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[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Thanks Drogoo

UMI are soon going to release their next model, the UMI Iron.

According to the leaked picture it has an alloy unibody and Dual LED on the back.

There are unfortunately still not many infos or specifications out yet of this device, but it should soon come.

Hopefully it will get a larger and better battery :)

UPDATE more info leaked:

UMI IRON, Octa-core MT6795 with 2K display?? Last friday UMI leaked a new phone called IRON.

From the photo we can see that the device appears to be a unibody alloy phone, with dual LED flash.

Again UMI facebook just post a picture showing Android 5.1, Octa-core. And it show half spec of CPU MT67???

Rumor said it might be the MT6795 that could support 2K video display!

If it could be released in time this could be the first MT6795 phone by far!

- 5.5 Inch Screen, 2K???

- MT6795 Octa Core???

- 3GB RAM + 16GB ROM

- 13 MP Rearcamera + 5 MP Frontcamera

- Android 5.1 OS

- Network: Supports 2G & 3G & 4G LTE Network

Here the leaked picture:
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
From yesterdays leak on UMI facebook tells us that the IRON has built-in 25MW directpath from Texas Instrument, in order to have the best headphone Hi-Fi audio.

Feature of the 25MW directpath

- Great noise cancelation, Omnibearing noise suppression (including active click and pop/ system noise pickup between audio source and the headphone amplifier/ ground lop noise/ power supply noise)

- Prevent Acoustic Shock

- SAVE! Short-Circuit and Thermal-Overload Protection

- Excellent Low Frequency Fidelity

So the sound quality should be extraordinary and super with headphones.

On the UMI Facebook they also leaked a picture https://www.facebook.com/umicommunity/photos/p.487080594791653/487080594791653/

showing some specs about the camera.

Front camera is on 8mp with LED flash light. So selfies should be really good, also in the dark.

The rear camera is a 13mp Sony IMX214 camera, so this should also be very nice.

More over it should come with Android 5.1, a Mediatek octacore chipset and 3GB RAM. The body should be of metal and about 7.9mm thin.

Update:

Finally we know for sure that UMI IRON is a 5.5 inch smartphone using LTPS display which provides faster speed, higher resolution and brighter light on the screen compared with other regular LCD display.
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
The UMI IRON release date is now 10 July....
[Device Reviews and Information] Krystyna:
I have purchased UMI IRON from http://www.pompmall.com/umi-iron.html , now, i want root this phone, How can we root this device?
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
What I don't get is the screen. How exactly does a FHD LTPS screen compare to Gorilla Glass in terms of durability? Will a tempered glass protector hinder this type of panel in any way? Maybe I'm thinking about this the wrong way. It does look nice tho.

Also how does one contact Umi? I can't seem to find an email address for sales/marketing/customer service anywhere.
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
You should not compare these 2 things like that.

FHD LTPS is just that it is Full HD resolution with Low-temperature polycrystalline silicon - that has nothing to do with the glass on top.

Gorilla Glass is just the glass on top, that has nothing to do with if the screen is HD or FHD.

But I can say that the screen is VERY sharp, good colors and very bright. The glass on top, I am unsure of what type it is. Could be normal glass, but with the Magic Glass (tempered glass protection) on top your very well protected, and if you drop the phone nothing should happen to the screen. You can try to contact UMI on their facebook page https://www.facebook.com/umicommunity
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
I have opened up the back to confirm the battery on 3000mAh
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
Thanks for the clarification. Everything I read online made me second guess myself. I would definitely like to give one a try.

Any plans on doing a follow up video after using this for a day or two?
[Device Reviews and Information] shoman94:
How about LTE specs? What USA bands are supported?
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
In USA you use a lot of different bands, the carriers are not using the same ones for LTE. So I can't really answer you on that. You need to check on http://willmyphonework.net and then the phone.

The UMI IRON supports - Band: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz, WCDMA 850/900/1900/2100MHz, FDD-LTE B1/B3/B7/B8 (1800/2100/2600)

But it looks like that most US carriers (if not all) are using other LTE bands, so LTE will generally not work in the US for this phone. Only 3G it seems.
[Device Reviews and Information] shoman94:
You see a lot of these Chinese phones are useless in the USA. AT&T uses band 2,4,5,17. Even my Oneplus is now obsolete because it only supports band 17.....
[Device Reviews and Information] KURT.Beadles:
s7yler, now I'm really anxious for your full review when you get the final version of the phone. It looks promising indeed. Please check, if you can, GPS and voice call quality. I really hope it will fulfill the expectations ;)
[Device Reviews and Information] jiehao85:
Very powerful specs but I dislike the placement of the speaker.
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
Any camera samples with the unit you have/had?
[Device Reviews and Information] amitbhullar:
I bought this phone on geekbuying.com and it should ship out between 17/7 to 20/7. It will take another 15-30 days to finally get to me. I am really interested to see what other owners think about this phone.
[Device Reviews and Information] MikeyLee:
I believe they actually ship this device with a tempered glass screen protector so I don't see that as being an issue
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
Really? I was hoping they would but most of their resellers (to2c, banggood, etc) have said it won't come with a tempered glass protector only a regular one. Some say it won't come with one at all, but I know you can't really rely on some resellers word. All the reviews I've seen have had a tempered glass protector but that may just be specific to review units.
[Device Reviews and Information] Alfredo Aguirre:
Does the umi iron actually come with 850 gsm and wcdma bands? Everywhere else it says it does not support it.
[Device Reviews and Information] frankandwendy:
Umi iron seems very well, when I can buy it ？
[Device Reviews and Information] poppik:
Thanks, thats really great!

Maybe you could help me with other thing too.

I was wondering Iron can recognize quick gestures to run some apps. For example drawing "e" on screen starts internet browser and so on. Is it possible to set it somehow?
[Device Reviews and Information] kavilg:
audio cutting out and freezing

S7yler, could you help out by telling umi about my sound problems?

When volume is above 50% from the headphone jack, the phone will freeze and crash. And also when I put volume above 50% on Bluetooth audio for my umi voix blu, the sound will skip and and crackle.

It is on the latest 1.5 and was meant to be fixed in this update however problem is the same
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
OK I will, but UMI are also following this thread in here, so they will see it.
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
Hello, I bought this phone for my mother and it came to my house today. I updated the ROM to v1.5, but I don't see the hardware buttons option (I guess it doesn't exist) and the phone has the headphone's issue mentioned previously. I hope that Umi can get a good support for this phone :)
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
the hardware buttons was not added in v1.5 (UMI told they skipped it in v1.5) no idea when or if it will come....

what exactly was the headphone issue?
[Device Reviews and Information] Llongshot:
I think its about when you hear music and you increase the volume, the device freezes it
[Device Reviews and Information] Gruffles01:
It seems a few people have mentioned this to UMI and they have said they are looking into it (it was thought to be fixed on the last ROM update but it doesn't look like that is the case). Some people are reporting a fix if you are prepared to use the MTK engineering tool. Have a look on the UMI forum for the instructions (community.umidigi.com).

Speaking of which... They are running a competition at the moment to win some free UMI VOIX headphones. Check it out here: http://community.umidigi.com/thread-493-1-1.html
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
I made some tests and I observed that when you increase the volume to the "limit", the bass seems distorted and a few seconds later the phone just freezes.

I also have to say that if you disable the enhancements from settings and also uninstall the Viper4Droid driver (it comes with stock ROM WTF), you'll be able to listen with headphones until the recommended limit.

Enviado desde mi ZP999 mediante Tapatalk
[Device Reviews and Information] neo5468:
Do you recommend elephone p8000 or UMI Iron, for sound quality via headphone jack? Which phone has better DAC ? These headphone jack sound problems that I am reading here are kinda persuading me from buying this phone.
[Device Reviews and Information] nikunj87:
Guys/S7yler, I am having an option of buying either Umi Iron or Ulefone Be Touch 2 (both £150 delivered in 3 days). Can you guys suggest which one should I buy? Or Elephone 7000 or 8000 (but will have to wait for them indefinitely)....

I know each of them have their pros and cons - but for me anyone whichever is more stable (I am not a gamer) and have a better camera and for which the wonderful XDA community will develop ROMS is the one I would like....

Can you help please, my N4 has died and going crazy thinking which one to buy...

Thanks much!!!
[Device Reviews and Information] merriman02:
I Have this phone connected to the Telstra 4G network in Sydney Australia....I Have awesome data speeds but if I make a cell call it hangs for maybe 10 seconds and jumps to 2G and completes the call...... Also all 4G incoming calls go straight to voice-mail....... 3G seems to be working normal but 4G I can't make/receive calls...

Any ideas guys??
[Device Reviews and Information] nikunj87:
Ok, I have surrendered to the temptation and bought this device and I will most likely have the phone with me tomorrow (hoping amazon fulfills, they generally do) . Just a quick question guys, given that sources for the MTK6753 given by mediatek - is there a possibility of future development of this device? I mean building asop rom or more optimised kernel or futuristic android 6.0 roms?

I can see a device specific thread for Elephone 8000 (and other devices like xiaomi mi4i) but nothing for this yet. Is it the lack of interest of the development community or is too early or is it the case of some source code or dependencies not available?

I am not very well versed with development but would like to understand how is the future development of this device looking?

Can someone provide some information regarding this?

Thanks,
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
It is hard to predict the future for a device, but UMI are still working on updates for the phone. For custom ROMs, it really depends on the community and how popular it gets. Right now I still think it is too early...
[Device Reviews and Information] poppik:
USB File Transfer - too slow

Hi,

I have IRON with ROM V1.5 and it has terribly slow file transfer via USB. It doesn't matter if I use USB Mass Storage or MTP, it goes only about 1 MB/s.

I tried different SD cards, different USB cables, different PCs, but still the same - 1 MB/s. WiFi transfer is ok, it goes about 2-3 MB/s.

Do you have the same issue? Thanks..
[Device Reviews and Information] nikunj87:
Yes agreed. Just checked umi forums and I can see working twrp has now been released. Long way to go.. Let's see how it goes...

Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] dajona28:
Hello, I also have the same problem, the transfer rate is very slow USB cable, too late.

hopefully Umi engineers can solve this problem with a future upgrade and more.:confused::(
[Device Reviews and Information] Gruffles01:
Hi all,

Finally got my UMI Iron and have been using it for a couple of days. Overall, it's been a fairly enjoyable experience. It's my first Chinadroid after jumping off an HTC One M7. Initial impressions:

Pros:

- A really nice build considering the price. I got to enjoy the metal feel of the HTC One so having it in the Iron feels good. Definitely a nicer feel compared to the all-plastic models out there.

- Updated to latest ROM via OTA out of the box. It's nice to know that there is ongoing support from UMI.

- Camera is a huge improvement over my HTC M7 purple haze of doom issue. But any camera would have been an improvement over that. The time between pressing the capture button and the image taking is quite long, but I'm not too fazed by this (my wife will probably get sick of it after a while).

- Android lollipop – Nice.

- Fast – everything seems to be running at a nice pace, including connecting to networks and GPS.

- Screen is good, battery life seems fine for now, and it connects to my Optus 4G network fine.

Cons:

- Not a biggie for me but it is very limited on the sensor front. No gyroscope so no cardboard VR (which I've never used anyway).

- The biggest issue – there is a vicious clicking noise when listening to audio through the headphones. This appears before and after any sound/song and is ridiculously loud... nearly makes listening through headphones unbearable. Hopefully this will be fixed in a future update as a few people are reporting it.

- Limitations with the UI at the moment – for me, the app icons are too big and I'd like the power to reduce the grid size but can't do this at the moment. Other ROMS tend to appear for UMI phones, so hopefully this will be an option in the future.

- I haven't tried any USB transfer yet so hopefully that isn't too bad.

Overall, I'm super happy for now considering I paid 1/3 of the price I did for my HTC! Hopefully the phone doesn't deteriorate too quickly.

Also, If anyone is interested I noticed UMI were running a competition giving away a UMI product every Friday for a month. Check it out here: http://community.umidigi.com/thread-564-1-1.html

I'll keep you all updated if my phone decides to pack it in!
[Device Reviews and Information] nikunj87:
Hi Gruffles01, with regards to icons size and grid size, I like them small as well especially given the screen size and resolution. Until a kernel with configurable dpi doesn't get released I have installed apex launcher. The launcher is pretty smooth and highly customisable... Giving an option to change both icons( I have changed them to 80%) and grid size. These size changes are configurable for both home screen, dock and the app drawer...

Have a go you..

Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
To change Icon size/grid you can change DPI using DPI changer from the Play Store, it only requires Root to work - Kernel is not needed, but be a little careful what you do, the DPI can also end up very strange. I have done this on other Mediatek phones. But yeah another launcher can of course also do it, Nova Launcher can also do it like Apex.
[Device Reviews and Information] Gruffles01:
Giving apex launcher a go at the moment. Seems to be going OK for now and I the icons look heaps better in their smaller sizes.

Thanks for the suggestions gang!

Gruffles
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
I got mine yesterday and I really like it but I'm struggling a bit. RootJoy keeps stopping during the flashing process - both times, 10 minutes in and I get this:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/79yt5hgs8jqlso7/Screenshot 2015-08-30 00.32.57.png?dl=0

Then I have to press the reset button to get the phone to boot.

I wanted to try to flash it with TWRP but the phone doesn't recognise my extSD card and even when I navigate to it using a root browser, it's completely empty despite the fact I've put V1.5 and V1.6 upgrade on it. I can't flash it with SP Flash Tool because the V1.6 update I downloaded with RootJoy isn't SP Flash Tool compatible - no scatter file etc

I feel rather disappointed because about 90% of the reason why I bought the phone was because it's supposedly easy to flash roms on it.

Is it just me or is anyone else having these issues? I've tried the Umi forum but it's bloody horrible trying to find your way around it. I'd shoot the person who came up with something so disjointed and illogical - after 5 minutes there you want to throw your phone in the bin :(
[Device Reviews and Information] Gruffles01:
So, the latest update (1.6) activates the hardware buttons! At the moments the buttons aren't changeable with the left side being an app menu button, middle as home (long press for multitasking), and right as the back button. Screen adjust to fill the full screen (so it doesn't leave a black bar where the on-screen buttons used to be). Seems to be working quite well.

I have noticed that the flip cover is still not supported in the ROM (even though it was in the 1.5 changelog). And the clicking noise is still there.

Android Numpty - have you tried a different USB cable? Maybe yours is faulty? I updated through rootjoy and the process went off without a hitch. If you're happy to wait (it's a pretty minor update so there is no rush) then I'd imagine it will be available for download and update through flash tool tomorrow or the next day. I'm on the UMI forum and, although it can be a pain to navigate, you can usually find what your looking for once you get the hang of the quirks!

I hope this helps.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Thanks for that GrufflesO1 - I have loads of the things so will try another cable :D

I don't suppose you know anything about the extSD issue do you? Is anyone else having this problem? I've got a TWRP backup on my internal SD so it's nearly full already - I've hardly got anything on the phone yet. Does your PC see your extSD okay? I'm using a W10 laptop.

Oh and re the forum - I'll give it another go and will try to learn to love it ;)
[Device Reviews and Information] Gruffles01:
haha... I'm not sure about the "loving it" bit. Maybe just learn to tolerate it... that will be much easier! ;)

In regards to the extSD issue: Has your Iron ever recognised the SD card? What size are you using (64gb is the max supported)? Have you tried it with a different SD card? Is your Iron taking a while to wake up from lock after it's been asleep for a little while?

I have two and my wife's was having an issue with taking a while to wake up after being locked. I did a factory reset and it fixed the issue, but it then couldn't see the SD. After a highly technical manoeuvre involving... taking the sim/SD tray out and putting it back in (with the phone off) it all worked fine. Maybe give this a shot. Otherwise, I haven't heard of any other extSD issues.

Hopefully it's as easy a fix as this!
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Suggestion, maybe you try to download full stock ROM on Needrom.com

Take the scatterfile from the latest full version. Load it in SPFT, and check only the recovery part, click on it and choose the TWRP recovery instead. So you flash TWRP recovery to the phone.

After that put the v1.6 update in the internal memory of the phone instead of on the ext. sdcard. With TWRP recovery flash the update from the internal memory instead of from the ext. sdcard. No idea if it will work - is just a suggestion, so you do it at your own risk.

PS. another thing you could else try (just to check) is to flash the older v1.0 instead (also available on needrom) with SPFT, and check then if your ext. SDcard is found or not. They changed something about how the SDcard is read after v1.1. What version did the phone come with? and has the SDcard ever been found while you had the phone?
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Hi S7yler, I managed to flash the phone to V1.6 with RootJoy after changing the cable - I flashed the stock recovery from the internal SD with Flashify yesterday. The phone came with V1.5 and neither that nor the upgrade has ever been able to see the extSD - my PC can't see it either. It's as though it's not installed :(
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Very strange, but SIM card is working in both slots? Did you try with different sdcard also?
[Device Reviews and Information] :
I also have the same issue with sd card. When I insert a new sd card, it notifies that sd card is damaged. There is an option to format it, but the process stop when trying to erasing the sd card. After trying many different ways to solve the issue, I've founded out that I can get it recognizing certain sd card by formatting the sd card on other android phone first. Formatting sd card on PC is not working on my phone (I even tried a few different format program). And some sd card are not working no mater what I do including formatting them on other phone.

Also on other phone after formatting the sd card, I need to take photo that's stored on the sd card. It seems that some folder/files need to be exist on the sd card to be detected by the phone. Even after the sd card is detected most applications (such as camera applications) cannot use it. And when the phone is rebooted, the issue recurring again.

I hope this sd card issue will be fixed soon.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
No Gruffles, I've never experienced any issues with the phone waking from sleep and it has never recognised the card when running either V1.5 or V1.6 It's actually the second card I've tried (which is fine in another phone etc) because I got the 'SD card damaged' notification with the first one. The card is a Samsung 16GB so I know I'm not going over the limit in that sense.

Also, I've removed/reinserted the sim tray several times to put stuff on the card - obviously impossible to do when it's in the phone due to this issue.

Incidentally, the most recent update (V1.6) didn't facilitate the repositioning of the navigation buttons from the screen to the bottom of the actual phone - not in my case anyway.

I saw you mentioned it upthread - it's possible of course that there is something I'm supposed to do in order to make it work but if that's the case I remain unenlightened :D

EDIT - found how to move the nav buttons!! :good:

I haven't tried the sim in the other slot s7yler - I've got a nano sim in the front slot right now so I'll find an ordinary sim and see if that helps identify the issue.

EDIT - I've now got a sim card in each slot and both work perfectly well so now I'm completely at a loss re what to try next.

All suggestions welcome - thanks.
[Device Reviews and Information] malodev:
No suggestions but another issue about 2nd sim/SD slot....

In my Iron the SD works fine but it doesn't detect the second sim.

Maybe there's some manufacturing issues in the contacts for sim/SD combo... :(
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Hmmmm.................................sounds like you and I got unlucky here. AFAIK, it's not 'known' issue :(

I think I'm going to have to disassemble it and install a higher capacity SD card. I can flash recovery from the internal SD so hopefully I'll still be able to use TWRP at some point although right now, I'm not having much luck with the 2 I've tried so it's stock for now and flashing through RootJoy.

Did you specifically buy the phone to facilitate dual sim functionality?
[Device Reviews and Information] malodev:
Unfortunately yes... I've already tried to contact the online shop where I bought it but with no response until now.

I would be tempted to open it to check the sim slot...
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Bummer - hope you manage to get it sorted.

Mine's developed a rebooting problem now too so I think it's going to have to go back :(

ITX Tutor (from China Devices) did a teardown so you could follow his YT vid if you do decide to have a look yourself.:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvEF9RToYLg