Craig, take a look at Owncloud as a calendar/contact/file server; I hook up DavDroid and CalDav Sync Adaptor to that (have had this set up for a month or so now since I wiped my phone, installed CM and shunned Google), with no significant issues so far. DavDroid does both contacts and calendars, but it displayed all my calendars in one colour (may've been fixed in a recent update) which is the only reason I grabbed CSA instead. Craig Sanders <cas@taz.net.au> wrote:
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 03:14:25PM +1030, Ryan Verner wrote:
Before you return it for warranty, the issue may be that the battery has entirely drained and it won't recharge. It's a "design fault", affects mine too.
Try this:
http://www.droid-life.com/2012/12/27/fix-nexus-7-refusing-to-charge-try-this...
the article states that this is due to a firmware bug that only appeared after the 4.2 update.
that sounds more like a software update that included some planned obsolescence. or more like forced rather than planned.
a lot of users will just assume the battery is dead and discover or decide that it is far easier to just buy a new one than to attempt to enforce their warranty rights.
apple lost a class action lawsuit in the US several years back because their ipad batteries weren't replaceable and were designed to last, iirc, only 18 months or less. i would expect and hope that winning a class action against a company that issued a software update that falsely simulated the battery dying would be a much easier prospect.
craig
ps: i'm very happy with my (original model) Nexus 7. excellent device. I haven't allowed it to reboot to install the update it has been nagging about for a few months though. mostly because my level of trust of google has gone from "extremely low" to "none" and i'd rather install cyanogenmod or something else...but i made the mistake of not rooting the nexus 7 when i bought it over a year ago so will likely lose all of my data + settings when i do get around to rooting it.
if my nexus 7 died (really died - cracked screen or whatever), i'd almost certainly buy another one. but i'd root it and install CM or something immediately.
and i don't think i'd install the google-apps bundle. google's play store is full of shit (a perfect example of Sturgeon's Law), fdroid's got most of the apps i actually need (the rest i can live without), and the only google service i'd really have to find a replacement for is google calendar. i'd be better off running my own calendar daemon if i could find an android calendar app that could connect to it (i already know that iceowl can be made to connect to any ical service)
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