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[Android General] RobboW:
I've modified the boot animation from my W200 so that it has negative colours. So background is black instead of white, text is reversed colours too, then I zipped it and dropped it back into system/media then fix permissions. I can open the images by the phone and they look correct, but on boot it does not work. Any ideas? I kept the images same format as original and everything. Just can't see why it won't play it at boot. I did it again with different encoding, still no good, it doesn't even play the boot tone, but when I drop the original file back in and fix permissions, it boots with animation and tone as normal.
[Android General] dimitris.12345:
My new ThL W200 arrived today,Sadly it has mtk6589 cpu like other owners of this phone,It was bought from AntElife,

Sent them email immediately and i am waiting for their answer,Only13453 score in antutu.
[Android General] zdravke:
I am so glad antelife would not ship to Belgium, so I bought it from etotalk. They even had free dhl shipping.

sent from W200 using xda app
[Android General] RobboW:
Maybe THL couldn't get enough 1.5 for demand a put 1.2 instead? Or someone used the wrong parts bin by mistake and there's a whole batch like this.

Not good at all.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] dimitris.12345:
I agree with you.THL maybe had a number of W200 with mtk6589 but antelife describes and sells them as mtk6589t 1.5ghz
[Android General] RobboW:
The point of W200 was specifically to have the 1.5 for a powefull base model, I guess to replace and outperform W100, not be it's brother.

It hasn't been advertised as a 1.2 that I've seen.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] last0ne:
Ludoos Rom is integrate storage fix or not?

if not yet.

Who can download this on 4PDA, Please share.

MIUI_3.9.6_THL_W200_storagefix.zip

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=492598&st=320#entry25103184
[Android General] ludoo:
Here you go

https://mega.co.nz/#!JhRi1RYK!YvLSpXt_QpwwJuFHz0Mb_nF89C0SL0COe7q3U9t8yPk
[Android General] last0ne:
thank you ludoo.
[Android General] fbhtc:
Overclock

Hi,

It´s possible to do the overclock of 1.2 GHz to 1.5 GHz that Thl has made ​in the mtk6589?

Reg,

FB
[Android General] RobboW:
Not sure if the 1.5 is an overclocked 1.2 or a different processor. 300 would be a fairly decent overclock.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] brady56:
antelife is scram

Antelife is a liar and many people cheated. They commitment on their website to buy mobile phones in stock and shipped within 2 days, but never delivery. When send e-mail to ask them why not delivery phone, they always tell you to wait and variousevasive reason always, even ignoring thepeople.The description of product on antelife are not correct.Don't believe antelife free gif, it was a scam. If your phone is broken they will not really help you solve. In fact in Antelife companny have no a technician and customer service is also very little. After-sales service is very bad.

Antelife is selling the inferior-quality of mobile phones, many products are fake,for exemple Thl is the changjiang OEM.

GPS can be used rarely and call quality is very bad contains noise, problem will occurred after 1 month.

Antelife's phones are call copycat mobile phone in China, most of product are sold to abroad (developing countries) and domestic market are rare.

Antelife companny is a small company, they do not have factories and treat employees work is bad. They won't tested machinethe before shipping and manufacturers do not trust them, so never believe them. If you have already bought their phone, it is better to return as soon as possible.I suggest to buy mobile phones in amazon, etc.

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http://www.webutation.net/go/review/antelife.com

read this then no one want to buy from that site.
[Android General] zdravke:
I wonder how reputable webutation is, for example:

http://www.webutation.net/go/review/etotalk.com

is showing 100/100, and there are at least two bad reviews below.

Anyway, I ordered from antelife once before and it was a good experience. Maybe I was lucky.
[Android General] Lindsay02:
I put THL W200 sound to maximum, on the phone or answer the phone, the sound is still very small.
[Android General] zdravke:
New fw released, any volunteers? :)

http://www.thlmobilestore.com/news/
[Android General] fbhtc:
You bought where? In Spain or Hong Kong?

Reg,

FB
[Android General] IcedFlame:
Download link is pointing to ThL.W200.130703.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T.rar file.

My phone came with stock ThL.W200.130806.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T

Are you sure this is new?
[Android General] djport1973:
you're right.
[Android General] RobboW:
130806 is the one Ludoo based his rom on. It is newer. I have it in mine. The newest one which we don't see is the one with different touchscreen drivers and ruins phones from the first few batches. So far, Ludoo's rom is still looking to be the newest rom many of the phones can use. It's stable, works well for me, I'm not changing to anything else without good reason.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] Papucho:
My w200 has the 1200Mhz version too. :eek:

It was bought from antelife last week.
[Android General] RobboW:
Can someone with the antelife 1200 w200 show which rom version it runs please?

Did that one I attached prove to be viewable? I can't see detail on my phone. It was uploaded from the phone and maybe that messed it up.. Normally I post screenshots from my PC.
[Android General] piter92wzg:
I have bought my thl month ago from antelife and it has 1,5 GHz version

Wysłane z mojego W200 przy użyciu Tapatalk 4
[Android General] Papucho:
ThL.W200.130809.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.V00.8P64_MT6589T
[Android General] dimitris.12345:
ThL.W200.130809.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.V00.8P64_MT6589 for my thl w200
[Android General] RobboW:
There you go, 3 days newer, probably the one with different screen.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] Papucho:
I don't get it. Different screen?
[Android General] ludoo:
THL switched components during production, you can check in /system/data/misc/ProjectConfig.mk on your phone, there should be a line like this

CUSTOM_KERNEL_TOUCHPANEL = gt968

That is from my early production phone, the latest available firmware contains an entry with 'synaptics' instead of 'gt968' and it does not work on early production models.
[Android General] TOR11:
I add one more, mine is "generic".
[Android General] ludoo:
Generic is commented at the beginning of the file, look for a later entry without the comment sign at the beginning of the line...
[Android General] True NZMikey:
From what i have read, the 1.2Ghz processor was used in the "test versions" before sales of the actual released version.
[Android General] zdravke:
There is a setting under storage menu to mount external usb - what is that used for?

sent from W200 using xda app
[Android General] ephumuris:
Otg I guess
[Android General] zdravke:
Otg cable does not work, that's why I am asking.

sent from W200 using xda app
[Android General] dpaganello:
Unfortunately OTG is not enabled in W200.

Inviato dal mio M7 pro con Tapatalk 4
[Android General] DavidLF:
Mine is already shipped is already shipped a few day ago, Almost a week now..

I hope i will get him soon, And when i will, i'll try to make a review of the phone. :cool:

And by the way, i can root this phone?
[Android General] elsita:
motochopper can root this micro from a pc

http://www.mediafire.com/?ge2eepcp816qxtc

you need drivers installed and usb depuration activated, then run the bat file after decompressing

Enviado desde mi ZP800H usando Tapatalk 2
[Android General] ValMX:
Hello

I'm totally new to XDA-Dev. Today I got my THL W200 and I must say it's awesome. 15290 score in Antutu, bright screen, good cameras. But I must say I already have a problem, hope someone here can help me.

I had the phone working for around 3 hours. Installed apps, browse by WiFi. Suddenly I installed Foursquare and I was using it when the screen was "washed". I don't know how to explain it, it was like pixels stretched and light turned down slowly. After that, I'm not able to turn it on, backlight turns on but no image.

The phone is too new in the market to find online help, so I thought maybe someone had same trouble with another THL or maybe another Mediatek. I bought mine in McBub. I don't want to send it back immediately before getting some advice. Perhaps it's something I can fix with a button combination or something like that.

Any help could be great. Thank you.
[Android General] elsita:
take the battery off the phone and wait for a few minutes

Enviado desde mi ZP800H usando Tapatalk 2
[Android General] carlosac:
Could you, or someone else try how the phone handle 3D games like Modern Combat 4 or Real Racing 3 ? Thanks
[Android General] lampisd:
my friend the problem with screen its ok or not?
[Android General] ValMX:
Thanks for your support. I have tried removing the battery (even for an hour) but it won't work. I found a video on Youtube (video vgBsm6DAY2I, I'm new and I can't post links) about a W8+ with the same problem.

At the end of the video that phone has image again, but mine can't get any image. Some people suggest to "turn off auto brightness", but I don't know how to do that without image on the touchscreen :(
[Android General] lampisd:
if turn of the phone and turn on again the screen doesnt work?
[Android General] ValMX:
No, it's still blank.

Got an email from McBub. I told them to help me and guiding me in a solution before sending it back to China (it will be 2 months without the phone) and their answer was that they can send me a firmware to flash it. But I don't know if that will be enough.

Does anybody knows how to do a hard reset / factory reset? If the problem is the auto brightness function maybe I can solve it that way, getting the factory configurations. The problem is that I'm "blind" and I'm not familiar with the menu positions in the screen, it's my first jelly bean phone.

Sorry for the bad english
[Android General] DavidLF:
W200

i'm not sure i understand what is the problem,

Dude, can you please send me a video that shows the problem? :)
[Android General] ValMX:
Sure :good: give me your email and I'll send it
[Android General] DavidLF:
Ok, My email : LFMULE@gmail.com

:)
[Android General] mroussev:
I see only one option for you- flash the ROM with SP Flashtools. Just find ROM files....But it is not so easy, i cant find anything yet, the phone is so new... Ask somebody from this thread, that owns is already to dump the ROM and send it to you. After that it is easy. Or you can contact THL directly and ask them to send you the ROM. Just hope it is not hardware malfunction...
[Android General] ValMX:
That's just what I thought, the phone is so new... I sent an email to THL but I'm still waiting for response. By specifications maybe a W8 ROM will be ok, but I don't want to try it and brick it.

I'm 90% sure it's not hardware, the phone was working fine and it just suddenly went off. There was no flickering or anything that makes me think it was failing

Where can I download SP flashtools?
[Android General] mroussev:
https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=HH4DiutBr+Q3bYCwy62cXC18PNt3BjRthUdgMqtb0wo=

Here is tutorial for it http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1982587
[Android General] ValMX:
Thank you mroussev. I was chating now with Service from McBub and they told me it could take a week for the brand to give them the firmware.

Please, anyone buying this phone: if you can backup the ROM and firmware so you can share it with me, I'll be forever in debt with you. Please help me with my phone :fingers-crossed:
[Android General] RobboW:
What's the best method to get a dump of the ROM for backup?

I will have to do it with mine when I get it, just in case I root it when I root it :)

If I can get a backup and there is somewhere good to upload it, I'm happy to do so.
[Android General] ValMX:
Thank you very much. You will save me (and my phone) :highfive:
[Android General] alen_solin:
please tell me whether this phone has a Croatian language
[Android General] dpaganello:
Hrvatski? Yes.

Inviato dal mio W200 con Tapatalk 2
[Android General] ephumuris:
Surely it's not hard to activate it?
[Android General] TOR11:
Ludo You're right. I have the same as you.

Take this opportunity to thank you for your great work.
[Android General] dpaganello:
I think that it's not (relatively) hard if you have the kernel sources but unfortunately those

MTK are not available.

PS: My previous phone, Zopo C2 had OTG working. Sorry that with our w200 does not work because it is really useful.

Inviato dal mio M7 pro con Tapatalk 4
[Android General] True NZMikey:
I have not before done any Andriod ports of roms, but i am going to attempt to port Pac-Man ROM for the W200.... Wish me luck...

* Edit: I have found CM 10.1 for iOcean X7, which is based on the standard version of the W200s CPU, so im going to attempt to port that over instead. Cant find a good place to start with Pac-man rom. *
[Android General] zdravke:
I have gt968 too. Does this mean that any new firmware from now on will not work on gt968 models?
[Android General] RobboW:
Depends on THL, they could make more with the old screen, seems a lottery as to what they may do....

But at this point, Ludoo's rom is the newest (based on THL JB) you can use.

Other than that, you'd have to go to a ported OS like some of the guys are working on.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] lmmerono:
Custom_Kernel_touchpanel = generic

Hello, in mine puts "# CUSTOM_KERNEL_TOUCHPANEL = generic".

That means it is the last of manufacture?.

If so, the firmware should work most modern, because it works August that works boot.img should be deleted.:(

I edit. rectify, in that file, effectively puts much below

"CUSTOM_KERNEL_TOUCHPANEL = synaptics".
[Android General] ludoo:
I replied already above, the # sign means it's a comment, you have to look further down in the file.
[Android General] IcedFlame:
Do you have problems with overheating while using camera?

After just a few shots with camera, using 8 MP resolution, phone is extremely hot. It doesn't get hot like this, even when playing most demanding 3D games for hours. I tried with few camera apps (FV-5 and Lenovo Super camera), and it seems it's even worse when using 3rd party app. :eek:
[Android General] True NZMikey:
Successfully ported from a different CM 10.1 MTK device (Vowney V5 by FilipMCMine)

It runs quite fast, but there are a few issues such as SD card not being detected. Start up is ridiculous, it boots from off to launcher in a matter of seconds. ( 4 to be exact) RAM usage is low, there is 600+ free at one time by default...

Think this might be a good rom to work on :eek:
[Android General] RobboW:
I looked at editing the file too. Doesn't seem to do anything. It's probably an OS generated file of what it finds once running.
[Android General] vell1969:
MTK kernel sources.

The kernel sources for Fly iq446 Magic(MTK6589, without "T") are in web. But we do not have drivers. It's problem, i think..
[Android General] RobboW:
Tonight, time to try installing gravitybox. Backing up with CWM now, install framework first, then gravitybox.

See how that goes, if no good, restore from CWM.
[Android General] djport1973:
I have all instaled
[Android General] RobboW:
Installed :)

The phone is running fine, time to play with tweaks :cool:

From even the lock screen, this rocks! Now I can have landscape lockscreen via auto rotate when in car mount :P
[Android General] ahmedfraz4u:
Resizing mtk6589t internal storage

Hi Guys.

thl w200 came with 1gb internal system storage and 6gb internal data storage. 1gb internal system storage is not enough among 8gb internal total storage. I got the link where we can re partition the system and data storages.

I have re partition my Thl w200 (mtk6589t). click link below

thanks
[Android General] ephumuris:
Where is the link?
[Android General] zdravke:
I would like to remove xperia keyboard, it's very annoying how poor and inferior to AOSP kb autocorrect implementation is. Any tips on how to do that?
[Android General] RobboW:
What is the issue exactly?

It's easy to remove, but I find it a very nice keyboard. There are settings for it.

This Xposed framework, then GravityBox mod is awesome :laugh:
[Android General] zdravke:
1) After a word is wrongly autocorrected, it cannot be undone with one click on delete, like on AOSP KB.

2) Moreover, if you jump to the word in the middle of sentence, once you enter the middle of the word to correct it manually with a cursor, it will again apply dictionary only on corrected segment within the word (instead of on the whole word), messing up things even more. - now, how stupid is that?

I spend more time correcting autocorrect than in actual typing. Am I the only one that sees those issues? I could not find any settings for any of the above, feels more like a bug (or maybe I am doing something wrong).
[Android General] RobboW:
Go to language settings, there is a slider icon next to xperia kb, press it to enter settings.

This keyboard is fantastic.

And GravityBox, oh yes :p

Some sweet little tweaks in there. Now with black screen and music playing, press volume button and it changes volume a step, but press/hold and it skips the track.

Another volume tweak is when in a text box with cursor in text, volume moves the cursor between letters. I have it set to move horizontal for easier manual text editing within forum postings etc, but will be good for email, sms and who knows what else.
[Android General] RobboW:
So, Ludoo, any other worthy tips for great tweaks to the OS?

I'm really enjoying your work here :good:

This is making a cheapo Chinese phone into an incredibly sophisticated device :D
[Android General] ludoo:
Hah. I'm glad you like it, it's a great phone indeed. :)

A few apps I love, in no particular order (always been wanting to make a series of blog posts about them):

* Mi File Explorer (xda), free file manager with very good root support, great usability, not too hard on system resources

* Perfect Viewer+PDF Plugin (play store), best PDF and comics reader, with crop function, optional scroll lock in both directions, etc.

* FB Reader + TTS plugin (play store), great ebook reader, you can use any ttf font (Georgia is great), and the TTS plugin supports professional-grade TTS voices; FBSync can be installed to sync between devices

* BootManager (xda), Xposed extension to prevent apps from starting at boot

* DataSync (play store), sync app settings between devices, with Dropbox support

* Internet Speed Meter (play store), puts current transfer rates in the status bar, and total bandwidth used in the notification area, very similar to the way MIUI and LeWa ROMs do it

* Lockscreen policy (play store), disable widgets areas in your lockscreen

* MiHome and MiLocker (play store), home and lockscreen apps from MIUI, installable on any ROM/device, a bit heavy on resources but gorgeous

* LagFix Free (play store), trim flash storage to preserve its performance

* Proximity Screen (play store), basic and pretty ugly interface, but works great with no annoying ads or notifications to prevent your screen from turning off when receiving a call and the phone is in your pocket

*Backgammon NJ (play store), pro level Backgammon :)

* Hacker's Keyboard (play store), full size keyboard for working in the terminal

* SubLoader (play store), download subtitles for movies and tv episodes

* wifi file transfer (play store), transfer files via wifi without having to connect the USb cable

And of course greenify, gravitybox, and mxplayer for video.

Forgot a couple:

* debian kit (play store), a debian system alongside android

* frequently call disabler clean (play store), remove the annoying frequently called box from the phone app
[Android General] RobboW:
One of my all time favourites is ES File Explorer (play store) because it's an awesome root file manager, but it also plays movies, views images, compresses files and other stuff.

Next to my SIM, it's the first thing I put in a new phone :silly:
[Android General] invertgoat:
Guys, I've got a semi-bricked W200 here. I'm unable to get past the boot screen. I presume I need to install CWM. Can anyone help or offer some instructions?
[Android General] ludoo:
Flash stock firmware with sp flash tools would be the easy way out.

As an alternative, try to connect via adb when the phone gets stuck on the boot logo, if it works you can flash recovery from there, then wipe data or install a system from scratch through recovery.
[Android General] ephumuris:
He's sorted now :)
[Android General] last0ne:
Hi, I flash MIUI of Ludoo. it's great smooth. :good::good::good:

but MIUI Camera is very laggy. :(

How I can flash stock camera THL W200 instead MIUI camera?
[Android General] RobboW:
Just an FYI for all, if you need a bit better battery life ( mine was fine anyway), installing xposed framework and gravitybox, adjusting screen brightness and lux levels has increased my battery life overnight.

I took the phone off charge at about 6:45am and at 6:40pm it's at 60% still. Only light use, but considering battery versus hardware, kind of impressive.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] ludoo:
Makes sense, as screen is often the major battery drain when I check stats. Could you post the values you changed?
[Android General] Lindsay02:
THL W200 can not use the 3G, but its in the frequency range, 2G sometimes also can't use, what reason is this?
[Android General] zdravke:
I might have a problem with battery calibration, because it always stays very long at 14%. Is there a way to re-calibrate this?
[Android General] RobboW:
Maybe you're trying to use it on an incompatible frequency for 3G but 2G would be ok, but 2G is weak in your area.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)

---------- Post added at 07:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:18 PM ----------

I find at lower percentage it slows up too, but that's always been the case with any phone I've owned. It's just that voltage drops at a non linear rate.

Mine works best using a regular charge cycle, overnight, full charge, not part charged at whatever time because it ran too low from holding off charging till next day.

Posted from W200 with XDA app :)
[Android General] ludoo:
I second what Robbo writes above. As an extra measure you can try wiping the battery stats from cwm, in the advanced menu.
[Android General] RobboW:
The thing with stats, it makes some things look skewed, for instance, looking at the system usage versus screen usage is quite different, but when you wake the phone and use the screen, you're also using the system, so one usage affects another.

I set minimum brightness to the lowest level, 10%.

For my auto brightness settings (I use it on auto most of the time), I only altered level 1 through 9, level 10 to 15 are untouched as yet. My reasoning is that if you are in strong light it just needs to be bright, but I found in low light it was always too bright, so as a test, I set level 1 to 10% at 100 lux, level 2 at 20% 200 lux, level 3 at 30% 300 lux and so on. This is wildly different to stock settings.

I expected it to be glitchy but so far has been quite good, didn't have as much brightness hunting as stock settings and didn't feel it was too dim.

It's had both SIMs running all day too. I have 2 part time jobs and when at one, keep the work SIM on, as well as my personal SIM, but when not working for that employer, I turn off SIM2.

Over time I will tweak it to keep brightness change stepping as unnoticeable as possible to my eyes.

The addition of xposed framework and gravitybox were stupidly easy BTW. The phone MUST be rooted and have CWM installed, and backup done with CWM before making such changes to your OS.

I also have BootManager and LagFix installed, but I think the impact is minimal when already running Greenify, and suspect that running all these "helper" apps to take charge of other apps just replaces one set of system loads with another. You have to find the slimmest combination that does the job. I might yet remove an app or two.