UMI eMAX lollipop discussion

bencebacsi

holzi1991 replied at 2015-11-16 18:15
Can we get back to making this phone awesome before we try burning their houses down? In an old thre ...

I remember that post. I think that was a crap/fake screenshot.

holzi1991

Does Umi at least have the source code for the eMax KitKat? If they released it (or accidentally leaked it ), we could at least build custom kernels and maybe even cyanogenmod.

bencebacsi

holzi1991 replied at 2015-11-17 06:20
Does Umi at least have the source code for the eMax KitKat? If they released it (or accidentally lea ...

I guess they don't have it but I can ask them about that (for some leaked info) if you want.

DANIBOY77

Hi , apparently there will never be the lollipop rom on emax ?

nikola_buncic

Lot of people in my country ask about my device which is emax, but it feels bad to tell someone to buy it because of room suport . It is bad that device that is this good does not have promissed lollipop.

bencebacsi

nikola_buncic replied at 2015-11-17 21:17
Lot of people in my country ask about my device which is emax, but it feels bad to tell someone to b ...

I couldn't agree more. UMI releases newer and newer phones but still the eMAX is their highest performance device. And now this highest performance device has the most obsolete android version. That's a shame and waste of a good technology.

DANIBOY77

Emax lollipop you think will come out , they work on it or it's really fucked up ?

nshipway

Can someone categorically confirm if UMI will ever release a version of Android v5.1 for the emax handset.

The lack of official information is ridiculous. I couldn't possibly recommend there products at this time.

WHAT ARE YOU GUYS DOING!?

holzi1991

It is highly unlikely, that UMI will ever release a working Lollipop Rom for the Emax. They do not have any source code, their only plan was to modify a TCL firmware, that runs,  but without mobile connection and camera, which was destinied to fail.
The only way to get Lollipop is UMI paying TCL/Mediatek/Whatever, but that is not going to happen.
There are multiple guides on the internet for porting Lollipop to Kitkat on Mediatek Devices, but unfortunately these do not work on our eMax, because our MTK6752 supports 64 bit and every Lollipop for this processor you can find is compilated for 64 bit, while the Kitkat Roms are always 32 bit. You cant port a 64 Rom to a 32 bit Rom.
I got myself some Lollipop source code for MTK6752 based devices from Lenovo, in hope that I could compile them in 32 bit to port them to our eMax, but I aint even sure, if their source code is complete and how to use it correctly.
So, well, right now it looks pretty dark. I recommend not to buy UMI, if you want updates. They are more interested in selling new phones to you rather that you upgrade your phone.

Angel_UMI

We know complaints from all eMAX users about Lollipop update. The great error from UMI maybe was to promise Lollipop on this device before be implemented, is true, but UMI promised that because though that Mediatek finally could liberate source code for this chipset and then update could be made.
At this moment, all UMI devices with chipsets which have Lollipop available, are coming with Lollipop. UMI would like to update all his devices to the last available android version but sometimes is very difficult because outside problems.