Chuli Hi10 question

[Lupo]

if you buy Chuwi Hi10 order a dualboot one.

my personal opinion is that’s a good tablet, but when buying it it’s a good idea also to purchase a bios chip programmer, you will need it soon or later … 😉

my older single boot chuwi tablet hardware revision v300 was dead for 1 month until I received the hardware bios chip flasher, and there are many like me.

Read some of the topics here

[Pekay]

Thank you for responding. I appreciate it.

Do I have to reflash the bios with a bios programmer often?

I think that the one i ordered is in fact a dual boot.

[silverstar]

Think mine is from second batch, and its just passed 6 months and still working fine.

Sometimes its just luck. My cube is more problematic for me.

[Pekay]

Okay, thank you. I hope im lucky too. I bought a bios chip flasher just in case. 🙂

[Jonathan]

I have a doppelganger!?!?

[Pekay]

I entered my name during sign up, thats apperently my alias now. I thought my username, which is different, would be my alias. Lol 😛

p.s. Changed it now mate. 🙂

[Jonathan]

LOFL I stared at the Hi10 forum for a good minute trying to remember what I’d posted here!

[Pekay]

Yeah, haha. Well I got you thinkin’ 😛

[Jonathan]

You did indeed, sometimes I get confused easily…

BTW on the flashing HW, if your tablet ever does need re-programming you’ll probably need a 1.8V adaptor too. Be sure to check the chip’s datasheet if necessary…

I think the problem was that MS were pushing an update for a specific BIOS through Update but that since none of the Chinese brands bother to set the OEM information as they should the wrong BIOS was getting loaded onto the Hi10, Hi12 and possibly others too. I think by now it should be resolved but be sure to disable driver updates just in case.

I would also recommend using a program called RW Everything to dump your ACPI tables (save them off the tablet!), your Window’s key is in there and if you programme the chip directly you’ll wipe it.
Additionally I’d use DD to dump the drivers and use your favourite disk imager to image all the partitions on the drive (I use Macrium Reflect Free). With that image you can restore Android and/or Windows on a dual boot machine. If you ever need to re-flash Android use that image because the method to restore Android that Chuwi uses wipes the Windows partitions out.

If you have Android root it if you can.

Also I’d drop to shell and save all my UEFI variables using dmpstore, save a copy on each of the data partitions on the tablet (Windows/Android if present) and one copy off the tablet.

It’s a good idea to go to BIOS setup and disable Secure Boot.

With the above done you’re pretty much set to recover from any issue that isn’t hardware related.

[Pekay]

Yes, thank you for your tips. I’ll do that! 🙂

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