I think Blackview is missing business opportunities by not provided the source code (that they are required legally to provide, by the way...) . Depends where. Maybe in Switzerland, most probably not in China. I'd be very interested by a custom ROM from the community. Unfortunately, although I'm ab...

Hi, just reporting that the scatterfile included in the 8.0 rom isnt a valid scatter file according to sp mdt and sp flash tool, looked at it and its completely different to a standard scatter file.

thanks for joining in the discussion bluew, I find that mediatek dont mind giving out the sources but they are a chipset creator not a device manufacturer so all they could provide is the kernel source, its mainly the devs who have to provide the full source with the device trees, take doogee for ex...

Saying as the admin locked my last post on sources and device trees I thought I'd make it a discussion instead of asking the admin. So I'll start things off with things like; Porting custom ROMs like resurrection remix and lineageos would be possible. As it's a customized Android system out of the b...

Looking at the news portion of the main website and there's a article about Oreo being available but yet it's nowhere to be seen.
The 3rd party developers seem to be lacking in speed to be honest.

blackview_admin wrote:

Sorry but we can't make the kernel source and device tree available at the moment.

Can I ask why?

when you will finally understand that most Chinese brands / companies do not have their own developers. over firmware runs a separate independent company that makes firmware to many Chinese phones. to lay out in free access the source codes to a particular gland is like losing a job. The company do...

When will the kernel source and device tree be available? As GPL states that a modified android base has to be shared as the kernel and android as a whole are open source.  Releasing this would benefit the company so much, we're talking about customer loyalty, allowing the customer to actually have ...

I have recently purchased a BV6000s and find that I cannot use both SIM accounts at the same time. Only the SIM designated as "Preferred SIM for Cellular data" is functional. The other SIM, while recognized, will not send or receive calls or SMS messages. Is this a design flaw of the BV60...

toembal wrote:

thanks for your info .. is that 2 slot work in 4G or only main slot?

I'm not too sure, it may be both or only slot 1