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  1. jnjroach

    Surface Book 2 Pen issue

    Under Settings ----> Devices ------>Bluetooth and other Devices ------> It will show battery life of connected devices using a battery to power it
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    Touch screen dead and a power issue after March 2019 update

    All Surface devices ship with disk encryption out of the box - this is a requirement for all Windows devices that support the S0iX (AKA - Connected Standby). You will find this from all OEMs. Why the behavior with touchscreen is beyond me...have you investigated if you have a startup app or...
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    Is it safe to use SGo charger with SP4 i5?

    It should have no issues charging it, but under load I don't think the 24W Go Charger will keep up for the i5's 65W need...
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    Touch screen dead and a power issue after March 2019 update

    Interesting - on older builds you had to hold the volume rocker up while holding the power button...
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    Surface Pen password entry

    You can use the OSK to enter your password - touch in the dialog box and it will automatically bring up the OSK. Better would be to setup a PIN or use Windows Hello...
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    Touch screen dead and a power issue after March 2019 update

    Try this - Hold the Power Button down while booted up until you see the slide down to power off - continue holding the power button down until it goes to a command prompt asking you to wait - it will run through a percentage countdown and then will power off - restart it after and see if that...
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    3 slave monitors with dock and USB adapter

    Yes, you can use an USB to HDMI adapter to add additional monitors, the technology it is using is by DisplayLink which creates a virtual display adapter. The one caveat is that it relies on the CPU to drive that monitor. I've used 2x DP monitors off the dock, a USB driven monitor and the Surface...
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    Red boot screen/UEFI Bios settings not selectable

    Boot into UEFI Screen and reenable Secure Boot...
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    Upgrade to Win10 Pro

    Why would you expect it to be free?
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    Difference between different Surface pens

    Different Lot Numbers, there are also 0003 versions using the same 2 prefixes....
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    Surface pen double click not consistent

    Which version of the Surface Pen are you using? The purple eraser version or one of the newer ones? The purple eraser version has additional batteries to power the Bluetooth device for the additional functionality, IIRC its a small hearing aid/watch battery type.
  12. jnjroach

    Electricty "not clean" issue

    Yes, serves me right trying to answer on the go :) Ground yourself and see if that helps....
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    Electricty "not clean" issue

    This usually a ground issue...you could use a grounding strap and see if it improves performance.
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    New firmware , but what for ?

    Updates to the pen and Qualcomm radios... https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4455978/surface-go-update-history
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    Discussions on sync (syncronization)

    Using the Microsoft Apps on the other devices and logging in with your Microsoft Account it will sync your information automatically, it is written into the code. The "how" is using UDP sockets via your internet connection pulling that information over a secure (encrypted) connection via your...
  16. jnjroach

    Surface Go for Modern Web Development? Battery Life?

    It should do OK with a lightweight IDE like VSCode or ATOM...battery life would be 4.5-5 hours while coding
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    Surface Book 2 Pen issue

    Pull the nib (writing tip) out and then put it back in and see if that fixes it - it usually works. If it doesn't look in Device Manager and see if the Pen (under HID devices) is showing a fault or error.
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    Discussions on sync (syncronization)

    Every Microsoft Customer who has a Microsoft Account gets 4GB of OneDrive Storage and OneNote uses that to sync across devices and platforms... If you use Office365 Personal or Home Premium or Skype your contacts will sync as well...
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    About this Forum

    We are an enthusiast forum which is run through a consortium that runs other enthusiast forums called Forum Foundry. We have no direct affiliation with Microsoft but they are aware and familiar with us and we have had some of their people participate. Professionally Microsoft is my biggest...
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