When I first got my kindle fire, I was not all that impressed – really disappointed with the lack of google apps, lack of the Android Market, did not like the launcher, etc. I was ready to send it back until I discovered this (and other) forums / blogs. I was just amazed at how fast the shortcomings were being knock off one by one. I was a bit scared and had a few hiccups rooting a device for the first time, but in the end I've got a device the suites my needs nicely.
I'm not interested in purchasing Amazon media, but I do buy Kindle books and 95% of all our web purchase are made at Amazon – which is most of what we buy. Perhaps I'm not using using the device as intended, but we more than make up for any subsidy Amazon has provided.
I agree this forum is a "force multiplier" (as we military folks like to say) that makes the prospect of owning a Kindle Fire much more exciting. So I'll throw my weight behind the gratitude shown by the OP. Thanks to xda and all the people that are doing all the work!
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Same thoughts here. I have had a galaxy S for a year and enjoyed coming here and swapping roms constantly.
Wife bought me a kindle fire and I knew nothing about it, then saw it was droid. Ok, theres hope. She said I could open it tuesday, I said ehh, Ill wait.
I started reading up at work, started getting juiced and Thursday I opened it and had it rooted.
She already wrapped it by then
"You opened it?!"
"A little bit" as I held the Fire in my hand with a usb wire sticking out and command prompts on the pc.
My wife is lame, I put a ton of work on this device to make it a better device. All together she has spent about 30 minutes on it. Agreed with everybody else, without XDA love this device would be nothing.
Only reason I got this thing was so I could hack it.
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cheetablaze said:
My wife is lame, I put a ton of work on this device to make it a better device. All together she has spent about 30 minutes on it. Agreed with everybody else, without XDA love this device would be nothing.
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My wife was the one that wanted one, and since I didn't have any answer for what I wanted for xmas, she said she picked up one for me.
I think she's used it once or twice.
Welp, I just sold my Continuum. But I did sell it to my friends' daughter so I'll still be around and I'll help when I can. Maybe I can use it to test some stuff out if the Continuum doesn't die completely anytime soon. Thank you to all the devs that made this phone awesome, even if Samsung pushed it to the side.
Welp, we'll miss you (kind of). But at least you are being a good hacker, and maintaining an excuse to stick around. Tell your friend's daughter to enjoy my phone.
The Samsung Vibrant (up until this point) has been the most versatile, hackable phone I've ever had. I'll be sorry to leave it be. Unfortunately the guts of my phones microUSB port decided to go on an extended holiday.
As a treat to myself this year I got a Nexus 4. I hope it will be equally as fun over on that side of XDA as it has been here!
Go holla at my boy dougfresh, he's balls deep in N4 ROMs and kernels.
Id est quod est
Good luck with your new phone and we all are sad to see another person go. "It is what it is" though. Take what you have learned here and hopefully apply it to someone in the N4 forums when they need help.
Feel free to pop in and say Hi once in awhile.
Good Luck and we'll see you around.
So we all know about the cracked edges issue, and you've probably also heard that even the "new batch" and the LTE model are still prone to cracking.
Yesterday I posted a petition on the geforce forum to bring attention to the issue and to demand a statement from NVIDIA regarding what their plan is to rectify the issue. Today I was shadowbanned, which means that nothing informed me that I was banned, but all my posts and threads are not visible to anyone else. So now the petition is down a black hole. I have NO IDEA why I was banned, but it was likely an attempt to erase the petition, as I didn't do anything inflammatory in the past couple days, and this is not a normal account suspension (those let you know you're temp banned). This is a shady shadowban where they don't want anyone to know that I'm banned. They just want to silently erase every post and thread I've ever made.
Here's where I need your help. Nvidia is obviously trying to sweep the continuing cracked edge saga under the rug. I would appreciate it if anyone who also frequents the nvidia community could make a new topic to start a new petition to demand a response about the cracked edges, and also to let people know what happened to me.
We shouldn't let them get away with this. Thanks.
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So we all know about the cracked edges issue, and you've probably also heard that even the "new batch" and the LTE model are still prone to cracking.
Yesterday I posted a petition on the geforce forum to bring attention to the issue and to demand a statement from NVIDIA regarding what their plan is to rectify the issue. Today I was shadowbanned, which means that nothing informed me that I was banned, but all my posts and threads are not visible to anyone else. So now the petition is down a black hole. I have NO IDEA why I was banned, but it was likely an attempt to erase the petition, as I didn't do anything inflammatory in the past couple days, and this is not a normal account suspension (those let you know you're temp banned). This is a shady shadowban where they don't want anyone to know that I'm banned. They just want to silently erase every post and thread I've ever made.
Here's where I need your help. Nvidia is obviously trying to sweep the continuing cracked edge saga under the rug. I would appreciate it if anyone who also frequents the nvidia community could make a new topic to start a new petition to demand a response about the cracked edges, and also to let people know what happened to me.
We shouldn't let them get away with this. Thanks.
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Yes I saw that this morning. Quite disgraceful. I see they deleted your thread on Gamergate too some days ago.
If this is the way that Nvidia conducts both its Android device business and its customer support forums then it has lost me completely as a potential customer. This action is the last straw for me, my decision is made to totally avoid Nvidia, I shall delete my GeForce forum bookmarks and not visit there anymore. I do not wish to be part of that debacle any longer.
All in all it is a shabby state of affairs.
ps I have seen you over on FreakTab, I am considering PiPO as the way for me to go next.
I hear yea' man, this isn't cool.
My device burnt me and must of been near combustion, and is now finally after two months crumbling at the corners.
When speaking to support, they were LYING TO ME and just running me through a loop.
"The issue has been resolved in the new replacements"
"Uhh, I was just on YOUR forums reading the opposite... "
Like, they didn't even have to lie to me...
I would of been civil and tried to work something out.
But instead they just want to keep sending out disfunctional and DANGEROUS items and tell me it's okay now?
No, it's not. I have a daughter about to be born and I'd rather not have a fire / choking hazard around.
I sort of wanted to like use the thing to help teach my daughter things through a touch interface, but you know.
I'm scared it'll kill her.
What a freakin' shame.
And to be shadow banning is beyond corrupt now.
Do they think we're all complete idiots who can't communicate if we're blocked somewhere?
That the issue will go away?
Give me back my money and apologizing for wasting my time, lying to us.
Criminal.
Decided to go green for GPU's this year (I sell prebuilds on the side).
WELL, that was a short ride.
PS 4k Downsampling has always been possible on any modern gpu, don't let Nvidia fool you into thinking it's a 900 series feature.
Another thing you likely won't hear make the news articles.
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I hear yea' man, this isn't cool.
My device burnt me and must of been near combustion, and is now finally after two months crumbling at the corners.
When speaking to support, they were LYING TO ME and just running me through a loop.
"The issue has been resolved in the new replacements"
"Uhh, I was just on YOUR forums reading the opposite... "
Like, they didn't even have to lie to me...
I would of been civil and tried to work something out.
But instead they just want to keep sending out disfunctional and DANGEROUS items and tell me it's okay now?
No, it's not. I have a daughter about to be born and I'd rather not have a fire / choking hazard around.
I sort of wanted to like use the thing to help teach my daughter things through a touch interface, but you know.
I'm scared it'll kill her.
What a freakin' shame.
And to be shadow banning is beyond corrupt now.
Do they think we're all complete idiots who can't communicate if we're blocked somewhere?
That the issue will go away?
Give me back my money and apologizing for wasting my time, lying to us.
Criminal.
Decided to go green for GPU's this year (I sell prebuilds on the side).
WELL, that was a short ride.
PS 4k Downsampling has always been possible on any modern gpu, don't let Nvidia fool you into thinking it's a 900 series feature.
Another thing you likely won't hear make the news articles.
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I don't know if you have an account on geforce forum, but please post the same thing there. we need to voice our opinion on this and be more proactive. warn others if nvidia doesnt respond. it is ridiculous.
Your posts are back on the forum, and it shows you are now suspended.
Does it tell you for how long?
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Your posts are back on the forum, and it shows you are now suspended.
Does it tell you for how long?
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HHAAAA. Maybe they were like...
"Oh **** these really hardcore techies (the only people who would use their forums) are on to us just trying to make them vanish and it's making us look like even bigger assholes!"
Uh, yea. I will head over there tomorrow... Gunna' wait for them to ship the new one.. I was going to sell it since they won't refund but then again I wouldn't feel right selling it to anyone.
Had to tell some kids in the gaming section to hold off on buying it, then showed them mine. They were ranting about it and how they can't wait till' they can get one. HA.
"Yoooou guys might wanna' hold off on that one.." They were so confused something like this even made it to market, even as kids. Not idiots.
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"Hey everyone,
Thanks again for hanging in there with us. As some of you have noticed we have started replacing faulty units as quickly as we can.
As a token of our appreciation, 200 random customer tablets will be replaced with a SHIELD Tablet 32 GB LTE tablet. This is totally random and once they are gone that's it.
Enjoy,
--Peter"
It's funny because AFTER that I had a rep tell me that wasn't true..
I asked "Is it true you guys are giving people the upgraded version to try to make up for all of this hassle?"
"No".
"Oh, okay."
OP is too right.
I received my replacement quite a while ago, all packaged up nicely with bubbles and tampering tape. Little did I know this was the same model that I had had before. A crack appeared the week after. I had since already returned my tablet to the retailer and now have a cracked RMA'd tablet in my hands.
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OP is too right.
I received my replacement quite a while ago, all packaged up nicely with bubbles and tampering tape. Little did I know this was the same model that I had had before. A crack appeared the week after. I had since already returned my tablet to the retailer and now have a cracked RMA'd tablet in my hands.
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I really wanted this tablet to be good given it's price point and specifications but I'm not interested in the risk given all the complaints and issues. Keep it up! I'm glad the problems are noted in multiple places. I wouldn't rely on their official forums for unbiased comments anyways so keep up the conversation elsewhere where you can't be censored.
Brothers, the least you can do is go make a review on Amazon.com, which is the defacto website where I go to search up reviews before buying the product. This will save other people a lot of headaches. I already did, and you should too.
Thank God I came to XDA before pulling the trigger on one of these. No lie, I was dead set on getting one in the next 30 minutes.
I'm honestly not too surprised either.
Nvidia doesn't have a strong OEM track record either. Most of the time, if you've purchased a 'Nvidia GPU', you're purchasing a card developed by another OEM which uses Nvidia tech/chips. My understanding is that the Shield is Nvidia OEM- it's an Nvidia chip, on an Nvidia board, in an Nvidia-designed hardware unit. In the US, they only seem to sell Nvidia OEM cards at Best Buy (probably for good reason), so I've never seen Nvidia cards anywhere other than Best Buy, which admittedly, can be pretty spotty at times too.
I'm not sure where all these issues are coming from too- all mine has is weak wifi signal. When I'm in decent range of my AC/N router, the signal is great, but it degrades quickly beyond 4ft away. I've dropped this tablet all over the place, and used it for pretty heavy gaming with K1-optimized titles, and I still have no cracks after a month and a half; Can't say the same about my Nexus 7 though, which is in horrific shape.
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Yes I saw that this morning. Quite disgraceful. I see they deleted your thread on Gamergate too some days ago.
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What the heck does gamergate have to do with an nvidia tablet? Easy to see why that was deleted.
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What the heck does gamergate have to do with an nvidia tablet? Easy to see why that was deleted.
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How very interesting.
Is that really your best response to the topic?
It is a shame such a device has the manufacturing issues. I can say from my experience that Nvidia's support is top notch. I had the screen got out after about 6 months on my Shield Portable and they sent me a new one in just a couple of days. They also RMA'ed my Shield Tablet do to cracking with no issues.
I've just ordered one of these tonight, it's being delivered in the morning. After reading about it here which I should have done first, it will be going straight back unopened.
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Thank God I came to XDA before pulling the trigger on one of these. No lie, I was dead set on getting one in the next 30 minutes.
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Thank heavens! Tell your parents, coworkers and your uncle.
Don't support a product that has the company deleting forum posts and ignoring issues altogether.
If you are still interested in one, it might be worth waiting a year or two, until (if) they hit deal sites as refurbs. I bought a Nexus 7 2013 at launch, and it had all sorts of build issues, but two of my team members got refurb models from Woot recently, and both are in a lot better condition than mine was at launch. >_>
Of course the truth differs greatly from the OP's statements.
He got banned for being an obsessive-compulsive and an outright obnoxious troll, not because of some great crackpot conspiracy regarding his petition or whatever. He also got - at least some of the less offensive - posts returned along with being unbanned, but these kind of facts would just ruin a nice story.
Made up stories are made up. Simple as that. There's a few of these cases on every forum and the Shield Tablet section on Nvidia's forum isn't an exception.
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He got banned for being an obsessive-compulsive and an outright obnoxious troll.
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Back up your facts with proof or get the **** out. Simple...
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I've just ordered one of these tonight, it's being delivered in the morning. After reading about it here which I should have done first, it will be going straight back unopened.
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It is an excellent tablet. If you have an issue they will replace it. Use the device and draw your own conclusions. Nvidia has a lot of devices out there and this is just one thread with one disgruntled customer. No company is perfect and in my case at least they have done what needed to be done for my issues.