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January 6th, 2012, 11:11 GMT · By

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Asus Transformer Prime Browser Bug Caught on Video

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Despite the great multimedia performance promised by the Transformer Prime there still appear to be some rough patches left that Asus will have to address for the Prime to become the ultimate Android tablet out there.

One of these was just caught on camera by the guys from Netbook News and concerns the tablet’s ability to playback 1080p YouTube videos inside a browser.

You can take a look at the video above to see how the bug manifests itself, but basically every time such a video is being opened, the browser crashes and fills the screen with some weird looking lines.

A reboot seems to solve the problem, but needless to say this isn’t what we’d call a solution to this problem.

From what we can tell, the bug doesn’t seem to be all that widespread, but it surely doesn’t come as great publicity for the Transformer Prime.
 

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Comment #1 by: D the G on 06 Jan 2012, 19:51 UTC reply to this comment

When mine is in energy saving mode, it lags a little more than I'd like it to. But you put it on blazing mode, it works incredibly smooth. Wander if that is what their problem was.


Comment #2 by: Punfriack on 07 Jan 2012, 06:03 UTC reply to this comment

The exact same thing happened to me. I overlooked the GPS problem because I saw myself as a fan of Asus products. But then I started noticing some dead pixels on my Prime's screen, light bleeds around the screen's perimeter, Wifi's less than premium performance, and the browser bug. I gave up and returned it. All within 2 days. I'm just going to wait until these things are all sorted out.


Comment #3 by: lingod on 11 Jan 2012, 12:07 UTC reply to this comment

I have the same issue with my Prime except that it usually occurs when I try to use the Gmail app. I found that it is fixable without a reboot. You must go to settings>apps>all and find the offending app and then force stop it and clear the cache. Unfortunately this is only a temporary fix.

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