[Question] iNEW V3 "Frozen"

[kangeroo2]

Hi experts, you have probably heard of my problem a thousand times, but looking through the forum I couldn't find any answers to this. To cut to the chase... My iNEW V3 phone which I bought in May this year (From the manufacturers in China) has 'frozen' on the first screen and will go no further and to turn off, I have to remove the battery. I have written a heap of emails to iNew but the replies are mostly the same: "Update firmware, change battery and check charge plug" to name a few. Updating Firmware is a real hassle as the website is in Chinese, so I don't have a clue where to go on the page. The person I deal with on the emails (Lily) must have stocked answers already typed out and ready to paste so, I'm getting nowhere. Hope you guys can help. Thanks

[Elusivo]

There're loads of solutions to ur problem, the simplest of them all is going into recovery (power+vol.up when turning phone on) and do a reset.

You will lose any data that u didn't backup tho. Or, go to the roms section here or to the inew section at needrom.com and flash a cwm recovery, make a backup with it so that u can recover ur data later on and then either reset or flash a different rom, all the instructions are available here in the forum.

Either way, if u have stuff stored in the internal memory and u can't access them u will probly lose them too because of the shitty decision by inew to unify all the internal memory... So if u have and by any chance can access it, copy everything to a pc.

Anyway, if u dun know how to simply reset, or flash roms, etc, read the tutorials here or the guides that most rom threads provide untill u have no doubts.

[kangeroo2]

Thanks Elusivo, I'll give a shot.

[kangeroo2]

Thanks Elusivo, I'll give a shot.

Update..Phone working now, took it to workshop after trying your advice and getting nowhere fast (Seems I'm not so clever as I thought I was), $45 later, all good. Thanks.

[Elusivo]

Cool, now if you have a compatible screen you just need to update it to kitkat, it works wonders in this phone

[kangeroo2]

Compatible screen?? I'm not with you on this one

Cool, now if you have a compatible screen you just need to update it to kitkat, it works wonders in this phone

[Elusivo]

ye, the new kitkat update is incomplete and doesn't have drivers for all the displays.

Check here which ones work [Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register]
Then use mtdroidtools with the phone connected to the pc, press on root button and the screen type will show up on the left.

[kangeroo2]

OK thanks, I might wait until the official version is up on iNEW's website.