yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diyuen:
on step number 2, should I unzip the contents on root folder or unzip the file and copy "Recovery_OT_918D_MT6573_V2" folder on root? just want to make sure since this will be my first time to do this. thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirhidemi:
hi is this your way how to root alcatel ot 918D thanks for the reply?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diyuen:
@kirhidemi

if this might help, here's how I did it and I find this VERY EASY.

1. go to alcatelonetouch.com and select your country

2. click Support > Download

3. select your phone

4. click Alcatel_AndroidManager_2.2.1202.1642 unzip and install it

5. download Super One Click 2.3.3 (find it in google search)

6. unzip it and run SOC as admin

7. set your phone to USB Debug mode

8. plug your phone

9. click Root

10. click YES once you see pop up for busybox installation

11. WAIT. Patience is a virtue.

12. If everything goes right, you'll get a prompt that it's successful.

Hope this helps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
Works a charm :) tnx

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brown777:
Great

Hi kmakro,

It works perfectly! Thanks a lot!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
The Puzzle S.B.H rom works very good, and its very fast and stable.

The fact that the core of the rom is the original, making this work correctly, and there are locks or reboots.

It is a very fast rom and it makes the blue theme that is different from the original rom and a very nice look.

We are the 3 creators very happy with the operation and with the great reception given by all visitors to our Spanish forum. Compared to other XDA forums are very small and we are glad you are happy you too.

Regards, @ breakk.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
Yah, there's indeed a bit of reluctance regarding dual-sim devices here. Anyway, it works like it should. tnx

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diyuen:
Yeah the Puzzle S.B.H rom is one hell of a rom! thanks to those people behind it!

on a sidenote, is there a possibility that a cyanogenmod for our phone will be released?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkjust4u:
A noob question. After installing this new rom, Is the system already rooted or one has to do it again?? I mean IS the superuser icon already present in the application lists after installation??

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybic:
Swap and OC

Hey guys, the cooked rom is awesome, but I'm really looking forward to find some patched kernel with support for SWAP and overclocking :)

Will it be possible?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmakro:
The phone is rooted with the new rom, but also to install this rom you must first root the phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkjust4u:
Thanks for the reply. From your answer I understand that superuser icon will be present in the application lists.

Yes my phone is rooted by the method mentioned earlier in this thread. I will tinker with my phone in the coming Easter weekend. Will post my review afterwards.

Also is someone been successful in getting Google chat with video support with the new blue rom? I tried(current, not blue rom) vtok which was unstable. I tried modified gtalk mentioned elsewhere in xda but didn't worked.

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vvulture:
So it's not possible to overclock with this ROM ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybic:
As far as I know - no support for OC or SWAP :( We need a custom kernel really badly :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
OC is to be built in the kernel... and AFAIK MTK-drivers are not available

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vvulture:
Thanks for the replies guys...

So far i am happy with the phone, but i am starting to realize the downside of buying a phone which is not popular... customization options are very limited...

I really want to flash my phone with the one ( and only ) custom rom available, but what happens if something goes wrong ?? I have found instructions on how to backup the original ROM, but no instructions on how to restore.. where are the restore instructions ?? the backup is useless without these instructions.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cybic:
Hmmm... There currently EXISTS an app in the Market which allows the OC to be done till 806 MHz :)

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.tsorn.MTKControlTest&feature=search_result

So it's possible an least, but would be nice to get it built into the ROM ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ydur1:
I am now on the rooted Spanish ROM, but anyone made an backup of the original ROM in case of problem and warranty? I would appreciate if someone can share the original ROM. Or if someone knows another way to to get back to the original ROM?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
WRONG these apps in the market are only the frontends to the kernel. It has to be built in the kernel, and as long it isn't you can install what you want, never gonna work...

:mad:

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The ROM you used to get ROOT before installing the Blue Puzzle is the original, only change is it's rooted ...

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
Yes, the rom spanish you used to get root only are rooteed. Is the same roon that original room Alcatel.

Greetings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kmakro:
thanks, great app!! succesfully overclocked to 806mhz and passmark cpu mark increased from 534 to 654!!! More than 20% increase in performance!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ydur1:
Thanks for the answers, but I asked because I forgot to make backup before I changed to the the Blue Puzzle. Does anyone have the original backup and want to share? Or does anyone know where I can download the original ROM?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
An easy way to have your own backup is waiting for a update and upgrade of alcatel ustes so learn how to create your own backup.

But the problem is to obtain a copy (which is necessary to remove the imeis and personal data), but the programs to use to recover your phone. I can not help me here but since there is no tutorials. So I tell him the solution easier, since it should shortly receive an update from Alcatel.

Anyway, if you need to restore the original pass movilesdualsim.com and talked.

Greetings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ydur1:
Breakk, Thanks for your answers. I have another question. Is there support for Thai language in this Blue Puzzle ROM? Or is it possible to integrate Thai language?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
Hello, the language are same original rom alcatel. I dont modificated.

What letters are in your phone when you select thai? For example, selecting language >> English = English Spanish = ...... spanish, thai =?

Anyway you can install rom blue and if it takes, then return to your original rom alcatel.

But first make a backup of your firmware. Go by our forum and read about tutorials created by me.

Greetings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkjust4u:
I installed this ROM and its great. Its fast and responsive.

Thanks a lot to the developer.

I have another question to all the user of this phone. In my phone "Cell standby" consumes more than 33% of battery usage in idle state. Is it the same for others too? This is generally due to active simcard in Sim1 slot.

I understand that this is due to power needed to keep 3G active.

If I put Sim1 in the flight mode then there is no "Cell standby" in the battery status. However if i just turn off the data connection in sim1, there is no decrease in the cell standby.

So any tips how to optimise the battery and increase its usage?

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
Thanks for trying the rom, I think you will like it, will greatly improve the performance of your phone and also saving battery.

Regarding battery saving, there are apps to manage battery consumption, on and off the 3g and stuff.

There is an app called batterysaver, which works very well. There are also others that activate and deactivate 3G, wifi, bluetooth, etc but I can not remember the name. It is quite famous.

Greetings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diyuen:
Hi all,

for some reason, I got this result when I used 'Got Root?' app

Successfully located 'su' (superuser) on the device. Failed to obtain root priveleges through 'su'

---

Aditional tests...

Successfully located BusyBox on the device.

How can I fix this? Running on Blue Puzzle ROM too. thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
I dont know, the puzzle rom is root 100%.

You've tried to reset phone or root with SuperOneClick 2.3.3?

regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] diyuen:
I did that already, it gets stuck to a certain portion. I'll upload a screenschot. Thank you for your immediate reply. Appreciate it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
Try the following:

Unroot with superoneclic and then root again, or factory reset and then Unroot and root.

You can also update busybox and superuser by market (Play store).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trinity2253:
Backup/Restore with GScript

Hello Guys,

i've tested the GScript and i made a backup with the back23_alk.sh of my system. In the backup_alk folder are many img-files. The important files are system.img, data.img and nvram.img, i believe.

How can i restore the img-files?

trinity2253
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] xFlesk:
hello

i've succesfully rooted my alcatel 918d with a unlock root tools on windows xp.

i was so excited about that, so i've started to "play" with my phone little bit harder and something went wrong (like ussually) and then i realized that i forget to make a backup.

right now my phone is working like a charm, but (there's a sirious "but" here) im unable to go to recovery menu (phone starts to show android droid picture and then nothin), im unable to reset phone to my factory setting (phone resets itself and starts to show android droid picture and then nothing happend at all).

i would love to reset my phone and upload coocked puzzle one (or atleast orginal one) but im completly stuck and dont know what to do. any ideas ?

regards

ps

sorry for my horrible english ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] trinity2253:
Backup/Restore with GScript

Hi Guys,

i thought it´s a easy question for the developers.

Ok, can anyone tell me, where the system store personal data like contacts, sms and other things.

I searched everywhere in the system, but i found nothing.

ciao

trinity2253
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] obcenity:
no root access? do you have the custom recovery?? sem problem before.. the solution is just flash su.3.0.2.zip through recovery.. do not unzip it.. just put it in the root of sd card then flash through recovery.. just search it through google.. after flashing. just reboot.. after that your device was rooted again.. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jay185:
bricked my ot918n

wont turn on, but when plugged in to a computer, it detects the modem.

help?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] maschogge:
let me guess: You used the 918D Custom Frimware or Rootfirmware for the 918N

?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
Hi,

Try to start all over again as if the phone wasn't rooted. Post #40 in this thread gives a good workflow. And if german is easier to you, it contains also the link to the german forum...

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmix82:
Right... I have an issue.

I have two of these phones. With one I started "playing". All went fine up to the second when I stopped booting.

No problem, I told to myself. I just take the other phone and extract the firmware and flash it on the bricked one. I wanted to use the dd command to copy the system partition to an img file. But to do that I need to be root. So I decided to root the other phone exactly the same way I did with the first.

And it just won't work! I tried all the instructions, and even installed a clean Windows just in case.

motofail stuck at #5 and zergrush stuck at #7 - /dev/block/mntblock13, which is the cache partition.

Has anyone managed to backup the original image?

Or has anyone had any success in using adb in recovery mode?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
Hi,

Read here ... it's spanish but it's the most effective way to get the device up, rooted and running...

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] astetsuo:
Does this also work on the normal (single sim ot-918) ? before i'm going to flash and brick or kill the phone..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmix82:
No, this would brick your phone for sure. You'll need to find a system.img for your model.

This was the way to make my phone come alive btw. The only problem is that it's an older version than what I had. Its V23AAE0 instead of V23AAG0.

The best forums about the phone are in Spanish or Russian. If I ever meet Babel, I'll kick his arse!

I still can't manage to root my second phone. It has V23AAG0 firmware. The first one is alive after flashing the V23AAE0 rooted rom from the Spanish forum.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmix82:
Does anyone have a rooted but otherwise clean phone with V23AAG0 firmware?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
:D glad it worked

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AFAIK the Blue Puzzle is the only available for now...

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
Hello, Mr szucsati.

I was the originator of the idea of the third method by system.img root and spread like wildfire all over the Internet. In fact mism tutorials are made ​​in many forums, including Russian, Greek, Filipino, German, etc ...........

Today, when normal programs can not be rootear the menjor and only solution for now is the 3rd method explained in my tutorial root.

The patch Unroot circulating the internet does not work then do not accept the original recovery alcatel, giving error signature.

Besides I am also one of the 3 creators of Puzzle SBH Blue Rom v1.0.

Thank you, greetings.

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If found, please hand me the system.img to study it.

Greetings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Asuma06:
try this remove the battery, then reseat the battery press and hold the home+volume down then the power button or the power button+home. this should boot to recovery console.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cosmix82:
Yes, I know that! :) I found the Spanish forum and I tried to translate posts from there. And I'm very grateful for your work!

Sorry, I don't understand this part :(

Well, I can give you the system partition in tar.gz. I couldn't extract it as I couldn't gain root access to this phone.

So here's the interesting part. I ordered two identical phones. I started using one and with no problem I rooted it. I'm quite sure it had V23AAG0 firmware.

Unfortunately I did something so it stopped booting properly. I said no problem, I'll take the other one and use it's firmware.

Now... I used exactly the same method, exactly the same computer, cable etc. and this one just won't root! So I had to flash your system.img to the first phone. Now it's working, but seems like I had a rooted V23AAG0 in my hand and I was so stupid that I didn't make an image of it :(.

But let me know if you need the tar.gz version of the non-rooted system partition!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricspeed:
Hi there,

somebody can help me root may alcatel ot918M, Build number v23ZA90. this is my first time to root my phone and im glad that there is a site like this to help newbies. like me. Im not a tech. but i realy want to explore my phone capabilities and remove some application that i dont used. so im very glad if someone can teach me how to root my phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jbazt_katuforzs:
Is there a problem with that? Im a living proof that the 3rd root instructions rooted my Alcatel 918N from philippines from Sun Cellular Carrier. superoneclick fails, unlockroot fails, im very happy i did it!! Im struggling for 2 days to root the device i just took the risk on trying the 3rd instructions and the result is sweet!! Im even running this awesome spanish custom rom. Kudos to the devs, only 1 issue status bar crashes often is this a known issue? Any fixed?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
I do not know how to convert tar.gz system.img. I do not know much linux, sorry.

You are logged into our forum? Swallow and if so send me a private message, try to help.

Greetings.

On the Internet there is a patch to root many phones. This is a zip file that is placed with the revovery original, but in the alcatel not work, gives errors when trying to install signature.

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In the link is a tutorial of root me. The third method is not official if it on your phone. Try 1 or 2 methods.

Very thanks kmakro by traduction.

Greetings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkjust4u:
Hi,

I have been using the blue Rom and its working great.

I have one small request. Could someone tell me how to remove the blue logo from the status bar?

The reason I am asking because in landscape mode the logo distorts and doesn't look nice.:confused:

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricspeed:
kmakro/breakk

i need a password to download a system.img please pm me or send it to my email ricspeed@yahoo.com

thanks you in advance.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jbazt_katuforzs:
go to the spanish forum link use google chrome to translate the registration page and to read all infos the password is there... atleast have the effort to join there im afraid i cant give you the password here. the author of the OP there deserves a thanks!!! goodluck

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yes i can confirm this im using Alcatel 918N from philippine... and the 3rd proceedure rooted my phone! Thanks a lot and the rom is so stable... but when status bar is scrolled down and i tap the search sotfkey @ the middle it gives me a status bar crash. is there a fixed for this mate? really appreciate your work
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
Which phone model you have? the 918N.

I say this because the blue ROM is designed for the 918d. The 918n will not know if any problems.

Anyway, after you upload a patch to remove the logo, ok?

I'll give you the download link here at XDA forum.

You should to reset phone to factory settings and then see if the error in the continuous logo. If Continuing no ok, apply the patch then I will give:

http://www.mediafire.com/?wher6j6v83j8nvh

Greetings.

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Ok, The password of system.img is:

breakk.movilesdualsim.com

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We are studying the issue of the notification bar because I do not just fails and gives it to any of you. We do not know if any app's fault, titanium backup, launcher, etc..

If you want to see as if it works ok, I leave a patch of the original sistemUI alcatel and testing. We will change the bar to the original theme alcatel (icons coverage too) but I think that will work well while.

You can go through this thread and follow the details of investigations:

http://www.movilesdualsim.com/foro/threads/9369-1%C2%AA-ROM-ALCATEL-0T-918-D-PUZZLE-S-B-H-BLUE-v-1?p=73072#post73072

To rule out problems follow the advice I've written today in the thread and put the patch besides this (installed as the ROM, or from the recovery):

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?7gs8556iebh3gj5

Greetings.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Jbazt_katuforzs:
Sure count on me... Has anybody hooked the phone with adb and find logs related to the statusbar error? Maybe you can find the problem there. My pc is down cant try it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rkjust4u:
My phone is 918D. Phone is working good with the blue rom.

Will this patch reset the phone to factory settings?

I confirm that this bug also affects my phone. But since status bar re-apper after some time its not the big deal for me. But a solution will be fine.

Thanks once again for all your help:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dirlan2001:
+1 ... same issues here, not really deathly but still... Apart from that, this phone and the ROM are working great. after installing Sygic, I found out that the GPS is even more accurate as the one included in my SGT, go figure...

:D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kpbotbot:
Root using stock recovery.

Hay guise.

For two days I've been trying to root this phone (918N) using Unlockroot, SuperOneClick, EasyRootingToolkit, and by manually pushing zergrush/gingerbreak/motofail/psneuter to my phone and doing things by hand. NOTHING WORKS.

I, will not, ever, use the flash tool that uses the usb modem driver by mobileuncle. It's too risky (for me) because there's a ton of drivers here installed and I can't verify if the mobileuncle driver was really installed.

I had a look at this phone's stock recovery and found this:

Can I flash an update.zip containing the necessary root files with this? Have you guys tried? AFAIK the Galaxy Y has a similar rooting procedure, but I don't know with this one. Writing to /system might still be locked.

Thanks in advance! :) I ain't taking risks because this phone is for daily use and I use two active SIMs in it.

EDIT: I tried. We need a package .zip that's "properly" signed. *sigh*.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ricspeed:
Thanks you very much breakk. i hope i will successfully root my phone with out breaking it. thank you so much guys!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] breakk:
Ok, your phone is 918D.

My friend @ hammy (other creators of rom blue with @ smarkanda) and told me that this is an incorrect installation. You would have to do a clean install:

restore factory settings (menu> settings> Privacy> Factory data reset) and also make the 3 wipes (data wipe, wipe cache, wipe Dalvik cache). So should not have any problem with the logo or anything else.

Be very careful when using titanium or backup programs use the launcher pro backup.No because it gives errors.

Once the hard reset, you must reinstall the rom blue by recovery, as if you installed the rom the first time.

If you do all this, it is necesio applying the patch I sent for a clean install is better.

Take intoaccount backup your data and apps you perform a hard reset (restore factory data).

Greetings.

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The recovery of Alcatel fails when trying to upload a zip file with all the root. Signature fails and we have tried several times on various phones.

The solution is difficult to be root but being a 918N, you should contact someone who has a backup of your rom and my tutorial is in dualsim.com root, then turn up with my third method supports a system.img 918N your phone. Usten not know if you understand me?.

I found a way to circumvent the system to get root on phones that could not by any program but for this I need a clean backup 918n (specifically the file system.img). With my manual and can uster be root. This is the option to present day with your mobile.

Stop by the forum dualsim.com and read the "tutorial alcatel 918d root."

Greetings.