So, hello there, I just joined this forum, so please forgive me there is already a post about this and for my bad english.
I will state the problem in a few words;
A week ago I bought a lumia 800 from ebay from a seller from hong kong. So the phone had some customizations made for users outside chine (I'm from Greece btw) but still there were problems (i couldnt download Facebook, twitter etc). Did a hard reset and managed to install that apps and phone is working good for the moment. Today I realized after some other checks though that the some chinese modes are to hard to overcome (cant sync my fb account along with my mail account on the email+accounts settings) so in came down to this.
I do believe that reinstalling windows software from scratch designed for my country will solve the problem but i do not really know much about it.
So...
1. do you think it will help ?
2. how can i do it ?
I will be good to know that i was stupid enough to update my phone to 7.8 which (maybe ?) wont the phone downgrade.
Cheers
I'm in the same situation.. Can someone please help out, I've been reading forum and googling things for hours now..
heya.try installing a new TESTED firmware from xda.
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Hello everyone, i know i ask a annoying question but it's a kind of an emergency
I gave my old Himalaya to my dad, who use it mostly abroad for navigation and mail checking.
A few days ago i installed him one of the new WM 6.1 ROMs, but this turned out to be a big mistake (shame on me, never change a running System...i should have known). Because today he called me, and told me that he couldn't use it anymore (random lockups, couldn't boot it etc.).
And now i ask the one Million Dollar Question:
Can someone give me an advise for a stable WM ROM, i don't care if its a new or a old rom, it only has to be STABLE. As i mentioned before he only need it for Navigation with the iGO Software, mail checking with Flexmail, and Bluetooth must work for the GPS Receiver. Maybe it could also have a MMS Application, but that's not essential.
Btw, he speaks German, so if there exists a German Rom somewhere, that would be even better.
So please help me out, coz i don't have the nerves to fix it every week
I have tryed Several and one of My Favorites is 3.50c.40cs
C_ShekharAKU3.5c.R40.P24_public.rar
Enjoy
booth
booth of them are stable!! and nicE
Stable German ROM
M03 said:
Hello everyone, i know i ask a annoying question but it's a kind of an emergency
I gave my old Himalaya to my dad, who use it mostly abroad for navigation and mail checking.
A few days ago i installed him one of the new WM 6.1 ROMs, but this turned out to be a big mistake (shame on me, never change a running System...i should have known). Because today he called me, and told me that he couldn't use it anymore (random lockups, couldn't boot it etc.).
And now i ask the one Million Dollar Question:
Can someone give me an advise for a stable WM ROM, i don't care if its a new or a old rom, it only has to be STABLE. As i mentioned before he only need it for Navigation with the iGO Software, mail checking with Flexmail, and Bluetooth must work for the GPS Receiver. Maybe it could also have a MMS Application, but that's not essential.
Btw, he speaks German, so if there exists a German Rom somewhere, that would be even better.
So please help me out, coz i don't have the nerves to fix it every week
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See post #4 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=393807
Stable fast lots of proggis. PM and you get help
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mutanti said:
I have tryed Several and one of My Favorites is 3.50c.40cs
C_ShekharAKU3.5c.R40.P24_public.rar
Enjoy
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how can i get this rom..."C_ShekharAKU3.5c.R40.P24_public.rar"
http://www.google.dk/search?source=...KU3.5c.R40.P24_public.rar&btnG=Google-søgning
(Sorry in advance for the long Email also I believe I may have posted it in the wrong secrtion earlier today) I purchased a Mogul from RS about three weeks ago. For the first week, it worked great! I logged into my company exchange server down loaded and synced email, cal,contacts,tasks ... was very excited. I also got very excited when I started t read threads in this blog .... it seems like there are some pretty smart members maybe someone can help!!
Noticed that there was a new Rom (sprint TV and improved connection) installed the ROM.
Have spent endless hours with HTC technical support, sprint technical support (not an appropriate name). At times managed to get the email to load but never again Cal, Tasks, contacts. Always able to get sent emails to load. I'm left with a couple of alternatives (any others would be greatly appreciated (actually I really like this phone but I need my email,schedule,etc to work) The error is 0x8503001C there is no exact description about this from MSmobile it seems to be an awh**** code. Searching on the web provides 1000s of hits unfortunately not just my issue.
o Go to an early Rom WM6.0. So far it seems like to do this I need to unlock the phone then flash the earlier rom?? Since no SIM card I need to hack the registry?? There are several products out there which is best (I do not mind paying for something that works well). I down loaded several "Oficial ROm versions ... unfortunately did not write down the number of the one the phone came with.
o Find some way of getting this thing to work well to keep the extra features
o My grace period ends in a week ... cancel with Sprint go to Att but there is not a 3G phone I like ... only Iphone ... it has issues for exchange server??
o I got my wife a Touch at the same time (it runs WM6.1) same issue. Downloaded once my corp email no cal, etc.
o I was told that this Rom was cooked up by MS & Sprint what a disaster
Please, please help ... Thanks in advance
Scurfer
Hey everyone,
Last week me and my friend bought a fake iPhone that runs on an Android 2.2.1 ROM with an iPhone interface. There was a version of Skype pre-installed on the phone, but the version got stuck at the sign in screen (after pressing sign in) every time we tried.
After a few days of sniffing around on Google and downloading quite a few versions, we have still got the same problem. On the internet are a lot of posts about this, but there is no clear fix for the problem.
Our carrier is China Unicom, they have a 2G and 3G network and we also have a wireless. Although we came to understand that wifi is not supported on the mobile versions of Skype.
Can anyone help us out with a fix for this very annoying problem?
Cheers,
Bump, any reply would be helpful
This is kinda lame... So many views so little answers?
You've got a phone that nobody has and you can't identify, based on an old OS version ... there really isn't much we can tell you other than: try different versions. It seems like a problem with your firmware, and updating from such an old version would seem like a good idea for security reasons alone... but since this is a phone that doesn't officially exist, I doubt there's a project that creates custom firmware for it.
if you want, i got an skype beta for android, can send you link
BiGbu_SVK said:
if you want, i got an skype beta for android, can send you link
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That would be great, can you send me a PM with the url?
I'll be looking forward to your message.
Thanks for the replies!
I live in China and just bought a Galaxy S3 here, apparently the i9308 model that is sold by China Mobile.
Big mistake, it is bundled with loads of Chinese bloatware that replaces crucial software like Google Play and replaces those with proprietary Chinese services that I cannot use (I can't read Chinese). So, although the phone works and have English language for the most basic functions, it takes all the smart out of the smartphone. I cannot even install an app on it.
The seller refused to refund the money, which is the common way to do business here, so in desperation I turned to custom ROMs, even though I know my hardware is probably not identical with the i9300 which they are usually designed for.
I followed this procedure to install the Omega 2.5 ROM on the i9308:
- Installed CF-Root-SGS3-v6.3 with Odin 3.04
- installed the I9300_Omega_v5.2_XXALF2, using no bloatware option
- Factory data reset
After this it works great, with everything running as I hoped for - except the modem does not work!! So, basically , I now got a dead phone running as a PDA over WIFI only.
So, apparently the modem is not working any longer since it is different from the one in the i9300.
I took a note of the original baseband version used by the i9308 though: I9308ZMLEA
Is there anything I can do to get my phone working again with an English system?
EDIT -UPDATE
I gave up, and tried to restore to the original Chinese ROM as provided here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1722247
But although the modem seems to be working and I got antenna bars, I could not be connected to the network, so basically the phone was dead AND I had a Chinese system. Could hardly be worse.
Finally I just took the phone back to the store, said it is broken, and negotiated to get the proper i9300 version as a replacement. It's working fine, and the only problem is it is butt ugly as they only have the i9300 in white color.
Anyway, a big warning to anyone who wants to pick up a phone in another country. Although the phone seems to be the same, some local teleoperator might have completely screwed it over until it's practically useless and nothing like what you have been reading about in the reviews. Samsung has been way too flexible in allowing China Mobile to basically ruin an otherwise great phone.
not to bump this old thread but you wouldn't happen to jnow of the tech support email for chian mobile? or another way to exchange this relatively new Gt-I9308 for the GT-I9300 model as you did in store? because otherwise I'm here in america stuck with a chinese galaxy s3
Hollow704 said:
not to bump this old thread but you wouldn't happen to jnow of the tech support email for chian mobile? or another way to exchange this relatively new Gt-I9308 for the GT-I9300 model as you did in store? because otherwise I'm here in america stuck with a chinese galaxy s3
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China mobile doesn't offer the I9300 only the I9308. China Unicom is I9300. My guess is they bought it through a retailer and made the exchange that way.
old post late reply, i know but nvm that, anyway if anyone is still interested in this, here i have the right solution to this. recently i have been collecting some old Samsung phones, i managed to get hold of a Chinese 9308, as u know, all i9300 roms/twrp work on 9308, but can't detect SIM card/mobile network, however i found one version of the MIUI6 roms, so far so good, everything appear to work perfectly, has all languages, Google play & framework (services), most importantly, 3G works fine too. i will shortly provide links to the downloads.
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old post late reply, i know but nvm that, anyway if anyone is still interested in this, here i have the right solution to this. recently i have been collecting some old Samsung phones, i managed to get hold of a Chinese 9308, as u know, all i9300 roms/twrp work on 9308, but can't detect SIM card/mobile network, however i found one version of the MIUI6 roms, so far so good, everything appear to work perfectly, has all languages, Google play & framework (services), most importantly, 3G works fine too. i will shortly provide links to the downloads.
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You would be best starting you own thread with your downloads as it'll get lost in all the clutter if you post it in this thread.
Beamed in by telepathy.
As i might say i'm pretty sorry, this is a direct link to the problem, as nobody answered me. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1843898&page=3
Hello people ! My name is Gabriel, and... as you can see, i'm a beginner.
I just got my Nokia Lumia 800, with the 7.5 update (7.10.8773.98). I had a hard time trying to learn what this phone can do, even now it just beats me, K.O.'s me. I saw the Bluetooth Sharing it's not available on 7.5, neither I can transfer contacts from phone to SIM. I searched all over the web to see if the new update ( 7.8 ) can help me in any way.
I kinda didn't liked what i saw. If I upgrade it to 7.8, my battery phone will literally die. I am using my phone a lot... I've got it Second-Hand, from a buddy. Never asked him if he Hard-Reset the phone or not. What i'm trying to ask you is... can this phone be fixed any way ?
How to fix the battery life problem if I update it ?
Will the Bluetooth Sharing app and the SIM transfer work ?
I'm sorry if there's already a thread for what i asked, i tried to search on the web, fixes, everything... help please ?
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