I HATE my Surface 3

[Steve Adams]

Like I said, I am staying put for now with my surfaces and phones. Both on 8.1 work great.

 

[Robert Brathe]

Iam using 5 machines
Thinkpad t440s
Homebuild i5
Thinkpad x200
China Tablet 10"
Surface 3 lte

All odf this machines works well with win 10, only trouble with my s3

simcard crashed
touchscreen driver stops
display driver crashes
sound driver crashes
surface app "pen not found"
and so on

Its a bad joke, the 199? tablet works fine, the s3 makes me sick

MS do any thing!
NOW!

 

[michail71]

Damn, even the China pad is working better? I have experienced all those issues too except for the display driver crashing. AT&T had a hard time getting LTE to work a couple times.

 

[exleper]

Yes it has Windows 10 and current on all updates.

 

[Steve Adams]

Well, 24 hrs in and my surface 3 is running 10 flawlessly. Tablet mode is cool, and works as advertised. I am sitting on 57% battery life which equates to 5h and 2min. Perfect. We are impressed, no beyond impressed with these tablets compared to the crap asus units we were using before.

 

[FearL0rd]

Well, 24 hrs in and my surface 3 is running 10 flawlessly. Tablet mode is cool, and works as advertised. I am sitting on 57% battery life which equates to 5h and 2min. Perfect. We are impressed, no beyond impressed with these tablets compared to the crap asus units we were using before.

I cant do that. 57% for 5h. it is like magic for me

 

[Steve Adams]

fearlord, Are you using edge?

 

[Robert Brathe]

German MS Service say, i should install the recovery image from download side
This has been integrateted all drivers.
Do not make an clean install with the recreation tool images
Will try this at the evening.

 

[hirofujira]

It's Windows 10. I had similar experience when I first got my Surface 3 LTE which came with Windows 10 pre-installed. I did a clean installation with Windows 8.1 and my Surface 3 LTE worked fine afterwards.

 

[Steve Adams]

I have had mine since October, I am running windows 10 and its AWESOME!

 

[NatKingColeslaw]

I got mine about a month ago, and it's been nothing short of fantastic.

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[Steve Adams]

We Love them. I started up one of the asus vivotab's to set it up for the mother in law, and its' soooooo slow. painful to use actually.

 

[kelton]

Yes...my Surface 3 is two weeks old. I had one minor quirk with the screen brightness....but that was solved easily.

I bought a used dock from ebay for $40....and that thing is perfect. I have all kinds of things hooked to it, and the computer notices them and they work as they should. I can snatch the computer from the dock or put it on willy-nilly and it sorts it all out without hesitation.

Now, perhaps this is a windows 10 issue, but using the bluetooth sure is finicky and fiddly...good grief. For instance, it wants one of my bluetooth speakers to be the default "go to" speaker no matter what. I have to disable the darn speaker just to keep it from becoming the default sound.

 

[Telstar1948]

I've read many different user experiences with MS Surface line products. I've owned some myself. Presently my wife has an SP3 and I have an S3. The S3 came with W10, and it has operated pretty well. It did have some difficulty with display drivers early on, and it didn't want to come out of sleep/hibernate too well sometimes, but all of that has cleared up with the updates to W10. At this point, my S3 operates really well. I don't have a dock for it so I can't say how it would handle that. It's my mobile device and my desktop Dell backup. Like I said, my S3 has been solid, particularly since the updates this year.

 

[GizmoEV]

A clean factory restart on mine, then install only the firmware update, and finally the Windows updates have almost removed all issues I had with my Surface 3 LTE with Win 8.1 Pro. If you are having issues do a clean factory reset.

 

[Lily Freeman]

I have the same problems as you. I'm starting to regret my purchase.