X80 Pro GPS not working!

[amacar]

This device don’t have GPS.

[Aaron McCarthy]

I have tried hooking up a Bluetooth gps receiver in the windows portion  of the x80 pro and even though they say connected when I use maps it says there is no GPS. That said, I recall there was an issue in windows 8 and 8.1 where you had to bypass something to make the external receiver be able to show in maps. I’m going to relook into that. I haven’t tried seeing if the GPS receivers work in android yet.

[Andrew]

The way round it for me is:

Load the navigation app on my smartphone and use ScreenCast or whatever to show the results on my Tablet. As I dont need to interact with the phone during the trip and I only need follow the onscreen route, it will work for me.

All I gotta figure out is why Windows cannot see my 32gb or 64gb SDCards, when they are fully usable in Android. I did get the 32gb one to show once by changing the Host drivers to much earlier versions, but Windows kept updating them.

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[Aaron McCarthy]

Andrew… have you read this thread: http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/teclast-x80-plus-sdcard-not-detected/

I followed that and got the sd card working in windows. Its the only thing I have found that works. I’m currently trying to update the windows 10 OS on the tablet to the anniversary edition that was released now that I can have it plugged in AND there is enough storage space.

[Andrew]

Yes, I have done that and many other things, the only thing that particular ‘fix’ did for me was to break windows, now it won’t load at all as the internal SD memory disk is locked due to invalid driver. I am totally fed up with Windows on a tablet and a smartphone. The only place it belongs is a fixed PC with a large screen in my opinion. The scales are wrong, the navigation is too complex for my fat fingers and it is resource hungry, long live Android.

The whole idea of installing Windows 10, in its current state is little more than a joke.

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[Windave]

The SD Card problem is a bios setting which Win 10 requires and which for some reason unknown to anyone with reasonable intelligence, resets itself every time you switch to Android use! The bios setting you have to change is Advanced tab…..System Component….MS Custom Sdbus Driver….set this to ENABLED and the SD Card should work fine! Access the X80 Pro bios menu via “UEFI setting” in Win 10 Settings…..Recovery menu.

 

[Andrew]

Windave wrote:

The SD Card problem is a bios setting which Win 10 requires and which for some reason unknown to anyone with reasonable intelligence, resets itself every time you switch to Android use! The bios setting you have to change is Advanced tab…..System Component….MS Custom Sdbus Driver….set this to ENABLED and the SD Card should work fine! Access the X80 Pro bios menu via “UEFI setting” in Win 10 Settings…..Recovery menu.

That is valuable information. I did get into the AMI bios once, but with no keyboard in DOS, it is 100% unresponsive. I got into the advanced menu but all the graphics and buttons were totally messed up and I couldn’t select anything. I tried plugging in a Usb keyboard I found but the screen was totally locked and unresponsive, I had to crash out.

Judging how the Bios resets itself when you log into Android, reinforces my statement about Windows (any version) and a mobile device. I am glad I scrubbed Windows, I have a larger storage space for Android+, I can spend much more time using the tablet than ‘fixing’ it, it doesn’t get so hot and the battery lasts longer.

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[Windave]

Andrew, no need for keyboard. Once in the bios settings you can “touch” your way around the bios menus!

[Wolfgang]

Do you deal with E3E6 devices oder E3E7 – like mine – I could not find MS Custom SD Bus in the bios…

[Andrew]

Windave wrote:

Andrew, no need for keyboard. Once in the bios settings you can “touch” your way around the bios menus!

I appreciate that, however the whole screen was frozen and didn’t respond to any touching, except the one time when I tabbed the Advanced menu, then tabs, back buttons etc etc all disappeared. I could see partial entries but most were incomplete.

The point being, windows as a OS has been around almost as long as Dos, you would think by now it could exist without going into the Bios for anything. Android being the new kid on the block seems to do so with grace.

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[Windave]

Wolfgang – Mine is an E3E6 device. I have attached a screenshot of the BIOS pages FYI. Ignore the cursor position in picture 0276. The setting is the MS Custom Sdbus Driver which should be enabled.

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[Windave]

Andrew – Take your point! However, Windows carries a lot of legacy baggage with it and has millions of customers on countless hardware variants to support, which I think is the real problem. This will exist until Microsoft or someone writes the next generation “Windows” from scratch or the next generation of computing technology arrives!

[Andrew]

Do you believe that MS will even attempt writing a new OS from scratch?. In my opinion, having stolen the basic code for Dos and renamed it MSDos in the beginning, their greed has done little more than simply grow. They keep churning out variations of the same theme year after year, now they are actually the last horse in the race. Linux and Android have mopped up the market that Windows had clearly overlooked for so many years, simply because they believed that a version of Windows would be the solution.

With the Google full OS on the horizon and looking very swift and will take the market away from Windows once and for all. .Net framework was supposed to have been the mobile platform that Google’s OS now is. I remember hearing Bill Gates himself announcing to the world, that Microsoft would not respond with a Internet Browser, and he considered the Internet to be a ‘passing phase’. It seems MS will become that passing phase.

I’m sure you remember WinNT (Next Technology) was supposed to be the ‘next OS’, yet it was merged with the domestic version which has led us here with Windows 10, which has become hated by the commercial/industrial world because of how subversive it is about how and why it distributes ‘updates’ that cause issues without warning. MS messed up with ME, Vista, Windows 8. Their track record isn’t as good as it would have been, if another commercially viable OS had been around to keep them on their toes.

<puts away soap box> sorry for that.. 🙂

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[Windave]

Andrew, a very good rant!!! It might have been different also if IBM hadn’t screwed up with their OS2!

[Andrew]

Or Mac OS not porting to use Intel CPUs, although that is explained by the influence in the early years from Billy boy Gates. Hate can do strange things to the thinking processes.

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