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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sledgie:
Time for me to add my sightings:

Wifi is noticeably worse. I'm on a C4 - I wrote in a previous thread that I thought Asus had made hardware changes to the newer primes but others have not substantiated that claim. On .15 my wifi was very good - I didn't bother to upgrade to .21 until last week and I used it for a few days stock. Saw battery drain and worse Wifi. Update to .28 and after my initial freeze on Asus Splash Screen (if Asus would like to chime in here on how this is happening I'd be more than happy to speak with them personally) and download and reboot the system ran slower. My wifi can't connect as strongly anymore to my neighbors wifi - I had stable and very good connection speeds to his router, I could even stream BT on netflix while sitting in front of my Prime. No lags. Don't be jealous because it's not happening anymore since the .28 update

Did a power reboot and pinhole reboot at home screen as Demandarin suggested and system started acting more stable. Although a little slower. Big change for me was coming from .21 and using Opera Mobile Browser I could have 6-8 tabs open, using my dock I would Alt Tab (similar to windows) and go to Gtalk or another app. Come back to Opera and Opera would have to redraw every one of those tabs I had open. Reminded me of the Ipad.

Also happened with Stock Browser and ICS Browser +. It sounds like memory is being more restrictive similar to the option in developer options where you can set Maximum background processes.

I've had a few freezes and complete reboots - it's almost as if it wants to tell me the program is not responding - freezes - then reboots the Prime.

Again, I'm using stock - the new update doesn't seem speedier (I wasn't expecting it but I was expecting less freezes). One thing I've noticed is I haven't received a DMClient has stopped responding or whatever the message is anymore since the update - I suspect it was because I was on .15 for a while but I did see it a few times in .21 .

Anyhooos, I'm not sure I will accept the next update as this past update froze my Prime at the Asus Splash Screen all night long until the next day when I could download the .28 again from Asus' ftp and cky2000's thread. I've seen multiple people have this problem and not just in this forum - I wonder how Asus can explain this issue.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clenz:
I have a newer C4 unit and the update has been OK for me so far. What is interesting is that I enabled the "Show all ANRs" setting and I continuously see strange app ANRs for widgets and apps I never used or loaded. I will start to log the apps that are popping up, but it makes me think there is something going on in the background that is impacting performance. Why would these apps be loading and crashing in the background?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
This is kinda crazy...

Tested battery life performance of HP Touchpad (with latest CM nightly) & Transformer Prime with .28 update with 720p video/movie non-stop playback..

Touchpad at 30% brightness....

Transformer Prime at balance mode & 30% brightness...

Both lasted for about 5 1/2 to 6 hrs... (Prime lasted slightly longer although it rebooted multiple times during the process while none for HP Touchpad).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] seeknom:
Hey, this is very interesting. I wonder if you then used Titanium Backup to freeze the culprit apps would you end up with a more stable system?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sjrixon:
It appears to be a memory management issue.. (Not that I am well informed enough to know this :))

When I keep killing applications, keep the free memory up.. The prime is fine..

Also, in dev options turn on 'Don't keep activities and I'm sure it's much, much faster!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Shinare:
Return it. I'm stuck with mine. All I can say is get out while u can. MAYBE someday they will fix the slooooooooooow file performance and buggy hardware but to have to rely on Asus to fix it eventually is dumb.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
Return it & use Moto Xoom until other tablets are released (not the current Tegra 3 devices). Prime has it worse over any other Tegra 3 tablet atm (it's a combination of h/w & s/w).

Wait for something that is reliable... Prime just isn't it.

Edit: Btw, Moto Xoom with Android 4.04 should be far more reliable & "snappier" compared to Transformer Prime atm... take out Tegra 3 THD games & you aren't missing anything (well.. the keyboard dock)... better yet, I'm sure Moto Xoom performs superior in almost every aspect.....
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rebelwithoutacause:
Now that I have had the latest firmware update on my tablet for five days. I have noticed that the performance of the stock web browser has degraded.

After installing the update, and doing a cold boot the stock browser was much more efficient and snappier. Move five days forward and I am now experiencing wait messages, slow scrolling, and the browser being occasionally unresponsive for a brief moment. Rebooting the device helps, but always ends up being a temporary solution.

As for Wi-Fi: I went from having a solid connection (22-29 Mpbs download speed) with the previous firmware to a mediocre connection (5-6 Mbps download speed) now.

Battery performance doesn't strike me as being better in this build compared to the previous one.

Hopefully the next firmware update "improves" and addresses the multitude of issues that seem to plague this tablet. If the next build doesn't fix these issues I'll be passing this quad-core tablet to my brother and looking for something that just works.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sledgie:
Very similar to my experience. I don't reboot my tablet usually, but I fe I should now to "clear it out" only to feel I have to do it after a day or two. I'm surprised we didn't hear these issues from the beta testers...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] aznmode:
So F'd up and tried to download to an earlier ICS (since .28 broke some of my games) but ended up downgrading to HC .33 (blob was in my sdcard) so I had to factory reset my device. Just for the heck of it I upgraded manually again to .28. So far I see better improvements after factory resetting .28. Games like Nova 3 sometimes still require a reboot but after just 1 reboot it would work again unlike prior to factory resetting it took several reboots and combination of killing other processes to work. Some apps didnt work either like GMD gesture controls. But now 100% working. Web ANR still get them once in a while just like prior to factory resetting. Apex launcher is now even smooth from screen to screen and going to app drawer and back, even right after waking up the device. Overall I see even better performance. So I'm kinda glad I was forced to factory reset. I did lose some stuff since I didnt get a chance to back them up.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I tried the same setting. I didn't have anything crashing in the background. I was surprised. I figured id see alot.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] seeknom:
Well, this actually kinda makes sense, doesn't it?

Based on your experience versus his, I'd suspect that people who found .28 to be an improvement (which you did, correct?) would maybe not be having background ANRs occurring, whereas people having issues with .28 would.

If this theory is correct, then it would point to either buggy apps, conflicting apps, or process management.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SalsaForte:
Wow!

Am I the only lucky tf201 owner. I don't have these problems with my tablet. Some small quirks but nothing to really worry about.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clenz:
I'm going to try this suggestion. I'll keep you posted.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] calbruc:
My impressions so far on my C3:

Wifi performance is noticeably better. I'm getting almost 10 mbps higher than I was on .21. Better range, also. Prior to the update, using the Prime on my balcony was almost impossible, now it's no problem. No real change in the number of bars, but it's definitely changed for the better.

Sadly, that's the only real marked difference that I can see. Stock browser still ANRs all over the place. Updating multiple apps at the same time still bogs things down. Battery life might actually be worse, but I'm not positive yet as I've been using IPS+ a good deal. And I haven't tried out a lot of games yet, but Dark Meadow is definitely broken. I just get a white or strobing white screen.

I think the UI might be a little bit snappier, but this has never really been an issue for me to begin with. Looking forward to .29, though. Hoping they'll work out these bugs eventually.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] igorros:
I have a C4 prime. On .15 I was completely satisfied with the tablet performance. Unfortunately the .21 upgrade ruined my wifi range. I upgraded to .28 and still have the issue. I'm starting to think about a downgrade but I don't know how to do it.

Wysyłane z mojego GT-I9100 za pomocą Tapatalk 2
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dbattenfl:
I too seem to be having more issues with .28 than I did with .21

I have had several Dolphin Browser issues where the browser freezes and then closes completely. The gmail app has done the same a few times and even had the tablet restart on it own 2-3 times.

The past 3 days, I have had the "Sleep of Death" each morning.

I am looking into getting the Square Trade warranty so I can maybe try some of the other firmwares out in the wild. Was really wanting to wait for the final release of CM9. But Asus dont seem to be making any headway in getting it right, I may have to jump earlier than planned.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Shinare:
.28 seems to have made my tablet a lot worse. I had no problems on .21 but on this I get screen flickers and very slow response in play store. Play store is so laggy as to be almost unusable. Browser is way slow. Kept getting 921 error in play store. Had to wipe data and resetup account. I hope wolfs downgrade tool works on this but too afraid to try. Thanks for crapping out my tablet Asus. May have to send in for rma.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Tempie007:
ive experienced

- SOD

- ANR

- screen tearing on left of screen

- flickering

- general IO slugginess and related browser lockups

on .28
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] xxbeanxx:
Sometimes I wonder if the ASUS developers ever come in here and laugh at some of the comments made after an update is released.

I'm a software developer and I can't tell you how many time we release an update to one of our applications and have our testers compliment us on the improved performance. Don't they feel silly when we tell them that all we did was fix a few typos in one of the resource files.

Humans have a cognitive bias so strong that we can't overcome it even when we know it exists. I suppose the difference between percieved improvement and true improvement is trivial when, in the end, they both ilicit the same satisfaction.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
And the worst part of this .28 update (at least for me)...

the performance gradually deteriorates (yes, even after factory reset I had done due to boot-loop that i encountered sporadically) ....

i initially voted "a little worse"... well.. now.. i can vote for "really bad & pathetic"..

I'm sure many will re-vote if given the chance... thus, the % of this poll isn't very accurate to describe .28 update (although, its pretty bad already)...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] os2baba:
Very Very disappointed

I'm afraid that after waiting for so long, this has been a complete let down :-( The Transformer prime simply does not feel like a multiprocessor device. Maybe Intel had something about multi cores being wasted on Android. There is simply no way that a real multi threaded OS should be this unresponsive on a multi core device.

Chrome froze up almost immediately. The stock browser froze as well. When it does, everything is frozen. Clicks on the home icon, task manager, etc all freeze and then suddenly they all get activated after either a ANR or the browser returns. When I had updates going on in the background, all the UI actions lagged. I remember OS/2's Single Input Queue causing problems like this way back when. Sad really.

My test site is www.planetandroid.com. This site takes a while to load on the desktop as well. And even firefox on the desktop hangs just a bit occasionally - but Chrome on the desktop never does. Out of curiosity I tested this on an iPad last week. Takes a while to load, but smooth as butter with no lags or freezes.

Absolutely zero improvement. And I let it sit there for a while after the first start before I rebooted. Then I let it sit there for a while again (15 minutes or so) and then started using it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] daryll:
Liking it

Performance seems a lot snappier. I'm liking it.

I'm still seeing an occasional delay, but much much less than with .21
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Pecata:
Mine is a lot snappier and responsive! I'm liking it too so far! :)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Yuhfhrh:
I have never recieved these kind of speeds before. Seriously my record high before was like 5 down tops. (This is about 40 feet from router)

Edit: And this is with bluetooth on, where as before I would only get about 1mbit each way.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I just tried your test site out also. it loaded up just fine for me. it takes a while to load because that page is never ending..lol. cool site. but even while loading, I was able to scroll just fine and it loaded majority or a big portion of it initially. no ANR at all. on stock or opera mobile browser. haven't had an anr in 2 weeks of testing this.

try a soft reset to see it improves the update performance. soft reset by sticking paperclip in pin hole underneath micro SD card. not sure why your prime isn't taking to update well. hopefully sift reset fixes things. or your prime might be another case of peoples primes behaving different on same firmware, which is unfortunate.

I believe, not 100% sure yet, another update will roll out soon also. I'm supposed to be testing it out any moment now once they email it to me.

good luck
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] 6thfloor:
I am happy so far. It has not locked up since I rebooted. I was having so much trouble with mine ,locking up after .21, that I was prepared to rma it. But held off for the update. I am glad I did. I would agree websites open faster and scrolling is better.:)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mirox3m:
Similar for me, but with the deskop site :( It happened the 1st minute after the update and coldboot. Unfortunately it is the most visited site by my wife.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Parastie:
I haven't had my tablet long enough to really tell a huge difference between .21 and .28, however I do feel that Chrome is more stable. Usually I'd have to FC it after loading a few tabs, but now it seems rock solid.

I tried the website www.planetandroid.com and had zero problems loading it, loaded very quickly. I'm curious, for those with lots of problems how much stuff do you have loaded? Are you using cards? Custom launchers? My setup is bone stock, and everything is very stable.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] The_Stranger:
Generally snappier, did have two times browser not responding in the last hour (resetted after update). Loading the site mentioned above went great though.

Wifi seems better, but no data to back that up. Root restored fine.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cullenmq1:
Okay this was kind of weird... may have been experimental error, but when I had the bluetooth on I had a faster download speed but a little slower upload. The first one is with no bluetooth, the second is with bluetooth on but not connected

edit: nevermind my speedtest app was all over the place... both situations range between 5 Mbps to 10 Mbps
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Laurentwb:
What do you mean with reset after update ? Long hold on power button to restart or the thing with the volume buttons ?

Thanks.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Yuhfhrh:
Also, can anyone confirm if ezoverclock still works for them? I can't break 10,000 on antutu anymore so i'm assuming I'm not hitting 1.6.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] BiggerH:
haven't had much time to play with it, but definite improvement in wifi in a particular dead spot at home (on the bog).

Was getting 1Mbps before, now showing about 5Mbps
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] The_Stranger:
Just the long hold, as per instructions from demandarin. Haven't had the wait message since though.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] budtz:
Just a quick note on wifi speeds - forcing the wifi broadcast channel to 10 and the channel width to 20 MHz on my router increases the wifi speeds on my TFP from 2 mbps up/down to about 20 mbps up/down. My other devices seem to have this high throughput on any channel and channel 10 is as crowded as the lower ones in my flat so its not because of less congestion.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rytkonen:
Browser seems to be a bit faster but it still get stuck randomly. I opened a very lightweight finnish news site (www.ampparit.com) and after loading the browser was stuck and the ANR dialog was there.

I think it is time for me to root this thing and try those unofficial fixes because the next update is probably not coming in the next few weeks.

Try the Stumbleupon app, it completely destroys the Prime with lockups and ANR dialogs. On SGS3 (and old Ideos X5) it runs smoothly.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] dagrim1:
Had 2 reboots since updating, as in... in the last hour or 2.

But guess I should give a factory reset a try first before judging too hard. No conclusions so far on improvements, too soon to say anything.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Esenthel:
Yay!

Browsing speed is now much faster, both in loading up pages, and by using pinch to zoom.

Didn't yet try the face unlock, will do it now.

Also I'm curious how the battery will last, previous firmware ate it very quickly, when I noticed battery history, it showed 80% was consumed by wi-fi even though I didn't use internet almost at all in last few days (this applies to previous firmware). Hope now it will be better.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tsmt971@yahoo:
If you uninstall anything or make any change to the /system partition, it won't update anything. Here is my attached log files

log can be found from /cache/recovery

Edit: I am working to update it manually then will root it with the latest method then will report the result.

Edit: Sorry guys I posted a wrong thread
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] whalemonster:
Bootup time seems reduced though it could be my imagination. Tab feels generally snappier and the UI more fluid.

Under Asus Customised Setting, I had previously deactivated the "MobileDock Battery saving mode" option as some folks were suggesting this helped avoid the sleep of death in .21 - on .28, I've turned it back on to see if this has been fixed. Happy to say no sleeps of death so far despite a few lock/unlock cycles, so things are looking promising.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Shinare:
I just started experiencing the screen corruption everyone is talking about. Tried rebooting several times. If I can't downgrade I'm rma'ing. Happens in Oprah mini and now in my lets golf 3. And my screen seems to jump up and down, even when at home screens. Worst update ever!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] epeereboom:
This might be the first time anyone has called Oprah mini. Sorry, I couldn't resist.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
Probably a bad idea to RMA...

Not worth gambling the risk & if .28 is the culprit like for many (including me)... RMA won't solve anything.

Good chance that RMA will make it worse (that and if you follow this forum closely... you'll know that Asus has one of the crappiest RMA service).
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] smrsxn:
if i had a say... i would have users reporting issues with prime, a part of beta testers.

that way we will be able to provide harsh but accurate feedback to asus.

.28 did not do much for me. i still have ANRs... and now i have screen flickers and left side screen tearing. and its becoming more frequent.

6 months after release, close to sun-setting in its life cycle... ASUS still can't figure out what's wrong with prime...

imagine if fruit company released version 6 OS like this.. oh man there would be an apocalypse.

thankfully we android users are very patient & accommodating... we don't buy tablets to use.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rcatron:
Speaking of things that Asus is crappy at - did anyone get that owner survey recently? It was laughably bad and laughably bad grammar.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] vvveith:
After four days report with BK0

Seems there are more things I have noticed different from original post and twenty four hour post. 1. WiFi is using fifty percent of battery with the screen being just a bit lower. I don't know if this is normal, but on my phones I hardly ever turn WiFi off except if I'm on the road, or somewhere they don't have WiFi and it only accounts for fifteen percent with the screen sucking up the majority. Is this the case for everyone else?

2. Another simple game that works well without the keyboard attached is stickman golf, but becomes unresponsive at times when using keyboard, go figure?!?

3. WiFi disappears sometimes for no reason then comes back, don't know what this is all about. Never did it before the update. So if I could vote again I would say this update as introduced new and unusual behavior. Live and let die. Peace, V :confused:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] NeoMagus:
Is this the screen flickering/ screen corruption on the left some of you guys say you have?

Mine has done this twice now rebooting got it to go away but never did it on the older firmwares
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rebelwithoutacause:
The performance on this new firmware doesn't seem to be stable at all.

Even though the stock browser seems to perform slightly better than before. The fact that the web browser can become unresponsive, display as many wait messages as before makes you kinda wonder if the issues are being addressed at all.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Yod-b:
yeah, indeed. i have screen flickers, other weird screen stuffs, and so on. i performed several hard resets-clean installs, to see if it makes better. the answer is no.

but, i can still play games, browse internet, i don't have sods, just some anrs. and that darn screen flickers.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kngyr:
Getting this issue too, although I can replicate this issue when turning on WiFi direct and playing with its settings. Apart from that my prime is a lot more usuable than when it was on .21
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bittercold:
After .28 my TP likes to freeze and restart itself when using USB tethering to share my internet connection to my laptop.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cenonmin:
Well after 6 days I got:

- 1 SOD

- some ANRs (about 3-4)

Seriously ASUS fix the Prime or give me an iPad :-| This is the most unstable product ever. It has soured my taste in Android :(

With all the aggravation of trying to get this thing stable and to perform as a quad code, its not worth my time and money :mad:

Edit:

My apologies if I angered anyone (ASUS excluded), I did not mean to troll I am just so annoyed at this tablet.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rcatron:
No apologies needed. Bottom line is that you paid good money for a device that has performed way below yours (and others, mine included) expectations.