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[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Saege:
Hi,

I've got a serious problem with my Magician.

I used the antenna cable connector to get better reception yesterday when I had to drive a longer distance, but when I took out the connector it seems that the MDAc didn't switch back to internal antenna. I've got nearly no reception (~10% as usual). Driving back (without external antenna) I only have signal directly in front of a antenna tower. Normal phone use was not possible. Normally I have 1 -2 reception holes during the hole way.

What have I done to solve the problem:

1. Soft-Reset: nothing changed

2. Hardreset:

3. reinstallation of Radiostack 1.05.00 and Hardreset

nothing brought a difference.

Hope the external antenna didn't damaged my Magician phisycally.

Hope someone can help

P.S.: Is the german T-Mobile Radio stack 1.00.10 somewhere available, so that I can try it with this stack? But I'm pretty shure that the radio stack isn't the problem, because it worked perfect for more than 2 weeks.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] chh:
did you get this to work ? i now have a similar problem - very low signal. the difference is that i never used an external antenna....
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] lutzh:
@Saege: you can try to remove the cover of the antena-plug on the back side to check out if everything flipped back where it should be. i don't think it has anything to do with the phone stack itself.

cheers, lutz
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] pinooo:
Hi,

I had also reception problems....

I have found the the internal antenna is a metal plate you can see when you take the upper back cover off. The metal plate has 2 lips that go to the mainboard (you can see them at the top). you have to take a look if the lips are pressed good against the mainboard.

To open the upper back cover put a very thin and pointy object into the holes marked by the red arrow's.

The second picture show the antenna connection to the mainboard, the lips have to be on the golden squares on the mainboard.

Cheers
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] saldous:
That's a good digital camera you are using, what is it? I need a new one.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Xeon:
i think it's an HP Photosmart R707
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] pinooo:
Damn,

he is right... r707 from HP ... hehe

Cheers...
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Xeon:
:wink:
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] Emil:
I have problem too with the signal.

If the XDAmini just came from a no-signal location, the signal comes back very slow. Sometimes you need to soft reset to get it back the soonest.

Please help.
[JAM, MDA Compact, S100 General] bkortleven:
Have been trying everything that has been said in this post about the non-reception on my magician.

In the last 2 days, I only had reception (1 bar) for like 2 minutes, and then nothing...

Is there anything else I can try or test or do to get it running?

Separate/replacement/external antenna to check if the gsm module is still ok and that it's an antenna-issue...?

any help is very welcome!

thanks
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themacroe:
Just switched to the prepay plan and I'm blocked how can I get my imei unblocked I am original owner will post all proof I just called in one day and asked for my service to be disconnected then later I bought a new Sim to start new service from Walmart

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ApriliaM3:
I have edited your thread title... requesting methods or ways of modifying your IMEI is illegal.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themacroe:
So is there any way to fix it?

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] myturbo1:
Only option is to call your provider. If they won't fix it. Then Switch your provider.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themacroe:
Switching providers will I be able to use it?

From T-Mobile to at&t go phone?

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SpookyTunes:
You may have to dispute the block with the original carrier that added it to the block list. They may have flagged the phone as lost or stolen, and while it may work on another carrier, it may catch up and get blocked there as well.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigDig:
Pay off your phone and you'll be able to use it! Ditching T-Mobile service before you have paid off your phone is stealing!
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] themacroe:
Nah bill was $120 I'd rather it be $30

Sent from my Nexus 4
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BigDig:
Well you're stealing the phone from your provider! That phone is not yours until you pay it off! I hope you won't be able to use it on any carrier!

Nexus 4+ Franco + LTE
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Well then your SOL. What you are trying to do is illegal and you will have to deal with it. Carriers are starting to share the Blocked IMEIs so even if you switch carriers you may still not be able to do it.

As stated, pay off your legal contract and they will unblock it.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghostlobster:
LOL!!! That's got to be the leading candidate for idiotic post of the day! Any other entries, or should we just crown this one?
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aburns7487:
Crown it. ..
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
You can try this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.droidgram.bladeunlock

Really effective thing, to unlock you have to open the app, press menu, press Relock Phone and press Ok/Yes.

Of course you cannot unlock it yet until you fully paid it off so wait until that's done.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kaleptik:
The Nexus 4 is already network unlocked, so the app is useless.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] CoolApps:
It is for people who have fully paid for the Nexus 4 on a certain carrier.
[Nexus 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zelendel:
Ok this thread has gone on long enough.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathrania:
I would like to know as to how can i backup stock recovery? Bcoz, i wish to go S-off and unlocked via Revone method, then flash TWRP, flash a few mods, and then get back to stock recovery , s-off, locked bootloader. Is that all possible. Does a nandroid backup, backup's stock recovery as well???

Thanks in advance guys.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArmedandDangerous:
You can't do a nandroid without custom recovery so that is out of the picture. OTA zip files however contain the recovery file you need.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redbull123:
If you're still on stock recovery at the moment - go into fastboot and command:

fastboot boot name_of_your_custom_recovery.img

This will just boot into custom recovery without flashing it. Do a backup and it will backup your stock recovery.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathrania:
Yes I am in stock recovery..

how do I know the name of the recovery?? Or do I need to name it by mnyself..... and after backup, which place do i need to find it in my phone to secure the backup copy....

Sorry, Limited to 8 thanks per day...
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redbull123:
You'll need to download either CWM or TWRP. You can rename the download if you want to something like cwm.img or twrp.img to make it easier.

Once the backup is done it will be on your phones internal storage in the clockworkmod or TWRP folder - depending which one you choose to boot. Just copy it to your PC.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathrania:
I will comeback to thank you after my limit of 8 thanks per day get expired :D
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mathrania:
One question though... i bought this phone as a used, and it was Tampered and Relocked. When I selected the recovery option, it booted the phone to somewhat stock like recovery, and then after some process, the phone rebooted, and the phone was totally Factory Reset.... everything in the storage was gone too..... so is there an way to check if it is indeed a stock recovery, or this is the normal behaviour of stock recovery...?
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redbull123:
You need to unlock your bootloader before doing anything with custom recovery. Use Revone or the official HTC Dev method
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ArmedandDangerous:
Good tip :)
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pritam.paul.360:
this method of just booting a custom recovery used to work with OLDER hboot versions. but it doesn't work with newer hboots. my hboot version is 1.54.0000 and when I use the command mentioned above, my bootloader menu just freezes!! guess I'll have to look for the OTA file then to find the stock bootloader! :rolleyes:
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redbull123:
Yep, I know. It worked when I wrote it, over 6 weeks ago. :p
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pritam.paul.360:
uh, I see! guess I didn't notice the date! :p :p
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] wckong:
Not sure if it helps as I was still on 1.44 HBoot, but when I tried the command while the bootloader was locked, my bootloader would also freeze and I had to do a hard reset. Once I unlocked my bootloader, the boot command worked.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pritam.paul.360:
first of all, you must have your bootloader unlocked in order to boot/flash a custom recovery. you can't do so if your bootloader is locked. and secondly, yeah, I also had the boot command worked out before I had the 1.54 Hboot. I guess this one doesn't allow 'just' booting a custom recovery! :mad:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
A brother of mine recently bought two Chinese iPhone 5 clones and Galaxy Note II ones. And I wanna see what's in those, what features do they exactly have, what software do they run and what hardware exactly are they. I tried to google this and I stumbled upon these forums, though I never got a solution that worked for me.

Is there any computer software I can while having each of those phones connected to my PC that use which might help acquiring that information? You guys mention SuperOneClick, but that does nothing in my case - none of the buttons work, no drivers get installed. Oh, I don't know if it matters, but I'm running Windows XP.

Many thanks in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrew Andrax:
In most cases those Chinese clones don't use any of the mainstream phone os like android, IOS, WP8. They use other os such as bada or meego and put skins on the os so that they look like the mainstream os. The reason for this is coz of too much competition and low price phones in the Chinese market causing the production of low standard phones and tabs and phablets that somehow leak into other established markets... In some special and kinda rare cases those phones do come with stock android. In this case,The reason drivers don't install is because the manufacturers haven't released the drivers probably because the phone isn't widely known. Probably start searching for the manufacturer and ask for the info and drivers. And maybe, just maybe, they will give you the info. If it has the Google playstore download an app called android file info. It will give you a the info be it hardware or software including your IP address
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
Thank you for the reply.

Though the thing is, e.g. one of those phone that I have pretty much looks this one:

"Airphone i5 Smart Phone MTK6515 Android 2.3 OS IOS Menu Original Size i5 Wifi" (google that, turns out I can't yet post external links within my posts)

and as you can see on that site, they pretty much claim that it's Android based. Mine has 4 GiB though, or so it seems - when I connect it to my PC, it detects a FAT32 disk of that size.

So, how do I find out what those really are? Is there anything I can use on the menu to maybe see the real technical spec? There are many of those iPhone 5 clones on the internet, all of which claim they are MTKxxxx hardware inside. Should I trust those website? And what is that MTKxxxx? How do I find out which version (if any) mine is? How do I find out what's the screen resolution, CPU speed, and the RAM it really has?

Thanks in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrew Andrax:
Mtkxx devices can be trusted. They just make phones that look like iPhone but are really just android. Since it is android go to the Google playstore and download an app called android system info. It will give you all those details... Believe me it does and doesn't require root

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FAT32 is Is basically the format of that 4gb internal memory storage.

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Hope that helps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
liereiz Alcohol

But how do I install it? This phone is a bit weird, for instance, when I try to watch a video on yt through its Youtube icon it gives me an error "format no supported". How can I even know if it's a real MTK, it just looks like one of those from those websites :\.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrew Andrax:
On a computer Google 'Google playstore ask download' download the apk. Then copy it to your SD card. Put the card into the phone. Using the file manager in the phone, browse to the apk on the SD card and click it to install. Then run the playstore and you are done.

Another option is using whatever Internet browser that is on the phone and Google the same thing and download it through the phone (don't worry about data charges the apk is quite small) once downloaded run it by clicking it and install it. The start up the Google playstore as usual.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
And so copied the file on the phone (using the usb cable), still to no avail. It won't load. The phone doesn't even have a file browser 'per se', though I managed to find somehow which might resemble it via the 'search' function. My guess then is, that's not an Android at all? How can I get the technical spec now? :\

I'm uploading two attachments. First is the error that it shows when trying to load up that file you told me to upload, and the second one is the folders structure on this memory card (the one that has 4 GiB). Is any of this telling us anything? Thanks.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrew Andrax:
Sorry pal... I don't think that is android at all. What android version was written on the packaging?

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And apologies for the late reply. Got caught up in something.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
It doesn't say anything about Android at all. It claims it's a legit iPhone 5. Though obviously it ain't.

Is there anything else I can do to get to the spec?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Andrew Andrax:
Let me check on Google and see what I can find. But if it isn't android... It might be a bit hard to find out but I will try my best.

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Is there a settings icon? If so, is there an 'about phone ' in it? If there is please check if there's any indication of 'android '
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
The only references to Android that I found were those on basically every single website that offers or mentions Chinese iPhone clones. There's nothing at all on the phone itself :/. As I said, it claims it's a legit iPhone 5.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rocky12345678900:
ios

Maybe its off topic but if i were you i would throw out this sh*t and then i would buy galaxy s1 for example...they are really cheap now...after that you could root it and then flash miui rom...(these roms are very similiar to ios).

Also if they could somehow hack internal memory amount to show 64gb they could hack other hardware info so it may show for example snapdragon 800 while its chinese no name
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
Still, that does not solve the problem at all. If I wanted to throw those away, that is just sell them, I'd still need to know what it is that I'm selling. You can't run a successful businesses on a market that you know nothing about and neither you can successfully sell a product if you don't even know its technical spec. This whole thing is giving me a headache already :\.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XDA_h3n:
I've seen these before. This phone basically is a sciphone with a iphone 5 design. It runs on Java not android.

Android MTK phones would have just the stock android phone (I.E. W008+)

Goophone I5 has stock android ontop of a skin and only runs on android 4 (There is a update for 4.1)

This however is Java ontop of a skin because of the font, and it looks like the sciphone os. The settings are identical to a sciphone too.

Just to add to this, all mediatek phones (Chinese clones) come pre-rooted, MTK6515 is really slow, It wouldn't even run angry birds. Also when you turn on your phone does it turn on with a android logo (like the w008) if so then there should be a test mode by holding volume up and power or volume down and power when the logo shows up. But I doubt it's android and wouldn't have this feature. Also to test if it's android, when you turned on your phone for the first time did you go through setup? If so you should have had added a google account (They come with the play store preinstalled but runs at a older version) ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Topple_:
Thank you for your reply. It makes things more clear yet.

The answer for all this is: no. I've never stumbled upon the Android logo when using those, none of those tests would run and they have never asked me for google acc, neither there's anything on their menus where I could put any google acc name to. I simply assumed they were Android based phones, as all the iPhone clones that I had seen on the Internet were said to run on Android.

If they are 'sciphones', as you said and they run on Java, how do I get the technical spec? What I need will be the chipset name, memory information (RAM), screen resolution, WiFi standards it supports, etc. If I'm ever to get rid of them, knowing that is a must. I simply don't wanna cheat anyone, just state clearly what it is that I have to sell.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XDA_h3n:
Well, I was developing for the w008. I couldn't get round to a ROM with no kernel sources available and the device was abandoned to hardware today. I cant really say how to get the datasets really.. All I know is that it could also be a clone of a "sciphone" and have a different dataset to that.

Just a suggestion if it runs on java, it can run java apps meaning you could find a java app for system information. Not sure if there's one out but it would be worth a try. But then again I think it reads the settings of a file (like a bulid.prop) so then again it would give the same information as settings.

Don't know what to say really.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chan.sk:
Hi,

This product description sounds familiar. The Chinese manufacturer's product description is usually very vague and ambigious, for example, a "tablet" (computer) can be described as a "pill" (computer) because the Chinese word is the same for tablet and pill (medicine-wise). So, here is how I would interprete the product description:

Airphone i5

Smart Phone

MTK6515

Android 2.3 OS IOS Menu

Original Size i5

Wifi

"

Airphone i5 - Airphone, the brand and i5, the model

Smart Phone - usually means it comes with a large touch-screen (not a feature phone)

MTK6515 - the processor

Android 2.3 OS IOS Menu - it has some menus that looks like Android 2.3 and some menus that look like IOS

Original Size i5 - the phone hardware has the same form-factor as i5.

Wifi - comes with addditional Wifi connectivity (if without the word "Wifi" expect no Wifi)

I am sure if we were to scour the Chinese websites we will find many more such (seemingly deceiving) descriptions.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heirdy:
Hi All,

I got this samsunga galaxy s3 from my brother. He used to do so many things on it. He used to change the ROM often?! Sometime he would install the Xperia Z's ROM on it?! I am a complete newbie and I didn't ask him about this before. Now he has left for another country, giving the phone to me with default factory settings. But I know that he did everything from what you guys shared here.

So, sorry for the newbie questions (and for not Googling it)

1. How do I change the firmware/stock ROM for better performance?

2. What should I do to make the audio player awesome?

3. Is there a chance that I could increase the battery performance?

Thanks for any and all your help
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] boomboomer:
Go to the general thread and read the stickies for noobs and guides on how to flash.

They will tell you everything you want to know, although I'd caution against leaping in until you are very certain you know what to do.

These phones are quite easy to destroy by flashing the wrong file etc. To acheive most of what you want you'll only need to root and install titanium - so you can freeze the Samsung bloatware, this isn't too risky if you follow the CF auto root process.

For all the rest your best to search and read xda, make sure you fully understand before you press the 'flash' button.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heirdy:
Posted to General

Thanks! But I initially posted this there and was told to post it on Q&A section :(

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2347710
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrismast:
he said you should read not post ;).

anything is described in the stickies and FAQ thread here.

in summary, custom roms or stock modified roms will give you "maybe" better battery live.

In addition custom kernels improve battery live and sound.

first thing to do though is read the FAQ thread so that you know what you are doing :).
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heirdy:
Chris

Thanks Chris

It looks like a lot of studying! I hope I don't get my phone spoiled before I do a good reading :D
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chrismast:
better to read before you will brick ;). in addition to the threads here there are also helpful YouTube videos out there.
[Galaxy S III Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] heirdy:
Thanks again

Thanks again :)

Will you help me to improve the music quality at least? I am lost in the middle of all this threads and feel like deserted :D

Just kidding bro. Thanks for all your help.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovenokia:
Help! Seven-Eighter Program Error, "Restarting your phone...Error. Timeout occured

So I have a Samsung Focus that I tried to install windows phone 7.8 and it was going through the update until I got this error message, "Restarting your phone... Error. Timeout occurred while waiting for device to reboot." Should I unplug because the device has the picture of plugging the phone into the computer image on it. THanks
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovenokia:
I unplugged the phone, and tried to install it again. I got another error code twice. Now the phone is not being recognized by Zune or by the USB port, any tips on what I can do?
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovenokia:
So the phone worked, I keep trying to make it work with the update tool but it seems that an error code keep happens.
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AndyFZ1S:
Ok the only thing I can think of is that you haven't installed the exact same language files that were originally on the device before you attempted the update, It wont work unless they are the same :fingers-crossed:
[Windows Phone 7 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lovenokia:
after MANY error codes I was finally able to install wp 7.8 on my Samsung focus. I keep getting some error, I helped a friend through Skype, but finaly worked through trial and error.