Hi all,
I've been lurking around for some years but never registered and participated to the forum, hopefully this will get me motivated to give a good hand to the community in terms of development
Having said that, I've inadvertently (soft) bricked my Vodafone Smart First 7, but could not find any thread on this relatively new phone in this forum. Is there any chance some of you knows how to get a factory image/recovery for this handset?
Bought it off Amazon and I'm still on time to return it, but wanted to do what is possible before going the hard way
Best Regards to all and thanks for accepting me in this forum
- ketamik
Guys please anyone with a Vodafone Smart First 7 could do a backup of the factory image? Much appreciated.
ketamik said:
Guys please anyone with a Vodafone Smart First 7 could do a backup of the factory image? Much appreciated.
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Ive got the phone
how do i do a backup ?
G247 said:
Ive got the phone
how do i do a backup ?
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Thanks for you response. I've got a second one, but I'm still trying to get the previous one back to life. I'm not sure, because I could not yet find a proper guide on how to install a custom recovery.
My understanding is, if you manage to install a custom recovery on it, you could do a nandroid backup that could be later used for other phones.
I had soft bricked my other sf7 but even when you get into stock recovery its in a diffrent language and i dont think anyone will bother creating or porting a recovery for this as its only a £15 phone from vodafone its a very good phone for the price but not mant people will have it for development use hence no custom recovery if you find one let me know
http://www.ztedevice.com/support/detail?id=ED77B54A178040D589B28C3E7F271DF9
oryginal rom with english german french ukrainian magyar and romanian languages - you'll get simlock after flashing but you can buy unlock code on ebay for under 1 GBP
Anyone interested in little digging in this recovery rom ? Like adding languages and debloating ?
drozda said:
oryginal rom with english german french ukrainian magyar and romanian languages - you'll get simlock after flashing but you can buy unlock code on ebay for under 1 GBP
Anyone interested in little digging in this recovery rom ? Like adding languages and debloating ?
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I'd be interested in doing something...
I downloaded this but it seems it's all in Romanian...
I extracted a few of the apk files from the zip archive... But on my phone which is set to English they all came up in Romanian...
I have a Vodafone smart first 7, and wondered whether this might be a good way to create an update package that allowed super user/root permissions or for removing unwanted system apps.
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Hello, I am a newby in Android, I got my new HTC Sensation with Android some days ago and I would like to change several things on it, but before doing it and to be safe safe I would like to do a backup of the phone as I got it (well, let say after the first answers to the first questions it asks you when powered on first time), as I did with my old (and broken ) HTC P3600 with WM.
I have been searching forums (including this one) and I find tools and tutorials for doing it in Windows Mobile or for Applications, but I didn't find it (or I was not able to find it) for the full smartphone, including the ROM Android-based.
Where could I find a guide, tutorial, how-to, tool for doing it?
Thanks so much
fje said:
Hello, I am a newby in Android, I got my new HTC Sensation with Android some days ago and I would like to change several things on it, but before doing it and to be safe safe I would like to do a backup of the phone as I got it (well, let say after the first answers to the first questions it asks you when powered on first time), as I did with my old (and broken ) HTC P3600 with WM.
I have been searching forums (including this one) and I find tools and tutorials for doing it in Windows Mobile or for Applications, but I didn't find it (or I was not able to find it) for the full smartphone, including the ROM Android-based.
Where could I find a guide, tutorial, how-to, tool for doing it?
Thanks so much
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See here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192300. ClockworkMod Recovery is what you need to make a backup of your system (nandroid backup).
Thanks so much, I'll have look to it and will try it.
regards
Hello guys! I hope I'm posting in the right section of the forum.
Here I go: I am a new and kinda prown owner of a HTC Sensation. After I debranded it, I'd like to instal a software package containing Romanian Language.
Because I'm a newbie when it comes about Android (using since 201 Nokia), I got stuck in some, childish (maybe) questions.
So, What STOCK Rom do I have to install after installing 'RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.45.401.2_Radio_10.56.9035.00U_10.14.9035.01_M_release_208857_signed' in order to be able to have Romanian menu.
The second q: Do I need to S-OFF my phone everytime I installl a stock ROM?
And the last one: there SO versions are newer, the bigger their nomber is (RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.45.401.2 is newer than say...RUU_Pyramid_HTC_Europe_1.45.401.1?
Thanks in advance guys, keep up the good work!
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hello guys! I hope i'm posting in the right section of the forum.
Here i go: I am a new and kinda prown owner of a htc sensation. After i debranded it, i'd like to instal a software package containing romanian language.
Because i'm a newbie when it comes about android (using since 201 nokia), i got stuck in some, childish (maybe) questions.
So, what stock rom do i have to install after installing 'ruu_pyramid_htc_europe_1.45.401.2_radio_10.56.9035.00u_10.14.9035.01_m_release_208857_signed' in order to be able to have romanian menu.
The second q: Do i need to s-off my phone everytime i installl a stock rom?
And the last one: There so versions are newer, the bigger their nomber is (ruu_pyramid_htc_europe_1.45.401.2 is newer than say...ruu_pyramid_htc_europe_1.45.401.1?
Thanks in advance guys, kww\\eep up the good work!
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you can flash any rom that have romanian menu..
2. You need to reboot after flashing roms
3.yup guess so
Well, that's easier to say than do (4 me). Which ROM do u reccommend that contains Romanian language, or how can I see if it does or not?
Thank you a lot dude!
LE: So, all I have to do is to download the sowtfare version containing romanian language (that u will hopefully provide) and install it. No need 4 s-off-ing (whatever that means) again?
Any1?!
Hello,
I recently bought a Samsung galaxy S2 from Virgin Mobile (i9100M). And I plan to bring it to China to a family member who can only read Chinese.
I have unlocked the phone using the galaxy_S app. However, the phone does not comes with an option to change language to Chinese as with most Samsung phones.
Now what is the easiest and safest way to have the laungage change to Chinese. I am thinking of flashing it to a Chinese Rom. I think any CM9 or CM10 rom also have chinese language support. My idea solution would be flashing it to a offcial chinese rom, e.g. a Hongkong version of stock ICS rom and next time I connect to Samsung Kies, it will recongnize my phone as the same one sold in HongKong, so I can update it in the future? But I don't know if that is possible and if it is risky.
Another solution would be flashing it to a stable CM9 or CM10 rom. Any suggestion of roms and tutorials for flashing?
I also know there is an app called morelocale 2, but it only changes the app name to Chinese, all my settings, menu and dialers are english, is there an replacement for them with Chinese lauguage support?
I would not be able to trouble shooting afterwards, so stability is very important. Any thoughts, useful links would all be welcome.
I understand there is a lot of different instruction thread in the forum for S2, I really have a hard time to go through all of them to figure out which is what I need, as I really just want an answer to my specific situation, (all I need is to have the Simplified Chinese language support), so I created this thread.
Thanks very much.
move to Q&A forum?
Mod, is there a way to move this thread to galaxy SII Q&A forum? Didn't realized that when I start the thread. Thx.
I'm sure they'll get to it in due time
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So any suggestions, dear XDAers?
anyone
Any one care to give some suggestions? First XDA post, got no reply at all.
I think it's easy
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Any one care to give some suggestions? First XDA post, got no reply at all.
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I've got a CM10 ROM (Paranoid Android) and I just went to language and input in settings and changed it to Chinese simplified - in the menu it's at the bottom and looks like this 中国
（简体）. The whole thing changed to Chinese.
A lot of the stuff is still in English because the apps are that way, but all the important stuff is in Chinese, like the address book and messaging etc.
Put on QQ, which they all use, and wechat and you're done.
Good luck.
Thanks.
Can I flash it to a Chinese version of stock rom? I am just not sure if all stock version for i9100 model should work for this i9100M model? Ideally, I want it to behave like a phone bought in China, so they can update it via Samsung Kies to the next version of Chinese offcial Jellybeam rom when it is out.
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I've got a CM10 ROM (Paranoid Android) and I just went to language and input in settings and changed it to Chinese simplified - in the menu it's at the bottom and looks like this 中国
（简体）. The whole thing changed to Chinese.
A lot of the stuff is still in English because the apps are that way, but all the important stuff is in Chinese, like the address book and messaging etc.
Put on QQ, which they all use, and wechat and you're done.
Good luck.
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Hello,
a new xda user :victory:, and a new Nokia 920 owner, tried to search the forums for my question but unfortunately ended frustrated.
I bought my phone in Kazakhstan and it doesn't support a Hebrew language for the system (Hebrew keyboard is enabled tough) and also it got many apps and stuff that is in Kazakhian (that I guess came with the phone and will be there every time I update the firmware or such - That's how it was on my Galaxy S3 from Germany).
I heard that I need to flash a version with Hebrew support and maybe it will even fix my other problem with the Kazakhian apps.. I heard it from a store here who wants not so little sum of money to do it.... so if he can... I guess I can do it too.
The problem is - I don't know where to get the rom or firmware that I need with the Hebrew Language, and also I don't know to flash or do anything that involves Nokia... I did on my Galaxy S3 tough, So I don't think It'll be a difficult to learn!
Thanks a lot for everyone who helps!!:angel:
why no body helps? anything? please help me!
ROM and stuff
Demon Fox said:
why no body helps? anything? please help me!
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Hi guys
Sorry for my first post being a help post !
I am a long time iPhone user and i just change to android and my first android phone is Samsung Galaxy Mega 2 (SM-G7508Q)
I bought this phone from china therefore it does not have google play store nor any google service !!!
I don't live in china so i rooted the device to install google service and play store and it works (mostly) but sometime i receive a message says google service has stopped and that really annoys after time !!
So i decided to install hong kong rom which allows google service automaticaly !!
I have downloaded 3 different firmware BUT !!!
when I try to flash them using odin I always receive the same error message !!!
volume size is too big odin invalid ext4 image !!!
I figured that the firmware size is really too big all of them are around 1,8 GB so downloaded a smaller size firmware which was 1,5 GB and the installation was successful (that firmware was also chinese one so no google service )
I really need to install one of the hong kong firmware but they are all big sizes !!
Is there anyone have any idea to how to solve that issue ??
how to solve volume size is too big odin invalid ext4 image issue !!
thanks for the help !!
come on guys i know you guys have some ideas to fix that problem !
I have the same problem. help to find the solution
none yet ????
Well i finally found a firmware that has google play and all (it is vietnamese !!!)
SM-G7508Q_4.4.4_AndroidHero.tar.md5
thats the name of the file i got !!!
I flashed my phone !!!
then i factory reseted it !!!
its all fine !!!
BUT !!!
now my wifi is always turned off !!!
can't turn it on !!!
anyone knows how to fix that issue ???
can share this firmware for me
Please share firmware
Hi. I got the g7508q dual sim. I can install gapps via odin that gives me google play. But i only have 3 languages. Yes english being obe. But i want to setup with United Kingdom english. When i got phone and i done factory reset it had that option. But was rooted with kingo i wanted to hard root like i have always done but it messed up and i had to reinstall with china rom. Now not an option no more. And i want to get rid of the china keyboard and have uk english so 8f i have to factory reset i dont have to gonthrough and install all apps to get it working. Please help. Someone please develop custom roms for this phone..
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Hi. I got the g7508q dual sim. I can install gapps via odin that gives me google play. But i only have 3 languages. Yes english being obe. But i want to setup with United Kingdom english. When i got phone and i done factory reset it had that option. But was rooted with kingo i wanted to hard root like i have always done but it messed up and i had to reinstall with china rom. Now not an option no more. And i want to get rid of the china keyboard and have uk english so 8f i have to factory reset i dont have to gonthrough and install all apps to get it working. Please help. Someone please develop custom roms for this phone..
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you mean you find english UK for you system ? i can help you but first you must root your android..
please tell me what rom you instal from gapps ? because i use G7508Q too..and i want to used gapps rom too.. ok if you share it.. i will help you too..and we can share all about G7508Q.. hope you understand what i mean..
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you mean you find english UK for you system ? i can help you but first you must root your android..
please tell me what rom you instal from gapps ? because i use G7508Q too..and i want to used gapps rom too.. ok if you share it.. i will help you too..and we can share all about G7508Q.. hope you understand what i mean..
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these are what i used to get a uk GAPPS playstore apps running.
i wish someone would create some custom roms already
CF-Auto-Root-vastalte-vastaltetdzc-smg7508q.tar.md5
G7508QZCU1AOH1_G7508QCHC1AOH1_G7508QZCU1AOH1_HOME.tar.md5
open_gapps-arm-4.4-stock-20160418.zip
flash the ZIP open_gapps-arm-4.4-stock-20160418.zip from within the TWRP recovery
RickD73 said:
these are what i used to get a uk GAPPS playstore apps running.
i wish someone would create some custom roms already
CF-Auto-Root-vastalte-vastaltetdzc-smg7508q.tar.md5
G7508QZCU1AOH1_G7508QCHC1AOH1_G7508QZCU1AOH1_HOME.tar.md5
open_gapps-arm-4.4-stock-20160418.zip
flash the ZIP open_gapps-arm-4.4-stock-20160418.zip from within the TWRP recovery
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Hi RickD73!
I have found the CF Auto Root that you had suggested here, and it has rooted the phone successfully.
Now I want to install the TWRP/CWM custom recovery. Can you kindly provide its link please??? I am unable to find it.
Thanks in advance.
First of all, hello everyone. Im new here, so I might have posted the thread in a wrong section. Anyways, lets get straight to my question. My friend recently bought a Samsung Galaxy S6 Edge from USA on Ebay. When he got the phone, he noticed there is no Polish language build in the phone on default. I tried to get the Polish language using few methods. First one was MoreLocale2 using the adb to give permission. Unfortunatelly that didn't work well, as it only translated half of the system ( things like settings are still in default - English ). Then I went, and rooted the phone and tried to install Language Enabler - it worked same as MoreLocale, only half of the system got translated. So I was thinking maybe of installing either custom or stock ROM that contains Polish language on default. The question is, which one would the community recommend to me. I noticed there are few, but not sure if they or any, have the Polish language installed on default.
Best Regards,
dumle11
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It is the g925a version
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Also is it possible to install TWRP on this version? I have it rooted no problem, but I cannot find any tutorial or correct files for this version. I downloaded TWRP Manager from the PlayStore and dunno if its safe to use. At the moment Im waiting for some response from you guys if there is currently any way to do it without bricking. I only need the Polish language.