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[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
No, I really meant Battery (Monitor) Widget. So it means, that not even this app could retrieve any data. I wonder where the ROM hang...

I'm on your ROM for some time now. But I think about changing, as it does not seem to be more stable than the 707. At least not in my setup.

I have LBE. I would consider a full clear. I can't really flash, as I haven't found out how to install all drivers on my Windows 8 PC. That's the reason why I never tried out a different uboot, as you suggested some time ago. Doing a flash via update.zip is always an option.

As I said I think about switching to 707, so I would have to backup and clear my internal and external SD-Card, I guess...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Ok, so not any hidden call issues then. That is good, at least you do not need to worry about being infected.

Other than that, I cannot say much, only that I personally am cautious with system monitoring and tuning apps like your battery monitor. Especially when several are loaded, for battery monitoring, cpu sleeping, task management etc. They may not always play well together or with the already build in functions.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
Thanks for the advice. The battery monitoring widget is for monitoring purposes only. It works very well for that...

I'm still curious wether there is some monitoring or logging besides catlog. How does one track down issues like that?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cacofonix3:
Are you going to make a new ROM?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Well, there is no new base release from Lenovo. Without a new base release, there is no reason to repeat a ported ROM.

I am (sometimes, when I have time) experimenting with languages and forcing JB on this hardware, but so far I have not been happy enough with those experiments to release them.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
As I'm trying the 707 without restoring apps and data, I experienced this again: "System UI has stopped" after dropping to 15 percent battery. I took a catlog, but hadn't time to look into, yet.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amirseni:
Change SIM background colors

Greetings,

I am running A750_ROW_S114_cybermaus_V3.1

Is there a possibility to change the colors available in the SIM background color selection dialog.

I would like to have the following colors: RED, YELLOW, ORANGE, BLUE

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
New download server

I am getting increasingly unhappy with 4Shared.

Specifically that they started to require people to sign up. It was not always like that. And they are not always fast.

So I am moving to Dev-Host. So if you see files dissappear, they will re-appear here.

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] psychopac:
can I have the link for kernel source code of a750?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] rawe_etc:
.. ithink the lis is error .. can u give me the link .. for this rom thanks you :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] iconic_icon:
new google play

hello guys,

any of you have the new google play 4.0 for our device?

share it!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tuancollection:
I looking for custom rom ics for lenovo a690

Custom rom ics of a750 used for lenovo a690???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailis:
I just used the default apk from Android Police. After downloading and installing the apk, it works fine for me. I think you need to have Google Play installed, otherwise look and the first page how to do so.

Cybermaus, how is your work on JB? Still working on it and any good yet?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cacofonix3:
Do you know if the caller ID bug fix, will work on Lenovo A820 too?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] baducu:
bad post
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tuancollection:
Port rom 2.3 from a750 to a690

Error CANNOT CONNECT TO CAMERA:banghead:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Not been on for a while but just tried the Cybermaus v3.1 ROM, after running on one of the APKHot ROMs for a while. Itsdefinitely the best ROM yet for this phone for me, so many, many thanks Cybermaus if you are still looking in on this thread.

Big advantages for me are (in England):

1. Much better battery llife

2. Much smoother/slicker

3. Less bloat (I got rid of the Lenovo Safe Centre stuff - but that's just personal preference)

4. My Mobile Provider (GiffGaff) worked out-of-the-box for the first time on any phone for me!

Thanks again, like a new lease of life for the phone, really appreciate your efforts.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] amirseni:
Wireless FIx

I am running 3.1 for quite a while. Recently about a month ago I started getting extremely poor wlan reception, I could only get two bars a meter away from the router and I couldn't get a signal one wall of separaion away. It was unlikely to be software because it worked fine and hadn't added anything that could remotely influence wlan.

As the phone had taken quite a beating and fallen a lot, I eventually opened the a750 and first thing that pops out is a contact. After fully opening it i notice a space missing where the contact should have been.

Tried the soldering iron on the contact, after exposing the track but the solder wouldn´t stick. So I used glue and applied pressure on the contact and after putting it back together the wlan is working fine.

Does anyone have a suggestion on how to solder to contact directly to the track? if so please let me know, Thanks.

Here is the photo if anyone is interested.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Thanks!

Anyway, upload is done, get it while its hot....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Just delete system/media/userdata.zip. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] EMF:
Location problem on S305

I had the problem with the location services on S305, and Google Maps said "Location not available" as soon as I entered the app.

I seems to be solved after installing a task killer, killing processes and cleaning case (used Quick System Info PRO)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Sorry it was /vendor/operator/app
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Ohh, Lenovo put it on other folder. On other MediaTek ROMs I saw userdata.zip under /system/media.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] keytag:
Lost the imei

I have lost the imei after flashing. Please help. Thank alot.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Well, I do warn people to backup IMEI. Anyway, I have an app to solve that, see your Private Messages.

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Also, I made a patch that also removes those 'archived' vendor apps, so the Chinese stuff does not even reappear after a factory reset. See second post.

It is a .zip update, to be applied from the recovery. Nice and small. It also removes Lenovo AppStore, but it leaves the Lenovo Widget (which I now realize is supposed to be a 'lotus' not a 'cloverleaf') and wheather widget. You can remove them from the home screen anyway.

It all seems very stable, but I am very annoyed that I do not understand why location services did not work first, and then did work later. So PLEASE report if you are using this ROM, and report ALWAYS if location is working or not. Otherwise only people for whom it is not working complain, and that means I do not get a good idea of the ratio.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] keytag:
Lost the imei

@ Cybermaus, I have sent you the first imei in private message. Thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Since now 3 people have lost their IMEI, and saved it using a non-finished utility I wrote, I made a separate IMEI backup and restore thread, in which I release my non-finished utility, as well as describe the other known methods of fixing IMEI.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailis:
etotalk apps

hi cybermaus,

seems some create work you did! I have flashed the rom yet, but will try it hopefully somewhere this week.

I found the following links which comes from Etotalk directly, maybe there usefull for you or others (it has a back-up IMEI functionality in it).

Etotalk Tool: h t t p://w w w .4shared.com/android/w_qigdSC/etotalk-toolbox-v2.html

Revocery: h t t p:// w w w .4shared.com/zip/RUFEomdV/A750_recovery_etotalk_com.html[/url]
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Well, based on what Etotalk put on my phone, I assume its actually the MobileUncle Toolbox and the MobileUncle recovery. If so, the toolbox is very good, but it's IMEI backup function fails. The Recovery is all Chinese, so I use the CWMR recovery instead.

So I am not going to put effort into downloading/checking them. Unless someone tells me they are specifically not the MobileUncle ones.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailis:
That could very be...

*edit* just flashed your ICS rom with the MobileUncle tool; it seem the same as the Etotalk apps.

Since I only found out today there is an actual threat about the A750, I hoped to contribute this bit. After booting into recovery, I also found a lot of Chinese stuff ;)

Will try your apps from now on and provide some relevant feedback
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
No, it was not meant as a rebuke. They are good tools, and Etotalk is doing a nice job adding them. 4 weeks ago I did not know about them either. So keep reporting your finds. If out of every 10 things you find, there is one useful, we all benefit. Its just that if we do realize we have seen it before, we should also say so, otherwise everyone reading this thread keeps collecting and testing the same stuff over and over again.

(Also, they are not 'my' tools. Like Etotalk, I just find them and reuse them)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailis:
Check, no prob!

Just flashed your ICS rom, seems working well! Also used the update zip, which removes most of the Chinese apps. I would appriciate if you also could remove 'Le Pen' in the future, now I have manually freezed it with Titanium. Hope you can manage.

Still a lot of apps aren't visible in Google Play. Chrome would be appriciated for instance, although 'nu.nl' is working now. I tried changing build.prop, but that doesn't seem to do the trick.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] paserniq:
I've just finished tweaking of your v0 ICS rom (removed a few apps, installed nova launcher etc...). Location worked fine since the beginning. Must've be some glitch in your case.

Right now, everything seem to work very well, and i personally don't see any performance degradation between 2.x and 4.x

Thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mrwinch:
Hi,

I'm another owner of this mobile: I would like to add/improve translation for italian users (I'm from Italy...) and add/remove some apps. I'm trying to unpack system.img with unyaffs (windows version) but I'm not able to obtain file system. How do you unpack/pack system.img? Under which operating system? I would like to understand if I use wrong tools or wrong method...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Well, the tools I am using are linked in first-post with good explanations attached. They are ext4 tools, newer phones use ext4, not yffs.

Also, if you just want to remove/add some apps for your own use, use TitaniumBackup or Rootexplorer and do it directly on your phone, no need to unpack anything.

Only if you want to redistribute your modified ROM to others is it useful to unpack/repack. To be honest, the only reason I did what I did was because when I started, there were no western ROM's available for this phone, only Chinese and one Russian.

If you want to improve on the translation, be aware, that is a huge work. Apart from unpacking the ROM, you also need to decompile and possibly deodex the individual apk's, and edit all of the values and strings inside the apk's resources, and then recompile. I did not do that, so I am not the expert on that matter.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] elemer82:
ICS V0 Flash and recovery

I just flashed my phone with your ICS_V0 and wanted to apply the V0.1.zip file but, .... how?

I tried to make the same as etotalk advised me, pushing the vol+ and vol- buttons in the same time as power ON, but nothing happens. Neither when I push the Camera button and the Power ON simultaneously.

Have I done something wrong or you changed something in the loader/preloader ?

Sorry, I don't know to much about Android but I am willing to learn.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
With ICS came a new bootloader that is a little more finicky on timing:

Turn off the phone, take out battery. Put in battery. Press power and keep it pressed. After about 2~3 seconds, just before, or immediately when, the bootlogo appears, also press both volume keys.

According to Fireee this is also how you can get the factory mode, but I have not been able to find that yet. I think next version, I put the GB bootloader back. Not sure why Lenovo is making the ICS bootloader so critical.

PS: Or you just go into MobileUncle toolbox, and reboot into recovery from there.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Buying apps

Hi all

I am unable to purchase any apps from Play Store. As soon as I press the price, an error appears.

I know it is less common than it should be to pay for apps, but those of you that tried, can you tell me if you were able or not to purchase apps in the Play Store?

And which ROM and/or Play Store version and/or GAPPS version were you using?

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spwiggie:
Verrry nice ROM A750_S148_120428_cybermaus_V1 !

really stable thanks A lot

only thing Im not really happy with is the email application, so I hope in ICS its better.

Can I flash back from S305 to S148 ?

Thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chasemyass:
hello

Hi guys and good to see devs for Lenovo A750.

I have a friend that today bought one and has the A750_S138_120309.rar software version installed on it and he asked me to help him install Google play store, but...I need to root it 1`st since I ncat` just install the aplication like any other aplication. So here comes my question: How to just root it, without flashing another/custom ROM?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
I think so, just make sure you backup the nvram directory. I am starting to suspect that people loosing the IMEI had gone back and forth. I have not gone back myself.

I really do not know. Maybe one of the 'normal' methods, z4root, superoneclick, etc work, but I went to flashing it straight away.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chasemyass:
it works just by flashing your A750_S148_120428_root_recovery ;) tyvm for your time
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailis:
I found this Youtube video yesterday with also a link in notes to the files. I didn't try it myself, but maybe this is what you're looking for...

h t t p://w w w .youtube.com/watch?v=Qo8xrxMisr8
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
@chasemyass

I pressed your thanks button. Not for your question, but for that XDA NOOB video in your signature. Made me laugh.:D I think I'll put it up in first post!

Anyway, not sure if putting the S148 kernel and ramdisk onto the S138 ROM is a good idea, there may be some 'oddities'. Also, you said you wanted it without flashing....

@mailis

The ZAP link is the S143 based, but similar in working to my S148 image. It is again originally from MobileUncle.

@both : the root image from mobile uncle, and the S148 I build after their example, works by overwriting su on every single bootup from init.rc. I find it creative, but not clean. My full images are rooted properly. Can I advise you both to try one of my full images? Or otherwise, after booting with the boot-root image once, flashing the original boot image back. The rooting will have been copied into system, and stay there.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chasemyass:
well I flashed ONLY recovery and boot not entire rom O.o
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Yes, but boot contains the kernel, the ramdisk, the init.rc and the root of the fs.

Though probably the differences between S138 and S148 are not big, so you may be OK.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] chasemyass:
well I can`t get into CWM using both volume buttons and power button :o
[Miscellaneous Android Development] spwiggie:
I installed the ICS ROM and it looks nice,

especially the email-part I like ..

Location is working.

Yes I'm an newby I know but I don't understand the update,

what should I do with it ? Just copy it ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] elemer82:
ICS Feedback

I flashed my phone with your S305_Cybermauss_V0 than applied your 0.1 update

FEEDBACK

Camera

The camera app on the S305_ICS is better than on S148_GB.

IDD bug solved ???

I got like 400 contacts in my phone, most of them stored like +44..... or +40.... if someone calls me than on the screen it shows me the number but not the name, last night as I had my phone connected to my cars Bluetooth on the display of the car it showed me the contact name but did not showed it on the phone itself. Way bizarrr.

Location

Not tested

Mobile Internet - AP

On the S148_Cybermauss_V1, I was able to edit my access point settings. For some reason the settings for my AP are not correct, now if I go to:

Setting → Wireless and Networks → More → Mobile Networks → Access Point Names → Sim 1 → List, I can see the AP List and see the settings but I cannot edit them.

For this reason I have no Mobile internet for now (I might have to call my carrier to send me the correct settings)

Wifi Ad-Hoc

I kind of hacked my S148_Cybermauss_V1 (replace /system/bin/wpa_suplicant and edit a wpa_suplicant.conf file somewhere else) to be able to connect to WiFi adhoc devices.

I can't get this done yet on my ICS V0.1 (still browsing related forums)

Then I decided to put back the S148_Cybermauss_V1 flashing was all succesfull, but my phone got stuck in boot (showed lenovo than cloverleaf, then lenovo again than cloverleaf again and so on), reflashed again with S148_Cybermauss_V1 but the same, then I decided to put back the ICS V0.

ICS is working now.

Sorry for the long post, but hope it does help someone.

Thanks for your effort Cybermauss to make a better ROM
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Triathlet:
Hello Elemer,

I had to do "wipe cache patition" before rebooting the flashed system, otherwise it locks in the boot screen.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Copy it to SD card, use MobileUncle tool to reboot into recovery, and apply update from there.

In my memory, it was always like that, even on Froyo and Gingerbread. You cannot edit the APN, you have to delete and recreate.

As Triathlet writes, and as written in first post, clear cache and maybe even userdata.

That last sentence is unclear: "ICS is working now" Does that mean your other problems went away?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Its interesting to see how no-one confirms or rejects that they can or cannot buy apps on Play Store.

Come on guys, I would like to know if the error is on my A750 phone only, or more generic. Surely someone tried to pay for something? Please let me know if it worked or not, and what ROM/GAPPS you were using.

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] mailis:
I tried it yesterday and today, but I have the same issue. I didn't try it with the stock Play store, since I flashed the rom with gapps-ics-20120429-signed. Maybe this is on of the issues their still working on?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Hello found this site/thread while googling. Thanks for the great work. Just to confirm I tried the ICS ROM, and have the same problem with the Market (can't buy apps). As per an earlier post as well, there are a number of my paid apps that are not visible in the market, including Tune In Radio Pro and Copilot Live (SatNav).

One other thing I noticed, "ROM manager" installs fine but I couldn't run "Fix Permissions" until I installed BusyBox in the default location (I think the one Titanium Backup uses gets installed somewhere else?)

Unfortunately that means for now I have had to go back to the ROM I was using (143), although I will probably give your 148 a try.

Thanks again, and I look forward to the ICS issues being resolved as I very much like the look and feel of it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] EMF:
I have 'stock' S305 + root, and installed gapps from gapps-ics-20120429-signed as well. I have no problem with paid apps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
@mailis

Actually, I was assuming gapps-ics-20120429-signed *is* stock Play Store, whereas my ROM has a 'norestriction' modded one.

@Boleyn

I am not sure if the non-listing of apps is not simply because A750 is a known device to Google, and they control it from the server. If so, S148 would have the same issue. But do let me know.

As to ROM manager: Not sure how well that works with MTK anyway. What do you feel is the 'default' location for busybox?

@EMF

stock S305+root means? I get the stock part, but how/from where did you root it? Did you actually buy a new app since installing it, you do you mean previously bought apps?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Fixed it:

Problem was indeed the 'mod' Play Store I had baked in. And even if you apply the latest GAPPS, because of name differences, the modded one remains.

- Use RootExplorer to backup&delete any Vending*.apk and Phonesky*.apk in /system/app/.

- Go into recovery

- Clear cache

- Reinstall GAPPS 20120422 (or 20120429 if you have it)

This will likely not list any additional apps, possibly even less, but it will solve the 'buy' problem.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] EMF:
I root it by flashing a su and superuser from this thread

I have had S305 for a few days now, but paid and downloaded an app minutes before my last post - no problems.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Timer2000:
Where I can find the 305 Stock?

Have you another Problems with the Rom?

Can you make a short Report?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
It may be regional. Did you try setting Market Enabler to T-Mobile US and then vpn into US with droidVPN?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dr.more:
Create a full backup for Lenovo A750

Hi guys! I'm a Super-Noob!

I bought a Lenovo A750 just today.

I would try these custom roms but before making a mess I would create a full backup of the ROM.

I can't find anything in this forum so: do you think these two tutorials can help me?

bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.it/2012/04/creating-rom-dump-of-your-mt65x3-device.html

bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.it/2012/05/mt6575-flashing-tutorial.html
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sanlaa:
Unable to see m device on Win 7

Hi,

When i connect my phone to my win 7 PC i see the device being recogonised for a sec and then it vanishes i do not know where to find it.

when i switch on the phone and connect i can see it as phone being connected but when i try to connect the phone after switching off the phone to flash it does not appear.. Can any one help me here?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Well, at least you are a noob who did his homework first, finding and referencing those links.

Short answer, no, sorry, does not seem to work for newer MT6575 phones.

Long answer... is in this thread.

Maybe you should also read those links dr.more found, and if you already did, please describe more explicitly which steps you followed, which steps you felt you could skip, and at what step you feel it is going wrong.

Right now, there is too little information for me to help you with any certainty, but if I have to guess, I say you did not take out the battery.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] EMF:
You can download the official beta version from here: http://products.mobileuncle.com/thread-125650-1-2.html

It is the same ROM as cybermaus is based on. It is stable and working, a little sluggish I think.

You will have to root, cleanup and install GAPPS your self. Remember to remove Smsreg.apk, preferable before you insert your sim.

Found one problem (for me at least) - remote sim card setting on bluetooth is not working. Even tho it is activated it will still ask you to choose sim, when I dail from my car bluetooth.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fireeee:
sanlaa try this