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The LCD has a "weak" spot below the front camera. I noticed this when I was holding it there and trying to remove the type cover. Since the magnet is pretty strong it takes a little bit of force. I heard a little creaky sound and was alarmed. That spot seems to be hollow underneath making it...

This is very strange unless your device is defective. When you are using it, do you feel warmth behind the unit? Is the fan blowing? For your usage cases, the fan should not be blowing and the back of the unit should not feel too warm (lukewarm is ok). Also, like others mentioned, check the...

I just installed Duos-M today and was able to test it briefly. Here are my findings: 1) I haven't tested any apps yet but the UI seems responsive enough. 2) When Duos is minimized (not closed), SP3 won't sleep properly (during the 2 hours I left it unused, it used about 3 times the battery...

I'm running Windows Defender for AV. Last night, the weird behavior didn't happen even though I did the exact same thing (boot up then launch IE immediately) so I'm not sure what's causing this but will keep an eye on it before I do a the dreaded refresh.

That is wonderful news! I'm going to give it a go now. I do have few Android games I enjoy that's not in Windows store at the moment. Thanks!

That's what I thought initially but I've had mine about a month now and am up to date with firmware/updates. I also have the Windows update set to "check but let me do download and update".

So, I've noticed a weird behavior couple of times with my new SP3. After booting from being shutdown, when launching IE immediately from the start screen, the tablet becomes unresponsive. Can't close IE or bring up the charm bar. The power button does respond so I can push it and the screen...

I have i5 model but I also experienced the mysterious overheating/fan noise issue the other night. I had no apps open yet I noticed ~30% CPU usage and ~80 Disk usage. This lasted a good 1 hr and drained much of my battery. I tried rebooting without result but the whole thing stopped by itself...

Question to those of you who are using DuoOS: When you minimize DuoOS window and not running any Android app in it, does SP3 still use a lot of resource? I've read somewhere that DuoOS is using 30% CPU when no Android app is running.

I also noticed the fan going off for no apparent reason the other night. I check the task manager and even though the CPU usage was low the DISK usage was very high in the 80-90% range. I couldn't figure out why it was doing it as I wasn't running anything at that time. Upon checking the...

Sorry to bring back an old thread... I was looking to emulate Android on my SP3 but seeing how this Duos-m uses a lot of resources (thus hurt the battery life in a big way), I'm hesitant to go for it. I do like to run some Android games on SP3 but I guess that means I'll have to do it while...

As far as I know, only metro IE can be used with two-finger swipe back and forth gestures. Desktop IE doesn't support that (I know it's crazy). Chrome does support it also but I don't like to use it on Surface as Chrome drains a lot more battery compared to IE.

Hm... not sure why you are having issue with opening the battery report. I normally type "cd.." twice in the command prompt to change the directory where the report will be saved to before I run the report (it's easier to access it later). As far as knowing when the SP3 is fully charged, sure...

It'd nice to know if it's been fully charged also. Currently, there is no way of knowing if SP3 is turned off and charging whether or not charging is completed. On my Dell venue 11 Pro, there is a small white LED that turns on when charging and turns off when completed.

Nice application! Just tried it on my old laptop and it works! I wan to use it on my SP3 but how do we make sure it's not some kind of malware or trojan?

No batteries. It's just to dock your SP3 and have additional 5 USB ports and a minidisplay port. Of course it charges SP3 while docked. I'm tempted to get this but since I don't use an external monitor I don't really see the need for this. I can always use a $10 usb hub if I ever need...

Run as admin "powercfg /batteryreport" without the quotes inside a command prompt and this report will tell you the number of cycles your battery has so far.

That's good to know. Although I feel like I'm being OCD. :)

I'm continuing to have issue with my Samsung 64GB. Waking from long sleep seems to make it disappear. Not sure what I can do to fix this issue.

We know the battery is capable of certain number of "cycles". Mine says I've used it for 10 cycles (I've owned mine a little over 2 wks). If we use SP3 connected to the charger, doe it mean the "cycle" count does not increase? I'm just curious to know if we use SP3 connected to the charger that...