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I wanted to ask the community to see if my experience is unique, or of other people have had this problem. I've been loving my G-Tab since I recieved it off woot, the only problem is that the device started to stop charging while plugged in a week or so ago. At first I could move the plug a little and the device would start charging again. After a few days of this, the unit stopped charging altogether, and I found out that the 1.7v receptor on the tablet had broken free from the circuit board. I called viewsonic G-Tablet support so that I could have my unit repaired or replaced. I called the first day, and gave them my info, they said they would call me back. I called 5 hours later, and got the same song and dance, no one called me back. I submitted an email to viewsonic to see if they could just ship me a box so I can send the tablet in for repair. I got call saying that I would be contacted the following buisiness day. The following day came and went, and I have not been contacted.
Has anyone else had to put up with this kind of bull**** from viewsonic before? Thier phone support has been god awful, and I find it completely unexcuasable that I have to wait 72 hours before I can even start the process of getting my tablet replaced/repaired.
Something happened over the weekend - the CS center completely changed and now they seem to be severely understaffed and, imo, not trained. This is US Merchants btw, not Viewsonic (that's public knowledge tmk, I asked the CS rep over the phone yesterday who they worked for and he told me).
That makes it all the more likely that any update tomorrow is 3588.
lsu205 said:
That makes it all the more likely that any update tomorrow is 3588.
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They updated their web site, earlier this evening (ET) -- no new update until May.
roebeet said:
They updated their web site, earlier this evening (ET) -- no new update until May.
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As in the 3991 update we've all been waiting for? This is good news, no?
gojeda said:
As in the 3991 update we've all been waiting for? This is good news, no?
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Depends on who you talk to.
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Depends on who you talk to.
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On their site May is for the Flash update--which most of us are already using anyway. If there's no real update today as promised yesterday, I'm beginning tothink they thought the 3991 was ready to roll--until all your testing proved otherwise. Now they are back to square one. If it took until mid April to update the flash January note, I don't hold out much hope.
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Depends on who you talk to.
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I See that viewsonic gtablet support has a different # (310) 228-4000. I call this number and it is coming to some U.S Merchants. Not sure if this is the support for Viewsonic support.. Has anyone contacted this number and found out that this is the true number for viewsonic.
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I See that viewsonic gtablet support has a different # (310) 228-4000. I call this number and it is coming to some U.S Merchants. Not sure if this is the support for Viewsonic support.. Has anyone contacted this number and found out that this is the true number for viewsonic.
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It's US Merchants. Even the old number was (I believe) US Merchants and not Viewsonic. But they must have made an organizational change in-house, last weekend. I think the current setup is much worse than what they had, at least so far.
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It's US Merchants. Even the old number was (I believe) US Merchants and not Viewsonic. But they must have made an organizational change in-house, last weekend. I think the current setup is much worse than what they had, at least so far.
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Yea i agree Roebeet.. Is there a website where the Stock firmware is located and stuff just like the viewpad. I am thinking about bringing it back to stock and returning it but not sure if it should wait or not. What do you guys think.
cd112 said:
Yea i agree Roebeet.. Is there a website where the Stock firmware is located and stuff just like the viewpad. I am thinking about bringing it back to stock and returning it but not sure if it should wait or not. What do you guys think.
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bring it back to stock before your battery dies, LoL.
cd112 said:
Yea i agree Roebeet.. Is there a website where the Stock firmware is located and stuff just like the viewpad. I am thinking about bringing it back to stock and returning it but not sure if it should wait or not. What do you guys think.
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im in the same boat as you.. i love the tablet but seriously thinking about returning because theres no future
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bring it back to stock before your battery dies, LoL.
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Can you please lead me the right direction as to where i can get details to bring back to stock.. I have CWmod 8 so i would need to get rid of that as well so not sure which route is the best. If i can get the stock firmware and just load it via CWm or NVflash. Also if i do Nvflash and experience reboots how can i get out of that.
Thanks again.
cwee477 said:
im in the same boat as you.. i love the tablet but seriously thinking about returning because theres no future
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Well, that's not entirely true. CM7 is already on the device so that statement is out the window to start with.
What it does mean though is that the device loses some functionality with the lost support. Video playback is pretty limited beyond Froyo 2.2.
You have to look at the device now. Does it do what you want? If your entire purchase was based not on what it does currently but what it 'may' be able to do then it does lose some value.
For the $284 I paid for the device it still does 99% of what I want it to do. There are less than 100 tablet oriented apps on the market anyway. I don't expect that number to grow exponentially either given the cost of entry for a Honeycomb device and the seriously limited audience. That means that almost all of the software that exists on the market will work on your device now and by the time the tablet software section gets more attractive you'd probably be looking for a new device anyway.
my 2c anyway.
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Can you please lead me the right direction as to where i can get details to bring back to stock.. I have CWmod 8 so i would need to get rid of that as well so not sure which route is the best. If i can get the stock firmware and just load it via CWm or NVflash. Also if i do Nvflash and experience reboots how can i get out of that.
Thanks again.
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Check out this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842000
You shouldn't need nvflash - but you do want to do a data wipe, regardless (clears out all your user data).
roebeet said:
Check out this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=842000
You shouldn't need nvflash - but you do want to do a data wipe, regardless (clears out all your user data).
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Thanks Roebeet,
I went to that post and i noticed that there were couple users having issues with the CWmod not able to correctly run it and removing one line worked for them. Will this remove CWmod as well or will i need NVflash for this.
i just bought a g-tablet - do you recommend returning and getting the asus?
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Thanks Roebeet,
I went to that post and i noticed that there were couple users having issues with the CWmod not able to correctly run it and removing one line worked for them. Will this remove CWmod as well or will i need NVflash for this.
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I believe that cwm gets removed, at least via my own testing. Worst case, you can use nvflash to wipe it.
sundar2012 said:
i just bought a g-tablet - do you recommend returning and getting the asus?
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Oh boy, how to answer that?
Here's my honest answer, regardless of my own bias against Viewsonic at this particular moment. Your device probably cost you ~$300, I assume? You have the device in hand now, and it's still at least $100 less than the ASUS. If the device does what you need it to do, I would still consider keeping it.
The big pros on the ASUS, imo, is the IPS screen and the obvious "newness" giving it the edge from a support standpoint. Plus, you don't need to hack it for the Market. But it is $100 more and we don't know when it will be released in the States yet. And you don't get a USB port without the dock, keep in mind.
The pros on the GTAB is that you have it in your hand right now, there is a major development effort and mods galore, and it is easily hackable (the ASUS is still TBD). But there's issue of vendor support that we are all concerned about.
I don't like my GTAB because of the screen angles, and it's the reason why it ended up being relegated to a dev unit. But, besides that, I still think it's decent bang for the buck if it does what you need it to do. For me, I am probably getting an ASUS for the IPS screen, but again that's because I need good screen angles and the best screen within my price range.
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I believe that cwm gets removed, at least via my own testing. Worst case, you can use nvflash to wipe it.
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Thanks Roebeet.. Ill try this out..
Do you think i should hang on to my gtab or return it.. I am going to give a call to the Viewsonic number and find out what the case is as well about the update servers and if we are getting anymore updates. I have until 4/28 to return this unit to TD.
Ok then - i could get both. but then how do i convince my girlfriend to use the g-tablet and not the asus...
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I did the CC to OEM successfully, just wondering if I did get an OTA prompt could I go ahead and accept it? Would it work as normal or fail/brick my phone? I didn't root, just bootloader unlocked for the conversion
yes, you can. Your phone is pretty much 99.9% (if not 100%) OEM.
xordos said:
yes, you can. Your phone is pretty much 99.9% (if not 100%) OEM.
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This is probably correct, if they don't have a system in place that auto rejects ConsumerCellular/Wind IMEI numbers.
We won't really know for sure until there is an OTA.
I haven't checked today, but Huawei pulled the update. Couple quirks that they need to iron out.
Other apps not staying default, one I've had plus it appears to be eating the battery a bit more, but,
with the 4000 mAH battery, it's no big deal.
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This is probably correct, if they don't have a system in place that auto rejects ConsumerCellular/Wind IMEI numbers.
We won't really know for sure until there is an OTA.
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Does anyone know if the Canadian WIND phones will get the Lollipop update? My build number is MT2-L03V100R001C113B128 and I already unlocked my bootloader and installed TWRP (for other reasons).
Thanks,
Raymond
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Does anyone know if the Canadian WIND phones will get the Lollipop update? My build number is MT2-L03V100R001C113B128 and I already unlocked my bootloader and installed TWRP (for other reasons).
Thanks,
Raymond
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No. Not unless you convert it.
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I haven't checked today, but Huawei pulled the update. Couple quirks that they need to iron out.
Other apps not staying default, one I've had plus it appears to be eating the battery a bit more, but,
with the 4000 mAH battery, it's no big deal.
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They pulled it, but then there was a post by one of the employees saying to send in your IMEI number to receive future Lollipop OTA's.
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They pulled it, but then there was a post by one of the employees saying to send in your IMEI number to receive future Lollipop OTA's.
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Yep, saw that on the Huawei site about a day or two after they released it. Mine should be in their system, but I don't think the update will be coming soon.
I'm starting to get the feeling, they released whatever they had, on the 30th, to satisfy their "in the first half of 2015" pledge, and will sort out the bugs later.
If a consumer is the type that wants cutting edge updates, go with an iphone or Nexus. Otherwise, it's up to the carriers (if ever) to release it or the device maker, if purchasing an unlocked non carrier branded device. The couple quirks on 5.1 aren't that big of a deal, it's stable otherwise.
If it hadn't been for Huawei releasing an easy way to go back to 4.3, I wouldn't have updated. I don't ever turn my device off, so the launcher not sticking, along with the 3rd party SMS program isn't that annoying. It appears it's sucking just a bit more juice, but, with that 4,000mAH battery, it's no big deal, even running in "normal" mode.
Following my recent technical issues that were caused after updating my ZF3U to Android 7.0, I contacted ASUS and was told that "we have checked this for you and sent this info through for analysis. The Android N update has been stopped for OTA updates. So we would advise to downgrade the unit back to Android M for now. And do a factory reset for the unit".
This advice did not work and eventually my problems got worse (see other threads I posted about my problems). Few days a go my ZF3U completely died on me. Prior to this fingerprint recognition did not work, serial number was misreported in settings, no sound in calls was present even after downgrade to Android M. ASUS should not have released the Android 7.0 firmware in the first place pending proper testing on the ZF3U.
Eventually, I sent the phone to repair (through my insurance as ASUS insisted I had to send the device to Taiwan as it originated from there for the Asia market -POOR Service for an international company) and was advised that my ZF3U was beyond economical repair so a replacement was needed. I have now ordered another one as this phone is the only phone available that caters for my needs. I am really annoyed with ASUS, their service and the really poor software update they first rolled via OTA and then through their servers and then withdrew without any advice to those of us who have already installed it on our precious devices. They should never have released an incomplete, faulty firmware update. I hope those of you who have either downloaded the OTA or used the manual file do not experience the issues I had but if you do then good luck to you unless you have insurance.
Lets hope they learn to fix their phones properly with good after-sales support and I am still waiting for compensation from them following my recent complaint.
What's up with this update anyway ? I received it and my phone functions perfectly...
Why did Asus pull the update ? What's the official reason ? Is it a widespread problem ? Or just corner cases ?
Thanks.
Latoc said:
What's up with this update anyway ? I received it and my phone functions perfectly...
Why did Asus pull the update ? What's the official reason ? Is it a widespread problem ? Or just corner cases ?
Thanks.
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Not sure why it was pulled. I got the manual update second hand from a user on this site as it was already pulled from ASUS before I could get it. I knew the risk and updated anyways. No issues at all. Phone works perfectly, maybe even better. My bootloader was unlocked and rooted just like AWFRONT was. Not sure why I didn't get the same issues they did, but I am 100% issue free on the 7.0 update.
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Not sure why it was pulled. I got the manual update second hand from a user on this site as it was already pulled from ASUS before I could get it. I knew the risk and updated anyways. No issues at all. Phone works perfectly, maybe even better. My bootloader was unlocked and rooted just like AWFRONT was. Not sure why I didn't get the same issues they did, but I am 100% issue free on the 7.0 update.
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do you mind sharing the manual nougat firmware image and instructions to manually update?
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do you mind sharing the manual nougat firmware image and instructions to manually update?
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https://forum.xda-developers.com/zenfone-3-ultra/help/stock-recovery-t3585965/page2
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Not sure why it was pulled. I got the manual update second hand from a user on this site as it was already pulled from ASUS before I could get it. I knew the risk and updated anyways. No issues at all. Phone works perfectly, maybe even better. My bootloader was unlocked and rooted just like AWFRONT was. Not sure why I didn't get the same issues they did, but I am 100% issue free on the 7.0 update.
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this explains why my ultra didn't get the update yet.. probably it was rolled out to some devices, and encountered intermittent issue like above and rolled back..
I got an Android System Update on my phone today that is 224.8 MB. Does anyone know what it is?
This is just a security patch, nothing major.
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I got an Android System Update on my phone today that is 224.8 MB. Does anyone know what it is?
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Also its not the latest google security patch either. Its sad how theres not really any support for this phone anymore from lg. This phone is pretty dead developement wise also it seems like.
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Also its not the latest google security patch either. Its sad how theres not really any support for this phone anymore from lg. This phone is pretty dead developement wise also it seems like.
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It is sad. Selling a phone without providing support is just another way for corporations to make money and the people pay.
A13 Developer preview is available for Pixel 6 series:
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Literally bricked my device. The radio won't connect to mobile network. It freaks out and starts rebooting and bootlooping until it says data is corrupt. Even after factory reset, same results. And I'm a dumba$s and side loaded the ota with a locked bootloader (I'm on TMobile). So I can't side load any other ota bc they're older than this developer image. What a nightmare
Flashed it like 3 hours ago, everything seems normal.
TBH I can barely notice any change between this, 12L and 12, looks all the same to me lol
interesting
Very interesting. 8 know 12 L is for.foldables and tablets but should I put it on my pixel 6? Is there any advantages over 12?
my pixel 6 works better with 12L , that's why I haven't installed 13 yet
The Samsung browser app was closing when my wifi disconnected. In the settings wifi area it said ap was full that's strange. I clicked connect again and it connected and Sammy browser stopped closing and loaded my link. Also xda app takes 4 seconds for the chat box to open. I have only been using a 13 for the day on my pixel 6. Speed feels the same just quick as usual with everything else but xdas chat box
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my pixel 6 works better with 12L , that's why I haven't installed 13 yet
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Same experience here!
Same here. 12L works better than 12. I have back Wi-Fi Definitely will try Tiramisu DP1 next days. Just waiting to see if there are any bugs...
Android 13 Developer preview on my Pixel 6 is working fine. I did it with the hope to activate VoLTE & 5G in unsupported country. But no luck. Anybody got it working?
Root works completely fine
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Android 13 Developer preview on my Pixel 6 is working fine. I did it with the hope to activate VoLTE & 5G in unsupported country. But no luck. Anybody got it working?
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no, without Volte&WIFI call or 5g
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Same experience here!
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Also loving the 12L on my pixel 6 seems far smoother and less buggy, will try 13 at some point!
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Literally bricked my device. The radio won't connect to mobile network. It freaks out and starts rebooting and bootlooping until it says data is corrupt. Even after factory reset, same results. And I'm a dumba$s and side loaded the ota with a locked bootloader (I'm on TMobile). So I can't side load any other ota bc they're older than this developer image. What a nightmare
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Same with my 6 pro. Except mine says factory resest restarting. Guess we're waiting to see if they do a bug fix update or just go right to DP2 before we get a fix. Hope you have a backup device you can use until then.
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Same with my 6 pro. Except mine says factory resest restarting. Guess we're waiting to see if they do a bug fix update or just go right to DP2 before we get a fix. Hope you have a backup device you can use until then.
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Same issue here on my P6 (non pro). Tried reapplying the OTA with no change. Guess it’s bricked till the next update but that’s the risk we take with these dev builds!
(Off topic: can carriers stop locking bootloaders already? Lol)
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Same issue here on my P6 (non pro). Tried reapplying the OTA with no change. Guess it’s bricked till the next update but that’s the risk we take with these dev builds!
(Off topic: can carriers stop locking bootloaders already? Lol)
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I did too but i knew it wasn't going to work, but had nothing to lose. Can't use the factory image either. I knew if something like this happened there was no way to fix it with a locked bootloader until the next update. So it is on me, never had this happen but luck finally ran out on me this time. Will just have to wait for a bug fix update or DP2.
LOL I have been doing this long enough to remember when unlocking the bootloader was a warranty violation.
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I did too but i knew it wasn't going to work, but had nothing to lose. Can't use the factory image either. I knew if something like this happened there was no way to fix it with a locked bootloader until the next update. So it is on me, never had this happen but luck finally ran out on me this time. Will just have to wait for a bug fix update or DP2.
LOL I have been doing this long enough to remember when unlocking the bootloader was a warranty violation.
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I feel better knowing I'm not the only one LOL
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I feel better knowing I'm not the only one LOL
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LOL yeah, i think we're up to 6 or 7?
Try using the android flash tool.
Does anybody have an alternative for Viper4Android? It doesn't work on A13