I thought you meant a video. If the bloody thing is so important why didn’t it say so in the box? There should be a law enforcing anybody selling anything to assume all their customers are idiots.
So what I have to do is bin the one I just stuck on and then the other one, if it will come off.
So, binned that one and, with a lot of hard scrubbing with my cloth got rid of the biggest under the original screen. Only 20,000 little ones to go now. Tried getting that protector off but it is stuck fast., no wonder I can’t get the bubbles out.
No just the one you put on, unless the screen wipes you had have bubbled the one that came from the factory, get one of the girls to use their nails to lift it up and peel it off.
They put them on to protect the coating on the touch screen which is usually indium tin oxide which gives them the capacitive touch layer.
Managed to get that film off, only to find yet another one underneath that, so binned number 2 and set about chasing bubbles out of number 3. Not completely, but mainly, got all of those bubbles out by repeatedly lifting and chasing back on with my cloth.
Will have another go later but if that doesn’t work that one will have to go too. If I wanted to I don’t suppose I could send it back now.
What I want to know is, if all these bubbles are so hard to get out, how do they keep getting in there in the first place. I always knew I hated touch screens.
Usually the one applied by the factory has a peel layer you take off when you get it, there usually is a small tab to facilitate this at the top corner, get one of the girls to check.
The one you put on will be on top of the factory peel layer, so you would have a peel layer on the one you put on, the screen protector you put on, on top of the peel layer from the factory
All the protective layers have gone, only now do I have a clear screen, and of course a specialist soft cloth which will stay with it. There were no cloths in the box, special or otherwise and no explanation as to what to do with the plastic film which was. No mention of there already being a film on the screen or what to do with it. No matter how good or bad the actual tablet proves to be, they should think themselves lucky that I no longer give thoughtful feedback.
There should have been an instruction manual & screen wipes in a paper foil pouch.
I don’t think I have ever seen a new tablet with a thick comprehensive manual in the last 5 years.
My Xiaomi phone came with a soft acrylic screen protector that marked in no time. Replaced with tempered glass, although that was ‘un-cooperative’ at creating a dust & bubble free seal, even though I worked in a clean area and cleansed very carefully.
I thought I was getting the hang of it last night. I decided to ditch the mouse, the cursor floats around and often misses the target. I also toyed with the idea that I might lose the keyboard too. This is because I discovered that the onscreen keypad was large, clear and with very good spacing between the keys.
Signed up to Spotify, that wasn’t easy but I got some good advice from their chat chap but only by accessing him on my PC. Thought I was getting the hang of that too but the promised shut off didn’t work so I tried with the tablet power off instead and that worked fine. Put it on charge for the night and went to bed.
Today, all has changed, the lovely big onscreen keypad has disappeared and instead there is a tiny 3 cm square pad hiding part of the screen. It can’t be expanded and can’t always be chased away. Spotify no longer knew me and I can’t find my way to the playlist I so carefully composed last night. There is no help worthy of mention, any simple question asked either leads me down a completely different path or gives me detailed advice which doesn’t work.
From the gathering euphoria of last night I am pitched back into the gloom of despair. I think the box it came in will be filled and gone again tomorrow unless something changes very quickly. But first I have to reverse my signup to Spotify’s free trial, it doesn’t work the way I want it to on PC and laptop, and it certainly isn’t working the way it purports to on this ru…oops, nearly said the R word. I think you know what I mean.
