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Just received my Transformer and need help

I received my Transformer about 3 1/2 hours ago. So far I think it is just great!! I do have a question I bought a 16 gb micro sd card and there are no instructions I can find in manual and I have been unable to install the card. I push it in and it just pops right back out. Any and all info on this or tips in general about the device are greatly and warmly appreciated

You just keep pushing until it locks in unless your device is defective. I had to use my thumbnail to push it in. It's pretty standard.

Just push it all the way in. It should click into place and should be flush with the casing
Also. Make sure the "words-letters" on the micro SD card are facing the screen. Use your nail or maybe to push it in

turbulent28 said:
Just push it all the way in. It should click into place and should be flush with the casing
Also. Make sure the "words-letters" on the micro SD card are facing the screen. Use your nail or maybe to push it in
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Finally got it in. never have had to push that hard with sd cards in the past. So far I really really like this device. I have tried the Xoom and the Acer Iconia and they do not compare at all to what I have experienced so far with the TRansformer. Thought about rooting it but right after turning it on I got notification of an update so I let it do its thing ad it turned out it was for 3.01 not 3.1 I guess the 3.1 update is to be pushed out tomorrow, so I believe I will wait. Any one way easier than another as far as rooting and applying cwm recovery? I notice there are a couple posted in dev section. Thanks for all of the help.

tenbeau said:
Finally got it in. never have had to push that hard with sd cards in the past. So far I really really like this device. I have tried the Xoom and the Acer Iconia and they do not compare at all to what I have experienced so far with the TRansformer. Thought about rooting it but right after turning it on I got notification of an update so I let it do its thing ad it turned out it was for 3.01 not 3.1 I guess the 3.1 update is to be pushed out tomorrow, so I believe I will wait. Any one way easier than another as far as rooting and applying cwm recovery? I notice there are a couple posted in dev section. Thanks for all of the help.
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Easiest way is downgrade to .9 and use BLOB_V5 following this guide http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/
I suggest flashing 3.1 primeordial after rooting.

frosty5689 said:
Easiest way is downgrade to .9 and use BLOB_V5 following this guide http://androidroot.mobi/asus-eee-pad-transformer-tf101-root-cwm-recovery/
I suggest flashing 3.1 primeordial after rooting.
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ok thanks!! I am not sure what I will do yet. Going to wait a day or two to see if I will be keeping it. Can we not send text messages with this device? I thought with wifi it would be possible. Anyone know???

tenbeau said:
ok thanks!! I am not sure what I will do yet. Going to wait a day or two to see if I will be keeping it. Can we not send text messages with this device? I thought with wifi it would be possible. Anyone know???
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Sync SMS works in conjunction with dropbox.
market.android.com/details?id=com.d0lph1nk1ng.syncsms&feature=search_result
not sure if there are any free alternatives.

xformulax said:
Sync SMS works in conjunction with dropbox.
market.android.com/details?id=com.d0lph1nk1ng.syncsms&feature=search_result
not sure if there are any free alternatives.
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Thanks i will be getting that app and adding dropbox.

not to piggy back on this topic but....Does Google voice work with honeycomb?

david279 said:
not to piggy back on this topic but....Does Google voice work with honeycomb?
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i miss this the most.
google voice has telephony dependencies which means in it's current state it will not work on a tablet without voice functions.... but the google team says they're working on it.
hmmm, i did some more looking and found a modded apk that might work. forum.xda-developers.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=537977&d=1299700727
edit 2: newer version: forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=13545805&postcount=172
edit 3: i installed it and it works fine.

frosty5689 said:
I suggest flashing 3.1 primeordial after rooting.
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What makes this ROM any better than the stock?

Digiguest said:
What makes this ROM any better than the stock?
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Optimized SD card speed, BusyBox, CIFS, Tun (OpenVPN) preloaded and root access. You can use SetCPU to downclock when you have your screen off, saves more battery. Titanium Backup is also a good one that lets you backup just about anything and disable any preloaded software.

frosty5689 said:
Optimized SD card speed, BusyBox, CIFS, Tun (OpenVPN) preloaded and root access. You can use SetCPU to downclock when you have your screen off, saves more battery. Titanium Backup is also a good one that lets you backup just about anything and disable any preloaded software.
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To be honest, on phones I don't mind rooting / ROM'ing (if that's a term), but with my TF I'm way too protective. I'm beginning to realize that when you root / tinker things can definitely start to go wrong and often times bugs are introduced / performance can actually degrade over time at least. Then again, I don't have issues with battery life/speed at all or need any of the extra features provided by new kernels / ROMs. The only thing I do really miss is removing the bloat, but personally I'd rather know that the OS is coming directly from ASUS/Google and hasn't been toyed with at all
I know most people, especially on these forums will disagree though

Cancel 3.2 Update?

Before anyone gets angry....
I tried searching "cancel update", "cancel postpone update", and a couple other combinations - still can't find the thread I'm looking for.
I remember reading that there is a way to cancel updates that have already been pushed to the device. After reading the reviews of 3.2 - I think I'll hold off for now... but the only option I have is to postpone (2 more times).
Can anyone shed light on how to permanently stop the update?
Thanks!

jonas2378 said:
Before anyone gets angry....
I tried searching "cancel update", "cancel postpone update", and a couple other combinations - still can't find the thread I'm looking for.
I remember reading that there is a way to cancel updates that have already been pushed to the device. After reading the reviews of 3.2 - I think I'll hold off for now... but the only option I have is to postpone (2 more times).
Can anyone shed light on how to permanently stop the update?
Thanks!
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It won't automatically update and install! you will get a notification (in your notification bar ) that an update is available, it will ask you if you want to install the update, just click no.
After reading all the posts on here i'm definately not installing it.
What use is your tablet if you wifi doesn't work correctly?

checkbox111 said:
g it.
What use is your tablet if you wifi doesn't work correctly?
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Who told you this nonsense ? I am on 3.2 right now and wifi works exactly like on PRIME 1.6 (3.1 based)

Only issue I've had after 3.2 is Dice Player not loading, but think that's fixed now haven't found the new ver yet, so dunno what peeps are complaining about.

3.2 works great. It's definitely better than 3.1. I dont see a reason not to update unless your tab is rooted.
Does it fix everything people here wanted? Definitely no.
When you get your hope too high, you are going to be disappointed.
A lot of people here act like spoiled whinning kids .
They have no clue about how much work required to debug, program and test it.
They just want everything to be fixed in days. This happens to 3rd party developers as well and that's why they dont feel like their work being appreciated.
Seriously, enjoy what you have.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

myamex said:
3.2 works great. It's definitely better than 3.1. I dont see a reason not to update unless your tab is rooted.
Does it fix everything people here wanted? Definitely no.
When you get your hope too high, you are going to be disappointed.
A lot of people here act like spoiled whinning kids .
They have no clue about how much work required to debug, program and test it.
They just want everything to be fixed in days. This happens to 3rd party developers as well and that's why they dont feel like their work being appreciated.
Seriously, enjoy what you have.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
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I'm interested in updating also but there are so many threads with problems.
Wifi problems
Compass not calibrating
Browser loading slower and hanging around 90% page loaded
Keyboard lag maybe worse
Do u have any of these problems?
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App

im sticking with custom roms because i do NOT like the way 3.2 denies you the ability to right to SD cards, or any removable media. At least give us an option, assholes.

myamex said:
A lot of people here act like spoiled whinning kids .
Seriously, enjoy what you have.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk
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A lot of people here also preach about things, ignorantly making the assumption they know what others want.
Enjoying what I have is exactly what I want to do. I use remote connect to my PC all the time - and the new "circle" mouse pointer is a deal breaker for me. I'd simply like to stick with the pointer I have now.
As for the option to say "no" to the update... when is that given? My wife tells me "hey your computer told me to update" (awesome)... so now all I have is the "update" or "postpone" prompt. Will I still get the option?
Thanks!

You can allways try to freeze the DMClient app. Stopped me from getting the update.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using XDA Premium App

Mog said:
I'm interested in updating also but there are so many threads with problems.
Wifi problems
Compass not calibrating
Browser loading slower and hanging around 90% page loaded
Keyboard lag maybe worse
Do u have any of these problems?
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
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I dont have these issues. My wifi N signal is stronger and browser is faster.
Keyboard lag is still there though.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

Mog said:
I'm interested in updating also but there are so many threads with problems.
Wifi problems
Compass not calibrating
Browser loading slower and hanging around 90% page loaded
Keyboard lag maybe worse
Do u have any of these problems?
Sent from my T-Mobile G2 using XDA App
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I have not noticed any new issues with 3.2. My wifi & gps still work. In fact one problem seems to have gone away for the time being. That was having to push the power button multiple for my transformer to wake up.
Th default browser still suck with the lag & crashes.

jadesse said:
I have not noticed any new issues with 3.2. My wifi & gps still work. In fact one problem seems to have gone away for the time being. That was having to push the power button multiple for my transformer to wake up.
Th default browser still suck with the lag & crashes.
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I'm having at least:
- wi-fi problems (connection drops every couple of minutes, major speed decrease)
- browser window refreshing/redrawing much slower
Btw, for the wi-fi a possible temporary solutions is to set the connection to static as opposed to DHCP (the connection drops seem to be connected to DHCP). Also, take a look at http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16169854&postcount=32

Bonetwizt said:
im sticking with custom roms because i do NOT like the way 3.2 denies you the ability to right to SD cards, or any removable media. At least give us an option, assholes.
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Does what?

Bonetwizt said:
im sticking with custom roms because i do NOT like the way 3.2 denies you the ability to right to SD cards, or any removable media. At least give us an option, assholes.
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Sorry, I should have read the post more closely...... My issue is with finding removable media in an app or some file explorers, or is just me????

Kermode said:
Does what?
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It does give you the option to or not to update.

Sorry I quoted the wrong person in my last post. Opera is really starting to piss me off. I tried editing my post 4 time and Once I hit save my text would disappear.

Would you mind elaborating on the inability to write to SD? I am on 3.2 and I can write to SD so you have me curious
-Dan

I don't know if there are other meanings of "write to SD" but I ugraded to 3.2 about 20 mins ago and I just created a ".doc" file with Polaris Office and saved directly to my external SD. I also created and deleted a folder from the stock file manager...

WOW, some people are so easilly swayed by what they read on the internet...
Clearly a site like XDA attracts people with problems and people that like to moan, the million other Asus Transformer owners that are perfectly happy don't count?
Get some perspective...

question: Can i disable the notification that comes up all the time asking me if i want to update?

Anyone Recieve Update On ATT?

The Official update page. If someone receives us tell us so we can all enjoy actually using our SD cards
I still haven't
Fun Fact: My phone was rooted but I wanted this update so I factory reset it and now it is not rooted - alternative to using ODIN So you can receive the update!

I check for updates daily and so far nothing.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337

AT&T drags their feet sometimes on phone updates, no telling when you will get it

Capt said:
I check for updates daily and so far nothing.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I337
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Ok I want to use my SD card hah!
joshuadjohnson22 said:
AT&T drags their feet sometimes on phone updates, no telling when you will get it
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I know I used to have the HTC One X that only took them a year hahha!

You guys will be refreshing for a long while. I would not expect ATT to release this for a month or two if not longer unless Samsung releases it via Kies. Plus I would wait until we confirm root and Loki works on it or you will regret you ever updated.
Plus from what I read the move to SD card is a joke it moves app but not data. Example the app for a game can be 15mb but the data it downloads can be 2gb in size. Well the 15mb would move but not the 2gb.

sabre31 said:
You guys will be refreshing for a long while. I would not expect ATT to release this for a month or two if not longer unless Samsung releases it via Kies. Plus I would wait until we confirm root and Loki works on it or you will regret you ever updated.
Plus from what I read the move to SD card is a joke it moves app but not data. Example the app for a game can be 15mb but the data it downloads can be 2gb in size. Well the 15mb would move but not the 2gb.
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Yep. That's why I got the 32GB :laugh:

sabre31 said:
Plus from what I read the move to SD card is a joke it moves app but not data. Example the app for a game can be 15mb but the data it downloads can be 2gb in size. Well the 15mb would move but not the 2gb.
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Yeah I was looking at how the big games I have put their large extra files into data.
Advanced rooted users could move them microSD and then symlink to them, and don't need an update to do it...
I'm looking at Asphalt 7 and it is just one big 1.05GB file (is that typical?) so it would be pretty easy for those who have root and know their way around the terminal (or ROM toolbox apparently has a 'create shortcut' function).

ATT S3 still didnt get Premium Package...it's been out since november. So my guess is, you can stop refreshing the update, you birthday will pass before this update is release to you guys

polish_pat said:
ATT S3 still didnt get Premium Package...it's been out since november. So my guess is, you can stop refreshing the update, you birthday will pass before this update is release to you guys
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I would normally agree with you about this, but the AMDL update was pushed pretty quick for this phone and Designgears already has his hands on a leak of the new firmware updatet. So I would say it might come out a little sooner than updates for other phones are released. But it's still hard to know exactly when.
For everyone else...
I'm not sure why people with AT&T S4s are checking for this OTA anyway? The only safe way to get it will be to let the DEVs check it and release it. With the I9505 update already being cooked into ROMs, I doubt there will be any further benefit to the AT&T release. Give it a little time and more DEVs will safely include it in future ROM updates if they choose to. It is their choice.
When AT&T does start to push this OTA, DO NOT INSTALL IT! Wait until the final release has been checked and cleared by the DEVs. Consider this a warning so if you install it or do not protect yourself from it auto-installing, it is your own fault! No excuses.

scott14719 said:
I would normally agree with you about this, but the AMDL update was pushed pretty quick for this phone and Designgears already has his hands on a leak of the new firmware updatet. So I would say it might come out a little sooner than updates for other phones are released. But it's still hard to know exactly when.
For everyone else...
I'm not sure why people with AT&T S4s are checking for this OTA anyway? The only safe way to get it will be to let the DEVs check it and release it. With the I9505 update already being cooked into ROMs, I doubt there will be any further benefit to the AT&T release. Give it a little time and more DEVs will safely include it in future ROM updates if they choose to. It is their choice.
When AT&T does start to push this OTA, DO NOT INSTALL IT! Wait until the final release has been checked and cleared by the DEVs. Consider this a warning so if you install it or do not protect yourself from it auto-installing, it is your own fault! No excuses.
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Hand on a leak?
I thought he was just looking at the international update..

scott14719 said:
I would normally agree with you about this, but the AMDL update was pushed pretty quick for this phone and Designgears already has his hands on a leak of the new firmware updatet. So I would say it might come out a little sooner than updates for other phones are released. But it's still hard to know exactly when.
For everyone else...
I'm not sure why people with AT&T S4s are checking for this OTA anyway? The only safe way to get it will be to let the DEVs check it and release it. With the I9505 update already being cooked into ROMs, I doubt there will be any further benefit to the AT&T release. Give it a little time and more DEVs will safely include it in future ROM updates if they choose to. It is their choice.
When AT&T does start to push this OTA, DO NOT INSTALL IT! Wait until the final release has been checked and cleared by the DEVs. Consider this a warning so if you install it or do not protect yourself from it auto-installing, it is your own fault! No excuses.
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By this, do you mean the Internation update? Because thats pretty much useless for us

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By this, do you mean the Internation update? Because thats pretty much useless for us
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In it's raw released form, it is useless, but Developers are already using portions of the update in their AT&T ROMs.
Example...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313469
Again, I highly recommend you do not touch the AT&T version of the update (when it is released) until DEVs can rip out the safe parts and make them available to AT&T users. It's up to you if you want to take the chance or not.

haloimplant said:
Yeah I was looking at how the big games I have put their large extra files into data.
Advanced rooted users could move them microSD and then symlink to them, and don't need an update to do it...
I'm looking at Asphalt 7 and it is just one big 1.05GB file (is that typical?) so it would be pretty easy for those who have root and know their way around the terminal (or ROM toolbox apparently has a 'create shortcut' function).
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You can download foldermount from the play store and have it move app data to the sdcard and remount it there. It creates the symlink automatically works very well but you have to be rooted.

scott14719 said:
In it's raw released form, it is useless, but Developers are already using portions of the update in their AT&T ROMs.
Example...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2313469
Again, I highly recommend you do not touch the AT&T version of the update (when it is released) until DEVs can rip out the safe parts and make them available to AT&T users. It's up to you if you want to take the chance or not.
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This. A thousand times over. If you just go around flashing any at&t ota updates, your bootloader will undoubtedly be permanently locked, and you'll probably lose root too.
If you want to be the guinea pig everyone else learns from, then go ahead, me, I'd rather wait.
Sent from my SGH-I337

Shammyh said:
This. A thousand times over. If you just go around flashing any at&t ota updates, your bootloader will undoubtedly be permanently locked, and you'll probably lose root too.
If you want to be the guinea pig everyone else learns from, then go ahead, me, I'd rather wait.
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To be fair, people really want to put all of their apps on their SD cards, myself incluided

some_douchebag said:
To be fair, people really want to put all of their apps on their SD cards, myself incluided
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Why? How many gb's of apps do you really need or use?
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some_douchebag said:
To be fair, people really want to put all of their apps on their SD cards, myself incluided
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Did you know things load faster when it's on internal memory? Then youll come up with an argument of get a high class card right. Just saying, things load faster on internal and how many Gbs do you even use for apps? Just curious

j510 said:
Did you know things load faster when it's on internal memory? Then youll come up with an argument of get a high class card right. Just saying, things load faster on internal and how many Gbs do you even use for apps? Just curious
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I was thinking of using it for like, Spotify, where the music gets download onto your device, assuming the music would then be downloaded onto my ext sd as well...using a 16gb at the moment. Oh wait, kidding, 9.whatever gb -_-

update took away bug
on MDB I had a lockscreen bug. sometimes I would swipe and the phone wouldn't recognize it. MDL fixed it.

ToastyD said:
I was thinking of using it for like, Spotify, where the music gets download onto your device, assuming the music would then be downloaded onto my ext sd as well...using a 16gb at the moment. Oh wait, kidding, 9.whatever gb -_-
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Spotify is only a couple Mb if not less. What you have to do is contact the developer of the app to include save downloads to sd if its not already available.

Slow when updating apps...

When I turn on my tablet and the wi-fi is on there are usually apps that need updating. When apps are downloading the tablet slows to a crawl. If I'm reading I can hardly turn the pages! If I swipe to turn a page it's like 10 seconds. Is there something specific to look at that would bring the tablet to it's knees when it's downloading anything over wi-fi? When wi-fi is off it's just fine as far as flipping around to different things but kinda useless to not have wi-fi on. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

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When I turn on my tablet and the wi-fi is on there are usually apps that need updating. When apps are downloading the tablet slows to a crawl. If I'm reading I can hardly turn the pages! If I swipe to turn a page it's like 10 seconds. Is there something specific to look at that would bring the tablet to it's knees when it's downloading anything over wi-fi? When wi-fi is off it's just fine as far as flipping around to different things but kinda useless to not have wi-fi on. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.
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Are you still using stock Rom? Have you try any custom Roms yet? The slow I/O is the bottle neck for this issue...

LetMeKnow said:
Are you still using stock Rom? Have you try any custom Roms yet? The slow I/O is the bottle neck for this issue...
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Yes, stock everything. I had a feeling it was I/O because it's the worst during the download of the new app vs the actual installation of it. I know it's not the hardware limit because it never used to be this way before the last big update (months ago). Do others see the tablet lag so bad when downloading app updates?

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Yes, stock everything. I had a feeling it was I/O because it's the worst during the download of the new app vs the actual installation of it. I know it's not the hardware limit because it never used to be this way before the last big update (months ago). Do others see the tablet lag so bad when downloading app updates?
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Unfortunately, yes and most users using stock have this lag issue. Some have more than others... If you don't a lot of apps to install, you could try to do a factory reset and hope that it would help..
Also, you could try to clear all the memory from the apps or games that you don't use any more to give a little more reserved memory when you need them. You could also disable all the unused apps and games so you can reduce some cpu resource and memory during heavy usages..
Good luck..:fingers-crossed:

The easy solution is to disable auto-updating in the Play Store settings. I hate it anyway if my tools are doing stuff on their own schedule! I'm the boss here! I tell 'em when to update! LOL

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The easy solution is to disable auto-updating in the Play Store settings. I hate it anyway if my tools are doing stuff on their own schedule! I'm the boss here! I tell 'em when to update! LOL
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Ya, I suppose that's probably the best thing to do since I didn't really want to go with a custom ROM. Then once in a while just turn it on and let it do all the updates. Strange how folks talk about how much better it is with a custom ROM. This implies that the problems are in software and can be fixed by software. Why doesn't Asus address these obvious problems? You'd think if something is so much better on their tablets, they would take a look at it and put the "fix" in their software.

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Ya, I suppose that's probably the best thing to do since I didn't really want to go with a custom ROM. Then once in a while just turn it on and let it do all the updates. Strange how folks talk about how much better it is with a custom ROM. This implies that the problems are in software and can be fixed by software. Why doesn't Asus address these obvious problems? You'd think if something is so much better on their tablets, they would take a look at it and put the "fix" in their software.
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You don't even have to turn it on. You still get notifications about updates waiting. They just don't install right away. Just go to the Play Store and hit 'Update All' - go have coffee. This has the added benefit that you can choose which apps to update. I'm still on the old Google Maps for example and will stay there until they bring "my Maps" back.
The speed and smoothness is a mix of software tweaks to deal with the slow memory of this tablet. The lag many users have is really due to cheap memory! I am currently running a really stripped down version of the Asus firmware called miniCromi-x on a fast class 10 SD card, and this thing flies! Best Quadrant score was 6900, most times I get between 6200 - 6500.
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How will nvidia "lock" the device with bad battery?

Assuming nvidia allows me to make the decision of how to "dispose" of the tablet with the bad battery, I'm curious what capabilities they have in terms of disabling the device.
I AM concerned about the battery, so if I can find a source for a new one, I'll dispose of the old one.
When the new unit arrives, I'll post back what happens.

IIRC as I was going through the recall registration process the old unit does not need to be returned. It will simply be 'rendered useless'. I believe Google added kill switch ability back with 5.0 Lollipop launch. I'm assuming that service is how NVIDIA will deactivate these. worst case is once new unit arrives it will go though an interactive 'swap' process where you need to execute steps on the old unit to activate new unit.
Its all speculation at this point but 2 tablets are better than 1 so these are some simple steps I'm taking to prepare for when the replacement device arrives:
1. Factory reset
2. keep it air gapped; skip any network/wifi setup steps

At the end of the RMA process for me it said to remember to remove any sd card, cover, or any other belongings before mailing it back.

Maybe they added the kill switch with the latest ota update, it could check via internet, if your new device has been registered and then it's triggering something which could disable the tablet on firmware level such as nvboot (was that the name for the maintenance mode?). Then it should be unusable. A solution could be an older firmware or a different rom.

No worries mate dont worrie
r3zon8 said:
IIRC as I was going through the recall registration process the old unit does not need to be returned. It will simply be 'rendered useless'. I believe Google added kill switch ability back with 5.0 Lollipop launch. I'm assuming that service is how NVIDIA will deactivate these. worst case is once new unit arrives it will go though an interactive 'swap' process where you need to execute steps on the old unit to activate new unit.
Its all speculation at this point but 2 tablets are better than 1 so these are some simple steps I'm taking to prepare for when the replacement device arrives:
1. Factory reset
2. keep it air gapped; skip any network/wifi setup steps
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Hi there
It clearly been sayed there will be no swapping they want you to despose our devices already due to fire hazardous ...
I hope rom or new os would help I was looking forward to try ubuntu touch yet it havent got port yet so feel sad already any suggestions of other roms I can run so I can play ppsspp or other games? please thanks!

LanthesX said:
Hi there
It clearly been sayed there will be no swapping they want you to despose our devices already due to fire hazardous ...
I hope rom or new os would help I was looking forward to try ubuntu touch yet it havent got port yet so feel sad already any suggestions of other roms I can run so I can play ppsspp or other games? please thanks!
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Blisspop is decent, you should give it a shot.

ThauExodus said:
Maybe they added the kill switch with the latest ota update, it could check via internet, if your new device has been registered and then it's triggering something which could disable the tablet on firmware level such as nvboot (was that the name for the maintenance mode?). Then it should be unusable. A solution could be an older firmware or a different rom.
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So would you help me how to rescue my recalled tablet and be my hero?
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Well, I can try. But for now, I have to wait for my replacement tablet and this can take a few weeks.

ThauExodus said:
Well, I can try. But for now, I have to wait for my replacement tablet and this can take a few weeks.
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Yeah same here as well I want it to sorted out before arrived as I'm worried they will kill it soon
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I will check the requests which is the tablet sending to the nvidia servers, maybe there is something interesting...

ThauExodus said:
I will check the requests which is the tablet sending to the nvidia servers, maybe there is something interesting...
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Cool
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It could be possible but they could control tablets with home address (like: 1000 tablet sent, 900 came back... controlling addresses they could know who didn't send it back)... or is it working in another way?

prendomiao said:
It could be possible but they could control tablets with home address (like: 1000 tablet sent, 900 came back... controlling addresses they could know who didn't send it back)... or is it working in another way?
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Hello from UK matey and me and few others answers your question.
https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/862736/uk-consumers-get-a-full-refund-/#reply
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I'm not shure if this means something, but the latest OTA flashes a bootloader, the kill switch may be there. This is just a wild guess, but i think flashing the old recovery images from gameworks might save your tablet.

I got blisspop
Aventura5 said:
I'm not shure if this means something, but the latest OTA flashes a bootloader, the kill switch may be there. This is just a wild guess, but i think flashing the old recovery images from gameworks might save your tablet.
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Hiya I got bliss pop would that be okay is that what you meant?

LanthesX said:
Hiya I got bliss pop would that be okay is that what you meant?
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Probably. If my suggestion would work, then a custom ROM would also.

Aventura5 said:
Probably. If my suggestion would work, then a custom ROM would also.
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Well all I need to wait the replacement so I can test then.
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LanthesX said:
Well all I need to wait the replacement so I can test then.
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Sorry, i got confused. I suggest flashing the old stock recovery image, to install the old bootloader. After that you could flash a ROM just for good measure. I also don't know if just flashing a ROM will work, I'm just suggesting what i think is the safest method. Although flashing a custom ROM would be good probably.

I noticed OTA 3.0 also included a boot.img file in the .zip - I'm assuming this is the boatloader image - can anyone confirm?
Can't this older boot.img be flashed alone using Flashify (assuming the boatloader is the key to the kill switch)?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/shield-tablet/general/kill-kill-switch-shield-tablet-xx-t3179489 here's instructions to "kill the kill switch".