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[Raymond Velden]

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Chuwi Vi8 Plus Review.
Introduction.
This tablet. the second windows 10 tablet that I am reviewing on this site. Is the follow-up of the older Chuwi Vi8 dual boot tablet with windows 8.1 and android. The reason this one is worth reviewing is that its has the latest on-board specifications.
Price and specifications.
For the moment of writing this review the price is $91 at gearbest. The specifications are as follows

CPU: Intel Atom x5-Z8300
RAM: 2GB
ROM/STORAGE: 32GB
SCREEN: 8.0 inch 1280 x 800 IPS
OS: Windows 10
BATTERY: 4000mAh
Dual cameras
Bluetooth 4.0
HDMI + Headphone +USB C + TF

Design and build quality.
Well. there is no doubt about the design and build quality of this tablet. It looks and feels very high end to me. And it looks a lot more expensive as it actually is. Here are some pictures for the eyes.

The size of the tablet is actually between the old Chuwi and Cube iwork8. 
Inputs and outputs.
Where my old Chuwi had some mini HDMI problems. This one worked instantly. But the most intressting thing about this device is the USB-C connector. 

I am still not sure if this is an advantage or an disadvantage, One of the advantages is that its an upcoming standard of connecting devices. And a lot of cables will be USB C very soon. Its reversible so you can never put it in the wrong way like an micro USB or normal USB adapter.

The disadvantage is that it doesn’t come with an OTG cable meaning you can’t use your old OTG cables to connect your mouse or keyboard either. You need to buy an new one.

As for the camera and speakers they seem to be exactly the same as the older chuwi and iwork8. Nothing to talk home about. Check this review for more information
Screen.
The screen of this device is like much other 8 inch windows tablets. an 1280 x 800 IPS screen. however. this screen is definitely less then its competitor iwork8. It has an clear yellow tint if you hold it next to the cube iwork8.

The yellow at the top is the chuwi plus.

Because of this. the cube iwork8 is also brighter.
Battery life.
For this I’ve made an new test benchmark myself.

This test goes as follows, The tablet is charged to 100% battery and the latest version of chrome is opened along with task manager and Batterymon.  Youtube replay will replay the nyan cat video for aslong as it can. meanwhile every 10 or so seconds. an log is updated on the device to keep track of the current battery percentage. The screen is set on about half of the brightness or an bit lower or higher matching the previous tested tablet as good as possible. The CPU most of the time seems to get around 12% usage.

The following are the results.

I think playing video for about 4 to almost 5 hours. is an pretty good result. You can see the plus model does have the best time versus battery capacity ratio.
Performance.
The performance is actually pretty disappointing. The flash storage. which is very important in devices like this. Is about HALF *click* the speed of the original model and the iwork8. This means programs and windows will load noticeably slower, 

The CPU is the same model as the one on the iwork8 and therefore has almost the same performance.

Its strange to see the Vi8 with the older CPU getting the best scores. Because the base clock GHZ is lower as the new CPU’s.

For the WiFi I found out the speed is very variable from about 35 to 72 Mbits per second. As long as you are in the range of your WiFi router. It should be good. However I found that range to be quite disappointing. It only barely reaches 1 floor higher before losing connection on the 3th floor.

Using the Chuwi Vi8 Plus
Using the Chuwi Vi8 Plus starts out very nice. The default language is English and the setup asks if you want to change it at the very first time you boot up your device. Its very easy to setup and doesn’t come with any bloatware at all. Just an link to an website.

Connecting this device to your screen could turn this into an small desktop computer. Like the rival tablets. However with USB C and without an OTG cable. You are forced using Bluetooth to connect your mouse and keyboard to your tablet. I’ve found my keyboards not working properly and I’m not jet sure if this is the fault of windows 10 or the Chuwi hardware. Like you can see in the video above. my keyboard strokes had some delay and seem to “hang” sending the same character over and over again.  The tablet however did NOT lag. It had no performance trouble looking at task manager. its purely the Bluetooth.  The yellow tint on the screen is not something that would turn me down from buying this tablet because you wont notice until you hold it next to another tablet.

The tablet does feel an bit warmer as the others holding in the hand, But nothing special or extreme. In my next review I might temperature test on all devices and check for sure. Be sure to read next time 😉

Overall using this tablet feels pretty solid because of the battery and easy setup. This is an device any user can handle unlike the iwork8 witch came in Chinese and had problems changing language.

But the downsides of this device make me rate this an average

6.5/10 

You can buy the tablet around $91 here: Chuwi Vi8 Plus.

[Russ Dyer]

same wifi drops on my Later 64 Bit model with blue usb port. Ended up getting a usb ac600 wifi adapter which works well.

[Guillaume]

Hi everyone.

So i have made some big progress but the road has been quite long.

You can’t boot a USB Key that you created with Rufus or even the Windows software because of the Bios which is UEFI 32 bits for some reasons (that’s weird because we have a 64 bits proc and architecture). You need to put a file in the folder EFI/BOOT which is called bootia32.efi

Then, just go in your bios by pressing ESC at very startup and going in the last tab section and selecting your usb key in the section “boot override” (you can also change the boot order in the boot section).

My goal was to try Ubuntu Live. I could now get the grub menu and select “Try Ubuntu Live”. It seemed to load and then i got a black screen. From this point i tried all kinds of things in the bios until i made the BIGGEST mistake you could make on such devices. I DEACTIVATED the USB in the bios hence i couldn’t plug anything on the tablet or it would crash, i couldn’t reset the bios either because i couldn’t plug ANY keyboard as they are USB. The tablet was lost. I searched heavily on the web but this tablet is really recent so there’s not that much stuff on it on the web.

Long story short, after a lot of refection i downloaded the official rom from Needrom hoping that the bios would be in there and it was! I flashed it from the Windows and Voilà !!!

I decided to continue my researches to finally boot that usb key. I found a way to arrive at the login page of the Live Session!!

So i think that it will be soon possible to install Ubuntu (or any linux distrib) on this machine. After i try to login there an error and it goes back to the login screen so i think there are still a lot of things to do for it to work (wifi card doesn’t seem to be recognized for example, no touch screen etc…). I’m happy i managed to do it anyway and it opens doors for other ideas like Booting in “Remix OS” which is a desktop version of Android.

Let me know what you think about this, if it gives you ideas and if you want to help.

A bientôt.

Guillaume

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[Hahn Robin]

Hi!

Use at your own risk. I’m not responsible for any damage this method may do to your tablet.

So the guide:

Charge full the tablet! Then you can leave it on the charger if you want! Dont turn it off when its flash the bios! Read the other topics about bios flashing!

First you need to decide if the serial number higher than 42151103000 than its okay<strong>. </strong>If its smaller then you need other files.

There is an other forum topic Chuwi H10 32to64bit upgrade v200 hardware. There is the first post is Przemo`s post about the files. Head over to the Google drive link and download the P02-C106_B101UAN_607_RealTek_wifi_20151224.zip file.

When you unzip it you will see some files and an other zip file. <strong>So now you will flash the bios!!! </strong>You have 2 options: unzip the P02-C106_B101UAN_607_RealTek_wifi_20151224.zip file and put it on a USB flash drive. When the tablet start booting you can press F7 to get the boot menu or go to the bios and set the boot order to boot from your flash drive. Then it will boot from it and it will flash the bios <strong>or</strong> if you can get the tablet to Windows then unzip the zip file inside the P02-C106_B101UAN_607_RealTek_wifi_20151224.zip file and run the flashing program. <strong>WARNING!!! I repeat that it will flash your bios! Dont turn it off when its flashing! 

After that may you need to set back the boot order to boot from Windows Boot Manager. Now, if everything is good, it will boot to windows.

If you screwd something then you may will have a new cutting board or may you can repair it. For more info read the ChuwiH10 32to64bit upgrade v200 hardware topic.

I hope that everybody can understand it.

Greetings from Hungary!

Robin

[Stuart]

Avoid this company at all costs.

I bought an Onda oBook 11 from them, it arrived quickly but within a week developed some major problems –

Power adapter died

USB ports don’t always work.

32bit OS on 64bit hardware.

Internal WIFI stopped working.

 

I contact GeekBuying about these issues who offered me $25 if i took the laptop to a repair shop, this is when we found out that the power adapter was dead. the guy in the repair shop didn’t charge me anything.

Geekbuying then ask me to find another adapter on ebay, which i did although it took ages to find one with the correct voltage, and amps. the cost of the new adapter was $22. Geek buying said this was too much and they would only refund me $10 even though they said they would refund me $25 to have the laptop repaired in the fist place!!

this still wasn’t addressing the other issues which they ignored.

they then asked me to return the laptop to china even though I paid extra to be able to return the item to spain if there was a problem.

I will never use GeekBuying again.

looking in trustpilot there are alot of bad reviews for this company.

https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/geekbuying.com

 

 

 

 

[Hahn Robin]

Hi!

I managed to get working Remix OS 2.0 on Hi10. I putted it to a USB 2.0 pendrive but It’s working okay, just you cannot ‘install’ it because it’s slow. You can use USB 3.0 drive but I doesn’t have one laying around now. You can only use guest mode and you need to connect a screen with HDMI and when you select guest mode you need to wait for around 5 to 10 minutes. After that you will see the Remix OS logo on the external screen. I have the V300 model and it’s seems that the Remix OS doesn’t support the Realtek wifi. I don’t remember if it’s support the touch screen or not.

Robin

(Sorry for my bad English! 🙁 )

[Anonymous]

I deleted the drivers and install again, but not working. There is a red x on the left side of the wifi sign. But the usb wifi dongle is good. What can I do more?

[Anonymous]

I opened the rar file and in the device manager click to every line to refresh the driver. And it become good. I can make a screenshot, tell me where can i find this version number you need.

So I need te reinstall the windows? What I have to do? Could you tell me step by step? I connected an USB wifi stick it is working.

[Dmitry]

I got v200 release with Win10 32bit (2 black USB and Broadcom as WiFi adapter). I’ve tried to upgrade to 64-bit release (BIOS and Win10) but WiFi is shown with yellow triangle.  I’ve re-install drivers from Win10 and BIOS for Chuwi Hi10 but… no luck.

[stéphane]

We first need a USB key that is formatted in FAT32, after just copy the files to the root of the key.
Please note there are 2 versions with the driver realtek wifi or not a check.
Then restart the tablet with a keyboard plugged in and press the F7 key and then select the USB key.
It takes about 2 minutes.

[Anonymous]

I am of the same opinion about the dual boot Jay. This tablet is perfect as a Windows 10 portable, low cost, desktop replacement.

The past stock Teclast roms have not been the best as far as bloat goes. The X98 pro dual boot bios and the problems average users have with the convoluted host drivers etc, more trouble than it’s worth IMHO. Simple Uefi windows bootloader = Less problems

I tried to boot that Remix 2.0 several times. No go…Reset. I have only seen one mention of it working on cherry trail, and that was here, on a X98 plus with a second monitor on the HDMI jack. I can believe that, as I noticed that the thing seemed to boot, but the native screen does not work. Any testers??

Edit: I gave the previous Usb drive (latest official uefi release) that seemed to install, a try. No bios changes….it flags one or two errors but it boots up on the HDMI jack. The tablet screen is completely black. No WiFi  for me. Seems fairly smooth with a 2.4 mouse/keyboard. WiFi usb adapter worked right away when plugged into the hub.

 

[Luis]

Hi, I got to run Linux Mint the other day, I could pass the black screen.

You need to chage the order boot in  te bios, you connect a keyboard and press del while you turn on the tablet. In the bios changes the boot order and put the first the usb. Download the iso, mount and copy the files to an USB stick, reboot with this USB and a keyboard connect. When the tablet starts, you can see a boot selection, you need to select safe mode, in the normal mode you’ll get a black screen. When you select safe mode you’ll see a lot of words, and you have to wait a long time to linux load. When linux finishes load, you’ll see a error, press enter until the error dissapear, then, you have linux, but in command line mode (whithout X). If you want to run X mode, you need to chage a littel configuration. Write in the console “sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf” and press enter, this will open a text editor and you need to find the line with the driver. In this line you have to change “vesa” by “intel”, press CTRL + O to save the changes and CTRL + X to exit. Now, only need to execute “sudo service mdm restart” and the X server will start.

EDIT: I forgot it, you need the 64 bits iso, and dont working nothing (touchscreen, wifi, sdcard…)

Sorry for my english, I’m spanish and I’m studing english now.

[Miki]

Thanks Diego, I hope to find a external wifi USB dongle that works with Android.

[Angela McDonald]

After trying to merge together the various partitions to make some space on my VI10/32gb and it crashed after applying the changes in EASEUS, afterwards windows 8.1 was no longer bootable. I didn’t panic and I grabbed a copy of Win8.1 pro (32 bit). It seemed to install fine from USB (the UEFI partition was spared) and it booted up after the install. I then grabbed double driver and the driver pack here on TechTablet for windows 8.1. I run it with administrator privileges and select the backup and it starts doing its thing. It gets to the first driver or so asking permission to install (unsigned I think it said) then after selecting install anyway it continues on. However now it sits on Please wait while the drivers install. This may take some time to complete…

Well it’s been on this screen for about 20 minutes now and hasn’t prompted me for anything. This is now my second time installing windows fresh and trying to use this driver pack (the first time after about 10 minutes I shut down and when I tried to bring it up windows wouldn’t boot).

Any ideas? Could it be the version of Windows 8.1 I put on? I see there is a 8.1 image on here should I try that? does that take out the hassle of the driver install afterwards?

I was thinking of just installing the wifi driver next time around and using Driver Solution to see if it could get everything up and going.

 

 

[sejo]

Andreas wrote:

Hi! I just got my new X2 and wanted to do a clean installation. I only had a Windows 8.1 key available and wanted to update to windows 10 after the installation. Unfortunately the Wifi driver doesn’t seem to work under windows 8 and I can’t find any working driver online either. Any ideas where to get a working driver?

The Wifi is HORRIBLE on it, thought people were over exaggerating it :(……..Can’t wait till my Wifi usb comes in.