i9 stuck in bootloop during Win10 reset – Help

[Chris G]

Sounds like you will have no choice but to do a full reinstall. Make a Windows 10 Home 64GB flash drive and boot to it. I have drivers in the i9 downloads section. Best of luck!

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[J.el]

Thanks for the drivers. I’ve been trying for a clean install of Win10, but I keep getting error messages during the initialisation part before the “install” part…

Someone posted this link: http://www.cube-tablet.com/news/cube-i9-windows10-system-installation-rom/

I have a feeling this should do it. I’m going to try and get the retailer to download it for me since it’s on Baidu and in Chinese… Damnit. They probably won’t go that far to help eh? I’m too much of a Luddite to know what the fuck is going on here.

[J.el]

 

Edit: I’m all good, heh. Live and learn. Installing drivers now. Cheers

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[bonn]

hi mate, i have encountered the same issue as you. how did you manage to fix it? did you use the file downloaded from the link that you posted?

quote: http://www.cube-tablet.com/news/cube-i9-windows10-system-installation-rom/

[J.el]

I reset Windows using a normal Windows Boot disk: https://www.microsoft.com/en-au/software-download/windows10

After downloading the ‘download tool’ in the above link, I stuck it in the USB. Then entered the i9 BIOS. To do this, turn it off, then long press the power and and volume buttons (15sec+). It might take a few attempts. Sometimes I’d get in and not know what happened. Othertimes, it would just boot normally (into that 64% install loop screen). Just mess around with it.

You’ll get to a blue screen. Go to boot menu and select USB as the 1st boot option. (Do not force boot the USB, that’s what fucked me up). Save &reboot.

Once you reset it will auto load the USB.

From there, go to “repair” (bottom left option.. or it might say “advanced options”, I cant recall) Just don’t choose install (install is last resort I think). Then follow this quick guide to reset: http://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/4130-reset-windows-10-a.html

resetting takes about 1-2hrs. Once you’re back into Windows, you should download the i9 drivers and install them: http://techtablets.com/downloads-drivers-roms/

What might be easier, and what I wanted to do but never did (because I solved it the above way first), is just install the “ROM” provided by Cube. There’s a guy on this forum who has kindly downloaded it from Baidu and uploaded on Mega. He also translated the instructions. I think this is basically the same thing.  http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/windows-10-official-iso-download/

After you’re back into Windows, I’d also recommend installing the updated BIOS. http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/optimized-bios/

Good luck

PS. Not sure, but if that happened to you, you might also get “ghost” touching of the Windows key. If you do, check this out: https://mega.nz/#!gIIGSR5b!YTQXLlFGtr-PLQby9goqu9yv3hm2d-RtEMGL5ojsbU8

[bonn]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>I managed to get my i9 uo and running! Thank you so much j.el for your detailed explanation on the issue. Must have taken quite a while to type all that. Haven’t had the chance to start using the tablet on a day-to-day basis yet, but I’ll definitely look into the BIOS update and ghosting issue.</p>
<p style=”text-align: right;”></p>
<p style=”text-align: left;”>Thank you so much once again!! :D</p>

[J.el]

All good man:)

I just know what it’s like to be a tech novice and have tutorials just go over your head.

[Rob Straugheir]

Hi, I have the fantastic instructions about after I had problems resetting the tablet.  I load the “tool”, put it on a USB, I select USB as the 1st boot option. However it doesnt auto load from the USB, it just goes straight to a “SHELL>” command line.

Does it have to be a blank USB, a certain size or formatted in a certain way?

Many thanks in advance for any help with this.

[Steve Hepple]

Just to let you guys know, the rom is in chinese…so you may have to do it the microsoft way and then load drivers from downloads on here…..unless your chinese of course 🙂

[J.el]

A guy from this forum kindly downloaded the rom from Baidu and even included a word doc with translated instructions: http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/windows-10-official-iso-download/

[Steven Hepple]

Yes but when you load up win 10, it’s in Chinese. ..just trying to get language and location settings when even that is Chinese is a horror story…and the drivers aren’t loaded.

[J.el]

Oh I get u. That’s why sellers usually send an opened tablet. So they can change the language settings. Ironically, I reset it because the tablet already had a profile when i got it. which caused the first of my problems when it frozr. (Side note. My i9 died permanently last week after the tablet didn’t hibernate properly and the battery drained dead. Even dis/reconnecting the battery inside didn’t help. So, careful with that everyone.)

Anyway, maybe there’s a picture tutorial online somewhere.

[BoORD_L]

I found an article about sleep problem on windows 10.

http://www.online-tech-tips.com/windows-10/windows-10-will-not-sleep/
Hope this will help.

cheers

What I've used and what I've got:
TECLAST X98 AIR 3G, TECLAST X98 AIR II, TECLAST X98 PRO,CHUWI HI8, CHUWI HI12, CUBE I9

[J.el]

Thanks, man. Appreciate the link. But, I think it might be a hardware issue. I found this article and apparently it’s pretty common. It actually happened to my Chuwi12 (charge light on working, wouldn’t boot), but I just charged it overnight, then long pressed the power/vol button, and it came back.

Ah well. Live and learn.

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