Pipo w2 - Windows 8 General

Hi does anyone know if this tablet is pre installed with English language and if not can it be installed and how to do it thanks.

nick789uk said:
Hi does anyone know if this tablet is pre installed with English language and if not can it be installed and how to do it thanks.
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I received mine a couple days ago. It has English on it. I did have to play around with the display language to remove a little lingering Chinese text. But it had English installed. I purchased mine on aliexpress. From the seller "eternal team"
So far I'm under impressed with win 8.1. But quite impressed with the tablet itself. Wonder if its possible to install Linux on it

How much have you paid it?
It doesn't have the 3g ultrastick slot right?

I just bought an Voyo A1, which is essentially the same. You can use 3G sticks over the USB connector.
No sure, but I believe that Pipo made an English image available for the w2, but you can indeed tinker
to get ENG via the upgrade in windows. Al least I have seem Russian and Spanish translated W2's.

Hi I also bought the Voyo a1 mini came with English already installed is working great have loaded Microsoft office onto it have paired with a Bluetooth keyboard and van connect a portable disk drive to it still playing with it at the moment but all looks OK.

Can't wait for the Voyo to arrive. Used to own an Archos 9 with Windows 7... My Windows on tablet dream was over for may years to come.

Multi-Language Support on Pipo W2?

nick789uk said:
Hi does anyone know if this tablet is pre installed with English language and if not can it be installed and how to do it thanks.
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Yes, it was preinstalled English Win8. Bought one from ebay.co.uk
Really great performance with such a reasonable price.:good:

Anyone else had windows activation problems on their W2? Or even on the voyo a1?
I'm unable to activate windows on mine. Error code shows up with the "this key is used on too many comps" message.
Also what version on windows came preinstalled on your w2/voyo a1 minis? Windows 8.1 pro with ms office on mine.

StridAst said:
Anyone else had windows activation problems on their W2? Or even on the voyo a1?
I'm unable to activate windows on mine. Error code shows up with the "this key is used on too many comps" message.
Also what version on windows came preinstalled on your w2/voyo a1 minis? Windows 8.1 pro with ms office on mine.
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What is the model of your machine?

Mine is the pipo w2. Still talking with customer service @ pipo about the windows activation problem. Just getting frustrated waiting.

Correct me if I am wrong, but these tablets don't come with pro.
Only Windows 8.1 with Bing which is the standard version and should be oem unlocked.
Did you do an complete reset yet?

Right. It should be windows 8.1 core connected aka "with bing" whose license is free from Microsoft. certainly not 8.1 pro

Agreed that it shouldn't be 8.1 pro. However, that's what showed up. Probably why its not working on the CD key. I can't vouch for other w2 tablets. I bought this one on Aliexpress. Seller "eternal team"
Tablet seems to work fine. Bluetooth connects, WiFi, etc. Not sure what problems I face if I can't activate windows though.

Interesting. Apparently these guy's do sell with Windows 8.1 Pro installed. Probably
because the Pipo w2 originally comes with only an Chinese installation.
I can't imagine they provided an Pro key. Or did they?
Could be the restore partition is still in Chinese and activated..

Have the same problem, it came with 8.1 pro English. There was an update on the site and i installed it, then i was unable to activate it and it wasn't 8.1. pro anymore???
Still looking for a solution.

Interesting. You've probably saved me some trouble then. I was planning on installing downloads from pipos site. Was hoping it would fix the problem. Not going to bother then. :/
Any idea what happens if we can't activate windows? Just the annoying message?

You can't personalize it anymore. But the strange thing is I can't activate it with kms...
That update should fix some wifi and touchscreen issues, that's why i dl'ed it, although i read someowhere else it could give problems activating.
There was a separate fix out for the touchscreen issues but it's not available anymore.
The drivers updates are still there and you can use these, if you need them.

Curious, what is kms?
I contacted support at pipo. Got several replies, none of which were too useful. They sent a screenshot of a CD key but trying it only got me the error message saying "this key can not be used to activate this version of windows". After that, I got a request to send a picture of trying to use the CD key, and asked what I've done with the tablet since I got it. Thinking I'll be doing that and see what they say. *crosses fingers* response time from them has been slow, around 3-8 days for each reply.

I wouldn't hold my breath. These devices don't come with an paid version of Windows. Looks like a scam. Seriously, 3-8 days..
Seems the only thing you can do is try ghost an official image with Bing and warn others not to buy from these awful fellows.

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Shift'n'Vista Ultimate

Hello everyone,
i upgraded my shift to vista ultimate 32.
After 2/3 hours of installation everythings work well.
BUT the touchscreen seems disabled. rebooted but is already disabled. tried to change tablet and pen imput. but nothing..
it continue to be disabled.
In the same time i upgraded an hp tablet to vista ultimate and also in it tablet functionality is disabled.
But going in msconfig i saw that wacom service is disabled. enabled it, rebooted and tablet funcionality was reabilited. well!
I'm sad. Whit my splendid shift don't find nothing. no driver, no disabled software (i don't know the name of the software who manage tablet function).
Noone knows something about?
Many thank to all.
Ema from Italy..
Have you tried "C:\Program Files\HTC\AI_VISTA\setup.exe"? This starts the HTC Shift Final Installation. It helped me after SP1.
And there is the "WQindows to standard" button in ShagControl.
Whatever that does....
Axel
not tried, now i'm using the recovered business edition, but i'm going to upgrade to ultimate and try your suggestion.
Thanks
pitt1983 said:
not tried, now i'm using the recovered business edition, but i'm going to upgrade to ultimate and try your suggestion.
Thanks
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we will try to be getting everyone the true vista drivers needed for the device once the project gets in the devices. so sit bac and relax until then. we will also be working on booting other os'es
pitt1983 said:
Hello everyone,
i upgraded my shift to vista ultimate 32.
After 2/3 hours of installation everythings work well.
BUT the touchscreen seems disabled. rebooted but is already disabled. tried to change tablet and pen imput. but nothing..
it continue to be disabled.
In the same time i upgraded an hp tablet to vista ultimate and also in it tablet functionality is disabled.
But going in msconfig i saw that wacom service is disabled. enabled it, rebooted and tablet funcionality was reabilited. well!
I'm sad. Whit my splendid shift don't find nothing. no driver, no disabled software (i don't know the name of the software who manage tablet function).
Noone knows something about?
Many thank to all.
Ema from Italy..
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Hi there,
How did you install Ultimate?
I have copied the contents of a Windows Vista Ultimate installation DVD to a 4GB SD card and used that to upgrade to Ultimate.
The thing is that the Shift can't boot from SD (or can it??) so I didn't get to format the hard drive, which I wanted.
ultimate
i've used an external dvd and installed with the vista dvd. like a normal pc.
pitt1983 said:
i've used an external dvd and installed with the vista dvd. like a normal pc.
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yep i believe this is the best solution.
pitt1983 said:
Hello everyone,
i upgraded my shift to vista ultimate 32.
After 2/3 hours of installation everythings work well.
BUT the touchscreen seems disabled. rebooted but is already disabled. tried to change tablet and pen imput. but nothing..
it continue to be disabled.
In the same time i upgraded an hp tablet to vista ultimate and also in it tablet functionality is disabled.
But going in msconfig i saw that wacom service is disabled. enabled it, rebooted and tablet funcionality was reabilited. well!
I'm sad. Whit my splendid shift don't find nothing. no driver, no disabled software (i don't know the name of the software who manage tablet function).
Noone knows something about?
Many thank to all.
Ema from Italy..
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hey have you seen this post :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=374885
he has been able to get the touch screen working .. maybe you could try what he said but "upgrading" and not "formatting" the old vista business edition.

[Q] Acer W500 and Windows 8?

I read good review about Acer W500 and people installing Windows 8 on it. I just bought a used Iconia W500 with the attention to tryout W8. However the tablet package I got does not have any document or CD (restoration CD I assume) with it.
When power up, Win 7 show up, I tested a little bit and quite disappointed with the performance on both the Acer tablet and Windows 7 on it. It is far down away company to Dell Streak 5 and Samsung Galaxy S II.
Questions to the experts:
1. Should I upgrade the tablet (hardware perspective) so that it can run faster? Or just exchange with other brand name tablets, which has more power?
2. I still want to stick with Windows 7 or 8, because of the nature of my works. I need windows. What other android tablet which allow me to install windows 8 on it?
3. As for the Iconia W500 I have right now, please guide me how to back up Windows 7 first? What software do I need to make the back up the entire OS? I do have portable USB external drive about 500 GB. I also have USB portable DVD drive.
Thanks
Alpharetta
1. Should I upgrade the tablet (hardware perspective) so that it can run faster? Or just exchange with other brand name tablets, which has more power?
Upgrade
Hi, keep in mind that windows 7 and the windows 8 developer edition does not support ARM processors (windows 8 will, soon). The processor in the tablet you have now must be a x86 processor for it to be running windows 7.
Also, check the start menu for restoration media creator or something of the like. Machines nowadays do not come with restore media. But they do come with a program to create that restore media.
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I installed Win8 on my HP Mini 500 and there is a performance increase across the board.
Boot up is faster
Ribbon explorer makes it really easy for touch
Win8 has a dedicated keyboard for tablets
Less system resources used by junk processes
alpharetta said:
I read good review about Acer W500 and people installing Windows 8 on it. I just bought a used Iconia W500 with the attention to tryout W8. However the tablet package I got does not have any document or CD (restoration CD I assume) with it.
When power up, Win 7 show up, I tested a little bit and quite disappointed with the performance on both the Acer tablet and Windows 7 on it. It is far down away company to Dell Streak 5 and Samsung Galaxy S II.
Questions to the experts:
1. Should I upgrade the tablet (hardware perspective) so that it can run faster? Or just exchange with other brand name tablets, which has more power?
2. I still want to stick with Windows 7 or 8, because of the nature of my works. I need windows. What other android tablet which allow me to install windows 8 on it?
3. As for the Iconia W500 I have right now, please guide me how to back up Windows 7 first? What software do I need to make the back up the entire OS? I do have portable USB external drive about 500 GB. I also have USB portable DVD drive.
Thanks
Alpharetta
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I got a W500 for Christmas and a 64gb hard drive. I immediately swapped out hard drives before the first boot and put Windows 8 on it. I love this machine with Windows 8. I didn't load any of the Acer bloatware and only loaded what I had to have. It is speedy and very responsive. Windows 8 dp has a lot of room for improvement, but is better than Windows 7 for this machine. Everything works as it should and I don't see any reason to put Windows 7 on it.
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I got a W500 for Christmas and a 64gb hard drive. I immediately swapped out hard drives before the first boot and put Windows 8 on it. I love this machine with Windows 8. I didn't load any of the Acer bloatware and only loaded what I had to have. It is speedy and very responsive. Windows 8 dp has a lot of room for improvement, but is better than Windows 7 for this machine. Everything works as it should and I don't see any reason to put Windows 7 on it.
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Is socialite working?
sruthika said:
Is socialite working?
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I hadn't tried until I read your post. No, it is not.
I've just finished swapping to windows8 on my iconia w500
the first thing is It was not so easy.....I've made it from USB drive and swapped for 64bit one.
System is more responsive
Ease of use comparing to Win7 much better
I see that I need bigger HDD the 32 Giga one that it came with was already on 23.7 from 29.8 avaliable in just 3days of use!!! That was on win7
now on win8 and it is on 17.9 after updates.. so not to good not to bad.
i've already found mSATA 64gb for 83£ wich is the cheapest here in Uk
AFAIK thais the only update You can do to your Iconia W500
my opinion swap ssd and go for win8 you will like it more
Regards
I bought a refurbed W500 cheap the other day. I had W8 up and running within about an hour. I didn't bother backing it up first.
Since then, I've done lots of monkey and have learned a great deal.
W8 32 bit seems to be the best way to go. The drivers from Acers site work to get the g sensor and screen rotation stuff working. The only thing that doesn't work correctly is Firefox. You can't click on bookmarks from the touch screen.
W8 64 works but the drivers don't work. There's also no reason to have 64 bit windows running with so little ram.
BTW I installed from an external DVD. The USB method appears to work, but is seems to be more of a pain. I had to buy an external DVD drive and got a writer for $32.
I'm very impressed with the performance. W8 runs great. Almost was recognized by the OS and all I had to do was install drivers for the G Sensor etc.
The Metro stuff is silky smooth.
After an install and a fairly judicious disk cleanup, I have about 20 gb of space remaining. I disabled hibernation to get rid of the enormous hybernation file.
There are still little quirks in W8 but it's not even a beta. I have high hopes for newer builds.
This thing is the tablet I've wanted for a long time. For $368 and the cost of the external drive, I couldn't be happier.
FYI, I also have Ubuntu running on it now and still have 12 GB free.
Greg
FYI, to get the thing to boot to the dvd: Shut down, hold Windows Button and Volume Up and press Power. Took me a while to find that.
geebake said:
I bought a refurbed W500 cheap the other day. I had W8 up and running within about an hour. I didn't bother backing it up first.
Since then, I've done lots of monkey and have learned a great deal.
W8 32 bit seems to be the best way to go. The drivers from Acers site work to get the g sensor and screen rotation stuff working. The only thing that doesn't work correctly is Firefox. You can't click on bookmarks from the touch screen.
W8 64 works but the drivers don't work. There's also no reason to have 64 bit windows running with so little ram.
BTW I installed from an external DVD. The USB method appears to work, but is seems to be more of a pain. I had to buy an external DVD drive and got a writer for $32.
I'm very impressed with the performance. W8 runs great. Almost was recognized by the OS and all I had to do was install drivers for the G Sensor etc.
The Metro stuff is silky smooth.
After an install and a fairly judicious disk cleanup, I have about 20 gb of space remaining. I disabled hibernation to get rid of the enormous hybernation file.
There are still little quirks in W8 but it's not even a beta. I have high hopes for newer builds.
This thing is the tablet I've wanted for a long time. For $368 and the cost of the external drive, I couldn't be happier.
FYI, I also have Ubuntu running on it now and still have 12 GB free.
Greg
FYI, to get the thing to boot to the dvd: Shut down, hold Windows Button and Volume Up and press Power. Took me a while to find that.
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Hey when you say the drivers for 64 bit do not work can you be more specific about what drivers? I installed 64 bit on my touch screen ASUS all in one desktop and it worked, but the touch screen drivers did not work. So it was a very poor experience for me...I mean the whole point is to be more touchscreen friendly....I have not found any solution yet to this issue for my computer and I Was surprised the drivers were not easily identified and working with such a new computer....let me know what you all think. Thanks!
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Hey when you say the drivers for 64 bit do not work can you be more specific about what drivers? I installed 64 bit on my touch screen ASUS all in one desktop and it worked, but the touch screen drivers did not work. So it was a very poor experience for me...I mean the whole point is to be more touchscreen friendly....I have not found any solution yet to this issue for my computer and I Was surprised the drivers were not easily identified and working with such a new computer....let me know what you all think. Thanks!
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In the case of the W500, the G-Sensor driver is where the problem lies. It only means that the screen won't auto rotate when you flip it around. I'm sure you don't do that with your all in one desktop so it's probably not an issue common to both models.
The touch screen on the W500 works perfectly out of the box. In fact, the only driver I had to install to make it work was the G-Sensor driver.
Interestingly, I found another issue. In 32 bit W8, Firefox doesn't work completely correctly. When you open a menu (ie bookmarks) you can't use the touch screen to select anything in the menu. Works fine if you use a mouse. However, in 64 bit W8, Firefox works perfectly. So you're left with a choice. Proper screen rotation or correctly working Firefox. I'm sure this will get resolved with either a Firefox update or perhaps the full beta of W8.
I have Iconia W500 for a month now.
If you would like to keep Win7 (for any reason), connect an ext hdd and create a windows image on it, you can restore it later any time.
I installed Win8 32 bit, you will have a completely different experience - Win7 is a S##t on W500.
Installing Win8 is pretty easy --> http://www.microsoftnow.com/2011/09/how-to-install-windows-8-on-acer-iconia-tab-w500.html
BTW: I faced some minor bugs in W8 but on the other hand, you have a decent windows tablet.
Go for Win8 and you will like it
Good luck.
alpharetta said:
I read good review about Acer W500 and people installing Windows 8 on it. I just bought a used Iconia W500 with the attention to tryout W8. However the tablet package I got does not have any document or CD (restoration CD I assume) with it.
When power up, Win 7 show up, I tested a little bit and quite disappointed with the performance on both the Acer tablet and Windows 7 on it. It is far down away company to Dell Streak 5 and Samsung Galaxy S II.
Questions to the experts:
1. Should I upgrade the tablet (hardware perspective) so that it can run faster? Or just exchange with other brand name tablets, which has more power?
2. I still want to stick with Windows 7 or 8, because of the nature of my works. I need windows. What other android tablet which allow me to install windows 8 on it?
3. As for the Iconia W500 I have right now, please guide me how to back up Windows 7 first? What software do I need to make the back up the entire OS? I do have portable USB external drive about 500 GB. I also have USB portable DVD drive.
Thanks
Alpharetta
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like yourself I also got an acer w500 tablet because I have been reading good reviews about this tablet with windows 8. I bought mine brand new because any tablet after dec 2011 was upgraded to the amd c60 processor, tbh I love it, it is the definition of mobile computing
So to answers your questions
1 only upgrade if you want to spend 1000+ for a tablet as good as the w500
2 stick with windows 8 once you get used to it, its much faster than windows 7 in terms of productivity. And no android tablet will allow the installation of windows.
3 Google will be your best bet for that, because I got mine new, I have all the recovery disks.
Got the W500 less than 2 weeks ago and first thing I did was install Win8RP on it.
Easy as pie. Just extract the Win8ISO directly onto a fresh USB drive and boot off that.
Once Win8 is installed, you will need to install the Gsensor driver from acers site, and the Device Control app to turn on Bluetooth for the first time. (Windows will install the generic BT drivers but they are sorta wonky)
You will want to get the latest ATI Beta drivers (I like them at least) from guru3d.com (The 9.0.0 JUNE base drivers, not to be confused with the 12.X version naming), also the official Realtek drivers from their site (not the Acer ones) and the Atheros Bluetooth drivers from http://www.atheros.cz/ (Just get the DRIVER FILES ONLY download for your OS (x86/64). No need for anything outside of that. To install the BT drivers, just extract the files to a folder, and go into device manager and update all the bluetooth devices it shows by point them to the folder that has the extracted drivers. Once you do that you should be able to turn on and off the Bluetooth from the Wireless tab in Windows 8 Settings and you can delete the device control app from the system.
The Bluetooth remains a bit wonky, My guess because it isnt an official Win8 driver, but it does work for the most part. It may say it cannot turn off the BT on occasion but do it twice and then wait a second, it usually will get the radio disabled on the 2nd try lol.
IM0001 said:
Got the W500 less than 2 weeks ago and first thing I did was install Win8RP on it.
Easy as pie. Just extract the Win8ISO directly onto a fresh USB drive and boot off that.
Once Win8 is installed, you will need to install the Gsensor driver from acers site, and the Device Control app to turn on Bluetooth for the first time. (Windows will install the generic BT drivers but they are sorta wonky)
You will want to get the latest ATI Beta drivers (I like them at least) from guru3d.com (The 9.0.0 JUNE base drivers, not to be confused with the 12.X version naming), also the official Realtek drivers from their site (not the Acer ones) and the Atheros Bluetooth drivers from http://www.atheros.cz/ (Just get the DRIVER FILES ONLY download for your OS (x86/64). No need for anything outside of that. To install the BT drivers, just extract the files to a folder, and go into device manager and update all the bluetooth devices it shows by point them to the folder that has the extracted drivers. Once you do that you should be able to turn on and off the Bluetooth from the Wireless tab in Windows 8 Settings and you can delete the device control app from the system.
The Bluetooth remains a bit wonky, My guess because it isnt an official Win8 driver, but it does work for the most part. It may say it cannot turn off the BT on occasion but do it twice and then wait a second, it usually will get the radio disabled on the 2nd try lol.
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i just installed the acer drivers for this tablet from acer's website, no issues with Bluetooth, rotation, graphics, audio ect. i think you just downloaded the wrong Bluetooth driver, just get the one from acer along with the device control app, it makes everything a whole lot simpler and it works like a charm, no hangs, drops, ect.
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In the case of the W500, the G-Sensor driver is where the problem lies. It only means that the screen won't auto rotate when you flip it around. I'm sure you don't do that with your all in one desktop so it's probably not an issue common to both models.
The touch screen on the W500 works perfectly out of the box. In fact, the only driver I had to install to make it work was the G-Sensor driver.
Interestingly, I found another issue. In 32 bit W8, Firefox doesn't work completely correctly. When you open a menu (ie bookmarks) you can't use the touch screen to select anything in the menu. Works fine if you use a mouse. However, in 64 bit W8, Firefox works perfectly. So you're left with a choice. Proper screen rotation or correctly working Firefox. I'm sure this will get resolved with either a Firefox update or perhaps the full beta of W8.
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Hey dude. I had a W500 for some time, but sold it, but that's not my point.
Regarding the G-sensor fix, i figured out how to fix it.
What you need to install is:
G Sensor Driver
Auto Screen Rotation Blocker
HID Monitor for acer Ring
(From http://support.acer.com/product/default.aspx?modelId=3853)
If it doesn't rotate after this, try and find the HIDmonitor.exe file on your computer, then run it and try again.
I put the file in startup to make sure it always worked. And it did
Hey guys,
I want to buy one for desktop replace. Is it good for cheap price? How's performance for browsing? Sometimes I need to open few heavy websites.
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Hey guys,
I want to buy one for desktop replace. Is it good for cheap price? How's performance for browsing? Sometimes I need to open few heavy websites.
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Depends what you use it for really..I haven't used my desktop since I bought this. Love it. Side note, my keyboard only pops up when I use the metro IE and touch a input box but not with the desktop IE. I have to press the keyboard icon on the taskbar for desktop browsing. Any one have any ideas why that'd be?
arpu26 said:
I need to open few heavy websites.
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Depends what you use it for really..
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My work is testing websites. So I will plug with hdmi to my monitor. Can it handle with second monitor with extended desktop? What max resolution can it have? Also I need to have opened 3-4 heavy websites. Have it enougt power for that?
Now I'm working with very old and laggy Athlon XP 2500+ 1,8 Ghz 512 GB RAM PC.
What is program compatability on Win8?

Wimdows 8 on HP TouchSmart iq 522 multitouch not working :(

Wimdows 8 on HP TouchSmart iq 522 multitouch not working
The company NEXTWINDOW that provide the drivers for this model doesnt ARE compatiblity with windows 8
i install the last drivers from there website and still only show 1 single point on touch
Resuming: windows 8 sucks with single touch
~
Anyone have any way to put MULTITOUCH working on HP IQ522 ??
Tnks to all
Wolfpts
the last drivers that work on windows 7 is this one :
http://www.nextwindow.com/nextwindow_support/windriver.html
I have the same problem, I am wondering if you found a solution for the multi-touch problem?
Regards,
Richard
wolfpt said:
Wimdows 8 on HP TouchSmart iq 522 multitouch not working
The company NEXTWINDOW that provide the drivers for this model doesnt ARE compatiblity with windows 8
i install the last drivers from there website and still only show 1 single point on touch
Resuming: windows 8 sucks with single touch
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Anyone have any way to put MULTITOUCH working on HP IQ522 ??
Tnks to all
Wolfpts
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I have a Lenovo x220t not sure if its similar to your machine or not.
I discovered the screen must support at least 2 point touch.
I had first tried a clean install of win 8 with the complete os installation cd. This wouldn't allow touch. I did a clean win 7 install, then went to Microsoft website and downloaded the $40 upgrade. Touch works fine for me now. Try the upgrade assistant and see what it says. I think if your touchscreen is a proper HID device the upgrade will allow it to work. I didn't install any drivers at all during the upgrading process, win 8 takes care of that on its own.
Maybe that might help.

Just purchased shift need advice

Hey guys, not sure if there are many people here but I'm looking for some help. I recently bought a shift off ebay because I like the cool sliding form-factor and collecting old palm tops in general. When I got it it had vista on it. It also had a lot of garbage and porn on it from the previous seller who claimed it was mint... that's another story. I ran into some problems with it and tried to reinstall vista. Then I decided to throw windows 10 on it instead thinking it would make it run better.
Unfortunately windows 10 has slowed it down to a crawl. I can't get anything done on it. It's using up a lot of processing power to the point that the device gets hot and abruptly shuts down. I don't know what I was expecting really, it only has an 800mhz proc. Have any of you guys gotten 10 to run smoothly? I'd appreciate any advice. Thanks.
Hi,
There are a number of Windows 10 performance tips in the thread titled "[GUIDE] Installing Windows 10 Technical Preview on the HTC Shift, especially in the final couple of pages.
I'm running Windows 10 on my Shift, and despite my best efforts, it still runs very slow, but good enough for running efficient applications such as Evernote, OneDrive and Word.
My Shift gets hot but it has never suffered from overheating. Perhaps your fan is faulty. Can you hear the fan running?
Hi guys, i was always fanatic for ultra mobile pc´s, i had some vaio P, and now i bought a HTC shift, just spent 50 euros in it, so it is a bargain
I have some questions here:
1- guy who sold me told me that wifi don´t work in windows 8 ( os installed), it needs some driver to work in windows 8/10? or it´s not possible to enable wifi?
2- when i receive the shift should i format all partions and make a new install of win 10? the owner told me that hd is 60gb and have 2 partitions
3- so for what i understand, there is the windows mode and then the windows mobile mode? they are installed in diferent partitions? how does this work?
thank you
i made a clean install of win 10, win 10 is very slow for shift.... all was working less wifi, it wasn´t detecting my home network
made a clean install of win 7 home premium, all smooth and quick, fast boot time, all things are working including touchscreen and wifi
in windows 7 i cant acess 3g dont know why
another problem is that when i press windows mobile key, i only get a black screen, what is the problem?
thank you
ps. for browsing i recimend slim jet browser, really fast and smoother, and very good to use with finger
I take it by now that you have learned that only the windows side uses the HDD (and bluetooth and the SD card). The Windows Mobile side is not connected to any of these (although it is connect to Windows and so can potentially access them if Windows is running).
If 3G is not working in Windows 7, have you run the "Shift Control Centre" to ensure that "Modem" is ON?
When I installed Windows 10 on my HTC Shift from a bootable USB drive created with the "Windows Media Creator" application, I performed a new installation after first deleting all of the partitions on the hard drive. This included the factory default Vista recovery partition, which I will never need, and I'd rather have the extra Gbs of storage.
There was a 2GB RAM module you could buy for it. Also, could you put an SSD inside it to speed it up?
vinokirk said:
There was a 2GB RAM module you could buy for it. Also, could you put an SSD inside it to speed it up?
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You can buy a 2gb module in eBay but they are very expensive
About SSD you can use it, dont know wich modelo, but its possible, but this laptop have slow processor and bad graphic, so, i dont recomend this investment at all
I've got two Shifts. One with liberated Snapvue, 2GB Ram and 128GB SSD.
Had Windows7 installed, but then tried Win10. The first Beta versions made shift run like a charm, but with each update it became slower. I then returned to Vista with AeroDesign and 3d gimmicks disabled. Now runs pretty good, fast enough and stable.
The second Shift also runs Vista. Unfortunately i'm not able to liberate its Mobile side, as it refuses to receive emails although 3G is working fine. Strange thing: though not liberated, Vista is able to use the 3G modem.
windows 7 runs ok in shift, for me it´s the best os
Running Windows 10 on my Shift. I disabled certain things such as background apps, superfetch, and Windows search.
I wonder how much impact the future Meltdown and Spectre mitigation updates will have on my poor stock HTC Shift...
Wow! Started reading this thread and I cant believe I fired up my Shift. Running Windows 8 on it. It took 30 minutes for Windows defender to update . Updating Windows now. ANyone know where I can find an inexpensive battery?
Thanks
try ebay
search for htc x9500 or htc shift
btw
win 7 is the best os for this machine
Battery
Search htc shift in ebay and some will appear. Not cheap cicra £20-30 but probably not a deal breaker either.
I have used kingspec 1.8 inch 128 gb ssd's in other devices and they work well. Their speed depends upon the interface required, if ide then this will be the bottleneck. As for the original hdd they are one of the slowest ever made and were redesigned for media player usage!
Slow down windows 10 on a 1 CPU 800mHz 1gb or 2gb?
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Kospet prime firmware update, what the changes log?

Hello,
I have kospet prime watch,
recently I updated the firmware to the latest one that was almost 110 MB.
but I can't find any changes log for that update, also tried to contact Kopset prime social media,
but ironically they told me that they don't have changes log, and can't provide it from tech support
anyone could help? I want to know what is new, what is the changes log.
Was this an upgrade of the Android OS version? Mine has 7.1.1 out of the box. Not sure I want to do the update as I plan to root it (not sure that will make a difference anyway on an MTK processor).
So far mine doesn't seem to connect to any GPS satellites and it was locking up and doing weird stuff after about 15 minutes. Did a factory reset and it still was getting weird for a few minutes then it finally got normal again all by itself and has been fine ever since.
where can i find a driver for windows 10 ??
also with the cable and charger inside the package will be connected to the computer or i will have to buy another
thanks
gthomas said:
where can i find a driver for windows 10 ??
also with the cable and charger inside the package will be connected to the computer or i will have to buy another
thanks
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It's a bit more complex on Windows 10 but there is enough info on https://discourse.fullandroidwatch.org/ that you can likely work through it. Just search there on Kospet Prime and you'll find discussion about the USB drivers for Win 10

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