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[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] s7yler:
Yes, the Playstore is on the phone from start, and that on every firmware version I have had so far. So the other info is nonsense. The Playstore is on every new china phone today, and the Zero is not meant for the Chinese market, but for EU and the US, so of course they include the Playstore.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Jeffylaw:
Is the phone officially out?
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] tomazf:
GPS TEST

Here some spanish guy is testing gps (http://movilesandroidchinos.com/review-umi-zero/). Not so good...

GPS

This section is seriously wrong with the UMI Zero. Although the fixing satellites in the GPS Test makes it quite fast and with good accuracy, the truth is that when the truth when an app requires the use of this element, the GPS responds poorly and has some behaviors very strangers. I specifically tried it with RunKeeper and GPS standing still stood me every second in a different position and all of them far apart from each other.

[IMG="Umi Zero - GPS Test"]http://movilesandroidchinos.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/UMI-Zero-captura-GPS-Test.png[/IMG]

The truth is that GPS This UMI Zero in these conditions is useless and although the power of the antenna looks good as quick fixes satellites, it seems that the moment of truth and possibly software issues, measures sent to the apps are not accurate.

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[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] JankyLV:
Let's hope the gps will be fixed on the final product..
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] tomazf:
yeah, don't want to buy nonfunctional product. and besides that i need functional gps.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] JankyLV:
An update on my saga with antelife:

Now they admitted that it's their mistake. BUT! Here is the latest e-mail:

What the hell? Who thinks it's fair that

they ask me to pay $130 for their mistake

?

DON'T BUY FROM ANTELIFE
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] kimon60:
Hello everyone,

I'm an old user in the xda,but very new at this thread.

I have recently bought a umi zero,and i have been using it the last two weeks.

I have been reading about the various problems our devise has.

When the phone arrived ,it came with 3.01.

Only problem i saw,was the rapid drop of battery from 100% to about 85%.

No restarts,excellent gps and sometimes it could loose signal in the the living room of my house.

As soon i updated the phone to the 3.03 the drop of the battery remained,and i also had some random reboots and screen frozen.

As for the screen freezing i only had to close the screen and open it up again and it was fine.

So i did something brave in order to correct these things.

I took the 3.02 rom in which Umi was claiming that the problems were fixed.

I used the Sp tools and i first formatted the phone but i had backed up the imei number first.

Then i downloaded to the phone the 3.02 rom and everything was fixed!!

Clean installation and no reboots,battery from morning to late afternoon dropped from 100% to 80%.3G on all the time.

No more signal lost and no more screens frozen.

I will not update to 3.03 until a version for Sp tools comes out.

Remember if anyone try this,back up his imei first with mobileuncletools and do it at his own risk.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] eryen:
I've problems with antelife too.

They send item 20 days later, even i select dhl express cargo.

And they send it with wrong billing and invoice informations. Dhl keeps device on costum, demands proper bill. At least i have of my order. Gonna demand refund from paypal.

Also antelife disabled their service@antelife.com account. They have new gmail account. Try to comminicate over it.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] coloboxp:
I have the same issue in Slovakia. Using 3G with the same SIM card is way slower on the UMI than on an iPhone 5S.

On the UMI is painfully slow, but sometimes is quick
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] 06ashiqs:
Yes thats right. Its best to update to v3.02 first and then to v3.03.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] MiguelferraZ:
Are you sure they disabled it? They replied to me to a question I had about a problem with my UMI Zero today.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] eryen:
Out of topic, but users who consider to buy device must know this kind of situations.

I've send several mail to service@antelife.com about my shipping problems, they replied only one or two mail.

Also no respond from their skype acconts.

When i checked website for contact info i saw serviceinantelife@gmail.com.

That mail replied to me.

If anybody thinking to buy from antelife, think again.

I allready bought another zero from g**kbuying. I realy liked their service.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] peter_90:
there are several versions of 3.0.2 on need rom - 17/12/2014, 31/12/2014, 04/01/2015.

Whici version should we use, before updating to 3.0.3?

Can we update to 3.0.2 by downloading on the SD card?
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] sipart:
[MENTION=5543881]peter_90[/MENTION] you don't need to go one step at a time, just go 3.03
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Olostan:
Hello, guys.

I am using Zero for about two weeks and found it as very good phone

However I am expiriened some problems, may be some of you knows solutions?

1. Google+ application could not be installed from Play Store. Says "your device is not compstsble".

2. Google Cardboard app shows black rectangles, so not possible to use. Is that because 3d card is less powerfull then on my previous phone Nexus4 where that app works perfectly. I can just imagine how great VR could be on this screen. May be some drivers are mussing?

3. GPS fixing takes about 10 minutes even on open sky. I've tried many tricks with "Engeeniring mode (MTK)" (EPO download), but still it shows many visible satelites, but it cant fix. I tested that in Ukraine and Netherlands. What csn be wrong? I saw many people reporing that their GPS works fine.

4. Random reboots. Hope that would be fixed at 3.03

5. Any game make phone very hot! Up to 50°....

I am using 3.01 ROM and dont have SD card to update (is it possible to update without it)? Can I update to 3.03 or I should update to 3.02 before?

Thnx for any information about these isdues.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Ties(to):
How to MTKLogger file

Hi umi zero,

I'm also having problems with random reboots and I want to send you my MTKLogger file but what do you mean by "...keep it on. Send us the file after phone will reboot"? Will the MTKLogger work in the background and after the battery is empty (will NOT reboot then) I need to send you the file, and if yes where can I find this file?

By the way, what do you think about post #583 from kimon60 posted 14-01-2015 at 06:00 PM?

Thanks,

Thijs
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] umi zero:
Noted, thanks for the report.

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"Keep it on" after you press the red button to record the file. The phone will reboot after the record is finished.

Send us the file to support@91umi.com

For post #583, it's my first time to see this case as well. I believe the key is you need to wipe out everything on the phone set it as factory format and then install the new firmware.

The theory is that some apps could be conflic with the new firmware, then it will create bugs that other people don't have.

So everyone, if you are seeing some bugs normally is not happened to other people, this mean some of your apps are conflict with the new firmware and you should wipe everything out (remember to beckup) and then install the new firmware again.

I have my UMI ZERO, and indeed it's working perfectly fine. It does reboot at first day after updated, but not anymore, it's been a week or so now.

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Hi there is an installation menu for upgade with SD card and Flash tool.

Check this out: "umidigi.com/forums/topic/3-03-update-installation-manual/"

Remember to do a beckup first if you are using flash tool to update the phone since it will wipe out everything stored at the phone.

However, if you are not senior user, we recommend you do it with SD card for save.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Olostan:
Thank you, umi :)

But can you comment other points please. Like Google+ and Cardboard issues that are mostly stoppoints for me.

Thnx again.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] JankyLV:
s7yler said that it works with cardboard. And I read somewhere that after 3.03 update it's possible to install Google+ from play store.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] markuson:
Just found this thread, but to let you know, you are not alone in this... I have my Umi zero from end of December, first week it looked well, just few reboots, otherwise no major problem, but one day morning I lost stable GSM reception for both of my sim cards. Its same as you describing above... loosing signal strengh and connection with operators, few minutes searching signal, then full signal for next couple of minutes and this repeats over and over... also no way to make two stable phonecalls. Both sims work perfectly in other phone, so there is no speak about bad coverage or bad sims... Update to v3.0.3 was no solution.

Im in touch with seller and getting some common responds, but no solution yet.

This phone would be great if UMI finish all bugs before start to sell, now there is only many dissappointed customers... sad

I hope for happy end, but... you know...
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] s7yler:
Correct, the ZERO has working Gyroscope (not many other China phones have that), that is required for Google Cardboard. And Google+ works just fine with 3.03.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Olostan:
The problem with 3D, not with gyroscope: just after starting app and going to cardboard demo I see black rectangles with some artifacts sometime... Anyone have working Cardboard app demos on Umi Zero?
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] dupajapona:
Finally I gave up and cancelled my order after waiting for almost 1.5 month.

Ordered zopo zp999 instead. Hope it will meet my expectations.

Wish you all no issues at all and plenty software upgrades.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] 06ashiqs:
Its not compulsory but since they fixed some issues in v3.02, it seems more logical to update from a more stable version. In my case i just downloaded the very first v3.02 that came out and flashed it via sp flash tools. I would presume that the latest v3.02 is better than the first.

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Its not compulsory but since they fixed some issues in v3.02, it seems more logical to update from a more stable version. In my case i just downloaded the very first v3.02 that came out and flashed it via sp flash tools. I would presume that the latest v3.02 is better than the first.

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Sorry v3.02 is only for flashing via sp flash tools.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] MiguelferraZ:
I got that bug too on my cardboard app, but that isn't a problem with UMI Zero, because many other apps for cardboard work well.

It must be some problem with the app compatibility.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Ties(to):
According to the site http://umidigi.com/forums/topic/3-03-update-installation-manual/ there's a Sp tools version saying...

Install ROM with the Flash Tool (We do not recommend this method Only for Advanced Users):

– Be sure you also have correct drivers installed, install http://pdanet.co/a/ and VCOM http://goo.gl/aeFWr3

(for Windows 7, if your in Windows 8 you need to manually install the mt6592 vcom drivers! More info here http://thebroodle.com/android/install-mediatek-mt65xx-usb-vcom-drivers-windows-8-8-1/ or http://thetechnolyte.blogspot.de/2014/04/installing-vcom-drivers-in-windows-81.html)

– Please use SP Flash Tool V5.13.52 or newer – as older versions can crash! and give you problems!

– Start the SP Flash Tool

– Unzip ROM, select the Scatter.txt in ROM

– Wait file to be added into Flash Tool

– Untick Preloader (DON’T flash the Preloader!)

– Turn off your phone

– Press F9 (hit “Download” button in SP Flash Tool)

– Then connect your phone to your PC via USB cable WHILE YOU HOLD VOL DOWN! IMPORTANT!

– The process will start and a red progress bar will appear (now let of the Vol Down button) after color purple, yellow.

– And green circles display

– Finish !

– You can now safely disconnect your phone.

– Now we go to the Recovery. Hold down VOL down and Power button,

– 2 second after the ZERO logo appears let go of the buttons!

– You should now be in the Recovery (you see a green Droid laying down)

– Press the Power button once, and the Recovery menu should appear

– Use VOL down button to go down the menu, to wipe cache and press VOL UP to confirm

– After that also Wipe Data Factory/Reset. (You will now delete everything on the phone!)

– Go back and reboot the phone, done!

Will you try and let us know your experiences?

Thanks,

Thijs
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Olostan:
Can you tell VR apps that works on Zero?
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] littleclown:
I have it for a 20 hours so I am not so experienced with that BUT:

The phone came with 3.0.1 and rebooted twice for 5 hours. So I do the following:

01. Factory reset

02. Install 3.0.3

No reboots till now. I read somewhere that reboots can persist when you update to 3.0.3 because of some apps already installed. And it is logical the update to work best if you install it on a fresh OS.

So till now the status of the main umi zero bugs:

01. No reboots after the update to 3.0.3

02. Great wifi/3g connection.

03. Great GPS signal

04. Average mic quality, can be better

05. When you do something heavy - games, video, it comes hot, really hot. Can't burn you, but is strange feeling :). I believe the thin body in combination with glass back is part of the reason for that.

06. The camera now is 20MP :).

07. I had a problems with google play services - crashes every minute, but after update it everything was fine.

I will write if I found any troubles.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] politby:
Editing/replacing the WIFI file does not solve the problem. Reactivating wifi after replacing the file restores the MAC address, but only until the next reboot or wifi off/on sequence.

This is really infuriating because it creates all kinds of problems. MAC address filtering won't work, DHCP reservation won't work, and if you are using public wi-fi networks which registered devices by MAC address you get problems with remembering login IDs and so on.

In my case, the biggest problem is that I am using a firewall on my home network that is licensed for a maximum of 50 IP addresses and unless I keep changing the address back on the Zero, I will hit the firewall's limit and that creates havoc on my network.

This bug needs to be fixed.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] thunder80marco:
Can you explain if you have do update with SD file (OTA) or with SP Flash Tool?

In the second case, how file do you have used?

Thanks!
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] MiguelferraZ:
Some of the apps I tested and worked well on UMI Zero are:

-Cardboard VR 3D Environment

-Shadowgun VR

-Proton Pulse (but the two images don't merge completely)

-Swivel Gun! VR Log Ride (beta) (this one gave me headaches xD)
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Aqz626:
VR

Recommend Chair in a room (VR apk) but i cant use control on the side the cardboard, have to click on the display.... Play it at the night alone at home ;)
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] mesang:
Hi all,

I have used the UMi Zero for some time now but it seems that the phone has a defect. The home button light does not light up. As I'm reading here with all the complaints about Antelife I could recommend buying from Comebuy. Here's why:

Send them an email about the problems and they told me to update. That doesn't work for some reason so contacted again. Now they said I can send it back and they will replace it free of charge, and they even pay the shipping costs. That's some service.

Now I'm first going to see if I manage to update the thing because in my opinion it's a waste of time and money to swap it when I'm able to solve the issues, but at least I'm happy to know that I have another option if I can't get it to work myself.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Aqz626:
summary of my Zero

Overview known problems:

Purchased on B***g***.com as presell ( arrived on 24.12.2014) :good:

Still running on v3.01

-3G/2G signal is good, between 60-110 dBm, once lost signal, browsing internet is fast

-Reboots - only two times first day, now onece two days ago during call

-Battery - getting better ( see my problem in post on site 40#) no fast drop from 100% to 90%, sometimes hold on for longer time on 56% / 46%, faster drop under 20%, autoswitch to safe battery mode dont work, 3 1/2 days by lighly use

-GPS fix sometimes very quick (5 sec) sometimes longer (1-2 min)

- Overheating - when playing games, CPU temperature is about 70-82 °C

- Headphones work well, whitout problem - using from old Samsung mp3 player

- some funcions, apps not working - air gesture,... Google+ (v3.01)

- second day i have lost the SIM ejector from the phone :crying:

/ now i have a new problem whit hight data consumption:

when browsing internet, 5-6 sites / 2 min it takes about 30 MB. Try Chrome and Explorer browsers. ( compare whit my old Samsung Galaxy where i had much lower consumpt)

Any advice why is it so high?

Thanks

Iam very glad that Umi joint this threat and help resolve the problems :good:
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] MiguelferraZ:
I will try it :)
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] littleclown:
About the question for the update - I used the sd card procedure. The battery issue sometimes is temporary because li-on batteries needs 2-3 full cycles to report real percentage. I had another issue - noise canselation is very bad. If you talk from noisy place other people can't hear you. They hear everything else around you :). The interface animations are not so smooth too. I change the launcher with lighter one.

And another thing - the sisplay don't want to turn of automatically when you put the charger in.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Olostan:
Cool. Works quite good. Still magnets are not working at all... Strange - accordung to specs there is magnetic field sensor...

Another questiom: why original cardboard app is not working? Is Zero dont fully supports OpenGL? Can someone check?
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] arna1958:
What CPU?

Someone suggested me to do some test about what CPU is on umi zero.

Umi says that the CPU is 6592T at 2.0Ghz, but it seems not true.

The CPU test told me that the CPU is 65292V at 1.6Ghz. If that is true they are doing something that is not correct.

I would like to know what is umi answer.

Here below the screenshot about CPU test

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[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] littleclown:
All other softwares show me 2ghz. One of them shows me 1685 bogomips points which is different from cpu clock speed. Even your shows me 1.6 only on the first core

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Another 2 bugs:

temp sensor always shows me 39 deg.

Auto brightnes don't work properly. Even in full darkness display is too bright
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Gorlist:
Can anyone recommend a firm that will actually deliver my Umi Zero?

Ordered from Coolicool 1st of January and it still hasn't been shipped.

Thanks!
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] grakkus:
Problem with second SIM card

I have a problem with second SIM card. The phone has not seen her. There is only visible SIM card tray in the first place. TF card is visible in the second place, but SIM card not. Is it a matter of setup? Is the phone is defective?
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] politby:
Geekbuying.com
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Zoeriva:
It's strange, i only have problems with wifi. I don't have problems with phone. I think it is a really great phone....
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] undefined90:
MTKlog file

Here you are. Its the 3.03 version on my phone. It keeps rebooting like hell... 4-5 times a day. That sucks a bit.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] politby:
Yeah mine is doing the rebooting as well. 4 to 5 times a day seems about right. It would not bother me a whole lot if it wasn't for the fact that the wifi MAC address changes every time it reboots.

The weird thing is that the reboots always happen when the phone is idle with the display switched off. It has never happened while I was actively using some app or on a phone call.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] jimladen:
Is there a custom rom based on cm12 or something similar?

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You can send email to pay pal and ask for full refund I did that and worked
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] besam:
No capacitive navigation button backlight!

Is there an Xposed mod anyone knows that allows control of capacitive nav button backlight - mine don't light up at all!

I've been using the phone for about 6 hours since receiving it brand new today and there has been no backlight from the beginning. I've trawled this thread for help but apart from 1 person saying backlight on nav buttons is weak there is nothing. Only fix I can think of is an xposed module. Anyone?
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] hndr_haryanto:
Where you know there is no restart ? You must activate the SIM card lock if you want to know whether it happened or not.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] littleclown:
Or too see the uptime of the phone :). GPS signal is a joke btw. Unusable.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] mirchichamu:
How you people are calling this phone as superb when other person is complaining of something? I don't bother about the external look only if otherwise there are multiple problems. These Chinese companies don't do homework before release of phone. Only advertisement.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] ekstend:
Other person complaining about HTC M7, M8, other person complained about S4, S5, complained about Iphone 4,5,6 etc..., so the logic is to complained about umi zero. This is in human nature and consumer society, but most of them are buying it. I am buying it and love it...

Excellent FHD screen, fast CPU, 2 GB ram, great camera..... for average users best buy for 200$

NHF
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] Ties(to):
Hi umi zero,

I did the MTKLogger yesterday and guess what, it tracked till the phone reached 0% battery without a restart, see also the attached print screen showing 808MB.

Should I send you the 3 maps via wetransfer.com or how do you want me to send to support@91umi.com?

Thanks,

Thijs
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] stevenmiles:
help required - Umi Zero

Can anyone help me with my Umi Zero?

I can't get my windows 8 laptop (or a windows 7 laptop) to recognise the phone when it's in USB storage mode (MTP and PTP is working fine; usb debugging is turned on). I've looked everywhere for drivers without success. Any help or suggestions would be much apreciated.

Thanks,

Steve.
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] ekstend:
when connect usb cable put down notification screen and tap usb connect.. after that tap "turn on usb storage.

edit.

seems that internal storage won't mount when plug usb cable, only external card. internal only via mtp (probably kitkat restriction)
[UMi ZERO Guides, News, & Discussion] politby:
Pretty much every phone is made in China anyway. I have owned several phones from big brand companies which had more bugs than this one.

The thing which does concern me bit is the fact that some problems affect some Zero owners while others have completely different issues. This suggests we may be dealing with flaky hardware rather than software gremlins.

Hopefully the log files submitted by users on this forum may help pinpoint the reboot problem, which currently is my major gripe with the phone.