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[Mitre]

tools need to be guided by the operator and you need to know which tool does what

[Astro]

SO and the tablet manufacturers in Taiwan should be a lot more forthcoming with information. My feeling is that SO's hands are tied. One only has to look at the response I received from another forum member with regard to their tablets origin as to what is actually going on.

I do agree with Paul that there may be issues with people incorrectly flashing devices, but if a disclaimer is put in place, under UK law SO could not be held liable under warranty conditions. If you need evidence of this have a look at the HTC website where there are discussions and information on bootloader unlocking. It is clearly stated that they weill give you the code required to unlock it, but if you stuff it up after your bootloader is unlocked it is entirely your problem and they will not be held liable, period.

There is no legal reason why SO could not put such a disclaimer in place. It seems to me that the suppliers in Taiwan have put very strict conditions in place in order for SO to distribute these tablets. As I said in another post, I have instructed one of Mobinil's senior buyers to contact the supply company we think it is - he has done so - after seeing the conditions on the contract for myself they can forget it.

I think @FF has got it spot on... I think it's not a case that Paul / SO don't want to help, I think they either can't because of contractural obligations or because SO is not much more than an importer / distributor of devices and doesn't have the technical expertise to respond to our requests.

I guess our forum community, whilst vocal, is not representative of the bulk of SO's clients who buy their devices and play with them 'as is' before getting bored and moving onto something else. Our little bunch of reprobates is probably an irritation to be tolerated by SO, but not a statistically significant enough proportion of the SO client base to worry about.

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[Trashcooky]

Probably unfortunately true but I remain confident that necessity will remain the mother of invention and one of us will either create or stumble across a fitting solution.

Makes me wonder though how did the Tablo crowd get their supplier to come up with the goods?

[Astro]

I remain confident that necessity will remain the mother of invention and one of us will either create or stumble across a fitting solution.

Well put @Trashcooky... there some technically very clever people on this forum and others who are excellent at finding 'stuff' online. Between us all, we should be able to nail it.

Makes me wonder though how did the Tablo crowd get their supplier to come up with the goods?

Indeed!

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[Charlie]

@Excel & TC - In deed, opensource is about team work & we have a great team of members on this forum, we can do it together.

[Astro]

we can do it together.

Great sentiments @Charlie... we are indeed fortunate to be a forum of 'All the Talents'.

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[blueeagle69]

Hey guys, fancy a laugh.
I'm fuming. I just received this from Bill.
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Good afternoon,

Sorry you feel my answer was abrupt regarding your admission to rooting your Scroll.

https://market.android.com/details?id=s ... ybox&hl=en

As I stated in a previous email I cannot answer your question as to why the Firmware is not available online as I do not know the answer, my role is a minor role as one of the technical support staff.

I passed on your previous emails to Paul Evison as I have done with this one.

Again I apologise sincerely Bill.

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Rooted what? I haven't rooted anything. And apart from that the Excel is rooted already.
He has not got a clue.

Sent from my Scroll Excel/Nexus S using Tapatalk.

[Fonefixer]

Paul doesnt want to, or cant give the answers either. I wonder who actually DOES run SO?

[StorageOptions]

Hey guys, fancy a laugh.

I don't think it's very fair or appropriate to publicly mock a member of my team like this.
Bill, myself and others are doing our jobs as best we can.
We've both made every endeavour to answer your questions and I think this is very unfair thing to do.
I'd appreciate it if we were treated with a modicum of respect, even if you feel we are somehow in the wrong on any given issue.

Thank you.

[Fonefixer]

If you feel that a member has "over-stepped the mark" you are able to contact either a moderator or admin of this forum to ask if the comments can be removed / edited.

This will happen, or not, at the sole discretion of the moderator/admin team. This is, after all, an independant public forum, and as such we are all entitled to our opinions.

I have posted publicly so that all members are made aware of this.