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[Samsung Infuse 4G] k-semler:
The International Mobile Equipment Identity or IMEI ( /aɪˈmiː/) is a number, usually unique,[1][2] to identify GSM, WCDMA, and iDEN mobile phones, as well as some satellite phones. It is usually found printed inside the battery compartment of the phone. It can also be displayed on the screen of the phone by entering *#06# into the keypad on most phones.

The IMEI number is used by a GSM network to identify valid devices and therefore can be used for stopping a stolen phone from accessing that network. For example, if a mobile phone is stolen, the owner can call his or her network provider and instruct them to "blacklist" the phone using its IMEI number. This renders the phone useless on that network and sometimes other networks too, whether or not the phone's SIM is changed.

The IMEI is only used for identifying the device and has no permanent or semi-permanent relation to the subscriber. Instead, the subscriber is identified by transmission of an IMSI number, which is stored on a SIM card that can (in theory) be transferred to any handset. However, many network and security features are enabled by knowing the current device being used by a subscriber.
[Samsung Infuse 4G] electricpete1:
Googling a little, I think EFS is a location where IMEI and other important info is stored.

Backing up your EFS before flashing is what you need to do to make it easier to recover your IMEI if it gets lost/destroyed during the flash
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Ryo Misaki:
MTD stands for Memory Technology Devices, and is a different file system format than "BML", which is the default file system on the Infuse.

Sources: [INFO]What is EpicMTD, and what you need to know.

Matt's Droid FAQ

EFS, though I can't find a definitive answer, I think stands for "Encrypted File System". It does, in fact, store the IMEI number data, and other important things to allow your phone to act as a phone.

IMEI was answered by k-semler. =P
[Samsung Infuse 4G] Dani897:
and the significance of these things is that after the mtd conversion needed to free up system space for bigger roms like jb the system can't mount the bml partitions that survive. the modem.bin and /efs which contains the imei# are intact but can't be seen by android. so a backup is made and new mtd partitions are created with yaffs2 file system to restore the files to. but in the process sometimes it fails and you have to restore your own backups.

basically samsung came up with a bunch of proprietary file system stuff for the nand partition on all their embedded devices to take care of wear leveling, partitioning and the file system. problem being that there are no publicly available tools to resize partitions so the development community figured out how to convert it to something more standard. there are partitions on galaxy s devices that aren't needed for stock android that happen to fall within a space that allows us to extend the system partition and make a new /radio and /efs partition all without touching the blocks that contain the old efs, modem.bin, bootloaders, and param.lfs.
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JMoneyCountIt:
Hello, I recently decided to root my N7. I used WUGFresh's toolkit with success. Now I decided I wanted to flash a rom, so I followed a guide to flash CM10.

However, at step 6 it says to copy the files over to my N7. I have it plugged into my computer, and it makes the noise as if something is being connected, but there is nothing new in My Computer. The Safely Remove Hardware icon on my tray says that a USB Composite Device is connected. I went to Device Manager and under Other Devices, MTP is listed. Nothing else is connected to my PC. Also, under Android Phone, Android ADB Interface is listed.

I researched possible solutions, and I read somewhere to uninstall the MTP driver, disconnect then reconnect. I did this, hoping Windows would automatically install the drivers and everything would be fixed, but nope. Before, it had a yellow exclamation mark beside the icon in Device Manager I believe, now it has a gray downward arrow.:confused:

If any of you have suggestions please let me know. Thanks in advance for all your help!
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] muks11:
Disable usb debugging in the settings menu on your nexus
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JMoneyCountIt:
Thanks for the quick reply! I'll definitely try it out when I get home from work:D
[Nexus 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] JMoneyCountIt:
Awesome, it worked great, running CM10 now!:)
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Guys, what can you tell me about the Newman N1? I googled it and I found out that Newman is a Chinese company. It has really high specs(higher than my Nexus S :crying: ) . My friend recently bought it, so I thought I'd post here to find out more. I am worried because similar phones with similar specs (Atrix 2 specifically) are almost at double the price. Is the company reliable? Is it worth the money he spent??
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
I'm getting mine either this week or next. The pre-order is being processed. So, will let you know if it's worth while or worth none. :)
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Awesome! That would be great! Thanks :D
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Got mine yesterday. Will do a review tonight after 24hrs of use. Stay tuned. ;)
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
I got one a couple days ago. I feel impressed at first touch, the quality of assembly is good, it feel firmly.

What I like

1. The design and the dimension is good, not too big thin or thick.

2. The screen solution is good, but the shade of color look bit blue.

3. for gaming, I have tried on Asphalt 6 and Dead trigger, so smooth.

4. Speaker is loud enough to hear and the quality of sound and phone, for me, is acceptable.

What I don't like

1. The screen has white light around the corner of screen, It doesn't make a screen completely black as It should be when compare to LED screen

2. Auto brightness is too sensitive, it adjust the light to quick. when I scroll the screen with forefinger and my middle finger shade on the sensor, less than a sec, it already adjust the light.

3. The seller gave me the wrong spec, this phone does not support WCDMA on 850 but 900 mhz

4. I don't understand while the make the CPU go high at 1001mhz all the time when charging.

Other things look good, I still need more time, but for just less than $200 I thought it is really worth to have one.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Thank you :) I used my friends N1 . The screen is not viewable from all angles unless on full brightness. The battery life is sadly very very poor!

How much is the clock? 1Ghz?
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
Clock is max at 1 ghz.

I confirm that battery life is very poor, in deep sleep mode it's ok, only about 10% overnight (6-8 hours). but when using, it goes down quickly.

I thought It might be some problem about CPU state, from CPUSPY, it shows that cpu always run in both 250 and 1001 mhz, even just slide the screen or get in setting menu.

I already reported this to manufacturer by email in their website but still no response.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
It is dual core right? Per core 1 Ghz or totally 1ghz?

And it somehow seems to reject standard android chargers and will work only with the one newman provides. That is kind of a bummer. Also, no headphones provided and other headphones produce terrible quality!
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
I did found out a few things too. Can't give a review yesterday as it was having issues and had to take another day just to confirm it.

P.s. It is scratch resistant. Not scratch proof. Am having a fine line about 1-1.5cm in length.

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Make that two lines. :banghead:
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
I will probably order this Newman N1. With also HuaWei U8836D in mind just couldn't make a final decision at the moment.

Hope can see more review for this Newman N1.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
The thing is there is no scratch guard available for it anywhere! So there's pretty much no option but to handle it with care!

Man 2 lines in 2 days. It must be very very less resistant
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
You should probably wait awhile. Getting mixed reviews
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
Thank you and I trying to find some users review on Huawei U8836D as well.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
I'll help you. I'll do a little research on it!
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Well it is definitely better than Newman N1. Huawei is much better known than Newman also.
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
Mine came with screen guard in the box. you should check with your seller.

Huawei is better known brand but it will cost you $80 more for the same hardware

more review

with max brightness, it is still not enough for outdoor.

Please remind that this phone support 3G on 900/1900/2100 not 850 mhz.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
No worries. 3G damn expensive where I live. I use 2G only!

I agree huawei will cost more, but it is guaranteed to perform right? And the screen issues won't occur!

Also some apps are incompatible with this, although they meet all the requirements.

Would you happen to know how to root N1? :p
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Looking a the cpu usage: by default it is at 100% 1ghz speed constantly . If u have setcpu, you will be able to set the governor to different profiles.

I used on demand profile with the battery charged from 100% since I unplugged at 8am in the morning. At 4pm, battery was at 75%. Slight usage of 3g and calls, less than an hour of onscreen viewing. (was having meeting)

On demand option is usage at 100% cpu speed when u use a certain app/apps. Else, it will revert to 250mhz.

Why it makes a lot of difference because before I used setcpu, battery depletion is much faster. With this, I managed to get through the whole day.

Do be mindful that the battery life is only 1700mh.

That's one on cpu..as I'm typing from the phone itself, from 5 to 5.24pm, it has dropped only to 60%.
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
Hi.

I have also ordered the Newman N1 and it will be shipped out next week.

I came with some help for those are having issues with the phone.

You probably didn't know that Newman has an official forum, right?

Here's the forum: http://bbs.newman.mobi/forum.php

Please register to the forum (use google translate plug-in if you don't understand Chinese (me neither)).

Newman has official updates to this phone, the newest is 1.0.6, so please check in your settings which version you have, and update to the newest to see if it resolve problems.

This is the section of the forum, where the official ROMs goes: http://bbs.newman.mobi/forum-115-1.html

First there are sticky threads in every section, do not pay attention to it, because the roms are under it (the last threads, under that line).

The roms download sites are also in chinese and some require registration, some not, and you may need to reply to some threads to see hidden content, but it is written if it requires it.

There are a lot of custom roms here: http://bbs.newman.mobi/forum-95-1.html

In this section there's not only custom roms, but also a lot of another topics too, so it is not easy to find the roms, but usually the ones with colorized thread name are the roms to pay attention.

Also there are a lot of reviews (also in chinese) of the phone here: http://bbs.newman.mobi/forum-93-1.html

Somewhere in the forum are also instructions on how to update the roms etc.

If you update to the latest official/custom rom then I think that some problems may resolved.

So it is good to know that there are a forum.

But it would be good if more people would know this phone, so they would be amazed that it has dual core, qhd, 8 mp, ics etc and it only costs $200 with shipping! (I purchased it for $173.5 with free shipping, gift leather case and gift 4gb micro sd card)

Then this topic would be popular and we may get a seperate thread for the phone here on xda, so that we would get good custom roms for it!

So go and popularize this great phone!

Edit: this phone have gorilla glass!

There are 3 different videos on the internet proofing that it is gorilla glass (in one of the videos the man drops it from about 2.5 meters to the floor and it don't have any scratches!

If you are interested, I can link the videos.
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Wow! Like marketing the item. Haha. Joking ya. :D

Anyway, just finished taking pics of the phone. Will update again
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
Your proximity sensor may not see, because it is dirty.

Try to clean the front of the phone, where the proximity sensor is.
[General Questions and Answers] ozp:
This happens with my N1 only when using the loudspeaker. (and I had other phone that behave that way)

when using the normal mode the screen turn back on as soon as you move the phone away from your head.

But if the screen keeps off, just press the "power" button to turn it on again
[General Questions and Answers] androidnyubi:
yeah already saw that phone over a website, great screen res :good: same as Jiayu G3 and UMI X1 , but i already order Newman N1 today, and excited wait till it get here, i hope it will arrived in 1 - 2 weeks, because i choose EMS :D

done that :cool:

it would be so cool if Newman N1 get its own sub forum

i have a question :

can someone elaborate , Newman N1 has only 1 IMEI (ZTE v970 too) even it's a dualsim phone, and other, say my HTC 328W have two IMEI and THL W3 too, should be we worries about it ?
[General Questions and Answers] kiimdk:
HELP Newman N1

I have Newman N1 with rom 1.05. I should Swap my Sd card so it should be internal memory and now i can't get in contact with sd-card. When i reboot and wipe it, N1 don't make af total factory reset. So now I need af rom to reinstall. Is there anyone her who can upload af copy of their rom to me?

Or a backup.

I would be very happy :).
[General Questions and Answers] Patanol:
Hello dear friends,

I have just registered to vote for N1. I am considering to buy an N1 and hoping that there will be good custom roms. Are you satified with your phone? Does it have any common problems?

And have you rooted your phone?

Thanks,
[General Questions and Answers] PinchMe:
Well I can't help but feel excited for everyone else getting their Newman, it is indeed a good value for money phone.and yes I have ditched my iPhone for it. :)

And by the way,my Newman has 2 imei numbers..
[General Questions and Answers] kiimdk:
I have downloadet rom ver. 1.04 from newman.mobi/download.html And N1 is working again :). I would like to have version 1.05 so if anyone have 1.05 I be glad if someone would upload it.

Thanks

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I have rooted mine N1. Work like a charm :). I still have problem that apps is installed at phone memory and not SD-card. for example TomTom aps would download maps after installation and there is only 2 GB and the maps should use 3.5 GB. Thats a problem. Anyone else with that kind of problem?
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
I found this one, they say it is english but i cannot test because i do not have my Newman yet, dont know if it is official.

N1V1.0.7.rar
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Half the time I wonder whether these posts are up selling the phone. Haha
[General Questions and Answers] Patanol:
Thanks man for the reply. Many apps don't need that much space generally, but since it is a problem I believe you have 2 options to solve it.

1) Easy way: You may try downloading data files on your computer and put them in the SD card. I'm no expert but this works for IGO. I have 1 GB rom on Neo V.

2) Hard way: Changing the default path. You can search google as "install android apps to the sd card by default"

Hope you solve it.

If you mean whether this forum is increasing the sales of the phone my answer is yes. I have specifically choose this phone considering I can get help from the members and get custom roms.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] androidnyubi:
here if found the thread on newman oficial bbs on the v1.0.6 ROM

bbs.newman.mobi/thread-36326-1-1.html (please add http infront of my post)

it's in chinese you can use chrome to translate, but i don't know about the rom as my phone hasn't yet arrived

hehe i hope so, so we can have a lot of great custom rom modification .. lol

anxious waiting my black N1, etotalk said white will be coming later on oct (they write before november)
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
We have got SP_Flash_Tool, Recovery, N1root and this N1V1.0.7 ROM now.

If this ROM really worked and in english, we probably already got the full set of tools.

Right now only thing I can do is wait ... waiting for my N1 to arrive.
[General Questions and Answers] mirzasila:
I ordered my N1 yesterday on Pandawill.com. What are the experiences with this site. Anybody bought N1 via them?
[General Questions and Answers] ozp:
About phone storage, internal memory and SD card issues:

Go to settings and then "storage" ( I have 1.0.5 ROM)

I see:

Internal storage: 503 mb

phone storage: 14.82 gb (this is the actual 16GB SDcard)

SD card: 2.05 gb (I thinks this is a partition of the internal memory of the phone)

So, it seems there is a problem. A mislabeled problem between phone storage and SDcard. My SDcard is empty its 2GB for nothing.... my internal memory is almost full

So I choose the "default write disk" to be the "phone storage" and the "prefered install location" to be "phone storage" (phone storage being the actual SDcard)

If you have apps installed at your "internal memory" and there is no more space left, you can install "app 2 sd" app from google play. It will move many apps to the actual SD card.

Some apps recognize the actual SDcard as the SDcard, some apps will recognize the actual SDcard as phone storage. Othere will recognize as SDcard and SDcard2.

I dont know why there are 2 partitions, what is the benefit of that. And why there is this mislabeled issue between "phone storage" and "sdcard"
[General Questions and Answers] keiser1080:
new gps fix firmware from the russian forum.

It the rom from the frelander i10 (clone of newman n1).

Look at this post http://forum.china-iphone.ru/viewtopic.php?p=759172#p759172 =>translate with chrome translation

If somebody need a firmware it's the good place!

for the sd card problem i read a post in the french forum for another similar phone, i think you have to change the /etc/vold.fstab file.

check this post http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/10...-efox-ihtc-ou-alps/page__st__200#entry1871473
[General Questions and Answers] ozp:
I friend of mine has a N1 with 1.0.7 and he told that the SDcard bug is absent in 1.0.7 ROM
[General Questions and Answers] keiser1080:
Did you know where to find a cover compatible with the newman n1?

Maybe a cover for another phone fit with this phone?
[General Questions and Answers] ozp:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Free...m-Newman-Cellphone-Factory-new/642535225.html

They have covers at aliexpress. But I think they are too ugly
[General Questions and Answers] Patanol:
I searched for it but no luck. I want a leather case, but there isn't one suitable for the phone. Looked for other 4.3" phones' cases but I don't think they will fit perfectly. Because the dimensions vary.

Relly appreciate it if anyone point out one.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Evil_Mind:
Newman Accessories

As I'm waiting for my N1 from Pandawill I've started looking for case and screen protector for it today.

My findings are rather surprising: the Newman N1 is 98% identical to the ZTE V970!

Most of the V970 screen protectors come shaped to expose the front camera (which is available in some ZTE grand x models) that is located in the same place as in the N1.

Cases should have the same fit, but i guess some modification needs to be done as the speakers has different location and the camera bump is shaped differently.

some photos comparison for your convenience:

(I'm newbie here, so i can't post direct links,sorry...)

lux-mobile.com.ua/images/img/ZTE/zte_v970_mtk6577_2.jpg

i48.tinypic.com/az88p4.jpg

lux-mobile.com.ua/images/img/ZTE/zte_v970_mtk6577_4.jpg

i01.i.aliimg.com/img/pb/620/215/496/496215620_345.jpg

If someone can verify this, it would be great!
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
And below the 3.4.0 says what?
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
My custom kernel

Hi

Is there anyone here that use a ported rom 4.2.2 that can test my custom kernel?

With 4.1.1 and my custom kernel the phone freezes when receive a notification.
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
Anyone?
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
Newman N1 JB 4.2.2 with kernel 3.4.5

I need beta testers for my beta JB 4.2.2 with kernel 3.4.5.

If you wont test my beta ROM PM me.
[General Questions and Answers] adibadro:
Hi, sorry for the absence, had some things to deal with...

there's the image
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
As I suspected you are using the stock kernel.

Check your PM. :)
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
New Rom 4.2.2

New Rom 4.2.2 here.
[General Questions and Answers] -wanderer-:
You are the man! Can't wait to try it!
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Hey Guys, i'm testing this New ROM, i like the new interface, but has some performance problems, i feel my newman a lil bit slower, but on the Antutu the score is higher, so i think with some adjustments this ROM will ROCK!

Had some GPS problems, took more than 10 minutes to find the satellites and when found it, he behaved crazy for a minute then it stabilized...

The ROM takes a lil longer to shutdown, the front camera only works at with night filter.

In resume, i will keep this ROM because i like it ;) and i think it has future...

Good Work LingFude!!!
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
New Kernel 3.4.5 v1.1

I add a new kernel 3.4.5 v1.1 for JB 4.1.1 and JB 4.2.2

In JB 4.1.1 everything is working except the notifications Leds.

In JB 4.2.2 everything is working.

Newman N1 Kernel 3.4.5 v1.1

NOTE: Make sure you download the correct version for your ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Lingfude, i notice changes in volume when I hear music ... what could it be?
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
I have not tested music playing.

I will test it and see what happen.
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
New kernel version

Hi All.

New kernel version with Notification Leds working on JB 4.1.1.
[General Questions and Answers] phoenix0619:
Thanks for excellent job!
[General Questions and Answers] P1azer:
Same thing happened to me on MIUI ROM and that's why I came on Lingfude.
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
LingFude, with the new Kernel still having the sound problem and found another, when listening music if i lock or unlock the phone the music stutters once and returns to normal, every time i lock or unlock...happens when using phones or not.
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
Hi hed190.

For problems or questions regarding the new Kernel please post it in the Kernel Thread.

Sound problem: I'm trying to fix but it's difficult. I don't have any clue what is causing this and is strange because with headset the sound is perfect. :confused:

Music stutters: I don't have this problem. What Rom do you use?
[General Questions and Answers] graysk1978:
the best touch recovery for n1 ?
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Hey LingFude, i'm using your ROM 4.2.2 with the new Kernel. the music crash for a milisecond qhen lock, unlock phone, almost everytime. it's a lil annoying. I'm using Odex ROM 4.2.2.

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Mayde the Deodex works better no?
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
I doubt that has to do with being Deodex or Odex.

Tonight I will make some testes.
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
With Gravitybox.

"Lockscreen tweaks - show widgets maximized, lockscreen background style (color fill, custom image)"