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[General Questions and Answers] Kavik:
I just received a Zophone i5 2nd edition (Nano-sim, 960x540 resolution, gorilla glass) that I purchased directly from an official distributor off Taobao. The phone is an amazing clone, but I'm having several issues with my cellular connection & reception with AT&T in the U.S.:

The connection to the AT&T network is a little flaky in itself, taking awhile to register and often dropping out for no reason.

The phone is listed as GSM 850/900/1800/1900 & WCDMA 850/2100, but I'm only connecting to GPRS data at around max 50 kbps. Occasionally I will see an EDGE "E" for a few seconds only to have it disappear. I have tried the phone in several locations where I know there is 850 MHz 3G/HSDPA but the phone isn't seeing anything. I replaced my self-trimmed nano SIM with a new nano-SIM at the AT&T store which didn't fix the issue.

There doesn't appear to be any GPS chip in the phone even though it's advertised at having a built-in GPS chipset.

Has anyone else experienced these problems on the Zophone or Goophone? I've tried every setting to no avail, and would like to put stock android on it if possible. Does anyone know if there is an app, command line or external program that can query an android phone to see which GSM/WCDMA bands are supported in the chipset/baseband?
[General Questions and Answers] piam:
Looks much better with the soft buttons at the bottom! Thank you so much for this. Can't wait for it to be complete.

I am having a charging problem with mine though, I can not get it to charge. I recieved it today and just died. I have three different wires and one genuine apple wire. Only the apple wire worked when i rooted it. but it will not charge and is now dead
[General Questions and Answers] derfusme:
I have the exactly same issue about charging :rolleyes: When i plug it on the computer, i can hear the usb " plugged in " sound, then after 1 or 2 sec the usb " plugged out " sound. Tried several wires too (an Apple one too), always the same. Getting mad :eek:
[General Questions and Answers] Sylar-fon:
Same for me the original cable is dead after 2 days

aple tried cable connection ok computer, no load

Same Ebay cable

Phone unusable battery drained.

careful !!!
[General Questions and Answers] piam:
Only way i got mine to charge is original iphone 5 cable. Turn phone off. And plug into xbox. It charged that way. maybe it needs a lower power source to charge it?
[General Questions and Answers] derfusme:
So I have to buy an Xbox as a phone charger ? :')
[General Questions and Answers] sidgeekpurchases:
Finally a clean Android ROM for gPhone I5 (in the making)

Simply brilliant ColonelZap, :good:

I looked at your website where you give out some hints and ask user not to Flash. Do you mind outlining the steps? I would like this gPhone I5 to be a complete Android device. Also is it in English or is it Chinese? From the picture you have posted it appears to have some Chinese characters.
[General Questions and Answers] Sylar-fon:
I of course tested with two different chargers sector no less powerful than X-Box

There is a real fault in the cable on the Smartphone.

They windy too quickly to have copied.
[General Questions and Answers] anexonel13:
I'll take my Goophone out of the box(was shipping it back tommorow) and I'll try it with my ps3, if it doesn't work I'll send it back for a new one :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] :
I noticed on your blog, you've listed the current roms that can be used. Can I ask which is the most current, not counting your current ICS version?
[General Questions and Answers] xlr8me:
You my friend are a genius.

Thnx U so much........... :)

Someone should sticky this post to original post...

:)

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For those with cable issue keep buying more and eventually you will get one that works.

There are very poor lightning cables out there so try to find a good one. My one that came with the phone only allowed computer sync but no charging. Went to my local markets and bought a cable and it works. Have bought some more from ebay some work some do not. Keep trying.

Good luck and the android ROM looks very good.

Maybe we have launcher in recovery image to boot into both like HD2 and Android and Windows Mobile. I still have those phones heheh
[General Questions and Answers] piam:
Im not sure if it is a cable problem. I have a zophone i5 and goophone i5. Zophone works with all three cables. Sync and charge. goophone doesnt recognise any and only charges with real cable when goophone is turned off and plugged into xbox
[General Questions and Answers] androidfoshizzle:
So this phone has working hspa+21 in the USA?

NEXUS 4=Richard mille watch
[General Questions and Answers] xlr8me:
HAve you enabled usb debugging in the settings options of the goophoneI5?
[General Questions and Answers] piam:
yes i have :( tried with it on and off. But its not that as even when its dead/drained it still does the same
[General Questions and Answers] xlr8me:
Keep trying other cables...

It should work no problem if it is genuine goophone I5.

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Guys,

I have a strange issue with flash. I installed flash_installer11.1 and it installed no problem. However, when visiting flash websites and test adobe flash there is this strange Chinese text that appears and stops the flash from playing.

Does anyone know what this is? Is it advertising or something else and most importantly how does one get rid of it?

Thanks all.
[General Questions and Answers] ColonelZap:
Navigation bar tweak update :)

http://colonelzap.blogspot.de/2013/02/goophone-i5-n2-pure-android-ics-firmware.html

Have fun :)
[General Questions and Answers] paasklaas:
Just got a message from my seller Efit (dhgate). He told me that the technicians from Goophone are aware of the charging problem and that the advice to get a 8-pin charger cable???? Not sure what they mean by that, but Efit is going to ship me a new, highgrade cable. Fingers crossed.
[General Questions and Answers] derfusme:
Same issue as me, bought new cable (genuine Apple one), always the same. Fastcardtech says I did not correctly " maintenanced " it, so they can't do anything for me. I just answered that I just used an other cable, and I didn't do anything else. Wainting for response... I think I made big mistake buying there :(
[General Questions and Answers] piam:
It is not a maintenance problem far too many off us are experiencing the same problems
[General Questions and Answers] scpforever:
writting sms

Hello,

In my goophone I5, in the manucho Room and others, every time that i wrote something, and when i press the space bar it will write in chinese.

Can you help me,

With best regard's
[General Questions and Answers] rafa55:
I received yesterday my goophone i5 and after open the box begin the testing and discover the phone not connect with the computer and also not charger. I was in a phone shop testing with different cables and discover the problem was in the phone, I contacted with the seller and he told me return the phone for change, tomorrow I will return the phone to China.

I am seeing may of us are having the same problem I hope goophone take good note and the sellers check the phones before ship, I will inform about this after receive the new one
[General Questions and Answers] lychat:
Bug

hello,

I just had my Goophone i5, and I overview of two issues and I wonder if you have a solution to remedy it.

1. We can not send sms with another software SMS (Handcent for example),

2. Syncing contacts via gmail not working. the parameterization is not displayed.

Thank you for your help.:)

And sorry for my english!
[General Questions and Answers] jonaboy:
ROM

Yes the rom's UI has many bugs but I'm working on making a 1:1 rom that works smooth but this phone is just stubborn and wont let me install everything... as for the keyboard install smart keyboard pro an add the zip (credits go to iLStone for making the zip) to the the root of your sd card in the map skins (if you don't have one you have to make one yourself)
[General Questions and Answers] Kavik:
Does anyone know if the fix below from OP will work for addressing 3G and connectivity issues with the ZoPhone i5?
[General Questions and Answers] paasklaas:
It is definitly NOT a maintance problem.
[General Questions and Answers] scpforever:
Hello again,

Thanks for responding so rapid, but i don't understand wher to put the cupertino_mod.

Can you told me again, please.

Continue the good work in the new room...

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] xlr8me:
Yes I too got a message from Efit with new cable on it's way... wooooooot :) nice seller too...

For all concerned I have found some further tweaks.

Download the following apps from google play.

1.Usage timelines free (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.als.usagetimelines&hl=en)

2.CPU tuner (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ch.amana.android.cputuner feature=search_result#?t=W251bGwsMSwxLDEsImNoLmFtYW5hLmFuZHJvaWQuY3B1dHVuZXIiXQ..)

Now what I discovered was that using usage timelines free I could see the cpu load was always 47% and quite high. I wanted to reduce this as I notice my battery would only last till afternoon 5pm from recharge at 8am in morning.

So I then look for CPU governor and installed CPU tuner. I set it on Normal governor (with beginner user you can change it if you feel comfortable to tweak it) and viola go back into usage timeline free and you will see CPU load is now 27% average on idle not 47% like before. I will update this post and let you know how battery has gone.

I think the goophone cpu governor are not very good.

Hope this helps us maximise our battery life and make the goophone I5 even better.
[General Questions and Answers] jgaler:
Charging problem also

My phone has also stopped charging and the cord is coming apart. Tried original apple cord and still no charging.
[General Questions and Answers] rafa55:
someone has a "recovey.img" in English.

The phone comes in original Chinese and complicated
[General Questions and Answers] patimon:
Goophone I5 has APN setting error. But you can set APN without error in Zophone i5.
[General Questions and Answers] paasklaas:
Check this link:

http://colonelzap.blogspot.de/

And choose custom recovery. Your phone must be rooted. Use Mobile Uncle to install. Thanx to Colonelzap.
[General Questions and Answers] jonaboy:
Hey if you already installed smartkeyboard pro you have to make a folder on the root of your sd card named skins, after that you have to copy the

cupertino_mod.zip to the skins folder. Don't extract the zip file! you have to copy it as a zip file to your skins folder.

Regards,
[General Questions and Answers] Kavik:
Thanks patimon--at least that's cleared up. Well now I'm stuck with the unfortunate thought that maybe the Zophone has just a really poor antenna

and/or

is missing the 850MHz 3G support it's advertised to have. The worst part is the constant dropping of calls in areas where other phones have 5 bars.

:(
[General Questions and Answers] scpforever:
Hello,

Thanks, now it works fine...:)

Another question?

What do you think about the camera, my photos it's seems blurry, and bad, it seems that the lens is dirty inside.

I have already installed other software and still the same, very dark and blurry photos.

With best regard's
[General Questions and Answers] xlr8me:
Ok,

Update: The CPU governor does work. I have had good extension on battery life with the previous post.

Update 2: Leave it on default. Found the device is more zippier and faster with default cpu governors. I rather this higer cpu performance than lesser for better battery. :)
[General Questions and Answers] jonaboy:
Can you post a picture, i'm also working on the camera...
[General Questions and Answers] rafa55:
Thanks for your reply I will check it
[General Questions and Answers] miata_75:
Charging Problem

ok guys... that's enough!!

I had enough with this crappy, poor quality, Chinese stuff!!

At the beginning i supposed that this charging problem was just mine but as i realised from various posts, it seems that all these early delivered devices have the same problem!!

I tried to report the problem in order to warn the potential buyers at the android-sale.com from where i 've purchased the phone and guess what... My review was never reported... The only reviews left there is some stupid questions like "when this phone will be available" and "great work..thanks for updating" etc...

I returned the phone for replacement, it was received on 12th of February and still have no news from the seller about the shipment of the replacement device... I emailed them in order to get informed about that and the guy there always tells me "be patient, sorry for the inconvenience"...

I HAD ENOUGH!!!! We paid some money to buy this scrap and they sold us dead phones with buggy software....

Last time i buy Chinese stuff!! Just hope to get the replacement before the iphone 6 will br presented!!!
[General Questions and Answers] androidfoshizzle:
How to setup hspa+ in the USA?

16GB NEXUS 4

T-MOBILE MONTHLY 4G
[General Questions and Answers] anexonel13:
Return your device back to android-sale, they will send you a new one as soon as they receive yours.
[General Questions and Answers] anexonel13:
All the Goophone I5 I have at home won't charge anymore (two authentic goophones from android-sale.com) I will contact them and send both back to China and hopefully he will send a improved version if Goophone fixed that problem.
[General Questions and Answers] rafa55:
I don't know what is really happening with this phone, many of us need to return the phone because it not charge, I returned last week the phone for the same reason, I hope they will check the phone correctly before ship again. I will post when received the new and check.
[General Questions and Answers] jgaler:
Goophone i5 charge problems

For any one that has a Goophone i5 that has a charging problem I have fixed mine. After having this problem I started looking into why so many of us where having the same problem.

I first took my cable that came with my Goophone apart at the phone end and found that the wires had come loose. Now this would cause my phone not to charge but I had gone out and got real Iphone cables and a Micro USB to Lightning adapter and that didn't fix it so fixing the original cable I figured would not fix it. Well after fixing the original cable it did fix it. This left me wanting to know why the new cables or the adapter would not charge my phone. When plugged into the phone it looked like it was charging but never charged. In fact it went dead. At this point I took apart the original IPhone cable and the Micro USB to Lightning adapter to figure it out.

First the Goophone I5 Cable has a very small circuit board before the plug (very very small) and that's it. The wires go to the board and then strait into the plug. No chips no nothing strait in. The IPhone cable and the adapter have chips between the cable and the plug.

Second I took a volt meter to the Goophone cable and found that when looking down at the plug pointed at you the pins are 12345678 left to right. Now pin 1 is Ground and Pin 4 is V+. The IPhone Plug would not give a V+ on any pin so the chip inside must block it till plugged into phone but the adapter did give V+. The ground on the adapter was pin 1 but the V+ was pin 5. I believe that is why only the original plug works to charge. The Goophone i5 needs ground in pin 1 and V+ on pin 4. I have rewired the adapter to this configuration and it now charges my phone. I took all the chips off and wired it like the original cable, ground to pin 1 V+ to pin 4 and strait in. Now the adapter works and charges my phone.

I hope this will help other with this problem.

(pins 2 and 3 are data)
[General Questions and Answers] rafa55:
I understand by your explanation that the original lightning Apple cable works well, and you phone charged and connect with the pc by USB using this original Apple cable, right?

I when with my phone to a shop that have original cables and test my phone with an original cable before to buy one but not works. Therefore I decided to return the unit and change for a new one.

did you repaired the cable from China? or you are using the original Apple,

When I receive the new unit in a few days, I will test with the cable that they provide and if not works, I will use an original cable like you and inform.

It would be good if you repaired the Chinese cable make a drawing of all the connections and explain how we can do it because it will be very useful for the people that have the same problem

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Sylar-fon:
correction

Yes it would be interesting to put this in the form of schematic

IPHONE 5 ORIGINAL

__8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1__

Pin 1	GND ground

Pin 2	L0p	lane 0 positive

Pin 3	L0n	lane 0 negative

Pin 4	ID0	identification/control 0

Pin 5	PWR power (charge or battery)

Pin 6	L1n	lane 1 negative

Pin 7	L1p	lane 1 positive

Pin 8	ID1	identification/control 1

GOOPHONE I5

__8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1__

Pin 1

Pin 2

Pin 3

Pin 4

Pin 5

PIn 6

Pin 7

Pin 8

Shéma pin out:

http://img15.hostingpics.net/pics/585545brochagelightning.jpg
[General Questions and Answers] alduleimi:
Sorry but how to flash this rom, do I need to reboot the phone in recovery mode ? Do I need specific drivers ?

I have all files downloaded, started the flash tool, selected the scatter file but when I click download (or F9) nothing happen ?!
[General Questions and Answers] jgaler:
IPHONE 5 ORIGINAL

__8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1__

Pin 1	GND ground

Pin 2	L0p	lane 0 positive

Pin 3	L0n	lane 0 negative

Pin 4	ID0	identification/control 0

Pin 5	PWR power (charge or battery)

Pin 6	L1n	lane 1 negative

Pin 7	L1p	lane 1 positive

Pin 8	ID1	identification/control 1

GOOPHONE I5

This is how i have mine wired and works for charging and data

__8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1__

Pin 1 GND ground (Black wire)

Pin 2 Data + (Green wire)

Pin 3 Data - (White wire)

Pin 4 PWR power (charge or battery) (Red wire)

Pin 5

PIn 6

Pin 7

Pin 8

Original Apple cables do not work for me. Had to use parts from cables to make my own.

It would look like they forgot to skip pin 4 wiring the plug on the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] xlr8me:
Nice work guys for researching the cables.

The thing is they are so cheap you cannot excuse yourself for not buying one of these cables.

For those that tried the newer ROM 1-31 any improvements/updates over mayiandjay's ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] jgaler:
What cable should I be buying for this phone. I have bought real Apple I-Phone cables, high end after market cables, 2 different chines low cast I-Phone cables, and USB to I-Phone adapters and not even one of them worked. Would love to know where I can get real Goophone I5 cables.

My Goophone cable fell apart but looking at it more closely it gets even more confusing.

When one side is up the pins on the plug are

__8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1__

Pin 1 GND ground (Black wire)

Pin 2 Data + (Green wire)

Pin 3 Data - (White wire)

Pin 4 PWR power (charge or battery) (Red wire)

Pin 5 GRN ground

PIn 6

Pin 7

Pin 8 PWR power

But flip the plug over and the pins are

__8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1__

Pin 1 GND ground (Black wire)

Pin 2

Pin 3

Pin 4 PWR power (charge or battery) (Red wire)

Pin 5 GND ground (Black wire)

PIn 6 Data - (White wire)

Pin 7 Data + (Green wire)

Pin 8 PWR power (charge or battery) (Red wire)

The cable I made only does

__8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1__

Pin 1 GND ground (Black wire)

Pin 2 Data + (Green wire)

Pin 3 Data - (White wire)

Pin 4 PWR power (charge or battery) (Red wire)

Pin 5

PIn 6

Pin 7

Pin 8

I only wired one side.

On a different cable I tried pulling the power pin 5 on a I-Phone cable to the 4 pin so power was on both pin 4 and 5. It looked like it worked but it will not charge. Had to break the 5 pin leaving the pins wired like my first cable but now both sides work to charge.
[General Questions and Answers] xraider:
Don't Let This Happen To You.

This is my experience. I hope it doesn't happen to others....

I just bought a "Goophone i5" from android-sale.com. From the looks of it, it looked great, but looks aren't everything:

- I bought the 32GB model, but they sent me only a 16GB version.

- I bought new, what I received looked refurbished, had smudges on it and came with no box or manuals.

- Had a lightning connector like the real iPhone 5, but was not able to make a good connection to the phone.

- Because of this, the phone could not charge.

- I paid for the dual core 6577 processor, but it came up as 6575 on the one time it did connect to my PC, couldn't investigate further because it doesn't power up.

Long story short, I was very much looking forward to this phone, but when I ran into problems, the seller became completely non-responsive. I have to go through a resolution process to try and get a refund, and the cost to ship back to China could be very expensive.

Be wary of who you buy from (especially android-sale.com). This is such a negative experience for me, I do not think I will buy from China directly ever again. I would still consider a Chinese product, but would have to know it's distributed from within the US (like an Amazon sale).
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
Got it working........................until I break it.

I purchased several cables and the only one that charges the device is that Logiko-UK from your link.

Eventually got it to charge but stuck on recovery and cannot be turned off, at which point I did a reset by poking a pin into the reset button (hole between the camera and flash on the back of phone). Phone turned itself off, I turned it back on and everything is fine.

Original iPhone 5 cables do not work with Goophone i5 because Apple use a different type of circuit board, therefore cables are incompatible.
[General Questions and Answers] :
So, how many here bought a phone that actually charged?

All I'm reading are negative responses, which leaves me worried as my phone's on its way here in the mail.

I had to ship something back to china that I bought from ebay. It was light, small and thin. (fit in an envelope), but because I required a tracking number to get my money back, it cost me $78 via Canada Post. This problem has me very worried.
[General Questions and Answers] xlr8me:
Be prepared to get a few lightning cables. Even goophone has acknowledged the problem so it's a batch of these faulty lightning cables.

Also, just a further tip for everyone. Remove the compass.apk file. It is spamware and causes sms's to pop up and slows the connection.

Enjoy this wonderful device :)
[General Questions and Answers] ColonelZap:
Mine charges perfectly (so far) :)
[General Questions and Answers] androidfoshizzle:
Look into the zophone i5 way better and there's actually review videos on YouTube

16GB NEXUS 4

T-MOBILE MONTHLY 4G

DNA>BEATS
[General Questions and Answers] realadry:
Where can you even buy a geniuine zophone? Aren't those from dhgate and similar sites all goophones or fakes that are just sold as zohpone?
[General Questions and Answers] Jaytwin007:
GooPhone I5 from fastcardtech - Random text Messages

I have had my phone for about a month from FastCardTech and everything is working ok'ish, after resolving quite a few issues.

Over the last few weeks though I have been receiving text messages every day from random numbers (example 1008632586812), the messages are half in chinese and link to a site asking me to download an apk file.

Has anyone else had anything similar ?, if so what are these ? Malware/Virus etc, or Software downloads.

I dont understand chinese so no idea.

My tel number is brand new (1 month old) and not been used in any correspondence with FastCardTech etc.

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] androidfoshizzle:
http://www.feelforandroid.com/76mm-...ual-core-android-ios-menu-wifi-gps-p-200.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Epoh_92oxGA&feature=youtube_gdata_player

16GB NEXUS 4

T-MOBILE MONTHLY 4G

DNA>BEATS
[General Questions and Answers] m34n1ng:
how do i use the SP Flashtool? i want to put the pure ics on it and then mod it so if anyone can give me some detailed instructions itd be greatly appreciated :)