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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jaypm:
if you're going to test for the "sleep of death" then you need to do it with the screen off.

the expectation of this device, given what we know about other similar android products, is that there should be almost no battery drain when the screen and wifi are off. (this is actually a pretty amazing feat that not many people seem to recognize - and really it is the result of android and ARM SoCs being heavily optimized to enable multi-day cell "standby" time.)

i've been tracking my battery drain overnight for the past week or so, before and after the update. in my case nothing has changed. i leave a mostly-charged unit closed in the dock overnight with wifi off with the power profile set to balanced. averaging the results over several days, tablet battery drain has been about 0.2% per hour. when mobiledock battery saver is ON the dock battery drain is zero, as it should be considering that the dock completely powers down. (the exception, obviously, is when the tablet battery falls below 70% and the dock starts charging it.)

when mobiledock battery saver is OFF the dock battery has been draining about 0.4% per hour. this is somewhat disappointing and i imagine that asus' inability to optimize this further is the reason why they provided the mobiledock battery saver option to begin with.

realistically this is probably about as good as it is going to get. anything dramatically worse than this is the result of poorly behaved apps or the OS doing something that it shouldn't. anything better is gravy and won't make much of a real-world difference - we're already looking at weeks of potential standby time with these characteristics.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rcerulli:
My ATP has been experiencing sleep of death and random reboots. I have not done any anecdotal tests but 3 times in the last 2 days, i went to turn it on with no response. I had to hold down power and volume down. Also i've noticed at least one or twice the tablet rebooting on its own while idle. I was just sitting at my desk while it rebooted.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] erick0423:
Yup agree battery drained more faster after OTA ver 13 ..oh man when is this tablet will become stable? Hope they will fix this issue Asap!!

Proud owner of Rooted Transformer Prime TF201.ver.13
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] u010679:
<rant> Yeah, this is really disappointing. I hadn't minded so much about the weak WiFi as I am close to my routers or GPS...but now the general use of my tablet is compromised. Just pulled it out of my bag after 2 hours, and needed soft reset and battery is nearly dead.

Using a tablet shouldn't be this annoying. </rant>
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] PrimeTimeBro:
It's official fellers we are doomed those fortunate enough to still be able to get a full refund I recommend taking advantage we are fighting a losing battle they screwed this up bad and are obviously not willing to cleanup their mess.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] oakvnl:
I'm having issues too. I went to grab my dock+tablet, I found it powered off. I thougt, what the heck? No battery? When I turned it on, after holding down on the power button for 5+ seconds, it showed dock 0% battery left with tablet 72%. Last night before I went to bed the dock as at 63% tablet 81%. Not sure what happen. Im on balance mode, wifi setting on through out the night (always). I was going to do a factory reset, but after seeing others are having the same issues, its not just me.

But I have to say, I dont get random reboots while using the device as I was on .11 .13 is much better besides the sleep of death issues/battery issue. Like someone mention, perhaps to turn the device completely off when I go to bed? I love this prime so much! An too late to return the dock since I got the dock first during pre-order. And probably have a few mor weeks to return the tablet.

But I am giving credit to Asus for acknowledging the issues that some of us been having.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Havagan:
Sleep of Death

BC0* S/N

Wifi on in any of the 3 power modes (I never turn wifi off) and the Prime shuts down after a lengthy sleep (I haven't done length of sleep testing).

Only started happening with the .13 update. No new apps installed.

EDIT: Battery also draining quickly. Left this AM for work and came home to find dock totally drained and the tablet at 80%.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] buxtahuda:
Anyone else notice you can charge over USB now? It doesn't show the charge symbol, but sure enough I got back to my plugged in Prime and 100% battery.

Also, anyone having issues transferring files to the internal SD card? I get errors with random files that they were unable to be copied and the only options are skip or stop altogether.

Starting to really annoy me as I try to put some music on here, especially because it doesn't let Windows find duplicate files and give you the choice of copy/replace, copy/rename, and skip; it apparently just moves everything again and decides on its own to replace the originals.

Very disconcerting when a few songs out of thousands have errors, but you can't just fill in those gaps easily and quickly.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] edster00:
Okay, here is my experience after the .13 update; I charged my Prime overnight and unplugged it this morning at 6am, I then I checked email and dismissed a couple of calendar notifications and I let the Prime go to sleep from ~ 6:10a till 4:00p this afternoon. The Prime awoke normally and was at 98% on the battery meter. I am running in balanced mode, screen IPS ~30%, Wi-Fi on BT off. I am going to play with it for the rest of the day and let it go back to sleep tonight. I'll report back in the am. as to the status.

I did notice some odd behaviour last night; while playing angry birds, a couple of apps auto updated and I got kicked out of game a couple of times during the update process, first time that has happened to me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Chrisy1511:
Update .11 to .13

I replied in another post but this seems to be a more active and appropriate area.

Gary,

I have one of the S#'s in BCOKAS

I want to revert the firmware back from .13 to .11 (or whatever firmware existed before this "patch").

In .11 I had ZERO problems. NONE. Wifi great, BT great (no GPS but knew that going into thisso no biggie) everything perfect. I felt sorry for the poor minority having issues I had been reading about for weeks...

Post Firmware .13 : I now reboot randomly, I now have Sleep of Death (Go to wake Prime, black screen and nada. Long power button press, nothing, short press nothing, dock and undock nothing). I basically freak out at this point and hop on the forums again. I mentioned the battery life in my other post (from around ~71% to ~35%) this morning during the 4 hours it took me to find an answer on getting the damn tablet to wake up.

I'd like to say the battery life is ok now... but since the prime has rebooted on it's own 7 times in the last 8 hours (all hail our new machine overlords...) I honestly couldn't tell you.

I don't want miracles, I don't need anything new.

GIVE ME BACK THE OLD FIRMWARE

... Quit fixing problems I DIDN'T HAVE!

Flame away etc... I didn't spend $700 for the tablet, dock and case to quietly bend over and take it... I may still end up bending over and taking it but it won't be quietly. :mad:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
that is great battery life. my set up similar to yours.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ac1680:
Hi Gary,

I still have this issue " sleep issue or Black Screen of Deadth" after update to .13 two days ago. Have try all the option out there. Reset through the pinhole, hard reset by holding Volume down + power for 30 seconds and more. Nothing come on, even the power bottom is not on, only vibrate.

I don't really want to send it back for repair and have to wait weeks for it. I like my Prime, It shall be more of software issues. Since, ICS is new operation system. Not blaming Asus for all of this. Just want my Prime to be working again. Need help???
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clouds5:
Kinda feel bad for you guys over in USA :/ there hasnt been an update here in europe, seems like you do patch testing for us :)

Thx for the hassle guys and hopefully another patch comes soon!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rand4ll:
I will also add my post here as this thread seems more active

I was wondering about this today so left my prime at home sitting on table while I went to work today. In the time since I used it a bit this morning I show 15 mins at 475, 30 mins at 1200 and 8 hours 13 mins in deep sleep. I lost 3% battery for all this. Sounds like this update is doing something weird causing some to not be able to enter deep sleep. One of my friends who also has a prime is also having battery issues and his was not entering deep sleep but showed some sync service doing it. He has disabled it for time being but is still collecting data. He is a fellow software developer at my company so we are looking into what could be different about our tablets...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xXxDieselxXx:
Thanks God I'm not alone.

Before OTA I was fine.

Now I'm getting random reboots.

But the part that bothers me the most is the battery drain is just crazy.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kristovaher:
This is insane!!

How can Gary claim that they have done testing to make sure patch causes no issues when they only did testing on specific Primes that had problems. They totally forgot to test if these changes on those broken Primes will not cause problems on Primes that were actually working just fine.

I did not think ASUS quality control can get any worse post launch, but apparently it has.

I am just glad that they pulled the update from Europe.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Chrisy1511:
Revert Firmware

Seriously I really would like an answer from anyone with knowledge.

Is there a way to revert BACK to the .11 firmware (or whatever was before the .13 OTA update)?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
no...................
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Feiwen:
Im guessing the only way to revert is to do a factory reset and then not update to the most recent update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] buxtahuda:
I DO THINK THAT SOME APP OR SETTING IS CAUSING SOME OF THESE ISSUES

I factory reset and let the Market install all my apps automatically, and also moved a large number of music files to my device over usb 3.0. After which my device's performance was a nightmare! Huge wait to unlock screen, choppy transitions on home-screen and in app drawer, just aweful.

Another factory reset, and no additional apps installed or account information given, no market access, and it's butter! Same performance/brightness settings and nothing else touched, which means GPS is likely on. *EDIT: Lockscreen is hit and miss, regardless of performance settings*, haven't tested much else yet.

Will watch battery and test usb 3.0 transfers after.

The ASUS weather widget causes the homescreen to freakout and change brightness - even with manual brightness set! Only noticeable on lowest brightness settings. So annoying because that's where I keep mine! *EDIT:stopped after romoving/re-adding widget*

*EDIT: I've just added my account info but am not letting it download everything. Battery seems about right so far, will keep putting it through some use though. Set a couple settings, GPU rendering under Dev Settings being one of them just because that's how I had it before. Will watch a while, then turn it off.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chucky7910:
I can't understand what the fuss is all about. I got my TFP 1/5/2012 and haven't had a single problem what so ever (no wifi issues, no GPS issues no random reboots nothing). In fact I have a 1.5MBps DSL connection and can connect full speed watch videos play games everything all on my TFP. Just to see if all the freaking out on this forum was legitimate at all I charged my TFP yesterday (dock and TAB 100%). I then left it from last night till five minutes ago and my TAB is at 85% and my dock at 5%. So just like a lot of the other complaints this one doesn't appear to be legitimate. This isn't directed at anyone in particular but people REALLY need to stop freaking out about every little issue and assuming ASUS must have screwed up. You need to approach your problem OBJECTIVELY and talk to a technician or something. If you don't like the TFP take it back or get an RMA from ASUS already and leave this forum to the 80% of people who are perfectly happy with their TFP. The attitude of the small percentage of people who are bent on crucifying ASUS isn't helping and it's turning this forum into one big ***** fest. :(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Chrisy1511:
Joy

Well it's an answer even if it's not the one I wanted.

I actually might take Gary up on that send the Prime back offer and they can see what they broke on mine that was perfectly fine pre .13.

I will say if I do... and get one back that works I'm not updating anything.

Shoulda stuck with "If it ain't broke don't fix it"...... :rolleyes:

Between this and my new M&P 9mm that autoforwards everytime I load a mag I am beginning to think nobody tests anything before they send it out anymore...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jdbaker82:
let's see how you feel when 1.14 bricks your Prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chucky7910:
then i'll call ASUS and have them fix it, just like i did when the hard drive on my sony vaio died 1 month after buying it. I didn't go on the sony forums and scream and cry fowl play. My vaio was fixed and has been perfect ever since. People need to stop complaining and get it replaced, fixed or take it back and move on.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jdbaker82:
No offense but it's pretty obvious you have no clue of the 2 month history of the Prime
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chucky7910:
and you do looks like you joined in dec 2011 less then two months ago as well though?!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] buxtahuda:
That's a hardware issue. This is software. Would you call hardware replacement for bad code?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mmilestone:
^^^^^^^^^^^^

This!

Getting tired of seeing whiny ass cry-babies in this forum. And I'm not surprised after seeing the join dates of most of them.

Welcome to XDA! :cool:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chucky7910:
Thanks, I can't understand why people complain but don't do anything about it....it's a waste of time. I do really like XDA, it's a great forum.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Chrisy1511:
How Bout this:

You buy a shiny new widget. It has everything and does everything. You love your widget for a couple weeks. It is the best damn widget you have ever had and you sing it's praises even though others have gotten less then perfect widgets.

Then the maker of the widget says "Hey we've got a fix for everyone else that had a widget not a perfect as yours and it will probably help make your widget even better.

Your thinking OH JOY! update your widget and it gets even BETTER!

So you run the "UPDATE" on your perfect widget and discover that your widget is not perfect anymore... it isn't even close.. as a matter of fact it's AS BAD AS THE ONES THAT THE "UPDATE" HELPED.... but now your perfect widget is the one that is screwed. To top it all off you now have some new never before seen problems and some oldie but goodies also...

That's me and apparently a bunch of others post .13 in a nutshell.

I was PERFECTLY happy pre .13. Now I have a quasi useful product that feels like I paid $700 to Beta-Test. :mad:

I believe in the promise that is the Transformer Prime which is why I haven't sent it packing.... but at this point I think the Bootloader Unlock is going to be my and many others salvation.

Prove me wrong Asus. Make your product work as intended.

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This...This...This
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mattykinsx:
Battery life is absolutely terrible after this update.

I just used 50% of my battery in two and a half hours watching video.

My phone gets better battery life with constant usage at this point...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Don't fall for JD troll tactics. He is a known one n was already banned before for his antics. Plus anything he states should be taken with a grain of salt. Constantly changes up stories n lies about stuff. Supposedly he returned device long ago. Now he owns one again after same complaining on first one. Posted before like he's a kid or something saying daddy bought him the prime. Next post he says he has 20yrs. Experience in the IT field. Lmfao no one has forgotten..lol even went to other forum, Phandroid, n lied up there saying he took the back cover off his prime. N this was when prime first came out. Everyone on that forum called him out on the lie. Coincidental he had no pics or anything and supposedly he talking personally to Asus engineers..lmao.

I wouldn't believe much he says at all. Looks like it won't be long before he has another vacation from here again. SMH. He needs to give up n just move on. Just let him rant. Mods will deal with him if he out of line, period.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jdbaker82:
I won't call you a moron because clearly you just have no idea what's going on but the majority of the issues everyone is having is not only out of our control but out of Asus control as well since they still seem to unable to put out a proper firmware patch yet. Not only that but RMA anything to Asus is like Russian roulette at this point with 5 bullets people are getting their devices back a month later still having the same problem they sent it off for.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chucky7910:
gotcha...thanks for the info. I'll just ignore him then for the most part.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] buxtahuda:
AHEM!​

How about anything other than passive aggressive and downright laughable bickering and poking...

On a side note, has anyone noticed the irregularities in copying to internal SD card?

*EDIT: so, factory reset and no personal apps installed, GPU rendering turned off, Power saving, no IPS+, no BT, no GPS, yes WiFi, yes sync (turned off Picaso, Google pictures, used Email instead of Gmail sync) but only my google account. Set email to every hour (15 minutes default), weather every 4 hours, haven't touched date widget. Been sitting at 94% battery for an hour.

How should I proceed given I'm still at 93-94% in another hour? When should I start adding apps, should they be one by one?

When should I install BetterBatteryStats/CPU Spy? As of now I haven't gotten into the market or any apps at all for sake of testing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pritzlb:
Shutdown Update

Exact same experience. I took the update (I am used to them coming weekly) and now battery drains like mad and sleep = shutdown. Worse ASUS told me to data wipe to clear the issue -- do not do it -- it does not fix the issue!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pritzlb:
I called ASUS and they told me to do a data wipe -- it did NOT fix the sleep=shutdown problem and the battery drain issue. Now I have to setup all over again and I have a device I need to boot every 10-15 minutes.

DO NOT DATA WIPE
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] uapyro:
I'm having similar issues with my Prime either rebooting on its own, or freezing requiring me to hold the power button down to reset it. It was insane how bad it was after the gingerbread to ice cream sandwich update, but a factory reset made it tons better. Even after the reset before I installed anything, if I let it idle and power the screen off, it would do the same freeze and reset problem.

Also on the latest update as of today from the Asus website for the United states.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chamberc:
The prime never had gingerbread.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Reignzone:
I must say, this battery drain issue is definitely realistic and confirmed to NOW be present on my TFP as well.

I'm not thrilled about it, but then again, this is relatively minor compared to other problems that we created by this update.

My battery is draining steadily by more than 5% on average, per hour -- while in standby, which is downright ridiculous!

Sent from the last remaining Prime; Leader of the Autopads.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] eduardmc:
i'm having the same deep sleep problem and random reboot. Also the battery issue , everything after the OTA. Just a thought, i'll do a few factory reset to see if this problem is solve cause i have read hear people fixing this problem with factory reset.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] buxtahuda:
Now at about 2 hours. 94% battery. So deep sleep works fine for me. Time to install BetterBattery and CPU Spy and check out how the clocks are governed.

Beforehand it would always use the maximum allowed, even for rudimentary tasks. I'm guessing that if I were to allow all my apps to install again I'd get choppy performance and battery drain again. Something with this update doesn't seem to play well with some code from some app or other. Will test a while like it is, watch video and such, then get back.

Updated four apps that came with the device. No changes. Watched a netflix video on above settings (22 minutes). Now at 88%. Installing BetterBatteryStats and CPU Spy.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] the_scotsman:
Thread cleaned - stop with the crap.....:rolleyes:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SpecialK17:
Thought I was alone. Prime worked perfectly pre update. Randomly reboots now. Went to bed with 85 percent woke up with 8. Watched it reboot a dozen times as it charged.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] edster00:
Here is the follow-up I promised yesterday. I put my Prime in sleep mode last night at 8:30pm, the battery meter read 44%; when I woke it up this morning (no issues waking it up, quick press of the power button) at 6:15am the battery meter read 41%. I'm pretty sure that is about the same as I was seeing prior to the .13 OTA update. I can't complain about that...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xXxDieselxXx:
I just wanted to bring something that called my attention in case it helps.

I was happy before the .13 OTA. I had ZERO issues.

Now getting reboots and battery drain is getting ridiculous.

However I found the back of my tablet

is getting warmer

than it used to be.

Can someone confirm? I feel it warmer than normal right around the ASUS logo area.

Is it possible the .13 fix is stressing the components more than in .11? Some kind of overclock perhaps?

Could this be the reason the battery is getting wasted quicker than before?

I noticed this because I use my Tab naked :D all the time (The Tab!).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] edster00:
I messed around on my Prime alot last night trying to get it to freeze or reboot, I didn't have any problems, but as you mentioned the back of my Prime got VERY WARM! I forgot to mention that in my last post. I don't remember it getting that warm prior to the .13 update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] deevo2:
Its because with the .13 update all four cores are always on and running at a minimum of 475mhz (more likley 1200mhz if you are doing anything at all, even tapping screen will give you 4x1200mhz). This is going to make things a little toasty, oh and drain your battery faster (at least you'll have warm hands ;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Belgorm:
Adding another vote, I also had no issues before the update, now i each morning i have to press and hold power button to get it to turn off then power on as it will not respond, also it should be charging in the dock but dock battery is almost drained by the morning.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pritzlb:
Sleep = Shutdown

Exact same experience. I took the update (I am used to them coming weekly) and now battery drains like mad and sleep equals shutdown. Worse ASUS told me to data wipe to clear the issue -- do not do it -- it does not fix the issue! The random reboots were acceptable but the sleep of death is not.

Any chance those of us with a BCOKAS serial Prime can swap them out ??