in their right mind say that it is ok to advertise a product as having gps and then remove it because it doesn't work? Next they'll announce that since wi-fi is also having problems, might as well remove that from the features too... It's not a matter of how good it is. It's a matter of trust in a company, which I'm 100% sure disappeared for most of the people who tried the prime, and who won't be buying more of Asus' non-functional technology.

just my 2cts
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MadmanJay:
I personally don't understand why everyone in the UK is so upset about not getting the .13 firmware. Has it occurred to you that perhaps ASUS pulled the update for the UK because of all the problems it caused in the united states? I am in Canada and am happy that the .13 was never released given that it seems to have caused perfectly working tablets to break and fixed the smaller segment that were having issues. Imagine the chaos if they pushed that update globally and broke all of the happy customers who have not had any reboots, funky graphics, or bt/wifi problems. (Like me)

Just be happy that the .14 update was released as quickly as it was and will be available to you shortly.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] thejamhole:
My prime is almost running good. I'm kind of afraid to update again. Oh and for anyone still having youtube app issues. A factory reset fixed it for me.

I'm going to update then factory reset again if the update acts funny.

Still want a tf701 instead of this pile, lets hope asus does the right thing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] itssunnyv:
.14

My prime has been running almost flawlessly on .13. The only hiccup I've noticed is that the battery does drain a tad faster. I might wait to upgrade to .14 until more people report back on it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] thejamhole:
Been working great on .14 ota. Will keep testing and report back.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] iletone2:
After update to 4.0.3

Thought i was alone! (I bought and received the tablet Feb. 11th updated ICS 2 hpours later and this is what follows)

WOW! I really thought it was just me or I had a defective tablet... i bought it last week instantly updated to Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 ... after that my wife and I noticed lag between home screen movement.. seconds to open programs, browsers, etc.. and BIGGEST ISSUE is sudden restart and when it does it flips the video image upside down while reloading.. i called Asus and they had me totally erase/loose EVERYTHING to no avail.. I now have to make the choice to return it which takes 7 to 10 days wait another 2 for the bank to get my money order a new one and wait another 3 days, or figure out if this is something that is strictly software and will be fixed.. i just put Zagg max coverage on it and i know i get free replacements for life its just to much.. I love this tablet sold my iPad 2 for it 800$ worth of like new iPad 2 stuff for exactly enough to buy the tablet, and zagg... I am disabled and need this tablet its my complete means of communication as I am almost always home and Asus offered to check it out or fix replace if needed (which i would probably get a refurbished which would upset me, will have to get the "TABFAX" report first LOL,, actually that's a good idea to make a "Carfax" type thing for electronics to know if it had been repaired or refurbished before buying (TM) lol) BUT they said 10 to 14 days turn around time (T/A) to receive it back AFTER they receive it so even if overnight and weekends that is 17 to 21 days T/A for them to look at it and about the same to replace.. I don't know what to do because if i replace this tablet and the next One lags the same WITH 4 1/2 CORES THIS TABLET SHOULD NEVER EVER LAG EVER, ESPECIALLY DURING A GOOGLE SEARCH LOL... Can anyone chime in and explain why it lags during normal operation and why the cores down handle it correctly? is it because it works better for extreme processing so the small proceses's don't excel ? if so that does not make any since,, opening email (Gmail) program should NOT have a white screen for 2 seconds before showing mail,,,, AND FIREFOX is slower like running as if its the first day the internet turned on... SOME browsers wont let me type words in and i noticed my slide it keyboard tracers it shows while sliding lags and stays longer than it should before it would be smooooooth.... So I would appreciate some more information about this since i only have till the 21st to return and exchange this tablet.. which is very much better than iPad 2 IMHO and very happy with it but them lags erk me hard and makes me loose sleep wondering why my ICS ASUS 4 core is lagging... thanks and sorry I talk a lot!

Also , I am on my Asus tablet 20 plus hours a day (insomniac) and would enjoy working with whoever to help with feedback and fixing this problem so if you have any questions about other experiences I am having with the Asus Prime with ICS please contact me thanks!

Alexander
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] BBKB1217:
Lasted about 6 hours after update before shutdown during sleep started again. Have had 3 in 9 hours and would be more if I booted back up more often.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] iletone2:
new update NOW

they just released a new update .14 as we speak 3 minutes ago so everyone check update on there device cause they say this is to fix freeze and rebooting etc.. thanks

UPDATE: i misread how long the update had been released for sorry everyone
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] saintirish:
The new update has been out all day (not just 3 minutes)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] droid358:
+1

Same experience here. My Prime has been running really well since .13 and after going through the hell of the random reboots before .13 I'm really nervous to upgrade and risk the machine running terribly again.

I'm also going to wait awhile to see more feedback from other users who have upgraded.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] droid358:
Okay so I got impatient and couldn't wait any longer so I took the plunge. Actually, I spent some time reading in the other thread concerning the new update and noticed some bad feedback, some people saying they didn't notice any change and some people saying good things about the update so I figured I would give it a shot.

I just upgraded so its too early to give any real feedback but so far so good. It's probably just the placebo affect but I think the tablet seems to be performing better overall so far.

I'll post an update if I notice any real significant changes, good or bad.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] itssunnyv:
Ha... I got impatient as well and upgraded. HOWEVER... my tablet has restarted a few times since then. UGH! I couldn't help myself... it said the update was there and already downloaded.

Reading all the posts now to see how to downgrade back to .13

My prime is not rooted and it looks like all suggested ways to revert back involve rooting.

stay tuned.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] droid358:
Oh no, sorry to hear that! I feel better know that I wasn't the only one holding back only to give into the temptation. Please keep us posted on what happens with your Prime and if you are able to locate the instructions on how to downgrade back to .13 without rooting. I haven't rooted either and was sort of wanting to keep it that way.

---------- Post added at 10:49 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:35 PM ----------

Wow, how disappointing can this get. I was one of the many users who experienced random reboots every so often before the update to .13. I almost returned my Prime but held out and with only a couple days left in my return window the .13 update hit and I installed OTA.

My Prime ran like a dream after that. I could actually use the device and experienced virtually no problems whatsoever except that the GPS still did not work but I didn't mind really.

Well, despite my reservations I decided to go ahead and install the latest OTA .14 update and now, after about 15 minutes or so, I got my first random reboot!!! Just so everyone knows, I had just closed the Navigation app after trying to test GPS and then opened the Market to do some browsing and that is when the dreadful reboot occurred.

I had the dream, a fully functional flawless Prime working in, (excuse the pun) PRIME CONDITION! And now, well, now it's back to a flawed machine that I paid $750 for, (including the keyboard dock).

I think I need a stiff drink :mad:

Oh and in case anyone is wondering or brings it up, I've only experienced 1 reboot so far since the update so I don't know if it was just a random isolated incident but I will repost once I find out.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xvsacme:
My Prime has gone back to square one with the .14 update.

It was working perfectly on .11.1 and .13.

Now that I'm on .14, it reboots every few minutes and often freezes up on the boot screen - just like in the old .7 days.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] epology:
It's so weird that Gary said his team could not reproduce the reboot errors even with the devices sent to him by community users. Once .14 will be out in Europe I will update, do a factory reset and then try again.

On a sidenote, do you think it makes a difference wether to update from .11 to .14 or to wait for the ICS .14 package as a whole and flash it manually?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wotak:
24 Hours and flawless

It been almost 30 hours since I installed the .14 update. All is well. I have some detailed graphs from System Panel that I would post the screencaps from if I were allowed to put images into a post.

I used the tablet all day at work yesterday for notes in meetings. Showed off a couple 3D games to interested coworkers. Made a handful of phone calls with Groove IP. Brought it home and used Bluetooth in the car to jam to locally stored Amazon Music. Played some pinball, read the news and finally put it to sleep for the night. All of that on a single charge. I just got out of bed and the tablet still has 25% battery from that single charge. No lockups or sleeps of death in 30 hours of what I consider normal usage. I'd say ASUS found the right fix.

If anyone wants to post my screencaps of the system stats, drop me a PM and I'll e-mail them to you.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pceasar:
Thanks I'm not going to install it. Now I just have to figure out how to stop it from doing its own install.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jdbaker82:
This just means Asus will never find a true fix for the current Primes out there because there is clearly hardware variances..
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] saintirish:
Well the first day of having the 14 update went great. No more random shutdowns while in sleep mode, and the sleep mode battery life is WAY WAY better.

HOWEVER, this morning, I have had 3 random restarts. Two of the restarts while using the Chrome app and 1 while using the XDA app. Now it seems I am back to the original problem I was having a few weeks ago when I first got the Prime and updated to ICS. Is this what we are to expect now?? Just a cycle of updates that fix one problem only to cause another??
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] geogle:
stable now, but information requested.

I went from reboots every time it was asleep on .13 to stable performance again on .14.

It would be great if the community could hear from Asus about what they think the problem is. The power of the community may just solve this for you.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rits06:
I can report whit 36 hours, of .14 update, nice batery life time, no sleep dead, ( i haved in .13), now have wifi in places that i dont have before, right now for my personal use is the best actualization, my serial is BCOXXXXXX.

i hope Asus find the solution for all the users. i cant give back my asus so easy becous live in centroamerica.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kevin.chabot:
Ok; this worked and I have a working tablet... here is what I did:

1. downloaded the HC image from ASUS site (UpdateLauncher_WW_epaduser8_8_3_33)

2. downloaded google android SDK

3. downloaded vipermod v3

4. extracted the blob onto a micro SD

5. rooted the prime with viper mod

6. rebooted

7. executed the upload of the BLOB file onto your prime as instructed here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1492887&highlight=ddfrom

8. once you downgraded... your transformer prime will start bootlooping. You will see the ASUS logo over and over again. Now, the trick to wipe the data: hold down the volume down button, use a paper clip to perform a reset and hold the volume down button until you see the boot menu. Instruct it to wipe your data.

Done :d welcome back to Honeycomb

This will also allow you to switch SKU (going to US if you don't want to miss out on the ICS features, but for me: stability was more important)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] atomtom:
Graphics Issue

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones that has had success with .14 not locking up, but a graphics issue remains. When in either balanced or performance mode and on the home screen, pressing the recent apps button causes the widgets to disappear/flicker a bit (while still showing the wallpaper) in lower/left half of the screen. Note that this doesn't happen immediatly on boot, but only after being on and used for some time.

Edit: Looks like it only took about twenty minutes this just now.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] quartercirclebak:
Just experienced my first random freeze and lockup ever, on .14. Was running a few apps like Dolphin Browser, Stream Catcher. I booted the Market to look for something and that's when the freeze happened. Hopefully this is a one- time thing...

Edit: nnnope, it's not. Just happened again. One more and I'm going to have to downgrade to .13. This is ridiculous...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jguidera:
Unfortunately in my case I was fairly stable under. 11 with one problem where I would receive a "application already exists" when I tried to update applications through android market. Now I consistently lock up whenever I try and update an app. Sometimes clearing data and cache seems to help but not always.

Very frustrating as you can imagine.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] itssunnyv:
searched threads and haven't found a way to revert without being rooted. I'm trying a factory wipe now to see what that does.

Sincerely,

frustrated.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mopar400:
.13 would run stable.

.14 all I get are random reboots, sometimes it will crash while it is rebooting.

I can get it to stay up running if I turn off WIFI!!!! But then it is pretty much worthless.

I have reverted back to .13.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Kolham:
That's the SAME problem I had with .11 random reboots that only stopped turning off WIFI. Now I'm on .13 and the problem disappeared but I don't know if go to .14 becuase I don't want to come back again to those reboots. Also as you say the tablet with WIFI off is quite useless.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] itssunnyv:
So I gave in and rooted my device. I followed instructions from previous threads about how to revert back to .13. It took a second to figure out, but once I had downloaded all the necessary files, it was very easy. I lost root after the update, but not a big deal to me. at least i know how to do it should i need to do it again in the future.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] droid358:
Thanks for the update @itssunyv, I might just try and do the same depending on how the weekend goes with my Prime. Last night after updating I experienced two random reboots. The first happened when I was browsing the market. After the system booted back up I decided to try and test it using the old Netflix test that would consistently cause my machine to reboot after 15 - 20 minutes of video streaming without fail. Before I could even choose a show to stream the Prime rebooted while I was browsing in my queue.

After it booted back up I decided to shut it down manually and leave it off for just a few minutes. I waited about 5 - 10 minutes and turned it back on. Since doing so I did not receive anymore random reboots for the rest of the night and I even streamed Netflix for an hour and various Youtube videos for another hour or so.

I charged it over night and left it on while doing so. This morning I have only used it for half an hour or so but haven't experienced a reboot yet, (knock on wood).

I'm hoping, perhaps naively, that the reboots have magically disappeared. I guess we'll see what happens now.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xvsacme:
I wish I could revert back to .13, but the reboots are so frequent that my Prime will not stay alive long enough for the blob to copy. The longest it's been alive so far is 2'49" (I'm using a stopwatch), and the downgrade instructions say it could take anywhere from 5 to 20 minutes.

It reboots itself mid-copy and when it comes back up with the update process, it unsurprisingly fails with "Blob signature verification failed." I may finally have no choice but to send it in for RMA - on the plus side, they will have one of the best (worst) examples of a Prime to test new updates on!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] JMQUINT00:
after .14

TP now locks up over night always requiring a reboot in the morning. The battery life appears to be back to normal but the whole deep sleep issue remains from .13. I have a BC0KA serial if that makes any difference.

This seems to be the only problem I'm experiencing,keep at it Asus you're almost there.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] itssunnyv:
Have u tried this with the prime plugged in? Mine seemed to reboot significantly less when plugged in.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Reignzone:
A simple hard reset to factory settings appears to have cleared up 90% of my issues. It's rather annoying to redo this procedure after each of the OTAs that are released... but in the grand scheme of things, resolves issues with minimal efforts.

Sent from one impressive piece of technology.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] saintirish:
This reboot issue has gotten way worse during the second day since I upgraded. It wasn't rebooting like this since version 11. Gary, please have your guys keep working on this. I really don't want to rma.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xvsacme:
Well, I have been doing this over adb connection so it is plugged in to the computer; however, that gives me an idea to try Terminal Emulator and run the dd command while actually plugged in to power. (I'm not exactly getting my hopes up though.)

UPDATE: I was finally able to get the Blob for .11.1 to copy completely (and correctly) by using Terminal Emulator, tablet plugged in (and docked, incidentally, since my keyboard dock finally arrived today), and by copying the blob from the SD card instead of the internal memory. I had originally copied it from the internal memory because I thought it would be faster, and I needed to make use of every second I could get before a reboot. But I do have a Class 10 SD card so the difference was negligible. I just had to be a little persistent, a little more patient, and a lot more lucky.

So I'm up and running again on .11.1. I might update again to .13 later, but I think it was slightly less stable for me than .11.1.

Needless to say I'll be skipping .14 forever.

It seems to me that there are two types of Primes: if you have "Prime A," you should skip the even updates, and if you have "Prime B," you should skip the odd ones. ;-)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Vcolassi:
TY i will try this. I had my Prime boxed up this morning after getting super frustrated with lockups and reboots last night. But i couldn't bring myself to return just yet :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cyanide01:
How do you do a hard reset to factory? Is it just going into settings and backup and restore???
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] AWhistler:
Trying to catch failure for .14 reboots

I have been running catlog with the save interval set to 1, trying to catch the reboot cause. I have only seen a couple of curious things, including a system level unhandled exception crash (java error). It seems the wifi doesn't respond, or a process dies, or for some reason the resolution of the screen is reset and nv can't grab it. I don't have enough info yet to see a smoking gun, but this problem is as bad as .11