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Originally Posted by kevinpars
I have seen a few posts by reputable people stating that they were approached by Amazon to test 3.0.1. I think people who posted about freezing issues were contacted by Amazon, provided the beta firmware upgrade and were instructed to leave wifi/3G turned on so that Amazon support could monitor. This was from posts on the Amazon.com boards.
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I'm one of the people Amazon contacted about trying 3.0.1. I had perhaps a dozen or so spontaneous restarts or lockups over the first week. Since getting 3.0.1 Saturday afternoon I've logged probably 10-12 hours of usage without further problems.
It's a little premature to say that they have a fix (I had 3 days in a row last week without any problems), but they wouldn't roll out even a beta update unless they thought they'd actually fixed something.
It seems they were also replacing units with particular ranges of serial numbers. That might be due to a different issue altogether, or perhaps they just wanted to rule out the possibility of a hardware defect.
In any case, I trust we'll have an effective solution for everyone before very long.