yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] Mruiters:
Guess not, seems to me ADB has to see it, and ADB can't see my device in this case...
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
got the youtube problem again today... i force stopped the youtube app and Google play services, cleared their cache and data, turned the phone off.. after some minutes i turned it on and the youtube works again... i hate these bugs where i don't know what causes them.
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
Exactly the way desribed there will not help. But if you have partitions visible from PC you can restore them from PC, no bootable SDcard needed. And most likely you do not need repartition and do not need restore all of them.

We were discussing exactly the same case couple days ago but person who has this isssue not came back yet.

First of all you should find all the sizes of visible partitions this will help define where to restore which image. Even mre, if you can find Linux PC there is a chance you'll be able to see all the names of partitions.
[General Questions and Answers] Mruiters:
I think I see all the partitions in Partition Guru. I'll make a screenshot later today. But I'm no Linux expret. How can I restore a partition?

Well, this is what I see:

i.imgur.com/IO6qfyG.png
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
Just perfect! Compare with this, even numbers may help considering that your list started from 0 and list below from 1 just compare :

179 1 65536 mmcblk0p1 modem
179 2 320 mmcblk0p2 sbl1
179 3 320 mmcblk0p3 sbl1bak
179 4 32 mmcblk0p4 sdi
179 5 32 mmcblk0p5 DDR
179 6 640 mmcblk0p6 aboot
179 7 640 mmcblk0p7 abootbak
179 8 320 mmcblk0p8 rpm
179 9 320 mmcblk0p9 rpmbak
179 10 512 mmcblk0p10 tz
179 11 512 mmcblk0p11 tzbak
179 12 1024 mmcblk0p12 pad
179 13 1536 mmcblk0p13 modemst1
179 14 1536 mmcblk0p14 modemst2
179 15 1536 mmcblk0p15 fsg
179 16 1 mmcblk0p16 fsc
179 17 8 mmcblk0p17 ssd
179 18 12288 mmcblk0p18 boot
179 19 12288 mmcblk0p19 recovery
179 20 10240 mmcblk0p20 splash
179 21 1024000 mmcblk0p21 system
179 22 8192 mmcblk0p22 persist
179 23 131072 mmcblk0p23 cache
179 24 25600 mmcblk0p24 customfs
179 25 1024 mmcblk0p25 misc
179 26 1945600 mmcblk0p26 userdata
179 27 4373414 mmcblk0p27 grow

Non formatted partitions are backup partitions and hopefully we do not need them at the moment.

I would try to start with restore boot then system then aboot then splash partitions one by one using HDDRawCopy software. And trying to boot phone every time after one partition flashed. If none above help then restore all of remaining one by one, just do not touch modemst1 modemst2 and persist partitions until you may find that phone is working but have no IMEI and/or MAC addresses.

You only need to find full backup of all partitions. Hope it is available, I do have one but cant upload right now.
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
Maybe a bit of hope for me?

I also see theese partitons.

http://s27.postimg.org/3xf5n9zar/Screenshot_2014_11_10_10_32_22.png

But I haven´t backup of needed partitions...If you can upload some, it would be grateful.
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
i can help, if you tell me how to make a full backup of all partitions. (Zte V5 2/8, stock 1.13 firmware)
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
Just copy the code below and save it as backup_all.bat in the folder where adb.exe is located. it will save all block partitions in 'blocks' folder there. Phone should be rooted of course.

﻿

@echo BACKUP ZTE V5 RedBull partitions
adb shell mkdir /sdcard/mybckup

adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p1 of=/sdcard/mybckup/modem'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p2 of=/sdcard/mybckup/sbl1'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p4 of=/sdcard/mybckup/sdi'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p5 of=/sdcard/mybckup/DDR'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p6 of=/sdcard/mybckup/aboot'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p8 of=/sdcard/mybckup/rpm'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p10 of=/sdcard/mybckup/tz'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p12 of=/sdcard/mybckup/pad'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p13 of=/sdcard/mybckup/modemst1'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p14 of=/sdcard/mybckup/modemst2'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p15 of=/sdcard/mybckup/fsg'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p16 of=/sdcard/mybckup/fsc'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p17 of=/sdcard/mybckup/ssd'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p18 of=/sdcard/mybckup/boot'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p19 of=/sdcard/mybckup/recovery'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p20 of=/sdcard/mybckup/splash'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p21 of=/sdcard/mybckup/system'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p22 of=/sdcard/mybckup/persist'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p24 of=/sdcard/mybckup/customfs'
adb shell su -c 'dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p25 of=/sdcard/mybckup/misc'

@cls
@echo BACKUP copied partitions to hard drive
@mkdir blocks
@cd \blocks

adb pull /sdcard/mybckup

@cls
@echo BACKUP Done!

PS: something wrong with my account settings and PM here on xda. So I may not replay or replay with big delay
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
so the system dump is on my google drive in folder "Blocks_dump stock 1.13"

i wish it could help...and no one get my google account data :) :)

i have fly-on scripts on my system and init.d support and custom kernel 3.4.6.
[General Questions and Answers] Flow:
It really is an annoying bug. I tried what you described but on my phone it didn't help.

It seems like it's totally random if it works or not.
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
annoying a lot..but i forgot (if it helps) that i turnet off data and wifi in the begining....and after i turned the phone on i start the data and wifi.
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
You should keep your data and cache backups for you own use. There is no need in them to be uploaded and shared.

There are archived dummy images for these two partitions I've uploaded in ZTE V5 thread on 4PDA and they should be used instead. It would be nice if you unpack them and upload to your google drive.

Also, you may remove persist, modemst1 and modemst2 from google drive. They contain private, I mean phone related data. And they should not be corrupted or even in case they are it will cause just communications not working. But this is next stage in making phone from a brick.

Apart of partitions mentioned above everything else is safe to share as they are common for all phones , well system and boot are ROM related but still not have private data.
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
Can you describe, how to copy only to exact partition?

I fear I would owerwrite whole disk as I see this screen...

http://s29.postimg.org/8d27txg6v/Screenshot_2014_11_10_14_17_01.png

I would like to know, how to rewrite only boot partition.
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
where are the files you mentioned (i mean data and cache? i am not registered on 4pad so i cannot search the zte v5 thread..
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
Your screenshot is so tiny I can't even see what program is taken from :confused:

DallasCZ, here you are:
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
It is normal screenshot from windows by pressing alt+prinscreen...

It have 790x388 pixels.

Its taken from HDD raw copy tool. There I can select source file, but if I want to select target, I can only select whole drive - I fear, that it isn't real thing what I want to do.
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
donnow why but I can see only 180x100 unreadable screenshot.

Anyway, you should be able to see all your partitions from phone. And I can tell how to do it using dd command in Linux but can't tell exactly how to use windows software. Especially without having windows computer.
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
Cant he use the adb commands?
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
I can try it at home - I have portable ubuntu on flash disk.
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
Negative, the phone is not visible by adb and even if it does there is no way to safe dd partitions on wrking phonen except you able to boot into recovery and adb is supported by recovery. Stock recovery does not.

---------- Post added at 04:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 04:50 PM ----------

This should do the trick. Just don't forget that USB stick with Ubuntu will appear in partitions list too, so depending on how many primary disks you have you may in addition /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc or /dev/sdc and /dev/sdd. But it's easy to find the right one using sudo fdisk -l first to see all disks and partitions
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
I would try....

Please can you make a list of command I would use? Even If I have linux, I'm not much experienced user.
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
Yes, sure.

First of all yuo'll need to double check if all partition visible with

sudo fdisk -l

Then you should save the list of partitions visible on phone

The you should just select proper image for each partition and flash it .

Example for aboot partition

dd if=aboot.img of=/dev/sdc5 # there highlighted in bold - be carefull, you need to check what exactly corresponds to aboot partition in this case and all others you will flash until phone comes back to life
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
It seems I have same problem like in windows.

sudo fdisk -l command shows 4 disk

sda - my system disk

sdb - my data disk

sdc - flash disk with ubuntu

sdd - phone

Every drive have only one visible partition

sda1, sdb1, sdc1 and sdd1

I'm most interested in this drive:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

/dev/sdd1 1 4294967295 2147483647+ ee GPT

Terminal also write this message:

WARNING: GPT (GUID Partition Table) detected on '/dev/sdd'! The util fdisk doesn't support GPT. Use GNU Parted.

Does it mean something?

I can also see many usb partition, but I have no access to them(except usrdata - at least I can copy my photos :) ).

BTW, files from DallasCZ are without suffix. May I rename them to, for example, aboot.img?
[General Questions and Answers] brt3:
hi, do you have any ideas how to turn off the 360 degree rotation? i would like to have only 90 degree rotation since the others are irritating. if only gravitybox was on nubia..
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
Well, try parted then to see if partitions are available to work on them:

sudo parted /dev/sdd

Then inside parted just type

print

to see the list, nothing else to do in parted for now with partes, just quit it

You may rename images if you wish but it is not necessary, just type later in dd exact name of partition.
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
Finally, just now I can use your suggested tip.

So I discover this.

Error: The backup GPT table is corrupt, but the primary appears OK, so that will
be used.
OK/Cancel? ok
Model: Qualcomm MMC Storage (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdd: 7818MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
1 16,8MB 83,9MB 67,1MB fat16 modem msftdata
2 83,9MB 84,2MB 328kB sbl1
3 84,2MB 84,5MB 328kB sbl1bak msftdata
4 84,5MB 84,6MB 32,8kB sdi
5 84,6MB 84,6MB 32,8kB DDR
6 84,6MB 85,3MB 655kB aboot
7 85,3MB 85,9MB 655kB abootbak msftdata
8 85,9MB 86,2MB 328kB rpm
9 86,2MB 86,6MB 328kB rpmbak msftdata
10 86,6MB 87,1MB 524kB tz
11 87,1MB 87,6MB 524kB tzbak msftdata
12 87,6MB 88,7MB 1049kB pad msftdata
13 88,7MB 90,2MB 1573kB modemst1
14 90,2MB 91,8MB 1573kB modemst2
15 91,8MB 93,4MB 1573kB fsg
16 93,4MB 93,4MB 1024B fsc
17 93,4MB 93,4MB 8192B ssd
18 93,4MB 106MB 12,6MB boot
19 106MB 119MB 12,6MB recovery
20 119MB 129MB 10,5MB splash
21 129MB 1178MB 1049MB ext4 system msftdata
22 1178MB 1186MB 8389kB ext4 persist msftdata
23 1186MB 1320MB 134MB ext4 cache msftdata
24 1320MB 1346MB 26,2MB customfs msftdata
25 1346MB 1347MB 1049kB misc
26 1347MB 3340MB 1992MB ext4 userdata msftdata
27 3340MB 7818MB 4478MB fat32 grow msftdata

(parted)
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
marus2, try first make backup of all partitions using dd.

Create folder on your hard drive or probably on your bootable Ubuntu USB if it has enough space to do it. Let say we call it v5backup

dd if =/dev/sdd1 of=/<disk_where_created_folder>/v5backup/modem.img

DO that with all partitions changing numbers and names, and verifying sizes. except 'grow', this is internall SD, you should be able to mount it and save your media content, everything else there is crap, it contains some applications data too but in your case better just delete everything once your private stuff saved.

Once done you may start reverse way - dd images from DallasCZ backup to phone as discussed earlier, trying to boot every time. Except for system and boot, you should flash them both before try to boot the phone

I do not like very much the message about corrupt GPT but probably it's just the way Ubuntu/parted is trying to look at it.

Later we can analyze your backed up partitions to find out which one is corrupt. But this is optional ;)

DO NOT use /dev/ for backup! The path should be like you see it in file manager /media/marus2/DATA/v5backup for example.
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
uh, I begin to flash before read your post about backup...

Just flashed boot and aboot, no success.

DallasCZs backup doesnt contain system, so I try to flash every other files. Stay tuned:)
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
i will upload system when i have time ..the partition is 1GB big and now i am on site, so have slow connection...sorry..will upload it tomorow morning, when i am at my office.

But i think, if you flash other paritions you should be able to boot to recovery and then flash stock rom, or i am wrong FAZERG?
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
It seems that modem partition is damaged...

I can flash all partition except modem

ubuntu@ubuntu:/media/ubuntu/14C9-4419/zte$ sudo dd if=modem of=/dev/sdd1
dd: writing to ‘/dev/sdd1’: Input/output error
79529+0 records in
79528+0 records out
40718336 bytes (41 MB) copied, 5,10121 s, 8,0 MB/s

It writes only 41MB even file contains 67,1 MB. Readback create full 67,1MB file.

And of course, phone doesnt boot.
[General Questions and Answers] fazerg:
marus2, I just noticed, that parted see it as FAT16. It's seems wrong.

Can't say right now correct how it should be but not FAT16 I guess. I'll be out of internet for couple days. However, DallasCZ or someone else can check on working phone from recovery using parted what type partition is modem. I'm not sure if one can use adb from WIndows with TWRP running on phone. But TWRP has terminal emulator too.

An than you'll need to repartition modem only and then flash it with correct image.

---------- Post added at 03:32 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:54 AM ----------

UPDATE: modem is FAT32 partition and if it is visible and not corrupted, should be able to mount too. I can mount backup image of it with no problem.

So, my guess is first try to change partition type to FAT32 and format it and flash modem partition image then.

If can't just change type/format it you'll need to delete and create new partition. BTW, you can try to do it using GUI tool named GParted from bootable USB Ubuntu.
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
It seems I have to format that partition manually.

When I start Gparted, it scans possible devices and throw some error when try to read from phone - and it immediately unmount.

Of course it begin to automatically mount, but I have to re-scan it by typing ctrl+r in gparted and it again unmount...and so on.

Is this right command for format? (in case sdd is phone)

mkfs -t FAT32 /dev/sdd1

And it is the only command I have to do?

EDIT: I looked on image posted by Mruiters few pages ago. His 1st partition also has FAT16 filesystem, so I think he has the same problem as me.
[General Questions and Answers] navin_n:
I guess he has the same issue as yours.
[General Questions and Answers] Mruiters:
But my phone is completely dead now. :(

Was exploring HDDrawcopy, but made a mistake and flashed boot.img on the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] robciu663:
I've bought a Redbull few days ago. Seller, probably by mistake, sent me 1g/4g version. I'm shocked right now, because I'm not even able to listen music on Deezer and surf the Web at the same time - system kills music player. Every time I use more than three tabs on chrome, when I enter home screen, launcher starts again with "loading" dialog. I even tried to change processor governors, it was not effective.

I have got 1.13, already removed bloating apps, rooted and cwm'ed
[General Questions and Answers] KallaiR:
I got today my v5 and i have some questions.

The beam light on the home button can it be used to inform me about new notifications? Like missed calls, fb messages, sms etc?

And my second question is can i use the nubia lockscreen on cyanogenmod rom?

I like the nubia rom but the absense of greek makes my life difficult in some apps like gps apps.. Is there any multilingual 1.13 nubia rom?
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
-you can use app from playstore "more locale" which changes the language to Greek the system menus will be still in english, but all other apps (gapps etc.) will be in your language.

-on system settings/display/breath light/ you cann set the home button settings.

-i dont know, you can try to push NBlockscreen.apk from stock firmware and install it on CM rom.
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
did you tried factory reset? You have just the right firmware?Stock firmware or modded?
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
nubia music

If you have problem with the music player, that he stops for some seconds when you listen to the music with headphones and the screen si locked, try to turn off feature "smart sensing"..for me it helped and i send the log to the ZTE developers,so maybe they will fix it.
[General Questions and Answers] brt3:
any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] robciu663:
Yes, factory reset was the first thing I thought about. I've reflashed stock 1.13 from Mega. I'll get music fix tomorrow and I'll report.

Thank you, DallasCZ, for your support.
[General Questions and Answers] kkffiirr:
try this rom: https://mega.co.nz/#!4YBWkYpY!i-JHPmh3qKqeyx3sUXfhaX25_9q7RIHkTPeJW135Y_8

should be multilangual kitkat rom

also, i can try to translate the 1.13, but it might take time
[General Questions and Answers] Flow:
Funny thing... I've now seen the same behaviour on my ZTE V5 as I saw on my ZTE V987, which is: After making a phonecall, sometimes I need to re-enter the PIN codes for both SIM's.

This happens very randomly, mostly after a phonecall using bluetooth (in the car), but also sometimes without bluetooth.

(It has nothing to do with the car or bluetooth itself, because I have a totally different car now than I had before.)

Since I've installed MIUI V5 on the ZTE V987 I believe this never happened anymore.

Almost seems like a ZTE-specific issue. Maybe it's a bug in ZTE's Phone apk?
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
asshol i am

Hello, i make a mistake...i got today my first ZTE V5 back from repair (device no.1 with multilang stock 1.12 firmware) so i make "BACKUP ZTE V5 RedBull partitions" like fazerg wrote 2 pages back...then i wanted to copy the nandbackup from my current ZTE(device no.2) to the no.1, so i made a full TWRP nand backup ..then i moved it to the no.1 device and made wipe and restore from nand backup...but from then i have no imei and no signal...so i assume i have overwritten the no1. device efs table with the from no2. device...

So can I somehow push back the backed files to have the imei restored?

so i flashed back using reverse method of fazerg backup and everything is ok again :) and for the curious ones..they changed me the whole motherboard (for free of course) so it was two months worth (from sending it to china till it came today to me).
[General Questions and Answers] KallaiR:
hello again! locale worked good so thank u for ur help! i am reading the forum and i got scared with all these imei and brick problems so i will stay with 1.13 stock rom.

i was reading the guide about root and i am wondering if there is a way to root the phone without having to flash recovery and have to redownload all my apps. just the root thing. nothing else.
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
gLAD I COULD HELP.

aBOUT THE BRICK THING...it happend me,because i was doing something i dont know. And there are other two bricks, so 3 brick so far is no big deal (as in other threads on other phones).

If you dont know what is recovery, custom rom, adb etc is better not to root your phone.

If there will be other method by not flashing the custom recovery everyone would use it.
[General Questions and Answers] KallaiR:
well my main problem is that i dont want to reinstall everything. that's why i dont want to mess with the recovery thing. isn't there anyother way to install the root?
[General Questions and Answers] stayros32001:
Thanks

I tried everything and finally I used your ROM.

I have a question for you. How can I disable the speed text at the left of the WiFi - Data icon on the notification bar?
[General Questions and Answers] navin_n:
Currently, I don't have V5 with me to check. I remember there is a option to disable it but I am not able to recall it. I think there is some tab for Traffic monitoring in Settings from where you can Disable it.
[General Questions and Answers] Flow:
And yesterday the same thing happened spontaneously when I was

not

making a call.

Lost signal on both SIM-cards as well. Had to re-enter PIN's to get the signal back.

---------- Post added at 10:27 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:23 AM ----------

If you only flash another Recovery (I prefer CWM, that's closer to Stock Recovery than TWRP), but leave your ROM and everything else as it is, I think it should work to get Root :)

The recovery itself should not mess up the ROM.
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
if you have time, please read the forum.

To get root, you just install custom recovery and from custom recovery you flash the root .zip file..there is no words of wiping anything!! SO you will not loose anything, only gain root access...GOSH :(
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
Firmware 1.15

On my google disk as soon as possible...

1.15 is patch for 1.13 stock firmware.....description in OP!!

Will report in this post whats new and so on... stay tuned and don´t touch the dial! :D

1-the camera app has many new features... GREAT!

2-new wallpapers

3-new bootanimation (made from photos people send to ZTE)

4-design changes in notifcation panel

5-the whole nubia ui is optimized for V5 device (the name of the os is NUBIA UI 2.5 V5!!
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
So much happens and I still have a brick :)

Anyway - no multilanguage in 1.15 patch?
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
"optimizing app 9 of 14 " i hate this patch updates..takes twice so long the initial boot.. :-/

No multilanguage...(i think there will be no multilang official firmware).

And the format of modem parittion didnt help? Why you dont send it to the seller for warranty repair?
[General Questions and Answers] marus2:
Yes, repartitioning is the last step before sending it to china - I don't want wait 2 months

But I'm not sure how to do it, so I wait for fazerg advices...
[General Questions and Answers] xdacow:
Does this version support EAP-SIM? cause i know 0.44 support!

Does this version support EAP-SIM? cause i know 0.44 support!
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
how do i have to know?
[General Questions and Answers] xdacow:
just search one wifi spot, and try to choose the sim as flowing picture:)

[IMG="https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSF5HL3BcJGb7ng0f1TUJCF0wfTJa9YSY7Ng0oSAgjsAaMLcpLj"][/IMG]
[General Questions and Answers] xdacow:
like this
[General Questions and Answers] nunytes:
I don't have any update, it says I already have the latest update package. -.- how can I get the 1.15?
[General Questions and Answers] Flow:
Sounds good! Thanks for the info :)

Will navin be making one without Chinese apps again? :)
[General Questions and Answers] DallasCZ:
Download the update from my google disk. Flash stock recovery if you on custom recovery, wipe cache/dalvik cache, flash update...