[Android General] bardell3600:
Overall Thoughts

I am an experience tablet user. I own or have owned about a dozen.

This tablet is

well

worth the money. I paid less that $95 at geekbuying.com. Their DHL Shipping rate of $13 made their overall offer attractive.

It has an Intel Quad Z3736F 2.16GHz with 2GB DDR3 and 32GB storage. You will want to make use of the Micro SDCard capability. It is accessible from Android but almost essential from within Windows. It mounts as D:\ and should be used to install any and all apps. The Space on C:\ is OK but we all know Windows grows over time.

The tablet is quick and responsive in both OS's. Wonderful little device!

You would probably be real happy is you spent $15 on a Bluetooh Keyboard with Touchpad. You don't really need in in Android but it is real handy in Windows. You have the full desktop version but only a 8" 1920x1200 screen. The Touchpad mouse is nice to have.You can find a nice PU Leather Cover Case with Removable Bluetooth Keyboard for The CHUWI HI8 for about $15 - $17. I bought another $15 keyboard that had the Touchpad. The case has a magnetic material in it so the keyboard stays in place.

Final thought:

Unfortunately, Windows just isn't 100% ready for mobile device prime-time yet. The full desktop on an 8" is pretty small. The number of apps in the Microsoft App Store is anemic. The desktop collection of applications is world renowned. But the number who have made the modifications to make their application suitable for to small screen is small. On one real nice email application's forum a user was complaining about Message List/Thread Pane font size. The company responded that there were three sizes the biggest being 14 pt. The guy wrote back that 14 pt was too Small on a 1920 screen and he was probably talking about 20 inch screen not 8 inch.

This Can Help

: Control Panel -> Display -> Size of Items - set a custom scaling level

One caution

: One user had problems upgrading, had to do a clean install and lost the app that switches between the Operating Systems. So store a copy of it in Dropbox or somewhere before you do much else. C:\Program files\Insyde\InsydeQ25\

WINDOWS Version UPDATE

The Chuwi Hi8 i bought (not the Pro, the dual boot) came with Windows 10 build 10224. I was able to successfully update to 10586 through Windows Update from within Windows 10 - Settings -> Update & security -> Windows Update -> Restart now

I know others had reported issues with insufficient NAND Hard Drive Space. I updated right out of the box and had no problem.

ANDROID ROOT

I used the method found here (http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/android-root-for-hi8/#post-6706) or here (https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate - - http://www.tablette-chinoise.net/rooter-toutes-les-tablette-intel-avec-supersu/)

It is a pretty straightforward method using Android Data Bridge (adb.) I had to modify the process just slightly as I detail below. If you find adb intimidating, apparently KingRoot works too. But be forewarned you'll need to clean up some Chinese junk afterwards.

The Google drives link that is in the post does not work (h t t p s://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4u_5raZ4G7wVHVuT2xPV3dhcUU/view?usp=sharing) Google thinks it has a virus – it doesn’t. (Avira Scan yields zero detections)

The same RAR is available here - http://uploaded.net/file/ihn2ddll

However, running the bat as ADMIN directly from within Windows 10 did not work. I had to

1) open a Command Prompt (as Administrator.) Then

2) change directory to the Root-tablette-chinoise folder and

3) issue the command adb devices Once the Hi8 was successfully identified in adb, then i

4) entered the command "3 Root-tablette-chinoise.net.bat" (the quotation marks are require because of the space between the 3 and Root.

5) Then BusyBox installed correctly and everything else worked