Doro PhoneEasy 626

The Doro PhoneEasy 626 (codenamed Shuttle) is another basic no-frills flip phone released in 2014. It has large rubber buttons, an emergency button on the back, and a bright front screen.

Variants

PhoneEasy 621/622: Different keypad design. 621 lacks an outer display.
PhoneEasy 624: Global version with different bands and other minor differences.

Related phones

Doro PhoneEasy 530X: Essentially the same specs and features, but in a rugged candybar form.

Specs

Basics

	PhoneEasy 626
HW Platform/Chipset	MediaTek MT6276A or MT6276WA (611 MHz ARM1176JZ-S)
SW Platform/OS	Doro proprietary (MediaTek MAUI)
Display	240 x 320 TFT, 262K colors (ST7789V or HX8347I screen controller)
Sub-display	? x ? Dot Matrix, 1-bit greyscale (blue and white)
Physical display size	2.4"
LED Indicator	Yes, one for battery and one for messages
Flash memory	128MB NAND (ESMT FM64D1G12A-5BAGE), ~70MB available
RAM	64MB DDR 200MHz (ESMT FM64D1G12A-5BAGE)
Memory card slot	MicroSDHC, up to 32GB
Phonebook capacity	500
Charging and data connector	Micro USB
Regulatory info	FCC ID: WS5DORO626 (approved 2014-04-03)

Connectivity

	PhoneEasy 626
Operating modes	626: GSM (850/1800/1900), UMTS (850/1900) 621/622/624: GSM (900/1800/1900), UMTS (900/2100)
Data	GPRS, EDGE, HSDPA
SIM size	Mini SIM
IrDA	No
Bluetooth	Yes, v2.1
PC Link	USB Mass storage mode

Media

	PhoneEasy 626
Rear camera	2MP (1600 x 1200), with flash
Video recording	320 x 240
Supported image formats	BMP, GIF, JPG, PNG
Supported sound formats	AMR, IMY, MID, MP3
Supported video formats	3GP, MP4
Speaker configuration	Single ear speaker and loudspeaker on back
Line out	626: 2.5mm port 624: 3.5mm port
Synthesizer	MT6276 Software Synthesizer
Extras	GalaxyCore GC2145 (UXGA CMOS Image Sensor)

Messaging

	PhoneEasy 626
SMS	Yes
EMS	No
MMS	Yes

Software

	PhoneEasy 626
Java	No
MediaTek MRE	2.0.03, 1536 kB RAM

Pre-loaded content

Games

Tetris
Boxman

Themes

Theme 1 (black on white)
Theme 2 (white on black)
Theme 3 (yellow on black)
Theme 4 (yellow on blue)

Accessories

Batteries

Doro SHELL01A (3.7 V, 800 mAh Li-ion) • 626
Doro DBF-800A (3.7 V, 800 mAh Li-ion) • 624

Hidden dial codes

Enter these codes on the dial screen and press the Call button to run them.

Engineer Mode
*#13646633#
Factory Mode
*#166*#
Version Info (S/W version, screen controller, sensor, flash chip, etc)
*#18375#
Switch Language to English
*#0103
Switch Language to Spanish
*#0543#
Switch Language to French
*#0123#
Show IMEI
*#06#
Language Def.
*#0000#
Auto Test
*#187#
Audio Test
*#458#
Restart
*#2008# (soft restart)

MTK MRE Support

Despite this phone's design as a basic flip phone, MRE (.vxp) apps are supported.

By simply putting .vxp apps on the phone via USB mass storage mode, the phone will recognize them as MRE apps and you can open them using the file manager. Considering the icon that normally shows an MRE logo is a red X, this feature may have been meant to be removed. The size of the phone's font does cause some issues with certain games, but this doesn't affect many apps to an extreme degree.

Serial UART test points

There are UART test points on the phone's PCB near the headphone jack. This UART port is enabled and appears to work, but RevSkills' MTK flashing interface doesn't support MT6276 phones and "Miracle Thunder" box software gets stuck on 100% trying to dump firmware using the UART interface.

Dumping Firmware

The firmware of this phone can be dumped with "Miracle Thunder" box software and a standard micro USB cable. Note that the software incorrectly defines the flash chip as being made by Samsung, which may be why it produces a corrupted file (bad dump).

This may not happen in newer versions of the software, but that hasn't been tested or confirmed.

To dump the firmware, press Start on Miracle Thunder software, hold the # button on the phone, then connect the phone to the computer.

Firmware

There is only one known dump of the Doro 626, and it is corrupted. For this reason, a download link won't be shared as it is useless for both repairing a bricked phone and content extraction.

When a good firmware file becomes available, it will be here.