yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] alexaglob:
Hi, i think you should flash a complete rom first.

You can try the one i used from the german forum, at download.cect-shop.com/firmware/Firmware_Flashtool_GT-i9300.rar.

It also includes the flashing tool.

1) Download the rom, unzip it in your hard disk.

2) Run the flash tool provided with that, just to be sure, i also used other flash tool i downloaded earlier.

3) The phone is powered off and battery is off

4) Load the scatter file of that rom, leave everything checked

5) Press download

6) Put the battery in the phone

7) Connect the usb, (i suppose you already have the drivers installed), in couple of seconds the pc will recognize the phone and will start flashing the rom

8) Is finished when you get the popup with the green circle

9) Get the battery and usb cable off the phone

10) load the Taiwan recovery scatter file, no need to close the flash tool

11) leave checked only the boot and recovery

12) Press download and do the same steps from 6 through 9, now you are with the new flashed rom and the CWM recovery

13) Put the battery, if you wish also the usb cable to support power juice, and boot the phone normaly.

You have to setup the phone again, no need to unlock the sim and connect to wifi for now, choose to skip signining in a google account you can do it later from Settings/Accounts&Sync.

14) Go to Settings/Developer Options and enable Usb Debugging and Allow mock locations

15) At Settings/Security check Unknown Sources

16) See at your pc the Device Manager if there is Android Phone or Android Tablet device, this means your phone can be recognized by ADB manager. If not you need the Android Composite Device driver.

17) Run mkroot.cmd, it will do 3 reboots and the phone is rooted.

18) After that you can connect to wifi, sign in to your google account and further setup the phone.

19) You have also to enable HOME key by editing the file at /system/usr/keylayout/mtk-kpd.kl the final text must be like at chinamobiles.org/attachment.php?attachmentid=22253&d=1347963907 , i am using the Rom Toolbox app, it provides many tools and a root explorer and text editor.

mkroot.cmd and windows drivers can be found at the link that jimmykar gave at his post in this thread, post #64

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Yes, seems it worked for me. The mic volume is not perfect but at least other people can hear me now :)

After applying the bluetooth fix i use a bluetooth headset. If you have also a bluetooth media headset the sound is very good.

The cable headset in all roms behave strange, i have better sound if i press the mic button on the headset.

The values for mic in Engineer menu have strange values but i dont want to mess more now, i'm also waiting for the HDC note 2 maybe if that behaves better i can get an idea of the values from there.
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
Back to basics..

Hello to you helpful peoples :)

I bought a Tinji i9300 wich I wanted to have Eng or Swe language inserted into,

After hours of reading this is the place I find the most useful to me.

Okay, problem: I totally faceplanted when using SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1222.00 and formatted entire nand (internal) memory, NO backup what so ever..

Downloaded usb driver bundle kies, uninstalled kies but left the usb driver installed, installed a usbdriver from samsung, also manually forced in usb2ser_win7.inf (this may or may not be relevant as the SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1222.00 actually works to flash/format my phone.)

I have 'successfully' flashed the stockrom provided from earlier pages, Taiwan101-tinji-recovery.rar

Whole, loaded scatter and flashed it, tried with boot.img alone (unticked the other options)

Nothing happens when I try to power phone up, I've tried these combos with/without battery, with/without charger:

vol+ > home > power

vol- > home > power

vol+ > power

vol- > power

I think I'm missing something..

Would appriciate 'little' help, as I'm booth a n00b and a bit old, please bare with me :cowboy:
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
Hey power off your phone .. connect usb wait battery charge to disappear .. now try vol up + power
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
Would if I could, I don't have the battery charge image, my phone dosn't show that either.

power on/off isn't possible as it wont respond to the power button at all at this time.

I beleave I have formatted the internal sd-card (nand) and therefor cannot even power the phone up, not even to battery icon/image.
[General Questions and Answers] jimmykar:
nice post my friend

i want to ask u...

with this rom there is still screen flickering when battery goes down and the brightness is on automatic?because in all other roms there is that problem

can u find a way to use from the taiwan vip rom(that i have in the phone) the way to increase the app space from 502 to 1.8gb?this is useful

thank u!!

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nice post my friend

i want to ask u...

with this rom there is still screen flickering when battery goes down and the brightness is on automatic?because in all other roms there is that problem

can u find a way to use from the taiwan vip rom(that i have in the phone) the way to increase the app space from 502 to 1.8gb?this is useful

thank u!!
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
@all

What is this after editing /system/usr/keylayout/mtk-kpd.kl this file....the home key sometimes help to wake but sometimes no...

Anyone faced the same problem???????

or i think we need to edit both key 172 and key 102 ... ??
[General Questions and Answers] jimmykar:
i ll try to edit both but i can not have the result that i need...to wake up the phone

like u,sometimes works...sometimes not!!:silly:
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
@jimmykar

hey by just editing key 172 HOME to WAKE ... does it work properly always ??

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@All

And guys if i use 3g the battery lasts only 30mins...then power off...anyone tried using 3g data ??
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
Post #583

Solved it all!

I have pushed the Thanks buttons, now I thank you people from the bottom of my heart, Thank you!

alexaglob

ckethan

jimmykar

and all other who have helped with your effort, good stuff, keep modding! =D

modding might be rooting :confused:

Anyway, again: Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] flavien317:
Hi, all archive on 4shared is offline. Have another link ???

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] jimmykar:
nope..even if i change that,does not work...and with the right permissions..644

now about 3g enabled,of course the battery is consuming faster but not in 30 mins....

at least some hours for me
[General Questions and Answers] delightone:
Hello everybody this is my first post on this board.

I bought my wife a tinji i9300 she loves the phone.

The only thing that sucks is the battery it drains very fast does anybody have a solution.

After reading the forum i know i'm on a fake 4.1.1 firmware.

Is there any thing i can do about it?
[General Questions and Answers] GT35pro:
The home button will never work. I think it is because of the firmware. It only works when you power button to sleep and press home button within 1 second. It also works when phone is charging. But will not work when you pull out the USB charging cable.

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Disable auto rotate.
[General Questions and Answers] garyo:
Welcome to this forum :) Yes it is fake 4.1.1. It is actually ICS.

Try the following tips to get more battery life... Turn off GPS, Bluetooth and Auto Rotation. These can be found in the drop-down bar. Very easy to turn them back on when you need them. I found with my phone this more than doubled my battery life.
[General Questions and Answers] padwal:
When I try to rename the files it is stateing as cannot rename as the files are read only. please help:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
Hey I think we should change in generic.kl file ..

How many hours it lasts in 3g friend?

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Look for mount as r/w button
[General Questions and Answers] Jequan:
I had this problem. Switched over to the taiwan Rom V03. No problems since then and with auto-rotate on.

The battery is not the best but it lasts a whole day and then some and i plug my smartphones in over night anyways.
[General Questions and Answers] KetilRein:
Dead Tinji I9300

Hi !

Tried yesterday to root my phone with Taywan rom. No contakt with phone with SP Flash Tool now,and no light in phone when charging,and the phone will not start.

Need som help what to do :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
Follow the guide on post #583

Worked for me.

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I would like to have a firmware for Nordic regions onto my Tinji i9300.

I see people asking for Norwegian, I would like Swedish, the Nordic roms comes with multi language, both languages will be in a Nordic 'boot'.

I would like to have a link to such a boot.img if possible, else a little help on howto install thru other means.

:fingers-crossed:

Oh yes, I can't connect to internet/google app store.

I have Halebop 3g card.. again somthing is missing =P
[General Questions and Answers] delightone:
is there a tutorial somewhere where i can find A "HOW TO" root and load the taiwan rom v3 on it.

Because i was a apple fanboy, and trying to educate myself on android so practicly i'm an noob.

I want to thank you guys for helping
[General Questions and Answers] jimmykar:
atleast 10-12 hours....with 3g enable

of course it depends from what r u doing with 3g..if u serf in web its another discussion

have u edit the other file for the home button?

any solution?
[General Questions and Answers] KetilRein:
Dead I9300

Have managed to kill my GT-I9300 Tinji, used SP Flash Tool, I think I have the wrong room, black screen, no light indicators, no response when charging phones, and no contact with SP Flash Tool.

Anyone know what needs to be done?

Ketil Rein :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
Black screen

I have black screen when you are in a call?

Screen comes back after call is ended tho.

I want the screen on, so I can use the keyboard while in call.

It's good for when calling f.ex your bank, and they have this "press 1 to do this, press 2 to do that or press 3 to go to a real person and talk to him/her"

Annoying not beeing able to use the keyboard when in call.
[General Questions and Answers] mouhdz:
i have the same problem my phone is rooted but i con not delete Chinese app it shows the files are read only

i don't understand can you explain pleas

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thank you so much ckethan i did it
[General Questions and Answers] GT35pro:
I tried the Taiwan v3 ROM before but it still shows v01 in the 'about phone'. What does yours show? V03? I am not sure if I have the correct rom version.
[General Questions and Answers] lobobdn:
Hi , i have this mobile tinji i9300 but this need overclock for play game( n.o.v.a 3 ,batman....)

:confused: anyone know how we could do overclock? there any kernel compatible?

Thank you for the attention! :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] alexaglob:
hi, thanks

Yes the flickering is there when battery is low.

I have not tested the taiwan way to increase space yet.

The joy stopped for 24 hours, i did a big mistake to flash a rom from another phone, was curious to see if that android version works.

The mistake was that i flashed all the rom, i finaly understood why they have the preloader and dsp with red color in flash tool when loading the scatter file.

The phone became a brick directly, not even the red led was working when connected to usb, pure darkness.

I found the way to restore it but needed to get all its guts out, i will do a post of the case with photos and directions for anyone that will face the same condition.

The phone can be unbricked in any case even if preloader is messed and ofcourse in this case flash tool dont see any device.

Unless the phone is burned or thrown in the water :)

Got the principle of the way from this post forum.china-iphone.ru/viewtopic.php?p=730752 :good:

Not good translation from google but i understood the method

Went back some years when i unbricked my linksys router the hardware way.

Not much time available now, i will be back with instructions for unbricking the device.
[General Questions and Answers] elnino1:
sorry for my English but I'm Spanish and this is google translator

Hi, I received this phone yesterday and I managed to do root following your steps, my phone has a problem with some lines that seem interference on the screen I'll put pictures, someone has this happened or happens? Is there any solution?

Can you tell me last rom link case is solved?

Thanks to all
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
Rock on!

No info post.

This is a Thank YOU post! :good:

flavien317

hardi75

inamie

yancute

ckethan

jimmykar

boonheng84

consulyap

testtuner

idoasis

hcotuk

pinotuning

Jequan

beetlejuice303

humpty_dumpty_empty

rikky_c_a

v3rcingetorige

DarkwingHB

vasanthurking

alexlatino

g227vam

thejase

garyo

Max202k

singsingwong2

GT35pro

Benz83

superstream

lobobdn

mrfrustrated

pitoxman

g4govind87

KetilRein

alexaglob

vesztergom

dani_x0264

(Sorry, you are limited to 8 thanks per day) <-- Gonna spam that one more often from now on..

To one and all for inputs, ideas and pushing on.

For everything I have used/tested and succeded with in this thread.

Lastly for all the other n00bs out there with questions asked (and answered) for me to read and pick up on!

Adding while I can ..

I now run my phone on 3G - Halebop, still get black screen in calls..

Can connect to internet with phone, also via PDA Net.

Charged phone up to 99% (dosnt want to goto 100%) just to test and see how long the battery takes to drain when in 3G mode.

Just to clarify, my issues I've previously mentioned are now solved (except for the black screen when in a call and not using headphones)
[General Questions and Answers] jimmykar:
also mine is reported as v01 but its ok...its only one the vip rom until now....

check if your phone with this rom have 1,8gb of app storage
[General Questions and Answers] padwal:
R/W

R/W BUTTON WHEN CLICKED DOES NOT CHANGE TO R/O:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
That means mobiles is not rooted ..
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
this about 3g

Did you people have short battery time when you have 3g on?

Mine lasts a full day with 3g on..

Not surfing tho ;$

or did I miss somthing?
[General Questions and Answers] alexaglob:
Unbricking Tinji the hard way when no other solution

Hi guys,

A good lesson learned after rewriting PRELOADER and DSP_BL with another phone's.

The phone was dead, no led when connected to usb and of course no activity on flash tool as the usb port was not activating.

Basically as i understand the critical blocks are the first 5, PRELOADER and DSP_BL (that's why flash tool has them with red text) and also MBR, EBR1 and UBOOT.

Anyway after having the phone in this condition i was searching for unbricking methods and i found this good thread in the Russian site forum.china-iphone.ru/viewtopic.php?p=730752

I understood the principle although the translation was not good, i searched with the multimeter for points that with connected the usb cable will have a voltage near the battery voltage as was suggested at that post. Finaly i found the two points that are shown in the second picture (points 1 and 2).

Without battery, connected the usb cable to the pc and opened the device manager.

I turned the multimeter to the location that acts like jumper, using the multimeter cables was very handy for that.

I touched it some times, nothing was happening and decided to keep it alittle more, the list moved in device manager but nothing special.

So i decided to keep it more than 5 seconds, the device manager recognized Mediatek USB port, that was. The drivers were there installed from previous attempts. I also had installed manually as legacy devices some extra from the mediatek driver list.

I started flash tool, loaded the scatter file of the ROM i use for this phone and selected only the first 5 blocks and pressed download.

I connected the two points and kept them like that till flashing finished.

I placed the battery and pushed it to touch the pins (cause without the back frame don't fits ok) and the red led was working now.

Assembled it back, loaded again the flash tool but now with all the blocks selected and did the flashing now using the usual way with the battery.

That's it after flashing finished the phone booted ok and started the setup.

I had a complete backup that i did with the MTKdroidTools and got back the phone as it was exactly before flashing the wrong rom.

For anyone that has the phone in same bad condition and wants to try this method of course as usual i must say is done AT YOUR OWN RISK

If there is a possibility to have the phone replaced do it.
[General Questions and Answers] Micke.T.E:
Wicked!

Thanks, will keep this in mind if/when all else fails :good:
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
@all

Latest mobile uncle tool

Mobile uncle Toolbox V2.4.0-0909.zip
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
@All

Custom rom from ZBEAR Credits to him

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|21p8|4201313751|ZBear - Tinji i9300 v.1.10.zip|241992|0|0

Changes (translated by google)

Partly in Italian

Eliminate all APP in China

Integrate various utilities in ITA

Wifi Analyzer

Barcode Scanner

Battery spy (in English, curve battery consumption)

BS Player FREE (video player)

Dolphin Browser (excellent, also emulates desktop browser)

Flash Player 11.1

GPS Test

PdaNet (English)

RootExplorer

Sipdroid

Super manager

SYGIC (Great Navigator ....)

And more.

Launcher: on departure asks whether to use the standard or GO LAUNCHER EX, which can be uninstalled if you do not like (actually noticeably slows the cello, but provides a wealth of other interesting software, gadgets and applets). To uninstall use Super Manager can also uninstall app system.

GADGET RECOMMENDED: GO POWER MASTER - allows good use of the battery.

GO SMS PRO

ROOT and SUPERUSER

Reversing the SDCard, as activating the external SDCard system (so that you enter yourself) and how SDCard2 the inside.

For the "partition fix" to 2.5 Gb I have not yet found one that goes. As soon as I understand how it is organized, if you can not find it, I go inside myself.

From the tests I've done the rom is stable and fairly fast.

Remember that the consumption of the mobile is SHOWN IN UNEXPECTED WAY THE SYSTEM: actually if they state the 15% is actually 50% of consumption!

KNOWN FAULTS:

the reader of the battery charger is crazy.

I'm 'trying to see why: the feeling is that the reading software is totally not calibrated, because it indicates 80% when the battery is disconnected ASAP.

Do not worry: MINIMALLY not affect battery life. It 's just a bug on the DISPLAY of the charge itself, and stop.
[General Questions and Answers] elnino1:
nobody knows anything?
[General Questions and Answers] jimmykar:
have u tried it?
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
No friend I sold both the mobiles a week ago ...

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@elnino1

It happens to all :(
[General Questions and Answers] elnino1:
I've tried and quite, I am left with the vip v3
[General Questions and Answers] ckethan:
how is it?...any difference ?
[General Questions and Answers] garyo:
Excellent post, very informative. Thanks so much for writing it. Would be very helpful if any of us face the same situation.
[General Questions and Answers] KetilRein:
Hi !

Anyone have the orginal firmware to Tinji I9300 ?

Forgot to take backup:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] flavien317:
have link of original and vip v3 rom ?
[General Questions and Answers] Benz83:
Guys, anyone can tell me how many roms there are for this kind o phone^?
[General Questions and Answers] flepp4ever:
Keep away from this rom... It bricked my phone. Thankfully i brought it back to life with the post 583
[General Questions and Answers] padwal:
GPS update for India

is there any GPS update for this phone in India. My GPS is not receiving any signal:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] KetilRein:
Tanks,kan you give the link for for the roms ?
[General Questions and Answers] DarkwingHB:
Found a ROM in Italian Forum:

https://rapidshare.com/#!download|21p2|4201313751|ZBear - Tinji i9300 v.1.10.zip|241992|0|0

http://forum.chinafonini.it/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=12516&start=90&st=0&sk=t&sd=a

Any1 already tested it??
[General Questions and Answers] flepp4ever:
Forget this rom...

It bricked my phone. I managed to get it back to life with the instructions of post 583
[General Questions and Answers] sarkolata:
This rom is posted few pages ago.. It's not good as people say...

I bought tinji i9300 few days ago... I readed all pages of this thread, I could have root it and change the imei succesfully. Thanks to jimmykar, ckethan and all others, their posts were really useful :)

What currently I think:

- The battery indicator makes me crazy :@

- Screen flickering sometimes go really much which makes me crazy as well

- I can't delete the homepages (there is 5, I use only 2) (I'm using stock rom)

So what do u think... Is taiwan V3 is or the stock rom is better guys? (my stock rom built on 29aug)
[General Questions and Answers] flepp4ever:
can you post links to both files please?
[General Questions and Answers] sarkolata:
You want links for stock rom and taiwan v3?

If yes, i don't know link for stock rom, it was already installed when i bought the device

if you want taiwan v3, go back few pages.
[General Questions and Answers] garyo:
Screen

Has anyone cracked their screen yet? I dropped my phone a couple of weeks ago. It fell about 1.5m onto hard concrete. It landed face down and hit real hard. I expected the screen to be totally munted. However it just had a crack about 20mm in the top corner. Just the outer glass is cracked, the inner screen still works perfect. Since then that crack has grown in length to over twice the size. Just like the way a crack in the windscreen of a car grows longer over time.

I believe this glass is supposed to be amoled. I don't know how that compares directly to gorilla glass, but I have to say that for the walloping it took, it didn't do too bad! .... I better be careful from now on though. It might not withstand another drop like this :fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] sarkolata:
I wonder what will happen if i setup a real s3 rom on this? Can anyone tell?
[General Questions and Answers] DarkwingHB:
And how would you do this ???

Think about: What kind of Hardware is exact the same in both Devices??? None?? Then you know the Answer!
[General Questions and Answers] Lianen:
Summary of available recovery and firmware roms

Hi,

I have been following this thread, and I really think it would be nice if someone could summarize what is not available for our phone, the Tinji I9300. This to help everybody in possession of this phone the best way.

What recoveries are available, and what custom/stock roms are available? :confused:

If links to where these can be downloaded from this would be nice!

Keep up the good work that you are all doing and thank you for all the effort you put into this topic :cowboy:
[General Questions and Answers] sarkolata:
Well, this device runs the 4.0 version of android, so maybe it can run the jelly bean as well???