yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
If you plug your phone with USB, do you see the SDCard and files of your phone ?

If not, install "One Touch Upgrade Q 1.9.8" from this page : http://www.alcatelonetouch.com/global-en/support/download/ot-980.html

Reboot your computer, then plug your phone and try the "recovery" thing after few seconds...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
Yes I can see them if I press mount on my phone. How long do you hold the power button and Q before you plug it in. After that should I have the .bat open already or after? Thank you by the way.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Not sure what is going on :(. Can you access your sdcard fine in the file manager installed? Also can you try the steps below and give me the files it makes on the sdcard.

1) Run the terminal

2) Type the following commands and press enter:

su

find /system/ > /sdcard/systemList

find /data/ > /sdcard/dataList

find /cache/ > /sdcard/cacheList

find /custpack/ > /sdcard/custpack

3) Upload those 4 files so I can check if something is messed up on any of the partitions. Basically it just dumps the files on the partitions in something messed up during the install. If any of them are screwed up this should hopefully give an idea as to what and I can make an update to fix it.

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Turn off your phone. Hold Q and Power nothing should show up (it should be in fastboot mode), then plug in your phone. Then run the bat file. It might be that the fastboot driver isn't installed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
Where do you get the fastboot driver? Is it the one listed above? Also I have Windows 7 64bit Alcatel 981A.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
http://www.alcatelonetouch.com/usa/products/all_products/ot-980.html it comes with one touch upgrade its in one of the folders. If its not picked up then install it via device manager.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] getochkn:
The Alcatel software doesn't work in 64bit windows, you need a 32bit machine I think.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
I installed the Q Touch Upgrade in my 64 bits Wibdows 7.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
Can't upload them here, says invalid file. Where can I upload them for you to access?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
I've installed one touch upgrade successfully, but when I connect my phone it says it can't find the device.

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I don't know what you want to upload, but here's a website that doesn't require an account. It's called ge.tt
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
Compressed them in a zip instead, I'm not sure if it's good or not, you decide.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
What is this?

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Should I click mount on my phone when I plug it in to install the driver? Also what do you guys click when it says press "Q" or turn off your device and press the "Dial" key (What is the dial key)?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Dial key is the green key, at the left.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
I noticed when installing PC Suite windows pop up asking if I want to install this driver, but the disappear in less than a second. How did you guys get pass it? Like if they got stuck behind the Alcatel Mobilephones wallpaper.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
Nevermind everyone got it working with another computer and installing PC Suite for drivers. Thank you everyone!

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Hahahaha sorry about this, but I get no data. I've entered the following settings on this page : http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1691746-Wind-Internet-Settings

Did anyone else have this problem?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Watcher0 did you install google apps? I don't see any sign of them on the custpack. Install them from: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71594697/Gingerbread Alpha 1/gapps.zip. Boot into recovery and select install with steps below. Also there is some corruption on your cache partition. I noticed you have installed android market manually. Don't install it by hand (since the frameworks are missing and need to be on the system partition).

1) Boot into recovery

2) Select Install zip from sdcard

3) Select choose zip from sdcard

4) Select gapps.zip in the list

5) Select Yes - Install gapps.zip

Optional steps:

6) Go to mounts and storage

7) Format your cache partition (recommended because of corruption)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
What apps do you guys think work well with this phone for tethering?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Barnacle works, other ones which depend on iptables should work also.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
Iptables? Which apps are those?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.szym.barnacle&hl=en works
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
Well I'm trying to learn as much as I can about this phone. I'm coming from a Dream, doing WIND in Calgary now.

So rooting went perfectly fine. As noted above, Universal Androot works fine. I also put on Root Explorer, and SetCPU.

Surprisingly, the default clock is 600/122. I kept it at that, due to the incredible stability at that speed.

Here's where I get a bit baffled.

The battery life is outright terrible. We're talking 7 hours of average usage here. The battery stats report the system using 95% and up of the battery. I've never seen it this way before.

The only thing that is out of place on the list of apps is this com.android.qualcomm. I cannot find any info online for this app.

Now, here's where you will all love me.

Indeed, ALL of the fun stuff is nicely organized on the CUSTPACK partition. Luckily, with Root Explorer, I was able to zip it for ya. I'll have it in an open Dropbox later.

I have the full keypad files, kl and everything, if that helps.

I also found the bootanimation.zip residing in /custpack/JRD_custres/media, if you want to dump your WIND animation :)

I'll find out more this weekend for you all. I'm by no means a dev, but I am finding a lot of cool items in here. FYI, removing Google Maps made my phone run longer. I really want to dig into this com.android.qualcomm though...

*EDIT*

Here are the links I promised!

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11358311/custpack.zip

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/11358311/keypad.zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
Are you saying you got better battery life after removing google maps? how much of an improvement was there?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
Well, I'm getting 24 hours out of a charge now...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] squigley:
This is good stuff. Did you just remove maps from the partition on the phone, or did you create a rom with it removed and flash it back?

I ran out of time with trying to hack before, and no one seemed to interested, but revisiting this thread has got me interested again.

I think we need to try to find a way to get the recovery options boot stuff working, unless that's what was already working with the clockwork image?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
I haven't tried any recovery work yet. To be honest, the stock ROM is pretty awesome once you dink around with it a bit.

Firstly, all the apps, minus core ones (but not GAPPS), are located in /custpack/app

I removed maps.apk, after booting once, and found it TRASHED my battery. Honestly, I never use maps to begin with.

I also removed extra apps like TwitDroyd, because I use Tweetdeck instead.

Using SetCPU, I found out the unit was clocked at 600/122. Leaving at that brings crazy stability surprisingly.

A lot of battery was lost when looking for wireless signals. Using NoBars, I set the unit to seek for 2 mins, then put the phone in airplane mode for 10 if no signal is found.

I also set the carrier option to WCDMA only, to kill any chances of roaming + battery loss from 2G/3G flip flops.

Now, 25% of my battery, at a minimum, is from Cell Standby, and another 25% to Phone Idle. That's awesome.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
Has anyone tried updating the youtube app?

Thanks for the updates guys
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
I believe it's for 2.2 and up. I'll look into it tonight.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
SUCCESS.

(I cannot guarantee this'll work on everyone's phones, but it worked on mine. I will not be held liable if **** hits the fan!)

Firstly, you need root. If you don't know how to do that, google it.

Secondly, you'll need ADB from the SDK.

Thirdly, you'll need this modified APK: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=817528

Ok. Assuming you have root and ADB:

1) ADB shell

- 2) su

- 3) mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

- 4) rm /custpack/app/YouTube.apk

5) Reboot phone

6) ADB shell

- 7) su

- 8) mount -o rw,remount -t yaffs2 /dev/block/mtdblock4 /system

9) ADB uninstall com.google.android.youtube

10) Install modified apk

Anything with tabs above will be at a $ or # symbol. # indicates root access.

If you have never used ADB before, I'd recommend avoiding the adventure.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
Ok, I wanted to take this morning to share what I learned last night about this device. It's truthfully awesome, and can lead to some great things.

Alcatel uses archaec methods of flashing updates. Rather than having a recovery partition, they simply flash updates through the debug bridge of the radio.

This bridge was used in the G1 to unbrick devices where there was an incompatible SPL and radio combo, unable to boot into recovery or bootloader.

However, the G1 required a special serial cable to be made, along with a JTAG rig soldered to the board. This is where we are ahead.

In order to boot into the diagnostic mode, power down, unplug any chargers, hold the DIAL button (green phone), and plug the usb cable in. Keep holding that button until your pc tries to install a qualcomm cdma mms driver, or something like that. Your phone's screen will not turn on during this.

Unfortunately, the drivers won't work on Windows 7 x64 due to no digital signatures. I will look more into this later.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todoleo:
I got an Alcatel ot980 from the Carphone Whorehouse yesterday.

Great little device, but it was extremely slow and annoying out of the box.

I gained "root" using Universal Androot and then uninstalled all the bloatware using Uninstaller for Root.

Even though I had sped the device up by uninstalling bloatware, I still felt the device was slow and unresponsive. I installed the Zeam launcher and replaced the stock Android launcher with it.

The phone is way better now while still using Android 2.1. I'm looking for a way to make the status bar at the top of the screen be black instead of white. For now I have hidden the status bar on the homescreen (a Zeam Launcher setting).

Glad to see there is starting to be interest in the phone on xda forums!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
Thanks, are you able to log into youtube? some comments seem to indicate that it doesn't work when you try to log in.

Can you confirm either way?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
Just tested it. Had no problem logging in. I haven't tried capture, but it showed all my videos and everything.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todoleo:
I've had no problem logging into youtube or using the service. I've heard that some network operators stop you from using youtube while on Edge/3G.

Does youtube work when you're on wifi?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ryo99:
You can't force windows to take the driver?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] XBrav:
Windows 7 incorporated a signed driver system that won't let you install unsigned inf files. I have an XP Pro install on my VM now, so I'll check into the telnet options later.

Now, following up on my YouTube details. Signing in worked fine, but it always force closes on me while opening. Clearing the cache and pushing the APK does nothing. I will check the logcat later to find out the source of the issue. For now, stick with the default app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] atolibot:
Just popping in to say thanks for the tip on removing google maps. Im a moderate user, heavy email usage (200-300 a day) and my battery life was horrid. Removed google maps and it happily lasts me the entire day instead of just my shift at work (8-9 hrs).

While i'm tech savvy, as a network admin in real life, I know squat about the custom rom aspect. If I can do anything to assist with possibly getting some custom roms with newer versions of android rolling (2.2-2.3 ^^ ), lemme know what I can do!

This is a great low budget android phone, hopefully we can extend its lifetime a little :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todoleo:
I think the problem at this point is getting ClockworkMod Recovery onto the device. Once that is done, we'll be rolling.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] illjot:
Need help

my phone is "broken" i tried running apps2sd but something must have gone wrong because i now have no access to the terminal or through adb. the terminal gives a message like In mgmain JNI_Onload. I think i need a rom to flash it with since the recovery did nothing. my phone is an ot-981a
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] todoleo:
Any luck with the ROM Manager email?

All we need is a functiong ClockworkMod Recovery And we're set to go with custom ROMs.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nabicat:
Hopefully everyone on this thread that wants 2.2+ has submitted the request. I know I have.

There's a link right on the Rom Manager site to request the dev to add a device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
Saw Barnacle on the Play Store, and it says it uses ad-hoc. My nexus 7 and PS Vita only support infrastructure. Do you know any apps that do that?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
Seems like it tethers in ad-hoc mode. Is there an app that tethers is infrastructure mode?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.googlecode.android.wifi.tether&hl=en supports infrastructure, but I have only tested it with adhoc. It might not work in that mode YMMV.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
Tried it, doesn't work. :( Well THANK YOU so much for the help and bringing 2.3 to this phone! YOU"RE AWESOME! :)

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Also Thanks to everyone who also helped out. :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Saying goodbye and thank you :)

Why ?

My OT screen just broke, it doesn't respond anymore.

No screen response, no phone :(

So i bought a new phone ZTE Crescent / Orange San Fransisco 2.

A better one, with a lot of custom ROM ;)

Thank you very much Idontknow186 for giving OT980 a second life :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gamer1android:
For Idontknow186! Cheers
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Good bye. Thanks for trying it out :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
Here are the lists after I:

copied the files to computer

reformatted sdcard

copied files to sdcard

reformat cache partition

reformat data partition

installed from zip update (the main thing), then gapps, then that rc update thing

from sdcard installed barnacle so I can post this crap

I just want to smash it against the wall.

same problems, exactly the same

if at least I had keylock thing, damn
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Hi Watcher0,

It looks like google apps zip is messing up when you try to install. Only one of the files got installed. Can you try the manual version and follow the steps.

1) Grab the manual version and extract into a folder called gapps on your sdcard from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71594697/GAppsMan/Manual Gapps.zip

2)Open the terminal emulator on the device

3) Type:

cd /sdcard/gapps

sh Install.sh

3a) Paste any messages that you see (i.e. most likely errors)

4) Reboot your device

EDIT: I'm beginning to suspect that the custpack on some devices might be smaller and prevents us from installing google apps (or the flash has bad blocks on the device :(). If you still have trouble I'll help you down grade.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
Should I wipe cache and data partitions again first?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
No just go ahead and run it. If you get errors like "no space left on device" then I'm going to see if we can may be place it on the system partition and link back.

Might also considering changing the main google apps package afterwards since its the second time I have seen this.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

cp: write error: No space left on device

Install QWERTY update to fix permissions now.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
I'm guessing some ot980's have less space then others so we need to find where google apps can be added. Can you do the following steps they will help me figure out where I should put google apps since your custpack is smaller on your phone.

1) Open a terminal emulator

2) Run the follow commands:

su

df -m > /sdcard/partMap

3) Copy partMap from sdcard and upload it (it tells me where you have space)

I'm going to make a new manual package after you give me that that copies it to a place with space and links it back.

EDIT: If there isn't any place with space then we might have to take it from your data partition :/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
here you go and thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Good news there is more then enough space on your system partition (so we can use it instead of custpack). I'll modify the manual package for it + clean up the older files that got copied. Can you tell me which country your in because the layout is different from my phone / others (one other person had a similar problem I couldn't figure it out). I'll modify / upload it later today (if I can figure out which models have this problem I can set up a separate google apps package in the future and put a large warning)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Hi Watcher0,

Follow the steps below they should hopefully work I have updated the package to work on your partition setup. You don't need to format your cache or data. It may still fail in which case post any errors my hope is that we can get this stuff to fit but if it doesn't I'll modify the script to delete some useless APKs / ringtones.

1) Grab the manual version and extract into a folder called gapps on your sdcard from http://dl.dropbox.com/u/71594697/GAppsMan/PartLayout/Manual Gapps.zip

2)Open the terminal emulator on the device

3) Type:

cd /sdcard/gapps

sh Install.sh

3a) Paste any messages other then ones that start with: rm: cannot remove

4) Reboot your device

If it fails then try open the terminal and run the following and retry the manual install (these steps delete a few ringtones to make space):

su

cd /custpack/media/audio/ringtones/

rm Cairo.ogg

rm CASSIOPEIA.ogg

rm CANISMAJOR.ogg

rm BussaMove.ogg

rm Bollywood.ogg

rm BirdLoop.ogg

rm Big_Easy.ogg
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klau1:
Thanks for the GREAT upgrade!!!

Would love it if Access Point tethering support can be added to this ROM!!:laugh:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
I'm in the UK, sorry for not responding earlier, busy week.

And it's 11pm here so I'll try those steps tomorrow, unless I have to do overtime :) Thanks anyway, I gonna get back to ya as soon as I can
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
I downloaded copied and installed, worked on the first time!

Now I have contacts! But some problems are still there.

I still can't launch market. I get the Sorry! The Application Market (process com.android.vending( has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again.

I seem to have screen lock now, and home key seems to be working so far, I'll post again after using it for a while.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Try clearing the cache see if that helps (if it doesn't help you might want to format the data partition downside). Also are the other google apps working like gmail and friends.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
I can't clear the cache, it's grayed out. Everything is grayed out. And everything says 0.00b stored.

And it was like that every time I formatted and flashed the thing, so don't recommend me to do that again. :P

Yeah everything else seems to work too
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
When you install from ZIP, do you wipe data and wipe cache ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
yes
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Change your phone :p

Envoyé depuis mon Blade S avec Tapatalk
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] klau1:
any chance in getting Netfilter support for WiFi infrastructure here?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Interesting, I can give a script to do it for you. Since clearing the cache should be harmless. I'll upload a script to help you do it and may be clean market related stuff on the data partition.

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I think it would need driver changes to support it (no plans to support it unless its easy to enable, I suspect I would need to replace the wireless driver with one that supports it. Not sure how easy that would be since things are really closely tied to the board so it would need to be modified for this device some extent I suspect.)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Draky50110:
Simple suggestion to identknow186 : https://github.com/Dazzozo/android_device_zte_blade2/commit/e2caa34894d18e371f8bd2ce7d572852b9d184b6

Had this annoying message every time I boot up the OT ;)

CM7
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
Perhaps this explains : )
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Yes that makes sense. Can you upload the fileList on your sdcard after running the following:

1) Open the terminal

2) Run the following commands

ls -l /system/app/ > /sdcard/fileList

3) Upload the log (hopefully we can figure out why the size is zero)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
Sorry for the delay, anotter exhausting week.

Here you go. Just remove the .txt file extension from the end.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Okay one more list, the symlinks look good. So we just need to check if the files look fine. Similar as before:

1) Open the terminal

2) Run the following commands

ls -l /system/gapps/ > /sdcard/fileList

3) Upload the log (hopefully we can figure out why the size is zero)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
Here it is
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
anything? :/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Watcher0:
hello?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Idontknow186:
Hi Watcher0,

Sorry for the lack of response. I'm going to upload something for you in a couple of days (probably in 3ish days) to clean up some market data via a update.zip.