[kurai]

Unfortunately, that’s about as good as you are going to get.

The design parameters and architecture of the Windows/Intel platform package come from a completely different design ethos than ARM/iOS/Android world.
The “mobile phone” platforms have been pushed “up” for tablet devices and at the other end with Windows/Intel you have a desktop platform that’s been pushed “down”. In tablet form factor they superficially meet but the thinking and intended usage pattern behind the usage models is very different.

Windows/Intel is, at core, simply not built to be in “always on, but mostly deeply asleep” mode.

(This is not solely a Windows problem, incidentally. Apple OSX versus Apple IOS is in exactly the same position.)

TL;DR
Desktop derived systems and phone derived systems have fundamentally different core design goals and are never going to be directly equivalent, even if there are some surface layer similarities.

[kurai]

Jura wrote:

@Jøran

Is it possible to transition from Win10 Home to Win10 pro legally at no extra chargé?

It’s absolutely possible – *IF* you have an old valid Pro or Ultimate key from Win7/8/8.1 you want to “convert”.

I can confirm it worked 100% for me – I recycled an old unused Win7Pro key and now have a fully valid and working Win10 Pro Hi10 tablet.

See this link for details : http://www.zdnet.com/article/going-pro-how-to-upgrade-windows-10-home-without-hassles/

[kurai]

Megaman Hertz MX wrote:

I doesnt see much difference btw “fix” and without it

Same here. There is a difference but it’s minimal. Presumably doing just what one would expect – altering the balance of frequencies, but overall volume not increased.

[kurai]

Yes, more power can be made available but be careful of overheating issues.
The z8300 & it’s onboard GPU unit run pretty close to the limits of passive thermal dissipation possible in the Hi10’s design.

There were reports that the first batch of Hi10’s were returned to factory to have thermal settings tweaked since they were running too hot and entering forced shutdown too easily (there are more possible power states and parameters availble for OEMs to adjust in Atom Z series than older Atoms and Core i-series CPUs)

[kurai]

Perhaps an issue with the exFat format, rather than hardware ? Is the exfat driver service present and started ? Any errors relating to it in Event Log ?

[kurai]

Burst mode on Atom/Series-M CPUs has a lot of similarities to Turbo-boost on i3/i5/i7 etc but there are some significant differences too – bit too technical to get into here.

The Turbo-mode on the Core iSeries is the *minumum* guaranteed multiplier that the CPU can reach under the right conditions, and the CPU is advertised at the standard, not max bus multiplier speed.

For the Atom series Burst mode is the *maximum limit* of multiplier boost, and the speed they are advertised at. Burst mode CPUs can also drop a lot lower than the minimums available to Turbo, and can dynamically switch up/down larger chunks of the rest of the chip (GPU/Camera/USB & I/O etc).

For both methods the the frequency depends on how many cores are active, and for the Burst mode the overall power consumption and temperature of the chip package as a whole is given much more importance.

If all the other cores are idle and at low enough power draw and temperature a single core may reach an extra 4x base bus clock multiplier (for a short while, until it’s temperature rises beyond limit allowed)

If more than one core is under load then each one is allowed a boost of an extra 2x base bus clock frequency – again, until it’s temperature and/or power draw rises beyond the threshold that’s been set.

The advertised “base” Atom frequency is supposed to be a value that can be maintained pretty much indefinitely and remain within the designed temperature/power limits of the whole package.

TL;DR :

Maximum speed single core, short term = 1.84 GHz
Maximum speed multi core, short term = 1.64 GHz
Standard base, multi core, long term = 1.44 GHz

[kurai]

Plastic

[kurai]

This looks interesting, and might do just the job I need …

http://www.jide.com/en/remixos-for-pc

Released for download on 12th January, apparently.

[kurai]

I used a micro-HDMI adapter & regular HDMI cable and tried a couple of screens – Samsung TV & a Dell monitor. Both were detected automatically as soon as they were plugged in, and added as devices.

[kurai]

Looks like Chuwi have finally put up “official” instructions on how to upgrade to 64-bit :-
http://forum.chuwi.com/thread-15-1-1.html

The actual operations are exactly the same as those @Przemo put together for us, simply organised to run all in one go, and from a single OTG-USB connection.

Quite why they specify the OTG port + hub + 2 thumbdrives I don’t know. Perhaps that’s the only input port “guaranteed” to be readable by the firmware if the UEFI is in some sort of corrupt or error state ?

For what it’s worth I left mine plugged & charging via the micro-USB/OTG port and did the file operations with thumbdrives in the USB3 port, and all worked fine. 😉

[kurai]

Glad to be of help 🙂

Perhaps the driver in the RAR is the unaltered generic direct from Broadcom, and the nvram settings are required to hook up properly with whatever customisations Chuwi have made to the hardware/packaging/antennae.

[kurai]

The 2nd one has a magnetic “clip” so it sticks to the bezel of the tablet. Since the Chuwi Hi10 case is plastic that’s of no real help. In fact the magnetic “sleep” sensor on the Hi10 seems to be far too sensitive so you may end up shutting down the tablet every time the magnet gets close.
The Shelley one with the wider tip also has a fatter body – I gather that slimmer traditional “pen” shaped stylii like the first one are better for writing text/notes while the fatter ones are considered better for freehand drawing.

Otherwise the only difference is the size of the tip. Smaller tips let you see more of the area you are drawing and supposedly aid precision, but larger tips register contact better so, in the end, may end up being more accurate in real world use. Both factors vary enormously depending on the exact type & properties of the material used for the tip.

Only real way to know which will suit you best would be to try each yourself. Not terribly helpful advice, I know, considering these are random nameless factory generics and will only ever appear online on BangGood/AliExpress/Amazon/eBay etc, not in retail shops where you can test/compare them.

[kurai]

HDMI transmits a digital rather than analogue signal so quality of the cable isn’t too crucial. It will either work fully, or not at all – no middle ground.
No need to go mad with expensive silliness like gold-plated connectors and individually shielded conductors that some of the con artist cable manufacturers advertise.

Pretty much any commonly available microHDMI to HDMI cable or microHDMI to HDMI adapter + regular HDMI to HDMI cable will do the job.

[kurai]

When I was first poking around the Chuwi factory installed 32-bit Win10 I noticed a Broadcom settings file in with the leftovers of the Windows Unattended Install scripts. I didn’t actually look that deeply at the install setup scripts so I can’t tell you if it was critical, or how exactly it got applied to the Windows infrastructure.

If you want to investigate yourself to see if it has any bearing on your issue you can find it (and other ancilliary install files) at:-
C:\Recovery\OEM\43430r0nvram.txt

EDIT: I’ve put the contents of the file up at Pastebin, in case you don’t have a backup of the original install:- http://pastebin.com/Nk9rQpRu

[kurai]

I recieved my order today of the mid-range Samsung Evo MicroSD cards (SDXC, UHS-1, Class 10) : 1 x 64GB, 1 x 128GB

All seems fine so far (obviously only short term results as yet)

Both were recognized straight away, and have had about 30GB written to each. They re-mount normally after poweroff and/or reboots.

In terms of speed …

Both reach approx. 45 MB/s read, 22 MB/s write, which is pretty much the expected maximum rate for these cards (it’s the much more expensive “Pro” cards in Samsung’s range which can get up to 90 MB/s read, 80 MB/s write)

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