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One Wish For The Excel

PostPosted: January 24th, 2012, 11:18 am
by Charlie
Overall I am impressed with my Excel, however if I had one wish to make this tablet better, it would be to fix the lip-sync issues.

So post your wishes here and I will tally up the results in this post.


Things owners of an Excel want to be fixed the most:-


Lip-Sync = 2

Increase Battery Life = 1

(ie no unnecessary phone apps etc)

Official ICS = 1

Re: One Wish For The Excel

PostPosted: January 24th, 2012, 11:31 am
by Fonefixer
$%^&&* flight delayed until 2pm! Anyway, I digress........

Battery life would be greatly improved by stopping / removing GSM functions on the Excel. As the device is wifi only there is no need for them to be running and using up copious amounts of battery power.

I once saw a google article where this issue had been raised for wifi only tablets and a lot of manufacturers had removed / disabled them. (from memory it was android 3 / 3.1) An official update to cure this issue would be much better than having to install non-standard recovery and rename files.

Re: One Wish For The Excel

PostPosted: January 24th, 2012, 11:39 am
by Charlie
Sorry to hear your flight is delayed - I am sure you will enjoy the extra time at the bar ;)

Great points on the unnecessary phone apps and battery life.

Re: One Wish For The Excel

PostPosted: January 24th, 2012, 11:46 am
by forrrge
My wish, official ICS support. I know there are some great attempts being made at the moment to port ICS to the excel but without official support we are taking risks, saying that I will almost vertainly give it a go but I would leave it a couple of months until I am happy that the procedure and kinks are all worked out :)

Re: One Wish For The Excel

PostPosted: January 24th, 2012, 12:05 pm
by Charlie
@forrrge - Yes an official ICS would be best, but form the looks of things even that version might not support flash, and that would not be good for me.

Re: One Wish For The Excel

PostPosted: January 24th, 2012, 12:08 pm
by rayhertford
That's not going to happen, SO have already said so on these boards.

Go for the ICS update, it's a bit frightning I know, I've only had my tab a couple of weeks so I realise your concern, but I found the lip sync, no proper Skype and no on-line radio a pain, as the missus' £500 ipad does all that! Imagine her surprise that my £99 tab now does all of those things too! :lol:

What would be handy is an official image from SO of the current build so that people can revert back to the current image. I don't understand why SO can't do that. Having said that, so long as you don't mind a MOM09 flash screen, you can always revert back to that build as that is available from the manufacturer.

forrrge wrote:My wish, official ICS support, saying that I will almost vertainly give it a go but I would leave it a couple of months until I am happy that the procedure and kinks are all worked out :)

Re: One Wish For The Excel

PostPosted: January 24th, 2012, 4:23 pm
by Doricde
For me it is defo a fix to lip sync problem, pretty happy with my tablet other than that.