Substratum on R1 HD - BLU R1 HD Themes, Apps, and Mods

Any suggestions on how to get Substratum or other theme engine working on our device? The only version I can get to work consistently is v12.
V17 sorta works if you dirty flash, but not a clean install. No luck with ZenUI rom either.
After some testing by myself and others, Substratum does work in Legacy mode on V12 with no modification.
In order to get it working properly on V17 I recommend the following:
Flash the permissive boot.img provide by @vampirefo
Issue the adb remount command via pc
Create the 'overlay' folder in /system/vendor either via adb shell or root file manager
Copy the 'aopt' and 'aapt' file from /data/data/projekt.substratum/files into /system/bin either via adb shell or root file manager
Clear theme cache in Substratum if themes are not applying. Reboot. Attempt to apply theme again.
This works for me using Orange Kitten Pro, Swift Black, Swift Dark, The Kittens, Navigate and Navbars themes.
Thanks to @vampirefo and @keredini for their assistance.

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exjinn said:
Any suggestions on how to get Substratum or other theme engine working on 6.6?
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By "Modified 6.6" do you mean the one without Amazon bloatware from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/r1-hd/development/prime-stock-rom-6-5-flashed-via-twrp-t3455532)? And is your phone rooted?

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Unscedeo said:
By "Modified 6.6" do you mean the one without Amazon bloatware from this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/r1-hd/development/prime-stock-rom-6-5-flashed-via-twrp-t3455532)? And is your phone rooted?
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Yes to both those questions.

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Substratum for Blu R1 HD
exjinn said:
Yes to both those questions.
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Yes, there is in fact a way to get Substratum working on your R1 HD.
1. Get the Substratum app from the Google Play Store
2. Launch the application, and give it superuser access
3. Download anything you want!
Important:
There is a bug though with Substratum on the R1 HD. If you do download a theme that changes your whole System UI (not just the navbars), your power menu will not open. The phone will just restart once you turn the screen off. To fix this I have installed NeoPowerMenu using the Xposed Module. If you don't have Xposed, you should look into getting it. If you don't want to get it, you can just look for other alternate menus on the Play Store.
Hope it helps!

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Ive gotten it to work on the non-prime but not prime. Applying the theme fails

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exjinn said:
Ive gotten it to work on the non-prime but not prime. Applying the theme fails
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Hmm, that's interesting. I had the Prime version and had gotten it to work on that. What does it say when you try to apply the theme?

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I get an error stating:
Theme compilation has completed
An error has occurred during overlay installation.
Gave up on 6.6 went back to OEM, everything works.

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I managed to get substratum working on v17 by creating a directory named overlay in /system/vendor/
Edit only temporary success, unable to change themes.

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After flashing a permissive boot.img, I am able to successfully install and change some themes in Substratum.

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cyanix-tech said:
After flashing a permissive boot.img, I am able to successfully install and change some themes in Substratum.
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Where/how I can find/make a permissive boot.img?

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Alex19Gam said:
Where/how I can find/make a permissive boot.img?
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Read this post

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cyanix-tech said:
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Didn't work for me I checked in adb after flashing and it says Permissive, so what can i do?
I already installed busybox, the Adway works but the layers/substratum don't work

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Hmmm. Have created the directory /system/vendor/overlay? Have you tried adb remount?
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cyanix-tech said:
Hmmm. Have created the directory /system/vendor/overlay? Have you tried adb remount?
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Yes, I did all of that, I only can do r/w folders of system with the app Root Essentials, there I created the folder "overlay", and i tried "adb remount", it says success, but still with that I can't install themes

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Alex19Gam said:
Yes, I did all of that, I only can do r/w folders of system with the app Root Essentials, there I created the folder "overlay", and i tried "adb remount", it says success, but still with that I can't install themes
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If you already have busybox setup this suggestion might not get you anywhere. But try to replace the toolbox binary. I made recovery flash able package for it.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=70020045&postcount=1777
Try the v12-toolbox one.

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I can't recommend that as I use BusyBox.

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Well I will try, but I think I will back to v12 because the battery performance is much better, thanks for the help

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Alex19Gam said:
Where/how I can find/make a permissive boot.img?
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There is a link in Vampirefo's post here
Note that for some reason i couldn't use fastboot and flash it, i had to use Flashify to do so. But after that I could use Substratum (with a few other steps to get it running).

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keredini said:
There is a link in Vampirefo's post here
Note that for some reason i couldn't use fastboot and flash it, i had to use Flashify to do so. But after that I could use Substratum (with a few other steps to get it running).
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What were your other steps?

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I do believe you need to do more than just put busybox binary into xbin. It needs to be linked to be useful. Easiest way to do it is with the busybox app from play store. Then from in the app select install. Then that should all work.
http://android.wonderhowto.com/how-to/android-basics-install-busybox-commands-0161945/