Few questions on pro model, keeping dual boot, windows 10 upgrade, etc

[Zellot]

Greetings.

I’m going to give you responses based on my direct experience with owning a Vi10 Pro 64. For starters I did not buy mine though gearbest as many here have. I suspect this may also be the reason I have had none of the problems many here seem to be having.

So to answer.
My 64Gb pro was partitioned as roughly 50Gb Win 8.1 and 14Gb Android 4.4.4
The drives are not visible under opposite OS’s. The windows partitions were NTFS, so not visible to Android. The Android partitions are ext2, I believe as I don’t have it in front of me, and are visible to Windows in disk management but only as partitions. They do not mount as available storage.
I upgraded directly using the win 8 upgrade prompt. I’ve not had to manually install any drivers or mess with removing drivers or any hardware malfunctions.
As for after. I’ve done standard windows updates and had updated the BIOS once. I believe it was the G rev as well which others seem to be having problems with.
All in all I’ve really enjoyed my tablet.
The only issue I’ve noticed at all seems to be one many have and it’s that the battery will drain, while charging, if under moderate to heavy use. This also seems to be common with baytrail tablets so not just the Vi10. To offset this I’ve purchased a BlitzWolf 40W USB Smart charger and 22Awg usb cable. The combination seems to work well

Hope this helps you

[Danny]

Thanks for taking the time to bother responding to my post, much appreciated, ahh so that’s cool that they cant be viewed from each others OS. Yeah I bought mine from gearbest, should be hear soon hopefully. So what is the difference between them? different motherboard requiring different drivers perhaps?

When was the last time you had an android update? Is it still 4.4.4?

Did you do the android blurry screen fix?

 

Thanks.

[Zellot]

Not entirely sure on it being gearbest but it seems that way. A large number of people I’ve seen having strange hardware issues/failures or just dead out of the box had indicated they purchased through hear best.  It also seems that gearbest may not have a great process for configuring the tablets based on intended region of delivery etc as some received them set to Chinese language when English or other was indicated. Some seem to have extra Admin accounts under Windows apparently for language configuration etc. Mine arrived with only Windows Admin account and pre configured for English.  I’ve even seen one that was ordered and indicated as 64Gb Pro by serial number but only showed as being 32Gb model in system info.

With respect to hardware it seems most have driver and bios issues with models from gearbest. This would make me question of the devices were truly Chuwi or manufactured elsewhere or with sub par components.

I’ve not seen one Android update yet on this tablet. Still on 4.4.4 although there was indication before I even bought it that Chuwi would release a 5.0 rom for them. Still waiting though.

As for the blurred screen. I’ve not noticed what has been described and am in the belief that the company I ordered mine through had taken the time to apply this before having sent out.

 

[Gary]

No issues from my 1510 from gearbest. If there was an issue with the gearbest tablets I guess they were the older pre-1509 versions, otherwise same experience as Zellot, although I would suggest giving the RemixOS ROM a try (there’s a version for pre-09 and one for 09/10 available).

[Danny]

My model is I505. (Deffo 2.16Ghz and 2GB Ram, 64GB) Received yesterday, all is fine, screen is perfect, no dead pixels, light pixels, patchy back light bleed etc. Booted straight into 32bit windows 8 setup which installed all drivers automatically. Touchscreen works, audio works, bluetooth works, auto rotate on windows worked. Installed Windows 10 32bit with the update prompt and all is perfect. However Android was initially in Chinese. Iv’e set it to English, but theirs a wad of Chinese apps or at-least apps with the icon logo in Chinese which can all be uninstalled. And from what I see image is fine, no blurry issues? hmmm.

[Danny]

How long does yours take to boot to Android from powering on? I’m sure it’s suppose to be 50 seconds, mines taking 80 seconds, plsu on the initial power on with the Chuwi logo, I get a strange what appears to be a random white dot show up, it’s like it’s a bag image logo with 1 white pixel close to the bottom middle (it’s not an actual pixel fault either) wtf? lol

[EDIT] Also the power on from standby for android has a lag of 2 seconds.

Plus when you press the home button, a audio click occurs sometimes.

[Zellot]

 

I’m seeing just about 60 seconds from cold boot to login screen on either Windows or Android.

I too have the random white pixel at the bottom of the android boot logo. It’s in the image file so nothing to worry about.

I’ve not really noticed a lag on resume from standby. May depend on what you have configured for resume options. Eg require passcode and what type of passcode is used, if you have widgets on the lock screen other than default time and what active or background tasks you may be resuming

Some early users including the review here by Chris had indicated buzzing and other issues with the speakers and headphones. I’ve never noticed any of this as I believe that was resolved after initial release. I have heard an occasional click on resume, as you mentioned, but usually only if I have something that was playing audio already running when doing so. E.g. Game or YouTube etc.

 

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