yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] selektionsrest:
@kinnes86 you could try the new original Chinese firmware. It can be downloaded here: http://chinamobiles.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=23819&d=1354667983

if this works for you i will explain how to root this firmware. Or if you speak german you can find all information about rooting the new firmware in this forum: http://chinamobiles.org/showthread.php?31570-Star-V12-mit-MTK6577&p=349699&viewfull=1#post349699
[General Questions and Answers] kinnes86:
Thanks for the link but unfortunately it didn't help. I flashed it with this firmware and nothing changed. Maybe it's something with the screen that it broke after flashing with another firmware. Thanks all for help, I'll be looking now for blank screen problems now on the forum.
[General Questions and Answers] ziaziung:
Poor gsm reception

Hi. I've bought V1277 few months ago, I'm in France and I have a poor gsm reception.

Is there a way to improve it? Changing modem? What modem and how?

Thank you for your help.
[General Questions and Answers] boaz4350:
Star V12(1277) MTK 6577 - SAR radiation

Hi

Is anyone know what is the SAR level of this phone ?

Thanks

Boaz
[General Questions and Answers] mikajen:
Jelly Bean on V1277

Hi did anyone have ported Jellybean on this device?
[General Questions and Answers] Koukku-j:
no there is not jellybean mod
[General Questions and Answers] EH101:
mmm. This could be the reason I am having trouble with bluetooth.

I am a pretty happy owner of a V1277 phone and I addressed several issues thanks to the hints form this forum, so I am pretty satisfied and thanks to all folks here.

Unfortunately, bluetooth seems performing poorly. Windows control panel hardware management window does not recognise all the bluetooth devices embedded in the phone when I try to connect it. Windows update looks for drivers and fails. The phone appears in the bluetooth device list, but with the warning sign on its side and it seems there is no way to solve.

The bluetooth misbehaviour is partially confirmed by my car TomTom navigator which is unable to explore the phone contact list and looses contact with the phone often.

Is this a consequence of Android 4.0.x Ice Cream Sandwich ? Is there a way to improve bluetooth compatibility ?
[General Questions and Answers] mateszka:
Hi, I had that problem

Inside the back cover there is a black film. This cut in the lower third part and throw it away. Then the GSM reception is perfect. 100%
[General Questions and Answers] selektionsrest:
Again there is a new firmware. It is the-500wV1277 1009T_121108_OV5647_ICSV1.3_V08_COM_EN. I tested it and it is very stable and smooth. And with this firmware the taskbar is transparent. You can download it here: http://chinamobiles.org/showthread.php?31570-Star-V12-mit-MTK6577&p=349699&viewfull=1#post349699

If you have questions I will answer them as quickly as possible.
[General Questions and Answers] pesa1234:
I'll try it this afternoon and I'll give to you even my feedback
[General Questions and Answers] mikajen:
Hi,

Could I ask what are the major improvements on this version? Well aside from having the Tanslucent taskbar.

Could you iterate each one?

Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] selektionsrest:
As far as I know it is like the v07. only now it will be compatible with all devices. I have read in a Russian forum that it is compatible with the following GSensor's: BMA220, bma250e bma222e kxtj2. It also supports all types of main camera.
[General Questions and Answers] artcat:
I' ve upgraded with this new firmware, but now the camera works with the front camera wich is low definition.How is it possible to make the back camera (5 Mp) the default camera.??
[General Questions and Answers] selektionsrest:
did you try to select the back camera when you're in camera mode? if yes, what happens?
[General Questions and Answers] artcat:
i don't see in the camera settings, where i can select the back or the front camera??

:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] william21:
New on android

Hello everyone,

I need help.

I just got my first android phone 3 month ago: Star v1277.

I found it great but it's getting slower and slower everyday?

I understand that i need to root the phone to make it faster and to solve little bugs like the hdmi problem.

But i don't understand everything.

First i have to say i am on Mac.

Can someone please tell me how to do it? What to download?

I'm lost.

If someone can guide me i would really appreciate it!
[General Questions and Answers] artcat:
I don't have this icon on my screen as you can see ???
[General Questions and Answers] selektionsrest:
which firmware was before the update on your device?
[General Questions and Answers] artcat:
It was this one V1277-1009T_121025_OV5647_ICS2V1.3_V05_COM_EN_ALEXIT.zip, downloaded from this italian site:hxxp://forum.chinafonini.it/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=12835
[General Questions and Answers] selektionsrest:
I also had this firmware on my device and had no problems. Maybe you have a different camera hardware ... Have you tried the previous firmware (v07)?

with V1277-1009T_121025_OV5647_ICS2V1.3_V05_COM_EN_ALEXIT.zip everything works?
[General Questions and Answers] pesa1234:
Hi at all...

I finish my 3 days of test... and the phone seems to be better, but I think that there's a little bug on multitouch... and now I've just flas the boot.img of the old rom 290812...

Now the phone seems to be very good!!!
[General Questions and Answers] ziaziung:
It works!

Hi. Thank you for help : it works!

But why when I cut this part I have a better reception?????
[General Questions and Answers] pesa1234:
I'm even interested to know what is necessary to do ... can you make some pictures?
[General Questions and Answers] darkangel1016:
In india there is phone called micromax a110. specs are same but screen resolution is different.

check this thread.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1960080

and this thread for a ROM that works with micromax a110 from Mobistel cynus t2. expecting to get JB end of this jan. people have installed the ICS rom in a110 successfully.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35762732#post35762732
[General Questions and Answers] andreictc:
Hello,

I am fairly new at xda-developers, although I'm following the forums for a long time and everytime I managed to solve past problems with other phones with the help of XDA Community.

This one, v1277, which I bought 1 week ago, has a very annoying problem which I haven't managed to resolve: as the user above said, the phone has some bluetooth compatibility problem.

I connected several bluetooth handsets to the phone and all had the same problem when I made a call: the person on the other side hears me with static and interruptions, although I hear them very clearly!

I used one original Nokia BH-320 and 2 china knock offs BH320, and got the same problem. I tested the BH on other phones (Galaxy S+, Iphone 4s and Nokia 6300), and did not have a problem.... so that means that the bluetooth version of V1277 is the problem....

I have build number 1009T_121108_OV5647_ICSV1.3_V08_COM_EN

Does anybody have a solution for this?
[General Questions and Answers] Halx64:
No "smoothness" on V1277 UI

Hi everyone :) I have recently bought this phone too and i noticed that the interface is not as smooth as on my old B63M. It is fast, but not "butter-like" as if it was not hardware accelerated. Does someone noticed the same issue ? Some old MT6573 phones used to have a very very smooth interface as it was OpenGL accelerated (B63M is one of those). The system seems to be using the CPU in order to render the UI (at least this is my first impression) because it's "fast" but not "smooth", if you understand my statement :) Is there a way to make the UI faster / more reactive ?

Also, in Developers Options there are only three minor options (USB debug, Keep screen on while charging and Fake locations). As far as you know, is there a way to show ALL the dev options in that menu ?

Thank you for reading :)
[General Questions and Answers] Nordsmetal:
Just download an other launcher, like ADW launcher, Go launcher from play store, and don't use the crappy default launcher, and it will be fast like hell :)
[General Questions and Answers] Halx64:
Well, it's not a launcher-related issue. I'm using Launcher Pro and yes, it's as fast as hell but the system UI itself is a bit "laggy" (this happens with any launcher) or, better to say, not so "smooth" as it was on the old B63M. It's the same difference that you may notice looking at a software rendered game and a 3D accelerated one. "More FPS", in a way (not easy to describe :D).

For example, when you turn pages in Flipboard, the transition effect from page to page on the old B63M is REALLY smooth, much smoother than an iPhone, just to explain what i mean. On superior hardware (V1277) it's not so smooth (even if pretty fast). You get the feeling that on the V12 the CPU is busy rendering the UI and "force itself a bit" to do so, while the 3D card sleeps in its peaceful slumber :rolleyes: Also, SPB Shell 3D is A LOT faster and smoother on the old B63M rather than on the new V1277 (more FPS, visually stunning). Seems to be a driver issue but honestly, it's just an assumption. I have no idea on what is the real cause of that but my impression is that everything is CPU rendered and not GPU accelerated in any way. The feeling is reversed on the phone with older hardware (B63M), so the only assumption i can do is that it's a driver related issue, also because i tried a different MT6577 model (ONE X Pro) and the UI on that phone is very fast, like it was GPU accelerated (just like it happens on the old B63M). Same Android (ICS), same chipset (MT6577).
[General Questions and Answers] andreictc:
Does anyone have an idea about the problem with the bluetooth compatibility ?
[General Questions and Answers] Richardo Crispus:
I've had no issues with the BT
[General Questions and Answers] radder5:
BT Connection failed too!

Hi,

problem with BT too when connecting to vehicle onboard BT. No problem with other Android phone (Motorola Atrix running Jelly Bean - cyanogenmod) but Star v1277 connects and pairs but when car tries to connect for music and phone services it just fails with Connection Error.

Not necessarily looking for a fix here just adding more info to the previous poster about BT connection problems.

However, because of this I wanted to try and flash my star/ bird v1277 with a new ROM.

Currently on what came with phone -

android version - 4.0.4

kernel version - 3.0.13 (test@test-virtual-machine #1 SMP PREEMTP Thur Nov 8 17.22.31 CST 2012

build number - 1009T-121108_OV5647_ICSV1.3_V08_COM_EN

I've tried flashing (with cwm) LeWa_Ulefone_v1277_RU_13.01.18_MailMax.zip (from china-mobile.ru) but gives an error about scatter file being incorrect. I admit I am a bit of a noob when it comes to this phone, but managed to flash over and over my Atrix no problem, but there is quite obviously a lack of custom roms for these chineese phones which is a shame. I was even contemplating creating my own rom to try and get JB on this phone but didn't know where to start as I suspect it is non-trivial (although I have a bit of a programming background and am somewhat familiar with Linux & Java).

Any advice on BT issues, other custom roms and where to start if going down creating own custom rom based on CM10 (for example)?

Ta
[General Questions and Answers] bi1ly:
HDMI problem

Hi there,

HDMI cable to connect the phone to try to tv but nothing happens, the phone mutes the TV no ​​picture no sound.

android version: 4.0.4

build number: 1009T_120829_OV5647_ICS2V1.3_V05_COM_EN

kernel version: 3.0.13 test@test-virtual-machine #1 SMP PREEMPT Thu Aug 30 09:28:10 CST 2012

ROM should I upgrade?

If so which one?

where would I have a Hungarian (Magyar) language
[General Questions and Answers] urkelz:
Guys I tried 5 roms and all of them mess my screen up when booting..

Only this one works: 1009T_121108_OV5647_ICSV1.3_V08_COM_EN

and with that i get invalid IMEI ..

I tried everything to get root access but dont work. I need root to change IMEI with mtk droid tools. .. :{

---------- Post added at 03:32 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:08 PM ----------

sweet changed IMEI in engineering menu :D 3g and phone working! just root not working now :P
[General Questions and Answers] chunky2:
Hi There, read through the attached doc's and this will root your device and also re-insert yor IMEI numbers.

Try this at your own risk.

RESPECT to all...
[General Questions and Answers] chunky2:
Added the missing bits
[General Questions and Answers] bi1ly:
light sensor

works on the light sensor

but it does not support the automatic brightness

this repair is possible?
[General Questions and Answers] J-Caesar:
Star / Bird 1277 Firmware Back Camera issue

Hi guys,

I read the whole forum and I do appreciate your efforts but I have an issue though.

I got confused with all these firmwares floating around. I downloaded several and flashed my phone and they are OK, I think, except of the back camera issue. No icon to change from front to back camera.

As I need to have CWM and rooted firmware I downloaded the kvv7 of 29.8.2012, flashed it and it looks nice: rooted, with CWM, combined 2.7 GB rom, although the camera issue still there.

The only firmware I got with no camera problem but makes the phone a bit slow is 1009T_121108_OV5647_ICSV1.3_V08_COM_EN. And with this firmware can't get the CWM for it and can't get it rooted :confused:. Any ideas, suggestions please.

Thank you all in advance :good:.
[General Questions and Answers] sohanblues:
V1277 flashing problem

HELLO SIR,

Im having Bird V1277 phone......accidently i edited the sd card path in vold.fstab file in system/etc.....IM A big NOOB :crying:

after reboot i found tht i cant see my internal memory and phone storage and also cant see my external SD card when inserted

i treod the factory reset but still no luck, the phone works well and good but only memory problem is there...i cant takes photos, no gallery access as no memory :(

can you help me with flashing the ORIGINAL V1277 SYSTEM FIRMWARE BACK.....i saw you post and downloaded SP flashtool and my firmware 1009T_121108_OV5647_ICSV1.3_V08_COM_EN

i tried your tutorial...but when i connect after removing battery and inserting a few seconds after and press download the RED progress bar doesn't start at all..:(

i have installed the MTK65XX drivers n all...but still i dnt knw what wrong im doing....

please help me.
[General Questions and Answers] Nordsmetal:
try to flash an other rom, which is just a bugfixed stock rom, like KVV7 http://forum.china-iphone.ru/away.h...41a44a1272ed649bf12594ff061d/v121010.rar.html

don't forget to do a factory reset after flash

also maybe there is a little but easily solveable problem(i don't know if it is solved in the rom what i linked or not), at 15% charging the UI is crashes cause it not found the Media library or corrupted files had .. i don't remember, but here what you can copy: http://files.china-iphone.ru/585audio.rar?scode=355439
[General Questions and Answers] glsm92:
Hi,

I just got this phone yesterday and haven't gotten around to rooting it yet, but I'm just wondering if anyone else has had the problem where in the stock messaging app, every time a message is received or sent it says via (name of SIM) and shows which SIM (SIM1 or SIM2) it was sent from. I've tried looking it up but I can't find anything on it. Does anyone have a solution for this?

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Nordsmetal:
Use an other sms app like handcent sms, and turn of the notification of the original sms app. Or just turn of notification of original app, and use a notification app like this: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.everythingandroid.smspopup&feature=search_result
[General Questions and Answers] mroqu:
new firmware JB needed

I'm looking for a new firmware with Android 4.1 JB.

Maybe someone can give us a link?
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
hi guys,

iv got this phone today,

Now this phone gets hot near the the mouthpiece area, or the area where the soft keys are located (back, home, menu)....Is this normal and how do i solve it?

iv i enable internet tethering, its even getting worse.
[General Questions and Answers] andreictc:
I'm also interested in a jb upgrade ...does anyone have any news?
[General Questions and Answers] Richardo Crispus:
Does anyone know how to install CWM on this?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
If your using v08, dont think its possible.

Does anyone know if this fone has a t9 dictionary for auto correction?
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
I managed to root mine with that same firmware, but cwm is the problem. I have a friend helping me out, will report
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
Finally!!! I managed to root and install CWM to the latest firmware v08...

IF any needs help, just let me know and ill help.

Happy boy now
[General Questions and Answers] Richardo Crispus:
Could you let me know how you did it?

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
Use mtk droid tools. Then make a custom recovery file with it. Rename the 2 files it creates to boot.img and recovery.img respectively. Then replace the boot and recovery files from ur rom files with the custom files u just created. Go to flash tool and flash just these 2 files. Uncheck all other files
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
I will post a guide shortly
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
1. DOWNLOAD MTK DROID TOOLS HERE http://ge.tt/1XwvBQb/v/0

2. EXTRACT IT TO A FOLDER

3. KILL ADB SERVER USING the command 'adb kill-server' in terminal on your PC

3. Extract your rom to a folder As well.

4. OPEN MTK DROID TOOLS AND CLICK ON THE "ROOT, BACKUP, RECOVERY" TAB.

5. LOOK FOR "RECOVERY AND BOOT" BUTTON, THEN NEXT TO IT, ENABLE THE RADION BUTTON/CHECK BOX NAMED "TO CHOOSE BOOT.IMG FILE".

6. NOW CLICK ON THE "RECOVERY AND BOOT" BUTTON AND THE NAVIGATE TO THE FOLDER WHERE YOU EXTRACTED YOUR ROM FILE AND THEN SELECT BOOT.IMG FILE, CLICK OPEN. NEXT, SELECT THE RECOVERY.IMG FILE, AND CLICK NEXT.

7. ENTER YOUR PHONE NAME IF IT ASKS YOU TO ENTER, YOU MAY ENTER ANY NAME YOU WANT.

8. THERE WILL BE 2 FILES CREATED IN THE MTK DROID FOLDER (MtkDroidTools\recovery).

9. RENAME EACH OF THE CREATED FILES TO BOOT.IMG AND RECOVERY.IMG RESPECTIVELY.

10. NOW GET THESE FILES AND REPLACE THE ONES FROM YOUR ROM, OPEN FLASH TOOL. SELECT THE SCATTER FILE . AFTER IT LOADS UNCHECK ALL OTHER FILES IN THE CHECK BOXES, JUST LEAVE BOOT.IMG AND RECOVERY.

11. FLASH THE TWO FILES. YOUR PHONE HAS CMW NOW.

12. FOR ROOTING, USE THIS PROGRAM FROM HERE (U MUST ENABLE USB DEBUGGING AND UNKNOWN SOURCES, ALSO ENABLE MOCK CONNECTIONS) http://www.mediafire.com/?h8iejlsea6w5z34

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use mtk droid tools to change the imei - but I have not tried if it works since i didnt need to change my imei
[General Questions and Answers] kachmul2004:
Is your cwm working? And for step 12, power on your phone and enable usb debugging and unknown sources. Then connect your phone to pc and after driverw are installed, open the file RunMe.bat from the folder where u extracted root_with_restore by Bin4ry.zip
[General Questions and Answers] glsm92:
Deleting APNs

I'm having trouble entering creating an APN for data connection. I'm on giffgaff and I've tried a) creating a new APN and b) changing the 4 APNs that currently exist because I can't delete them (discard is an option but when selected, nothing happens). There is supposed to be a green dot next to the selected APN but a) results in the phone selecting another APN and b) just results in nothing being selected. Does anyone have any idea how to solve this? Thanks! --Edit: Nevermind, found a solution for this!
[General Questions and Answers] artcat:
Lewa firmware fo bird v1277

Hello community,

I've found this Russian site: fans-android.com/portirovanie-lewa-os-na-svoyo-ustrojstvo/ ,wich explain how to modify an original firmware in a Lewa firmware. anybody have knowledge to do this...

Thanks

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] RaverSturm:
Just save it to SD card and isnal via TWPR (or other) recovery. you must replace standard recovery before this operation through flashtool.
[General Questions and Answers] newbornlife:
Did you calibrate it?
[General Questions and Answers] newbornlife:
I do not have the same phone any more cause mine would reboot every time I t was a unplugged from the charging. Calibra tion however should be common for all android phones phones with proximity sensor
[General Questions and Answers] tomtomboy69:
When i flash my V1277 with non stock ROM screen is messed up

Hi

I am trying ever since i got my BIRD V1277 to get rid of the 2GB partition (phone storage) and get my 32GB sdcard which is now sdcard2 to get recognized by the phone as sdcard. This is of critical importance, in my view, since almost all apks are designed to work with only one, and downloading maps on gps or music through the apps will set the downloaded stuff to go to the 2GB partition.

I saw in this thread that some people were able to do this by flashing the so called KVV7 non stock rom and i tried it too but with kvv7 or any other rom other than the stock rom V08 (that came with the phone) my screen is divided in two and all messed up. Is there anybody who can share some thoughts on this?

I am willing to try anything to get rid of the darn partition... truly :)

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] tomtomboy69:
Hi

I am trying to remove the 2GB partition too but it seems i can't flash the KVV7 rom. Do i need bootloader unlocked or to be rooted is enough. My phone came with the V08 version rom and i can flash it fine but when i try to do the same with kvv7 the screen is all weird.

please help...
[General Questions and Answers] Halx64:
If you just need to see your 32 GB physical card as /sdcard instead of /sdcard2 you may simply edit your vold.fstab file and swap the mounting points of the two card (internal and physical).

It's not hard at all to do. You just need to open /system/etc/vold.fstab and edit those two lines:

dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard blah blah
dev_mount sdcard2 /mnt/sdcard2 blah blah

Edit like that:

dev_mount sdcard[B]2[/B] /mnt/sdcard[B]2[/B] blah blah
dev_mount sdcard /mnt/sdcard blah blah

The phone will recognize your 32 GB card as /sdcard (physical one) and the 2,0 GB partition as /sdcard2. You may use the 2,0 GB as a backup / free storage partition or repartitioning your emmc you can have a bigger /data (2,6 GB) and a smaller /sdcard2 (around 100 MB). This is particular useful because you will have a lot of storage space directly on data partition and can install a lot of apps without moving them to sd (games will automatically save data into /sdcard (/mnt/sdcard), which will be your physical 32 GB card mount point, right now).

In order to do that you can flash a ROM developed by a very talented italian cooker. Here it is: h t t p :/ / goo.gl / BbvBq

- based on stock firmware ICS2V1.3_V05

- baseband MAUI.11AMD.W12.22.SP.V7 (20/08/2012) ...

- Rooted : su + busybox + SuperSU

- EMMC repartitioning : PHONE MEMORY: 2.8GB, SDCARD2: 117MB, external SDCARD: your microSD card's size (32 GB, in your case)

- lots of patches and fixes (gpsfix, adfree)

- SSH and VNC servers

- fix_permissions, auto-odex script

- custom recovery TWRP_2.2.2.1 and CWM_6

- Galaxy Touchwiz's APK is located in /sdcard2 (117 MB partition) if you want to try it

Best Regards ;)

Halx64
[General Questions and Answers] tomtomboy69:
Thank you Halx64. I have solved this some time ago now and exacty like you said. The only difference is that i repartioned to 3GB (2.95GB) and eliminated the sd2 card. I have no use for it...
[General Questions and Answers] josuemf:
could someone please UPLOAD their MODEM.IMG please?

it's located in

system\etc\firmware

I need it bad....

thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] chunky2:
there you go, taken from my v1277 bird
[General Questions and Answers] josuemf:
Thanks a lot!
[General Questions and Answers] freestart:
jelly bean for V1277?

someone who has bought a new v1277 and has jelly bean system please upload it, thanks! :highfive: