Onda V10 4G Android 7.0 Tablet Mini Review

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

Overall, it’s about what I expected for a low-end tablet. I just wanted something with Android 7.0 for less than $150US.

Great review, thanks. Can you check the bands supported in band mode? And can you confirm that this tablet indeed does ship with Wireless AC and Android 7? Thanks in advance 🙂

[Terrence G F]

(1) Bands: I don’t have a SIM card installed, so I cannot confirm the bands. However, BangGood.com (link above) lists the following bands:

2G:  GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA B1 2100MHz,WCDMA B2 1900MHz,WCDMA B5 850MHz, WCDMA B8 900MHz ,TD-SCDMA: TD-SCDMA B34/B39
4G: B1 2100MHz,B3 1800MHz,B7 2600MHz,TD-LTE Band 38/39/40/41

(2) Wireless: Yes, I have successfully connected to both 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks.

(3) Android 7. Yes, please look at the pictures in the “Photos and Screen Captures” link above.

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

(1) Bands: I don’t have a SIM card installed, so I cannot confirm the bands. However, BangGood.com (link above) lists the following bands: 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz 3G: WCDMA B1 2100MHz,WCDMA B2 1900MHz,WCDMA B5 850MHz, WCDMA B8 900MHz ,TD-SCDMA: TD-SCDMA B34/B39 4G: B1 2100MHz,B3 1800MHz,B7 2600MHz,TD-LTE Band 38/39/40/41 (2) Wireless: Yes, I have successfully connected to both 2.4GHz and 5GHz wireless networks. (3) Android 7. Yes, please look at the pictures in the “Photos and Screen Captures” link above.

Sorry, I overlooked that bit in the screenshots. Thanks for confirming and for all the benchmark scores. How’s “real life” battery on it? The PCMark score of just over 6 hours is great, if it holds true in daily use as well.

Via MTK Engineering Mode -> ‘Band Mode’ you might be able to see which bands are checked/available even without sim (it may have Band 20 unchecked, but available) – though it isn’t mentioned in the description from Banggood etc.. I do believe Band 20 (and possibly others) are disabled due to it being released for the Chinese market.

One last thing, if you don’t mind me asking, did you run a Malwarebytes Anti-Malware/(any other virus/malware check) scan on the tablet? If yes, did it find any? If no, would you mind performing a scan to check?

Thanks in advance – any help is appreciated 🙂

[Terrence G F]

6 hours of battery life is about average for my use.

I tried MTK Engineering Mode, but it wouldn’t report anything without a SIM card. However, I had an un-activated T-Mobile SIM with full-size adapter that allowed me to run the app. Screenshots are available at the “Photos and Screen Captures” link. LTE Bands: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 28, 38, 39, 40, and 41.

Malwarebytes reported no issues. 360 Security reported no issues.

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

6 hours of battery life is about average for my use. I tried MTK Engineering Mode, but it wouldn’t report anything without a SIM card. However, I had an un-activated T-Mobile SIM with full-size adapter that allowed me to run the app. Screenshots are available at the “Photos and Screen Captures” link. LTE Bands: 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, 28, 38, 39, 40, and 41. Malwarebytes reported no issues. 360 Security reported no issues.

Thanks for checking. Final question, does Netflix run on the tablet? You might think “Why wouldn’t it?” but after the last couple of updates, it sometimes wont run on Android if the firmware has been modified.

I think you should copy/paste your review and post it on XDA Developers as well. It would help a lot of people.

Again, thanks in advance.

[Terrence G F]

Yep, Netflix works just fine. Note that I’m in USA.

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

Yep, Netflix works just fine. Note that I’m in USA.

That’s perfect.

Would you mind running Sensor Box just for clarification of the sensors? https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=imoblife.androidsensorbox

[Terrence G F]

Mathias wrote:

Would you mind running Sensor Box just for clarification of the sensors?

The only ones that worked were Accelerometer Sensor and Sound Sensor. Vendor “MTK”.

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

Mathias wrote:

Would you mind running Sensor Box just for clarification of the sensors?

The only ones that worked were Accelerometer Sensor and Sound Sensor. Vendor “MTK”.

Allright, going to order one today for 122 USD. That’s the cheapest option right now.

[Terrence G F]

Mathias wrote:

Allright, going to order one today for 122 USD.

Sounds like a decent price. I hope it arrives in good condition, and meets your expectations.

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

Mathias wrote:

Allright, going to order one today for 122 USD.

Sounds like a decent price. I hope it arrives in good condition, and meets your expectations.

It arrived and I must say the build quality is very bad. That aside it’s a great tablet for the price.

Did you update yours? If you didn’t and want to I can post the instructions here (not available as OTA unfortunately).

[Terrence G F]

Mathias wrote:

Did you update yours? If you didn’t and want to I can post the instructions here (not available as OTA unfortunately).

I didn’t realize an update was available. If you have instructions, I would certainly appreciate them. Thanks!

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

I didn’t realize an update was available. If you have instructions, I would certainly appreciate them. Thanks!

Flash at your own risk 😉 These are my instructions inspired by the Chinese manual and own experience/research.

Prerequisites: 

• Enable ‘Developer Options’ and allow ‘USB Debugging’ on your Onda V10 4G tablet
• Download and extract ‘V10 4G_1.0.3_ V7-0705.rar’ here (thanks to vov808 from 4pda): https://yadi.sk/d/2kmZBWYD3KxtbK
• Download ‘ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ19.key’ from here (official ONDA upload folder): http://pan.baidu.com/s/1hsCEL6G#list/path=%2FFirmWare%2F3G%20MID%2FV10%204G%2FMTK%E7%B3%BB%E5%88%97%E6%9C%BA%E5%9E%8B%E5%88%B7%E6%9C%BA%E5%B7%A5%E5%85%B7%E5%92%8CKEY%E7%A0%81&parentPath=%2FFirmWare%2F3G%20MID%2FV10%204G
• Make sure your tablet is charged to 80%
• Backup all your data – everything will be erased.

Preaparing to flash

The extracted V10 4G_1.0.3_ V7-0705.rar archive:

1. The ‘Driver’ folder contains the MTK drivers you need. Install either the 32-bit or 64-bit version (depending on your machine).
2. Install ‘BeTools_v4.6.48.330_T4.exe’ (you can change the language to English).

Make sure drivers are correctly installed:

• Now plug in your Onda V10 4G and see if Windows recognizes it.
• If Windows recognizes the tablet. Great you’re ready.
• Now unplug your Onda V10 4G (VERY IMPORTANT)
• I repeat DO NOT LEAVE YOUR ONDA V10 4G plugged in, but leave the cable plugged in to your PC.
• Switch off the tablet.

The flashing process using BeToolS

• Open ‘BeToolS and choose ‘Off-line log in’
• Now choose ‘Open RegCode File’ and select the ‘ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ19.key’ (Why? Because the .key file from the V10 4G_1.0.3_ V7-0705.rar archive has expired)
• It takes a few seconds before BeToolS runs, be patient.
• In ‘Scatter-loading File:’ press ‘…’ and locate the ‘KMT6753_EMMC_PUNAIER-D2-Y107-1.sca‘ file inside the ‘V10 4G V7‘ folder.
• Press ‘Download’
• Now connect your (switched off! IMPORTANT) Onda V10 4G tablet to the USB cable
• The flashing process starts and takes around 5 minutes (be patient).
• Your tablet restarts and boots the new firmware upgrade. Default language setting is Chinese, but you can easily switch to English.
• Enjoy 🙂

 

[Terrence G F]

Thank you for the detailed directions. I appreciate the effort. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get my tablet to update. After the “Press ‘Download'” step and connecting the powered-off tablet with the USB cable, the tablet would show the battery charging screen, and then nothing else would happen. I tried several different USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports without success. Everything up to that point was successful, so perhaps my computer setup just doesn’t work with the BeTools software correctly Oh well, the tablet seems to be running just fine as is. But thank you again for posting the instructions!

[Mathias]

Terrence G F wrote:

Thank you for the detailed directions. I appreciate the effort. Unfortunately, I couldn’t get my tablet to update. After the “Press ‘Download’” step and connecting the powered-off tablet with the USB cable, the tablet would show the battery charging screen, and then nothing else would happen. I tried several different USB 2.0 and 3.0 ports without success. Everything up to that point was successful, so perhaps my computer setup just doesn’t work with the BeTools software correctly Oh well, the tablet seems to be running just fine as is. But thank you again for posting the instructions!

Too bad. Did you install the driver correctly?

Seems like there a new update released today 🙂 Downloading right now and going to flash later.

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