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[Xoom General] reuthermonkey:
Odd. I've been using my device pretty much constantly since I picked mine up. No force closes. No laggy browsing. Your Evo does better? You may have a defective unit.

Facebook works for me. The rest I haven't tried. And the widgets are personal preference. Too small? How old are you?

10.1 too wide? Last I checked, you could have pulled out a ruler to figure that one out. But hey, whatever. Blurry screen? Again, you must have a defective unit. Either that, or maybe your fingers are really, really greasy.

I'm getting a very interesting image of what you look like. 1.5lb is too heavy? Orly?

I've had mine running since I got to work at 1am (i work 3rd shift), and after a full shift, I still have 45% battery. I've watched youtube videos (HD), listening to music, downloaded apps, posted on forums, read news, downloaded podcasts, added numerous widgets. You know, typical stuff. And it hasn't touched the charger all morning (since you have to use their approved usb charger).

I'm not saying the Xoom with Honeycomb is flawless. It's clearly not as optimized as it should be. Opening up the Apps menu, for example, should obviously not be laggy like it is. That said though, most of the "issues" you have above are NOT mirrored on my identical device.
[Xoom General] akodoreign:
Have to say facebook acts like the old roms for the tablet use to. Sometimes it would crash, and you can't add facebook in accounts / sync. Twitter adds just fine
[Xoom General] Baconstrip:
I spent about 7 hours playing on my xoom yesterday and really didn't experience any of the problems you did. Yes some of my phone formatted apps weren't working but I expected that.

I think I had one force close with my browser. That's not so bad.

Screen looks fine to me. Yes initially loading a webpage is blurry, but that's just how its rendering stuff. For me at least that lasts maybe a second before the browser fully loads the page.

And if its too big for you, maybe you should get a child sized tablet for your child sized hands? (Or stick with your phone?)
[Xoom General] neonflx:
Aldiko, ezpdf, xda premium and many others I use on a daily basis are completely useless as the fc's are so frequent is not worth my time

I did read about all the issues beforehand, so right now I have 89 days before either there is an update that fixes the issues or is going back to cotsco
[Xoom General] MikeyMike01:
At first I was upset that the XDA app doesn't work properly yet. Then I thought, "Hey dummy, you have a 10.1" screen... Use the real site".

After that I uninstalled Facebook, Engadget, etc. and just added the bookmark widget to the home screen.

Sent from my Xoom.
[Xoom General] aohus:
i only get about 6.5 hours max of real usage on the xoom

I'm talking about 'DISPLAY' time usage, or, HOW LONG the screen has been on, as a case to determine the battery life.
[Xoom General] keitht:
The problem with XDA site specifically is that it is very slow typing responses and some other things. It does work, just lags.
[Xoom General] Elysian893:
And what goes into said usage? I'm overclocked to 1.5ghz and I get much longer than that.
[Xoom General] Elysian893:
I've found all typing in the browser lags, and always has, since my OG Droid. It's quite annoying, I expected Google to resolve it with 3.0...
[Xoom General] keitht:
From my experience, I have to disagree. There are other forum sites where the text input is instant with no lag. It may be all the background ad stuff causing the issue on XDA and other sites with the same issue.
[Xoom General] ericdabbs:
Sounds like the OP is better off with an iPad 2. Yes his points of 1 and 2 are valid and will be fixed in future updates but the rest of his bullet points are absurd.

He didn't know going in that the Xoom is pretty heavy and is comparable to the weight of the original iPad.

After 4 hours, the battery life is 60%? Hello? Motorola said it suppose to have 10 hours of battery life so it makes sense that after 4 hours, 40% of the battery is gone? Who knows how intensive he was using his xoom as well.

The display is too hard to hold in landscape mode and pictures look blurry on a 5mp rear facing camera? Obviously the OP prefers portrait mode which is perfect on the iPad 2 and lets not forget that the iPad 2 has a 0.7mp rear facing cam

OP, do us a favor, return the xoom and buy an iPad 2. Obviously you prefer apple and can't wait for fixes because any one who buys the xoom now knows that honeycomb is unfinished and that it will take a few updates before it is polished.
[Xoom General] alias_neo:
I thought this with my Galaxy Tab but I'm hoping the XOOM really is big enough to do that. Ok the apps are convinient, but the devs are lazy and rarely take advantage of screen real-estate.
[Xoom General] aohus:
like i said in the post, i check time used on my xoom based on 'display' time.

Go to Settings -> About Tablet -> Battery Use -> TAP ON THE DISPLAY ICON -> Shows the amount of time that the display was actually lit on.

If yours is going over 7 hours, thats a good thing. I cannot for the life of me, get my xoom to get more than 6 and a half hours of REAL usage.
[Xoom General] vTeCz:
Woah, all these comments but not one issue addressed.

I was just simply sharing my experience, I tried to stray away from ranting but apparently failed because there are so many of you devoted loyal xoom users that stuck up for the device.

Anyhow, thinking CONSTRUCTIVELY, I will try to overclock to 1.5ghz to see if the experience will improve. I will also go check out a display model to see if the one I have is just defective.

To all the absurd comments about my size, age, height, ethnicity, etc. Thanks, they really help. Its always the dumb ones that assume. The truth is that the device is big - get over it, don't you ever get tired of defending? Does Motorola cut you a check of the profit?

And no I'm not buying an Ipad2...that's why I chose to try the Xoom smartass!

Thanks a bunch guys, sure helped a lot.
[Xoom General] Lunus:
Battery

4 hours of use with 40% battery drain, which means you are getting about 1 hour for 10% of charge. Therefore in the end you should get 10 hours of use on a full charge! I think that's pretty good.
[Xoom General] musashiken:
1. Browser - Did you try to clear cache and data in the browser application? If the browser keeps fcing every single time you open it up, there's something with your Xoom or some application is conflicting with the browser. Perhaps uninstall every application and adobe flash and then try the browser again on stock fresh Honeycomb and see if it FCs.

2. Apps - Complain to the developers. Seriously no one here can help you. We are not the original developers, they have to update their apps to be compatible with Honeycomb. Sucks but that's how it is. Or you can complain to Google about backwards compatibility.

3.1. The Ipad, Ipad2 and the Xoom all have very very close physical dimensions and if you can't stand it, it only means that you should get a 7" tablet not a 10" one. We can't help you if you feel that a 10 incher is too much for you to handle.

3.2. Your question can be answered by pixel density. The Xoom has a resolution of 1280x800 over a 10.1" screen. If you compare that to a phone lets say a Nexus one with 800x480 over a 3.7" screen, and you do some math you'll realize that the Xoom has a lower pixel density than your average smart phone. Of course the text is going to get slightly more blurred than the smaller phones.

So it's up to the OS to figure out how to smoothen the text as much as it can. To most people the text on the Xoom is quite acceptable but if you are comparing it to a smaller phone with a higher pixel density, well I can't blame you for being picky. Perhaps you should wait for a 10 inch tablet with the resolution of 1920x1280?

4. You should have tried holding a similar sized book with similar weight for half a day before buying the Xoom. Seems like you are not used to carrying a 10" tablet for prolonged usage. Again a lighter 7" tablet should be good for you. Can't help you there since different people have different tolerance thresholds, stamina, arm strength, usage patterns etc.

5. You should have used the Xoom till the battery ended. Then tell us the total hours spent on one battery charge. 40 percent in 4 hours don't mean much if you don't tell us the whole battery life for that single charge.

There, I tried to be as constructive for you as possible.
[Xoom General] smilepak:
1) You must've gotten a lemon or soemthing with all those FC. I got both the 3G version and WIFI version. Neither one gave me any trouble you are speaking off

2) You must be Tiny Tim to be saying this is heavy. It is no different than the original iPad. With the design, the weight distribution is so much better than original iPad.

3) You must be from another planet. Yes Honeycomb looks incomplete. Heck when the original iPad was first released, it was bogged with issue for the first 6-8 months. DNS issue, WIFi issue, all sort of crap. That is the stuff you have to deal with as being early adopter. That applies to everything. From 1st generation car design, to computer, to practically any product release in the market. New design always have bugs and flaws. It is what they do from there that matters. Lesson Learned, applied to future release and patches. Been like that with every version of Windows from 3.1 -> 3.11 -> 95 -> 98 -> XP, etc. And I bet you still uses Windows?

4) need to think of whatelse to say...just speechless. :D
[Xoom General] chbennett:
. But so true.

So so true.
[Xoom General] vTeCz:
Mod edit: Play nicely, vTeCz. If you don't want to be part of this community, no one is forcing you.
[Xoom General] musashiken:
Well I'm not going to answer for the others here, but at least I'm not bashing you. Read my answers. You'll realize that many of your technical issues can't be solved by us here and some of your points are just indicative of your own perspective. If you have issues manhandling the tablet where many others have no issues with it, what do you expect us to do? Sympathize with you? In fact the best answer for you is YMMV when it comes to the physical handling of the product.
[Xoom General] rashad1:
Don't take it personal. It's a first gen product, it's not going to be perfect.
[Xoom General] willverduzco:
OK guys, vTeCz was just asking questions as to how he can improve his experience with his new toy. The original post was definitely not trolling. There is no reason for it to be interpreted as such.

There is a reason why XDA-Developers is a world class community where the best and brightest in the mobile tech world congregate and collectively hack their devices... AND THIS IS NOT IT. Let's grow up and show some kindness to someone who just wants to make sure the issues he's seeing aren't just in his individual unit.

To vTeCz: The vast majority of the replies that users posted were neither derogatory nor inflammatory. There is absolutely no reason for you to be offended. If you're concerned that users told you to 'lift weights,' they're just making a light-hearted joke to respond to your bullet point. Also, in all fairness, if you were concerned about the weight of the device, you should have held one in your hands before purchasing it.

To EVERYONE: Stop whining and stop being immature. We're all adults here, right? I don't want to have to take action, as I generally have faith in people, but I will if necessary.

Thank you.
[Xoom General] smilepak:
Ok, I'll be the first to apologize....

Since he stated he doesn't have any apple products....

Here is what I suggest...before making he could properly make comments on a product, it would be good try and look at the competitor. With that, you can then compare and see if the product you are buying is best for you.

Is it heavy? yes. Is it that bad? No. In comparison to the Apple iPad, it is about the same weight. I am not saying I am an Android loyalist or Apple Loyalist. My comment is based upon having own both.

Am I a PC or a Mac? I am neither. I am a technologyist. I like technology, I like toys. I am loyal to neither. Which ever work best for me, I buy it.

Similar to my photography hobby..Am I a Nikon or a Canon. I am both...
[Xoom General] mobius999:
1. You might have a lemon. I've only had two FC total, both from known broken apps with honeycomb.

2. Those apps will be fixed. In fact Pandora is already updated. If you had spent time looking for a solution instead of complaining you'd have found that out. Google is your friend. The widget comment baffles me. You say you own an Evo, yet complain widgets can't be fully customized on Xoom.... They can't be on a stock Evo either. Just a couple choices. How did you customize yours? Well.... how about trying those same solutions on the Xoom? All the launchers out there work with Xoom. Again, a few minutes reading and you'd have a solution.

3. Again I can only think lemon. My screen is crisp as can be, no blurs, fonts are perfect.

4. If 1.5lbs is too heavy, might want to stick with the Evo. There are no tablets out there significantly lighter (unless you want to count the midgets. I consider the Streak a big phone since it's less than 1" bigger than my Evo).

5. As already mentioned, if you're down to 60% after 4 hours, that's a 10 hour battery. You are complaining about this? I almost don't want to ask what you expect for battery life on a tablet.

The screen problem might have put you off initially to the point where you have no patience for any other bumps in the road. I'd suggest taking a deep breath, then looking around at some of the different forums/sites out there dedicated to the Xoom. Alot of your issues could be fixed in the time it took me to type this, and there's so much you can do with this thing. Take a few days, learn it, play around with it. If you're liking it at the end, bring yours back and exchange for one with a decent screen.
[Xoom General] vTeCz:
Thank you for those who chipped in with comments and useful insight. To those who veered off topic - I am just apalled by your reactions to my initial impressions. We sure have a different crowd on the Evo side.

Anyhow, we are here to collectively figure out how to make this device better and share the knowledge, right?

I promise to be more patient with you, xoom. Even if I have suppress my frustration and disappointment. Good thing Costco has a generous return policy :-)

The main thing that killing me right now is the browsing...web pages will just close on me for no reason and then the stock browser is borked after that until I force close process. And yes I've tried clearing app/cache data for the browser but it still happens =( I am considering an exchange..

Mod edit: Posts merged - Please use the edit function next time instead of double posting. Also, let's not have any more discussion regarding conduct. That's my (willverduzco's) job.
[Xoom General] rashad1:
I haven't had any force closes with the browser, you might want to get a replacement.
[Xoom General] smilepak:
For me, I got used to use the Dolphin Browser HD, so I dont use the stock browser too often. I do use it occassionally.

That is the beauty of Google OS, flexibility. You dont like stock, download something else. There also Opera Mini and I believe Firefox suppose to be soon too.

For me, the first thing I did when receive the Xoom, remove all the widgets and icons from the desktop. Who knows what is running to take up memory and processing power. My desktop is simple and clean. Nice looking wallpaper and a few icons.
[Xoom General] vTeCz:
I think i have stumbled upon a fix for the browser/flash/general lag problems that I've encountered. All I had to do was a factory reset - yep, its behaving properly now unlike before. The fonts are finally being displayed properly as honeycomb does its processing to sharpen up the font according to your zoom level. No more fonts bleeding my screen. Facebook actually works now but pandora still doesn't. Flash videos stopped stuttering.

I have no idea as to why a factory reset was needed, I didnt do anything out of the ordinary on my very first boot up.

I am also back on the AC power now, not sure if that makes any difference.

Lesson learned - when in doubt, use factory reset when you're not rooted yet:-)
[Xoom General] willverduzco:
Very glad to hear you found a solution to (most of) your problems! Also, since the device is heavy to you, you may want to look here for a cheap stand.

Edit: you may want to have a look at this thread regarding XDA browser speed / lag.
[Xoom General] lineman3705:
woot! woot!
[Xoom General] lineman3705:
bluetooth tethered wifi xoom running dish network app ( Help me please)

I'm new to everything here but I'm up to my neck in it( and loving most of it so far). Back story is this, I'm tethered via bluetooth from my rooted D1 to my motorola xoom wifi tablet. I'm able to run my dish network remote app on my xoom when I'm connected to my home wifi network, but when I'm out of the house and using my phone to tether for internet my dish app will allow me to get all the way to view on my phone then force close. I'm almost sure it has something to do with my tether setup, but if there is anyone out there who has any knowledge or knows of any fixes or other options please email at lineman3705@gmail.com thanks
[Xoom General] nyne7lac:
I'm not genius but you said you used it for 4 hours and it was down to 60%

that's 10% an hours = 10 hours. Since when was that bad? Isn't that the same thing the ipad gets?
[Xoom General] barnette:
Privacy LED Blinking (Issue..?)

I bought my xoom wifi 3/27 when it released. I went home, attempted to turn it on (by pressing the power button) and the privacy led just blinks about 3 times. In order to turn it on, I had to do a force boot (vol up + power button).

I thought nothing of it, until I locked it after using it and let it sit for about 2 hours...I came back to unlock it, and again had to force boot to get it to my unlock screen. So called exchanged it for another one. I opened this one at the store and guess what, its doing the same thing.

I changed some of the screen time out settings, and it seems to work fine when waking up initially (normal unlock). But if powered off it will only turn on with force boot (vol + power).

Is anyone else having this scenario? Is this just the nature of the beast or what? Thanks for responses in advance.
[Xoom General] Coldheat1906:
Just got my Xoom Wifi yesterday and when I pressed the Power button it did not turn on just blinked a red light 3 times.

In order to turn it on I only had to hold the power button then it booted up fine. I did think that was a bit weird but it has been running smoothly since did. (FYI..... I did do a factory restore after using it for about 2 hours, ..... just a bad habbit.)
[Xoom General] fabian29906:
+1, hold the power button for a second or two, boots up just fine.
[Xoom General] barnette:
Thanks for the quick feedback fellas, thats why I come here for all things EVO and android in general. Tried this and now things seem to be ok, funny thing is motorola didn't have this great answer, haha
[Xoom General] Dubar:
This is exactly the life that I get, when actually using it. Internet, movies, games, etc use up about 10% per hour. I can't really imagine a situation where that isn't enough
[Xoom General] patass:
im floored by how great the battery is tbh. A laptop could never compete with this kind of battery life. Browser FC on my once. Home screen lags sometimes. Videos and pictures and music works great. Emulation over hdmi via wiimote is awesome....So yeah, just wish it were a little faster in the browser and home screen department i guess. can we root the wifi one yet? What does the 1.5ghz overclock do to the battery?
[Xoom General] jack2k5:
I found out today that the WIFI model cannot support Ad Hoc. I cannot share my internet from my iPhone to Xoom WIFI. I remember tested Xoom 3G model. It does not have this problem. This will be a key factor for me in deciding to return the device.
[Xoom General] Bauxite:
There are ways to fix this, I'm not sure if anyone has but I would check the development section. The wifi and 3g are exactly the same in this regard.
[Xoom General] jstersd:
What do you mean? I have a rooted EVO and I can tether to my Xoom with zero problems; in fact, it's pretty fast. This is only in 3g; I can't test 4g because San Diego doesn't have it yet (friggin Sprint).

I'm using a Xoom Wi-Fi
[Xoom General] Sic123:
My HTC hero won't share wifi with mine but you can bluetooth pan with wireless tether and that works just fine
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
Anyone knows how to disable the phone from waking up when I receive a txt msg.

On HTC you had a option for it in the txt menu.

But on the LG you don't (Or I havn't found it).

So anyone knows how to disable it?
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Well mine doesnt wake up at all when I get texts or emails. Cant remember where I selected that setting tho
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
Mine only does that with texts, not with mail.

Please search how you did it :P
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
I think the reason why it doesn't wake up with email is because im not using the stock email client :P. I am using K9
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
You use stock text client?? Cause the stock text clients wakesup the phone.
[LG Optimus 2x] MeX_DK:
Yea I am using the stock one, and it doesnt wake up my phone.
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
Still the phone keeps waking up on txt msg.
[LG Optimus 2x] Escobarretje:
Just try out GO SMS Pro, it's free and in my opinion much better than the standard one! Lot's of options there, including an option to not wake up :)
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
I want to keep it stock. So not a option.
[LG Optimus 2x] -Jarmo-:
Do you have locking enabled, or what kind of screenlock you have.

If you have no lock, it will wake-up your phone.

If you use pattern lock it doesn't wake-up the phone.

I use go sms pro. Try it, you can uninstall it.
[LG Optimus 2x] xmoo:
Got stock lock screen.

Thank that's the issue.
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xxljmzlxx:
Does anyone know how to turn off low battery notification and disable the LED notification as well?

Any thoughts would be appreciated
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] Seychan:
go to Settings -> CyanogenMod -> (something like "userinterface) and there u have LED-Notifications .. maybe there?!
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] xxljmzlxx:
Thanks, but I have no idea how to mid the settings
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] XthelordinatorX:
i'm not quite sure if you're able to make it go away since i can't remember seeing any settings for it
[HD2 Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting and Genera] CadenH:
Wow, wrong post. Delete.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] thatisfreakinggreat:
Hi Guys

I'm trying to get CM31 to work, but that's for a different post. My problem is that I can't get Gowalla on the market place. Has anyone else been able to get it to work?

I've been able to make it work on the standard sense roms, but not on CM.

Cheers in advance.
[Wildfire Themes and Apps] melvinchng:
You can't get this app in market

Or

You can't get it to work in cm7

Or both??
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