yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Device Reviews and Information] euroclie:
Unfortunately, yes, at the moment you still have to unroot every time you want to update via OTA.

The OTA installer will reflash part of the system partition, and does some checks beforehand to make sure the system partition hasn't been tampered with, to avoid flashing at the wrong place, and the root currently involves modifying the system and/or boot partitions in such a way that the OTA checks will fail and prevent the update to be completed. :(

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[Device Reviews and Information] stub20000:
bah, i figured that's what it was, thanks for confirming
[Device Reviews and Information] jrk190:
Good news everyone! The MTK6753 source is out on GitHub which means we can develop Roms like cm13!!! Dont know if we can use it for Android N, but that'd be nice
[Device Reviews and Information] dreadkopp:
care to share a link with us?
[Device Reviews and Information] Gavin01:
So. Is there hope for my volume. Problem. Now the source code is out?

BTW used quick charger for first time today and it o my charged to 87% is that right?
[Device Reviews and Information] jrk190:
https://github.com/MediatekAndroidDevelopers

It's for jinyu but same soc
[Device Reviews and Information] SirDigitalKnight:
I unrooted my power using SuperSU and Root Checker shows that is unrooted but it still wont do OTA updates... keeps booting into TWRP... ??
[Device Reviews and Information] 3dd1:
Could be wrong but don't you also have to flash stock recovery?
[Device Reviews and Information] AngelOfBlood:
Hey mate,

I had problems to in all ROMS about the sound, in this last rom it's working fine, no more issues...

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Yes, he need to flash "only" the Original recovery of the Rom he have, then apply the update.

After that flash "only" and again TWRP.
[Device Reviews and Information] 3dd1:
I'm not too sure what you mean by only charged to 87% but it does reduce the rate of charge the nearer to 100% it gets.
[Device Reviews and Information] AngelOfBlood:
Anyone tryied this ?

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/mod-beatsaudio-e-xloud-installer-t3029951
[Device Reviews and Information] jy_P:
For those who don't know yet, bertarobert73 is making system recovery backup that you can restore using TWRP! Quickest and easiest way to flash newest Ulefone updates without a pc. Flashing/restoring the system only allow you to keep your apps, configs, setting, files intact.

The latest 07/18 will most likely be available in a few hours on its section on Needrom!

You'll probably only have to reflash the supersu after restoring the update.

Moreover, he will most likely also remove those malware! At least he did it on the previous one.

Enjoy!
[Device Reviews and Information] nickyip123:
Damn... This one seems in the same price range and seems better, but I've just bought Asus Zenefone Max. :( :( :(

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Don't be so pessimistic, leakages happen occasionally in these phone maker companies. Hope's always there. :)

Btw, this phone seems already good enough to buy, big battery, fingerprint reader, quite good camera, good screen. :p

In fact, I don't see there's any reason why these phone makers don't release the kernel source codes. The driver module of the fingerprint readers, light sensors, etc are provided by the part makers, right? The whole modified Linux kernel for Android is adopted from Google AOSP project, right? I'm really lost.
[Device Reviews and Information] avatar4:
Yes yes and yes. If phone config is right, all sensors except of fingerprint, are made by Bosch so european country ?= law abiding = open driver?

About the phone, I already defended ulefone here, I also raged on them for couple of things. I also wrote that all and all I really love this phone, so there :).

Reason they dont release is (from what I understand):

-mtk develops chip and software

-mtk THINKS that keeping their patents and trade secrets safe justifies not releasing source code (more likely they stole some patented stuff and source code would reveal that)

-mtk has to provide code for vendors to customize it to their product, otherwise their chip is useless

-mtk forces vendors (or most likely 3rd party that develops roms for couple of vendors) to sign NDAs with hefty breakage fees that prohibit them from sharing code (I also heard that this 3rd party is subsidiary company of mtk) (theory behind this third party became stronger in my opinion, when I saw couple of mtk phones share one similar bug [the asphalt lag one] and other phones on the same chip were free of it)

-....

-profit

So...... lots of drama. I highly encourage you to reaserch this yourself, its fascinating read. A lot of conspiracy theories and alot of juicy gems.

I really need to dive into rom dev, but need new ssd for that, im not coming back to hdds.
[Device Reviews and Information] langostaman:
I'm going to wait this month for the official ota. If not i root and try lucky patcher.,,?

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[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
yeah... i think we have also big Hype for the incoming marshmallow!
[Device Reviews and Information] bithalver@gmail.com:
There is one thing I am not totally satisfied: power consumption in sleeping mode. Last night I put the phone aside with ~44% battery; 7.5 hours later it was 29%; all the time it was in airplane mode; Settings -> Battery says "Phone Idle" eats the most.

Anyone has any idea which app should I deinstall/freeze ? I have a rooted environment. Thanks !
[Device Reviews and Information] darksnoopy:
you should install wakelock detector or betterbatterystats. thats not normal. i get like 3-4% discharge overnight and i dont use flight mode. I am stock unrooted though. Also be sure to make for once a full battery cycle of charging and discharging.

P.S When my phone arrived it was charged to 96% but i had asked the chinese people to check it for me for dead pixels and stuff before sending
[Device Reviews and Information] axelnanol:
So it's now Friday evening, and further to my last post on Monday, I'm still going on one charge! I can hardly believe it myself, this phone genuinely gets 4.5 days of light-medium usage!

Steps to reproduce:

Install BBS, Greenify, Wakelock Detector, GSam, Amplify, ApOpsExposed. Don't have a Power Nap alpha invite so can't use that.

Follow the XDA 'Extreme Battery Life' guide.

Add any further common sense wakelock & alarms to Amplify.

Disable fingerprint reader (ideally want to be able to reenable this but it's a big drain).

Install Smart Network and set sensibly (WiFi to occasionally wake from sleep, data to drop to 2g while asleep).

And that's it, certainly not rocket science. I've been on call this week so plenty of phone calls, some data usage all week, bit of multimedia, no games however. Photos now attached!
[Device Reviews and Information] rob1992:
Well I voided my warranty, I filed back the metal around the headphone socket so it would fit the plug. So while I can put in any cable just fine now I did cause some ugliness to my phone.

I also noticed something interesting that persisted after i modded my phone. When it's at full volume playing into a mixing console it keeps cutting the music on and off whenever a heavy hitting bassnote plays. It seems like the used DAC protects itself against outputting to much power. This idea is not that bad, but it is annoying that it happens when on full volume or even slightly below with my audio apps eq's flatlined and the preamp set at +-0db. That said, with everything set at zero it gous to about -2db-ish if i where to trust my VU-meter. So its not that bad i'd say. Not a +4dB line level but its something.

Edit: Ok as it turns out with everything at +-0db eq wise its fine. It seems like they made it so it runs on the edge of the DAC's capabilities when at full volume. It sits at 0db cut/amplification according to the meters. So naturally when you bump the low frequencies a bit it pushes it into protection. I really want to try and find the maker and model of the DAC one of these days.
[Device Reviews and Information] sutty86:
Guys really want this phone sick of charging my mx5 every day only getting 4hrs Max SOT

Will I notice a difference coming from this phone.

Where should I buy the phone I don't want to be hit by customs and want it quite fast

Cheers
[Device Reviews and Information] sutty86:
can somebody also confirm gyro works?
[Device Reviews and Information] f1c:
There is no gyroscope sensor, the battery life is amazing and I don't think any reseller has it in non-China warehouses yet. DHL Express is pretty fast but you will have to deal with customs unless you are lucky.
[Device Reviews and Information] langostaman:
I'm still having the problem with the notifications . I tried to make root and make WhatsApp system app but not work.

So i'm waiting for the official update. Thanks for everything!!

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[Device Reviews and Information] sutty86:
absolutly gutted the gyro is a big deal for me, i am trying to develop some cardboard apps atm,

really unhappy with my mx5 SOT as im a Paramedic by trade and need my phone to last 14hours whilst on shift
[Device Reviews and Information] rob1992:
I completely forgot something about the audio. I have replay gain applied to it and than a +3db preamp gain. So not exactly clean all the way through. if i turn off replay gain however it starts to mute itself again at full volume. When there are no replay gain tags with the file it plays it at -0.5db which still isn't enough to stop the muting. Os more trial and error is required.
[Device Reviews and Information] f1c:
This likely won't get fixed via updates but maybe we can trouble shoot it.

How did you root and make them to system apps? Did you reboot after doing so as well? And is it only WhatsApp that's giving you issues?
[Device Reviews and Information] Wolfstar27:
Hi guys,

I'm considering buying this phone, technically this would be my first Chinese phone (i own an Chinese android handheld console)

I have LG G3 and I've taken some decent photos whilst on holiday, however the big annoyance is the 16GB Rom, it fills up really quick even though I have 64GB SD card and I can't transfer all my app etc onto it but only ideal for my photos, however today the LG G3 decided to not recognise my SD card and kept un mounting it.

So my question is that is the camera really good at taking photos and better than the G3 camera? I am planning on taking this phone on holiday again (can't afford a DSLR atm), so main points of getting a new phone were good camera and decent battery life.

I read that marshmallow will be able to switch the SD card as a internal storage.

Many thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] megthebest:
Forget this idea. Camera is only average, good only in sunshine day light. I made lots of photos, but in low light or when there is dark and light, the result is poor.

Is not necessary to have marshmallow for sd app usage, is possible also with lollipop now. Power has this feature but unfortunately it changes sd card into sd0 at reboot, so a big mess if you want to update firmware via flashtool or restore a backup with titanium.
[Device Reviews and Information] sutty86:
On the lg3 you should be able to transfer your apps over to micro SD
[Device Reviews and Information] langostaman:
Thanks! I used kingroot. And make system app with titanium backup.

It happen with many apps like gmail, wallapop...

You know if this issue is solved in the latest rom from 30/01?

Thanks again!

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No...it's only a decent camera...no more.

Bye

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[Device Reviews and Information] Wolfstar27:
thanks guys for the reply.

well the app's transferring to SD card, every time i do it, it still shows that I'm low on memory, thats why I guess I'm a bit skeptical on getting a 16GB rom device.

could I possibly see the photos that were taken in low light and in the dark?

another reason I was interested in this phone is the price at the moment as Dealsmachine are doing it for £119.13, so its not breaking the bank, I don't plan on taking out another 24 month contract for a flag ship phone like I've done in the past or go back to apple.

any recommendations for a phone with a great camera and battery with easy to manage storage?
[Device Reviews and Information] f1c:
Do you have SuperSU installed instead of the default app Kingroot puts on it? And did you confirm you have root?

If yes, try a different app to move it to system app. Titanium Backup did not work for me but Lucky Patcher did. Link2SD supposedly also works.

The issue is not fixed in the newest ROM from what I have heard.
[Device Reviews and Information] rob1992:
The camera has some potential but currently the way it chooses its ISO and shutterspeed the pictures frequently come out blurry if it's a low light condition. I hope that with the 6.0 update there will be a change so you can have full manual camera controll like other phones that use the same sensor.
[Device Reviews and Information] euroclie:
As far as I remember my early Linux days, when you needed around fifty 3"1/2 floppies to install a Slackware pre-1.0 distribution, the source release issue is a tricky one.

On one hand, the OS itself is released under GPS or other similar licences which explicitely require manufacturers to release the source code.

On the other hand, most drivers were (and probably are) using proprietary technologies that the manufacturers wanted to keep secret, and even if not releasing the drivers source was a big pain in the #ss for the end users and developers alike, they had perfect rights to do so as long as the driver's code didn't include GPL/Open-source code.

So there were "bad" companies that provided neither source code nor compiled one, and the OS support was either non-existent (Windows only) or flaky at best (through reverse engineering).

There were a few good companies that released the source and that made the effort to port their drivers to Linux, but given the small number of computers running Linux at the time, it probably was more an act of faith than an attempt at profitability.

And there was the rest of the companies, releasing source code but letting those interested try to port it to Linux.

Some example include the SD/MMC reader drivers. The "Secure" Digital part was more secret than the "insecure" multimedia part, so most of the time it was only capable to read non secure cards due to the lack of source. Other examples include the infamous "winmodem" hardware on most laptops...

Back to Android: even if we get the OS source, which we occasionally do through manufacturers goodwill/licence compliance, it's not very useful unless we also get the drivers source code, which is even less common...

The rest is usually great custom ROMs that simply lack support of this or that hardware feature (the fingerprint reader when you're lucky, as you can live without, but sometimes it's more critical, like thee wifi radio, or the sound module, or camera...)

All in all, I'd be delighted to have custom ROMs for the Ulefone Power and also willing to help, even if I've never compiled a ROM for Android (I do remember the good old days of "make clean ; make config ; make all ; make install", that was kinda fun). But I won't hold my breath either: the official ROM isn't perfect but the hardware support is total, which is good!

Tapatalk (Ulefone Power)
[Device Reviews and Information] Wowan123:
Some non technical question. Does anyone bought a glass screen protector? I'm thinking about buying this one http://www.banggood.com/Original-Ulefone-Power-9H-2_5D-Round-Border-Anti-scratch-Ultra-slim-Tempered-Glass-Screen-Protector-p-1046205.html .

Anyone tested such or similar glasprotectors? Are there any protecors that cover the whole front?

I'm afraid it will not work in sunlight, as sombody wrote it glows blue.
[Device Reviews and Information] euroclie:
Hello,

I did a review (I think it's still there near the start of this loooong thread) of such glass screen protector. In fact I ordered two different models, including the "official" Ulefone Power glass protector.

The so-called blue filter makes the phone completely unusable outside when there's sunshine.

Otherwise, there's not much to comment, the glass protector is like any other.

One notable exception, though: because the Ulefone Power screen has rounded edges instead of flat ones, the glass protector dimension is significantly smaller than the phone's front face, there's approximately 2mm gap on each side between the protector edge and the front face edge.

While the LCD/touchscreen area itself is entirely covered, I find the resulting visual aspect quite ugly, so for now I'm sticking to the bundled plastic screen protectors. They suffer from the same dimension issue, but they're thin and invisible enough for the result to be acceptable to the eye and touch.

Tapatalk (Ulefone Power)
[Device Reviews and Information] SirDigitalKnight:
So I tried to roll back my Power to stock so that I could get the latest OTA and now it will not power on at all.

Any suggestions?
[Device Reviews and Information] 3dd1:
Have you tried all of the combinations of up + power down + power etc? Have you tried to put it on charge, does the display come on to show it is charging. Also have you tried to put in it on charge and leave it for 30 mins, even if it doesn't show anything when you plug it in?
[Device Reviews and Information] Kangburra:
Puts me off with this Fisrt Systemless SoundMod EVER!

If that's in their post how good is their code going to be?
[Device Reviews and Information] SirDigitalKnight:
Tried all your suggestions I got no response from the phone ar all from the phone.
[Device Reviews and Information] euroclie:
I second that. A quick look at that thread shows an impressive first post (in fact, it looks like a catalog of every possible (bad) advertisement for all the existing sound optimisation systems bundled together) but a lot of request for help installing or uninstalling the module, and only a couple of brief "wow, that module is fantastic!" posts... Not a good signal/noise ratio.

All this written in 15-years-old style, and with a (now closed) poll where users had to choses between only positive or very positive opinion on the effect of the mod...

Well, let's just say that there's no way this module would get onto my phone, even with a good backup. And that despite the fact that I'm a die-hard hacker at heart, ready to try some not-too-sensible hacks from time to time!

Don't get me wrong, it's still possible that the module is legitimate and that it works on some phones, but it doesn't really inspire trust. I'd be happy to read reviews of installation on our phone, if anyone is brave enough to try! ;)
[Device Reviews and Information] AngelOfBlood:
I tryied but the app don't appear, tryied clean dalvik/cache and nothing...

There are many people talk about it in the post, many posts indeed... I think this app doesn't work in our phone.
[Device Reviews and Information] euroclie:
By the look & feel of the thread, I think that this "module" involves some reusing of stuff found on other phones, bundling everything together, but it does so many things that unless you have the same hardware the modules were initially developed for, it's going to be difficult to make it work as a whole package.

Thanks for trying and reporting, btw! If you decide to stop trying, I'd be curious to see if you manage to uninstall it correctly. A lot of people were complaining about the uninstallation part of the systemless module...
[Device Reviews and Information] Kangburra:
Has anyone rebuilt the latest Rom with OTA updates as a flashable image?
[Device Reviews and Information] blackscop:
im planing to buy one :)
[Device Reviews and Information] zwiebug:
i had this phone once, but it had a rather annoying ghosting problem on a small part of the screen, where there was a much brighter spot than in the rest of the display. the spot was about 0.5 on 0.5 cm. i sold the phone then, but i really liked it. is the problem still present? do you also have this problem with brighter areas in the screen?
[Device Reviews and Information] SirDigitalKnight:
Never-mind... I some how got it working again... used MediaTek SP flash tool v5.1532.00 and the latest version from Ulefone website and unzipped it with Free RAR extractor which did not give me an error when extraction and it managed to re-flash my phone so I should be able to do an OTA and then try a restore from the backup I did before I started this mess.....
[Device Reviews and Information] lev04:
hy guys,i ordered this phone from gearbest,but in the meant ime i'd like to ask all of you if it is good and is it worth it?at first it seems ok,but i'd like to ask you guys that have it already for some feedback...thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] dreadkopp:
I really like it. Don't expect flagship performance but for everyday use and simple games it's strong enough. Battery is unbeatable. I get about 2 days by heavy use. Only problem is that it seems that there are no good screen protectors for it [emoji14]
[Device Reviews and Information] IscreaMan:
No, GPS still not working when 3G/4G is up. I am on clean unstall of 20160718 rom. Very annoying.

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No. GPS is still almost unusable in latest 20160718 rom [emoji35]
[Device Reviews and Information] dreadkopp:
It really depends on your mobile connection. Here in Germany using hspa/hspa+ GPS works just fine.
[Device Reviews and Information] 3dd1:
With your two days heavy use, how long screen on time so you get please?

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That's great to hear, wasn't sounding good for your phone.

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I bought my phone through Amazon uk, through a seller hifone, which as it turns out it's based in China, for £140 I have an issue with the screen, as shown https://youtu.be/xyzhMqxOEW4 I sent them this link, in their response was to offer an £8 refund! When I politely told them no, saying i want it either repaired, full refund or replacement, they then offered me £20 to get it repaired! I'm still waiting their response, I guess I should have told them fit a full refund, I'd have sent the phone back, like I would for a replacement but once again another horror story of customer service from China.
[Device Reviews and Information] cyberdimitri:
HELP NEEDED!

Hi guys, i 've had the power for a month now, running it on lollipop, very happy so far (only the non-standard jack annoys me, oh well).

I want to upgrade to marshmallow but the video and the text instructions on the ulefone page and blog are irrelevant!

What i need from you is to point me to the right flash tool (i tried the latest versions of both v3 and v5 from tehnotone but none gives me the option to scan ports as the video shows, the ui is different).

If there is a newer version than the one shown in the video, please also write what (other than the ones shown) steps i need to take.

I installed the driver successfully (disabling verification) but i get stuck with the flash tool.

Of course if you know of a better guide then by all means please suggest it!

Cheers ;)
[Device Reviews and Information] Hemphiz:
[MENTION=3443071]cyberdimitri[/MENTION] Use this http://www.needrom.com/download/sp-flash-tool-v5-1612/
[Device Reviews and Information] cyberdimitri:
thx for the quick reply, problem is the same, when i run the tool i open scatter file and then i'm stuck (tried download but it doesn't appear to do anything)
[Device Reviews and Information] AngelOfBlood:
Hey mate,

You need to unplug the device, turn it off then push "Download" button, plug the device to usb cable and hit 1 time "power button".
[Device Reviews and Information] Pablo_KQ:
I have that problem. 3 spots.

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