[Resolved]  Asus — Tablet

Address:New Delhi, Delhi

My Nexus 7 is under a repair warranty till December this year. I have lost count of how many times I have complained about this product and also my long metro journeys to nehru place from Dwarka, the latest being about a week ago. My tablet got dead for the 5th time and the customer care is doing nothing about it. I have been to three of their service centres. The last one was Regeneris technology in Nehru Place. They just fix the problem their for it to reoccur again and then expect me to make a 28 km. long journey again to their service centre again and again. I have already been harrased a lot (as you can imagine going back and forth from Nehru place and Dwarka is a long journey especially if you are making it for the 10th time). To vividly describe my feelings about thi, I am copying a mail which I sent to them a few weeks ago "Dear Sauron (Allow me to refer you as a character of Lord of the rings who is the most evil thing to have happened to the world) This to inform you that the SAME problem has occurred with my tab (Serial no. CCOKBC252897) again despite using a different approach to repair it the last time. After repetitive complaints and submissions of my tab to your "highly competitive repair centres" (which happens to be some 20 km away from where I live in Delhi) and apologies, here I stand again with frustration, anger and guilt in my heart. The first time you make a mistake its an accident, the second time you make the same mistake its on purpose, and the third time you make that same mistake its no longer a mistake, its a habit and I don't even know what to say when the same thing happens for the fourth time. I know this mail will now be followed by a request from you to please deposit my tab to a service centre to take a look at what the problem is for the fourth time because maybe it takes a fourth look to find out what the real problem and i the first, second and third time it was just a hit and trail method. Also maybe you are assuming that I have some super powers that I can transport myself from one point to another (which happens to be more than 20 km away) in the flicker of an eye without any problems. Not to mention that I will have to again go back there to collect my tab back. Assuming that I will again be asked to deposit my tab, so I will again waste 3 hours in going, depositing it and coming back and, and then 3 hours again to collect it back. And because this will be the third time i will deposit it in a Delhi centre (since i am in Delhi right now and not in Jaipur) so I will have already wasted 18 hours in 7-8 months in travelling to the your "temple of Satan", excluding the time of travel i had to take when i was in Jaipur. I own a Laptop, I own a smartphone and I own a tablet. Never in the wildest of my dreams did I imagine that of all gadgets that I have this tablet will trouble me the most or the only gadget which will trouble me so much. Now allow me to get to my point. I am not writing this mail to ask for a repair, instead I demand a replacement. This gadget is under a repair warranty at the moment which means that you guarantee that you will solve all the problems that occur to my gadget in such a way that they do not occur again. To repair a thing means to bring it back to a stage where a problem will not come again due to same reasons. for example when a ceiling fan has a repair warranty of one year and it gets spoiled in that period then the company has to come and repair the damaged part in such a way that the problem does not occur again on its own. The situation might be different when that problem would have occurred due to negligence of the owner. So in this case when you have agreed to repair my tablet for a period of 1 year(warranty period), you have actually promised to solve all the problems that might occur to the tablet due to faulty manufacturing or any other problem which was not caused by the negligence of the owner. But when the same problem occurs again and again, you are technically violating your promise to repair it to a point where the same problem will not occur again. Again just imagine a situation were you again repair my tablet and then the same problem occurs in say January when my warranty would have expired, then what will I do then? Before you again ask me to deposit my tablet to a service centre again, I want to know what is the status to get a replacement because I cannot ask this question at the service centre as they are not authorized to Replace a product. I hope you understand that all that was written above comes out of the anger and inconvenience caused to me due to this product of yours. Also please don't even bother to apologise this time and pretend that you actually care Thanking You Your helpless customer"
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Aug 14, 2020
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Nexus (ASUS manufactured) models stuck on Google screen - Booting
Issue


Nexus 7 3G 32GB 2012 Model
- (Serial no. D3OKBC782943)

My device is working fine till 19th April 2015
from the date of purchase (3rd October 2013). I am using this device for around
18 months without any issues. Recently (one week before) I have updated it to
Android 5.1.

On 19th April 2015 afternoon I have plugged in
for charging the device. After hours while removing it from the charger I have noticed
that it is in Google/nexus logo screen.

I thought that the device would have restarted, so i have
kept it for a while. After 2 to 3 hours it is still in Google/nexus logo screen
without any change.

I have switched off the device and switched on. Then the device
is not booting after the Google & nexus logo screen.

I have tried switch off and switch on for 4 to 5 times but
there is no progress. Still the Device is not booting beyond the Google &
nexus logo screen.

On 20th April 2015 morning, I have contacted ASUS
Customer support team; they have asked me to do the wipe data/factory reset. After doing the wipe data/factory reset, the device have started behaving
wired like switching on, Google logo screen comes and switching off
repeatedly (rebooting again and again but not going beyond the Google logo
screen).

Then I have taken my device to ASUS service center, registered
the issue and raised RMA # INF8540305.

On 20th April 2015 evening, I have checked in
Google to know how many devices are affected with the same issue and shocked
that most of the Nexus 7 devices are affected.

Here are the few links which contains the news regarding
this issue:

https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/nexus/Ykfqr5RnlW0[1-25]

http://9to5google.com/2015/04/10/nexus-5-nexus-7-bricked-android-lollipop/

https://www.androidheadlines.com/2015/04/owners-nexus-7-nexus-5-devices-running-...

https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus7/comments/324gil/many_nexus_7_units_bricked_and_u...

http://www.vcpost.com/articles/57957/20150416/google-not-helping-owners-of-bricked-nexus-7-and-5-after-an-android-update.htm

http://gadgets.ndtv.com/tablets/news/some-nexus-7-nexus-5-users-report-bricked-d...

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/android-lollipop-bricked-your-nexus-7-nexus-5-devices-r...

http://www.phonearena.com/news/Android-5.0-update-bricks-Nexus-7-slabs_id68155

http://ibnlive.in.com/news/google-android-lollipop-ota-update-bricks-nexus-7-nexus-5/[protected].html

http://www.androidorigin.com/nexus-5-7-bugs-lollipop-update-brick-android-5-1/

Agitated users have also taken to Twitter to post complains
about their bricked Nexus devices with the hashtag - #NEXUS7BRICKED

On 23rd April 2015, I have checked with ASUS
service center regarding the status of the RMA request, they said that the
motherboard would have failed and it need to be replaced, for that they are
asking Rs.13000 (approx $215). The repair cost is almost nearing to the device
cost.

On 29th April 2015, I have gone to ASUS service center and collected
my device because I don't want to spend money for the repair because it is ASUS
manufacturing issue.

It seems that ASUS would have used a cheap/ faulty
motherboard for Nexus 7 to expire after 1 year then only it will not cover
under the warranty period and people have to pay for the repair cost.

This issue is not happened to 1 or 2 devices; it happened
for 100’s or 1000 devices and keeps increasing daily (refer above links).

Does this booting issue is escalated to the top level
management people in the ASUS, and all the customers are requesting for the
repair to be made under free of cost.

ASUS should quickly take the necessary action to solve this issue;
otherwise people will lose the trust with ASUS. So kindly provide me a solution
ASAP for repairing the device under free of cost.

Please post these issues in various media until Google or
ASUS is responding to this issue and fixing the affected device with free of cost.

Thanks & Regards,
Senthilkumar K

not giving warranty

I purchased asus notebook with warranty extension pack for 2 years at the very same time. Still they are refusing to give me extended warranty. I have original bill with me.

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