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[Chris G]

I haven’t had any Wifi issues with my Hibook Pro, range is as good as any other and I get good speeds from it, but that could be because I got lucky with my unit? Yes, its choppy for gaming and 2560 x 1600 as mentioned in my review is almost too demanding for an Atom Z8300.

So far my Hi10 Pro is going good, type-c port works at USB 3.0 speeds something my Hibook Pro doesn’t do with only USB 2.0 speeds and Remix I find is better than just stock Android on these 2-in-1’s

Games also run much better at 1920 x 1200 Vs 2560 x 1600.

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[J]

My Chuwi HI8 Pro has a problem about Broadcom WiFi adapter on windows 10 and here is the story.

I just bought a Chuwi HI8 Pro, everything was working perfectly, but after using it about 3-4 hours the tablet had been encountering the blue screen that said:

Your PC ran into a problem and needs to restart. We’re just collecting some error info, and then we’ll restart for you.
If you’d like to know more you can search online later for this error: SYSTEM_THREAD_EXCEPTION_NOT_HANDLED (bcmdhd63.sys)

 

After 3 times of the blue screen, the WiFi was dead, it wasn’t showing any WiFi network, but the WiFi was working with each of my mobile devices, even with the android mode of this tablet, it was working as well.

 

I had googled regarding the problem and they said that I should update the WiFi driver, then I did what they adviced but it didn’t work.

I was completely desperate, so I decided to restore the windows 10, I thought it could resolve the problem, unfortunately it couldn’t though.

It will be great if there is anyone here who can help me to resolve the problem, thanks in advanced.

P.S. I have tried to connect a WiFi usb adapter with the tablet and it works!

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Red X on WiFi icon and no WiFi network founds

 

WiFi is not connected

 

WiFi is enabled

 

You are currently not connect to any networks

 

It says this device is working properly

 

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[Jason Racine]

I need major help…I think. I have a Chuwi Vi10 Pro 64Gb dual OS (win8.1 (upgraded to win10 recently)+android4.4)). I updated the win10 bios (big mistake on my part) and afterwards the tablet went nuts, the audio stopped, the wifi stopped working, the touchscreen stopped working. (Everything was perfect before the win10 bios update). So then I did “reset this pc” with removing EVERYTHING and I didn’t make a backup usb. So my audio is back with luck but other drivers aren’t responding (error code 10). Oh and the OS switcher was disabled too.

Any Fix? Plz Help

[BBaker]

big bertha wrote:

i have one of these tablets specs are bay trail 3735f a rt8723bs wifi and a rt5640 sound. i t currently has Win 10 but i would like to run a debian (prefer) ubuntu) or android. I have tried several stock and reworked androidx86 and linux distros… no sound band most no wifi….. I also want to install to usb first for testing before wiping my working win10. Any help appreciated

  I would try one of the custom distro’s from Linuxium.  They are probably your best chance of getting everything working on a bay-trail device, except possibly the touchscreen… http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.br/2016/05/ubuntu-flavoured-1604-isos-for-atom.html

[big bertha]

i have one of these tablets specs are bay trail 3735f a rt8723bs wifi and a rt5640 sound.  i t currently has Win 10   but i would like to run a debian (prefer) ubuntu)  or android.  I have tried several stock and reworked androidx86 and linux distros… no sound band most no wifi…..  I also want to install to usb first for testing before wiping my working win10.   Any help appreciated

 

 

 

[Tibu]

Just got the device and I’m having problems with the WiFi, it just seems very slow. I took the cube to the router and it does pickup a lot. My phone next to the cube i9 can load videos on youtube faster and in higher quality.

The Wi-Fi is a big let down, otherwise the device is fantastic for the price. Is it really connected internally via USB 2.0?
One solution could be an external USB 3.0 dongle, I used to use one of those with my PC as a student and never experienced speeds this slow.

[Ben]

I did a clean install of Windows 10 build 1607 (the new one with enhanced Ink features).  Before formatting the old install, I ran the Export-WindowsDriver command in PowerShell to make sure I could recover any drivers that aren’t available for download.

 

Export-WindowsDriver -Online -Destination d:\drivers

 

After that, it’s attaching a USB hub through the included OTG cable, so you can have both the install flash disk and a wired keyboard hooked up simultaneously.  Hit “Delete” to get into the BIOS, change the boot order, boot from the USB stick.  You can use the https://wudt.codeplex.com to make the USB bootable, it says Windows 7/8 but also works fine with 10.

I did have some problems during the “Preparing files” phase of the install due to data corruption, but that was likely just the particular USB drive I was using which got overheated.  A couple retries later, it went through fine.

SSD, Touchscreen (both display and touch input) and wifi worked out of the box, which means you don’t actually have to inject drivers into the install image, setting them up later is perfectly feasible.

The following drivers I installed using download from the websites of the companies making those parts: Wacom driver (the download for “Tablet PC”), Intel GPU, Intel WiFi, Intel Bluetooth.

Notably, the Wacom driver captured by Export-WindowsDriver installed fine but didn’t result in a working digitizer.  Use the proper installer from the Wacom website instead.

Then I went through in Device Manager and for every unrecognized device, pointed it at the directory with the drivers from Windows-ExportDriver with “search subdirectories” enabled.

Audio still wasn’t working, so I did the same for the Realtek audio device, even though it wasn’t unrecognized, the Windows 10-supplied driver didn’t work and the archived driver did.

 

It seems like a success, I now have the Windows 10 edition of my choice and no worries about some SuperFish-style exploit placed there by anyone along the supply chain.

Now I need a thermal mod and a better pen than the tiny one borrowed from my old Galaxy Note 2.

[Francois-Xavier Boulé]

Hi, guys

I was just searching the Net for new roms fo my teclast X16 Power… and found this guy…

Says :

Hi,
I'm trying to port android-x86 on my Teclast X16 Pro tablet and succeeded 
in some way recompiling Android MM 6.01, kernel 4.4.12 from sources.
What is working :
touchscreen
wifi
bluetooth (was a bit hard to get it work ;-))
What doesn't work so far : 
adb
audio
battery indicator (reporting battery always full and charging). I know why 
but not how to solve it without rewriting some BatteryManager code... (AC 
chipset in Intel SOC seems not to be currently supported by kernel, doesn't 
show in /sys/class/power_supply, only BATC is présent)
 ... and probably other things I didn't notice / check
For now, the first problem I'd like to solve is using adb to help debug and 
facilitate updating. The problem is adbd is running correctly on tablet 
side, usb drivers seems to work correctly but I get no reaction when I plug 
the tablet to my laptop ('adb device' command returns nothing, and plug-in 
tablet doesn't show any message - I mean usb connect - in laptop logs)
Any help appreciated.

https://qnalist.com/questions/6525893/porting-android-x86-to-teclast-x16-pro-atom-z8500-cherrytrail

Maybe someone has the knowledge to help him. Android 6 would be a cool upgrade!!!

[BBaker]

This thread shows how to get WiFi and *possibly* bluetooth working (because I think both WiFi and BT come from the same r8723bs driver). Also, on the thread is how to install and test the Goodix touchscreen driver (goodix_backport.ko). Note, you should have installed Ubuntu 16 or LinuxMint 18 and upgraded kernel to v4.7.x or later. The default 4.4 kernel does not have the latest required code as far as I know. Edit: Kernel 4.8 is best, they are making it work with the Microsoft Surface 3 which is Atom Cherry-Trail.
Note: user @mauser_270 on that thread has his Hi12 touchscreen working using Ubuntu 16.04 Unity desktop and kernel 4.7.2
https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=223426&p=1211671#p1211671

How to upgrade your kernel to 4.7.2 (scroll down page for 64bit directions): http://www.yourownlinux.com/2016/08/how-to-install-linux-kernel-4-7-2-in-linux.html

What @mauser_270 did:

I installed 4.7 to see if I could get my internal wifi to work, that was about the time you posted wondering if the goodix_backport would work any better for me so figured I would try it on 4.7 first. I did wipe the entire internal EEMC and installed on to that originally just like I would on any other PC, knowing that all the files to turn it back to stock were on the chuwi forums. Since then I reinstalled only windows no guide needed you realy only need the driver dump to get everything up and running once you have installed I used a stock copy of windows and a external DVD drive. I reinstalled Ubuntu to a 64gb usb3 drive in hopes one day I can just clone it to the internal drive once it in a more usable state.

[Andrew W]

I thought I replied to this

“the windows on the screen works.” = what do you mean by that?

I was thinking make an boot disk with ubuntu 16. either USB or SD and boot live.

At least for the cube i7 book it is FULLY working -touchscreen, wifi/bt etc.

– this will give you an indication if it is a physical issue or a driver issue. If screen works with ubuntu then it’s a driver issue in Win.

If it doesn’t its something physical. Either the digitizer cable has been dislodged or damaged.

[Andrew W]

Yeah It’s incredible… wifi/ bluetooth (albeit I didn’t pair anything) audio fine. Touchscreen fine

I forget the kernel version- there have been warnings issued about kernels before 4.5 not putting skylake based cpu into proper low power states.

The battery prtedictions seemed fine 4-5 hours.

Now I was only testing. This wasn’t a full day to day use.

There’s even an on screen keyboard available which is about as good as Windows 10 one.

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Look I’m impressed that Ubuntu worked this well out of the box.

A fresh Win 10 pro install is effectively unusable. – no wifi, no Blutooth, No touchscreen.

I’m procrastinating from inserting the drivers into the Windows image and trying again.

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It also has a sexy BIOS.

If you get one. Just look at it… Laptops has such crap BIOSes with so few options. This has so many options (and possibilities to brick) your device. Memory timing (don’t play with that) overclocking (without a heatsink mod that’s crazy but people do the mod).

and perhaps and most importantly the ability to boot to SD/USB

HOW CRAP is the Atom platform?

Seriously such crappy BIOSes. Such difficulty in getting linux working!

I think Intel slit their own throat really.

How many people would have bought a zenphone 2 551ML if they just had an open bios.

4GB ram in a phone – geeze you COULD install windows 10 on that.

 

This is not the kind

[BBaker]

Frank M wrote:

It didn’t work in android. The android will only recognize the internal wifi chip. maybe you can try to disable the internal wifi through the method in one the above link, but i haven’t tried. It does work in windows out of box. but in windows you have a lot more better options. so this usb adapter is pretty much useless. oh, yes, i double checked usd adapter. It is RTL8723, the same as the built in one.

There are LOTS of different versions of the RTL8723 – rtl8723be, rtl8723bs, rtl8723ae, rtl8723au, etc. They are not the same thing and may have different configurations and functioning. Know which one you have. Some of them may not have the driver in the Kernel you are using and so you may have to build it (for Linux, dunno about Android) from https://github.com/lwfinger/rtlwifi_new.

[Andrew W]

Yes, you will have an issue. I have posted elsewhere about this

I installed Win 10 pro after registering for Windows Insider updates.

The Fast insider updates (unsure about others) broke several OS features. I had no way to revert to an earlier build. So I reinstalled.

However touch screen doesn’t work. WiFi and Bluetooth doesn’t work.

USB and SD Do, but I am reduced to using USB keyboard and mouse.

Even if you download the driver package here from techtablets it is UNSIGNED.

So unless you know how to install unsigned drivers this is not going to be fun.

HOWEVER,

It is possible on another device (particularly another Windows 10 device) to inject/insert the drivers into the win 10 iso image.

But you must convert the iso to a .win or another format which I forget right now.

I haven’t done this yet. It is kind of annoying particularly when Cube’s own site links to the Chinese language Baidu to host their OEM version.

The latest version of Ubuntu works.better than this! I booted off SD with WiFi, BT, graphics.fully working!

[ScutMonkey]

The only regret I have about my iwork 10 is not getting the USB3 version.  I got the Type-C instead and since this unit doesn’t support fast charger through Type-C, I would have been better off with the USB3 port.

The speaker placement is odd, but even if they were space on each side they would still sound like every other pair of mediocre phone/tablet speakers.

One thing I’m very happy about in this tablet is the Wifi performance.  I get better wifi coverage in my house than I do on my Nexus 6 phone and my older Dell Latitude laptop.  I have two levels and a basement and there isn’t anywhere I can’t go.

I have no tested out a micro sd card on it.  I really need to because I’m out of space on my Windows 10 partition.  These units have had a bunch of problems reading 128GB cards, so I’m going to go with a 64GB card and avoid it.

 

[Andrew W]

That is an EXCELLENT question.

All I know is that a lot of phones – take Galaxy Note 2 for example. You are supplied with a 2.1 A charger.

Stock Kernel does not charge at 2.1 A…. Around release it was only ~1A. Really annoying if using video-out (mhl-HDMI) bluetooth, wifi/3g, all at the same time… Watch the battery drain.

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This being said I seem to think that it doesn’t charge as fast when off.

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There is communication between Devices and chargers by putting a resistive value across the data lines D+ D- .

Maybe there is something in the charging circuitry that does it while off. Certaily with Samsung ARM based devices the kernel can be modded. Which is kind of cool that it can change the resistive value on the USB data lines to tell the charger to allow more current to be drawn.

Is there a STANDARD(or at least some manufacturers ignore it) as to what that value is.

Apple have their own value for iPads to pull 2.4 A

Samsung have their own values too.

Other manufacturers? No idea.

These are also used to signal other things like OTG or if the device is docked etc.

The Dirty Truth about USB device Charging

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I wonder if you could mod a cable with shorted data lines (with the right resistor) to supply more current.?

Could this be risky? Maybe… I mean fundamentally it won’t change the voltage right!

For example you can power any 12V DC device from a car battery (which could supply 300 A).

Current supplied should only match the load am I right?  I mean sticking a multimeter on the voltage lines to work out the current would be interesting if SOMEONE did it.

(My theory here could do with some refinement) but shorting data lines isn’t a new thing. And there is someone doing it on another (Dell) Bay Trail devices for different reason http://forum.tabletpcreview.com/threads/asus-vivotab-note-8-charging-and-usb-otg-at-the-same-time.61085/

Good Luck

Of course I’m not responsible for you breaking devices BUT I will take credit for your device becoming awesome 8)