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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rebelwithoutacause:
This is what I have experienced and noticed so far on my stock Prime after applying the new firmware update.

- Web browsing with the stock browser is a lot more smooth and snappier. I have had the web browser hang a few times, but not crash. That's a very nice improvement.

- My Wi-Fi connection is more stable and consistent now.

- Battery life seems to be somewhat improved. I wouldn't say that it is considerably better than before. I'll continue to monitor this for another week or so just to see if anything changes.

- I have had the G-mail stock app hang, display a blank/black screen, or just refuse to be responsive when loaded. I did close the app and restart it again and the same thing happened once it loaded. I did manage to get it to work after shutting off my tablet and doing a soft rest (power button + volume button).

- The Play Store is much more snappier and doesn't lag as much when I am downloading updates and browsing the store at the same time. If it does lag it isn't as annoying as before.

- The Prime seems to boot up faster.

- I can't comment on gaming since I haven't taken the time to play the one's that I have on my Prime.

Overall the new firmware update seems to have improved the performance of the tablet. Hopefully the next update improves it even more. :p
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] NeoMagus:
Was the first thing I tested. It did get a little better but not a huge improvement in my case
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Looking good so far. over 86% prime owners here have experienced an overall improvement with .28 firmware. whether its a Little bit or greatly.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clenz:
Always the positive spin :p

I think 14% failure is a big surprise based on how much testing went into this compared to previous updates. I expected a more solid release, but this seems worse than .21 for failures/issues.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
u made me laugh. That was funny though. it was alot worse on .21. It was mostly new issues. this time around its updates failing, whether people are stock or rooted n modded. at least people can manually update from asus site then use sparky method to root.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jussumguy88:
it hasn't been 24 hours yet. and I've had one random reboot. I blame that on myself for not rebooting after the update. But may I say this..I am having 0 issues thus far. My browser(stock) is running like a champ....and i'm watching flash video like nobody's business. Full screen and all. I can't really speak on the battery life YET...but putting this thing through the paces & it seems to passing with flying colors. Its still early though so we will see how it turns out.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] NeoMagus:
I had to uninstall and reinstall it after updating, now it works fine, my previous best was 13186 now broke it with .28
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] thenrz:
Had the failed update at first, got it manually installed and rooted about 3 hours ago. Rebooted immediately after applying update, and once again after root. Had one lone anr on my first google.com page load (yeah google.com). Kept my optimism, not a single one since. No embedded video issues yet. Overall feel is faster. Thats subjective, but i really feel it. Havent delved into wifi etc... the wife is on me to do something with my day...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mekrel:
Restored stock build.prop, uninstalled ATP tweaks after resetting default scheduler to noop, updated OTA and then restored root. Did a cold reboot (paperclip in reset hole).

So far I've had more ANR's with the web browser than I've ever had and just experienced random reboot whilst simply holding my tablet and talking to my house mate. I think I had one reboot that I noticed when on .21 but there was a couple of times I woke up and found the recent application list empty, sign of possible reboot whilst sleeping.

Can't say I'm surprised, I mentioned how I wasn't getting my hopes up about this update last night before I was censored because I dared to tell the truth about the shoddy quality of this device.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mirox3m:
I just had it and noticed some screen flickering/artifacts after wake up.

I think this update is making things worse :(
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] NeoMagus:
Anyone with a dock notice they got rid of the charging animation? It's charging from the dock but the arrows are not alternating anymore, they are both just lit up .. Tried a reboot and still the same
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Yep. I noticed that since I tested. 25 build. I like the animation. Not sure why they got rid of it for.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mekrel:
Great! Now I'm getting artifacts on the screen :mad:

I hate the fact I splashed £500 on this piece of ****.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] joedeveloper:
Well it sounds like you have highly customized your build, and then tried to restore it back. So it's a bit hard to tell what you have done that changed your device, and if you even have it back to the same place as the rest of us.

I haven't rooted, customized and/or modified my prime since buying it. Works great with the .28 update.

That being said, I've modded plenty of devices, my own and others. There is always the risk of screwing something up and not getting it back to normal.

I like Samsung devices for the ability to use ODIN and go completely stock and work back up.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] MrCapcom:
Try rebooting? Mines was doing that abit when i clicked on the notification bar and had it upside down but after I rebooted went away
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] LastCaressss:
Better performance, games don't seem to crash as much but now I get random reboots (and pretty frequent) which I didn't have before the update. So the ANR are replaced with the reboots... how nice!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] joedeveloper:
Yeah definitely sounds like you messed up your build.prop. Blaming the hardware for an issue that could have easily been caused by yourself is lame.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mirox3m:
You can't be shure at all! I haven't done anything to my Prime and I also noticed them.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
Yup, same thing.. although slightly different... mine is more of screen tear and flicker on the whole left side. My status bar seems to tilt up and down randomly.... on occasion as well. Reboot fixes both issue temporary but it eventually returns....

This is really annoying me....

And I am completely stock. No root.. no change of build.prop.. absolutely nothing since launch. Heck, I didn't even change the display setting and etc.... since I first bought it. It is exactly the same except few apps installed....

And yes, I did soft reset... and for the first time, even did factory reset because it was really pissing me off.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mekrel:
Thanks for jumping to conclusions, this issue has NOTHING to do with a modified build.prop as already pointed out by other users who have not replaced their build.prop and are facing the same issue.

Secondly my build.prop was restored to the original state and matched the md5 hash of the complete stock version.

Maybe do some research before jumping the gun, as to quote yourself, that's lame.

---------- Post added at 09:39 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:30 PM ----------

If you've modded lots of devices, you'll realise I only did two things to my Prime:

Backed up and replaced build.prop with a custom one, the stock one of which was restored.

CFQ kernel module loaded and set as default through the /sys interface. Again, this module was unloaded and noop was again set as default.

This isn't heavily modded in the slightest. :rolleyes:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] os2baba:
Great. You are just the person who can check this out. Can you go to www.planetandroid.com and see if the browser is responsive while loading. How about the rest of the OS. Clicking on the task manager button, the notification area etc.

Do you use Chrome? How does it load pages? What about adding a few tabs? My Vibrant running ICS does a better job than my prime with Chrome!!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rytkonen:
Clicking the multitask button seems to be more responsive after the update.

Actually I rooted my Prime today and did the Browser2Ram and scheduler fixes. Everything seems to be running better now but the super crappy IO handling still slows things down at times.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] os2baba:
This is good news. That means that at least some Primes seem to work well and it's not just a problem between ICS and the Tegra 3 chip. I'll try out the soft reset and see how it goes. Apart from rooting, I have no other mod or build.prop file change or anything of that sort. Don't even really have a ton of apps. I bought FIFA 2012 just yesterday and returned it because it kept freezing in the middle, crashing and get stuck with flickering black bands. This is before the .28 build. But I had already returned it so couldn't test it with the .28 build. I don't really care about games. If I can only get my main apps working. Even Gmail froze. This is no worse than what was happening earlier. But no better either.

I'll play around a bit tonight and see how it performs after a soft reset.

With the planet android site, I can occasionally scroll as it's loading, but 10 times out of 10, even if I can scroll sometimes, it will freeze after a while. On both the stock and Chrome.

Keeping my fingers crossed.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] joedeveloper:
FYI that site really needs to be optimized for not only mobile devices but regular browsers. It's like saying, why is it taking so long for this 500mb page to load....

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My apologies. Even slight modding can cause issues though. To the people who haven't done anything and still seen the issue, sounds like an anomaly.

Try the following method to fix the issue:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=27358251#post27358251
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nextelbuddy:
Im getting artifacts randomly on the left side as well.

stock, no root, no unlock, no modified build.prop came from .21 again same. stock.

i have less force closes but still get them more then they should appear.

have about 10 icons on each screen of 3 including home screen and only 2 widgets (FB and Google Drive) yet many times it lags and gets chunky non responsive when swiping.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] joedeveloper:
Wonder if it matters what mode you're running in. I'm in balanced, brightness at 50%. No issues.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Mekrel:
Thanks for apologising, sorry for being sharp.

I just want this tablet to work as it should, no slow downs when installing content from the play store, no web browsing ANRs and other little annoyances. My Nexus doesn't do it, so I'm confused as to how something superior hardware wise can't.

Unfortunately there's nothing else tablet wise to buy instead. Nothing as sleek as the Prime with good performing hardware.

I'm surprised Samsung has not released a tablet with the highly clocked Mali400 inside that's also in the SIII. It's proven to be faster than Tegra3 and on the HKMG process with a tablet sized battery, would also offer great battery life.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] mmilestone:
After 6 hours of use.

Browser is definitely more responsive. No ANRs during almost 2 straight hours use.

Still a slight lag scrolling up or down in the browser.

Smoother during screen transitions.

Battery life seems better (so far)

Wifi is a tad better (+1 bar) but will do more tests later just to make sure.

So far satisfied with the update.

:-)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Jonphinguyen7:
Huge boost in wifi. Love it

Running Version 1.3 AndroWook ROM w/ Motley Kernel
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jcoleridge:
screen artifacts

i have small artifacts on the left side of the screen, as other users said. they appeared for the first time 10 hours after the update, while i was using smart office 2. after quitting the app there was also the status bar going a little up and down. i thought it was because i didn't factory reset: so i did it, and after reinstalling 60 apps (and began to configure them, so there were a lot of apps in background) i had other artifacts, but smaller. i rooted my prime yesterday for the first time, and restored root after rebooting for the first time immediately after the update, and the only modification are ez overclock and adaway.

now i turned it off to make it charge completely, but this update is great (especially for wifi, which was my only problem with my prime) and it's quite annoying that a new stupid problem came out.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] d1ez3:
Google play store constantly crashing when updating apps, lots of ANRs and it will crash when I click wait. I will do a soft reset now and try again
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Rytkonen:
Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 is rumored to have even more powerful Mali GPU inside it paired with 4420 Exynos Quad core. With Samsungs much better software it will kill Prime. Shame they dont have this Transformer keyboard dock solution, otherwise I would change asap.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] richardmkovach:
I too have had the artifact issue on a completely stock set up, though it has not come up today, and I have since rooted (more testing needed). This issue used to come up in older builds if you let the screen lock with a paused full screen YouTube video in the foreground.

Also has anyone noticed the few lines pertaining to NFC in the build.prop, wonder what those are about?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] LastCaressss:
Anyone notice a difference between docked and non-docked? My prime seems to reboot more when it's docked.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jcoleridge:
No problems with the dock, used it for about three hours today.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Bastaerd:
For people needing the "stock" .21 WW build.prop ;)

edit: uploaded wrong build.prop
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
this update is really pissing me off. aside from battery life returning to previous state (at least so far that i can tell).... it didn't solve anything. Not only that.. but again.. another issue has cropped up on my prime.....

i can tolerate ANR issue and etc... but screen tear/artifact on the left side & status bar tilting up and down..... randomly & sporadically.... and causing me to reboot each time.... is seriously pissing me off.

after 6 month... more problems are piling up....
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] s1lenz:
unfortunately the browser is as laggy as ever. I guess hoping that asus would be able to fix their page rendering issues was too much to ask.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] LNJ:
I wonder if the next release will be beta tested with people who are having issues rather than the regular beta testers.

That's the only way Asus will be able to fix any of these issues.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] micaman:
As far as I'm concerned we have all been beta tester's for every update including the release of the tablet itself.

Need to stop myself before i get too "negative" and the Prime Thumpers start calling for my head.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Bulgarien:
At last my Prime work as it should! ( or lets say better....) Tryed offcource on/off longtouch and soft reset /pinhol, but was still having strange behaviors, like browser wait and slow performance....

Then I read Demandarin message in another tread -and what a luck. The little "trick" he told about was a near a miracle ! Thanks to Demanradin :-) Now the browser experience is much better, but the screen flickering is back and its the most annoying problem now, - but compared to my earlyer browser problems it is not a huge problem at all. ( Try out QUICK ICS browser, its a great tablet browser based on the original ISC browser)

EDIT ; after more test I must say that nothing has changes ; still browser close / wait. screen flickering. slow wifi and performence

my old HTC smartphone is much, better. This is not good Asus....

Demandarin wrote to us;

"Updaters, after you install update and it boots into homescreen, reboot immediately. This will give you best results. This is Asus instructions on what to do after an update for best performance"[COLOR="Red"][/COLOR]
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] DesmoRFR:
Same problem here.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
Glad to see that helped. It does make a difference in performance of update. I reboot and cold boot into OS. For the best results.

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You fine. You not going to get thumped..lmao

Honest feedback is needed on this build. Seems like the scenario of small percentage of primes(based on poll results so far) reacted in a negative way to this build.

We are testing An even newer build than .28 right now. For now, we are refraining from releasing details on it.

So if people experiencing new issues that arose from this build, post them up in this thread or other new update thread. Keep it consolidated. No need for 1000 different threads. The more consolidated it is, the easier it will be to pass on the forum user feedback/info to Asus. As far as what other users here are experiencing on new update.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hic9582:
It would be awesome if someone could explain how to install the firmware manually. I downloaded the .zip but I'm not really sure where to go from here. I tried opening it and unzipping it and what not but I can't really figure it out. Some help would be greatly appreciated

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] st33med:
Read the ". 28 update broke my Prime" thread. There is an explanation on what to do there probably on page two or three I forget.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rap6388:
working better but....

Update surely helped but have had new issue, one time, with screentear on left side. Reboot helped but only been using about an hour since it happened.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
It needs to be on the root of your microsd card. It may or may not need initial unzipping. Check it out first. If there's another zip file inside then unzip the downloaded file. But make sure its on the root of your microsd card. Then insert card into prime. An exclamation notification should immediately pop up into your Asus quick settings. It'll say new update is available. Click on it. Then say yes you want to update, etc... after update installs, let it boot into the homescreen. Then immediately reboot device. You should be good to go from there. Just post back if you run into an issue.

P.s. if you have the file on root of microsd card and when inserted into prime, no update notification pops up, then you likely have to unzip that file to same location. That's why I said use a file explorer to see what's inside originally downloaded zip file. If another zip file is in there, then unzip. If not, then notification should pop up as soon as card is mounted onto prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hic9582:
Let's say, hypothetically, that I didn't have a microsd card. Can I not download it directly to the prime instead of to the sd card?

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] stinebd:
Great results with this update. Stock browser hasn't actually ANRed on me yet. Play Store installations don't bog things down as much as they used to.

Most of the other stuff is about the same. I haven't seen the SoD bug yet but I'm not ready to call that dead until it's gone for like a month straight.

One other thing to note is that Chrome (which was horrendously buggy for me on .21) has become stable again and it's absolutely flying with this update. I may use it as a daily browser now. It's almost laptop fast.

Pretty happy so far.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] aznmode:
Overall browser ANR is harder to replicate in this build so very good sign. Browser do pause still but better than getting the pop up. I haven't tried gaming yet as I'm still at work and cant play.

Battery life is too soon to tell as I have only been running for a few hours. But I think this isnt affected. Going to see in a few days if I still get intermittent drain when docked. I only notice it happen sometimes when I boot the tablet while its docked.

Wifi from my work desk seemed to have improved. I used to get close to -50 now im getting lowest -42 which is great(lower the better). I have to see how this plays out at home.

Performance wise its better than .21 for sure.

The only issue left to tackle is the I/O. I still get lockups while downloading from the market. Specially after things are done downloading and they're installing. Here's a video. It's interesting too that when I go back to Google play it triggers the search (notice the dropdown pops up on the left side of the screen). Maybe its registering as tapping 2x on the top corner?

[youtube]RY5_6UpLRJ4[/youtube]
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I'm not sure about that. Research more into manually installing official Asus update. I'm not sure if it'll work. Won't hurt, I guess to try. If you try, try putting it on the root of prime. But honestly read up more on it. I never manually did it without a microsd memory card. THST thread someone else linked might can help. Or find official instructions on Asus website for how to manually update prime. Good luck ;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SteveG12543:
Wow, that's bad... I've never had it that bad. Pretty much the worst mines ever done was not display anything in the "My Apps" section after going in and out of different apps really fast during an install.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] hic9582:
Well I did it without a sdcard then did a cold boot and got the update notification right after rebooting. Not really sure if what I did caused it or it just happened to come after rebooting but it worked regardless so I'm noxt complaining

Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] whitepc:
I have only plugged my dock and the dongle (GPS) in this tab and with the update things are better now. Browsing works better and the deep sleep problem (aka 15 sec power button restarts) has gone away for as far as I can see. good job asus.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] AWhistler:
Battery issues

in .15, GPS worked great (before dongles existed). After that build, GPS hasn't worked at all...same with .28. .21 had bad left side flicker with Firefox Beta and Facebook...same with .28. .21 had great battery life... .28 seems to be power hungry. Facelock works well as a beta feature, but is not ready for prime time

.28 seems to run smoother than .21, but .21 was pretty good on my TF201. That is my experience after installing it late last night.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Peter Galbavy:
Well, the 3D options in the HDMI menus have gone - or maybe made conditional on being connected to a HDMI 1.4 device.

The ANRs are much less but I think all that's happened is that the timeout has been increased as the pauses are still very much there.

They (Asus) need to get on with updating their kernel to later nvidia snapshots that implement, at minimum mmc changes before we let them off the stupidy poor I/O performance hook.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] rcatron:
I too noticed that though I no longer get the pop up, I definitely get the browser hang ups. In fact, I do not really notice any differences in performance.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clouds5:
.28 runs very good on my Prime so far. Everything seems smoother! Also i had no issues with shadowgun tegra3 game so far, other games like dark maedow still crash though...

Browsing with ICS+ browser is very good - no issues but i didnt have them on .21 either^^ guess i'm lucky.