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just want to know how many ppl return the transformer primes to the store. dont doble post.
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Returned mine to BB store today because screen wouldn't turn on, got a refund. Was willing to take another if the had any....but they didn't. Got refund and bought on off of Newegg about 2hrs later.
Returned mine yesterday after ICS update and some of my games and app stopped working. The thread to revert back to HC didn't exist yet so I thought I was SOL and my 14 day was up so I didn't have a choice. The only thing really broke on it was GPS but I didn't really use it anyway. And another reason I returned is because of the 7 inch prime coming out. That's my preffered size anyway. Plus its half the price of the 10 inch. I may still consider the 10 inch but probably will buy from Amazon so I can save on tax
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I returned mine, wifi was fine, screen was perfect. ICS update had it rebooting all the time. I was on the last day to return it. Seemed like a better deal than a RMA. I have a dock still. I'd like a working one, they are sold out. If ICS had broken all of them I would have waited. But some work so there must be a hardware aspect
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I returned mine, wifi was fine, screen was perfect. ICS update had it rebooting all the time. I was on the last day to return it. Seemed like a better deal than a RMA. I have a dock still. I'd like a working one, they are sold out. If ICS had broken all of them I would have waited. But some work so there must be a hardware aspect
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I'm in the same situation as you. ICS messed everything up for me, but don't know if I should wait for ASUS to fix it. I have till friday to return mine to BB. I just got the dock too
I returned mine on Tuesday due to the unknown serial number. I was going to re-order, but decided to save $100 and ordered the original TF-101. It was on sale for $399 (32GB). I decided stability was better than raw speed. When the next great tablet comes out, and isn't plagued with so many issues, maybe I'll upgrade.
I returned mine aswell. After the ICS upgrade it freezes on the first bootscreen. After a few times it boots normal but then after a few minutes it freezes again and i can start all over.
NEVER! LOL. device works to great for me to do such a silly thing
Having a perfectly running Prime with ICS I can't imagine using anything else at this time. All other tabs are a joke compared to Prime.
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I returned mine on tuesday to BB. I just never felt confident with my purchase with the design flaws it had. I wasn't one of the people that *****ed that it had terrible GPS but my wifi sure took a hit. Next to my Photon phone, my phone would pick up better Wifi from my home network. The other annoyance was when the screen would not come on sometimes. I would have to hit the reset button to get it to start up again. I think it was just a combination of things that made me decide that if I was to spend this much money on a luxury item, ALL aspects of it should work beautifully. It sucks not having a toy to play with but I figure if I waited this long without one, I can wait a little bit longer for one that suits my needs all around.
Going back to Best Buy Today. I have the dreaded Serial Number Unknown Bug and cannot update firmware at all or root it.
Thanks Asus!
Mine was locking up and freezing after ics. I returned it to Best Buy yesterday and they accepted it no questions asked. Bought a new one on newegg yesterday that should be delivered today.
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this topic only for ppl that return the primes to know how many of use are.
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I returned a total of four to local Best Buy. Three belonging to me and one to my neighbor. My first two were returned within the first two weeks. My last one and my neighbors were twenty days. They did not want to refund stating it was past 14 days. I pulled out my iPhone and showed the manager the statement released by Asus in reference to the shell design hinderng wireless signals and also removing GPS as a spec. I said this is no longer the product that was advertised when I made my purchase. Primes were refunded along with keyboards.
I must say that it feels like a weight has been lifted. My neighbor had decided to ignore the Wifi and GPS issue but about 8 hours after updating to ICS his Prime started having very frequent App crashes that factory reset did not fix.
The "Oficial" Returns thread has Official spelled incorrectly.
...as a side observation, what has ever made any thread in forums "official" other than some non-mod nobody deciding that it's going to be official because he puts it in the title?
Mine is packaged in the box waiting to get dropped off at UPS to return to Amazon.
Said, bye bye...
After working with Asus on rebooting issue and the lack of GPS/ low wifi signal I finally said...Bye, bye to my Transformer Prime, Drove my Chevy to the Best Buy cause the reboots made me cry...
i contacted gamestop 2 days ago and they said they were getting a new shipment on the 11th for 2nd wave of pre orders and that if they had any left over i could exchange mine but they didnt think they would. manager advised me he put in an order with game stop product replacement and that he would call me when they got one.
it is not the 12th and they just called me and i just exchanged my prime for another one.
still wasn't able to get a champagne gold one. i swear those are rare or they only come in 64 GB model.
that was very fast turn around though to exchange so anyone who purchased theirs from gamestop might want to ask if the manager can put in a request for a product replacement.
Returned mine to gamestop today for refund.
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Hi,
Im new to this forum but I thought I would get everybodys opinion. Im on my 3rd Prime and by far the best sample out of 3 that I have had. My return window closes on Wednesday. My first two were unacceptable with several dead pixels and light bleed. This 3rd one has almost no light bleed, no dead pixels, and works great besides the software hiccups with all of them. But my almost the whole bottom half maybe a 3rd of the way up has a slight yellow tinge to it. Its not noticable unless you are really comparing top to bottom but once you do notice its apparent. Does anybody know if this is a adhesive drying issue? If not should I deal with it and keep or save my $500 for something better down the road?
It really up to you, can you live with it? Or is it one of those things that since youve noticed it, its the only thing you see? And how confident and patient are you with the software hiccups?
For me I went throught 3 primes... actually almost 4 but I canceled the last shipment to get my money back. I didnt want to kick myself in the ass if I settled for a tablet with so many issues. I really expected to buy a tablet that I dont have to worry about. The TF201 looked very good on the prerelease, but when made available to the public it had so many ranges in performance (The good, the bad, and the ugly). You may have a decent working tablet but with the firmware upgrades you dont know if its gonna help or do nothing or even make it worse. Then we have 2 other primes coming out (TF300 and TF700) and probably other brands with comparable specs. I chose to saving my 500 for something I can be satisfied with. I tasted the TF201 and I think I can wait for to spend my money on a diff. tablet.
I'd say go for another exchange. I wouldn't accept a yellow tint to bottom half of screen. Even if everything else works fine. By the way, what's the first 3 numbers of the serial? To see if this is from the newer batch or older ones. They are good ones out there, like mines which I got way back 12/22 from an early batch.
I kind of feel the same why. I love the thing but we have an iPad 2 i can't help but to compare it to. I'm an android guy and my wife is Apple but in the tablet case android is looking to be a hard sell. What do you think about the gaming? That's my biggest worry, i feel like the next gen tegras will be out before they come out with more than a handful of games.
I have a bco serial number. This is the third one and it was from a fresh shipment on Jan 30th to best buy. Also the only bad thing about an exchange is once again they are out of stock everywhere and if i got one that was in the last bit inferior to the one I have I think that would be the last straw for me.
We have an ipad2 that my 2 yr old daughter uses. I think the tegra 3 is great for the gaming aspect, I gonna stick with android but I am gonna wait till other tegra 3 tablets come out with less problems.
Keep trying. It took me 4 tries and finally found one with ZERO issues. Your more then likely to get the newest batch now. Received mine 2 days ago. imo its worth it. It's a hassle but thats what we get for being early adopters.
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You don't think any of the future tablets would be worth waiting a couple of months
Just wait.. you have the ipad2 to keep you occupied for the meantime.
Well the only bad thing is my wife hogs the iPad and I've gotten used to having my own tablet lol
Hey mxracer327, can you tell me if your gps works? I have a bco serial number too. My wifi seems to be on par with my phone (motorola atrix) however my gps gets 0 satalites inside (havnt tested outside however my phone gets about 5-6 from the same area of the house.
Return it. Whatever returns the original place you bought it from receives they ship it back to Asus as defective. We can't just sit back and accept the imperfections they've been sending these tf201's out with. Send Asus a message that they really need to up their quality control if they are going to keep us as consumers!
Lhoki i tried gps indoors or doesn't seem to pick up any sattelites but i do nothave a need for a gps on my tablet but that doesn't mean it still shouldn't work. Caaz, im thinking I will probably return it and give up on the prime
i feel the same mxracer, i have no use for gps but yeah it should still work as iv paid full price for a product, its not that id ever use gps, and if i did id just use my phone instead, its more the principal
Just read through too many threads and now in a state of OVERLOAD! lol... Anyway, I just ordered my new transformer prime (2/11/12) and it should be here on Tuesday.
My question is, "Are the new Primes, that are rolling out now with 4.0 installed from factory, having all these issues with WiFi / Bluetooth and GPS"? All the posts i have read seam to be user upgrade issues.
Sorry if i am wrong and posted a duplicate thread. I am alllll frazzled now and was really looking forward to my $$$ Prime purchase
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Lee
Most likely it will be the same for you, I hope not, but its not software related. Its hardware related causing the problems with the prime.
Ah man, what a huge bummer. So it's pretty much hit or miss? Some people getting lucky having no issues? I have read a few good posts (cant remember url, maybe here), that some market apps were causing system crashes like Google + and Google Maps. I guess those issues are not related to Wifi / GPS, but are causing system instability and such. Well, my plan will be to first use the tab as is for a while before installing anything. See how it runs bare bones, etc... I will rely heavily on Wifi... Is the Wifi issue only when paired with keyboard (BT), or all the time? I was so psyched for this thing, now bummin...
The WiFi issue is all the time for me. The WiFi never drops completely out it just doesn't do very good like the signal is about half of my cell phone that's why I don't like it. I can hardly get a signal upstairs it drops to 1 bar. I haven't even tried it paired but I do see it paid to DTVBluetooth I don't even know what it is, Probably my Samsung 51" 3D? matter of fact I'm about to Google that, you just reminded me of that. I got a lot of electronics in my man cave so it hard to tell what DTVBluetooth is? I was going to check into this before but forgot.
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well mine came with honeycomb and after reading many boos about upgraded problems i'm half sorry to say that i wish mine came with ics already on it, though if that were the case it'd have been a different model and might have had worse issues than a non working gps only.
i can happily sacrifice working gps for the ability to say everything else i've tested works very well.
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I haven't even tried it paired but I do see it paid to DTVBluetooth I don't even know what it is, Probably my Samsung 51" 3D? matter of fact I'm about to Google that, you just reminded me of that. I got a lot of electronics in my man cave so it hard to tell what DTVBluetooth is? I was going to check into this before but forgot.
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Let me know how you made out with this.
Thanks for the replys, i will keep you posted. Tab should be here tomorrow...
slight thread hijack. My wife is going to new York (live in Edinburgh) in a month and was thinking of getting her to get me an ATP. Is there any reason not to have a US prime in the UK?
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Not sure, but i would definitely look into the UK receiving an unlocked boot loader in the near future. I cant remember where I saw it on the net, but def. did. That's the word, and if it's true, do NOT buy one from N.Y. Wait for the unlocked boot L.
Newer Prime's should have better QC and less issues per unit produced but in the end based on my experiences here. Also note well that they're not going to change the entire tablet.
At the idea of a US Prime in the UK....my US model has English (United Kingdom) available in the Language & Input settings so I think it should work fine, as long as you get a UK dock instead of an American one. Not sure how it would impact firmware updates though but should be fine if you don't mind whatever has already come across for people with update issues.
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I bought my tablet about two weeks ago at best buy and I'm happy to report no issues with my tablet. The build of it was good. No light bleeding unless you press down hard where the lights are on the side and I have not seen a WiFi issue yet.
Over all, I've been happy with my tablet and I didn't even know it had issues till I started reading the Transformer prime section for this tablet on XDA. +1 for the TP.
I got my Prime on 2/8 from Best Buy. I didn't take any OTA's until I rooted using Viper's tool. After rooting, I updated to ICS. I have had no issues with wifi. I get signal and it doesn't drop for me. Haven't tried GPS but I am not all that concerned about it. Just waiting for the bootloader to be unlocked and custom roms to come out!
I can't seem to find anyone who has these in stock via local B&M retailers nor online. Guess the price to be paid for being popular is inability to keep pace with demand.
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I can't seem to find anyone who has these in stock via local B&M retailers nor online. Guess the price to be paid for being popular is inability to keep pace with demand.
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OfficeDepot appears to have the Transformer Prime in stock.
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/906853/ASUS-Eee-Pad-Transformer-Prime-TF201/
If you order it, I would suggest you pick up a 2nd charger as well and save on shipping.
http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/768723/ASUS-Power-Adapter-For-Eee-Pad/
I ordered mine from Office depot. Got it in about a week with standard shipping. However, I am heavily considering sending mine back. There are spongy spots on the edges of my tablet on all four sides.
Also, they pack HORRIBLY... I received my tablet in a manila envelope with only one side bubble wrapped. The Envelope was beaten to heck and back and my box was pretty badly beaten up as well. Not sure if that may have been the cause of the sponyness on the screen or if tons of other people are noticing that as well.
Otherwise, I have not had a problem with ANY other part of my tablet. Wifi is strong and the ICS update went perfectly.
I have ordered from Office Depot multiple times and I haven't had any problems. I didn't order my tablet (got it from Bestbuy) but I have ordered a bunch of accessories and such and they all came reasonably well packed.
Received my new Prime today 2/13. My second one. It's a C1, came with HC and as soon as I logged on to my network it wanted to update. I let it and it did one update and showed ICS 4.03 build 9.4.2.13. So apparently they've rolled all the updates into one for new devices. Then I got the small camera update and that was all. I'm letting it charge and am almost afraid to go into another room to test the wifi.
Thanks, but did check OD and they're showing out of stock.
Interesting - NewEgg had been listing it as "out of stock" but is now marked as discontinued or specifically "Deactivated. This item is currently out of stock and it may or may not be restocked."
bought mine a month ago, came with HC, upgraded right out of the box to ICS and my wifi and blue tooth work great. GPS is spotty, but only tested once as i dont use it for that. I stream HD videos over wifi while using bluetooth headphones all the time and have not once had an issue.
Well, got mine today from BB. The order took a week. Rep said they had a shipment coming in anyway. When i picked it up this morning, i asked how many they had and she said, "None now", lol. Some shipment! Just mine... Anyway, right out of the box the firmware update started. I didn't run it yet, guess im a little nervous. So far the tablet is super sweet! Glad to report, no issues at all
Lfnsr, I didn't know we could root and still update OTA..? That's awesome man. what's the deal with that? I must have been left in the dark the past year. My only experience with Android in general is with my Droid X. Of course i had that thing tweaked, so i do have some exp. Any info you have pertaining to TP, rooting, updating etc... would be greatly appreciated.
Bgm307, How is everything since the ICS update? Honeycomb is running so good, i'm afraid to update....?
Thanks everyone for the info. I was really upset waiting for my TP after reading all the negativity here on XDA. I hope some of you reply about ICS. I'm itchin to run it, lol...
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Bgm307, How is everything since the ICS update? Honeycomb is running so good, i'm afraid to update....?
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It's great actually. Like I said earlier, it went straight to ICS 4.03 build 9.4.2.13. No glitches, no crashes, no battery problems. Put it to sleep last night at 62% battery. This morning, 6 hours later I'm at 61%.
I just can't make myself walk into another room and test the wifi. Guess I have to do that this morning.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067PLM5E/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Amethyst, Champagne, 32, or 64gb
Local Gamestop & Staples seem to be getting them in stock no problem every few days. Just have to be on the ball and give a quick online store check and put one on hold once a day. I have gotten lucky a few times no prob.
I just hate waiting although some don't mind. I returned one at Staples at 8am this morning due to HDMI out not working. They were out and so were other locations. They said that Staples.com had 48 in stock and they would ship me one by Monday.
Couldn't wait did a store check at Gamestop.com. Said low stock so i reserved one. And got a email that my Prime is ready for pick up .
Gonna go get it soon. ALTHOUGH...... We have only gotten Gray locally, i would really love a Champagne. But i already have the Gray dock
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Local Gamestop & Staples seem to be getting them in stock no problem every few days. Just have to be on the ball and give a quick online store check and put one on hold once a day. I have gotten lucky a few times no prob.
I just hate waiting although some don't mind. I returned one at Staples at 8am this morning due to HDMI out not working. They were out and so were other locations. They said that Staples.com had 48 in stock and they would ship me one by Monday.
Couldn't wait did a store check at Gamestop.com. Said low stock so i reserved one. And got a email that my Prime is ready for pick up .
Gonna go get it soon. ALTHOUGH...... We have only gotten Gray locally, i would really love a Champagne. But i already have the Gray dock
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I have the Amethyst dock too and the Champaign Prime looks fantastic in it. I love the two tone look, it just works!
I wonder what serial numbers they will be, and I wonder if the bluetooth/Wi-Fi issues will be fixed.
I just received my replacement 32GB champayne from Amazon and it's C10KAS sku..
I haven't had a chance to do much with it yet, but when I get a chance I'll test to see if it still has the bluetooth + wifi fallout issue that my previous one did. I -did- test GPS already though, and like the one I returned to Amazon this one doesn't pick up any satellites at all Lol and the reference to GPS is nowhere to be found on the box this time around, unlike the last box.
Otherwise, the screen on this new one is much better, no dead pixels that I can see and only a very very small amount of backlight bleed in one corner; previous one had very visible bleeding in each of the 4 corners.
Hoping wifi performance is better on this one at the very least.
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I -did- test GPS already though, and like the one I returned to Amazon this one doesn't pick up any satellites at all Lol and the reference to GPS is nowhere to be found on the box this time around, unlike the last box.
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Its not on the box but it is on amazon's specs:
Product Description
10.1" WXGA (1280x800) (LED Capacitive)/NVIDIA Tegra 3/1GB DDR2 RAM/32GB Flash Memory/Android 3.2 (Honeycomb)/802.11BGN/1.2MP Front Camera/8.0MP Rear Camera/Bluetooth 2.1/Up to 12 hours battery/G-Sensor/E-Compass/GPS/Light Sensor/Gyroscope/1YR North American Warranty
So you could probably still complain if you wanted to.
Just bought my Prime this week after months of being sold out at Best Buy. I am very very into having a near perfect device. Ive returned my incredible 2 about 8 times until I got one that didn't have light leak on the capacitive buttons. Ive returned 5 rezounds until I got one with red capacitive buttons not pink and didn't overheat.
I may be called crazy but I like my expensive devices free of defects.
Got my Prime expecting to get a defective one with issues listed here on XDA. This thing is flawless. I dont know if they solved their quality control issues or I just got lucky but I'm very happy. Also, GPS locks instantly and works great
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Just bought my Prime this week after months of being sold out at Best Buy. I am very very into having a near perfect device. Ive returned my incredible 2 about 8 times until I got one that didn't have light leak on the capacitive buttons. Ive returned 5 rezounds until I got one with red capacitive buttons not pink and didn't overheat.
I may be called crazy but I like my expensive devices free of defects.
Got my Prime expecting to get a defective one with issues listed here on XDA. This thing is flawless. I dont know if they solved their quality control issues or I just got lucky but I'm very happy. Also, GPS locks instantly and works great
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What's your serial number start with.. is it a C20?
06stang said:
Just bought my Prime this week after months of being sold out at Best Buy. I am very very into having a near perfect device. Ive returned my incredible 2 about 8 times until I got one that didn't have light leak on the capacitive buttons. Ive returned 5 rezounds until I got one with red capacitive buttons not pink and didn't overheat.
I may be called crazy but I like my expensive devices free of defects.
Got my Prime expecting to get a defective one with issues listed here on XDA. This thing is flawless. I dont know if they solved their quality control issues or I just got lucky but I'm very happy. Also, GPS locks instantly and works great
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Dude, screw the GPS. Do speed test 10 times and get the average. Then, play some music files (locally) listening to them via bluetooth headset then do that speed test again and get back to us on how flawless it is. Trust me, I've had three myself all with the same issue. I don't believe anything is "fixed".
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0067PLM5E/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?ie=UTF8&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER
Amethyst, Champagne, 32, or 64gb
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I just placed an order. Since mine is going back for RMA, I have a feeling I'll be missing it so I need something and what better way then to try Amazon. I made sure of their return policy. Can't beat 30 days. And I DO NOT expect a fully working wifi/BT card either. There is no way Asus "fixed" anything in something that Amazon just received. My guess (even if there is a fix) Asus won't have it ready until late March. Yep, takes a long time to get something changed into production.
Dock prices are still ripoff though... Ugh.
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Dude, screw the GPS. Do speed test 10 times and get the average. Then, play some music files (locally) listening to them via bluetooth headset then do that speed test again and get back to us on how flawless it is. Trust me, I've had three myself all with the same issue. I don't believe anything is "fixed".
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I just placed an order. Since mine is going back for RMA, I have a feeling I'll be missing it so I need something and what better way then to try Amazon. I made sure of their return policy. Can't beat 30 days. And I DO NOT expect a fully working wifi/BT card either. There is no way Asus "fixed" anything in something that Amazon just received. My guess (even if there is a fix) Asus won't have it ready until late March. Yep, takes a long time to get something changed into production.
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Uh oh look out.
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Dock prices are still ripoff though... Ugh.
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$149.99 seems like an ok deal to me. Bought mine on Newegg back in January.
I got one locally for $143 new. Odd but hey...
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I purchased mine yesterday from TigerDirect for $599 and it was shipped the same day. Hopefully when it comes i wont have too many issues as far as WiFi goes, don't care about Bluetooth and GPS as much as i do WiFi.
If you cant find one just go to nowinstock.net and sign up and it will tell you know as soon as it becomes available and at what stores, you can also sign up to receive email alerts as soon as it becomes available.
As of this morning dock is sold out across the board.. The only Prime at Amazon is the 64GB champange, and even that is listed as 'in stock March 6th'.
Looks like BestBuy still has the 32GB grey, and TigerDirect has 64GB grey.
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$149.99 seems like an ok deal to me. Bought mine on Newegg back in January.
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Well, was hoping to get 3 Year SquareTrade warranty by buying from Amazon. I think I'm gonna buy elsewhere...
dock and tablet sold out online, according to NIS..
http://www.nowinstock.net/computers/tablets/asus/transformerprime/
of course I'm sure you can get lucky locally if you look hard enough.
I am currently looking to buy a TPrime but obviously after reading all the issues I'm a little hesitant.
I have been reading through Gary Keys posts and wanted to know if anyone knew about any recent batches of TPrimes that have had the issues (wifi/BT/GPS/reboots) resolved.
I am in WA, Australia.
Should I be looking for a later batch model or should I just wait for the infinity? (I'm not too bothered about full HD screen though, I just want all the hardware working as it should...)
I have searched for this info but couldnt find an sufficient answer.
Thanks in advance.
Aside from maybe being more precisely assembled, nothing much has changed for quite some time with the TF201. Some are good, some are not. Sort of reminds me of Alpha Romeo cars. Great to look at and if you get a good one, its a keeper. I was lucky. I have a C1 that is a keeper. The latest firmware improved it. The GPS works. The Wi-fi is great. Minimal screen bleed. Stock browser infrequently crashes.
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Aside from maybe being more precisely assembled, nothing much has changed for quite some time with the TF201. Some are good, some are not. Sort of reminds me of Alpha Romeo cars. Great to look at and if you get a good one, its a keeper. I was lucky. I have a C1 that is a keeper. The latest firmware improved it. The GPS works. The Wi-fi is great. Minimal screen bleed. Stock browser infrequently crashes.
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So you think I should be looking for a C1 model revision? Is there any indication of the model number on the box so I can check before I purchase?
Thanks for the advice mate!
There are C3s now in the market. There is a sticker in the box that says the serial number, just take a look at it
I picked a random one when i bought mine, C2 SN and it works perfectly, GPS is indeed a bit weaker than other devices but it works good.
All in all no issues and loving my device.
I just want now my .21 update!! (Not rolled out yet for Germany models )
Awesome
It would be great if Gary Key would throw some official thoughts on this. I PM'd him but I guess he must be busy at the moment...
So the later the C revision, the better...
Mixed results for me in the last couple days with C2s.
I got a C2 two nights ago that had a backlight problem at the lower left. It was unusually bright from the corner and diagonal up to the top center. That left side, probably 40% of the screen, was like that till I gave it to a coworker and the same area went dark. If I flexed it a little, it would flicker back and forth. Returned that one ASAP.
Drove 20 miles to the next nearest store with stock replacement. This second C2 is good from what I can see this evening.
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Bougth one for my girlfriend week ago and in the serial number reads "C3". It came with ICS .15 firmware out of the box. Havent noticed any hardware flaws. After the latest update I uninstalled Flash, cleared all data from default Browser and installed flash back. I havent noticed any freezing since then when browsing internet.
Id say go ahead and get this awesome device.
Anymore thoughts on this?
Thanks guys
Like others have said, mine works as good as it will ever be, but not perfectly. I am now at terms with it haha.
If I had to do it again I would rebuy my prime. For me its just the OCD in me that wants EVERYTHING to work so GPS bothers me.
As far as screen bleed, I had a little and fixed it. Then it came back again, I probably opened my prime too many times hehe.
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Has anyone else received one of the newer units?
I have read on amazon about a couple of people buying in the last 10 days and have no issues with wifi, gps or backlight.
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I've got a c2 and everything seems to working beautifully granted i havent tried anything with gps as i never use it, it just eats battery as far as im concerned.
Just make sure you get one from a store with a good returns policy. I plan to buy another one, just to use till the Infinity comes out and then i'll return/sell it. I live in South Africa, so they're ridiculously overpriced here. Buying from the UK and could probably sell it for more here after using it a bit...
I'm in western Australia and there are a couple of stores that I should be able to return to. I just want to be as sure as I can about the later revisions being better than the earlier ones
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Update from my previous post, my second C2 has no apparent flaws. I have yet to try BT with WiFi but that's not a priority for me. WiFi and GPS work fine. I have postponed updating to the latest firmware so I'll see if performance changes. Happy with this one
I agree with the suggestion to buy from a shop you can easily exchange or return it to if something is wrong. The only gotcha is actual stock. They're in short supply still. I had to drive out of my way about 50 miles round trip (understated in my previous post). The next one in stock was 180 mile round trip here in SoCal (to Victorville).
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I've had mine for about 2 weeks and like you, I was hesitant because the junk you see posted on this forum but I'm glad I went ahead with it. I love my tfp! No problems with it so far. wifi works great, GPS worked well too when i tried it, but I doubt I'll use that much really.
jonlad1 said:
Has anyone else received one of the newer units?
I have read on amazon about a couple of people buying in the last 10 days and have no issues with wifi, gps or backlight.
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Got one from Amazon last Friday and it was a C2 serial, I had hoped it would be C3!! Slight light bleed, GPS non existent and WiFi range not great at all. Never tested the BT and WiFi together but decided to return it today. I may go into PC World and buy one of them if they have a good returns policy when I get my refund from Amazon. The ones in my local PS World have a C3 serial number, at least the display model. Checked the GPS on it as well and did not work :-(
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M
Really?
Well that scuppers the idea about c2/3 models then....
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I got a C2 serial Prime in Brisbane, Australia last week. Wifi is perfect, bluetooth works great, but GPS is non-existant. I have applied all known GPS fixes and still zero sat signal.
flubba86 said:
I got a C2 serial Prime in Brisbane, Australia last week. Wifi is perfect, bluetooth works great, but GPS is non-existant. I have applied all known GPS fixes and still zero sat signal.
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Same deal with the one I got from Amazon in the UK last week :-( Have you applied the .21 update? Is the WiFI draining the battery quicker now??
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M