[Miscellaneous Android Development] ramsuresh4:
celkon A97 - 4" Screen, 1 Ghz CPU -(ROOTING -Updated) Request for CWM and Custom Roms

Dear Developers,

I purchased, this Excellent mobile before 4 days.

It is excellent and having highend features in low cost (8500 Indian Rupees)

In Quadrant test, it is higher than HTC desire Hd and the score is 2214

Specifications:

http://m.gsmarena.com/celkon_a97-4823.php

2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2

3G Network HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100

Announced 2012, Q2

Status. RELEASED JUNE 2012

BODY

Dimensions 124 x 64 x 11 mm

Weight 130 g

- Touch-sensitive controls

DISPLAY

Type TFT capacitive touchscreen

Size 480 x 800 pixels, 4.0 inches (~233 ppi pixel density)

Multitouch Yes

SOUND

Alert types Vibration, Polyphonic, MP3 ringtones

Loudspeaker Yes

3.5mm jack Yes

MEMORY

Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB

DATA

GPRS Yes

EDGE Yes

Speed HSDPA, HSUPA

WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, Wi-Fi hotspot

Bluetooth Yes, v2.0 with A2DP

USB Yes, microUSB v2.0

CAMERA

Primary 5 MP, 2592 х 1944 pixels

Video Yes

Secondary Yes

FEATURES

OS Android OS, v2.3.6 (Gingerbread)

CPU 1 GHz

Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass

Messaging SMS(threaded view), MMS, Email, IM

Browser HTML

Radio Stereo FM radio with RDS, FM transmitter, FM recording

GPS Yes, with A-GPS support

Java Yes, via Java MIDP emulator

Colors Black

- Dual SIM - SNS integration - MP3/WAV/eAAC player - MP4/H.264/H.263 player - Document viewer - Organizer - Voice memo/dial - Predictive text input

BATTERY

Standard battery, Li-Ion 1500 mAh

Stand-by Up to 350 h

Talk time Up to 9 h 10 min

Celkon A97

SPECIFICATIONS

© 2000-2012 GSMArena.com

BUT I think this is only available in INDIA.

I request the Developers for rooting of this mobile and also obviously CWM and Custom roms.

Previously I have used Galaxy tab P1000, Galaxy Mini and HTC Mega and I got more support from the Great developers and The Great Xda, also, those are popular models.

So Please help Developers.

ROOTING:

Very Sorry Friends for not updating the thread. I had sold this Mobile , (Mobile is very good, but due to my hobby). I have purchased, 5.2" Mini Phablet (Phone+tablet) from NXG - XFAB PHABLET.

Ok, These are the rooting Guide by Mr.Droid Vijayan. I tried and got success by him.

Credits go to Mr.Droidvijayan and Mr. TPSparky.

I see lot of people are looking out for rooting the Celkon A97 Phone here in xda and in gsmarena.

For the benefit of all the noobs, I am just listing out how I rooted this Celkon A97. The credit for rooting goes to TPSparky root creator.

The rooting was tested and works fine on a factory 2.3.6 ROM.

Note:

Rooting may void your warranty. Do it at your own risk.

What's needed:

1. USB data cable

2. MediaTek USB VCOM drivers

h*t*t*p://w*w*w.4shared.com/rar/9onOaDl5/Driver_New.html

3. Windows OS (xp/vista/7)

4. TPSparkyroot. You can download it from the mediafire link

h*t*t*p://205.196.123.98/92pj8g8zetpg/9d48ldfadquanj0/TPSparkyRoot.rar

5. Of-course an unrooted Celkon A97

Step 1:

Install ADB driver for Celkon A97 using the Mediatek USB VCOM drivers. Check whether the ADB device appears in Windows device manager.

If this ADB device is not listed in Device manager , you will get "device not found" error while using TPSsparky root.

If the ADB driver doesnot install on your system, you may want to edit the inf file usb2ser_****.inf and update the device id of your phone.

where **** is the version of the windows inside your version of the windows directory and install the driver again.

Step 2:

Rooting using TPSparkyroot.

Extract the TPSparkyroot.rar file. The TPSparkyroot folder contains

adb.exe binary

adb winapi and usbapi dll files.

busybox binary

su binary

SuperUser.apk

RootExplorer.apk ( Chinese version) of an Android root filemanager.

TPSparkyroot.bat shell script AKA batch file

Step 3.

Run the batch file TPSparkyroot.bat as administrator on windows.

The TPSparkyroot.bat has the exploit to gain ROOT access via AndroidDebugBridge. During this time it reboots the phone Three times( Yes three times).

Once it gets the ADB root shell, the next process is using ADB, it copies all the required files to the phone.

The files are

busybox, su binary

Superuser.apk

Rootexplorer.apk

It cleans up all the temporary files it has created. Then it reboots the phone.

Thats it, you will have a rooted Celkon A97 phone upon reboot. You will have two application installed as part of this. 'su' and Chinese version of the rootfilemanager.

If the above method to install ADB interface driver does not work, try this as a last resort.

STEP A:

Get the MTK6573 ADB driver from

h*t*t*p://chinamobiles.org/downloads/zap/MT6573ADBdrivers.zip

And extract it to a folder. The MTK6573 ADB interface driver works fine on MTK6575 based devices.

STEP B:

Get the VENDOR and DEVICE Ids of your Celkon A97 phone.

To get it,

Connect the phone to your PC. Open Device Manager. Look for Celkon incorporated GSM handset under Other Devices

Open 'Celkon incorporated GSM handset' -->Properties-->Details tab.

Under property dropdown menu, Select Hardware IDs

and note the 4 digit VID_XXXX and PID_YYYY values. These are the phones Hardware iDs.

STEP C:

Open the file android_winusb.inf using your favourite text editor.

Add three lines after this line.

[Manufacturer]

%ProviderName% = Google, NTx86, NTamd64

The three lines are

; CELKON A97

%CompositeAdbInterface% = USB_Install, USB\VID_XXXX&PID_YYYY&MI_01

;

Replace XXXX, YYYY with Vendor and Device IDs of your phone.

Save the file.

STEP D:

Once you update these values, update the driver from the device manager by pointing to the folder of android_winusb.inf.

Now you should see a ADB interface device in the device manager.

Follow the steps to root the phone. as per my earlier post

http://xdaforums.com/show...3&postcount=10

Thanks.

Ram Suresh

Chennai, INdia.