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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.

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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!

***For those who are experiencing freeze ups***

Hello people, I thought I would inform you all of a much better and effective method to deal with your phone freezing. Many of us are using custom kernels such as nemesis2all's OTB or imnuts peanut butter jelly time in which have a tendency to freeze our phones due to the overclocking/undervolting. Or, we are on JT's new CM7 mtd or Andmer's GB MIUI and our screens will turn off and nothing that we do will turn them back on. The natural reaction to this occurrence is to take the back off the phone and pull the battery out. But, this is not good for it to be abruptly pulled in the midst of supplying power to your phone. Not to mention the severe battery drain that comes along with doing this, as I'm sure many of you have already noticed to be the case. No matter what rom/kernel you are on and no matter how frozen your phone is, if you simply hold both the volume up and volume down buttons and the power button at the same time for about 10 seconds, your phone will do a hard reboot. Problem solved without doing harm or damage to your phone and without excessive battery drain. This method even works for CM7 MTD/GB MIUI MTD. This is not the same thing as the three finger method that you are warned not to do with these roms. This method will lead to overall better battery life and phone life. Not to mention, a lot less frustration.

I think just vol UP + power works, but either way.. it's a useful trick to know!

And especially helpful if you have a case on
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Good to know. I broke my case by taking it off and on so many times. It's still useable but this will prevent further damage, and save me some time.
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elarson006 said:
I think just vol UP + power works, but either way.. it's a useful trick to know!
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+1. This is what I use. Just had to do it this morning as a matter of fact.

elarson006 said:
I think just vol UP + power works, but either way.. it's a useful trick to know!
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Indeed. I never do battery pulls personally.

verizon techs have had me do battery pulls a couple different times lol.

droidstyle said:
verizon techs have had me do battery pulls a couple different times lol.
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Yea, but not while the phone is on and in a frozen state with a steady stream of battery power being supplied to it, I assume. That is very different.
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kidserious said:
Yea, but not while the phone is on and in a frozen state with a steady stream of battery power being supplied to it, I assume. That is very different.
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Power on but not frozen... but I agree its not good to pull battery in frozen state... volume up and power button is what I do in that situation. My SF has only froze two times and that was from overclocking... not very stable over 1200 on the stock rom. Srry hope my last post did not offend, I meant as verizon was dumb for having me pull the battery with power on!

droidstyle said:
Power on but not frozen... but I agree its not good to pull battery in frozen state... volume up and power button is what I do in that situation. My SF has only froze two times and that was from overclocking... not very stable over 1200 on the stock rom. Srry hope my last post did not offend, I meant as verizon was dumb for having me pull the battery with power on!
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No, post was not offensive nor was it was taken that way. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.

landshark68 said:
+1. This is what I use. Just had to do it this morning as a matter of fact.
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It's what I use as well, power+both volume buttons does nothing for me, I think technically power+volume up is a soft reboot, but, it works.

I will use this next time... My phone froze up this morning. I thought I was going to have to pull the battery and just as I was tapping the battery out of the phone I saw the bootlogo. When I put the battery back in my /data was gone. Phone would boot, but there was no data partition. It was toast.
Had to Odin back to stock and start all over. My last Titanium Backup is from more than a month ago. I have a Super Manager backup from ~ a week ago. Will give it a shot.

Samsung GT 10.1 Sleep of death

Sorry about posting the thread here as I couldn't post it where it needed to go. I have had this GT 10.1 for a few days love what it can do but It continuously wants to go to sleep and not wake up. This is a locked rooted 32gb version.
I have noticed while it is in the dock it tends to only lock up on the home screen and it solved by just removing it from the dock and inserting it again into the dock. When its not in the dock it does the Sleep of death and If i plug it back into the dock while is SoD it will come back to life. I don't have any idea if this helps with your deductions on dealing with this bug. But I thought It could help somehow.
I didnt plug the dock into any power source either.
Well I tried doing the above now its boot looping DARN I REALLY like this thing
after the 3 or 4th SoD the OS got garbled and I had to do a factory reset and reload the OS using ODIN and back to Stock.
Gonna remove the OC kernal witch I had loaded and reload the STOCK OS until its fixed.

I have this problem, my tab 7 days old is dead... I was using it, turn it off connect it to charge it and it is not working now..
Is there any fix or way to get out of the sleep of death?

the asus transformer forum says it's fixed with 3.1 (mostly).
i guess it's the reason why the EU release is delayed permanently.

guys i dont thing there anything wrong with the tablet. i believe its the wall charger.ur usb on ur pc or laptot is not ready to charge ur tablet but it will at a slow rate, really slow.i tired charging it with the wall outlet n it would not do anything. called samsung thay wanted me to send it in for service.i said no.i have it charging with my laptop.that work for me.give it time to charge and u'll see it charging.the cable is good its the big box that plugs in to the wall thats bad.
gt 16gig gray unlocked

cyberleader said:
Gonna remove the OC kernal witch I had loaded and reload the STOCK OS until its fixed.
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...........

Mine wouldn't turn on for the life of me yesterday...exchanged for a brand new unit at best buy....wtf!

Mine does the "Sleep of death" only with custom firmwares and when charging on the media dock...going back to stock fixes the issue...to wake up the tablet I had to make a combination of Power + Volume Down for several seconds until it finally turns on...

Mine was stock. No combination of button presses worked for me

Same with mine. I just shipped it back for repair...
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Not true for me. My charger worked fine on my wife's 7" Tab.
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eyecon82 said:
Mine wouldn't turn on for the life of me yesterday...exchanged for a brand new unit at best buy....wtf!
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Samsung just told me this is a software issue which will be fix withthe upcoming summer update.

capufo said:
Samsung just told me this is a software issue which will be fix withthe upcoming summer update.
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Yeah but until you get it fixed how do you get the update on it?
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Ansextra said:
Yeah but until you get it fixed how do you get the update on it?
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If you can't turn it on at all, you will have to send it to them, a technitian will look it up etc for more info on this call Samsung support at 1800.726.7864

capufo said:
If you can't turn it on at all, you will have to send it to them, a technitian will look it up etc for more info on this call Samsung support at 1800.726.7864
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Exactly my point and what I ended up doing...
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You just need to hold down the power button for 15 seconds, or so. Maybe 30. I've had this issue a few times in the few months I've had this. My bigger problem is the Wake of Death. The stupid thing turns itself on for no reason, and never goes back to sleep, so the battery is almost dead when I go to use it. This happens a few times a week. Drives me crazy.

ClarkSt said:
You just need to hold down the power button for 15 seconds, or so. Maybe 30. I've had this issue a few times in the few months I've had this. My bigger problem is the Wake of Death. The stupid thing turns itself on for no reason, and never goes back to sleep, so the battery is almost dead when I go to use it. This happens a few times a week. Drives me crazy.
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The problem is that on a certain percentage of these tablets that does not work
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It did not work on mine. I ended up sending it to Samsung for warranty repair.

My first one didn't do that but this one does for sure.
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i only had 1 SoD in about 3 months, got leaked KH1 and pershots running

EmceeGeek said:
My first one didn't do that but this one does for sure.
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same here...my first one died...my exchange unit randomly freezes, but the volume and power button works, unlike the first unit

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.

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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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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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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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Bootloops

Quick question: what happens if you had a nexus 4, and one day you flash an unstable kernel, and you get a boootloop? There's no battery to pull out, so what would you do?
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As far as I know you can hold power for 5-10 seconds and the phone will reboot, and then with the correct volume key it will enter recovery/fastboot/whatever.

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As far as I know you can hold power for 5-10 seconds and the phone will reboot, and then with the correct volume key it will enter recovery/fastboot/whatever.
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Huh.. really? I never knew you could hold power during a boootloop to stop it
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For phones with non removable batteries there is always a button combination that triggers a hard shutdown.

raze599 said:
For phones with non removable batteries there is always a button combination that triggers a hard shutdown.
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Ah, never owned one without a removable battery. Thanks!
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FirePoncho86 said:
Huh.. really? I never knew you could hold power during a boootloop to stop it
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HTC One X: Hold power 10 seconds, reboots, press volume down and you enter recovery.
HTC Desire GSM: Power, Volumen down, Trackball pressed.
A few examples.

FirePoncho86 said:
Ah, never owned one without a removable battery. Thanks!
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Even with a removable battery you can shut/reboot your phone by long pressing the power button.

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Even with a removable battery you can shut/reboot your phone by long pressing the power button.
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Lol, never tried it!
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