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[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Lembo:
I also thought that.

My post Headphone water damage sensor

I know you've seen it but just an update that I'm currently using a small bit of tape to cover it that can be easily removed. I use my headphones a lot and all I needed was one drop of rain to land on it an there goes the warranty.
[Xperia Z Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fookea:
ok so the tape didn't interact with the white paper , right ? cool i'll cover it too then
[HTC Amaze 4G] avenged_sevenfold27:
I dont really need sense 4 or best battery life I'm always next to my charger so that's fine I with or without sense is ok not really needed but stable download speeds is a must cuz I do some hardcore torrent downloads thanks and performance is a must to cuz I'm a hardcore gamer so basically I'd like a Rom for gaming and downloads I know the terms about you can't really say what's the best Rom cuz everyone is diff but I just need to know of some that are good for gaming vipersense is out no offense I love the the Rom but shadowgun kept freezing my phone and adownloader wouldn't download anything I left a download on all night it only downloaded 30 mb out of 7 gb this would probably give you an idea of what kind of Rom I'm looking for thanks :)
[HTC Amaze 4G] avenged_sevenfold27:
Speedrom seems like my best bet thanks anyways
[HTC Amaze 4G] Hassaan.W:
Energy and speedrom seem your best bets

Sent from Stamford Bridge using my jellybeaned Amaze
[HTC Amaze 4G] hatlesssandman:
Umm from what you are describing as your needs you should just stick to stock experience because you will always run into small random bugs in virtually every custom ROM that most people who are experienced in flashing can easily fix or make workarounds or do relevant searches regarding their problems. Since battery life isn't an issue and complete stability is what you desire stick with stock/rooted debloated ROM or just flash faux kernel on top of stock ROM and over clock it using system tuner pro (for intense gaming if you feel the device is underperforming). Good luck
[HTC Amaze 4G] mikef:
Thread Closed

Since everyone is going to give you a different answer that won't be correct for your phone, we generally close these type of best/fastest/mostest threads whenever we see them. Like now. As stated above, try them all until you find the one you like.

Also, you might benefit from taking some time to read some of the stickied guides. I see you are new here and I understand the excitement and rush to post and ask everything at once, however, I believe that many of your questions have been asked and answered before so a little reading time might be the fastest way to pick it up.

Thank you,

mf2112

XDA Moderator
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] michaelsp9:
My ISP is throttling my phone's port on my home wifi... I'm getting 0.40mbps down when I should be getting 15mbps down. How do I unthrottle myself?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] estallings15:
You may not be able to. In the meantime, switch to 2G. It might be faster.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogerski1:
I think there is some confusion here. He is saying his home isp and not his cell provider. If it is, check your router settings.

Also switching to 2g, for me at least, did not help speeds after t mobile started throttling me today. I was getting dialup speeds on both edge and hspa. I guess it could help with battery life though.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] username8611:
I thought port 80 was http traffic, wouldn't that mean that everything on your network is getting throttled? I need more info lol

It its the only thing on your network that is getting throttled, check any qos settings on the router. Did you buy the router yourself or using one from the isp? I would think its impossible for an isp to single out a single device on a router since 192.*.*.* ips are nonroutable... Meaning they are invisible to the internet.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rogerski1:
+1 on QoS, also check your signal strength and do a few speed tests
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] at4r1:
Agreed. Your ISP can't throttle any single device on your home internal network. Reboot your modem and router and see if there are still issues. Either that or reboot your phone. It's either a phone, modem or router issue.

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And another thing...why do you think you should be getting 15 down? I'm assuming you are using cable internet, which means your connection is shared with your neighbors. For instance, I have a 20 down and 2 up connection. However, it varies depending on how busy the network is in the neighborhood.

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And another thing, lol, more info is needed. Are any other devices on your network having a problem? How long ago did this start? Anything change configuration wise when this issue started?
[General Questions and Answers] henkpeters:
Hi all,

Just got my Star S5 in the mail, while I'm in the process of removing all chinese bloatware, I'm hitting a wall here. To remove baidu I need root (which i want anyway, actually), but I can't seem to boot into cwm-recovery after creating my own with smart phone flash tools and mtk droid root & tools. None of the other options listed online work either! Is there a secret button combination or something to get into recovery or does smart phone flash tools SAY it flashed the boot.img and recovery.img but doesn't it actually do it?

Pressing vol+ and power, then when green android pops up on screen releasing power but holding vol+ doesn't work (it just continues to boot regularly)!

Edit: ninonirvana's solution below worked to get into CWM.. however, flashing the superuser-binary doesn't work on android 4.2 and up. I had to use SuperSU, everything works now!
[General Questions and Answers] ninonirvana:
Hello, I have accessed the recovery as follows, nexus4toolkit in this reboot options menu No. 21 No. 4 after reboot recovery and already
[General Questions and Answers] ninonirvana:
Hi, you can put a link of recovery and how to root? thanks

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http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2215393 you can use this tool to restar in to recovery
[General Questions and Answers] henkpeters:
I can't seem to find the tutorial I used yesterday (it was today, actually, 2.30am) but I read back the original scatter-file and rom with mtk droid root & tools, afterwards I used spflashtool SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1304.0.119 to read back the original rom (cache-HEX as endpoint) and used mtk droid root & tools again to create my new boot.img and recovery.img. Lastly, i followed this <<USE SUPERSU INSTEAD OF SUPERUSER>> tutorial, flashing only my newly created recovery.img and boot.img, after using your nexus toolkit to get into cwm. I backed up my rom now AND rooted, so all is well :)

NOTE: as stated above, using superuser doesn't work on android 4.2 and up, you should flash superSU instead!
[General Questions and Answers] Whyzor:
I know this phone is new and I may get it in the future, once the rooting process is is figured out for MT6589, it may be useful for other phones with the same chip. Can someone write a simple step-by-step instructions on how to root it for others so there won't be a bunch of scattered threads and questions about the same thing. Thanks in advance!
[General Questions and Answers] ninonirvana:
One +
[General Questions and Answers] cellphonemic_com:
It is no one key root tool for android 4.1 or android 4.2. I think the best way for root the phone is flashing the phone with rooted ROM if it exists
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
pls write instructions step by step.and is it possible to give us scatter file and recovery.img?
[General Questions and Answers] ninonirvana:
:good::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::good:
[General Questions and Answers] misokralj:
Hi..

can someone who already own Star S5 tell some info about camera, and can this phone record 1080p video?
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
no it records 720p. max
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
ı manage to root S5...ı found correct recovery with scatter file link below.But its china language but not ımportant ıt works..

first intall super su and copy to sd card after flash recovery.img with flash tool

to flash the the supersu to the phone you must enter the recovery (that you flashed with flash tool...) but power and volume + is not working so we can enter the recovery with a program like nexus 4 toolkit or Android Toolkit

http://download.chainfire.eu/315/SuperSU...-v1.25.zip

http://www.4shared.com/rar/PzQiYFxi/CWM_Recovery.html

http://www.4shared.com/rar/m33fLNgf/MTK6...30401.html
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
S5 Root - windows 8 preloader driver problem

Hi,

Just came back, wanted to flash the recovery - but I can't seem to the MT65xx Preloader to install (I'm on windows 8 64 bit) - is there something special I need to do to install them? (I used the ones from GizBeat Combo for the H7500+ MT6589 drivers) - it just won't install the VCOM even if I select it by myself - it says it has not signtature - what am I doing wrong?
[General Questions and Answers] ninonirvana:
the recovery is in chines :victory::laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Hi again,

I've managed (finally to trick windows 8 into installing the vcom...) to flash the chiniese green recovery - but I have no idea how to navigate and what option to choose - since I saw SD I went to that one and clicked with the power button - writes something in chinese in white and does nothing? Am I doing something wrong in here? Is there a special way to navigate that recovery?

Shoud I have placed the supersu zip in a specific folder? rename it perhaps to update.zip or something like that?

Thank you again for all your help :)
[General Questions and Answers] Whyzor:
If you post a screenshot of the recovery menus, then we could get someone who understands Chinese to do a line-by-line translation. Or maybe even Google Translate
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
It works - thank you all that helped and got us here :)

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Thank you, but I already managed to flash the supersu - thank you anyway.

After rooting the device I pushed the NetworkLocation.apk into system/app - but to no avail - I still can't get any google location.

Does anybody know what can be done?
[General Questions and Answers] Myrothas:
Would someone PLEASE be so kind to put up a 100% secure tutorial?

I really dont want to get an expensive brick to throw out of the window...

Maybe with video, or much screenshots... That would be great!
[General Questions and Answers] misokralj:
+1

I just ordered one, so if someone can write tut for root..

Thanks..
[General Questions and Answers] IzeCold:
I would like also a guide, maybe even with a non Chinese (english) recovery and rom..

I just got the the phone - and its sweet :) And I must admit I did like the price also :D
[General Questions and Answers] raytupang:
Try to boot the phone first, than you can think about the pc

My suggest, make sure the batteries full charged
[General Questions and Answers] Enzuccio559:
one of the two has been 3 hours on charge but still dead and when I touch the battery after charging 3 hours it's cold :(
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
ı know that problem.its because of driver.(ı had the same problem before) ..You must set drivers from device manager...use that drivers...

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ipaw29qv9uiczrm/drivers.rar
[General Questions and Answers] Enzuccio559:
Guapon how can I do it? it's impossible because in device manager there is no yellow icon :(

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Ok now I see it in device manager as "Mtk usb debug port com1" but when I choose the path of the .inf file in your archive it says:

The driver was found but an error occurred during installation.

Impossible to start the device (code 10)

That's because the phone doesn't start right? So there is nothing more to try? :(
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
could you update driver of that device from properties....or unistall driver nad connect again all..

And could you try to connect phone without battery and install driver from another usb port of pc?
[General Questions and Answers] Enzuccio559:
tried from properties... always the same error

tried without battery... always the same error. But the preload driver is good.

I believe that the problem is that the phone disconnected itself after few seconds and then connected again. like this it's impossible to install the driver.

If I uninstall the driver and start over, I should only connect the phone and then it appears to device manager right? Now I'm trying this way but there is always the same problem. Connect-disconnect. How could I install a driver without connect the device?
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
you can try SnapPea program.that ınstall driver otomatically..use this pro on your pc..
[General Questions and Answers] Enzuccio559:
I don't understand how but now the phone started. incredible. I have done nothing. Now is in charge at 61%. How is it possible? The logical explanation is that it was maybe cold inside. I don't know. I hope that it will not turn off now. If I can avoid to send it in China it's for the best :)

and of course now I can't root it or flash with a new rom because I cannot know if this is temporary or definitive :) we'll see
[General Questions and Answers] Enzuccio559:
Ok. For who will have my problem (Phone never start): It's the battery that is not well connected to the pins. Push it up and the phone will be start normally. I put a piece of paper under the battery and it works perfectly.

The phone is awesome, I already install the butterfly effect custom rom and it's a very nice rom. The only problem is that I have poor wifi, I mean even with 3/4 of the signal the speed is 10kb/s maximum when I am in the other room. When I am in the same room wifi it's ok.

Is there anything I can do for fix this? maybe some values in engeneering mode?
[General Questions and Answers] raytupang:
And now you can start to think about PC connection :cool:

Regarding the wifi, some used to modify the buildprop to strengthen the intensity of wifi signal.

But it will cost you battery life for sure
[General Questions and Answers] Enzuccio559:
hehe. That was the minor problem.

For now I'm using my pc as a hotspot with Connectify installed on pc. It works but I'd prefer to have a better wifi signal. Is there a guide of modify the buildprop?
[General Questions and Answers] mits200:
Where can we find a case for this phone? Preferably a silicon case...:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] insann:
Is it safe to flash another device custom rom, if the targeted device is also with the same specs (mtk6589, etc)?
[General Questions and Answers] trjons:
Struggling to delete blank pages from the home screen.

I can pinch to zoom out and see all 5 screens but you can't drag/move any of them to a trash can
[General Questions and Answers] insann:
Just install another launcher, like Apex or Nova
[General Questions and Answers] raytupang:
No sir, definitely not.

It will ruin the phone, because of the different hardware mapping and kernel.

Curious why you ask, since our phone already has quite many rooms

Kudos to the generous developers

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There are many thread discussing buildprop mod, sorry mate, I forgot the exact thread.

The modding will alter your wifi interval
[General Questions and Answers] insann:
There are some, but I would like to have one with CM10.1 with some of those teaks. Unfortunately how don't have the knowledge to port anything. Maybe I'll try to learn it after the summer.
[General Questions and Answers] raytupang:
Been using rom by SoCr@Te for a while.

www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s5-10/

Just now I realize, we can make the boot menu appear (just like if you long press the power button) by sliding finger from top left to bottom of the screen

Is it old feature?

Very nice indeed
[General Questions and Answers] Enzuccio559:
is there a way to use photosphere on this device? I thought every JB 4.2 had it :(
[General Questions and Answers] dhiotis:
Just because I can not post outside links in my message, and this is my first one, I can not tell you where and how you can find case for Star S5. I believe that soon I'll post.

I also will try to pm you the link
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
I would also want to know where can I get a silicone case for my Star S5 - if you can point me to the right place, I'll thank you a lot :)

Thanks in advance,

Yuly
[General Questions and Answers] crys2202:
Same here...
[General Questions and Answers] eltdesign:
we need some led flash camera improvements for night camera shooting…when low light pictures very dark even with led flash…
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Star S5 Case

Here are two ways to make your case for the Star S5 - courtesy of Dimitrios from Greece (user dhiotis):

1. Leather Flip Case:

Dimitrios used this case here

and converted it in this video here

2. Silicone Case:

A guy from Greece has made some mods to a silicone case from ebay

He posted to a Greek mobile forum

Here is the link

I think that is worth to see the result on you tube - here is the video

He is speaking Greek, but he does not say's much

Thank you Dimitrios :)
[General Questions and Answers] dhiotis:
Thank you yulypis

keep up the very good work
[General Questions and Answers] zylon4034:
STAR S%

HELLO ALL,

I just received my new Star 5 from Merimobiles.......Terrific phone Except the damn radio doesn't work! Tried Sims (both Slot1 & Slot2) for Tmobile & Net10 (GSM) - Can anyone help or advise? I'd hate to send it back...... Anaheim, Ca
[General Questions and Answers] eltdesign:
Try to disable unused freqs in engineer mode.. for example if u only want GSM disable WCDMA freqs and in the settings mobile networks other settings disable 3G service..
[General Questions and Answers] zylon4034:
Star S5

Thank you for the response.

I have a Net10 MicroSim in Slot1 (ATT GSM) Slot2 empty. Also tried the reverse. Set GSM in Engineering Mode as suggested. NO HELP!

Does anyone in the US have one of these phones that work? WIFI works great!

I can take the same Net10 SIM and put it in another phone and it works! What's wrong with this phone? Specs states GSM 850/1900 Mhz..
[General Questions and Answers] peplum:
Star S5 root issue

Hi,

Just try to root my new S5 (MT6589)

Follow the how to

I download the rom on needrom.com called MP_mt89_v9_c05s5_pulid_jb2_sw_20130515-101500_taoshuizhen_PC.zip

SDflash tool works well and finish with the green cercle

The phone won't strart anymore, the screen stay black

If I connect the phone to try flashing again, SDflash tool red line goes to 100% and after several second an error message appear

"S_FT_ENABLE_DRAM_FAIL (4032)"

I try to install drivers (after cleaning old one), I try download an other rom but still the same issue.

need help to solve this issue

Sorry for my english, I am from Belgium and my english is bad

Regards
[General Questions and Answers] zylon4034:
Help - star s5

DOES ANYONE OUT THEERE HAVE A STAR S5?

DOES THE GSM RADIO WORK?

DOES ANYONE KNOW IF IT IS AN EXACT CLONE OF THE HTC BUTTERFLY?

MERIMOBILES TECH SUPPORT ISN'T MUCH HELP!

PLEASE ADVISE http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/biggrin.gif
[General Questions and Answers] Pi3rluigi:
I got it, it's a great phone working fine.

Inviato dal mio S5 con Tapatalk 2
[General Questions and Answers] fklases:
+1

I also have that problem.

I noticed that the phone reads my Sim card because I can see my Sim contacts. but there's no network to place a call.
[General Questions and Answers] zylon4034:
STAR S5

Well i am in california usa and it does not work - i am soooooo pissed!

I've spent hours researching this phone..............

Anybody else in the usa get this thing working (gsm)?????
[General Questions and Answers] tongbajiel:
Tanks for share the link... it help for me...

I have tired to find it... And now I get it

:good::good::good:
[General Questions and Answers] Tt0b1:
Just in case someone encounters the same problem and doesn't know what to do: During the flashing process of the official 20130515 ROM my internal SD got corrupted somehow and I only had some files with cryptic names on it instead of all my pictures that have been on there before. I also only had 1.2GB of total space on it. Luckily the files weren't deleted or overwritten but only corrupted somehow. I could restore all of them using an open source tool tool called PhotoRec. The process was pretty easy and it could really restore all my files. Only the file names or lost, but that doesn't matter to me :) :good:
[General Questions and Answers] zylon4034:
STAT S5

Are you in usa?

Does not work in california...........
[General Questions and Answers] stangn99:
Just got my phone

Hey guys,

My beloved iPhone4 finally died after surviving a swim in the lake for 5 minutes, shattered screen twice, broken buttons, etc.

I decided it's finally time to change my phone, but didn't want to pay $600+ for a new phone.

Anyway. I bought the STAR n920e, which I believe is the same thing as the S5 butterfly??!!?!

This is my first ever android phone, and I'm VERY pleased with it so far.

Here are the details:

- received in 14 days to Ontario Canada

- went to Rogers to get a regular sim card (iPhone uses thee smaller one)

- Put it into SIM SLOT 1, waited about 30 seconds, picked up signal 3g and h+ no problem

- absolutely no chinese apps

- all google apps were installed and up to date (except gmail...which i updated through playstore)

- I rooted using a youtube video. I dont' know why i rooted. I'm still learning. Search YouTube for n920e 1 click root. It took 2 minutes.

- Ran Antutu on a fresh reboot and scored 13,341...i'm not sure what this means.

So far, the phone is running good. No lag, fairly quick, screen is nice, everything working.

Some more details:

1. The phone came with 2 batteries. Battery lasts almost as long as my iPhone (1.5 days before needing charge with average use..i don't play games).

2. phone came with, what i think, is the best case i've every had on a phone. I don't like the colour much, but the case is REALLY darn good, with headphone jack plug and usb port plug to prevent dirt entrapment.

In my device info (and Antutu), it shows up as Motorola Xoom 4.2.1...again..not sure what this means.

I'm still learning how to use this thing, but it's the best $200 I've spent on an electronic device so far....Lets just hope it lasts more than a year (you know, being chinese brand and all).
[General Questions and Answers] lint2:
Am I the only person having problems with drivers regardin this S5 phone?

I'm unable to install either ADB drivers (so that I might get root) or the MTK VCOM drivers (to flash a brand new FW).

I've tried the PdaNet drivers that I've found here at xda-developers and the drivers supplied at needrom /mobile/star-s5-2/ (unable to post the correct URL due to spam blocker on the forum/being a new user, just give it the www and the .com and you get the correct URL), but Windows won't even try to install them, it just tells me that it's unable to find appopriate drivers for my device.

My phone, with stock firmware, shows up as USB ID 0bb4:200c.
[General Questions and Answers] stangn99:
I don't recall installing pdanet or anything when i followed the video on YouTube.

For drivers, i just googled and clicked on the first thing that popped up. I can upload the ones I used if you like???