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Samsung 64GB SSD + VISTA Clean install

After several failed attempts of cloning VISTA from the HTC Shift's to the my Samsung 64GB Solid State Drive using Norton Ghost (the cloned drive always blue screens at boot), I've decided to do a clean VISTA install from scratch to the SSD Drive.
With only one USB Port on the Shift, I didn't have enough ports for the Bootable USB Pen w/ Ghost on it + Drive 1 + Drive 2, so I had to stick both 1.8" ZIF drivers in USB adapter enclosures and then clone from one to the other from a desktop computer with multiple USBs (using a hub on the Shift to use the 3 devices at the same time from its single USB connector didn't work either because the drives are not detected at BIOS)
To do a clean install, are the updated VISTA drivers for the Shift posted on HTC's Support Site, all the drivers I will need? I don't seem to see certain things like the SIM Modem for example. Also how do I install the Windows Mobile Application to communicate with SnapVue, etc? I have the feeling I will be missing a ton of drivers and software by the time I have the Shift with a Retail Version of Vista, not the original system restore one with all the drivers (and clutter).
Once I get the system up and running (and tweaked), I'll post some benchmarks here and a video showing boot-up and app launch times with the Samsung SSD (currently the fastest 1.8" ZIF Drive on the market). I want to custom make VISTA as streamlined as possible with the least amount of garbage to gain maximum performance on the Shift and with the lowest possible mem usage On my dsktop my clean install is less than 1.5GB!
If you'd like a detailed post of the disassembly, drive swap and re-assembly as well as final description of all the tweaks performed, services disabled, etc., I can post them here in detail as well.
Thanks for the input of the software and drivers I will need before I start the work

VeEuzUKY said:
To do a clean install, are the updated VISTA drivers for the Shift posted on HTC's Support Site, all the drivers I will need?
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Yes, they are all you need. Windows Mobile Device Centre is included with Vista, and that deals with the connection to Snapvue. The sim card is managed by Snapvue, so wiping Vista will not affect it.

Thanks for the reply Pantaloonie
Im hoping that a Vista clean install will be a fraction of the work and time I've spent trying to install XP and Ubuntu Mobile. Both of them got "almost" to fully work but some functionality was always lost no matter my tries. Since I am "slimming" down Vista to its bare minimum, I wonder if there are components I have taken out on my desktop's clean install, that I may actually need for the Shift (Windows Mobile Device Centre being one of them that immediately comes to mind)! Is it required to upgrade to Windows Mobile Device Center 6.1 on the version built-in within Vista is enough? I usually stay away as much as possible of ANY upgrades what-so-ever
By the way, what are the VistaECDrv and Extension Kit USBLan Drivers for?

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By the way, what are the VistaECDrv and Extension Kit USBLan Drivers for?
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Hi,
VistaECDDrv seems to be the Embedded Controller Driver. It is the part that manages communication between the build-in stuff such as USB and SD. It also might be the part that prohibits us from using the SD-card from the Snapvue side.
The other one seems to be the driver for the LAN adaptor... I am not sure what the "Extension Kit" signifies.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
(I actually don't really know what I am talking about )
greetz,
Pfeffa-rah

Are the drivers needed for the Shift's video camera built-in Vista? I cannot find any available drivers to download from HTC's support site

Yes, it works quite happily with the generic USB Camera drivers in Vista.

can you do a benchmark of your SSD from Samsung? ans post the picture?
http://www.hdtune.com/
I think about a Mtron 3018 32GB or 64GB SDD (April 2009) with 100/100MB/s
I Thnik there is no other faster 1,8" PATA SSD on market?

Hi!
Is there any news on the speed on your Shift when changing to the Samsung SSD?

I don´t know, but i´m shure, with Mtron 3018 SSD it is much faster then with SAmsung SSD.
BTW: in the mid of april Mtron release the 64GB Edition with 100/100 Read/write (maybe 300€)

Hitachi Touro mobile external HDD not working in Win 8

Hi, I have a Hitachi Touro Pro mobile 750GB USB 3.0 external HDD and after upgrading to win 8 the drive is no longer accessible.
It still works on Win 7, but when I plug it in on Win 8 it takes 3-5 min to show up in my computers and once you click on the drive file explorer hangs until you unplug the drive..
Anyone have a fix for this problem? it's very inconvenient for me to switch between Win 8 and Win 7...
thanks in advance!

Sounds like one of those weird drives that aren't actually USB Mass Storage but instead have some (typically both buggy and worthless) extra layer over them to do things like make it easy to back stuff up (as though Windows hasn't had backup capability built in for ages) or something equally value-added (for very loose values of "value"). Check if there's a way to connect it via USB Mass Storage instead; I know on my PC external drives work fine.
Also, try over USB2 instead of USB3, just to see if it behaves differently. I don't think Win7 even had built-in support for USB3; you would have had to install a driver. It might be expecting that driver somehow...

GoodDayToDie said:
Sounds like one of those weird drives that aren't actually USB Mass Storage but instead have some (typically both buggy and worthless) extra layer over them to do things like make it easy to back stuff up (as though Windows hasn't had backup capability built in for ages) or something equally value-added (for very loose values of "value"). Check if there's a way to connect it via USB Mass Storage instead; I know on my PC external drives work fine.
Also, try over USB2 instead of USB3, just to see if it behaves differently. I don't think Win7 even had built-in support for USB3; you would have had to install a driver. It might be expecting that driver somehow...
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Thanks for your reply.
I actually tried that drive everywhere... ThinkPad X230T, T61, Surface RT and even my friend's HP... the behavior is exactly the same on USB 2 or 3.. When I connect the drive it shows up in Device Manager as a "Hitachi Touro Mobile Pro SCSI Disk Device". I have no idea what SCSI Disk Device means... :S I bought the drive in April 2012.
I know this drive has some smart features build it, like sleep mode (drive stops spinning after no activity for a while), host detection (doesn't spin if there's power but no communication) and safe eject (stops spinning after receiving USB ejection signal).

SCSI is an old (really old) interface for disk drives. It still sees some use in servers, but that's about it. Not sure why your external USB HDD would present itself as SCSI...
All those "smart features" are exactly the kind of stuff I was talking about: useless crap that makes the drive require a custom driver even though the OS already does every single one of those with the *possible* exception of the host detection (which shouldn't require anything special).

What if you copy the data off the drive, then use Win8 to repartition/format the drive (disk management)?
The reason it shows SCSI is that for the controller being used in the external case is presenting itself as such. Most HDD controllers that aren't integrated into the chipset (and even some that do) will always be detected as SCSI controllers, it's an old-school way of how Windows sees controllers. If it's not built-in, it must be SCSI. Odd but that's how it was many many years ago.

I've a Hitachi Touro (not Pro, 2012 model) 1TB drive, which shows up in Win8 as "HitachiG ST USB Device". Driver used is standard Microsoft driver dated 2006.
Your Touro Mobile Pro is a Hitachi Travelstar 7K750 drive (SATA 2 3Gb/s, 7200rpm). Specs and performance below,
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/notebook-hard-drive-review,3270-2.html
My guess is that Win8 upgrade is the problem, as you likely didn't do a clean install. Suggest
. plug drive in and wait for it to be recognized,
. go into Device Manager, click on Disk Drives, right-click on the Touro entry, select Uninstall
. unplug drive, wait for a few seconds, then replug drive
If this doesn't work, you may need to do a clean re-install of Win8. A workaround is to remove the drive from the USB enclosure and use it as a standard SATA 2.0 drive.

rEFInd on the Toshiba Encore WT8-A32

I have managed to boot to rEFInd on my Toshiba Encore in preparation for booting Ubuntu from a microSD card natively. I have not written up a guide yet from my notes because I don't think there will be much demand for this here on XDA. If enough people want to do this, I will turn this post into a guide. This boots directly from the UEFI partition with no USB stick needed. You DO need a USB stick to do the actual install.
Toshiba Encore booting to rEFInd: http://postimg.org/image/4lx3mnxzr/
Toshiba Encore booting to Grub2: http://postimg.org/image/p3rgtpqkp/
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Installing Ubuntu 14.10 to a microSD card on the Toshiba Encore:
Note: There are many problems right now with Ubuntu on the Encore. Touchscreen driver is broken as of kernel version 3.16. It's some kind of regression bug in the atmel-maxtouch driver(here is a program to debug our touchscreen: https://github.com/atmel-maxtouch/obp-utils).
You will need to prepare with:
A USB stick to do the install
Ubuntu 14.10 64 bit ISO(Daily build) http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
A microUSB OTG cable(if you use the StarTech cable mentioned below then you don't need this)
A high speed microSD card(Partitioned: 200MB FAT32 EFI partition, a large EXT4 partition, and a swap partition). I used this(was $21 on sale) http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00IVPU894/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
A Linux box to compile the latest versions of a few programs used to boot into Grub2 and Ubuntu. I will post the compiled versions but you should compile them yourself for security reasons.
Read this to get an idea what's needed to get rEFInd installed: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#windows (there are extra steps not listed there)
The install will go from the usb stick booted from rEFIind to the microSD card. The Samsung PRO I am using only does ~20MBps so I'm guessing that is a hardware limit. I did the install without a swap partition and Ubuntu was unusable after opening up 4 or more programs so I added a swap partition to the end of my microSD card.
Getting rEFInd booting:
Turn off Secure Boot in the Encore bios. It should be possible to boot Ubuntu from a USB stick without turning off Secure Boot but I doubt it will ever be possible to do from a microSD card because the Toshiba Encore has no option to boot from a microSD card in the bios boot options.
Get rEFInd here: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/getting.html
Run these commands in an elevated permissions Windows command shell:
powercfg /h off
manage-bde -status c: (checks bitlocker status)
powershell
PS C:\> Disable-BitLocker -MountPoint "C:"
manage-bde -status c: (after above command finishes, makes sure your disk is really decrypted.)
Then follow this: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/installing.html#windows
All the commands are explained on rodsbooks website except disabling Bitlocker. This is optional but if something goes wrong along the way, you might find Windows 8 encrypted and unbootable.
Note: The command: "bcdedit /set {bootmgr} path \EFI\refind\refind_x64.efi" to get rEFInd set as the default EFI boot program did not take the first time I did it. You might have to run that commend a few times rebooting each time until your tablet boots into rEFInd. Once it does, you will see a graphic to boot Windows 8. I suggest changing rEFInd to text mode so that you can use the VOL UP, VOL DOWN, and Windows button(as enter) to scroll through the boot options. Use "textonly" option in the rEFInd config file to set this: http://www.rodsbooks.com/refind/configfile.html#adjusting
Installing Ubuntu(bleeding edge) 14.10:
Touchscreen does not work yet so I will update this section when I get it working.
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If you want to have power to your tablet and USB OTG access at the same time, here is what you need(both Amazon prime eligible):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047AALS0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KQES55M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (Any usb gender bender like this will do...there are cheaper ones)
Attach the USB gender changer to the black end of the StarTech cable and the attach a USB hub to the other end of the gender changer. Plug the red end into a 2.1 amp USB power source and the microUSB end into the Encore. Now the tablet will say "plugged in, not charging". You can now attach any USB device to the hub and Windows or Linux with see them. The tablet will have power but the battery will not charge.

bads3ctor said:
I have managed to boot to rEFInd on my Toshiba Encore in preparation for booting Ubuntu from a microSD card natively. I have not written up a guide yet from my notes because I don't think there will be much demand for this here on XDA. If enough people want to do this, I will turn this post into a guide. This boots directly from the UEFI partition with no USB stick needed.
Toshiba Encore booting to rEFInd: http://postimg.org/image/4lx3mnxzr/
Toshiba Encore booting to Grub2: http://postimg.org/image/p3rgtpqkp/
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Hi
I wanna boot ubuntu on my encore Can You write the instructions how to, step by step?

Nice, not sure how many others own this tablet, the Venue 8 Pro seems more popular. But I bought an Encore for the microHDMI so I would love to see a guide.

Thank You, I would love to see a guide also, I own a Toshiba encore 32gb

Touch working? Wifi?
Thanks for posting the guide though!

Touchscreen driver works but needs calibration
SebMKd said:
Touch working? Wifi?
Thanks for posting the guide though!
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Touchscreen bug:
Code:
i2c_hid i2c-ATML1000:00: failed to retrieve report from device.
Supposed to be fixed in kernel version 3.16 but so far in Ubuntu 14.10(kernel 3.16.0-23) TS is still broken. Internal WIFI works with a few tweaks. I am using a USB Atheros WIFI device for now.
I am running Windoze 8 and every few weeks I update Ubuntu 14.10 to see if the touchscreen works. I used to hack away at bleeding kernels to fix bugs like this but I am just going to wait for the Linux kernel devs to fix the touchscreen driver.
Edit: Booted into Ubuntu 14.10 after updating to the newest kernel and:
dmesg | grep i2c-ATML
[ 8.053603] input: ATML1000:00 03EB:8C12 as /devices/platform/80860F41:05/i2c-5/i2c-ATML1000:00/0018:03EB:8C12.0005/input/input6
Touchscreen works but is badly calibrated and the Unity side bar refuses to appear when the mouse is pushed to the left side of the screen. Not a very good trade-off! On the bright side, the former useless USB keyboard windows key now brings up the Unity sidebar.
Code:
[email protected]:~$ xinput list
⎡ Virtual core pointer id=2 [master pointer (3)]
⎜ ↳ Virtual core XTEST pointer id=4 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ MOSART Semi. 2.4G Wireless Mouse id=9 [slave pointer (2)]
⎜ ↳ ATML1000:00 03EB:8C12 id=10 [slave pointer (2)]
⎣ Virtual core keyboard id=3 [master keyboard (2)]
↳ Virtual core XTEST keyboard id=5 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Video Bus id=6 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech USB Keyboard id=7 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ Logitech USB Keyboard id=8 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ gpio-keys id=11 [slave keyboard (3)]
↳ gpio-keys id=12 [slave keyboard (3)]
[email protected]:~$ xinput list-props 10
Device 'ATML1000:00 03EB:8C12':
Device Enabled (130): 1
Coordinate Transformation Matrix (132): 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 0.000000, 1.000000
Device Accel Profile (253): 0
Device Accel Constant Deceleration (254): 1.000000
Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration (255): 1.000000
Device Accel Velocity Scaling (256): 10.000000
Device Product ID (248): 1003, 35858
Device Node (249): "/dev/input/event5"
Evdev Axis Inversion (257): 0, 0
Evdev Axis Calibration (258): 1271, 1282, 3196, 3115
Evdev Axes Swap (259): 1
Axis Labels (260): "Abs MT Position X" (280), "Abs MT Position Y" (281), "None" (0), "None" (0)
Button Labels (267): "Button Unknown" (262), "Button Unknown" (262), "Button Unknown" (262), "Button Wheel Up" (136), "Button Wheel Down" (137)
Evdev Scrolling Distance (261): 0, 0, 0
Evdev Middle Button Emulation (268): 0
Evdev Middle Button Timeout (269): 50
Evdev Third Button Emulation (270): 0
Evdev Third Button Emulation Timeout (271): 1000
Evdev Third Button Emulation Button (272): 3
Evdev Third Button Emulation Threshold (273): 20
Evdev Wheel Emulation (274): 0
Evdev Wheel Emulation Axes (275): 0, 0, 4, 5
Evdev Wheel Emulation Inertia (276): 10
Evdev Wheel Emulation Timeout (277): 200
Evdev Wheel Emulation Button (278): 4
Evdev Drag Lock Buttons (279): 0
Edit2: Here is the problem....the coordinates for calibration are off because the tablet is attached to an external monitor:
Code:
[email protected]:~$ xrandr
Screen 0: minimum 8 x 8, current 3200 x 1080, maximum 32767 x 32767
HDMI1 connected primary 1920x1080+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 983mm x 576mm
1920x1080 60.0*+ 50.0 59.9 30.0 25.0 24.0 30.0 24.0
1920x1080i 60.1 50.0 60.0
1600x900 60.0
1280x1024 60.0
1360x768 60.0
1280x720 60.0 50.0 59.9
1440x576i 50.1
1024x768 60.0
1440x480i 60.1 60.1
800x600 60.3
720x576 50.0
720x480 60.0 59.9
640x480 60.0 59.9
DP1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)
DSI1 connected 1280x800+1920+0 right (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
800x1280 60.0*+
VIRTUAL1 disconnected (normal left inverted right x axis y axis)

very interesting. It's what I need :good:

Any more news on this?

I managed to install Refind. Also, I managed to install ubuntu on sdcard. But in Refind not appears Ubuntu. How I can edit Refind to search the OS on sdcard?
Thanks!!

PainToad said:
Any more news on this?
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Sorry for not getting back earlier on this but I wanted to exhaust all options before giving up on running Ubuntu on this tablet. The deal killer turns out to be the MicroSD card bandwidth. From what I can tell from the tests I have done while running Ubuntu from the MicroSD card, the BIOS is set to run the SD bus in DDR25 mode with no option to set it to DDR50 mode. DDR25 mode maxes out at about 18 MB/Sec and this is causing Ubuntu to lockup when disk I/O gets saturated.
With no option in the BIOS to set the SD bus to DDR50 mode, it is effectively a hardware limitation preventing Ubuntu from running properly.

bads3ctor said:
If you want to have power to your tablet and USB OTG access at the same time, here is what you need(both Amazon prime eligible):
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0047AALS0/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00KQES55M/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 (Any usb gender bender like this will do...there are cheaper ones)
Attach the USB gender changer to the black end of the StarTech cable and the attach a USB hub to the other end of the gender changer. Plug the red end into a 2.1 amp USB power source and the microUSB end into the Encore. Now the tablet will say "plugged in, not charging". You can now attach any USB device to the hub and Windows or Linux with see them. The tablet will have power but the battery will not charge.
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I have a question. This method won't be charging my tablet, so my battery won't be destroyed?
BTW another question. Why card reader in this tablet is that slow? I have sandisk extreme micro sd (64MB/s write - ~ 60MB/s in my PC card reader) but reader in toshiba can only read/write ~26MB/s. I thought that this card will be great for my tablet, but now I fell like I wasted my money. I could better buy standard class 10 micro sd card...

rascal0pl said:
I have a question. This method won't be charging my tablet, so my battery won't be destroyed?
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The tablet will receive a charge but the battery will not be charged. If your battery is at 100% then it will stay at 100%.
rascal0pl said:
BTW another question. Why card reader in this tablet is that slow? I have sandisk extreme micro sd (64MB/s write - ~ 60MB/s in my PC card reader) but reader in toshiba can only read/write ~26MB/s. I thought that this card will be great for my tablet, but now I fell like I wasted my money. I could better buy standard class 10 micro sd card...
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It is an internal firmware limitation. There is supposed to be a BIOS setting to set the SD slot to a higher bandwidth level but this tablet does not have that option in the BIOS.

Card Reader of Bay Trail tablets is broken
The Card Reader of Bay Trail tablets is slow because is broken, no linux boot and is a read-only device with stock linuxes. You can patch the kernel and install some boot stuff in new partitions of Windows disk, but you can't boot from microSD. I also installed Android x86 and run fast, Android 4 and 6 stable versions, but I couldn't activate sound nor battery status. At least for my research, until today, if you have the 32 GB disk is very difficult you can play with dual boot, Windows is slow and wastes the hard disk, tablet mode of windows has no attractive (while Android is near perfection) and desktop mode is not friendly for touch-screen use, but for now it is stable and all the other tablet's devices works (touchscreen, GPS, Bluetooth, cameras, sensors, miracast), the battery management in this Atom environment has issues with linux and under Windows this x86 system doesn't seem so far away from ARM efficiency. I installed many GPL portable Windows applications in a minimal disk space, so for now linux and Android are worse for this tablet that seemed created for a Microsoft's skinhead.

UEFI boot
I forgot I have a 10 inches version of this tablet, 32 GB, Windows 10 32 bits upgrade (first upgrade) and BIOS 2.0
UEFI multi-boot is not so difficult with: rEFInd, easyUEFI Windows application (because Windows changes boot order), linux's Unetbootin for USB boot, bootia32.efi archive for some linux's installations (Ubuntu-gnome 16.04.1 64 bits requires at least 7-10 GB and swap, may be 32 bits is a bit better because it's less RAM hunger), ... before tests, you have to disable Windows's Bitlocker encryption (AES-128 Windows disk software encryption for this model of the Atom processor, I think without hardware assistance, that it's seamless for the user because UEFI includes shared key, if disk key is deleted Microsoft online user account stores a large password), secure boot, fast boot, windows session identification (Microsoft online authentication sometimes locks session start, probably cause some autocheck of a efi boot manipulation... may be was "default_selection" option of rEFInd for booting last selected OS), backup efi boot partition (copy the files after mount partition)... then I gparted the Windows disk form USB (with no data loss).
And if someone can the microSD boot, Raspberry Pi community recommends Samsung EVO+ 32 GB, for about 10 $/€ (be warned about scam versions), with the best by far random IO, far less from 20 MB/s, but may be important for linux, although I don't know if max random IO of the card reader had been reduced too (most probably yes... and a lot).
Another chance is wubi EFI, a Ubuntu Windows installer that now supports UEFI 32 bits (the non approved by free-software community secure boot only with UEFI 64 bits), this install linux in a big file (resizable) of a NTFS Windows disk (again microSD doesn't boot, it requires a rEFInd's Card Reader firmware and is not available) and linux runs in loop mode inside this file. I installed Ubuntu-gnome 64 bits and 32 bits (in this case the installer requires a command-line option). UEFI32 too requires EasyUEFI and secure boot and bitlocker disabled, I utilized a USB wifi stick (TL-WN722N) until internal wifi was configured... I found lots of issues, including slow internal-wifi, soundcard, battery status, processor stepping and hangs, and other users's solutions for different tablets have not always worked... then no usability research here. Anyway, wubi is not the best way to install linux, although it works and it's easy, and Windows complain less.
A last possibility for linux could be VirtualBox 32 bits, this supports microSD use and Atom processor includes hardware assistance supporting even linux 64 bits. Virtualize linux on this tablet is very slow and touchscreen is a pain.
After some time I returned the tablet to its original state with no data loss*, USB boot still there or the install in a fast (if well chosen) microUSB 3.0 stick or microSD-adapter... but no charger without the use of a less portable, and manipulation disconnections, cable adapter. I utilized a cheap "octopussy" cable from China (3 USB 2.0+ microUSB for charge... 3-4 $/€ or less), but this tablet is incompatible for simultaneous operation (USB OTG+charge), it don't charge while USB use and only I can do slow charge with a tricky: connect with charge mode, change to OTG mode and connect USB devices (warning: some Amazon's users report issues or damages in other tablets).
*bitlocker key changed with a new online password stored for recovery, and Toshiba recovery (Bios option) was broken, may be caused by gparted or some UEFI boot application or some of the installed OS, who knows... normal fixes solutions don't work, although windows own recovery partition worked. Toshiba utilizes a particular EFI directory and Windows doesn't repair it, I copied Toshiba BCD backed up file or, in case it doesn't work, BCD file from Windows recovery boot directory (may be a normal fixboot is required first).

Bug issues under Windows 10 update
After some time of use this tablet suffers issues, cause of its Bay Trail buggy platform, under Windows 8.1 and 10 (worse): Wifi disconnections and poor speed, laggy applications and touchscreen sometimes is unresponsive, miracast disconnections and choppy sound, although the whole system doesn´t hang. I did try linux last updates from http://linuxiumcomau.blogspot.com.es/ and now most work better (July 2017), probably in a short time I will uninstall Windows 10.

New Sata harddrive slow!!!

Hey shift owners,
I just installed a 128 gb sata hd and it's slower than my original ide hd... I tried modifying the bios to get ahci support but couldn't reveal it in bios, installed ahci drivers and nothing. I even tried enabling ahci support in registry. I've never had this problem modifying a sata to work with ahci support for better performance. Has anyone else had this issue? Have you got ahci support for your sata hd? This sata is slooooow and I paid good money for it!
Please let me know what's going on I just got this Shift and love it.
Thank you

SATA might work with AHCI, but ZIF is a form of PATA connection hench no AHCI mode.
i wonder where the slowness is coming from, if you just installed windows and all and you might be connected to the internet windows might be updating in the background using up all the CPU speed.
i can't tell is my MSATA tot ZIF board with SSD (brand: Crucial) is any faster, but under windows 10 is loads up stuff pretty fast (for this machine).

OMEGA-ThundeR said:
SATA might work with AHCI, but ZIF is a form of PATA connection hench no AHCI mode.
i wonder where the slowness is coming from, if you just installed windows and all and you might be connected to the internet windows might be updating in the background using up all the CPU speed.
i can't tell is my MSATA tot ZIF board with SSD (brand: Crucial) is any faster, but under windows 10 is loads up stuff pretty fast (for this machine).
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Yea I just bought the adapter and installed a crucial 256 gb msata and it's also very slow also. I mean it takes forever to boot and load apps.

Chuwi HiBook Dual OS Tablet

Not able to upload pictures yet, need 10 posts.
Specifications
Basic Information
Brand: CHUWI
Type: Ultrabook
OS: Android 5.1,Windows 10
CPU Brand: Intel
CPU: Cherry Trail Z8300
GPU: Intel HD Graphic(Gen8)
Core: 1.44GHz,Quad Core
Storage
RAM: 4GB
ROM: 64GB
External Memory: TF card up to 64GB (not included)
Network
Support Network: WiFi
WIFI: 802.11b/g/n wireless internet
Bluetooth: Yes
Display
Screen type: Capacitive,IPS
Screen size: 10.1 inch
Screen resolution: 1920 x 1200 (WUXGA)
Camera
Camera type: Dual cameras (one front one back)
Back camera: 5.0MP
Front camera: 2.0MP
Connectivity
TF card slot: Yes
Type-C: Yes
Micro USB Slot: Yes
Micro HDMI: Yes
3.5mm Headphone Jack: Yes
Docking Interface: Support
Just got my two Chuwi Hi Book Dual OS delivered from DHL. First impression, the build quality is really excellent, on par with the Cube i9, if not better. Speakers seems good as well, no static noise, same with the 3,5mm jack.
And I really like the keyboard, cant compare the keyboard with i9 yet cause I havent gotten it delivered, still on its way from China.
The bios is from february, gonna test all ports but I can already confirm that the tablet accepts 128GB microSD cards from the start, no issues at all!
Picture:
Will update this post later, and if you have any questions just ask me!
*Update*
The type-C USB port is not the standard of 10gb/s, just tried with a type-C flash drive, it is much slower than the one on Cube i9.
The eMMC/SSD is a: Hynix HCG8e
The Wifi is half the speed I get from my cube i9, with my cube I get: down 100mbit/s – up 8,5mbit/s
Uploaded a picture of the eMMC/SSD CrystalDiskMark 5 benchmark test. Dont know if that is good results or not.

device build quality good for a price,, but software need more work.. wifi is very bad reception i dont know if its related to software driver or poor antenna or metal back case..on Android device not see microsd card, only 9gb free space available..included usb type-c cable very bad and not plug in %100 and didnt charge it with.. cant use cpu max freq at 1,86ghz..

Wifi speeds on my wifi at home is close to 50, but should be 2 to 3 times that at least {I have 300mb cable internet}.
Type C cable works great. Charges quickly. A bit short for me so using one of the 6 foot cables I bought my wife for her Zenpad.
Just bought the type C to usb 3.0 OTG cable to plug in flash drives and such.
Will be buying a 128gb sd to put in, I see it works fine for others.
Overall I am happy with this tablet my wife bought it for me after I showed her an article on it and I said it was cool.
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I just started android for the first time on one of my hibook, and downloaded the lastest chuwi update I think it was (maybe it was some other kind of update), It was 105mb big.
After I downloaded and clicked update, the hibook restarted, but nothing happend after that, it was just stuck at a black screen. I powered the tablet off and restarted it and clicked on the android boot icon, but now it is just stuck at the “Intel Inside” menu. Windows 10 still works
though.
I tried to enter into Android inside windows 10, but it doesnt help either.
Anyone know how to solve this problem?

Over on the chuwi forum I saw something about flashing the BIOS to fix flakey wifi, but didn't read into it much as I've been trying like hell to find a solution for the lack of a touchpad driver for the keyboard dock (hibook 10.1). Anybody heard of a solution for that? By default it's using the generic ms hid mouse driver, not a precision touchpad one, so there are no adjustments for swipes, gestures,or sensitivity in Windows. It's using mouse gestures, which can't be switched off, and is always activating hotkeys and edge swipes. Apparently chuwi doesn't build the keyboard and has no cue who's hardware is in it, and doesn't have a touchpad driver to offer. Very disappointing
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