[Gen9, Gen10 General] 55mls:
Which firmware version do you have?

I've found that the ONLY Archos firmware that works anywhere near correctly on either the 80 or 101 G9 tablets is 3.2.80 or 4.0.7.

If you upgraded to either 4.0.24 (which bricked a bunch of 101's btw), or 4.0.25... well, BOTH of those (don't care if it's official from Archos any any "rooted" version from here or elsewhere) are pure garbage! In which case, upgrade to 4.0.26, which still has many bugs that need to be fixed, but is a least half-way usable (until Archos releases a newer firmware upgrade).

Really sucks that Archos does not provide a way to downgrade back to a previous (working) firmware. If you've already upgrade to any of the Archos 4.0.2x versions, then your only hope to get a fully functional device (for now, until Arhcos fixes their firmware) may be:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=35770625&postcount=118

---------- Post added at 07:59 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:29 AM ----------

Meanwhile, I'm pretty close to giving up also, but...

I'm going to buy ONE LAST ARCHOS PRODUCT and not going to waste any time thinking about any other product from Archos for at least 6 months. From what I've seen it takes them at least that long to ever get any firmware even close to working correctly on any new device.

So, what I'm thinking of doing is purchasing an (older) 1.2GHZ Turbo 80 G9 with 16Gig memory (don't care if it has only 512Meg system RAM). Hopefully it will come with older Honeycomb firmware. Then, I'll upgrade it to 4.0.7 (only because I want the Xbox USB controller functionality). The goal is to have a "functional" tablet that has enough memory to install all of the main games I want that can work with the Xbox USB controller, and still have some room left for a few other things. Really can't do much with 8GB devices with games that range from 400Meg to 2GB now anymore (don't know why Archos has not been making more 16GB, or better yet 32GB devices).

Then, my current "classic" 80 G9 will get changed down to (even though I do not want or have any need for "root") to a rooted 3.280, and I'll just let my 101 G9 float between testing any new firmware from Archos and rooted 4.0.7.

Beyond that, I really doubt if I'll ever buy another Archos product. There are just too many far better devices coming out now that do not cost much more... and do NOT have to mess around with multiple releases of faulty firmware on them either (most of them seem to work right out of the box... I haven't had an Archos device that ever has).

So, guess I'm jumping ship also.

---------- Post added at 08:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:59 AM ----------

The goal these days now seems to be to get everyone using "cloud" storage. As such, most companies tend to make devices now with less memory instead of more (which we all really want). Of course, that's all just to make more money... offer X amount of "cloud" storage and then charge extra for more beyond that point. And, it solves the whole DRM protection battle since nobody actually has any copy of anything on their device at all anymore (and can only be viewed/played on the specific device you "registered"... uhm, rather "paid" to allow it to).

[HINT: That's also the only REAL reason TV changed to "digital". It's not that they could not provide HD with analog if THEY actually wanted to, but rather they could not "control", limit, and charge for each time you view something... That's the real goal of Digital TV]

And, of course, since everything you do will then also require some kind of digital or "data" connection, that also makes more money for the Internet, cellular, cable, or satelite service providers... all of which charge overly high prices for things that should now be dirt cheap (from a technological standpoint).

Oh well, until people quite paying $600 for cellphones that do not cost much more then $150 to make...not much I can do about it. However, those days ARE going to come to an end shortly because people simply will not be able to pay all those extra expenses. Just another temporary thing like running up multiple credit cards until they can't pay for them all.