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Hi All,
Picked up a new SGT 10.1 today on the Staples deal. Well, actually two, the first suffered badly from the dust under screen issue and I returned it, cleaned out two stores in the process.
Trouble is, after the first time I engaged the orientation lock (literally the first time I locked the orientation), it no longer auto rotates when on the home screen. Worked fine for a couple hours prior to that. When I go to the camera app, it rotates (although lags sometimes, but can't tell the cause).
I've tried hard resetting multiple times with two different methods, made no difference. Searched around, found only one other person describing the problem and no solution.
Has anyone heard of this? Is there any app I can use to further test the sensor?
Thanks all!!
Try using a game that uses the sensors for movement. That should tell you pretty quickly if it's your sensors or some other software glitch.
I bought a new Google IO Galaxy 10.1 about a month ago from someone who attended the conference. I haven't had any major problems with it until tonight. For some reason, the screen flickers so severely that the tab is unusable. I thought maybe there was an app that wasn't compatible with HC3.1, so I wiped it clean in fastboot and reflashed everything to stock.
Unfortunately the screen flicker remains, and turning the screen off and on provides me with only a few seconds to see what I'm doing. I will post a picture after my 8th post.
Anyone have similar problems? Any idea what could have caused it? Since I bought it in a private sale, I don't think I can send it in.
Update:
The screen flicker was completely gone this morning after letting the tablet sit overnight. Unfortunately, upon rebooting, the flickering has returned in full force.
Update:
The flicker, which was more like trying to watch a scrambled t.v. channel, has disapeared on it's own. Very strange, maybe the gpu was overheating due to overclocking.
Problem still exists, unrooting and sending it in.
Thanks for all the input... pfft.
I just experienced the exact same issue for the first time this morning. The entire screens flickers and becomes scrambled which renders the touchscreen useless.
My tablet is in factory form with no rooting or overclocking so I find this puzzling....
I searched the forums and it seems almost no one is having problems with Auto-Rotate not working (found 2 posts - no suggestions besides factory reset which I just completed). If you are having this problem would you please respond to this thread. My auto-rotate was "sticky" even with base HC and now it just will not do it at all (and after the reset it hasn't yet downloaded ICS so that isn't the issue).
I did verify that the auto-rotate setting is checked in the settings -> display section and I have done a factory reset. So any other suggestions are welcome.
About my device - I have root and used SetCPU to fix the horizontal black bands in the display. My wifi is fine.
Since so few people have reported this issue I'm thinking it may be HW and I'll go ahead with the return I have scheduled for Monday (and I'll get another because I think the Prime rocks). I figure that black band issue didn't hit everyone either so maybe I can get HW that fixes both these issues. So if anyone has a good reason why this particular issue would be software please feel free to make that argument.
thx,
Craig
I'm glad I'm not the only one with this. I'm having the same issue with the launcher. All my apps rotate fine, but the launcher refuses to budge. I haven't tried a reset yet.
I disabled auto-rate during HC, and got my dock on the night ICS download opened, so needless to say auto-rotate became a forgotten memory as I haven't de-docked my tablet since.
When this happened to me they told me to wait for ICS and still no rotate. It is a software issue because when the OS would boot wrong meaning images screwed up the rotate would work. After reboot back to no rotate. I returned mine
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I have been having problems too. Initially i thought it only happened when I used the keyboard dock, but then it seemed to happen after waking it up from sleep. I have been in touch with Asus uk about this and the GPS and two dead pixels over the last two weeks and they said it was a software issue and would be fixed. Now after ICS it is worse, today it happened 4 times and this time straight from turning the pad on. I have also found that scrolling and typing very difficult when the pad is placed on a surface, it loses the touch sensibility and is out when touching links.
I have decided to return it now as this concerns me that it could be a hardware faulty rather than software. I would have kept it otherwise even down to the gps and two dad pixels issue. Still going to order another as it is very good.
I have the same issue with auto-rotate. I go and uncheck the setting then check it again. Have tried rebooting as well and I still have the issue.
mine has not done that yet, only time it wouldnt rotate is when it was docked. I kinda wish it would because i was using an app that only runs vertical, and i really didn't wanna undock it.
Mine seems to be getting worse. Yesterday and today the rotation does not work from booting it up. I have changed the live wallpaper to see if that helps and from rebooting it allowed the screen rotation. Not sure whether coincidence or not but the screen rotation is still working after 3-4 hours. I did have the asus live water on and now changed to asus day scene. May just be coincidence but It was getting to point that the screen rotation was never working...
You are correct. As soon as I changed my Wallpaper to the original generic, Auto-Rotate works great.
Update - This only worked for a short period. MANY things cause the auto-rotate not to work: a) many apps will break the auto-rotate features; b) docking/undocking at times breaks the auto-rotate feature. I experimented with this all day. I reset to factory default, installed only a couple basic apps, etc. I could get auto-rotate back after doing a few things, but it would not continue to work. Have not found a solution yet. Will update this post if I find one. Thirty-day timeline, though, is running out for me.
Hi,
I'm having the same problem with my prime (got it from amazon germany on dec. 30th). However I think it started with ics-update and hadn't happened before this (although I'm not sure)... and gradually got worse.
Besides this: my currently "fix" is to start elixir2, go to sensors, check gyro-sensor and go back homescreen. After this procedure the rotation is working again for some time on my prime.
Nevertheless I thinking about RMA as gps is not working (actually no deal as I dont intent to use it), too and today my prime just went off and didnt wanted to start again for like 4min (very very very long pressing of power-button + usage of external power did the job).
RichieG1 I don't mean this in a creepy way, but I want to have your babies.
I changed the wallpapaer from the ice blocks back to the stock pretty tree, did an off/on and now my screen is rotating for the first time since ICS upgrade.
Also, Transformer Prime rocks.
So the latest update did correct most of the banding issues but im still having some glitches when doing some things like half the screen will go away for a second them come right back, it does this very randomly. i also noticed this when playing games like shine runner, it will completely lock up. I included a video of what its doing, its weird in the video it would only do it by using the mouse but when doing it on the home screen if the recent apps filled up all the way to the top of the screen it will do it every time whether I use the mouse or touch. I have only had any of the problems since ICS so i know its probably a bug, anyone else having these issues?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxyTUc2cVTw
here is the issue that it still has with using the front camera, and using the silly faces feature.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSveBF1FNnA&feature=related
I have exactly the same issues.
Diamondback said:
I have exactly the same issues.
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ok i figured it was a bug, its not too big of an issue but i would like to see it fixed soon.
i have this same problem also. it mostly occurs when i'm using youtube. hope they fix it soon because its annoying!
have the same issue it does it for me as well in Google talk, but YouTube is the worse i get a constant flicker for like 2 seconds.
Same for me too, I think I read that Asus stated it was some of the Prime's hardware drivers having incompadability issues with Ice Cream Sandwich (hence no problems with Honeycomb). Anyhow, I believe they stated that they should have an update to fix the issue in February...hopefully early Feb.!
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..same here and only seen with Youtube..
Anybody pinged Gary Key or ASUS about it?
Regards
Ditto, only rarely and seemingly random but I feel it might be after I've just plugged or unplugged the dock.
Similar issue here though it manifests as very thin bands covering only the left 1 inch of the screen and only when scrolling up and down. This is not a constant problem,but not rare either. Shows up in either orientation. I also occasionally get artifacting usually in the form of a momentary white triangle when I use the task switcher button.
Both of these only started occurring after the most recent update: .11 on 1/17. Before that I had never noticed any screen problems.
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I have this bug like you... This bug is on ICS. But my bug is like triangle on screen
Just wanted to be added to the list of users having this problem. The longer i have this tablet, the more issues i run into.
Hope a fix comes in the next few weeks, or Amazon get's it back.
Wanted to bump this thread because it seems like an issue some people are having, but it's not widespread enough that it's gathering the attention that the GPS/WiFi/Bluetooth issues are getting.
Personally I'm getting the diagonal screen flicker on the home screen, especially when pressing the recent apps button. Someone noted in a thread somewhere that this is most common when there are a lot of apps stocked up in there. It also seems to happen a lot more frequently when the dock is plugged in, even without touching the recent apps button - it just happens randomly.
Has anyone tried a factory reset to assuage this? That's probably my next step.
Edit: Come to think of it, I didn't notice any screen flickering until I plugged my tablet into the dock for the first time. Can anyone else with this issue confirm they've been using a dock? I might try something like a factory reset with full battery on both dock and tablet, maybe that'll make a difference...input, please, someone
Still having the same issues after todays update...
Ok, so...apparently, when I touch the recent apps button or when I click down on the mousepad, that's when the flicker occurs. When I just touch the touchpad without clicking, the flicker doesn't happen. What the hell? At least that's got me pretty well convinced that it's a software thing.
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Still having the same issues after todays update...
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Before the update everything was fine. No issue at all. It starts for me after the update. Also made my GPS worse. Wifi is the same (they just change the signal icon to look that my connection is full). So far no reboots or lockups.
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I have the screen flicker on
1. Youtube
2. When I am using the dolphin live wallpaper (one that came installed stock)
AS of now youtube is still crashing
Im having the same issue. I just bought my prime yesterday and noticed it while running the SKYRIM live wallpaper. I don't have a dock either so i can confidently say that's not the cause to MY problem (can't say for sure about others) and it happens when pressing recent app list or the settings in the bottom right corner.
Not functional threatening but visually annoying. I love the TFP though I have it next to me at work and im ITCHING to just play with the damn thing. We need more atttention to this.
I just started getting a screen flicker about every 10 seconds with a live wallpaper on. They must have "fixed" the problem with the last update.
Anyone found any solutions for this?
looks like the latest update fixed it, will know for sure after i put it through its paces.
Hi everyone,
I am experiencing funny accelerometer issue with autorotation ON.
When I keep my phone straight it flips screen to the left. When I rotate the phone it flips again. Only the home screen works good.
The same is with the games - if I am playing every thing goes to the left because it thinks that the phone is flipped.
I do not know if this could be the issu with the spirit rom but on CM11 there is the same issue and with this rom's there are no calibration tools.
It looks like the start position for the accelerometer is flipped left.
When I test accelerometer with moving the phone up and down it looks like working left and right like the axies being changed.
Do you have any ideas, how could I approach this issue to fix it?
It is just not possible to use autorotation now.
Best regards to you all.
Have the same problem
Yea, it depends on which ROM you installed. Some work some don't. Been looking around, but not much activity for MEGA. Looks like everybody is loosing interest for this phone. I just got mine and love it, have the same problem with screen and camera. Has to do with what it thinks north is.