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[HTC One X] Rasa11:
Does anyone know of a music widget that will only display the music and artist"now playing"?

No controls or album art, just the text of what's playing. Any ideas?

Swyped from my SGP 4.0
[HTC One X] neiljackson:
VLC media player widget
[HTC One X] Tabtoub:
N7 Player
[General Questions and Answers] DustyLv:
Hi!

Im planning to buy a new phone, but for me the good ones are too expensive, so I thought I'd give a try a China phone. But are they reliable? I know they can break very fast but maybe there is a sort of good manufacturer. Right now I'm looking at Zopo ZP100 with 1Ghz CPU and stuff, are those any good?

Also what are reliable stores to buy these from? There are some phones like this on Ebay, but I dont know really.
[General Questions and Answers] Hanzo.Hasashi:
No way dude!I would never do it.done it before with some electronic stuff from China (like the legendary sciphone!Lol what a piece of **** it was!!) I would rather save some money and buy a phone when I can afford it,or buy a used phone over eBay

Send from beneath my cloak of magic
[General Questions and Answers] yergo88:
He's right.. save your money and buy a proper phone.
[General Questions and Answers] swbf2lord:
Some Chinese developers have stolen Android and sold it as their own OS. I had a friend from China come to America as an exchange student with an Android phone that was called something else.
[General Questions and Answers] Lizman:
The Meizu Android Phones Are Great
[General Questions and Answers] sarahbaby:
I am Chinese, I bought my phone from this website, it is famous in China, but I do not know if it support English.

You could search 360buy with google
[General Questions and Answers] Igoritza:
What the .. ?

First of all - China does not equal ****. Even their unbranded products got quality boost from the recent. Small companies are making their products with almost the western standard and they are pushing through.

ZTE is a company from Shenzhen, China, That has it's range of Android phones that are pretty good, and by the way - they now have more money than Samsung and Apple ;)

Here is a nice example of how chinese phones need not to be total crap:

http://www.malata.com/en/product_detail.aspx?classid=700&id=149

I had the opportunity to check out Malata products with my own hands & eyes and I can tell you that their tablets look better than western makret tablets.

now tell me - is anything wrong with this phone .. ? cant find the price at the moment but I guarantee that it is 1/2 cheaper than new SGS2.
[General Questions and Answers] vizdak:
Check the Ainovo or Ainol. They are made in China and cheaper.
[General Questions and Answers] DustyLv:
Thanks for the many replies!

But seriously? The SciPhone? It is too crappy even when not comparing it to other China smartphones, you should check out the specs first.

That Malata phone looks nice and quite powerful.

Any info on the Zopo ZP100?
[General Questions and Answers] yergo88:
I wouldn't doubt they make quality products (after all Foxconn has the largest force of electronics assembly personal the planet has ever seen) but how about that warranty?
[General Questions and Answers] TheDeadCPU:
Get some ZTE. Or something like that.

Chinese phones tend to have max 4 hours standby.
[General Questions and Answers] KayxGee1:
I took a look at their phones, and the only thing that isn't great is the processor but that can always be overclocked. I'd buy one just to see how it performs.
[General Questions and Answers] KingKuba13:
Android is Free is it not?
[General Questions and Answers] wwweh:
There seems to be a lot of HTC clones on the chinese market.
[General Questions and Answers] DustyLv:
After reading some posts on the internet and here about these kind of phones I think I might give them a chance after all. I mean theyre cheap, I could buy another one if it breaks.

But the question now is, where to buy one? Which are good shops that wont screw you over?
[General Questions and Answers] esanchesl:
Meizu

I have to say the Meizu is a good one.

My cousin got one from china and I´ve got it in my hands.

It seems to be a powerful phone w/ fair quality.

All thing working properly, just some issues with the wifi sometimes.

Maybe I´ll get one for my son in the future... ;)
[General Questions and Answers] duck1213:
hi

but i think the china phone QC is not good
[General Questions and Answers] Lizman:
Eh HTC Produces Alot Of Their 'Clones' For The Chinese Markets

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No They Don't
[General Questions and Answers] Igoritza:
Yes they do ;) Value of a company is not estimated via pure financials but with estimation of market, realestate, workload, location ... ZTE has been a player for more than 20 years in China selling network euipment and their manufacture department is 5-6x bigger than any other company, and they also hold many many departments that do not go into fiscal calculation but still earn a shi*load of money.

they are also suppliers for more than 20 companies and their official sales are less than 10% of total earning.

and for the final conclusion, do the math yourself:

Apple/foxcon - 33.000 workers

ZTE - 90.000 workers

they all work in china where everyone on the same position is payed pretty much the same cash. How come ? ;)
[General Questions and Answers] aabb100:
most smartphone should comes with multi languages support
[General Questions and Answers] neverover:
Not all Chinese Android are all that bad. FYI, almost 99% of all the high end phone is made in China (Samsung S3, iPhone, Lumia, etc). What really made the difference in the past is their software that looks like hell. But since, nowadays they came with Android, I'd say no big difference when it came to Chinese phone. In my country, Chinese phone like Nexian have the same after-sales service in terms of warranty and stuff. If you have a limited budget, then I'd say go with it :)
[General Questions and Answers] Lizman:
Samsung Has Over 350.000 Workers

Arrest My Case

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There IS A Big Difference

There's Atleast 30 Differences Ranging From Hardware To Software
[General Questions and Answers] ByAnonYmoUs:
Zopo ZP100?Never heard of it...:confused:

But don't be so subjective some of the chinese phones are really nice and cheap.
[General Questions and Answers] Allanitomwesh:
Here's the manufacturers you can trust in China

Meizu

ZTE

Huawei

Xiaomi

Lenovo

Or if you're feeling dirt cheap confirm a cortex chipset before buying,most knockoffs have the rockchip,which is pathetic.

Hit thanks if I helped

Imetumwa kutoka U8150 kutumia XDA
[General Questions and Answers] toffzter:
If you want cheap phones that are reliable, look up these names: Lenovo, Zopo, and THL. You can find good Chinese phone models here: www.chinaphonereview.com
[General Questions and Answers] XDeviateX:
Because their communist?
[General Questions and Answers] damian5000:
Many Chinese phones are fine. Anything with the new MTK 6575 CPU will run anything out there. 1ghz and have PowerVR GPU for gaming. Scores 3600+ on Antutu test.

Star makes some very decent phones with these CPU's. Also, the Lenovo a750 uses MTK 6575 and is $150 shipped. A model to look at with very nice photo quality is the Zopo zp100 @ $200 shipped.

Some negatives... Are they going to be dual or quad core? No. But, the average or even above average user shouldn't be bothered by that. Will it be a pain in the ass to get it serviced under the warranty? Yes. (shipping/wait time/etc...)

Positives are that they're inexpensive.. And, they are dual-sim. They are now coming with ICS, front facing camera, light-sensor and industry leaders are starting to use these MTK CPU's which should tell you something.

Whoever said you get 4 hours standby is full of it. You should get at least 2-3 days standby and about 4+ straight hours actual use (talk/internet surfing/movie).

I think it's silly spending $400 on a PHONE you could lose/drop/have stolen, when there are fine $150 ones that'll do most everything.
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
Sorry to say that many trolls just post negative things about Chinese products without seeing or used. I wanted to buy a chinese car. I searched and posted something a question on the internet. Believe me I got many negative replies, all of them without even seeing the car. Ultimately I bought that car. It is almost one year with me and I am more than happy with it. It is better than Toyota and many others with half the price.

I would like the trolls to stop this behaviour.
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
There are many new phones now available which are more better than the so called leaders with almost half the price.
[General Questions and Answers] :
In the last 2 years I directly imported

GPS(SatNAV)

Dual-SIM Android tablet

Phone

In each case

Features equal to if not even better than comparable brand-name product.

Quality very good.

Price a third lower than comparable brand-name product.

Warranty ? (no device became defective until now)

Never buy a cheap device. This almost will be scrap, if not scam in worst case. Quality simply has its price.

EDIT:

Only buy at stores which provide a customer feedback to products offered.
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
Which store you are buying from? Which are reliable stores in your opinion? Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Don't want to promote any store here, thanks for understanding.

BTW, first of all you should visit this site to get an idea of what phones currently are offered, IMHO. Then you really will be able to contact manufacturer/seller of the phone of your choice ...

If a price per 1 item isn't mentioned do not hesitate to ask for it. Also ask for payment, shipping conditions. That's the way I always did it (told them I need the device for testing purposes)...
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
Thanks for your reply...what is the benefit of telling them that you want the phone for "testing purpose"..thanks again.
[General Questions and Answers] :
I used this "lie" if Min. Order: > 1 Pieces was a requirement :) Worked !!!
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
Thanks.:good:
[General Questions and Answers] mbrock5532:
My concern with buying the less expensive Chinese phones would be upgrading them. It can be difficult enough upgrading the name brand phones. I would think with these Chinese phones that you're pretty much going to be stuck with whatever comes on it. Are there XDA developers releasing custom ROM's for any of these phones?

I haven't done a lot of research on them, just saying it's something to think about and look into further before pulling the trigger. You may get a cheap price, but not much you can do with it.

Also, make sure it will work on your carrier. I'm on Sprint, so it's more difficult to find phones that will work with Sprint than other networks that use SIM's.
[General Questions and Answers] 20vakaris00:
If you want better performance just save up and buy the original I suggest them xperia phones
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
Words the live by. If it seems too good to be true. Then it is.

China phones are normally knock offs without the hardware they state they have and run unofficial versions of android that will never be updated. My advice would be to never buy a China based device.

Wayne Tech S-III
[General Questions and Answers] :
Official ROMs vs unofficial alternatives

Ever disassembled a Chinese made phone like that you can confirm it are other construction units contained than stated?

Since ages XDA developers present enormous amount of unofficial ROMs, initially cooked for personal purpose and then published at XDA. Why should chinese OEMs not to be allowed this to do, too?

Only bad is most of Chinese phones come with locked bootloader ... So it's mostly impossible to re-flash such one with a custom ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
For the first part of your post. Yes I have.

For the second part. We follow all laws concerning this. Including gpl laws and copyrights. If one of the OEM demanded that we pulled all OEM roms then we would and have done so in the past.
[General Questions and Answers] Igoritza:
ok, just found this:

http://www.gizchina.com/2013/01/03/zophone-s9-dual-core-samsung-galaxy-s3-clone/

if this guy is working for chinese, then buying such device would be .. ok I guess. If you have english speaking dev that would probably help with stuff and roms, then it should be good, I guess.

also, check out these:

http://android-sale.com/

My favorite just because of the phone name:

http://android-sale.com/kungfu-k3.html

If you look at the details of the devices these guys made, this doesnt seem bad at all. this Note2 clone has amazing specs + MTK CPU in it which is a direct clone of Quallcom architecture, and can also be found in Alcatel phones:

http://android-sale.com/n7100-5-3-inch-screen-1ghz-dual-core-1gb-ram-android-4-1-phone.html
[General Questions and Answers] bozie:
I am a current sufferer of the china clone market. Ihave had my tablet for just over a month and it has started to play up. Contact with seller is null and void. So in my opinion do your research first, get as meny opinions as you can, then do more research. And lastly use google maps to make sure the seller isn't shipping from a bambo hut
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
I am not saying they won't work for some people. All I will say is don't expect any roms or development posted here for them. As no real developer will work on a cloned device. We are very much against it.

Wayne Tech S-III
[General Questions and Answers] zelendel:
As far as Xiomi goes they have not proven themselves as they still refuse to follow the gpl laws. MIUI is still not respected around these forums as they took alot of their coding from CM and then made it closed source. As you notice none of the device have a forum here nor will they.

As for the guy you posted about if you look at his account here he has been banned from the site. And he is not a Developer here. He may have an account but so do many.

Dont get me wrong I am not saying all devices from China are bad. Not in the least. It is the ones that dont follows the laws as stated by the gpl which i hate to say most do not. Mix in that a few have a huge backing from the China based gov alot of their software encludes logging software to monitor the public. This is legal there but not everywhere and they refuse to come clean about it even after the cod is found and shown to them.

XDA doesnt support any type of clones as they break copyright laws and XDA doesnt support that in any way shape or form.
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
Thanks for the detailed review of Chinese phones.

Do we have any English support forum for Huawei, Xiaomi and Oppo?

I am interested to try one. Thanks once again.
[General Questions and Answers] Igoritza:
Ok, im definitely bying! :D

I would ask anyone for advice, about the choices. I would only take a phone that at least has dev thread over here, because it seems that many people are interested in phones that are no longer clones but seem good. almost every ZOPO phone has its own thread with some kind of development. here are my choices, as im interested in >5.0 inch phones:

1. UMI X2 (Wait for it ...)

the most awesome device that would come out of china. 1080p, quad core, all the popular techno shiet, and it would cost ridiculously low - 260 usd.

2. ZOPO ZP950

costs 230 usd, and it has awesome specs. already has 50 pages on this forums.

3. ZOPO ZP900 Leader (cheaper choice phablet)

at 5inch, looks awesome but seems to have some bugs, and only a few pages on XDA. I would like to go cheaper, but it seems that this is not so much popular device as are much newer and fresher ZOPO models (aforementioned ZP950 and ZP810)

what would you recommend ?
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
Thanks for your reply. I have already ordered Zopo Zp950 +, a few days ago and my shipment is already in Hong Kong dhl. I hope I will receive it in few days.

Out of all the Chinese phones, I found that only zopo is having a support forum in English meaning that they are serious in dealing with the foreigners.
[General Questions and Answers] mirchichamu:
Ya.. I got my zp950+ well in time and all the things I ordered. It is working well according to my expectation. Except a minor problem of, I think a software problem that auto mode for brightness is not working. There is already a patch for that on the support site. Wifi is very good, tethering is working... Data is working. Screen is good. Battery life is good. Video playback is good. Camera is very good.
[General Questions and Answers] hackgrid:
In my experience china phones are not bad, but you never get updates and the battery life sucks. Also you have a hard time finding custom roms for them.
[General Questions and Answers] yzak58:
Buy it if you dont wanna spend a lot of money on a phone

FIrst of all, my dad bought a Zopo phone last week,not ZP100 but ZP950+

The phone is kinda good, the built quality is pretty decent.

Screen clarity/viewing angle is also good,but its not Gorilla Glass.

Performance is also neat, got a score of around 11,200 an Antutu ( that is above Galaxy S2 and 1st Note).

And ya,the phone supports English although almost everything else that came with it(User's manual, text on the batery etc) were entirely in chinese.

I think the ROM is almost Pure Android without any cutomization by ZOPO, so no need to bother about bumping into chinese stuff on your phone.

:highfive:

The only fault I could find is its charger. The charging pin is a bit loose

But from my POV, the main downside of buying a Zopo (or most of the lesser know brand's phones) is the lack of development section [but ZP950 has got one,but active members are very low when compared to other threads].

And btw, go for something with at least 1GB of RAM
[General Questions and Answers] Oriann:
Definitly dont buy Chinese piece of crap ! Save your money and buy good smartphone for yourself....I had one of theese chinese ****s and the phone was unable to do anything just after 3 months...I dont do it anything ..it just stopped working and my display was blinking when I try to start it ...
[General Questions and Answers] bowserm:
I would have to agree. I bought a Star S5, and it will not pickup any cell reception here in Canada. I cannot get any answers from the interwebs. So basically I paid 254 for an iPod touch.. Save and get a used good device.
[General Questions and Answers] Phyllis Gao:
worth a try

Really some Cinese brands phone is not so good, BUT also some are good. anway, the largest phone industries are in China, and now many Chinse brand phone use android OS, the most important, it is wel-known that the price of phnes in China is the lowets in the world. sugget you have a try. such as HUAWEI, MEIZU, Newsmy are all receive extremely good reputation in China.
[General Questions and Answers] fun4game:
i think huawei phone is suitable to you.
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdussamad:
Does anyone knw where can i find AT commands for motorola atrix 4g....please need it urgent thanks
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdussamad:
can somebody help????
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] FtaWolf:
Have you tried Google it's your friend..
[Atrix 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] abdussamad:
yes i did try my friend.If my friend had answers i wouldnt be asking here
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xLoveHateLegend:
Sorry if there's a thread to post this in and I'm completely missing this but....

I was wondering what some good settings would be under the 'performance' tab in settings. I'm kinda worried to mess with them, but i'd like to set it up to optimize my battery for the most part. Any tips? :o
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lilajrestnom:
Well, I don't use CM9 so I can't really give you the kind of answer you're looking for but my guess would be just stick to the stock settings. The people who put that whole ROM together know what they're doing and the settings they set the ROM to run to are probably the best. I could be wrong, but this is just logically thinking.
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rawready:
But remember every epic is different as far as hw goes...then take in the aspect of the user (gamer, streamer, just text/call, etc...) and you really dont have 2 phones that run the same. So im sure the preset settings in cm9 are probably best-for a particular user.

I am moving from the samsung moment and am in search of a new I/O + Govener setup...everything runs so different (better) than the moment. I have yet to be satisfide with a good combo that fits my usage as well has good battery life+performance+stability...ill get one of the 3 here...and maybe 2 of the 3 there...but i want it all :cool:
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GuestD0536:
I set my cpu governor on power save.... Still fast and definitely increases battery life. Any other performance setting is really personal preference. CM9 beta3 for liiiiiiffffffeeeddd!!!!
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] MДЯCЦSДИT:
Beta3 removed power save...
[Epic 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] flastnoles11:
Wrong phone bro... this is the og epic... the one with the keyboard...
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khortonworld:
I know this has been asked before, but I just can't find a answer. I am really new to this and just wanted to use cyanogenmod because I heard it makes your phone faster.

Ok, so I really want to get Cyanogenmod (should I ask this on they're forums?) on my xperia arc, it was rogers branded, lt15a, .42. So apparently it wasn't for lt15a, so I spent hours trying to find a working rom for lt15i .42, and finally I did it. So I flashed to it and root it and get my stuff off my titanium backup, and go to install cyanogenmod from the clockworkmod menu (I installed it from xperia cwm auto-install). I go down to install from zip, blah blah blah select cyanogen's .zip, and get assert prop error lt18i. That was weird, because on the zip it says its for lt15i, and it said lt15i before when I tried using my lt15a. So I read something on here that said to remove the assert prop stuff from the updater-service file or something, so I did that. I went to install cyanogenmod and it said it was successful and it rebooted my phone. It went to the sony ericsson logo, and wouldn't leave. I go to restore it using the PC Companion update, but it just says it can't detect it. So I go to use flashtool and none of them work. But it said to turn off the phone, obviously it wouldn't turn off, so I took out the battery. Now it just won't turn back on! Have I permanantly bricked it? I can't send it in, because it had root checker and stuff on there. What do I do?

Sorry for the wall of text
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kajendran:
Didnt you take a backup before installing the zip???

If so...just restore it through CWM.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khortonworld:
It took a long time, many errors, but I do have a backup in rom manager from before I started trying to use cyanogenmod. But it didn't work when I tried it before I bricked my device, and I can't access CWM because I get stuck on sony ericsson and won't let me pass
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] p47r0n:
have you tried flashing a .img via fastboot? you say your device wont turn off after you took out the battery. However can you still put it in flashmode? getting stuck on the boot logo, for me it seems like you didn't use the fxp kernel.
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zygzoo:
and for me also... (fxp works only with theirs kernel)

try to flash fxp kernel and than restart your phone... if needed reinstall zip from sd card.

good luck!
[Xperia Arc Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] khortonworld:
How would I do that? Google only gives me results like TeamXperia roms.

The screen shuts off when I take out the battery, but when the device is on it doesn't shut off unless I take the battery out and put it back in.