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[Android General] djjc:
Tricks!

access to Recovery:

To access to standard recovery on x26i you have to keep Vol+ and Power buttons to start up.

You will access to the recovery ;)

access to the Engineer Mode:

you have to call the *#*#3646633#*#* from the dialpad.

Then you access to the menu of the Engineer Mode.
[Android General] gnoober64:
calibration

Hello guys,

I really love the phone and I am completely satisfied, except for the annoying 3 mm difference of the touch location.

if i press a button i always have to put my finger some millimeters above it. very annoying.

Is or is there not a way to recalibrate this screen?

I have googled my way through the net and have not found a conclusive answer, help would be appreciated. :)

have a good day!
[Android General] djjc:
Keep in mind that the button are not on the lighted bar but just above the lighted bar on the screen ;)

Go in engineer mode there some information about display maybe you can recalibrate the screen?
[Android General] djjc:
GPS unlock signal

for the one who have some trouble with the GPS like never fix signal etc, you can try (after rooting your x26i) to use Zopo Toolbox to generate the GPS.conf file.

you can find it here: http://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=1060314&d=1337001999

Just install it, then, launch it, go to Power GPS Search and then GPS SET.

try your GPS.
[Android General] xdenser:
That will not fix GSP. Other programs like GPSsetup2 also change same parameters - nothing helps.
[Android General] gnoober64:
Hello guys, I did this and then used "gps status and toolbox" to delete and re-download a-gps data, activated all gps options like epo and agps and sat outside for a while.

after some minutes i had a fix (phone is rooted.)

i closed the app and started navfree. it also took a minute to get position and it was inaccurate at first but got better and finally worked.

so try this! :)

touchscreencalibration (and better battery) still is my wish number one! Did not find an option yet..
[Android General] xdenser:
It is not a problem to get fix after long waiting. But 10 minutes is too long. I have other chineese adroid phone able to get fix in less then minute in same conditions. It also recovers fast after temporary signal loss. While x26 needs same 10 minutes to recover.
[Android General] gnoober64:
I recovered in a few seconds today. try the method i posted :)
[Android General] xdenser:
I have tried same things before - A-GPS reset, yes it helps for a while. But finally it does not work properly.

You should also try it in car on some real route. You will see it useless.
[Android General] gnoober64:
I will try. how can this be fixed? flashing new kernel? new rom? :) im quite new to android.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Normally, it requires flashing a new firmware to fix the whole problems... But I still haven't found a custom rom for this yet. :(
[Android General] gnoober64:
very sad to hear that. is this the same problem on all x26i devices, or are there also ones that have perfectly aligned touchscreen?

I am happy to tell you I used GPS today while driving. it is not the best GPS I've had and it takes around 1-2 minutes to get a first fix, but hey, my old phone had about the same speed, and that was htc diamond 1. :)

battery life still sucks. any phone out there with same performance but much larger battery?
[Android General] lansi23:
yes great phone, nice screen,powerful cpu but all comes down to nothing cos the battery sucks.

i'm about to give up on this phone. seems like there's not much happening in terms of development.

i've tried to download apps to find out what processes/services are using the battery but couldnt find anything useful.
[Android General] xdenser:
What version of firmware do you have? On my side I am happy with battery : it does not show miracles, but I am able to use phone during 2 days w/o charging it. As for full load : battery lasts for 3 hours on full load. Brand phones manage to work 6-9 hours on full load, but they use much more effective screens and batteries with higher capacity.
[Android General] gnoober64:
yes i can test today how long it lasts on full load. it just makes me sad to see almost every action using one percent of the battery!

but cheap strong processor needs more power, that is true.
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
First Impressions :)

Well I had my phone for a few days now, and here are my first inpressions

Only a couple of disappointments so far..

1) Got a Chinese manual instead of English one, so cannot have a read...

2) Seller never shipped the Phone in it's original box, which I would have liked to have.

Phone is great, I have had several Star phones, and this one by far beats the hell out of all the rest :) :)

Not tried GPS so cannot comment on that..

Everything runs soo fast, even with all my usual apps on it it still runs great with almost no slow down at all in loading times etc..

Battery, well I have not tried it under load yet, but in an 10 hour period (at work) it used about 12% battery, that was little bit of data usage (updates form market), 1 phone call, and several texts, plus turning it on every now and then to check time etc..

To me this is great usage, but I am not what you call a power user, but for me it is great :)

One thing that is annoying me a little, and that is using gosms I seem to have red lines under every word I put into a txt, but I suspect this is caused by gosms and not the phone..

But for me, so far I give this phone 5 stars and a thumbs UP.... :)
[Android General] gnoober64:
hi, im happy to hear that! does your touchscreen line up perfectly? :)
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
Hi there, yes my touchscreen seems to line up fine, I have not noticed anything not right, I press where I want to press and it all works :)
[Android General] corran78:
Hey folks,

I am using that phone now since 3 weeks and I am pretty happy about it. Except the battery when activating WiFi or GPS.

Anyone knows which "non original ( :D ) STAR battery could fit to the phone?

Maybe there is an Polarcell product?

I searched for some but could not find it.
[Android General] admonish:
I have a couple of comments concerning the battery on this device. First of all, it DRAINS battery with wifi enabled even with build.props tweaking.

But as the battery drains and gets down to 15% it stays there for a while. As it hits 1% it stays there even longer. I think this might just be a case of bad battery calibration.

After installing a battery calibration app I do notice a slower draining of battery power. I will let the phone go all the way until it shuts down from lack of battery power to see how long it can really go. I will report back about total running time.
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
Well, I'm waiting for it. Ordered it about 15 days ago using China REG Airmail via Pandawill, it should be here in a couple of days (I hope). Hope it works well.
[Android General] moneff:
Hello, I have a problem with the phone. I got it a week has already started to fill with dust under the display. Anybody have a similar problem or have a solution? Thanks in advance.
[Android General] gnoober64:
I can confirm the 15% and 1% battery stops - I will calibrate my battery according to this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwrZu0DKp2c youtube video. but i have to use the phone for some more days before i do it.

i talked to one chinese seller who sells the x26i with a 2800mah battery, but i dont think it is true.

I found another seller who claimed to sell with 3200 mah battery, which proved to be a typo and is now corrected.

for now, i purchased a cheap external solar battery. :)
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
There are a lot of apps in the market for battery calibration. They supposedly delete the batterystats and forces the phone to create a new one. When I get mine i'll try Battery Calibration by NeMa and see if it works.
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Hi gnoober64, Can you tell me where you buy a new battery ? :confused:

Is it much better than the one come with the phone, coz I also want to buy a pair to replace dying batteries...
[Android General] Nagasaky2x:
You can find original x26i batteries in Mobile-Phones.cn. Just search "x26i" and you'll find it, 9.30$/ea.
[Android General] potkanko:
task manager

Nice device, I received it yesterday.

But I have problem with right button - its not ICS task manager (like on Nexus), but its only link for settings. Any idea how to restore it? or how to start standard task manager (slide to kill app)
[Android General] thebighunt:
The task is accessible if you let your finger on the home bt 1-3 seconds.

Btw, i've reset mine and installed cpuspy. I've charged full the battery, wifi on and one simcard 3g on. The second simcard off.

Cpuspy tell me :

On 40 hours

-10 hours at 1002 mhz

- 30 hours in deep sleep.

It shows that something is maintaining the phone on. I didnt use it...

What should be good is to find someone able to set up a jelly bean rom.... as jb is less less battery consumer....

Cheers

Envoyé depuis mon Amazon Kindle Fire avec Tapatalk
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Checked this morning... I didnt plug the phone since 2 days++

here are the screen cap.

The 3g and wifi are still on.

TBH
[Android General] gnoober64:
I didnt buy a new battery , as all are 2000mah. i bought an external, solar battery, also called mobile solar charger. :)
[Android General] thebighunt:
Battery, ...

hi

my x26i is still alive after 3 days and some hours with wifi and 3G on...

I didnt use it.

I Notice some strange things...

- As you can see on my previous screen cap, on CPU Spy, the CPU was at 1001 mhz for 10 hours (the first 10 hours I think). Since two days, this amount of usage of this frequency hadn't increase...

- This morning, i've checked the phone, it was at 15% of battery left... It was 3 hours ago... I've just check at the moment and it's still at 15%.

Doest it mean that there is a battery calibration issue ?

Perhaps the %age of battery could be link to half of the battery for example ?

I'll take some next screen cap.

But my phone is still on.

Cheers

TBH
[Android General] gnoober64:
yes it seems to stop at 15 and 1 percent. I hope it can be calibrated..
[Android General] thebighunt:
After 8 hours at 15%, the phone is still on :) and still at 15%.

it could be a good news for us because it could mean that the first 85% are in reality less (40%)...

Is there any software to calibrate the battery ?

Cheers

TBH
[Android General] thebighunt:
Ok

The battery is still at 15%... in my point of view, it's a really good news becaus the phone stayed on since more than 3 days now...

It show also that probably, all our battery issue are due to a bad calbation.

I'll wait until it die then, i'll do a good battery calibration,.

If anyone is a android expert, what is the best way to calibrate a battery ?

Also, anything to modify in the build.prop file ?

Cheers

TBH

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[Android General] newfrench:
Hello evrybody

I got a X26I for 10 days and enjoying to use it .

I have a problem with MMS .

I use Orange network ( France ) and I am unable to receive or send any MMS.

I tried many things ( obviously with APN sttings from Orange ) but still nothing.

Evrything else seems working well ( internet , SMS .. ) but not MMS

Is there anyone having an idea ?

Thank you.
[Android General] imrenor:
CWM recovery works fine, thanks for the link!

I'd like to install these multi-language system files but don't know how to do it while the phone is switched on.

Could you create a zip file that can be installed using CWM recovery?

If anyone could post the 20120619 firmware files that would also be apreciated :o
[Android General] gnoober64:
maybe posting a short guide to looking up firmware version and dumping it would be helpful, - I for one would love to help but dont know how. I am not bad with computers, but android is very new to me.

on an unrelated note, deep draining the battery, recharging to 100% and deleting batterystats.bin does not change the strange behaviour at 15 and 1 percent. bummer. did not yet try a calibration tool. is there some "best" calibration tool for the battery or are they all the same?
[Android General] zbeyuz:
I think this phone is from China, so the firmwares or roms will be posted somewhere in Chinese forum.

Unfortunately, I don't know Chinese... We need someone who can find and read Chinese.
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Where did you find CWM ?

Can you expman how did you insal it ?

I've rootd myphone and i know how to use CWM but dnt know ow to insall it.

As i live in Singapore, i'll as to a chinese person to help me to fing thelatest firmware.

Cheers

TBH

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[Android General] thebighunt:
Ok ok...

I think i've solved the battery issue :)

After echarge of the battery last night, i,ve used the phone this morning as this:

- 3g card on, surf 20 minutes in subway

- i create a wifi hotspot on my phone for 30minutes to be able to sur in 3g with my kindle fire

- some text

- one phone call

I've unpluged the charger cable at 8am. It's now 1 pm.

I'm on my fire connected to internt trought my x26i (hotspot again).

And my battery is at 79% :).

Before, i should have been at 50-60% max.

Now, as soons i turn off the phone, it goes in sleep mode.

What do you think ?

What i have changes is some stuff in the build.prop (root needed).

I'll update tonight.

Cheers

Envoyé depuis mon Amazon Kindle Fire avec Tapatalk
[Android General] gnoober64:
@thebighunt: sounds impressive! very keen to hear what you did! please explain briefly what the changes are affecting! :)
[Android General] Naaimzerox:
Help Me!!

Hello... please help me... yesterday i bricked the hendphone so i hope someone can provide me the star x26i firmware...

I search all over the internet and only just found N8000 firmware.... where is this phone firmware actually... i need it to recover my lovely phone..
[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

I've done two thi'gs.

1 recslbrate the battery

2 modify the build.prop by following a thread in the general android dev part of xda.

I'll link the thread.

Cheers

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[Android General] thebighunt:
Hi

Do you have access to cwm ?

Cheers

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[Android General] Naaimzerox:
No i cant access cwm... when i turn it on,the display just stay at white colour... i cant do anything with it,even when i press volume down or up button with power button,only white screen....:(
[Android General] thebighunt:
Even if you press vol+ + power 20 second ?

How did it happen ?

TBH

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[Android General] Naaimzerox:
It's a quite long story... One day,after i read this thread about replacing camera apk with better image quality,I decided to have a try to replace the stock camera apk with this new one.

The name is SemcCameraUI.apk.After I download it,I put it in my handphone SD Card.I found that the camera apk for this phone is named "camera.apk",not "SemcCameraUI.apk" so i rename the downloaded "SemcCameraUI.apk" to "camera.apk".After I put the renamed and downloaded "camera.apk" into the system/app and replacing the stock one,of course i fix the permission then reboot.

But after 5 minutes waiting,the phone failed to boot and it stuck at bootscreen with the camera keep making flickering sound,"click,click" but nothing happen,just bootscreen.I dont know what to do then i found this website on how to flash this handphone.

I follow the tutorials,I FORMATED (I knew i was wrong and i shouldn't do that) the phone then i realized that.... I DON'T HAVE THE ORIGINAL X26I FIRMWARE!.... after that.... my phone doesn't show anything when pressing power button... nothing appear so i decided to have a try flashing with N8000 firmware that I found but there's no luck,my phone ending up with white screen when pressing power button and i cant access to CWM...

:crying:
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
Firmware Received

Not sure if any of you still need it, but I received the firmware today.

I've been able to upload it to here:

http://www.mediafire.com/?ygx74149taqmvqs

Be wary that the file size is 200MB (500MB+ Uncompressed) and has been scanned for viruses.
[Android General] Naaimzerox:
Thanx for the firmware... i hope this time my phone will recover to its original state... just want to ask,is this android 4.0,3 or android 4.0.4?

Hope that there will be firmware with jellybean... Thanx mate! :)
[Android General] NZ-Simplicity:
thanks :)

Many thanks for that :)

Wonder if it solves the issues people are having with gps and calibration...

---------- Post added at 08:55 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:49 PM ----------

Dunno which firmware it is, but it dated - 19th June
[Android General] Naaimzerox:
oh okay.... btw thanx :)
[Android General] thebighunt:
Cool

Then it must be the latest.

Can anyone give a link for the CWR ?

And the procedure for install it ?

How to install the firmware ?

Cheers

TBH

Envoyé depuis mon LT26i avec Tapatalk
[Android General] AshleyJackson:
Uh, That I'm not actually quite sure about. But seeing how my phone is 4.0.3 and I asked for the original firmware my guess would be 4.0.3

I apologize in advance if it is not.
[Android General] gnoober64:
is it possible that the compass in this phone is just disabled by software, or does anyone know if there really isnt one inside the x26i? :(
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Hi, I have just updated the way to flash this firmware. Please refer to UPDATE 2 on page 1 :)

Remember to do it at your own risk. I haven't tested the firmware,so...
[Android General] thebighunt:
Thank a lot !!!

Did you try the last firmware from june ?
[Android General] zbeyuz:
No, I did not try it. Sorry... :(
[Android General] beklanc:
32 GB SD card, but 2GB is being used. How to fix this
[Android General] gnoober64:
you are using the internal memory. the sdcard is "sdcard2" - you can switch those however.
[Android General] Naaimzerox:
Hmm.... I used SP Flashtool to flash the firmware but there was a BR CODE error... can someone guide me to flash this firmware in any other way??
[Android General] modelman1968:
Dual Sim while roaming

Hi people,

I've searched the forum for an answer to my question, no joy so here goes on a new thread.

I recently bought myself this Chinese dual sim smart phone, named "Longhorn" (no sniggering!), but pretty sure it's better known as a STAR X26i. Great phone for the money, 1GB processor, all the bells and whistles. My problem is that I want to use two sim cards, one from a British network, one from a Norwegian network. Right now I'm in Norway and the Norwegian sim is working faultlessly, the British sim works when the phone is switched on first, but then after varying amounts of time the British sim drops out of service. If I turn the phone off, then restart the UK sim comes back into service but again goes off after some time, sometimes minutes, sometimes hours. The phone often asks for the PUK1 code on the british sim when rebooted.

I've looked through the sim related settings but can't find a solution, and even contacted the British network operator to see if they know any answers - they don't.

I'll be going to the UK shortly so it'll be interesting to see if the Norwegian sim starts cutting service when I'm there, in the meantime does anyone have any ideas for a permanent solution?

Thanks to all for reading, and musing on the problem, in anticipation.

Jon
[Android General] petr.klos:
AD Dual Sim

Does it work in the same fashion when you switch cards from slot to slot?

(E.g. Switch Nor Sim in slot 1 and Brit Sim in slot 2 to Brit Sim in slot 1 a and Nor Sim to slot 2? Can it be slot build quality related?)
[Android General] modelman1968:
Appears to do the same in either slot. Maybe worth mentioning that only one slot is WCDMA. The problem definately seems to be that when the phone is switched on it searches for a roaming network and connects, but when it loses signal to that network it doesn't re-scan for an alternative, or indeed re-connect to the preferred when available. Is there any SIM management softwre dedicated to dual sim which may help me?

Thanks for taking the time to enter dialogue. :cool:
[Android General] Naaimzerox:
Help me please.... when i connect my phone with USB cable... the driver was loaded and then it suddenly removed... and it keep repeating,loaded,then removed,loaded,removed....etc... then of course the flashing tool cant detect my phone... some one please help me.. i'm begging you all.... i love that phone.... :crying:
[Android General] zbeyuz:
Sorry to hear that. What system are you using ? Did you try to test on other computers ?
[Android General] modelman1968:
Dual Sim while roaming - solved

By George I think I've cracked it! Local 3G sim card in slot 1, roaming 3G sim in slot 2. An app called "Roaming control" installed and running, seems to be holding stable connection on the roaming sim now - so far, so good.

Happy bunny here, love this phone. :good:
[General Questions and Answers] Ubernub:
Hello everyone. I'm looking for a way to use gcc make natively on Android. I know would supposedly be slow and heat up my cpu, but I don't get enough time on my computer to develop via a cross compiler.

Something like this would be ideal:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1645182

I'd post there asking about a download link but the forums won't let me until I've made ten posts.

If anyone has any ideas how to get this working I'd love to hear them!
[General Questions and Answers] Ubernub:
I found a gcc binary here:

rwiki.sciviews.org/doku.php?id=getting-started:installation:android

I don't know what version it us but it seems to run. I think I will try compiling gcc from scratch.

Can bionic libc be replaced with the full version of libc? Or would that break things?

Next up I think I'll try to get bash on this phone.

I'll post an update when I have gcc fully working.
[General Questions and Answers] Ubernub:
I've found an app that does most of what I needed, called Terminal IDE on the play store. I now have a mostly functional development environment on my phone.

Next up, some of the open source software I want to port uses autoreconf, which is part of automake. Unfortunately, automake needs access to /tmp/ during configure, which doesn't exist. I guess I'll just have to edit the configure file on my PC and point it to a path that's accessible.

Does anyone know of an automake binary for Android?
[General Topics] eflames:
Hi everyone...

I create this post cuz i wondering your opinion about Huawei android phones... I have a Galaxy Ace but Huawei recently opened a Huawei Store in my city (Caracas) and i want to know about that brand... is good enough?... vs other brands or vs my samsung galaxy ace?

Wich devices u recomend?

Thank u..... and sorry for my pooooooor english, i'm trying ^^

Some pictures of Huawei Store Caracas (World 1st Huawei Store outside Asia)
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ragarm:
Looking for directions for flashing this over stock rooted .181.

I tried one I found on another site and our did not work.

I've searched, maybe not in the right places, but can't find anything detailed.

Thanks in advanced!

Mods please move to correct forum if this isn't it!
[Motorola Droid RAZR] gcarterny:
Go to droidrzr.com under devolvement .

http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/2217-how-to-install-ics-61479-its-fastbootable-back-to-gingerbread/page__view__getnewpost
[Motorola Droid RAZR] ragarm:
That's the one I tried, but to no avail...
[Motorola Droid RAZR] gcarterny:
If you had safe strap or boot strap installed before your gonna have to fast boot and try again it works I just did this two days ago. I started over fast booted 181 again then followed directions exactly and it worked. Its not a bad idea to fast boot anyway first that way you know your setup to revert back for upcoming ota.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] fulgerul:
I had a similar issue, trying to update from GB .181 to ICS 79 leaked rom.

Had to reflash .181 all over again because I had previously uninstalled some VZW crap software from phone (and when trying to flash ICS i got the exclamation point after a while)

Afterwards, root, rom manager, es file explore - permisions, and all went ok