La Shield Tablet de Nvidia is usually the protagonist of the most positive news, including what is probably the fastest Android updates in the tablet industry, to the point of having been ahead of Google's own Nexus 9 at some point. Today, unfortunately, the news is not so positive, since we have learned that there are some devices that can represent a serious risk for its users, although one cannot fail to recognize the quick response to the problem that the company has given. We give you all the details.
The problem would be in a possible faulty battery
And it is that the risk to which the users of the affected devices are exposed is not nonsense, since it is feared that they could catch fire. The cause of this, as usual, is due battery defect which, as we said, may affect some units, not all. To heal in health and eliminate any possibility that any day they will have to star in a more unpleasant headline, Nvidia has decided to tackle the problem in a radical way by replacing all the units that have been found to be suffering from this problem.
What are these? It seems that the problem is limited to the first batches, so, in principle, there is not much probability that it will affect us if we are not among those who bought it in the first weeks after it goes on sale. However, there is no reason to leave this question to this simple and imprecise calculation, but rather Nvidia has explained what we have to find out. The procedure is very simple, since you only have to look at the battery section, in the device section of the settings menu, of which model our tablet uses: if it is the B01, we don't have to worry; Yes it's him Y01 is when we should contact Nvidia to carry out the substitution.
Although not even the fact that our unit is one of those with the model of battery Y01 means that we are going to have no problem, you already know that the battery is a particularly delicate component on mobile devices and that we should not take any kind of risk with them, so if you are owners of a Nvidia Shield TabletWe can only recommend that you do not waste a moment and do this simple check to get rid of doubts as soon as possible.
Hello, I have received the new tablet, but the old one was going perfectly, is there any way to unlock it to continue using it?
Hello, how have they blocked the old one? I am waiting for the new one to arrive
Hello, I have also received the new one and the old one is also going well if it is true that once it got very hot. But if you find out what needs to be done to keep the other one working, then better. I have turned it on without connecting to the internet just in case, and it works.
Do you still have both tablets?
Friend, I would like you to help me with this question, if the old tablet is not sent, would there be any legal consequences with nvidia?
Greetings, the replacement tablet is about to arrive to me, apparently some who are not from the US comment that it is not necessary to return the old tablet, but within the EU apparently yes, they comment that it comes with instructions and a box where the old tablet must be returned. in my case it comes by ups parcel and I generate import and shipping costs, which I have to pay when I receive the package.
Check very well when they send you the notification email with the guide, since mine came with an incomplete address and was walking around the country for a few days until they were stuck in a store of ups, call to ask and with the guide they corrected the ship info.
To use both, all you have to do is enter the nvidia page, download a factory rom and flash, obviously with the adb drivers also available on the nvidia page, unlock bootloader and root, or, failing that, look for a custom xda rom, there are very simple and well explained tutorials. Anyway, as soon as it arrives I will check, if nothing comes to return it then I was lucky, and if they do not send mail from nvidia demanding it back then much better, but we will see what happens.