Monday, June 3, 2013

Zopo ZP980 experiences

This post is dedicated to track my experiences with Zopo 980 dual-sim phone.

Bought: May 2013, zopomobileshop.com for USD 350 + shipment, parcel: DHL express from Italy, EU (no custom fees)

Pro's: 
  • powerful CPU, RAM/ROM capacity
  • 5" FullHD display
  • camera resolution and picture quality
  • support (so far, 1 rom update/month)

Problematic areas, issues:
  • wrong light detection of automatic display brightness (too dark during daylight)
  • low backlight on bottom buttons
  • GPS - long time to fix satellites even with a-gps, epo fixed in cust. rom
  • GPS - sports tracker (Endomondo) invalid distance measurements (~500m reported as ~5km?!)
    Update - fixed when using Runkeeper
  • 2000 mAh battery - drain when GPS, Wifi enabled, appx 1 day to exhaust
  • microphone/loudspeaker volume (requires fine-tuning, forum link
  • Very slow USB charging - requires power adapter to get to reasonable charging timeUpdate - FIXED by 20130610 update
  • Phone encryption will cause dual-sim/boot failure

Favorite apps (CZ region):
  • Nova launcher
  • Oskarek SMS
  • a:Drake
  • ConnectBot
  • Endomondo > Runkeeper
  • ES file/task
  • GPS Status
  • Jizdni rady
  • Kingsoft Office
  • Maps With Me
  • MX player
  • Google translate
  • TouchWhiz
  • Tourist language
  • Wifi analyzer
  • Wikipedie
  • Youtube

ROM backup:
official site: http://www.zopomobileshop.com/content/9-download-zopo-mobile-latest-rom
http://forum.zopomobileshop.com/thread-338-1-1.html
http://androidforum.cz/ovlada-e-pro-mtk65xx-pro-sp-flash-tool-t39804.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982587
http://www.4shared.com/web/preview/doc/XUy7ge-M
Mtk Droid tools: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44509214&postcount=407

ROM installed: http://www.needrom.com/mobile/miui-v5-zp990/

Flashing:
http://androidforum.cz/viewtopic.php?t=43793&p=612616
SPflash tutorial: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982587

Root:
http://negativo17.org/root-the-zopo-zp980-c2-android-phone-using-adb/


Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 - MTP filesystem mount on Fedora 17

Steps to mount mtpfs

Device: 
- enable MTP on device in Settings/Storage/(right top corner) USB PC connection
- enable Settings/System/Developer options/USB debugging

Fedora:
> sudo yum install simple-mtpfs.x86_64
> sudo yum install mtpfs.x86_64
> sudo simple-mtpfs /mnt/Samsung

References:
http://www.claudiokuenzler.com/blog/274/how-to-mount-android-mtp-storage-on-suse-linux-mtpfs
http://shkspr.mobi/blog/2012/01/connecting-samsung-ics-to-ubuntu-using-mtp/