yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] alightedme:
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Hi !

I did the following to solve the problem.

Flash the phone using instructions here - forum.china-iphone.ru/viewtopic.php?p=733354#p733354 (for others, please understand flashing a recovery is different from flashing a phone. I had to flash the phone to get rid of bootloop problem.)

Brief instructions on flashing a phone.

A. Download the ROM (not gomers one but this one - https://www.dropbox.com/s/xptt5p5mfp4wphz/N1V1.0.7.rar

B. Open your flash tool (the same one which you have used for recovery). If you don't have the tool already, download from here: http://rapid.ufanet.ru/9569297

C. Download scatter file from here - http://get.rapid.ufanet.ru/2836fa6c...77375/6806380/MT6577_Android_scatter_emmc.txt (this is the same file you have used for recovery. If you already have this file then there is no need to download again.)

D. Now, unzip the ROM files (in step A) and scatter file (in step C) in the same folder.

E. Open your flash tool, open the scatter file from the folder (where you have zipped all the contents).

F. Select all files except following: PRE_LOADER, DSP_BL and SEC_RO

G. Click on download, and attach the USB cable to phone and pull the battery in (same as in recovery). The process of flashing should complete in few seconds and you should see a green circle saying download OK.

H. Once you have flashed the phone, now it's the time to recover the phone using original recovery image. We will use the same scatter file but different recovery image. Download recovery image from here: http://get.rapid.ufanet.ru/2d97280a...37/newman-n1_recovery_by-BM_ported-by-sgg.img

Rename this file to recovery.img

I. Now, copy this recovery.img and scatter file in a new folder.

K. Open your flash tool again and use the scatter file in the above mentioned folder.

L. Make sure only recovery is selected. Click on download and just after clicking "yes" pull out USB cable and pull it back in along with the battery.

M. In few seconds process should complete and you will see a green circle saying download ok.

N. That's it! You are done. Now, reboot the phone into recovery by pressing volume up + power button.

......From here onwards... you can follow gomers guide for installing an updated ROM from here : http://www.droidwebspace.com/index.php/roms/72-update-v1-0-9-20-10-2012

Once, you install the latest ROM, your phone is back up in no time.

I hope it helps.

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Your seem to be a driver related problem. Try loading the drivers for mediatek again.
[General Questions and Answers] hungbean:
What about rom for N1 have Vietnamess??

Hi U

I'm come from Vietnam and have one this phone Newman N1.

I already root and setup recovery, and now I know the Etotalk's rom have Vietnamess language. Pls help me provide this Rom!

Thanks all!
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
Thanks alightedme for reply

right now I has CWM recovery in Chinese language.

when I pressed download in SP flash tool and connected N1, it found N1 and continued download to 100% then got this error.

http://upic.me/i/27/60391.jpg.

I can't find Mtk device in Device manager for reinstall driver, how to?

Can I apply your method to reflash N1 to factory rom and recovery mode?
[General Questions and Answers] alightedme:
You can try to apply my method but I am afraid you will end up with the same error message. But, you can definitely try. The message which you are seeing is related to DRAM. Are you sure that there is no problem with SD Card?
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
Your method works fine. Thanks, now I'm on 1.0.9.

but A-GPS seem not working, can't specify the location when I'm in the building.

GPS works on outdoor but it's a bit slow.
[General Questions and Answers] nikton:
hello guys. I got my Newman a few days ago and since then i have some serious problems.

The phone.come from merimobiles rooted. I asked them to remove Chinese.Apps but they didnt.

They told me it has Greek.language . No Greek language is available. The biggest problem is the signal.

The only way to have.one line of signal is under the transmitter. Nowhere else. I put my SIM card in my old phone (omniaIII) and.in my tablet (Ideos S7) and i have full strength of signal. When i put them in the NEWMAN. it says no network available. EVERYWHERE.

For a week only ten minutes of good signal and this only because the.transmiterr was 10 m away.

Could this be because.of the ROM? any ideas?

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Very much possible. Try any other ROM mentioned in the post.
[General Questions and Answers] br492:
I have problem with fm radio even with the latest (moded) rom.

I get into app but it fails to start.when i scan for station from the menu (up right where there is radio settings)it finds every station at my area,but when i choose one i hear a crack sound and nothing.same if i choose another station.I had only once heard when i got the phone.then even with stock etotalk rom never heard radio again
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
It could be Rom problem or hardware defect. On rom 1.0.5 and 1.0.9, my N1 signal is still better than my iphone 3gs.

You should talk with your seller first for what could you do, before update rom by yourself.

Did you plugin the earphone? It is needed for radio antenna. if yes then your N1 really has a problem..
[General Questions and Answers] hairclub:
Headphone volume

Hi again,

Is it possible to encrease headphone volume?

How I can do that?

Thanks for your help
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Sure, just instal Mobileuncle MTK Tools, enter engineer mode -> Audio and set new levels :good:

You can try this:

Audio - LoudSpeaker Mode - Ring

Max Vol = 150

Levels: 120 130 145 160 180 200 210

Audio - Normal Mode - Sph

Max Vol = 150

Levels: 100 120 130 135 140 145 150

Audio - Normal Mode- Mic

Levels: 100 172 172 172 172 172 172

Audio - LoudSpeaker Mode - Media

Max Vol = 150

Levels: 110 130 160 190 210 230 250

Audio - LoudSpeaker/headset mode - Sph

Max Vol = 150

Levels: 80 100 110 120 130 140 150

:cool:
[General Questions and Answers] datalux03:
flashing ROM

Etotalk says 'copy ROM into SD card'...but...I haven't understood yet what is sd card for newman...external, internal phone memory???

Backup old rom completed in few minutes, not 4 hours...is normal?

Ciao
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Hey Guys,

Since i installed the ROM update4.V1.0.9.20.10.2012 (4th BETA) i have problems with almost apps... they simply enter the app and give an error and i press OK and the app exits...

Someone with same Problem on NEWMAN N1???

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[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Before you installed this rom did you clear factory reset and cache and reinstalled your apps?
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Yes i did that, i followed the instructions

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[General Questions and Answers] rkadve:
From where can I install mobileuncle. Link please.

Edit: OK GOT IT FROM PLAYSTORE.
[General Questions and Answers] sbrissia:
hi all;

I'm considering buying this phone.

Can somebody confirm how is its dual sim working mode?

When I'm downloading something using the 3G SIM (SIM1), can I receive calls both on SIM1 and SIM2 ? (I don't care if the 3G gets paused when receiving the call)

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] ozp:
both sim works. If you call the other SIM, it rings. (but I did not answered the call)

The only annoyance is when you receive a SMS at SIM2 and SIM1 is the default. Than you have to switch SIM to reply the SMS with the same SIM that received it
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
In sim management you can set allways choose which sim to send or call with.
[General Questions and Answers] benc999:
Power Button Menu

I can confirm that the Power Button menu flash on the china phones Russia forum works with this ROM.

You MUST download the "ODEX_Rom" flash file. http://forum.china-iphone.ru/viewtopic.php?p=798032#p798032 You have to register to download the file, but Google Translate works nicely!

Simply boot into recovery and flash and now you can reboot and boot into recovery from the power button.

All credit for Fedinsal over at the Russian forum for this. Along with Gommers, they've really helped make a decent phone turn into a great one.
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
The "Patch - Green led only when full charged, not when 90%.." looks good.

Can someone d/l that and have it posted here. Thanks.
[General Questions and Answers] benc999:
Uncanny... I flashed that this morning.

Here you go...

All credits to Fedinsal at china phones ru
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Hey guys,

Someone having problems with apps on the ROM "update4.V1.0.9.20.10.2012 (4th BETA)"???

I'm the only one? Some feedback please!

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hed190
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
New ROM versions with some fixes

A new ROM will be released later today trough my website.

lingfude has added the following modifications/fixes:

Changes

- Added Reboot and Reboot to recovery to power menu (files changed: framework-res.apk, android.policy.odex)

- Added gps.conf (for better GPS fix)

- Added AdFree hosts to system hosts file

- Added last version of SuperUser and SU binary

- Changed notification Green light only when battery is 100% when charging instead of 90% (file changes: services.odex)

- Fixed Timezones for all languages

- Updated APN list (apns-conf.xml)

- Updated PlayStore to last version

- Added last version of GMail

- Added last version of ESFileExplorer

- Added last version of ESTaskManager

So thank him for these changes, i only deodexed his new version and added some additional languages that i found to settings.apk.
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Do you think it will fix the problems i have with apps?

so many apps don't run with the last ROM :(

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[General Questions and Answers] benc999:
Have you tried doing a full data wipe and reflashing the ROM?

What apps aren't working?
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Will SetCPU work without root? I have it, I use it. But then my phone is rooted
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
Apps incompatible and cannot be installed - thats no good. Imagine some of my favorite apps

can't be installed and use in my phone.
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
I don't think so. It needs your phone to be rooted in order for it to configure.

Are u able to go to recovery mode?

The one with power button + volume up button consecutively when u power on the device?
[General Questions and Answers] raby500:
please give us examples of apps and by incompatible you mean you get a message in the play store?
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
I have experienced about app incompatible with line and viber, but after install latest gapps, everything works fine.

Tell me what incompatible app, I will try to install
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
My favourite app. Wolframalpha :(

Math wouldn't be the same without it!
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
I don't exactly own it. It is my friends' fone. Ill try to get it from him and work it out

But the recovery will be in chinese won't it?
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
@raby500: Here's the videos proofing Gorilla glass:

Cut melon on the phone: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNDMyMTg2OTYw.html

Use the phone as a nut-cracker: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4awxT4_o1cI

Drop the phone from 2.5m to the floor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxc0ek8xFU

@lightingboy: I bought it for $173.5 from this site (also used $5 off coupon): http://www.antelife.com/original-ne...pu-android-4-0-3g-4-3qhd-ips-8-0mp-black.html

But now it is more expensive in this store.

I think that you can buy it for the cheapest from this site: http://www.pandawill.com/newman-n1-...-android-40-mtk6577-1g-ram-3g-gps-p66016.html

It is $179 and free shipping (china post).

For those are having issues with apps incompatibility, you can try updating to the latest official release and updating to the latest gapps.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUxc0ek8xFU
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
this should prove something. give me your credit card ID, I will go further on my device :D
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
What the hell? You updated the firmware?

Ill update and try!

This is strange. WHy is the firmware not maintained by google and spread OTA like others? :o
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Slice a melon,apple,cat,dog,skull, anything.. won't change the fact that it does scratch!
[General Questions and Answers] raby500:
can anyone confirm the language of the Recovery mode?
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
It is in Chinese, but I have seen a video of English recovery on Newman N1, but link wasn't included and I don't know where to download.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
You can't 'download' stock recoveries ( I think) . IMO recovery language should be the same as system language
[General Questions and Answers] wangiles:
Mine is in English. Etotalk does it for me. I'd prefer them to root for me rather than I did it myself

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Recovery can be "flashed" using mtkflash tool. But let me warn you, it is no kids play. Wrong move and you'll flash your boot loader to nothing.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Can you elaborate please?
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
@kkricardokaka95 - So you have hands on this phone at the moment, any comments other than those I have read like screen will scratch,

slightly poor battery (can be resolved though). I am planning to get this Newman N1 or the HuaWei U8836D.
[General Questions and Answers] lightingboy:
@kkricardokaka95

I just did install latest gapps, it solves incompatible problem.

What do you expect for the different of $80? You can get 1 and a half newman or only 1 huawei :D

list of problems

1. Max brightness under the sun

2. Auto brightness is too sensitive

3. support 3G 900 not 850mhz

4. battery life due to the cpu high state when screen on, last night in sleep mode for 8 hours, it dropped from 48% to 42%

5. Not gorilla, but for me it's not the point with this price.

6. No headphone in the box
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
@lightingboy

Very true bro, $80 probably can used that money to spend on other thing. Furthermore Newman N2 likely come out next year.

Going to order one Newman N1, now is whether to pay the supplier to do the Root and install Google Play Store for me about

$7 more and come with 8GB micro sd card or to do them myself. Good thing there is a support forum for Newman with discussion

and ROM release, only problem they are in chinese.
[General Questions and Answers] kkricardokaka95:
Na i don't own it.. my friend has it.. imade this post for my friend!
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
I have not heard anybody complaining about apps not working so i would think no, but you can try of course.
[General Questions and Answers] nikton:
did anyone had the same problem; any ideas;
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Humm so many but most inportant MobileUncle tools,

when i enter in engineer mode(MTK) he gave me an error and close,

cameramx when i try to erase a photo he give me an error too.

There are others that gave me error but i don't remember right now :S

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[General Questions and Answers] benc999:
Have you flashed the MTKTools file from Gommers' site before installing from the Play Store?

I'm downloading Camera MX now to see if I get similar issues....

Just took two pics of my desktop and managed to delete them... so I can only think you didn't do a full wipe before flashing the ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
The are certain apps that have problems with the N1 framework, i also have problems with the newest version of the facebook app. The older version works perfectly.
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Any chance for a script that instals just the changes (or at least location of files to exchange) ??
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
I also have problems with Facebook too!

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[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
The facebook that was preinstalled does not have problems.

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If you make an backup of your rom you can install the new one and then recover your DATA. Than you dont lose anything.

My new ROM is deodexed so it is not possible to just load some files, in the future it is possible once the deodexed ROM is installed.

Here you go the new deodexed ROM:

Deodexed ROM v5
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
I confirm that MobileUncle tools and all other applications work fine with Gommers and my ROM.

Before you flash the new ROM wipe data and cache from recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
Hello gommers1978,

After installing this Deodexed ROM v5 do I still require to do this ?

Bigger internal storage by eliminating internal SD storage

(fix the storage size to 2,5GB and no SD partition)
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
If you want it then yes.
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Thx, but I prefered to instal the changes to the 'old' ROM, so I did that (Russian friends have all the updates :good:) was faster than backup->instal->restore :cool:
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
If you want the rest of updates just add/replace these files:

- /system/etc/gps.conf

- /system/etc/hosts

- /system/etc/apns-conf.xml

- /system/app/SuperUser.apk and /system/xbin/su

- /system/app/Settings.apk (Fixed Timezones for all languages)

- /system/app/PlayStore.apk

- /system/app/GMail.apk

- /system/app/ESFileExplorer.apk

- /system/app/ESTaskManager.apk

Don't forget to set the right permissions for each file.
[General Questions and Answers] fcsabika:
When I use a flashlight app, then the camera led is very weak.

I have already tried many flashlight apps.

But when I take a photo with the camera app then the led is a lot stronger.

And when I record a video using the camera app, the led is the same weak as with flashlight apps.

So the led is only strong when I am taking photos, in all other cases it is weak.

Why?

Can it be adjusted somehow?
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Thx I already did that, I'm not a noob haha ;)
[General Questions and Answers] br492:
resinig using

with latest rom mobile uncle is ok,greek language is very good.Someone to check speed when downloading from play store.
[General Questions and Answers] KURT.Beadles:
gommers, thank you for you great effort putting together the ROM. You really have made a lot of work on this! :good:

Also do you think JB will be available for the Newman?
[General Questions and Answers] br492:
one question:is it necessery to use setcpu or simillar apps with latest rom?
[General Questions and Answers] Tsurany:
Etotalk claims JB is currently in development for the Newman N1.
[General Questions and Answers] cybertech:
Just wondering, if only these few files to be updated, must as well build one patch or

update zip instead of a new ROM v5 to be flashed. Is there any differences between

these two methods?
[General Questions and Answers] Carterkreg:
Problem with opening Setings/Display menu in Czech language (v4 and v5)

Hi,

Another proud owner of our beloved Newman here!

In the first place, I would like to thanks Gommers (lingfude too ofc) for his excelent work: Thanks man, your work is very much appreciated!

But I think there is little problem with czech language - As title suggests I cant reach Display menu with Czech on - phone just shows the app settings stopped working (but in Czech ofc), can someone try&confirm this issue?

It doesnt really bother me, I am fine with English ... but... you know ... :)

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] mirzasila:
Received my N1 from etotalk yesterday (paid 70€ customs fee...:eek: ). I haven't encountered any problems with etotalk ROM v 1.09 so far. In my opinion phone has solid build quality and it feels very good. Only small issue I have spotted that my menu button (three line button on the left) has a slightly dimmed backlight on the first line but this is hardly noticeable.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Thats normal.

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The Czech translations for that part are not in the translation files im afraid then.
[General Questions and Answers] hed190:
Hey Guys,

I've installed the update5.V1.0.9.05.11.2012 Deodexed and i don't have problems, just today i had to uninstall updates from facebook because it crashed every time.

But no more problems to report.

Thanks a lot to Gommers and Lingfude

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[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Nice 2 hear that your probs are gone.
[General Questions and Answers] hungbean:
Rom mutilanguage with Vietnamese

Hello Gome

Pls help me find Rom Mutilanguage for N1 have Vietnamese :fingers-crossed:

Many thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] alberto23:
Hi Gommers,

Nice job! Werkt geweldig!

Just a couple of questions:

1. The screen brightness changes kinda weird. Had the same problem with the stock rom. Do you recognize this problem?

2. Any updates regarding the last 7 digits of the phone numbers?

3. Is it possible to integrate the CallRecorder Kernel Fix?

If you need a mirror for your downloads, let me know :)

Keep up the good work!

Ciao,

Alberto
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
You have to have vietnamese language packs.

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1. Sometimes i have this 2 but no fix yet

2. Have tried allot to fix this, it is a problem with country code numbers.

Have tried editing framework.jar and mediatek-framework.jar but still no suc6.

3. Have not look in to this can do that once CID problem is finally fixed.
[General Questions and Answers] KURT.Beadles:
gommers1978, even my Companionlink works now!!! :good: Thanks again for your great work!!
[General Questions and Answers] keiser1080:
first of all thanks for your work.

gps.conf is configured for wish contry ?

It is possible to add the fix for the touch bouton ?

What is the network band used by your phone provider?
[General Questions and Answers] mirzasila:
When I make a call and the call connects, my phone vibrates. Is it possible to turn off that feature?
[General Questions and Answers] Nastheone:
I just received my N1. I use your last rom, it is very good, thank you! I have just one problem, the compass is doesn't work too good. Has any idea to fix it?
[General Questions and Answers] dfuujin:
gommers thank for all your work, Flashing CWM recovery link doesn't work. could you restore it? thanks!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
Works from here.

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I also found this annoying so i allready removed it from phone.apk will post link tomorrow.
[General Questions and Answers] lingfude:
gps.conf it's configured to Europe.
[General Questions and Answers] rkadve:
ExDialer is very good. Has swipe to call and message feature. Search also works perfectly. If someone can could integrate Video call feature, option to select/change SIM from notification whenever stock dialer is opened and call logs with SIM name, it would be perfect for our N1.
[General Questions and Answers] gommers1978:
CID fix and phone without vibrate on anwser

Here you go:

CID Fix etc.

With special thanks to Lingfude and Bruno for the CID fix!!

Also have put in Contacts.apk with fix because on my phone it crashed when entering groups in contacts.

There are 2 files on the above link, one with CID and contacts fix only and 1 with also the do not vibrate on anwser fix.
[General Questions and Answers] nikton:
3G Network. VODAFONE. 900-1800-2100 I think....