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[Android General] Pokoto:
Hi all, I need a help 'cause I did a very stupid thing

I was looking for the GPS antenna ( just to know where damn is !!), and I removed (...broke) a protection film (at least I thought it was) that was probably the phone signal amplifier (in the picture u see the film before I've removed it)

Now I can't receive the gsm signal (my telephone isn't a telephone any more) and here in Italy seems that no one wants to repair it (even the chinese !!)

Is there a possibly to change it ? Where could I find this part ?

Thx all !!
[Android General] chenrp:
so every time you use the gps, you have to reset it first?
[Android General] bradstallion:
not exactly. It works sufficiently well for some day. It happened sometime that it stopped working and I had to remove the battery. Next time, I'll try to reset AGPS.

Btw, in tests I did in the last 2 days, after reset it's very fast.
[Android General] chenrp:
anyone knows how to improve the accuracy of the GPS?

i edited the gps.conf file and did everything but accuracy is bad.

maybe hardware mod?

and anyone knows where to fine a silicon case for it?

thanks
[Android General] bradstallion:
Nexus4 cases (with some "art attack") are good for B94M:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=41159967#post41159967
[Android General] lhhenrique:
Star B94m - power button stops work - FIXED

Hi friends!

It's solved.

I have opened the phone and taked out the shield, and taked out te tap of the power button.

The contact of the power button had oxidized, probably by some humidity.

I sanded the contact, clear the button and now it's liva again :)
[Android General] chenrp:
cool.

did you find the GPS antenna? i want to mod it and make it bigger so i get more accurate information.

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is it any good?
[Android General] kecsap:
See my earlier post:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42773429&postcount=778

So far my 3G connection is fixed, I never had this problem with excellent 3G (3G, H, H+) connection again, but no data flow.
[Android General] ashraf_yonis:
Thanks, BUT .....

Thanks my friend, but actually as far i know my mobile is not rooted, and i dont know any thing about what you said in your reply, i even dont know what root is :)

but thanks any way, sure others will use this reply.

Ashraf
[Android General] jcmatoso:
User manual
[Android General] kamarilla:
Thanks, it seems like you solved my problem with calls. I have to try it a bit more. I will post a new message in a couple of days.

Enviado desde mi ASK SP460 HD usando Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Android General] cata_simi69:
Star B94m

Bought a Star B94m and arrived a week ago at first had a hard time (SIM was not workin and gps) I have rooted the phone and Flashed TWRP and then Aplied fix for GPS (gps.conf) and bought a new SIM and now everything is working well, Thanks guys for your tips!

I am very happy with it cost me around 180-190 in total, it is a great phone overall.

A thing I am paying attention now is the battery life, it is good enough especially on heavy usage, BUT in sleep mode is slowly dropping I suppose is not deep sleeping. When you turn off the screen it should not drop not even 1% (applied tweaked build.prop from needrom and turned off mail sync)
[Android General] cata_simi69:
how did you took the shild is the guarantee voided by doing so

please tell me cause i have the same problem with volume+ button and cannot boot to recovery
[Android General] lhhenrique:
I have not looked for the antenna.

I found a electric scheme, maybe can help you.

I cant post links so you can search google for: TM4577 PCBA and other layout data

You will find a directory with some documents.

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Hi,

Look on the page 44 of this thread.

There is a topic: How to access the microphone

The user kecsap explains how to open.

I dont know about the guarantee.

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Hi friends!

When we press the power button, a list of option appears....shutdown, reboot, and other things.

Today i have tried de Reboot one, thinking that this just power off and power on the phone.

But, after shutdown, a list of options in chineses characters appears.

I tried to press the shutdown button but nothing happened.

Then i have moved up and down with the volume buttons.

Then some options appears, in english: Menu, Home, Volume, etc...

As i could not shutdown, I have decided to remove de battery.

When I put it back, the phone doesnt start, and show nothing when put to charge.

Maybe I have done some stupid thing.

Is it died?

Anyway to became live again?

Thanks
[Android General] cata_simi69:
I think you were in bootloader, you sholud try to flash everything again with sp flash tool
[Android General] lhhenrique:
Reboot error

Thanks for the translation.

But when I plug the phone on the computer by USB, nothing happens. Nothing appears on computer and nothing shows on the cell phone.

Is there any way to flash using sp flah tool considering this situation?
[Android General] lhhenrique:
HI friends!

Anyone have some idea? Anyway to recovery the phohe?

Thanks
[Android General] lhhenrique:
Re: Reboot fail - star94m - solved

Hi friends!

It's solved.

A week ago I have instaled the usb driver but no device appears on computer. I have tryed everyday to connect to the computer, waiting with faith to the phone works again.

Today, I have plugged the phone to the USB computer, the computer recognizes the phone and i could turn it on.

It's decided do live again : )

Thanks.

lhhenrique
[Android General] scottietohottie:
Hello, I have been trying to complete the steps below. All seems to be fine but I cannot get the Power +Vol up to work.

Is this something that is known? I have serched like mad on the forun thread to no avail. Ideas woul dbe great if possible.
[Android General] ian619420:
Would the star 9500 with powervr sgx544 be good for gaming?
[Android General] cata_simi69:
I have the same problem, don't know hw to solve it, i learned to live without it, you can reboot in recovery from an app though (uncle tools or anything)
[Android General] Kevinjs:
I had same problem, I fixed it when I installed lewa os it changed the bootup process to when you hold power and volume up it gives you an option for recovery or normal.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
so i should try to flash only the boot.img , i don't want to move to lewa (i like the stock android)
[Android General] cmoegele:
You need uboot not Boot.img

Gesendet von meinem JY-G3S mit Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Android General] bradstallion:
Network Location Service

Hi All,

I've noticed that sometime the network location service doesn't start when phone boots: I try maps and it doesn't work without GPS.

In this case, after a phone restart the service is up and running.

Did you noticed this as well?

Thanks
[Android General] radekfor:
Touch digitizer

Hi,

Does anyone know where I can buy a spare part.

I broke the touch digitizer. :(

Thanks
[Android General] kecsap:
Google is your friend:

https://www.google.hu/#output=search&sclient=psy-ab&q=b94m+digitizer&oq=b94m+digitizer
[Android General] cata_simi69:
touch

having the exact same problem, it seems it is so fragile.

I already ordered it and am waiting for shipping which seems to take years (2 weeks already and it didn't leave china)

http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Blac...nt-for-STAR-B94M-free-shipping/935939185.html

AND I INTEND TO CHANGE IT MYSELF SO CROSS YOUR FINGERS FOR ME
[Android General] cmoegele:
Its not thats difficult already changed 2 displays. Only Problem is get right Hardware, ...

Gesendet von meinem JY-G3S mit Tapatalk 4 Beta
[Android General] cata_simi69:
RE

Hopefully it will be the right hardware (talked to the seller twice)

Managed to replace uboot, thanks!

I flashed the last two roms from needrom (4.21 and 4.22) I was interested in 4.22 cause i knew that it's a little smoother and faster but didn't felt any difference only in lockscreen a bit faster and on the downside the gps could not be turned on, didn't like samsung interface and very ugly icons in toggle quick settings status bar (or whatever is called)
[Android General] silnt89:
How it can work!

I have the same problem. Had people tell me its almost impossible to understand me cause it was so muffled.

After talking on the phone trying different things i found out something that helped.

When taking off the back of the phone case cover (that covers the batter/sim cards/sd card) My voice came in crystal clear. If I closed the case and just didn't snap the very bottom of the back piece it still came in better. :cyclops: Once i closed it off on the bottom of the phone it was then muffled again. I guess they built the mic in backwards. I don't see why this should matter but it does. :confused: Try it and you will see that it does work. Just should not work like that. :(
[Android General] Kevinjs:
Here is Miui fully stable for our phone

https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=ZkY7IGQNLoJZCHylmdJJejfgWwBRhjYpuQ0VxPb74+k=&locale=ru
[Android General] bradstallion:
Android 4.3

hi all,

any news concerning android 4.3 for our B94m? :)

bye
[Android General] veradg:
Yes, i wonder the same thing
[Android General] domx93:
Hi, is there the italian language? Thanks :)

Another question: in my b943 the 3g quality is very poor, although I've fixed the modem.img with mauimeta. Is there another way to improve the connection data quality? Thanks!
[Android General] kecsap:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=42773429&postcount=778
[Android General] domx93:
thanks a lot, but I have android 4.2.1, do you know what is the right version of modem.img? Because on that russian forum there are a lot of modem.img...

and then, will it work in Italy?

Bye :)
[Android General] scottietohottie:
Any ideas? Would love it rooted ;)
[Android General] domx93:
Now I've tried several modem.img from that forum, but 3g quality is bad yet. :(
[Android General] kecsap:
oh, sorry. No idea. I am happy to have a working 3G with 4.1.2 now. It was very annoying earlier. If none of that versions work, I can only suggest to flash your phone back to 4.1.2.
[Android General] domx93:
Yeah, I maybe will do it. Thanks anyway :)
[Android General] erikkramer:
Hey, exactly the same for me. Tried all the little tweaks described in the thread, which didnt help. Not snapping the bottom works.

Now I'm trying to think of a way to be able to snap the bottom and still have good quality sound. Maybe drilling a hole somewhere at the bottom?
[Android General] kecsap:
I would say, the only real solution is to replace (resolder) the crappy microphone in the phone with a good one.
[Android General] scottietohottie:
I have noticed that the root instructions have changed. I'll test that today and feed back. Any idea when or why these changed?
[Android General] scottietohottie:
Anyone have any experience with this phone in UK on Orange?

I have a an O2 BlackBerry SIM which the cellular signal is solid, but no data (presuming because it's a blackberry SIM).my second SIM ids an Orange SIM which is now EE. This SIM when it works is fine. But it continual disconnects. I have a micro SIM in a converter. I'm gonna get a full size SIM and see if that sorts it. If not any ideas?
[Android General] radekfor:
Hi,

did You received digitizer yet?

Is it working?

Thanks
[Android General] Stuffed-up:
Preload driver issue with win 8 X64

Hello all

I have a issue with preload driver on windows 8 X64 has anyone found a working driver.

All the windows 7 X64 drivers I have are not signed and windows won't install them.

Hunted over the web but everything I find has the same issue.

Any help I would be grateful.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
Start windows in unsigned drivers mode, just Google it you should find a video tutorial on YouTube

Not yet.
[Android General] scottietohottie:
This fixed my 3G woes. So happy. :)
[Android General] AFO neptune:
Call quality.

I have MTK 6589 based phone

The call quality of my phone is bad, the other person on the phone whom i'm talking to sounds as if he's underwater,(i have hard time hearing people on calls, they can hear me clearly).

my earpiece isn't bad at all cause i tested my earpiece using app called ''earpiece'' and when i listen to music or sounds with the app it sounds crystal clear, Only with calls i suffer from bad call voice of other person.

Does anyone have fix to this problem? this is only thing which annoys me.

I'm on jelly bean 4.2.1

baseband :MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V6.P8,2013/04/22.
[Android General] Falcon_X:
Recovery

Someone have a working CWM Recovery for me?

The CWM 5504 is working, but I the control with Volume - / + is much to fast.

Someone tried the B94M Miui (uploaded some pages ago)?

Miui hangs on the bootscreen at my B94M...
[Android General] scottietohottie:
If I remember correctly there was some nuances with Miui. I think you need to do

Flash

Full reset in cwm

Flash

Then boot

It should be detailed on a Miui thread. I would suggest trying that first though. Miui it's a completely rewritten system so it needs evening fresh.

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I would check on a Miui thread though wouldn't want to make it worse.
[Android General] Falcon_X:
Full reset means: wipe - dalvik, cache, format system?

I think I've already done that, but will try again later at home
[Android General] scottietohottie:
Yeah pretty sure. Been a while but you had to do it after the flash, then flash again. The code may have changed though so check the Miui thread or forum.
[Android General] bradstallion:
Most recent ROM

Hi All,

I'd like to know what's the most recent rom available for B94M.

A friend of mine has just received his B94M with build 20130406, while needrom still has 20130327 (http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-b94mb943-2/).

The first post of this thread report lewaport-cmod08 that, if I remember correctly, doesn't work very well...

Am I missing something?

Thanks a lot!
[Android General] Falcon_X:
Lewaport looks nice, but it doesn't work very well, no signal for phone calls or internet!

I have made a list of every ROM I could fit, I will post it soon, probably today, just 4 more post to get rid of this idiotic 10 post rule!
[Android General] Falcon_X:
Here it is:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=44749614

If you want to use Lewaport, there's another lewaport from russian forum, download link in the post. Good luck!
[Android General] Stuffed-up:
OC Kernel

Hello All

I just want to know if any one has a OC Kernel for our device that works as I can't find anything on Google or wik.

I want to try a 1.4GHz or 1.5Ghz and see how things go as the max score on Aututu is 14541 at 1.2Ghz and are looking to hit 16000.

Any ideas ?????

Thanks all....
[Android General] bradstallion:
Thanks a lot!
[Android General] veradg:
Someone was able to run droid VNC server?
[Android General] ian619420:
Someone please test asphalt 8 on qhd mtk6589 quad core phone on high graphic settings and tell me if it lags
[Android General] ABE22:
It runs way too slow on high settings.
[Android General] brilliantdonkey:
Does BLE work with this phone? Has anyone tried any Bluetooth 4.0 Low Energy peripherals with this phone e.g. fitbit or sticknfind?
[Android General] kecsap:
Bluetooth connection experiences?

Hi,

I still have the stock 4.1.2 on my phone. (Especially, I just broke the LCD and the digitizer on the weekend, costly mistake... :eek: replacements on the way.)

What are your experiences with the stability of the Bluetooth headset connections (on other ROMs e.g 4.2)? I have Bluetooth headsets (Nokia BH-214 Chinese fakes from ebay :) ) in A2DP profile mode, they work fine.

But I have problem with an other Bluetooth headset bought to my car for phone calls, it usually keeps reconnecting to the B94M phone, it drops connection every ~10 seconds and reconnects immediately. The same headset works well with my old Android (Samsung Galaxy W) phone.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
My touch screendigitizer just arrived after 1 and a half month waiting, and I replaced it with the new one everything well except that i left some dust between LCD and touch screen, tought to open it back and remove the dust. In the process the new glue was so good that i cracked the lcd tryng to unstick it.

now i have a broken lcd with vertical lines all over the place, I'm very frustrated now , I have to replace the LCD too.

Indeed my mistakes cost me half the price of the phone.
[Android General] kecsap:
Well, first I thought the same. But if I consider that I would have a powerful brand phone ($350-$450) and I would crash the digitizer+LCD, the replacement parts would cost the same.

On the other hand, I think the biggest problem of this phone is the missing TPU cases. Most likely the LCD+digitizer could survive the last weekend if there is a TPU case covering my phone.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
yeah but the quality is waaay inferior in our phones, not to mention that my digitizer broked when it was in my poket in the f**kin bed. so 172$ + 40$ (customs taxes in my country) + 28$ digitizer + 50$ lcd display (broked by my fault, i must admit) = 290$

If you have a friend in USA, like I happen to have, go for nexus 4 (200$ atm).
[Android General] kecsap:
I agree with you, but I would never buy this phone from China if I should pay customs tax. (The devices slipped through customs from China without tax in my country so far.) This phone is not worth $210, in my opinion, then it is better to buy a used dual core Samsung phone for much less with normal tear and wear.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
I used a brand new galaxy s2 for several days, and trust me is inferior in about every aspect except the camera. with nexus 4 the story changes.

anyway I am from Romania, and here, even a good looking fully functional S2 at the time was more expensive than 200$ (about 250-300)

yeah I heard some lucky bastards slipped through customs taxes here too but that was not my case, I run into a conscious custom house officer.
[Android General] kecsap:
What are those things which are inferior?

For me, B94M, listing only cons:

- Camera is satisfactory for me, but quite crappy compared to a good brand phone.

- Battery drain issues with LED notification ****.

- Some batteries have very inconsistent drain history (e.g sudden dropping 30 % from 50 to 20)

- Touch screen has sometimes ghost touches on charger -> the phone is not usable on charger

- Bluetooth connections seem to me less compatible/stable than a brand phone (I also experience this with my Chinese Hyundai T7s tablet.)

- GPS is not superior, but ok.

Otherwise it is a great phone, but I can live with the above keeping in mind the $172 price tag.

Experiencing ZTE phones, they are also not so good in quality. I don't know much about HTC/LG/Sony-Ericsson, but Samsung is an "established" brand for Android phones in my eyes. It does not mean that Samsung phones are perfect, but their build/software quality are quite ok, without checking price tags.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
-camera is crappy indeed

-I have led notification disabled

-I experienced that too and I read that is an android problem, anyway is not a drop, it lasts the same, it just discharges slowly first 50-60% and then drops dead - I had that for several weeks and learned to live with it, since than it discharges constantly but much quicker so it is the same thing, just very disorienting

- not having this problem

- not using BT

- GPS is connecting very slow sometimes is frustratingly slow when you wait for it to figure out your way.

I had a ZTE Blade for about a year, at the time it was a great phone - with no problem whatsoever, and very very good support from community. it had even adroid 4.2.2 ported, offcourse, at that point the device showed it's age, in fact that is why I bought my b94m somehow I hoped to be the new ZTE Blade :).
[Android General] kecsap:
Unfortunately, this does not solve the problem. In some conditions, I get still high battery drain after receiving notifications about calls/SMS until the phone is rebooted.

My original battery discharges wrongly, but I bought a spare battery from mobile-phones.cn in August and it discharges without huge drops in the capacity history.

I would say B94M is not a ZTE Blade. While ZTE Blade was a low-cost/low-spec phone of its time, B94M is a low-cost/high-spec phone of these days, sacrificing the quality.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
I received 2 batteries in package both with the exact same behaviour, after a time the discharge became constant,

I intend to buy the LCD Display from mobile-phones.cn. how was their service including quality, packaging, Shipping TIME (important) and in which part of the world are you living.
[Android General] kecsap:
I bought the digitizer from AliExpress.com, it was shipped pretty quickly with tracking number, I wait for delivery.

When I bought the battery from mobile-phones.cn, it was shipped after payment in 2-3 days with tracking number, shipping time was reasonable.

But now, I bought the LCD from mobile-phones.cn, the order is still pending 5 days after the payment. I bought it only from here because it was $50 compared to $55 at other places. Maybe, I have to cancel the order after a bit more time and order from somewhere else.
[Android General] cata_simi69:
good to know, what means resonable time,

in my country (the digitizer) arrived in 1 week before sending + 4 weeks with HK post from aliexpress, the phone came (from pandawill with HK post) in two weeks it was surprisingly fast.

my location is Romania, west europe.
[Android General] kecsap:
I live in Finland (North-Europe), but I am from Hungary.

I think the first rule of ordering from China: if you can, never select China Post/Hong Kong Post as a shipping method, but Singapore Post. My experience is the same as others:

- China Post/Hong Kong Post: 3-5 weeks of delivery. China Post is a bit worse out of these two.

- Singaport Post: 2-3 weeks.

Tracking number does not effect the delivery times.
[Android General] silnt89:
Well

I am sure that could work. What i did was place two little adhesive rubber pieces on the bottom two snaps that cause it to seal. Seemed to do the trick. I ended up returning this phone, was stuck on 2g service where I live and I am pretty sure it goes for all people in the U.S.A. Unless there's some jail breaking method to make it work.. idk, I wish I did. Was very disappointed with this phone. I was very excited upon receiving it. What a let down I'll tell ya! :crying::crying::crying::mad::mad::mad::mad:
[Android General] Henkl:
I have made some changes with the app mctweaker to tweak my phone..like tcp settings, oom, vm heapsize and others.. hereby changing init.d, build.prop and resolve.conf. Now I rebooted the phone, but hangs in a bootloop. To solve this I want to adb push the default files. I believe that rom toolbox (which I also use) made some backup somewhere.

So ...who has the default files for our mtk device? And how exactly do I push the files? Thanks in advance for your answer!

I don't want to flash a new rom at this point..