Transformer is more of a gobot - Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime

i'm really, really enjoying this tf201+dock. the battery life is sick. the cpu is a beast that hauls on exynos 4210, and that was the hottest ARM SoC ever. it's running the best android software available for a tablet right now, which is seriously underrated. it's the best dedicated gmail and gtalk clients available, it's got one of the fastest and most compliant mobile browsers for any tablet. it's easily rootable. and holy crap did i mention it has a real keyboard.
so yeah, this will get pried out of my dead hands, or tossed whenever the real transformer comes out.. whichever comes first. i can't wait to ditch this if the real deal ever actually hits, because this one is just the cheap gobot knockoff of what a dockable android tablet should be.
how is it a knockoff? go look at the exacto thread, or the vulcan pinch poll, or any of the numerous "none of this crap works, is that normal?" threads we enjoyed for the first 6 weeks of the tf201s release. these units are stitched together like the $40 "louis vuitton" bags sold on lexington avenue with upside-down "L"s.
i'm "lucky" because my unit doesn't have the big problems, but even a "perfect" tf201 is a near-constant reminder of what this product would be if it was made by the right company. i noticed one of the reviews posted here made the point that "the ipad2 wins in having better power and volume buttons". who the hell cares about power buttons? what matters is tegra3, right? well, it turns out that the power and volume buttons on the tf201 suck. they're hard to feel for, hard to press. and then you realize there is no "wake up" key on the keyboard. (please, someone make my day and tell me a secret key combo to wake up the tablet screen.) but there isn't, so you find yourself looking for that little power nub over, and over again, until asus punishes you into knowing intimately how bad of a power button you have and f*ck you for buying it.
and i think it all really just boils down to this being asus, a company with an already long history of ripping off other taiwanese manufacturers (hello, gigabyte) and trying to differentiate by dressing it up with lipstick and trademarked BIOS features. i bet asus engineers were saddened when they learned there was no centerpiece HEATSINK to decorate on the tf201. asus does not slave over the perfection of products and release them with an id-style, "when it's done" pomp. asus hammers out products like M&Ms, spraying the public with buckshot and knowing that some will hit. there is literally zero history of any fundamental innovation coming from this company until the tf101. the first detachable/dockable android tablet with battery in dock. how did that happen? because lenovo is making theirs after, not before asus. was it an accident? mistake?
now imagine a world where transformers the toys, the tv show, the awesome 80s movie with that weird-al yankovic song, all of it never existed. and then along came GOBOTS. well, they'd be pretty cool. and you'd play with them. until the real transformers came out, and optimus prime's head transformed into another robot that punched leader-1 in the face.
typed on my gobot prime

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uh...... you can set it so that any of the keys on the keyboard wake up the device.

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se1000 said:
uh...... you can set it so that any of the keys on the keyboard wake up the device.
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Where/how?

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Col.Kernel said:
Where/how?
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Uncheck MobileDock Battery saving mode in Asus Customized settings
This will drain more power when asleep though

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The Transformer Prime is more of a Megazord.

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Ahh, another hater. There are plenty of web-sites for you to sell your gobot and buy an iPad.

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There is a unlock button on the keyboard dock atard.
Really, what would that button on the top right do?

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JoeyLe said:
There is a unlock button on the keyboard dock atard.
Really, what would that button on the top right do?
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the top right button puts the tablet to sleep (and locks it if you use a lock). that's why that picture of the lock is closed.
for keyboard wakeup it appears there are two modes: either none of the keys wake it up, or all of the keys wake it up. as a previous commenter mentioned this is defined by the "MobileDock battery saving mode" setting, which you obviously have enabled as this allowed you to rationalize that a closed padlock means "unlock".
there isn't much reason why asus couldn't have made an unlock key, or at least not a very good one. the dock has its own battery. a key could have been wired to turn on its power while in battery save mode, just like every laptop ever.

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i hate to troll but....
you dont like? Why dont you just try if it will blend then... ?

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I typically refrain from contributing to pathetic rants and crybaby posts because ultimately all they want is the attention from these kinds of posts. And responding to their over indulged tantrum in either a logical response or sarcastic whip only results in an escalating flaming contest. But I'm just sick of coming to this forum for useful information and only seeing another copy an paste complaint from one of the other hundred waisted space posts.
My TFP is the best f**KING super computer I have ever owned. combined with the dock, I can do things I never thought possible from an android OS. It has become my laptop allowing me remote access to the rest of my environment, my media center, my entry point to the digital world, a video phone for long distant family, and it functions in a hundred other ways that has improved my life. It's the damn swiss army knife of tablets.
For all who read this, I'm on XDA to better myself by learning how to use and improve the technology I own. I'm not hear to "listen" to you whine. If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
Go somewhere else to have your pity-party. Leave XDA for useful contributors and those looking to learn.
escalated flaming rant complete.

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Rachet said:
But I'm just sick of coming to this forum for useful information and only seeing another copy an paste complaint from one of the other hundred waisted space posts.
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wow, this is more fun than i thought.
was that either a "copy an paste" or a complaint? makes me wonder if you even read it before ranting.
it was satire. i actually really like my tf201. that's the first thing i said. it's the best tablet i've used, and it replaced my thinkpad with something less powerful but more useful.
i'm just not an asus fanboi. looks like that's a bit hard for some to handle.

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Rachet said:
. And responding to their over indulged tantrum in either a logical response or sarcastic whip only results in an escalating flaming contest..
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Believe what you want, I've said what I felt was necessary and am done.

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jaypm said:
the top right button puts the tablet to sleep (and locks it if you use a lock). that's why that picture of the lock is closed.
for keyboard wakeup it appears there are two modes: either none of the keys wake it up, or all of the keys wake it up. as a previous commenter mentioned this is defined by the "MobileDock battery saving mode" setting, which you obviously have enabled as this allowed you to rationalize that a closed padlock means "unlock".
there isn't much reason why asus couldn't have made an unlock key, or at least not a very good one. the dock has its own battery. a key could have been wired to turn on its power while in battery save mode, just like every laptop ever.
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Well, with Honeycomb that was indeed true, but with ICS I also could unlock my Prime with it?

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When my Tablet is attached to the dock I lock it with the upper right key. To unlock it, I slide over the touchpad, screen goes on and then press the "lock"-key to get to my homescreen.
Battery saving Mode is on I guess, because waking it up with keys don't work.
I don't know, but is that your problem?

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kennykiller15 said:
When my Tablet is attached to the dock I lock it with the upper right key. To unlock it, I slide over the touchpad, screen goes on and then press the "lock"-key to get to my homescreen.
Battery saving Mode is on I guess, because waking it up with keys don't work.
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this is interesting because my touchpad definitely isn't waking up the tablet, with or without the battery saving mode enabled.
are you running HC or ICS? and out of curiosity, what is your MobileDock version in Settings > About tablet? mine is TF201-DOCK-0206.

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@OP u just wasted precious time of my life of which I could never get back for this and I normally don't respond to BS posts, however sell your prime since u ain't man enough to handle, buy an ipad 2 or better yet a fijutsu tablet and then most importantly turn it gps on and go play in traffic in a major highway near u. Thanks
-Management lol
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Hmm. Which is worse? Those starting new threads to discuss issues already documented? Or those pretending that the hundreds (maybe thousands by now) of issue posts including three home page stickies from the manufacturer themselves don't exist because their Prime is purportedly "perfect?" So hard to decide.

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No need for 6,000 more of these posts
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