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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asmyldof:
Trying to 'recover' lenovo A660

Hello Cybermouse and all you other cool people,

I sampled a Lenovo A660 for testing its waterproofness for potential use for a group of people. I know it comes from either China or Russia, because the phone is Russian and the booklet is Chinese :).

This means that, for the first time in my life, I have no choice other than Recovery&Root the phone - where I usually am content with the _English_ original on most of my phones.

After reading up on these forums all day since 11:00 (or 11 AM) - 19:10 now - I feel I understand the ROMs posted for this phone, and I am very thankful that I did find something promising.

I also successfully installed the drivers, the SP Flash Tool and all other tools I came across.

I then successfully played with the read-back and ram-test sections to be sure I had a good feel for the procedure, to make sure I did not damage anything.

Now the weird thing:

The SP Flash Tool successfully uploads the A660 recovery image (both the "recovery.A660.cybermouse.img" from the 7z file by cybermouse and "recovery.img" from the TWRP_v2.3.1.1_for_A660 package).

{ note: The SP Flash Tool 3.1238.5 gives an error that seems to be prevalent, the 4050 error about needing to upload it all at least once, but 3.1222.?? works, or as stated at least pretends to work }

I then go through the Recovery procedure (pushing the audio +/- buttons, or just the down button, both work for this phone) and still it starts the phone's Hardware Test menu. Don't get me wrong, I had 10 minutes of English fun with the phone just going through all the hardware tests, but I feel that's about all the fun I will get from that menu.

Weirder yet is that the flashing of the recovery image also does not seem to have damaged anything else. The phone just works perfectly like nothing happened at all. Maybe nothing _did_ happen? Does Flash Tool know if the data transmitted arrives at all?

I must be honest, I did not read all 120+ posts concerning these ROMs, but I think I have scanned over most of them and did not find the pertinent info. As I need to decide on whether to buy 25 more phones or not within a few days... I hope you can all forgive me if I missed this issue elsewhere.

Anyone with an idea what I could check? The SP Flash Tool always says it went okay, with it's strange green circle and all and there are no errors, beyond the one warning saying I am about to flash only a small part of the phone of course.

If I can get this to work I expect the ROM posted by Cybermouse to suit us all perfectly, so I'm happy to put some more time into it.

Thanks to all for reading!

Edit: Above I meant "120+ pages of posts". Maybe that is a mitigating circumstance if I did miss anything.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myxal:
Sorry, I got a little lost in your post - what is it that you want to achiieve? Install cybermaus ROM on a stock phone?

The factory test mode you mentioned is another boot image, separate from recovery - if you didn't get the real recovery menu (should look like normal CWM, possibly in chinese), then you didn't get into recovery. Not sure about A660, on A789 I have to hold the power buton, then after about 1-2 seconds, press and hold both Vol Up/down before the logo screen comes up to boot into recovery. This should be only specific to MT6577 chipset, so it's likely that A660 behaves similiarly.

If you can use the ROM that is on the phone now and at least locate MobileUncle Tools, you can boot into recovery from there. Another option, if you can enable USB debugging in Android settings, is to issue "reboot recovery" in adb shell.

TWRP and CWM are 2 different recoveries available for the phone - you only need to flash one or the other, not both. ;)

Regarding Android vs. recovery - think of it as a dual-boot on a PC - breaking one does not necessarily break the other. Your recovery flashing may have succeeded, you just didn't boot into it yet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rusli77:
E-signature verification failed

Thanks for reply me. I have just bought lenovo S870e. The phone doesnt have google playstore. In order to install google playstore, i must flash it with gapps, right ? then i enter in the stock recovery menu to apply update from sd card, but an error happend, E-siganture verification failed. I search the forum and i know that to flash gapps, i need custom recovery to avoid e-signature verification failed. So i need the custom recovery. Can you supply custom recovery to me ? it can twrp or cwm, and please help me to use twrp to flash the gapps. thanks very much
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myxal:
The S870e is a Qualcomm Snapdragon phone - completely different from mediatek-based A660/A789/A750/P700i. I suggest you look for a recovery for your specific model - the recoveries here will not work for you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@cipj

Your question is not entirely clear: Problems with Calender or with Contacts?

The normal answer would be: Please wipe cache and data. And that will still work.

However, I have since learned how to specifically wipe only these data portions, as they are indeed incompatible between the Chinese and ROW versions of Lenovo. So, you can either wipe entire data, or targeted only wipe these 3.

You will be the first to try them, so let me know how it goes. Put them on the SD card, boot into recovery, and apply the ones you want.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinal2k:
anyone managed to install A789_ROW_S105_cybermaus_ICS_v3.01 successfully?

It gives me :

E:Error in /sdcard/A789_ROW_S105_cybermaus_ICS_v3.01.zip
(status 6)
Instalation aborted.

Well, instructions are pretty clear...

ALL THREE CHECKED! :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Well, that is why I mention its a blind build. So a 3.02 may be in order. I will go over the install script with a fine comb, but if you could provide any additional info on what specific statement fails, that would be good. What are statements immediate before the failure?

Edit: It could also be a broken upload. It did interrupt and resume later. Check the SHA-1: dd7ebacf2b2ee91d6633069d1155803c223182e0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinal2k:
SHA-1 Hash matched!

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As for the "rest of the statements" there aren't any more

Full log below:

-- Installing: /sdcard/A789_ROW_S105_cybermaus_ICS_v3.01.zip
Finding update package...
Opening update package...
Installing update...
E:Error in /sdcard/A789_ROW_S105_cybermaus_ICS_v3.01.zip
(status 6)
Instalation aborted.

That's it, absolutely nothing else
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
But it is very helpful.

It refuses the entire ZIP. It is not even to the script that starts with printing the comment header text. I suspect the zip got broken when you downloaded it or copied it to your phone. Can you copy back from SD, and check that SHA1 also?

Otherwise it must be the zip program I use, but its the normal 7z I always use.

Edit: I think I found it: Mix up of update-script binary with updater-script script

3.02 is on its way.....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinal2k:
The zip file opens and extracts without any errors... but i will download it again and give you feedback...

thanks for the tips

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EDIT:

Err, after download i get the same error and same log message.... :\
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
3.02 is uploading, but it is soooo sloooooooooow
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
When I was cooking a rom for another chinese phone some time ago, I received that error and it was just because I had edited the updater-script file with Notepad and it had changed all the EOL (End Of Line) codes from Linux to Windows format. Then, I reopened it using Notepad++, changed it back to Linux format and it worked again. That might be your problem, too. I can't say, since I'm still downloading the zip file. I'm at work, and the connection speed here is awfully and painfully slow.

---------- Post added at 04:09 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:08 PM ----------

Ha, looks like you posted while I was writing my post. What was the problem then?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinal2k:
gonna test as soon as its done :)

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EDIT: Ok, i got 3.02.... either i am doing something wrong or this doesn't work on this phone... I am going to wait for someone else to test 3.02 because i have exactly the same error, same log messages, as i described earlier.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Getting confirmation before I start looking again may be good. This is annoying, made dozens of update.zips, what the f*ck is wrong with this one.

Were you able to apply v2.1 before? Or did you come from another ROM altogether? Which recovery are you using?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] spinal2k:
Were you able to apply v2.1 before? Or did you come from another ROM altogether?

i have A789_S228_cybermaus_V2.1 installed

Which recovery are you using?

CWM Recovery v5.5.0.4 (edit: im not using A789_S22x_recovery_cybermaus.rar or A789_S22x_recovery_apkhot.rar)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
I am PM'ing you a small fix. please read.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
3.02 is not working for me either. I've unpacked it and can't see anything wrong, but I'll keep trying
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
I tried this, but it did not change anything.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
I think I got it. There is a META in the 4 shared. Replace the entire META inside the zip with this new META, and try again. Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
Now it works! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Ok, thanks. Now I need to distrust all the zips I made. Could you do me the favor of also testing these patches.

Oh, and also run a quick test over all the functions please.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cipj:
Thanks.

I aplied the updates succesfuly, the Contacs (that I'm interessed) and the Calendar. I presume that the Desktop update will erase all the apps and I didn't aplied it. I will see in the next days if it works.

P.S. How can I get Recovery mode in english?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sic2:
Recovery img too big

Hi,

I got a Lenovo A789 from Hongkong, with some kind of special ROM, I think, not the factory default. It is not rooted yet, that's why I read your article about rooting.

So I installed the recovery 'A789_S22x_recovery_cybermaus.rar' and tried backup, but the result seems a bit strange to me.

1st: it last a whole night to backup. Does it really do so slowly?

2nd: the whole backup is 10 GB. I had to remove images from the gallery to free up enough space. At the first night the backup stopped with 0 free byte on the SD card (there was only 8GB free space), but after I removed the gallery 10 GB was enough. It is strange, because I thought the phone has only 2GB ROM.

3rd: in the morning when I woke up, the phone had exited from recovery and rebooted. Is that normal?

The recovery created the following files on the SD card in clockworkmod directory:

- boot.img -> 3.8 GB

- recovery.img -> 3.8 GB

- system.ext4.tar -> 200 MB

- data.ext4.tar -> 600 MB

- cache.ext4.tar -> 14kB

- .android_secure.vfat -> 800 MB

- nandroid.md5 -> 296 B

What do you think? Whether it is a normal backup or not? Could I restore my phone from this backup? Or shouldn't I experience with your ROMs before making an other recovery? :)

Thx,

Peter
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@ Sic2 / Peter

You are a very patient man, to wait all night for that backup. Most people do not wait so long before they come to that conclusion.

Alas, the nandroid backup function is indeed broken, or so I was told before.

I actually never made a backup myself, so I am not too experienced in how well a nandroid is to begin with, but judging at sizes I would guess your recovery and boot backups are junk, the system and data looks like it could be usable. But if you want to be sure, do it again using the APKHOT recovery. I was informed that one is working.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dryice213:
sir do you have jelly bean custom rom that can root my lenovo s720?thank you in advance.:confused:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asmyldof:
That _did_ the trick as far as getting into recovery.

Thank you.

Another thread presented the Hardware Test as the menu in place of "recovery" and I got stuck in that thought.

However, I now think I may have destroyed any and all future of the device.

I installed the Cybermouse v3.21 for A660 ROM and was all happy & clapping when the bootup logo was different.

Got stuck after the animation, nothing else.

So I tried again once or twice, all fine, no panic. Then I thought: Hey, maybe some cache or other data is left and used the recovery tool to clean those out (turns out clean = format).

Now the phone always goes to displaying "Lenovo" in white and then hangs, regardless of which buttons I press when and for how long.

Anybody with an idea to fix that as well? Preferably to a state where I can inspect some sort of logs and such to see what is/was going on. Or is this now a nice lighted "lenovo" sign & hand warmer unit? :D

EDIT - UPDATE:

I have, through sheer stubborn thickheaded trying, somehow, regained access to the recovery system. I will keep playing with cybermouse and other ROMs until there is more to report, good or bad.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myxal:
Don't worry, the most common way actually brick a MT6577 phone is SP Flashtool misuse. Not your problem (yet? :D)

Do the following:

The phones occasioanly fail to register the recovery key combinations after failed boot attempts. Try completely removing the battery for a few seconds, put it back, and try to get into recovery again. Did that help? If not, you'll have to re-flash recovery using SP flash tool. I highly doubt you've damaged your recovery, as this should not be possible from within said recovery.

Once you have a working recovery, go into

mounts and storage

and format/wipe the following: /system, /data, /cache. Also perform "Delete dalvik cache".

Finally, you can install the ROM. This will be a clean install and WILL take longer to start than usual, so be patient. (5 minutes is not unheard of, though with no user apps, it should be done within 2 minutes).

If it still fails, check if you have the ROM file downloaded correctly - if I'm not mistaken, even extracting it on your PC should be enough - it must not produce any errors.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asmyldof:
Indeed not, kind ... sir?....

Anyway, your help was, both times, exactly what I needed, done in "my own order" ROM installing and then partial clean --> :'(

done in "your order" with full format of all that was formattable --> :D!!

I now have a phone in English!

I would have been happy with English, Dutch, German, French or even Spanish (though I do not speak it for reals), but Russian... nope, not a single character.

If you will excuse me I will now commence the required amount of happy-dance (after clicking all the appropriate thank buttons) and then collapse on my bed and go to snoozy-land.

When ever you (or mr Mouse for that matter) find yourself near Eindhoven, Zhe Nefferlunts, give me a message so I can thank properly with a pint or some such.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rusli77:
Ca not find custom recovery for Lenovo S870e

Thanks for giving more information. I have known it too, I had search internet for custom recovery lenovo s870e. but i can not found it. Would any one like to post it or develop it for me ? Thanks very much
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] smollah:
Does any one have Lewa OS with 3G video call dialler?

I use Lenovo A789 (4.0.4) android . I have used Lewa OS for Lenovo A789 . I nice but there is no option of 3G video call . Does any one have Lewa OS with 3G video call dialler?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crazyluki:
Hi,

is there any other solution than button savior to bring back 4th button at lenovo a660 ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] biodiverso:
I want to thank Cybermaus this rom works great on my Lenovo A660, I found the links and some spanish translated information about it on a blog I can't link.

I just have a question and is about the 900 MHz band for 3G WCDMA:

Does any one know how to make it work on the Lenovo A660? I don't know if it's a rom issue or a phone issue and I'd like to know if it's possible to make it work on the Lenovo A660 (my provider works 3G on 900 MHz on rural areas and I can not connect)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cellphonemic_com:
The ROM is good with play store, but it just support little languages
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx1ab:
problem with scatter file driver

I couldn't get the phone recognized at all in windows7 as it flatly refused to recognize the driver, so could run scatter file to put clockwork in the recovery. I used an old XP machine for that and got it to work, then loaded cybermouses rom from sd card. Phone would not boot properly, cleared cache, and dalvik, still no boot. Wiped phone with factory reset, that got it!

Thanks Cybermouse, great instructions, great rom.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dryice213:
"=>TOOL DL image Fail!

=>uboot is blocking by dl info"

sir i tried to format whole flash using SP flash tool because some of the famous roms for lenovo s720 http://www.needrom.com/phone-roms/lenovo/s720/ were not working properly to my MT6577 phone.what must I do to fix my problem?please help me!see attachment(apologies for the poor quality image.i don't have an extra camera to take a screen shot):confused::crying:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dryice213:
is there anyone here knows how to place this files in my lenovo s720(mt6577)? (see attachement).thanks in advance for your help:confused:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wrx1ab:
spflash

sir i tried to format whole flash using SP flash tool because some of the famous roms for lenovo s720 were not working properly to my MT6577 phone.what must I do to fix my problem?please help me!see attachment(apologies for the poor quality image.i don't have an extra camera to take a screen shot):confused::crying:[/QUOTE]

drivers that spflash tools use did not work for me in win7 no matter what I did. Spflash worked better in winxp
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dogb100:
All colors inverted - even while boot and in recovery

Hello,

I just bought a Lenovo A789. Since the installed system wasn't working properly (couldn't boot to recovery, or get root, although I flashed it), I flashed it with cybermaus' V2 to gain both.

When I flashed that ROM to the phone, all colors were inverted. Even in recovery mode and during booting.

I tried to install the newest andrea86 ROM (I want this ROM on it, would like to have the German language). But that didn't change a thing. Then I flashed the original firmware v230. Now the colors were ok! After that I flashed V223 (dumped by sgg). Again all colors were inverted. Now followed the newest and advised cybermaus ROW. Nothing changed.

Which ROM can I use, to get German language AND normal colors?

What else could get me normal colors?

Thanks in advance!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
Have you tried flashing Cybermaus' ROM and then doing a factory reset in recovery? I never have seen this with my A789.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aloowishus:
how to transplant kernel?

Hi Cybermaus I found an MIUI rom for p700 that id like to try porting to my a750. how does one transplant a kernel? I see you did it with p700 for a750 before so I thought you would be the best person to ask.

Thanks for your time
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kobuswolf:
Lenovo A660 flashing issue

Hi,

I recently got a A660 from china. Nice cheap little phone, but really BAD software, mostly chinese. I tried a couple of ways to root/get something else on the phone. I tried running some superoneclick thing which got me no where. I also tried using the flash utility and flash the cybermaus recovery onto it. I downloaded and flashed, it would run through the flash process (a red bar) and then start counting down to then the cable should be plugged back in, and then it pops up a rather generic message about it not being able to load. I have tried a couple of different versions of this excersize and a couple of different files. This is my first time trying this and I hope I am just missing something small. I have not bricked the device, it is still very happy to run the crummy SW from lenovo.

Can someone either suggest something I am missing, or a step by step tutorial with files on what to do, I did go through one of those with no luck, but honestly I'd be happy if I could just get the play store anf gmail/calender on it.

Kobus
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimblob84:
brom error 4050

Hi, really having a hard time with the a660, i have two recovery images from cybermaus, when i try ether of them in SP tool i get an error message (see attached pic) brom 4050 error. Whats causing this error? ive searched around and have found a few others with same problem but no solution. PLEASE help!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
What flash tool versoin did you use? I had no problem with SP Flash V3.1222.00
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jimblob84:
SP flash tool

I've tried both v3.1222.00 and the very latest version, both come up with the same fault, I've tried on an XP machine as well, same fault :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Puskaric:
Hi! Firstly, I have red instruction for flashing and installing drivers.

Problem is that I can not get drivers to work properly anywhere except in Factory Mode - MTK Droid Tools recognize it in it, and in device manager everything is as it should be.

When i Connect it turned off in device manager i get message

In USBDeview I can only see MediaTek PreLoader USB VCOM Port (not connected even if phone is connected), but no MediaTek DA USB VCOM Port. When I clean drivers and connect phone in device manager I don't see MT65xx Preloader, but Lenovo A660. I have cleaned everything with USBDeview, also did System Restore to a time before purchase of this phone (never before had MTK).

If I try to flash it that way with a cybermaus A660 recovery I get a message:

Also when it's turned on and connected in device manager i have exclamation point, and no matter what drivers I load it doesn't go away.

Can I somehow install this ROM or CWM in stock recovery via update, or flashing it through Factory Mode?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dryice213:
Is there anyone here who experienced malfunctioning wifi connection for your lenovo mobile phones?Please help me.After reflashing my lenovo s720 and installing a stock rom from a Russian Lenovo forum this problem occured. I'm also suspecting if this problem occured because of installing Freedom and DaxAttack to cheat android games that is why my playstore was also malfunctioning.Screenshot attached.Thanks in advance for those who could help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ronson3ronson:
a660 jelly bean

hi!

i could succesfully boot into jelly-bean from CAT B15 without a problem, but touchscreen not working (used B15 kernel, because lenovo ICS kernel will not work)

so right kernel is missing :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Puskaric:
I have made my own scatter file (backed up whole ROM also) and tried putting it instead of the one supplied with CWM and TWRP after what i get flash tool error 8038.

I have also tried making my own CWM, but in Flash Tool I don't have ReadBack Tab.

My scatter file and Flash Tool log are in attachment so any help would be appreciated.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Puskaric:
Finaly managed it with this version of Flash Tool (TWRP + my scatter file).

But it installed DA USB VCOM port drivers by itself only after it was connected in factory mode with this version of flash tools, I don't know what difference it makes, but it does.