I started leaving my Gtablet on for the weekend. Just got the Tablet ( I have one already) and issue I have is after maybe a day and a half of being left on BUT with the screen off I cant turn it on. I hit the power button and nothing. I have to hold the power button for ever to get it to re start. My other tablet I can leave on ( Screen off) for a week and no issues. Its like it goes into sleep mode after a day or so ( All day its fine , its if I dont touch it for more then a day)
Other then that no isses on this tablet I just got. any clue what might cause this. I like to leave it on from Friday to Sunday night as I use it alot. but now I am afraid it will at some point not turn on. I have no problem starting it normal if its turned off every day.
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This may have been answered already, but I did a search and only found to hold the power button for 20 seconds. I have had it since it first came out at best buy. Last night is the first time it happened and I know it was do to the "bonzai" game my daughter was playing. That said, I went to hbo go and was watching a movie and heard the bonzai game in the background. I tried to close the browser and it froze on me. I pushed power, back, home, and nothing. The screen eventually timed out, but if this were to happen on any android phone I would simply pull the battery and retart. Since we can't just pull the battery, what are all of you doing if and when this happen to you. And comments would be greatly appreciated.
I throw mine out the window
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Long power press has always worked for me.
I am wondering thi same thing, i have only had mine for a total of 10 hours and it has done this to me a total of 5 times and it is starting to piss me off, i dont like having to reboot like that under normal use. I am very close to returning this thing and trying out another tablet.
I hate to say it but this is making me regret selling my first gen iPad!!!!!
So just to update you guys, I returned my first tab yesterday and have been heavily using the second one and it has yet to freeze up on me. I am very happy with this tablet. It is so much faster and the screen is way more vibrant and clear than the thrive I bought and am soon going to return. The thrive also has the typing lag and it randomly reboots when it is sleeping.
Mine would not turn on this morning. I plugged the charger and let it sit for a minute then the screen turned on when i pushed the power button. Turns out my tab completely shut down because battery was dead and now is working 100% again.
Had to get my one day old Nokia 800 replaced today.
Got everything setup last night and decided to power it off just to give it a restart. The phone would refuse to power back on. No amount of button pushing/reconnecting to the power would make it start up again. No power, nothing..dead.
I managed to get it to restart after performing the three button reset. No problem I thought maybe just a one off. Turned the phone off and put it on charge overnight and this morning the same problem returned.. Could not power on. This time the reset would not work at all, no matter how many times I tried.
Carphone warehouse swapped it over in store today for another handset. Hopefully I'll have more luck with the replacement.
Edit: already seen someone else mention a similar problem on here. Hope there's not a bigger issue.
How do you perform the three button reset? My phone randomly decided to turn off whilst I was driving and now it wont turn back on
Yes I've been in that spot as well. For five minutes the phone wouldn't respond to any power button press. Long, short, whatever. I was already starting to slide into panic mode when it suddenly came back alive on another short press.
It's not the only hardware problem I've encountered, I also have problems with touchscreen and buttons and a loose part inside the device.
So this morning after watching several videos online last night, on my non-rooted nook, the wireless wasn't working.
When I would try and go into the B&N wireless settings screen, it would do nothing (go black) or say that wireless is stalled (do you want to wait or force close). So I forced close, hoping it would reboot automatically.
Well, I tried to turn off the device and the screen went black but the backlight stayed lit like it was supposed to be on for several minutes after I had powered down.
Eventually I got the blacklight off (it might have just gone off by itself), but now it won't turn back on.
The battery was at 30% when I tried to initially power it down.
I haven't tried the power and n button 30 second cycle, because I don't want to lose what I have on it. Any ideas of how to get it back on, without factory reset?
I can remember some other issues like this were reported. I believe one solution was to let it charge a few hours and attempt to power back up. Not sure if this will work for you, but give it a shot.
Plug in Charger (Might wake it up).
Connect USB to computer (Might wake it up).
Hold in power button 20 seconds to power off then power on.
The last option just worked for me for a black screen (Loop?) issue.
When that has happened to me (and it has), I held down the power button for about 30 seconds. Then let the unit sit for a couple minutes. Then held the power button down for about 5 seconds. Eventually, it always started back up.
30 second hold
The 30 second hold and wait worked well. Thanks.
Glad everything has worked out for ya!
My friend that I bought the Asus prime for, asked me if I could take a look at his prime.
Here is the screnario:
Listening to radio station app, screen went to sleep while the radio was still playing and he tried holding the power button down and nothing worked to reboot or wake up the prime. The Prime was left playing to drain down the battery. It has all its recent updates (.15), not rooted, and not unlocked. When I looked at it, I charged it up, I can see the light and turned green to full battery status. I can feel the prime vibrate as I hold the power button, I tried volume + power hold, tried the hard reset with the paper clip hearing the click next to the sd card slot holding it for 10-30 seconds. The laptop can see the folder in the prime as i hold the power button and also disconnects when i power down. ordered 12-28 from best buy so the return window has expired and its a BC0K serial number.
Anybody find a solution with a black screen prime that just vibrates and can be seen on the laptop before I send it for an RMA?
Was there any shock to the device? A small bump or anything, it sounds like the ribbon cable for the screen has become disconnected, there are some reports of this on the forums.
flyingwolf said:
Was there any shock to the device? A small bump or anything, it sounds like the ribbon cable for the screen has become disconnected, there are some reports of this on the forums.
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This + have you went into recovery?
maybe try draining the battery again then charging up. ive seen a few post issue like this. if screen connection didn't break, then letting it drain again and charging up might fix it. good luck!
Actually, the prime was already drained maybe a total of 3 times. There was no shock to the device as it was working with the radio app on and when it was being listened to while it was on the bed, the screen went into sleep and could not wake up no matter what button was being pushed so the prime was left to drain its battery. My friend didnt know how to reboot, so he decided to left the battery to drain. Could the radio playing + sleep of death + battery drainage caused the permanent screen sleep? Too bad I dont have the micro hdmi connector to see if i can isolate the screen as the problem.
yup the micro hdmi would help a lot probably. But if your PC recognizes it I suggest you back up data that you need then try to do a blind factory reset so you can get rid of any non oem app installed including that radio app if any of them is whats causing the screen not to turn on.
1. Hold volume down then press and hold power.
2. When you feel it vibrate (this could take up to 10 seconds if the tablet was already on) wait another 5 seconds and then release both buttons.
3. After you release wait another 5 seconds (dont wait too long here or it will reboot on its own if you dont select anything after about 10 seconds) then press volume down 1 time and volume up 2 times.
4. The tablet will factory wipe and after another 10 seconds it will reboot.
If the tablet still wont turn on then you got another issue and that isnt caused by the radio app or any other app.
Didnt work. It just vibrated and the screened stayed black... Im wrapping this puppy up and bringing shipping it to the repair center. Thanks anyways.
Vibrates when power button is held but wont turn on
My Prime also has the basic problem. I use it daily for about 3 to 4 hours, reading replying to e-mails and web browsing. While I was reading, the volume started going up on its own and I noticed that even after I put in standby mode, the battery discharged so I shut it down completely.
After that I could not turn it on. When I hold down the power button it vibrates bit the screen does not come on even after I fully charged till the led turns green.
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My Prime also has the basic problem. I use it daily for about 3 to 4 hours, reading replying to e-mails and web browsing. While I was reading, the volume started going up on its own and I noticed that even after I put in standby mode, the battery discharged so I shut it down completely.
After that I could not turn it on. When I hold down the power button it vibrates bit the screen does not come on even after I fully charged till the led turns green.
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Had to RMA back to Asus for them to fix the display and it took about a week. Warranty covered it, but if you do RMA ask them to ship you a shipping label. You shouldnt have to pay for shipping it to them for a manufacturer defect. And take pics and videos of the tablet and packing for your safety. They just need the tablet and nothing else. Good luck
Asus is F-ing with my endorphines...
I've had my TF201 since March 30th. Been using it for 1 week and it suddenly went dead (nothing on the screen, no vibration if I held the power button down). Tried everything I could find on the forums, it didn't work so I sent it to repairs (not immediately, cuz I had more important stuff to do). They kept it for almost 3 weeks, got it back this last Monday (May 21st) and... it died out on me again yesterday night (after just 3 days of use, congratulations ASUS technicians!). I was simply browsing and I clicked on the icon to increase the luminosity to the maximum supported (IPS+, I was charging it at the time) and the screen suddently went black. Like "nothing visible on it" black.
After that, I tried numerous times to reset it (including the volume+power down, according to the indications in this thread) - all I could get from it was the vibration as if it starts. Nothing else popping up on the screen. I plugged it this morning into my computer and it got somehow recognized, cuz my W7 tried installing drivers for it (even tho it had recognized the tablet again after it came from repairs and I already had drivers for it installed) but failed with the error "APX - no driver found".
I've had enough. Two months already and only one week and half of actual use. It's pathetic, ASUS needs to be taught a lesson, so I'm calling Consumer Protection in my country and the European Consumer Protection Comission. All the forums that I've surfed are filled with reports of broken units and ASUS will just tell you "if you have a valid warranty we'll repair it for free". I DON'T ****ING NEED regular repairs every 2 weeks!!! I need a functional tablet that I can use or give me my money back!
I'll post the results of my tribulations here...
I had a user that suffered the blank screen.
When you think it's presumably on. Try a paperclip to the reset hole on the left side. His came back up at that point and hasn't done it again since.
Never had this happen on mine.
Hi,
I've had my Z3TC for around 5 years now and still love it but has been having a few issues recently, notably the battery life is getting worse, but it's still usable. However, yesterday, something strange happened to it. The power on/off button stopped working when I pressed it once (double press for camera still worked), so I couldn't turn it off or turn the screen off (other than my closing the case cover) and one of the volume buttons didn't work either.
Then, the battery dropped from around 40% to 0% and it shut down. I charged it overnight and this morning when I turned it on, all the buttons were working again but it was in safe mode. I tuned it off/on multiple times, restarted it, rebooted in safe mode then rebooted again hoping it would go to normal mode, but none of this work.
I've now done a full factory reset and it is still stuck in safe mode (and I've restarted it, turned on/off multiple times). Are there any suggestions for how I can get it back to normal?
Thanks,
Frank
Nearly the same thing happened to me. It happened about 3 years ago. The power button stopped working (just like you), so I chucked my Z3TC. To this day, it was - and is still one of the best - phones I ever had. I ALWAYS got asked questions about it. I own an iPhone now, but I still love the Z3TC. The camera was terrible, but everything else about the screen was solid. Just wished they updated the OS on it, but due to Google and the chip restrictions, never got far. Either way, I'll never forget this phone. Pity our time came to an end due to that power button breaking.
Also stuck
Same thing also happened to me.
I had the tablet for quite some time and the battery would start going straight to 0% from quite a high number. And also my volume down button doesn't work and I am stuck in safe mode. Rebooting, poweroff, etc doesn't make it get out of safe mode.