yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android General] dd_master:
The link to needrom says that the problem with 3g solved only for the provider Unicom.

You solve the problem with 3g it helped this article? You provider Unicom?

I have another provider.
[Android General] JBrandtner:
Recovery twrp 2.4.4 installed and working.

I will make Backup later today and find a place to share. I don't know how to use spflashtools to do readback.

To root, what do I have to do?
[Android General] JBrandtner:
Attached some Pictures... somehow this phone is purchased as a B94m, but does not seem to be one...

Anyway, SU is installed, but does not work. ES file explorer doesn't get root rights...:confused:
[Android General] Stuffed-up:
Hi I would remove or edit photo 5 as it shows your imei number in that picture just to be safe. :)
[Android General] okupka:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=40207121&postcount=90

try this zip, its working for me on 4.2.1
[Android General] Stuffed-up:
Hello all

Could someone with the MIV Z1 with 4.2.1 please do a full read-back and please share it with us all.:fingers-crossed:

I'm living in New Zealand and the 3g coverage on this phone seems to be very poor as it cuts in & out all the time.

Has anyone else had this problem and is there any fix at this point of time.

I haven't had this problem with any other android phone with the two carriers i use Telecom & 2degrees here in NZ.

Be grateful for any help.

Thanks
[Android General] cmoegele:
Ask seems to be a Mobile Provider and it seems, that they develop their own customized Rom.

The performance values are ok and the information from antutu are read from the build.prop and some other informations of the Rom.

So I don´t give much to the names in Roms.

Important is stability, smoothness, battery time, sound, 3g, wlan, bluetooth,.. ;)
[Android General] cmoegele:
did you try the 3g fix from needrom, for me it has improved many details. ( 02 and Telekom , germany )
[Android General] JBrandtner:
Finally did it!

- SuperSU 1.25 (Link) instaled via TWRP > DONE!

:laugh:
[Android General] burn2k:
Hi cmoegele, I tried to connect my B943 with Maui Meta2_3G v6.1216.0 but I get just "[ 4] Eboot failed, please press [Reconnect] button to connect with target".

Which driver did you use? I tried the ones in the package and the ones from this thread.
[Android General] cmoegele:
you need to install special "Maui" driver, they are in the package ( 2. Reconnect, and then the phone off, remove the battery for 5 seconds and then loaded back Do not switch connected to a computer, connected for the first time need to install the driver, open the Device Manager, you can see an unrecognized hardware, the name of the CDC of Seria mouse Right-click on it and choose Update Driver )

After this it could be necessary to repeat step 1
[Android General] burn2k:
Super :)

Repeat step 1 did all the magic!

Danke
[Android General] titooo7:
+100

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[Android General] veradg:
Now are selling it with 4.2.1, apparently --> http://www.aliexpress.com/item/SG-P...al-Core-1-0GHz-Android-4-1-4GB/726302403.html

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We need a readback backup for upgrade :D
[Android General] Stuffed-up:
Yes tried the fix and it's a little better than it was before hand.

Keen to see if 4.2.1 version of android would work any better on our phone.

also keen to see if 3g signal is better as well and what other little issues it may fix.

Has anyone got Google play-store on the phone and if so dose it work correctly ?

I've also sent a few e-mails today asking if our phone to be put on the list for Ubuntu phone software support at some stage as i feel we need to keep all options open for our device. :fingers-crossed:
[Android General] juzdownit:
I have the Star N9589

I can't understand how to the root the darm thang so i'm not even going to attempt until an DUMMYs guide comes out

BUT i am using the camera and i have tried to look every where on this darn phone and for life of me cannot turn off the dam AUTO ZOOM thingy and because of that it keeps beeping every time it auto zooms in and out

Has anyone else managed to turn this darn autozoom off

OR can anyone RECOMMEND me a FREE video camera app from PLAY as i like record EVERY ROAD TRIP ... for insurance and safety purposes.

cheers and if someone does produce a DUMMY's guide to rooting this Star N9589 walkabout communication contraption please reply here but also email me as due to my age it hurts my eyes staring at screens after a while
[Android General] cmoegele:
perhaps put your darm thang, throw it out the window and buy an iphone or samsung. Perhaps there you get tons of dummys guide.

Otherwise stop flaming arround and search the right forum and topic for your device,...
[Android General] juzdownit:
i always do a search first but there was no relevant topic apart from this and why would i want to buy one those horse manure phones ... tis like ya shackled to that brand
[Android General] cmoegele:
If your really interrested, read carefully the hints from following link

and look at the guide from BM.

otherwise google for tuts how to use spft. Any howto for MT65xx is similar to our device.

Once your done your welcome to make better tutorial.
[Android General] Neodragon12:
Hi guys,

so my B943 has arrived yesterday, and i have 2 big problems:

- Impossible to use SP Flash tool to install the CWR. Each time i plug in the battery after download, i have an error message saying "BROM ERROR: S_UNSUPPORTED_VER_OF_DA (1022)

DA binary file countains an unsupported version in its header ! i'm using Windows7 64bits

I've already rooted several devices and it's the first time i met such error :/

- The MAC address changes each time i restart the wifi connection. So impossible to use the MAC adress filtering system. It's really annoying....
[Android General] flat__line:
Underclock ...

after rooting, is it possible to underclock the phone? Would this reduce battery draining?

Also, what is the procedure to unroot the phone should it be serviced?

Thanks;
[Android General] okupka:
- Which version do you use? SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1304.0.119 is mine.

- i cant post link about wifi fix, so i PM it to you and to moderator
[Android General] cmoegele:
Try cpu regulator, this seems to be good tool. Without any tuning my battery powers for 2 day.

For me personally its more important to reduce autostart programs (e.g with systemtuner ),

this always helps a lot and improve startup time.

If you want unroot, you can either flash complete readback image or make factory reset and flash only recovery.img and boot.img back to the phone.
[Android General] Neodragon12:
Hi, i'm using SP flash tool v3.1252.1 (from the first page of the topic). I have the same problem on work desktop on WinXP pro... :'(

Thanks a lot for your message. I must be root to install it ? Because root ... i can't for the moment

And i have a strange behaviour (which is a good stuff in fact). My 16Go external SDCARD is the main sdcard on the phone, and internal sdcard is became the external one.. how's possible ??

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@okupka:

Root done with your SP Flash tool version ^^

And The Wifi fix works great. You ROCK buddy, THANK YOU ;)
[Android General] flat__line:
And this would also get rid of the CWM?
[Android General] titooo7:
Just in case someone is interested in a new modem file:

MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V7, 2013/03/28

https://www.dropbox.com/s/khx60t8c8tsuar2/modem.zip

I extracted it from a Zopo ZP800H 4.2 rom.

The modem files is one month newer than the one that was on my Star B943.

If you want to test it, just make a backup of your old modem.img (system/etc/firmware) and paste this one in it's place. It might solve the problems some networks issues that apparently some users had...
[Android General] burn2k:
Hi Neodragon,

I had the same error and used this SP Flash Tool from xxxx://xxx.4shared.com/zip/kf__h7u-/...ileshop_q.html

:)

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I'm using your image right now and it works for me. I had the 3g/H+ changing problems and even the 3g-fix with the MAUI-Tool from needroms didn't work.

Now I hope, your modem.img will work better. Thank you for sharing it.

PS.: 2g toogle is working great on our B943 ( http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=739530 ) to save battery
[Android General] JBrandtner:
B94M / B943 MTK 6589 Quadcore -

Root for 4.2.1

- the way it worked for me

Tutorial (nearly the same as on page 1):

The tools used here only are valid for Star B94M/B943 MTK6589 mobiles with Android 4.2.1 !!!

1. activate Debug mode in developer options

2. install driver

3. copy SuperSU-v1.25.zip from 3. to external SD-Card

4. turn of mobile and remove battery

5. use SPFTools to load scatterfile and flash recovery from 2. (CWM or TWRP) (press download and insert battery again)

6. after green OK unplug data cable

7. when powering on your mobile press power and Vol+, as soon as the little green man appperars release power, keep pressing Vol+

8. When in recovery first do a complete backup, afterwards install SuperSU....zip from SD-Card

and here are the NEEDED FILES for ROOT

and here is a TWRP (2.4.4) BACKUP of a clean system (factory reset) - please advise, if it still contains personal data, thanks! - 3G working, GPS working, but delocated

Fix for GPS (that worked for me, double checked with HTC ONE X+)

- Root device

- delete /data/misc/mtkgps.dat

- set time to network time and check time zone (must fit!).

- activate and download AGPS

- activate and download EPO

- switch to YGPS and search for satellites OUTDOOR (takes up to 5 mins)

With this method a new mtkgps.dat is created, GPS works now (at least for me)

I'm not responsible for any problems caused!
[Android General] Neodragon12:
Is it possible to make a readback backup from SP Flash tool of ur 4.2.1 and upload it ? So that we can install it ? ;) thanx :laugh:
[Android General] burn2k:
Neodragon12 was faster :)
[Android General] titooo7:
+1000
[Android General] JBrandtner:
unfortunately it's my girlfriends phone and she is out today... As soon as I can get it into my fingers I will try to make one...
[Android General] cmoegele:
Thank you for sharing this, is it possible to get better audio and bluetooth sound?

All Equalizer apps I tried crash,...?
[Android General] titooo7:
No idea mate, but I don't think the audio sound on those devices can be improved too much by the way...
[Android General] bendertk:
hello I'm newbie also in matters of modifications ... I wonder what the procedure to install modem.img on mobile?
[Android General] cmoegele:
Thx THL W8 is more worse so I think for Headset and Bluetooth there should be some room for improvement ;)

At the moment I have not enough time to investigate this in detail, but if you compare all MT6589 devices starting with Zopo, they have a lot similar bugs, as conclusion the SDK must be still beta for this ,...
[Android General] titooo7:
Yeah. And even a lot of files have the same size.

I know it's really easy to port roms from devices like ZTE V987 in example :)

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[Android General] cmoegele:
The main question will be, which chinese brand has the best software engineers.
[Android General] titooo7:
Common sense would say ZTE and Lenovo...

By the way, I sometimes got the feelings that the system is developed by mediatek directly... Except the launcher, icons and some bloatware there are lot things in common between roms of different devices.

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[Android General] okupka:
Hello

i tried it. It seems to working till you call. Then it scrape noisily. So i revert to original.
[Android General] cmoegele:
Perhaps try modem.img from Star S5 or N9500.
[Android General] dd_master:
3g works with 4.2.1?
[Android General] okupka:
I tried V6 version from S5 and it does not work at all.
[Android General] z1l:
Hello

I think I found a solution to the problem of automatic bright:

Have to download this file

And replace it in system / framework

For me it looks like it works

In any case you do file backup the original!

Successfully
[Android General] titooo7:
There are some users around the globe that already received their phone with 4.2.1 rom pre-installed.

As we all took benefit from the great OP made by cmoegele, please now be kind and give something back to the community: please upload a 4.2.1 rom.... If your network it's too slow to uplaod the whole rom, pleas at least upload the boot.img file.
[Android General] JBrandtner:
I have one of these 4.2.1 Devices, GPS and 3G working - but i don't know how to readback the rom - can anybody give me a dummy "howto"?
[Android General] okupka:
You can do it by backup in recovery(CWM/TWRP). Because it will be with your personal data, do first backup, then factory reset, do another backup(to share with us :) and then recovery from first backup ;)

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Found this link

https://mega.co.nz/#!7gJQGRRS!KU8QOynC_SAgArPXawTUNTvyV9NDv5lhUG4o6j4pPDQ

Will try and report back

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4.2.1 20130327-202926 working / its with gapps

my bug with high cpu usage after notification seems still not fixed.
[Android General] veradg:
So your installed 4.2 correctly in the B94M?
[Android General] burn2k:
I tried it, too. It's working :)
[Android General] veradg:
Can you post a image showing the version 4.2 installed in B94M? I can not believe it :D
[Android General] veradg:
I did it. It worked perfect for now. I'm restoring apps with titanium backup.:good:
[Android General] Neodragon12:
Ohhh nice !! and how can i install it ? i tried with CWM install from zip, and it didn't work
[Android General] veradg:
I did so http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40435575#post40435575
[Android General] Neodragon12:
Flash 4.2.1 ROM DONE !!! :) and it works fine, no problem so far ;)

I did the flash rom with SP flash tool, the scatter file has filled the blanks by himself, it's magic. Next step, recovery and superuser, thanks for ur work and finds, all of you ^^
[Android General] thnam35:
hello, where is the link of rom 4.2.1?

hello, where is the link of rom 4.2.1?
[Android General] veradg:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=40516095

Enviado desde mi B94M
[Android General] JBrandtner:
Currently uploading a clean (factory reset) TWRP (2.4.4) backup of 4.2.1... DONE.

3G working, GPS working, but delocated - fix found

Post updated
[Android General] Neodragon12:
What's that ?? model ASK SP460 HD

Ask seems to be a japanese brand
[Android General] torio1984:
3g problems there are also with rom 4.2.1

3g problems there are also with rom 4.2.1 !!! if the connection hasn't 5 notches, the connection does not work, the signal goes and comes!
[Android General] bradstallion:
first of all, thanks to everybody sharing files and knowledge about 4.2.1 for B94 :)

Question to anybody who installed successfully 4.2.1: which image did you use? The one above from JBrandtner or this one:

https://mega.co.nz/#!7gJQGRRS!KU8QOy...5lhUG4o6j4pPDQ

?

Thanks for sharing!
[Android General] JBrandtner:
Hi Torio,

I don't have your problems... was outdoor a couple of minutes ago, waited until my connection got reduced to 2-3 notches and started surfing websites - seemed to work very well.

GPS was also tested, took about 5 mins, but then 7 or 8 satellites were found...
[Android General] Neodragon12:
No problem for me too. Wifi, 3G, GPS are working perfectly. And i love the securities options !! ^^ Face unlock or pin unlock, it's great ;)

The 4.2.1 ROM is already on needrom.com

here: http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-b94mb943-2/
[Android General] nando_donk:
thanks.

rom 4.2 its great

work perfect on me :)

:good::good:
[Android General] burn2k:
Mhhh, I have the same 3G problems with 4.2.1.

Did you do the 3G improvments from the first post or is it just running fine without tuning?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] pilpel:
is the xda 1 connector the same as the XDA II, connector ??

also for the car ?

please anyone help
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] alex-zero:
Yes!
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] akira:
audio is not !?
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] gwhitea:
But power and sync are? I still have a USB sync & power cable from my original XDA - and need to know whether it is safe and will work with my new XDA2 (which arrives tomorrow! :D )

I also have a cable that connected the XDA to my Garmin eTrex GPS - anyone know if that will work on the XDA :?:

Many thanks

Geoff
[MDA II, XDA II, 2060 Accessories] akira:
i also have an etrex vista

works fine, infra red beam must still be shut down :(

serial connection kabel is still the same

my home made serial flash/unlock kabel is working great also

dont know with sync
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexpu1u:
Those are my phone details, can I partition my sd card and extend that partition to my phone memory? If yes, how do I do it on my stock rom, android version 2.3.6 ? Clockworkmod is good for my version of androit? If yes, What version of Clockworkmod is good for me?
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] limxyz:
flash clockworkmod 5 (search xda or google)

partition your sd card using clockworkmod or minitool partition

download link2sd or s2e (search xda for guide)
[Galaxy Ace S5830 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] alexpu1u:
I managed to bootloop my phone after clockworkmod5 instalation, here are more details: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=39595001#post39595001 , what should I do? Please help me.

EDITED:

I managed to fix the bootloop by installing stock recovery, now I will try again with the cwm5 and backup too
[Nexus 4 General] davwman:
http://m.cnet.com/news/t-mobiles-new-contractless-data-plan-explained-faq/57576233
[Nexus 4 General] icecicle:
I just signed a new contract like 7 months ago does that mean I'm screwed? I know the article said that after 18 months u could switch but that's some bull***
[Nexus 4 General] CrazyPeter:
So like the rest of the world now then?

I pay UK £5.20 ($8) a month for my mobile phone data and call plan from T-Mobile UK, that gives me unlimited data (3G), unlimited UK landline calls, 100 other calls minutes and 100 texts. That's more than enough for me and works out WAY cheaper than any other UK package.
[Nexus 4 General] jcru53:
It was cheaper to stay on contract with my N4 I got two weeks ago. Granted I would have gotten unlimited mins, but that's not my concern. I need unlimited data and text. It is only 200 to cancel my contract vs 240 for the increased price per month.
[Nexus 4 General] SpookyTunes:
Did you get a new phone "subsidized" phone in the last 18 months, or just a rate plan change?

I was still under contract for a rate plan change on 2 lines, but have not subsidized any phones in more than 2 years, so it was not an issue.

I shaved $40.00 of my bill for 2 lines without getting stuck for another 2 years.:victory:
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
It seem like its more money..

Buy $99 phone

$60 monthly unlim with 2.5gb

$20 on top of that for 24 months

Nexus 4 tandem
[Nexus 4 General] expertzero1:
or just pay full price of the phone at the time and pay only $60.
[Nexus 4 General] androidfoshizzle:
That's what I would do, its cheaper too in the long run

Their moving the hspa+ to the 1900mhz so a HTC one x would work on this network in the future then right?

Nexus 4 tandem
[Nexus 4 General] rg1003:
The new plans are not a better deal.

I am a long time T-Mobile customer and when my old Nokia was lost I purchased an N4 from Google. I am paying $50 per month for unlimited voice and text + 2GB High Speed Data. The new plan will reduce that to 500MB.
[Nexus 4 General] nextelbuddy:
Yea i dont get it..

these deals aren't much better than the subsidized contract plans.

i want to switch to t mobile when my ATT contract is up but it doesn't look like its worth it to me now.

i'm on ATT and a 2 year contract because i paid 99 dollars for a GSII SKyrocket LTE paying 75 dollars a month for unlimited talk/text and 3 Gb of LTE data.

i'm paying 75 a month because i got the phone at a discounted subsidized rate of 99 instead of paying the 600 it was at the time.

now t mobile is saying hey if you buy your phone for 600 dollars and bring it to us you can now pay 70 dollars a month for unlimited everything you don't have to be in a contract.

wheres the savings?

i have the same thing except i don't have unlimited data but instead of have 3 GB which i never hit anyways but even if i did i pay a small overage for something that hardly happens.

im sure there are people that use 20 Gb a month and would love this but still the bigger picture im talking about is where is the savings over contract?

Current = $99 dollars phone, $75/month unlimited talk/txt and 3 GB of LTE data

Tmobile uncarrier = $600 dollars phone, $70/month, unlimited talk/txt/web

do I really want to pay 600 up front just to have unlimited web and save $5 a month?

currently I have a nexus 4 since my Skyrocket broke but bringing my own device to tmobile I wont see a huge savings so why would I switch?
[Nexus 4 General] Rakeesh_j:
I think the savings is probably most evident if you have a family plan. I just switched from the value plan to the new one an hour ago, they say my rate will drop to $90 (after my veterans discount) a month for my four lines.
[Nexus 4 General] davwman:
I have three lines granted not unlimited minutes. Unlimited data on mine and the other two with 2gbs data, unlimited SMS. $175 a month. The new plans wont drop my rate. Screw T-Mobile
[Nexus 4 General] yahoowizard:
http://www.att.com/shop/wireless/plans-new.html#fbid=G0woR8u0-gF

Where's the 75 dollar unlimited talk/text/ and 3GB of Web?
[Nexus 4 General] marsdta:
I'm guessing he on an older grandfathered plan.

@nextelbuddy, you don't have to get the unlimited data. You can get 2.5gb and and knock another 10 off.
[Nexus 4 General] incantevole:
everyone needs to calm down and compare apples to apples. ie., new subscriber to new subscriber.

also, think about it. the only thing you have to pick is data. the rest is unlimited voice and data. i've been waiting years for the mobile space to move that way. those two items are dirt cheap and should be unlimited. soon enough everything will be unlimited from t-mobile and hopefully other carriers.

i'm looking at at&t's site and it is a clustef. too many choices. i mean, c'mon, i have to scroll down a page and break out a spread sheet to arrive at my pricing? f those guys. verizon is the same mess of plans.
[Nexus 4 General] davwman:
Right. But my current family plan with 1000 minutes and unlimited SMS plus unlimited data on my line and 2gbs on my wife's and mother in laws line is cheaper than what the new stuff costs. I need unlimited data.
[Nexus 4 General] chrisrozon:
The kicker is At&t will charge the higher rate forever, T-Mobile will reduce the monthly charge once the phone is paid off.
[Nexus 4 General] jcnbama:
My concern is keeping a new phone. I typically keep my phone for about a year and half. Then sell it on Craigslist and get a new one. Either from subsidized upgrade or otherwise. Guess this takes option 1 of of the picture. If you pay off your phone then you have a two year old obsolete phone... Kinda sucks.
[Nexus 4 General] Drachen808:
You can still have a "subsidized" phone. Just add <= 20 bucks to your bill every month. Then 18 months later, sell your phone, pay whatever remaining balance there is on your plan and boom buy a new phone with that same deal.
[Nexus 4 General] jcnbama:
Good point. That might even be a better guarantee to get a more up to date device. As it is now you have to call them up and haggle and threaten to take their first born son to get a deal or early upgrade.