yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
check this

This is the new lot from Chernobyl.All these little guys endured heavy conditions and hard usage ...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] k.geree:
djada80:

there is no /fota and /fotaflag partition on my phone. I already created a full (for me working) backup about the original branded software, I will upload it somewhere tomorrow. I also already rooted the phone so now I have the /custapp partition almost empty. Now I'm trying to "de-brand" and optimize it and the applications on it, that's why I asked if it is possible to _install_ there automatically or do I have to move each and every installed apps to there manually? Somehow to merge partitions?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
k.geree just check adb shell -> cat /proc/mtd and you'll see ...

this command list internal flash partitions.dunno if is possible to do what you want with a non-developer phone,and with froyo.better we should try to compile a cyanogen for our devices
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
I emptied my custpack and filled it up with stuff I actually wanted on my last phone, things started to go flaky at that point. (Mind you the device had issues to begin with so Idk??)

Now you see this is where I get a little fuzzy. If we flash cyogen can we not just re-partition the device back to ASOP?

I have a partition info app from the market That doesn't show a fota partition either. It also shows an empty /dev partition @ 201mb (same as the fake sd asec partition, coincidence?) but the thing is the file browser shows files there (dev is where the block devices live in Linux they are like drivers.) Sebastian told me Alcatel did some serious hacks and linking to put that custpack partition in there, the 990 suffers this too. Even if we get the kernel. I'm worried that we'll need a new baseband version and fimware to clean up the mess.

Sure enough its there. As are a few others that do not show up in the file browser (es explorer) at all. Wtf is FOTA for anyway?

Ok I tried to cd in /boot and /recovery and no dice. They are not accessable from android while its running. Firmware? This is fustrating, I know the Linux FS, but what they did to it... so confused.

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Viktor got booted? are we on to something that he was trying to sour? I know his tip about getting recovery was BS. ( I tried that before and it still went to FDR.) Now I'm Really interested
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Get in touch with Sebastian. He may not want to do development. But he is hosting our recovery and my ROM. It would be nice to have a collection of the various Carrier ROM's (And the holy grail, an unbranded ROM.) in one place.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] k.geree:
I've created a backup from "my" T-mobile branded Move with the build number:FRG83G.v61S-0 (Thanks to Sebastian for the update script).

Download here: http://www.multiupload.com/3XBUNETYKO

Viktor was able to flash and boot it, but the touchscreen didn't work for him.

I was able to flash the Wind branded ROM to my phone (with my boot.img) and the keys didn't work well (in /custpack/usr/keylayout) the keys are mapped differently if I swapped them, it worked, but wifi didn't work for me with that rom (only tried flash once).

I also created a rooted, cleaned rom for me (just for fun and still "branded" but many trash deleted..) It seems working quite well so far. I deleted JRDSensor app so no annoying auto-brightness - and battery drain :) removed most of the links to custpack, but it's still needed as /system partition is too small for all of these.

Download here: http://www.multiupload.com/D40XKUUPHV

I also noticed that this version of CWM recovery doesn't back up the Custpack partition so I did copy it manually for backup. This is just FYI.

((I don't take any responsibility for using these ROMs.))
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
I kinda expected the screen to go wonky, Wifi is a surprise. Did you test the camera? its configs are different as well.

Well this is good news, and bad.

The good: at least we know the kernel works and the system boots.

The bad: This is going to be PITA to do ROM's for both models.

CWM isn't going to touch custpack because it isn't supposed to be there. I'd love to just merge it back into /data and eliminate it.

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How did you split the boot.img from the ROM?

Now that I think about it, seeing as clockwork doesn't touch custpack. Does a full rom image? There are alot of configs in there. This could actually be good if we have device spefic configs in there, then we can hopefully create ROM's that do not overwrite those files. That way we can get around these small hardware variations. Your ROM was built in May I believe? Mine was built in August. so they tweaked a few things in that time.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] k.geree:
there are probably hardware differences between the 2 phones (and ROMs) as well. and as I told currently it's unable to create a full image as it does nothing with custpack. Neither at backup nor at restore.

I got my boot.img from the CWM backup and only swapped mine with yours in the Wind rom, to make sure it boots. I saw that there are some newer packages I tried JRDSensor.apk (and res) from the Wind rom...it seemed ok - as this is the biggest battery eater app in the T-mobile stock rom :S - so it seemed ok, it ran as service, maybe didn't eat so much power than it kept stop working so I decided not to include. So the SW might be newer I doubt if it's fully compatible.

ps.: fyi, the touchscreen worked fine with your rom on my phone only Viktor had issues as I heard. I think camera was ok just wifi didn't work for me that time, maybe that can be solved...now I'll unable to test anything as it is my girlfriends' phone and she'll be away for a while.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
LOL and we all hate custpack, its going to be our saviour! I'm thinking that the wifi chip is different, vendors do that all the time. It is strange that the key map is different. when I have some time I'm going to run a diff against your dump to see exactly what's going on. My battery life has been very good. Sometimes I use auto brightness, Its kinda sensitive though so most of the time I just lock it at half. JRDSensor is still running in the background though. It my not be a compatibility issue. I had the same problem with my clock after I fiddled with it. Even after I put everything back it kept FCing on me.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
Can have my Romanian Cosmote,i'll upload and share on mediafire,so he can take it from there !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
check this out !
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
don't flash cwm recovery !

It is useless to flash it on /recovery.and in some cases f.cks the phone! My had to be sent back for service and the f.ckers even replaced the touchpanel !Restore from a clean backup did not work.CWM image is a bit bigger than /recovery ,and i think the flashing process overlays to some critical partition.But work flawlessly over ADB , and for scientific purposes it should be enough.Who will want to make a backup / restore when walking on a street ?lol
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
custpack tip

How about partitioning sdcard under linux,create a /partition for custpack ,and mount it from fstab ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] k.geree:
snkiz: FC-s are frequently caused because of wrong permission settings make sure the the Owner/permissions are set goot and there are no linkage conflicts between partitions/files. (Check if there is a *_res.apk exists on custpack partition related to the app.

djada80:

I checked and I have the FOTA partitons as well.. the more I know about this phone the more I hate it :)...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Humm I haven't flashed my new handset (Don't see the need without a ROM) but I flashed my last two. My previous one, well lets just say it didn't make any worse. (the hardware issues make it a wash for any reliable research.) and the one before that I screwed up not cwm.

k.gree: I may have deleted the res file too. :o That could be why. My solution this time has been to just freeze all the crap and link it all to my sd card. I found an a2sd app that can indvidualy move apps, and thier dex files, and thier libs. as for the stuff I actually want, I installed the updates, copied the apks. Then uninstalled the updates and renamed my copied apks to replace whats in custpack already. Pain in the ass I know but the phone is none the wiser :D

This thing just has a few more qwirks than most, its been an adventure finding them. Like did you know if you set the screen brightness to less than twenty percent. the screen backlight wont come on after you lock and unlock the phone. That one scared the sh**t out of me.

Edit:

Because I know someone is going to ask for it

Link2SD
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] reeprich:
Cifs.ko for T-Mobile Move

Hello,

anybody has working cifs.ko and slow-work.ko for ours OT-908?

I tried a lot of modules compiled for another phones with kernel 2.6.32.9, but had no luck to get it working....

Usually, when I tried to "INSMOD", there is an error about ARMv6 and ARMv7 incompatibility

slow_work: version magic '2.6.32.9 SMP preempt mod_unload modversions ARMv7 ' should be '2.6.32.9-perf preempt mod_unload ARMv6 '

The most promising is cifs.ko and slow-work.ko for Samsung Galaxy Gio (GT-S5660) from http://www.virtual-sme.org/blog/2011/09/30/cifs-ko-and-slow-work-ko-for-gt-s5660-kernel-2-6-32-9-perf/

but I still got error:

slow_work: module license 'unspecified' taints kernel.
slow_work: Unknown symbol round_jiffies
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
do you have the kernel source for our phone? I think you'll need those before you can compile any modules. personally I'd love to have swap active.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] reeprich:
unfortunately not - tried to send email to Alcatel support but still have no response for more then one week.... :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
I sent one yesterday and a month ago
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
the guy who got them to release the 990 kernel sent requests in six languages, got a reply in chinese.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
I know cifs does, what does aslow-work do?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] reeprich:
For the new kernels - including 2.6.32.9-perf - needs this module to be loaded before cifs.ko
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Gikoskos:
Hi i have rooted my Alcatel OT-908 through the gingerbreak method

but thats as far as i can get.

I want to know if there is a ROM for this device

because from you conversation i dont get much stuff.

Also can someone pls direct me to some link on how

to flash Android? (i dont even know what that means)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
No,there is not.hope there will be in time.no specific flash utility,just the generic tools
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Gikoskos:
Hi me again,

i have a problem now. My Alcatel OT-908 is stuck when i turn it on,

on the "Alcatel One Touch" screen.

I have pulled out the battery and even the sd card but nothing.

Is there any way to restore or reset it without losing my SD data?

Thanks in advance for all replies:)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
What other than rooting with gingerbreak have you done? Can you get into it with ADB?

Saving your sd is simple, to 100% sure just leave it out when you do an FDR. Your contacts will be in your gmail, you have the option of backing up your apps settings to gmail as well. But that's way down the line without more info.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
CWM 5.0.27

Just managed to compile the Clockwork 5.0.27 version.I made a full backup ,factory reset and full restore and it worked.Menu functions OK.Sometimes reboot just shuts down the phone,but it happened with Sebastion404's v 4.xxx version as well.Update from *.zip NOT TESTED.

If anyone wants to give it a jump

http://www.mediafire.com/?d9alvutfbn4suvn

MARK THIS !

- BETA VERSION,MIGHT HAVE BUGS

- DON't FLASH IT BY ANY CIRCUMSTANCE ON DEVICE

- for scientific purposes TEST IT ONLY VIA ADB

- tested only on an ALCATEL MOVE only , by lack of other resources

- USE IT ON YOUR OWN RESPONSABILITY

- PLEASE FEED BACK on thread

PS. if anyone wishes to compile it for himself ,i'll post the configs needed
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] k.geree:
Does it save the custpack partition?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
no it does not.i'll try to figure out how to add support for /custpack.but there is more,like /misc,/securo,/studypara.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gbverhoeven:
Hang / freeze

Hay,

I reboot in cwm with the recovery manager, i do a backup restore of my phone. (i make a backup 1 week back) After the backup my phone freeze on the white screen! Normal after the white screen comes the tmobile screen) Now i cannot back to the cwm modus! What can i do?? I try power+ vol down en vol up, no result, al what i do i come to the white screen!! I try reboot in recovery in adb, my devices is not found! Only whit the Alcatel update software, the phone reboot and the software display: You device have already the newest software! Can i RE-install the stock firmware with this software?? (I see a download map in the software) What can i do / try??

Gerard

Sorry for my bad bad bad English ;-)

When my phone was working, never i have a good connection with adb, i install the device drivers, the sdk software, but in command prompt he al ways saying: No devices found. ;-(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gbverhoeven:
System

Hi,

Now i am ready to flash with fastboot, with adb he can't found my device, with fastboot hi FOUND my device??? I flash manually the boot.img and the recovery.img but i have not a system.img, i lose my backup:mad::mad::mad: please can you upkoad a system.img???

Thanks thanks thanks!!!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
When post ,be as specific as possible

1.) what phone model [ot908,ot908s,MOVE]

2.) is phone locked to a provider,and if it is, what provider

3.) what version of CWM did you use , 4.x or 5.x

DO NOT USE backup images made with other version of CWM, might brick phone.

Sebastien404 has a collection of stock firmware here

http://files.podtwo.com/roms/stock/alcatel/

Silverfuck has as well here

http://ftpb.free.fr/roms/alcatel/ot908/

More to come.

BE AWARE OF NETWORK PROVIDER LOCKED ROM DIFFERENCES !

BE AWARE OF the two slightly different versions of SYSTEM BOARD,the Opal and the Brandy,we don't yet know which is which.

STOCK ROMS MIGHT GET FUNKY if flashed on a particular device.

VERY IMPORTANT: for Sebastion's ROMs use his version of CWM,from here

http://android.podtwo.com/recovery.php?device=ot908
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
PLEASE BE SPECIFIC,CONCISE and THOROUGH

When asking please be as thoroughly descriptive as possible .

When boasting an eventual success,please give full feedback.

Every bit of info might help someone in need , and is a great asset for developers.

Thanks.

From now on i will remove off-topic posts
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Sebastian has a cwm that saves custpack for me to try, waiting for the upload. Did we confirm that my 908s cwm doesn't fit on the move? My phone has a brandylite board, and I'm recently sim unlocked.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gbverhoeven:
Problem solved

Oooo i am so happy!! My device (Move 908) working now perfect. The solution!? I try to boot in cwm, but no succes. Now i am flash recovery.img with fastboot. Then i turn on the phone with holding de VOL+ button, then the device is rebooting and then i press VOL+ and the home button........= CWM RECOVERY!!:):):)

I flash succesfully the stock rom, and my phone come from a brick to a orginal working phone!

Everybody thanks!

Gerben
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] martin131:
Is there any custom ROM, which supports Alcatel Move? Or is released update do Android 2.3 from Alcatel?

Thanks for reply.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] k.geree:
snkiz, how can I check which board I have? (It's a T-mob. Move..)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
not yet,probably next year.model is released about march 2011.poor community support (only us :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
Not completely sure.Size should fit ,*.img is 4.5 MB, /recovery is ~5 MB,but when i flashed it with fastboot, my phone went berserk.I sent it back for service and they resofted and changed touchpanel.Don't know ,why,at least the touchpanel.Viktor had some similar problem,as i understand.I don't wanna risk another sendback,just after a week,so i stall flashing.Why is Sebastian ahead of me with his releases :( ... ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
adb shell cat /system/build.prop | grep ro.build.fingerprint

or

adb shell getprop ro.build.fingerprint
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] profglavcho:
how to get .img files from phone

excuse me my bad endlish :)

i try this on my Globul Move and it work

open Android Terminal..

$cat /proc/mtd

(for me)

dev: size erasesize name

mtd0: 00500000 00020000 "boot"

mtd1: 03200000 00020000 "cache"

mtd2: 00500000 00020000 "recovery"

mtd3: 000c0000 00020000 "splash"

mtd4: 00040000 00020000 "misc"

mtd5: 05f00000 00020000 "system"

mtd6: 07d00000 00020000 "custpack"

mtd7: 09e60000 00020000 "userdata"

mtd8: 00080000 00020000 "securo"

mtd9: 00080000 00020000 "studypara"

mtd10: 00080000 00020000 "tracability"

mtd11: 000a0000 00020000 "tuningpara"

mtd12: 1bae0000 00020000 ""

mtd13: 00040000 00020000 "FOTAFLAG"

mtd14: 01b40000 00020000 "FOTA"

to get recovery just do

$cat /dev/mtd/mtd2 > /sdcard/recovery.img

;)

i dont know why files in folder /dev/mtd/ are invissible for any file explorer(incl root explorer):confused:

...and....

$ls /dev/mtd

mtd14ro

mtd14

mtd13ro

mtd13

mtd12ro

mtd12

mtd11ro

mtd11

mtd10ro

mtd10

mtd9ro

mtd9

mtd8ro

mtd8

mtd7ro

mtd7

mtd6ro

mtd6

mtd5ro

mtd5

mtd4ro

mtd4

mtd3ro

mtd3

mtd2ro

mtd2

mtd1ro

mtd1

mtd0ro

mtd0

wtf is *ro?:confused:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
devs say this simple dump method is somewhat,in other words you might get corrupted partition images (don't ask why).

in /dev are mounted the so-called block devices and/or character devices.this is a unified method of interfacing driver to higher level applications,and specific to unix based systems.in /mnt ,or /media or other mountpoints are mounted word adressed devices.in order to access block device ,it must be mounted as a word adressed one.

for short. ro goes for read-only
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Thanks djada for coving me. :) So tired yesterday I didn't even turn on my computer
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
Np
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] gor001:
How to reset my Move to factory setings...sems to presing power and volume+ not work to me...sory ...for my poor english...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
shut down.take battery out for 1 minute,put it back.then press long pwr and vol+ until buttons lit and trashcan appears .then wait.phone reboots,if not shuts down.in this case power on manually.phone starts slowly after factory reset(dalvik cache issue).
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
software update

official update out

v 1.8 for ot-908 and v1.5 for Move
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] profglavcho:
upgrade to 2.3?:rolleyes:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
no,only minor fixes.still froyo :(
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] martin131:
Is it available for Move version too?

edit: Sorry, i see it. ;)

edit2: Is anywhere available changelog?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] reeprich:
Update is not working for me... Tried to use "One Touch Upgrade Q 1.5" and both options "One Touch 908" and "TCL A908", but received message that my phone is up to date....

My phone:

T-Mobile Move, branded for T-Mobile Czech republic, using Vodafone SIM.

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[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Did you use the updater or OTA? Not sure what an official update would do to me, my custpack and system are full now :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] reeprich:
Tried to use updater from Alcatel site - "One Touch Upgrade Q 1.5"
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
Separate versions for 908 and move.doesn,t **** provider locked or bundled stuff.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
Updater only.updater reverts to factory defaults /every partition.ota downloads to /fota,but is not available in my country
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
Alcatel released froyo sourcecode for ot980, is available on sourceforge.i wrote to them to do the same for 908

sorry for the earlier typo ...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Link? I have a pending request as well. Sure would go easier if I could point to the 990 release.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
not tagged by google

{link removed}
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
hate to be the bearer of bad news, but that is for the older 980. Besides there is no documentation or anything else. I find it hard to believe that they would just drop the kernel in sourceforge from an unknown, unverified account.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
sorry ,should i remove the link then ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Maybe its best, you've seen the caliber of research most (Not all) of these people do first hand. I had a guy on g+ respond to a post I made about rooting my phone. He was begging me to send him links, and hold his hand. I might have too if what he was asking for wasn't already on my G+ page, posted just a few days after the rooting post he replied to. I do not post that much so I know it didn't get pushed that far down.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
what about sebastian,did he come up with something new ?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
Still working on it. I was asked not to share yet, its buggy as sin at the moment.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
key combinations revised

[credits go for gbverhoeven for his discovery]

1.) FASTBOOT -- PWR + VOL-

2.) FACTORY RESET -- PWR + VOL+ until trashcan

3.) RECOVERY -- PWR and when phone starts to boot up VOL+ +HOME until alcatel logo

4.) FLASH MODE -- PWR + HOME
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] viperakos:
sorry but i'm confused about root.How i root my alcatel?Steps pls or link.Something!!! :)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] profglavcho:
Gingerbreak v1.2
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Aburel18:
Hi there ! i am from Romania . i have alcatel ot- 809 , before i had cosmote move romanian custom rom . now i update my phone with tmobile rom, my phone start ok . but my touchscreen not respond. i try to turn my phone in any direction . i try any think. but without success.. sorry someone can help me? i wish to download cosmote move romanian rom or gosmote gr rom . or any kind of rom to make ma touch screen comatible i can share any information i have adb fastboot custom image all of them working thx.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] djada80:
looks like a driver problem.just look at the size of the boot.img and you'll notice the difference.if it worked,anyway ,you had your sim locked to tmobile or whatever.

upload somewhere the t-mobile rom ,sebastian might need it
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] snkiz:
990 source, 908 can't be far!

Sebastian was kind enough to forward me this. Due to personal issues I can not pursue , fighting with big companies or hacking anything at the moment. So take heart there is light at the end of the tunnel, I'll be watching.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Aburel18:
someone who have cosmote move ( ot - 908 ) please make a backup at original rom ,we still wait for one of this kind of file : boot.img , recovery.img folders: custpack , meta-inf

system. all of this files will be uploaded . i have right now boot.img recovery.img and system . i still wait for custpack and meta-inf .