Potential Hackintosh Core M Tablet

[MAD AUDI SCIENTIST]

I'm going to look into the 4G radio to see if it can be replaced

Glad to have you join the testing of cube i7s. Hey before you discard the 4G card (its probably soldered) try this T-mobile app. Maybe the 4G device you have can be used with T-mobile data sim card. I'v had some success on older ivy bridge chines tablets with 3G cards.

I did try the t-mobile installer on my cube i7 with no success.

Let us know if it works out in any way.

 

[Kfred]

Well, I dropped my cube this evening and cracked the screen R.I.P.

Ironically, the fall popped open the case and I was able to confirm that the card is indeed replaceable in an M2 slot, next to the SDD.

It's a shame because they don't make replacement parts. I actually got this cube and keyboard for free. It was fun while it lasted. I'll be placing it on eBay this week.

 

[daniele.93]

Well, I dropped my cube this evening and cracked the screen R.I.P.

Ironically, the fall popped open the case and I was able to confirm that the card is indeed replaceable in an M2 slot, next to the SDD.

It's a shame because they don't make replacement parts. I actually got this cube and keyboard for free. It was fun while it lasted. I'll be placing it on eBay this week.

on xda an user have your same problem of the cracked screen and he was advised that on aliexpress there is a replacement http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Orig...itive-Screen-Panel-Digitizer/32561551905.html

 

[lazarev.alex]

Many thanks for all who involved in the creation of Hackintosh on this device. but very interested in in question about creation own dsdt. I started the sound, but the battery and the touch did not work. Somebody take the video or text instructions how he did it and how to correct errors dsdt, also indicate the BIOS version.

 

[dreamer_]

I have found an interesting video of the motherboard, talking about every cheap inside of the tablet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EG_qTg64IQ

The RTL8723BU is soldered (17:54 minute), but it seems that it could be replaced by a similar wifi module if you have some soldering skills.

Here is a detailed info about the pin-outs:
http://wholesaler.alibaba.com/produ...363866580.html?spm=a2700.7724857.29.21.S2sjLX

Seems to be probably that there are more adapters using the same kind of interface

 

[ricoco]

Hi,

i'm interested by this tablet, i have ordered one on tinydeal


if someone want to update SSD, i have found a link

http://techtablets.com/forum/topic/how-to-upgrade-the-ssd-in-the-cube-i7-stylus-video-and-pics/

 

[mybluey]

Here is a version of VoodooI2C that works without hidsample at least with my Cube i7 Stylus. Polling rate is set to 15ms. Faster rates did cause kernel panics but this 15ms seems to be smooth enough.

Only 1-point touch is supported. Simple events like right click (press and hold) file dragging (click to select, click second time to drag) are working.

This kext is compiled from https://github.com/alexandred/VoodooI2C sources.

A small problem that I have when using this kext is that it sometimes reads false touches. If you have for example a long website open in Safari and you drag the scroll indicator down, it scrolls nicely for a while and then it suddenly jumps to the end. If you try the same on the desktop, just holding down the finger and making the selection rectangle smaller and larger repeatedly, at some point there will be a false touch corresponding to the lower right screen corner.

 

[mybluey]

Does anyone know if the Cube i7 stylus keyboard dock with the touchpad and USB ports work in OSX?

My cube i7 keyboard arrived. The USB 2.0 ports are functional, the keyboard seems to be working except for numlock, the touchpad is also recognized as a USB mouse which causes the following problem: making a swipe gesture from the top of the touchpad towards the middle of the touchpad will be interpreted as an UNDO command which is very annoying when wanting to move the mouse pointer towards the bottom of the screen.

 

[hreggi89]

I have found an interesting video of the motherboard, talking about every cheap inside of the tablet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8EG_qTg64IQ

The RTL8723BU is soldered (17:54 minute), but it seems that it could be replaced by a similar wifi module if you have some soldering skills.

Here is a detailed info about the pin-outs:
http://wholesaler.alibaba.com/produ...363866580.html?spm=a2700.7724857.29.21.S2sjLX

Seems to be probably that there are more adapters using the same kind of interface

I would LOVE to see someone try that.

[rant] I'm trying to decide between the Cube i7 Stylus or a Chuwi hi12 for making music on Bitwig DAW. Its a hard choice because the tablet interface in Bitwig was designed for the panel used in the Chuwi which has a 3:2 ratio and the Cube's panel is 16:9 which deforms that layout quite alot.

The i7 is much more powerful though and does seem to hackintosh quite nicely, which is very more appealing too me since the Chuwi's Intel Z8300 will probably never get GPU acceleration, but I would hate to have to use the hanging/dangling USB OTG cable for the Cube i7 with a USB Wifi adapter just to get internet connection. [/rant]

If I get the Cube I will definitely look into desoldering the realtek chipset and solder in a new one, only question is if there is a compatible chipset available that does have Mac OS driver. I did a quick search and found nothing in the same form factor, but I'm certinately no specialist on the matter.

 

[Zace]

A small problem that I have when using this kext is that it sometimes reads false touches. If you have for example a long website open in Safari and you drag the scroll indicator down, it scrolls nicely for a while and then it suddenly jumps to the end. If you try the same on the desktop, just holding down the finger and making the selection rectangle smaller and larger repeatedly, at some point there will be a false touch corresponding to the lower right screen corner.

Yes, that's very annoying. There seems to be some strange messages coming from touch screen. Probably these could be filtered out easily. I was travelling couple of weeks so I haven't done anything related to this project lately.

My to-do list currently is something like this:
- General: Setup remote GDB debugging to cube i7. Yesterday I tried and failed doing this. Problem is that gdbserver is not available from macports.
- Wifi: Use GDB and Hopper disassembler to see why RtWlanU.kext is crashing. There is probably nothing that I can do here but I want to try debug this.
- HID: Filter out garbage events
- HID: Unpack HID multitouch events and construct them as mouse events (emulate mouse scrolling etc.)
- HID: Fix stylus pressure issues
- HID: Disable touch screen when stylus is used. Currently it's impossible to draw anything because accidental events coming from palm touching the screen.