Chuwi Hi10 Pro only boots into BIOS

[CrazyCookie]

Hi all,

yesterday my Hi10 pro (which worked great until then) suddently rebooted and start some “Windows recovery preparation”. However, that one never ended and I “hard” rebooted the tablet.

What shall I say, now the EMMC memory is not located anymore and the tablet just boots into the BIOS. I already tried to boot from a USB stick and flashed the BIOS again. No use.

Forget about the Chuwi support. This is a complete waste of energy: I tried them because of the faulty backplate of my Hi12 and even now with my Hi10 pro. Standard answer: we cannot help you, sorry friend.

Great. Is there any chance to make this EMMC device visible to the BIOS again? Some UEFI environment variable maybe? Anything?

HELP!….please….

[Lewis]

Are you sure you werent messing with any bios settings or installed any programs lately that might cause this?

Worst case scenerio its a dead drive, but I doubt it.

Best case, something was changed in bios and all you need is the default settings for the bios from the factory

[CrazyCookie]

I already tried the default BIOS settings, including a fresh BIOS flash. Nothing helped so far, not even Linux lists up the drive. Neither the SDCARD nor the eMMC. I guess the SDIO unit is broken.

Bad quality. And definitely bad support by Chuwi. I cannot recommend them.

[es]

Forget about the Chuwi support. Agreed. Sorry for my English, but maybe with my experience… I was “kill” my chuwi by changed one,two – more bios settings. It looks like brick-yes. I m try to disassemble device, try to “find magic reset button”-no chance. Ок.  Holding about 20 secs power button – power off the device – so after that  -4 5 secs after power on – having ability to (by pressing del button) enter bios settings (-chuwi hi10 p64g42) nd reset|tune so on.

[Petar Slavov]

Anyone else having this problem. I haven’t changed anything but the tablet started booting only into BIOS. Any advice how to fix/repair this?

[CrazyCookie]

I found that its eMMC is got broken. I removed the chip and wait for a new one via AliExpress. But I cannot recommend this method. It’s a pain to properly replace a eMMC chip.
The only thing that will probably work for you as well is to boot from a USB drive. But thats quiet slow. So, in the end it’s just a brick you can try to sell on eBay and learn to never buy a Chuwi device again. Quiet a bad build quality. Oh yes, and forget about Teclast. They are even worse.

[Petar Slavov]

Was the eMMC soldered to the boad? What kind of chip did you order, would you please give me a link? Thanks

[CrazyCookie]

Yes. It was soldered. I bought one of these:

https://www.aliexpress.com/af/THGBMHG9C4LBAIR.html?SearchText=THGBMHG9C4LBAIR

No clue if it will work and even solve my problem. However, it’s not that expensive and worth a try.
But replacing the soldered eMMC demands quiet good soldering skills and the right tools…

[Petar Slavov]

I’m not going to do the soldering myself, will try to find someone that has the skills and is willing to give it a try, buy I was wondering if it’s possible at all. Would please post your results when after you replace it, so I know if it’s worth ordering at all. Thanks for your help.

[Aykut Karaca]

Hi there,

 

Have you solved your problem? I got the same problem as yours. Did you buy and solder the chip?

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