yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Do a proper full reflash using flash utility. If you mess up too much, updates may not be enough anymore. If that does not work, reformat SD card with FAT32.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cipj:
Caller ID bug

Hi everyone,

I have read all the 38 pages of this forum, but I don't clear understood if the Caller ID bug in agenda is resolved in ultimate ROMs, GB or ICS. My phone had the S143 from etotalk and I want to know what ROM from cybermaus to put in it.

Thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Start by reading the first post once or twice, and very important, also follow the link to the typical flash sequence. And if you seach youtube, you can probably find some video's on the topic too.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] iconic_icon:
ics 4.0 for A750

Hello Guys,

New lenovo a750 user here.

Upon searching the net, it seems they already released ics for a750.

I am not sure but, you can check the post below

bbs.dospy. c o m/thread-14668833-1-637-1.html
[Miscellaneous Android Development] elemer82:
V1 ROM

I downloaded your V0 but never flashed it ; thats why no feedback from me.

I downloaded your V1 AND flashed it:

Things I see different from the original etotalk ROM:

This has "GO Launcher for LENOVO" instead of "ADW Launcher".

While I was playing along with my phone I installed "Go Launcher EX".

Would like to take off the original "GO Launcher for Lenovo" but not just yet.

(I don't see the point why on the first page there is a big 4 Leaf widget and you can't take it down).

LeSecurity - I like it

Battery Saver - Looks handy

NetTraffic - Needed

I Like the 4 Leaf Screen Unlock - You can be in the function you want by just a slide, (Calls, Contacts, Camera, or just general Unlock)

I checked the website dospy c o m and they say something about a ROM, but MobileUncle says that they got an Official ROM which has not been released but it's leaked out.

I will wait for a while till I try that on my phone.

Hope the IDD problem will be fixed soon. Thanks again cybermaus
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Well, the cloverleaf is part of the brand. I tried to 'clean up' the ROM, but not 'de-brand' it. "Make the phone as it would be if Lenovo exported it to the West directly" That's why I also but back the Lenovo animation at boot.

Edit:

It would appear that 'for Lenovo' in the GO Launcher for Lenovo means: "first page is locked". Even if you uninstall the widget, the page is still locked. Either accept the cloverleaf on the first page, or (as you suggest) replace GO Launcher for Lenovo with GO Launcher EX (or something else)

I'll see if V2 (if ever) I will do so by default. I could still leave the Widget I guess, even though I replace underlying Launcher.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Kostik44:
Android 4.0.3 ICS for Lenovo A750 Official Beta

_ttp://narod.ru/disk/50210754001.b3e57bf7d2531bc81f68c2c43a5ee44e/A750_S305_120514.zip.html
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fireeee:
cybermaus v1 is very good especially the removed chinese letters from the dialpad. I hope you will focus on the ics now. I will give it a try since i`m waiting for this moment form the day i bought my lenovo. Thank you for the efforts.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kokope11i:
meta mode?

Newbie here, with a question: What is meta mode, and how does one use it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
META mode is an even deeper method of flashing, probably requiring a custom TTL-RS232 cable. Potentially a method to get to the phone after bricking it. Best forget about it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fireeee:
ICS is awesome but no market. It is way better 2.x. Everything is running smoother and feels better
[Miscellaneous Android Development] iconic_icon:
have you tried installing the google market apk manually?

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@cybermaus

will there be no problem if I install viber or line in V1?

I have added googleaddon in my rooted s_143 in order to install and use viber in my phone.

I am planning to flash my phone using your custom rom.

thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Somebody else already mentioned Viber, so probably it will work, but anyway, just try and report back.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Well, you surely raced ahead from newbe to playing with experimental software...

For Play Store, try to install: http://tinyw.in/Ko5N

I have not done ICS yet. Still want to find out why the **** framework keeps failing after I rebuild it with RTL. A matter of pride.

Can you tell me: all functions work in the ICS beta? CID bug? SMS bug? After installing above, Play works? MultiLanguage? Will there actually be a need to customize, or is it OK as is?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fireeee:
signature verification failed. Installation aborted :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
What recovery does it have? Can you disable verification?

If not, flash only the recovery from my ROM, use that to update the GAPPS

Also, how about the other questions?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] kokope11i:
That's what I was hoping for. From what I could gather from the net, I think that starting with MT6573, META mode works over USB, no longer requiring a custom cable. I only saw examples of using META mode with a tool called Maui Meta to restore lost IMEI, but I was wondering if there was a more generic use that would work with the phone in META mode to restore e.g. a phone with a screwed up preloader or such. That would give me a lot of courage to experiment! :)

Maybe Bruno could shed some light on the matter?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
I've only used Maui META tool by the time that I had a MT6516 device (HD9) and have never tried it neither on MT65x3 or MT6575.

What do you really want to accomplish by the way?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Since those days, other methods have been found to restore IMEI, even if you forgot to back them up. So no worry there, it can be fixed (though best to make a backup)

As to a screwed up bootloader, well, as long as you make sure you never overwrite the first two sections with stuff from other hardware, you should be safe.

As to META mode: I worked with that on MT6516, but I suspect it still works the same, and you need a TTL-RS232 cable. Can you provide links where you find it works over USB?

The reason I think META still works on TTL-RS232 is, to get USB to work already needs some code. RS232 can probably be hooked into the JTAG without code, so that if all code is lost, you can bootstrap from there. But like Bruno I have not done that since last year on my MT6516. In fact, since it is not needed anymore for 'normal' hacking, virtually no-one has used META on these phones, so there are no examples floating on the net.

I repeat, best forget about it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] elemer82:
WiFi

I noticed that my WiFi is getting disconnected every once in a while, I don't know the reason yet.

If I go to Setting --> Wireless --> Wireless settings, than I can see my Wifi and it reconnects without touching anything else.

Does anybody else encountered the same problem, or it's something with my Phone or settings ?

Using V1 with "Go Launcher EX"
[Miscellaneous Android Development] iconic_icon:
I installed viber, line and whatsapp, everything works fine.

thanks!

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I am using the same settings and app as yours, so far did not encounter that kind of problem.

try to connect in other wifi router.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fireeee:
I`ts all working now. Market fully functional. I did not recognize any Caller Id bug. With or without prefix the name of the caller is showing . I do not have numbers with hyphens or brackets so I don`t have any experience with the sms problem since Gingerbread.

That`s for now I think.:)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
I just had the GB rom one or two days, so I can't say anything about it, but I never experienced the caller ID bug with the ICS rom. Just some location confusion every now and then - but location services never worked on my phone with GB...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] newbie_vlc:
Some questions

Some days ago I installed the Anton ICS rom, I miss the launcher and the clover unlock phone.

This morning I install the cybermaus rom with 1.3 update. I have to say I can't modify the apn and here in Spain I have to select de PAP autenthification to use the 3G data connection, the apn normally I can edit, but with your rom with update I can't modify the apn, any explication about that?

Another chance I have to say if there are any possibility about to get from the anton rom the multilanguage and the battery, 3G, WiFi status icon because are very beatiful.

Finally I have a last question about where are the midis about ringtone and message tone to delete all of them with chinisse names and put another with english name.

Thank you to all.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mabuc:
@newbie_vlc

about the final question, you'll findit in system/media/audio/ringtone. Not need to deleted, you need to change the change de Basic Info of those ogg.

MB
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ashinhood:
Hi,

i try both rom (cybermaus and etotalk ) but i have problem with google play.

This phone is not compatible with a large amount of app such as Whatsapp Waze AngryBird etc...

When i buy the phone on etotalk it was compatible with all app on store.

Someone have sames problem? and someone know how i can solve? i try edit build.prop but the problem not solved.

I prefer to downgrade to 2.3 etotalk but the link in the first page of the thread is down... someone have a link to the old Rom multilanguage?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dzenk:
hi cybermaus. Sorry for misspelling your name before.

I did as you suggested, but both at once (old Files renamed, new ones copied in the mentioned folder). As a consequence I wasn't able to synchronize my calendar any more. I deleted all new files and renamed the old ones back... No success - still no synchro!!!

I played a bit around and I was able to start the new calender without synchro - after factory reset of the phone I have a new synchronized calendar (standard Android).

So I guess I did some mistakes at first. What one should do:

- download the calendar.apk (thanks cybermaus).

- copy it to the folder /system/app in your phone

- change the permissions to rw-r--r--

- start the apk - calendar will be installed / I didn't do it at the first time

Since the Lenovo Calender has another name (LenovoCalendar.apk :cyclops:) one doesn't have to touch it, there is no collision. Maybe freeze it with Titanium Backup, but I didn't try it yet...

I am using a Cal Widget for an overview of my calendar on the workspace screen. If I touch it it calls the new installed calendar directly :good:, which wasn't the case with the Lenovo Calendar.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
I just searched this thread and could not find a source for calendar.apk. Where is it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
You cannot change build in APN, but you can delete them, and create another one.

Can you do that for all those ogg's, and send them to me for inclusion into the package? Thx

Angrybird??

You need to install 1.3, and also clear data cache and data for Play Store. However, I am pretty certain Angry Bird has always been compatible, regardless of any play store error, so maybe you have an error I do not know about.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
I just have checked that. No problem installing Waze with Cybermaus' ICS 1.3.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] paserniq:
OK, i have a little spare time (vacation), so i've installed ROM from h t t p : // bbs.apkhot.com/read.php?tid=14171 (ver. 2012-06-23), my observations since yesterday:

smsreg.apk present, had to remove it, along with few chinese apps (much less than in stock lenovo)

no google search widget, in spite of integrated google play etc..., i copied widget from v306

location capability (some apps from google play unavailable) had to be fixed by applying cybermaus v1.3 patch (i removed APN file and its reference from installer script)

gallery without google sync capability, copied apk from v306, works fine

even after applying v1.3 patch some apps are unavailable on play (google search widget mentioned above).

battery life seems OK (i use ondemand scheduler instead of performance)

stability OK

i preferred to remove baidu keyboard, and installed switfkey

performance OK (i run a few 2d/3d games, everything seems fine)

CID bug not present (was present in cybermaus v306 1.3).

EPO file download fails

That's all for now ;-).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] newbie_vlc:
Cybermaus why change the Go Launcher from Ginger to this idea on ICS?

And abaut the delete apn, how can I do?

Than you
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
not sure what you mean by this question?

To delete APN, after opening it, select Delete from the menu!?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
ICS v1.3 feedback

Hello everyone,

First of all, thanks cybermaus for your effort of making our lives better.

I have the ICS ROM (1.3) on my phone for 3 days.

It works very fine except one thing that is very annoying: CID.

If the phone number is in international format, the name is not displayed. For a few contacts I saved twice the numbers, with and without country prefix. It works but it's impossible to do it for hundreds of contacts.

Anyway, I hope that will be fixed soon.

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] newbie_vlc:
First, when I enter in to your apn I haven't menu option, I only have it on my apn created by me, I can not modify/delete your apn.

Second, on your ICS Rom the launcher is one called IdeaDesktop isn't it? Why change from the Go launcher on version 2.3.6?

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] averaraz:
Hey,

I want to buy the a750.

before i order it i need to know if its working fine with hebrew language (i saw few ppl got problems with arabic and hebrew)? i dont need hebrew menus only want to read and write properly.

Which ROM should i install?

THANKS!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
The new Android 4.0 ROMs don't have the Hebrew RTL issue any more. If you are saying that you only need Hebrew reading / writing, then it is fine with any of the ICS ROMs for Lenovo A750. Please note that Hebrew menus are not available on Lenovo stock ROMs because the only available languages are English and Chinese.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dzenk:
In the post #378

I froze the LenovoCalendar. No issues untill this moment.

I also tried to change the battery icon on the status bar with UOT kitchen. One has to upload his framework-res.apk and SystemUI.apk - that's called LenovoSystemUI.apk in our case (of course ^^)

No success. Any ideas?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Open the APN, press the menu button. I suspect you are trying to long-press the APN or something.

In GB, it was Lenovo that added the Launcher called 'Go Launcher for Lenovo', which was the normal Go Launcher, but with some small mods. On ICS, it is named Magic Launcher. Which is *still* just the Go Launcher, with some mods, and a new label stuck to it.

In both cases, it is not Go Launcher, but a modified one. In both cases, it is Lenovo that selected it. And they both work nearly identical to Go, so I am not bothered by it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cata.dumitrescu:
I tried with CWM installable ZIP

No A780 is based on Qualcom chipset rather than Mediatek chipset. Which means you cannot use any of the flash or recovery methods of this thread.

Is it ICS or GB? Are you able to boot into recovery? If so, you may be able to root the phone by installing the update.zip at the bottom the the first post here. If you are not able to go into recovery, then I do not know, sorry.[/QUOTE]

Thank you very much for the answer...

I tried with CWM installable ZIP form recovery mode. and surprise..everything was applied sucessfully, but after reboot...nothing ..like nothing done..

I still have to wait for another phone I think...I'm tired with this chinesse phone..

I will wait for HTC Desire V (dual sim) and I will put this phone to the toilet.. :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
I wonder whats that hype about swiftkey - I use touchpal. Sonyericsson builtin keyboard is based on touchpal. That where I stumbled upon it. It has one advantage over swiftkey: it's free...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] lordluck:
phone dead

i did worng i just put S306 V1.3 zip file on the SD card (do not unzip)

Boot into Recovery, then apply V1.3, didnot cleaned userdata and cache, especially(i come from s 14x gb) and Reboot. phone now do not start...any help???:(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
You could try to go into recovery and flash again first ICS V1 and then again ICS V1.3

If that does not work, you need to use the flash utility and flash the entire ICS V0 first, and then again V1 and V1.3
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
etotalk ROM

Hello,

Does anyone use the ICS rom from etotalk???

I see in the screenshots that it has all the languages, look here: h t t p // w w w .etotalk.com/lenovo-a750-3g-wcdma-multilanguage-dual-sim-mt65751g-hz-40wvga-android-40_p2869.html.

They say that it's rooted, it has market and calendar and no CID bug.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
A few more observations after playing about at the weekend.

1. I tried the "apkhot" 4.0.4 ROM. It is very nice in appearance and slick/quick in use. I had problems with missing apps (Google Play) which were solved by aplplying the cybermaus 1.3 update. I had problems in that (a) Calendar reminders didn't work and (b) video camera didn't work. I don't think its quite ready for use but could maybe provide the basis for a good ROM in future.

2. Now back on the Cybermaus v1.3 ROM. Everything is working fine, but after severl days testing, including battery calibration, I am still not able to get a whole day's use out of it with normal (for me use). Have tried turning wifi and GPS off (which I didn't under GB) but no great improvement. Going to do some more digging, as I don't really want to go back to GB (the calendar works for me in the cybermaus ICS ROM and I generally like it), but may have to if I can't get better battery performance out of it.

3. Out of curiosity I also briefly tried the cybermaus 148 GB ROM (I was using aversion based on 142) but after flashing, I got stuck at the "touch android logo to continue" part of setting up an account. So that experiment didn't get far!

Will update if/when I make any headway with the battery on ICS 1.3. Thanks as always to those making these ROMs and updates available.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
Today I added my work email (Exchange server) and the calendar doesn't synchronize :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
Hi,

Which version did you tested, 0618 or 0623?

I installed 0623, here is my feedback:

- Play Store is ok but the list of available application is shorter (for instance, Chrome is not available, I installed it from apk)

- Calendar is ok, both gmail and exchange

- camera is ok (pictures and video) but the side button, instead of launching the camera, it locks/shutdown the phone :(

- Caller ID is ok!

- it comes with native Android launcher

- languages: Bahsa, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Dutch, Turkish, Russian, Vietnamese, Arabic, Chinese.

- no browser!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Try to get mt6575-kpd.kl (under \system\usr\keylayout) from the stock ICS ROM and replace it on the modified ROM that you are using. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Just checked and the one I tested was 0618. Have you got a link for 0623 - would like to tyr it at the weekend.

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
h t t p : // pan.baidu.com/netdisk/extractpublic?username=bg8dup
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Many thanks - there's two 0623 ROMs there (V2 and V3) - assume V3 is the one to use?

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
No, in fact it's V2, the bigest file. I downloaded V3 also and, comparing the content, I noticed that it doesn't have gapps and other. Maybe it's a light version...

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Sorry for my stupid question but what is more exactly "stock ICS ROM"?

:o
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Great - will give that a try at the weekend

Thanks again.

On the "stock ROM" I think the Cybermaus v1 ICS ROM (link on first page of thread) is built on the lenovo Stock ROM so you can get that file from there (certainly on that ROM the buttons do the right thing!)

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
I did it.

Unfortunately, it doesn't work. Now the button is doing nothing.

That's maybe because the camera application is not the native one (in \system\app) but it's called "Camera ICS+" and I found it as \system\vendor\operator\app\Camera.apk.

???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Of course I recommend you do a back up first, but looking at the two files (edit/notepad). The original "stock" one has these entries:

WAKE key 212 CAMERA key 211

The 0623 version of the file has

WAKE key 212 POWER WAKE key 211

I can't see a Camera Key at all in the "new" file. Maybe you could edit

WAKE key 211 to CAMERA key 211 and leave the rest of the file untouched.

Maybe though the ROM doesn't support the physical camera button at all?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
It's exactly what I already did. But after the modification, the side button did nothing.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] xd.bx:
So I sent today this message to MTK by mail, I'm reposting it here for the reference:

The A750 is a great phone, and I hope MediaTek/Lenovo will understand this great opportunity :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
Nice! According to this link (sorry, German) Lenovo wants to sell smartphones in Europe, starting in 2013. So I guess Mediatek will listen to us Europe guys. ;-)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
I doubt that they will sell Dual-SIM phones here. Nobody really is...

But I have mine A750, so I don't care ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] BaconBits:
Is it possible to flash this firmware on any MTK6575 phone or just the Lenovo one?

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Except every European buyer on Aliexpress?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
You can flash it to any MTK6575 phone, but I doubt that it will work afterwards. ;-)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Hmm, jokes are somewhat dangerous, just to be clear: NO, you cannot flash it to any MT6575 phone, your phone will break. It has to be a Lenovo A750. For your own phone, find a ROM that is specifically mentioned to work on your model/brand.

Back on topic: That 4.0.4 ROM starts to look interesting, I should probably look into it too, but its very busy at the moment.

BTW: does anyone know who the author of this HOTAPK ROM is, and where he has his forum?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
That could be this guy.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Think the forums are hosted here (Chinese though)

Link

If you use google translate or a browser plug in - you get the gist of most of it. Also see there is a few versions of a ROM based on Lenovo GB 150 there too.

The link to the downloads (ICS and GB) was posted by v3ry900d in post 409

Link
[Miscellaneous Android Development] 42serenity:
Just to clarify (because I'm thinking of buying 2 A750s for the family).

Is the S306 V1.3 MOD ROM a multi-language ICS ROM (I would need german)? The description just states it modified the orig. but not what languages that one includes.

And it basically all works as the MT6573 phones?

Because then I can order the phone blank @etotalk without all their lavish extras - or does anyone know if their ICS ROM is somehow superior?

Thanks