yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
OPERATION Think Outside The Box in full effect now...lol This is gonna be good.

Like others said, the tech sites should've been done this teardown like Erusman has done. It shouldn't have taken a XDA member to do it. I bet you now or eventually once they catch wind of this project, they'll finally want to do one. This is a big deal as far as tech news goes. Full steam ahead. No turning back now. We the mythbusters now..lol
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clackity:
Couldn't you connect the two pads by scratching off the coating and soldering on a tiny piece of metal?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wgr73:
Heck ya there will be. Lets see what ASUS says when they see this thread! Your making a huge statement by doing what your doing! Nice work man :eek::cool:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] btrcp2000:
LOL imagining myself doing this if I had the knowledge. I would be useless at work and exhausted from being up till 3-4am, and my Wife Acceptance Factor numbers would fall through the floor.

Chiming in to say I most want to see if it can hold a GPS lock on the road post-mod. Mine (best buy bc serial) can pick up 14 sats at 72ft intermittently, but not in or near my house even with clear sky view. I tethered it to my phone and drove to work, and Google maps wasn't really useful but it did work a little.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ilostmypistons:
Mythbusters?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jupppo:
Erusman, Thank you again.

I tried it by myself and the prime is really easily opend and can be closed without any scratch! First I used my fingernail to widen it a bit then I used a sharpend plastic handle from a scalpell to open it.

I put a cable on the pogo pin and... bang. I had GPS signals! I never had any before.

It also explains why pushing on the left side helps the signal: While you push left you lift the board on the right side slghly up, that the pogo has better connection.

Here a pic from my experiment (please note that the GPS reception is in house. If I go on the balcone it is much, much better and I get a lock within seconds!!!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clackity:
But if the antenna to the pogo pin contact was not continuous, how does better contact with the pogo pin have any affect?

Edit: or am I mixing up the wifi antenna and the gps antenna?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jupppo:
The pogo pin as such acts as antenne. Of course a very bad one, since the legth is not even close to GPS wavelength of 19cm. When I have my Prime open and hold the open side with the pin towards clead sky, I get a weak GPS reception.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SonicTab:
Does this show the pogo pin contacts are the issue

or hooking up a external antenna gives better signals?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Cozmo85:
40ft accuracy is pretty bad imo
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] BTrack:
Consider this: those of us who do NOT have WiFi/BT/GPS issues have the same backplate on our Primes. Just sayin'.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Diamondback:
You say

that

image was indoors?

Wow, after squeezing it I get about the same reception as you, but I were outside under clear sky :D

Can you say anything about Wifi? Mine works "okay" (I can live with it) but seeing that the GPS can be much better, I guess Wifi is not working properly too.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dagrim1:
It's inside and with a quick (sort of a)-fix. It went frmo nothing to this.. Pretty impressive I'd say.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blinky44:
Can you post your pictures of what you did with the cable, we don't need more pictures of opening the case just show us your wiring pictures please.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Lmao you must not have read the complete thread or how its come along. Its not really about the backplate. This this has done a complete 360 in direction its going than from his OG posts. Read on n you will see what the real culprit or reason for some users wireless issues might be.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Screwedupsmitty:
behind by 14 pages much?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] blinky44:
Someone mentioned heat to release the 2nd half of the cover not sure if it is glue or some type of adhesive tape.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
If you do a video on how you crack open the top or even better the whole screen. More people can gather the courage to crack their open to concur. I think the readers here are getting tempted to open but are still unsure on how to open. Video please... Cant wait till the unfurbished primes start selling for cheap, I wouldnt mind cracking one open.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
A couple pages or so back the op said he was getting full bars n maximum download speeds outdoor more than 50ft/17yrds away from his router! This was with his temporary mod.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Skullmonkey:
You mean 180? :P

Anyways, this thread is a very interesting read. I am looking forward to see if these problems get fixed and even make it to an ASUS level.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Diamondback:
Damn, now I'm tempted to open it up and fix that myself.... :-/
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
You didnt read that the pic was inside and improved when he went on the balcony.

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Do it:D they are saying its really easy to open :D:D:D:D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clackity:
I agree. And it would be especially helpful if you could resolve, once and for all, whether or not the bottom can be separated by releasing tabs, or if heat is needed.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Yeah, lmfao you know what I meant...good catch..that was funny.

This is becoming my favorite thread. Now we got others cracking their primes open n doing their own experiments n showing positive results. Can't wait to see what the final mods will be to maximize reception and the results once backplate is closed again with mod intact.

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Yeah this would be good info. But like Erusman said before, bottom half not needed to be separated. Everything you need to access is right at the top. So why would you want to remove whole backplate if you don't have to. The way Erusman did it allows Prime to be snapped back shut without anyone every knowing it was opened. Taking the backplate off completely is alot more risky. No sense in it. Especially if the wireless part you need is easily accessed through the top.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dpwhitty11:
After seeing the OP and the other guy get such great results, I'm extremely tempted to do this to mine... My GPS is non-existant. I get a view of 2 sats when I'm outside, but never a lock. I've had a bit of experience in tinkering with electronics, was even considering majoring in electrical engineering. I might give this a go if I get some tools.

I'd like to see OP make a video outlining exactly what he did and to what parts/where.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clackity:
My thinking is that if soldering is involved, access would be much better if the two halves were completely separated. I'd hate to put a glob of solder where it didn't belong.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] :
Has anybody forwarded the link for this thread on to Gary? I would love to get his take on what is happening here!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
Read back. One used his fingernail to the crease on the top to separate the glass and the aluminum backing, then used a plastic insert to pry open. So I think you need 2 plastic thats thin and tough enough to pry the top open if you dont have pry tools.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Ride525:
I forwarded it a couple of times to Asus' Technical Product Manager, the person Gary had me work with. He was going to pass on to engineers.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wgr73:
Ok guys, I'm going to hop on the bandwagon early. I will open my prime after work, have all of the tools to do it and the know how (Electrical/Hardware Engineer for 7 years).

This has me thinking. Seems as though the OP has a bad PCB (Op, check the back side to make sure there is no trace going following the rear). The OP could do 1 of 2 things to fix his PCB, use a fiberglass pen to cut away at the PCB and jumper the contacts, or just solder around the PCB.

I'm interested in seeing what kind of PCB is in mine. I'm thinking the permanent fix would be as simple as soldering a 22AWG wire to the contacts and having that work as an antenna, all while being small enough to fit inside the back cover without it being bulky and causing a bulge (maybe a bigger gauge wire would fit/conduct much better). This is all theory as I haven't even opened mine yet. Lets see
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clackity:
So the wifi doesn't work because of discontinuous circuit board, but why doesn't the GPS work, given that it appears that the antenna and it's electrical path to the receiver are ok?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
He might have a heart attack n be like "oh f@?!#...we've been made" ..n call headquarters immediately. Then Asus will release a public statement allowing people to send in or replace units with new ones with this new fixed method. They'd have no other choice since devices under warranty and this is a design/hardware flaw on their part. Even for people like me who wifi works good, it could be vastly improved even more so with this fix. I'd want the best possible wireless reception possible with what we got. Even if my wifi is decent/good already. Improvements or upgrades are always welcomed, IMO.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clackity:
I believe he said that he checked continuity with a voltmeter and it was open.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
I think with my idea of buy a thin copper sheet that is very filmsy. measure the the size of the contacts on the board, now double it. So if the contacts where:

[||||] you would need a copper strip of [||||||||]

fold the copper strip in half to form a <

Then take the outer end of the copper and put a light solder film, put some rosin flux on the contact, then take the side with the thin film of solder of your copper strip and place it on the contact and press the soldering gun on the strip and thin film of solder should bind the copper strip and contact without the mess of excess solder.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clackity:
That would be my thinking too. Just jump over the discontinuous part of the circuit board. But I'd still be more confident with a little more room to work. No chance of dropped solder, or melting something with the shaft of the iron, etc. Not that I've ever done any of those things before. :-(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Please document or even better, make a you tube video of this entire process. The info from all of you would be priceless and greatly appreciated. This is seeming more n more like an expensive science/electronics experiment. I love it..lol.

So we got 2 who crack theirs open already n another one who is going to when he get off work. This thread blowing up! I already submitted this thread as a news tip to xda. Might be a good idea for others to do so also to garner more attention n big tech sites pick up on it. This might be a developer(software) forum but this thread is bring out the hardware fanatics in everyone.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
I could it see now someone posting a pic that has "this thread is useless without pics" on it. But have the caption "This thread would be helpful with a video" :D.

@demandarin: Wanna jump in a crack yours open? :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Doktaphex:
So I decided to have a go myself. First of all I used a tiny torx screwdriver to release the internal catches at the bottom of the Prime. Look in the docking ports on the left and right, there are two small holes. They move with a satisfying click and this IS what holds the base of the Prime together. There's a tiny amount of adhesive tape just by the 40-pin connector but there is no more than what is at each corner of the device also. Just be gentle and you can ease it apart.

Pic of intact plastic catches at the base of the Prime. Sorry for the corruption at the top of the pic, I'm using my DHD with ICS :D

http://i.imgur.com/9mrHW.jpg

It really was very simple I used an ipod opening tool and a plastic card and just took it really slowly and really carefully. Will test reception.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wgr73:
You are correct, I missed that. Thank you!

It would make no sense for ASUS to have an antenna there without it being connected. It has to be a design flaw.

I will record what I can. If we can get to this before ASUS does then it will be a big headline. I believe ASUS will then have to do something.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] androidsnob:
Asus R&D

Asus R&D definitely needs to take a look at this thread as news will certainly spread quickly that the Hardware issue "speculation" is now FACT! This is black and white/cut and dry!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RipplingHurst:
somebody should tip the tech sites, Life hacker, Anandtech, arstechinica edgadget. Great read. I be opening mine soon, if we get a solution. I once damaged a le1700 tabletpc when my solder iron was too hot and melted too many layers on the pcb. So I have to proceed with caution.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] micaman:
Following this thread reminds me of the sheep in this video ... all it took was one brave soul to lead the pack. Don't get me wrong, this is a GOOD thing and hope someone finds a working solution.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4u96YfOB48Q

Once again Kudos to Erusman!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
Awee no video...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jupppo:
Well, some bad news. I was assuming a bad connection to the pogo pin was the reason for the bad reception. This is certainly not the cae for my prime. I know also assume it is the back plate.

I cut a 9,5cm (half GPS wavelength) cable an connected it to the pin. Great reception, even better than before, although I am inside and no other GPS gets signal here..

As long as the cable was outside the case it was great, but then I put the cable in the case and the signal decreased.

When I even closed the case. The signal was completly gone until I opened it again.

Looks to me that the aluminium back side shielded the signal.

Sorry to have no better news...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
Nice a video... but not the one people are hoping..

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Did you verify you still have a connection when the cable was inside..
[Kindle Fire General] paranoid android85:
i was tinkering with adb and i finally got it to connect to my kindle. i typed in the commands ./adb reboot now my kindle is stuck in the firefire bootmode and i cant get adb to recognize it. your help is greatly appreciated. i tried to hold down power but it just turns off. i hold power again and it stays in bootmode, doesnt go into twrp

if it makes a difference i was on ics aosp rom with twrp recovery
[Kindle Fire General] b63:
maybe holding the power button for ~30sec - it should turn off completely

or would try if you can issue fastboot commands:

fastboot -i 0x1949 oem idme bootmode 4000

fastboot -i 0x1949 reboot

in your case with ./ at the beginning - i assume you'r on a mac or linux
[Kindle Fire General] paranoid android85:
awesome. thank you so much!:D
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEPEH:
Is it possible to leave youtube play in the background ?

Background app or at least tab in a browser that supports flash play in background.

From what i know...

Youtube policy prevents users from playing movies on the non-active tab.

Fash is a resource drainer and letting it run in the background will cause significant lag and battery depletion.
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] voetbalremco:
Dowbload the app and press home button not worrking??
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aibo:
Opera allows you to play a video in the background on a tab. Or you can us an app call stickit (video player, you must use the share function in youtube to make it work). Hope it helps.

Envoyé depuis mon GT-P1000 avec Tapatalk
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEPEH:
Have you tried it ?
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MEPEH:
Thanks. Works in the background tab. Shuts down once you press the home button. But still better than nothing
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zamboney:
Use nextvid on market
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turshija:
I also use NextVid, its free, supports playlists, but I haven't find a way to import an entire YouTube playlist into NextVid, so I had to search for songs manually and create new playlist :)
[Galaxy Note GT-N7000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] enteran:
A small solution for NextVid

While doing a search on NextVid, search for your own channel name (and / or your playlist name with a space between them).

Then on the search results, press 'Playlists' instead of 'Videos'.

There is your playlist, but a bit missing, because this playlists, as far as i observe, are limited to show only the first 25 videos.

So you must first prepare your playlists 25 by 25 on youtube then search with NextVid.

Hope this helps.

;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] the_game_master:
Is this something that's still foreign to Google's OS? I don't know where to begin to find how to achieve this.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nunyabiz:
Look at printer share in the market
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] agentdr8:
+1 to ^

Just setup my PrinterShare (amazon FAOTD a while back) and it works great on the TFP.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] guitar1969:
Printing on Android is very flaky at this point. there are number of apps that use Google Cloudprint technology but they seem to work sporadically. Sometimes docs will print right away, sometimes hours later, and sometimes not at all. Google needs to get this issue straightened out if they ever expect android to be taken seriously in the business world.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Red One:
Look on the market for your printers manufacturer. For instance, I use a Brother printer. Well, Brother has an app for printing to the printer over your network and it works pretty Damn well. I think I saw one for HP and canon as well. Printershare used to work very well, but ever since they made everyone repay for the app its really gone down the pipe.

Just look for your manufacturer on the market and you should find it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Striatum_bdr:
Printbot can print pdf on any network printer.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] slugbug2010:
Printer Share has worked flawlessly everywhere I have gone (in fact, it has worked when my laptop was unable to find drivers). So no matter where I am, if there is a printer and there is wifi/network - I can print

As another person mentioned - if you have a printer it might have an app. I happen to have a cloud-ready HP printer
[HTC Sensation] stevocz:
Hi, i have on my sensation ARHD 6.2.1 with 1,5GHz kernel.

and flash animation and flash videos is very slowly, it is problem in this rom or flash player?

when i watching video, cpu load is 100%

How can I fix it?
[HTC Sensation] siretnicu:
Is from ics. Ics and flash aren't perfectly compatible.you should use stock browser from rom.any other browser will not work.
[HTC Sensation] k0zmic:
Also, since it is not really optimized for ICS there's probably not anything you can do to fix it unfortunately.
[HTC Sensation] stevocz:
now i use stock browser because with other is more worse.

Thank you for your reply. I will wait for the repair.
[HTC Sensation] k0zmic:
I don't think there will be a repair. IIRC Adobe said they're only going to release security patches for Flash on Android now.
[HTC Desire S] iancraig38:
Apologies if this has been asked before but I have had a look through and although there are similar threads nothing is quite the same.

HTC Desire s

This is my sons phone and is contract Vodafone

He reported that the phone was freezing and turning itself off

I did a quick look up and found the factory reset tips so told him to do this.

Using the volume down and power button brought up the menu but not exactly as described as it had no erase data tag, it did however have a factory restore tag so he used this.

the phone shut down ok but then on restart just kept starting to the HTC quietly brilliant screen, made its jingle then displayed the vodafone screen, then after about five seconds turned itself off and then on then the same again. Not wishing to disturb the process and assuming it may do this a few times I told him just to leave it doing its thing. It continued to do this all night (12 hours).

In the end the battery was removed, reinserted then switched on. All looked good when the PAYG/contract screen came on and it proceeded through all the first time screens but then it froze, turned itself off and started doing the loop again with HTC quietly brilliant, then Vodafone then off.

this went on for ages, occasionally going as far as the phones home screen then repeating.

have now tried the factory reset again, taken out the SD card, removed the sim card and although it has slowed the process down it is still repeating and never going beyond the Vodafone symbol.

Has anyone got any ideas?

Many thank's Ian
[HTC Desire S] iancraig38:
Update to this, when the battery is removed and reinserted now without the SD and sim, the phone is turned on, it will go as far as the no sim inserted screen, if you then slide the bar down to unlock it goes to the White screen with HTC on then after a few minutes turns off, turns back on, does its jingle then Vodafone screen.

Please help as it appears my sons life has ended and the whole world has crashed.
[HTC Desire S] iancraig38:
Further update

Got message

the process com.htc.bg has stoped unexpectedly.
[HTC Desire S] iancraig38:
Does that mean no one can help?

Looks like time to send it back to the professionals.
[LG Revolution] pendragon11:
Got zeam after reading some positive things about it on here. I like it a lot so far, but it's taking ages to load one screen after an unlock...
[LG Revolution] xjli:
I use it.. Def the best launcher (speed and reliability wise) I've had. Never had an issue like that tho
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
I've been using clockworkmod on my gsm GN for the past few weeks with no problems. Now suddently when I choose install zip from sd card and select the zip I want to flash the screen goes black and after 2 seconds it comes back to main menu.

I doesn't work with any zips even ones I flashed a few days ago.

Anyone knows how to fix this?

EDIT: I just tried used ROM manager to reflash CWM and after reboot I tried to install the zip in ROM manager. The phone rebooted but didn't come back on. I had to do a battery pull.

EDIT 2: Full data wipe didn't help. restored NANDROID for now.
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ArmanUV:
So I deleted everything off /sdcard with root explorer and then it worked :eek:

deleting only the clockworkmod folder didn't work.
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wenu:
Hello.

I have problem. I can't install on my phone any rom.

I have stock kernel and not broke bootloader

I try install

update-GingerDX.v022

x8FroyoProv24bylrakkarl@xdadev

update-GingerDX.v021

updateGC84.246

every time when I install, i do full reset->reboot. system going up i see 1 Sony logo and on second logo phone have problem phone stay on this animation

I use xrecovery and CWM everytime this same problem.

I install updateGC84.246 in past and i don't have any problem ;./

What is wrong;/

Sory for my bad english

EDIT:

I have solution !

I format sd card and now i dont have problem
[XPERIA X8 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndroidSoftmods:
just flash latest baseband! use flashtool to do that!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=976538