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Mirmo said:
Hmmm, tis ever so strange. It dies as if the battery is empty, although the battery would have, for example 70% charge left as displayed in the bottom right. It won't turn back on unless I plug it in, in which case I can turn it on straight away again and have it tell me there's still 70% left.

It's as if a battery cell gets depleted but it doesn't transition seamlessly to the next xell (not that I know how these batteries work lol).

Anyone have any ideas?
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That to me sounds faulty. Plug it in to mains, power the tablet on, then put into standby mode until fully charged. Then unplug from mains and use until battery is sub 10% and then recharge. If that does not fix it your unit has a duff battery.
 
And if you need to RMA the turnaround is really good! I've had my replacement a day now and I'm really happy with it. Sure it isn't an iPad or Nexus bit it is a lot of tablet for the price
 
Thanks Gibbo. I'll give that a try. When it dies, I'll plug it in to get it turned on then unplug it again and keep doing that till the battery is actually depleted, the do a full charge and hope for the best. If not, good to hear about the quick turnaround.

For potential buyers, I bought two and the other one works perfectly. Very happy with them for the price.
 
I haven't had any further full lockups like I had previously. Managed to copy a couple of video files across the WiFi without issue.

Battery life seems erratic so far, but will have to give it a few more cycles. Picked it up yesterday morning with 80% battery showing (it was off charge overnight), and did a bit of web browsing and it dropped to 15% within half an hour - I can't imagine that's correct, hopefully it will sort itself out.

As I'm coming up to the 14 days within the next couple of days, any return would be have to be under RMA rather than DSR - I'd hope it doesn't come to that though.

Storage space for apps has been an issue, I've not got much installed but I need to shift some things to the rest of the internal memory - I've got some apps that won't move though, so it could prove interesting if I wanted to add too many more apps.
 
Hi, First issue with this new tablet, and is my first, so not sure what to do.
Has crashed, screen gone white and blank , problem is i cant turn it off to reset, Does"nt look like i can open it up to remove the battery, the power switch does not respond nor anything else, even after depressed for half a min.
Do i have to wait a few hours for the battery to run down ?
 
rossiboy001 said:
pheww. Thanks, I was stuck there, it does"nt mention anything like that in the manual, not that i can find. Was left scratching my head, I never even saw the reset its so small
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Most tablets have a hard reset switch, normally on the back, very small and needs a paperclick to do for the occasions where they do hard lock, which is a good idea.

As my Ipad froze, no matter what I tried nothing worked, until eventually the battery was drained and it shut off, which being an Ipad took a while.......
 
The battery on my replacement is atrocious. Watching a 20 minute Divx movie off the sd card drains it 15-20%. I have to leave it in airplane mode to get decent standby, even after uninstalling FB, Gmail etc which were syncing in the background.

Anyone else getting this??
 
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Mine needed to be hard reset a couple of days ago. When turning on, about 1 inch all around the screen was white. Had to reset it 3 times to get it to go away. Got rid of a launcher app which seems to have made it noticeably faster, and hard resets are few and far between. Battery life isn't too great - can get about 5 hours on minimum brightness, with no wifi or anything, just reading PDF files.

This is from the first batch though, back in December/January.
 
Clav said:
The battery on my replacement is atrocious. Watching a 20 minute Divx movie off the sd card drains it 15-20%. I have to leave it in airplane mode to get decent standby, even after uninstalling FB, Gmail etc which were syncing in the background.

Anyone else getting this??
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Might be a faulty battery but try a few full charges first.
 
kalvindeane said:
Mine needed to be hard reset a couple of days ago. When turning on, about 1 inch all around the screen was white. Had to reset it 3 times to get it to go away. Got rid of a launcher app which seems to have made it noticeably faster, and hard resets are few and far between. Battery life isn't too great - can get about 5 hours on minimum brightness, with no wifi or anything, just reading PDF files.

This is from the first batch though, back in December/January.
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That's about right, a unit which has taken several charges tend to give 4-6hrs, sometimes a little longer but not much.

It is unfortunately the major issue with lower cost tablets, they typically make the saving on the battery.

The Point of View tablets and Goclever units we sell typically have better batteries but of course also cost more too. For me battery is not an issue as I use my tablet at home, so plug it into mains when I've finished with it, so always has full charge. :)
 
I sorted out the battery problem by uninstalling nova launcher. Don't know why that would affect it but after removing it I got around 6 hours continuous video playback on it. Well chuffed.

Has anyone tried the mini-hdmi on these? When I plug in the cable the tablet screen quickly fades to black and nothing is displayed on the monitor. Am I missing something. remarkably little online about this :(
 
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