When we stop tothink about the Chinesecompanies thatwas responsible to give the today’s expression of the Chinese Market, names like Xiaomi, Meizu and Huawei sounds quite obvious. But in fact is impossible to give all the credits only for those giant companies, more when the Chinese market goes far beyond, with various other companies and startups that most of us know well, And one of them is Jiayu.
Jiayuis acompany that’s wasbeen around forsome timein the market,having alarge community of users,as well asdevelopersandfans, the latter group is something common in the bigger ones, but rare when comes to the smaller, and this show as Jiayu is considered special among others, could be due to some high quality devices launched trough the years as well their ability to learn from mistake, despite some others companies. (That’s for you Zopo.)
Last month, a rumorpoppedtrough the community,news thattalked abouta supposedbankruptcy of Jiayu. This reports of course frightened fans of the brand, as well the consumers that have acquired the Jiayu S3, one of the handsets launched this year by the company and also one of their biggest hits to date. Indeed the rumors, showed in fact that the company bordered on bankruptcy, the causes you can imagine, but we can already say that China is a very difficult market to compete, and currently saturated. Keeping a slow launch and selling profile is something dangerous, most when comes to small companies that with wrong marketing choices can simply disappear.
However, the company managed towork around the problemthanks to the supportof new investors,this partnershippromised tobringa NewJiayu, something that is worth nothing to mention is that the same investors that now are running the company were already long-standing partners of Jiayu, then we can expect only good changes for to the company while they will continue to be the Jiayu that we already know.
The last dayswere marked bya companyhiatus,generatingmany questionsamong users, according to thecompany a longrestructuring isbeing done, we can highlight the changeof the company’sHQ in the next days as well the move of workerstoother factories. But in the meantime the company is keen to show that it is more alive than ever, and for that the German portion of Jiayu, have now launched a countdown through their page that will end in the coming monday August 10, according to them when the counter reaches zero a company app will be available through the Google Play Store.
This will give to the users the ability to update their phones directly from the app, a way that is more user-friendly in counterpart to every previously flashing process. In additionthe companyalso points outthat is workingto updatesome of their handsets to CyanogenMod 12.1, they also states that already have bugfree versions for the Jiayu G4S and G5S, both launched in the last year, and the Custom Rom may arrive soon for other devices as the S2, S3, G6 and F2. We can already check some images that proves the phones running the OS. That are great news, and goes beyond that most of users have expected.
Theselatest newsshow thatwe still havea lot toexpectfrom thecompany,and we all hope that every changeisfor the better,especiallyfor usconsumers. What you think about it? Is the New Jiayu something that worths to keep an eye? Don’t forget to leave your opinion about it, as well your prospects and requests for the future of the company. For now it’s everything, but any new details we will report.
Wow this is promising news. Lately I was reading a lot of stories about adware installed in the official ROM. Not sure if it’s Jiayu who’s at fault or the resellers messing with the ROM but people were getting full screen ads and apps were being installed in the background. Even after switching off ‘unknown sources’ it switched itself on again after a while, that is something to be worried about imo.
If they release CM12.1 for the S3 I might have to get it after all.
Not resellers: the adware was in at least two different releases of the official international ROM. Even if they subbed out the build of that to a 3rd party, its down to them: everyone sub’s, and everyone has to check what their subs do. And they never even investigated/released a statement on it – which implies they don’t consider it an issue, which is probably the main concern. They are a company that does good work let down by poor communication. What I could do for them if they let me!
Quite true. I just sent them and email (to ejiayu.com) pointing to those issues. I doubt they’ll listen to one person but this is getting out of hand. Ejiayu.com is the only official manufacturer’s website and should be the only official source of software. Yet we have distributors making custom ROMs, some of which are better than official, yet they are all labeled as “official”. Jiayu should be proactive and clean up the mess. I welcome the distributors to be the end point support, and have ROM downloads on their websites or in apps, but it should be clear what came unmodified from manufacturer and what they’ve modified or developed as distributors, and what they’ve just picked up from needrom and public forums. And ofcourse Jiayu shouldn’t be injecting malware or spyware in their original ROMs.:-/
I’m still using ROM I’ve installed from Polish distributor’s websitr about a year ago, a slightly modified (cleaned) official JellyBean, with no malware and no Chinese apps. Nice and clean. But it’s still not the official ROM. And it’s still JellyBean because all KitKat Roms were either official but buggy, or better but 3rs party. And now Lollipop/CM from another 3rd party – and they want 30€ for it? And what guarantees that it won’t be half baked ROM picked up from some Russian forum? Nothing… And luckily Play Store doesn’t even allow me to download it on my G4S despite downloading just fine on a Samsung (?!). I’ve seen the app “quality” …Not giving 30€ or even 3€ for a cat in the bag (and a shabby bag it is).
I don’t really get what you are ranting about? Jiayu still releases updates, they still give you support and they still will be giving support for free.
The stuff you are obviously whining about is CYANOGENMOD.
I don’t get how you even dare to say such things as copying or pirating their efforts. if you don’t want it, just don’t buy it. It’s a custom rom from a distributor which they are not selling itself, they are asking for a fraction of their costs they have for providing this ADDITIONAL CUSTOM ROM, which costs servers, manpower, hardware, electricity….
You bought a phone from china, then get your support from china! I cannot imagine someone buying something from china and really expecting 100% free and accurate support from germany, when even the manufacturer himself is not distributing in these countries and the distributor is working on his own costs.
your argumentation is just plain childish, disrespectful and out of context. Dont buy from china, if you cannot cope with the obvious things connected with it.
Not to rain on your parade but:
a) if they sell the update, they should sell it under their company name, not under “Jiayu” brand
b) I’ve never EVER seen anyone charge for a software update, unless they take the time to personally install it on my device by their own two hands
c) they already overpromissed, and underdelivered – their app is online but does nothing, now they replied to me that app will be online on 22nd ?! so why is it in store than? and they obviously don’t know when it’s actually going to be released and in what state as they’ve replied to another person that they are waiting for their software dev to get back from vacation so he can tell them when it’s gonna be done, real serious support
d) Jiayu isn’t actually releasing updates anymore, last one is way too old and way too buggy, so I’m still officially stuck on JellBean, and even that was ROM cleaned and re-published by another of their distributors (for free should I say)
e) I couldn’t care less about CM, I’d like an official AOSP Lollipop if I could choose, or anything newer than JellyBean but with working features and not stuff like camera with wrong resolutions, and so on
f) you’ve blown the development cost way out of proportion, script kiddies do these things on their free time, for no money (or “buy me a beer” donations), so unless they show for a perfectly polished ROM they’re overpriced, and are indeed charging for something that’s 99% someone else’s product and coding (Google, CM, community), and want to charge the 1/4 of a new phone for that… and judging by their app it’s already obvious I don’t actually want on my phone as it will probably be full of bugs.
e) since you’re so good with all of that, and clearly love it and support it, please, buy that 30$ ROM and put it on the pedestal, you sound like one of those Apple lovers, just you’ve got a weird love for German distributors of Chinese phones.. (?!) Hope you have fun with it when they charge next update as well, another 30$ perhaps just to fix some bugs…
a-Jiayu is our Brand….so why we should not use our company name to release it? Here you can check our trademark entry: http://jiayu.de/kundenservice/zertifikate.html
b- we also offer an update service by hand and charge it with 40€ incl shipping, if you update onine you save 10€. also we are the only one in china phone bzi who offers an ota updater until now. How you can make a judgement if you did not use the app.
c-we released it to early without testing it properly. that was a mistake. it is online because we still work on it to make it perfect. so we plan to release on 22.
d-jiayu will release new updates and better software support after their restructuring is done. they have Vanzo with in the boat now.
e- i hope your wish come true…..just belive in it and it will come true:-)
f-if you work for a beer, and work professional, you are welcome in our team;-)
g -as we wrote, the charge of 29,90€ is a single charge for all updates in future. do you use our app already or how can you set up a claim that it is buggy?
Really boy, it is ridiculous like you act here….but thank you very much for the promotion:-)
p.s. use the time you waste here to work and you will not have any problem to pay 30€ for a professional OTA updater App.:-)
Again you cannot charge for CM, it’s under the GPL and therefore you must be free. However services can be charged for. I think Sebastian and these guys at a-Jaiyu are doing a good job of filling the hole left by the manufacturer it seems both useful and a decent business move. People deserve to be paid for there work, and it is not trivial making a rom it takes time and they deserve to be reimbursed for it, and beyond cost in my opinion. I agree it looks a bit bad for Jiayu, but thats there own fault. Though Sebastian perhaps you could you confirm that the CM version will still be available for download outside of the OTA system, from the CM website for example?
Quite true. I just sent them and email (to ejiayu.com) pointing to those issues. I doubt they’ll listen to one person but this is getting out of hand. Ejiayu.com is the only official manufacturer’s website and should be the only official source of software. Yet we have distributors making custom ROMs, some of which are better than official, yet they are all labeled as “official”. Jiayu should be proactive and clean up the mess. I welcome the distributors to be the end point support, and have ROM downloads on their websites or in apps, but it should be clear what came unmodified from manufacturer and what they’ve modified or developed as distributors, and what they’ve just picked up from needrom and public forums. And ofcourse Jiayu shouldn’t be injecting malware or spyware in their original ROMs.:-/
I’m still using ROM I’ve installed from Polish distributor’s websitr about a year ago, a slightly modified (cleaned) official JellyBean, with no malware and no Chinese apps. Nice and clean. But it’s still not the official ROM. And it’s still JellyBean because all KitKat Roms were either official but buggy, or better but 3rs party. And now Lollipop/CM from another 3rd party – and they want 30€ for it? And what guarantees that it won’t be half baked ROM picked up from some Russian forum? Nothing… And luckily Play Store doesn’t even allow me to download it on my G4S despite downloading just fine on a Samsung (?!). I’ve seen the app “quality” …Not giving 30€ or even 3€ for a cat in the bag (and a shabby bag it is).
Not resellers: the adware was in at least two different releases of the official international ROM. Even if they subbed out the build of that to a 3rd party, its down to them: everyone sub’s, and everyone has to check what their subs do. And they never even investigated/released a statement on it – which implies they don’t consider it an issue, which is probably the main concern. They are a company that does good work let down by poor communication. What I could do for them if they let me!