Hudl Hushed

My Hudl, Tesco’s tablet, out of guarantee but less than 18 months old, has developed a loud static crackling whenever the touchscreen is touched (which is all the time) and the Tesco tech team’s attempt to rectify the fault by pushing the factory reset with a pin (i.e. turning it off and on again) was ineffective; left to my own devices I found I could mitigate the problem by inserting headphones, although this just transferred the crackle to a couple of feet away, but my next step – to cut the lead from the jack plug to the earplugs – finally did the trick and hushed the Hudl to at least make it usable.