yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pingu2000:
Error: No ramdisk folder found!

Hi cybermaus,

I've been trying to learn how to cook my own ROM based on the P700i_ROW_S106 ROM that was mentioned in an earlier post. However, when using dsixda's ROM Kitchen I get:

Working folder found

Kernel found at offset 2048 in boot.img

Making folder BOOT-EXTRACTED ...

Extracting kernel ...

Extracting ramdisk ...

Error: No ramdisk folder found!

Press Enter to continue

So, do you use ROM kitchen? Can you help me extract the ramdisk from the boot.img?

Or...... could you cook a P700i version of your ROM (I think you already use the P700i as the base for all the other right)? :o

I mainly want to do it to get rid of the caller ID bug. Oh, and if it was easy there are a couple of other things I'd love to see changed:

- Have the camera save to /sdcard/DCIM/Camera instead of /sdcard/My Pictures

- Have 2 voicemail notifications at the same time. Currently if a voicemail comes in for one SIM it will overwrite the notification for the other SIM.

Cheers,

pingu
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Hi Pingu

no, I do not use the kitchen. Or at least, not for this purpose.

I manually extract the image, as shown in the link on the first post, and then manually build it again. Firstly, because I want to know what happens, and secondly, because the Mediatek images are different than the normal ones, so the kitchen does not work.

But ok, I will build your P700i for you. When I get around to building all the other ones (A660, A789, maybe S560). Soon. I know I promised that before, but its very busy with my 'real' life (iow, work), so I can only repeat the 'soon' for now.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pingu2000:
Hi Cybermaus,

You're a star, thank you. Please take your time, your real life is more important!

pingu.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Hi Phillippe: Did you find the A660_s023_120927 file? I would like to take it's kernel, as it is newer than the kernel of the A660_s019_120824
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zonatar:
i download the update for the a660 too, but i can not find...

i'll try harder today, but the update it's only 14MB...

---------- Post added at 02:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:27 PM ----------

Ok, maybe i found it :D

I'm uploading to my skydrive space.

---------- Post added at 02:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:35 PM ----------

Here:

https://skydrive.live.com/redir?resid=7117AF756E7EE0D8!1335

Hope it'll be usefull :fingers-crossed:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alissoncg:
Hi Cybermaus,

I'm using your ROM for 3-4 weeks (v3.03) in my A789. I'm writting to say thanks! Excellent work! My cell came with a multilanguage rom but I notice some bugs. So I found you and you ROM.

I found a new one (v3.1) at you 4shared page. I'll flash it. Any need to do factory reset? Or only flash?

Greetings from Brazil :highfive:

Alisson
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Found it already eh? Its brand new, I was typing up the post to describe it just now.

So, for all of you:

A new ROM release for the A789: A789_ROW_S106_cybermaus_ICS_v3.1

And for the P700i: P700i_ROW_S106_cybermaus_ICS_v3

Se the official post here

PS: "But what about my A660" I hear you ask? Well, p700i and A789 are soo similar, it was one go, really. A660 is a little different. So I need to do some more work, but before I do that, I may as well first wait till I get feelback on the other two. Sorry.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alissoncg:
hehehee... sorry for my anxious mind :D

I'm flashing right now. No facttory reset.

Cheers

Alisson
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Thanks. It is indeed a 'minor' update, but it does contain various stuff, among other a new kernel and a new baseband firmware. Which will go into the upcoming ROW build.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alissoncg:
Cybermaus, I get a error when trying to flash:

asser

t failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "A789"

|| getprop("ro.build.product") == "A789"

E:Error in /emmc/A789_ROW_S106_cybermaus_ICS_v3.1.zip

(Status 7)

Installation aborted.
​

I notice that in v3.03, "ro.product.device" and "ro.build.product" are the same: "P700i". But in v3.1, "ro.product.device" is "P700i" and "ro.build.product" is "A789". Something to do with this?

I'll mod this variables and see the result.

Alisson

EDIT: Not worked. Either putting "P700i" or "A789" in two variables results in same original error...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Yes, I though I best leave the assert in there, but of course to do so, I should have edited the build properly on previous attempts.

I will mod later. In the mean time, please note you can toggle the asserts off in the CMW recovery, so it is not even checked. This will allow you to continue

Edit: v3.11 should be there, any moment now....

EDIT2: no, upload keeps failing. I'll try tomorrow. In the mean time, just configure CWM recovery to not enable the asserts
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alissoncg:
Hummm. Even disabling asserts, I get the same error! :crying:

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Cybermaus, I found v3.11 in 4shared and there is no problem with it. I flashed it and works! :highfive:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pingu2000:
P700i error when flashing

Hi cybermaus,

Same assert error on the P700i:

Disabling asserts makes no difference.

Thanks,

pingu
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Well, that's consistent at least. I'll upload a fix, but you will have to wait till this evening when I am back in the hotel.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
Installed 3.11 on A789 without problems. :cyclops:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pingu2000:
Hi cybermaus,

I removed the assert from the updater-script and it installed no problems - looks great! The old ROM had a percentage indicator for the battery ( I know this can lie though!) - is it easy to put that back?

For anyone following, I can confirm that caller ID is fixed and exchange email sync works - brilliant!

Now, if you wanted a challenge....I wonder if it's possible to have a voicemail notification for

both

SIMs at the same time (currently the 2nd overwrites the 1st)..... :)

Many thanks for your efforts,

pingu
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Ha. I already have plenty of challenges, thank you. And the battery percentage request, well the way you phrased your question indicates you read my earlier remark on it.....

But good work on changing the script and thus expediting the testing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Regarding the A660

the A660 really is different than the other Lenovo's. I can stubbornly apply the p700i to it, but there may be surprises. Most likely compass will not work, but I also find some unknown libraries regarding audio, regarding charging, some unknown framework files, etc, that the p700i does not have.

But I somewhat made a promise, so I will attempt a build, just to see how it goes. Some technical oriented guy/gal may want to be the volunteer. After all, we have the original ROM, so you can always go back. (as long as you do not flash the preloader)

But I have so many question marks on the internals of the A660, which may turn out harmless, or which may turn out to make the phone unusable. So I will not publish it openly.

----

Additional, the A660_S023 patch that was released is unusable to me, because they are 'patch' files: Binary chunks to be inserted into the phone's pre-existing binary files. But there is a kernel-patch in there, and an patch to the radio firmware, so we do want those. (Lenovo must have found it important to patch those, so so do we)

----

Therefor, I am looking for a volunteer who:

- Owns a working A660

- Does not mind if the A660 is not working for while between flashes (iow, has a backup phone)

- Has some technical talent and has before done stuff like apply update.zip, flash a phone (or at least flashed the recovery), made a nandroid backup.

- Understands that since we have a original ROM, we can with 99.5% certainty go back to a working phone (as long as you do not flash the preloader), but that is ½% short of a full 100.

- Is still willing to participate despite that risk

- Has a tendency to be verbose rather than terse when describing a problem

He/She will need to:

- Apply the S023 update, so on his/her phone the binaries are patched

- Make a nandroid backup of this patched phone with applied updates

- Send me said nandroid

- Have patience while I hack the new ROM

- Try out the new ROM, patiently checking all the hardware functions, and not reporting success just because the phone boots

- Flash a few times more, because there is bound to be some issues.

----

Also, no-one ever really responded properly confirming or denying if the Caller-ID and Calender work on the A660. Because if there is no Caller-ID error, then it is probably better to not port A660 at all.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ph£Th:
Cybermaus, sorry but it's my fist experience with Android device, I doubt of my talent ... and I overbooked in real life !

Etotalk told me that "For the Caller ID problem, it is from Lenovo. Our engineers are studying it. At the moment, please save both number "0XX XXX XX XX" and "+ 41 XX XXX XX XX" in your contacts."

For the Calender, I use aCalendar, synced with Google Calendar and Outlook, without problems. The original calender has some stuff written in Chinese (the name of the days ?) but is still usable.

In my opinion it might be a good idea to wait a bit.

Regards

Philippe
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pudil:
Cybermaus.

I have a A660 in "semi working" mode :) From some strange reasons a phone hangs on "Lenovo" booting image. I am able to access CWM (6.0.1.2 Etotalk Dean).

So far I have worked with several android phones (LG-P500, Galaxy Duos 6102) including rooting, using alternate roms. Not a tech guy in a term of "programing and compiling" but let say on advanced user level.

I have already asked Etotalk for their recovery image, hope I will get it.

I would appreciated a backup copy of A660 Rom, or I am able to do some testing of the new one as I am pretty eager to see it.

Vit
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Well, you can always re-flash the original factory ROM. The link is a few pages back in this thread.

Let me know if you have it in working order and want to be the tester (via PM I guess)

Also, I though Etotalk did not have a modified ROM for the A660 yet? I know they are working on one, but your phone could not have had that yet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pudil:
many thanks, thats what I was searching for, sorry for not finding by myself.

Well I am not sure how much was the rom "Etotalk One", but i showed their logo while booting up and some Etotalk Tools. I will compare with a stock one.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Don't forget to apply the A660_S023_120927 factory update after the S019 factory ROM. And when you flash the S019, do not flash recovery, or you will loose that.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pudil:
up and running...the rom from recovery is different from the one I had preloaded from Etotalk. Compared to it, the Lenovo Rom is loaded by many unnecessary apps, even the base seems to be same.

Anyway thanks for helping me a bringing up the phone back to the life :)

Vit
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pierrotlcf:
I have a question about the A660

I think I still have a location problem. When I call someone, everytime I get the message that I'm roaming. Also, the GPS alone still can't find where I am.

I installed the location patch, swipe the cache and tried to check this in MobileUncle:

Also go into MobileUncle tool, the MTK Engineer mode, and in location settings. Depending on your exact model, somewhere in there is a NetLoc or NetLocation and a GeoCoding setting, with options of MEDIATEK and GOOGLE. Ensure they are set to GOOGLE.

Unfortunately I can't find it.I just found LocationBasedService. There I found SLP Address which is set on supl.google.com. No sign of NetLocation.

Also my mobile uncle is a bit in chinese. I got pop up messages in chinese sometime...

Any idea what's wrong?

Thank you

Pierre
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
Engineer mode -> LocationBasedService -> on top there are several tabs. AGPS is selected, scroll right and select NET. Now scroll down to NetLoc Service. Here, I get a "Google bindind successfully".
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pierrotlcf:
Thank you very much oz. I didn't find the right scrolling on the tabs.

It was already on google.

So I don't know where is my problem for. (GPS location on maps and navigationl; and the roaming message)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
It's almost too silly to ask, but you have your XDA location set to 'London', and your country shows 'France'. Combine that with a question about why you get a roaming message.....

More seriously: What network are you on? Some 'commercial' networks do not really have their own transmission network, so they 'roam' on competitions towers. The Mediatek phones are known to report this as roaming.

Who is your provider? What country/name/offering?

What is your SIM's MCC and MNC as reported in the APN (Settings->Wireless->More->Mobile->APN->Select SIM->Select APN).

Install NetworkInfo 1.7 On the 4-wide Widget the Networks MCC and MNC is the 5 digit number next to the network name.

-or-

Install Open Signal Map. On the Tower-Tab, click a tower, it should show you SIM NetID and NetID (again this is MCC+MNC)

If the network MCC+MNC is different then the SIM MCC+MNC, you are indeed 'roaming'.

It should not cause the GPS to not work though. When outside, (in open field, give it a while the first time) the GPS should work nomatter what.

PS: The Chinese question in MU tool is, I believe, "do you want to check for updates" and "update found, do you want to apply". I always answer the left one.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leFloyd:
I always wondered why you have to use google geocoder and not mediatek. I understand the note below that mediatek is an improved google geocoder?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] osoer4:
change default camera app

I installed the new 3.11 ROM on my A789 and I use it without problems. It is well!

How can I change the default camera app?

I downloaded a new camera app.

How can I make that, if I press the camera button, will open this new app?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@leFloyd

Well, when I first got the phone, it took quite a bit of time to get it to work at all. With several 'false' starts, where only a 'partial' replace of GMS/GAPPS files turned out to appear to work at first, but either be unstable or reduce Play Store capacity, or break network location.

By the time I finally got it stable, I was trained to replace entire GAPPS package, and to set Google over Mediatek everywhere. Maybe its indeed not needed for the Geocoder, you are welcome to try the Mediatek one again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rexyip:
no worry, i have an A789 and running on V3.1 from cybermaus, the rom is running really fine and i bet his works is one of the best. :good: for chinese language, it is based on simplified chinese. however, cybermaus has included the apps of "more locale" in v3.1 (probably on other previous version) which enable you to change the manual from simplified chinese to traditional chinese.

finally, i have to expressed my gratitude to cybermaus from saving us from lenovo building an android phone without gms.

---------- Post added at 08:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:10 AM ----------

I have an A789 and tried the V3.1 rom, it works very fine.

I have another S880i, i found the spec is very close and wonder if i may apply the rom from A789 V3.1 to the S880i.

I have flashed the a789_s22x_recovery_cybermaus to it, but it did not enter the recovery manual.

after reading the previous threads and find out i may need to find out the rite recovery rom from the internet. i have tried however, it seems the original factory is not yet released.

i feel i am lucky that i did not flash other component of the rom or i may experience the tragedy which happen to the A660 owners. appreciated if cybermaus will receive the rom for S880i and create another great rom to us.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superbboy:
I had install the new 3.11 ROM for my A789. Everything is OK but the Google Maps.It can not get my location only with the GPS. Any problem?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Other people please confirm or deny if there is a problem with network based location on 3.11
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zonatar:
For the roaming message there's a voice in the menu of the sim that the phone always said when you are in roaming with your sim, just uncheck it and the phone will be in roaming without any message.

For the gps i have no idea, the gps work just fine with me (i live in italy), 20-30'' to get the signal and everything work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] guesswhoesis:
@Cybermaus, patch works fine, Google Map works perfect
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@zonatar; guesswhoesis;

Thanks guys, but superbboy was asking about the network location. So when not using GPS, but allowing network location based on WiFI and/or Cell tower, does it still roughly know where you are?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] superbboy:
Thank all guys. My Google Maps work well now. I think I do a stupid thing I forgot to locate with GPS in the outdoor first time. When I do it, it works. And I also set gps.conf using the mobileuncle tool in the rom.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
I got the impression that 3.11 needs less battery than the previos release. Can somebody confirm that?

After 3.5 hours with GPS navigation (Tomtom, screen always on) I ended up with a 50% battery level instead of 40%.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zonatar:
With my a660 wifi on, gps off, maps can get exactly where i am, i have some trouble with a pre-installed weather widget that said i'm in singapore (or another oriental city i dont' remember :p ), just not use it.

I have the lenovo rom.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iori01:
Hello all,

First a big thanks for your amazing work Cybermaus :)

I have a stupid question where I don't find answer.

I have my A789 with S221 from Lenovo. I have just added Recovery and GAPPS.

I want now to install your last build S106.

Can one of you confirm me that I just have to install it as an update.zip on the recovery menu ? or using mobileuncle apps ?

Thanks for your help and sorry for stupid question.

Kind regards.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
Just flash update.zip from recovery. Perhaps you will need a wipe data/factory reset, but I am not sure about that.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kolk11:
Battery life

Hello there i'm considering flashing cybermouse latest ROM.

I have ETO Talk rom by Dean. It has great battery life (with normal use 3 days) but... no working recovery and facebook app suddenly wont open anymore and keeps crashing (have deleted it and reinstalled but does not solve the problem) and It has the caller id bug. but... i love the battery life.

How is battery life on the v3.11 version?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
Battery life is great, see post #200. Normally I get 2-3 days.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aibarboza:
Hello Cybermaus, how are you?

I am not sure if you got a volunteer to do the tests.

If not, I want to do the test that you need.

The only problem is that I am not familiar with Android concepts (besides I am an Electrical Engineer, so I can learn quickly), but I need step by step instructions.

I think I can learn all the concepts, but alone in the forum, I think it will take some time.

I bought a Lenovo A660 in China two weeks ago and I already rooted it but the google play store still not works.

If i can help and also make the Google Play Store works, it is the best for me and other people.

Best regards

Alexandre
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@aibarboza;

Well, someone is already busy testing it, so far everything seems reasonably well.

While you wait for that, you can make Play Store work by following instructions in post #2. That would be a good test of your abilities anyway.

Also, can I ask you to edit your post and shorten your quoted text. While it is useful to quote its header or so for sake of context of your post, quoting the my entire 500 word short story is a little over the top.

Edit: The A660 build is also ready, see this post. You should probably also thank user pudil, as he went through the trouble of being the Guinea pig for the A660
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pudil:
It was honor, sir! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aibarboza:
Ok, sorry for my mistakes, and tanks to Pudil !

Regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kpaA660:
A660 recovery image

Hi cybermaus,

have flashed your A660 recovery image but if I try to boot into recovery the phone just switches off. Additionally the phone does not start in regular mode anymore. What can I do now?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@kpaA660;

Was the phone working before you flashed the recovery?

Anyway, the solution is to flash the entire factory ROM first. You can find the factory original here.

PS: In case it asks for a password, it is: bbs.lenovomobile.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metzner:
Hi,

I have trouble with my A750 and the newest Facebook APP (version 1.9.11) Someone else having trouble? APP directly crashes after it starts...old version (1.9.10) works without problems...

Kind regards,

Floris
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
I have heard people on completely different chinese phones also complain, so I think it is probably not related to the ROM but a wider FB issue. Best to hope the issue is wide enough so FB makes an update.

Anyway, here is the FB app that I took from the P700i build. You could also try to freeze or uninstall LeSec, as a test. I do not use FB myself, so I cannot help further.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] metzner:
Thx...I do not use LeSec...older FB builds work without problems...I did several restores with titanium backup ...delete cache and data is also no solution...so at least we have to wait until a new version is released...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] icedeocampo:
Bricked p700i

Hi,

I think I had a misstep and flashed a part of the a789 cybermaus v2 rom onto my p700i.

What I did was, in an attempt to get CWM is to use the scatter file for the a789 and flashed ONLY the RECOVERY part.

I ended up with a brick, would anyone have an idea for unbrick procedure.

I have tried pulling the battery out and putting it back in, but the computer no longer detects anything.

Please help!

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@icedeocampo;

Why would you flash the A789 recovery onto the P700i? There is a working P700i recovery in post #2 of this thread.

Anyway, if you only flashed the recovery, it should not have bricked it because P700i and A789 have identical scatter files.

The thing you should try is the same as for kpaA660: Start by fashing a full factory original ROM, like this P700i_ROW_S105_120920. If there is a password, it is bbs.lenovomobile.com

If the phone does not even allow flashing anymore, then this will not work. You may want to read this thread, but it is probably end of story for this phone. Let me know how it goes.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@loimlo

The v3 ROMs only have one chinese, and I am told it was simplified. The v1 and v2 (for A750 and A789) has two versions of chinese, I would assume the 2nd one is traditional.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leFloyd:
Why would someone replace the original ROM if he is interested in Chinese anyway?