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Hello!
I need some help and I know this is the place to find it!
I have searched for several days all over the internet trying to read and gather information, and I am coming up short.
I know Bruno Martins has posted some information on his blog on how to "readback" (backup) your current rom for your phone, but there is no information on how to flash the entire ROM package back to your phone (at least with regard to the errors you may receive).
Basically, I am looking for some help on how to backup one of my phones entire rom package and put it on my other phone that I messed up via the Smart Phone Flash Tool (the exact same model: Star Touch Diamond 2 B2000 MT6573).
The new phone works perfect, I have never touched it, my old phone which is the same model I deleted and formatted the system so I need to put the stock rom on.
I was able to do a "backup" of my new phone, but when i try to flash the preloader and uboot, etc, the sp flash tool says error loading file, or region too large with overlap.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
By the way, my phone is not bricked, but I cannot access recovery! I was able to find and install another fully assembled rom to my phone and the phone does power on with lights, but it doesnt have the display driver I need so I cannot see anything.
The reason I flashed another rom was because the phone was essentially bricked and wouldnt do anything, and that was the only rom I could find on the internet that was a full package (preloader, uboot, system, etc) but isnt compatible with phone.
Anyhow, if I understand correctly I need to use hexadecimal calculator to find length of partitions of original phones rom, readback the files, somehow edit the preloader file? then flash them back to the old phone?
Please help!
I would love to make a tutorial of this method with pictures and possible errors for everyone if we could get this solved!
Please point me in the right direction!
And I wanted to thank BRUNO in advance for his hard work and help!!
have you tried the neutrino rom from notorious? its reallllly small around 50mb. you may be able to install that since it so small, then work your way back down? not too sure and i can say im no grandmaster but it might work!
***derp. neutrino... thats for atrix only. but hey same concept. maybe a small barebones rom will get you running enough to get things done properly.
Hello stokemonkey!
No, I have not tried the neutrino rom. My main goal is to take my working phone and copy the firmware to my other phone which is the same model. I attempted to flash a rom and then it didnt work out so well (phone still lights up, drivers are not compatible).
I all else fails I can attempt the neurtino rom (as long as you dont have to install from sd card zip file because I cannot!)
the neutrino is an Atrix 4G rom only, so you cant use it and it also needs to be installed via internal so its a no go either way. isnt your phone the china "htc" model? i dont have much user time on an htc so im not too sure what you can do?
again id try to find a barebones that you can flash the way you did with the rom that gave you errors. ill try to do some searching too and see what i can find. let me know if you get anything workin! and if there is someone else out there that can enlighten the both of us help would be appreciated!
and isnt yours like an evo 4g? maybe one of those roms will work?
Thanks for your response and suggestions. I will try to dish up a small tutorial with how far I can get in the backup/flashing process. I can check for an evo 4g rom and see what the specs are. The current rom I used i believe works, but doesnt have the video driver so the screen has no image. I believe each partition of ram has a set size so you can only flash a rom for the mt6573 chipset which will fit in the available space for each partition and also happens to contain the video, audio, bluetooth, etc drivers.
I have used SP Flash Tool and was able to backup all of the partitions of my working phone but the SP Flash Tool gives all sorts of errors when I try to load the files and flash them to my non-working phone.
The funny thing is that I downloaded files for a different phones rom and was able to flash those to the non-working phone, as mentioned in my previous post, which allows the phone to power on, but the phone doesnt work besides lighting up.
I know it is possible to make a backup of my good phone and flash that rom onto my non-working phone, I just dont know what I am doing wrong.
So far, this is what I have done . . .
1. Installed SDK tools for android
2. Obtained my scatter txt file by using command prompt
3. Used MTKRomStudio to open that file which tells me the addresses of all the partitions and their file sizes
4. Used SP Flash Tool V.2.11.29.00 to "readback" (backup) each individual rom file (preloader, uboot, bootimg, android, dsp, etc)
5. Confirmed the file sizes of each of the above files to what MTKRomStudio said the file size should be
6. Attempted to load these files into SP Flash Tool and get errors such as "partition too large, failed to load", or "partitions overlap".
7. I was able to open some of the partitions such as android, and usrdata but when attempting to flash I receive errors such as "dram error".
8. I was able to download an entire backup of all "readback" files for a different model phone, and each one of those files loaded fine and downloaded to my non-working phone.
9. Just to mention, my non-working phone was completely dead (no power up, no lights) before I flashed the random phone rom I found online, and now at least it powers up (lights up).
Anyone have any information? I have created a small visual representation of what I have been looking at and messing around with. Let me know!
Mt6573 phone flash help
Hi all, I need help. I used sp flash tool and flashed the original files to my phone. I then restarted the phone and it would not go past the blue android screen. I let se overnight and still no success. After that i flash the boot and still no progress. Finally i flashed the uboot and now it only lights up but no picture at all. I have used sp flash to try to flash the entire file system back to the mt6573 but it will not flash the recovery, android, or sec_ro files. Can anyone help?
CrimsonX said:
Hi all, I need help. I used sp flash tool and flashed the original files to my phone. I then restarted the phone and it would not go past the blue android screen. I let se overnight and still no success. After that i flash the boot and still no progress. Finally i flashed the uboot and now it only lights up but no picture at all. I have used sp flash to try to flash the entire file system back to the mt6573 but it will not flash the recovery, android, or sec_ro files. Can anyone help?
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Same problem here except I can't flash dsp and preloader
UPDATE : flash worked finaly.my phone is fixed
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Whistler011 said:
Same problem here except I can't flash dsp and preloader
UPDATE : flash worked finaly.my phone is fixed
Sent from my GT-P5110 using xda app-developers app
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Please share how you did it, i'm in the same position with a MT6573 phone that are stuck on boot, and wont accept the preloaderfile
nsxtas said:
Please share how you did it, i'm in the same position with a MT6573 phone that are stuck on boot, and wont accept the preloaderfile
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Same here.
Can somebody please post all the files .
I have an Alcatel one touch 918 not d/m/n
It`s the second phone that i have bricked.
Sharing it`s caring.
LeStonga said:
4. Used SP Flash Tool V.2.11.29.00 to "readback" (backup) each individual rom file (preloader, uboot, bootimg, android, dsp, etc)
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I'm using MTK6573 phone but could i know how do you start the "readback" using SP Flash. I'm not able to start it while holding VOL-UP button and connect the USB data cable into your phone. Are there any other methods to start it. Thanks for your help.
CM
Why don't you make a try with CyanogenMod?
LeStonga said:
Thanks for your response and suggestions. I will try to dish up a small tutorial with how far I can get in the backup/flashing process. I can check for an evo 4g rom and see what the specs are. The current rom I used i believe works, but doesnt have the video driver so the screen has no image. I believe each partition of ram has a set size so you can only flash a rom for the mt6573 chipset which will fit in the available space for each partition and also happens to contain the video, audio, bluetooth, etc drivers.
I have used SP Flash Tool and was able to backup all of the partitions of my working phone but the SP Flash Tool gives all sorts of errors when I try to load the files and flash them to my non-working phone.
The funny thing is that I downloaded files for a different phones rom and was able to flash those to the non-working phone, as mentioned in my previous post, which allows the phone to power on, but the phone doesnt work besides lighting up.
I know it is possible to make a backup of my good phone and flash that rom onto my non-working phone, I just dont know what I am doing wrong.
So far, this is what I have done . . .
1. Installed SDK tools for android
2. Obtained my scatter txt file by using command prompt
3. Used MTKRomStudio to open that file which tells me the addresses of all the partitions and their file sizes
4. Used SP Flash Tool V.2.11.29.00 to "readback" (backup) each individual rom file (preloader, uboot, bootimg, android, dsp, etc)
5. Confirmed the file sizes of each of the above files to what MTKRomStudio said the file size should be
6. Attempted to load these files into SP Flash Tool and get errors such as "partition too large, failed to load", or "partitions overlap".
7. I was able to open some of the partitions such as android, and usrdata but when attempting to flash I receive errors such as "dram error".
8. I was able to download an entire backup of all "readback" files for a different model phone, and each one of those files loaded fine and downloaded to my non-working phone.
9. Just to mention, my non-working phone was completely dead (no power up, no lights) before I flashed the random phone rom I found online, and now at least it powers up (lights up).
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I have a MT6575 phone and I have exactly your nr. 7 issue (BROM ERROR:S_DL_GET_DRAM_SETTING_FAIL(5054)). Were you able to get this working somehow? I am confident that the selected partitions are for this phone as I read them out myself. But flashing back won't work. Does anyone have any leads?
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I have a MT6575 phone and I have exactly your nr. 7 issue (BROM ERROR:S_DL_GET_DRAM_SETTING_FAIL(5054)). Were you able to get this working somehow? I am confident that the selected partitions are for this phone as I read them out myself. But flashing back won't work. Does anyone have any leads?
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If you have the correct files use the newest version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1982587
It is easy to mess things up if you try random files.
MTK 6577 and SP Flash Tool
I too am also having problems with the flash tool. I am trying to help a friend bring his chinese note 2 clone back to life. He somehow got CWM onto the phone and the custom recovery seems to be functioning properly, but I cant find any sort of ROM file to flash in recovery.
Now I am going back and trying to restore the phone to factory using the flash tool. Installed the VCOM drivers, then went to load the scatter file we obtained from the factory (Bro Tech) it says the scatter file is incorrect format?
My question is: are there any roms we could try to flash on this phone from CWM or do we have to use the Flash Tool? I'm hoping since CWM seems to be working that I can simply flash an acceptable rom with that instead of trying to find a scatter file.
Maybe someone can suggest some ROMs to try flashing with CWM. The phone is: Goophone N2 7100 I believe. Thanks for reading, I really want to help him resurrect this interesting piece of copyright infringement (the phone looks amazingly like a Note 2 till you get close to it)
Evita Carbonized
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DollarStrawz said:
I too am also having problems with the flash tool. I am trying to help a friend bring his chinese note 2 clone back to life. He somehow got CWM onto the phone and the custom recovery seems to be functioning properly, but I cant find any sort of ROM file to flash in recovery.
Now I am going back and trying to restore the phone to factory using the flash tool. Installed the VCOM drivers, then went to load the scatter file we obtained from the factory (Bro Tech) it says the scatter file is incorrect format?
My question is: are there any roms we could try to flash on this phone from CWM or do we have to use the Flash Tool? I'm hoping since CWM seems to be working that I can simply flash an acceptable rom with that instead of trying to find a scatter file.
Maybe someone can suggest some ROMs to try flashing with CWM. The phone is: Goophone N2 7100 I believe. Thanks for reading, I really want to help him resurrect this interesting piece of copyright infringement (the phone looks amazingly like a Note 2 till you get close to it)
Evita Carbonized
GTab 2 7 AOKP'd
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Create personalized file scatter for your device with MTK Droid. Here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2160490
[email protected] said:
Same here.
Can somebody please post all the files .
I have an Alcatel one touch 918 not d/m/n
It`s the second phone that i have bricked.
Sharing it`s caring.
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Have a alcatel 4033a Phone Got bricked and needs to be flash any help on that ..? plz i need help
Alecupid said:
Have a alcatel 4033a Phone Got bricked and needs to be flash any help on that ..? plz i need help
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hi, i've made a mistake.
I've installed an odex version from a modified recovery(with dalvick cache). Can anyone help me?
I exhausted everything by this point so im relying on this forum.
If anyone knows a way to install custom recovery on this phone or just some info in general would be appreciated..
Here's more detailed specs:
LG K8 (K350n)
SoC MediaTek MT6735
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T720
1.5GB Ram
Android 6.0
Help me xda , you're my only hope
Laitas said:
I exhausted everything by this point so im relying on this forum.
If anyone knows a way to install custom recovery on this phone or just some info in general would be appreciated..
Here's more detailed specs:
LG K8 (K350n)
SoC MediaTek MT6735
CPU Quad-core 1.3 GHz Cortex-A53
GPU Mali-T720
1.5GB Ram
Android 6.0
Help me xda , you're my only hope
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I don't have a solution for you, but I can tell you what I've tried (I have the K350N also) and what doesn't work, for me anyway, so that you don't have to waste a week trying them yourself and get extremely frustrated like I did.
You need a scatter file, so that tools for MTK chips can copy your phone's boot and recovery images. One for the MT6735 exists but is not for the K8 and won't work. Supposedly you can create your own by using block info given by MTK Droid Tools, and manually editing the scatter file, but even the latest version (2.5.3d) does not support the MT6735 and does not give the info needed.
SP Flash Tool needs correct address info (which is gotten from a scatter file), it doesn't seem to take it from your phone. Without it, you'd not be able to pull the correct parts which make up your boot.img and recovery.img, so it's useless without the exact scatter file for your phone (whether it's the same SoC or not).
If you can get Miracle Box to stay connected to your phone, you can try its "Read" function. That didn't work for me, even after dozens and dozens of tries and messing about with different drivers.
Your best bet is probably to try using ADB to get the block/address/size info of the internal partitions, and editing that into a scatter file. Also, apparently the K8 uses a "standard Android" header, not MTK header like older MediaTek chipsets do. (Not quite sure what it means, but knowing so will probably be useful).
That's what I plan to try anyways, and if I manage to do it, I'll post again.
Aerieana said:
I don't have a solution for you, but I can tell you what I've tried (I have the K350N also) and what doesn't work, for me anyway, so that you don't have to waste a week trying them yourself and get extremely frustrated like I did.
You need a scatter file, so that tools for MTK chips can copy your phone's boot and recovery images. One for the MT6735 exists but is not for the K8 and won't work. Supposedly you can create your own by using block info given by MTK Droid Tools, and manually editing the scatter file, but even the latest version (2.5.3d) does not support the MT6735 and does not give the info needed.
SP Flash Tool needs correct address info (which is gotten from a scatter file), it doesn't seem to take it from your phone. Without it, you'd not be able to pull the correct parts which make up your boot.img and recovery.img, so it's useless without the exact scatter file for your phone (whether it's the same SoC or not).
If you can get Miracle Box to stay connected to your phone, you can try its "Read" function. That didn't work for me, even after dozens and dozens of tries and messing about with different drivers.
Your best bet is probably to try using ADB to get the block/address/size info of the internal partitions, and editing that into a scatter file. Also, apparently the K8 uses a "standard Android" header, not MTK header like older MediaTek chipsets do. (Not quite sure what it means, but knowing so will probably be useful).
That's what I plan to try anyways, and if I manage to do it, I'll post again.
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Well i spend best part of this morning trying to a different aproach , i managed to find a ROM file (in kdz format, whitch woulve been useless for mtk tools anyway) whitch i extracted for a Recovery.img and tried to port the various recovieries with no awail for now. From what i've seen the filesystem inside the rom is a mess some of the files have the MTK headers others have the android ones and I'm trying to make this work entirely by trial and error.. If I'll manage to boot into the recovery I'll let you know. Wish me luck
Ok I managed to make a port from K10 that actually boots to recovery. I'll post updates as I work on it (all trial and error~)
Maybe you will get more luck than me. SuperSu fails to install somethign about failing to decompress ramdisk
Here is the Recovery : https://www.mediafire.com/?xopqenbvgrswgxm
I booted into it using fastboot boot xxx.img command from adb
As I am complete noob when it comes to android modding I'm surprised what I achieved thus far
Laitas said:
Maybe you will get more luck than me. SuperSu fails to install somethign about failing to decompress ramdisk
Here is the Recovery : https://www.mediafire.com/?xopqenbvgrswgxm
I booted into it using fastboot boot xxx.img command from adb
As I am complete noob when it comes to android modding I'm surprised what I achieved thus far
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what K8 do you have? MTK or Qualcomm Version?
Laitas said:
Maybe you will get more luck than me. SuperSu fails to install somethign about failing to decompress ramdisk
Here is the Recovery :
I booted into it using fastboot boot xxx.img command from adb
As I am complete noob when it comes to android modding I'm surprised what I achieved thus far
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how you extract the recovery img from the kdz? thanks.
tomi.gutierrez.i said:
how you extract the recovery img from the kdz? thanks.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600575
Was using this . At this point only thing left is to wait for SuperSU update as it doesnt work on K8 yet
Laitas said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2600575
Was using this . At this point only thing left is to wait for SuperSU update as it doesnt work on K8 yet
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i flash the image you give, and it cant mount system, so it cant flash supersu, the lg k10 have the same problem that this recovery (it might be for the port), so we have to wait a super su version for lg k10 and k8 and a functional TWRP
Laitas said:
Maybe you will get more luck than me. SuperSu fails to install somethign about failing to decompress ramdisk
Here is the Recovery : LINK
I booted into it using fastboot boot xxx.img command from adb
As I am complete noob when it comes to android modding I'm surprised what I achieved thus far
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Can you please show me how to install this recovery on my LG K8 (K350z)
and did you have any luck rooting this phone
all i want is Xposed installed and working but apparently i need root and recovery to install it
Yasser Da Silva said:
Can you please show me how to install this recovery on my LG K8 (K350z)
and did you have any luck rooting this phone
all i want is Xposed installed and working but apparently i need root and recovery to install it
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I need the same thing like you :c
I dont know how to root my LG K8 in order to install Xposed
Have u found a way to root a lg k8
Maveroik said:
I need the same thing like you :c
I dont know how to root my LG K8 in order to install Xposed
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Have u found a way to root a lg k8
Declan nalced said:
Have u found a way to root a lg k8
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Nope man :'c
Laitas said:
Maybe you will get more luck than me. SuperSu fails to install somethign about failing to decompress ramdisk
Here is the Recovery : xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I booted into it using fastboot boot xxx.img command from adb
As I am complete noob when it comes to android modding I'm surprised what I achieved thus far
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did u managed to unlock your bootloader? From the strategy of rooting HTC, LG also need a bootloader unlock before you having some privilege in flashing recovery... or rooting...
hackwilliam said:
did u managed to unlock your bootloader? From the strategy of rooting HTC, LG also need a bootloader unlock before you having some privilege in flashing recovery... or rooting...
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That was step 1 you have to go to fastboot form adb and unlock it from there
I've got the k8 us375 model today and its running 6.0 with an update waiting to install. I'm sure it won't matter much but I'm going to avoid updating anytime soon.
With little research into the device I'm reading people trying kingroot and getting stuck with a semi brick and error. From what I've read about marshmallow is the root needs to be accepted from the boot.img which also needs to be insecure.
So unlocking the bootloader is first.
Second is modifying the kernel and
Then recovery needs to be made so that superSu can be flashed.
I'm no expert but neither am i a newbie to this process, however I'm a little rusty. If anyone knows a better way to describe the processes needed please enlighten me. I'll be away from my PC till this weekend but have a laptop i can tinker with tonight. Until i completely understand what needs to be done I'll continue to do research. Thanks
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justlovejoy said:
If anyone knows a better way to describe the processes needed please enlighten me.
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I've been trying to root my k8 (k350n) - european version the last few weeks... so far i got:
(here i try to post a url i can't yet... you can find my topic on chinaphonearena - i describe everything there - search "lg k8 k350n twrp" on google - it will be the second result)
the twrp boots but i'm afraid it's not a perfect port so it migth not handling the partitions well... i mean when i try to install supersu i think it cannot find the boot.img (it seems to find but can't patch it).
The newest supersu supposed to patch the boot.img automatically so i believe the only thing we should manage to get a working twrp...
if you want to try i have to warn you that sometimes when i mess with the twrp i have to make a hard reset the get my phone working again. When you boot to the twrp it asks if you want to make your system writeable - you don't have to do that in order to install supersu - however if you allow twrp to make your system writeable you might lose data (i only lost data if i did a format in the twrp but only writeability doesnt clear data in my case...)
edit1:
so i found that supersu can only patch boot images compress by "gzip". The boot im. of our k8 is compress using "lz4" method. I also realized that my twrp works so far as the supersu tries to decompress the boot image... so
We either wait till supersu deals with lz4 or if we could somehow take (dump to pc) the boot image in fastboot "re"compress to gzip - flash back to the device - restart twrp (not boot to android yet - which obviously would not work), install supersu - restart to fastboot take the boot image "re"compress to lz4 and flash the patched boot.img back to the device.
well it's just an idea which actually stucks at dumping the image without root and who knows what other reasons...
or if we knew what tweaks needs to be done to the boot image and we could just make it on pc and flash it in fastboot (i have the stock boot image - i have the whole firmware actually)...
Any advice would be appriciated
Here we go guys...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/lg-k10/how-to/twrp-root-lg-k8-k350n-t3475807
I actually had to return it. It was brand new in the box but the imei was linked to a delinquent account and I couldnt activate it. I'm subscribed if anything.
Gentlemen,
What apk should I use to root with success a Caterpillar :laugh: CAT S31 running Android Nougat 7.1.2 ?
In a first step, I would like to throw away all the G***** ecosystem.
In second step, I also would like to replace Nougat by LineAgeOS.
As LineAgeOS doesn't provide a firmware img for this mobile, it is realistic to choose an image from another mobile using same CPU (snapdragon 210) and same GPU ( Adreno 304) ?
Thanks for your help
SolidSnake
Also interested...
As I can't create new Threads and this one fits totally my needs I would like to continue here.
I am trying to change the OS of a friends phone from his Android 7.1.2 to LineageOS. I was able to successfully change my OS to Lineage on my HTC U11 and some other phones,
but I just can't do anything with the CAT S31 and can't unlock the phone at all. Tried rooting it with KingRoot, RootKHP Pro, ZYKURoot, iRoot and many others.
And I guess that is the main reason I get the following error when I try to flash TWRP:
Code:
UNKNOWN:~$ fastboot flash recovery ~/Downloads/twrp.img
target reported max download size of 262144000 bytes
sending 'recovery' (46312 KB)...
OKAY [ 1.536s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote: unknown command)
finished. total time: 1.537s
Possibly working rooting method
I found this on another forum:
A set of software for obtaining ROOT privileges.
Driver_Qualcom_m.7z (9.27 MB) [link]
Enter HS QDSLoad 9008 mode from Vol + and Vol- off state and connect without releasing to USB
MiracleBox [link]
The Boot image is processed on the phone by the Magisk manager, then uploaded to the phone using Miracle again from the computer.
MagiskManager-v7.3.2.apk (2.71 MB) [link]
Just in case,
Backup firmware without / Data partition [link]
Attached files
XposedInstaller_3.1.5-Magisk.apk (2.96 MB) [link]
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But as I don't understand much of carriers on unlocking bootloaders and stuff, could anyone post more information about this method if anyone decides to follow it? That was from a user which says he got to root the phone and that's how they did it. Also the person doesn't talk about unlocking the bootloader, for example.
Just want to make sure it can be rooted before I buy it, because I won't buy a phone that can't be rooted and I'm having a hard time finding a good rugged phone that can be rooted...
EDIT: I've uploaded everything to a folder on my MediaFire account here: http://www.mediafire.com/folder/thqmkg68l2h2r. In case anyone tries this, please say here if it worked! Also, I can't link MiracleBox... They had a "special" version of it there and I think it's better for me to not link it... But search for MiracleBox on Google. You'll find it.
EDIT 2: I'm not into this anymore - from the moment I decided not to buy the phone (not too long after this comment). I'm leaving the link because people still download from it, so maybe it's useful. If it's not useful at all, someone please tell me and I'll delete it.
Wow... its really a tumbleweed here... i have decided not to purchase or use any smartphones whatsoever until it is possible to flash a ROM in this phone... but for some reason the developers are not interested and this is the only phone im interested in.. fml
dokha said:
Wow... its really a tumbleweed here... i have decided not to purchase or use any smartphones whatsoever until it is possible to flash a ROM in this phone... but for some reason the developers are not interested and this is the only phone im interested in.. fml
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If you really want that to happen, I think you should try another phone.... I'm done with CAT phones. Only the more expensive ones can be rooted with 100% certainty - because there are tutorials about that and not just people saying how they did it in a random post like the one I found (and not all models, I think) -, and I don't remember about ROM flashing (didn't get to that - can't buy them, anyways, too expensive).
Perhaps you could try Blackview? I'm going for them. In my case, BV9500 (not Pro or Plus - but Plus is out of question because there's no root, I think). I think from now on, I'll try to always buy a MediaTek powered phone. As long as you have a ROM and the scatter file, your phone possibly won't brick. SP Flash Tool will save you. As it did with me various times (and I did everything that wasn't supposed to be done and still always worked xD - I only read about what shouldn't be done months after changing phone and getting it to work always). BV9500 has a MediaTek chipset, and a forum has ROMs for it. In any case, even if they hadn't, I can generate my own with SP Flash Tool and have a copy of the stock ROM that came with it, so if I brick it, I can restore it completely. Root seemed to be also to be possible, so I chose it. Gonna buy it when I can.
Sum up, if you want to be possible to flash ROMs of a phone, I'd say go for MediaTek powered devices. I'll try not to go away from them again, as I did with my One Plus X (even though I can flash ROMs on it, but I still trust MediaTek with SP Flash Tool more than others, since my experience with it was "do whatever you want, you can't brick anyways" (and I never did haha)). Can't be completely sure that still happens on newer MediaTek chipsets, but I guess I'll find out by myself if I ever do such stupid things again (after reading, not sure I will haha).
EDIT: You might also want to try RockChip powered phones. I have a tablet with a chipset from them and it's possible to flash partitions with a tool like with MediaTek chipsets with SP Flash Tool. So I'd go for one of those 2. I guess I'll only go for devices where I can flash partitions whenever I want, without having to unlock the bootloader first (less safe as anyone can do whatever they want if they steal the phone, but at least I can't brick them).
Thank You!
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If you really want that to happen, I think you should try another phone.... I'm done with CAT phones. Only the more expensive ones can be rooted with 100% certainty - because there are tutorials about that and not just people saying how they did it in a random post like the one I found (and not all models, I think) -, and I don't remember about ROM flashing (didn't get to that - can't buy them, anyways, too expensive).
Perhaps you could try Blackview? I'm going for them. In my case, BV9500 (not Pro or Plus - but Plus is out of question because there's no root, I think). I think from now on, I'll try to always buy a MediaTek powered phone. As long as you have a ROM and the scatter file, your phone possibly won't brick. SP Flash Tool will save you. As it did with me various times (and I did everything that wasn't supposed to be done and still always worked xD - I only read about what shouldn't be done months after changing phone and getting it to work always). BV9500 has a MediaTek chipset, and a forum has ROMs for it. In any case, even if they hadn't, I can generate my own with MTK Droid Tool and have a copy of the stock ROM that came with it, so if I brick it, I can restore it completely. Root seemed to be also to be possible, so I chose it. Gonna buy it when I can.
Sum up, if you want to be possible to flash ROMs of a phone, I'd say go for MediaTek powered devices. I'll try not to go away from them again, as I did with my One Plus X (even though I can flash ROMs on it, but I still trust MediaTek with SP Flash Tool more than others, since my experience with it was "do whatever you want, you can't brick anyways" (and I never did haha). Can't be completely sure that still happens on newer MediaTek chipsets, but I guess I'll find out by myself if I ever do such stupid things again (after reading, not sure I will haha).
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Wow.. thanks for this info Ive never heard of Blackview, definatley going to check them out, :highfive: hopefully I can find a phone no larger than 4.7 inches.. any more than that its just cumbersome for me..
@solidsnake6 @DADi590 any update on it? I've found this:
Install Android 10 on Cat S31 | RootBox Tools
This method teaches you How to install Android 10 on Cat S31, and it's safe, secured and easy to apply update to your smartphone.
rootboxtools.com
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Cat S31 Root with SuperSU Using TWRP Recovery
On this page, we are going to share with you a guide on how to root your Cat S31 with SuperSU using TWRP or Custom Recovery.
www.mobilewithdrivers.com
kamolinkaaa said:
@solidsnake6 @DADi590 any update on it? I've found this:
Install Android 10 on Cat S31 | RootBox Tools
This method teaches you How to install Android 10 on Cat S31, and it's safe, secured and easy to apply update to your smartphone.
rootboxtools.com
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Cat S31 Root with SuperSU Using TWRP Recovery
On this page, we are going to share with you a guide on how to root your Cat S31 with SuperSU using TWRP or Custom Recovery.
www.mobilewithdrivers.com
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Just to say here, I'm not into this anymore haha. I was until I decided not to buy the phone. But I still left the link in case anyone would be interested in whatever I have there which I don't remember (and various seem to be interested, so I'm leaving it there).
That is FAKE. Do not install the APK, it is a program for you to download games and programs.
I suspect i have foolishly tried to root my Alcatel A2 xl, as I''ve never done it before and it looks unconventional, and it's now stuck in boot loop. I can hold volume up and power and get to select boot mode, but recovery freezes the screen and selecting normal triggers the boot loop. Fastboot works still.
It was all working fine, I'd set up adb and a couple drivers, then followed some guide here to install Clockwork Recovery by flashing it via adb. I did that, and can't do anything sense - i read somewhere else i should have wiped data first, could this have been it?
Any help on how to recover enormously appreciated. At this point i've tried the official Alcatel tool to reset a stock rom and it can't detect the phone correctly, and that's it. I dont want to go trying to flash another recovery or custom ROM on yet as im uncertain what went wrong.
Also just want to say thanks in advance, and thanks for the whole site, it's the only reliable looking place i could find for android advice , i mean im sure you know that.
Try this
Lewisly said:
I suspect i have foolishly tried to root my Alcatel A2 xl, as I''ve never done it before and it looks unconventional, and it's now stuck in boot loop. I can hold volume up and power and get to select boot mode, but recovery freezes the screen and selecting normal triggers the boot loop. Fastboot works still.
It was all working fine, I'd set up adb and a couple drivers, then followed some guide here to install Clockwork Recovery by flashing it via adb. I did that, and can't do anything sense - i read somewhere else i should have wiped data first, could this have been it?
Any help on how to recover enormously appreciated. At this point i've tried the official Alcatel tool to reset a stock rom and it can't detect the phone correctly, and that's it. I dont want to go trying to flash another recovery or custom ROM on yet as im uncertain what went wrong.
Also just want to say thanks in advance, and thanks for the whole site, it's the only reliable looking place i could find for android advice , i mean im sure you know that.
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Hi there,
I am not sure if this will work or not as ALCATEL is famous for making cheap smartphones however the number of ROMS out there are slim, I was wondering do you have the stock rom with you and are you able to connect your phone to your computer and can ADB detect it.
If your still able to boot into recovery you can uninstall root by wiping its memory completely.
And if your phone is able to get recognised by ADB I suggest you to reinstall the whole ROM
I have found a website which might help you to get the ROM
https://www.needrom.com/category/alcatel/
Hey thanks thanks. I can't boot into recovery frustratingly, but it can be recognised by adb.
I dont have a stock rom though so thanks for website - can you point me to the right ROM? There doesn't seem to be anything specific to the A2 XL model, but it has a MT8321 processor so does that mean any ROM for that would work? NEEDROM /tablet_captiva_pad_10_3g_plus_mt8321/
or the A2 XL also seems to have exactly the same processor as the Pixi 4, and both come with the 8050D tag-on which i have no idea what means. So would that be a better shout? NEEDROM /rom-stock-pixi-4-7-alcatel-9003a-telcel/
Lewisly said:
Hey thanks thanks. I can't boot into recovery frustratingly, but it can be recognised by adb.
I dont have a stock rom though so thanks for website - can you point me to the right ROM? There doesn't seem to be anything specific to the A2 XL model, but it has a MT8321 processor so does that mean any ROM for that would work? NEEDROM /tablet_captiva_pad_10_3g_plus_mt8321/
or the A2 XL also seems to have exactly the same processor as the Pixi 4, and both come with the 8050D tag-on which i have no idea what means. So would that be a better shout? NEEDROM /rom-stock-pixi-4-7-alcatel-9003a-telcel/
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Hi there,
sorry i was wrong, i didn't knew you were using an mtk processor
since its mtk you need to use sp flash tool
and it doesnt have the same processor as i searched the tag "8050D" it came up as a Snapdragon processor
However you can download SP-FLASH TOOL and look up the another alcatel phone matching the same description
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Hi there,
sorry i was wrong, i didn't knew you were using an mtk processor
since its mtk you need to use sp flash tool
and it doesnt have the same processor as i searched the tag "8050D" it came up as a Snapdragon processor
However you can download SP-FLASH TOOL and look up the another alcatel phone matching the same description
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Okay right i read all abot the SP FLASH TOOL but was unable to generate a scatter so 'd tried other options. There's a dl for a scatter for the Pixi 8050D which has the same MTK8321 processor so im going to try the tool with that and hope. Thanks for advice man
Lewisly said:
Okay right i read all abot the SP FLASH TOOL but was unable to generate a scatter so 'd tried other options. There's a dl for a scatter for the Pixi 8050D which has the same MTK8321 processor so im going to try the tool with that and hope. Thanks for advice man
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Yeah sure no problems
Looking to start a discussion on rooting the unlocked version.
I have tried the root for other variants for this phone and does not work
hi would love to see my k8+ rooted. i have the lmx210ulma version mtk and android 7.1.2.
There are recoveries for this phone and i have a full partition dump i nade today using salt on my ubuntu 18.04 machine. when i say full i mean something like 30-50 .img files pulled.
Any way. The problem on my end is booting into fastboot mode or rebooting to the bootloader. i have tried ADB, recovery and key combinations with out ever getting there. I can however get the phone to download into recovery download mode just fine.
any help would be appreciated
https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...atek-armv8-t3922213/post79626434#post79626434
Duhjoker said:
hi would love to see my k8+ rooted. i have the lmx210ulma version mtk and android 7.1.2.
There are recoveries for this phone and i have a full partition dump i nade today using salt on my ubuntu 18.04 machine. when i say full i mean something like 30-50 .img files pulled.
Any way. The problem on my end is booting into fastboot mode or rebooting to the bootloader. i have tried ADB, recovery and key combinations with out ever getting there. I can however get the phone to download into recovery download mode just fine.
any help would be appreciated
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We are now in this forum. Why some dork mod moves these too early?
Why here, why not to the K8 forums instead?
The link I posted should work with your device...
Just got told to go to the k8 forums because im really just trying to get the bootloader unlocked. Temp root is nice but my plans involve a recovery and a fully rooted phone. Im trhing to develop a way to compile apps and operating systems completely on the device but i need full access.
Im looking for firmware for LG K8 2018 X210ULMG. Where can i find it ?
go to google and type in "LG K8 + LMX210ULM stock rom" you will get at least five pages or more.
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go to google and type in "LG K8 + LMX210ULM stock rom" you will get at least five pages or more.
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I can't fin anywhere for X210ULMG. Try and when you will find paste here link because anywhere is this rom.
which android version do y0u have 9n your k8. I also need you to go to settings system software info and tell me the software versiion. And just for SandG no seriously, open up a terminal in terminal emulator and type getprop. im looking fir the value of
ro.lge.swversion_arb
to be of further assistance may i ask what exactly you are using it for? ie reflash stock fix brick or other. i can help you with the best plan of action and any other how to.
If you are still out there the ULMG and ULM are the same device. There is no ULMG stock rom. So you will need to flash your K8+ using the ULM firmware. If you are looking to roll back to get to the bootloader the lowest version you can find is a letter F version. None so far have an ARB value so happy flashing.
I myself own this device and its an easily rootable phone with bootloader unlock. Just flash the kdz with the lowest letter value then adb reboot bootloader and then in fastboot mode use fastboot oem unlock and your free to flash any cv1 device twrp recovery.img to the phone.
Just make sure to use either carliv image kitchen or android image studio to check and make sure that system, syatem.img, are both ext4 in recovery.fstab. System.img will probably be labled emmc which will cause failure to mount. Also cache and data as well. Firmware/modem should be labled as vfat. Just as if they were labled if you looked at original fstab.
To root just extract boot.img from kdz and patch using magisk and flash using fastboot flash boot boit.img then fastboot flash recovery recovery.img When booting into twrp first time flash no verity opt encrypt and make backup. Upon exiting make sure all parts are mounted or twrp loop will occur.
Duhjoker said:
If you are still out there the ULMG and ULM are the same device. There is no ULMG stock rom. So you will need to flash your K8+ using the ULM firmware. If you are looking to roll back to get to the bootloader the lowest version you can find is a letter F version. None so far have an ARB value so happy flashing.
I myself own this device and its an easily rootable phone with bootloader unlock. Just flash the kdz with the lowest letter value then adb reboot bootloader and then in fastboot mode use fastboot oem unlock and your free to flash any cv1 device twrp recovery.img to the phone.
Just make sure to use either carliv image kitchen or android image studio to check and make sure that system, syatem.img, are both ext4 in recovery.fstab. System.img will probably be labled emmc which will cause failure to mount. Also cache and data as well. Firmware/modem should be labled as vfat. Just as if they were labled if you looked at original fstab.
To root just extract boot.img from kdz and patch using magisk and flash using fastboot flash boot boit.img then fastboot flash recovery recovery.img When booting into twrp first time flash no verity opt encrypt and make backup. Upon exiting make sure all parts are mounted or twrp loop will occur.
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I have problem because one month ago I flashed My K8 ULMG with kdz for Aristo 2 . I downloaded the software from Aristo 2 and made Brick through it.
Now it doesn't turn on, gives no sign of life, nothing. When connected to a laptop, the computer can only see Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008.
Do you know solution for it ?
There are two versions of the k8+ a qualcomm version and an mtk version. Did you read my post after your last reply. I was trying to help you determine that sort 0f thing.
As for a fix.... no as of currently there is no fix for either the qc or mtk versions once bricked. i am working on possible solutions but those are not going to be any time soon.
Your best bet at this point is to look for a used and damaged phone and replace the board in your phone with a different board. Find a k8+ lm-x210ulm or an aristo 2 board. They are cheap around $20 us and can be found with broken screens. They have no arb values so can be flashed and downgraded to get the boot loader unlocked and reflashed and upgraded after with guidance.
Dont feel to bad it happens. I have 4 boards that are trash but im still gonna try to unbrick them. But please what ever you do dont do it with out guidance. pm if you need and ill help.
Duhjoker said:
There are two versions of the k8+ a qualcomm version and an mtk version. Did you read my post after your last reply. I was trying to help you determine that sort 0f thing.
As for a fix.... no as of currently there is no fix for either the qc or mtk versions once bricked. i am working on possible solutions but those are not going to be any time soon.
Your best bet at this point is to look for a used and damaged phone and replace the board in your phone with a different board. Find a k8+ lm-x210ulm or an aristo 2 board. They are cheap around $20 us and can be found with broken screens. They have no arb values so can be flashed and downgraded to get the boot loader unlocked and reflashed and upgraded after with guidance.
Dont feel to bad it happens. I have 4 boards that are trash but im still gonna try to unbrick them. But please what ever you do dont do it with out guidance. pm if you need and ill help.
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Did you found some method for unbrick this phone without motherboard change ?