evic - fail

[mad maori]

mine crapped out after one day- i see joyetech has put out a recall notice on controll heads... i know of two different vendors that have had high failure rates.... anyone else having problems?????? nice one joyetech!!!!! you really blew it on this one!!!! just putting this out there so people know and dont expect too much out of this one!!! maybe this may make joyetech get thier s**t togeather before taking peoples money!!!!!!

 

[Nodnerb]

I understand your frustration. But every product known to man has a certain amount of defects. Mine and many others' have worked great. I'm sure you will be compensated with a working device. And the fact that they are doing a recall shows that they are taking responsibility for the defective products.

 

[Salt&PePPer]

Early Adoptors beware.

 

[Hello World]

I bought 2 eVics within the last 2 weeks and both are performing flawlessly. They were manufactured before the "Recall" ones, so there is no issue with them. With one of them I had a rough time updating the firmware to 1.1 as the computer kept crashing when I connected the USB cable, but after a while it finally detected the unit and auto-firmwared it (Had the firmware update on my HDD already).

Sorry to hear about your rig, I would have been pi**ed too.

Maybe you have one of the "Recall" jobs, and Joyetech was very quick on the ball serving notice of it. They didn't wait for the complaints to come in, they acted before anyone even made mention of it. S**t happens, and they acted instantly. Kudos to them.

 

[sacricide]

nice, i posted a thread how my evics USB charger overheated (or something) and my whole apartment smelled like copper/solder.

QC is coming in to question already

 

[DiNet]

Always two sides to the story... One where you see them failing with quality on some batches, and another side, where you see them acting properly.
Recalling devices actually earned them some points. Bad points came from other places, not from this.

 

[Hello World]

nice, i posted a thread how my evics USB charger overheated (or something) and my whole apartment smelled like copper/solder.

Yeah they get a bit hot charging, and why I take the cart before I do so. After a week's use or so they don't get that hot anymore.

 

[mad maori]

yea i know these things happen, i just thought they might of tested them a bit before release... its not just the punters i feel for-having to wait for replacements ect, but also the good vendors who gotta look after their peeved customers and deal with shipping ect... fair enough and good on joyetech for replacements and recalls ect...... be interesting to see what happens with the Janty!!!!

 

[RPadTV]

Mine has been going strong for about a month.

 

[mad maori]

update: O.K. so got the replacement ... so far so good still going strong, did the upgrade to ver1.1 and all seems to be working fine!!!! hope it lasts!!!!

 

[Fury83]

Good to hear you got it worked out. Mine has been solid thus far.