yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] tekka-maki:
Already set to SD.

I wish that were the case, but unfortunately, that isn't how KitKat is designed. A few games aren't fundamentally different from any app on /data because the OBB resides on external_SD. Then the Dex, Lib, Data, and Cache probably minimal. No Davlik, running ART (much smoother/faster). I'm literally running 24 apps (part of which includes updated gapps) and regularly clear up app caches. More so, I even move part of apk data to SD manually when available (despite how lame this native KK feature really is). After just cleaning app cache, i have 300MB on data. I run a subset of apps that I would run on my LG Optimus F6.

This phone HAS NO SPACE. If we could root, huge difference. For starters, remove the garbage from /custpack. Then use Link2SD to it's potential. Then dare I say run GravityBox (and a host of others from the Xposed repo) and this phone would be irreplaceable from a cost value vs features standpoint. Alcatel is too incompetent to understand the business side of things so here we are...
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
I tried art on mine but I went back to dalvik cause art made all my apps take up way too much space.

I ended up selling mine for 40bucks and buying an avant. I couldn't stand not being able to root and not having lte. From now on I don't get any kind of android unless there's already at least a way to root it.
[General Questions and Answers] tekka-maki:
I feel you. It must be a trade-off with the runtime environments, but ART just feels SO DAMN buttery smooth and fast on this relatively inexpensive phone relative to DAVLIK and especially relative to my older F6 on JB.

The LTE bothered me at first but absolutely zero effect to me now as I only notice it when in the app store. However, since there is a. no space for more (non essential) apps and b. a frugal 1GB per line MetroPlan ($70 OTD family plan) to contend with, it sort of keeps me in check & invalidates LTE, haha! It helps that I have WiFi access throughout the day. I also kinda like a lean phone because I used to install a lot of apps that I never used a lot; feel more organized & no need to greenify as it stands. However... the ROOT/Space/Xposed conundrum is quite hard to overlook.

I'll keep going longer until I see a better phone. Nexus 6 too big, don't care what they say in the media, 5" is the max my fingers will tolerate. Wish I could find a Nexus 5 new for cheap, it SHOULD BE... but I digress.

Please someone with know-how; BEAT THIS ALCATEL BOOTLOADER! Speaking of Alcatel [employees]: you have seemingly everything to gain in popularity w/ a nicely specced bottom shelf phone, what do you have to lose by giving us bootloader unlock??? Arrrrggghhh...
[General Questions and Answers] Masterchief87:
My theory is that they use data mining to reduce the price of the phone by including apps that parse through your personal information. Rooting would allow customers to have more control over this type of thing and probably cut into their profits.
[General Questions and Answers] blackbos:
it mite be possible to root

Theres a exploit that the alcatel fierce 2 is vulnerable to in the temporarily root option in the z4root app it attempt to acquire a root shell after running the exploit before shutting down if someone can combine this with the exploit from towel pie or the exploit from farmaroot or all three it mite be possible
[General Questions and Answers] Darius72222:
yeah don't forget about the big ass too
[General Questions and Answers] chosen14u:
just picked this up for my girlfriend, it would be nice to have root.
[General Questions and Answers] Kvng J:
..

I accessed the boot loader by accident when trying to factory reset my phone..
[General Questions and Answers] Alcatel lover:
I don't know if this helps but I also have the Alcatel one touch fierce two 7040n and I have got it to go into recovery mode and am wondering if this could help
[General Questions and Answers] Kvng J:
bootloader

It took forever but I figured out how to get into bootloader, just turn your phone off, hold up and down volume buttons and power button till it turns on. Then release power but keep holding both volume buttons till bootloader appears. Hope this helps
[General Questions and Answers] cmendonc2:
We'd need a recovery to flash Su binaries to get root. Since we don't have an example update.zip, thats virtually impossible.
[General Questions and Answers] bitsmt:
****ak! I just got two of those with the intention to Root. Now I feel like Groot! :silly:
[General Questions and Answers] androlocks:
Still waiting for a rooting solution. do you find any??
[General Questions and Answers] lanautechdroid:
alcacatel 7040t

I really need root for this phone because the internal memory is too low to install all the apps I want.
[General Questions and Answers] android user dontrell:
kingroot

Video on youtube showing kingroot rooting Alcatel 7040n
[General Questions and Answers] Teclast1999:
;)

Share with me if you have any good solutions

thanks
[General Questions and Answers] npip420:
king root

I'm on zmax metro 4.4.4 rooted using kingroot maybe it'll work for this phone it's hit or miss sometimes it roots sometimes it doesn't
[General Questions and Answers] bowdenj8912:
ROOTING Alcatel Fierce 2 7040T
[General Questions and Answers] bowdenj8912:
make sure not just adb drivers are installed but also the ALCATEL_ADB_ Driver Qualcomm_ADB.rar and got to have kinguser installed
[General Questions and Answers] bowdenj8912:
make sure the ALCATEL_ADB_ Driver Qualcomm_ADB drivers are installed
[General Questions and Answers] forserg:
Can you explain step by step how to root 7040T?
[General Questions and Answers] bowdenj8912:
install iroot

install iroot and alcatell mtk qaullcom drivers on pc install kinguser apk on phone plug in as a media device and click root!!
[General Questions and Answers] forserg:
installed iroot and alcatell mtk qaullcom drivers on pc installed kinguser apk on phone plug in as a media device and click root in Kinguser!! "GET ROOT FAILED"

What i did wrong?
[General Questions and Answers] lanautechdroid:
IT WORKS !!!!

After 3 or 4 try it work. My alcatel 7040T is root. I can't believe it.

I do something more that maybe help: after 2 unsuccessfull try, I remove the battery, replace the cover and plug it to the computer. I hold the power and sound. Then windows update install the driver.

After that I try to root but it didn't work. So, I replace the battery, power up the phone and try to root.... I don't remember how many times I try but it work.

Good luck everyone.
[General Questions and Answers] themanrlm7:
Thanks Little help

Can someone please give a more detailed walk Thur for us less savvy. Thanks so much been searching for this since the phone came out I have 2.
[General Questions and Answers] dankings:
Root Alcatel Fierce 2 (probado por mi)

1- Descargar Rootgenius para PC e instalarlo.

2- Descargar Kingroot.

3- Instalamos Kingroot en el dispositivo pero no lo ejecutamos

4- Ahora nos vamos ala PC abrimos el Rootgenius, conectamos nuestro celular en modo debug

5- Ahora le damos en root a Rootgenius, cuando se quede en un porcentaje fijo sin moverse vamos al celular y abrimos Kingroot y lo ejecutamos, llegara un momento en el que se trabara y se apagara no desconecten nada solo dejenlo que encienda de nuevo.

6- En este momento no desconecten para nada el celular, el RootGenius habra avanzado hasta el 47% (me paso ami). ahora eliminamos la informacion o el cache de Kingroot. (Ajustes- Aplicaciones "buscamos kingroot y damos clic" y le damos donde dice "borrar datos") ya que se hayan borrado los datos vuelven a iniciar Kingroot sin desconectar aun el celular de la PC ni cerrar el Rootgenius.

7- Dejamos que el celular avance procurando que no se nos apague la pantalla, seguira haciendo su trabajo hasta que se baje el brillo de la pantalla y se reinicie automaticamente "como al 75%" de el kingroot, esperamos a que se reinicie y veremos como ya tenemos nuestro Alcatel Fierce 2 Rooteado, solo esperamos que termine su trabajo "RootGenius" y listo, descargamos "Root cheker" desde la playstore y verificamos que tengamos usuario Root listo.

Traduce to english!
[General Questions and Answers] bobbytomorow:
1- Download and install PC Rootgenius.

2- Download Kingroot.

3- Install kingroot on the device but do not execute it yet

4- Now we will open the Rootgenius on PC, connect the cell in debug mode

5- Now give root to Rootgenius, when you stay in a fixed percentage motionless go to the phone and open Kingroot and execute it, there will come a time when it will latch and turn off, do not disconnect anything just let it turn back on.

6- currently do not disconnect for no cell, the RootGenius will have advanced to 47%. Now remove the information or the cache Kingroot. (Settings- Applications "seek kingroot and click" and click where it says "delete data") after deleted data for Kingroot start again without disconnecting the phone from the PC and close the Rootgenius.

7- We let the cell breakthrough that we are not trying to turn off the screen, will continue their work until the screen brightness is lowered and automatically restart "and 75%" of the kingroot, wait for it to reboot and see how we have our Alcatel Fierce 2 rooted, just hope he finishes his work "RootGenius" and ready, download the "Root Checker" from the playstore and verify that we root ready.
[General Questions and Answers] bobbytomorow:
None of this is working for me, if I do figure it out I will jot down a step by step...what I posted above is just a translation of post #39
[General Questions and Answers] bobbytomorow:
Ok this is what finally did it for me

1)Installed Kingroot (v4.0) to my phone Place shortcut on home screen but do not execute yet)

2)Installed latest Antutu Benchmark from Play store to my phone (place shortcut on home screen)

3)Run Antutu an when it hits 10% click the home button and open and run kingroot and execute while Antutu continues to run in the background

4)After kingroot hits about 20% give or take the phone will restart

5) Soon as phone boots back into desktop it will be laggy, quickly open Antutu and run it and immediately hit home button

6)While Antutu is running in background go into phones settings>apps>find kingroot and "clear data" and hit home button

7) Open kingroot and execute (antutu should still be running in the background)

8)I would tap the screen every few seconds to prevent the display from sleeping while kingroot was doing its thing

9) After repeating the above steps a couple of times, basically just running kingroot while antutu runs in the background, letting it reboot, clearing kingroots data then rinse and repeat I obtained root (kingroot display shows root has been obtained)

This worked when nothing else did on my moms Acatel 7040T.

This thread was a large help
[General Questions and Answers] nsip4ever:
:good: Congrats buddy, its always good to share results, hopefully this will advance towards a more efficient routing method for this phone because Im more fond of Supersu over kinguser.
[General Questions and Answers] eggoo:
Successfully rooted my phone

I used iroot Chinese version 1.8.3 to root the phone. I tried all the newer English versions, non of the those work.

I installed i386 driver (not the Win8 driver) on my Win8 32bit pc. I had error to connect ADB mode to my Win 8 64 bit machine.
[General Questions and Answers] timmersk:
I dont usually signup for forums cause I dont want to get spammed but I just had too this time.

I have a 7040T Alcatel here. I tried the Antutu and kingroot method and I must say it really worked. The timing is a real pain. It took about 6 tries all in a row.. just follow the posting from

bobbytomorow. I ran through steps 3 through 8 and back to 3 about six times and it finally worked. Thanks bobby.
[General Questions and Answers] EdLopez:
root fierce 2 lock bootloder

I root my alcatel 7040N with lock bootloader using Bob's Method. It took me around 8 times

thank you BobTomorrow
[General Questions and Answers] Mr Dreamer:
Alcatel One Touch Fierce 2 7040T

Just To Let Everyone Know I Have Just Rooted My 7040T With No Issues Now I Will Try To Add A Custom Rom And Ill Keep You Guys Updated When Its Done :D Remember Nothing Is Impossible Unless You Give Up Trying...
[General Questions and Answers] noblelinux:
Wat method did u use?
[General Questions and Answers] jinkerz9430:
None of the methods work for me.....
[General Questions and Answers] noblelinux:
I just rooted it i made a quick video so u can actually see it work i tried Bobby method !!!

Watch "Rooted Alcatel Fierce 2 (7040N) w/KingRoot 4.1 Apk" on YouTube - Rooted Alcatel Fierce 2 (7040N) w/KingRoot 4.1 Apk: https://youtu.be/-AgPlh5697Q
[General Questions and Answers] DarkStarr:
The whole process is a pain in the ass so I eventually ended up running this a few times and the KingRoot app along with Antutu IIRC. Either way it was a massive pain and this method ****ing sucks but it will eventually work. I got it rooted and swapped over to SuperSU. That was a process too since OFC it wouldn't just work with the scripts due to permissions issues on the internal memory apparently.
[General Questions and Answers] Estoner:
Ho DarkStarr

I rooted my fierce 2 with the so mention method Kingroot and Antutu 2 but It seams tha is no correctly done. See pics.

Any ideas?
[General Questions and Answers] puffidredz:
Worked on my brand new Alcatel 7040N I just got a few days ago from MetroPCS using this method. Took 4 tries. I had used the Chinese version of Kingroot 4.0 and fumbled my way through it because I don't know Chinese. Luckily the gui is self-explanatory just by the pictures. the only thing about installing the Chinese version is that it also put any apps that linked to it in Chinese in the notification bar. A full reset of the phone resolved that and it reverted on its own to KingUser English version automatically. Now to root my Mom's Alcatel 7040N who managed to fill up the full internal space in less than a week :D
[General Questions and Answers] bobbytomorow:
Ha thats who I rooted for too, my mom, I got her this phone for xmas and she filled it up but now mom is happy :good:
[General Questions and Answers] DarkStarr:
Like I said I ran iRoot on my PC with the phone attached along with KingRoot and Antutu. It just eventually worked. Pretty sure it was iRoot that finally did it since that is what I saw pushing the files.

You should have an app labeled KingUser which is the SU app (if it actually rooted). Without that you have no root access. You can switch to SuperSU but it isn't simple. The scripts help but it is still a process that I would only recommend to someone willing to redo the entire root process if they screw up.
[General Questions and Answers] arashde:
Alcatel Fierce 2 (7040n) Recovery Mode problem

I finally rooted fierce 2 ,But after that when I decided to install CWM recovery, I discovered that My recovery mode is not working (is not accessible any more). Because I've installed a wrong version of CWMR, Now i need to find the right version of CWM for my phone or a backup(flashify apk) of stock recovery mode (7040n).

I will be really thankful if someone could help me to find either of the two.
[General Questions and Answers] jimmyboe25:
Root for Fierce 2

Just to start this is my first post here so forgive me for punctuation and the sort.

got to Youtube and Search root One Touch Fierce 2 look for a technique using Kingroot ( I tried posting the link but im too new)

I will attempt to provide some links to the method that worked for me. Forgive me if the technique is a bit esoteric

disregard all the benchmarks except Antutu. After each attempt go into setting and clear the data for Kingroot

I rinsed and repeated the steps until it finally worked

when it did finally root i was going in and out of Kingroot (Hitting home and returning to Kingroot) rapidly

any questions i will try to frequent the forum and answer hope this helps

Ps dont give up on the first try
[General Questions and Answers] chemao:
What did you do to get SU working properly? I can't seem to get past updating the SU binary using nomal method. What else have you learned with this phone so far?
[General Questions and Answers] JonFSU:
Where are the benchmarks at?
[General Questions and Answers] Helper1244:
I found a way

Email me at sebastianfry0@gmail.com

Or kik me. fsebastian57

I can help with rooting "alcatel onetouch fierce 2"

I have mines through metro and rooted
[General Questions and Answers] technomooney:
sadly there is no (to my current knowledge) any cwm recovery that is compatible with the fierce 2....
[General Questions and Answers] Kdx80:
Did you resolve this issue? Im trying to get su updated myself
[General Questions and Answers] texasboy91:
yes no dealing with more issues of more severarity
[General Questions and Answers] Kdx80:
Im having bigger issue i bricked my phone and i can't even access the bootloader to restore back to stock i did something stupid
[General Questions and Answers] texasboy91:
Well only things I can access is call text and this
[General Questions and Answers] MistaCheezy:
Found out how to root 100%

I have been trying to root my TMobile 7040T for a couple days, and I was about to give up before I had an idea.

People have been having success with Kingo and Antutu, So I decided to test a very light benchmark. Geekbench Is really small but gets the job done.

To get my root this is the steps I took.

I recommend putting geekbench on main screen.

1. Start Geekbench 3

2. Start Kingo

3. When phone restarts during root process start geekbench again. You don't have to be super quick, just open it in a reasonable amount of time.

4. Keep starting geekbench until on your computer it hits one hundred percent.

Should be rooted at this point. Apparently this was supposed to be a pretty difficult kind of root I guess? (This was my smart phone and my friend said to try to root it.)

It worked first time for me, so if it doesn't work try again I guess. Good luck!
[General Questions and Answers] texasboy91:
Backup everything kernel build prop system files absolutely everything do yourself: research and get viper 4android
[General Questions and Answers] rnanyandry1:
vroot by PC

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[General Questions and Answers] rrapzz:
Someone try this method with 7040N successfully? thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] BigCountry907:
7040T

worked for me

took a bunch of tries.

I used PC version only

windows XP with SDK and ADB drivers loaded
[General Questions and Answers] BigCountry907:
Kingroot to Supersu how to

I thought id share today's adventure.

I rooted last night my fierce 2 using kingo on the pc. The version you cant read.

I saw a few people wanted to replace KingRoot with Super SU.

I guess if you do this wrong you will have to re-root so i spent the day researching how to do this.

First you absolutely must have your phone set to USB DEBUGGING MODE & CONNECTING IN CHARGING MODE.

to go to charging mode swipe down on you phone after it connects to the computer " like your checking notifications"

click on MTP mode or whatever is not Debugging and select charge only.

You got to have the right ADB Drivers loaded for windows to connect to the phone correctly.

You also need SDK Tools as you will have to use ADB

You should check anyway that you have connection by running (ADB Devices) anyway.

if thats all correct then your ready to start this process.

Also king root app for windows wont work if your not connected correctly.

It took me a few tries to get the phone rooted. it takes a long time to run the kingo app in windows.

After about 5 maybe 6 tries it worked.

set your phone in settings display to never sleep

keeps the screen on.

reboot phone into recovery mode.

Clear cashe

reboot again

run kingo on windows.

if it gives you a buton to clik that says root after a few min you know your connected right.

dont do or touch anything. and make sure your screen saver is off in windows.

If it says rooted your golden. takes about an hour maby each try.

If not reboot phone

go to settings apps and look for some new apps. something like usb helper or pc helper and keen root.

if you got those your getting somewhere

clear the data for each.

open and run kingo on windows again.

until u are successful.

now we want to go to step of getting super su to work

search REPLACE KINGROOT with SUPERSU

download the Zip file and unzip.

copy the files to phones sd card where you can find them easy.

read the post for REPLACE KINGROOT with SUPERSU

read the reademe that came in the zip file.

now fire up ADB again on the pc with the phone connected

in command prompt type ADB Shell

it should take you to terminal emulator.

type su

you should now have a # in the command window

Follow the instructions in that readme and you will pull this off with no problem.

if you think you need better instructions let me know.

some of this is tricky.

We could start another thread.

Hope this helps.

Running Supersu fully rooted now.

My next step is backing this phone up before i go any further.

im hoping since i have ADB Shell with root permissions i can copy every file off the phone.

Ill let you know how it goes.
[General Questions and Answers] texasboy91:
need a lil help

I have an alcatel 7040n um I don't have recovery or anything like that or I don't have access to it. keeps powering onff an idk how to fix it so any help would be appreciated
[General Questions and Answers] BigCountry907:
Recover Bootloop

Ya I'm thinking we can fix it.

If you can get into recovery mode.

Turn off phone

Hold volume up key

Hold power button

Both at same time

Then after Alcatel screen shows for 5 sec or. So let go of power.

Keep holding vol up.

After 10 / 15 sec let go of vol key

Your phone should boot into recovery.

Select system restore

Try that.

Anyway let me know if you can boot into recovery.

What have you tried

What happened to cause this.

Do you have SDK installed on a PC

Do you know how to use adb
[General Questions and Answers] bobbytomorow:
Can someone with root upload the system apps? I rooted my moms 7040T and now that she wants to pass it on I reset to factory defaults but while rooted I removed some system files and now it won't work properly, for example

-calls go straight to voicemail (maybe the stock dialer?)

-The stock browser is missing

-The shortcut to settings from the notification drawer doesn't work

-can't install updates because it says, "We've detected your device has root access so upgrades are not available" even though its not rooted any longer

-various other strange behaviour

I need to manually reinstall all of the factory apk's from the system folder
[General Questions and Answers] BigCountry907:
I have a Stock Rom Backup

I have created a rom update package out of the stock rom on the phone.

But i have no idea how to get it flashed.

I get error when loading by sideload with ADB and the load update from sd card dosent see the file.

If i can figure out a way to flash this then we could fix boot looped phones.

Its stock but rooted and i could even add unsecure boot. Just got to get it flashed.

If i had a copy of the OTA Update or a Stock rom that it would recognize on the sd card I could make this happen

Anyone have any ideas
[General Questions and Answers] Smil3yWulf:
I need the update zip, after wipe data and reboot phone, its stuck at Alcatel onetouch Fierce 2 Logo