[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jhalife:
Hi Friends,

I have started this thread to invite all developers and users to share all good tips and tricks for the device Alcatel Onetouch Flash 6042D which is such a good phone looking at the specification and Quality of Hardware.:cool::) A very first thing special thanks to Flipkart for bringing this device to India that too at an affordable prize and also for providing excellent service as they always do :)

Talking in brief about special highlight of this device, it features a 5.5 inch screen, 1.4 GHz MTK 6592M Octa core processor, 3200mAH battery which lasts for minimum 1.5 days even with heavy use of Wi-Fi for 8 hours :) Secondly even Alcatel engineers have done awesome work by working so much behind update the stock android and making it so beautiful :)

Coming to point as I have own personally this device and looking at user reviews few users faced some of the issue one of which even i came across. So if you are one among those users than follow my below tips: -

1. Network Hanging/Stuck Issue: - For users, who came across Network hanging issue which happens specially when you are roaming with this device as i have personally witnessed the sole reason for this is Google Apps update. Their is no reason to blame alcatel for this. MY testing till now has revealed that This is caused specially by Google Play services and Google Apps update that happens automatically if you are on Wi-Fi network.

To get rid of this: - First of all don't update any of your google apps until the bugs in current one are fixed. Go to Play store> Settings and disable Auto upate apps over WiFi so that it won't update automatically. This resolves the issue and you can use other older version of google apps also like gmail, youtube which came preloaded with your phone.

2. Camera giving only 9.4Mega pixel Images: - I see by default the images clicked by this device is of 9.4 Mega pixel only. This happens because of the full screen mode being ON in camera. To resolve this> Open Camera app> click on setting icon> Full screen is highlighted by default just touch it to remove full screen mode. Congrats now your camera will click 13 Mega pixel images :)

3. Hard resetting your phone: - For users who wish to Hard reset there Alcatel One touch flash device do these things:

a. Power off your phone

b. Press and hold Power + Volume down button together until you see Android recovery screen. (Note: you need to hold these two buttons together until you come to recovery screen might take 20 seconds)

c. Now select "wipe cache"

d. Now select "Factory reset"

e. Now let the device reset your phone it will take some time around 1 minute

f. Now next time you power on it will stay at Alcatel boot image after sometime hold power button again to switch off

g. now hold power button and Congrats now your phone is resetted successfully :)

I haven't come across any other issue apart from these. Users who come across any other issue share in this forum I will assist in resolving the bugs, if any :) For those need screen shots to know the procedure let me know i will update screenshots of procedure in my next post.

People who wish to root their device a atip from my side is to wait for sometime until Alcatel officially provides stock image in their android upgrade firmware and only than try rooting as if at this stage if you screw up your device than it would be difficult to get the stock image and restore your phone.