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[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
My Wifi works ok, I only had problems with the GPS signal strength. ;)

I guess you can peel off the white layer from the wifi antenna (not damaging it!), and attach a copper plate to it (using scotch tape) and see if that improoves anything. You don't have to take apart the phone for that, as the Wifi antenna is attached properly on the inside :good:

PS. From what I remember the Wifi antenna is together on the same strip with bluetooth, but they are probably seperate, so you have to lookout how you connect the plate.
[General Questions and Answers] tmk2404:
My also works fine but signal is weak. Only in room with access point connection speed is high, but when I go to another room signal dramatically decrease and connection speed also. Does aluminium plate is good enough or should be copper? Do you have any idea of size or shape of that? I tried to attach "L" shape antenna just like this but it didn't work..
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Like I've said my WiFi works fine in every room in the house, and I don't have problems in hotspots, so I didn't try doing anything with the WiFI antenna. You can experiment with it, you shouldn't break anything :good:

Phones from China have the one advantage that they are cheap and easy to take apart. With some basic electronics skils and a multimeter you can tweak certain stuff :p
[General Questions and Answers] slimm2:
Same happens to me... :rolleyes:
[General Questions and Answers] atomebr:
Copper plate

You can also add a copper plate to have a stronger signal. You can use the examples from htcmania, just make sure the plate doesn't touch the GND PIN :D

Can you provide precise dimension for this copper plate ??

Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] pakistanish:
My Wi-Fi does the same. It gets strong signals near AP but the signals drop steeply as I move away from the AP, on the contrary I am using Galaxy Star, which has very good signals as compared to iocean x7 youth

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[General Questions and Answers] pakistanish:
Download this latest Android 4.2.2 for iocean x7 youth

http://www.needrom.com/mobile/iocean-x7-youth-2/

This is the screenshot of its performance.

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[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
IDK just take a copper plate and start cutting :laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] pakistanish:
Can anyone having x7 youth tell me what's the Max CPU clock frequency of this device having stock ROM

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[General Questions and Answers] rahulsinha:
Is the phone reliable? I mean when it comes to service & all, do they have any service centres ?
[General Questions and Answers] pakistanish:
The phone is really very good having no major problems. It's sleek and stylish with awesome display and cheap price. There are just minor issues which can be dealt with.

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[General Questions and Answers] popo72:
Hi LukCPL, your post is very interesting!!!...Did you also try actual navigation or just the GPS fix? Based on my experience with iOCEAN X7 even if the fix is quite fast, the navigation is useless since not accurate....Also, do you think it is the same if instead to cut the part in contact with Ground I use small piece of isolating tape?....THX!
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Yes navigation works fine. I got a fix in a moving car in about 45 sec :)

Sure you can use isolating tape :good:

As for accuracy, (if you have root access) go to build.prop and check if you have ther line:

dalvik.vm.execution-mode

If yes it should be set to: int:fast

If not add the whole line: dalvik.vm.execution-mode=int:fast

Reboot and GPS should be accurate and work nice with endomondo :p
[General Questions and Answers] popo72:
Really Really thanks mate! I will try your suggestions and post results!...By the way are you using stock antenna only or some add-on to it?
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Yeah, I've added a copper plate on top of the original antenna :good:
[General Questions and Answers] Limbo045:
Can I add that line on the bottom of the build.prop or has it to be in a special place?
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
It doen't really matter where you put it, build.prop is loaded start to finish @ boot :good:
[General Questions and Answers] Limbo045:
Ok thanks
[General Questions and Answers] popo72:
Yesterday I was so happy because after implementing the ground pin modification I was able, for the first time, to get fast gps fix and reasonable signal strength.... but this morning back to bad situation!!!!... Very slow fix and very low gps strength!!!... What's going on?... Is exorcism needed for this phone???.... Really no clue on what is happening..... :confused:

.. Hi LukCPL, is the additional plate antenna you have the one showed few posts before?... Is it also connected on the same pin along with the original one?? Thxx
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
Yes, I connected the original antanna along with the extra plate to the same PIN. I have no idea why you have problems, maybe the contact between the PIN and the antenna is not good (the end of the antenna has to have a good stable connection with the SIGNAL PIN). Try putting something underneeth the end of the antenna (like a small piece of folded paper) to get a better conection. :good:
[General Questions and Answers] hg58x:
Hello the Thread about the Copper Plate modification from atomebr can found on htcmania-dot-com.

It is the Thradnumber 612133. It is in spanish maybe someone understand spanish. I can only show to the pictures.

Sorry but I can`t ad the direct Link because I haven`t enough posts here in the Forum. But normally I`m not so active here because my english isn`t the best.
[General Questions and Answers] popo72:
Thank you both...I will investigate better and add the plate....keep you posted!....
[General Questions and Answers] Gralgrathor:
I have the Iocean X7 Elite version. After unpacking I had no GPS reception. Not even a single ping.

Just a general piece of advice for those considering modding their hardware: if and when I open up a piece of electronics, I fully expect to be able to throw it away. Don't open up something you don't have the money to replace. Lots of people on the internet manage to make this look easy, and perhaps will even tell you it *is* easy - but common sense will tell you it's much easier to break something than to fix it. I may be an especially clumsy example, but I've about $1500 worth of broken mobile devices - tablets and phones - sitting in a drawer, all of it beyond hope of repair - after I tried repairing or modding it.

I tried the software mods first, following all the HowTos I could find, but wasn't ever able to get a squeek out of even a single sattelite. Clumsy as I am, I then sat brooding for a while, before gathering a bottle of wine, a screwdriver and my courage. First, I entirely removed the original antenna. Then I took a copper plate from an old tablet that had become the victim of my previous attempt to DIY an electronic device, and cut it into a shape similar to this:

Here the example I followed:

The signal I got with that exact form was poor to non-existent, so I tried some variations.

Here's what I ended up with after three attempts:

I didn't bother with a plastic base, glue or aluminum foil, and I will not even consider holding a soldering pen anywhere close to an electronic device: I just folded the connecting strips around the cover so that they touched the pins on the board, pressed and screwed the cover back on, closed up and rebooted.

I can now get a reasonable fix on about seven sats on average. Signal's not in the green, and when I have anything over my head but clear sky the fix drops to one sat or goes away entirely, but the results are reasonable in that anything is better than nothing.

Unfortunately I haven't yet found an app that produces usable screenshots on the Iocean X7, so you'll just have to take my word for it.

I hesitate to open up the machine again, because every time I fiddle with electronics the chances are about 50% that I'll never get it to turn on again, but if anybody has a design that can improve the reception even further, I am open to suggestions.

Also: what screen capture app works on the X7?

Thanks & greetings,

G.
[General Questions and Answers] macrossvf:
Is this rom rooted by default?. im having lots of problem wif my Iocean x7 plus...( battery problem, H wont switch to 2g when H has no bar, when H have max bar but no data sent and recieved... and reception problem)
[General Questions and Answers] cherryghost:
Anyone got speed issues over Edge or HSDPA? Mine's very slow all round...

Also, hi by the way.
[General Questions and Answers] Gralgrathor:
The Wifi antenna is almost as bad as the GPS antenna, so I would not be surprised if reception is poor on the rest as well. It's a good thing I bought this machine purely for the pretty design and the nice screen.
[General Questions and Answers] cherryghost:
The signal itself is quite good actually, better than my Xperia S. Just download speeds are pretty terrible.
[General Questions and Answers] najjaci.sam:
My iocean x7 plus i got yesterday has pretty good wifi reception and excellent speeds, i've managed to get speeds up to 1600/273 KB/s dl/ul on HSDPA+ in Zagreb (Croatia)
[General Questions and Answers] macrossvf:
can anyone help me. now after I flash my room back to stock, my phone storage size decreased. use to be 11gb now it shows 1.5gb at file manager. BTW I'm using x7 plus
[General Questions and Answers] Limbo045:
format your storage under Settings>Storage
[General Questions and Answers] Aevum:
also needrom.com has the official roms.
[General Questions and Answers] eltdesign:
My used iocean x7 elite have some strange problem that happened randomly...when i type (fast typing) on browsing search..etc the system start to slowdown sometimes and freezed and reset the device after 5-10 seconds! this happening very randomly and very often! i also tryed stock keyboard(stock rom) and now using another keyboard application(swiftkey app) with same result...also this happening when do fast scrolling on the web surf...now im using samsung rom from jlrom.cn 4.2.2... Any1 faced this problem here ? stock browser app also very laggy and this system lockup happened very often when using it...
[General Questions and Answers] tallnutt:
3G problem

Hi,

I have a X7 youth turbo. Its a great phone, but just don't ever seem to get 3G. Been using it in UK and Australia, where both have been on a 2100 MHz network, I've tried changing settings to auto GSM/WCMA and WCMA only, but only ever get H+ symbol at best. Also using it in major cities so its not a coverage problem. 3G is definitely enabled in settings.

Are both the SIM slots 3G capable? Can't seem to find that information. On my old Starnote I, only one slot was for 3G.

Thanks,

Theo
[General Questions and Answers] eltdesign:
usually iocean x7's have no 3G problem...if u can get H+ its best connection u can get! no problem! both sim slots 3G wcdma enabled...also try to disable unused 3g freqs in band mode section of engineer menu.
[General Questions and Answers] LukCPL:
I use the same ROM (- all the garbage China apps) with no problems :good:

@ tallnutt

I have Plus version and no problems with 3G.
[General Questions and Answers] tallnutt:
3G working now but definitely connects less thany previous mt6575 phone but that probably means its better because the 3G is too weak where I live.
[General Questions and Answers] jonas_lobo:
Sound problem

Please, someone help me... My device [Iocean x7 turbo] has no sound at all without the earphones...

It was suddently... I already installed 2 diferent roms and no result...
[General Questions and Answers] tallnutt:
Try downloading Mobileuncle tools.

goto engineer mode > android mtk > hardware testing > audio

I set all the levels to 112 to 160.

Might be worth a try.
[General Questions and Answers] brucejje:
Boot problem

Hey all,

Since last night out of the blue i have the following problem:

Once i put a battery in my phone it keeps booting, and at the boot screen with the blue stuff it shutsdown and reboots.

It keeps doing this for infinity :S!

I can only boot in the chinese boot menu, but my power button does not work so i cannot select anything.

I tried 3 different batteries but all didn't solve my problem.

Regards,

Bruce
[General Questions and Answers] Limbo045:
In the chinese recovery volume up acts like enter and volume down to select, power button does not work
[General Questions and Answers] brucejje:
Yeah, point being... that doesn't work as well.
[General Questions and Answers] Limbo045:
Then try to flash a new rom with flashtool you will lose your data but your phone will be useable again
[General Questions and Answers] brucejje:
Yeah my friend, I also tried that! I got a full rom, but it had the same symtpons.

I did use the "download" function.

regards,

Bruce
[General Questions and Answers] Limbo045:
Then I am sorry but I don't know what to do next sorry
[General Questions and Answers] brucejje:
It's all right! Thank you for the help though! I will wait and see if someone else knows what to do. :)

regards,

bruce
[General Questions and Answers] apad:
Hi Bruce. I think your phone is bricked. The best is to send back to factory for warranty.
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
why not trying to contact the company iocean.There is English webpage. You can click English at the top of their site. They left contact emails on their website and you may get a better price and can have your phones be delivered in time. No need to wait for so many days, even weeks.

---------- Post added at 08:37 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:13 AM ----------

iocean X7 Elite by default has black body. you can ask the seller to send you a black one if you like black ones. You can see the color options on the company iocean's website.
[General Questions and Answers] macrossvf:
my iocean x7 plus 3g is crazy since day 1. sometimes the 3g signal will jus die suddenly and the phone have no data recieving or sending. it will only be alright after i reseat the battery/ simcard.

Anyone got a idea how to solve this?
[General Questions and Answers] Darkspy7:
I have also an Iocean X7 Plus and since the 1st week that I got it I have this problem.

And as you said, the only way to recover of the loss of the 3G is to reseat the battery.

So I already did a factory reset, installed new roms (android, lewa) and that didn't solve the problem.

But by reading some comments of this video (w.ww.youtube.com/watch?v=LiJMVsXnxRo) I'm trying now some baseband... but without sucess and all the tests are slow as the "death" of the 3g (H/H+) seems to be random.

And I don't even know if what I doing could solve this problem (or even worse if it's a hardware problem)

***Didn't worked for me***

The one that i received with the phone :

moly.wr8.w1248.md.wg.mp.v7.f2 2013/07/05 00:17

Didn't worked neither :

MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V7.F2.P1, 2013/07/10 23:14

Also tried the two which are in this post :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45828566&postcount=195

And since this afternoon I'm testing MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V7.P12013/04/10 00:41 that I got from a friend who have an X7 youth (mt6589) and that surprisingly works with my X7 plus (mt6589T).

Anyone got a idea how to solve this?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] tmk2404:
If this baseband works, what do you want to solve?

I'm using 2013/07/06 11.44 baseband and occasionally don't have internet connection also as it should be because H is visible in th status bar. In my case it stars working by itself in 1 minute. 2013/07/10 looks has the same issue. I haven't found any that would 100% work so far.
[General Questions and Answers] Darkspy7:
Thanks for the reply.

In my case, the phone works well but suddenly don't have anymore the connection but i have also the H visible in the status bar.

To recover the connectivity, I have to switch off the phone remove the battery and place it back then turn on the mobile phone and then the 3g connection works.

If I don't do that then the phone doesn't have any connectivity (except in E - edge) and the battery is losing charge very quickly.

A shutdown/reboot doesn't solve the problem.

That's what i'm trying to solve ( at the moment by changing the basedband but I don't know if I'm on the right way).

So I'm testing various baseband but as this problem occurs after a certain amount of time i can't tell yet if I have a correct baseband.
[General Questions and Answers] tmk2404:
Ok, but you've said that MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V7.P12013/04/10 00:41 baseband works. I have same issues but my connection returns in a minute. It's temporaty and most of the time I have this after the screen is off or after not using the connection for a while. Happily mine is working up to a minute. I'm sure it's baseband related somehow..
[General Questions and Answers] Darkspy7:
I was meaning that MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V7.P12013/04/10 00:41 baseband works because my sim cards are detected + I have 3G connection.

For now 3g is still working :fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
iocean X7 GPS antenna

Hello, everybody,

considering the poor GPS signal issue for the first batch of iocean X7 phones, iocean has improved GPS antenna to a new version. The signal is better. And we have a preliminary plan to send a certain quantity of the newest version of GPS antenna for free of charge to someone in main countries in Europe. This friend then can help us distribute the GPS antenna to whoever need it. If the needed person happens to be in nearby or the same country as this friend, the distribution will be more convenient.

The quantity may be 50~100pcs, more or less. We have not decided yet. We just want to help iocean overseas users. I see many friends at this forum concerns about GPS antenna thing.

Also we have the GPS replacement manual. As I see in other forums, it seems some other friends already got it from us and share it with others. If anyone is interested in helping us, please let me know!

I am Nancy. email: yufang.yu at iocean.cc (sorry, I am the new comer and is not allowed to leave a email address here, so I use words)

Thank you all in advance!
[General Questions and Answers] tonykenvicwins:
Here

Translate from Vietnamese to English: http://www.tinhte.vn/threads/iocean-x7-full-hd-thay-doi-cuc-dien-cua-smartphone-tam-trung.2101272/
[General Questions and Answers] chenrp:
what do you mean that the signal is better? how much SNR do you have with the new antenna?

is WAZE/GOOGLE MAPS works?

what is the difference between the original antenna and the new one? looks the same.
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
I am not sure why you said "looks the same'. Did you have the latest GPS antenna? New version and previous version look different in physical appearance. The new version has larger surface to receive signal. WAZE/GOOGLE maps works. You can download a GPS test software to test the signal and will see how many pieces of satellites it receives.

Besides, we already sent 11pcs to Indonesia via swiss post and gave tracking number to the contact. When it arrive, we'll share the contact information to Indonesia friends who inquired and need them.

For other countries, such as Italy, Germany and France, we received emails and feedback these days. We'll wait till 11/30 to gather the needed information and then deliver GPS antenna out.

I've noticed the thanks information and messages sent to me at this forum. Thank you all very much for your trust and support! And hope this plan help you!
[General Questions and Answers] pakistanish:
What about Pakistan? Can you send one to Pakistan too?

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[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
Hi, swiss post can reach Pakistan. Could you please do us a favor to spread this news in a local forum in Pakistan and let them write to us. Then we'll see if we'll send some to Pakistan.

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] JuanKaMas:
Thx for iOcean, in HTCMania we have compiled the information of people who had a iOcean and send the information this Sunday, some 110 antennas, awaiting shipment to distribute throughout Spain.
[General Questions and Answers] gusthy:
Hi!

I've obtained a device like this, but I cannot identify what version it could be. The phone has 2GB of RAM, so it seems to be an Elite, but has only 4 GB of ROM.

Can anyone tell me, what it is?
[General Questions and Answers] natkingcole:
under the battery is a sticker where the version should be written on.

thank you nancy! trouper already mobilised some customers in german forums.
[General Questions and Answers] gusthy:
It says iocean x7 wcdma :)
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
thank you for your kind patience! We'll share the contact information after antennas are sent out.
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
Hello, can you please remove the battery, and take a photo of the sticker with SN on it? Then we can tell which model it is. You can refer to this photo. Its ROM is 4G and CPU MTK6589T, so it is X7 Turbo.

If ROM for your phone is 2G, your ROM should be 32G. Can you tell more details how you identify its RAM as 2G while its ROM is only 4G?
[General Questions and Answers] gusthy:
See attached.

I tried several diagnostic apps, all says the same. The easiest thing is to see Applications->Running in Settings, it now says 723 MB used, 1.2 GB free. Sometimes used goes up to 1.5GB when running games. Antutu device info and other things report the same.

Also, in command line, the underlying Linux says Mem: 2016128, 0 swap, so it is not cheated.

For the ROM, it says it has 1.48 GB internal storage, which seems to suggest it is a 4GB model (I guess, the rest is /data 1GB , /system 639MB and other things).

(Also, CPU is the 1.5GHz version (triplechecked, anyways, AnTuTu is >15000).

Anyways, I installed Gamma ROM with Elite kernel and runs happily.
[General Questions and Answers] JuanKaMas:
if your rom is only 4GB make factory reset, some times work and reset to 16GB or 32GB (Plus / Elite)
[General Questions and Answers] Sambaaa:
Launch Android Terminal and type

df | grep storage

Or simply "df". This will tell you partitions size, available free space and so on.

If it really shows an internal sdcard size compatible with a 4GB ROM phone (around 1-1.5GB when you choose 1.5GB /data partition), then try to flash back Iocean Elite's stock rom through flashtool (don't flash preloader to be sure).
[General Questions and Answers] gusthy:
Wow, it is 32 GB now, yiiip :) Thank you!!!!
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
Thank you!I also learned from this!:good:
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
iocean X7 new GPS distribution

Hello, everybody,

New GPS antennas were all sent out by yesterday. Among which:

11pcs to Indonesia

20pcs to Germany

30pcs to France

30pcs to Italy

The quantity we sent out is about 10~20pcs more than the needed quantity come from email inquiries up to 11/30. Anyone who needs the new GPS antenna, please send inquiries to us and we'll share the consignee contact information with you.
[General Questions and Answers] hg58x:
Wer aus Deutschland eine Antenne benötigt kann mir eine PN senden ich melde mich dann.

Gesendet von meinem iOCEAN X7 mit Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] yyfnancy:
Hello, I used google to translate above Germany languages and I guess you mean you are from Germany and need 1pc GPS antenna?

If yes, could you please send email to yufang.yu@iocean.cc so we can share the consignee contact information to you? You can get GPS antenna from him.

Besides, we got more inquiries from Germany asking for GPS antenna, another 30pcs will be sent there. Then total 50pcs will arrive Germany.

We had agreement with the consignees who agreed to help with the distribution, that we can share their contact with people who send mail for inquiry, to protect their privacy. Hope you can understand this.