How I extended the battery life of the Cube i7 Book and Fixed Palm Rejection

[TheCharles P. Williams]

Completely Forgot about the palm rejection.

As in all windows tablets palm rejection is %$#@.

I found a way to fix this. In a future version of windows 10 (windows insider program) Microsoft offers a new option in the control panel. Its in Pen and screen settings. Its called reject palm while pen is in range of the screen or something like that. Check that you are good to go. If you want to draw or write with the stylus. Don’t put your palm on the screen yet. Let the sylus be in range of the screen you will see that little pointer then after that you can rest your palm on the screen. It works perfectly no more half screen non sense.

 

You can update your tablet to windows 10 insider edition by this link  https://insider.windows.com/      register an account and download the update tool follow the instructions. This updates only all drivers work fine on it no problems. I cant believe it is a beta version.

Hope you enjoy this all.

[Anonymous]

Thanks for sharing this, it seems great but is the performance lowered a lot? @thetechcharles-williams

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[Nidlax]

Be careful what settings you change. When I changed my maximum processor state two weeks ago, I encountered issues with wake from sleep and extreme unresponsiveness of Bluetooth and the touch digitizer. Restoring the power options back to default when I upgraded to Redstone seems to have fixed those problems.

Note that there are also numerous power management settings in the BIOS that can be played around with.

[TheCharles P. Williams]

Yes I did notice the Performance did lower after all was applied. But still overtook my surface 3 anyways. Its not sluggish by any means but not as fast as when it first came. A lot cooler to the touch. I dont want to take it apart to mod it though. But the intel settings alone i didnt notice anything slower but after the windows power options you can notice but thats the good part. you can make another power plan and set the cpu max in each one seperate so you can choose to favor battery or power 🙂

[TheCharles P. Williams]

I havent noticed anything of that sort i will keep that i mind though and try to notice. Thank you

[Chris G]

The best way to fix the thermals is to do my copper mod, but that involves opening it up which isn’t for everyone and not recommend if you haven’t done that sort of thing before.

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[PolCPP]

TheCharles P. Williams wrote:

Completely Forgot about the palm rejection. As in all windows tablets palm rejection is %$#@. I found a way to fix this. In a future version of windows 10 (windows insider program) Microsoft offers a new option in the control panel. Its in Pen and screen settings. Its called reject palm while pen is in range of the screen or something like that. Check that you are good to go. If you want to draw or write with the stylus. Don’t put your palm on the screen yet.

You don’t need to be an insider, just apply the anniversary update, from two days ago.

[Bobo]

Thank you for those simple but evident tips.

Just did it on mine and the battery on power saver is miles better.

I did not lower the clock of the turbo boost however.

Why? I believe by limiting the cpu to 65% you are already stopping the cpu to go into turbo boost.

I like to fire up lightroom to edit pictures, switching to balanced mode allow me to tap into the extra power to edit them without having headache with the power setting and trying to find a correct turbo boost wattage.

Thanks again OP!

[Alex]

Thanks for the guide, but I can feel the responsiveness is a lot slower after setting max power state to 65%.

My sweet spot is do the under voltage above, and simply change power plan to the default power saver, the tablet is noticeably cooler (CPU temp 45C – 54C under normal web browsing) without much impact on performance.

[mshayanh13]

If one does the thermal mod, would this software mod be beneficial?

[Alex]

mshayanh13 wrote:

If one does the thermal mod, would this software mod be beneficial?

Thermal mod should be the best way to go, but it may not for everyone to open up and mod a brand new tablet.

 

[TheCharles P. Williams]

If you have the hardware mod Chris did you would need this software tweaking as his mod will really cool down performance. But if you need more battery, yes you can do this.

 

Welcome to all,

Thanks to all for extra info

I still would like anyone’s input on my last problem regarding the usb ports though, i will quote it from my orignal post,

 

 

 

“As for my Final problem I noticed that my cables that plugin to the usb-c and usb 3 ports fall out too easily after further inspection it seems the ports are quite deep within the metal chassis. Not very deep but not on the of the chassis edge like surface tablets. I didnt notice this until recently. I dont know if it came that way or if i some how pushed them in and will they get worse or they were already pushed in like that since I got it  and will always be like this. Its not a real biggy. I just cutout some of the usb 3 and usb-c adapter cable rubber grip heads for more clearance and its fine. So I have this question anyone else experience this problem? And for those who are good techies who have opened this tablet up Is it possible they can move in at all if yes would it get worse?”

[Sing Along]

Zzz… for those choosing to limit turbo boost, why not just use a surface 3 or some other atom tablets?

same speed better battery life. The point of the turbo is to make it significantly faster than the atom in single threaded operations. but disabling turbo, it becomes no better than an atom and may be as bad as half the speed of a 4 core x7, considering if all the 4 cores are fully utilized.

[TheCharles P. Williams]

I have a surface 3 x7 on hand.

I hate the thing its battery life is better yes. Its built in graphics are really bad. Its touch sensitivity is worse than this cube. The good thing about having a powerful tablet is when you need the power you can have it. On battery i get longer than my stock atom and trust me, its still snappier than my surface 3. the cpu power is set to 65% but when plugged in i give it a little boost to 85%. But if i need the power i change it to high performance mode and get max performance. You lose the options to do that on an atom. Plus cores aren’t everything there are so many factors to look at just research intels website and benchmark sites. I’m about to sell my surface 3 due to it cant beat the cube in anyway.

[Sing Along]

I still prefer the surface 3 except for the darn emmc and the slow charge.

Bigger screen, lighter package and more portable.  In terms of performance, I find x7 snappier when I am running multi core applications.

If I can find a kickstand keyboard for this i7 book, it will be great.

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