Hi there
I just got a Xiaomi Redmi Note 4 Global Version (SD) and I’ve got a few simple questions to throw after having some ideas about what I would like to do with it and to sail a little bit through several threads around here.
First before start touching, I’d like to know how “easy” is to brick a device nowadays (particularly this device) by doing some things such as flashing different roms, recovery, fastboot, etc. Are they flashed independently? What procedures are considered the most dangerous ones when it comes to brick the phone? I’m inexperienced since I come from a device with a forever-locked bootloader and I didn’t try much. (I’ve already unlocked bootloader in the Xiaomi).
Also, I'd like to know if there is any simple one tap app to root the device. I’ve seen around here a tutorial to root through twrp installation, and I was wondering if there were something easier available (I haven’t found), that need not to install a custom recovery.Also I’d like to know if in case of following twrp method, ota updates would still be available.
Last, the reasons why I want to root the device are to uninstall/remove/disable some native apps and to grant access to some other, but especially to have access to Manual Mode in stock camera app mainly to use different exposure times, and other manual options. I’ve seen a Mod also on the site, but the problem is that it is only for Sony back camera sensor, I think. However I’ve checked, and my phone brings a Samsung sensor (s5k5e8). Any guidance about if it is possible to enjoy manual mode in this case?
That’s everything. Hope any can comment on. Thanks.
Sir I have taken redmi note 4 before one month and after updating miui 9 .
Now I am getting some problem on it
Suddenly some app not responding and closed after restarting it work properly
It happens many time
What should I do
Abhisek kumar said:
Sir I have taken redmi note 4 before one month and after updating miui 9 .
Now I am getting some problem on it
Suddenly some app not responding and closed after restarting it work properly
It happens many time
What should I do
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Hi mate. I think you should try opening a different thread.
That said, If I were you, I would try doing a reset to the device and doing a fresh install of all your apps.
cheers
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Hiya
I have an Alcatel Onetouch Pop C1 4015D (and for the record, I'm never buying this brand or similar junk again). I just got it un-bricked after a few months thanks to the online USB firmware updater. It's currently in pretty much its factory-default state again, preinstalled crapware and all.
What I'd like to do is install a custom ROM on it, to have a clean system I can actually enjoy owning, e.g. AOSP (if that is what I think it is: the basic, clean Android system). The problem is that I'm getting a little overwhelmed with information, tutorials linking to more tutorials, tutorials linking to downloads for which I have to "complete a survey" and such (abort abort abort), 2 different tutorials for the same thing stating different ADB commands, a few outright scams, etc etc etc. There's tons of information out there, but 90% of it seems wrong, irrelevant, device-specific or otherwise unusable. I've already spent hours on this and still haven't gotten anywhere.
I'd be very grateful if someone actually reliable could walk me through the entire, correct process, please. :fingers-crossed:
I'm just going to write down the bits and pieces of info I already have:
I've already rooted it with Framaroot; no problems there, superuser works.
I've found this site that lists several ROMs, presumably specifically for the C1, including the standard ROM and a cleaned version: tinyurl dot com/o24wqoe. The AOSP one strikes my fancy and is on my SD card already.
The same site says I can just put the provided ROMs on my SD and install them as updates via stock recovery, but I highly doubt that because I read everywhere you specifically can't do that. Sounds like fake advice to me.
I'm told I'd need to unlock my bootloader, but once in fastboot/bootloader mode none of the offered fastboot unlock commands really do anything. The "..." appears in my console and then nothing.
I've tried installing TWRP and CWM recoveries, but you know, "your device is not supported". There's this video of a C1 with a custom recovery (watch?v=_TGgXIp3fWM) and the comments claim it's CTRecovery, but I can't even find anything about that. I already submitted requests for a fix for my device to twrp and cwm half a year ago before I bricked this thing, and one person promised he was gonna make a build for me, but nothing came from any of that.
I think that's just about all the useful things I can extract from this whole mess of information I have...
Please help me make sense of this overload of info and device-specific shenanigans, and walk me through what seems to be such a simple process for everyone with a mainstream device?
For the record, I'm back down to barely being up-to-date on what is what anymore. I'm more than familiar enough with the theoretical side (bootloaders, partitions, bios, etc) because of my heavy computer usage (professional programmer), but once I get into Android I'm just lost. All that fancy terminology nobody seems to bother to explain, things that are taken for granted but aren't really obvious (like a guy demonstrating the installation of a custom ROM, and only mentioning 10 minutes into the excessively long video that you need to install a custom this and custom that first), so many alternative methods for the same thing that have different dependencies (unlocking bootloader vs custom recovery), etc... I don't know anymore what's device-specific and what isn't, who is telling the truth, what a given tutorial is actually making me achieve in the end, etc. TL;DR I'm lost, I'm not stupid but I'm not gonna pretend to know anything about Android's subsystems anymore at this point.
wow u wrote a full post and u speaked for me as have the same problem
Custom recover
i have made a recovery for the 4015x
and got one of the roms to work
(and a fixed stock recovery)
there are 6 versions of this phone and at least two different partition tables that ive seen
but getting it back from softbrick id use the "mobile upgrade s 4.1.1" from the alcatel site
alcatel,mobiles,all mobiles, pop c1, support and on the right hand side down load the program and follow
this forces a stock rom back on the phone (no root and all data wiped)
im waighting on the mods to let me post links so i can host the roms and recoverys
but if you want to mess with the roms your self you can edit the partition tables and get the roms to install.
id use the app "diskinfo" to check what partitions your system and data etc etc are useing and chainge this in the roms.
hope this helped
p.s. if not i could poss look at editing the aosp rom for you and host if for a bit
just waighting on beeing able to post links :s
Alcatel onetouch c1 pop
MY PHONES flash light or led light comes on but it wont come on at all jus remains black wont start ....i tried restoring rom but ,it was useless ,well i used the upgrade tool and there wasnt the right models for my phone what should i do now .oh and also my phone has no stock rom from nowhere on google im so in need of getting back my phone .how can i fix a bricked or whatever phone its a alcatel one touch pop c1 4015a
What is the online USB firmware updater? Mine is also bricked
Please, I hope somebody doesn't start berating me for not reading XDA posts about my Verizon Galaxy Note II more thoroughly. I have read many over recent years and been saved by quite a few during the hacking of my SCH-I605. Furthermore, I've been working in software development and network administration for decades now, so please don't somebody suggest I not mess with rooting my phone, custom recoveries, et cetera. I am here asking questions to make sure I don't hard brick my phone. Not asking resulted, about two months ago, in almost succeeding at Kobol's very interesting "short the tiny resistor" mode of getting out of a boot loop. I have a fully functioning phone now running rooted Kitkat and it's a sturdy platform, runs really great after I melted most of the bloatware and froze the rest (in case I ever need it), but I'd still like to move on to Lollipop and there is only one means for doing so which I know of (CyanogenMod), which I think may be problematic unless I am able to reflash an earlier ROM with unlocked bootloader.
The basic question I need verified is multi-part but basically boils down to this:
1. Is it or is it not true that if one is at baseband version I605VRUFND7, the bootloader is locked and one cannot install a custom recovery? (I think I read that in a few places anyhow.)
2. Is it or is it not possible to flash back to I605VRALJB from rooted I605VRUFND7?
3. Is flashing back to I605VRALJB, then installing TRWP or CWM, then using custom recovery to flash the latest CM12.x the best and only way to get from rooted Kitkat to rooted Lollipop?
4. I know there are some functional improvements in Lollipop but are they really that significant? I like the whole "material" thing which comes with Lollipop, but not at the price of loss of functionality.
Anyhow, here's my little sob story, which has a happy ending -- perhaps some of these details will elucidate my situation and lead to better answers:
I got tired of waiting around for Lollipop and had been unrooted by Kitkat for almost a year when I rooted again back in July 2015. I had wanted to go with the latest CyanogenMod Lollipop version, but ran into problems first using Heimdall (which refused to properly connect and write) and then trying Odin (against best advice post-root) to install a custom recovery (preferred TWRP but would go with CWM). Always led to that "unauthorized software" boot screen, which then necessitated reinstalling stock Kitkat and rerooting (I found the Ghettoroot .BAT file worked okay.) All was well, I was too busy to think about Lollipop but I woke up one morning about a month after I rooted Kitkat to find my Note II was stuck on red Verizon book splash-screen. Found a great article and YouTube showing all the keypress sequences which might exit a Note II from been stuck in boot -- but unfortunately not until after my further finagling just left me with a dead no-display-at-all device. I undertook Kobol's method, which requires partially reassembling the Note II's electronics outside its case and attempt to reboot with a very tiny screwdriver shorting a minute resistor on the motherboard right adjacent to the CPU -- I did in fact see the screen flash on briefly -- but I held my little screwdriver down too hard, accidentally gouged out the tiny resistor, and ended up buying a refurbished motherboard which very likely may have been scavenged from a stolen phone before going on sale on eBay. New motherboard worked great, I erased the original owner's info and data and proceeded to reinstall and root Kitkat. (Motherboard was already at I605VRUFND7) when I received it.
Anyhow, I also tried to install a custom recovery after I had new motherboard and rooted Kitkat. Using the TWRP Manager app put me back on the "unauthorized software" boot failure screen from Verizon, but I was able to Odin back Kitkat easily enough without losing my apps and configuration data. I believe I tried to use ROM Manager and Flashify as well -- but didn't find those apps very cooperative (though I didn't bother to upgrade to "pro" level on any of these in cast that matters). Unless I am mistaken, all these apps just place a zipped update file in the root of my internal SD card and then just hand it over to the Note II's stock recovery. I figured I just needed to stop and regroup later. That was a few weeks now.
Honestly, after the ordeal of having to replace a broken motherboard, and also -- after having looked at Verizon, Sprint and AT&T and the new Galaxy devices with no removable back and cracking the phone open necessary to replace the battery or upgrade the hidden microSD card and not liking that one would have to pay $600 over two years for a smartphone even further crippled at the cell carriers' requests -- it's even more important to me to be careful not to damage my Note II. (In fact, my Note II had turned out to be irreparable, I might even have even bought a refurbished unlocked Note 2 or 3 or 4 -- Samsung has made a real error on their latest generation of phones with their sealed backs and no user-accessible microSD reader.)
Yet, perhaps naively, I really do want to move on to Lollipop and even Marshmallow when CyanogenMod makes that available. So I really would appreciate it if you guys can verify whether what I intend to do (downgrading to pre-Kitkat in order to install custom recovery and then CM12.x) is workable? Or if there's a better solution? Or if I should just be content to have Kitkat rooted with all the fat cut off?
Many thanks. Hope my digression was not too long. Please don't anybody yell at me. XDA Developer's web forum is so full of very useful write-ups but unfortunately also some incorrect information and a lot of just plain useless posts -- it's really difficult sometimes to tell posts by guys who are actually experts from post by well-meaning folks with a lot of ideas but not so much expertise specific to SCH-I605 and VRUFND7. And I really need to get this right. (Granted that nobody on the forum can be held culpable should on mess up my phone based on their advice.)
Thanks once again!
Hello everyone! First of all thanks for reading through my post, I'm quite the newbie to this Android stuff so please bear with me.
So I ordered the Note 3 Pro online, and it arrived yesterday. I was very happy about the device, but not even a whole day went by and as I did a simple google search (maybe it was running an update on the background?) my phone crashed. It rebooted on it's own and ever since it just keeps getting stuck in the MI logo.
Sometimes the phone loads a bar and reboots without loading the whole way through. This morning it actually loaded all the way once. It made it into my initial screen but immediately rebooted.
Since then I have found that this is apparently a common issue. I was surprised to find that I couldn't go into recovery mode (just..why?) and that I would have to flash my phone. If someone would kindly answer them, I would love to ask just a few questions about this.
1) Is flashing the only/best approach to fixing this issue?
2) What tutorial do you guys recommend? Should I flash it with the locked bootloader, or should I try to get the official bootloader unlock thing from MI? I'm just looking for the most efficient way of getting my phone back, as I'm not one to fiddle that much with different ROMs and stuff.
As you can imagine having this issue on day 1 is a little exhasperating, and as a new comer to all this stuff, it's all abit overwhelming.
Thanks in advance for your time :highfive:
Flash the original MIUI ROM via EDL. It's described a 100 times here. If the problem persist it's hardware related
Hello! im quite a newbie so ill try and explain as best as i can;
I bought my Redmi 3 about a year ago, and some months later it started installing by itself random chinese apps and placing popup ads randomly, at first it wasnt such a big deal,
now its got to a point where i cannot use the phone.
Some weeks earlier i tried and reserch about the problem, and from what i got the rom is a custom version of the miui 7 from the seller or some stuff,
so i decided to try and flash the device but after doing all the procedures to get the permissions for the bootloader unlock, now when i try to use the miflashunlock
it gets stuck at 50% with the cannot verify account error, so ichecked all the guides in the world, checked all the settings on the mi account and the stuff from the phone settings to be correct,
but its stuck no matter of what at 50% and now the phone is basically unusable because of the random chinese ads/apps blocking the phone.
I dont really know what to do, spent last 3h trying to flash the device unsuccesfully. At this point id like to reset the phone but the recovery mode is in chinese and i have no clue on what to do.
Help pl0x?
PS: also im in the wrong sections of the forum, mine is a Redmi 3 not a Redmi note 3 sorry
Vaggiuz said:
Hello! im quite a newbie so ill try and explain as best as i can;
I bought my Redmi 3 about a year ago, and some months later it started installing by itself random chinese apps and placing popup ads randomly, at first it wasnt such a big deal,
now its got to a point where i cannot use the phone.
Some weeks earlier i tried and reserch about the problem, and from what i got the rom is a custom version of the miui 7 from the seller or some stuff,
so i decided to try and flash the device but after doing all the procedures to get the permissions for the bootloader unlock, now when i try to use the miflashunlock
it gets stuck at 50% with the cannot verify account error, so ichecked all the guides in the world, checked all the settings on the mi account and the stuff from the phone settings to be correct,
but its stuck no matter of what at 50% and now the phone is basically unusable because of the random chinese ads/apps blocking the phone.
I dont really know what to do, spent last 3h trying to flash the device unsuccesfully. At this point id like to reset the phone but the recovery mode is in chinese and i have no clue on what to do.
Help pl0x?
PS: also im in the wrong sections of the forum, mine is a Redmi 3 not a Redmi note 3 sorry
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It's easy basically just flash the fastboot Rom of global stable from en.miui.com using edl flash mode and then flash the rom using miflash ,make sure u have drivers installed u will be good to go note: the internal storage will be wiped so backup eveything
Hi all, I apologise for posting a subject which must have been hit on many times before. I have read and re-read various posts and searched the internet and already downloaded lots of software tools and roms already at this point, but, I am not closer to solving my problem and I wonder if any of you can provide any definite answers?!
I have a mi10 which suddenly went into boot loop. I had no idea this was a thing, or I would have backed up my data and unlocked the bootloader previously.
I need to know if it is possible to fix/replace the ROM without losing all of my data - mainly photos of precious memories I can never get back.
So far I have
-sorted my intel PC for adb.
-DLd miflash
-DLd mi unlock
-run platform tools
-have umi global image standing by
and I have mediatek boot unlocker and FRP flash on the sidelines
I am not a developer and while I'm very tech literate I only started learning about this stuff 2 days ago, so I have no real experience.
So far I cannot find a way to flash the phone and save my storage data, despite various sites and softwares telling me it is possible.
Please can someone put me out of my misery and let me know if there is a way to do this?
Sincere thanks!
Eight
Stop, stop...the blistering responses sharing insightful experience are too much...I cannot read this fast... please slow down guys
If you dont have working recovery or turned on usb debugging then no, you have to reflash and you will lose your data
Thanks for sharing your experience Dovahpig, I appreciate it!
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Eighth said:
Hi all, I apologise for posting a subject which must have been hit on many times before. I have read and re-read various posts and searched the internet and already downloaded lots of software tools and roms already at this point, but, I am not closer to solving my problem and I wonder if any of you can provide any definite answers?!
I have a mi10 which suddenly went into boot loop. I had no idea this was a thing, or I would have backed up my data and unlocked the bootloader previously.
I need to know if it is possible to fix/replace the ROM without losing all of my data - mainly photos of precious memories I can never get back.
So far I have
-sorted my intel PC for adb.
-DLd miflash
-DLd mi unlock
-run platform tools
-have umi global image standing by
and I have mediatek boot unlocker and FRP flash on the sidelines
I am not a developer and while I'm very tech literate I only started learning about this stuff 2 days ago, so I have no real experience.
So far I cannot find a way to flash the phone and save my storage data, despite various sites and softwares telling me it is possible.
Please can someone put me out of my misery and let me know if there is a way to do this?
Sincere thanks!
Eight
If you can unlock bootloader then flashing stock rom with mi flash "without wiping data" will be solution
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If you can't unlock bootloader by official way, there are some unofficial services also available on the internet
But not sure about mi 10