Tbook 10 – Stylus freezes, can not connect – where can I get support?

[HellMatt]

I may be able to help you soon, my Stylus is on the road, it should be at home soon

[Christian Stocker]

@HellMatt. Thank you, I appreciate your help.

Meanwhile I got some news. It really looks like the problem is with my particular stylus and not a general one:

• The chinese vendor, where I opened a dispute answered me (see attachement).
• He states, the device is not connected via bluetooth. Seems I saw some devices of neighbours and family members showing up in the bluetooth diaglog.
• There also are mouse button functions integrated (described in the attachement), opposite to the statements of this video: https://youtu.be/clMOLvzp8HI
• I even removed the screenprotector to get better contact. In the video of the above link, the stylus scratches the protector, this was true for me too. But the stylus did not harm the glass so far. Opposite to the video, there was no reaction at all with my stylus touching the screen (with or without button pressing).
• Stylus now running for an impressive 20 hours not able to shut it off.
• Found that the manufacturer states the stylus to be an “active writing” not active stylus (scroll down to the advertizing picture): http://www.teclast.com/en/zt/Tbook10/  – http://www.teclast.com/en/zt/Tbook10/images/Tbook10_zt_16.jpg althoug in the youtube-video linked above the tester found it to be not active and not palm rejecting.

So I’m interested in your experiences, but your stylus should really do well, as the one of the youtube-test-video did and will maybe do better without screen protector on the screen.

PS: Here is the video I made for the vendor-dispute: https://youtu.be/d_Aps2ZBe8k

 

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[HellMatt]

I just received my stylus, it seams battery is empty, so I’m charging it right now, I’ll test it later 😉

EDIT :

I just tested it for fast, it’s working well for me, just push once the button, light turned blue, I tested on Paint on Windows, can draw easily, and my tablet have palm rejection, not like in the video of TechTablet

I don’t know how to turn it off, it Pink when on + charging, and after some minutes Blue light turn off so it should be off now

So I’m happy about this stylus, except the lack of 2 buttons like on others stylus

[Christian Stocker]

Great to hear from you @HellMatt. I’m still interested in your experiences and I also reviewed again the youtube-clip from techtables yt-channel.
Yes do a serious charging of the battery. This might be good for the overall battery life.

• Meanwhile my stylus lasted frozen for over 50 hours, staying on – an impressive battery life. I then tried to recharge and turn it on again. But the same way, I could not turn it off, after it froze, I can now not turn in on anymore.
• Also as my package was dented, I found that the front-part of my pen could be removed and I can confirm, what there is told in the youtube clip, the tip indeed is of metal and there is no way of pressure sensitivy. The tip is soldered directly to a small circuit board which is fixed within the pen.
• Palm rejection, seems not to be present according to the yt-clip. This is important too me. So I decide after your triout, if I order a new stylus, or rather wait for a better solution (off-topic: I found, that devices like surface 3 or surface 4 pro also don’t have a wacom-circuit in the screen, the way samsung s-pen works, but microsoft managed to have their stylus-driver hardware encoded, not allowing their pen’s to be used by the competitors. But now samsung will release probably by autumn (according to fcc documents) the ej-uw700 bluetooth stylus, with pressure sensitivy and palm rejection. I look forward to getting this one).
• I was just chatting with aliexpress customer support. I will have to pay for a new stylus. The vendor (shunli guo) accepted my dispute but wants me to send the item back on my own cost for getting a refund. The refund would be 30 usd. My shipping cost would be 20 usd! So this will add to my experiences with china-stores 🙁 – Where did you buy your stylus?

[HellMatt]

I bought mine on AliExpress here :

http://fr.aliexpress.com/item/For-Teclast-X16-Plus-Tbook-10-Tbook-11-Tbook-16-active-stylus-T10-pen/32656721874.html

I payed a lot but I’m glad it’s working nice, I’m a bit sad cause it’s not working at all on Android, I wanted to use it for some Coloring apps

I just tested it on OneNote, it’s as bad as the YT video

I wonder if the other Teclast Stylus is better or not, it have 2 buttons on it

And now my blue light don’t want to get off (Edit : I posted too fast, the light blinked Red and Blue and then light off, stylus should be off now)

[Christian Stocker]

I’m really glad to hear, that yours is working fine. I found, that we ordered at the same store (E-live Technology Limited).

Regarding the android-input: Did you try an app like sketchbook from autodesk? You might also try the official handwriting input from google: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.android.apps.handwriting.ime As I was looking up this app, I found, that the logo reminds me on something preinstalled on the tbook 10 (maybe the chinese version).

Regarding the missing buttons, you should try what the E-Live-Technology-Limited – Support told me concerning the button on the top of the stylus: Click means select, double-click means confirm, long click mean the right button function. – I would be interested if this works, before I decide to order a new one.

[HellMatt]

Tryed Sketchbook and Google Handwriting, the stylus still don’t work on Android

Long press on the button put it off, the they meant Click on screen for Select, Double-Click to launch applications, and long press for right click, that work only on Windows and no stylus needed for that

I think only Capacitive stylus work with Android, and the Teclast one works only with Windows

[Christian Stocker]

Well, thank you for all your testing. I think for that price and for using all the windows stylus productivity apps, the stylus is really not bad.

I too, was hoping, that android works. It has never been mentioned in the description of the tbook 10, that android wood work too. You know, android 6 (Marshmallow should have native stylus support. Google informed about application-programming-interfaces in their developer conference 2015. Don’t know if any apps made use of thes api’s. But if you own a smartphone with android version 6 you could try the stylus there too.

I’m now not so shure what I shall do. I’am a heavy writer with all my previous galaxy note devices. Shall I order a new stylus risking to scratch the screen of my tbook 10, oder will I wait until september and look, if the samsung ej-uw700 stylus will work with the tbook?

Will you keep your stylus? I checked your profile, because of the french aliexpress link, I was thinking you come from the french part of canada. The profile says france. Do you live in north of france? The border of switzerland? I live in basel, 15 minutes from france.

[Christian Stocker]

…forgot to mention: these functions, tapping or long pressing the tip of the stylus on the screen, I know them from my very first windows-tablet. It already had this function 😉

[HellMatt]

I don’t have any Android 6 device, I have an iPhone 6 and the stylus don’t work on it either 😀

Btw it’s working on my 3DS, as a simple stick will work

I don’t want to pay to return it, so maybe I’ll do a video with the stylus not working on Android, 28€ was expansive for that kind of stylus

And I’m from north of France, 1 hour from Belgium border

[Christian Stocker]

Yes, the 3ds accepts anything 😉

Well, I was confusing the geographic situation. I’m from north of switzerland, so if you were located near “alsace département haut-rhin ou bas-rhin” and would have sold the stylus, I would have picked up my car and gotten it from you. But shipping from france to switzerland will be more expensive then getting a new one from china – strange world we live in 😉

I’m currently installing all the apps I liked in android in the windows partition. I really like the tbook 10. If only the battery would last longer. I ordered the keyboard as well.

[HellMatt]

I’m far from Switzerland, I’ll ask the seller for a partial refund I guess, I’m waiting for my keyboard too

[Christian Stocker]

Off Topic now:

The seller does not seem to be very cooperative. It seems to be a rather small company or a single person. After agreeing to refund, when I send the stylus back, he now starts over again argueing, that the stylus could be turned on when I got it.

So I was thinking about buying your stylus. So I’m shure to get one which works. I therefore was checking for postal-adress services on the border of france and found the following: http://www.grenzpaket.ch/fr/adresses-de-livraison-france/adresses-de-livraison-france-saint-louis-centre.html . But I don’t know the company and it looks not very trustworthy. But I have an adress on the border of germany already.

Anyway, you could check the shipping cost to Switzerland, Germany and Saint-Louis. We might pay for the shipping half and half and I would pay the full price for the stylus. What do you think?

[Christian Stocker]

…but maybe you should keep the stylus. I never heard of a stylus solution which works both on andrdoid and windows. Also the samsung pen, which I’m awaiting might very well be with proprietary drivers and protection to only be used with the samsung tab pro s.

WOW: I just read throug your previous post from May 23: Did you say the <span style=”color: #008000;”>stylus has palm rejection</span>?? In the yt-video the stylus just stoped writing, everytime the tester put his hand on the screen?! If the stylus has palm rejection, I must have a working one (have to through away the faulty one I got from  aliexpress seller E-Live-Technology-Limited (shunli guo).

[Bryan]

Unlike the yt video, palm rejection seems to work for me also. I have NONE of the problems that Chris had in his yt video. My pen works perfectly, so I can’t really tell you what the issues are with Chris’ tablet/pen. The pen works more like a finger than anything else from what I’ve seen so far. Also, the pen runs on specific drivers made for the touch screen as I’ve learned the hard way (had to completely reinstall android and windows to get function back.)

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