There is now a near constant synching issue with this tablet which causes any app running to crash and sucks up all the tablet's resources. The 'fix' from Barnes & Noble is to do a factory reset on the tablet, to hide the problem until it happens again, then do it again when the problem comes back. According to the Android folks the problem lies in what Barnes & Noble did to bastardize the Android operating system for their own 'Nook' version of the operating system, and the problem has to be fixed by Barnes & Noble. Barnes & Noble refuses to do anything to fix this issue other than to provide a lazy 'fix' of doing a factory reset.