Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 User's Thread

[ceril_07]

Welcome to CHERRY MOBILE "BLAZE" S180 USER'S THREAD



To all Facebook subscribers of Kevin in Cherry Mobile Facebook Page, please be informed that the site will be deactivated soon.

I made my own Facebook account, so that other may also be informed of the things I've been doing here.

Thank you Kevin for keeping our fellow Filipinos updated about the Cherry Mobile Blaze.
Thank you also for supporting me by giving me cash donations and Premium VPN account to upload my works. Kung sino ka man sa persnonal - KUDOS bro!


TWRP Recovery v 2.5.0.0 now available!! Ito na pinakahihintay nyo JB users!
This can give root privilege to all of you Jelly Bean Users!!



WARNING

Symbianize and myself disclaim all liability for any harm that may befall your device, including, but not limited to
bricked phones, voided manufacturer warranties, exploding batteries, etc. As always,proceed at your own risk.

The information, Symbianize, and programs listed in my Technical Support Page, are tools I have and do use myself.
There is always a chance that trying any of the suggested programs, procedures, or tips on your own can lead to
further problems up to and including, but not limited to, complete loss of data on your device, if you do not have
a backup of the things on the device that you do not want to lose or no longer have the software for. I strongly
suggest you do a backup before continuing. If you are not able to do this, I recommend you bring the deviceto me
and allow me to do this for you. I am not responsible for any problems you may have if you decide to use the
programs or follow the advice given on this site. I recommend that unless your computer skills are up to the tasks
(installing software, running programs, and understanding how to use them) that you have some one who is trained
do this for you or again bring it in to me. However, if you are comfortable with doing these tasks then this information
may help you solve some issues on your own.

It is also important for you to know that I receive no compensation from this site should you decide to purchase their
products unless you purchase the product from me or have me install and update the program for you.

Cherry Mobile Blaze Facebook group

Useful Threads and Links

• TWRP Recovery V2.5.0.0 [ICS & JB]
• Rooting Cherry Mobile BLAZE [ICS & JB]
• Unrooting Cherry Mobile BLAZE ==>Will be fixed soon.
• Flashing Cherry Mobile BLAZE to Stock ROM
• Jelly Bean Screenshots
• Jelly Bean Update via Flash Tool
• Build.prop Tweaks [Tested on JB only]
• Ported Apps for Blaze [Touchwiz UX & Task Manager for Jelly Bean]
• Custom ROM for Blaze
• Data Repartition Hack
• LED Light Controller App
  
  
  
• THE FOLLOWING ARE STILL IN UPDATE PROCESSES:
• Tweaks using engineer mode or mobile uncle.. in update process

Still Updating.. (If needed or by request)

FAQs

1. Is rooting legal?
   >Yes
   
   
2. Does ROOTING void our BLAZE's warranty?
   >"ROOTING will really VOID the WARRANTY."
   
   Last February 28, 2013 Republic Act No. 10372, signed certain provisions of Republic Act No. 8293, known as
   the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines.
   
   Rooting (ANDROID) and Jailbreaking (IOS) are examples of decompilation, the process of removing the vendor-
   imposed limitations of tablets, mobile devices and other electronic gadgets. Though NOT ILLEGAL, decompilation
   may be in violation of your operating system’s terms of use, and therefore may void your warranty.
   
   Again ROOTING is legal. Customizing and deleting the BLOATWARES will void the warranty. When we modify or
   delete the BLOATWARES, we cannot be able to receive any OTA (Over the Air) updates coming from the Cherry Mobile.
   Rooting is REVERSIBLE unlike removing or modifying the BLOATWARE, it is not, unless we revert to the STOCK ROM.
   
   
   
3. How to UNROOT?
   >By Reinstalling our STOCK ROM or a NANDROID Backup of our phones. But what I provided here
   was already rooted. Just wait for my unrooting script.
   
   
4. What is the password of the files used here?
   >c e r i l _ 0 7
   no spaces.
   
   
5. Can we root via stock recovery?
   >No. I am sorry to disappoint you but the stock recovery will always gives a "Signature Verification Error".
   Believe me, I have tried everything by signing the zip file, but still the same error. So the only way to
   root your phone is to install custom recovery and one the best custom Recovery is TWRP recovery.
   
   
6. What is TWRP?
   >TWRP Recovery is a custom Recovery. For more details refer to this SITE.
   
   
7. How do you go into Recovery Mode?
   >Turn off your phone completely. Then press the HOME + VOLUME UP + POWER Button all together untill you see the
   Teamwin image, if you install the TWRP.
   
   
   
8. How do you take a Screen Shot in Blaze?
   >Press the Power Button + Volume Down together.
   
   
   
9. My Blaze only runs 3 hours every time I am surfing the net, is it normal?
   >Yes. It is very normal. Why? because our battery's capacity is only 1500MaH. If you want more power then look
   for a compatible battery.
   
   
   
10. What is a compatible Battery for BLAZE?
    >The samsung Galaxy Ace2 will fit for our BLAZE but the problem and the hard part is the Polarity (+ & -). This
    can be fix by soldering.
    
    
    
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    Some inquiries will be posted here.. (RESERVED)..

If you think I helped you with your Cherry Mobile Blaze, please don't hesitate to send me donations.

I don't entertain tech support via PM so please just reply here in my thread. Thank you.

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

Thank you Tristan for sending me monetary donations..
Thank you Kevin D. Mitnick for the Blaze Facebook Page and for giving me Premium VPN Account to upload my works.
Thank you sa nagpa-utang sa akin ng pera!
at Thank you sa lahat na natulungan ko at di nakalimutan magpasalamat..

As of May 7, 2013 I have my phone back!

If you need help specially in times were Symbianize is down
fell free to text me @ 09064909552.
Sorry! Nawala yung isa kong simcard

Currently enjoying my modified "Mercury" Slim Side Flip-Flop S3 Case

[Picture above where uploaded by Kevin D. Mitnick of Blaze Facebook Page.. Walang hanggang pasasalamat sa suporta!]


At syempre sayo:
Elobnial, sa walang sawang pag-sagot sa mga tanong ng mga tao.

IT IS A RE-BRANDED "MING REN A2" PHONE (China)

Cherry Mobile BLAZE Specifications:
Dual SIM / Dual Standby
4.7" FWVGA (854x480) Capacitive display
208ppi with 5-point multi-touch feature
Android 4.1.2 (Upgraded to Jelly Bean as of 2/12/13)
1GHz Dual-Core MT6577 Processor
PowerVR SGX531 GPU
512MB of RAM
4GB of internal storage
microSD card slot up to 32GB
8MP autofocus camera with LED flash
720p HD video recording
VGA (0.3MP) front-facing camera
GPS with A-GPS support / Bluetooth v2.1
WiFi b/g/n / WiFi Hotspot
3G capable / UMTS 2100MHz
GPRS / EDGE / GSM 900/1800MHz (Dual-band)
Motion Sensor / Proximity Sensor / Light Sensor
3.5mm audio Jack / MicroUSB v2.0 / FM Radio
Li-Ion 1,500mAh battery (Confirmed)
Color: White Silver & Blue Silver
Price: Php6,499 (Official SRP)

What's in the box
Cherry Mobile Handset
Battery
Charger
Manual

Commonly used Android Terms & Abbreviations [FOR DUMMIES]

adb: Android Debug Bridge, a versatile tool lets you manage the state of an emulator instance or Android-powered device

ADK: Android Development Kit, What people use to develop anything for the droid such as ROM's

Baseband: In communications and signal processing, the baseband describes signals and systems whose range of the frequencies measured from close to 0 hertz to a cut-off frequency, a maximum bandwidth or highest signal frequency; it is sometimes used to describe frequencies starting close to zero

Boot Loader: State in which the droid can be flashed from RSD with an appropriate .sdk file that reprograms the phone into a specific ROM or update. This is typically a last resort when the recovery screen cannot be reached to make a much simpler and less risky solution

Boot Loop: simply means something is preventing the phone from completing it's boot cycle and is stuck between the boot animation and the unlock screen, creating a looped animation. This is often fixed by either reloading a Nandroid, or Reflashing a rom from the Boot Loader.

Brick or Bricked: Jargon for a completely unrecoverable device, (no more than a brick or paperweight)

Bug or Software Bug: an Error or flaw in software that produces a failure or unexpected/unwanted result. Typically created from incorrect code, this is why some ROMs are better and smoother running than others because certain developers have taken the time to input "perfect" code

Busybox: BusyBox is a single multicall binary that packages the functionality of most widely used standard Unix tools, BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded system.

ClockworkMod: A recovery program that is often used to apply updates, ROMs, or create a back up or restore a backup file

De-odex: Apk files have respective odexes that devs use to supposedly save space. Deodexing means you convert it back to a .dex file and put it back inside the apk. This allows you to easily replace files (not having to worry about odexes), but the main point was to deodex services.jar so that you can change all text to different colors (such as the clock color to white) and to deodex services.jar, you need to deodex everything.

Dev. or Developer: An individual that creates, or alters a file in such a manner as to advance the program

Flash or Flash Memory: a program technology that can be electrically erased and reprogrammed

Kernel: The governor of the CPU usage and Battery output, one can upload certain Kernels to achieve greater performance speed of their device at the cost of some battery life

Nandroid or Nandroid Backup: A file typically created in the custom recovery program, such as SPRecovery, that is a carbon copy of whatever state your phone is in before a drastic change is made. the file then can be moved onto or off of the SD card for later use in case something should go wrong in the ROM or Update, or a Boot Loop occurs

OS: Operating system, I.E. Windows Vista or MAC or ANDROID

ROM: Read Only Memory, a program used to make changes to anything from the look of the home screen, to icons to custom boot animation

Root: Common word associated with giving a user "super user" access to their phones programming and other various aspects that would normally not be possible, also known as "Jailbroken" for iPhone's

Shell or SSH: secure shell or ssh is a network protocol that allows data to be exchanged using a secure channel between two networked devices

SPR or SPRecovery: A recovery program that is often used to apply updates, ROMs, or create a back up or restore a backup file

Stock: Simply means an unaltered state, such as when you first purchase your phone from Verizon, or when you do a factory reset. Current stock image is Android 2.2 (Froyo)

SU: "Super user", or root permissions

Theme: A set of icons, backgrounds and app trays that change the ascthetics of the overall look of the droid and its applications

TWRP: Acronym for TeamWin Recovery Project it is a custom recovery like the CWM on where the touch screen can be use instead of the volume keys on selecting an option.

TUN/TAP: Refers to a network Tunnel, operates within layer 3 packets, or ip packets. Packets sent by a system via a TUN/TAP device are delivered to a user-space program that attaches itself to the device. A user space program may also pass packets into a TUN/TAP device. In this case TUN/TAP device delivers (or "injects") these packets to the operating system's network stack thus emulating their reception from an external source.

Underclocking: Slowing down the CPU mainly to limit battery usage


File types:

.apk or APK's: An .apk file extension denotes an Android Package (APK) file, an .apk file can be opened and inspected using common archive tools

.sbf: Summation Briefcase File

.tar: Similar to a zip file, a tar file archives multiple files into one file

.tgz: TGZ files are commonly used as install packages for Slackware Linux.

.zip: Zipped file used to archive multiple files into one to save space and allow for single download

If you think I helped you with your Cherry Mobile Blaze, please don't hesitate to send me donations.

I don't entertain tech support via PM so please just reply here in my thread. Thank you.

 

[ceril_07]

[Guide] Rooting Cherry Mobile BLAZE

Rooting Procedure for Cherry Mobile BLAZE and/or any MediaTek 6577

Please read the instructions carefully.

1. Install TWRP Version 2.5.0.0
2. Reboot into Recovery Mode
3. Flash this Rooting zip file.

For easy Rooting visit this XDA Thread for updates.
It states there that is is compatible for almost all MTK devices which will use Boromir exploit.
Though I haven't tried it personally. But some says it is working. But I still prefer the Flashing Way of Rooting.

APK can be downloaded HERE.
Again, after installing the application, open it and select Boromir as Exploit.

 

[macupex123]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

sir tingin nyo po ba abnormal yung blaze ko? kc bigla bigla sya namamtay pagnaglalaro ako ng games? any idea why?

 

[iamcdr237]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

HEYYYA!! pang gaming pala tlaga ung blaze, compare sa flare..

 

[iamcdr237]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

Guide on **ROOTING S180 or Cherry Mobile BLAZE:
**Procedure of rooting our device is the same as rooting procedure of todays Cherry Mobile's
SmartPhones such as Flare, Flame, Skyfire, Titan and Rave.

1. First to do is to makesure that USB debugging is “ON/checked”. This can be done by going to Settings -> Developer Options -> USB debugging.
2. Download this file ->- Bin4ry Tool - and Extract it.
3. Install BLAZE's drivers on your PC. This can be done by downloading and installing PdaNet
4. Connect BLAZE to computer using a USB Data Cable and the S180 drivers will install.
5. When the drivers are done installing, go to the extracted file and Open the Batch File named RunMe.Bat.
6. A Command Prompt will appear and input "1" for normal Mode.
7. Check your BLAZE and it will ask if we want to restore, just proceed. Restore and ignore the encryption password.
8. BLAZE will restart on its own and WALLA!!
9. You have now a ROOTED CHERRY MOBILE BLAZE. Don't Forget to check the SuperUser icon and update its binary.

"======================================================================
= This script will root your Android phone with adb restore function =
= Script by Bin4ry (thanks to Goroh_kun and tkymgr for the idea) =
= Idea for Tablet S from Fi01_IS01 =
= (13.10.2012) v15 =
======================================================================

Device type:
1) Normal
2) Special (for example: Sony Tablet S, Medion Lifetab)

x) Unroot

Make a choice: 1
Checking if i should run in Normal Mode or special Sony Mode
Please connect your device with USB-Debugging enabled now
adb server is out of date. killing...
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: unknown host service
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: unknown host service
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: unknown host service
.
.

Normal Mode enabled!
.

adb server is out of date. killing...
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: unknown host service
Pushing busybox....
adb server is out of date. killing...
ADB server didn't ACK
* failed to start daemon *
error: unknown host service
Pushing su binary ....
adb server is out of date. killing...
"
yan po lumalabas eh, pano po to? sige na po, please!

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

sir tingin nyo po ba abnormal yung blaze ko? kc bigla bigla sya namamtay pagnaglalaro ako ng games? any idea why?

Ano po bang games nilalaro nyo?
Rooted na ba phone mo? May ginalaw ka?
Baka hardware na yan, so far wala pa naman akong na-eencounter na ganyan.

yan po lumalabas eh, pano po to? sige na po, please!

Wag susuko, sundan ng maayos. May nilagay na akong SS.

 

[iamcdr237]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

Wag susuko, sundan ng maayos. May nilagay na akong SS.

Di ko po makita SS eh..

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

sir tingin nyo po ba abnormal yung blaze ko? kc bigla bigla sya namamtay pagnaglalaro ako ng games? any idea why?

Di ko po makita SS eh..

I edited the post already and put an SS. tignan mo po sa taas.

 

[elobnial15]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

salamat sa thread na ito na root ko na rin ang blaze ko. hehheheh.... siguro naka-10 trials ako bago gumana. ang mahirap kasi yung pag-install ng pdanet sa phone ko. try nyo lang ng try until gumana. try nyo rin i-reboot yung pc nyo kapag ayaw gumana.

 

[elobnial15]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

sir tingin nyo po ba abnormal yung blaze ko? kc bigla bigla sya namamtay pagnaglalaro ako ng games? any idea why?

bro patignan mo na yan sa service center o kaya kung bago lang yan ibalik mo sa binilhan mo. 15 days replacement warranty yan. yung akin 5 days pa lang sa akin pero kahit isang issue wala pa ako na-encounter.

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

salamat sa thread na ito na root ko na rin ang blaze ko. hehheheh.... siguro naka-10 trials ako bago gumana. ang mahirap kasi yung pag-install ng pdanet sa phone ko. try nyo lang ng try until gumana. try nyo rin i-reboot yung pc nyo kapag ayaw gumana.

Salamat sa feedback elobnial. Mabilis yung paginstall sa akin ng drivers ng S180, pero tama ka rin. Mas maganda if every install ng kahit anong app sa PC, kailangan talaga i-restart.

 

[kiks0789]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

magkano po orig prize nito??gusto ko na rin kase mag android e..

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

magkano po orig prize nito??gusto ko na rin kase mag android e..

Nasa 1st page po under SPECIFICATIONS:
6,500Php ang SRP nyan.

I suggest if bibili ka dun ka mismo sa Cherry Mobile Kiosk, kasi kung sa ibang retailer umaabot daw ng 7K+.

 

[abeyosef]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

anu ba maganda ito ba o yung flare?

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

anu ba maganda ito ba o yung flare?

Di po ako bumili ng flare, kasi mas gusto ko yung S3 look.
tignan mo na lang po sa Official Thread ng Flare, I think lamang
lang ng .7 inches ang blaze, and lamang din ang blaze ng 3MP sa camera which makes the blaze camera a 8mp.

 

[rorot14]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

sir ano b mgandang ilagay or tweaks kpag rooted na?.

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

sir ano b mgandang ilagay or tweaks kpag rooted na?.

Link2sd
Init D Tweaks
Undervolt
I/O Governors
Remove the bloatwares
Pwede mo i zipaligned
etc...

 

[kimcua]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

pano mag remove ng bloatwares?

 

[ceril_07]

Re: Cherry Mobile "BLAZE" S180 Official User's Thread

pano mag remove ng bloatwares?

This is for advanced users, i will post some guides soon. Thanks for your request.

Bloatwares are the unwanted apps in our BLAZE such as the Cherry Market, Cherry Fun Club, Cherry Chat, Kabayan and other apps that we don't need in our Android Phone.

This can be done by using a Root Explorer(Root requited) mount the System/app and delete those apk files that was mentioned. After that, restart BLAZE and those annoying and useful apps are not remove from our app drawer.