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[Android General] thebighunt:
From china.

Aliexpress is just a portal to tons of different sellers. Some are good, some are less.

Cheers

TBH
[Android General] zbeyuz:
I think you better don't buy from Fastcardtech. Their services are very bad.
[Android General] dmtk41:
Hi zbeyuz,

You seem to be satisfied with your phone. Can you tell me which supplier you buy from.

Abt the phone, how its battery life, wifi, 3g signal, camera, speaker?

Does it fast as the clips show?

Thanks.
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

I'm on the way to the post office ;-)

I'll give you info on it. On my side, the ebay seller was very efficient. He sent the phone the day he receive the payment and sent me the tracking number immediately.

6 days if shippingbut i'm in singapore.

Cheers

TBH

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[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

So, yes, i got it.

Woow, what a really nice phone.

I took picture if it,

My first impression.

It's well finished even if the back cover is not perfect.

High contrasted and very fine screen. IPS i think. I'm ompressed by it.

The speed : like on the yt video. Everything answer immediatly.

App : market and standards app.

Dual sim ::: coool . I put one singaporean simcard and one french. Both of them where reconized. You can name them, set the priority of witch one is uses by default fir call, sms etc.

Wifi is working well also.

Gps... Dont know if it was with wifi but wirked well fast.

Well... I'm really satisfied.

But here, in sinfapore, for 200sg$, i can have the xperia p ... So

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[Android General] thebighunt:
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[Android General] wlado93:
Hi, this phone looks great. I think that I will buy it :D

I have some questions for people who have it: Does it support USB HOST ? (to connect USB devices). On google I found that CPU MTK6575 has 2 cores, is it true ? Has this phone 2 cores ? Camera make nice photos, or is it like others chinese phone ? And the last one, GTA III will run without bug ?

Thanks :)

And....is this the sama phone like your ?

"Black P05-X26I" ...from tinydeal.com

(I can't add link, because I don't have 10 posts :D )
[Android General] Mobyman.nsk:
Please, upload few photos taken by this phone?

Indoor-Outdoor, (short-far distance). Thanks in advance!
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

I'm writing from my new x26i ;-)

Ok, no it's a single core but they say dual core because of one for the cpu and one for the gpu...

The camera...

Yes, i'll do photo in and out door, short znd far.

But i could say that the camera is the "less" side of the phond. I've just looked at the video mode. Low def and not very efficient.

I'll do example tomorrow.

Cheers

But it's a nice fast dual sim phone. I love it !!!

TBH

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[Android General] wlado93:
Thanks :) and what about USB HOST ?
[Android General] ColonelZap:
I have 3 sample pictures right there:

http://colonelzap.blogspot.de/2012/06/star-xperia-s-lt26i-x26i-dualsim.html
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hello

Yes, when i plug the usb cable to my computer, i can activate thf usb storage function on the phone and then, i see two new drives, the internal storage and the sdcard.

I've played with the phone yesterday night and i have three "less" comments to add.

- if i plug an iphone type of earphone with integrated microphone (the jack has four contact) then, the phone doesnt detect the earphone plugged. So, if you listen music, then it's played in the earphone and on the speaker... But if i plug a normal one, it works.

- my touchscreen is 2-3mm shift to the top. Not the screen but the touch calibration. It means that i have to put my finger 2-3 mm high of everything. Not a big issue and i think it depend of the phone.

- a small. The sticker that represent the touch function at the bottom is not very good. We can see at night the led behind.

That's alll for the moment

TBH
[Android General] dmtk41:
Hi TBH,

That's mean it make harder when we type message and can't touch the most top area of the screen.

Have you tried to re-calibrate your phone?
[Android General] thebighunt:
No because it's just 1-3 mm...

How do you recalibrate the screen ?

TBH
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

I've tryed the 3g sim card in the sim dock 1 and a gsm french in the 2 nd.. and it wirks well !!!!!

Happy :-)

TBH

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[Android General] zbeyuz:
In my opinion, this phone is really a good phone, but it will need better firmware to run on. Any dev want to make a custom rom for this phone is really welcome :D
[Android General] Enigmaximus:
want to buy Star X26i

hey guys. anyone heard or dealt with aliexpress before? saw this phone for around 145 usd with free shipping. any thoughts?
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

I really think that the actual firmware is good enought.

It's fast, complete and reliable.

No really, the thing that miss to this phone is a good camera.

For aliexpress, as it's only a portal, you can find good and less goox provider on it.

Cheers

TBH

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[Android General] thebighunt:
Two pictures taken today with it

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[Android General] thebighunt:
The camera has an autofocus.. i'll activate it next time..

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[Android General] zbeyuz:
Do you have GPS and 3G working properly ? :confused:
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Yes i have. I've tested it today in the bus.

I was in 3g and my position on gmap was good and moving.

TBH
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Really, I don't know why I can't get it work ?

Which SIM slot are you using now ? SIM 1 or SIM 2 ?
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Did you also happen to have all the essential apps like: Youtube, Skype, What apps,... inside Google Play ??
[Android General] tamotvn:
newbie

hello i am wanting to buy it

can you review for me about camera, battery ...

this is the 1 time i use android

can you show me detail how to root it (nomally i see they use superoneclick)
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Yed, but even without rooting it, i've already installed the market. From it, i've installed the yt, facebook, whatsapp, skype, pulse, etc...

It works by default

TBH

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[Android General] thebighunt:
@tamatovn

To root it, i've just followed the procedure of the first page of this thread.

The batery looks good but not ultra powerfull... i mean, if you usre a lot the phone during the day (surf in 3g, music, videos yt...) it's near empty at the end of the day.

The camera is not really good to be honest. Good to skype or take picture on the way but it's not an iphone...

Here some shots.

TBH

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[Android General] thebighunt:
Anothet exemple

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[Android General] imrenor:
Hi Guys,

I also have an x26i as a second phone. My primary is still an older x18i. Compared to the x18i the x26i is lightning fast. But I have 3 main issues with x26i that keeps it only a secondary phone of mine...

1) Wifi, looses connection all the time, takes about 30 seconds to reconnect. When connected is about half as fast as the x18i's wifi.

HSDPA works flawlessly tho.

2) GPS, I'm in Hungary, finds no satellites at all... I guess I would need a correct gps.conf file after rooting it. But the x18i worked out of the box from the first time.

3) This is my biggest concern. The NetworkLocationService that is supposed to tell where you are based on mobile towers when you are connected to the internet. That is not working at all on the x26i. I have no idea why. Maps only say my location is not available. I have both network location option and allow google to use my location option enabled in location menu. No matter whether I'm connected by wifi or by 3G it won't find my location.

Finally does anyone have a download link to the original frimware files? Would be good to have them in case something goes wrong.

If anyone comes across a custom recovery for the phone, please also post it here.

Cheers!
[Android General] lansi23:
hi all, i realised that when using wifi, the battery drains real quick.

OP posted a change to build.prop, has anyone tried it?
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Globaly, the battery drains fast. One day i think without intensive use of the phone.

I let both sim cards turn on and one is 3g. I lost 30% this morning without use it a lot.

Cheers

TBH
[Android General] chimo65:
Originally Posted by admonish

I have only tried one of the sim card slots, which works flawlessly. The 3G part is also working like it should.

I can also confirm that the GPS works with Google Maps

Hello , I have problem with GPS and A-GPS dont work well with Google Maps. Have you a solution ? , when I open Maps say : "Login Failed" and after say "your current location is temporally unavailable".

I root the phone with "TPSparkyRoot" , I need Recovery.img (CWM or 592zn.com.recovery) for this phone , if someone has it and can send me I'll be grateful. I also know that in the case of N8000 Star had the same problem with A-GPS and google permits and have released a new firmware, I have installed the one with the factory.

I hope your news , Thanks

Hello , Some X26i have this problem with Google Map location, if someone finds the solution or any new firmware that can fix this, please say so in the forum. My firmware is: e1809c_v75_jdt1.

Greetings, Ximo
[Android General] vlpr:
Hello,

I also got X26i as my second phone, first is x18i. x18i had almost everything working out of the box. X26i doesn't recognize My location, as described in previous posts.

Also, it seems Skype video call doesn't work. Anybody sucsessful with Skype video call?
[Android General] dmtk41:
I even don't get my phone yet. I paid an order to androidforcheap.com via visa card. I shared them a scan of my identification and visa card to verify that I'm the legal card's holder as they requested. But then they said that my scan is invalid and refuse to deliver the phone. I try to contact them to ask the refund me but there is no respond from them. :(.

can someone here give me an advice what should I do now?
[Android General] lansi23:
battery life really bad.

modded the build.prop as per OP post.

Added these 2 lines and rebooted:

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=150

net.tcp.buffersize.wifi=4096,87380,256960,4096,163 84,256960

not sure if it helps, but such a nice phone and battery only lasts half a day.

display brightness is all the way to 0%.

90% of the time on wifi, 10% on 3g.

anyone else have any other ideas?
[Android General] admonish:
After applying the modification you did do build.prop my phone can go about 2 days before I have to charge it.

But there is no doubt about it, wifi really drains power, so I try to avoid using wifi the best I can. 3G data connection is much more modest in power consumption.
[Android General] lansi23:
no matter what i do, the battery doesnt last more than 6-7 hours.

wifi or 3g doesn't matter. it drains 1% every 2-3 minute, with or without use.

the phone is useless to me now.

until someone finds a solution, i will not be using this phone.

very disappointed.

:(:(:(:(:(
[Android General] vovoid:
I dont have this problem with my x26i, 1-sim 3G+2-sim GSM, 48Hours on battery now (and 56% battery left). And this with about 40min voice calls, 20mins of wifi and few mins of GPS (just trying to, GPS doesn't work good on this phone).

PS Wifi and 3G data transf. is disabled. Didnt test it with enabled wifi or 3g data.
[Android General] lansi23:
yes, without wifi and 3g, the phone last for ages.

turn either of them on, and i can't get past 6-7 hours.

defeats the purpose of having a smart phone.
[Android General] vovoid:
Just tested, and keep it wifi on, its takes less then 1% battery for a hour. What the internet-app do u using on background?
[Android General] lansi23:
hi, only thing running in the background is whatsapp.

everything else is off.

emails are on manual refresh.

i play 1 level of angry birds and 5% battery gone.

i've restored the phone to factory default and reinstalled the apps.

same issue. tested with the 2nd battery. same issue.

so sad. such a wonderful phone.

but cant use it.
[Android General] lansi23:
i did some research and installed setcpu.

found that the cpu is CONSTANTLY at the max speed of 1GHz.

it doesnt reduce the speed even with the screen is off.

default mode is performance, and i've set it to ondemand.

also set a profile to reduce cpu speed between 166 and 500 when screen is off.

monitored usage for an hour, battery still drains very quickly when the phone is in use.

when not in use, it drops 4% in 8 hours.
[Android General] lansi23:
hi guys, i've made tremendous progress.

i created a few profiles in setcpu to help manage the power.

there are 4 speeds for the phone

166 250 500 1000

when screen off

166-250

in call

166-250

screen on

166-1000

i have managed to get 1.5 days of usage, with either wifi or 3g turned on at all times.

however, when i play games, battery will go down VERY quickly.

hope this helps.
[Android General] xdenser:
I have tested continous video play.

During 2:52 video playback battery dropped from 100% to 5%.

Default CPU settings - i.e. constant 1000Mhz.
[Android General] admonish:
Good job mate! I already have two day use with constant 3G enabled without this modification. I might get to three now:)

I so wish the speed could be set to 750mhz. 500 is just too slow but 1000 seems to be more than enough to run smooth.
[Android General] lansi23:
hi guys,

i've lost 3g connection on the phone. doesn't connect to 3g anymore. use the sim card on another phone and no isses connecting to 3g.

i've factory resetted the phone and erased the SD card, still no good.

anyone have any ideas?
[Android General] iJimaniac:
Wow, this is a pretty sweet deal! Wish this was out before I got the galaxy player, since it looks so much cooler, and it has ics!

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[Android General] croccodillo:
Hello all,

I'm new here, I came to this thread searching information about the x26i smartphone.

Youd discussion is very interesting and useful.

After reading thìe thread, I decided to buy the x26i.

My question now is: where can I buy it?

There's a lot of far-east sellers, but I don't know which to trust: do you have any shop to recommend?

Thank you very much.

Ciao

Giovanni
[Android General] HyperEscape:
You can try http://www.aliexpress.com which is a reliable china website for buying, i have tried ordering some other stuff from them.

Well i have also decided to buy it .

Just have a couple of questions from the fellows who have it and have been using it :

1. Can it be rooted easily with tried and tested procedure and can you flash any new kernel for BLD/BLN enhancement for missed call notification ( a big sought after function for myself).

2. Is there a ROM which can unlock some advanced android UI and customization features like maybe LCD screen density. It can be any ported ICS ROM based on CyanogenMOD. (for example CyberGR Mod for my Samsung Google Nexus S)

3. Does the standard Google Apps like Google Play, Talk, Plus and Maps work correcting.

4. Does the GPS works correctly in determining the location when using Google Maps . If the GPS is off does the network location feature works accurately.

5. Does Skype video calling for latest skype version from Android Market run flawlessly without any issues over wi-fi or 3g/2g network.?

6. Is the screen resolution of 800x600 (which is maybe less than the original handset) good enough for the Android UI and displaying images, or does it gets blocky with pixelation. Does the screen shows all gradients of the natural color range or can you see visible banding in displaying any high resolution image/webpage/document. (This is an important thing to know since i have seen cheap china android tablets/phones which do not show all the 24bit/16million colors of the color space and show visible color banding in gradients.)

Would really appreciate if someone can answer the queries, so I can finalize about my purchase.

Thanks.
[Android General] xdenser:
Yes It can be rooted. I do not know how about kernel.

Tested Maps and Play - work Ok.

As for now GPS does not work correctly for me.

Tested over Wi-Fi - it is Ok.

This model has 800x480 screen. As for colors ... well this is not IPS nor Retina :-). But will do as for me.
[Android General] thebighunt:
The quality of the screen is very good i find. Even if it's nit a retina, the dpi not too bad.

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[Android General] zbeyuz:
Anyone comes across a custom recovery for this phone that will fix GPS ?
[Android General] croccodillo:
Hello,

Not strictly related to the smartphone, but: is there anybody that has experience with pandawill.com?

I find it really interesting, but I do not know if I can trust on that site.

Anybody already customer?

They have the x26i smartphone for a good price.

Thank you very much.

Ciao,

Giovanni
[Android General] xdenser:
My x26i ordered there. Ordered 11.06, received in Ukraine 25.06. Shipped by Hong Kong post.
[Android General] law81:
I have this smartphone too.

Anyone know if existe a default rom to download? official webpage of star?
[Android General] SuperUserMovado:
with all the fighting is it safe to assume that you are korean?
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Yes... I am from Korea ;)
[Android General] prashantjuh:
i have got this phone too , except i can not get the 3g network to work!

i live in Netherland and my provider is Vodafone.

i have tried anything , resetting the apn , and enabling the 'data toggle' , but it just doesnt work.

some solutions?
[Android General] veisen:
hello

good news

i found new way how to recovery system with ADB without root and custom recovery i post it soon but i test in now on my star N8000 first

on monday i upload full x26i rooted backup with my script
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

It seams that only one place of the two for sim can work with a 3g card.

On mine, it workd

TBH

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[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Why the star n8000 ?

I mean, as our phone is from chine, i'm sure that the hardware is probably exactly the same as another one... we should fine it then, all the dev etc should work !!

I confirm that the really bad side is the battety...

One thing interesting id that my phone went in deep sleep mode halg time only during the last 40 hrs....

Half was at 166 mhz (set with setcpu)

It shows that there should be a process idle even when the phone us of... and that's why the battery is si fasr to be empty....

TBH

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[Android General] prashantjuh:
ive tried both simcard slots and it just doesnt work

when i put my other simcard which it not prepaid, then you can see a small r above the signal bar.

Anybody help?
[Android General] lansi23:
yes i noticed that too. even though it's in sleep mode, there is still something running.

if someone can be kind enough to do some in depth investigation, it will be helpful for all of us.

currently my phone is sent back for warranty and I am expecting the replacement phone to arrive in 2 weeks.
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
Hey guys, I received this phone from a guy on ebay known as "rateme5". I have asked him for the original firmware as he has stated that the firmware on the phone right now is a custom firmware. I should receive a reply soon, when I do, I will post any links here.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Wow, that is a really good news. Hope you can receive and share it to us soon. :victory: Thanks in advance. :good:
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
I'm new to xda so I'm not sure, but, does xda allow file uploads? Since he said he will send the file.
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
Message from "rateme5":

" Hi there

Thank you for your kind reply. Noted with thanks we will email you the firmware as soon as we receive from the manufacturer. Hope for your kind patience. Have a great day:)"

Might be a while before we get it fellas :(
[Android General] Kyrie1965:
No need to wait, just use it right here, right now:

20120529_e1809c_v75_jdt1 stock firmware.

CWM recovery for e1809c_v75_jdt1.
[Android General] vovoid:
Do not even try to flash it with wrong preloader (or experements with flashing), phone will bricked to forever. And no way u will unbrick it, even flashtool cant help (other 6575 phones easily can unbricked with flashtool, but not x26i). This phone not for such experements :(

And yes, i have stock firmware(29.05.12), preloader, dsp_bl and other files. But its useless.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
So... you are saying that Kyrie1965's firmwares and recovery can't be used as it will brick x26i ?

@ Kyrie1965: Can you tell us more detail about that firmware and how to flash it. Thank you for your kindness.
[Android General] vovoid:
@zbeyuz No, its official good firmware, i said never use another phone's preloader on x26i, or u will brick ur phone
[Android General] veisen:
Multilanguage support

hello,

im uloading multilanguage deodexed files with this languages

afrikaans, amharic, bahasa indonesia,

bahasa melayu, catala, cestina, dansk,

deutsch, english, espanol, francais, hrvatski,

italiano, latviesu,lietuviu, magyar, neder;ands,

norsk bokmal, portugues, romana, rumanrsch,

slovencina, slovenscina, swahili, tagalog,

tieng viet, turkce, zulu, rus and much more

backup your old files from SYSTEM/APP and SYSTEM/FRAMEWORK by DroidExplorer and copy new file

https://rapidshare.com/files/3381689843/system.rar

it is form my new phone

my phone rom version

E1809C_V75_JDT1_20120619
[Android General] xdenser:
So there is firmware from 19.06.2012.

veisen: do you have problems with GPS in X26i?
[Android General] vovoid:
Lol, just one day.I should wait one day and do not try flashing custom... now i have brick, im so stupid...
[Android General] veisen:
no battery is realy nice and no gps problem as on my N8000 with newest software
[Android General] zbeyuz:
I thought you said the rom is a good rom and official. How did it brick your ? :confused:

Can you tell us the process of flashing the firmware ?
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Hi veisen, this thread is only for Star X26i. Please don't post firmware of other phones, because it will make people misunderstanding and ending up flashing a wrong firmware. Thank you. :laugh:
[Android General] vovoid:
I flashed rom from b79 and forget about preloader (should uncheck preloader flashing).

Its depends on firmware's type, its can be CWM and updates from sdcard,and its can be rom-dump and flashing with SP_Flashtool, or its can be official firmware and flashing with SP_MDT.

Kyrie1965 gives official firmware for SP_MDT, dated 290512. Its not fixing gps, nor camera, so u can wait.
[Android General] veisen:
OMG IM UPLOADING FILE FORM X26I newest firmware........

last X26I is exactly the same as on N8000 only comparing i have x26i and n8000
[Android General] vovoid:
"system" folder its not all firmware, can u do full rom-dump from recovery mode?
[Android General] veisen:
i can dump complete firmware by my script but i cant rebuild system.ext4.tar and data.ext4.tar partition to img i dont know real size of partition
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Does it mean that all rom etc working on your N8000 works on x26l ?

TBH
[Android General] imrenor:
Hi veisen,

did you by any chance try flashing custom recovery from N8000 to x26i?
[Android General] zbeyuz:
I don't think you can flash N8000 on x26i...
[Android General] al3nkbootas:
good news , thanx :o
[Android General] prashantjuh:
somebody help me please?
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
Where to buy

I just got my brand new x26i from android-sale.com, was a problem with the shipping, but it wasn't the sellers fault. Actually the seller was very helpful in getting it sorted out..

Will post more about seller and phone once I get it unpacked and up and running :)

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Quick question, has anyone got the English manual for the X26i they could scan or something please? - the Chinese manual I got with the phone isn't much good as I only speak English :)