yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
I know that and I like your work. I am just asking if it this is possible for the A789 also: flash a P700i ROM + A789 kernel.

I am looking for a nice multilang ROM. There is none, so I started to make an existing ROM multilang. I am a Dev N00B, so please do not expect results soon. ;) I just managed to build a multilang framework-res, but it only works until you do a factory reset, then the phone is stuck in a boot loop.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Well, still barely above noob myself, similar experiences. However, I mostly had problems with deodex-reodex. But nowadays, there are very nice re-odex utilities. So by de-odexing the ROM completely (dsixda) and then modding the apk, it seems to work better. And once you have the phone stable, reodex it on the phone itself, because it really does make the phone faster.

But yes, I am 99% certain it will work between p700i and A789 also. Problem is, I have not yet found an ROW 海外版 ROM for the p700i. And replacing it with another China localized ROM is not useful.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
ROMzilla unpacks the ROMs just fine, but it cannot repack them, see here. :(

So I tried xdaAutoTool, but still no luck.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@ox42

Hmm, though I said I wanted Q&A here for new users, maybe this would be one of those 'deep development' topics that do belong in the the development forum.

Not that I can help you, I am using neither of the tools you mention, but instead run the manual linux pack/unpack scripts, directly in Ubuntu. I suspect running in cygwin is always going to be unstable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zonatar:
Hi there!

I just buy a lenovo a660 from etotalk and i wonder (since there's no custom rom at the moment) if i can use your custom rom for a789 on my (next) a660 since the hardware is the same (screen, memory, cpu, gpu ecc).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@zonatar

I had my eye on the A660, as indeed identical. Hoping an oversees/ROW ROM will arrive for that.

I suspect yes, you can flash the A789 boot&recovery&system images onto the A660, without any modification needed. But I cannot guarantee.

Also, I strongly advise *against* trying to flash any of the MBR, EBR, DSP, UBOOT, PRELOADER etc.

Only the boot&system&recovery images! Optionally also the cache/data/secro/fat. But none of the other ones. And make sure you have a real A660 image to go back to just in case.

If you already have a working recovery, you can use the V2.1 update.zip, it will only replace boot and system.

If you want to play it safe, locate a factory original A660 for me, and I can dissect it to check compatibility. Also, please remember the Etotalk ROM is a multilingual one, my A789 original is only English.

Please report back your findings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winderor:
WAZE

Hi,

I've just installed the a750_row_s114_cybermaus_ics_v3.1 rom on my lenovo a750 it is all great but the waze app.

If i use version 3.0.1.1 it is ok but when i update it, it starts to crash.

before that i had Apkhot_lenovo750_4.0.4_0816_Smilevvv installed with the 1.3 patch of cybermouse

and it went ok with waze including updates.

does anyone knows why? have a solution?

thanx
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davinov7:
Hi !

I flashed my A789 with your custom rom and it's working perfectly, no freezes, no bug... Thank you very much for your great work !

I have 1 suggestion and 1 question :

Tha calendar app has still chinese texts, and I think it has less functions than the original android's one. It would be great if you could restore the original calendar app in a next release.

I'm experiencing a problem with the proximity sensor (due to some water dropped on the phone...). It's a well-known problem with a lot of other models : after a call, touch screen remains disable because of the sensor which has a defect. I tried different solutions that I read on forums : hardware disable app, build.prop modifications, even rm the drivers from adb shell, but none of them worked. Do you have an idea on how to remove the driver ? or how to disable the proximity sensor in a software way ?

Thanks again for your help !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@davinov7

Well, first of all the simple solution: have you tried putting your phone, with battery & cover removed, over a heater or under a hairdryer for 24 hours, to evaporate any remaining water particles? Not too hot, so a reasonable distance from the hairdryer, you should always be able to hold your hand on the same spot for a length of time.

Next (and I do advise to do above first), check if you can get into factory mode, to recalibrate the PS sensor. You can get there by pressing the camera button (2nd click) while powering up. Remove/replace battery, click and hold power, and almost immediately after clicking power, also click and hold camera button.

PS sensor for me shows values between 0 and 1023. I did not select the 'do calibration' option, because I do not want to mess mine up.

If that too fails, well, you could try to rename /system/lib/hw/sensors.mt6577.so onto .backup but I am not sure what other functions may depend on that. I do not know at this moment a nice method to disable only the prox function.

PS: To everyone: I see a fair number of people verbally expressing thanks, which is nice, but somehow the thanks meter is stuck...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pierrotlcf:
Hi everybody!

I just got the A660 and it's impossible to have google play on it. So I'm very interested in trying Cybermaus' ROM for A789.

Etotalk told me I can buy Google Play Android Market fix on their website (sorry can't put the link: first message on XDA).

They say it will work with any device. (And it roots the phone too)

So is it really working you think? I'm french but don't really mind having my phone in english if languages for the OS is the only difference with flashing a ROM (which I don't find).

Anyway I'm a noob and a bit lost here.

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

I guess I should really write up post #2, so I can point people there. Let me work on that today. So no use to write it here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] computeraid:
A750 waze

I also have a problem with waze on the A750. Its been a problem with V1.3 and also V3.1. I haven't tried other firmware on this phone, so I don't know why waze doesn't work...

---------- Post added at 04:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:21 PM ----------

I'm trying to the V2 firmware on my A789, using the flash tool made available by cybermous.

after hitting F9, and then connecting the phone, I get:

BROM ERROR: S_COM_PORT_OPEN_FAIL (1013)

[COM] Failed to open COM 7

I suspect I have a problem with the vcom drivers, as I've tried to flash other MTK6575 and MTK6577 phones... and at some point it just stopped working... Anyone know how to uninstall the vcom drivers (or at least force them to be to be overwritten?)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@computeraid

Well, you can try post #25 on the previous page to force reinstalling.

Also I can tell you that the "new usb driver" inside the flash tool V3.1222 zip package did not work for me either. The driver in the separate download VCOM_USB did work on A789, even though it originally came with the A750.

Also, you do not need to apply V2, you can go directly to V2.1, which is an update.zip package. Though I can imagine you want to have a working flash tool anyway, just in case.

As to WAZE: Interesting app, you are the 2nd to point it out. But to find out why it does not work, I need some more hints to know in what direction to search.

PS: Is the suspicion of signal strength really over, or are you still suspecting less signal?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] computeraid:
signal strength with the latest A750 rom (S114 V3.1) fixed the signal strength problem... I'm currently using my A750 while trying to flash the A789...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lolo250612:
A789: USB debugging mode driver (adb)

Does somebody know if there is an usb debugging mode driver for the A789, so that we can drive this phone from a Windows 7 PC via adb ? None was delivered with the phone by etotalk, and when asked, the only ones they have indicated me are the VCom and MTP drivers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yannrandri:
Recovery mode

Hi all,

I finally get it on my A789... I managed to flash the recovery image but I spent so long trying to get to the recovery mode, trying all combination... Here is a couple of things that was kind of scary for a newbie:

* When installing the VCOM driver you will have a "!" in your device manager but it is normal as the phone is not connected. As soon as you connect your phone to the computer via USB, it will recognize it and your driver will be fine.

* Using the flash tools to flash the recovery is the easy part as it went exactly as the tutorial on post 3

* Entering the recovery mode... I tried a lot of combination... the one who worked for me is: push the ON button just like you are starting your device, then press the Volume Down button as soon as your phone start. you have something like a split of a second to push the volume down or your phone will just normally start... Also if you press the volume down button too early, your phone will just not start and you will have to replace the battery and try again...

Hope this will help.

Thanks Cybermaus for the ROM... Finally free of the chinese Apps...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esiu:
dude, unbelievable. it actually worked this time round :D

it took me forever to get he 0.5 gb file but i got it in the end. flashed once, flashed twice and third time lucky :D

i'm with your rom now. i'll figure it out tomorrow. going to bed now as i had very little sleep the last 2 nights, due to the phone and other stuff.

my last question: can you give me a link to your donation page? the least i can do is to buy you a pint :)

thanks again for your involvement and help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Glad to hear it.

I do not accept donations, because I do not want to be morally indebted to keep updating. If ever I lose my day-job I will add a donation button then.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] esiu:
dude, i don't think how it works. a donation means "thank you for what you did" and not "now you're my ***** and you better work hard or i want my money back". anyway, if that's your choice then i respect that, but if you change your mind just let me know.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] qbicone:
How to add language?

How to add language from this rom: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1856578
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] othelpa:
Found a probable trouble with v3.11 on A789

A couple day ago installed Your rom... works flawlessly but I got an "Sd card full" error when tryed to open Lenovo notepad.

Card is an 8 gig class 4, with 2,69 gig free.

internal storage is 200 Mb free only...

If possible please help revitalise that Lenovo notepad
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@othelpa

Notepad is one of the 4 apps that are incompatible between Chinese and International (ROW) ROM's. So after an upgrade from Chinese to ROW you need to go into Titanium Backup, and clear data for the notepad app specifically.

(Same for Calender, Desktop and Contacts)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivbsd1:
TTS

Hi cybermaus,

I use your A789_ROW_S106_cybermaus_ICS_v3.11 for about one week. Everything works fine. Thanks for your effort.

I wonder if I can use TTS with this firmware. Right now, I simply do not find TTS in setting menu.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
P700i freeze

Hi,

I have an P700i with your ROM (P700i-106-3.11).

A lot of times when press red line to end calls my phone freeze. Any ideea what should I do?

Thanks and congrats for your work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
I suspect you have the same problem when running the factory firmware?

Please install factory P700i_ROW_S306, and see if the issue occurs then too.

Next also try Dialer2 instead of default dialer, and see if it happens then.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
Thanks

Where is; P700i_ROW_S306 ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
I mean of course meant P700i_ROW_S106

Hmm, seems to have dissapeared from the net. I'll try to upload later, but that may be only tomorrow.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
Thanks alot.

Shouls I try 789 ROM?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Ok, you should more clearly decribe you situation. You wrote that you *have* the A789 ROM, so if you now ask if you should *try* A789 ROM then we clearly miscommunicate. Please refrase your problem and your question.

Also, as mentioned, please try if the same problem appears when using Dialer2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
I said

"Hi,

I have an P700i with your ROM (P700i-106-3.11)."

I just put dialer 2 test 5 times - no freeze. Still testing.

Thanks again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Anyway, factory original P700i_ROW_S106_121001 is here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
No freeze with factory firmware.

Lot of freeze with Dialer2, Dialer One.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
That is interesting, because I base my ROM's on the factory P700i. That means that for A789 and A660, I do have change stuff, but for the P700i, it is essentially the same ROM. I only add some things like root it and put SManager in there, and the last APN list.

In any case, I do not own a P700i, so I cannot check this myself. I can only advise you to stay with the factory P700i. You can root that yourself by following instructions in post #2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
Did you change original firmware zip file.

Now It give me errors for:

:assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "P700i" ||

getprop("ro.build.product") == "P700i")"

and it freeze on hangs up.

Saturday I didn't had errors on install and not freeze at all. I think it was another file there....

....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manx2007:
call ringtone problems

Also, i have the same problem with my a789.

I have installed A789_ROW_S106_cybermaus_ICS_v3.11 rom.

The sound is normal when somebody call me ,but when i set the ringtone, the volume is low and unclear.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@lukedan;

No, I did not change the firmware file. You can check, it still has the same old change date listed in Dev-Host. And as it is the factory original, I would not change it anyway.

Also, your freezes are not stable. At first you mentioned you also had no freezes with Dailer2, and later you did. So they come in clusters, maybe you were simply lucky Saturday.

But the factory original file I have on Dev-Hostis still the same, I never touched it.

@manx2007

So you mean the sound is normal when you have the default ringtone, but low and unclear when you select a different ringtone. What happens if you then select the original ringtone again?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpeedersPeugeot:
So, I uninstalled a lot, copied my Whatsapp and Photo folders to the external SD and rebooted the A789 so that the external SD card is default. After that I installed a lot :silly: pff. And everything now works fine with the 16GB Class 10 card.

Why is it not possible to overclock the CPU and make a Swap partition?

Best regards,

Peter
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
Any Ideea what changes from Sat to Monday? Mayba smt on my phone.

I canno't install original folder until I delete first line in:

"/META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script"

It give me erors and install aborts :

assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "" || getprop("ro.build.product") == ""

Saturday I just downloaded and install .zip without any modification, without errors.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
I know what changed, but not how that could cause this.

What changed is that when you updated the zip, you were using a custom recovery. The updating to the factory ROM however overwrites the custom recovery with a factory one. So currently, you are using not the custom, but again the factory recovery.

However, the factory recovery should accept the factory ROM, so I do not quote understand how that could cause an assert issue.

But you could simply re-flash a custom ROM, and then re-update with the factory ROM yet again.

Maybe, for stability reasons, you should fully flash everything:

- Flash (using flash tool) the entire factory P700i_ROW_S105 factory ROM, preloader, uboot, everything (Warning: Only do this if you really have a P700i).

- Check stability for several days.

- Update (using factory recovery) to factory P700i_ROW_S106

- Check stability for several days.

- Flash (using flash tool) a custom recovery

- Update (using custom recovery) to my V3.11

- Check stability for several days.

- Choose which you feel is most stable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukedan:
K, ready to try.

Where I can find P700i_ROW_S105 factory ROM ?

How can I do "- Flash (using flash tool) the entire factory P700i_ROW_S105 factory ROM, preloader, uboot, everything "

Thanks for your help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Trying to upload it to Dev-Host, may take a while

And how about Searching&Reading a bit more. Its OK to ask the some questions, but not the obvious ones. You can start at the beginning of this thread, to which I pointed you before.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivbsd1:
No answer - why ? I asked something wrong ?

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Well, it was asked and answered before, so you could searched and found it, but at least it was not the very obvious question of 'how do I flash' that this and every other ROM thread starts with. No, simply overlooked. Anyway, yes, tts settings are missing, see link above to install TTSProve application.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vigi82:
viber robotic voice

does anyone knows why viber wont work correctly on lenovo a789 ,i mean i can hear very good but the other side hears me with robotic voice ,and i did tried also with other andro- phones with same wifi and the result was - it was working correctly just lenovo a789 from otherside got issue with robotic voice
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivbsd1:
Thanks, cybermaus. I did not find this because I did search for A789 only. I'll try this application.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pskrbec2012:
Hi! I am experiencing on P700i that battery is drained in 1 day, basically using only phone (30 mins) and a bit of WiFi browsing (when finished I close the connection). Tried build.prop tweak:

ro.ril.disable.power.collapse=1

pm.sleep_mode=1

but no effect. CPU Spy is clearly saying that "unused CPU state" is deep Sleep. I have no extra apps installed, cleared cache.... My ROM is P700i_ROW_S106_cybermaus_ICS_V3.11 (Thanks again!). Could be that artcle at jeffmixon.com answered my question why it is not working but I do not understand it. Thank for your help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adeelahmed11:
Hi cybermaus

i got my A660 back from china they repair it without any issue, they repair in warrenty

so now tell me is there any A660 Rom available ?

Regards,

Adeel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
As far as I know, post people are quite happy with battery life on the P700i derived ROMS (A789, A660). So either its an app you installed, or your battery or phone are faulty.

Can you link which article you mean?

Nice. Yes, there is a P700i based one for the A660, just look through the A789 thread.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ivbsd1:
TTS

Hi,

I tried you TTSProve in the way you explained."Speak" works but when I try to tap on "TTS Setting" or "TTS Manager" it crashes.

To clarify - TTSProve is only demo application or I can use it to run TTS in operational mode ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pskrbec2012:
Well, I can't post a link therefore google the following "Examining build.prop tweaks for Android ICS: A comprehensive guide Posted on November 5, 2012 by Jeff". Thanks for your support. Will post an update when sth new with my depp sleep on P700i.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pskrbec2012:
@cybermaus

Hi! Follow up on post#411. Battery drainer and mosti probable suspect that prevents deep sleep on mine P700i is Phone Radio (as GSam Battery Monitor refers to it). I was killing FM transmitter but to no effect. Is it some other built in application which is detected by GSam Battery Monitor as "Phone Radio"? I would like to uninstall/disable/isolate the problematic application(s) permanently - no need for radio at all. Thanky you, Primoz
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Nice article. I agree with him: Just because you can change it, does not mean you should. Unless you assume the Android engineers maliciously wanted to cripple the devices they sell, you should allow for the possibility that the most optimum values are already in there.

As to Phone Radio: 'Radio' is all the equipment that handles Electromagnetic spectrum: GSM/UMTS, Bluetooth, GPS, WiFi. And yes, also FM. but not only FM as you seem to think.

So I think you do need radio, and if you are not playing games all the time (when Screen and CPU becomes higher users) indeed the radio is a big/the biggest power user. Ii is also so in my phone. (And Maps, always maps)

Advise (you probably already did this): Wipe all data, do not install any unneeded utilities (especially not permanent active stuff like 'battery savers' and 'CPU monitors'. If it still has the bad lifetime as you claim, I repeat my suggestions: Faulty battery and/or Faulty phone.

I know it's not what you want to hear, you rather hear you can make a setting to make it all right again, but alas, we do not always get to be lucky.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] manx2007:
Thanks and apologies

I apologize for my intervention. i don't know what happened in that day ,but now everything is ok.

I'm another noob. Something happened ,but i don't know what.

You have made a great work. Thanks again. :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cafemu:
Problems in Flash ROM

I tried to find a step by step tutorial on how to use your ROMs and not found. I tried to follow the procedure of recording MTK6575 and could not.

What is the step by step procedure to perform recording of ROM? Could you help? Remembering that I never did such a procedure and have no idea how to do it.

Thanks in advance
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] navotera:
Thanks cbermaus

so much thanks cybermaus, it works on my first install... still trying to review it for next later days....

i found a way to get it to the original factory mode too....

it makes me no worries bout the warranty....

the step for my halted lenovo is :

first i install the original through SP Flash tool, then i install your recovery version then i update my lenovo based on your custom ROMS...

it works :cyclops:

once again very so much thanks.....