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Custom ROM for THL W1+

I hope I've posted this in the correct place. Apologies if not... I'm sure a moderator will move to correct place.
Hi everyone,
I’d like to share my THL W1+ custom ROM with you all.
It is based on a CJ ROM which I believe is the international ROM version.
Natively, the CJ ROM had some benefits over the stock standard Chinese THL ROM such as not showing Chinese cities in call log etc.
I cant remember all of the tweaks I've made in this custom ROM as it was "cooked" over an extended period of time but here are a few…
Google Apps working and upgraded
Default IME keyboard upgraded
Removed Chinese Apps and input methods
Removed factory reset option from settings to prevent reboot loop (use custom recovery to reset)
Improved screen brightness
updater-script changes for Wi-Fi fix
Included Facebook, Skype and Flash in DATA partition (can be uninstalled)
build.prop changes: font size, English language is default, time zone default to Pacific/Auckland
Download and use at your own risk. No responsibility is taken for damage done to your phone through using this ROM.
I’ve included in this download package everything I can think of that you'll need including the CJ ROM, a version of SP Flash Tool, the update.zip file, zip files to root and unroot the phone plus ADB and VCOM drivers.
The all-inclusive package can be downloaded from here…
http://www.mediafire.com/?p08zo4jwypz23
It is split into four compressed files. Use software such as 7zip to uncompress.
#1 First, flash your phone via SP Flash Tools with the stock CJ ROM. I’ve added a custom recovery to the ROM which you will require later to install the update.zip file.
If you do not know how to flash your phone here is a great tutorial... http://bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.co.nz/2012/05/mt6575-flashing-tutorial.html
#2 Once you have successfully flashed the CJ ROM you need to install the update.
Copy the update.zip file to your microSD card or power on the phone and copy to internal storage.
Remove your battery and reinsert it.
Hold down the Vol+ button and power on. You should boot into recovery mode.
Now using your volume keys you can select the update from zip option (power button is select). Choose the update.zip file you copied to your phone and confirm.
Wait for the update to complete and then reboot.
That should be it!
Hope you enjoy this ROM.

Invalid imei
I install your rom and is perfect. i manage to unbrick my W1+ with this rom. only the imei is invalid and i cant restore them. i see a folder named imei drivers (something like that ) in your pachage. how i can use them to restore the imei. i tried meny tutorials from the net but still nothing
thanks for your time
Aris

Hello, it is good to hear people are using the ROM.
I think the folder you are referring to is one inside the DRIVERS folder and simply contains CDC driver files.
I've not had any IMEI issues on the W1+ so can't speak from experience but I would suggest trying the following...
ROOT the phone using the root update.zip in the package.
Download MTK Droid Tool... http://www.mediafire.com/download/a41a0u73dc7rw2h/MtkDroidTools_v248.zip
MTK Droid Tool has a Write IMEI function.
Once your phone is rooted make sure USB debugging is turned on (Settings > Developer options).
Failing that, another option would be to download Mobile Uncle Tools from Google Play. Again, this requires root privileges and you'll need to connect to a Wifi network as your SIM's are not working. I understand this app also has IMEI tools.
Hopefully this works for you.
marsian720 said:
I install your rom and is perfect. i manage to unbrick my W1+ with this rom. only the imei is invalid and i cant restore them. i see a folder named imei drivers (something like that ) in your pachage. how i can use them to restore the imei. i tried meny tutorials from the net but still nothing
thanks for your time
Aris
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inspectaclueso said:
Hello, it is good to hear people are using the ROM.
I think the folder you are referring to is one inside the DRIVERS folder and simply contains CDC driver files.
I've not had any IMEI issues on the W1+ so can't speak from experience but I would suggest trying the following...
ROOT the phone using the root update.zip in the package.
Download MTK Droid Tool... http://www.mediafire.com/download/a41a0u73dc7rw2h/MtkDroidTools_v248.zip
MTK Droid Tool has a Write IMEI function.
Once your phone is rooted make sure USB debugging is turned on (Settings > Developer options).
Failing that, another option would be to download Mobile Uncle Tools from Google Play. Again, this requires root privileges and you'll need to connect to a Wifi network as your SIM's are not working. I understand this app also has IMEI tools.
Hopefully this works for you.
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Thanks for youe reply. mtk droid and mobile uncle didn't work. Finally i found this "THL W1 INVALID IMEI TOOL 4.0.4" and i cewate a new imei file and replace it inti the phone root and now everything is ok.
your rom is smooth. hope to upgrade it to android 4.2 .....

Thanks for the update and info. Glad you got it sorted.
No plans to release another ROM for this phone as it is no longer available.
Cheers
marsian720 said:
Thanks for youe reply. mtk droid and mobile uncle didn't work. Finally i found this "THL W1 INVALID IMEI TOOL 4.0.4" and i cewate a new imei file and replace it inti the phone root and now everything is ok.
your rom is smooth. hope to upgrade it to android 4.2 .....
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[Completed] Goophone N3 Elite

Premis
I purchased a Goophone N3 Elite earlier in the year and found it to be awesome in most respects (spec was good performed well with no lag, GPS/Wifi good) however the System/Data Partitions were very small like 500mb or something and even using App2SD the device eventually got to the point where nothing would update and I couldn't install any new Apps.
Solution
This seemed a waste due to the fact it had 12GB internal storage for media?! So I was finding my phone with 12GB free space yet it no longer allowed me to install apps. I looked around for a while and found a Data Partition app that said it would increase the Data Partition size to 2Gb. So I downloaded FrameRoot and Rooted the phone (which worked correctly), then used the Data Partition App.
Problem
It said to restart then WipeData/Factory Reset which I did but then it was in a bootloop... I have since got the MTK Tools, SP Flash and Shuame tools to attempt to flash the above ROM but it doesn't seem to work. This leads me to believe that the Preloader must have been overwritten or the data partition changes have cased traditional flashing to fail.
Help!
So I was wondering if there is any way someone could guide me through how to reflash the ROM from scratch including checking the Partition tables or any such required stuff from the ground up. It still detects at this point however I cannot see the screen unless using [email protected] once its turned on. It occasionally seems to get booted up from what I can see on there but only the back light is active on the Digitizer.
I have attached screenshots of the places it's detected on my computer:

Hi,
I can find nothing relevant on XDA for your device and issue, so asking for help here would be best,
> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck!

Thank you. Thread closed.

[Completed] [Q] Smartphone android 4.2.1. Guophone I9600 fully bricked. I you help me, please?

Hello,
I am contacting you to see if someone can help me.
I have a Chinese phone. It is a Guophone i9600, MT6589 CPU quad core 1.2 GHz with 1 GB RAM.
This week it began to continuously display messages “memory full” and it told me to uninstall applications. I looked in settings options and it really showed internal memory was fully occupied ... when it wasn't true. There aren’t no applications installed nor data (including whatsapp app).
I restored the phone to factory defaults and it worked well. Now there was a lot of internal free space. After this, I installed lnk2sd app and I started uninstall applications that came with me smartphone ... but the phone has been bricked.
When I turn it on, it hangs in the original logo GUOPHONE. I don’t have any backup.
My laptop doesn’t recognize it. I have downloaded MT65xx drivers and when I try to connect the smartphone, it tells me not receive reply from the peer (I guess it will be smartphone). Therefore, I can’t use all that solutions that need to connect mi smartphone to my laptop (flash tool, CWM, TWRP, ROM manager ...). I think the only solution is to load a ROM file in ZIP format from the factory recovery menu.
I searched ROMS and I only found one in needrom.com (for Guophone I9602 (I guess you can be the same as mine, i9600)). I've downloaded it from a web page link and a mirror link, and one is a single file with img extension and the other one is a .rar. I have unzipped it and it has a few files with extension tar and img. I've tried everything, zip them, unzip them, renamed file extension... and nothing have worked.
I have also tried to generate a zip with the two img file (I think they're called recovery and boot) as someone said in some websites and it didn’t work. They said I have to include a META_INF folder, but I have no idea where to get it.
I have even located the manufacturer's website, I sent them an e-mail to ask them smartphone`s ROM zip file and they didn’t reply me.
One more thing, I bought two identical phones, one for a friend and one for us. Is there any way to get from me friend’s smartphone a file from ROM ZIP file to use it in our smatphone from recovery menu?
From my friend's phone I have downloaded (in "backup user data" option from original recovery menu) a file with backup extension. But when I try to restore it in me phone, it shows me a checksum error.
Thanks in advance. Excuse my poor English, please.
Best regards.

Hi,
I can't find anything relevant on XDA for your device, so asking here is your best option,
> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Also, I would not attempt to flash anything not designed for your exact make and model number. Or that could be the end of your device.
Good luck!

Thank a lot, Dart.

[Completed] [Q] need help restoring from a full adb backup of non-rooted phone

Hello there,
I need some info on how or if it is possible to make use of my full adb restore file or I just throw it away and restart fresh of my device.
Device is allview viper v1 (16Gb) -
NO ROOT and not interested in rooting it.
I believe I made a few versions of good back-ups including at least one good full backup including apks by using UBT (1.3.2 version if I am not mistaking).
My problem: I can't restore the phone by using any of the created ab files by using adb which drives me nuts.
It's worth to mention that in between I upgraded the phone software from 4.2 to 4.4 by using the producer's update images... I did a factory reset with 4.4 and re-installed most of the apps I had. I even copied most of the data from a file-sync backup...
Every time I try to use adb restore I get to the screen to input (now 2 passwords which basically are the same), I get the message "restore starting" and quite fast "restore finished" on the phone screen though while using the full back-up I definitely see that adb is still accessing / reading the file for longer time...
What I tried further: I used abe (android backup extractor by tweaking their .sh script) to create both standard individual .ab-s but also kitkat compatible ones (with abe pack-kk) with no luck in restoring the apps and their data.
It is quite annoying since after converting to .tar and un-tar-ing I can see that the backups seem ok and I can even see the sqlite data and xml settings for the apps but I do not know how to import those to the new OS running on the phone.
I tried this using both USB storage, picture mode, etc., input only the desktop pass and afterwards inputing both of the asked passwords.
So the question is: can I restore the data (about 32Gb including the pics and docs) or should I delete all the "working" files I created and put it on the "learn by error"?
Should I try to downgrade to 4.2. (if it is even possible..) and try the adb restore there?
Cheers and thanks in advance.

Hi there,
I'm sorry but I can't find anything relevant to your question/device.
Please post that in the forum bellow for more answers from the experts:
> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck

Info about the device is available on the forums here - more or less related to the allview name since that's a re-branded phone - e.g. how to root it, how to flash it, how to recover from a broken state but that is not what I am interested in...
I guess it's more of an Android related question but might be a device issue too.
Nevertheless, I will take your advice and copy / paste the original post in Android Troubleshooting section.
Thanks.
R_a_z_v_a_n said:
Hi there,
I'm sorry but I can't find anything relevant to your question/device.
Please post that in the forum bellow for more answers from the experts:
> Android Development and Hacking > Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good luck
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[Completed] format all + download , sim not detected , no baseband

OK,
First of all it seems you are my last hope. Yes i know there are similar posts, yes i know that i m making another one (i m sorry for that), yes i belive that i have exhausted options from those posts.
i used sp flash tool with format all + download option (yes i did not had idea that it would cause that much trouble). I have much snail 78P01 phone. As everyone is expecting , no imei, no baseband.
Phone is rooted (of course), things that i tried and they did not worked (becouse file pttycmd1 will be deleted everytime after reboot - maybe someone can explain):
1. mtkdroid tools (dont see band, imei is null) after i try change imei, there in log i can see that pttycmd1 could not be found (which is true, if i use root rexplorer its not anywhere near where it should be).
2. echo 'AT+....1,7,"IMEI..." > /dev/ptt... - yes its there (and mtk droid tool can confirm that , becouse its not giving you error, but thats all...)
3. *#*#3646633#*#* , .... AT+.... i will get error with sending command (yes i tried it as someone suggested with space, )
4. creating your own imei file MP0B_001 and placing it to /data/nvram/md/NVRAM/NVD_IMEI/ (btw my md folder is blank , there is nothing there)
5. downloading and flashing nvram (hope so that is nvram) "All Mtk BPLGU Modem files for Imei change.rar"
6. maybe something that i have forgot
btw:cpu mt 6592
I should be sleeping for like 4 hours now, but i m not, working (googling) on this like 10 hours straight. Any advice would be most welcomed.

Hi,
Thanks for using XDA assist.
I couldn't find any useful information on XDA regarding to your problem. If you haven't already, please create a XDA account and post in the following forum:
Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting
Good Luck! - gsstudios