From: "Hai_Trat
To: joplin_gl
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:21 AM
Subject: RE: Transformer Prime Concerns Case #1654881
Dear Gregory,
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I just received an update regarding the Prime’s GPS functionality.
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We will be releasing a dongle shortly that will address the GPS function and be a fully usable GPS that will lock onto many satellites and keep their lock with wi-fi active.
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If you choose to purchase another Prime unit we will send a the GPS dongle to you to address the GPS locks.
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This is to keep you informed on making your purchase decision on picking up another Prime. I do hope we can keep you as a customer.
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Thanks,
Hai Trat
JR. Technical Product Manager
Inspiring Innovation．Persistent Perfection
From: "Hai_Trat
To: [email protected]
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 10:36 AM
Subject: RE: Transformer Prime Concerns Case #1654881
Dear Gregory,
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Also to update the wi-fi.* I have been testing our newer versions of our Primes over the last week and they are getting better signal strength with the wi-fi.* Wifi will vary depending on routers being used and the router settings.* I can tell you there is a definite improvement in wifi transfers and speed on the newer batches that I have.* I have been doing side by side comparisons with the TF101 and Prime with my RT-N13U router.* They are very close in performance now and I could not distinguish difference albeit very minor ones in transfer rates on both the units.* So this area has also been improved with our newer release Primes.*
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Let me know if you have any more questions as I can be your direct contact for communication on making your new Prime purchase a good one.
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Thanks,
Hai Trat
JR. Technical Product Manager
NEW NEWS
From: "Hai_Trat
To: joplin_gl
Sent: Thursday, April 5, 2012 3:42 PM
Subject: RE: Transformer Prime Concerns Case #1654881
Dear Gregory,
GPS dongle will be provided for free when it arrives. ETA is mid April for this and we are setting up a process for it. We will inform you once the process is complete and the dongles here.
It will look similar to the hinge from the dock. Where it will be a flush fit on the bottom of the unit if held in landscape matching the color of your Prime chassis.
For the Wfi,
I don’t have much info on Staples distribution process. I will have to see if the new ones will still be arriving at a Staples store with the sales team. I will check on this to see what information I can find out for you.
If you however do find a new batch of TF201 Primes. Please look for C3… version or higher. For instance serial number will be displayed on a label outside the box such as C3OKAS123456. These are improved on the wifi from the ones we have tested. This should be universal on all of the skus. Meaning 32GB or 64GB will have the update already since it is newer iterations of the units.
RIGHT ON
Uh oh, somebody stole the thunder from GK's big announcement.. Heads must roll...
Hey, this isn't a sneaky April Fools, right...
So the gps single will require the spare USB port?
Does he not mention what the model number is on the "later models"?
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I guess I should wait to purchase a Prime then.
Sooo an exchange program or not?
GPS dongle...? Meh.
>So the gps single will require the spare USB port?
Doubt it. That would require the dock. Am assuming this uses the proprietary connector, hence the "testing" needed, as else you can just grab any off-the-shelf USB GPS dongle instead.
If this is the big news i'm going to super disappointed
FIX THE WIFI not the GPS.
Fools
e.mote said:
Uh oh, somebody stole the thunder from GK's big announcement.. Heads must roll...
Hey, this isn't a sneaky April Fools, right...
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well the cat is out of the bag now. I can confirm this also. was supposed to be a secret..lmfao
I'm one of the people Asus has testing it out I told people I knew what the announcement was but couldn't reveal it because I was asked not to reveal it. well seems like someone posted an email. they have to be careful though. once Gary sees this thread, he will confront the person who leaked info and there go any more detailed info coming out. op or anyone should just post info without where it came from. that person could get in trouble over this as its not even official yet. testing still going on and the results determine whether its approved or not.
The dongle is very cool though. very minimalistic and made to look like part of the prime.
David522d said:
If this is the big news i'm going to super disappointed
FIX THE WIFI not the GPS.
Fools
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I'd be more disappointed if the big news is Ubuntu.
Be quite happy with this if it were a freebie for registered owners. Not so much if we're expected to pay for it!
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If this becomes official they better send it to every body at no cost.
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>very minimalistic and made to look like part of the prime.
So does it have a cable connector + clamp to affix onto the edge, or does it stick straight out from the connector?
Pics, dude. Like you said...
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Cool. How are we going to get it?
Read the WHOLE EMAIL
Re Dangle
I am more interested in the wifi fix in the second email. I am so close to buying one at Staples but not if a better build is coming
On a more serious note, lets hope that this being revealed before officially being approved doesn't mess things up for us prime owners. There are very important obvious reasons this never was announced yet. The way this news was talked about to be kept under wraps, I can almost guareentee that guy Hai might get in trouble over this. They really wanted to surprise everyone with this once approved. Legal reasons involved also more than likely.
while its cool to think we know now, it can still be easily retracted as it was never official. I just hope that guy doesn't lose his job over this. or gets demoted..lol. and changes things regarding this announcement for us. This won't be taken lightly by Asus. Believe it. SMH
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE OP! lmfaooooo.
I see, the process will be clear around mid Apr.
Actually it's pretty cool for Asus doing this. I am aware of the GPS issue when bought my Prime (mine is C1 series) and didn't plan to use it, but still it's nice to have it and may find it useful in occasional travellings.
their was a small statement on android police about it a couple of days ago
i don't even want it
demandarin said:
well the cat is out of the bag now. I can confirm this also. was supposed to be a secret..lmfao
I'm one of the people Asus has testing it out I told people I knew what the announcement was but couldn't reveal it because I was asked not to reveal it. well seems like someone posted an email. they have to be careful though. once Gary sees this thread, he will confront the person who leaked info and there go any more detailed info coming out. op or anyone should just post info without where it came from. that person could get in trouble over this as its not even official yet. testing still going on and the results determine whether its approved or not.
The dongle is very cool though. very minimalistic and made to look like part of the prime.
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I knew you were in on it and said as much weeks ago... See, being the endless Asus cheerleader has it's perks
Anyway, I'll take a dongle over the stupid **** I have seen people do here with guitar wire and duct take and beer cans. In the car, a dongle will be just fine by me.
I am actually fairly stoked by this.. better than anything else we've gotten this far.
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Scratch all that as well, here's a quote from a Best Buy employee in this thread:
Quixion2008 said:
As a current Best Buy employee(Senior at Purdue University(Seasonal employee)...(the same on helping a good amount of this forum get grey docks ahead of schedule) I believe I can shed some light on this issue. Today while using our inventory management software (RSS) I looked up the grey 32 TF201. In BEST BUYS system the sku has been DISCONTINUED. This generally happens when we are no longer receiving that particular model of a computer or tablet physically in stores in the future. This is, in my opinion, not what is going on. As most have noticed the grey 32 prime has been pulled from BBY.com. Only the CG is even on the site. The grey was taken down and given a "secret sku" that was to be used for those who had pre ordered a CG and were given the opportunity to switch to grey. This sku has gotten out to the forums and has been being used to order grey 32 primes online through BBY.com. I suspect BBY is changing the sku so this can no longer be done, and giving the prime a dedicated sku for in store availability which should be occurring within the next 2-3 weeks.
The prime is here to stay.
-Quix
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Also, I never knew this forum was fulled with /b/tards. Shoulda inb4 OP is a troll.
Scratch all that, just talked to a support rep. They're done manufacturing the First model of it. They've got a second model they're planning to roll out this month (just like ICS would be available before the end of the year). That would explain why Best Buy assumed it's done, discontinued the first version of the TF201. Perhaps a TF211? Feel free to call 'em up and ask if it's been discontinued. They should respond with something along the lines of Lol new model! Or something to that effect. Waiting for a supervisor to call me up tomorrow.
Just got off the phone the Best Buy.com floor manager, and *apparently* Asus is no longer manufacturing the Prime. I wanted to return it for a REPLACEMENT, and nobody could answer one simple question: Do you have one in stock to replace it with? I got to the supervisor and he simply told me it was done, gave me a direct number to Asus. He also told me to file an RMA and that Asus would try to fix it, and if they couldnt, then I'd get a same or better one.
Great.
I'm calling Asus to see what's up. I'll update the OP with more info. I want my damn Prime fixed...
I'd appriciate it if someone else called Best Buy to see if this true. Get to a live person, and ask for their supervisor. The guy I got was 'Micheal'. Be sure to ask for his name to see if it's the same guy. Thanks
lol.
Sure
that's because thing is littered with some minor manufactured defects.
oh well, at least it will go up in value
also I bet HASBRO had something to do with this too. Glad I got mines before the court ordered junction was put in place.
LOL, please don't tell me your gonna believe this? Then Asus will probably also be done.
Just delete useless threads like this, thanks.
One thing you should learn pretty quickly is to never believe anything a dumb store manager or CSR tells you.
Im guessing they think they are talking about the OG transformer.
Or did we bully Asus somuch it just up and quit the whole thing?
bwaaa ha ha WTF? BB employees are like VZW employees, I often know more then they do about their own products, thus I don't trust comments like this 1 bit.
i don't know guys, i think the Best Buy.com floor manager is a pretty reliable source...you didn't get to become "floor manager" for nothing....
Maybe the BB floor manager is sick n tired of dealing with all the botched prime exchanging?
I know I would be by now.
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i don't know guys, i think the Best Buy.com floor manager is a pretty reliable source...you didn't get to become "floor manager" for nothing....
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Yeah, probably the OG Transformer.
How the heck would a BestBuy *floor manager* get wind of something faster than Endgaget, ITworld, Anandtech, The Verge and the rest of the technocrat blogosphere?
There is a higher probability of Bigfoot doing the Mambo in Time Square
He probably meant the TF101 original Transformer. It makes perfect business sense to phase out the TF101, now that it's replacement is coming to market.
the_game_master said:
lad I got mines before the court ordered junction was put in place.
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Why is it "mines" and not "mine"?
robomo said:
How the heck would a BestBuy *floor manager* get wind of something faster than Endgaget, ITworld, Anandtech, The Verge and the rest of the technocrat blogosphere?
There is a higher probability that of Bigfoot doing the Mambo in Time Square
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WOW...Bigfoot can Mambo?
LOL this is the funiest thing I read all day!!!
theizzardking said:
i don't know guys, i think the Best Buy.com floor manager is a pretty reliable source...you didn't get to become "floor manager" for nothing....
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Are you KIDDING ME??? Best buy has launched more misinformation that the Counter-Spy's did in WWII.
I had one "E-Commerce VP tell me that ASUS Hasn't RELEASED the dock yet, it will be out at the END OF JANUARY, LOL! I had to tell him that my co-worker HAS one from Best Buy sitting on his desk, and he still doubted me. I had to point him to one of the "Dock Sources" thread here at xda.
He DID NOT become a floor manager by knowing ANYTHING about product releases, I will tell you that. Man that's funny!!!
I almost hurt myself laughing. HEHEHEHEHE! HAHAHAHAHA!
Sorry - it's my fault. All the tablets i buy go end of life about a week later
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lol.
Sure
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+1000
if anything bby doesn't have a proper in store stock date so their system is screwed up. no one on CS or at the store level has any idea of what's going on as far as manuf or actual stock beyond what their inventory system shows them, and that system is a piece of crap (unless they updated it significantly after i quit from there, which i doubt)
the only actually plausable thing one can take from this is they are for some reason giving the new batches a different sku and discontinuing the old one.
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Yeah, probably the OG Transformer.
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I thought they are still making the original Transformer?
Yeah best buy also told me that Asus wasn't coming out with the Prime back in december.
Major bugs, horrible design flaw and dishonest sales tactics mixed together with a name that is clearly ripped off from hasbro will lead to its demise.
Prime could have been a real winner but Asus just couldn't live up to it.
They will probably stop making the current bugged out and defective units and redesign it with a plastic back and rename it to the Asus Tranny.
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Are you KIDDING ME??? Best buy has launched more misinformation that the Counter-Spy's did in WWII.
I had one "E-Commerce VP tell me that ASUS Hasn't RELEASED the dock yet, it will be out at the END OF JANUARY, LOL! I had to tell him that my co-worker HAS one from Best Buy sitting on his desk, and he still doubted me. I had to point him to one of the "Dock Sources" thread here at xda.
He DID NOT become a floor manager by knowing ANYTHING about product releases, I will tell you that. Man that's funny!!!
I almost hurt myself laughing. HEHEHEHEHE! HAHAHAHAHA!
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wow.... have i made myself look that stupid in the 20 posts i have here, or did i just misuse an emoticon? i thought the rolling of eyes implied sarcasm...but then you rolled your eyes at me? is that in jest? what if i do it now? does that deflect your sarcasm and reinstate my own? making you look like the fool?
boy, i'm really confused now....
haha....
I received my Prime on Monday January 9th and returned it on January 10th. First and most disappointing fact was the GPS failed to establish a lock. No signals were ever displayed using GPStest. This was after receiving two OTA updates which I was hopeful one of them would correct the problem. Neither update addressed the GPS issue.
There was backlight bleed on left side of display. Although my keyboard dock had not arrived, I cancelled it as well. Bottomline, I decided to keep the Transformer 101 and wait for better offerings. This was very unfortunate because I had very much anticipated the new tablet.
Although otherwise it appeared to be a very nice tablet, the issues just turned me off completely.
This forum seems to be turning into a personal diary for some people....
I'm hungry.
I will order pizza....
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Can we stop with the negative posts? Its always the same thing too. GPS. I see post after post saying the same thing. Look at this the opacity is the same price and it lacks GPS. So go get your overly priced ipad. Don't post here.
I returned mine too...it won't wipe my butt.
today i went to work, picked up coffee on the way, it hurt my stomach.
Tomorrow I will probably not get coffee, i will update tomorrow.
Thanks for the Blog report. If you do not own it anymore why even be in this forum? Just to get the mydiary.blog entry in?
ajkid93 said:
Can we stop with the negative posts? Its always the same thing too. GPS. I see post after post saying the same thing. Look at this the opacity is the same price and it lacks GPS. So go get your overly priced ipad. Don't post here.
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Actually, now it is GPS and "SERIAL NUMBER UNKNOWN"
Trust me, as more people get there tablets in hand, and cannot download and install firmware 4.0 ICS, they are going to be complaining about that too.
I am pissed about mine. Just got it yesterday, has "Serial Number Unknown" and I cannot install any updates. Heck yeah I am going to be negative. The "FIRST TABLET WITH ANDROID 4.0" for me is just "ANOTHER TABLET WITH HONEYCOMB 3.2.1."
I should be happy about that? It would be nice if there was a stickied thread for WIFI & GPS PROBLEMS so everyone could post there. Maybe even one for "Serial Number Issues" that way everyone else can post about how awesome their tablet is and the rest of us can moan in the OFFICIAL NEGATIVITY MY PRIME DOESN'T WORK RIGHT thread.
Problem is, I love my Prime, it seems to be pretty good. However, those of you with ICS, think about how much better it is with ICS. Meanwhile, I am stuck with Honeycomb cause of the Serial Number Issue. I cannot enjoy all the upgraded speed, faster touch response, new features etc.
3rdamention said:
Actually, now it is GPS and "SERIAL NUMBER UNKNOWN"
Trust me, as more people get there tablets in hand, and cannot download and install firmware 4.0 ICS, they are going to be complaining about that too.
I am pissed about mine. Just got it yesterday, has "Serial Number Unknown" and I cannot install any updates. Heck yeah I am going to be negative. The "FIRST TABLET WITH ANDROID 4.0" for me is just "ANOTHER TABLET WITH HONEYCOMB 3.2.1."
I should be happy about that? It would be nice if there was a stickied thread for WIFI & GPS PROBLEMS so everyone could post there. Maybe even one for "Serial Number Issues" that way everyone else can post about how awesome their tablet is and the rest of us can moan in the OFFICIAL NEGATIVITY MY PRIME DOESN'T WORK RIGHT thread.
Problem is, I love my Prime, it seems to be pretty good. However, those of you with ICS, think about how much better it is with ICS. Meanwhile, I am stuck with Honeycomb cause of the Serial Number Issue. I cannot enjoy all the upgraded speed, faster touch response, new features etc.
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That sucks. Sorry to hear about it. However, the point everyone is trying to make is that we don't need 600 new threads for each person who has a problem. Not only does it clog up the entire forum but it makes it much more difficult for people that do have problems to find answers. What's easier, browsing through one thread or searching through 50 different ones?
Also, nobody cares that whomever took it back and is getting something else. What's the point then? Nobody can help you (in this case, the OP) fix it now that it's gone. Why bother posting it at all!?
I'm about to cook up some lunch here in about 20 minutes.
#Can'tWait!
Really, if you are too retarded to know that the GPS wasn't working good you shouldn't have a tablet at all because it probably too hard to understand for you.
I had a Motorola Photon, then tried out an Epic 4G Touch. Decided to keep the Samsung instead of the Motorola. Did NOT have any desire to go to any Motorola forums and announce that fact. None. Zero. In fact, haven't visited a Motorola forum since.
Why would I? I don't have a Motorola...
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rapcon said:
I received my Prime on Monday January 9th and returned it on January 10th.
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I saved a bunch of money on car insurance by switching to no car insurance
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nslayden said:
I returned mine too...it won't wipe my butt.
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you have to turn on the front facing camera first
Wish I was a mod. I Work from home. I would totally wash this General section clean of useless pity me posts. Sorry for your loss man but come on!
Well after looking through some of the retarded comments here, I'm certain I made a good decision. Anyway good luck to those with issues.
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Wish I was a mod. I Work from home. I would totally wash this General section clean of useless pity me posts. Sorry for your loss man but come on!
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+1 FTW we need more mod activity in here. get the forum back to discussion about the prime.
what BT mice work with the dock, what's a good controller to go for etc. less pity, more constructive discussion please.
I had first noticed that while docked I had this flickering while closing the tab. It appears there is something totally wrong with this unit. Today I was playing zen pinball and i pressed hardly for the right flipper and this screen flickering again. Starting with the bezel when I apply pressure to the right bottom part of the tab the screen flickers into white. I don't think it is a common issue.
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ok. just return it then. end of story
demandarin said:
ok. just return it then. end of story
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Solved. End of topic, mod please close it.
I find I can replicate screen flickering just by tapping the recent items button after having a dozen apps/pages stored there.
A reboot fixes it but it comes back later.
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I find I can replicate screen flickering just by tapping the recent items button after having a dozen apps/pages stored there.
A reboot fixes it but it comes back later.
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Not the same here. Yours must be DEFECTIVE..
Ok, every product has a small percentage of defective devices. Besides the other issues, THIS is that small group. Return it, it's that simple. They will send you a new one. No need to create a topic to vent your anger when there is a very simple solution.
Wait wait wait.....no nobody is allowed to complain??? If it's a valid concern that doesn't seem right.
peare said:
I had first noticed that while docked I had this flickering while closing the tab. It appears there is something totally wrong with this unit. Today I was playing zen pinball and i pressed hardly for the right flipper and this screen flickering again. Starting with the bezel when I apply pressure to the right bottom part of the tab the screen flickers into white. I don't think it is a common issue.
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Mine dID something like this after exiting a game. This was a couple of days after ICS installed. I did a couple of reboots and it disappeared. Never did it before ICS and has been good since. I marked it up to ICS and program issue. Prime is working great now and even the same game works fine. Hopefully it is something similar.
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sdelliott31 said:
Wait wait wait.....no nobody is allowed to complain??? If it's a valid concern that doesn't seem right.
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People certainly can complain, but it would be much more useful if the issue was in the name of the thread instead of just having a trolly URGH MY PRIME IS SUCH A PIECE OF CRAP title. Why would anyone wanna help someone who's insulting the device he's asking help for?
Did you try a reset, uninstalling the app and reinstalling?
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Heerocon said:
People certainly can complain, but it would be much more useful if the issue was in the name of the thread instead of just having a trolly URGH MY PRIME IS SUCH A PIECE OF CRAP title. Why would anyone wanna help someone who's insulting the device he's asking help for?
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Ok true. However most are told to read before they post. If you read in this forum, you get about two pages before, uggghhh I hate this piecer lol.
Joeyle: just to be fair, I remember in the wifi thread you being one of the loudest Asus bashers. I can pull up posts if you want. I'm just saying. Give other people a chance too, as you were given.
What is wrong with people who throw flames to someone complaining about an item spent that much. Don't worship companies which screw you with defective units, false advertisement and all. Then you become not different from Apple worshippers.
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The Complaint System Works
How quickly everyone forgot about the bootloader, the whole Prime community sang the loudest compaint campaign that made Asus change their mind about the lock. Let's give those with valid reasons the room to voice their concerns, not getting any answer or support will only lead to fans losing their Prime esteem and leaving the fold.
sdelliott31 said:
Joeyle: just to be fair, I remember in the wifi thread you being one of the loudest Asus bashers. I can pull up posts if you want. I'm just saying. Give other people a chance too, as you were given.
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That's not true. I only was angry when the rumor was that the Prime was being discontinued for another tablet (TF700) however that isn't true in the end.
micaman said:
Not the same here. Yours must be DEFECTIVE..
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LOL...arent they all defective!
Up today I hated Apple. My next tablet will be Ipad3.
I am just joking. I'll wait for the next Samsung. I am not an Acer guy, and although I have huge respect for Asus in the PC area (for the last 17 years my mainboards had always been Asus, 7 note and netbooks including TM91 and I recently bought the Zenbook) i lost my trust in the Android arena. I returned TF1 in a week because of terrible light bleeding, and now this. I thought mine was perfect except GPS but after 3 weeks of use now I discover the screen issue. I was really sorry to see Samsung not giving any hints about its next tablet in CES 2012. I had 2 Acer notebooks with huge problems, so it is not my brand. It means I'll wait some time and am very sorry for selling GTab 10.1.
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bex said:
LOL...arent they all defective!
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LOL....what do you consider defective? Oh, you must mean the GPS.. no where did Asus claim that GPS reception on this unit would perform on par or better than the original, you just assumed it. Not up to your standards then return it.
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Wait wait wait.....no nobody is allowed to complain??? If it's a valid concern that doesn't seem right.
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It's definatly a valid concern. I'm just wondering why we have threads with people just venting. It's a VERY easy fix. If Asus didn't fix it, THEN he should vent, I would too. I just feel like Asus deserves the benefit of the doubt on this. Don't blast a company if you haven't even tried to work out the issue.
micaman said:
LOL....what do you consider defective? Oh, you must mean the GPS.. no where did Asus claim that GPS reception on this unit would perform on par or better than the original, you just assumed it. Not up to your standards then return it.
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This is one of the most ignorant statements on this forum.
So when you bought your garmin nuvi which says gps on the box and you cant use it within 50 feet of any structures or trees, that to you is acceptable because the box does not state "it works".
GPS printed on my prime box, meaning GPS should work ALL the time, not on Sundays at 3pm wearing a blue tie and purple pants. GPS should work as GPS is expected to. Outside with clear skys should not display can not locate satellites...
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This is one of the most ignorant statements on this forum.
So when you bought your garmin nuvi which says gps on the box and you cant use it within 50 feet of any structures or trees, that to you is acceptable because the box does not state "it works".
GPS printed on my prime box, meaning GPS should work ALL the time, not on Sundays at 3pm wearing a blue tie and purple pants. GPS should work as GPS is expected to. Outside with clear skys should not display can not locate satellites...
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Mine can, you have a defective one?
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Check this out, Engadget jokes about Prime's GPS issue. Engadget is the best!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/16/asus-says-the-transformer-prime-wont-do-3g-time-travel-and-las/
Nice one. I'll give it 1 lowercase lol.
Joking aside though, who carries a tablet without a cell phone. And who wouldn't just root and tether (excluding non-readers of xda) to their phone? Why pay for 2 data plans?
diecast17 said:
Check this out, Engadget jokes about Prime's GPS issue. Engadget is the best!
http://www.engadget.com/2012/01/16/asus-says-the-transformer-prime-wont-do-3g-time-travel-and-las/
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i see no joke about GPS, only people thinking 3g is coming anytime in the near future.....lasers would be cool as well though.....even the gps link goes on to talk about the now old 8.33 update and no joke there.....either that or your laugh tolerance is exteremly low and your the type to laugh at having 12 items in the 12 items lane at wallmart....or that joke i just made...terrible...
is this thread another trolololololololol f7u12 the narwhal midnights at bacon why u no read post u link 2?
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i see no joke about GPS, only people thinking 3g is coming anytime in the near future.....lasers would be cool as well though.....even the gps link goes on to talk about the now old 8.33 update and no joke there.....either that or your laugh tolerance is exteremly low and your the type to laugh at having 12 items in the 12 items lane at wallmart....or that joke i just made...terrible...
is this thread another trolololololololol f7u12 the narwhal midnights at bacon why u no read post u link 2?
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I thought the reference to the GPS upgrade referred to the GPS problem. Did I miss something? Here is the quote:
"According to a statement by the company, "no such product exists on its current roadmap" -- and keep in mind, that roadmap navigating comes after a GPS upgrade."
I am not a troll. I like my Prime, but I would like if it didn't have any problems with GPS and Wi-Fi. I am hoping that Asus can fix all the issues, and I am grateful for people like Gary Key on this forum trying to help us out.
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i see no joke about GPS, only people thinking 3g is coming anytime in the near future.....lasers would be cool as well though.....even the gps link goes on to talk about the now old 8.33 update and no joke there.....either that or your laugh tolerance is exteremly low and your the type to laugh at having 12 items in the 12 items lane at wallmart....or that joke i just made...terrible...
is this thread another trolololololololol f7u12 the narwhal midnights at bacon why u no read post u link 2?
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It wasn't THAT funny but it was a cute reference. ASUS used the word "roadmap" and they took that as an opportunity to refer to ASUS' mishandling of the GPS situation.
grumblers said:
Nice one. I'll give it 1 lowercase lol.
Joking aside though, who carries a tablet without a cell phone. And who wouldn't just root and tether (excluding non-readers of xda) to their phone? Why pay for 2 data plans?
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To bad under ICS they busted ad hoc tether - something many phones using tether apps rely on - unless your phone is on a ROM that has a native cooked in tether or you have native tether on your phone many are SOL right now until we can get it fixed.
theizzardking said:
i see no joke about GPS, only people thinking 3g is coming anytime in the near future.....lasers would be cool as well though.....even the gps link goes on to talk about the now old 8.33 update and no joke there.....either that or your laugh tolerance is exteremly low and your the type to laugh at having 12 items in the 12 items lane at wallmart....or that joke i just made...terrible...
is this thread another trolololololololol f7u12 the narwhal midnights at bacon why u no read post u link 2?
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The joke was
"According to a statement by the company, "no such product exists on its current roadmap" -- and keep in mind, that roadmap navigating comes after a GPS upgrade. "
Asus cannot catch a break it seems.
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"have been greatly exaggerated"
Seems that has been used up to the prime's release. I feel prime owners became beta testers for a price of $499 for the new upcoming TF700T.
junrider said:
"have been greatly exaggerated"
Seems that has been used up to the prime's release. I feel prime owners became beta testers for a price of $499 for the new upcoming TF700T.
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It is hard to disagree really!
Obviously the TF700T has better Wifi and GPS based on what happened with the original Prime Release in Taiwan. Just look at the new design. I also bet the upgraded Prime will not have the "Serial Number Unknown" problem since Asus will be sure to make sure that doesn't happen again, at least when they find how to fix it.
Also, I wonder if the new casing for the TF700t will have a bit more room, or not apply so much pressure to the screen/glass. The Light Bleeding on mine appeared to be from the glass pressing so hard against the screen. If I simply pushed on the edges of my prime, ONLY ON THE SIDE WITH LIGHT BLEED, it would get worse. The sides without light bleed did nothing when pressing on the edges of the screen.
Diecast17 must be new here.. let me explain it:
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To bad under ICS they busted ad hoc tether - something many phones using tether apps rely on - unless your phone is on a ROM that has a native cooked in tether or you have native tether on your phone many are SOL right now until we can get it fixed.
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I wander why my droid x is able to connect ? AT 1st it couldn't but when i downloaded the app I mentioned in the other thread it begin working again.I love my Prime esecially since i have this keyboard dock & typing is a breeze now.But when the new Prime comes out I will be selling this one unless there's talk of Tegra 4 by then will I'm sure there will be.
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Diecast17 must be new here.. let me explain it:
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Just returned this $500 crap. Good bye ASUS.
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ljwnow said:
Just returned this $500 crap. Good bye ASUS.
Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using xda premium
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You obviously didn't use it.
The Transformer Prime works for me, I don't use my tablet as a GPS, simply because my car has a better navigation system, and I rarely use that. TFP seem to costly of an item to risk it as a car fixture to begin with, it's a tablet computer after all.
**** you Asus. $500 for this utter piece of **** tablet. I can't use gmail, email, maps, calendar, widgets, no games at all, pretty much ANYTHING, because everything just hangs after a few seconds. I've waited since last December, one update after the other, even went through a month long RMA, so far no sign of improvement. With the last bits of patience left I'll wait for the jelly bean update... and then if the prime still sucks - I'm going to punch a hole in this thing with a hammer, apply the baseball bat treatment office space style, and post pictures of it here.
Rant from my Transformer Prime TF201 using xda app-developers app
attila123456 said:
**** you Asus. $500 for this utter piece of **** tablet. I can't use gmail, email, maps, calendar, widgets, no games at all, pretty much ANYTHING, because everything just hangs after a few seconds. I've waited since last December, one update after the other, even went through a month long RMA, so far no sign of improvement. With the last bits of patience left I'll wait for the jelly bean update... and then if the prime still sucks - I'm going to punch a hole in this thing with a hammer, apply the baseball bat treatment office space style, and post pictures of it here.
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Cool story bro!
attila123456 said:
**** you Asus. $500 for this utter piece of **** tablet. I can't use gmail, email, maps, calendar, widgets, no games at all, pretty much ANYTHING, because everything just hangs after a few seconds. I've waited since last December, one update after the other, even went through a month long RMA, so far no sign of improvement. With the last bits of patience left I'll wait for the jelly bean update... and then if the prime still sucks - I'm going to punch a hole in this thing with a hammer, apply the baseball bat treatment office space style, and post pictures of it here.
Rant from my Transformer Prime TF201 using xda app-developers app
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Or you could sell it on ebay and donate the money to a charity that you feel could use it...
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Rant from my Transformer Prime TF201 using xda app-developers app
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Obviously the xda app works fine.
Sent from the matrix. (or my phone)
RAM Manager PRO with profile hard gaming fixed all my problems ! I was like you since january... Using that app and slide out apps from recent apps list when I finish using them, gives me 0 crashes.
Try It man !
Good luck !
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what an asinine, garbage, crybaby, meaningless post. sounds like you have a lemon. and in the minority.
take your ranting elsewhere. no one here cares.
reported.
kingdazy said:
what an asinine, garbage, crybaby, meaningless post. sounds like you have a lemon. and in the minority.
take your ranting elsewhere. no one here cares.
reported.
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Why shouldn't he be able to let off a bit of steam after waiting nine months for updates to fix his problems and going through a lengthy RMA process that still didn't fix the issues he's having. It sounds like his Prime is unusable in it's current state which is unacceptable for a $500+ product. I'm sure the stories of being upgraded to an Infinity or being given a full refund doesn't help the situation either, it saddens me to see other people given a get out of jail free card when I'm left with a product I find sub-par from a technical standpoint that I have no way of getting rid of.
Moothead2 said:
Why shouldn't he be able to let off a bit of steam after waiting nine months for updates to fix his problems and going through a lengthy RMA process that still didn't fix the issues he's having. It sounds like his Prime is unusable in it's current state which is unacceptable for a $500+ product. I'm sure the stories of being upgraded to an Infinity or being given a full refund doesn't help the situation either, it saddens me to see other people given a get out of jail free card when I'm left with a product I find sub-par from a technical standpoint that I have no way of getting rid of.
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I do think he was overly harsh against folks who have problems and cant help themselves. However I got the same weak wifi laggy prime everybody else with problems had, I just did something about it instead of waiting too long to return it and crying the blues. If my college student kid came to me and said I got some tech that is unusable as is but I waited too long to return it. I would ask her whose fault is that?
Instead of giving us that excuse on why you haven't applied a hammer to it yet due to wait on upcoming JB release.
Why don't you just go to ASUS and download the 4.1 JellyBean update for TF300 and install in on your TF201.
Whilst I agree that's what should happen, many people either naively hoped for future fixes and so kept it as it would be a struggle to get another at the time or like myself were unaware of some of the issues until it was too late (I had less than a week since I bought it abroad from a shop that doesn't operate over here). I wasn't able to compare the WiFi since I didn't know where the router was in the Villa I was staying in and had no other device to compare it to so was ignorant to the WiFi problem which I guess you could partly blame me for for not checking online. Many aren't willing to open their Prime's like you did (A move I may try if the WiFi is still poor after my RMA) to fix their issues out of fear of another issue coming up and then not being able to RMA it for that issue.
Moothead2 said:
Whilst I agree that's what should happen, many people either naively hoped for future fixes and so kept it as it would be a struggle to get another at the time or like myself were unaware of some of the issues until it was too late (I had less than a week since I bought it abroad from a shop that doesn't operate over here). I wasn't able to compare the WiFi since I didn't know where the router was in the Villa I was staying in and had no other device to compare it to so was ignorant to the WiFi problem which I guess you could partly blame me for for not checking online. Many aren't willing to open their Prime's like you did (A move I may try if the WiFi is still poor after my RMA) to fix their issues out of fear of another issue coming up and then not being able to RMA it for that issue.
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if they do your rma right they should fix the wifi. I wish you luck. I hope they dont screw your ability to unlock whilst doing so.
Istarth said:
RAM Manager PRO with...
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I totally read that as "RMA Manager PRO"
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Please direct any complaints you might have to this official Asus customer service representative.....
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