yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] so_ang:
If You want back cover can search in eBay?

If other part may be in Aliexpress...
[General Questions and Answers] mdoooostm:
Touch doesn't work in some pixels and also when tap somewhere it acts somewhere else

I have an star s5(mtk6859). I tried to use a twrp recovery (attached recovery) that was for another device (with lower resolution) and when I boot in the recovery, right side of my screen started to becoming white. after that I came back to my previous recovery and turned my phone on but my touch did not work, it works only in a limited area of my screen and when you touch somewhere it act in somewhere else.

I try some roms and recoveries (that it tested them before and they didn't have any problem) but it did not help and also tried official rom and does not change anything.

plz help me. I don't know what to do.
[General Questions and Answers] georbe:
Hi,

I have just rooted the Star G9000 with the MTK6592 chip.

Here is the thread on this forum:

http://xdaforums.com/general/rooting-roms/tutor-how-to-root-star-g9000-galaxy-s5-t2913488
[General Questions and Answers] itoklanos:
Star S5 Butterfly - brick?

Hi,

I have received a Star S5 MTK6589 and it is stuck in the boot - it shows the android image for some time and then it restarts...doing that in a loop.

This is what I have tried:

1. Drivers

I have installed the drivers without battery (the preloader MTK drivers).

I cannot install the drivers with battery. Note that I have Disabled the SDE for Win7. The phone is connecting and disconnecting if SP Flash Tool is not doing something.

2. Flashing ROM

I have used SP Flash Tools and installed "yuly_recovery" but I cannot go to recovery....is there any combination of buttons? I have tried Power+Volum (both + and -) with no success!

My second attempt was to install again the original ROM - used MP_mt89_v9_c05s5_pulid_jb2_sw_20130515-101500_taoshuizhen_PC from Needrom website, but I get the S_FT_DOWNLOAD_FAIL (4008) error!

I know that is not an actual device...but I want to see the Star S5 up and running again! Please help!!:(

Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] Tt0b1:
Hi,

it's been some time that I messed with my S5.. but there was some trick to go into recovery.. I don't exactly remember, but I think it involved removing the battery, connecting it to usb (with battery removed) while keeping vol+ or vol- pressed.. Something like that, give it some shots, maybe it works..

As for the flash tool error, you should try with different drivers, different flashtool versions and different roms.. There will eventually be a combination that works.. :)
[General Questions and Answers] itoklanos:
Memory test also gives the same error 4008!

I have done the memory test and the result is the same!

I will try to charge somehow my battery and try to see if it works with it!

Thanks for the reply. If you have other suggestions for me....hope that the EMMC and NAND Flash are not broken!
[General Questions and Answers] Citibroker:
1 by 1 Tutorial

Hi everyone

I am trying to root the device for hours now without success; can someone please post a 1:1 tutorial with the steps and the software that was used?

I want to fix the GPS issue on the device...

Many thanks

Marcus
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
ı will write tutorials as ı can..sorry for my english...First you must download all needed drivers to your pc....İf not pc dont see the phone..(ı dont have drivers sorry)

download the all programs below.....

A- http://www.4shared.com/rar/PzQiYFxi/CWM_Recovery.html (unzip that)

B- http://www.4shared.com/rar/m33fLNgf/MTK6...30401.html

C- http://download.chainfire.eu/315/SuperSU...-v1.25.zip copy that file to your sd card...

d- http://scdgl.tipido.net/beta/setup.exe (that is android toolkit)

1.open the sp.flash tool and click the the scatter-loading button

2. select the MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txt file from CWM recovery that we downloaded

3.Press download button.İt will open a warnıng window say yes..

4.After that close your phone connect your to pc without battery....Wait 4 second and put your battery to your phone...After that the recovery will be flashed to your phone...

5.open your phone connect to pc.open the android toolkit

6.in android toolkit press start menu and start into recovery..

that will open chinies language recovery.now we will flash root file(supersu)

7ın recovery dont use power button use touchable white button under the screen.follow (**** are Chinese characters )

***SD****ZİP*****enter

****SD2****ZİP****enter

after that you will see the files in sd card and select supersu file and enter and ıt will flash it thats all..
[General Questions and Answers] IzeCold:
Some xtra info

Hi.

Thank you for the tut.

I will just give some xtra info:

#5 - boot phone as normal connect to computer with USB-debugging ON. then start Android Toolkit

#6 If toolkit do not see the phone try choosing one of the other settings: USB-Storage, MTP (Media Device) or PTP (Camera). With my phone I made it with MTP.

#7 Look very carefully as it is very small letters
[General Questions and Answers] duykan:
ANDROİD TOOLKİT says:

The aplication isn't activated. Please activate Android toolkit!

How can I activate?
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
I encountered the same problem
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
my total phone storage looks 1.29 gb...why??? how can ı fix it?
[General Questions and Answers] IzeCold:
follow the guide at this link :)

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2215393

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I would like to get a fix for the GPS. I cant make it work. It doesnt catch any signal.
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
first open gps download epo files and activate agps...

be ın outside

*#*#3646633#*#* enter the engeneer mode

in location open the ygps click information selct cool after 30-40 second will found setıllates
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
Do you mean:

1. Switch on the GPS

2. Download EPO files

3. Activate AGPS

Could you please elaborate how to do steps 2 & 3? Thank you.
[General Questions and Answers] IzeCold:
Go into Settings - Location access - Location Sources.

Enable GPS EPO assistance

Enter EPO Settings - activate "auto download" and press download

Activate A-GPS.
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Star S5 Custon Rom

Hello Everybody,

Anyone knows of a custom rom - or a better firmware for our Star S5 ?
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
Thank you for the clear instructions.

However, this doesn't solve my problem with Google Map. In fact, the GPS could locate my position in Baidu Map, just not Google Map. Read from another forum that installing gapps could solve this issue, but we need to have root access first.

I am still struggling with activating the android toolkit. I received the code from the author, but error message pop up when I tried to activate.
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Hi,

You don't need to activate it, just go to start menu and it'll work without activation.

Just follow the instruction written here to flash the recovery, than after it's flashed, use the tool to enter recovery and flash supersu and gapps and you will be able to get network location - at least that's what I did and it worked...
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s5/
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Thank you :)

It's a good website - though I found only two roms - that are basically the official firmware - but it's still much better than nothing :)

I was wondering if someone experienced there following problems:

1. low loudspeaker volume in calls

2. WIFI download speed dramatically decreases when not so close to the router - but upload stays the same ... weird...
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
Thanks for your reply.

The tool doesn't allow me to "restart into recovery" before this tool is "activated". I'm stuck in activating the tool.
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
I think I tried a different tool before and I gave up - anyway, now I use Nexus root kit v1.6.3 - and you install it, don't dowwload/update twrp recovery, go to Advanced Utilities -> Launch -> Reboot Recovery - it should do it.

I donwloaded the tool here:

http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/Galaxy-Nexus-Root-Toolkit-Download-213077.html
[General Questions and Answers] IzeCold:
I had the same error when trying.

Write a PM to the author :)

I did and got new activations for the software.
[General Questions and Answers] duykan:
usb

I'm starting to think I live usb debugging the problem. does not see the device. Is there a place opened and closed in the advanced options?
[General Questions and Answers] Myrothas:
so... still some questions...

HOW to Make a Recovery

HOW to Recover if something fails?

I only read that someone did it

but noone does really explain it.

Maybe someone adds me on Skype?

Skypename is same Username.
[General Questions and Answers] schlaubi666:
flsh is not working

1-3 works

4: i tryed, shuting down the phone, connect it to the pc( win 7) without battery in the phone, wait 4 sec, put the battery back in the phone, win 7 made some sounds( like connecting some usb device), mtkxxxx prelauncher was visible some seconds in the "Computer" , nothing more

plz. help.
[General Questions and Answers] drnackers:
I too have the same issue, 1 - 3 ok then power off phone pulled battery out then i put in USB and 4 seconds later the battery and I too got the USB connection noise but software stays searching and nothing happens...

Any advise would be appreciated...

Thank you
[General Questions and Answers] duykan:
I too have the same issue, too

I have tried it three different pc but :(

I think pc can't find mt65xx preloader driver

I download in internet and

I tried to install manually, but :(

I m very angry

please help!!!
[General Questions and Answers] schlaubi666:
the 2nd driver workde for me, and i could do step 4 of the tutorial

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2180436

the rest worde as well, BUT:

i installed lbe privacy guard form the store. Install worked. I started the app , it asked for su priviliges, i pushed yes. now the phone restarts until LBE starts it's service. and restarts ..... ans so on. "the process com.andriod.phone was stoped"

What can i do to solve this problem ?
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
this is the driver...

http://www.needrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/MTK6589-Driver.rar

you must first download the driver ....for this close your phone and connect to your pc without batter and select the driver files manuelly not allow to windows download otomaticaly...when your pc download drivers do all steps to download cwm again...

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if you manage to flash cwm recovery you can download this rom....

http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s5/

if not you must apply the stock rom again..

http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s5-2/
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Hi,

Just a small question, what is the difference this rom: http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s5/ offers over the one we have already installed - and rooted?
[General Questions and Answers] duykan:
I do its all...Thank you very very much..

But afterr allthis "invalid ota package missing scatter" message:crying::crying::crying:

I couldn't activate android toolkit, I m doing with Google Nexus 4 ToolKit... What can I do?
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
this rom is rooted.... and could be flash from recovery

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downlod the cwm recovery again...With google nexus 4 toolkit for go to recovery select 21 first and 4 later and it will open in recovey..
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Thanks Guapon,

So there is no other difference in firmware? Because I have already rooted the rom that came with the phone - so now they should basically be the same? (apart from the gapps and wifi mac address fix I applied on top of that)
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
Thanks. I finally gave up with Michel's Android Toolkit due to the activation problem.

I used this "Nexus Root Toolkit" instead, and it worked.

Using the Nexus Root Toolkit, I restarted my phone to recovery, and installed "SuperSU".

After that, I installed "GAPPS" which fixed the GPS issue in Google Map.

Yay!
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Good to hear it works :)

By the way, which gapps version did you install? (what date)?

and do you experience very slow download on wifi when no so close to the router?

and finally, do you have low incall volume when on the loudspeaker?

It's possible that all of those problems are my specific device's problems? or it's just the way this phone is?

Or perhaps, what I think is more likely, something with the firmware?
[General Questions and Answers] Pi3rluigi:
What device have you choose?

I'm waiting the phone,but I started learning! ;)
[General Questions and Answers] duykan:
I'm very clumsy? or?

NOW I TAKE THİS MESSAGE İN FLASH TOOL!!! (in attachment)
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
the scatter file you used is not for s5......used the scatter file in that cwmrcovery zıp file...

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

and use this slash tool..

http://www.4shared.com/rar/m33fLNgf/MTK6...30401.html

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its possible to increase volume follow the the same steps for S5 :)

http://www.zopomobileshop.com/zopo-...le-phone-mic-loudspeaker-and-ringtone-volume/
[General Questions and Answers] duykan:
Noo I m downloading true files ... same files...

MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc (recovery file 6.134 KB)

MTK6589_SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1304.0.119

isnT it?
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Hi,

Unfortunately I've already done that :) and not much success with the incall volume...

it's very strange because the ringer volume and the media is high enough - just the incall loudspeaker (in fact not just on the loudspeaker - even on normal mode) is low - even though I have changed the values ... - do you know of any way to icrease it above 160 (in the engineer mode)?
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
l am using with bluetooth so ıts not a problem for me :)

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yes it is.But ı did recovery wiith that files and no problem for me...
[General Questions and Answers] duykan:
5 minutes ago I download all files again and factory reset to phone and I repeat all of them but nothing...

I COULDN'T ROOT THİS MACHİNE !!!:crying::crying:

hardly keep myself out of the window in order to avoid the device :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] tomasz_pol:
Hi.

I just got my MIZ Z2 and as I know it's the same phone as Star S5. I have a problem with my wifi card. It changes MAC address whenever I switch it to off/on. First 3 bytes are the same 00:08:22 but other three are always different and it's a problem for me because I have a MAC access control on router.

Is there any fix to that issue?

Sorry for my english ;).

Please help because it is really bothering me.
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Hi,

Yes, there is a fix to make the Mac address permanent - you can find it here:

http://chinaphonearena.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=102

Just download the files - and copy them to the folder specified there (I did that and also changed permissions (rw- rw- ---) to make them same as the other files...
[General Questions and Answers] tomasz_pol:
Hi,

Thanks for your reply. I can't download any files from the link you gave to me. When I click on it I get the info below:

I registered on that forum but I still can't see the thread. As I undaerstand I have to be active member to read it. It is a problem to me at this time because I am a newbie on Android Phones and I am leranig it now.

If you can please download those files and share them here with some instruction what should I do with them, I will be very thankfull :)
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Hi,

Basically you need to talk to the forum manager - he can fix the access for you to the forum and see the whole explanations - but basically you need your phone to be rooted and download the files from here:

http://ge.tt/8GodLxb/v/0

and then with a root browser (such as es file explorer) with root browsing privileges - you need to go to \data\nvram\APCFG\APRDEBed and

rename the file WIFI to WIFI.bak and WIFI_CUSTOM to WIFI_CUSTOM.bak then copy files you downloaded to the same folder : \data\nvram\APCFG\APRDEBed and restart :)

All this was taken from http://chinaphonearena.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=102
[General Questions and Answers] tomasz_pol:
Thank you very much yulypis. This fix does exactly what I was needed :).
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
You're welcome - it's all from the guys on Chinaphonearena.com :)

By the way, what ROM are you on now? and what recovery? Are you on the stock ROM with the Chinese recovery? or do you know of other recoveries that work and other ROMs?
[General Questions and Answers] tomasz_pol:
If you can tell me how can I check it i will post it here for you.

I didn't upload any ROM to my phone. It is the one that it came to me with. It was rooted allready so I didn't have to do this by myself. There are some chinese apps that I can't uninstall. I can only deactivate them. For now it looks like everything is working well, but as I mentioned before, this is my first android phone and I don't know the system good yet.
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
hmmm... if you got it rooted than it's different than mine - at least in that fact :)

you can go to: settings-> about phone - and post the information of the model number, android version, baseband version, kernel version and build number.

also it's interesting to me if you had google network location installed - you can check that for example in google maps - and go to my location (with the gps off - only internet access no gps) and see if you can get a location - if so then you have google location installed - which mine came without.
[General Questions and Answers] tomasz_pol:
Model Number: Z2

Android Version: 4.2.1

Baseband Version: MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V6.P2,2013/02/27 22:59

Kernel Version: 3.4.5 user@linux-user #1 Thu Mar 14 14:47:42 CST 2013

Build Number: S5 20130314-144929

I think that I haven't got google network location installed. When I switch my GPS off and open google maps it says that it can't determine my location.
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
It's the same as mine except for the model name which mine is S5 - as in the the screenshot attached.

So I guess the only differences are the model name and the fact that yours came rooted already.

Do you have a custom recovery installed? is it Chinese one (m44) ? I can only get into recovery using mobile uncle -> boot into recovery, for example...
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Star S5 CWM English

Hello People,

I have built this recovery with mtkdroidtools - and flashed it on my Star S5 - and it works :)

Just unrar the folder - and flash it with flash tools (scatter file is inside - flash ONLY recovery).

Flash this at your own risk - on my device it works - I can't be sure it works on any other - but I sure would love to hear if it does :)

http://ge.tt/9bI2wae/v/0?c
[General Questions and Answers] Tt0b1:
Hi yulipis,

working wonderful, thank you very much!
[General Questions and Answers] IzeCold:
AWESOME !!

It worked on my S5 as well :victory:

now we "just" need a non chinese rom...
[General Questions and Answers] Pi3rluigi:
Is this recovery in English?

Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Yes, we need a better firmware - that's for sure :)

I'm starting to learn how to port a clean rom - I hope I can do it - so we would at least have a clean full 4.2.1 ROM - I'll update if there is any progress...

Yes, This recovery is CWM in English.
[General Questions and Answers] Pi3rluigi:
Does anyone know how to enter fastboot mode,cause I would like to flash recovery using adb.

I'm a mac user,flashed previous android phones recovery this way,but I wasn't able with a Zopo950 (that it's a MTK based phone as this one) to enter fastboot.
[General Questions and Answers] Jhon117:
thank you very much.

good job.
[General Questions and Answers] Paha59:
Hi all.

The Roms of Zopo zp 810 are very adaptive to this phone. feropont from 4pda forum easily ported firmware from this phone. I can not insert a link.
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
Sorry for my late reply.

I used the gapps downloaded from the following link. The file name suggests that it's for Jelly Bean and dated 12 Dec 2012.

http://goo.im/gapps/gapps-jb-20121212-signed.zip

I experienced connection lost to wifi sometimes, but I'm not sure if it's related to the distance to the wifi router. Whenever I had connection problem, I would just turn off the wifi on the phone, and turn it on again.

I didn't use the speaker phone, so I'm not sure about its volume. Maybe you try to change the volume settings after pressing *#*#3646633#*#* on your phone?

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You mean, which device I chose in the Nexus Root Toolkit?

I think it doesn't matter which device you choose, as we just need this tool to restart our phone to recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
Thanks for your answer.

I have flashed the same gapps a while ago - and did try to manage the engineer mode settings, it helped a bit but it seems that it's still lower than average - at it's maximum setting - I was wondering if it's possible to change the max allowed volume (which is now 160) to a bit higher - like 200 - I know this will solve it - but I have no idea where to actually get to these settings - without the engineer mode - that is enforcing these maxim values?
[General Questions and Answers] Pi3rluigi:
Yes, I mean that

Inviato dal mio Xperia S con Tapatalk 2
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
Ever suspect the low volume is limited by the hardware?
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
I am almost sure it's not the hardware because media in general: music, videos, youtube, ringtones and etc.. play much much louder then the incall loudspeaker... so the physical speaker can do it - it's probably just some strange software limitation on the incall volume...
[General Questions and Answers] josehku:
Sounds logical
[General Questions and Answers] yulypis:
I will get down to the bottom of it :)

Maybe I'll flash the zopo zp810 firmware and see if there is any difference
[General Questions and Answers] feropont:
Hi All!

Really, i to remake rom ZP810, in it there are no problems.

Ported ROM_Star5_ZP810_Stock_4.2.1 http://yadi.sk/d/-1bMXo3Z4C2d7

I is also ported LeWa ROM, language: English, Chinese, Russian and make TWRP.

TWRP: http://rusfolder.com/36099134

LeWa ROM 4.2.1 http://rusfolder.com/36099133

Link to an original topic: http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=454827

Regards

feropont
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
...

new rom

http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s5-3/
[General Questions and Answers] Tt0b1:
Wonderful! Gotta love the android community :laugh::good: But from the description that rom seems to be very dedicated to spanish users.. ("Defined AGPS for Spain and Fix location".. Does this mean it won't find me in germany?) Anyway, I'm very excited what will come next! Would love to use MIUI on the Phone! :good:
[General Questions and Answers] guapon:
no you can use in german..
[General Questions and Answers] bowserm:
Thank you to everyone who helped in this thread. I successfully got my S5 rooted. the GPS picked up almost instantly. I still cannot get any reception from my network carrier though. Are there any modem files able to flash on this? I am in Canada, so I don't even know if it even works in North America.

Thanks in advance
[General Questions and Answers] oicirbaf:
Hi buddy, is the Star S5 working on 3g with 850mhz/1900Mhz freq bands with your ROM?

I will really appreciate your answer as soon as possible. Thank you very much for you work, it's awesome!

Regards,

Fabricio.