[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] welrope:
screen flickering

Ok guys, i have been researching this for a couple of weeks now. This may be long winded, but I am depending on the answer as to whether or not i should return or exchange this unit one last time.

I bought my first Prime 3 weeks ago today. First prime had severe sleep of death and at times when using the camera and or certain apps (beautiful weather animation) the entire left hand side of my screen would turn "staticy" to the point of being unusable. A reboot would fix it, but i could replicate it with ease. I returned this one the very next day for another "at the advice of asus since it was still warranted). 2nd prime, believe it or not was worse. On the 3rd day the bottom half of the screen went out and never came back on. Soft reset, hard reset, wipe, nothing helped. So, i thought maybe it is the stock at the best buy i bought it from and proceeded to another best buy 50 miles away and purchased another Prime outright....(I now have 2) Had this Prime, again, for 3-4 days and could not play any games, it was choppy, browser would refuse to work for more than 2-3 minutes and would crash back to the home screen. Reboots about every hour on the hour and again HORRIBLE pixilation on the screen when using the recent apps button, beautiful widgets, using the camera for extended periods, opening maps would cause my prime to all but freeze. When loading apps via market, it would freeze up, market would crash, i had to reboot and do this several times to be able to download my apps. So i finally said F*ck it and returned the whole thing 2 primes and 1 dock and many accessories on the 8th of June. I was about to leave for the Cisco live convention in San Diego and i needed a dependable tablet (took my zoom). While i was there, they released the .28 update and i read that some people had great luck with it. So my dumba** self went out and purchased another dock/prime combo, un-boxed it, upgraded to .28, soft reset, hard reset and proceeded to download my apps. Market again started to lockup while restoring apps and i still get random pixilation in several apps. I can make this happen at anytime with the same apps that have plagued the previous units. "I know this points to the app, but most of the apps that i happens with are system apps" What i can say is that this prime has funtioning GPS, Wifi works great, no browser crashes other than maybe 1 a day, all of my games including Gun Bros, temple run, field runners, exorcist, asphalt 6, and teeter run with no lags, freezes or crashing, movies play for hours (long flight home) with no issues but i can't seem to get a unit that doesn't have random pixilation when switching between apps, checking the weather or using a live background. I have owned a Zoom for 1.3 years with NOOOOO issues at all, and i do have a wonderful understanding of how a product should behave. I am hesitant to root/unlock due to the fact that i do not know if i should keep the device with these issues. Usually my devices are rooted/unlocked and romed by the time the day ends when i first get one. Never had these types of issues on my touch pro/touch pro 2/ hero/ evo/ evo 3d/ nexus s/ galaxy nexus/ xoom/ and all of these devices were pre-ordered/ rooted/ unlocked/ rommed and all still work well. (except for the winmo devices and the hero--what a great phone at the time though)

I have also found during my reading that most all devices with the tegra 3 are experiencing these same issues. Do we know if this is a software issue (graphics driver?) or have i bought or exchanged 4 primes that have faulty hardware? I would expect hardware issues to show up in all apps not just a handful or when the prime has been up for a while. I pulled the prime out last night to show some pictures i had taken in San Diego and the horizontal flashing white lines were everywhere in the gallery app and rebooting fixed that problem.

Question is, is screen tearing/flickering/pixilation a known software bug or should i just return my prime and chalk it up to 4 primes with bad hardware and move on to another tablet? I really want to love this tablet as it is bad as* in most every other aspect. I have one week left to decide/ Also has anyone experienced these issues and have them cured by unlocking and flashing a custom rom?

Thanks for any helpful/insightful feedback!

-Rope