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[Miscellaneous Android Development] xd.bx:
I'm still using the stock multilanguage ROM from etotalk, and it works very well (I think it is based on 2.3.6, but with many modifications). I don't think however there will be a Cyanogenmod port unless the Java RIL and other parts are contributed by Lenovo/MTK/etotalk to Cyanogenmod.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
The Cybermaus V1.3 is English, but you can add a German keyboard and German language for the apps with the app morelocale2. I am happy with that.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
You can just deselect all options and tell the support, that you would like to have ICS on this phone. I ordered mine as there was no ICS rom, so I got 2.3.6 GB with everything inside, that would have costed extra money. I guess they just give out the same rom to everyone and hope that he selects as much options as possible while ordering...

I stick with english interface, but added TouchPal as keyboard, what works pretty well. I don't like half or bad translated apps..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
I got no problems with "half" translated stuff. My favourite apps are talking German: Sygic, Opera, K9... even the built-in picture gallery app.

BTW, I found a little problem. Not a problem in every day usage, but I am just curious: is your GPS altitude badly wrong also? My phone shows even negative values... approximately 40-80 meters too low.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
I haven't tried it, but I know a lot of other software, that is translated bad. Even from big players like Microsoft. That's why I just stay in English, when the app isn't from a native German speaker...

I usually just use location services without GPS, so I cannot say anything about it. Where can you read the altitude?

Without GPS the phone sometimes thinks, that I'm in Hamburg instead of Leipzig.... :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
Don't blame the phone when it does not know where it is. Mine does without GPS... sometimes. I think it depends on when the phone had the last accurate position (by GPS or Wifi or...). When that data gets too old, the phone discards it and says: position unknown. That is the way my V1.3 phone behaves. No idea why yours thinks it is several 100 kilometers away from the current position.

The apps that tell me the GPS altitude are "Sygic" and "GPS Status & Toolbox".
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
It's due to a few reasons, and strictly speaking, nothing is wrong.

Firstly, GPS shows height according to a perfect elipsoid (sort of a perfect sphere), but the earth is not perfect. In NW Europe, there is about a 45 meter difference between height according to sealevel and height according to WGS84.

The Android specifications are that it should report WGS84, and it is the application's responsibility if they want to translate to local sealever or not. A bit annoying, because Windows Mobile requires that GPS driver provides both values, and the app can choose which to display. On Android, there are quite a few apps that do not correct the altitude.

Secondly, we humans are much more 'annoyed' by incorrect hight reading then incorrect postition. If your GPS is 10 meters out, and shows you at the other side of the street, you would say, that is pretty good, it shows me on the right street. But if you are standing at the sea, and it tells you you are 10 meters deep, you would feel the phone is stupid, because clearly you are still dry.

Thirdly, due to most common angle's that most satelites are, most of them are above the horizon, below 45 degrees, relatively few are directly overhead, the GPS precision is better horizontally then vertically. 10 meters horizontal is normal, but vertical it is often 20 meters.

So, with a 20 meter vertical precision, and a 45 meters Sealevel to WGS84 correction, yeah, between 25 and 65 meters wrong is normal. Sorry.

If you want to read more, read this, where I helped a GPS application guy correct the altitude in his program
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
Nice explanation, thank you! BTW, my Symbian phone shows a height that is looking good. No idea if it is really correct (more or less). I guess it is working like Windows Mobile.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Regarding the Camera key on the APKhot 4.0.4 ROM

The APKhot forum has a patch to recover the camera, will try it when I have loaded the 4.0.4 ROM

Link

Translation:

Camera key recovery patch

Download

Copy two files to / system / usr / keylayout / decompression after overwriting the original file, modify the permissions, you can restart.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aloowishus:
I used this approach on apkhot rom, but found that 211 was listed as 'focus' and 212 was listed as 'power wake'. I changed 212 to camera, and it works. No need for patch as far as I can tell. Button 211 is the 'half press' and 212 is the 'full press'.

The apkhot rom is rather good, after cybermaus's 1.3 update is applied. GPS and Google location work, and no caller id issue.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Thanks - installed the 404 apkhot ROM today and like the look/feel so far. I used the patch and it didn't work for me, so going to try your method. Like you everything else I have tried seems to work. Uninstalled a few Chinese apps hanging around and put on Swiftkey and Novo Launcher as I couldn't get widgets to work with the default launcher (long press brings up wallpaper menu rather than widgets - maybe you could try?)

EDIT: All working here - I'd applied the patch at the time of the install, and camera didn't work. When I put back the (unmodified) files from the Smilevvv 404 0623 ROM everything was OK (i.e. didn't need to edit the files - suggests it would of worked without any mod). its strange that you had to make an edit - when I look at the files I downloaded 212 was camera and 211 was focus. Oh well we both have a camera! Thanks again.

EDIT2: I was looking for a way to use Volume up/down to wake the screen instead of the power button. I fould that if you edit the file "Generic.kl" as follows you can achieve that:

key 114 VOLUME_DOWN WAKE

key 115 VOLUME_UP WAKE

That particular change doesn't seem to work in the "mt6575-kpd.kl" file (althoiugh I made the changes there as well).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] andrewkanan:
First of all I want to say hi to evrybody involved in this topic.

From yesterday I'm a user of A750 phone. It came from FCT with 2.3.6 firmware.

I bought this phone because as one of few works with WCDMA 900MHz which is needed for my 3g internet provider Aero2(Poland) works under HSPA+ 900MHz. Yesterday I tried to set a connection with my 3g provider but without success. Sim card is detected by phone. I've put APN data as it is required. Today I've changed firmware to A750_S148_120428_cybermaus_V1 and also can't get any connection. (with massage can not connect to this network this time try later)

Sim card works well on my Motorola Defy phone - I've a connection and (H) icon of working network. Read on polish sites that sim cards from aero2 provider have blocked all services on sim cards and left only BS70 free as a data protocol. Aero2 is only internet provider so other services are not necessery but can be that way that blocking other services makes connection unavailble on my lenovo A750? Have anyone idea how to resolve this problem? I will be gratefull for any idea and help.

After update to ICS S306 v1.3 nothing changed. Anyone can give me a hint?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aloowishus:
That's OK, no worries.

I would try removing the volume up and volume down bits so it reads: key 114 WAKE

key 115 WAKE.

With the stock launcher you add Widgets by opening the app drawer and choosing the Widgets tab at the top of the page, choose the one you want then drag it to the home screen you want.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] adie_wood:
Stuck on Lenovo logo

Hi, I followed the process @ #2 and now Im stuck at the Lenovo boot logo, when I try to get into recovery now I get '=> META MODE' and thats it!

Please help

regards

adie
[Miscellaneous Android Development] adie_wood:
OK, sorted I did a total wipe, anyway how do you change the background colour, I have started go launcher but I dont like the red status bar etc

adie
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
Hello,

I really don't understand...

The original files from Smilevvv 404 0623 ROM are with this line:

Now, I edited the two files on my phone to look like

I rebooted the phone but the button still doesn't work. What do I have to do more?

Two more questions:

1. how do I manage to install Google Talk?

2. Is there any trick in order to identify the phone to Play Store as with the cybermaus ROM? I mean to remove tre restriction to different apps...

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
I think maybe I confused myself - maybe I edited the files within the zip file before I uploaded it to the phone.

Not sure why yours isn't working - did you also set key 211 to "FOUCS"?

Don't use Google talk, but I didn't have any problem with incompatible appas after I applied cybermaus v1.3. From memory I think I got a prompt up to enable background data, and I also had to sync my Google Acount (in settings/accounts&sync) before it settled down. I am in England BTW.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Timer2000:
So,

i use the a750 a lot of weeks with the cybermaus ICS Rom.

Today is the 3g connection broken and it is not possible to connect the phone.

SIM1 and SIM2 don`t connect to the internet.

the H or E icon is not visible.

I have no idea.......
[Miscellaneous Android Development] aloowishus:
I also moved the camera apk from vendor/operator/app

To system/app, using the installed version of root explorer which appears to be mostly Chinese, but easy enough to follow the file tree.

You will need to make the file system writable using the grey button at the top right of the screen with the chinese symbols.The permissions of the camera app need to be: rw-r--r--.

Hope that helps
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
It works!

:)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
etotalk ICS ROM feedback

I was decided to buy the ROM. But, before buying it, I requested details about it and they answered promptly:

"The rom will include unlock and root+android market+preinstalled multi-languages.

Calendarand caller id has no problem.

We are professional, and the rom is from us, so you have no need to worry about it.

All the roms in the market or forum are actually all from our team."

They also gave me the link with the languages screenshots.

After I payed $25, I received the instruction to download and flash the ROM.

The result:

- languages: only English and Chinese. Etotalk answer was "change the language with morelocale app" strange because the screenshots was not from MoreLocale...

- calendar missing at all. Etotalk answer was "we are very sorry, it is our careless. We will fix it in the next version" :)

- caller ID not working for numbers with country prefix. No answer from etotalk...

The conclusion: no need to worry, they are veeeeery professional...

Finally, I asked for money back with no more discussion. This time they were professional because the payment was refunded the next day.

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dzenk:
The 'Russian' ROM from Anton_Vrn is multilanguage (about 10 or 15 standard Languages). It should be a stable ROM, the russians also test some other ROMs like ICS 4.0.4, but they all return to the one from Anton (also available here in Forum).

In some ways it looks similar to Smileyvvv ROM, with the icons - and status bar, but they're not the same.

The camera in russian ROM should be better as in other ICS ROMs - saved pictures take about 1,3MB and in other ROMs about 800kB.

Switching of Intern / Extern Memory didn't work so well for me.

I tried it for a bit - it is really good therefore my second choice - somehow I have better feeling with the work of Cybermaus.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Very annoying. It worked before, and you did not make any changes?

Some idea's:

-Check if you still have your IMEI

-Do a full factory reset.

Also, I had something similar 2 years ago with my T5388++. I was in a bad reception area, which probably meant many damaged packages. As a result, *both* my SIM's reached the build in security-tamper-limit at almost the same time and stopped working. They also did not work in other phones anymore, and I had had new ones made from my providers.

@everyone else: I am sorry, I am very busy. But I am also very happy to see multiple people helping each other. Open-Source/Open-Community works!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] law81:
I bricked my smartphone and not recognize by computer and no power on, nothing on screen.

The model is Star x26i with mtk6575 and i try to flash only cvw recovery but activare the two first options.

Anyone knows if i can recover the phone with any method?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Snoopy2006:
Etotalk ICS Version

Hi v3ry900d,

in which format you get the Etotalk Firmware:

with Flashtool ?

or

zip File ?

Was a Clockworkmod Version included ?

Thanks for your effort

Snoopy2006

PS: Could you upload to 4share the firmware ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] adie_wood:
Red default Font

Hi,

I have been using the rom for a few days now and upto yet not found any problems, the only thing I would like to changethe builds stock red/black theme, I have installed go launcher and that works a treat its just the rest thats a little to dark for me......

Any advice guys

adie
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Locate a ROM for your specific phone model and reflash from that.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] v3ry900d:
It was a 2-step process:

1. flashing the S306 stock firmware with flashtool

2. applying MOD by Dean zip file

At the 1st step, it flashes also the recovery but I don't think it's CW.

I would not upload it as they insisted not to distribute it. But, believe me, there is nothing to loose by not having it. The cybermaus version is much better than etotalk. And I am using the Apkhot firmware and I just love it.

Cheers
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
Tested the Apkhot ROM since Saturday and agree its fantastic to use - very responsive.

For me though the big problem is still battery life. I think I may be alone in this problem as it doesn't seem to affect others. I have tried draining the battery to 0%, clearing battery stats, charging to 100% and calibrating the battery.

For me though I still can't get a full day off one charge. My use is moderate, about an hour of internet radio, a little 3g browsing and a few calls. When I take the phone off charge in the morning I am down to the 15% warning by the evening and have to re-charge.

Would love to know if anyone has any suggestions, otherwise I may reluctantly have to go back to GB for now.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] leFloyd:
Maybe there is a real defect in your battery, because I traveled across Germany by train. So reception is changing all the time. Both SIMs active, surfing in the internet a bit, doing a couple of phone calls, but less than an hour in sum. Then I was listening to MP3s for about an hour or so. As I got back home after about 16 hours battery was down to 10%.

But on an normal day as I use second SIM standby half a day and the 1st SIM active all the time, doing some messages, doing some calls, some internet, I have plenty of battery left in the evening. Usually more then 40%...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Snoopy2006:
Etotalk ICS Version

Hi v3ry900d,

thanks for your kompetent answer for the etotalk ICS Software.

Ciao

Snoopy2006
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
CallerID: Definite workaround !

I know that some people do not even have the caller ID issue, I still believe it also has to do with who your providers are and how they report incoming calls, so some may have it and some may not.

But if you do, on GB or ICS, using program Prefixer from 253°Below, it can be worked around.

If you have an issue, just tell Prefixer to change the incoming number to international, using for example rule:

Match: 0[1..9].*

Not in Contacts already

Remove: . Add: +31

Log: Modified

I stumbled onto this because I needed a program to always prefix calls with a certain USSD for cheap callback.

The program even allows you to let either/or the incoming or modified number into the call-log. Very nice. And free and no-ad, so worth a donation.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] r9c12j34:
CID and Rom versions

Prefixer works perfectly, thanks v. much for the suggestion.

I have a question, I'm currently running etotalk's A750 S143 multilang v2.0, and am toying with moving to ICS.

To this end I have downloaded etotalk's A750_S306_40 ICS V1.2, but have been following this thread and the development of the cyberbaus rom with keen interest, great work by the way.

I've read from this thread that the etotalk rom is inferior to the cyberbaus rom, is this the general consensus?

Also does anyone know if there is an internet source for etotalk's A750 S143 multilang v2.0 if I chicken out and want to revert.

I apologise if any/all of this has been covered previously.

Stu
[Miscellaneous Android Development] adie_wood:
Data Connection Issue

Hi, following on from the post @ #288-90

I have tried to rectify this by searching this excellent forum, however, I have looked at my settings and no joy, the information found is as follows

Country? Network? Operator? - UK Vodafone

Do you have a 3rd icon left of the two SIM radio-strength icons? - No only the wifi (when conected)

What is your setting in Setting->Sim Mgt->Data Conn - On (with the 3G sim

What is your APN in Settings->More->Mobile Networks->Access P. Names-><your SIM> - I have 2 options 'Inetrnet' and 'wap.vodafone.co.uk'

And most importantly: Did data work with this SIM in another phone, Yes

and how familiar are you with Android and setting up APN's? Not a clue

Please help

adie
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
No problem. Was a happy find. I already donated €5 to those guys.

Anyway, the so called 'my' ROM is just the factory ROM cleaned up, and with GAPPS and location services installed. Very vanilla, but also very stable. I cannot comment on the Etotalk ROM, I hear good and bad things. But the APKHOT 4.0.4 ROM is looking interesting. Try all 3, and chose.

In Settings->More->Mobile Networks->Access P. Names-><your SIM> at the bottom, there is also MCC and MNC

Assuming those are 234 and 15, and you have a postpaid account, the APN should indeed be "internet" (I am assuming you simply mistyped when you wrote "Inetrnet" Mind you, the first letter should not be caps, nor sure if that is important. If you have a prepaid account, it may need to be "pp.vodafone.co.uk". If so, create an extra APN and select that.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] adie_wood:
cybermaus, thanks for the info, I have tried everything, created several new apns with all the settings I can find! Still nothing :(

I have even put my sim back in my old phone (BB) and 'Edge' appeared instantly, I am obviously missing a setting, I just can't find it! Hopefully someone is also using Voda UK and can upload the setting or something similar

Waiting in anticipation

adie
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Can you check the APN setting when the SIM is in your old phone?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] adie_wood:
Update: if I put the apn to 'internet' and the apn type to 'default' I get data connection but not mms.

Getting there slowly

Thanks for your help so far

adie
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Boleyn:
If you are on contract these settings may help - not for this phone but the core details should be the same:

Link

I have vodafone (contract) in SIM2 - and not using data on that (GiffGaff on SIM1) so may be able to try it temporarily if you are still stuck - sounds like you are not far away now though!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Indeed, for MMS you typically need a second APN, I have the same data as Boleyn for that.

I never use MMS myself though. Far too expensive.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] adie_wood:
Thanks that may help

Please correct me if I'm wrong but you can only have one apn active at any time?

adie
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cybermaus:
Only one default. But depending on the APN type, others may exist.

So if you have two APN's with APN type "default,supl", then only one of them is active for default actions and gps actions. So if you have two of them, you need to select 1.

But if you have a 3rd one with APN type mms, then that will be used for mms, even if you selected one of the other two for default actions, because those other two did not have the mms keyword in the APN type.

So I suspect that the links from Vodafone itself (provided by Boleyn) may be incomplete, as they both have "APN type 'not set'" and I believe they should have been 'default,supl' and 'mms' respectively.

Of course, normally Vodafone should send a autoconfig signal to the phone. Not sure why that is not working. Maybe because they do not know the A750 model, maybe because some other reason. But it seems you are stuck to entering your own values.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
I just did a format C: (or better: mke2fs) and removed Cybermaus' 1.3 (d'oh!)

I installed Apkhot_lenovo750_4.0.4_0623_YS_V3 just because it is smaller than V2.

- full German translation :) but I had to find out where's the menu to switch from Chinese...

- no Gapps => installed gapps-ics-20120317-signed. Worked. So far no non-installable app in the store found

- no MobileUncle, but something similar. You can reboot to recovery, and recovery is English. Installed m44tools anyway, just in case...

- no keyboard (?!). At least after the 1st reboot... but before I had established a Wifi vonnection, so I could install a keyboard from play store with my PCs browser

- camera button not working, but when I start the camera manually, it seems to work. Camera mod from post #444 did not work

- had to deinstall some stuff - smsreg.apk and some chinese apps. Nice: root explorer is pre-installed, so that was the easiest part, "root uninstall" removed the chinese apps

- blau.de and Vodafone.de SIM cards seem to work

- it also has the builtin app2sd feature => enabled it (no reeboot req'd), reinstalled Sygic beta after rebooting => Sygic was happy and found its data and maps

- face unlocking is cool :cyclops:

- where is the *!% calendar?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] babar.asghar:
Has anyone come across a problem where by any of the tones change by itself? Makes me kinda suspicious :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] r9c12j34:
There is now Apkhot_lenovo750_4.0.4_0706_V2.1_Smilevvv.zip on the bg8dup profile.

Guess V3 was a fork, and V2.1 is a mod/development of V2? its 207Mb.

Also there is a A65 rom on the profile 'Apkhot_LeWa_ROM_A65_12.07.06.zip', I'll have to try it out on one of my A65s...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] r9c12j34:
Looks like they changed their minds on the V2.1 rom, it's been taken down and there is now Apkhot_lenovo750_4.0.4_0707_Smilevvv.zip on the site.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dzenk:
What are advantages of the Apkhot ROM towards the cybermaus ROM beside the multilanguage?

Actualy I like the round Icons from Lenovo...

Cybermaus I think that the guys that are cooking the ROMs don't do anything else as you do - combine different files. Jou're staying on your path - keeping the original Lenovo rom, clean the files that have no use for normal users and solve the bugs.

So I see it as YOUR rom.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] oz42:
I just checked it, seems to be chinese/english only. Lots of chinese apps included.

Is there any way to extract the German locale from the Apkhot_lenovo750_4.0.4_0623_YS_V3_Smilevvv ROM?