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[Android General] RobboW:
I'm curious also, has anyone tried the new ROM?

Looks like I will be ordering a white W200S on behalf of my daughter tonight. The 32Gb in-built memory was a deciding factor.

If my wife wants my phone, I'd like to get one too because I want more memory myself. She will never need much. She's not a tech type of person.

So, if it's available, I will need to root and mod it a little. Probably Xposed, Gravitybox, Viper audio, launcher, music player etc. No re-partitioning.

Edit:

Ordered the kit for my daughter.

1 x White W200S.

1 x black S-Line cover (looks grey on a white phone).

1 x pair Sony MH-EX300AP earbuds.

Also 1 x black S-Line cover for my W200 as the clear one is already discolouring to a yellowish tinge from heat.

1 x Sony headphone adapter, to see if I can use normal (iPhone compatible) headphones with W200, but expect it won't work.
[Android General] layup23:
When you are stuck at boot logo try to wait for a few minutes. If that doesn't do anything hold the power button for 10 secs, go into recovery-backup and restore- advanced restore- restore boot- choose the boot from your previous backup ( it doesn't need to be an MIUI backup, just a regular working backup) and then restart. It will work. This always happened to me and that's how I fixed it.

[MENTION=4983728]djport1973[/MENTION]- From what I can tell, region89 posted 2 versions. The first one is the new Rom( with the new kernel, revision number .140224) and the second is the older one, revision number .140111 ( which was posted a while back). So the later is not the newest stock Rom. Later edit// Nevermind, I read the post one more time and you are correct. After you flashed it over the old rom, did you lose any of your data? I wanna flash it but I don't want to install all the apps again..

Again, this is what I understood from google translate so it's not 100% accurate.

[MENTION=4722974]RobboW[/MENTION]- I'm also curios if you can make the headphones button to work.
[Android General] RobboW:
I really don't think it will work, I've already tried 2 adapters on W200. It's cheap so worth a shot and genuine Sony product. I think the issue is in software mainly. When I ran Xperia port, the button did start the dialler. It had no effect on music tracks though.

This is the one I am getting.

http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/SONY-CTI...ortable_Audio_Accessories&hash=item2a376741f0

I really want to try the last Xperia port and did eventually manage to download it, but just not willing to muck about with the phone for a while yet. Got PC projects happening for now, then a couple of days away from home when I head out to do a track day. I just want phone reliability for now.

BTW, my battery life has been great on the replacement kernel.
[Android General] RobboW:
Miljenko, which version of Framaroot do you use on W200S? Or do you just get the latest and choose the Barahir option?

Is it any different to root than W200, if not, the root package I use on my W200 may also do the S.
[Android General] miljenko:
I have used latest ( I think 1.9.1) and choose Barahir option. Easy and straight forward job. Xposed is not compatible with W200s and many other 6592 phone firmwares.
[Android General] sebaslive:
I agree
[Android General] RobboW:
There are many key differences and it does justify itself. W200 is much more phone than W100.
[Android General] miljenko:
Have hold W100 in your hand? It is huge difference between w100 and w200, not only in hardware specification, but in materials and feeling
[Android General] nitalium:
I own THL W200 and it is a great phone! I did a lot of research on Chinese phones before buying, I suggest you to do that too.

Check out my guide for buying smartphone from China at http://geekify.tk/buy-chinese-smartphone/
[Android General] RoterHugo:
Hi,

you write on your guide:

"Micro SD card slot & USB OTG

Some Chinese phones don’t have much of internal data storage. The good thing is that usually most of them come with possibility to expand your smartphone storage with micro SD cards which can have capacity of up to 64GB."

Have you testet SD card with 64GB on the THL W 200? Is it working on the THL W200. I would be very interested to run an 64GB SD-Card in my THL W200. Maybe its working with two partitions both 32 GB on the SD Card. I have a lot of pictures and music stuff on my THL and the 32 GB-SD-Card is nearly full.:silly:
[Android General] nitalium:
I am sorry to inform you that I did not test the 64GB card in ThL W200 :(. I was thinking about ordering a 64GB card for my W200 but I think with connection speed via usb 2.0 it is too slow at around 2-3MB per second.

I hope somebody else tested it.
[Android General] miljenko:
RobboW tested 64GB micro SD and you should ask him about results. I ordered one and it should arrive in 10 days. If you are willing to wait I will post results when card arrives.
[Android General] RoterHugo:
Thanks Miljenko,

waiting and looking forward your testing. I'm very interessted in your test. Hope you are testing on THL W 200 too and not only on the THL W200S;)
[Android General] RobboW:
It won't work with exfat file system so you have to re-format the card. It must use fat32. The card I tested was a failure, but it may have been a fake 64Gb card. I planned to get another. The phone did see the card as 64Gb but It was slow to transfer and I only got 14.8Gb into it. I'll be very interested in Miljenko's results.

We had a tablet failure, so I used the 32Gb card out of that for now.
[Android General] vaggelas:
Hi, which is the latest firmware for Thl w200,with the latest kernel?I am experiencing many reboots with stock firmware only when i freeze xposed framework(gravitybox,etc..),the phone stop force rebooting.Thank you.
[Android General] RobboW:
My phone has suddenly started shutting down more often. I've added a few Xposed modules lately and suspect Xposed is a big reason for the issue.

Going to de-activate most of my modules and see if that helps, but I think I'll be re-flashing again soon. Maybe try the last Xperia port, or Pandawill again, but not re-partition and see if that makes a difference. I'll just have to keep less installed to the phone.
[Android General] Stenlius:
My LED flash stopped working a couple of days ago with no obvious reason. One night it was working allright, I took some photos, the next day I tried it and it didn't work. I've tried flashing stock roms via SPFT, custome ones with no difference - it doesn't work, neither in camera app or torch app. Anyone with a similar experience, I couldn't find in google similar problem described? :confused:
[Android General] piter92wzg:
Can anyone makes tutorial like this in english? :) I don't feel confident translating that. Do I need recovery for doing repartitioning?
[Android General] PoTT3R:
Invalid IMEI after flashing from CWM

Hi,

Yesterday I've tried to flash a rom from recovery, but after that, my IMEI is gone :(

After some research, I've found out, that some other partitions might be broken.

Can someone help me with a backup file of NVRAM, Protect_F, and Protect_S partitions? You can save it by SP Flash Tool, or MTK Droid Tools, or from a dd backup.

Thanks!
[Android General] RobboW:
Anyone having headphone control problems? I got a headphone adapter, it Has a microphone and answer/pause button, it works on my Samsung but not the W200, is it the THL software changes or Jellybean in general? My large headphones work ok with button, but not my logitech buds or my 2 adapters. Got new buds coming, now fear they will also not control it either :(
[Android General] ludoo:
It's just a different (older) standard for the 3.5mm plug.
[Android General] RobboW:
Had a closer look and not even my large headphones work with the button properly. So the W200 headphone socket is an old dumb type? My old Blackberry Bold 9700 had a smart socket, that's pretty poor. Has anyone used headphones with a microphone on theirs, and does the mic work? The buds that came with the phone don't control anything either. Starting to wonder if mine has a fault.
[Android General] ludoo:
There are two standards for the hp socket in phones, Chinese models usually are wired following the old standard, iPhones and Samsungs the new one. The good news is there are excellent phones fir the old standard which are really cheap on eBay.

Quoting a thread on the head-fi forums for the great Sony MH1 headphones:

two standards used in making the 3.5mm TRRS plug on headset – OMTP and CTIA (both are organizations for mobile standards). For OMTP, the TRRS plug is wired as [Left-Right-Mic-Ground] (from tip-to-sleeve); for CTIA, the TRRS is wired as [Left-Right-Ground-Mic]. Since OMTP was initially endorsed by Ericsson (and Nokia, which still uses the OMTP standard), all of their cellphone, including those under the Sony Ericsson branding, uses this standard. It also got adopted by a few other cellphone manufacturers as standard before mid 2011, such as LG, Motorola, Sony and Samsung. In mid 2010, the OMTP organization transitioned itself into another organization (the WAC, if you are interest to know), and the OMTP standard for headset was subsequently being phased out by most manufacturers within the following year (* it takes time to sell off old models) in favor of the CTIA standard. Part of the big reason for adapting the CTIA standard might be due to the fact that it is the standard used by Apple on their iDevice
[Android General] piter92wzg:
http://blog.geekbuying.com/index.php/2013/08/03/thl-w200-latest-firmware-released/#.Ugo1mKduvFp

Anyone tried?
[Android General] ludoo:
The one installed on phones is more recent, I installed the one linked above anyway since I messed up my phone at some point. It works but it's from early July.
[Android General] gori67:
I just ordered my w200 on dx.com :)
[Android General] PoTT3R:
Can someone provide me the original firmware? I need the hidden partitions, like protect_f, etc., which not include in the firmware package you can download.
[Android General] ludoo:
Flas the phone with sp flash tools and the firmware linked above, it worked for mine.
[Android General] djport1973:
my pc does not install the driver preload.Can help me
[Android General] RobboW:
Yeah, installing and getting drivers to work is the problem, not the actual flashing part. I gave up on it.

Mine will be stuck on original firmware and I won't do anything adventurous with it because a problem will leave it bricked. Probably won't buy a Chinese phone again....
[Android General] Ysabelkid:
1. Which method have people managed to root the W200 - some pointers please.

2. Which ROM have they install and everything is working like before the phone was rooted or are people waiting for the release of Key Lime Pie. :)
[Android General] RobboW:
I rooted with one click, it's mentioned further back, was very easy because it's done from PC, with phone on, I can connect with Windows ok, just can't use SP flash tools as Windows cannot recognise the phone if it's off, so won't load a driver.
[Android General] ozpoz:
Storage

Very happy with this phone overall and thanks to all for tips to root, Lights default.iso, and sound adjustments.

Re storage I have a 32gb sd card installed and running fine with all my music but I did have to change the default storage to the external sd card for the music to be found. Is it possible to use both the internal storage and the external sd card at the same time without having to go to settings and manually changing the default storage device. I cant access both at the same time. TIA
[Android General] RobboW:
I use music players from google play and have set default phone storage to internal, but pointed the music apps to my music folder on SD, it works fine. I also moved a lot of non critical apps to SD.

Don't move an app to SD if it has a widget running.

Been trying launchers lately as I'm not overly fond of the stock one. Settled on Holo Launcher HD. Paid for plus as well, but it's good just on free level. Customisation level is great and makes better use of the HD screen.
[Android General] marsian0:
I've found by accident that Screenshots are available pressing Vol Down + Power at the same time.

With the speed of this handset, Next Launcher goes pretty well.
[Android General] ozpoz:
Thanks Robbo. Not in AU by chance? Really love the phone and actually have removed the default screen protector which makes the screen just fantasic. I am very careful and last phone lasted 2 years without a mark on the bare glass. Greenify is definately the go to keep ram at 400mb once rooted and moving and freezing the others.

Have you tried smart launcher it is just so intuitive and virtually uses no memory and very fast. Bought the pro version yesterday whilst half price to utilise all its benefits. I think with time this phone will end up with some new roms etc,I hope.
[Android General] johnnythedriver:
I've read that few people with the camera " camera can not connect" warning have the men problem with the flash. Try to press the aeria under camera. I hope that it helped.

My thl got the camera prob but flash works fine though.

Στάλθηκε από το W200 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[Android General] RobboW:
The flash is one thing I never had an issue with.

Hey guys, which framaroot exploit works for W200?
[Android General] miljenko:
I know that you are chasing headphones with working controls. Today I have tried HTC sensation headphones with W200 and controls worked (play, pause, forward, backward).
[Android General] RobboW:
Did the headphones sound ok too? I find that there is something really backwards about the headphone socket. I tried the Sony adapter from ebay, it doesn't work. It ruins sound and when you hold the button in it comes good.

So, the W200 headphone socket does not comply to either of the traditional standards. Is the HTC sensation a mediatek based phone?

I was hoping an adapter will work properly so my button works on the Sony buds, they sound so much better than any other buds I ever listened to.
[Android General] miljenko:
For me sound was fine, but I'm not audiophile. I just grabbed headphones of my work phone to listen some recording and tried to stop playing. I was suprised when recording paused. I believe tjat any HTC headphones will work properly. HTC exclusively used Qualcomm processors until recently and Sensation is not different. Just visit some shop and try HTC headphones before you buy them. I believe that you will be satisfied with the sound.
[Android General] RobboW:
Which ROM are you running at the moment? I did find when I ran Xperia port that the button started the phone app. It didn't do anything for media tracks though. THL software must also be a problem with support for the buttons.
[Android General] miljenko:
Note3 port. I have not tried starting app with the button, only music control.
[Android General] RobboW:
That makes sense. The Note3 port will treat the headphone/audio differently than THL. I'm hoping one day we see a fantastic port from another Mediatek phone that runs the W200 flawlessly, but being a cheap base for a phone, I doubt a manufacturer would spend the time on the software. I'll try that last Xperia port, see how it runs, but maybe I should try the Note3 port, what issues does it have?

So, back to the Framaroot exploit for W200 (not the S), who knows which exploit?
[Android General] marsian0:
I have used Install SuperSU option, and then press boromir, works good.
[Android General] johnnythedriver:
I would like your help. I am rooted throught framaroot and i tried to recovery through modileuncle like you proposed with an older post. The instructions say to copy the recovery image into the "root" folder in the phone. I cant find that folder. Also when modileuncle pops up the message "reboot into recovery" my phone stucks with a black screen. I would appreciate any help.

Στάλθηκε από το W200 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[Android General] layup23:
That's not a special folder. The instructions meant that you only had to copy the cwm recovery.img file to your sd card. After that just follow the steps from mobileuncle and you will be able to use it.
[Android General] RobboW:
May not be rooted properly. The app will ask for superuser status and if it's not rooted properly, can't get it. You should have an app called superuser, or superSU or similar. It will pop up with a request permission window if it works properly.

You copy the recovery image file to the SD card. In the root directory, not into a folder. Mobileuncle tools looks for it in there and flashes it.

Example, like D: in a Windows PC.

Oops, layup beat me to it :P
[Android General] pro8:
PLZZZ HELP.

Sorry for my bud english.

i replaced touchscreen&lcd to my phone

thl w200

but the lcd appears black screen.

It seems to me that i have to do is to find suitable firmware because lcd is newest than older.

the dealer is trying to help me and sent me a quide with a new firmware

ThL.W200.156.140310.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T but the black screen still remains.
[Android General] johnnythedriver:
Thank you for such a fast response. I am using SU ofc (sorry for not mensioned it) i will try it again with your way and i ll share my result.

Στάλθηκε από το W200 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[Android General] johnnythedriver:
Latest update. I did the whole thing from start. The problem is that when i install the recovery image through mobileuncle i get the correct message "reboot into recovery" so far so good. When the phone reboots it stucks right after the THL logo. I waited for fee mins but nothing.

Στάλθηκε από το W200 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
[Android General] miljenko:
Hi, do you have any light on your lcd or is totally black. Even if screen driver doesn't fit you should have backlight and some artifacts. I would check connections of the screen first and second firmware. Screen should work on the last two firmwares and seller already provided last one.
[Android General] EvangelineX:
I bought a THL W200. some day that does not work well the sound of incoming calls, I feel very low even though the volume is at maximum.

How can I do to fix it?

thanks
[Android General] pro8:
I checked several times connection.Screen is not completely black.It has one white line on a top and one more line down.

the rest is like bleeding,with backlight is lightweight.not found artifacts.
[Android General] Dean123:
I have the same problem after fitting a new screen, a grey line at the top and bottom of the screen with the backlight on.

The seller (Etotalk) suggested a the new firmware (ThL.W200.130815.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T+洋华3202及南玻GT915TP.rar which was older than the one I had on it already) and it made no difference.
[Android General] miljenko:
Only solution is to check every possible firmware. I would like to help you more but never changed display personally.
[Android General] pro8:
etotalk info me that the problem is caused by firmware upgrade .

We are waiting for the new firmware from factory now.. :mad:

is it possible initially to construct the part and after to improve firmware?

which firmware can i use only with flashtool?
[Android General] miljenko:
Who knows, maybe new display is for W200s and firmware is incompatible. We newer knows what we will get from China
[Android General] RobboW:
Welcome to the THL hardware lottery :eek:
[Android General] pro8:
When you have any news, plz let us know.
[Android General] RobboW:
I'm having a break from playing with the W200 and working on my first (very old) Android phone instead. A Garmin Asus Nuvifone a50. In Australia, they were sold by Optus and only worked with 3G on 900/2100MHz, so when I switched telco to an 850MHz band, it became useless, although this was frustrating because it has fantastic GPS built in. Proper Garmin GPS with a more powerful GPS chip. Well, some googling has brought results. I managed to get it pretty much back to standard condition and re-flash it from Australian to Canadian firmware, making it quad band because the hardware supports it, just the software had crippled it. So it's rooted and now updated to current maps. It has lifetime map updates and runs on 850MHz with my current SIM :P

The main reason I did it was so I could use it temporarily whilst working on the W200, but it leaves me wondering if the W200 could have 900 MHz 3G running via a software fix. I suspect it would support quad band at hardware level.

This was successful enough that I have now re-flashed our other 2 Nuvifones :D
[Android General] carro07:
Problem wifi

Good day, I have a thl w200 and I have a problem with the wifi not active. The bluetooth does not work. I tried the factory rom and I have put miui now and still not working. Any tips?.

Thank you very much.

sorry for my English
[Android General] pro8:
etotalk send me new firmware and it works :p:p:p

i have problem with notification led when charging is not showing led red colour.

also dock is not illuminated.
[Android General] miljenko:
Check do you have imei. Maybe you lost imei by flashing custom firmwares

---------- Post added at 09:37 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:34 PM ----------

Great that they provided working firmware. Is there any light from notification LED or is dead completely? Try to root your phone and apply LED fix!
[Android General] pro8:
8877 58953483

is dead completely..how can i root it?
[Android General] miljenko:
Use Framaroot and choose middle option (faramir).
[Android General] pro8:
288 26868339

i;m rooted access.

after about notification led and dock lights?
[Android General] miljenko:
I'm on mobile and unable to search thread. Search thread for led fix and read a bit. It can solve your problem (maybe). Also install Xposed and Gravity and try to fix button lights. They are so dimmed that you will not see difference.
[Android General] ruslan4real:
Hello,

Recently I've been experiencing network disconnections. It is important to note that the phone does not show any indication of the disconnection (the scale of reseption is almost full). However, I myself tried to call my cell phone from another phone and got to the answering machine. In addition, when using a navigation app WAZE sometimes there is a message about the loss of GPS communication and there isn't traffic conditions update along the way.

Change to "Airplane" mode and back to full communication mode or 3G disconnecting and connecting back on is not helping to renew the communication. The only option is making a restart of the device. It is important to note that I tried multiple ROMS and this is repeated from time to time in any ROM (now I'm with the NOTE 3 ROM) Have anyone of you experienced the problem?
[Android General] miljenko:
Try latest Pandawill firmware, it have updated modem.
[Android General] ruslan4real:
Link?

Edit,

found it. will flash later and test the new modem.

Thanks
[Android General] pro8:
i read about led but i cantchange the permissions to RW-R-R same as other system files.

what is the 0644?
[Android General] miljenko:
System need to be mounted as R/W to be able to change permissions. Use ES File explorer or Root Explorer to change permissions. 0644 is read only, 0755 is read and run.
[Android General] pro8:
I trιed but notification led doesn't work :(

dock lights are so dimmed that you told me its right.

also recovery mode shows black screen.

if i put volume down+power its works great with chinese check hardware.

what happened?
[Android General] Dean123:
Can you send me the link?
[Android General] wolfpabiru:
Loop after display change

Hi. Sorry but I speak a little english.

I have a thl w200. After change display the system start in loop at the screen "thl".

If I push hold the start button, the smartphone stay on and battery charge.

If I leave finger from start button, the smartphone go in loop. And the battery don't charge.

Only with finger hold the smartphone stay on and battery charge.

I enter in the recovery and start wipe/erase. But the smartphone stay in loop.

Suggestion?