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Best DUAL SIM android phone?

Thanks very much for the video Kim. I ordered mine yesterday so I hope it will arrive at the end of next week.

One thing that worries me slightly is that there may be malware installed on there. Has this ever happened with any phone bought from EtoTalk? Or are they an honest company?

Looking forwards to getting my hands on my ZTE U960 now......

PS, how long did delivery take?

Does Google Navigation work? And flash player so I can watch football on it?
 
KimDK said:
Hi

Here can you download the new rom:
gapps-2.3-u960-signed.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download

1. Rename the file to update.zip and put it on the sd-card.
2. Hold 'volume up' in and power up the phone. The phone will reboot in Recovery mode.
3. Select 'apply update from sdcard'. The U960 will update with new rom.

Etotalk has been kind to me so i don't understand why you all have problem with them.
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good news for my friend thesolutor!!:D
 
KimDK said:
Hi

Here can you download the new rom:
gapps-2.3-u960-signed.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download
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Thank you, but that file is not a new rom, it's just the package with the google apps.. I have already got them working

1. Rename the file to update.zip and put it on the sd-card.
2. Hold 'volume up' in and power up the phone. The phone will reboot in Recovery mode.
3. Select 'apply update from sdcard'. The U960 will update with new rom.
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Yes this is the way to install them, if the recovery is properly installed, which is not my case (problem #2 mentioned aboove)

Etotalk has been kind to me so i don't understand why you all have problem with them.
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They don't want to support me with the excuse that I'm not the person who purchased the phone, (although practically brand new my phone is second hand)
 
KimDK said:
Hi

Here can you download the new rom:
gapps-2.3-u960-signed.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download

1. Rename the file to update.zip and put it on the sd-card.
2. Hold 'volume up' in and power up the phone. The phone will reboot in Recovery mode.
3. Select 'apply update from sdcard'. The U960 will update with new rom.

Etotalk has been kind to me so i don't understand why you all have problem with them.
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Hello,

This is the same link etotalk has send me this morning. This should solve my problems with the andriod market....
I haven't tried the installation jet, due t the fact that I need the phone right now for my work.
 
LG P698 said:
Hello,

This is the same link etotalk has send me this morning. This should solve my problems with the andriod market....
I haven't tried the installation jet, due t the fact that I need the phone right now for my work.
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Yes, if your problem is just the market, this is all you need.

(assuming that your recovery is working)
 
Is it that we need to pay Etotalk extra to get the phone ZTE-U960
Rooted and to comes with Android Market? As I saw in their website with:

Flash player 10.2 ( +US$1.99 )
Multi-language keyboard ( +US$1.99 )
Skype ( +US$2.99 )
Unlocked and Rooted ( +US$3.99 )
Android Market ( +US$2.99 )

so is not free.
 
cybermall said:
Is it that we need to pay Etotalk extra to get the phone ZTE-U960
Rooted and to comes with Android Market? As I saw in their website with:

Flash player 10.2 ( +US$1.99 )
Multi-language keyboard ( +US$1.99 )
Skype ( +US$2.99 )
Unlocked and Rooted ( +US$3.99 )
Android Market ( +US$2.99 )

so is not free.
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Yes they're used to sell free things, in this case it's somewhat fair because the work needed, but you can also buy some custom roms coming from various forums around the world.
 
fermindaane said:
Thanks for the video, looks really good.

Can you tell about the battery life of the phone? Dual antennas and nice big screen with only 1500mAh battery is scaring me off a bit..
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Battery life is pretty good if you consider it's a dual sim: on the first days of usage I got, more or less, the same results I have my droid2 global with the extended battery more or less 8/10 h with 1h and half of calls some browsing with opera mobile and the data and push mail always on.

Back to my problems I ficed myself the recovery problem (flashed it with fasboot instead of the etotalk sw provided from the vendor)

I've also found two different upgraded roms B10 and B12 (my phone has the B08 version preinstalled)

ZTE-TU960-B10.rar (b10) <---updated link (thanks to djbuan)

ZTE-TU960-B12.rar (B12)

I haven't tested them because that 115.com server is damn slow (at least from Italy), likely I'll need a couple of days to have the downloads finished.

If someone can get them faster than me, and place them on some western server (one of the few survived ones, I mean :( )would be very nice.

P.S. there's no need to decipher some cryptic Chinese web pages, just use jdownloader
 
The Solutor said:
I've also found two different upgraded roms B10 and B12 (my phone has the B08 version preinstalled)

ZTE-TU960????.rar (b10)

ZTE-TU960-B12.rar (b12)

I haven't tested them because that 115.com server is damn slow (at least from Italy), likely I'll need a couple of days to have the downloads finished.

If someone can get them faster than me, and place them on some western server (one of the few survived ones, I mean :( )would be very nice.
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I'm sorry for quoting myself, but after half day the downloads are still at 10/20%, if someone can get them faster would be VERY appreciated :)
 
I followed this thread with great interest. My choices are now limited to the Motorola XT532 and the ZTE-TU960. Two questions:

1) TU960: How is the speaker quality for making a phone call? My last Chinese dual sim phone worked well but was useless to make phone calls because I could barely hear the other person.

2) XT532: When using sim 2 for data (e.g. surfing the web) is sim 1 then also disabled or can you receive calls?

Thanks
 
I have the Lenovo A60 since november. I bought it in a webshop in The Netherlands called rockstoreonline.eu

First I was not satisfied with it, because there was hardly a GSM-signal indoor or in the car. Making a call while driving was impossible and inside buildings nearly impossible. Also the phone had no Dutch language. Not a big problem, but since it's my native language I would have liked that.
For those reasons I purchased the Multilanguage 2.0 Android 2.3.5 ROM from Etotalk. This contains a GPS-fix and Dutch language. I had quite some problems with the USB-drivers to install the ROM, but the guys from Etotalk were very helpfull.
With the new ROM the phone works very good and I have Dutch language, Android Market, Google apps and all.
Only problem: I can't install Whatsapp but I can live with that since I don't use it very often.
 
hidefault123 said:
1) TU960: How is the speaker quality for making a phone call? My last Chinese dual sim phone worked well but was useless to make phone calls because I could barely hear the other person.
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The audio quality is a real strength of that ZTE phone.

Really better than my droid 2 global, which is already a very good phone looking at the audio quality.

It's loud and clear, no matter if you look at the front or rear speaker or at the BT quality.

Usually quality and loudness are mutually exclusive, it's not the case here.
 
Pipofiasco said:
Only problem: I can't install Whatsapp but I can live with that since I don't use it very often.
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That is funny, I'm using a Lenovo P70 in the Netherlands and have the same problem, Whatsapp does not show up in the market (Whatsapp wallpaper does) and installing it manually wil give a 'application not installed' message every time..

It is a limitation in the software, I installed a Spice MI350 rom and whatsapp installed without a problem (But reception was poor and camera did not work) From what I understand the limitation is somewhere in the build.prop file, installing a factory ROM and simply replacing the build file with a Spice MI350 one does not work, phone keeps restarting.. Will let you know if I get it working :)
 
Crake said:
I guess the both of them will be finished in two hours.
I will upload to another place.
Any suggestion in mind??
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Thanks very much for your interest.

BTW thanks to my friend Topogigi I already have the B12 version

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/21291614/ZTE-TU960-B12.rar

which anyway doesn't fix the 128k vodafone sim :(

But looks like the B12 was uploaded w/o the baseband because the Chinese users dont want to break the wcdma crack they did to use the phone in wcdma in their country

The B10 file is bigger and I hope should be complete with all the partition images needed (just a guess due to the language barrier).

So the B12 version is not needed anymore, but the b10 one could be helpful.

Given the recent megaupload tragedy, the hosting sites available are all new for me, I tried datafilehost.com and it works but its limited to 100MB so the file must be splitted with winrar.

JumboFiles.com - Dedicated Hosting should be a good alternative (I hope).

Thanks again.
 
ThiPaX40 said:
That is funny, I'm using a Lenovo P70 in the Netherlands and have the same problem, Whatsapp does not show up in the market (Whatsapp wallpaper does) and installing it manually wil give a 'application not installed' message every time..

It is a limitation in the software, I installed a Spice MI350 rom and whatsapp installed without a problem (But reception was poor and camera did not work) From what I understand the limitation is somewhere in the build.prop file, installing a factory ROM and simply replacing the build file with a Spice MI350 one does not work, phone keeps restarting.. Will let you know if I get it working :)
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In my case, whatsapp shows up in the market, but after installing I get a message "gedeelde bibliotheek ontbreekt" and I'm not able to open it. Please let me know if you have a solution.
 
The Solutor said:
Yes, if your problem is just the market, this is all you need.

(assuming that your recovery is working)
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And there starts my second problem.
I tried to use the instructions form etotalk:

1. Download the zip file, and put the update.zip on the sd card
gapps-2.3-u960-signed.zip - 4shared.com - online file sharing and storage - download
2. root your phone by root.rar.
upzip it to a folder, run root after you connect your phone to your pc. (debug mode must be turned on)
3. upzip recovery.rar and run it after you connect your phone to your pc.
4. press volume up + power and hold for 10 seconds till the photo logo shows, the phone must be completely off to get into recovery mode
5. select the xxx.zip to update (the downloaded zip file gapps-23-u960-signed.zip)
8. choose the zip to press "power key" to confirm, volume up and down to select.
9. when upload completed, restart.

I'm just a newbee on the andriod system and I don't know how to find/use "root.rar" an d the "recovery.rar".
I asked Etotalk for further instruction, however I haven't recieved them jet.

Besides this I'm very pleased with the LG P698.
 
cybermall said:
Is it that we need to pay Etotalk extra to get the phone ZTE-U960
Rooted and to comes with Android Market? As I saw in their website with:

Flash player 10.2 ( +US$1.99 )
Multi-language keyboard ( +US$1.99 )
Skype ( +US$2.99 )
Unlocked and Rooted ( +US$3.99 )
Android Market ( +US$2.99 )

so is not free.
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Yes,
I asked them to install al the items mentioned.
 
The Solutor said:
Sorry, but if your phone is already rooted and witn the market installed, why you`re asking for root ?
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Oh, sorry my remark wasn't completly clear.
When I bought this phone I asked them to root the phone and install the requested items...and they did that!

But, I have problems to get the market working.
A factory reset and reconnecting app's to my own google account didn't work.
The answer of etotalk was the earliar mentioned software link with instruction to root the phone... (again????)

Well I'm just a complete nitwit on adriod.
And at this moment I still haven't recieved further instruction from etotalk and therefor not able to install the new software....
 
If your phone was really rooted, is still roted even after an hard reset.

And anyway root is not needed to install the googleapps theyrself, but to install the custom recovery.

Now just check if your recovery is working: turn off the phone and turn on it keeping the volume + button depressed.

If all is fine you will enter in recovery and you can install the updated gpapps following the remaining instructions.
 
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