True that I have put on a lot of weight taking the punishment on my comfy couch I have decided as the worst case scenario I will upgrade it to 10 and use the external keyboard and mouse as that seems to work without issues. pete could get the tablet working with the rollback of the touch driver on win 10 and I have the same driver on win 8.1 so If I cant get it to work on 8.1 within the closing date I will upgrade to win 10 and use the older driver which pete used. worst case scenario the tablet will say "Don't Touch ME". I just have one question.. Is there a micro USB OTG hub which has one lead for charging the tablet while the other 2 are using the USB stick and Bluetooth keyboard and mouse. The one that I got from ebay says that the micro USB female adapter on the hub side has got a lightning symbol but when charger is connected the tablet doesn't get the juice to it.
My Vulcan tablet doesn't "Charge" while it's turned on. The battery won't drain, or at the worst only go down 1% or 2% after several hours of use as long as the charger is plugged, but to charge the battery, it has to be put to sleep or turned off. I've never looked at hubs. The Bluetooth keyboard that came with it works great and I use it with My laptop and Xbox, just wish I'd bought a Bluetooth mouse when it was new. Now the screen is scratched and wore down in a spot My Wife uses to play a certain game, it's not worth it.
To make this "stupid tablet designs" discussion complete. this stupid Sam Galaxy Tab3 lite I've got here will charge via the usb will connect to a computer via the usb where the computer can see the tab but it cannot see the computer, and will not do usb otg at all. and I've done all the Linux hocus pocus I know. I'm not going to touch it again, just live with it's limitations. @Bat1 that sounds like a Dell notebook when you use a non Dell charger it will run the computer but won't charge the battery ...T
Can we marked this as solved please. Fixed the matter with an apparently missing fw for silead touch which I found in whirlpool forums posted by a guy last night for the same pendo pad. Although driver not digitally signed I don't think it matters anymore. Thanks for the support and patience.