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[Android General] RoterHugo:
Hello dissidius, RobboW, ...

I have taken this Link to repart the phone.

After doing this the internal SD-Card was gone.

Then I took Meteos with 8 GB in the hope i could use the space fotr my TOM-TOM-Maps.

That didnt work, so i went back to 1,5 GB-Partition with Meteos putting the TOM-TOM-files to the external 32 GB-SD-Card.

I was Crying to loose my internal SD-Space but it was o.k. for me.

Then the phone started to switched of by itself and twice a day it told me that i would have changed the Sim-Card and i lost datatransfer without recognizing...

That was the reason to start using flashtool with all the error-messages.

Bevor that i used only CRW-backup to save my Roms...

But this can repartioned the Partitions to the "normal"-size

@ Sargos76 have you reanimated your phone with the description of Dissidius? or how have you done it?
[Android General] RobboW:
I just tried the Nokia Store app port from the portal news. It doesn't work yet. I suspect that it looks for an account like Google Play.
[Android General] piter92wzg:
I want to replace earpiece speaker. But unfortunately it is placed under the main board. Main board is connected with volume keys and power key via yellow tap. How can I get in under the main board and replace earpiece speaker without devastating rest of the phone?
[Android General] RobboW:
Guys, there's a new version of Smart Launcher2 Pro now and it's good, My phone looks fantastic and is so easy to use. I'll have to do screenshots.
[Android General] arielbgb:
hi i have problem with very very slow charging and my battery over very fast.

i check with battery stats can't find the problem...

its start to happen after 1 month use the phone. I use the original chareger and original battery.

maybe it can be because of the update to the new rom w200.130817

i had the 130815
[Android General] RoterHugo:
Hello Dissidius,

seems, I`m to stupid to find the right drivers.

I have reinstalled any previous drivers with usbdeview.

I can't find preloader vcom drivers on 4pda.ru (some Downloadlinks and the Download of the scatterfile are down).

Maybe you have a link or can post the right driver. (I'm using win 7 64) and the right scatter-file.

Or maybe i have the rigt drivers and something else is wrong cause i can do format (thats the only option wich is working end ends with the green circle of the flashtool.

Mostly the 1 red bar is running, then the dark-blue bars are running and then the first 3 or 4 green bars are running and the its always stopping with this error-message:

BROM ERROR: S_DA_INVALID_RANGE (3036)

[user] DA_MEM_CMD command fail!

[HINT]:

1. One of the downloaded blocks has invalid range.

2. Possibly invalid begin address or end address exceed target flash size.

3. Possibly logcial begin address or length exceeds check boundary.

do i have wrong scatter-file?

I have no more idea.

Please help!
[Android General] Sargos76:
why dont you read the TOPIC ??? see 1 or 2 pages and you will find the sollution,see the links i posted e folow the indications and you will solve your problem with spft.

See you guys,i´ve sold my w200 and thanks for all the help you gave me,from time to time i will return here.
[Android General] RobboW:
I'm trying to get my desktop pc to work with the phone for SPFT as I want to format the laptop, but getting the USB drivers working is proving impossible so far. Maybe my 1st and last MTK phone......

Take care sargos, what replaces the W200?
[Android General] miljenko:
Never had any driver related problems on my Windows 7 32bit laptop, but I can see that many people are complaining.

I support Robbo's question, what replaced your w200?
[Android General] Strolls:
I'd try with a different battery - spare batteries for this phone are very cheap, like £5.

As best practice, I'd also try charging from a different charger or from a computer's USB (but I'd consider trying with a different battery to be more important).

I wouldn't immediately assume it's the software.
[Android General] arielbgb:
I try it didn't help
[Android General] RobboW:
Quoting myself here. Took screenshots with Smart Launcher2 Pro.

You can install themes then mix and match components, it's very clever really, but you quickly find a theme you like and then just change wallpapers. What I do is install themes, copy out the apk files and extract them, copy out the wallpaper, rename it and dump into my wallpapers folder and uninstall un-needed themes. I'm using the ICS/JB free theme, it has nice standard icons and then I apply an Xperia or KK wallpaper for good looks. Using Gravitybox mods, it looks more KK with white statusbar colouring too. I also like the Gravitybox lockscreen mods with targets and quick pulldown active. Makes the phone very easy to use and you can access anything in it very quickly. It's snappy, I've also been trying to get it to do the un-prompted shutdown, but has not yet since installing the launcher. Maybe it was to do with Holo Launcher Pro?

These are what I'm running.

Launcher

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

Theme

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=emotroid.sltheme.jellybean&hl=en

Wallpaper extracted from Xperia themes or a KK

https://play.google.com/store/search?q=smart launcher&c=apps&hl=en

I also worked out how to replace the inbuilt clock display with an installed one and now have a weather clock on homescreen, but I think it will chew the battery.
[Android General] layup23:
Robbo I wanted to ask this question for a long time, it's regarding the wallpapers on Android. From what I can tell every wallpaper I set is somewhat low quality and as a result there's not much quality to the picture. I tried setting up high resolution photos as a wallpaper and still they look bad. I googled and realized that android does something called color banding were it changes the aspect of a wallpaper in order to save performance. As a result I get this. As you can see there's that wave look, sort of makes the colors into gradient and as a result it doesn't have that high resolution look to it. Does this happen to you?

Is there anything I can do to disable this feature? I tried enabling surface dithering with pimp my rom but it still looks the same.
[Android General] RobboW:
I think the biggest problem is when you use an image the wrong aspect ratio and size in pixels as the OS crops and resizes it to suit it's narrow range. It has to be able to rotate and scroll so may get distorted like that with poor processing. If you use a picture of quality, but in correct aspect ratio it should look good. The W200 uses 1440 x 1280 pictures natively.

I've attached a wallpaper made from a personal image from a family day out, download and try it as a test to see what I mean. Best result is to expand the crop area to use the whole image size.

If you use an image of portrait shape it will crop out then get blown up to keep a wider aspect and then gets pixelated. In gravitybox, there is the setting within Display section to turn on Holo background dithering for suppressing colour banding. I keep this on.

Do you have an image to upload that you want to use as wallpaper?
[Android General] marsian0:
Just use an app for that purpose, i use Image 2 Wallpaper, there must be others...
[Android General] RobboW:
I use IrfanView for most image processing, but really like the crop tool in Picasa for getting composition and pixel size correct. Both on PC.
[Android General] miljenko:
THL W200s white is here. Take a look at the photo
[Android General] RobboW:
My daughter wants a phone and I'm actually looking around at other brands like Oppo and Zopo etc, but the cost is a factor. Still tempted to look at non MTK makes for better support in the event of issues, but to be honest, her phone will stay stock. She can't be trusted to not bugger it up. No root..... So an MTK is probably still ok for her. Might end up with a W200s in the house yet.

Today I had my first un-prompted shut down since changing the launcher. Just don't know why it does it and getting a little annoyed by it. It runs so good other than that.

If my screen breaks and I replace it, I think I'd get a white one in my black frame just because you can see the buttons so easy.
[Android General] fbhtc:
RobboW the W200 is a 5" low cost smartphone that performs very well their functions, much similar to the S4. The MKT processor is very fast and has shown few problems. I quite like this machine, I do everything with it, dual SIM 3G, calls, GPS navegations, Office, Camera video and photo, WiFi, Internet, Xbmc, radio, play music, play HD video, etc etc, for a device of $170 leaves me completely satisfied, but I am of those beyond the Root and Re-Partitioning Internal Memory, nothing else did ... would buy another? buy two if need be ... :laugh:

16200 ... at the moment in Antutu ...:cool:

Reg,

FB
[Android General] RobboW:
I like the phone, with the mods it runs fast and works well, music sounds awesome with Neutron and Viper audio, it's just the stupidly difficult method to access it by PC to re-flash to stock. It makes me nervous doing anything to it in case it gets permanently bricked. It's all about those useless USB drivers and complete lack of support by THL.
[Android General] miljenko:
Support it is part of the price. Look at branded phones, they are produced in China, but at least double price. One part of the price is planned support, but with too much different models they are lacking long term support. Only top models (most expensive) have one year support.
[Android General] miljenko:
THL W200s after few hours

OK people,

After few hours of using W200s I can say that THL fixed some issues addressed at this Forum/thread.

- Capacitive buttons backlight is working now, it is not perfect but it visible as you can see at my attached photo.

- Compass is working properly in horizontal and vertical phone position.

- Internal memory is 6 GB and rest is on internal storage (something like 22GB), no need for repartitioning

- Minimal brightness is lower then on older brother W200 and auto brightness is smoother and quicker (probably newer sensor)

- Camera is way better in dark environment, no slowdowns and pictures are crisper even without flash

- etc.

I made recovery and backed up firmware. I will upload everyithing on NeedRom during next days.

Also Root can be achieved by Framaroot by choosing "Barahir" option.
[Android General] Ashkadar:
miljenko,

Can you get something useful for W200 from W200S ROM?
[Android General] RobboW:
I knew this would happen. You're making me want to sell my W200 and get the W200S :eek:
[Android General] miljenko:
Wait until tomorrow until video is uploaded and judge by yourself. Also I have made Carliv touch recovery and uploaded it to NeedRom.
[Android General] RobboW:
My wife needs a better phone. Her Samsung is starting to bog down like mine did. Maybe she will like my W200? :highfive:
[Android General] miljenko:
My THL W200s video

I know it is not the best, but video is taken last night at 2:00 after midnight.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKwnzEYB3ws
[Android General] fbhtc:
:good:

...Good video, and good music, worth having finished in the middle of the video :cool:

...I was not keen to swap for my W200 ... and I do not like white :D

Reg,

FB
[Android General] quasimidi:
[MENTION=1748915]miljenko[/MENTION]:

Do you think it is possible to backport some W200S apps (maybe kernel and modules) to W200?
[Android General] miljenko:
I have extracted kernel from boot.img to create CWM recovery. I don't know for what it can be used in W200 firmware since this two phones are completely different. If somebody need w200s kernel or any other part of the firmware, I will provide them.

Stock framework is a bit different and I will probably use it for W200 Pandawill rom V3.
[Android General] zdravke:
So I guess we should upgrade to w200s to fix all the issues we are having? I don't think so. If they don't fix them all, I am selling both devices of mine and switching brand.
[Android General] miljenko:
I don't know about you but I'm not so picky. W200 flaws mentioned on this thread are basically nothing. Only bad thing is buttons backlight, other thing like compass, slow camera, etc are nothing for me, newer used. Phone is working perfectly for money and that is why I bought W200s, also I was in white phone mood and picked white. Since I have cloned my card I can choose phone on daily basis, when I'm wearing light clothes W200s white, when in dark mood and clothes W200 black will be with me. :D:D:cowboy::cowboy:

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I have made Carliv's Touch recovery for THL W200s, file can be downloaded from

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=50840588&postcount=24

or

http://www.needrom.com/mobile/thl-w200s-mtk6592-octa-carliv-touch-recovery/
[Android General] roccomx:
W200S OTG support?

Miljenko,

do you know if the W200S supports usb OTG?
[Android General] miljenko:
I will try and let know.
[Android General] RobboW:
I just had a look at the current nintendo emulators in google play. There's actually a couple of good ones that play nicely, so the phone runs as a decent GBA or DS. We have hundreds of ROMs from DS days with flash carts. Got looking after finding my Nintendo backup directory on a USB drive.
[Android General] Abijeet:
problem whilst replacing lights.default.so

Hi people, I might have a huge problem with my phone. I don't know which file I've deleted and I don't know how to fix it. Let me start from the beginning.

Okay, so I've had my phone a few months now but only today was I brave enough to apply the led notification fix (I don't know too much about phones). So I installed the lights.default.so file and replaced it with the original one.

Now, that is all okay, but now when I rebooted my phone, my phone will not work with the power button. I have to take the battery out and reinsert it and then press the power button every time I want to turn the display on, otherwise it won't turn on. Once I've turned off the display, it won't work without taking out and reinserting battery.

I don't have a backup of any files (system files) but my phone is rooted. What would be the simplest and quickest solution to fix this?
[Android General] miljenko:
You have to change file permissions, install ES file explorer, mount system as R/W navigate to copied file, long press after is selected choose properties and on permission tick all 3 boxes in first row and only first one in second row.
[Android General] Abijeet:
Sorry, I installed ES File Explorer but how would I mount system as R/W?
[Android General] miljenko:
Open side panel, tap on root, and mount as r/w
[Android General] Abijeet:
I've ticked the first 3 and the 1st one in second row, this still does not fix the problem :c

Edit: I've added a screenshot of how the permissions look:

i62.tinypic.com/314w07o.png (http needs to be added at the beginning since I can't add links because I'm under 10 posts)

2nd Edit: I've added a print screen which shows everything in my lib/hw folder in case something else is missing, there are 14 items in total.

i61.tinypic.com/hueflt.png (http at the beginning needed)
[Android General] miljenko:
Not right, should be like in attached screenshots. Sorry, maybe I explained wrong :(
[Android General] Abijeet:
Thank you so very much, everything is working as before with the notification lights working as well! Thank you very much :D
[Android General] miljenko:
Just press thanks button under post. Anyway, I'm really happy that you resolved your problem. :cyclops::good:
[Android General] RobboW:
Not only is it working, but you learnt one of the important "basics" of modding a phone :p

Today I installed Miljenko's black boot logo. Nice, now my phone boots with a better look :P
[Android General] ruslan4real:
Send screenshot
[Android General] Abijeet:
Yes, I've learned a lot from that experience :D

Next thing I need to learn is learn how to back up the stock ROM so that I can start changing ROMS, but still need a lot of reading up on that stuff.

I had a question, how do I make notification light bar blink on all notifications? Currently it only blinks on e-mail and only blinks sometimes when a whatsapp message comes through.
[Android General] RobboW:
Me?

Can't, it's a boot logo, it hasn't booted at that point to take one :silly:
[Android General] ruslan4real:
I know. With another phone/camera.

Thanks
[Android General] RobboW:
Here you go, a video of it re-booting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qoDGQaTous&feature=youtu.be

Boot logo is replaced, also boot animation and launcher, xperia clock widget from google play, Gravitybox mods to notifications. Gives it a cohesively themed look. I can't remember if it was a Miljenko boot animation, anyone know who released that? Might have been from a Sony port. If I could replace the lockscreen clock with the xperia widget, it would be complete.
[Android General] ruslan4real:
Thanks. It looks very good.
[Android General] Ysabelkid:
[MENTION=253388]robbo[/MENTION]

Like the dark logo and no sound.

Is there a separate apk to install it? Can one add sound later on?

The sound can be irritating but this morning act as an alarm as I forgot to turn on my regular alarm! :)
[Android General] RobboW:
Boot logo is a Miljenko zip to be installed with CWM recovery, the animation I just replaced with my file explorer and fixed permissions. Boot audio is the same deal, file explorer to replace or remove. I had the matching audio for the animation and it is a lot nicer than the THL one, but I wanted silence so deleted it. I work on the phone at night and noisy re-boots are annoying when the family is sleeping ;)
[Android General] RoterHugo:
Hi everybody, this Bootanimation is from the Rom: "..... Zound V2) fix3".

---------- Post added at 10:29 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:22 AM ----------

Hi Dissidius,

thanks a lot for this guide. At least it was working. I think my mistake was to connect the phone on the front-usp-port.

Your guide was working, when i took the original usb-Cabel from the phone and a backside usb-port on the PC. :good:
[Android General] dissidius:
A thanks will be appriciated!

Click on thanks if i helped any of you

Regards!
[Android General] Meeshka:
Hello. I failed to search for my problem since I don't know how to describe it in few keywords that can reveal the whole situation.

So if the problem is known, I would be very appreciated if somebody direct me to that.

The phone is not turning on. Neither it is seen but the PC so that I can try to reflash it. Here are the simptoms I have:

1. When putting a battery to the phone, the charge led starts to shine with a VERY dull red (seen only if looking at it at the moment) and so do the sensor buttons. They are too shining. Power button doesn't switch the phone. When connected to USB no device is being found and the flash program can't see the device to flash.

2. Without battery the same happens when connecting the device to USB: no matter charger or to PC. The same lights and no reaction to any button or on PC in device manager.

Battery (both) checked - I have a lab, so can tell that for sure. I don't want to open the device yet since it is on warranty (a virtual one from the seller on Ali). I tried to leave the phone without battery for a night - didn't help. It does look like some short circuit, but without opening can't tell for sure.

So before I try to contact the seller about chances for replacement I wanted to know if this is a known issue and may be I can somehow find the solution.
[Android General] miljenko:
I have created separate thread for this phone if you need some help or support. Also you will find recovery and custom firmware there
[Android General] miljenko:
This faint LED glow is normal when power button and volume are pressed at the same time. Maybe button is broken. Anyway I think that SP Flash Tool should find even broken phone if drivers are installed correctly.
[Android General] Meeshka:
Thanks for an answer. SP Flash tool should see the device only if it appears in device manager? Cause in my case there is even no connection sound and no refreshing in device manager at the moment the phone is connected. Anyway, I'll try to start flashing with SP, may be you are right and even if I don't see no action it can be flashed.

The version with broken button seems rather interesting. I'll try to "unswitch" the power button without disassembling the device.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
Does anyone know if you can use this phone in Indonesia (Bali)? I'm getting conflicting advice.
[Android General] RobboW:
This info is old but it probably hasn't changed.

http://www.mybaliguide.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?action=viewnews&id=669

So THL phones (850MHz 3G) will generally not work well. Look for phones supporting 900MHz on 3G. Zopo etc often do.

I was looking at this for my daughter but it runs with 900MHz and we need 850MHz.

http://www.zopomobileshop.com/en/228-zopo-zp780-android-smart-phone.html
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
Bugger. Everything I've read tells me this but have had people tell me it works on the 2100MHz, I hoped I was wrong. My previous phone, a HTC desire is the same.

I need 850MHz here in Australia for Telstra so I'd rather have both 850 and 900 if I'm going to get a spare phone. Might look into just picking one up when I get there or even a second hand phone here. Not sure I have time to muck around and wait on a China delivery. I really just want it for internet and to use as a Wifi hotspot. Then it will be a backup.
[Android General] RobboW:
A cheap quad band from Optus will natively run 900MHz. Telstra is 850MHz. That said, it may run at 2100 but performance will take a hit.
[Android General] Matticus_Finch:
Coles have a triband Huawei G300+ this week for $59, not great specs but it will do.
[Android General] layup23:
Touch screen bug

Well this is strange...

You know that touch screen bug that, whenever you play a game which uses the left side as a direction stick and the right side to shoot, the toch screen gets reset and you need to release the right side and press the left side again?

That bug is not present in frontline commando 2...

Weird...
[Android General] fbhtc:
Hi,

I have Root and Re-Partitioning Internal Memory in stock rom.

If I do a factory data reset I have to do it all again?

I need to clean all personal information to borrow the w200 to a friend.

Reg,

FB
[Android General] layup23:
I believe that it will remove the Root but I think the partition will remain the same.

@ Everyone- Looks like there's a new stock version of Android released for our device,W200.140227.JBV2.HD.EN.COM.8P64_MT6589T, found it on 4pda - here http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?s=&showtopic=492598&view=findpost&p=30078720

But, since it's in Russian and Google translate isn't making things clear, I don't understand if it's compatible with all of our revisions.

Maybe someone who speaks Russian can shed some light on the issue.
[Android General] djport1973:
There are two versions. One for the first thl w200 and one for the most recent. I have the first and downloaded this.

https://disk.yandex.com/public/?hash=oEb1YfvxGZzH3opP+rA2OL3i0hpIgWR+/j5SP9lXbkA=
[Android General] arielbgb:
some1 instal it alredy? any changes?

by the way i try to instal MIUI rom but after wipe all and instal it

it stuck with the thl logo and don't move.

so i recover my last rom in recovery mode.