yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Questions and Answers] EEngineer:
You mean the best way to update and still retain root.
[MENTION=5392904]EarthboundHero[/MENTION] I have never updated Android on a device once it is rooted, there is the risk of losing root permanently.

Hey, can anyone tell me how to add or modify the navigation buttons on a rooted Pixi 7? I want to be able to kill the foreground app by long pressing the back button, and also have an additional button to show the menu. Thanks!
[General Questions and Answers] DJ_SpaRky:
I had to have my device warrantied and now I cannot access the Bootloader at all. I have tried button combos and ADB commands, it will load to Recovery, but not Bootloader. This recovery does not have the "Restart to Bootloader" option, it only has Wipe and Reboot/PowerDown. Does anyone have any ideas on how to get into Bootloader (Fastboot) or another way to install TWRP.

Thanks

EDIT: I was able to achieve Root with KingoRoot. I will see about TWRP.

EDIT 2: I was able to install SuperSU and remove KingoRoot, then SuperSU was able to update the su binary.

EDIT 3: I was able to use Flashify to install the TRWP .img listed above, twrp-recovery-2.8.7.0-9600w.img. It boots to Recovery, loads TWRP, and works like before.

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I used Xposed and GravityBox to do that and others.
[General Questions and Answers] Juan71287:
Hi. So I have an Alcatel One Touch Pixi 7 tablet 9006W. I want to try and install the TWRP but I cant find one for my model, though I believe someone here said they had installed it. Can I get a bit of help?

Thanks.
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this tread has now moved to google plus! https://plus.google.com/communities/111273832099448652441
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
Well crap!

I downloaded Kingo Root and all went well. Then, via flashify, was able to flash TWRP. Tried to, using the app store, install SU and then update the binary.

That didn't work and it said to boot into TWRP, which I did. Then when I tried to reboot, it went right back into TWRP - wouldn't reboot into the OS @ all. Just TWRP. That was with Reboot System, Reboot Recovery, Reboot with power off - when rebooting then, it just went back to twrp when powering on. So... I tried reboot to bootloader...

Oops...

Now I have a dead Android with a red triangle and the statement "No Command."

Help!

Please!

Update...:

Somehow got into the stock recovery and was able to reboot - right back into TWRP...

So I no longer have the dead Android but can't get out of TWRP!
[General Questions and Answers] EarthboundHero:
Link is dead.
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
Yep

Like my Pixi7

Seems no one has gotten anywhere with it since moving. I tried to root mine, really killed it good, got a little advice @ that link (couldn't make it work) and when I went back, the whole group is gone.

My Pixi7 has become the symbol for the whole device & group - dead as a door nail...
[General Questions and Answers] crz6662:
Anyone have a copy of the stock 9006w Rom that they could zip and upload ?
[General Questions and Answers] spotopolis:
Did you uninstall KingoRoot before trying to update the SuperSU binary? If KingoRoot is installed the binary update will fail. I just did this last night on the latest software 5.0.2 for the Pixi 7.

Install KingoRoot and run.

After successful root message, uninstall KingoRoot

Install SuperSU from PlayStore and then update the binary (normal) then reboot when it tells you to

Download Flashify and flash the TWRP .img file from post# 45 in this thread
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
Man, I so appreciate you're getting back to me on that!

But....

Now when I reboot, all I get is to the TWRP screen and can't go on from there. Someone over on the G+ forum, when it was up & running, told me to flash firmware & images but I could only flash the boot - all the others (2, I think...) were too big to fit.

I fear I've totally killed it now. At least, I need an entire ROM, likely a kernel if it's not included with the ROM and who knows what else....

Again, I appreciate your feedback. If you have any pointers to guide my way, I'd appreciate it!
[General Questions and Answers] spotopolis:
I have TWRP installed on mine. Maybe I could backup a stock blank rom on my device for you to restore? But Im pretty sure restoring to a different device is a no-no due to unique keys and all. Im not sure. Maybe I can just back up the kernel or something. I would have to look into it more. I just got my hands on this tablet last night from the in-laws. Dont know much about it yet, other than its under supported and under powered.

EDIT: Okay. Well I did some minor digging, and it looks like as long as you have the same model device (9006w) you should be okay to restore from another devices NANDROID. Im pretty sure everyone doing this does it when they brick their own device and get a replacement of the same model and just restore to the new device.

Anyway, I used TWRP to backup my boot and created a DropBox link to the TWRP folder I zipped up.

You'll want to make a backup of the boot on your device first even though its not working. The reason being, the sub-folder in /TWRP/BACKUPS/ is labeled with your serial number, so you will need to rename the folder I zipped to match yours. Then the sub-folder in that can be named anything you want. I already named it. But it can be whatever as long as there are no spaces in the name.

So it should look like this on your device

/TWRP/BACKUPS/YOUR_SERIAL_NUMBER/BOOT_RESTORE/boot.emmc.win, boot.emmc.win.md5

https://www.dropbox.com/s/5g00u21yzo5o168/TWRP.zip?dl=0
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
OMG!

Thanks!

Man, if I can resurrect this sucker, it'll be a miracle!

I'll give it a try this w/e - work dragging me down til then. I'll download from the Dropbox folder onto my home computer this evening when I'm home

Again - THANK YOU!

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Another question...

I've never made a back up of my boot image... And may have corrupted it when I tried to "fix it" the last time.

I know this is all noob (and I'm sorry to keep bugging you), but any ideas about that?
[General Questions and Answers] spotopolis:
Sure thing. Let me know how it goes. If we need to, I'll backup my current ROM, restore to factory, then backup the stock image for you. Being how you still have access to recovery, shouldn't be a big deal. Maybe you could still run the restore stock application from the PC. Have you tried that software yet?

EDIT: the only reason I wanted you to do a backup now, is so you will have the proper folder structure created for you with the correct serial number instead of mine. Then you can copy my backup into that folder to restore.
[General Questions and Answers] spotopolis:
Did that end up working for you?
[General Questions and Answers] crz6662:
"That file isn’t here anymore". Your Dropbox link is dead.
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
I never got the chance to download the file. When I finally went to download, it was a dead link. I snoozed , I losed...

If you post again, I'll be sure to download right away. I thought I'd have time [MENTION=1917226]The Chris[/MENTION]tmas holiday, but with a 7 y/o daughter, that wasn't a realistic idea...

Thanks!
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DDR -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18

aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21

abootbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22

boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23

cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p31

config -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p34

efsdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17

fota -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p30

fsc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4

fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19

hdcp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p29

hyp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12

hypbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13

keystore -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p33

misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p32

modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1

modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14

modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15

oem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p35

persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26

recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24

rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8

rpmbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9

sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6

sbl1bak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7

sec -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20

simlock -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16

splash -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27

ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5

system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25

tctpersist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28

traceability -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3

tunning -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2

tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10

tzbak -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11

userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p36

I need someone that can dump all these partitions into .img form and upload them for me somewhere please. Im trying to see if I can recover my tablet. I think the partitions got messed up.

dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0pXX of=/external_sd/xxxxxxxxx.img

I was trying to install the OTA, but instead I think I messed up my device partitions. the only thing I can try now it to restore all the damaged partitions and pray my device boots up. :(
[General Questions and Answers] spotopolis:
Sorry. I didn't want to leave the link up too long. Didn't want to end up with DB issues. I'll upload it again if you still need the link.
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
That'd be great!

I promise I'll download tonight when I get home - NLT 900 pm EST.

I really appreciate it!
[General Questions and Answers] CyberdyneSystems:
im trying to boot into bootloader via, ADB, it displays the logo, i use the command to get info, as described on the first page, but after 30-45seconds it reboots..,..when trying to get info, it just says, waiting for devices.

i have drivers installed.

Trying to root,install a custom rom, but cant unlock bootloader. i dont want to use a app to root, thats not, skin deep, to say.
[General Questions and Answers] CyberdyneSystems:
I couldnt get it to boot into bootloader.

I downloaded KingRoot, then installed TWRP manager, i chose to flash a recovery, i chose the device: Alcatel Pop C2 -- Yaris_M_GSM

then i chose for the file, the TWRP img from here. which is the one above.

Flashed it, said successful.

when windows saw it, it popped up as "idol347"

i still had access to files, via MTP and The Tablet Itself.

Still cant get into BOOTLOADER screen, without it not accepting any commands, so it auto-timesout and reboots back to normal.

The TWRP thats running right now: 2.8.7.0

NExt step is to custom rom or a more secure rooting method and be able to get into bootloader.
[General Questions and Answers] chairman011:
ok I read the entire thread and I see this question goes unanswered everywhere I go nobody answers this question!!! "Iam stuck in stock recovery! I did factory reset and nothing! T-Mobile alcatel onetouch pixi 7 no fastboot at all" I can't flash nothing it does not have fastoot! all I can do is adb sideload and I get "e signiture verification error does anybody know what to do?
[General Questions and Answers] likeablasXD:
Any progress on a custom ROM? or is this project dead?
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
Dead dead dead...

There was a G+ group too, but it's also wilted on the vine. Occasionally, people check in but it's infrequent and there is no development being done that I know of
[General Questions and Answers] marcin102006:
Witam. Potrzebował bym pliki flash do Alcatel pixi 7 na procesorze MTK mt8117 .Tablet jest od orange. Posiada ktoś? Wszystkie co znalazłem są na procesor MTK mt8127. Z góry dziekuje za odpowiedzi. I przepraszam za język, ale angielskiego nie umiem.
[General Questions and Answers] Az Biker:
Please comment in English only. If a second language is required, post it below the English comment as I have done here. Thank you.

Prosimy o komentarze tylko w języku angielskim. Jeśli wymagany jest drugi język, umieść go pod komentarzem w języku angielskim, tak jak tutaj. Dziękuję Ci.
[General Questions and Answers] marcin102006:
Hello. I would need flash files for Alcatel pixi 7 on MTK mt8117 processor. Tablet is from orange. Anyone have? All what I found is for the MTK mt8127 processor. Thank you in advance for your response.

Witam. Potrzebował bym pliki flash do Alcatel pixi 7 na procesorze MTK mt8117 .Tablet jest od orange. Ma ktoś? Wszystkie co znalazłem na procesor MTK mt8127. Z góry dziekuje za odpowiedzi.
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
i successfully unlocked bootloader by using idol 3 method and I ran the root.bat, sth went wrong maybe caused by Norton antivirus, then my pixi stuck in bootloop......**** that I cannot find the factory img to flash back......maybe need to return it to tmo...
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Its soft bricked. The idol 3 boot.IMG doesn't work on our tablets.

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If you do this, do you run the risk of soft bricking our tablets. I believe our chipsets are mediatek 8117. Our actual model number is 9006w. FYI.
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
I doubt if it is really mediatek 8117, some says snapdragon 410 and the alcatel US site says it is snapdragon.

http://www.alcatelonetouch.us/ALCATEL-ONETOUCH-PIXI-7-Tablet/dp/B012E8K4I8?field_availability=-2&field_browse=10567362011&id=ALCATEL+ONETOUCH+PIXI+7+Tablet&ie=UTF8&refinementHistory=subjectbin%2Cspecial_features%2Cdisplay_size%2Coperating_system-bin%2Citem_display_length%2Ccolor_map%2Cprice&searchNodeID=10567362011&searchPage=1&searchRank=generic-four-desc-rank&searchSize=12
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http://forum.android.com.pl/topic/238045-tablet-alcatel-pixi-7-model-1213-root/

Anyone able to see if this might work for us?

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I know. Is there an app thatll tell us if we have a mt8117 or snapdragon soc?
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
maybe antutu benchmark?
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There seems to be different versions of the pixi 7. One was released last year and I think the T-Mobile one was released this year.
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
wow u got it. It is a snapdragon...... btw good luck on pixi 7, I have switched to G pad F
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Which g pad did they give you?
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I decided to email and tweet alcatel for the kernel source for our device. Wish me luck
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
Of course they will reply this.

http://xdaforums.com/lg-g-pad-83/help/how-to-phone-sim-t-mobile-g-pad-f-8-t3182585

This is a question I asked in other forum. I found value in pixi 7, it allows me to use unlimited data phone sim card but the LG g pad does not. See what I mean?
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Judging by the release of new Alcatel devices and kernel releases, we re looking about 1 to 2 months roughly before kernel release. Considering the pixi 7 was released on 7/29/15.
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
not bad,hopefully i will get one again,
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I'll have the stock boot.img and recovery.img up tomorrow. Also I'll have our twrp ready to go tomorrow. I'm tired.
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
congratulation!!! U got it!
[General Questions and Answers] lazarus0000:
Holy crap! Great job! I figured this was, totally, a lost cause!
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I got totally lucky with this. I found a recovery from another device that gave me adb root access. I pulled the stock boot.IMG and recovery.IMG. then I found a twrp from another device, pulled it apart, took our devices info from our stock recovery.IMG and added into the twrp recovery. Tweaked a few things. And got twrp working. All by luck.
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
And your intelligence.
[General Questions and Answers] moto211:
I expect we'll be seeing an influx of these devices since t-mobile is giving them away free with some phone purchases. I wonder how we get our own subforum?
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Probably. I think ive got almost everything ready. The only two issues is the /system is read only in both twrp and in android. You can temporarily change it in android using root explorer. Flashng zips like supersu seem to be able to get through that. I havent checked if twrp will restore to /system. I havent been able to find the right partition for accessing the internal sdcard. Other than that, root is good to go. To install twrp you need adb and fastboot installed. You have to unlock the bootloader then flash twrp to the recovery partition. After that reboot and flash supersu.zip. Ive pulled the original boot.img and recovery.img. I also have a system.img, but its 2gbs. I'll post links and instructions soon.
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Ill be uploading the stock boot.img, recovery.img, and twrp recovery image with instructions in a little bit. Youll need to have fastboot and adb setup on your computer to unlock the bootloader and flash the root recovery. Make sure to google those and have those setup.
[General Questions and Answers] eddie24902005:
thx bro!!!
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Np, also the /system will only be read only in twrp. Its to protect the device so it can still obtain ota updates. You can still mount /system as read and write through adb in twrp. Make sure to backup your /boot, /recovery, /system dirs. The /system is about 2gbs so make sure you have room on your sd card.

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Im ahoping by all this we can get some active devs on this device. We'll need a device tree and vendor repos to be able to build any roms. We can use out prebuilt kernels for the roms until alcatel releases the source. Or maybe we can hack the alcatel 6039y kernel and see if we can get that to work. Either way, we still have a road to travel until we get customs roms, but this will be a start. :)
[General Questions and Answers] petrov.0:
As this is the TWRP recovery image for Alcatel One Touch Idol 3 [6039], isn't better to provide the link to the thread from where it is? Renaming the file and uploading it somewhere doesn't make the recovery different. There is no guarantee that everything is the same on this tablet, even if the recovery works on it. Further more you said that it doesn't work on this device (no display output, only a white screen). And you don't need supersu.zip, the recovery contains supersu inside and asks you to install it on reboot.

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Edit: Oh I've just saw your tweaks. With them, the System Image option is missing in the backup settings of the recovery.
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This isn't the idol3 recovery. This fully works on the T-Mobile Alcatel one touch pixi 7. The recovery that gave me access to adb root, but showed a white screen was Alcatel ot-5042. I was giving you props for helping me get all this going by telling me how to pull the boot and recovery partitions to .imgs.
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System is there and can be backed up.
[General Questions and Answers] petrov.0:
Yes, sure it's not. The fstab file is different. But remains the recovery from 6039y believe it or not. There should be another option System Image below System. Read the TWRP changelog.

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Don't take this offensively. I don't care about this recovery. I'm just saying that you had to explain which image had been used, from where was taken, what modifications you did etc.
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No offense taken. I did use your twrp as the base of the new .img. I replaced the command line, Zimage, kernel offset, pagesize, ramdisk comp and off and tags with the stock tmobile pixi 7 ones. In the ramdisk I replaced the recovery.fstab with the one from stock tmobile pixi 7 boot.img. I updated my Root post with props to you and using your twrp-recovery as the base for the pixi 7's recovery.

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Now that we've got root and twrp backup, I'll start building the device and vendor trees for us. Then we should be able to get some rom development going. We can just use our prebuilt kernel for now until the source gets released. Or maybe I can get something going using the idol 3 kernel. Wish me luck. And if any other devs want to help out feel free to pm me.
[General Questions and Answers] bibbin:
Having problems getting started here. My computer (Win7) won't recognize device in device manager under Other devices. Is this a driver issue?
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Did you install adb and fastboot?

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I tried to see if I can get a forum for us, but there's not much development going on. I've got the device tree half way done for this device. I'll keep going, but besides me I dunno who else will Dev for this device.
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I just built crappy cwm using our own boot.img and device tree!

cwm recovery for tcl 9600w:

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24052804347800660

Next Im going to go and build twrp recovery using our own device tree. ;) Im almost ready to setup the vendor for our device and then hopefully soon start building some roms for us.
[General Questions and Answers] bibbin:
Let me start by saying thank you. Yes, I already had it installed on my computer. Used it to root a different device just days ago. When I connected it to the device, all drivers installed perfectly, except ADB. I even tried the "Minimal ADB and Fastboot. FWIW, my Pixi7 is running 5.0.2 and is using wifi only (no SIM inserted yet). Total newb here, so I don't know if that matters.
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http://54.247.87.13/softwareupgrade/Driver/ALCATEL_ADB_ Driver Qualcomm_ADB.rar

Try installing that.
[General Questions and Answers] jnewberry1:
Awesome, thank you for this. Kernels and roms haven't even began developing yet correct?
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Not yet. The device just got rooted and recoveries last week. I started building the device tree. Still needs more work and we need a vendor before test builds can start building. We don't have the source code for our device kernel, but I might know a kernel that may work for us.
[General Questions and Answers] jnewberry1:
Okay. Commands or app to make system writeable? I believe there is an app.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.vinny.intsdfixer

Sent from my Nexus 6
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You can also use root explorer.
[General Questions and Answers] jnewberry1:
Okay I was messing around and lost the system partition. LOL. Is there a link or can you upload the factory image? Thanks.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[General Questions and Answers] Penturt:
First off, thank you for all the work and instruction. I was able to setup everything as explained and root the tablet. Only issue im having now is that i cant seem to unistall any system apps. I ise root unistaller, never had a problem with it on any of my other devices, bit on this one it doesnt seem to uninstall system apps. Again thanks for the great work, much appreciated.
[General Questions and Answers] jnewberry1:
Please some post the factory image. LOL. I erased my system partition. We can at least modify the factory image and slim it down for a flashable ROM zip through TWRP

Edit: should also be able to make the system partition writeable right from the get go.

Sent from my Nexus 6
[General Questions and Answers] bibbin:
Thank you, aclegg and petrov.O. The Win7 would never recognize the tablet so I used a Vista PC. As you see, everything worked fine:
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I did that on my first tablet. I'm not sure how and of course I didn't make a system.IMG backup. ? I do have a system.IMG, but its 2gbs. I'll see if I can get it up on Google drive for you.

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Should have worked on win 7. I used win 10 though. Congrats! You're the first actual user to get their T-Mobile pixi 7 rooted!
[General Questions and Answers] jnewberry1:
No worries. I got it exchanged it for a new one. Good to go. No worries. I might try to release a slim downed factory ROM to flash.

Sent from my Nexus 6