Celkon A97

  • Released 2012, Q3
    130g, 11mm thickness
    Android 2.3.6
    microSD slot
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  • 4.0"
    480x800 pixels
  • 5MP
    Video recorder
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    MT6575
  • 1500mAh
    Li-Ion

Celkon A97 - Specs

Network Technology GSM / HSPA
2G bands GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900 - SIM 1 & SIM 2
3G bands HSDPA 850 / 900 / 1900 / 2100
Speed HSPA
Launch Announced 2012, Q2. Released 2012, Q3
Status Discontinued
Body Dimensions 124 x 64 x 11 mm (4.88 x 2.52 x 0.43 in)
Weight 130 g (4.59 oz)
SIM Dual SIM (Mini-SIM)
Display Type TFT capacitive touchscreen
Size 4.0 inches, 45.5 cm2 (~57.4% screen-to-body ratio)
Resolution 480 x 800 pixels, 5:3 ratio (~233 ppi density)
Platform OS Android 2.3.6 (Gingerbread)
Chipset Mediatek MT6575 (40 nm)
CPU 1.0 GHz Cortex-A9
GPU PowerVR SGX531
Memory Card slot microSD, up to 32 GB (dedicated slot)
Main Camera Single 5 MP
Video Yes
Selfie camera Single Yes
Video
Sound Loudspeaker Yes
3.5mm jack Yes
Comms WLAN Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g, hotspot
Bluetooth 2.0, A2DP
GPS Yes, with A-GPS
Radio Stereo FM radio, RDS, recording; FM transmitter
USB microUSB 2.0
Features Sensors Accelerometer, proximity, compass
 MP3/WAV/eAAC player
MP4/H.264 player
Document viewer
Organizer
Voice memo/dial
Predictive text input
Battery   Li-Ion 1500 mAh battery
Stand-by Up to 350 h
Talk time Up to 9 h 10 min
Misc Colors Black
Price About 110 EUR

Celkon A97 - User Reviews

  • Download 360 lite ,open the app and go to clean in the app,click on clean and it will clean unnessesary files ,then a popup will apper scroll down u will get manage space click on it.you will have system thumbnails click on them and clear them you will have some place cleared

  • This is a good phone but problem is the accessories are not available in market. Service center also does not has its accessories like battery cover, battery, display, touch screen any thing else they asking time minimum 10 days of time or order the accessories. Ordered items also take time up to 3 moths. I am asking all of you now days who having such patience. I could not understand why celkon company accessories are not available in market.

  • Hi frnd,u go to koti and then jagadeesh market,ur button was milega.

  • my device on switch button is gone off i am searching celkon A97 batter cover since long back i place my order at existing service centre but no response at all. tell me from where i purchase it

  • steps to move apps to sd card

  • how can send mms from my celkon A97i mobile please send tha answer by mail. [email protected]

  • You can buy nokia (BL-C5) and battery backup also little bit good then celkon battery. I hope it works. Thanx

  • Im in riyadh saudi Arabia please can u tel me the arrdss where it will get

  • did u find a similar battery of any other branded phone, even i want to buy one.

  • Battery back up is very poor pls suggest to which battery is suitable for this mobile

  • battery is not sufficient so pls tell me which battery suits well to this phone.

  • I want to buy this phone for 2000 its right or rong tel me

  • pl tell me ?? how did you managed to install new system on celkon A97

  • Am using this mobile from the day when it was launched . This is an value adding mobile in android os . No prob yet and mostly android phones are facing some problem in the processor alone due to multiple application interface which happens in this phone anytime which can be rectified through refreshing the processor manager button or download reboot application . The still occurring prob is low battery backup utilised only for one full complete day for normal user and for rough user u need to take care of taking charge in your mobile .Thank u

  • Am using this mobile from the day when it was launched . This is an value adding mobile in android os . No prob yet and mostly android phones are facing some problem in the processor alone due to multiple application interface which happens in this phone anytime which can be rectified through refreshing the processor manager button or download reboot application . The still occurring prob is low battery backup utilised only for one full complete day for normal user and for rough user u need to take care of taking charge in your mobile .Thank u

  • shall i buy this phone ?? how is this it is good or bad

  • nice phone but battery backup is very low

  • I 2 hv the same 1st problem u hv

  • This phone Isvery nice phone browese very fast

  • i wnt 2 prches ths phn say me is this gud or nt

  • i have been using this fone for the last 8 months. excellect value for money. and lesser popularity of the brand name ensures that its pricing is very good when compred to similar specced fones from other indian companies like mmx or lava. only issue i m having is low internal storae! otherwise performance wise it is excellent fone? strongly recommend celkon fones?

  • it's a best android phone in it's price. Using from 8 months with not any big problem..sometimes all apps in sd card get error but when mount ur sd card it will work properly. all games work well even real football which is of 800mb.. it plays all hd videos even 1080p... but camera quality not very good as compare to nokia,Samsung etc.. It also has 5 multitouch!!!! I will give this phone 8 points out of 10 points.

  • could u plz tell that at which service centre hav u visted

  • My Power button and Volume button are gone, i want to change the panel and upgrade OS, Please let me know how to do this. Thanks in advance

  • Please dont buy any celkon mobile, they are not working, and no service also, please dont go with low prices, it is waste of money.

  • i've rooted my fone...what custom roms can i install..? plz reply

  • Hey can anyone tell me how the font can be change I CELKON A97

  • 3G mot working bad fone

  • Its working for me

  • charging is not good ineed battery&pouch

  • its not good.....phone....3g nt working in this phone......

  • i need battery for celkon a97

  • pls tell me wer to buy celkon panel

  • very good Phone....but i need panel of this Mobile

  • i have this fone is it possible to update the os to jellybean

  • I need A Celkon A97 Panel, My Mobile Power Button Was Not Working Properly, Plz Ineed a new panel, Im 4M Hyd.

  • update new version 4.0.3

  • update new version 4.0.3

  • hiiii,iam planning to purchase this mobile.plz tell me whether this one is good one or not.

  • Hi Lazir, I had been to service center with the handset and they asked to sit for 15 minutes, updated to 4.0.3 (ICS) and gave back the handset to me. And is working fine. Also understood from Celkon service that there a separate battery software for better back up of battery. I had requested them for that also and it was also installed.

  • Understood from Service Centre also that this is not an ethical update and the warranty will be void if we go for update to ICS. Please suggest suitably. I am Murthy from Vijayawada of AP.

  • hi Syed, Can u please let me know how to upgrade Celkon A97 to ICS. I am searching for this from couple of weeks. Thanks in advance Lazir

  • hi Syed, Can u please let me know how to upgrade Celkon A97 to ICS. I am searching for this from couple of weeks. Thanks in advance Lazir

  • hey can u send me the link of ics firmware..!!! i have already rooted this phone for cmw..!! but fortunately we didnt have cwm support..so we have to official celkon update. so if u have any link..plz give us..!! and dnt say to go to customer care..bcoz i have went recently and they are saying...they dont have any update or news about ics..!!! @lokesh

  • Celkon mobile are good but go for karbonn mobiles they are better than celkon.Go for karbonn a5. And has good touch . Go for karbonn

  • Hi naveen, this mobile is cheap and best type of phone. Good features and good display.. But the battery is very poor in backup. Camera is also fine. Bigger and brighter display. U would love to play games in it.

  • my request to celkon management. plz provide good consumer relationship. other than this phone is amazing dudes.

  • wtf r u talking abt. this is 5mp not 8mp . u may saying abt a97i. this is a97 boss. this phone continuously maintaining nearly 9.0 rating . very few holds dis record.

  • Please be careful. I bought this and the claimed 8MP camera works like a VGA camera. No clear image and resolution. It's worst than a 3MP camera of Samsung/IPhone mobile.

  • dont think u buy it thats... it and also ucan buy new version a97i

  • am so interested in smart phone but i dont know about celkon product liable or not and i need to know how its mp3 player working and about its head phone quality and performance plz let me know friends

  • Hai every body! Today I had been to purchase a good cell phone. I got a massage/information from the sales man that this is the good hand set (celkon A97) and no complints on this make from the custemers, eventhough all the company hand sets are available with them. After seeing a demo and purchased this hand set with complete satisfaction.

  • just remove ur sim and insert properly,and also mobile battery and re insert

  • Made In China handset Are so prize high Android base handset Plz Decrease a Rate..................

  • Dear, how to upgrade ur phone.please tell me process.I follow to ur instructions. Please reply.

  • voice not going or not coming wile speaking if we phoning to anybody we are using through speaker only how to speak on is there any settings without speaker on may please advice

  • are u kidding or is it real if it is real give the details hoe to upgrade it

  • hi friends , i have taken celkon a97.I have faving problem of network. I slotted one 3g and 2g simcard in it but suddenly it looses both networks .I have done perfect setting but no use.I have put its softwear but no use.plz help me.

  • You cannot update this phone via any website. you have to go to the celkon carecenter and they will update the phone for free

  • plz tell me how to upgrade 2 4.0. simply paste the link of website. plz

  • plz tell me how to upgrade 2 4.0. simply paste the link of website. plz

  • plz tell me how to upgrade 2 4.0. simply paste the link of website. plz

  • Guys, go for Karbonn A18. Its the best budget android phone with latest features. I bought it and its my hands on experience. You wont regret it at all. Check Flikart for reviews, 95% customers are happy which amazing.... Go for it guys :-)

  • Just take your phone to celkon care You can find the address in their website

  • how can i upgrade it.....? plz tell me...

  • Good News guys, I've got my Celkon A97 upgraded to ICS... Works supremely fine.. A little problem with the sdcard though I don't know if it's my memory card problem or the upgrade.. But works great..

  • this CELKON A97 will definitely take you to the next level with minimum cost......best android mobile with great applications and features i used so far

  • whenever you restore your fone just select erase internal memory. after that you will get more than 700 mb free memory.

  • celkon a97 is way better than micromax a100. I've used antutu to benchhmark this phone and the results are better than micromax. it also showed that the cpu of a97 is a mediatek mt675 arm v7 and also has a integrated cpu powerVR sgx531. I've sent a message to gsmarena to update the details.

  • can anyone tell about the headset effect of celkon A97

  • Dear Lokesh, You can use an app known as Piscel Smart Office to open pdf, doc, docx, ppt, pptx etc., on your android device. Just google for the app and you'll get it. This is one of the best apps

  • Dear sir I want to purchase today celkon 97 i dont have laptop to see my pdf and excel files in ordinary mobile. i need your help immediate lokesh

  • Is there a facility for multiple applications in this phone.

  • mx player

  • hi my mobile its shown wifi and available message is shown. but net not conected. how to rectified?

  • hey open file manager, & open sdcard2. it is internal 2gb

  • can any one tell me which app can play 1080p video in celkon a97,i tried vplayer,moboplayer,but no use they play very slowly

  • Adobe flash player 11 is available in android play store

  • its not that full app will move to sdcard...part of it does...e.g.games like angry birds need 35 MB of space on installation..but after moving to sdcard it only consumed 2MB from fone memory...

  • u may install MOVE2SD app from android market/play store n use it to move apps from fone memory to microsd card....path=settings=applications=storage use...it shows u apps on fone memory...ouch on any app..and it will show you whether it can be MOVE TO SD CARD..or not..try to free more & more of fone memory as fone speed depends on it....u may also install NQ MOBILE BOOSTER from play store...it automatically kills idle apps consuming which r consuming RAM..and frees lot of RAM..upto 100MB...

  • hi,I tryed installed adobe flash player.but result was "not available in your country ".please help me to how to installed flash player. and this mobile upgrade to ice.please give me missed call.9502161614

  • Dear friends, I have celkon A97,It's awesome phone,browsing speed is very fast.all files are open.good supports from google play.but i have some doubts, 1.all applications are installed in external sd card,but shows the internal memory full.how to reduce internal memory. 2.how to install adobe flash player11.1 in phone,search in net shows 'not available in your country' please tell me.

  • very low battery back up like it gives only one hour while gaming and gprs usage ....i don't recommend these mobile .....

  • By the way any android mobile while you transfer apps to SD card it does not decrease the internal memory rather increases the internal memory by keeping the main files and only moving the external files which supports to the sd card. hence its a bad choice to shift to sd card until it is MP3, videos, PDFs etc not apps.

  • u can restart ur mobile

  • I am facing internal memory full problem in celkon A97.I have moved all the apps to sd still there is no internal memory.Its still showing that Internal memory is full please delete some apps.

  • It's a good phone for that price got it @8,100RS We can almost run all the famous games and apps by this phone Pros: Cheap price Big screen Five multi touch points Good internal memory of 2gb good speed ram of 512 mb Good and fast touch experience Very slim and less weight Cons Low battery backup (common for all android phones) Camera is not 5mp its just 3mp Battery drains fast when we play hd games Very good looking and best spec phone for that price Can go for that phone with out thinking twice

  • Thats nice choice but why dont just check out micormaxA100 or karbonn A18 which were more bigger screens and optimized gpu for gaming..... This has no gpu and 'unknown' processor

  • Thats nice choice but why dont just check out micormaxA100 or karbonn A18 which were more bigger screens and optimized gpu for gaming..... This has gpu and 'unknown' processor

  • I have got this mobile as a gift from my Wife and i can easily say that this mobile rocksss with all the features. This is the best Smart Mobile in the market till date. It costs just 8100/- with insurance cover and provides all the high end features that a smart mobile contains. Regarding Features, It matches with Samsung Ace Duos and more. It has Dual Sim Facility, GPS, GPRS, WIFI, 4 inch screen and the display is supperbb for this master piece. I am decided to gift the same mobile as a gift to my wife. The only negative point for this would be about the battery back up. When fully charged, It comes for a day with little of Music, GPRS and taking callls. But no regrets.

  • I have been using this mobile for the past 2 mons. I have 2 Sims. I face one problem Every now and then the phone loses the tower and takes some time to obtain the tower. Even if I keep the phone in a same place for sometime. Does anyone else face this issue/ Any solutions?

  • waste yar dont take this a97 because battery problem coming in this and 3g not access in this model. camara clarity very poor. i suggest go for samsung it will be better for u

  • Dear, I brought this on ramzan.I have some doubts.1.upgrade to ICS. 2.how much ph memory.show 2GB but only shows 750MB.and just 15applications installed...show ph memory full.available space is 2.02GB.all files saved in external memory.what I am doing. 3.how to install flash player.11.1.

  • Hi friends As i'm stuck between these two models karbonn a9 and celkon a97. can any one tell me which is the best for hd video recording and hd gaming ? I heard that karbonn a9 is to be rooted for gaming ? Is the same thing(rooting) continues in this phone ? i'm waiting for your reply. thanks in advance

  • Hi friends. I'm planning to buy a new phone. As i stuck between these 2 models (karbonn a9 and celkon a97). Can any one tell me which is better in hd video recording and hd gaming(games like nova,maxpayne). I heard that karbonn a9 is to be rooted for playing hd games. Is the samething(rooting) continues in celkon a97 ? im waiting for your reply friends. thanks in advance.

  • hi friends im planning to buy a new phone. As i stuck between these 2 models (karbonn a9 and celkon a97). Can any one tell me which is better for hd video recording and hd gaming(games like nova,maxpayne) I heard that karbonn a9 is to be rooted for playing hd games. Is the same thing(rooting) continues in celkon a97 ? im waiting for ur reply friends.. thnx in advance.

  • hi friends im planning to buy a new phone. As i stuck between these 2 models (karbonn a9 and celkon a97). Can any one tell me which is better for hd video recording and hd gaming(games like nova,maxpayne) I heard that karbonn a9 is to be rooted for playing hd games. Is the same thing(rooting) continues in celkon a97 ? im waiting for ur reply friends.. thnx in advance.

  • Hi MR. Naveen, I had no issue like that you. Use proper Antivirus application, like -AVG, Avast. Always backup your contacts , important messages to sd card. Anyway, I have no problem still. IT is excellent mobile, better than HTC desire HD, Samsung galaxy ace duos, etc.

  • very clear

  • its just ur configuration settings problem dude once after u closing internet connection of other sim u clean the cache and then start connection of other sim it will be working for cache cleaning u can use android assistant from market and i am fully satisfied with this phone it has an ARMv7 processor with 1GHz speed ......also it has excellent interface its the best for those who are looking for excellent performance......................excellent phone if celkon releases an ICS update it will be the best at low cost..........

  • this phone is completely awesome but can any one tell me how to update ics4.0.3 in this phone

  • Yes I do have the same problem... But after restarting phone will be getting back all contacts. But there is no call log... Any solution?

  • I'm here! I bought it..... it is indian mob company yaar ...

  • Hi Frinds, what bout hadset sound system please tell me any one

  • I am using this mobile from the past 2 months, i have had a big problem with this mob. for every 10-15 days, all the contacts and messages getting deleted automatically. i am really facing worst moments. dont go for it.

  • hi, can anyone help me?. i had tried to install ics 4.0.3 on celkon a 97. everything went right as mentioned on posts, but now i am getting only blank white screen and nothing else. screen is also not getting off. have i bricked my phone? how should i install original rom to this phone? any body please help me. thanks in advanced...

  • Does it comes in india ? Any hero in india get this phone.

  • screen guard for this phone is not available. you have to modify one of the other phone's (HTC) to fit it. I got it done.

  • no 3d games but phone is awesome

  • best mobile..... but battery performance is average.... browser also average.....

  • brought this phone for 8300 yesterday.looks very good..processor is good..phones touch is awesome..Camera might not be 5 MP as the clarity is not that good.budget android.

  • Yes it can open PDF, Word, Excel. you need to download free app from Play store

  • Can anyone tell me whether two sim be active during the use of this phone and brief me about opting for the preference of sim to be used. Thanks

  • Hello.... I belong to chennai and recently bought this phone.... besides the brand the phone is awesome. the camera and speed is absolutely cool. supports all games. it has internal sd 2gb phone memory of 600 mb and external removable supporting around 16 gb without any issues. front camera and sound is too good. am extremely happy with battery as well. go for this if you want performance and features not the brand.

  • Dear Friends,I don't know what about this mobile.how to feel this mobile users?I waiting for ur valuable openions?pls tell me,spec and features.and open skype,gtalk,viber,3D games,PDF files,excel.pllllllllllllllllease tell me.i am waiting.

  • Dear Friends,I don't know what about this mobile.how to feel this mobile users?I waiting for ur valuable openions?pls tell me,spec and features.and open skype,gtalk,viber,3D games,PDF files,excel.pllllllllllllllllease tell me.i am waiting.

  • can we update it to andriod 4.0.3

  • can i knw how much ram it is having what processor they used for please tell me i want to buy dis mobile

  • where do i get screen protector for celkon a97?

  • Hi again... update on battery In my first post i said that the the battery took up to 3hrs to charge fully from 15% Well, now since it has been through many charge and dischrge cycles... it takes about 2hrs to charge to 100% from 15%. I have a problem though.... I have a docomo 3g connection on sim1 and vodafone on sim2. The data connection on vodafone is working fine... but on docomo (Sim1)... I have to switch the phone off and on to be able to connect to internet. This especially happens after i use wifi. Once i switch it off and on, there is no problem. Is it a software/hardware/network problem... Any solutions????? can anybody help!!!!!

  • Charging is very slow and sounds battery back up is not upto the mark though mfr claims 1500MAH battery is used. Camera must not be 5 MP as the clarity is not that good

  • i am from mumbai Its Really Good Awesome Mobile i like it very much

  • this Phn is owsome but too late for full charging n improve camnera it shows 5mp.but it is 3.5mp its too bad except this all r supub comparing brand mobile it is the excellent in cost features

  • how much internal memory this a97 phone ha?

  • how much internal memory this a97 phone ha?

  • i bought the mobile on jult 8,2012.the best budget android mobile i had ever seen.enjoyed every mimute with the mobile. the speed is good, touch is excellent, resolution is good, battery life is average, camera is average I STRONGLY RECOMMEND EVERY ONE TO BUY THIS MOBILW WITHOUT ANY FEAR.i got this mobile @ 8000 rupees

  • i bought this mobile 2 days back..... camera is like 3.2 MP only.... touch is awesome......

  • Could somebody do a video review of the phone?? People are having hard time trusting a new entrant into the mobile market segment. I request the people who have bought it to do a video review (on youtube) so that others will be benefited. There is not much information on the phone and its hardware on the internet. And also no tech forums seem to be aware of this phone. So the hardware details like Chipset manufacturer, model etc are still not known. People who have bought this phone, please run "Z-DeviceTest" available in play store and post the results anywhere they like (as long as they share that link HERE :) )......Thank you in advance to anyone who is going to do it.

  • How do i increase my in cal voice by tweaking the engineering menu options especially the audio sub menu

  • thank u rajesh..

  • Hi rajesh this mobile support hd games like nova 3d,amazing spiderman? is flash works this link:http://www.epctv.com/channels/Angel_TV-Onli­ne-Watch-4579.htm waiting for reply friends..

  • very good excellent phone with all features and stolen my mind especially with the price,really awesome.........................

  • Hi Chandu The HSPDA speed what i observed when connected to 3g aircel sim was max of 256 Kbps download speed and i have downloaded a file of size 296MB in around 26 min. with this you can judge the speed its wonderfull.

  • iam using this mobile from one month. really this is a amazig mobile these features are very perfect working among samsung galaxy s3 and galaxy y and other smartphones like micromax a75 among all smartphones this mobile is very good . thanks for celkon really mind blowing performence of the celkon a97 its working very speed with 1ghz processor screen is very big dual camera is also a big advantage of this mobile.

  • HI.frnds...can any say the accurate internal memory of tis phone..n in which {arm} 6 or 7 version does it run?..pls reply soon frnds

  • its great good features good processing speed..if the flash is there means no cell is compete for celkon

  • Anybody tell some of hd games in this mobile support? :)

  • Anybody plz tell if this site flash works or not.. Angel tv

  • MT6575

  • The phone is great and best at this price range and believe me as i have seen many including galaxy y and galaxy mini,karbonn a7 and a9 the phone never hangs and is working awesomely well i has a fast processor and display and design is awesome the best i have seen under this price range go for it without second thoughts best phone under 10 k or 12k.

  • hai i buy this moblie last month and you tube videos are contiously playing and html document are opened,its a low caste and best price.......simply say its a good one for me

  • yea that is really gr8 to see.... hope it cmes out well... i think it can be easily compare with s2 , htc 1v &....

  • this phone is really awesome will be growing well good in the market today eve i am gng to buy this mobile indeed thank u

  • hey yogi today am gona buy the celkon a97 mobile

  • what are all hd games works?(nova hd game) what GPU of this mobile? is support google play apps? is build material of this mobile good? is this hangs on multitask? both sims works in 3g? how long battery when using 3g browsing? is support flash on browsing? thx for reply

  • Using this phone since a month,Awesome phone in 8.3K,go for it. good battery & overall performance.

  • Celkon A97 will get software update to ICS 4.0 within three months.celkon care is repled me

  • Hi!guys i'm using A97 its wonderful experience with this,its touch,camera,size,prize its awsome...!!!

  • @teja! I have heard that Karbonn A18, A21 and A24 are about to be released soon. On karbonn mobiles website, they have already added A18 as an upcoming mobile. Hopefully it will be released in a week or two. I have been waiting for this phone for over a month now! The specs of A18 are phenomenal for that price tag. Lets hope the build quality is as good as karbonn A9

  • thnx Ajay Manu for ur precious time...ur reply was really very useful..actualy i m just waitng for KARBONN A18 & KARBONN A24....as they got latest android operating system and..better camera resolution..and dual core processor...have u heard about them

  • Dude, just relax and stop thinking about the built quality..... its decent enough... looks awesum... just to let you know that i accidentally dropped this phone from a height of 4 feet... nothing went wrong... its been a week since i bought it... now every body around me just loves this phone.

  • i read out its internal memory is 4GB but it shows only 2GB. what ever numbers saved with name while incoming call only number is showing not with name.it was brought to notice Sangeetha Mobile from where i bought it they are unable to solve my problem.

  • " i m confused about its build quality whtehr this phone looks like cheap china made phone " Now a days most of the smartphones are made in China including iphone4-s, Samsung, Sony, LG etc. The build quality is decent enough for this phone. "and the RAM in it i have heard that it has 512mb ram" Here is the excert from the xda-developers forum about the Disk/partition dump of this phone. ------------------------------ Here is the memory dump of Celkon A97. Sects size is 512 bytes. 2 sectors is 1KB. Size in MB is calculated as ( number_sects / 2) / 1024 . All sect size are in hex. Convert it into decimal. part no: start_sect number_sects partition_name Size emmc_p1: 00000020 00000002 "ebr1" 1 KB emmc_p2: 000cf720 000d6800 "cache" 427 MB emmc_p3: 001a6720 0018f800 "usrdata" 799 MB emmc_p4: 00336720 0040b8e0 "fat" 2000 MB ( 2 GB ) emmc_p5: 00009f00 00002800 "sec_ro" 5 MB emmc_p6: 0000ef20 000c0000 "android" 384 MB ---------------------------------------- "i have heard that it has 512mb ram..is this sufficient to play games like temple run.." The total memory of the phone is 512MB. However only 484MB is available for user. The remaining memory is used by the android OS. This is similar to any highend phone RAM/memory allocation like iPhone4-s which also has only 512MB RAM. Here is the RAM dump bf1d8f80 t $a [mt6575_m4u] MemTotal: 485204 kB MemFree: 42028 kB Buffers: 17792 kB Cached: 167188 kB SwapCached: 0 kB Active: 250020 kB Inactive: 97044 kB Active(anon): 162192 kB Inactive(anon): 656 kB Active(file): 87828 kB Inactive(file): 96388 kB Unevictable: 0 kB Mlocked: 0 kB SwapTotal: 0 kB SwapFree: 0 kB Dirty: 1360 kB Writeback: 0 kB AnonPages: 162096 kB Mapped: 65552 kB Shmem: 752 kB Slab: 16156 kB SReclaimable: 6456 kB SUnreclaim: 9700 kB KernelStack: 4104 kB PageTables: 13232 kB NFS_Unstable: 0 kB Bounce: 0 kB WritebackTmp: 0 kB CommitLimit: 242600 kB Committed_AS: 1897700 kB VmallocTotal: 286720 kB VmallocUsed: 129684 kB VmallocChunk: 122884 kB So if you can play the game temple run in iphone4-s, you can definetly play that game in this phone. ".can we upgrade andriod OS to higher version available in market..." Android OS upgrade is typically not available through the googleplay aka market. This is usually provided by the manufacteror of phone or by the custom firmware upgrade by android community. "...is battery realy so poor?" The battery is decent and is comparable with any other Smartphone in this category. Given the size of the display which is "four inches", if it can last a day, it is considered to have a very good battery life iphone4-s also has a similar battery life.

  • hi guys, actualy i m confused about its build quality whtehr this phone looks like cheap china made phone and the RAM in it i have heard that it has 512mb ram..is this sufficient to play games like temple run...can we upgrade andriod OS to higher version available in market...is battery realy so poor?..plz reply anyone who have used it..i will be thnkful

  • HI guys... the battery charging time for this phone is 2.30 to 3.00 hours from (15% to 100%) (the useless manual says 4 hrs) the stand by time with sparing use is more than 24hrs. I charged the Battery to 100% and used it to browse youtube on wifi for 45min, and the battery showed 69% at the end... which is ok i guess. totally on 21hrs of standby, the wifi usage was 2hrs:41min and it still had 20% charge left. some flaws in the design... the volume control and the screen lock buttons are flimsy, might not last long (comments welcome). Also the accessories . the usb plug is bulky on the phone side. average camera performance. Over all it is a good phone, considering its cost. buy it instead of any other phone at this price, considering its specs and performance.

  • A97's battery is very good. The new models of Celkon are much much better than the older onee in terms of quality. I am using this phone with 3g and edge... i only charge it daily morning for an hour.

  • How long does the battery last on wifi and edge data continuously on??? Could somebody who has bought it, tell us about the batter backup in detail without any prejudices??.

  • can you please explain the performance and android update facility is there?. how long the battery to charge?

  • hi celkon piece is very good and the touch is too good but the battery is very bad because i bought a new piece on 21st of july 2012 but immediately i got repaired because of the battery so please take care of the battery

  • "Camera shows 5 MP but the quality comes out of 3.2MP only and has no flash " 5MP = 2592 x 1936 pixels. If a camera can record a picture at this pixels or more, it qualifies to be a 5MP. However the quality of the picture depends on the sensitivity of the CCD/CMOS sensor.

  • celkon model A97 is the one of excellent phone in market,but the battery is too poor.

  • hi Prasanth can you pleas tell me the Hsdpa speed. means if we connect the phone to the PC, then at the right side bottom of the PC message came about some speed. OR please insert any 3g sim and check in your phone mobile speed test. please..........

  • Looks like you have not installed the ADB driver. Here are the basic steps for the noobs. TpSparkyroot. ------------- Install the ADB driver for your phone. Once installed, open device manager, device manager should show the device as adb interface. Otherwise TpSparkyroot cannot find the device and will show device not find. Here is an illustrated way of how to flash/update the ROM on MTK6575 based devices.

  • buddy can u plz guide me on this phne....

  • is it a 3g phne or not

  • thnks boss atleast you said that flash player is working

  • Dear Friend, Thanks for your Great links for rooting. But I cant root my phone because it says 'device not found' while tryiing to root through Tpsparkyroot. Can you please tell me that you have A97 driver? After connecting the phone with my laptop, the new 3 nos. Of drives open. One is 'Mobile partner' and the Balance two are mobile internal and External Sd cards. Mobile partner drive has driver files (inf), but I cant install in my xp system and the installation is failing. While trying to root through Tpsparkyroot, it says 'device not found'. So I think, first I have to install the driver. I got the 'inf' files from your link. But how to install that in my Xp system (because my installation failed) and please guide me the steps to root. I have created the thread in the Great XDA forum for this mobile. Please support this thread for Rooting, clockworkmod recovery and Custom Roms. Also, you had mentioned that CWM (clockworkmod) and Custom firmware in your link, (which for Haipai i9220). Have you installed this CWM and custom Rom? Thanks for helping.

  • The current cost is 8500 Rs in chennai

  • very good specs n having low price. but howz the music in earphones

  • Hi dear FRIENDS I brought this beautiful set on 06 Jul 12 and till date i am using the phone very roughly for testing the bench mark given by other friends. POSITIVES : Very nice look display clarity and pixel ratio is very nice Ram is 473MB Internal Memory consists of two types 1 is 790 MB and other is 2GB and it is also having an external slot for micro SD card. Processor is 1GHz with GPU also and is very fast. Touch controls are awesome and beautiful sound with inbuilt speaker and with other headphones (Not original) Internet on 3G tested and it was very fast. Downloaded flash player 11.1 and is working fine. Games downloaded and are running smoothly. Battery 1500 mAH capacity is some what less because it was exhausted in 01 day. But if we watch movies it goes for 5 Hrs and music for > 20 Hrs non-stop(with head phones). Camera shows 5 MP but the quality comes out of 3.2MP only and has no flash (main dis advantage) But both cameras are OK not bad i will give 3.5 Stars out of 5 for camera. And above all i will give 4.5 out of 5 stars for the whole mobile because of the features and price. Overall a nice and sure buy phone I have taken this mobile after reading reviews here only. Thanks for the friends who supported me to buy this phone by writing reviews here. Thanks a lot to all friends Prashanth Sira

  • What is the ram and rom ????and what is the internal user memory

  • what is the internal memory and external memory provided with pack.please let me know

  • It is excellent mobile. Using since 3 days , Value for money..........

  • Please tell me how is the battery backup? charging time? i am so much interested in this mobile Thanks in advance.

  • 1. does it has flash light for camera 2. does it has active flash player 3. does it has authorise shop in mumbai,india 4. can i update it to ICS guyz plz help....

  • Hi Mr. Chandra, Rooting means,we can do any change to the system of phone.The benefits are , we can download the special applications from android market, which require root permission, Such as 'beats audio', 'titanium backup', 'LCD density change' etc. But rooting avoids warranty, but if we do safely, then no problem will occur. If you want to unroot also it is possible. Thanks.

  • Dear Friend, Thanks for Greaterthan help. I will try to root my A97. Anyway I have created the thread for This Excellent mobile. So Please show your support in the Great Xda forum for CWM and custom Roms. Here is the link. Thanks.

  • How is battery backup? Phone looking good and charging very slow.

  • It is an excellent phone for this price. I downloaded battery saver from android to save my battery backup and it works great. I do not understand what is "ROOTING". Can anybody elaborate what is rooting the phone and what are the benefits of rooting a phone ?

  • its an excellent phone for that price. I downloaded battery saver from android to save the charge. Now the battery back up has been good. I did not understand what is "ROOTING". can anybody eloborate what is rooting and what is the benefits of it

  • Once it is connected to the PC, Check the Notification display on top of the screen in which it shows to Turn on/Turn off USB to copy files.

  • Excellent phone...with superb display comparing to Galaxy Y.

  • Can someone tell me if i can connect A97 to PC for file transer from PC to mobile and vice-versa.

  • Can someone tell me if i can connect A97

  • This phone can be easily rooted using "TPSparkyRoot". Search for it in xda forum. This is a common rooting method used for Mediateks's MTK 6575 1Ghz processor phone. I have rooted this phone using the above method. Here is the complete info of the phone. Operating System kernel: ------------------------ Linux version 2.6.35.7 (dell@xywb02) (gcc version 4.4.3 (GCC) ) #1 PREEMPT Wed May 16 17:00:05 CST 2012 Hardware: --------- Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 1000.83 Mhz Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x2 CPU part : 0xc09 CPU revision : 10 Hardware : MT6575 Revision : 65fb8a00 Serial : 0000000000000000 name : ecb(arc4) driver : ecb(arc4-generic) module : kernel priority : The Engineering menu: ------------------ Dial the following to get the menu. *#*#3646633#*#* Partition info. --------------- PN:Partition name you should open; Size:size of partition Addr:Start Address of partition(EMMC) or Index (MTD); Typ:Type of partition, MTD=1,EMMC=2; Actname: the real name of partition PN Size Addr Typ RN preloader 0x00040000 0x00000000 2 /dev/misc-mt6575-sd0 dsp_bl 0x005c0000 0x00040000 2 /dev/misc-mt6575-sd0 mbr 0x00004000 0x00000000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 ebr1 0x0005c000 0x00004000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 pmt 0x00400000 0x00060000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 nvram 0x00300000 0x00460000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 seccfg 0x00020000 0x00760000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 uboot 0x00060000 0x00780000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 bootimg 0x00600000 0x007e0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 recovery 0x00600000 0x00de0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 sec_ro 0x00600000 0x013e0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 misc 0x00060000 0x019e0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 logo 0x00300000 0x01a40000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 expdb 0x000a0000 0x01d40000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 ebr2 0x00004000 0x01de0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 android 0x18100000 0x01de4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 cache 0x1ae00000 0x19ee4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 usrdata 0x32000000 0x34ce4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 fat 0x820ef800 0x66ce4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 bmtpool 0x0000c800 0xff9f0050 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 partno: start_sect nr_sects partition_name emmc_p1: 00000020 00000002 "ebr1" emmc_p2: 000cf720 000d6800 "cache" emmc_p3: 001a6720 0018f800 "usrdata" emmc_p4: 00336720 0040b8e0 "fat" emmc_p5: 00009f00 00002800 "sec_ro" emmc_p6: 0000ef20 000c0000 "android" All the drivers for this phone, flashing tool and the 4.0 based custom firmwares can be downloaded from these location Drivers flashtool rooting for A97 Celkon. You can download TPSparkyRoot Custom ROMs from

  • This phone can be easily rooted using "TPSparkyRoot". Search for it xda forum. This is a common rooting method used for Mediateks's MTK 6575 1Ghz processor phone. You can download TPSparkyRoot from I have rooted this phone using the above method. Here is the complete info of the phone. Processor : ARMv7 Processor rev 10 (v7l) BogoMIPS : 1000.83 Features : swp half thumb fastmult vfp edsp thumbee neon vfpv3 CPU implementer : 0x41 CPU architecture: 7 CPU variant : 0x2 CPU part : 0xc09 CPU revision : 10 Hardware : MT6575 Revision : 65fb8a00 Serial : 0000000000000000 name : ecb(arc4) driver : ecb(arc4-generic) module : kernel priority : The Engineer menu for all MTK6575 series phone. *#*#3646633#*#* Partition info. PN Size Addr Typ RN preloader 0x00040000 0x00000000 2 /dev/misc-mt6575-sd0 dsp_bl 0x005c0000 0x00040000 2 /dev/misc-mt6575-sd0 mbr 0x00004000 0x00000000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 ebr1 0x0005c000 0x00004000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p1 pmt 0x00400000 0x00060000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 nvram 0x00300000 0x00460000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 seccfg 0x00020000 0x00760000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 uboot 0x00060000 0x00780000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 bootimg 0x00600000 0x007e0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 recovery 0x00600000 0x00de0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 sec_ro 0x00600000 0x013e0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p5 misc 0x00060000 0x019e0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 logo 0x00300000 0x01a40000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 expdb 0x000a0000 0x01d40000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 ebr2 0x00004000 0x01de0000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 android 0x18100000 0x01de4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p6 cache 0x1ae00000 0x19ee4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p2 usrdata 0x32000000 0x34ce4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p3 fat 0x820ef800 0x66ce4000 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0p4 bmtpool 0x0000c800 0xff9f0050 2 /dev/block/mmcblk0 PN:Partition name you should open; Size:size of partition Addr:Start Address of partition(EMMC) or Index (MTD); Typ:Type of partition, MTD=1,EMMC=2; Actname: the real name of partition partno: start_sect nr_sects partition_name emmc_p1: 00000020 00000002 "ebr1" emmc_p2: 000cf720 000d6800 "cache" emmc_p3: 001a6720 0018f800 "usrdata" emmc_p4: 00336720 0040b8e0 "fat" emmc_p5: 00009f00 00002800 "sec_ro" emmc_p6: 0000ef20 000c0000 "android" All the drivers for this phone, flashing tool and the 4.0 based custom firmwares can be downloaded from this location Drivers flashtool rooting for A97 Celkon.

  • yes, we need to download from the market and need to install the same.. It works like a champ

  • Hi Babu.. you can go for A 97 blindly.. galaxy Y have a tiny poor resolution screen and a weak processor.. battery is also less...

  • Hi Suresh, nice to see your reply.. I will email the Celkon, please let me know their official email ID.. I wrote to [email protected] And here is teh link for the root of another same clone Also please let me know if you hae found any other links.. I will also request xda dev team...

  • Very economical mobile with high end specifications. i got it recently and i am loving every bit of it :) Go for it guys,.... i have opted this over Samsung galaxy y duos !!!

  • Very economical mobile with high end specifications. I got it and am loving every bit of it. Go for it guys... i have opted this one for Samsung galaxy y duos !!!

  • Hi Mr. Babu, A97 IS excellent phone with 4". But upto this time, there is no rooting method and no custom roms are available in Web (even in Xda) . So if you are a Often Rom changer, then go for Sam y duos. For Sam y duos custom roms are available in xda forums. If you are not going to change the roms (habit) , then go for Celkon A97.

  • can anybody say that flash player 11 is installed

  • suggest me which to buy ,cellkonA97 or galaxy y duos..........ple

  • Hello Guys,I am planning to buy A97.Could anyone suggest me can I go ahed

  • Awesome Phone !!! i suggest to all to buy this awesome Android loaded cellphone

  • HI, Any opinion on the Service Centers and after sale service..there seem to be outlets in Maharashtra. Seems like a good option but after sale service could be deal breaker. reply awaited..cheers

  • I tested the games like racing thunder and my paper plane. both are working fine...

  • can any one keep video review of the phone

  • Everything about the phone is excellent, especially its price..can confidently say it is even better than Samsung Galaxy Ace even though Celkon is a newcomer and not branded...the only problem in the phone is the battery..if you are planning to use wifi, you had better keep a charger next to you...its that bad....but dont worry, hopefully Celkon will provide backup batteries with more capacity and power in the future for this wonderful mobile......

  • Hi friends, I have made request for rooting, CWM in the Great XDA forums.

  • Hi Praveen, Thanks for your comments I am also using this phone. Very nice. I think it is doubt that M/s. Celkon will release update for ICS. I have mailed M/s. Celkon for ICS update. You also please mail them for ics update. Previously I used Samsung galaxy tab p1000 and galaxy pop. Those mobiles have more ROMS on XDA forum. So I changed easily through the Great XDA forum. But for this Celkon A97, we have to make request in XDA for rooting and custom roms. Any Indian Developer may help, because it available only in india (I guess so).

  • Celkon is a upcoming and well known brand... I got A97 two weeks back from Big C. I love this phone a lot.. Even though I own an Apple iPad, a Symbian powered Nokia mobile and now this android OS celkon... It outruns it's completion like Karbonn A9 and spice phones... I did a quadrant test on this, and it scored 2230+ score... Where as karbonn A9 only stands near 1400. Better score than HTC DESIRE HD & Samsung Nexus S... And it have a better graphics... I mean awesome graphics... And better internal memory.. Solid build quality.. Not like cheap build quality A9.... Sound quality is great when in calls. It have two micro phones one at back near camera another at bottom of screen for notice cancelation. And it have nice looks... Perct eye candy resolution.. It never hanged for me spite of the heavy usage... And full loaded apps on my 8gb memory card... As well as internal memory... But a little doubt, it shows internal SD memory as 2Gb and free space of internal Sd is also 2gb, but I am unable to move any application to that as well as I can't put any data there... Any ones help on this is appreciated. Dual sim works well... Wifi pretty good but not stable some times it's a software bug... Tethering worked well.. Superbly... Tested dlna apps with my 42 inch Panasonic.. Mediashare app is perfect for dlna.. Real racing 2 highend game works pretty smooth.. Without any crashes.. Even my friends SGS2 crashes and very slow for this game.. Poor Samsung galaxy 2. Pretty bright display and big display with good colour reproduction. Downside is battery.. Same like all androiders trouble... for me I have optimised settings and am a heavy user... It only gives me the juice of a day or so.... Better powered battery some thing like 1800 or a1900 mAh will be best for this.... At one suggest me any compatible high powered battery's for this.. Another one is viewing angles..pretty bad... It's normal with other phones of this kind... Camera is also average.. For indoors it's pretty bad but on outdoors its giving good results for still pics as well as video.... Like 720p resolution. It lads a flash or led light... That's it and every thing fine.. Front cam works well.. Little dim good for Skype n 3G Video calls For now that's it.. Am looking for official ice update don't know wheathere celkon provides or need to root the same through xda... Thanks and bye....

  • Hi, I played asphalt 5 hd in this phone. It is excellent.

  • just keep the brightness as low as possible........you will get the best battery backup.

  • Is this mobile has Push email option? Please let me know

  • phone is excellence but battery is very poor or low

  • did some one check 3D games,in this like real racing2 something that needs graphics?

  • one of the best phone i have ever seen in my life.only 8500/-rs and this kind of feutures waaaaaaaaaaaw...wish if it comes in white colour

  • Have you inserted sim card properly as per manual?

  • Hi, I purchased this for 8500 rs yesterday. It is awesome phone. You can expect all features of high end phones (galaxy s series - above 20000 rs) in this. Slim, 1 ghz, 5 mp cam and super fast. The only small problem is power and volume buttons are tiny and hard to press. Any body know, how to root the phone "? . But I dont know. M/s. Celkon release uypdate (android) for this.

  • It is not connecting to market? How to do that?

  • boss i bought A97. but its not recognising both sims. i am not able to make dual sims active. help me out

  • Any idea which series 5 GPU?

  • cell is very good.battary back up is bad.

  • The most amazing part with this mobile is: 1)TOUCH(very speed), 2)LOOKS(no other mobile has with this cost), 3)PROCESS SPEED(eg:can takes pics through cam without any lag), 4)COST(its will be around 20k if you wish to buy with other brands for these specifications with some exceptions), 5)SPECIFICATIONS(I need not say any thing, they are almost everything in every field), 6)DISPLAY(4 inches). some disappointments: 1)CAMERA QUALITY(doesn't sound as 5mp,but just as 3mp with good resolution), 2)HEAD SET(cheap), 3)CHARGING(takes 4 hours for complete charging), 4)PC SUITE(not available for now), 5)Some accessories not available(case and pouches,as it is a new model). OVER ALL: 1)A best mobile at the cost of 8.5k. 2)A beginner of smart phone can go for it. 3)if you operate it once you will not leave it!!!!

  • will skype work in this mobile for doing vedeo chatting and skype calls

  • where did you get this phone to buy and whats the cost.

  • Some requests for information from the buyers of this phone. 1. Does this phone have HSUPA connectivity. If yes, then what is the speed? 2. What is the GPRS class? 3. What is the EDGE class? 4. Does this phone support Java? If yes then what is the MIDP emulator version? 5. This phone claims to have a-gps. Is it correct? 6. Does this phone have compass for auto orientation of maps? Would appreciate if anyone can clarify these as I am considering the purchase Thank you

  • is this phone can support dual sim standy by like china phone or not whats its internal memory

  • i bought this phone yesterday.it was awesome....simply superb.....touch was amazing,and front cam is good it had a zooming option too,but a bit unsatisfied with rare cam..its ok..but the phone is equal to mini-tab....excellent....battery performance is good when compared to other mobiles of android....but when we use wifi....battery drains out at an amazing speed.....and the main problem is that it produces a lot of heat when in use under wifi or when both sims are active....i had deactivated one of the sims and it is pretty good now...browsing speed is at peek level..the best phone at its cost....i suggest u to buy this...battery recharge takes a lot of time...and earphones given along the set is of very cheep quality...this one has very fast processing,.....no strucks of any apps..or programs....very very good

  • 2gb+2gb is its internal memory

  • What is internal memory capacity of this phone..

  • good bro

  • is this phone supports adobe flash?

  • sir how is playng games lyk racing thunder2,paper plane,talking tom2 etc...pls reply me sir.is it smooth? its urgent.thanks

  • I bought this phone one week back. Internal memory is 4 GB (2GB internal memory +2GB Internal sd card). RAM is 512 mb. Pros: Touch is very good, Display is amazing, Low price, slim and sleek Cons: Low battary backup(All androids have the same problem) Ear phones in the set are of very cheap quality. Given as 5MP camera, but clarity is not that much good compared to samsung monte which is 3MP camaera OVER ALL REVIEW: Best(Better)phone in this price range

  • Hi, You can download acrobat reader or Office Suite from the android market which helps you opening pdf documents. Both of there are free apps. Office Suite helps you in opening word docs, text docs, csv files and pdf files also.

  • how is it work with all features?

  • On the whole the phone specifications are quite good. But the only bad is its very poor battery backup. It is a 1500mah battery, but if u use internet downloading, the entire battery is down by one hour. The most worse part of it. Downloading speed is good, resolution is good. Looks are excellent.

  • i just like the mobile its performance is nice

  • it's good phone

  • u can download adobe reader apk from goolge, its goes fine... Im using it, and working good. :)

  • can some one tell how this phone works with out RAM as there is no mention of RAM in specifications and also what is the capacity of internal memory and ROM ..PL?

  • @kkrao: where did you buy this phone?? Try android market for free pdf readers.How is the phone as a whole ? is it a buggy one any noticeabel crashes??

  • Processor is based on Mediatek 6575 Chipset. CPU-ARM Cortex A9 -Single Core 1GHz GPU-PowerVR SGX Series5 graphics Source:

  • ram speed and internal memory

  • wat abt sar value of this phone

  • pdf files are not opening.....kindly give any suggestions to view pdf files

  • Which cpu Used, What about the ram, what about the speed.

  • awesome

  • don't buy celkon , they are worst mobiles, i experienced