Picture of V919-Core M internals

[Will Maitner]

Can you look if you open it again what type of SSD it uses?  MSATA or M.2?

[Chris G]

Thanks for the pic, hard to say but it looks like a M.2 22 x 42mm unit, and the modem card is the same. My 3G card isn’t working or my sim reader, it’s saying insert sim. But I have one inserted.

 

So your one has dual boot and an English Windows 10? Do you have display scaling issues on applications running anything but the native res? And does Android have Play Store? Thanks.

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[Anonymous]

I am afraid I probably won’t be opening it up again. I consider myself lucky that I was able to open and close it without issue. From memory  I believe it’s a M.2 2242. It looks similar to the drive Chris swapped in his i7.

I don’t appear to have a scaling issues. I don’t have a lot of software installed but the Intel graphic control panel looks natural – full screen when I rotate it. Definitely doesn’t look like what appears  on your screen. What date is your bios.  Mine is 7/29/2015.

There is absolutely no Google apps installed on the Android side. Its not rooted and will need a good app clean up.

I don’t use 3g so I can’t tell if its working.

The bios has a lot of tweaking options especially a section dedicated to overclocking.

Also a Chinese site reviewing the v919 states that the memory speed has been underclocked to save heat and power.  You can adjust the speed in the bios. I locked mine in at 1333.

 

[Bill Hedworth]

My 3G works ok.

From reading around the dual boot bios is newer than the bios on the first single os shipping units (maybe it will fix the resolution thing). But Onda appear to have taken it down due to you not being able to activate windows. Probably why the dual os units are now coming with a dodgy KMS activated win10pro.

All a bit of a mess this… still I’m happy with mine, it does everything I need it too.

[Chris G]

@bill-hedworth Agreed it’s all a bit of a mess this tablet, I can’t honestly recommend it at this point. Mine at times runs very slow and bogs down for some unknown reason and lags like crazy I have to reset it. I’m use to the Core M’s and never had this issue before. It seems Onda have tweak things down and it will throttle itself quicker than most Core M’s. I will have to have a look at my bios settings.

@mrdasher Can you please explain the ram speed setting? I have touched settings before and have had the tablet fail to boot as far as I can tell there is no bios reset button anywhere I can see.

The tablet build is average I feel, sure it looks nice and the screen is great, the first Core M retina tablet. But things feel rushed to me. I have too many issues. I hope Onda get it sorted out asap, my unit a is the first build with no dual boot.

I’m going to flash the dual boot bios, Android rom and test out Windows 8.1 and see if I have more luck with that otherwise I’ll have to give up and return it for a replacement or refund unit with Banggood.com.

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[Anonymous]

After I submitted my last post mentioning the bios had an overclock option I realized that this tablet has enough problems with heat that trying to overclock it would be trouble. I wonder why they even included the option.

I think any freezing is the result of heat.

Regarding the memory, I read a review that mentioned that thought the memory is rated at 1333 but if you set the memory speed option in the bios to the default “auto” it will only run at 1066.  This is probably done to control  heat or hide the fact they are using sub par memory… but it’s probably a heat issue.  At first I switched the memory to 1600 by mistake and found the tablet ran too hot with the odd freeze up. After switching it to 1333 the tablet seemed to run fine.  Since the graphics engine shares the memory with the system I think this tweak is actually worth it. I can’t remember where it the bios this option is but not in the overclock section. Also not sure if different versions of the bios would have this option.

At least to Odna’s credit they used a real heat sink that actually bolts to motherboard.

[Viktor]

Is the chassis comparable to a V975W in the matter of opening it up?

More internal pictures at: http://www.ondabbs.cn/thread-66372-1-1.html

[Viktor]

Anonymous wrote:

This is probably done to control heat or hide the fact they are using sub par memory… but it’s probably a heat issue. At first I switched the memory to 1600 by mistake and found the tablet ran too hot with the odd freeze up. After switching it to 1333 the tablet seemed to run fine.

Could you please make a picture of the Bios settings regarding Ram and Cpu?

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