I got two phones just stashed in a place, instead of collecting dust I thought it could be better if I could experiment and much better try to revive it. The two phones are Lenovo A800 (full specs are in GSMarena) they have pretty low specs with 512MB ram and 1.65 user-available free space.
Here are their statuses:
Phone 1 is able to charge and show that it is charging, but can't boot up or reach even in the logo splash screen. I tried reflashing a clean room using the SP Flash Tool, but nothing changed. I am now suspecting that the power button is broken.
Phone 2 works. It can boot properly but is bombarded by "Unfortunately app has stopped" messages". Could it be that apps of today has finally beaten the phone itself? I looked at the free space, only ~30MB is free out of 1.7GB.
Are there any ways or chances to bring the phones back to service?
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Hello, I have a fake Samsung (Chinese) smartphone. It used to work but, It was lost and I found it. Battery gone bigger and now screen is a little bit apart of the case (like 3-4 mm).
Now I would like to use this smartphone without battery. I researched a little bit and I found a video of an Indian guy on youtube that shows which wire will be soldered to where. (Because I am new, I can't insert links to this post. The video is "Use your phone without a battery....USB phone.....Works for android like charm" on Youtube.)
But his smartphone has 3 terminals and mine has 4 of them. I am not sure of where to solder them. Can you help me, please?
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I bought a "Bqeel MXR Quad Core Android 5.1 Tv Box" from Amazon but it came loaded with an older version of Android and it came with an ancient version of all of the software. It is also incredibly broken in many features, I can't do a system reset because when I hit the button it does absolutely nothing, it makes the click noise and animation but nothing actually happens. It also has a strange bug where I genuinely can't install anything even though there is like 5GB of memory on it. This sucks because I tried uninstalling and reinstalling Kodi, the uninstall worked great but now I can't install it again. It also freezes all of the time and the OS is absolute garbage and doesn't look like the one people are posting on the reviews. What do I do?
EDIT: Lastly, I plan on most likely returning it, what is the BEST android/kodi tv box out there for less than $100?
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So I dropped and broke my iphone friday after using it in construction for the past 3 years. Pretty good run. So I picked up the Alcatel 4060a (IDEAL) from walmart in the interim since it was a fairly cheap replacement. I have go to say I like the idea of rooting and doing things with a phone that the carrier doesn't want me to. I'm new to this whole thing and basically my goal is to put an unbranded version of android on my phone. It sounds easy but It seems as though its more complicated than it sounds. My guess is the first course of action is to unlock the bootloader. I guess what I am asking is how does one do something catered to a particular phone?
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Hello I just bought a android phone 2 weeks ago so far love everything about it but only one thing that I have question with is
when Im on a phone call when I hit home button it take me to home screen with little phone icon on top left is this normal?
I thought every smartphone should show some kind if banner or indication to show you that you are on a phone call.
screen shot here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/picture.php?albumid=13660&pictureid=54326
can anyone just tell me the reason why
does it because Blu software or company or android lollipop ?
if I update it to android 6 will this fix?
I've try more than 10 apps on app store non of them show banner after hit the home screen.
if all Blu phone are like this please tell me so I can buy other brand phone.
please help
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I am using the old Huawei g300. it's a 1Ghz single core processor and only has 512mb ram and only 388MB of that ammount can be used.
this device originally comes with android 2.3 GingerBread.
later on I updated my phone to 4.0, big mistake. about 2 years ago I installed a custom rom, called Tesla, also android 4.0 but at least was faster than the original. today is what I use, but my phone is old, has about 5-6 years, using the camera became a dream, a wish LOL. I want to use skype in it, but it's a bit hard, laggs and crashes.
I want to make my device faster, but I don't know how. I have an app called greenify that hibernates apps, but the performance boost is not enough. what else can I do?
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