Just recieved my Hi8, now what?

[Jestin Jund]

Hey everyone,

 

New guy here who’s been lurking the forums for awhile to get an idea of what I should buy with these Chinese tablets.  I ended up settling on an Hi8 with Windows 10 already installed and it just arrived this morning!  Thus far, I’ve thrown it in a case and started charging it but that’s as far as I’ve gone.  So, I guess the point of this post is to ask, now what?

 

Obviously I should turn it on and play with it, but what sort of recommendations do you guys have for a new owner?  Are there any sort of tweaks, or other tips you might have to improve performance?  Is there an easy way to upgrade to Lollipop or Marshmallow on the Android side of things?

I know it’s not exactly a gaming machine, but I’d definitely like to play a few.  Do you find certain titles run better under the Windows environment than the Android side (For instance, Hearthstone)?

Thanks for any information you guys might have to share!

[Chris G]

Hi,

What’s next is to enjoy it 🙂 Well tweak you can apply a few in Windows 10, see this vid:

No updated Rom from Chuwi yet I think, run the wireless or over the air update if there is one.

Games like Hearthstone, LoL, Dota 2, CS:GO, TF2 will run fine on low settings. Android games, all of them should run just fine and playable.

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[CardinalFang]

Hi there.

 

I reinstalled windows (this way i got a few gigs more on the system partition), i put the Win 10 Pro on it which has much more options available for tweaking (group policy editor for one, i couldn’t disable defender without it).

 

on the android side you need to root it, change dpi from 240 to 320. this way everything is larger and the fuzziness found in some games is gone. personally, i think no android installation is complete without the xposed framework but installation of this can be troublesome, the first time i did it i got a bootloop but managed to find a fix for it.

the only thing i’d like to do is lock the fps to a maximum of 30 since everything above that just wastes battery and heats up the processor. i couldn’t find an answer to that question online.

[dror lazar]

Cardinal, how did you reinstall win10? Can you expand on that? It didn’t mess up the dual boot?

[firmninja mc]

dror lazar wrote:

Cardinal, how did you reinstall win10? Can you expand on that? It didn’t mess up the dual boot?

just make a bootable usb drive of Windows 10 Pro, then double click the “setup.exe” from the usb drive…and continue the installation. Make sure you have at least 6GB free space in C drive, after installation is complete run a disk cleanup and you’re done.

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