[Andy Jenkinson]

when I try to run 2-SECOND INSTALL_IT_! (Intel_ADB_drivers) under Windows 10 I get

“User Account Control

This App has been blocked for your protection.

An administrator has blocked you from rinning this app.

Program Name: 2-SECOND INSTALL_IT_! (Intel_ADB_drivers)

Publisher: Not trusted.

File origin: hard drive on this computer

Program Location C:\Users\Andy\downloads\teclastdir\2-SECOND INSTALL_IT_! (Intel_ADB_drivers)

 

I’ve checked security and everyone has full access rights. I am the only administrator. I’ve tried changing directories.

I get the same on my Windows 10 tablet as on my Windows 10 laptop.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. (step 1 ran without problems)

[Andy Jenkinson]

Not a solution but a work around:-

connect the card via a card reader and USB OTG cable.

[Andy Jenkinson]

Downloading that link gives me X98_PRO_5.1.1root.exe and you cannot extract a .bat file from that. Running it in admin mode opens a command line and just sits there.

 

[Andy Jenkinson]

When I press up and down keys together at Android load time it comes up with a menu where the up/down buttons cycle through Power off,  Normal Boot,  restart bootloader,  recovery mode,  reboot and back to Power Off.

Underneath is Fastboot mode in red

Followed by product info

Followed by secure boot –  disabled

And lock state –  unlocked both in red.

All this is under a druid on its back.

I suspect someone will quote o bee wanka no bee and tell me that this is not the droid I’m looking for as I have not seen it mentioned.

Can anyone shed light on how I can root,  please?

 

 

 

[Andy Jenkinson]

Dumb question.

Do I need an Android version in order to root? Looks as though I don’t have one as it is deleting.  Does installing Mirec Rom require rooting first? I’m not sure at this stage exactly how to proceed to be honest.

[Andy Jenkinson]

Thanks for that. I was hoping to do a factory reset first so I would have a ‘clean’  Android to fall back on if I didn’t like Mirec Rom. Given I cannot even do a factory reset I am worried I might not be able to flash Mirec.

Anyone have other options please?  (still looping!)

 

[Andy Jenkinson]

@Mark

Hi Mark,

Tried to back up the whole disk with EaseUS Todo. I got a message “Checking the partition found errors on 8 partitions without drive letter (unknown partition). Click ‘OK’ to create sector by sector backup or ‘Cancel’ the backup’.

Did you get this? Will my backup be valid if I choose sector by sector? Could this be linked to the failure of Windows to create its own recovery media?

[Andy Jenkinson]

Thank you.  I’ve noticed a few windows which appear microscopic on the Teclast and are not re-sizeable. Samsung’s hard drive management takes up less than a tenth of the screen and the partition display is even smaller.  Only window options are close,  minimise and about. Need a magnifying glass to read it!

Fortunately I’ve got an old usb keyboard.  Anyone found a suitable keyboard case with USB not Bluetooth keyboard?

 

[Andy Jenkinson]

Thank you very much! I’ll give that a try. I wondered how to press F7 on my Bluetooth keyboard:) Pity no-one seems to have come up with detecting a swipe gesture instead of a keyboard key for entering boot menu.  Sort of defeats the object of a tablet with onscreen keyboard. Now to find a USB keyboard:)

[Andy Jenkinson]

Hi, Evil E. Your assumptions seem as bad as mine 🙂
My original question was effectively whether a 2Gb OS plus a 2GB OS would be better or worse than a 4GB OS running the other in emulation. I thought the emulator route MIGHT be better IF the 4GB was split. I did not imagine 2 OS running side by side. I thought it more likely that the manufacture might boot to separate partitions fuor each OS, claim the 4GB (technically true) then 6 months down the line bring out a true 4Gb dual boot. I know of nothing technically to stop a manufacture doing that and it would not be the first time a manufacturer has deliberately hobbled a machine.
Anyway, Teclast claim a 30400 mWh battery for the Pro which is obviously ridiculous. The resellers state 8000 mWh. Just goes to show you cannot trust what you read on the Internet!
If I do find that 2/2 split refence I’ll post it but web site do occasionally get corrected.
If I go ahead and buy one I’ll let you know what it really does 🙂
Cheers,
Andy

[Andy Jenkinson]

Thanks again for your response. Can yo explain how exactly 2GB of ram can be taken up by Android 5.1 plus other software running inside Android? That would mean that an Android 5.1 system with bloatware removed would not have space to run anything else on a 2GB system. Clearly it can. I assure you that I have read somewhere of a 2GB / 2GB split between Android and Win 10 even If cannot immediately put my finger on it. I have been looking at all the main Chinese brands and their different models, so finding the reference again would be time consuming. I have already accepted that that may have been a mistake on someone’s part. I am willing to learn. What exactly have I mixed up and what are my incorrect assumptions, please? Do please correct me.

[Andy Jenkinson]

Thanks, Evil E.
That’s what I thought but then read a couple of reviews (I think for the Teclast X98 Pro) that Android and Win 10 had 2GB each. (One place is http://techtablets.com/2015/12/mirek190s-teclast-x98-pro-v2-0-rom-released/
Where he states that only 2GB is currently available to Android. I wonder if tablets with a button to switch OSs might be set up differently from those where you go to a boot menu? Perhaps the reviewer was confusing it with the SD card, which I believe has to be partitioned and the data held separate. Can anyone shed light on this? Why should an SD card placed in an SD reader and connected via USB not have this constraint? Incidentally why did Google stop apps accessing other apps data on SD card but not if the card was connected via USB?

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