Tutorial: Activating Notification LED of ThL W100

Do you want to get notified when you recieved a text message, or have a notification from a app or something else? Here's a tutorial for that.

1º - You need to have your phone rooted. (If you don't have it, follow this tutorial!)
2º - Download this to your SD card
3º - Reboot your phone into Recovery Mode
4º - Select "install zip from SD card"
5º - Select the file you've downloaded and moved to your SD card
6º - Reboot your phone
7º - You're DONE!

How to lower the CPU frequency when the phone is idle

Most of the times your phone is on idle state (it's working), but it's constantly spending battery working on maximum frequency of the CPU. So, to save battery and add battery time on our phone, we need to lower the frequency of the CPU when we're not using the phone.

So, we need to do this:

- Your phone has to be rooted! (view our tutorial!)
- Download & Install "No-frills CPU Control" on Play Store;
- Execute the app;
- Select the following on the app:

• Max freq: 1,209Ghz
• Min freq: 497 Mhz
• Governor: ondemand
• I/O scheduler: cfq

- Press the "apply on boot" button, and quit the app.
- You're DONE!

Now, your phone spends less battery when it's not in use!

Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on ThL W100

If you want to install a ROM, backup / restore your phone, you need this. It's ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery.

To install it, you should do this:
(Again, I'm not responsible for anything that causes damages to your phone. Be sure that the store you bought the phone allows you to do this, without losing warranty.)

- Your phone needs to be rooted (follow this tutorial!);
- Go to Play Store;
- Download and Install "Mobileuncle Tools";
- Download the ClockworkMod Recovery for ThL W100 (mirror #1);
- Rename the file you've downloaded to "recovery.img";
- Move the file to your SD Card;
- Open up Mobileuncle Tools on your phone;
- Select "Recovery Update";
- Choose the file "recovery.img" you've moved to your SD card;
- You're DONE!

Now, your phone has a recovery software.
To access to the recovery, you can choose the option in Mobileuncle Tools "Into Recovery Mode", or if your phone is turned off, press the "Volume up" button with the "On/Off" button together.

It's recommended to each time you made changes to your phone (app install, etc) to keep a backup of your phone, just for safety reasons.

How to root ThL W100 and MTK 6589 devices

We have the phone, now it's time for unleash the potential of that beast!
So, we're going to root it.

What is "rooting" a device?
Rooting is the process of allowing users of smartphones, tablets, and other devices running the Android mobile operating system to attain privileged control (known as "root access") within Android's subsystem.

Let's do it!
First, you need to be ensured that I'm not responsible for any damage your phone takes during this process. And, be sure that the store you bought the phone let's you root your phone without losing the warranty. (Mine allows, so that's why I have my ThL W100 rooted)

- Download "Framaroot";
- Connect your phone via USB;
- Move the apk file you've downloaded to your phone;
- Install that apk (via File Manager on your phone);
- Execute Framaroot;
- Select either Boromir or Faramir (only for this phone!)
- Reboot your phone;
- And you're DONE! Your phone is rooted!

WARNING: if you have any problems rooting the phone, check out the Framaroot official thread on xda-developers (here)!

You should now have Superuser and su binary installed on your phone. Now each time you execute an app that needs root access, you have to grant / deny access, on a popup that should appear when executing the app.

Unboxing

It's time for unboxing of the ThL W100!

Here is one video from the YouTube, where you can see what the package offers, and the product itself.

ThL W100 Specs

Here they are, the specs of this great smartphone:

• 4.5 inch, 960 x 540, 5 point multi-touch IPS display
• Android 4.2
• 1.2GHz MTK6589 quad-core CPU
• PowerVR SGX 544MP GPU
• 8MP Rear Camera + 5MP Front-Facing Camera
• RAM: 1GB
• Dual-SIM
• 3G: WCDMA: 850/2100MHz
• 2G: GSM 850/900/1800/1900MHz
• WiFi: 802.11 b/g/n
• GPS
• Bluetooth
• Full support for Google Play
• Micro SD Card Slot
• Proximity Sensor
• Accelerometer Sensor
• Light Sensor
• Magnetic Field Sensor

The reasons

So, what are the reasons for buying the ThL W100?
For me, the main reasons are the low price for what the phone offers (I'll post the specs later) and the support it has on the Internet, mainly from Spanish countries (I've bought mine on a online Spanish store). But first, I've searched a lot on the internet about the support of the equipment, and what I've found is that this phone is well constructed, well designed and it's gorgeous, it's great, and it's quad-core! Android 4.1, and with the phone included, the store offered me an extra battery.

The purchase

You're in doubt about buying a smartphone?
Did you wonder that there's an smartphone which specs are equal or better than the most expensive phones on the market? Let me tell you my story.

When I was searching for a new phone, I've searched a lot. Yes, a lot. I've come to all major and non-major online and local stores, just to review the phones and the price and the specs of each of every one of them. But then the search was nicely completed, and I've found a phone which specs and price come to an agreement. I present you the ThL W100.

ThL is a Chinese smartphone manufacturer, whose products have been lately searched, due to great quality-price relation, and low prices (obviously). I was in doubt about two ThL products: a W8S (Galaxy IV look-like) and the W100. My budget is low: I'm a college student and if I could save money, I'll definately do it. So, the W100 was my choice.

Stay tuned for more!