[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Guillaume.miossec.71:
Hi Guys!

I'm glad to make my first post here, since I've been overseeing this forum for 6 months to tweak my X10^^

Now I have a brand new Alcatel ot995 ultra!

GB 2.3.6, 4,3" screen at 800x480px, around 380 MB of ram only (512 in the specs and reviews on the web), adreno 205, snapdragon 1.4ghz, etc...Wonderful for emulation, surfing and watching movies. Take a 32GB class 10 micro sd card right from the start: for 210 euros it will be a great multimedia device.

Since I love to enhance and optimize my devices, I quickly looked how to, root it, tweak it or OC it.

Unfortunately, the device isn't yet mentionned at XDA, only a few threads mention it, and I am a NOOB according to the welcome video,

BUT

I am gonna give you some piece of info to avoid you to search for 2 weeks how to root and tweak your precious, but first ask my 1000000 $ question:

- When I play on fpse with 2d games (castlevania- certain scenes of FFIX), the framerate drops to 32 fps. I was so frustrated to get the same performance than on my X10, on N64 it kicks ass and almost all games run smooth. Being a PC nerd, I guessed it was linked to some kind of software limit ("project igi" game was limited to 30fps for instance), kinda bad managed vsync. After one week, I found the solution: in the build.prop, I have to change the property "swap-interval" from "1" to "0". But as in the PC world, desactivating the vsync result in ugly glitches when you scroll.

So here is my issue: is there any solution to set the fps caps at 60 fps, the refresh rate of my screen. Because playing at 32 fps and activating frameskip is frustrating, and playing smooth at 50 fps with glitches annoys me too. What's the point to have a good hardware if it is not exploited well?

Now I give some tips to my ot995's owners fellows. I know we can find them on google, but I gather everything so you won't take 2 weeks like me to make everything (for my defense, I am blond, and have a girlfriend who keeps me away from my PC)

1) OT 995 is easy to root, with the application "super one click". I advise you to do it quickly so you can install task killers, set cpu, etc...

It was a lot easier than on my x10. By the way, I advise you to create profiles with low cpu frequencies for power loading and screen of, you will gain precious hours of battery life! idem with open advanced task killer, a must have, you will obtain more free memory and cpu power.. don't forget to desactivate wifi-bluetooth-gps-data when you don't use them, you have a widget in the status bar. I also changed of launcher for "holo launcher". It is way lighter than the 3d stock one, sober and classier, ICS like.

2)No finalised rom is avalaible yet, but a bunch of guys are starting something with a CM9 base:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1731574

Updt from 08/03/2012:

I tried the CM9 version of fonix! it runs smoothly, but no cam, no data, no bluetooth.

However, wifi works. Only a few apps are avalaible on it, no play store, it was a bit of a pain in the ass to reinstall all my apps and run tests to see if I gain some perfs, so I went back to my beloved tuned up version.

Fonix seems to be having some trouble and "lack of motivation and sources from alcatel", cheer him up guys!

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1731574&page=7

Also I don"t remember how I did "it was late", but I managed to change my boot animation!

3) I advise you to install a recovery on the phone, so you can go deeper into tweaking afterward. So, make a BACKUP of your system!

http://dump.pargon.nl/alcatel/cwm-recovery/

look here for more information

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=29534255

After having booted on recovery, backed up your system, flashed the recovery, you can now go further!

Now than you can access the recovery by pushing "power" and "vol +" buttons of the phone.

4) With a free soft like andromizer, you can tweak the build.prop!

I discovered that last week, and it is very powerful, reminds me the registry tweaks of windows. It can change drastically the behaviour of your phone, mine is way more responsive after the tweak.

Here you find a fine list:

http://androidforums.com/sony-erics...tweaks-power-boosting-your-android-phone.html

5) Don't forget to uninstall or freeze apps you don't use so they don't remain in background process (even with a task killer, you should cleanse the phone a bit, only a few apps are useful among the one alcatel provides). I use "Root Uninstaller", which can freeze the apps without uninstalling them, so you can activate them in case of mistake ;)

6) I tried to change the boot animation in /system/media, replacing the stock bootanimation.zip by another one, and deleting former folders from alcatel, but I still have the original animation launching at boot. If someone knows, enlight me!

Come and feed this threads guys, on my side I'll try to complete those tips as soon as I find new stuff.

And I'll be glad to meet other OT995 owners, so express yourself :)