NVIDIA SHIELD tablets which were sold over the past 12 months are being recalled by NVIDIA as there is a risk that the battery could overheat, possibly posing a fire hazard and of course proving they should never be used on a re-entry vehicle. You will need to ensure that your SHIELD is running the newest OS, if not you will need to run the tablet long enough to update as older OS versions do not report the serial number, which you need to enter if you want a free replacement from NVIDIA. Visiting www.nvidia.com/support/tabletrecall will give you the steps to request a replacement if you want one. So far there do not seem to be any reports of flaming NVIDIA users but you should probably not risk it.
"NVIDIA today announced a voluntary recall of its SHIELD 8-inch tablets that were sold between July 2014 and July 2015, which the company will replace. NVIDIA has determined that the battery in these tablets can overheat, posing a fire hazard. The recall does not affect any other NVIDIA products."
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Spread the news to everyone
Spread the news to everyone that owns one. You basically get a brand new tablet!
There is a youtube
There is a youtube video
Nvidia Shield tablet almost exploding battery
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=it7B5NeCIRs
To bad their previous Tegra
To bad their previous Tegra tablet didn’t have the same baterry problem.
Mine became a paper weight not even one year after purchase, with EVGA response “your product is out of warranty” when I asked for support.
This is juste another nvidia product that goes in the pile of premature death. 3 laptops, 1 motherboard, one tablet, 2 video cards…
To be fair, I also have a nexus 7 and on this one the usb connector is now flaky thats its useless… Good thing this got wireless charging otherwise it would be yet another costly clump of plastic and silicon.
AMD stuff overheats, they
AMD stuff overheats, they said…
Nvidia runs cooler, they said…
Anyone else finding this in the slightest bit funny, in the ironic “ha, joke’s on you” sense?
No…scenarios are not even
No…scenarios are not even comparable.
What a dedicated PC GPU does and a small portable device with cooling constraints are not comparable.
AMD doesn’t even make a “Shield”
It it did , the thing would need wall-plug power 24/7 LOL
Nvidia problems. Sites
Nvidia problems. Sites reporting them without extra sauce. If it was AMD’s problem, I bet there where going to be articles with full analysis, videos and photos all over the place. At least a 3 page article and a conclusion about how AMD failed again.
What a hell you can do over 3
What a hell you can do over 3 page article about a battery?
And THAT’s why you don’t jump
And THAT’s why you don’t jump into consumer products even if you’re desperate to find some sort of use for your n-th stillborn generation of mobile chips.
Mine is on in the
Mine is on in the recall.
Supposedly they are sending out new tablets altogether, and then bricking the old one via the previous 5.1.1 update.
Shows good support and that
Shows good support and that they care.
They cared so much they were
They cared so much they were willing to you at risk for well over a year.
In the latest mission
In the latest mission impossible move trailer, Tom Cruise hands all his agents an Nvidea shield because he knows that after 30 seconds at moderate settings these tablets will burst into flames destroying the top secret message !