yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
Yes, done and it works, but building a working CWM would be a first step in the long way for a working homebuilt cm rom ;-)

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
i see..do u have problems with the front camera as well? like it's too dark even on lighted environments? tia for the answer!:))
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ruidiasbraga:
I also have a Alcatel OT 995 and I want a custom rom :) my first android phone. very good.:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nuallan:
A light custom rom would be very nice. ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Force close

By mistake i have made a factory reset (power + sound up).

So I install a new backup image (Originally Posted by Mistercheese - xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1620387&page=24) and in the beguinning have a issue:

"Sorry The application Setup Wizard (process com.jrd.jrdsetupwizard) has stopped unexpectedly.

Please try again

Force close"

Any help ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
Hi!

the backup image you load is from a holland phone!!!! i tink you need is one from portugal!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Backuo image

Yes it is.

But I tink the problem isn't the image are from other operator, What dev's opinion ?

Anybody have a portuguese version?

tanks for help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
did u wipe data/cache after u restored?

if that is not gonna work i will make a update.zip for u

edit here is the link

flash it in cwm

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2889810/pwn-jrd-sw.zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
help

yes I wipe all
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
tell me if the zip solved the problem :)

maby someone from portugal can upload his build.prop cuz the build.prop in the backup is for NL
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
tanks

:)

Yes the zip have solved the problem

:)

tanks for the help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
Can someone pls answer me coz ive got issues wid my unit and myb it needs replacement..

Wen using d front camera in bright/lighted rooms, does the output still is dark? Thankks! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
i have created a .zip that contains zipalign + init.d support

it also contains a script to boost your sdcard read/write speed

u can flash it in cwm

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2889810/init.d+zipalign.zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
email

Everyting work ok but I haven't costum app e-mail
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
download email.apk and copy it to sd card

with root explorer copy and paste it in system/app

check if rw is mounted in root explorer

dl.dropbox.com/u/2889810/email.apk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
e-mail

bad luck

"Sorry The application e-mail has stopped unexpectedly.

Please try again

Force close"
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
did u reboot after the proces?

if so then i cannot help u more..

try apps from google play store
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
e-mail

I have reboot.

Stil strange icom

same problem

process stopped ...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
another guy from portugal did a system dump\

pick at least that build.prop and some usefull .apks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
mistercheese, i have the exact same problem with the e-mail.. As you can remember, i have already used your img to get my phone usable...

Hi, so could antbody answer my previous question about the backlight bleeding issue which I face. I would like to know if its my own phones fault or Its true for all ot-995s.

@laciknight, same here, light bleeding is coming from the hdmi port thru the screen..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
i think the best solution for u guys is find somebody from your country that wants to share a backup.. i cannot do anything about the force closes cuz i dont have them on my device..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
Yes, you are right brother, thanks again..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qltsar:
Thx again, but i noticed something.

Did you forget to place the custpack mountpoint to the recovery's fstab?

I mean:

/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 /custpack ext4 rw

By the way, backup from the hungarian original state: Link
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yunodevelop:
Does anyone know how to Sim-unlock this?

Is the code in the filesystem (like many other devices)?

I was thinking about getting a dump from a friend and with his code, search for the offset position (find same position on mine and get the code).

Does anyone know if the code is even there? which file?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
I have a filesystem question..

I was trying to replace the bootanimation and this is what i found out:

- Here in Portugal the phone comes with 4 different bootanimations in this order of "usability":

- /custpack/JRD_custres/media/bootanimation.gif - operator logo alongside a bootanimation.conf

- /custpack/JRD_custres/media/bootanimation.zip - standard alcatel animation in zip format

- /system/media/bootanimation.zip - standard alcatel animation in zip format with bigger resolution

- android text glowing horizontaly - this one i couldn't find..

the phone uses them in this order:

1 - bootanimation.gif

2 - bootanimation.zip (custpack)

3 - bootanimation.zip (system/media)

4 - android text - nowhere to be found.

Some questions:

- What does the bootanimation.conf file do? inside all it have is "10". changed it to 2 and didn't seem to change the time the animation was displayed (in this case our operator logo)

- where the hell is the phone reading the last bootanimation, the android text glowing? its not in /system/customize (this folder doesn't exist) nor in /data/local..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
Anyone here got problems with the front camera being too dark? Tried using it on lighted rooms but still too dark. :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused: :confused:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
just got a mail from alcatel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Well, that was kinda expected :)

They are like two headed. TCL CHINA are on one, TCL EUROPE (from old alcatel) are another.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
e-mail

Hi

I have install the backup of hungarian rom and all in my phone is ok.

Tanks:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Carlosmff:
Does anyone knows when the ics is avaiable for alcatel one touch madrid?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
Did you note some diference with is rom? Hss no network branding? Is more stable or fluid performace?

Tanks for you feedback
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
performace

not rootted

like others whith trach app operator, demos games, anti virus...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Rom manager

How can i use rom manager ?

What phone model i chose?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
sorry i don't ever use rom manager...so i don't have idea what model you have to chose
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
I dont think ROM Manager supports the Alcatel OT 995
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
I received a request for the Android device tree used to build the CWM image, so I've tarred up my device directory and included a handful of patches against the recovery binary. It should be able to build the recoveryimage target against the CM ICS branch.

A built image currently requires some post-processing work; manual inclusion of the rmt_storage daemon (and library dependencies + linker).

I might push some bits to Github later, for now, a tarball will have to suffice.

Download: http://dump.pargon.nl/alcatel/cocktail_cwm-2012.06.12.tar.gz

If, as you are reading this, you find yourself wondering whether this is of any use to you - it's not, move on to the next post.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
[ST]I am trying to get openVPN working with the current firmware but need tun.ko for this kernel - did your build have this module, and could it be dropped in to the current firmware?[/ST]

Not to worry - Pure noob - I didnt realise this was for the CWM. (sorry)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
Many thanks, I guessed there were missing things in my recovery ramdisk, now I'm sure ;-)

Regards,

Vincent

---------- Post added at 10:23 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:36 AM ----------

Hi,

A good tuturial to build the kernel:

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/wiki/Building_Kernel_from_source

Regards,

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
i noticed double read/write speed since ive flashed it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
There is a new version of the source posted on sourceforge.net / projects/alcatel/files "OT_995_20120612.tar.xz" 81.8MB
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
looks like its nothing new...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
Hi,

Finally built CWM from CM9 tree, using iuss config and patches, and it works fine :-)

the recovery image is only 4354048 bytes since it doesn't include /system/lib, both busybox and recovery beeing statically linked...

Thanks again,

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
You advertise a sdcard-speedup, whereas your scripts modify the readahead size of mmcblk0 only, which is the emmc memory for OT-995. Also consider to review the permissions you're setting - chmodding 777 is probably not desirable.

(Alcatel/TCL has already introduced plenty of vulnerabilities allowing arbitrary users to gain root)

Correct. The only difference compared to the A998 release is a ~8 line patch to the mmc initialization routine. I'm just going to leave my Github tree as-is for now.

---------- Post added at 02:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:39 PM ----------

Did you include the rmt_storage daemon (and libraries, typically in /system/lib)? It's required for the baseband, which routes emmc write requests via the AP (as they cannot simultaneously access emmc).

If the baseband fails to perform its writes it will bail out, in turn causing the AP to reboot the device, ~1-3 minutes after poweron, usually.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
as i only paste the mount mmcblk14 line in the updater script i didnt even checked the rest of it... it is just copy-paste :D

and as said before... im not a dev :D

Change it according to what you advice and reupload
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Here you go: http://dump.pargon.nl/alcatel/tun_2.6.35.11-perfplus.tar.gz
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
Ooops, forgot that!

make linker

make libcutils

copy

extract rmt_storage

repack...

and everything OK now :-)

Thanks again,

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
Thanks for this iuss, much appreciated.

The VPN works perfectly.

If others need this, these are the steps taken:

1. Busybox Installer (stericsson) from market

2. OpenVPN Installer from market.

3. OpenVPN Settings from market.

4. Extract iuss tun.ko and put into /system/lib/modules (this was done using ES File explorer "Root Explorer" and "Mount File System" both checked (you can also just use adb)

5. Update OpenVPN Settings -> advanced -> TUN module settings-> path to tun module set to /system/lib/modules/tun.ko
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
qltsar, thanks to your image, now able able to use my phone with its full functions; thank you for your support..

Regards..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Hungarian image link

YES!

qltsar

thanks to your image, now able able to use my phone with its full functions

thank you for your support

---------- Post added at 11:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:59 PM ----------

any idea how to do sim unlook ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djtreo:
It's been awhile since I started this thread and now, wow!

Many and big thanks to you guys!

Rooting and flashing recovery now... ;)

If I have spare time, I'll upload a rooted-stock-bloatware free-deodexed-zipaligned rom for us all ;)

Custom rom please! ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gulyuk.s:
hi

why no one the compiled kernel from source code with many tweaks??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BENETNATH:
any comments from a guru to know how far is CM9 pathway and what is needed for that ??

can we expect a ICS release before the official one ?

in addition, can somebody test the number of simultaneous points allowed by the touchscreen, a french test revealed only 2 points, and i think it's quite low ?

multitouch visualizer 2 can do that easily for free
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
It's not trivial; kernel appears to require some backporting to bring interfaces up to speed with ICS userspace libraries (eg. msm7x30 gralloc).

Only 2 indeed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BENETNATH:
thanks for your reply..

wow, i thought 5 fingers multitouch was the norm..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
It's limited at two in the driver, but even when said limitation is removed only two fingers are detected. I'm afraid the digitizer only supports 2 fingers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BENETNATH:
indeed.. prehistoric style..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
I have something to say about this matter.

I'm using my old Samsung's charge adapter with this phone. I guess it is not very compatible with this phone, as touchscreen become messy when charging.

I used YET ANOTHER MULTI TOUCH TESTER or something like that to test Touchscreen behavior while charging with the adapter I mentioned.

Even it is messy, screen can detect 5 fingers at once (this is the max) with too many glitches (position can be detected wrongly, etc,etc). So I guess digitizer is not good quality or it's tinkered to detect only 2 touches. I don't know of the designers point of view, that limiting fingers to two can reduce the current draw to a certain point, therefore effects battery performance or not.

But as I said, I can say digitizer can detect 5 fingers but it's not good at that in current state. You can test it too, I believe.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
That's really strange. The released kernel code explicitly limits it to two: https://github.com/ius/alcatel_cock...2.6.35/drivers/input/touchscreen/ft5306.c#L90

(Unless it doesn't match the released kernel)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
Sorry for my curiosity but what would you do with more than 2 fingers; is there any useful application or game which needs that multitouch?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BENETNATH:
eg. playing on this big screen with three fingers, or typing faster
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jopereira:
A little of topic, my TF101 also gets funny (unresponsive touch screen) when charging with first party charger...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
cm7?

Hi,

trying to build recovery from CM7 tree, using config files from iuss tarball, I got a "ALCATEL Onetouch" white screen, but I can adb shell to the device...

rmt_storage and recovery are running, and log file starts with:

Starting recovery on Wed Jun 13 14:28:07 2012

framebuffer: fd 4 (480 x 800)

active fb swap failed: Invalid argument

CWM-based Recovery v5.0.2.8

active fb swap failed: Invalid argument

recovery filesystem table

=========================

Any clue about "active fb swap failed" entry?

Regards,

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Build it against the ics branch, not CM7.

(Non-16 bit framebuffer support is probably missing in CM7 recovery)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
Yes, using CM9 tree recovery is OK, but stock cocktail kernel beeing for gingerbread, I was thinking porting full CM7 rom would be easier than CM9...

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
I'd say we should wait until the ICS release by Alcatel (said to be in this month), and ask for the new kernel source code. Backporting features doesn't really worth the hassle if we are getting a brand new shiny 3.x kernel in a few weeks.

About the touchscreen: the FocalTech FT5306 supports up to 5 distinct touch points detected, but the actually transferred number of points depends on the connection of the IC. Like, if Alcatel decided to not to connect pins for touch 3-5, we're stuck with 2 points. The touch artifacts while charging are due to overvoltage of the touchscreen (happens with many tablets with FT panels), as the FT5x06 series is VERY sensitive about voltages, even a little fluctuation can cause such artifacts. It's not necessarily the charger, but the internal parts, most notably the power regulator IC.

For now, without ICS, CM9/AOKP etc would be a pain in the a** to port. With a proper release of ICS from Alcatel (what includes the Qualcomm radio parts, like AMSS and CEFS), we will be able to get ICS up and running in no time (apart from some problems with sensors and camera, maybe sound too, GPU accel shouldn't be hard to solve if we get the libs). Also, the Qualcomm parts would make it possible to resize and even remove given partitions (looking at custpack :rolleyes:), and so on. The whole Alcatel layout bugs me, first by making every Qualcomm parts available on the eMMC (why not just write them on disk like on NAND then begin partitioning with ACTUAL partitions?), so such an image would really help. But I guess it won't happen soon.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2GAM:
Hello all,

I buy this phone to replace a Motorola Defy and I'm very happy, it really is smoother and faster. My 180 apllications are installed without problems.

But ... Please ... I would be able to use the rooter Titanium etc. ...

And I am convinced that if we make someone a nice Rom, the OT-995 King made ​​good sense at the phone quality / price.:D

:o Please someone then it bothers to check it out.

That is, thank you all ...:rolleyes:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markvann:
Guys, I hope someone will find out this phone is really great, and start developing roms for it. But first: I saw this thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1598713

Might there be someone who is a bit handy with technical things, who can port roms for our Alcatel One Touch 995? I already found it's ARMv7-based (:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3abL3:
Did anyone try to access the recovery of this device? I don't know what's wrong with it but it's unusable...

I booted in recovery and got the triangle error :/

As for this porting method it may be executable, if we have a proper recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
Boas D3bL3!

Mais um portuga! lol

Haven't found anything new in my research about root this device or recovery....

Need help in the following: I want to sincronyz my phone with the pc, but the android manager no communicates with the phone … will be a problem in usb drives? The same happens if I try to use the phone as a modem via usb! Has anyone had this problem?

Thank You
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markvann:
D3abL3, can you tell me how you even booted into recovery? Mine doesn't boot in recovery, using the methodes I had to use with the Android phones I've had in the past...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3abL3:
@vladmir: That is certainly due to driver issues.

@markvann: Using "adb reboot recovery" :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] burakerenn:
I really wonder if any dev think about buying this piece.

It is absolutely the best phone for its price range and can totally with compete other phones for a higher price range.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markvann:
I totally agree with you! I hope all One Touch 995 users will at least leave a reply here, so developers can see how many users they would help by participating in 995-development! :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonicco:
Add me in to the list of 995 owners who desperately need to root their device ;-)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
Hi there,

I have just purchased one of these devices and would like to see a better ROM on it.

I have tried getting into recovery, by holding down the volume up key when turning it on, and it gets to the android screen with a yellow triangle with exclamation mark. I have not yet tried putting on an update.zip file on the sdcard yet.

Any updates on a new project involving the Alcatel 995 would be most welcome.

Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yeasis:
i really want to see a nice ROM for this really good phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SiRoXX:
I do own this phone for two days now and I'm highly satisfied by it's quality -price ratio. A custom ROM on it would fulfill my wildest dreams :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yeasis:
when making a ROM please delete all those annoying pre-installed apps :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markvann:
Great! Everyone, just make clear how many users want a good ROM for our lovely Alcatel One Touch 995! Let's hope a developer will notice us! And it might be better if we have an own place on the forum for Alcatel OT-995, so every 995-user can find this thread easily! :D Is there someone who can make this happen? :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kookie_Monster:
Custom ROM

Should anyone decide to build a custom ROM for it...I'll buy one!! :D

PS: first post on XDA... yay! lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Liroy76:
+1 ... for root
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
I havent yet got adb working with my 995 yet. :confused:

Has anyone with an Alcatel 995 got adb to work with it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] D3abL3:
I have it working.

Just takes a few moments for it to activate adb connection after you plugin USB.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] quovadissbg:
I also bought this phone. It came this morning at the store where I work. At first I was sceptic but it took me about 30 minutes working with it to upgrade from LG Optimus One to this model. The performance is quite good, I really like the large screen - the colors, the brightness are awesome for this price sector. It is a bit laggy, but in my opinion it is a matter of time for developers to start making custom ROMs to fix that problem. In my opinion the reason is that the stock software has too many preloaded applications.

Regards,

Simeon Filipov, Bulgaria.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
Hi there,

did you need to install any drivers from Alcatel? My HTC Desire connects but the 995 will not - even though the Alcatel ADB shows up on the device manager. (Windows 7 64)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Thanks for detailed information about Touchscreen.

There are internal photos available on FCC which, if you may, may confirm IC connection?

These are the photos: http://www.mediafire.com/?6oad4l74ly42g47
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Nope, I can't. You see, the chip is that tiny bit of black on the second page, bottom image, left part, inside the metal rollcage, on the orange flex cable. The images aren't high resolution enough, so I can't zoom in, and also on this level, I need an electrotechnic microscope to see if they are connected or not.

EDIT:

Tried reversing the updater app of Alcatel, but it links to a native library, and I'm ain't that good with Assembly. For sure it stores the connection URL encrypted or whatever. Any way, can't find the URL itself, but at least I know what info does the updater send to the server.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Thanks for replying fast.

I guess (can you confirm?) that plex connects to the pins on 3rd page, below image, upper right. (It's the only connector above usb port). Apparently pic quality on pdf is somehow looks worse than actually it is, as I extracted that image and then I zoomed with a better quality.

You can see below. (You may wanna scroll to right)

View Picture
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Nope, it's not about that connector. It's about the Integrated Circuit, that little black chip on the flex cable, and if it's pins are connected!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Then this?