yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Correct, the first reboot after a repartition ended in a boot loop. You can go past the initial setup, see in the storage settings that you have more space and be happy, then you restart and get a boot loop, so you must reflash the original firmware.

For the root, I managed to do it without flashing the firmware from the manual. It worked after several tries (Execute vRoot, failed, uninstall KingUser and SuperCleaner, back to step one). But Nudeldampf had trouble rooting so I suggested he try to flash the original firmware, which resulted in weird flickering on his screen for some reason. Did not hear back from him if the reason is faulty hardware.

If you failed to root, it might be because you don't have the correct driver? Did it install Kinguser? Did you accept all the popups on your phone during the root attempts
[General Questions and Answers] bozadzhiev:
Mhm it is strange. I'm not sure if android devices and systems use MBR and if this is not the problem. After you create partitions, you change it, but if you write this changes on MBR? And after reboot if the device is seeing the new partitions or see nothing and that's why is looping. I'm not a expert, i can only suggest what might happening after repartition. :)

Is there any other method, app or something else, that you can use and to configure to use the sd card for installing apps ?

I see and something strange . When i go to Settings->Storage , it is hanging on "Calculating" state . This is strange for me

Nice phone, but for me the main problem is insufficient internal space.. :(

For my try to root the phone, i don't think that the problem was the driver, because i installed the driver & the phone was recognized by OS and vroot app., i accepted all the pop-ups, the vroot installed..three apps i think..kinguser,supercleaner and something on chinese lang , but the process of rooting failed..

For the Nudeldamp, i read abt his problems, and i think that it will be unlikely this problem with flickering to be caused of rooting and flashing of phone. But on other side, the phone has tests mode menu, where tests, display gps and etc.. . Once , when i switching it on, i pressed simulteneously two buttons accidentally ->start button and vol up, i think, and there was a chinese menu and one of options is for tests i think..
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Yes, Android uses both MBR and EBR, but for this situation you only need to edit the MBR. I read countless threads about this. However some say you should change the scatter file as well, others are not even talking about it. I have tried with and without both to no avail.

There are other methods yes, there is an app called Mtk_repartition on which you choose the MTK6582, then repartition and it will make the changes for you. However for this to work, you need a custom recovery to apply the repartitioning, which I also failed to do in my many attempts with a multitude of custom recoveries from internet.

For installing on SD card, I already checked in the past and you cannot put the data on an sd card, unless you partition your sd-card and link /data to your sd-card with the application link2SD. This technique worked well in the past for me, but you cannot put a partitioned sd card in a Windows computer and read it without doing special stuff, plus I always felt like my phone was kind of slower, maybe because sd-card access is slower than internal memory access (even when I had only a few apps). Finally, I link2SD was giving me a LOT of permission errors or linking errors. So I got tired of all this and decided to stop using link2SD then just have fewer applications.

The last solution is to use the application AppManager (App2SD), which uses the native Android method of storing apps on the SD card and will tell you which ones you can safely move while keeping application stability.

I don't know about that, never seen this before.. even with my previous messed up phones or my repartition attempts

You tried several times? Did you do the wireless updates? If so, what's the version you have? Did you also try reflashing Lollipop?

Yes, that's the service menu to access recovery and fastboot. But it's in english for me, it was chinese for you? Where did you buy your phone? Maybe if you reflash it will be in English, don't know
[General Questions and Answers] Nudeldampf:
Hey guys, sorry for the late reply. I was on a business trip and got home yesterday.

I'm absolutely sure my phone has some problem with its hardware, as I've tried flashing with both Windows 7 and Windows XP with all the available Firmwares from Doogee (Android 5 as well as 4.4) and the result was always the same. Because the screen is also flickering when just displaying the service menu - and since there is no way (yet?) to overwrite the service menu with a custom recovery this part of the internal storage should be independent from everything flashed with the Firmware provided by Doogee. I could post a picture of the flickering screen if you want.

My guess is that one of the small cables leading to the display is not completely in its place, and eventually I'll dismantle the phone to test this theory. But before that I'll order a new one on Monday. If I can get the first one to work normally again then great, I can give that phone to my wife. If it stays with the flickering screen at least then I've got a spare battery and other spare hardware parts in case something happens to the new phone ;)

But I sure as hell will try to root the new one as well after it arrives :D

As for the slow phone when linking /data to the sd-card - yes, I think that's normal. Internal memory is always faster than external, same goes with normal RAM on your computer compared to the small memory banks inside your CPU.
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Keep us posted huh? I still find a bit weird that the flickering started after you flashed, when you did not even drop it.

By the way guys, this phone is definitely not IP67, do NOT put it in the water. I saw a review where the guy said his phone stopped working after putting it in the water and I thought it was a defective phone, but my phone takes water too. I believe it's coming through the top speaker as a lot of water came out of there, maybe where the plugs are too, even if properly closed.

I put my phone under 10 cm of water and shook it to rinse for around 2 seconds after it got dirty. Just this was enough to make the notification LED to be partially on (red, sometimes a bit of green), for water to get under the touch screen (took around 20 hours for the wet visible patch under the screen to dry out), in the camera lens, in the flash light. The home button also stopped working and the power button was sometimes malfunctioning.

I was lucky enough to have put it in the water only for a short time so after it dried out, all was back to normal, thankfully because I am in Bangkok and it's so hot and dry here. But this is definitely not IP67 as advertised. IP67 is:

"water in harmful quantity shall not be possible when the enclosure is immersed in water under defined conditions of pressure and time (up to 1 m of submersion)."

Lying scum!!
[General Questions and Answers] Nudeldampf:
Thats strange, I had no problem with mine being underwater. Actually that was the first thing I've tested when I got it :D

There was no problem with water getting unto the usb/speaker lid because none went through. I got some drips behind the back plate, but that wasn't a problem either because of the rubber inlay encased around battery and everything else.

Sorry to hear yours got wet inside the hardware :(
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Maybe my phone is defective then. Maybe it's chinese phones and they always have problems! I can root mine but it's not waterproof, yours is waterproof but you cannot root it!

As an indicator, the little chrome thing where the speaker is (I'm talking about the top speaker beside the notification LED, is that what you meant too?) is not completely straight, but kind of convex a little bit, like a lens and I can push it down just a little tiny bit then it comes back up. Is yours like that too? If it's not then my phone is a bad one, just like 90% of chinese stuff; the more complex it is, the more chances you have of a misfire haha! I just hoped they would put them under water to test them before shipping.

Be sure to check as well with your new phone if it's waterproof when you get it, and if your current phone doesn't have that little convex thing, then don't put your new phone under water if it has the same imperfection!
[General Questions and Answers] Nudeldampf:
That chrome thing you're talking about is straight on my phone, not bulging or convex. My guess with my phone is that through my throwing it around a display cable got lose over time (I had to test it! :D What I did was starting a video and filming the way to the kitchen while throwing the phone against the wall and after arriving in the kitchen putting it underwater. Resulted in a nice video and the phone worked absolutely normal after that)
[General Questions and Answers] Nudeldampf:
It will arrive tomorrow, so theoretically I'll have the weekend to test and do stuff. But I know I will end up doing this on monday at work, hehe :D

I've thought about flashing the 4.4 from Doogee, since there seems to be no big problem in rooting AND a custom recovery, so that I can use the Xposed Framework and everything else I got used to with my old phone.. But the screenshots from the 4.4 Doogee Android are showing much bloatware, can anyone confirm that?
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
You don't really care if rooted anyways, no? It did look like the Kitkat version of Android looked a little bit bad and like the '90s though hehe

I thought about doing this too, because I miss XPosed so much and REALLY need more space, but now that I set up Lollipop, rooted, hacked, changed the boot animation, etc I don't really feel like doing all that work over again! Plus I like the looks of Lollipop :)

But if you manage to do everything, and repartition, I might give it a go :P
[General Questions and Answers] tvladan:
finally rooted :)

ok, first of all thanks NaturalBornCamper for all your trouble to post your progress in rooting this phone with Lollipop.

last night after almost 5 hours of "work" I managed to get root access using Iroot (1.8.5).

my problems were:

- firs,t after installing stock firmware R16 i got invalid IMEI on both simcards (in the end I solved it with engineering mode thanks to this thread http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2744743&page=49)

- so to fix the invalid imei problem i tried to flash R15 - did not work, than i tried to flash kitkat - did not work, and in the end i managed to soft brick the phone (no power up, no led charging, nothing but I solved it with SP Tools and R16)

i used the second package from the doogee page which is the latest firmware released with all the updates, after flashing stock clean room I just rooted with iRoot

now my question is ... how do I uninstal kinguser from the phone and install superuser (chainfire with binaries or other app that gives me back the root rights?)

i tried (with busy box installed and updated)

uninstalling king user and installing chainsdd superuser app- got no root privileges

uninstalling king user and installing chainfire superuser app - got error updating binaries / could not update , please reboot and try again, and no root privileges after uninstalling / disabling KingUser from the phone

installing both supeuser apps while kinguser still active with same results as above !!!

and most importantlly has anyone managed to get a custom recovery working on Lollipop? if so how/what recovery and please post here the method used?

once again thanks NaturalBornCamper and all of you who bothered to post here your progres in rooting the phone !!!
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Hum, I got the invalid imei as well on one simcard, but I thought it was only because it was expired.. I'll go have a look at your thread, thanks for adding this here!

I never managed to replace kinguser with either SuperSU or SuperUser.. I tried uninstalling, installing on too, unrooting, etc. Nothing worked.. Looks like were stuck with kinguser until someone finds a solution, or until a custom recovery appears.

So yep, no custom recovery for this phone, but found one for mtk6582 that is supposed to work with lollipop according to the thread where I found it. Flash tool never seemed to work properly, so for every try I reflashed completely as per my instructions. The recovery flashed ok, but I could not get into recovery as there was flickering in the screen. But did you say you used a different flash tool? If so and this tool can flash only selected partitions, you could try that recovery, and even try flashing new EBR to repartition without doing a full flash.

So yep, tried everything you tried with no more success.. I still search every few weeks in google in case some hacker makes new things, but nothing yet. A new alpha of xposed was released today, but we still can't install without a custom recovery
[General Questions and Answers] tvladan:
yes I used mediatek smart phone flash tool or sp flash tool for short (you cand find it on the dg700 support page on the right side of the big phone photo at the top, where it says: Software Download Instructions . with this tool you can choose what to update (system, recovery, EBR, etc, but first you need to make a scatter file with mtk droid from the rom in the phone ... see link bellow for this procedure ->) .... also tried to make my own recovery with autobuild recovery option from mtk droid but with no succes. (i used this tutorial here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2160490, but there is no custom recovery created). Also I tried rerooting the phone with mtk droid but all i got were some errors. It seems that the author of mtk droid abandoned the project so ... there is no development for lollipop ... All I manged was to download all my stock rom from the phone to the pc. Do you have a link to the custom revovery you tried to flash? I would like to try it myself to see if i can get it to work! After getting screen flicker from the failed flashed custom recovery, did you managed to boot in Android or you needed to flash the whole rom again and re-root ?

so ... xposed can'y be flashed with stock recovery on lollipop ... that's too bad ... i would really like gravity box on my phone ... :(

link to sp flash tool (doogee website) and drivers direct download: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-eEVUUoOlT4QzZwZE54LTVFWms/edit
[General Questions and Answers] TobyGs:
Hey,

first of all, thanks for the guide, I did manage to root the phone, running Lollipop.

After 3 attempts, vroot did its' job.

By the way, Link2SD is working fine for me. The secondary partition I made is a little over 4 gb, formatted in FAT32.
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
I hear you friend, I miss Gravity Box like crazy! I had stock options, so limited and only for grannies!

But if you manage to flash my recovery, that would be great!! So there was flickering only when I entered in recovery. Other than that the phone worked good. Look on page 2 of the thread to find the links with the custom recovery I found for MTK6582, you can download the recovery there, and I'm not sure, but I think I also pasted the link where I found it. Basically it's a kitkat recovery that a guy tried on a MTK6582 phone with Lollipop (not the DG700) and it worked.
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
No probs, happy it worked for ya!

I think I will have to resort to Link2SD soon as well if there is no working repartitioning
[General Questions and Answers] estranged1977:
Posible solution to flickering

Same problem of Nudeldampf here, I own this dooge dg700, it cames with lollipop but I did not like it, little space to install apps and 5.0 with lot of lag... So I try to install 4.4 and the phone start flickering after first boot.

There are some tutorials on the web in where you can work using SPMultiFlash tool and choose the lcd of screen driver...but no version of that program worked for me....

I believe that maybe the solution is that someone here can backup a working 4.4 rom and post the the lk.bin file that is supposed to contain the config of screen.... or the entire working rom ...just in case...

By the way, before I installed 4.4 using format all option on sptools, the phone was rooted using kingroot....

I hope someone can help us with those files.....
[General Questions and Answers] estranged1977:
I have a ROM that fix the flickering problem...I will upload to mega and I post.... It is based in 5.0 ..
[General Questions and Answers] estranged1977:
Fix to screen flickering

Here we go, this is the rom that people from Doogee sent me to fix the flickering problem. It is 5.0 and is better and faster, no more lag.

Flash with SPtools...

https://mega.co.nz/#!6RxHgLpS!hwkp4cr1wHyWW6HOJQ1Eiz5HK-9gsomaOz8cTNcjyGw
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
What is different with your ROM? Something special?

I think they were looking for a non flickering Android 4.4 however
[General Questions and Answers] estranged1977:
The problem with flickering screen cannot be fixed flashing others roms, 4.4 or 5.0. This rom was sent by people in doogee after I sent a description of the problem.

In my case the phone cames with 5.0 and when I flashed 4.4 it start flickering...and I flashed again 5.0 and It was flickering again. I asume this rom has a patch for that problem...The guy who sent me the rom explain me that it was a random problem with some series of dg700 and a screen driver...

So theres is nothing special, but I must say that besides fixing the screen problem , this version has not the lag problem that was in the 5.0 rom that cames with the phone. It is also not official because the Doogee website still shows a previous rom...

BTW I have root with this rom too using kingroot.
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Cool, thanks for the info! I'm curious about the "lag" problem however, where did you encounter lag? I only have lag in Facebook Messenger sometimes, where the screen is frozen and I have to turn off the screen, reopen and tap "wait" on the pop-up android telling me that MEssenger isn't responding. A bit annoying if that's what you meant.
[General Questions and Answers] estranged1977:
Well I bought 2 dg700 and in both of them there was lag when you touch home button from apps box or from any app, it was not all the time but use to happen a lot... and in both the screen start flickering when I flashed 4.4

I think there was a problem with some phones with a certain model of screen. In fact there is a guy here http://www.needrom.com/download/doogee-dg700/ who explain how to choose other driver... the problem is that it didn t work too.

Anyway, this last rom works great....just waiting maybe someone on Doogee builds an update rom with more space for apps.
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Damn, hope they make a new official release with more fixes then
[General Questions and Answers] hussainali2:
query

me too searching for the same thing since a week or so !! did u found any guide ?
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
I wrote one, friend. Look on page 2.

Only managed root however. No xposed, recovery or repartitioning successful yet
[General Questions and Answers] Nudeldampf:
Thank you very much, dear sir! This ROM did the job and the flickering on my first DG700 vanished - so it really was a software problem after all. Do they have different firmwares for different countries? But after all I've learned a good part about disassembling with this phone :D

And sorry for not posting so long, my baby was born and there simply was no time for secondary things like fiddling with my new phone.

So I've flashed my first DG700 (as I've said months before I've bought another one - now I have two working phones, huzzah ;) ) and got it rooted with NaturalBornCampers vRoot v.1.8.3 - great! :)

I've read a lot about flashing and custom recovery about MTK chipsets in the meantime, maybe I can put it to use with Android 5.. don't know, but will definately try! But again, sorry for not posting so long, my spare time is occupied now by another being :D
[General Questions and Answers] tvladan:
congratulations on the baby! good health to you all! meanwhile has any of you tried this repartition method on Lollipop http://www.needrom.com/download/ebr-1-and-2-for-6gb-app-partition-2/ and can confirm that is working without loosing any user data ?
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
So selfish! :P

Glad your phone and baby are ok! Try not to mix up the two and try to repartition your baby, it might look weird.

If you managed to install a recovery however, that would be friggin awesome!!! We could finally get Xposed framework and all the goodies with it.. I miss so much blacklist, gravity box, deepsleep battery saver and many others!! Let us know if you find anything while your baby sleeps, friend!
[General Questions and Answers] NaturalBornCamper:
Wow this is awesome! But I don't want to reflash everything and end up with the same problem as before when I created my own EBR files. I was about to try it and tell you guys but then I read this comment about the same bootloop problem I had after the first restart:

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tefal100 on 08/11/2015 @ 8:59 am

Sorry, not working… ;/ First restart and bootloop on Android 5.0

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I wrote a comment as well to get answers, but it looks like the author is MIA and did not answer anyone else
[General Questions and Answers] Nudeldampf:
Thanks :) As I have two DG700 I can safely use one for experiments like this - I'll try it tomorrow and post results here!

---------- Post added at 02:57 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:19 PM ----------

Okay, I couldn't wait and did it just now at work :D

Flashing the two EBR files in download mode went normal (I used the Smart Phone Flash Tool 5.1408.00.100 from Doogee and the build 21 provided by tvladan), like expected. But then after restarting I was prompted with the notice

and that the phone needed a factory reset. But pressing the "Reset phone" button on that page did exactly nothing.

Battery out and in resulted in a long time displaying the white Doogee Titans2 DG700 text on black ground and then again Encryption unsuccessful. But after waiting a bit I could click the button and it rebooted again, showing the little droid erasing something (nice image btw). But after that - boot loop.

So yeah.. it doesn't seem to work that way :(
[General Questions and Answers] Nudeldampf:
Me again ;)

Next thing I've tried is putting those two EBR files into the R21 build to replace those (but used the scatter file from build R21) and flashed the phone again (firmware upgrade setting inside the flash tool. Don't know if thats any different from download *shrug*).

If you'll have a look at the pictures provided you'll see that this was indeed successful. Then I turned the phone off and on again and it would stay with the Doogee Titans2 text. So no success at that front as well.. what could be the reason that things like this don't survive a reboot?