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[General Questions and Answers] clewis.it:
Hi @Eng7. Thanks for the response. Yes that is the board I'm looking for, but I refuse to pay $75 for it when similar boards for other phones are going for around 10 to 15 dollars.

Thanks for the tips on the other items as well. I will probably get a spare intercom module to play with. I would love to rework the pa and filter to allow decent 2m performance. That's probably beyond my current skills, though.
[General Questions and Answers] clewis.it:
Hi again. I'm running Lineage OS 20.0 now. It's got some decent improvements over 19.1.

As far as security goes, remember that to do this we are unlocking the bootloader and removing encryption. Your phone should not be considered secure after this.

First, backup the information that you want to keep from your phone. Unlocking the bootloader will cause the phone to format the internal storage, so you will lose everything from there. Just copy your information to an external SD card.

There are instructions on the first 2 pages on how to unlock the bootloader, install twrp, and remove encryption. Just follow those instructions. Once that's done, you can install the updated twrp recovery that supports touch and install whatever gsi you want. Since you won't have to worry about encryption, you will them be able to backup and restore different systems to your hearts content.
[General Questions and Answers] Eng7:
Thanks

btw which carrier do you have your 3wt on ?

verizon gave me a hard time saying it was not on their list but I got them to do it manually and been working fine for 3 years now.

I wonder if a data only sim would work from like mint or tmobile? then use voip like session for max privacy
[General Questions and Answers] Eng7:
Hi

So I want to back up the out of the box new 3wt phone. first.

Will twrp give the option to do backup?
[General Questions and Answers] clewis.it:
I'm on tmobile. No issues.
[General Questions and Answers] Safg13:
It works perfect for me but Im using treble Android 10 (AOSP by phh) due to red text on my stock firmware.

I didn't try to restore data and user partitions but other works good for me.
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
Could you tell us a bit about the process? What did you wipe and so on... before flashing and what needed to be done to get it working.
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
Tested the Android 10 AOSP from phh and also the android 10 lineage os and they both worked great but they both had unreasonably high idle battery drain (over 200ma!!!! with screen off) which kind of negates the entire idea of this phone by turning the battery life into that of a normal smartphone so i do think we have to wait for some work to be done with those roms. I did however find out that i could recover from my bootloop caused by the twrp restore by taking the system.img out of the stock firmware files from the link posted earlier and flashing it in twrp.
[General Questions and Answers] Safg13:
Try Havoc OS 3.0 with bitgapps is really awesome. Battery drain is something around -19 ma/hour (3c toolbox info)
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
Havoc OS 3.0 for me has weird phone bugs, in one install i could not make or get calls at all only data and sms and in another install a few days after i could make calls but not receive them. Lineage os works reliably and the gpu performance is great in games. I have diagnosed the screen off drain to be the WIFI which when turned off drops the screen off usage to 30MA. This is not a big deal for me as i don't have wifi and rarely use it but i do need calls to work reliably. Bluetooth does not cause drains.

Also i have the red text on top too now on the stock rom. I think it was caused by using "download + format all" in sp flash tool instead of "download only" which worked fine when i tried earlier. So to anyone reading this do not use the format option in sp flash tool just download when flashing stock rom or you get a permanent red chinese watermark on the top right over any display in the stock rom. This as was confirmed before does not do anything for custom roms which work fine. I will try to get the intercom app for the built in radio working soon on custom roms if i can figure out how to transfer it from the stock rom without causing a crash. It is the only thing keeping the 3WT from being fully usable in android 10.

A random fun thing i found is very doable with such a large battery is to keep it well within the center region of the state of charge which greatly decreases the amount of wear on the battery over a long time. So i have been using mine until 40 or 30% and then charging it from my laptop usb port over night and the slow charge usually gets it to around 70% by the time i wake up. This lets me use it for about 2 days comfortably until it gets to or below 40% again. It is not needed at all, especially with a new phone and such a large battery to take any steps to protect the long term battery life but i just thought it is pretty cool what you can do when you have 10000mah.
[General Questions and Answers] Safg13:
I've installed Havoc OS 3.0 using a dirty flash way. You need to flash stock firmware and finish google settings. Then you need to flash havoc system.img and install gapps (bitgapps in my case). This way working perfect for me. Additionally you can have a problem with IMEI's after download + format all. It could cause errors with data and sms. You should use SN writer tool which you can find on official ulefone firmware store in power 6 directory. I restored Tee key using that way but I didnt find the way to restore google key. I didnt spend a lot of time of thinking about it but I think it is possible to delete this red watermark via root and service manager. It is common problem on ulefone phones and some others. And about battery yes I do it same way, using it 2-3 days and then charging from usb over night.
[General Questions and Answers] damien0505:
Hi ml11ML,

Meant to reply earlier but life has been too hectic lately! :eek:

Just checked my phone, build number is Armor_3W_RF1_EEA_V01_20191018-1432.

I have not had any issues with Bluetooth, be it audio (speakers, earphones), connecting with the head unit in my car, OBD dongle or solar charge controller. From my experience it is very stable in this regard.

However I am still having the issue with the proximity and light sensor. While it isn't the end of the world, it is annoying.... have you had any luck with finding a solution? (I haven't)

Kind regards,
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
Hi, yeah the sensors die on the stock rom and the only thing to do is use some app to reboot the phone each night. I haven't had them die on custom roms yet. As for the earlier complaining about Havoc OS it turns out there is a new version which i obviously have not seen until now which works perfectly even with calls on a clean install with everything including internal storage wiped (i didn't try with gapps as i don't use them but it should work). I think it is the best rom for this phone. Sadly i can not figure out how to get the stupid proprietary Intercom app out of the stock rom into any custom rom. At best it appears in the apps menu but won't start and at worst i cant get it to appear or install at all. Obviously this won't apply to your 3W and even i dont have much use for the radio but it is a feature and ideally i would like to have the option to use it.
[General Questions and Answers] damien0505:
Are you able to write a short process flow for performing this Safg? :)

All this Treble and GSI stuff is new to me! :p
[General Questions and Answers] petrjanda:
Any solution to the proximity sensor issue? My armor 3w proximity sensor doesn't work at all. It stopped working within a day of owning the phone and since then i tried rebooting, reset to factory and its a no go. Maybe I should send ulefone an email and try to replace the phone under warranty?
[General Questions and Answers] damien0505:
It has been determined to be a software issue. Unfortunately sending it back under warranty won't help. Read back through the thread, best option appears to be installing a different OS.
[General Questions and Answers] s0r:
Hey guys. This is my first phone that does not have a custom ROM specially designed for it. Because of that, I wonder whether the latest release/version of Havoc will work out of the box or whether I will have to edit the package in any way?

Thanks in advance :)

//Edit: Nevermind, I already managed to install Havoc OS :D
[General Questions and Answers] petrjanda:
Is there any way I can confirm this without flashing another ROM over it? The other guys who have this problem say a restart fixes the problem temporarily but mine is just dead and doesn't work even temporarily. It did work for a day when I got the phone though.
[General Questions and Answers] damien0505:
Have just noticed an update listed on the Ulefone website. https://m.ulefone.com/support/software-download.html Haven't had a chance to look at it yet though.
[General Questions and Answers] damien0505:
Turns out it isn't updated firmware, just an updated date...... :( :confused: :mad:
[General Questions and Answers] Jim1348:
Has anybody here been able to get the so-called digital intercom working correctly? I tried analog channels and they seem to work fine. I did program in some digital channels, which are DMR mode, I see the settings for Frequency, Color Code and Talkgroup, but I didn't see the setting for Time Slot 1 or 2. Does anybody know where that is located?

Also, is there a more detailed users manual available anywhere?
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
There is this: https://github.com/travisgoodspeed/s80tools/wiki but it seems that the dev gave up on it or doesn't have time anymore because i don't see any progress so it looks like we are stuck with the stock app.

Also can you tell me if you get any delay between pressing the ptt button and the phone receiving or transmitting actual sound? I find that I (on the phone) and others (in my case on a baofeng radio) have to hold the ptt button for a few seconds before the phone either starts to play the sound it receives or starts to transmit. It isn't the end of the world but it is fairly annoying.
[General Questions and Answers] ultramad:
Hey just wondering what havoc rom you guys used as I can't get any to install and load
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
There was a list of roms by google searching "phh gsi" and i used havoc arm64 AB but i can't find that page anymore... Sometimes it just won't boot and you have to reflash to stock again and then a rom but that seems rare as i only had it happen once or twice. Any gsi arm64 AB rom should work. Keep in mind that you lose both radios and i have not managed to copy over the stock apps so far.
[General Questions and Answers] ultramad:
Thanks, I have tried the arm 64ab gsi rom from havoc but that just got stuck on the boot logo. Maybe I missed a step somewhere? I'll have another go at it tonight
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
I would try just reflashing the stock rom and trying again. It eliminates the "bug" i found that just doesn't let any rom boot at all until you reflash stock and makes sure you didn't miss any step as you do them again from the start.

By the way... in case anyone finds that the camera lens shakes and snaps while trying to focus i think it is not hardware related but something wrong with the stock camera app. In my case every other app from snapchat or telegram to open camera or anything else never once had that issue while the stock camera sometimes does.
[General Questions and Answers] ultramad:
Thanks.

So flash stock with sp tools on download only, run through the stock setup, flash twrp, format data then flash havoc through twrp, flash magisk and reboot?
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
You might have to do flashing unlock again in fastboot... not too sure myself because my current win10 install for some reason won't work with anything fastboot it just constantly plays the usb connect sound but from what i remember it might relock it after you flash with sp tools. I posted somewhere early in this thread the process that worked for me so you could try doing that after reflashing to stock.
[General Questions and Answers] ultramad:
I have tried the method you posted but still get stuck on the boot logo... also when flashing the rom it only goes to the boot logo if I install magisk otherwise it goes straight back into twrp.

Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
You can try flashing it with A only rom and letting it bootloop (a only will bootloop either way) and then force shutdown and back into twrp to flash AB. I do remember trying that once but if that doesn't work then i have no idea. Maybe something broke in new roms so you could try flashing one from early 2020 (back when i last tried) because i can not test it myself due to my windows install breaking fastboot but i highly doubt that or someone else would also say something about it not working anymore. Im afraid this phone is just very glitchy sometimes and you have to randomly poke it and try things until it suddenly works...
[General Questions and Answers] ml11ML:
Just flashed Havoc-OS-v3.1-20200121-ARM64AB-GSI from stock by formatting data (not wiping) then reboot to recovery and wipe system and both caches and then installing the img to system and flashing no encryption zip which ended with an error and then magisk which flashed fine. It does indeed bootloop. I then rebooted to twrp again and wiped everything except sdcard and flashed an old build i had left over on my sdcard which was v3.0 20191215 arm64 ab unofficial and that booted right up. Latest lineage also works which tells me the havoc dev broke something.

EDIT: Also installed pixel experience now which seems to work great.
[General Questions and Answers] ultramad:
Thanks a lot for your help. Have got the latest havoc os 3.0 an running with magisk and opengapps pico now
[General Questions and Answers] petrjanda:
Hows the battery life on the custom roms?
[General Questions and Answers] ultramad:
I haven't noticed any better battery life on havoc os 3.0 but performance seems slightly improved
[General Questions and Answers] petrjanda:
As long as it's not worse. I'd hate to take the time to flash another OS only to find out it's buggy. So you're happy?
[General Questions and Answers] ultramad:
Yes I'm happy with it, battery isn't any worse. Only problem I have is videos glitch and don't play on Facebook, I notice there is a newer version of 3.1 out so will flash that later today and see if it boots up.
[General Questions and Answers] thecore:
Instruments not working

Hello. I have a question about ulefone armor 3wt. I bought it and it seems that all instruments not working. Compass, bubble level, protractor, plumb bob, proximity sensor .... It is hardware or software? I reset to factory but still the same.
[General Questions and Answers] petrjanda:
Cool let me know how it goes.
[General Questions and Answers] Maxsandro Rodrigues:
Hello everyone. I also had this problem of brightness / proximity sensor with my device. then following the tip of some users in this topic I installed "havoc os" believing that it would solve this problem. but not. the luminosity / proximity sensor keeps stopping the same in the rom stock. when i installed i made all the wipes on twrp but i noticed that it does not erase everything, it still leaves something from the rom stock, like for example the kernel, nvram, and i believe that the drive that controls the luminosity / proximity sensor. I think it's because of the AB partition. it looks like twrp wipes only on partition a and these sensor control files should stay on b. so I believe that any custom rom that installs will not do any good to solve this problem of these sensors, because the rom will always get the drive information from the rom stock that is in partition b
[General Questions and Answers] Maxsandro Rodrigues:
has anyone been successful in the issue of the luminosity / proximity sensors problem?
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
no tools for Linux??

Hi. I'm trying to fiddle on my 3wt, but I cannot find rooting flashing or driver tools for doing it from Linux or, in the worst case, Mac.

I got rid of Windows long ago and I wouldn't like to start looking back.

Thank you for all help

P
[General Questions and Answers] Clight75:
New ROM

Hi all, it seems that new stock ROM version is available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1PounIRufNQtS2OhdSO5dlKSy3EGaDfkc (archive file name GQ3060RF2_AGS62_Ulefone_EEA_20200116_V04 (Eu).zip).

I'm just curious if somebody tried this already and if so - does it solve the proximity and light sensor issue?
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
Big nope so far. I will try fiddling a bit with the DA-file, using both WT's flasher and Scatter-file
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
Hi! How did you finally manage to recover both IMEIs and Google key? I've stupidly managed to blow mine up. I have the original IMEI numbers and serial number of my phone, but I cannot find a way to set the proper IMEI number. They've been changed to 11111111111 and 222222222

Thanks a lot.

P.-))
[General Questions and Answers] kaziq:
Hi, I also managed to write IMEIs with this app: https://androidmtk.com/download-sn-write-tool (latest version is on the bottom). It's not very intuitive, so tell if you have trouble, I will try to help :)

TEE and Google keys are still in the unknown.
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
Thank you so much... Tee and Google keys I must admit I have not a clue what they really mean, so i'm less worried about them. However the IMEIs.... I need my phone tomorrow for work! (where I live we're not in lockdown yet, so I'm lucky to still have a job).

I'll try the tool. I will ask you, as I'm certainly not an advanced user... just a monkey with too much free time, I fear :D
[General Questions and Answers] kaziq:
The keys are probably API security keys for G and TEE. I don't know the details, I'm an amateur too :)

If the keys have been erased, the stock firmware will show red overlay text:

TEE: [some Chinese text]

Google: [the same Chinese text, which supposedly means "key missing"]

The text is displayed on top of everything on the screen, so it's annoying. Custom ROMs do not have this problem.

I tried to get rid of these texts by disabling various system services, and freezing apps (with TitaniumBackup), but no luck so far.

I disabled all services that are not essential to run the system, and the text was still there. But I noticed one thing: if you disable or enable Google:VoiceInputMethodService the red text (both of them) disappear for one or two seconds. I guess the service restarts some other service or app that is responsible for the text. It's not much, but perhaps someone will be able to continue from here.

For the freezing, I have frozen almost all apps in the order from letter A to I. Apps from A to G did not have influence on the red texts, and freezing from F to I ended with the system unable to boot. So I give up for now. I am going back to RR or Lineage, depending on which one will work.

For the SN write tool, here are the steps:

1. Turn OFF the phone and run SN_Writer.exe

2. Click System Config.

- in the Write Option check only IMEI, uncheck everything else,

- in the IMEI Option only Dual IMEI should be checked,

- in the Header Option everything should be unchecked,

- in the DataBase Option both "... load from DUT" options should be checked.

3. Click Save.

4. The phone should NOT be connected to USB.

5. Click Start, and then connect the phone to USB.

6. Program will ask you to provide the IMEIs.
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
I've managed to restore the IMEIs, thank heaven....

I still get the annoying red overlay about tee and google. The phone seems to work fine, though...

I've read that I could switch off a process from MTK through ADB, but now it does not respond to "adb shell list packages" instead it says "list not found".....

I'll maybe try contacting Ulefone with my device's serial number... but Ulefone has not replied once when asked....
[General Questions and Answers] kaziq:
Look here: https://gist.github.com/davidnunez/1404789

I cannot try myself, because my RR is booting for 20 minutes already :)
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
There surely is an answer somewhere in the thread I haven't yet read, but let me ask.

RR? Is it Resurrection Remix?

Have they a ROM for the 3WT? I cannot find any.

Another question, quite dumb, after already having spent the money on the 3wt... Don't you miss the armor 2? I certainly do. I am tempted to buy another one.

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May I then ask you how did you compile it?
[General Questions and Answers] kaziq:
Yes, here: https://get.resurrectionremix.com/?dir=pie/gsi

I tried ARM64_AB_20191205.img, but it stuck on boot animation for 30 minutes, so I ditched it.

I installed Havoc OS 2.9, and it looks really promising.

I never had Armor 2, so I don't really :)

My previous phone was Moto Maxx, and I miss it's weight (and oled screen).

I didn't. In fact I have never compiled any Android OS. I don't even know how to do that. I always used ready-made ones.
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
Hi pal. May I ask please which of the Write Options in SN Writer do you check in order to restore the TEE key? Or rather an almost-an-idiot-proof description?

I've restored my IMEIs, but not lucky so far with the Google and Tee and once biten twice shy, as they say.

Thank you.

Paulus
[General Questions and Answers] shMelbin:
Welcome my friend.

Welcome.

I am also new in this forum.

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] Safg13:
There is an instruction to restore google and tee key (to remove red text in the corner of the screen):

1. Flash via SPflash tool 6 partitions from umidigi s3 pro firmware (you should use 2019081618_g38v71c2k_kw_s3pro_eea firmware) tee1 tee2 vendor system cache userdata.

2. Boot OS and turn on usb debugging

3. Use SNWrier_1828-4.0.0-vturkey_S3Pro_EEA from umidigi portal to restore keys (you must add 116.62.230.138 pl.trustkernel.com in your hosts file in windows folder)

4. Flash partitions of ulefone 3w firmware

5. PROFIT
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
thank you!
[General Questions and Answers] kaziq:
Finally I had some time to do this, and yes it works! No more red overlay. Hooray!

One note though, that the step 2: "Boot OS and turn in usb debugging" is not necessary. The SN Writer does not use the system's USB debugging at all.

Here is the link to the keys restore guide for Umidigi S3 pro, that you need to follow as step 3 (first post):

https://community.umidigi.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=18634&extra=&page=1

Thank you Safg13 for your help with this.
[General Questions and Answers] Paulus Josefsson:
Ooooooh! I'll cast an eye. Thank you so much!!!
[General Questions and Answers] kaziq:
Yesterday I returned to the stock firmware, and it works nice - comm app is back, and the PTT button can be used for custom shortcuts, which is great.

But two issues so far:

1. The proximity sensor is not working.

2. There is a big "4G" or "3G" text displayed next to the GSM signal strength indicator all the time, and I couldn't find a way to get rid of it (even Gravity Box and System UI Tuner don't help).

I noticed one strange thing: the firmware on the official Ulefone web site is marked "V05", but the System -> About phone tells the Build number ending with "V01". Can you check if you have the same?

I saw there is official Havoc 3.4 released recently, and I tried to install it once, but it ended with bootloop (black screen, no logo). Perhaps I will try again if the stock annoys me more.