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[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monitorer:
I currently have an older TWRP (2.7.8.0) and would like to update it to the latest version, mostly because I want to upgrade to the latest CM (13.0, currently on 12.1).

1. What's the best method? Do I use the Heimdall Suite from PC or can I do it from TWRP or something else? Same procedure as going from stock recovery to TWRP?

2. Is 3.0.2-1 the latest and stable? I just ask because the TWRP home page says the latest is 3.0.2-0 so I'm wondering about the -1 thing.
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] IronRoo:
As you have a custom recovery installed already you can get the zip version and flash via your existing recovery, get the one specific for your version of S4 Mini of course! (or flash tar via Odin as you did before, he says you should ALWAYS use Odin if coming from legacy TWRP or CWM as safer!)

The -1 (or whatever number) is a release code [MENTION=5280400]ne0zone75[/MENTION] adds, it is not part of official version number so 3.0.2-1 is TWRP version 3.0.2 code base.

As he recently explained here

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=68162047&postcount=1138
[Galaxy S 4 Mini Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] monitorer:
Thanks. I ended up using Heimdall Suite and it went fine (Odin never worked for me).
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ashley568:
Hi I brought a s6 locked to ee network I've unlocked it and want the use my 3 network sim but can't not connect. I've flash 3 s6 firmware. Any idea what wrong? Thanks
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] davy4475:
Unlocked it how? Can you connect to WiFi. Have you checked your apn settings and did 3 not send settings to your phone when you put your sim in
[Galaxy S6 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ashley568:
Found out what was wrong the phone was reported lost and blocked by ee after I brought it . They swap it for a s7 edge worked out well
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
Warning for anyone taking out a Kaiser/Vario III on T-Mobile:

"The Vario III is a stylish and powerful pocket PC offering one of the best mobile internet experiences on the market - with 1.8MBps HSDPA, surfing and downloading is super fast."

This is a lie. T-Mobile have disabled the HSDPA on all new connections, unless you pay an extra £5/month for Web n Walk Plus. They are doing bait-and-switch.

They claimed to me I would not notice the difference because the data is compressed or some such lies. They said they cannot enable it, even though my existing line has it enabled. They claimed they would be removing it from existing customers on Web N Walk.

T-Mobile make NO MENTION on their site of the fact that if you want to make full use of your phone, you need to pay an extra £180 over the course of the contract for the cheapest contract, to get the feature of the phone that you have paid for.

They don't care. They don't inform people.

A complaint has been submitted to Trading Standards about their website's lies.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] ionide:
Well, you certainly got a point about T-mobile trying to shake as much money from you as possible, but they don't exacly lie about the capabilities of the phone.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] surur:
I can empathize, but £5 per month is not that much for a higher level of service. I'd rather have such a tiering system where higher users pay a small amount more than to have ridiculously low fair use limits like O2 and Vodafone.

This way - pay less, get less. Pay more, get more.

Its clearer this way.

BTW, isnt it an extra £90 (£5x18)?

Surur
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jameson_uk:
Agreed and althought it is £90 you are also likely to get money off the phone in the first place for being on a more expensive tariff.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Modgy:
Although it may not be technically a lie, this is just another typical example of misleading ads to attract gullible punters. Yes you would be naive to get into an expensive phone/contract combination before reading the small print. But I do sympathise; the statement makes it very easy to believe you get HSDPA out of the box, which you don't unless you have the right contract.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
They do, because it's locked to T-Mobile, and on T-Mobile's advertised tariff, it is NOT capable of HSDPA.

So it is not actually capable of HSDPA.

And I agree that their tariffs are very reasonably priced. I just think they should be honest and up-front, and not promote several phones as having 'super-fast HSDPA internet', without explaining anywhere that the 'web n walk' they promote people to get doesn't let you do that, and not explaining anywhere that you won't get HSDPA without paying more money.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
Nope, that's where you're wrong.

The issue is, there is no small print. I have no problems with an advert saying 'super-fast internet with HSDPA (*)' and then in tiny writing saying 'only on Web N Walk Max Plus tariff'.

Read all of T-Mobile's website, nowhere does it say that you have to get Web N Walk Plus to get HSDPA.

If you look at this, for instance:

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/content/business/uk/business-1/flash/t-mobile-1plan-landing-calculator.swf

and select Data, it says 'All data bundles are HSDPA enabled'
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
Agreed, it's a reasonable charge, but not if you sign people up first and tell them later.

Nope.

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobi...onthly/t-mobile/mda-vario-iii/webnwalk/plans/

£22.50 for Flext 20 + Web N Walk

There's no Flext 20 with the WNW+, so you have to get Flext 25:

£32.50 for Flext 25 + Web N Walk Plus
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Zerodivider:
Getting a bit into semantics here, but the phone is still "capable" of HSDAP (from the technical viewpoint - capable refers to a possibility) - all it needs is activation.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] surur:
Ah, I understand.

Surur
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Modgy:
You are right, I was confused with the other "perks" of WnW+. The link however only takes me to the Business 1 Plan, which I don't think is related to the WnW plans. Would be interesting to find out if anyone on a Business 1 Plan can confirm/deny HSDPA access.

It has actually taken me ages to find out about the HSDPA situation; it was only on this and other forums that I learned what TM have been telling people through Customer Services. Not nice.

That's why I'm on PAYG, everything else is just not worth the hassle to me :(
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Modgy:
Yeah well, that it can do that is widely known, I don't think anybody need T-Mobile to tell them this. It's the fact that you have to bend over backwards to find out how that hurts.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jygar:
On the first day of upgrading to my Vario 3 I rang T-mobile and asked for HSDPA to be enabled.

This was done with them only asking one question "are you going to connect your phone to your laptop?" naturally I said "no" and she enabled it...no fuss...no muss...

I have heard of the problems some people have had but as previously stated no where does it require you to upgrade to web and walk plus.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dhpotter:
Might be too early to know, but does that mean, that if the HSDPA is not enabled, then it wont display an H symbol? only G and 3G?

I tried to go to some sites that check broadband speed, but the java wouldnt load up.. anybody know of a site that works on PIE?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] jameson_uk:
http://www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk/ works if you have flash installed
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jygar:
If its not enabled it will only display the "3G" icon if you are connected online, once its enabled and online it will change to "H".
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dhpotter:
Thanks for the post jameson_uk.

I started a new contractlast week with T-mobile, buying off the webpage flext 35 with walk n talk (£7.50) and my H seems to come up, occasionaly it goes to 3g.

I havent enabled anything yet? wonder if there was a threshold value they put it on? or if they havent disabled the webpage hi speed enabling yet.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] cproaudio:
wow in Europe they charge you to use HSDPA? Here in the states is use it if its available. Sprint (CDMA) has vision that works on 1xRtt at $15 and power vision EVDO also starting at $15. When RevA device is available, it will also be $15. AT&T has Media Max $20 for dumbphones, SmartMax $30 for smartphones and PDA personal max $40 fo PDA phones. It doesnt matter if you have 2G or 3G device or if its UMTS or HSDPA device. The cost is the same. Just the account has to provision it. Infact, my account is only provisioned for UMTS but my data connects to HSDPA. while tethering, google maps downloads new maps peak at 1.8mbps.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] FloatingFatMan:
I would like to see some kind of source to this before I give it any credence. I'm quite happily getting a full HSDPA connection on my standard WnW package, and the website still says it applies to all WnW packages. So, source?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
http://www.4winmobile.com/forums/4wm-news/12652-t-mobile-remove-hsdpa-web-n-walk-basic-package.html
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
How long ago was that?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] FloatingFatMan:
Interesting, but an unsubstantiated forum post is not proof that this is what they have done. Nothing on their website indicates they've made this change, and there's nothing on any technology or mobile news sites about it either, that I can find.

Plus, you say existing customers will be affected, and this post says they're not; so already there's a disparity between the two stories.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] marm0lade:
Yea, like its something they would advertise.....
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] weasel:
If you are concerned about whether HSDPA is enabled on your HSDPA capable phone, I would 1st ring customer services and ask whether HSDPA is enabled or not. If it is not enabled, and they refuse to enable it, then ask to speak to a supervisor nabout it. Explain the situation regrading the website, advertising etc and you might get the response that HSDPA is only available onw WnW+/max.

If you get this response, then ask for a recoridng of the converstaion to be made available to you under the Freedom Of Information Act. When asked why, simply state that the website is misleading and constitutes a mis-direction under the Sale Of Goods Act and you intend to pursue the matter legally unless the situation is resolved to your satisfaction. Also demand to know to whom the legal paperwork should be addressed; insist on a person's name, not just "Legal Dept."

Do not use this as an idle threat. If they won't play ball, go to your local Citizen's Advice Bureau and explain what has happened. You might even want to do that before tringing T-Mobile, just to make sure that I am correct on this point of law (I am 95% certain that its a mis-direction rather than a mis-representation, but I ain't a quailifier lawyer)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
The customer support guy said they would be disabling it for existing customers, but I got the impression he was just saying that because I was badgering him and he was just bullshitting in the argument.

Anyway, Trading Standards have advised me that T-Mobile have breached Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982, on basis that phone is advertised as having HSDPA, but the site does not say that this is dependent on being connected to a particular package.

I will be contacting them on this basis to get them to remedy it.

The HSDPA issue has already been documented on this site, it's pretty bizarre to think I would be making it up, what an odd thing to do.

See threads:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=1626337

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=338751&page=3 (@ #26 et seq)
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] myk_83:
Not so sure...

Ok, I can understand the point, and advertising is often misleading if you just look at what it says first and buy, without taking a closer look and reading through everything.

But it was mentioned earlier, the website is technically correct in saying that the phone is capable of HSDPA. I haven't seen the advert referred to, but if it is advertising a phone on a specific tarriff and mentions HSDPA, but that tarriff doesn't get HSDPA, then there is a problem. But if it is only advertising the phone and says it is capable (which they normally do) and then gives you the option of tarriffs (which will somewhere explain whether HSDPA is included or not) then T-Mobile haven't done anything wrong.

Without seeing the actual advertising I guess it's hard for anyone to say for sure, and it's always harder to explain what it looks like than for people to see it for themselves :confused:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
Er, that's the problem, as I've explained. The tariffs don't say that, it just says if you want to use IM or as a modem, go for Plus.

Url for you:

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/phones/pay-monthly/t-mobile/mda-vario-iii/overview

In fact if you select a normal voice tariff:

http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-phones/phones/pay-monthly/t-mobile/mda-vario-iii/price-plans/

then go the the next page, you can:

Add web'n'walk to your price plan for £7.50 per month and get unlimited internet access and email on your mobile phone.

But the only option is web'n'walk, not web'n'walk plus. It is actually impossible for people to get it with HSDPA if you select a Flext tariiff.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Jygar:
Got Vario 3 at 4pm on Monday, by 7pm once I had called T-mobile it was active. No mention of charges or anything.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] thelawnet:
Looking at your previous posts, seems yours was an upgrade..... I think this is only applying to new connections.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] Nikumba:
I have just recently moved onto T-Mobile and took out WnW in the store as I wanted internet access and was under the impression I got HDSPA, but upon getting it and reading this forum and Modaco forum, it turns out on all new connections after October with WnW do NOT get HDSPA you have to have WnW+ for this.

When I called T-Mobile, I got put through to tech support since the indian chap on the phone had no idae what I was on about, the tech guy english understood my problems, and told me I need WnW+ for HDSPA I said fine, but objected since this was not mentioned in the store so he applied a £5 discount on my account for the life of the contract meaning I am getting WnW+ for the same price as WnW

So granted the website does not saying anytthing about this and they have had over a month to adjust their site, I would ring up and mention that you were told told in teh shop and get it applied.

Regards

Kimbie
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] losimagic:
I signed up for a new contract with web+walk about 2 weeks ago. Yesterday I was in London, accessed Google Maps and noticed I was getting an "H" (presumably) for HDSPA at the top of my Vario III.

Does that mean that it's enabled on my account? I've not asked them to enable it, so am I getting some sort of free trial of it as I'm a new customer, or have they just kindly given me access to something I shouldn't (possibly) have?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] meandu229:
just rang t-mobile off 150 on my phone went on the fault with phone or accessory then fault with something else straight through to a person asked could you enable hspda on my account please she said yes put me on hold and and then said she had to ring tech department so hung up on me rang me back 10mins later and said she couldnt put it on unless your on w&w + is there

rang back got myself put straight through to tech team asked him, he put me on hold came back after 5 mins and asked if i would use the phone as a modem i said no he went away again n then said no think i might go into the store n see what i can do,, surely they would have to say somewhere that you cant use all the features that we advertise unless you pay top dollar
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fire855:
CyanogenMod 13 is a free, community built distribution of Android 6.0.1 (Marshmallow) which greatly extends the capabilities of your phone.

This is the unofficial build of CM 13 for Elephone Vowney Lite made by the M.A.D. team.

#include
/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* I am not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this ROM
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at me for messing up your device, I will laugh at you.
*/

Installation Instructions:

Download rom from here: https://www.facebook.com/MediatekAndroidDevelopers/

OR from xda DevDB (DOWNLOAD Tab)

Download Gapps from OpenGapps: http://opengapps.org/, choose ARM and Android 6.0

boot to recovery

wipe data if you are not coming from CM13.0 already

install rom and gapps

Reboot

XDA:DevDB Information

Unofficial CyanogenMod 13 - Elephone Vowney Lite, ROM for all devices (see above for details)

Contributors

fire855, superdragonpt, DerTeufel1980

Source Code: https://github.com/MediatekAndroidDevelopers

ROM OS Version: 6.0.x Marshmallow

ROM Kernel: Linux 3.10.x

ROM Firmware Required: Stock 5.1

Based On: CyanogenMod

Version Information

Status: Stable

Created 2016-08-23

Last Updated 2016-08-26
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fire855:
Reserved
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fire855:
Minimal F.A.Q

Q: After ROM boot up, I'm getting SetUP wizard errors / other Gapps FC / Black screen on first boot, why ?

A: On marshmallow based Roms, you need to flash ROM and gapps at the same time

TWRP even allows you to flash multiple .zip files

Q: Why no Mediatek Engineering Menu?

A: Its Mediatek proprietary, ugly , not needed on our builds.

Relevant features used on Mediatek E. Menu have been ported to our builds already using aosp / our implementations ( Sensors calibration , Band Mode, etc)

Q: App "x" is not working, why?

A: First make sure the app works under Marshmallow

Q: Something wrong with my Bluetooth, can't connect /pair with my "x" device , car-BT

A: Bluetooth should be backwards compatible , some OEMs don't also follow some guidelines , surely can be improved.

Post your BT model, Car model and year to help us out determining compatibility issues
[Miscellaneous Android Development] wzedlare:
Nice job! :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] I_am_Egyptian_and_proud:
what is guide to port this to other device working also by mt6795 bro ?:confused:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Bencoderus:
Thanks team M.A.D we need for mt6580 lp kernel
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fire855:
Doogee X5 (mt6580) got a CM build from us.

- The M.A.D. team -
[Miscellaneous Android Development] hyper1985:
Thanks MAD team and FIRE

Pls we need cm13 for mt6580 lp kernel 3.10.72 for Walton primo rm2mini and the likes... Please help us out
[Miscellaneous Android Development] CodesCodger:
[MENTION=4761533]fire855[/MENTION] sir, is the device tree for Dogee x5 from the M.A.D team use stock untouched prebuilt kernel? if yes, then can we use this device tree as a refernce for compiling cm 13 for mt6582 lp kernel?? Thanks... :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fire855:
Yes, I'm using stock prebuilt kernel on doogee. But it's a MM (3.18) kernel and the device tree is made for the MM kernel. You can still use it as base but you also need to do changes.

- The M.A.D. team -
[Miscellaneous Android Development] CodesCodger:
sir, I am pretty much sure about changing blobs and ramdisk. But I am concerned about sepolicy changes. do I need to update those as well? this device tree don't have mediatekril we used to use for kk and lp kernel. So, how can we mtk ril?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] superdragonpt:
This is no support thread for other devices and platforms

And surely NOT a porting q&a thread.

Thanks
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Hesham Elswalhy:
Iam ported this ROM to my device with same CPU but settings sometimes flicking with black color is this issue from porting the ROM or this happene also in vowney lite ??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] pakyto:
Thank you very much for Rom . Only a couple of modifications would ask .. 1 - Camara only 13 MP (21 MP Stock ) .No slow motion recording . 2nd - Light notification does not work ( in Stock , loading, messages, missed calls , low battery )
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Azizb750:
Hi, can you Port this ROM on Xiaomi Redmi Note 2? This will help a lot all maintainers of this phone(or even of all mt6795 devices) like [MENTION=6738603]lokjianming[/MENTION] [MENTION=5650330]danielpinto8zz6[/MENTION] [MENTION=5543422]bemolx[/MENTION] [MENTION=5857044]vova.vafin[/MENTION] etc.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Llopbal:
[MENTION=4761533]fire855[/MENTION],

C O G R A T U L A T I O N S !!

A Nice Job !!

Could you. rom update:

- The camera only 13 Mpx without SlowMotion.

- The notification light stops working.

- It does not work well in 4G mode.

- You can not change the internal memory to SD.

- Waking up the screen with fingerprint is not possible.

It would be great !!!

llopbal
[Miscellaneous Android Development] akadimka:
[MENTION=4761533]fire855[/MENTION], thanx for the ROM. Works much better than stock. Just one question - is it possible to make LED notification work? (talking about Vowney Lite).

Agree with llopbal

1. The camera only 13 Mpx instead of 21 Mpx

2. The notification light stops working. This's very sad.

others problems not so important.

BR, akadimka
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sannnnn:
First of all, thanks for that great ROM! We really need it.

Question... If I backup my current /system/lib/hw/camera.mt6795.so and /system/lib/hw/libcam* and replace it on the new ROM, would the camera work on full resolution (21.5MP)? What else should I do?

I'd like to add camera specs if it's any help:

Back/Primary: imx230mipiraw (21.5 MP Sensor Sony IMX 230 Exmor RS)

Front/Secondary: ov8858mipiraw

Thanks again!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fire855:
1. Slow motion is a proprietary feature from mtk. I will look into the mpx issue. Very busy currently.

2. Can someone try to replace lights.mt6795.so with the stock lights blob?

3. What doesn't work well with 4G?

4. You can use your sdcard as second internal storage. But you can't switch your internal storage and sdcard.

5. I missed to add off screen detection. I will look into it.

- The M.A.D. team -
[Miscellaneous Android Development] Llopbal:
Elepone vowney Lite CM13 by @fire855 (M.A.D. Team)

[MENTION=4761533]fire855[/MENTION] / The MAD Team

- On 4G, maybe there was not enough coverage in my test.

- The LED notification is not important at this time.

- So will remain pending update:

- The camera 21 MPX

- Add the detection screen with fingerprint.

* Again thanks for a nice job !!!

:good:

Llopbal.