[bastelquastel]

Your "I should have read that" feedback encourages me to write something more.

I had written that you had to re-register to google play services. Well, that only worked for one session. After shutting down the device, it no longer works.

In settings, you can enable google play services, it will then tell you that your device is not registered and that you should start google play services. Doing this (either from the settings screen entry just below enable entry, or from playstore app button) will bring up a play store start screen with a "SIGN" button. A text says you should press it to sign in. Well, pressing it just ends the application. I tried all back and forth. No way, also not with clearing cache data (using the android settings app from this forum). It just doesn't work anymore.

Besides from not being able to update apps or to install new apps from google play store now, there's one more annoyance that I'd like to mention:

Somehow the new firmware now tries to disable all applications so that they can no longer run in the background. This is supposed to help save energy. Somehow it cannot be stopped. There was a way of clicking "enable" for apps that showed "disabled" (they all show "disabled"...) in the play store. Since this is no longer possible (see above), I tried doing it with the android settings app (also see above). But it changed nothing. Also unclicking, in settings, that this disable thing shall be done to all newly installed apps doesn't help. Some apps do not show the enable button at all.

Here are the two consequences of this feature which are most annoying to me:

1st - my Epson iPrint app will no longer be available via share-buttons in other apps (epson app has no "enable" button, useless as it might be, anyways). Therefore, I can, for example, no longer print from Browser app or from FreeGeo or from HereMaps (these three I used most often). (There is a very complicated way of starting the epson app and then searching for documents and then print, but hey, this is not very convenient, is it? And it also does only work for some document types (namely, pdfs and txts, and for urls).

2nd - my simple_ssh app will no longer let me transfer any data to and from my max2. I used simple_ssh to mount max2 to my filesystem. It now keeps saying that the app is not responding. I do not fully know whether this has to do with this background disabling thing, but I suppose so.

To sum up (from both of my messages) no firmware 2.0 "features":
* Browser much less usable than before,
* no more play store,
* no more direct printing from apps,
* no more file transfer to and from max2 via simple_ssh.

An 800 Euro device has turned from helpful to mostly useless.

I hope that either they will fix this with another update, or someone has some hints on what can be done to get the old functionality back to the device.

Any hints from booxtore, maybe, he seems to be the most knowing among us.

Or from anybody else?

Any hints strongly appreciated.