damole

I'd really just about given up on my phone but I still kept trying the the power button randomly throughout the day and finally maybe 10 hrs later when I pressed the power button the screen flashed on and off. I knew then the phone wasn't dead just totally discharged and so plugged it in and after about five minutes I pressed the power and it booted.

The non-removable battery was just about the only negative when I was deciding whether to buy the phone or not and I only decided it wasn't a deal breaker because at least in Thailand taking it to a shop is easy and cheap, ironically the time I almost needed to do that I'm in the UK.

I just received my Jellybean 4.3 update for my Nexus 7 today and so I'm hoping that i-mobile will make this update available for their flagship models before too long.

Thats interesting was it an OTA upgrade?

Yes it was OTA. I also installed the ADB drivers for the Nexus 7 and it also doesn't show in ADB so I'm starting to think it's my Windows installation and not the IQX

My phone just crashed or switched itself off and now I can't get it back on again. I've tried every combo of power and volume keys for up to 10 secs but still nothing. It has done this once or twice before and I just left it off in the morning it was fine. Presently I'm in the UK so no way to take it to a shop should it decide not to wake from its deep sleep.

--damole

I just received my Jellybean 4.3 update for my Nexus 7 today and so I'm hoping that i-mobile will make this update available for their flagship models before too long.

Has anybody managed to get adb working yet?

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And here is the official MTK driver:

http://online.mediatek.com/Public%20Documents/Forms/AllItems.aspx

--damole

This is the same method but another useful site.

http://droidchina.com/forum/Thread-How-To-Root-MTK6589-Tutorial

--damole

Check out these two threads on XDA.

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2247537

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1164957

I finally got the driver to install using AdbDriverInstaller but even then I couldn't get adb to recognize the device so I never actually got to try the rooting method in the first thread.

It would be great if someone could give it a try.

--damole

I'm in the UK using a 3 SIM and everything worked as soon as I put the SIM in. I just ordered a free Vodaphone SIM which comes with 30 days free internet so I will give it a try when it arrives.

--damole

If you need more spamce use LINK2SD

Very good and easy, it will use your SD CARD as partition.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.buak.Link2SD

It's not just a usual MOVE TO SD CARD, it is a lot better.

I did look at this before but it needs root access which I haven't manage to do yet. I saw some new threads on the XDA forum since I last tried so I will give it another go over the weekend. I

cheers

damole

I have had my IQX for a while now and it's a great phone, my only issue is that there isn't enough memory to install all the apps I want. I have had to un-install many apps that I use infrequently in order to keep my most important ones up to date.

Until I get it rooted and so can un-install some of the pre-installed apps and maybe change the partition sizes then it definitely loses a couple of stars.

--damole

This is from the home screen not the lock screen.

--damole

I started reading some of the tip pages for Android 4.2 and found that a two finger swipe from the top will pull down the quick settings screen, rather than a one finger swipe followed by touching the quick settings icon. I know this is general Android but I think it wasn't available in the previous versions although I'm not 100% sure.

I still haven't manager to get adb to connect to my phone so I'm unable to try the rooting method I posted about early.

--damole

They are saved to the internal sdcard that is built into the phone. I like to keep all my files on the external sdcard so that if I need to factory reset the phone I won't lose anything.

--damole

Sent from my i-mobile IQ X using Thaivisa Connect Thailand mobile app

Have you found a way to save photos to the external sdcard?

I recently got to play with a Google Nexus 4 which I had planning to buy as my next phone and I think the IQX compares reasonably well with it. I prefer the dedicated menu button on the IQX because some of my apps don't always seem to have a menu button when I need one. I'm not sure why Google thinks a dedicated 'recent apps' is such a good thing when a long press of the home button does the same thing.

I also have problems with both K9 email and Dolphin browser not having a seach button which was definitely a plus of my old, now retired, LG Optimus 2X.

I'm already hitting memory problems when installing apps and all my currently installed apps have already been, 'moved to sd card'. I guess I need to get this phone rooted sooner rather than later so at least I can get rid of twitter and facebook and maybe some more. It's such a shame Android doesn't have some simple user partioning tool. I'd rather have more space to install apps than space to store my photos/music/videos as I put all those on the external sd card. My Nexus 7 shows Internal+Media as one partition in TitaniumBackup.

I also had some problems with the Phone app which was crashing because of something strange in my address book. There were no strange characters that I could see but after deleting a few entries in this case those starting with 'Ja' and then adding them back in the problem was fixed. The problem didn't occur in the People app. I think looking at the csv file of my address book there was a post code in one of the entries that wasn't quoted as a text string. I never had a problem in any of my other Android devices.

I haven't used the camera much so not much to report about that yet, RevStar Zen, I haven't seen your problem yet but I plan to start taking some picture when I get to London tomorrow.

One of my games Speedball2 would not run, it would crash without error message straight back to the home screen. Ashpalt 7 runs very smoothly most of the time.

I get an AnTuTu score of 12496.

I have managed to play every 720p and 1080p video I have tried so far, stuff that my old Optimus 2X wouldn't even nearly play.

--damole

As I'm going back to the UK tomorrow for a few months I decided to top up the SIM with a 100bt refill card and received 200bt extending the SIM until the end September. I use the Happy internet SIM in my Nexus 7. It was worth the100 baht to keep the SIM active until I come back when I'll decide whether to keep it or get another Happy SIM.

--damole

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*153*n# where n =

1 balance

2 data bundle

3 money bonus

4 sms bundle

5 free minutes

6 bonus data

9 balance via sms

Option 9 hasn't worked for me yet.

I asked in the i-mobile shop and I was told a

100 baht top up gets 30 days

300 baht 90 days

500 baht 180 days

I still haven't decide whether this SIM is better value than my Happy internet SIM for which I pay 25 satang/minute when using 3g pay as you go, although it is capped at 384kbps. As an infrequent mobile data user, I don't need a package, as Wi-Fi is pretty much ubiquitous these days.

--damole

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I also got one with my IQX bought from the i-mobile shop in Chiang Mai. Does anybody know how to check the calling and data balances with an ISSD code? e.g. *101*4#

Has anybody seen the IQ 1.1? yet? I think some friends of mine would be interested in it.

I found this link on the i-mobile Facebook page to download the drivers from the Mediatek website. I still couldn't get them to install so used ADBDriverInstaller which worked successfully and then updated the drivers manually with those I downloaded from Mediatek. My device is now correctly shown in Windows device manager but running, 'adb devices', still shows nothing.

--damole

I am currently trying to root the phone using this method from XDA. Right now I'm having trouble getting the USB drivers installed or if I do, using PDANet, then my device doesn't show in ADB although it does show in device manager.

The default browser.

Yes but Flash was removed in JellyBean.

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/no-flash-for-android-4-1-jelly-bean-users/11433

One thing that I am surprised about is that the phone has Flash installed. This means I can watch BBC iPlayer and videos from the BBC website which for me is definitely a bonus for me.

As the OP am I allowed to request we keep this thread for info about the IQX/XA