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[ISSUE] Transformer powered off and won't power back on

Doubt there is anything else I can do, but thought I'd try anyway.
So after about a whole 3 hours of use, my Transformer just powered off. I tried to power it back on, and it did for about 5 minutes, but would only stay on for about 15 seconds (not even a full boot) and reset again. Now, it doesn't power on at all.
While I was using it I was charging it. It had about 84% battery when it died. I tried holding the power button for 6, 30, even 60 seconds and no results. Tried the power and vol down too.
I have an RMA from ASUS (Is it normal for companies to make you pay for shipping to them? Ugh), but wanted to know if there is anything else I can try before waiting another 2-3 weeks to get one back.
Thanks!

I think I've read of this happening before, leave the TF's battery to go completely flat then recharge it. Nothing to loose by trying it.
Good luck.

I would just keep trying to hit the power button and see if you could get it to work because I feel like doing an RMA will not really fix the issue because it is more of a software issue I feel like, unless it completely died. On the other hand, if you do RMA it, I would not pay for shipping, that is ridiculous.

Reverence12389 said:
I would just keep trying to hit the power button and see if you could get it to work because I feel like doing an RMA will not really fix the issue because it is more of a software issue I feel like, unless it completely died. On the other hand, if you do RMA it, I would not pay for shipping, that is ridiculous.
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I thought it was a software issue while it was boot looping, but now it won't power on at all.
Unforunately, it had a HUGE charge on the battery when it died. I can't easily drain the battery because it won't power on at all to use the battery up.
Any suggestions on draining it without powering it on? Thanks again...

These things seem very tricky. Try hitting the power button multiple times, then holding it, and holding it while holding the power down, that works for me.
Some other things you can try is put it on the charger and then try powering it on. Try docking it if you have a station and then plug the dock in and try to power on. Anything could trigger it going back on to be honest because these sleeps of death/shut offs/non responsive units seem to happen at random.

Could be the sleep of death. You can get it to boot usually by holding power for 5 seconds, wait a bit, and then power it on again. Sadly it may be a hardware issue :-(
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I'm guessing it's a hardware issue. Any amount of holding the power button down hasn't shown any sign of working.
This is where I wish it had a removable battery. I know about 50% of laptops I work on that don't power on just need the battery taken out, power button pressed, and battery replaced (discharges static electricity).

I had the same problem. I put it on charge for 15 min and then powered it on with it still plugged in. Scared the hell out of me.
It finally powered back up. Just keep trying and cross fingers.
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singlebyte said:
I had the same problem. I put it on charge for 15 min and then powered it on with it still plugged in. Scared the hell out of me.
It finally powered back up. Just keep trying and cross fingers.
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Thanks. I keep trying every 30 minutes or so. Did yours also die while it was fully charged?

Not sure where the battery level was when it died. I thought it had somehow been left on and just drained the battery too much. After a while on charge it came back to life.
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Charging
I am sure you guys have noticed - or is mine unique - that when you have the TF switched off and you plug it in it automatically switches on.
So plugging it in whilst it is off actually means you could be draining the battery. You need to switch it off when it is already on charge.
That being said mine stopped charging recently and I found a post somewhere to say to trickle charge it (charge it off the USB on the computer) and then try to charge it again. That worked and it has charged great since. I think that issue is related to the dock.
So try to trickle charge it -see if it will hook up to your PC and see if that will help.

singlebyte said:
Not sure where the battery level was when it died. I thought it had somehow been left on and just drained the battery too much. After a while on charge it came back to life.
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Ah. Unfortunately I think mine is a different issue since it was fully charged when it shut off. Thanks though!

Turns out bestbuy.com received some stock, so I returned mine to Best Buy and re-ordered it. Thanks for the advice, guys! Pretty sure it was something I couldn't fix anyway.

[Q] Please Help -> Dead Transformer? At wits end...[FIXED]

My Asus Transformer on ICS was rooted and fine. Then after the latest update the other day, I noticed yesterday that I lost root. Then today I powered it off and now it won't turn back on at all. Connecting it to the dock shows no sign of life. Plugging it in on it's own to both a PC and wall outlet and still no signs of life. ADB doesn't detect it. Windows doesn't detect it. Holding down the power button forever doesn't do anything. Power button and volume down doesn't do anything.
Do I have any other option other than sending it for repair/warranty? I've tried searching on here and Google and everything just says to boot into recovery. But that's not doing anything for me.
Please help.
Thanks.

ThaiM said:
My Asus Transformer on ICS was rooted and fine. Then after the latest update the other day, I noticed yesterday that I lost root. Then today I powered it off and now it won't turn back on at all. Connecting it to the dock shows no sign of life. Plugging it in on it's own to both a PC and wall outlet and still no signs of life. ADB doesn't detect it. Windows doesn't detect it. Holding down the power button forever doesn't do anything. Power button and volume down doesn't do anything.
Do I have any other option other than sending it for repair/warranty? I've tried searching on here and Google and everything just says to boot into recovery. But that's not doing anything for me.
Please help.
Thanks.
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It may have gotten "undercharged". When that happens it will take forever to show signs of life after its plugged in. Try leaving it plugged into the wall outlet overnight and see if it fixes it.

joshcrumley100 said:
It may have gotten "undercharged". When that happens it will take forever to show signs of life after its plugged in. Try leaving it plugged into the wall outlet overnight and see if it fixes it.
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I was thinking the same thing. My Nook Tablet recently had this happen and I thought the thing was completely toast. I figured I'd give it one last shot and just plug it in for a while and like a 1/2 hour later, it suddenly woke up.
Hope the situation works out the same for you OP.

I've had it plugged in overnight and still nothing at all.
Now thinking about it, the reason it was shut it off (by my wife) was because it was glitching. It was playing music in the background from a game that wouldn't shut down. I'm guessing it was stuck in memory or something. So I'm wondering if this game or whatever is still somehow running and the device isn't actually completely shut down. I'm gonna do the opposite and leave it unplugged for the day. Let the battery completely deplete, hopefully shutting down fully and killing that process. Worth a shot.

try pressing power and vol down for like 30 seconds. Another thing I've seen people do is try plugging it in and holding power for 30 seconds. Also try plugging into computer totrickle charge for a bit. Hope any of this helps.
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Dreamboxuser said:
try pressing power and vol down for like 30 seconds. Another thing I've seen people do is try plugging it in and holding power for 30 seconds. Also try plugging into computer totrickle charge for a bit. Hope any of this helps.
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Tried those already with no luck, but thanks for the suggestion.
I've tried holding the power button for minutes at a time too. Power and volume down for minutes at a time. Plugged in and not plugged in. With and without memory card in while plugged in and not plugged in.

Update: I think there is some merit to my theory. Left it unplugged for a full day and then plugged it in and after a few tries it BOOTED! Working just fine ever since too and the strange thing is, the battery barely depleted at all.
So something was possibly running that was preventing it from fully shutting down? I don't know. Strange.

Had the same issue over the weekend
I wish I had seen your post prior to calling ASUS for support, I went through all the troubleshooting steps you suggested, had no luck. I did not wait long enough to let the battery fully discharge to see if that fixed it and my TF 101 is now on route to TX for warranty repair (I am hoping that I now may end up with a tablet with a few more of the issues ironed out also). But if not, but the time I get it back I will probably flash it with a custom ROM (probably Revolver), that may be out of Beta by that time.
We shall see.

[Q] "Ultimate" Sleep of Death! Ugh!!!

I'm getting fed up with this Transformer. It's been 3 days now since it went into the ultimate sleep of death and won't boot up for the life of it. Nothing. I've tried everything and no matter what it won't show any sign of life.
I've tried all possible combinations:
power for 40 seconds (even minutes at a time) = nothing
power + volume up = nothing
power + volume down = nothing
plugged into keyboard dock and above combinations = nothing
plugged into PC and above combinations = nothing
inserting and removing microSD and all of the above combinations = nothing
UGH.
What else can I do???
(Rooted w/stock ICS).

Drain your battery, give it a trickle charge for 10 mins, unplug it, hold power for 15 seconds plugging in as you do that.
If that doesn't work, purchase a cardboard box and some packing foam and RMA that guy Dx

great, this just happened to me. how do i discharge the battery if i can't get it to start?
does anyone else know if/how this can be fixed before i try an RMA?

any sod's ive had ive just held down the power button and made sure its definately off,
then plugged it into the mains powered charger and held the power button down until its came on. Usually pretty instant power on and reboot.

It's been about a month now and the damn thing still won't boot up. Not showing any signs of life and I'm 2 months over my 1 year warranty. Ugh...
Gonna see if Asus has any sort of support, or if this will be my last Asus product ever.

ThaiM said:
It's been about a month now and the damn thing still won't boot up. Not showing any signs of life and I'm 2 months over my 1 year warranty. Ugh...
Gonna see if Asus has any sort of support, or if this will be my last Asus product ever.
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First, if your TF is stuck in boot you will not know since screen is dead. Youv should first hold power button for more than a minute to make it completely shut down. Then hold powerbutton to wake it up.
But after month, if it was struck in boot your battery is probably drained. Did you try an overnight charge while you sleep?
Btw, you did notsay how you got fried? What we're you doing?
My sympathies. I know that ugly feeling when your tab refuses to boot.

chappatti said:
First, if your TF is stuck in boot you will not know since screen is dead. Youv should first hold power button for more than a minute to make it completely shut down. Then hold powerbutton to wake it up.
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I've held it down for 5 minutes at a time. Nothing.
chappatti said:
But after month, if it was struck in boot your battery is probably drained. Did you try an overnight charge while you sleep?
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Trust me I've tried EVERYTHING. Charged it fully. Charged it fully for days. Charged for days on and off the dock. And drained for days on and off the dock.
chappatti said:
Btw, you did notsay how you got fried? What we're you doing?
My sympathies. I know that ugly feeling when your tab refuses to boot.
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I was watching YouTube on it when it automatically shut down on me and have failed to show any signs of life since. Nothing happens at all when I connect to my PC. Absolutely nothing.

ThaiM said:
I've held it down for 5 minutes at a time. Nothing.
Trust me I've tried EVERYTHING. Charged it fully. Charged it fully for days. Charged for days on and off the dock. And drained for days on and off the dock.
I was watching YouTube on it when it automatically shut down on me and have failed to show any signs of life since. Nothing happens at all when I connect to my PC. Absolutely nothing.
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That post says it all. Well it is an RMA. It is possible it is a bad battery.
But ASUS is very good about Rma since I have done two RMAs and they were very easy. It just takes time, like 2 weeks. Dont worry about custom Rom, since they blindly wipe everything.
Good luck!

HAve you tried a hdmi cable to see if it's actually working but with a dead screen?

Thing O Doom said:
HAve you tried a hdmi cable to see if it's actually working but with a dead screen?
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Tried that. Still nothing.
I RMA'd it today. Here's hoping they'll take care of it even though I'm 2 months over warranty.
Otherwise I give up the Asus brand altogether.
Looking at the Prime forums, many people having issues too. I also have (2) 25.5" Asus PC Monitors and one of them crapped out on me - also about 2 months over warranty. I'm beginning to associate Asus with Acer in terms of quality.

ThaiM said:
Tried that. Still nothing.
I RMA'd it today. Here's hoping they'll take care of it even though I'm 2 months over warranty.
Otherwise I give up the Asus brand altogether.
Looking at the Prime forums, many people having issues too. I also have (2) 25.5" Asus PC Monitors and one of them crapped out on me - also about 2 months over warranty. I'm beginning to associate Asus with Acer in terms of quality.
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Acer, yes, but Asus?
Sorry to hear of ur headches! Two months out of warranty........would like to hear your feedback

Asus e.mailed me last night. It would appear that I somehow managed to get water damage and the screen and motherboard needs to be replaced. They want $511 to fix it. Considering that's more than the tablet is worth, I'm SOL.
No idea how it could've gotten water damage, but they did send pics to prove it. Ugh.

Im having the same issue.
Was just going about my buisness using my tab as normal and all the sudden it went black. That was a couple days ago....have tried everthing and yet still nothing. Sorry to hear anyone else has to deal with this...it really sucks!

It might be completely unrelated but i had a problem where my tf101 looked completely dead but it was stuck in apx mode although this was after a failed nvflash attempt. If it can be detected by apx mode on the pc simple reflash might be the answer

Xoom locked up completely

Hi
Hoping someone can point me in the right direction.
Basically my xoom seems to be suffering from a problem that quite a few people seem to have had. It locked itself one day when it hadn't been used for a couple of minutes and that was it. Tried the holding of power button + up put it on charge and left it with the green light on for 3 hours still nothing.
tried disconnecting the battery and left it disconnected for a day to see if that worked- Nope
tried a new battery - nope
Tried new top part of case with power switch and volume buttons - nothing
As a last resort I bought a factory reset cable - plugged in and plugged into charger as well and after holding the vol up+down for 20 seconds and then holding the power with them it suddenly sprang to life.............
Now its working fine while all plugged in but the moment I pull the usb cable out its off.
So is this pointing to the battery? ( I have replaced it but its not a Motorola original)
Could it be a charging problem, Although its showing as charging (I haven't pulled the cable yet when fully charged as its still charging but it was at 61%)
or is this something else.
Thanks for any help that anyone can give me

Sorry to hear of your problem, but you may get more responses if you specify which model you have.

wooly1 said:
Sorry to hear of your problem, but you may get more responses if you specify which model you have.
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lol I spent so much time trying to make sure I remembered everything tried that I forgot the basc info
Its a mz604 wifi only UK xoom
Fingers crossed someone might have an idea?

OK, I may have had some success!
I managed to get it booted up again on the cable and did a battery re-calibration. Pulled the cable out and it powered off again straight away but.................... When I pressed the power button it has booted up and seems to be running fine again.
I'm going to run the battery fully down and then see what happens after a charge so fingers crossed may be good news.
series hoping

ookmonkey said:
OK, I may have had some success!
I managed to get it booted up again on the cable and did a battery re-calibration. Pulled the cable out and it powered off again straight away but.................... When I pressed the power button it has booted up and seems to be running fine again.
I'm going to run the battery fully down and then see what happens after a charge so fingers crossed may be good news.
series hoping
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The battery re-calibration is only an Android OS issue, and shouldnt be doing anything like this. It gets reset every time you unplug your device from being fully charged.
This almost sounds like a defective battery or a loose battery connection inside. Its possible that unplugging and plugging the battery back in fixed the issue.
Best of luck to getting your tablet back up and running.

[Q] Spontaneously Bricked?

Hi,
I've had my TF700 since it came out and I love it. It was running CROMBi-kk for the last month or so, and my experience has never been better. However, it would die before the battery reached anywhere close to 0%. I didn't care about that until last night, when it died at more than 50%. I was surprised that the battery would not calibrate itself over time.
Anyway, I drained the battery some more, until it could no longer boot, and left it on the charger overnight. It will not boot at all now. I held the power button down for more than a minute, on and off the charger, on and off the keyboard. It's completely dead. The only reaction I get from it is the green LED on the top of the tablet when I plug the charger in. It never starts booting up, never vibrates, nothing. The ROM has been stable until now, making me think that it's hardware. If it matters, it's been like this for 12 hours, and the tablet has been in room temperature.
Is there anything I can do to turn it on or verify? I don't care about data loss. Any and all ideas are welcome.
Thanks,
- Bocete

Bocete said:
Hi,
I've had my TF700 since it came out and I love it. It was running CROMBi-kk for the last month or so, and my experience has never been better. However, it would die before the battery reached anywhere close to 0%. I didn't care about that until last night, when it died at more than 50%. I was surprised that the battery would not calibrate itself over time.
Anyway, I drained the battery some more, until it could no longer boot, and left it on the charger overnight. It will not boot at all now. I held the power button down for more than a minute, on and off the charger, on and off the keyboard. It's completely dead. The only reaction I get from it is the green LED on the top of the tablet when I plug the charger in. It never starts booting up, never vibrates, nothing. The ROM has been stable until now, making me think that it's hardware. If it matters, it's been like this for 12 hours, and the tablet has been in room temperature.
Is there anything I can do to turn it on or verify? I don't care about data loss. Any and all ideas are welcome.
Thanks,
- Bocete
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Connect it to your PC via USB, make sure the computer doesn't go into sleep mode and let it trickle charge for 8 hours or so. The LED will not come on, but it should charge very slowly. This has helped some people to recalibrate the battery too, so hopefully it'll breathe some life into it.
BTW, it's never a good idea to totally drain the battery and let the tablet die for lack of juice.
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berndblb said:
Connect it to your PC via USB, make sure the computer doesn't go into sleep mode and let it trickle charge for 8 hours or so. The LED will not come on, but it should charge very slowly. This has helped some people to recalibrate the battery too, so hopefully it'll breathe some life into it.
BTW, it's never a good idea to totally drain the battery and let the tablet die for lack of juice.
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I'll do just that.
Yeah, I had no idea. The idea came from the (good?) old format-the-battery days.

berndblb said:
Connect it to your PC via USB, make sure the computer doesn't go into sleep mode and let it trickle charge for 8 hours or so. The LED will not come on, but it should charge very slowly. This has helped some people to recalibrate the battery too, so hopefully it'll breathe some life into it.
BTW, it's never a good idea to totally drain the battery and let the tablet die for lack of juice.
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I didnt realise it could take any charge from a PC USB socket! you learn something new every day!

Still dead. Leaving it on USB overnight didn't help.

Bocete said:
Still dead. Leaving it on USB overnight didn't help.
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Darn! Sorry man...
Did you have fsync off? If you have sudden reboots (and yours seems to have died multiple times from lack of power) you should not run it with fsync off..
I know, that doesn't help anymore - just thinking somebody else may benefit from reading this.
Leave it alone a couple of days and try again. Sometimes things magically do work themselves out...

berndblb said:
Darn! Sorry man...
Did you have fsync off? If you have sudden reboots (and yours seems to have died multiple times from lack of power) you should not run it with fsync off..
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fsync off cannot cause this kind of problems - in the worst case your data partition needs to be reformatted, but the ROM will boot. In the very unlikely case that you remounted the system partition writable and you crash while writing to it, you may have to reflash the ROM too. But it can never break the bootloader or the recovery.

Nah, this rom was running with fsync and without data2sd.
I think it's time to start looking for a new one ;( Not the expense I needed, but did I use it daily.

Bocete said:
I think it's time to start looking for a new one ;( Not the expense I needed, but did I use it daily.
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Several people who were in a similar situation have reported that their tablet "magically" healed itself after a few days, so there is hope.

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Several people who were in a similar situation have reported that their tablet "magically" healed itself after a few days, so there is hope.
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Still nothing. I think it's dead.
The upcoming TF303 looks decent. Can you anticipate how vibrant the modding community will be considering the Intel Atom? The modding community, along with your kernel work, made my TF700 usable, and I am really thankful for that. I would like to have custom options in case the stock kernel/rom do not deliver.
If Intel Atom is in any way problematic, I may try to get a new TF700. They're still being sold, and presumably not for long. The modding community for the TF701 seems basically nonexistant, which is a problem for me.

Bocete said:
Still nothing. I think it's dead.
The upcoming TF303 looks decent. Can you anticipate how vibrant the modding community will be considering the Intel Atom? The modding community, along with your kernel work, made my TF700 usable, and I am really thankful for that. I would like to have custom options in case the stock kernel/rom do not deliver.
If Intel Atom is in any way problematic, I may try to get a new TF700. They're still being sold, and presumably not for long. The modding community for the TF701 seems basically nonexistant, which is a problem for me.
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I had that just happen to me. What I had to do was open the TF700 up using the steps from iFixit and after opened up I turned the power switch slider on the main board to off for about a minute and then back on. Once I did that it powered back up again. One thing though if you're not comfortable with opening up you're Tab I would not suggest doing it because the plastic tabs that hold it together can be easily broken I got lucky and didn't end up breaking any of them. Still not sure why the Tab did this in the first place. In any case I hope this helps.

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I had that just happen to me. What I had to do was open the TF700 up using the steps from iFixit and after opened up I turned the power switch slider on the main board to off for about a minute and then back on. Once I did that it powered back up again.
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Glad you got it working again. Before that, have you tried pressing the power button for a very long time (like 30 seconds) or pressing the pinhole reset button? I was under the impression that these would have a similar effect as physically turning it off and on.

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Glad you got it working again. Before that, have you tried pressing the power button for a very long time (like 30 seconds) or pressing the pinhole reset button? I was under the impression that these would have a similar effect as physically turning it off and on.
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Yeah I tried all the usual methods of resetting including holding the power button for over 1 minute, hitting the reset button beside the HDMI connector and trying the PC slow charge route nothing would even get it to power up no vibrate at all. When I couldn't get any of that to work the last ditch was to try disassembling and honestly even after I did that I still couldn't get it to responds until I used the power switch slider and after that it started back up. I'm just happy it worked.