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[GCole]

Hi Guys, I see a lot of people having problems here so I thought I would throw my experience into the mix.

FYI, I have done a clean install of windows 10 Home 32 bit (no dual boot) in a couple of ways without problems.  Here is a brief description on how I did it the easiest way.

1. formatted a 8gb usb stick using Rufas utility, (fat 32 with name WINPE) this can also be done on another machine using diskpart commands but by far the easiest is Rufus
2. Downloaded the Windows 10 Home edition 32bit from http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/techbench
3. unpacked said WHE32 using winrar to root of usb stick, also created a folder to store the drivers that I got from this site “double driver util”, I also had to download the touch driver from this site as this is needed and installed after all else.
4. I then attached a wireless keybrd + mouse to a powered usb 3 strip, I also attached the usb stick with all files written.
5. plugged the usb 3 strip into the Hi8 unit
6. powered the Hi8 while pressing the escape key, now I was presented with a few GUI options, the second option allows for boot selection.
7. Selected to boot from my usb strip (3rd in list for me)
8. windows started its install, I selected  to custom install, this way you get to delete partitions, if you have the Android on the machine there are lot of partitions, just delete all until you are left with 1 unformated raw partition  before proceeding.  now just follow the install procedure, there should be no need to enter a windows key as this is picked up from machine.  You will have to provide a key if you are installing PRO edition.
9. once install has finished and account created (warning: everything is really small on such a high res display of this size I had a magnifying glass handy) Its now time to run the double driver as administrator, hit restore and point to the directory where the drivers are residing on the usb stick, ok and a list should be populated. now just hit install ( there will be some promps along the way asking if you really want to install just keep hitting the install driver anyway option.  if you get presented with the option to reboot say no to this as some drivers are still installing in the background.
10. Whilst these drivers were completing I navigated the usb stick to where I stored the touch drivers as this didn’t install with double driver util.  I right clicked the inf file and elected the install option from the presented list of options.
11. now everything is done we can reboot.
12. after reboot touch screen should work, we can also attach to wifi router.
13. once attached to wifi a couple of seconds and I checked the activate option and windows was already activated.

Also this version of windows home was the latest build so no need for further big updated.

I ran the clean program in windows also and deleted everything, I have 20.3gb of free space, nice.

 

Sorry this was really done on the quick, hopefully all steps are understandable and I haven’t missed anything important.

Good Luck.

 

[parttimegeek]

Greetings all. I thought I’d give my impressions on the X98 Pro so far, hopefully it will be helpful to someone. I’d been looking for an affordable Windows tablet for awhile now, but waiting for something a bit more powerful. Spec wise, the X98 Pro really fit the bill for the price ($229).

I ordered from Banggood, the tablet shipped from China and showed up at my door in New York about a week later. It was packed in a foam carton, without retail packaging which was kind of a bummer. Tablet itself arrived in fine condition, but the retail packaging would have been nice if I want to resell the tablet later.

First thing I did was re-install Windows 10, which went completely smooth. I backed up all the drivers with DoubleDriver, then booted off a Windows 10 installer flash drive, deleted all existing partitions (including Android) and did a clean install of Windows 10. I actually was going to install Windows 10 Pro, but it turns out the installer picked up the embedded Windows 10 Home product key from the BIOS so once the install was done I noticed it was Windows 10 Home. Either way, once I booted back in to Windows it was fully activated. So it’s nice to know there is indeed a valid Windows key on the device, I thought I may need to buy one based on some other reviews. Re-installed the drivers from my DoubleDriver backups and I was good to go.

Sidenote, I don’t have a charging OTG hub yet so I did the re-install on battery power… which seems like it’s probably not the smartest idea, but the tablet made it through fine with plenty of battery to spare.

This thing is really fast! Everything in Windows 10 is super snappy and responsive. As people have said, it does run really hot but I’m not going to be doing gaming with this tablet so it shouldn’t be too much of an issue for me. I’m actually going to be using this as an always-on home server, running some programs like SABnzbd and Sickbeard, FTP server, etc. It actually makes a really great low power server solution, plus being a tablet and thus having a battery… it’s great in any power failure situations.

Also, the WiFi in this device is terribly slow and un-reliable for me. Even for Wireless N, it’s quite bad. Since I’ll be using it as a home server, I’ll be using a USB to Ethernet dongle plugged into an OTG hub. In some early tests, this gave me WAY faster and more stable transfer speeds than the wireless.

Now I’m just waiting on my OTG hub that can keep the X98 Pro charged, which I ordered from Banggood as well. Overall, really happy with the purchase!

[Moritz]

Allright, I’ll look into it, thanks Chris. Have fun in NZ!

I haven’t really had a chance to play around with it a lot because I screwed up on the Windows install, but my first impression was pretty good, especially with that pricetag.

@antony-white Well, the way I restored the drivers was I just went to the device manager and updated them one by one (hooked up an USB hub via the OTG and used a USB keyboard because the touchscreen and wifi were not working at that point). But I guess using Double Driver is the better option.

Would be great if you could show a couple pictures of the inside, I’d appreciate that, especially upgrading the battery might be a worthy investment along the line.

[Russ Dyer]

I think I’ll wait another week or so and if there is no news I’ll be hard pressed not to cancel my Hi10 order and go with another tablet. Really do want STD USB ports as I want to run an extra USB wifi adapter for some “projects”.

[Antony White]

Second that notion, I cannot believe i am not the only person in this boat! I have just received mine and didnt trust the standard install for fears of unwanted spyware/malware so out of the box i tried to do a restore………..long and short it bootlooped permanently. So I did fresh install  and cleared partitions, got it to install and now cant get ANY of the drivers to install. If you could tell me which drivers you used it would be massively appreciated. Thinking if i can at least get wifi can then get windows to search for them. FYI I am a bit of a tinkerer and had taken the back off this too, most notably because the usb on the device is TERRIBLE it is clearly a faulty connector but the cost of posting back  makes it prohibitive for me to claim under warranty.

Taking the back off revealed there is NO heatsink on this at all. There is a stick (yes a black sticker) with a small piece of wire foam doing a half hearted job of connecting to silver foil on the case. So do not be surprised to see massive throttling on the unit. If wanted happy to take picture and show inside. I have also de-soldered the battery and installed a 4000mAh variant. I had a quick look on ebay and fairly sure a 6000mAh would also fit in what is quite a large space.

[TAEL]

Suryasis wrote:

I had placed the Order in Aliexpress on their 11/11 event and paid $190 for the international version. Received the product on the day before yesterday. It is the international version and coming with a multi language Windows 10 and Android 5.1 with all google services preinstalled. So I guess it is the international version. I am using a 128GB Slilicon Power Class 10 USH-I Micro sd card with it. Also tested Sandisk 64GB USB 3.0-OTG dual Flash drive and that worked fine without any issue. Although I have not put the tablet on much load, the experience is very nice and the Tablet is not getting much worm, even after long period of use, mainly browsing and YouTube 1080p streaming. However, noticing that WiFi speed is not that great with this, and it sometime gets disconnected when the Bluetooth is in use. Can you guys suggest a Keyboard, preferably a BT one, with touch pad with it.

http://www.banggood.com/Universal-Bluetooth-Keyboard-For-7-Inch-Dual-Boot-Tablet-p-977056.html

[Suryasis]

I had placed the Order in Aliexpress on their 11/11 event and paid $190 for the international version. Received the product on the day before yesterday. It is the international version and coming with a multi language Windows 10 and Android 5.1 with all google services preinstalled. So I guess it is the international version. I am using a 128GB Slilicon Power Class 10 USH-I Micro sd card with it. Also tested Sandisk 64GB USB 3.0-OTG dual Flash drive and that worked fine without any issue.

Although I have not put the tablet on much load, the experience is very nice and the Tablet is not getting much worm, even after long period of use, mainly browsing and YouTube 1080p streaming. However, noticing that WiFi speed is not that great with this, and it sometime gets disconnected when the Bluetooth is in use.

Can you guys suggest a Keyboard, preferably a BT one, with touch pad with it.

 

Teclast X98 Pro,Asus Zenbook UX303-LA (i5 5200, QHD+), Dell Latitude 7350, Nexus 9, Samsung Tab 8.4 pro

[Antonine Kichenassamy]

Hi Chris and everyone! I bought my chuwi vi10, then i installed windows 10 via usb (erase everything). But now i have a driver issue. The ones you post didn’t worked for me. I think my hardware is different: first i have a broadcom wifi. My number is VI10Q32G22151000423. Only wifi is working (i have it from an other device) but the audio,  touchscreen doesn’t work. I don,’t have the intel graphic settings neither. I saw the drivers from chuwi’s website but how does they work? I have to extract them were?? I hope you will help me, for one week now i am struggling every day after school to make things work… Thanks!!

[digidog]

I haven’t mine opened up yet. How much space is there up top where the plastic space in case is ?

Thinking of installing a small  5 GHz WiFi module to this spare USB header.

You can get pretty small USB ones and if broken down to remove case and USB plug, i’m guessing the PCB in these would be tiny enough to slip in somewhere and wire directly to this header.

Inbuilt 2.4 GHz  basically renders Bluetooth useless due to interference, so WiFi at 5 GHz would be good mod if feasible.

But for best signal, it would be need to be up top in plastic section to get through shielded case.

[Loba]

Ordered the cube iwork8 ultimate through gearbest at US$79.99 and finally received it. Pictures below

hmmm, it has been opened.

Warranty card, manual, sticker, VIP card to extend warranty from 12 months to 14 months if you add them on wechat or something. The tablet comes with the screen protector on it which…started peeling from the side after some usage, fingerprint magnet too. Microusb cable and otg cable included as well.

Windows 10 Pro activated. It is non-laminating so the gap is very visible if you look out for it, otherwise, the screen is pretty great! Viewing angles are fantastic imo

Originally 18.7gb of space left but after fiddling with region and language settings, I was left with 17.7gb. Oops. 64gb Samsung Evo microsd works on it with no issue.

This shows the version of windows 10 installed. Windows updates is somehow disabled on the tablet.

There were complaints of lousy wifi on the chinese forums so I tested the wifi.

This is the wifi speed in my room with the door closed. Router is in the living room about 5 metres away. Comparison with note5 and ipad air 2.

Opening the door improves the wifi speed.

Tablet right over the router. Interestingly, I was able to hit 40mbps on download speed before it nosedives to 8mbps.

Yet to test the battery life as it came with 15% battery left. Tried connecting bluetooth keyboard and mouse to the tablet and only the mouse worked. The keyboard did work with android, windows 8.1.

Speed of Emmc speed followed by microsd

GeekBench 3 scores: 762 Single core and 2190 multi-core

3dmark 11 performance 1.0 P332

3d icestorm 1.2 – 12048

PCmark – 2229

Turbo clock max is 1.6ghz

[Smoker]

Dear All,

I was wondering if you can solve some questions I have and I did not manage to get a clear idea from the forum. I have been looking this forum for a long time but it is the first time I write something.

I have to say that I am both impressed and disappointed by this tablet (my first experience with a tablet of my own), and I am trying to make the best out of it. I am focusing mostly on the Windows 10 side, I do not use Android much. My questions for my K9C6 model are,

1. What is the difference between doing a Windows factory reset and a clean install from a bootable USB? Which one would you suggest and what are the advantages/ disadvantages?
2. I am not having any problems with missing eMMC, nevertheless shall I update to the new BIOS or not? Will it make any difference in speed or power? Any improvements? Is there any way to update the BIOS without an external keyboard as I have none?
3. I am looking for a OTG charger, I know there is a forum with this but it is really confusing with all the answers and links to follow up if something works or not (a comment “it mostly works” doesn’t actually give me the idea if it really works or not). I would also like this OTG charger device to have an SD Card reader (not micro). Do you have anything to suggest?
4. When I add an extra language to the pop up touch screen keyboard, it seems that it breaks the “hold touch extra letters/ numbers pop up” function (or whatever you would call it when you touch a button and wait until you get the pop up with the extra characters). It works on the first letter/ number, it does not work on the immediate after that, but it works again the third time, not the forth but yes with the fifth etc. I have to select the extra character, press a random one, delete the random and then select the next extra character (I hope I am not confusing you).
5. Sometimes when it goes to sleep, it disconnects from the WiFi and when I turn on the tablet again, it will not connect unless I restart the tablet. Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
6. From time to time almost everything seem to go wrong (not lunching apps for example) and I need to restart the tablet which works fine until the next time… Anyone else experiencing the same thing?
7. If you have any further suggestions on drivers/ apps/ tweeks/ tricks/ etc, please let me know. I already followed all suggestions regarding battery and used the Surface 3 audio drivers, huge improvement.

Thank you all in advance!

[Kamal]

yeye2 wrote:

Using it + 8H every day with a usb 3.0 docking hub and 2 Full HD Screens, also the tablet is now my primary business laptop and its ok with no major problems detected ( batery ok, wifi ok, keyboard ok, stylus ok, touch screen dont work some times and have to restart, seems software issue in win10) . For the price is great I bought as a “cheap” test to see if touch screen tablets with win10 could be used as a primary business laptop and it was a very nice surprise, now we are going to buy microsoft surfaces pro 4 , as cube screen ratio is not too good for office use.

Thanks for your impressions

Which US3.0 hub are you using?

Thanks

[Tim Tom]

Thank you Daniel, the rooting app works perfectly!

All I did was installed Intel ADB driver for Android, enabled USB debugging in Developer’s options, hooked up tablet to Windows PC, ran X98_PRO_5.1.1root.exe, following the instruction in English, and I got root.

Updated SuperSU through wifi, no error message.

[John Huynh]

When I got first got this tablet, android was working fine but Windows 10 was flashing after signing in. Surprisingly, the slide down to turn off device still works, I can sign in wifi, and anything else you can do on the front page. I decided to go to BIOS and I think I activated DNX fastboot mode. Now, the usb otg doesn’t work, so I can use a keyboard to get into BIOS again to deactivate it. Now android is always on the “Android is starting” page optimizing apps… than reboot and does the same thing again.

Can anyone tell me if there is any way to revert the BIOS, way to get into BIOS, or do a clean wipe of the tablet and only installing Windows back on, preferably Windows 8 if possible. If I can revert the fastboot, can someone help me fix Windows? Drivers, faulty copy of Windows?

[yeye2]

Using it + 8H every day with a usb 3.0 docking hub and 2 Full HD Screens, also the tablet is now my primary business laptop and its ok with no major problems detected ( batery ok, wifi ok, keyboard ok, stylus ok,  touch screen dont work some times and have to restart, seems software issue in win10) .  For the price is great

I bought as a “cheap” test to see if touch screen tablets with win10 could be used as a primary business laptop and it was a very nice surprise, now we are going to buy microsoft surfaces pro 4  , as cube screen ratio is not too good for office use.

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