yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
Thanks for the image.

here's the steps I took to use it :

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please be careful and follow these steps at your own risk, be warned, you can brick your phone and I have no idea how you will be able to fix it if it is broken.

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1. download the android sdk from developer.android.com

2. download iuss cwm image (I just put it in the platform-tools directory for convenience, in my case this is C:\Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools)

3. Plug in phone via USB to the PC

4. On phone settings, make sure you have checked Applications->Development->USB Debugging

5. On PC open a command window (Flag Key + R, cmd, click OK)

6. navigate to the path of android platform-tools. e.g. cd \Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools

7. type in: adb reboot-bootloader

8. after bootloader screen shows (looks the same as booting screen to me), type in: fastboot boot recovery-2012.06.05.01.img

9. It should boot into clockwork mod recovery. Volume up/down as cursor, power button selects, back key escapes
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
Will this image help me to restore my phone?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
yes it can.. i will upload a complete backup so u can restore from mine

download this zip and extract to root of sdcard (clockworkmod folder must be in root of sdcard)

dl.dropbox.com/u/2889810/cwmbackup-ot995.zip

follow these steps 1 post above here to boot into clockworkmod

navigate to to backup and restore and restore it

then reboot

ps. the first boot will take a bit longer
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Please do be careful. Backup everything first and note that custpack is country-specific.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
iuss, may I have a request from you?

Turkish users have received an update via FOTA recently.

I uploaded that update. (here)

Most people here are experiencing white triangle error while updating. Could we use your CWM recovery port instead of FOTA tool to apply the update?

What are the modifications (if needed) to make that update.zip compatible with CWM Recovery? If I can do it over windows, I'll give it a try; if not, can you please modify it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
so, which files are country specific, maybe i can replace them manualy after CWM recovery..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Basically your phone will turn into a different region-one. I don't believe you'll experience any loss of functionality. Think about a phone you bought from Holland, or France. Just that :)

You may only need to type in your APN's. You may have some bloatware spesific for another country. As you won't be needing any bloatware from any country/operator you're gonna ignore their existence or freeze them for the better.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tumaini418:
Okay, let me get this right.

This is a real CWM recovery and once installed is entered just as any other, it just dosen't install the way you normally would?

Is that the way it is?

If so, that's all I was asking in a earlier reply. I guess I could have worded it better. :o
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
yes u can... i think you dont even notice any problems and if so u can replace them manualy after
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
I am stuck in 8. step..

I am trying to use the .img file that is provided by mistercheese recently, i copied whole backup to sd but i can't access anywhere when i type "fastboot boot xxxxx.img"

What will be the exact command?

Thanks

EDIT: i copied the files under the image file to \Program Files(x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools and executed the command "type in: fastboot boot recovery.img " on cmd window it says:

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>fastboot boot recovery.img

downloading 'boot.img'...

OKAY [ 1.283s]

booting...

OKAY [ 0.183s]

finished. total time: 1.467s

C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

But on the screen of the phone an exclamation mark appeared whit the Android puppet and they stays there for more than 5 minutes, i think something is wrong..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
You're booting the wrong image (probably a backup of the recovery partition handed to you). Boot the image provided here: http://dump.pargon.nl/alcatel/cwm-recovery/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
ok, but should i copy the file under C:\Program Files\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools>

EDIT: i copied it under the path above and now restoration oparetion is on the way...

I think it will work, i am going to share the results, thanks to everyone involved..

Regards
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
hope its working...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bamkanm:
Yes dear my brother it works, finally i got my phone back, thank you very much for all of you that was a great experience for me in my first android device..

Phone came with dutch i think then i made a factory reset everyting is ok now :)

Cheers..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
When do you get the triangle? Upon booting the original recovery image? That one seems kind of broken anyway.

That said, try flashing it using CWM. Had a quick look at the update, doesn't look like it features anything new.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
In portugal we have some issues with change 2g/3g...maybe this update correct this problems. Not yet relese in portugal.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ikiji:
Anybody else experiencing difficulties with the earphone of the OT 995? I can't hear anything from the built-in earphone any more. If I turn on the speaker, or plug a headphone, then I can hear the caller fine. The problem is only with the built-in earphone.

Is there any setting out there which could have disabled it? I hope so, otherwise it would most likely be a problem with the hardware...

Thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Phone reboots after completion of FOTA download. An unpacking box animation comes and a few secs later, this appears:

BTW thanks for looking at that update. I thought you may find it interesting on how TCL dev went into recovery; but you already created a great little CWM Recovery (and it's a better one).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
Thanks @iuss! Booted perfectly and now i'm owner to a backup of my phone! (just in case..).

The fact that we now have a bootable CWM Recovery should help new developments to this phone :)

I get that white triangle/excamation mark when i do "adb reboot bootloader" with stock recovery.

Is that the stock recovery? Can't access it from any other way. Button combination, etc, nada.

I found the hard way that power+up volume does a factory reset to the phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Yup. Stock.

Nice thing you have there!

Now what about doing a factory reset, dump, restore from previous dump, and upload factory-resetted dump over here?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
ney, well...i tink the sound isn't the best but my earphone don't have issues!

Try to a factory reset and tested again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
I suppose it might be useful to be able to build the kernel from source (e.g. to strip it down so CWM fits onto the 5M recovery partition).

I've requested it from Alcatel before, but no avail. Perhaps others could point out the GPL terms to them? Contact details are on their website (a contact form).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
ive asked for GPL sources to and waiting for answer
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] whigga:
I just looked on the Alcatel website and it appears that they've removed the (crappy) Update Manager programme.

Who knows, maybe they're replacing it with something else...?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
@ iuss.. what if we remove res/images and some scripts for example sbin/sdparted

maby we can bring down the size of the recovery.img but as i am not a dev or so i dont know what is save to remove
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
I'd love to see that. They might even be prepping a flasher for ICS. That would be nice.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
its still available

http://www.alcatelonetouch.com/nl/support/downloaden/ot-995.html
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
Yesterday isso connected the phone to the updater and downloaded a lote of data and flashed my phone. Too bad i didn't didnt noticed the kernel version before flashing But i dont see nothing new aside from a new version of onetouch backup now called cloud backup.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
They rm'd it from Company's globale page :)

You mean you got a FOTA ? You'll probably have an "update.zip" on ./downloaded folder in your sd card. You can browse it on your computer.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
I've been considering that, but most of it is needed during recovery. There's roughly 5 MB available, of which 3MB is taken by the kernel. Recompressing the kernel using lzma is another option..

That's really interesting. Considering I've been reading at least one report of someone ending up with a messed up filesystem (brick) after running the updater, wonder if that's why they pulled it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Many more than 1. I'd say at least 10.

Turkish repair service Brightstar has recently swapped all these OTU-bricked phones.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
No, not FOTA. I meant the Onetouch updater.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Well, I got the same revision of you have right now.

It might just be a minor update, mostly regarding your carrier. Bloatwares and settings and stuff.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fcsabika:
Kernel released!

http://sourceforge.net/projects/alcatel/files/

There is a kernel for OT-998, but it doesn't exist, but the chinese version of OT-995 is TCL A998 so I think that this is the kernel for our OT-995!

Good luck to the developers.

I hope that custom ROMs will be available soon.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
It's really nice to see them doing good about GPL on their end. And our efforts have finally worth something.

We might even rushed 'em too hard to release without checking :) OT-998? Rly?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
I have no idea why the linked tarball contains two kernel trees (someone must've messed up tarring), but it is indeed the source for v2.6.35.11, including the OT-995 (cocktail) board. Bingo.

Good news! Once I find some time I'll attempt to produce a < 5M CWM image.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
No changes on kernel version! In one touch upgrade witch model and country do you pick to start the update?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saras_gr:
Hello..I am having a strange issue with my 995.I plug the phone to charge and few hours later when i unplug it the battery indicator is still low.But the phone is charged..if I turn it off and then back on,the indicator goes to to 100% and the battery life is as it should be.any ideas?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
is it possible to unroot the phone after rooting it successfully using the steps indicated in our thread?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
can u tell me only one advantage to unroot?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
well i know rooted phones are better than unrooted ones and i cant specify any advantage of unrooting a rooted phone..the thing is, im hesitating on rooting my device since i just bought it and still have 2years of warranty for everything that came with it :D i'm sure i'm not the only one curious how to unroot a phone that's been successfully rooted. i heard it was possible but how? thanks! :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2GAM:
Hello,

I wanted to know how to change the animation during the boot?

I'm changing the file "bootanimation.zip" in the "system / media /" folder or the "custpack / JRD_custres / media /" nothing changes? :mad:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
/system/media/bootanimation.zip should definitely be correct. Do note that one of the bootloaders (probably appsbl) also displays a (static) bootlogo (before the animated Android bootanimation).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
anyone here can give me tips on unrooting the phone? no problem on rooting it coz i knw how from previous models i owned..how do i unroot the phone? i currently have an unrooted one but im confused whether or not to root it coz i might lose my warranty :/ tia! :)

edit: can you also please teach me how to edit the annoying sound on boot? and wat is the purpose of the recovery image posted here for cwm flashing? sorry for being such a noob :3 but tia for all kind answers :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raptorta:
OT-995

Hi I would like to know if you guys have the same problem which I have:

On the touchscreen above the hdmi port the screen is much brighter which is very irritating if there is a black photo or something black the bottom part is glowing with bluish-whitish light
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
lzma

Hi,

I've just compiled the kernel from "app-cocktail-fsr" source tree, using lzma compression.

kernel is 2771900 bytes, vs 3797280 bytes using gzip compression.

Do you think it may fit in bootloader partition?

BTW, I don't know how to build clockwork recovery nor how to test my kernel, I've googled for this and I feel a little confused :-\

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vladmir:
Hello ppl!

someone have native video calling apk on the fhone?

for make videocall only using 3g for the network? not using spyke, fring,...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 2GAM:
:( its not working ...

there is someone who has managed to change the animation?

How you doing?

I understand anything about how it works.

even with "Rom toolbox" its not working ..:(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
smaller recovery

Hi,

using unpackbootimg on recovery-2012.06.05.01.img and mkbootimg, I've packed a smaller recovery. It can boot via fastboot, but I don't dare flashing it ;-)

size is 4550656, kernel is lzma compressed

command:

mkbootimg --kernel ../kernel/OT-kernel/zImagelzma --ramdisk recovery-2012.06.05.01.img-ramdisk.gz --pagesize 4096 --base 00200000 -o newimage.img

kernel is build from cocktail tree, .config from adb pull /proc/config.gz

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Just a warning:

Do NOT flash it

Reason being the recovery image as-is does not clear the BCB due to a missing misc partition entry in fstab. Flashing it and entering recovery once will make it continuously boot into recovery, until the misc partition is cleared.

That said, the image now indeed fits on the recovery partition. I'll need to update the recovery image to fix the issue mentioned above, and we should have something flashable :)

---------- Post added at 09:45 PM ---------- Previous post was at 09:10 PM ----------

Flashable CWM recovery

I've updated the CWM image to address the issue mentioned above and lzma-compressed the kernel, making it fit within 5 MB.

Download & readme: http://dump.pargon.nl/alcatel/cwm-recovery/

It's now flashable using fastboot flash recovery recovery-2012.06.09.img, but I recommend first booting it using fastboot boot recovery-2012.06.09.img and making a backup (so you have a backup of your original recovery partition).

Fastboot can be found in the Android SDK (Windows: fastboot.exe). Enjoy.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
Hi,

Thanks for your warning ;-)

I cheched original recovery, and there are 2 "fstab" in /etc.

Are all theses entries required in CWM recovery.fstab?

Vincent

Edit:

just checked your new image, you've just add missing "misc" entry

>cat recovery.fstab

/boot	mtd	boot

/cache	yaffs2	cache

/data	yaffs2	userdata

/misc	mtd	misc

/recovery	mtd	recovery

/sdcard	vfat	/dev/block/mmcblk0p1	/dev/block/mmcblk0

/system	yaffs2	system

>cat recovery_mmc.fstab

# mount point	fstype	device	[device2]

# | | |

/FAT vfat /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

/APPSBL emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p5

/boot emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p9

/system ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p14

/custpack ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p15

/data ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p16

/cache ext4 /dev/block/mmcblk0p17

/recovery emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p18

/secro emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p19

/misc emmc /dev/block/mmcblk0p20

/sdcard vfat /dev/block/mmcblk1p1	/dev/block/mmcblk1p2
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
Thank you! Gonna try this :D

PS: sorry about the 1-0 against denmark :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Alcatel/TCL based their builds on Code Aurora releases, so the non-emmc fstab is just an artifact. The other partitions aren't needed - as CWM's recovery binary doesn't do anything with them anyway (the backup/restore feature is a crude hardcoded mess, imo).

A terrible start indeed...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raptorta:
Hi, so could antbody answer my previous question about the backlight bleeding issue which I face. I would like to know if its my own phones fault or Its true for all ot-995s.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Have someone a backup of your original recovery partition Optimus Portugal?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
My phone is from optimus. I'm not yet confortable with partitions but if someone provide instructions i can make it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
I can't spot any bleeding at all. By gazing parallel along the display I can see the softkey illumination LED (I suppose) right above the HDMI port, but it doesn't bleed at all.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
what i mean is: do you have made a backup of the original rom ussing recovery ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Yeasis:
Same for me, i anly notice it on the lowest brightness and a black screen.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
Not yet but tomorrow I'll load the custom recovery that we now have and I'll make a full backup. I had one but delete by accident.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
I have noticed the light bleeding issue as well. Its fairly mild, but you see a faint wedge of light running up the screen from the hdmi port location up the screen, but only noticable on a fully black screen
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] adilsonlima:
is it safe to use tr recorery?????
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LPapas:
Cmon guys help me!!!!

I dont get asnwered!

What can i do, i got failed to symlink --> alcapwn,

What is wrong i tried everything and still stuck on this i want to root this phone!

Please guys cmon :S
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] petepc:
Have you checked that adb is working correctly?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raptorta:
Could someone make a flashable original recovery?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
Try running the following:

adb shell mkdir /data/local/tmp

adb shell rm /data/local/tmp/bugreport

Then try again.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] acilsekirlet:
Hi there, first I'd like to thank you VERY MUCH about flash-able mod.

I'd like to stress out the fact that Alcatel/TCL bases their rom on Code Aurora; I wonder why I can't see any qualcomm specific enhancements on thier build.props, for instance?

Do you have any info which C.A. branch are they building android from? Can't see any Q8255T specific build branches?

BTW what is your build.props content?

Are you experiencing somewhat bad touch-screen performance?

What are you experiences on voice call quality? Both received and transmitted sound quality? Are you satisfied with call quality this phone?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ruben Rocha:
Is the stock alcatel 995 rom available for download anywhere? I want to debrand the phone...

In my country the phone is sold with the usual operator crapware and branding. I didnt want to go through rooting, unistalling apps. Just wanted a plain stock alcatel rom to reflash the phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
@ iuss i flashed the recovery and get E: Bad boot message '' V '''

it is lined under CWM-based Recovery v5.5.0.4

didnt test any functions yet..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
Original rom Optimus Madrid Pt

In my country (Portugal) the phone is sold with the usual operator crapware and branding.

I Just wanted a plain original rom to reflash the phone, in case i have ploblems and bringing back the phone to seller (Optimus).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] iuss:
I'm unfamiliar with the CAF Android codebase; What enhancements do you mean? (I was going by the CAF license headers in config files)

Regarding the kernel, I've pushed the source to Github (Googleability++). As far as I can tell CAF release M7630AABBQMLZA414004 is the closest match - I've rebased the Alcatel tree on top of it.

https://github.com/ius/alcatel_cocktail_kernel

Stock build.prop for ALNL: http://pastie.org/private/ql1m2unby4zstl4uflotw

Haven't noticed any touchscreen issues. Voice calls seem fine too, but I have little to compare to.

EDIT: Seems to occur when booting to recovery using the bootloader key combo. I suspect it's just missing initialization of the BCB struct by the bootloader. You should be fine.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Raptorta:
Hi!

Is there a way to install cwm do a hard reset then reinstall the original recovery?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LPapas:
Bro, manually after push alcapwn i got: cannot stat alcapawn no such file or directory.

With 2.3.3 superoneclick: i still get failed to symlink bug report --> alcapwn

:S

OKAY, i just unistalled drivers, install drivers again, i dont know why it sais its finally ROOTED!!!! What are the full list of APP's that i can remove without problems?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] depsy89:
hello. is anyone here finding the volume and power buttons hard to press? i wanna make sure it's not just my unit causing problems..thanks!:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] warsylep:
Volume no. Power yes. It's a bit hard to press. It's placed too much into the phone body.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LPapas:
Im kinda off topic, but, i rooted, now where can i unistall the app's?

On normal unistall i cant, on titanium backup he says cannot unistall because dont find APK.

What program should i use to unistall apps? BTW what are all the apps i can unistall?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] OCouceiro:
APP's that i can remove

There is a folder in system called custpack and inside a folder apps and other called removable, i think those apps can be removed or install App root Unistaller

Remember, you should always make a backup before you un-install any system apps

Download & readme: http://dump.pargon.n...l/cwm-recovery/

It's now flashable using fastboot flash recovery recovery-2012.06.09.img, but I recommend first booting it using fastboot boot recovery-2012.06.09.img and making a backup (so you have a backup of your original recovery partition).

fastboot can be found in the Android SDK (Windows: fastboot.exe).

Note: I'ma noobe confirm whit dev's these !
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] LPapas:
It´s all Done!

Rooted and Unneeded app's cleared ;)

Thanks for all support ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
http://dottech.org/tipsntricks/2153...ows-computer-for-use-with-your-android-phone/

if u set up ur pc from the link above then u can open command prompt and start use the commands
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] v1c3:
CWM build

Hi,

I'm still unable to build a booting CWN :-(

From cm7 tree, I added a ot995 directory, with kernel and recovery.fstab

I can do "lunch full_ot995-eng", and "make recoveryimage", I get a recovery.img, and unpacking it seems OK (base and pagesize OK)

Trying to fastboot it leads to a white screen and the phone only responds to "adb reboot-bootloader"...

I've obviously missed something...

Vincent
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mistercheese:
why dont u just grab iuss's image...