Originally Posted by egenaits

Im wanting to put in my 2 pence worth here. I've recently bought the Prime and have found that all of the issues i myself experience are directly related to having the keyboard clicked in.
It seems to me that the graphical screen jitter/corruption is directly related to the mouse pointer overlay as often the mouse pointer disappears altogether. Could it be that Asus simply need to concentrate on the interface drivers for the keyboard/mouse ? Forgive me if I am missing something but without the keyboard being plugged in, the tablet as-is seems to behave itself (apart from the terrible on-screen keyboard! )

Anyone confirm my findings?

I can't confirm this for sure, but I can tell you that I have graphical issues occasionally with programs that utilize the GPU for any calculations. I'm having major stability issues with my tablet, literally 3-4 random reboots a day. I can tell you that I've tried just about anything I could software wise to troubleshoot this problem.

I've tried a soft reset, a hard reset (Data/cache wipe), two different kernels, a complete wipe of both data/cache/dalvik/system, and installed a fresh new stock rom, disabled many ASUS applications, but no luck at all. Some of the reboots seem to happen with a little consistency, and so far it seems to happen more often when I'm using the trackpad. The next best thing I could try is removing the tablet from the dock and use it for 2 days without to test stability, but it just bothers me a lot that I'm having this much instability. Does anyone else share this frequent frustrating experience?

Well I'm afraid using your tabled without dock won't give it much stability. I've been using my prime as a tablet last 2 days and still have had a reboot, a locked screen, broken 3d apps etc.

I'm just hoping that it's not a hardware problem and that it can be solved in the near future. I need to make the decision to exchange it within two weeks, otherwise I would be stuck with a defective unit if that were the case. It bothers me that my friend who bought the prime (without the dock) has not had one random reboot since his purchase and has owned it longer than me.

3 reboots A day is completely unacceptable. I'm curious if there's a specific application that causes this problem to happen more frequently or not. The logs seem to clear after reboot, so I'm unable to easily view what events happened prior to reboot. I suppose I could always create a background shell script to constantly append the log to an external text file.

Originally Posted by fenix37197

I'm just hoping that it's not a hardware problem and that it can be solved in the near future. I need to make the decision to exchange it within two weeks, otherwise I would be stuck with a defective unit if that were the case. It bothers me that my friend who bought the prime (without the dock) has not had one random reboot since his purchase and has owned it longer than me.

3 reboots A day is completely unacceptable. I'm curious if there's a specific application that causes this problem to happen more frequently or not. The logs seem to clear after reboot, so I'm unable to easily view what events happened prior to reboot. I suppose I could always create a background shell script to constantly append the log to an external text file.

I hope it wasn't against the rules to double post like this, but I think I may have finally solved my problem. It has been over 24 hours since my last random reboot, and all seems to be well, hopefully. Apparently the "stock" rom I flashed contained a different kernel that was slightly modified. I checked the kernel version and it compared it to my friend's kernel, which he had no stability issues, and realized that they differed. I flashed a stock rooted rom with primeval http://forum.xda-developers.com/show...2#post24427722 and I think it has done its magic. It's worth a shot if anyone is willing to make a fresh start again.

The kernel version I'm using is 2.6.39.4-00003-g12de84f, this is included with primeval. Maybe this issue also depends on background processes/services running that are included with certain applications, try to troubleshoot.

Experienced a lockup and reboot last night, update .21. In fact, this build has brought a lot of instability with it, even more so than .13 did. Oh well, I like being able to lock the nav bar for games, actually hiding it would be much better though. Suppose I'll just have to wait until I'm willing to unlock and flash for that one though. No graphical glitching that I've noticed, but I haven't been putting it through heavy use (got absorbed into beating Darksiders, got about 60% trophies. Probably have another week on it haha).

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Same here, .21 introduced a lot of instability for me, which was initially compunded somehow by my webroot app and higher i/o to the flash (which is specced terribly but thats a whole different complaint of its own ಠ_ಠ@Asus), however even after removing the antivirus my tablet is still unstable to some degree. eagerly awaiting the next update hopefully it will fix it and if not I'll be switching to AOKP and wipe my hands with OTAs.

FWIW .21 is the least stable firmware I have used so far. It's the only one where I get what appears to be the sleep-of-death and a cuople of reboots. Also the stock browser, which I find easiest to use with the optional wheel control, crashes far far more and also feels more sluggish and pauses more.

Originally Posted by Peter Galbavy

FWIW .21 is the least stable firmware I have used so far. It's the only one where I get what appears to be the sleep-of-death and a cuople of reboots. Also the stock browser, which I find easiest to use with the optional wheel control, crashes far far more and also feels more sluggish and pauses more.

For me it is the best updated. Not a single reboot so far.

Then the community seems to be much less vocal on the stability issues than before.

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I agree... I had no reboots on the previous firmwares. Since the .21 update i have had several rebooted. Maybe 1 per week. Hopefully the next one will bring the stability back for everyone.

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Originally Posted by MadmanJay

I agree... I had no reboots on the previous firmwares. Since the .21 update i have had several rebooted. Maybe 1 per week. Hopefully the next one will bring the stability back for everyone.

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Impossible lol

Anyway, I'm sure it'll get better, it's like this every time. I appreciate the new feature(s) and ASUS's time, but they keep getting ahead of themselves while falling terribly behind everyone's expectations. Get everyone working consistently; fix current code before adding even more code, you know?

Had another fun issue pop up, I'm thinking a driver problem because the video in particular was giving me issues on every browser (even wanted to act funny on PC). Closed a browser playing a video from the Huffington Post only to have the audio not skip a beat and keep on playing as I frantically moved across my homescreens and opened my recent apps drawer. Nothing would stop it but power-cycling.