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[General Questions and Answers] Shreps:
[GUIDE] Unbrick/Full flash Acer Liquid S1 (S510) [MT6589T]

Drivers

Download MTK Drivers : MTK_SP_Drivers_v1.4.rar (last one unsigned) or MTK_Signed_Drivers.zip (older but signed for Windows 8)

Open your Windows device manager

Remove your battery from your S510

Plug your device to your PC with USB cable (a good cable, on a direct back USB port, avoid front USB ports)

A "MTxx Preloader" device should appears for a few seconds, install drivers for it

Unplug, replug the USB cable, your device should be well regconized (a COM device in USB Ports & Com)

Flash the firmware

Download and unzip this archive :	S510+DualSIM+SW+and+Flash+tool.zip	1dd438886e063e0dab177d31e196c526

Unzip both SPFT and Firmware archives

Run Flash_Tool.exe has an administrator

Click on "Download Agent" and choose "DA_SWSEC.bin" from SP Directory

Click on "Scatter Loading" adn choose the scatter MT6589_Android_scatter_emmc.txt file from the Firmware directory

You should have something like :

[IMG="SPFT S510"]http://acer.shreps.fr/dls/storage/S510_AcerLiquidS1/Screens/SPFT-S510.png[/IMG]

Click on "Download" : SPFT is now waiting for a device a COM port to Flash

Remove your battery from your S510

Plug your device to your PC with USB cable (a good cable, on a direct back USB port, avoid front USB ports)

The flashing process will start automatically : do not unplug your USB cable !

A red bar for COM loading, a purple bar for Preloader Flashing, a yellow bar for Firmware flashing

Wait for a Green Circle saying the flash process is finished

Close SPFT, unplug USB Cable, put back your battery, charge your phone for 10min, try to boot it

If you got the error :

BROM_ERROR : S_SECURITY_SF_CODE_DOWNLOAD_FORBIDDEN (6010), MSP ERROE CODE : 0x00.
[USER] To download code area is forbidden in this phone

Try to uncheck "PRELOADER" in order to flash the firmware but not the Preloader (which is protected)
[General Questions and Answers] nikagl:
Wow Shreps, very impressive guide, thanks! Sorry, was out all day and couldn't reply yet with more details (plus my S1 USB doesn't work anymore, it just charges, so wouldn't have been able to test any of the SPF tool).

Using SPF, there's no way to flash other recovery (like with the other Acer MTK devices)? Sounds like rooted KK will not happen in that case :(
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Shreps,

i recived error:

BROM_ERROR : S_SECURITY_SF_CODE_DOWNLOAD_FORBIDDEN (6010), MSP ERROE CODE : 0x00.

[USER] To download code area is forbidden in this phone

Log in attachment
[General Questions and Answers] Shreps:
Try to uncheck "PRELOADER" in order to flash everything but not the preloader.

If it doesn't work, will have to "play" with the "SEC_RO" area.
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
WORKING NOW!!!!

Thanks Shreps i own you good polish vodka :)

Thanks one more time huys for help
[General Questions and Answers] Shreps:
USB Charging, USB transfert (MTP or Data) and USB COM port are 3 way differents of communication.

Maybe USB COM works even USB Data doesn't, you should try :p

About the recovery, everything is signed, we tried flashing a CWM : resulting a soft brick (preloader detect an area unsigned and doesn't boot anymore)

The only way is to success on flash an Unlocked Preloader (equivalent of Bootloader) like we have done on Acer MTK Tabs (B1*, A1-810, A3-A10)
[General Questions and Answers] Shreps:
Is your phone back on JB and working again ?
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Yes Shreps, exectly

Some strange firmware 0.177 or something (i just flashed in recovery newest one)

From which firmware i should flash to KK?
[General Questions and Answers] JinoBit:
How to manually install KitKat?
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
If you don't know or did not understand that thread, don't try and wait for the final update from Acer ?

Envoyé de mon E380 en utilisant Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
Hello. How to play with sec ro? I'm cannot flashing phone!

---------- Post added at 12:40 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:14 PM ----------

BROM_ERROR : S_SECURITY_SF_CODE_DOWNLOAD_FORBIDDEN (6010), MSP ERROE CODE : 0x00.

[USER] To download code area is forbidden in this phone

See, I'm also have same problems
[General Questions and Answers] nikagl:
What ROM are you flashing (just to be sure) and did you uncheck "PRELOADER" in order to flash everything but not the preloader?
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
I'm flashing rom which I downloaded from this site whith flash tools for 6589 yes I'm taken preloader but flash tools every time showing this errors about sec ro
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
Here is a new KitKat update for S510 :

Update Version : AV052_RV86RC06_AV0K0_RV0SRC04

JellyBean to KitKat

FileSize : 424,27MB

URL : Deleted as it caused bootloops

And for those already running KitKat :

Update Version : AV0K0_RV0DRC01_AV0K0_RV0SRC04

KitKat to KitKat

FileSize : 165,17MB

URL : http://global-download.acer.com/GDFiles/Application/OTA/635463686156775308_OTA_Acer_1.0_AV0k0_A.zip
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Wow, official update from acer side? I don't belive it

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How i can install that? I cant flash that from recovery....
[General Questions and Answers] Shreps:
Yes you can :p

It's just a zip in a zip ;)
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
You need to extract FixPack_B and flash it from recovery.
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Bootloop again :(

I think my acer don't want KK
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
my acer also after flash by this fix b firmware has a boot looping again :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
Yeah a friend got the same. I'll delete this link. ?

Envoyé de mon E380 en utilisant Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
So still waiting for officail KK :(

[MENTION=2205551]paugustin[/MENTION]: where you heard about this update?

I try to find something about that but no result...
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
So, how to flash normally back to jb?
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
See post #125

After that flash the full ROM available on Acer website and you'll be back on track. You'll stil have to go through a couple of OTA update to be back to the latest version.
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
Thanks a lot for answer, I'll do my best!
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
OK, but I can't flash firmware from post#125 without file SEC RO. Do you have idea where I can get this img file?
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
I had the same error as you. Did you try UNTICK preloader (and rest is the same as in Shreps step by step guide )?
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
Yes I'm trying untick preloader, but error about sec ro remain :crying:
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Sorryci can't help you but i think Shreps could hepp. Try PM him or wait for his response
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
Paugustin what's about your phone acer S1 hi is successful flashed to KK?

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Slimohnr your acer S1 working with KK?
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
My S1 is in the hands of the friend who had the bootloop. He flashed it back to JB using Shreps's tutorial.

Envoyé de mon E380 en utilisant Tapatalk
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
Thank you, I hope I'll also can fix it soon and by myself ;)
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Unfortunetly not. I tried to flash 2 versions of KK firmware but i reviced only bootloop.

So i think we must wait or buy S520 :D
[General Questions and Answers] IronFly:
i was so happy with KK but my father killed my S510 closing the car door on it. :(

Since S510 is very hard to find now, what can be a good substitute?

PS: Hi to nikagl from another "owner" of a lot of acer's smartphones, thanks to paugustin for the KK roms.
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Hi IronFly

Where do you live? If you want you can buy new S1 in Poland in less than 200EUR

http://allegro.pl/phablet-acer-liquid-s1-duo-5-7-dual-sim-8mpix-i4590691730.html

If you will decide to buy it in Poland i can help with finalize the trade
[General Questions and Answers] IronFly:
Hi, i live in Italy.
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Wow little diference

On italian ebay: http://www.ebay.it/itm/ACER-Liquid-...21414593482?pt=Smartphone&hash=item1c44dfabca

more then 350eur

In Poland: 191eur

I ask this company if they would send product to Italy (and about transport costs)
[General Questions and Answers] IronFly:
thank you but my father is looking for something newer. :D
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
Hello Paugustin, I have also bootloop, on the France forum, you wrote what you can unbrick phone by imei, and Bluetooth mac address..could you help Me?
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
To unbrick the phone use the method in post #125 or here : http://acer-club.fr/viewtopic.php?f=210&t=9739

I'll have a better ROM to flash using flashtool for download in a shore while. It will be RV86RC06, so the most up to date JellyBean ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Maybe it will be possible update to KK (RV0DRC01_1.056.00 from Shreps side) without bootloop :)
[General Questions and Answers] paugustin:
It is uploaded here : http://mon-nuage.net/S510/Acer_AV052_S510_RV86RC06_WW_GEN1_user_signed.zip

Flash this using the flash tool from post #125.
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
I will try flash this rom + then update to KK this evening
[General Questions and Answers] Shreps:
Was it ok ? (it should)
[General Questions and Answers] ericsson2003:
Thanks You,alredy unbrick by post#125!
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Now it works :D Finally i update S1 to Kitkat

BTW second update from KK to KK also works!

Thanks guys!

ps: Is ART fully working on this firmware?
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Ok ART working :)

The locksreen is awful :/ but i think phone is faster on KK than on JB.

And i still don;t know how to begin video call on this phone :)
[General Questions and Answers] renzs:
official OTA KK update is out for S510 WW Gen1 in Malaysia today

still nothing for S520 [emoji20]
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
If somebody will root S1 on Kitkat i will be very happy :)
[General Questions and Answers] Shreps:
Sadly, the only way is by unlocking the preloader (kind of bootloader) in order to properly flash another boot or another recovery.

Actually, everything is locked, signed, so no "exploit" seems to be usable :/
[General Questions and Answers] nikagl:
I upgraded my KK (RV86RC06) to the latest KK (RV0SRC04, yesterday the OTA was pushed to my device) and it even seems faster than the last KK release, so very happy :good::laugh:
[General Questions and Answers] slimohnr:
Do you have any problem with writing anything on SD Card on Kitkat?
[General Questions and Answers] nikagl:
Yes, off course. That's a general KK problem. You can use the File Explorer (which is a system app) to access, move and delete files everywhere on the (External) SDCard, but with all other (downloaded) apps you can only rename/move/delete files in it's own App Dataspace (for instance for Chrome: /sdcard/Android/data/com.android.chrome).

Regards,

Nika.
[General Questions and Answers] renzs:
Still no KK for S2 [emoji22]
[General Questions and Answers] nunoslv:
Change broken screen, dead phone.

My phone fell from the table and crashed the screen. Bought a new one on ebay from the states, fitted it, and now all I get is a blanc white screen. The touch vibrates but I see no graphics.
[General Questions and Answers] renzs:
defective screen maybe? or bad connection?
[General Questions and Answers] nikagl:
I previously replaced a screen on an S300 and A1-811 and never had any issues. Connected it and it worked immediately. You must have received a bad screen, or cracked one of the connectors? In both cases I shipped them from China.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] seagood3:
I would like to take advantage of the T-Mobile $30 unlimited data plan. I have searched around and seen a few options, but no great resource and I am just not sure if it is possible to use my GS3 SCH-i535 on T-Mobile. I always thought you couldn't as it is CDMA and not GSM, but can you with the ability to unlock and root?

I haven't really done much of this, but am willing to give it a try if it is possble. Anyhelp, links or information is greatly appreciated.

Also does anyone have t-mobile in the Philadelphia area? I understand that the coverage is not great, but seems like it is worth a shot fr $30 a month. Worse case I go back to V or ATT if not happy.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] HypostaticOnion:
The thing is, you can use tmo on this phone but you'll only get edge speeds.

If I've helped, please hit the thanks button
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Carloskeee:
You will not get Edge speeds, you will get GPRS. which is regular 1G. Maddd slowwww. Its already unlocked. Just throw the Sim in and do the apn.

T-Mobile tends to not get out as far as signal compared to Verizon. It may get out in town. But if your traveling or something good luck.

Well in my experience anyway. (Backwoods Texas roads)
[Verizon HTC One (M7)] andybones:
I know you can't sell phones on XDA, you go to Swappa now, but what about accessories?

There isn't a spot on Swappa for accessories.

If this is not allowed please delete it and I apologize in advance.

I won an HTC One Car Dock, that I have absolutely zero use for.

It is the "HTC One Car Kit - Car D160"

It would be brand new in the box, I am not going to even open it.

(I don't have it yet, but it's on it's way)

The buyer will pay for shipping.

The dock goes for around $70-$90 new: Make me a reasonable offer if you are interested.
[Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion] Jwsail:
Hi folks,

I have been trying the bbc iPlayer and Play Movies on my Acro S, but seem to be getting a few problems.

On iPlayer, using an hdmi lead to my tv the programme seemed to pause every 5 or 6 minutes, with something similar happening on Play Movies.

Trying with You Tube just on the phone, it seems to pause every few seconds.

If it was just buffering issues I could understand it more, but the Play Movies are downloaded to the phone.

Any thoughts?

Cheers for now,

John
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannyella:
I want to perform a factory reset but i debloat my rom which removed my secsetupwizard.apk..i believe this is the set up screen after factory reset.. Has anyone tried to factory reset without secsetupwizard.apk. Is it safe? Does it boot straigt to home screen or cause persistent error messages like system ui crash??
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
Do it from recovery ... power+home+volume up button boots u to recovery ... and wipe data/factory reset
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Zoddex:
Is this the best method to reset? I want to do it but afraid i will break something. Just wanna make sure. :angel:
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AvelonTs:
I m not a dev but from my knowledge and personal experience i can't see how anything could go wrong with that ... if however after wiping u have problems u could reflash your current rom and u should be fine ...
[Galaxy S 4 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dannyella:
So i just factory resetted my phone without the secsetupwizard.apk. Had a sysem ui crash on boot but pressing ok after that it never shows up again until next factory reset. So it's nothing to worry about. Im not sure though if it has anything to do with secsetupwizard uninstalled or other factors like theme.
[Moto X General] Indirect:
Hello, I'm currently very bored and figured that this would be a good spendature of my time. I'm wanting to root the AT&T Moto X. The problem is I need someone with root and access to adb. If you're interested, hit me up on Gtalk / hangouts (pm me your email and I'll start a chat with you.) Please be competent with ADB and don't waste my time. Just because I'm bored doesn't make my time any less valuable :)
[Moto X General] kornklown69:
hows it going! u got me hyped up lolololol
[Moto X General] tw1tch175:
Indirect did you ever get a volunteer?
[Moto X General] housry23:
This would make my day! I am ready with PayPal to pay my share of the bounty!!! This is certainly exciting news and from reading the thread in dev section, it's done and just about making the app to do it. If you need a tester, I'm in. My Hangouts is the same as my username here.
[Moto X General] Indirect:
I'm making progress. The problem is what I'm trying to do works...it just keeps derping >_> I'll probably have it by tomorrow.
[Moto X General] kornklown69:
lol sweet this will be on engadget, bgr, droid life and Android central i bet... if you get this working that is
[Moto X General] housry23:
Well, like I said, if you need an unrooted tester, let me know. I'm adb and fastboot literate. I use Ubuntu on my computer, so if Windows is necessary for the exploit, well, I'm out. But....if it's just an apk or and adb and/or fastboot command lmk!
[Moto X General] tw1tch175:
Same and windows here
[Moto X General] _MetalHead_:
This thread makes me VERY happy.
[Moto X General] housry23:
Hehehe...me too. <- See, I'm giggling like a little girl! Anyway, if and when this is released, let me know where to send my bounty pledge.
[Moto X General] _MetalHead_:
Once it happens I'll get all the necessary info and PM everyone who made a pledge letting them know who/where/how they need to pay and cross them off the list as they pay up.
[Moto X General] ShamanicEnzan:
Time to rob a bank.
[Moto X General] Indirect:
as an update: Too tired to keep working. Will work more tomorrow.
[Moto X General] Indirect:
Alright, I'm back up. Who wants to test this?
[Moto X General] basedboii:
Ill be more than happy to test :)
[Moto X General] housry23:
I posted in the other thread, but depending on how much time it will take, I might be able to test it too.

Sent from my custom Moto X
[Moto X General] Indirect:
Pm me your gtalk / hangouts email.
[Moto X General] Mrglass86:
Working night shift.... In 4 hours I have a Mac win 7 win 8 and Ubuntu and fedora machine and att moto x at your disposal, plus all day.
[Moto X General] housry23:
[MENTION=3854041]Indirect[/MENTION] I added you back on G+. We can chat through hangouts if you're still looking for a tester. I have an AT&T Moto X and Ubuntu desktop.
[Moto X General] Indirect:
Need someone on Linux at the moment.
[Moto X General] wera750:
I'll have to setup adb on my laptop as I'm at school but I could help in a bit

I'm on Linux btw. Didn't know they made another os....lol
[Moto X General] w0rdie:
Someone help this man!
[Moto X General] wera750:
i'm set up and ready to go , i'm very versed in adb
[Moto X General] Indirect:
Closing thread, no longer necessary (this means nothing, dont look too much into it. Just dont see it as useful anymore.)
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
So I want to explore my Samsung ATIV S' registry as I do not know almost all its entries and I want to see what I can customise so I want to ask: will there be a registry explorer for WP8? Because according to GDTD, all interop apps on wp7 don't work on WP8.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
The native webserver I built already works pretty well as a registry browser; it just can't make edits (at this time). I'm working on one with a bit more functionality (I've already gotten reading multi-strings supported, and I'd like to get editing working).

An on-device one would, of course, be nice. One option here would be to take the source code to a WP7 one and upgrade the project to WP8, then remove the COM interop used for WP7 homebrew and replace it with the C++/CX native component and .WINMD file for interfacing. Re-write the native interface layer to use the .WINMD (should be easy, actually, since there had to be a COM interop interface already; just replace that interface) and add ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES, and it *should* work.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] AlvinPhilemon:
Erm... in English? :laugh::laugh::laugh:
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] snickler:
Take the source code from one of the WP7 Registry Browsers, upgrade the source to a WP8 project, strip out the old COM code and replace it with GDTD's libraries.
[Windows Phone 8 Development and Hacking] GoodDayToDie:
Well, and the code from the Samsung Diagnosis app (the native DLL, which is accessed using a .WINMD or WINdows MetaData file, which can be added as a Reference to a C# phone app project). So far, using the RPCComponent + ID_CAP_INTEROPSERVICES still offers much greater write access than any of the Capabilities that can otherwise be added even with interop-unlock.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeyasamoah:
I have this problem with my phone. And I dont know if someone has experienced such a problem. The bottom part of the screen doesnt respond in some apps but responds in others. And its not like say it responds in whatsapp today it wont respond for whatsapp next time. If it doesnt respond for a certain app, thats it,it wont respond to that app again no matter what I tried. And I dont think its hardware related. Cause if it was, why would the area that doesnt respond for app A respond to app B. I dont really remember when it started but it started when I was using slimbean rom 4.2.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N_otori0us_:
Its happened to me a couple times. Restart your phone. Also sometimes I couldnt even enter my screen lock pattern because of it lol.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeyasamoah:
As for mine, a restart doesnt solve the problem. So I am stuck with it. And does it feel like your phones performance has depreciated comparing it to the time you got it. Even if u do overclock it. I dunno but it feels like my phone's performance is really low. Dunno why.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N_otori0us_:
I know eh? Try a Fstrim, it helps a lot. Also Mines is now running

AoCP, Smartassv2; Max-1506(ish); Min-192
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeyasamoah:
Uhmmm what is fstrim? Is it an app??
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N_otori0us_:
Type of, search LagFix on the play store.

Also have you uploaded fmtx?
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mickeyasamoah:
Someone already did. The link is in the BS Thread.
[myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] N_otori0us_:
The file doesn't exist. When you open the page and press download it won't because the file has been taken down.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] ncruz:
Here is some files i grabbed from Universal to clear your presistent storage and get the device as new :)
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] buzz_lightyear:
THANX

interesting... let me try

buzz
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] candrat:
anyone tried this in BA WM5 yet?

buzz, is there any ways to change BA WM5 splash screen?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] Mastiff:
I tried. It didn't work.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] ncruz:
Some error? or it just doesn't work?
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] efjay:
ncruz, i tried it also. It goes through the steps but after a reset storage is not wiped.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] ncruz:
Ok, ill check if it needs some more files or something :\
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] Mastiff:
No error, it just didn't wipe anything.
[MDA III, XDA III, PDA2k, 9090 General] indra9110:
right

Thats right Mastiff I try on my BA it didnt clear anythink .....
[Galaxy S 4 General] elbildozer:
We need everyone to post here his Rom , Kernel and Modem and tell us his feed back so we can utilize the best compilation to our GT-I9500

I will Start With Myself

ROM : Omega V14

Kernel : EGY-I9500XXUBMG9

Modem : XXUBMG9
[Galaxy S 4 General] mateen5997:
Mine are

Rom: Crash V7

Kernel: perseus Alpha 8

Modem:MF8:good:

Stable and good battery life, I will change the rom based on reivew in this thread.

Thanks
[Galaxy S 4 General] elbildozer:
Thanks For Answering We Are Still Waiting For More Answers