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Hisense A2:

I ended up with a crippled brand new smart phone, asking me to make her healthy again. It was working but had a ROM installed that was full of bugs. Things worked, but nothing worked great and belied the fact that the phone has great hardware specs. In fact the phone is solid hardware wise but software wise it sucks…

The e-ink screen was very dark, very ghostly aftereffects and slow. Several internal settings, such as app managemnt did not work. That I am sure was on purpose to stop people from deleting their added crap apps…

Then I discovered something after extensive search on Chinese sites for the Hisense A2. The ROM on the phone (I was working on,) was not the ROM that came from the factory and was not any of the updates from Hisense….this means that we had a after market trashy supplier install their ROM and or Firmware to be more specific and they did a slappy crappy job of it….I am sure it was to install their apk’s and damn to the customer…

Therefore, I did my homework:

Hisense Forum site below link…

http://fans.hisense.com/search.php?mod=forum&searchid=43&orderby=lastpost&ascdesc=desc&searchsubmit=yes&kw=A2

Best Rom to reset device with below link…

http://fans.hisense.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=123020&highlight=A2%2BL1261

There are bunches of links, but the two I give above ended up leading me to the information necessary to re-flash the Hisense A2 with a ROM that will allow updates to come from the main headquarters. The phone has updated 3 times since installing the ROM and it has become better and better each update….I watched carefully, for if it messed up the phone, I would have rolled back to the last good update…

By the way! I do not give a rats ass if you flash your phone. I am giving you the basics to salvage what is a good phone. As with everything in the world, you are responsible for your actions, if you are not able to tie your shoes and chew gum at the same time….then maybe flashing a ROM is not for you?

This phone is a book reader and has a true e-ink screen on the back. It also has a Amoled front screen and it will become my book reader to read nightly to my sweetie pie. She loves me to read to her and since she stole my other book reader for her personal use 😉 , as she travels the Metro in Moscow. I needed to find something else to read from, for my eye protection…

Specs:

Device type:	Smartphone
Design:	Classic
Released:	2017 r.
DualSIM:
SIM card size:	Micro Sim / Nano Sim
GSM:	850 900 1800 1900
HSDPA:	900 2100 HSPA+
LTE:	800 1800 2100 2600
Other:	CDMA 800 EvDO
Dimensions (H/L/W):	157 x 76.8 x 8.4 mm, vol. 101.3 cm³
Display:	OLED Color (16M) 1080x1920px (5.5″) 401ppi
Second display:	LCD 540x960px (5.17″)
Touch screen:
Weight:	188 g
Battery:	Li-Ion 3090 mAh
Non-removable battery:
Built-in memory:	64 GB
Memory card:	MicroSD
RAM Memory:	4 GB
OS:	Android 6.0
Chipset:	Qualcomm Snapdragon 430 MSM8937
CPU #1 Type:	ARM Cortex A53
CPU #1 freq.:	1400.0 MHz (4-core)
CPU #2 Type:	ARM Cortex A53
CPU #2 freq.:	1100.0 MHz (4-core)
GPU Type:	Qualcomm Adreno 505

ROM basics and flashing:

Software Name: A2-T card upgrade ROM
Software version: L1261.6.06.06.00
Release time: 2017.05.22 release)(updates will install up through january 2018)
Version Description:
1. Add WeChat read chat function
2. Optimize the weather cover display logic
3 remote control to optimize the matching strategy to speed up the matching speed.
4. Optimize a key cleaning function, can release more memory.
5. Reduce some applications such as Launcher memory footprint
6. Change the pocket mode policy to add a vibration rule
7. increase the front screen wallpaper
8. Optimize front screen TP firmware
9. Optimize Launcher reaction speed
10. Optimized mute volume setting bar display
11. By default, the “Show application icon when notification” function is disabled
12. Front and rear screen unified input method configuration
13. Optimize ink screen settings menu
14. Optimize the screen back light adjustment mechanism
15. Add call cover function.

Upgrade method: Use T card to upgrade…

T card upgrade method: (Other words SD Card)

1. The upgrade will clear all non-factory preset user information in the phone, please save the important data in advance.
2. Make sure the battery is charged enough. It is recommended that you have at least 50% battery capacity to prevent power failure during the upgrade process, which will cause the upgrade to fail.
3. Prepare a TF card, TF card first formatted into FAT format;
4. Download the product software version (usually compressed package, and divided into multiple compressed sub-packets) compressed package decompression, the resulting file named “A2.bin” copied to the TF card root directory;
5. The TF card into the phone, the battery into the phone. Confirm the battery power is greater than 50%, if the battery is low, please charge;
6. At the same time hold down the “volume +” and “volume -” two side keys hold, and then press the power button, the phone will automatically enter the T card upgrade mode to upgrade, if the phone did not enter the T card upgrade mode, shut down After repeating this operation.
7. Wait for about 5 minutes to complete the upgrade, will prompt upgrade success.
8. According to the prompt after the upgrade is successful restart, if you do not have this prompt, then press the power button for more than 20 seconds reboot, upgrade the boot time required for a long time is several times the normal boot time, please be patient.

Extract ROM password: 55933 once downloaded from link above….it is a RAR file…

I am posting this information to give the buyers of this phone recently a fighting chance at have a great phone. It will still take some studying on your part. My suggestion is to look at any and all links you can find about the Hisense A2 and study…

I saw a ton of comments from people on European sites, complaining about the phones and the software. This is what happens when a phone has been discontinued and someone grabs the leftovers to alter and sell for their benefit, out of the country that it was designed for. Hisense has now released the Hisense A2 Pro and it is a better phone yet, just make sure you get it from a reputable source….as with everything in this world…

I found my book reader and then found that I had a fantastic smart phone underneath that book reader….and since it was discontinued, it was dirt cheap…

WtR

Move Over Fort Knox: Here’s An Actual Look Inside Russia’s Gold Vaults At Their Gold Reserves | Silver Doctors

It’s no secret that Russia has been stacking the shiny phyzz for years, but now, here’s a glimpse of exactly how that’s done. Source: Move Over Fort Knox: Here’s An Actual Look Inside Russia’s Gold Vaults At Their Gold Reserves | Silver Doctors

Interesting chess move by Russia. Will we see the same from China?

You know you will never see the truth from the USA…

“Gold in them there Hills!”

WtR

Maybe it is, or maybe your Uncle Remus, the gossip queen/king and needs all information to see what you are doing….Or maybe just scared that the world is waking up to the crap…

Quote: Required languages are Arabic, French, Pashtu, Farsi, Urdu, Russian, and Korean.

So the French are on the crap list also? Hmm…
https://www.fbo.gov/

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You will learn that there really is no such thing as a conspiracy theory. Just truth and lies…

Time to wake up, it is not even secrete anymore…

WtR

Building the $27 billion Yamal liquefied natural gas project meant shipping more than 5 million tons of materials to construct a forest of concrete and steel 600 kilometers north of the Arctic circle, where temperatures can drop to -50 degrees Celsius and the sun disappears for two months straight.

Source Boomberg: Russia Wins in Arctic After U.S. Fails to Kill Giant Gas Project

I talked recently about the happenings with the new king of fossil fuels…

LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas)

and here…

Britain has liquefied natural gas (LNG) and more coming….as much as they need…

and here…

Britain is having indigestion gas issues…

This is all part of the attacks being against Russia. Verbally, financially and morally…

You never know the reasons behind the chaos until way late in the game. The Kremlin knew why, but Russia turned it all to their advantage and made gold from dirt…

This attack over things such as everyday business for Russia, has set a precedence that Russia will not forgive and or forget…

The main question left to answer is; “What will Europe do about the chaotic destructiveness of the USA?”

Even as you read this, everyday Russia ships more and more to Asia and the pipelines are being built eastward as you contemplate all that is happening. Soon, Russia will not need the west in any form and or manner…

Fence riding will not be allowed and it is black and white for an answer….either get with the program and do what helps Europe, or allow the USA to drag Europe through the gutter and destroy Europe as a expendable pawn in Geopolitical games…

Seems simple to me…

WtR

Source: Trump Asks Why US Has So Many Immigrants from ‘Sh*thole’ Countries – Report

Good question and the answer is pretty simple…

At least Trump is Trump at times…

WtR

Well that means I am safe!

I could only dream of being bankrolled by some entity to write this blog. Except one issue, “I write what I see as the truth and no one, but no one will change those coffee thoughts with money.” You might change my mind with facts, data and truth. But money does not buy a spot to lie on my blog…

MOSCOW, January 10. /TASS/. Bloggers receiving funds from foreign governments may be recognized as foreign agent media outlets, Russian Deputy Speaker of the State Duma, the lower house of parliament, Pyotr Tolstoy said.

“These are individuals who act as mass media, including bloggers, if there is evidence of funding from abroad and signs equating them to foreign agent media outlets,” Tolstoy said.

This refers to bloggers bankrolled by foreign governments through a foundation based in the United States and who receive funds to disseminate information from their sources, he said. “So, they receive money from a foreign state, not from a private person.”

More: http://tass.com/politics/984447

I realize that there are blogs that are being paid to write squalid text about Russia. Just as there are sites that call themselves news sites of Russia in English, that are funded heavily with western money. But they are easy to spot, it is obvious when someone is bankrolled…

Seriously though:

The dream is after all these years of daily posting and persistence in the subject matter within its pages. Is a dream that WtR would have made a living for me. But it seems that is alas. I never picked up the pen, never strike the keys on the computer to speak what everyone else wants me to say and you to hear. I do not follow anything and or anyone, but my heart…

But Alas:

If I was paid to do this (other than some donations through readers,) I would be obligated to say things that did not mean anything to me. A paycheck has the advantage of buying a form of loyalty to the employer. Good or bad, obligation is merited when they pay you to write for them. No one has a thumb on my ass and tells me what to write, though many have tried and WtR has paid the price dearly…

To put it mildly, “You do not get rich writing how you feel, money comes from writing how they feel!”

WtR

Local officials are debating whether to name a stretch of road after Boris Y. Nemtsov, a democratic activist gunned down near the Kremlin.

Source: Street Outside Russian Embassy in Washington May Be Renamed for a Dissident

The realization that your country is screwed in more ways than one…

America destroys her actual landmarks of history and then names a road after an ex western paid agitator…. My how the saintly have fallen… ~sarc~

There are medical terms for people who are self-defeatist against themselves and others and like to practice tying hangman knots in a rope…

But a simpler easy to understand term, “Stupid”…….

WtR

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos has made $6.1 billion in just five trading days in 2018 and is now worth $105 billion.

Source: Jeff Bezos just made more in 5 days than most Americans would in 5 lifetimes

I am really not sure how I am suppose to take this information. Should I be happy? Should I dance in the streets? Instead I think I will ask…

What the hell does someone need 100,000,000,000 + dollars and or for that matter, 100,000,000,000 of any damn thing on Earth? With the exception of cells in your body, stars in the universe and total combined stupidness on the planet: that kind of number is obscene….and when you make it pieces of paper, it really becomes obscene…

If I had a 100,000,000,000 toothpicks? I would be rich after selling them, seriously, 100,000,000,000 of anything is crazy stuff…

If we all stay alive? I predict that by 2020 we will see a person worth $1,000,000,000,000 bucks or whatever form of money we are using…

Now I call bull on anyone needing that much money….and I just want $100,000 to live the rest of my life happy a pig in a mud waller…

Now this all to me says one thing, “The value of the dollar and all money on earth has no value. When in the old days a millionaire is now a billionaire equivalent, we got problems coming in the future!” (Much less the issue we have now…)

WtR

Had to add this…

http://theduran.com/why-is-america-groveling-for-a-new-billionaire-leader/

Ask yourself a question. Oprah as president? Dancing in the streets and such, go go go….We are crazy, lets just appoint a King or Queen and get it over with….better yet a dictator is right up our ally…

Go Oprah! Rah Rah…

Certain aspects of natural gas sales in Russia

In order to develop the market principles of price formation for natural gas, the signed resolution allows Gazprom and its affiliated parties to sell extracted natural gas at non-regulated prices to legal entities for the production of LNG for further export, as of 1 January 2018.

Source: Certain aspects of natural gas sales in Russia

Something that is sneaking up on the world is LNG. I have watched for years and I have little abilities to see what is so important about this process of producing LNG, but it seems to be a source of strife in the world…

The USA is a desirer to sell exceedingly expensive LNG to Europe. Russia is building and investing huge time, data and money into development of LNG processing plants. It seems that there is a future of LNG being shipped around the world and the players are gathering a storm to express the end results…

It has kind of caught everyone in general off guard. The layman says, “What’s LNG?” and or “Who cares?”

I have talked in the past about gas (gaz) taking the spot of king away from oil, but in my mind it is the more liquid/gaseous form (NGLs), not the extreme liquefied form (LNG), that I was thinking about. But it is gas regardless and it is becoming seriously more prominent in the world, literally everyday. It is looking like wars are stirring over “gas” not oil…

The above information is some of my thinkings about the gas/oil situation. I watch, study and contemplate on the subject. It interests me to see the chess and or checker moves being made by the players of the world…

Many countries have entered the LNG market. Many countries want to enter this market and many countries see the future happening in this aspect. Qatar the leader in the world in LNG has been slapped silly lately. Now we know why…

Read this PDF: 103419-World_IGU_Report

100 pages of interesting reading….which gives me the reasons why things are happening in the world to somewhat to the extent of issues being propagated. The thing I have lack of understanding in full context, is why we have to have world chaos over just simple items of what is all of our rights to have. Gas, Oil and many other items is something that has been given to all. Yet we kill like we want it all to ourselves. This is everywhere in the world, not just one specific country doing this…

Qatar is number one LNG producer in the world…. Australia is number two…. Malaysia is number three…. Nigeria is number four…. Indonesia is number five…. Algeria is number six…. Russia is number seven… (So you see the big boys (USA and Russia and Canada and Mexico!) have not entered the LNG market, until recently!)

LNG/NG is the most abundant non renewable fuel other than coal on earth it seems. Oil has lost its crown, but it is not being expressed that way, yet…

LNG is just another part of that Geopolitical puzzle that is threatening the world stability….

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I dread the day that someone actually garners a way to efficiently utilize the suns energy to power the world. That will be the day that the sun will become something we have to pay to enjoy and see…

WtR

Russians have no choice but to accept that America is a chaotic mess of a country and some Russians are drawn to that about America. Though, in general the idea of trying to interfere in another countries internal politics is just a taboo thing to do. Life is hard enough without trying to make the world hate you, while you are simply surviving…

Much less Russians, I do not understand what is happening in America. I do not get the fact that so many are so complacent about what is happening! As a Russian, I feel that fence put up to corral us, is something to cut a hole in and escape…

Maybe that is what is wrong with America? Maybe that is what is right about Russia? That fence is freedom or the lack of it thereafter…

Maybe life has been boring and easy for too many, for too long in America…

There is a saying…

For me, the opposite of happiness isn’t sadness but boredom. – Sushant Singh Rajput

Does money buy happiness and does happiness remove boredom?

Then I thought of this quote as I am thinking of what is happening to America…

Boredom is rage spread thin. – Paul Tillich

I can honestly say that in America I would find myself bored many times. I can also honestly say that once I came to Russia, boredom became a thing of the past. A past I was glad to leave behind actually. I did not know as I traveled the world that boredom was so deadly…

I never have enough time in the day to get everything done in my life anymore. If one thing stalemates? Another thing blossoms and grows in its place. There is never a time that I do not find something so absorbing too challenge me that I am bored. In America, too many times things where taken out of my hands and became boring very quickly…

Good thought for today. We Americans need to get this one saying stuck in our heads…

Rules, regulations, constant supervision, nanny effect has that as a result. As a child, I was not bored. I did things that maybe I should not do, but I did them and expected to be able to always do them. Eg.- I tossed sticks of dynamite as a kid. It was dangerous as hell, but life was free and effeminately not boring. I emptied thousands of firecrackers and used the gun powder to create bombs of my own making and never dreamed that I was doing wrong, for at that time of my life, I was not doing wrong. I was not bored doing these things, I was experimenting with life. I built engines for my cars, just to see and say, “I did it and mine is the best!”

But as I grew up with more and more regulations, people who thought they knew better than I, took away my freedoms to experiment. Because, it was dangerous. But I was never bored….I found new things to skirt the regulations and kept growing…

I did not do things destructive, I did things and went through stages of doing things to learn. I learned how much was just enough gun powder to make my sniper rifle function at its best. I drove my car to its limit and realized that I needed a new car to grow farther and push harder. I learned that 300 horsepower was not enough to satisfy my limits. I learned that kids and or people who had things handed to them on a silver platter, never were satisfied. They did not appreciate what they had, but if they were made to create out of thin air, they appreciated what they had…

Life has become boring in America. We are too afraid to upset the status quo? Are we?

Maybe I was a weird kid and young adult?

Then life changed and every time I turned around, someone was telling me to put on my seatbelt. Put on that helmet as you ride the motorcycle. I found that kids opening up a Lemonade Stand where at odds with the law. I found that feeding poor people was a bad thing. I found myself struggling to be good in the eyes of the society that I had been born and raised in. I found that people were scared and feared someone who thought outside of the box…

Just like when I watch this new craze about driver less cars. What kind of people want to let the car drive for them? The same people who want a chafferer to drive them? A person that sees no life in life itself? Is the fact that we have no freedom to live life, affecting our ability to let others live life?

I have talked about this before!

What good is life if you have to lock the door when you leave? Do we live in such a bad situation that your neighbor is going to rob you when they see you gone? Has life become so dull and boring that we have to strike out at all around us? Do you need more than one bathroom? Do you need ten locks on your door? Do you need cameras telling on you at every step of you existence? What is life if you are being watched all the time?

Do we grow when stifled?

Do we grow as we fear? Does scared feelings about life make you strong? Does make all equal cause growth? Is everyone the same? Am I better at something than you? Should I be chastised if I am better at something than you? Are hurt feelings detrimental or helpful to growth of a person? Just because I do not call you a girl, does that mean you are not a girl? Is being a waitperson better than being a waitress? Does associating with being black mean I am in touch with my feelings, even if I am white?

I though I was human first and foremost!

But now I understand that my being white is destructive to you as a individual. Are you that weak and worthless, that your own two feet cannot support you in life?

I am not better than you!

I am not better than they are. I am not better than those people over there. I am not better than all of nature and in fact may not be good enough for the planet, but I am a human and I want to live and learn daily….so that maybe I can be better. I and you and we and them and those have to grow and or we stagnate and waller…

Russians are wondering about America…

I am thinking…

America is that favorite soap opera. It is always changing directions when you least suspect it to, yet you know that goodness will not last. Like….the new couple who just had a kid and have a wonderful life ahead of them, decide that cheating on the other with the new kid in town is more important than living life and holding hands while you do it…

Are we bored? Are we stupid? Or are we crazy?

I am just thinking. Maybe I shouldn’t think? Does thinking help?

Yes, I think so! Thinking is what makes us human…

I will go read a book today…

WtR