***Yoga 2 Pro Owners Thread***

Drive D: has the McAfee installation package (what you use to install McAfee on your system drive C AND drivers. Make sure you back all that stuff up before deleting the files and/or removing the partition.

 

You'll probably be fine, since the ones who've had network dropoff problems are in the minority. I'm at least glad to hear that the Surface Pro 2 was faster than the original Surface Pro on wireless. My Surface Pro was just slow slow slow, only about 1/9th the speed I got with my Retina MacBook Pro transferring large files, and about 1/6th the speed I'd get on my Yoga Pro 2 when it was connected. The AC card in the Yoga Pro 2 helped the speed considerably for me on my Airport Extreme in the Lenovo.

 

^^^Thanks! So you just take the back off and swap them out and re-install the drivers?

 

Why exchange? Maybe just see if they can repair it. I sent mine in for a grinding noise that turned out to be the heatsink fan. They replaced the bad part and sent my Y2P back to me, so I wasn't at risk of having any "new" problems. Took about 10 days from the time I dropped it off at FedEx to the day it came back to me.

 

Pretty much... there may be a sticker on top of the existing card... be careful with peeling that off in case you need to re-install it back for warranty purposes.

The antenna leads are a bit difficult to reinstall (they are tiny), but that's about it...

Just take your time with the lid so you don't damage anything (I used a plastic "bone tool"); it does snap off after the screws are removed...

You may not even need to reinstall the drives, the existing drivers should be picked up automatically with the new hardware; if not, then reinstall them.

 

Good point. I am just tempted to deal with the noise by charging my machine in the living room. The noise goes away after a while too. Or just send it out to be repaired. Thanks for the suggestion.

Edit: The heck with it! I'm going to play Russian roulette and went with a replacement. The rep told me that if they are not able to repair it, they would have to send another one anyways. I don't like how my screen looks after the BIOS update either anyways and probably will not update the BIOS on the new machine, since like others have posted here, even though I disabled adaptive brightness, the display is still hunting when it comes to brightness for some reason. The brightness is pretty wonky after the BIOS update, at least in my case, and would rather deal with off Yellows. BTW, I don't even have to return my current machine and will only return it when I get the new one, since Lenovo knows that could take weeks for me to get another one, so I'm happy with that. So that works pretty well.

 

Sounds like I could just move the drivers to C drive, delete the Application folder (McAfee), then use D drive for data - am I missing anything?

 

Move them to a USB or other media device or you won't have them if you want to do a system restore or want to reformat and do a fresh install. You could always get them from Lenovo website, but you'll need the wireless drivers at least to get there

 

Can someone who ordered from lenovo's website can tell me if the package he/she received came with an invoice or any price indication?
appreciate if someone care to answer

 

Uncle Spam got it right on the head, the original drivers will work. When I had my dropouts, I thought possibly that was part of the issue so I removed the Lenovo ones and downloaded ones from Intel, then did the same thing when Intel came out with newer ones again.

My advice for removing the bottom - after removing all screws on the bottom (don't forget there's one in the middle) start lifting up on the back edge by the fan exhausts. I found that those come out easily, then as you work your way popping the tabs out of the sides, you won't even have to pop the ones on the front edge, you can just lift the back up and "tilt" it right off. I had no problems removing the bottom twice, once to remove the single band card, once to replace it when I returned the unit).

I had no stickers or anything impeding removal of the single band card. But he was right about the antenna plugs, they're small and fragile, so the barrels that snap over the ports on the card can get deformed and not stick very well, so it's something you want to do carefully. Make sure to apply even pressure across the top of the plug when pressing down, and keep it level when pushing it back in, don't have it tilted and try to "roll it over" to flat. But it's just a small connection that can be a bit tricky, but not difficult, if you see the difference I mean.

 

Regarding the limited or no Wi-Fi in Windows 8.1 (generic), I found this website:

Windows 8.1 Limited Wi-Fi Connectivity Fix

I remember playing with the network shell in the past with Windows 8 issues on a netbook...

 

Good to hear about the speed with the AC card. The Surface Pro 2 that I returned (it was crashing coming out of sleep all the time...) was really fast, I'd say a little faster than my MBP.

At this point I went through XPS 12 Ivy Bridge (when Best Buy carried it), then Surface Pro 2, and now the Yoga 2 Pro. I hope I'm done, getting tired of getting everything set up So far the Yoga has been great, although battery life seems quite a bit worse than the SP2. But no quality issues, and no obvious software issues. Like I said earlier, the yellow doesn't bother me much, so this should be a keeper!

 

That yellow shall be known as "yoga yellow" from now on.

Problem solved!

 

I've had this laptop for about two weeks now and I have a few problems:

1. The touchscreen won't register some touches for me or it'll be in the wrong place. When I'm in tablet mode (actually happens in all different modes), I go to the desktop and click recycle bin but it registers a touch on Google Chrome which is two icons down. Just the touch registers it wrong places or won't register at all.
2. Sometimes, often enough, when watching a YouTube video in 1080p, it'll stutter but will be completely fine in 720p.
3. When having multiple tabs open with videos and then the screensaver comes on.. after going back to the videos, they will stutter when playing but in fullscreen they will be fine..
4. Sometimes, often enough again, when I have my headphones on, I'll get sound from videos even when no video is playing, this also happens sometimes when I'm not using my headphones.
5. You know the swipe gesture from the left where you can see the most recent application/programs and close it? That one isn't working for me anymore. Only when I move my mouse to the top left corner will it show me the recent programs/apps I'm using.
6. Sometimes when it goes to sleep, I can't wake it up by pressing keys. The only way it wakes up is by touching the screen.

Thanks,
Crazysah

 

Anyone having issues with Lenovo Energy Manager? It appears sometimes when I wake the computer from sleep or transition modes it gets really slow. I have to either restart the process or the laptop to get it to work again. Otherwise Energy Manager is very laggy (takes a while to open/close when you click on it in the system tray).

Also the brightness keys (F11-F12) get really slow (2-3 seconds to respond). Volume keys are fine though.

 

@Crazysah

1. That may require that you perform a touch calibration

2+ Did you install a new driver, or is some application running in the background, slowing the system down? It sounds like your system has "something" that causes high latency. High latency will impact system responses, such as audio, video and reaction lag on input (maybe even a cause for item 1)...

 

I decided to give up on the blue tooth mouse and went with the Logitech Anywhere mouse mx

Amazon.com: Logitech Wireless Anywhere Mouse MX for PC and Mac: Computers & Accessories

There is a little button in your usb port but hardly noticeable. So far real nice mouse and glad I punted on blue tooth mouse. Nice carrying case also comes with it. staples matched Walmart at 44.99...

 

I have that mouse as well, as one of my traveling mice... if you slide open the battery cover, you'll see the receptacle for storing the USB dongle...

 

1. How do I do that?
2. The only driver I installed was the new BIOS and new Lenovo EM and the regular Windows Updates. I was thinking of downloading the new graphics driver but never got around to it.

Answers to my other questions?

 

1. Go to Control Panel --> Tablet PC Settings --> Calibrate (landscape mode only)

As far as the other issues... I can't really say without knowing what's running on your computer...

Latency check: Latency Check Article

 

One other possibility with the stuttering issues -- is this in "laptop mode" (feel like I have to put these in quotes or I'll sound too much like Lenovo's marketing department), or in "tablet/tent/presentation mode"? There is a known problem with significant cpu throttling when in any of the modes other than laptop (the thinking is that it was maybe to mitigate heating issues), if you search for it you'll find a thread for it on the Yoga section in the Lenovo forums. Short of it is, disabling Intel DPTF (can't recall what it stands for) in the BIOS prevents the throttling from occurring. ..Anyway, might not apply to your case, but thought I'd mention.

 

5. seems likely to be just another manifestation of the same issue as 1., btw (hopefully just the screen needs re-calibration).

 

That worked perfectly for the touch. Thanks a ton!

@gilgamesh0: Yes, happens in "laptop mode" as well.

Here are the remaining problems:

1. Sometimes, often enough, when watching a YouTube video in 1080p, it'll stutter but will be completely fine in 720p.
2. When having multiple tabs open with videos and then the screensaver comes on.. after going back to the videos, they will stutter when playing but in fullscreen they will be fine..
3. Sometimes, often enough again, when I have my headphones on, I'll get sound from videos even when no video is playing, this also happens sometimes when I'm not using my headphones.
4. Sometimes when it goes to sleep, I can't wake it up by pressing keys. The only way it wakes up is by touching the screen.

I do need to read that latency check article to see if that is the problem.

Thanks,
Crazysah

 

I've just started getting this now also recently -- heard it first yesterday, lasted for a while but then did not recur following re-hibernating. Then again today I heard it again, but it went away after about half a minute.

I know f-all about electrical engineering, but my impression is that a high pitched whine like that in such a case is often a bad capacitor; which I expect is a fairly easy hardware fix, but of course requires sending in the laptop for repair. Guessing I might end up needing to go that route if this persists (which unfortunately seems likely), as I'd personally prefer that to a replacement (and the sound, if it persists, is too annoying to live with). If I do so, wondering if I'll want to wipe the drive first, or if I might try to save some time and encrypt the drive with bit-locker. (I guess a wipe plus full system image backup might also save some time, but then maybe not.)

One other minor detail -- I recall now that I did happen to turn on that battery Conservation Mode in the Energy Manager recently (since I'm currently usually using it at home, often plugged in). I'm not sure how that is supposed to operate while the machine is shut down/hibernating, but if it does still do so (i.e. limiting it to charging to 60%), I could imagine how that could entail some kind of unexpected state in the hardware as far as charging goes (again, with the caveat that I don't know what I'm talking about wrt hardware ). I don't suppose you might be using that also, though, jtm3, else you'd probably have mentioned it.. anyway, I'll try turning that off later to see if it makes a difference.

 

Is the Lenovo Energy Manager function even necessary? I am using the Windows "Balanced" power scheme and everything is running fine and the screen is plenty bright. Turning off Energy Manager in the task manager has no noticeable effect on my display.

 

Im pretty sure it still prevents charging past 60%. My previous laptop I installed 3rd party software to do this and i was surprised to see it worked when the laptop if off. Also it worked while powered off on the Samsung ab7 I got before swapping it for my y2p (Samsung went with 80% instead of 60).

But all in all I've read that using this conservation mode to prevent your battery from being fully charged for long periods of time barely makes any difference in the end, maybe a few extra days if that. Also the y2ps so portable I'm constantly taking it off the charger multiple times a day discharging like 10-15% so I never really had to worry about it.

 

I forgot the 80% on my former Samsung 9 Series and lost 32% of capacity within a year...

Envoyé de mon GT-N7100 en utilisant Tapatalk

 

I am still astounded that I was able to buy this amazing hybrid for only $899 on sale at BestBuy. That is $300 less than any other machines even close to these specs. Really remarkable.

 

Received my Yoga 2 Pro clementine i7, 8gb, 256gb on 3rd November. Generally speaking I'm loving this device. Despite spending a couple of hours to get most of the fixes and adjustments done it's been a pleasure to use. Two things that have prevented me from being totally satisfied with this product is wifi regularly dropping out and adaptive brightness not taking the hint to go away and never come back. I have disabled everywhere possible in power options, Intel Graphics options and Change PC settings. Anywhere I should double check or something I've missed?

The wifi on the Y2P will connect perfectly fine to my iPhone hotspot, and never lose connection. But when it's connected to the home router it's a terribly inconsistent affair. I've reset my router to factory settings, turned off Allow this computer to turn off this Device, disabled the bluetooth devices and tried the latest updates from Intel and Lenovo without success. A few minutes ago I rolled back the wireless card drivers which seemed to slightly improve things, but only slightly. Really hoping there's a fix for it. I've never had any wifi issues with any device with any router in the past. I hope replacing the wireless card isn't the only solution to the problem because it's very difficult to get that Intel 7260 AC NGW shipped to Australia, and also because I'll probably break the fragile antennas when installing the new card.

I am looking for a USB 3 to ethernet adapter (they're few and far between in Australia) but this doesn't help when I need to hook up to a wireless router somewhere. Also, if anyone has more suggestions for a micro HDMI to HDMI cable that fits this device please let me know.

Re: Morel "Can someone who ordered from lenovo's website can tell me if the package he/she received came with an invoice or any price indication?
appreciate if someone care to answer"
The package I received from Lenovo did not contain an invoice or indication of price anywhere inside or outside of the box.

 

Ozmate :

I had some troubles with the wifi as well, only at home.

I have downloaded an application named inSSider on my Android device and my laptop at this address : inSSIDer for Home – Discover The Wi-Fi Around You | MetaGeek

It showed me that the channel i was using was quite busy. I changed to the less used one, in my case channel 9. And it worked GREAT !

I have NEVER been disconnected anymore. So give this a try.

 

I need some advice here guys...I have had the Yoga 2 Pro for about a week now. Ordered 11/21 and received 11/26. Got the Clementine Orange, i7, 256GB HDD. I've upgraded the wireless card to AC, but didn't have any WiFi problems before that. After a week of use, I noticed a weird display flickering that seemed to occur with the latest Intel Graphics drivers 3345 from Intel. I've rolled back to the 3316 drivers today and haven't had it happen again yet. This is a different flickering than the just the brightness going up and down in small increments. When this flickering happens, the entire display goes black and then will flicker on and off until the PC is restarted. Hopefully this is just a driver bug.

My other concern is that I just noticed 2 areas of paint imperfections. The first is a small pinhole mark on the top cover. Very hard to notice unless you are in the right light. The second is that there is a very small area / spec of the bottom soft-plastic case hinge that is missing the orange paint. I have babied this thing since I got it, so I am pretty confident I didn't do this. I am very OCD when it comes to this stuff, but I am wondering if it is overkill to order a replacement for these minor imperfections. Has anyone else noticed any paint issues? I am afraid that the replacement I would order might be worse than this one.

Thanks,

Y2J

 

Don't remember seeing this one posted before on here, but here is a quite positive review from Computer Shopper:

Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro Review - ComputerShopper.com

 

Can a mod answer this or someone else? When I use search thread on this thread and put in a term no responses come back? ie. brightness, etc......have you turned that function off?

 

I've wondered this too. I search for 'yellow' and get no results lol

 

We're having issues with the search engine; our developers are investigating. Search currently works for posts mid-Sept and back only.

 

I am unable to install the latest Video Drivers from Intel Website. It states that its the wrong one.

Is there something special I need to do?

I am referring to these ones - https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=23405

 

I would probably stay with the Lenovo version of the video drivers, in case there is some platform-specific customization.

Is there a reason you want to switch to the generic Intel drivers?

 

They are much newer

Newer is better

 

LOL... sure

Look at the version number.... it's almost the same thing...

BTW, newer is not always better.

 

Blasphemy!

How can newer not be better

 

Another question I have - which I cant find as search is down.

When in stand/tent mode - all youtube videos stutter and freeze - is this known?

Daniel

 

Someone mentioned that 3-4 pages ago (yesterday)... not sure what it could be wrong...

I've been viewing videos in tablet mode with no issues...

 

It is so obvious too - start in Laptop, play video, Tent,Stand or Tablet it and boom - it starts going bad, change back and its fine.

 

OK... I just watched a 4K resolution video in tablet mode and I had no issues... not even in high-power mode... this was a YouTube video...

I use my own power plan and not the built-in ones which are annoying due to the auto-brightness settings...

 

I bought my i7/256 from Best Buy on Sunday and just called Lenovo for a warranty.

Just so you all know, they have a special now on their warranties that is good until 12/31. Here is the pricing I received:

• 2 year accidental damage (depot): $119.20
• 2 year accidental damage (on-site): $139.20
• 3 year accidental damage (on-site): $191.20

The 3 year price looked especially attractive to me, so I bit.

Hopefully someone can benefit from this.

Happy Holidays!

Scott

 

I have Auto Brightness turned off in Windows 8.1
Any other advice?
Do you have Flash doing hardware acceleration - I will try with it off.

 

Ok it works fine in IE but it fails in Chrome...

 

I use Firefox... and Hyper on the App side...
Hardware acceleration is on for Flash

 

FYI, here are a few of the significant provisions from the Lenovo Damage Protection Services Agreement:

The Service is available in the country or region in which you purchased your product .

Covers operational or structural failure caused by: liquid spills on the keyboard; unintentional bumps or drops of the Covered Product from not more than 15 feet; electrical surge that damages the Covered Product’s circuitry; failure of the integrated LCD screen.

When Service is purchased subsequent to the purchase of your Covered Product, you may not exercise your rights to Service for 30 days from the purchase date of the Service.

The Service Provider may attempt to diagnose and resolve your problem by telephone, email or remote assistance. Some problems with your Covered Product may be resolved with a replacement part that you install yourself.

If your Covered Product cannot be repaired at your location, your Covered Product will be repaired or exchanged at a service center. You are responsible for disconnecting your Covered Product and packing it in the provided shipping container to return your Covered Product to the designated service center. Shipping expenses will be paid by the Service Provider.

Does not cover theft, loss or damage from fire, flood, or natural disaster, war, terrorism, acts of God or other events outside the reasonable control of the parties.

 

Check out my post a few pages back re cpu throttling in the non-Laptop modes -- appears might not be the case for the poster I was responding to, but seems a likely explanation for your case, given your description. Worth a shot for sure (to disable Intel DPTF in the BIOS).

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ide...yoga-2-pro-owners-thread-163.html#post9477660