[Alessandro Pino]

It could be argued that it was never worth it.

[Alessandro Pino]

You can buy the same pen from other vendors:

• CEP02 pen for CUBE iwork10
• TrekStor Active Stylus 1 for TrekStor SurfTab duo W1

[Alessandro Pino]

Thanks for the response. I was able to do what you said, however I wanted to completely disassemble the pen in order to remove the buttons. In fact, the pen works perfectly on Android, where the OS does not register the pen’s buttons when they are pressed. Unfortunately, these buttons seem poorly engineered and they close randomly. Indeed, in Windows the pen draws lines with holes: those holes are the result of the buttons being pressed (willingly or unwillingly).

[Alessandro Pino]

This is the same chipset that the Chuwi hi12 and the trekstor surftab duo w1 have. I don’t have much information on this stylus technology, however. The only thing I know is that it works badly.

[Alessandro Pino]

Thanks for the review.

What issues did you have with the pen, how did you disassemble it and what did you change?

I’ve just seen your attachments and it seems your stylus, like mine, has a problem in skipping lines randomly (see 8s and 5s in your document).

[Alessandro Pino]

I’ve tried Bamboo Paper, OneNote and Google Keep on Android and the stylus works way better than on Windows. No random eraser, no random disconnecting, fewer blobs, better palm recognition. That’s unfortunate because the stylus is more useful on Windows! But now I suspect a driver/software issue. In Windows, it seems as it detects a button click even if I did not press it, while Android does not support pen buttons (I think?) and thus does not show that odd behavior.

[Alessandro Pino]

Same problem here.

[Alessandro Pino]

I tried Sketchable. Palm rejection doesn’t work so you have to set “stylus only” drawing mode. Pressure levels are okay, without the blobs you get in OneNote. Unfortunately the pen switches to white color randomly, I don’t know why. Moreover lines are not continuous as it stops recognizing the pen at random points. I would say this is not usable, sorry.

[Alessandro Pino]

Another issue: in OneNote using the pen, sometimes the pen is recognized as eraser (it is set as pencil instead) while drawing and it unintentionally deletes the lines I’ve just drawn. Does it happen to someone else?

[Alessandro Pino]

Rogus Mortem wrote:

I’m going to install factory windows 10 to get better battery life back! I’ll do this during the weekend! More to come…

Same here, battery life halved after anniversary update. Let us know if you solve this problem by rolling back.

[Alessandro Pino]

Same problem here. The pen is very bad, the screen recognizes it intermittently and in OneNote this results in a series of blobs.

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