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[General Questions and Answers] jlsilva10:
Charger

My goophone came with the lightning cable damaged and it didn't work, I know it happened to some of you, can anyone please tell me where can I buy a cable that works on the goophone?

I already bought 4 cables on ebay but they work on iphones but not on my goophone..

I am really desperate, beacuse I loved the phone but I can't get it to charge.

Help :confused:
[General Questions and Answers] :
My goophone cable came damaged as well, but it still works if plugged in properly.

When inserting the lightning cable, put a little more pressure, forcing the top of the connector to glide against the top of the inside of the phone slot. I don't think I'm explaining that properly, but I hope that helps.

I haven't had to purchase a new cable yet, but I am waiting on a replacement cable from the seller.(TheCheapChoice).
[General Questions and Answers] jlsilva10:
Charger

It doesn't work for me :S, The cable is really damaged..

The worst part is, I can't find a place that sells lightning cables for iphone, because they try to copy the iphone's power, so it comes with a chip and won't work for us :(
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
Goohpone ROM v1.2

Hello everyone!

I'm just here to say that i'm working on the version 1.2 of my rom that will bring some changes to the performance and user experience of goophone i5.

Link to the post: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=37540074&postcount=1

News coming soon! =)

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
Goo phone and bad phone cable.

For those having problems trying to get hold of a usable cable, here's a photo to show the differences between my two cables which I purchased from different ebay sellers.

Notice the good connector have longer 8 pins and the bad connector have rounded lower metal opening just below the pins.

I cannot guarantee that if you obtain the one similar in looks to my working connector but I do hope the picture will be helpful.
[General Questions and Answers] :
Would you be able to link me to the specific ebay seller that sold you a cable that works properly?

A lot of ebay sellers just use generic images, so it's hard to tell which are real, and which are just some image they found over the net.

Thanks in advance. :)
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
Will also report again in approxomately 7 days.

Well, yes I can but it will be of no help as the seller, for whatever reason is no longer trading.

Earlier, as I was trawling through all the listings with sellers own photos, I found an image with similar 8 pins to my existing working cable, I made a purchase and as its second class postage, it be around 7 days.............before I will know if its compatible.

Sooner or later Goophone compatible cables will become available but the problem is to sort it from the vast amounts of non compatible ones which are still in circulation.
[General Questions and Answers] DaiC1:
I'm totally confused with this cable issue,

The cable I had with the i5 from thecheapchioce works perfect but I need a couple more for the car and work.

I've tried several colleges iphone 5 supplied cables and they also work, i'm not sure what cable to buy now. Aren't the apple supplied cables the same?
[General Questions and Answers] :
I just bought 2 cables from separate sellers based on your advice.

I'll keep you all posted...
[General Questions and Answers] CloseCoder:
USB cable damaged

I finally installed the custom rom through flashtool with the help of this community :) but now the USB cable doesnt want to charge, i push it in all the way and it wont work. Tried an original apple and it says its charging but it doesnt charge so its not a problem with the phone. I hate using my iPhone 4 again because the USB isnt working. Anyone has bought a aftermarket cable and it charged their goophone? i really need one :(
[General Questions and Answers] jlsilva10:
Charger

Hi all,

I am purchasing 3 new cables from ebay, hoping that at leat one of them works, if one of them works I'll post here the link to the product.

Anyway, today I saw a video that may help us all : youtube.com/watch?v=605hSVhr3cM

If anyone find that particular cable, please post the link.

Thank you all
[General Questions and Answers] iosonoadry:
Question to the Goophone owners: After being using it for a while... would you recommend me to buy it? How's the battery life problem going? And GPS?
[General Questions and Answers] spyrous321:
not working root

hello to all.. i have tried too many apps to root my phone. i haven't managed it yet.

my phone is this

goophone i5

antutu test

CPU-MTK6577

ANDROID VERSION-4.04

BUILD-ALPS.GB2.MP.V2

BRAND:MZ

i don't care if it's not the original but i want it to root.. nobody have helped me yet
[General Questions and Answers] pricardolopes:
Hello people.

Sorry my english, but I'm from Brazil.

I would like to tell you what's going on with my Goophone i5 and see if someone can help me.

I've got a lot of information here on the forum, but none about the problem that I will relate.

When he arrived, already put to bear. Once finished I put the SIM, but as is always 'no service'.

I've done everything ... I changed my rom, I have made as root, a new firmware already installed ... but nothing worked.

Could anyone tell me what might be happening and what is the solution?

The model is the same goophone being sold now on android-sale.

This model uses MicroSIM
[General Questions and Answers] mallware:
Goophone i5 interal memory

I have a goophone i5 n2 mk6577.

I've installed goophone-i5-n2-pure-android-ics-firmware

and the phone is now really ok.

But I've a question: I see 2 partition mnt/sdcard (2gb) and mnt/sdcard2 (14.8 gb) Is it possible to merge together ?

because when I install some app, a message tell me about a space problem, but the sdcard2 is empty.

please help me
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
Remove and Insert Sim Card

Hello!

There is a solution of your problem.

Turn off your phone

Remove the SIM Card

Clean the chip and insert it again on your phone. It will work.

I know that sounds crazy, but it will work. I had many people relating that problem and this method solved their problem and mine!

Hope it works with you too.

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
Root Goophone i5

First of all, relax. people got they own life..they aren't always here avaiable to answer quickly to all posts.

There are a very simple way to root it.

All you need to do is to download this file.

Then turn on USB debug on your phone, install MTK MT6577 drivers on your pc and connect your phone to your computer via USB.

After that run the runme.bat of the file you have downloaded, press 1 (normal mode) and wait until the root is complete. After that, your phone will reboot and that's it.

You have your phone rooted.

Another way to do it is to Flash the phone using smartflash tool and load into the phone a Scatter associated to a rooted rom.

Regards.
[General Questions and Answers] jgaler:
Go to settings and under storage change default write disk to SD Card.
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
If those colourful cables are guaranteed to work then I don't mind paying £10 but for something which may work it is just too much to risk, a few £s is fine as I have already spent enough on cables so far, also my Seller have listed me for a replacement cable..................................................but they do look very enticingly pretty. :cyclops:

At the moment it is not advisable to purchase as an EDC as it may suddenly fail, becuase the firmware needs to be improved dramatically for the device to be considered satisfactory, so maybe at a later stage when the manufacturers improves the ROM. Secondly, by the time a functional ROM appears, the quad core will be available for purchase maybe this will be a better option.

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38871055&postcount=42

Afterwards, I used the CWM to install other ROM zip files.

The help was alway there to be found, you just didn't look hard enough. :cyclops:
[General Questions and Answers] spyrous321:
not working

HI Thanks for your reply but this app doesnt helped me.. when the running appears it remains in this screen and in phone there is nothing doing... what i must do? there is another method to do it? some rom to flash??
[General Questions and Answers] pv321:
Same here, I received a ''dead'' device, returned it to Android-Sale for a replacement, they said that they received the device but didn't send me a new one.. And not responding anymore..

DO NOT BUY FROM ANDROID SALE!!
[General Questions and Answers] miata_75:
Just to continue the android-sale drama, i emailed them on Wednesday to sent me back the returned dead device, and guess what.... :cyclops:

They didn't reply.... So, if this is not stealing, then what is it?

They don't even send me the returned device..... Common thieves....!!
[General Questions and Answers] doubletino:
Hi all,

I have a big problem with my i5 goophone, I buy on DHgate and it did not work.

When I turn it puts me directly in factory mode.

When I turn off and reboots with the home button and start it gives me an icon with a white triangle and inside an exclamation point.

I know not flash Faie I know nothing at all.

I do not connect it to the computer lacks the cdc serial.

Person will have an idea please?

thank you
[General Questions and Answers] anexonel13:
I sended back two Goophone i5 I am starting to be scared that lately he is no more talking to the customers, and I have been working with him and on his blog for a long time, I hope he did not ripped me off! I will try talking to Andi from Gizchina that might know Shine Wong because android-sale sent them a Goophone I5 for review.
[General Questions and Answers] doubletino:
I looked everywhere on the net but no answer to my problem.

I hope someone will help me thank you
[General Questions and Answers] notcosi:
I too returned my phoneto android sale but hesayshe hasn't received it and now not answering emails either..:(
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
I can help you out!

Check your inbox
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
People i just want you to know how things work.

Stop blaming android-sale for this or any other company because it isn't their fault!

They are resellers not manufacturers. So if they have 1000 goophones in stock do you think that they will test everyone just to be sure that it won't come broken?

That is impossible to do. just impossible.

So..don't blame shine wong or any other reseller but the manufacturer instead.

Another thing that you should know is that Youtube, Google, Facebook, etc.. are forbidden in china.So do you imagine yourself paying money monthly to have access to a weak vpn connection that allow them to use that services?

Think about it.
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
Poke the Hole.

Try using a pin and poke the little black hole on the back of the phone between the flash and the camera lens.
[General Questions and Answers] Nash Deluxe:
To those who haven't sent their devices back and are in need of a cable, a generic micro usb to lightning adapter is working for me. I have lots of micro usb cables around and the adapter cost me about 6 US dollars from ebay.

To anyone still interested in purchasing this phone but feels uneasy about ordering from android-sale, seller "efit" on dhgate is selling it as the "zophone i5". Seller has had good communication with me and has sent an upgraded cable which is on its way.

I've tried every rom currently available for this phone and have settled on the pure android rom linked in colonelzap's blog. It is by far the smoothest rom out right now with no Chinese apps or bloatware. Only the boot/shutdown animations are from a Chinese carrier. Xvekix's modded rom comes in second, but it is still quite far behind. Performance on the pure-ics rom is much better than the other roms that are available.
[General Questions and Answers] androidfoshizzle:
Feelforandroid.com
[General Questions and Answers] anexonel13:
I know about that, for me it isnt a problem as I got both from Shine for quite for cheap, if I would of both it with my money I would not mind, but someone both it for me and it is a waste of money for them, I know Shine for quite long, so I can wait if he doesn't take time like I have seen on his fb that a customer has been waiting for his replacement phone for 2 months. So for now I will stop promoting his website till we all get a reasonable explanation for him.

Keep hoping...

P.S: If you think they won't send back your phone, why not just do a chargeback on your credit card?

-Anexonel, a proud customer of Android-Sale

UPDATE:

I received a response from Shine on youtube, he said he will check his email out!

Good or bad news?!? :)
[General Questions and Answers] pm-fr:
Hi everybody !

I have a goophone i5 mt6575 (fake mt6577) with one sensor

I have a problem : i can't install a new Rom... everytime it told me " Invalid OTA... Scatter missing..."

Someone had this problem ?

Does there a solution ?

ps : sorry for my bad english
[General Questions and Answers] doubletino:
Thank you for the help but it does not
[General Questions and Answers] miata_75:
Hope my friend that we will have a better luck than we had. And I also hope that things will be settled in a favorable way for all of us. Until that time I feel cheated and deceived.. if you are able to communicate with him just speak in the name of all of us here and transfer him our disappointment.
[General Questions and Answers] vnman:
I bought a few things from android-sale.

The last order was a goophone i5 with 32GB, but received the phone with 16GB. Inquired him about that and got the price different refund right away.

On the 4th of Mars I sent the mail to him about the broken cable and he promised to send a replacement as soon as possible.

I think Shine has not reply because he was busy sending out replacement phones/cables.

Not yet receive the replacement cable, I guess it would take a week to get to my place.

BTW is the goophone suppose to come with the aluminium "spy" case?
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
It is not that simple as there are regulations in regard to charge-backs. Credit card companies are not going to charge-back on whimsical assumptions, else all the Sellers would be in dire straits.

Better still, remind him/her, if he/she doesn't already know, that his/her business integrity is already in tatters................more disapontments will mean he/she can forget about selling any more mobile devices to us in the future (this is not a threat, it is a statement of fact).

On second thought, the seller may also have problems with the manufacturer delivering the new cables and it will take significant amout of time to clear up this mess, afterall they are only the middlemen trying to earn a living. Rome was not built in a day.

Not necessarily so, if you check on the Goophone.hk, you'll realize that the aluminium case incurs extra cost of purchase.
[General Questions and Answers] doubletino:
I'm back,

I have a big concern goophone my i5 does not light now ...

I think he's dead.

I connect with flash tools and nothing is happening.

Before he lit again in factory mode but now nothing.

How to recover all this? : Eek:
[General Questions and Answers] spyrous321:
this didn't worked to me.

sorry but this rooting software didn't worked for me.. i anabled usb debugging and it stucks when doing the rooting.. what i must do?? this id the only way to root my software? is there another rom to install that is already rooted?? or another method that will work? tnxs
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
Have you tried to Flash the 0131 ROM, it contains recovery albeit in Chinese.
[General Questions and Answers] doubletino:
Thank you for your answer.

The cable is good.

It does not light up, I press the on / off button as much as I want nothing is happening.

My question is if there is a way to recover my goophone or not?

thks
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
When you say the cable is good, has the phone charged up before ? My bad cable also showed the device was charging but unplug it and the phone power stats drop a few percent which means it was not actually charging.
[General Questions and Answers] spyrous321:
0301

no i haven't tried this rom. i don;t know my phone what rom has and i afraid if i install this rom if it stops working as the other members said.. does this rom is ok???
[General Questions and Answers] doubletino:
It does not load even more.

I try with original cable and it does not work either.
[General Questions and Answers] spyrous321:
prob

i tries now to install it and it tells me that signature verification failed
[General Questions and Answers] paasklaas:
I solved this one. You need the full rom (firmware) including your preloader and boot. You also need flashtool to flash the phone. After that it worked. I flashed it with the latest rom 0131 from goophone.
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
New Rom avaiable

I've released a new version of my ROM.

Check this link: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37540074#post37540074
[General Questions and Answers] vnman:
yes I solved that a while back :D same method as you described. Only one extra step, needed to load windows driver for flashtool to work.

The moral here is that NOT TO DO RESET Via PhoneUI.

Anyway, I am not using the phone now, waiting for cable(s) from both android-sale and dx.com.

Look forward to actually using the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Sonter:
Great Job

Hey This is the best rom I had tryed since now... It is really fast and the phone is very responsive. Thanks for this update.
[General Questions and Answers] kakafoni:
Sorry if I'm going a bit off-topic but i've got a Goophone I5 that turned out to be a Kiphone I5. I think i've might have bricked after setting wrong permissions in the system folder. Adb logcat gives me "could not load needed library 'libc.so' for '/system/bin/sh' (load_library[1117]: Library 'libc.so' not found)CANNOT LINK EXECUTABLE"

Anyways, the phone boots into recovery mode and i can scroll through the options with the volume keys but, here's the problem, i can't actually choose any of it. Not with the home button and not with the power button (tried several combinations as well. How do you Goophone-owners do it?
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
you must root your phone! Or flash the stock software into it.

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] kakafoni:
Thanks for reply. It is rooted already. I would like to do a hard reset, but there's no way to choose any of the recovery options. In recovery mode, "home button" only brings up the menu, volume keys scrolls through the menu, and power button doesn't do anything (except shutting down the phone when pressed long enough.
[General Questions and Answers] doubletino:
Flashtools tells me that I have not yet MT6575 MT6577 version.

One person could ca rom please?

thank you
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
Flash the english clockworkmod on it.

You can download it here

Then turn off your phone

Open the SPFlash tool

Load the scatter from the extracted folder

Click on F9 -> Download Mode

And connect your phone via USB with it turned off.

The bars will start. Wait until they finish and a green circle will popup.

That's it. You have now a english clock work mod.

Obs: If you can't reboot your phone, press the reset button between the flash and the camera with a needle.
[General Questions and Answers] btwinme:
My goophone is now stuck at the apple logo please help
[General Questions and Answers] :
ughh

The charging cable that came with my phone literally fell apart in my hands today.(Believe me, I was very cautious with it).

I went to our mall and found a cable that seemed to work. It let the phone connect to my pc and even changed the screen on the phone to the charging screen. However, it doesn't actually charge. I wasted 20% of my last charge not realizing that it wasn't actually charging.

Now, I have to wait for the replacement cable to show up in the mail.

Ughhh!
[General Questions and Answers] Chi Am:
Mine seems fragile too which was the reason why I purchased another, hopefully it will also work, even though my device Seller had promised to send a "good" replacement through the post. One day maybe the the manufacturer changes the schematics then our Goophone cables will no longer be available but I'll still have a few spares until I bin this device.
[General Questions and Answers] anexonel13:
Android-sale "scam" case update

Hey again, I contact Shine just a couple of minutes ago and he said that he will be receiving a new batch of white Goophone I5 and he will send me my 2 goophones in 24 hours hopefully, so I will contact him tomorrow for more details... Also just to let you know, android-sale isn't only Shine Wong but also a couple of other workers, so there might be some mixing up but they are working to improve it.

*Update*

He said and I quote "I'm sorry, we will dealing with their case now. We will return them back as soon as possible"
[General Questions and Answers] medicuk:
I also have had my cable fail after literally 2 days.

Shine Wong at android sale responded very quickly to my email saying he will send a replacement ASAP.

Sent from my Goophone I5
[General Questions and Answers] paasklaas:
If I wanted a phone that would work straight "out of the box" then I would go to the nearest tech-store and buy an Iphone or Samsung. But that's not what I want. I always think that you get a lot of good value for money when buying chinese hardware, the problem mostly lies within the software and that's where the community steps in. A lot of people helping eachother and learning yourself a few new things you didn't know before. THAT! is the actuall fun part of buying a chinese phone :). The only thing that really disturbed me was that the manufacturer delivers broken charging cables. That's something that HAS to work "out of the box".

BTW: the phone works great! Charging problem solved with a new cable (you have to be lucky when you buy one)
[General Questions and Answers] medicuk:
Here's a question, your new cable charges, but is the phone recognised by your computer for data etc?
[General Questions and Answers] miata_75:
So what are you tryning to say here? That... "ok guys, no big deal... the phone may not work but you can have fun trying to make it work..."

I don't know your priorities mate but as far as i am concerned i want to buy something that is functional out of the box and don't make me "google" for solutions, tips and hints for its generic manufacturing deficiencies as soon as i open its package!

I don;t care whether the item is manufactured in China or in Taiwan or everywhere.. i just want it to work. Now, if Goophone and its retailers have so much faith in their products' quality they should immediately replace the defective devices, develop reliable firmwares and show their customers the due respect!!
[General Questions and Answers] vnman:
Exactly right.

I do not want to go out and buy more cables and hope that one will work.

All the reviews said that it is "compatible" with Apple's cable but it is not. Not when you want to charge the phone. "Charging" might light up on the phone, when the phone got some juice, that make people think it is charging but it is more like "draining" than charging.

I am lucky in a sense that I did not cut my SIM from standard to Micro SIM, otherwise I have to buy an adapter just to use my "old" phone again.
[General Questions and Answers] skiyte:
I killed my pre-installed rom

I killed my pre-installed rom because of wrong SU-rooting too. Did u fixed it? How did u do it?

Please help me :p
[General Questions and Answers] mkwhater:
lol they made a new version the goophone i5s

http:/ / android-sale.com / goophone-i5s.ht ml
[General Questions and Answers] realadry:
probably a cheap copy. has a worse screen than the original.
[General Questions and Answers] Manuxo:
Goophone i5s

Hello,

The goophone i5s is a low cost version of goophone i5.

The main difference is the camera (5.0MP), display(Lower resolution) and internal storage(8GB Only).

There is already a thread that i've created here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2181542

Regards