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Up until this morning I had considered myself one of the lucky prime owners that had no problems with their device. The My prime has not suffered any of the defects I have seen other users having issues with, no screen bleed, great wifi, only a little issue with gps, and I purchased the unit from the one extra stock that the gamestop in SF received on the day they're delivered. Very happy overall with my firs tablet.... Until this morning..
Last night with my battery hovering around 15% I plugged into to charge, and got the wonderful little sound letting me know that night the morning I would have another full charge to waste f'in about.. When I woke up at 4 my prime was at 71% and status said not charging..... Strange I thought, and maybe a fuse had blown? No.... Every outlet in my house produces the same result.... No power getting to the prime
It was charged through a protected outlet in my server cabinet, so I know the power was clean and surge free.... Has anyone out there experienced anything like this before? I am thinking now that I will have RMA the unit because the charge circuits somehow failed.. I have no provision test another power supply for charging purposes and do nothing I have even seen extras available yet.. When I get to work I will verify that I still have connectivity to my pc and see what happens.
Please I would like some constructive thoughts on this matter.... I do not want to start another thread that catalyzes everyoneone into a fit of prime bashing or or telling me why I should returnitand buy a new device.... I am lookingfor hopefully a resolution or similar experience that can help me out before I make the decision to RMA for a new unit .... Damn and I only had a few days left to waitfor ICS
If it helps I am on the latest update 33, and rooted with jcase and viperboys (thanks guys, awesome work) tool....
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put the charger in a ziplock bag, then in the freezer for 20 minutes.
tdrussell said:
put the charger in a ziplock bag, then in the freezer for 20 minutes.
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... What purpose would this serve?
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Element_01303 said:
... What purpose would this serve?
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Your charger is overheating. Did the same thing with mine, an hour in the freezer worked like a charm. Remember to put it in a bag though.
There is a temperature trip circuit in the charger, which evidently kills charging if the charger passes a temp threshold. This was apparently a very prevalent problem on the tf101, and has been known to carry over to the TF201 occasionally. I have not experienced it, but i have seen this 'fix' used successfully.
Definitely sounds worth a try then... I can try this fix when I get to work and report back... Is this something I should expect on a regular basis? I Can do it for a while until I can source a new charger, that I do not mind... At this point anything that keeps this thing in my hand and up and running is good news in my book. Thanks for the suggestion guys!
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Please keep us posted. One of the first things I noticed when I got my Prime was how damn hot the charger got when charging. You can literally burn yourself if you squeeze it.
The charger is a piece of ****. Instable, overheating, buzzing, the one on my TF died a long time ago.
If it doesn't work anymore, find yourself a new one (that provide 12v output and not the regular 5v) with a USB port, it cost something like 10$ and you won't risk to set your house on fire each time you charge your TFP.
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put the charger in a ziplock bag, then in the freezer for 20 minutes.
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Takes the cake of the oddiest workaround I have heard of. Can't wait to see if the OP confirms the fix.
Freezing a charger. Wow.
UmbraeSoulsbane said:
Takes the cake of the oddiest workaround I have heard of. Can't wait to see if the OP confirms the fix.
Freezing a charger. Wow.
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Well its not that strange.....I used to do this with clicking Hard Drives after they over heat. This would allow you at least an hour to access your files to recover them. Its a long known data recovery secret. ;-)
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Takes the cake of the oddiest workaround I have heard of. Can't wait to see if the OP confirms the fix.
Freezing a charger. Wow.
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Not very odd. This trick been used to fix hard drives too.
Example: http://geeksaresexy.blogspot.com/2006/01/freeze-your-hard-drive-to-recover-data.html
nyijedi said:
Please keep us posted. One of the first things I noticed when I got my Prime was how damn hot the charger got when charging. You can literally burn yourself if you squeeze it.
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kokusho said:
The charger is a piece of ****. Instable, overheating, buzzing, the one on my TF died a long time ago.
If it doesn't work anymore, find yourself a new one (that provide 12v output and not the regular 5v) with a USB port, it cost something like 10$ and you won't risk to set your house on fire each time you charge your TFP.
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I noticed this as well... seemed a bit much for my like but as everything seemed to working ok I left it alone. I am at work now and chager has been in the feezer for approx 20 min... gonna leave it till the hour mark and I will update as to the progress of this very strange yet intresting adventure....
Alright... so my update on the problem.... Put the charger in the freezer for a good couple of hours to see if it could be reset... after letting come back to room temp, I plugged it in and nothing.... charger is blown. Had to go to office depot to get a new one, but the good news is that it was not the prime itself! Thanks for the ideas everyone!
Have anyone been able to charge their Prime from their PC like it says you can do in the manual.
I tried and the Prime didn't show any indication that it was being charged, in fact it still said to connect it to a charger.
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Have anyone been able to charge their Prime from their PC like it says you can do in the manual.
I tried and the Prime didn't show any indication that it was being charged, in fact it still said to connect it to a charger.
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you can but it has to be in sleeping or off even then it will charge so slow unless you have a usb 3.0 port like me
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Op,
I have been watching people complain about this, if you plan to throw the charger away could I get you to toss it into an envelope and send it to me, I want to do some research on it to see if I can figure out why it is burning out.
Does anyone have a link to a cheap, compatible charger? I guess the voltage can vary as long as it's not too low, but the current should match that of the original charger, from what I understand.
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Op,
I have been watching people complain about this, if you plan to throw the charger away could I get you to toss it into an envelope and send it to me, I want to do some research on it to see if I can figure out why it is burning out.
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Flyingwolf, being an engineer myself I was very curious about doing a little investigation of my own... But I only have a multimeter. I would hope this should be enough to get a general idea of what's going on. If you would like I would love collaborate with you on this and see if we can figure out what is going on. If I get to deep over my head (I am a mechanical engineer not electrical after all ) I would have no problem at all sending it along! Let me know and we can go from there. Was planning on cracking it open this weekend.
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Far from being an engineer myself, however my love of all things electronic and my hobby of RC has forced me to learn as much as I can, I have become rather proficient lol.
Me personally I would just being doing some simple probe tests, figuring out if there was an issue with manufacturing (cold solder joint, too tight wire that pulls with heat expansion etc).
I am sure as a mechanical engineer you should have no problem figuring it out.
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Does anyone have a link to a cheap, compatible charger? I guess the voltage can vary as long as it's not too low, but the current should match that of the original charger, from what I understand.
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I paid 30 at office Depot for an OEM unit... I would recommend you always use the stock system to charge as it may have integrated circuitry to actually talk back and for to the prime for charging to correct levels. Further investigation as noted in my last post should hint at this so stay tuned. I will note that they keep the chargers in the back at my local store and when I called had no idea what I ws taking about. I had to give them the item number from online before they could find it... So I would check availability online and find a store that has them in stock before you go on a wander to find one. Hope that helps
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So if some of you are like me, you like your device screen to stay on while its charging via the power cord. There is an option for this in settings > Developer options called "Stay awake" [Screen will never sleep while charging]. I never noticed until now that this also includes charging while on the dock. So basically even if you have your prime closed in the dock, the screen is still on wasting power while this option is checked. Does anyone else find something wrong with this? Anyone think that this is something that should be fixed?
Also, not being a developer here, do any of the rom chef's think they can add this as a custom option to exclude charging from the docking station once we start seeing custom roms in here?
I would like to see other people's thoughts on this
i never changed anything in my settings, and my tf201 stays on while charging
I can say from my Prime that this does not happen. I have that stay awake while charging option on and when I close it, the screen turns off
If you are docked then you are charging unless the dock is to low. This kind o issue can also occur with WiFi if memory serves.
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If you are docked then you are charging unless the dock is to low. This kind o issue can also occur with WiFi if memory serves.
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If you are docked then you are charging unless the dock is to low. This kind o issue can also occur with WiFi if memory serves.
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Thats what im saying, I figured they would have configured it to at least not waste so much battery life. I went through an entire dock charge in about 3 or 4 hours until I realized the issue.
Possible I guess but I really doubt it was worth the cost of doing it with this product, unless the UX engineers won out over logical parsing
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Why would you want your screen to stay on when charging?
By default the screen will stay on when watching a video or when actively using the tablet (unless your screen time-out is set incredibly low). If your tablet is charging and you aren't using it, why do you care if the screen is on or not? Do you need to buy a lamp or something?
My prime works well on everything but this dead spot on the screen o.o its new and I just found it via a drawing app its the spot where nothing would draw
I attached the pic (screen shot)
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download multitouch app from the market, see where the dead zone is....I suspect that it was exactly the same place as my old one..which was right where the WiFi radio/antenna was (based on Anatech's teardown)
I searched and searched for an answer to my issue...some said to run a re calibration..but that didn't work for me.
ICS updated didn't help either. Ultimately i returned mine for another..and this one has no deadzones...no skips..nothing. BUT i traded for a white dead pixel and a bit more light bleed then my first one. I can live with that.
If you want to see an example of my deadzone...go to youtube and search for monkeyboywa. I posted several.
My summary? Return it for another one.
Thank you. I may just return to amazon and wait for the 700 or padphone if it works with att without having to lose my unlimited data. This device has problems even though the deadzone and GPS are my only ones I paid close $ 700 for this and the dock ( which I'm prob going to cancel the order for)
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Update : I put it on its back and tapped a bit hard with my finger and it worked.......... even after when I soft touched it worked.
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I should mention that the screen dead zoned again. It seems to be an on off occurance. In different spots
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Considering Asus's defect rate with the TF201, I find my self not surprised by your post.
You have a very good point. I am getting my money back and really researching. I'm thinking padfone if ATT doesn't botch it
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Mine did this at least twice. Seemed to be related to screen autorotate. Haven't pinpointed it exactly yet but it always happened after the screen rotated (maybe I had my thumb on it while it was rotating?).
Anyway turning the tab upside down, causing another rotate, fixed it for me.
Freaked me out for a second. Loaded the same notes app and found that I don't have any dead zones... Sorry to hear about your problem.
That could be it. I have my rma just sitting in my email I have until march to send it back. So im looking at the padfone also as a next device or ill get the new one that comes out. Asus rushed to much on this tablet.
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i've had this happen as well. I didn't think it could be software related, but a reboot fixed it.
Its the strangest thing. But depending on what my options are by march 1 St ill make my choice
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I got the same thing 3 times now...it was gone after i did cold boot and reconnecting the charger, but now it's acting up again...my dead area is the line straight down below the letter U on ASUS logo...help!
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martabakeju said:
I got the same thing 3 times now...it was gone after i did cold boot and reconnecting the charger, but now it's acting up again...my dead area is the line straight down below the letter U on ASUS logo...help!
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Press the sides a bit and flex it....it sound bad but works for me.
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I have went to open my prime several times only to have to press the power button over 15 seconds to start. Is asus gonna fix this? is something draining my battery cuz it is very low when it does this, however i see my prime lasting days if i do not use it for long periods
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I also have this problem. Its only started doing it since the recent asus firmware update.
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I haven't noticed this problem with my own Prime.
Have either of you tried doing factory resets? Generally speaking a factory reset solves all kinds of annoying software glitches like this one, especially ones that occur right after an update.
I have not been able to use my Transformer Prime for a few months now (I'm in the military) and obviously the battery died. The problem is, I cant get it to turn on at all now. The power cable connectors look fine, and it always worked before this. Does anyone have any advice? My Prime is rooted and running Virtuous Rom.
I would assume something wrong with the power supply or port inside the device. I have a prime that I am parting out if you need any parts. The only thing that is unusable is the system board on mine (due to a bad flash).
Best of luck figuring it out!
Well neither the tablet nor the dock are charging. Would that indicate a bad power cord more than anything else?
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I have not been able to use my Transformer Prime for a few months now (I'm in the military) and obviously the battery died. The problem is, I cant get it to turn on at all now. The power cable connectors look fine, and it always worked before this. Does anyone have any advice? My Prime is rooted and running Virtuous Rom.
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Normally I think it has to get up to I think a 5% charge before it will turn on but not sure if this is what you are describing or if you have let it stay plugged in for some time and it is not charging. That would seem like a hardware issue then.
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Well neither the tablet nor the dock are charging. Would that indicate a bad power cord more than anything else?
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Yes, I would think so! It's a known issue. If the dock charged and not the tablet that would be anothet thing. Do you get a light in either when plugged?
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Yes, I was going to ask if you saw the little red/green glow coming from teh tablet On button (VERY small hole, easier to see in dark) or the mor obvious LED next to the charging port on the dock.
I checked and nope there's no light on the tablet or keyboard. Ill swing by best buy tonight and get a new cord. Thanks for the help!
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