AGPtek-players any good ?

[gem]

I had high hopes for the A12.  But nobody seems to be actually answering questions.  And "hunterleo" claimed to be affiliated with AGPtek;  but he has not been back on the forum, has not answered questions, has ignored PMs ... so maybe he is not really with AGPtek at all, but was just "faking" to get information.  Big disappointment about the A12 and AGPtek in general.

[spotburst]

well for what it's worth I tried AGPtek A18 (looks so 'new' that it doesn't even appear on the AGPTEK website!)

https://www.amazon.co.uk/A18-Bluetooth-Playback-Lossless-Supports/dp/B01FVZKDYG/ref=sr_1_25?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1477305558&sr=1-25-spons&keywords=agptek&psc=1

I thought that I'd tolerate the bigger size on the basis that it also had BlueTooth.

However, I too was disappointed - as an audiobook & long podcast listener I found that at times it wouldn't even FFWD.
Power down & power up and your position was lost in whatever you were listening to.
Bookmarking (non-existent)
Bluetooth connection was quite unreliable.
I returned this unit to Amazon and decided that I'll replace the battery & jack in my Sansa Clip+ (RockBoxed)

[gem]

What a strange looking player with squared-off corners.  I wonder what prompted that bizarre design.

And sorry to hear about your disappointing experience with it.  Almost every review I've read of an AGPtek device, people are complaining about inability to handle audiobooks conveniently.  Well, the reviews speak for themselves, I guess.

Months later, I am still waiting for a meaningful reply from AGPtek about the A12.  Someone named "Chasty" had originally offered to send me a review sample, since he was unable to answer any technical questions about the device (and of course the manual is a joke).  Now he has stopped corresponding and has disappeared.

Hunterleo seems to have disappeared too as a "representative" of the company, so maybe he never really was one, or maybe he has left AGPtek and has moved on to a better career elsewhere.  RIP hunterleo.

Too bad!  I had hoped AGPtek would be a miraculous replacement for the old Sansa Clip products, especially if they were designed with Rockbox in mind.  But it seems they are mostly good for paperweights (and probably too light to work well for that job).

[johnb]

I feel you are drawing your conclusions about HunterLeo too fast.

[gem]

I certainly hope you're right.  The things he said sounded encouraging.  (But it's easy for anyone to make statements in an online forum, without any factual backing.) 

Given that he has disappeared for so long, and that all other correspondence from AGPtek to me (via other channels) has also ceased, I can't help being rather skeptical and pessimistic at the present time.  If he returns -- especially if he has something concrete to show us -- I will be the first one to applaud.

Do you have some actual reason for your feeling?  Or are you just more optimistic than I am?

[hunterleo]

Hi guys,

Sorry for disappearing so long on this forum. I was busy working on our new player.

I have to clarity that I'm not a professional representative for the company. I'm just a guy with Broken-English from the company product team and I'm here to learn any issue regarding Rockbox. Many other issues are beyond the reach of my knowledge. I can help you transfer the issue to the support. Or you may contact support@agptek.com directly.

A12 is our first step to try clip-style music player. It is good for gym people and is not good for "hardcore" user especially sansa clip user. We are a new company for music player and we have to learn things from mistake.

Our new player with whole new hardware is available soon. A12, A02, A18 and Sandisk Jam are using the same chip which causes many issues which we couldn't resolve. The new hardware will solve many problem such as:

1. Bluetooth connection issue.
2. playlist order
3. gapless playback
4. combining files from internal memory and memory card

If you are annoying by the issuea above, I suggest you wait for the new one.

Thank you for your concern.

Leo

[gem]

Hello Leo, welcome back.  Sorry that I was beginning to think you had gone to another planet or were perhaps not really associated with AGPtek.  So thanks for explaining that situation.

I do not want to clog up this thread with discussions specifically about AGPtek.  But, on the other hand, I sent you a couple of PMs about that (hoping not to bother this thread) but you never answered them.  And the "support" people no longer reply when I write to them.

So should I send you another PM, or should I post stuff here that is slightly off-topic?  Please feel free to PM me if you can at least give me a little help that way (or maybe tell me how to get answers from AGPtek support!).

Thanks!

[JimZipCode]

Our new player with whole new hardware is available soon.

Yay!  Do you have a date yet?

[hunterleo]

Our new player with whole new hardware is available soon.

Yay!  Do you have a date yet?

The software part takes much more time than we estimated.  Hopefully, it's available before December.

Thank you,

Leo

[snIP3r]

Hi leo!

ist the device perhaps the b03? it seems to be new and is described as the updated version of the a03...

greets
snIP3r

[bennor]

The software part takes much more time than we estimated.  Hopefully, it's available before December.

Any update on when this new model will be released? Or if it has been released what model is it?

[JimZipCode]

Any update on when this new model will be released? Or if it has been released what model is it?

See here:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51071.msg238609.html#msg238609

[bennor]

See here:
http://forums.rockbox.org/index.php/topic,51071.msg238609.html#msg238609

Thanks, already seen it. My reply to hunterleo in this thread was 11 days prior to hunterleo reply to someone else in that other thread. Seems hunterleo has stopped replying to this thread. Either way good news a new unit may be coming out some time (hopefully) soon.

[KiwiCam]

Hi guys,

Sorry for disappearing so long on this forum. I was busy working on our new player.

I have to clarity that I'm not a professional representative for the company. I'm just a guy with Broken-English from the company product team and I'm here to learn any issue regarding Rockbox. Many other issues are beyond the reach of my knowledge. I can help you transfer the issue to the support. Or you may contact support@agptek.com directly.

A12 is our first step to try clip-style music player. It is good for gym people and is not good for "hardcore" user especially sansa clip user. We are a new company for music player and we have to learn things from mistake.

Our new player with whole new hardware is available soon. A12, A02, A18 and Sandisk Jam are using the same chip which causes many issues which we couldn't resolve. The new hardware will solve many problem such as:

1. Bluetooth connection issue.
2. playlist order
3. gapless playback
4. combining files from internal memory and memory card

If you are annoying by the issuea above, I suggest you wait for the new one.

Thank you for your concern.

Leo

I've got quite a few of the AGPtek devices. I'm really looking forward to this new model. I've mentioned this on other forums where Leo participates (Head-Fi for example) and I just hope that this player finally works to suit the needs of Audiobook and Podcast listeners. We need a good Fast Forward & Rewind. Every AGPtek device has this issue.

Thanks

[hunterleo]

Hello,

Thanks for the advice! The AGPTEK Rocker fixed this issue.

Regards,

Leo