I dislike video calls too. Unfortunately one of the companies I do work for use Google Hangout for their daily meetings.

Yeah - I got given one but couldn't find a use for it either...I gave mine to SWMBO and the kids. They do a bit of facebook and game playing while sat on the couch.

I occasionally log into Stack Exchange on it, but basically I see it the same way I see the iPad: doesn't really do any of the things I want, so no point having one.

Ha !

I can now concur with the third paragraph too. Just plugged my N7 in after it has sat without any charge for a few days and it too has gone into that reboot loop when I tried to turn it on in its *early stages of charging.

* I have taken to turning it on it as soon as plugging it into charge, as it appeared to work round the non-charging issue. The non-charging issue being where you'd find it had run itself down again, plug it in, come back several hours later to use it, only to find it hadn't even started charging !

(I used to grade my N7 as "good, but not great", the longer I own it the less good it feels I'm afraid, it is "little" things like this that do the most damage to my estimations of its goodness)

Complete with the odd hiss and video distortion? After mine recovered, it did update to 4.2.1, now waiting to drain it again and see if the issue is resolved before pursuing a warranty claim.

Not sure, I only saw it start the reboot loop before rushing out of the office.

For what it's worth, my N7 has never had any of these problems. The only problem I ever did have was the massive slowdown once you filled up the flash storage. If you're having battery drain issues, it's possible you have faulty hardware. If you're having bootlooping, it's possible that you just got unlucky and you might consider wiping it out and reinstalling.

This might address some of the stuff you guys are talking about, but for me it was a big case of tl;dr.

Doesn't appear to. It's all about the charging capacity mixing various adaptors and cables, along with shorting some pins. Nothing to address the faulty failing to charge from a dead state.

I'm using th supplied charger/cable, so no I don't think that has anything to do with the problem.