Hi all
I have a Chuwi Hi 12 – love the hell out of it. Best comic reader I have ever had. Great battery life. Crap Wifi but a USB plug in sorted that.
However – I booted it up yesterday and the screen is black. I belive it’s not a hardware issue because the display is on and just fine in the Bios. It’s only when windows kicks in that it goes black. I am lucky that I have team viewer on there so am able to get into it and can see that it’s working just fine. This is making me suspect a driver issue. This is further strenghtened by the fact that there was a big update a few days ago and it’s not been the same since. I normaly do not belive in updates but decided to let theis one do them … never again.
So any way – does anyone know how I get my beloved tablet back? I have no data on there and will be happy to do a total wipe if thats what is needed. As a side issue – this one is Windows only – how hard would it be to set it up as dal boot should I have to do a full wipe any way?
Thanks for reading
Everso
UPDATE – yeha – driver issue. I booted into safe mode and the display works. Thing is I have put fresh display drivers on there and it don’t seem to help when booting into normal mode. I am thinkig its wipe time. Is there a decent tutorial on this somewhere?
I have now converted 7 dual boot tablets to Windows-only and the procedure has always been the same.
- Create a pen-drive with the Microsoft Media creation tool. Just make sure you select Windows home 64 bits and your language.
- Download and unzip a folder with Tablet drivers to this or other pen-drive
- Shutdown Tablet
- Connect a USB hub with USB keyboard, USB mouse and the pen-drive created on point 1
- Power on the Tablet and press Supr to go into BIOS
- On boot options change Fast boot to disabled,
- On the bottom of that page there’s a list of devices, select your USB pen-drive so it boots from it
- Start Windows Installation, select advanced installation
- From here, DELETE ALL partitions. Do not create any partitions. Leave all space as unused.
- Windows will create the partitions it needs and install
- Just after finishing Windows install, go to settings, recover options and reboot to change startup options. Look for a tutorial on Internet. Select option 7, “Do not require signed drivers”
- Back in Windows, open device manager, right-click on each “unknown device”, select update driver and lead it to the pen-drive with the drivers
And that’s it, after all devices have been installed you’ll have Wifi, sound, touch input, camera…
Drivers for X80 Pro (E6E9 I think), here
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1etDzJfum8kjHXwCEWDfVFsQE1iJF3B91
[Edit:] The problem is resolved. It seems related to a faulty burn of the ISO to USB. I did it again on a slower 2.0 port instead of the 3.0 port and then it worked.
So the Manjaro Architect net-installer can be used to install the latest Manjaro version – as long as you start it with the rEFInd boot manager as explained here.
This post is just for tracking purposes. I posted on the Manjaro forum about their net-installer (Manjaro Architect v17.04) crashes when I try to install Manjaro on my EZBook 3 Pro with it. Architect allows the installation of any Manjaro distro and version. It worked fine on my Lenovo G50 notebook. On my EZB3P only once it got as far as connecting to my Wifi router, began updating, then crashed… https://forum.manjaro.org/t/architect-17-04-is-unstable-crashes/35180?u=bako62
Note: as mentioned above, the normal non-net install ISO (pre-release) manjaro-xfce-17.1-pre2-stable-x86_64.iso works OK with the rEFInd boot manager.
Installing Antergos Linux on the Jumper EZbook 3 Pro v4
Steps I did to get it working perfectly:
Download and install the program Etcher on Windows or Linux (I used Linux)
Download the Antergos 17.11 64bit ISO and burn it to USB with Etcher: https://antergos.com/blog/iso-refresh-antergos-17-11/
Boot into BIOS settings (hit <Esc> when you see the Jumper logo on startup)
Move the Antergos USB boot option to the top of the BIOS boot list and boot up the Live-USB.
Connect to Wifi and let the Antergos Installer update itself if needed (happens automatically)
Run the installer and choose the Gnome desktop (or other, I haven’t tried them yet)
>>> SEE Antergos doc’s for installation instructions if you’re not familiar with disk partitioning and how to install Linux along side Windows <<<
Unlike most Linux distro’s Antergos does a Net-install downloading everything, so make sure you have a reliable/fast internet connection and not running on battery
<reboot> when install completes
Probably you will get a locked-up black screen with blinking cursor.
If so you’ll have re-enter BIOS and change it to boot Windows, then install the rEFInd boot manager
Installing rEFInd from within Windows (or, see the rEFInd page for other ways to install it):
Download the rEFInd zip file: http://sourceforge.net/projects/refind/files/0.11.2/refind-bin-0.11.2.zip/download
Download the free EasyUEFI program: https://www.easyuefi.com/downloads/EasyUEFI_Free.exe
Go to this page http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#windows
Perform steps 1-8 in the section “Installing rEFInd Manually Using Windows”
For steps 9-10 use the EasyUEFI tool instead of the ‘bcdedit’ command (but bcdedit may work too, I did not try)
Note: I didn’t record my EasyUEFI steps but I managed to do it without reading any of their user guides. Read them if needed.
<reboot>
The rEFInd boot menu now shows up with both Windows and Antergos choices.
I then went back into BIOS settings, reset defaults, save, and reboot.
The Touchpad is working again! in both Linux and Windows (it had stopped working on both Win/Linux)
Everything works… Touchpad, Wifi, audio, brightness, battery meter.
This is a pretty slick low-cost Linux machine.
Now if I can resolve the weak wifi signal problem (on Linux only) I’ll be quite happy.
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Antergos Gnome works fine. I have the v4 Ezbook 3 Pro and none of the many Linux distro’s I tried would even bootup a Live-USB. Then I burned the latest version of Antergos 17.11 ISO to USB using Etcher. The Live-USB booted fine and everything was working when it booted up, except the touchpad. Then I installed it with the Gnome desktop to my SSD drive but when installation finished and I rebooted it gave the infamous black/blank screen with blinking cursor problem. Installing rEFInd boot manager from within Windows fixed it. See the rEFInd homepage http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/ and followed the guide to install rEFInd manually in Windows and with help of the free program EasyUEFI. After rebooting both Windows and Antergos shows up in the rEFInd menu, and everything seems to be working, except…
.. the only thing I have to figure out is why the touchpad does not work. It was working initially on Windows until I tried booting Linux, then it stopped working on both Linux and Windows and nothing I do restores it. Even resetting BIOS settings to defaults does not. Any ideas?
[edit:] I went back into the BIOS settings are reset defaults and now the touchpad is working again in both Windows and Linux. So great. Completely working dual boot now. 😉
Notes: I’m using “reset defaults” BIOS settings. Two warnings…
* I would not recommend selecting the BIOS setting OS Type = Linux as it’s not necessary and doing so may hose your system as it did to mine – super dim screen with non-fuctional keyboard, requiring me to disconnect/reconnect the batter to get it working again.
* It is now a known problem that the Linux Grub boot manager does not work with many (most?) Linux distro’s on many Apollo-Lake devices. If you try to use it your touchpad may become permanently disabled, even in Windows, and I’m not sure yet if merely resetting default BIOS settings will fix it always, for everyone. There is probably a list of Linux distro’s that boot OK but so far I personally have not found any on the (version-4) Ezbook 3 Pro other than Antergos that also has wifi and everything else working out of the box (not requiring respinning a custom ISO). I think I read somewhere that the very latest Ubuntu 17.10 also works. I might try that later.
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Well I tried Manjaro Xfce 17.05. The live-USB created by burning the ISO to usb with the Etcher program… it would not boot. I tried selecting OS type “Linux” in the BIOS and that resulted in a black screen and when going back into the BIOS settings the screen was so dim you almost could not read it… and what’s worse the keyboard (arrow keys) were no longer responding when in the BIOS settings so I could not put it back to booting Windows – so the system was dead. The only solution was to open it up, disconnect the battery, and reconnect it again. That enabled me to get it booting windows again.
2nd attempt was with Antergos 17.09 (which defaults to the Gnome desktop) and that booted fine after just changing the boot priority to the USB drive. I’m using it right now as I type this and audio, touchpad, wifi, and screen brightness are all working.
I have not yet tried to install it. Will update later…
[edit:] booting back into Windows after using the Antergos Live-USB boot, I just got the touchpad freeze problem.
https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_1027977.html Gearbest presale page is live with some details. Gist of Surbook Mini
- Intel Celeron N3450
- 4GB Ram
- 64GB storage
- 10″ 1920 x 1280 Laminated display
- 2 fullsize USB 3.0 + Type-C with PD(charging)
- Dual band Wifi
- 8000mAh battery
- Active stylus-Hipen H2
- doesn’t come with pen or keyboard
- $289
I waited for this product and now i am disappointed. Hipen H2?? H3 has better palm rejection. Price of $289 w/o accessories. If you add $100 for pen and keyboard its the same price as a full set Surbook 6/64Gb indiegogo price.
That doesn’t bother me much. The lower res screen should provide a snappier performance and I never use a stylus. My biggest issue is that the storage is eMMC and only 64 gb, sure RAM could be higher but not a deal breaker. What is a deal breaker is if it can run Linux or not since the original SurBook, when Chris tested it, could not. I hope other brands like Alldocube or Jumper make a clone of this; I love the 3:2 aspect ratio on a 10 inch screen.
https://www.gearbest.com/tablet-pcs/pp_1027977.html
Gearbest presale page is live with some details.
Gist of Surbook Mini
- Intel Celeron N3450
- 4GB Ram
- 64GB storage
- 10″ 1920 x 1280 Laminated display
- 2 fullsize USB 3.0 + Type-C with PD(charging)
- Dual band Wifi
- 8000mAh battery
- Active stylus-Hipen H2
- doesn’t come with pen or keyboard
- $289
I waited for this product and now i am disappointed. Hipen H2?? H3 has better palm rejection. Price of $289 w/o accessories. If you add $100 for pen and keyboard its the same price as a full set Surbook 6/64Gb indiegogo price.
Hello to everyone
I have a teclast t16book power with Android and windows
After 1 month of using it i register many various problems
1) Weak wifi (that i resolved buying an external USB wifi adapter that most times doesn’t work)
2) don’t read the sd card
3) Android has a problem with the audio
4)the USB hub doesn’t work so i’m not be able to do nothing
5) the touch responsive has some problems
6)after changing the laungage pack it still mantain chinese voices (not all)
7) the mouse bit work properly on games like minecraft
The TF card doesnt work so i need space for windows that is alredy full. So i decided to reinstall completely windows and Android mantaining the dual OS option.
I dont want to eliminates the Android partition i want only resize it from 20 GB to 8GB and adding the free space to windows partition and after this reinstalling windows and Android in the modified partition.
Any ideas to do this? I don’t find any solution on internet.
P.S. if is impossibile to do this i’m happy with only add more space to windows without reinstalling it
Hi!
Im sorry I mean that when i boot atergos i can boot to the desktop, and mous is working, but for some reason i can choose my wifi network that is wpa2 password protected, and click login, but never ask or the password so i cant acces the internet.
Anyway, yes i can boot now like almost any manjaro iso there is. if I can get the mouse working, then this will probably be the best linux working laptop i have so far.
but the touchpad dont working so i use a usb wireless mouse.
here is my output, same as above.
dmesg | grep i2c_hid are showing me:
[ 2056.460636] i2c_hid i2c-SYNA3602:00: i2c_hid_get_input: incomplete report (27/34)
[ 3077.604699] i2c_hid i2c-SYNA3602:00: failed to reset device.
If anyone need or want i can make a how to boot prectically any arch iso.
I see there are many people that try manjaro but get the black screen with the cursor freeze.
or kernel panic.
I just received ezbook 3 pro, latest one with ac-wifi AND samsung eMMC, which I bought for a friend’s teenage son.
I wanted to install linux so I was trying to get it to boot off USB and somehow I’ve accidentally disabled USB altogether. Now, Windows boots and the touchpad and the mouse works, and I can mash the ESC key to get into the UEFI/BIOS settings. However, the screen is very dim, and the keyboard doesn’t work. I’m disheartened there doesn’t appear to be a hot-key to reset the settings to default.
Argh!!!
Ahah. For some reason I tried plugging the USB keyboard into the right hand port, and this time I was able to get into the settings and reset to defaults. Screen brightness is restored. Thank deity for that!
<h2>https://www.geekbuying.com/item/VOYO-V3-Pro-Phablet-Notebook-Gold-387155.html
Specification</h2>
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<tbody>
<tr>
<td>General</td>
<td>Brand: Voyo
Model:V3 Pro
Available Color: Gold
OS: Windows 10
CPU: Intel Celeron N3450
Core: Quad Core, 1.1GHz
GPU: Intel HD Graphics</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Storage</td>
<td>RAM: 8GB, DDR3L
ROM: 128G,SSD
External Memory: TF card up to 128GB (not included), SSD up to 512GB
Pleload ports:M.2 Ports support (2280/2242)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Display</td>
<td>Screen type: IPS capacitive touch screen
Screen size: 13.3 inch
Screen resolution: 1920 x 1080 (FHD)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Network</td>
<td>Support Network: 2.4G & 5G WiFi
WIFI: 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac wireless internet
Bluetooth: Yes ,4.0</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Camera</td>
<td>Camera type: Single camera
Front camera: 0.3MP</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Connectivity</td>
<td>1 x USB 2.0
1 x USB 3.0
1 x TF card slot
1 x Micro HDMI
1 x 3.5mm headphone
1 x DC</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Power</td>
<td>Battery type: Li-ion battery, 3.7V / 12000mAh
Power device Type: AC Adapter, 100-240V
Charging voltage: DC 12V/2A-3A</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Multimedia</td>
<td>Video format: (1080P) 3GP,AVI,MP4,RMVB,WMV
Audio format: AAC,MP3,OGG,WAV,WMA
Picture format: BMP,GIF,JPEG,PNG
Ebook format: PDF,TXT</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Other Features</td>
<td>Sensor: G-sensor
Speaker / MIC: Built-in stereo speakers and microphone
Languages: Windows OS is pre-installed with Chinese and English, and other languages need to be downloaded by WiFi.
Softwares: Youtube, Skype, MS Office, Google Search, Play Store, Gmail, Browser, Gallery, Clock, Calculator, Calendar, etc.</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Dimensions</td>
<td>Product size: 330 x 220 x 16 mm
Product weight: 1.75 kg</td>
</tr>
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Wolf, It’s still there, but I do live in very a humid city. I suppose a good test if it was humidity would be to take the laptop to a well air conditioned room and see what it does. I was trying to boot a live usb of linux to see if the problem was still there, but I am not having luck with any release of Manjaro or Ubuntu. I imagine I need to find a way to run isorespin on the iso to install Refind.
I posted this in the comments section of Chris’ Youtube review…
An owner of this tablet showing Lubuntu (Ubuntu w/LXDE desktop) running on it. TL;DR – he says Linux is 100% working and runs very fast on this device, though dunno if he tested everything – Bluetooth, screen brightness adjust, battery management, etc. He used Linuxium’s “ISO respin script” to generate a custom ISO installer which enables creating a Live-USB boot disk running the very latest Linux Kernel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4YdLf2ZAKg
Reposting his relevant comments here…
“Lubuntu Linux installed on Jumper Ezbook 3 Pro along with Windows 10, using rEFInd as boot loader, you can get more information here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questio... http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com” “Hello, you need use isorespin to create a personalized ubuntu or other distro supported for this tool, For now it only supports Ubuntu and Ubuntu flavoured ISOs , Linux Mint and LDME ISOs, Debian ‘Live install’ ISOs, KDE neon ISOs, elementary OS ISOs and Kali ISOs. To use this script you need another computer with linux and 10gb of free space, You can find more information here: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-laptop-and-netbook-25/jumper-ezbook-3-pro-can%27t-boot-from-usb-most-of-common-linux-distros-4175605766/ You also need to have dual boot to install refind on windows and use easy boot, the performance of linux on this laptop is excellent, at first not working the trackpad and the wifi but this can be solved with a couple of commands, there are still details to check but linux is 100% functional”
I managed to burn the Antergos minimal ISO to USB using dd. Despite the good looks on startup, it gave me a hard time connecting to my wifi router…
Don’t give up on Antergos yet! If you can, try the normal version which boots live into Gnome, and you should be able to check if everything is working including wi-fi, sound, etc. The GUI installer then lets you choose between 5 different Desktop Environments. P.S: I’ve been using Antergos since 2015, coming from xubuntu. Also tried several other distros like Manjaro, etc, etc and settled on Antergos ever since 
Yeah, I’ve never tried the minimal version either. Are you using Antergos Gnome desktop or XFCE with the EZB3Pro?
I personally think Gnome is a little sluggish on the lower powered CPU’s like the Celeron N3450.
Not alot though. It could be acceptable to some people, perhaps if the UI animations are turned off.
I managed to burn the Antergos minimal ISO to USB using dd. Despite the good looks on startup, it gave me a hard time connecting to my wifi router…
Don’t give up on Antergos yet! If you can, try the normal version which boots live into Gnome, and you should be able to check if everything is working including wi-fi, sound, etc.
The GUI installer then lets you choose between 5 different Desktop Environments.
P.S: I’ve been using Antergos since 2015, coming from xubuntu. Also tried several other distros like Manjaro, etc, etc and settled on Antergos ever since 😉
