ICS - Now with...lag...? - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

I posted this over in one of the other forums - so forgive me if you're reading this twice - but I'm now getting lag in places I wasn't with Honeycomb...
Here is my OP in its entirety:
First of all, I was getting this error constantly in Honeycomb - I kept thinking: "Wait for ICS - maybe it'll clear it up." Well, I updated to ICS last night and about 10 minutes later:
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Next, here's a picture of the lag in the settings screen. I was looking at the battery stats, and then pressed the "Apps" button to check that screen out. After a few seconds, I decided to snap a screenshot. Now, it didn't take minutes to switch screens, but enough time passed that I was able to think: "Hmm, this is taking a while, lemme snap a picture." And let me note - this did not happen just once, but a few times as I was going through the different sections of the Settings:
Before all this, I decided to see how my space was being allocated. As the screenshots show, I have practically NOTHING on this tab - this screen should load near instantaneously - instead, it took me over 3 full minutes:
Next, I open up my gallery app - filled with a whopping 9 screenshots! Again, its not like minutes past, but enough time for me to think it was taking too long:
The largest image currently in my gallery is about 550kb (so half a megabyte - maybe that's what slowed it down.......)
Finally - and I fully admit this might be because the app hasn't been updated yet - but where gReader worked fine in Honeycomb, it doesn't seem to want to download articles anymore. I started syncing before my shower this morning (about 6:55 am) - Since it had only downloaded 6 (out of 127) articles by 7:38, I decided to cancel the sync:
After which, I had to reopen and close the app 3 times to get that pesky little "downloading" arrow in the bottom right to finally stop moving (which is visible in every single screen shot above as well - so I'm not kidding - I had been syncing only my unread articles for over 40 minutes on WiFi):
Luckily, Reader HD and Google Currents both downloaded data, so at least I had something to read on the train - but with both of those apps, swiping to the next article was laggy (where it was smooth on Honeycomb). At one point, I even swiped and the screen got stuck in Google Currents (this is new to ICS as well):
All in all, this is a pretty major step back for me...
- I now have lag in swiping between pages of articles in any reader app I'm using (although I haven't tested the Kindle app yet);
- Closing apps from the multitask screen is a little laggy - sometimes the app will get stuck mid-swipe for a few seconds before it disappears off of the screen
- GPS is still completely non-existent for me (I've never had a lock on a single satellite, let alone the 4-5 a lot of people seem to be able to get)
- Besides the lag in the apps, I'm now getting it in the native OS sections (like settings)
I have until February 3rd to return this thing - and I'm starting to get a pit in my stomach that I made a really bad decision in buying it... What happens when I load this thing with more than the 2 measly GBs of apps and data I have on there now?
EDIT - Just to note - I've done the hard reset twice since I updated last night - my next step will be to do a full factory reset (which I'm not really happy about - but I want to cover all the bases)...

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I've tried just about everything you've posted and it was all super fast on my prime. I would do a factory reset just in case.

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Try deleting cache and data from the apps.
Sent from my Galaxy S2

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I was also getting the warning about android.process.media in HC and have seen it once since ICS. Everything else has been snappy as hell though. Not sure what to make of it.

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Reboot, that fixed the lag for me.

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I too was having a very laggy experience last night/this morning. I finally resorted to doing a factory reset in hopes this would clear things up...it did!!! Everything is fast/smooth. I would try that and see if it clears things up for you as well.

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I notice that you're downloading during all of these screenshots. When I first updated to ICS, the first thing I did was update 11 apps from the Market. While downloading/installing the updates, the Prime was very slow, even on Performance mode. Once the downloads/installs finished, it went back to being uber-snappy.
It displayed the same behavior on HC for me, fwiw.
I'm also getting the android.media.process error.

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Here's betting a full factory reset will fix the problems.

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deadwolfbones said:
I notice that you're downloading during all of these screenshots. When I first updated to ICS, the first thing I did was update 11 apps from the Market. While downloading/installing the updates, the Prime was very slow, even on Performance mode. Once the downloads/installs finished, it went back to being uber-snappy.
It displayed the same behavior on HC for me, fwiw.
I'm also getting the android.media.process error.
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I'm actually just downloading some articles for gReader - nothing more. That was another issue of mine - gReader took 40 minutes to download 6/127 articles - I had to close it, reopen it (and repeat) in order to stop the downloads.
Before I took some of the screenshots, I had already actually cancelled the downloads - but couldn't get the arrow to stop until I opened the app back up and shut it down a few times...
EDIT - Even after the downloads finally stopped (as seen in the last screenshot) - I was still experiencing the same thing...
Looks like a factory reset after work it is - boy - what a pain in the butt that is...

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didn't get any of those issues..everything is much smoother now with ICS...

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I'll finally be getting off of work shortly - I'll do the factory reset when I get home. Any suggestions before I do so (things to look out for)?
Here's another interesting tid-bit - I just did another hard-reset (kept getting that android.process.media error) - and after I did so, I checked the App settings and saw this (of course, right after I cleared the android.process.media error that popped up immediately after I entered my PIN):
It originally started at around 374MB used - and then steadily crept up. Seriously? Does the OS take up this much RAM? (And if you're wondering - I'm in "balanced" mode.)
Oh, and a funny thing happened when I tried to take the first screenshot...
Come on...seriously? The thing was on for LITERALLY 2 minutes and I got this error twice!
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Android is designed to fill available memory with apps it thinks you will use and close them when it needs more memory, so its using it up by design not because of being poorly managed.
Mine lagged until I reboot and let the update settle for about 30 mins, so far it screams and I don't have the android.media errors....
Have you tried to find the app in settings and clear its data?
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk

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adiliyo said:
Android is designed to fill available memory with apps it thinks you will use and close them when it needs more memory, so its using it up by design not because of being poorly managed.
Mine lagged until I reboot and let the update settle for about 30 mins, so far it screams and I don't have the android.media errors....
Have you tried to find the app in settings and clear its data?
Sent from my Transformer Prime TF201 using Tapatalk
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What app? How would I know? (No sarcasm - I'm new to Android so I'm not really sure where else to look for running apps other than in the "Running" section of "Apps" under settings).
I didn't even get the chance to run a single app after a hard reset and I'm getting the error (multiple times)...
I'm home now - and since I barely have anything on this tablet anyway, I'm just going to do a full factory reset.
If Android needs some time to settle after a major update, I suppose I could let it sit for 30 minutes or so before I pull the ICS update on the factory reset unit...

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Well, I went ahead an did a factory reset last night - and then another after I was experiencing the same problems (this time I didn't "restore" from my Google account).
Seems the TP can't handle things like: browsing the Android market whilst downloading Angry Birds. I thought the quad core was good at multi-tasking - but if this thing lags and stutters while you're downloading a single app - even making the market become non-responsive during the download of a single file, then it's just not the tablet for me.
I gave it a shot - it's going back to Amazon.

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TheKricket said:
I posted this over in one of the other forums - so forgive me if you're reading this twice - but I'm now getting lag in places I wasn't with Honeycomb...
Here is my OP in its entirety:
First of all, I was getting this error constantly in Honeycomb - I kept thinking: "Wait for ICS - maybe it'll clear it up." Well, I updated to ICS last night and about 10 minutes later:
Next, here's a picture of the lag in the settings screen. I was looking at the battery stats, and then pressed the "Apps" button to check that screen out. After a few seconds, I decided to snap a screenshot. Now, it didn't take minutes to switch screens, but enough time passed that I was able to think: "Hmm, this is taking a while, lemme snap a picture." And let me note - this did not happen just once, but a few times as I was going through the different sections of the Settings:
Before all this, I decided to see how my space was being allocated. As the screenshots show, I have practically NOTHING on this tab - this screen should load near instantaneously - instead, it took me over 3 full minutes:
Next, I open up my gallery app - filled with a whopping 9 screenshots! Again, its not like minutes past, but enough time for me to think it was taking too long:
The largest image currently in my gallery is about 550kb (so half a megabyte - maybe that's what slowed it down.......)
Finally - and I fully admit this might be because the app hasn't been updated yet - but where gReader worked fine in Honeycomb, it doesn't seem to want to download articles anymore. I started syncing before my shower this morning (about 6:55 am) - Since it had only downloaded 6 (out of 127) articles by 7:38, I decided to cancel the sync:
After which, I had to reopen and close the app 3 times to get that pesky little "downloading" arrow in the bottom right to finally stop moving (which is visible in every single screen shot above as well - so I'm not kidding - I had been syncing only my unread articles for over 40 minutes on WiFi):
Luckily, Reader HD and Google Currents both downloaded data, so at least I had something to read on the train - but with both of those apps, swiping to the next article was laggy (where it was smooth on Honeycomb). At one point, I even swiped and the screen got stuck in Google Currents (this is new to ICS as well):
All in all, this is a pretty major step back for me...
- I now have lag in swiping between pages of articles in any reader app I'm using (although I haven't tested the Kindle app yet);
- Closing apps from the multitask screen is a little laggy - sometimes the app will get stuck mid-swipe for a few seconds before it disappears off of the screen
- GPS is still completely non-existent for me (I've never had a lock on a single satellite, let alone the 4-5 a lot of people seem to be able to get)
- Besides the lag in the apps, I'm now getting it in the native OS sections (like settings)
I have until February 3rd to return this thing - and I'm starting to get a pit in my stomach that I made a really bad decision in buying it... What happens when I load this thing with more than the 2 measly GBs of apps and data I have on there now?
EDIT - Just to note - I've done the hard reset twice since I updated last night - my next step will be to do a full factory reset (which I'm not really happy about - but I want to cover all the bases)...
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I too was getting that weird android. ....media message,
And I figure maybe one of my apps were incompatible,
so I did a factory reset. And I'm glad I did, everything feels so much better afterwards. Keep in mind this is a major update, obviously there'd be some incompatibility with the apps and setting you have on your device. I kinda sucks having to reinstall all the apps again, but in reality its really not that difficult, there are many apps that can help you restore all your backup apps. And also, this is the first release of ICS on prime, nothing is perfect on the first release, there are ought to be bugs that needs to be squashed. And I'm sure it will only get better and better. You still got a good 3 weeks before the return period, who knows, Asus might have an update before that.

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Mine was extremely laggy after upgrade. I left it alone for 30 minutes and rebooted. Came back smooth as butter.

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Meanee said:
Mine was extremely laggy after upgrade. I left it alone for 30 minutes and rebooted. Came back smooth as butter.
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You know - I did give it a shot - but I don't think I should have to wait for my $600 tablet to "settle" for 30 minutes before I can use it. It's a quadcore - it SHOULD be the fastest, least laggy tablet out there. That's just not the case.
I'll just see what else CES and the next couple of months have to offer - I'm not really in a hurry. I just jumped on this because, spec-wise, it SHOULD be the best tablet on the market (by far). If I'm getting lag while downloading a single app from the marketplace, then I don't think it'll get "better" as time rolls on...
Couple that with the non-existent GPS, I'm really left with nothing more than a Kindle Fire (with the same performance level).

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TheKricket said:
You know - I did give it a shot - but I don't think I should have to wait for my $600 tablet to "settle" for 30 minutes before I can use it. It's a quadcore - it SHOULD be the fastest, least laggy tablet out there. That's just not the case.
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You never know what kind of upgrade process is still running there. That's why I have it a little bit of time.

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Meanee said:
You never know what kind of upgrade process is still running there. That's why I have it a little bit of time.
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That's true, but that's why you have a quadcore, no? So it can do more than one thing at once?

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TheKricket said:
You know - I did give it a shot - but I don't think I should have to wait for my $600 tablet to "settle" for 30 minutes before I can use it. It's a quadcore - it SHOULD be the fastest, least laggy tablet out there. That's just not the case.
I'll just see what else CES and the next couple of months have to offer - I'm not really in a hurry. I just jumped on this because, spec-wise, it SHOULD be the best tablet on the market (by far). If I'm getting lag while downloading a single app from the marketplace, then I don't think it'll get "better" as time rolls on...
Couple that with the non-existent GPS, I'm really left with nothing more than a Kindle Fire (with the same performance level).
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Having to wait for 30 minutes after a major update of the OS is no big deal, and doesn't sound far fetched.
It's not like you have to wait 30 minutes each time you reboot, just once, then everything should be very fast all the time.
You're saying that the performance of the tablet is not what it should be, but you should understand that you most likely have a faulty unit, and that most people don't have any performance problems like you do.
Still, feel free to return it and wait for the next big thing, hopefully you won't get a faulty unit then, or you're bound to wait quite a while