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[Android General] RobboW:
Something to consider for you, for the alarm volume issue, in PowerAmp you can save different equalisation profiles so could have one for inbuilt speaker.

Even better than this, with Neutron you can set different profiles but they attach to the output automatically. I've just been looking at this and like Viper, it auto switches profile depending if it's on speaker, line out or bluetooth :P

I've uninstalled Walkman now, and anything else related. Neutron and Viper AudioFX is the best pairing you will find IMO. Walkman is easier to use but ultimately much more limiting. I find turning off swipe function in Neutron makes it a lot easier to use.
[Android General] Sargos76:
Hi djport all ok? Wtf nothing on this link! Info please?

Saludos
[Android General] djport1973:
Try this

https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=jcjh0Vl5hwkxsnA+n2yGzDT3iWMGcEuFTg58ZHNza/U=
[Android General] RobboW:
Is that a modded stock ROM?

I see it has Xposed and Viper audio already.

Never mind, I had a look at the thread for it. How does a Vanilla ROM work for W200 in regard to driver support?
[Android General] djport1973:
It goes very well. The only thing is the LED to be activated. The rest very well. Supposedly based on AOSP 4.2.2
[Android General] RobboW:
Does the old .so file replacement fix LED or would that ruin it?

I was playing with brightness settings in Gravitybox, rebooted and it stayed stuck on bootanimation :crying:

Looks like time to give up on XperiaC ROM. I've been really struggling to get battery life out of it, but it was running fast until that happened. To be honest, I'm really fed up with fiddling with my phone and just want it running as expected, all working properly with reasonable battery life.
[Android General] djport1973:
I feel that the rom do not work well. Adjust the brightness with no problem grabitybox
[Android General] RobboW:
Yes, that's what I did and on reboot it wouldn't pass the bootanimation. Going to try MeROM, if that is no good, back to Ludoo ROM.

Wiped and flashed, booting Me.
[Android General] djport1973:
Ok. Have you tried this stock ROM of Miljenko

https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=6ziZfVeldy0oJ6x9wef2+WE90pX2XOn/j/Fh52fPwLo=
[Android General] RobboW:
Didn't know he had done one, what's done to it?
[Android General] djport1973:
Here you go. Is deodex. perfect for me

http://www.pandawillforum.com/showthread.php?24168-THL-W200-Pandawill-firmware
[Android General] RobboW:
Downloading. That will be a great fallback if ME doesn't work out, but so far I like what I see. What was with the LED? Just like stock THL and will replacing the .so file fix it?
[Android General] Sargos76:
I have the stock 130817 zound v2.5 and works great (never the phone has shut down again) i will download the roms for test in the future but for now will stay with this one, tired of stress, for now.. :)
[Android General] RobboW:
MeROM is very promising, looks simple like stock, a lot of options in settings, runs fast. It has changed my partitioning though :eek:
[Android General] Sargos76:
What the hell! Has changed? Did you find how?
[Android General] djport1973:
The LED run Fine.The ROM run very fine
[Android General] djport1973:
The memory change is not real. Just shows all memory and system apk 1 pieces. You have to look at titanium
[Android General] djport1973:
I fretted with the density of the display. I put it to the real 294 pixel and now it looks good on screen but shows more.

Sense theme :)
[Android General] marsian0:
The only thing i've found in this rom is that fm radio doesn't work through headphones, when you set it to speaker it sounds in both.

in mine the notification light works but very dimm..

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Now the led notifications works ok.

I will try the new version, to see if fm radio is fixed.
[Android General] RobboW:
Me!ROM doesn't have Exchange2 installed and I can't install it from backup of the one from my Ludoo install. This renders it useless to me as I need exchange email for work. Looks like I will have to go back to Ludoo ROM or Zound. I'm sick of fiddling with experiments.

Unless someone knows how to get around this? Why do people remove this from ROMs? It's a needed part :eek:
[Android General] marsian0:
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Tried this new version, fmradio working as expected.
[Android General] miljenko:
Because PORTs are made for personal use, more or less. Extract exchange from that file that ludoo attached on his ppst at needrom and copy it into system. Don't forget to change permissions
[Android General] RobboW:
Already tried that as that's how I fixed other ROMs that didn't include it.

Didn't work :(

What if I drop the Odex file in too?
[Android General] djport1973:
Test pandawill stock
[Android General] RobboW:
I might flash my zound backup in. Get it running and leave it for the day. Can't spend more time on this.....

I just installed the dual sim pro ROM from needrom. It works the screen and digitiser in my phone.
[Android General] marsian0:
email

I just installed and configured exchange, had to wipe cache partition, dalvik cache, and voila.

i used email and exchange from pandawill rom, it must work for ludo apk.

cheers
[Android General] RobboW:
Awesome :good::p, maybe try it tonight. For now, I'm going back to Zound backup just so I can leave this phone alone and get onto other stuff.
[Android General] slowtorrent:
Please advise how did you solve the problem with dim led. Thank you.
[Android General] RobboW:
They mean notification LED, not button backlights. You cannot fix that, it's a physical design oversight.

Got Me!ROM working with Exchange. I was very tired and not thinking last night. All I did was delete any old system folders and files from internal SD, boot to recovery, clear data/cache, flash to Me!ROM (I had Zound back on it), get Gmail going and copy the email and exchange apk files from Pandawill to Me!ROM system/app and fix permissions and they worked straight away.

Doing the big set up on it now. Looks like this will be good. The Pandawill ROM looks good too, but Me!ROM has so much more already done to it and I really like the settings menu integration it has. I also like that it runs Xperia keyboard. I now can't stand other keyboards and the Google keyboard makes me want to crush the phone.
[Android General] Stenlius:
You can also use the email and exchange services from KitKat /just download the apk-s/, by doing the same procedure. I have them working in zound 2.5.
[Android General] djport1973:
This nicely ME! Rom.
[Android General] RobboW:
So far, Me!ROM is excellent!

It's lower in system resource drain and still runs smooth with a lot installed. I've had a smooth run setting up. It just works.

I installed HoloLauncher HD instead of using Apex (already have Pro unlock).

I was a bit dissapointed it has the cyanogen camera which I'm not keen on as it doesn't do widescreen images, poor user interface and has a broken function. If the original THL one can be installed that would be preferable. I just installed Lenovo Supercamera to try as an alternative, looks to be good. I have Camera FV-5 in there, but it doesn't do pano or most importantly, video.

I'm really liking this ROM so far. Mostly, it feels like it should have been in the phone from new.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
I've just installed Me!ROM too. Will need to use it for a few weeks to see how it goes but my needs are relatively simple. I tend to change Roms more just because I can than anything else.

So far great but as RobboW said camera although responsive is a bit disappointing. I've tried a few roms so I'm not sure which camera it was that worked best for me, but it had a decent panorama shot, maybe even 360 degrees.

Does anyone know how to turn off haptic feedback on the three bottom buttons?
[Android General] RobboW:
Haptic switch is down the bottom in general sound settings.

I like that it does a haptic pulse when I plug in my earbuds. Nothing to do with sound settings.

I'm finishing up early on this tonight, it's mostly set up now. Shower and get to bed :)

No 2am and later trying to fix it....

Have to see how it goes for battery and see how I like auto brightness. They were the two biggest problems with Xperia.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
Thanks for that - looked everywhere else and found a bunch of other settings but didn't look under sound. Looking forward to trying out Apollo.

Used Xperia for the last two weeks, wasn't the best as far battery goes but quite good compared to some of the roms I've tried. Everything else was fine and worked and I liked it a lot. Would probably be my favourite so far. Note port was good too. I think I locked my brightness to a level I preferred. I tend to use up to 30% of battery before I even get to work in the morning, fortunately I can leave it charging there.

Yet to try headphones but that's important for me, I have a bit over 4 hours commuting a day. Walkman on Xperia was good but I missed the folder view options of Poweramp. Last week I took my headphones off and discovered the sound was coming out of the phone as well as the earbuds, hopefully not for the whole train trip! Couldn't make it happen again and it hadn't happened before.
[Android General] layup23:
Haha that happened to me in the bus 2 times in a row! LOL

It was my fault because I didn't plug in the headphone jack well enough :)) !

I'm sure the people in the bus got a laugh, I was listening to a Christmas online Radio and it was the month of January. After I realized what happened I kept my head down and slowly got out of the bus.

Later Edit// I just flashed the "Dream Rom Port" made by region89 from 4pda ( from here http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=492598&st=5280#entry29026622 ). All I have to say so far is WOW! Lenovo has it right! I can't believe I never heard about this function called Smart Call, I just open up a contact, put the phone to my ear and it just starts calling that contact! And the same goes for when someone is calling you, if you place the phone next to your ear it automatically answers the call! It's awesome so far!
[Android General] Sargos76:
downloading for testing in the future,thanks layup23 :good:
[Android General] layup23:
Not a problem!

I found out that there's a new stock version of Android for the Thl W200 ( again I'm not super sure if I understood everything since this is from 4pda - http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=492598&st=5340#entry29086163 ). From the looks of it it's a new update from .130817 to.140111 .

I just flashed it and it seems pure stock( it just has the SuperSu app but it's not rooted so I don't get that part). Ram consumption is great ( only 390mb used) at first boot. I can see it's stock because it even has the " wireless update" section in the Settings.

This is the download link https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=WmVa6RHtoBgXgJFZmW/ZMszyAXXmnhGY2rnyD8e6nE0= . It was posted by region89 on 4pda.
[Android General] Sargos76:
Downloading thanks again,layup23 :)
[Android General] djport1973:
I have tried all roms 4pda. The new stock does not give overall difference
[Android General] miljenko:
Only difference over old stock is stronger mobile and wifo signal. Much better. Probably new modem.
[Android General] djport1973:
Sure you're right. But performance does not vary. A good kernel would make us lack
[Android General] layup23:
The guys over at 4pda kept mentioning that there is a new Kernel, the one from that 4.3 Rom.

I guess it's from this new stock Rom or perhaps they might have tinkered with the old one
[Android General] Sargos76:
Don't note any difference! As unrooted the phone on the update process!
[Android General] RobboW:
Probably miss-reports actual signal strength to make it look better, like Apple used to.

I installed a network widget and it showed a difference between interpretation of signal quality to what the signal showed in notification.

In gravitybox you can also turn on data meter and see just how much data it's pulling in.

I removed Gallery.apk from Me!ROM, it incorporates the gallery and camera. I have Lenovo Supercamera installed, which has it's own gallery but the camera is heaps better.

When I first ran Viper, this time I chose the medium quality option for driver install, to see if there was a difference. It still sounds super. Might be less power consuming?

My daughter wants a W200 now, but I'm wondering if I should just look at other brands instead of THL.....
[Android General] miljenko:
Octa core phones are starting to sell bellow 200$ and I would wait few weeks. Chinese companies are hard to decide, one phone can have great support, but next one can be forgotten totally.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
Did you do this after installing or to the .zip file beforehand. Did you get the camera from that DREAM rom posted last page by Layup23?
[Android General] RobboW:
Installed supercamera, had a look, then removed gallery. It's an apk somebody had linked here a long time back. I have it stored in my archives for W200. The app is too big to zip and attach to a post unfortunately.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
I think I found it. But can't post links it seems.

Maybe try this for anyone else looking

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=45646004&postcount=536
[Android General] RobboW:
That looks like the one I have. Here's the URL from the post.

https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B4huyVgvdssGUFkyRW5jM2htUk0/edit?pli=1

The included gallery works with wallpaper like the original one. Crop and apply etc. Shows the cross format within image rather than just a big square. It is a big app though, over 30Mb.

Edit:

Just ran Antutu on Me!ROM and it came in with a 16575, way better than the Xperia score and it's running antivirus, heaps of apps installed etc.
[Android General] RobboW:
I had a search around and I'm not finding octa core devices anywhere near that pricing (I'm AU$). The W200 still comes up as good value. I wonder if octa core phones will be easily affordable for a half decent one for a couple of months yet?

Still, my biggest issue with W200 is the old headphone socket standard. It makes things difficult for headphone choice and operation if you need the microphone. They all come with media control buttons which screw up operation on the THL phone. It's hard to find good buds with a mic that works for hands free calls because the button config usually impacts sound. We use old style Sony buds with mic and one button. The button is useless but the mic works and sound quality is exceptional for the price. Very hard to find them now.

BTW guys, I found this keyboard over there >>>> in the portal posts.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2640367

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=nextapp.inputmethod.latin

Very worth a look. I would possibly still like Xperia kb better for straight typing, but this has extra fuctions from a FCN key including arrow keys to navigate letters and lines and the alternate (long press) functions are in white so you can see them. I would use this on any ROM that doesn't have Xperia kb, but will use it with Me!ROM to give it a go anyway. See how I like it.
[Android General] RobboW:
Guys, with Me!ROM, does anyone know how to uninstall the Xthemer apps and remove their settings listing from the settings menu? Just a waste of resources having them installed. Probably me being a bit OCD with this.

The battery themer is pointless as it just re-creates what Gravitybox already gives (possibly creates conflicts) and the system themer is in Russian and I cannot even use it.

I de-activated battery themer, re-booted and removed it from system/app but the listing was still in settings and pressing it creates an error of course, so I put it back.

If I pick faults with Me!ROM, having these apps included within system settings is a mistake, and also the camera/gallery choice, but in general, it is a great ROM. My phone is running very smooth, RAM seems managed well, it responds fast, gets a good Antutu score so must be well optimised and finally, my battery is lasting again :p

Another thing, someone mentioned dim LED not far back and I assumed he meant the capacitive buttons below the screen, but on Me!ROM my notifications, whilst enabled, show very dim by LED flash. It looks to me like the pulse time of the LED is set too short so it doesn't light enough and you don't notice it flashing. Does anyone know if the .so file replacement will work for this ROM?

I might do a CWM backup and replace the file to test that because I want good notification LED performance.

I'm also thinking of changing from CWM to TWRP. I find CWM text is way too small on the HD screen. My eyes are hopeless and I think TWRP will make things easier for me. The thing that has held me off is that once you change over, old backups are useless.

How hard is it to make an app from one ROM work in another? An example is, I would like to run the XperiaC V2 calendar in Me!ROM, it's a better format for me. I really did like that port, just a shame it has some issues running the W200.
[Android General] Sargos76:
I've seen this to on 4pda! Its true the 4.3 to our W200?
[Android General] Grandone:
Just received one THL W200 from comebuy, looks like better than expected.:laugh:

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the resolution is ok.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoAj900_DyI
[Android General] RobboW:
I had a look at the notification LED with Me!ROM. Replacing the lights.default.so file doesn't make any difference, it blinks slowly and dim.

In Gravitybox there is a setting in display sub menu for "Pulse notification delay" which is set too high. I dropped it to 3 seconds which sped it up but it's still very dim. There's something else that has been altered. It will be either drive voltage for the LED or the time period it pulses on for, not the time between pulses. It should use less power to blink it but you miss notifications as it's way too brief/dim.

Edit:

Upon a google search, I see this is a "feature" of Jellybean. Maybe it changed from 4.2.1 to 4.2.2 and on Me!ROM this is normal behaviour? So maybe you would not see this issue on JB 4.2.1 based ROMs.
[Android General] miljenko:
Not true. Latest MTK SDK is for 4.2 and if we get anything higher it will be 4.4.2. Firmware refered as 4.3 at 4pda is from zopo with some tweeks.
[Android General] layup23:
If you're a fan of ported apps you should check this out - http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2335530
[Android General] Sargos76:
Ok, thanks miljenko
[Android General] marsian0:
Weird, i replaced the file and works fine, the pulse last about 2 secs, the light is bright red, no dim.

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Allegedly there is a new kernel, dated 20140102 for the w200, i saw it in a spanish forum, i think djporti has already flashed just the new kernel to the base rom, maybe he can tells us about this.
[Android General] RobboW:
I've installed an exposed module to make it work, it looks ok in test mode but need to see it work on a real incoming message.

http://repo.xposed.info/module/com.mohammadag.xposedledcontrol

Weird that yours worked and mine didn't. I suspect the difference will be either something selected in gravitybox or an exposed module installed.

From my googling it also appears that JB runs the LED two stage, off the light sensor input to prevent night time strobing. That doesn't worry me, I just want it bright.

Something else I noticed, Me!ROM doesn't have the sensor calibration section in settings like stock ROM did. Maybe that is also a problem? I can't remember exactly where it used to be.

Edit:

That Xposed module made no difference to it. Uninstalled. Issue persists.
[Android General] djport1973:
I put it in the ME ROM and less consumption. Similar performance. I'll put the stock miljenko pandawill.
[Android General] Sargos76:
Link for the new kernel? Thanks in advance
[Android General] djport1973:
Install without wipes

https://www.dropbox.com/s/n20o6xukk43a4cu/Kernel_W200_20140102.zip
[Android General] Sargos76:
Using zound 2.5 no problem?
[Android General] RobboW:
Installed :good::laugh:

Had a look in system panel, don't know if it's my imagination, but it seems to hold back from hitting full speed on the CPU a lot more.
[Android General] djport1973:
Just installed on pandawill stock. See if consumption is also down more in this good rom
[Android General] RobboW:
Anyone on Me!ROM, can you test if your magnetic sensor works ok. Mine is not responding.

Maybe trying a full install/setup on Pandawill ROM next......

I'm done with these little niggly issues.

Restoring to last nights backup just in case I borked something today.

So for a refresher, what was wrong with stock ROM other than stock camera issues (can install Lenovo Supercamera instead)?
[Android General] Sargos76:
All ok after update on zound 2.5
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
How do you want me to test it?
[Android General] RobboW:
Compass app or sensor data app etc I guess. I went back to my backup, still not working.

I use this compass app, minimal size, permission etc, just simple.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.nextw3.simplestcompass&hl=en
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
Lor

GPS works better (faster lock) out of the box than any rom I've tried, I'll have to wait until later until I can check compass, it hasn't really worked on any rom I've tried without swinging wildly. Using the app you've suggested and indoors it just says "waiting for sensor data". I'll try it later when I can go outside.
[Android General] RobboW:
That's all I get. It works indoors on other ROMs, it's magnetic sensor, nothing to do with GPS.

The EPO data function is turned on in Me!ROM by default. That will be why it locked faster for you. I turn it on myself through engineer mode on any ROM.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
Even turning EPO on and doing all the speed up tricks and downloading GPS data it still took a lot longer to lock on all the other roms for me, minimum 30 seconds and sometimes more than 5 minutes. The only other thing I've done differently is shrunk the partition from 5gb down to 3gb.

Compass didn't work out doors.
[Android General] RobboW:
I've just CWM backed up, flashed to TWRP recovery and now doing a full backup on that, then I'll install Pandawill for full setup, see if it runs all the things I want. Me!ROM runs so good, but the little things that don't work are annoying me. If Pandawill doesn't do the trick, I'm going back to Ludoo ROM.

Edit:

Having issues with TWRP, it's much nicer than CWM but too complicated for me I think. Trying to install Pandawill and it fails....

Have to flash back to CWM so I can fix the rotten thing AGAIN!!!

I know it's not the file because I already installed and ran it once from CWM.

Grrrr, tired of issues.

Connected up to laptop, re-flashed recovery to CWM and now restoring, check partitioning and I will flash to Pandawill. So glad my laptop is set up to administer the phone from SPFT. The phone was a brick!
[Android General] layup23:
Looks like there will be an octa-core version of our device

http://www.thlmobilestore.com/thl-w...a-core-1-7ghz-smartphone-5-inch-1gb-32gb.html.

I wonder if they fixed the light on the capacitive buttons.

In this 1 video I saw of the Thl t100 there was a section where they said "illuminated buttons" like it's an extra feature for thl :)))

Edit// I have an idea. How about we modify the first post of this topic and include in that post, with spoliers and stuff, all the Roms, the extra flashable zips, rooting methods and extras for our device? That way we would have a post were we can find anything we need.

We would need the help of NecroW, he is the Op of this topic.
[Android General] Sargos76:
Now that's a very good idea layup23 :)
[Android General] Ysabelkid:
What does one get with this new kernel? Any issues?
[Android General] zdravke:
I have t100s, and apart from illuminated buttons, nothing else was fixed. Compass is still a mess, bt has dropouts, phone starts rebooting after couple of days of normal use. On top of that, bt audio is completely messed up when I get a call while Google navigation is running.