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Htc/att Fuze Hands-on Video Review Here!!!!!

http://www.viddler.com/explore/WMExperts/videos/10/

Video not found.
Edit: works now

Am I the only person who didn't know that the fuze doesn't have a 3.5mm Jack?!

DesCo said:
Am I the only person who didn't know that the fuze doesn't have a 3.5mm Jack?!
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Quite possibly

but it does indeed come with the adaptor so you can charge and have a 3.5 at the same time

ryanbradley said:
http://www.viddler.com/explore/WMExperts/videos/10/
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Wow, my screen rotation was 10x faster than that. I wonder if it's because they put a lot more bloatware on it than mine had and that sucks up a lot of the memory.

Black93300ZX said:
Wow, my screen rotation was 10x faster than that. I wonder if it's because they put a lot more bloatware on it than mine had and that sucks up a lot of the memory.
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yeah
im just hoping someone is nice enough to do a detailed how to for flashing a rom so once i get it i can immediately get rid of the att crap
not a complete beginner at winmo just with flashing

lbhocky19 said:
yeah
im just hoping someone is nice enough to do a detailed how to for flashing a rom so once i get it i can immediately get rid of the att crap
not a complete beginner at winmo just with flashing
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I was going to write a whole how-to, but it seems it's already been done. Thanks to chrisbjr:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=2771557&postcount=1
Note: Make sure you don't flash a new radio onto your Fuze if it's the radio from any variation of a Touch Pro that isn't from North America. Also, MAKE SURE the ROM you choose is made for GSM and not CDMA... I saw someone brick his Diamond because he tried flashing a ROM that was made for the CDMA version (I didn't think the process would even complete, but that's what he posted on the Diamond forum). It's not overly difficult, just pay attention to detail and be careful and you'll be golden. Good luck!
For any mods that happen to be reading, that thread by chrisbjr should REALLY be stickied.

HELP!! n97 Windows Mobile 6.1

Hey guys I recently bought a n97 with windows mobile 6.1 rom in from nowsupplier . com and when I put my sim card in it I get no service does anybody know whats wrong?
Another question I want to change the rom and radio version(well I dont want to it seems like I have to)does anybody know where I can get a general ROM and RADIO file at?
Device Info reads
ROM Version WM614
Radio Version COMP_RIL_INFINEON
Stack Version ULC2-7880 module 12.17
Soft Version 1.0.8
HArdware reads
CPU XDL-S280
Rate 548MHz
RAM Size 128 MB
Flash Size 256 MB
Data Bus 32bit
Please someone help me pleaseeeeee.

Hope this helps:
http://cellphoneforums.net/phone-database/Nokia/
Good luck,

Well, there are two problems here. First, there doesn't exist a single Nokia phone that runs Windows Mobile. Second, the ROMs and Radios on this forum are specific to HTC Manufactured devices for the most part, and there's no general ROMs or Radios that are device, OS, and hardware agnostic. Sorry

Okay but the phone I have does run windows mobile software and Im just gonna flash a HTC rom and radio see how it works as soon as I find out how to bootload this joint lol

There is an N97 CLONE that runs Windows Mobile, though.

TVTV said:
There is an N97 CLONE that runs Windows Mobile, though.
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omg tell me more.

TVTV said:
There is an N97 CLONE that runs Windows Mobile, though.
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is this the one with a dual sim and the silver antenna thingee for getting tv reception? heard those were made in china...

XD, as soon as he said that he verified that it was a Windows Mobile phone. I knew it was one of those fake phones. Dude, you got scammed.
Was this your phone? http://shanzai.com/index.php/bandit...97-clone-runs-windows-mobile-uses-heavy-metal
Or is it this one? http://www.micsourcing.com/NOKIA-N9...Cell-Phone-White-(2GB-TF-Card)-848-20180.html
LOL you should just bought an HTC Touch Pro if you wanted an atleast decent windows mobile phone for 200 to 800.

It was more like the second one you posted and its a fake of course but its still a windows mobile phone nevertheless I just think Its trying to connect to chinas towers instead of US towers.
poetryrocksalot said:
XD, as soon as he said that he verified that it was a Windows Mobile phone. I knew it was one of those fake phones. Dude, you got scammed.
Was this your phone? http://shanzai.com/index.php/bandit...97-clone-runs-windows-mobile-uses-heavy-metal
Or is it this one? http://www.micsourcing.com/NOKIA-N9...Cell-Phone-White-(2GB-TF-Card)-848-20180.html
LOL you should just bought an HTC Touch Pro if you wanted an atleast decent windows mobile phone for 200 to 800.
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Well sory to tell you, but making a device flashable with other ROM it takes a looooooot of work by professionals, to figure it out how. For every device it's different story. So a device needs a lot of support on some forum, that there is even a chance someone will make ROM for you device. NEVER INSTALL ROM FROM ANOTHER DEVICE. If you do that by by phone.
And your phone being a clone most certainly does not have any forum on the internet at all, so there is almost no chance, that you will be able to change ROM on your device.
But if it has Windows Mobile there is still a lot of customization you can do and settings and hacking to make it work like your want. So phone doesn't react at all when SIM is inside? Couse in WM 6.1 SIM should be detected and do some automatic settings stuff.
There is a chance all that you have to do, to get a signal is set the right band frequenties, the ones your country uses. That is dome somewhere in settings, if you don't know which ones you must set, call your operator.

i think i want one. how do you like yours?

CommanderThor said:
Well sory to tell you, but making a device flashable with other ROM it takes a looooooot of work by professionals, to figure it out how. For every device it's different story. So a device needs a lot of support on some forum, that there is even a chance someone will make ROM for you device. NEVER INSTALL ROM FROM ANOTHER DEVICE. If you do that by by phone.
And your phone being a clone most certainly does not have any forum on the internet at all, so there is almost no chance, that you will be able to change ROM on your device.
But if it has Windows Mobile there is still a lot of customization you can do and settings and hacking to make it work like your want. So phone doesn't react at all when SIM is inside? Couse in WM 6.1 SIM should be detected and do some automatic settings stuff.
There is a chance all that you have to do, to get a signal is set the right band frequenties, the ones your country uses. That is dome somewhere in settings, if you don't know which ones you must set, call your operator.
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The phone reacts to the sim even tells me I have voicemail but it just has the reception thing with a ! next to it and every now a then it will say searching but never pick up anything. Ive been with WM my whole life I think its just a faulty device.

josefcrist said:
i think i want one. how do you like yours?
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Havent gotten a chance to use it it keeps searching for signal as if a bad ROM was flashed to the device but this bad boy or girl I should say is fast.

Rocafella310 said:
Havent gotten a chance to use it it keeps searching for signal as if a bad ROM was flashed to the device but this bad boy or girl I should say is fast.
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cool. why dont you just return it then if it never worked?

The company is all the way in China and its taking forever for them to reply due to the stupid different time zones but please believe Im going to send it back.

Rocafella310 said:
The company is all the way in China and its taking forever for them to reply due to the stupid different time zones but please believe Im going to send it back.
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May I know how much you paid for the device?

poetryrocksalot said:
May I know how much you paid for the device?
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150 not including shipping now its 139 though.

Dark side

Hi guys new here looks a great site, i have htc hd2 getting bored with all the problems im having with it, have had my phone a month now thinking maybe should have got a iphone,
I have problem when texting it says tap to compose text takes forever to get keyboard up
Told everyone my phone is a iphone killer they all want to see whats so good erm, dont know what i can show apart from the lovely animated weather wallpapers

try swype (sorry I don't have a cab link to hand but a quick search should delight you)

thanks for that

See our Leo section for tips, fixes, help, etc: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=531
Oh, Get the Nexus One if u want to go to the darkside!

galaxys said:
Oh, Get the Nexus One if u want to go to the darkside!
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Better yet, the HTC Desire.
And I wouldn't call Android the "dark side". Android's future looks pretty bright
(and no matter what anyone tries to make you believe, the iPhone is a joke, don't waste your money on that - if you want something more "iphoneish" than the HD2, but much much better than an actual iPhone, get the Desire/Nexus One)
Your keyboard problem could be ROM related. What ROM version are you running? Make sure you have at least the official 1.66 ROM.

freyberry said:
the iPhone is a joke, don't waste your money on that
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Have you actually used an iPhone for prolonged time?

Menneisyys said:
Have you actually used an iPhone for prolonged time?
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Yes, I've owned several iPhones...

system dump posted on androidcentral...

Let's the rom cooking begin...

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Let's the rom cooking begin...
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It's already begun. This is a Desire HD. There is plenty already available, including CM7.

what doesnt work on cm7 for it?

Well the thing is, we have to wait n see what bootloader it has, if it the old one or the one that we can downgrade, then we can root, and if we can root, ummm im pretty positive we can flash any rom from the Desire HD rom section.

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Well the thing is, we have to wait n see what bootloader it has, if it the old one or the one that we can downgrade, then we can root, and if we can root, ummm im pretty positive we can flash any rom from the Desire HD rom section.
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I already have a root procedure in mind that I think will work. The HBOOT doesn't matter - the exploit in the newer HTC devices was not in the HBOOT. But the radio version does.

attn1 said:
I already have a root procedure in mind that I think will work. The HBOOT doesn't matter - the exploit in the newer HTC devices was not in the HBOOT. But the radio version does.
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I take it you will be laying down the aria to play with your new Inspire?

aNdroidnut said:
I take it you will be laying down the aria to play with your new Inspire?
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Momentarily. The Aria will still need support for CM. I'm it. This device is established and has good support already. We just need to document the procedure to root and get custom recovery on it, which will be a little more complex than the Euro DHD.

regoice, the great and mighty attn1 has come to the inspire, not sure if its a good thing or not as i still am using my aria but.... oh well.

I will have this phone when it comes out on the 13th, looking forward to some modding. I'm coming from an iphone, JB, customized etc, it's no longer any fun. Hope the roms work and the root is easily attainable, I will be back in here when i get the phone....5 days

I will be getting one of these on launch, though I'm not sure if stores are going to have the phone for a more expensive price than what's shown online. I'm coming from an HTC Fuze and this will be a big improvement for me....now I'll have a nice shiny new gadget to sleep with.
I'm hoping that by some stroke of luck I'll get one that allows sideloading but if not, there are ways around that....I don't like my devices being locked in any way. How long does it generally take to root new phones when they're out? I'm new to Android (been a WM person for quite a few years now) so I'm still trying to read as much as I possibly can about the OS and how it works.

slapdaddy said:
I will be getting one of these on launch, though I'm not sure if stores are going to have the phone for a more expensive price than what's shown online. I'm coming from an HTC Fuze and this will be a big improvement for me....now I'll have a nice shiny new gadget to sleep with.
I'm hoping that by some stroke of luck I'll get one that allows sideloading but if not, there are ways around that....I don't like my devices being locked in any way. How long does it generally take to root new phones when they're out? I'm new to Android (been a WM person for quite a few years now) so I'm still trying to read as much as I possibly can about the OS and how it works.
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I was a WM user for a long time as well.
Once I owned Android Id never go back to anything else.
The complexity of rooting is dependent on the device.
Some phones are rooted even before launch day, hahaha.
Here are 4 links that pretty much break it down for you:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/04/15/rooting-explained-top-5-benefits-of-rooting-your-android-phone/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/01/custom-roms-for-android-explained-and-why-you-want-them/
http://www.firstdroid.com/2010/04/27/rooting-explained-via-android-police/
http://lifehacker.com/#!5342237/five-great-reasons-to-root-your-android-phone

legend221 said:
I was a WM user for a long time as well.
Once I owned Android Id never go back to anything else.
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Also a long time WM user, first Raphael, currently Rhodium. I love HTC devices.
Looking forward to getting the Inspire as well, really thinking that I'll get one at launch. From all indication this should be very similar to DHD. Hopefully the device will be rooted very quick.

I seriously hope we have a root on launch day lol, i mean stock sense is ok but I can only deal w it for so long.

legend221 said:
I was a WM user for a long time as well.
Once I owned Android Id never go back to anything else.
The complexity of rooting is dependent on the device.
Some phones are rooted even before launch day, hahaha.
Here are 4 links that pretty much break it down for you:
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/04/15/rooting-explained-top-5-benefits-of-rooting-your-android-phone/
http://www.androidpolice.com/2010/05/01/custom-roms-for-android-explained-and-why-you-want-them/
http://www.firstdroid.com/2010/04/27/rooting-explained-via-android-police/
http://lifehacker.com/#!5342237/five-great-reasons-to-root-your-android-phone
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Thanks for the information! Yeah I'm looking forward to this Sunday - I'm probably going to just go in the store when it opens and grab one up then waste the ENTIRE DAY tinkering with it and giggling like a baby with candy.
One thing I didn't see in those articles was the radio firmware for the phone. I've installed and tested... quite a few radios on my Fuze in order to achieve the best possible phone and GPS signal I can get. Is this possible once the phone is rooted?

slapdaddy said:
Thanks for the information! Yeah I'm looking forward to this Sunday - I'm probably going to just go in the store when it opens and grab one up then waste the ENTIRE DAY tinkering with it and giggling like a baby with candy.
One thing I didn't see in those articles was the radio firmware for the phone. I've installed and tested... quite a few radios on my Fuze in order to achieve the best possible phone and GPS signal I can get. Is this possible once the phone is rooted?
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Looks like the Canadian version from the carrier Telus launched today. From what I've read we should be able to flash that modems soft/firmware and get the full advantage of functioning hsupa. I also will be wasting my entire day in tinkertown lol.

Oh.Y.Not said:
Also a long time WM user, first Raphael, currently Rhodium. I love HTC devices.
Looking forward to getting the Inspire as well, really thinking that I'll get one at launch. From all indication this should be very similar to DHD. Hopefully the device will be rooted very quick.
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All signs point to yes, undoubtedly we are going to blow this Inspire 4G up with root goodness, then once we get a custom recovery BAM! custom roms are soon to come after that. Overclocking the phone will yield results similar to Dual Core devices as posted by me in another thread.
The real power of this phone will shine brightly after all the above

slapdaddy said:
Thanks for the information! Yeah I'm looking forward to this Sunday - I'm probably going to just go in the store when it opens and grab one up then waste the ENTIRE DAY tinkering with it and giggling like a baby with candy.
One thing I didn't see in those articles was the radio firmware for the phone. I've installed and tested... quite a few radios on my Fuze in order to achieve the best possible phone and GPS signal I can get. Is this possible once the phone is rooted?
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As rwon said our Canadian friends have the Inspire / Desire HD now too, the dev ezterry that brought and continues to provide so much to the HTC Dream / G1 community is from there so the talent is definitely of high caliber up north from us.
The MotoDur Atrix to me is seeming to be a bad product already and it hasn't even launched yet, hahaha

So is it safe to go buy the dhd right now? Think there will be root forthe telus desire hd? I can get contract price out of contract today

legend221 said:
All signs point to yes, undoubtedly we are going to blow this Inspire 4G up with root goodness, then once we get a custom recovery BAM! custom roms are soon to come after that. Overclocking the phone will yield results similar to Dual Core devices as posted by me in another thread.
The real power of this phone will shine brightly after all the above
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I'm very hopeful that that many of the tricks and customization from the DesireHD will be able to be adapted. I want my dual core killing battery sipping 4g hsupa enabled monster on release day

rwon said:
I'm very hopeful that that many of the tricks and customization from the DesireHD will be able to be adapted. I want my dual core killing battery sipping 4g hsupa enabled monster on release day
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I'm with you buddy, we all look forward to such work.
I have the phone as of this afternoon, already put a full body shield so I cant play with it as much as Id like to however.
Tomorrow Ill take it out after the settling in process of the skin.

HTC One S Chinese Clone (Need a working ROM)

I have been living in China and have been having a difficult time finding a decent phone here. Seems that most of the phones end up being clones. A while ago I bought a phone off taobao.com for 1000 RMB (about $150 US).
Anyhow; the phone looks really slick and the hardware seems to be quite nice, but it is obviously a clone. The phone works quite well except for the fact that the Google Play Store does not work at all (I have tried manually adding the most recent Google Play Store apk and that seems to make no difference).
What I am hoping for is that someone can point me in the right direction to where I can go to download a ROM for this phone, or to modify the existing stock ROM.
I ran AnTuTu Benchmark v2.4 and these are the specs it gave me:
Phone Model: HTC ONE S
Brand: HTC
CPU hardware: Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8660
CPU model: ARMv7 Processor rev2 (v7l)
Screen resolution: 540x960
Android version: 4.2.1
Build number: Dual CORE 1.5GHz HTC ONE S ROM 4G+RAM 1GB_FOR AT&T
Linux version 3.0.13
I originally tried a ROM for the HTC ONE S, but it didn't work.
It has ClockworkMod Bootloader on it but it is a weird Chinese version. I tried to put an English version of CWM on but that did not seem to work either.
I chatted (in Chinese that was not very good) with the technical support of the place that sold me the phone to get the stock ROM.
Sum up:
Where do I go to find a ROM for this phone? or what other info about the phone do I need to know to know which rom I can download?
If I can't find a rom to download, is there any way I can hack the existing stock rom to make the Google Play store work?
EDIT: Just downloaded the Phone Tester App and here are some more stats about the phone:
Device
Brand: HTC
Manufacturer: SAMI
Model: HTC ONE S
Product: HTC
CPU: ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v71)
RAM: 473MB
OS
Version: IML74K
Release 4.2.1
Kernel: 3.0.13
SDK: 15
Firmware: eng.andrew.134276301

Lets see a pic? Amazing that they would "clone" the phone yet build with the same specs. In my employer's experience, the "clones" of our products are often built by the same people that build them for us, i.e. our products go out the front door, while the extras go out the back...
EDIT, a little googling shows the MSM8660 is the "S3" variant...odd that it also reports 1.5Ghz which is usually an indicator of the S4, but try heading over the the dev section and see what's listed under [S3]...there isn't much, but some work is being done with a Sensation dev to bring Viper ROM to the S3.
The Android 4.2.1 report is also odd as even the latest JellyBean based CM10 is only at 4.1.1. China is a freaky place for understanding technology.
As I understand it, the Google Play store is only supposed to work on phones that conform to a certain standard, i.e. Android is open source, but the Google Apps have restrictions. Have you tried flashing an entire Gapps package from goo.im...maybe you're also missing some google account stuff that comes along with the Gapps?
You should also remove the IMEI from your post. It's not relevant and can be used by bad people for bad things.

Lets see a pic? Amazing that they would "clone" the phone yet build with the same specs. In my employer's experience, the "clones" of our products are often built by the same people that build them for us, i.e. our products go out the front door, while the extras go out the back...
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Thanks for the reply. I took some photos just now and attached them... hopefully they help solve the riddle to what this phone actually is.
One sketchy aspect of this phone is how much storage space it has. It looks like it has 4GB or memory; 1GB is partitioned to use for installing apps which leaves 3GB that has been partitioned as the SDCARD. When I put an actual sdcard in, it shows that I have two sdcards.
EDIT, a little googling shows the MSM8660 is the "S3" variant...odd that it also reports 1.5Ghz which is usually an indicator of the S4, but try heading over the the dev section and see what's listed under [S3]...there isn't much, but some work is being done with a Sensation dev to bring Viper ROM to the S3.
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I will try that. Good suggestion. I will let you know if I have any luck there.
The Android 4.2.1 report is also odd as even the latest JellyBean based CM10 is only at 4.1.1. China is a freaky place for understanding technology.
As I understand it, the Google Play store is only supposed to work on phones that conform to a certain standard, i.e. Android is open source, but the Google Apps have restrictions. Have you tried flashing an entire Gapps package from goo.im...maybe you're also missing some google account stuff that comes along with the Gapps?
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Yeah... I think the actual version is 4.0. Not sure how they got the 4.2 unless that have some sort of secret society going on (which they probably do... just not with Google). Notable things that don't work: The Play Store, Voice commands, Face unlock (renders the phone useless when you do this... had to do a factory reset), and CWM Backup... which reminds me... I should take some pictures of CWM.
I have tried flashing Gapps, but it really didn't change anything. Still could not use the Play Store. The only difference I noticed when adding Gapps is that when I would hold the power button, it only showed the options for Power Off or Reboot. Before I added Gapps it also had the option for Airplane mode. I tried modding the ROM a bit but every time I added or left out APKs it made it so that the ROM would not flash (my understanding of modding ROMs is next to nothing).
You should also remove the IMEI from your post. It's not relevant and can be used by bad people for bad things.
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Thanks for the heads up. Thought about that as I put it on... Not really sure what the IMEI is, but I no longer have it listed.

Crazy! I wonder if it's actually a Sensation or similar? The little things like the misaligned beatsaudio logo are funny. Looks to me like it's not running Sense, but likely a CM variant (the status icons look right) with some sort of clock app to make it look like Sense (the AOSP Gallery, etc also give it away). BTW, they just added the "dual core" stuff to the build line, so it doesn't mean anything at all...I think the S3 is an overclocked single core?
Don't know much about it, but I've heard of an app called "Market Enabler" that some people need to use in other countries...could just let them download US apps though.

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Don't know much about it, but I've heard of an app called "Market Enabler" that some people need to use in other countries...could just let them download US apps though.
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That is a good suggestion. I bought a tablet here, and that actually solved a problem for that tablet. Actually; my girlfriend has a tablet and another HTC fake clone. On those, the play stores worked, but didn't show all the apps. The Market Enabler (I think I actually use the Market Unlocker, but have tried both) solves that problem.
The problem with the Play Store on my phone is that it just will not load at all.
I have also tried VPNs thinking that might help solve something, but no VPN will connect on my phone. Seems a bit suspicious because I have an older HTC phone that I brought from America and using all the same VPNs work just fine on that phone.

Here are some more pictures. It shows the ROM I am flashing from the "CWM-Based Recovery."
One other thing I should note. I went to an actual HTC store here to compare this phone with a real HTC One S, and this one looks very close, but is a bit thicker.

I wish we could swap out our battery lol.

PcFish said:
I wish we could swap out our battery lol.
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The real HTC One S does not let you swap out the battery? I guess that is what having a thin phone does for you. I think we can all thank apple for that one.

mckayc said:
The real HTC One S does not let you swap out the battery? I guess that is what having a thin phone does for you. I think we can all thank apple for that one.
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Yeah, on the real one, only a little part comes off the top of the back, maybe 1/3 of the back, to reveal the microsim and no SD slot.

Why don't you buy phones from Meizu or Xiaomi? i guess they are a little bit more expensive but at least you have a very good support from devs community. Buy a clone phone for $150 is kind expensive to me. :good:

tritran18518 said:
Why don't you buy phones from Meizu or Xiaomi? i guess they are a little bit more expensive but at least you have a very good support from devs community. Buy a clone phone for $150 is kind expensive to me. :good:
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In retrospect I am sure I would have done quite a few things differently. Didn't know about those other websites, so thanks for putting them up.
Got an new app to help me know some of the hardware on my phone:
CPU Type: Mediatek MT6575 x 1 1 Ghz
Phone Type: JiaYu G2 / Generic MT6575 board / AussiePAD / H928
RAM memory module: 512 Mb DDR (Usable: 473)
GPU Type: PowerVR SGX 531 (single core GPU)

You probably can't connect because your time settings are in correct. Go to date and time. Set it to auto.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SIII

gordonzhao said:
You probably can't connect because your time settings are in correct. Go to date and time. Set it to auto.
Sent from my Samsung Galaxy SIII
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Just checked. Date and time is fine. Already set to auto. Play store still not working.

My sister bought a clone of an iPhone and the store never worked. This was because it was nothing more than a phone, some preinstalled games and a dialer. I wouldn't be surprised to find that your phone doesnt even run android, but instead something that looks like android.

ECEXCURSION said:
My sister bought a clone of an iPhone and the store never worked. This was because it was nothing more than a phone, some preinstalled games and a dialer. I wouldn't be surprised to find that your phone doesnt even run android, but instead something that looks like android.
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I can upload and install apk files just fine, so I think it really is Android. There are some Chinese replacement markets that I can use like the Play Store, but I don't really like any of them (nor do I trust any of them).

Interesting photos..
The flash is on the other side of the camera,
The little speaker (or mic?) next to the camera isn't there on the Ville,
The HTC logo is an outy instead of an inny.
The top cover is way larger
Android 4.2.1 ? Really??!
Firmware: eng.andrew.134276301
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^^^ Do you happen to be S-Off?
-Jobo

touch of jobo said:
Do you happen to be S-Off?
-Jobo
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Good question. I doubt it. For me to get into recovery mode, I have to hold down the Volume up with the power button (I think the real phone is supposed to be volume down).
Once I am in recovery mode I get the following options for reset:
Reboot - (this reboots the phone)
Recovery - (this reboots into recovery)
Fastboot (BootLoader) - (this appears to not work as it just reboots my phone)
I honestly don't know much about S-Off (had to look it up when you wrote). It seems like I can check the status in hboot, but I don't know how to boot my phone to that. I tried volume down and power but that didn't do anything.
Is there another way to check to see if I am in S-Off?
Thanks.
EDIT: I just downloaded a program to boot my phone into the bootloader. Tried it on a real HTC phone and it worked fine. Didn't work on this phone. My suspicion is that there isn't even a bootloader. I think S-Off is an HTC thing... which apparently, a fake HTC is not HTC.

Just found a review of my phone here!
http://www.gizchina.com/2012/06/30/exclusive-htc-knock-review/
Does not say where to get the ROM, but at least I now know I am not the only person in the world with this phone.

Just download the apps u want from 4shared then ?
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k1llacanon said:
Just download the apps u want from 4shared then ?
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What do you mean? How can I get the files from 4shared? I just want to know which ROM I can download that would work. Normal ROMs for the HTC One S don't work.