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Ok, I just got this Gtab from woot a few weeks ago
and like the next day, flashed Vegan 5.1 and the suppliment
and whenever I plug it in to charge, the screen shuts off and on and off maybe three or four times before settling on one or the other
It only does this when it's charging
also, when I wake it up from sleep, the reboot/shut down menu pops up
like I've been holding the power button 5 seconds
I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or software, but I can't find any information anywhere
I suspect it's the button, but the button feels pretty solid, and it's not wiggling or anything and it only seems to do this when it's charging
Any advice? Since I got it from Woot, there isn't a store that I can exchange it for another one if it is a Hardware problem...
Did you do a master data reset after flashing the rom? I had some weird behavior in my home and search buttons before I did that.
Gendo3 said:
Ok, I just got this Gtab from woot a few weeks ago
and like the next day, flashed Vegan 5.1 and the suppliment
and whenever I plug it in to charge, the screen shuts off and on and off maybe three or four times before settling on one or the other
It only does this when it's charging
also, when I wake it up from sleep, the reboot/shut down menu pops up
like I've been holding the power button 5 seconds
I'm not sure if this is a hardware problem or software, but I can't find any information anywhere
I suspect it's the button, but the button feels pretty solid, and it's not wiggling or anything and it only seems to do this when it's charging
Any advice? Since I got it from Woot, there isn't a store that I can exchange it for another one if it is a Hardware problem...
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This happens to me (and others), as well. I've just learned to live with it.
Check Clemsyn's kernels.. it seems as if they are working on trying to tackle some of these issues..?
This happened to me on Vegan 5.1.1. Im using Vegan GB experimental now and no longer have the issue.
It is definitely something with Vegan. I have found that if you press the button briefly (1 second) and then wait.. it will usually wake up cleanly. Sometimes, when yo do this it will flash the unlock screen, and then go dark again.. so you may have to repeat. However, if you hold the button a long time like you are doing, you run the risk of rebooting the thing if you hold it too long, so the short press technique seems to work better.
I am experimenting to see if running something like captivate keep alive will fix the problem.. but I think the answer may be "no".
Update for people searching for a solution;
Clemsyn's kernel seems like it did the trick. it hasnt done that since installing the kernel two days ago
I tried the different methods or hard reset, Power + Volume buttons, Power + touch screen, still nothing; I let it charge for several hours still nothing, blank screen. The product IS under warranty but I have received it as a gift and don't have the receipt, plus the person who bought it paid by cash and can not obtain the receipt from the store, what can I do , ? Thanks
I have experienced thos with my SGT on several occasions. I just let it charge a while, then press the power button down for a minute plus. It usually starts up. If not, I let it charge a bit longer and try again. Seems to be happening ever since I put pershoot's kernel on my tab. Maybe I need to update it?
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ButtonBoy said:
I have experienced thos with my SGT on several occasions. I just let it charge a while, then press the power button down for a minute plus. It usually starts up. If not, I let it charge a bit longer and try again. Seems to be happening ever since I put pershoot's kernel on my tab. Maybe I need to update it?
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The "sleep of death" is an issue in honeycomb itself. Pershoot's kernel should fix this not cause it. You should always use the latest version of his kernel, he works hard to fix these issue for us. Since kernel flashing takes all of two minutes there is not reason not too.
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I have experienced it two times with 10.1 Wifi and stock rom. It just would not turn on. Tried all combination. I've then waited five minutes, tried again, and it worked. It booted and the battery was at 98%. This is a really scary bug!
this happened to me before
unplug it from the charger and keep pressing on the power buttons until you see the samsung galaxy tab logo
I just got my TP today-My question to those who have been using it :
Is it better to do a full "power off" when finished using at the end of the day?
OR- should I just let it sleep and take the hit on slight overnight battery drain?
Letting it sleep might help limit wear and tear on power button i would think, but will sleep cause a shortened battery life?
Would love to hear what others think!
I'd like to hear an expert chime in here.
I haven't turned my tablet off since I got it. It's nice to have it laying around the house, ready to rock at any time. I mean, I do the same thing with all of my electronic devices (they are always in sleep mode).
Plus, if I understand things correctly, much of the components of smart phones are shared in tablets... and most people generally don't turn their phones off. I'd assume these devices are designed to be left on all the time.
I'd like to hear from someone to
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I generally turn off when I go to bed then turn on once I wake up then by time IM done showing device it's powered on and ready to go
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I like to turn off so it's like a fresh start in the morning
I have had my TF101 since June, my TP will be here at the end of the week (just got UPS tracking from BB ordered on Christmas Eve).
My TF101 has not been turned off ever, in 6 months the only time it gets turned off is when it takes an updated to reboot or in the rare instances I have run it dry without having the ability to plug it in. I charge it every couple of days depending on use and my wife and I just pick it up whenever we need it, never worrying about it being on or not.
I liked to reboot my tf101 every couple of days, idk if it was placebo, but scrolling seemed smoother after reboot and after a couple days it would get sluggish again til I reboot
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I am also wondering, is there a way to wake the device up from sleep by touching the screen? I would prefer this rather than having to hold down the power button every time to wake it up-
If the OS cannot do this on it's own, does anyone know of an APP that can add this feature?
My TF is plug in every night (just by habit cause most of the time the battery is at 75%) and in sleep mode.
When it's not charging it barely lose 2% overnight and everything is sync when I wake up.
My advice, let it in sleep mode. Everyone hate looking 2 minutes at a booting screen.
I dunno man but when I powered off my Prime it didn't come back. It's on it's way to NCIX for replacement right now.
Might be good not to test if yours will survive a shut down!
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I dunno man but when I powered off my Prime it didn't come back. It's on it's way to NCIX for replacement right now.
Might be good not to test if yours will survive a shut down!
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I am backing up londongentleman. Do not turn yours off. Why well my transformer prime had slight browser lag. I shut mine down and it will not come back even trying a hard reset too. When I return mine back to Best Buy I ask the manager in charge of all the tablets and he told me that over half of the Primes they sold have come back with this issue not being able to turning back on. He also told me that Best Buy is pull their Primes till mid January it could be to this issue not sure. So I decided to call Asus. The technician I got hold of said that he has had a lot of call of Primes not power on after being shut down. He told me that they are looking into but it looks like it power regulation on the hardware. I hope this helps.
That sucks. But I imagine you'd want to know if your tablet was defective.
Have you guys tried plugging in the AC power and then holding the button for 15 seconds or so? Sometimes that works.
just tested mines again. it powers on and off just fine. I'd be pissed if I powered down n then it wouldn't cut back on. I usually leave mines on all the time. same with my Ipad. these devices have a great sleep function to where hardly any power drains. I think I read before my Ipad, on a full charge, can last like 30 days with no use in sleep mode. I wonder how long the prime would last considering this has better batery life than my ipad1. reviewers confirmed and I did also. I got about 8 hrs. last night on the prime in normal mode with very heavy usage like games, web surfing etc... plus I still had about 20% battery left before i went to sleep nplugged it in. it hardly had any sleep tine also. mostly constant usage. I've noticed, depending on use, device will drain about 10% or less per hour in balanced or normal mode. of course balanced drains even less but really depends on usage. I want to try out battery savings mode to see how long we can get on this. I started a Performance mode thread here in general for people to report findings or thoughts on the different power modes. like how much battery life you getting on that particular setting or any performance findings.
Slept for 8 hours tablet in power saving mode dropped 1 percent also got 3 emails that night and market pulled down updates so very good sleep battery life
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I am backing up londongentleman. Do not turn yours off. Why well my transformer prime had slight browser lag. I shut mine down and it will not come back even trying a hard reset too. When I return mine back to Best Buy I ask the manager in charge of all the tablets and he told me that over half of the Primes they sold have come back with this issue not being able to turning back on. He also told me that Best Buy is pull their Primes till mid January it could be to this issue not sure. So I decided to call Asus. The technician I got hold of said that he has had a lot of call of Primes not power on after being shut down. He told me that they are looking into but it looks like it power regulation on the hardware. I hope this helps.
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Interesting...thanks man. I was going to call ASUS but didn't... too lazy.
I really hope that whenever I get my new one the kinks have been worked out. It's funny, I was feeling all smug as I didn't really have any major issues with it...then it dies on me.
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Ravynmagi said:
That sucks. But I imagine you'd want to know if your tablet was defective.
Have you guys tried plugging in the AC power and then holding the button for 15 seconds or so? Sometimes that works.
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I've tried everything! It wasn't even recognized by my PC when I plugged it in. I tried restting, pressing volume - and power etc etc...
Just dead, plain and simple. Now the looooong wait for a replacement. At least I got to play around with it for a couple of hours.
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Slept for 8 hours tablet in power saving mode dropped 1 percent also got 3 emails that night and market pulled down updates so very good sleep battery life
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I think that's a good idea. whenever going to sleep or done with the prime for the day, put it in battery savings mode. especially if you don't plug up device everynight before going to sleep. it would drain even less through the night in sleep mode.
I left it in balanced and only went down 1% also
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demandarin said:
I think that's a good idea. whenever going to sleep or done with the prime for the day, put it in battery savings mode. especially if you don't plug up device everynight before going to sleep. it would drain even less through the night in sleep mode.
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I only plug in if battery is under 70 percent, if it's above just use battery saving mode and let it stay in sleep mode over night
Clarkkent434 said:
I am backing up londongentleman. Do not turn yours off. Why well my transformer prime had slight browser lag. I shut mine down and it will not come back even trying a hard reset too. When I return mine back to Best Buy I ask the manager in charge of all the tablets and he told me that over half of the Primes they sold have come back with this issue not being able to turning back on. He also told me that Best Buy is pull their Primes till mid January it could be to this issue not sure. So I decided to call Asus. The technician I got hold of said that he has had a lot of call of Primes not power on after being shut down. He told me that they are looking into but it looks like it power regulation on the hardware. I hope this helps.
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I'm just curious- Did you apply all of the Asus updates before doing the full power down? Mine seems to power back up (so far) from a complete shutdown- however:
I received an ASUS update available notification immediately at first power on- I completed the update, and rebooted. Then, I received a second Asus notification that an update to the device firmware was waiting to be installed- and I applied again. (not sure if these were 2 seperate updates, but it seemed this way.
For those who could not get the tablet to power back on: Please let us know if you applied any updates before you experienced the "wont power back on" issue- This would help others try to figure this out if it has to do with the updates or not....
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I'm just curious- Did you apply all of the Asus updates before doing the full power down? Mine seems to power back up (so far) from a complete shutdown- however:
I received an ASUS update available notification immediately at first power on- I completed the update, and rebooted. Then, I received a second Asus notification that an update to the device firmware was waiting to be installed- and I applied again. (not sure if these were 2 seperate updates, but it seemed this way.
For those who could not get the tablet to power back on: Please let us know if you applied any updates before you experienced the "wont power back on" issue- This would help others try to figure this out if it has to do with the updates or not....
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Well, I received one update on the 25th which I applied. I didn't get another before it went down for the count on the same day. Did your second update occur after the 25th?
I've only recievied one update so far. that was on 12/22 when I got the tablet. I applied it immediately. my device powers off n on fine. what's this second update people are speaking of? if I go to about tablet, then check for updates, it doesn't show any new ones available yet. hopefully next update will either be ICS or system update to calibrate/change values for GPS and wifi to work better/stronger. I have no wifi issues and haven't tested GPS yet.
So all seemed to be fine and dandy after the update, but I went to check something on my tablet and it wouldn't wake up. Pressing the power button, or even holding it didn't do anything; the screen was black. I held volume up and power and it vibrated, then I held it again and it vibrated again. The third time I did this, it finally booted up again.
Dunno what this means.
EDIT: Just happened again, although now I can't seem to get the thing back on. The screen is just off and vol. up + power only makes the thing vibrate after a few seconds. I simply left the prime on the lock screen and came back and it was stuck again.
Prime BT tether lockups
XHolyPuffX said:
So all seemed to be fine and dandy after the update, but I went to check something on my tablet and it wouldn't wake up. Pressing the power button, or even holding it didn't do anything; the screen was black. I held volume up and power and it vibrated, then I held it again and it vibrated again. The third time I did this, it finally booted up again.
Dunno what this means.
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Mine does the exact same thing when I tether it to my Sensation with BT.
I'm still on 2.11.1 though
UPDATE
I just manually updated my pad to .13 this morning. It did NOT alleviate my problem but it didn't make it any worse. Unlike many other user who report the lockups when sleep now, mine still only occurs when I tether BT and it goes to sleep. On the upside, I've tested my wifi and do confirm an improvement ~20% increase in signal strength and quality.
According to dd-wrt on my router signal increased from about ~49% to 63%
and Wifi analyzer signal strength ~77-68dB to ~54-47dB. I have not tested GPS.
Apparently the build variance between pads are reflected by the variance in the effects of the update
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Mine does the exact same thing when I tether it to my Sensation with BT.
I'm still on 2.11.1 though
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How do you get it back on? I can't seem to power it up now.
EDIT: Nevermind, I just held power and it turned back on after about 5-7 seconds. I think it might be a "Wifi off during sleep" issue..but idk.
XHolyPuffX said:
So all seemed to be fine and dandy after the update, but I went to check something on my tablet and it wouldn't wake up. Pressing the power button, or even holding it didn't do anything; the screen was black. I held volume up and power and it vibrated, then I held it again and it vibrated again. The third time I did this, it finally booted up again.
Dunno what this means.
EDIT: Just happened again, although now I can't seem to get the thing back on. The screen is just off and vol. up + power only makes the thing vibrate after a few seconds. I simply left the prime on the lock screen and came back and it was stuck again.
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same thing is happening to me after the update. My prime never used to do that but something in the update screwed with it. is there anyway we can revert back?
Doubt this is an update issue as I haven't seen it yet or most others. Or they all would be posting about it. That is strange though. You all didn't root n go messing around with stuff did you? Lol. If anything I'd try a fresh reboot. Maybe even clear out all the caches. Something else is seeming to cause this. By any chance did you install chrome beta? Some users reporting strange things since installing it. I don't think its the app but it is strange though or coincidence.
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Doubt this is an update issue as I haven't seen it yet or most others. Or they all would be posting about it. That is strange though. You all didn't root n go messing around with stuff did you? Lol. If anything I'd try a fresh reboot. Maybe even clear out all the caches. Something else is seeming to cause this. By any chance did you install chrome beta? Some users reporting strange things since installing it. I don't think its the app but it is strange though or coincidence.
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no I didn't root. I may factory reset if it keeps doing it and see if that works. I got a decent working prime and it would suck if this update is giving me problems. yes I did install chrome beta but this issue happened before I even installed it so that can't be it.
Ok, this has to do something with the update.
My perfectly fine from before prime wouldn't unlock. I couldn't get it to respond. (I thought it was dead..) I tried to unlock and pressed volume, did nothing.
I just read this thread and tried holding the power button and it vibrated and booted after the hold...
Asus needs to stop the patch roll out untill this is fixed...
Same problem for me. And after a short sleep, it wakes up, but there is a delay of about one half second that didn't used to be there.
-gary
After that one sleep, it has not yet repeated since last night for me
not only did mine do the same thing but it also killed my battery life while my Prime was sleeping... epic fail asus its time to return for a refund and never look back.
Maybe try reverting back and see if the problem goes away.
This hard-to-wake-up issue happened to me once after the update, but my Prime did finally wake up. Have not had the issue since. There was a lag in the wake up yesterday also, as others have mentioned, but even that seems to be gone now (or I'm just used to it).
Possible fixes for this situation:
1) Hard reset (stick an open small paper clip into the little hole just below the microSD) -- I'm sure most of you have tried this already...
And, if that doesn't work:
2) Hard reset, then reapply the .13 firmware update manually right after (assuming that is possible)
My tendency is to always do a hard reset just before any firmware updates -- makes me feel a little more confident. I was lazy and did not do that yesterday, but it won't happen again.
enough with this crap
Dude, you really gotta stop trolling, this is the third thread you are spewing this crap in in the last three I read.. You obviously are not returning it, you just like to *****.
PrimeTimeBro said:
not only did mine do the same thing but it also killed my battery life while my Prime was sleeping... epic fail asus its time to return for a refund and never look back.
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unsure if this is the right thread, but mine's been acting up since the update as well. when i'm actively using it and turn off the screen, it boots up as quick as before to the unlock screen. however, after letting it sit for a few hours, it seems to have shut off where i'll have to hold the power button on for a few seconds (after 2 or 3 tries) to get it to boot up again as if i reset the tab.
Having the same issues with mine as well. I have installed Chrome Beta, but had it running for a few days pre-update without issue.
I almost always keep mine in the dock, but haven't had a chance to determine if it only happens in the dock or not.
i have seen this occur in the past ..before the update.. i thought the battery was dead but plugging in the charger didnt do much.. held the power+vol up 3 times finally woke up .. and said 36% battery left... i m on the verge of returning this after 2 weeks of use.. just cant get over these silly silly issues
Mine just did the same thing. I'm on the newest update. Had to hold power button 10+ seconds for it to come back.
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Mine died over night with a charge of 36% in balanced mode. Had to hold the button down for 10 seconds to get it to turn on today after it was plugged in the charger for 20 minutes. Now when i wake it out of sleep there is a .5/1.5 second delay for the screen to come on.
Same issue
Had absolutely no issues with my tablet prior to this update - no random reboots, but now if it's off for a minute or more, I have to hold power in for 7-12 seconds to boot up the system.
Hey, just a thought.
Maybe also include the first few of your tablet's serial number to see if the problem is consistent with some batch(es) and not others? May help others that's going to update...
I found the cause of my SOD problems, but I'm not sure if it's the same for others, so here's a poll.
For me, if I used the 2A chargers of other brands, the phone quickly heats up and goes into SOD. I repeated thrice with the same results and each time I had to shutdown the phone (power + up volume key) and wait for at least 30 mins for the phone to cool down before it works normally again.
Hope this info helps some of you.
I have had this happen once no recent charging involved, i was trying to drain the battery had screen on full brightness with all power saving features off was ok for about an hour then the screen just died. i tried reset still started with back light issue, left it off for around 20 mins then started as normal. put settings back to how they were and had no problems since. wont be doing that again in a hurry gave me a heart attack.