[Q] Star N9599 MTK6589 Quad CoreWith S-Pen 5.7 Inch 720P HD Screen 3G Sma

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davidayling

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Apr 29, 2013 at 11:17 AM
Hi guys

Hope you are all well and my reason for posting is to try and gain feedback or any knowlege before purchasing my new clone phone. I am upgrading from the Hero/Zopo 9500+ Note clone and am off all the new clones out this is the one that takes my interest

Star N9599 MTK6589 Quad Core Android 4.2 OS With S-Pen 5.7 Inch 720P HD Screen 3G Smart Phone

A link is below so you can view the phone/specs

http://www.androidforcheap.com/star...inch-720p-hd-screen-3g-smart-phone-p-748.html

I am aware from these forums a lot of members purchase these clone phones so any advice on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
 
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davidayling

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Apr 30, 2013 at 9:43 AM
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davidayling said:
Hi guys

Hope you are all well and my reason for posting is to try and gain feedback or any knowlege before purchasing my new clone phone. I am upgrading from the Hero/Zopo 9500+ Note clone and am off all the new clones out this is the one that takes my interest

Star N9599 MTK6589 Quad Core Android 4.2 OS With S-Pen 5.7 Inch 720P HD Screen 3G Smart Phone

A link is below so you can view the phone/specs

http://www.androidforcheap.com/star...inch-720p-hd-screen-3g-smart-phone-p-748.html

I am aware from these forums a lot of members purchase these clone phones so any advice on this would be very much appreciated.

Thanks in advance
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Also here is a video of the phone from fast card tech, im pretty sure its the same one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vBBMxUXJFc
 
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May 15, 2013 at 10:56 PM
Just received mine today

Hi davidayling,

I just received mine today (from: hongkongeek[dot].com since they promised to refund customs and VAT); excellent and quick service btw!

This is the first time I bought one of these china phones; encouraged by the many and mostly positive reports...

About the Phone:

+ To me it does look and feel just like the high quality brand phones
+ NOT A SINGLE CHINA APP!!! Just vanilla 4.2.1 - very good performance; smooth animations, transitions
+ 3800 mah battery - though I'm not sure if it really will deliver that much energy - but it says 3.800 on the label at least
+ Display (likely really an IPS): bright (even outside), wide viewing angle - very close to the front glass; comes very close to Samsung S3 amoled
+ 2nd battery included; additional flip cover included
+ Pen looks like a real S-Pen - no softtip; anyway the capacitative finger-touch recognition is not stopped when using the pen; so that can cause inconvenience when using it
+ GREAT (!) web browsing experience: 5,7" & good performance with JS-rich web-apps (like groupware web-clients)
+ Dual-SIM (with dual standby); however just one line can be used at the same time; and only one is WCDMA capable.
+ Worked on two carrier networks instantly

- no compass; well my last phone had one; I'm not sure if I really need one
- 220g = 170g phone + 50g battery - it's not a feather...

I am actually planning to flash CWM & root it; also I haven't tried out the GPS yet - So I'll be back regarding this later.

Many greet's from the hights of the austrian alps!

lupiro
 
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May 23, 2013 at 6:48 PM
How to root the star n9599

Just managed to successfully root it following this howto:

http: // droidchina.com/forum/Thread-Auto-Root-MTK6589-One-click-root

(can't post the link yet because I haven't created enough posts...)

Many thanks to the creators of the one-click-rooting-tool!

lupiro
 
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May 27, 2013 at 3:03 AM
Hi Guys,

I found this thread and I was wondering if anyone can answe my question: has the s-pen any functionality like the original note2? I mean, something like opening the quick-notes on double tap or something like that? If not, does it have any functionality at all?

Thanks :)
 
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May 27, 2013 at 5:35 AM
Hi, the pen has no specific functionality; it's basically useful for exact "clicking" in the browser for example, or drawing sketches...

greetings; lupiro

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lupiro

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May 28, 2013 at 11:24 AM
Hi everyone,

Here are some Pictures of the camera to see it's quality... took them in the 12mpix mode - camera and gallery work very quickly even with pics that large... not sure if the image size is reduced by the forum software.

And yes...

... we still have snow on the mountains, the strawberries are still green and my chihuahua enjoys the sun...

Also I can report that the battery is really as strong as expected, after 3 cycles of complete drain and recharging the indicator works correctly. Even when using it extensively (frequent webbrowsing, phonecalls of a regular business day) it reliably carries me through the day... the weekend left me with 25 % after two days. Standy with wlan on does not consume considerably much... great!

As allready said, it's easily rootable. Also I'm using the apex-launcher so I could increase the number of icons on the homescreens to 5x8, increase the number of screens to 9... it's a pleasure!

Lupiro

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May 30, 2013 at 7:49 PM
i have the star n9599 since few days. It works great, also bluetooth and usb service is better for me than galaxy s3 (in my bmw the star works very well, S3 works not good).
Display: the brightness is good, the black not so good; No crash, a little bit heavy but a very good battery.
The (s)pen is not so good, too much noise when you write on the screen and i haven't find a good app for note with the pen.
Rooted in few minutes.
I only have 2 problems: i can't update maps app (it seem play store can't install in the original path, i have also uninstalled previous version but the problem remains.
The second one is that i can't see facebook photos (or dropbox photos) in the stock gallery app (any idea?)
The settings app doesn't seem to be complete.


sorry for my bad english
 
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lupiro

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May 30, 2013 at 11:31 PM
Hi,

Regarding maps - i had this with google search... probably caused by inserting an sd card. I guess it is related to the default data location changing after inserting an sd card. So maybe you could try to set the default saving location to the internal memory in the system settings, then update, and reset the default location to sd-card again.

Let us know, if this helped, pls.

Cu lupiro

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pippopoppy71

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lupiro said:
Hi,

Regarding maps - i had this with google search... probably caused by inserting an sd card. I guess it is related to the default data location changing after inserting an sd card. So maybe you could try to set the default saving location to the internal memory in the system settings, then update, and reset the default location to sd-card again.

Let us know, if this helped, pls.

Cu lupiro

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Yes thank you. For all the google apps i have to unmount the sd

Inviato dal mio v89_gq3008s con Tapatalk 2
 
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westm003

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Jun 7, 2013 at 10:05 PM
Android 4.1.2 anyone for the N9599 Star

Hello,

I have serious issues with my Start N9599 phone running on 4.2.1 The sound is so bad that with a bluetooth earpiece or carkit that it is totally unusable.

I tried everything but read it is a bug in 4.2.1.

Now i am desperately searching for some time now for the Android 4.1.2 rom that these phones were also running on before.

Anyone knows were i can find it?! how to flash it?

Any answer is much appreciated.
 
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puentejo

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Jun 28, 2013 at 9:11 PM
Thinking in buying a clone phone

morning / evening.
I have been working exploring searching the web for the best chinese clone phones out there in the market to begin a small bussiness and I was wondering if you people can guide me if there is a "good reputation " website to which purchase the STAR N9599 or other one with a 64 gb tf storage in it or 32 gb storage ?
Thank you
:fingers-crossed:
 
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verynoob

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Jul 8, 2013 at 4:39 PM
Hello,
I just noticed this phone too and there is even a thread about it on XDA (yay :D)
What are your thoughts about this phone?
the only thing im afraid about is because I heard STAR and some chinese branded phones are unreliable and may suddenly stop work one day.. is it true? or STAR is a reliable company?
I saw it being sold for 213$ for the mtk 6589T version..so.. overall, should I get this phone? how is its size compared to the note 2 ? is it much larger? or about the same? will it be hard to grip it? I mean it's 5.7.. even the note is 5.5 lol
Thanks!~
 
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