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[Nexus 7 General] earlyberd:
You've got absolutely no numbers to back up your complaints about ASUS's quality control.

And it's your fault for opting out of buying the additional extended warranty options through London Drugs, that's why they won't touch it. Other brands jack up the price automatically and don't give you the option of opting out of the additional warranty, otherwise they'd be much cheaper. They're also selling it for the same price as it is on the Play store, but they've already paid for the shipping on it which means they make even less money.

Your expectations are completely unreasonable. Sony and Toshiba charge $100-$150 more for their tablets that are half as powerful and have barely any software support. You jumped on a bargain tablet knowing full well that all parties involved in its distribution are taking a loss by selling it, and then are surprised to find when it doesn't work that you're going to end up paying what the tablet would normally cost with a decent profit margin in order to get it fixed.

Would you have been happier if the tablet actually cost $300 instead?
[Nexus 7 General] nyijedi:
Get off your high horse, bro. Am I the dumb one who didn't properly glue down the glass on the Nexus 7? Am I the dumb one who designed the Transformer Prime with an all-metal backplate that completely borks GPS and seriously degrades WiFi performance? Am I the dumb one who "fixed" the borked GPS by removing it from the listed features on the product box? Am I the dumb one who designed an official case and docking station that have metal parts which scratch up the Transformer Prime's all-metal back during normal use? Am I the dumb one who replaced a customer's 64 GB tablet with a 32 GB tablet during an RMA process and am now forcing the customer to go through the whole RMA process again?

People are mad at Asus for a reason. We are not selfish, we are not dumb, we do not "have no idea what we're talking about," and we certainly don't need to grow up.
[Nexus 7 General] pantmunu:
+1
[Nexus 7 General] Croak:
For better build quality? Hell yes. I didn't buy the freaking thing for the low price, I bought it for the Nexus benefits. Cost isn't a major decider for me, never has been, quality and usability is.
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Well hate away. I like mine, and I'm glad it was only $250. And that's all I got.
[Nexus 7 General] shinzz:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1814765

So, is the lead CM developer dumb as well??
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
That's anything non nexus these days. HTC started their "s" crap and locked bootloaders with the sensation and you can unlock that bootloader only by registering your device with Htc developers. You relock it, it says "relocked" in the bootloader menu. And then you still gotta figure out how to achieve "s-off" afterwards. And in the case of my vivid, the RIL is still locked to the official firmware after all that. This is the new norm, the rooting days are over as far as non nexus devices go. Samsung whose always had a good reputation development is starting to lock their bootloaders too! The grass is always greener...
[Nexus 7 General] Cor-master:
Really any point made about unlocking bootloaders is just ignorant and stupid, arghh I'm sick of this topic. Haters gonna hate...
[Nexus 7 General] earlyberd:
You're dumb for thinking some arbitrary dollar amount you give to a company automatically makes any and all mistakes inexcusable, and that you're the one person in the world entitled to unlimited free advance replacements because your satisfaction is the sole motivation for the company.

Get in line. There's millions of people just like you that don't read the terms of warranty coverage on products before they buy, and people like you are the reason why Apple expects a minimum 30% profit margin on all of their products. You're basing your expectations on a product and price point that doesn't exist. It's not possible to manufacture devices to your fantasy quality control standards and still keep the price low. If the Nexus 7 was manufactured entirely in the U.S. and given a 3-year warranty with guaranteed advance replacement, it'd cost over $600.

Did ASUS ever deny warranty coverage for your defects? Did they knowingly make mistakes and not offer to fix them? Of course not, no company is that stupid. The terms of the warranty are clear; you don't get to choose how many defects or errors ASUS makes in the manufacturing and RMA processes. As long as they're fixing the issue, they're holding up their end of the bargain, no matter how long it takes. You're just faulting them for not trying hard enough, or not doing it fast enough. That's not a punishable offense, so quit whining.
[Nexus 7 General] Croak:
Yep, they did. They wanted $125 CAD to repair the cheap USB connector on mine. On a device that was less than a week out of the box when I sent it back to them.

Sans taxes, that's half the price of the unit, plus it cost me $22 to ship it to them, which they don't cover even if it had been a free "under warranty" repair.

And why did this happen? They went cheap on the USB connector part (among other things), which probably saved them a few cents per unit, but it damn sure cost me.

To make it even worse, even if I had authorized the repair, they would have simply soldered in the same sub-standard part.
[Nexus 7 General] chopper70:
I've been using ASUS PC components for 8 years and have never had any issues or failures. I've bought mobo's, VGA cards, sound cards, displays and optical drives. My mom has P5W DH Deluxe mobo in a hand me down PC I built for her, it's been running a C2D E6600 @ 3.6 GHz for 6 years rock solid. IMO ASUS make great kit and they are always my first choice when upgrading my PC. Can't wait to get my Nexus7 this week.
[Nexus 7 General] nyijedi:
What the hell are you talking about? What does the warranty have to do with disliking Asus as a company for having bad quality control? Are you saying that offering a product for a low price is a free pass to churn out defective garbage? What is wrong with you?

And to answer your question wise ass, YES, Asus has knowingly made mistakes and has not offered to fix them. Look no further than the Transformer Prime GPS fiasco (and no, a dongle that makes my thin tablet look like a bulky P.O.S. and removes my ability to charge my tablet while using GPS is not an acceptable fix).

I'll quit whining when you stop making ignorant, unintelligent posts.

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FWIW, I've also bought many Asus products over the years too - mainly motherboards and video cards. Never had any problem with any of them. However, I'm 2-for-2 with problems with their tablets.
[Nexus 7 General] demandarin:
Lets take a chill pill. Both sides have valid points but no need to get extreme over an electronic device. Lmfao. Asus does need to step up their QC but overall a great company IMO. For as fast as they pumped out nexus7, I'd say they did extremely well. Forbes Magazine even praised Asus for this. No one would've expected Asus could pull this off.
[Nexus 7 General] nyijedi:
Agreed (note that I wasn't the one who started calling people stupid, selfish, childish, etc....just saying).
[Nexus 7 General] earlyberd:
The GPS issue on the Prime is seriously your biggest complaint with them? Sell your Prime and buy a Galaxy Tab if it's really that bad. Nobody pointed a gun to your head and said you had to keep using it as your primary GPS solution.

What constitutes bad quality control? You haven't made a single reference to an actual failure rate published by ASUS or an independent survey. You don't know how many devices failed or how likely you are to get a failure. It's all "bad customer support" and "poorly-manufactured products". Those claims are meaningless without a quantitative analysis. You're just bashing their quality control because you got unlucky on the first few tries. And even after all of your incessant whining, ASUS still honored the warranty and fixed your problems, even if you didn't like their solutions.

ASUS can churn out as much faulty product as they want as long as they put a warranty on it and guarantee to fix the known defects. They're not legally obligated to give you a working product, but because they like your money they're willing to put a legally-binding warranty on it to make sure that even if you don't get a good one on the first try they will remedy it or issue a full refund.

I've bought three tablets from them so far without defects, so I'd say based on my own personal experience they have really good quality control. Stellar, in fact. Hardly the defective garbage you describe them to be.

Until you've got some actual numbers to throw around, your experiences with ASUS are in the minority. Deal with it.
[Nexus 7 General] NeoMagus:
Or it sounds like you've just been extremely lucky. My 201 had GPS dead out of the box and extremely poor wifi/BT performance. Take a trip over to the Prime forums, he is most certainly NOT in the minority. Thank god Best Buy took the thing back and let me exchange for a 700. Go figure the one they sent me to replace it was also defective, haptic feedback borked from the get go, took that back too and now I am done with the Transformer line, I can honestly never recommend it to anyone. Asus' QC is really pathetic, not to mention the fiasco I had to go thru for one of the stupid dongles (helping Hai Trat sort out his list of about 100 people including myself they never sent them to) .

My Nexus 7 has been relatively trouble free however (none of this screen rise or any other issues people are talking about on here) so I am thankful for that... but you really should head over to the Prime forum and let them know how you feel, they will come out the woodworks to disagree with you, and I'm being nice :angel:
[Nexus 7 General] nyijedi:
I'm done with you. It's not worth my time responding to your ignorant and uninformed posts, especially when you just keep spouting off what you want to hear without actually considering half of the things I've been saying. I'm able to have plenty of thoughtful, intelligent conversations with other posters here who I disagree with (hi demandarin). You are not one of these people.
[Nexus 7 General] shinzz:
Hahahhahaha...
[Nexus 7 General] nyijedi:
He's a hoot, isn't he?
[Nexus 7 General] Step666:
This thread is going nowhere and what little usefulness it may or may not have had has long since been over-shadowed by petty squabbling.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
hi people,

i have a SE x10 mini and its flashed with latest naa kernal and CM7mini.

im swapping it for a motorola defy tomorrow and just want some general answers if possible.

i see on the cm7 instructions it says *Flash froyo* then from clockwork install the .zip. ( similar to x10 mini )

but what steps do i need to take once i get the phone?

do i need to root it first then install a custom recovery first? or can i just chuck the CM7.zip on the sd card and flash?

im a little confused as i have only owned this x10 mini and i know how to flash kernals etc to this phone, just confused with the motorola

any help would be appreciated

regards
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArRaY92:
come on, at least look at the big Q & A threads before burdening others. I saying this to you instead of answering your questin, so that you at least give the matter some attention yourselves.

May the search be with you!
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
lol,

i have been reading up.

im not sure on this froyo, eclair etc

how would i know what i have when i get it?

will it say froyo in settings?

with the x10mini its all pretty much easy, no need to find what version or anything, just download cm7mini flash naa and flash.

so im a little confused with the defy,

ive been reading up and understand enough,

but i take it the steps i take is

To root the phone

install the 2ins app to install recovery

then flash cm9?

or do i need to use RSD lite to flash the froyo rom first?

reading the faq is pretty straight forward but i havnt seen the phone yet ( played around with it) so im not sure of the version etc.

im in the uk
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
in settings it provide ur the Android version. 2.2.2 is froyo... but ... that's not the only problem. from were u buy the phone? reseller or from private

Jelly powered.Defy
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
From a shop. Swapping it
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
ok than ur don't had a problem with the bootloader! it's not that easy as for ur x10mini cause the locked bl in the defy.

in general section is a thread there u find 'custom' sbf files, that u can flash with rsd light. it's the easiest way to get a good ROM on the defy, in only one step. the files are all rooted and with 2nd init. from that point u easy can flash other ROM through CWM, only beware for higher bootloader. ur defy is maximum bl5 I think.

Jelly powered.Defy

Edit:

link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1691901

Edit2: and before u ask, we don't can flash custom kernel, only custom ROM.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dreamz12345:
how do i find out what bl# i have?

will it say in rsd lite?

regards
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AnTerNoZ:
No, rsdlite cant say ur the bl version,

ur can use the tool u find in that post

and if ur dont speak chinese in that post u have the answer for the cryptic buttons :good:
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marco.michel:
First of all, what kind of defy will you get?

Defy, Defy+ or Defy Mini?

The steps to install a custom rom are very easy.

1. root your defy

2 install cwm

3. make a nandroid backup with cwm

4. download the Rom you want to install

5. reboot into cwm and install the Rom.

This is a short instruction. For details instruction go to the Defy developments threads. There you find detailed instructions, and how to install custom Roms.
[Defy Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrase:
It depends on which rom that you want to install and if you have green or red lense (because of the kernel).

But you will find these infos in the instructions of the rom thread.
[Acer Iconia A500] pimpmaneaton:
Hey if anyone is interested in a full theme for AOKP I have one posted just on the AOKP rom thread over at rootzwiki. Not going to start a who them thread up for this release because I may not update till jelly bean comes out. This will also work for pretty much any other tablet the is mdpi resolution except for the v6 supercharger. Not sure if other devices will like that too much. It is an aroma installer zip that uses the awesome villian theme system to theme the system files.

http://rootzwiki.com/index.php?/topic/19698-AOKP-|-a500/picasso-|-Milestone-6#entry873200

AOKP | a500/picasso | Milestone 6

There are also some screen shots on that thread.

Launched from a Slab rocking AOKP!!
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
The theme looks great.

Thank

PS can you pm me the link me the newest version of AOKP? I can seem to find it anywhere. Would love to try it out
[Acer Iconia A500] dincdoes.me:
Every time I flash the rom it randomly reboots itself .. pisses me off as I want aokp so badly.. oh well ill keep watching and waiting.
[Acer Iconia A500] 10507:
Just untick the CRT animation option and you should be fine.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkmage1975:
Hi all, I bought my S3 last june in Italy. No problems at all ... until today.

This morning I left it on the table and after 5 minutes I saw it was turned on asking for the PIN code. I typed it, but after 5 minutes again I found it ... I supposed turned off. But then I couldn't tourn it on anymore. I tried to reset it keeping pressed the on/off button but nothing. I removed the battery and inserted it again after a minute but nothing. I keeped the battery out the phone for an hour, then inserted it again and the phone turned on.

All seemed ok, but then after 1 hour I found the phone stuck again: black screen, it seemed turned off but no button worked: reset, on/off ... Again: 30 minutes without battery then I could turn it on.

I'm not sure, but I suppose it hangs when going in stand-by. I tried to keep it on and it didn't hang for 1 hour. Then I backed up all my apps and data, tried to recover to factory default buuut ... it turned off but never tourned on, same problem as before ...

I suppose this should be important: I never rooted or modified the phone, it still i as I bought it.

UPDATE: it seems it can't reboot. If I try to rebbot while in AndroidOS the phone shut down but never turn on again (as described above) and then again take off the battery, wait minutes and so on. But even in recovery, where I tried to wipe cache e data/factory reset, if I choose reboot system, as before the phone shut down and ... same procedure again. I don't think it could be a software issue ...

Something about battery? But how could I check it out?

Any idea? Thank you all in advance.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JJEgan:
Replace battery no other way .

jje
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aranurea:
I had thus exact same problem on my T-Mobile Galaxy S II. Something with the ROM and kernel that I flashed were clashing so I flashed another ROM. Try going into recovery mode if you can. I don't have an internationalS III but if you have flashed a recovery, then hold the volume buttons before you turn it on and continue to hold them until you get into recovery mode.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sak500:
Dont know didn't find any info in your text about battery charge or plugging in power socket and try after 10 mins to boot the phone.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkmage1975:
First of all than you.

A little update: it is definitely not a battery problem since I tried another battery but the problem was there again.

Moreover, I never changed the firmware or the modem and I never rooted it since I can't try another ROM, even if I would, it is not in the "state" to be rooted.

Soooo ... mother board?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] mido_fedo:
when i try install S1 Fastboot driver on windows 8 this message appears
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Style13:
Try to find another version of the driver. That one obviously isn't supported by Windows 8.

P.S. What's windows 8 like? :laugh:

P.P.S Alexandria, awesome :cool:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Jean-DrEaD:
Is the x64 system? Drivers too?

Just restart in "advance mode" in PC Settings... Then desative "Driver Signature" or something like that... Then install driver... ;)

Btw, win8 is just awesome!!!!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ysharief:
:eek: ....

Sent from my MT11i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] tofumachine:
Try this:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1583801

sent from supercharged jj's hybrid neo v
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] ireun:
Nope, you all are wrong..

You need to do this:

As a new security measure in Windows 8, unsigned drivers are automatically blocked.

Happily, there’s a way round this problem too. If you go to the Advanced Startup app in Windows 8, you can choose to reboot the computer with Advanced Startup options enabled. You’ll then be given the opportunity to boot into various troubleshooting modes, including Safe Mode, Debugging Mode and the snappily-named “Disable Driver Signature Enforcement” mode.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Lashkopivo:
I have a related problem,

I have installed everything, without problems, but when I plug in my phone in fastboot mode, adb devices doesn't find anything.

I hear a sound from my computer, saying something is connected, but I cannot reach my phone. In the windows 8 preview from before June, everything worked just fine, but since I updated to the consumer preview, it doesn't work any longer.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] alvinhochun:
Of course you don't see anything with adb devices. You need to use fastboot devices.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Lashkopivo:
Doesn't give me anything either

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When my phone is connected normally, when it's turned on, and I ask for adb devices, it gives me something about starting up daemon, and then the device showing up is 0123456789ABCDEF, which I find a little weird.

When I turn off my phone, and connect in fastboot mode, fastboot devices gives me nothing. When I try to flash a ROM anyway, it just says waiting for device.

I'm no pro in this, but I managed to flash my phone several times before and everything worked just fine then. I don't know what the problem is here, I guess it's something with Windows 8 consumer preview.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Lashkopivo:
I managed to flash my neo when I dualbooted in Ubuntu, did everything there.

Still wondering what the problem is in windows 8 though
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Dev Jaskirat:
I am using Windows8 Release Preview! I had the same sort of problem I used the driver installer from flashtool! Everything is working now! Fastboot and flash mode!

Sent from My NeoV on Xperia Ice Cream Pureness build 11
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Lashkopivo:
Thanks, I'm going to try it now, hope it works!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] llsiddhantll:
Hey, I did exactly the same things, and my setup is partially working. Flashmode is working, I can use Flashtool, but when I connect my phone in Fastboot mode, Windows 8 Pro shows me this error: "One of the USB Devices has Malfunctioned". The ADB drivers are installed, but this is the error:

This device cannot start. (Code 10)

A request for the USB BOS descriptor failed.

Any ideas? I don't want to dual boot Windows 7 just for this purpose.. Any help would be appreciated.!
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ysharief:
I had no problem with w8 pro edition..:rolleyes:

Disable any antivirus and try

Sent from my MT11i
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] johnjeevinth:
Facing the same issue.. did any1 find a work around?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2044804

A guide to set up tools for Win8 !

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BTW even I use 64 bit Pro edition and no problems faced !
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] vishal_android freak:
Ghostfreak, did you try this tutorial? It works??:confused:
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] photos:
Thanks!

I have installed needs driver by this method. However I can't connect to my device. Might I need right drivers?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
As I told before!

I didn't require it...

As It worked without issues on my PC...

Maybe bcoz I've a Win7 alongside..Win8

.on my PC

But yea, it does work.
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] bLoodLust2623:
From the Metro Start Screen, open Settings (move your mouse to the bottom-right-corner of the screen and wait for the pop-out bar to appear, then click the Gear icon).

Click ‘More PC Settings’.

Click ‘General’.

Scroll down, and click ‘Restart now’ under ‘Advanced startup’.

Wait a bit.

Click ‘Troubleshoot’.

Click ‘Advanced Options’

Click ‘Windows Startup Settings’

Click Restart.

???

Profit!

When your computer restarts, select ‘Disable driver signature enforcement‘ from the list. You can now load your modified driver. Reboot again once the driver is installed and all will be well.

works on me
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] photos:
Thanks. Where can get last drivers?
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] johnjeevinth:
Have tried it but this did not work.. it did work on my 32-bit win-8 pc but its not workin on de 64-bit version....................
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] Ghostfreak NB:
Follow the link I pasted...
[Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo, Pro] erledvo:
Hello!

I have the same problem as the fellas above and i have followed your way and i install the drivers perfectly (it says) But when i connect my Arc to the computer and press the menu button for fastboot mode i get the message" A request for the USB BOS descriptor failed."

Im running win 8 64bit. Did anyone find a solution to this?

Regards

Edit: Didnt find a solution for my win 8 64bit, but an old xp laptop stepped up to the task and I'm now unlocked!