Toshiba's Android-powered Thrive just started shipping to end users during the past couple of weeks, but already we're seeing an alarming amount of bug reports crop up over at the outfit's own site. Specifically, legions of users are suggesting that their Thrive is having a whale of a time coming out of Sleep mode without a full, hard reboot, and some are even suggesting that it'll turn on by its friendless on occasion. Hard to say if this is substance that could be pick up via a future firmware update, but here's hoping, right? Let us know if you're seeing the same troubles in intimation below -- we haven't seen any of this in the handful of days we've been testing our own, but we'll be sure to report more thoroughly in our approaching review.



Update: We spoke too soon. granting our Thrive review unit behaved just fine at first, we, too, have since found that it's unable to wake from sleep without a hard reboot. In our case, it happened after order the Thrive overnight, as opposed to letting it sit around unplugged. Since then, Toshiba has acknowledged the problem and kingdom of god a fix is on the way, though it's still unclear when, exactly, the company will pull through.

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