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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nyijedi:
I rarely start new threads here on XDA, but I thought this topic was deserving of having its own thread.

Many of us who had perfectly working Primes have had our units seriously screwed up by ASUS' .13 firmware update. Whether it's the sleep of death, ridiculous battery drain, or both, many of our tablets have went from working great to being borderline useless. It's as if many of our Primes were sacrificed to fix a few other Primes that had freezing problems that we never had.

With that said, I don't see why we should have to wait for weeks while Asus works on a fix for their last "fix" that caused these problems in the first place, when there is a perfectly good firmware already written that works great for most users. Why can't ASUS just give us the option to go back to the .11 firmware while they continue working on newer firmware? Why is this so hard? Am I missing something?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bruisah:
Firmware Archive on Asus Web site...

I could be wrong, but as far as I can see, various firmware versions are available for download from the Asus website - at least, they are from the UK website (which includes US-centric firmware): http://uk.asus.com/Eee/Eee_Pad/Eee_Pad_Transformer_Prime_TF201/#download

<Checks>

Yup, the global Asus web site has them too. There are other resources other than just XDA Developers, you know! ;-)

HTH
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rand4ll:
Yes, but manual update will not allow you to downgrade firmware to an earlier version...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xXxDieselxXx:
Crap! I'm in the same boat.

I would love to revert back to .11

Battery drain is just too much to ignore.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Chrisy1511:
Revert Firmware

As much as I hate the battery drain at this point the Reboots and Sleep of Death ARE KILLING ME.

.11 had a Perfectly working Prime. WIFI, BT everything great (well GPS didn't work but expected that..) No reboots etc.. Loved my prime... Update to .13 Firmware and Have the sleep of death, random reboots... going on 10+ reboots in 10 hours since updating this morning...

This sucks.

Please Please PLEASE give me a way to revert to .11
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jjon90:
Be patient and the roms will come...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jdbaker82:
To be honest at this point I just wish they would give us our money back this product is a bust too many quality control issues.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] youngnex:
the only way you'll get your money back is if you bought it from asus directly, but if you bought it at a retail store, you have to go back to a retail store.

however, im sure you know you can send it to rma and you'll get back it back fixed in a few weeks. sorry
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Doktaphex:
In theory if someone could figure out where misc_version was stored then maybe someone with more brains than me could write a script to change this to a lower version allowing downgrade.

I may be barking up the wrong tree of course.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] banderling:
I had issues after an earlier firmware upgrade and a factory reset fixed it. I suggest trying that before investigating returns, downgrades or RMA's.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] benefit14snake:
This.

Factory resets have fixed a TON of problems I've had with my prime. I do it after every ota now lol.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nyijedi:
This was the last straw for me. I'm stuck with the Prime, but I will ABSOLUTELY NEVER BUY ANOTHER ASUS PRODUCT EVER AGAIN. They're an awful, awful company.

Edit: Also, it's ridiculous to be expected to do a full reset after every OTA update, especially when Asus releases one every other week to try and fix problems they created with the previous OTA update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] deevo2:
Yep, I have said it a few times already in other threads, give us back our . 11
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Reignzone:
I would just be patient for a few days... wait for some unofficially, official news on the manufacturer's end, and we'll hopefully receive another update that could resolve the newly presented issues.

Sent from the last remaining Prime; Leader of the Autopads.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jdbaker82:
it was tweaked to account for processor clock differences in the Primes experiencing ICS lockup issue unless they allow us to somehow roll back to 1.11 this isn't happening anytime soon.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Justin_Thyme:
Im with the thought of the factory reset and installing apps one at a time. Im updated to the latest nd havent had any issues save the youtube thing that started before the update. Ive had apps crash to home screen and either ditched them or reinstalled. No battery problems here. What I noted after the update was fewer app crashes, better (not stronger) wifi preformance and the noise line that was popping through the screen every now and then hasnt happened since. Im thinking a great deal of issues are apps that are not optomized with ICS.

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bruisah:
Ah. Fair point.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mile high:
When I took my TF201 to the Asus service centre here in Hong Kong (yes they are Asus, not a contractor) I asked if they could roll me back to Honeycomb. Their answer was cannot. Only at the factory!

They are keeping the bootloader secure.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] doddsie:
Is .13 so bad? Some of us in eu with constant reboots can't wait.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] doddsie:
I felt a bit like that when they had a go at me on facebook, for what one of there main stockist told me. I'm so close to sending my paper weight back and waiting for something else.... not an ipad 3... hahaha
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] roccodaone:
I guess the only solution is to do the factory reset and manually upgrade to 11.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Doktaphex:
Erm.... No, that is not possible. Factory reset does nothing other than delete your personal data.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rand4ll:
What makes you think a factory reset would help? You are the second person I have seen say this. Do you have any ideas how eeprom, aka flash memory, works?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] the_game_master:
I haven't had any problems described in this thread with the latest firmware update. This certainly sounds hardware specific.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] roccodaone:
I would presume it takes your tablet back to the state you bought it, including the firmware. I could be wrong, though.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nyijedi:
Nope, factory reset holds onto your prior firmware updates.

Lost almost 30% battery life overnight last night. This is bull****. Come on asus.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mike02z:
I was having YouTube issues after the update. I did a full wipe and factory reset and now YouTube works fine. I know it's a PITA to wipe everything and start over but it solved my issues with the .13 update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] theandies:
Had zero problems (other than GPS) before the latest update. Now I've had 3 random shutdowns for no reason. Not the reboot the device just shuts off. It doesn't appear to be app specific. Once in my browser looking at an imbedded youtube video on another forum, once playing Shadowgun with my BT controller and the last was when I was changing to power saver mode. I too would like to go back to .11 where I had no issues.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jdbaker82:
Probably all in some way they just don't know it yet mine was fine and took over 24 hours before it locked up and rebooted with 1.13. I imagine quite a few haven't even did the update yet and the other issue is battery life which some may not realize.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ohwell:
I had a few problems after the update I performed a factory reset than shut it off waited 5 minutes performed another factory reset shut it off. restarted reloaded my apps and all is fine now .
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
I have terrible battery life on idle now. I need a downgrade. Any way to do this?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rand4ll:
I have a BC prime and still to this day have not had a single lockup or random reboot, including being on .13 for a few days now. My battery life is fine too.

However, one of my friends who also has a BC prime is having higher battery drain on this update he did not have before.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
Thats why the prime at the moment is one a tablet that has a mind of its own... You might have the perfect prime, but all it takes is one update and your banging your head on the wall on why you updated. And guess what your window of return has passed and stuck on RMA on the device.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] XHolyPuffX:
I haven't turned on my Prime since Thursday. Before the update, I had been relentlessly screwing around with my Prime and having fun installing apps; now I'm scared to turn it on simply because I can't put it to sleep without it shutting itself off.

You know what they should give us back? Honeycomb. Until they can fix this buggy ICS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] theandies:
BCOKAS is what I have. I haven't had any problems today. I do turn my prime off every time I charge it, wonder if a full charge with it off makes a difference.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rand4ll:
I don't think so, I never turn mine off other than for a reboot after OTA and a reenable of root. It has been on for days now since 13 update
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Atlas7:
What??? Update .13 is really bad??? After updatemto .13 what is maxoverclock

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nyijedi:
25% battery drain in 8 hours overnight with all syncing off. I want my working firmware back.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Its the same as before. Same from what I told you before when you pm'd me. Update makes no difference on Max overclock.

On another note, people seeming to rest device and/or remove apps seem to fix issue. This just might be an app after all. We need to find out which one. I have way too many to uninstall n reinstall then.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Dave_S:
Any app that does much background processing can increase the battery drain more with x.13 than it did with x.11, since x.13 will turn on four processors at an excessive clock rate to process even one low priority thread.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nyijedi:
Great point. Asus really screwed up with this rush job of an update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knives of ice:
i just got my prime yesterday and thus far it has been perfect but the battery drain on this thing is insane i guess it could be alot worse though
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] andersonphotographics:
I'm still on .11 (UK user), and interestingly I studied my battery use log yesterday, and it was showing a number of blips from the GPS - which seemed to coincide with the number of reboots I was getting (4/5 a day). So I went into all the apps that were calling for GPS and unticked the boxes in location services - and haven't had a reboot since.

Maybe a coincidence - we shall see.
[Nexus S General] ehac1680:
I just sold my Nexus S 4G so before I say adieu I wanted to give a huge thanks to all the developers that made my Nexus run so great. Without the fantastic developers here the Nexus would have been just another phone.

Thank You!!!
[HTC EVO 3D] tj236:
Does anyone have the stock bluetooth.apk for the EVO 3D GSM (ROGERS).

I have been playing around pretty heavily and I may have accidentally deleted the backup of my stock ROM.

I am having trouble on every ROM I try out with bluetooth. It cuts out, or it doesn't work at all.

The only reason I think I need the stock apk is that when I turn the bluetooth on and off, it works fine again... for about 5 minutes. I have tried multiple kernals and roms, but none work.

I am going to try a senseless rom, as I have heard that sense may cause HTC bluetooth quality to be degraded. Until then, though, I was hoping someone could give me a link to the stock bluetooth.apk.

Thanks!
[HTC EVO 3D] markdexter:
My rom is a Rogers rom and senseless, bluetooth is working fine for me. Try it or if I have time later ill extract my application from it

Sent from my GingerDex Evo
[HTC EVO 3D] tj236:
I actually just flashed with your rom right now! I am going to test on my way home and I will let you know if it worked.

Another thing to note that was strange was that it doesn't work at all with Beats enabled. With beats off, it works for about 5 minutes.

Maybe buffering on the phone? An original HTC design flaw? Faulty hardware?
[HTC EVO 3D] markdexter:
Seems beats causes more issues than its worth, I may remove it on both my roms, to be honest I don't notice a huge difference in sound quality anyway

Sent from my GingerDex Evo
[HTC EVO 3D] tj236:
So... home now, and it played perfectly through the whole ride.

Beats wasn't turned on, nor was I using the stock music player. I used PlayerPro.

I have replicated this scenario before on roms with Sense and it didn't work, including GingerDex V2.0. I really have a feeling it is something to do with Sense, or something HTC.

I really wish I still had my Stock ROM... I never used Stereo bluetooth on there before I wiped it.
[HTC EVO 3D] markdexter:
I could make you a stock rooted Rogers rom, that's flashable, the only thing ill do to it is root it

Sent from my GingerDex Evo
[HTC EVO 3D] tj236:
That would be absolutely amazing.

Here is something VERY strange. I copied the bluetooth.apk and the BrcmBluetoothServices.apk from your nosense rom to the Sense 3.0 Rom that you have and another Sense 3.5 rom that I downloaded and it works without a hitch.

Files are identical though, which makes absolutely no sense to me at all.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VR32:
searched, no find.

I have two consistent issues.

1 - When retrieving sites requiring a login, or when logging into LastPass, if I can get to the "Processing..." popup, it will hang and sit. Sometimes it will complete Processing... after a couple minutes, and sometimes it will continue until I kill the app. This issue is frequent, so restarting the app is not an acceptable workaround.

2 - When loading a page it will often do the same but without a popup. It will take forever to load, sometimes not at all. Occasionally I can reload the page and it will work, occasionally it will not load at until I reboot the phone or something.

these issues seem to occur frequently on home wifi. my PC, also on wifi, will load from these servers instantly.

i have had the issue on the following:

stock

Unnamed latest

Shostock latest

entropy dd latest, and last two

siyah latest and previous

with/without overclocking

with/without data enabled

affects all browsers, lastpass, tapatalk, xda premium, etc, etc.

caches cleared, including dalvik

no stress on the phone, running usually 250-500MB RAM only.

any ideas? the phone is basically unusable as a smartphone at home. the issues may or may not be as bad on regular data. TIA.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VR32:
one more try... anyone help with this issue?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jermneedscoffee:
You state that this is mostly happening on your home Wi-Fi connection; is it possible that you have some sort of QoS / traffic shaping setup on your wireless AP / router that may be resulting in this condition? Also, do you have any of this type of behavior on cellular 3G or other Wi-FI connected networks?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VR32:
thanks for the reply.

the issue is inconsistent even at home. i have been watching for causal conditions but not finding anything yet. it does not appear to be my wifi. no other devices have ever had any kind of problem, and there have been many (i share the my wpa2 wifi with neighbors as well, many smartphones, etc). yes, the issue frequently affects me off wifi on data. and yes, it occurs at my office wifi as well. but the intermittent nature makes me think it's something with the phone's software, which is why i'm focused on figuring this out here. when it rains it pours, and i will have to reboot the phone, not just kill my browser or other app, in order to connect. sometimes rebooting more than once is required.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] jermneedscoffee:
Have you tried a 'wipe data / factory reset' in ClockworkMod Recovery?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VR32:
yes, i did actually. the issue is happening even loading basic google searches out on H+. the page will usually load, but will take literally 3+ minutes to load it. i'm not sure what's going on but it seems there's something going on between me and the servers that is hanging my data retrieval. i'm mystified. but the phone is literally stuck on page loads & data retrieval about 70% of the time. i don't have any weird software running in the bg either. pretty basic Entropy DD (tried the last 2) and ShoStock latest. is it possible there is some hidden settings somewhere i can look at? i have scoured all available settings on the phone, but there's gotta be something deeper i can look at. any recommended system tweak apps for this?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rdannar:
I get similar things. Looks like my modem or connection is freaking out.. Did a factory return to kk6. Still didn't fix it. I'm thinking its hardware. Can't figure out what it is cause no laptop right now..

Just wanted to let you know your not alone.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VR32:
thanks for the feedback. is your phone a refurb?
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] rdannar:
Nope. Got it new with contract
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VR32:
ok, mine is a refurb, but has not appeared to have even a single hardware issue. guess i'll continue to cycle new software and see if this eventually irons out. next step is to get more into the system settings and investigate. my initial guess is my phone is sending repeated requests in the background.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] VR32:
if anyone is interested, i may have found the problem. i'm no networking guru, but i changed my phone's DNS settings to OpenDNS's servers like my home router's config. previously my phone was using Google's DNS servers. after changing the phone to OpenDNS loads are consistent and snappy like every other box in the house. keeping an eye, but so far so good.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ipeench:
There is so many random threads about it im having trouble finding one that is discussing the issue, if the issue has been resolved... or if anyone even know what is causing the issue...

anyone care to help point me in the correct direction.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] jhayton:
Some say battery..

(http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=22389084&postcount=2)

I had a few prior to flashing and a few after flashing...HAVENT had one since replacing the stock battery. All i know.
[T-Mobile LG G2x] ipeench:
Thanks for that link. ill check it out. I'm not really sure if its the batter.

When i dont have my sim card in... i do not have a single problem with the phone. Using its as a wifi phone right now and have been for 3 days no issue. If i put my sim card in the phone tho it will freeze.

Ill check out that thread now. thanks.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noahmay:
okay i tried to bootunlock and root my phone and it stopt working. but i fixed that problem and locked my boot again. So i wonder if somone can help me with a very detailed gudie how to instal ICS and to a bootunlock etc. from scratch so i can make it right this time. or help me over skype or something, i am new to this stuff and sorry for bad englsih
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ridder215215:
Well, I think there are plenty of tutorials out there. I can tell you what you have to do, but you'll have to find the right tutorial yourself. 1: unlock the bootloader. 2: root it. You can use superoneclick. 3: you'll have to install Clockworkmod (CWM) recovery. It might be included in the kernel. If this is the case, go to 5, then 4 and then 6. 4: you'll have to make a backup using CWM. 5: flash the ICS kernel. 6: Use CWM to install the ICS zip file.

I hope this gives you somewhat of an idea on how to do it. On posts about the 6 steps you will probably find more information. You'll have to do a little bit of background research first, because you should know what you're doing before actually doing it. And BTW, I am not responsible for any damage, bricked phones, killed pets etc.

If this helped, please consider clicking the thanks button.
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] noahmay:
the killed pets part made my day so i will give you a thanks :P
[Xperia Play Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fma965:
Lol

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[Vibrant General] ndwgs:
I just wondered, I'm not sure if this was ever brought up...

Lately, some of my friends have been passing all of their old phones such as Nexus S, Nex4g, HTC HD2, and SGS4G.

Well, I notice that the HTC HD2 and the Nexus S 4G can be partitioned or somehow manipulated that you can install endless apps on that partition. However, even though it is almost the same hardware as the Nexus S, nobody, or has had even tried to do what the Sprint S4G devs has done.

On the vibrant, it always shows that you got about 300 or less MB to install apps. But the problem is, when you overload that, your games/apps/etc., starts to just force close. I noticed that.

So, I searched the Vibrant threads and found nothing or no one has ever increased the amount of MB in their ROM.

:confused:
[Vibrant General] Raistline:
Use a Root capable file explorer and create a file in your /datadata folder named .nodatadata (the one on the root of your phone)

After you reboot, it will take much longer than usual, all your installs will move to that folder and you can then install as many apps as you have "Internal Storage".

If you somehow manage to fill this up you can move your largest apps to your Internal SDCARD
[Vibrant General] ndwgs:
But isn't it that you use the MicroSD card for this?

Let's make it clear, Internal SD is the Vibrant's and MicroSD is that small sd card.

And maybe I'm just looking at this aspect way to differently. I was under the impression when we do this, and I have done this, it pretty much the same concept as having Apps2SD, right? Or am I wrong still? :confused:

(Please, prove me wrong, and explain. No harm)
[Vibrant General] woofiegrrl:
You must not be using the stock ROM, because that's not a problem on stock. On ROMs where this is the case, however, it is the /datadata partition that's limited. Raistline's .nodatadata solution will work - I'm running that way myself - but you will lose the speed bonus given by using /datadata. The /datadata partition cannot be resized in the way you suggest. I was looking into this too, but apparently the boot process (at least in Passion, the ROM I use) looks for the partitions to be a certain size. If they're not, it has problems. So resizing is not an option. You can either have only ~300MB and have fast operations, or you can get more than that and things can be laggy. (Mind you, it's not very laggy, like I said I am using .nodatadata and everything seems fine.)
[Vibrant General] manus ferrera:
300 MB or less for apps? I have 2gb which is plenty
[Vibrant General] woofiegrrl:
Certain custom ROMs have this restriction. Stock usually does not, and other custom ROMs might not.
[Vibrant General] ndwgs:
Ok, I see.

I just got done messing with ICS Neobuddy, odin'ed to stock, and now running MoPed's Jetpack v9. I don't think this port is stock, but it's as close to stock 2.3.5

Later this week, i'll try out Saurom by Dgr8, and it's 2.3.6.

How did you input .nodatadata on Passion, since it isn't a 'stock' rom?

You think this will be laggy on any Ginger?
[Vibrant General] woofiegrrl:
It's just a matter of creating a blank file called .nodatadata within the /datadata folder. I did it in a terminal window with "touch .nodatadata" but other methods will work too. If you search for .nodatadata you will find various posts with instructions. :-)