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How are the tablets bought in the new yr? Does it still have screen issues like us early adapters?
My first run N7 2013 has no issues at all
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I guess I should clarify the question is for people that bought theirs very recently like in Dec/Jan timeframe
My point is that like everything else it's more than likely you will get a good device, the percentage of bad devices is always low, forum posts aside
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I bought my Nexus 7 in December. I am not noticing any major issues so far. Although sometimes there are ghost touches after many hours of continuous usage.
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after having mine for a month im noticing what i thought were just software issues.
Screen stops responding to touch randomly or takes ages to notice you have your finger on somthing
and loads of coloured splodges on the screen when showing a dark image !
grr !
i love it though but once you notice its hard not to notice!!
Mine is just a couple of weeks old, it has difficulty registering touches when laying flat
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You would think Asus and Google would quietly fix the hardware on new batches. Probably a design issue that cant be easily fixed. Yes yes kudos to the ones that doesn't have screen problems.
Have mine (LTE version) about a week or so, it sometimes fails to register touch when it's on desk.
but I notice another thing that , its back is not flat?? it can spin on my desk
Had this device since it was released, it had the screen issues(incredibly annoying on apps like PS Touch and the keyboard), now bought a Note 8, rapidly noticed the better screen responsiveness. I got curious about that too, I wonder if they fixed that for the new batch, I knew that not all flo devices had those problems but nevertheless still a shame if they haven't fix that by now.
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Had this device since it was released, it had the screen issues(incredibly annoying on apps like PS Touch and the keyboard), now bought a Note 8, rapidly noticed the better screen responsiveness. I got curious about that too, I wonder if they fixed that for the new batch, I knew that not all flo devices had those problems but nevertheless still a shame if they haven't fix that by now.
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Based on the responses....apparently not.
Mine had pretty bad issues when i first got it (initial release batch), the device was even crap enough that opening youtube app would hard reset the tablet every time. After the various updates that got rolled out, there is nothing wrong with my device. So they certainly fixed things for me following customer feedback.
I bought mine back in December and it misses touches in the upper region of the screen unless it is ground with either you hands or the charger. I did a few experiments to try and fix it, one thing I noticed when I tied a thin copper wire to the USB port is that it only took a finger on that piece of wire to ground it out and it worked perfectly. My question is whether there is a ground source inside the device where I could possibly solder this wire to in order to ground it out (ie. Battery ground or something)
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First nexus 7 (2012) worked flawless for over a year, gave it to mother as she needs to learn technology and bought the 2013 in November
The non presses and random presses plagued me from the start of this one but I was naive and pretended not to notice, after a few weeks I did get annoyed and wanted my old one back! (But didn't) so being I needed mine for school I didn't want to RMA right away so I kept trying to find fixes for awhile longer. About 2 weeks ago I got fed up and was about to RMA it but then decided to just try the latest factory image (haven't used stock anything in a long time)
And well, haven't had one issue with touch since!
So to all with the common touchscreen issue I suggest trying pure stock KOT49H first along with bootloader, haven't had a chance to test any custom Roms for it yet as I've been too busy but I added twrp and rooted it and still zero issues so at least for me it has been fixed
Still one of the best buys out there, even with the 2 months of annoyances
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I got my N7 2013 in early December. There's a small piece of dust under the screen, near the middle. I didn't even notice it until a few weeks ago. I can see it when I'm thinking about it, but most of the time I just ignore it or just fail to notice it.
Got my N7 2013 at the end of January. No problems initially, then a few small annoyances with a crossword puzzle app that I was willing to blame on the small letterboxes. Yesterday it did a full freeze, no responses to any touches anywhere. A power reboot cleared it up. I could blame it on the 4.4.2 upgrade which I did pretty soon after I got it, but this thread leads me to believe I should be going for an rma.
I ordered the Zenwatch during those few hours they were first available online at best buy. I picked it up yesterday and only have a few days left before I need to return my Sony Smartwatch 3. I want to decide between the two, and was leaning towards the Zen because of aesthetics and I actually like the charging cradle design.....
BUT, this watch lags like crazy and then freezes completely within a few minutes of booting. Even the very first time I turned it on, it took forget to register what I had selected for language. After rebooting, I got past that and it eventually installed a software update. Unfortunately, that didn't seem to help.
After 1 or 2 cycles of dimming the screen and being woken up, the watch freezes. The phone still thinks it is connected and I can feel it vibrate when swiping down to mute/unmute, but the graphics are frozen. The side drawer doesn't activate and the only way to shut it down is to hold the power button for 10sec or so.
I've done multiple "resets" on the watch and repaired the phone, but it keeps acting the same. Is there a hard reset for this watch? Anyone else experience this?
I'd exchange it at best buy but of course they are sold out so who knows how long before they can exchange it.
This happened to me when I had the 360. It froze when I was trying to turn it off. I eventually got it off, just like you did. It never responded the same afterwards. It would freeze at random times. I assumed it was the TI processor in the 360, but I hope this is not something to expect with AW. I took mine back to BB and got a refund so I could get this watch. I hope this is an isolated event.
All the reviews have been stellar and people have seemed happy even on the fortune, so I'm sure this is isolated.
I wonder if there is a way to reload the system software from the computer to the watch? Best buy is a no-go at this time. Sold out and unable to help aside from returning and refunding it.
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Based on the tracking status, I should get mine tomorrow. I'll let you know if I experience any funny business when I get mine up and running. Good Luck.
I really haven't noticed any significant lag. It's initially unresponsive sometimes which I attribute to an overly conservative cpu governor, but otherwise it's a pleasant experience.
I've had mine for almost a week now and definitely haven't seen those problems. There were updates to both the watch and phone app soon after starting up. Maybe you got a bad load on one of them. Have you tried the 'Resync apps' option from the Android Wear (Phone) settings menu? Have you tried the full factory reset of the watch? If so, sounds like dud might be the case. If of any significance, I'm connecting via a stock Sprint HTC One Max.
Yes, the watch did an update after the first successful boot, but it was laggy and had frozen during the language setup even the first time. I've done multiple factory resets to no avail, but it does not repeat the update with that (though it does require pairing to the phone again).
I wish I could manually reload the watch system software. I'm new to Android wear rooting,etc. Is it possible to manually completely reload the system software?
Yes, I've also tried the resync apps and have the latest phone software as well...
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I would maybe try once with a different phone then call it a dud. I don't know enough about it either to go deeper than that.
Saga over. Returned the watch today after trying clean installs of everything last night. It would even freeze when not connected. Sucks to get a dud, but glad this seems to be a unique occurrence.
Trying out the LG G watch R (what a horrible name). Big and sporty instead of subdued, but nice nonetheless.
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Saga over. Returned the watch today after trying clean installs of everything last night. It would even freeze when not connected. Sucks to get a dud, but glad this seems to be a unique occurrence.
Trying out the LG G watch R (what a horrible name). Big and sporty instead of subdued, but nice nonetheless.
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I was having similar issues but wanted a couple days with the watch before i posted, I just requested a RMA for the watch, love the look of it, but was having issues with random reboots, very laggy ui especially when browsing through watch faces..had one time where the watch actually locked up and required a hard reset via the button on the back..also got significant battery drain, 2 percent every it seemed 10 minutes....Hopefully the replacement is better than this one...I could live with some of the issues, but the random rebooting i can't deal with. If the 2nd is a dud mite get the sony, till then back to my trusty g watch.
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I was having similar issues but wanted a couple days with the watch before i posted, I just requested a RMA for the watch, love the look of it, but was having issues with random reboots, very laggy ui especially when browsing through watch faces..had one time where the watch actually locked up and required a hard reset via the button on the back..also got significant battery drain, 2 percent every it seemed 10 minutes....Hopefully the replacement is better than this one...I could live with some of the issues, but the random rebooting i can't deal with. If the 2nd is a dud mite get the sony, till then back to my trusty g watch.
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Did you get your watch back? I have to send mine in too because the battery dies in 5 hours without even touching it. ASUS said it is a bug with the lollipop update so they are going to re-flash it. Also did you have to ship it yourself or did you get something in the mail.
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Did you get your watch back? I have to send mine in too because the battery dies in 5 hours without even touching it. ASUS said it is a bug with the lollipop update so they are going to re-flash it. Also did you have to ship it yourself or did you get something in the mail.
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I sent mine in cuz it wouldn't turn on. I received an RMA, shipped it to them and they had it back to me in less than a week.
Hey all, I've had my note 4 for almost 2 years now and its been running like a top up until a week ago. One morning when i woke up and the entire GUI was slow, even flipping pages would cause the phone to seize up and restarting. Also the reboots are painfully slow, sometimes taking 5 minutes to get from the Samsung galaxy logo to the home screen. Also when i go into the factory settings (power + up + home) it is really slow taking about 5 minutes. I thought it was my boot loader, so i flashed 5.1.1 from Odin and it still has the symptoms. Now i'm running 6.0.1 beta and the symptoms persist. I was reading that the SD card might be causing the issue and taking it out might help, its the only thing i haven't tried and i'm skeptical. I hope this isn't ATT way of trying to get me to buy a phone from them lol. Any help is appreciated! Thanks!
Welcome to the club. Same sh*t happened to me =(, and a bunch of others on this forum a couple months ago... Ended up selling the Note 4 and upgrading to the S7 Edge. Theres absolutely no solution, it seems like a hardware failure, trust me. I went through AT&T, Best Buy, and Samsung. No one could fix it, so I gave up.
I purchased my Pixel 2 XL straight from google and am using it on AT&T. I haven't had any problems at all with this since i got it. Its been about 3 weeks. I did the Nov 5 update last week and just a few minutes ago the screen flashed once while just laying there doing nothing.
I've seen this around the internet where the flash happens when rebooting the phone, but mine was just sitting there on the table with the screen off, and the always on display showing the time and date when it flashed (white). It only flashed once, but, i'm wondering if this has happened to anyone else and if we know what's causing this?
I have the same issue which happened right after the Nov 5 update.
I did a factory reset, boot into safe mode, AOD on and off and the issue still persists.
I'm getting this prob 5-10 times in the past week on my new device that I got from them.
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I'm getting this prob 5-10 times in the past week on my new device that I got from them.
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wow lol, that must be a fake? This cant be real man
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wow lol, that must be a fake? This cant be real man
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lol I wish... just tried a factory reset on it as I finally just got the recent patch. We will see if it helps it out.
Nice wallpaper!
I saw the article on this on Android Central, which included 2 videos of it. I personally have not seen this screen flash happening on mine.
It's starting to happen more frequently. I had installed substratum and changed a theme, rebooted, and couldn't boot Android so I factory reset the phone and it's been doing it every since, is typically within a minute of shutting the screen off.
I had it happen 2 days into getting mine on the 27th. Google replaced it then because a factory reset didn't fix it. It happened any time I locked the screen and man was it bright when I was in a dark room.
Google Support is sending me a new replacement. Hopefully this one wont have the issue.
Happens on mine too. From what I read, Google is working on a software fix for it.
Replacement phone received (11/14) with a build date of Nov 3. Within 4 days of having the phone a gray band is now appearing at the top portion of the screen and the screen flashes uncontrollably.
Attempted to work with Google Support who in turn had me go through a gauntlet of trouble shooting steps and a factory reset..... I knew none of the steps would work because this is a true hardware issue.
Still no reply from Google Support after I sent them the debug reports, pictures of the gray band that has formed and the video of the screen flashing.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/lfVI0vgpmtaJlVjr1
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Replacement phone received (11/14) with a build date of Nov 3. Within 4 days of having the phone a gray band is now appearing at the top portion of the screen and the screen flashes uncontrollably.
Attempted to work with Google Support who in turn had me go through a gauntlet of trouble shooting steps and a factory reset..... I knew none of the steps would work because this is a true hardware issue.
Still no reply from Google Support after I sent them the debug reports, pictures of the gray band that has formed and the video of the screen flashing.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/lfVI0vgpmtaJlVjr1
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Holy s**t man. This is bad.
I was finally convinced to get the Pixel 2 XL over the Oneplus 5T but then I saw this.. And the fact that this is your REPLACEMENT phone from Nov 3rd is even more worrying. Damn.
Very frustrating... Unfortunately I had to return the Pixel. My 14 day return period ends on 11/21 and I couldn't risk getting a 3rd replacement that could potentially have the same issues.
Its upsetting cause everything else about the phone I love. Back to my LG G5 until i find something new.
Got my 3rd device yesterday, first two were very blue screens this one is much better but it flashes bright white when going into always on display. Not sure if I want to go through all the bull**** again. Google really dropped the ball on the release of this phone, obviously not ready for primetime.
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I'm getting this prob 5-10 times in the past week on my new device that I got from them.
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I had something like this happen once so far and was just about to take a screen capture when it resolved. I think it was shifting from the AOD to the main screen after unlocking the device.
It's definitely something to be concerned with if it's happening repeatedly. The more time passes, the more and more questionable Google's decision to use LG becomes...
Google needs to say clear of LG imo.
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Google needs to say clear of LG imo.
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nexus 5 was great from LG.......
My phone just shut off at 19% as I was plugging in the charger. No orange light while plugged in. I've tried multiple cords/charging blocks. Holding the power button does nothing. Guess it's time to move on from HTC and Verizon.
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My phone just shut off at 19% as I was plugging in the charger. No orange light while plugged in. I've tried multiple cords/charging blocks. Holding the power button does nothing. Guess it's time to move on from HTC and Verizon.
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Just plug it in and leave it plugged in. Something similar happened to me about two weeks ago while streaming over BT at work in freezing temperatures. I just left the phone plugged in for an hour or two and it booted up again just fine.
P.S. : I got myself a Pixel 2XL last week. I'm still using the 10 more as a daily driver for work (I'm in construction and the 10 is solid), but the 2XL is my phone for nights and weekends and I love it! Plus Google will keep their update promises. HTC has not been able to over the last few years even though it was part of what they promoted.
I still have love for HTC though, and I hope they get their act together
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Just plug it in and leave it plugged in. Something similar happened to me about two weeks ago while streaming over BT at work in freezing temperatures. I just left the phone plugged in for an hour or two and it booted up again just fine.
P.S. : I got myself a Pixel 2XL last week. I'm still using the 10 more as a daily driver for work (I'm in construction and the 10 is solid), but the 2XL is my phone for nights and weekends and I love it! Plus Google will keep their update promises. HTC has not been able to over the last few years even though it was part of what they promoted.
I still have love for HTC though, and I hope they get their act together
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Looks like it's back from the dead. I was able to finally boot up into download mode. Once there, I booted into the bootloader mode and rebooted into recovery. Then rebooted system and bam...back into my phone. Hopefully it'll last 2 more month lol.
have you identified what was the issue with your phone? What cause it?
I hear ya....just sold my HTC 10, only to have 3 days later to be contacted by the buyer that the charge port is garbage all of the sudden. I contact support, they swear they will contact me in 24-48hrs to work and resolve the issue. 5 days later now...nothing.
I already bought and moved to a OnePlus 5T. Way better phone than any HTC I've owned, or they make now. Seems like for 5ys I've been constantly buying a phone with very marginal design and feature improvements. The 7, 8, 9, One, A9 and 10 also can't forget, the Google Nexus One...the original and why I moved from iPhone like 10yrs ago to Android. Not even going to make an effort with the U11 and saying goodbye. Nothing like HTC Dev Support here on the XDA forum for years.
Guess I have to call them and demand to get my phone fixed so I can resell it again and recoup some money and get on with my life.
Just look at all the HTC phones, as others have been saying, nothing hardly changes every year with each model..until you see it on a web page with photos...now I get it.
https://www.gsmarena.com/htc-phones-45.php
Good luck TS.
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have you identified what was the issue with your phone? What cause it?
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No idea what caused it. I do know that the battery is starting to fail.