Hudl2: 8" Andriod Tablet for £109 from TescoDirect via Parcelmotel

blinkey 101 · 01-01-2015 9:46pm

just ordered it there got the £10 off how do you know there will be a £20 code?

had to buy it now as my 2 year old keeps stealing my iphone for you tube peppa pig plus showbox is a bonus

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Snake Plisken · 01-01-2015 9:49pm

blinkey 101 wrote: »

just ordered it there got the £10 off how do you know there will be a £20 code?

had to buy it now as my 2 year old keeps stealing my iphone for you tube peppa pig plus showbox is a bonus .

I used this TDX-PKJK but that was before Xmas I think its invalid now.

viking · 01-01-2015 10:30pm

Got problems with charging the Hudl 2 that my daughter got for Christmas, it'll only properly charge when you turn it off

Seems to be others affected too according to reports on forums, I've emailed Tesco so we'll see what the outcome is.

Aside from that its a nifty device and my daughter is delighted with it though the battery could last longer.

Btw Tesco Direct have an offer on atm for 33% off Hudl 2 accessories just enter TD-HFTP at check out.

Snake Plisken · 02-01-2015 4:10pm

viking wrote: »

Got problems with charging the Hudl 2 that my daughter got for Christmas, it'll only properly charge when you turn it off Seems to be others affected too according to reports on forums, I've emailed Tesco so we'll see what the outcome is.

Aside from that its a nifty device and my daughter is delighted with it though the battery could last longer.

Btw Tesco Direct have an offer on atm for 33% off Hudl 2 accessories just enter TD-HFTP at check out.

Apparently Tesco are issuing a patch on the 5th of January to address the charging issue. I have to say I haven't noticed the issue then again I power it off and charge it overnight. Let's see what Monday brings!

blinkey 101 · 02-01-2015 4:59pm

interesting link here .

http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2382075/tescos-hudl-2-tablet-doesnt-recognise-its-own-charger

blinkey 101 · 03-01-2015 2:38pm

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Well just got my dispatched email from Tesco Direct, so doesn't seem to be that much of a backlog on sending orders out. Now the nervous wait to see if it arrives ok to Parcel Motel.

How long did it take to get to you from time of dispatch ?

Snake Plisken · 03-01-2015 3:09pm

blinkey 101 wrote: »

How long did it take to get to you from time of dispatch ?

8 days to my Parcel motel and that was December you might get it quicker then that hopefully as there were delays with PM in December.

blinkey 101 · 03-01-2015 3:58pm

Snake Plisken wrote: »

8 days to my Parcel motel and that was December you might get it quicker then that hopefully as there were delays with PM in December.

Oh right well I got a dispatch notification yesterday morning so fingers crossed comes a bit earlier:)

viking · 05-01-2015 2:33pm

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Apparently Tesco are issuing a patch on the 5th of January to address the charging issue. I have to say I haven't noticed the issue then again I power it off and charge it overnight. Let's see what Monday brings!

I'm not at home so haven't been able to check but has anyone got the patch yet?
Cheers

Muahahaha · 05-01-2015 3:16pm

stuartmchugh wrote: »

I don't think there is one currently. 10 GBP is the best one at the moment. I'm happy to wait.

Do you know from previous experience that Tesco do £20 codes? I'm happy to wait too, but only if I think it might be on the way

Just as an aside- is there anyway to use the Aldi €10 off €50 shop voucher, can you use it to buy a Tesco giftcard and then spend that as part of the transaction?

Snake Plisken · 05-01-2015 4:44pm

viking wrote: »

I'm not at home so haven't been able to check but has anyone got the patch yet?
Cheers

Just checked the MoDaCo forum and nothing yet, will check when I get home.

BBMcQ · 05-01-2015 7:35pm

Muahahaha wrote: »

Do you know from previous experience that Tesco do £20 codes? I'm happy to wait too, but only if I think it might be on the way

Just as an aside- is there anyway to use the Aldi €10 off €50 shop voucher, can you use it to buy a Tesco giftcard and then spend that as part of the transaction?

Read back in this thread. They do £20 vouchers.

I don't think you can mix and match GBP with EUR vouchers.

Muahahaha · 05-01-2015 7:50pm

Grand, will hold off pulling the trigger till the 20 quid vouchers are back on

blinkey 101 · 05-01-2015 8:39pm

Guys is there any way of tracking a parcel from Tesco they dispatched mine last Thursday i just want to make sure I'm in Dublin to collect from pm hotel .

so i went on to Tesco direct website hit track you're item and i'm getting this below can anyone shed any light on this for me ?

( Parcel at our warehouse Current Location information not available)

RossieMan · 05-01-2015 9:23pm

I haven't seen any 20 pound off vouchers lately. can't see them coming back any time soon.

Snake Plisken · 06-01-2015 9:18pm

Looks like Tesco are denying knowing anything about the update retain lay via their Twitter agents according to the forum I listed above.

blinkey 101 · 06-01-2015 10:17pm

Gick I haven't even got my hudle yet and I'm already starting to reget buying it. is it really that bad ?

I've done a tone of research and there's a lot of positive feed back about it could it be there was just a bad batch ?

My brother bought one b4 the xmas for his daughter and it's working perfect .

Snake Plisken · 07-01-2015 11:43am

blinkey 101 wrote: »

Gick I haven't even got my hudle yet and I'm already starting to reget buying it. is it really that bad ?

I've done a tone of research and there's a lot of positive feed back about it could it be there was just a bad batch ?

My brother bought one b4 the xmas for his daughter and it's working perfect .

No it's fine I'm very happy with mine the charging issue just needs to be patched, I power mine down overnight for charging and it works fine I'm very happy with mine and I'm pretty finicky when it comes to gadgets.

blinkey 101 · 07-01-2015 1:42pm

Well got mine last night and I can't say enough about it its amazing for the price and fast as hell .I charged mine while using it and and it wet to 100% so all seems good for now. over all very happy with it for now .

MaceFace · 07-01-2015 2:01pm

No problems with the two in our house.

celt262 · 07-01-2015 7:32pm

MaceFace wrote: »

No problems with the two in our house.

Mine going like a dream got it in December.

viking · 07-01-2015 10:21pm

Got a reply from Tesco, they've confirmed the issue and have got an update planned:

The issue that you are experiencing is something that has been reported by a small number of users to ourselves, but we have managed to replicate the problem. Having done this we have developed a resolution for this issue and will be releasing the fix for this issue, as well as some other minor issues, in an update to the hudl2 software very soon.
...
We're hoping the update will go live within the next couple of weeks.

blinkey 101 · 11-01-2015 6:16pm

Guys is it possible to move apps to SD card I'm trying to but it won't allow ?my Samsung allows me to move some apps the hudl is supposed to have 16gb internal but only displays 9gb and I'm down to 5gb already ?

beauf · 11-01-2015 7:22pm

Didn't Google disable that in one of the recent releases of android. I'm not certain though.

blinkey 101 · 11-01-2015 7:27pm

Not to sure but i had the Samsung s4 a while ago and was able to move certain apps over onto the SD card.

so all we can use the SD card for is music and pictures ?

Snake Plisken · 11-01-2015 10:44pm

I think that's true of the current version of android not sure if the new version will allow it or not and even if Hudl will get that update.

beauf · 11-01-2015 11:19pm

I just read its a problem on some new devices like the Xperia E3. But not on the higher end Experias I think because Sony have put an app on those to do it.

I don't have a device with that problem. Mine are all older devices.

blinkey 101 · 12-01-2015 1:21pm

Did anyone else get a message on the hudl to update battery as it may be out of date?? I dident get enough time to read it properly as I was reading something else it poped up and I kinda dismissed it by mistake .

Liamalone · 12-01-2015 1:31pm

No update here.

blinkey 101 · 12-01-2015 1:34pm

Liamalone wrote: »

No update here.

Strange it popped up and some of what I seen said battery may be out of date and take longer to charge etc please update ?

Snake Plisken · 19-01-2015 7:43pm

The Hudl 2 update is live go into settings about tablet and click Hudl updates. Make sure the Hudl is charged over 50% before attempting it

blinkey 101 · 19-01-2015 8:08pm

Snake Plisken wrote: »

The Hudl 2 update is live go into settings about tablet and click Hudl updates. Make sure the Hudl is charged over 50% before attempting it

Brilliant just updating now and I see one of the updates allows us to move apps over onto the sd card freeing up internal space

woooo !!

Mind you the mirroring to Tv with Chromecast was there already so can't see why that was in the update ?

viking · 19-01-2015 9:14pm

Snake Plisken wrote: »

The Hudl 2 update is live go into settings about tablet and click Hudl updates. Make sure the Hudl is charged over 50% before attempting it

The charging issue is resolved, great news!

blinkey 101 · 19-01-2015 9:41pm

Well I was charging mine and green light came on at 98% so hmmm .

viking · 19-01-2015 9:44pm

To clarify, I meant the issue where charging wasn't working unless it was powered off/ restarted. Don't know about the 98% issue yet

Snake Plisken · 20-01-2015 2:29am

Happy enough with the update, it seems to have fixed the battery charging issue and its nice that we can move the apps over to an sd card.
Also Modaco did an interview with the Tesco Hudl team, seems they are looking at Lolipop but haven't had enough time to see if it will improve the customer experience http://www.modaco.com/page/news/_/android/meeting-with-hudl-on-battery-charging-lollipop-and-more-r1439
Also Tesco's have released a keyboard case for the Hudl! http://www.tesco.com/direct/hudl2-bluetooth-keyboard-case/598-0516.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=598-0516

Snake Plisken · 20-01-2015 2:38am

blinkey 101 wrote: »

Mind you the mirroring to Tv with Chromecast was there already so can't see why that was in the update ?

Apparently if you uninstall the chromecast app you can still cast the whole screen from the dropdown menu.

BBMcQ · 20-01-2015 9:51am

Any talk of the £109 price per chance?

Liamalone · 20-01-2015 4:59pm

Charging issue not fixed here, been sitting with screen off and charger plugged in for over an hour here and hasn't budged from 24% charge.

viking · 20-01-2015 6:01pm

Snake Plisken wrote: »

Also Tesco's have released a keyboard case for the Hudl! http://www.tesco.com/direct/hudl2-bluetooth-keyboard-case/598-0516.prd?pageLevel=&skuId=598-0516

Picked this up for my daughter a couple of weeks ago when the 33% offer was on, its a pretty fine keyboard and stand.

Thargor · 01-07-2015 12:09pm

Are people happy with their Hudl 2s? Was that charging issue sorted out? Thinking of buying one for my mother.

Liamalone · 01-07-2015 12:20pm

I've had one since release and I'm well happy with it, good screen, battery life good. I did have a charging issue where if I plugged the charger in whilst it was on it wouldn't charge - it just held whatever % charge it was on. That has now been fixed as of an update about two weeks ago.

I would recommend.

Thargor · 01-07-2015 12:33pm

Interesting thanks, can others confirm the charging issue is fixed because it sounds like a great tablet when not affected by that...

k123456 · 01-07-2015 12:53pm

Hi Folks, is there a Lollipop ROM for Hudl 2, that is recommended

kungfual · 01-07-2015 12:57pm

k123456 wrote: »

Hi Folks, is there a Lollipop ROM for Hudl 2, that is recommended

Is the latest official update to Lollipop ?

Snake Plisken · 01-07-2015 1:48pm

kungfual wrote: »

Is the latest official update to Lollipop ?

Not sure about the update to Lollipop unless your root it.
Charging issue seems to be fixed I think it's a great little tablet screen is good quality it does run a bit hot over sustained use they enabled the movement of apps to an sd card which is great. You can install a 3rd party launcher like Google to de-Tesco it and stop most of the tesco apps from running on power on.
So I would still recommend it as a decent Andriod tablet

emo72 · 01-07-2015 2:25pm

I have 2 of these and they have been updated to lollipop. Automatic updates pushed by tesco themselves. I'm not bothered to root, just put Google now launcher on it. Grand machines.

blinkey 101 · 01-07-2015 4:35pm

Thargor wrote: »

Are people happy with their Hudl 2s? Was that charging issue sorted out? Thinking of buying one for my mother.

Yep all sorted.. I love mine best tablet I ever bought . Your mother will love it and it's pretty fast ðŸ‘ŒðŸ‘ŒðŸ‘Œ.

Tinie · 01-07-2015 5:19pm

emo72 wrote: »

I have 2 of these and they have been updated to lollipop. Automatic updates pushed by tesco themselves. I'm not bothered to root, just put Google now launcher on it. Grand machines.

Huh?

There's no lollipop rom for the hudl 2.

Liamalone · 02-07-2015 3:26am

Definitely no Lollipop this end, I'm non root.

I run this thing at times from 100% battery til near flat and I have yet to see any issues, no heat either but then this is one sample - I have read about folk having issues. Now that the charging issue is fixed, for me that is, I have no problem with the Hudl2 - top piece of kit in my book. Get one, actually, get two lol

Hudl2: 8" Andriod Tablet for £109 from TescoDirect via Parcelmotel

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