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[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Umrooting can be done from inside supersu app
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
Tried this last night and could not get adb to recognize the phone. Any help would be appreciated.
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
I tried this method and the pdanet app didn't recognized my phone also tried to

Replace the drivers and didn't work!
[Blu Vivo Air] JJ2525:
I presume there is no way to root the phone without a PC (I have a Mac), correct?
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
Well after fighting to get adb working for about an hour and a half it finally worked. In the end I just kept rebooting the phone and my pc and it finally worked. I intalled super su and removed the king user. Thanks OP. Great find.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Oh man. You had to fight through that? Dang. I was afraid of that. So essentially, we would have to force install the adb driver. I'll add it in to. I will help you guys on that one.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
[MENTION=5181349]abhishekr700[/MENTION] is correct, if you fire up KingUser you can actually unroot from the app itself. See attached photo.

You would just click on settings gear and then select remove root permission.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
At this current moment in time, you are correct. I couldn't find a MediaTek tool for mac. You could try to do it via a Virtual Box. Or maybe dual boot a small partition of windows on your mac. That's totally up to you, however, those would only be the options right now.
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
hlp

ADB not working and cant get the drivers installed! just keeps failing during install
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Okay. I have an interview soon, I will add in the 2nd post I have how to force install adb driver itself. Hang tight with me guys. I will post it today!
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Hey jjvalor59,

For the adb not being recognized, please follow these steps located here: http://visualgdb.com/tutorials/android/usbdebug/manualinstall.php

In the 1st post, please download the google driver if you haven't already.

Skip to step 5 and start from there. With the generic drivers already installed, once you open device manager, there should be one unrecognized driver classified as Unknown with the name of "Blu Vivo Air Phone".

The steps following #5 will explain how to forcefully install the adb driver. After successfully doing so, please reboot your PC and plug in your device again and you should have interim checked on your phone fe the pop up. This should now allow you to run the root process :)
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Successfully rooted my Air!! Thank you.

Is there any way to switch Kinguser to Supersu??

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
I've tried and haven't been successful just yet! Hang tight and I'll keep trying! Glad to see you are able to have root :)
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Thanks for all your effort. I installed Supersu through the playstore out of curiosity, it fails everytime it tries to update binaries.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
This is where I gotta figure out why. We may need to get a recovery ported before we can use SuperSU. The reason I want to do it this way is so we can install the binaries and app through recovery.
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Why dont u try the flashable zip if supersu
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Its on my to do. I want to get the blocks figured out and system dump imgs just one case we have to push them back to the phone.
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
If yall need some testers. I'll be more than happy to volunteer.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
I will keep in touch with you. :)
[Blu Vivo Air] itsJohnuno:
im pretty happy to see this...my nexus 5 called it quits today so i had to get a quick replacement

any bloatware on the device worth removing with root?
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Not too many bloatware. At least not enough to remove with root. I disabled bunch of Google Apps I don't use. That's all.

To be honest, performance is pretty good. Doesn't the smoothness that the nexus 5 had especially with lollipop. But fairly close.

You'll be satisfied.

Sent from my A0001
[Blu Vivo Air] itsJohnuno:
Yeah 1gb of ram is gonna take me back to monitoring 512mb of ram dwindling down on my HTC hero back in the day lol

Smaller community this should be fun
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Plus if you remove any bloat ware that's system tied, the updates proceeding will not accept and be declined. I am on v06 and wanted those improved touchscreen files but I couldn't. So I have to dig in the file structure to find the downloaded system update.zip and add those files In. I would not recommend this yet until we can backup.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Can someone pull their exchange apk and pm me the link to the upload. I need that so I can check out if root works on other versions
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
It will be slow but fantastic!!!:p

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
I'll try and get to it you as soon as I can. Phone died and is charging now.

Sent from my A0001
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Sweet. Thank you. You using a one plus one?

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Yes. I do have a one plus one. It's my main phone for the time being.

Main reason I got the air was it's unlocked. I have a OPO, nexus 5, Gs3 and now vivo air. All unlocked!! :thumbup:

Sent from my A0001
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
:thumbup: just came from one plus one :rolleyes:

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Here is that apk for you. sorry it took so long.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Oh no worries! Thank you. I'm going to reinsert this apk into my system. And see if I can take the update to v08 and sustain root. If not, I'm going to try to reroot again. Also, did this file have an odex file tonir? Hope not.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Actually did have an odex file with, did you need that as well?? That "hope not" doesn't sound so good.
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
I got it rooted! I hate to say that after all the hard work I cant use the root for my personal interest since xposed and gravitybox doesn't work with this ROM! And I can't pay the risk to figure out how to make it work! This is the sad part of this phones we don't have the full support on apps ROMs an customization :o
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Eh no worries. System update doesn't want to work for me. But I don't care about that right now. I'm working on making CWM for us right now. Trying to figure out hex values for the boot.IMG and stock recovery right now. I almost have them.

Patience my man. I'm working on a toaster right now till I get my all in one back. I am trying :)

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
I am using SuperSU. If binary install fails follow the instructions to reboot and try again. Make sure kinguser is giving SuperSU root privileges as well. Once I got the binary to update with SuperSU I deleted king user.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Solid! The phone didn't deroot through another reboot about switching to supersu?

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
I myself am still unable to install SuperSu, I'm going to try a few other things.
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
Root persists through reboots. I just downloaded it from the market and kept trying to update the binaries until it succeeded. After I got the binaries to install I got rid of king user. You might just have to keep trying.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Rad! Well, gotta keep pushing then.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
I do have busy box installed and I'm not sure when I installed it. See if that's the key. If that's not it try this, use a root browser and change the .apk to .bak for king user. Reboot and see if SuperSU updates the binaries.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Busybox has and always will be installed :) I've learned to have that just in case. I'll give it a shot.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
I had busybox installed from the get go and still not able to install Supersu. Oh well.... I'm content with Kinguser....

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Guyz can u give me the boot.img of your phone

Also tell me whether u giyz have a install-recovery.sh file in /system/etc/
[Blu Vivo Air] rarson:
Just wanted to chime in and say that I used this tutorial to root my Vivo Air. Worked perfectly. I just got my phone today and it's already on V08. Thank you so much for the info and links!

This phone seems pretty awesome to me. I had previously a Galaxy SIII, which I still think is a great phone, but mine unfortunately got obliterated (don't ask) and I replaced it with an LG Volt. The Volt was good for about a month before it started exhibiting massive flaws. After about 6 months, I got so frustrated with the phone that I jumped on the chance to buy the Air as soon as I saw it, because the Volt simply can't run an entire day without freezing up and attempting to reboot itself (which it fails to do) while being ridiculously laggy doing everything as simple as pulling the keyboard up. Worst phone I've ever owned (my old Samsung Fascinate is a better phone than the Volt.) I guess the lesson is to give it some time before passing judgement on how good a phone is, but initial impression is great. I just hate the stock software, so looking forward to trying out some new roms whenever they become available.

Thanks again!
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
Yes there is a intall-recovery.sh file there. How can I pull the boot.img for you?
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Is there a bml or similar named folder in /dev/block folder
[Blu Vivo Air] popaflorin19:
i have twrp and easy root metod for this phone.
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
No folder by that name. Here's a bit of what I see
[Blu Vivo Air] Milly7:
Do you mind sharing?
[Blu Vivo Air] popaflorin19:
can not put links. I have not ten posts.
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
I second this as well. I don't see a folder with that name.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
You can not just pull it. I've been working on it getting the hex values to pull by code. I know the phones exact blocks numbers but I don't know why, it just does not show in the files

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Guyz do one thing run this on command line and tell me the output

#cat /proc/mtd
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Ook this didnt work sonetimes it gives the exact place of boot.img

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Bmxerkid try making cwm u can u the droid tools to make it
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Still still working on it. I have found the exact size of the boot.IMG location. Its located at 00002d000000 with a value length of 0x1000000

Oh something like that. Not looking directly at my toaster.

But I'll keep pushing. Its not a simply plug and pull if some of you wanted to know. This is entirely a replication and cloning processing cause I have to location all of this information from scanning the blocks with hex strings.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Hey keep working on it

All im saying is that the mtk droid tools can pull boot.img from phone itself

And make cwm from it so make it and I will make its thread
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
That's what I've been using. Its almost that easy but having to find the hex keys is the tough part.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
What is the need of finding hex keys

When u have cwm u can backup kernel directly
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
To find recovery and the actual boot IMG the hex keys are too identify where they are in the blocks. You can not plug in and pull from the file structure. You have to locate it. Since the blocks are hidden, and the imgs, you have to scan. Then create a string and flush them as a copy.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
All those things the mtk droid tools can do
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
This is correct. I'm working on it.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Mojar7070, mind uploading that odex file from exchange2.apk?

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Here you go sir. I zipped it. wouldnt let me post it as an odex file. let me know if you need anything else.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Thank you good sir! I'm going to inject this back into the system and the take the update and see if root survives.

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Speaking of update. I received an ota this morning.

Not sure whether to apply it or not. Any suggestions??

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
I think we can't say

Let the cwm be made then u can make a backup first and then try the update
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
welp, I am soft bricked.... do not try to take updates... lol
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
So now I need some one to be oh so kind and help me out here, if you don't mind :D I need someone to dump their system so i can try pushing the files through adb. http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2450045
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
I told u to make cwm first but I don't know why arnt u making it

All u gotta do is connect phone to pc then open mtk droid tools choose recovery and boot

Then it will pull boot.img and make cwm then flash it with mobileunvle app that's all
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Is it really that easy to use mtk tools to make a cwm??

I might just have to try it.

[MENTION=2734804]bmxerkid954[/MENTION]

I'm not well educated in adb and terminal emulator, but I'll read through the guide and see if I'm capable enough to it.

Sent from my A0001
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Well that's the way cwm was made for my xperia c
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
That's fine! I contacted BLU looking for a recovery toll from them, hope they can help. If you get the system dump, you'll probably save my tush and possibly a few others.

In the mean time, here is the guide for using mtk and creating CWM

http://www.theandroidhow.com/2014/05/how-to-make-flash-cwm-recovery-without.html
[Blu Vivo Air] itsJohnuno:
You soft bricked because of root correct? It wasn't just on blu's end?
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Bricked for taking ota on root.
[Blu Vivo Air] 903tex:
Think its best for people to not take the ota if your rooted. Really I think its best that op hide the info to root cause a lot of people who just browse xda will root this take the ota and soft brick!

UNTIL there's a way to go back to stock!
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
I will be able to hide when I get chance, I will post a massive disclaimer in op.
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
Did u revive the phone? I posted how to!
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Wow!! Just saw your tutorial. Good job bro!!

Sent from my A0001
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
Thankz! Well its a "tutorial" but it works
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
I have not even seen this. I will check it out. I had no screen anymore. Nothing showed up. Let me check it out and see if it works for me. Blu may want it back for an exchange. I'm talking to them about it.
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
How can u Claim ur warranty

You voided it by rooting

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And one more thing

You needed the hex for boot img location right

I tried mtk droid tokls on my phone today and I created a scatter file for it and u know what it sgowed the hex of all location including boot img
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
I'm not claiming anything. I called I asked, they said they may want it because of some thing, I don't know, couldn't catch his drift. Any who, I ordered it. Just to save time. So that is considered my replacement device.
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Hmm its good if they replace it

Btw what about the boot img info I gave you

Any help?
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Yeah I had that all dialed down. I told blu exactly what happened and we are going to chat again Monday about it. But I ordered another one for the heck of it. Either way I bought another one to specifically take chances on.

As for that I was down to copying the IMG over until the phone pooped. So that's where I am at.
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
At least we have the ROM just in case something fails again! I'm not 100% sure about what you guys are working on but have a nice progress!
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
U r sooooo rich

You bought another phone just for develpment

Wowowow
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
Looks like jajajaj! I haven't even be able to buy a 5$ body skin and screen protector! :mad::mad:
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
I'm not. I have 2 jobs and work one part time, and the other full time. I've been saving money since I was 16. I'm currently 20. I earn it all so I can spend on bills, and my hobbies. I probably won't be able to splurge like that again, but I'll get info once its shipped.
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
Yeah yeah we get it rich rich rich! Hahhahaha :D:D:D
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
It's honestly been an offensive thing to me.
[Blu Vivo Air] itsJohnuno:
Its the internet bro enjoy you got money you might not think your rich but your richer than these guys obviously lol

Now back on topic fellas...anyone attempt root on v11?
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
Sorry bro not intended just a joke nothing to be offended by!

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May be he has but its just a joke from my side!

I haven't since the update bricked the phone so I don't think its safe and I'm not willing to try!
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Heya can you give me boot img from your phone

Connect phone open mtk tools then click on backup

It will backup everything from your phone including boot img and recovery img plzz post them here

Thanks
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
None taken, with that clarified from my understanding, root is done through chip set because of supported mtk chip. If anything it would fail to root, just like framaroot, or towelroot, it'll just fail.

So it shouldn't really do anything but root you. The is version hasn't changed, and I don't think the kernel has either.
[Blu Vivo Air] itsJohnuno:
I was just defending him kinda 2 on 1 lol didn't mean anything by it

I believe the soft brick was strictly because you updated with root...I don't think blu's programmers patched up anything, but I could be wrong.

I just paid for a screen on my nexus 5 then it broke again and I bought the vivo so not really trying to take small chance and lose this phone haha
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Yeah, someone dump your boot IMG from backup. I was trying to replicate mine before I made a mistake. If you can post the boot.IMG here abhishekr700 will post a special treat later.
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
I know and I didn't take it wrong or anything you right its the internet and tons of shi.. Happens here I'm just the kind who doesn't like to offend users I like to joke around and that's why I apologise with him! I hope he gets it and don't take me wrong!

I was looking forward to get the nexus 5 but the budget didn't let me so! But the feel of the vivo its kind cool but the nexus its a mayor thing to have both performance and customization! Any reason why the screen it's cracking so easy on you?
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Yup for that treat I need boot img and recovery. Img.

Jjvalor why dont u do it now
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
I have no idea what you talking about and how to do it!
[Blu Vivo Air] itsJohnuno:
No reason I just dropped it once and it cracked...I bought a replacement from amazon but the quality wasn't up to par but it worked then my WiFi chip went out and started acting up so I decided to just move on. My n5 would run a little hot the vivo has yet to reach that feeling

In terms of performance I say their comparable(no noticeable difference) the only diff was LTE but I'm not complaining
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Use mtk droid tools its a application on windows

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https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BzWBuFv6dGtYblMyeWk0UVBJX3M/edit?usp=docslist_api

If someone can take the risk this is a aroma installer package for rooting and unrooting

Try flashe on stock recovery on your own risk
[Blu Vivo Air] jjvalor59:
Can't u extract it from the ROM file that's in the revive tutorial?
[Blu Vivo Air] abhishekr700:
Nope
[Blu Vivo Air] itsJohnuno:
You don't think the original root method would work... It was my understanding that root is an exploit so unless they patch that exploit the same root method should work, no?
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Hello, I'm not a computer right now. So I won't be able to help anytime soon.

Also, I tried the guide in the link bmxerkid954 posted (backup boot.img), It crashed my computer and I had to format. Maybe a software I downloaded on accident. I don't know what it was.

Sent from my A0001
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Not that way because that's unpacked into the phone. Need it directly link to boot loader which is already stored in phone. I believe that's how it works.
[Blu Vivo Air] HiddenKnight:
Oh my, I apologize man. It was all working fine on mine till I dropped it at a hookah lounge and shattered my screen.
[Blu Vivo Air] Mojar7070:
Its all good. I needed to format anyways. A lot of junk thats been accumulated.

You mentioned I need to unroot first then take the ota right?? Has anyone confirmed that this works??

Sent from my VIVO AIR
[Blu Vivo Air] dimasp6:
Is the root tool safe? (second rar file) I'm getting all sorts of warnings from the anti-virus for the website and the rar file itself. Even after I downloaded it got blocked instantly by the anti-virus.
[Blu Vivo Air] DvDwx.:
[MENTION=5181349]abhishekr700[/MENTION] [MENTION=2734804]bmxerkid954[/MENTION] I'm going join this "Development Family" this week... i already found the Chinese CWM too... i just waiting the phone arrive.. i will try make a custom ROM based on Original OTA(BLU or KAZAM)... i think it can be possible without any problem.. one time you already stay using the original binaries and drivers From the real Manufacture(Gionee Sources)... just kernel development is hard without a leaked Source compatible with our phone (i already have 2 leaked kernel sources from another phones with share the same SoC but they are to Android JB 4.3 =/)

about Self Courage to try another SW? someone already tried flash the KAZAM Tornado 348 v15 FW(lasted -> 03/10/2015)? on 4PDA they make that with 4 rebranded phones and everyone say they are the mostly stable about precess CPU/GPU to gaming and daily drive(and support Russian Language.. Good to them :rolleyes:) ... there i found another stuffs like MIUI ROM (4.3 JB) and Carliv Touch recovery too.. for some time i will test my new phone without modifications to see how far i can support the stock FW... (not more than 1 week... on Sony Xperia's i supported just 72 hours :silly: )

The link to 4PDA.RU Topic
[Blu Vivo Air] jetfin:
Hi DvDwx,

I have flashed the Chinese custom ROM for gionee s5.1 on my orginal chinese s5.1 with the chinese CWM. The rom has root (superSU) & gapps and apparently also optimized 4g. Here is the chinese thread:

http://www.elife.com/thread-192213-1-1.html

it is available for download here: http://pan.baidu.com/s/1eQlFetO&qrfrom=1&qrtype=zip

The ROM runs great for now, but still I'm looking forward to a ROM that is not amigo OS!

On one of the russian sites i found a link for the Carliv Touch Recovery for this phone but it was a dead link.

Do you have an active link for this recovery?
[Blu Vivo Air] DvDwx.:
i can try found that link to recovery soon... just for now i'm running without time... i'm at work right now and when i go home i stay developing a project to an industry... just for now i'm don't have time to Hunt that on internet :(

anyway.. maybe we can modificate the AmigoOS too.. that is my ideia to future projects.. because to develop a Clean Sourced ROM we need the Stock Binaries/Sources to SoC and Complementarity Driver binaries like Wifi / Bluetooth...

:highfive:
[Blu Vivo Air] jetfin:
Modifying the amigo ROM would be a good idea -it is a pretty clean android but just the launcher and SystemUI are horrible. I'm using now Nova Launcher...

A ROM based on amigo but with aosp launcher and different systemui.apk would be already great step forward!