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[Q] are you starting to think that the Trans will flop because of all the bugs!!??

I already got mine for about a week now and so far I'm not very pleased...
Too many bugs, can not wake up from sleep mode. doesn't seem to want to auto connect to my wifi after it's been awoken. yeah, i know i can turn off the wifi disconnect policy, but that's not a good solution! I'm almost to a point I'd rather retun and maybe wait for the Lenovo, Samsung 10.1, Toshiba, or just get the Acer. i bet some of the Acer users are laughing at us now.
what a hugh disappointment after a highly anticipated tablet..

Just because you have bugs doesn't mean everyone does. Please don't make baseless claims.

seshmaru said:
Just because you have bugs doesn't mean everyone does. Please don't make baseless claims.
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This. I've had zero bugs. None. *knock on wood*

Sounds like you have an old/crap wireless router/modem/access point. If you're not happy with your purchase... return it. Life's too short to get hung up on these things.

It's the software which is buggy, not the asus transformer!

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do a search, it's definitely not an isolated issue. It's a VERY common issue as far as not waking from sleep!

shoot, go ahead and return it. i'd love to hear your experiences with the competition - good or bad. i'm getting tired of buying and returning tablets, lol.
the tf is a keeper right now. maybe in 6 months it'll be up for sale... though they did say the dock will be compatible with future models so i'll probably keep that part.

Hamst0r said:
It's the software which is buggy, not the asus transformer!
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not sure what your point is??? One can't work without the other...

E46M3 said:
do a search, it's definitely not an isolated issue. It's a VERY common issue as far as not waking from sleep!
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I like how you say very common, yet the vast majority has a device in perfect working order.
Don't pretend everyone has the issue just because you do.

E46M3 said:
not sure what your point is??? One can't work without the other...
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Well, one can be fixed relatively easily and the other can't. Software is more fixable, especially with a decent sized community.

stuntdouble said:
Sounds like you have an old/crap wireless router/modem/access point. If you're not happy with your purchase... return it. Life's too short to get hung up on these things.
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I've got a very nice router and mine Transformer does the sleep of death sometimes. There is definitely a bug, either with the hardware or with how the hardware runs HC. If it doesn't happen to you, that's great, but it is affecting several people here, and who knows how many if you take the percentage and apply it to all that have been sold.
That said, it seems every tablet has its issues, so hunting for the perfect, trouble-free device is going to be pretty hard. I'm sticking with the Transformer, warts and all, because it's the best out there for the price.

dfin13 said:
I've got a very nice router and mine Transformer does the sleep of death sometimes. There is definitely a bug, either with the hardware or with how the hardware runs HC. If it doesn't happen to you, that's great, but it is affecting several people here, and who knows how many if you take the percentage and apply it to all that have been sold.
That said, it seems every tablet has its issues, so hunting for the perfect, trouble-free device is going to be pretty hard. I'm sticking with the Transformer, warts and all, because it's the best out there for the price.
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your router may not be as nice as you think. I've gone through many wireless routers that were supposed to be nice but were neve as good until I put dd-wrt on them.
Sent from my Transformer TF101 using Tapatalk

You already started a thread called "almost want to return my trans! problems with shut off and wifi!!", not to mention it was your first post on the site.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1060434
You probably should have just posted in that one instead of making this. Like others above, I'm experiencing no problems with my Transformer whatsoever. I have a WNDR3700 with dd-wrt and everything works wonderfully.
Edit: Do people with the sleep of death problem have "Never" checked in the wifi sleep policy?

seshmaru said:
I like how you say very common, yet the vast majority has a device in perfect working order.
Don't pretend everyone has the issue just because you do.
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Did I say "everyone"?? Do a freaking search! It's common because only after a week or so from release, this issue has been discused numerous times! Just because you have a perfect working TF doesn't mean "EVERYONE" is.

donatom3 said:
your router may not be as nice as you think. I've gone through many wireless routers that were supposed to be nice but were neve as good until I put dd-wrt on them.
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Well it does the same thing when tethered to my Evo. Seems to be the only device that has trouble with both, so I think we can safely narrow it down to the Transformer There is definitely an issue here, but it's difficult to recreate because it seems to happen randomly. It happened to me this past weekend, didn't do it for a few days, then did it three times in one day. It hasn't done it today, and may not for a week, who knows? It's not the times it only does it once in a few days that bothers me, it's the multiple rebooting in a matter of hours that gets me. I'm not giving it back though, not unless it gets to be a regular thing.
I turned off the screen lock, hoping that maybe helps, but it's hard to know until it happens, ya know? Hopefully Asus will have a fix for it, but I doubt it since it's hard to recreate.

E46M3 said:
Did I say "everyone"?? Do a freaking search! It's common because only after a week or so from release, this issue has been discused numerous times! Just because you have a perfect working TF doesn't mean "EVERYONE" is.
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No, but you said you believe it's a flop because of the bugs and use words like "we" and "us" . For it to be a flop because of bugs it has to have a rather large percentage of users havings bugs that are bad enough to make them return the device.

Those experiencing the problem have the latest firmware update?
I ask because I have zero problems, and I haven't done the FW update.

Yeah, I updated mine as soon as I had enough juice. I don't have the same issues the OP is having, just the sleep problem. Otherwise I'm in love.

phreezee said:
Those experiencing the problem have the latest firmware update?
I ask because I have zero problems, and I haven't done the FW update.
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ive done the update, and have no problems.

Wasn't there another thread that said this Wifi issue could be resolved by turning off the detect Wifi option? I have this option off on all my devices because I do not want the device notifying each time I walk by a hotspot.

Will Asus fix the lag and crashes on TF700T

Im now on 5th day with my TF700T.
So far it have been mixed feelings about it.
I love the keyboard, dont think i can have a tab without a keyboard in the future.
There is also no other tablet out there that have what I want.
The thing that worries me a bit is the lag on the device. Sometimes I must wait several seconds before it responds. And this is not the touch screen, becouse when I just wait, it will do what i wanted. This is not fun when you are sufring a simple webpage.
Will Asus fix this lag in the Jelly Bean 4.1 update?
How about people that have rooted (custom rom) their devices, do they have the same issues?
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ummm, i dont think anyone on here can answer that question. JB is a google OS update.

Try resetting
Then check the firmware version.
The only delays I see after tapping are when web browsing.
Everything else is snappy as far as snappy can be under Android.
Are you running in the balanced mode?

First thing I did was root mine and freeze all of the useless crap they preinstall. Havent ever had any lag issues.

I'm in the same boat as the OP. Have had the tablet just less then a week. I very surprised at just how poor the performance is on this. Here are some of the issues I'm having:
-If I leave the web browser app for other apps and then come back to it, my web pages reload. It's like the multitasking fail that is present on the HTC EVO 4G LTE or HTC One series only not as pronounced.
-Some Flash heavy websites are so choppy and laggy. Scrolling is very choppy.
-The Netflix app is almost unusable. Scrolling through my queue seems like it's getting about 5 frames per second. Oddly enough, actually watching movies plays perfectly if I can manage to scroll to select the right movie
-Some games, even ones that are promoted through the Tegra Zone are very laggy.
I really want to love this tab. It's so great for me in so many other ways but I can't live with it if this is what I can expect
I'm rooted, not unlocked, stock ROM. I've been running in performance mode. I've tried with and without Nova Launcer. I've removed or frozen everything I dare to using TB. I've looked through this and other forums for tips on improving performance but so far nothing has helped. Do I have a lemon? Are these problems common? Is this what this tab is? Please help, really want to get this thing running like I'm pretty sure it can.

im going to go ahead and assume that asus had a bad batch of tf700t's go out. i had one with the same problem and i returned it, got a new and havent experienced the same problem again. so fast and snappy that jellybean will just make this tablet crazy.

Because of some problems i have with my pad i have decided to factory reset it a week ago.
Since than the experience is sooo much better. Didn't solve my problem though

flyhighx said:
I'm in the same boat as the OP.
Do I have a lemon? Are these problems common? Is this what this tab is? Please help, really want to get this thing running like I'm pretty sure it can.
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Not sure what to tell you...
I don't have any really bad slowness.
Kind of sounds like a bad processor or gpu core or other hardware bug like maybe ram errors.
IMO wouldn't say these are common problems.
*Just curious does your serial# on the bottom of the tablet start with a C6 or is it C7?

No problems here, either. I haven't rooted or done anything to mine except install updates and some apps I like - nothing that alters it really. Super happy with mine. Sorry you're having problems, but maybe you should exchange it, as previously suggested.

Thats OK said:
*Just curious does your serial# on the bottom of the tablet start with a C6 or is it C7?
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C6. From Amazon maybe 4 days ago. Is that older or more known to have issues. I'm still well within my return period from Amazon. If C7 is known to be better it would be worth it to me to return it and buy it from a store where I can look at the serial number on the box first. Thanks for the replies... Didn't mean to hijack the thread but it seems the op and I are having the same issue.

flyhighx said:
C6. From Amazon maybe 4 days ago. Is that older or more known to have issues. I'm still well within my return period from Amazon. If C7 is known to be better it would be worth it to me to return it and buy it from a store where I can look at the serial number on the box first. Thanks for the replies... Didn't mean to hijack the thread but it seems the op and I are having the same issue.
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i have a c7 that i bought from amazon on 8/10 with similar issues

AnakiMana said:
No problems here, either. I haven't rooted or done anything to mine except install updates and some apps I like - nothing that alters it really. Super happy with mine. Sorry you're having problems, but maybe you should exchange it, as previously suggested.
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Maybe i should exchange mine then.
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flyhighx said:
C6. From Amazon maybe 4 days ago. Is that older or more known to have issues. I'm still well within my return period from Amazon. If C7 is known to be better it would be worth it to me to return it and buy it from a store where I can look at the serial number on the box first. Thanks for the replies... Didn't mean to hijack the thread but it seems the op and I are having the same issue.
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Ah...
You might want to return for a replacement.
I have a C7 serial and have no bugs with the tablet I received from Amazon.
No guarantees yet it might be worth shot. Amazon will treat you right.
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whats the difference between c6 and c7?
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Where do you find the serial number?
on the dock?
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The tablet serial number can be found on the box the tablet came in and on the bottom of the tablet itself on a sticker (on the part of the tablet that would go into the dock if you use one).
The only difference between a C6 serial number and a C7 serial number is that one was manufactured in June and one in July (the number after the C is the month it was manufactured in)....
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Then mine is c80ka
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Maybe we should start a new thread and track the serial #s and their defects. Good way to compare range of serials with defects and spot unfixed junk that might be sold as refurbished later

For my limited use, the lag and freezing was driving me nuts. Of course, I've been down this road before with the Prime. Eventually the Prime community found the tweaks and mods to make it fly, and I admit it was part of the fun to experiment and find ways to squeeze more performance and stability from the tablet.
My problems with the Infinity seem to exacerbate when RAM goes below 200k. I can see this from the Cool Tool widget. When I get below this level, the browser is generally unusable. I use a tool called startup cleaner to minimize what launches and tried to keep widgets to a minimum but my RAM seemed to always run low. Based on this same experience with the Prime, I changed the setting in developer options to limit background processes to 2. This does a good job keeping RAM above 400K, and when I do this it runs very well. No lag or ANRs, and everything seems very fluid.
This was an early temp fix with the Prime until other mods caught up, so I don't expect this to be required long term. However, the results are really are dramatic so far and enough to keep me from going the Note 10.1 route.
Sent from my ASUS Transformer Pad TF700T using Tapatalk 2

clenz said:
For my limited use, the lag and freezing was driving me nuts. Of course, I've been down this road before with the Prime. Eventually the Prime community found the tweaks and mods to make it fly, and I admit it was part of the fun to experiment and find ways to squeeze more performance and stability from the tablet.
My problems with the Infinity seem to exacerbate when RAM goes below 200k. I can see this from the Cool Tool widget. When I get below this level, the browser is generally unusable. I use a tool called startup cleaner to minimize what launches and tried to keep widgets to a minimum but my RAM seemed to always run low. Based on this same experience with the Prime, I changed the setting in developer options to limit background processes to 2. This does a good job keeping RAM above 400K, and when I do this it runs very well. No lag or ANRs, and everything seems very fluid.
This was an early temp fix with the Prime until other mods caught up, so I don't expect this to be required long term. However, the results are really are dramatic so far and enough to keep me from going the Note 10.1 route.
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That's a good tweak, and one I hadn't tried before, so thanks!
If you're unlocked, I would advise you to run...don't walk, and flash TWRP recovery and then the Zeus rom v 4.0. This is a totally different machine on that rom.
There is also the trick of turning off animations in Developer Options or set the scale to .5. That helps with smoothness, too.
My advice is not to exchange over simple lagginess if all other hardware issue are ok. There is so much more that can and will be done on the software side, but if you exchange, what if you get a tab with a major hw problem?

Any fix for black lines flashing across screen?

Somebody has to be working on this. This is getting kinda irritating. Listen to music, flash black lines, watch movies, flash black lines, type notes in supernote, flash blacklines. Not a big deal in terms of performance, just an irritating bother for a $600 tablet!
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doesn't bother me but I only paid $500 for mine.

lafester said:
doesn't bother me but I only paid $500 for mine.
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I laughed.
I have them as well, and while I would like them to pack up and leave, I concur with the OP that it is not a deal breaker of any sort.
I can't remember having them on ICS -- would this be a JB thing?

Only happens to me very rarely, only when browsing, once or twice a day at most. Never in games, films, music or documents...

Working on it?-- That implies that they still care about us. They don't. I have almost 50 of these that I support, all have the issue and even after working with Tien and Gary to get a resolution.... they have given me absolutely nothing as far as support goes.
They have suggested cold boots and factory resets... that is all. And NO, those actions fix NOTHING.
Tien... you even abandoned my support call..
Last communication that I had with him was this on 11/7:
Hi Jordan,
Sorry for the late reply, but I just wanted to inform you that we have passed all this information back to HQ so they can test and figure out a solution. I am confident, with all the material we've supplied, that they can duplicate and figure something out. I just want to thank you for sticking through this. Hopefully the new firmware update will address all these issues.
Tien
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Tien,
I am assuming by now that you or your company has been able to reproduce the graphics issues, reboots and issues that have been happening with the TF700. If you are having trouble with that, there are large groups of users getting these problems, documented here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1811538&page=14
Please let me know what asus plans to do to resolve these issues. Again, these are company machines that are relied on everyday as a primary work space for some. Please email me asap to let me know a time frame that I can expect some sort of resolution.
Jordan
SO-- a month ago was the last response, despite emailing him on 12/1 for an update-- got nothing.

MartyHulskemper said:
would this be a JB thing?
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Yeah its a JB thing. ICS was fine. I'm sure the fix will be out soon

I was having them, but didn't notice any since the update I got today. I *think* they fixed it... I'm looking for somebody to confirm that I'm not dreaming...

I've never noticed them. When and how do they appear?

acme99 said:
I was having them, but didn't notice any since the update I got today. I *think* they fixed it... I'm looking for somebody to confirm that I'm not dreaming...
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I confirm, no black flashing lines post 23 update on JB

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I've never noticed them. When and how do they appear?
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From time to time, a black horizontal line flashes across the screen, usually in the upper third (at least when I noticed), seems to be random. Looks like a GPU driver issue (maybe NVidia's fault?) because it appeared first with the JB updates.

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I've never noticed them. When and how do they appear?
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Need the display to be mostly white, then just wait. It's real quick maybe 1/4 to 1/2 a second.
I see this once every couple minutes on cleanRom 2.7.x

dishinit said:
I confirm, no black flashing lines post 23 update on JB
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Good. Then I'm not crazy... I think I saw one... But it's hardly noticeable now. It's way better than before. This is good! Thanks Asus for this one.

acme99 said:
Good. Then I'm not crazy... I think I saw one... But it's hardly noticeable now. It's way better than before. This is good! Thanks Asus for this one.
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Hardly noticeable?... why can't they just be gone already?!?!

jordanmw said:
Hardly noticeable?... why can't they just be gone already?!?!
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Well, I'm there with you on this one, but for me it went from unbearable to just annoying. But yeah, there are still there. I just noticed one 2 mins ago.
So thank you Asus, but don't sit on this one yet cause it's still an unresolved issue........

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Well, I'm there with you on this one, but for me it went from unbearable to just annoying. But yeah, there are still there. I just noticed one 2 mins ago.
So thank you Asus, but don't sit on this one yet cause it's still an unresolved issue........
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Yep, correction on my earlier report of none after 23 update, thought I saw one last night, know I saw one this morning, no developers options ticked.
But frequency and duration greatly reduced....still needs more work though.
I concur with above poster, still not totally resolved

Definitely less than last update, but still there every once in a while.
Thanks for the improvement, but keep looking.

There was an update yesterday?! OMG, I hope CROMI Dev picks it up soon! Its soo irritating. Certain apps seem to trigger it more often than others! I'm using CROMI 2.7.2 .
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Darksurf said:
There was an update yesterday?! OMG, I hope CROMI Dev picks it up soon! Its soo irritating. Certain apps seem to trigger it more often than others! I'm using CROMI 2.7.2.
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I'm pretty sure sbdags is applying his magic as we speak. He has a lot to go over, so give it a few days. I do hope the new update remedies it to a large extent, because they are annoying.
The remark of "no developer options ticked" seems to deny me the pleasure of disabling 2D GPU GUI rendering and seeing them leave automagically. I had that idea yesterday evening -- well, I'm going to try anyway. (If it should somehow work out, that'd be a strong lead to suspect a driver issue. Damn you, NVIDIA! )
PS: are we all on CROMI? (Me: v2.7.2) I guess stock ROM is no different to all intents and purposes as far as the black line issue goes. Do any of the people in here that use AOSP/AOKP/CM10 have them too?

My Nexus 7 used to do this as well. I think it's a problem with the Tegra 3 while the wifi is being used. I haven't noticed it on my Nexus 7 since 4.2 though.

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My Nexus 7 used to do this as well. I think it's a problem with the Tegra 3 while the wifi is being used. I haven't noticed it on my Nexus 7 since 4.2 though.
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Interesting suggestion! I hadn't noticed anuyhthing partiucular in connection with the WiFi being on while the problem occurred. I am curious to see if I can ''fix'' this myself. Anoter workaround for an -- essentially -- hardware issue? (If you are correct, and that carries a rather high probablility, you'd suspect the Tegra3 to be susceptible to some kind of EMF reception and static build-up internally or something,. Ugh, another unsolvable issue to contend with. And still I like this device very much.

[Q] A700 hot problem

I will buy a tabl either A700 or TH300T. I would like to know A700 hot problem have already solve or not.
Thanks

z1022 said:
I will buy a tabl either A700 or TH300T. I would like to know A700 hot problem have already solve or not.
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I can only speak from my own experiences. I have been using my A700 a lot over the past couple of months, and I have never had any over heating issues.
Perhaps there may have been a bad batch with heat problems? Maybe others who have had heat issues can comment.

I think it is device dependent. When running a benchmark or game for am extended period (20-30 minutes) mine gets too hot and reboots every time.
My friends', however, running exact same rom doesn't have that problem.
So I find it pretty hard to recommend this over, say, a nexus 10.
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I had the rebooting issue when I first received the tablet, but after the first or second official update, the overheating/rebooting issue went away completely. Now I run the Iconian 2.6 ROM with overclocked kernel, with this combo I get faster overall speeds and although it gets hot on the right side while gaming, I still haven't had the thing reboot on me. That being said though, the tablet is not as fast as the Nexus 10, but can be bought for much less than the Nexus 10. So its a matter of cost versus performance really. If your not going to be gaming too much then the Acer is the way to go as long as you can get it cheap.

Thanks
I am not going to be gaming too mush. Mainly for Video and Web.

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I am not going to be gaming too mush. Mainly for Video and Web.
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Should have no problems with that.
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[Q] Trouble with Shield LTE?

Just wondering if anyone is having any problems with the LTE version? Its on offer right now and I am seriously considering buying it, but I heard some horror stories with the previous wifi only version, that some say are gone in the LTE.
Also sorry for this side question but how many hours does it roughly stay? (gaming or just browsing)

ZK85 said:
Just wondering if anyone is having any problems with the LTE version? Its on offer right now and I am seriously considering buying it, but I heard some horror stories with the previous wifi only version, that some say are gone in the LTE.
Also sorry for this side question but how many hours does it roughly stay? (gaming or just browsing)
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Only had a few issues. It freezes up when using google search or chrome. I'm not sure if its a shield related problem or a google related problem. The other issue (which is my biggest gripe) is the WiFi always getting slower speeds than my 20 other devices.

Thanks is this a common thing from your knowledge?

ZK85 said:
Thanks is this a common thing from your knowledge?
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I've had issues with WIFI connectivity, specifically after waking for the first time in the morning. Also, sleep of death is almost a daily occurrence on my device. If I had to do it all over, I wouldn't buy the Shield again.

adampdx said:
I've had issues with WIFI connectivity, specifically after waking for the first time in the morning. Also, sleep of death is almost a daily occurrence on my device. If I had to do it all over, I wouldn't buy the Shield again.
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Thanks, what a shame, its such an awesome looking device, and the shield portable I had was REALLY good.
does everyone have these problems or is it possible some people got lemons?
I was really hoping to hear that there was going to be a new shield tablet released, instead they announced a new console