yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] kra_ppo:
thank you for this guide!

Maybe you have a solution for the problem with the CPU?

Setcpu or no-frills does not set the cpu in a low-voltage stadium.....

I installed gommers latest rom version and button ligth fix.
[General Questions and Answers] longo213:
Jelly Bean update for MT6577 phones in sight(?)

A new hope for all owners of MT6577 based phones?

www jetdroid org/shanzhai/2012/10/20/jelly-bean-update-for-mt6577-phones-in-sight/
[General Questions and Answers] Tsurany:
Still hoping for 4.1 and 4.2 in the future, Etotalk claims Newman will release 4.1 for the N1 but only Etotalk claims that. Otherwise I'll buy a new one when 5.0 comes out.
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
Thanks a lot! :D

I gave it a try. Main problem actually is that the ROM does not provide SIM access at all. I always get the message "No SIM card". I'm using the phone with two sim cards. Any suggestions? :confused:

EDIT: I installed it now twice. Last time it started to work so I have full access now. The Dialer is a little annoying as it's not possible to switch between the cards that easy. Also you don't get suggestions from contact list while dialing a number. But nevertheless it's quite a charming ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] wesolutka:
on dialer touch and swipe left the call button to call by next sim. in contacts you can do the same after swiping call button you change default sim for this contact.

now i found that fm radio doesn't work on lewa os
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
I know how to change the SIM that shall be used. But it is not very comfortable. The original Newman N1 dialer wasn't very stylish but quite easy to use.

As I can see lewa OS uses apex launcher 1.3.3. I wonder if there is an update possible to 1.3.5 that is providing more languages. The update via market place is not working (signature error). Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] wesolutka:
Oh,ok :) for me this kind of choosing sim is much better.

If you have apex without lewa launcher, install any other launcher an run it, then del apex from /system/app and install from google play.
[General Questions and Answers] Patanol:
Roms

There are some problems in Lewa Os. 3g call and radio problems have been reported. Also some of the apps (as aqilmend mentioned) don't get access to internet.

I have read that it was ported from Lewa Os on ZTE V970. Since I don't use any of the aforementioned apps and features I find Lewa rom most suitable for me.

Recently Fedinsal on chinaphones.ru has updated some files on 1.0.9 rom but he extracted all of the languages except English and Russian believing that they slow down the phone.

I don't know whether Gommers or anyother developers on XDA work on any rom right now. Hope that JB will be realesed soon. :)
[General Questions and Answers] alightedme:
Feedback Required

Hi All!

Please provide feedback to improve this page http://amitbhatia.in/newman/. The idea is to provide a how-to guide on one page for beginners and advanced users.

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] rkadve:
Good.

Please elaborate properly at 1) Instructions for flashing the phone

point G.

Couldn't follow it.
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
I did a little research and now installed lewaOS ver. 121123 for N1. It's working great now, also the bugs with the dialer have left. It comes without apex so I installed by my own. Now at least the launcher is completely running in German. Thanks to morelocale2 many system settings are also in german now.

I don't see any prbolems with WLAN or 3G, all is working good for me. The only difference to stock n1 Rom is that you cannot switch 3G setting to the other sim card. 3G will only be available for sim1. I don't care for this "problem".

I will test it more in upcoming days :good:
[General Questions and Answers] alightedme:
I have updated the instructions, please check again.
[General Questions and Answers] wesolutka:
Is the radio FM works in this 121123 rom? Could you post the link for this rom ? THX.
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
FM works in that ROM. I just tested it, it works great.

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And here's the link for the ROM:

ROM: http://www.mediafire.com/?x0caa7xm96avg0a

Gaps: http://www.mediafire.com/?8uznb81czd7tc9t

Enjoy!
[General Questions and Answers] wesolutka:
Finally the Fm radio works and system logs is off! :) Thanks for the links.

When starting dial 400... shows up a long list of numbers, of course not mine, but chinese phone numbers. How can I get rid of them ?
[General Questions and Answers] Timer2000:
Thx for

http://jimbi.net/newman/

but i have problems.

Can i flash direkt the updateV6?

Because update in the name?

I have the phone from eto with the mod rom.
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
First wipe the phone completely. Then synchronize with your google account. I never saw that numbers you mentioned.

So I suggest again: wipe data, cache and dalvik cache, restart and add your google account. There shouldn't be any numbers in contacts except your own ones from google account.

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Even if I wouldn't suggest the v6-Rom you can directly install it, it's a full rom. "update" in the name is just given by gommers. He also could have named it "version".

I found version 5 the last good working one. with v6 (even with hot battery solution) my phone became quite hot and wasn't charging properly anymore. I also got mine from etotalk with prior etotalk mod rom.
[General Questions and Answers] wesolutka:
Run Lewa Dialer and dial 400 and You see ;) I found this phone numbers in yellowpage.db which was in phone.apk.

There is something like that
[General Questions and Answers] Margitili:
@timer2000

Hello,

you must update CMW first,then you will flash any rom
[General Questions and Answers] alightedme:
No you can't flash directly from v6 because it is a deodexed rom and it is meant to be installed on top of v4
[General Questions and Answers] adpoy:
Hi!

I have my newman N1 from etotalk. It comes with an ugly splash screen with the etotalk logo. Does anybody knows how to change it? I tried a few methods from other phones but not one works. The main reason is that I can't find the place where its the splash screen, any idea?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
It should be the boot.img or do you mean the boot animation?
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
Hahahahaha! That's amazing! I didn't see as I had a lot of contacts before that. But that's really funnny!

Ok, so do you have a way to get rid of that numbers?
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
CPU current frequency fix?

Hi guys,

i want to know how to fix the cpu problem, my newman n1 is always with 1001MHz of current frequency, and when i play i think he is heating a lil close to the back camera. i'm running update5.V1.0.9.05.11.2012 Deodexed and i want to update to V6 but i dont know if the cpu problem continues on that version...

Cumps

Hed190
[General Questions and Answers] kra_ppo:
Got the same problem with Gommers1978 V6.

CPU always on 1ghz....
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Nobody know some ROM for newman without these problems???
[General Questions and Answers] mirzasila:
HOw do you check cpu frequency in real time? If you give me the name of the app you are using I could check on my etotalk ROM
[General Questions and Answers] wesolutka:
For now, all Roms have problem with cpu governor. You can use app like cpu tuner pro to change cpu freq for some modes,but this not solve a problem.

mirzasila for example https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sanels.tempcpuv2
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
I actually use this one: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34754610&postcount=865

No problem at all actually. CPU clock is working perfectly. You may choose an additional launcher of your choice, it's quite a good Rom.

I use apex pro launcher in addition.

to gommers v5 and v6 Roms: I even used SetCPU in order to get the CPU clock down - with no success. So this aint help.

I check different Roms in future so I keep you up to date, if there's any better Rom that the actual suggested one.

Enjoy!
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Can you give me the info about that ROM? I'LL appreciate it ;)
[General Questions and Answers] wesolutka:
Weimerd run app cpu spy from Google Play, only deep sleep, 250MHz and 1000MHz working, in lewa os too. This is a bad managment of cpu frequencies.
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
It's lewaOS for Newman N1 ver. 121123. So it's no development of stock Rom. Just search for lewaOS at google and you will get some infos to it.

The Dialer is different and - for my opinion after using a while - quite better than the stock rom one.

All in all I think it's the best Rom out there until now. I use apex pro launcher in addition. But you are free to choose any launcher you want. The standard one that is coming with the Rom is not very useful.

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I checked with android system info. Mostly these both frequnecies are used. But I have some smaller percentages also for the other ones. Nevertheless I think the same: Bad managment.

I had v5 and v6 from gommers before. The main problem there was that I had almost always 1000Mhz, no clocking down. At least this is quite better at lewaOS ;)
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
I saw some images of that OS Lewa and i didn't like it, it reminds me IOS :S and it's in english and chinese, so...if i'm wrong please tell me

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[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
I think the tools from android market dont work om MTK CPUs if the cpu was really not going into deepsleep the battery would drain much faster over night.
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
The style of the os is mainly influenced by the launcher you use ;)

Nevertheless of course it's a different dialer and some minor things. But no big differences. Languages are English and Chinese actually. With morelocale2 from playstore you can at least switch to all other languages. This means that some things are translated and for example google news is working in your language.

I set up apex pro launcher in German on top, so at the end I have a mix of German and English system now. It's ok for me to use.

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That was one of the problems I had with Rom v6 mainly. Phone became hot, battery drained very fast. Also during night battery was draining quite strong. Charging took VEEEERY long.

The actual lewaOS I'm using is giviing around 36 to 48 hours working time to my N1. I'm using it quite strongly. With v6 it was around 24 hours max.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Strange, i do not have these problems on v6. Do you have n1 or freelander?
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
Newman N1, bought at etotalk shop.

In total I have three Newman N1 running here. All with same problem with v6.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Mine is also from Etotalk with no problems so thats why i think it is strange. Some have problems and some dont.
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
The only point to take a shorter look is that with v4 everything worked ok. If you compare v6 and v4 directly there shall be some changes that are bringing the mentioned results.

Really strange... That's why I now changed to lewaOS. I think with minor changes this can be a quite good Rom. The only minor problem I see now is the strange contact list if you dial 400. Some Chinese numbers will apear. The list is found in phone.apk. I'm not expertised enough to get rid of that numbers. I tried but with no result. Are you interested in stepping into lewaOS dev?
[General Questions and Answers] mlgmlg:
Is it possible to just swap phone.apk between ROM versions?

Or it will brick the phone?
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
This is not possible, because it is framework dependend.
[General Questions and Answers] mlgmlg:
Got it. Thank you :)
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
I use Gommers ROM V6 and have no problem with battery drain or phone heating but my battery takes very long time to get full charge (about 5 or 6 hours).

@Gommers

How much time your battery takes to get full charge?

About CPU governators anyone tried this CPU Editor?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1584508

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724313
[General Questions and Answers] mlgmlg:
Does anyone have the "famous" Google voice problem with the Newman N1?

"Outgoing calls are logged in the phone dialer's call log with the GoogleVoice direct access number instead of the number dialed".

This makes a mess in the call log to the point it's useless. You can't see the real numbers you dialed :(

Before Newman N1 I had a HTC Aria phone. I used to use all possible custom ROMs (including CyanogenMod 9 and 10)

and never had this problem...
[General Questions and Answers] Loupák:
Lewa OS rom is great. No more battery problems. Only issue I´ve got so far with this one is the lock screen containing several chinese symbols. Any idea how to get rid of those?

Edit: I was able to find custom lockscreen themes for Lewa, but I dont know how to put them into the theme chooser. I´ve put the lwt file to sdcard root, lewa theme folder... nothing worked.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Even with battery sepperate in my newman desktop charger it takes 4 to 6 hours to fully charge, does not have to do with the rom then i would think.
[General Questions and Answers] cabaninho:
Hi. What the Best software to rec with camera in 720p. Or. 1080p? My videos its very bads . :(
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Testing the solution for the cpu now.
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
hey gommers1978,

If you can please create a new version of a ROM with all the fixes done until now.

I think we all appreciate ur effort ;)

Thx and keep the good work

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Hed190
[General Questions and Answers] Cni:
MIUI is coming...

bbs. newman. mobi/thread-72592-1-1.html
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
There is no new version v6 is the latest, will create a new version when i can find the cpu problem (no deep sleep)

I personaly dont have this problem, battery lasts 1,5 day and thats enough for me because i have 2 battery's but if it is possible to have the battery last longer with a cpu fix i will try to find out what is the problem.

The long charging time, as i said before, even in a desktop charger it takes 4 to 6 hours to completely charge the battery.
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
thats what i meant, create a new version when u find that problem, I'm not rushing you, im just saying...

I have the heat problem when i play and my cpu is always at maximum,

The battery is good, i need to recharge afternoon but i play a lot :D and at night when i'm at sleep
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
I also have no problem with cpu deep sleep.
[General Questions and Answers] jerober:
Error message when installing ROM

Hello All,

I just received my N1 from Etotalk and I am experiencing the following issue when trying to install Gommers ROM V1.0.9.20.10.2012.zip and also update6.V1.0.9.05.11.2012 Deodexed. Hope you guys can help

When I try to install the ROm after I did all the previous steps, I get the following error message:

Installing update...

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "N1" // getprop("ro.built.product") == "N1"

E: Error in /sdcard/update4.V1.0.9.20.10.2012.zip

(status 7)

Installation aborted

Could you please advise of the necessary steps in order to install the ROM?

Thanks in advance!!
[General Questions and Answers] hairclub:
I had the same problem...

Install CWM recovery

follow this step http://www.droidwebspace.com/index.php/roms/74-cwmflash
[General Questions and Answers] jerober:
Thanks for the response.

First, please note that I already have the CWM installed (version called "CWM-based recovery v6.0.1.2(compiled by Dean Etotalk.)")

This issue is that I tried to flash the recoveryN1 also but I have the following issue.

I am using a computer with XP.

I plug the phone and I go to device manager and then I install the driver.

Then , when I replug the phone i do not see the yellow exclamation point anymore (which i suppose means that the driver have been successfully installed)

after that, I open flashtool.exe, prepare it and click on download.

from that point, I plug my phone , I can see the progress bar increasing for a few seconds but then I hear a sound (which is related to plug/unplug device) and then a few second later, I got an error message from flashtool telling me that DA was not reachable..

To recap it seems that flahing is working for a few secs but then the phone is losing the USB connectivity and so the Recovery is not properly flashed.

Any advise about how to resolve this?

Thanks

Resolved by following this process giben by Benc999

Follow the procedure detailed in the thread on how to flash CWM. When you open flashtools, the phone must be unplugged from the PC. Remove battery - not completely, just so its not making contact. Hit download on flashtools, plug in USB cable and immediately replace the battery.

Time is of the essence - you have to be reasonably quick doing all these tasks, but it definitely works.

Thanks all
[General Questions and Answers] alightedme:
Has anyone tried CPU Editor?

I just checked out this link http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1724313

Has anyone tried any of the 3 utilities mentioned on this page? Are they compatible with N1?
[General Questions and Answers] cerrone:
Hi everyone.

Rather stupid question, but I'm thorn between what to choose - N1 or JiaYu G3. Today I kinda make my mind to buy N1 just because of its size which is compatible with the size of my pocket :)

Any practical advise on where to buy it, I mean which online store offer the best deal for it? What else is good to have as an addition (case, cover, etc). For example http://etotalk.com offers many things to choose from.

Thanks in advance.
[General Questions and Answers] KURT.Beadles:
Dunno about etotalk though. They still claim the N1 is shipping with gorilla glass... :eek:
[General Questions and Answers] rkadve:
For me it takes less than 2.5 hours to charge if switched off and charged.
[General Questions and Answers] kra_ppo:
My experience with etotalk:

You can pay per PayPal.

They got the N1 in stock.

The price is rather okay.

Fast shipping with DHL (5 days to Germany with tracking number).

Fast response with Email-Contact.
[General Questions and Answers] alightedme:
I would recommend jiayu g3 because of better battery and better screen resolution.
[General Questions and Answers] tivchev:
I am really happy with this seller on Aliexpress:

http://www.aliexpress.com/store/pro...-3G-smart-phone-1GB-4GB/209016_630072287.html

Best communication ever! Usually ships out in 24 hours. Got 2 screen protectors and a sweet jelly case as free gifts my N1.
[General Questions and Answers] mirzasila:
I had very good experience with etotalk
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Hey, guys

i have noticed a problem with my N1 software ROM V5, i swapp sdcard and the phone doesn't update the information about the sd card, just when i reboot the phone and go to settings he update the info...

anyone have this problem to??

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hed190
[General Questions and Answers] Mati1231:
Hello Community,

i have an issue... I have installed gommers ROM V4 and my storage looks like that: Internal 2,46GB, Phone Storage 29 GB (my SD-Card) and SD-Card 50MB. Whenever i install an app, it goes to the internal storage and i don't want to fill it with apps because it will get full very fast when i get a navigation app and some games.

I'm trying to move the apps by using Link2SD to the SD-Card, but it says Segmentation fault. Same when I try to freeze an app.

I tried to go deeper and found a button "move to phone storage" and it worked for Skype but not WhatsApp so I'm afraid that it will not work for other Apps too.

So what can I do? Also when i try to set install destination in Link2SD it says segmantation fault.

I also set Default Write Disk to Phone Storage in the settings and Preferred install location to Phone Storage also but it just won't work :rolleyes:

Would be nice to get some help from you guys!

BTW, awesome phone! Kepp doing your great work Gommers!

PS. Okay now it worked to move WhatsApp to the Phone Storage too, but it's still very annoying that the apps can not be installed in the Phone Storage... Some solutions?
[General Questions and Answers] kra_ppo:
Habe a look at Gommers1978 Newman N1 website!

Bigger internal storage by eliminating internal SD storage:

http://www.droidwebspace.com/index.php/roms/75-repartition
[General Questions and Answers] Tsurany:
Anyone know a working link for the lewaOS rom? Currently having some application crash issues together with some performance issues and want to see if the lewaOS rom solves this. Links posted here don't seem to work anymore.
[General Questions and Answers] Patanol:
Lewa

This link still works.

http://www.mediafire.com/?9u9p50jc69toikf
[General Questions and Answers] Mati1231:
Okay kra_ppo, and how does it solve my problem that the apps are installed on the internal storage instead of the phone storage?

The solution you gave me just erases the sd-card with the 50mb from the display. Wheter it's there or not doesn't mind.
[General Questions and Answers] kra_ppo:
Just kill the internal memory.

I'm using "app2sd".

No problem to move the apps to the "real" SD-card.

Works very good with my device.

But maybe I didn't understand your problem...

kra
[General Questions and Answers] Tsurany:
Thnx, is this the latest version?
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
Here's the link for the ROM:

ROM: http://www.mediafire.com/?x0caa7xm96avg0a

Gaps: http://www.mediafire.com/?8uznb81czd7tc9t

Its lewaOS 121123. There's also one 121130 in development but I didn't try yet. This one is working quite well for me so I don't see a point why to change.
[General Questions and Answers] Patanol:
Lewa

Sorry I forgot to add. There was a newer version 3 or 4 pages before. But that one had a small glitch in phone.apk. You should check out Chinese forums for the latest versions. I will add links once I get back home if you like.:)
[General Questions and Answers] weimerd:
Yes, the glitches in phone.apk are that there are some Chinese numbers added in address book. I don't care too much about that but a clean version would be nice ;)

Nevertheless: ROM: http://www.mediafire.com/?x0caa7xm96avg0a

Gaps: http://www.mediafire.com/?8uznb81czd7tc9t

It's the newest lewaOS for N1 available on english speaking market actually. I also saw something on Chinese forum (like 121130) but I didn't get it until now.

@Patanol: If you could get it and upload to like mediafire your help would be highly appreciated :D
[General Questions and Answers] Tsurany:
Thnx all, have both versions, gonna try them out :)
[General Questions and Answers] Patanol:
Roms

I will give it a try tonight and upload it if I get my hands on it.

Yesterday I tried muiu rom but as mentioned on its bbs. newman thread it doesn't recognize the contacts on your sim. You have to backup your phone book in your current rom then restore it on muiu. Besides some services crashed when I was exploring the settings etc. So I restored my Lewa rom which I am very pleased with. But I should remind you that I didn't spare much time to figure out the miui rom. I believe that there will be a stable version soon :o
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Try this Phone.apk and let me know if the issue is gone.

P.S. for people who think the N1 is not going into deepsleep test this with CPU spy, on my phone it says 93% on deep sleep. So no CPU problem here!

Will look how to get lower frequencies working.