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[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
After over 6 hours on the phone with Samsung support (until 2:30 am on SAt.) I was told to take the device back(stock and unrooted) and exchange or get a refund. I called Staples and was assured that they had PLENTY in stock(their words) so I made the 45 minute drive (one way) and upon arriving at the store the cashier was very polite but said she must talk to Mgr. The mgr shows up and says "oh your bringing back another one,(with a huge smirk on his face) I said yes I had tried very hard to resolve the issues with support but could not. The mgr continued to smirk and look at me like "yeah right" He said he must call his district mgr he left and the cashier apologized for him saying"He should not have treated you like that. The mgr returned and still had the same smirk on his face. and said "what do you want to do?" I replied, I will try another one ( I had purchased one a week and a half ago and returned it for refund after 3 days.) He said just a moment and went to the store room and when he came back he said I can exchange it for one in an opened box, I replied NO WAY!!. He then said that they had 2 in the back and both were opened, I said what happend to the plenty I was told on the phone? I then asked for a refund and he whispered something to the girl and smirked again and left. The cashier then all of a sudden had all of this info about stock in the backroom etc. I firmly believe that they did not want to exchange the device and would rather refund and look for others to come in and buy their stock.(opened and unopened) The cashier apologized once again for the mgr's actions. I got the number for corporate and will call tomorrow. Upon reading the coupon it says coupon good only while supplies last. That could mean that all stores were only shipped a very few. I now have no coupon and no device. I had just returned the TF I had been trying and decided to stick with the Gtab and had purchased a Samsung keyboard for it at BB. Anyone else have problems with Staples?:mad:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 00_MACKIE_00:
I will not shop at Staples again after the way I was treated when my wife and I went to the store to buy my Samsung Tab, was treated very rudely by a manager, ended up driving 45min to BB the next day to buy my tab. Guess they didn't want my money!!

To make a long story short, website said in stock, went to store, young kid said oh yeah we have some in the back but I can't go back and get them. Asked to speak to a manager,she said it was too much work to get it out of the back and I should buy a Xoom because it has an sd card (funny huh?) I exchanged several intense sentences with the manager and left the store and will not ever go back in one. I pulled our business away from them on our business side as well. Doesn't hurt me any, I order from other places now.:D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
While at BB purchasing the keyboard a man and his girl friend saw the keyboard and asked me how I liked the Gtab. I replied I really liked it but might have to return it for issues. He then stated that he was going to attempt to get BB to honor the coupon for the Gtab. I told him I had tried that at another BB and it was a no go. Well about 2 minutes later the mgr showed up and told him no problem. So perhaps there is a chance I can get the same BB to honor a coupon when I find one. I am going to return the keyboard as it would not function properly(called samsung support and they could not help me get it to be recognized by the Gtab. I will try to purchase the device with coupon.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lost2030:
Here's the coupon for $100 off if you need it

http://reg.e.staples.com/c/s/tagfrm...sherga%40gmail.com&AID=10422268&storeId=10001
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
Thanks!!! I also hit the thanks button !!!!!!:)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
Maybe Staples has caught wind of people trying to return locked GT's to try and find unlocked ones, or at least that store did. Kinda like what I wanted to do but decided not to, not worth the hassle and gas with a perfectly fine GT.

I was going to keep trying to get BB to honor the coupon because I wanted the 32gb version, but my first attempt at my local BB failed. So I decided that was not worth the gas and hassle so yesterday I had the Ghost Armor screen protector put on, no returning now.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
was not trying to get an unlocked one(would have been nice though) just one without a lot of issues. Samsung support after over 6 hours urged me to take it back for an exchange.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
I am not questioning your motive or reason, I would do the same in your shoes. Just saying maybe they have had people doing that, I was about to do that, and he just did not believe you. Which is totaly wrong, he should smile and take the tablet back from you and give you a new one.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
Just got off phone with CS at Staples and what a waste of time. They acknowledge that the mgr was wrong in his actions but the item is out of stock and they have no idea when it will come back in stock again. When it does I must pay full price or whatever the going rate is at the time. They will not issue a rain check. Just checked and All of the stores in my area(within 50 miles) now show not available at store for the Gtab and the acer Iconia. What a ripoff. They just decided that the coupon (!00) was too good of a deal and just pulled it from the stores.:mad::mad:
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] w4rmk:
You could have exchanged it for an open box unit and then waited for some new ones to do another exchange later. Maybe one of the open box units was like new? The coupon is good until 7/30 so you can keep checking local stock.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vlad_z:
And what was wrong with your tab? (just curious...)
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raistlin1:
Wow that is terrible, so sorry to hear that. Maybe try and bring coupon to BB and see if they will honor it, there have been some success stories of that happening. I think the coupon is good till the 30th, maybe you can get lucky at a BB. They should have given you the rain check since you were able to purchase it in the first place and you recevied one that was faulty.

If I were you I would try one of the open box items, maybe there is nothing wrong with one of them. If you still get the 14 day return policy you can test that one out and if something wrong finally return it or possibly exchange that one in 14 days when they may have more in stock?
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
It had almost constant black screen freezes and youtube videos would not play without FC. Also constant Samsung apps FC. Also it refused to acknowledge the samsung keyboard I purchase for it. I tried all of the fixes mentioned in this forum and also spend over 6 hours with samsung support to no avail.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smalis:
Interesting stories about Staples customer service. I bought a 16 GB Galaxy Tab from Staples on the first day of the coupon offer, and got an unopened, unlocked unit that I am very happy with.

But, before I said I wanted to buy one, the salesperson would not go to get one out of the back (so I could examine the specs on the box), which I found strange. And, once I said I wanted to buy, he pushed like crazy to get me to buy the protection plan ($230 on a $400 purchase!!), over and over again, which was very annoying.

I would have much preferred to buy at BB if I knew they would have honored the coupon, but I did end up with a well-performing Tab.
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiL3nTKiLL:
never had a problem with staples
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tenbeau:
UPDATE: I ended up going to BB and was turned down by mgr and then later that day I found out a staples near BB had one in stock (acer iconia and Motorola xoom) upon arriving there it turned out one was display unit(acer iconia) and the price on the Xoom was 599 instead of 499.00.I decided against both of them. Stopped by BB on way home and was considering buying a TF at full price. Just for fun I asked the sales rep to help me and he replied he was busy and then got this other rep to help me. I asked him if he would honor the staple coupon and he said funny you should ask we just got an email from corporate(he showed it to me) and we are authorized to honor the coupon (just the devices listed in email) if the store nearest us has it in stock I knew the closest store did not so just said if you honor it I will buy the Gtab. He then asked me what color -size etc and I replied 16gb white and he pulled one out of the cage. I thought he would call the nearest Staples but he did not. He just rang it up and told the girl at the main counter it was done according to the email just received. When I got home and unboxed it I found that it was UNLOCKED!!!!! I am go grateful. To be able to get a good Grab in the color I preferred from the start and to find it unlocked is just Amazing. Keep trying BB if you have not picked up a tab with the 100.00 coupon yet.:):D:):D
[Galaxy Tab 10.1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DreZ28:
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[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATRlX:
I'm not sure what to do, this morning I went to settings, about phone and updated it.

When the phone rebooted it said failed to boot 2, starting RSD mode.

If I pull the battery it will boot up fine, but it auto shuts off after 30-45 seconds.

I'm totally new to these phones, I know my Friend "rooted" it for me and it has superuser.

I joined this site to ask for help thought, because I'm under the impressing it is the best.:D
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deanr1977:
If you can enter recovery mode (Google how to do it on your phone if you don't know) just wipe cache, then enter into advanced mode & then wipe dev cache, then reflash the current rom you were using before this happened. If this doesn't work follow the wipe steps again above & also do a factory reset then reboot & this may solve your problem?

Hope this helps

Sent via my pimped out Desire HD using Tapatalk
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesrascal:
I had a similar happen to my phone what you are going to need todo is flash templates recovery and install a custom rim. This is what worked for me and you can find the instructions needed on the development forum.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ATRlX:
Well I fixed it.

I used this link here.

h t t p ://briefmobile.com/motorola-atrix-4g-1-5-7-ota-update-sbf#comments

Because I'm a newbie I can't post an actual link.:p

Thanks for the input guys.

It did put it on 2.2.1 I think I was on 2.2.2, at least the phone works fine now.:cool:

But

I'm looking into the new gingerbread update...
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jamesrascal:
Glad you where able to get it all worked out.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
On EF02, my phone suffered the bug where GPS would just freeze after a few minutes and the phone would still show the GPS as being locked and the only solution was to restart the phone.

I am experiencing the exact same bug on EG22
[Epic 4G General] arashed31:
The GPS stops after that *buzz*....*buzz*buzz*buzz* thing that happens when an app force closes. However, with the GPS, nothing pops up on this particular FC.
[Epic 4G General] Psycoboy15:
same exact issue with me. also the same issue with only 3 or 4 locks on satellites when 10+ are available.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I was really hoping they fixed this... back to the EE03 modem for me.
[Epic 4G General] Dulanic:
I'll avoid if samsung still can't manage to fix the gps... It's getting kind of sad.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
What method are you using to produce this behavior? I would like to see if I can get the same thing. I used GPS often on EF02 and never experienced any problems. I used Telenav mostly and sometimes Google navigation.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
I just used google navigation for 27 minutes and it worked perfectly on EG22.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I used google nav.
[Epic 4G General] mtwow789:
I used google nav too. It worked good. I got gps signal at home just like I did when I had srf1.2
[Epic 4G General] PythonFanTN:
I got the above with Google Nav on EF02, ended up having to flash EC05 modem to avoid it. I haven't had a chance to try it yet on my end after moving to EG22.
[Epic 4G General] darkpoe:
gps issues gone

This is the best locks ive gotten since di18... 30 minutes no problems.. i did make the mistake of flashing eg14 then eg22...
[Epic 4G General] TurboFool:
Same here. Just 10 minutes into a Google Nav session today and it locked up, with Google Nav searching for GPS, the icon showing a lock, and turning off GPS (the trick from the FroYo days) not actually turning it off. No solution beyond a restart of the phone.

And to the people claiming they're not having the problem: you're not understanding the problem. It doesn't have anything to do with lock time, and it's random. On EF02 I had it occur within five minutes, or work for over an hour before it locked up. It's random and unreliable. But run it long enough and it WILL lock up. Unclear whether it's a time thing, or handing off between X number of satellites/towers, but whatever the case it will definitely happen. So just saying "I ran it once for X amount of time and it didn't happen" doesn't mean yours is working. Do it for an hour every day for a week and you'll be guaranteed to see it.

This is definitely WORSE than the terrible GPS we always had. At least before we could toggle it off and back on and it would relock within moments. We can no longer toggle it off, so the GPS is completely dead until we restart the phone. Not exactly a good option while driving. Unfortunate that this wasn't one of their highest priorities to test and fix given how bad a rap they've gotten for GPS on the Galaxy S line.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
I do understand the problem. All I can tell you is that I have been using EF02 since it came out and with EF10 modem and I have never had this problem. I have used GPS often in that time. I will play around with EG22 for a few days using GPS to and from work to see if I can get it to do this.
[Epic 4G General] myerk2008:
I know of the gps problem on the ef02 I tried to use it everyday but even being on modem ef02 and ef10 it would aways freeze and would need to reboot but now with rom eg22, modem eg22 I been out driving around for 40 mins now in the Cincinnati area using gps and everything is running good no problem so I'm happy with this build

Sent from my Epic 4g EG22 Rooted and Deodexed!
[Epic 4G General] TurboFool:
Out of curiosity, were you one of the lucky few who seemingly had no trouble with the GPS on FroYo or Eclair, as well? That may represent a pattern of different hardware for you. For me I've never had good GPS, although it's seemed to get worse with each update. Eclair mostly worked, FroYo added the constant restarting of the GPS, and with Gingerbread it's just plain broken. If yours has always worked it suggests a difference.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I have never had any prior GPS issues on this phone since I got it in Feb as a replacement. Don't know about eclair, but I never had issues on EC05.

Too bad I can't say the same for EF02 and EG22...
[Epic 4G General] jakmai:
I too would like to add myself to the list of the GPS lock issue. Locks on very fast and well for the first 5-10 min then it would lose GPS signal. Sometimes if I exit and restart navi it would lock on again. :confused: Why! Good thing my gf has a iPhone so I'll have a back up. :p
[Epic 4G General] myerk2008:
I had a broken gps on ef02 but with eg22 no problems ill also do more testing

Sent from my Epic 4g EG22 Rooted and Deodexed!
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
I can't believe you'd stoop that low...Having an iPhone dependent as a backup?!

EDIT: I hear a lot of people saying the Epic has GPS problems (especially the htc fanboys). I have been on every single build and the only modem that GPS didn't work for me on was EF10. Haven't tried EG22 but I think YMMV.
[Epic 4G General] BubZX:
tested gps this morning and mine is also not working like before. i have never had any problems on eco5 or any builds before that.
[Epic 4G General] squshy 7:
Um, yes, but I still got the freeze ups on ef02. Haven't gotten it yet on eg22 but I'll test further.

I'm the one who breaks your theory. it's mostly likely greatly affected by geographical location as well. There's too many variables to pin this on one culprit. And also, you can't make a blanket statement that rest assured, everyone is affected. That's just simply not true. Same reason why I never had problems on froyo. Just too many variables.

I still am really impressed by this build. Modem issues seem to be the only kinks. But that's pretty much the hardest part anyway.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
So GPS was fine on the EF02 modem? Every modem worked for me except EF02, EF10 and EG22. I get best results with the EE03 modem.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
I have never had any problems to speak of with GPS. I did reboot daily on DI18. With EC05 GPS improved, locking improved and I didn't have to reboot daily. It just wasn't completely accurate. I didn't test on EF02 and with EF10 I had no problems. It would lock pretty fast and was pretty accurate with no lockups. So far with EG22 is locks very fast and is very accurate and have had no lockups. I will continue testing over the next couple of days to see if I can get it to lockup.
[Epic 4G General] crawrj:
Day 1: I drive 25 miles one way to and from work. I used google nav both ways with no problems. It worked perfectly.
[Epic 4G General] Overstew:
EF02 was the best one for me. Locked instantly and was accurate within 19 feet.
[Epic 4G General] poit:
Curious...

To those having GPS issues. Are you having these issues on a clean install? Have you restored data or apks from previous builds? Are you using the stock EG22....deodexed EG22.....someones custom EG22 ROM?....etc.
[Epic 4G General] NardVa:
I been rooting and installing the gingerbread leaks on my brother's epic 4g phone and this is the first gingerbread leak and modem to have working gps.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I installed via cwm using the flashable zip. I am using the deodexed version and I restored my apps/data through titanium.
[Epic 4G General] Psycoboy15:
I Odin'd the rooted rom. I had the issues with the EF builds also. There are a couple issues. First one is the locking up issue. The other issue is the number of satellites it locks on to. Test it with GPS Status. in EC it will lock to all the satellites. in EF/EG locks on to max 4 (usually only about 3) when there are 10+ available.

My biggest issue though is the locking up.
[Epic 4G General] poit:
you may want to try a factory restore and testing GPS before you restore apps and data.
[Epic 4G General] BigJPNut:
I have the gps lockup and I did the update for google maps...im wondering if the people with working gps installed the update? How about sprint navigation...does the gps work with that app.?
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I didn't install the update yet have the lock up bug.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I did a clean ODIN install for EG22 and didn't install a single app (Just added my account to get my email/contacts) and tested out GPS via Google Nav and did not experience any lock ups going to or coming back from where I went today. It was only a ~7 mile drive so I don't think it was long enough to fully test it out.

I will try to test it out for a longer period of time later on today.

I am hoping it's not the ROM/modem but actually an app that I restore that screws something up. If this is the case, then it will be a pain figuring out which app cuz i restore about 80 apps via titanium ....
[Epic 4G General] buckminst:
I just Odin'd to EG22 using the Odin Pre-Rooted ROM last night. Installed my usual set of apps that were working in EC05. Today was my first time using the GPS on EG22 (EC05's GPS was working beautifully for me, especially on SRF 1.2). I fired up Foursquare to check in, and as soon as it'd gotten a lock, the GPS froze up and had to reboot the phone. It did do the FC vibration pattern, but no pop-up, as others have mentioned.

This was a clean install, no backup data. ROM was an odexed stock rom that had clockwork and su baked in. I haven't tried any other modems or the official stock EG22 rom yet.
[Epic 4G General] darksideauto:
i did a clean odin install and i restored all my apps and data. i get gps to lock on in less about 5 seconds. i think the only rom/leak i didnt have gps in was the very first GB leak.
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I get a lock fairly quickly too, but that's not the issue. The issue is if you leave GPS on and use it for a prolonged period of time, the GPS on some phones get locked up and the only way to fix it is to restart the phone.
[Epic 4G General] lbe:
Same here experience random lock up with google nav. The gps icon will stuck on top bar ad unable to turn it on. Restart phon fixed it but still annoying
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
does the GPS lock with telenav?
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I have not tried telenav, but my 2nd test on a fully stock fresh odin'd EG22 my gps locked up within 5 minutes. This is with no apps, no root, fully stock. This leads me to believe that maybe some phones have faulty GPS??
[Epic 4G General] TurboFool:
Getting old reading about "I got lock-on in only X seconds." This is NOT the problem. Honestly, if it took a full minute to get lock-on I'd still be happy if it managed to STAY.

Today I used my GPS three times: First time I used Telenav because I've heard others claim in the past that they have no problems with it. I lost GPS about 15 minutes into my trip, with the usual icon locked in the notification area and stuck there until I rebooted. Second time I went back to Google Nav and lost GPS in less than ONE MINUTE with the same symptoms. Third time it got me all the way back to my office (15 minute drive).

It seems to me that with every update the GPS gets worse, not better. Eclair mostly worked for me, even if locks were slow and signal was sometimes week. Froyo introduced me constantly turning GPS off and on to keep it working. EF02 introduced PERMANENT loss of GPS during a session, and EG22 seems to have reduced the time before I experience this.

The Samsung Within can't come soon enough, except I really don't feel that great about rewarding Samsung for botching this by handing them money for a new phone. But I'm desperate enough to do it.
[Epic 4G General] murso74:
i never had a problem with GPS on froyo... always surprised to hear when people do
[Epic 4G General] viper786:
I have never had any GPS issues on Froyo either. I have gone back to EC05 for the time being.

I can't wait until the SGS2 is released which according to Whosdaman is early September. I think he said the 4th.

I'm sincerely hoping that EG22 is not the final build and that in the final build this GPS bug is fixed.
[Epic 4G General] ddialogue:
FWIW, I've had the lockup issue on EG22 with all the modems, including EC05. I have resorted to a nandroid backup of EC05 firmware/radio since I'm using this on vacation and didn't bring my Garmin with me (noob!)

Sent from somewhere...
[Epic 4G General] BubZX:
was able to test the gpson a long trip yesterday and after using EG22 for over a week now, i got my first gps problem.. gps worked for about an hour and then it locked up. rebooted phone gps worked for about 15 mins and locked again.

had a friend with me with his epic he is still on froyo EC05 (stock) and we ended up using his gps for the rest of the 500 mile trip with his gps not locking up once.
[Epic 4G General] TurboFool:
lol, I'd be really happy if mine was even THAT good. Seems as though much like FroYo's GPS would work fine for the first few days and then get progressively worse, this works similarly. Mine now locks up in less than 30 seconds every time.