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[Onetouch Idol 3 General] okc_car_dude:
I'm afraid you didn't catch what that was referring to. That was specifically under the camera comparison. I wasn't talking about the phone's gallery app's representation of the color, but the actual photo file when viewed upon a monitor.

As for not liking how the stock gallery app shows colors... The beauty of Android is that you can download one of hundreds or maybe even thousands of other apps to do the same thing, find one with the look you like, and set it to default. To each their own, but personally, after viewing several pics on the big screen, I know it's pretty realistic and it doesn't matter if the gallery app shows the photo I just took with little over-saturation. However, if it did matter, I'd probably just set google photos as my default photo app, because it's Android and I can.

More on the photo comparison I took... I actually took a few back to back to back photos with the 13 mp T-Mobile Stylo, 13 mp Asus Zenfone 2 Laser, and the 13 mp Idol 3. I then took those photos and viewed them upon my big screen for comparison. The Zenfone 2 Laser would tend to over-saturated photos and had this weird problem with a purplish hue when there was a lot of brown in the picture. The Stylo's photos were a little washed out (compared to real life and the other two) and struggled to take close-up shots. Lastly, even though the Idol actually would tend to lean just a touch below actual real life colors (of course, this could just be my TV), it consistently came the closest. The Zenfone 2 Laser always had the clearest photos, but the Stylo had the best HDR. In general, I'll tell you the the Stylo is the best all-around of the 3, but if the Zenfone 2 Laser could fix it's color problems, it'd be awesome!

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I actually did it little research on this when it came out. Remember that my comparison earlier was of the great T-Mobile Stylo. The Stylo 2 actually drops Laser Autofocus and NFC. It still uses the same processor, the same size screen with the same resolution, and still has a 13 mp rear cam and a 5 mp front. It just has a thinner, lighter body (just a few grams more than the Idol this time around), an updated fine-tipped stylus to which they give some stylus-specific software that pops up when you take the stylus out (and room for a few apps of your choosing to pop up), and it runs the new LG Home 5.0 UI.

Basically, all the same performance, but updated software and body... and a fine point stylus. I would say still... Idol > Stylo & Stylo 2... unless maybe you're a heavy Stylus user.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] jani0417:
1. it's not just the gallery app, it was just the first app where i noticed it. alcatel uses a technicolor thing to distort the colors. untill you have lots of magenta or pink on your photo, you don't even notice it.

2. photos: i got acceptable quality only with google camera. stock and paid apps coudn't bear cherry blossoms.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] techware7:
Why don't you get a moto x pure? I just got one for my wife a week ago or so for $250 at best buy price match frys... pretty darn good phone I might say.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] okc_car_dude:
Your Reddit post only refers to the gallery app color distortion.

Your Reddit post only mentions the gallery app distorting photos, which is what I responded to. https://www.reddit.com/r/idol3/comments/4g9ld9/distorted_colors_in_stock_gallery_app/

Unfortunately, as one other user stated, many of the big name brands "distort" as you call it, or over-saturate colors. I saw how you told another user on the post, that "most people don't like distorted colors." I would actually side with you on wanting colors as realistic as possible, but it's not what the masses want. They want larger-than- life colors that pop! Samsung is the most popular mobile brand in the US, and they have largely over-saturated displays and photos... and people love it, obviously! Otherwise, they would buy something else, right?

However, you do not have the average eye. I honestly feel your pain and hope you find a phone that will capture and represent color the way nature intended it to be... You are far more keen to color representation than most (and I commend you for that), but the brands will always follow more closely to what "most" people think looks good. What you call distorted, others call vivid... and Alcatel, Samsung, and the like are going to go with what sells more phones.

However, do know that on the AMOLED display (which are inherently over-saturated to begin with) of the Idol 4S, they do at least give you a few display color tweaks. =)
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] murigny64:
Sorry, this thread is about IDOL3 and not stylo 2 !!!

What about update:

- An update is not only an OS upgrade

- Look at version number: 1001 >>> 1012 !

- 11 updates for this device, so, you must considere that Alcatel take care about us.

That's all.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
Whoever is having a problem while installing: Flash it two times,until it succeeds.

I am uploading another zip which might help those who can't install it no matter how.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Nikola Jovanovic:
Just to clarify.

Got my M booted, flashed it on top of cm 12.1 without any wipes. Now i'm waiting to optimize apps and to factory reset it.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jaguar92:
My phone (6045I) is currently stuck at "Skipping MD5 check..." I noticed a few posts back that you had the same issue. Did you just leave it until it finally flashed the zip? My working hypothesis is that the zip is flashing and TWRP isn't showing a progress bar (which i've experienced before...)
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] kingoftheafro:
Has anyone with the 6045o tried this yet?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] 903tex:
So I bought a brand new idol 3 but the 6039 for a very great price. Used mobile q to restore 5.0.2 and update came for MM. NOW I'm on 6.0.1 so if I want twrp I will use mobile q to go back to 5.0, then unlock bootloader, twrp, backup then install update.zip to MM?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
The update.zip we are talking about is only for the 5.5" model(6045X). For 6039 you have to edit the zip for your device.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] 903tex:
OK....well after reading some issues people are having I'll just stay on stock MM until I see a valuable reason to do all of that.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Langsuir:
I tried gain without the wipes and it worked like a charm. :D

Indeed M feels so much more snappy.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Nikola Jovanovic:
Yes, that's the right path :)

I've got it running but can't get in twrp anymore. :D Will try yo use fastboot commands to flash it, if it won't work then i'm screwed.

Nice, it worked. :) Whuh..
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Langsuir:
This is normal in my experience. Give it 10-15 minutes and it should finiah flashing.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
Wat. I flashed the zip and it kept TWRP.

Wait a bit,a new zip is at 81%.

To get fastboot back you have to go back to 5.0 using Mobile Upgrade Q
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] artemkasys:
Please make this update multilangual , if possible.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] pglickenhaus:
Does anyone have any real idea when Cricket will receive the update?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] sikita:
Would someone be so kind and provide updated working UPDATE.ZIP for 6039Y? Thank you!
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] LucasNoob:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=68463
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] sikita:
This one is unfortunately for 6045Y - I need 6039Y working update.zip. Thanx
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] SaleFFS:
As i can se for now no dual sim support even if you edit build.prop? At least not on other versions. I will try on 6045K dual sim and will let you know.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] shuttlebro:
i don't know what to do with my 6045k, i don't know where do i start. please help me what should i do first to flash MM update zip in my 6045k. thanks!!!
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] seb027:
6039 repartionned

Hi !

I have a 6039y repartionned.

Does somebody knows if i can make the update from alcatel when it goes out in Europe, or it risks to brick the phone ?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] SaleFFS:
If you dont know what you are doing dont do it. If you wanna risk it on your own responsibility you must do few steps.

First you need to unlock bootloader

http://xdaforums.com/idol-3/general/guide-unlock-bootloader-root-alcatel-t3161878

Second you must flash twrp and for your safety make backup

http://xdaforums.com/idol-3/development/recovery-twrp-2-8-7-1-touch-recovery-t3272730

After you did everything step by step form this tutorials you can flash mm zip file

http://xdaforums.com/idol-3/development/rom-firmware-android-6-0-marshmallow-t3398038

You have everything that you need on this wonderfull Idol 3 forum section just search read and learn before you are 100% shure that you know what you are doing.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Langsuir:
This is how I did it:

(This is assuming your bootloader is unlocked, you are rooted and have TWRP)

1. Download the zip posted by [MENTION=4150512]The Marionette[/MENTION] and put in your Idol.

2. Boot into TWRP and back up your system and data just in case.

3. Flash it (install zip) WITHOUT PREVIOUS WIPES. It will take ~15 minutes and the progress bar will seem stuck/invisible, don't panic. Also, sometimes it fails the first try and works the second.

4. Factory reset (wipe data, cache and dalvik).

5. Reboot system. Again, boot will take around 15 minutes so be patient.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] bassbrick15:
After the upgrade, at least on my 6045I, band 12 is fully disabled. I can attest this by using the app called "LTE discovery." Pre marshmallow I had much better coverage of T-Mobile LTE data. Since then it has been severely limited. I can only hope that cm 13 will work magic in the kernel to re enable band 12. I did try to factory reset my device to see if that improved coverage but no success.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] artemkasys:
when the charge is 15 percent, the interface is disabled. most likely due to not running energy-saving mode. all right?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
cm13 isn't gonna make a difference....the radio driver is in the modem partition and it gets updated as part of the STOCK rom...you could "TRY" reflashing the old modem provided you saved a copy of your old partitions....I've got the 6045i's around here somewhere.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] vlevi:
If you don't know, where to start, I recommend you to wait for the 6045k update. I hope it will be released soon.

I have 6045Y, still waiting.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] hawk1500:
I installed it on a cricket version and it seems to run fine. Got 42xxx in antutu and is way smoother than the 5.1 custom roms I tried. There is the ever so slight lag every now and then, but way better.

The flashing process and first boot did taken seemingly FOREVER though. It's now rooted (first time didn't work) and has xposed installed even. Pretty awesome, thanks for the modified file!
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Tesla74:
I also have the Cricket version.. thanks for posting that it works! :cool:
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67321230&postcount=159

You can try that...might help.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] hawk1500:
Yeah, of course. I wiped everything (data, cache, dav) after flashing the rom, just in case. I haven't tried it out extensively cause it's just my backup, but I did put a sim in and it could call and got data. Hotspot even works, without modification. I couldn't find the dpi line in the build.prop though, so I guess I'll try adding it in later. I also deleted some of the useless apps. But yeah, way nicer to use now. Good luck. =)
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
Just add to bottom: ro.sf.lcd_density=400
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
I have to say my 6045i almost feels like a totally new machine. The system memory shows about double available to the phone at bootup than was available on 5.0.2. Very pleased. Now I'm debating installing xposed which opens so many options but on old phone slowed it significantly. Perhaps I'll have better luck this time.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] hawk1500:
Yeah I know, but thanks. And I have Xposed, doesn't seem to be slow (but I didn't try it without, so I have no comparison besides to 5.1 custom roms).
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] votinh:
I've rooted and installed custom recovery on my 6045i and I can't get the M update.

Nice!
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
http://xdaforums.com/idol-3/development/rom-firmware-android-6-0-marshmallow-t3398038
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] sordna:
wifi issues during Youtube playback after MM update ?

I got the update on my stock idol 3 5.5" (6045I) last week, but occasionally I'm noticing that during Youtube playback on wifi, it stops passing packets, and not only youtube playback stops, but other apps cannot access the network either.

However the wifi symbol is on, shows strong, but the phone cannot ping any device on my LAN, neither can I ping the phone from my router or other devices.

All other devices including the router can ping each other fine. If I toggle wifi off and on again on the idol3 it works again.

It never did that while on Lollipop. I tried both factory version and newer version of the Youtube app but I observed the same problem.

Anyone else seen wifi issues after the update ?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] debido666:
I did, a factory reset fixed my problem. Not with YouTube, just wifi in general.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] votinh:
Thanks, famewolf for the link.

I've read quite a bit and it seems hit and miss.

Is there any outstanding issue (besides the radio thingy) that 6045i owners need to know before flashing?

Keep fingers crossed!
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
Shouldn't be ANY issues for 6045i users. Some of the other variants have had issues because their partitions got overwritten with 6045i data. That's hopefully being corrected now.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] macallik:
I've been having issues with my LTE and came across something that might help your situation.

There is an option in Developer Mode that revert DHCP to Lollipop's settings in case there are issues with Wifi. That could work in your situation.

Personally, I am having trouble with my phone sticking to LTE when it would be more advantageous to drop to HSPA or 3G. I feel like I had it before on my Idol 3 and one of the smaller system updates resolved the issue, but with the MM upgrade it has reared its ugly head again.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
[MENTION=3700191]brian117[/MENTION] confirmed that when he flashed the 5.0.2 radio back he got band 12 back in the mm devel thread. FYI.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] votinh:
Thanks, m8

I successfully installed M6.0.1 on my 6045i w/o any issue.

Just a friendly report, I haven't explored all options but two things stand out, one, battery drains a lot faster and two, charging is slow than b4.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
The charging should not be different...if you are doing a bunch of stuff it's gonna charge faster on a REAL charger than connected to a normal usb port...I do know that. Greenify has an "aggressive doze" option that works with the built in doze feature if you have the donation version.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] sordna:
I'm using tapatalk classic and since the marshmallow update some posts "collapse" and I don't see their content. Scrolling up and down a bit makes the content show, but not reliably. Wonder if marshmallow is trying to do an animation or something :(
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] votinh:
Just one more thing, file transfer (MTP) over USB doesn't seem to work.

Is it just me or a known issue?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] heross:
It`s just you. You use Win10? If yes, after connect Idol3 you must have in explorer one new cd-rom drive with drivers. You must run the vbs script inside as administrator. Reboot PC and reconnect Idol 3, now MTP should work.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] :
Hello Everyone

I sucessfully ported Snapdragon Camera to work with Marshallow

HERE'S Thread LINK TO THREAD
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] photonFUEL:
SOT

Not bad for a year old phone (6045Y)
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] JLLE:
Is it possible to have some benchmarks with the Marshmallow update please?

I am really impatient to have the update...

Alcatel onetouch Idol3 5.5" Android 5.02 Stock
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] tomgv:
Almost 4H SOT is bad for me, ON LP i get 5-5.30h, but its ok, maybe Alcatel fix battery drian in next updates.

MM is top :good:
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] yash_rathore25:
I am on complete stock MM for 6045i, and I am getting SOT of 5 hours 16 min. Battery backup is just awesome for me. Even on heavy use battery is running full day for me.

I am not using any battery saver.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] votinh:
Yeap, Win10.

I'll run the script and see what happens.

Thanks for your help.

Update: it works, heross. Thanks again for your help.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
Ok guys maybe this is a stupid question, but I have an Idol 3 6045B, here in Ecuador

I'm fully stock, nothing rooted or custom ROM installed. I downloaded the update.zip to my sd card. How do I got about installing this without bricking my phone. And is this guaranteed to work?

I saw that in the settings menu, just below the OTA update, there's an option that says manually update from SD card. Will that work?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
You can't just install the update.zip.

You need to unlock your bootloader,install TWRP 3.0.0 and use THIS(the update.zip which was modified to not remove TWRP recovery) or THIS(pretty much the update.zip I modified,but with extra performance/battery tweaks).

Also,before flashing the zips,I suggest you make a backup of all your things with TWRP and copy the backup to your PC as well(the backup will be located in the sdcard(or storage)/TWRP/backups).

The thing is that the zips hold the files from a 6045I(American model) MM update,and your device will be recognised as a 6045I in the Settings as well. Other than that,no bugs.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
I'm unlocking the bootloader right now. How do I install twrp on it after that?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
http://techbeasts.com/install-twrp-recovery-root-alcatel-one-touch-idol-3/

But flash this recovery,this is the newest one and only it works with the MM zip.

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=41298
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
Thanks, but I can't unlock the bootloader. I'm following the topic on this forum, but I can't seem to unlock it. What a bummer!
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
Your phone has no boundaries,you either don't have right drivers and adb connection,or LEAST POSSIBLE that your variant has had its fastboot commands turned off(again,highly unlikely,because only one OTHER variant,and only special cases on phones under it were plagued by this)
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
Ok it seems to be working. It's unlocked. I'm getting to the next step right now! So once I install the newest TWRP 3.0.0-1 I can flash the downloaded SPB 1.4-ANDROID MM-NEW? Do I need to install GAPPS too?

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Ok I went into recovery, and as soon as I swiped to flash the downloaded SPB 1.4-ANDROID MM-NEW the phone rebooted inmediatly and nothing has changed, I'm still on the stock ROM. What am I doing wrong. I really dont want to brick my phone!
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
You unlocked the bootloader and installed TWRP 3,right?

Then,do a factory reset and flash the zip as many times until it succeeds.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
Yes I did, I'm downloading the normal Idol3-MM-v1.zip right now to see if it will succeed with that! Is it normal that it doesn't flash the first time arround? I've tried 3 times now! Do I need GAPPS too? I don't want to factory reset if it's not sure I'll be able to install MM.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] Jeik:
Gapps are not needed,and A factory reset before flashing SPB worked fine for me. Try flashing my MM zip,and do a factory reset after the phone fully boots.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
doing that now. installing from SD is no problem right? or should I do from internal?

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I did a factory reset and it still wont flash. I've lost nearly my entire afternoon trying to do this. It just reboots as soon as I try to flash either the IDOL3MMv1zip as well as the other one..
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
I think the problem is the twrp. The zip says its 3.0.0-1 but when I go into recovery it shows me that its 3.0.0-0. What now?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] tomgv:
Battery today

[YOUTUBE]nE8Xf3gQXeM[/YOUTUBE]
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
No one who's willing to help me? I rooted my phone, installed TWRP 3.0.0.-1 which shows up as 3.0.0-0 and I cant flash any zip, it just reboots when I try to flash a zip from within recovery? Should i try installing TWRP 2.8?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
Sounds like either a bad flash of twrp or a bad download of it....you need to confirm your files...try making a backup and restore to see if any part of twrp is working. If NO zips will flash then twrp is still the issue.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
I flashed it twice. Will it work with an older version? To flash twrp you just go into fastboot and flash recovery. IMG right?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
If you are on a 6045 then you can look in the twrp 3.0 thread and it has the actual line needed that you can cut/paste. There are actually some parms and if you are on linux you have to put sudo in front. The only thing with the cut/paste is to change the name at the end to match the name of the file you downloaded (when I did it last night the names were different)

You will still need to check the size of the zip to make sure it was fully downloaded.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
I did, now when I reboot into adb, it doesn't stay in adb, it just reboots.. I'm getting desperate
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
You've got to many issues with your phone...you need to do a mobile q restore back to factory and start over.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
I think so. How do I do that please?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
Download Mobile Q 5.0.9 from alcatel's site. [1st link on that page] Install it. Follow the instructions.

http://www.alcatel-mobile.com/global-en/support/softwareUpgrade/list
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
Ok thanks, It's at 95% now. How would you suggest I go about flashing again?

Following this guide?

http://techbeasts.com/install-twrp-recovery-root-alcatel-one-touch-idol-3/

but instead flashing twrp 3.0.0-0?
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
That's it exactly! Also if you want root supersu 2.74-2 beta appears to work fine with our device in my tests.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
I'm not interested in being rooted. Is that necesarry?

Thanks so much for your help! Will you be online some more time? Hopefully I can give you the good news soon that everything worked and that I'm on MM
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] famewolf:
Depends on what you want to accomplish. For apps like Titanium Backup that let you back up all your apps plus data root is required...you can think on it as it's as simple as flashing a zip file when you decide.

I'll be around for a little while longer.
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
I'll have to keep going tomorrow,I have to leave now! It looks like I got it back to stock after almost 2 hours. I'll try this first thing tomorrow to flash MM and post here if I encounter any problems or if I succeed! Thanks a bunch
[Onetouch Idol 3 General] lakker:
Ok so I just unlocked the bootloader again, installed twrp 2.8.7 but it doesn't work. I tried 2.8.7 and 3.0.0. I cant backup anything, I cant flash. It looks like the twrp wont install properly. It litteraly takes 2 seconds to install recovery, which doesn't seem normal...