[Q] Chinese phone flash fail (bricked)

[macdaddyau]

Don't buy Chinese. Only buy their takeaways

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[devil3062]

no problems..

i read through the whole thread without seeing any solution.. to the people who bought the mobile in china, the sad news is that you can flash any firmware but then there are compatibility issues such as some google apps wont work and neither will skype.

i also bought my phone in china and could only download apps from their local GoMarket and could not pair phone with android market.

but after leaving china first thing i did was flash a stock ke7 and do hard reset and restore my old data..

Everythn running great so far and is total different experience than if only were allowed to use in china.

still wondering if should update to any 2.3.4 firmwares ans KE7 is very stable in my experience for over a month.

 

[gmstrollo]

...you can flash any firmware but then there are compatibility issues such as some google apps wont work and neither will skype.

I'm wondering if your Chinese phone is different than mine. Everything I flashed besides I9100ZNKG5 gave me the cold boot of death (and apparently numerous others on this thread.) How long ago did you buy it?

I'm also wondering exactly how to tell the differences between the different versions of the hardware. Is it something you can pick up from the serial information... or is it something that can be gleaned from the kernel info? The reason I bring this up is because while I was able to get version ZNKG5 to bring my phone back to life, it's still slightly different from what was on there when I purchased it. Clearly there are different versions of the Chinese firmware available, but maybe it's just the CSC.

If there's a hope and a prayer here to actually have some fun with this thing, I'll keep it. If not, it's going up on ebay.

but after leaving china first thing i did was flash a stock ke7 and do hard reset and restore my old data....still wondering if should update to any 2.3.4 firmwares ans KE7 is very stable in my experience for over a month.

And just out of curiosity, which CSC did you load?

A LATE ADDITION:
Everyone reading this thread might be happier to read this one. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16140775
If it's not the solution, it makes me thing that one is right around the corner.

 

[gmstrollo]

A LATE ADDITION:
Everyone reading this thread might be happier to read this one. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=16140775
If it's not the solution, it makes me thing that one is right around the corner.

Okay, following the above link, I was able to get to onwhere's page where he/she is apparently hacking the chinese OS in realtime. No sooner did I download in flash the new firmware, without FAIL!, no less, than a new version was posted. This appears to have Android market preloaded, gmail, and a bunch of other stuff. You have to navigate through the icons to get to the language settings so you switch it into English (or whatever your native tongue.)

All these pages are in Chinese. Onwhere's page points to a download page, also in Chinese. You can kinda figure it out. I asked a Chinese colleage to translate for me before I got all click-happy. If anyone needs directions on how to navigate through there, I can help.

The best advice though is to use Chrome and let Google translate it for you.

I'm downloading the new version (1.2.4 as of today) and will install and post comment.

 

[Odia]

The reason I bring this up is because while I was able to get version ZNKG5 to bring my phone back to life, it's still slightly different from what was on there when I purchased it.

I think the boots will allow ZN and ZC, possibly ZS too, you may also be able to flash any version by removing boot.bin and sbl.bin from the flash bundle, you may also need to remove param.lfs, this is just some theory since I do not have an SGS2 with Chinese boots and I am not responsible for any damage should you wish to test it out.

 

[SWEcarlson]

Hi, Sitting with a chinese SGS2 and cant update firmware. Any solution to get app-market and google running would be great!

Will read link above to see if the mood works for me.

Thanks.

 

[SWEcarlson]

The link is not working for me, any other location where the file might be?

 

[gmstrollo]

The link is not working for me, any other location where the file might be?

Try here: http://bbs.gfan.com/android-2099143-1-1.html

 

[lrojasma]

Actually i found a way to get around this.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=18490662&posted=1#post18490662