[General Topics] yogeshsr:
Hello guys,

After searching a lot on XDA and other web sites, I found that the information about this phone is scattered in bits and pieces, this is an attempt to gather all the available information at one place. If you want to add more tips/mods etc, please make sure they are working on your phone first before posting here. to Start with, I am adding few tried and tested methods to make this device better.

1)Root: download and install kingroot.apk from http://androidxda.com/download-kingroot-application

once rooted ,install SuperSU ME from the market to remove kingroot and install SuperSU

Towelroot also works.. Download APK from towelroot.com install and ckick on the icon.

2) If you have random brightness problem, when its on Auto mode, install and configure Velis auto brightness or Lux auto brightness from the market and let one of these apps handle the auto brightness instead of the stock. it works great. stock kitkat rom has few bugs and this is one of them.

3)Stock launcher is buggy and laggs most of the times, install Nova or Apex launcher, works better on this phone.

4)XPOSED Works on this phone...GravityBox works great for me...installation is bit different than normal...if you have XPOSED and any modules, uninstall them first and then copy the APK XPOSED installer and GravityBox APK files

in System/APP folder, then open XPOSED installer, install the framework, and just select(tick) gravityBox, reboot your phone and then you can open GravityBox.

watch this video if you have any confusion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-xitQY_seU

5)IF your phone volume is too low, you can try ViPER4Android from the market or from XDA, it works great for me.

6) if you have problems finding the case, here is one that i ordered from amazon and fits well

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00XEDLPHW?psc=1&redirect=true&ref_=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00

7) This phone comes with one pre-applied screen guard and one spare one...i did not notice this and applied the spare one, and was wondering why the screen was not responsive, so just had to remove second screen guard.

8) There is no custom recovery for this phone yet. there are few misleading links and information on the internet about lollipop update, please do not flash any ROM without the custom recovery, you will brick your phone.

9) I am in touch with the BLU dev team on google+ , as soon as there is an update, I will let you know...

10) if your phone is soft bricked during factory software upgrade, flash the stock rom using Qualcomm utility, check post #4 for the links. Also check the file attached with this post.

11)backup important partitions, check post # 9 and 10

12)if your music is pausing randomly, try this.. It may or May not work YMMV.

Go to Google Now | Settings | Voice |

Unchecked block offensive words option.. Also

Select "Ok Google Detection" Uncheck all the options

If this doesn't work, other workaround is

Increase the screen timeout.

12) CUSTOM RECOVERY IS HERE, PLEASE CHECK http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62410558&postcount=19

And don't forget to thank marcukial

you must be rooted.

download the recovery.img to your computer say c:\recovery.img

boot the phone in fastboot (if you don't know, please google. )

run fastboot flash recovery "C:\recovery.img"

In case you need to go back to stock recovery, download it from here: http://d-h.st/B034

Please feel free to post...just make sure the discussion is limited to this phone only.