Recently I noticed that my transformer is powered off; especially in the morning. The other day it wouldn't even start again. I tried holding down the power-button for serveral seconds without any reaction. Event pressing power and vol-down didn't show any reaction.
So I hooked up the transformer to the power cord, and tried a couple of days later, and it would turn on.
Since then I had a couple of times, where the transformer was just power off after I send it to sleep.
Is this a know bug? Is there any way to resolve this problem? What's causing this?
BTW: I'm running the stock ICS on an TF101G.
dabrain42 said:
Recently I noticed that my transformer is powered off; especially in the morning. The other day it wouldn't even start again. I tried holding down the power-button for serveral seconds without any reaction. Event pressing power and vol-down didn't show any reaction.
So I hooked up the transformer to the power cord, and tried a couple of days later, and it would turn on.
Since then I had a couple of times, where the transformer was just power off after I send it to sleep.
Is this a know bug? Is there any way to resolve this problem? What's causing this?
BTW: I'm running the stock ICS on an TF101G.
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That sounds like the SOD (Sleep Of Death) issues that have been occurring with ICS... If it happens again, try holding down power for 10-15 seconds, and then pressing power again to turn in back on....
If it is SOD, there really is nothing you can do about it other than waiting for an update from Asus (which is currently in beta testing, which is going well)....
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Is this update for the TF101G as well, or will it only available for the TF1010?
Also I had trouble turning the tablet back on ... when it first occured, holding down the power button for 10-15 secs and then pressing it again did not work. I had to charge the tablet for a couple of days before I could turn it back on again. Lately it would just turn on after this procedure.
Also just now I had like a infinite loop of restarts, where just the Asus logo would appear ... after about a dozen cycles the tablet finally started.
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Hello
I want to share something that happens to my Iconia. When connected to wifi, if I let the tablet sleep for some time, after I press the power button to wake it up, the screen does not respond. The only way out is to reset by keeping the power button pressed. The funny thing is that the tab does not freeze, only the screen as before reseting it asks me if I want to turn it off.
This has happened twice. Has anyone had the same issue?
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Hello
I want to share something that happens to my Iconia. When connected to wifi, if I let the tablet sleep for some time, after I press the power button to wake it up, the screen does not respond. The only way out is to reset by keeping the power button pressed. The funny thing is that the tab does not freeze, only the screen as before reseting it asks me if I want to turn it off.
This has happened twice. Has anyone had the same issue?
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I've actually had that happen to me a couple times recently. I'm not sure what's causing it, but I'm beginning to wonder if it continues to happen if we might not get some file-system corruption at some point. ? I wonder if it's a particular app that might be causing it. I haven't tracked it down yet, but I don't believe it ever happened to me before I put juice defender on the other day.
Its a known problem. I have had two acers, and both exhibited this problem. I tried factory resets, there is no getting around it. Just hope Acer issues a fix.
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Not sure if what I had was exactly the same thing. But my acer crashed twice this morning. completely unresponse. 1st time it was asleep and the screen came on by itself and stayed on the lock screen. but i couldn't unlock. 2nd time, i had just woken it up from sleep and checked for an update, then it froze.
Both times, i had to hold the power button down to turn off, but it didn't ask if i wanted to shut down.. it just waited about 5 secs then turned off.
This is the first time since I've had it (4 weeks) that this has happened.
I enabled the wifi to be turned off when the screen is turned off and this has fixed the screen being unresponsive when its turned on and I also don't see the screen randomly waking up.
Definitely there is something wrong with the wifi in the iconia although I don't see any signal drops
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Yes, this problem is actually listed quite a few times in the general Iconia issues thread and I think in some other threads as well.
I've placed a WiFi-widget on my desktop so I can switch off WiFi before putting my tablet to sleep. Since I am doing it that way, it hasn't frozen any more.
Seems I've gotten a pretty stubborn one. Can't get it to turn on. Is there anyway to force reset it?
me too... got into a lock screen and not able to push anything. when I push power button the 'do you want to turn off?' screen pops, but I'm not able to click on anything...
EDIT: adb doesn't detect my device, so thats not the way
you can hold the volume button on start up this will wipe all the date,
my gf did this yesterday then left it on the side as if nothing happend...
acid123 said:
you can hold the volume button on start up this will wipe all the date,
my gf did this yesterday then left it on the side as if nothing happend...
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No, this doesn't solve this problem as reported by numerous people on various forums.
Some people find that letting the battery completely run down and then install charging cable and are able to get screen to start responding again.
Unfortunately, I have the SOD on my second TF that is only 3 days old. My first TF is with Asus being repaired for what I presume was unrelated dark screen issues, but now I'm not so sure the problems aren't related.
I can get my TF to work if I connect the keyboard dock and use the mouse. But screen is still completely unresponsive to touch. Hopefully running the battery down does the trick. Got a video running with screen resolution all the way up to drain the battery quickly.
... I managed to reboot my transformer performing a sort of shamanic dance - I pushed the power button frantically and rotated the tablet so the screen switched from landscape to profile to 180 degrees to 270 and back and after few seconds it rebooted
Success in getting screen to respond again.
Found that letting battery completely drain and then attaching power cable restores touch screen functionality.
While aggravating, a lot better than having to send my second TF to Asus for repair...
My transformer does not boot!
I have had a Transformer for about ten days and right after buying it I successfully updated it to HC 3.1 without a problem. However, four days ago I was reading a review of Samsung Galaxy Tab at the Fox News website through the browser on the tablet and the screen just froze, became completely unresponsive. It was showing the webpage but none of the buttons or links responded. I waited for a few minutes, then turned the device off by pressing the power button for about 10 seconds.
Now, the device refuses to boot. I have tried pressing the power button in all sorts of ways: together with volume down button for 10, 15, 20 seconds; power button alone for 5, 10, 15 seconds; repeatedly pressed power button several times. Nothing worked. The screen is completely blank now. I don't even get the Asus EEE Pad boot up screen. When the tablet went dead, it had about 80% charge, but since it is off now, I don't know how to drain the battery, it could take many days! Any further advice?
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Now, the device refuses to boot. I have tried pressing the power button in all sorts of ways: together with volume down button for 10, 15, 20 seconds; power button alone for 5, 10, 15 seconds; repeatedly pressed power button several times. Nothing worked. The screen is completely blank now. I don't even get the Asus EEE Pad boot up screen. When the tablet went dead, it had about 80% charge, but since it is off now, I don't know how to drain the battery, it could take many days! Any further advice?
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Sound like your display is dead on your TF. I had the same issue. I had to connect my TF to my TV to get a display. With the TF connected to my TV I was able to get a picture on the TV, but still no picture on the TF. I also did a factory reset hoping it would resolve the issue but it didnt. I had to send it in to Asus for repair. My TF didnt locked up like yours. I had it on locked mode before leaving work, and then when I got home tried waking it up but it never turned on.
Hello guys,
i noticed that after the 3.2 update the tablet will wake up by touching the touchpad, with the "MobileDock Battery saving mode" option on, but not by pressing the dock's keys.
I performed a factory reset yesterday but the issue seems to persist. i noticed that it wakes up also when the dock/tablet is opened.
I contacted asus UK tech support but they advised to do a factory reset...not of much help so far. I am going to try again later on but i was wondering if any of you has experienced the same. I am not sure this happened with 3.1, i am sure my unit didn't wake up by pressing the keys on 3.1 though.
I think it is related to this issue too http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1151788
Any ideas?
it's normal. If you wait 5 mins the tablet will go into deep sleep and the touchpad will not wake the device.
I to can wake my unit by swiping the trackpad, just left it about an hour or so.
I have a b8O dock and B5O tab
I'm running prime 1.7, dock power saving active
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I thaught that i had the same problem, but my tf101 only wakes up when it was charging. If it's disconneted from the power source, after 5 or 10 minutes you must use the power button on the pad to turn it on.
I also changed the wifi power save policy to 'disabled when screen is off', and it looks like my battery drain problem has gone.
(charged it this night, used it for 1,5 hours ,6 hours standby and still >80% left on the dock).
Come to think of it, i never tested it on batt. only. It was alway connected to the psu.
Will try it now on batt.
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Just tested without the psu connected.
Nothing will wake the unit except for the pwr button.
Also looks like there is no batt. draining problem here.
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I did try again and after 10-15 minutes form pressing the power button to enter sleep mode, the touchpad doesn't seem to wake up the tablet anymore. This is with the Eee Pad docked and running on battery, using stock HC 3.2
I obviously did not wait long enough when testing this yesterday
Thanks for you feedback anyway
Its always the power button that wakes up the thing for me, even on custom roms.
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I did try again and after 10-15 minutes form pressing the power button to enter sleep mode, the touchpad doesn't seem to wake up the tablet anymore. This is with the Eee Pad docked and running on battery, using stock HC 3.2
I obviously did not wait long enough when testing this yesterday
Thanks for you feedback anyway
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That's Funny... I let mine un-plugged over night and then I opened the lid it woke up. Not a big deal to me, I actually prefer it that way. My battery drain was only like 2% after 7.5 hours, with wifi on.
Has anyone started getting the sleep of death since the touchwiz update? My tab at random times has a black screen and doesnt respond to the power button. If i hook it to my laptop it is detected. I have to hold down the power button for 20 seconds before it shuts off and turns back on. Any ideas?
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Same here. It usually happens after I charge overnight
Today, after I was done using my tablet, I shut it off and noticed it turned off but the green led portion of the power light is still on. Tablet will not respond to power on/off commands, nor can I gain access to it via adb.
I updated to the Energy™ -.¸¸.·´¯ ICS CM9 Kang ROM several days ago, there were no problems there as I have been using the rom for a couple of days now.
All I did was hold the power button down, select "Power down" option came up "this will shut down your tablet" I selected "ok" and that was that.
KFU shows it as offline, as does adb. Windows does not detect the device.
Mine had a similar experience, using AOKP ICS, I powered it off and about 18 hours later I tried to turn it on and got nothing. Turned out the battery was just dead, I think it may have locked up while powering down and killed the battery. I would try a few things:
1. Hold down the power button for 10+ seconds and see if you can get it to do a hard shutdown.
2. Plug it in to the charger and see what happens.
3. Leave it alone for a while and hope the battery dies and it may start up after that when plugged in.
I kind of feel stupid, why is it with technology us geeks start troubleshooting by skipping the simple solutions, like "is it plugged in" well today, holding down the power button for 20 seconds fixed the problem. She booted up and everything is back to normal.
Appreciate the fast reply!