I have been on the fence for this ever since it has been out. I have been to bestbuy and verizon to test out the demo units multiple times and both units seem to have the same issue.
When I open some apps, say dolphin hd for example, I can see screen artifacts for a second. Like colored dashes of varying lengths, and this seems to happen often.
Second, when I am trying to pinch and zoom or scroll in Dolphin, it jerky and spastic, there was one other app that did this as well but I can remember which one. The scrolling on the stock browser seems ok but not the best.
Anyway, do any of you see this? More than likely a software fix, but hey, you never know.
And a rant, who on earth thought of that flimsy power adapter, good grief, they were both broken and the two stores when I first went to look but have since been replaced. And the power button? I have to turn it over to find it.....
Rant off and hoping to fall of the fence.....
Matt
The power button is actually placed well I think. It's not in the way and not hard to get to. I rarely have my device on a table cause of the viewing so it's not a hassle. Also I have not experienced that with dolphin HD on my device.
It's a Dolphin HD problem.
The stock browser rocks.
I haven't noticed any screen artifacts on my display whatsoever. For the most part I disregard demo displays in any store, as you have thousands of people with their hands all over it and the mentality of "Its not mine, what do I care?". God only knows what was done to the demo units.
I have not used Dolphin HD browser at all, so I can't comment on that, i'll try and download it today and give you another reply. The android browser pinch to zoom works damn near flawlessly for me.
As for the power cable, yes I was a little weary of it and the size. But since the battery lasts for quite awhile on this thing, I just plug it in on my nightstand and it lasts me through the day.
My typical uses through the day are music, browsing the internet on breaks, work e-mail, picture management, and work e-mail (exchange push). I start work at about 8 o cloak and am usually done around 6. During this time theres constant use of e-mail and music, and when the day is finished I am around 35%-50% on battery depending on how the day has gone. When I am home, its light browsing and maybe a game for awhile.
The power adapter could become an issue if you plan on having it travel with you constantly, but in a fixed location for charging and nothing disturbing it, its not so much of an issue.
Are you seeing the artifacts? It is like a blip and then the app starts.
I know what you're talking about... but it only occurs for me with Dolphin. I used to use that as my main browser and pinch/zoom when it would try to reload the text/images it would be very jittery.
Again though it's the apps issue not the tablet or honeycomb.
I just had to change the default browser to load as a desktop and not as a mobile device.
i know this probably a common excuse, but HD Dolphin isnt made for honeycomb. Dolphin is making a tablet specific browser and hopefully it'll be release soon. i have both installed just to keep my browser option open.
as for the power button, i think it's the best place. what you dont release from the demo unit is that when actually have in your hands, it's completely different. if the power button was along the side anywhere, it could be easily hit. especially laying down it on it side or even having it in a tablet stand. i even have some issues with the volume button when i place it in my tablet stand.
besides all that, i contact Quickoffice and asked about whether they're developing a Honeycomb specific Quickoffice with editing and making new documents. they said yes
I use the stock browser with no problems.I don't see why they had Dolphin browser on the Xoom anyway because its not designed for honeycomb & furthermore those demo units are no way to judge the Xoom anyway.People push everything in sight on them & mess them up anyway.
I'm surprised they don't perform a reset every once in a while to clear up the device of any hangups.
Though I guess it makes for a pretty good stress test to see if it can handle anything that is thrown at it.
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I'm surprised they don't perform a reset every once in a while to clear up the device of any hangups.
Though I guess it makes for a pretty good stress test to see if it can handle anything that is thrown at it.
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yeah I put all kind of stuff on there testing stuff I read here.
Launcherpro
dolphin
spareparts
asee ( app i use for my home dvr)
The verizon store also had an ipad right next to it, and I do have an ipad now, but love my Droidx.
the other thing I seem to notice is that the colors are a little washed out on the xoom compared to the ipad and the ipad is much brighter, but that always is best especially late at night in the bed. The ipad is to brit on tne dimmest setting.
Man i just cant decide to drop the dough....
Hi guys. I tried looking for a review that spoke specifically about how the TF300 works with ICS, but I didn't come across any. Maybe I didn't look hard enough . Anyhow - here are some newbie thoughts on the device. Having had it for three days. But I will try to keep this more software, rather than hardware oriented.
I got the dock as well. Initially, the power mode was set to balanced, but I felt like the device was a bit slow in response, so I set it to full performance mode. With that on, the power on the dock drains fairly quickly. I lost about 20%+ dock charge to the tablet in about an hour of light use: browsing with streaming radio in the background (via TuneIn). GPS off. Low brightness setting.
The browser is just ok, but not great for me. Many sites default to the mobile version though (as to be expected). Haven't figured out how to change the home page from Asus as yet. Pages seem to load a bit slower than on my Motorola Milestone 1 on gingerbread (CM7) or on my iPad1 on the same wifi connection.
I tried to maneuver between Maps, Browser and Polaris Sheet without an external mouse - and this was a bit tricky. I had problems selecting, copying and pasting text from one to the other. It doesn't seem to accept the typical Ctrl+C or Ctrl+V functions either. Using Polaris Sheet is not all that intuitive, and responds a bit different from traditional excel, but still useful.
I installed Netflix on it. On both my phone and iPad, scrolling left-right or up down is alot more fluid, while on the TF - it's a bit choppy. This is on a 5meg DSL connection. When I click on videos on the TF300 it sometimes take a few seconds or a few tries before it does anything. Also, during playback, when I try to scrub, it doesn't show me frames as it does on the other two devices (or as it does on a PC). I also do not see the language selection pop-up. It might be that Netflix itself is not optimized for ICS?
I inserted a standard 2GB SD card from a Canon digital camera into the keyboard slot. It saw the card and the first two folders in the hierarchy. However, when I tried to access the folder with the pictures (DCIM) - it just sat there thinking.....and thinking. I tried to access from File Manager and Polaris - and neither way worked. . I didn't try another SD card from another camera or device as yet.
I tried skype on it as well. The self picture compensates the exposure a bit too much if it detects a bright area behind you and you find that your picture (and resulting feed to the other end) comes out rather dark. There should be some way to adjust that, without having to point the thing downward or away from any background light source. A workaround will be to turn of any lights behind you (if you're indoors). If you are outdoors, I don't know how it will behave.
All in all, it's ok so far, and I still need to use it some more to see if there are tweaks to help with some of the problems I've encountered so far and review some of the tips that are out there. I will update this thread later on too.
Flew Southwest yesterday. They were offering free TV if you connected to their wifi. My 10 connected to wifi no problem, had no issues loading the rest of the page, but would not load the embedded video player on the Southwest page. I tried using Dolphin, Chrome and Chrome Beta browsers with no luck. Dolphin just sat and tried to load, while Chrome would appear to load until you full screened it and then the "Cannot play video" pop up would appear.
Wife saw me raging and pulled out her iPad mini. Connected to it no problem, TV started right up, and she gleefully rubbed it in my face...Pisses me off cause I do my damndest to defend Android products, but these little things happen and I'm left shaking my head.
So could anyone with a greater knowledge than mine clue me in on what the issue was? Was the issue on Southwest's end? Or am I using gimped browsers?
Thanks.
I get that alot with embedded players on both them browsers... I tried several others but I keep going back to Maxthon HD for embedded video. Now all you need to do is book another Southwest flight and let us know.
Hi all,
I think I have found a bug. I am using i9305 and attempting to stream over 4G from my web server which is running media browser 3. I'm trying to stream the Australian budget actually.
I've used both the in built browser and also chrome. Both start playing OK but soon cause a sudden reboot. It can take maybe up to a minute before reboot is triggered.
Am happy to supply logs etc if someone advises where and how to get them as I'm a windows user not Linux.
Thanks
D
Seems to be an Omni bug. Omni rom renders the video badly too, but ArchiDroid (which I believe is Omni-based) rendered it properly but still had sudden reboot.
I'm now running Liquid which seems to stream as expected. It did eventually fault but only terminated Chrome rather than locking/rebooting the entire OS.
Hi all,
I bought 2 Tab A 8 (2019) tablets for my kids for Christmas, installed their favourite apps (mostly small games, YouTube kids, ABC Kids etc). They constantly encounter a weird screen unresponsiveness issue, where the screen won't respond to touches, but whatever they are doing continues to play. I.e. YouTube kids will be playing in the background, but they are unable to use the screen to change videos or fast forward. This happens across all apps. Turning the screen off and on using the power button does work, and seems to return the screen to normal.
There aren't any "nefarious" apps on there.
Any idea what it might be, or anything I can share that might help figure it out? It's driving my kids crazy...and subsequently me.
thats weird im trying to install a different os on mine