I bought a magnetic charge port to stop the kids destroying the USB charge point. It cost about £7 but means they don't need to keep plugging it in to charge which is how most tablets seem to die in our house.

If they still come with Kitkat (4.4.2.) I would advise not updating to Lollipop as they run better on Kitkat. Mines on Lollipop and my Son's on Kitkat and his is definitely quicker and better battery.

Great tablet for the money, my son has had one for 2 years and it's still going strong (had one screen replacement) easy enough to get bits for on eBay too.

Shame the charging ports are made of cheese. And this is from someone that generally is very mindful of such things! Two HUDLs owned in the family, both needed the ports replaced. Heat for the price though, a lot of tablet for the money.

I think this a great price, I've just looked on ebay and second hand they're selling for more than these new Tesco ones.

great find just ordered one with £5 tesco club vouchers off :smiley:

Pink OOS, bought the other colour

Are these better than new amazon fire 8"?

Link to the Turquoise Hudl2 is here http://www.tesco.com/direct/hudl2-8-wi-fi-tablet/454-7907.prd?skuId=628-6020

nice find, Turquoise Hudl2 has been purchased!

Thank you

Bought thank you

Amazing tablet, I have 2, one for my kid brother, a bit fragile tho, easily broken (light screen, rubbish charge port, chipping on plastic outer)

the hardware however is fantastic for the money, best budget tablet out there!

Wow nice find op, I use mine everyday, infact I'm on it now, brilliant tablet for £69!

A bit on 2 minds : wether to get this or Fire 6hd/Fire 7 . Reviews say battery is awful

Great deal!

For those using these devices be aware some banking apps don't support the intel processor in this one (lloyds, Halifax and bos).

:smiley:

Ordered and I even got the wife's staff discount on it as well

Random. The links just go to tesco groceries homepage for me. Need to search for it via tesco direct

Great tablets, bought for all my family 2 years ago and still going strong. Not sure how these compare with the latest tablets on the market as I don't feel I need one so haven't looked.

Just ordered. Thanks OP. Another prezzie sorted

Oooh tempted

also cases for 5

Been looking for a tablet to watch films - ordered thank you!

amazing find, pink oos but ordered 2 turquoise for my girls Xmas pressie. (should have got 3 but definitely too much tech for my 2 yo!) :smiley:

Is black available? Or white

I like mine but the battery does not stay charged long and takes an age to fully charge.

No black ones and for the pink one it's saying stock low!
So be quick as these are selling fast

Easily the best tablet for the money, *despite* being 2 years old and stuck on Lollipop. The only other thing in the same bang-for-buck category was the NVidia Shield, and that's out of stock too.

Thanks, kids just broke the USB port in our one.. Ordered 2 so no more fighting.
Chose it over Amazon 7, hope I made the right choice.

It let me put in the basket, then on checkout it said none left, so I bought the other colour, they may have added more

If they still come with Kitkat (4.4.2.) I would advise not updating to Lollipop as they run better on Kitkat. Mines on Lollipop and my Son's on Kitkat and his is definitely quicker and better battery.

Thanks op ordered Turquoise

My sons hudl2 been dying slowly and everything much more expensive for the 2mb ram etc! The way it gets bumped about did not want to spend a lot more for similar speck. He also likes his hudle 2more than any other tablet. They strong and take a good bump about perfect for kids. Just ordered 1for him and 1for my 3year old daughter! Thank you for the post!!!! Really helped me out when a child asked for a new hudl2 and thinks santa can get his hands on 1for him he may of just have!!

For all you people moaning about the links not working...if you cant work out how to put hudl 2 into the search box on tesco direct you`re really not bright enough to use one of these.....

Great price, the battery in my one is near enough dead - doesn't really hold the charge

thx, ordered the turquoise one.

But you're not delivering it to them on a plate, shame on you! Where is the seasonal spirit of good will? :man: Ha ha

Pink is out of stock now, but ordered turquoise. Thanks for the deal!

My son has one which constantly suffers with storage. Anyone got any tips or recommend another tablet as he wants a new one for Xmas due to the memory issues.

Nothing in that price range that won't suffer similar issues. If anything, I'd recommend NOT moving app data to the SD card, as it seems to confuse Android. I get the storage space messages and there's well over 500MB free.

Edit: Cheapest thing that's not utter crap with 32GB onboard is the Asus Zenpad. Around £150.

Purchased 2 of these for my kids (last xmas i think) - The battery doesn`t last long at all, we were constantly charging them.

You can put a 128gb sd card in it

Does anyone know if these can be rooted, and can run on a custom ROM? Also what are the chances of running any newer version of Android i.e. Marshmallow, I take it that won't be coming via Tesco updates?

Thanks, i've edited the OP to add it as I think it's important those that buy don't blindly update it and potentially get an inferior experience than if left on Kitkat.

I'm on the verge of doing a factory reset to see if that helps. Can it be rolled back to kitkat?
I dont want to get him something worse and dont mind spending a bit so we dont have to keep buying tablets! I have a Lenovo Tab 2A10-70F which is great apart from the bbc media player issue but it may be a bit big for a 9 year old!

I'm thinking of rolling mine back to Kitkat too if I can find suitable instructions. I'm also getting the storage issues with over 500mb free but says not enough storage to install a couple of mb app!

Not sure if this is possible...

Anyone know of any good cases for these..bad boys.

On Tesco Direct?

Any masculine cases....lol

Anyone able to recommend a strong case for these? needs to be toddler proof! thanks..

Both colours coming up as unavailable

Looks like a solution was never found to do so so even more reason new owners NOT to update to Lollipop!

​You are joking right? Surely the cheese will melt when the tablet heats up

Good price and most importantly - a full HD screen.

Cases delivered from £3.75 on eBay. here http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/171512823938?_mwBanner=1

I've just bought my daughter a Lenovo Tab 2 A10-30 for Christmas to replace her broken Hudl2. Should I keep the Lenovo or return it and buy another Hudl?

thanks..hot

Had one here for a couple of years and can agree that the charging functions (hardware and software) are pants. So don't get one if it will be for essential use.

However, nothing came close to the spec at the time.

A good tablet for the money it's just ashame it won't receive any more updates and there are very little or no custom roms for it.

Think you've missed the boat....try and get a faster bike :smile:

Mine developed similar problem with a wobbly connection and not charging. Solved it with a bit of Sucru on the cable connector to give a stronger and more stable connection. Maybe not the prettiest solution but mine's used as a media streamer and alarm clock in the bedroom now so looks aren't important, how it works is and it works great.

I got my Mum one of these a year ago - been sent away twice to be fixed (charging issue and half the screen stopped working). Both times they have us a brand new Hudl.

Good price, but i'd avoid like the plague and just pay a bit more in the sales tomorrow for a better quality tablet.

More than I paid on release! (Doubled up CC points + discount code)

Terrible battery life, and it's damn heavy too.
However it's still the most powerful tablet that you can buy for £70 new.

Seems to be OOS on both colours now. Blue still adds to basket, but is rejected on checkout.

Those having problems with charging port it's due to micro usb port....you can fix this with new one.look on youtube easy fix.....and battery issue don't update firmware as it draining quicker than normal stay on kitkat version.

I bought a magnetic charge port to stop the kids destroying the USB charge point. It cost about £7 but means they don't need to keep plugging it in to charge which is how most tablets seem to die in our house.

This is a good idea....like from me.

These 'new' units are probably a couple of years old having sat in a warehouse. Personally I wouldn't want a Li-on battery that hadn't been charged over that length of time. It is bad news/damaging whenever a Li-on becomes fully discharged. And this is all on top of the legendary poor battery performance the Hudl 2 has.

The only plus point is you can still pick Hudl batteries up for around £10. But they might be cheap Chinese clones.

Both colours showing OOS now

Can u explain how this works? Sounds like sth I. Might be interested in

Also reading reviews on tesco site and lots of bad ones :disappointed: maybe I bit too soon

Where did you buy the replacement port ?

Never knew such a thing existed. the amount of money i could have saved on broken chargers overthe years. Thanks

​got a local specialist to source one. this was their reply today to the latest HUDL I have with them......

The battery arrived, it does have voltage in it, but when applied to your hudl there is still no kick off it at all. :-( The other customer's hudl we have in is exactly the same, so we're thinking it must be a design flaw/fault this is possibly why Tesco have stopped producing them. I know this is your second with us, but two of maybe a dozen or more with the same fault, initially it looks like a charging port fault, but the faulty port has caused a short on the main PCB, with no schematics available, the battery was worth a try. Sorry we couldn't help you this time. :-(

thanks.
are they safe to use/a good idea?

You need to find another specialists...only reason why tesco stop producing them is because they wasn't making money from them in fact ever one they were making a loss they wanted to sell the streaming side and app side but that didn't take off...The only design flaw is the port being not that well put together....battery discharging quickly is firmware issue...since android 4.4 is ok

Myself son hudle seemed to stop charging then back working etc. Was taking all night to charge. Thought it was a gonner. But a factor reset fixed it totally even replaced the battery as I hadon't already ordered1. Backnowledge to charging in a couple of hours and lasting few days. This is why I ordered 2new 1s today. All cases are different but if specialist had seen the problem so many times why did he have to change battery or port 1st to test the problem? I would of checked the so called problem 1st? Also new ports can be found on e bay for about 12quid if any1 is interested and easily dun check you tube. Every case can be different butility I believe that it is software. My dad has the odd problem but my mum never upgraded hers and has never had a problem in over a year. Goodles deal for a good spec

???

Sorry for the mistakes had 1 eye on my busy 3year old at the time and sent it without reading it over. But I'm sure you all get the point. After a factory reset problems went away if this was a hardware problem this would not be the case. All cases can be different but most people's problems sound similar very much like a software issue with them.

​And that was the problem, they replaced the charging port, no luck, replaced the battery, no luck. Not much else they can do for two hudls, and say all you want about the loss leaders that they were, that is common knowledge, from offset they said themselves they were loss leaders, but as you said, a known design flaw? I don't another repairer to tell me that. That too was common knowledge. They haven't charged me for the work, so I see no issue with what they've told me coupled with what has been documented on numerous forums about the subject. But the shop I took mine too have seen multiple cases of the same issue. Any wonder tesco dropped it like a lead weight.

​when I worked for tesco they did sell a bumper case for younger users

Well mines was meant to be ready to. Pick up after 3pm today.... So far no text or email to say it's arrived

i picked up yesterday. when I opened it was not powering on. fully flat battery. had to charge for about 10 mins to let it show Red exclamation sign and then it charged up and has started downloading updates. This is my second hudl, really love it. from that i know that all tge text/offers inside are dated 2015 so it looks to me as if tesco warehouse guys had misplaced a large chunk if shipment and forgotten about it. :smile::smile: and then somebody found it during inventory check, finally putting on friday sale. really worth every penny

I have had a dispatch notice to pick up Tuesday so been keeping my fingers crossed! My son is going to be so happy with his replacement. As some 1said second hand 1s been going for this price. I have even seen faulty 1s going for almost this price on a auction site! I have read some people have had replacement under waranty. They stopped selling them about a year ago I think? So wondered if they are stock kept for warrantee replacements? Also I read on tesco website that's someone put a review they bought some about 5months ago

if anybody hit this error " google.process.gapps not responding" after upgrading to Lollipop, here is link to fix it. https://www.androidpit.com/process-com-google-process-gapps-has-stopped-fix.

Says Page not found
I had this message after changing the battery on the hudl2 had already dun a factory reset once so just dun another reset and it solved the problem.

why would you update when most people have experienced problems after lolipop

​i didn't experience any on my earlier one, I would like to stay on latest patch levels

mine has arrived in store ready to collect :smiley:

how is it , i don't know what to do either keep it (what originally wanted to do) or to sell it because it is worth like 50% more on Ebay.

Does the tablet run good even after 2 years after release?

I can't see whay you would have more problems from it being released a while ago. My son has had his 3years and been having trouble lately. Competed a factory reset and changed the battery for £10 only last week and seems to be running good again. My dad had had his for 2years with no problem and my mum never updated hers and never had a problem with it. That said a lot of people have had a lot of trouble with them too. But at the price of the tablet your looking at about £150 to match it. They are more heavy than the newer tablets but that said they are also a lot more robust! My son is now 8and his has taken a good few knocks. When looking at the other 1s in the shop I was worried how flimsy they seemed for him. He has said to me he would love another hudl2 but knows they no longer available also he's getting a bit doubtful about sant. So this find has meant a lot to us

right ok picked mines up. It's a xmas gift for the other half. I had been planning on booting it up & making sure it was all working but there is a screen protector on thats not entirely transparent & notes written on it so I dont really want to take it off. It',ll be too much of a challange to power it up & test it & leave the screen protector on, so I either not do this & leave it in the box until xmas so antoher month unused.But will it be ok? i'm afraid it'll cease up?
i think a few people are in similar positions to me ie they are buying tablets as gifts - so what would you do?

Are they all on KitKat or Lolipop?

My son and dad has lollipop but my mother still has kit kat. My sons has had few issues charging but the reset solved this recently as we have seen vast improvement i dont think the battery was needed but as it was a there i decided to replace it.After this post I have asked my mother and father how they found they tablets. My father said he had the odd issue with charging once or twice but has corrected itself not giving any on going problems (his is 2year old in January) my mother has never had a single issue with hers ( hers is about 18months old) both use they tablets daily. I will probably not upgrade my sons new tablet to lollipop and see how things go as you can't go back but can always go forward. After all do you really need the newest platform for just general use and surfing in my opinion not.

I am probably also going to keep it at KitKat

Just letting you know guys you have to install Lollipop , there is no way you can get out of it

After signing in and connecting to Wi-Fi it tells you to download Lollipop and there is no back button or nothing just the download button

That's were you went wrong never connect wifi...skip that page click next then go to settings and turn off auto software update....then you should have connected to wifi.

I just finished the update and went to about tablet and it still says 4.4.2 and looks like 4.4.2 so its probably some bug or something

UPDATE I had to force close the Download Manager to stop it automatically update to 5.1

Thats good make sure the auto update is switched off in about device....It must have been Google update that ran which is ok....not firmware update.

no it was the firmware update , it said "hudl update" , and when i force stop it , it automatically comes back on what should i do?

Picked mine up last night. I still can't quite believe it. Thanks for the advice Adam 786123. I'll keep it on Kitkat. Thanks again to OP:D

​i managed to keep it at lollipop by allowing it to download and just not install it , the only drawback is that there is a hudl update in the notification bar

kitkat not lollipop​

I'm not 100% sure but I think I remember seeing an update.apk file stored in my download files for my phone. Possibly deleting the file may remove the update reminder but I'm not 100% sure I this would work but worth looking into

Must admit I've updated mine after which I got a few error messages relating process not working and play store not working. I went to settings/apps/all/google play services and deleted cache and delete data under Manage Data setting. After this everything has worked fine with no noticeable problems at all regarding speed

Battery fix can be easily sorted you need to hold power button whilst pressing up button for a few seconds.get into recovery mode..scroll down using volume key to wipe cache partition and wipe it.restart hudl. Or scroll down to wipedata/factory reset this will get it to original state.

Right I've picked mine up yesterday,
I turned it on and it still had 25%left in the battery,
Once you switch it on and connect to the WiFi it then does a hudl update,
after this and once I'd logged into my Google account it then starts to update all the apps along with downloading android 5.1,
If you cancel the 5.1download then the apps don't update so like other members have said i just left mine to download it , I then got a pop up asking me if I would like to install the new software which I declined.
I've not had any issues by refusing the 5.1 update so fingers crossed.

Thanks that's really helpful so i'm good to connect to wifi straigh away & that wont auto install lollipop udate just DL it.

I can't guarantee but as far as I know it won't update to 5.1 unless you click the agree button, I've just turned my Hudl back on and I've noticed at the top of the screen (left hand side) there's a star appeared and if I pull the tab down it tells me there's a new software update ready to be installed,

Continue with connecting wifi to initially update it..will load then restart..it will boot up continue to home screen it will then start to download firmware now you need to stop this by sliding left top side and long press the download it will come up with app info..click it and force stop and disable. then clear cache and clear data....It will stop the download and disable it....leave you with no notification of update.

Right other half will open this tonight ill need ti be extra cautious when begim setting up.
Any one confirm the easier/safest way to avoid the update? Should i cinnect to WiFi initially or not. Just want to dou ke check to make sure.

less than impressed
right so i got the other half a hudl 2 for xmas which they have just opened & set up.
we didnt install the lollipop update due to various sources saying tablet shows down a lot when updated to lollipop.
unfortunatley it doesnt seem to be working propery. we were able to install facebook & messenger. messenger opens fine but fb just shows a white blank screen for seconds before crashing & returning to home screen.
also the main reason i got it for other half is to play candy crush saga but it comes up "device not compatible" i cant find anywhere that says the android version that candy crush saga needs but personally i though kitkat would have been acceptable.
can any one help?
i'm now feeling pretty friggen **** as the tablet was the main present & its f#cking useless

says 2.3 for candy crush
tbh not had any software probs so far with kids one theyve had for 2 years
what version kitkat is it on btw?

i'll double check, have done a factory reset see if that helps any but no holding my breath. i'm really p#ssed of tbh the only thing worse than giving someone a crap present is giving them something that doesnt actually even work.
i've seen up loads of smart phones so its not like i dont know what i'm doing.

kids one is on 5.1 (got repaired for charging port and they updated it)
candy crush saga def works on it

did a factory reset and it has now auto installed the lollipop update
now just downloading apps to test whether they will actually work this time or not

i've downloaded fb messanger & it has allowed me to dl candy crush this time HOWEVER the tablet is freezing often.

allowed me to install fb, messenger & candy crush which i player for a short while.
switched it off but when i restarted it i got process.com.google.process.gapps popping up continously. literally i press ok then it pops up again.
dont know what to do, feel this is beyond a joke.
the 35quid amazon fire tablet i picked up for mother black friday 2015 is more responsive

I just set 2 of them up and this worked perfectly

Thanks very much

That's what I did too but no luck :disappointed:

Well done you have successfully followed simple instructions. ......With others not so.