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[Android General] RobboW:
My S-line did discolour, it was a clear one and they turn sort of brownish.

I got a black one from Banggood instead. My son's black S-line case still hasn't discoloured, or if it does, it's hidden with black.

As to the screen protector issue, you can get protectors off ebay that don't cover the screen right to the edge and this works fine with the S-line.
[Android General] Vonnegut:
Good job :good:
[Android General] RobboW:
I'm trying out the LeanData app as featured in the portal.

Had to move it to a system app and reboot to stop a one key memory clean from dropping it from running apps, but now it sticks and retains settings, so you need your phone rooted to use it properly. Will be interesting to see how it impacts useability versus battery life.
[Android General] Hernangb:
How can you repartition a phone with blank screen?

Great, I have repartitioned my phone first thing after unpacking it. Never thought that partition can be a problem. Happy that you have resolved problem with black screen and hope that you will like firmware.[/QUOTE]

Hi, how can you repartition a phone with blank screen? I mean, I don't see the options in recovery mode. Is there a way to see the screen information from a PC?

Thanks
[Android General] RobboW:
Enabled navigation bar today, customized with Gravitybox and turned off button backlights which are useless anyway. Set navbar transparent. Useability has increased :)
[Android General] True NZMikey:
Can someone please link to to a post of how to fix black screen?

I flashed Pandawill v2, but that did not fix it.

(Black screen after screen replacement)
[Android General] micaelc:
THL w200 Headphones

hi there

can anyone point me to a decent headphones (with mic) suitable for our W200??

i already bought ones but when i insert them all the way until it "clicks" i get sound in the headphones and in the rear speaker of the phone...

the sign of headphones in the top bar is not present...

if i push a bit (unclick) the sign appears and the speaker is muted and i can here in the headphones but with interferences.

i didn't test the mic but one thing is sure... the buttons on the mic (answer / + / - ) don't work...
[Android General] RobboW:
Hi Micael, the W200 doesn't work with most iPhone compatible headsets, it has a socket of different standard but doesn't seem to even fully comply to that one either :eek:

This is what I use. It sounds awesome for the price and the mic works. Buttons do nothing, but it's the best compromise I have found. Here's a localised ebay search for you.

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_trk...C0.H0&_nkw=SONY+MH-EX300AP&_sacat=0&_from=R40

http://www.sony.com.au/product/mhex300ap

These things sound seriously good! So cheap :laugh::cool:
[Android General] micaelc:
thanks...

i will see them late this night
[Android General] Vonnegut:
Hello Robbo.

What navbar did you install?
[Android General] RobboW:
It's part of the OS. Because we have physical capacitive buttons it's not used. You can force it to operate. The capacitive buttons are still working as well.

It does reduce useable screen so I resized it to 65% height.
[Android General] Vonnegut:
I'm puzzled.

So what did you do exactly to activate the navbar?

Don't tell me I just turned it in the GB 'cause it doesn't work for me.

Did you edit the systemUI and the build.prop?
[Android General] RobboW:
Edit build.prop, have to add a new line.

qemu.hw.mainkeys=0

If you want to get rid of it, edit the 0 to 1 and re-save, or delete the line and save.

I did a CWM backup before editing build.prop

Reboot and then play with the Gravitybox settings :p

Transparency settings, mine are all to 100%, then navbar settings.

My custom button is set press for volume slider, double press for LeanData app settings and long press for torch toggle.

Custom button setting is in Navigation Keys Actions
[Android General] Vonnegut:
Weird. I already did that a while ago but to no avail. I'll try again.

Thanx

Inviato via telegrafo
[Android General] layup23:
Does anyone know what's going on with 4pda? I can't find the thl w200 topic :(...
[Android General] arielbgb:
Hi please help me :(!

my battery is realy bad!

its charging full 100% in 5-6 hours!

and its get empty very fast!

i try to change to other original battery + try a lot of chargers it didn't help.

When i go to setting abd to the "battery use" its shows me that 70-80% used by mobile signal and phone idle.

maybe its becuase the phone company that i use but I try to charge the phone when hevbeen off and still 5-6 hours to get to 100%!

please help.
[Android General] m0nkf1sh:
possible twrp 2.7.0.0 for w200

Just found alleged twrp 2.7.0.0 for w200/s, haven't tryed it out, will leave that to someone who knows more than me :)

http://www.needrom.com/mobile/recovery-twrp-2-7-0-0-for-thl-w200s/
[Android General] deksman2:
I was just able to get my THL W200 to mount the external SD card in CWM because up until now it refused to mount it - thanks to another poster here who had the same problem, I changed the partition to 'primary' on the external SD and everything worked.

I also cleaned up the phone from a lot of useless apps, install Xposed and Gravity Box (with success btw).

I hadn't had the chance to play around with TWRP 2.7 yet, but I have to say the previous one (2.5) was a bit of a woozy to navigate through (I guess it was easier for me to use CWM since I grew accustomed to it).

Would be good if this can be tested to see if it works on THL W200, but since W200S uses a different SoC, I don't think it would be possible.
[Android General] Vonnegut:
Of course that recovery can't be installed on a W200...not only because it's a totally different phone but because its size goes well beyond the max size of our recovery partition.

If we had a 10 megabyte recovery partition, there would be no problem to make a port of the latest TWRP.
[Android General] RobboW:
I'm sticking with CWM, my one try of TWRP ruined my OS.
[Android General] m0nkf1sh:
ah, shame

I was kind of hoping that w200/s meant that it was for the w200 and the w200s, oh well.
[Android General] RobboW:
After having a W200S here for a while now, I would not sell my W200 and buy one myself. Not so happy with the S. Audio is not as good, battery issues etc. The 200 is a great buy still and has enough processing power.
[Android General] m0nkf1sh:
cm11 for the w200s, sadly no w200 support

same place as that twrp 2.7 came from but this time it's labeled correctly and only for w200s but thought you might like to know. here's linkage http://www.needrom.com/mobile/thl-w200s-cm11/
[Android General] deksman2:
I was wondering though...

Are there any indications of KitKat for THL W200?

I think there was some buzzword that the source code might have been released for MTK6598T SoC, but that in general no one got around to doing it for THL W200 just yet.

There might have been a (successful) attempt for another phone which used MTK6589, but I cannot be certain
[Android General] RobboW:
I don't think THL would do it, only someone on a forum. There was a technical reason kitkat was not going to be made for the MTK6598 phones.
[Android General] layup23:
After the last update to the Zound v 3.6 every time I restart the phone I get the "Android is upgrading. Starting apps" message.

From my past experience with phones I know that this android is upgrading message occurs when I install an app made for de-odexed Rom. But I didn't do that now...

Is it just me?

Important!

Guess what I just found!!!

Remember that problem where you can't use the button on your headset in order to do next/play/pause?

Well I found a perfect, working fix!

What you need to do is install Xposed Additions from the playstore (from here https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spazedog.xposed.additionsgb). After you've enabled it and rebooted plug in the headphones (which should have a button) and open the installed ap.

Go to buttons, click add new key and press the headphone button. It should read the button as "call".

Click the new key that appears bellow, click add new condition and choose either screen off, screen on or Lockscreen ( basically you tell the app when to do what you are going to program it to do). I selected Screen off.

After that click on Screen off and select click action and choose "Media play/pause" or whatever you want the headphone button to do.

Optionally you can enable the haptic feedback so that the phone vibrates when you press the button.

That's it. Now just lock your screen and press the button. You will see that your default media player starts to the a song!!!

You can also enable what a long press does and a few other things.

Man I'm so glad I got this to work! No more taking the phone out of my pocket to skip to the next song.
[Android General] RobboW:
I installed it and configured it for screen on or off, click for next, long press pause/play and to be call button if ringing or in a call. The phone gives a haptic response when I press the button but no reaction with my music player. Have to look at it a bit closer and yes, my music app is checked to respond to media buttons.

Edit:

Didn't work with Neutron but does with PowerAmp :p

Disabled longpress again though.
[Android General] gori67:
Hey all,

Thl have just release new firmware !!!

http://www.thlmobilestore.com/news/thl-mobile-phone-lastest-firmware/
[Android General] layup23:
For now it looks like we can't download them. According to google translate either they have run out of bandwith or they do not allow anyone outside of China to download the files.

But you must know something, that website, thl-mobile-store website is only a reseller. The real thl website is in chinese and (as far as I can tell) they don't offer any kind of support for the Thl W200. If you read the news posted by this website you'll see that they just search the internet for Roms and when they find them, they just post them on that news section. Look at this, for example, http://www.thlmobilestore.com/news/thl-w200-smartphone-firmware/ (this is Zound 1.5 or zound 2).

Or this http://www.thlmobilestore.com/news/dualdim-dro-rom-pour-thl-w200/ - This is something they got from needrom.

So I wouldn't get my hopes up regarding the firmware posted on this website, it might just be a collection of Roms we already have.
[Android General] layup23:
I'm glad it worked!

For me, it turns on the default music player whenever I press the button, haven't tried it with anything else.

I'm curios to see if we can now use some of those headset configuring apps from the playstore in order to tweak some settings.
[Android General] gori67:
Ohhh, thanks for this informations. It's bad 8-/.
[Android General] Ron312123:
so my friend got the "encryption unsuccessful" massage and for what I understood he need to factory reset is phone.

now problem, he told me he rooted hes device, but he didnt installed and CWM recovery.. (is stock recovery gets an mount error if he tries to factory reset is phone.)

is there any way to update is recovery to CWM recovery?
[Android General] RobboW:
MTK Mobile Uncle Tools from Google Play.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mobileuncle.toolbox&hl=en

Download CWM zip to root of SD card and use the app to replace recovery. You need the right file though. You never stated what phone your friend has, or what version software it had from new.
[Android General] Ron312123:
a. he got the thl w200

b. he dosent know.

c. he cant boot hes phone... so he cant install apps/ cant open is sd storage.. cant do it from the stock recovery of the thl w200..
[Android General] RobboW:
In that case, it is soft bricked. It needs to be flashed with SP Flash Tools. Can flash CWM. Needs the right ROM to use. If he can get SP Flash tools to work, flash CWM, can then install a ROM from SD card via CWM.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=47481266
[Android General] RobboW:
Quoting myself here, Neutron is now working with Xposed Additions and I get the button press song advance like with PowerAmp :p

I also installed Player Pro and it's quite good too. Seems to get a higher output from the phone, maybe that's not good for the phone though.
[Android General] eladmitz:
Mic volume

Hi,

I have a problem with the mic volume on recording video or just voice recording, it's very low volume, on phone calls there is no problem and the the other side hear me well, so i know that the mic is ok and not damage, what to do?
[Android General] layup23:
Regarding voice recording- Open sound recorder, hit options button, voice quality and select high. After that, go to recording mode and select meeting (this will make your mic more sensitive to sound and increase the reception; you can also choose lecture, which should be better).

Regarding video recording-audio- Go to camera, options, video and play with the audio mode. Choose one of the options and see which fits.

Guys I saw that zound posted a V4 version of his ROM. From what google translate says, he stopped development on the OTA updates.

This is I found:

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=492598&view=findpost&p=30926907

Again I don't understand all of the frases that google translate provides :(
[Android General] micaelc:
zound v.4 W200 THL
[Android General] eladmitz:
thanks, it fixed voice recording volume, but on video i'v got just "meeting" mode and it's still very low volume - nothing changed...
[Android General] Benz83:
Hello guys , i hope some one can help me . I bought the lcd replacement, but when i turn on , i see only a flash and nothing more

Hardware : MT6589

Model : W200

Build number : ThL.W200.130807.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T

Build date UTC : 20130807-022042

Android v : 4.2.1

Baseband v: MOLY.WR8.W1248.MD.WG.MP.V6.P8, 2013/06/18 09:46

Kernel v : 3.4.5 (root@yuanhao-desktop) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Aug 7 10:15:37 CST 2013

Uboot build v : -----

LCD Driver IC : 1-nt35590_xinli_cszmds10154c_hd720_dsi_cmd

This is the old model :

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t668/benz831/Old_zpsa2949e96.jpg

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t668/benz831/OLD1_zpsfe0eeba6.jpg

This is the new spare

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t668/benz831/NEW1_zpsf43f0dd3.jpg

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t668/benz831/OLD1_zpsfe0eeba6.jpg

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t668/benz831/NEW8_zps55f0fed7.jpg

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t668/benz831/NEW7_zps6b23de5f.jpg

http://i1319.photobucket.com/albums/t668/benz831/NEW5_zpsd5ae540b.jpg
[Android General] gori67:
I have this firmware version on my thl w200 : 130712

But I never see it in the list and I don't know if I can upgrade my phone with zound Rom :confused:
[Android General] layup23:
I'm not exactly sure what the problem is, but this might help- When you buy your thl you have a screen which is built for 5 finger-touch. When you buy a screen replacement you usually get a different kind of touchscreen which is built for 10 finger-touch. In this case, what would help would be to flash a different firmware version. You can try to flash the .140111 version or the .140224 or even .140310 . You can find all of these in the first post of this topic.

When you flash this Rom you will have an option to choose which kernel you want to use. With your firmware version the highest that you can go is the 140111 kernel. I have also used it. But my recommendation would be to choose the kernel matching your current version. Also, after you flash the V4 rom, you can download the v.4.1 Custom pack which will also allow you to flash a different kernel.
[Android General] gori67:
Ohh nice, I will try it. (Never installed zound Rom because never knowned if its work or not on my version)

But can't download now : "Exceeded file download limit. You can only save it to Yandex.Disk." :crying:
[Android General] layup23:
You can download the v4 Rom from here https://yadi.sk/d/8S6vYjrXSRi4w ( I recommend creating a yandex account and downloading from there, it will be super fast- Create account and then click add to my yandex account. After that check your account and download the Rom from there).

I will upload the 4.1 custom pack and give you the link soon.

But for now you can just use the V4. It's the same, you can choose the Kernel version from there.

Oh one more thing. When you flash the Rom it will switch to Aroma installer. In there you will need to select different options and you might not be able to use the touchscreen ( it won't work on the 10finger-touch) so use the volume keys for navigation and the power button for selection.

Here you go, the 4.1 custom pack .https://mega.co.nz/#!51cECLhK!0ObmmwY2PWgsTJlNXj2TmX81sB5lSJauhJvjbxlnhS8

What you need to do is install the v4 Rom and if you want to change anything else flash the 4.1 custom pack (warning, the V4.1 is not a Rom itself, only gives you the option to change a few things regarding the v4 rom)
[Android General] gori67:
Hi, yes it was because I wasn't registered on Yandex.

Worked very well !!

4.0 and 4.1 installed successfully.

Thanks you.
[Android General] irfanjunaid:
Could you be kind enough to tell where did you buy that LCD? Mine broken too...!
[Android General] micaelc:
i think that you can use this rom.

select the version closer to your base version.

sorry for the delay on the answer...
[Android General] layup23:
I am having some problems with the camera.

Sometimes, when I open the camera it gives me the "Can't connect to camera" error.

I close it and open it again after a few minutes and I get a green screen.

Sometimes it helps if I restart the phone. But sometimes, even if I restart the phone, it still shows the green screen or the "can't connect to camera" error.

Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks!

P.S. I've flashed the Zound V4 Rom again, made a clean install and it's still the same, I still have problems. I also do not have Skype installed.
[Android General] turrista:
I solved the problem by cleaning the contacts, there is a video on YouTube
[Android General] layup23:
Could you please give me the link to the video that you've used in order to fix it?
[Android General] turrista:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WuQQvvjCbqI
[Android General] layup23:
And you only cleaned the contacts? I remember in another video that someone put a carton piece instead of that sponge and that fixed it.

Also thank you for the help!
[Android General] turrista:
I just cleaned the contacts, did not touch the sponge
[Android General] arhos:
hello i have change my broken display and the display she dont show nothing!!! Anyone know what to do? i dont have lot lotof time
[Android General] arielbgb:
Hi I need help :(

today i wake up and see all my screen is get "crazy" all the colors smeared and i can't recocnazied nothing on my phone...

he didn't fall down , nothing...just 1 ady its starting 2 be like that...

is my screen brocken?! what can i do?
[Android General] turrista:
hi!

I installed Zound v4. and the phone can not reboot. just appears and disappears label "thl". What's the problem? tnx
[Android General] micaelc:
you didn't change rom ??

try to flash a stock rom to see if the problem persists!!

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did you select the correct base version ??

try to flash it again and make sure you select your base version
[Android General] turrista:
I can not handle:which version I must downloas and install? talking about needrom, zound v4.

on my thl: w200.156.14310.jbv2.hd.en.com.8.p64.mt6589T.zound v.3.6
[Android General] arielbgb:
Hi dear friend...look i'm so tired of it...

i try 2 flash with cwm some roms and stock also and id didn't help...what weird is that in recovery mode the screen working well!

i want to make format to all the phone...but the problem is that i can't connect my phone 2 usb...and that other problem. i read a lot of guides how to do that and still it don't work.

after i instal mtk drivers and did all what i have o do.

the usb reconnect every 3 seconds on and off and the only thing i have in device manager is "unknown driver"...

so if i format all i can't flsah stock rom...

what i did is use wifi file manager 2 copy stock rom to CWM and did wipe all and then flash stock rom but it didn't help.

I even go to lab and they say that it can be 3 things :

1-bad version/rom and they can instal stck and delete all but it cost 50% of the phone value

2- bad screen and replace it cost 100% of the phone value

3- bad connector or something like that...

:(
[Android General] RobboW:
So many changes to the W200 in it's short production time. makes it very hard to administer yourself. Seriously, last THL I will buy. Mine has been good, in fact it runs better today than ever, but so much is dependant on running the right ROM and mods, and install process. My daughters W200S is a disaster and I want to send it back. My son's W200 is the same build as mine and has also been good, not on stock ROM either. Good results only came from a cleaned up and modded stock ROM though. Ports never worked quite right.
[Android General] zdravke:
Thl is a dead brand for me, and thanks to it, I gave up also on Chinese devices in general. They are just not worth it.
[Android General] arielbgb:
same here...never buy it again!
[Android General] layup23:
I can't seem to remember if the Pandawill V2 Rom, with the modem from Zopo, had simultaneous 3g on both Sim cards.

Does anyone know?
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
I'm 95% sure it was one or the other but not both at once. Took only 10 seconds to switch between them though.
[Android General] RobboW:
I've still got Pandawill original. Very stable. Installed Google Experience Launcher last night, and x gel app/xposed module. Playing with settings but good combination.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
I was on Pandawill until only a couple of days ago, longest I've ever stuck with a rom, kept it for months. Had the urge to fiddle again and tried the latest Zounds but I think I'm going back to Pandawill, everything just worked and the battery life was incredible.
[Android General] RobboW:
Yes, that's why I just don't flash my phone anymore. Playing with launchers, xposed modules and stuff to mod it instead. Easy to revert it. The Xgel app makes a huge difference to GEL launcher. Increases customisation to what non Google launchers have and with GEL, OK Google works really well. No need for extra apps to control the microphone.

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Here's the links. Phone must be rooted and Xposed.

http://xdaforums.com/nexus-4/themes-apps/apps-google-experience-launcher-gel-app-t2529594

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.theknut.xposedgelsettings
[Android General] cellulosa:
hey guys, question:

I was on W200.140310.second.version.zound.v3.1 ota-signed and I tried to install THL.W200.Pandawill.V2.CWM (which I understand is based on Thl.W200.140111.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T) and this caused boot loops. I have also tried to flash Thl.W200.140111.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T but that returns an error during extraction, so I've just reinstalled W200.140310.second.version.zound_.v3.1-ota-signed. What am I doing wrong?
[Android General] RobboW:
Best thing is to flash stock with SPFT, root, install CWM, backup, repartition and then flash different ROM. I use 1.5Gb system partition instead of stock 1Gb.
[Android General] cellulosa:
by stock do you mean Thl.W200.140111.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T ?

As I understood SP Flash Tool is windows only, should I virtualise it or are there any alternatives for mac?