yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] jmorton10:
I got news for you, they don't care about that either.

Verizon has 100 million customers, one more or less isn't going to break their heart......
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] mybook4:
True, but it's better than not doing anything about it (enabling them to continue with the locked bootloader policy).

When I stayed with Verizon I essentially made the statement "I disagree with your policies, plans, and business practices... but not enough to stop paying you money every month." Many people here made the same decision. If enough people leave, they'll take notice because they'll be hit in the wallet. They are much more likely to respond to an issue of losing customers than to an issue of unhappy customers.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] toquer:
I've been working on this for the past week. Every exploit I've tried just hangs after a while. I've gotten much further manually. I've got unbuntu and been working using various manual methods. The thing I've noticed is that there is no system folder in root. There is a system partition in which app and bin folders exist. Later today I'm going to have time to try some more. If it weren't for these silly rules id reply to somebody elses post, but I guess reading in forums for 3 years as a registered user doesn't count. Never a need to post as I've always found something using a search. And now I've got a phones that's been out for a week and there's no info out on it so I guess I get to develop myself. Not a hard thing...just time consuming and I've got better things to do, but these pink apps gotta go and I need wired or wireless tehter again. Hopefully I have succcess later today and can post how I accomplished it.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jb0ne:
I'll be waiting anxiously. please post updates in this thread with your progress!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] darklink528:
Any progress on this? I have been attempting but no luck.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] toquer:
update on progress

ok so here's what i've learned so far from trying every method that i can find...

when you boot the phone into the pink screen (volume up and volume down plus power) there is a partition containing 1 folder with 5 files. That folder is called image and the file inside are amss.mbn, boot.img, cust.img, emmcboot.mbn, and recovery.img

The Ascend G300 is a similar phone to the G312 and there is a filed called superrecovery which changes the recovery to set ADB with root priveliges and installs SU in system. If we use the recovery from that batch file made by PauloBrien and push it to the device while in pink screen mode and then reboot into recovery the phone won't power on. You can return to the pink screen and change back to the original recovery, but you can not boot the device into recovery nor regularly. Now this gave me an idea as i'm typing. what if i change it and issue the command in ADB as ADB works during the pink screen. I'm going to try that now.

But this can't be done when in bootloader, only in pinkscreen which makes me think it's fastboot USB mode, but fastboot commands dont work uless you are in the bootloader with the huawei logo which you can only get into by issuing the reboot-bootloader command through adb. once you enter bootloader mode via ADB reboot command then you are able to issue some fastboot commands.

ok so that didn't work...basically when the files in the imge folder are changed the device won't boot into anything but the pink screen mode.

the original recovery file size is 6340KB and the one from PauloBrien is smaller at 5074KB. I'm wondering if file size has something to do with why it won't boot, however, i'm not familiar with what's inside of these files. So...as i reasearch how to build our own clockworkmod recovery i'm wondering if there's a way to change the ADB command inside from not root to root. if it's a on off selecton i'm not sure how i'd affect file size. this is where we get into the realm of knowledge that i don't possess.

so if anybody can offer up some knowledge from where i stand now... please do so.

on a side note, when running exploits, (gingerbreak, zergrush, doomsomething, psneuter, etc)...they all hang.

in linux when trying to drop a file into /system/bin the terminal read out says something about failing to cycle power, not certain what this means.

as i learn a bit more, i'll go ahead and add more...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jon_williamson:
I am hopeful to hear back from you with a successful root method for this device. I myself just purchased this phone for myself and would really love to see more development on it. Seems like a solid phone with a low entry price. Look forward to seeing what you come up with.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Farseli:
I'm also waiting anxiously for someone to figure this out. I just got this phone and while I really like it, there is just so much packed on this thing that I want to get rid of before I can really enjoy the phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mrsteel74:
I'll be watching this thread as well hopefully OP or someone else will figure out the trick to rooting this phone, like others I have used the usual methods but no luck. I've counted no less than 13 programs I'd uninstall right off the bat.

For what its worth the phone seems to not be considered part of the Ascend models of phones although they are quite similar our model is called the Unite U8680 and the Unite Q U8730 (the slider version). I've sent a email to Huawei lets see if they respond at all.

It's pretty much useless but this is all I can find on the G312 on the Huawei website:

http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/technicaIndex.do?method=gotoProductSupport&productId=4086&tb=0
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jb0ne:
I'll be watching this thread as well. According to a post on another forum regarding a different Huawei model, dialling *#*# 2846579 #*#* and making some changes in the log file settings suddenly made their phones rootable for some reason. However while the same # gets you into the service mode on this phone, the log file changes made no difference.

I wonder, though, there are quite a few other options in that service mode. Maybe something in there that could be useful.

Edit: There's one menu that looks interesting, the USB one. You can change it to all sorts of modes including "Manufacture mode" whatever that is. Afraid to try it, don't want to brick my wife''s new phone
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mrsteel74:
I've been playing with this menu as well and some of the USB modes do seem interesting. I was hoping this would let me find the product ID for the phone cause I found a link on the Huawei homepage to register to get an unlock code for the boot loader on this phone. If anyone is interested here is a link to the page and sadly the method they say to find the product ID doesn't work on our phone.

http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/servicePolicy.do?method=toApplyUnlock
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] toquer:
huawei says the product ID is an 8 digit number. I've been trying to dump the log files so i can scan them for some kind of 8 digit number. i've also tried all the different USB modes as well as a few other changes in the project menu that we're able to access. These haven't given me any success in changing the ownership of the folders needed to gain root access. i've not had any time to tear apart the recovery image to figure out what it's doing. but all in due time somebody will figure this out. still haven't been able to get fastboot to work properly either. am running through the usb modes on that now.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Bmarksepic4gtouch:
Yes please help i cannot figure out out either
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] toquer:
builder.clockworkmod.com

so i've been working on building a recovery image for this devices using koush's site and have been able to build it, but the device won't boot into recovery yet. not sure how to fix this, gonna mess around and keep on trying. i can get it to boot back up and can get it to respond to adb commands when in the mode that just shows the android 4g logo. but i can't get into recovery. not through adb and not through using the power and volume buttons.

still working on it... any body else have anything yet?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] mrsteel74:
No info on rooting this phone but Huawei just posted on their website the open source gingerbread kernel for the G312 U8680 here is a link to it:

http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwi...=toDownloadFile&flay=software&softid=NDY3MzU=
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jb0ne:
It's been rooted!

Yep, it's a simple one too. Happy to have my wife's phone rooted :) Removing bloat, however, is tricky -- it's hidden in an inaccessible partition and when you erase it, it restores it on next reboot.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=31237225#post31237225

http://www.droidrzr.com/index.php/topic/4276-how-to-root-huawei-mytouch-4g/

Big thanks to mattlgroff for cracking this nut!
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] jamonthis:
When you install an update to one of these apps lets use the, yahoo mail on for example, it will show in the /system/app or /data/app. The problem is the apk before the update is in /cust/t-mobile/us/app which is read only and unable to be mounted as R/W and that is why Titanium backup is unable to uninstall it.

I have tried moving it and deleting it manually with no luck. I have not tried through ADB yet but may give that a try next.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Farseli:
If you figure it out and find anything out I would love to know about it. Where should I watch for an update in case someone does get that sorted out?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] oneru:
Recovery mode

There is an accessible recovery mode, at least on my querty version of the phone. You have to completely pull the battery first. Put the battery back in, hold Volume up, and then hit power. I held the power button for a couple seconds, and volume up for maybe 6-8 seconds, then started hitting volume up repeatedly. The key is to pull the battery each time you try, I think. It looks like powering off from the phone's power menu just puts it in a suspend sort of mode. (Compare boot times when rebooting, and when pulling battery)

Apparently the bootloader is locked, so not sure how useful it is yet.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] zen_radius:
For anyone with a T-Mobile MyTouch Q (Huawei U8730), I created a wiki page for it, and we should post in the New Device Forum Requests thread so we have a specific place to post info.

I just purchased a U8730 today and will definitely be figuring out how to root it at some point.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] inaudible101:
For anyone that cares here's a link in case you haven't registered at the other site.

http://j.gs/1U5q
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] rachelm920:
I'm hoping we can get some development going for this phone. I just picked one up for my daughter a month ago and it's giving her memory filled messages already. It'd be great if we can get it permanently rooted and remove bloat to start... then possibly move onto Cyanogen... considering she had the horrible Comet (also by Huawei) previously and it had development for CM7. I may be taking a leap from my contract soon, but can't go to Straight Talk with her phone unless it's unlocked
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Nightwolf769:
I found this after doing some research

After doing some searching, I found this method and the video shows a walkthrough and has the link to download the file. I haven't tried it yet, have to talk to my girl first before I mess with her new phone. It seems really easy. Although I didn't or haven't found any custom roms yet :crying:.....hint hint, lol I'm a noob, so I can't post the full link, so you'll have to copy and paste. Please let me know if any of you find and roms or radio or the such....

youtube.com/watch?v=hcrl1rYcL7o
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] illdill:
This is great, gets you rooted. I was able to install clockwork, but I have no backup options in the recovery menu which is kind of the whole point. Anyone able to back the device up yet? I tried that adb method but I get an error about accessing the device. All other adb functions appear to work normally.

adb backup -apk -all -nosystem -f c:\backup.ab
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] titeuf007:
great thing:good:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] kenny513:
We really need that thread
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] racosta201045:
Helppp bricked

So...Here is the story...Had the U8730(T-Mobile MyTouch Q) Rooted...I left the phone alone for a while and

I attempted to delete the bloatware apps and I deleted something from the system file that I shouldnt have and the phone

started acting up so I pulled the battery and the phone is stuck on the android 4G. So I am bricked..

I am able to get into recovery and the pink mode...by vol up + vol down + power and that gets me into pink mode

where i am able to see the image file on my computer. Also when the phone is on and stuck on the android 4g screen

if i have the usb connected to the computer the screen on the phone shows the usb connected. Opting to turn on the usb mode

I can pull down the notification bar but not navigate much more than that...Please Please does someone have a back up of the image file

maybe in a zip version or any type of stock image rooted or unrooted...I can do something with any of those. Maybe I can mess with some of them of if some one has a method they can share with me...PM ME or email me anything...Call me text me...whatever..Please I

really need to use my phone..So if anyone can help it will be greatly appreciated!!!!

Thank Yall

Happy Turkey Day
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Nightwolf769:
That's why it's a good idea to use a program like Titanium Root and do a backup before you start to delete stuff, just in case. But if you can still get into recovery mode, I would simply try to reflash the rom from the zip file that should still be on your memory card.

Nightwolf
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] racosta201045:
I looked in the memory card and couldnt find any zip file...do you have a back up you can attach..I can try and reflash that..

I only able to get into the Recovey V3 not a CWM..I am not able to toggle verifications or any of that...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Markyzz:
Sounds like you're just missing a launcher. Do you have adb debugging enabled? If so then all you need to do is install a launcher apk via adb. Try Google searching for a holo launcher apk or something like that. Maybe you can even find a flashable zip of just the launcher.. Edit: you could also use your PC and navigate to the Goole play store website and add a launcher directly to your phone after logging in.

Sent from my phone.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] racosta201045:
Ended up swaping it out at the Tmobile store. I tried a couple different options. So what I learned was to leave the system bloatware apps alone. Well the IQ ones. All others I am gunning for
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Nillerz:
Anyone got root for the updated MyTouch Q? The old one doesn't work with the new updates...
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
http://www.addictivetips.com/mobile...es-boot-recovery-and-system-partition-images/
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] o0kay:
image folder files

:confused::(HEY i was wondering if someone could upload or point me in the direction where i could find the files that belong in the -image- folder i replaced them with other files and now my phone either restarts as soonest logo comes up or if i hold -volume up and power button i get a blue screen my phone is a Huawei Unite Q U8730--any help highly appreciated much thanks in advance:crying: My wife is going to kick my ass??help
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] FockingHail:
Need root on new OTA? Got it!

Fixed for me:

Some of these steps may be unnecessary, but this sequence worked for me, with a updated phone fresh from the box, under Windows 7 64 bit.

Note that NO exploit is required, just the right steps in the right order. ;)

You will need the "old" rooting file:

"Huawei MyTouch 4G Root

Created by mattlgroff

Visit me at DroidRzr.com!!!"

They want a registration to download at droidrzr.com, but the file is probably around elsewhere as well.

On the phone, go to phone app, dial *#*#2846579#*#*

Project menu->background setting

OTP NV filter switch, hit confirm.

UsbSetting->Manufacture mode, confirm.

Don't reboot yet.

In computers browser, go to here: sigmakey.com/ Sigma-Help/ Qualcomm.html scroll down till you see

Direct unlock for U8680, U8730, U8800, U8860, C8860E:

Click that and download the single file "Huawei drivers"

Extract the zip file somewhere handy.

Find and extract the previously used rooting file.

Now, reboot the phone.

When It comes back up, go to device manager (Win+r devmgmt.msc <enter>)

you should see some Android devices with yellow triangles (no driver).

For each of the four:

Go to details, change property to Hardware Ids, make a note of the number at the end of the first line in Value, right after MI_

Then go to driver, update driver, Browse, let me pick, All devices, have disk. point to where you extracted the earlier downloaded Huawei drivers, plus the folder for your OS (mine was t:\huawei\win764 for windows 7 64 bit)

Select any file in the directory, doesn't matter. use the following chart to load the correct driver for the MI_##

## Driver

00 Huawei Incorporated Android Adapter Modem

01 Huawei Incorporated Android Adapter PCUI

03 Google, Inc Adapter ADB Interface

04 Huawei Incorporated DBAdapter Reserved Interface

05 Huawei Incorporated DBConsole Reserved Interface

yes, 02 is missing, but unneeded.

Unplug your phone, count to 5 and replug.

I used the "old" rooting file and used the root.bat as a guide.

Extract the old rooting file to a directory, change to that directory, then, You'll want to do this:

adb reboot-bootloader

Wait for the bootloader to come up

fastboot boot rooted.img

Wait for it to come up, then give it an additional minute or two.

adb shell "mount -t ext4 -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /system"

adb push su /system/bin/su

adb push Superuser.apk /system/app/

adb push busybox /system/xbin/

adb shell "chmod 6755 /system/bin/su"

adb shell "chmod 755 /system/xbin/busybox"

adb shell "chmod 644 /system/app/Superuser.apk"

adb reboot

After the reboot, when it got the the "desktop", there was about a 2 minute delay where NOTHING seemed to work and i was missing all desktop icons. After about 2 minutes, everything worked.

This survives a "quick" reboot, don't know about a "full" reboot yet.

And I'm guessing the same basic process would work for a custom ROM image, but I haven't tested it yet.

Replies about working or not working would be appreciated. :laugh:
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] FockingHail:
8 digit ID, how to find.

Have you tried the 8 digit number you get from adb devices

Also, I have a reply that includes how I rooted the latest OTA. the post includes how to get the fastboot mode to work.

Short version: the drivers are NOT complete for updated phones, they seem to have changed the USB PID/VID/MI codes.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] FockingHail:
More fun with the U8730 / Huawei Mytouch Q

mount -o remount,rw /dev/block/mmcblk0p12 /system

Now install busybox from the play store. Then open it and install.

You may have to do this twice, using the smart install option the second time.

Use:

pm list packages -e To list enabled PackageManager apps (autoruns)

pm disable app.name.something To disable autorun

I now have 334872 free mem (after waiting for system to settle), it was less than 256000.

Oh, and you can disable CarrierIQ this way. I also wiped the apk from /system/app

/data/app seems to have new pkgs as well as updates to the existing packages in the form of pkgname-x. I'm guessing you could add a fake pkg and increment X (which is a number) to force an overwrite of (currently) undeletable packages.

Remember, if you have auto-updates on in the "Play Store", it can update and re-enable any package on the system.

Is anybody at all finding my piddling about and documenting it useful? Anybody? Bueller?

:confused:

---------- Post added at 09:18 AM ---------- Previous post was at 09:05 AM ----------

FYI, those MBN files? They are ELF files...aka executable (decompilable?) unix program.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
Did someone find the update.app firmware for u8680? I need it badly
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
how to root

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2214495
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
That is good, i just posted to make a dload file for us. I m waiting their answer, U should do this also
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] phoneguru9:
thanks

Thanks for this.....this rooting thing is all greek to me....still working around it though
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
the bootloader isn't locked.

my Huawei U8730 (MyTouch Q) is running with a modified boot.img and without cust.img.

we have gingerbread source code so we can build CM 7.2 but i can't because i don't have linux computer.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
Actually we cant because we have unstable cwm. one mistake and your phone is dead, And huawei is not giving the unbrick firmware,
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
i know for the unstable cwm.

with the existing cwm i couldn't do nothing,reboot appears to quick but i have made one and i have backed up my rom without reboot

my cwm need more investigation to be perfect but it seems that it is enough to flash a system
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
Yes, but we dont have back up option, and the most importand we dont have firmware, there are many bricked devices, like mine and samurais also cause huawei is not giving the firmware
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
taken from http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f717/f-q-frequently-asked-questions-1411931/index2.html#post8821770

Ascend G312 - U8680 - Unite - T-Mobile myTouch - Phoenix

Ascend_G312(U8680_Android_2.3_V100R001C85B839SP03_ America_TMO_05010TMC)

Ascend G312 Q - Unite Q - T-Mobile myTouch Q - U8730 - Buddy

Ascend_G312Q(U8730_Android_2.3_V100R001C85B837SP01 _America_TMO_05010TQM)
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
I already tried this, this is not working for those who have the last update, only if someone could find downloadable pach,
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
you have tried it with normal method or forced method?
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
Force method. Piink screen. I cant normal method. I am on bluescreen.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
it's strange that it doesn't work, It works on other Huawei device for downgrade it
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
Who told u that? This doesnt work. But i will try it again later
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
I thought the Huawei Honor for example, we could downgrade it to use the cwm

downgrade work for some Huawei device but it seems not with mythouch device
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
No. It is update.app. It is not flashable via cwm. It hangs on step 2. We need a downloadebale pach
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
i know but it seems you don't understand.

on huawei honor we used officiel firmware dload with update.app inside to downgrade it to flash cwm this is jus an example.

for mytouch devices it seems it isn't possible to use update.app older than installed version.
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] Crazygrouzin:
Im telling u this. It hangs on stape 2. But i will try it again when will be home
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
I think t-mobile has asked Huawei to block the possibility to downgrade maybe could work with update.app with same version to installed system but it doesn't exist
[Upgrading, Modifying and Unlocking] magikstar:
for those who are interrested in cwm go to http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2249586