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    best buy offering nexus 7 $25 google play credit (troubles)

    I am proud to announce that i now have $25 extra in my Google Play balance.....and they all rejoiced.....yay. got to someone quickly who read the case info and transferred me to the digital downloads dept and had code in 20 min........why could they have not done this in the first place?!?!?
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    best buy offering nexus 7 $25 google play credit (troubles)

    not a whole lot of effort in making a few phone calls.
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    best buy offering nexus 7 $25 google play credit (troubles)

    def worth a try (hopefully, i won't have to)
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    best buy offering nexus 7 $25 google play credit (troubles)

    i hear you, but this was an online transaction. the store did nothing more than verify my ID and handed it to me. they were not involved with the transaction or its "extras". Athlon's issue was 100% a retail store issue. i am in the tech support business and there is nothing more frustrating...
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    best buy offering nexus 7 $25 google play credit (troubles)

    oops, forgot to say....this was an online order with local pickup
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    best buy offering nexus 7 $25 google play credit (troubles)

    ref this article: Best Buy offering Nexus 7 for $199 with $25 Google Play credit | Android Central begin rant in 3...2... At 9AM on new years day, i buy the 16gb Nexus 7 with the "free bonus content" of a $25 Google play credit, for the wife. Call #1: 1-1-14 they said it could take a...
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    Apps that don't work on the Nexus 7

    with 4.4.2, MX Player does not work anymore. App Ops lost its functionality with 4.4.2 as well
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    Cases

    poetic assured me that the slime line does not have the problem with the magnet when cover is folded back like the strapback has. my slimline should be shipping sometime this week.
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    Cases

    I recv'd this one last week from Aamzon. (Poetic StrapBack) There is the typical magnet problem where you fold the cover back and it get put to sleep. You would think, after making them for the 1st gens (with the same problem), you would have prevented this. I am waiting to hear from customer...
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    Why the Smaller (Lower amp) charger?

    ok, figuring out which cable is which was easy. the new one is rubberized. old one is slick. chg'd from about 50% all night and was at 100% by morn using new chgr and new cable (complete bs IMHO). any usb should work equally as well.
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    So I'm buying a tablet for absolutely NO other reason than comics.

    https://forums.androidcentral.com/e?link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.anrdoezrs.net%2Flinks%2F100048248%2Ftype%2Fdlg%2Fsid%2FUUacUvbUpU2992761%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fplay.google.com%2Fstore%2Fapps%2Fdetails%3Fid%3Dcom.rookiestudio.perfectviewer&token=hyU25DK2 perfect viewer looks like the same app only free