[David]

OK, I deleted all my partitions and installed Anniversary edition clean from a WINPE USB stick. I noticed one issue afterwards. That was that my back side camera shows up as an “Unknown Device”. I only have my front side camera under imaging devices. The front side camera works fine. But no version of Windows 10 allows a driver to install for my backside camera. I was curious if possibly the frontside cameras had a bios on one of the partitions I deleted. So here is my question… “Has anyone here deleted all partitions then fully installed Windows 10 and do you have Both cameras working or did you end up with 1 camera driver installed and 1 unknown device”. I’m just trying to figure out if I had a hardware failure in my camera circuitry or if it could be a missing partition with the bios information for the back side camera.

 

[David]

To get the price point that Gearbest wants, they probably are trying to wait for a purchase of a certain number of units, and/or Teclast is currently in production and has an estimation date of delivery on file, which Gearbest could be using as the basis for a pre-sale. The X98 Pro is on the Teclast Website, http://www.teclast.com/en/zt/X98Produalos/

[David]

So it has been a couple of months now with my simple thermal mod applied. I haven’t had any crashes in Windows 10 Stress testing or normal use. Thermal throttling is minimal. By minimal, this is my result. With Furmark running with full AA enabled and full resolution my CPU still runs at 2.2Ghz all cores and the GPU at 600mhz and memory at 800Mhz with the Temperature moderate at a stable 60′ C.

Add 4 Threads of CPU stress testing and eventually the CPU temp rises to 73′ / 74’C.  At that time the CPU cores fluctuate down to 2.0Ghz then back to 2.2 Ghz and back to 2.0 Ghz with the GPU only slowing to 580Mhz sometimes to 560Mhz but no lower and the GPU memory remains at 800Mhz. This is minimal throttling for pushing the Tablet as far as it can go.

Remember I only used a 20mm x 20mm copper shim on the CPU with a corner notched out to avoid a resistor near the top left of the CPU, as seen in my image. I was able to reuse the existing thermal pads doubled up on the memory chips and the PLL chip three layers of it’s pad (trimmed) to give it contact also to the EMI shield. I used a thin layer of Arctic silver on both sides of the Copper Heat Spreader, as can be seen in my pictures, which makes a decent thermal connection of the CPU to the EMI shield as a heat spreader. With 4 small dabs of silicone caulk to hold the copper shim to the CPU. (Make certain the EMI shield snaps back into it’s very tiny locking tabs properly on all sides for a solid thermal transfer with minimal screen pressure. Misalignment of the tabs could add pressure to the screen and reduce heat transfer)

So, while playing games, I really don’t have any thermal throttling happen at all. Unless I try to install and play something that should be running on my tower with a dedicated $600.00 video card. Basic free gaming apps seem to run just fine on the tablet.

I’m not trying to deter you from the more involved official thermal modification sticky thread, I just wanted to let you know that I had decent luck with a minimal thermal modification. And that the memory doesn’t seem to need copper shims on them.

I don’t have any pressure issues with my screen and by using the 0.8 mm shim, only on the cpu, that leaves less material that could cause excessive pressure to the LCD glass and touch sensitivity depending on the thermal pads and shim thicknesses used in your cooling venture.

I wish you all good luck if you do choose to void your warranty and open your tablet.

 

[David]

My pleasure. I was going crazy about the time changing too!

So I just sat down one day, booted back and forth between Android, Bios and Windows when I realized the relation ship to my time change equaled my time zone and that it appeared every time I logged back into Android. The Android time would display correctly, but then exiting Android my BIOS time was now off and subsequently going into Windows the time there was now off.

That’s how it just all fell into place.

Now automatic time update enabled in Windows with your correct time zone should keep you up to date for both systems if you switch between OS systems once in a while. As long as you set your Android to +0 GMT and “Automatic Date and Time” to disabled.

The only thing I might be concerned about is a double activation of daylight savings time changes. In the Spring and in the Fall. But at least that time period is only twice a year and once the change happens you can set it back again if there is an issue.

“Those crazy things that programmers over look, until after the problem can be recreated 100% of the time”  🙂

[David]

Play Store, if it is like the X98 Pro, is there.

Look at ALL the icons on every page.

There should be an icon that is a FOLDER. Click on that folder and you should find Google Play Store inside !!!

As far as the factory reset putting the default language of Android into Chinese. Well I did that on the X98, too. You need to find the “Settings” icon (Which should be a gear looking icon), then the icon that has “Language” in it (which should be a circle, kinda like a globe). Once you figure that out you can set it back to English, Language should be the top item on the Language and Input page. It took me a while but I got mine back to English, eventually.

[David]

The X98 Pro has the capacitive touch screen, where you can use one of those stylus pens with the chunky rubber end as a pointer. While the X16 has the active touch screen that you can use the battery power active stylus fine tip pointer with 256 levels of pressure sensitivity for thin line to thick line drawing and such. Also the X16 has a USB 3.0 full size port. The X16 has speakers on each side of the screen for better sounding stereo (I would hope) The X16 has a docking Keyboard. The X16 has Bluetooth 4, not 3 as with the X98 pro. But the X98 Pro is a little more mature and the current release units may need a bios update (found on this website) but for the most part don’t have the problems people are reporting with the first X16’s out of the box.

 

[David]

I did the factory reset on Android. And my Android started up in Chinese language !!!

I had to remember which Icon in Setup had languages in it. Damn, it took me a while before I found where to Switch it to English.

From there I removed all the Chinese Apps. Since I can’t read them, why keep them, right?

And Google Play Store was hidden away in a Folder with a couple of other Icons I needed. Once I found Google Play Store I installed the Chrome browser.

So, the moral of the story is, if you need to factory Reset your Android Installation, Draw Pictures of the Icons you need to find and which position Language is in (1st position by the way) when you select the language change interface. This will make it less frustrating for you.

Oh yeah, on the first reboot Android will go through a bunch of initializations, all in Chinese. I just pressed the buttons with the “shorter Chinese character” hoping that was “No” every time it popped up.

Would be nice if there was a “Language to reboot In” after factory Reset, option.

 

[David]

I have American megatrends Bios 5.011 dated 9-11-2015. That’s according to CPU-Z. I just got my tablet yesterday. Anyhow I tried upgrading to Win 10 Pro, but I couldn’t use the CD key I had. So I rolled back to my previous release. Which is the latest Update of Win 10 Home from Windows Update. Several things stopped working including my camera and touch screen and the sound driver. I deleted those from Device manager refreshed looking for new devices. I had to point the audio device and the touch screen device to the drivers from the techtablets download for the X98 Pro but the Camera would only install as aa ISP Camera device with a question mark in it’s icon. Looking at the details it said the driver loaded but needed something more to be functional. I tried a bunch of drivers that’s when I realized I was only finding 32 bit windows drivers. And the ASUS driver wouldn’t allow an install  due to manufacturers rights. So once I found this driver, all I did was choose update driver and point to the folder I extracted it to.It went thru installing everything and my camera began working in Windows right after I rebooted the tablet.

I can’t find anywhere to tell what my bios is compared to K9C3, just the AMI Bios 5.011 dated 9-11-2015 is all I can find about it. My tablet came as a dual boot. I don’t know if that has anything to do with it.

edit* Android shows I have K9C6*

Good Luck!

[David]

I got a $20 64 gbyte card to work in the X98 Pro in Windows 10. The Samsung MicroSDXC 64GB EVO Memory  I wanted to fully verify it could access all of it, so I ran a “Complete” format on it. It took a heck of a long time, as it should, and it succeeded with a full format.

I purchased a Sandisk MicroSDXC 128 GB Ultra Plus and it is fully recognized by Windows 10 in the X98 Pro TF card slot..

The sizes above 32Gbyte may be limited by the Android Driver, as I can’t get the 128 Gbyte mounted in the Android OS on the tablet.

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