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[Windows 8 General] mznk:
I noticed something very strange with EC v32, not only does it changes the power button behavior, it also prevented the tablet from shutting down completely; the Windows touch button still produced vibration and the keyboard LEDs were still lighting up. Downgrading to EC v30 fixed all that.

I can't seem to get wireless display (WiDi/Miracast) to work reliably with my LG TV. Anybody tried that?
[Windows 8 General] majkel_94:
In my unit it works but it's hard to establish an connection. After a few tries it works quite smooth and fast ;)
[Windows 8 General] =jon=:
I tried Miracast a few times both with a samsung TV and the MS wireless adaptor. With the newest wifi drivers on here i could never get it to connect. With the win 10 default wifi drivers I got it to work for a bit, then it stopped altogether... I gave up at that point!!
[Windows 8 General] baxtex:
[MENTION=4709667]Wootever[/MENTION] Do you know the thickness and size of the Thermal pads

Between the CPU and the heatspreader?

Between the heatspreader and the backcasee?

I'm using the original heatspreader.

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I also got a question about ETU. I managed to set the offset voltage to -95 and stresstested for 1 hour. I lowerd if even further to -100 but there it blue screened so I thought I'd stick with -90 to be sure. I've been on -90 the whole day without problem. Then my battery ran out and I plugged it to the charger. Now whenever I stress test with the charger plugged it chrashes but if it's unplugged it doesn't. Any thoughts on this?
[Windows 8 General] Toby1230:
Tablet on Sale 11.11.15

For all who want to buy that great Device:

The Tablet will be on Sale on Ali for about 200$ with DHL shipment!

I got mine several Months ago for 200$, but the Shipping was very slow to Germany, it took more than a Month.

http://sale.aliexpress.com/__pc/1111_cube.htm?spm=5261.7726059.0.56.z5nyS1
[Windows 8 General] baxtex:
Damn, bought it 3 weeks ago for 350. :&
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
That post has it as $286 - with ~$50 tax&handling (to get it to EU) making it $335. So still saving ~$35(~$50 with dhl) on current prices.
[Windows 8 General] ahmed1994:
does not support iraq too like the sale of 23 july

i bought mine 30 days ago from tinydeal for 359$

i am expecting it to arrive very soon
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
Similar from gearbest $370 including import duty and dhl. Ordered 16th Oct. expecting it on Thursday - was told they were out of stock, so shipping only started yesterday - looks like they all have stock again I guess.
[Windows 8 General] Toby1230:
Of course, but taxes are different in every country. Here in Germany 19%. In my case, the seller shipped the keyboard separately (it arrived 2 weeks before the tablet :D ), and I only had to pay taxes for the tab. I think its almost impossible to know how much you will have to pay.

Greetings! :)
[Windows 8 General] baxtex:
It sure is, in Sweden taxes are 25% but somehow I ended upp paying only about 18 Euros in taxes anyway.
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
Dhl? Only mentioned taxes/duty as it is dhl delivered so will very likely have an additional import charge. [MENTION=3249793]Toby1230[/MENTION] $50 I thought would be about average eu cost. Mine was £31 to UK which works out at ~15% (if handling charge is 0 - not sure how its split yet), was expecting 20% though.

That €18 works out as what, 6%...
[Windows 8 General] shunsai:
Has anybody bought a glass screen protector that they're really happy with the quality of and can recommend? I bought this one off AliExpress, but I'm really dissatisfied with the quality. I've never been one to care about fingerprints so much, but this one just seems really crappy. Even when I try to wipe it or clean it with an alcohol wet-wipe, it never looks clean or pristine. It doesn't seem to get rid of the oils.
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
I'm not seeing oleophobic coating being listed there, you could look at buying a kit to apply one would cost about $10 I guess but don't know too much about them brand wise.
[Windows 8 General] Toby1230:
I bought it, and it really completes the device. You should order order it just with the tablet, the original protector will get scratched by the pen!

It feels like the normal glass surface of the tap with the glass protector. And its real glass, when you hold it in your hand (before addicting to the tab) it's very stare, be careful with it! It could broke :D !

But does anyone know if there are softer replacement tips for the pen, like on the surface? Or which one from the stylus shop fit for the i7?
[Windows 8 General] shunsai:
Order what? Do you have one you recommend other than the one I already bought?
[Windows 8 General] baxtex:
I've orded that one aswell, haven't gotten mine yet though.
[Windows 8 General] Toby1230:
Whoops, i can't read :D

The only bad of the protector on my case is that there is a little bit of air at the edges.. I can press them down but it won't become better.
[Windows 8 General] oeriel:
Cheap Stylus for Cube

If someone want to have stylus for this device, this is also compatible, but price is very low:

[IMG="Cube i7 Stylus Replacement Pen"]http://g01.a.alicdn.com/kf/HTB1AEcFIFXXXXX0aXXXq6xXFXXXn/Digitizer-STYLUS-PEN-for-ThinkPad-X60-X200-X201-W700-Tablet-Replaceable-Pen-Tips-Free-shipping.jpg[/IMG]

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Digi...eable-Pen-Tips-Free-shipping/32277846073.html

I've bought mine for $7 (now price is a little bit higher) and it came to me in 7 days! It have 5 red endings. But price is not 31$ as original, and quality is ok. Only writing is different from my Dell Venue VG Pen. When I write this "red" pen it makes thicker lines. When I write my Dell, I can do a very thin line, by little touching screen, like hair and more pressing, thicker line.

This one is starting from "fat" lines and go further. Maybe drivers? Maybe this red ending?

But for this price is ok. Drawing are ok, but if you are professional drawer it could annoy you, untill better drivers? 0:)
[Windows 8 General] buzz86us:
has anybody gotten native android working?
[Windows 8 General] KoryandR:
I have one of those and it only registers one level of pressure (there's no potentiometer under the barrel button), not recommended unless you use it like a mouse. Not suitable for drawing :(
[Windows 8 General] chakky88:
Anyone has Wifi and Bluetooth interference issue?

When I turn on my bluetooth mouse, wifi stop working. Still connected but no internet. I have to turn the mouse off to get internet back.

Will replacing wifi antenna solve the issue? Any suggestion?
[Windows 8 General] Aicene:
Wake up.... It's the most well known "feature" of this tablet :eek: It was mentioned in this thread a lot of times! Bluetooth with WiFi do not work at all or work very bad.

Thats mean you didn't use search in thread. Nice feature :cool:
[Windows 8 General] chakky88:
Wifi not working or causing BSD on the first batch units, which have Chinese Cube logo on boot, because they have wifi antenna cable placed across the ssd. The later batch have it fixed. I have the later batch unit, wifi and bluetooth work fine, but not at the same time. I did search, inside and outside the thread, and found no solution for this. That's why I asked.

Anyway, thanks for waking me up.
[Windows 8 General] Aicene:
Sorry, but you didn't understand me. You answer yourself, not the same time. What I'm talking about ;) BT and WiFi are on one chip and use one antenna, and that cause bad interference.
[Windows 8 General] yuri624:
Regarding Bluetooth/Wifi:

I have my Stylus since about two weeks. It seems I have one from an older batch (chinese boot logo),

but luckily I haven't notice any problems with Wifi (except beeing a little slow).

With the standard driver that was installed my Bluetooth seemed correct (device manager didn't complain),

but I could never find any devices.

Installing this driver (-> post #1209 <- ; have my thanks) made it work without any problems. I don't have a

BT mouse/keyboard etc to test, but Wifi + BT (audio to my sound system) works just fine.

So maybe using this driver will fix it for you. I did do a clean install of Win 8.1 as well (couldn't be bothered

with messing with the chinese version + language pack).

[MENTION=4709667]Wootever[/MENTION]

I've been reading through all the pages here and your cooling solution looks quite promising. I plan to do

the same with the help of your shematics/posts. Is your Revision 2 (post #1316) the newest solution

(part one 1mm | part two 0,6mm | ram thermal pad 1,5mm | thermal pad on top 0,5mm) ?

mznk posted pictures of his back panel mod (post #1249). Can this be applied on top of your heat spreader?

Would I have to use a slightly thinner copper plate for part two then to avoid too much pressure?

You posted some benchmark results and I'm not sure if I should be jealous, impressed or worried.

3DMark11 with default XTU settings (6W, 25sec):

Max. 65°C, 12W and P860

I haven't tried 3DMark11 yet. But with the default settings and some gaming (even older stuff like

Need for Speed: Underground 1) I get temperatures well in the 80s, sometimes 90s.

With ThrottleStop (using your Bios Version 3, not the experimental) set to disable turbo (forced at

800 MHz), 4W limit instead of 6W and -60mV -50mV -75mV I still get about 60°C.

Is that anything close to normal?

Oh and also, does anyone have an idea why my screen won't rotate automatically at all?

It did work before with the chinese Windows on it. I did a Doubledriver backup before

installing a fresh Windows 8.1 and ever since it doesn't work. I don't really need it, but

it would be nice if I had the option to use it if i wanted to.
[Windows 8 General] qb!xx:
Want to buy the cube to take with me when me or my wife go abroad. Does it get really warm using it to take notes, office and occasional movie ?
[Windows 8 General] xgiorg:
Hello, in my first day of use, I bricked my stylus i7. I tried to upgrade the bios, but some error was found.

Then I have to unbrick the bios. I saw this post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62235995&postcount=235 but I don't know what I have to do. I bought the spi programmer and the socket adapter clip from ebay, can someone tell me the steps I have to follow knowing that is the first time I have to do something like this?

Of course I don't know someone can help me. Thank you for your comments.
[Windows 8 General] Wootever:
0.5mm and 1.0mm, size is about 40mm x 20mm

Simultaneous charge and discharge (on heavy benchmarking) causes more strain on the charging circuit which seems to result in unexpected fluctuations at the cpu electricity supply. Check for a stable undervolting under these conditions as well.

It might be an option to further increase Part2 and reach the approximate size of the original heatspreader.

Space between core and backcover is approximately ~2.0mm, the copper heatspreader is ~1.6mm + 0.5mm thermal pad.

Intel Core M are just cherry-picked Broadwell-U processors with better binning, they still have a large thermal discharge. It is just uncomfortable to hold but not dangerous/uncommon for this processor type.

Can you explain what happened exactly, what was the error?

Take care of the correct pin assignment:
[Windows 8 General] ajdeneka:
[MENTION=4709667]Wootever[/MENTION]

regarding this idea to further increase Part2 and reach the approximate size of the original heatspreader;

Do you think it would be possible to secure that big copper heatspreader only by those 4 screws in the middle (around cpu), or it would need those other screws like original one had?

For me it looks like that those 4 screws would be enough, as 0.5mm copper heatspreader shouldn't bend like original aluminum one..

What do you think?
[Windows 8 General] xgiorg:
Can you explain what happened exactly, what was the error?

Sorry to forget the description error, I'm a noob. The only thing I have is the backup of the original (american megatrend) bios in a pendrive (I have to use this one to restore the bios?).

I upgraded the bios because I was not able to boot from usb to make a clean installation of win10. Then Ichoose the bios mod v3..... mistake

Take care of the correct pin assignment:

Thank you, but can you describe a little more, with some steps (software, procedure,...)? maybe I'm asking you too much information, but I'm asking to friends and proffesionals but nobody can help me, it's my problem I know.

All in all thank you
[Windows 8 General] shunsai:
Mine rarely gets warm. I use mine with multiple pdfs and browser tabs open, youtube vids, and photos. I don't use mine for gaming. Sometimes I watch movies on it, but I mostly do reading, browsing, and a bit of drawing in Krita.Sometimes when running Krita for a while, it gets a bit warm, but I think that has more to do with Krita being buggy and not well-optimized. In my opinion it's perfectly suited for what you ask without getting too warm.
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
I have this tab now, came with windows 10 preinstalled - and have a stylus (that claims to be pressure sensitive).

So, a couple questions...

1. Is there anything I should be looking at regarding licenses to make sure they are genuine? It seems fine, for the moment and is reporting as activated.

2. Edge is reporting bing and google as being untrusted - I take it this is normal behaviour in China... is there a setting/config somewhere to fix it.

3. Anyone got pressure sensitive stylus working properly in win10? Is there a driver update somewhere that's needed? (would like to make 100% sure its not the stylus)

4. Anything else that could be useful here, before I start messing things up...

Edit. begin to answer myself.

2. I've changed the region setting, this seems to have corrected edge.

3. I take it the feel driver should fix the 'issue', but might need a bit more tinkering...

4. I seem to have the old chinese boot logo, any way to check for sure which version I have?
[Windows 8 General] murakh:
Auto Rotation - Win10

So finally an update about the success of the Kionix driver installation:

First I downloaded a fresh copy of the Windows 10 Pro Iso, using the MS tool. This time I also chose the standard Pro version, and not the Pro N version I had used before.

Also found what I presume are old drivers from Cube (CORE_M_WIN10) from their forums (bbs) and a download link at baidu.

Formatted all the formattable partitions (presume one is a UEFI partition which could not be formatted), and installed Windows. During the setup I chose the standard options / Express and not Custom as before.

On booting into Windows, installed the graphics driver from that old driver pack, and simultaneously set all 3 Sensor services to Auto, and started all. One failed to start with an error of it not being needed.

Rebooted. Installed the Chipset drivers from the old driver pack. Rebooted. Installed the Kionix drivers from the old driver pack. Screen changed upside down. Installed the .reg file and rebooted, after reboot the orientation was correct and I had the Rotation Lock option in the right-hand slide out menu. (note that you can use the Ctrl + Alt + arrow key to force the screen rotation, useful directly after driver install)

Updated all drivers using the new file (from Post 1). Rotation still works.

My guess is that the Sensors need to be enabled before the drivers are installed, so perhaps this will work even if you use the new drivers after ensuring the Sensors are enabled. The Kionix drivers in the old driver pack are the same as those I have found names as "Cube i7 Kionix Fusion Driver from Cube51", and they all include the .reg fix and certificate files (a little worrying about the certificates).

So overall I am not sure which exact step resolved the problem, however auto rotation now works.

Next step is to see if I can get the auto rotate to work under Linux Mint, and to switch to Mint as the main OS on the device. Just a pity Win10 is more touch-friendly (to an extent)

For now I am leaving the Wifi / mSSD issue, for one of the main uses I intend for this I need a wired network, so I almost permanently have a USB-Ethernet + 3 port USB hub plugged in, for now one of the hub ports just has a small USB wifi dongle plugged in, which also seems to have better reception and speeds than the internal Wifi. Once I find a larger mSSD I will pop the Cube open, replace the SSD and sort out the wifi cable.

Just out of curiosity, did you try the reset button? There was one time I flashed the BIOS after which the unit would not boot no matter what I did with the power button. Pressing the reset button fixed things, or at least fixed things enough to allow me to boot and redo the flash.
[Windows 8 General] Wootever:
[MENTION=258505]rilot[/MENTION]

Windows 8.1 Pro may be overestimated, i agree. But since they are using an kms activated pro edition, you can't expect that any customer will made a complete re-install just to downgrade the windows edition for a valid windows bing key.

So in this case a valid Windows Pro key would be justified, otherwise you have no option to upgrade your pre-installed windows 8.1 to version 10.
[Windows 8 General] MDaveUK:
Alright so I got mine today! (Monday) A whole day eariler then DHL estimated. Good stuff! Now as for the tablet itself ...

Man this thing gets HOT. I thought it wasn't going to be this hot when I heard about it from techtablets and from here but oh man this thing gets uncomfortably hot. And all I have done so far is watch youtube on it and tried Fire Alpaca and Photoshop (drawing apps). They don't seem to run very well, the strokes I use with the pen in Fire Alpaca seem to not register unless you put more then normal force on the screen with the stylus. Photoshop the delay is anoying (low frame rate). In OneNote the drawing experience is perfect though. No input lag, great sensitivity and smooth high 60fps motion. What apps are people using for a great drawing experience?

I upgraded Windows 8.1 Pro straight away to 10. No problems whatsoever. I only had to manually install the wacom drivers from the wacom website. No issues with WiFi. No issues with sleep mode. This is one hell of a great tablet! Just a shame its a little heavy for 2 handed use, forget 1 handed use! And the heat, oh man. I think having a fan like the Surface Pro's would of been nice!
[Windows 8 General] remixxer:
Do you think we have a chance to get a partial refund?
[Windows 8 General] victortan001:
I followed the instructions from Chris' video. There are clips that are holding the tablet and the back cover together. Once you open the tablet up, it is easy from then on. Yes it fixed the problem once and for all!

1) Open the tablet

2) Cover the soldered metal on the wifi Antenna with a piece of insulation tape or paper.

3) Cut a piece of aluminium foil and cover the wireless antenna like the one I show in the picture.

For the heat, you can try changing the thermal tape with something better but I have not done that and am unable to advise you on that.

I would think that it is a driver issue as well. But it is also due to hardware. On the older drivers, I still get a disk retried error indicating there is interference. You can check your event log to confirm.
[Windows 8 General] Hatsunumike:
Thank you for Driver
[Windows 8 General] mixterz:
my tablet out of the box is unstable, keeps freezing to the point i need a hard reboot

think ill try install windows 10 from usb
[Windows 8 General] MDaveUK:
Alright just noticed a serious problem with Windows 10 and palm rejection when using the stylus. It doesn't work! Only when the tip is touching the glass but when hovering, nope, no palm rejection. I don't know if this is a Wacom or Microsoft issue, but it makes drawing almost useless.

Going back to 8.1.
[Windows 8 General] mixterz:
Constantly getting the blue screen of death , tablets been unusable since I got it. Anything from connecting to WiFi to system updates crashes the tablet. Installed the Windows 8.1 driver pack from here hoping it would fix it. No luck. Any ideas ?
[Windows 8 General] MDaveUK:
Check previous posts in this thread about that issue, it has been brought up before. I haven't had a single BSOD in the 2 days I have been using mine heavily, luckily. Disable WIFI and Bluetooth and see if it stops bsod'ing.
[Windows 8 General] remixxer:
try to contact the seller.
[Windows 8 General] mixterz:
so just do a fresh install of windows should fix it ?
[Windows 8 General] Wootever:
That depends on what Paypal thinks about this case, but from my point of view you should either get a valid Windows 8.1 key or a adequate refund to buy a licence. (If Windows 8.1 Pro or Home/Bing edition may depend on your expectation)

Not necessarily, but this is something i would try out before returning.

Exactly my thoughts, i reduced the uefi thermal configuration temperatures to get rid of the problem. But even with stronger throttling it is still efficient enough.
[Windows 8 General] MDaveUK:
Yeah I just looked through the bios and set the passive point to 55 and that keeps the tablet cooler (still warm but manageable). Task manager shows the processor running at 0.78 nearly all the time now, and still runs good.

Why the default was 95 ... insane!
[Windows 8 General] c0de90e7:
Well, that is not that important, but it might have helped.

One thing I just noticed yesterday is that, in Windows 10, all these problems originating from the wifi were solved by going to Device Manager, Network Adapters, rightclick on Realtek RTL8723B..., properties, and there, in Advanced tab I changed some values, Bandwidth to 20 MHz Only, EntableAdaptivity to Disable, Selective suspend to Disabled, Wake on Magic Packet to Disable, WiFi Config to WiFi.

After these chances, no more crashes, no more hangs, smoothly going after lots of hours. Now, I do not know which value or values are the ones making it work, but those are a working combination, others may be less agressive and still do the trick.

I would advise trying this on w8.1 too.
[Windows 8 General] mixterz:
ill try it thanks, its definitely wifi related , when i receive my new ssd and open the tablet ill consider the tin foil option also.
[Windows 8 General] Wootever:
Intel Management Engine Update [10.0.47.1006]:

Download Management Engine update package.

Run Update.cmd and wait until the update is finished.

Reboot device.
[Windows 8 General] mixterz:
link isnt working ?
[Windows 8 General] Wootever:
Another interesting program is ThrottleStop:

Download is available here​

The main windows gives a brief overview about temperature, package power, clock multiplier and throttling reason:

A click on TPL (Turbo Power Limits) shows different settings to manually adjust the cpu TDP:

(Note: TDP locks need to be disabled in UEFI -> CPU settings to have access here).

The most interesting feature is probably the integrated voltage control, it allows to undervolt specifically parts of the core package:

(It needs further testing to see if and how much impact does this function have on an ultra-low voltage cpu.)
[Windows 8 General] victortan001:
Setting WiFi Config to WiFi from performance would decrease the WiFi's antenna strength by a lot, almost less than half of the strength. This is the setting that people could use if they are unwilling to open the tablet up or have their WiFi router really close to their tablet.
[Windows 8 General] ErylFlynn:
Is there an option to enable vt-d in the bios?
[Windows 8 General] xgiorg:
No way, but thank you for your comment. I still being bricked
[Windows 8 General] Wootever:
Do you got Windows 10 pre-installed?

[MENTION=1396397]murakh[/MENTION]

I forgot to ask, was your device also pre-installed with Windows 10?

Yes, the thermal adhesive is pretty strong, it should be fine.

Did you interrupt the flash process somehow?

I updated my unbrick bios post with a software package and some new photos, feel free to ask if you are unsure how to proceed.

Edit:

I got my hands on a new i7 Stylus with Windows 10 pre-installed. Bios is dated to 25.08 (most recent version with chinese boot logo) and it uses a legit(!) Windows 10 Pro version.
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
Yes, Win10 Pro preinstalled.