[Richard Baker]

The back of the hinge mechanism broke away from the case, so it wouldn’t open unless it twisted the whole screen side of the case. I took it apart, fixed the hinge and the cable snapped when I put it back together. So, I broke it.

It could be a job for the tiniest soldering I’ll ever do.

Got a F6 Pro on the way, but this F5 will need to be fixed to get some money back

[Richard Baker]

http://USB C Charger, Anker Dual Port… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07D36RZFT?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

http://Anker PowerLine+ C to C 2.0 cable… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01LNA0XCU?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

http://Poweradd USB C PD Power Bank,… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07CVS74LL?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

http://Microsoft PN7-00003 Bluetooth… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00HVAXDM4?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

http://Patriot 128GB Supersonic Rage 2… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00SNLGXE0?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

http://NOVOO USB C Hub, Portable 8 in 1… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B07H3L5462?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

http://Transcend 240GB SATA III 6Gb/s… https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B076PGM4Y5?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

 

 

[Richard Baker]

I have spent hundreds of pounds at Gearbest recently and had a good experience. However, Gearbest now have £255 of my money and I have nothing.

I ordered a Teclast F5 on October 20th. According to the tracking system it arrived in the UK on October 29th.  Its now December 21st and it is lost.

Gearbest fob me off with their “shipping insurance” joke. It is THEIR responsibility to get their product to me, they hold the risk, not me.

It is their shipping loss insurance, not mine, as its their property until it gets to me. Claiming that shipping insurance is “on their website” cannot be a defense to taking someone’s money for no exchange of product. That simply is not business, its is something else….

[Richard Baker]

I want to leave a comment but I get an error “ERROR: Your reply cannot be created at this time.”

[Richard Baker]

Now it seems to only happen on the Jumper logo screen, rather than the Windows logo screen

Once its got past this problem, it can be shut down and restarted ok, but if left shut down for a longer period then it will get stuck on boot again

[Richard Baker]

This seems to happen every time I fully shout the machine down. Its like it just can’t find the internal eMMC. If it had the full BIOS options like the previous versions then check it in more detail by enabling/disabling other features.

Once I’ve forced a shut down twice over it then seems to boot to Windows OK.

If I keep the machine in sleep mode instead of shutting it down then there’s no problem.

Perhaps I should try it with the other SSD removed?

[Richard Baker]

If my boot was physically stuck in the Windows startup screen then I’d best give up and buy another one!

A day after I received the laptop I bricked it by trying to clonine the eMMC to my new M.2 SSD, which sometimes worked, mostly booting into the internal eMMC and sometimes into the SSD. I was convinced that the SSD would work if I cleared the eMMC, as it was causing some sort of boot conflict. Unfortunately wiping the EFI partition did clear the eMMC, but also meant that the SSD wouldn’t boot, so the machine was useless. I gave up and put the original disk image back on the eMMC and just continued using it from there. The SSD is still a nice chunk of extra storage that I am using and good write speeds too.

So in summary, I think its back to standard, just with the extra SSD installed.

Could the machine just not be seeing the eMMC on some startups? Anyone had any issues like that?

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