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First, thank you to the developersfor all your hard work that made the Windows XP "downgrade" possible on the shift.
I now have a Shift running running XP tablet edition, and it does so beautifully!
However, Everything I've been finding online in regards to the WLAN driver is for Vista. I can't, for the life of me, seem to find a working XP WLAN driver.
If anyone out there is chuckling to themselves and thinking, "hehe, well I've got that driver right here!" Would you be so kind as to post it?
Thanks in advance.
I think you managed to start the wireless using the ioperm from cygwin and the wf-on.bat file. When you start the wireless go to device manager and you will se there something with "!", just right click and use update driver, point to the folder where you downloaded the wireless driver from the HTC support site and that will work great.
PS: the guys are using a mod'ed sdbus.sys to use the wireless but the SD card then stops working... a way for both to work that I discovered is like this...
you just started your device, ok? now go to sleep mode with it and wake, now you have both sd card and wireless working ! then what's the catch? everytime your OS restarts, it's needed to sleep and wake again to make that work, I think is an exploit in the sleep module, you can investigate more using some development software if you're interested
no dice
Dalvus, when I try that, it tells me that "The specified location does not contain information about your hardware."
Any suggestions?
Regardless, thanks for the info about the SD slot, that's going to be really helpful if and when I get my WLAN working
so I understand your problem...
so here is the scenario, tell me if I'm wrong. Your wireless device doesn't appear in the control panel and the green light from the low level menu is not blinking. You should have been activated the wireless before installed Windows XP, so you need cygwin, a program that allow a linux shell to be run in Windows environment and to add the ioperm application while installing it.
I also used Windows XP Tablet PC SP3 to which I slipstreamed a file so it could read a VL serial and make it 100% genuine with no hack.
The problem at your device is that you do NOT have wireless chipset activated.
SO this is exactly what you need to do:
1.)start your device, let windows load, and then check your leds, if the led below the wireless/bluetooth is blinking blue that means bluetooth is activated, if it's blinking green that means wireless is activated, if blue and green as well are blinking, both of them are activated, so SKIP to 3.), if not blinking carry on to 2.)
2.)none of two leds are blinking so you need to activate them AND make them been recognized by Windows XP so install cygwin in c:\, just google for cygwin is free, when the installation starts, make sure that you check the ioperm program from devel submenu. now run cygwin.bat from where you just installed and type there:
ioperm –i then hit enter
exit then hit enter
now that you've just installed the I/O permision, google for hsect2.exe and place that .exe file in \cygwin\bin\
download these here http://dl.fisier.ro/files/1gjld5kjleh3fij/controls.zip.html and place in \cygwin\ where you installed or everywhere you want, where is a folder named controls, let it that way, now use the WF on and BT on to make it start, but still unrecognized by Windows/
3.) so now the leds blue and green are blinking, that's good, now restart windows and let it fully load... go to sleep mode and wake it, your wireless is now been recognized and sd slot as well, FULL functional, install the driver from the device manager and you're set to go
so i've done all of that, and i had already installed and run cygwin, i have both green and blue LEDs blinking under the bluetooth/wifi illustration... i restarted the pc, i put it in sleep mode, brought it back up, tried installing the drivers, and i still get the same "The specified location does not contain any information about your hardware." message.
Am I using the right drivers? "sd8686"
I just don't understand the problem, and it's looking more and more like I might have to reinstall xp to correct the issue..
I don't think it's necessary to reinstall Windows. To check if ok do this...
you said the blue and green [BT and WiFi] are blinking, ok. But Windows DO NOT recognize the device in any way, it DOES NOT see it !
Now go to sleep mode, and then wake it. Now in device manager you should see the "!" sign assigned to Marvel SD8686, if you can't see it, you can't do anything about it
PS: I'm selling my Shift in 1 week if no bluetooth support is for WinMobile part, I need to use all features
okay, so for some reason, i've been able to get teh bluetooth to work. so hooray for that!
but i'm still having the same issue with the WLAN. I've attached a screenshot of my device manager.
as you can see, no matter what i've tried, (including all the help offered from this thread), the shift still does not see the wireless card.
any further help would be greatly appreciated
note: the WLAN LED on the front panel of the shift IS blinking both blue and green but apparently the shift still does not see the WLAN adapter
you weren't paying atention...
one thing is to activate WiFi and because XP... other thing is to recognize it.
blinking means activated... now sleep it ! and wake it... it would recognize the WLAN...
if you restart XP, you must do the sleep/wake again to make it recognize
I have been listening, I assure you.
As I stated, I've tried EVERYTHING mentioned in the comments provided, including making the Shift sleep and then reawakening it. I'm still left in the same situation as you see in the screenshot above.
Hi,
I've had problems with my wifi not working under Windows 7. Even going back to vista would not solve it. I first thought it was a hadware problem, but yesterday, I found it was windows 7 driver which was faulty.
If you don't have the wifi reconized, or the dreaded "no wifi network", please try the following:
Remove the SD card. Remove the battery, plug it again, reboot.
Go in the HTC control pannel. Make sure wifi is enabled.
Go to the device manager, find the wifi network card. If should have a yellow triangle or be down. Just disable the driver if not already disabled, the reenable it.
Reboot
You must be able to reboot (ie, windows 7 should not be stuck in the shutting down message)
Once rebooted, you should have wifi enabled.
If it's not working, try putting your windows mobile side off by putting it in bootloader mode for example. It should not boot. If wifi is not working and windows mobile is, then you haven't applied the solution properly. I'm not saying it's necessary, just that it's working for me with windows mobile off ATM.
Also, it seems putting the device to sleep create the problem. Try shutting it down each time for now. I'm sure there is a wrong parameter in the drivers for sleep mode that put the card to dead mode...
Please report if it helps.
Thanks for this. I've had loads of problems with Wifi if I try to use any SD cards so I bought a USB converter thingie and avoid the SD slot altogether...!
I do also use sleep/ hibernate a lot which I know makes the problem worse, but I like having Windows start up in seconds instead of minutes.
I'll try your technique and let you know if it does solve the problem for me - It'd be nice to use the SD slot again!
Howdy,
Lately I started experiencing access issues with the phone. One of these is the screenshot issue. The screenshot gets taken, although the phone says Couldn't take screenshot and saves the screenshot. The screenshot does not get shown in the Photos app like the app can't access the file.
Here are all of the access issues I experience, I believe they are connected all together and have the same root cause.
1. Whenever I press WindowsKey+Turn off button to take a screenshot, the phone says Saving to Screenshots... and then Couldn't take screenshot. The screenshot does not get saved to Screenshots folder. If I check this same Screenshots folder via Windows Explorer, it shows the taken screenshot is there
2. No camera app, including the built-in one, can save the taken photo. Whenever I start the camera and press the Camera button, the Camera app either disappears as if it crashed (and Start screen is shown) or the Photos app is shown instead of just taken photo. Checking the Camera roll section in the Photos app does not reveal the photo as if it wasn't taken. If I check this same Camera roll folder via Windows Explorer, it shows the taken image is there!
So the phone does take photos and screenshots but can't read them! Why?
3. Most of the time Photos app fails on start. You tap photos, it shows Loading... and then the app closes and Start screen gets shown. The other time it shows Loading... then Resuming... then Loading... again and does that multiple times. Sometimes it starts well but shows only old photos and screenshots that were taken before I started experiencing issues with taking screenshots and starting system apps.
4. Often so the Phone storage app available in Settings doesn't start either and closes after showing Loading... Sometimes it starts with no issues.
5. Music app fails to start every now and then. If I am being preserving, the app starts after multiple attempts to launch it. When it starts, it does not return to album view when you click Play on a song in an album. The app just freezes.
6. Finally, my System section in Settings|Phone storage|Phone now shows 4.29 GB (!) although it consumed 2.12 just before I started experiencing these strange issues. Seem like it has been flood with dumps and logs.
It appears the issues arisen when I replaced my 32GB Transcend UHS-I QSDXC card with a 64 GB by µSDXC from Sandisk and attempted to synchronize photos via Zune application and both WinRT and Desktop versions of Windows Phone apps.
More detail:
1. I interop-unlocked the phone and it worked for a while.
2. My 32 GB SD card ran out of memory and I replaced it with a 64 GB SD card.
3. The 64 GB SanDisk SD card appeared incompatible with Samsung ATIV S and looked as if it had been dismounted every now and then. The phone had been rebooting every 10 minutes or like and CPU was heating high.
4. I removed the 64 GB card and started the phone without the card. It worked well. The phone stopped heating and rebooting ever since I removed the card.
However, I noticed that I no longer can start the Photos app. Moreover, Phone storage also was failing start and Camera app did not make screenshots and photos.
5. I inserted the 64 GB card to my wife's Nokia Lumia 620 and it worked fine there. I put the 32 GB card back into my Samsung ATIV S but access issues are still there.
How do I fix this? Any clue is highly welcome.
I remember in Windows Phone 7.0 days, MSFT was joining SD card File System with the one on phone's memory. Could it be that storage array has been broken when I replaced the memory card?
Also could it be that something screwed with bootstrap (the phone is interop-unlocked and has been boot strapped before it's been unlocked).
Once again, the phone is developer unlocked and interop-unlocked.
I plan to hard reset but am worrying of getting my phone bricked. What if re-imaging or whatever the phone does when it resets itself (I assume it applies a WIM file like Windows 8 does it on PCs)?
Seems like inserting 64 GB SanDisk screwed the phone.
Important note: I did NOT use remove SD Card button on Settings|Phone storage|SD Card when replacing the cards. It just felt no sense to do that provided that I had switched the phone before I replaced the card.
I appreciate your help. Don't want contact Samsung service; my phone wasn't produced for the country where I live.
Hard reset is probably your best bet, since simply power-cycling didn't fix anything. You could check in SamWP8 Tools (assuming you have it installed) and reset all options to their defaults... The danger in hard reset is that you can't interop-unlock if you have GDR3 installed with the official updates from Samsung (as opposed to just the GR3 early release from Microsoft, which is fine).
For what it's worth, my GDR3 (MS bits only) SGH-T899M has a 64GB microSD card in it, has for months, and has no problems like you describe. Sorry I can't help more.
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Hard reset is probably your best bet, since simply power-cycling didn't fix anything. You could check in SamWP8 Tools (assuming you have it installed) and reset all options to their defaults... The danger in hard reset is that you can't interop-unlock if you have GDR3 installed with the official updates from Samsung (as opposed to just the GR3 early release from Microsoft, which is fine).
For what it's worth, my GDR3 (MS bits only) SGH-T899M has a 64GB microSD card in it, has for months, and has no problems like you describe. Sorry I can't help more.
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Thank you for your response. After I talked with W.O.L.F and other gentlemen over here, I came to the conclusion that the issue is that I toggled the Full access to file system in WPH Tweaks. Looks like the option is non-revertible, moreover, it looks like turning the Full FS access off in fact LOCKED access to file system for some system API.
Silly me, I should've used my mind before doing that, but what's done, done.
Using SamWP8 Tools made things even worse, my phone stopped showing in Windows Explorer and started to hang as if it was busy all the time. The fact that it was heating all the time made me think that this toggle-in/toggle-off operations with Full File System access did make something to some drivers is Windows Phone. I don't know what exactly happened but the phone stopped being detected by OS as ATIV S, disappeared from Removable Devices in Windows Explorer and showed only in USB devices section. Also in Device Manager it went from Samsung ATIV S to MTM USB Device or something. Screwed completely.
I had to hard reset the phone, but the 'luck' that I had GDR3 preview (8.x.512.x as far as I remember) turned it into brick. After I hard reset the phone, all I saw was the standard Samsung welcome screen with dandelions and a black screen that showed instead of Start screen.
I understand it like I have to Flash the phone back to GDR2 using publicly available ROMs but am confused with two things:
1. Last time I checked, when the phone was still usable, the phone showed that I had XEN as a CSC.
Now what if I flash it with a different CSC like SER; since I live in Russia?
2. If I use 64-bit flavor Windows 8, would Samsung driver work fine there, I don't want to mess with incomplete flash.
I am pretty confident that I know how to turn off signature verification for bootmgr in Windows 8, but I am not sure I know how to make sure installed driver works fine (except for checking its return code on starting).
I would appreciate your recommendations. I would've sent my phone to Samsung service, but I bet it won't give me anything except for additional problems.
The "Full FS access" hack in SamWP8 Tools has nothing to do with the actual file system. It just modifies the way that the MTP service on the phone - the one that normally lets you only see the documents and media folders - launches so that it can access all of drive C:. It doesn't actually *change* the file system in any way - the tweak to the service configuration is in the registry - and in any case, the MTP service isn't even running when the phone isn't connected to a PC.
With that said, you might have screwed something up when you had such access. For example, if you deleted or renamed the Pictures folder, that would break things. However, I don't think that's the problem. I think your phone has a hardware issue with its internal Flash storage. The key evidence of this is the failure of the hard reset. GDR3 (it's not really a "preview"; it's the release bits, just only the MS portion rather than the combined "retail" update that also has Samsung firmware updates in it) didn't "brick" your phone. I'm afraid it's almost certainly just a case of defective or damaged hardware.
GoodDayToDie said:
The "Full FS access" hack in SamWP8 Tools has nothing to do with the actual file system. It just modifies the way that the MTP service on the phone - the one that normally lets you only see the documents and media folders - launches so that it can access all of drive C:. It doesn't actually *change* the file system in any way - the tweak to the service configuration is in the registry - and in any case, the MTP service isn't even running when the phone isn't connected to a PC.
With that said, you might have screwed something up when you had such access. For example, if you deleted or renamed the Pictures folder, that would break things. However, I don't think that's the problem. I think your phone has a hardware issue with its internal Flash storage. The key evidence of this is the failure of the hard reset. GDR3 (it's not really a "preview"; it's the release bits, just only the MS portion rather than the combined "retail" update that also has Samsung firmware updates in it) didn't "brick" your phone. I'm afraid it's almost certainly just a case of defective or damaged hardware.
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Uhm, Mattemoller90 over here told me this is an issue with GDR3 Preview:
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I did a hard reset. Now all I see when the phone starts is a black screen. If I press the Power button, the standard Samsung desktop welcome screen with dandelions appears. Dammit! Nothing else but this welcome screen.
Now would flashing Wolf's custom ROM help here or the phone is completely bricked?
ReFlash GDR2 and your phone start normally, after, if you want update with GDR3
Black screen after an hard reset is a bug of GDR3 preview
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I definitely did NOT delete anything from Phone or SD Card the only bad thing I did is I swapped my SD cards from Transcend 32 GB to SanDisk 64 GB that's it. Then I was trying to turn the full access off multiple times using both SamWP8 Tools and WPH Tweaks all to no avail and after one of such Turn full access off -> Restart -> Turn full access on -> Restart cycles I noticed Windows has completely stopped recognizing my phone.
The worse thing I could do is I could pulled out the USB cable from the PC without first detaching the phone programmatically when I presumably had the full access feature turned on, but that's all to it.
Who knows, possibly the NAND memory inside the phone has been damaged somehow, I don't know how.
Currently, when I am trying to flash the phone with GDR2, I get the following:
Gentlemen, I have a problem here:
When I click Start in the Flasher tool, I get the following message box:
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Warning!!!
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Partition information is Not equal.
Download all binary?
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Yes No
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Open WP8 SMD image at : D:\Setup\Apps\Flash GDR2\Flash ROM\GDR2\GT-I8750 XXBME1_R_signed.wp8
Open WP8 SMD image at : D:\Setup\Apps\Flash GDR2\Flash ROM\GDR2\GT-I8750_OXABME1_R_SIGNED.csc
Open WP8 SMD image at : D:\Setup\Apps\Flash GDR2\Flash ROM\GDR2\GT-I8750 OXXAMB1_P.csc
[Channel 0] Start Download Success !!
[Channel 0] Start AskSamsungUEFIDwonloadVersion !!
[Channel 0] UEFI version is 10 !!
[Channel 0] Start AskSecurityType !!
[Channel 0] Device Security Enable and Secure Binary!!
[Channel 0] Start AskDeviceType !!
[Channel 0] AskDeviceType is Product !!
[Channel 0] Partition info does not Match !!
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What does this mean and what should I do? I am trying to flash from GDR3 Preview to GDR2.
I this somehow a confirmation to the fact that phone's memory is broken?
Heck, bad news then. This phone cost me near $500 in Russia...
Thank you.
Okay, the issue is resolved. The phone successfully flashed to GDR2 once I set the All option in the Flashed program and specified the XEH CSC code (which was the code my phone has had before it started to do quirky things).
Thank you everybody for your support.
Hi guys,
every new Teclast user could be interested to this topic.
Sorry for my english, it is not my first language...
Please, tell me any other F.A.Q. to put in this list.
Q: Help me, when I try to turn on my tab I display various errors written in English, what can I do?
A: Plug your Tab and charge it, after 5 minutes try to swich it on.
Q: Help, my tablet cannot switch on!
A: Have you tried to switch it on by pressing Power + Vol+?
Q: Help, my tablet turns on and enters directly into Windows / Android, there's no longer the dual boot choice!
A: Turn on the tablet by pressing Power + Vol+, fla the dual boot option with the two small icons in the upper left.
Q: I heard that there is the "Boot to Windows / Android", how can I use it?
A: To use the Boot To Windows / Android must be sure you have the BIOS updated to rev 2.02, note that the last tablet shipped by Teclast have the latest release of the Bios and they are fully compatible; You can find "Boot to" App here on XDA.
Q: When I turn off the tablet (from Windows) it takes so long to be able to turn on again?
A: Disable Fast Startup in the Windows settings, the path Control Panel -> Power Saving Options -> System settings -> Specify power botton actions; alternatively, you can use SlidetoShutDown.exe located in C: \ Windows \ System32, trivially just create you a shortcut to this file on your desktop and use it to turn off..
Q: How can I identify the correct Product ID of my Tab?
A: See the Product ID located back in the tablet (example).
Q: Can I use the tablet as router? (Only for 3G versions)
A: Sure, it's called tethering, unfortunately not all the phone companies allow you to use it; You can force it using custom APN.
Q: What is the right custom rom for me?
A: All Android custom rom are divided in Teclast Air II and Teclast Air 3G (cell module); Teclast Air III is compatible with Air II custom roms; for some models of Air 3G, we discovered they have a different camera and you can have problems with it.
Q: Can I update UEFI Bios?
A: Do you really need to update? With 2.02 version you will fix battery Drain in Windows, if you want to fix it see Guides on XDA.
Q: Can I use USB OTG to read pendrives?
A: Of course, just with an ordinary OTG adapter, Google!
Q: Can I install Windows 7/8/10 64 Bit?
A: You can Install Windows x64 only on "Pro" tablets, any others must use x86 (32 bits) OS, If you don't want to brick.
Q: Is the original Windows image activated??
A: Yes, Teclast ship its tablets with original license by MS.
Q: The stock Android ROM (original) I do not so good, are there any alternatives available?
A: Of course, the brilliant developer Mirek190 creates its own custom rom, you can use Intel MFT to install it.
Q: Why do I have trouble with the pair / pairing a Bluetooth device?
A: Try to turn off all connections (3G, WiFi and Bluetooth), and then turn on only the bluetooth to pair.
Other F.A.Q. here (I decided to create a separate topic, because we have a Forum now!)
All hello, I'm writing through an interpreter, so it's probably an incident. I have a tablet TeclastTBOOK11, I did not find a branch with it, so I decided to write here, there is a problem with this tablet, I went into the BIOS and turned off the USB, and now I do not know what to do, because I can not go back to the BIOS, and USB <does not work, I wanted to ask you that maybe someone knows how to restore the original BIOS. I do not have the opportunity to take it to a service center. Windows does not work, only the android works.