[Android General] dreamerman:
My wife wanted a simple smartphone to take pictures and messaging so I thought this budget phone will do.

Specs from seller site:

- 4.5inch Capacitive touchscreen,480*854pixels

- CPU: MTK6582 Quad Core,ARMv7 Processor rev3 1.3GHz

- 1GB RAM + 4GB ROM

- Dual Camera: Back Camera 8.0MP and Front camera 2.0MP,with flashlight

- Android 4.2.2 OS

- Networking: 2G: GSM850/900/1800/1900MHz 3G: WCDMA850/2100MHz

- Dual SIM Card Standby (note that 3G only works with big sim and small sim is for 2G - tested by me)

The stock rom contains some Chinese apps which cannot be uninstalled even when rooted using vroot (rooting method recommended by seller). Force uninstall it using Titanium but lost root afterwards. Factory reset it (vol+ and power) and Chinese apps still remained. Argh.......

So I took this opportunity to flash my rom with an updated original rom posted by the seller. I used PdaNetA4126.exe drivers and flashed using Mediatek's SP_Flash_Tool_v5.1343.01.

After that, I rooted my phone using sjroot. Although sjroot is a Chinese root, everything is in English including the superuser app (Kinguser). Checked rooting with Root Checker. I installed link2sd with a 16GB C10 card (1st primary partition FAT32 10GB, 2nd primary partition ext2 6GB) and successfully mounted it.

That's all I need.

Full specs from seller http://www.geekbuying.com/item/W450...era-Android-4-2-OS-3G-GPS---Black-321182.html

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Updated original rom from seller http://blog.geekbuying.com/index.php/2013/12/31/w450-upgrade-documents-and-tools/#.UsYel_QW2So

Root method by seller (I used another method to root) http://blog.geekbuying.com/index.ph...mart-phone-root-tool-and-method/#.UsYewPQW2So

Root method used by me http://dl.shuame.com/files/RootGenius/1.8.0/RootGenius.zip

I am not sure if my W450 is the same as STAR W450 (probably is the same). There are some rooted roms available at needrom under STAR W450.

That's it folks!

Update: I am unable to get GPS working as yet. I tried the obvious ie changing the gps.config to as follows but to no avail.

NTP_SERVER=au.pool.ntp.org

XTRA_SERVER_1=http://xtra1.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_2=http://xtra2.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

XTRA_SERVER_3=http://xtra3.gpsonextra.net/xtra.bin

SUPL_HOST=supl.google.com

SUPL_PORT=7276

My other phone STAR N9589 gps works out of the box without any mucking around the gps.config. Will post when (if) I get the gps working.

Update1:

Still trying to get gps working. Have tried a few methods suggested in various forums but still no luck. Maybe its a hardware issue. Not keen to crack open the device to see how things have been soldered....maybe I will just let gps go.....