Hi XDA. I'm looking for help here, because i have't found anything like i need in many researches that i made. I have a qualcomm based phone that is comercialized only in my country; it's based on ZTE parts but it is sold over a brand called Vtelca.
There's litteraly any official way to flash this phone neither than an official firmware. The only thing that one can find are custom roms that are made by local coockers, based on system dumps of functional phones. There's a port of CWM that one can install in this phone over ADB. One can be able to flash CWM when the phone is operative, but if the phone has a soft brick, one can just do anything.
Theres no fastboot in this device, so one can't flash images over there, but there is a way to connect the phone that mounts all of its partitions (litteraly all of them, including the recovery one). Only linux can obviously read all of this partitions because of the filesystems, and here is my question:
Is there a way to write an image into a partition?
My theory is that if i know which of the partitions corresponds to android recovery, i 'should' be able to write the recovery image into it. Right?
Thank you in advance, even if there's no way to do this.
Hi. I just want to ask about TWRP recovery that is Compatible with my Phone :
Starmabile PLAY Click
Android 5.1 Lollipop
Spreadtrum SC7731
4.5"
Quadcore
Anyone with a Phone with same specs as mine that is using A TWRP ?
Please help. I wanna try yours.
Cant find on google with the same specs with my phone with twrp working.
I have tried those TWRP on google but none of them works. All of them take me Only to the Bootlogo. Only thing i know as of now is i have to port twrp to my stock recovery or to my phone.
Anyone please help.
maucerezo said:
Hi. I just want to ask about TWRP recovery that is Compatible with my Phone :
Starmabile PLAY Click
Android 5.1 Lollipop
Spreadtrum SC7731
4.5"
Quadcore
Anyone with a Phone with same specs as mine that is using A TWRP ?
Please help. I wanna try yours.
Cant find on google with the same specs with my phone with twrp working.
I have tried those TWRP on google but none of them works. All of them take me Only to the Bootlogo. Only thing i know as of now is i have to port twrp to my stock recovery or to my phone.
Anyone please help.
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Hi Bro,
i have sc7731c (karbonn titanium 3D Plex ) device too. and i have tried many available img but none of them worked this would be because these devices are new and there no suitable recovery available simply because people have not made any till now..
There is many programs that allows u to create a new custom recovery if there is no recovery is available for your device try to goggle it.
On windows, philz magic touch recovery tool, android kitchen recovery image unpacker and so on.
Can i make you custom recovery using your stock image if you're too lazy
as i said above i have been trying to flash online available recoveries and accidentally flashed my stock u could help me out this
can u provide me you stock recovery image file ?
@Maucurezo
Hey dude! Im a pinoy. Im running with my STARMOBILE PLAY CLICK. As same as yours. Im running on the same Spreadtrum SC7731C and I flashed a Custom Recovery but it would only bring me to bootload. I kept finding solutions to get my Stock recovery but failed. We have the same Problem. I need the Custom recovery too. Help us admins
You can try and do it yourself. Porting TWRP and CWM to a new device. You'll need the stock rom for your device or simply make an image "dump" of the system files (boot.img, etc) via adb. Goodluck.
TWRP for sc7731c hope it helps
hi all a have a sc7731c phone on android 6.0 and i was able to install twrp on my device
it all started when i found a stock rom on the web (Google your device for stock - rom or - firmware)
once i had the rom i started searching for a way to extract the stock recovery from the rom
and i found this tool SPD_Upgrade_Tool_R4.0.0001 using this tool i extracted my stock
recovery from the ROM ( recovery.img ) , first stage complete i had a stock recovery
taken from a rom for my phone - brand and model must be right on the stock
firmware/rom or you risk damaging you phone (DO NOT CHEAT PLZ)
ps:wen you unpack the firmware/rom you should get a .pac file
ps:finding my stock rom took me several days of search.
now for STAGE 2 i had a stock recovery a needed to change it
for twrp another few days of search i came across a site
called hovatek here i found a tool to port (change) the
stock recovery to boot the twrp recovery the tool name is
[Hovatek] Spreadtrum (SPD) Auto TWRP Recovery Porter V1.0 by Team Hovatek (x86)
i run my stock recovery with this tool the tool creates a modified recovery on the
output folder( a few kb bigger ) stage 2 done.
STAGE 3
1- a fully working ADB, for this your best option is android-studio
2-turn on USB debuging and OEM unlock in DEV options
3-name the new recovery file recovery.img
4-your device has to be in USB MTP mode
5-if ADB is properly installed and Windows has the correct android device
driver you should be able to use these commands using android-studio's ADB
command-adb devices
-if the device is detected a serial number apears
command-adb reboot bootloader
-the device reboots to a black screen with small white letters saying FASTBOOT mode
command-fastboot devices
-the device displays the serial number again
command-fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
- if all went well it will say successful
command-fastboot reboot
-dont remenber if it booted straight to twrp or if i had to use power + volume up
-by the way on my phone to get in the default recover its 1 second hold power
and then with the power pressed for 1 sec add volume up 3 sec and let go of both
any way it worked i hope it helps ppl with these sc7731c phones
i have twrp 3.0.0 fully working
tips: youtube vídeos on how to use SPD_Upgrade_Tool_R4.0.0001
the hovatek site has a great tutorial on how to use the recovery porter tool
the last part the ADB commands was a ***** as Windows did not install my device
correctly and this is crucial -install phone driver manualy/Google device/Google android device. good luck
ps: all merit goes to the developers of these tool, a great ty to them :highfive:
ps: at the start i did NOT have root, the success flashing the ported twrp recovery
was followed bi the installation of the magisk15.3.zip and voila twrp+root
any one help me i port twrp using adb but after i flash my twrp upside down on sc7731ceb it works fine but the twrp upside down any help me
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any one help me i port twrp using adb but after i flash my twrp upside down on sc7731ceb it works fine but the twrp upside down any help me
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humm,.. as far as i now adb does not port recovery image´s you mean you found an image for sc7731?? phone and there are at least 4 or 5 variations of the sc7731 board and you
flashed it on your phone, by shear luck you did not soft-brick or brick your phone and it actualy Works, :cyclops:
you need to search Google/xda/hovatek site for your brand and model´s stock recovery or even better your custom recovery
or as an alternative your stock ROM/FIRMWARE and then extract the stock recovery from ROM/FIRM port it and flash it
im prety shure someone out there has a phone like your´s and you can , when you find it download the stock recovery - the custom recovery - or the ROM/FIRMWARE file
the hovatek site has a great auto port tool all you need is your stock recovery follow the vídeo simple steps and flash it now that you have root just use
twrp oficial app to flash it ,se my tutorial above it will be easy once you have the stock recovery or rom/firmware
i have a 50 buck cheap phone wierd brand,it took me several days to find the stock rom/firmware once i did all worked just fine no strange stuff
hovetek site also has a lot of rom´s/firmware files for many brands and model´s , again search Google/xda/hovatek for your model + stock recovery or recovery.img, custom recovery.
good luck
i have stock recovery so i copy the recovery from my stock and i use carlivimg so i can unpack my recovery.img but i have really problem on upside down but i work fine i flash supersu on it now i have rooted my phone. my phone by the way is ding ding defi go SC7731ceb i use TWRP 3.0.2.0 it works fine but if you update the latest twrp you have problem on failed mount and .etc
ANY can help that upside down ??? thats my problem now on my recovery
but you can port recovery using fastboot
i commend
c:/adb>adb devices
adb>adb reboot bootleader
adb>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
thats i port my recovery on sc7731ceb
using pc
pauljack2 said:
i have stock recovery so i copy the recovery from my stock and i use carlivimg so i can unpack my recovery.img but i have really problem on upside down but i work fine i flash supersu on it now i have rooted my phone. my phone by the way is ding ding defi go SC7731ceb i use TWRP 3.0.2.0 it works fine but if you update the latest twrp you have problem on failed mount and .etc
ANY can help that upside down ??? thats my problem now on my recovery
but you can port recovery using fastboot
i commend
c:/adb>adb devices
adb>adb reboot bootleader
adb>fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
thats i port my recovery on sc7731ceb
using pc
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Go here https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-21669.html try and port again with this tool it worked fine for me.
Hello, recently I've used flashify, and I tried to flash a twrp exclusive file. When I flash it, my phones screen turns black and I cannot power on the phone. Can anyone please help me?
Its sounds like you have flashed the recovery incorrectly. Flashify provides flashing of recovery and boot. Most probably you have flashed recovery in boot mistakenly and thats the cause of your phone not booting up.
your device have a Mediatek helio p60 chip, which makes it possible to reflash things using sp flash tools but before that. You have to fetch stock boot.img for your device to make it work again. Just download the firmware for your device and extract boot.img from it and reflash using sp flash tools.
Make sure to have proper Preloader drivers installed in your system before going ahead otherwise it'll not detect your phone. And the phone must have to be in switched off state. After that load the scatter file in the tool which I believe will come with the firmware package. After loading the scatter you'll see a list of things that will be flashed in your device. Just check or uncheck the things you want to flash. I suggest you to flash both recovery and boot back to stock and it will be running like normal.
Good luck
Happy & safe flashing:fingers-crossed:
Hit thanks if I helped you.:laugh:
I'm having trouble with my Blackview p10000 pro android 8.1.0, it doesn't wanna boot, it gets stuck on blackview logo animation
After contacting blackview support team, they sent me 2 links with an SP mediatek tool for checksum and format bootloader and whatsoever and another file, a huge file of 1,23gb and i guess that's the full stock rom
What i am trying to do is to apply the full stock rom so i can fix the bootloader to finally make the phone reboot normaly.
I haven't made any backup of the phone now that it's too late, and i'm trying to avoid the Reset Factory option as i don't want to lose all the data i have on the phone...
so this is the tool i recieved and in terms of checksum and phone sophisticated operations i'm very little familiar
i cannot momentary send any external link to the Mediatek SP tool guide but i would be gladly send it via e-mail or in any other available method.
i would really appreciate any help on how to go through this with the tool and the full stock rom as how i need to apply it...
Thank you so much in advance
Custom ROMs are one of the best things about Android. One of the best things about the openness of the Android platform is that if you're unhappy with the stock OS, you can install one of many modified versions of Android (called ROMs) on your device. A new ROM can bring you the latest version of Android before your manufacturer does, or it can replace your manufacturer-modded version of Android with a clean, stock version. But with the introduction of the dynamic partition flashing Custom ROMs are a bit tricky. In this post, I will run you through the steps of flashing Custom ROMs on your Poco X3.
Pre-requisites:
Unlocked Bootloader
Custom Recovery
Note:- Always create a backup of your important files before flashing.
Steps:-
From MIUI to Custom ROM
Encrypted
Copy the Custom ROMs zip to your sdcard or your OTG flash drive.
Boot to the recovery.
Flash the required firmware mentioned for the ROM.
Reboot your recovery.
Flash the Custom ROM.
And then format data [**This will wipe your internal storage**]
Reboot (Flash magisk if you want root after the first boot)
Decrypted
Flash this decrypted vendor
Flash the custom rom
Format data and reboot
From Custom ROMs to Another Custom ROM
Encrypted
**Backup your internal storage, incase something gets wrong**
Remove your lockscreen password
Boot to the recovery
Wipe Data, Cache and Dalvik Cache
Flash Custom ROM
Reboot
** If the device bootloops Format Data **
Decrypted
*If your device is encrypted*
Flash the decrypted vendor
Flash the custom rom
Format data and reboot
*If your device is already decrypted*
Wipe data and cache
Flash rom
Reboot
Notes:-
For encrypted people
Always create a backup of your internal storage.
Format data while upgrading from one android version to another.
Downgrading firmware may also require data format
Moving from Gapps build to non-gapps build or vice versa also requires fata format
For decrypted people
You don't need to flash the decrypted vendor everytime unless you come from miui
The vendor will not work on miui
All credits to POCO X3 Developers & Custom ROM Community.
Regards,
Polvolt
You saved me. I had properly unlocked bootloader, flashed OrangeFox but then I did the wipes and also mistakely formated data, so I couldn't send files from PC to phone to flash the custom rom.
Guess I could've just used the usb otg at this point, but I reflashed MIUI with a script, and reflashed OrangeFox and now I'm good to go.
I thought current custom recoveries don't check for rollback protection (yet)?
It's probably safe to be flashing stock firmwares via custom recovery if you are sure you know what you're doing. But this guide seem to appeal to new comers. Should we suggest they stick to using Mi Flash tool for flashing stock firmwares as it has rollback protection checks?
Or am I just out of the loop and this is no longer the case with custom recoveries for surya/karna?
Thanks for the guide btw. Greatly appreciated.
I miss manually flashing each partition files via fastboot like when I was on my Nexus devices and my Essential PH-1. I have not seen a guide that recommends or even teaches us to flash partitions manually.
payas0 said:
I thought current custom recoveries don't check for rollback protection (yet)?
It's probably safe to be flashing stock firmwares via custom recovery if you are sure you know what you're doing. But this guide seem to appeal to new comers. Should we suggest they stick to using Mi Flash tool for flashing stock firmwares as it has rollback protection checks?
Or am I just out of the loop and this is no longer the case with custom recoveries for surya/karna?
Thanks for the guide btw. Greatly appreciated.
I miss manually flashing each partition files via fastboot like when I was on my Nexus devices and my Essential PH-1. I have not seen a guide that recommends or even teaches us to flash partitions manually.
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Yes it is safe to flash stock fw via custom recovery. ARB hasn't been implemented on surya yet.
Well manual flashing each partition using fastboot on surya is much more complicated. Dynamic partition work differently. In short one have to boot to fastboot than boot to fastbootd than you can flash rom
Are you sure it's not enabled? After running fastboot getvar anti, I get anti: 2 and I just bought the phone without doing any upgrades. Unless this alone doesn't mean that ARB is enabled?
Mckol said:
Are you sure it's not enabled? After running fastboot getvar anti, I get anti: 2 and I just bought the phone without doing any upgrades. Unless this alone doesn't mean that ARB is enabled?
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No only if you get "anti:4" itmeans ARB is enabled, otherwise feel free to downgrade via fastboot.
Kineceleran said:
No only if you get "anti:4" itmeans ARB is enabled, otherwise feel free to downgrade via fastboot.
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Seems you're wrong. This XDA article states other way:
"
How to find current rollback index
Reboot to fastboot mode
Enter the following command: fastboot getvar anti
If the output is blank, then anti-rollback has not yet been enabled. If you get a number in the output, then that’s your current rollback index."
Xiaomi's Anti-Rollback Protection Explained: How to avoid bricking your phone
All Xiaomi smartphones and tablets will have anti-rollback protection enabled. What is it and how do you avoid bricking your device because of it?
www.xda-developers.com
How about from MIUI Global to MIUI EU ? I've found a 12.0.7.0, not sure but it seems to be EU rom, right?
Hello
I'm new to Xiaomi phones! For the love of God someone tell me how do I flash roms on my poco x3 nfc Note ( I've been flashing roms for years but not Xiaomi phones ). What ever I flash it works but after I attempt to flash another rom files in sd card get corrupt and I format data that doesn't gonna do anything! So please someone tell me how do I flash roms on this phone. My phone is encrypted I was on MIUI global
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Hello
I'm new to Xiaomi phones! For the love of God someone tell me how do I flash roms on my poco x3 nfc Note ( I've been flashing roms for years but not Xiaomi phones ). What ever I flash it works but after I attempt to flash another rom files in sd card get corrupt and I format data that doesn't gonna do anything! So please someone tell me how do I flash roms on this phone. My phone is encrypted I was on MIUI global
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I suppose you do have already unlocked bootloader and installed recovery? if no, please do, if yes try this guide or read this post
I'm having trouble because I flashed the vendor and it does not work in my version (QJGMIXM) and 4g internet does not work. I need help to fix because I can't find original vendor file or return to MIUI. HELP!!!!!
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I'm having trouble because I flashed the vendor and it does not work in my version (QJGMIXM) and 4g internet does not work. I need help to fix because I can't find original vendor file or return to MIUI. HELP!!!!!
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Use any fastboot stock ROM and MiFlash tool to restore your phone...or flash any custom recovery and use it to flash any recovery stock ROM to restore your phone.
I have 6 days to wait for unlocking the device. I can't wait to get rid of the Mi UI mess and bloat. I haven't had to do a complicated (for me) phone flash process like this since a Motorola phone in 2014. I have a a few questions:
1- Do I need to add/install adb drivers to my WIN10 PC? I came across win adb drivers for the POCO in my search for Windows PC drivers. Which version of adb is needed for Win10? I currently have abd my laptop, but I can't determine the version.
2- Installing the recovery - I see the steps some have posted with TWRP versions, but I'm not really clear on this. Do I go to the folder with TWRP in it and then use a command prompt from there? TWRP or Orange Fox and what version? The posts are confusing.
3- I'd like to have the easiest rom flash for my first go at this phone. I would appreciate a recommendation for which rom might be the best one to start with. I will be want gapps as part of the process, but could flash afterwards if its better that way. Is Arrow OS or Havoc a good choice?
Sorry for all the questions.
Thanks
If i flash a newer Firmware (.7) over the decrypted vendor (.5), is my phone encrypted again?
Grusel said:
If i flash a newer Firmware (.7) over the decrypted vendor (.5), is my phone encrypted again?
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if you'll flash 12.0.7 vendor from this thread, then no
Is this the right way?
Flash the CustomRom and after flash format Data?
Not first format Data and than flash Customrom?
My plan after bootloader Wait time is flash the Miui Eu Rom.
What ist the right way?
trutta said:
Is this the right way?
Flash the CustomRom and after flash format Data?
Not first format Data and than flash Customrom?
My plan after bootloader Wait time is flash the Miui Eu Rom.
What ist the right way?
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Flashing ROM and Format data is the usual way....
I now. But the chronologie was another. First Format data, then flash Rom.
Usually in all my old device while flashing roms I have to wipe system data cache then I just flashed the rom, it's my first Xiaomi device I am confused as hell , should i never have to wipe system partition ? , Is flashing firmware necessary everytime ? Are there any risks associated with decrypted vendor ?please guide me I am not noob but these things are completely new to me
Device storage partition schemes have changed and are now dynamic, so previous procedures don't apply anymore. Closely follow your ROM developer instructions in order to avoid bricking your device.
Dynamic Partitions | Android Open Source Project
source.android.com
Brother, i have Karna (Indian) one with me. I got update to latest MIUI 12.0.8, after updating i unlocked the bootloader and flashed twrp, but it dint wrok, then had to flash OFox. RN i am on latest lineageOS 17.1. I am having network issues. Someone at the telegram group told me to flash the firmware along with the vendor of 12.0.5 MiUi as he also suffered the same kind of network issue i am having.
but the problem is i am unable to find the Vendor n firmware of 12.0.5. Can you please help me ?