Upgrades to my EZpad 6 Pro FYI

[Justin]

How did you actually get the case open? I tried with a razor knife and didn’t do much but scratch the heck out of the back plastic.

[Sam]

Thanks for sharing your experiences. Really helpful.

Can you tell us what length SSD you put in? I’ve read the Expand 6s takes either 22×42 or 22×60 only?

And was it sata?

Thanks a lot

[Sam]

Found the answer in the “Jumper EZpad 6 Pro battery not charging after 74% thread.”

Yes 42 or 60mm and SATA bus.

[Andi]

Dear Folks,

i´m sorry for answer so late. I haven´t received Emails about your reply´s..

Yes, the size i use is a 42mm Trekstore bougt at Ebay.

Opening the case Need softly force, use severals Plektrons for guitars or Smartphone openings.

Look out for YouTube Videos about this EZPad made by Techtablets ( Rewievs).

Start to opening at the top side, an move around, and be carful not to brik the Keyboard Conector. ( This ist the difficultiest Part of i

[Mike]

Just wanted to say THANKS because this thread convinced me to upgrade my EZPad as well. Everything went fine (except the touch screen does not work properly now since Windows constantly seems to replace the Silead driver with a generic one that does not work correctly, especially with windows scaling enabled). Need to find a solution on how to replace the generic driver with the Silead touchscreen driver yet…

 

I installed a 240GB SSD from Transcend (40 EUros). Performance difference between the old MMC and the now installed SSD:

MMC

Read: 259 MB/s Write: 179 MB/s

SSD

Read: 530 MB/s Write: 433 MB/s

 

By the way, I found that opening  the case isn’t too hard if you start with a corner first and use your fingernails while placing your thumbs in the middle of the back cover. Then press your thumbs into the middle of the back cover while pulling your fingernails into the opposite direction. The back cover is soft plastic so it is easy to bend. Just bend it a little and it will release. Do so with all four corners. The rest is easy.

I did not keep the original MMC partition since I am using it as a second 60GB partition now.If you need the EZPad drivers, there is no need to keep the original partition since all the drivers can be downloaded on the official Jumper site and from this repository here.

 

So the only issue left now is to fix the touchscreen issue (I think this is a Windows issue). I am not using the touchscreen anyway but I would prefer a working one, of course…

 

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[Callum]

Hi Andi/All,

Thanks for the informative instructions, this has inspired me to upgrade my EZpad.

Although, I have now tried two different transcend SSD’s, (M.2 SSD 400S & M.2 SSD 420S), both of which have not been recognised within the BIOS, device manager, or disk manager. I have tried adjusting the SATA BIOS settings to ensure it was enabled.

Also the BIOS shows two SATA ports (0 and 1), please can you confirm which is the actual port used?

In addition, does anyone have any recommendations? or has experienced problems like this before?

Starting to think it is an issue with the port attached to the motherboard….

Thanks in advance.

[Mike]

I did not change any port stuff. I just configured the BIOS exactly as Andi explained in the first post above. That worked. Be sure NOT to change any other settings.

Also make sure that you did not losen any connector plugs inside while opening the case and that the SSD is inserted properly.

Here’s the SSD I installed: Transcend 240GB SATAIII M.2

The most important thing is to activate SSD support in the BIOS, of course:

Chipset – South Cluster Configuration – SATA Drives: switch “SATA Device Type” to “Solid State Drive” there.

Then you have to deactive the MMC support to be able to boot from USB stick:

“So first is to disable the eMMC in Bios, you find it under “Chipset – South Cluster Configuration – SCC Configuration – SCC eMMC Support” and set it to disable. If SCC SDIO Support is already enable, disable it too.”

After Windows has been installed, you can enable the MMC again, boot into the newly installed Windows on SSD (not MMC) and format the MMC to use it as a second partition.

[Callum]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the prompt response. I have tried the way Andi advised but am still having no luck. I have also looked over threads in this forum and elsewhere, but have made no progress.

I tried the same SSD as yourself (except 120GB version) before returning it, and have now got the MLC 128GB Transcend SATA III SSD.

AHCI was already enabled within the BIOS, and I changed the SATA device type to SSD. Could you confirm the AHCI driver you have installed? On my device its the Standard SATA AHCI controller (21/06/2006).

Some of the other threads mention using SSD’s from Crucial/Samsung, but don’t think they provide an SSD in the 2242/2260 size..

 

[Callum]

Hi All,

After a frustrating couple of days I found advice on the “SSD not recognized on ezbook 3 pro v6” where a Chicharro54 advised about modded AHCI controller drivers. After looking at the provided link (and a bit of additional research) I can now see the SSD within my BIOS and Disk Management yipeee! I shall keep you posted to see how I get on transferring the boot drive.

page: – https://techtablets.com/forum/topic/ssd-not-recognized-on-ezbook-3-pro-v6/

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[Callum]

Take it back – just tried cloning the disk using Macrium now back to square one! But with the new driver…

If anyone has any suggestions it would be much appreciated.

[Benjamin]

After installing the ssd it was not recognised under windows and I formated it inside another machine with an sata3 to m2 sata adapter as ntfs, then it was recognised by windows. Not sure what you mean by “square one”. I can share my bios settings if that could help…

If you don’t have any machine to format the drive externally you can boot linux from an usb stick if you disable secure boot “Attempt Secure Boot” under “Security”, but be sure to leafe the os setting as it and DONT change it from windows to linux otherwise only an external display over micro-hdmi will work.

For me the drive was sata port 0 and only appeared after formating.

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[Luis c]

I’ll try
A greeting.

[Luis c]

But does the ssd fit inside the ezpad?
The ssd that you put does not see that it has the connectors of a normal ssd.
Do you have any pictures of the interior and how is it inside?
Thanks for your great work.
I’ll try
A greeting.

[Benjamin]

Luis c wrote:

But does the ssd fit inside the ezpad? The ssd that you put does not see that it has the connectors of a normal ssd. Do you have any pictures of the interior and how is it inside? Thanks for your great work. I’ll try A greeting.

The ezpad 6 has an m.2 connector inside, but there are two types of them (PCIE and SATA, which one depends on the keying of the m2 slot) and the Ezpad uses SATA III. There is a photo of the internals over at

https://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=834262&view=findpost&p=63713334

(open the + tag)

The size of the ssd can be 2242 if you don’t want to break the part of the pcb of and one size longer if you plan remove it.

So if you search for that one look for “m2 sata 3 2242”

 

But the ssd when installed was not recognised by windows because it did not have a partitioning table on it. So I installed it into something like that:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-SATA-to-M2-NGFF-SSD-Converter-Adapter-Card-M-2-to-SATA-3-III-Connector/264223695636?hash=item3d84f5a314:g:s6cAAOSwbmFcfMT8&frcectupt=true

and started linux on that pc and was able to partition the drive. But you could be able to do that without this adapter if you are able to boot a linux and format the drive with gparted.

[Luis c]

Benjamín, muchas gracias por tus aclaraciones.
Entiendo que esto es lo que necesito, pero espero tu aprobación.
https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B079HWHN1Z/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_1?smid=A315J3XIKXR4ZI&psc=1
https://www.amazon.es/gp/product/B07L574M3N/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=A3EX5GVXBYBO9J&psc=1
Espero que me contestes con tu consejo en el caso de que dos cosas sean correctas para encargarlas.
Yo ya tengo instalado el W10 en la Ezpad, y pretendo clonar la eMMC al SSD una vez particionado.
Repito que espero tu opinión.
Un saludo.
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