thanks Matt, I've bought a better quality lead (hopefully  )

So, just one more thing...

Any idea why I have to hold the power switch down for 8 secs or so when powering on? This happens even when battery is charged.

Cheers

Hi there,

StewMC, it's 1st gen is there more than that? I'm not sure how to check.

matt, Sorry how do you mean draining until it shuts down instead of sleeping? I tried that app but it tells me there's -ve ma, like -2 ma in red. This happens no what charger I use. The app also says 'Discharging' which is alarming. I tried reconnecting many times (why should you need to anyway?) But it always says the same.

What's going there?

S.Prime, we have a cover that turns the screen off. But we were hoping to use it while charging sometimes.

But shouldn't plugging it in power it for use? even if the charging is low, surely you should be able to run a device off the mains indefinitely?

Thanks for your help guys

Sorry, meant to say: when you say open a browser do you mean just open chrome to google or something like that? or do you need to go to a particular web page connected to the hotspot?
Cheers

Hi folks

1) How do you know you are definatley connected to WiFi? It's not just as simple as the WiFi symbol being on (maybe in grey) is it?

My son now has a Nexus 7. When we're out he often wants to connect to a WiFi hotspot.

I go to settings and find the local WiFi connection , say we're in a pub or restaurant, and select it and it seems to connect but things don't really work very well. The WiFi symbol is highlighted but I think it is usually grey.

The other day this happened and his connection kept coming and going. I asked the staff and they said I had to log on and gave me instructions. After I did this everything was fine, just like at home he had constant good connection.

So I'm wondering... is there like 2 stages to connection? One saying you have connection and one saying you have connection and logged on?

It happened yesterday too. The wifi seems to connect in settings but then it didn't work. This time the staff couldn't help.

I don't know much about this kind of thing so I feel I'm missing some vital piece of information.

Any ideas?

2) And also. When the power has been off on his tablet we seem to have to hold the power switch down for 10sec or more to turn it on again. I thought this was a reset function. Why do we need to do it top turn it on?

Cheers

Hi folks,

weird one,

My son has a N7 and it works fine. I started another user to access different stuff, but certain apps etc won't respond to my selections. Like Settings, Chrome, ES file manager and a few others.

The buttons on base of screen like home and back etc work but most in the app don't.

Not all apps have problems.

Any ideas?

Cheers