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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Thanks for telling me the keys I set up the keys a while back and let it bit rot and lost the source (I had to guess the keys to figure out how to scroll since its been a while, I remember remapping them all. I might update it again since I have a source tree for gingerbread setup again). Only reason I remapped it was because the volume keys didn't play nice.

It didn't install in your case at all :/. Can you do a quick check for me, after installing the update, go under advanced select show logs. After that reboot via the menu (you should be see the log for the update on your screen can you check if there are any errors)

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Hi Draky,

Can you do the following:

1) Open the terminal emulator and change the font size using the menu (default is unreadable)

2) Run the following commands

su

ls -l /system/usr/keychars |grep ffa

3) Paste the output here

4) Install the AZERTY update

5) Do step 1,2,3 again
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
Is there a Froyo rom for it? I not a huge fan of Gingerbread in any case. At least with Froyo you don't have to mess about installing Gapps and the draw on the launcher keeps disappearing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
The Froyo ROM was too buggy not worth trying it out (pretty bad to use). You can lock your desktop to avoid the app drawer problem. (Just hit menu => more => lock desktop). Google apps should install not sure whats going on in your case :/. You can do it manually via ADB or even root explorer.

Just extract the update package and copy over the folders in the system folder to /system/ (let it merge the folders). After that you'll have to tweak the permissions (you can install the QWERTY update and it will do the permission tweaks automatically). The update only extracts the system folder to /system/ and sets up permissions you can do the same manually.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
There was version of Froyo 2.2 for the Phillipines market. Why didn't somebody just convert into a custom rom for the western market?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
No one posted an Image for Froyo or else I would have used it in my Froyo ROM.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Ok here is output before :

7k_ffa_keypad.kcm.bin

There are also 1.kcm.bin -> 6.kcm.bin + qwerty.kcm.bin + qwerty2.kcm.bin

Installed update.zip and no difference after :/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djtyres:
Not sure if this helps but when Alcatel does updates they use usb plugged in and power + call button. This boots up into debug mode.

Screen stays black
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanelbulle:
Looks like we have the upgrading tool now:

Unfortunately I cannot post the link (new user), but just visit the download page on the alcatel's website.

Before flashing, though, I'd like to know whether it is a real update or just the old software already on the phone. Any clue?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djtyres:
takes the ot-980 from 1.6 to 2.1 as far as I know.

Does not work for the OT-981a as it is already on 2.1
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
I'm new to this, so this may be a stupid comment.

The one touch upgrade tool has a otu.dll that is used to contact sumaster.tctmobile.com on port 30007 in order to download the rom image.

Can someone work some magic and use the otu.dll and snag the rom image or possibly even probe for more? This goes way beyond my scope.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djtyres:
Information drawn from the dll

db	'sumaster.tctmobile.com',0

SSZ702A10AA_SUMaster:

db	'SUMaster',0

SSZ702A10B3_30007:

db	'30007',0

SSZ702A10B9_SUMServicePort:

db	'SUMServicePort',0

SSZ702A10C8_30008:

db	'30008',0

SSZ702A10CE_SUDHServicePort:

db	'SUDHServicePort',0

SSZ702A10DE_downloaded:

db	'downloaded',0

SSZ702A10E9_SessionRepository:

db	'SessionRepository',0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
Trying to connect to sumaster.tctmobile.com on port 30007 via Putty configured for Chinese encoding gave me this after about a 15 second delay:

Google Translate doesn't make sense to me. Don't know what to do from there.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] djtyres:
It would just be easier to get some one with an older OT-980 to download the update and install it on their phone and just look in the download folder.... lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
I am sure if they were around they would have already posted it.

What about trying to fool the update tool?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] marxo:
If you have UPDATE.APP or UPDATA.APP it's easily extractable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GrandMstrBud:
How were you able to get root on this? I have an 980A with 2.1 update 1 on it and would like to have root access for the wireless tether app. I don't expect to get much ROM support for it but it would be nice though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] utrema:
me too

Hi, I'm french, and I've got one Alcatel OT 980.

Azerty en FR with android 2.1(update1).

Factory reset is working with power and volume down pressed at the boot time.

But my IDE (Eclipse under 7) don't recognize the phone when usb plugged. Dev mode doesn't work for me :confused:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] belgrath:
root out of box OT-980A

hello all i just got a ot980a that appears to not need root. it has su permissions out of the box but is missing NAT for Wireless tethering. i am looking for way to enable NAT. i would also be glad to share this image with anyone who can tell me how to make the file/files they need. i have root one eris from pc that is limit of my experience so far. open to all comments.

phone info

model #

Alcotel ot-980a

firmwarever

2.1-update1

kernel ver

2.6.29-perf

android-bld@aclgcl-ubnt122#1

build #

ere27.v26g-0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nabicat:
Just bought an OT-981a. Nice phone, but needs 2.2 or 2.3. How do we get this rolling?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nabicat:
Androot worked on my ot-981a. Should be the same for the 980.

The 981a is missing netfilter in the kernel, so the normal wifi tether app won't work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Scot01:
That’s really great to hear, I too agree that Alcatel phone is really good. It is one of the best phones available in the market today. The best part about it is that it is very cheap when compared to other phones, but still it offer all the latest features. Thanks for sharing.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nabicat:
Not ROM development, but did anyone else's phone come missing the 2.1 voice to text keyboard? I was a bit annoyed, but finally got it installed. Also took out a few of the preloaded apps as I won't need them.

Has anyone got a method for installing app2sd support on the factory ROM? I've run out of space already.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ionparticle:
I've got the boot, recovery, and system images using cat.

# cat /proc/mtd

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00500000 00020000 "boot"

mtd1: 03200000 00020000 "cache"

mtd2: 00500000 00020000 "recovery"

mtd3: 00060000 00020000 "splash"

mtd4: 04880000 00020000 "system"

mtd5: 08200000 00020000 "custpack"

mtd6: 0b0c0000 00020000 "userdata"

mtd7: 00080000 00020000 "studypara"

# cat /dev/mtd/mtd2 > /sdcard/recovery.img

I built a bootable, but non-working, clockwork recovery image by following Koush's guide. You can boot into it, but keypresses doesn't work. The menu selection just scrolls wildly to the accelerometer. I suspect this is due to the really barebones recovery image we have, which doesn't allow any user input and just reset the phone to factory defaults.

Would someone who is familiar with clockwork recovery give some pointers or be willing to give this a try? I've tried looking at the HTC samples and copying over my device's keychars and keylayout files to the recovery image, but haven't had any success. Information on how to fix the button input and how to enable USB would be very much appreciated!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
Were you able to make any further progress? I know it's been only a few days, but thought I'd ask.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cmstlist:
I'd assume that on a phone with so many keys and buttons, it should be somehow possible to program the recovery image to use them. But I'm no programmer!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mistix:
Thanks nabicat

Thanks for the help, I installed Androot and although the "Soft Root" (temp root) did not work the "Hard Root" (pertinent root) did work.

Anyone who wants to know I rooted with 2.1 update-1 using Androot 1.6.2 beta 5. I checked and my device was NOT rooted before I used Androot and is now rooted.

I just got my Alcatel OT-981A with WIND Canada today. The phone works good WIND's network sucks as I get dropped of HOME 3G/3.5G downtown Edmonton but cant argue with the price. I am looking foreword to ROM development for this phone however I understand this may never happen.

Also on a non-root note: I am looking for an App that will auto scan/connect to WIND/any 3G+ tower after loosing connection. (My phone gets lazy with finding the best towers even with factory settings.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
One quick question when the AZERTY update worked did you ever reboot the phone after (I'm thinking that may be something changes and causes the file to stop working after a reboot)? Going to try and repro when I get home. The 1 - 6.kcm.bin are different languages from the original Alcatel ROM (I included them in the ROM didn't know what they were for back then, the qwerty.kcm.bin doesn't seem to ever get loaded since its based off the device name). Alcatel had a build.prop setting for picking out the language so 3.kcm.bin is AZERTY and 7k_ffa_keypad.kcm.bin is the current layout (the latter is just the standard name android looks for based on what the kernel calls the device).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Mmm I might try the reboot thing but what should I do to test so ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
I'm going to see if I can reproduce it and get a fix out today. I'm basically asking when the symbols were working if you ever reboot and if it was fine after the reboot :P.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Symbols NEVER worked even after or before reboot
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
I've emailed Alcatel Phillipines to see if they will make their 2.2 Froyo available to me, if they let me have it I will PM you with the link.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
I don't think I'm going to do a Froyo port but files form but it can be useful. It reduces the amount of stupid hacks :D [current camera drivers are from eclair with a shim]. Though think Camera is the biggest grief so far. But it should be easily usable for any one else (I might setup update scripts so if any one wants to flash it they can). I doubt they will release them (if there is a user in Philippines interested I can give them instructions to get an image via busybox). Its not something that people should flash directly since due to the stupid set up the system partition has your mac address in a text file.

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Oh your referring to the symbol key I'm being dumb (sorry will get it fixed :P). Just a matter of adding an overlay doesn't work in QWERTY either.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Maybe ICS is a next port from idontknow, like a secret project ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
May be it is ;). I was impressed by videos of how it was running on x10 mini (the kernel port borrows updated drivers from nobodyAtAll's great work already for video drivers etc..) But first lets get Gingerbread working before moving to ICS which will be new challenge (We can probably build on the x10 mini's work for some drivers so I know at least radio and data should work :P).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Is X10 very similar to OT980 ?

And yes : GB stable before ICS.

Is OT980 powerful enugh ?

Will it not be too much slow ?

Like installing Windows 7 on a 386 ? LOL
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
X10 Mini is very similar pretty much the same CPU, the radios drivers are compatible. Main differences are the touchscreen (they have a capacitive touch screen), RAM quantity (our device has less), some of the other hardware. In terms of the ROM space think both have about the same ours is divided in two halfs which is the down side (system / custpack).

Don't think CPU or GPU is the problem for ICS. GPU is powering a tiny screen so has plenty of fill rate and about 32 megs of ram available. CPU wise I don't think we'll get held back at stock clocks (GPU acceleration should reduce the load on the CPU). The main issues is that there's only 140ish megs of RAM available for ICS. So we may need swap + compcache or compcache at the very least (I'm going to introduce the latter in a kernel update in Gingerbread it, the kernel is swap enabled already it makes app switching much nicer if you get a application from the market for it. Only downside is it wears your sdcard)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
Yes same processor in size and manufacturer. The Alcatel OT-980 is probably more akin to the X10 Mini Pro as they both have physical qwerty keyboards.

I'm not sure how different the hardware in the X10 Mini Pro is compared to the X10 Mini, all I know is that roms on the Mini X10 won't work on the X10 Pro and vis-versa.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Ok, thanks for answers :)

Personnally, I use Links2SD apps which create an inviible FAT16/32 partition on SDCard :) and I still have plenty of space so if space for cache is needed, I'm prepared :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
A couple of screen shots of my X10 Mini running MIUI Beta 3 ICS.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
[Was going to ask a Symbol key related question deleted for now while I investigate]

EDIT: I updated both the QWERTY and AZERTY update to support the symbol key on the keyboard. Pressing ALT-SPACE / ALT-SHIFT-SPACE will open symbol menu. The next update will fold the QWERTY changes in so you'll have to re-apply the AZERTY update (I'm hoping to avoid doing that in the future until the next major update). Tell me if any other keys are causing problems in the layout. It can be found http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25640971&postcount=349
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Ok, problem still here.

In fact, I try to be more... visible.

Here is the physical layout of the AZERTY keyboard (main char+alternate char) :

A+# Z+1 E+2 R+3 T+( Y+) U+_ I+- O++ P+@

Q+* S+4 D+5 F+6 G+/ H+: J+; K+' L+" (delete key)

(SHIFT) W+7 X+8 C+9 V+0 B+? N+! M+€ .+, (enter key)

ALT (left arrow) SPACE+SYM (right arrow) GLASS

The problem is that when I try all symbols above normal keys, what is written is not the good symbols.

Here are all bad results of ALT, line by line from top with the [good]

#(ok) 7[1] 2(ok) 3(ok) +[(] %[)] &[_] $[-] ([+] )[@]

*(ok) 4(ok) 5(ok) 6(ok) -[/] [[:] ][;] "['] '["] (delete key is ok)

(shift key is ok) 1[7] 8(ok) 9(ok) =[0] <[?] >[!] ![€] :['] (enter key is ok)

ALT+SPACE gives me a popup with symbols but some can't be written like €

Hope I'm clear :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Think I understand it better going to extract the kcm.bin from the system image you gave me may be the one from the Canadian image has issues on 980.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
No problem, I'm here to test anything you want :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Can you try the latest update from: http://xdaforums.com/show...&postcount=349. Make sure your not holding shift it produces different keys (this seems to be how the Alcatel layout is setup so it probably also happened in Eclair)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
I tried it mmm yesterday for me, in fact before posting my big post with the layout described...

By the way, I'm GMT+2 ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
Any idea how I can get Gapps to install?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
I'll PM you a manual installation package (only manual part is that you'll have to run a shell script as root on your device).

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Sorry for the confusion but when I posted that I updated it again. Should have been more clear :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
So, how is this coming along? I really want a properly working 890 : >
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
The GB update is applied via as a update.zip (it formats your system and custpack partitions as a part of the zip) the Gapps is applied by just installing a zip from sdcard via the recovery. If you have trouble I'll try and upload a manual version tomorrow so we can debug and figure out why its not working :).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Can you give me your direct link to the last upload of azerty update ?

I'll try it tomorrow :) (it is 1 am here, time to sleep :p)

----

EDIT : found it back on page 35 with http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71594697/AZERTY/update.zip

AND IT WORKS :)

All char are ok on azerty keyboard :)

ALT+SPACE/SYM gives a popup with other symbols like the pipe [|] which is not present on the physical keyboard so... THANK YOU VERY MUCH for little french user I am ;)

@pl8715 : first you need to install the recovery on eclair 2.1, using instructions on some pages back from here : you boot on fastboot (Q + power), wait 10 second while buttons pressed and then connect your phone to windows, then launch the .bat.

Reboot, put the update.zip of gingerbread on sdcard root, with the gapps.zip

power off, press volume down + power and after some seconds, recovery is here.

choose "apply update.zip" and when finished the extraction, choose "install zip from sd card" then choose gapps.zip

Then "reboot" and you are with gingerbread and playstore.

PlayStore is the only Google Apps installed, if you want "maps" or others, you need to install it from the play store (android market).

Did you succeed in installing gingerbread at least ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Update link is the same (just replacing the file)

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71594697/AZERTY/update.zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
I edited my post above yours while you were writing ;)

IT WORKS now :)

What file did you change ? Was the problem in 7k_ffa file ?

Thanks again :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
@pl8715 : first you need to install the recovery on eclair 2.1, using instructions on some pages back from here : you boot on fastboot (Q + power), wait 10 second while buttons pressed and then connect your phone to windows, then launch the .bat.

Reboot, put the update.zip of gingerbread on sdcard root, with the gapps.zip

power off, press volume down + power and after some seconds, recovery is here.

choose "apply update.zip" and when finished the extraction, choose "install zip from sd card" then choose gapps.zip

Then "reboot" and you are with gingerbread and playstore.

PlayStore is the only Google Apps installed, if you want "maps" or others, you need to install it from the play store (android market).

Did you succeed in installing gingerbread at least ?[/QUOTE]

I have Gingerbread installed. But it isn't much use without Google apps. I can't restore the phone back to 2.1 eclair because my computer is 64 bit. My partner has also tried on her 32 bit computer but the drivers won't install so I can't do the software update to take it back to eclair.

I installed Gingerbread via ClockworkMod recovery
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
It was me being stupid. I forgot to update some files think my device had the right files updated. Glad it worked :)

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Hi pl8715

Can you download the manual update from it involves you running a shell script and then installing an update: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71594697/GAppsMan/Manual Gapps.zip

1) Extract it on to your sdcard root in to a folder named man_gapps. See step 5 might be a good idea place the files at this point.

2) Open the android terminal

3) Run the following commands:

su

cd /sdcard/man_gapps

sh Install.sh

4) Google apps wizard might start (it will start to get laggy as the packages are picked up) reboot into recovery for now to fix permissions via step 5.

5) Install the QWERTY update via recovery from: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71594697/QWERTY/update.zip (note this is to fix permissions and will also fix keyboard bugs). It might work fine without this since I have done an adb push and had it work fine but its not recommended.

If you get an error running sh Install.sh please tell me what it is. Hopefully it works and you can enjoy Gingerbread :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
I can't get anymore photos with gps indication in :/

Seems that gps is not active while photo shooting ?

Did you succeed in getting gps info on photos ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pl8715:
I ran the update through the command prompt and it said there wasn't enough space on the device.

I give up, going to put it back in the draw where I should have left it in the 1st place!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
That doesn't sound right :/ since the update should have formatted system and custpack (so may be something went wrong with the recovery :(). Have you tried reinstalling the GB update since the first install since something went wrong during that.

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I haven't checked but it might be the fix time. Going to see if I can improve it by leap frogging to the next driver version in a coming update.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Noticed we are missing code for the GPS in the Camera drivers so going to see if I can get it to work. Got zooming fixed which was easy to enable.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
I was able to get location info to save now. Please ignore the unknown location in details the show in map function / exif data is correct (when I release the update). GPS fix time is also much better its not 5 to 10 seconds. Going to get other things for the update done then release :D.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Very nice, I'm very impatient :)

By the way, which version of CyanogenMOD is it ?

7.2 ? Because 7.2 comes with cool stuuf like T9 predictive for dialer and so :)

And it will be the last 7.x update...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Its 7.2 predictive is there (its basically the latest gingerbread branch which has an up / down side of including things which may be unstable so its like building a nightly. I may move it specifically to 7.2 at some point but I haven't found any bugs to encourage me to do so yet.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
I would install that alpha 1, but the post says tethering might not work. Do you mean tethering with a downloadable program like EasyTether, or just with the android's own solution?

It's VITAL that I can tether.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
If I remember what it was said, it is a driver problem within this Gingerbread release like no driver present so it is not possible to tether at all, internal problem.

Like bluetooth not working...

I don't know if next update will resolve this, and I don't know when the next update will come ;)