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[Android General] 9up!:
You probably have a defective unit, you should open a dispute with the seller to get your money back or a new unit.
[Android General] tutaqq:
I've tried flashing a few times, but no luck. I am not concerned about fingerprint or pattern/pin, just a swipe a sufficient, even a half functional camera, but strangely battery can not last even 24 hours on standby, where previously it could for 3-5 days.

I'm way past 15 days allowed to open a dispute on Ali, and since phone was paid in May, I can not even open a case with credit card company. Seller is just not responding through Ali messaging.
[Android General] rash.m2k:
Well I ordered mine on 30th august and it's just been shipped yesterday, so taken almost 11 days for them to chuck it in the post! Ridiculous! Anyway I hope their QC has improved, if want to be like xiaomi then their QC best be up to scratch.

I put my bets on a Redmi 7A still working after a year than a Umidigi. But lets see what happens. Can't complain at £75.
[Android General] KimLe:
By pass Orange state after unlock bootloader to install TWRP

By pass Orange state after unlock boot loader to install TWRP:

I found the zip file to by pass Orange state and it work perpectly: (https://www.mediafire.com/file/dn1e07ztz3j4y2m/ROMProvider.COM_orange_state_disabler_v0.3.zip/file)

Make backup ( in case something go wrong) before install this zip file in TWRP.
[Android General] Letitride:
Sorry and sad to read about your unsuccessful efforts ... did you try the EU rom as well, what about going back to the earlier V1.2 rom (I think most of us that did early Pre-Sales got that pre-installed & then OTA) with either global or EU rom. My impression was that the EU V1.4 rom (early August) was more responsive than the global one.

If none of this works - then it's nearly useless and just a nice brick or paperweight. For me, plan is to use it - worst come to worst - as a mini wireless security camera monitor, keep it connected to usb wall charger & watch streaming video feed from home security system, if not to watch youtube.

Have you spoken to your credit card issuer about disputing the charge - when did you receive it, in early/mid July like me ? It doesn't hurt to call your CC company. As for Umidigi - did you also try to post on their FB page and see what they say (if they respond !!) but i agree, most likely - you get the runaround or they will just ignore you & they do with everyone else. Stupid Sarah ... or whatever the screen ID name is/was on AliE. :mad:
[Android General] tutaqq:
No luck with any official version.

Is there any other partition except nvram, nvcfg and nvdata which contains phone-specific data? In twrp there is a whole bunch of them, and only nv*, protect_f, protect_s, Frp, Proinfo, expdb, seccfg, Modem are not part of firmware release. Maybe format did overwrite some of the battery and fingerprint info, who knows.

Thank you for your help
[Android General] FR8148:
Format erased info about fp, serial number and other specific info. You should have got all those partitions (those not flashable in scatter file) and not only the NV related. Then you could flash them all with fastboot and have the phone as new. I think that info is lost forever now.
[Android General] tutaqq:
Do you know which partition contains that information? I can ask someone who has A5 to dump it. Thank you.
[Android General] FR8148:
In reality I don't know exactly what partitions contain what info, that's why I've made a backup of all them with readback in spft. Anyway if you ask someone else a backup of his phone you get specific info of that person's phone. It is almost certain that some things will not work in yours. Finger print, for instance, will not match digital signature in hardware with the one on the backed partition of other phone and so it will not be available on setup menu. Probably other things will not work also. Serial number and macadress will be the ones of the other phone. This may lead to problems if both phones are connected to the same wifi router or in other circunstances..

Anyway I may be wrong. I'm not an android expert. You can allways give it a try and see what happens.
[Android General] Letitride:
I am not sure if you read these 2 links/tutorial guide on Umidigi - since you aren't entirely a stranger to using ADB and flashing tools, etc. It might help and might not ... Good luck with it & post specific error codes, messages or screenshots, etc. for other geeks to see - maybe, help brainstorm along with you.

https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=16931

https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=1375&extra=page=1

2nd. link is about repairing IMEI with SN Writer

Appeal with your cc issuer/bank about the defective A5 Pro and Umidigi's failure to respond & provide warranty service.

On a side note, my A5 Pro now will only charge to 94% - reboot/power cycle it, connected to a different wall charger for 12+ hours. It's pretty sad for a 2 months old smartphone - speak to bad quality control & use of sub-par components.
[Android General] tutaqq:
I have a proper MAC address and both original IMEI restored, not concerned about serial number. You are right about fingerprint, but I can live without it. Thank you for your help.

I will probably wait for another OTA or maybe custom ROM in the future. In the meantime, I will make inquiries with CC company about possible chargeback or try to flash those partitions in question if some other A5 is available.
[Android General] RoachX:
Hi All

I just ordered an A5 Pro from amazon.ca which i assume comes with the global or non EU firmware. However i would like to use the phone for an upcoming trip to Europe for calls and data with a prepaid sim-card when i get there.

How different is the EU firmware?

Should i flash it to the phone for the trip or are there hardware differences as well?

Thanks
[Android General] 9up!:
You'll be fine with the phone as it is.
[Android General] chooks06:
These are the active bands on my device (non EU) FW.

Should be indicative whether it can work where you're going when you compare against the bands used at your destination.
[Android General] marathon2422:
Camera green

I have A5 and S3 (not EU)

Hedgecam2 works on both

In the bugs section in the app ,it show this about green and mtk devices

hxxps://photos.app.goo.gl/Fvsmk2wtbqx94y5Z7

Xx to tt

Or look at bug fixes in the app.

Gcam ver. 5.0.0.91 works in both devices.

[MENTION=9702463]lbhock123[/MENTION] - The real question is whether your camera is working close to "perfect" in normal color, not distorted in green, yellow or grey, showing streaking vertical lines, or black screen (nothing showed) on both the rear (main) triple camera and/or front (selfie) camera.
[Android General] Nopaint:
My phone stutters like hell in 1080p 60fps on YouTube, the videos on this mode are unwatchable. Is this normal behaviour? I thought helio p23 would be able to do this with no sweat.
[Android General] user1android1:
Thank you for this topic.

I have installed Havoc-OS with twrp but with camera built-in I can't take wide photos, with camera angle 120º.

Is there any camera apk to install and have this option lile stock ROM?

Thank you
[Android General] Manish54:
I just got this phone and it keeps swiping down for some reason.

Anyone knows whats wrong?
[Android General] engguh:
wow

amazing
[Android General] chooks06:
Don't understand what you mean.

Are you referring to the stock launcher home screen that keeps bouncing?

I believe that's the feature - like prompting user to swipe up for apps drawer.

I usually replace it with Lawnchair launcher.
[Android General] Manish54:
No, Ghost touch. Keeps swiping down the power toggle for some reason. I already tried restarting, resetting, nova etc. I think they sent me a defected piece.. i'm never buying Umidigi again
[Android General] chooks06:
Raised a dispute?
[Android General] Letitride:
If you just received this, as other poster said, file a claim per seller's policies (Amazon ??) or (open a dispute if it's AliE ... you only have 15 days after confirming delivery) return it.

Ghost touch could be indication of poor assembly or loose connection of internal wirings, etc. - take a short video & upload it for us to see. Try the free Lawnchair or Nova launcher (download from Play Store) to rule out issues with the stock launcher, backup your data & settings, do a clean/factory reset to see if it help - and if you are comfortable & know how to, use SPFT to flash the full ROM (do NOT wipe the data partition ... read & follow the steps given, or you will void any "warranty" & lose IMEI, etc.)

I still have issues with the status bar/display and/or top edge of the screen, mostly in vertical position, depending on how I hold the phone while using it to read email or in some Apps, that it will exit or the status bar menu will pop out/drop down ... on top of the infamous rear/main/triple camera issues, still not fixed with the "newest" update OTA over 3 weeks ago.
[Android General] tbalatka:
Dead A5 Pro

Earlier this week my A5 Pro died. It had the most recent ROM OTA update, battery was in good shape. After plugging into my PC at work on Monday to charge it, it just died. No screen activity.

I've had other MediaTek (sp?) devices in the past, even a smartwatch that used this brand of ARM processor, and when there was a system failure / it was bricked I would wait for the device to discharge and then attempt to reflash using the Flash tool.

With this phone I waited for the battery to discharge and then attempted to reflash using the tool and firmware on the Umidigi website, but no go.

I am hoping someone following this thread has any ideas to share.

Many Thanks

T
[Android General] chooks06:
It may take some time to fully discharge.

If it has no response (vibration on starting for example), it may mean it has not totally shutdown yet.

Try again after a few days (also depends how much battery was left when that incident occurred). Also try the vol up + power combination and see what happens.

If it's totally powered off, my experience on Windows 7 is that connection is not detected (if I remember correctly).

When flashing with SPFT, try holding power button (or vol up/down), and immediately plug in the USB cable with the download on SPFT already activated if you've not tried that. Sometimes it works. (although usually, we hold power button if download doesn't start).

You've been attempting correctly as far as I can see, similar to what I'd do.

Good luck! I don't think it's bricked yet.
[Android General] Hans de Groot:
I think there are some broken devices. I know I got one. But mine just crashed with in a few minutes. I think my camera's worked just fine on my first phone but I did not test them very well. I never tried Duo for example (screen screen issue?) but all cams worked fast en images looked good.

Now I got my new phone it works great. The cams also work (did not try duo) I tried the 3rdparty app opencam for fun and I noticed there is a yellowish circle in the middle of the back cam. You see this when you point your cam at a big white wall. Switching back to the stock cam the circle is gone but all the white looks a little more yellow.

It is just like there is a fault in the lens which they solved bij applying a filter that makes every thing the same tint.

Like I really did not notice this until I tried the 3rd party ap so foe me it is not a problem.

I choose this phone for 3 reasons. The good cam they promised, dual sim with extra/dedicated tf card! and the super price. For me the cam is so much better than my old acer e700 had. And I get the wide angle.

They market this phone for it's camera so if it is not working as adverticed I think a warning is in place. Even is the price is super low.

I got a new problem. My phone is stable , cams are working . wifi too but 3G is very bad. I get super bad pings. youtube stops working all the time.

I tried the speedtest app (ookla) and I get between 3 mbit and 1 mbit down speeds. Sometimes it cannot even find the server. When I switch to my old phone on the same location I get from 7 up to 10mbit speeds easlily.

The signal is max on both phones. Both using hspa+ but somehow the umidigi does not work wel.

I can see the a5 pro peak at 6 mbit for a very short time and it drops down rightaway almost like a traffic shaper is at work.

I tried the a5 pro with a 4g sim and I got more than 40mbit. very solid results good pings over a longer period of time. Of course I tried both sim slots.

It is rather sad 3g works so bad. I do not have a 4g data plan.

Any one any sugestion about bad 3g performance and hot to improve it a little? I really do not want to return the phone again. Last time it took from 6 of august (start discussion) to september 21 to replace it.

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[Android General] Letitride:
[MENTION=3745047]Hans de Groot[/MENTION] -

No, even with latest Lawnchair Launcher, the annoying, over-sized 3G & 4G icons are still there on Top along the notched Status Bar (see screenshots - whether it's on Lockscreen or Homescreen)

On your comments about sluggish 3G speed, could that be related to your carrier/ISP's provisioned plan or radio band used, can/did you try to switch. On mine, using both sim slots - #1 is on MNVO (AT&T) and it is throttled, home signal is marginal & sometimes on 3G or HSPA/Band 5, it's now showing 4G/Band 2 but outside & elsewhere, ususally on full 4G.LTE either Band 2 but sometimes Band 66 - speed is not great. Sim slot #2 is on Google Fi, also MNVO but it's not throttled & always full/max speed, Band 66 ... signal strength on the "meter" is actually not as strong as AT&T's.

How about your WiFi data speed on 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz (if you have them) - I get good results on 2.4 but pretty nice ones on 5Ghz at home as I got bridged routers & repeater signals for excellent coverage on all 3 floors (FIOS/fiber box - indoor/basement). Compared to the Huawei Honor 5X, Moto G6 and Moto X4 or Xiaomi Mi A2 Lite Global, the A5 Pro is slower but reasonable or not bad. Posted my results to check against yours.

BTW, I did a clean factory reset and used SPFT to flash to the "newest" EU V1.4 full rom, wiped the cache partition and not much difference, seemed less buggy once it stablized & settled down after a day. Camera App still freeze sometimes & won't open the lens, doing the usual switching help - usually - disabled ZSD helped - after waiting a few seconds & sometimes seeing a white screen. Duo is still flashing greenish - thankfully, I don't do much video calling. No issues with front/selfie or wide angle camera ... just the rear/main triple cameras.

Battery still sometimes charge to 94% or 95% only - AccuBattery status looking okay thus far, time will tell. I played MP4 vidoes in 480p and/or 720p just fine on VLP or MX Player and also streaming Youtube Vanced - not pushing it to 1080p, despite the advertised claims by Umidigi. Overall, for a $70 USD device after all the problems, troubles & buggy firmware/apps on it - oh, Wireless Emergency Alerts still do NOT work at all, other devices set to & get "Amber Alert" activated when this one just do "nothing" - I will use it as a backup for travel, and with a 64gb class 10 mSD card, storing a ton of files on it backed up to cloud.

Wait for the next firmware update to seriously fix more issues - truly, incompetent tech support at Umidigi.
[Android General] mkannuri:
Folks, recently started having issues with my Data and tried to verify the APN's of Chatr and observed they are all showing Rogers APN and non editable either.

I cannot add new APN's or edit Current Rogers's APN. Carrier (chatr) advised to call the phone support as they cannot do anything..

Phone is Global Version UMIDIGI A5 PRO Android 9.0

Need help please ...
[Android General] mkannuri:
Unable to Add/edit Chatr (canadian) APN

Folks i am newbie and while searching about my new UMIDIGI A5 PRO phone, i came across this forum. Please advise if any one has any solution without all these rooting stuff that i am not familiar

I got this new Global Version UMIDIGI A5 PRO Android 9.0 from ali express last month and every thing working well until recently the data is acting weird and sms/mms does not go all the time.

SIM1 is Chatr (candian carrier), SIM2 Airtel (indian carrier).

When i went to check the APN settings for Chatr, the list has Rogers APN's (4 of them i guess) and they are unable to edit or add new Chatr APN either.

the carriers cannot support as the phone support should fix before they do any troubleshooting..

Please advise how to get the APN's either edited or create new ones.

thank you
[Android General] TripaSeca:
Hi! How are you guys?

I need to recover some deleted pictures from it but I didn’t find any good software to do that without root...

I’m new to the Android hacking and modding...

I’m using the last OTA update... v1.4

Anyone successfully rooted the Umidigi A5 Pro? If yes, can explain the process?

Thanks!
[Android General] RoachX:
Recommeded Camera App

Hi All

Been using the a5 pro as my daily on Freedom Mobile here in Canada for the past week or so and so far the experience has been great. Very few if any stability issues, couple call of issues which i think has more to do with it not being officially supported for VoWIFI but the majority of the time it works and no call issues so far on 3g.

The next test for the phone will be trip to Europe next week where I'll be using the 2nd sim slot with a local prepaid carrier.

I've been pleasantly surprised at the stock camera quality so far (for a 100 USD phone) at least in daytime use. Are there any other camera apps you guys recommend?
[Android General] chooks06:
Try DiskDigger available on Play Store. Used that a long time ago. No root needed if I remember correctly.

Haven't tried rooting yet since my device is reasonable stable.

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You can try Footej or Open Camera. I'm currently not using them on the A5 Pro though. Haven't tested how they'll work with the triple cameras.

Are you able to save photos to external memory? I couldn't find any setting in the stock camera app.
[Android General] RoachX:
I just installed an SD card today actually. Formatted as internal storage it looks like photos are automatically saved to the SD card. Not sure what happens if the SD card is setup as portable storage.
[Android General] chooks06:
If formatted as internal, it goes to the SD card.

I kept mine as external storage and there wasn't any options to change storage location.
[Android General] KE9o9:
Anyone else having problem with their SD card as internal storage. Just had a brand new Lexar 633x die after 2 weeks.

Hoping its just the card.
[Android General] chooks06:
How did it die? Not readable/detected?

If not detected, I supposed you've tried the card on another device?

Have you tried reformatting it as external then internal?

I haven't tried adoptive storage yet. But regarding the card, could it be registered for warranty by Lexar? If it could, check if Lexar can arrange for replacement. For SanDisk, the card usually dies "safe", i.e. non writable but previous data readable.

I assume you are aware that MTK devices format the card to VFAT.

If you bought via Amazon, then you could file a report with them.

If from AliExpress, BangGood, etc, I wouldn't know.
[Android General] KE9o9:
I don't know. I was updating and the phone stopped seeing the card. After reboot, the card was inaccessible and was stuck on Checking. so not sure what happened there

Tried formatting in Windows, Disk Management, Command Prompt and none worked. Also, I noticed the card would get really hot compared to my San Disk Ultra

I tried the sdformatter you sent, thanks, but not working neither, the card is just making my system hang now.

It was bought on Amazon, but a third-party seller, so I'm having Amazon talk to them, they seem to be siding with me on this. Asking for a refund and return shipping covered if needed.

Thinking of either picking up a San Disk from Costco or the Amazon exclusive Samsung Evo. but wanted to see if this was a problem with the card or the phone if others have had their cards dies when using it as adoptive storage.
[Android General] chooks06:
Should not be a problem if purchased from Amazon.

Hope you get it resolved to your satisfaction.

Cheers!
[Android General] KE9o9:
Yeah the seller got back to me already with the RMA paperwork and shipping address. and even made it clear that I can just return it in with regular letter mail, so everything looks to be good.

I'm just kinda pissed since the card was the lowest priced A1, V30 card I could find and I don't trust getting a replacement since the first card crapped out in less than 2 weeks.

Anyway anyone knows if the Amazon exclusive Samsung cards are A1 or A2 rated?

That my second choice right now new to the San disk Ultra from Costco
[Android General] chooks06:
I haven't seen the Amazon exclusive Samsung cards but I believe it's likely A1.

A2 cards are still on a higher price range.

Regardless, I don't think it would make a noticeable difference in normal day use on this phone. Just my opinion of course.

I'm currently using a SanDisk A2 128GB as external on the A5 pro, which was previously used as internal on my Blackview A60 Pro.

Transfer of large files (slightly over 1GB video) from my PC was pretty fast to external SD memory, but I can't remember the details.

Because of the VFAT, can't load any file bigger than 4GB.

I don't do much photo / video taking so probably I don't realize it there was a difference.

I believe the Samsung EVO Select is the higher end of the EVO series, from observation.
[Android General] Botoytoy:
How is the quality of this phone?
[Android General] chooks06:
For me I'll say it's basically value for the money I spent. Will not apply to every one.

1. I bought only recently during sales for under USD90 (which is cheaper then presale) because of additional discount vouchers. Received on 13 Sep 2019.

2. Device came with the latest August 27 non EU FW installed. Started up without logging in to check camera. Using default settings, cameras works fine. I'm not particularly concerned about how sharp it should look - I've got shaky hands and it has EIS, so good enough for me. Sample shot taken at dusk (about 30 min before night fall) looks ok to me.

3. Battery hold up well, charge pretty fast using the 10W charger. 15 to 90 % around 1.75 - 2 hours.. Maybe Accu battery screwed up but it did show my battery was, in the first few days, at 104%! Lol.. It's still detected at 102% now so I don't know when it might blow up. But at around 90%, charger current drops drastically, and phone cools down. To push it to 100% would take another 40 min or so as it will eventually trickle charge (less than 400mA), then alternate between negative and positive readings. So 90‰ is max for me - just to reset the battery stats in settings.

4. For my normal usage, it's pretty fast opening web pages, but gets pretty warm when watching video for extended time, which is normal. I don't play action games like PUBG, Asphalt, etc..

5. Only beef I have is that I can't see Battery Usage details, but no big issue. Everytime it's charged to 90% and above, the battery settings will advise me to turn on battery saver once unplugged and after a while it'll show its running normally. (Happen also on another device with MTK running Android 9).

So, for me, my usage and the price I paid I would say it's above average performance.

If you go through this read, you would have encountered many users who had problems, especially those with presale sets. I can understand their frustration.

I guess there's no pat answer to your question is you're looking for it but this thread is the real review you can get..

If you're depending on a favorable answer to help decide whether to buy, I would suggest you assess first because no two users here set up and use the phone the same way.

I have read this thread before I decided "game on" and proceeded to buy - only hoping I don't get a DoA set, which will be **** to sort out with AliExpress sellers..

Apologies for the lengthy post..

Cheers!