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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Well [MENTION=4581984]x000x[/MENTION] donated his torque to me a few months ago. I bricked it but have since (2 days ago) got it back up and running. I am working on a custom recovery but it has not been easy. I have it booting but there is no display. I can use adb commands and even shell into the device right now. So I am very very close but not there yet. I am also looking into other development but first is recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
Many thanks for your work and look forward to your good news!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
thats some good news! i was thinking by now you might have tossed it out the window from frustration :P
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Well there will be a custom recovery!! While I did get one booting and it did make a backup it is not very good. It was ported from the echo and you have 4 images displayed. The best thing is that I now know we can have a working recovery. Now to get the details worked out.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
don't know if this will help any, but some guys are trying to get cwm up and running on a kyocera rise. maybe some of their info/discoveries could help with the torque? http://androidforums.com/rise-all-things-root/871110-team-itsonkyo.html
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Fester9977:
That is great information, I cant wait to get a recovery on my torque. I am willing to try it out on my phone when you are looking for testers.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rasta4rest:
Well i'll be waiting patiently for your work , hope it will be finished soon... Ganbatte ! :good:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
Who can provide the latest backup systems, preferably including radio.img. Very grateful!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
Can you provide a complete system backup an unmodified it? Very grateful!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
You can do a complete system backup it? I need raino.img have to fix my mistakes. I 1.007sp. Or will you provide an update of the system.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
I no longer have this phone.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
Who else can help? Thank you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UPdownLoAD:
I see Sprint hasn't posted a change log for the 3.00sp release yet. Good to see a phone 18 months old still being (somewhat) supported!

To those that took the 3.00sp update: what version of Android are you now on? Were any of you rooted prior to update? Anyone try to root since update?

Thanks!!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
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How do I back up these partitions for IMG from the phone? I want is to get a another kyocera torque, I can extract these files, restored to my phone now. I am currently a boot， recovery， system is 2.002sp file, and the rest partition is 1.007sp files. I received 3.00sp update, download ， update error 8507. I should restore all the partitions for 1.007sp, but I do not have these documents. So expect to get！

radio is mmcblk0p1？
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] darkpoe:
needs files

titanium backup wont put back system files i had moved around to make some room on this phoen to do updates. Anyone have the 2.602SP system.img? I saw the 2.00sp system.img and Im afraid if i load that I wont be able to do the 3.00sp update. Otherwise im just gonna go buy one of these things off craigslist for my mom..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
These technically not a problem, you need enthusiastic people! The men? Where?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
Can you provide your radio.img? I cannot phone, with QPST intention to amend the wrong parameters.

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Can you provide your radio.img? I cannot phone, with QPST intention to amend the wrong parameters.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] linyincsz:
qpst nv

Who can provide a mobile phone qpst the NV file backup? Please give me help ！

Or can anyone tell me the phone's NV data in that partition, how backup and recovery? Thank you!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] SoHardcore:
I *finally* got this 3.00sp update a few days ago. Delayed the update until Friday afternoon, which was a BAD idea. I didn't even want to do it then, but I knew it would automatically update after a certain amount of time, so I just hit OK. It downloaded fine, it appeared to install fine. Made it all the way to 100%, and then on the Reboot it said: "Error 8713: Fatal Error. Service required. Please contact your service provider."

So, of course, I had to the Repair Center in order to have it repaired or replaced. And, of course, the Repair Center cannot actually repair phones at all anymore. THEY CAN'T EVEN **FLASH FIRMWARE** ANYMORE!! They told me my replacement would be here after a couple buisness days, so next time I'll make sure not to update on a Friday afternoon. Sunday night or Monday afternoon would be mo' better.

And, as a matter of fact, I'd prefer to figure out a way to DISABLE UPDATES! Anyone know how to do this??
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
welcome to the club. Same thing happened to me like 6 months ago. I was just going to toss it in the trash but donated it to a dev. That was the first and last kyocera phone I'll ever buy.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] george911:
Kyocera Torque replace / repair

hello, anyone have success with a rma for the torque? build quality is questionable (screw missing and case seperating and slow)

Thanks everyone and happy holidays
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] computerkidt:
I tried this the framaroot says it worked but i reboot and it doesn't have root. I've tried like 4 other methods after this failed and they either totally fail or say they worked and I don't have root. I forget but one of the methods came a bit closer than the rest when I opened SuperSU it asks me to update SU but then fails to update. I set default to granted like most post say to and still apps like titanium backup don't see root and/or I don't have root also can't remove bloatware in ES File Explorer. I've worked with root for years on samsung flagship phones with mostly no issues. Any help I would appreciate.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougunder:
idn if your still looking, but this worked for me

Used framaroot 1.61 gandalf.

rebooted

used framaroot 1.61 gandalf again, didn't reboot

installed SuperSu from market and changed access to grant

installed busybox via jrummy installer

My phone is the latest software revision.

Edit:

I'm using the phone on ringplus, so sprint specific stuff is useless.

I found after debloating the DC button was nonfunctional.

I fixed this by editing /system/usr/keylayout/gpio-keys.kl

I changed the bottom line from

#key 231 DC to #key 213 CALL WAKE_DROPPED

after a reboot a short press opens the dialer, a long press opens the voice dialer.

The voice dialer blows so i removed it, now a long press open google now, functionality I'm happy with.

Just for experimentation I install Bluetooth Launcher which allows you to set any action to the call button.

Must say this is a great phone, was only $60 in amazon market and just $17 pm. Nice step up from my commando on straight talk.

Only outstanding issue i've got (aside from grant all supersu) is when i select the battery option in settings, settings FC's.

Anyone know what is causing that?

Edit

Anyone got a 3.000sp backup?

I stupidly debloated without backing up. I've debloated verizon phones a ton of times, didn't think a sprint phone would be any different.

Now I can't update PRL or profile. I ported my number to ringplus, went to reprogram and ran into a ton of issues.

Managed to manually program and copy over APN settings and get working but i know this is going to bite me in the A** when I need to update prl.

I've tried installing some apps from the posted 2.000sp system backup, but they seem to force close as often as they work.

Could someone please post a newer backup?

Edit:

I was able to update prl, may have just been poor service. Update profile is broken but can be done manually so It's not terrible.

Still an updated backup would be great. looks like Online Nandroid Backup works with this phone .

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Anyone still hacking on this phone?

I can boot it into fastboot, but no luck yet getting recovery booted. I tried a recovery for the hydro that booted but there was no display.

I don't really know where to start to build a recovery so i've been trying ones for other MSM8960 devices, so far without joy.

you can get to fastboot with

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot oem unlock

...

OKAY [ 0.002s]

Is the bootloader actually unlocked?

I've been booting recoveries with

fastboot boot recovery.img

Any hints as far as a working recovery?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougunder:
Definatly not a locked bootloader

I guess no one bothered to actually check.

I'll start working on recovery. If you can help msg me. Good durable phones like this do not come around every day.

First time, though i've playing with linux a long long time.

I'll report progress here
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
I swore I tried that. Now that my wife has a new phone I can test with it. I was given one for a test device but it was having issues. Then finally died. I had a booting simi working recovery. If I can actually unlock then I will get a recovery and rom shortly after that.

Edit: Well I tried and it looks like it did work. I will start back on getting a recovery working. I will modify the kernels ramdisk and see if it boots. This will let me know right away if we are actually unlocked.

Edit: I edited the boot.img to allow adb access and it booted fine. So this makes me think a couple this. 1. I did not try the oem unlock. 2. I did try it and it did not work. Which I swear I tried this. The device I am currently using is on 2.002 software.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Ok so I have played around with the device and it seems the bootloader is not really unlocked. I can boot a kernel with a modified ramdisk through fastboot (fastboot boot boot.img) and it works fine. If I flash the boot image (fastboot flash boot boot.img) I get stuck in bootloop. Once I flash the original boot.img all works fine again.

So maybe I did try the oem unlock and it just did not make any difference.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougunder:
I'm compiling a recovery now based on these instructions.

Hopefully I'll have something to post in a while.

I've noticed playing around with that the that the bootloader freezes easily, I've not tried booting anything else so Im withholding judgement.

I'm not sure that it's looked seems a poor implementation. It definitely says unlocked when I query it, so idn what to think.

Did you try #fastboot oem device-info? what did it return? I'm using 3.00sp

I'd be pretty happy with a working cwm, even if only via fastboot. Once debloated the stock software in pretty vanilla which I generally prefer.

the kernel source is here and a copy of the running config is attached

Edit

Tried booting the recovery.img i built and in looped a couple of time before booting android. As mentioned I've not tried this before, so it's probably my technique. I'll work in it some more.

It seemed like it did boot the rise recovery , though no display. Can i get a little info about the recovery you mentioned?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
hah just when i thought this phone was forgotten :P

if cwm can get up and running i might buy another one. they should be really cheap these days. there is a 'new' model of this out called the "torque xt" but as far as i can tell it is almost the exact same model, they have the same MSM8960 processor and gpu, same system memory. only the xt comes with android 4.4
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] UPdownLoAD:
New XT has 8GB of storage too
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougunder:
Life has gotten in the way

I'm having a bit of trouble with getting a working recovery, but I'll keep ticking away .I've kind of hitt a wall and real life is taking my focus :)

If anyone can help out let me know. Even if it only boots via fastboot it will be useful. You can boot directly to fastboot so it would prevent a brick, and being able to flash zips could probably get superuser/supersu working right.

I've been posting here trying to elicit a bit of help as the hydro recoverey does boot, only there is no display.

They are really cheap now I just bought my wife a mint used one with sim for $45 on ebay, which I upgraded to 3.00sp and took a backup.

Here are the files for anyone that needs them, let me know if you need any other partitions dd'd

recovery.img

system.img

userdata.img

system apps

Modded or not this is a wicked good phone.

As cold as it's been the ability to use all the physical buttons in gloves is killer, haven't found a way to answer calls yet.

Got to recommend Physical Button Music Control

Was out snowboarding last night and had music playing on the torque zipped up in my jacket. Was loud enough for me and my buddies to hear and played for 3 hours with plenty of battery left. What else would you want in a phone?

EDIT: forgot to upload the boot.img, I'll add when i get a chance.

EDIT: The DC button remapped to CALL will answer the phone!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Do you know if the images will work on Sprint? I have a Sprint Torque and I don't have any clean images unfortunately and the image on it is pretty screwed up. I'd be up to fiddling around with it if anyone knows of these images work on Sprint.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougunder:
Yea it should. It's from a stock, factory reset E6710. It's only a sprint phone.

I use RingPlus which is sprint towers but cheaper.

I should add, these are DD images, not nandroid. you should be able to restore with fastboot flash .

It might be better to just restore the system apks which are posted too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
I tried, I'm perfectly fine with using fastboot to write over all the imgs
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougunder:
So it worked? phone booted up?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Haven't tried it yet, sorry my wording was unclear. I tried loading system apps back and couldn't get it working back correctly.

Regarding trying these images, I'll try it on Monday when I get back from my racquetball tournament ;)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dougunder:
Hope the tournament goes well!

Here is the boot.img i forgot
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
I'll post this again in case anyone missed it. this is for a different kyocera phone, but I don't see why it would not apply to pretty much all of their phones. I don't know if it is true or not, but if the part about the key is stored in the kernel and the memory is in fact true, then it explains why nobody has ever been able to make a custom recovery many kyocera-branded phones. http://androidforums.com/threads/po...-the-kyocera-rise.660612/page-35#post-6369904
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Just remembered I was going to do this! Working on it now. We'll see If I have a nice shiny brick or not.

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GOOD NEWS, flashed everything, except userdata (since that's his personal info on the phone), and it worked! Now up to the latest version of firmware that I couldn't update to before!

Commands run, if anyone is curious:

fastboot -w
fastboot flash boot boot.img
fastboot flash recovery recover.img
fastboot flash system system.img

Perhaps I'll try to futz around with getting some custom things on this guy.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] x000x:
this is a topic about another kyocera device, but the last post #57 by modhatter might have stumbled upon a clue? http://androidforums.com/threads/team-itsonkyo.871110/page-3
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
Can only boot using fastboot. Is there a solution?

Thanks to this thread, i have gotten my Kyocera Torque to boot after having a failed update with 'fatal error 8713'. Thank you to everyone who posted the stock .img files.

As shown previously in this discussion, i used flashboot to flash each of the .img files shared here. i can boot the phone using fastboot boot boot.img. However, starting the phone any other way returns to the 'fatal error'. Is there truly no solution to this? i'm basically trying to confirm what i seem to understand from this thread - that this error is truly fatal without sending the phone back to Kyocera. Usually i consider that any phone that can fastboot is possible to save. Is this an exception?

If there is a solution, where might i start looking? Has there been any progress on custom recovery?

Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Have you tried to use fastboot flash?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
Yes. I download all files that were linked in this discussion, and i followed these commands exactly:

fastboot -w (this command returned that partitions were successfully erased, but formatting failed)

fastboot flash boot boot.img

fastboot flash recovery recover.img

fastboot flash system system.img

If i reboot the phone normally (or fastboot reboot or fastboot continue) , the fatal error stops the boot process. If i use fastboot boot boot.img it works until the phone is restarted
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Hmmm that's worrysome, I wonder if your internal data is corrupted.

Does it say formatting failed or not automatically formatting?

I just tested everything you did, step by step again, and mine boots fine.

Edit: interestingly, userdata doesn't seem to actual erase...I still have everything after "erasing" userdata
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
Does it say formatting failed or not automatically formatting?

Thank you for asking - it says 'not automatically formatting', it does not say failed. Is there a way to make it format? Is there perhaps a different/additional partition i need to flash?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
I just made an edit, I tried it all over again and I see my user data didn't actually erase. Try flashing his userdata.img https://www.dropbox.com/s/8jy1r4vcuw9pc7z/userdata.img?dl=0 (link copied from his post)

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Actually don't bother, you can't flash it because it's too large.

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Try this: http://support.sprint.com/support/tutorial/Perform_a_hardware_factory_reset_Kyocera_Torque/47366-396
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
Correct, i found out userdata.img was too large just as you said it :)

I had already done the hard reset described in your link, but i just did the whole process again:

-8713 Error

- Hard reset

-8713 Error

- fastboot flash boot, recovery, system (from this thread)

- reboot = 8713 Error

- wipe cache (just to see)

- reboot = 8713 Error

fastboot boot boot.img is only way to get it running.

It seems sooo close to working i keep hoping a simple answer will appear! Does it seem more related to Kyocera security, or is it truly a system failure?

Thank you for so much for your suggestions
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
What software version are you flashing? If you dont know go into settings about device/phone and check there. My guess is your running the latest 3.x and if so I would suggest trying 2.02 instead.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
Yes, i am running the latest 3.X. Where do i find the older files to flash?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Try doing a fastboot erase boot then a fastboot format boot, then fastboot flash boot boot.img

I dont think you need to downgrade since you can get it booting using fastboot boot boot.img
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Well if it doesnt work I will link you to my dropbox with the images.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
i tried this and error results are the same.

During format, i get:

Formatting 'boot' partition

Formatting is not supported for file system with type ' '.

FAILED

- Doesnt sound good, huh?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Did the erase work?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Here is a link to my torque files. It is a folder that has the actual system files but you will also find .img files mixed in there. Just download the .img files and flash via fastboot and see if they help you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
The erase part seems to work fine

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Thank you very much. I will try flashing these files shortly

Where is the link?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Sorry I guess the link didnt post. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wp7sysz12oy9cks/AAA1ClCuDnUVRGi-I7XKGpmua?dl=0
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
i tried flashing the files from this link (boot, recovery, system) and unfortunately its still the same 8713 error :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Yeah. I didn't really think that was going to work. Something makes me think that the boot partition isn't actually writing since you can boot fine using fastboot boot.

Can you try using fastboot boot with the 2.x files and see what version in shows in the about section?

Do the same with 3.x as well to test as well.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
the software version in about accurately reflects the different versions. (2.002 vs 3)

im wondering if theres anything i can do with aparted to really format the internal sd?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
I know for other phones! When you got twrp on there, you could mount the internal as on your computer and reformat it, but we don't have that yet here.

I kind of want to play with download mode. I don't know anyone who has used that! But I'm wondering if it's like the download mode on the Samsung phones where you use Odin to program the phone. I might play with trying to use Odin at risk of bricking my phone.

Maybe it will work, in which case maybe it would work for you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] msmadilee:
Yeah, i wonder what download mode is for too. At least it makes it look like there's something we havent tried! Please let me know if there's anything i can do to help since my phone is already a soft brick.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Will do, I'm going to play with mine right now, see if I can figure anything out.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jlmancuso:
Odin does not recognize the device. Have not tried with heimdall though.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Stonebot:
Yep, just tried, Odin does not see. One note is that the download mode uses the Kyocera drivers from the website to recognize the device:

I'm thinking that there might be a web address we have to go to, because it's acting as a "USB Modem"

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Going to look through here see if there are any tools included in this developer package. http://www.kyoceramobile.com/support/developers/

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Doesn't look good, poor documentation, other than the linux kernal of course, but that doesn't help us.