yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] kostis85:
I seems I'm not the only one with big backup times(4hours+).

Backup format set to tar and tried again but 1 hour pasted and going on... I dont see any improvement from deafult backup settings

I think something else is going wrong with my phone. I would appreciate any help.
[General Questions and Answers] gcuervo:
correct your web, n1 have wcdma 900/2100 not 850/1900.

what is timezone bug?
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Timezone bug is that when you want to change the timezone (so not let network decide time) in date time settings settings app crashes.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Both should work but i used RecoveryN1.zip
[General Questions and Answers] gcuervo:
i never had timezone bug, i set time date timezone manually

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with stock recovery i cannot apply root.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
What language are you trying with because english and chinese would have worked other languages not.

There where no XMLS in the settings.apk for that so it could not work.

Wifi problem is gone now i have changed the settings.apk in a settings.apk and odex and now it seems to work.

New file will be uploaded.
[General Questions and Answers] benc999:
Gommers - absolutely tremendous job you've done so far! There's a lot of stuff out there, but unfortunately in Chinese and Russian. Google transate helps a little!

Mine should be here soon and I'll be flashing with your ROM.

One quick one - there's a dodgy Chinese app that can send expensive SMS messages (called SMSREG.apk). Has this and the other Chinese junk been removed from your ROM?

Cheers!
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
Hi Gommers1978 and everyone,

I'm also waiting for my N1 to arrive.

Gommers1978, this topic is in Q&A section so my suggestion is you to open a new topic in "Android Development and Hacking > Miscellaneous Android Development" called "[ROM] - Newman N1" and reserve the first post to share your ROMs and second post to share tutorials.

This way is easier and faster to find your ROMs and information (tutorials) for the Newman N1 and we do not have to go through all pages to find useful information and ROMs.

This is my opinion.

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
You can download the Update ROM from my website now, read the whole info first.

http://www.droidwebspace.com/index.php/roms/72-update-v1-0-9-19-10-2012

Wifi is fixed as far as i can tell.

Did not find any other bugs yet, as far as call volume sounds good to me for now.

I will stop modding because i will now enjoy my weekend, hope you all do too!
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
Hi gommers1978,

I read all the information first and I'm following this thread from the beginning because it helped me to choose the Newman N1 as my next Android phone. But I still think it would be a good option create a specific topic for Newman N1 in "Android Development and Hacking > Android Development Miscellaneous".

As I said it's my opinion and only a suggestion (do not get me wrong :angel:).
[General Questions and Answers] Skorp:
Gommers.. Goed bezig. :good: :)

Is Dutch language supported in your custom rom? My girl wants this phone in pink but only if it has full dutch language. :)
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Jazeker ik gebruik m nu ook volledig in t Nederlands.

Sure, i am also using it with full dutch language.
[General Questions and Answers] Skorp:
Nice. :good:

I will order this phone for her then. Then she can finally throw away the HTC desire that she's been using for 3 years now. :eek:

Btw.. Cheapest n1 (pink) i found is 202$ incl. DHL shipping. I do not want to use China or Honkong post. Any other site that offers the pink version for less?
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Keep in mind that with dhl shipping customs fee Will be added for sure, for me it was around $40
[General Questions and Answers] jamesensor:
Hi keiser. I've seen those russian pages before but I was a bit worried dealing with the flashtool, and in case something would go wrong, I'd might lose the rom I have already installed. One time I asked etotalk for an update to ics to another phone and they gave me the stock rom file to flash. I lost the custom etotalk configs then I complained, and they sent me instructions on how to flash Bruno MArtins rom (in a THL V9) which worked perfectly but it wasn't their rom which I had always had.

Anyway, after installing the cwm recovery will the rom installed be intact? No changes, no resets? And if so, then we can make a backup of the installed rom through cwm and then later restore it successfuly? (rom backup, for what I read here, takes about 4gb storage?? Gee..)

This would be a great step forward for our phones in order to tweak, test, replace, etc since the backup would always be there to reset all the crap that would o wrong ^^

Cheers

P.S. For those asking about languages, there's a "so-so" solution for your trouble. Install More Locale or Set Locale and Language in Google play store. The news and weather app also gets reconfigured with this app to show stuff from your country. Also, I've tried the new EZ Launcher for cosmetics and interface change, IMO best launcher. (It's free, check it out!)
[General Questions and Answers] Tsurany:
Ah we hebben zelfs een Nederlandse helpdesk? Das helemaal mooi :D Telefoon wordt wel aantrekkelijker zo :D

Translation: I'd fap all over this phone!
[General Questions and Answers] stachu1962:
One more vote for Polish

Hi,

I am seriously considering N1 as my next Hong Kong origin phone. Polish language added to the next ROM will be much appreciated. Many thanks for your work guys! Keep up good job :good: you are doing - Stanislaw
[General Questions and Answers] datalux03:
My very 'little' review

Greetings to all holders of Newman N1 or not! I just wanted to say that I bought my N1 from Etotalk with ROM 1.0.5, Italian, rooted, and, UNTIL NOW, everything seems to work fine. Wifi is ok, I can connect or disconnect as I want. GPS works fine, I did the first fix in about 1 minute, and it is correct, in fact my altitude on geographical maps is 220 meters while the GPS shows 218. The data connection is ok, bluetooth as well. I read that Facebook app does not work, but I have downloaded the new version with Play Store and Facebook operate normally .. So, UNTIL NOW, I am very satisfied with this smartphone. All the apps I've downloaded are working properly: Antutu, Swiss knife, Adobe Reader, Advanced Clock, Apps to SD, Speed cameras, Facebook, Google Sky Map (a big consumer of battery ...) GPS test, Moon and Sun Trajector, Set CPU, Smart distance, Voice sms....Antutu scores 5600 about... It 's a good phone, solid, no squeaks, slim, good looks, all for $ 179 + ss ... the only comment I would make is the battery life ... If I use the data connection, and especially the GPS, the battery goes down quickly.. From this morning at 8:00 am until now (19:40) the battery went from 100% to 76%, but I did and received several calls, sent and received SMS / MMS, some wifi, no gps, no data, played with the settings, ringtones and gallery. I hope you continue to always work so well. I hope this my little review will be helpful to someone. Hello everyone, boys.

Datalux03
[General Questions and Answers] kostis85:
Hey datalux I have the same version of the phone like yours. Can you tell me how is the cofiguration of your storage. Is it like others 1.0.5 etoalks with 512mb+2giga+your SD or Etotalk fixed this? Have you try any games? In my phone asphalt 6 soesnt work for example and same other games like drag racing and rayman with problem with sound...

Also etotalk send me a fix for the sd card but the only thing it did is to vanish the 2GB partition... :/

I will test the new beta2 rom from here and see if it worth the upgrade
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
Today I finally received my N1 :D

So far, it is very good :good:

I will update to Gommers' ROM today.
[General Questions and Answers] keiser1080:
I buy my phone from etotalk (i am in belgium) he declare 15 $ value and take a 99$ inssurance. Sent with dhl.

Custom fee from dhl 44 euro!

After installing the recovery i have first backup the rom from the recovery.

Then I flash the phone with a rom backuped from a i10 (i found this rom in russian forum, and it is not a cwm rom).

I don't know if i can reinstall my backup, i didn't try and I don't have the knowlage to now if it's possible.

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Hello,

Could you tel my what is the added value of your rom?

Do you have a cook log?

For example:

Application removed:

1...

2...

3...

Apllication added:

1...

2...

Bugfix:

...

Could you add the link to your site in you signature?
[General Questions and Answers] marylong68:
hello guys,

I do a RESET cause I want to clean all before giving to my friend. THe fact is that now phone never boot up more !!

It starts to reboot and then stucks alternatively to NEWMAN logo and the ANDROID robot !!

I switch off phone and then switch on with VOLUME DOWN and POWER but it goes only in FACTORY MODE, no way to reflash from there.

I tried with VOLUME UP and POWER but nothings happen. So it means no CWM installed previously....

How can I flash it ? I want to flas new GOMMERS rom but I don't know how.......

Please help me if you can.......

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] datalux03:
memory info

My antutu info:

Memory 311/503 mb disp/available

ram 409/980.5 mb "

sd card 700/15200 Gb "

Ext Sd card 2061.5/2099 Gb "

There's something 'swapped'....My ext sd card is 16Gb, not 2099Gb...but N1 works fine. Where is the mistake???

Datalux
[General Questions and Answers] feuer-2003:
Hello,

've followed the instructions on the page, but have a problem, the ZIP file is not recognized and can not be instaled. Is there a solution?
[General Questions and Answers] kostis85:
You are not the only one with that problem. Look at the previous pages... This problem is solved with 1.0.9 rom. Try the custom rom that gommers has uploaded. Its not tottaly translated but it's a good start. My storage is not swapped but I prefer to have one 2,5GBinternal+my 16GB sd card

I'm trying to install gommers custom ROM but I get error 7. I think I have a serious problem with the clockworkmod tha was allready installed. I would appreciate if someome tell me how can I upgrade cwm in this phone...

Also can anyony upload a screenshot of phone storage with gommers ROM? Thanx
[General Questions and Answers] gcuervo:
my storage with my rom updated from v1.0.5-v1.0.7-v1.0.9

i apply the last update.zip from my sdcard using my recoveryn1.zip not stock recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] jamesensor:
Is anyone having problems installing the mtk65xx driver in windows xp? My device keeps connecting/disconnecting in the device manager, showing up and vanishing all time - without battery. And with it, the device simply moves on to recharging the battery. If I try anyway to install the driver, a final report comes up saying " There was a problem installing this hardware: bla bla... A service installation section in this INF is invalid". I used the one provided here by

What a nightmare... all I wanted to do was to install cwm in the phone to do a backup -.-

P.S. Managed to make it work on win7 then all it needs is to hook the device on the phone search done by the flash tool ^^.
[General Questions and Answers] thomas_gnr:
Please somebody confirm the 3G bands

Can anybody please confirm 3G bands of the N1?? The people saying its 850/900/1900/2100, some say 850/2100 and here I've seen somebody posting that is 900/2100 only.

Has anybody tried the phone in a 850/1900 country??

Thanks in advance for anyone with some confirmed info

Thomas
[General Questions and Answers] lys0529:
i am dajiangyoude
[General Questions and Answers] fenner8659:
I have tested the new rom (update2.V1.0.9.19.10.2012) in Italian language. For now the only application with problems is Voice Search (crash when i started it).Other with the same problem ?
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
You are right, will look into that later.
[General Questions and Answers] datalux03:
Italian language in 1.0.9 is ok?

ciao

Datalux
[General Questions and Answers] gcuervo:
i'm from country 850/1900 and i confirm that this phone dont have band wcdma 850/1900 only wcdma 900/2100.

in factory mode (red android) pres the ^ key (or some botton button) to enter in stock recovery mode.but is better flash my recoveryn1.zip with flash tool and boot in recovery standard.

to install driver remove and put battery, press vol up and connect to computer

sorry for my bad english, i speak spanish.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
For working voice search install this APK, some library filles are not installed correctly.

Found out that on reboot the problem comes back again.

Libraries are not loaded i guess, will try to add correct libraries, the base 1.0.9 rom uses a chinese app for voice search.
[General Questions and Answers] thomas_gnr:
Thanks a lot, I guess I will have to pay a little more and go for a Zopo or THL
[General Questions and Answers] lukazzo:
etotalk people sent me the english recovery but i cant install since the flash tool they sent me always give me access violation error

someone know how to solve?
[General Questions and Answers] benc999:
Are you running flashtool as administrator?
[General Questions and Answers] raby500:
need info newman n1

hi guys

i am interested in this phone and i want to buy it, but i need to confirm a few things about this phone

fcsabika please provide links

first and most important thing is the 3g frequency

850/900/1900/2100mhz or 900/1900/2100mhz

second is the screen brightness and how clear is it? is it like a Galaxy S2 screen? better or not even close?

wifi : b/g or b/g/n?

battery life on normal use , like web surfing , little youtube, little talking and a bit of gaming?

the gyroscope feature is it working (you can test it by downloading a game that uses gyroscope to be played)

sound quality?

support flash?

camera quality? front and back?

is it laggy some times? when switching between menus and things like that

how clear is the text when viewing a pdf or a web that is full of text?

lot of questions , i know :o

please answer me so i can decide before the phone is out of stock

Thanks in Advance
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
P.s. Yes. Gorilla screens do scratch. I have evidence on mine. Fyi. :banghead:
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
All gorilla screens don't scratch bro. Mine is not even gorilla yet after like 1½ years there's only 2 scratches.. its the quality of the glass that matters
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
http://www.chinatronic.com/products.php/Newman-N1/cPath,1_79

Refer to this page. This will answer most of your questions. If it doesn't feel free to ask. I'll do my best to answer :)
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Thanks a ton man! Great help! Newman should have an xda page soon ;)
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
True. That means that this Newman ain't gorilla glass then. :p

Either that or it claims to be. Well, I've fitted my screen guard to it. Like mentioned, 2 scratches in 2 days, not taking further chances.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Well if you get Gorilla Glass in 200$ , Samsung will soon be out of business!
[General Questions and Answers] raby500:
newman n1 real specs

@kkricardokaka95

the online stores don't put real specs because they want to sell and if you look around for the same phone you can see that the specs differ from site to site

and the official website is in chinese and google translate can't traslate the specs because it's not text it's images

anyway the real specs you can get is from real holders of the phone

like the 3g frequency some sites say it's 850/2100 other 900/2100 others 900/1900/2100

so it's not clear

i have spent weeks into looking for specs for chinese phones and the only thing i believe is the official site of the phone.

anyway

hope someone can confirm if it supports 850mhz 3g or 900mhz

and about gorilla glass

when a real holder of the phone says it scratches then it's not gorilla glass for sure
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Also, I've gotten intermittent network signal on both the primary and secondary sim cards. It sometimes just loses its signal. Else, sometimes, it will not even connect to the data network.

I'm not saying it's a bad phone. It's not really a very good phone either.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
You can try emailing them . Translate English into Chinese and email em.
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
@kkricardokaka95 fortunately my seller do root for me, but I still finding how to, I want to change recovery mode language, It's all chinese.

@wangiles what program do you use for set cpu frequency, please.

@fcsabika The newman bbs is crowd, I registered a couple days ago, but with all chinese and google translate wouldn't help then I gived up.

Where did you get it only for $$173.5?

I agree with you, with its cost and its good quality this phone should be more popular. in russian bbs the topic about newman n1 has more than 30 pages.

@raby500 3G is 900/1900/2100 mhz, I already proved it, chinatronic gave me wrong spec. I want to use 850 but I can't.

back camera is good, I shot some papers in text book and print on A4, It can be read clearly, but for front camera It's only 0.3 mp, for me It's acceptable.

On Asphalt 6, Dead trigger so smooth and color is great.

screen resolution is great, you will be impressed, just the problem about brightness when the sun is on your head.

I've tested with andriod sensor box app acc, light, orient, proximity, gyroscope, sound, magnetic work well.

for battery life, I though it is the problem about cpu state

If I have time, I will do the full review.

Gorilla glass for me, At first it sound interesting but it's not the point now , I'm still end up with screen guard even on my iPhone.

Russian bbs do post the way to root and install recovery.img, but I'm still not sure about the process and what language it is because google translate. I wish I could master chinese or russian :crying:'

I need guide in english to install english recovery.img and flash new rom, so much thanks for any help
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
It is pretty awesome for the price!
[General Questions and Answers] raby500:
good

@lightingboy

thanks and keep us posted

and if i have more question i will PM you

and full review would be great
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Setcpu works great.

Attached is on demand governor.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Can you find out how he rooted it? Because I don't think setcpu will work without root. even for governor changes .
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Here's one with performance governor.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Woah. Big difference!
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
As you've read, from 60% battery down to 5% at 9.3+pm, it does makes a lot of difference on battery.

This is, as you might know, the fact that battery life is govern by your cpu speed and the distribution of the processes for the os.
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
I try cpu tuner and i got a problem. I can only set cpu frequency at 250 or 1001 mhz only 2 state, how come?:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Use setcpu. Have to pay though.

It has a range that u can set your cpu at.

Here's one I took yesterday. See if it's that clear on a 8megapix.
[General Questions and Answers] gcuervo:
i had a thl w1, its have wcdma 850/2100 not 1900. zopo i dont know, verify bandmode using mobile uncle app (mtk engineering menu) downloadble on google play.
[General Questions and Answers] fenner8659:
Yes is OK !!
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Voice search is fixed in new beta on my website!
[General Questions and Answers] keiser1080:
Wich pc application to use to backup picture, sms, contact ect from the phone to the computer?
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
A bug: I tried a live wallpaper and then I wanted to use a simple (non-live) wallpaper and I can't, no wallpapers are here.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Thats not a bug, add wallpapers your self
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
But standard ICS wallpapers should be here, shouldn't it?
[General Questions and Answers] androidnyubi:
hey, i wonder if you can add another language Bahasa Indonesia on next beta release of your ROM, i know it's not a popular demand :)
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
For all people that want extra languages, can you give me language files for all apk including framework? I can not translate it my self.
[General Questions and Answers] br492:
When I get mine I that has the etotalk rom I will try ti get the corresponding files for Greek and send them to you.but I would like to know the way to do that.first android phone after 5 years with iPhones
[General Questions and Answers] gcuervo:
gommers, please spanish? which files contains langauges?
[General Questions and Answers] kostis85:
How can we do this?I would be happy to help you with Greek language. My apks I Installed are in greek and in the Etotalk ROM (1.0.5) everything is in greek (including sim options etc...) If you know how i can extract the greek files from my rom and then I'll send you to embed it in your custom rom.

If that is possible I can send you and the other languages that are preinstalled in my rom(50+languages)
[General Questions and Answers] br492:
Kostis you are one step forward.efxaristo
[General Questions and Answers] kostis85:
I confirm that Hungarian and Polish are included in my rom(as many many others). If someone help me to extract these languages and then gommers include them in his custom ROM then everybody will be happy! :) I dont know many things about programming ROMs but I will try to help you if I can.
[General Questions and Answers] kostis85:
Guys do you know where i can find the win7 drivers for the SP Flash Tool. I can see only win Xp drivers.

I want to update my recovery that came from Eotalk to take a descent backup but i followed the procces that the russian guy did but I just cant find win & drivers in the SP Flash Tool subfolder.
[General Questions and Answers] kostis85:
OK I found it.

Something else i found accidently:

The alarm is ringing even with powerd off phone :) !
[General Questions and Answers] jamesensor:
I finally solved the problem with the usb drivers issues!

So, we are used to connect hardware to a pc and get recognized on the spot. Then, it stays there, driverless, until you install the inf file. But this is not that kind of case for this kind of phones! For win xp I couldn't do it, but for win 7 I could. What to do:

Take battery, then put it on, plug to pc, quickly point the driver and let windows deal with the inf file you pointed. I found many inf files for win7 and not all of them work, so it's not the problem here. Then, repeat the battery step and let the pc recognize the hardware again and windows will finish its install of the preloader, so that it will in the end tell you that it's installed, although the hardware keeps popping on and off.

Last, open the flash tool, set the stuff to do and press download (for the tool to search the phone), and right after pressing it, plug the phone, and the tool will "grab" the phone to the pc and download all the files needed for the operations! After the green circle appears, like the walkthroughs show, it will disconnect again (windows sound hardware unplugged). The trick is to let the tool grab the phone for the operation at hand. So don't get insane with its behavior (pop in, pop out in hardware manager)

I've searched a lot about this and there was some people with the same problem and ZERO answers. I hope it helps. Cheers!