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[Android General] marsian0:
This is the link for the nibiru M1 Forum:

http://bbs.nbru.cn/forum-59-1.html

Link for the MIUI6 rom:

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1jG9VWKA

Password: ucpb

The procedure i used to flash without losing imeis was simple.

Flash Nibiru ROM posted by sampei few pages back, through SPFlashtools, UPGRADE Firmware option.

After that, created CWM recovery using MTKDroid tools, using boot.img from this rom

Flashed recovery only to phone through SPFlashtools

Previuously i downloaded MIUI rom to my sdcard

booted into recovery

factory data reset

install miui zip

factory data reset

reboot

thats all, imeis working

after checking that all is fine, reboot into recovery again to flash gapps 4.4 and Supersu-v2.01 zip to root

the original comes with 420 dpi, i changed to 360, not too big.

BEWARE as this rom uses phone storage as main sdcard0, backup your phone storage before flashing.

There are no new phones wih this form factor (7"), I am also waiting for Ulefone (mine is ulefone u69) to upgrade this model with 64bits processor, as they are lately making new phones with good specs.

Regards

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MIUI6 is flashed through cwm. so you can try flashing it with your current cwm recovery, but first make backup of your current rom, i don't know if you lose your imeis in this way.

EDIT: i forgot, this rom has only 1GB for apps, so i flashed the 8GB zip posted by Sampei(thanks) few posts back, then:

-make backup with cwm

-flash 8gb zip (it it reboots phone, go again into recovery)

-factory data reset

-recover previuos backup

-reboot and check your storage, it shoul be 8GB por apps.
[Android General] estuardo4:
I'm also running MIUI V6 (latest version on the Nibiru forums). This latest version is working almost 100% (all themes work, and almost no app Force Closures). I have it at 323 dpi (the smallest I found that doesn't mess up with the UI).

I've tried Touch OS, but there seems that on the Nibiru forums they stopped developing new versions of this UI.

Anyway, thanks to sampei I've finally have an authentic Nibiru phone, with 8GB of storage space for apps and IMEIs that won't disappear between flashes.

The instructions that you wrote marsian are the ones I used. The only difference is that I'm using TWRP 2.5 (the chinese version posted on the Nibiru forums), as CWM was not working for me (I had the E: can't locate misc.img)

Thank you all for your help.
[Android General] natostanco:
followed marsian guide, all fine, i am also using the miui5, brightness can be pushed lower than what I could with stock ulefone rom, I am gonna test the other quirks I had with the stock rom
[Android General] mac231us:
ha ha thanks..totally understand..somehow was finding it hard to switch gears back to this device after having fiddled around with 2-3 other ones...yes will try to go through the pages-was just being lazy and hoping. Recall at least back in june/july had an miui but was jb based and had issues with recovery for kitkat..maybe things have got sorted out now.
[Android General] estuardo4:
They have been sorted out. I'm using MIUI 6 on Kit Kat 4.4.2. No lost IMEI, easy to flash and 8GB for app installation. And there are other OS like Touch and Cloud and the one from Lenovo. All working.

The phone has a lot of quirks, but it is proving me that Chinese phones are the way to go in the future.
[Android General] aaallleeennn:
Thanks mate for all your work. Really appreciate it. I've flashed nibirus rom you ported and it's working fine. But I have one question: how can I change primary storage to external sd card? I can only install apps to internal storage or to phone storage, no options to install or move apps to external sd card. I know that you must edit boot.img to change this, but are there any other methods because I dont know how to edit it? When I was using mlais rom I downloaded and flashed edited boot.img from 4pda forum and it worked, but it's probably different than nibirus so I don't want to risk by flashing it.
[Android General] tabnabs:
Hi Sampei, thanks for all your great work.

One quick question.

Is it possible to return your phone to a Ulefone U7 once upgraded to a Nibiru by flashing stock rom or MTK Droid Tools prepared Rom in Upgrade mode in SP Flash Tools?

It would be nice to be able to flash between Phones and roms.
[Android General] aaallleeennn:
You can always flash back stock rom, and you can also download official rom for u7 from their site. Or make backup of your stock rom and you can flash it back.
[Android General] natostanco:
I tried flashing back stock rom with spflash, but the phone does not connect to any network, sim card is recognized tough, help

edit: contrary to the estuardo experience i restored imeis successfully by replacing the numbers with mtk droid root tools (ulefone u7), I think I lost them after i flashed stock rom with format ALL, or because I wiped /system that's what I was accustomed to do with other devices
[Android General] sampei:
Thank you for explain to him. ?
[Android General] mac231us:
I managed to install Sampei's Niburu ROM (base) through SP tools and flashed MIUI no issues...but camera does not load...Funtouch OS also works (no imei issues) but only front camera comes up (recall this was an issue with early KK builds back in June/July)...plan to go to Sampei's latest Niburu and check it out (the cwm zip)

had to use vroot to get rooted
[Android General] sampei:
If you can, please check ART runtime is work or not.... ☺
[Android General] aaallleeennn:
On your latest ported rom ART is workinn fine. Can you tell me how can I change primary storage to external sd card? I can only install apps to internal storage or to phone storage, no options to install or move apps to external sd card. I know that you must edit boot.img to change this, but are there any other methods because I dont know how to edit it?
[Android General] mac231us:
am having camera issues on all kk...n1, miui, touch (either camera does not just work or only front one works) just as in july...luftco themselves had a few versions of their KK roms which had camera issues and they finally got it fixed in their 7/7 version but I could never get it to root (just using various apps to do it vroot, genius root, etc etc even trying to trick it to take a recovery rooted from one of their other kk roms that were rootable but had camera issues) now I recall why i went back to jb (ebay also crashed in KK but maybe that is not an issue anymore) and the color os which seemed best then.

http://www.luftco.cn/Service/Firmware/index.html
[Android General] aaallleeennn:
Have you tried mlais rom? On 4pda forum they have also patch for camera, try it. Mlais's rom is also very good. I think 4pda is banned here so links refering to their site are not welcome. Just search google for ulefone u7 4pda.
[Android General] sampei:
Did you try my camera patch few posts back. That's make from luftco rom. ?

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Try to use LINK2SD ?
[Android General] natostanco:
I can flash the base rom with sptools that sampei posted but, when I flash the update through recovery I loose radio entirely, sim card is not recognized at all, I am currently using mlais 443 but has the same bugs with the fps lags and touch repetition
[Android General] aaallleeennn:
I tried but it can only move apps to internal sd. This rom uses internal sd as primary storage, so it need to be switched external sd with internal sd. It can only be made by editing boot.img. since you understand chinese, is there a patch on nibirus forum? Thanks
[Android General] sampei:
Please try this fixed rom.

its modded boot.img for switched external sd with internal sd. but unfortunately it havent unlock boot.img yet...if unlock then won't boot...

*please report me its work or not.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B5zEJoc_gWhPaUVGRGtkMGR2bFU/view?usp=sharing
[Android General] tabnabs:
Finally got round to flashing Sampei's Niburu Rom, but SP flash Tools will not load the scatter file. Keeps giving "incorrect scatter file format!".

It will load scatter for my stock Rom.

Any ideas.

Edit: Downloaded Rom again and scatter now OK.
[Android General] aaallleeennn:
So what exactly means when it is locked? Will I be able to flash roms after, will it lock my recovery, or what?
[Android General] sampei:
I still don't know what is locked mean....Don'tworry about it. Not goin to look cwm /trwp. ?
[Android General] tabnabs:
Upgraded to Niburu rom and applied OTA update. Flashed Chinese TWRP and Rooted using Super SU zip.

Touch is much better.

No rear camera. How do I apply uboot zip to correct? Tried in TRWP and it crashed the phone and would not reboot!

No access to SD card to use Titanium Backup. Any batch action says "insufficient storage space> Tried SDON and SDOFF zips from Nibiru forum but they did not work.

Any ideas on SD access and camera?
[Android General] mingonn:
4.4.2 issues?

Thinking of getting a U69 but need it to reliably run 4.4.2 because I use an LG Android watch. There seem to be a few issues with 4.4.2 is there a list somewhere? Does the camera fix work http://www.ule-fone.com/ulefone-u7-upgrade-kitkat-4-4-2-issues-camera, are there any other issues with the stock 4.4.2 rom?

After my Huawei phablet I swore I would never get another Chinese phone, I spent more time rebooting and trying to fix it than actually using it but my eye sight is getting worse and my Galaxy Mega 6.3s screen is not that great. Willing to risk it again.
[Android General] sampei:
I noticed b4, that do not update ota. Because its overwrite modded boot.IMG to nibiru original.

You have to take scatter.txt by mtk tool pc. Then you can flash lk.bin by spflash but I believe it's won't fix camera issue...that's y I ported nibiru ROM for any ov12830 camera devices like U69 and old A-one X, U7 , M81 etc....

For SD card issue is can fix use SD fix by Next App. Inc it's common issue for any KitKat ROM.

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I have got U69. Stock ROM issue is annoying scrolling back problem.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kp4dGHef1l0

When I scroll to next page/up,down, it is not scroll properly. That's main issue but idk everyone have that issue or not... It's can fix by myrom.

Thx.
[Android General] estuardo4:
Hi,

As you may recall, I've been using MIUI V6 on my phone for the last week or so. All seems fine, but one thing is bugging me and it is not letting me use my device as I'd like. It is a question that is not Phone related, but maybe someone here is a MIUI expert and can help me.

Whenever I reboot my phone, with other ROMs all my startup apps load. But I don't know why, my startup app like GMD Gesturecontrol, Slidelock, Icantwakeup, etc, are not started automatically, I had to start them up manually. And even then, they are usually on for a short period of time and then are terminated. This is causing me problems as I rely on them (Icantwake app is my alarm app, so I'm missing my wake up calls all this past week). I tried locked them up on MIUI task manager, but they still are killed. I've searched on the MIUI forums, but no answer, aside of locking them up on the task manager. And no answer on why they are not running after boot. I installed Autorun Manager app to check for the boot instructions, but all have their boot instructions as they should.

I don't know if this is MIUI related or not, but if somebody has MIUI 6 installed, please let me know if you suffer this behavior.

I've even moved the apps to /system/apps (as instructed on some MIUI forums), but the apps won't launch at boot, and they keep force closing when I try to launch them.

Thank you very much for your help.
[Android General] natostanco:
u should try use tasker
[Android General] marsian0:
Check the AutoStart options in Security App / Permissions, i have Viper4A in system folder and it is available when i reboot, but it is not in the autoStart Apps, and even it doesn't show in running apps, but works.
[Android General] estuardo4:
Thank you Marsian, that solved my problem. MIUI is a different beast than vanilla Android. It has so many options that is really easy to overview or screw up your settings.

Anyway, let's see if the items I want continue to autostart.
[Android General] natostanco:
can somebody help? this is the procedure I follow:

- flash 20140827_kk_nibiru M1 with spflash and already modified cwm

- boot sim is recognized, restore imei everything ok

- go into cwm wipe and flash kk_nibiru M1_ART.zip ota from sampei

- SIM card is not recognized, restoring imeis does nothing.

help?
[Android General] sampei:
Please flash non nibiru rom first !!

It's for U69/U7,A-ONE X,M81,etc.

Nibiru rom scatter file are totally different with our phone stock rom.
[Android General] natostanco:
Ok, that worked thanks
[Android General] tabnabs:
Nibiru rom has its benefits with better touch and improved battery life. However I find that the wifi and network signals are significantly weaker.

The major problem is accessing the SD card. I have tried all of the apps, manually editing platform.XML, and several xposed modules without any joy.

Has anyone managed to access SD card and if so how did they do it.

I did manage to install an English TWRP 2.8.0.0 after a fashion. It keeps throwing up font errors but appears to work.
[Android General] Axelman8:
Hey guys

Off topic

Anyone got the white "Smartcover" of the a-one-X and is willing to sell and ship?

I want it, but cannot buy it anywhere anymore.

PM me if anyone ...

Thnx in advance

Axelman

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[Android General] marsian0:
In aliexpress there are plenty of them, i bought one for my wife months ago, not so resistant as the orange one.
[Android General] Axelman8:
Hi dude

Thnx for the reply

If you can find one supplier that hasnt a "out of stock" product... You are "The man" ;)

Regards

Axelman

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[Android General] marsian0:
that's too bad.

These past days i've been using the lollipop themed version of the nibiru rom, not bad, fast and touch screen fine so the scroll. I also did a quick check to the last CoolUI rom, but i could't install gapps.

I switched from miui because after a while using it had many lags going from any app to homescreen (the just wait a sec..), maybe beacuse of the heavy themes i installed.

anyway, glad that we have many options to choose.
[Android General] estuardo4:
Since I'm using GMD GestureControl, I don't need to go to home screen anymore. Whenever I am, I can launch any app, and my favorite ones have an easy to remember gesture. As Android foreces you to have a homescreen, I've installed the smallest memory footprint that I've found on the market.. So no lags for me on MIUI. IMO, MIUI has the best looking call id screen on the market. There are some quirks I need to sort out though.

Have you tried removing the animations on the developer options?
[Android General] marsian0:
Yeah, i did that, but i think the problem was the themes that i installed from the miui store, nice but heavy, probably the memory management is not optimized; i think i will revisit the rom once is updated.

the only thing i miss with these nibiru roms is the notification led that doesn't work, but not big deal.
[Android General] sampei:
Try use Next App SD fix.
[Android General] sampei:
Philz touch recovery are work perfectly with our phone.

Do not fix flipped, if installer inform you flipped recovery.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/68b7z4hasp8u25m/6.57.9.zip
[Android General] estuardo4:
I've tried different SD fix apps for KK 4.4 and everyone says that the fix is already done, but I still cannot save from my camera directly to my external SD.

I've searched manually to see if the changes are applied and indeed, the changes are there. I don't know what's going on.

I wouldn't mind using my internal memory to store files and pictures, but the problem is that every time I flash a ROM, I lost all my internal media.
[Android General] sampei:
Ok if you don't mind use xposed then try use XInternalSD. It might help you.
[Android General] mac231us:
New miui posted..downloading now

http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=636828928&uk=4127490433
[Android General] mac231us:
installs but with errors (framework, systemui etc force closing).dirty install clean install w 3 wipes nothing works..back to the previous miui

EDIT may need to go back to complete procedure (marsian0)

EDIT2 could also be flashing through philz recovery though should not make difference..but then who knows I recall from other devices it would not always work (and the previous miui I had flashed using the mktdroid tools cwm not this touch version..now just using nandroid restore but done in philz cwm)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=58932409&postcount=332
[Android General] estuardo4:
I used Google Translate and this is what the author of the port wrote:

1, according to the official miui 03.04 version update, given the instability was reflected in the previous version, this version did not make any changes to the system, dpi, desktop layout, theme harmony, Dolby and so no, but because of the particularity of Jupiter and miui official restrict third-party transplants every opportunity to open a systymui error prompt, select OK does not affect the use, do not like the wait for the next version, or use a more perfect sixth edition, 5.2.13 is that now the official update miui Nothing substantial update, not the pursuit of the latest version.

2, not the perfect place, the default theme calendar, weather icon blank, you can use other unofficial theme of self-correction. No Hall and breathing lights.

3, transplant rom, hard to say perfect, affecting as much as possible to use bug fixes.

So it seems that this version is still not ready for our devices...

Please let us know if you happen to keep it running without many force closes.

Also, you didn't provided the password for the download. :)

Anyway, I'd install it without hesitation if not for the fact that I cannot make nandroid (or, in this case, TWRP) backups. And this is fundamental for a daily used main phone. Having to restore everything by hand on a work day is not possible in my case.

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Reading on the Nibiru M1 forums, last week they posted a 4.4.2 ROM that emulates a Lollipop ROM. What caught my attention was this screenshot:

I guess they change it the version manually, but I don't know for sure. Is it possible that this is really a 5.0 ROM?

My guess is no. Is it possible to change Android versions with just a zip flash?
[Android General] mac231us:
sorry about password..thought direct link took care of that

strange you cannot make backups..have been doing and restoring through the philz recovery no issue at that

here it is

http://pan.baidu.com/s/1kTyzhrT

password

9ge2

good work in going over the translation..just thought usual disclaimers etc...no did not get far with it..way too many force closes..some roms they go away after first few..these are persistent and make rom totally unusable
[Android General] estuardo4:
Thank you.

Do you have time to test the supposedly 5.0 update? The one I posted the image. I have it already on my SD Card, but I'm thorn on testing it.

I'm using TWRP 2.5 in Chinese. It's the only one that has allowed me to install zip images without losing IMEIs. Do you have a link and the description for the one you are using? TY
[Android General] mac231us:
Unfortunately no time now as I need the phone for texting etc..in middle of helping someone on their school work...maybe later in the week-I have been using the philz (But touch CWM) posted by sampei

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=59130731&postcount=372

I went through the steps by marsian0 and they worked...retained the imei's initially used cwm from the mktdroid tools to flash miui....then switched to the philz cwm touch (need to do nandroid again as do not think the mktdroid cwm and the philz cwm are interchangeable as far as backups go..bseides my experience back in june was that the mktdroid cwm backups are not reliable esp when they get to the restoring data part)

edit: rooted using Vroot
[Android General] mac231us:
Apparently Luftco has (maybe) a new ROM (dated 6/16 so maybe latest?) on its website (can anyone download?..or figure out how to? thanks)

http://pan.baidu.com/share/link?shareid=2466110225&uk=2064272306#dir/path=/[全部下载这个文件夹]X战神4.4固件

EDIT

go to

http://www.luftco.cn/Service/Firmware/index.html#SerCon

click on blue icon

use password 5fi8

click on folder..get folder listing

right click on any one of the 7z files..2 of them they are identical in size but not sure if there are any differences (rest are usual stuff like flashtools etc)

click the second box on the top right (starts download)

EDIT

Downloaded and flashed the 6/16 rom

gallery and camera crash...useless rom
[Android General] Vicolodo:
thank you very much

i will do these steps

for now i am using the created N7 firmware that is 4.4.2

the only problem i have is the bad working of sview as explained above...

i am trying to find a fix or a suggestion for fix this issue

any suggestion about it?

thanks!!
[Android General] mac231us:
UPDATED..checked 5/26 N7 Created rom..scover works (camera only front)

"thank you very much

i will do these steps

for now i am using the created N7 firmware that is 4.4.2

the only problem i have is the bad working of sview as explained above...

i am trying to find a fix or a suggestion for fix this issue

any suggestion about it?

thanks!!"

I used the 5/27 rom (link gave earlier) that for some reason cannot root (but got by with flashing the recovery cwm created with either 5/26 or the 6/05 rom both worked for me)..s-cover works got call received and hung up no issues

when you mention the created rom 4.4.2 N7, that is the same as the 5/26 rom yes?

here

http://www.needrom.com/mobile/ulefo...ndao-m87-orientphone-mega-pro-7-0-created-n7/

and named 20140526_e2719v92_gq3015_N7

however, that is one of the versions I tested..only front camera works (everything else ok except not tested s-cover)..so wondering how you have no issues except s-cover

have checked cam libs, camera bin, gallery files etc (found minor difference in 2 lib files in 5/27 rom but using those also did not fix the camera issue..boot image slightly different in 5/27 but same as 6/05 which also has camera issue (only front works)). We need some real developer help here as just know some very very simple stuff.

one thing...flashing the recovery cwm from 5/26 or 6/05 on the 5/27 and the Cwm su update zip..only issue...when you use root explorer and many other root file managers (except Fx file explorer) you will not see any of the sdcards internal or external (not figured this out)..however in some root file managers you can turn off the root access in file explorer options itself and then then sdcards will be visible (but not sdcards and the root both at same time..only fx file explorer with root option can see both)

UPDATED..checked 5/26 N7 Created rom..scover works (camera only front works)
[Android General] deadhp1:
The root sdcard issue is one that's been driving me nuts too. I was all set to release a slightly custom rooted KK rom, but then I saw that while attempting to use Terminal Emulator as root. I looked into it briefly and still need to explore the uid and gid permissions for root.

It seems like the root user isn't setup to use the sdcard_rw or sdcard_r groups.

I'll look into the camera issues in these roms and see if I can come to a solution. Most likely the kernel has different camera drivers, and/or the camera libs are different. I've run into this a few times when porting mtk firmwares across various devices.

Has anyone noticed that KK MTK6592 full sources have been found?(kernel and KK!)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=53580124&postcount=2305

Some experimenting is required, but we should be able to build a kernel at some point.