*I fixed it...kinda. It boots back up which is the main thing. If you do want to try fix it, let me know!!* Welcome back to another installment in |THE_PHONE_ARCHIVE|. I wrote a bunch of stuff in the description but yeah - 5 years in the making. But I hope this one wasn't too boring, especially with the duration of the video. That system switching stuff was absolutely fantastic. As well as the other...things :p TIMESTAMPS: Introduction: 0:00 Quick history of the Nokia N9 & Specs: 0:31 Comparison with the real Nokia N9 and the Bootleg: 3:56 Power On, User Interface & Display Quality: 7:19 Network Issues & Symbian Skin: 8:49 The Widgets & Best Feature Ever: 10:00 System Switching is amazing & the proper skin: 11:35 More Skins!: 13:30 Proper Skin, Quick UI Comparisons & Connectivity: 15:00 More apps, Camera Note & Device Settings: 16:25 THE RINGTONES: 17:37 Power On & Off Animation Changes: 22:39 Everything else in Settings: 25:41 System Change List, Themes & The Camera: 28:21 Camera Test (with both legit N9 and bootleg): 30:40 The Quality Results & Front Camera Issues: 34:05 Accelerometer is broken & Speaker Tests: 35:37 More Apps, Fun & Games: 38:00 More preloaded apps & FM Radio: 44:03 Hidden Game Files & the rest of the apps: 45:19 Finding more apps with System Switching etc: 46:26 Conclusion: 47:25 Teardown & 2017 SMOOREZ footage: 48:40 RIP buddy, Full Specs & what I did: 54:13 Aussie repair help appreciated: 55:39 Ending Ramblings: 57:02 Outro: 59:00 Be good people!
Hey smoorez, will you please shoot a video about explorating every system on this phone? Because basically you’re having approximately 8 clones in one device. Ofc if it’s working properly, please reply :-))
The OS on the bootleg is based off Nucleus RTOS. Ironically enough, the MediaTek RTOS platform went full circle when Nokia themselves used their tech on their entry-level devices, years after counterfeiters released Nokia knockoffs using a similar OS and system on chip.
Yep! The same OS was used, albeit with a HTC Sense style skin, on a fake HTC Desire that he also covered. I also experienced the same OS first-hand on a Chinavasion Odyssey phone which had a Nokia inspired shell but ran the RTOS with an iPhone OS 2 style skin. One thing that I didn't like was not being able to add and remove icons on the home screen, as I had to update Opera Mini (and eBuddy) but couldn't replace the system installed version, so I had to go into the Java launcher in order to launch the newer versions of those apps.
@@kbhasi something else that fascinates me is that the same os is optimized primarily for keypad feature phones. Imagine what has to be installed and changed in the os for these skins to be added
oh boi the real n9 was amazing in the design, even the display was so clear i love it. as for the clone pretty shitty but that "os switch" could be a real good feature in an actual phone. basically just like dual boot but with more os: cool! overall tho, this is one of the clones in which i'm sad it died, that mario boot sound had me rolling on the floor. someone save it, please
12:03 That's TouchWiz clone. Samsung used this UI for their touch screen phones and smaptphones back in the day. They even ripped some icons from TouchWiz.
@@linkfanandroid TouchWiz also ran on Flash, just like these bootlegs and considering how low power phones were at the time, they couldn't really run it smoothly. People managed to extract and replace those flash files to make their own launchers and UI, which was pretty cool.
Yeah I didn't realise it was touchwiz. I did daily drive a Samsung Jet for about 6 months but really don't recall too much of it so it sort of breezed past me. I was too intrigued with all the skins to work out what they were.
hey smoorez. i think the system switch thing is probably a script that they use on all of their clone devices to make the java os look like ios, symbian, android, ETC..
Yeah, Meego, doing stuff - swipe gestures, multi tasking etc, WAY before Apple did, and, in ways better than apple did... Shame this thing didn't take off... 😒
The music at 39:10 in the UFO game probably sounds familiar since it's actually "Symphony No.9", or normally known as "Ode to joy", probably one of the most popular classical songs, it's literally everywhere. Also, MIDI 3 from the ringtones part at 19:40 is "Canon in D", a pretty common song in weddings. Just some unnecessary fun facts.
I actually love to see these Java phones! It reminds me of the other Spin-off Java phones, like the S3 clone/MOCOR Sumsung Galxay S3, the Sciphones, etc. Yay! :D
Is there a video of the MOCOR sumsung Galxay S3?Because there’s a Mediatek clone of the Galaxy S3 Who had some of those Nokia clone ringtones and the startup was from Samsung SGH-X481
heres a random list of classical pieces that i can recognise: 19:40 is Canon in D, by J.Pachabel, mostly used in weddings and is strongly hated lmao 20:16 is Eine Kleine Natchmlsik, by Mozart. very common is kid shows. 20:24 is Violin Concerto Op.35, by Tchaikovsky. an absolute masterpiece.
If you're talking about MediaTek Java OSes, it's Nucleus RTOS. Genuine phones uses proprietary OSes with Java builtin, with the exception with Symbian and Qualcomm BREW (both has it's own better app format but they still support Java apps)
so i was too bored and decided to reverse search the girl images on tineye the first one is Kitano Kie, according to wikipedia she is a Japanese actress, singer and gravure idol. I couldn't really find anything about the second one, most were dead links.
51:44 "... Someone had already been in here" & "... I bought it from Cash Converters" phrases reminded me of that particular RU-vidr who loves testing dirty earbuds, picking up random nuggets, auxiliary mode, Huh-Duh Six Hungoes, Cashies & of course, PKCells.
I had a N9 and I LOVED IT, that phone was everything I could I've ever wanted, sad that I didn't get to enjoy it at its peak and lacked WhatsApp, which I used so much at the time. MeeGo was such a missed opportunity, I wish it got back nowadays.
i have a nokia X6 (symbian S60v5 i think) and for a brief moment in time i could use normal apps like youtube, whatsapp and some terrible clones of angry birds and doodle jump, ahaha. then it was sadly discontinued, and switched to android in 2014.
Nokia n9 camera really surprised me !!! That's 2011 camera and it's look better 10× than some phones nowadays ( I mean phones like welcome phones and infinix cheap phones and some other companies)
The MT6235 is supposed to have WiFi. Maybe the firmware doesn't support wifi or there is a dedicated IC for wifi on all of these MT6235 based phones which this one doesn't have?
I checked through settings on this (cut most of that footage out) and there were no signs of WiFi. So maybe underneath that other piece of shielding could be another IC. Can't be too sure.
A little comment on those ringtones: apart from the Nokia Tune, none of them are actually pinched from real Nokia phones. However, a few of those Notification/Power tones were in fact Nokia originals. Still - a bit less in total than one would hope. A lovely video as always. ❤️ Cheers mate!
The N9's camera is in the bottom right corner because video calls were intended to be done in landscape rather than portrait mode. Back in those days you could still do video calls over 3g just like voice calls. Sadly 3g video calls got scrapped many years ago with the advent of Skype and WhatsApp, however I did manage to experience 3g calls first hand on a Sony Ericsson. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-TkM4YfzzWZY.html
iirc the camera at the bottom is made so that it comes at top while rotating the display(for right handed people) in landscape and does not go into your palm on the bottom left like the usual cameras back in the day which was bottom left rotated.
Isn't there a version that had a slide out keyboard included? The Z fold is the closes thing to getting a keyboard if you if your keyboard half way up. May not be physical but it's nice but super expensive..
(11:49) That looks like it was trying to copy the look of BlackBerry 7. (12:06) That might've been ripping off pre-Galaxy Samsung TouchWiz, at least with the widgets on the left (13:38) Looks like a mix of iPhone OS 2 and iOS 4 (14:04) I can't remember what version of HTC Sense it was trying to copy the look of
The inflation is skyrocketing this year 😡🤦♂️🤮 And i also have this phone but don't really use it anymore only sometimes for nostalgia but mine is really beaten up, the simtray and the charging lid are missing and one corner of the phone broke off
The OS running on the fake N9 is actually a OS that runs on fake button phones. connect a keypad and it will act like it! That CPU inside that fake is a MediaTek, super underpowered that it can't even run Android.
The first unknown skin should be Windows Mobile with one of those HTC/Samsung custom layers. An already amazingly sluggish OS dragged by a completely unoptimized 3D layer without hardware acceleration. Yeah, good times. The worst Windows Mobile layer ever developed was the Acer Shell tho, that thing was stupid, to say the least.
Got an old mini PC here, the Mini PC wasn´t booting anymore, because there are 2 solder points under the shielding, so when the shielding is removed, the device won´t boot, is the shielding on, No Problems... so that could be the reason here that the Phone won´t booting
23:25 thats a sight to be seen a fake Nokia Phone with a fake iPhone booting Animation with a fake Nintendo Sound. Thats the kind of thing Id expect if I buy a Phone on a turkish streetmarket or something similar
in one part of the video a caption asks why notes has a foot icon, not sure if anyone has covered this yet, but the reason it has that icon is because its original app is called foot print which is htc's version of notes
I forgot about TI's brief stint as ARM developers for phones/tablets. I don't know if they still make ARM chips now for their crazy calculators that can apparently run GBA emulators and ONE rom. Back in the day, you could take an Android device apart and find that the internal storage for it was a microSD card and could sometimes put another microSD card in it. Those were fun times.
So I did a search on that IMEI number. From what I can find, it's not ripped from anything, it's not even a real IMEI. The 8th digit is a 4, and if I am understanding the forum I found about a Samsung phone with this IMEI number, that means it's made in China and is a fake phone. Which we already knew. So that IMEI is being used on probably hundreds of thousands of different phones.
