I am having the same issue. I've pinned it down to the usb cable though. In a bizarre twist, I had a moment of oops the other day when instead of meaning to charge my phone, I grabbed the charger cable and plugged it into my 7g3... surprise surprise, it worked...

I plugged the 7g3 usb cable into my samsung phone - it fitted.. but it's really slow to charge...

Then I remembered, I'd bought a universal battery charger for mobile phones, found the right attachment - guess what? the samsung connector! it *worked*.

But boy, did it chew through batteries just to give it a 5% power boost!!!

So, other than taking the tablet back to the store (I also took out 3 years insurance on it in store when I bought it), I could just go and look for a samsung usb cable...

I know it's not recommended plugging something else in, but sometimes, you have to explore the possibilities that something else might work.

Even now, I'm going to wait and see a while before I take it back to the store. I'm covered for three years anyway.

I'm guessing, but, it does seem to be an onboard issue. Probably around the battery... I tried everything to get it at least staying on long enough to go back to factory settings before I take it back.

The USB cable - definitely dead.

The tablet - flickering on and then off. Hardly getting to the main screen. The battery - one second 'no charge' and the next 'fully charged'.

It was during one moment of it staying on during a cycle of 'fully charged' that I got it back to factory default. From then on, it's not been responsive at all.

It can barely get to the 'Arnova' flash screen before flickering back off again or flickering to restart the entire boot process. Either way, it's not staying on long enough for me to do anything with it.

Sat here last night after I got it all boxed and ready to take back to the shop and I was LOOKING for it. Crazy, but, I realise now that my tablet serves more functions than I could've ever dared hope.

At least, if they replace like for like, I'm familiar with getting google play back up there by downloading arctools...... it's only been a fortnight since I got my friends tablet up and running!

And as soon as I have my hands on a working tablet, I can stop my phone from doing too much work and give it a rest, it's been barely out of my hands all weekend!

The only other thing is, if it does it again. I think there's only so many tablets I can physically let myself use and only so many times I can take a faulty tablet back to the shop before they decide not to sell them again.

If I don't come home with an Archos tablet (on my 3 year warranty that I bought when I got the tablet) and it works better, at least I've managed so far to let you know there is a problem that should be further looked into.

If I come back with an Archos tablet (a new version of the same one) then thats ok.

But at least by reading this, you're aware there IS an issue. 

They didn't have a replacement. So I opted instead for a Samsung model. So... my membership here is pretty much invalid, however, I do have a friend with a 7G3, so I shall be posting on his behalf if he has any issues with his. I'm lurking...

I've now got full-on support with skype now and things that didn't work previously on the arnova 7g3, work with the samsung.

I got it because my phone is also a samsung and there's a share feature unique to that product.

It's been a good trip though. I've learnt plenty, but for me, it's time to move on