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I have not been having these ramdump.log (essentially random rebooting) for some time, and whilst i've noticed that some apps seem to cause this process, I have not installed anything new for a while, other than updates to existing apps.
I have once again started to get these upto 3 times per night when the device is in deep sleep. Interestingly, each morning when I turn on the device, wireless internet is switched off (option unchecked), and I have to go into the settings and re-enable it.
Someone previously suggested that maybe it's faulty RAM in my TF? But how would I know that is not just a random guess? Also, my partner also has a TF, hers is the B70 (one of the lucky ones that are able to be rooted), and she gets ramdump.log on the same ROM (Prime with stock kerne), so it's perhaps less unlikely that both tablets have bad RAM? My TF is a B50.
Appreciate if anyone can help identify the issue from these 2 ramdump.log (I had 3 during the night!)
Thanks!
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I've been having the same problem for the longest time, and it always comes and goes at random. It seems to be a common problem that gets resolved with an RMA, but given the inconsistency of the problem between ROM updates, and the fact that I seldom see RAM go bad I refuse to mail it in before doing a proper memtest (which for now I am not sure if there is an option for that).
It seems to me that the transformer just has a very picky kernel.
Currently on Prime 2.0.7, been having this issue since I first started using it at 1.9.1. Wipes temporarily alleviated the problem, except for one time that I used the wrong kernel.
I'm the same... Some days nothing, then others 3 within an hour! I found an application for stress testing, and I'm running it overnight.
http://www.appbrain.com/app/com.into.stability
Been going for an hour now with no issues with cores or memory, so maybe it's just some kernels don't like some devices? It's really annoying.
So, I did a search of the forum and I couldn't find anyone talking about this specifically, I apologize if something for this exists already and if so please point me in that direction.
The Dark Meadow is a Tegra 3 game, I'm sure many of you have heard of it. I hear it's a great game, but I wouldn't know because I'm having a problem. Now I've only done a little bit of research on this, and it seems to be a problem across both ASUS Prime and TF300, but I'm not sure what it is.
What happens is when I launch the game, regardless of what power mode it's in, it goes through all the launch videos "Nvidia, Unreal, etc" and gets to the main menu. I can start a game, and it launches. The sound works fine, but the screen is white and then begins to flicker. I have no idea what is causing this, or why this would happen and I've not noticed any problems with any other games.
I've tried clearing the cache/data, I've tried completely removing it and redownloading it. I'm not sure what else to try, or if I'm stuck just waiting on a fix from ASUS, Nvidia, or whoever made Dark Meadows. Ideas, Thoughts, Comments?
a fresh reboot or soft reset should clear this up. Asus is working on the gaming issue. mines did the exact same thing. after a reboot or 2, it went away and game been working fine ever since.
I don't know how I didn't think to try that before, but wow it worked.
For the record, I had the same issue. Reboot + switching power mode fixed it after two tries.
Great looking game by the way.
This is not an Asus specific issue. I had the exact same issue on the Acer A510, one reboot cleared it up. That is 3/4 Tegra 3 devices. I wonder if the HTC One X is experiencing the same.
I had also the white screen problem with dark meadows. But since i updated through wifi to the newes official Version .26, Dard Meadows is running well
Very cool and fast graphics
David Dee said:
This is not an Asus specific issue. I had the exact same issue on the Acer A510, one reboot cleared it up. That is 3/4 Tegra 3 devices. I wonder if the HTC One X is experiencing the same.
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I have an HTC One X At&T and managed to get it to work, how ever the graphics is all messed up and pixelated... do you know how I can try and fix it
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Again, posting here since I don't seem to see anyone complaining about this, and I'm thinking if it's time to send my tablet to repair.
Whenever I play Gyro based games like Riptide GP or Busted (under-appreciated game btw, I recommend everyone to try this game, it's free! )...
I notice that my jetski or my ship bears left slightly.
So I downloaded Smart Tools, used the protractor, and confirmed that whenever I place my tab on a flat surface, I get a 5 degree offset to the left side. And that's what causing all my racing games to veer left.
I tried the in-app calibration option, but it only fixes it for that app. Once back to Riptide or Busted, my racers veer again.
(Edit: you may download the protractor only for free.)
Has anyone experienced this? or does anyone know of a fix?
"Bubble level" from Antoine something... Its available in the Market and is full-free.
This might be of use to you, as it has a sensor reset in its calibration settings.
I dont know if the in-app calibrator is device-specific or only in that particular
app, but I just tried its Reset feature, and it indeed does reset it. Give it a run
and let us know
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Thanks for the suggestion omnius. Now, I didn't see a "reset" option, but I did see "calibrate". I tried to calibrate both orientation and accelerometer sensors, and they were fixed in the app, but when I go to Riptide GP, the 5 degree shift still seems to be there.
Do those G-sensor based games work fine on your A510?
When Im in the calibration settings, Ive got 3 options, Calibrate, Reset Sensor, Cancel
I cant see why reset aint available in your setup.. Hmm, I really dunno :-!
Have you had a check with other device info apps, just to confirm all sensors is reacting and available?.. Just an idea
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Again, thanks for the reply. Yes, I tried Smart Tools initially, and all sensors seem to be working. There's just that 5 degree shift in the protractor that's affecting my games.
And, that is very strange that you have a reset option and I don't... We're using this Bubble level app right?
That is indeed the same Im using.
You dont have that Reset button, as per this shot from my A510.?
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Thanks for attaching the thumbnail, I was looking for a reset button once I press the menu button on the upper right corner (feel free to laugh at my stupidity. lol.)
So I did try the reset button, unfortunately, it only resets the calibration in-app. Once I rest my device on a flat surface, I can again see the offset (because the calibration is gone), and when I try Riptide, I have a slight bearing to the right again.
So just to verify, when you press reset on your tab, does the green dot center up by itself? Or do you need to recalibrate it?
(My expected scenario is there should be no need to recalibrate. But if you also do, then I guess, I don't need to contact Acer support for this.)
I havent had that slide to a side that you do, yet, but would as a fellow racer be severely pissed if it happened.. :screwy:
But yes, it ligns up to center, as far as my kitchentable is straight, upon applying the Reset.
But not having that drift myself, I hardly know what else to advice you to try.
You might be able to digg up a hidden system intent, either Iconia or ICS specific, to fire up a real device sensor reset, thou so far I havent found any yet. But I'll let you know if I do
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I'll prolly take time to contact Acer support one of these days too. Thanks again for helping me out!
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Update:
So I sent my tablet to local Acer Support last weekend, and after three days, they told me that my Gyro miscalibration issue is a mainboard issue. They're replacing the mainboard this afternoon since they just received the part today.
I'm half happy/sad that I did get a lemon tablet. But hey, hopefully, this ends well.
Update again:
After following up on the status of my tablet, it seems that replacing the motherboard did not resolve my issue. My ticket has been escalated and I am now being offered a new unit instead. I was asked to contact my retailer and provide my ticket number, since they've coordinated both with my retailer and my distributor already.
Will update this thread until I get a fully working tab.
To anyone reading this, wish me luck.
Just a quick update.
Got my new tablet from Acer service yesterday and my gyroscope is now perfectly levelled.
when i play high-quality games, sometimes the game will stuck and the screen flickered constantly. you can turn back to home screen, but the game need to be stopped.
i tried to update, or change change ROM version. now it's better, but the issue is still exist.
jokerzlh said:
when i play high-quality games, sometimes the game will stuck and the screen flickered constantly. you can turn back to home screen, but the game need to be stopped.
i tried to update, or change change ROM version. now it's better, but the issue is still exist.
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Thing is, ever since I got the tablet, I only tried Riptide and Busted (just to confirm my Gyro is ok, and it is. )
What game do you get those flickers?
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Thing is, ever since I got the tablet, I only tried Riptide and Busted (just to confirm my Gyro is ok, and it is. )
What game do you get those flickers?
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deadtrigger: 1 times
asphalt 6: 2-3 times
shadowgun: about 2 times
riptide: 1 times
when the flicker was occurred, reboot is a good choice, if not, when you restart the game the problem would possibly show up again
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deadtrigger: 1 times
asphalt 6: 2-3 times
shadowgun: about 2 times
riptide: 1 times
when the flicker was occurred, reboot is a good choice, if not, when you restart the game the problem would possibly show up again
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Since I see that you have the most problems with Asphalt 6 and Shadowgun, I'll install those over the weekend and report back.
I was able to try a few minutes of Shadowgun, Asphalt 6 and 7 over the weekend.
And the only time I get that screen flashing behavior is when I have a window on top of the game (i.e. Facebook login.) Other than that though, the game seems to be handling normally.
I did notice screen tearing in the background for Asphalt 6 and 7.
Also, I notice some gyroscope misbehavior at certain times in Asphalt 7's game. Which is what some commenters in the market also mention, so I'm not too worried with it. I might play Asphalt 6 more then.
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I was able to try a few minutes of Shadowgun, Asphalt 6 and 7 over the weekend.
And the only time I get that screen flashing behavior is when I have a window on top of the game (i.e. Facebook login.) Other than that though, the game seems to be handling normally.
I did notice screen tearing in the background for Asphalt 6 and 7.
Also, I notice some gyroscope misbehavior at certain times in Asphalt 7's game. Which is what some commenters in the market also mention, so I'm not too worried with it. I might play Asphalt 6 more then.
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thx 4 your test report!
i guess the longer u play, the more possibility u will get the misbehavior.
Hope acer will fix all bugs and make it perfect!
oh, wait, i need to wake my bricked tab up first before i get the new OTA:crying:
You bricked your tab? :-o
Sent via Acer A510.
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You bricked your tab? :-o
Sent via Acer A510.
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yep, i installed the CWM ( version 5.8.4 ) a few days ago, i used the wipe data/ factory reset, then it killed my tab:angel:
finally i know this CWM was under testing, i didn't read the title and instruction carefully. :crying:
so it's not recommended to do sth may harmful to the tab until u know what u r doing
Hi guys,
Not sure it was there when I got my 32Gb Note 10.1 or not. I updated it to the latest software version early on. I don't have that many apps installed on it and only a couple of widgets on the desktop. The scroll stutters at times when I start scrolling: it starts off fine, then stutters for a short time, almost like a single hick up, and then continues just fine. It's doesn't happen 100% of the time but is more consistent as of late. I observed it going from screen to screen and in the main browsers scrolling through the page. I restarted the tab, closed running apps/services, which made no difference.
Has anyone noticed anything similar to that? Does that sound like a normal behavior? Have had a few Android phones before but this is my 1st Android tab so not sure what level of performance I should expect. Thanks!
Have not experienced any stuttering. The only time I have noticed the SGN10.1 stuttering is when drawing shapes in s.note. then it can get a little bogged down.
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Try going to settings, developer, and under window and transition animations. Try setting to.5 or zero.
That should fix it.
I was using HD Widgets and had a 8x1 clock/weather widget on my first home page. I was playing with the stock clock/weather widget and by removing the HD Widget's clock the stuttering improved a lot. I'm still using it for some toggles and that seems fine. If anyone is using HD Widgets you can remove the widgets you're not actively using and that seems to speed things up too.
i have a 3 day old 16gb wifi gnote. my experience with stuttering has been unmistakable in 2 places: general system animations (moving between screens or opening settings for example) and a laggy stock browser.
when i swipe home screens, i get similar stutters as the OP. so i went ahead and cleaned up all the stock (bloatware) widgets... hardly a solution but i hope it isnt a problem when i do install useful widgets soon.. someone suggested reducing animations to 0.5x or 0. well thats really sad for a higher end tablet i think. similar stuttering scrolls in gmail and play store.
with the browser, i usually get stutters when scrolling a fairly heavy page. the most annoying thing is that if there are many images on a page, the browser blanks them out when scrolling and then redraws them at the end of scrolling! so i simply installed chrome instead... and thats working better
i also tried this game called wind up knight just to see some 3d action... there too the stutter was quite obvious.
im not blown away by the quad core awesomeness out-of-the-box i must say. i think my 2 year old HTC HD2 (1ghz single core) is generally faster at running ics. i hope custom roms are able to better harness the hardware...
forgot to mention that i am running the old UEALGB rom
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Try going to settings, developer, and under window and transition animations. Try setting to.5 or zero.
That should fix it.
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So what exactly does this do?
I am on my second g note. Got rid of the 16 GBP for the 32. The only thing I have done on both was got rid of the widgets it came in stalled with and adj the settings and it flies like butter.
Someone else mentioned the power saver mode. Check that it is not on.
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I am on my second g note. Got rid of the 16 GBP for the 32. The only thing I have done on both was got rid of the widgets it came in stalled with and adj the settings and it flies like butter.
Someone else mentioned the power saver mode. Check that it is not on.
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No power savings mode. I suspect some of you just not noticing it. I do have an eye for those kind of things though.
i didnt have my power saving mode on... the problem became extremely irritating with that feature on...
however i did restart my tablet and that did solve almost all my worries! i too now have a "buttery smooth" tablet before restart, my ram usage was around 1.4gb and i suspect around 70+ active apps in memory. after restart, my ram usage was 0.4gb and all the lags and stutters went away! so one possible solution could be for you to go to task manager and clean out active apps from memory. then check if there is any stutter in general usage. hope this helps!
ps: i did clean out all my home screen bloat widgets. so i really cant say how smoothly they will scroll after cleaning out the ram.
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No power savings mode. I suspect some of you just not noticing it. I do have an eye for those kind of things though.
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I think anyone who comes to this site for info knows what lag is and looks like.:cyclops:
Not denying that there are some defective units, as with any thing to buy there will be some.
We are just trying to offer solutions.
tonyz3 said:
I think anyone who comes to this site for info knows what lag is and looks like.:cyclops:
Not denying that there are some defective units, as with any thing to buy there will be some.
We are just trying to offer solutions.
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Sorry, didn't mean to imply anything. I do appreciate all the help and feedback from all xda members.
I was just basically reflecting on my nature and the fact that I do tend to concentrate on details sometimes. So, my point was that there may or may not be lag there and perhaps I'm just "seeing" things. I have a good eye for these things in general, so assuming lag or more like stutter is there, the next question is whether that's something particular to my tab or others are seeing it too. If later is the case than it could be software and/or hardware issue. I thought the specs this thing packing it should have no problems scrolling silky smooth. Don't wanna jump to any conclusions just yet though...
Tried reducing animation scale but it made little difference. Wondering, just for comparison, has anyone seen Note 10.1 scrolling videos posted out there?
Thanks!
I agree it does stutter slightly. If you are reading an article and are scrolling down as you read, its not smooth. Hopefully they will fix it.
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I agree it does stutter slightly. If you are reading an article and are scrolling down as you read, its not smooth. Hopefully they will fix it.
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Thanks for sharing! Anybody else ran into this as well?
Actually, now that you mention it...
When i first received the tablet, i noticed the lag swiping from screen to screen. I shut it off after about 15 minutes, to charge the battery faster when the unit is off. After rebooting, i noticed it seemed to go much faster....
Also, after installing the update (which may or may not be available anymore) my overall smoothness went up about 100%, something i noticed immediately.
Doesn't stutter for me anymore, unless i have power saver mode on and really pushing it. Asphalt 7 (looks somewhat hi-tech 3d graphics, maybe not) runs exceptionally well, so i am not sure i'm getting the lag anymore. Maybe this is what some of the reviewers saw at first, while doing their first 15 minute review?
I can't complain anymore because it seems to be fine on mine, with the exception of this XDA app
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Sorry, didn't mean to imply anything. I do appreciate all the help and feedback from all xda members.
I was just basically reflecting on my nature and the fact that I do tend to concentrate on details sometimes. So, my point was that there may or may not be lag there and perhaps I'm just "seeing" things. I have a good eye for these things in general, so assuming lag or more like stutter is there, the next question is whether that's something particular to my tab or others are seeing it too. If later is the case than it could be software and/or hardware issue. I thought the specs this thing packing it should have no problems scrolling silky smooth. Don't wanna jump to any conclusions just yet though...
Tried reducing animation scale but it made little difference. Wondering, just for comparison, has anyone seen Note 10.1 scrolling videos posted out there?
Thanks!
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Once the jelly bean update finally comes around I am sure it will get smoother.
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Trying to get a sense if this is a widespread issue with almost every GNote or with just a small number of tabs. If first is the case then it can probably/likely be addressed via some software update. But if it's a later case then exchange is in order. I have no way of reliably validating it so I'll probably gonna go for an exchange early next week.
Anyone has some Samsung feedback linky handy, other than FB, by any chance? Thanks.
Not to hijack my one thread... but I have a new problem develop last night: some parts of the screen, left side in particular, in the standard browser weren't responding to touch/clicks. Tried clearing out all apps, restarting the browser, etc. Didn't help much. Seems to be better. Not sure what's going on.
The Prime had I/O issues and so did the TF300 (which I briefly owned). I read the Nexus 7 does as well. Every time I'm downloading torrents or even an app from the Play Store, the system would just be non-responsive. Or my browser would just give me errors saying App is Not Responding. Do you guys experience this on the Tf700? Is this an ICS problem or does it happen on JB as well?
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The Prime had I/O issues and so did the TF300 (which I briefly owned). I read the Nexus 7 does as well. Every time I'm downloading torrents or even an app from the Play Store, the system would just be non-responsive. Or my browser would just give me errors saying App is Not Responding. Do you guys experience this on the Tf700? Is this an ICS problem or does it happen on JB as well?
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Had very very few ANR's before JB..
Now they are nonexistent! Buttery smooth like Google promised! :good::good:
This seems to be more of an ICS problem. I have the TF300T, and when I upgraded to JB, a LOT of the unresponsiveness was taken care of. I am not saying that the TF300 performs just as well as the TF700, but JB makes a dramatical difference.
To be honest its pretty bad on my end. If i download a file (even at 250kb/sec) it gets so sluggy its not even usable. This is the only problem i have, too bad its a big one.
I do not use android devices to download torrents unless I have no intentions to use them soon. Apparently, it seems that Android does not handle large files nearly as well as PCs and Macs. I have an Of Evo, and the phone would not turn back on Irvine turn the screen off when I begin to download a torrent. I thought that this tablet would change the game completely, but it did not. Still a great device, but I am learning its limits slowly. (Don't be concerned., because it is not many. I just have an eye for some off these little things.)
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to be honest, i was pretty pissed off at the ICS version of this tablet. there were heaps of glowing reviews out there, but the truth was here on XDA, only i found out too late. i was getting ANRs, had a white-screen freeze/reboot, the webbrowsing in Chrome and stock were BRUTAL. was even getting occasional stutters playing music from the microSD card. and come on, opening and closing the app drawer should not be occasion for lag! luckily, i avoided the build quality issues that some were having, but i really thought this tablet was not ready for primetime.
and then the JB update happened.
again, to be honest, i wasn't expecting much. but for me, it's been a revelation -- with JB, the TF700 is what it should have been to begin with. smmmoooooth. fast. responsive. no funny business.
hoping that future minor updates will only improve it.
If you are downloading lots of torrents, you need a different tablet than the ASUS series, IMHO. After JB, it's a fantastic daily driver but the for I/O junkies the hardware will always have some limitation. For general streaming, apps, games, browsing, it is awesome but doing huge background downloads will always be suboptimal on this hardware. If that is your use model you want something else.
For downloading apps and updating stuff, JB seems to have improved things well enough that most basic users and lots of power users (including myself) are not going to bothered by it much if at all, but it will never be a screamer in the I/O dept.
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If you are downloading lots of torrents, you need a different tablet than the ASUS series, IMHO. After JB, it's a fantastic daily driver but the for I/O junkies the hardware will always have some limitation. For general streaming, apps, games, browsing, it is awesome but doing huge background downloads will always be suboptimal on this hardware. If that is your use model you want something else.
For downloading apps and updating stuff, JB seems to have improved things well enough that most basic users and lots of power users (including myself) are not going to bothered by it much if at all, but it will never be a screamer in the I/O dept.
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Yes, I see that, and I can certainly agree. As I continue to learn more about different devices, I slowly filter out that device is ideal for which task. Unfortunately, not enough people see things my way, and expect one device to work as good as any other device in their home...but it doesn't work that way.
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The Prime had I/O issues and so did the TF300 (which I briefly owned). I read the Nexus 7 does as well. Every time I'm downloading torrents or even an app from the Play Store, the system would just be non-responsive. Or my browser would just give me errors saying App is Not Responding. Do you guys experience this on the Tf700? Is this an ICS problem or does it happen on JB as well?
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I/O itself is what is it. It is set by hardware, which benchmark shows. Infinity's IO is not as bad as some believe according to my research. Iconia A700, or other android tablet has similar scores on benchmark. So it is how current generation of Android tablet are generally designed. Some tablet though used better IO component such as Galaxy Note 10.1. But it does not have Full HD. When price of unit is similar, manufacture has to decide what to include and where to save.
As far as the user experience end, initially when I got TF700 the day of release in US. I had application not responding, almost complete froze while application is downloading from Playstore. These have changed (even before Jellybean).
1. ANR - Honestly, I rarely have this now. May be once or twice a week? But key here now is interrupt i.e. clicking home button will instantly interrupt and take me back to home screen. So no true freezing. I even got freeze application on iPad 2 or on Galaxy Note 10.1 at least once or twice a week. So in this regard, Infinity is now pretty much as good as it can get.
2. System Non-responsiveness while download - This had also been vastly improved. I did a little testing with internal network 1GB+ download in background, and launched Final Fantasy 3. No lag or delay. However, if I do the same with Horn it basically becomes non-playable. So depending on what you want to do, the issue may or may not be noticeable.
3. System lag while application install - This is still there. Though not to the point system complete froze, but stuttering and lag becomes noticeable. Though this is true even on my desktop sometimes, and I don't think iPad would even allow you to install application while you run other application. So I am ok.
So overall, I think what we attribute things to as IO issue is essentially resolved to the point it can be. If there is any option, Galaxy Note 10.1 may be only one it may perform better in this regard. So you have to list your priority as others say.
Yea just picked up a Note 10.1 and the performance is night and day versus the Prime that I had. It takes multi task to a whole new level and I mean really intense multi tasking such as downloading huge files and hardly a blip. Though the screen leaves something to be desired, its a good performance trade off.