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[Android General] Rich Village:
I think this phone's design is good :)

I think this phone's design is good :)

And Android 4.2.9 :D :D :D
[Android General] harry1987:
no, i'm thinking of flashing it now..by the new 4.4 you mean 15.01.26 version?
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
Yes. If you do, check your front camera before you go to far in setting it up. I had an issue with a yellow tint to it that I could not figure out. Otherwise it was great.
[Android General] harry1987:
i've tried 4 different roms and the only one that i can flash is 20140815. With the other roms i get "PMT changed for the ROM; it must be downloaded." error..anyone knows what can i do to fix this?
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
You are not being very clear; where is this error occurring? Is it when you are in SP Flash Tool? If so, are you using the latest version of SP Flash Tool?
[Android General] harry1987:
i get the error in sp flash tool after the red bar appears and i connect the battery to my phone. tried sp flash tool v5.1352.01 and v5.1424.00
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
You should be flashing with the battery out of the phone.
[Android General] harry1987:
even if i flash without battery, i get the same error just after the red bar appears in sp flash tool
[Android General] harry1987:
Thank you, this worked like a charm :D it would have been better with 7gb for apps but i'm not complaining. 3gb will be enough i guess :)
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
Use the files in this youtube description -> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rhvBPuiE78

Just download them, then put them in the folder with your official update ROM. Then go to the checksum.ini file, and rename it from checksum.ini to checksum.old. Then set the SP Flash Tool to "Download Only," and uncheck everything except for EBR1 and EBR2. Take the battery out of your phone then plug it up to your PC. Then press the green Download arrow button, unplug the phone, then plug it back in again and it should flash. It will only take about 2 seconds to complete the flash for both EBR files. Then unplug the phone, put your battery back in, boot the phone and you should have 7GB for apps, 7GB for phone storage.
[Android General] harry1987:
thank you for all the help..but now i'm facing a new problem... after the flashing, my phone can;t keep it's sim card signal..losing it everytime i try to make a call..or every time i try to send an sms..i tried flashing back to stock rom android 4.2.9. but no use..
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
Did you make a backup of your IMEI before flashing? This needs to be reflashed via TWRP after flashing the official ROM. I don't know if this is causing your issue but it's the only thing I can think of. You also need to re-enter your APN settings but that should not affect the calls you send or receive.
[Android General] harry1987:
damn..i didin;t do a backup.. now reflashing 15.01.26 and then i'll try twerp :) i didin't have any apn settings to begin with :) just used wi-fi
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
If you did not back up your IMEI then it is gone, you won't just get it back. You can add it again but it's a PITA, I saw the process for it somewhere but forgot where it was. I'll poke around my bookmarks.

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Okay take a look at this video, I think this will work to get your IMEI back in your phone. The IMEI numbers should be in your battery compartment, behind the battery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oS1S1fNbJZw
[Android General] harry1987:
well..i'm pretty sure i'm an idiot :) i can;t seem to be able to write the whole code..when i try to input the last * it deletes the whole thing..
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
Okay well you should be able to fix it with this method then, requires PC.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ierbMHOQGeQ
[Android General] harry1987:
finally i got it working..after 9 hours of trying..that's what i get because i didin;t back up my imei..Thank you HyperionAlpha for all the help :D

Edit: 2015.01.26 rom successfully installed, only thing that is not working is autofocus on back camera. photos taken of documents are very blurry... front camera, signal, battery, gps, 3g all working good
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
Autofocus should work, try angling differently, different lighting, and flash settings, all of these can and should affect the focus and clarity of your photos.
[Android General] gixxergabi:
Use "firmware upgrade" mode
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
I just discovered another plus to the 01/26 ROM, you can use the latest version of Maps and it won't crash! It keeps going steady. Previously I had to uninstall all Maps updates to use the version that the phone shipped with, or else the application would crash within a minute or two of activating it.
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
No issue with a yellow tint to the front camera? I cannot figure out why I have that issue.
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
I haven't had that problem. I did have a problem with the gyroscope and accelerometer with the last ROM I was using. It would constantly think that it was in motion, and very fast, to the point that the camera menus? If they were open, they would flip 180 degrees, upside down and back again, in the camera interface. Other apps that used the gryo+accelerometer were similarly messed, and did not discover this til about a week or so before I updated to 01/26 ROM. But both cameras operate normally, in fact they operated normally before, no tint of any kind that I can see.
[Android General] thangcuoi:
I updated on Friday. Maps navigation now works without frequent crashing. Also no more random daily reboot.

This is the most stable ROM I have run on my DG550. I will have to think twice about updating to Lollipop if Doogee ever get around to releasing it.
[Android General] AceAzzameen:
Screen cracks easily

Hi all,

wanted to share a little experience I had with the phone. There is not really much to complain about except of the

friggin ridiculous screen quality. One has to treat it like a raw egg to not crack it. I had my phone covered in a leather case

and a screen protector when it cracked the first time in my pocket without any major forces applied to it. I was surprised

and thought well bad luck and replaced the screen for about a quarter of the phones value.

Two days after I got it back it cracked again and this time the screen still came on but this time the touch sensitivity stopped

working and I couldn't operate it anymore. Now my patience with this thing is absolutely destroyed and I will not replace the screen

again only to replace it again in a week.

A friend of mine had the same problem. Screen cracked twice. No comment.

To be fair I had a lot of phones before and know how fragile they can be but this one is the king of fragility.

Hope I could save you some money now
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
The "leather" cases are not leather at all, they're crap cheap vinyl, but leather or vinyl is not going to protect a phone like this at all. When I first got this phone I got one of the hard plastic protective cases that several vendors sell, like this one. It wasn't that expensive at the time, only 5.99, so it seemed like a good buy. The problem with that case is that the only thing holding the "case" to the phone is the four little tabs at each corner, and all four of them are put under a lot of stress any time you set your phone down on any surface, especially a hard one like a desk or table. Within a month a crack developed in one of the corners, a week later and that corner tab popped off. Another week went by and the opposite corner went flying as well. Many, but not all, of the "leather" cases use these very cases to hold the phone inside the case; those which don't use these plastic cases on the interior use some kind of adhesive backing to tape itself to the phone. Not ideal.

I went back to the drawing board and got this case and it's been a godsend. Flexible, bendy rubber, not too soft, and it's absorbed several accidental impacts, including a few times that I've dropped my phone and had it land on the ground, face-down! No cracks at all, not even a scratch. Well I do use a screen protector as well. There aren't many other cases for this phone, but that one is definitely the best. As yours has cracked twice I would expect that you handle it more forcefully than I do mine, and hey, I know I wasn't there for it, but then mine is still unadulterated, despite typical cellphone mishaps.
[Android General] neilsp:
buy or not?

Should I buy this phone? Is the screen cracking a big issue or it might be a manufacturing mistake?
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
I've only seen one testimonial on cracks so far. I doubt it's a defect either, because even this person's screen did not arrive from the factory cracked.
[Android General] mzKas:
Hey all

Well, i can say that im using my DG550 for 2 weeks now, after coming from a S3 I9305 (i really need the dual sim).

I had 0 forced reboots, and yes, i rooted mine (with kingroot) like 2 hours after buying it so...

I bought the flip cover that they sold too, not sure if its "official" or not, but i still dont have even a scratch on screen or anything else. (what i have are small bites from the freakin cat on the flip cover...)

I was expecting to see a bigger difference from my S3 2GB Ram for the DG550 1GB, but its efficient, and enough for everything i've done so far. I dont play alot of games.

Battery life isnt AWESOME but it isnt that BAD either. I talk alot, because i use it for work and personal, and i get more than 24h of battery, with is ok for me. On the days i dont talk that much, it lasts for almost 36 hours, with some "facebooking" and messaging on the mix. And im constantly trying new apps from play store and amazon store. Oh and my WIFI is on for like 90% of the day.

So, i dont really have nothing bad to say about it. Its not an AWESOME phone, but for the 180€ i paid for it (well i actually didnt, company did) its an AWESOME buy.

Oh wait, i do have something bad to say... The freakin headphones SUCK!

Cheers
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
It's worth your time to go the firmware route and flash the EBR files. This will give you 7GB for apps and the rest for fast storage, this is usually PLENTY for either use unless you're doing something pretty unusual.
[Android General] TrollUser:
Screen freeze

when i play games on my dg550 after a couple of minutes freeze and i can't do anything.

i need to remove the battery and the put it back and leave like that until it cools

what can i do?
[Android General] Duago:
I so hate the boot screen and load music. That alone almost made me return the phone!

How do you change the boot screen and blaring music? Which file can I replace or edit?

Also I found I could only get root with Kingo Root.
[Android General] TrollUser:
phone need to be rooted

enter system/media and then delete bootaudio and shutdownaudio

for bootanimation you can search on google for boot animation on resolution 1280x720
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
If you reboot in vibrate or silent mode, the audio does not play.
[Android General] maksomk:
Search on google for "Blackview" phones official web site. On Blackview official site, you will find on the bottom option for downloading firmware. Choose firmware for model DM550 with date 11 February 2015. Install it as you do for your Doogee DG550 (with SP Flash Tool). Enjoy in your new phone. :)

Cheers
[Android General] Duago:
It was actually bootaudio &

shutaudio

and that worked great thanks ( now I won't go deaf everytime I reboot).

I did change the bootanimation file (renamed the old one first just encase but I still get this blinding white initial OEM screen.

I can't seem to find it to replace it with one of my own :)

I wounder if I delete all bootanimations if I will just get a blank screen or a simple Google logo.

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I did the search and found this one (.blackview.cc/blackview-crown/) but saw no reference for downloads or DM550.

Phone looked good though.
[Android General] TrollUser:
blank screen.....no google logo beacause the phone is made by Doogee not google....
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
It is right at the bottom of the page like he said it was:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1ItEpI2ezwJSEJVaWZnX1Bsc28/view

Nice find. I gave it a quick run, and like it a bit better than the most recent Doogee ROM. Unfortunately I have the same issue with it having a yellow tint to my camera, otherwise I would stick with it. :(

I seem to have an issue with all of the 4.4 ROMs I try. If I turn on the GPS through location services, my sync (gmail, email, photos, etc.) stops working. Anyone have any ideas?
[Android General] Duago:
I found I had data set to off. you might check that.

Thanks for the link.

I think I want to find how to eliminate the Doogee OEM screen and replace it with something simple and not blinding white.

Just fix whats really broke and go with the rest for now.

Then make a recovery ...... ROM I guess it would be for the hopefully never to need event.
[Android General] TrollUser:
Is there a lollipop sytem or a system that looks like lollipop?

My phone is keep restarting when i put in the pocket and when i try to make something on it after a couple minutes is making artifacts and it restarting what can i do? please help
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
No Lillipop, and probably will not be one.

For your issue, either do a factory reset or put a fresh ROM on the phone.
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
Yeah, it sounds like either the installation is wacked or something could be physically broken.
[Android General] TrollUser:
i have lankandroid on it and i reistaled stock rom but is keep making that

and now the screen is rising
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
I found that was one of the worst ROMs, your mileage may vary and all that, but it did not seem to have accelerated video for me at all.

What does this mean? I don't understand.
[Android General] TrollUser:
my screen falls :(
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
What does that mean? A blank screen? No video? Or falls, out? Like, out of the phone? Physically?
[Android General] TrollUser:
falls out of the phone!!!
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
They have a tutorial for that issue:

http://www.doogee.cc/servicexiazai_detail/newsId=40.html
[Android General] TrollUser:
ok but i need to buy a new screen?
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
ok but is your current screen broken?
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
You can get a new screen on ebay, I think it even comes with the adhesive.
[Android General] TrollUser:
ok but i don't wan't to buy a new screen
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
ok but then do not buy a new screen.
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
You could try Doogee to see if they'll fix it under warranty, but then you get to live without your phone for a while.
[Android General] salmidach:
I'm trying to root the DG550, I'm on the latest rom from Doogee and I'm trying to root with Kingo Root but my phone is not connecting.

I believe it is a driver issue but it won't let me change the driver please help. I'm on Windows 8.1
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
Get Device Manager open, and be ready to right-click. Plug the phone in, and it should show up in Device Manager (I believe with an exclamation point because it has an issue) pretty quick. Right-click it as soon as you can, as it will only hang around for a little bit before Windows dismisses it. Then select the "update driver" option and you can get it properly installed from there.
[Android General] salmidach:
Hi Josh,

It's not that it doesn't install it's installed as a portable device and not a pdanet device but I can't get windows to update the driver, do I need to disable driver signing?
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
Are you plugging it in with the battery in it? Try doing it without the battery, and update the driver in Device Manager.
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
You need to do some Android kung-fu with this phone to make it work properly. See s7yler's video here for a better idea about what to do, how, and when:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSQQ69Hj6xk

Watch the entire video, but pay special attention to what goes on after 4:00 or so.
[Android General] salmidach:
I've already flashed it to 4.4.2 but can't root it for some reason, whenever I try to root it can't find my phone.
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
What USB mode is your phone set to? If it is "charge only" the computer will not recognize it.
[Android General] salmidach:
It's in Mass storage mode
[Android General] salmidach:
Downgraded to 4.2 and able to root.
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
May I ask if your phone shipped with 4.4?
[Android General] gubacsek:
ghost touch

Hello!

A friend of mine bought this phone a while back, and it has a strange problem. We call it "ghost touch". It looks like if someone would press the screen at the same place randomly. In his case it is the place on the screen where the "L" key is when the keyboard is visible. He recorded it: https://youtu.be/I1lPtdAQBJw

I have found other people around the internet, suffering from the same (even one where this "ghost touch" happens randomly on the screen, not on the same point).

But unfortunately I couldn't find any solution at all... My friend already sent it back 2 times for repair, they always sent it back with the problem still existing (once they did a factory reset, and once they upgraded the firmware to 4.4.2. )

Does any of you have this problem? Is there a solution for it ?

Thanks in advance!
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
I've never had this problem nor seen it before. I would suspect something has to be physically defective or damaged for this to be happening. Although if it were doing it this frequently I'd also wonder how the Doogee repair techs could have missed it, unless they simply didn't test for it at all and/or didn't understand the issue.

The only touchscreen issue I've ever personally experienced with a Doogee phone happened to be with the Voyager DG310 model. Put it bluntly, the keypress sense was off. Almost everything you would press was slightly "higher" up on the screen that it was supposed to be. This made typing a lot of fun. I suspected it could have something to with one-handed operational settings, but it never seemed to be fixable by me.
[Android General] gubacsek:
I see. Thank You anyway! I have also seen what you are describing on a tablet, which I messed up by flashing the wrong partition, and the touch screen driver was gone.

In the case of the phone, I also think that is hardware related, because it is very rare. I found only 2-3 people who has this. In case it would be software related, it would be much more frequent. I'm not sure how to fix it though... My friend doesn't want to send it back a third time, and to buy a display for almost the same price as the phone itself is not an option either...

Now that I think of it, maybe I should write an xposed module, that ignores any touch events from that pixel where this damn ghost touches it :D
[Android General] Mattthev:
Have anybody tried that "original" 3000 mAh battery?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DOOGEE-DG55...7?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_186&hash=item3aa6030645
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
Does anyone use USB OTG? Is there anything that must be done to set it up? I have never used it, and have my phone in "charge only" mode. The screen/digitizer is broken, and I am hoping (praying) I can just plug a mouse into the phone and get a few things off of it. Or if anyone knows of any other way to use the phone without the touch screen or how to pull data off of the internal storage that would be wonderful.
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
To follow up, OTG works without any need to do anything. I was able to plug in a mouse and OTG adapter, and it worked perfectly. I then enabled soft buttons through Gravity Box and was able to navigate the phone pretty easily.

In other news, if anyone needs a parts phone let me know!
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
What happened to your phone?
[Android General] JoshMcMadMac:
I managed to break the screen. I am not 100% sure how it happened, but it was in my pants pocket that I was not wearing and enough weight was put on the phone for it to deflect and crack the screen all the way across. A new screen can be had for $39 off of AliExpress, but I do not think it is worth my effort at this point.
[Android General] HyperionAlpha:
Not a lot happening in Doogee Dagger DG550ville lately, but some nice ROMs have popped up in the past month or so.

Somebody went to work porting various MIUI ROMs. I was pretty reluctant to try them out because I had such bad luck with other ROMs for this phone in the past, and the last official one worked so well for me. But, the internal phone memory got corrupted on me after a while (I had altered the EBR files to get 7GB for apps), reformatting it all was the only thing that fixed it for me, so once my phone was good and wiped I thought I might go ahead and try some of the new ROMs.

So far I've only dropped this one into my phone. I'd never done anything more than look at screenshots for MIUI ROMs before so it was a nice surprise that it functioned well also. I've not run into any bugs yet, apart from the fact that I can't get the phone's region in the Settings panel out of China, it is stuck there and USA isn't even in the list. Still, the network time updates the phone so it knows where I actually am in the world, and this is the only bug I've run into with the phone yet, pretty nice. Not sure if I'll stick with it, but definitely worth looking at if you are still with your DG550.
[Android General] Xperia-Ray:
This is what I was told about the DG550 delay:

I think that they are waiting for the Kitkat update and ship it updated and not with JB "4.2.9" installed.
[Android General] CasualStarlord:
Yeah probably, I'd prefer they ship and then update because that guarantees at least one factory image to manipulate ;)
[Android General] Augustine02:
Is the third time postponed.
[Android General] CasualStarlord:
Apparently

Sourced from Bang Good

...aaaand my PS7 is shipped and tracking to arrive in 3 to 5 days
[Android General] Xperia-Ray:
+1,

I am also very disappointed from DooGee, was planing to get 2 DG550, but now? I am not sure any more, Xiaomi Note look more interesting.
[Android General] CasualStarlord:
I was considering that because I love miui, but that handset uses the wrong frequencies for me for 3G
[Android General] CasualStarlord:
PS7 has entered the country and cleared customs.... now its a 2 hour drive away.... excitement!
[Android General] harunserefli:
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[Android General] CasualStarlord:
aaaand it has arrived and is in my wife's hands at home... now the torturous 4 hour wait until work is over.

either way, glad I bailed on the DG550 :laugh:
[Android General] CasualStarlord:
Eeeeee no regrets, this device is awesome, instant root from framaroot and factory image available for tweaking, standard MTK flashing tools for the MTK6589 work with the MTK6592 :good:

Seeing as there are already unboxings for this unit, I'm going to put up a "living with the PS7" review after a few weeks of getting used to it, hopefully I can get TWRP or CWM running on it, the tools seem capable of flashing custom recovery.
[Android General] spacerace:
Watching this with interest, specs and price seem good, but the constant slipping seems an issue. Just want a quality Android 5.5" device that doesn't cost a fortune!
[Android General] zelendel:
Just remember that you get what you pay for. A good device isn't cheap and a cheap device us normally no good
[Android General] Krystyna:
Why do some websites display DG550 phone system is Android 4.2?
[Android General] CasualStarlord:
Because the first batch are shipping with 4.2.9 and 4.4 will be released as an update later... Its in the thread.
[Android General] cmd77:
"Constant slipping" - what do you mean by that?
[Android General] spacerace:
From what I've seen in this thread, there have been several dates the phone will become available / ship and its been delayed past that date?