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[Android General] gerstavros:
if you are newbie, don't try it.

But if you wanna stop being newbie and star having troubles :p

install drivers http://www.mediafire.com/download/vih6rwggy7ilbd7/MT6589_drivers_winxp-win7_32-64_bit.zip

download SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1316.0.150

Download MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txt, recovery.img and lk.bin

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wrr6ugqh6rrjzo2/ZZAmzzPEjg

Load scatter on sp flash tool , press download, connect phone in usb with no battery, and then put battery
[Android General] Feroxy:
Can n9500's rom work on another mt6589 phone without patching modem.bin and other files ??:rolleyes:
[Android General] gerstavros:
NO
[Android General] Feroxy:
Hmmm thnxx ... then apart from modem.img , which files do i need to patch etc ??
[Android General] sas007:
Dont bother find the right rom for that device...What are you trying to do?
[Android General] Feroxy:
I have blu life play and there's no custom rom for it so i am trying to port from a device having mt6589 chipset and i am a total newbie at this :(
[Android General] sas007:
http://www.needrom.com/?s=BLU+L100&sa=search&scat=0
[Android General] Feroxy:
Got it
[Android General] janeka_pt:
The launchers (GO Launcher and Nova) kill my accelerometer... After a few days after installing the launcher, the rotation stops working. I've downloaded the accelerometer monitor app and the fps are really low...

Anyone has the same problem?

Sent from my N9500
[Android General] sas007:
get rid of the launchers then..or do a Factory Data Reset which will get rid of any crap that may be causing a problem and re install the launchers and see how you go .there is not much else you can do,this only happens normally after a fall or something been dropped.

try Down load a bubble level app and calibrate the app and test it against a known level surface using a standard level.

Try Sensor Tester from the Play Store. No guarantees as far as its accuracy but I downloaded it and it definitely has an option to recalibrate.
[Android General] janeka_pt:
Didn't fell, at least with me. After the factory reset or flashing new rom it starts working again... With the default launcher it works perfectly. Going to download those apps...

Thanks

Sent from my N9500
[Android General] pzonic:
What model is my phone and what's the correct ROM for it?

Hello,

I've bought this phone:

w w w . aliexpress . com/item/HLD-I9500-S4-5-0-IPS-HD-Screen-Android-4-1-H9500-3G-Smart-Phone-with/937944803.html

It says:

Model: GT-I9500

Android Version: 4.2.9

Baseband: MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.MP.V6 2013/05/08 11:19

Kernel:

3.4.5-447903 se.infra@SEP-92 #1

Thu Jul 4 22:27:36 CST 2013

Compiled Number:

JDQ39.I9500ZSUAMDF

Personalized Compiled Version:

I9868.I9868.02.02.A.A-V05.3-0704

I have already rooted it, could you please tell me what is the correct ROM for it, I dont't know what model is this.

I have bought it as a 2GB RAM but I guess it's only 512MB...

Thanks in advance.
[Android General] gerstavros:
it' s a feiteng H9500 with mtk6589 1GB RAM and 960x540 screen
[Android General] Hacker@lho:
Hi all, the n9500 camera as the photo sphere mode? It's supposed to be there(since it's android 4.2), but I can't find it...
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
Very pleased with my phone!

Hi All

My STAR N9500 turned up yesterday. What a phone! Two covers, headphones, charger, USB lead, screen protector etc. all packaged in a box that wouldn't look out of place on a shelf in a phone shop. I'm very impressed.

GPS seems okay, none of the bars go into the green part of the scale in the GPS Test app, but it seems to hold a GPS fix and the accuracy seems good. A couple of days of tracking my walking and cycling should tell me if it's up to scratch.

Installed all of the apps I needed, and discovered the 3D Live Weather widget, complete with a little sheep strolling around a field, love it! I saw that I couldn't remove the Google Search bar from the top of the page, and after reading in here, installed Nova Launcher and that fixed that. Unfortunately, the 3D Live Weather widget is now nowhere to be found. It seems to have disappeared from my list of widgets, so I can't restore it. I uninstalled Nova Launcher and it re-appeared, so it's Nova Launcher which seems to be hiding it. Any ideas what could be going on here?

Cheers

Steve
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
Spoke too soon...

Went for a walk lunchtime, and the GPS may be screwed. I use an app called Endomondo to track my walking/cycling and for my 3.5 mile walk, Endomondo recorded 46.74 miles in 55 minutes!

GPS Test was giving me a figure of 3 mph, which was roughly correct, but it doesn't record distance, so I don't know if it's the GPS which is wrong or Endomondo. I'm going to try one or two other GPS related apps and see what they say.

Oh, and it seems that some custom widgets can't be used with non-standard launchers, so that's why I can't have my sheep bouncing around. 8-(

Steve
[Android General] sas007:
Its there in camera options.

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Gps on this device is no good what so ever everyone has tried various fixes to no avail.When you say custom widgets do you mean ones downloaded from play as there should be no problem
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
Actually, GPS seems to be fine. There are some GPS apps which seem to have a problem with some Android 4.2.1 builds, and they get the distance completely wrong (by a factor of at least 10). This has been seen with a build of Cyanogen 10.1 amongst others (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=36224884#post36224884 and http://review.cyanogenmod.org/#/c/29732/). It's some sort of floating point problem with Dalvik (whatever that is!). The strange thing is that if you go to the Endomondo web site and export the workout which the Endomondo app recorded to a .GPX file, and then import the .GPX file back into Endomondo, everything looks fine, the distances are correct, so it does look like it's an Endomondo app problem rather than GPS.

I've tried Sports Tracker, and that has the same problem, so I'll keep trying different GPS apps until I find one that works.

Oh, custom widgets. Badly phrased by me. I've found other reports of widgets which work with the phones native launcher, but as soon as you install a new launcher, they widgets disappear. These widgets seem to only be available in the native launcher for the phone in question.

Steve
[Android General] idoasis:
Have a problem with the camera.

Sometime its stuck and need to reboot.

Any idea?
[Android General] sas007:
Have you tried another camera app from play..does the same happen?

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There are a few custom roms for this device that have been souped up and optimized.your problem could easy be just your firmware,but flashing has its problems but i have had a mantra that when in doubt flash a new or different rom and it always seems to sort out any problems,also a good old factory reset can sometimes help.but you need to tread carefully if you are a novice to it.

as for the app you can try to uninstall it clear any data and start a fresh install.I have used this app in the past also but had no problems.

I can not even say use another type as i know as with when i used it its all linked.
[Android General] Hacker@lho:
Hi sas007,

I can't find the photo sphere option in camera.

Can you post a screenshot of the option?

Thanks
[Android General] MARKINTON:
N9500 802.11n wireless network connection

Hi,

I own a Netgear WNDR3700 with supports IEEE® 802.11 b/g/n 2.4 GHz and IEEE 802.11 a/n 5.0 GHz. I can not connect my N9500 with my N-type wireless network. I can not see it in the wireless network-list.

Is the N9500 capable of connecting to N-type wireless networks?:confused:
[Android General] pzonic:
I've installed a Feiteng H9500 and I have bricked the Phone, then I discovered that this phone was a Bluebo B9500, installed the correct ROM and it's working again...
[Android General] sas007:
Sure it is mine did/does

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Heres a treat for you.

http://www.needrom.com/phone-roms/bluebo/
[Android General] pzonic:
That's from where I get the ROM for Bluebo ;)
[Android General] drc1:
Mods.

Hi All,

Got my n9500 about a month ago. Says on the box its a EX'NoteIV from exmobile but in mobiluncle tools it shows as an alps n9500.

Has same Baseband Version as the one quoted by sas007 and his cwm works ok on it.

Cannot get the other one he supplied from bruno to work though.

Thanks to him for this and also all the other tips I have picked up from this blog.

Very pleased with the phone so far and no problems.

Got it from a supplier on ebay located in wolverhampton so paid a little bit more for it but recieved it within two days and it came rooted.

Intended to put a new rom on it from needroms but am a bit wary of this.

Then found two apps that allow you to customise the existing rom with various tweaks such as battery icons,centre clock plus other cm type mods.

You have to load this one first:- [FRAMEWORK ONLY!] Xposed - ROM modding without modifying APKs .

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1574401

Then this module but there are others not quite as complete:- [APP][XPOSED] GravityBox v1.8.5 - tweak box for MTK6589

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2316070

Both work fine for me and as I said there are other modules availiable that only do one or two things.

I will probably get brave enough to flash a new rom one day but for now as everything is working ok these mods do all I want so thought I would pass them on.

Cheers.
[Android General] sas007:
sounds good.
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
Found a GPS app that works with no problems, Runkeeper, so the GPS information is definitely good, there seem to be a problem with some GPS apps and the GPS implementation of some 4.2.1 versions.

Flashing was going to be my next move. Done this sort of thing before, so I'll give it a go now!

Steve
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
No flashing for me...

Well, I successfully rooted the phone using the link from the very first post here with no problems. I tried to use flashtool to flash CWM recovery, but didn't get too far. I installed the MTK USB drivers etc. loaded the scatter file, clicked on "Download" and when I connected the phone (without battery) I got a red progress bar in flashtool, and then an error:

SP FLASH TOOL ERROR: 8038

I'm looking to see what I can do to fix this, but if anyone has any ideas, fire away.

Steve
[Android General] sas007:
This Means That You cant flash only the recovery file for a partition mismatch problem, you need to flash the whole rom (switching New recovery.img for the original recovery.img) put just recovery img into firmware (copy and replace) but press the "update" button, not the "dowload" one in flashtool so you are only updating recovery.

it should work.also you can untick everything but recovery in flashtool and flash just recovery..but do the first one first
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
Whoops!

Well, I flashed with what should have been a good ROM, and now I have a brick. It won't power on, and I can't flash anything to it using SP Flashtool. I've downloaded all of the ROMs recommended in all the of the posts here, and no luck. I'm in a similar situation to "tuxtong" in some earlier posts, where nothing works, all attempts to flash give a "4032" error in SP Flashtool, and the device is only seen as an "MTK USB Port".

I did notice that "tuxtong" fixed their phone, but fir the life of me, I can't figure out how, given the URL to an Italian forum, which only links to a single page with no links or information.

Any ideas, anyone?

Steve

PS. I did a MTKDroid Tools backup before I did any of this, but I can't see a way of getting it back onto the phone. The backup isn't readable in SP Flash Tools, so I'm guessing it's some other format, such as CWM?
[Android General] sas007:
God knows whats happened.

I have not tried myself but I believe that this rom can be flashed to device after a soft brick..it will look crap and not work but will enable you to then flash correct rom for device.http://www.needrom.com/mobile/star-s5-2/

here are some other n9500 roms..you will need to register to download.

http://www.needrom.com/phone-roms/star/n9500/

I can not stress enough that before anyone flashes any Roms to make a note of build.model,baseband,kernel of device from settings/about phone as to match back firmware and avoid trouble....

hope this helps just keep trying stuff i have had this a hundred times and allways get there in the end.
[Android General] oscarblue48:
In mtkdroid tools click on 'to prepare blocks for flashtool' then navigate to the folder of the backup you just made, and select the MD5 file and then open, the software will then copy all the files necessary for SPflashtool and save them in a file 'files to flashtool' in the backup folder.

Hope this helps:)
[Android General] semmiquake:
First Post

hi
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
I'm downloading the S5 firmware now, so I'll test that out. Until then, I've got to fall back on my old Samsung Galaxy S. :(

Edit: Tried that, no go. Still the same error. Seems that no matter what ROM I try, it always fails with the same error.

Thanks for that information. Good to know, although I still get the same 4032 error using the scatter file created from MTKDroid tools. :(

Onwards and upwards, I know I can fix this, it might take some time!

Steve
[Android General] sas007:
You can make your own Cwm recovery using droid tools its dead easy.it shows you here.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2160490
[Android General] oscarblue48:
you could try uninstalling and reinstalling your mtk usb vcom drivers and/or try a different build of sp flashtool the later versions don't seem to work as well as earlier ones, might be wrong but I think if you can't flash your backup then its probably a driver or software problem.
[Android General] sas007:
Hello and welcome
[Android General] Nibiru2012:
Where does one find the ORIGINAL Stock ROM for the ALPS Star N9500 phone?? JB v4.2.1 ?

The NEED ROM website does not have it at all. I know because it shows a different name under the "About" section in my phone.

Any help would be greatly appreciated! If I have missed a post where it's mentioned then that's my bad. Just smack my a** and call me Bubba! LOL!

Also, need good clear exact concise instructions on to do ROM flashes, updates, etc., although I will continue to search the website here.

Thanks Y'all! :fingers-crossed:
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
No progress so far

I'm not sure what that would achieve (unless I'm missing something?) 'cause at the moment, MTK Droid Tools can't even see the phone when it's connected. The only device which is "created" when the phone is connected is a "MTK USB Port" device.

I've tried this on a different laptop, which has never had these drivers loaded before, still no luck. Used the drivers from pdanet+ and also a different set of drivers,and three different versions of SP Flash Tool, and I always get an error.

Looks like I might have to dig out the jewelers screwdrivers and see what this test point thing is all about, unless anyone else has any ideas?

Steve
[Android General] sas007:
http://pcrepairbook.com/guide-2/how-to-unbrick-n9500-666524.html

http://www.filecrop.com/star-n9500.html

http://forum.chinafonini.it/viewtopic.php?p=113069

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http://www.filecrop.com/star-n9500.html

http://forum.chinafonini.it/viewtopic.php?p=113069

Hope it helps you all....
[Android General] oscarblue48:
Hmm, what do you see in device manager when you connect your switched off phone, any movement in the ports section?
[Android General] Nibiru2012:
Which ROM would I download? There are 5 ROMs listed. That Italian website is tough to navigate, no way to change language display, so I am using Chrome browser to translate for me.

Instructions are lacking clarity at the website. Especially for an Android noob as myself.
[Android General] idoasis:
Got the new phone, whisling exists also in this phone.

If I touch the microphone during a call with the loudspeaker, there is a whistle.

If I increase the maximum loudspeaker volume in engineer mode, the whistle exists while using loudspeaker (only on a call) all the time.

Maybe its after all a firmware problem.

Did anyone noticed it?
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
Well, after loads of different combinations of roms and flash tool versions,I appear to have a working phone!

I eventually used SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1316.0.150 and the 20130514 rom and for some reason it worked!

Now to get everything back on this phone...

Thanks for all the suggestions everyone! Think I'll leave this flashing stuff for a while, until I'm feeling braver!

Steve
[Android General] sas007:
Well done.yes it is a tricky job even for us seasoned professionals,things constantly go wrong that defy logic and just dont make sense..everything you do is correct and everything you use is correct and still it dont happen.One of the major causes is the device,as it has newer models released the hardware changes in device so firmware for previous versions wont work and it can be ages until the correct firmware is found.

ANOTHER TIP IS WHEN BUYING FIRST ASK SELLER TO PROVIDE YOU WITH A COPY OF THE FIRMWARE IF THEY CAN NOT GO SOMEWHERE THAT CAN.IF YOU HAVE CORRECT FRMWARE FLASHING ETC IS LESS OF A CHORE AS YOU WILL ALWAYS HAVE FIRMWARE TO FLASH BACK.

ALSO FIRST ROOT DEVICE INSTALL CWM AND MAKE A NANDROID BACK UP TO SD CARD AND COPY TO COMPUTER..AGAIN YOU CAN RE INSTALL SHOULD YOU HAVE PROBLEMS.

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Hi mate as i said before i believe this to be hardware and you should send device back for repair or exchange.

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you need to find out what is on your device first..look in settings/about phone and see build number,model etc.find a rom that is a match
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
Strange thing is that I'd already tried that combination of ROM and SP Flash Tool before, and it didn't work. It suddenly worked late last night as I was about to give up for the day and go to bed!

Now I have my phone back working, I followed the instructions (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=38337401&postcount=5) using SP Flash Tools and MTKDroid to create/install CWM and it's currently backing up to the SD card as I type.

One question. How do I switch between the two cameras? When I go into the camera app, I can't see any way of switching to the front camera. Does this mean that the front one isn't working, or is there an option I'm missing?

Thanks again for all the help and advice.

Steve

PS. Just fyi, GPS still doesn't play well with most GPS tracking apps, even after flashing to get the phone working. Switched to Runkeeper and it works with no problems.
[Android General] sas007:
Yep unfortunately there is a generic hardware fault with the GPS..You would think they would fix it in newer models..??
[Android General] Nibiru2012:
I downloaded ROM Manager from the Google Play Store.

It states that CWM will not work with my Star N9500 phone, also states that TWRP will not work either (ie, not supported).

I think I am going to hang on to the phone for a few months more and then purchase the Pantech Vega Sky R3 A850S. The Sky A850S can support GSM WCDMA and 4G plus it has the Qualcomm Snapdragon Quad Core CPU.

The Star N9500 has been and is a good entry phone for me, but the specs for the 850S are very good, IMHO.

As stated before I am an Android NOOB... somewhat embarrassed because I am a moderator on two Windows forums. :o

~Nibs
[Android General] sas007:
it does support it as i use it,it just dont download and install one for you as you just need to make one for device and/or if you look through the thread you will see there are a couple of CWM that work on this device posted.
[Android General] BunsenHoneydew:
I wouldn't agree with that, to be honest. The GPS works fine on my phone using RunKeeper, the distances and speed are all good. Endomondo is capturing the GPS information correctly, as you can export the data and import it back into Emdomondo and everything looks fine, the problem is the way that the app is reading the GPS data while it's recording. Other people have reported the same problem with other phone such as the THL W8 , Jiayu G4, Lenovo s750 etc. Seems that the problem is evident on MTK6589 based phones. While recording, the distance measurement doesn't change fluidly, it stops at one figure, then 10 seconds later it suddenly increases, by far more that the real distance which has been travelled. Wierd!

I've still got one more question. When using the camera, how do you switch from the rear camera to the front camera? I can't find a way of doing this on my phone in the camera app. Maybe if my front camera isn't working, the option doesn't appear? Anyone know if that's the case? If it is, I'll mess around with SP_MDT and see if I can fix it.

Thanks

Steve

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CWM does work, I made a CWM image only yesterday for my Star N9500. Look a few posts above and I linked to a post which tells you how to use SP Flash Tools and MTKDroid to create/install a CWM image.

...and the front camera is fixed! It seems that the option to switch cameras doesn't appear if the front camera isn't working. I used SP_MDT to change the front-sensor to gc2235_raw, downloaded the revised uboot.bin using SP Flasg Tool and bingo!

Steve
[Android General] sas007:
read the thread especially the first page,there are flashing and how to do tutorials posted there.

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[Android General] freedgt:
NEW UPGRADE STOCK ROM

Kernel 09/07/2013

Baseband 12/07/2013

Build 12/07/2013

for recovery CWM

http ://dfiles.eu/files/4d783vbsa
[Android General] sas007:
Nice

Here is direct link http://dfiles.eu/files/4d783vbsa

Can only be installed via recovery,so do your wipes delvik,factory reset etc.

link to information read first http://forum.chinafonini.it/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=15172&start=20

Hi all have a read of this as it may apply to you..very good read opened my eyes.

http://fastmhz.com/?p=2460
[Android General] MLAM:
Interesting that, have you come across any of those rogue apps in your N9500?
[Android General] Hacker@lho:
Nice information,

but in my device never had notifications in chinese or other suspicious things.

But in my device I had this ones:

uuplay.apk, projectmkmassags.apk, and smsreg.apk.

I renamed the extension let's see if something changes...
[Android General] Hylix:
Hey guys!

I am wondering if the Orient N9500 is basically the same device as the STAR N9500.

I got the Orient version yesterday and everything seems to be the same. I also saw someone else comenting in this thread that the root tool didn't work but someone helped him with a link to another tool that worked, so that's not what I am worried about.

I am wondering if the roms made for the STAR also work on the Orient device. Someone ever tried this?

Thnx!
[Android General] sas007:
The root tool basically has nothing to do with make of device but rather the cpu running it.If you have the same specs then the Motochopper root tool will work as long as you have the drivers for device installed on computer and USB de-bugging is enabled in developer options on device.
[Android General] Hylix:
Yeah someone already suggested the Motochopper tool and it seems like it worked.

But I am wondering if the ROMS for the STAR also work on the Orient version. They are both S4 clones and are both called N9500 (samsung's name?) also it seems like the specs are exactly the same and one some sites they even call them te same, but my device only has 4gb ROM instead of 8gb....
[Android General] sas007:
post here the specs,go to settings/about phone and tell me

BASEBAND

KERNEL

MODEL

BUILD NUMBER.