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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
i installed an rotation application from market, which beside having the rotation setting to "auto" also has an option "forced auto", but still doesn't work

the accelerometer works, i can see the numbers changing, but applications like "angle meter" or "bubble level" also don't work anymore

any other ideas about getting the phone back to original state would be great appreciated
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
Yes, but you also have to use the rotation toggle button on the notification bar, no matter how many applications you install. If you don't activate that, your launcher screen will never auto rotate.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
Recovery

how can i restore stock recovery img (and perhaps boot.img) if phone does not start?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] strilec:
add-hoc, wpa_supplicant

Who knows an add-hoc wifi solution for (our) OT 977D?

I tried with a wpa_supplicant with 481488 size and 60938762572c6486391df42035e99648 md5sum

and another with 312440 bytes and 0b726e45af6e90bc442a9af5a9642472 md5sum

These just do not work (no wifi at all)

Any alternative? (if anybody needs it, at all (and now) :) )
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
Read this page on Bruno Martin's blog. It's about dumping the rom of a MT6573 based phone, but it's still valid por MT6577. I followed it to dump the stock recovery I later used to build CWM Recovery

http://bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.com.es/2012/04/creating-rom-dump-of-your-mt65x3-device.html
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
yes, but it seems ny system partition is crashed. i get /system/bin sh no such file on adb shell command

can you provide scatter.txt and if needed boot.img and recovery.img for me ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pkdick1:
Hello,

I tried myself as indicated but then I got an error message from the 3e recovery menu telling me something like "I can't mount SD" or "I can't open SD"... Do you have a piece of advice ?

Thank you in advance.

I had to use the Alcatel ONETOUCH upgrade to wipe my system and then to root my phone again to get the CWM recovery flash working, but it seems that there was something in my system preventing the operation...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
everything is on but nothing rotates except when I start the camera, it rotates from portrait to landscape and remains in landscape no matter how i rotate the phone after
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
PROBLEM SOLVED with rotation of screen, by recalibrating the G sensor
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] stnlmn:
Could you please upload upgrade manager 2-6-2 somewhere, I've googled it, no luck (( Thanks!

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stupid me!

I've corrected '2-6-3' to '2-6-2' in the url on the official website and downloaded 2.6.2 version!

thanks anyway!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KurtDK:
Clockwork Mod installed successfully

Thanks! Worked as described with Mobile Uncle. Now the only thing which remains on the wish list is Cyanogenmod.

Best regards

KurtDK

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Now that we have root on the Alcatel 997d, did anyone manage to uninstall the bloat-/spyware, like LED Torch? When I use Titanium backup it says .apk cannot be found. Also did not succeed with Mobile Uncle.

Thanks

KurtDK
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry70:
I searched for "torch" in root explorer and deleted all found files and "bad torch" was gone!

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I did a cwm restore of a cwm backup with default settings. The result was a mix of factory-rom and my backup!

So I go back to original with update-manager 2.6.3 and rooted again without backup-procedure
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robin-sips:
Lol, i wasn't checking this page for about 2days, and now we have a working root + CWM

Thanks allot !!!!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
I guess your best bet would be to begin from scratch with Alcatel Onetouch Upgrade. You install the firmware, and as the first thing, you root the phone and flash the new recovery.

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By the way, the apps Titanium Backup doesn't find are here: /custpack/app
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Kal111:
Thanks a lot buddy! :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jQuadrant35:
Jb 4.2 for mtk6577 devices

This dude is developing a port for 4.2

h t t p : / / fabosums.blogspot.com.es/2014/01/jb-42-for-mtk6577-devices.html

the description is in comments, seems to have a boot.img for the OT997, were you can replace it in his original rom and flash it but I havent tried it

anyone who dares?;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alanon:
Tried it a long time ago, got a bootloop.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cranio79:
Bluetooth low energy

Hi guys!

Is it possible to use a BLE device with Alcatel 997D? I know ble works only with android 4.3...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmedab:
Alcatel 997d backup/restore

Hello, can some one upload a clean backup of Alcatel 997D KitKat version please? if already uploaded on this thread just give me the page number. Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bahaa enany:
I hope that you forgive me, the lack of English language proficiency

My problem boils down to I owned a Mobile Alcatel One Touch 997d and it was an original copy Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.4 12/28/2012

MediaTek MT6577

I decided that brought about the Billie Jean

Android 4.1 Jelly Bean

997D02002TWRP file and placed in the external memory sd and followed the same steps at the forum, and the problem is mobile when running Depends on the Alcatel One Touch screen does not work then

I want to be traced back to factory condition or fix it

Help me thanking you for your help
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bahaa enany:
and whats mean unable to mount custpask

unable to mount mobile inf
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cranio79:
Bluetooth 4.0

Hello guys, 997D has BT 4.0, but it works only with android 4.3 or more...

I need to pair it with a BT 4.0 device, can someone help me please to solve this problem?

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eamelas:
Latest custom recovery for this device?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nabil3h:
i need nvram for 997d

because i have invalid imei

thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] www26:
Hello everyone! Long time no see :)

Does anyone know about any working download link where I could download 4.1 , 4.2 , 4.3 Android update from? I need it for my old Alcatel 997D.

I am using the one touch upgrade tool S .2.8.0 but that only downloads the factory stock 4.0.4 Android version without the latest update.

I have been using this phone for many years without a problem with the latest OTA update, but I accidentally reset it completely, and now a lot of apps are not compatible anymore...

Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 903idcop:
Just a little share with you all, and I'm quite impressed with the result according to the $$ I have paid for!!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
Bluetooth

Anyone else having this issues?

a. I connect a device via bluetooth. It is working. After some time the connection get's lost, bluetooth still enabled. I disable bluetooth, toggle works. I try to reenable bluetooth, not working. Must reboot to be able to enable bluetooth again

b. On pressing power button you get the choice to shutodown the device. But it seems, that this isn't a real shutdown.

Thx

Thunder
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
that is the problem. Upgrade Manager starts with Upgrade and says "Something bad happened" and exits. No change on rom possible.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermoon:
This morning phone has get a new firmware update .. system is 4.0.4-01001 but version is vB5Y-0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KurtDK:
Let's see if rooting is still possible with the new update? Who tries first ? :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 903idcop:
a. Haven't had a chance to try out with bluetooth yet. Will try to test it during the weekend and keep you guys posted afterwards.

b. The reason is because under "Accessibility" from Settings, it has fast boot option enabled. If you wanna have it fully shutdown, just disable that. :)

Hope it helps, cheers!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
Shutdown

Oh man, how could i miss that http://xdaforums.com/images/smilies/laugh.gif
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pkdick1:
Hello,

After I installed CWM recovery I had to do a factory reset and now I am stuck with the starting Alcatel One Touch Display: I tried to flash a new ROM with the Alcatel ONE Touch Upgrade S 2.6.3, but it fails saying "something bad happened" CWM recovery is still working but what can I do ?

Thank you for the help you may bring to me...

Important update:

I tried to use MTKDroid 2.29 to try to reflash boot.img and recovery.img and the software indicated that my CWM recovery was not suited to my device: however when I tried to flash my MTKDroid backup I got the error message "Error of Signature" File skipped... Still no luck...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry70:
Have you made a nandroid backup?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pkdick1:
No I have not made a nandroid backup: I however tried again a ROM flash with the Alcatel sofware and this time it worked ! Maybe due to the fact that the MTKDroid backup flashed successfully the boot.img to my device (I have no idea).

Anyway I will stay away from the CWM revovery "upgrade" until I learn a little bit more about it...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felikz:
For all guys who quickly want to root their phone and don't wanna look through the whole thread: Here is the most important post with all you need: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=34914428&postcount=56
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
anyone else have the problem of missing play store app after rooting ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
Yes, it's a common problem. Have you tried a factory reset from the recovery menu?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 903idcop:
Or I have tested to factory rest the phone from settings will also work.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mastermoon:
someone can confirm vB5Y-0 is rootable? yesterday i get this new update but i have fear to try rooting...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkmind82:
V5bt-0 confirmed root. Took me some time though ... Anyone know if there is any CM 9 in development ? Or any nightlys available?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
Not yet. The phone is still less then 2 months old. We're lucky to have been able to root it and get cwmr in such a short time. There's quite some info on rooting and getting cwmr for a MT6577 based phone, but CM9 is a whole different story.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibigr:
vB5Y-0 successfully rooted

I updated the phone to the latest vB5Y-0 version and then I rooted it successfully with mtk droid root 2.2.9.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
Anyone knows what can I do, if one touch upgrade manager says "Somethimg bad happened ..." and does not install the firmware?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
thanks, everything fine after factory reset
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] felikz:
cant install cwm unfortunately. it says "will reboot now" and then the phone shuts down, but does not come up. however, i can just normally turn it on, but then nothing has changed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
I did the same, and now I can't update anymore, the error message at boot is:

Installing update...
Verifying current system...
assert failed: apply_patch_check("/custpack/app/unremovable/withoutlibs/JrdTorch.apk", "02a297feb467eb8da393dd4c4441b6572e6264e"
E: error in /sdcard/.downloaded/update.zip
(Status 7)
Update.zip is not correct
Installation aborted
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KurtDK:
Hi dr_agosh82,

Please find attached the torch APK file. Copy to /custpack/app/unremovable/withoutlibs and try again.

Best regards,

KurtDK
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] KurtDK:
By the way, with Update vB5Y-0 the LED Torch only needs "Deactivate Standby" rights. So I guess it is no longer necessary to deactivate / delete the app.

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I currently experience a problem with Rooting vB5Y-0. MTKDroidtools hangs on step "-- root shel it is received temporarily before reboot ! ".

Any ideas?

Thanks

KurtDK
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
It worked, I was able to update ! However the torch doesn't work anymore.

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take out the USB cable, take out the battery for a few seconds, put back the battery, start in recovery mode, connect the USB cable
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
i copied the apk to specified path but Update procedure still says the same error about JrdTorch

And Alcatel One Touch Upgrade still says "Something bad happened". So cannot restore original firmware to again start the rooting procedure from scratch.

Any ideas ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bebr:
Exactly my situation :good:

"Most important" maybe, but sadly not "... that contains all information you need".

How about a forum post (/list thereof) that describe step-by-step what to do?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sibigr:
my root procedure vb5-y0

I updated to vb5y-0 then went into factory mode with volume - and power button mtk recognized the phone and then i pressed root on mtk droid tools 2.2.9. I got only 4 lines on mtk status I thought the phone was rooted, so i rebooted the phone once through the mtk droid.the phone started but lots of my apps where missing.then i did a factory reset checked if root was successful but it wasn't. i went again into factory mode vol - and power i pressed root,this time i got many lines in the status window of mtk droid so realized that this tine root was about to be done although i was afraid because i got some warning/error from mtk. I then rebooted the phone through mtk did a factory reset again checked it and it was finally rooted. No problems at all with torch or any other app.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
boot.img

can you explain how you flashed back thr boot.img with mtk droid ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
Another problem I have with my current state of the rom: CWM backup restore does not really restore all saved state and apps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] harry70:
try the tar backup format in cwm
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] pkdick1:
Hello,

All I did is during my first rooting attempt, I let MTK Droid doing a backup. So when I got stuck after a factory reset done with CWM, I switched off my device and I powered it again in factory mode (power + vol. down): using MTK Droid, I pushed the "button" "boot and recovery" and the software tried to flash the boot.img and the recovery.img from my backup. It seemed that it worked with boot.img...

I hope this will be useful to you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Darkmind82:
Looks like it take my hands of the ota update atm
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
I now succeeded in updating the ota update.zip with cwm. I changed updater-script in META-INF and deleted all lines of software that i already uninstalled.

So I can flash the update but lost root of course. Try to root the device again.

EDIT: After manuall update modded update.zip i can reset to original firmware with one touch upgrade and then update the complete update.zip

CWM Backups: I restored several backups I made but none of them restored the state i had when i backup my device. data isn't restored at all and system doesn't seem to be either

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I already choosed this as default Backup Format.

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Someone has experience with mtk droid root 2.3.0 ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
I've found the rproblem with CWM backups. On this phone, a lot of apps are stored under /custpack, which is also a partition, like system or usrdara, but since nandroid backup doen't know about the custpack partition, it doesn't back it up, so no way to backup the phone 100% yet. I'm trying to find a way to do it, maybe using a script.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
could this be a start for your investigation ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
That's a good starting point, but OT-990 (the phone that was made for) and OT-997D have a very important and big difference: on OT-990, the partitions (boot, recovery, system, etc.) are in MTD format (the usual for Qualcomm processor it has) and on OT-997D (and most MT6575 and MT6577) they are in EMMC format, which is a whole different story.

The idea behind those scripts is very good, but first, we have to get our own way to extract the different partitions and get the corresponding .img files.

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Let me explain the problem better: when you backup from cwmr, it backups your boot and recovery images and then everything under /system and /data. On Alcatel phones, you also have a lot of apps, and even some system files, under /custpack. Then, under /system, you have some files, like, for example, framework-res.apk , which are not the files themselves, but symbolic links (the Unix/Linux equivalent for shortcuts on Windows) which point to files under /custoack. When you restore the backup, you get the symbolic links, but not the files they should be linked to. I have to investigate and get to know whether there is any way to modify the source of cwmr and get the backup and restore processes to also recognize the files under /custpack. Or any other solution to also backup and restore those files.

Enviado desde mi ALCATEL ONE TOUCH 997D usando XDA Premium HD app
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] robin-sips:
Anyone has some details on working gps apps? I'm using sygic aura or tomtom europe. They both work fine. Tomtom only no speedcam sounds because you need to pay extra for it. I can't use navigon. It gives me a network error on startup. Igo doesnt seems to work either. Gives me resolution errrors on 800x480.

Anyone else wants to help me with the last two? I like to get them working again for my work ;)

They worked on my samsung i9000 before ......
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
CoPilot works fine too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dr_agosh82:
iGO works, but ... it doesn;t rotate, only works in portrait, and some buttons as well as the status bar are half covered by alcatel buttons (back, home, last apps). Also it only tells you the last instruction ("now turn left/right) and not 800, 300 and 100 m before.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
I have full version navigon europe. Support says until now, ot997d is not supported. Google play store says it is. Navigon is working in getting some more devices compatible. It is caused by the way the alcatel firmware sends the device id.

So you won't have any success in actual navigon versions until now.

Hope that they really work on that issue and not just saying it to angry customers to keep them calm.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
Definitely, all the problems come from how Alcatel developed the firmware and how non standard it is.

I've been researching the nandroid backup problem a bit further and I think I know what the problem is: Alcatel developed the phone with a very strange partition arrangement.

Besides including the custpack partition, unknown to other phones, the other partitions don't match what you can find on other MT6577 phones, so the clockworkmod porting scripts I used don't really work out of the box.

I have developed a shell script which can perform a CWMR compatible backup of all the partitions. Iin fact, it uses a little trick, storing the system and custpack partitions inside the same tar file (system.ext4.tar) in order to trick CWMR, but the recovery we currently have can't restore any backup created with my script.

The reason is that the partition table CWMR expects to find is the standard on 99% MT6577 based phones, so it's not suitable for our phone. I've been looking inside the backups created by our current CWMR and I've found that on the system.ext4.tar it actually backups the custpack partition, and what you find inside data.ext4.tar is not the data partition, but system.

That's because, for exampe, the system partition in our phone is stored where other MT6577 have the data partition.

I'll try to see whether I can change the partition information (it's on a file inside the recovery, called recovery.fstab) and compile a new CWMR which has the correct partition information. It would still be unable to backup or restore the custpack partition, but with the script I've just created, maybe we can make working backups, which could be later restoreable from CWMR.

I'll keep you posted. Wish me luck ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunder141:
I hope you will get it

Thx for your efforts
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jman0:
VERY VERY VERY (DID I SAY VERY?) IMPORTANT NOTICE:

Ok, now I have finally fixed some bugs in my previous port of CWMR.

This is the list of known bugs:

1) Backup doesn't work at all

2) A factory reset (data wipe) leads to the phone not booting again.

Both bugs were caused by the recovery.fstab file I mentioned before.

When making a backup, data and system partitions were being exchanged, both during backup and restore. As a result, restoring could fail or not restore properly.

The factory reset issue was caused by the same problem. When you performed a data wipe, you were actually wiping the system partition, so the phone would not boot. Now that the partitions are correctly set up, it should work.

The backup process is still ignoring the custpack partition, since it's not standard. Next step will be testing my backup script, which does take care of the custpack partition and creates backup that should be compatible with CWMR.

Everyone using my old CWMR port should flash the new one. I've already removed the old CWMR from my Mediafire account, and I will only keep the fixed version, which can be downloaded from the following URL:

http://www.mediafire.com/?v7wfjr6v1t7b0z5

In fact, I'm gonna change the link on my previous posts, so everyone gets the right version from now on.

About my backup script, I have been able to backup everything, except the apps moved to the sdcard, which are stored under /sdcard/.android_secure, which is usually unavailable, unless you plug de phone to a pc and activate mass storage. I've seen some code available, by people who were able to access .android_secure from the phone itself, using scripts, so I might get something in the future.

Anyway, I will move all my apps to the internal storage and make a backup like it is right now, with no .android_secure backup, and restore it

afterwards. If it works, we will at least have a 99% usable backup system for our phones.

Really, file structure on Alcatel phones is a real pain in the ass...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Roland_SGN:
Sorry, but I am confused about this thread. I expected to find some hints reg. 'How to root my OT-997D?' I see on the first two pages some hints, but the last reply indicates that some image should be loaded. My question is:

1) Is there a brief summary, what to do with the new img? I found http://www.mediafire.com/view/?n3m5ei65dn2qckx, but I am not sure, how your new image fits into the description.

2) I am highly unclear about the two mentioned issues in the last post. Does it mean

a) Backup is now fixed? (Backup=System-complete-backup or ???)

b) Full-Wipe is not recommended, neither with the new image nor with any other revised nor with the stock-one?