Zest T1

MoHaG said:
On their FB, they mention that you need to change your regional settings on your PC to English US to solve that..
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Thanks that worked. Update was success.

Via USB only the phone storage in windows is 2GB. Internal storage of 4GB doesn't show. How am I supposed to access it from Windows?

Also my SD card I kept in during the process. Now Android says it's damaged. Formatting it doesn't work. Can't mount it either.
 
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Check to see what is selected for the type of USB connection on the phone. MTP/Camera/USB... You need to select the correct type of 'mode' to get more access to the internal storage.
 
Try using the SD format application from the sdcard . org website. Might be able to recover your card. Might have to get a card adapter and plug into a Windows PC.
 
skimread said:
Also my SD card I kept in during the process. Now Android says it's damaged. Formatting it doesn't work. Can't mount it either.
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It killed my SD card too :( let me know if you have any luck recovering it.
 
Nekuro said:
It killed my SD card too :( let me know if you have any luck recovering it.
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They should have added it in the partition fix document. That was a unexpected nasty surprise.
Will try get my hands on an adapter and see if I can format it when connected to my laptop.

The storage fix is still far from ideal. Instead of two partitions 4Gb and 2GB I only want one and it must be accessible in windows via USB. How hard can that be?
The CEO of Zest Mobile needs to learn Chinese and give proper instructions to the Taiwanese sweatshop he ordered the phones from.
 
Baby got hold of the phone and dropped it. Screen cracked. LCD still perfect and phone is working as usual.

Anybody know what a glass replacement will cost?

That is now Baby 2 vs Dad's phones 0. (1 x Xperia Z1 buggered and 1 x Zest screen cracked)
 
Hi

I'm not sure if this has already been addressed, this is quite a long thread. My wife's zest seems to save all the photos and videos to the phone memory and not the sd card, it fills up quickly and there's no space for anything else.

Is there a way to change this to save media to the sd card?
 
In the settings under storage I just changed the default write to disk option to SD card, that worked for me, no other tricks needed.
 
In the sense that my photos and videos are saved to SD card by default, I don't need to move those manually from phone/internal storage.

Easiest way to say is it works as advertised. Default write disk is SD and that's where the phone saves any photos I take.
 
I'm having problems installing the repartition onto the phone. I'm using a win7 virtual box virtual machine as my current system OS is windows 8.1. I managed to install the drivers as instructed in the PDF provided, but their flashing tool does not recognise the device when I try to scan the ports. Is there anything I can try, or rather how can I do this thing directly in win8 (the drivers they provided gave me a driver signature error)? And can I use a different tool to the one they provided?
 
Now it is my turn to rant.
I got the zest and after the repartion it was fine.
My problem is when running waze after 30 minutes the phone just resets. This is annoying, has this happened to anyone else?
What is the fix, I have written to Zest and Afrihost and will see what they say is the solution.
 
Is representative for this phone still alive? has there been any news on updates?
 
No, they've stopped responding when they no longer liked what we as consumers had to say.
 
Ianf1 said:
Now it is my turn to rant.
I got the zest and after the repartion it was fine.
My problem is when running waze after 30 minutes the phone just resets. This is annoying, has this happened to anyone else?
What is the fix, I have written to Zest and Afrihost and will see what they say is the solution.
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I contacted both Afrihost and Zest.
Afrihost's response come straight out of a computer helpdesk enviroment:
Here are a two things you can try:

1. Clean the phone and start over without any apps. If the GPS works then add apps one at a time until the offending app is found.
2. Another way is to delete all the apps and see if the GPS works. If so, then add apps back one at a time as before.

Please feel free to contact us for any further assistance.
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Zest sent me new firmware which hasn't helped. A reset had to be done when using the OOKLA app that came with the new firmware. Phone still just resets when using waze.

Zest and Afrihost still need to respond on what to do next.

What is a good replacement phone that won't break the bank?
 
Ianf1 said:
I contacted both Afrihost and Zest.
Afrihost's response come straight out of a computer helpdesk enviroment:


Zest sent me new firmware which hasn't helped. A reset had to be done when using the OOKLA app that came with the new firmware. Phone still just resets when using waze.

Zest and Afrihost still need to respond on what to do next.

What is a good replacement phone that won't break the bank?
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Moto G.....
 
We have two Moto G's one for myself as backup phone and wifey uses her all the time. Got both from Orange Online.
 
Right, my turn to ask a question.

Received an MMS yesterday on my Vodacom sim. No joy in downloading it. Do I have to switch my 3G connection over to the Vodacom sim in order to download it or is there another way around this?
 
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