I just got my TP today-My question to those who have been using it :
Is it better to do a full "power off" when finished using at the end of the day?
OR- should I just let it sleep and take the hit on slight overnight battery drain?
Letting it sleep might help limit wear and tear on power button i would think, but will sleep cause a shortened battery life?
Would love to hear what others think!
I'd like to hear an expert chime in here.
I haven't turned my tablet off since I got it. It's nice to have it laying around the house, ready to rock at any time. I mean, I do the same thing with all of my electronic devices (they are always in sleep mode).
Plus, if I understand things correctly, much of the components of smart phones are shared in tablets... and most people generally don't turn their phones off. I'd assume these devices are designed to be left on all the time.
I'd like to hear from someone to
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I generally turn off when I go to bed then turn on once I wake up then by time IM done showing device it's powered on and ready to go
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I like to turn off so it's like a fresh start in the morning
I have had my TF101 since June, my TP will be here at the end of the week (just got UPS tracking from BB ordered on Christmas Eve).
My TF101 has not been turned off ever, in 6 months the only time it gets turned off is when it takes an updated to reboot or in the rare instances I have run it dry without having the ability to plug it in. I charge it every couple of days depending on use and my wife and I just pick it up whenever we need it, never worrying about it being on or not.
I liked to reboot my tf101 every couple of days, idk if it was placebo, but scrolling seemed smoother after reboot and after a couple days it would get sluggish again til I reboot
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I am also wondering, is there a way to wake the device up from sleep by touching the screen? I would prefer this rather than having to hold down the power button every time to wake it up-
If the OS cannot do this on it's own, does anyone know of an APP that can add this feature?
My TF is plug in every night (just by habit cause most of the time the battery is at 75%) and in sleep mode.
When it's not charging it barely lose 2% overnight and everything is sync when I wake up.
My advice, let it in sleep mode. Everyone hate looking 2 minutes at a booting screen.
I dunno man but when I powered off my Prime it didn't come back. It's on it's way to NCIX for replacement right now.
Might be good not to test if yours will survive a shut down!
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I dunno man but when I powered off my Prime it didn't come back. It's on it's way to NCIX for replacement right now.
Might be good not to test if yours will survive a shut down!
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I am backing up londongentleman. Do not turn yours off. Why well my transformer prime had slight browser lag. I shut mine down and it will not come back even trying a hard reset too. When I return mine back to Best Buy I ask the manager in charge of all the tablets and he told me that over half of the Primes they sold have come back with this issue not being able to turning back on. He also told me that Best Buy is pull their Primes till mid January it could be to this issue not sure. So I decided to call Asus. The technician I got hold of said that he has had a lot of call of Primes not power on after being shut down. He told me that they are looking into but it looks like it power regulation on the hardware. I hope this helps.
That sucks. But I imagine you'd want to know if your tablet was defective.
Have you guys tried plugging in the AC power and then holding the button for 15 seconds or so? Sometimes that works.
just tested mines again. it powers on and off just fine. I'd be pissed if I powered down n then it wouldn't cut back on. I usually leave mines on all the time. same with my Ipad. these devices have a great sleep function to where hardly any power drains. I think I read before my Ipad, on a full charge, can last like 30 days with no use in sleep mode. I wonder how long the prime would last considering this has better batery life than my ipad1. reviewers confirmed and I did also. I got about 8 hrs. last night on the prime in normal mode with very heavy usage like games, web surfing etc... plus I still had about 20% battery left before i went to sleep nplugged it in. it hardly had any sleep tine also. mostly constant usage. I've noticed, depending on use, device will drain about 10% or less per hour in balanced or normal mode. of course balanced drains even less but really depends on usage. I want to try out battery savings mode to see how long we can get on this. I started a Performance mode thread here in general for people to report findings or thoughts on the different power modes. like how much battery life you getting on that particular setting or any performance findings.
Slept for 8 hours tablet in power saving mode dropped 1 percent also got 3 emails that night and market pulled down updates so very good sleep battery life
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I am backing up londongentleman. Do not turn yours off. Why well my transformer prime had slight browser lag. I shut mine down and it will not come back even trying a hard reset too. When I return mine back to Best Buy I ask the manager in charge of all the tablets and he told me that over half of the Primes they sold have come back with this issue not being able to turning back on. He also told me that Best Buy is pull their Primes till mid January it could be to this issue not sure. So I decided to call Asus. The technician I got hold of said that he has had a lot of call of Primes not power on after being shut down. He told me that they are looking into but it looks like it power regulation on the hardware. I hope this helps.
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Interesting...thanks man. I was going to call ASUS but didn't... too lazy.
I really hope that whenever I get my new one the kinks have been worked out. It's funny, I was feeling all smug as I didn't really have any major issues with it...then it dies on me.
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Ravynmagi said:
That sucks. But I imagine you'd want to know if your tablet was defective.
Have you guys tried plugging in the AC power and then holding the button for 15 seconds or so? Sometimes that works.
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I've tried everything! It wasn't even recognized by my PC when I plugged it in. I tried restting, pressing volume - and power etc etc...
Just dead, plain and simple. Now the looooong wait for a replacement. At least I got to play around with it for a couple of hours.
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Slept for 8 hours tablet in power saving mode dropped 1 percent also got 3 emails that night and market pulled down updates so very good sleep battery life
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I think that's a good idea. whenever going to sleep or done with the prime for the day, put it in battery savings mode. especially if you don't plug up device everynight before going to sleep. it would drain even less through the night in sleep mode.
I left it in balanced and only went down 1% also
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I think that's a good idea. whenever going to sleep or done with the prime for the day, put it in battery savings mode. especially if you don't plug up device everynight before going to sleep. it would drain even less through the night in sleep mode.
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I only plug in if battery is under 70 percent, if it's above just use battery saving mode and let it stay in sleep mode over night
Clarkkent434 said:
I am backing up londongentleman. Do not turn yours off. Why well my transformer prime had slight browser lag. I shut mine down and it will not come back even trying a hard reset too. When I return mine back to Best Buy I ask the manager in charge of all the tablets and he told me that over half of the Primes they sold have come back with this issue not being able to turning back on. He also told me that Best Buy is pull their Primes till mid January it could be to this issue not sure. So I decided to call Asus. The technician I got hold of said that he has had a lot of call of Primes not power on after being shut down. He told me that they are looking into but it looks like it power regulation on the hardware. I hope this helps.
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I'm just curious- Did you apply all of the Asus updates before doing the full power down? Mine seems to power back up (so far) from a complete shutdown- however:
I received an ASUS update available notification immediately at first power on- I completed the update, and rebooted. Then, I received a second Asus notification that an update to the device firmware was waiting to be installed- and I applied again. (not sure if these were 2 seperate updates, but it seemed this way.
For those who could not get the tablet to power back on: Please let us know if you applied any updates before you experienced the "wont power back on" issue- This would help others try to figure this out if it has to do with the updates or not....
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I'm just curious- Did you apply all of the Asus updates before doing the full power down? Mine seems to power back up (so far) from a complete shutdown- however:
I received an ASUS update available notification immediately at first power on- I completed the update, and rebooted. Then, I received a second Asus notification that an update to the device firmware was waiting to be installed- and I applied again. (not sure if these were 2 seperate updates, but it seemed this way.
For those who could not get the tablet to power back on: Please let us know if you applied any updates before you experienced the "wont power back on" issue- This would help others try to figure this out if it has to do with the updates or not....
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Well, I received one update on the 25th which I applied. I didn't get another before it went down for the count on the same day. Did your second update occur after the 25th?
I've only recievied one update so far. that was on 12/22 when I got the tablet. I applied it immediately. my device powers off n on fine. what's this second update people are speaking of? if I go to about tablet, then check for updates, it doesn't show any new ones available yet. hopefully next update will either be ICS or system update to calibrate/change values for GPS and wifi to work better/stronger. I have no wifi issues and haven't tested GPS yet.
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I just revieced my evo 3d, also i want to know:
Is the Battery charging to 100% normal for long time?
and is the FOTA 1.13 worth getting
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I just revieced my evo 3d, also i want to know:
Is the Battery charging to 100% normal for long time?
and is the FOTA 1.13 worth getting
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i think mine charges the battery up to 99% but to be honest, i haven't focused attention on the exact percentage.
I did the OTA to 1.13 and it patches quite a few things. i don't think you *have* to update and i haven't noticed much difference before and after. the only official update information i quickly saw was from searching google was this: http://www.htc.com/us/support/evo3d-sprint/downloads/ . They describe the update as : This update fixes issue of calendar entries in certain formats force closing during edits . Looking at the update .zip file, I pulled it from the cache before loading it, it touches a lot of files. Perhaps somebody has more details on the OTA ...
I remember back when I first got my EVO3D on launch day it to for dreaming ever to fully charge.
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Most of the time, mine seems to cap out at 99%. It did that the first couple of nights I had it (where it spent the whole night on the charger), as well as when I've plugged it in at work. Today I saw 100% for the first time.
Doesn't worry me.
Does the same for me. If I in plug it, then plug it back in and wait about 20 min it finally gets to 100 percent. Pretty strange I'd say. I'm on silverneedle and viper-rom btw.
Well, at 3 am floridian time, my evo decided to turn off, and never turn on again. left batt out, charge for 24 hours, even tried to get to bootloader, i get nothing
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Well, at 3 am floridian time, my evo decided to turn off, and never turn on again. left batt out, charge for 24 hours, even tried to get to bootloader, i get nothing
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wow, this is definitely different scenario than your OP.
when you press power on the phone, there is absolutely no response? LED doesn't flash at all, screen wont turn on? you've tried the vol down + pwr and vol up + pwr?
the only easy solution i can think of is a bad battery. and by easy, i mean you could get a new battery and see if the phone turns on and that would be a cheaper easy fix. otherwise, i'd probably take it back to where you bought it and/or sprint as it definitely sounds like a hardware issue.
if you aren't able to turn it on, they shouldn't be able to either. as long as your water/wet stickers show the phone hasn't been wet, they should be able to replace it.
good luck! let us know how it turns out!
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wow, this is definitely different scenario than your OP.
when you press power on the phone, there is absolutely no response? LED doesn't flash at all, screen wont turn on? you've tried the vol down + pwr and vol up + pwr?
the only easy solution i can think of is a bad battery. and by easy, i mean you could get a new battery and see if the phone turns on and that would be a cheaper easy fix. otherwise, i'd probably take it back to where you bought it and/or sprint as it definitely sounds like a hardware issue.
if you aren't able to turn it on, they shouldn't be able to either. as long as your water/wet stickers show the phone hasn't been wet, they should be able to replace it.
good luck! let us know how it turns out!
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Well, the stickers are normal, concidering i just bought it yesterday and i looked
and well, i charged it fully, 100% and made a ~2 hour phone call and got to 68%. then it sat for an hour while on psn call of duty, then i went to reboot for thr OTA, and it just went BLEH. NO leds, no screen, no nada.
Just a half lit charging led wven though NO charger connected.
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Went to best buy and the guy examined the phone like a car. and was completely astounded that it wont turn on. tried 3 chargers and a new battery and ended up replacing it xD
So all seemed to be fine and dandy after the update, but I went to check something on my tablet and it wouldn't wake up. Pressing the power button, or even holding it didn't do anything; the screen was black. I held volume up and power and it vibrated, then I held it again and it vibrated again. The third time I did this, it finally booted up again.
Dunno what this means.
EDIT: Just happened again, although now I can't seem to get the thing back on. The screen is just off and vol. up + power only makes the thing vibrate after a few seconds. I simply left the prime on the lock screen and came back and it was stuck again.
Prime BT tether lockups
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So all seemed to be fine and dandy after the update, but I went to check something on my tablet and it wouldn't wake up. Pressing the power button, or even holding it didn't do anything; the screen was black. I held volume up and power and it vibrated, then I held it again and it vibrated again. The third time I did this, it finally booted up again.
Dunno what this means.
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Mine does the exact same thing when I tether it to my Sensation with BT.
I'm still on 2.11.1 though
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I just manually updated my pad to .13 this morning. It did NOT alleviate my problem but it didn't make it any worse. Unlike many other user who report the lockups when sleep now, mine still only occurs when I tether BT and it goes to sleep. On the upside, I've tested my wifi and do confirm an improvement ~20% increase in signal strength and quality.
According to dd-wrt on my router signal increased from about ~49% to 63%
and Wifi analyzer signal strength ~77-68dB to ~54-47dB. I have not tested GPS.
Apparently the build variance between pads are reflected by the variance in the effects of the update
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Mine does the exact same thing when I tether it to my Sensation with BT.
I'm still on 2.11.1 though
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How do you get it back on? I can't seem to power it up now.
EDIT: Nevermind, I just held power and it turned back on after about 5-7 seconds. I think it might be a "Wifi off during sleep" issue..but idk.
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So all seemed to be fine and dandy after the update, but I went to check something on my tablet and it wouldn't wake up. Pressing the power button, or even holding it didn't do anything; the screen was black. I held volume up and power and it vibrated, then I held it again and it vibrated again. The third time I did this, it finally booted up again.
Dunno what this means.
EDIT: Just happened again, although now I can't seem to get the thing back on. The screen is just off and vol. up + power only makes the thing vibrate after a few seconds. I simply left the prime on the lock screen and came back and it was stuck again.
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same thing is happening to me after the update. My prime never used to do that but something in the update screwed with it. is there anyway we can revert back?
Doubt this is an update issue as I haven't seen it yet or most others. Or they all would be posting about it. That is strange though. You all didn't root n go messing around with stuff did you? Lol. If anything I'd try a fresh reboot. Maybe even clear out all the caches. Something else is seeming to cause this. By any chance did you install chrome beta? Some users reporting strange things since installing it. I don't think its the app but it is strange though or coincidence.
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Doubt this is an update issue as I haven't seen it yet or most others. Or they all would be posting about it. That is strange though. You all didn't root n go messing around with stuff did you? Lol. If anything I'd try a fresh reboot. Maybe even clear out all the caches. Something else is seeming to cause this. By any chance did you install chrome beta? Some users reporting strange things since installing it. I don't think its the app but it is strange though or coincidence.
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no I didn't root. I may factory reset if it keeps doing it and see if that works. I got a decent working prime and it would suck if this update is giving me problems. yes I did install chrome beta but this issue happened before I even installed it so that can't be it.
Ok, this has to do something with the update.
My perfectly fine from before prime wouldn't unlock. I couldn't get it to respond. (I thought it was dead..) I tried to unlock and pressed volume, did nothing.
I just read this thread and tried holding the power button and it vibrated and booted after the hold...
Asus needs to stop the patch roll out untill this is fixed...
Same problem for me. And after a short sleep, it wakes up, but there is a delay of about one half second that didn't used to be there.
-gary
After that one sleep, it has not yet repeated since last night for me
not only did mine do the same thing but it also killed my battery life while my Prime was sleeping... epic fail asus its time to return for a refund and never look back.
Maybe try reverting back and see if the problem goes away.
This hard-to-wake-up issue happened to me once after the update, but my Prime did finally wake up. Have not had the issue since. There was a lag in the wake up yesterday also, as others have mentioned, but even that seems to be gone now (or I'm just used to it).
Possible fixes for this situation:
1) Hard reset (stick an open small paper clip into the little hole just below the microSD) -- I'm sure most of you have tried this already...
And, if that doesn't work:
2) Hard reset, then reapply the .13 firmware update manually right after (assuming that is possible)
My tendency is to always do a hard reset just before any firmware updates -- makes me feel a little more confident. I was lazy and did not do that yesterday, but it won't happen again.
enough with this crap
Dude, you really gotta stop trolling, this is the third thread you are spewing this crap in in the last three I read.. You obviously are not returning it, you just like to *****.
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not only did mine do the same thing but it also killed my battery life while my Prime was sleeping... epic fail asus its time to return for a refund and never look back.
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unsure if this is the right thread, but mine's been acting up since the update as well. when i'm actively using it and turn off the screen, it boots up as quick as before to the unlock screen. however, after letting it sit for a few hours, it seems to have shut off where i'll have to hold the power button on for a few seconds (after 2 or 3 tries) to get it to boot up again as if i reset the tab.
Having the same issues with mine as well. I have installed Chrome Beta, but had it running for a few days pre-update without issue.
I almost always keep mine in the dock, but haven't had a chance to determine if it only happens in the dock or not.
i have seen this occur in the past ..before the update.. i thought the battery was dead but plugging in the charger didnt do much.. held the power+vol up 3 times finally woke up .. and said 36% battery left... i m on the verge of returning this after 2 weeks of use.. just cant get over these silly silly issues
Mine just did the same thing. I'm on the newest update. Had to hold power button 10+ seconds for it to come back.
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Mine died over night with a charge of 36% in balanced mode. Had to hold the button down for 10 seconds to get it to turn on today after it was plugged in the charger for 20 minutes. Now when i wake it out of sleep there is a .5/1.5 second delay for the screen to come on.
Same issue
Had absolutely no issues with my tablet prior to this update - no random reboots, but now if it's off for a minute or more, I have to hold power in for 7-12 seconds to boot up the system.
Hey, just a thought.
Maybe also include the first few of your tablet's serial number to see if the problem is consistent with some batch(es) and not others? May help others that's going to update...
Hello,
I tried searching for this issue but came up with nothing. I have an issue with my new TF201 where the battery shows 0% several times a day even though there is still power. As a result, it tells me to "Connect to charger". I know there is power because I continue using the prime without charging and eventually, the battery usage shows the correct charge at 85% or something. The issue repeats throughout the day.
I am pretty sure this is a software bug but I cannot find a dedicated thread to this issue. Is this a known issue? If so, can you forward me to the official thread to it?
Thanks.
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Hello,
I tried searching for this issue but came up with nothing. I have an issue with my new TF201 where the battery shows 0% several times a day even though there is still power. As a result, it tells me to "Connect to charger". I know there is power because I continue using the prime without charging and eventually, the battery usage shows the correct charge at 85% or something. The issue repeats throughout the day.
I am pretty sure this is a software bug but I cannot find a dedicated thread to this issue. Is this a known issue? If so, can you forward me to the official thread to it?
Thanks.
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I actually had the same exact problem. I feel like it has something to do with the battery sensor or something. Anyways, mine eventually stay at 0% and I could no longer charge the device or do firmware updates. Anyways, I have sent my to ASUS for repairs and hopefully all will be dandy afterwards. Good luck with yours.
I got this on my evo 3d after installing a superalpha ics rom and a superalpha kernel. I think its software.
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I hate to bump this thread, but did you resolve this OP? My Prime started doing it too. Rebooting, powering off for a few hours, even leaving it with the screen on till it completely drains itself didn't help.
Everything says battery status is unknown, when I have the keyboard dock connected it usually will show the percentage remaining on that, but it seems to occasionally just jump to a lower percentage throughout the day, rather than slowly sink as it tops off the main battery.
I hope it isn't hardware, my Prime has been great otherwise, I'd hate to have to send it in.
I can't embed the pics due to my low post count, but I attached two screen shots. Any ideas? I'm not rooted, running update 21.
Just an update, I accidentally dropped my tablet last night as it slid off my motorcycle seat while I was putting my helmet on, when I picked it up the battery gauge started working again.
And to repeat an age old saying, if it ain't broken don't fix it
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I don't mean to bump the thread, I just wanted to post an update in case anyone with a similar issue finds this thread. After my last post, my Prime worked fine for a few weeks, it would randomly switch between the battery gauge working and not working, then one day the tablet died like it was out of juice. I'm not sure what happened, but the only way the tablet would still work was if I plugged it into the wall power outlet, and the moment it was unplugged it would die. I couldn't even use my keyboard dock, as it would start booting, then right before it finishes booting it would shut off like it stops accepting power from the dock for a moment.
I ended up contacting Asus, they issued me an RMA, and about 2 weeks later (most of that shipping back and forth), I had received my Prime, but repaired good as new. The paperwork was vague, so I don't know the actual cause of the issue or what was repaired, but it has been flawless since I got it back. I personally suspect the connector for the battery came loose, and based on how rough I was that day would determine how seated the connector was, until it came totally out.
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.
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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.
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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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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 people, nexus 6P owner since 2 years now. I remember when I received the phone I could reach without worries 5 to 6 hours of Screen but then, after nougat and now Oreo, I've never achieved again that numbers.
After rooting my phone, flashing carbon rom and installing elemental X kernel, I played with governor profiles and improved my SOT a little over this year but it was getting worser and worser by every day (2 to 3 hours of screen on time and heavy idle drain). Finally, the real problem came the other day when for the first time my phone shutdown at 29% suddenly after opening the camera.
So I read internet and found in the nexus 6 (not 6P) forums that someone suggested a solution concerning a problem with how the phone meter the battery remaining, suggesting doing a series of steps of charge discharge that I will list here. This, and changing to ABC rom may have done the trick, as now I'm getting much more normal battery life (considering the degradation of 2 years, 2700mah left approximately) of 4, 4 and a half hours (yours will be better) SoT and an idle drain of less than 0,5% per hour, and apparently it didn't shutdown early anymore.
So, give this steps a try if you tried everything like I did and you still having problems with battery drain.
STEPS THAT MAY SOLVE EARLY SHUTDOWN PROBLEM:
- Charge your phone to 100% and use it until it shutdowns (look at what percentage).
- Boot to recovery by pressing power and vol - button, and once in there let it drain the battery until it shutdowns by itself (may take a lot of time so increase brightness to maximum in the recovery menu under settings to consume it faster).
- Now it has really reached 0% and if you try to power it on it won't let you by blinking red in the notification led.
- Plug the charger and leave the phone off until the battery indicator show it's full.
- Unplug it and turn it on, it should show you the battery at less than 100%, like 95%, 90% or even less depending on how bad it was calibrated (mine showed 95%).
- Plug it to the charger without turning it off until reaching 100% and only then unplug it first and then turn it off quickly.
- Plug it one more time (off) until the icon shows it is full and then unplug it and turn it on, now it should say a number closer than before, like 98% or 99% (mine was 99) or it may be 100%. If it shows 100% then you're good to go with the calibration, but if it shows less, repeat the process by letting charge until 100 and then doing the same steps as before until you turn it on without charging and finally it shows 100% battery.
Please report back if this steps worked for you, because for me I think it made the trick.
Now for the battery drain what I did was this steps,
STEPS THAT MAY STOP THE POST-NOUGAT HEAVY BATTERY DRAIN (android OS drain, etc):
-Unlock and Root the phone
- Install ABC rom (check the post here in XDA)
- Flash ElementalX kernel (also here)
- Install the app "ex kernel manager" from the play store
- Enter settings and disable printers (you still can enable them if you have to print something)
- Install Greenify from the play store and select all the apps that don't use notifications.
- Uninstall unnecessary apps that you don't use anymore.
- In the Ex Kernel manager app go to CPU -> governor options and select "load". Choose one of the following recommended profiles: Excalibur V2, Dragon Fly v1, Butterfly or DeadPool. (Or check the guide in XDA about governor profiles).
- Finally activate the run on boot option and reboot to recovery, wipe dalvik and cache and then boot into system.
If you have luck like me, your phone will run very smooth and battery life will be normal to it's current degradation. My phone now last me all day like before and I don't have to charge it twice or three times like I did and best of all, when I don't use it, it almost don't lose battery (2 to 3% overnight).
Also I've never seen again that android system process consuming the same amount as the screen!
I hope this serve someone and maybe save some phones too , I never resigned my 6p because it's a great phone with one of the best cameras out there even today and with great speakers too.
Please let me know if it worked for you! Of course I don't promise it will, but you have nothing to lose anyway! Good luck.
Pd. Sorry for my English , I'm from Argentina
UPDATE: Today my nexus shutdown at 10% but only because I opened on purpose the camera to check if that is the problem, and aparently it is. I've read that when then phone has low power, an app that consumes a lot of battery like the camera may cause shutdown to prevent the phone damaging internal components. So no fix for that at the moment, just don't use the camera with low percentage.
Hi, I don't know if this thread is still on but I'd like to say that I had the same issue. I have a Nexus 6, as you said, and I've installed on it the Resurrection Remix ROM (Neo version). After that, the phone suddenly shut down everytime it reaches 20 or 30 %. I tried two solutions they suggested me;
1) In bootloader menu, go on bootloader logs and press start button for 10 seconds more or less (when you get Google logo and the phone actually boot)
2) Try to reboot the phone in Safe mode and then back in Normal mode
I've also tried to calibrate again the battery (maybe I did it wrong); I followed a guide on it but I can't remember every step of it (if interested I'll try to find it again). Nothing worked, the phone still presents the same issue and I really don't know what to do. I'd like to try this too hoping it works otherwise the last thing I can do, I guess, try to flash again the ROM. Do you have any suggestions? Thanks so much
P.S.
The battery works PERFECTLY; before I flashed the ROM it worked so damn good so I really can't believe that it needs to be replaced, I know that the phone is really old but it always worked fine so it's more logical presume that the problem is with the flashing
Using Stock Nexus 6 Shamu Kernel, with last TWRP and RR OS
Just replace your battery - you might think it's the flashing etc, but at the end of the day my money is on your battery just having called it day, which they can do quite suddenly.
I found that once that early shut down starts it gets worse quick.
It's not that big of deal to change out on these phones anyway and if you do it yourself it's cheap (15 dollars or so). - I've just done it for the second time, not that I was having early shutdowns with my first replacement but after about 18 months life was starting to wane.
Just sharing my experience with my nexus 6p.
Early shutdown problem sure gives us headache. Already tried several methods like calibration, reflashing to factory images, downgrade to minor build or major build, none of them works.
The only solutions that works for me is replace the battery, only cost between $10 to $20 for me (it depend on type battery that you buy, mine is OEM one)
Hello, giving a try to the OP guide regarding early battery shut down. Just a quick question - how long does it take for battery to drain out while in recovery mode? Screens been on for like 2hours now, I see top right screen corner the battery % completely disappear, but recovery still usable. Just wonder, how long it will take for phone to auto shutdown while in recovery mode?
And if this does not work, I'll just replace battery, like @reintakura wrote above.
This device is a disaster. Does it really work?
I tried this the other day. The phone shut off when the low battery came on. I kept powering it up. The first few times it shut off immediately. The next time it turned on and said I had 10% left. Let that 10% run down, it powered off. I kept powering it on... it would boot. I did this maybe 50 times, every time it would boot and then shut down. Then the last time it got "stuck" on the Shutting Down screen. I let it sit like that for a good 10 minutes. It never powered off, it just was stuck on the shutting down screen. I held the power button down to initiate a hard shut down. Plugged it into the charger, device off. Screen said it was 100% a few hours later. Turned on device, device reported 100% used it until it got to 70% and then the low battery light came on and it powered off. Let it charge overnight with device off. Right now it's slowly losing battery, I'm at 76% and it hasn't shut down.
Strange stuff going on.
i was facing the same problem, two days ago i returned to 8.1 abc rom
i'm getting 4h sot and no early shutdown
I can't believe I spent $200 on this **** phone and waited 3 years to get it thinking its the best thing since fried rice, mine started shutting down at 20-30% now it shuts down anywhere from 30-85%!!!!!!!! ahahahahahaha in the end its my fault for buying refurbished, someone obviously sent this crap back already and they did nothing to fix it and conned me into buying it.
Paquinho said:
Please let me know if it worked for you! Of course I don't promise it will, but you have nothing to lose anyway! Good luck.
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Hi, there. This reply is way late, but I've been away for years and I've only now decided to come back, so I'm necroposting on everything that's relevant to me right now. I hope that's not a serious offense.
I've had my 6P since August 2016. I bought it NOS from Google Fi at a slight discount. It worked like a charm for me for years until around winter 2018/2019, when it started shutting down in the cold. I figured that was understandable. I bike a lot, even in sub-zero temperatures, and I tended to keep my phone in the breast pocket of my windbreaker.
It didn't care too much for that.
So, I started putting it into my backpack and it stopped shutting down.
Then, this summer (2020), the battery went off a cliff. It's been dying anywhere from 80 to 10% since June. Maps and the Camera are the big killers, but the battery will plummet from literally any use.
Yet, it will idle for days if leave it alone.
I recently decided to just wipe the thing back to factory and see if that solved anything. It was quite a feeling to scuttle all of my SMS (I backed them up to my Google account, but it seems like they've gone to some mysterious corner of the Internet from which they cannot be retrieved. Alas). It was kind of a catharsis to throw it all away.
I did back up all my media, however.
The factory reset solved nothing, so I tried the OP's recommendation. I loaded into the bootloader and, instead of waiting on the primary screen, I went into (stock) Recovery (my phone isn't yet rooted) and ran the display test a bunch of times. I alternated between that and selecting "Barcodes" since the all white screen is a bigger drain on the battery than the black and green default.
Eventually, the thing died, but it took hours. This, despite that it would die at the snap of the fingers when in the OS. Strange. I charged the device while off until it said it was full. It came on at 95%. I followed the OP's guide until it turned on at 100.
Yet, it still started draining immediately.
The current culprit is "Mobile Network Standby," which is rich because this phone has no SIM, so why is it even bothering to try and futz with the mobile network? I had been keeping the device on Airplane Mode, but I'd forgotten to turn it back on. I just reactivated that mode, so we'll see if that helps.
However, if I watch a guitar repair video on YouTube (pretty staid, not like gaming or an action movie), the battery just nosedives again.
I don't think that rooting and flashing a new ROM is going to solve this issue.
I bought a replacement battery. I'm just not eager to try and install it. So I may just try root and flash, since it's easier. I guess we'll see what happens.
wedel219 said:
Hi, there. This reply is way late, but I've been away for years and I've only now decided to come back, so I'm necroposting on everything that's relevant to me right now. I hope that's not a serious offense.
I've had my 6P since August 2016. I bought it NOS from Google Fi at a slight discount. It worked like a charm for me for years until around winter 2018/2019, when it started shutting down in the cold. I figured that was understandable. I bike a lot, even in sub-zero temperatures, and I tended to keep my phone in the breast pocket of my windbreaker.
It didn't care too much for that.
So, I started putting it into my backpack and it stopped shutting down.
Then, this summer (2020), the battery went off a cliff. It's been dying anywhere from 80 to 10% since June. Maps and the Camera are the big killers, but the battery will plummet from literally any use.
Yet, it will idle for days if leave it alone.
I recently decided to just wipe the thing back to factory and see if that solved anything. It was quite a feeling to scuttle all of my SMS (I backed them up to my Google account, but it seems like they've gone to some mysterious corner of the Internet from which they cannot be retrieved. Alas). It was kind of a catharsis to throw it all away.
I did back up all my media, however.
The factory reset solved nothing, so I tried the OP's recommendation. I loaded into the bootloader and, instead of waiting on the primary screen, I went into (stock) Recovery (my phone isn't yet rooted) and ran the display test a bunch of times. I alternated between that and selecting "Barcodes" since the all white screen is a bigger drain on the battery than the black and green default.
Eventually, the thing died, but it took hours. This, despite that it would die at the snap of the fingers when in the OS. Strange. I charged the device while off until it said it was full. It came on at 95%. I followed the OP's guide until it turned on at 100.
Yet, it still started draining immediately.
The current culprit is "Mobile Network Standby," which is rich because this phone has no SIM, so why is it even bothering to try and futz with the mobile network? I had been keeping the device on Airplane Mode, but I'd forgotten to turn it back on. I just reactivated that mode, so we'll see if that helps.
However, if I watch a guitar repair video on YouTube (pretty staid, not like gaming or an action movie), the battery just nosedives again.
I don't think that rooting and flashing a new ROM is going to solve this issue.
I bought a replacement battery. I'm just not eager to try and install it. So I may just try root and flash, since it's easier. I guess we'll see what happens.
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your battery is probably aged, I got the same problem and replacing battery is the only solution that'll work.
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your battery is probably aged, I got the same problem and replacing battery is the only solution that'll work.
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I reckon that you are correct. However, I am noticing that my phone hasn't crashed since I followed the OPs charging guide. That's something, at least.
Although monstrous battery drain is still a huge problem. I will be swapping the battery.
My question is: root first and flash something custom, just to see what happens? For evidence gathering ... in the name of empiricism.
Or just go ahead with the swap before doing anything else?
wedel219 said:
I reckon that you are correct. However, I am noticing that my phone hasn't crashed since I followed the OPs charging guide. That's something, at least.
Although monstrous battery drain is still a huge problem. I will be swapping the battery.
My question is: root first and flash something custom, just to see what happens? For evidence gathering ... in the name of empiricism.
Or just go ahead with the swap before doing anything else?
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yeah try root and installing ABC oreo ROM if that doesn't make differ at all then replacing battery is the only solution.
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