16gb Thrive on Woot for $290

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Just a heads up, guys. $289. 99 for a 16gb WiFi Thrive on Woot.com

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Mine just arrived I like it so far but updating from 3.1 is causing me some serious grief.

I understand that you have to do a manual flash to update it before you can get the auto online update to work. The soot thrives ate shipping with very old (2nd Gen) BIOS that need/require the manual update

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Where can I get the manual updates? I have searched high and low.

Dev Thrive

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I bought one of these, the device itself is great. One big problem...

It appears as though my thrive was a dev thrive. It has a custom rom and kernal on it. No android market or google apps at all. At first I figured I would just root it and put one of dalepl's custom roms on it. I was afraid to do so though, because in reading about how to root, it was very clear to only use the root tool with certain build numbers and mine is clearly not. Whatever is loaded on it, seems to be fairly stable and very fast...although it does go to sleep at times and will not wake back up. Has anybody heard of something like this happening?

You need to return this device. There is no way to update that load. It should never had been sent out with that load. The partitions are not standard and you cannot root it or load a custom ROM onto it.

I contacted Woot that day about returning it. They told me they had some in stock so they will be sending me a new one. It was interesting to say the least. Someone at Toshiba must have missed it!

Yes, I have talked to a few others that have received devices with the engineering load. I am supprized that Toshiba had let these slip out too. Not too supprised that a couple of Woot ones have it. These are remanufactured, but guess what, not by Toshiba. They have out sourced thier maintenance, so it is some outside company doing them. The tech probably checked that it booted and repacked it.

I almost jumped on that woot! Impulsive instincts were driving me to order one. I think the thrive has a lot of potential in the future. I'll stick with the cheaper hp touchpad for now and wait for tablet wars 2.0 this year for the shakeup before diving into a serious tablet with some horsepower.

I received my Thrive from Woot a couple weeks ago. I wasn't even looking for a tablet, but couldn't pass it up. This is my first tablet, and so far its pretty awesome. Glad to see there is a thread for it here.