[Asus Transformer TF700] suzukii:
My 18 month old disappointment.

Hi all. My ASUS TF700t RANT-RANT-RANT.

Please refrain from all the negative jabs you'd really like to share with me. I have this tablet as a reminder for negativity.

First, I would like to send my thanks for the enormous efforts put in by the Devs and all who've quietly helped this non-techy person get as far as he did with this tablet, and in their attempts in helping me behind the scenes in the past 18 months with this damned tablet.

I am finally giving up my hopes of this being a useful piece of hardware in my household for my wife & two year old when it comes to this TF700t. I've broke down & gone out and bought a Samswine Tab S 10.5. It works.

I really apologize to the ASUS TF700t camp community about this. But after 18 months and being extremely patient with this tablet I needed something that just plain worked with whatever was thrown at it like simply playing Fruit Ninjas.

I've tried just about every version of custom ROM there was after my unlocking this TF700t tablet from the stock Jellybean 4.1 factory ROM to flashing the ROMs by CyanogenMod on upto sdbags' ZOMBI-POP OMNI KANG RC1 using both the optimal & minimal install options for this Book end of a tablet for the past 18 months.

I've been, for the most part 99% silent on all this, just following the instructions to install everything successfully to the internal memory, never installing to SDCARD (don't care for it), from CWM to converting to TWRP while making sure I had the tablet on the ASUS STOCK JB 4.2.1 BOOTLOADER VERSION 10.6.1.14.10 when it became necessary.

I've always wiped everything first. I never believed in doing a dirty install/upgrade.

I've done the full wiping in recovery as if coming from another ROM every time before flashing to a new custom ROM, erasing everything on the internal memory, wiping all I could using the advanced features in TWRP, short of destroying the partitions themselves, & then formatting the DATA partition & converting the DATA partition to F2FS, when everyone felt it was a better choice, and never interrupting the lengthy 30+ minute formatting processes.

After all is said and done this tablet has taken and takes fooooooreverrrrrr to do anything after every fresh ROM flash installation & letting it sit for over 3-6 hours rendering it useless. Forget the 15 minute wait for the stabilization period.

After all the apps that I required to be installed and after almost 8 hours (every single time) of stabilization ...by forever waiting I mean that to simply switch from lets say, the Play Store app to the home screen, it was an excruciating and painful 2-3 minute wait for a screen change.

...yes I've tried fooling around with the default sdbags recommend installs to adjusting the clock speeds from 1800Mhz down to 1700Mhz, down to 1600Mhz, etc. As soon as the custom install process would complete, I would login with my Gmail credentials, and it would start to update all that there needs to update & if I don't babysit it it gets stuck on downloading all the newly updated apps in the Play Store.

I used to love this tablet, and bragged like a MoFo about it, then planned on giving it to my wife. But this doesn't seem to ever be the case with this tablet ever ending up being useful. I can't even give it to my two year old it's so damned slow.

I've moved on.