Chinese Android phone support??

[fullygeneric001]

With the prices of buy out phones getting more expensive (at least in Canada) and Chinese phones getting better (much like the tablets) I was wondering if there was any Rom devs looking into supporting a select few Chinese phones?

An example of a nice Chinese phone, unfortunately a knock off ,but still a great looking phone is the Star S5 Butterfly. At $200, it's hard to beat.



Basic Information
Model Star S5 Butterfly
Band 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
3G: WCDMA 2100MHz
Sim Card Dual SIM Card Dual Standby/(one micro-sim card)
Service Provide Unlocked
Style Bar
Color Black & red
Shell Material Plastic

System
OS Android 4.2.1
CPU MTK6589, Cortex A7 quad core, 1.2GHz;
GPU: PowerVR SGX 544
ROM 8GB
RAM 1GB

Screen
Display Size 5.0 Inch
Type IPS, capacitive touch screen
Resolution 1280 x 720 pixels
Screen Color 16000K Colors


Support Format
Ringtones Type Polyphonic/MP3
Audio File Format MP3/WAV/AMR/AWB
Video File Format 3GP/MPEG4
Image File Format JPEG/BMP/GIF/PNG/GIF
E-book Format TXT/CHM/DOC/HTML
FM Radio Yes, earphone needed
Earphone Port 3.5mm
Card Extend Support TF card up to 32GB extended


Data Transfer & Connectivity
Data transfer USB/Bluetooth
Mobile internet WAP/WIFI


General*
Camera/Picture Resolution Dual Cameras, front camera 5.0MP, back camera 12.0MP
with flashlight and auto focus, up to 4096 x 3072 pixels resolution
Language English, Afrikaans, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Catala,
Cestina, Dansk, Deutsch, Espanol, French, Filipino, Hrvatski,
Zulu, Italiano, Kiwwahili, Latviesu, Lietuviu, Magyar, Nederlands,
Norsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romana, Rumantsch, Slovencina,
Suomi, Svenska, Vietnamese, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian,*
Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Arabic, Persian,*
Hindi, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Simplified/Traditional Chinese
Phonebook 500
Message SMS/MMS
Input Handwrite/Keypad
TV No
GPS Yes, built in, also support A-GPS
With EPO assistance to speed up postioning
JAVA No
WIFI Yes, 802.11 b/g/n
Bluetooth Bluetooth 2.0
Gravity Sensor Yes
Multi-Touch Yes, 5 point touch
Dimensions 142 x 73 x 9mm/5.46 x 2.8 x 0.34 inch
Net Weight(Including battery) 152g
Standby Time About 2~3 days
Other Feature 3G, WIFI, GPS, FM, Bluetooth, Ebook, Email, Messaging, wallpapers,
calendar, calculator, clock, camera, Play Store, compass, etc


Package
Size 157 x 90 x 53mm/6.03 x 3.46 x 2.03 inch
Weight 373g
Accessories 2 x 2500mAh Battery
1 x 3.5mm Earphone
1 x USB Cable
1 x Charger
1 x Screen Protector
1 x User Manual(English-Russian-Spanish-German)

[geekbuying]

some days ago, we are also looking for MTK(Mediatek) ROM Developer. We want to offer much more support for smartphone.

You can see , we also sell the smartphone, but now in this business, little support can be found.

I really hope some developer can contact me, and i want to work with you guys!!!

Also for OP,i think i can get the basic stock firmware from factory.
If you need,i will try to get.

thanks
Eric
Geekbuying

[neomode]

AW: Chinese Android phone support??

Ok Eric I will take the challenge and want to learn new things.
How we can deal this?

Ray

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[fullygeneric001]

Glad to hear that shops like Geekbuying are interested in getting Rom support for these devices. It's too bad that the chinese groups that develop these phones don't realize the benefit of offering support on their devices. The minimal cost of having an Android Dev on hand to constantly be working on support and upgrades, would more than be outweighed by the increases in sales. When making a $100+ purchase you want to know you can rely on product support. I know that before I purchase this type of product I try to at least find active Rom development.

@Geekbuying

Also for OP,i think i can get the basic stock firmware from factory.
If you need,i will try to get.

Thank you but I have not yet purchased the device. I am currently looking into solutions for my friend . She has a Sony play but is looking for an upgrade. She has almost 1 1/2 years left on contract and the buyout is terrible.

The chinese phones look like the best option but the lack of Dev support makes it frightening. Hopefully Neomode can help to get a dedicated China Phone support section up and running with curious Devs popping in to dip their toes. If we're lucky, Freaktab could become the place to go for Chinese phone support.

[fullygeneric001]

Just wondering if there has been any further development on this topic, and if so, are there any specific models that you guys are looking over?

[rrileypm]

Chinese Android phone support??

I'm interested in learning this format, but so far haven't found tools or instructions on how to develop MKT ROMs.

Is there one of these phones that will work on US. AT&T networks? If so, I'll try to get one to test and develop. I really want one with a 5.3 or 5.7 inch screen.

So far, I haven't found any resources.

I need a way to extract and repack the rom files. The ROM's look easy enough, but none of my usual techniques work. I haven't even been able to mount a system.img because I don't know what file system they use...and no way to tell.

Does anyone have experience with this?



Randy

[snakekiller]

Re: Chinese Android phone support??

This phone has the same processor and gpu like my phone.
I maked my Rom with cwm recovery.
I took a backup.
And copied all the system files to a cwm zip file.

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[royalking]

hmm... Great but reliability is the main problem with Chinese phone. If Chinese phone show greater reliability then i am sure they can even beat Nokia.

[Freda123]

It is just cheap!!!!just cheap!!!