Lenovo Miix 2-8 Bios Firmware Update

Yesterday i found in a chinese forum a bios firmware update for my miix. First i tried to download it and after 10 tries i stopped and get to my favourite blog from Sean Chen and voila he already had a package of this up. i downloaded it and mit braveness i startet to install it.

on the lenovo Support homepages worldwide there is no information about an Update so i think it is an unofficial built. but for that i saw since yesterday it does a quite good job.

since there is no official changelog i have to collect informations about this update.

so the screen brightness is now adjustable for lower light conditions. before it was too bright so some customers get problems with that.
what i found out before this update the microsd card was recognised by the device sporadically. Now it accesses it right after inserting.

So the Firmware i had before was 1.05 and now it is 1.07.

for those like me who can read chinese 😉 this is the link to the chinese forum http://ideapad.it168.com/thread-4991778-1-1.html

Miix and Bluetooth

For long time i am proud owner of an Sennheisser MM550 Bluetooth Headset. Right now i found out that my Lenovo Miix 2 is the first Full Windows device that recognise it without any problems. Music from VLC will straight go to the Headset if you connect it. Thats nice. I will do some tests with skype and hangout with this to see how it will to there. stay tuned.

miix miracast

there are some problems with my lenovo miix 2 that i try to explain here. like the dell venue 8 the miix has nealry the same problems with miracast/widi connection. since microsoft offered one or two KB Update files that will castrate the miracast ooptions only to extend or second screen function. this ist disappointing. the secon problem with the miracast is when you use a bluetooth or external mouse the cursor is not showed on the secon screen. there is an option in the mouseoptions wehre you can activate CTRL to make a circle around the actual postion of the cursor but this is nothing for productive use. so i tried to figure our where it comes from. after some reading i found in the web that there is some code in windows8 like „cursorsuppression“ or m“mousesuppression“ which causes the problem with the hidden mouse cursor. there is no fix for this right now. lets hope microsoft will fix this. there are different workarounds. one is to install pointerstick a small tool you can find by searching on the web. it will do a visual stick next to you mousepointer even it is hidden by this maliscous microsoft code 😉 But for me this looks disgusting. so i tried around and found another solution to bring the windows built in mouse cursor back. Go to mouse options and activate the cursor trails in settings. put it down to lightest shadow. thats it. the miracast has native lags so it is even if the cursor make some optical lags to this.

Rechner Benchmark

so hier mal ein Screenshot von den Werten die Windows mir ermittelt. Aktuell sind die Einstellungen aber noch nicht optimal. Da geht noch weng was…
Benchmark

White Django

So nachdem alle Versuche mit Videoachnitt erfolglos waren habe ich mich entschlossen einen 4stelligen Betrag in ein neues Rechenwerk zu investieren. Hier das Ergebnis:

Asus Gryphon Z87
16GB CL7 Ram
Gainward 750Ti GTX Geforce
Intel 4770K CPU
Bitfenix Phenom mATX Case
Aurum Xilenser PSU

Leider ist das Netzteil wohl defekt somit geht der Rest auf der Jungfernfahrt mit einem anderen Netzteil los.

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See you HK

Mit Regen und bei moderaten 25 Grad verabscheidet sich Hongkong von mir. Auf gehts nach Beijing und dann ab nach Frankfurt…