yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Nope. Its the little black chip just under your marking, on the ORANGE flex cable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
It's a proprietary protocol, connects to otu01.tctmobile.com 30006/30007/30010, sends IMEI/model/version and then receives a 'No update available' ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Ah thanks. Was hoping I can connect to the server and maybe fetch a stock firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
Has anyone determined if this is a button and what function it performs?

https://imgur.com/oHHvt

It seems to have some access through the plastic cover?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Thats a standard antennae connector, and as you can see, it has already been directed out, with that two spring pin just below and a bit right. That is the wifi and BT antennae.

Does anyone know if the OT-995 received NFC in the final model, or it was just a rumor?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BENETNATH:
no NFC it seems, at least no apps to do that.

any way to confirm ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
It might very well have NFC on-board. There's a PN544 'driver' - a small shim around i2c8-0x28 exported to userspace as a misc device (/dev/pn544). I haven't seen any userspace libraries though..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Unloock

Hi

Is there any way to unlock the mobile (sim unlock) ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonicco:
In Portugal, Optimus will do it for free.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
I was thinking that a NFC embedded Battery could bring this interface alive.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
So just like the touchscreen, it is there but isn't used... interesting. Maybe with a proper kernel module (not a dummy one), and the needed libs (CM9 has them), it can be enabled. Would be interesting to see.

Also that antennae makes me thing. As the FM radio is on the same chip as the BT and WLAN (what was shown off on the previous page), maybe it is possible to route it's signal receiving to the wifi antennae, thus, making a radio what needs no headset to use.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Having a sane backup might be useful. Like I said, it's never given me any updates, it would be interesting to see if anyone does (ie. Turkey?)

A small tool:

http://dump.pargon.nl/alcatel/otu/

# ./otu-poke 123456789012345 ALCATEL_one_touch_995 995X-2CALNL1 60JAHJ1 2 0

2012/06/14 17:34:57 [INFO] OTU DLL Version 2.0.0, Build Id=2012011017, Protocol Id=20120111.
...
2012/06/14 17:35:01 [DEBUG] AMConnection::TickVersionReq: Connection #111a8: VersionReq ('123456789012345','ALCATEL_one_touch_995','995X-2CALNL1','60JAHJ1','2', '0') request sent.
2012/06/14 17:35:01 [INFO] AMConnection::TickVersionReq: Connection #111a8: Upgrade for current software is not available.
2012/06/14 17:35:01 [DEBUG] AMConnection::Disconnect: Connection #111a8 Disconnecting.

It can be run (on the device) using:

./otu-poke <imei> ALCATEL_one_touch_995 <dev.jrdcom.cu.ref> <sw_ver> 2 0

Where:

imei: device's IMEI

dev.jrdcom.cu.ref: adb shell getprop dev.jrdcom.cu.ref

sw_ver: constructed from /system/system.ver and /custpack/custpack.ver:

i.e. sw_ver 60JAHJ1:

YE60J0J0 (system version)

ME60AHJ1 (custpack version)

The last two parameters are 'upgrade_mode' and 'client_type' - these are for the native updater.

You can grab all needed values using: adb shell 'getprop ro.product.model; getprop dev.jrdcom.cu.ref; cat /system/system.ver; cat /custpack/custpack.ver'
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Getting permission denied after after following:

$ cd mnt

$ cd sd*/bo*

$ ls

otu-poke

$ ./otu-poke xxxxxxxxxx79 ALCATEL_one_touch_995 995X-2CALTR1 60JAMJ1 2 0

Should I recompile c and run? Tried via terminal on ot-995 -, coz I think you compiled it for linux.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
iuss:

No, I want a whole firmware pack, what contains all the Qualcomm bits too. Thats what I wanted to fetch!

acilsekirlet:

You have to copy the binary to somewhere you can run it, then chmod it. Like, /system/bin is a perfect place, then there chmod 655 it (or 777, whatever you prefer), and run only after that.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
That's what I meant by 'sane bacup', sorry if it was unclear :)

755 is what you want.

Anyhow, 995X-2CALTR1 60JAMJ1 returns update info. That's probably the OTA package you got before?

I wonder if it supports requesting a full firmware pack - I'm pretty sure the Windows updater flashes full images..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Oh I see.

Only problem is, even if we back up the whole emmc drive, we only know a few's purpose and naming, the others would be clear guessing. It would be better if there was one img (just like with the ZTE Blade, it used first a set of Qualcomm files (AMSS.bin CEFS.bin etc, plus system.img boot.img recovery.img and so on), then these got combined into one big image, what was then flashed by the bootloader), or the set of the files.

The Windows updater is most probably capable of flashing all, but more likely to flash updates only (like, booting to recovery, passing the update.zip, then running the built in commands). No wonder why it was deducted from the website, if we really get ICS in this month then that will get a new flasher (and probably a new layout too).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lasse-hatten:
What about if you are outside Portugal?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
I don't know. FOTA never ended with success on my device. And I'm not bothered with it.

Oh, otu-poke was fota-poke infact? :) It'll be best if we can truly reverse OTU so we can access full flash images.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
Has anyone got an idea on whether the RAM can be boosted for the system by reducing the allcoation to the GPU by reconfiguring the kernel setup and recompiling a new one. I am wondering whether (a) This would be useful, and if it would be useful, (b) how difficult it is to change - is this a complex change?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
The NFC part would be interesting..

I assume everyone noticed the NFC parameters in custpack/build.prop?

#NFC
ro.nfc.port=I2C

Could this be related to NFC as Near Field Comunication as we all know it or could it be something else?

Btw, here in Portugal with Optimus carrier i get no update on otu-poke :\

2012/06/15 01:30:51 [INFO] AMConnection::TickVersionReq: Connection #111a8:
Upgrade for current software is not available.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Yes I noticed that NFC definition too. The kernel builds the driver, and it is not a dummy driver as far as I see (thanks iuus for the kernel github upload!). GB has no framework for NFC, so it's up to Alcatel and their ICS release.

iuus, would you mind uploading your device tree to GitHub? I would like to have a few additions later, when I get the phone, and maybe get it CM9 upstream too :D Also, most of the changes you made to the recovery can be done in a local subset of files, and just needs an extra line in BoardConfig.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adonis K.:
Not sure if you guyz noticed (or if someone mentioned it before) but alcatel released the source code for OT 995: http://sourceforge.net/projects/alcatel/files/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Hey Varemenos, good to see you out of the Blade community :D

Yes we know about that, but as iuus pointed out a few pages before, it is not that much different from the 998 sources, so it wasn't imported to his git repo.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Yeah. And iuss has a better one :) Thank you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Adonis K.:
Ya man, long time no see.

Im not yet sure if im going to buy a OT 995 but its on my recent future plans so cya around ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dumbass38:
Hi, i already post this question a week ago and nothing appear. Don't know i did a mistake or if my question was to stupid (but when i ask to the shop and alcatel they said that i had to change the phone; i did it and it still the same). So please, is there somebody who can tell me how is it possible to use the gps softwares without having a black screen blocked and have to take off the battery, a pho which reboot alone or in the best case scenario the phone still working but not gps anymore until i reboot it). Im really desperate, i bought this phone mosly for the gps and i really need it. Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barclac:
i rooted mine using root shell. and unrooted it using rom manager. then rooted it again the same way .i have had no problems its going like a dream.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barclac:
you can also use root explorer thats what i use and it works just fine but be careful what you delete.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagual418:
So how is rooting done with this method? I ask because I haven't gotten around to doing mine yet and want to have whatever options there are in front of me when I do. Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barclac:
download superone click the one with alcapwn in it put in root of sd card plug in to pc choose superone click and follow inst. mine didnt work so i chose alcapwn and shell root up in right hand corner alcapwnis corner not root shell you will see root shell next to root.if i can do it any body can.good luck.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] barclac:
i dont know if anyone as ansered you but mine is the same dont worry there all like that.hope that helps.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nagual418:
Thanks, if I get stuck at least I know this thread is here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bluerain28:
Source code for OT-995 is now available here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Like if it wasn't posted at least three times...

PLEASE, PLEASE, before you post anything, check if it wasn't posted already!

iuss:

Some are getting deep sleep problems, maybe time for some kernel tweaking? :D:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcmixx:
Hey, I'm getting a white noise picture sometimes when I unlock the phone. Its there for like a half a second then it disappears. Anyone getting this as well?

(Its like the picture but not that colorful.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
It is caused by the wrong EGL libs, hopefully fixed in the ICS release. With that, or with other EGL files, it can be fixed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tcmixx:
Okey, so it has nothing to do with the phone? I don't need to use the warranty?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
can anyone tell me what this source code is for?

i contacted alcatel recently and they said ics is coming to the unit but it's possible not all phones will get the update..my question is, how can we upgrade to ics if they dont release it on all 995 units? is that still possible to change to ics? :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
The Linux kernel.

Perhaps using a community-released firmware upgrade (I despise the word ROM). Quite odd for them not to release it for all regions though..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qltsar:
It can be possible if it's works like the same as OT-990. We solved that problem at here for OT-990 users who didn't get the official Gingerbread update.

It's a little bit tricky, but it works like a charm :)!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
It happens with most of the people, but it is clearly a software fault. You might try swapping it on warranty, but there is no meaning as the problem will appear again. Best to try is to install CF3D, and enable the Adreno plugin. That way you gain the same speed, and half-proper drivers.

I think Alcatel meant that not all units, not all country will receive the ICS update in the first wave. While Portugal, etc, are in it (Portugal getting it in a month), Hungary is said to be getting it by September.

EDIT:

So, I'm holding the phone in my hands. And I'm totally like, WHAT THE CR*P? How can they solve such an easy task so badly? Why is there any need for custpack? It's just stupid!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fcsabika:
fonix232:

I see you are a "best-buyer" like me :)

I have OT-995 too, ordered the U30GT too, and Ainol Elf but you don't have it but I have seen you in slatedroid's Ainol forum, and I am hungarian too :)

I'm waiting for your ROM for OT-995 and will use your Evolution ROM for U30GT :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qltsar:
This is a "standard" solution for Alcatel phones :)! JRD Communications Ltd. inventeded that :)!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
SuperOneClickv2.3.3-ShortFuse_ALCAPWN_OT-995 worked a charm frst try with no problems. Thanks :D

In a couple of hours I'm gonna try to super v-6 on it. I'll post to let you all know how it go's. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jgoncalves:
one more for alcatel 995 go people :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
I just posted +1 also.

BTW, I don't want to sound stupid but I've gotten lost with all the the tech talk and whatnot (though I am learning some things, thanks people) but is the only way to boot into recovery is via the PC useing fastboot?

And that works fine for now. At least I got to make a backup of my rom.

Thanks again!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
if u are rooted and flashed the recovery.img to your device u can boot into recovery without pc

download terminal emulator

type :

su

reboot recovery

or download quick boot from play store
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Holding volume up while booting should also work..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
There seems to be some misunderstanding on the 3G compatibility of the OT 995 - on another forum some are reporting functionality in 3G 850MHz with the box showing WCDMA e.g. 850/1900/2100MHz and the Alcatel website shows that it is 900/2100 MHz compatible.

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1915404&p=-1

https://imgur.com/a/x1itG

http://www2.alcatelonetouch.com/usa/products/smartphones/ot-995.html

My unit appears to be functional on 850MHz 3G - have others found it working on 900MHz also?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
My box mentions quadband GSM + HSPA/WCDMA 900/2100
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
thanks iuss, my box says 850/1900/2100

So maybe there are two versions 900/2100 and 850/1900/2100

Would they just be different firmwares on the same radio?

on my device Quick System Info PRO (from play store) :

Show Properties->Device->Radio M8255A-ABBQMAZM-4.1.40T
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Sim unloock

There is any way ?

---------- Post added at 01:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:50 PM ----------

I just posted +1 also.

---------- Post added at 01:56 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:53 PM ----------

I haven't way to operate the front camera.

Rom's in Portugal or Holland don't have.

Any help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maluko:
Hi ocouceiro

what you mean "cant operate front camera" ?

this happened when you has put the portugal/ holland cmw backup? or never worked?

+1 with 995
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Never worked.

In the portuguese costum rom only have how operate rear camera (don't have conference calls).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maluko:
my phone can take a front photo and do skype video call, did you try?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
skype - video call I didn't try,

front photo - I haven't option choise camera.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tonicco:
The Optimus network has restricted the use of videoconference over 3G. However the front camera can be used (ex. with Skype) over WiFi. You will have to check if TMN allows the use of videoconference over 3G.

To use the front camera just enter the camera app and then press the menu button (the bottom left button) and youl'll have the option to change cameras.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Front camera

Now I haven't here the phone I try later

Thanks

Other question - Anybody have a backup image of the costum Optimus - Portugal rom ?

Who can share it ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maluko:
It can be unlock but its pay :(

h++p://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f272/unlocking-alcatel-ot-995-a-1486150/

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i have it but with my definition, soon i expect do a hard reset and then wil get a clean backup.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
I have a weird issue..

This is the second time it happens.

All of a sudden, the phone wont get the signal from my sim carrier..

Ex: My sim is from Optimus and in the network list it shows all other networks except from optimus.. vodafone, tmn, vodafone spain (i'm close to spain, the network reaches here) etc but not my carrier.

If i put the sim in another phone, works ok.

I had to make a factory reset to solve this.. guess i'll have to do it again..

sigh..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
I tried that and I got the error triangle and my phone got wiped.

I'm sorry but, could you please tell how to flash the. img again?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alex Charles:
Just noticed and this is out to any potential dev

The phone uses an adreno205 which is pretty good, but I'm almost sure that the drivers from the adreno225 can be used for a noticeable performance boost

Thought I'd give my two pence worth
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
http://dump.pargon.nl/alcatel/cwm-recovery/

read the read-me

EDIT:

another way to flash the recovery is to copy the recovery.img to sdcard

download terminal emulator from playstore

type:

su

flash_image recovery /sdcard/recovery.img
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Ouch, I'm sorry. I thought you had CWM flashed.

You can simply flash it using fastboot (fastboot flash recovery file.img), or use the method suggested in the post above.

---------- Post added at 07:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:27 PM ----------

As far as I can tell, the userspace libraries target all of Adreno 2xx..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
Thanks you guys for the info on flashing the cwm img, on my way to do it now. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
Hey guys, I flashed the cwm img via fastboot on my computer. The closest I got to booting into recovery mode was a android with a animated stomach..... And it wiped my phone yet again. So just what am I doing wrong?

Thanks for all your work and help by the way.

Now I can't get past the setup wizard :O geuss I'll try to get into recovery the way i did the first time and try to use the backup I made earlier. I just hope it works. lol What a day. :?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
You shouldn't flash with fastboot (yet). Dunno why, but while the boot commands works perfectly, writing stuff is a bit dodgy. For first I kinda borked the kernel partition when tried to flash a custom image (flash_image isn't available, as this is not an MTD based device, but EMMC). Any way, do the following:

adb push recovery.img /sdcard/recovery.img
adb shell
[the following will be in adb's shell]
su
dd if=/sdcard/recovery.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18
exit
exit
[now you're outta adb shell]
adb reboot recovery

After this, any time you boot into recovery should result in CWM.

Although it's still not clear for me: was the stock recovery sat up to auto-wipe on start, OR, the bootloader passes a wipe message to the recovery? If latter, we're kinda f*cked :\
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
I've flashed boot/recovery multiple times, works fine here.

If I recall correctly, bootloader. CWM ignores it, though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
Today I received a update by fota, title was update 2. I tink is for correct the issues about the network performance (optimus PT )

Abone the link for the download in my phone.

h++p://db.tt/xb5IfHhZ
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Interesting. Although my phone died today during Alcatel manager's sync, so i guess my NAND was borked.

Oh great. But doest the system use the same thing to issue factory reset? Even in CyanogenMod?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
Can you post the firmware version, baseband version and kernel version you get after update? i picked up an update a while ago via FOTA, just want to confirm if its the same update.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
After update 2.3.6 -010 10

Baseband and kernel Seems the same version I and before
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
Weird.. mine is 2.3.6, just that.

Cant find nothing over FOTA though. :\
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
Don't worry ... very soon we will have ics in portugal! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
I encountered a strange problem today - the phone could not be woken up by pressing the power button, long press of power button also produced no change to screen and no vibration.

I removed the battery and powered up normally.

Has anyone else noticed this behavior on the OT 995?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
- you can try downloading a camera app on google playstore..i dl-ed ProCapture coz there is no burst shot option available on the preinstalled camera app..works fine now.. :)

- i tried the front cam and skyping before actually buying the fone..it works fine over wifi and data connection..just the cam reso is low, that's all. u might wanna try going to the skype settings and enable the video calling box :)

- ahh yes! i have experience the same problem just this sunday..i went frantic thinking the phone's destroyed..i did the same thing u did and it worked fine..the next day, i just had to go to the store where i bought it from and they replaced the battery i have..you can try that tho, and if issues continue, u might want to replace the unit since i believe it's factory defective :)

- if ever there is an ICS update from portugal or hungary or any country, is it possible to install it in a Philippines alcatel ot-995 phone? i have not rooted my phone since warranty of 2years will be voided if i do that, so any advise regarding upgrading to ICS using different country's update? :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
So is this done from the PC or terminal emulator?

Sorry to be such a pain in the butt, what can I say,I'm learning.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
From PC, and you will need ADB for that (part of Android SDK's platform-tools package).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nuallan:
Same problem here, same workaround. Sounds like a major bug.. :mad:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BENETNATH:
any new app installed recently ??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
Thanks again. I'll try that out post haste.

Now on another note: anyone know how I can find out when (or if for that matter) an ICS update will be available here in Sweden?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
I had recently installed Time Recorder (time sheet app), Tasker and Quick Boot.

I will uninstall them and see if the problem continues.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BENETNATH:
yes, app related trouble mighbe an explanation..

for me GTA III installed led to unstability... sad because it runs
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fonix232:
Any time. You might try using fastboot too, as apparently my device was damaged out-of-the-box, and that's why it didn't work.

About ICS, you should ask the local representative of Alcatel. He/she should know the answer!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] markvann:
Did you try Super V-6 yet? If so; does is work well? Tell us about your experience please!