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A BIG Bug! with opening files in file explorer!

Suppose you are using default file explorer or any other one from market and you have a list of files like images/videos....try opening one of them! Screen gets dim and nothing happens!
It's stupid!

Hrm, doesn't seem to be the case for me. I'm able to open all media types from file browser on 3.2

Same for me, update seems ok so far, and it's nice to finally have battery usage.
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Take your transformer out of the dock, rotate 90 degrees, then back. Everything should work now.

Seem to be the problem with "default apps": http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1191106

AustinMartin said:
Take your transformer out of the dock, rotate 90 degrees, then back. Everything should work now.
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This worked for me! But it is funny as I should undock each time I want to use file explorer ( after each restart! )
Anybody reporting this to Asus?

aalirezaa said:
This worked for me! But it is funny as I should undock each time I want to use file explorer ( after each restart! )
Anybody reporting this to Asus?
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A little reading would go a long way. This was reported earlier and solved earlier. It should be fine once you correct the issue...

JoTeC said:
A little reading would go a long way. This was reported earlier and solved earlier. It should be fine once you correct the issue...
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Thanks for your comment. As I noticed it is not resolved. To take dock out each time after restart is not that convenient.

aalirezaa said:
Thanks for your comment. As I noticed it is not resolved. To take dock out each time after restart is not that convenient.
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Hmmm... Mine works fine now after the fix... Have you tried clearing the defaults on your players?

I don't have htis problem after the update, worked the same in File Browser HD

Works fine for me. This seems like a bogus warning.

Please update your topic so everyone is not frightened by the update. If there is a work around, no need for the "Do not update! Big bug"
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aalirezaa said:
Thanks for your comment. As I noticed it is not resolved. To take dock out each time after restart is not that convenient.
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Mea Culpa. You are indeed right. I missed the restart action in your post. Once I restarted, it needs the fix applied again. Back to the drawing board!

unknown_owner said:
Please update your topic so everyone is not frightened by the update. If there is a work around, no need for the "Do not update! Big bug"
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I understand it may frighten users and I changed topic. However, it is a real serious bug!

Somebody in a thread below said after a reboot with it docked the problem comes back and you have to undock it again. What's odd though is I wonder why this only affects some peeps? I have mine in the dock always and have had it in there through the whole update and after and have NOT had this issue and even have done a couple reboots since. And I have an old ass B30 or something dock and tablet.

aalirezaa said:
I understand it may frighten users and I changed topic. However, it is a real serious bug!
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But it is only a bug for certain configurations. Others seem to not have any issue. I watched 2 movies after installing the update. It could be specific to the type of files you watch or how you encoded them.

aalirezaa said:
Suppose you are using default file explorer or any other one from market and you have a list of files like images/videos....try opening one of them! Screen gets dim and nothing happens!
It's stupid!
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Mine seems to be fine... Mine defaults to moboplayer and I used the built in file manager to open my video files...

darkonex said:
Somebody in a thread below said after a reboot with it docked the problem comes back and you have to undock it again. What's odd though is I wonder why this only affects some peeps? I have mine in the dock always and have had it in there through the whole update and after and have NOT had this issue and even have done a couple reboots since. And I have an old ass B30 or something dock and tablet.
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No idea why it hits some. I had my dock throughout update connected and even hard reset it after. I just sent message to Asus support and also tweeted them.

The bug comes back each time i start my TF. So i have to rotate it everytime in order to have it work. Annoying. Asus, come on. You gotta be kidding.

I have tried a few things including uninstalling my RockPlayer app to see if this fixed it but no luck... The issue comes back after each restart. I hope there is something we are missing. It only happens for a few of us so it must be the individual configurations... I can set the default to my preferred player for my videos but it still affects other apps/programs that need the "complete action using" dialog box...
*EDIT*
This is wierd, I went back to reinstall my Rockplayer from the Market and it gave me a agreement message like it is the first time I have used it... Now Movies show up in my Market tabs next to Apps/Books. I could swear it wasn't there yesterday after the update??? Anyone else?

Google Video does not play via HDMI

Please forgive me if this has been answered before, but this sites search function blows.
Wife and I just rented a movie tonight from the market. Hooked up HDMI during the preview, worked great. But when the acual movie started, the screen goes blank and only sound comes out. I unplug the hdmi from the TF and it starts showing the video on the TF. WTF?!
Restarted, nothing. I tried the screen flip, dumb trick thingy, nothing. I am clueless why android would let something so easy and convenient go unnoticed in 3.2? Anyone have ideas? Is this something Google hasn't even fixed yet or something? Thanks for the help,
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Anyone having this problem?!
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I had this problem also - I am assuming it is blocked for viewing via HDMI.

That was my first thought but why on earth cant you watch an android paid movie via hdmi?! It makes no sense. I paid for it, why cant I watch it however I want? If this is true in my mind its a huge black eye for android.
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Your not rooted right? I'm assuming it plays on your device normally.
That is a pisser. Movies and HDMI should be one of their primary goals of their movie service.
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I can confim this issue. I just tried to watch a movie I had rented as well. It's quite annoying. It should be a key piece of functionality.

HDCP problem no doubt. Anyone go through settings in the video app or general settings to make sure there was no option to enable video out over HDMI? Do youtube or onboard videos play on the TV?

4dthinker said:
HDCP problem no doubt. Anyone go through settings in the video app or general settings to make sure there was no option to enable video out over HDMI? Do youtube or onboard videos play on the TV?
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I dont know what HDCP is but I have used hdmi out from other apps, tv shows, and it works fine. The TF will show everything with hdmi in but go to play an android movie and it goes blank.
Hopefully this is an easy fix? And no I am not rooted.
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HDCP is digital copyright protection.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection

So that means you need a HDCP compatible TV? Or just no go at all?
I always knew hdcp was a bad idea. Absolutely no good.
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If this was a HDCP issue, then it's a case of poor programming. I have the same problem, and my HDTV is fully HDCP compliant, as my Blu-ray player and game consoles work fine over HDMI. There should be no reason why the videos won't play if the TV itself supports HDCP.

I think this is a Asus TF issue. I think this is a current firmware bug. HDMI output works fine on my Xoom but not on my TF...

I also have this issue and just received a firmware update a couple of days ago. Still isn't working...

I have a stock un-rooted Transformer with the same problem. HDMI out normally works great, but no Google Videos. Bummer especially that I just bought several from their $.99 special for the weekend.
Any fix or patch?

I just got my TF last week, rented a movie over the weekend and same issue. I have searched in a few places, and similar issues come up based on the TV brand, but from looking here, it seems even with compliant ones, it's an issue. I first thought it was a bug in my tablet, but apparently not. I have a 6 year old Panasonic plasma, if it matters. But again, everything else outputs fine, just not Market movies.

we should contact ASUS

chtamina said:
we should contact ASUS
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Are we sure it's an Asus thing? We need to see if other HC tablets do this, or do we know that already? I know someone with a Xoom, but no idea if he's tried this. Anyone else?
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mahercs said:
Are we sure it's an Asus thing? We need to see if other HC tablets do this, or do we know that already? I know someone with a Xoom, but no idea if he's tried this. Anyone else?
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From what others have said (in others and this thread included), Yes I believe this is just an Asus issue. I've heard the Xoom displays fine.

No. This is NOT an Asus issue. This is a Movie industry issue. They just don't want you seeing the movie in a bigger screen for fear you will show it to a much larger audience. The movie Industry is greedy and F* UP and the paid normal users are suffering for their greed and paranoia....

Dan76 said:
From what others have said (in others and this thread included), Yes I believe this is just an Asus issue. I've heard the Xoom displays fine.
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Can you please provide the link where you saw that? I don't see it in this thread and didn't find it elsewhere when I searched. Definitely could have missed it, though.
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Did the previous transformer models have the low volume issue?

Hi,
Only had my infinity for a week so still learning my way around it.
So far I'm really pleased with it. All except the very low volume issue. I installed the VOLUME+ app which has helped a lot.
Is this a hardware issue or is the forthcoming Jelly Bean likely to fix it ?
Were there low volume issues with previous Transformer models?
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Dave L said:
Hi,
Only had my infinity for a week so still learning my way around it.
So far I'm really pleased with it. All except the very low volume issue. I installed the VOLUME+ app which has helped a lot.
Is this a hardware issue or is the forthcoming Jelly Bean likely to fix it ?
Were there low volume issues with previous Transformer models?
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I can only confirm that the tf201 had (more or less) the same volume, which indeed is quite low.
I'd recommend installing (and therefore buying) Volume+ from the Play Store for .99
It boosts your volume and actually keeps it quite clean as well!!
Besides that: it's merely my humble opinion those two volumes match and I am not entirely sure.
However, you will notice the effect of Volume+
(On a side note: I don't know why so little people answer these kind of questions They're easy to answer, take very little of your time and can help another person a lot.
I hope I did just that by replying! )

I have had volume issues with the TF101 as well... However, while I did have low-volume issues with my original TF700 (which had an un-related hardware problem and completely died), the replacement TF700 volume is actually plenty loud - so it seems to vary, even among the same model.... Can't really explain why though...
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I always thought the tf700 had pretty high volume...
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adelancker said:
I can only confirm that the tf201 had (more or less) the same volume, which indeed is quite low.
I'd recommend installing (and therefore buying) Volume+ from the Play Store for .99
It boosts your volume and actually keeps it quite clean as well!!
Besides that: it's merely my humble opinion those two volumes match and I am not entirely sure.
However, you will notice the effect of Volume+
(On a side note: I don't know why so little people answer these kind of questions They're easy to answer, take very little of your time and can help another person a lot.
I hope I did just that by replying! )
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Thanks for responding. As mentioned I had installed Volume+, although the free version, which has mad a considerable difference. I hope it's a software issue that'll be fixed without having to use a 3rd party app to fix it. Not that that's a problem, I'd just rather have it right to start with.
jtrosky said:
I have had volume issues with the TF101 as well... However, while I did have low-volume issues with my original TF700 (which had an un-related hardware problem and completely died), the replacement TF700 volume is actually plenty loud - so it seems to vary, even among the same model.... Can't really explain why though...
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Interesting. I'm wondering how widely this goes.
Keion said:
I always thought the tf700 had pretty high volume...
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It seems as jtrosky posted, some suffer with low volume and some don't. It's seems from my searching that it's quite common. Mine was extremely quiet to the point that even on my own in a quiet room I could hardly hear it at arms length.

Having problems with TF700T
I have problems with sound too, It started cracking today when i was playing a game. Now the volume is on Full but i can only hear sound that is equal to 25%. Sent a email to ASUS about my problem and i haven't heard about it yet. PLUS first reply! :angel:

Asus needs video of latest firmware issues- PLEASE HELP!

This is a call to all xda tf700 users to post video of issues they have seen since JB. I have been working with several employees from Asus on the crashing, black line, and other issues related to the firmware update to Jb and .18 Please help document these issues in this thread so we can make sure Asus resolves all of these issues in their next firmware.
Rules:
Please only post if you have a video or link to any issue since the update.
Please only post if you are running stock .18 firmware, no custom recovery or roms, root okay.
Please only post if you have done a factory reset since the update, not just cold booted to try to resolve the issues.
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EDIT: Removed my negative comments - Just frustration, nothing personal.

Here's a video of the random black line appearing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6m7ZLetMo&feature=player_detailpage#t=908s
That lady had to send her tab back for the lines to be fixed.

yumms said:
Here's a video of the random black line appearing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6m7ZLetMo&feature=player_detailpage#t=908s
That lady had to send her tab back for the lines to be fixed.
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Those are not same kind of black lines that i'm experiencing...mine are there like quarter of a second or so and they keep dissappearing.
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yumms said:
Here's a video of the random black line appearing http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y6m7ZLetMo&feature=player_detailpage#t=908s
That lady had to send her tab back for the lines to be fixed.
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Yeah, that is not quite what I was looking for, but I really appreciate the post. It is like some others have said- black line or lines that flash for a brief second. This post is not specific to that issue though, if anyone has video proof of any issue that occurs after the update, please post links.

In jb asus bumped display from 18 to 24bpp, you can see the in kernel source code. That is probably the cause of it.
In .18 asus did not change anything in panel code so i'm not surprised black line is still there.
I speculate that timings for panel communication are to aggressive causing data errors that produce the black line and my problems that i will describe below. When thing go more wrong connection with panel hangs causing tablet to hang.
I have a panasonic panel for the record.
I checked it because it seams to me that on my tablet odd rows are not always displayed.
Or to put it another way it looks like vertical black lines that you can see for a split second but then are gone.
They are easier to see if you move the tablet back and forth at about 25cm from eyes.
You need to have good eyes as from 5 ppl i'm the only that sees them. Also there is another old thread that describe this vertical line pattern.
I think is almost impossible to catch my vertical lines or the black line on camera because they last only a split second and are so thin that video compression will remove them.
If assus don't find a fix when i'll have some time i will unlock my tablet and try to tweak the kernel.

Knock it off please
Any more back and forth bickering and I close the thread. This goes for "all" parties.
If you don't have anything useful to post, then don't post it.
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jordanmw said:
Yeah, that is not quite what I was looking for, but I really appreciate the post. It is like some others have said- black line or lines that flash for a brief second. This post is not specific to that issue though, if anyone has video proof of any issue that occurs after the update, please post links.
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I too am getting the brief black line flash after JB update, rooted and locked.

Camera problem
anyone has problems with Camera since the last firmware update on the tf700?
jittery and no longer crystal clear video....
also auto flash no longer avail...
is this a bug?

busdriver319 said:
anyone has problems with Camera since the last firmware update on the tf700?
jittery and no longer crystal clear video....
also auto flash no longer avail...
is this a bug?
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Nope, unfortunately that would be an issue with the camera module itself- I have auto focus, and the video is clear. You will have to RMA for that issue, many others have reported issues with the camera that required replacement to fix it.

jordanmw said:
Nope, unfortunately that would be an issue with the camera module itself- I have auto focus, and the video is clear. You will have to RMA for that issue, many others have reported issues with the camera that required replacement to fix it.
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Thanks...
Downloaded Camera JB+ and problem solved

It's near impossible to capture the screen flickers using my gnex camera I've found,I have a video where the screen most definitely flickered in front of my eyes but I just can't spot it in the video. But then again, could be the app (repligo pdf reader) that I'm using, screen flickers are very common using this app
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t3ej4y said:
It's near impossible to capture the screen flickers using my gnex camera I've found,I have a video where the screen most definitely flickered in front of my eyes but I just can't spot it in the video. But then again, could be the app (repligo pdf reader) that I'm using, screen flickers are very common using this app
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Same issue that many are having... wish there was a better way to capture it.. anyone have an hdmi capture device? I have verified that you get that behavior on an attached monitor also.

Is Asus trying to say that they haven't seen the "black line" issue themselves? If they've used the JB ROM (which I'm sure they have), they can see this issue all by themselves - I don't think they need a video of it...
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No that is not what they are saying. It's more for the exposure it gives the issues to the corporate headquarters... allows Asus USA to pressure them for faster updates.
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I have an issue i didn't have 2 weeks ago : suddenly my screen goes completely grey and blocked. I need then to force reboot. I had it 3 times ant it was at least twice during change which app to display. It seems to be a graphic tegra crash. I don't know if someone got that issue. About video :no video as tab'et is crashed
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jordanmw said:
No that is not what they are saying. It's more for the exposure it gives the issues to the corporate headquarters... allows Asus USA to pressure them for faster updates.
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Interesting... Sure sounds like a good old "lets keep the users busy doing worthless things until we can actually get the issue fixed" ploy! I don't think for one second that Asus Corporate HQ is going to do anything faster because users are providing videos of something that that they damn well know is an issue... Again, this is just a typical customer support "delaying" tactic and won't do a damn thing to help get these issues fixed.
Nonetheless, good luck...
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I've noticed a momentary flash of black lines every now and then and it doesn't matter which app I'm using. It doesn't happen too often but it is noticeable. I'm on stock unrooted.
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It happened to Lisa from MobileTechReview in this comparison video and she talks about it. It's at 15:07.

A little comical how Lisa just sort of brushed over the line thing right after saying they hadn't seen any quality control issues...

Reboots when removing power from tablet

From time to time, my TF700 reboots when I remove the power. I make a point of not flexing the power interface and pulling the cable out with no flexing. Should I send it back to Asus for repair? Will I lose the ability to root? I see a lot of posts from folks that can't re-root after an rma.
Thoughts?
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awilson77584 said:
From time to time, my TF700 reboots when I remove the power. I make a point of not flexing the power interface and pulling the cable out with no flexing. Should I send it back to Asus for repair? Will I lose the ability to root? I see a lot of posts from folks that can't re-root after an rma.
Thoughts?
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First, you need to find out if it is a hardware or a software problem. If it is a hardware issue, you don't have much option except to send it back for rma with a risk of no unlock. You could use cromi control app to play around with your USB options to see how it behaves...:fingers-crossed:

LMK is up to his ears in tweaks and improvements for CROMi-X - so you have to forgive him if he forgets that there are TF700 users not running this custom rom
The Cromi control app is part of a said custom rom, so don't go looking for it...
Are you using the OEM charger from Asus or a charger you bought somewhere else?
I would try a different charger first. If the tablet functions without flaw except for this sudden reboot, I would suspect the charger.

berndblb said:
LMK is up to his ears in tweaks and improvements for CROMi-X - so you have to forgive him if he forgets that there are TF700 users not running this custom rom
The Cromi control app is part of a said custom rom, so don't go looking for it...
Are you using the OEM charger from Asus or a charger you bought somewhere else?
I would try a different charger first. If the tablet functions without flaw except for this sudden reboot, I would suspect the charger.
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Oop, it is my bad.. I am trying to solve too many problems on my ET. Therefore, my mind is already set on Cromi... sorry..
@awilson77584
I assumed that you are running Cromi custom rom. Please ignore my reply...

LetMeKnow said:
First, you need to find out if it is a hardware or a software problem. If it is a hardware issue, you don't have much option except to send it back for rma with a risk of no unlock. You could use cromi control app to play around with your USB options to see how it behaves...:fingers-crossed:
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Thanks. I'll check to see what I'm able to do with the cromi ctrl app.
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Edit: What other rom would I possibly run? CROMi-X is the new stock isn't it? //smile thx though. Couldn't resist.

awilson77584 said:
Thanks. I'll check to see what I'm able to do with the cromi ctrl app.
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Edit: What other rom would I possibly run? CROMi-X is the new stock isn't it? //smile thx though. Couldn't resist.
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I just stopped by best buy on the way home today to check out the new tablets. I was very supprise how slow the stock rom comparing with the custom rom and kernel that I am running right now. It is a big difference in speed and lags...

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Edit: What other rom would I possibly run? CROMi-X is the new stock isn't it? //smile thx though. Couldn't resist.
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CyanogenMod or Paranoid are two other custom roms for this tablet. But nothing beats CROMi-X!
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LetMeKnow said:
I just stopped by best buy on the way home today to check out the new tablets. I was very supprise how slow the stock rom comparing with the custom rom and kernel that I am running right now. It is a big difference in speed and lags...
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Stock is so a-g-o-n-i-z-i-n-g - even if you do not know what this tablet is capable of!
Did you see anything tempting?

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CyanogenMod or Paranoid are two other custom roms for this tablet. But nothing beats CROMi-X!
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Stock is so a-g-o-n-i-z-i-n-g - even if you do not know what this tablet is capable of!
Did you see anything tempting?
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Agree....:good: Thanks to all developers are supporting this beast, hahhaha.