yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhcohen:
Sorry, I mistook your remark about installing adb driver to be about installing the alcatel usb driver. The instructions as I've now posted them on the separate thread cover getting the usb driver for windows. I assumed (as apparently did the initial posts on this thread) that someone who was unlocking a bootloader would be resourceful enough to get the Android SDK tools (including fastboot and adb) for their computer platform without further instruction; I did have to do that for my Mac (from developer.android.com/tools/studio). But maybe to be complete I should add this. (I DID cover that you need "sudo" for fastboot commands on linux).
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
The linux packages don't require the full SDK...just enough to enable the adb and fastboot commands. The instructions about going into cdrom mode and installing the alcatel usb driver were exactly that..no need to download any files and as I recall someone reported the files on the idol 3 were newer than the files available for download.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankee207:
Hello,

TCL 3S M3G has snap 615, 2GB RAM; it's almost the same than our idol 3. But with a 5" FHD screen. Customs roms are available here:

http://www.needrom.com/category/tcl/m3g/ but the most interessant would be the CM12.1: http://www.needrom.com/download/cm12-1-android-5-1-1/

The stock rom is rooted using this software https://mega.co.nz/#!wZdD1AiY!eUfYCCtWpRuQOCumfw_PiNyhCaUfTFZoAo6CaSneQrQ but I can't use it. (seems chinese...)

More info http://forum.frandroid.com/topic/22...sharp-130mp-sony-exmor-rs-4g-gps-glonass-etc/ (I can help to translate if you can't read french) and here: http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=665974

Hope this will help
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
hurrray...we got root...the exe file extractes a bat file which only reboot to modified boot.img, which pushes supersu to the system and then reboots twice and now i got supersu and root access!!!! :) LET the fun begin...

i will make a simple bat in english today at night.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gynoid:
ROOTED !!! My Alcatel Idol 3 5.5 (6045Y) is ROOTED !!

Thanks, frankee207 you are a living god !

I owe you life !!

Now, more seriously, here's what I did:

Download this fine chinese thing from the URL you gave us

Unzip the resulting .exe file

Edit the REC.BAT batch file - it's in chinese, but it's readable by human eyes - and, replace the line where it says fastboot boot boot.img with fastboot -i 0x1bbb boot boot.img (in fact, just insert -i 0x1bbb between fastboot and boot boot.img).

Run the REC.BAT file in a CMD window

Connect the phone (with USB debugging enabled)

Press 1

Wait ...

... ET VOILÀ !!!
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankee207:
Great ! Really great ! As I did not receive mine yet, I hadn't been able to try !

Will root mine as soon as I'll receive it !

I guess you just click "1" then plugging the phone ?
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brian117:
Sweet!!! Just followed the above steps and I also got root on my 6045L. I did run into a scare though, after selecting 1 and hitting enter, it was frozen on the same text on the CMD window for a couple minutes and I was afraid to unplug my phone, but I woke my phone up and saw an RSA key dialog that I had to allow. After selecting OK the phone rebooted instantly and I have root. This is pure awesome. Time to install an adblocker. Thank you so much to frankeee207 for providing that method.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankee207:
I have a question...

Must the bootloader be unlocked before rooting ?
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brian117:
Nope. I have a locked bootloader and was able to achieve root with no problem. :good:
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
[MENTION=5745335]frankee207[/MENTION] and [MENTION=4487227]DallasCZ[/MENTION]

You two should go over to the Root Bounty thread to see how many actually contribute what they promised.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unmonstro:
So I had a bit of a scare. On my first attempt it got stuck on the Alcatel boot screen. I thought that maybe since I had updated the phone with the last two updates that maybe I bricked it. I held the power button and turned it off and restarted. It booted normally but no root. I checked developer options and checked mock locations and unchecked verify apps over usb and tried again. The second attempt was successful and I am now rooted . Hopefully this helps someone.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jfsat:
Not sure how many will cough it up, the bounty thread is for root and TWRP. Still, I suppose it couldn't hurt, just don't get your hopes too high.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brian117:
Titanium Backup working as it should.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepasadish:
one of your posted images say that update is disabled because of root. will this process work even with the newest (2015-jul-13) update? thanks.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brian117:
Yes it will. Please note the bottom of the image where it shows my current installed firmware, 5.0.2-7SQR-UER0. That's the latest update.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kvl19:
is there a way to un-root it if I decide to return it to Amazon because there are so many screen crack complains.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhcohen:
So is the rooting fun so far limited to those with Windows computers? I'm running on a Mac. The .bat file I gather is something akin to a Unix shell script, so I should be able to deal with that -- anything in the process that is explicitly Windows-specific?
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
ROOT

so guys, here is a simple bat in english with all necessary files (except drivers).

MY GOOGLE DRIVE

i also managed to extract the mmcblk0p26 (boot.img) and mmcblk0p27 (recovery.img)

so anyone who is able to extract the fstab and bult the TWRP recovery feel free to use it.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
No. It should be fine either way.

---------- Post added at 01:30 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:24 PM ----------

No the bat file should be pretty close to a shell...I'm on linux so once I get it downloaded I plan to convert....if you are not comfortable just wait a bit and I'll post it. That is if I can get this .exe unzipped...normally unzip can handle a self extracting zip but I've downloaded it twice to get:

famewolf@HP810-135qe:/workarea/android/idol3 > unzip TCL3S\ M3G\ root-20150524.exe

Archive: TCL3S M3G root-20150524.exe

End-of-central-directory signature not found. Either this file is not

a zipfile, or it constitutes one disk of a multi-part archive. In the

latter case the central directory and zipfile comment will be found on

the last disk(s) of this archive.

unzip: cannot find zipfile directory in one of TCL3S M3G root-20150524.exe or

TCL3S M3G root-20150524.exe.zip, and cannot find TCL3S M3G root-20150524.exe.ZIP, period.

Nevermind...downloading Dallascz's just posted zip file.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] brian117:
There is a "Full Unroot" option inside of SuperSU but I am not sure if it works on this device. I've tried full unrooting before on my GS4 with that option and it never worked. So experimentation is needed.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Gynoid:
AFAIK, it might work, but only if you move SuperSU from /system/app to /data/app area, and reboot, prior to trying that. This being said, it's still extremely risky - i.e. risk of bricking your phone - and the safe side would be to wait until a full official (non-rooted) firmware is available for download from TCL/Alcatel prior to rooting your phone. The same goes with OTA updates which will fail if your phone is not properly unrooted.

The idea here is not to even try to unroot your phone, but rather to restore it to factory state.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
on my google drive htere translated and extracted bat file with all needed files...
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frankee207:
Anyway, now we have root. We should be able to dump the full firmware soon, to reflash entirely the phone.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
full unroot works well within the supersu app, or remove superuser from system/app and also su. from xbin
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
Very quick and dirty and not near as pretty as [MENTION=4487227]DallasCZ[/MENTION] 's. Intended to be used from directory with extracted .zip from DallasCZ on previous page.

root.sh *Tested on an ubuntu based linux

sudo killall adb
sudo adb reboot-bootloader
sudo fastboot -i 0x1bbb boot boot.img

Put in a file or run the 3 lines one after the other. If the word "sudo" gives you an error remove it from in front of 3 lines.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kvl19:
just rooted and unlock bootleader as well. I had trouble with the driver, the file I downloaded from the other thread didn't work, so I enabled CDROM mode when plugged into my PC, it is easier that way. Waiting for TWRP and CM12. Thankssssss
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepasadish:
so I guess the best thing to do is to upgrade to the latest firmware first and then root. thanks.

ps. i did not upgrade to the latest so far in case alcatel closed any exploits :).
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
Just a quick word of caution to be careful what changes you make using root for now...delete the wrong file from /system or /system/app and your phone won't boot until we can get a custom recovery installed. Typical root apps should not be an issue but some of these tweak apps that make changes to system files like build.prop etc could cause issues.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] deepasadish:
oops, the first thing I was going to do is to change the lcd density to 200 or so :). i will hold off on that now. thanks.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
Shouldn't be more than a couple of days before someone has a custom twrp available as the main holdup was getting the parameters needed from boot.img which [MENTION=4487227]DallasCZ[/MENTION] was nice enough to pull and make available on his google drive.

Oh once a custom recovery is available just make sure the very first thing you do is take a backup of the system....then you can monkey with it all you want and if all else fails always restore from your backup. ;)
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Pendom:
Root : sucess.

Dump boot.img/recovery.img : sucess.

Now, I'm going to port a custom recovery, it's the first time for me so I don't know if I can do it. But if many of us work on this project, it could be so easy to have a custom recovery :)
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
its not so big deal with build. prop if you know what you doing. and anyway allways you can push the original build. prop because you have root ?
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ericular:
THANKS! I had the same issue, so your post was very helpful. I am now curious why everybody else seems to be running the batch file with no issues, since those two check boxes are not set that way by default...
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
Neither Mock Locations (which has to do with wifi/gps) nor "Verify apps on usb" (which has to do with installing apps via adb install) have anything to do with this process. Once you hit the "adb reboot-bootloader" you are no longer even in the lollipop rom and yes the screen will freeze because thats what the bootloader looks like....the fastboot command should boot the boot.img on the phone where it completes the root process. The only reason I can see it would fail woudl be if you ran root.bat while not in the same directory as the boot.img file from the zip.

Also FYI...certain apps such as any that check to see if you are in a particular location (like for example the hardee's app that gives you points every time you visit) will not work with "mock locations" set because it allows false data to be provided to the apps.

*offers a moment of silence for all those people who returned their phones because they were to impatient to wait for root*
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhcohen:
I can report successful rooting on Mac OS X (10.9, Mavericks; no reason why it shouldn't work also on 10.10). I made a slight elaboration of %famewolf's root.sh, adding some "echo" statements to provide some feedback to the user. Note the script will run on OS X without the sudo's, so they can be deleted; I left them in in the interest of having a script that would be useful for both OS X and Linux:

# file root.sh
echo "Alcatel OT Idol 3 root shell script for Mac OSX and linux"
echo "Authors: rhcohen and famewolf, based on .bat file of DallasCZ"
# Don't need the "sudo's in this script for Mac OS X, so you can delete if you don't have
# root access on your Mac computer.
sudo killall adb
echo "Waiting for device"
sudo adb devices
echo "Rebooting into fastboot mode"
sudo adb reboot-bootloader
sudo fastboot -i 0x1bbb devices
echo "installing boot.img into boot partition"
sudo fastboot -i 0x1bbb boot boot.img
echo "--- The device will restart two times"
echo "--- should be rooted after the restarts"
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
No root in adb?

famewolf@HP810-135qe:/tmp > adb remount

remount of system failed: Permission denied

remount failed

shell@android:/ $ su

1|shell@android:/ $ mount -o remount,rw /system

mount: Permission denied

I'm unable to actually use root in adb...is it just me?

*hmmm while I'm asking things....* Does anyone have an img of /system that can be flashed via fastboot? I seem to have broken mine. *cough*
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilownz:
I can't verify my Google password at all now. I even switched off 2 step.

This device has been reset. To continue sign in with the Google account that was previously synced with this device.

Of course I deleted the device from my Google devices and tried making a new application specific password. Now how will I root this pos hmm...

Edit: It's possible to fix. Downloaded/installed the update I had delayed after a factory reset. Now time to do work.

I made a backup img of the kernel and stock recovery.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mk3:
Sorry you feel that suggesting I don't read the entire 25 pages of this thread and made a stupid question; but I only posted this once, not over and over again like you said.. I don't have the ability to read this website every day especially when there are too many useless threads already on topics that lead to nowhere.

I find it funny though that this is the same idea I had and was working on, and was along the lines of someone else who actually found a similar phone who's root worked for the Idol 3 :good:

DallasCZ please to spend your time

contributing to the betterment of this community

instead of wasting everyone's time by bashing those of us who are dumber than you or don't manager our free time as well as you. Besides your bashing just adds more useless posts to this already long thread.

Have a great day!
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Mjme:
1000 thanks to all of you. I used DallasCZ's english version and it worked like a charm. I am now rooted.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
something went wrong during rooting... stuck at boot screen (black with white text)

I can boot into recovery and have tried to do a factory reset a few times... still can't boot past that screen

after factory reset, can't connect to adb anymore

is there any way I can use the recovery options to reflash the stock rom somehow either via sideload or from storage? or am i effed for the time being
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilownz:
After factory reset you may need to enable developer and usb adb again.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
Unfortunately I can't boot into the rom to enable those things... I am still stuck at the alcatel boot logo
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] neilownz:
Ahh that sucks. I found the factory reset didn't work if I was plugged into the USB. Assuming it's an anti tamper type thing. Do you have the cable hooked up?
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
please tell us the exact steps you made before the problem and of course what device are you using..
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
drivers were installed, phone was plugged in, adb devices would show the connected device, ran the root.bat file... selected option 1... phone showed it going through root process... rebooted and got stuck. I let it sit for about 15 minutes...never fully booted. Forced reboot with power button with no luck... adb reboot would boot to the same screen and get stuck... adb reboot recovery would get me into recovery. Eventually tried to wipe cache and reboot. No luck. Tried factory reset several times, no luck. And after factory reset, I have lost ADB.

I have an Idol 3 5.5"

I have tried factory resets unplugged and plugged in... no luck either way.

Does anyone have a rom.zip that I can try flashing through recovery? sorry if that is a stupid question... just desperate
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
change USB cables and root it again...
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
Just tried that... no result. Root script isn't seeing devices because I cannot connect via adb... probably because factory reset disabled usb debugging and I have no way to turn that back on. I think my only option is to load the stock rom.zip onto an sd card and load via recovery... if I could only get a hold of that zip file.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
and do you have cleared the cache in recovery? the main process run from the root bat coundt harm the device, because it only boots the root scrip which only copy the su binaries to system...

have you tried to turn off the device for 20 minutes or so and then turn it on?
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] rhcohen:
I can get root via adb, in the sense that I can run "adb shell, then "su". This seemed to require, at least the first time, having the settings/developer window open on the phone and granting access when a pop-up window appears on the phone. This then gives me a root prompt, "root@idol3:/ #". Once i have been through this exercise, (even after a reboot) adb shell then su just seems to work. It took me a while to figure this out; before that I would have the same result as you: adb shell; su; wait; then get another non-root prompt.

What I can NOT do -- and apparently this is well-known -- is to execute "adb root"; it gives the error message "adbd cannot run as root in production builds". Do you need adb rooted for something other than a rooted shell? If so there is an xda thread on that. The thread is at http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=833756. (But what would you need this for?)
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
Yes I have cleared cache in recovery also. I am totally confused. This isn't my first time rooting a device... but it's the first time I've had this experience.

By the way, thank you for helping out! I have my phone off now and will let it sit for 15 more mins.

---------- Post added at 12:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 12:02 AM ----------

no luck
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
root@idol3:/ # <-- that looks like a real root shell to me....you'll see when I typed in su and enter it still looked like a user prompt but didn't return an error.

I also saw the popup in supersu and allowed adb shell to have superuser access. I need root access to be able to remount /system as read/write so I can replace the build.prop that is preventing my phone from booting. es file explorer had no issues copying the file from /sdcard to /system but adb remount and a manual mount of system to rw both fail with permission denied.

I'm concerned with the phone because holding power down does not turn off the phone..it only reboots it so I'm not sure if it charges while in "limbo" and will eventually run down the battery. I hate internal batteries.

Try these two commands: from pc type "adb remount" and then from adb shell type su and then after running su type "mount -o remount,rw /system". If it behaves like my temporary paperweight it will give you a permission denied error. I'm hoping someone can while in adb shell (and probably also after typing su) do a dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p28 of=/sdcard/system.img and make it available online so I can use fastboot to get my phone back to working.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
i am doing it right now..you wil lfind the system.img on my google drive lately...
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
Thanks DallasCZ. I'll owe you big. ;)
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
I dontreally know...the second thing is to install qualcomm hs usb drivers and flash the system partition in this mode. Do you really have alcatel one touch idol 3 6045 5.5? Did you have the battery fully charged (or at least more than 60%). Havent you unpluged the device after the first reboot (because the device needs to reboot twice)

so i suggest to claim warranty repair/exchange ...just say you recieved update and the phone bricked after reboot
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
Thanks for your time. I think the phone just honestly crapped out. I followed the instructions and waited for it to boot up the second time after root. It just never happened. Battery was full also. I am going to return it which sucks because I don't think they will honor the $179 price on the next one I buy. I'm certain that I have the right model.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gecko702:
ive been a few days away and i come back to this???!!! wow thanks so much [MENTION=4487227]DallasCZ[/MENTION] how can i contribute? i dont have paypal though
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
just hit thanx button :). Money are for things you really need.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] zerog2:
Hi, I am grad to hear that our phone is available to root eventually. Before I do it on me phone, I would like to know if it can root 6045K or not.

It is dual sim version.

Thanks
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] gecko702:
sure already did i confirm its working now i used titanium backup and lucky patcher :)
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 1Albino1:
can you use the root method also for the 8gb 4.7 inch version??
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
maybe... you can try
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] famewolf:
Earlier in the thread someone provided a method for the 4.7" model.
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DallasCZ:
Hello,

so i started the ROOT thread here

i also made a little bat file to backup all important partitions of the device so if something go wrong you can allways flash it back to the phone.

Please if there is someone who can write instructions how to unlock bootloader and root on mac/linux please contact me and i will add it to the thread OP!
[Onetouch Idol 3 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mokash34:
Earlier you mentioned reflashing certain partitions might help me boot up. How would I go about getting those partitions so I can flash them.