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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?
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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?
e-lime said:
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?
Just bought PAP 5044. Fantastic phone. Anyone have any ideas for rooting this phone, installing cwm???
Use Framaroot 1.6 (Boromir exploit) for rooting. It's pretty much "one click" stuff and works like a charm. Now, as for cwm, I still haven't found the solution. I just managed to boot to the stock recovery but none of the commands are working so no use there.
arsenique said:
Use Framaroot 1.6 ...stock recovery ...
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Yeah framaroot works awesome. Stock recovery works too. Commands are little funny. Entering everything ith volume up, volume down is for down
Finally got CWM working. The procedure of installing is fairly simple but I had to browse through few czech and russian forums to get the recovery.img.
This procedure doesn't need PC at all. Everything is done on your phone. Just follow these few simple steps.
1. First of all, you should be rooted. If not, use Framaroot to do that (fairly simple to do and pretty much "one click" stuff)
2. Next, install MobileUncle MTK Tools (available here )
3. Now, download the attached recovery.img and transfer it to the root of your SD card.
4. Open MobileUncle and grant root permission if asked.
5. Once it is open, choose "recovery update" on the main screen.
6. You should be able to see your recovery.img first on the list. Below are some other recovery images found online but DO NOT chose those.
7. When tapped your recovery.img it will ask "use recovery file: recovery.img (5620Kb)?" - tap Yes.
8. Within seconds, it is flashed and it will ask if you want to reboot to recovery... choose Yes.
9. That's it. You have fully functional CWM
Now, if you want to backup your device in CWM please note that the backup folder may grow pretty large if you are using SD Ext (which is pretty much a must with this device) so make sure that you have enough space on your SD card before you perform backup.
P.S. browsing through the czech and russian forums, I've found couple of pretty functional ROMs (there are few MIUI ports and one Xperia C port). I'm going to test those in the next couple of days and if it works, I'll share it here.
Cheers.
Disclaimer: I am NOT a developer! I am NOT responsible if you brick your device or if anything goes wrong!
Any new custom roms for this device? Cant find anything out there about custom roms for this phone...
Puritanicall said:
Any new custom roms for this device? Cant find anything out there about custom roms for this phone...
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Okay so i found this xperia ported miui rom for Prestigio 5044 and it works great . I would send a link but it's my first post here and I can't post outside links, just search google for "COLLECTION OF MIUI PORTED ROMS FOR VARIOUS DEVICES" and the first one should be it.
Then scroll down until you see prestigio 5044 and download.
I would like to know if anyone has got some other roms for this device.
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Okay so i found this xperia ported miui rom for Prestigio 5044 and it works great . I would send a link but it's my first post here and I can't post outside links, just search google for "COLLECTION OF MIUI PORTED ROMS FOR VARIOUS DEVICES" and the first one should be it.
Then scroll down until you see prestigio 5044 and download.
I would like to know if anyone has got some other roms for this device.
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Dont wanna risk with flashin' roms for now. I installed xPosed framework and changed everything i could
any custom rom for prestigio 5044 great phine
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Check thread about Lava Iris 504q development, its a same phone..
Prestigio 5044DUO Development
Prestigio 5044DUO Development ( many roms )
androidpro.info/main/androidinsertion/prestigio5044/
pizzonia said:
Check thread about Lava Iris 504q development, its a same phone..
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Too bad we can't flash their roms.. Prestigio done something to the bootloader so we can't boot their kernel properly. Probably by flashing Lava's uboot, we could do it. Effort oz for otg support that prestigio disabled
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Dear
Can you help me find original recovery image for Prestigio 5044 DUO? I would like to go back to original ROM but I can’t because I have CWM recovery instaled.
THX, BR
lolerpro8 said:
Too bad we can't flash their roms.. Prestigio done something to the bootloader so we can't boot their kernel properly. Probably by flashing Lava's uboot, we could do it. Effort oz for otg support that prestigio disabled
Sent from my PAP5044DUO using Tapatalk
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hi to all,
i just fuond this thread and i hope that someone can help me.. Pleasee!
My first post and it's already a mess.
I explain my situation shortly:
I download framaroot and installed the boromir expansion, by the way everything until i made a mess. I deliberately deleted the browser that is a core application. The result is that the phone is blocked. I didn't done anything else. Now my pc won't recognize the phone, or to be more specific is still recognized but only in recovery mode, and activating "install from adb". The pc recognizes it like an htc dream.. Thanks to adb, i've tried to install the firmware version, in hoping to come back to the stock version and undo, but the installlation is completed but the phone still not workin.
When i turn on the device it starts with boot animation logos and then SOME it's not working and the phone is blocked.
Can someone save me?
thanks to all for reading me, and losing your time. I made a mess.
villo88 said:
hi to all,
i just fuond this thread and i hope that someone can help me.. Pleasee!
My first post and it's already a mess.
I explain my situation shortly:
I download framaroot and installed the boromir expansion, by the way everything until i made a mess. I deliberately deleted the browser that is a core application. The result is that the phone is blocked. I didn't done anything else. Now my pc won't recognize the phone, or to be more specific is still recognized but only in recovery mode, and activating "install from adb". The pc recognizes it like an htc dream.. Thanks to adb, i've tried to install the firmware version, in hoping to come back to the stock version and undo, but the installlation is completed but the phone still not workin.
When i turn on the device it starts with boot animation logos and then SOME it's not working and the phone is blocked.
Can someone save me?
thanks to all for reading me, and losing your time. I made a mess.
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Flash custom recovery trough spft then flash some modified rom
lolerpro8 said:
Flash custom recovery trough spft then flash some modified rom
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where i can find custom recovery and custom firmware?
can u please suggest me somenthing?
I also found driver so that spft can recognize my phone, but i don't know which one is correct and working properly.
By experience, the driver is called "mtk usb vcom port" or "usb preloader 65xx"???
Then i don't know how to use spft, it's my first time, and custom rom don't know what to choose
villo88 said:
where i can find custom recovery and custom firmware?
can u please suggest me somenthing?
I also found driver so that spft can recognize my phone, but i don't know which one is correct and working properly.
By experience, the driver is called "mtk usb vcom port" or "usb preloader 65xx"???
Then i don't know how to use spft, it's my first time, and custom rom don't know what to choose
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Everything you need can be found here http://androidpro.info/main/androidinsertion/prestigio5044/ . To get to meta mode you need to compliantly turn off your device and connect it to the computer( with battery still inside)
lolerpro8 said:
Everything you need can be found here . To get to meta mode you need to compliantly turn off your device and connect it to the computer( with battery still inside)
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I tried different version without flashing them, only by installing the zip, and i would like to install the last prestigio version, or a clean version with just root..
Is it possibile?
By the way everything seems to work with these custom roms, but not the phone itself, i have the broadband and imei, but it doesn't recognize the sim cards, to be more specific the IMSI number.
villo88 said:
I tried different version without flashing them, only by installing the zip, and i would like to install the last prestigio version, or a clean version with just root..
Is it possibile?
By the way everything seems to work with these custom roms, but not the phone itself, i have the broadband and imei, but it doesn't recognize the sim cards, to be more specific the IMSI number.
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All the stock versions from the site are down. You need to get some othernrom. I prefer either miui or coloros. As for the other thing, if it doesnt work after flash its hardware related
lolerpro8 said:
All the stock versions from the site are down. You need to get some othernrom. I prefer either miui or coloros. As for the other thing, if it doesnt work after flash its hardware related
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Yep indeed, infact i put again imei and now it's working, but the only thing i don't know which value to set in at for second sim. It's always hard! To me is a factory problem.
I've installed the bean version instead. It's working, i love it but i don't know exactly how to install\update xposed framework and gravity box tools. When u install, it magically appears on ur sd card a folder called "xposed disabled". It's still not working.
I would like to change columns in UI system.
villo88 said:
Yep indeed, infact i put again imei and now it's working, but the only thing i don't know which value to set in at for second sim. It's always hard! To me is a factory problem.
I've installed the bean version instead. It's working, i love it but i don't know exactly how to install\update xposed framework and gravity box tools. When u install, it magically appears on ur sd card a folder called "xposed disabled". It's still not working.
I would like to change columns in UI system.
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Dude i cant help you with everything search before posting.
Greetings fellow XDA Users,
Let me get right to the point. A week ago my Cubot One arrived which I ordered from dealxtreme. Eveything was fine and I was very happy with the phone.
But 3 days ago I tried to change the resolution of the screen with an app from the Play Store and of course I did not backup my rom a really stupid thing to do on my part.
Now my Cubot One is soft bricked I think as it only boots to the android logo and that's it. I can still access the recovery menu but unfortunately I only have the stock recovery.
I have tried like literaly everything to unbrick my phone but nothing has worked so far. I tried to use the Cubot One T card upgrade and install it from an SD card but it fails with an MBR related error I think. I have tried to flash an older ROM I think V0.3 throught SP Flash Tools. I tried to only flash the CWM recovery through SP Flash tools again but that didn't work either. I tried to install custom roms through the ADB sideload ability of the stock recovery but nothing seems to work.
Is there any way I can repair my phone? Is it possible for someone that has recently baught a Cubot One running the V0.7 rom to do a backup and send it to me and instruct me how to install it? I would really appreciate any help.
I just want you to know that I am opening this thread as a last resort I have tried everything I have even tried the MTK Tools software but It doesn't recognize my phone possibly because It doesn't boot or I have lost the root and usb debugging previleges.
Can someone please give me a backup of the V0.7 ROM? I think that that is my last chance to save the phone.
Thanks in Advance.
VagProt said:
Greetings fellow XDA Users,
Let me get right to the point. A week ago my Cubot One arrived which I ordered from dealxtreme. Eveything was fine and I was very happy with the phone.
But 3 days ago I tried to change the resolution of the screen with an app from the Play Store and of course I did not backup my rom a really stupid thing to do on my part.
Now my Cubot One is soft bricked I think as it only boots to the android logo and that's it. I can still access the recovery menu but unfortunately I only have the stock recovery.
I have tried like literaly everything to unbrick my phone but nothing has worked so far. I tried to use the Cubot One T card upgrade and install it from an SD card but it fails with an MBR related error I think. I have tried to flash an older ROM I think V0.3 throught SP Flash Tools. I tried to only flash the CWM recovery through SP Flash tools again but that didn't work either. I tried to install custom roms through the ADB sideload ability of the stock recovery but nothing seems to work.
Is there any way I can repair my phone? Is it possible for someone that has recently baught a Cubot One running the V0.7 rom to do a backup and send it to me and instruct me how to install it? I would really appreciate any help.
I just want you to know that I am opening this thread as a last resort I have tried everything I have even tried the MTK Tools software but It doesn't recognize my phone possibly because It doesn't boot or I have lost the root and usb debugging previleges.
Can someone please give me a backup of the V0.7 ROM? I think that that is my last chance to save the phone.
Thanks in Advance.
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I really don't want to spam but I really need some help the phone is brand new I can't just leave it like this. Thanks!
No help at all? Nice community... I am just supposed to throw the phone away.
Did you tried this rom?
Hello, i found this firmware in needrom page.
Check it!
www_needrom_com/mobile/cubot-one-turbo/
change _ with .
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.
Sent from my LGUS375 using Tapatalk
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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...)
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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.
Hi. I just purchased the new flex 11 from BB NS-P11A100. It appears to have the exact same processor, chip, and GPU as another tablet I have used before. The Lenovo Tab3 8. The only difference I can see is the emmc size (Lenovo 16Gb & Insignia 32Gb respectively) and the screen sizes. The processor is the same however limited to 1Ghz on the Lenovo whereas I believe the 1.3Ghz is the base CPU speed (I think the European version of the Lenovo came with a 1.3Ghz speed). So out of curiosity would the finished Lenovo's TWRP recovery work on the Insignia? Just a thought. Also, in case of brick could you use the Lenovo's firmware to flash it (after modding the scatter file of course). I'm just a noob to development but have no problem getting my hands dirty (I have 2 Lenovo's both broken but modified heavily) It's good to see another tablet with the 64bit processor setup. Makes it so the 1Gb of RAM don't look so bad. Thanks in advance for any info provided.
i'm guessing this hasn't peaked interest yet? i just got this bad boy root would be awesome
So did any of you who have this tablet figure anything out?
I was walking down the street with my tablet and accidentally stumbled into fastboot. Stay tuned
Fastboot Achieved Need Custom Recovery
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I was walking down the street with my tablet and accidentally stumbled into fastboot. Stay tuned
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Ya I was able to unlock the bootloader using the Fastboot Oem Unlock comand. I just havent gotten up the courage to try the twrp recovery I have that I used for my Lenovo. Seeing as i also cannot find a download to get the stock firmware or flash file to fix it if I encounter any bricks... If someone can rewrite the twrp for the lenovo tab3 8 to use the insignia's model number it should work seeing as they both use the same board and chipset. Any ideas from anyone?
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Ya I was able to unlock the bootloader using the Fastboot Oem Unlock comand. I just havent gotten up the courage to try the twrp recovery I have that I used for my Lenovo. Seeing as i also cannot find a download to get the stock firmware or flash file to fix it if I encounter any bricks... If someone can rewrite the twrp for the lenovo tab3 8 to use the insignia's model number it should work seeing as they both use the same board and chipset. Any ideas from anyone?
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link me up ill give it a shot
Anyone know how to get this thing in download mode? As soon as i get a boot.img i can build us twrp
Any progress on this yet?
any progress, this tablet makes me want to just blow it up. any ideas on rooting it?
Ok. I apologize for not being too active on this... Before when I tried to boot to the twrp recovery that belonged to the Lenovo Tab 4 8 (fastboot boot recovery twrp.img) it would always tell me there was no file by that name. The same thing happened to me when I attempted a different twrp than what was for my new Lenovo Tab 4 10. I found out that the bootloader simply does not allow the ability to boot to twrp. I got balsy and attempted to flash my new Lenovo (fastboot flash recovery tewp.img) instead of trying to boot to it. It worked. However would not boot to recovery but back to fastboot, and when I attempted a regular boot to the OS it replaced the bad twrp with the stock recovery. Tried maybe 5 diff twrp recoveries and it always fixed it. I haven't tried this with the insignia flexx 11 yet and I still have it up and going strong on stock. Maybey it will work and we can have twrp and root on the insignia. BTW. Has anyone seen or found a stock firmware for this device yet? Twrp would be cake it I can get a stock boot and recovery from it.
Alguien puede decirme si es posible hacer algo con las licencias estas?modificarla para root?o solo es una simple info?
Tofor said:
Hi. I just purchased the new flex 11 from BB NS-P11A100. It appears to have the exact same processor, chip, and GPU as another tablet I have used before. The Lenovo Tab3 8. The only difference I can see is the emmc size (Lenovo 16Gb & Insignia 32Gb respectively) and the screen sizes. The processor is the same however limited to 1Ghz on the Lenovo whereas I believe the 1.3Ghz is the base CPU speed (I think the European version of the Lenovo came with a 1.3Ghz speed). So out of curiosity would the finished Lenovo's TWRP recovery work on the Insignia? Just a thought. Also, in case of brick could you use the Lenovo's firmware to flash it (after modding the scatter file of course). I'm just a noob to development but have no problem getting my hands dirty (I have 2 Lenovo's both broken but modified heavily) It's good to see another tablet with the 64bit processor setup. Makes it so the 1Gb of RAM doesn't look so bad. Thanks in advance for any info provided.
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I have a temporary solution till I find a better way magisk 7.1 and MTK easy root I'm going to assume you have android nugat like mine and it has mtk processor like mine. Anyway you can find both of those downloads here on this site under apps if not let me know
First install mtk easy root then install magisk go back to easy root and install the app or manager what ever it prompts you to do then go to magisk it will prompt you for extra set up then reboot and go to mtk easy root click the boot button on the bottom of the screen after root success go to magisk and set it up poof you have root it takes a minute for mtk to root on its own so I hit the button instead of waiting but it
works till i can really root it
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Anyone know how to get this thing in download mode? As soon as i get a boot.img i can build us twrp
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Tofor said:
Fastboot Achieved Need Custom Recovery
Ya I was able to unlock the bootloader using the Fastboot Oem Unlock comand. I just havent gotten up the courage to try the twrp recovery I have that I used for my Lenovo. Seeing as i also cannot find a download to get the stock firmware or flash file to fix it if I encounter any bricks... If someone can rewrite the twrp for the lenovo tab3 8 to use the insignia's model number it should work seeing as they both use the same board and chipset. Any ideas from anyone?
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If you want to put that thing in download mode it power and volume down then you need a phone handy to translate the Chinese think it's the 3rd one down but I forgot I just use mtk fast root and majisk it works great on mine!
I am looking for a twrp for this tho any suggestions would be awesome!
MT8163__Insignia__NS-P10A8100__mid1023_ma__7.0__alps-mp-n0.mp102-V1.6_hcn8163.tb.wvl1.n_P14
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I finally found stock firmware
If I insert an SD card, I'm given a dialog box asking to confirm the switch between storage location from internal RAM to SD card, opening up all sorts of access. It gives me a full screen dialog that seems to bypass all of its walled in protections. With a Chrome apk on the SD card I can install it, run it, and download anything.
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Anyone know how to get this thing in download mode? As soon as i get a boot.img i can build us twrp
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<Raising my hand> I do. Please see my previous answer.
Power and volume down