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[General Questions and Answers] westm003:
Android 4.1.2 anyone for the N9599 Star

Hello,

I have serious issues with my Start N9599 phone running on 4.2.1 The sound is so bad that with a bluetooth earpiece or carkit that it is totally unusable.

I tried everything but read it is a bug in 4.2.1.

Now i am desperately searching for some time now for the Android 4.1.2 rom that these phones were also running on before.

Anyone knows were i can find it?! how to flash it?

Any answer is much appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] puentejo:
Thinking in buying a clone phone

morning / evening.

I have been working exploring searching the web for the best chinese clone phones out there in the market to begin a small bussiness and I was wondering if you people can guide me if there is a "good reputation " website to which purchase the STAR N9599 or other one with a 64 gb tf storage in it or 32 gb storage ?

Thank you

:fingers-crossed:
[General Questions and Answers] puentejo:
what micro sd card you recommend for the N9599

What type of micro sd card would you recommend for the n9599?

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] lupiro:
Hi puentejo,

the N9599 according to specs supports up to 32 GB. I am using a 16 GB - giving me really more than I need for pictures, music, ... take a fast one!

cu lupiro
[General Questions and Answers] verynoob:
Hello,

I just noticed this phone too and there is even a thread about it on XDA (yay :D)

What are your thoughts about this phone?

the only thing im afraid about is because I heard STAR and some chinese branded phones are unreliable and may suddenly stop work one day.. is it true? or STAR is a reliable company?

I saw it being sold for 213$ for the mtk 6589T version..so.. overall, should I get this phone? how is its size compared to the note 2 ? is it much larger? or about the same? will it be hard to grip it? I mean it's 5.7.. even the note is 5.5 lol

Thanks!~
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Interesting! Is the pen pressure sensitive then?

I am looking for a nice Samsung Galaxy Note alternative.
[General Questions and Answers] lupiro:
Hi,

I don't know anything about the company/manufacturer - regarding reliability the phone works fine, however I've been using it for a bit more than a month now and that does not really say much if it's durable in the long run. It's a little bigger than the note2, not significantly though; but as you said, it has a 5.7" screen...

What do you mean "hard to grip" - I enjoy using it; certainly with 5.7" you can hardly reach the whole screen with one hand (unless you have a looong thumb).

Battery is excelent, much better than I expected; brightness and contrast of the screen is absolutely ok... I'd buy it again.

Hope I could help you; many greetings

lupiro

---------- Post added at 01:01 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:45 PM ----------

Hi,

the pen is not pressure sensitive. In fact, I hardly use it. Only when I have to "touch" small items in web-apps (like calendar widgets in the groupware's webinterface)

If you don't need NFC, from performance and usability perspective it's a great phone!

Greetings

lupiro
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Thanks for the info! I ordered a MTK6589T version with 1080p resolution.

I wonder how it performs and behaves on battery.

I am also curious about what technology they use, because I read somewhere it was not the usual soft tip, but a hard tip?

About to find out in about a week I guess :).

cheers
[General Questions and Answers] verynoob:
that's weird, it seems this phones has these variants: mtk 6589 with 720p, mtk 6589T with 720p and mtk 6589T with 1080p?

sometimes I wonder how do all these chinese factories look from the inside lol :D it's like everyone is doing whatever he wants there
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Most of these phones have either a 720p or 1080p screen and MTK6589 or MTK6589T.

Look at the Thl W8, it comes between 4 and 16 gb with either resolution and the beyond version has the MTK6589T SOC.

Tip: do not buy a FHD screen without MTK6589T because performance is not too good.
[General Questions and Answers] verynoob:
Yea so far I think the best is MTK6589T + 720p, I mean, is overclocking the MTK6589 to 1.5Ghz (6589T) really helping the smoothness of phones with 1080p, or it's still slow and for the 1080p chinese phones you should wait for the upcoming eight-core cpu from MediaTek ? :eek:
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
1080p with MTK6589(T) is not slow, but Thl W8 with 720p gives about 13000 in Antutu and with 1080p around 11000.

Not slow, but definitely less smooth.

Besides, I did not see too much difference in detail between the screens.

The T obviously adds some tot the smoothness, but also to battery usage.

I would love to see those 8 cores, let's hope they will have good batteries :).
[General Questions and Answers] verynoob:
So you say that 6589T actually increases battery life although it is more powerful?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
No I posted it adds to battery USE not to battery LIFE.

It most certainly uses more battery.
[General Questions and Answers] dorin1989:
Hi guys, i order last week a HDC Galaxy Note 2 N9599, and i search for a root possibility, but i didn`t find anything. Can anybody post a link with a certain root solution?

Thanx
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
How about you search before you post? This is a MTK6589 based phone, there are many ways to root it.

I used MTK droid tools.

Turns out the device I ordered just has MTK6589 and 1280x720 resolution, not MTK6589 and FHD.

So perhaps there is no such version :).
[General Questions and Answers] carolinaandrade:
Hello! Does anyone already root it?

Thanks? :)
[General Questions and Answers] lupiro:
Yes, I did. Google for "MTK6589 root", should do the trick
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Did you read my post?

Please also follow the forum rules and SEARCH before you ask!

Apparently user dorin1989 did not find my answer satisfying and he has sent me an annoying insulting message via p.m.

Pretty pathetic if I may say, is that a reason for mods to ban him?

Just needed to express that bit of frustration.

Meanwhile I have compiled CWM 6.0.3.3 for my (supposedly Star) N9599 with big thanks to C3C076.

I am on to trying to get CM 10.1 working.

I compiled it already but it will not flash (error 7).

It will not be usable in the beginning, because it will not support dual sim.

Guess that has to be figured out later :).

I like the device, but it is no replacement for the note 2.

No NFC, compass (magnetic sensor) and while the screen has some extra sensor for the hard tipped pen, it is different from the pressure sensitive technology used for the note.

The note pen does not work on the star and vice versa.

If there was no note, I would definitely use it as main device.

I like the size, better for gaming than the note :).

cheers
[General Questions and Answers] verynoob:
So how is the device working after these 2 months? Is it OK ? because sometimes these chinese phones die without warning
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Mine is working fine.

Never had a Chinese phone stopped working.

With which model and type did you experience that?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
CWM 6.0.3.3 for N9599 MTK6589

Hi people,

Like I mentioned I created a CWM 6.0.3.3 for the Star N9599.

It is needed to flash for example CM10.1, which does not work on CWM 5.

A few regular disclaimers:

- flash on your own risk

- I am not responible for any damage to your device

- I am not responsible for any other issue you may have like a dead cat or a burnt house, or your device being bricked

That being said, if you have a similar device, you should be safe.

Any way, MAKE A BACKUP! If your device is different you may lose valuable drivers and you might for example end up with a non working camera.

To flash:

- use a recent SP Flash tools and make sure you have the usb vcom drivers installed

- preferrably use a self created scatter file (mtk droid tools), I attached the one I used

- open sp flash tool, select only recovery and choose the file attached to this post

- turn off the phone, pull battery and just after putting the battery back connect the usb cable

- recovery should flash

to enter recovery: keep volume up pressed and switch phone on

Please let me know if it worked for you and hit thanks if it did :).

If you have issues, please search first, there's plenty of info on mtk6589.

Thanks to Bruno Martins for his MTK-tools and C3C076 for helping with compiling.

his sources are here:

https://github.com/C3C0/android_bootable_recovery

I will put up my own github when I have time.

Md5sum of the img file: 84ade7fc01d445fbb2d06363af593d6a

some roms available:

http://www.needrom.com/phone-roms/star/n9599/

Please feel free to start fiddling like I did, perhaps we can compile CM10.1 :).

cheers
[General Questions and Answers] carolinaandrade:
Hello, I'm so sorry I really didn't find any thread about this phone, thank very much for your information, so I hope you can complete to get CM 10.1 working just fine and I will be happy to flash it later :)

Can you tell me if the phone size is the same? ( not the display) because I would like to buy some cases to it, but I don't know if they fit
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
what do you mean by size then? Mine has 1/16gb ram/rom.

did you try the recovery yet? I am wondering if the devices are the same.

Make sure you make a backup of recovery with mtk droid tools before flashing, so you can go back.
[General Questions and Answers] carolinaandrade:
I mean the mobile size, is it the same of galaxy note 2?

I haven't done anything yet, because I prefer to wait by someone better than me doing it with the stuff you provide me
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
The specs are online everywhere, right?

No offense, but it is expected that you search before asking :) (like with rooting).

the phone is a bit bigger than the Note 2, 5.5" instead of 5.3".

I have both :). The bigger size is especially nice for games like Dungeon Hunter 4 :).

It's a great phone and it has some extra sensor for the pen, although not pressure sensitive like the Note 2.

Do you own one?

I'll post here if I have something, no ETA's :).
[General Questions and Answers] carolinaandrade:
I know, I'm not refereeing to the display size, but the mobile size itself. Can I use Note 2 cases in it? That's what I didn't find!

I bought one, I will have it with me tomorrow, although I just understand the basis for uploading the android system, so I come here to get some help :)

Thank you very much and I'm sorry if I got you upset!
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Hi, ok, that is a bit clearer.

I am not upset, but it helps to search and be very specific in what you like to know, I do not mind to help, but sometimes I'm just a bit irritated about people wasting others peoples time, while the info is just a few posts back.

Happened to me too, so don't worry, just some tips that will make the experience here better I hope.

To answer your question: the device is bigger than an Note, the precisely fitting covers will not fit.

Mine came with a flap and a cover and funny enough, also with some bag that it does not fit in :).
[General Questions and Answers] verynoob:
I've read many posts in a forum in my country that Star brand has problem such as GPS problems, suddenly the SIM cards arent recognized, recovery doesn't work, phone won't turn on, burnt pixels which is a big problem too..

You do not have any of these? (not even a burnt pixel? :D)

Btw, the specs says it record 1080p, it really does?

And last thing.. about the glass.. it is not gorilla glass.. isn't it dangerous for such a large lcd to not have gorilla glass? I mean, one drop and it's dead no?.. did you have any dropping/accident experience with it? what do you think about the normal glass protection?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Hi,

I have had GPS problems with most MTK6577 based phones, a lot of manufacturers make poor antenna's.

Lenovo is good, Bedove on some as well.

The MTK6589 based ones do much better, although I do not by any Zopo anymore.

I don't take companies serious that have production failures in the GPS antenna (like my ZP 300+ had).

I had one phone with a lazy pixel and maybe one with a dead one (Zopo(again!) and Star).

I have been selling them for some time now (just a few) and I have not yet received any back, except one, which after opening appeared to have water in it.

The cam says 8mp in Antutu, should be 1080p right?

Honestly I don't care :). Sometimes lower res is better with a better sensor.

Also the software for making pictures is important: proper use of flash for lighting and so on.

This phone does pretty good, only in dark conditions, the preview on the screen is very dark, but the photo's are very good.

Gorilla glass is more expensive, and version 2 on the Galaxy S3 was total crap. It got bursts by looking at it.

There is a screenprotector included, it's fine. It's a very good phone for the price.

Just keep a cover on it (included with mine) and don't put your keys next to it.

Then how could you scratch it?

By one with gorilla glass if you want to show your friends you an scratch it with metal :).

I just dropped my Galaxy Note once, it fell on the screen with gorilla glass.

No scratch, but phone did not boot (fixed under warranty fortunately).

A lot of people dropped their Galaxy S3 with Gorilla glass and had broken screens, google it, it's terrible!

Really, somebody close dropped one in a complete cover from a low distance and it was broken!

€170 for a new screen! I can buy a new phone for that!

I never dropped another phone, but this one looks sturdy.

Get a good cover and you should be good.

If you want a rugged nice smart phone, get the Lenovo A660.

It has MTK6577, but with good GPS and it's IP67 certified.

I put in a vase with water and it kept working, it has gorilla glass and nice covers are available.
[General Questions and Answers] verynoob:
Thank you for this great review :)

And about rugged case, are there any cases of other phones that fit this phone? or it's hard to get rugged cases for this Star N9599?

Because you said to get rugged case but I can't find those hybrid sillicone+hard plastic types of cases that protect very well..
[General Questions and Answers] carolinaandrade:
Thank you very much! Listen, the LED function doesn't work?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
I have no clue what you mean by that.

Please try to be specific!

I have not seen a notification LED.

I won't be going into remarks like you posted anymore: if you do not take an effort, neither will I (seriously, although I really like to help people, I have lots of better things to do and I get really irritated by these simple to me meaningless comments that are popped like this, especially when I pointed that out before).

Seriously, did you read your own comment? You want me to listen and tell me something?

I think you should really look at this :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmvCpR45LKA

:).

[MENTION=5019980]verynoob[/MENTION]

you're welcome.

Like I mentioned, mine came with covers.

Just google it dude!

I have put effort in elaborately answering your question, please don't expect me to google for a fitting cover.

g's, go to your local market if that helps.

Good luck folks and please watch that video and read the forum rules.

Please educate yourself and contribute!

I am off trying to fix my phone with a broken baseband.

cheers
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
Hardware chrash -- Recover stock ROM

Hi all,

just a friend has a problem after hardware crash. After changing of the main board the phone is be never starting again.

He had only a Android Backup and he's not sure if the backup is complete. Forget it.

My idea is to flash a complete stock ROM , but it does not exist anywhere. Needrom has only CWM-R based updates.

My question now:

Who of you has a stock ROM or where can I download it to me?

The phone it is not on my desk yet, because and I don't know if it is ever is still accessible by droidtool.exe or flashtool.exe. But if so, then I need a flash-ready stock ROM of Star N9599 or a compatible equivalent.

Any Ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Look on needrom.com.
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
Please note: Needrom has only CWM-R based updates.
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Have you ever looked at it? Because the certainly don't.
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
Yes, I had...
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Ok sorry, i looked at another model.

Why not flash those with cwm?

If you want anyone to help, please be very detailed in what your issue is.

Use mtk droid tool and sp flash tool for recovery, i also think i posted 1
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
Because the briked phone does'nt had a cwm I use the following steps for solution:

1. Flash with an other own scatter the recovery.IMG from upgrade cwm archiv

2. Boot into CWM-R

3. recover by restore the whole upgrade

4. All thinks work fine now

THX for your support.
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Great to read that!

I build my own CWM 6, thought I posted it.

You are welcome, always nice if the thanks button is pressed :).

I am considering porting MIUI to this device and I have also looked at CyanogenMod.

I flashed by accident a build.prop file with 240 dpi to the phone.

Check that out if you will, just add ro.sf.lcd_density=240 i think.

Really looks awesome on this size screen :).

cheers
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
About the use of the Thanks button, I do not really need instructions:laugh:. The using is voluntary and I use it whenever a real help was available.:confused:

1 st "How can I find the download link of CWM 6? It the version more as 6.0.3.2? It the size of recovery.img greater than 6.144 kByte?

2 nd Do you need in this threat a link to my custom flashable Stock ROM (Multilanguage) including gtools? If so, how can I store the ROM?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Clear about the thanks part, hope I was helpfull in reviving your phone :).

Recovery is version 6.0.3.3 I think. I compiled it myself, it is 6088 kb.

Not sure if it works for you too, because I ordered the phone as a N9599 but it says N9589 in the inside.

If you have version 6, you are good :).

My ROM is mulitlanguage and has gapps by default.

It is always nice to share your custom roms though.

I am thinking what would be a good way to order all those thinks? A big MTK6589 with subs as devices could be nice.

For hosting you can use dev-host, mediafire, or one of those and then link here.

Good luck!
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
Do you have included "wipe battery status" in the CWM-R Menu?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
no i have not. there are free tools in the market that do battery calibration :)
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
What is the reason for reduce the functionality? Space?

Do you have a download link?
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
I took the sources of the ThL W8, it was not in there I guess.

I think I read earlier that it was also removed from official sources.

While compiling I did need a trick to fit in space, but I think it would fit.

Just no need for me to try :).

The recovery is attached, no warranties at all off course :).

You need SP flash tool to flash it.

grtz

[update]

gees man, I told several times I posted that recovery and thought you would take the time to look in those few previous pages.

And there it was, two clicks back by the way:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=44225549&postcount=37

[/update]
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
Haipai Noble N7889

I have ported this for a Haipai Noble N7889 with the droidtool. It works fine.

Thx
[General Questions and Answers] witehart:
Help!!....Just got my N9599.....so far happy apart from not sure if I'm getting 3g signal when out and about as I'm unable to download anything unless near wifi

Any suggestions re setting it up correctly

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] OpenMinded:
Before screeming help, did you do any testing? Looked at settings? Is your 3g activated on the sim? did you look under mobile network settings if it is enabled? Last but not least, check the APN settings for your provider and see if they are properly set.

By the way, those are not really N9599 specific things, just general android question, so just use google.
[General Questions and Answers] kerob_labs:
homescreen and others

I'm very happy with my N9599, one of the things most impressed me was using skype with video-call.

But there are things that don't work properly...I don't know if any of you had similar trouble, I tried some different launchers (such as Go Launcher) and it's not keeping as default launcher. I often need to start it again after doing little things like checking my gmail after received a notification. Ah, and I can't add/remove pages from the homescreen!

Another thing, there are some apps that install widgets, for my N9599 I can't add the widget (like world clock and weather apps). I have a Lenovo 2107 and all these apps work fine. I know how to add widgets, I know how to add/remove homecreem pages, but I can't find how to do it in my N9599...

Cheers
[General Questions and Answers] lupiro:
Hi, I'm using the Apex-launcher (free), works like a charm - what does it say when you select a different default launcher in the settings?
[General Questions and Answers] kerob_labs:
Well, I go to preferences, set as default Launcher, it shows the pop-up, I select Go Launcher and Always, it works fine, but if I get an email from the notification bar and open it, it comes back to the original launcher. I'm afraid could be something wrong with my phone, I tried Apex-Launcher and the UI got a bit messed up when I deleted some pages from the home-screen...
[General Questions and Answers] free33sky:
thx share hust want it :good:
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
My HaiPai Stock ROM and Recovery

Yes of course:

here you can find all thinks to Haipai OraNeedRom = OraXdaDevelopers:)

I'm would be afraid over a good rating:)
[General Questions and Answers] Daemonarch2k:
:D

You mean you would be happy about... Afraid would mean you were scared of a thanks... :angel:
[General Questions and Answers] eliafino:
Hi [MENTION=4539284]OraXdaDevelopers[/MENTION]

I try your wonderful ROM for my Haipai N7889, all is perfect, only 1 thing: all is too big, icons, text, bar...

How do I reduce everything to see more things?
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
You can try to switch in tablet mode. You need the following entry within /system/build.prop

ro.sf.lcd_density=280

Please do it carfully. make a backup, before changes;)

Thanks
[General Questions and Answers] eliafino:
Thanks,

I try change DPI, but in home screen icons disappear... only problem is this...
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
I known it, please install the nova launcher and all works fine!
[General Questions and Answers] eliafino:
Thanks, I try now and with this launcher is all perfect!
[General Questions and Answers] OraXdaDevelopers:
Sorry, not all:)

This widget does not works longer. My wife like it:)
[General Questions and Answers] daserver:
Super N9599 phone

What I did :

- Rooted

- CWM 6

- Made backup first

- Delete all China stuff

- From Google store installed "Uninstall Master" to strip it even more

- Installed Xposed installer 2.2 (for me only works with SuperSU 1.65)

- Installed GravityBox 2.4.1 (now have more options, like transparent statusbar, centered clock, etc)

- Installed AdAway 2.7

- Installed Apex Launcher 2.1.0

and more

Awesome fine tuned a lot, super :cool: