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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] eyesparky:
The update for my Prime failed so it reverted to previous version. Now when I check for updates, there is no available update. Any way of triggering it again?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sparkym3:
You can always grab the full update from the Asus site. Or you could always try a reboot.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] eyesparky:
Thanks. Yes I ended up using the full update, which lost me root but fortunately was able to reroot following this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1706588 of yours. Had a fun few moments when I thought I couldn't root. ;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kaixis:
.28

Got the update yesterday in Greece.

Other then Face unlock, which btw works really great:D, i don't see any real differences.

My Prime is not better than before and i still get constantly ANR's with the browser.

Waiting for the next one.

P.S. I lost my cursor when i wrote this, and got screen flickering :confused:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] 131313:
I'm sure you have already tried to reboot and the trick with a pin for 30 seconds in the hole next to microsd-card .

Try another reboot or two, things need to settle down (also after the pin softreboot).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MRCANNADY:
Hey, there is no need to push the soft reset pinhole for 30 seconds, just push it. Also, this will not solve the issue if it's app related. Once the system releoads all apps in the background, the issues will crop up again..

Demandarin mentioned that another update is being tested to resolve the I/O issues that we are experiencing, hopefully this fixes the problems some are having.

If you guys are having issues with your Primes, please try my temporary fix until the next update is released which has been confirmed to work.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1690619
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] eiriklf:
After receiving the .28 update I'm eager to hear anything about further updates, can anyone tell me how .29 is coming along?

.28 was a big enough improvement that I think my Prime might become fast enough to stack up in the competition, but it still has too many hiccups. Hopefully we won't have to wait as long for the next update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
the build is actually 28.5. which has I/O & thread priority changes so browser & games will run better with apps in the background. I also believe wifi on during deep sleep battery improvements. Its coming along pretty well. The browser is running fine. the games are running better but still needs fine tuning. I'm sure they will finally end up fixing these software issues. lets just hope its sooner than later. I believe the thing really killing everything is the fact that everyone's prime doesn't take to the update the same way. Although poll showing majority took to update well, the ones who didn't are still a large enough percentage to be concerned about. They have the right to a proper performing prime after an update also. not for their performance to get even worse. which some have posted. I will be sending them an email on test findings so far and I will mention what I just said also. Along with bringing back up the communities need for NVFLASH ASAP.

I will also recommend they should try the larger group testing again. Be known that if they do, it'll be on the honor system of not leaking the builds. or they will end the testing as soon as they begin it. They would likely pick a certain number of users known to have reported issues and have them test firmware specifically catered to those issues. then it could be incorporated into a larger update. possibly including even more adjusts in improving prime I/O speeds overall.

update:

I just sent Asus an update on how testing of new build is going. I also recommended that they should go back to larger testing groups for certain issues. also that finding out why everyone's prime doesn't take to the update the same is crucial to implementing software fixes.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] qwertylesh:
yes I completely agree, there is no consistency, some users are seeing big improvements, others are seeing the opposite.

My GPU is the least stable now then it has ever been on .28
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Yod-b:
me too, for me .28 was a huge stepback compared to .21!

i'd be a tester. well, i'm not a superpro, i'm not good at programming and stuff, but i'm an android enthusiast, i'd really like to help myself and others too and using these things for years. dunno if that's enough.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] qwertylesh:
My experience differs, HC and ICS right up to .21 were wonderful, stable and good. then .21 gave me SOD and .28 has caused lots of GPU issues for me, flickering was present on .21 but much worse on .28 and that dreaded left-side of the display corruption when the GPU is in 3D mode is much much worse :(

I simply want to be able to downgrade without voiding my warranty for the health of my hardware.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] smrsxn:
same here. 28 brought

-screen flickering

- screen corruption on left side of the screen randomly (sometimes when even opening pdf documents on my library)

- game crashes (resolved temporarily by rebooting)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
u actually can downgrade without voiding warranty. u font need to be unlocked to downgrade. info in developement section, I believe.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] qwertylesh:
I'll look around for it.

I am not rooted, and was under the impression that downgrading was a CWM thing only.

I'm willing to wipe and start again just not unlock with the way things have been going for the past few months if I can't find a way to downgrade locked, I'll need to decide on RMA or unlocking.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] eiriklf:
Ooh, IO and thread priority is exactly what I was hoping they would improve, the hiccups I keep getting seem exactly like that kind of an issue. I really hope they won't take as long to push a new update as it took with .28.

You do have a good point about the user experiences, though I am used to seeing similar stuff in discussions about roms for my phone, so I'm not sure if it's necessarily something we need to worry too much about. By the time most users have a stable experience, I think there will be far less such problems. But I really am on thin ice here.

Anyway, thanks for giving me exactly the kind of answerI wanted.(it doesn't happend too often here)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Bugblatter:
Guys, this site's XDA-Devs, not XDA-Divs. Why don't we dev our way out of this?

We could ask a friendly dev to write a little app that collects the relevant data from our tablets (e.g. background processes) and also has a little questionnaire built-in (do you get ANR's, games hanging etc.)

Nothing fancy, it just puts the info into a human-readable email (so we can check we're happy to send the info) which is also machine readable so that the info can be collated into a database (I could do this bit).

Then we could see if there are any commonalities between tablets that have the issue.

So:

1) Recruit a dev

2) Decide what data to collect

3) Me and the dev could take it from there. I'm a software development manager and very good with databases so it shouldn't pose a problem

That's if someone hasn't already done something similar; I'm sure there've been many situations on other devices where collecting this type of data would have been useful for diagnosis.

For the record the .28 update gives me fewer browser ANR's (although I don't browse much) but far more game issues plus the screen corruption glitch on the left-hand side. I still get random reboots.

Personally I can't help wondering if it's a widget on the homescreen that's behind it. I do like my widgets though...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] qwertylesh:
the screen glitch has nothing to do with your widgets or launcher in any way.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Blairware:
I think I am going to rollback too .21 with custom build.prop. .28 is a total bust for me. I have never had screen flickering before, except for the stuttering thing in games, and well... I still have that. Besides, I am curious to see how sio scheduler and other recent tweaks work with.21. Of course I will get nag screens to update, but in the past I ignored them, and when a new build came along, I got it just fine. Assuming I remember to put original build.prop back, lol!

Such a letdown. After the longest wait ever for a "fixed" update, I got the worst ever firmware. Way to go, Asus software develoment!

Sent from my Highly Modified Mr. Coffee

- Using custom built Java App.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] smrsxn:
So how is the new .28.5 testing coming along? anything working better?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Shadowlore:
Not 100% certain that Gary has issued the updates to everyone yet. Of the handful of folks I know that signed up, not one of them have gotten contacted to test the newer version. (myself included)... Makes me think something came up at the last minute, that warranted a slight delay... But who knows, maybe the luck of the draw made sure that none of us got picked.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] TechSavvy2:
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Couldn't disagree more. I actually received a positive firmware update. For me, it actually did exactly what it claimed. Nothing more, nothing less.

So to quote you again, "Way to go, Asus software development!"
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cyleo:
I've got the screen corruption on the left side when opening pdf's too. But only in my pdf app, not in other apps. Very weird.

AFAIK none of the other problems though, and .28 made my prime a tad faster.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Shinare:
I'm getting screen corruption on the left side as well. How does one go about downgradeing to .21?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] 131313:
Pity people don't know how to set up their devices !!

Maybe you want to give this tip which has been floating around for a while a chance:

turn on your tf201,

push a needle in the pinhole next to the sd-card

push it for more than 30 seconds

pull out the needle from the pinhole

after the tf201 has restarted do another reboot or two.

Now see the results and please take the time to tell us about it in my thread (!! oops,it got closed.??.) or let us know in this thread. You could help us to get rid of another myth.

You will not loose any data or applications. The os will just clear old fractions interferring with your new os as the residual current will be released.

I bet you it will help.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] djmcnz:
The only problem I had before .28 was the stalls, hangs and not responding messages.

The one problem .28 did not fix is this. It's shocking and an embarrassment for ASUS.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pbelcomp:
New post by Gary.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Shadowlore:
As I suspected actually happened earlier today :-)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] smrsxn:
in short 2 weeks lost. testing that could have started june 13th, will now start 2 weeks later..
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ylexot:
Where do you get June 13th from? He just announced that they were going to add new beta testers and started collecting names late on the 19th.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bergoulle:
I don't want to repeat what have been said, but with the new firmware ". 28" i'm getting

more issues than the ".21".

Games (GTA and rapid ) are crashing

Screen flickering.

Clock in the task bar is not updating..

Browser experiance (Default and Chrome BETA) is worse.

Market and other apps are slower than in previous firmware.

Yes i did this : 'push a needle in the pinhole next to the sd-card

push it for more than 30 seconds'
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] roccodaone:
Can we still send you pm's, though? I know that was the preferred method of communicating in your miserable thread. So glad it got closed.

As for the update, I still maintain that it improved the speed for me. There is that flickering, but it only happens in one app. I can finally download apps from the store without the tablet hanging up on me. So far I've only experienced one or two anr's in the browser, which is a huge improvement. All in all, I'm happy with the update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] brainimpact:
have all the above problems too, before the update I had very little to no problems at all.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] 131313:
Hi bergoulle

First of all, thanks for your replique. Finaly an xda-developers oldtimer who has understood what a forum is about.

Now I don't want to be annoying or anything and I am sure you have reinstalled already several times. I just want to remind you that sometimes the pinhole button reset doesn't fix things. I assume you know that there are many show-stopper applications which can mess up your whole device even if they are uninstalled. So maybe you just have to start from scratch again;

- save your data

- uninstall fin the settings/apps one by one all installed software by first deleting its data/ cache and then uninstalling the application itself.

- wipe dalvik/cache if rooted

- do a factory reset from the settings/backup&reset menu

- restart and set up your wifi/ google account

- do a soft reset by pushing the pinhole button as far as it will go in for more than 30 seconds, await boot

- do a reboot

- download and install GTA

- do another reboot

- play GTA

if you still have your issues, I advice you to RMA the device. Asus will fix it.

Give it a try. I keep my fingers crossed!

As I said, just trying to help and I really hope it gets your Prime going. I reckon if you follow every step thoroughly and you still get the issues your tf201 needs to get repaired. Otherwise you will see that it doesn't perform badly at all! Speaking from personal experience I can say that I play "RenaissanceTHD" and "ShadowgunTHD" or "ZenPinballTHD" at the same time and continue just where I have stopped previously swapping in between the two. I admit though if I start browsing the web as well, the games have to reload before I can continue playing.

Send me an answer if you feel like it.

Good luck.

Pat

I will post my reply in the thread as well, as I bow to the community.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] smrsxn:
betatesters had disclosed on june 12th or earlier that they will get .28.5 a day after .28 release.

scroll back and read prior posts on this thread.

only the new batch of beta testers get .28.5 now.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Nickedynick:
Hi, apologies if this has been discussed already, but I couldn't find anything on search apart from a thread with GMail issues.

Has anyone else still been getting problems where the desktop occasionally stops rendering correctly? The wallpaper will render ok, but the icons and widgets will disappear. Strangely, the launcher still reacts to touches correctly, but I'm obviously unable to see what I'm selecting. Going into settings and force-closing launcher seems to resolve things temporarily.

I think it's the same thing that's happening in games from time to time. I've got a logcat on my Prime which I'll post later if it's helpful (I'm at work at the moment), but it looks like OpenGL is running out of memory - I get lots of red errors stating so.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] snapdoodle:
Yes mine does that a couple of times a day .Nova launcher
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tomak1n:
i found out that if you hit the arrow that shows your app history, choose an app then close it with home button, you see everything back to normal.

this happened on the multipicture live wallpaper app and i think the apex launcher when i used it the first time.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ylexot:
I took his post to mean that the new beta testers just got the 28.5. The previous beta testers already had it and were testing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] smrsxn:
Let's say new beta testers now test for 2 more weeks, it would mean a month of beta testing just for a 0.5 version update!

That's what I was initially concerned with.

Or maybe the new beta testers get lesser time for this release...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Nickedynick:
Yeah that occasionally works, but often I'll just be left with an inactive launcher. I'm using the stock launcher too. Logcat attached.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] deadwolfbones:
That happens to me as well.

Seemed to happen more when I used GO Launcher (I'm using Nova now).

Very, very annoying.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] victorvasconcelos:
Update changed SKU

Guys I just noticed that my DE TF201 changed SKU to WW. My device is rooted, but on stock, and I have never downgraded or pushed any .blob file in order to downgrade, root, unbrick. (Rooted through that .bat file, forgot the name of the tool)

Although, after updating to .28 yesterday, I tested browser2ram and that I/O sched tool. But unisntalled both and I don't believe that they could have changed my SKU.

Maybe Asus is unifying the update variants? Or one of the apps could have done that? :confused:

Thank you!

PS: Just checked Asus support and the .28 DE version isn't there.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Crazy x:
I can confirm this. Also had the german v9.4.2.21, did the update and now its the ww sku..
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] victorvasconcelos:
That's weird, but nice. I think we'll be getting updates quicker than before :D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] edster00:
Since the .28 update I have many more "browser not responding" (stock browser, Opera Mobile and Chrome Beta) messages. I have screen flickering, and tearing on the left side of the screen. I seem to be able to play most Tegra games OK (Zen Pinball THD and Riptide GP) but I have a really simple card game (Phase 10) that can't deal cards smoothly even in Performance mode. I was really hoping the browser issue would be fixed in .28.

I am entirely stock (waiting for a new root method to become available). I have reset w/pinhole many times, done a + soft boot (?) with vol. down + power button a couple of times also. Cleared caches etc. I haven't done a factory reset, I shouldn't have to. I'm seriously thinking of selling the TP and getting the new Nexus tablet.

COME ON ASUS, it has been over 7 months to get this device working correctly!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dalew729:
new root method is available

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1706588
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] victorvasconcelos:
Hey , I was having the exact same issues. I followed these steps in order to get rid of them (now my Prime is working like a charm, and I have NOTHING to complain when it comes to browsierng experience)

Clear stock browser cache (as told by Gary Key). Uninstall all other browsers (including Chrome), reboot, and after it boots up, reboot again. Press the pin hole for 30 secs, and after it boots up, wait a minute or two and I think you'll be ok. That worked for me, but I did those right after updating to .28, so I'd recommend you to factory reset it and follow these steps.

Good luck! I can tell, that without these issues, you'll love your prime, specially after the stable release of Chrome wich I am using right now, it's very stable and reliable.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] edster00:
Thanks to dalew729 and victorvasconcelos!

I'll try both suggestions tomorrow. I really hate to do a factory reset as I just had to reset my rooted DINC2 (stupid Swiftkey 3 language pack update gave me unreadable device) LOL! Still trying to get that sucker back to where I had it...didn't do current backup w/CWM recovery.

This is my 3rd TP and was working pretty darn good well before the .28 update, thanks guys :good:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mirox3m:
Whoever has the "beta testing update", please test the new Google Earth app. It kills the prime completelly, while running fine on 4.0.2 GNex. Plenty of ANRs and no response from the tablet.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I updated to latest google earth. ill try it out after work.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Scumbag Inc.:
Call me a noob but I was reading posts about jelly bean and they were talking about ICS and JB had to be on a 3.x kernel. Why then is the TF201 ruining a 2.x kernel?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dabels1961:
Just tried google earth on .28 and it worked just fine. Just loaded the update of google earth this morning.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Restorer:
Working great here - using stock browser (with Browser2Ram)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nyijedi:
Please be sure to pan and zoom around a city with 3D buildings if testing Google Earth (e.g., NYC) . Doing this on my Prime with. 28 put me in ANR hell.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] ylexot:
Because we're not running Jelly Bean yet. The kernel can be updated.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] edster00:
Okay, I did as you instructed and I'll see how it goes for the next couple of days. I didn't have Chrome or Opera installed until after .28 update, I tried them because I was having so much trouble with stock browser. I've got my fingers crossed!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] pbelcomp:
You mean the (two week old) new method?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] edster00:
No, he didn't mention the new (to me) root method. What he mentioned is quoted in my post. I had already tried what he suggested previously but not in that exact order ;). Unfortunately I have been away from the forum for the past couple of weeks and was unaware of the new (to me) root method.

Thanks for your useful post! :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] RichieG1:
I followed these instructions yesterday and now it is so much more smoother and stable. Chrome is faster and i am also finding other apps faster such as Nvision, and the play store. Generally alround better so thanks for the tip.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Nickedynick:
I followed the same instructions last night, and I'm now having the launcher corruption issues almost every time I use it. :(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] The_Stranger:
When I installed .28 everything seemed to be faster, but for some reason it looks now things are back to their slow state. Google earth is crap, getting more and more ANR's during browsing and just flicking through the homescreens seems slow.

But that could be due to the fact I am using JB on my nexus and that made me spoiled.

.28 has caused two instances though were my prime would not start up again, it would just hang on the bootscreen and a factory reset was the only thing I could do.

an afterthought, since it seems ICS (or the version ASUS has given us) doesn't really play nice on the prime and the T3 SoC at the moment, would the nexus7 change that? Since ICS on my galaxy nexus really flies and on the prime it kinda sucks. Maybe with the nexus7 and it's T3 SoC, ASUS can give us a proper ICS on the prime? (or even better, JB)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Blairware:
Will we go 82 days for this .5 update like we did for .28?

Take a look at these dates: First Asus was pushing updates weekly, in January/February, by weekly in March/April, now, it's bi-Monthly, and it's not as if the updates have gone a huge way towards quality, these updates are as buggy as anything we ever got if not worse:

Date Version

Shipped with 8.8.2.29

2012-01-03 8.8.3.33 12 days from official release

2012-01-10 9.4.2.11 (First ICS)

2012-01-22 9.4.2.12 12 days from last update

2012-02-09 9.4.2.13 17 days from last update

2012-02-18 9.4.2.14 9 days from last update

2012-02-25 9.4.2.15 7 days from last update

2012-03-29 9.4.2.21 32 days from last update

2012-06-12 9.4.2.28

82

days from last update

Anyone seeing a trend here?

:rolleyes:

So far we are now

18 days out for the .5 version update

thats in testing, and while I DO appreciate the benefit of additional testing, the testers should have all had new revisions in their hads to resolve the bugs they are finding. Either that or this "semi-public" testing experiment is a bust, and they are not getting consistent bug reports. Even a basic report such as ->Ass ->Elbow [difference] might not even help at this point. :eek: