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Tablet is dead, what a piece of crap

Well my transformer lasted almost a week. Now it won't turn on. Lame.

I think mines is as well...

Good...everyone wanted to know!

Seriously??? I really am wanting one. They sounded so good.
Is it dead because you tried to root it and throw Roms at it or anything like that?
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Mine still works from the 27th. So no worries
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Had mine for 3 weeks, no such problem.

You know you'd get more help if you explained your situation rather than just talking like an emo kid.

maybe if you explained what you have tried? Have you tried holding the power button in for 10 seconds + then turning on? Have asus confirmed that the unit is a dud?

Mine is fine as well. Got it on release day

Mine is still working fine. Had it since 7th April. Have you tried any software modifications? Dropped it? Of course it could be bad luck as every consumer level device has a small % of failures.
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mine sometimes randomly turns off i think. It takes awhile to get it to power back on =\
edit: i haven't actually seen it turn off though so maybe something was just pushing on the power button or something

I've had mine rarely stop responding to the power button after being left a long time (overnight or such).
Hold power down for about 15 seconds to turn it off, then wait a few seconds, then turn on again as usual. It's early adoption of a new OS, there's gonna be some bugs, I'd hardly call this a show stopper.

i had mines since US launch and its been fine. I had to wipe the OS cause of setting VTL LAuncher as default wont not log into the lock screen,(after shutting it down) other then that its fine.

IFANBOY!!!!!!!
HATER!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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turtlesoup77 said:
Well my transformer lasted almost a week. Now it won't turn on. Lame.
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Mine works fine, it's been 8 days!

my xoom appears to be dead (?)

Hello, android developer here.
The other day my xoom drained all the way to 0% (this happened overnight while I was asleep). I noticed right away because I use the xoom as my alarm clock. I ended up sleeping in that day (doh!)
Anyways, now the darn thing simply wont turn on. I try to soft reset (vol up + power) but nothing happens. I tried plugging it in via usb thinking I could reboot it with adb, but my computer fails to see the device. So its turned off and simply will not turn on. I've even let it charge for 2 days straight (green charge light on device).
Nothing.
What the heck man?

Dumb question.... How long have you held the power button? My Xoom (maybe others?) won't turn on unless I hold the button for 2-3 seconds.

Ive gone up to 60 seconds of button pressing...when it doesnt work one tends to go to extremes lol
I can't believe this, first time I've ever had a device die like this :-/

Did you charge it before you tried to turn it back on? My Milestone tends not to turn on after it drained below zero for like ten minutes until the battery has at least some basic charge again.

Try turning on right 3~4 minutes later putting on a yiur charger
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Zhenech said:
Did you charge it before you tried to turn it back on? My Milestone tends not to turn on after it drained below zero for like ten minutes until the battery has at least some basic charge again.
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Yeah its been charged for 48 hours now, green light on power indicator as well.
It still wont boot. I tell ya its the strangest thing I've seen in a while...

did you try booting in recovery? vol down ±power

zylith said:
did you try booting in recovery? vol down ±power
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Of course. I've tried every combo imaginable.
F this, I'm getting an ipad.

techs1200 said:
Of course. I've tried every combo imaginable.
F this, I'm getting an ipad.
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If you really want the iPad, here's the perfect excuse.
However, if you want to save your Xoom, you might want to check out the Motorola Factory cable from Team Black Hat (Google it). If there was ever a use for this cable, your situation seems to define it. Your Xoom seems to think it's not charged (drained) or can't take a charge, but it sounds more like the former situation. The Factory/Programming cable obviously makes a different electrical connection and makes the Xoom think it's charged...something like that. Check it out.
Also, at least one person made one out of a usb cable and it saved his bacon. You'll have to do a search for his thread...it was a while back.
Good luck, what ever you do.

You need to make or buy the motorola factory cable. That will get you booting.
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Well I did buy an iPad2 a few days ago, but I will definitely be making one of those cables.
Wow, thanks so much! XDA never disappoints

Remove your SD card then restart... Happens to me all the time..
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davidblaine021 said:
Remove your SD card then restart... Happens to me all the time..
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Yes, I have seen this also. Pull out the SD card and the unit comes back to life.

Great its frozen

Running fine for a day, then suddenly when i looked at the screen it was at the "Asus" screen (with the logo and spinny thing below) - i touched the screen and it froze.
And now its frozen.
And I had just charged it...grrr - do i really have to wait 12 hours or however much it takes before the battery is depleted.
I wonder if there is a way to reset it.

Kermode said:
Running fine for a day, then suddenly when i looked at the screen it was at the "Asus" screen (with the logo and spinny thing below) - i touched the screen and it froze.
And now its frozen.
And I had just charged it...grrr - do i really have to wait 12 hours or however much it takes before the battery is depleted.
I wonder if there is a way to reset it.
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Hold the power button down.
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Happened to several guys.
Did you try to press and hold power for ten or more seconds? It should power off and you should be able to power it on again.

this is happened to me 3 times so far.
Hold the power button to power off and reboot.
For mine after it boots it'll run ok for a minute or so, then run horribly slow until the launcher crashes. after the launcher starts back up it'd be ok.
Did you hard reset before the OTA? Where you stock, stock rooted, cwm flashed? Just trying to get more info.

fone_fanatic said:
this is happened to me 3 times so far.
Hold the power button to power off and reboot.
For mine after it boots it'll run ok for a minute or so, then run horribly slow until the launcher crashes. after the launcher starts back up it'd be ok.
Did you hard reset before the OTA? Where you stock, stock rooted, cwm flashed? Just trying to get more info.
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We are having way too many threads for the same issue...
Mine still experiences the problem after a factory reset.
As everyone mentioned, holding down the power button fix it temporarily.
Someone else reported that you can avoid the random reboot problem by disabling deep sleep using no sleep widget, although it's a crude walkaround.
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Just an idea but what if you use something like SetCPU and up the lower frequency. Had this issue on a kanged ICS rom for my phone. It wasn't the deep sleep that was the problem but the lowest frequency was too low to re-initialize the apps that were cached once you woke it up.
I did a full complete wipe and updated from .13 to ICS and am not going to jinx myself by saying what I am implying. If you know what I mean.

Interesting, and I do agree that there are too many threads, since I am trying to get some idea of how common this is. I think I was the original poster on this, but in any case in my particular situation I tried holding the power button down, resetting it through the reset hole, and holding the power button in while pressing the volume button down (this did give me the option of reformatting which I tried) but in every case it simply flashed the eedpad screen. The battery finally appears to have died and I'm trying to recharge it now, but so far it is now completely dead. All of this happened after it went into deep sleep. This tablet is 100% original, never been rooted or tampered with in any way so, unless this is a coincidence or a combo of ICS and one of the apps I have in it, I expect this to become a very common occurence. Anyway, I'll let it charge for a bit and see what happens. I already have an RMA (the service person didn't seem too surprised and didn't really try much trouble shooting - when I asked if he had heard of this before he kind of said I wasn't the first) so I'm sending it back to Asus on Monday so that when I get it back I can sell it, but I'm just wondering what percentage of people are having this problem. Heck, if it's even just 5% Asus is going to have a major expense on its hand.

I had the dreaded Asus logo freeze twice now, since the ics update. Both times when I wasn't using the tablet.
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Mine has frozen 2x already since the ics update. I performed a factory reset before and after the update.
Screen just goes black/blank and would have to hold the power button for 10secs.
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Hey thanks, I thought I had pressed power down for long enough - but apparently not.
I was on normal HC and just accepted the update when it prompted me for it.
But if a lot of people are seeing this i guess Asus made a little blunder in this version.

I just came in after leaving my Transformer asleep for about three to four hours, and found the asus logo flashing on for a few seconds and then off, repeating over and over. Had to do a reset with power and vol down to get it to reboot. Seems OK for now except it really drained the battery.
I guess there will be a few ICS bugs to work out.

jparity said:
We are having way too many threads for the same issue...
Mine still experiences the problem after a factory reset.
As everyone mentioned, holding down the power button fix it temporarily.
Someone else reported that you can avoid the random reboot problem by disabling deep sleep using no sleep widget, although it's a crude walkaround.
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About the "No Sleep" widget, that was me. Well, this seems to be a widespread issue. Asus should take the update back and stop offering OTA...this is a pretty big issue.
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msaraiva said:
About the "No Sleep" widget, that was me. Well, this seems to be a widespread issue. Asus should take the update back and stop offering OTA...this is a pretty big issue.
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Well asus is good about providing prompt follow up updates so I wouldn't be surprised if we start getting bugfix updates in the coming weeks.

Yea seems like the TF only goes crazy when it's in sleep/not being used.
Mine is not rooted so I don't really want to go through the trouble changing processor frequency.
Where is the reset hole btw?...
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It's next to the hdmi port.
jparity said:
Yea seems like the TF only goes crazy when it's in sleep/not being used.
Mine is not rooted so I don't really want to go through the trouble changing processor frequency.
Where is the reset hole btw?...
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r_nt said:
It's next to the hdmi port.
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Isn't that the mic? I don't believe that's a reset button. I could be wrong though
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eminembdg said:
Isn't that the mic? I don't believe that's a reset button. I could be wrong though
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There isn't holding the power button for 15 seconds resets it.
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r_nt said:
It's next to the hdmi port.
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I thought it's the mic too... Does your voice record still work after you "reset" your TF?...
Edit: Saw the dreaded Asus loading screen again when I came back from dinner... 3rd time today... It's getting on my nerves a bit now. Such a pity that the TF is perfect besides this issue... I don't care if it reboots every hour or so, as long as it doesn't hang and depletes the battery.

Just to clarify, and so others don't break their microphone,THERE IS NO RESET HOLE! if your device is frozen, hold the power button to reset.
Are we certain its the deep sleep causing this?
Didn't happen to me this morning. I stopped using it around midnight and woke up fine the next day.

fone_fanatic said:
Just to clarify, and so others don't break their microphone,THERE IS NO RESET HOLE! if your device is frozen, hold the power button to reset.
Are we certain its the deep sleep causing this?
Didn't happen to me this morning. I stopped using it around midnight and woke up fine the next day.
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How do you it didn't happen? It doesn't get stuck at the ASUS logo for me, it simply reboots. Try leaving something open, like a browser window, turn off the screen and come back sometime later. If it's back to the homescreen and there are no recent apps, then it rebooted.
I don't know if it is the deep sleep that is causing it. All i know is that the bug is only triggered while sleeping. Every logcat i get stops at an AlarmManager event, before the reboot.
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Phone shuts off and freezes

2 days ago my phone (for the first time) just shut off and wouldn't turn back on even if I held the power button. It turned back on after plugging it into an outlet and holding the power button. The same thing happened today.
I'm using the stock battery (I just bought the Anker battery because I figure it's the battery causing issues) and I'm on Scott's CleanROM. I've had the phone since July (brand new) and haven't had any problems since.

How long have you been on this rom/release version? Got a new kernel or try any new kernel settings? Maybe try using the new battery for a few days to see if that's the problem?

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How long have you been on this rom/release version? Got a new kernel or try any new kernel settings? Maybe try using the new battery for a few days to see if that's the problem?
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+1. Sound kernel related. Did you mess with any voltage settings?
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AT&T - S4 - CleanROM 1.5 is the exact ROM I've had since I installed it. I'm not too sure what "kernal" means so I didn't change any voltage settings or anything like that.

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+1. Sound kernel related. Did you mess with any voltage settings?
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iTech02 said:
AT&T - S4 - CleanROM 1.5 is the exact ROM I've had since I installed it. I'm not too sure what "kernal" means so I didn't change any voltage settings or anything like that.
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OP, test that secondary battery out and see if that's your problem. keep us posted.
Br4nd3n, your device configuration is almost identical to mine. cheers.

Great setup isn't it? Cheers!
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iTech02 said:
2 days ago my phone (for the first time) just shut off and wouldn't turn back on even if I held the power button. It turned back on after plugging it into an outlet and holding the power button. The same thing happened today.
I'm using the stock battery (I just bought the Anker battery because I figure it's the battery causing issues) and I'm on Scott's CleanROM. I've had the phone since July (brand new) and haven't had any problems since.
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I had a problem like this too, running a different ROM, CM 10.1, a nightly - I removed my battery and fully charged it in a stand-alone charger and returned it to my device and haven't had an issue since.

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I had a problem like this too, running a different ROM, CM 10.1, a nightly - I removed my battery and fully charged it in a stand-alone charger and returned it to my device and haven't had an issue since.
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I think I just got unlucky with a defective OEM battery. The new battery comes in tomorrow so I'll stick it in there and let you guys know what happens.
Ironically, my phone has this issue when the battery discharges to around ~40%. It's fully charged right now so I want to test that theory as well.

iTech02 said:
I think I just got unlucky with a defective OEM battery. The new battery comes in tomorrow so I'll stick it in there and let you guys know what happens.
Ironically, my phone has this issue when the battery discharges to around ~40%. It's fully charged right now so I want to test that theory as well.
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Well whatever works for ya. I'd hate to be that one case of a bad battery. Let us know.

So that didn't fix anything since I got the same issue again today with the Anker battery. I have a feeling it's the "hover your hand over the phone" gesture since this happens when the phone is in my pocket pressing against my wallet.

a co worker has a s8 that died currently has no led when plugged in to charge

The screen is black but it flickers in random places but only for a millisecond can not reboot even with power+vol up +bixbi
Laptop does not see it
anyone have any idea of what to do
he has tried different chargers,cord,wireless charging,none work no LED light
He started having issue right after going through TSA at the airport scanner, probably not related

Has your co-worker's phone come back on? I think this may become more of an issue than just a few phones. This is the third I've run across, in the same basic time frame, all in December 2017. Mine was on NYE and I had been working in the morning with my phone, put it in my pocket (loose fitting, pajama/lounge pants), and later pulled it out to use it again. It was off. I thought maybe I had somehow hit the power button while in my pocket, but it wouldn't come back on. No extreme temperatures and no forewarning of any kind... After researching how to get it turned back on and getting several misdirections, I got it to come back on the next day by pressing and holding the POWER button, the VOLUME UP button, and the BIXBY button simultaneously until the phone vibrates and comes back on.
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EDIT: I didn't catch that you had already tried this process. Do you know if this was the first time they have had this issue? Did they get the phone going again with another method, or are they still trying to get an answer? Obviously, I am very interested to hear how this turns out for them!
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I would highly discourage anyone from disabling the Bixby button or setting it to "No Action" on the phone. If the phone dies again, and you have already disabled it, you will not be able to perform this restart. I am trying to find a solution to this very situation right now. My phone went down, dead as a doornail, after I had recovered it once and disabled the Bixby button. I had no idea it would die again, for no apparent reason, since it has always run perfectly since the day I bought it. When I tried my restart method I described above, it did nothing. Of course it did nothing, because I told the Bixby button to take no action!
I'm just trying to make sure that no one else has to go through this... If anyone knows of a solution to re-enable the Bixby button when the phone is OFF, please post here! I'm desperate to get my phone back!!

deadcatsrule said:
The screen is black but it flickers in random places but only for a millisecond can not reboot even with power+vol up +bixbi
Laptop does not see it
anyone have any idea of what to do
he has tried different chargers,cord,wireless charging,none work no LED light
He started having issue right after going through TSA at the airport scanner, probably not related
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I don't know the fix. But there is a bug in s8s and note 8 if the battery dies to far lifess
It's on xdas home screen now lol. I m not at my pc or I could link it. But it apparently is a common issue

TheMadScientist said:
I don't know the fix. But there is a bug in s8s and note 8 if the battery dies to far lifess
It's on xdas home screen now lol. I m not at my pc or I could link it. But it apparently is a common issue
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Any idea if it affects both the Snapdragon and Exynos variants? I just got an S8 and this is kinda terrifying me...

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Any idea if it affects both the Snapdragon and Exynos variants? I just got an S8 and this is kinda terrifying me...
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https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-note-8-deep-discharge-protection/

His phone is officially a paper weight.he is low tech and he bought the phone new in the box out right so the phone is totally stock .the phone appears to be on you just can not wake it up.he is sending It in for warranty
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TheMadScientist said:
I don't know the fix. But there is a bug in s8s and note 8 if the battery dies to far lifess
It's on xdas home screen now lol. I m not at my pc or I could link it. But it apparently is a common issue
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Thank you for your reply! I'm really trying to fix this without having to spend a bunch of money. I don't have the protection plan from my service provider (thanks, Mr. Salesman for not adding it!), and I didn't catch it in time to get it after the purchase. The battery has not been allowed to go completely dead for more than two times since July. I try to keep it charged between 20% and 80-100%. I don't leave it on the charger overnight (anymore) and have been vigilant to minimize the draw on the battery using Greenify and keeping an eye on the device maintenance.
I will go to the home screen and check it out though, so thanks for the heads up!

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His phone is officially a paper weight.he is low tech and he bought the phone new in the box out right so the phone is totally stock .the phone appears to be on you just can not wake it up.he is sending It in for warranty
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What model of phone is it? (Like SM-G950F or SM-G950U)

tomiga said:
What model of phone is it? (Like SM-G950F or SM-G950U)
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I will check with him but with out the phone powering up i doubt he can tell me,he ordered it from walmart (Indiana)and used it for straight talk,
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deadcatsrule said:
His phone is officially a paper weight.he is low tech and he bought the phone new in the box out right so the phone is totally stock .the phone appears to be on you just can not wake it up.he is sending It in for warranty
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By the way there's more than just corn in indiana

https://www.xda-developers.com/samsung-galaxy-note-8-galaxy-s8-battery-issues/
This applies to s8 s8+ and note 8

deadcatsrule said:
I will check with him but with out the phone powering up i doubt he can tell me,he ordered it from walmart (Indiana)and used it for straight talk,
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Sounds like it's a U model/Snapdragon model then. I'm really starting to wonder if this is only affecting Snapdragon variant S8/S8+/Note 8's.

tomiga said:
Sounds like it's a U model/Snapdragon model then. I'm really starting to wonder if this is only affecting Snapdragon variant S8/S8+/Note 8's.
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Its a SM-G950U
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