Android Lollipop

[dape16]

It doesn't surprise me as we are approaching 2 years. ASUS don't really release updates beyond 18 months. All their latest transformers seem to be using Intel chips for Android as well.

I guess you are right, but when ASUS released the ad which stated that the TF701T is "upgradeable to Android 5.0" I really thought Lollipop was coming.
I can't blame ASUS for giving up the Tegra chipsets. Thanks to your custom ROMs the TF701T with Tegra 4 has good performance. But Tegra 3 had problems with overheating and battery life, and both the tablets that use the Tegra K1 (Shield Tablet and Nexus 9) have big problems that seems related to the chipset. Now there seems to be very low interest from OEMs to use the Tegra X1.
I hope Intel will give Qualcomm some competition.

 

[sbdags]

I guess you are right, but when ASUS released the ad which stated that the TF701T is "upgradeable to Android 5.0" I really thought Lollipop was coming.
I can't blame ASUS for giving up the Tegra chipsets. Thanks to your custom ROMs the TF701T with Tegra 4 has good performance. But Tegra 3 had problems with overheating and battery life, and both the tablets that use the Tegra K1 (Shield Tablet and Nexus 9) have big problems that seems related to the chipset. Now there seems to be very low interest from OEMs to use the Tegra X1.
I hope Intel will give Qualcomm some competition.

I have an Nvidia Shield and have no issues. It is very quick and bar far the best Android tablet on the market right now.

 

[dape16]

I have an Nvidia Shield and have no issues. It is very quick and bar far the best Android tablet on the market right now.

Really? I have a Shield Tablet and IMHO it has to be the WORST tablet! It is very laggy and freezes no matter what I try so it just collects dust most of the time. Right now it is getting exchanged because of the body cracks (which was supposed to be gone with the LTE units btw). On custom CM ROMs it is better but then it is missing Nvidia features like console mode.

 

[sbdags]

Really? I have a Shield Tablet and IMHO it has to be the WORST tablet! It is very laggy and freezes no matter what I try so it just collects dust most of the time. Right now it is getting exchanged because of the body cracks (which was supposed to be gone with the LTE units btw). On custom CM ROMs it is better but then it is missing Nvidia features like console mode.

Complete opposite for me. I have the WiFi model bought in Nov 2014, no cracks and it has been superb. Absolutely no freezes and I use it for work 8 hours every day

 

[dape16]

Complete opposite for me. I have the WiFi model bought in Nov 2014, no cracks and it has been superb. Absolutely no freezes and I use it for work 8 hours every day

Nice to hear that some are working well! It means that there is hope for mine too. Will see when I get the replacement unit.

 

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I guess you are right, but when ASUS released the ad which stated that the TF701T is "upgradeable to Android 5.0" I really thought Lollipop was coming.
I can't blame ASUS for giving up the Tegra chipsets. Thanks to your custom ROMs the TF701T with Tegra 4 has good performance. But Tegra 3 had problems with overheating and battery life, and both the tablets that use the Tegra K1 (Shield Tablet and Nexus 9) have big problems that seems related to the chipset. Now there seems to be very low interest from OEMs to use the Tegra X1.
I hope Intel will give Qualcomm some competition.

Overheating and battery life on the tegra 3 must have been related to poor rom implementation. Before I flashed my tf700 it had poor standby battery and was a pain to use if you changed wifi to disconnect during sleep. That ceased to be a problem after going to cromi xeno and every flash thereafter (i'm on zombi pop now). I've never had overheating problems (did the nexus 2012?) True background processing seems to suffer on the tegra 3 for some reason by my experience. It seems to work without a hitch when doing some graphic intensive gaming or compressing a video, but the ui has always been laggy for me and the whole system comes to a crawl when there are apps updating in the background. My best guess is that nvidia's special sauce hardware needs special rom development for proper implementation. I have intel android devices too and the ui runs pretty undeterred but some of my favorite apps don't support x86 instructions so for the time being, my flagship money is going towards an arm device with proven hardware implementation. (ie good internal memory, good radios, good screens) apple has shown us it can be done with less powerful hardware and a dependable update schedule. At least nvidia was pushing lollipop pretty promptly for the sheild tablet. I don't own a sheild tablet but it looks compelling. I came on to this thread to see what things are like for tf701 users, considering getting one since the tf303 appears to be vaporware and no speak of new android transformers.