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[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Just to confirm - can you try to install and check Root Explorer from Google Play? Is it ok?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ulvergr:
it's a paid app...i must buy it if i want to install it through google play

some paid apps that i have and working fine is ''sd maid pro'',lithium music player,my backup pro....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
You can buy it, test and money back in 15 minutes. If it installs and launches, then it's a miracle and there're some steps you're doing that should be done by default.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] cha_indian:
Owners of ZTE V967S please speak up !! I am thinking about buying ZTE V967S or Lenovo P706....just wanted to now the opinion of ZTE owners about the general build quality of the phone ??? Howz the quality of hardware when compared to Jiayu or Lenovo ???
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
For some test you can try to uninstall one of them and install again from the google play.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
I do not think that anybody in this thread can give you detailed information about the 967-phone because we are discussing the ZTE 987 here. As far as I know the 967 has a different screen and only 5MP-camera and therefore is about 50 USD cheaper than the 987. They both have a rather strong battery with 2500mA.

Matthias
[Miscellaneous Android Development] patientx:
I got the phone today. I installed v2 rom and THAN extended user mod patch which f**ed up the os :) I reinstalled original partitions and normal recovery than I installed v2 . Everything is cool and dandy but it seems we can't really convert the remaining 2gb memory to program area. Is it fixable or are we stuck with this ?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Sathelp:
Hopefully Bruno may be able to come up with a modified update.zip and flash of the partitions when he comes back off his holidays. We know his ROM is OK, that works fine on 4.2, so we must thanks him for that. The partitions, I am sure, can be adjusted later to get that storage back.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DaKyy:
Anyone tried XBMC with the V2.0 mod? It installs fine but after I start it for the first time it shuts down.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jurgen272:
Roaming problem MVNO

With V2 ROM I get roaming message even if not roaming (using MVNO)

I remember I had a similar problem with my good old G11i Pro, but don't now how I fixed it.

Anyone an idea? Bruno?

I'm also missing internet call. No SIP integration in the ROM?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
There is no SIP integration in the ROM. You have to use one of the apps for this. I use CSipSimple with Sipgate. This works fine and without problems.

At the moment I am in the South of Italy roaming also with two MVNOs (easytel from T-Mobile; mobilcom-debitel from Vodafone). Until now there are no messages when roaming is off. Did you Check in SIMSettings/Roaming/Roaming-Message?

All in all the 4.2.1 BMCustomROM is working without any problems for two days now after I had overcome the partition-problem of internal phone memory. Titanium Backup had problems with all versions of 4.X.X ROMS of this phone. I guess this is something that has to be fixed by the author of Titanium.

Enjoy

Matthias
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jurgen272:
I already tried CSipSimple, but I always get the message "Call not sent, no valid number entered" before I can chose whether to call with the standard dialer or with VOIP.

Besides my MVNO and VOIP problems the ROM is indeed awesome.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
If I got your previous message, you could not get ext. memory feature, right?

I'm testing stock ROM 4.2.1 now, and there're no any issues with Titanium. Which means some Bruno's changes give us this bloody stunning effect. I hope Bruno will easily find the root of the problem after vacation.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
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Yes, I had 4.2.1 rebooting after installation and then hanging at the second screen with extended memory mod active. After flashing the stock EBRs and standard recovery I installed 4.2.1 without keeping the data (did a wipe data/factory reset first). Then I could partition and format internal phone memory from within BMCustomROM V2.0 so SDCard 2 (1,79GB) was present and usable again.

Stock ROM never was an alternative having that nasty CID-bug, unrooted and all the chinese stuff and missing all google apps!

Just let us give Bruno some time after his vaccation. He is very busy at his job. It is just great that he has made it possible for all of us to have a try with one of the few 4.2.-ROMs for a phone of a major factory brand. As he mentioned ZTE has changed more than he expected since 4.2 Beta and this 4.2 Final he was using as a basis of this customROM. Beside of that he might also check the custom recovery and take a look at partitioning of the phonememory and adding the "Reboot to recovery"-Feature. There is quite some work to do, which will take some time.

I also own a license of Titanium, but this probably will have to wait.

Could anybody confirm that the Titanium-Bug is NOT present with Etotalks CustomROM?

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Did you try Sipdroid or 3CXPhone for Android (VOIP)?

It depends on the provider what he supports. Some even have their own apps.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
:) I'm not pushing, I'm just trying to clarify all the bugs tested and have them described as much as possible. It will definitely help Bruno to localize the problems.

Bruno is a great man, creating amazing ROMs, no doubt.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
Maybe those freezes comes from the root somehow. Except freezes of Titanium Backup I'm having ocasional freezes of root explorer (at startup the app freezes instead of showing directory content) and droidwall (applying rules sometimes hangs). All of them running root rights.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
But it happens in 4.1.2 and 4.2.1 Bruno's ROMs, while in stock no issues at all. So there's something what comes from Bruno.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ulvergr:
As for the associate sim contacts has anyone problem? In all roms Still keeps asking which sim to use...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] algara:
Hi there, I need a bit of help. I've just received my v987 and everything is fine and smooth except for one thing: I don't get any sound through the loudspeakers, no music, no phone ringing, no yotube audio, nothing. I don't know what settings I should consider to change or test. The thing is all I can get is a frustrating silence. Any sugestions, please?.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ulvergr:
install this https://play.google.com/store/apps/...51bGwsMSwxLDEwMiwiemF1c2FuLnpkZXZpY2V0ZXN0Il0.

maybe it will help you(check your ringer type)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] algara:
Thank you ulvergr for the advice. I downloaded the app and all the sensors work fine. It kind of started to produce some sound when I played some music but it stopped again. I happened to tap the phone on my hand when I heard the sound and......surprise surprise.... it now works.

Must be some loosened cable whose connection isn't all that good. A factory problem for sure.

By the time being, it works.

(Fingers crossed)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ulvergr:
Lol that,'s good, i hope everything goes fine
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Guys, I'm still away but noticed that SuperSU has been updated. Maybe it fixes the problems found in some of the already mentioned apps.

As for the other problems I will take care of that when I'm back home.

Have a nice weekend!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Can someone check Titanium batches with new SuperSU? I'm not on Bruno's ROM right now, so can't do this quite quick.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
...still hanging after updating SuperSU
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Then maybe I'll have to revert to ChainsDD Superuser.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] debasish497:
I am using a gn878 a mt6589 based soc. I am using miui ROM. I was facing the same problem of root. I changed the su related bins and replaced with chainfire, now it works.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
As for me, I'm not so sure, that the real reason is SuperSU.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Why do you say that? Which ROM are you using right now and which is the used Superuser app?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Ok, I'm on stock ROM 4.2.1, with SuperSU, and there's no problem with Titanium batches.

Also after long testing v2.0 I found that small Titanium batches with 7-9 programs recover just fine, and long batches with 11 and more programs definitely will freeze and almost at the same time after beginning. So it's not that depends on some specific program, it's batch length . Which cannot be linked to superuser app, I think.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
Some new findings:

Yesterday I had to do a full restore of a fully functional 4.2.1 backup from CWM. After rebooting the 1,79GB phonememory-partition was missing and could not be mounted nor formatted by CWM nor from within 4.2.1!!!

The solution was to connect the phone via USB to the desktop computer (windows 8 64bit) and to format SD2drive 1,79GB from there (FAT).

CWM has a problem with emmc under 4.2.1. Advanced data restore from CWM does not make a difference, phone memory is missing and cannot be mounted neither from CWM nor from within 4.2.1 (systemsettings,storage,erase phonememory)

Matthias
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
Hi, does anyone have problem with calls, where hanging a call doesn't work?

Do you have repartitioned the internal memory for big /data partition?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
No, I had to flash stock EBR1, EBR2, MBR and standard recovery because with extended userdata mod 4.2.1 does not boot, it hangs at the second screen. I have reproduced this several times with fresh installation of 4.2.1 update.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] demstav:
Yes i have this problem with the call not hanging up. Needs reboot after.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Father Trully:
I have the same problem too. It appeared twice. I've got the phone for a week now.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] juca38:
bruno hello congratulations

I am Spanish and I have the ZTE V967s

Do you think is possible install your ROM?

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gerstavros:
Have you checked if it appears in stock rom?

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they have different screen resolution, i think you have to change screen and camera drivers with them from stock V967 rom
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Father Trully:
Unfortulately I didn't, I've replaced it with Brunos v2 ROM within hours.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] manowar2008:
Aplication iu system

There is an error when, for example, you are in "contacts book" and go to home, in my case appears the message: "Se ha detenido la aplicación IU sistema" more or less "stop system IU app", What's the problem?

I have installed the V2.0MOD by BM (07-06-2013) Android 4.2.1

Thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Guys, new Titanium is out. Any news?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Okay, I think I have narrowed it down to a old binary I was keeping from old ROMs. Can you please use a root explorer and delete sqlite3 binary found under /system/xbin? I have tested a batch backup with 13 apps and it worked fine, several times. :fingers-crossed:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Bruno, I will do this in evening. Can't test phone right now at work :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
Just did it. TB still freezes when doing batch backup.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Did you reboot your phone after deleting sqlite3? Or have at least reloaded TB? Let me know the length of your backup batch and the steps you are doing so that I can try to replicate here.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
Yes. I deleted the sqlite3 and rebooted the phone before testing. The batch was 65 apps, freezed at about 15%.

Steps I do: start TB, choose batch actions and run "copy all user apps" (contains 65 apps here).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Can you please try clearing Titanium Backup and Google Play Store userdata?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
I've cleared userdata for google play store and TB, restarted the phone. Still freezes during batch backup.

As a reminder - I'm running ROM 1.0
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
I have done so and rebooted the phone after. It hung at app 13 again.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
TB is using its own SQLite. This option is in Settings, the very last submenu, don't remember its name in English. Can someone try to re-check it, before I started to reflash the phone (again)? :)

Thanks in advance, guys.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Totally correct, Titanium Backup uses its own optimized version of BusyBox and SQLite unless user forces otherwise.

I first thought it could be related to SQLite because once TB has hanged up at startup during the checks for root access and SQLite verification.

Anyway, this time I am sure that I have found the problem and will release a small patch. It will also work on the previous custom ROM because after all the problem was that I was using bash instead of stock mksh. This was never a problem in old SoC's but somehow it became incompatible and I have to stop using it.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Bruno, we will be happy to have you here after vacation full of joy and power. Really :)

Because There definitely should be another patch for extended memory v2.0 :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Okay, that will be taken care as well. Do you want a full userdata partition (by using all the space of internal sdcard and disabling it completely) or something like 2GB for userdata and the rest for the internal sdcard?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] metzner:
Got a 2nd ZTE V987

Hi,

I´ve got a second ZTE V987 (2x battery, 8 GB sdcard) which I do not need...already tested it and flashed the new ROM and erverything works fine

Bruno, hope you don´t mind...

Is anybody interetested? I can sell it for a fair price...so find the cheapest price on internet and I will sell it for same amount ;)

Kind regards,

Floris
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Just as before, Bruno. Let's not make it too complicated.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tugof:
I would like:

solution of titanium problem

partition as before

USB connection like USB storage and not like as an installer

lower brightness on lower level. On V2.0MOD is too more than on V1.0MOD.

Than I will be happy and will send next small donation :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
USB connection by default is always set as an installer, but once you install the drivers it connects just fine as USB storage.

As for the brightness levels I have also noticed that myself and I'm going to check the default values.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Just let me clarify everyone that the problem is not CWM recovery. Please note the following:

When you flash the modified EBR1 partition in order to expand userdata you have to format userdata (so that phone can assume the new partition size)

The same happens when you revert to the stock EBR1 partition, that is you have to format userdata (again to assume the new partition size)

BUT

also have to format emmc. It's easy to understand that emmc had a filesystem before (in this case ext4) and at that point is trash and requires to be fully formatted as FAT. Now, the reason why it can't be formatted under CWM recovery is because for FAT devices the format command is not a real format (like you do on the computer) but a deletion of all the files. As for the erase under Android, it doesn't work either because the partition is corrupt. Only computer is able to re-format emmc.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] tugof:
Great, It works.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jurgen272:
I hope the userdata data patch can be flashed thru recovery because I have a big problem installing the VCOM drivers (tried on 3 different machines)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ulvergr:
This working only in Windows. I use Linux the installer doesn't work
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Let's try again.

Download and unpack drivers.

If you have Win8 you should switch off signatures for drivers (MUST).

Launch installdrv.exe

Done.

Another way:

Download and unpack drivers.

Switch off your phone and connect it to PC. It will ask for drivers. Manually select the directory.

If you miss this step go to Device Manager, select MTK65XX Preloader and manually select the directory.

Hope it will help and drivers will be installed.

Or tell us, what's wrong.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Can you please tell me if you ever got it working on Android 4.2.1? I'm getting nuts with this as I have been testing different combinations of installations and the script works just fine.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
In attachment you can find the patch to fix Titanium Backup hang-ups. Install the .zip under recovery mode. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] ulvergr:
As for the linux users that don't have windows pc,what can we do?how the pc can recognise the phone as a storage?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Ext. memory, right.

So step by step.

1.

Installing ext. memory on fresh 4.2.1 is not working. I tried by myself at late night before, got some mess and went to stock ROM with EBR reflashing.

MSprecher tried it more close.

2.

When you go from 4.1.2, the main issue that was figured out - you getting double rebooting. Also this effect goes on when you're trying to install paid app from Google Play. Downloading, installing - and phone goes to reboot. After reboot the programm is not installed. The best description was given by gojo.pl here:

"I reinstalled the ROM completelly with userdata wipe. After that I restored very few apps/setting using titanium backup and I got the same: reboot any time google play performed upgrade/installation. There was a brief notification before the reboot "SD card unmounted".

Maybe after your patch for TB it can be just memories and everything will work just fine.

Tomorrow I will have dayoff, so starting from the today's evening can do any tests you like - right after backup.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
Applied, TB works fine. Great job! :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Okay, that I could finally replicate. I have unistalled one of my paid apps and tried to re-install it from Google Play. The phone does not reboot, but I get a "SD card safe to remove" message and the installation is aborted.

Taking this into consideration I have two options: explore this situation a little better or do the modification I was thinking that is to extend userdata partition to 2GB and always keep an internal sdcard partition, smaller of course.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
I think you should go the easiest way and the simplest way.

If it will be 2Gb vs 1Gb we have now - it's more then enough for applications. I don't care if there will be some small part of internal card. Maybe later you will have time to delete it at all and use full memory size. It's up to you, really :) we will accept any of your decisions.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
Having only userdata and external SD would be the most elegant and nice, but if it requires to much effort or trouble, then any other solution would be just OK :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
I am glad all my problems [with the exception of Titanium] were related to extended userdata mode.

After having switched to stock EBR1, EBR 2 and MBR and Recovery with emmc (internal sdcard)enabled the instabilities and bootproblems are gone!

I can live with 1GB RAM [after having installed all my apps, including CopilotLive Premium] there is still 470MB free RAM left. The 1,75GB of the SDCard2 which I have formatted with Windows can be used for Photos until they are copied to the Photo-Folder on the Linkstation at home.

Bruno, this ROM is very smart as it is. Rooted, GApps, multilingual. For me it is o.k if the partitions created by StockROM are in use.

The patch for Titanium works just perfect, allowing me to backup System und Userdata completely now [143 of 143 were saved without hanging anymore].

Thanks a lot for your quick handling. I hope this will be rewarded by some more donations to keep further motivation.

Matthias
[Miscellaneous Android Development] DaKyy:
I had problems getting XBMC to run with V2.0 Mod.

The XBMC startup problem happens because XBMC tries to write its configuration settings to root folder. Therefore it is unable to create the file and unable to read the non-existing file. This is a known issue for XBMC, but there is currently no fix.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Thank you guys for your understanding. Personally I also prefer the most elegant and nice solution that is to completely remove the "useless" internal sdcard partition, but sometimes we don't expect different kind of implementations by the manufacturers... and this seems to be the case now as I never had any problem like this before when applying this mod. Anyway, I will still try to make it work, but in the meanwhile everyone can enjoy having 2GB for userdata partition:

Just go to that post and download the new attachment. Flash it like before, don't forget to format userdata (or restore a previous CWM backup) and format emmc (using Windows Explorer).

I will release an update.zip so that you are able to apply the mode through recovery mode. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] gojo.pl:
Will that work if I flash those partitions on ROM 1.0 and then do the upgrade to 2.0? Or aroma installer will try to mess with that and try to apply "disable internal sd" anyway?

Do you still plan to release 2.1 somewhere soon with slide to unlock and other tweaks?

BTW - there is some app available that suppose to work on mtk6589 and repartition the memories in any desired wish. Succesfully used by Lenovo A820 users.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bgcngm:
Yes, that will work if you upgrade to the latest ROM. Don't worry, AROMA installer will not mess it up because my script will detect that internal sdcard partition is present (smaller, but still present) and won't disable it. ;)

I am still planning to release an update when I manage to modify lockscreen.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] MSprecher:
Working nice, booting process is fast and smooth, no problems with paid apps (e.g. GPS Test+) anymore,

all in all it works as it should!

Thank you Bruno!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
Great!

Bruno now all the functionality works just fine, no issues and lags. Everything is smooth and nice. Thank you, man!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] zperetz:
While for the moment we're not in the rush of hotfixing, I have some questions from 4pda forum to Bruno as a master or ROMs.

1. Vibrate on call connect - is there any chance not to delete this feature at all, and just cut the period of vibro to minimum? Some small patch or instruction "how to" would be nice

2. The same for keys "vibro feedback" - how to minimize it

3. Can you fix the time of Red LED while the phone runs out of the battery to 5% instead of current 15%? - very annoying bright red light
[Miscellaneous Android Development] netra:
If you can make transparent notification bar, I tried to uncompress "SystemUI" but I found where to change the color.

Thank you.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Wolfillete:
waiting for my new v987 :fingers-crossed:. Your rom seems amazing, I can't wait to install it on my phone, but why don't we have a subforum for the terminal? How could we get it?