yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
To move to the off screen navigation buttons go into

Settings

Accessibility

Keypad Type

Change this to Entity Keypad

Phone will reboot and hardware buttons will be activated.

FYI there are no LED lights behind the hardware buttons and you can't swap the button positions like when it is on screen.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Sorry - forgot to edit my earlier post because I managed to suss it out after a bit of fiddling :D

Cheers all the same :good:

I'm glad they've moved them - shame they don't light up though.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
I found this thread on the Umi forum..........it makes disappointing reading :(

http://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=472&extra=page=2&filter=typeid&typeid=30

I'm definitely going to return mine now which is a huge shame because I really like the phone and especially RootJoy.
[Device Reviews and Information] Drakhart:
I too have problems with the phone not recognizing the extSD; and bootlooping when it has an SD card inserted. I've tried with four different kinds of cards, with ROMs 1.0, 1.0.4, 1.0.5, 1.0.6 and even the Flyme OS from RootJoy. I've tried getting some help on Umi's official forums too:

http://community.umidigi.com/forum....6&extra=page=1&filter=typeid&typeid=30&page=2

But so far no luck. I've gotten so tired and dissapointed that I've already contacted the reseller to get a replacement, or even a refund. :(
[Device Reviews and Information] Rag-ha:
Unfortunately, however, even if AnTuTu flag as present sensors gyroscope, compass, acceleration sensor linear and rotational values are always zero so probably these sensors are not present.

All users who have this terminal have encountered this problem?
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Nearly all smartphones has at least acceleration sensor! UMI already confirmed that the IRON doesn't have gyroscope, compass.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
I never know what any of those things do/are so that's not important to me and would anyone who needs them be spending as little as an Umi Iron costs on a phone anyway?
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
Post #1 now updated also with a new video showing how to "Turn the On Screen Buttons to Hardware Buttons".

Just a short Video for people who want to see how this actually works.....
[Device Reviews and Information] Qing Dao:
I bought one of these a couple of weeks ago on Taobao for 1075 RMB. It seems like a good deal and I get a lot of people asking about my phone. One issue I have with it is the very slow USB speed. So far to get around the slow USB speed I have been popping out the SD card and putting it into my computer to transfer files. I haven't had any problem with the SD card or SIM card (which I cut myself).

The only other issues I have with the phone are the two cameras. The selfie camera is useless. It really looks like complete crap. The back camera is quite good, but they do WAY too much manipulation to the picture file and it makes the pictures look pretty bad up close. So lame because the camera is quite good. For putting pictures online or social media it is ok, but if you want to take some nice pictures, no. Also it has issues with moving objects because the camera is so slow.
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
just received with 1.4 firmware.. i'm going to update to 1.6 as soon as i put inside micro sd card (i don't understand why is necessary sd cart for OTA updates..).

By the way, is also available TWRP recovery here:

http://www.needrom.com/download/twrp-umi-iron/
[Device Reviews and Information] Rag-ha:
I think as you, in fact, my question was only to see if they were actually present these sensors, as online criticizing the terminal for this reason.
[Device Reviews and Information] Jt.jt.jt:
Hi s7yler, coming from a galaxy s2 I'm looking for a new phone between the p8000 and the umi iron and I saw on your YouTube channel that you thought them to be equal,

Considering the recent sd card/sim card issues do you still think this?

Although I love the look of the umi iron and think it's great how they listen to the community, I can't help but suspect that the p8000 is the more practical phone due to the larger battery and fingerprint reader instead of the slightly gimmicky iris scanner.
[Device Reviews and Information] tosiabunio:
That's precisely my dilemma at the moment - which one of those two is slightly better. Iron looks great, but some details (lack of some sensors, recent problems with SIM cards) are troubling me. It would be great to read some opinions from those who had a first hand experience with both phones.
[Device Reviews and Information] nikunj87:
Guys, I have been using iron for some time now and generally quite pleased with it, but there are strange thing I have noticed - My eyes feel noticeable strain when I am looking at the Iron screen for some time. So much so that I now prefer to avoid looking at the handset screen and have setup pushbullet notifications on PC. I still don't have the tempered screen protector as I am awaiting one to be shipped but is it that the blue light coating missing that is causing this? Anyone else without the tempered screen protector experiencing this? The display of the screen is quite bright and crisp but something is causing serious strain. And yes, I have tried comparing this working/playing on other android devices (S3/N4/Note3/my Note 2014 tablet) but it only seems to be noticeable on Iron. Any feedback welcome, please....
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Someone on another forum once said to me 'if it's there, it should work' and I think he had a point.

However, they can't work if they're not present - is the point being made that Umi advertised the presence of this stuff at some time and then failed to install it in the phones?

Or is it that AnTuTu has been spoofed in some way to show them as present when they're not?
[Device Reviews and Information] Gruffles01:
The question about the sensors have been asked quite a few times around the traps. The only sensors on the Iron are the proximity, light and accelerometer. Nothing else.

If you check out the official iron specs on umidigi.com then you will only see these listed. I think they are showing up in antutu because the chipset supports them. But they are not there.

Hope this helps.
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
i Agree.. thanks indeed
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
My Italian Unboxing & Review

[youtube]wroIemxRmpo[/youtube]

ciao;)

ciao;)
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
On my IRON I can read the card fine, but if you get one with issues, then of course not recommended, but that shouldn't be the normal case.

Some people in the Elephone forum also have various issues with the P8000, while others don't have any, so I think it's a bit random.
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
Anyone know if that hole at the back is a reset button? If so how does one use it?

My Iron was working fine for about 4 days then I inserted a brand new sim card and SD card and phone rebooted and now isn't recognized at all on any PC I try. Not in RootJoy or SP FlashTool. It's not booting past the blue UMi logo.

I'm about to contact TO2C to arrange a return but looking for any last minute advise before I do that.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Yes - it's a reset button.

A similar thing happened with my phone.

Use a sim tray pin, push it into the hole and hold the power key at the same time.

Your phone should boot normally afterwards but you might need to press the reset button/hold the power key for a few seconds.

When you say your phone rebooted, did you power the phone off to insert the new sim and SD card?

Did the phone reboot once turned on or did you replace them with the phone turned on and then it rebooted?

It's just that I've been reading over on the UMI forum and apparently changing the sim/SD card when the phone's on is a no-no although it's not something I've ever done so it doesn't explain what happened in my case.
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
I'm pretty sure that it is a noise cancelling microphone. Not a reset hole.

Did you watch my teardown video at http://youtube.be/watch?v=vvEF9RToYLg (at 12:19)

that part (mic) is exactly the same as in the bottom of the phone (at 9:05) where the microphone is.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Erm...................well I managed to use it to reboot my phone about 4 times before I sent it back :D

I didn't make it up - t's the advice that you get on RootJoy when you have trouble flashing.............that's why and how I knew what to do.
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
You may just got lucky that holding the power button for more than 10 seconds got the phone to force reboot. As told, you see clearly in my video that it is a microphone, is exactly the same component as in the bottom of the phone for the microphone (for talking).
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
But nothing happened when I held down the power button by itself and none of what you said explains the instructions on RootJoy to use the reset button on the phone.

Thinking back, the first time I did it I didn't even hold down the power key. I only did that on the 3rd or 4th occasion when the reset button alone didn't do anything.

I don't want to argue with you s7yler - I'm merely telling you what I did (which worked) and why I did it (because RootJoy told me to).
[Device Reviews and Information] s7yler:
btw. the mic on the back can be tested with "Field Recorder" start the app, hit record, try to slowly blow some air into the small hole on the back, stop the recorder, and you can play it again, then you can hear that it has recorded the blowing sound..... so definitely a second microphone.

If set Field Recorder to Stereo, then if you blow slowly into the normal mic, it will reflect sound only on the left channel in the app, if you then blow into the mic on the back, it will reflect on the right channel....
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
I believe you!

What happened to me must be some kind of crazy fluke :D
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
Read that in their forum too (I thought it was weird) so I turned the phone completely off inserted sim and microsd and booted up. It got as far as the blue Umi logo and rebooted on its own. Ever since then it's only gotten as far as the blue UMi logo. I've never seen anything like this on any other phone I've owned. Kinda has me stumped.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Bummer..............sounds like you might have a faulty one there like I had :(

I was advised on the forum to remove the sim & SD card and see if the phone would boot normally, which it did but only once. After that, it kept booting funny - the UMI logo was all fuzzy and jiggling.

I tried to flash the stock rom on it with SP Flash Tool but it never booted ever again so it had to go back.
[Device Reviews and Information] mondohow:
Yeah I tried removing both but same thing. I did enjoy the few days I had it though. I like the size and the UMi ROM was surprisingly fast and bloat free. It has somewhat of a Nexus feel to it. I'm definitely going to try to get it exchanged.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
I feel exactly the same. It's a great phone despite the problems I had with mine so I've got a replacement on order from Coolicool.

Good luck with your 2nd one :cool:
[Device Reviews and Information] Rag-ha:
Guys but version 1.6 comes with ota or not? I just got my iron with 1.5...but nothing is reported if I go to update settings
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Not yet - no.

Right now, V1.6 is only available via RootJoy download...........OTA version will be available any day now according to the Umi forum.
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
Hey guys I'm not sure if someone noticed this but I can't install some apps in the phone and I don't why this happens. Some of them are Google+, PayPal, some Spanish bank apps (Santander, La Caixa) some Spanish telecommunications company apps (Mi Orange) and also a bus app. When I try to install the APK it appears an error and if I try to install it through Google Play it appears a Non Compatible message. Can anybody tell me why is this happening and if exists any solution, please?
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
some apps seems to be not compatible with andorid 5.1 special fir,ware from mediatek.. so umi need to fix with an update
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
Ok I just got my pone bricked (yes I'm dumbass), but I don't know how to turn the phone completely OFF in order to install the VCOM drivers. When I plug the phone it turns ON and starts charging... Can you tell me how to do this without opening the pone and removing the battery?
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
The phone is REALLY easy to open - I know this because I've done it. You only need a small phillips (cross head) screwdriver, no fancy pentalobes here.

The battery is easy to remove - it's on a ribbon cable so no soldering is involved.

Your best bet it to just go for it because it requires no technical expertise whatsoever. I have none and I managed it fine :good:
[Device Reviews and Information] Rag-ha:
After a few hours spent to test my Iron I know that he needed software optimization on the back and front camera ..do you think?

Umi is working on this?:confused:
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
The issue has been raised by others on the Umi forum so they are aware of it.
[Device Reviews and Information] Rag-ha:
I hope so ... it really is a great smartphone, and I'd like to take advantage of its features at best :o
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
Don't worry, Umi count on this Iron to enter into the big and quality brand in china
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
It is isn't it? Even though I had problems with mine, I still want to own one so ordered another.

Let's hope they get there.

The fact that they listen to the community is very promising.......I think I'm right in saying that the nav keys were moved to the hardware because of feedback.
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
You are brave [emoji106] do Umi have to fix all little. Problem before the new Ironnwill arrive to you[emoji6]
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Brave or stupid - only time will tell :D

They're not the first company to have teething problems with a new item entering the market and they won't be the last.

I've seen enough of this phone to know they're really on to something good here so I'd like to stick with it and see how development goes.
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
I'm only disappointed on the bug of phone hang during regulation of the volume in music player) going to max and low on the half)..

And for sure disappointed on the very bad quality of the selfie camera evev with flash
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
OK I removed the battery and it didn't work; it needs to be flashed with the battery. The thing is that I managed to even install the drivers, but the SPFT program gives me some strange errors:

When I press the power button for 10 secs when it is connected it appears as "Mediatek PreLoader USB... (COM4)", but it is not able to flash because of the fast boot loop. It gets me the message "BROM ERROR : S_BROM_CMD_START_CMD_FAIL (2005). [BROM] Can not pass bootrom start command! Possibly target power up too early. [HINT]"

And when I press power + vol. down buttons, it appears as detected device "serial USB Device (COM5)" and tries to start flashing, but it stucks at "Download DA 100%" and after a couple of seconds it gets me the message "BROM ERROR: S_FT_ENABLE_DRAM_FAIL (4032). [EMI] Enable DRAM Failed! [HINT]: Please check your load matches to your target wich is to be downloaded."

I even tried to go to the chinese recovery in order to try to make a format factory from there, but when I choose recovery option (by pressing power + vol. down) it gets me the message "No command found".

What can I do? I am using version 5.1528
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
Try to put only stock recovery whith Flashtool in download mode, if ok, copy last zip of the rom into the sd card and try to enter in recovery mode to flash the rom, try before ti wipe system and data..

If it didn't work, and you have also tested the rom flashing procedure with old flashtool version (5.1482 or 5.1516), only warranty return is the way
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
They sound like issues that can be addressed with a firmware update so fingers crossed, that's something that will happen soon.
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
For the moment I didn't work for me. Now I'm trying to flash through fastboot and cmd, but commands don't respond. The only thing I can do is "fastboot devices", wich returns me "0123456789ABCDEF fastboot"; any other command like erase <something> or flash <something> doesn't do nothing (it looks like it gets processing all the time). Does somebody know how to manage the fastboot mode?
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Sorry, yes - battery has to be connected for SP Flash Tool to work. I gave the advice for you to remove so you could get the USB VCOM driver installed.

With that brom error, using a different (older normally) version Flash Tool often works.

Try v3.1328.0.183, v3.1316.0.150 or v3.1332.0.187 which I have a lot of success with for some reason.

Links:

https://mega.nz/#F!F5kgiBhQ!AKwHHCKZmLYLD9TgODkBYw

https://mega.nz/#F!M100iDoI!qeEVmh_wNXwm-mpS6ff1yw

https://mega.nz/#F!F9MRWCRC!oh9SJEYTRG7Agz9wYSQiaQ
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
I tried with the first and second version: the first one didn't allow me to select the scatter properly, and the third one gave me the same errors that the new version

EDIT: I looked into the log and the last lines are this:

09/08/15 17:50:48.845 BROM_DLL[5756][6544]: ERROR: com_util::ChangeCommState(00002C58): SetCommState() fail! , dcb.BaudRate(115200), Err(31). (FlashToolLib/host/windows/com_util.cpp:184)

09/08/15 17:50:48.845 BROM_DLL[5756][6544]: ERROR: FlashTool_Connect_Ex(0x05E2A298): CreateBromObject_Internal(): fail! (FlashToolLib/sv5/common/generic/src/flashtool_api.cpp:1160)

09/08/15 17:50:48.845 BROM_DLL[5756][6544]: FlashTool_Connect_Ex(05E2A298): DA_HANDLE->rwlock: READ_UNLOCK. (FlashToolLib/host/windows/rwlock.cpp:423)

09/08/15 17:50:48.845 BROM_DLL[5756][6544]: com_sentry::Close(\\.\COM10, 00002C58): OK! (FlashToolLib/host/windows/com_sentry.cpp:650)

09/08/15 17:50:48.845 BROM_DLL[5756][6544]: com_base::~com_base() m_hCOM(FFFFFFFF) (FlashToolLib/host/windows/com_sentry.cpp:116)

09/08/15 17:50:48.845 BROM_DLL[5756][6544]: ERROR: FlashTool_Connect_Ex(0x00000000): fail! "S_BROM_CMD_STARTCMD_FAIL"(2005). (FlashToolLib/sv5/common/generic/src/flashtool_api.cpp:1241)

---------- Post added at 04:25 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:38 PM ----------

Ok I think I realised what could it be.

I installed the drivers that I found in the link of the first commentary (made by [MENTION=5687537]Blandroid[/MENTION] ) of this page: community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=593&extra=page%3D2%26filter%3Dtypeid%26typeid%3D30&page=1

For W8 version, but I'm actually at W10. Could be this the issue?
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Have you tried formatting before you attempted to flash?

From the Format tab - Fomat whole flash without bootloader.

You could try an older version of Windows - do you know anyone with a W7 PC?
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
Yes, I did it, but nothing changes. I will try to flash it in another PC when I can. Maybe later I'll make an XP Virtual Machine to check if it suddenly works.
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
It's worth a try - good luck :cool:
[Device Reviews and Information] paveltrufi:
I have just tried to flash through WXP and I wasn't able to connect the device though the virtual machine.

The actual rare thing that happened to me is that suddenly my PC detected some device named "Mediatek DA USB VCOM Port", but when it's plugged the SPFT doesn't detect it as a way to flash the phone. What is this?

---------- Post added at 08:11 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:29 PM ----------

OK I f*cking finally came with the solution: I entered in options and in connection I put the radio option to COM Port (non USB) and it finally worked (took 20 minutes to complete).

Thank you [MENTION=5687537]Blandroid[/MENTION] for helping me
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Yay!! Nice one paveltrufi :good:

Why don't you do a quick tuto to help others?

I'm about 99% certain that someone else will come along who needs to do what you did today and it'd be nice if they had something written down to follow :)

Oh and there's the fact that I've no idea WTF 'COM Port (non USB)' means :D
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
round up between Umi Iron, Siswoo C55 and Meizu M2 Note:

[youtube]Nt3dvItu5Ic[/youtube]
[Device Reviews and Information] bodyjoao:
Can you do it,I havê the same problem,but with the umi zero.....thanks man......?
[Device Reviews and Information] Rag-ha:
So with regard to the sound, using the headphone cable it is always the boring noise and unfortunately increasing the volume stops the phone forcing to reboot, while with headphones bluetooth transmission is much cleaner almost no background noise but above all, it locks in nothing wielding increasing or lowering the volume ... so I hope a firmware 1.7 with the resolution of this irritating problem, because it cuts the legs to this smartphone as much as the camera not optimized.

Sorry for my bad english...I'm trying to improve:D
[Device Reviews and Information] willmaister:
can someoone please help upload the stock recovery.img of umi iron please....Thanks alot
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Here's a link to the rom for SP Flash Tool from which you can extract the recovery:

V1.5 Stock Rom for Umi Iron
[Device Reviews and Information] gchristy:
Got my UMI iron a couple of days ago. Everything seems to work ok except the LTE. I can only get a lock for 3g, even though my network has LTE connection through Band 7 (2600). Tried forcing it by setting it to LTE only, but it still reverts to 3g. Anyone else experience this issue or have suggestions to get it up on LTE?
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Might be an idea to log that as an issue over on the forum:

http://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=forumdisplay&fid=38&filter=typeid&typeid=30

Easier to spot trends when several people are reporting the same thing and Umi do read the forum :good:

Also, you might get some help with it.
[Device Reviews and Information] bigrammy:
Thanks for that bro very good comparison :good:

I considered all three models but I went for the cheapest in the end :laugh:
[Device Reviews and Information] Blandroid:
Which was? :confused:
[Device Reviews and Information] leolipop:
Hello guys.I recently got the phone 2 days ago after selling my G2 cause i needed a dual sim device.So far i am very pleased with it.The thing i noticed was that when i was in a call sometimes i hear the sound an fm radio does when you put a phone close to is , from the signal reception i suppose.Yesterday i had a weird issue .I checked my battery percentage at 17% , after a minute dropped to 14% and in less than 2-3 minutes went to 4% !!

Since the device just had its 3rd charge , i dont think this is an issue and it just needs the battery to be calibrated.I'm on stock v1.6

Should i try the flyme rom?is it any better ?