I guess I'm lucky then. The compass behaves properly.
i really hope JB arrives soon..Sent from my ALCATEL ONE TOUCH 997D using xda app-developers app
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I guess I'm lucky then. The compass behaves properly.
i really hope JB arrives soon..Sent from my ALCATEL ONE TOUCH 997D using xda app-developers app
how about your battery?
it drains in a strange way , using the phone like keeping it in sleep mode .
it drains in a strange way , using the phone like keeping it in sleep mode .
Battery is okay too. I don't notice any significant change on usage. I usually go to work with the battery on full charge. i leave the wifi on during office hours. i usually have around 45 to 50 percent when i get home.
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I do not use a compass. Only applications for navigation: Tomtom, Automap, iGO Primo, etc.. no problems, smooth operation.
The battery works about 48 hours per charge is a drop from 100% to 90% for 1-2 hours even when not in use.
Do you know when you might be JB?
For me there is no update, still have vB5Y-0.
One more question: whether the updates to JB will do the wi-fi?
The battery works about 48 hours per charge is a drop from 100% to 90% for 1-2 hours even when not in use.
Do you know when you might be JB?
For me there is no update, still have vB5Y-0.
One more question: whether the updates to JB will do the wi-fi?
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For a lot of user there's a consistent battery drain in first 10/20 minutes of usage. There are 2 types of battery drain:
1) the battery seems to be fully charged (100%), but if u unplug the 997D in 1 minute u get 93/94%. It means that the battery it's not correctly charged. This issue happens just in the case of switched off device recharge. A way to avoid this issue is unplug the device for a while and plug it again for the complete recharge.
2) the battery is fully charged, but in 10/20 minutes the percentage switches from 100 to 95 with a medium usage. The the battery drain is more linear.
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For a lot of user there's a consistent battery drain in first 10/20 minutes of usage. There are 2 types of battery drain:
1) the battery seems to be fully charged (100%), but if u unplug the 997D in 1 minute u get 93/94%. It means that the battery it's not correctly charged. This issue happens just in the case of switched off device recharge. A way to avoid this issue is unplug the device for a while and plug it again for the complete recharge.
2) the battery is fully charged, but in 10/20 minutes the percentage switches from 100 to 95 with a medium usage. The the battery drain is more linear.
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Many phones don't charge battery to full 100% to preserve its duration.
Also my nexus s is not charged to 100%.
Maybe someone could check on kernel sources if there is something that controls that. On nexus s some devs created patches to extend charge to 100%.
For me that's not an issue, since I often get 50% of battery left after a full day of work with medium usage and 2 sim active. That's good for me.
Also my nexus s is not charged to 100%.
Maybe someone could check on kernel sources if there is something that controls that. On nexus s some devs created patches to extend charge to 100%.
For me that's not an issue, since I often get 50% of battery left after a full day of work with medium usage and 2 sim active. That's good for me.
I used to stay from 3 to 4 days charging with my skate , so it is an issue , and i hope that anyone could help either with a custom rom , or at least a solution .
The problem is only with the quick discharge from 100% to 85-90%.
Then the battery is operating normally, and the drop is even.
It seems that this is a problem in general most phones with ICS and JB.
No tricks, no help.
Then the battery is operating normally, and the drop is even.
It seems that this is a problem in general most phones with ICS and JB.
No tricks, no help.
just buy additional batteries, they are very cheap from aliexpress. If you buy the TCL branded ones, they are original (search TLiB5AF Battery)..
You can charge them with an external charger.
My questions still unanswered:
Is is possible to update systems through phone- setting> update via wi-fi?
Is anything known about the date of the update to the JB?
Is is possible to update systems through phone- setting> update via wi-fi?
Is anything known about the date of the update to the JB?
1. if it's the rom is unmodified (fully stock), yes. If not update will probably fail.
2. no
The remaining case of the missing languages.
Perhaps the update JB give up, that probably no one knows.
If not, is to wait for the modified roms.
So far, there is no possibility to add their own language, with GooglePlay applications do not work in practice.
Perhaps the update JB give up, that probably no one knows.
If not, is to wait for the modified roms.
So far, there is no possibility to add their own language, with GooglePlay applications do not work in practice.
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Nope, there's no way to reduce the battery drain, or better not for that range. I think that on start-up there are a lot of processes, so the CPU is more stressed. IMHO the battery has a long lasting, so no problem so far.
I use Juice Defender with personalized settings and my average lasting is about 48h and medium(-high) usage. I don't know more devices that we could say the same..
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Nope, there's no way to reduce the battery drain, or better not for that range. I think that on start-up there are a lot of processes, so the CPU is more stressed. IMHO the battery has a long lasting, so no problem so far.
I use Juice Defender with personalized settings and my average lasting is about 48h and medium(-high) usage. I don't know more devices that we could say the same..
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For me it seems that it is the same.
Exactly what is the problem?
Do you have a hidden bar with buttons?
How did you do?
Before try the following advice, be sure that all functions of LMT or button savior work (back, home,...).
For me it didn't work until I replaced SuperUser by SuperSu.
In order to hid softkeys, You can use differents applications, like: HID bar, GMD gesture... But I don't like it because it always remove your deskop or hide the top and bottom bar or others bugs.
Me I use this one, but read till the end:
Full screen toggle: http://xdaforums.com/show....php?t=1497558
After disable nav bar, you need to restart your phone.
But It's little bite more difficult, because the app doesn't restore the softkeys bar.
In order to retrieve the bar, I use ES explorer with root permission.
I go in system folder, and I modify build.prop.
You juste need to write directly on the phone:
qmenu.hw.mainkeys=0
Save in ES explorer, reboot, the bar reappears.
After you go to the same file and add:
##qmenu.hw.mainkeys=0
Next time you want to restore the bar just delete ##.
enjoy the full screen!!!
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13Guys, i have created a KANG for porting TWRP V2.4.1.0 that supports Alcatel /custpack & /mobile_info here...
Credits to Russian Master Shifu Javum for compiling it & Russian Master Shifu Michfood for the repack utils...
Don't forget to support Operation RMD...
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Hmm, since nobody try out, i've ported it to OT-997D, Credits to jman0 for his recovery.img...
Use this app here to install... ( root access required ) :good:
If it doesn't work pls let me know... :fingers-crossed:
Cheers...
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Added on Mar 20, 2013 - TWRP with sd-ext support7Definitely, all the problems come from how Alcatel developed the firmware and how non standard it is.
I've been researching the nandroid backup problem a bit further and I think I know what the problem is: Alcatel developed the phone with a very strange partition arrangement.
Besides including the custpack partition, unknown to other phones, the other partitions don't match what you can find on other MT6577 phones, so the clockworkmod porting scripts I used don't really work out of the box.
I have developed a shell script which can perform a CWMR compatible backup of all the partitions. Iin fact, it uses a little trick, storing the system and custpack partitions inside the same tar file (system.ext4.tar) in order to trick CWMR, but the recovery we currently have can't restore any backup created with my script.
The reason is that the partition table CWMR expects to find is the standard on 99% MT6577 based phones, so it's not suitable for our phone. I've been looking inside the backups created by our current CWMR and I've found that on the system.ext4.tar it actually backups the custpack partition, and what you find inside data.ext4.tar is not the data partition, but system.
That's because, for exampe, the system partition in our phone is stored where other MT6577 have the data partition.
I'll try to see whether I can change the partition information (it's on a file inside the recovery, called recovery.fstab) and compile a new CWMR which has the correct partition information. It would still be unable to backup or restore the custpack partition, but with the script I've just created, maybe we can make working backups, which could be later restoreable from CWMR.
I'll keep you posted. Wish me luck7
1. The interesting stuff regarding the JB Update is on about the last 10 pages.
2. Didn't read that
3. Well, I'm no expert developer
...but here's a short How-To on installing JB in 9 easy steps:
1. Root with framaroot 1.7.0
2. Install Mobileuncle MTK Tools
3. Download "TWRP for OT-997D.zip" and extract to SD-card.
4. Open Mobileuncle MTK Tools, choose "Recovery Update" and install the file, you extracted.
5. Download my 4.1.1 Backup from one of these locations and extract to SD-card
6. Shutdown your phone and start into TWRP by pressing Volume+ while powering on. Go to Backup, enable all boxes except "Skip MD5 generation" and slide to the right to backup your current ROM.
7. Go back to Wipe and do a Factory Reset
8. Go back to Restore, choose 997D4.1TWRPROOT and Swype to Restore
9. If you are successful, make an awesome youtube tutorial with step-by-step actions7I have just finished porting CWM recovery v6.0.1.2 to our beloved Alcatel OT-997D, thanks to the dsixda Kitchen and the scripts by Bruno Martins.
So far, I've tried the following things:
1) ROM backup: Perfect. There's one thing you should know prior to trying it. Since version 6, CWM Recovery offers two backup formats. One is "dup", which is the default, and the other one is the classic "tar" format. I don't know if the dup format works or not, since I've only tried tar, which is the one I knew from previous versions and phones. If you know something aboout CWM backups, you'll also notice one difference: In previous versions, the backup consisted of several files, such as "system.ext4.tar", "data.ext4.tar", etc. Now, it's almost the same. You get a "system.ext4.tar", but that looks like a dummy file, and the actual compressed tar file is now called "system.ext4.tar.a", and the same applies to data and cache. Boot and Recovery, as always, are backed up as .img files.
2) ROM Restore: Perfect again. Now, we can mess things up and still have no worries, since we have backups.
3) Installing zips. Perfect again. you can install unsigned zips.
4) Wipe battery stats. Success again.
5) Mount USB storage while on recovery. Once again, it's working.
This new version of CWMR has a lot more options than the previous ones, but the 5 above are the basics, and they work. I'll try the other ones when I have the time.
I have only managed to flash it using the latest version of Mobieluncle Tools, which I have just downloaded from Google Play Store. The one MTK Droid Tools installs during the rooting process can't flash a recovery on MT6577, only the latest version can. so be sure to download it and use just the latest version.
Anyway, I've flashed it several times, and sometimes it didn't seem to work, since I ended up on the stock recovery again. It looks like the unsuccessful flashes occurred when I had the phone connected to a pc via the usb cable. Then, I've tried the flash again with the phone disconnected from the usb, and it has worked.
In case you want to try it, it's not too risky, since our phone contains a script on /system, called "recovery-from-boot.p", which is responsible for replacing any custom recovery with the stock one, automatically on every boot. So, if you try my recovery, or any other one, and it doesn't work, you can revert to the stock recovery by just restarting the phone. Anyway, as I've read on other sites, it looks like that script is there only if your latest update was recieved via OTA update, and not the Onetouch update utility.
On the other hand, if you flash a custom recovery and want to keep it, you just have to rename or delete (I suggest you to rename it, to recover it in the future, if needed) the "recovery-from-boot.p" script, so you'll keep your custom recovery.
Anyway, I have both the CWM recovery and the stock recovery hosted on my Mediafire account. These are the links, in case you wanna give it a try:
CWM Recovery: http://www.mediafire.com/?v7wfjr6v1t7b0z5
Stock Recovery: http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?z896dq8ezdwaua7
If you try it, report here if you succeed.5Finally, I've managed to create a script that can make backups compatible with CWMR. Last night I made a backup, wiped data on my phone and after rebooting it and effectively checking my data had been erased, I was able to restore my backup from recovery.
To keep this thread cleaner and put all the intructions for rooting, flashing CWMR, and performing usable backups, into the same place, I've just opened a new thread on the development section. Here's the link:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=35429358
