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[Q] Boot up time (takes ages!)

My Asus eee pad transformer takes ages to boot (like 15 to 30 minutes!) Which is strange because I watched youtube vids showing it only takes about a minute to boot.
I will also share relevant information that may be useful in suggesting why it might be..
K, so I bought an Asus eee pad transformer on Saturday from Micro Anvika, I was really lucky because a stock of 4 just came in WITH the keyboard dock .
Got home, turned it on for a quick test drive, took forever to boot like 10-15 minutes (but maybe it was to be expected because its new). Then a screen came up asking me to enter a password (it also said safe mode at the corners).
So I thought I had to enter a new password. But it said wrong password! Kept trying different passwords like Admin or android or Asus, no luck.
Seemed dodgey, so I went back to Micro Anvika for them to check it out. They thought it was strange and they did a "Hard reset".
So everything worked fine after that. Wifi, bluetooth, keyboard dock, sound all worked fine. I charged it for the rest of the day (8 hours) with the dock and used it ALL day from Sunday when it was fully charged.
So I shut it down at Sunday night, and rebooted it to check if that it doesn't go in to that safe mode, welcome screen. Took 30 minutes to boot up (just stays in that "eee pad" screen for ages), and it loaded normally with all my settings and customisations in place. Thank God.
But today, I switched it on again, took another 15-20 minutes to load and it prompted me with an android welcome page! To make it clear, I did not hard reset it, I just pressed the power button once for less than 5 seconds.
So I just turned it off, and turned it on again, and now i'm typing this post while this thing boots up and its been like almost 20-30 minutes now? and still hasn't booted up yet.
I know I sound like i'm exagerrating, but it REALLY is taking that long.
Now I wanna know if i'm doing something wrong here or if this baby is defective :S.
Again, I know I'm not doing a hard reset, because the guys at Micro Anvika said you have to press and hold the power button for 30 seconds. Maybe their wrong?
Also, does it have to do with battery life? Right now, its less than 30%.
Apologies if post is too long to read, but this is really tedious, and worrying that it would keep hard resetting everytime I use it.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance.

Something is terribly wrong with your unit, mine fully boots up in less than a minute from a cold start even when the battery is pretty low.

My advice is to make sure you have the latest firmware, and if that doesn't fix it, return it.
That behavior is in no way normal.

That's definitely not normal as I'm sure you know. Mine takes a couple minutes to boot tops. Do you have the latest firmware installed from asus?
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Sounds like you have a development model/prototype. There was some other guy on the forums who had one with android 2.2 installed on it so we know they are out there. It definitely shouldnt take longer than about a minute to boot up no matter what you're doing with it (other than updating firmware). I've not seen any mention of anyone else mentioning a 'safe mode' before. Sounds more like a windows thing tbh.

Yes check what Android version you have. If it says 2.2 can we haz a system dump
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Would factory reset it ASAP...

kingkay said:
My Asus eee pad transformer takes ages to boot (like 15 to 30 minutes!) Which is strange because I watched youtube vids showing it only takes about a minute to boot.
I will also share relevant information that may be useful in suggesting why it might be..
K, so I bought an Asus eee pad transformer on Saturday from Micro Anvika, I was really lucky because a stock of 4 just came in WITH the keyboard dock .
Got home, turned it on for a quick test drive, took forever to boot like 10-15 minutes (but maybe it was to be expected because its new). Then a screen came up asking me to enter a password (it also said safe mode at the corners).
So I thought I had to enter a new password. But it said wrong password! Kept trying different passwords like Admin or android or Asus, no luck.
Seemed dodgey, so I went back to Micro Anvika for them to check it out. They thought it was strange and they did a "Hard reset".
So everything worked fine after that. Wifi, bluetooth, keyboard dock, sound all worked fine. I charged it for the rest of the day (8 hours) with the dock and used it ALL day from Sunday when it was fully charged.
So I shut it down at Sunday night, and rebooted it to check if that it doesn't go in to that safe mode, welcome screen. Took 30 minutes to boot up (just stays in that "eee pad" screen for ages), and it loaded normally with all my settings and customisations in place. Thank God.
But today, I switched it on again, took another 15-20 minutes to load and it prompted me with an android welcome page! To make it clear, I did not hard reset it, I just pressed the power button once for less than 5 seconds.
So I just turned it off, and turned it on again, and now i'm typing this post while this thing boots up and its been like almost 20-30 minutes now? and still hasn't booted up yet.
I know I sound like i'm exagerrating, but it REALLY is taking that long.
Now I wanna know if i'm doing something wrong here or if this baby is defective :S.
Again, I know I'm not doing a hard reset, because the guys at Micro Anvika said you have to press and hold the power button for 30 seconds. Maybe their wrong?
Also, does it have to do with battery life? Right now, its less than 30%.
Apologies if post is too long to read, but this is really tedious, and worrying that it would keep hard resetting everytime I use it.
Any advice?
Thanks in advance.
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Would you enable this function as following?
setting -> enable item-"high quality on mobile"

Perhaps a bad hdd?
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Did none of you actually READ the post? he doesn't have a transformer. he has some of the w7 based tablets...

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just tested it

ldti said:
Did none of you actually READ the post? he doesn't have a transformer. he has some of the w7 based tablets...
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I think you're the one with the reading difficulty...
K, so I bought an Asus eee pad transformer on Saturday from Micro Anvika, I was really lucky because a stock of 4 just came in WITH the keyboard dock
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Says quite clearly it's a Transformer, though if you skipped that part and just read his description, it DOES read more like it's got some version of Windows on there (which unless it somehow has an alpha of Windows 8, isn't possible.)
I think we need screenshots.

FloatingFatMan said:
though if you skipped that part and just read his description, it DOES read more like it's got some version of Windows on there
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Exactly what i meant!

Is encryption enabled?

kingkay said:
so I bought an Asus eee pad transformer on Saturday from Micro Anvika.
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Is that in Bosnia

slow boot
AndroidCola said:
Something is terribly wrong with your unit, mine fully boots up in less than a minute from a cold start even when the battery is pretty low.
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This is one of the main reasons I "liked" android tablets as apposed to windows, I liked the INSTANT ON start up of 2.0 or 2.0 but NOW.... almost as bad as my pc 1-2 minutes. I also seem to have problem opening some hyper links inside a browser, any browser for certain web site link.

ldti said:
Did none of you actually READ the post? he doesn't have a transformer. he has some of the w7 based tablets...
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Did you read it? he said it was a Eee pad Transformer
try to hold down the power button till the unit restarts. If that doesn't help it try a factory reset in settings. If that doesn't I'd return it.
If it is the W7 based eee pad you might have gotten a good deal. I assume they aren't as cheap

15 minutes does have the "defective" tone all over it.
I thought my boot times were bad. I just timed it and it takes 2 minutes from power on to fully active (widgets, etc. loaded). Here's a few points about my setup:
- I booted it docked in the keyboard.
- 16 GB MicroSD (in the unit) loaded with comics and around 6 GB of MP3s
- 16 GB SD (in the dock) loaded with movies.
- I'm running Folder Organizer with everything loaded in folders with custom icons and folders with browser links (also assigned unique icons). Also running Beautiful Widgets but that's negligible.
- I have over 200 apps installed and a few GB of PDFs on the internal 16 GB.
2 minutes seems about right. 15 minutes? Umm.. ..no.

Slow startup

I bought my wife a Galaxy note 10.1 for xmas. Her choice as she loves her note phone and the stylus. Anyway the thing I noticed over anything is after she had all her apps installed and email setup her tab starts way faster than my infinity. Like she is up and running in 30 sec and I take about 2 1/2 minutes to get to the same point.
Can some of you share what you are getting for startup times from pushing the button to everything ready to go. I am looking at mine to see what is wrong as I can't believe that it should take that long to get started. I guess I just didn't notice as it must have been getting worse since I got it last summer and never noticed until I played with my wife's note.
Thanks

frozenbutt said:
I bought my wife a Galaxy note 10.1 for xmas. Her choice as she loves her note phone and the stylus. Anyway the thing I noticed over anything is after she had all her apps installed and email setup her tab starts way faster than my infinity. Like she is up and running in 30 sec and I take about 2 1/2 minutes to get to the same point.
Can some of you share what you are getting for startup times from pushing the button to everything ready to go. I am looking at mine to see what is wrong as I can't believe that it should take that long to get started. I guess I just didn't notice as it must have been getting worse since I got it last summer and never noticed until I played with my wife's note.
Thanks
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The infinity definitely takes a little while to boot up, however, mine definitely does not take more than 45 sec, usually is just over 30 sec. When i first got it it was around 45s to 1min, after deleting crapware, unlocking, rooting, and installing clean ROM im fully booted in about 30s.
Best of luck

Was going to post here earlier...
From cold the TF700T that I have lights up in about 50-70 seconds.

Oh, mine does indeed take quite a while. (It takes longer to boot than my XP laptop...) About 2 minutes, almost.
The more stuff you have on it, the longer it takes to boot. Simple as that. Mine is utterly loaded. (I have about 500mb free of the 64gb, as well as two full 32GB microSD's. Last update put it on updating 433 apps. I don't have that many, but I suppose it also counts Android's parts as well)
So I simply don't turn it off if I don't have to. It eats 1% battery in 24 hours, turning it off completely would only decrease my battery, as it takes 3-5% to boot.

[Q] S3 keeps turning off on its own?

I'll admit, it's well-used and has been going for a long time, although it shouldn't be at the point where it malfunctions. One day my phone suddenly turned off while I was scrolling through my apps, and since that it shuts off every five to thirty minutes. (Note: It NEVER shuts down on standby, only in applications). I'm not running any custom rom and I'm not rooted, and I'm 99% sure this is a hardware issue. Help? Thanks! After a full charge it'll run for about 20 minutes, then when I turn it on 10 minutes, etc.... (I've callibrated battery)

elite_newb said:
I'll admit, it's well-used and has been going for a long time, although it shouldn't be at the point where it malfunctions. One day my phone suddenly turned off while I was scrolling through my apps, and since that it shuts off every five to thirty minutes. (Note: It NEVER shuts down on standby, only in applications). I'm not running any custom rom and I'm not rooted, and I'm 99% sure this is a hardware issue. Help? Thanks! After a full charge it'll run for about 20 minutes, then when I turn it on 10 minutes, etc.... (I've callibrated battery)
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this is a weird problem, does it get hot at all? you said you calibrated the battery, is that some samsung offical app crap? might be the battery even if you say it turns off on applications. its a possibility that its the power button as well, the t989 (galaxys2) and t999 (galaxy s3, both tmobile) had power button issues, its not too likely that you would have this problem, i own 3 t999s and 1 out of the three has this issue and i resolved it by either cleaning it or wiggling the power button back and forth a billion times, if you would like to try the risk, clean out the power button, shouldn't be too much trouble.

[Q] Console Mode

I am having a whole bunch of issues with my new Shield Tablet and am slowly working my way through fixing them but there seems to be a problem with console mode. It takes an age and never actually loads up. In the end I get bored and pull the plug, eventually is warns me to exit properly and blah blah.
What I would like to know is how long, on average, it takes to load and what I should expect?
Thanks

For me, console mode takes about 30 seconds to a minute to load up. Also to exit console mode (properly) there is an identical loading screen and wait time. How long did you wait before unplugging it?

markymark567 said:
For me, console mode takes about 30 seconds to a minute to load up. Also to exit console mode (properly) there is an identical loading screen and wait time. How long did you wait before unplugging it?
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Agreed. Also, I have constant issues with HDMI not working at all most of the time.

adampdx said:
Agreed. Also, I have constant issues with HDMI not working at all most of the time.
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Strange, I have never had a single issue. I use the mirror mode and console mode and both work perfect.

markymark567 said:
For me, console mode takes about 30 seconds to a minute to load up. Also to exit console mode (properly) there is an identical loading screen and wait time. How long did you wait before unplugging it?
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I wait about five minutes before giving up. Sounds as if there is definitely something wrong. I am generally having a lot of slow down, regular black outs (requiring resets) and very jerky games (portal etc.) and interface hanging. Watchdog and toolbox apps don't show anything misbehaving.
Quite upsetting really, I will do a factory wipe and see if it works with nothing installed.
Thanks for the responses.

markymark567 said:
Strange, I have never had a single issue. I use the mirror mode and console mode and both work perfect.
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It's pretty disappointing. I really want to send the sucker back, but I already returned one to BestBuy because they wouldn't match the free controller/games deal that everyone else offered. Plus, the HDMI out does work occasionally. I'm noticing some patterns, like it seems to always work 1st thing in the morning after the tablet, my receiver, and TV have all been off for 8+ hours. I think it prefers to have the controller connected first, as well. Maybe it's all just coincidence, it could also be the actual cable.

It usually takes me under a minute, shortest must have been around 20 sec.
I have gotten the occasional hiccup where the screen goes black and my TV (Samsung 2013 SmartTV) seems to re-detect the input (all happens within 2 secs). I've also once gotten the screen cutting to white snow with some RGB in it (hard to describe), re-plugging the cable worked.

Try different cables and TVs. See if you can't rule anything out. If you can't get it to work at all, send it back to Nvidia. They will replace it

Screen going to rest to fast

I hope this is the right place for this.
My problem is that the screen goes to rest while I'm using the phone.
I.e reading something, after 30 sec the screen goes black. I changes the timeout to, say 2 min,
the next time I switch on the phone it's back to 30 sec..
Used to have Xperia, and they stayed waken as long as I was looking at the phone, and didn't go to rest
until I put the phone down.
Is this the way life's meant to be? Or have I missed something?