Hello, using my husband's old skyrocket as main driver, pleasantly surprised with how much I'm enjoying using it...thought there'd be more lag etc. And was thrilled to find continued development. (Couldn't find my old sign in info BTW) Anyway apparently I'd rooted and unlocked it and put a gingerbread debloated stock rom on it when he first got it, as that was there...tried candy 5, loved, but needed more app space. Tried app2sd and just messed that up...Tried cyanogen, read instructions, did things a little differently (unintentionally) at first, somehow not registering the fact that the official twrp was for virtually repartitioning, tried to repartition it in the modified version, of course it didn't work, finally gave up and flashed ROM anyway and gapps (tried both nano and pico from link. )
I'm not sure how but it did install and basically seemed tp work, the only issue seemed to be keyboard force closing and later the browser and root issues. I wondered if something I had done originally with phone contributed to why it installed if it shouldn't have been able to. MMS (cricket) won't work on this or candy5, tried several radios and apns.
Anyway I saw what I did wrong with twrps, figured that would fix things, virtually partitioned correctly, seemed to have same issues and intact kept adding more... tried many times: wiping reformatting, clean install, dirty, reflashing whatever...it just seemed worse every time...everything force closing including settings.
I have no clue what happened, what I was doing wrong, gapps I read should have a script added to the ROM to prevent the force closing, and Im assuming it is there....also though a couple times offered to have rooted in twrp it never seemed to do it, never worked right if I tried anything manually instead, caused more shutdowns. Something abt pit file in instrutions makes me wonder if something i had done before could cause issues? Cant remember what that was specifically though. Thanks! And I apologize if this is hard to follow or or makes no sense. Probably. BC it really doesn't haha....BTW I did read anything I could find so if I a missed something obvious I apologize.
T.Leela said:
Hello, using my husband's old skyrocket as main driver, pleasantly surprised with how much I'm enjoying using it...thought there'd be more lag etc. And was thrilled to find continued development. (Couldn't find my old sign in info BTW) Anyway apparently I'd rooted and unlocked it and put a gingerbread debloated stock rom on it when he first got it, as that was there...tried candy 5, loved, but needed more app space. Tried app2sd and just messed that up...Tried cyanogen, read instructions, did things a little differently (unintentionally) at first, somehow not registering the fact that the official twrp was for virtually repartitioning, tried to repartition it in the modified version, of course it didn't work, finally gave up and flashed ROM anyway and gapps (tried both nano and pico from link. )
I'm not sure how but it did install and basically seemed tp work, the only issue seemed to be keyboard force closing and later the browser and root issues. I wondered if something I had done originally with phone contributed to why it installed if it shouldn't have been able to. MMS (cricket) won't work on this or candy5, tried several radios and apns.
Anyway I saw what I did wrong with twrps, figured that would fix things, virtually partitioned correctly, seemed to have same issues and intact kept adding more... tried many times: wiping reformatting, clean install, dirty, reflashing whatever...it just seemed worse every time...everything force closing including settings.
I have no clue what happened, what I was doing wrong, gapps I read should have a script added to the ROM to prevent the force closing, and Im assuming it is there....also though a couple times offered to have rooted in twrp it never seemed to do it, never worked right if I tried anything manually instead, caused more shutdowns. Something abt pit file in instrutions makes me wonder if something i had done before could cause issues? Cant remember what that was specifically though. Thanks! And I apologize if this is hard to follow or or makes no sense. Probably. BC it really doesn't haha....BTW I did read anything I could find so if I a missed something obvious I apologize.
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You need to flash stock GApps. Dunno why, but for some reason it just works.
And with the repartition, you have more than enough space for that.
By the way, the Settings FCs are from a bad update. Flash 12/6 and you're good.
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After the first time I flashed my phone I could never make GPS work again, and the GPS signal was already weak before flashing.
Now I've flashed it again and when testing with GPS TEST app, it said the GPS was ON, so I left the phone running the application the whole night, when I woke up, and it still couldn't get a lock.
Have already followed the procedure of using engineering mode to download EPO and use the AGPS thing, the network doesn't seem to be helping at all, it finds the satellites, but the lock won't work. I've even opened my phone and enhanced the GPS antenna by soldering a copper wire followed by an aluminium (Isolated with electric tape), I know this method improves the signal because I've done that with the WiFi and SIM antennas, the signals were improved by 65%, but the GPS? No can do.
I suspect the phone isn't recognizing the GPS hardware, that I still have to do something else, like installing a "driver" or something. I not even get a weak signal, nothing, it's like my phone's GPS hardware never existed. Get it? I got a feeling that the phone isn't recognizing the GPS hardware.
Another question, does the BT (Bluetooth) code in SN Write software has something to do with it? Because after flashing the phone, it is necessary to configure the IMEI and BT.
matheussousuke said:
After the first time I flashed my phone I could never make GPS work again, and the GPS signal was already weak before flashing.
Now I've flashed it again and when testing with GPS TEST app, it said the GPS was ON, so I left the phone running the application the whole night, when I woke up, and it still couldn't get a lock.
Have already followed the procedure of using engineering mode to download EPO and use the AGPS thing, the network doesn't seem to be helping at all, it finds the satellites, but the lock won't work. I've even opened my phone and enhanced the GPS antenna by soldering a copper wire followed by an aluminium (Isolated with electric tape), I know this method improves the signal because I've done that with the WiFi and SIM antennas, the signals were improved by 65%, but the GPS? No can do.
I suspect the phone isn't recognizing the GPS hardware, that I still have to do something else, like installing a "driver" or something. I not even get a weak signal, nothing, it's like my phone's GPS hardware never existed. Get it? I got a feeling that the phone isn't recognizing the GPS hardware.
Another question, does the BT (Bluetooth) code in SN Write software has something to do with it? Because after flashing the phone, it is necessary to configure the IMEI and BT.
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What did you flash your phone with exactly ? Most ROMs released recently have GPS and VPN bugs.
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What did you flash your phone with exactly ? Most ROMs released recently have GPS and VPN bugs.
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Original Stock Rom found at Doogee blog. Also tried the upgraded version, found in the same site. Only the upgraded version works well, the older one has a bug in the video.
I tried all the steps cited before, so would that be a problem with the ROMS?
Then what do you think about custom roms? I found some here, I'm willing to try them:
http://www.mtkroms.com/p/mtk-6572-custom-roms.html
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Original Stock Rom found at Doogee blog. Also tried the upgraded version, found in the same site. Only the upgraded version works well, the older one has a bug in the video.
I tried all the steps cited before, so would that be a problem with the ROMS?
Then what do you think about custom roms? I found some here, I'm willing to try them:
http://www.mtkroms.com/p/mtk-6572-custom-roms.html
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Custom ROMs are better just read known issues or bug list before flashing custom ROMs though.all the best.
Oops, the site mtkroms have only general ROMs if you flash you'll get bootloop unless you port the downloaded ROM for your phone
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Custom ROMs are better just read known issues or bug list before flashing custom ROMs though.all the best.
Oops, the site mtkroms have only general ROMs if you flash you'll get bootloop unless you port the downloaded ROM for your phone
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Thx, I noticed that rom port part. Well, where can I find custom mtk roms?
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Thx, I noticed that rom port part. Well, where can I find custom mtk roms?
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Don't search for your chipset roms search for your phone or you'll brick it.
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Don't search for your chipset roms search for your phone or you'll brick it.
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Not true at all. See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526106 I have this phone, have ported and used every single mtk6572 rom available, none of them enable GPS at all, this chipset is useless for that.
Any roms you need or want, jb4.2, then let me know. I'll either have it already or will quicly port it for you, but that is such an easy thing to do anyway: http://computerplusandroid.blogspot.com/2015/09/mtk-porting-guide-for-jellybean-same-soc.html
Find an mtk6572 rom you like, port it as described above, then flash it. NONE of them have GPS working well, I've tried so, so many. Just find one you like the look of. Mediamod v5 is a good one, and lollifox also.
http://the-daffi.blogspot.co.uk/ good list of roms, its in Indonesian but just download the links based on screenshots simple way is download it, unzip it, swap the boot.img from your working rom into the rom folder you just unzipped, copying over it. Then highlight SYSTEM, METAINF and BOOT.IMG with the mouse, and zip it back up as a .zip. Then flash that. If that boots and you like the look of it, then properly port it, all the .lib files, all etc files and things to make it work well.
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Not true at all. See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2526106 I have this phone, have ported and used every single mtk6572 rom available, none of them enable GPS at all, this chipset is useless for that.
Any roms you need or want, jb4.2, then let me know. I'll either have it already or will quicly port it for you, but that is such an easy thing to do anyway: http://computerplusandroid.blogspot.com/2015/09/mtk-porting-guide-for-jellybean-same-soc.html
Find an mtk6572 rom you like, port it as described above, then flash it. NONE of them have GPS working well, I've tried so, so many. Just find one you like the look of. Mediamod v5 is a good one, and lollifox also.
http://the-daffi.blogspot.co.uk/ good list of roms, its in Indonesian but just download the links based on screenshots simple way is download it, unzip it, swap the boot.img from your working rom into the rom folder you just unzipped, copying over it. Then highlight SYSTEM, METAINF and BOOT.IMG with the mouse, and zip it back up as a .zip. Then flash that. If that boots and you like the look of it, then properly port it, all the .lib files, all etc files and things to make it work well.
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What I meant was downloading a ROM developed for chipset say 6582 and then flashing right away would result in install failure or a bootloop etc.. So I just told him to search for one that's already ported for his phone.
I know downloading ROM from mtkroms and replacing some files ,decompiling boot.IMG etc are easy but most I guys talked this to didn't wanna go through all that hassle.
And about GPS some ROMs I tried GPS works others didn't so I thought flashing another would work I admit I'm not that knowledgeable ,was trying to help sorry.
you can port 6582/9280 to 6572 as well, its just harder. I have/had this phone and then bought one for my son, his was brand new, untouched and GPS didnt work even then
robneymcplum said:
you can port 6582/9280 to 6572 as well, its just harder. I have/had this phone and then bought one for my son, his was brand new, untouched and GPS didnt work even then
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I use lenovo a5000 GPS works fine on kk/lp based ROMs but not on marsh based ROMs cuz it was a bug that came at the time of compiling forms source .
But you guy's problem sound more like a hardware
Defect in the phone than the ROMs. Best contact your phones customer care if they're still alive . unbelievable how a company can mess up on a vital component of phone like GPS.
I think its country dependant, it works fine in China according to forums, I'm UK and it doesnt and has never worked, and can only get JB roms as there is no kernal available for even KitKat
Thx fellas.
@robneymcplum Please, if you can port the ROM for me, I'll be very thank you. I've read the ROM porting tutorial, but didn't understand the last parts, stuff like de-compiling and compiling the boot.img.
@[email protected] They're more alive than ever, and still manufacturing those things....
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I think its country dependant, it works fine in China according to forums, I'm UK and it doesnt and has never worked, and can only get JB roms as there is no kernal available for even KitKat
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By the way, I made it work once, I was at a high place and I could get my location using Sygic.
This phone has 7 antennas, where 4 antennas are the GND (Ground) part of each receptor.
You have to build a custom antenna for each one of them, soldering a small piece of iron or aluminum solves that problem. By using this method I was able to improve the wifi and SIM signals a lot. The only problem is that you have to very careful not to unsold the antennas of the board.
So following that logic, I conclude that the GPS not getting a lock is definitely a Hardware issue, I also forgot to mention that I went to an open space to get the signal. I can't get a lock on a single satellite, it is very frustrating, definitely not buying from those guys ever again.
Beside the GPS not working, this phone's touch screen is average, this phone's camera is horrible, this phone's internal memory for both applications and storage is terrible, this phone speaker is low, the headsets are annoying (They hurt your ear after using them sometime), the hardware isn't that great (Dual core with 512 RAM), so after seeing all the trouble I've got into, I should have bought a galaxy s4 by the time I bought that one, I had even sold my galaxy s3, thought I was saving, when I reflect about all the feature I've "lost" when I decided to save money, and it isn't a big difference between this phone's price and a galaxy s4.
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I think its country dependant, it works fine in China according to forums, I'm UK and it doesnt and has never worked, and can only get JB roms as there is no kernal available for even KitKat
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I've only seen now that you've mentioned the country part.
I've been searching all day long and I found out that there is a way to not only download the country based gps.config file, but also use GLONASS (A russian supported GPS version like thing).
Also saw people saying they've last their GPS after Jelly Bean Upgrade.
Just flashed a newer rom that I've found here, still no luck. Now Loading....
PS: If it works fine in China, then there is a hope....
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I think its country dependant, it works fine in China according to forums, I'm UK and it doesnt and has never worked, and can only get JB roms as there is no kernal available for even KitKat
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Lenovo ***ed up with our update for lollipop overheating ,battery drain etc so the guys at 4pda filed a petition so lenovo would release the source code and they did.
And the lads also have released custom kernel 3.4.67 and 3.10.54. I could only find recovery development in 4pda for your phone though.
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Lenovo ***ed up with our update for lollipop overheating ,battery drain etc so the guys at 4pda filed a petition so lenovo would release the source code and they did.
And the lads also have released custom kernel 3.4.67 and 3.10.54. I could only find recovery development in 4pda for your phone though.
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Just replaced the gps.config with one from my country. No can do.
It seems to be a problem related to that version of jelly bean.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_A_RDn2fPEwNkhONW1CSVZ4OFk
This is the rom I'm using, seems to be the best for looks vs performance for all the ones Ive found, BACK UP your rom first in CWM just to be sure. Porting is easy, you dont need to recompile boot.img, just copy/paste your boot.img from the rom you are using now into the rom you have downloaded, is really easy. This rom here, 'should' work fine, but if it wont boot then its a boot image issue, simply unzip this rom, copy over your current boot.img and then rezip it back up. Dead easy I then change build.prop screen density to 190 if it isnt already, developer settings and change all the animations/windows to the lowest settings, I use nova launcher as I prefer it.
I then use xposed with holothemer to theme the settings to android L
gravitybox for the usual tweaks
bootmanager to stop various things from starting
and what ever else you need, with greenify and google play services removed, I have a resting RAM of 130/150 free with 2 day battery life.
robneymcplum said:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_A_RDn2fPEwNkhONW1CSVZ4OFk
This is the rom I'm using, seems to be the best for looks vs performance for all the ones Ive found, BACK UP your rom first in CWM just to be sure. Porting is easy, you dont need to recompile boot.img, just copy/paste your boot.img from the rom you are using now into the rom you have downloaded, is really easy. This rom here, 'should' work fine, but if it wont boot then its a boot image issue, simply unzip this rom, copy over your current boot.img and then rezip it back up. Dead easy I then change build.prop screen density to 190 if it isnt already, developer settings and change all the animations/windows to the lowest settings, I use nova launcher as I prefer it.
I then use xposed with holothemer to theme the settings to android L
gravitybox for the usual tweaks
bootmanager to stop various things from starting
and what ever else you need, with greenify and google play services removed, I have a resting RAM of 130/150 free with 2 day battery life.
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Thx, I'll make sure to try it. Sorry for not having answered before, this site didn't show me there were new replies here. I decided to come to inform you guys that I found out why the GPS issue is happening. It's a NVRAM bug, I'm 99% sure. I've seen people saying they lost GPS feature after they flashed their phones and it was because of VRAM.
You can check it out here: http://www.chinaphonearena.com/forum/Thread-iNew-v3-NVRAM-download-backup-restore-tar-bin-files
I already had suspected before if it was the VRAM because the first thing you see on the phone after flashing is a ERROR VRAM in wifi networks. I wondered if that was the case, but until yesterday I couldn't find anything related to that, a few hours ago I found. Too bad I screwed with my AGPS, GPS and EPO files replacing files from stock rom. I guess I'll have to flash it again. Right now I'm looking for a NVRAM file. Man, you have no clue how I prayed to fix this thing., I was about to buy phone, not a Chinese one though (Not going to make that mistake again in my life... ever). lol
robneymcplum said:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B_A_RDn2fPEwNkhONW1CSVZ4OFk
This is the rom I'm using, seems to be the best for looks vs performance for all the ones Ive found, BACK UP your rom first in CWM just to be sure. Porting is easy, you dont need to recompile boot.img, just copy/paste your boot.img from the rom you are using now into the rom you have downloaded, is really easy. This rom here, 'should' work fine, but if it wont boot then its a boot image issue, simply unzip this rom, copy over your current boot.img and then rezip it back up. Dead easy I then change build.prop screen density to 190 if it isnt already, developer settings and change all the animations/windows to the lowest settings, I use nova launcher as I prefer it.
I then use xposed with holothemer to theme the settings to android L
gravitybox for the usual tweaks
bootmanager to stop various things from starting
and what ever else you need, with greenify and google play services removed, I have a resting RAM of 130/150 free with 2 day battery life.
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About the rom you provided: What files should I port into the boot.img? All the files from current rom boot.img or some specific files?
PS: Is that ROM bugless?
matheussousuke said:
About the rom you provided: What files should I port into the boot.img? All the files from current rom boot.img or some specific files?
PS: Is that ROM bugless?
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Apart from the GPS rom is faultless. Do this ONLY if it wont boot, it should work straight away though.
Dont need to add/remove anything from the boot.img, copy it as a whole file.