yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] Tisoy:
Mini S is only 3 months old and suffering from the same problems. Paint bubbled around reset hole and IR, then just peeled off. Now notice that this is starting to happen on the top and bottom of the unit. There is also a small fracture appearing on the faceplate. I have been really carefull with this unit and am really disapponted in the quality :evil:
[8125, K-JAM, P4300, MDA Vario General] gepol:
I finally sold it. It's quality nowgere near to what I payed for. Pitty I really liked the phone.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] middaymoon:
I have an S-on device, and I'm not entirely sure what that entails. (I know that it means I only have permission to flash recovery and not radio or boot or anything. I'm just not clear on the consequences of that.I come from an S-off HTC Inspire, which didn't have google editions or anything like that, so all I ever worried about when I flashed a rom was backing it up. But I'm looking at the Skydragon mixed version, and it has an entirely different method of installing for S-ON phones (flashing new boot.img, etc.) None of those steps is particularly scary to me, but I'm wondering WHY they're needed.

What's with the new boot img? Does it have something to do with getting GPE roms or is it just what the guys at Skydragon have set up?

What happens if I just flash it like "normal" roms (pretending that I'm s-off and flashing from recovery)?

Right now I'm on an AOSP rom. Assuming I go through the extended procedure for installing skydragon S-on, will I be able to move back from Skydragon to AOSP again, if I want to?

Thanks for bearing with me.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] fenstre:
Do you have a link to these instructions? I'm curious as well.
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] middaymoon:
The Skydragon ROM that I'm referring to is here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2423492

On second look, it seems that there aren't any fancy instructions for THIS particular build of Skydragon. It says "unlocked OR S-off). I must have been pretty distracted when I was reading this. Plus all the separate builds are sort of confusing. So that's nice!

But here's a build with the extended process I was asking about, if anybody wants to answer my questions anyway.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2319187&highlight=skydragon
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
S-ON = Security ON; S-OFF = Security OFF

some devices of HTC with S-ON does not support flashing boot partition (boot.img file) via recovery and you have to flash them in unlocked bootloader , fastboot mode, like HTC One X (S-ON) and vice versa

S-OFF gives you full access to modify all partitions (boot, radio, etc), unlike S-ON

now on our HTC One S-ON, there is no restriction to modify boot partition, in other words, you can flash every ROM without worrying about the boot.img file seperatly (because it's already in the ROM zip file and will be flashed along with the ROM)

as for the SkyDragon ROM mention, the text is from his One Xs' ROM so don't worry ;)

i know this sounds confusing, sorry for my bad English :D

review this thread for better understanding S-OFF
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] middaymoon:
So you're saying he just copied the text from one of his other builds? That's great. Thanks!
[One (M7) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kamilmirza:
yep :)

happy tension-free flashing ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
STAR / ALPS U9501 Both MTK6589 and MTK6582

WARNING: Please make sure your phone is the exact same model & specification before flashing anything to your phone. Just because it looks the same does not mean it is the same phone. There are many many phones of this type with different hardware such as camera's, screen's & different RAM sizes and ROM sizes of which many are faked!! If in doubt do not flash anything.

YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED​

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[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
Hi! I am glad to see this thread!

Just so you know, I found 4 ROMs for that phones on a Rusian forum, and as far as I can see there seems to be two version of that phone...

3 of the ROMs where OEM original ROMs but different releases. The guy who posted those said that only 2 of the three are functionnal on his phone. I tried all ROMs, and in my case, the only one that works is the one that didn't work for him.

My phone is identified as a MTK Model No.: ES-4 (on the back behind the battery). That that mean that it is not a real U9501?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Yes I think there could be many many differnt types. :confused:

Can you pull the build.prop file from /system of the original stock rom and paste the text as CODE Then HIDE?

This will give us a better idea as to the true model identification :fingers-crossed:

I am going to work now so will take a little time to reply.

This is my build.prop to compare.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Hi bro,

Well from the build.prop I would say our phones are the same :cowboy: It's a real shame and brave :eek: you didn't get a backup first before you flashed a new rom. :D ( Not recommended to others :laugh: )

Did you flash the boot.img too or just system ? If you have the stock boot.img there is a build.prop in there too which will show the true id of your phone. :fingers-crossed:

Get [MENTION=2117836]michfood[/MENTION] awesome boot & recovery repack utility for windows V2. Here Unpack to desktop. Then copy your boot.img to the folder then drag and drop it on to the MTK unpack.bat It will make a "boot" folder and in there you can find the contents of your boot.img look in rmdisk folder for your build.prop :cool:

As you can see from my build.prop my phones build date is October so slightly newer than the one's you have but please feel free to upload them some place to share. Recomend https://mega.co.nz it's FREE :good: plus you get 50gb storage and you dont get loads of popups and false download links :mad: also no need for spliting larger files as some of these JB backups can hit 1gb without trying :eek:

I will be uploading and posting my stuff tomorrow and some tut's etc etc for the newcomers. So please stay tuned :cool:

Thanks for the Thanks btw. Just hit the thanks button if I helped :cool:

Regards bigrammy.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
I am uploading the ROMs that I have... Do you want the link(s) as PM? It will take about 24h... My upload is slow.

I am not sure if I still have my original boot image. I might have it, but when I tried the MTK_Unpack, it generated a folder with a bunch of files and folder, but there is no build.prop.

I don't have a Linux OS on hand... Do you want my boot.img that might still be the original one?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Hi, Sure you can post the ROM links here if you like :good:

Just try include as much info as you can about each of them maybe you could just pull the build.prop for each so people can check it to see if it matches up with there phones. :D

Also put a disclaimer saying people flash them at there own risk.

As for boot.img :o well sorry bro my mistake build.prop is in the factory recovery.img which you probably flashed over. I have been porting recoverys to these phones so I was getting confused as I have unpacked and repacked so many latley :eek: Same method applies If you still have the recovery.img. Most I have looked at have a build.prop of some descriptiton some are short version and some are full lengthen.

I use windows too so nothing I do will be in linux.

:cool
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

There are risks when flashing devices. If any one of those ROMs isn’t working, just try flashing another one… I am not responsible if you take the risk and break your phone. But note that I flashed them all and my phone is still working ;)

You will find 4 ROMs there https://mega.co.nz/#F!opQn2ARB!YRwITQGXB-EmlVX4KBDqfA

I found all these ROMs as is on the web.

The next 3 comes from a Russian Forums and they are identified as stock ROMs (different releases May, July and September).

The guy that posted those said only the July didn’t work for him. In my case, only the July works. Flash with SP Flash Tool.

06v20_v89_gq3009hd_130529

06v20_v89_gq3009hd_130702

06v20_v89_gq3009hd_130907

This one was identified as a port from the N9500. I tried it, it worked on my phone but other than menu back ground color, it seems to see the same ROM at the user stand point. I have some minor issues with all the ROMs I tried and they are the same on every ROMs (occasional problem connecting Skype, google play that won’t update after some time). This one is a CWR backup. So you need to restore it from CWR and do a Factory reset.

StarU9501FromN9500Original

THOSE ROMs ARE ALL HAVING CHINESSE BLOATWARE, clean it after flashing using MTKDroidTools V2.51

Final note, I don’t see why anyone would need any of these ROMs. The two that I tried aren’t perfect. But if you really need a ROM, this is better than nothing I guess. Make a backup of your phone first with MTKDroidTools (I should have too). We rather need a better ROM. I hope we’ll get one.

If you need to ROOT your original ROM or any of these ones, I did it using UnLockRoot (but I had to run it a few times and skip the reboot step at some point… No more details, good luck). You can install CWR on the original ROM or any of these ones using MTKDroidTools.

Again, I am not responsible if something goes wrong. You do it at your own risks.

If you have question regarding MTKDroidTools, SP Flash Tool or UnLockRoot, ask Google. I found it all, you should be able too! 

bigrammy: You will also find there a boot image that could be either the same as the N9500 port or the original one that I had on my phone… I don’t know anymore but it seems to be the one from the N9500 ported ROM.

Click on thanks if that helps! :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Thanks for the time and effort in making this post bro :highfive:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
Can you post your ROM too since it is more recent than mine?

Thanks!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Added to post #3 Here as requested. ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
Any bloat were? Rooted? Known bugs? Any plans for alternative or custom Rom? :)

Envoyé de mon 06v20_v89_gq3009hd en utilisant Tapatalk

---------- Post added at 11:23 PM ---------- Previous post was at 11:07 PM ----------

... And thank you too!

Envoyé de mon 06v20_v89_gq3009hd en utilisant Tapatalk
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Post updated with as much info as I have :silly: Rom has superuser but will require patched boot and patched recovery of your choice to stay rooted all included.

com.mobileuncle.toolbox should be removed and replaced with the uptodate version on playstore ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
Thanks

So we can flash it directly with the patched boot and recovery right?

What is the Phone.info? Who does SP Flash tool needs it?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
...I couldn't wait so I tried it. It doesn't work. As for May, and September ROMs, I only get a black screens with some strange faded vertical lines. So I restored my previous backup (July ROM).
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Hi,

What doesn't work the rom or the flash via flash tool :confused:

phone.info is just for information you need Notepad++ to read it. :)

Try Flash the rom with the patched boot.img and the system.img only. :fingers-crossed:

After the flash boot to recovery first volume + power and do a full wipe data cache dalvik cache then boot to system :cool:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
The flashing worked. The phone display doesn't work after reboot. I can't even go into recovery.

I tried flashing only the SYSTEM and the BOOT as you asked me, and ...it WORKED!!! :good:

I beleive that all the ROMs I had weir 4.2.1. I am finally having a 4.2.2!

THANKS!

My front camera is still not working though, but that might be an hardware problem with my phone.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
:highfive: :cool:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
Do you have the animated background on your Rom? (not the video one)

JY
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
:confused: Sorry but I don't really understand Do you mean Live Wallpapers bro?

Or just regular wallpapers :confused:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
Yes! Sorry, the live Wall paper...

I only have the picture or video back ground at the moment... No live wall paper...
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Live wallpapers are present so just try a full reboot. Power off, remove battery, reinsert battery, then restart. :fingers-crossed:

EDIT: PS: Live Wallpapers are contained in a app Agold live wallpaper not in a folder on SD Card
[Miscellaneous Android Development] jy_P:
The problem was caused by SBP Launcher. Live wallpapers work with default Launcher.

Few things that doesn't work with the Rom:

- download GPA EPO data doesn't work.

- Call control app crashes at startup.

... Still testing.

JY
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Hi,

GPS epo. Use updated mobileuncle tools from playstore. :good:

Call control app? Not used this because the phone has only one sim installed. :rolleyes:

I suspect the SPB launcher may have screwed up things for you. :eek:

The Agold app is more than just a simple launcher it seems :eek: and I can find very little info on this app :crying:

There is a projectconfig file in etc just have a look through that to see the amount of changes the Agold app's make :confused:

So I think another powerful launcher like SBP will undoubtedly cause many conflicts & problems.

Just reflash back to stock + data & cache wipe then retry. Everything should work :fingerscrossed:

:cool:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
Many thanks to OP for starting this thread/topic.

I found a way of getting around the partition sizes when using roms and recoverys for N9500 as the same happend you would lose both the sims.

What you do is you take the stock firmware and replace the stock recovery with the custom recovery and flash as normal rom..all was good new firmware with custom recovery.

Here is another rom posted at Needrom: http://www.needrom.com/mobile/u9501/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Hey [MENTION=4651206]sas007[/MENTION],

How's it down south it's grim up north :laugh:

The rom is probably mine from the OP anyway LOL :rolleyes:

Anyway thanks for the info :good:

TWRP was the problem not CWM. TWRP is a lot bigger in size because of all the features that are packed into it and I had to squeeeze it into a 6.291kb partition Some of the stock ported TWRP recoveries for mt6589 rock out at 7mb + so to slim it down needed a lot of work but it's worth it because I personally wouldn't use any other recovery by choice :cool:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
Hi mate so what recovery did you actually use,one you have tested working fine on your device.

I have downloaded all your files but i am a little confused.did you just flash TWRP recovery with sp flashtool?

Im looking to root and install recovery.My device is MT6589.U9501

I have used a few methods for rooting the MTk devices.."frameroot works okay also root with restore by Bin4ry and motochopper exploit worked every time for me on n9500 devices.

The weather down here is also grim dark and dingy at present.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Hi sas007,

Your first port of call should be MTKDroidTools Here This will get you on your way.

I bought 2 of these phones from ebay as said in the OP and the most important thing is to find the true soc version mt6589 mt6582 or even mt6572 but they all report as mt6589 :rolleyes:

Using DT will get you the proper version :good: and hitting the root button will get you TEMPORARY Root while in this mode hit the backup button in droid tools. This will make a full nand backup and also make you a scatter for SPFlashtool. Droid tools will ask you to make a recovery Just say yes It will then make a CWM Recovery and Patched boot.img and put them in a file called recovery. You will need the patched boot to get permanent root.

Still in droid tools hit process rom for spflashtool it will then make you a working scatter and stick the system.img and few others in a folder called files to flash then swap the recovery and boot for the patched one flash with spflashtool and thats it permanent root and fully backed Up takes about 20mins but its the best method :good: Just see the OP for droid tools as my description is off top of my head :laugh:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
description is off top of my head :laugh:[/QUOTE]

hi cheers for that yes i am going to root first then install your twrp custom recovery.

I will root with motochopper well try that first as i have used on lots of mt6589 devices and works always but you never know.

I have the stock firmware dated 21/12/13 the one you put patched boot and recovery in a separate folder and removed the stock recovery and replaced with your TWRP recovery for MT6985.

flashing this should be okay as you have resized twrp to match stock recovery and i have tested and loads into spflashtool no problems so is good to flash.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Should be good to go but like I said there are plenty of faked cpu's out there so I just kind of meant ensure yours is mtk6589 like I said bought 2 one turned out to be faked cpu version. :eek:

Also make sure the size of the recovery partition is the same although SPFlashtool will stop you flashing it if its too big anyway :good: Dont use mobileuncle to flash the recovery as this will cause an overlap

If you lose both sims it's because the recovery is too large and has overlapped the partition thats why I would get a backup of your stock first like I said you can use droid tools or use SPFlashtool to make a backup just search for [MENTION=4478781]yuweng[/MENTION] tut for that :good:

I have a tool for rooting the mtk6589 but I would rather people use droid tools then they always have a stock backup should anything go wrong :cool:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
I have a tool for rooting the mtk6589 but I would rather people use droid tools then they always have a stock backup should anything go wrong :cool:[/QUOTE]

YEP WILL BE CHECKING THE CPU WITH DROID TOOLS TO MAKE SURE....

IT MAY BE EASIER TO ROOT THEN INSTALL RECOVERY.?

BUT AS YOU SAY BEST TO HAVE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU START PLAYING.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
YEP WILL BE CHECKING THE CPU WITH DROID TOOLS TO MAKE SURE....

IT MAY BE EASIER TO ROOT THEN INSTALL RECOVERY.?

BUT AS YOU SAY BEST TO HAVE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU START PLAYING.[/QUOTE]

Opps Sorry for the late reply :( You did not quote me proper so I didn't get a notification. ;)

Droid tools does it all for you but you will need to flash the patched boot.img it makes for you :good: Just check my twrp recovery.img size against the stock recovery.img size Highlight/properties/(XXXbytesXXX) if the amount is lower in twrp its good to flash.

Check this :good: Here He does it in different languages :laugh: great tut though just follow it :cool:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
Opps Sorry for the late reply :( You did not quote me proper so I didn't get a notification. ;)

Droid tools does it all for you but you will need to flash the patched boot.img it makes for you :good: Just check my twrp recovery.img size against the stock recovery.img size Highlight/properties/(XXXbytesXXX) if the amount is lower in twrp its good to flash.

Check this :good: Here He does it in different languages :laugh: great tut though just follow it :cool:[/QUOTE]

yes i am a bit confused in the download folder "files to flash"there is stock firmware yes and a folder with patched boot and recovery

what do you do with this it also the firmware has have stock recovery and a twrp recovery??

Basically i am thinking take latest firmware put in your patched boot remove stock boot..put in twrp recovery and remove stock recovery thus leaving a complete firmware to flash with sp flashtool...

would be even better to have a nandroid backup of a rooted stock to flash back...

I would usually do everything myself but as you have already done everything i will use what you have done BUT need to suss out what everything is that's all.

Cheers

sas007
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
LoL yes I geuss its not too clear. :laugh: My fault.

Ok make a new folder on your desktop copy the scatter.txt from the files to flash and paste it into the new folder then copy the Patch Boot.img and the twrprecovery.img and paste those into the same folder rename them boot.img and recovery.img. :good:

Start SP Flashtool select the scatter.txt from the new folder on your desktop and you should have just those two selected :good: Flash in the normal way. I use SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1320.0.163 if you get any problems from it.

If you get size errors etc you will need to make your own scatter with Droidtools as your ROM will be different. :eek:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
Thanks for that..That's the way i saw it but i wanted to make sure.

sas007
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
Okay now i am going to need some help please.

as you wrote i purchased a device Star/Alps U9501 which said it was MTK6589 but Droid tools says its MTK6582.

I have tried every method i know to root this device but no success.

Edit..Also tried to do a backup with droid tools but preloader kicks in but spflashtool is not connecting/finding device.

installed the preloader drivers all fine as preloader shows up in device manager but has the yellow triangle and its not letting me install any drivers keeps coming up Errors.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
:laugh: :laugh: I did warn you bro ;)

Still not to worry it's actually a good phone still :good:

Lucky for you I did the hard work already :laugh: Get this file and do the same steps as before (scatter patched boot.img and twrprecovery.img)

Flash then root with DroidTools :good:

Files Here ;)

Here You Go :fingers-crossed:

EDIT: PS When you have root get a root file explorer and rename or move these files before a reboot from system/etc/recovery-resource.data/agold-cheat-evaluation-software.xml/changeramxml/
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
EDIT: PS When you have root get a root file explorer and rename or move these files before a reboot from system/etc/recovery-resource.data/agold-cheat-evaluation-software.xml/changeramxml/[/QUOTE]

I can not get Droid tools to root the thing,

Also SPflashtool not picking up device....so i can not flash as yet for some reason as preloader driver installed.??
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
I can not get Droid tools to root the thing,

Also SPflashtool not picking up device....so i can not flash as yet for some reason as preloader driver installed.??[/QUOTE]

Follow this written Tut step by step and do not skip anything :good: The correct version tools are also posted there. It takes some time but once you have done it you are 100% safe. Good Luck. Let me know how you get on. :cool:

http://pinoyscreencast.net/others/get-stock-rom-romdump-mediatek-mt6582-via-mtk-droid-root-tools/ Thanks to OP of the TUT and of course Master [MENTION=4478781]yuweng[/MENTION] :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
I can not get Droid tools to root the thing,

Also SPflashtool not picking up device....so i can not flash as yet for some reason as preloader driver installed.??[/QUOTE]

Ha ha managed to root the device using some weird and wonderful Chinese root tool.....
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
Ha ha managed to root the device using some weird and wonderful Chinese root tool.....[/QUOTE]

Get rid of those files while you got root before you reboot :good:
[Miscellaneous Android Development] sas007:
Get rid of those files while you got root before you reboot :good:[/QUOTE]

is it safe to just delete the..i have found them just need to know if safe to delete.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
is it safe to just delete the..i have found them just need to know if safe to delete.[/QUOTE]

Best to rename or move to sdcard just to be on the safe side :good: