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[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Strokesws:
I love the pure Android experience, but I also came back to MIUI (now MIUI 8 beta) because apps seems to lag less.

I'm playing Pokémon GO but my problem is with GPS, sometime it doesn't fix or stuck and I need to restart the game.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] shZd:
YOu can try on miui 7 i play on that
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Strokesws:
I installed Orion in my phone and performance on Pokémon GO is worse than with MIUI 7/8.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] igorinolw:
i'm currently playing in miui 8 latest update, and it seems fine, except when you are under the sun and charging the phone then the cpu throttles xD

2gb version
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dan_Jacques:
See this: http://xdaforums.com/redmi-2/help/redmi-2-1gb-pokemon-miui-vs-android-m-t3437597
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akhil916:
I tried Fake GPS on MIUI and it works fine here as well. I'll try Orion as you said cam will be better too.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akhil916:
I had that problem early on when I just started using MIUI. Later, it went well. I used to turn from High accuracy to other modes and then switch back. It worked sometimes.
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akhil916:
Oh yeah, this happens with a lot of phones. Data + GPS + good graphics with sun :eek:
[Xiaomi Redmi 2 Guides, News, & Discussion] Akhil916:
This could really help. Btw, how about CM11 then? Have you tested on it?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Goronok:
Good news! Voiding warranty over a bootloader unlock does not make sense.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] djona12:
Great news ! Some points to clear out but overall happy to see things moving.

Loss of warranty is pretty standard, only a few company allow the bootloader to be unlocked while keeping the warranty (OP and Oppo, i don't know of any other).

US market only at the moment. Not to happy about that as i live in Europe, if nothing is made, it will kill the european market for ZTE. I personally will keep my preorder up but if there isn't any news about the european version, i certainly will not keep the device at the end of the month of free return...

Still overall a good news, to rejoice about !
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] aknotts415:
Oneplus, oppo, i think huawei, google nexus, htc all allow BL unlock without voiding warranty. And many brands say they void the warranty but as long as you return it to stock prior to sending it in your usually okay unless its samsung. the way zte is doing it is its void as soon as you ask to do it which isnt really right if theres a hardware defect not due to unlocking like say your charging port dying.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rczrider:
I won't copy my entire response to Peter's blog post over here, but I'll copy this:
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Berzerker7:
This is a half-ass solution. Voided warranties from bootloader unlocks are incredibly 2010. There's no reason why, if Google, OnePlus, HTC, Motorola, and Huawei all offer bootloader unlocks without voiding warranties, that ZTE can't. We still need to complain. It's a great start, but this isn't enough.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nameless One:
Exactly!

WHERE IS OUR FREE PONY???

;)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wizpop:
I am still thinking of canceling pre order. I feel like voiding the warranty is little demanding and could limit it's adoption in developer community. Honestly without strong XDA developer support I'll go to a op3, n6 or HTC. I want custom ROMs (sultan being my favorite). I want xposed and freedom of choice for the hardware. This is step in right direction but it still concerns me that it's a half hearted gesture.

ZTE could really use this as a opportunity to burst into the market much like OPO by embracing developers openly. It definitely has helped OPO.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Berzerker7:
This is like getting a free pony, but them taking away the stable you originally bought for it, so it's just going to die.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] aknotts415:
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[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Wizpop:
Not to mention you have to ask for permission to use said pony via ZTE USA forum. Not sure how thatll work. I think want to keep a database of those who have roots there phones as you have fill out a form with name, IMEI and such. Seems excessive.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rczrider:
Haha. I like it when folks use the same handle on multiple forums. Makes it easier to keep up :p
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jcsww:
Unlocking the bootloader versus taking a risk on their lack of quality control.... I guess that is all I need to say, I won't be purchasing an Axon 7!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] jimmydee67:
Well I have the Axon 7 and I think it is a great phone has very good specs. and I haven't had any problems with it which I guess I have to consider myself lucky based on others having issues. But I have requested the bootloader unlock because I like to use custom roms on my phones. I am also concerned about the warranty being voided if you unlock the bootloader since there could be hardware issues occur having nothing to do with unlocking the bootloader. Which I expressed this on ZTEUSA forum hopefully they will change this to cover hardware issues, and if you read the comments from others there they also agree with what I have said so lets hope ZTE does to.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] moordi:
Problem solved!

This is great news. I was really torn between the OP3 and Axon 7. Now it's no contest. The next time I'm in the market for a phone, I'll see if ZTE's changed their policy. The hardware is still compelling.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] QAM:
Hola

A follow up question to those in the know, is it at all possible to get root on a official unlocked bootloader request, and then be able to somehow replicate the root process on locked devices? The idea or hope is that with an unlocked bootloader, there are some methods that our super devs can invoke to get root on even locked phones.

While I honestly knew that ZTE would provide unlocking bootloader (due to very vocal XDA / geeky folks) I also saw the voiding of the warranty part... it's only logical for a mid-sized OEM to take the sort of easy way out. ZTE is not developer friendly (from recent history).

While I may be ok with stock MiFlavor UI, root is more important for me as it can for the most part allow me to customize the areas that I want. Plus you'll never get very stable and fully functional AOSP based ROMs without full sources from the OEM... the audio, fingerprint, camera sub-systems are very likely closed sourced.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] devsk:
So, you have a broken speaker or bad battery by any chance, you are SOL'ed if you unlocked....:D No thanks!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XblackdemonX:
I'll wait for someone to post their unlocking tools on the forums so I can unlock my phone without ZTE knowing.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rczrider:
Pretty much. And while there isn't really that much evidence to suggest the Axon 7 is plagued with manufacturing defects, there are enough issues reported on the ZTE forum that I wouldn't want to risk unlocking the bootloader within the return period (although I ordered from B&H and I doubt they would notice or care if it was unlocked).

My gray is still on preorder, scheduled to ship next Monday or Tuesday (for delivery on the 17th, I believe). I'll give it the full 30 days - so middle of September - for an enterprising dev to discover a way to flash recovery and gain root without unlocking the bootloader. If they can't, and even if there's nothing wrong with the phone itself (except the unimpressive camera), back to B&H it goes. I'm not especially impressed by the OP3, but the 2016 Nexus devices should be available for preorder in late September and shipping in October, so I may go that route as long as Google doesn't do something stupid with their pricing. And if not the Marlin, then the Zenfone 3 Deluxe bears some consideration if it's not stupidly priced.

Sorry, ZTE, you had your chance and blew it. I really wanted you to succeed, too :(
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ItsLasher:
WTH you get a bootloader unlock like you wanted but now you're pissed on the voided warranty!?!?!

Its called protection form the morons that bork their phones out of the gate which happens on a regular basis. WHY SHOULD THEY PAY FOR SOME ONES STUPIDITY?

I also like how the people that root think they are special snow flakes and will make or break a company if their demands aren't met. This community ( custom users) is only a small part of the total number of devices sold and is only a blip on the financial map of a company...LOL
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Sisyphus306:
Bingo!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Shipmate:
I have jailbroken and rooted lots of smartphone makes and models over the last 5 years and have never ever bricked one yet whatever the make or model. I've screwed some of them up quite badly but always managed to recover them. I've not yet personally known of anyone who has truly bricked a phone. Maybe you know differently.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peramikic:
If i had trust in their QA maybe it wouldn't but as things are so far I don't. If they will pay for my stupid ass dropping it while drunk or running it over with a car or dropping it in a pool, given the $79 deductible, why would this be any different. It almost feels like a punishment for all the noise we made. [Wiseguy]Nice phone you got there, shame if something happen to it after you unlock the bootloader[/Wiseguy] . It again makes me compare it to OP3 and Nexus, they just exchanged one con for another. Considering these SoCs are beyond hard-brickable anymore, especially with UART/JTAG rig, it just doesn't sit right. We will see, my B&H is probably backorder until 9/15, i'll have plenty of answers on this and Marlin by then. If we don't get dev source tree, we are kinda back into Exynos territory, albeit on less things but stuff like camera and DAC, fingerprint scanner and even maybe NFC would be iffy.

Vis-a-vis community size, yes we are small compared for the total number, but phones like AXON do not compete in the full category. Being a non-carrier phone soled at few online retailers, their target market is much smaller, and in that market this community makes a much larger impact. OnePlus is prime example of that, as was HTC back when they were doing what ZTE is doing now
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Yaya444:
No Thanks. This phone has too many hardware problems

Such as bad battery after a week of use. Leo La Porte from

The twit network axon 7 battery died after a week. Looks like it might be time to return this phone.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] devsk:
You have never had a hardware fault on you? Good for you! For the rest of us, hardware breaks all the time and we would like a return/repair. The cost of that ability to use warranty can not be paid with a feature that should actually be baked into every phone sold on earth!

And if they can prove that unlocking the bootloader led to speaker stopping working or battery dying in a week, I would accept their decision to not give me repairs/exchange. But denying all warranty is just wrong.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kspegt:
Actually Motorola does void your warranty. You have to register in a similar way and receive a code as well. I think HTC does something similar too. Now someone may find a walkaround now that the bootloader can be unlocked. Just be happy you can unlock it
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] xtermmin:
Correct and correct, and Samsung does something similar too. If KNOX is tripped, you lose your warranty.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] edwin3210:
Anyone knows the difference between US and Global version?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] kspegt:
I hear knox can be a real pain. Of course since the s4 on AT&T never got unlocked. The s3 was my last Samsung device. Same as the g2. No unlocks for the g4 made me move on as well. You guys should be happy that an unlock is available. There are plenty of phones that will never get unlocked and developer support. This in a nice enough phone that I think it's gonna have a good following
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SGBE:
Have a link to Leo's comments or which of his shows he was talking about it on? I am curious to see what he says myself.

Scott-
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peramikic:
If they don't get their ducks in order on the what parts of Passport 2.0 are voided and get the dev source ready by release, the will just get lost in the upcoming nexus noise and the solid foothold OP3 has built
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Yaya444:
It was his Tech Guy radio show this past weekend.

Not sure if it was the Saturday or Sunday show. He talked about it on the live twit network between commercial breaks. I think He is now using that new moto mod phone. The one that has the JBL

speaker/projector Modules.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SGBE:
Typically, you need the bootloader manually unlocked (via the bootloader/fastboot mode) first to do anything custom recovery, ROM, or root wise. Likewise, since the release of Android 6, unless the device's userdata partition is decrypted prior to customization, good luck fully enjoying the stock or custom ROM.

In other words, I wouldn't hold my breath waiting for a stock UI s/w based recovery and/or root enabling update.

In theory, however, there should be a way to spoof the Qualcomm SD820 via its proprietary pre-boot engineering "bootloader" interface to covertly liberate the bootloader WHILE loading a stock hybrid ROM with all the desired custom recovery/root features enabled. Something like an engineering recovery process (similar to how Oneplus remotely recovers soft-bricked SD820 based OP3 devices) with a custom variation of the "factory image" that does not rely on any special IMEI codes or fastboot/adb commands.

Scott-
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Adiyel:
You know, there are about 10 times as many people on YouTube who've done reviews and follow-ups ala "one week later," and no one else has said anything about a battery dying. Maybe that guy got a lemon. It happens. You should've heard all the OnePlus horror stories when the One came out...
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Yaya444:
The Tech Guy got lemon alright.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ItsLasher:
You buy a new car and swap out the intake and throw a turbo on it and blow the engine NO car manufacturer will warranty that engine.

You root your phone and swap out the kernel and overclock the CPU and fry the phone and you expect ZTE to cover it!?!?!

Pure and simple unlock and void the warranty or don't and keep it OR just don't buy the phone but as stated above the majority of manufactures void warranties for rooting OR void it with a factory unlock so what makes this situation any different?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Nameless One:
It looks like they are making the process onerous enough and with language serious enough to possibly make the "try it out" group of people who haven't done such things before and who are most likely to screw up and then cry to mummy or blame ZTE for their own incompetence think twice and decide not to go ahead with unlocking. For those of us who are comfortable/familiar with the process it may be a bit more laboured but at the end of the day it is no skin off our noses.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] imp3r10:
No one is campaigning for that. It should be decided at the warranty center whether the phone is hurt from customization. Buying a car and painting the outside and then the engine blows up, then yes we would expect the warranty to be valid.

This is true for any software related bricking/damage. Few ROMS overclock the CPU to do actual damage if even possible.

On the other hand people are mad because if you unlock the bootloader and add a custom ROM and everything works but the camera breaks, or the charging port breaks which is at no way related to software change, you are still SOL. It's bull**** that actual hardware issues are voided if you change the software. It
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] devsk:
There goes the bad car analogy...:D

I actually wish I could replace the CPU or the battery or charging port or even speakers on these phones....:D Yes, in that case, the analogy will work. But painting the car or putting custom wheels on it, voids the engine warranty, I would not buy that car.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] tele_jas:
FWIW, I requested mine last night.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rczrider:
Excellent! Report back and let us know what the process is?

So, to someone who knows more about this than I do: if it turns out that ZTE provides a specific code to the user requesting the unlock, it is most likely generated using their IMEI, right? And if that's the case - and those who have had their phone unlocked were to provide their IMEI and code, giving us a list of IMEIs and their corresponding unlock codes - does the possibility exist that a generator could be made to create an unlock code for a specific IMEI?

Or is that not how it works at all?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] XblackdemonX:
Please give us a copy of the files provided to unlock the bootloader once you receive them!
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] TeutonJon78:
If it's just a code, then it would be theoretically possible to determine the algorithm. But you have would also have to determine the hash length and hash key they used. Which would take a lot of key pairs and a lot of computing, unless they did something silly like use a basic standard pair, or leave in a debug mode like Microsoft just did with Secure Boot. The only other way would be to reverse engineer the bootloader code itself, as that code has to have the correct algorithm in place to verify the code against your actual IMEI (unless they have something where it needs an internet connection to look it up on their servers instead of locally on the device.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] swehes:
Instructions on the ZTE Community Page

So aerospaceman just posted the instructions to unlock the bootloader on their ZTE Community page. https://community.zteusa.com/docs/DOC-1194
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SGBE:
Have you guys noticed the unlocking procedure and results for the Axon 7 are the SAME as the OP3? In other words, if the phones receive the same OTA update via whatever network, which allows the enabling the of the OEM unlock feature in the developer options menue, why would anyone still have to submit their IMEI and personal info to ZTE USA to get their "special permission" to unlock the device? In reality, once the phone has the OTA update, the owner of the phone can just download the same Android SDK tools used with the OP3 (if needed and/or not already installed) and just run the fastboot oem unlock command themselves without worrying about getting permission for anything first and losing their Passport 2.0 warranty.

Thoughts?

Scott
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] AlesG87:
My thoughts exactly, maybe it's just a way for them to scare away users that shouldn't be unlocking the device anyway?
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] SGBE:
Exactly... ;)

This could be covertly good for the development community. Scare away the kids and let the big boys quietly play. :cool:
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] ItsLasher:
So why buy a phone locked out of the gate with no guarantee it will be unlocked and complain when there are other options readily available? Seems you want to complain just to complain.:good:
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] rczrider:
I was thinking something along the same lines. Clearly they can push an OTA to a phone by IMEI (which I've never seen before, but it's not like I've experienced every phone there is), but I'm wondering if that OTA is specific to IMEI or if it's more of a "push this generic OTA to these IMEIs" kind of thing.

If it's the latter and there's no report back to ZTE, it's a matter of capturing the OTA and applying it on our phones, right? If it's generic and yet reports back to ZTE, it's a matter of a dev getting their hands on it and modifying it without that functionality? Or just figuring out what it does and applying those commands via fastboot.

I guess the worst case scenario is if that file is specific to IMEI and it's in some way hashed.
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] peramikic:
Well they could be doing this but then they would have to keep all these different OTA's on their server. I am thinking they have a white-list file that will check your IMEI and if your fingerprint indicates you are "locked" push the OTA to you. Which means it might be possible to side load the OTA somehow, which apparently just restores the default fastboot commands

Update: Please capture the OTA file before you apply the update - steps in this thread http://xdaforums.com/axon-7/how-to/to-unlock-bootloader-hold-help-t3437617
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] moordi:
Seems you want to argue just to argue.

Isn't this endless back and forth rather pointless now? (In case it isn't painfully obvious, that was a rhetorical question.)
[ZTE Axon 7 Guides, News, & Discussion] Skorpion96:
What If someone wants to replicate this on another zte device, is there any way to convince zte to not be dumb and allow to unlock bootloader?
[General Topics] richbull3t:
Hey guys, I'd like to know if any of you have come across a PC-based solution that will backup all of the data on my T-Mobile MDA (HTC Wizard)? What I'm looking for is a solution similar to PIMBackup, so that I can easily reflash and then restore all my SMS messages, appointments, contacts etc to the fresh ROM.

I ask because my SD card died a couple of days ago, so I'm unable to copy information off to that, and it's probably going to be around a week for the replacement, but I'm really, really unhappy with the current ROM.

Thanks,

Rich
[General Topics] richbull3t:
Okay, I had an idea I figure should work, just for anyone that may find this useful:

Install PIMBackup to the device's internal memory, and backup to My Documents on the device.

Connect to the PC, and copy across the backup file.

Reflash the ROM.

Install PIMBackup onto the newly flashed device's internal memory.

Copy the backup back onto the internal memory.

Restore the backup.

Its that kinda jumping through hoops that I avoided having a flash card I guess.