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[Daniel]

Ahh, OK I think I understand now. Unfortunately, the usb-head you see is just an empty “frame”. It has no function on the wifi-card what so ever.

[Jakob Schmidt Rasmussen]

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as i understand it wont work this ac600 wifi dongle, after you have peeled the materiel off and resoldered the pins to an old usb cable.

that old usb cable ‘ sometimes there is some inner cirquit on on the cable at the head under the platic..

you could try to take the original usb-head from the ac600 i can see in the picture laying solo, and see if it will work if you connect the wires to the orig.pins there.(to conclude if the board is fried, or its down to the wires, or perhaps the used usb-cable that is the corpriate & the sinner for not working.)

 

 

[Daniel]

Great tip, l´ll make sure to try it later

Me on the other hand, has really hit a speed-bump with the usb-wifi-thing. I wanted to try to solder on a regular usb-cable to the dongle first, just to try how it worked (see picture). And for some reason, when I plug it in the PC, I get a error message saying that this usb-device is malfunctioning and does not work.

But I have tried to do the same thing on 2 flash drives and a crappy no name usb wifi card. And them all work flawlessly. And it makes me really frustrated because I dont know what the diffrence is. And I dont know where I might get some help to solve it either.

Does someone know why it doesnt work or maybe give me a link to a forum that is more focused on electronics and soldering?

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[Divergent Droid]

As long as the unit works and has power, this 4 gig mini can compete with the Big laptops with the right accessories.  I’m curious to see what others are buying to accessorize your tablet. To me, there are main 4 things this tablet needs (aside from  keyboard and mouse)  1) better battery, 2) better storage, 3)better sound, 4)Ethernet port – All these things can be added/fixed! – For on the go wifi I’d also add an external wifi dongle with built in directional antenna for picking up weaker signals.

My Picks include:

Battery – Chuwi comes with a 6000 mah battery. I will be using a 20000 mah external power supply to charge my unit on the go. 20.000 mah is enough to charge the unit 3 times between recharging the external battery. Such as this one for example (this unit not tested with Chuwi yet): http://www.amazon.com/20000mAh-Portable-External-Capacity-ExpertPower%C2%AE/dp/B00N4E84T8/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1457813993&sr=8-4&keywords=20000+mah+battery – make sure you match the power supply to the charging specs of your Chuwi Hi10 – 5 volt 2 amp.

Storage – The 64 gigabyte rom drive your Chuwi runs it’s Windows 10 from is so tiny it’s not good for much except running Windows. Years of Windows updates can clog up all of this space leaving you with none to do work with. You need more storage. What works great for me is my Western Digital Passport Ultra 1 terabyte external USB 3.0 hard drive. Really, I suggest folks have Two of these – one for storage and one to use to actually install all of your programs onto. This 2nd drive will be your main working drive along with the Windows 64 gigabytes drive. I have installed and can play games like Crysis 2, Halflife 2 FarCry 3 etc to this hard drive and they play great due to the very fast speeds of USB 3.0. Suggested type of external: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Passport-Ultra-Portable-External/dp/B00W8XXRPM/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457814618&sr=8-1&keywords=Western+Digital+Passport+Ultra

Sound – The Chuwi comes with tiny speakers that are facing the side and back of the unit thus you don’t get good quality sound to your ears in front of the device. Adding external speakers may be your thing. You can always use a good set of headphones for private listening.  For non private listening, good external speakers require power. I suggest you use speakers that will plug into your external battery power supply if you have one, otherwise the power plugged into your Chuwi will eat up the battery life you need to run the unit. Alternatively, you can try to find AA or AAA battery powered speakers which is preferable (for me) but hard to find. Perhaps something like these neat speakers that clip on to the top of your Chuwi screen: http://www.amazon.com/Portable-Wall-mounted-External-Speaker-Laptop/dp/B017RSSKY0/ref=sr_1_45?ie=UTF8&qid=1457815314&sr=8-45&keywords=mini+laptop+external+speakers  Again, remember to make sure you match the power requirements to your external power supply. The power supply I mention above has an extra port you can use to power your speakers as well as a port to charge your Chuwi.

Ethernet port – Chuwi Hi10 doesn’t come with an Ethernet port. While at home you can get faster speeds and save some battery power by using Ethernet instead of the built in wifi. For this, I suggest a 3.0 USB Ethernet port. Yes, they make 3.0 USB Ethernet ports! Ethernet is faster than Wifi but not faster than USB 3.0 thus you will get all of your home ethernet speed without the slowdowns. Since in my case, I am using a 3,0 USB Western Digital external hard drive, I elected to get a 3 port USB 3.0 Hub with Ethernet port such as this one: http://www.amazon.com/Anker-Gigabit-Ethernet-Converter-Support/dp/B014ZOJX7W/ref=sr_1_sc_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1457816145&sr=8-1-spell&keywords=ubs+hub+ethernet (has 4 ports total, 3 USB and 1 Ethernet) This way I can use the external hard drive and the ethernet both through the 3.0 USB hub and the Chuwi 3.0 USB port.

For Boosting wifi – is the – External Wifi dongle with directional antenna – You’d need both the dongle and the antenna such as seen here:

Dongle: http://www.amazon.com/Alfa-AWUS036NHA-Wireless-Adaptor-Compatible/dp/B004Y6MIXS/ref=pd_sim_147_2?ie=UTF8&dpID=31OywCLDnvL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=0V162F50Z65EJJ095NA3

Antenna: http://www.amazon.com/Alfa-2-4HGz-Booster-High-Gain-Antenna/dp/B003ZWPRUI/ref=sr_1_fkmr0_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1457816495&sr=8-3-fkmr0&keywords=alfa+directional+usb+wifi+antenna

Lastly, I don’t think you could go wrong with a tablet case such as the Case Logic VNA 210 – Small enough to fit your Chuwi and roomy enough to carry all your accessories. This one was my choice. http://www.amazon.com/Case-Logic-10-2-Inch-Netbook-Attache/dp/B002STX2ZG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1457816858&sr=8-2&keywords=case+logic+vna

Thanks for reading my post, I look forward to your accessories ideas.

[dlink377]

Chris G wrote:

Same issue as me then, just my USB 3 flash/pen drives will work. But any HDD with a USB 3 OTG it will not power it the light flash blue but it never shows in . At least the USB 2 ports on the dock work jsut fine. Very disappointing, that and the poor speakers are the two only faults of this otherwise wonderful little 2 in one transformer style tablet. Now we know why Cube only included a USB 2.0 and not USB 3.0 Micro to USB adaptor! Wondering if these setting may help?

USB Harddisk doesn’t work for me even when connecting to USB 2 port or USB 3 with USB 2 OTG.

Speaker is horrible, but I can live with that. I plan to use this on the field when installing network and CCTV system, which only can be done using Windows and Ethernet is required. Need a computer that I can throw in the tool bag, that I will not care about scratches.

Does the USB harddisk work using the keyboard dock?

I plan to buy a USB Wifi Nano and install it on the dock. The wifi on the tablet is just not gonna make it if I want to install CCTV system. Too many dropped packets and broken packets, even my router repeatedly logged “Disconnected, extensive packet loss” and “Data from unknown device”.

Edit: Now the USB 3 doesn’t work at all again. I think I gave up to run USB 3 on this tablet.

Edit 2: I changed the setting XHCI to Disabled. Now USB 3 it is working again. Harddisk still not working. Will report again if this works, since before the USB 3 works randomly.

[dlink377]

I own this tablet for few days already. I bought it on TaoBao directly from CUBE shop.

Performance wise, I think it is just okay. I am constantly using it for chrome, but definitely you can see it sometime will slow down. Having 4G of RAM definitely helps the performance of memory hungry chrome. Office will work without problem, but free 1 year Office 360 is not included (it is included in iWork8 last year). I haven’t try to do programming on the tablet, since the screen is so small, so I prefer to do programming on my computer.

Never tried Chuwi, but I do like the full sized port. I bought this because I want to use the dual boot version. Windows 10 is not friendly at all for touch user. You might prefer to use Android if you want to use it as tablet mode.

The windows partition size is 41.6GB, with free space after installing necessary apps such as office and updating it is around 19.7GB. Probably just because I install few more apps that I use such as codec pack, firefox and chrome, torrent, and one or two small games from Windows store to try the gaming performance.

I have few problem that I personally find:

1. SD Card Reader has bug. On android it frequently disconnected randomly and reconnected again. On Windows, most of the time it just don’t work at all. You must use old Class 4 card. I bought Samsung 64GB EVO+ and it only worked for first day. I changed to cheap 8GB class 4 memory card, and it works without problem.
2. USB 3.0 most of the time will not work. You can use USB 2.0 without problem though. USB Harddisk will not work at all (you can use USB Y cable, with power from external source).
3. Android performance is not really up to my standard. The android is fine, but any 3rd party apps performance is quite slow. My old Note 8 is faster.
4. It drains battery too much when sleeping. Both in Windows and Android. Around 1-5% per hour. Even worse in Windows.
5. WiFi is not stable. The infamous Realtek SDIO Wireless chip is installed. The speed is around 1MB-3MB, and it constantly drop even I am next to the router. If you use it as web browsing only, there is no problem.
6. There is no stylus support that I know of. They do provide some cheap looking pen that mimic touch that not even work at all time. There is also no palm rejection.

Probably even more, since I only use this tablet for few days.

However, I still believe this is probably the best for 900RMB+ class tablet out there. The aluminum body is very nice and good quality. Screen is okay and very high resolution. Chuwi is nice, but it is plastic body, which I don’t really like.

I bought keyboard dock for additional 300RMB, which is quite expensive, considering the tablet itself is 980RMB. I haven’t receive the keyboard yet, they just sent me the tablet.

[Daniel]

Yes I have. I mean, I would still try to solder on the usb wifi-card so I might as well keep this one.

Yeah, I really hope I works. I broke the sim-card-reader so l´ll try to replace that one as well. Even thought I dont think I will be able to replace it, but we´ll see…

 

I guess no one have found out the actual size of the charging-connector?

[mrobi]

Is the inbuilt Wifi chip USB2.0 like in i7?

[julien]

Hello,

So someone resolve WIFI issue ?? I’m using a usb dongle WIFI, waiting for a solution from CHUWI

Cheers

[Daniel]

Ok, thats enough. Just drop it, both of you. We´ve had like 32 pages without any trolling. So just knock it off!

 

I have received my aukey ac600 wifi card. I have just ordered a new soldering station, after that, I will try to solder on the usb-wifi to the tablet and see what the speeds will be like. And for me its extra crucial that it works since my built in wifi no longer works

[Anonymous]

I gave the new version a spin. I installed in resident mode. The screen is rotated 90 degrees, but it does work now.

As posted the dpi default is almost unusable. Had to get out the magnifing glass 🙂

It seemed much slower than when I had it running on the hdmi with the last version. It seems to be choking on the retina screen resolution. No gpu support for cherry trail seems to be the issue here.

No wifi, no sound, no screen rotation, no touch. The dlink usb wifi adapter that worked with the last version did not seem to work now? Def not ready for prime time on the x98 plus, but it’s progress!

Max

[Arévalo Frutos]

I think I am fixing it! I have thought that Ihas only disabled the power from the usb devices so I have made a cable with an external power to the tablet and it has made a signal with a wifi antenna. When I connect only the energy, the light of the antenna is off. When I connect the energy and the data cables with the tablet turned off, it does not light, but when I turn on the tablet the antenna is turned on! I will try that with a keyboard and I’m going to post the results 🙂

[Hans]

I took some photos from the outside and also opened the tablet. I wanted to search if it possible to connect power somewhere inside. Sadly it is not easy to figure out, there are no obvious test points. Somehow I would need to fiddle around at the USB-C connector.

The mainboard looks to be glued onto the screen. There are two screws, but they seem to offer some support for the connector. There are pins for a second speaker. Around the Realtek sound chip there is place for a few other ribbon cable connectors, I don’t know what they are for. Next to micro SD slot there seems to be an unpopulated slot and an area around it. I think this could be a place for a SIM card plus mobile data modem. The R+ R- pads have no connections, there is no component to attached to it.

At the top there is one WIFI antenna and two unused mounting spaces. One could be for example for an ambient light sensor. If Chuwi would relocate the speaker e.g. to the top or the other side, I would be possible to have a bigger battery inside.

I would love to see what is under the cans, but I don’t want to risk damaging it. The smaller contains the WIFI chip, the antenna is going there. The bigger one must be the CPU + some interface chips + eMMC.

If someone wants to donate me their faulty one, I can do a full teardown and post high-res photos.

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[xjesus]

I am trying with XJubuntu 14.04 and kernel 4.4.4 on my Teclast X98 Plus. Also trying on beta 16.04.

I’ve tried a lot of different kernels and this has the best support so far, it supports Bluetooth, TouchScreen, rotation, etc. by default and I only miss WiFi support for the moment, but I can use it with a USB to GigaEthernet.

I’m working on a custom distro to ease the tablet usage on Ubuntu/Xubuntu. XJubuntu is a mixture of the two I’ve created where you can choose to login on Unity or XFCE. Unity is better for tablet/touch mode but XFCE performs way better for desktop usage with mouse/keyboard.

I am uploading the last ISO to SourceForge on the Folder “Tablets Intel” if someone wants to try it. My upload speed is not fast and it’ll take at least 5 hours still (3.3GB).

https://sourceforge.net/projects/xjubuntu/files/Tablets%20Intel/

 

 

[xjesus]

I am trying with XJubuntu and kernel 4.4.4 on my Teclast X98 Plus.

I’ve tried a lot of different kernels and this is the one with best support so far, it supports Bluetooth, TouchScreen, rotation, etc. by default and I only miss WiFi support for the moment, but I can use it with a USB to GigaEthernet.

I’m working on a custom distro to ease the tablet usage on Ubuntu/Xubuntu. XJubuntu is a mixture of the two where you can choose to login on Unity or XFCE. Unity is better for tablet/touch mode but XFCE performs way better for desktop usage with mouse/keyboard.