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[Microsoft Surface] zahgrim:
Recovery CD/DVD for Surface RT?

I made recovery drives for RT 8 and RT 8.1 for my Surface RT. I tried to create a bootable Recovery ISO (mkisofs) by selecting all the folders, except the sources directory, purely to see if UEFI would attempt to identify the CD as bootable (using a SanDisk U3), having bootmgr.efi and armboot.efi present in the same directory structure as the USB recovery drive.

I scoured the 'net and it appears the Surface UEFI may only support FAT32 partitions, which would mean ISO9660 / RockRidge / Joliet probably won't work.

I booted in to WinRE from the onboard SD partition, and with the U3 Sandisk attached, CD/DVD was not listed, but the internal SD and USB drive were. This highly suggests it will never boot from CD, since I know my Surface Pro shows CD/DVD in its WinRE.

For the record, the U3 does appear as a valid CD drive in the operating system. Also, I uploaded an ISO of Fedora 20 Live to the U3 CD partition and successfully booted two x86 laptops from the U3 emulated CD partition. Finally, I tried dumping both the full recovery image (/dev/sdb) and solely the FAT32 partition (/dev/sdb1) raw to the U3 CD partition, but not a single computer would identify a filesystem; however, dd if=/dev/sr0 | hexdump -C did show the raw data comprising the USB recovery flash drive.

I wanted to find out if anyone has determined if there exists any kind of support for booting from CD as I would like to make a permanent bootable media before I hand over the Surface to a family member.
[Microsoft Surface] Passportpowell:
My SD card is formatted to exfat. Whenever I put music or avideo on the card I can't seem to listen or watch it.

Should I try ntfs? Any other tips?

My micro card is 64gb samsung
[Microsoft Surface] jo2special:
surface 2

hello, i want to return my surface 2 to its original default OS, my friend install mods/beta on it and i cannot update the winrt os on the surface 2, tried to reset it with the builtin recovery image in the surface 2, but its always the same, after i reinstall winrt, the os cannot be updated, i think it need a usb recovery drive for surface 2 to return it to original os, maybe a link to download it from, thanks.
[Microsoft Surface] Alucardi:
I cannot for my life find anything thats able to connect to my xbmc server that will load all metadata. I know plex is now available but i have 2 housholds, 1 run plex server and one run xbmc (upnp).

I tried a few that says we can read metadata but non works. I want my pad to show up my movies nicley and not just with crappy folders and filenames.
[Microsoft Surface] pestrada9788:
Surface RT-Windows update needs your help

I have recently encountered an error, a re occurring pop up that will not go away.

I looked through the forum and cannot locate a thread on this.

Here is the error:

Windows Update needs your help

Windows update hasn't been able to check for new updates for the last 30 days. Go to

windows update to resolve this issue.

Here is whats happened. I've gone to windows update and all it says is restart to install new updates. That has been about 2 dozen times. No new updates install nor are available.

Ive tried manually searching and installing updates and i am all up to date.

I also checked another forum that said to change the value in the registry, which i have done several times and keeps changing itself back. Here is the post from the forum.

It has to do with the registry key

hklm:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update\Results\Detect

and the value LastSuccessTime

Once it approaches 30 days that message will show up. This can occur if you may be building systems, then shelving them, but windows update is enabled in your image. If you don't let SCCM get the policy to manage the system first, you may get that message. Even so, I think you may get that message even if CCMExec is the callerID for Windows update.

To remedy, modify the HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update Key's NextDetectionTime value to something in the past and restart windows update service (wuauserv).

Here's some powershell to do the dirty work:

$Date = (Get-Date -Date (get-date).AddDays(-1) -Format u).tostring().replace("Z","")

set-itemproperty -path "HKLM:\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\WindowsUpdate\Auto Update" -name NextDetectionTime -value $Date

restart-service wuauserv

I am really at a loss on what to do. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

Patrick
[Microsoft Surface] vSTATERv:
I was replacing the screen on a surface RT. At the last stage, when I was putting the back cover back on, the ZIF connector which the battery flex plugs into snapped clean off. What are my options here, is there any way to connect the battery?
[Microsoft Surface] dmcin23:
Okay so I have an interesting comparative/ upgrading question regarding the surface RT original and my personal HP envy ultrabook.

Here's the scoop:

I recently was gifted a surface RT and around the same time, broke my ultrabook. This break is purely cosmetic however and just effects the hinge when opening and closing the laptop.

I cannot sell my ultrabook the way it is now with a broken hinge because the value is reduced significantly. However the repair itself could end up costing me $200.

My question is this... Can I simply replace my ultrabook with this new surface RT? And in doing so transfer the CPU and RAM of my ultrabook to the RT. My ultrabook has i5 and 4x2 RAM.

I'm not entirely sure what the difference between the tegra 3 ARM and the i5 3rd gen is other than the speed. Should I proceed to take apart my RT and upgrade it?

Any advice or input is greatly appreciated!
[Microsoft Surface] CrunchyDoodle:
In a word - no.

Many people are confused by the fact that Microsoft makes this Surface RT or Surface 2 tablet that runs a special version of Windows 8.1. These RT tablets do work like a real Windows 8.1 tablet - it sure looks the same. The hardware is completely different and not all compatible. The software is totally not compatible with real Windows 8.1.

Bye. :cool:
[Microsoft Surface] dmcin23:
Crunchy,

Pardon me for belaboring the issue but what about the new surface pro 3. They market that product as a "tablet to replace your laptop" (an idea I rather fancy). In it is the new i5 and it comes equipped with an ssd. The same hardware found in all PCs. You can see where my idea stems from..

So if they are indeed incompatible who manufactures the hardware for the RT, and is that manufacturer different for the pro series?

Your thoughts..
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
The Pro and RT lines are completely different products, although both are manufactured by Microsoft. You're basically asking if you can disassemble a MacBook Air and put its CPU and RAM into an iPad. It's not even close to possible; you'd need to replace basically all of the internal components, and then it wouldn't fit in the case anyhow... and you'd need to find some way to interface the external stuff (like the keyboard port) with a motherboard that wasn't made for it. It's just not possible. ARM and x86 processors aren't interchangeable components.

Heck, even Intel and AMD CPUs aren't interchangeable (you have to replace the socket and chipset, which in effect means replace the motherboard), and those are both x86!
[Microsoft Surface] jessperry:
lost

Hi, please forgive me if this question has been asked already. I've been doing a lot of reading and can't find a clear answer. Is there a jailbreak for the surface 2 windows rt 8.1? I tried a jailbreak tool, but with no success. I'm really frustrated bc this was supposed to replace my laptop, and I was misled. I just want to be able to install plug ins so I can stream videos, and it would be great to have more apps to choose from.

Thanks so much. Again I apologize if this has been answered but I'm not finding it.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
I really, honestly, don't believe you. There's exactly one official source for the jailbreak download (but lots of discussion threads as well), and they all say it doesn't work on 8.1. You be trolling?
[Microsoft Surface] antreas spyrou:
unity

hello some games need unity to work but on Microsoft surface i can only use IE11 and i cant download it with .exe file what to do? :confused:
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
About the same thing you'd do if you had an iPad, i.e. buy the right hardware for the software you want to run on it?
[Microsoft Surface] forenuser:
I know Microsoft prevents using Modern IE when another browser is set as standard-browser.

The problem is: my workflow is to use Chrome when the Surface is docked (in desktop-mode) and to use Modern-IE when I use my Surface as a tablet. For professional use I NEED to use Chrom as standard-browser.

I can't believe there are no workaroundings or hacks about that problem...

Any ideas?
[Microsoft Surface] pilotgav:
Looking for a replacement virtual keyboard

i find myself trying to 'Swype' to type on the virtual keyboard with my new Surface Pro 3. im so used to Android tablets.

Are there any replacement keyboards availabe for Surface?
[Microsoft Surface] forenuser:
No but since Windows Phone already supports swiping to type I could imagine that this feature is available in Windows soon.

I found myself trying to swipe aswell... once u get used to it it really is the fastest way and especially makes sense on a tablet that u often hold with one hand and only have one spare hand to type.
[Microsoft Surface] JeffATL:
Backup Strategy For Surface

I know Microsoft has its built in backup tools such as File History but given that the hard drive of my Surface Pro is 128gb I think its good to make a full drive backup.

There are many free tools notably Paragon and Macrium but afaik they do not have cloud backup, They probably do but after a little searching I came up with nothing.

I have an Office 365 account and they just up'd my storage to 1TB so backing up my entire Surface's drive to OneDrive should be fine in terms of space requirements. The issue of course is getting the backup on OneDrive. I definitely do not want to just put it in the OneDrive folder residing on the Surface because that would be recursive and take up too much space on my Surface. So I was thinking of changing my OneDrive location to an external USB drive. I can put the backup image there and it will automatically sync with OneDrive and not take additional space. The advantage is that if my backup drive ever fails, which at some point I am sure it will, I have a replica in the cloud. Ideally I would want incremental backups because I do not want to upload massive data all the time . Incremental backups are only in paid versions of the backup software I mentioned though Paragon does offer differential, which would be larger successive backups than incremental but much smaller than full.

Not sure if this is the best place to float this idea but figured I'd put it out there to get thoughts... Thanks.
[Microsoft Surface] diofar:
On-Screen Keyboard Haptic Feedback

Hello,

I have used a demo Surface in a store and it had haptic feedback (vibration) not only on the windows key but also on the on screen keyboard.

After I bought one, before but also even after ALL updates, I still have not any haptic feedback on the on screen keyboard - just on the windows key.

I have looked everywhere, I have made 3 times reset of every kind, but still not found anything.

I even went back to the store just to be sure, and yes, it still has the haptic feedback to the on screen keyboard.

Any ideas?
[Microsoft Surface] Amir.Adel:
Hey, there will be Windows 10 for Surface RT?
[Microsoft Surface] RobbieRobski:
Anyone with an original RT able to use youtube via browser? Every time I try, I get the message via black bar at the bottom that a script has taken too long and I need to stop script or close, and or recover page or close.

I can't recall how long this has been going on, but months to say the least. I mostly use hyper for youtube, but sometimes I want to use IE. I am on 8.1 with the latest updates.

I wonder if it's some ****ty google attempt to block youtube on surface, sorry if I sound like an angry cynic. But honestly I dont see another reason. I never have this issue on any other website, such as other streaming websites for sports broadcasts and tv shows etc.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
Haven't tried recently, but it used to work! Are you on 8.0 or 8.1?

One tip that may help: you can re-write YouTube URLs to go directly to the video (nobody sane wants to read the comments anyhow...). Take a typical YT video URL:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0

Remove the "watch?" part and replace the "=" with "/":

http://www.youtube.com/v/oHg5SJYRHA0

Direct link to video! No scripts or other BS. Let me know if that works for you; if not, I'll dig into it more.
[Microsoft Surface] domboy:
I have an original RT but also stayed with RT 8.0. I have only ever used IE for YouTube, and I can't remember ever having a problem (hope I didn't just jinx myself). Checked again today with both versions of IE (desktop and modern) and it works fine.

Maybe another 8.1 user will chime in...
[Microsoft Surface] RobbieRobski:
I'm on 8.1 with the latest updates. If a video is embedded on a news site there is zero problem. It's just when I try to load youtube directly that fails. Usually when I use the browser it's because I need to search for something specific or want to write/edit a comment I wrote from an app.

I will see if I can load a specific video if I have the url, but if I do a websearch for a video and click on the search result it usually fails to load too.

Haven't tried with desktop IE in a while, I can try everything again when I get home today. I suspect the same though.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
It may also matter whether you're trying to use Flash vs. HTML5. Go to http://youtube.com/html5, and see whether your browser is set to use HTML5 video by default or not.
[Microsoft Surface] tuoggy:
Stylus pressure in Gimp and other desktop sketching programs

Before you tell me to use a different program, I understand that there are metro apps where the pen stylus works as intended. I hate the metro interface, the full screen apps that run on the system.

Having said that, here it goes.

I have Surface Pro 1, and I was curious if the pressure sensitivity issue has been solved. I've tried Googling the issue, and tried every potential solution that I could find.

I've installed the Wacom Feel it driver. I've uninstalled Gimp and reinstalled it. I tried changing the brush dynamics in Gimp to pressure opacity.

It seems that there's nothing I can do that makes the "Wacom tablet" appear in my list of input devices.

Am I missing something, or is this still broken over a year and a half after the device started shipping?
[Microsoft Surface] Toriko:
Hi guys. I've just bought a Surface Pro 1. Can you recommend me a program that translates the handwriting in the writing of the computer? If it translates math-formulas as well it would be great.

Thanks.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
Microsoft OneNote has handwriting recognition built in. It can either store your notes handwritten or convert them to "typed" text, as you prefer; it's searchable either way but errors in the recognition don't show up as clearly if you leave it as handwritten.

Windows' Software Input Panel (the on-screen keyboard that's part of the tablet tools, not to be confused with the one that's part of the accessibility tools) also has a handwriting recognition mode (it's selectable from the same place you choose things like full keyboard vs. split). Use the stylus to write in the target area, and it will convert your writing to "typed" text as it recognizes it.

There is not, as far as I know, anything that will recognize mathematical formulae beyond simply recognizing the ASCII characters used (things like + or = are easy, / will be recognized but the actual division symbol may not). On the other hand, you can just write the formulae straight into OneNote - that's what I did in physics class - and the recognizable text will be recognized. If you caption each formula you can use that to find them again.
[Microsoft Surface] Toriko:
Thank you. I'm using the OneNote app, but the program can't recognize directly my handwriting. I can select in settings the input by touch and then transfer the handwriting, but I'd like to write on the screen and directly see the transformation. Do you know how to do it?

Thank you.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
I don't use the "app", I use the full version of OneNote that is part of the Office suite. In theory they both do handwriting recognition, but I really haven't messed with the "Metro" version at all.
[Microsoft Surface] RobbieRobski:
How do we complain to admins here at XDA? We need multiple sub forums for Surface. How is it that amazon has 6 sub forums but we're relegated to a single forum topic.
[Microsoft Surface] GoodDayToDie:
There's a thread (under XDA General forum, I think?) for requesting device-specific forums, but I don't know how much attention they pay to it. You could also try PMing the forum moderators and/or admins.

Bear in min that the Surface forum already doesn't get that much traffic. It's easy to do things like tag a thread or even individual post with [RT] or [PRO 3] or similar, so people know what you're talking about. Model-specific subforums would be near-empty.
[Microsoft Surface] dhangejr:
i can't get my SP2 to draw smooth on the screen edges and it WONT draw a straight line with a straight edge.

I know it has to work as well as my note 10.1

I really wanna use the SP2 for school.

IT works a million ways better except the writing. AND well I simply cant deal with the horrible writing.

SO I carry my macbook and my note :(

I have spent countless hours I should be doing H/W looking into this...

SO what am I missing? I must be calibrating wrong?

Ive treid the wacom drivers. I have tried windows dirvers. I have calbtares 272 (or whatever)
[Microsoft Surface] celticchrys:
Windows 8 has handwriting recognition built in everywhere (not just in OneNote). When the keyboard is on the screen, tap the button in the lower right corner that has a keyboard icon. This will show you multiple input choices. Tap the one with the pen on it, and you will have a box you can write in to have your writing converted to typed text in any program.

Another option is MyScript Stylus, which is a handwriting recognition app that is better known on Android, but you can try a Windows version for 30 days. It has stuff like being able to write anywhere on screen and have it translated to typed text. If you buy it, you get the MyScript Calculator function which can convert and solve an equation that you write with your stylus. On Android, these two things are separate apps, but for Windows, they are one app.

Description & download here: http://www.myscript.com/volinks/en/webstore/myscript-stylus/description/
[Microsoft Surface] Eagleman71:
Surface Pro 3 - two questions

Hallo, I have a brand new surface pro 3, version i5 - 256Gb- 8Gb

My two questions:

How do I identify the serial number? on the back slid there is no number impressed in the silver near the surface logo

The original windows is in english, i added italian language but when i pull out the onscreen keyboard I have no character recognition available for italian. is that normal or there is somewhat pachage to install for non default languages?

Thanks
[Microsoft Surface] JeffATL:
Any fixes for slow wifi with bluetooth on?
[Microsoft Surface] Vincentdh:
Hey guys, I have been playing around with the settings on my parents Surface RT as they are experiencing frustrations with the Spotlite app for spotify. The program will only play songs as long as the screen is turned on, and after googling I have found there is no real fix for this. But I thought: Well I could set go to sleep mode after 2 hours, and make sure the display dims to 10% or even 0% after a few minutes. However I then noticed that the option: Dim display after ... has disappeared from the power options.

Does anyone know where to find this setting? Thanks.
[Microsoft Surface] ingrid09:
I'd love to have one after the price lower down here.I think it's the best tablet ever. I like its impeccable design and operation system.
[Microsoft Surface] DLCPhoto:
I'm not sure how much attention this forum gets, but here goes:

I have a new Surface 3, 4gb Version, and am also new to Windows 8.1. Was using the Facebook App, and clicked on a notification that showed up at the top right in the app. It gave me a choice of how to open it, and I accidentally chose the wrong option. So now when I tap on a notification, it takes me to Chrome, rather than opening it up within the FB app itself.

I went to Control Panel...Default Programs... but can't identify the specific file type or protocol that controls this function. I assume it's somewhere there, as I can't find any FB setting that seems to address this.

I went to the same section in Settings for App Defaults, but again couldn't determine which one controlled this behavior.

I uninstalled/reinstalled the Facebook App, rebooted inbetween, but no change in behavior.

Anybody know how I can change this default, and have FB notifications open up in the FB app, rather than in Chrome?
[Microsoft Surface] blognc:
A friend of mine does IT contract work for a whole bunch of companies, including one which ordered Surface tablets for all of their employees. He says I can't even consider getting a Surface, because this company ordered hundreds, and almost every one has serious stability issues (blue screens or just not booting, forcing resets all the time). I would like to upgrade from my Samsung 500T, since I keep running into performance limitations, to a Surface 3, but this makes me wary.

Do the Surface tablets suffer from a systemic quality problem, are unstable, and just not worth it no matter how solid the build is? Do I have any better options if I'm looking for something around $600 with a non-Bluetooth attachable keyboard, pen support, and better performance than a 1.8GHz Z2760 Atom with 2GB of RAM?
[Microsoft Surface] robel10:
vpn on surface RT

I can connect to VPN on my Surface RT but the VPN does not do its job I can not access the sites or games based on net in school. when I turn on the VPN I realise the net became slower.

i am using vpn address from vpngate
[Microsoft Surface] nolan420:
i have a surface 2 and no charger

I noticed it runs on 12v, are there specific negative and positive nodes, so i can hook a wall charger straight to them?
[Microsoft Surface] RobbieRobski:
I upgrade to a surface pro last year, but in the time that I had surface RT (since launch date) I never had any crashes. The only performance issues I had were when the hd was near full. I had the 23 gb original.

On my i5 8GB I haven't had any problems in general except when watching flash videos, the cpu heats up like nobodies business and the cpu fan turns into high gear. But ever since youtube went html 5 default it's been mostly smooth sailing, just have to deal with those sites that have flash ads. On the other hand if you use firefox and don't install flash, then problem solved.
[Microsoft Surface] -=nezero=-:
My Surface Pro 3 doesn't appear to connect back up to my WiFi until I switch the screen back on. If I put my Surface to sleep, go get a coffee etc.. then come back to the office, I noticed that I wasn't getting any notifications of emails or skype messages until I actually sat back down to work and turned the screen on. My Android tablet was fine with this sort of thing! Is there a setting for this? Or is it just 'The way Windoze works'?