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[Android General] stapo101:
I have one on order (the S model). Looking forward to it. It looks very similar to the Bluboo x550 and the iNew L4. I have experience with both.
[Android General] stapo101:
First thoughts

Ok. I have mine now and have been using it for the last 24 hours.

Background: I have the following chinese phone:

Ecoo E04 3GB

iOcean M6752

Ulefone Be Touch 2

In addition to the above, my teenage son has had the Bluboo X550 which had to be sent back as the sd card reader stopped working. This was replaced with the iNew L4 and the sd card reader just started to display intermittent problems.

The VK6050s looks to be a very similar build to the Bluboo and the iNew with a few cosmetic differences. The configuration of the Sim cards and the SD card are exactly the same - as is the look of the battery albeit the VK6050s claims to be 6050mah, the Bluboo 5300mah and the iNew 5000mah. The vk6050s has 2GB memory compared with the iNew which only has 1GB of ram.

The vk6050s has partitioned it's internal storage into 2 whereas both the other phones make all of the storage available in a single partition.

I have been very impressed with the phone so far. The display is excellent and coming from 5.5" displays with 1080p my eyes can not tell the difference between them and the 720p display on the vk6050s. The ROM is smooth and appears fast (probably helped by the 2GB memory).

I have been able to root the phone. I used the same trick that I had on the Bluboo and the iNew: use KingRoot apk and then use the Replace_Kinguser_with_SuperSU-v1.8 script.

The phone also accepts my 128gb external SD with no issues.

The really good news is that the firmware for the phone can be downloaded from vkworld's website so you can have a play with root etc and still know that you can always go back to the original firmware if it all goes wrong. iNew have yet to publish their firmware.

I have also been able to successfully install the TWRP recovery that was made for the Bluboo (and is available over at needrom.com). It has let me make a backup (although I have not yet tried restoring it). It also let me flash the viper4android zip.

I do worry that it may end up suffering from the same SD card issues that the other 2 phones have. This issue appeared after a week or so. I am keeping everything crossed.

I hope this may be useful to somebody.
[Android General] andrei94ru:
i think i will buy this phone insteat of bluboo x550
[Android General] MaDMaxiBo:
could anyone test its battery if its real 6050 mah or its just around 5000 like Bluebo ???

i want to buy innos d6000 but its a bit expensive. i only care about battery. if vk6050s has the same battery performance i could buy it.
[Android General] stapo101:
10 days later and it is still going strong. This is my favourite china phone so far and I have had

Ecoo E04

iOcean M6752

Bluboo X550

iNew L4

Mlais MX Base

Ulefone Be Touch 2
[Android General] suoko:
Can you post some camera samples?

Is it any good?

8mpx interpolated to 13mpx?
[Android General] ferbulous:
Nice

From video reviews, seems like enabling the gesture features warns that it will consume more batteries

Does it really effect the battery life by much?
[Android General] Krystyna:
I'm interested too.
[Android General] stapo101:
I will try and take some decent photo samples and post. I have no way of telling whether the camera is interpolated or not. I googled and couldn't find anything that tells you how to identify the sensor. If you know of how to do this then I am happy to try. I know it is an Omnivison which is pretty typical for this price point. from my experience so far I am very happy with the results.

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I don't bother using the gestures. I can tell that they work as I have tested them. You've got to think that it will have an effect on the battery as I imagine there is a wakelock at play when using gestures so that the phone is looking out for them, but to be honest, isn't that the beauty of having a phone with a massive battery? You don't have to worry so much about all of the little tweaks like switching off notifications, location settings etc just to squeeze every last bit of power out of it. You can just use th ephone as it' smeant to be used without over worrying about whether it's going to last you the day or not.
[Android General] ferbulous:
I'm aware of that, just interested to know if it has some minimal effect to the battery life.

On oneplus one I only enabled gesture option for double to wake and camera while the rest are disabled and battery life is still nice with no noticeable battery drain.
[Android General] ferbulous:
Hi, were you able to use xposed tweaks on this?

Since you'll need a custom recovery like TWRP to flash the xposed zip file.
[Android General] stapo101:
Couldn't find an exposed that would install. The 5.1 is actually a 32bit version even though the soc is 64bit.
[Android General] ferbulous:
vkworld VK6050S (MTK6735,1.0GHz,Quad core, RAM 2GB+ ROM 16GB, Android 5.1, 60...

I wonder how does that work.

So the problem is similar to bluboo x550 then with some users reporting flashing xposed file resulting in bootloop?

Based on this thread

http://xdaforums.com/xposed/super-alpha-posted-permission-xposed-t3072979

Should we flash the arm zip file or arm64?
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
No /system/lib64 folder or /system/bin/linker64??

Is this ROM uploaded any where?

Anyway - zip to resize userdata/intsd can be found here - if someone with a VK6050S wants to test.
[Android General] stapo101:
Correct. Neither of those folders or files are present.

Funnily enough I used that same zip to resize the internal partition on another phone the other day and it worked very well. I'm not keen to test it out on the vk6050s yet as I have everything set up as I want it and don't 100% trust the twrp recovery as it was made for the bluboo. I know it works for flashing a zip and have made a backup but have not tried to restore yet.

Also, from what I understand, once the internal partition. Has been resized then you can't do OTA updates. I would rather wait a while to see whether there are any to come.

Besides, I still have over 1gb of internal storage left AND under storage settings it let's you state where you would like new apps to be installed: internal storage, phone storage or SD card.

On a side note, the 2gb of RAM is showing as having 1.3gb still free (with no apps open other than the chrome). Compare this with the ulefone be touch 2 wherr approx 1.9 GB of the 3gb RAM was taken up by the operating system alone. This give you some indication of how well the firmware has been optimised.
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Not a problem - I had forgotten about OTA's I'm not 100% sure how they work in terms of the stock recovery but I think the scatter.txt in the OTA's are important - changing this to the new layout should let them install..

Are you sure you can choose where apps are installed directly? It's not just the /sdcard (Android/data; Android/obb etc.) that you are choosing.

Yea 1.3GB free out of 2GB is what I get with 5.0 ROMs (64bit) - Ulefone must be doing something wierd to be usig 1.9GB (swap/zram perhaps??)
[Android General] stapo101:
See attached screenshot...
[Android General] HypoTurtle:
Yea, I have that as well - on mine that is just the /sdcard - I still need to manually move apps to external sdcard.

If it is automatic to external then I think typically it's installed to internal first then moved to external so you might find that when you get to ~400MB free internal space you won't be able to install anything else.
[Android General] realista87:
hello, i'm alex from italy. i ordered the bluboo.... did i make the wrong choice?

i compared other phones...but i thought the bluboo own the best features..... for example ulefone be touch 2 has BUG BEZELS and higher price, inew only 1gb...

The only one competitor was the VK6050s ( S variant with 2gb) but i thought that the claimed 6000mah was fake and similar to bluboo 5300mah, bluboo calims that they used a BRANDED battery from "amprius". so i would trust more in the true 5300mah instead the 6000mah not sure to be true.

just to say... i've found a new phone, the NEXODUS ZEN which has 2gb ram, 6 inch hd display........ it's really low priced but it uses MTK6589T and android 4.2 but maybe it's more STABLE than a new release 5.1 still not fully known by chinese manufacturer.......
[Android General] suoko:
Have you seen the meizu m2 and m2 note?

The m2 note reviews say it lasts 2/3 days with its 3100mah battery
[Android General] ferbulous:
Received the phone this week, so far everything's working well except some issues like:

1) Massive battery drain right after reaching 20%, started the day with 55% and consumed almost 30% by end of the day. For some weird reason, the battery starts to drain really fast after 20% and that was only on standby.

Gonna try charging it full and see how it goes if the same issue persists.

2)Status bar color theme - The color doesn't seem to change when switching to different apps, for instance when visiting tapatalk using chrome. The color should switch to the same color layout as tapatalk site which is orange but that doesn't seem to happen here.

3) Chrome only displaying list of tabs instead of stacked card previews. Is there a hidden setting to enable this?

[MENTION=6447046]stapo101[/MENTION]

Could you post your guide on how to revert back to stock rom?
[Android General] ferbulous:
So my device is stuck in bootloop right after I tried to flash the xposed zip file

I've tried turning it off by long pressing the power button, but the boot screen for vkworld logo is still on

Is there any other I could turn off the device since the battery is non removable?

So ultimately I had to wait till the battery was fully drained, this took almost 12 hours.

Flashed firmware using sptools and it's booting normally again. Seems like flashing 32 bit xposed file caused a bootloop, 64bit zip xposed failed to flash, obviously since the 5.1 firmware is 32 bit, but I tried it out anyway.

What do you guys think? Is it because a TWRP recovery that's properly made for Vk6050s is required is to flash the zip file?

I was using the TWRP made for blubloo x550.
[Android General] stapo101:
You can hold vol+ vol- and power button at the same time to power off during bootloop rather than wait for the battery to drain.
[Android General] parfetto:
Yes, abaut 15/20 second and phone power off with that method.
[Android General] mano06100:
Hello everybody I just want to know if you have the same issue with the SD card slot.

I got this problem with two bluboo x550 and I want to order a vk6050s

Thanks a lot.
[Android General] Komble:
Hi. Can you please tell me how did you manage to move apps from Phone memory to external (for example 32gb SD) card? I could do it on my old China phones but I can not do it on Bluboo x550. I have rooted my phone with king...(forgot the name) and I try to move apps from phone memory to SD card with Link2SD but it moves apps only from phone memory to phone internal memory. I can not move any apps on my 32gb SD card. This SD card is recognized by phone because it shows me if I open the memory page in phone settings. In memory settings I have only two suggestions where to install apps: phone memory and SD card (but in this SD card they mean phone internal memory - 8gb, not my 32gb external SD card) :(((

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Hi. Can you please tell me how did you manage to move apps from Phone memory to external (for example 32gb SD) card? I could do it on my old China phones but I can not do it on Bluboo x550. I have rooted my phone with king...(forgot the name) and I try to move apps from phone memory to SD card with Link2SD but it moves apps only from phone memory to phone internal memory. I can not move any apps on my 32gb SD card. This SD card is recognized by phone because it shows me if I open the memory page in phone settings. In memory settings I have only two suggestions where to install apps: phone memory and SD card (but in this SD card they mean phone internal memory - 8gb, not my 32gb external SD card) :(((
[Android General] justyfier:
we need cm12 for this ui not optimized and cause a lot of battery drain and uses to much ram
[Android General] ferbulous:
Hi guys, so I managed to get xposed working on my stock ROM

You'll need to deodex the ROM using this tool here and later flash with twrp

http://xdaforums.com/chef-central/android/kitchen-superrs-kitchen-t3202296/post62845957

So far everything seems to be working normal and I definitely did not get stuck on a bootloop this time around.

If anyone wants the deodexed ROM, I can share the link here if requested

Regarding the TWRP (for x550)

From the backups that I made, I've only able to restore the systems but not the data. I got an error 220 when twrp starts restoring data. Nevertheless, you can still boot normally to your system.

So I'd recommend to still backup your apps/data using titanium backup/helium
[Android General] ferbulous:
So far it's still working well.

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Have you tried using this method to resize your system partition instead

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3180978
[Android General] bdd786:
will Tmobile 4G work?
[Android General] kj007:
Yes,

in Hungary, the Hungarian T-Mobile's 4G network works.
[Android General] bjbirch:
How do I get my SD card reader working correctly, the phone keeps listing every microSD card as damaged even though they are working fine in my other phones
[Android General] Outrie:
Encryption at VK6050s

Hello,

could please any VK6050s owner confirm if this device has the encryprtion option at security menue enabled?

Unfortunatelly, some phones with Android 5.0+ have disabled this function, i.e. is not present in the menue. (Usually, at producers with own ROM modifications not using pure Android.)

I need the phone encryption in order to instal Mobileiron (for office work purposes). This is decisive info for me if I buy the phone or not.

Thank you for your quick response.

Outrie
[Android General] kj007:
Unfortunately, there is no encryption option.
[Android General] Outrie:
Thanks a lot, kj007, for your quick response!

Outrie
[Android General] Zaiaku:
Just got the phone so far seems promising. Need xposed installed to make more eye pleasing basically for app settings module. Any roms for this so I don't get boot loops?
[Android General] bjbirch:
Try downloading a different launcher
[Android General] Zaiaku:
2 days with this phone and still haven't put it on the charger since the initial charge up. I'm really wanting to change this phone to kitkat. Not having xposed installed is killing me.
[Android General] bjbirch:
Search XDA for how to install xposed framework
[Android General] bjbirch:
Which Bluboo did you get twrp from
[Android General] mjollnir7:
VK6050 problem with proximity sensor , when you put mine in a case the phone does not ring and the caller get straight through.
[Android General] Celebom:
Am I the only one not able to root this phone (last available firmware) with Kingroot apk?

Initially it says there a method, then it fails saying no method available yet...

Any idea?

Thank you
[Android General] rufy93:
I just got my new phone and tried rooting it, without success. None of the root method advised for MediaTek works. :(

I have unlocked the bootloader but is unable for flash a correct recovery.

Could someone maybe suggest a custom recovery that works? I tried for some other phones that have the same chipset (e.g. elephone s2), but when booting into recovery the phone is just stuck for a long while before booting into normal android. And the stock recovery of course require a signed zip.
[Android General] slotman1:
Hello Stapo101,

Can you give us some updates regarding vk6050s? Are you still happy with your phone? I'm planing to buy one. I like the ideea of a big battery and good photos. I don't care about the speed of the CPU since I don't use the phone for gaming.

If you still have it can you post some photos taken with vk6050s?

Thank you in advance!
[LG G Watch R] xxthemartianxx:
Hi everyone. Just picked up my G Watch R and noticed a small hole on the back of the watch near the top strap.

What's it for ?
[LG G Watch R] latzenpratz:
Thats the Barometer
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] senselocke:
My son's Kurio 7S comes with a software package that is atrocious. Even the update, on a factory wipe, is slow, ugly, has impossible-to-disable junk, tiny storage and I can't move apps to the MicroSD slot (rendering it about useless). I'd like to wipe it, and install a custom ROM--I've been told it's a nice little tablet without Kurio software on it. But I've also been told no one has a replacement ROM if I brick it (and I will brick it if I don't take

every

precaution).

So I just did a full factory wipe back to default. I'd like to do a complete backup of the ROM for two purposes:

) To satisfy Murphy's Law, so that the custom ROM install will go smoothly, and

) To provide a restoration ROM to those who might ever want it (I won't judge you).

I'd need to know where to submit this ROM afterwards, of course.

I have ADB and Fastboot installed, I've already rooted and installed a custom ROM on my phone, so I'm vaguely familiar with the process. But specific details and A-B-C's would be most welcome. Thank you very much in advance--I know it's a stupid quibble, but someone out there wants this restoration ROM, and I might as well provide it before I set it on fire.

Thanks!
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gen5:
What options to I have to flash on g2?

I know of AOSP, PA, CM, lg g series ports, and stock.

Are there other option?
[G2 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tnstatc:
A few others:

- Euphoria-OS both official and unofficial versions (very similar, but use different kernels)

- BlissPop

- ResurrectionRemix

...and others. Take a look in the "G2 Android Development" section of this forum.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadwolf666:
Hello, Where is the new ota file located on H815??

Thanks.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zoleegee:
Dunno the exact location, but as I read in other threads, it's saved to a temp folder, on a partition where you have no read access without root.
[G4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deadwolf666:
any specific location ?
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] messiah:
Hi guys,

I got my Kindle Fire HDX 8.9" and my first goal is obviously to get rid of the Fire OS...

My device is currently running 14.3.2.2

I directly started to KFHDX+ Toolkit 0.95 to get root, ota blocker and HDXposed.

But now I'm stuck and need to ask what is now the best way to get CM11 on my apollo.

So let's begin...

I seem to have two choices. Either installation of safestrap or TWRP.

While TWRP sound more complicated, but having more possibilities.

So I have the following two problems ;)

a) Safestrap - it seems it requires XX.4.5.2

I have an older version, so I better not try to install Safestrap on it.

b) TWRP - seems to require .3.2.3.2 and I should unlock my bootloader

Slightly different version from what I use. But I'm not sure if it's compatible anyway... and I have no unlocked bootloader yet. So better not giving it a try

So should I upgrade by ota to the latest Amazon firmware and can use safestrap then? (is xx.4.5.2 the latest?)

Or is there an instruction how to update to .3.2.3.2 and unlock my bootloader as preconditions for TWRP?

Thanks for helping a 8.9 " newbie.

Always interesting to explore a new device, but sometimes hard to understand the simplest things ;)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cl4ncy:
I'd suggest to update to 3.2.3.2 and use TWRP, it gives you more options, you probably will miss, if you'd update to 4.5.2 and use Safestrap.

I've Thor though, so I'm not exactly sure where you can find 3.2.3.2 for Apollo atm, the bootloader unlock procedure is described here, TWRP Installation here.

If you get stuck at the bootloader unlock procedure with "Waiting for device" in the fastboot prompt, and "Ready" on the HDX, you need to install the correct drivers (check device manager, the HDX is probably there with a yellow exclamation mark then - you're on Windows?).

Before you do anything be sure you have all correct files, and if in doubt ask first (i.e. before you brick your HDX). ;)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] messiah:
Thanks for the link to this great explaination from ceyo14. I found the original post in the same thread, but it was hard to understand what to do. This is much more simpler than expected. I'm running windows.

Since I could not wait yesterday I also already started an experiment to go for 4.5.2 and use safestrap.

My bad is that it did not work. I was trapped in a bootloop and was glad to escape by holding volume down and power. Close call... ;) So I removed safestrap again and I'm back to 0% progress but with 4.5.2.

So I think my next blocking point is the downgrade because I will not follow up the safestrap variant any more. I hope it's possible at all to downgrade and will search later for a tutorial. I assume it's not just copying 3.2.3.2 to internal storage and execute the update via settings ;)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] Cl4ncy:
Hm, that was probably a bad idea, I don't think you can downgrade to 3.2.3.2 anymore. You will most likely brick your HDX. So no more unlocked bootloader and TWRP for you, sorry.

You must use the new Safestrap with 4.5.2, and read the requirements carefully!
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DB126:
[MENTION=6815340]Cl4ncy[/MENTION] is correct. You'd better block OTA (or stay off WiFi) or your device will be pushed to 4.5.4 which present a whole new set of headaches. Word of advice: Read up before taking chances. If you 'can not wait' and start trying stuff at random save yourself some time and just toss your device in the trash now (sorry for the harsh comment).
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] messiah:
Hi, no problem I will get a another one and will return the current ;)

For safestrap 4.0.1 I rooted the device and have 4.5.2 - pre conditions fulfilled. Boot loop anyway. So I don't now what else should I do...

The strange string is that my device is showing version 14.3.0.0, even I installed 4.5.2 - that must be a remaining of a script I executed to force the Kindle HDX to update to 4.5.2 (http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=55759790&postcount=204)

(My HDX 8.9 did not take the 4.5.2 update)
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] DB126:
Upgrade did not fully complete as evidenced by the mismatch between build.prop version and those shown elsewhere. Who knows what else might be missing. FrankenKindle.
[Kindle Fire HDX 7" & 8.9" Q&A, Help & Troubleshoot] messiah:
flashed a second device sucessfully to CM 12.1 with unlocked bootloader, thanks for the help!
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] hbk2506:
While charging with an AC source this device gets heated up very fastly, even when the RAM usage is 60% its thermal response acts like that all its 8 cores are overloaded.
[Xiaomi Mi 4i] ruffain:
Wrong section