[Ricardo Simões]

Brad wrote:

…Which BIOS entry did you change that bricked it? Was it AMI-BIOS-2.18.1263 ? (this is the version in EZBook 3 Pro) It’s really messed up that Jumper does not supply firmware and a flashing tool to the public to use.

It was the Jumper EzBook 2 but I can’t remember the exact BIOS version, sorry.

P.S: Stay away from TECLAST brand as well, the tablet I bought for my mom bricked while doing an OTA update!!!!! Had to wait several weeks for the official Teclast support made the firmware available through dropbox ?!?!?!!? LOL

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

Brad wrote:

Yeah, I’ve never tried the minimal version either. Are you using Antergos Gnome desktop or XFCE with the EZB3Pro? I personally think Gnome is a little sluggish on the lower powered CPU’s like the Celeron N3450. Not alot though. It could be acceptable to some people, perhaps if the UI animations are turned off.

eerrm… I only use XFCE wherever distro I install, I love eye candy but hate fancy effects. I’m all for speed and productivity 😉

Gnome, KDE, Cinnamon, and even MATE, are too much for these types of machines… LXDE, or XFCE are my choices. I haven’t tried Budgie but I bet it would  not run as fast as LXDE or XFCE.

NOTE: I’m not using EzBook 2 anymore, if you read the full thread you’ll notice that I regret big time to have bought this piece of crap/cheap products… it bricked just by going into BIOS and altered some parameter. Never again I’ll let myself to be seduced by cheap prices instead of checking for full Linux support out-of-the-box before I made any purchase.

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

Anonymous wrote:

I managed to burn the Antergos minimal ISO to USB using dd. Despite the good looks on startup, it gave me a hard time connecting to my wifi router…

Don’t give up on Antergos yet! If you can, try the normal version which boots live into Gnome, and you should be able to check if everything is working including wi-fi, sound, etc.

The GUI installer then lets you choose between 5 different Desktop Environments.

P.S: I’ve been using Antergos since 2015, coming from xubuntu. Also tried several other distros like Manjaro, etc, etc and settled on Antergos ever since 😉

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

mike wrote:

Even after reinstalling Windows 10 my mbr is still messed up. I can boot it from the bios but that makes this device 10 times more irritating. Can anyone explain how to clear the mbr efi so It will boot without going into the bios? Please Advise Thanks

Have you tried to install rEFInd from windows?

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

GilDev wrote:

Well I’ve respun the latest stable Lubuntu (17.04) and it upgraded the kernel so it gave me a “linuxium-v4.13-rc7-lubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso”. So I guess the kernel version isn’t the problem here, but sure I could try with Ubuntu daily builds.

Aaah, very well then, I didn’t noticed that you upgraded the kernel (sorry for that).

So I guess for now there is nothing else you could do except to wait for a new rc kernel to be released, and keep trying until all hardware will become supported.

 

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

GilDev wrote:

Alright, I’ve respun(?) the last Lubuntu 17.04 ISO: sudo ./isorespin.sh -i lubuntu-17.04-desktop-amd64.iso --atom -u --upgrade. Still no touchpad nor WiFi.

At the moment Linux Kernel is at 4.13-rc7 https://www.kernel.org/

You need to respun ubuntu alpha which is at 4.13-rc(x) and you should get at least touchpad out-of-the-box (I remembered one time I didn’t even needed to respun it, I just made a Live USB from the ISO and it worked!)
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/

P.S: Regularly check for new daily builds because whenever a new rc kernel is released ubuntu alpha has it usually within a day or 2 😉

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

GilDev wrote:

Fingers crossed! I’m not giving up so soon, although it’s pretty deceiving to see it works for Jump but not for me. Still so many unresolved mysteries…

Right now it doesn’t work because I bet your hardware is different/newer than other previous versions (like mine), but in time it will, that’s the true power of Open Source development and nothing beats Linux 😉

Linux kernel development is always getting faster and faster because anyone can join in, and there are always more people joining in all the time.

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

GilDev wrote:

Hell, that was a cheap little laptop. Newer versions like the EzBook 3 or some laptops like that seems to be a lot better with Linux support now. But yeah, I should have looked more into Linux support, Windows is just so much more pain to use than I imagine it would be…

Don’t get me wrong, what I intended to say was that it was my mistake not yours… I even did worse, I ordered knowingly that it hadn’t Linux support out of the box and it came with Windows 10!!! I thought what a great price for such specs, I’ll buy it and wipe Windows 10 as soon as it gets fully Linux supported 🙂 but products that brick just by changing some BIOS parameters or OTA updates are just not worth it.

Overall I spent around $200 and now I have to at least spend another $200 to get a new one, this equals to $400… I should have just spent that amount of money in the first place buying a good laptop instead of this garbage.

But like I said, I wish that all of you can get these devices working 100% on Linux sooner or later 😉

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

GilDev wrote:

Ricardo Simões wrote:

mine was an Intel Atom x5-E8000 while yours is x5-Z8300

Jump too has an x5-Z8300. What is going on with these things? Will I ever be able to use Linux on it? T_T

Listen… I’ve learn my lesson, after bricking mine after a simple BIOS parameter it’s never again for me. These things are useless, I’ll never buy cheap unsupported devices again without checking if they’re Linux supported out of the box. I even got a Teclast TbooK 16 Pro after this one for my mother and it broke last week during an OTA android update, and guess what? GearBest said warranty is voided because they don’t assume responsibility over any kind of update… even OS updates… I know, ridiculous right?

I wish you all good luck… eventually there will come a time when Linux kernel will support all this chips out-of-the-box, but until then…

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

GilDev wrote:

… Overall, the Machine section looks quite different…

Yep seems so… even with my old https://pastebin.com/L3y2WMCx the CPU is different, mine was an Intel Atom x5-E8000 while yours is x5-Z8300

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

GilDev wrote:

inxi isn’t pre-installed on the distros I have tried and I have no WiFi. Maybe I can install it while respinning an ISO.

Before I bricked my Jumper EzBook 2, I used my Android phone for tethering and have wifi while using live cds, that was the only method at the time the worked for me

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

May I suggest you both run “sudo inxi -xxAv6” in your terminals and compare results? You should be able to tell if there are some hardware differences.

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

mimmo maiorino wrote:

Joe, please Can you resend good links of instructions and firmware? Anyone else? Thanks

I’ve managed to get the pdf file doing a search on google https://www.google.pt/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj15fHjlM_VAhWGfhoKHSFFAOgQFgg0MAA&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.android-hilfe.de%2Fattachments%2Ftbook11systeminstallationguide-pdf.520493%2F&usg=AFQjCNFTsNAbqyRIVaj9bbaLhRQenIxL1Q

I’ve included the PDF in attachment as well

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[Ricardo Simões]

I also have a similar problem with my Teclast Tbook 16 Pro…

I lost the startup boot selector since some Windows 10 mandatory update, so I no longer can choose between Windows 10 or Android at power on.

And recently I lost Android over an OTA update… when it boots it just stays on teclast logo forever…

I’ve tried to do a factory reset on android with no luck… I can acess menu by pressing power button + volume down, but the factory reset does nothing.

I’ve contacted Teclast support today via facebook page and twitter but still no answer 🙁

Also tried to download the firmware for this tablet on http://www.teclast.com/en/firmware/ inserted my product ID number but the I got error 429 from dropbox 🙁

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/obgcuiiybavspfk/AAD8nF_n43JYaRO2-kM0fpRVa?dl=0

Apparently their dropbox quota has been exceeded and it’s been like this for 3 straight days now.

So if I were you, I would try to do a factory reset until at least we can get hands on the firmware file because without it I think you risk loosing everything if anything goes wrong (so far I lost Android).

If I have any development on my side I’ll post it

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Ricardo

[Ricardo Simões]

Yep, it’s really weird !!!!

Anyway sound must be really close to get working as well, I bet someone will address it sooner or later… (ooooh, how I wished I hadn’t bricked mine)

Audio:     Card-1 Intel HDMI/DP LPE Audio driver: HdmiLpeAudio
           Card-2 bytcr-rt5651 driver: bytcr-rt5651
           Sound: ALSA v: k4.12.0-041200rc7-generic

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