Identifying some phones - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

A brother of mine recently bought two Chinese iPhone 5 clones and Galaxy Note II ones. And I wanna see what's in those, what features do they exactly have, what software do they run and what hardware exactly are they. I tried to google this and I stumbled upon these forums, though I never got a solution that worked for me.
Is there any computer software I can while having each of those phones connected to my PC that use which might help acquiring that information? You guys mention SuperOneClick, but that does nothing in my case - none of the buttons work, no drivers get installed. Oh, I don't know if it matters, but I'm running Windows XP.
Many thanks in advance.

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In most cases those Chinese clones don't use any of the mainstream phone os like android, IOS, WP8. They use other os such as bada or meego and put skins on the os so that they look like the mainstream os. The reason for this is coz of too much competition and low price phones in the Chinese market causing the production of low standard phones and tabs and phablets that somehow leak into other established markets... In some special and kinda rare cases those phones do come with stock android. In this case,The reason drivers don't install is because the manufacturers haven't released the drivers probably because the phone isn't widely known. Probably start searching for the manufacturer and ask for the info and drivers. And maybe, just maybe, they will give you the info. If it has the Google playstore download an app called android file info. It will give you a the info be it hardware or software including your IP address
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Thank you for the reply.
Though the thing is, e.g. one of those phone that I have pretty much looks this one:
"Airphone i5 Smart Phone MTK6515 Android 2.3 OS IOS Menu Original Size i5 Wifi" (google that, turns out I can't yet post external links within my posts)
and as you can see on that site, they pretty much claim that it's Android based. Mine has 4 GiB though, or so it seems - when I connect it to my PC, it detects a FAT32 disk of that size.
So, how do I find out what those really are? Is there anything I can use on the menu to maybe see the real technical spec? There are many of those iPhone 5 clones on the internet, all of which claim they are MTKxxxx hardware inside. Should I trust those website? And what is that MTKxxxx? How do I find out which version (if any) mine is? How do I find out what's the screen resolution, CPU speed, and the RAM it really has?
Thanks in advance.

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Mtkxx devices can be trusted. They just make phones that look like iPhone but are really just android. Since it is android go to the Google playstore and download an app called android system info. It will give you all those details... Believe me it does and doesn't require root
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FAT32 is Is basically the format of that 4gb internal memory storage.
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Hope that helps
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liereiz Alcohol
But how do I install it? This phone is a bit weird, for instance, when I try to watch a video on yt through its Youtube icon it gives me an error "format no supported". How can I even know if it's a real MTK, it just looks like one of those from those websites :\.

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On a computer Google 'Google playstore ask download' download the apk. Then copy it to your SD card. Put the card into the phone. Using the file manager in the phone, browse to the apk on the SD card and click it to install. Then run the playstore and you are done.
Another option is using whatever Internet browser that is on the phone and Google the same thing and download it through the phone (don't worry about data charges the apk is quite small) once downloaded run it by clicking it and install it. The start up the Google playstore as usual.
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And so copied the file on the phone (using the usb cable), still to no avail. It won't load. The phone doesn't even have a file browser 'per se', though I managed to find somehow which might resemble it via the 'search' function. My guess then is, that's not an Android at all? How can I get the technical spec now? :\
I'm uploading two attachments. First is the error that it shows when trying to load up that file you told me to upload, and the second one is the folders structure on this memory card (the one that has 4 GiB). Is any of this telling us anything? Thanks.

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Sorry pal... I don't think that is android at all. What android version was written on the packaging?
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And apologies for the late reply. Got caught up in something.
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It doesn't say anything about Android at all. It claims it's a legit iPhone 5. Though obviously it ain't.
Is there anything else I can do to get to the spec?

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Let me check on Google and see what I can find. But if it isn't android... It might be a bit hard to find out but I will try my best.
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Is there a settings icon? If so, is there an 'about phone ' in it? If there is please check if there's any indication of 'android '
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The only references to Android that I found were those on basically every single website that offers or mentions Chinese iPhone clones. There's nothing at all on the phone itself :/. As I said, it claims it's a legit iPhone 5.

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Topple_ said:
The only references to Android that I found were those on basically every single website that offers or mentions Chinese iPhone clones. There's nothing at all on the phone itself :/. As I said, it claims it's a legit iPhone 5.
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Maybe its off topic but if i were you i would throw out this sh*t and then i would buy galaxy s1 for example...they are really cheap now...after that you could root it and then flash miui rom...(these roms are very similiar to ios).
Also if they could somehow hack internal memory amount to show 64gb they could hack other hardware info so it may show for example snapdragon 800 while its chinese no name

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Still, that does not solve the problem at all. If I wanted to throw those away, that is just sell them, I'd still need to know what it is that I'm selling. You can't run a successful businesses on a market that you know nothing about and neither you can successfully sell a product if you don't even know its technical spec. This whole thing is giving me a headache already :\.

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Topple_ said:
Still, that does not solve the problem at all. If I wanted to throw those away, that is just sell them, I'd still need to know what it is that I'm selling. You can't run a successful businesses on a market that you know nothing about and neither you can successfully sell a product if you don't even know its technical spec. This whole thing is giving me a headache already :\.
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I've seen these before. This phone basically is a sciphone with a iphone 5 design. It runs on Java not android.
Android MTK phones would have just the stock android phone (I.E. W008+)
Goophone I5 has stock android ontop of a skin and only runs on android 4 (There is a update for 4.1)
This however is Java ontop of a skin because of the font, and it looks like the sciphone os. The settings are identical to a sciphone too.
Just to add to this, all mediatek phones (Chinese clones) come pre-rooted, MTK6515 is really slow, It wouldn't even run angry birds. Also when you turn on your phone does it turn on with a android logo (like the w008) if so then there should be a test mode by holding volume up and power or volume down and power when the logo shows up. But I doubt it's android and wouldn't have this feature. Also to test if it's android, when you turned on your phone for the first time did you go through setup? If so you should have had added a google account (They come with the play store preinstalled but runs at a older version) ?

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Thank you for your reply. It makes things more clear yet.
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Also when you turn on your phone does it turn on with a android logo (like the w008) if so then there should be a test mode by holding volume up and power or volume down and power when the logo shows up. But I doubt it's android and wouldn't have this feature. Also to test if it's android, when you turned on your phone for the first time did you go through setup? If so you should have had added a google account (They come with the play store preinstalled but runs at a older version) ?
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The answer for all this is: no. I've never stumbled upon the Android logo when using those, none of those tests would run and they have never asked me for google acc, neither there's anything on their menus where I could put any google acc name to. I simply assumed they were Android based phones, as all the iPhone clones that I had seen on the Internet were said to run on Android.
If they are 'sciphones', as you said and they run on Java, how do I get the technical spec? What I need will be the chipset name, memory information (RAM), screen resolution, WiFi standards it supports, etc. If I'm ever to get rid of them, knowing that is a must. I simply don't wanna cheat anyone, just state clearly what it is that I have to sell.

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Topple_ said:
If they are 'sciphones', as you said and they run on Java, how do I get the technical spec? What I need will be the chipset name, memory information (RAM), screen resolution, WiFi standards it supports, etc. If I'm ever to get rid of them, knowing that is a must. I simply don't wanna cheat anyone, just state clearly what it is that I have to sell.
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Well, I was developing for the w008. I couldn't get round to a ROM with no kernel sources available and the device was abandoned to hardware today. I cant really say how to get the datasets really.. All I know is that it could also be a clone of a "sciphone" and have a different dataset to that.
Just a suggestion if it runs on java, it can run java apps meaning you could find a java app for system information. Not sure if there's one out but it would be worth a try. But then again I think it reads the settings of a file (like a bulid.prop) so then again it would give the same information as settings.
Don't know what to say really.

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Topple_ said:
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"Airphone i5 Smart Phone MTK6515 Android 2.3 OS IOS Menu Original Size i5 Wifi" . . .
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Hi,
This product description sounds familiar. The Chinese manufacturer's product description is usually very vague and ambigious, for example, a "tablet" (computer) can be described as a "pill" (computer) because the Chinese word is the same for tablet and pill (medicine-wise). So, here is how I would interprete the product description:
Airphone i5 Smart Phone MTK6515 Android 2.3 OS IOS Menu Original Size i5 Wifi"
Airphone i5 - Airphone, the brand and i5, the model
Smart Phone - usually means it comes with a large touch-screen (not a feature phone)
MTK6515 - the processor
Android 2.3 OS IOS Menu - it has some menus that looks like Android 2.3 and some menus that look like IOS
Original Size i5 - the phone hardware has the same form-factor as i5.
Wifi - comes with addditional Wifi connectivity (if without the word "Wifi" expect no Wifi)
I am sure if we were to scour the Chinese websites we will find many more such (seemingly deceiving) descriptions.