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I am *SO* pissed off at this moment ![]() As soon as I get the phone into my hands I will have a look. I prefer not to root my phone, so I will try to find a way to set it up without rooting and with the least amount of hassle. |
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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At the moment, I'm using it happily as phone and ebook reader on my commute. One device to carry instead of two, which was the point. |
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Oh, and I have the perfect cover for the e-ink screen active now |
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The phone is finally in my hands. I have used it for one day with the default firmware it arrived with. This firmware has no option to upgrade Over The Air (ota). So I went to xda-developers site and read the thread about updating.
I found a windows 7 computer, downloaded the yotaphone2_flasher.exe and installed it. I started the update tool and downloaded the newest Russian firmware 124. It downloaded about gigabyte zip file. I do not exact size, because the tool automatically unzips it and deletes the archive. In the meanwhile I have charged the phone. I have switched off the phone and switched it on holding power and volume down. A small white text "downlading" appears on the screen. I have connected the phone in this mode using USB cable. Windows tried to download an USB driver and fortunately failed. So I have manually installed the drivers from yotaphone flasher directory. After installation of drivers I have run the flasher again and it started to write images to phone memory. I was very apprehensive, because the PC looked as it was frozen while flashing the third image. I have let it work for about 20-30 minutes and it finished successfully. The phone restarted itself and finished update. I have let it sit and it automatically updated itself over the air to even newer version (134 I think). In the original Android 4.4.3 firmware the Yota Reader was *VERY* spartan. It did not even support landscape screen orientation, which is a dealbreaker for me on the screen that is 57mm wide and 103mm tall. The setting of the e-ink screen to 16gray scale for certain ebook reading apps as described at http://forum.xda-developers.com/yota...-gray-t3474189 wasn't working on the 4.4.3 Android(*), I am going to investigate how to make it work under 5.0. (*) I am not even sure it was needed. The text on the e-ink looked OK in other reading apps on the old firmware, on the new firmware the text doesn't look good, so perhaps the 1 bit and 4 bit graphics is only in the newest firmware. Ok. Here it is, http://forum.xda-developers.com/yota...1-0-0-t3326208 Program for modification of /storage/emulated/0/TitaniumManager/mirroring.cfg Works nice under Lolipop. No manual editing necessary. |
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I still haven't dared to install a new version
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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I got this glass front screen protector, that installed well. With the bumper case it looks like it'll provide good protection for the front screen, better than the thin plastic ones I also tried.
I also tried de-glossing my bumper case with a scotchbrite P360 finishing pad I happened to have around. It worked OK, but it might be that the P1500 would give an even better finish. |
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Especially when the [rather old] computer with Windows 7 seemingly froze while flashing. There are a few people on the XDA-developers forum that have bricked their phones during flashing and were able to reflash using fastboot. Fastboot is used even during the "normal" firmware update from PC. Some people had to reflash using commandline with special parameters, as their PC did not have enough RAM and thus failed (and bricked the phone) during the flash. But I was reading about cool features that were present in Lolipop firmware so I took the risk. And I am not afraid to use commandline Android tools. I wanted to post my experience so when you do attempt to flash you won't spend agonizing 30 of so minutes looking at hopelessly frozen PC and fearing the worst as it is flashing the third image. |
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Which are the advantages of lollipop in this phone, if you don't mind explain, kacir?
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Hmm, I was already quite interested in the phone before, now it's in 100 GBP range, I am more tempted to get one, decision, decision.
I've never bought something from outside of UK before, UK people, after VAT the total should be about 110 GBP? Not a lot of hassle from HMRC? |
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I did buy a rear screen protector, this one. It is a wet-application screen protector, which I hadn't come across.
But I immediately removed it after applying it, as it had a shiny reflective surface. Just what I don't want on my E-Ink screen! It looks like I'll just have to live without a rear screen protector. |
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But tinkering with a device where even at XDA people have managed to brick it, not sure I'll take the chance.... Yes, I'm curious as well... |
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