Cube iWork 1X

[CosmicDan]

NB: I managed to recover my 1x with EEPROM flasher (same as Hi12 guide and hardware) and BIOS I found on 4pda.

 

cptrios wrote:

Hi All – Just ordered one of these (I plan on using it for photo viewing/uploading while traveling, with maybe a bit of light editing. I don’t expect Lightroom to run well, but maybe Raw Therapee?), and I have one question that isn’t answered in the review: is the MicroSD card reader a USB2-speed model like most of these tablets seem to have? I don’t want to bother buying a fast card if so. Thanks!

 

I don’t have any of those softwares so I really don’t know. But using Eclipse for Java development is OK, and that is a typically heavy IDE. I think the main speed issue on this type of hardware is slow storage.

 

If you want me to run some benchmarks, let me know.

 

microSD slot is trash, I have a Class 10 card and it is nowhere near handling even it’s maximum speed. Other USB 2.0 card readers like my desktop are better even.

[Temuri Imnaishvili]

Couple of questions for iWork 1X owners..

1. How is the performance of Adobe Flash in full-screen mode (to watch sport streams)
2. Does it charge from external power banks?

Thanks!

[cptrios]

CosmicDan wrote:

NB: I managed to recover my 1x with EEPROM flasher (same as Hi12 guide and hardware) and BIOS I found on 4pda.

cptrios wrote:

Hi All – Just ordered one of these (I plan on using it for photo viewing/uploading while traveling, with maybe a bit of light editing. I don’t expect Lightroom to run well, but maybe Raw Therapee?), and I have one question that isn’t answered in the review: is the MicroSD card reader a USB2-speed model like most of these tablets seem to have? I don’t want to bother buying a fast card if so. Thanks!

I don’t have any of those softwares so I really don’t know. But using Eclipse for Java development is OK, and that is a typically heavy IDE. I think the main speed issue on this type of hardware is slow storage. If you want me to run some benchmarks, let me know. microSD slot is trash, I have a Class 10 card and it is nowhere near handling even it’s maximum speed. Other USB 2.0 card readers like my desktop are better even.

Thanks a bunch CosmicDan. No bother with the Lightroom thing – I don’t actually care that much about the performance of the software as long as it lets me back up to the cloud. One more question if’n you don’t mind – how’s the speed on the full-size USB3 port?

[I Hard]

bought from aliexpress for $150. faster than pre ious iwork 8‼

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[CosmicDan]

cptrios wrote:

Thanks a bunch CosmicDan. No bother with the Lightroom thing – I don’t actually care that much about the performance of the software as long as it lets me back up to the cloud. One more question if’n you don’t mind – how’s the speed on the full-size USB3 port?

The fastest USB3 device I have is a SanDisk Extreme USB 3.0 32GB stick, I just ran a CrystalMark and it’s not inhibited at all (the numbers I got are higher than the average rates listed here and that’s on battery power with as much power savings as I can enable, except DDR3 speed set to 1600MHz).

Pretty much the only drawback of this tablet at it’s price range is the battery. It’s not horrible, but it’s exacerbated by the fact that it will never draw more than ~1.5A to charge, no matter what cable/charger I throw at it (so you’ll have to get used to charging during the day as well as overnight if you use it heavily).

It also does get a bit warm under load, but I did a heatsink mod and it never goes above 32 degrees C now.

EDIT: Oh, and WiFi speed is terrible when you have BT enabled. Haven’t been able to figure this out yet, neither have the guys at 4pda from what I can tell.

[dalgibbard]

Hey all,

I recently received my iWork1X, and am generally very pleased- seems like nice hardware and a very low price.

Soon after receiving, I used the functionality built into Windows to upgrade from Windows 10 Home to Windows 10 Pro (in the new-style settings app, the activation tab allows you to insert an alternative key to unlock the features) – and the system gets stuck at “Adding features 100%” when booting up.
I like the idea of Android and Windows Dual boot (then I can play Anki Overdrive with the kids on this huuuuge tablet), so with an interest in re-installing Windows only, and keeping the Android install, I made some effort to translate the document that comes in the “Cube IWORK1X(i30) Dual Boot files” download available from the download section here.

Some points worth noting in advance for those who are interested:
* If looking to completely re-install, including Android, you must do Android first
* Installing android wipes the entire disk including Windows install.
* The windows install in the dual pack is Chinese… yet to poke around the see if this can be replaced with the other installer package or the PE script edited for another language…

The installation docs suggest that you should either:
* Connect a USB keyboard to the USB port, and the USB key to do the install via an OTG
* Connect the iWork1x keyboard dock, and install via normal USB port

To do the Android install (note: I haven’t tested this), Format a USB key (8gb+) – unspecified filesystem, most likely FAT32; drop the contents of the ‘Android’ folder onto the root of the USB key. Connect the USB key to the iWork1x, and press F7 (or Fn+F7 on the iwork1x keyboard dock) to access the boot menu, and select your USB key to start the installation.
On completion, the device will automatically restart, and the USB key should be removed at this point.
The system will boot and restart a few times; and installation is completed once you’re at the Android desktop.

To do the Windows installation; Format a USB Key (8GB+) as NTFS, and name it ‘WINPE’, and make it bootable- ie. set partition as active (see: https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj200124(v=ws.11).aspx). Note: if you don’t mark it as active, it won’t boot.
Unpack all the files from the ‘WIN10’ folder onto the root of the disk. Boot the system as a normal boot (no F7 needed), and select the Windows icon from the OS Selection screen. the Windows 10 Deployment process should start automatically — though for me, I was presented with the Windows recovery/repair tools screen – I selected ‘Command Prompt’, and entered:
D:
cd Scripts
Main.cmd

When the PE provisioning interface shows the deployment as completed (the command prompt background turns green), type ‘exit’, and select ‘turn off’ if prompted. Power back on, and after a few minutes of booting up, the tablet will enter into the administrator account; please *cancel* the System Preparation Tool on the desktop.
Now right click ‘Cleanup’ on the desktop, and select ‘Run as Administrator’. The script will run and shut down automatically.
Power the machine up once more, some more initialisation will complete, and after a few minutes the tablet will enter the Windows 10 initial setup interface. Follow this through as instructed.

After installing, make sure the Windows disk is the first boot device (Use F7 or button mash the F keys on boot to get into BIOS and select it there)

Installing the Dualboot BIOS is not necessary if just reinstalling the system according to the documentation. My understanding is that installing the Android image deploys the necessary components for Dual Boot, and the BIOS is untouched for the functionality required for it to work if wiping the whole disk/installing a custom windows install.
Should you need/want to, the documentation does specifically state that there is a risk with flashing BIOS (as per any BIOS flash really.).
If you definitely want to, you can flash the BIOS by unpacking the BIOS folder contents whilst in the Windows installation, and running ‘0_flash64.bat’ as Administrator (not confirmed or well documented, but seems logical).

[CosmicDan]

dalgibbard wrote:

Should you need/want to, the documentation does specifically state that there is a risk with flashing BIOS (as per any BIOS flash really.). If you definitely want to, you can flash the BIOS by unpacking the BIOS folder contents whilst in the Windows installation, and running ‘0_flash64.bat’ as Administrator (not confirmed or well documented, but seems logical).

Just to re-iterate;

Do NOT flash the BIOS. Only if the hardware revision of your iWork1x is IDENTICAL to the BIOS, otherwise you will BRICK IT like I did and need to reprogram it with an EEPROM flasher. There are at least 5 different known hardware revisions so far. But you should avoid the BIOS on TechTablets and find the correct one for your model on 4pda. There is no BIOS model verification – it will just happy flash and brick your device without warning – so don’t do it.

[Anonymous]

can anybody confirm that this tablet is light media edit doable? I mean an easy photoshop things with few layers, light video editing&triming at (full)hd quality etc..? Thanks!

[Phoebus]

CosmicDan wrote:

dalgibbard wrote:

Should you need/want to, the documentation does specifically state that there is a risk with flashing BIOS (as per any BIOS flash really.). If you definitely want to, you can flash the BIOS by unpacking the BIOS folder contents whilst in the Windows installation, and running ‘0_flash64.bat’ as Administrator (not confirmed or well documented, but seems logical).

Just to re-iterate; Do NOT flash the BIOS. Only if the hardware revision of your iWork1x is IDENTICAL to the BIOS, otherwise you will BRICK IT like I did and need to reprogram it with an EEPROM flasher. There are at least 5 different known hardware revisions so far. But you should avoid the BIOS on TechTablets and find the correct one for your model on 4pda. There is no BIOS model verification – it will just happy flash and brick your device without warning – so don’t do it.

 

Hello all. Newbie here (to the forum that is) with a couple questions regarding flashing dual OS on the iWork1X.

Thanks @dalgibbard for your guide on how to flash the dual OS files found here & @CosmicDan for the extra tip on bios flashing which made me look into the whole bios thing a bit further.

I am a little bit concerned as to whether I can do this on the specific model of the iWork1X that I have (i30L64GB) which currently only has Windows on it (fully in English to my pleasant surprise I should add). I would definitely like to have both OSs of course.

On 4pda I see that this particular model carries a “single-boot bios” unless I’m reading that wrong. Further to that there is a user there who says that he has “adjusted” the firmware of this model, offering it for download in order to be flashed (link). What is this “adjustment” however? Is it to turn it into a dual OS bios or something else (more features perhaps)?

So, I’m basically trying to figure out if I should just go ahead and follow the guide to install using the files here (I understand I shouldn’t flash the bios using the files in that 6Gb zip) or should I perform some other kind of tinkering on the bios first…

Would greatly appreciate any tips!

Thanks!
P.

[Phoebus]

So, after about 2 weeks of waiting to hear from someone I decided to go ahead and flash my tablet starting with the Android part, using the files downloaded here. The result… a bootloop. I’m ecstatic.

[CosmicDan]

Phoebus wrote:

So, after about 2 weeks of waiting to hear from someone I decided to go ahead and flash my tablet starting with the Android part, using the files downloaded here. The result… a bootloop. I’m ecstatic.

The dual-boot is a different BIOS, AMI Boot Manager is inside the UEFI. So you would need a dual-boot BIOS update. But obviously it is a bad idea to cross-flash a BIOS from a different hardware revision unless you can recover from a brick.

I don’t think that it’s possible. You would have to reverse-engineer the UEFI (using something like UEFI Tool) from a dual-boot model and inject/replace the modules that do the dual-booting part, at the least. Not sure if that is good enough though, such a thing would take a lot of trial and error. You would have to start by decompiling the BIOS from your version and the BIOS from a DualOS model and do a binary diff on every model. You’d have to research on the structure on AMI UEFI images and manually research the plain-text differences in modules, if any…

…it would be very time consuming regardless, and might not even be possible.

Keep an eye on the two 4PDA threads (one is a General thread, the other is about Firmware) – if anybody can hack together a DualOS system for a non-DualOS model, it’s those guys.

[Phoebus]

Thanks @CosmicDan.

Well, I definitely know better than to cross-flash a BIOS. However, could this post on 4pda be something? The author there is offering a BIOS file for my particular hardware revision which he seems to have customized somehow but I’m not sure in what way. My initial feeling is that he has enabled dual-booting but I’m not sure (unfortunately my Russian is really bad). Any thoughts?

Thanks again!
P.

[CosmicDan]

Phoebus wrote:

Thanks @cosmicdan. Well, I definitely know better than to cross-flash a BIOS. However, could this post on 4pda be something? The author there is offering a BIOS file for my particular hardware revision which he seems to have customized somehow but I’m not sure in what way. My initial feeling is that he has enabled dual-booting but I’m not sure (unfortunately my Russian is really bad). Any thoughts? Thanks again! P.

Hmm, Google Translate does come up with “it is reflected adequately to that for dualBut” so it seems so.

Filename attached says N1W6; just be sure to confirm it lists the same in your BIOS.

[Phoebus]

CosmicDan wrote:

Hmm, Google Translate does come up with “it is reflected adequately to that for dualBut” so it seems so. Filename attached says N1W6; just be sure to confirm it lists the same in your BIOS.

Yeah, unfortunately clicking on that link results in a 404 error! I did manage to install both Android and Windows but I’m not presented with the screen to select which OS I would like to boot so I guess that’s where that modified firmware comes in. Seems impossible to find it anywhere else… 🙁

[LaniaKea]

first a huge thanks to all the guys participating in this thread with information and guides and not least the first movers.

I have been also fiddling with the Cube Iwork1x that i picked p in a snap up offer on BG some months back at attractive price

and after it arrived and looks decent, I decided to jump on the matching keyboarddock CDK08 as BG had it for around 30 at the time with coupons in matching silverwhite color, and together looks pretty decent with the price in mind..

purchased this set’ to give to my mom, but the lack of android does result in she doesnt use it much, as the apps she likes are often android-ones and are not present in windows..

so was wondering, to fit it up with dual boot package from Techtablet download’section and been trying to boot the image..but after reading the entries in this thread from the last month.. I will haul that project and accept the win10-only for the time being,

Atm it doesnt look like simple “abc-routine” to get a working dual boot bios fitted in a win10-only device.

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