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[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tmeader:
I no longer have the Prime, since I got a refund at Best Buy last week and ordered the Infinity... however, I did just get a reply from Gary via email today stating that:

"We should have a general beta ready this week that I will open up to most XDA members."

So, FYI. Hopefully this does really help with the I/O. That was my main complaint. I really wanted the enhanced resolution though, since I use it mainly for comics reading, and the small fonts benefit a LOT from the increased dpi.

Good luck to all.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
Yay, another "beta" with random # attached (with another.. "coming soon")

Does this mean we will see another public announcement by ehem.. you know who... telling everyone how great Asus is & how next patch/update will fix/resolve the issue... & it will make our "defective" Primes FLY??
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] GS_Dan:
Do you reckon that's more of an open beta, or only for those that previously applied?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Subintro:
How would one go about getting a refund?

Thing is, ordered online via Ebuyer in the UK.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Peter Galbavy:
In the UK you have recourse to your rights under EU consumer law. Take a google for "Sales Of Goods Act" and "Distance Selling Regulations" and note the requirement for goods to be fit for purpose etc. If your Prime is less than 6 months old then you are in a better position regarding proof of defects etc.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cmccracken:
This week is almost up. Another empty promise from Asus?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] wifesabitch:
I wouldn't expect anything from Asus. They don't give a f*ck about thier customers.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] krispy521:
Im so glad we got to be asus's beta testers and they just abandoned us with our bastard primes that dont work. I just hope someone is standing next to me to give me a big punch in the face the next time i think about buying an electronic device from any one other than best buy. They seem to be the only ones that stand behind the products they sell. Asus and gamestop get a big middle finger from me.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bjfrank:
It is funny to think that I bought my prime because I heard Asus is really good with updates and cared for their customers. I was really wrong on this one. We hear a lot (well, used to hear from Gary) about beta firmware, but never ends up getting released to the public. I don't see people trading in the prime at best buy for an infinity really a fix. It might make the wireless and gps a bit better, but the service and updates are going to be no better from Asus. I have tried to keep positive and believe Asus would make things better. I have unfortunately lost all faith in Asus.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] shinzz:
How interesting this has become...

1. Hardly any custom ROMS or much of dev development with Transformer Prime (no matter what anyone says... it was hardly there to begin with compared to so many other device).

2. Next update is the magic "one" that will resolve the issues but consistently made my tablet worse...

3. Supposedly... Prime isn't a "beta" hardware....

4. Asus comments on Transformer Prime won't be discontinued... but most likely, it probably was since April (or decision to discontinue probably came even earlier to prepare for TF300 & used leftover components to build C5 version.. & slowly leak it out to vendors til TF700 arrived)

5. WIFI works to Asus standards (whatever that is).... but works like garbage to my standard & GPS is dead before it even launched

6. Poor I/O, screen issues, & so many QC/QA issues... that never got fixed on any version (or even on TF300 & TF700)

After all that... I'm still waiting for this "coming soon" next firmware update so my useless tablet can be useful ....

And yes, I absolutely hate Gamestop as well... sigh
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] junrider:
I feel for you guys still stuck with the prime and are not pleased with the device. I wondering if the 1% defect is still the magic number of the prime. The infinity is definitely what the prime should have been, Im glad those people who says otherwise back then is eating up their words right now. With a fully functioning GPS and better wifi range and the best thing is there are more of the infinity popping up in brick and mortar stores, more availability online, and the best part is there was no price increase. Definitely, happy with my infinity (stuck with bestbuy even with the tax just incase i need to return my tablet before the warranty) and by the looks of the firmware updates here, i bet the next one whenever that will be is the JB and ICS has just caused too much problems.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Nickedynick:
For what it's worth, I reckon things have gone quiet on the beta front because Asus have decided to move on to JB rather than screw around trying to fix ICS. Judging by the CM10 preview builds, it offers significant enough advantages that it's probably worth doing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Lorthirk:
It makes sense, but they should spend a clear word in that if this is the case.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Nickedynick:
Well they've already publicly stated that JB will be coming - the only acknowledgement that another ICS update is in the works has come from Gary as far as I remember.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] yumms:
You know there is trouble when even demandarin doesn't even come and defend Asus on this non-existing firmware update.

And demandarin defends anything Asus related.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Lorthirk:
Maybe he's on vacation... it's August after all
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] yumms:
Nope, he's now moved to the Nexus 7 forum.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] fridrik:
I hope that out later this month to update the JB ...

Because I run the bench in my prime and not like the result ....

Unfortunately I can not post because of the restriction that users have recently ....
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Lorthirk:
Oh, well. That's not good, then.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
im still around. glad to see you all miss me. lol

i have been enjoying my nexus 7. i still check things out here. more behind the scenes stuff now ;)
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Thom4s:
im hoping for a jb update by the end of octobre or something ... the tablet is ok like it is now

downloading torrents now and webbrowseing at the same time, no anr s at all!! itcould be faster but still it all works fine
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] SteveG12543:
I'm interested in these "being the scenes" claims, anything to share with us/tease us with? ;) PM?

I'm still on vacation, and will be until early September. I haven't heard anything from Gary since emailing him back in June letting him know I couldn't test for a while because I didn't want to risk damaging my Prime constantly carrying it around while being here. I basically told him that and asked if I'd be able to rejoin the beta group when I get back, and that I'm sorry for the inconvenience this may have caused, but I don't know if he's gonna allow me to rejoin or not.

I miss beta testing, it was pretty cool lol.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Restorer:
Yes no doubt you are correct. I for one am happy to wait in the hope that "Project Butter" will before long bring us the stock experience the specs of this device promise.

Meanwhile root + browser2ram + ATP Tweak provide a quick and acceptable bandaid.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Tempie007:
jb will make things better for sure.

however still occasional lockups on content rich websites. hopefully the new kernel will deal with this!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] evilNathan:
Is TF201 dying?

Any news about the coming OTA?

:D
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] clouds5:
+1 what's going on here? This forum is freaking me out in the same way a ghost town would...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sulfobus:
Same here, that combo is definetly acceptable IMHO. Stock browser is as speedy as laptop or ipad. Games work well, no crashes. Occational graphical artefacts and slowdowns during large downloads are the only major problems for me ATM.

I use ATP tweak only change scheduler to sio, I don't use the tune tweaks.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knowaczark:
The lucky ones who bought from Best Buy are now on the TF700 forum.

ASUS not at home and TF201 users are screwed.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] YoMarK:
Why are they screwed? The update will(although a little late) come, and the tf201 will get jellybean. The Prime has it flaws, but the perfect tablet does not exist, and the best tablet you can buy is released in 3(or years or....) months so stop wining...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] demandarin:
I wish I knew more but I haven't heard anything new yet. Like when they will release update. Its long overdue now. Sad to say it does seem this forum is dying slowly. Only the strong survive...lol. its not dead though. Asus already promised it'll receive JB update soon.

They need to release last ICS update sooner than later. Makes one kinda mad to see how anxious every one is waiting on it. Ill check with Gary again on it and let him know the owners are getting impatient.

From the best buy thread, I'm surprised THST already over 100 people from here returned and exchanged prime for an Infinity pad. That's alot of prime members. So i can see hownit looks like a ghost town now. Everytime I come back here, I see THST best buy thread is the top thread KR most recent post in it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] cmccracken:
demandarin, the owners that were not lucky enough to have purchased their Prime from Best Buy are far beyond "impatient", we are fuming mad at this point. Between the GPS, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and storage I/O issues, we have seen nothing but empty promises, stalling, half-assed non-solutions, and lies from Asus. Almost a year in, and there are tons of us that have plunked down well in excess of $500 and only have something that meets our needs about as well as a flaming sack of dog crap does. I will never again touch any product that has any link whatsoever to Asus or Nvidia (the Tegra kernel driver problems come from their end). To paraphrase Linus Torvalds: "F-k You Nvidia [and Asus]!"
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knowaczark:
Put down the joint and move away from the keyboard. What is that posting "(or years or)"...

This is not "the positive ASUS thread". Don't like hearing the truth, then snuggle up to Gary for more ASUS bullcrap.

His last update was how long ago? Typical ASSUS...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] bjfrank:
What is really sad about all of this is that Asus could make everybody feel better by just telling us what the hell is going on. A simple status update would go a long ways. Instead, Gary has disappeared, the other support person never really appeared, and we are still without a firmware update. My guess is that Asus moved most of their resources to what they consider more important projects like the nexus 7. The prime just isn't making them money or getting them good publicity like the nexus 7. That is probably why the firmware update is taking so long. Doesn't make me feel very good about how long it will take for us to get JB. I just hope it doesn't turn out the same as ICS where everybody thought it would be the "fix all" of the problems and just ended up being a disappointment. I like my prime, but this is a bunch of crap the way Asus is treating us customers. I know I will definitely think twice about what my next tablet will be. Customer service is very important and Asus just hasn't figured that out yet.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] kngyr:
+1

You would think all those exchanges to the tf700 would be a clear msg to Asus lol. The tf201's reputation has been tainted so badly that I doubt good publicity will ever come from it, that being said good publicity comes from good things they do and so far they've not done much... Although I do appreciate Gary's help, but he is just one of the many employees at asus. The products been out for over 9 months, plenty of time to straighten things out yet they dragged it on. Even if JB releases and "solves" the issues, its going to be a slow climb from there and the prime just isn't going to be as popular as it should have been.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] HOFFERN342:
I agree with you, Asus should have been able to fix the many problems (like the browser issue) within these 9 months.. which leads me to believe that the Transformer Prime has a hardware "issue".. not like a real issue, but the hardware, more precisely the ram, chosen to be used is not quick enough to handle the workflow that is present in ICS. Hopefully JB will require less resources, making our tablets more stable and reliable. I am not a programmer, and I have very little experience with it hardware such as this as well, but after reading countless tests, articles and forum posts from people looking into the Prime both software and hardware wise, I came to the conclusion that the memory (ram) unit chosen in the Prime was not good enough to handle ICS.. they took the easy solution, to choose the cheapest possible ram instead of going for a premium solution from the beginning.

I just wish Gary or someone else within Asus would give us a short weekly notice for example, on how far they have gotten in the process at the time. It would help us a lot, and also give them a more positive feedback as they are communicating better and more openly with the customers. Sadly however, Asus has chosen the bit more secretive and silent route, which in a situation when the products have problems.. is not very good. In a situation like this, they should try to be more open about what they are doing, to calm down the customers that are worried about their products.. Hopefully though, the update is not too far away, and Gary might post something to warn us before that... but I doubt it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] sputnik767:
I agree, the perfect tablet does not exist, but there are plenty out there that get much closer to that goal than ours. Otherwise, excuse me for losing faith in Asus, its not like they have a good track record of providing timely and effective updates. Every update so far has been delayed, failed to fix the actual issues that are documented, and actually introduced more problems. Its nice to look at the world through rose colored glasses like you do, but the reality is that despite the fact that this device is almost a year old, it still runs on an outdated kernel, and despite the fact that it has cutting edge hardware, it runs slower than my old HTC Evo.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] krispy521:
I see people have a lot of hope that JB will fix something with the Prime. I don't see how it will since its not going to create a plastic strip on the back to make the GPS and Wifi work. JB is just a minor update anyway. The Prime needs a major update (I perfer to call it a recall).

Also, I don't see the point of getting updates here on XDA from Asus on the progress since everything so far has been untrue. I'm still waiting for the "big announcement" that we were promised about 5-6 months ago. Did I miss it? Don't tell me it was that POS dongle thing.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chamberc:
What exchanges? Are you talking about the joke thread about BB taking them back? It's just like the joke thread about foil to improve the wifi signal. Just a little fun to blow off steam.

Even if retailers were allowing returns, it would take a month for news of those returns to make their way back to decision makers at Asus.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] krispy521:
Think whatever you want but I took my Dad's Prime back since I got it at Best buy and he received his new Infinity last week. I'm, however, stuck with this piece of design flaw because I was a dumba$$ and bought it at Gamestop.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] YoMarK:
Last time I checked, this was the XDA developers forum and certainly not the Asus support forum. My opinion is: if you do not want to develop/contribute/change/use custom tweaks/software/ROM's you're on the wrong forum.

The TF201 has it flaw's(mediocre wifi aside, all things can be fixed/worked around) but is certainly one of the best tablets out there...and is running ICS. You know that the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 only received the ICS update yesterday, and that they did not hear a releasedate from Samsung AT ALL.

Not that I think it's right to do so, but you're acting as if Asus is the only company not releasing ETA's of updates. Most company's do not, so if you expect Asus to be any different, then prepare to be disappointed(wait...you already made the error right?).

Asus actually DOES have a good record of releasing updates. As mentioned above...Samsung just yesterday released the ICS updater for the Tab 10. We've got plenty of updates on the TF201, but they did not fix the problems some people have. I had some issues with slow storage and was not happy with the stock firmware, but there are plenty of workaround/fixes for that.

And if your Prime performs worse then an HTC Evo, you've got one fast Phone....

Edit:

Don't get me wrong: I don't think Asus did a good job at all with the TF201 and software, but i've seen/had a lot of Phones and Tablets and the perfect device does not exist.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] drherron:
Yeah I laughed all the way home from BB...
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knowaczark:
As an ardent supporter of the ASSUS TF201 are you in a position to give us back the $650 investment? Or even fix faulty Wi-Fi, GPS, etc? I did't think so.

How long do we wait to get some value out of this mediocre POS? Isn't 8 months plenty of time for corrective action? Or even updates on the status of the latest fix?

Un-satisfied Prime owners are here because at one time this forum was the only place for info from ASSUS. They do not return calls. Rarely return email inquiries. Gary has left the planet(proabbly to Apple) and his so called "first hand" contact never even appeared. All they want is RMA's so they can lose your prime.

Are they deceiving? Are they hiding something? Damn right they are. I know first hand Samsung, Apple, Dell, et al to name a few do not operate in a vacuum like ASSUS. Customer satisfaction!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nizhnyk:
no really you guys are wrong, if you didnt liked wifi you should return the tablet and not keep it. for me it is perfectly fine, I dont run benchmarks so I dont care, my tablet works really fast, faster than any other tablet ( except iPad and nexus 7), also we are about to get JB update, which right now only nex7 has, I dont know what else you want, maybe wait for few years and buy new tablet, but then you will still want it to be more perfect.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] krispy521:
Your right. It is awesome. I love going over to my Apple fanboy Brother-in-law's house and asking him to switch chairs with me because my "awesome" tablet doesn't pick up his wifi in a chair that is 5 feet from his. Oh but his ipad works great anywhere in his house. Yeah that sure is awesome.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chamberc:
They're not accepting returns.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tmeader:
Who's not?

Asus isn't directly. But Best Buy will allow you to return it for store credit/exchange as long as you can prove that you purchased it there. I, along with quite a few others, have confirmed this.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Pyr0x64:
...and anyone who hasn't purchased from Best Buy is out of luck and stuck with a semi functional tablet, waiting for the next update, hoping it will fix all the bugs

thanks asus :good:
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nizhnyk:
my tablet works anywhere in my house and even outside my house (yes speeds are lower when its far from router and I hold it back case pointing to router, but even my gnex when i hold it screen side to router it looses connection), if your tablet didnt worked you should of returned it, now that its late maybe try to RMA it or try to fix it yourself. I guess not all of them are like this. I never had a problem when my tablet would loose connection, just the speed is lower when i go far from router, and really I only use it in house and backyard and it works good enough.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chamberc:
So did I and also got 2 free 65" TV's and gift cards, and I bought mine at Amazon! LOL... keep your jokes in the BB thread.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knowaczark:
Been there, tried that. Office Depot is not accepting returns beyond there standard 30 days. They don't want ASSUS junk back.

I suspect they feel they'll get stuck just like us.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] jordanmw:
ABSOLUTELY DEPLORABLE!! SHAME ON YOU GARY!!-- it is 8/14 now with no update...and no sign of the new beta.. LIAR!!!

This is my biggest complaint too... why can't my prime look half as smooth or be half as reliable?!?!? I know it is possible!

That thread is no joke... it does work and you should not act like you know better. You should not even comment on that thread unless you are going to speak on behalf of all best buy stores. Best buy actually did many of their customers right and they should get credit for that.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] knowaczark:
Hindsight is great and had I known about ASSUS sucky customer service and terrible quality I'd have returned it on time.

That's what we get for having faith in a scam of a company.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] Moist:
What's the bet Gary has "pneumonia" AGAIN? In the middle of summer, again ;) Sure thing!
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] micaman:
he must be busy accepting awards for ASUS
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] texstar:
You have it all wrong. I read the reviews, did my research and bought what I thought was the best Android tablet on the market. I noticed right away the tablet wasn't performing to expectations for a quad core CPU. I was going to return it but was told to wait because it had just came to market and there were some kinks in the software that ASUS would address in a firmware update. So now it is too late to return it. I can't exchange it and Elvis has apparently left the building.

I feel like the robot boy in the A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) movie where the mom takes him out on a nice country drive then dumps him in the woods and drives off. lol

So what happen to the firmware updates? Are we really going to get Jelly Bean? This year?
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] tmeader:
The thread has documented dozens of cases now. Can't understand why you think people would be lying about this. Believe what you'd like, but I definitely have new respect for Best Buy's customer service after how they handled the exchange/credit with me given Asus's failure to follow-through on their own product in some ways.

I'm not saying ALL Best Buys will allow it, and it's not like it's a company policy being advertised in the Sunday mailer, but, at least at the one in Laurel, MD the Geek Squad employee was well aware of the Prime issues. I told her "GPS doesn't work even though it's listed on the box". "Yeah, I know." Pretty much amounted to that. I'm sure luck will vary, but Best Buy IS being very helpful/reasonable about this to a LOT of people, and deserve the attention they're getting for it.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] YoMarK:
How do you mean not performing? Yes wifi could be better, yes I/O could be better(fixable) . The CPU/GPU performance is however outstanding. It's much faster and smoother(even more so on Job custom rom) then other tabs I have/had. The other one I currently have is the galaxy tab 7.7 and the prime is much faster.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chamberc:
Like I said, it worked for me, got my tv's gift cards and both 700's.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] NeoMagus:
You must be really sour you can't take yours back. Lord knows I would be had I not bought mine there ahaha
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] nizhnyk:
Im wondering if the owners of galaxy tab and others are complaining like this too.. really I tried other tablets and they are way slower than prime.
[Asus  Eee Pad Transformer Prime] chamberc:
Both our 64 and 32 worked great before we returned them. We just wanted the HD screen and the free TV's.