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[Q] Cubot one info (HTC Clone)

preferably to anyone that has had the Cubot one for longer than a month.
does the phone still work as you had hoped? its everything fine with it?
i have read alot of good things about this phone, and am interested in getting it, i currently have the iphone 4.
this will be my first 'clone phone'
just want to know if it still holds up after a while
thanks.

Hi, I've been using the cubot one for about 4 months.
It's a good phone but, to be honest, I don't know if new next phone will be a Chinese one again.
First of all you can appreciate a big difference in performance as compared to a branded phone with similar specs (the branded one performs better), which can may consider acceptable seen the huge difference in the price.
Problem is that the lack of performance has a big impact on the way you'll use the phone (compared to the way you wanted to use it)
Do you use your phone as alarm clock? Well tell your boss you may be late sometimes becuase the cubot one happens to switch off overnight (even with fully charged battery) time by time. It happenwd to me probably 5 times in 4 months!
Do you use to take pictures with your phone? Well, its probably best you get a pocket camera always with you. Resolution of photos with the cubot one is not bad (it's a reasonable 7Mpix)...when you can see them!!! If you use the flash, the result is a completely white photo, due, I guess, to a wrong timing shutter-flash. So no night photos. If you take pictures with plenty of natual light, well 4 out of 5 will be corrupeted in zero time and the result is "no thumbnail available". I've missed a lot of shots in this way.
I still have stock 4.2.1 rom (august 2013) and time by time phone freezes or goes to deep stand by (remove battery necessary), also periodically I find new apps installed without my permission!!!
My room uses embedded GOlauncher, it does not use stock android!
From reviews it seems you can use it to play heavy games, but I can't even play temple run, it becomes a stop motion like game.
I'm currently looking for a better rom, hoping that usage experience will improve.
My partner has the same phone with june 2014 4.2.1 rom, in her case it's stock android, and she has a bit less issues than I do, but she doesn't use the phone as "intensively" as I do either.

[Philips Mobile] Owners Talk, Write here your experiences....

[First of all I write immediately that I searched and didn't find Post on Philips Smartphones. If there are please Link, thanks]
Hi All,
Hi have a Philips W8555, bought it for curiosity because it was having excellent spec. at a low price and I never saw them in Europe
I found out that nearly stock Android [4.2.2 that I won't even wait for updates] is really boring, but seeing more than 1.3gb of Ram free puts a smile in my face.
The pro is:
-Design, I like it.
-battery life, 3300mAh are enough for a day, with my hard use I reach 50% in the evening then I'm happy.
-Dual normal sim, having sim1 with Local number plus sim2 only Data(with the same price of Data/call contracts, with only data you have 3x more data), so I can use my phone has a Hotspot(Working on site is usefull).
-Nice screen, visible also outside in day light.
-SD card Possibility
-Clean android(For me looks stock even if I never had a Nexus in my life)
And much more.
The Cons is:
-At Start up it was having Russian, but if you know the android menu by memory you can find where to change the language. Selected English, I'm Italian.
-Contacts are all there, but side bar, for fast research is with Russian Letters.
-Camera App. is Bad ,had to download one from the Play store to make decent photos, but with 13mpx they are still far from the quality of a S3 8mpx photo. But for decent photos I have a Camera.
-For sure no Updates..........I have this feeling
-Low Vibration and Ringtones
-Power saving switch that can accidentally switch in the pocket.Found a drastic solution.
-And Last the Glitchy Wakeup when unlocking the phone*
*When you are in the unlock screen it start going in tilt, pressing,swapping, going in the emergency call and dialing numbers. If you unlock it dose the same clicking around and it might change some settings.
But after 10-20 seconds it stops, like it was a kind of "touch calibration" and it happens randomly.
If it was not for the Glitchy Wakeup it would be a perfect Phone!
Now I'm also Attracted by the W6610, but I will wait a bit.

I will try to share my experience with w6610 (my English isn't perfect, i'm Ukrainian).
My previous phone was HTC One X.. the one with extra low battery life and quite good performance.
Well, this w6610 is 1:1 by performance to «HOX», but with awesome battery life.
I'm using pebble watch so i have 24h Bluetooth switched on, alongside with WiFi and GPRS.
With all that 3 day battery life. This phone has solid design, very nice screen (can't see a difference with bigger resolutions). Really glad to be an owner %)
cant wait to flash a custom ROM x)

Philips W3500
I have a Philips W3500 and im pretty impressd with this phone...to bad i dont se much interest in this development of this phone...i would love to see a custom rom for this phone like android 4.4.4...spec wise this phone is pretty good with 2200mah battery and a mtk6582 chipset...i would love to see some kitkat goodness for this phone

W8555 Android Wear
I have been in contact with Philips over possibility to upgrade from current rom Android OS 4.2 to OS 4.3
My understanding that one of the main difference between OS4.2 and OS 4.3 is support of Android Wear . One of the requirement is to have low energy Bluetooth 4.0, which Philips W8555 reportedly has.
So fat they would not budge. This is really disappointing as it make most of the android Wear devices not compatible with Philips W8555. Making it morally out of date straight away.
Do you know whether there is a way to upgrade rom to OS 4.3 for W8555?

Lollipop update for W6610
Hello other-philips-phone-owners! Why there aren't more people attracted to massive battery life, I don't understand. I also don't understand why philips mostly only sells these phones in India and Russia. I was browsing around for w6610 custom firmware, and found this link: http://www.rom-lollipop.org/mp3-0/philips-w6610-6380.html
This webpage talks about an xda tutorial that I cannot find. Is this a hoax, or has anyone else seen/known about this missing thread?

I have seen this one,but I could never bypass the survey and stuff!
I'm looking toward downloading this ROM too.If someone finds clockwork or twrp for w6610 do let us know
Sent from my Philips W6610 using XDA Free mobile app
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I have a Philips w6610 with a huge battery of 5300mah.On mild use I found out it can last 5 days!!But with 3Gbrowsing,and music playing and downloading with about 30 mins of playing games the phone still last 19hours!!
Sent from my Philips W6610 using XDA Free mobile app

philips i908 stock firmware
hi friends, i am from india my philips i908's gapps corrupted for some unknown reason i had rooted it 3 months before. i tried to flash gapps using rom manager but its not having cwm for philips i908.
so i decided to flash stock rom but i didnt found anything in google
can anyone pls give me link for philips i908's stock rom link!!!!!!!!!

does MI4 fit for my needs & still worth buying? which version meets my requirements?

does MI4 fit for my needs & still worth buying? which version meets my requirements?
things i do:
95% of time - switching between many browser's tabs, background music, youtube & few common apps like taptalk, whatsapp etc.
5% of time - GPS & camera (as main camera) during some trip/journey.
things i care:
1. I don't use it so much, but when i do - FAST performance:
- I can't wait 2+ minutes for GPS/camera app to load/reload when i'm stuck alone in the middle of nowhere and have transportation time limitations.
- I can't tolerate slow/closing/crushing with working load of several browser tabs + music/youtube/taptalk/whatsapp in the background.
2. battery & future:
- official roms. I'm tech savvy. built Linux's kernels when i were a kid, managed to survive (until now) with iPhone4 & a lot of hacks.
- battery should last - I would do almost everything to avoid charging when i'm not at home (lectures in college, trips, car etc.)
things i don't care: games, UI features, fingerprint scan, NFC, LTE, turning off UI features & even 3G sometimes, non-english localized UI (just keyboards).
why MI4
1. very high clock speed per core (high clock speed is more important than no. of cores for my usages, i don't game)
2. a lot of official roms, including CM. I don't want to get stuck again without the option to use my phone properly, like installing basic apps. It happened with my iPhone4 & iOS7 being its last iOS version.
which version?
After a lot of reading & digging - I understand there's some ROMs headache with the LTE-CT & LTE-CU (both 2gb ram).
For flashing roms without problems i should prefer the CU? as i said, i need future via flashing roms & battery, not LTE/NFC/etc
At the same price range there's the 4C, but i don't know if it's not worse in the clock-speed&roms section ("why MI4")
A big price jump (maybe too big for 2014's model) would get me NON-LTE 3g model with 3gb ram.
I would appreciate and thank any opinion or insight.

Tbh, any model suits your needs decently.
Mi4 LTE have fewer Roms available compared to 3G Mi4. 3G mi4 can take all mi3's rom (which is plentiful now) without having problems while Mi4 LTE cant. Please go check the Android development box to see if there's a good ROM on your desired version of Mi4. Stock rom works fine and updates regurlarly. If you want to take the most out of the camera , use the stock ROM. If you want to take the most out of the performance and hate Xiaomi theme, use CyannogenMod. Battery on stock rom is inconsistent but it depends on the version, but consistent on Cyannogenmod ( me currently using cyannogenmod, 5+ hour screen on time with no gaming cuz i dont game a lot).
And take the 3GB ram version if possible. It's just better :-?

Overall love

Yes, yes, it's possible to love a phone. Heck, you sleep next to it, don't you? Rate this thread to indicate your love for the Xiaomi Redmi 5A, all things considered. A higher rating indicates that the Xiaomi Redmi 5A is an incredible phone that you enjoy tremendously. You love it.
Then, drop a comment if you have anything to add!

There and Back Again a Phone/ROM odessy
From the spec sheet the Redmi 5A is nothing to write home about. I was looking for a cheap phone at the time, having a nasty surprise bill which had to be paid. So my Sony Xperia had to go. :crying:
I had the device for a while and did my usual (rooted ROM, stay on stock, try XDA ROMS, get tired of the bugs/lagging, return to stock.
I have to say that while there is a plethora of content for miui and an enthusiatic user base, going back to a stock ROM was less than straightforward. Perhaps it is a symptom of being a China/India company first and foremost. I've started to sympathise with people who have english as a second language....
My road back to stock had a number of speed bumps. I had used a pie rom and after trying an incompatible kernel, the phone was soft-bricked. No problem for an experience ROM junkie right? Well the first stock rom was via fastboot which took the usual wrangling to get on Windows. After a day I realised the camera was not working. Nothing would fix it. I wanted at least Oreo and found what I thought was the solution, but turned out to require "developer permissions". Download the QI messaging app (or whatever it was) and request a developer account. Sadly it kept reverting to Chinese so I could not use it. Did I mention that the phone requires you to enter your MI account after re-flashing. I nearly had lost the password and after failing the challenge questions, they said "we'll get back to you in 3 business days(!). Fortunately I found the right credentials in my browser cache.
After flashing stock Oreo data stopped working completely. I then had to flash an update to the baseband and now happily all is well.
Android Pie is nice and I miss some aspects of it, however the stock ROM is faster and unlocks better with my Mi Band 3. So it looks like I'll stay on Rooted stock for the time being. Plus I do enjoy messing with the different themes :laugh:

Good device for the price! Very nice to test your nerves when you brick it!
As many fellows here on the forum, I just can't stay much time on stock ROM. It's fun to discover the features and bugs of those jewels the devs bring to us.
This Redmi 5A was very chalenging to get back to work after a wrong kernel flash. The soft brick needed to disassemble the device to make USB get recognized, and it make me go back to windows for a while to solve it (it lacks supported Linux tools to do the fastboot flash).
The stock is a very good ROM itself, but as it's stucked in 7.1 (the dev version is Oreo and can be used as daily driver as well).
It was my first cheap and all chinese phone bought from a chinese e-commerce site and it still is a very good user experience.
The themes in the store are very fun play with too. :laugh:

It's love

Back in mid 2018 I bought this phone as a back-up for my Galaxy S8. It was my first Xiaomi phone. For the price (€85) I did not expect much, but I was very surprised! Especially the screen quality is very good for this price, nice colors and good contrast. Because I liked it so much I have replaced my S8 with a Xiaomi Mi 9T as my main phone in mid 2019! Now the Redmi 5A is being used to control smarthome stuff and to experiment with. Even in 2020 as i am writing this mini-review I still like it a lot, and it is still up to date with a LineageOS 17.1 (Android 10) ROM, and it works flawlessly. Also the latest official Global and EU MIUI roms work smoothly, although Android isn't updated past 8.1 on those ROMS. This is one of the few budget phones I used that just 'work'. No annoying bugs or lags, just a phone that does everyday tasks as it should, even in 2020!

Is it a good buy?

Hi guys, I have a quick question for you.
I am considering buying a new phone but don't want to spend too much. I have noticed how the Mix 2s has singnificantly dropped in price lately.
With regard to the camera in particular, how does it compare to let's say the s10e? If I install a custom rom/camera will it still be below the s10e one? Basically, is the hardware of the two too different for the mix 2s to reach s10e level via software optimization? Thanks to those who will help me out

That depends, the camera is good on this phone, no doubt about it. I don't know how it compares with the S10e, but I think if I had the chance I would not buy the Mi Mix 2s again. My main problem, the selfiecam that's below the phone. I don't take selfies very often, but when I do it's annoying to flip the phone every time.
Regarding the software: I've been using a lot of custom roms, but ended up with the Global Beta MIUI-rom. It's stable, receives weekly updates, and gives me the best battery life. No more custom roms for me.
Good luck with your choice!

Hey, you ask about the camera, and i can say when i first got my phone , the camera blew me away, amazing shots, good quality, the selfie cam takes nice shots in good light, video quality improved alot with 1080p 60fps and 4k 60fps, for its price recommended, the ceramic back is just gorgeous, about custom roms, we got google camera from good devs, and also a port of MIUI CAM for AOSP ROMS, with working 60fps recording.
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Hi guys, I have a quick question for you.
I am considering buying a new phone but don't want to spend too much. I have noticed how the Mix 2s has singnificantly dropped in price lately.
With regard to the camera in particular, how does it compare to let's say the s10e? If I install a custom rom/camera will it still be below the s10e one? Basically, is the hardware of the two too different for the mix 2s to reach s10e level via software optimization? Thanks to those who will help me out
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Thank you both guys! Yes the price has gotten very competitive lately. I like its design but I understand the selfie camera position is quite inconvenient. Not sure I will get this phone yet, there are some things about it that I don`t really like (lack of headphone jack above all) but it`s nice to see most users are liking the phone despite some minor downsides. Thanks

DON'T BUY IT!
It has good camera, but since january there are so many problems with gsm and connectivity that You should not treat this device as phone Right now I needed to get another phone and move one of sim card there, because mimix2s usually is out of range. My operator sends me sms each time I was out of range and somebody tried to call me, in last months I had hundreds of them being in center of city with "full range". Many callers complains about voice quality, often You are disconnected on call. When signal is not strong You will be offline, phone gets got trying to connect, sometimes restart helps.
I told You in january there was a change that brake connectivity, last ROM without problem is 10.0.7.0. User reports that some AOSP ROMS are good too, but I can't confirm that on my side, signal is just weaker on them. I have now one of cards in samsung A40 and this phone just works, has full signal when this struggle to get anything, bluetooth don't disconnects, and nobody complains about voice quality, data connections works. My device is not broken, many other reports this issue right after ROM update, this depends on country, region, maybe some specific GSM operator settings. Xiaomi needed to make change because of SAR: https://piunikaweb.com/2019/04/01/x...port-weak-no-signal-and-other-network-issues/
Problem is still not fixed: http://c.mi.com/thread-1896725-3-1.html

I also don't experience any of these problems you're describing

i was thinking to buy MI mix2s too. Is it a good phone? I surveyed all other phones with similar specs (except camera) and found this. Probably the cheapest sd 845 phone in my country for now. I dont care about camera quality but i am a serious multitasker and gamer. Is the battery life good? Someone guide me please and very appreciated. Thanks :3

ninikninik said:
DON'T BUY IT!
It has good camera, but since january there are so many problems with gsm and connectivity that You should not treat this device as phone Right now I needed to get another phone and move one of sim card there, because mimix2s usually is out of range. My operator sends me sms each time I was out of range and somebody tried to call me, in last months I had hundreds of them being in center of city with "full range". Many callers complains about voice quality, often You are disconnected on call. When signal is not strong You will be offline, phone gets got trying to connect, sometimes restart helps.
I told You in january there was a change that brake connectivity, last ROM without problem is 10.0.7.0. User reports that some AOSP ROMS are good too, but I can't confirm that on my side, signal is just weaker on them. I have now one of cards in samsung A40 and this phone just works, has full signal when this struggle to get anything, bluetooth don't disconnects, and nobody complains about voice quality, data connections works. My device is not broken, many other reports this issue right after ROM update, this depends on country, region, maybe some specific GSM operator settings. Xiaomi needed to make change because of SAR: https://piunikaweb.com/2019/04/01/x...port-weak-no-signal-and-other-network-issues/
Problem is still not fixed: http://c.mi.com/thread-1896725-3-1.html
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I'm having problems with this phone also, I'm in Canada, and I get constant network drops, 10-20sec before it reconnects back to any network.
Entering big buildings like shopping mall, or for example Home Depot (Obi) I get no signal anymore.
Love the phone for it's value, but it's starting to be useless when I need it to work.
What would you recommend to switch to, mi 9 or mix 3 maybe ?