[Q] think i have been cheated - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Hello,
I bought this smartphone on aliexpress in what appeared to be a good price:
http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Unlo...ne-1-5G-4-8-QHD-1280X720-1GRAM/726280982.html
(DO NOT BUY IT!)
Declared to be a quad-core Nvidia Tegra 3 to 1.5 Ghz, 1280x720, 1 Gb Ram Android 4.2, and the rest of the features that you can see in the link.
I got the phone and with my unpleasant surprise I discover that it is a dual core 1 Ghz MKT6577, 854x480 with 512 Ram.
Launching the Antutu Benchmark, in device info shows (summary):
Model A9
Device GNET A9
480x854 resolution
cpuinfo Dual core ARM v7 processor
While on System info shows (always summary)
Nvidia Quad core cpu model ARMv7
CPU Frequency 1500 Mhz
Screen resolution 1280x720
Ram size 1024 (Free 64!)
Android version 4.2.1
I have installed a bounch of information system apps and unfortunately for all of them the specs are the lower ones,
Pretty sure now that it is an MTK6577 dual core 1 Ghz 480x854 512Mb ram and android version is 4.0.1
It is possible that they have "modded" or faked something in the phone to make possible to show
different features only on antutu benchmark?
If so how can I prove it?
Tomorrow I will open the dispute.
Thanks for the help you can give

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This is usually the case with cheap Chinese phones and tablets. All pretty much the same specs as yours. The details that show in system info are easy to fake. Doing so just involves editing a file called build.prop in the system folder.
To view this file, download a file explorer app like ES File Explorer, open it, it will open to your internal memory/micro SD card. Press back once or twice till you see a bunch of folders, one of which will be 'system'. Open this folder and inside you'll find a bunch of other folders and a file called build.prop. That's the file you need to open. When it asks you what to open with, choose ES Text Editor or any other text editor that's there, and view the file.
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thanks sashank
it is the answer that i needed.

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Another question is:
it is also possible to falsify the antutu scores?
Because i get around 6900 that is pretty fast
for the processor involved.

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oxyjo said:
Another question is:
it is also possible to falsify the antutu scores?
Because i get around 6900 that is pretty fast
for the processor involved.
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yep it's possible. a video even showed huawei's code in 1 of their phones cheating benchmark applications

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It is long known that all benchmark scores can be faked even by the newest of noobs. They mean less then nothing really. Put no faith in them. And remember this piece of advice. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is.
In this day and age people are too fast to trust something on face value. Sad as it may seem this is not always the case. With the open nature of android anything is possible. I can give you a device that says it has an Octo-core S10 with 5gb of ram. A full HD 3D display that scores 90,000 on bench marks. All the while it is a pos that is sending out hundreds of SMS to a premium number as it silently grants root access to every request without user knowledge. See my point?
Batcom2

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Thanks all for the support,
i have solved the dispute with the seller, he is very new in ecommerce and i think he has been cheated before me, and i consequently, he has been very fair and we agreed for a 50$ refund, that bring the phone around at its real price. This is a bit annoying, because it is not the phone that i wanted to buy, but at least it is not so bad and it works good, i will keep it for a while, waiting for new models on the market.