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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] se1000:
I got a little bored, so I decided to order some 3M Di-Noc. Basically the same stuff as Skinomi uses but it's not pre-cut. Ordered a huge sheet. I thought to myself "I have pretty steady hands, and basically all I have to do is cut out a rectangle in some vinyl". Anyway, here are the results. Some things to note.

- I removed the rubber feet, applied the vinyl and then replaced them after cutting the holes out.

- The corners are the hardest part.

- Not for the faint hearted.

- I used the edge of the aluminum bottom as my guide, so the vinyl goes all the way to the edge.

Overall, I think the results are pretty good!!! Enjoi!!!!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xIC-MACIx:
That looks sick! What's ironic is I was just on google trying to find a sheet of CF vinyl for the dock that matched my skinomi skin..lol
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] _Gir_:
Very nice. What solution did you come up with for the corners?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mazubo:
Very nice job! I've surrounded my car stereo and the back of my galaxy nexus with cf di-noc..... this is tempting,,,,,,:D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] se1000:
Going slow, using a hair dryer to soften up the vinyl and being patient. All of these things are typically pretty foreign to me!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] opentoe:
Cool different colors also. Also, consider that installation permanent.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slugbug2010:
Skinomi makes dock skins to match the tablets now
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xIC-MACIx:
Damn your right, I guess I didn't look very hard on their site, thanks!

Here's the link for ppl looking for the tab+dock combo in CF...

http://www.skinomi.com/sk10184-asus-transformer-prime-keyboard-and-tablet-combo-carbon-fiber-skin-protector.html
[Kindle Fire General] djkeller3:
None of the apps I've tried from the Market have worked, so I'm wondering if there's a file somewhere I can either change permissions on, rename to a .bak file or some other form of hackery in order to disable the lock screen. If anyone knows how to do it, I would really appreciate the tip!
[Kindle Fire General] krelvinaz:
You have provided little info on what ROM you are using to know what you are trying to do and what apps you have tried.

I used nolock without any issues on the stock ROM.
[Kindle Fire General] david717:
He's trying to make it so he no longer has a ... lockscreen? Lol

@OP, I haven't been able to do this either.

@krelvin, do you have your wallpaper locked? I'm stock, but rooted, and what not; no lock crashed on me when I tried it last.
[Kindle Fire General] krelvinaz:
Yes. It is locked by having changed the permissions of the wallpaper files, don't recall right off hand what the location was.

I've used nolock on my KF without any issues. I had it working on my phone (Dinc), but a new management policy from work stopped it from working.
[Kindle Fire General] CptanPanic:
I like the idea but just tried nolock and get force closing on 6.2.0
[Kindle Fire General] djkeller3:
I'm sorry...I'm using the stock ROM. I also tried NoLock, but it kept force closing once setting it, and wouldn't work. Since you got it to work, I'll try it again, maybe clearing data once I install it might help.
[Kindle Fire General] androidcues:
nolock doesn't seem to work well on the fire--- its redundant to use with cm7 and ics---- I had trubble with no lock on stock/modaco/biffs
[Kindle Fire General] djkeller3:
Location for locking wallpaper:

Use Root Explorer...

data/data/com.Android.settings/files

Then long-press the Wallpapers file, select Permissions.

Check mark like this:

X BLANK X

X BLANK X

BLANK BLANK BLANK

Click okay

Next time you want to change wallpapers, you have to go back and change the permissions back to change and then again to lock.
[Kindle Fire General] DangKid:
CM7 has an option to disable the lock screen.

Sent from my SGH-I997
[Kindle Fire General] kodemage:
Permissions like this?

XOX

XOX

OOO
[Kindle Fire General] :
Try widget locker. The new release has support for the kindle fire. I purchased today and I can safely say it is working 100%. Give it a try :-)

Here is the market link

https://market.android.com/details?id=com.teslacoilsw.widgetlocker
[Kindle Fire General] da-pharoah:
+1 to this. Its in the tablet tweaks. Plus there is the amazon kindle app, in the regular Android market not just the amazon one and that takes care of all the ebooks you have. Maybe you should flash CM7!!?? Its freaking sweet! So so much better then the stock Rom....
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] chiikko561:
Really curious I know mytouch has one that is not fully functional but you hd2 guys make everything work for the king phone hd2
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] dt2595:
i promise you, you will see one soon, images needed to resize for wvga etc.....

i came from a glacier as well, it treated me well :D
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dexterfunk:
i get this error

im on doomkernel v18 with acornium 5.6
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sinkster:
The most likely cause is a corrupt or incomplete download, just download it again.

sinkster©
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jb9217a:
Hey guys i tried looking through for a bit and didnt find much on this...how is your TFP`s battery life? I`M not too happy to be honest, for instance today my battery is at 20% been on for 6 1/2 hours and havnt really done anything too intensive, mostly just web browsing and downloading apps, played a game for about 5 minutes. My touchpad seemed to get similar if not better battery life... anyone notice this too?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mr Zulu:
Man, I have to try to kill the battery in a full days time. And that was before I got the keyboard.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jb9217a:
I wish, I am at 3% and 7hrs 20m ...this really isnt good at all, brightness is at 50% ..any suggestions? I feel like i should be getting another 2 hours out of this.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
It really depends on your setting, or how you use it... but saying that..

it isn't as "good" as Asus advertised, nor some other media/blogs have reported from their "hurried" interviews.

ICS update probably has something to do as well... I really don't think Asus and Nvidia has fully worked out Tegra 3 with ICS yet.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wynand32:
I think in normal use the processor is kept at too high a frequency. I rebooted about an hour ago, and since then mine has spent well over half the time at 1200MHz. Given what I've been doing, that seems like overkill. I think ASUS is still tweaking the power profiles, which might account for the apparent variation between revisions.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrHennessey:
plus wifi is a major killer if its set to ON while sleeping, or screen off. when i have wifi off, it lasts much longer
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Cappurnikus:
I've been satisfied with battery life, not that I've timed it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I've timed it several times. Its your settings. I get longer than what you posted on my 1.6Ghz vipercontrol overclock. Stock settings easily get 9 or more hours. I always have my brightness low as its bright enough. Having it at 50% or more is a waste unless you outside LR have bad vision. At night I know you can't be having brightness up like that or you'll hurt your eyes looking St that bright screen. DISPLAY BRIGHTNESS is the biggest drainer of battery. Along with web surfing, watching flash videos, or streaming movies. If you doing all that, maybe use power savings mode instead. You can still surf web n all that with no problems plus battery will last even longer.

For me, my prime easily gets Asus advertised battery life n more sometimes. If I can run a 1.6Ghz overclock n get better than what y'all posted then you need to adjust your settings.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kristovaher:
As with all battery life situations on Android, make sure you pay attention to the following:

Screen timeout, make sure the screen does not stay on for long when you are not using the device.

Look at your applications that schedule background tasks and auto synchronizations as well as the sync settings in your Accounts & Sync. Don't sync data that does not need to be sync'ed.

Use the balanced performance mode most of the time.

Turn off features that you do not need, such as GPS or bluetooth, if you are not using them.

Under developer options turn off 'animation scale' settings. This will make moving around menus more snappy since there's no transition time and it also saves a little bit processing power if you move around in Android menus a lot.

If you do not use WiFi, keep it off or at least turn off available network notifications so it would not constantly search for them.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Magnesus:
On ICS it should be done by GPU, so I think it will affect battery life very, very little.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RighZ:
My concern is more about the keyboard/dock battery life.

It seems to drain a lot faster than the tablet and it never stays long at 100% ; always fall to 99 or 98% although the tablet is not under 90% yet.

I wonder if this is because I first charged the dock alone instead of charging it with the tablet on it.

Anybody sharing these feelings with me ?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] donxuan1983:
I would say the reason is that dock always charges the tablet. I've also notified that dock's battery is empty in the morning if I left tablet and dock together during a night.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kristovaher:
Please use search, the 98%-99% thing has been discussed and asked over and over again for ages. Your battery never stays at 100%, neither the tablet or the dock.

Once battery reaches 100%, it stops being charged, otherwise it can damage the battery.

Dock battery discharges quicker because the dock battery is smaller than the tablet battery. The dock does not 'double' the battery life.

As of TF201 (differently from original TF101), dock starts charging the tablet once tablet falls near 70%. This makes sure that battery on the tablet (and dock) are used more efficiently and lasts longer (it goes through less cycles in the end). While this means that dock does not keep tablet at 100% all the time (so you can remove the tablet at 100% always), it does mean that battery life will not diminish as quick as before and you're prone to less hardware problems in battery in the long run.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jordache16:
The 50% brightness is most likely why you are seeing lower than expected battery life. Also, you should be in power saving mode if you are wanting to extend the battery as long as possible.

ASUS claims the Prime's battery lasts 12 hours using the following criteria: "Battery life tested under power saving mode, playing 720p video playback, Brightness:60nits, default volume with headphones."

http://usa.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_Prime_TF201/#specifications

Not sure what 60nits corresponds to on the brightness selector but I am assuming it is low.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Yeah , 60 nits is very low, especially since prime Max brightness is significantly way higher than that. Like 380 nits(unit of measurement for brightness) or more. BRIGHTEST tablet/display on the market today.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Cappurnikus:
After posting last night I messed with YouTube and browsed for about an hour and only lost about 5% or so. Seems good to me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RighZ:
Sorry, I red and searched a lot already in this forum but I missed that.

Just didn't think there was such a gap between a 22Wh battery and a 25Wh one. Thank you for your answer.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wynand32:
I've noticed on both the Prime and my original Transformer that the dock battery does seem to discharge more quickly than expected when charging the Prime. It's not directly proportionate, I don't think, i.e., 22Wh is about 10% less than 25Wh, but I don't think the dock only discharges 10% faster when charging the Prime.

I think there's something about the charging process that makes it less efficient than simply powering the unit. Perhaps some power experts can chime in here and explain it... Certainly, I've noticed that charging the Prime from 70% to 100% can just about completely discharge the dock.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hairdewx:
I've noticed the dock discharging faster if it's plugged into my usb port in my PC. I think the media mount takes more power than I thought it would.

When not connected to my PC through usb, the battery life is pretty long when doing regular web browsing and video watching.

Playing games obviously causes the battery to drain faster. Also the brightness also has a large affect on my overall battery life.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] deadwolfbones:
As others have said, turning off wifi when you're not using it will massively extend the battery life.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] neo1738:
I used the tab for about 7 hrs straight, setting it up, installing apps, wifi, games, etc, only used about 65% battery. This was on balanced mode.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] richaoj:
I have it on performance mode, and auto brightness. I am on second day (with keyboard) without charging. My battery life is pretty ridiculous on this thing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wpghtc:
I definitely get advertised battery life.

I keep ips+ off, power save on and my display at 20%.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wynand32:
I love my Prime, but I've had three so far (getting a fourth and hopefully final one today), and I've never enjoyed that kind of battery life. That would equate to, what, 20 hours of battery life in active use? Not gonna happen...

As I mentioned earlier, I do think the Prime (at least the ones I've had using the latest firmware) does stay at higher frequencies longer than it has to, and definitely when using particular apps. For example, if I use gReader (which is just an RSS reader), I'll burn 15%/hour easily with the processor apparently pegged at 1200MHz. Do that until it runs out, I'd get about 6.5 hours. That's on auto-brightness, probably 30% or so.

I think battery life is therefore VERY dependent on what a person does with it, and not the usual gaming vs. light use thing, but rather some apps seem to suck down more battery life than they should. Nothing scientific here, but I do think ASUS and Nvidia have some tweaking yet to do.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chamberc:
Coming from a Dell Streak 7 I can tell you, while the GPS doesn't work and the wifi isn't particularly as strong, the battery life on this thing is outstanding...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nyijedi:
The problem with this is that since the ICS update, it can sometimes take up to 10-15 seconds to reestablish a WiFi connection after the tablet was asleep for a while. It was near instantaneous in Honeycomb. It's pretty much my only complaint for the update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
What you said is true or I've noticed it also. IN BALNCED mode it seems to stay around 1.2ghz alot more often now. Still get great battery life but I noticed that. I was thinkn it was something I did messing around with overclock n system tuner to cause it to run higher speeds. Now that I see others noticing the same thing, I know it wasn't me..lol.

YOU KNOW what I think happened. SOME People complained alot about it being laggy. SO Asus on ICS update increases the avg. Speed. Cause there is no lag at all on balanced or even powersavings mode. I tried powersavings briefly n was surprised how fast everything still was. Plus I noticed CPU stayed around 1ghz also. ANOTHER THING I noticed with powersavings is that that screen quality difference is back when switching. IT DOES it very gradually though so to hardly notice it. Like it won't start changing till you swipe homescreens or do something. Then if you look close, it'll ever so slightly change. One of these days, on a full charge, I'm going to see how long it lasts on powersavings mode during my usual usage. I didn't notice any loss in performance. Web pages n all that still loaded up fast, homescreen UI still fast m fluid, it'll still play games n HD Movies with no problems. Only drawback is screen quality(contrast, sharpness) slightly diminished.

LIKE you said also, battery drainage is very dependent on what you doing or apps using. I'm thinkn your RSS reader or whatever drained battery faster because its kind of like surfing the web or streaming. Constantly using RAM. RAM intensive apps seem to drain battery faster.

EVEN after ICS update and the seemingly changes, prime still gets great battery life. Especially considering how powerful it is and how great the display looks. The great thing is how fast it charges up when plugged in.

Maybe we need to resurrect the battery thread Tyler made n start putting down some numbers with usage so all this info can be centralized. ANOTHER thought discussing with another member here was under clocking. If you are rooted, you can easily use set CPU or even better, System Tuner app, to lower the maximum frequency of the CPU. Then see how much longer battery lasts. Under clocking will be about finding that sweet spot where normal functions are still smooth n acceptable yet gets even better battery life. I'M PRETTY SURE we can easily stretch out several more hours out of device through various methods.

But stock wise, the best battery life will come from putting prime in powersavings mode. I might just ttry it out once my tab fully charges n report outcome.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] deadwolfbones:
This has happened to me a couple times, but it's verrrrry infrequent.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rsarno:
Ok i know how idiotic this sounds, but i have to say it anyway lol ... if you dont use the tablet much, the battery lasts forever!

What i mean by that is that i installed "BatteryLeft" to monitor battery life estimates. I then fully discharged/charged to calibrate, and then began my test.

I unplugged it and left it on my couch ... picking it up only to check some emails, browse a site real quick, maybe check FB for a few moments, check weather, and put it back down.

My result was a total life of 145 hours total, with those usage habits. This is at 25% brightness, and "Normal" mode i believe.

I did take plenty of screens to show, if anyone actually cares.

And again, i know this doesnt show much other than "if you dont use it, it lasts forever" haha

EDIT, this test did show one thing, it showed my WiFi never disconnected! BatteryLeft gives only a few stats, but they are rather cool.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] almightywhacko:
What are your tablet settings like? Are you using the "Power Saver" setting? If you are just browsing the web you shouldn't need to have the tablet on the High Power setting. Do you have Super IPS turned on? Unless you are outside or in a very bright environment you shouldn't need to use this setting. How long does your screen stay on after you put the tablet down? Is Bluetooth on?

I generally get 2 days of "light usage" (web browsing, email, etc) from my TF Prime. I mostly use the "Balanced" power setting. I have my screen set to 50% brightness with Super IPS turned off. The screen turns off 2 minutes after I stop using the tablet. Bluetooth is off unless I need it, WiFi & GPS are always on. If I don't use the tablet but it is turned on, the battery drops about 5% per day.

If you aren't getting similar results your tablet might be defective.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] franky_402:
I get amazing battery life with my prime, my brightness is pretty much all the way down and its still more than Adequate, leave it in balanced and wifi is always on.... I personally don't see a need to go into performance mode as Its hard to even notice a difference for everyday tasks, maybe an intensive game will make a difference but other than that this thing is blazing fast no matter what. I would suggest to the op, turn down your brightness as far as you can while still being comfortable and leave the tab in balanced mode and test it that way, keep in mind during the day I sometimes have brightness around 25% but at night it gets dropped all the way down, I'm almost afraid I'll lose my charger since I barely use it lol

Sent from my rooted TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Just did 100% down to 60% in powersave mode. Nonstop web browsing and watched a couple YouTube video, brightness a lil less than 25%. I got 4hrs. 36mins. Going from 100 to 60%.

Time to put back on balanced mode. I like the display to look its best..lol. funny thing though, everything moves just as fast in powersavings mode also. Taking prime outdooors for long uuse is good for powersave mode. Inside the hhouse, balanced or normal is what ill continue using.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jb9217a:
I had it on balanced at 50% brightness and super ips off, Bluetooth off, wifi always on, screen sleeps in 1 minute. GPS on. I wouldn't say light that 7hrs 20m was on light usage but it wasn't like i was watching movies or playing games i was mostly just browsing and downloading apps, trying to customize my screens..played a game or 2. I didn't expect 10+ hours but i was thinking 9 to 9 1/2 seemed reasonable.

Anyway i have been trying some of these tips such as wifi off when it sleeps and turned down brightness to 30%, also using it more on power saving mode. It lost 1% battery while it was in my bag at work for 5 hours, so that was good. How do you configure what apps sync?

As for the people who say 50% is unnecessary its a preference....I think it sort of ridiculous that you're expected to have your brightness so low to achieve 10+ hours, what's the point of advertising a super ips display and long battery life if having it at 50% or HALF brightness means your battery will drain faster?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] excelx:
is it true flash base websites consume bit more of battery life than normal sites... is this true or just a lie? thanks
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] gogol:
In order to use the dock, do you need it to be charged? Or have some battery life..

What happens if the dock run out of the battery, it's empty at 0%. Can you still use it?

If yes, is it sucking the battery of the tablet to power the dock?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] XXRay:
Battery life

On every android device I have the battery drains like crazy when I use widgets depended on data from the net like weather, news etc. it prevents from going into deep sleep. Not all widgets are like that but there is no way to know except for trying. I use the airplane mode app to disconnect and reconnect when screen is off, works instantly.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kristovaher:
Yes, of course Flash consumes more battery life. The more components the website has, the more battery life it will consume. This is true with everything. The more widgets you have, the more battery life is consumed. More tabs you have open, more battery life consumed and so on.

In fact, the more pictures and text website has also requires more battery life.

I personally keep Flash away from my Android devices. Not a single website I frequent at uses Flash anymore.

No dock does not require battery just like simple USB keyboards don't require batteries. It's a separate unit (in fact, my first Prime had an issue where the dock was detected and charging worked, but entire keyboard and touch-pad did not, so the two are definitely separated, battery doesn't drive any power to dock).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jb9217a:
Just wanted to say i tried out a lot of these tips and got 1day and 6 hours...obviously it was sleeping for several hours but I'm impressed :-)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] antiflash1:
What we need is battery benchmarks to compare. Can any body suggest a benchmark to test battery life in a that give us replicable and reliable measurements?