yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Yes, indeed, the phone is 2100/900 only. None of the radio firmware's I have on my drive would help, they are all A789 originals for the same 900/2100, just to test on signal strengths.

It is possible that it is a firmware only issue (because with frequencies spanning 850 to 2100MHZ the RF circuit and antenna must be pretty generic), but the few experiments I did have failed.

If possible, the trick would be to find a MT6577 phone (of any brand) that supports your frequencies, and use that radio firmware.

However, I tried this with the ZOPO300 radio firmware on my A750 phone, and though I was able to select all frequencies with Mobile uncle, they did not actually work, I was not even able to make GSM calls anymore. So I guess some luck is also needed on how they wired the antenna to the chipset.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turco_ninja:
Thanks again Cybermaus...

I have some facility with advanced tecnology problems, but prepare and install hardware firmware is not into my skills... If i didn´t find the files like the zip prepared from you, can not do anything.

I will pray for god,sorry, for google, and ask him about the radio firmware models you told me...but i need to know is... When i install another firmware modem, is there any issue reversing to the default version?

In CWM Recovery, your firmware #221 looks like have more commands in install script (the screen texts looks bigger)? the others, #227 and #228, is just an update?

Would you like to send send the firmware files of the other devices you have to me, in zip format to install with CWMR? I promisse test them and post the results of all you send.

I already found one model, but i´m having troubles to translate and find the commercial name, the google chinese translator is telling me that the name is quality of rice X1 !

Thanks a lot!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amoyan:
xiaomi m1 or m2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Yes, finding MT6577 models that have 1900 support, and then also locating a ROM for them is the real work. No easier for me than for you, spend lots of time on google, decode google translated pages. Once you have a ROM, making it into an update.zip is easy.

Tell you what: you find candidate ROM files, PM their download location to me, and I'll make the modem update.zip for you. But please, only *real* candidate ROM. No "not sure what phone this ROM is for, but can you check anyway" stuff please. It has to be a MT6577 phone (not even MT6577T, it has a different RF chip), and you have to have indication it supports 1900.

Easily reversible? Yes, should be. Just flash the original radio firmware again. Though there is always the implied disclaimer I am not responsible for any problems.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myxal:
Noticed a few more annoyances over the last weeks - can anyone confirm/deny?

When the phone is charging, its CPU is stuck @ 1GHz. I assume this slows down charging quite a bit.

During a call, I can't adjust the in-call volume without taking the phone away from my head and letting the display turn on - pressing the volume buttons while the screen is disabled by the proximity sensor does nothing.

Cybermaus (or whoever has an answer), what is the best way to contact Lenovo and let them know about these issues for English-speaking users?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Not me then.

But let me remark that you must be an optimist. I suspect that for Lenovo, we are a small group of semi-legit users outside their target market, serviced by unsupported sales channels. Which automatically leads to the following suggestion: Try to leave a message a the few official 'western' markets and channels that do exists:

http://lenovomobile.com.ph/home/ (Philippines)

http://www.lenovowarranty.co.in/ (India)

??? (Russia)

??? (Indonesia)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aap!:
Cannot enter recovery mode

I have a Lenovo a789, and I'm trying to enter the recovery mode. I've flashed the recovery image with A789_S22x_recovery_cybermaus.rar and SP Flash Tool V3.1222.00.

I can't seem to enter the recovery mode. If I press "power button + volume up + volume down" the phone will do nothing, and I have to replace the battery in order to boot normally. "power button + volume down" will start the meta mode.

Any help would be much appreciated!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bgcngm:
You can't press "Power + Vol. up + Vol. down" at the same time. First press Power and after a few seconds release it and hold Vol. up + Vol. down.

An alternative to boot into recovery mode is to run (while phone is running Android):

adb reboot recovery
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] turco_ninja:
Try to press the power button a little time before you press up/down volume.

I prefer to open the mobileuncle app and select reboot in recovery mode... ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] crystal71:
i installed P700i_ROW_S106_cybermaus_ICS_V3.11 one month back

but my phones Bluetooth suddenly disabled i am not able to switch on my Bluetooth pls help me?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzincbg:
Press power than immediately after that hold SIMULTANEOUSLY BOTH PLUS AND MINUS BUTTONS UNTIL IT ENTERS RECOVERY.

Yet another way- install the app quick boot and from there restart the phone into recovery. Also possble from mobile uncle tools.

Btw- THE TWRP recovery from cybermaus is simply beautiful and classy - and even gives access to install APKHOT based roms. I love it, thank you :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
More description of the error please.

Are you saying it stopped working after you installed V3.11, so it has not worked for a month, or are you informing us you have v3.11 for a while, and since recently bluetooth stopped working?

Anyway, try clearing cache, and if it still does not work, clear data. Either clear data completely from recovery, or specifically for the bluetooth app using a tool like Titanium backup.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] amresh:
TWRP v2.3.2.3 for P700i

An updated TWRP v2.3.2.3 is now available for P700i and can be downloaded from here. It can be installed like a normal zip package from recovery or flashed using flash tool.

cybermaus, you can consider uploading this at Dev-Host location of P700i download resources.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Ok, will do so tomorrow, when I am at home again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] insanrizal:
http://lenovo-forums.ru/ for russia

And i dont find for indonesia yet

Sent from my Lenovo P700i
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ecazamir:
There is a new ROM for P700i available OTA, version P700i_ROW_S109_130131. I've installed it, and now the red bar on the top of apps (gmail, settings, etc) is gone. It still appears on dialer, notes and sms app (perhaps more lenovo apps).

Other fixes found on a russian forum:

Correction graphic design firmware

Changing the boot-logo

Other fixes​

I just updated my phone and I'm happy without the red bar. I still have the firmware file and download links.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ecazamir:
After few hours with the update, I also noticed that Chainfire SuperSU didn't survive the OTA update, and the standard procedure used to install CWM Recovery with SP Flash Tools no longer works. Actually, "adb reboot recovery" doesn't work either, I see only the broken droid, even if I just flashed a "known good working cwm recovery" image

So, I re-flashed an older boot.img, extracted from P700i_ROW_S107 along with recovery and now I have root again.

Take care when flashing ROW_S109, the update procedure contains a sequence used to overwrite recovery and boot flash areas:

#!/system/bin/sh
if ! applypatch -c EMMC:recovery:4491264:a0556eeafa09d993c9a429b77f9bc91b5d5ab725; then
log -t recovery "Installing new recovery image"
applypatch EMMC:boot:3911680:27df259bc5423a4da271b010a2445b3ac2e8f2a6 EMMC:recovery a0556eeafa09d993c9a429b77f9bc91b5d5ab725 4491264 27df259bc5423a4da271b010a2445b3ac2e8f2a6:/system/recovery-from-boot.p
else
log -t recovery "Recovery image already installed"
fi
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Thats normal. Its one of the things I remove when I patch it.

Is the OTA a full ROM or a patch ROM? (Size >> 100MB or <<100MB)

Can you upload it somewhere, so I can use it to rebuild the various derived ROM's?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ecazamir:
It's 251 MB in size, looks like a full ROM. My phone fetched it from fusdl.lenovomm.chinacache{dot}net/firmware/dl/3.1/dlservlet?uuid=035890ae1e634e2e9214b882c4ccf256
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Ok, new build v3.3 based on this new factory release
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Can you tell me what you are trying to flash? What ROM / Recovery? As described in first post, you need to flash the recovery using the flash tool, but the actual ROM you do not flash using the flash tool.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elithenoob:
Thank you for your quick response. I am trying to flash the recovery using the flash tool but the flash tool is not recognizing any file in the scatter txt apart from the recovery. I used the scatter txt for MT 6577.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
If you are saying that after loading the scatter file, only the recovery is selected, and not for example the preloader, the mbr, the uboot, etc like shown below, than that is correct

You are trying to flash the recovery only, so indeed the recovery is the only one included in the package. Even though the preloader and dsp will show up red, and you will get a message about this, it is still correct. In fact, it is strongly advised against to ever flash preloader or dsp. All of this is explained in the manual here.

So just go ahead and flash only the recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thinkvolt:
AW: [Q&A] Lenovo phones / Cybermaus ROM's (A750, A789, P700i, A660)

Is there anyway to migrate PDroid or OpenPDroid into the Rom ? Thanks

Sent from my Lenovo A789
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elithenoob:
scatter file not loading correctly

Thanks cybermaus for your response #761. Unfortunately my problem is not as simple as it sounds. When I load the scatter file, no other file in the folder is recognized - i.e no other file exists in the recovery folder. Only the recovery file has a value and location. There is only 1 active file in the folder according to the flash tool and it is the recovery file. There is no preloader, boot etc in the folder at all or it is not recognized. I am prevented from loading an image to show you what I mean but I hope this makes some sense to you.

Maybe the problem is with the flash tool or maybe the scatter file but the 2 don't seem to be communicating properly.

Thanks for your help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Well, that is a bit different, but that goes back to my first question. What ROM/Recovery are you trying to flash. And it should be obvious, but additional relevant pieces of information would be, what flash tool and version.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Elithenoob:
ROM = A789_S22x_recovery_cybermaus

Splash tool = SP Flash Tool v3.1222.00. I also tried SP Flash Tool v3.1224.01.

I am trying to flash the recovery onto Lenovo a789 phone with the original software in Chinese. I have Lesecurityetc on the phone. It would take me a couple of years to figure out what the chinese characters mean but with my luck by then the phone will be out of fashion. :p

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
The combination of that recovery and that flash tool has been used by dozens, maybe even up to a hundred user. The only conclusion I can make is you are somehow, somewhere clicking a wrong button. I can only again redirect you to Bruno's flash manual.

If you really feel you are doing it all correct, make a youtube video or soo many screenprints that it is like a comic book.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
I have an issue with my 3.21 ROM. When the phone rings and I pull it out of its leather case, the call is rejected. :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
A new case? Perhaps one where you pull out the phone "sideways"

Or is that too simple a thought?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] oz42:
Not sideways. I grab it at the top (or at the bottom, that does not make a difference) and pull it out of its case.

The case is one of these.

Hope it's okay to put the link in here.

Perhaps the phone thinks leather and my skin is the same... :silly:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzincbg:
In the mount menu of the TWRP recovery there is no BIG MOUNT button. I have this button in the same menu of TWRP in my tablet. The idea is to connect the internal sd card of the phone to another android device with otg support, or car audio with usb host. Because if I switch on the phone and insert the cable and than select to connect as usb storage, the other android device or usb media player has given up recognizing the device...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Could that be a version difference? My TWRP runs a little behind, a newer is in the works.

Or could it be because the Lenovo does not support OTG?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zebuddi:
A660 stuck in wiping loop help needed

Hi i have a lenovo a660 it is stuck in (i believe) wiping loop, standing green android with spinning mid section (I can get into adb ) I do not have an official a660 rom. i had rooted the phone. but was struck with laying android man red triangle exclamation mark, i tried factory reset from recovery (e3) since then have been in this loop.

Am i right in that the mt6577 does not support fastboot so cannot reinstall through adb the official rom. any links to official rom & help with SP tools and getting a660 back to life much appreciated.

Thanks

zebuddi. :crying:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myxal:
Using SP Flash tool is not dependent on the ROM or recovery of the phone being functional - check out this tutorial. Use it to flash a working recovery (this should be an .img file and a scatter file). You can then use the recovery to install a zip-style ROM. Links to SP tool, recovery and ROM should be in the first several posts of this topic.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzincbg:
Lenovo A789 can also choose wich sim to be 3g- with the Andrea rom. Most bugs are fixeD BY NOW. Antutu is already 6044, not 5000+
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shalabimario:
Heyy

is there anyway i can find a jellybean rom for lenovo a789?

thanks in advance:)!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzincbg:
It is TWRP 2.4.0 on the tab. And I mean to use it as usb storage, not to connect usb storage to the phone. So to be able to connect it with another device which has usb host....If I do it in android, by the time the dialogue to connect as usb storage pops up, the other device (not pc) with usb host already gave up trying to recognize what is connected on the usb. But with twrp on the tab works....just that mound button... Anyway, thanks for the most beautiful, functional and touch recovery- TWRP!

---------- Post added at 06:13 PM ---------- Previous post was at 06:09 PM ----------

Not yet. On the lenovo chinese forum a guy tries to build it, but sais not all drivers work...not everything installs...Andrea said he'll try to port jelly bean from another mtk6577...but that is not easy....

You may read on htpp://china-iphone.ru if you understand Russian that they use Lewa os 4.1 (android with tweaks mod), but even f it says 4.1, it is built on 4.0.4
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zebuddi:
SP tool not working

Thanks for the reply have tried this several times but end up here any further help to this error appreciated

Thanks

sorry not enough posts (prevent spamming) so cant post direct link

SP Tools error code BROM_ERROR: S_FT_NEED_DOWNLOAD_ALL_FAIL(4050)

Need Download All Images

can send PM with link via "image upload" if required
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myxal:
Yes, please send an image of the error. Do you also follow the right hardware procedure - start with phone off and disconnected, then connect AFTER you click "Download" button? If that doesn't help, try removing the battery for a few seconds, then put it in again before starting the procedure.

---------- Post added at 09:29 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:25 PM ----------

That's great. Is there any policy applied to this switching (for example, switch 3G away from a SIM when that SIM's network is unavailable), or is it strictly manual, user-prompted switch?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tzincbg:
manual in settings-mobile networks-3g. Haha coverage varies even here within the city and sometimes people, who are promised 17 mbits get 300 kbits...and it is not unlimited you know...but in the other block no broblem- 3-4 mbit/sec 3 g real...Automatic 3g switching...you are pushing chinese developers to higher and higher levels , man :) ...but maybe someday...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zebuddi:
at myxal yes have followed procedure to the letter also ensured quickboot was turn off in settings prior to rooting ( to ensure phone fully shuts down) & prior to the wiping loop i`m in

http :// imageupload . co . uk / files / 1j1t10kea51kq27u26nt . png

zebuddi.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leFloyd:
There is no warranty covering this. If you are lucky, they won't find out, but I wouldn't count on it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Well, that was an expensive lesson. Sorry. Lets at least take home the lessons:

The fact the flash tool refused probably means the partition table is different. The recovery theoretically may still work, but without a correct scatter file to match the new partition table, there is no way to flash it. We can get the new scatter file once we have a new official ROM release, but if we have that, we can make a proper recovery anyway. So I will clean up some posts, so we do not confuse other people.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] winderor:
thank you for investigating the Waze issue. I tried your suggestion but I only got to the point of selecting a destination and then waze crashes....:(

anyway, regarding the paranoia of reading the contact list, I read that apple singed a contract with waze for buying info for their maps services, maybe that's where it started...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuweng:
i had the same issue like you when i tried to mod Bruno Martins's Extended User Data to my A789... :eek:

Then i think to myself how did lenovo flash in ROM at the first place & with that google leads me to this post about Power On sequences, thank you so much Master Shifu.... :good:

However, i can't exactly recall which or the correct sequence as i was trying all combinations with Flash Tool set at download mode all the time & voila, suddenly Flash Tool starts to download & i got my A789 back... :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adeelahmed11:
Ohh realy you gave me new hope because its completely dead like no power on no charging tried all posible combinations

but now i have to try all seq in download mode but the issue is A660 factory not out yet i search so many chineas forms.

But atleast if it detects then there is some hope. I alredy packed to send back to china but i will try and tell you please pray for me :) and if you remember key sequence please write here thanks for giving me hope :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yuweng:
if not mistaken, its the Vol-Dn + Power goes into META mode... :fingers-crossed:

my best guess is the preloader as cybermaus has mention, for my case i use A789 preloader at first for my modding & internal memory just increase 100MB then i download the V970's preloader_mt6577_phone.bin which i though was generic then ends up problem just like you... :p It actually doesn't detect the phone but with the right combinations of Power on sequences it accepts Flash Tool download...

But first did you do a full ROM backup ?

Your case is a completely different than mine so i guess we'll have to wait for Master Shifu cybermaus to further advice you since you don't have a full factory ROM... :fingers-crossed:

Good Luck... :fingers-crossed:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@yuweng; @adeelahmed11;

If true, this is so important I am starting a different thread on it. Please follow me there to discuss further.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ciprian.medrea:
Frozen phone

Hello,

I have a Lenovo A750 that I really like, but sometimes, even there is enough free RAM (150M or more) it freezes and I have to take out the battery to be able to do something with it. What might be the problem?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leFloyd:
The problem about your question, is that you completely left out, what ROM you are running...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] computeraid:
A789 V2.1

I've finally managed to install V2.1 onto my A789. Thank cybermous... its great, considering its a blind build.

I've disabled le-Sec.

I've been using it for about 1 week, and I do get the occasional lock-up (every day or two). I had a strange one today: phone was on ring and vibrate. I got a phone call early in the morning, I pressed the bluetooth answer button, but nothing happened. I couldn't hear the person who called, the screen was showing that I needed to "swipe" to answer, but it didn't respond to swiping, nor to the bluetooth button. After 30 seconds, the phone stopped ringing, but it kept vibrating.

I powered down the phone, and it then restarted normally.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
@computeraid

sounds roughly similar to the hangups my friend had. He eventually suspects he solved it by making DailerOne the default dialer, which I find a little strange, but he had no crashes in over 10 days. And just to restate: His A789 was crashing without my ROM also, so I am assuming it is a factory instability, not a custom instability.

But its all a bit moot: Tonight there will be a V3 based on a ported P700i_ROW_S105, nicely international, just like the V3 for your A750 My friend is already testing it since yesterday.

Edit: that ROW rom has en, zh, ru, id, vi, so our friends from china-iphone.ru will be happy, but still not proper multilang.

PS: Computeraid: I suspect you will eventually end up with both A750 and A789 on V3 side by side. If & when so, can you please judge the phones, and see the later build has anything valuable enough to want to port that to A750 also? Its a more risky port, as it ports a 4.0.4 android to a kernel made for a 4.0.3 android, so I will only do so if there is value in it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leFloyd:
I installed your V3.1 and tried to install the auxCamera.apk from the apkhot ROM. As I backuped the Camera.apk files before, to replace the camera I now have the problem, that neither of them will install.

Is there a way, or do I have to start with the complete zip?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybermaus:
Did you also backup Camera.odex? In any case, as this is an 'odexed' file, you should not so much 'install' but copy the apk with its odex using rootexplorer or similar.

If that does not work, then it may be best to reinstall the entire V3.1, but that should not hurt too much, because /data is kept intact. I have done similar several times myself, and all data and settings will still be there afterward. (if nothing else goes wrong at least)

So, I missed a lot of the talk on APKHOT roms, what is so nice about the auxCamera?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] leFloyd:
Simply copying both back to /system/app didn't do the trick. As I hadn't too much time configuring the rom, I just restored my backup of the apkhot S707.

For me it's mainly the fact, that this version saves into the DCIM folder...