[tmoyashi]

Hi Cupidz,
Here is my configuration:
* Hi10 : V300, 64G421512xxxxx
* BIOS : 608? (downloaded from here)
* Writer : OrangePi PC + flashrom-0.9.8

You may want to desolder the red wire between the MoBo and the LiPo before flashing.
I wish you good luck.

[tmoyashi]

fbrozovic wrote:

Marcin Kruszyński wrote:

Mine Hi10 (first VC Lemon x32 batch) is not booting anymore and your SPI flashing seems like rescue. I’m new to this so can you write or PM some short tutorial how to flash Winbond using rPi? Can it be done using other PC or do i have to own SPI programmer? Thanks.

Alright, here goes: You need a Raspberry Pi or a similar board with a 3.3V SPI interface and Linux. On the Pi, install Raspbian and enable SPI via raspi-config, after rebooting the device file /dev/spidev0.0 should be present. Download flashrom and its prerequisites: $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install libusb-dev libpci-dev $ wget http://download.flashrom.org/releases/flashrom-0.9.8.tar.bz2 $ tar xf flashrom-0.9.8.tar.bz2 $ cd flashrom-0.9.8 $ make && sudo make install Next, hook up the SPI flash to the RPi. Be very careful about shorting anything on the board, in particular the VCC pin of the flash. There is a small capacitor nearby connected to ground, and if you short the two together, you will break the PMIC on the board. The pinout of the flash can be found here: http://www.winbond-usa.com/resource-files/w25q64fv_revl1_100713.pdf /CS -> SPI_CE0 DO -> SPI_MISO GND -> GND DI -> SPI_MOSI CLK -> SPI_CLK VCC -> 3.3V flashrom should now be able to recognize the chip: $ flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0 flashrom v0.9.8-r1888 on Linux 4.1.13+ (armv6l) flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop… OK. Found Winbond flash chip “W25Q64.W” (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi. If it does, go ahead and flash the BIOS image: $ flashrom -p linux_spi:dev=/dev/spidev0.0 -w BIOS.BIN flashrom v0.9.8-r1888 on Linux 4.1.13+ (armv6l) flashrom is free software, get the source code at http://www.flashrom.org Calibrating delay loop… OK. Found Winbond flash chip “W25Q64.W” (8192 kB, SPI) on linux_spi. Reading old flash chip contents… done. Erasing and writing flash chip… Erase/write done. Verifying flash… VERIFIED.

You made my day, fbrozovic!
My dead Hi10(even no charging light) was unbricked by re-flashing the BIOS.

I don’t understand what was going on (the power resetting triggered by a flat battery while booting collapsed the EEPROM ?).

Anyway, Thank you very much for posting such helpful information.

[tmoyashi]

Hmm, in my setup, I have one tweak for i915 module, try it (or set it through kernel params)

echo “options i915 modeset=1” | sudo tee -a /etc/modprobe.d/i915-kms.conf

If it goes well, could you post a picture of Hi10 with Linux & Chuwi keyboard dock?

Banggood canceled my order of the dock . That’s the pain of my ***….

Lupo wrote:

Please upload the image and more info how you rotate the screen, you use xrandr command or …?

I can rotate the screen through any GUI/CUI utils(arandr, xrandr, etc. Internally, they are the same. They just talk with a local X server)

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Lupo wrote:

Thank you very much! If it’s possible upload a picture made with a phone on which I can see that it’s a Chuwi Hi10 tablet … <noscript>&lt;img src=”//techtablets.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png” alt=”:)” class=”wp-smiley” style=”height: 1em; max-height: 1em;”/&gt;</noscript>yes I can see that it’s a 4 cpu machine with 4G ram, I’m so happy and don’t believe it on the same time, because I have made a lot of test especially for the portrait only display in my Linux mint installation … <noscript>&lt;img src=”//techtablets.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/simple-smile.png” alt=”:)” class=”wp-smiley” style=”height: 1em; max-height: 1em;”/&gt;</noscript>

OK, I’ll upload later.

In my feeling, the display problem in Mint is not related to the user-land but the kernel-land.

Plz try to install these debs into your setup (Have you tried?)  , it’s harmless as you know.

 

[tmoyashi]

Lupo wrote:

tmoyashi wrote:

Hi, xubuntu15.04+kernel4.4(deb from here) is almost the same as Mint, but I can get dot-by-dot & rotatable display. About RTL8723BS(wifi), still no luck…

You have got a rotatable display ??? Are you sure? Please upload a picture if it’s possible <noscript></noscript>

Sure it is .(oops, I should open “Display Settings” or exec xrandr. anyway, plz note RAM size, it’s not VM). Good night!

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Laura wrote:

that is interesting information. weird, however, that emmc wifi and battery aren’t working. and touchscreen too if the driver is in the kernel.

Strictly speaking, the wifi driver is not included in the mainline kernel. But you can get the source here and compile.

About Bluetooth, it’s connected to /dev/ttyS4, this userspace program can init it and bring hci0 up. (it works stably in xubuntu at least)
The touch screen driver may need Hi10 specific DTB(Device Tree Blob) to work.
AFAIK, the eMMC(&SDIO?) problem was already reported on the Android-x86 mailing list.

 

Laura wrote:

btw i think you tried marshmallow, not lollipop

That’s right.

[tmoyashi]

Hi, xubuntu15.04+kernel4.4(deb from here) is almost the same as Mint, but I can get dot-by-dot & rotatable display.

About RTL8723BS(wifi), still no luck…

[tmoyashi]

Hey guys, my Hi10(V300) successfully booted into Marshmallow 🙂  (sorry for ugly pic)

You may want to prepare

• the latest android-x86 image (android-x86-6.0_20160129.iso) (from here) — kudos to Chi-Wei and his team!
• Android x86 Easy Installer by ExtremeGTX
• USB3.0 thumb drive(>= 4GB)
• USB keyboard & mouse

After the installation, open EFI/Android/grub.cfg and remove “_64” (from “android_x86_64”).

Some of the important features(such as eMMC, wifi and battery status) are not working , so Kazama-san’s method is still better yet.

However, thanks to developers, we already have drivers for wifi & bluetooth in the Linux kernel (may be, the touchscreen driver is also available?).

In the near future, our Hi10 will be the beast!

 

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