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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.

Pattern to my reboots - do yours have a pattern?

So over the last few days my phone seems to have settled into some sort of weird pattern with reboots. Although there are outliers, in general it always seems to reboot between 19-24h of uptime and nearly always at like 45 or 50 mins past the hour. It's the most bizarre thing in the world and why I think there's some funky software doing it. I don't have true random reboots, but I can't figure out what it is that is doing this. Very odd.
In all cases my phone is sitting with the screen off (I've NEVER had a reboot while using the phone/screen on) but it doesn't matter what radios are on, WiFi, BT, GPS (can be off or on).
Last time I ran "CatLog" a logging app from Market and had it write to SD logs and a reboot happened but it only by default writes every 200 lines so the last line in the file was probably not the last line in the log. I'm going to try again later and set it to write every line or few lines so I can see the last entry in the log before a reboot. Might shine some light on it.
Just find it very strange since it's a very stable and capable phone for about 18hrs and then it just craps on itself. Very strange.

finally. I too just think it is some weird software or driver bug because I was running EB 1.0.4 FINE for like 3-4 days and loving it... then it started resetting almost hourly. I didn't install any other apps past my initial normal set of apps.
Even CM7, seems like it is fine for a few days, then gets crazy. As long as I put a new nightly rom on it every day, it's good.
I didn't have any issues with stock though and didn't seem to have issues with CM7 for a while until lately.
The leaked GB rom causes lockups immediately out of the gate seemed hourly.
I use CM7 as my main daily driver now but I think you are on to something. We are talking about the Screen of Death right? I don't think mine ever reboots, but gets stuck at the lockscreen where the the display comes up, swiping to unlock vibrates then the phone but doesn't change screens to desktop. The buttons and click/drag widgets work even though you are looking the lockscreen.
I've never had my phone powered off in my pocket or noticed it "rebooting". Mine just has the SoD that seems to follow your pattern idea. They may be related. Stock roms may reset once it locks up, where CM7 just keeps running in its locked state.

I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.

I just hope that update gets here sooner than later.
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I dunno. The tmobile jingle is pretty loud and I never hear it. CM7 has a silent one so possibly there but I dunno.
I use my phone pretty often and never had the suspicious that it reboots. My phone stays very cool during my usage compared to my nexus and other phones
My uptime was 4 hours since I reset it last. I'll monitor it with results. It'll be hard not to flash but I'll keep track and see how far I can keep it online.

i have not had any reboots or waking up to a dead phone ....with the only fix is a battery pull.... ever since I started.
1) my over night charging / long term charging to 100%... only on the LG charger that it came with. Only short term...maybe. less than an hour and not to a 100% charge on a non LG charger (car charger etc...)
2) I restart my G2x every morning when I take it off the LG charger..(after I take it off..I did it once while on the charger and had an issue... (there is definitely an issue related to when it charges to/ around 100% charge)
Just my 2 cents.

Pattern to my reboots - do yours have a pattern?
Hold Power and volume up simultaneously for about 10 seconds.

I've had my phone since Friday, but the only time I had the rebooting problem was this past Saturday when it rebooted four times within 15 minutes or so. Before the rebooting began, the phone had slowed down to a crawl, so I went ahead and rebooted it. After that, I sat it down and watched it reboot a few times on its own. Luckily my iPhone 4 owning co-worker was completely unaware of this issue since we tease and bicker with each other every day over Android and iOS .

mobilehavoc said:
I have a really strong sneaking suspicion that every G2X reboots but not everyone notices. Also if you naturually turn your phone off once a day or so you won't notice it perhaps or even a few days. The phone reboots pretty fast and the only way I've been noticing (except the times I see/hear it happen) is I have an uptime widget on my homescreen so it's obvious.
Same thing happened with my Droid Incredible btw...when it first came out there were all kind of random reboot issues. After a software update I would run that phone hard for 30-45 DAYS straight without a reboot.
It's annoying but I think it's just a matter of time before the G2X is the same.
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I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.

smashpunks said:
I can guarantee that mine don't reboot. I've had it up fire days, checked the up time and play with it constantly.if it rebooted in the middle of the night I would hear it or the uptime would be close to zero in the morning..
I have a way stable phone.running stock, rooted with bloat removed.. I love this damn stable phone.
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What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?

mobilehavoc said:
What bloat did you remove? I've removed most but not all of it. Can you list it?
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Everything other than smart share, tegra zone and qik. Of course have nova and need for speed also.
Oh also have car home froze..

Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).

player911 said:
Maybe jumping the gun here but I tried to let mine go as long as it could without resetting it. I kept tabs on it and it was running awesome the entire time (#33 CM7).
Last time I noticed my phone on was like 17:33:xx hours. I had like 44% battery left. Next thing I know the phone is off. I tried turning it on and a battery icon flashed and turned back off.
What I am thinking is that perhaps the faulty battery driver is telling the phone that the battery is dead and preventing it from booting up. We were talking in another thread and I said something that really makes sense: If the battery driver tells the OS that there is 0% battery then it will just reboot. The battery itself may have a 50% charge left. That would explain the random reboots too (the battery driver telling the phone there is 1% left and cutting power). Maybe a hard reset semi-corrects the problem but eventually resets again due to false information.
My weirdness/powered off occurred right around 18hours. The phone could have just died too.
Almost need a Voltmeter so someone can test the battery (or however it can be tested).
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Yes I know the battery driver is part of the problem as can be seen on CM7 builds but what's odd is my time varies so for a long time it would reboot every 17-20 hours, now all of a sudden it goes to 36 hours before it usually reboots. Looking at logs it doesn't appear to throw any major errors before a reboot which implies that it's a a kernel panic or low-level fault. At this point I've given up on trying to find the issue since it's been repeated over and over that T-Mo and LG are releasing an update. Might as well enjoy the phone and wait for that to come out

Amen. Just keep flashing CM nightlies and you'll never worry about it.

Ota brick

Hello, I am hoping someone can help me because I'm about to test out my 2 year square trade spill and drop (SMASH) warranty if not.
I've had my infinity for about a week and a half without ever having any issues. I rooted it about a week ago, which was impressively simple.
Today, after being pestered every 10 minutes about this BS update even after postponing it for 1 day multiple times I finally gave in and hit update. My prime reset, went to the animated android screen with the spinning icon in his belly. The progress bar finished and then the screen went black.
I walked away for a couple of minutes and came back it was still off. Now every time I try to turn it on I get no response. If I hold power approximately 10 seconds it vibrates, but still absolutely no screen response. I tried holding volume down and power, same thing. I've tried any combination of volume buttons with power, still just a vibrate after 10 seconds and nothing. WTF!?!?
I HATE THESE F#CKING UNNECESSARY UPDATES!
Asus, I'm very disappointed in you right now!
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Have you tried plugging it in to the wall charger and letting it sit for a few hours before trying again?

I tried starting it plugged in earlier with no response, but I just replugged it in and I'm going to wait a bit before touching it. It was about 90% charged when I started the update.
The Amber charge light is on. If my memory serves right it changes green when fully charged, so I'll try again when the light changes.
Thanks for reply.
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I had that issue with my prime. Something a little different though. I was using my camcorder one day taking video of my son. Got a freeze up, had to reboot. After that, I was able to hit power or hold it I should say for 10 seconds and it would vibrate but the screen never came back on.
I ended up RMA'ing it, only to find that the motherboard failed on it and had to be replaced.
I suspect your board is bad as well. Sorry dude, I know how it feels... asus quality control sux on their lineup. Always has, and probably always will.

Get a needle, put it in the hole on top of the mini HDMI port.

After putting the needle in and then trying to start it up it vibrates within 2 seconds of holding power, which seemed more normal to me. However the screen never turned on, just black screen and then if I try again it vibrates apprx 10 seconds after hold. I have tried again, same results. Battery is fully charged...
Thanks for the help guys, but I'm thinking it's toast, and I'm very disappointed. The thing is i normally never ota, and wouldn't if it had just postponed 24 hours at a time like it had given as an option. I was waiting on aokp to drop before I unlocked and rom'd it out.
I'm probably just going to return it to Amazon... I was going to have it replaced, but I'm now reconsidering waiting on something better to drop. QC seems to be an issue with Asus lately, and since I sold my laptop to pay for my infinity this is becoming a major inconvenience that I'm not trying to deal with again. I was reading on here somewhere a guy had gone through 5 or 6 of them.
I've been building computers for friends and family for more than a decade now and I've always bought Asus mobo's, and never had issues or complaints about them. I think I'll be reconsidering that loyalty next time I have a build.
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My prime did that... The tablet vibrates but no screen... Tried even connecting the computer and it saw the tablet. Had to RMA it to get it fixed... then a month later the tablet wouldnt charge.. RMAed again to fix... If I were you return it for a new one or go for a different brand.

Just bricked mine too. OTA failed with dying android, then reboot only to first Asus screen. I can get into recovery but factory reset completed and same thing, only first Asus screen. I think I might be able to flash .26 from the Asus site since I'm still locked but internet is so show it will take 7 hours to download the file.
Edit: update zip in recovery worked. I think it is time to unlock since it is obvious Asus can't get there stuff straight.

I had the same problem with my first Infinity. I called the Asus support, but the guy had absolutely no idea and told me to RMA it.
I returned it to Amazon and got a new one.

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After putting the needle in and then trying to start it up it vibrates within 2 seconds of holding power, which seemed more normal to me. However the screen never turned on, just black screen and then if I try again it vibrates apprx 10 seconds after hold. I have tried again, same results. Battery is fully charged...
Thanks for the help guys, but I'm thinking it's toast, and I'm very disappointed. The thing is i normally never ota, and wouldn't if it had just postponed 24 hours at a time like it had given as an option. I was waiting on aokp to drop before I unlocked and rom'd it out.
I'm probably just going to return it to Amazon... I was going to have it replaced, but I'm now reconsidering waiting on something better to drop. QC seems to be an issue with Asus lately, and since I sold my laptop to pay for my infinity this is becoming a major inconvenience that I'm not trying to deal with again. I was reading on here somewhere a guy had gone through 5 or 6 of them.
I've been building computers for friends and family for more than a decade now and I've always bought Asus mobo's, and never had issues or complaints about them. I think I'll be reconsidering that loyalty next time I have a build.
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Same story here. Last time it worked was the animation screen during the ota update last night. Get the vibration sensor as expected after holding power button or resetting with paper clip, but nothing on the screen, ever.
Got the RMA and shipping it in the morning. I bought it from newegg the week released so need to do warranty.
Time to wakeup the abandoned but reliable Viewsuckonic Gtab

[Q] Super Heated TF700 Post JB Update

So I upgraded to JB via OTA yesterday with no problems. Today I'm reading an article on Chrome and the tablet screen shuts off and after a few seconds it looks like it's in the process of rebooting so I set it down and leave thinking it'll be booted up again when I come back but I was confused why it rebooted in the first place.
Anyways, about an hour and a half later I come back and my tablet is super heated to the point that it burns to touch it. The screen was blank but it looked like the backlight was on or something because it wasn't the same as if the screen was actually turned off. I held the power button down several seconds until it powered off and rebooted and then I set it down by my AC so that it could cool off. After a minute or so it booted up like normal to the main screen and it showed that the battery had drained from 95% when it first happened to 37% so it was obviously stuck doing something very CPU intensive during that hour and a half.
Does anyone have a clue what happened and if I should do something? I just bought this tablet from Best Buy yesterday without their additional warranty but should I either take it back there or possibly contact ASUS of a replacement or something? I know how bad that kind of heat is for computer components and it bothers me it was like that even for 1.5 hours. Also my tablet has not been rooted so it was completely stock save for the few apps I've installed so far.
Thanks in advance!

Had the exact same thing happen to mine about a month ago. Was worried afterwards that the excessive heat would have caused damage but so far have not seen any ill effects.

Falchion17 said:
So I upgraded to JB via OTA yesterday with no problems. Today I'm reading an article on Chrome and the tablet screen shuts off and after a few seconds it looks like it's in the process of rebooting so I set it down and leave thinking it'll be booted up again when I come back but I was confused why it rebooted in the first place.
Anyways, about an hour and a half later I come back and my tablet is super heated to the point that it burns to touch it. The screen was blank but it looked like the backlight was on or something because it wasn't the same as if the screen was actually turned off. I held the power button down several seconds until it powered off and rebooted and then I set it down by my AC so that it could cool off. After a minute or so it booted up like normal to the main screen and it showed that the battery had drained from 95% when it first happened to 37% so it was obviously stuck doing something very CPU intensive during that hour and a half.
Does anyone have a clue what happened and if I should do something? I just bought this tablet from Best Buy yesterday without their additional warranty but should I either take it back there or possibly contact ASUS of a replacement or something? I know how bad that kind of heat is for computer components and it bothers me it was like that even for 1.5 hours. Also my tablet has not been rooted so it was completely stock save for the few apps I've installed so far.
Thanks in advance!
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I would just take it back. Doesn't seems normal at all!

Ok well I feel a little bit better that I'm not the only one to experience this problem. It makes me nervous that this happened so I'll probably contact Asus and see what the deal is.

Left in a drawer for years and now it's slow

I have a P900 that was left in a drawer for 2 or 3 years, never getting charged even once in all that time. Turning it on, I immediately realized something was wrong because it took forever to boot. The lock screen was so slow that the entire machine locked up for a few seconds, scrolling between pages on the launcher stuttered hard or locked up and everything else with the machine was generally the same. The web browser is unusable, even typing in a URL locks things up. The device is unusable.
So I thought the battery was obviously damaged, even charged at 100% it would be flat for sitting for maybe 2 hours with the screen off. I tried several cycles of charging to 100% then discharging and back up, but nothing seems to help. I don't have much money so I took at stab in the dark and got a cheap battery from ebay and it didn't help. I don't know if this battery is new, but it does seem to hold a charge like the device did when it was new but it's just still so slow that you can't use it.
However, one thing that I've noticed is that apps that don't touch the storage seem to work OK. I have a Spectrum TV app that once it starts up seems to be okay, but not great. Netflix seems to be okay as well after starting up. They both stutter a bit and rarely freeze. I don't know if this is relevant at all.
I'm at a loss of what else could be damaged or how to fix this. I'm in the process of cycling this new battery up and down, though I don't know if this would actually help. I just don't know how to diagnose this problem.

Okay, the problem was the battery, it just took a few hours of charging. I guess now that it can see it has a fully functioning battery that it's running as it should now. Android really should give you an error message about that instead of just slowing the whole thing down to a crawl, leaving you scratching your head.

This strange thing happened to me also.
I was given a tablet that was not in use couple of years. It takes about one hour on charger to start booting at all, I was thinking that it don't working at all.
Then it sits on Samsung Note Pro logo about 15 minutes, then logo changed to Samsung and it took about 15 more minutes to boot in home screen.
Then i realized that it's very slow and unresponsive, I charged it to full and reset, but it's remain the same, very sluggish.
Tried everything, reset it couple of times, flash rom with Odin, nothing helped.
After couple of charge-discharge cycles it starts to work like new!
I would never have thought that the battery could do that, but there it is.