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So I have a Skytex Primer Pocket, little 4.3" thing running Android 2.2. No market, no official Google apps, and, above all, no mention of it anywhere except for brief reviews. So I'm looking into rooting it, or just getting the Market onto it (and maybe the Gmail app). It comes with GetJar, which, as I've just learned, is a ****ty alternative app store full of spam and ads. I'm also learning that if you wanna have a half way decent experience you NEED the Market, which this doesn't have. I've had very little experience with Android (never owned an Android device before this), so please bear with me if I say or said something stupid. What would yall smart people suggest?
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I just got a pocket primer for my three year old to play with (navigates my EVO 4G better than my wife). In it's stock form he can play videos and basic angry birds but even he will get frustrated if I can't get the same apps on that thing as the rest of his family has,......and he beats me.
haha wow i'd given up on this thread. I've actually pretty much given up on my device entirely and use it almost exclusively as an mp3 player. The browser doesn't open anymore (it displays a message stating that it crashed whenever I open it), the wifi doesn't turn on and it's just a ****ing piece of ****.
thefinn93 said:
haha wow i'd given up on this thread. I've actually pretty much given up on my device entirely and use it almost exclusively as an mp3 player. The browser doesn't open anymore (it displays a message stating that it crashed whenever I open it), the wifi doesn't turn on and it's just a ****ing piece of ****.
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The problems you are having can most likely be resolved by hitting the reset button, as I have had to do once or twice. Also, if you wanted it to have all the things you mentioned, why did you buy this device? The ad states pretty clearly that the apps market that this device uses is Getjar. And, once again, you get what you pay for. BTW, there are many apps on the Amazon Apps Market that work just fine.
You can also download 1 Mobile Market as a good alternative, much better than Getjar...
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The problems you are having can most likely be resolved by hitting the reset button, as I have had to do once or twice. Also, if you wanted it to have all the things you mentioned, why did you buy this device? The ad states pretty clearly that the apps market that this device uses is Getjar. And, once again, you get what you pay for. BTW, there are many apps on the Amazon Apps Market that work just fine.
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Yeah I had mine given to me and wasn't really sure what to expect, but wasn't terribly impressed. It makes an OK media player. And yes, I ended up resetting it and getting the browser back.
As for 1 Mobile Market, good to know, will try it. Thanks. For everyone who has it: is it "pre rooted"? like, when you connect with ADB do you get a root shell, or do i have a weird one?
hmmm I wonder if SlideMe market would work as well, I think all skytex devices come with root already its one of there monkiers, I just wish the dev community would pick a couple up and throw ROM's at em cheap devices that work well as gifts but have crappy stock roms
right now my daughter is using one as mp3 player and using amazon market on it but she calls me everyday and I have to tell her reset, Im just going to start answering the phone, "reset it"
I have tried myself with the Gapps and i managed to install them by installing the market vending. Youtube doesnt work, and by that I mean that the video doesnt play. Which I cant understand because mobile youtube can play just fine. Plus from what I can remember it disables its own lockscreen and the home button ceases to work and a factory reset is the only answer. Defiantly a unique situation and ridiculous as well. How does all that happen from just installing the market? A clusterf**k of BS is all I can say about it. These low grade tablets are mostly hopeless to get properly suited with G apps so Im at a loss for anything else to do.
I have googled my balls off and searched XDA but I have found surprisingly little info on how to get Amazon streaming video to work on the Infinity. I am an Amazon Prime member and when I signed up, I wanted to check out the streamed content. It works fine on the PC but I use my tablet more. I am running JB 4.1.1 and I have sideloaded the latest, though unofficially unsupported Flash player, but Amazon's Instant Video website still says I dont have it. I have tried several browsers and user agents. There is another forum on XDA discussing that and some are getting it to work (with some lag issues) and some, including me, are not. Even if it did, it would only be in low-res from the website. "HD compatible "only runs on certain devices (as if the Infinity can't handle HD). I bought my kids a Kindle Fire HD for Christmas, so I tried it on that and it ran great streaming Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol in HD very nicely. So it seems there should be an apk I can pull from it and load on the TF700, right? Both tablets are rooted, so I used Titanium Backup Pro to backup the Amazon video app from the KFHD and Dropboxed it to my TF700 and restored it. I ran it but it force closes; doesn't even initialize. Does anyone know how to get the app to work as it does on the KFHD? Or is it because the KFHD runs Android 4.0 and it just wont run on the TF700's 4.1.1? It is irritating not to be able to have this work on the Infinity and, if it can work at all, I want it in high-res, so I need it to run as if it was a KFHD. I am still playing with it but any ideas?
Is it only prime users who have this service? Are you rooted or unlocked at all?
I have had no problem streaming amazon video on my Infinity. I'm rooted/unlocked and on CROMI. I paid for a few episodes of "Breaking Bad" I wound up having to buy them again through google play however. The streaming worked perfectly through Amazon however it would not let me download for offline playing unless I was on an actual Kindle. Google Play allowed for offline downloads so I stuck with that. To answer your question though, streaming from Amazon worked well for me.
I just tried it for the first time, TF700 totally stock, Flash side loaded, Amazon Prime member, it played Upstairs Downstairs using the stock browser just fine.
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Is it only prime users who have this service? Are you rooted or unlocked at all?
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I am rooted. I have not unlocked the bootloader and dont plan to. I have no luck with various browsers, even playing with permissions. My kids KFHD play HD vids really well. I think it is a combination of "stock" apps but IDK which ones.
550driver said:
I just tried it for the first time, TF700 totally stock, Flash side loaded, Amazon Prime member, it played Upstairs Downstairs using the stock browser just fine.
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I got the standard def with the stock browser at least. Idk why I got "flash is missing" on the others. I just cant get the Amazon Instant Video app to run as on the KFHD though. I cant pin down what I am missing, unless its bc I run the latest version of android, which the app doesnt support. Maybe its just that but Idk how to find out.
I noticed this on the google fit support site, anyone know why this is?
I tried this app the last two days and it only logged about a tenth of what my fitbit was logging. I've uninstalled till they can fix that or integrate fitbit data.
I'm trying to find out. I asked on reddit and a bunch of people with M8's say that it works fine for them, which is odd because it doesn't work for me at all. I also asked on the Android Wear forum on the Google forums but haven't heard back yet.
I can't fathom what would be different about the M8.
Any update as to why this doesn't work with the M8? I looked online and am not seeing any real updates.
I have somewhat of the same issue, cannot figure it out.
I have a LG GWR which has google FIT installed by default to count steps and monitor heart rate. But when I install fit on my M8 is says that this device is incompatable with my device and wipes all of my step counts on my watch.
I cannot find anyone that has the same issue... or how to work around this.
bossjeeves said:
I have somewhat of the same issue, cannot figure it out.
I have a LG GWR which has google FIT installed by default to count steps and monitor heart rate. But when I install fit on my M8 is says that this device is incompatable with my device and wipes all of my step counts on my watch.
I cannot find anyone that has the same issue... or how to work around this.
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Yeah, that's what it does. Google Fit doesn't work with the M8, even on the watch.
I don't have the phone anymore, so I'm just going off of memory, but I'm pretty sure you can have the watch count your steps if you uninstall Google Fit from the phone. But then you don't get the steps on your phone or anything, so it's kind of pointless.
I read somewhere that HTC is working on a fix for this, but I wouldn't hold my breath. And supposedly Fit works fine on the GPE edition. So if you really need this, you can convert your phone to GPE.
So i returned my phone to stock last week and ever since i cannot see the buy button in Google Play Movies, im not sure if this would be a phone issue or something to do with my google account, i buy quite a lot of movies and watch them via chromecast, it was the only reason i got a 125gb SD card for my phone, being unable to buy movies has made my SD card useless, has anyone had this problem before and know of a fix, i have a HTC One M8 on 4.4.4.
any information needed, just ask and ill try my best to provide.
Also if this is in wrong section, can it be moved, i wasn't sure where to put it since im not sure if its a phone or android problem.
Okay, I know I don't post much in XDA, but I do read a LOT of threads!
The reason I am posting this is because I am wondering if anybody achieved root on this phone.
I have tried KingRoot, KingoRoot, OneClickRoot, none of those work.
It is running Android 6.0.1 Marshmallow.
I am about to screw around with ADB, see what I can do. I'll post back when I have got something.
Sorry if I posted this in the wrong section, I don't post much on XDA.
any luck?
I've tried every root method available without the PC and nothing. But, there maybe good news. In developers options there's a switch to unlock the bootloader. Now I'm no dev but I hope this makes cwm or tarp easy for devs to port and root.
I found https://mobile.twitter.com/srsroot/status/810325782417592325?lang=en srsroot claims it supports ZTE Z833. I've used srsroot once before but on another phone I have no PC so I can't test it but someone should test Cydia impactor see if it works.
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I found https://mobile.twitter.com/srsroot/status/810325782417592325?lang=en srsroot claims it supports ZTE Z833. I've used srsroot once before but on another phone I have no PC so I can't test it but someone should test Cydia impactor see if it works.
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1. I too saw that twitter SRSRoot business and tried it thinking, "Oh joy!" no, not working. Tried it every way you could (yes Kingo, KingRoot, vRoot, iRoot, FramaRoot, uRoot, & we-all_Root (the last two were jokes don't be so serious, nor was it a complete list of what I did actually try, ha!) too). I even wrote the people at SRSRoot telling them that it didn't work and have gone back to download their latest versions, still nada, zip, zero. FML on toast!
2. Cydia Impactor is not for Android devices, it is only for iOS. I went and double-checked just to make sure I wasn't trippin' thinking that maybe they have gone cross-platform. No, they have not.
3. I have the phone in question, I submitted a formal request on here in the best way I could find to get it added to the XDA devices list and I have been eagerly monitoring awaiting the day it happens. I was even considering trying to compile TWRP myself, but I just bought a different phone because I was tired of the headache. I couldn't figure out how to extract the zImage from it in order to give it a go (I think that's what it was). Anyways, I'm writing this before finishing reading the rest of the posts and may be rambling, but I had to respond. I have spent much time doing this. I ended up buying a different MetroPCS phone called the Samsung Galaxy On5 and was able to successfully root it and after much waiting finally got ahold of the Superstarz ROM that finally went out for that one. Just an FYI in case someone happens to see this before making the purchase. I will say that I feel like the ZTE Avid Trio Z833 has pretty good response time for such a cheap phone, then again they had a deal on it in the store, it looked to be more expensive at retail pricing. Anyhow, I digress, but felt the need to contribute rather than just lurk.
Oh, and another thing... The development option to OEM Unlock is "checkable", but as for actually booting to the bootloader it WILL NOT DO IT. The only way this is gonna happen to be rootable is if you use a custom recovery (which none exist yet) in a tar format and ODIN the friggin thing from download mode. So, there's your catch 22. If anyone knows how to extract the zImage and whatnot (without root obviously) I'd be more apt to give it a go and boot my happy bunghole into Linux and give compiling TWRP another go. I finally have had a lot of life stresses temporarily die down since I decided not to leave my current living situation and just stay with these irritating bastards another month at a higher rate. FML & Cheers!: good:
I should mention, however, that SRSRoot attempted to use it's "Exploit 8." So, I went digging into it's directories to see what the script was, but it was binary (and I didn't have reverse-engineering **** handy like PE-ID, and whatever else the kids are using in this newer age). So, I was like "wah-wah", but if any experienced ppl know more about the specific exploits that aren't ancient and actually working with Marshmallow that would be interesting to hear feedback about as well. Thanks. I really would like to use this second phone still, but right now I'm just using it as a Kodi/Megabox HD + AllCast Projector to watch streaming things without having to interrupt my working phone in the middle of it. It would also be cool to use as a straight VOIP phone with no cell service connected, but I've yet to find the free Google Voice VOIP loophole that is currently working. PM me if you know of these
P.P.S. I wrote another spicy post on hardr3set dot info about what crap I felt about their B.S. (weaksauce compared to anything legit which we all know you come to XDA for the meat-and-potatoes) because I was so tired of searching the Goog for root ZTE Avid Trio Z833 and having it be the top result over and over. Finally this has risen up. Thank you for starting this. Oh, and also, please... If you would kindly also request for this device to be added formally, maybe it would encourage development. Not sure how all that works, but yeah... power in numbers right?
Sincerely,
~Ye of little faith
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are you telling me that faults advertising runs ramped all over the internet even Google play store and this is the nondoing phone ever made and it can't be jailbroke nor rooted
Rooting your zte device
Can not be done. This phone is an unfortunate accident by ZTE with numerous problems and they are not small issues but ones that affect the performance of the device. Replace that phone or your only adding to your daily stress.
That kingroot and oneclickroot don't work
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Guessing this is a dead issue? It's an okay phone but lags horribly when it comes to multi tasking
Hey I don't want the root thing to die on this topic. So would it be possible to root via ADB update in recovery mode? Or to somehow update via SD card and applying root? I refuse to give up hope on this device lol
Anyone made progress on this? I just got this phone and it definitely has some issues, but I feel like root would resolve most of them.
Has anyone figured out a way to root this device?
I've searched for a long time without success. I hope something comes up.
Any progress on this? Thanks
following, bought one this morning hoping to have a cheap rootable phone.
I got mine from MetroPCS for $29. lol Yes, it's frustrating and has got problems (I've already put two of them through my dashboard and had to replace them, within the first 2 months, but it only cost 30buck so WTH. Anyways, I decided after I destroyed #2 that I was only going to use it for work and add no apps to it, except maybe GasBuddy and Winamp. Other than that, it's stock and I haven't had any real problems with it to speak of (problems aggravating enough to make me want to destroy it yet again).
So my suggestion to anyone who owns this phone, or is thinking about owning one: Don't install any more than a couple small apps, add a 32GB uSD card for music and other stuff, and use the thing as a phone and a media player only. The camera is pretty much worthless for quality photos, so there's really no other use for it. But it makes a great txting, voice calling, and music playing phone!
Of course, if you end up paying more than $30 for it, you probably paid too much. But it sure is a pretty nice phone for 30 buck!
Yes. root it please
I have a Z833. The phone only lags apps that are over 100mb I'll have test this out agin
I have ordered one of these phones for $20 should be here by Monday. When it arrives I'll be able to confirm if its bootloader is unlocked or not. In the meantime here is the firehose and support files (rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml) as well as the MetroPCS B16 firmware to be flashed with QFIL or MiFlash. This will allow people to recover their device and hopefully if the bootloader isn't locked flash custom images.
Support files
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=1395089523397898033
V1.0.0 B16 Firmware
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=1395089523397898034