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[Windows 8 General] bodge99:
Linux on the Cube i7 Stylus.

Hello all.

I'm working at putting Linux [Mint and LMDE with XFCE] on the Linx tablet range (7, 8 & 10), an Onda V116W [all Bay Trail SOC] and a Cube i7 Stylus.

Everything works on the Cube, apart from auto screen rotation (still working on this). You'll need to manually compile wifi and bluetooth (easy!). One other thing is setting up an on screen keyboard. There are a few available. I'm currently using "Onboard". These can also be configured for login use.

There is nothing else needed for the Cube, but other tablets may need a 32 bit grub (32 bit UEFI) for a 64 bit OS.

Some (esp. the Linx 7) will also need a kernel patch to disable RPMB access during boot (stops a pointless wait during boot).

They also need a few kernel parameters passed from Grub at boot.

I compile my own kernel, (use make dep-pkg after make xconfig). This gives the latest kernel hardware support and allows the deb packages to be easily used on any Debian based Linux.

You can also dual/triple boot with windows or Android if you so wish. I don't run either of these but have done so as an experiment...

All good fun!

Bodge99.
[Windows 8 General] baxtex:
Well that sounds awesome! But I'll guess I wait just a little longer then until auto rotate works. I read alot of books on it when I'm not programming, and for that task portrait is wonderful. :)
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
I tried for a limited time as well. My problem was simply finding an environment that would work with touch inputs without limitations. I found most of them not quite usefull, and didn't like ubuntu to try unity with it. I was using Arch at the time. Though I didn't spend that much time messing with it to get everything to work
[Windows 8 General] bulls4ever13:
mytrix 11t

I am receiving my mytrix 11t on Monday. it the bios compatible to cube i7? in short, can I upgrade with the modified firmware?
[Windows 8 General] DrHunt:
The link "Intel Graphics Driver" is not really supporting Intel 5th Gen HD 5300; the page says, "4th and 5th Generation Intel Core and related processors are not supported with this driver but will be supported in future drivers."

Instead, this should be the one

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/25489/Intel-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-10-15-40-4th-Gen-
[Windows 8 General] Wootever:
[MENTION=4831679]DrHunt[/MENTION]

Try it, it is compatible even if the description tells quite the opposite.
[Windows 8 General] :
Haven't used my tablet for 24 days, pressed the power button today, it booted in 5 seconds and had lost 0%. :good:

I think it has to do with Windows power management settings. I also disabled Windows 10 background apps.
[Windows 8 General] majkel_94:
Could you write here which drivers, BIOS nad Intel Management Engine version do you use? ;)

I think it's IME fault, even when I hard turn off the tablet by pressing power button for 10 seconds, it still lost battery % :P
[Windows 8 General] Yoni03:
When the next version will be?

When the next version will be?
[Windows 8 General] AlvaroRos:
Hombre, alguien de España. Te voy a echar una mano, mira mis mensajes en este foro, vas a encontrar mucha información interesante si tu intención es jugar bastante con la tablet. Realmente es capaz de mucho, CSGO en full HD a 40-60 fps, Dead Island en 720p a 40-60 tambien, ambos con VSync y eso. Pero tienes que hacer algunos cambios en la bios, y con el XTU subirle el turbo boost a 15W para que rinda mas y bajarle los voltajes de algunas cosas para que se caliente menos. También ten en cuenta que el CSGO tiene una opcion en el propio juego de usar todos los nucleos de la tablet o sólo uno, y evidentemente usando solo uno los FPS bajan mucho, asi que no olvides comprobar eso.
[Windows 8 General] DrHunt:
I did try it for at least two months. But I got a strange problem, and I decided to try the official HD5300 driver to see. The problem has happened at least three times.

1st time) Having this tablet for almost two months, one day I charged it overnight, next morning I could not turn it on. I could feel its back was quite warm, although there was no display at all. I sent it for repair.

2nd time) Ten days after I got back from repair, again I could not turn it on at most the time (intermittently). So, I updated it to your BIOS 5.7.

3rd time) A month later, I could not turn it on again! Next morning I pressed the power button, screen came on with low-battery warning. So, I could power it up again. What I did this time was to restore the BIOS to default (5.7's default setting), tried the official HD5300 driver. We shall see whether this works....

I try the official HD5300 driver because I guess it is the video driver causing the issue. This is because each time when I pressed power button during the issue, I could feel quite warm at the back cover. So, I think the unit was actually being switched on, but there was simply no display. Therefore, my guess is that there might be something wrong with the video driver.

I shall post a message about whether this works after two months of testing.
[Windows 8 General] Vexelius:
Hello, everyone.

I purchased a Cube i7 Stylus from BangGood and its corresponding pen. However, when I try to use it, this is what happens...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2ZesmQX7ws

Basically, the pen acts like if it were stuck on double click the whole time. Ironically, the eraser button works properly. I tried another stylus, from a Samsung tablet and that one works. Is there any way to solve this issue, or maybe the problem is caused by a defective pen?

Thanks in advance!
[Windows 8 General] mutimuti:
Defective pen.
[Windows 8 General] Vexelius:
Thank you. I was suspecting that, but your comment confirms it. I'll go ask BangGood for a refund!
[Windows 8 General] bodge99:
Kionix Accelerometer: Linux.

Hello all.

Quick question: Has anyone managed to access the accelerometer in Linux??

I'm working on getting autorotate to work in Linux.

I can rotate everything manually but I'm having a problem seeing the KXCJ9 chip on i2c.

I thought that I had sorted this... but it seems that I was getting confused with my Onda.

I've tried all of my usual tricks.. I can't "see the wood for the trees".

Any clues appreciated.

Bodge99
[Windows 8 General] unmateria:
Hi Vexelius. It happened to me too. Pen is wet. Just take out the white tip and use a hair dryer (i used a reballing station at 100C) during pointing to the tip hole just some minutes. I tried with rice before with no success lol Now it work flawless (i washed the pen with the spoons lol)
[Windows 8 General] Kaiyes:
The link for pre built ubuntu in mega doesn't work . Any fresh links for that ?
[Windows 8 General] Vexelius:
The pen just arrived today, in a closed package. Anyways, I decided to try out your advice...

It didn't work for me. Used a reballing station, set it to 100°C and pointed it to the tip hole for some minutes. Nothing. Tried it again and again... Seems that my pen is definitely busted.

Thanks for the tip, anyways.
[Windows 8 General] pchi81:
I wrote a comment a few days ago talking about the 12% battery wear my 2 week old tablet had.

Well, I wrote to Banggood customer service and they are going to send me a new battery for free.

So in case anyone else had a problem with battery wear, I hope this helps.

Now I just gotta find those pages in this long forum talking about battery installation... hope its not too hard.
[Windows 8 General] KamaL:
In my searches for a good method run android apps on our i7 stylus, I tried many emulators and Android X86 releases, and in the last few days I stumbled upon a new method which looks to be very promising!

This method is based on the ARChon runtime for Chrome, and basically it allows installing APK apps using Google Chrome, and the apps will work as any other chrome app we know from a long while.

https://archon-runtime.github.io/

Instructions for installation and a list of all compatible apps can be found here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/chromeapks

After some testing, I realized you first have to install the x64 version of Chrome, and I successfully installed a few android apps I'm interested in. The app behave like a standalone app, without excessive battery drain, all within the Windows environment.

The main limitation for now is lack of touch support. Mouse control works find, apps work surprisingly well, and I'm quite satisfied, but without touch support, it becomes quite useless when we use it without the keyboard dock.

The developer is aware of this bug, and there's a thread about this:

https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk/issues/23

It would be great if our great developers [MENTION=4709667]Wootever[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4056517]HypoTurtle[/MENTION] could test this method, and try to find a way to enable touch support our i7 stylus!

EDIT - I just tested using a pen (Galaxy Note 4 pen) - and it works fine! So I think it shouldn't be that difficult to enable touch support hopefully.
[Windows 8 General] murakh:
After trying quite a few options (Mint, Debian, OpenSuse...) I finally have settled on using the Ubuntu-GNOME (xenial beta release) "flavour" of Ubuntu, with the addition of Cinnamon DE on my Cube.

Although some small issues with using the pre-release version, it does come with a newer kernel which appears to support touchscreen and pen better. The GNOME desktop is fairly easy to use with a pen and touch, although the Cinnamon desktop "feels" better when the tablet is docked with the keyboard.

Trying to install GNOME on Mint does not go well, which is why I eventually chose Ubuntu-GNOME as that at least does not have the horrible Unity interface. Also installed Kodi which is a full DE / GUI option on login if you only want to use media.

If you choose this route, some tips: If the "current" xenial GNOME iso image fails to install because of a crash when running the installer then grab an older version (I think sometime late December) - it seems to be an intermittent issue with the installer.

Uninstall nautilus before installing Cinnamon DE. A new version will be installed with Cinnamon which is more functional. Also run

sudo apt-get install gnome-icon-theme-full

to fix some icon issues in Cinnamon, install onboard and also the extension "Onboard Integration" which helps showing Onboard when necessary.

Be aware of the space required, having all this and Gimp, Krita and a few other pieces of software used up a lot of the partition I had set aside for Linux. Although now I have completed removed Windows and gave more space to the system install.
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
How is it working with the "HiDpi" screen? Last time I tried gnome it wasn't really that good, don't know about cinnamon.

From what you said, it works better when you have the dock connected right? Had the same feeling when I tried linux on it. Much more productive when I have keyboard/mouse connected than I am with windows, but almost useless as a tablet alone.

The only thing stopping me from moving to linux is the usability when I'm away from the desk. As much as it pains me to say it, microsoft is ahead when it comes to touch integration with the system
[Windows 8 General] murakh:
Actually working better than Windows 10 (which had many many windows not scaled for HiDPI, making it look horrible).

For me I find GNOME DE to be better suited for touch / pen and not so good for keyboard/mouse. Cinnamon is not at all touch friendly and both Cinnamon and GNOME require some tweaking of font sizes to make it ideal for the user. Cinnamon with the dock is also the most productive option for me.

One of the gripes I do have is the built-in commands in the touchpad often result in "z" or "c" text inputs in linux.

Android is my dual-boot option for pure consumption (books, magazines, videos) and other than the Win XP VM I need to use I do not plan to install any Windows natively on the tablet.

YMMV however I am happy with the productivity I get from the tablet when not docked, and completely satisfied with the performance / productivity when docked.
[Windows 8 General] Vexelius:
Alright, I got a new pen. It's from an old Samsung Galaxy Tab, but the Cube i7 Stylus recognizes it (except for the middle button).

It works very good in Plumbago, so I installed Photoshop CS6 and tried working on it.

There's a lot of lag... Whenever I change tools or add a new layer, the program freezes for 5-10 seconds, and sometimes the only way to "unfreeze" it is by touching the screen with my fingers. For some strange reason, the program is more prone to crash if I use the stylus to activate the menus.

Also, palm rejection is horrible. I downloaded the latest drivers from the Wacom website and set up the correct hand but still, whenever I try to draw a line, my palm touches the horizontal scroll bar slightly and the canvas gets offscreen.

Curiously, Plumbago works very good and MediBang Paint too. I have no issues with slowdowns or palm rejection there. Maybe I should be using another Photoshop version?

I want to use this tablet to draw, do you have any suggestions on how to configure it so that it works better for graphic design?
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
Thank you or the answer. Guess I'll give it another try then. When I tried it I could only get Gnome with either super small size, or double the size that would be too big for use.

Anyway, I'm an i3 guy, so if I go that way I'll probably have gnome and i3 for tablet and laptop style uses, and change between them as needed. But I'll go for arch and try to build from there, maybe in dual boot for now, really hate ubuntu. Going to miss Baconit and Onenote though
[Windows 8 General] XBBOY:
The lastest bios

Hi,I have got the lastest bios(BIOS DATE 12/15/2015),I have flashed(everything work fine and sorry for I cant upload pic cause bad network....china..you know),anyway you can use AMIBCP to check this BIN file:cool:, I try chang the logo by myself but don't work(both the software of Changelogo and MMTool,logo ID is not 0E:crying:)

so can you [MENTION=4709667]Wootever[/MENTION] pls mod the last one for us again:victory:

This is the download link

mega.nz/#!CNongAwY!c9ZKZ5w6qRI0jBYE1j7DcshPW5fiVsd3p-et-aTI5Qs
[Windows 8 General] gbru2505:
Same problem with scrollbars. Surface users affected also I believe. There is an app that disables touch when you're using a pen, but I haven't tried it yet: Tray touch toggle. Read about it on Reddit post by crp852.
[Windows 8 General] ahmed1994:
I reverted to win 8 because this problem
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
Touch is working for me (hit and miss at times), will try and pinpoint what makes/made it work; but think it might be something to do with using the handwriting keyboard...

Correction It's stock ARC - installed along with ARC Welder - that has working touch, not ARChon; time for a bit of spot the difference...
[Windows 8 General] KamaL:
That looks promising!

Actually I couldn't spot the difference between the two.

What chrome version are you using? And in what order did you install ARChon and ARC welder so I can try it myself?

Did you build the chrome app using ARC welder?
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
I have ARC running on 48.0.2564.116 m (64-bit)

ARChon running with 50.0.2658.0 canary (64-bit)

I have apps consolidated apps using SimpleLauncher. It boots with ARC & ARChon with touch being the difference between the two atm. I have looked through the two runtimes as best I could but nothing stood out as of yet.

Yes, made with ARC Welder - tried using chomeos-apk but that one didn't want to load...
[Windows 8 General] KamaL:
OK.

So ARC has touch support as I understan, and not ARChon.

What do you mean by ARC exactly? Do you mean the one which gets installed along with ARC welder?
[Windows 8 General] HypoTurtle:
Exactly. ARC (Android Runtime for Chrome) is installed along with ARC Welder.

Have just tried AndromiumOS as an alternative to SimpleLauncher and that seems to be incompatible with ARC, works with ARChon - I guess as it was specifically built for that purpose.
[Windows 8 General] KamaL:
Ok, I confirm that touch works with ARC WELDER and the built in ARC with Chrome Version 49.0.2623.64 beta-m (64-bit).

It turns out I installed both ARC welder and ARChon at first, so that's why touch didn't work for me.

This is a great way to run compatible android apps as standalone apps inside Windows!

What's the use of SimpleLauncher?

Is there a way to have a home screen like normal android release ?

Is there a way to interact between ARC apps? I mean, use file explorers to copy files, use VLC instead of the stock video player etc...
[Windows 8 General] daniele.93:
ARC

where can i download the app runtime for chrome? thanks
[Windows 8 General] KamaL:
It gets installed directly when you install ARC welder.
[Windows 8 General] leo06:
In remix OS is there a way when I turn off the screen to not Suspend all the apps?for example I listen tune in radio and when I turn off the screen tune in stops

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[Windows 8 General] Heishiro1988:
Where you able to compile the wifi driver on arch? When i try it i only get an error.
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
Yup. At the time I compiled it on my laptop and made a copy in the usb drive that I used to install the system. After copying it to the folder and running the usual stuff it recognized the wifi board and I just went with on the netinstall
[Windows 8 General] ahmed1994:
Can u share the compiled version as i don't have Linux in laptop right now
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
I could, but it has to be compiled with the same kernel version. If you post yours I can try to compile it and upload it someplace. At the time I had to install an older kernel version in my laptop, because my installation image was older
[Windows 8 General] Heishiro1988:
I only want to use the default version the installer

Current Release: 2016.02.01

Included Kernel: 4.3.3

Thank you ?
[Windows 8 General] esjay:
android tested

Hello guys!

First i would like to express my admiration of Wootevers' work.

Thank you!

Based on this thread i decided to buy my Cube i7 Stylus in January.

I'm really interested in the dual boot with android.

I've tried it and already looks nice and android really works smooth.

Drawing with the pen works (used it in google keep). Wifi works.

But I also experience issues.

1. the device gets really warm while using android. I didn't measure the temp but it's a lot warmer then in Windows.

(I haven't experimented with the modded BIOS, also don't immediatle figured if i really need it with my recently bought device)

In Windows i reach max temperature of 85 celcius for a short time. Most of the time it runs between 40 and 50 celcius.

2. bluetooth doesn't -> looking forword to next version

3. APP partition is 2GB but i can only use 1.64GB and then android refuses to install new apps.

I've tried to expand the data.img with toporesize (found on xda) but no result. I don't really understand yet how i can expand the app partition.

In Windows i created a 4gb partition so i have some room to expand.

This limits seriously limits the functionality. Does anybody have some tips to fix this ?

4. 64gb sd card formatted in ntfs is not accessible, android is also not able to format it. the process hangs.

I'm looking forward to some reactions and a new version of android.

greetings
[Windows 8 General] dotter_ak:
One more problem for me with Android 6.0 - doesn't run any games with Unity Engine.
[Windows 8 General] Heishiro1988:
One more thing, did you change something in the makefile?

I want to learn how to solve this problems if it happens to me again.
[Windows 8 General] KamaL:
You can find answers to your questions in the previous pages (I know it's difficult).

There's a dedicated thread for Android x86 releases you can find here, so questions should be asked there. Unfortunately it's not gaining much popularity.

Some quick answers:

1. Known bug. Battery drain is also excessive. Nothing can be done about that for now.

3. That's an easy one. You can find data.img files with various sizes for each release. [MENTION=4709667]Wootever[/MENTION] posted files with various sizes you can use in post #2496

4. SC cards didn't work for me with this release. Try other releases found in the thread I mentioned, they all work fine with SD cards.

Good luck, and hoping for more releases from our developers :)
[Windows 8 General] ahmed1994:
Any one know a EFI bootmenu that supports touch on this tablet to dual boot windows and android???

Or boot menu that uses the volume sound for choosing??

The metro bootloader of Windows is good choice and has touch support but the problem i cant add android to it i tried easy uefi and easy BCD but no success ?
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
Nope, changed nothing at all. I didn't had time to do it, been away from my laptop, I'll try to do it today.

What error are you getting? Could just be that you are missing the base-devel, gcc, or some package like that.

Also, are you trying to compile it within the iso during installation? I don't think the iso has the packages needed for compilation (not sure, been some time since I've installed it, and used a pre-compiled version then)
[Windows 8 General] Heishiro1988:
I'm getting this error: "make[1]: *** No rule to make target 'module'. Stop."

I tried to compile in the live versión of manjaro, after that I installed it in the desktop and I tried again... always getting the same error.
[Windows 8 General] keithobri:
Stuck in a Boot loop

Hello, I am selling my Cube i7 Stylus, so I decided to do a Windows Reset. Windows 10 Pro is the operating system currently installed. Once the computer restarted it was stuck at the BIOS splash screen. I have tried multiple times to enter the BIOS (using both ESC and DEL), to no avail. The computer does respond to CTRL+ALT+DEL, and there is haptic feedback when I press the Windows button. I have reset the BIOS multiple times as well, to no success. Any ideas or suggestions?
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
You are missing the kernel headers. The live versions don't have the headers, you can try to install a minimal arch in a virtual machine, and do the rest from there, which is probably what I'll do if you didn't manage to compile it until I get home
[Windows 8 General] mxaif:
What about the Linux backup command?
[Windows 8 General] Heishiro1988:
Woooo!!! With a Arch fresh install is working!!! When I tried to compile with manjaro I couldn't do it.
[Windows 8 General] tprata:
Glad to hear it. If you're going with arch you really should start to learn how to do that stuff, and google and the wiki are your best friends. ;)

You jump on arch, you screw around for a week, you trash your installation in 7 days, reinstall, and by the 4th/5th ****up you notice you start to know what you're doing. x)

Keep using it even when it breaks (it will break at least once, everyone breaks a system on the first attempts)
[Windows 8 General] Heishiro1988:
I used Arch as my default OS in my last laptop, but this is the first time that i need to compile a driver... I supose that I was a lucky boy xD
[Windows 8 General] CuronAide:
to. Wootever

Screen rotation is inverted (Android X86)

The screen rotates normally operate in (Windows 10).

BUT (Android X86(64)) appears in the screen rotation is inverted. 6.0.1

How can I fix it?

(G-sensor : Kionix KXCJ9 3-axis accelerometer SPB)
[Windows 8 General] javlada:
Hi, I have a problem with battery. Recently my battery won't report it's state. I don't know how or when it exactly happened. I Windows it says always 1down 00% and unknow time remaining. In Linux it is even worse because the battery says 0% and the system is trying to shut down immediately.

Does anybody have an idea what could it mean? Is there any way I can calibrate the battery? Thank you.