[Gen9, Gen10 General] rockmonkey1973:
ah i wish i had seen this thread before a laid down my hard earned cash on the 80 g9. i have owned it for about 5 days and have only used it for a few hours but i have had numerous issues with it much like i did with the 70it . should have learned my lesson but i was seduced by a low price. never again will i buy another archos. so the problems i have encountered which are really p++++++ me off are...

if i have left the tablet for a few hours without use and unlock it and start using it the wifi refuses to connect and i get loads of force closes with google.process. it will only go back to "normal" after a full reboot. this is just simply broken. there is no two ways about it.

the stock browser starts slowing until it grinds to a halt as soon as one opens multiple tabs and this in turn causes the touch screen to become unresponsive.

playing videos through hdmi using mxplayer... video (which play perfectly on my 360, m11x. moto defy and my wdtv live) will freeze constantly for about 20 seconds and then start again and then repeat the same process 5 minutes down the line.

there are other things i have found that i dont like or which dont seem to function right but the ones listed above are really very serious flaws and the problem i have is that it is next to impossible to determine whether it is a hardware issue or a firmware problem. i do however see i am not alone as most posts in this forum are about the poor usability of this tablet although most of the self same posts go unanswered.

it is a damn shame but i am absolutely certain i will never buy another archos product. i think i would rather take a chance with a no name chiense jobby. if you bought yours brand new then at least you are covered under warranty but i bought mine off ebay and so have none. however it is swings and roundabouts because if i had paid rrp i would have wasted far more money than i actually have because even with warranty you are still stuck with a machine that is barely fit for purpose.

thing is i would love to be gushing the praise of the tablet and i would if it worked but in this world all i have got are my experience and my experience so far has been nothing short of frustration hair pulling and the feeling i have been totally ripped off. total bugger. oh well live and learn as they say.

edit: oh yes and i forgot to mention the thing has a mind of its own... i have caught it randomly rebooting itself even though i arent using it. so i might be doing something else completely different and it is say sat next to me on the couch and then i see it spring to life with the archos splash screen my god it has done it just now even as i type this :D. its amazing i mean what the hell does it think it is doing. i mean leave it out nothing i own reboots itself of its own accord. so what the devil is going on???

man this is probably the third worst product i have ever had the misfortune to own next to a sharp video recorder i got 12 years ago and an iomega nas (which much like the archos looks great on paper but is mostly let down by shockingly bad firmware). weird thing is i have never ever bought another sharp or iomega product yet i gave archos another chance... maybe because i owned an archos mp3 player years ago that was small and had a 20gb hard drive which at the time was like pretty unique and it was actually pretty damn good.

gonna try one of mr petrus roms because they are actually my only hope in getting a working product.

edit 2: actually i am gonna try and send it back to the seller because despite the low price if it doesnt work then the thing is next to useless. will try my luck at another barnd and model this time around. fingers crossed i can get my money back... i am quite confident i will because the buyer has quite a lot of protection on ebay and i paid with a credit card who push comes to shove will claim the cash back themselves.