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[Q] HTC HDmini and Android: Problem by Start it

Hello,
today i would start in the Android World with my HTC HDmini.
I used this thread to go on it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1002178
But: whatever i do (format SDcard etc.): only what i see is "HaRET: Botting Linux...." and then the device is freeze'd.
No clue why. I checked also the other way with the Bootmanager-Tool but the same issue.
Anyone a Idea? My SD-card is a 4GB HC from Sandisk. I waited longer as 1 hour before i hard reset my device.
***cry*** :°°°°(
Thanks for Investigations and Support.
Frank

Hello,
the Problem is Solved now. I changed the SD-Card (now i use a KINGSTON) and it works fine!

Zopo ZP100 (MediaTek MT6575) - ICS upgrade guide

Since there isn't much information (in English) about how to upgrade the Zopo ZP100 phone to ICS I've now done it myself (after reading a lot of Russian forums using Google Translate I finally took the plunge into the deep end of the pool and just did it).
Files needed
ICS ROM (b79):
http://narod.ru/disk/48456521001.ee...T75_h932_b79_pulid_sw 20120428-14151.rar.html
Root:
http://files.dangerd.org/pub/ZP100//zopo zp100 4.0ROOT by008.rar
Flashtool:
http://narod.ru/disk/44888871001.ee...6c3e795/SP_Flash_Tool_exe_v3.1206.01.zip.html
USB Drivers (and a flashtool I didn't use):
http://chinamobiles.org/downloads/zap/ZP100fix.zip
CWM Recovery:
http://files.dangerd.org/pub/ZP100//recovery.img
First of all: Make a note of your IMEI-number(s)
Download the files and unpack all (in seperate folders).
Shutdown the phone and plug it in via USB, Windows will search for a driver which you find in the package ZP100fix.zip (different inf-files depending on windows version).
Unplug phone, remove the battery.
Replace the recovery.img from the ICS ROM with the one downloaded seperately.
Start flashutil.
Load Scatter-file: MT6575_Android_scatter_emmc2.txt
Make sure that Options -> USB Mode is selected.
Click Download
Connect phone (still with no battery, at least I had to leave it out).
Flashing begins.
When all is done it displays an "OK window".
Now reboot the phone and when booted connect to USB again and run Root.bat from the package: zopo zp100 4.0root by008"
Follow on-screen instructions.
I did not need to install any separate Google Apps, it was included in the ROM.
Now you need to add some IMEI-numbers to your phone.
In the original ROM I could only ever see one IMEI for my zp100, so I wrote that down.
IMEI2 I took from an old Nokia I hadn't used for a few years.
Use terminal app or adb shell or whatever to execute the following (replace IMEI_1 and IMEI_2 with your IMEI's):
echo 'AT + EGMR = 1,7, "IMEI_1"'> /dev/pttycmd1
echo 'AT + EGMR = 1,10, "IMEI_2"'> /dev/pttycmd1
Update: Zopo IMEI Tool in English can be downloaded from here: http://depositfiles.com/files/wi41lcuvb (should eliminate the need for the terminal-hack above). If the system language on your phone isn't set to English the utility will be displayed in Chinese by default, so setup your phone to use English before running it.
If you want your external sdcard mounted as /sdcard (/mnt/sdcard) instead of /mnt/sdcard2 you have to replace the /etc/vold.fstab with the following:
http://www.cactuz.net/files/zp100/vold.fstab
Use root-explorer (make a backup of the old one) to replace it, then shutdown your phone and remove the battery, then plug it all back in and start again and your external sdcard shoudl be mounted on /sdcard (/mnt/sdcard) instead.
Hope this helps.
I'll report back here with any bugs etc.
To use RecoveryMod I have to chose it from the menu in MobileUncle Tools or ClockWorkMod Rom Manager, I have not been able to boot to CWM using VolUp+Power.

Some of my favorite apps can't be downloaded from Google Play Market:
Vignette
Endomondo Pro
Snowstorm Weather Widget
GPS Status
I have been able to restore them all using MyBackup Pro and they are running fine, they just aren't compatible according to Play Market.
So any app you really need is good to make a backup of using MyBackup (or Titanium or any other backup app of your choice) so you can restore it if it can't be installed using market after the ICS upgrade.
Note that all these apps can be installed fine on my other devices using ICS (HTC Desire with CM9 and Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000 with CM9 or AOKP) so it's this ROM that is the issue AFAIK.

Thank you ... I'll follow up in a couple weeks
Ordered my zopo yesterday (for the second time -- waited 2 weeks from the first store (merimobiles) and then cancelled when they still hadn't shipped it. Hopefully I'll have better luck this time.)
I appreciate you posting this info and will try it out when I get the phone.

Good luck Dave,
I ordered mine from etotalk.com, got it in about a week with DHL used for shipping.
I've updated the first post with some more info in regards to RecoveryMod and mounting external SDcard as /mnt/sdcard (/sdcard).
Since I use this phone daily I will probably not experiment much with it until any new official release is available. But the current one (b79) is good enough.
There are quite a lot of crappy chinese apps (crappy since I don't know what they do and they aren't translated into a language I can understand) installed with this ROM bit they can all be removed using the normal App-menu in the system settings.

imei no.
hello, u said that u have write the imei no. of old nokia phone which u don't use. i want to know that can i also change both the imei no. as i m from india and in india only valid imei no. works, and i m planning to purchase this phone but i am afraid that if the imei no. are not according to india then it will not work so i just wanted to know that if i write my old dual sim phone imei to zopo zp100, will it work without any problem.

rohit: I can't say for sure if the phone actually reports two IMEI's to the service provider, but at least it displays two IMEI's when I check "About phone" in the sytem settings.
Sorry I can't say if it works or not in India.

hello
hyy , i have ihtc one x aka b79 , followed your procedure it works gr8. but i am facing a problem with usb mass storage and am not able to lock into gps any possibilities to fix this error? and does anyone has an access to orignal android 2.3.4 rom for b79 , to restore to previous bug free state?

DaveKnowsAll said:
Ordered my zopo yesterday (for the second time -- waited 2 weeks from the first store (merimobiles) and then cancelled when they still hadn't shipped it. Hopefully I'll have better luck this time.)
I appreciate you posting this info and will try it out when I get the phone.
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hiii from which website did u ordered this phone i am also planning to ordere thinking to order from ttmalls.com is it trustable

official android 4.0 is announced.

Newby with ZP100
I have bought a ZP100 with Pandawill.
Received yesterday. Wait around 10 days from China to France
It seems to be ok but there is no Android Market application (or Android Play store)
So i cannot download my applications that i bought with older phone and my phone is not interesting without applications
There is a chinese application looks like a chinese android market but ... i am french and chinese is only beautiful drawings for me.
I difficultly download some but cannot find others
If i change ICS (what is ICS ? System ?) will i resolve my problem ?
I download 2 files (http://www.zopomobile.com/xiazai.php) this morning but i don't know how to install it and afraid there is only chinese language
MP_MT75_h932_h5500_zwx_20120419-203646_ZYQ_PC.rar
ZP100_20120510new4.0.rar (think is the last android version)
I flashed ROM very often on Windows mobile samsung phones i900 and GTi8000 but i don't know Android (just install Android as 2nd system on GTi8000 Samsung). Hope someone can explain me what to do to improve the basic system
Other problem : sometimes i have no network on the 2 SIMs, all stop. I must stop and reboot the phone. Has somebody the same problem ?
Last : how to switch to recovery mode ?
Thanks

@cuctaz
Can you execute nandroid backup/restore in the recovery mode?
E:Can't mount /cache/recovery

ZP100 and ICS upgrade experiences
Hi Guys,
I bought the ZP100 1,5 weeks ago from etotalk.com.
After 1 week i tried to upgrade to ICS about this and Colonel ZAP's description.
My experiences with the ICS upgrade:
When i received the phone, on that was etotalk v1.0 firmware.
It is a very good customized rooted ROM, works fast and it has just some minor bugs.
The only problem was, it could only read the internal storage, when i insert an external SD card. It was strange, but i accept it programming defects.
I downloaded the official 2.3.6 and this B79 ICS, VCOM (Flash) drivers and the flash program.
At first, i downloaded the ClockWorkMod Recovery for chinese phones.
Unfortunately it is make a factory reset on the phone, but after you customize it, you can make full backup about your ROM.
IMPORTANT! Copy the backup to your computer, because the ICS ROM formatted my external SD
This is very recommended, because...
At first i installed the linked B79 ICS ROM.
The default language is chinese, but it contains english, so if you know the android, it is not a challenge to change it. It couldn't read the internal memory neither, just after format it.
It wasn't rooted, and deleted IMEI. When i tried to root (different way as 2.3.6, need USB debug mode and ADB) the Windows doesn't recognize the ADB driver. The driver wasn't in Android SDK, and i can't download it (i haven't tried it on Linux yet). For a moment Windows showed it found HTC Dream device. I downloaded HTC drivers, but it didn't work with it neither.
Without this you can't restore the IMEI.
Ok, go back to the official 2.3.6.
I flashed it back. Almost the same effects. Default chinese language, the internal memory cannot readable. I could root it and install CWM recovery back.
Basically it doesn't contains Play store, but you can install it.
The ROM full of chinese programmes and my experience was it is very unstable.
I uninstalled the chinese programmes, and installed Play store. When i wanted make a call, the phone restarts. The Google Play Store froze every time.
Finally i restore back the etotalk ROM, and i use it.
Maybe if i have time/mood i will install the official ICS, but about my experiences i have doubts with it.
p.s.: in about 30C outside temperature i used the phone (installing programmes). After 10 minutes using it sings that the battery is too hot, remove it from the phone.
Is any other better quality battery what is compatible with this phone? thanks
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Hi jbctiong,
I used CWM recovery 5.5.0.4.
Just carefully, because it make a full factory reset.
And you need to insert an external SD card

carabaothai said:
I have bought a ZP100 with Pandawill.
Received yesterday. Wait around 10 days from China to France
It seems to be ok but there is no Android Market application (or Android Play store)
So i cannot download my applications that i bought with older phone and my phone is not interesting without applications
There is a chinese application looks like a chinese android market but ... i am french and chinese is only beautiful drawings for me.
I difficultly download some but cannot find others
If i change ICS (what is ICS ? System ?) will i resolve my problem ?
I download 2 files (http://www.zopomobile.com/xiazai.php) this morning but i don't know how to install it and afraid there is only chinese language
MP_MT75_h932_h5500_zwx_20120419-203646_ZYQ_PC.rar
ZP100_20120510new4.0.rar (think is the last android version)
I flashed ROM very often on Windows mobile samsung phones i900 and GTi8000 but i don't know Android (just install Android as 2nd system on GTi8000 Samsung). Hope someone can explain me what to do to improve the basic system
Other problem : sometimes i have no network on the 2 SIMs, all stop. I must stop and reboot the phone. Has somebody the same problem ?
Last : how to switch to recovery mode ?
Thanks
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go to this link you will be able to fix android market
http://colonelzap.blogspot.in/2012/04/zopo-zp100-rooting-and-market-fix.html

@rohit_shah000
Thanks for the link i will check
@vzzoli
Thanks for your experiences
What is the ClockWorkMod Recovery for chinese phones.
WHy you needed it ?
Now we can download the 4.0 official
Somebody try it ?

hello carabaothai,
I used it for backup/restore my ROM.
But you can use nandroid backup too.

Sorry for my abscence from this thread, I've been busy all weekend actually tuning a car instead of my phone
buntybauva: I've got no problems with USB Mass Storage, could you explain what problems you experience?
I made a nandroid backup of the old ROM, but I haven't used it so don't actually know if it works.
rohit: I ordered mine from etotalk.com
carabaothai:I forgot to mention that the ICS-rom I linked to (and flashed myself) is in Chinese as default, but can be changed to English using the System Settings, luckily there are icons in there so you can find the symbol for language (hint for anyone who doesn't know: It's an "A").
ICS = Ice Cream Sandwich (Android 4.0)
I have not experienced problems with loosing network on the SIM cards.
jbctiong: I had not tried any nandroid backup/recovery yet, tested right now and it doesn't seem to be able to actually do any backup. Some mount errors for sdcard.
vzzoli: Thank you for sharing your experiences.
I agree that the etotalk-ROM is quite good, but I always want the latest stuff on my gadgets
I have not had any issues with reading my sdcard nor in etotalk-rom or in the later ICS-rom.
The ICS rom did not format my external SD. But one should always make a backup of course (I backup my SDcard before every flash I try).
One bug I found in the current ROM is that the Cam/Videocam-switch on the phone doesn't make any difference what position it's in.
I'm going to see what the russian forum says about the official release, I'm quite happy with the one I'm currently running so no real need to change, but there could be performance reasons to change or maybe something else.

I downloaded to the "official" ROM and updated my phone
I think this is the same ROM as B79, just renamed the version.
Remove the IMEI, not rooted, other MTP driver needed etc.
@cactuz:
What operating system did you use for root the phone?
I'm using Windows, and the new official ICS ROM wants different ADB drivers than the 2.3.6.
Without this, i can't root it, and restore IMEI.
Buntybauva's mass storage problem maybe that the Windows recognize the ICS phone as media device, but can't mount as usb mass storage without a third party program

vzzoli: I used Win7 32bit when I rooted the phone, used the scripts supplied in one of the links in my initial post.
When I restored the IMEI I used Linux since that is my prefered choice whenever using ADB.
I can't check right now what version because I've apparently forgot my VPN-password so I can't connect to my computer at work
Does the camera-switch work for changing between Camera and VideoCam on the new official rom?

hyy
after ics upgrade is anyone facing problem with gps lock?

buntybauva: Not worse than before, the GPS was terrible for me before as well as after (but I do get a fix after quite some time). Though some of the guys on the russian forum has modified the antenna as far as I know.
Maybe DangerD could help us out because I think he has been involved in it.

[Q] Problems after flashing n8000 (booting but screen is only BLACK)

hi guys, can somebody help me to solve my problem when I flash my websong n8000 (same like star n8000).
what I've done doesn't meet any success.
I've try to flashing whole rom that can be found in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1695210&page=1
and i also have change the display setting using SPMDT but it didn't work
my screen still black but it is booting and the touch screen is also working.
Help me guys.

hi mate, i had the same problem with you..do you have the answer for this problem ?

Display Contrller problem for N8000
Me Too. I got this phone with a July 27 version.
I did not want it since the internal 2GB cannot be used with App2SD.
Flashed with July 5 firmware using SPMDT and was able to succesfuly downgrade.
But now screen is totally wrong colors. Mostly black, but still able to see the UI, just that no colors. Just black and pink.
I hope somebody helps us in this thread since we cannot post in the official N8000 thread if we are a new user.

jpalpano said:
Me Too. I got this phone with a July 27 version.
I did not want it since the internal 2GB cannot be used with App2SD.
Flashed with July 5 firmware using SPMDT and was able to succesfuly downgrade.
But now screen is totally wrong colors. Mostly black, but still able to see the UI, just that no colors. Just black and pink.
I hope somebody helps us in this thread since we cannot post in the official N8000 thread if we are a new user.
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Hi, I have this Star N8000 and been doing help videos on youtube over the last 2 weeks. I was able to put apps on the 2GB by going to Settings->App->and I select (Move to USB Storage). I have a 32 GB micro sd card. with my media installed. I moved as many apps off the 512 that I don't need as it will slow the phone down. As for you guys issues, I would recommend not flashing any rom on the device. There is just not enough info to properly identify it. You can either go by led flash position. The Haipai version is the same internal and for some reason its more easy to identify but its running the same MTK 6575 Single Core 1 ghz processor as the Star N8000. The Roms are optimized for the extra screen size so that explains it.

Iph0ne27 said:
Hi, I have this Star N8000 and been doing help videos on youtube over the last 2 weeks. I was able to put apps on the 2GB by going to Settings->App->and I select (Move to USB Storage). I have a 32 GB micro sd card. with my media installed. I moved as many apps off the 512 that I don't need as it will slow the phone down. As for you guys issues, I would recommend not flashing any rom on the device. There is just not enough info to properly identify it. You can either go by led flash position. The Haipai version is the same internal and for some reason its more easy to identify but its running the same MTK 6575 Single Core 1 ghz processor as the Star N8000. The Roms are optimized for the extra screen size so that explains it.
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You didn't ubderstand me.
Of will work for you because you are moving it to your external sd card (32GB). But I don't want that. I want to move it to the internal sd card (2GB), so I can have a lot of apps even of I don't have any external card installed.
This version can't do that. If I do not put am external card, the move to USB storage is greyed-out in the app settings. It means it cannot detect the internal card as an installable partition.
Anyways, I was able to fix it after finding out that there is a different display driver from a uboot.img of a different firmware, that I need to flash.
Jul 5 version is still the best l, in my opinion.
Sent from my YP-G70 using xda premium

Me too, I also faced this problem after flashed star n8000, I flashed 2 firmwares of Feb 16 and Jul 5. My phone display is black and pink, still can see the UI and touch's work. Anyone know this, pls help. I really appreciate, thanks in advance.

Yes I do knoe how to fix screen displays and funky colors if you still need help just let me know
Sent from my N8000 using xda app-developers app

Request for help
tysydenham said:
Yes I do knoe how to fix screen displays and funky colors if you still need help just let me know
Sent from my N8000 using xda app-developers app
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Hello
my name is Sarah from Israel
I've been really desperate
I bought a new device on eBay
I tried to flash the device an older version of Android because the new one does not have Hebrew
Now I know I have to choose just the Android and not all the components but that's after the fact
Now the device turns on with a blank white screen
The device turns on and I hear the keyboard but the screen is blank and white
I read on the forum that I should use SP_MDT software fot flashing tool but I can not figure out how to use it??
The SP Flash Tool v3 tool is very simple and I got along with him ... But the second tool really not sure what to do.
I beg you, help me please to solve this.
EBay seller does not know anything and said this device is not supported
he sent me this file e1808_v75_jbl2-ota-user.root but it cannot be used by the SP Flash Tool v3 (scatter file cannot be chosen)
It seems to me that this file should install in different way (maby i ned to conect the phone as mass storge and put this file in the root near the download/music/video folders and after to boot with some Buttons trikes??)
thanks for help!

[Q] Touch driver MIDa13 gt9xx

Hello All,
After a crash with my daughters tablet 9inch MIDA13,I wanted to recover the tablet and had done a several things.
Calling/Mailing the reseller wich is gone,afterwise the whole site of him is gone,so I cannot get the original rom with the gt9xx.ko TS file.
Uberizing my original ROM to my extern SD card,what i not did, is TEST my original ROM (afterwhile sdcard can not read or cannot be formatted,I am very lost at the momemnt).
So my original ROM is gone,I have still not give up (4,5 hours),and wanted to reflash with another ROM,with all blabla CWM and not working roms etcetc.,What I firsly did was taking pictures of the original state (see pictures).
To getting a long story ( about 27 hours spending on a cheap xxs Chinese Tablet)short, I learned that the tablet has a special touchscreen GT9XX driver,well it is special coz I cannot find it,I tried the drivers here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189569 and a few from another forums,but agin nothing.
In the meanwhile I have found a Rom from Mapan China ,MaPan_MX913_DC_Jelly_Bean_4.1os_Root_Firmware_D20130601_UP .
This one give me everything except Touch .Guys really my daughter came at least 10 times if the tablet is working.
I really dont know what I could do else,I am desperate,

Solved ,case closed
Tresans said:
Hello All,
After a crash with my daughters tablet 9inch MIDA13,I wanted to recover the tablet and had done a several things.
Calling/Mailing the reseller wich is gone,afterwise the whole site of him is gone,so I cannot get the original rom with the gt9xx.ko TS file.
Uberizing my original ROM to my extern SD card,what i not did, is TEST my original ROM (afterwhile sdcard can not read or cannot be formatted,I am very lost at the momemnt).
So my original ROM is gone,I have still not give up (4,5 hours),and wanted to reflash with another ROM,with all blabla CWM and not working roms etcetc.,What I firsly did was taking pictures of the original state (see pictures).
To getting a long story ( about 27 hours spending on a cheap xxs Chinese Tablet)short, I learned that the tablet has a special touchscreen GT9XX driver,well it is special coz I cannot find it,I tried the drivers here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189569 and a few from another forums,but agin nothing.
In the meanwhile I have found a Rom from Mapan China ,MaPan_MX913_DC_Jelly_Bean_4.1os_Root_Firmware_D20130601_UP .
This one give me everything except Touch .Guys really my daughter came at least 10 times if the tablet is working.
I really dont know what I could do else,I am desperate,
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When I was deleting files/roms/ and other files,I came accross a file "TAB950-1306093-M900-0614 " wich I didnt test,well guys what do you think,everything inclusive the gt9xx.ko Touchscreen are working.check the fotos what is cahnged or not with the command LSMOD in terminal,I am very happy including my daughter .
Kindly regards
Next step is to extract the driver files,so maybe yu can see this file in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2189569 ,so I can help others finding the "special" gt9xx touchscreen.

[Q] Identifying and routing my mini android phone

Hi all,
Background:
I bought an android phone from Chinavasion. It is described as
Wholesale Waterproof Android Phone - Mini Android Phone From China
I cannot identify its device type which is why I am posting here. The play store identifies the phone as
Alps Ratech72_wet_rlk_lca
The phone has a MT6572 Dual Core 1GHz CPU and runs Android version 4.2.2.
I want to increase the ram of the phone. It is 256MB. I want to use virtual memory. I have a 2GB sdcard in the phone. I am planning to give it 512MB. Can I do this without rooting? If I have to root it, then how do I do so? I would prefer not to use an exploit.
Anyone any suggestions?
Pranav

Hiya,
I went around looking for some hints on this phone as well but didn't come up with anything.
I got my device yesterday and I understand your issue. I have no sollution for you but I do have a solid work-around to get some more app space which, I'm afraid, involves rooting.
Activate USB debugging, connect your device to a PC. Download and run Kingo Android Root and follow the instructions.
After that I "adb'ed" to make the phone choose the SD-Card as the default installing path. Run th following command with adb.
Code:
# adb shell pm set-install-location 2
For the apps that wouldn't move to the SD-Card, due to su issues, I moved manually with the app called Move app to SD card.
Grant the app root access to sort out the apps not willing to move by themselves.
With this sorted I now have 500 mb of apps installed on the SD-Card. I am running low on memory now due to some parts of the app still installs on the phone memory.
Not a real app2sd script but it certanly will get you some more apps installed!
Another hint: When I ordered the phone they said it supported 16 GB SD-Cards only but I'm running flawless with a 64 GB card!
I'd love to see a costum recovery (since I don't know chinese) and CM for this device, but since it's not a western phone I guess we'll have to settle with stock.
Hope this helps.

A few hours has gone by and without doing any backups I replaced some system apps and now I can bearly work the phone! Haha.. Thou shall not do this sort of thing after 2 h sleep.
Anyway, don't be afraid of doing what I wrote in the previous post, it worked just fine! I'm hoping you'll do it, it's the only way I can think of to get the system files back. :-S
Since there seem to be no one but you and me who have bought there phones..
edit: Sorted out my problem, got it running again! However, if you are going to root it, please do share the stock files! :-S

PranavLal said:
Hi all,
Background:
I bought an android phone from Chinavasion. It is described as
Wholesale Waterproof Android Phone - Mini Android Phone From China
I cannot identify its device type which is why I am posting here. The play store identifies the phone as
Alps Ratech72_wet_rlk_lca
The phone has a MT6572 Dual Core 1GHz CPU and runs Android version 4.2.2.
I want to increase the ram of the phone. It is 256MB. I want to use virtual memory. I have a 2GB sdcard in the phone. I am planning to give it 512MB. Can I do this without rooting? If I have to root it, then how do I do so? I would prefer not to use an exploit.
Anyone any suggestions?
Pranav
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to use virtual memory you would have to root it and plus you cant get that much more ram with virtual memory, 256mb of ram on a 4.2.2 phone? i hope you got a good deal for it because 256mb will get you nowhere with nowadays google play apps updates hogging all the ram.

Some more info. Appearently the phone is also called "Nanex" and/or Z18 Mini Smartphone.. Maybe it's called different things in different regions?

Move to SD card SUCCESSFUL!
Im so glad there was this thread, it seems like nobody else knows about this awesome little phone!
I followed the instructions that "pingaan" posted and it worked! now i can install as many apps to SD card as i want, awesome!

I'm glad I could help.

I've been using this device for about a week now and I have to say that the stock rom is horrible! There are many flaws and no updates incoming, as far as I know.
Another disappinting thing is that the screen material is >VERY< easily scratched so DO NOT order this phone without screen protection.
I am going to order a new one cause I love that it's so small! It's even smaller than my old "dumbphone", but I don't see myself using stock rom. I'd rather not use the phone at all.
I'm going to try to compile a custom recovery and port a suitable CM11 rom to this device for proper usage.
Don't expect it any time soon, cause my days are normally filled up with family, house and work.
Regards.

pingaan said:
I've been using this device for about a week now and I have to say that the stock rom is horrible! There are many flaws and no updates incoming, as far as I know.
Another disappinting thing is that the screen material is >VERY< easily scratched so DO NOT order this phone without screen protection.
I am going to order a new one cause I love that it's so small! It's even smaller than my old "dumbphone", but I don't see myself using stock rom. I'd rather not use the phone at all.
I'm going to try to compile a custom recovery and port a suitable CM11 rom to this device for proper usage.
Don't expect it any time soon, cause my days are normally filled up with family, house and work.
Regards.
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everything about this phone is pretty good for the size, except the ram is so ridiculously small, i've tried to add virtual ram with link2sd and partitioned sd card, but apparently link2sd won't work without hacing the bootloader unlocked first, but i can't unlock the bootloader as it seems like there doesn't seem to be proper drivers for this phone.
if you are planning to do a custom rom on there, please let us know how when and how you managed to get the bootloader unlocked plz! :fingers-crossed:

Since I noticed the screen being easily scratched I ordered a new device from a different retailer, along with a plastic screen protection.
There is an interesting thing about this. The bootanimations are different and there's also a reboot option in the powermenu on the new.
Maybe the bootloader already is open? I mean, if you can change the power menu you need to alter the framework, right? The bootanimation is quite easy to change with root access however.
Have you checked the built-in recovery? There is actually an option for installing "update.zip"..
Do you have a proper app2sd script that I can try out on my old device?
Cheers...

Anyone have a backup of the ROM for ratech72_wet_rlk_lca ?? I plugged in a MTK Tool and I seem to have corrupted the system ;-( ... Didn't even get a chance to backup!
Help would be appreciated!

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regardtv said:
Anyone have a backup of the ROM for ratech72_wet_rlk_lca ?? I plugged in a MTK Tool and I seem to have corrupted the system ;-( ... Didn't even get a chance to backup!
Help would be appreciated!
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Anyone find a copy of the ROM I need it also?