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January 29, 2016 at 2:36 am #24208
The files are out. But i can only find chinese and russian pages with related stuff that i cant fully understand.
Anyone tried this(?): http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=707903&view=findpost&p=46583451
Or the other files they have in the next page? Everything is in russian so i dunno really if i can jut run the installer.cmd file and be ok of if i have to install/change other stuff like the bios.
Chinese page with all the files: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1KWEPw
Also is there any difference between A5C8 and A5C6 versions of the x98 Plus, or the different IDs are just to let people know which tablet version that came with Dual OS or Windows?
January 29, 2016 at 7:54 pm #24335Anonymous
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All the answers will pan out in the next day or two. All the files are available now. From what I could understand from the Teclast bbs was that the only issue with flashing the A5C8 Bios was that the embedded key would be lost. Back-up your key….Back-up your key.
January 29, 2016 at 10:45 pm #24353We have all the files now, Teclast released the bios. See this post: http://techtablets.com/2016/01/teclast-x98-plus-dual-boot-bios-and-firmware-released/
Source: http://bbs.teclast.com/thread-532623-1-1.html
I’m trying my best to download the firmware and image files.
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January 30, 2016 at 2:27 am #24375I’m 61% done uploading the files to mega. https://mega.nz/#F!uAYgxABb!lH4vlt89GQhAo1qIOiS9kA
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January 30, 2016 at 6:21 am #24384Very interested in reports on how well this works to covert the single boot model.
Regarding the BIOS key, don’t all Windows activations store your unique machine identification on the MS activation servers and automatically activate from that point forward so long as the hardware is materially the same? I suppose if the BIOS is sufficiently different that flashing this gives you entirely new sets of whatever set of unique IDs are used by activation it won’t work, but… if there is no automatic activation when the key in the BIOS is lost, even though you can extract it easily enough… I really do enjoy the embedded key that you can’t lose.
Another thing for whoever is going to try this first… I wonder if you do an image of the windows partitions prior to flashing, if there is some way to restore them to the new Windows partition afterwards to avoid all of the pain of all the Windows updates and tweaking all of those little things all over the place again.
I’m also curious about how they decided to split the eMMC up between the two worlds, half and half most likely? Do you lose standard UEFI, reducing your options for other standard OS installs in the future… not that half the hardware in the thing is ever likely to pick up broad support anyway I guess.
Another question … does the new image include any updated drivers in Windows as far as anybody can tell? Is it at least imaged to Windows 1511 out of the box now? I hate applying that upgrade to this tablet as it takes ages.
I’m a bit on the fence about it myself still, the main reason would be games as although you’ve got Steam in Windows there just isn’t a whole lot of choice there when it comes to tablet friendly stuff compared to Android, and I’m also curious if this thing can manage to run Android at least as well as my old Nexus 7 2013.
Anyway, too many questions… I’m sure the answers will come now that we, almost, have the files.
January 30, 2016 at 10:10 am #24394What about A5C6? Isn’t A5C8 already a dual boot?
January 30, 2016 at 12:11 pm #24404Do you guys think it is possible to flash the original Android rom on the single boot bios and have Android only on the tablet?
January 30, 2016 at 4:31 pm #24464What about A5C6? Isn’t A5C8 already a dual boot?
I have the same question. And if the A5C8 version works on the A5C6 v?
January 30, 2016 at 5:29 pm #24469I flash the A5C8 dual bios on A5C6 with the x98 pro tool and it works perfectly. The dual boot menu appears with the windows icon. Now I have to install android but I just want to 8GB data partiton so I have to look at how to do that.
January 30, 2016 at 10:37 pm #24502I flash the A5C8 dual bios on A5C6 with the x98 pro tool and it works perfectly. The dual boot menu appears with the windows icon. Now I have to install android but I just want to 8GB data partiton so I have to look at how to do that.
So you’re saying you can use the BIOS standalone without the whole image that includes Android? And it keeps your existing Windows installation intact? I’m guessing that it does no partitioning and would require some serious acrobatics to get Android going this way without using the whole system recovery.
January 30, 2016 at 10:55 pm #24482What about A5C6? Isn’t A5C8 already a dual boot?
I have the same question. And if the A5C8 version works on the A5C6 v?
I am also interested in that, the tablet is pretty dissapointing on windows
January 31, 2016 at 2:09 pm #24549I flash the A5C8 dual bios on A5C6 with the x98 pro tool and it works perfectly. The dual boot menu appears with the windows icon. Now I have to install android but I just want to 8GB data partiton so I have to look at how to do that.
Hey David,
Which x98 pro tool was it you used to flash the bios?
January 31, 2016 at 2:53 pm #24552January 31, 2016 at 3:23 pm #24557Inactive- Posts: 172
Do you have a working dual boot setup now David?
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