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[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] aliwho:
It's crazy to me that you find the stock keyboard enjoyable. It kills me.

I recommend SwiftKey X (in the market, not free) or the SwiftKey 3 beta (register for their VIP forums for a DL link, free, but beta).
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Bralgar:
+1 for swiftkey x....i bought it earlier this year and love it....money well spent
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] shook187:
I tried to enjoy the stock keyboard but today I gave up on it, which is sad cause I liked the stock keyboard on my 3D. I'm using SlideIT keyboard for now.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] .torrented:
I like to use the HTC IME and Swiftkey X and my absolute favorite is Thumb Keyboard, reason being is that you can change the size of the buttons and layout so you can have a large or small spacebar or w/e
[Motorola Photon 4G] dschoms:
Some of my reading implies that there are third party camera apps that provide higher quality images than the Mororola app. I have played around with FX Camera Zoom and it seems to be OK. In this forum's august opinion, what is the best camera app for the highest quality images ?

The second question is: can the camera shutter button default be changed to default to another app?
[Motorola Photon 4G] dsims7_2000:
I only use FxCamera and I love it. The only good/bad is manual upload to FB or Google, but I'm cool with that. The real reason I switched is the timer as I did not have many pictures of myself!

As for your second question, no clue! sorry!
[Motorola Photon 4G] Acvice:
I like procapture. To get the full 8mp youll need the paid version though. And no, the camera button mapping is built into the kernel itself. A third party app wont change it.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mof9336:
Camera Zoom FX I find the images and the options to be far superior to the stock app.
[Motorola Photon 4G] kbrn:
I use Camera Zoom FX and I use more Camera 360 Ultimate.
[Motorola Photon 4G] mof9336:
Camera 360 does have nice hdr options
[Motorola Photon 4G] Achilles1987:
Try Vignette as a camera app.

Try Autodesk's Pixlr o matic or Instagram for post processing.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Hi, I have just bought the phone called Star X26i from Android-Sale: Star X26i

It is quite a good phone with beautiful screen and buttons. ;)

UPDATE 1: How to root Star X26i by using TPSparkyroot: Thanks to admonish & Ferny_77

1. ( Optional ) Download Android SDK and install from here: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

2. Download TPSparkyroot OR ROOT v5 Eng By Canerpense

3. Run adb.exe.

4. Run TPSparkyRoot.exe and follow instructions.

UPDATE 2: Original Firmware 19th June ( Not tested ) : Many thanks to AshleyJackson94 for the firmware. Instruction is brought to you by zBeYuz :p

0. Download Original Firmware 19th June

1. MTK 6575 Driver must be installed ( Turn off the phone, take out the battery and plug into the PC, it will ask for installing a new device ):

2. Download MTK 6575 Flash Tool

3. a) Go to Flash tool folder and run SPMultiPortFlashDownloadProject.exe

b) Choose Factory Database --> Setup data source file: "MTK_DATABASE.mdb"

c) Choose File --> Open download agent file: "MTK_AllInOne_DA.bin"

d) Choose Scatter File: "MT6575_Android_scatter_emmc.txt" in Firmware folder.

e) Choose the figure same as the picture here: Setting For SmartPhone MPD

f) After that turn off your phone and take out the battery and then hit the "Start all" button to start the process.

g) Quickly plug in your phone into the computer and the tool should begin to flash the firmware in less than 60 seconds if the driver is installed correctly.

h) You will see the green bar which indicates " Write Ok " means you are safe to remove the phone and the process has been completed.

P/s: Good Luck and Fighting !!!

Tips & Tricks:

1. For those who have Wifi issue, can try out this code in build.prop to see whether it makes any differences:

a) Change:

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=150

b) Add below this code:

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

2-a. To reduce CPU speed in order to save the battery:

1. Install Setcpu in Google Play

2. Set Cpu to on demand instead of performance.

3. Save and monitor the battery life again.

2-b. A few profiles in setcpu to help manage the power ( Thanks to lansi23 )

There are 4 speeds for the phone:

166 250 500 1000

-When screen off

166-250

-In call

166-250

-Screen on

166-1000

3. Thanks angelobiz: For remove old, hidden driver you can see this: http://www.tech-recipes.com/rx/504/how-to-uninstall-hidden-devices-drivers-and-services/

4. Thanks caviar44: This is a tool to remove old drivers: USBDeview v2.11. Just right click on driver instance and then choose "uninstall selected devices".

5. Moborobo - The Android Smartphone PC Manager ( You can use it to install apps, make a backup, blah blah ) : Moborobo

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

Fighting !!! :good:
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Anyone ?
[Android General] toffzter:
How much is Star X26i? I think it is the same as the Star Xperia S LT26.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
I bought it for $165 including shipping fee :D
[Android General] zbeyuz:
This two phones are the same, no difference !
[Android General] pompyz:
By the way, who is the manufacturer of this Star X26i phone. Any website ....any idea???
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Sorry, I have no idea who was the manufacturer :(
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Up for this topic :D
[Android General] Mobyman.nsk:
I was very sad when I saw the reviews (talkingmobi. com/?p=3015).

Also, he demonstrated screenshot of android-sale. :(

Sorry 4 my english.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
I don't know why I can't load the link above. Can you tell me why you don't like this phone ? As I am having one and quite satisfied with it.
[Android General] Mobyman.nsk:
He wrote - x26i have MTK6573 processor (Freq: 640MHz), but at the price specified android-sale = 1GHz. I do not know who to believe.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Ok, I got it. Since there are two versions of this phone, one with MTK6575, which is 1Ghz processor, is my phone and the cheaper version runs MTK6573 which is 640MHz.

I think you should get MTK6575 version as it will make a big difference.
[Android General] drmosh:
could be similar to the Star N8000, same specs, there is a root procedure for the N8000 in the Star N8000 thread but don't know if it will work for this phone...
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Thanks drmosh, I will try it out :D
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi, i've bought one that i should receive next week.

Any root procedure or rom to update it ?

TBH
[Android General] admonish:
I'v had this phone for a couple of days now and Im loving it. There is only one small downside, wifi SUCKS the battery out of this one. So I hope a future rom or modification can remedy this.

I managed to root it today using TPSparkyroot:)

Someone let me know if I should post the build.prop file for modification possibilites. Maybe there is something that can be edited to lower wifi battery drain:)
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi and thanks

I hope that there will have enought user to build a kind if "community" here as this phone is new.

But i also think that the hardware is quite similar as lot of other china droid phone...

Does the two sims cards work well ?

Cheers

TBH
[Android General] 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:)
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Hi admonish, I also used TPSparkyroot to root but not successful. Can you upload your root files through Mediafire for me so that I can post it on the first page for people who owned this phone and wanted to root. Thanks a lot. ;)

Btw, I am also in love with this phone :D and about wifi issue, you can try this code out in build.prop to see whether it makes any differences:

1. Change:

wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=150

2. Add below this code:

net.tcp.buffersize.wifi=4096,87380,256960,4096,16384,256960

FIGHTING !!!
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

I think this phone will be a success (china phone i mean).

Perhaps, someone should adk for a forum special page ?

Cheers

TBH
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
ooo you can switch them? - could you please tel me how? I would love to have my 32GB sdcard as the main one :)
[Android General] admonish:
For some reason my GPS started working today. I have tried several tweaks earlier to get it going with little success.

All I did was to boot the phone into factory mode by holding in power button + volume down during boot. From there I entered the "test item" menu and ran a GPS test. It displayed some numbers I did not understand but they did change as I moved the phone around.

I then downloaded the GPS Status and toolbox app from the Play store. In the app I went into "tools" and manage A-GPS state. From there I chose reset, went back to the same menu and this time chose download. After a couple of seconds I got a GPS lock. I then excited the app and went into Google Maps (where the GPS has never worked for me, even though I thought it did earlier) and now the GPS got a lock after only a couple of seconds.

Let me know if running the GPS test in recovery mode somehow activates the GPS for you guys. If not, I can give more information about the other tweaks I have performed in the past.

Edit: If anyone wonders how to navigate in factorymode the home button is used as "enter"
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
now on ebay

Just a heads up for those wanting to get this phone, it has now appeared on ebay, reasonable price too :)
[Android General] modelman1968:
Dual Sim while roaming - Not solved!

My happy bunniness was shortlived, phone's still not holding the signal constant on the roaming sim - any more suggestions welcome.

I did find a nifty little funtion though, if you press the on/off key and volume down key together when the phone is on it takes a capture of the screen and saves it to your photos file.
[Android General] gnoober64:
swapping sdcard and sdcard 2

1. copy all the content of the internal memory to your sdcard

2. find voId.fstab

its located in root/system/etc.

3. edit it so it looks like this:

## Vold 2.0 Generic fstab
## - San Mehat (san@android.com)
##

#######################
## Regular device mount
##
## Format: dev_mount <label> <mount_point> <part> <sysfs_path1...>
## label - Label for the volume
## mount_point - Where the volume will be mounted
## part - Partition # (1 based), or 'auto' for first usable partition.
## <sysfs_path> - List of sysfs paths to source devices
######################

## Example of a standard sdcard mount for the emulator / Dream
# Mounts the first usable partition of the specified device
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard2 emmc@fat /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.0/mmc_host
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.1/mmc_host
## Example of a dual card setup
# dev_mount left_sdcard /mnt/sdcard1 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.0/mmc_host/mmc0
# dev_mount right_sdcard /mnt/sdcard2 auto /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.1 /devices/platform/mtk-sd.2/mmc_host/mmc2

## Example of specifying a specific partition for mounts
# dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard 2 /devices/platform/goldfish_mmc.0 /devices/platform/msm_sdcc.2/mmc_host/mmc1

youre basically just swapping the allocated names/paths.

this is the content of my file right there. so try it.

makes life a lot easier working with this phone.

problem is: NEVER take the sdcard out and start the phone. I can not guarantee for anything, but especially not for the outcome of that one.

let me know how it goes.
[Android General] tour4fun:
Just got this phone. I see the Google play app, press on it and brings me to the screen with a shopping bag. There is a 'continue' button to hit, but nothing happens.

I used the browser to go to the store, when I tried to purchase a game, it said i needed to use the app.

Help please :confused:
[Android General] sjoerdvanhoof:
Dutch dictionary

Is there someone who can please explain me how I add a Dutch dictionary on my phone? I want a dictionary for auto-completing, since that doesn't work. Do I have to root my phone and what do I have to do then? Please help....
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
Well, I don't have the "wifi.supplicant_scan_interval=150" in my build.prop, anyone knows why? or do I have to add it too? where should I? thanks.
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
Thank you for that, I tried it out and it didn't seem to work, sdcard was still sdcard and sdcard2 was sdcard2

Will give it another go someyime and see if I can make it work :)

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Doing a quick google for the phrase "add dutch dictionary to android phone" shows up some promising results :) - try that, one may work for you...
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
I didn't have it either, so I just wrote it in.
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
Quick question, has anyone tried putting this phone back to either Honeycomb or Gingerbread or put it forward to Jellybean??

Reason for asking is as you might have already noticed, we have no LED notifications on our phones, and the little research I have done shows that it seems they broke it in ICS....
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
But the reason is that the phone doesn't have the LED, no matter the OS you put...
[Android General] pdmx:
led

My x26i has a red led, blinking on call.
[Android General] xdenser:
It is proximity sensor led.
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
That's it, it's not a notification LED.
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
thanks for the replies guys, I had been reading that the xperia did have a bug that ICS stopped the LED from working, and I just figured that since our phones are a copy of the xperia that we had the same bug, thanks for clearing that up for me :)
[Android General] pdmx:
Same here...
[Android General] sirkill59:
I have no idea waht i'm doing, any help would be awesome

Argh, I am an android noob i supose, infact this is my first smartphone, i am very interested in rooting, but i dont understand how to install the drivers, i do what the instructions in tps sparkyroot say but i am clearly missing something because its not working, how do i get usb debugging to work, I am on vista 64 bit version but when i click the driver install things they dont work, it just gives me some bizzare error message about not being able to find the driver software, i have no idea why its not working or what i'm doing wrong, any help would be greatly appreciated, also i looked at some other driver installation things, and they have exes, this one has setup information files.

Edit: jesus that was complicated, didnt realize i had to take the battery out for these drivers to install

Edit number 2: LOL when i put the battery back in it no longer sees the driver as there, how do i do this now
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
well I no expert, but to get it to work for me in windows 7 64-bit I had to run things as admin and not normal user..

dunno if this helps or not..
[Android General] Ferny_77:
root

hello! I root my X26i with this and it is ok !
[Android General] bctc:
Problem with GPS

Hi,

I'm struggling with GPS on this phone for weeks now without a satsfying solution : I have fast fixes (using AGPS for example) but whatever app I use (iGo Primo, Google navigation) I experience problems :

After the fix, a few seconds or a few minutes later, the GPS seems unsynced : speed is wrong, position is wrong. Some apps try ton compensate the "signal loss" by guessing (based on previous pos and speed) where I am but it usually leads to ridiculous results (it is a function designed for when you enter a tunnel). Sometimes, the app "sees" the satellites for a few seconds but it does not last for long and GPS is unusable on this device. I told the phone to sync its time/date on GPS time but it doesn't help.

Some people reported that using "gps monitor" would help but in my case it doesn't. Several times, it even fools the GPS and iGo Primo "sees" me a few (20-50) meters off the road. I have also noticed that pulling the notification area and closing it would get the fix back for a few seconds (maybe it was just a coincidence).

The strange thing is that if I run GPS Status (free app) I see *no* signal loss, always 5 to 8 satellites are locked. I have tried on a 2.5 hour trip, the speed is correct. This leads me to thinking it's not a hardware problem.

So it might be "tuneable". Some polling rate to increase or decrease ? Some "helper app" to install ? (I don't care about battery drain)

I have seen that the Star Note device (Star N9000 ?) has the same kind of problems.

Do you experience the same behaviours ? Have a clue ? An idea ? Please share, thanks !
[Android General] sirkill59:
The root isnt the problem, the drivers are, I cannot install teh drivers, therefore when i turn on usb debuging it doesnt see the phone
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Turn off the phone, take out the battery and plug into the PC, it will ask for installing a new device :good:
[Android General] gtgelo:
charging from a 230V screen goes crazy

Hello

I have a problem with my phone x26i. When charging from a 230V screen goes crazy and nothing can be done. When charging the laptop USB port, everything is OK. What could be the reason?
[Android General] sirkill59:
I did this, but when i put the battery back in and turn on debugging it still asks me to install drivers.... what am i doing wrong?
[Android General] zbeyuz:
What are you trying to do ? Are you trying to flash a new firmware ? :confused:
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
I found this as well, a tech friend told me it is because the charger that ships with the phone is not totally compatiable with my countries power supply, and that causes the wierd behaviour..

I get around this problem by either using the usb on computer, or else I use a "power bank" that I got on ebay.. :) :)
[Android General] sirkill59:
No, I'm trying to root the phone, but when i plug it in and turn on usb debugging and the phone is on, the rooting program says device not found and doesnt let me root the phone.

I assume that to use usb debugging i need to have some sort of drivers... but the ones provided do not work. I installed the drivers with the battery out, but when i put the battery back in and plug in the phone and try to root it, it continues to say drivers have not been found and both of the root programs do not find my device
[Android General] zbeyuz:
If your PC didn't ask to install a new driver that meant something was wrong. You should try on another computer or laptop to see whether the results are the same. Because normally when I plug my phone in with usb debugging on, it will ask for installing a new driver.

You also can try Moborobo in Tips + Tricks section 5, to see if your phone can be recognized.
[Android General] sirkill59:
oh my god i love you. the moborobo thing found the drivers and installed them for me. Root took 5 minutes and everything worked out perfectly.:good::good:
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Oh you did it :good: You are welcome :laugh:
[Android General] gtgelo:
Welcome.

In fact, the problem was in the charger. I was in the store today to test several chargers and compatible was a phone charger from samsung. Now I can charge the phone and use images at the same time :). Thanks again for the idea :)

Regards Gelo :)
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Has anyone here know how to solve the battery draining issue of this phone yet ?
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
I use the Dolphin Companion app which has a battery saver in it, seems to work fine :)
[Android General] tetcall:
star x 26i

:confused:[Greetings to First of , I'm a rookie STAR X26İ Is it possible to update the version of Android 4.0.3 version or zopo install the top? apk update this unit, I guess there's no official website of the brand star. root and install a different rom if possible I'd share the information with friends, thank you.
[Android General] neo-3103:
Hello all!

I would like to thanks the creator of this thread, and all the contributors.

I have a Star X26i and I have a strange problem : the phone turns itself off! I think this is when I try to access to internet, it works well a few time, (with 3G and ith wifi) but after some time I'm sad to see that my phone is off...

This problem doesn't occured when I use the USB teethering function.

I've read some pages on this thread, I've seen things about battery calibration, do you think that it could be a battery problem?

I'm very satisfied about this phone but the problem I have is very annoying...

PS: excuse my english since it is not my mother tongue :)
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
Mine used to reset when using SetCPU profiles, but it's strange that it does it by itself.
[Android General] neo-3103:
I don't know why but I have no problem when wifi is disabled. I have no problem with the wifi. It is very hard to turn it on once the phone is down, I have to remove the battery.
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
Just wondering, anyone seem any firmware updates for our little Stars yet?

There doesn't seem to be a manufacturers web site I can find anywhere...
[Android General] xvEpicvx:
3G icon - should it remain on constantly?

Hello everyone

I recently bought this phone and really like it. I'm currently in Mexico using the company Telcel, which has 3g and 4g service. After adding a custom APN for telcel, I managed to see the 3G icon flash briefly up in the status bar, followed by an "H". But then they don't appear again. Just the green signal bars. So my question: should the 3G icon remain visible, as I've seen on other local phones?

thanks:good:
[Android General] saulob:
Does it charger with the microUSB cable or this one use that nokia plug too?

Thanks
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
Normal microUSB like almost any smartphone.
[Android General] m2privat:
Hello Guys,

is there a cover for this phone available? the cover for the original phone wouldn´t fit.

thank you
[Android General] modelman1968:
I did find a silicone bumper cover which fit, although the camera lense cutout was slighty higher. I think it was originally designed for the Sony Star phone.
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
Has anyone actually tried this method?
[Android General] neo-3103:
I have ordered one, if you wait for my answer I'll say on this thread if it fits to the phone :)
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
Thanks.
[Android General] -scarface-:
about x26i

Bought this phone few days ago... everything is awesome except the battery life... is there a real way to increase it?

I ve heard about rooting the phone and geting SetCpu app, but some say It's not actually helping. Maybe there is another way?

Allready set screen brightness to lowest, and I allways keep my wifi off when It's not needed.

Greetings from Latvia :)
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
Mine can be on at least 28 hours if I just use it to messaging or little browsing.
[Android General] Zizo950:
thx man :D
[Android General] -scarface-:
I have 61% since 17:00 yesterday charge, also sent some text messages and a little bit browsing at playmarket to. :D

hope some day there will be a solution to this problem, otherwise I consider to buy another phone, this time an original not Chinese :D
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
Mine is 49% with 11 hours 42m use, all time wifi or data ON, and having used whatsapp, chrome, 1 hour of music, twitter and tuenti. Statistic says 14 more hours of use.
[Android General] -scarface-:
were you can see statistics?
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
Battery Widget Reborn Pro shows it.
[Android General] sjoerdvanhoof:
Review

I have this phone for about 2 months now and I wrote a review based on my experiences. Read it if you want to.

Since I can't post outside links on this forum (yet), please google it.

Google: "Star X26i Review Flabbergasted"

Thanks
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
I would reccomend using SetCPU, with it, my phone lasts up to about 100 hours.

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LOL I copy and pasted that into google, and it redirected me back to this page. You should be able to post a link as I posted the Mediafire link for my second post. (Unless they changed it recently).