yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android General] :
Well, it seems is time for you to get help in the mt6573 unbrick thread. There's a guide to unbrick in the opening post, try to attach the required logs. I think it's there's a problem with custpack (even though scatter file directs you accurately to custpack), maybe the yaffs2 filesystem or some syminks created by stock installation. Sorry I couldn't help you, just yesterday I bricked again my OT985 and using again One Touch Upgrade S was the solution. My recomendation to OT985 users is never mess with any of the custpack partition files.

UPDATE: Here is a step by step guide to unbrick OT985... problem is it's written un hngarian... maybe with google or bing translate you could unbrick your phones.
[Android General] crywolf87:
Root alcatel OT 985 Help me

Hello!

I’ve got an ALCATEL OT985.

I tried to do the root with superoneclick and Sp Flash as well, but it doesn’t work (probably it’s my bad).

Does anybody know how to do that? A step-by-step help would be great.

I also was trying to use the boot.img from the web site, but it doesn’t work.

Many thanks in advance.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
ok... so... i got root aces... and i uninstalled anysistem app (TIM apps)! then i get a factory rest from settings! and the device was brikked! (when i turn on device appear only android logo) then i tried to install the hungarian rom that is posted here.. and the result is the same! then i tried to install custpack that is post here and now when i turn on the devices i don' t see nothing! but if i connect the device to pc the blu light is on!

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with google translate it' s impossible to understand anything! can anyone translate in english? because if thata guide fonctoin is very good for more poeple!
[Android General] :
Go to the wiki page for the Alcatel One Touch 985, at the end is a step by step link... it seems pretty straightforward and contains the boot.img file you recquire. Please come back if you succesfully rooted your phone... or if you don't. Now, I would like to make a recommendation to everyone trying to get root acces for this phone: Once you got root access, please don't mess with system or custpack apps, if you don't like an app just freeze it, if you need more space for apps, just install Link2SD and do as much as you can because it's a fact that CWM or any other known recovery utilities won't restore any backup and even SPFT will download your backup images to the phone but it will get stucked in a bootloop with a soft brick.

If you can't get One Touch Upgrade S to work but you're rooted and we don't have a reliable translation yet of that hungarian post, the only thing I can think of is the following:

1) Use USBDeview and uninstall every Alcatel and VCOM driver or anything related with your phone.

2) Reboot your PC.

3) Try again with One Touch Upgrade S. If it keeps telling you have the latest firmware once installed drivers, reboot.

4) Launch SP Flash Tool v2.1134.00 (it's important you use this exact version, I believe you do). You should have a scatter file specific for your phone at this point, use it to download recovery.img, but don't use this thread version of CWM recovery, you need to use the one provided in the page from the hungarian guy custom ROM. Go into recovery mode and make sure it's version 6.0.0.3., not 6.0.2.7 nor 5.0.2.8 (those I know they're "working").

5) Wipe data / Factory reset, wipe cache, wipe dalvik cache

6) Install the ROM through CWM (by installing update zip, it will reformat SYSTEM, CUSTPACK and DATA partitions).

Good luck, again. It's a matter of time until you find a solution.
[Android General] crywolf87:
problem super user (root) alcatel OT985

“Hello, that's ok, but I Have a problem: I can't root my Alcatel ot 985.

All the guides that I Searched do not provide super user privilege my mobile phone.

Does anybody know how to manage it?

A guide would be great.

Help Me Please

my address mail terribiledavide@mail.com”

Sorry if my English is not very good.

many thanks.
[Android General] :
I use this files.

First with SP Flash Tool I flash the 985root.img file to bootimg partition using the scatter file provided. You'll need to turn off the phone and put out battery, then puti it back in but don't connect to PC. Start SP Flash Tool, load the MT6573_scatter_file provided, be sure USB Mode in Options is enabled, uncheck every thing except BOOTIMG and direct this option to the 985root.img file. After all this is done, click on the Download button and you'll have 15 seconds to connect via USB your phone. Now you have to wait until the file downloads to your phone. When it's done you'll see a big green circle in a new window. You're done here.

Then turn on your phone, Open the SuperOneClick program, in "Exploit" option be sure you use "psneuter" as an option. Then you click the "Root" button and... well, that's it, you're rooted.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
thanks! but now i can't recognize my phone with pc! :(
[Android General] crywolf87:
Rom OT 985

Hello!

I followed the guide.

Superuser permission is fine. Now I rooted the phone. Thank you so much for your help.

But I’ve got an other question for you: Can I upload the ungarian rom " onedroida .blogspot . hu"

Or could you give me please any roms working well with Alcatel One Touch 985?

Actually On xda you can get some information about it, but it’s not very clear.

What do you think is better to do? Do you know any interesting links?

Many thanks in advance.
[Android General] :
You could try connecting the phone with Vol- button pressed, this activates an in-built mode in OT985, try power off, battery out, battery in, Vol- pressed, now connect via USB.

I know just a pair of ROMS, both were posted in that hungarian discussion where that "onedroida" guy (Laca) participates actively. I think there are so few ROMS right now and I must say they are still BETA ROMS, the biggest problem here is we can't make NANDORID backups and installing new ROM means you have to configure almost everything again.

Titanium Backup helps with this, but knowing we have such a little memory available, you should try making two titanium backups: one with the biggest apps and their data and one with the little apps with their data. This way you can use later Link2SD to create links for another primary partition for the big apps and free up some internal memory and the flash again little apps form titanium backup... That sounds crazy, but it's more practical than installing a new ROM, configure from scratch and if you don't like it or if it doesn't work as you expected start again.

Now to the answers: Yes, you can flash the hungarian ROM from onedroida.blogspot. But before you do it you must flash the recovery.img file they provide there (a CWM 6.0.0.3 version) with SP flash tool. It's pretty similar than the step of flashing 985root.img to BOOT partition, the one difference is you flashe recovery.img file provided to RECOVERY partition. After doing so you follow instructions as are written right there. It woks fine for me, I don't have 3G but I don't use it so often, language support is limited too, I prefer using my phone in spanish language which is not supported, but it supports english, hungarian, russian and other languages. This is my preferred choice for now and I would recommend this ROM as the best choice if you don't mind what I just wrote.

In this thread you can find a couple of ROMS based on stock firmware but simplified, you will have less bloatware, some updated Google apps and a collection of tweaks to improve performance, I haven't test all of them though. I just tested one of these and int works very well, but I didn't keep it in my phone because it does not support ext2 partitions. For now I stick with the "onedroida" ROM just because it supports ext2 filesystem and it works really great with Link2SD, I have Swiftkey linked to SD card thru Link2SD and it works fine... when I had it in stock ROM it was so, so slow!

If you could redirect me please to those interesting XDA links I would appreciate it.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
yes... i' ve downloaded recovey but when i try to get recovery mode don't appen nothing!

thinking i' ve rembered that i' ve flashed DSP_BL img from the dropbox link in thi thread!

can this be important?
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
if anyone get a rom backup of all files with SPFT i can try to flash it...
[Android General] :
Flash DSP_BL is never recommended for this devices... but you already flashed it and I wonder what did you flash. Was it a dsp_bl file for this specific model? Because, well, I can upload my backup, but I don't know if it'll work, I will upload preloader too in case you flashed another one. Use them at your own risk.

I'm uploading dsp_bl, preloader, my scatter file (better use yours), 985root (boot.img rootable via SuperOneClick) and recovery_cust_rom (recovery.img). This last is the best I've used for this phone, but none I've found can create a NANDROID backup. It's better to download DSP_BL and PRELOADER first, then you download everything else.Once downloaded you could try ONE TOUCH UPGRADE S again or try to flash a custom ROM. Good luck!
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
exscuse me... but i don' t find preloader img! O.o
[Android General] :
Sorry, here I go again, all files in case the others were mixed. Please use these:

recovery_cust_rom.img

985root.img

dsp_bl.img

preloader.img

firmware.info

MT6573_Android_scatter.txt
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
when i load DSP_BL and preloader i get an error: load file ............. fail! O.o
[Android General] :
Risky translation

I made my best trying to translate that hungarian post with three automatic translators and the two languages I know best, I can't confirm it'll work for you, but you better try. Keep i mind it is a long shot.

Remove and format the microSD card, which will be used later, keep it outside the phone.

Download and unzip these files in a folder easy to remember.

Make sure the drivers are installed on your PC.

Remove the battery and put it back, but keep the phone off.

Launch SP Flash Tool downloaded and load scatter file within folder named "1".

Choose the Format option from the buttons in Download tab, then the "Format whole flash". Click OK/Accept.

Ensure that the USB cable is properly connected and the phone is on a stable surface and wait for the green circle, you may see some warnings.

Now download the files by clicking the "Download" button. If can't download, try removing battery and put it back, then click "Donwload" again.

At the end of downloading image files, close SPFT and unplug USB.

Remove the battery and put it back, but keep the phone off.

Launch SP Flash Tool and load scatter file in folder "2". Popup will appear that must be ignored, if the check boxes are enabled for PRELOADER and DSP_BL we will have to turn them off.

Click on the "Download" button. Once download is done with SPFT, close it and disconnect the USB cable.

Remove the battery and put it back, but keep the phone off.

Launch SP Flash Tool and load scatter file located in folder "3". Two windows appear again, ignore. This time only check RECOVERY and BOOT, you load recovery.img and boot.img, respectively.

Click on "Download", reconnect the phone via USB (remember you'll only have 15 seconds) and again wait until the green circle confirmation.

Close SPFT.

Download asd.zip file or whatever flashable ROM you know it's working in your device and place it in the formatted microSD card root.

We put the microSD card in the phone and turn it on with Vol+ button first and then the on/off, hold both until Recovery Mode boots.

If everything goes fine you continue with next steps, if not, try upgrading now with One Touch Upgrade S.

Locate the option "Install ZIP from sdcard" and choose asd.zip.

Confirm with "Yes" placing on the right option with volume buttons and once located by pressing the on / off.

The installation will start automatically when finished you will have to reboot normally. The first boot may take some time (typically about 5 minutes).

SP Flash tool:

http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/65916988/file.html
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
great! unbrikked!

oh! yes! thank you very very much.... i' ve unbrikked mi phone with this guide... now i' ve telenor rom but it isn't important! i'm very happy! thank you! you are great! =)

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now... because in italy more poeple have this phone and more of them have problem with it, can i upload your guide to androidiani.com? thanks!
[Android General] :
It's not mine, we should be grateful with papaya xbox user from that hungarian forum, he's the man. I think you could share and improve this translation with your experiencie unbricking your phone and we have to make sure those files will be always available. If you don't like Telenor ROM maybe One Touch Upgrade S will work now, almost every one of those Telenor ROMS are going to mess 3G connection but some of us have no problem with that.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
i don't find any rom! O.o can you post some? thank!

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but, can i flash alcatel 918 custom rom?
[Android General] :
I don't know if OT918 will work, althpugh it is MT6573 based maybe some other hardware components will not work, you should expect camera, gps or sensors not working, but now that we know one working method to unbrick we could try with similar phone's roms. I decided to stick with this ROM for now, it is based in stock ROM with Holo Launcher and ext2 support, less bloatware and some good tweaks. I have gone far with this ROM, have applied build.prop tweaks, flashed improved audio libraries and MegaBass and some Pimp my Rom mods. It's working so great that deserves a NANDROID backup, I just hope someone could do it with this crapy custpack partition.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
great! but link2sd?

i've installed too this rom now... but i' can create activation script whit link2sd!

the error is: text busy.

can you help me?

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update: the problem is passed! i' ve done an update of app! and now i can create script! xD

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and with this rom i've 3G too!
[Android General] :
Hello Antonio,

I've been watching the structure in these guy's ROMS, and so far I've managed to edit one of them. I've seen some important things:

1) Any ROM you want to flash will need CWM 6.0.0.3 from onedroida because it can mount custpack partition, still it can't make nandroid backups.

2) It's really easy to edit these ROMS with Android Kitchen making a Working Folder from any of those ROMS you have tried and known to be working. One importante thing about making a new ROM is to use updater-script FROM their ROM. Right now I just screw my last build just because I removed some important system app necesary only for the first time boot.

3) Installation of these ROMS does not recquire format cache.

If you want we could try to build a ROM just for fun. I really don't have that much time to spend building custom ROMS, but with little help we can try taking as a base any ROM with MT6573 chipset AND 3.5 in display, replace firmware and custpack folder if it's there), create necessary symlinks and use their script modified for installation.

BTW, I resolve that problem reformatting 2nd partition.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
yes i'd like to create custom rom... but you have to know that i know very little about android!
[Android General] :
Well, I'm in the same position, buy great things are coming for MT6573 chipset...

I just have found in another topic that there are already CyanogenMod 10 and Android 4.x for MT6573 devices. If we don't start trying to build something now, maybe we'll miss the ride. Once we figure out we can port ROMS to our OT985 just filling custpack partition and firmware folder and using updater script from hungarian guys maybe we could port these new roms. Right now I'm having problems repacking boot.img to port Lewa OS ROM. You don't need a lot of knowledge. If you are under Windows, start installing cygwin in your system.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
yes... i've installed the kitchen in my computer! but now i don't know what i' ve to do!
[Android General] :
For now, take one zip file from working ROM. Take some APKS you need in your ROM. Setup a working folder with all default values and you'll get a WORKING directory inside kitchen folder. That is the directory you want to modify to get your ROM. Remove from system/data or custpack/data all APKs you don't want, replace old versions with newer ones and paste APKs you want in your ROM, another thing you would like to change is the "build.prop" file at /system, because there are many tweaks you can have from this file, I attach here mine, only delete txt extension and replace it in the working folder.

The trick to build is simple, once you have edited your working folder, extract updater-script from custom ROM to \META-INF\com\google\android\updater-srcipt. For now, don't make a lot of changes and try to see if you can build your first custom ROM, when the kitchen asks for update-script, you tell it you wan't to build from updater-script (Edify), only if it asks. Tell me what happens.
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
i've tried to delete some app and ow i'm creating a them with UOT kitchen! when i flash it i'm telling you what appen! :D
[Android General] darksyd2:
thanks for the translation dude, my phone is alive again but i have one problem, my Sim 2 didn't recognize my sim card. i do flash it again to verify but didn't recognize, change Sim card but nothings happen. only Sim 1 is detected. can anyone encounter this problem. i need your advice. thanks in advance.
[Android General] crow896:
Hy!

It'll not recognize your second card, 'cause this rom is for 1 sim card version of this phone. I think this: http s://www .dropbox. com/s/se6ez2e9mb08k5b/update.zip will work, but I don't have 2 sim carded phone so I'm not sure, but give it a try ;)

P.S.: sorry it's not allowed me to post link so remove the white spaces :)
[Android General] darksyd2:
thanks for your reply dude. i'll try it and feedback later.

edited-

i had finished download and had already flash the ROM but the same problem occur, only sim1 detected. what part of ROM should i need to modify to recogni ze Sim 2? i already use one touch upgrade 2.8.0 but it says there is no greater software available to upgrade your phone, actual version of your phone is the latest. i need more advice. thanks in advance.
[Android General] crow896:
Sorry friend, as I said I don't have two carded phone, but u should try this one :http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1730979

The previous I linked was made from a 918d rom, so if it will work on your phone we can use other 918 roms on our phones, if it doesen't then u can reflash your phone, so no risk ;)
[Android General] darksyd2:
it OK, i like that ROM you link earlier, thanks for your concern my friend. ill try it now. many thanks, i'll downloading it now and ill feedback later. :good: ;)
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
i didn't be able to do a rom! it don't works! O.o
[Android General] :
You may try with Laca's ROM, I installed it in my 985N and all the time I had access to a second SIM card that I, naturally, couldn't use. But maybe it'll work for you, the ROM is here. Not a very pretty UI for my liking, but you can use themes and try.
[Android General] Rattlesnk:
Is this custom rom worth installing? Can anyone write some opinions.
[Android General] :
Is it known 918 roms will work with 985 phones without porting? Because I just tried with this one and got myself a soft brick.

And crow896, dude, it's great to have you here at xda, we've been watching your progress at prohardver.net.
[Android General] crow896:
Hy!

In this moment I don't have a phone to work on it, 'cause my phone's screen is dead. Maybe on Tuesday I will have a workink phone then I will try other roms. I think the problem is just with the boot.img, so if we change it it will work. The other guy "papaya-xbox" on prohardver.net found a lenovo a60 rom which also can run on our phone, but it has some problem with sim card detection... Next week we willwork on it and other roms to make 'em work on our phone ;)

P.S.: Thanks for Greeting me :)
[Android General] :
God, you were right and I was too! Some days ago I asked to the creator of Andread ROM what would happen if I change boot.img from 985 to his ROM and it works! I haven't fully tested this Andread ROM, but changing boot.img just worked. I had another build with firmaware folder from OT985, but it seems it works just replacing boot.img for a known working boot.img.

EDIT: No, same problem. No SIM detection, doesn't matter if you port firmware folder too. I'll keep trying.
[Android General] z0fa:
first link is broken :crying:
[Android General] :
MIRRORS for 1,2,3 folders and spflashtool. ASD.ZIP is only a ROM you'll need to flash at the end, you can go to http://prohardver.hu/tema/re_alcatel_ot-985_olcso_alternativa/hsz_2405-2405.html to get ROM alternatives.

http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/65916988/file.html

http://www63.zippyshare.com/v/34528177/file.html
[Android General] z0fa:
Thank You! :D
[Android General] jeffta:
alcatel ot 985 Custom rom Dark ginger

Dark ginger by Jeffta

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsxLAUcMAJY

http://www.4shared.com/rar/GhbfZxYf/Dark_gigger_OT-985.html

This is my rom.Ported him form Alcatel ot 991
[Android General] Rattlesnk:
Can someone post feedback on this rom. How they work, are they worth installing ?
[Android General] jeffta:
Go on this peage http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=37256246#post37256246 and see picthure

Here are my ROMs from the 991.Some I've been doing,and some porting.In the video link to see the rom, and it works perfectly and quickly
[Android General] Rattlesnk:
It works for ot 985 ?
[Android General] jeffta:
OMG this is for ot-985

http://www.4shared.com/rar/GhbfZxYf/...er_OT-985.html
[Android General] Rattlesnk:
Mozes li mi samo rec jesu li to stock romovi, malo nabudzeni ?
[Android General] jeffta:
TO JE MOJ ROM SA OT 991 KOJI SAM PORTOVAO NA OT 985 JUČE.Radi provereno Baza mu je gingerbred.
[Android General] Rattlesnk:
i applied int2ext+ script via cwm. My question is, should i see more avaliable internal memory than i alerady have? I have ext2 512mb external partition.:confused:
[Android General] :
If you applied succesfully the int2ext update you should see an amount of extra memory similar to second partition size. If this is not the case, maybe you'll have to check your busybox installation and cwm log.
[Android General] Rattlesnk:
Any tip for what should i see in cwm, or how to to try to fix busybox. I will try now with busy box application from market. Do you think that ext2 could be the problem ? on stock rom, link2sd could only recognise fat32 ext partition.

Edit: when i try to open log i get this message "failed to open /sys/class/android_usb/android0/state: no such file or directory"

Edit2: i tried partitioning sd on linux gparted app (because cwm creates ext3), i created fat32 and external ext2 (said its supported by rom) , fresh install of rom, but still the same..
[Android General] michiamoantonio:
very good!

great i'll get this rom and i'll try it... i hope that it will be good! there are other rom for alcatel 985? thanks! :)
[Android General] vineeth15:
Hey which rom is good dark ginger or that ice cream sandwich rom thanks in advance....!!!
[Android General] stoshke:
Dark Ginger
[Android General] jeffta:
Rom v2.1 By Jeffta OT 985

Rom v2.1 By Jeffta OT 985

http://www.4shared.com/zip/PeHCyeHo/Rom_v21_OT_985.html
[Android General] vineeth15:
Hey i have idea aurus it is same as ot985 m from india....can i use the rom??
[Android General] vineeth15:
How to turn off camera sound?? :confused::confused:
[Android General] Rattlesnk:
can u post some specifications or / and pictures.. thanks