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[Blu Pure XL] lopestom:
Unfortunately BLU Products not release stock ROMs...:thumbdown: :banghead:

If the user that put link aswer my question you know about.

You not flash directly logo.bin with TWRP. But on that file zip has correct script to do with custom recoveries.

Yes you can flash logo.bin (logo.img) with SPFT for know.

Yes. Is better receive logo by TWRP from other user Pure XL and restart that file.
[Blu Pure XL] mhajii210:
Guys any way for me to install the OTA update for my Blu Pure XL without having to unroot the phone? I have everything setup nicely so not worth the headache if I have to unroot.
[Blu Pure XL] bahi391:
it works like a charm :good:
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
Id like to do this as well
[Blu Pure XL] Lykeul:
Men you really hard with me... I'm not a newbie in flash...

I find un officiel blu dev

http://www.blu-dev.com/factory-images-recovery

And they find in original xda tread...

http://xdaforums.com/general/rootin...ustom-roms-t2977122/post59902689#post59902689
[Blu Pure XL] lopestom:
I was asked... Only for information!

Thanks for original link.
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
Also Id like to note that TMOB now sees my phone as gionee too
[Blu Pure XL] DIZKORDIA:
The solution is add the apn's in the net

work settings the rom don't read my sim apn i got put it my self
[Blu Pure XL] lopestom:
I could edit the file logo.bin. But may not be like the original.

I prefer another User Pure XL can make a backup of the original file logo.bin.

But from what I saw in recovery.log file created by a TWRP which was placed in another post was not backup the file immediately. TWRP might not have this option or the User does not select the option.
[Blu Pure XL] droidboy29:
If you edit it I'll give it a try man see what happens!!

No twrp does not have the option to backup logo.bin and I already checked my original backup to see if it was in there but it isn't.
[Blu Pure XL] acheron1502:
BLU Pure XL logo.bin file

BLU Pure XL - logo.bin file

You will need to flash this using SP Flash Tool.
[Blu Pure XL] droidboy29:
Thanks alot bro worked like a charm!
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
What section changed that set my Pure XL to gionee with Tmobile? how do i get that to change,

Has anyone tried to do a "readback" of the whole rom?
[Blu Pure XL] ianuskask:
Hi, how did you manage to dump it? Can you provide guide? Thanks. Ivan
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
I second this...
[Blu Pure XL] bemolx:
Instructions you can find here:

https://forum.hovatek.com/showthread.php?tid=526

Or like that:

"After downloading the updatre files and BEFORE start the update you can find the update rom files under emulated/legancy/66d0c1f4c2dfe8abab357b3d5e6550bd.zip (I think the zip name will be different at the blue device)"

Cheers
[Blu Pure XL] bemolx:
Updated TWRP3

TWRP3 is now updated to version v3.0.0-1 Official Stable. Check out my updated thread for links and changelog.

You can restore backups etc. It's good to use it as your primary custom recovery from now.

Cheers
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
Thanks!
[Blu Pure XL] ianuskask:
Hi, thanks for info.

I was able to find "official" scatter files - one Condor allure A100 (part of firmware file http://www.sw-condor.com/smartphones/A100.html ) and one Gionee http://firmwarefile.com/gionee-e8

Than using SP flash tool and info from scatter files (physical_start_address and partition_size) I readback separate partitions ( preloader, logo, etc).

I also wanted to backup complete ROM so I used start adress 0x0 and partition length "140000000" (5gb size).

Can you confirm what is the size of complete ROM? Is it somehow limited or does it depend only on partition length you set up in sp flash tool?

Best regards.

Ivan
[Blu Pure XL] bemolx:
Gonna check it tomorrow
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
Just a heads up belmolx, TWRP 3.0.0.1 still has issues with backups, I tried to restore one today and it got stuck at the formatting partion stage. I went back to 2.8 and worked fine.

Thanks for all the hard work you put in for us here man, we appreciate it!
[Blu Pure XL] bemolx:
Strange.. My device doesn't get any error. Can you tell me what was the error? I mean log or something..
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
Yea, I can do it later, as Ill need to reflash TWRP to do it,

Quick question, how to pull logs if stuck at the progress bar scrolling and window stating "formatting ext4" and I cant get out of it but to hard power it off?
[Blu Pure XL] bemolx:
You can simply do some screenshots. If it stucks at formatting ... Don't reboot it manually as it will give you partition error next time. Just wait patiently, give it a minute. It always comes through (at least on my device). Good luck!
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
i give it like 10 minutes and never made it past formatting boot
[Blu Pure XL] droidboy29:
Can anybody confirm that this phone will for sure be getting the marshmallow update? Because last blu phone I had which was the blu vivo air was promised lollipop update and it never got it. I can't find anything that says for sure that this phone will be getting it which is crazy. At least with the vivo air there was quite a bit of porting and development going on so I had stuff to flash and experiment with. This phone doesn't seem to be catching the attention that I thought it would get which really sucks. I don't know the first thing about porting or making ROMs so sadly I cannot help with development but if BLU isn't going to at least push out marshmallow to this device I'm probably getting rid of it. I figure if I sell it now I can probably get at least $300 for it and put it towards a nexus 6p. I read today that google is releasing beta preview downloads of android N to nexus devices so it won't be long before they are getting android N pushed to their devices. I guess that you get what you puy for and since BLU technically isn't even a phone manufacturer I'm starting to wonder if they even have a development team capable of pushing out a official Android update. It's just sad that this phone doesn't get developers support but but the cheapest 4gb Samsung phone that comes out gets developers attention.
[Blu Pure XL] bemolx:
Gionee (the OEM which released Elife E8) said they're going to update their latest smartphones to 6.0 late march. I hope Blu will do the same. If not we can flash ROMs from E8, lol.

Development.. Yeah, it seems to be a hard part. We (me, acheron1502 & root-expert) are working on CM12.. As for now with no luck but I think we're much closer than a month ago or so.

Patience or new device = your choice my friend.

Cheers

Wysłane z mojego X2_Soul_Xtreme
[Blu Pure XL] droidboy29:
Have you tried to flash the gionee ROM? I tried to flash it twice and both times I could not get mobile data to work. Same thing happened when I flashed the condor ROM couldn't get mobile data to connect. I'm using a at&t SIM card. Do you have any idea why that would be happening?

UPDATE: just spent like 2 hours on the GIONEE E8 ROM trying to get it to connect to mobile data again with no success. I tried every at&t APN I could find and none of them work. No matter what I try my cellular network state says disconnected. I'm at a loss I can't figure out what could be wrong I had the BLU vivo IV and the BLU vivo air before this and used to flash the GIONEE equivalent Roms to both of those phones and my same Sim card connected just fine. If anybody can think of what may be going on please give me a tip or something. This really sucks because honestly I'd rather use the GIONEE E8 ROM.
[Blu Pure XL] eualex:
I sold my blu not have anything custom rom, I will follow the post to learn new things, I had the problem not Recovery 3.1 formatava the date partition, I returned to 2.8 and from the error. I'm waiting for a custom rom. Grateful
[Blu Pure XL] Miss Montage:
I haven't downloaded the ROMs for the sake of small scatter files, but you can conclude the size of the ROM by the information in /proc/partinfo.

If you want to dump everything - including cache and userdata - take a hex calculator and add the start address of "userdata" + its size -> the result is the length of the full ROM

If you want to exclude cache and userdata, you can choose the start address of "cache" as length for the full ROM.
[Blu Pure XL] droidboy29:
I just received a notification for a wireless update from blu but it's just for some fixes it's not marshmallow it got me all excited for nothing lol and the fact that their giving us a fix update for lollipop is a good indication that we will probably not see a marshmallow update for a while if ever IMHO.
[Blu Pure XL] userxda:
Gionee E8 rom

I've installed Gionee E8 stock rom.

Phone send by itself an SMS to India, every time I reboot my phone. Is this happening to you too ?

I have Gionee E8 stock ROM installed on Allview X2 Xtreme.
[Blu Pure XL] emailtome:
[MENTION=3137649]droidboy29[/MENTION]

I have the same problem. After my phone bricked i flash it with Gionee ROM, so i was able to revive it. But IMEI and Mobile not working. i try to use the SNWriteTool and i fix the IMEI. but Mobile still shows disconected.

... more suggestions to where to go? maybe try a nandroid backup restore through TWRP?

Can anybody provide a clean TWRP backup (blu Pure) for us to test it?
[Blu Pure XL] droidboy29:
On page 26 of this same thread [MENTION=1011527]thebird[/MENTION]guy has provided a TWRP backup of the BLU pure XL ROM.
[Blu Pure XL] emailtome:
Thanks [MENTION=3137649]droidboy29[/MENTION], [MENTION=1011527]thebird[/MENTION]guy did it.

yes indeed. But the link is not working . Lets hope he make that available again.

By the way. My last tests shows that i do have my sim working besides the message 'disconected" on the phone status. Does anybody knows what does it means that menu IMEI INFORMATION shows 4 options, IMEI (slot1) IMEI SV(Slot1) ... and in my case i have dual sim, shows the same for 2nd IMEI... in my case shows the value 78 on both.
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
I dont have that one still, but Ill upload a new one... if anyone can mirror them so im not eating up my G-drive thatd be excellent...

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzZv_djkMENjdFpYR2t6NE1DYjQ twrp backup of my boot and system
[Blu Pure XL] emailtome:
thank you [MENTION=387335]bird[/MENTION]guy
[Blu Pure XL] luiscarlosmagno:
The solution!

Use one app on GP called Camelephone to restore IMEI! Works great for my Blu with Gionee ROM. Need root!

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The app call Camelephon, this restore IMEI and have option to take on random IMEI to!

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Use an app called Camelephon, download on GP, need root and works great!
[Blu Pure XL] tbirdguy:
So luiscarlosmagno,

Have you heard of this app called Camelephone? I hear it works great with BLU phone on Gionee ROM...

Its this app call Camelephon, this restore IMEI and have option to take on random IMEI to!

So use an app called Camelephon, download on GP, need root and works great!

Need Root!!!

HAHAHAHAHA just kidding man, just made me giggle cause of all the edits on your post...

please dont get offended, I just thought it was funny....
[Blu Pure XL] luiscarlosmagno:
OK Guys! My english no is good, and I was on bus. But the information its very good and this app save my Phone.
[Blu Pure XL] luiscarlosmagno:
Chamelephon
[Blu Pure XL] brownfox96:
Hi guys i really need your help. (If i missed how to fix this in the thread i'm sorry)

So yesterday i decided to root my Blu Pure XL, i followed the steps on this thread : http://xdaforums.com/pure-xl/general/twrp-recovery-root-blu-pure-xl-allview-t3269447

It worked out great, i had SuperUser and everything, then i decided to download Freedom, and it caused my Play Store to stop working. So i decided to uninstall it, still didn't fix the play store. Then i had been thinking of hard resetting my phone for a while so i thought i just do that and it would help me the Play Store work. Then the problems began. As it was resetting it said this in the TWRP boot up thing.

failed to mount /cache (invalid argument) [In Red Letters]

Then i tried to reboot it froze at the White Blu Bold Like Us Screen.(The fully white one not the colorful one). So then on the same thread that i used to root my phone i saw a recovery file and i downloaded that and used fastboot and flashed that. Now my phone is bricked completely. I turn it on and i see the white screen and then it turns off. I also have to hold down the power button for a long time for it to turn. Then last night i tried it one more time before going to sleep and in the dark room i saw like a flash of really small letter on the screen for about half a secound and then the phone would reboot. But it still only goes to the white screen and then "turns off" but half a secound before it turns it on again it shows those white letters.

So to sum it up all up:

My phone is kinda in a boot loop, I can't enter fastboot and i dont know what im doing. Can someone please Help me. Also i have to hold the button for 10 seconds before it turns on.
[Blu Pure XL] TheLastCanadian:
Just putting this up here for those who may have lost hope, but on a whim I checked their source repository today and it would seem they've at least uploaded Kernel source!

ftp://Kernel_End_User:kernelSource2014@162.252.123.103:21/

Directory: Pure XL P0010UU (it's a bit of a mess, you may wish to CNTRL+F this)
[Blu Pure XL] pottyvick:
Nevermind, it was a spam website. Darn, thought we had MM for a minute.
[Blu Pure XL] TJ Green:
Ever get the phone worked out Bronfox96?
[Blu Pure XL] gelinski:
Boa noite lopestom, comprei um BLU Pure XL e a otimizacao de apps comecou minha dor de cabeca, apos o mesmo fiz a atualizacao e agora o mesmo funciona apenas conectado no carregador a bateria marca seu status errado, efetuei o reset mas nao resolveu nada, vc que esta em Curitiba esta tendo estas situacoes utilizando o SP Flash acredita que o problema sera solucionado?

Estou fazendo o download dos aquivos esta noite, se puder me dar um help agradeco.

Obrigado
[Blu Pure XL] Matheusbpvh:
Amigo, assim como muitos aqui, tive o mesmo problema que você. Na verdade não se trata de um problema de atualização ou coisa do tipo. O problema está na bateria de praticamente todos os pure xl. A solução que encontrei foi comprar uma bateria nova na Aliexpress (procure no site por bl-n3500, é a mesma bateria do Elife E8). Para não ficar sem celular por conta da demora de entrega, comprei pelo mercado livre a bateria do Asus Zenfone 5, que possui apenas 2050 Mah, Mas supre as necessidades até que chegue a bateria original XL. Nesse momento estou usando a do zenfone 5 esperando chegar a original, não tive problema algum. No momento que poem a bateria nova ele aquece um pouco, demora pra carregar, descarrega rapido... Mas é momentâneo. Logo volta ao normal, basta utilizar até acabar a carga que já vem na bateria e depois recarregar normalmente.

Espero ter ajudado.
[Blu Pure XL] gelinski:
Boa noite Matheus, não segui sua dica e apos formatação e instalação no meu BLU Pure XL concluimos que o problema está na bateri mesmoa, mesmo assim estou com algumas questoes a serem resolvidas, vejam se podem me ajudar:

1) Fiz atualizacao com o arquivo T5807, mas apos instalacao e atualizacao nao tive opcao para liguagem em portugues, a atualização T5391 tem essa opcao? se nao, como faço para ajustar isso?

2)IMEI, ficou invalido, vi que há um programa com instrucoes em ingles, por acaso tem algo em portugues? a melhor forma eh essa mesma?

3) Como minha bateria durou 4 meses, sera que todas que adiquirir vao aguentar esse tempo?

Peço sua ajuda se possivel.
[Blu Pure XL] Matheusbpvh:
Eu respondi essa mesma pergunta aqui "http://xdaforums.com/pure-xl/help/guide-unbrick-softbricked-blu-pure-xl-t3371981/page8"

Valeu!
[Blu Pure XL] clathyn1:
Quick question...if i can still boot into stock recovery is it not possible to flash my soft brick from my sd card with the files here?
[Blu Pure XL] oldenfrost:
help!

all that methods that they used for the pure xl, are they useful for the grand xl?, if so, could you please, if it's not too much to ask, explain how to root the grand xl, is that I'm new to this and I can't quite understand all the procedures that are executed, and I follow those that you give, but I remain in the procedure of pressing the volume + and the power button, and it does not advance it stays stuck in the fastboot mode, can I still press for a long time, could you help?
[Blu Pure XL] xathras:
I found this on a Spanish language site that may explain that disappearance.

http://mobile.hdblog.it/2015/09/16/mediatek-codice-sorgente-helio-x10/
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Yeah like I said the sources were incomplete. Damn that dude looks like he's going to get in a lot of trouble for that.
[Blu Pure XL] xathras:
Then I found this: http://techricity.org/2015/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-upcoming-oneplus-mini/
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Oem unlock?
[Blu Pure XL] xathras:
Have look at post #108

http://xdaforums.com/pure...6#post63383416
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Let's start working on this phone. I have to go to work soon but hit me up on hangouts. my xda username [MENTION=5499064]gmail.com[/MENTION]

Edit: Wish i could figure out how to disable autosync. There's no option for it at all.
[Blu Pure XL] clipcarl:
Settings > Advanced settings > Accounts > More > Auto-sync data
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Ok so I unlocked the bootloader and before doing that through "fastboot getvar all" I tried all 3 root apps. Kingroot, framaroot, towelroot. None of those worked so there's no shortcuts guys.

Edit: So I managed to get ADB working for it installed the Google USB drivers. http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html

But for some reason Helium still doesn't detect it on my pc.
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Looks like I'm solo in the dev for this phone haha. Where's my buddy [MENTION=4015860]xathras[/MENTION] at! :D

Currently trying a few other root methods and working with MTK Droid tools. Checked the system info through MTK droid tools and it's safe to work with. Right now I have kingoroot on my PC working on the phone through adb. The adb drivers from generic google ones are the ones which work on this phone. I'll update in a few on how to get them working.

Update : Kingoroot failed, trying root genius since it has a good history with mediatek devices.
[Blu Pure XL] xathras:
abd & rooting

Here's some stuff you're not going to want to hear.

The problem boils down to this. The /system directory (where you would like to place the superuser apk) is read only and cannot be easily converted to read/write. If you look in the root directory of your phone you should see a small file called "default.prop" (see my default.prop in attached image). The lines that read "ro.adb.secure=1" and "ro.debaggable=0" prevents adb from obtaining a root shell and making changes to /system. The line that says "ro.secure=1" prevents rooting apps from working. Default.prop is generated anew every time the phone boots and the code that does this lives in the boot.img somewhere. Rooting apps rely on finding a bug in the firmware and being able to create an "exploit" to bypass these security measures, and nobody seems to have found one yet.

What needs to be done is to find a copy of your stock rom, extract boot.img from it, unpack boot.img, make the required changes, re-pack the altered boot.img, and flash the new boot.img onto the phone. So far I can't find a stock rom for this device, nor can I find a tool that will create boot.img from the files on the phone (I don't even know if this is possible).

Another approach might(?) be to replace the stock recovery.img with a CWM/TWRP/Philz recovery. However, such a recovery.img has to be compiled from sources in order to match the device. If it doesn't match you might end up bricked!

Google with these two search terms for more info:"adb cannot run as root in production builds" and "adb permission denied".

I'd be happy to be corrected on any of the above, I'm not a developer.
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Where is your default.prop located?
[Blu Pure XL] xathras:
I'm sorry, I should have said. On my Allview it's in the root directory of the device.
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
For me it shows as readable and writable but won't save the file when I edit it.
[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
bot.img

Here the original boot.img from the Allview X2 Etreme.

http: //ul.to/ggds8y7c

PS: remove the space in the link, because i can't not send direct links under 10 items :(

May it wil help.
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
May I ask where you found this? I need to know their steps of extraction. Thank you

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[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
i also have save the full rom from the Allview X2 Extreme (what is the same as the Blue or Elife E8) from the last OTA update.

At the moment i upload it to mediafire, i will write you the link later when it finished.

I hope it will help you.

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i have save it from the OTA update at my phone

After downloading the updatre files and BEFORE start the update you can find the update rom files under emulated/legancy/66d0c1f4c2dfe8abab357b3d5e6550bd.zip (i think the zip name will be different at the blue device, but it's easy to find)
[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
As promised here it is:

Current Stock-Rom from Allview Soul X2 Extreme Build Number: [X2_Soul_Xtreme_0301_V5403] Kernel: 3.10.72+

http: //www.mediafire.com/download/i164fbd4dxjjb8o/66d0c1f4c2dfe8abab357b3d5e6550bb.zip

remove the space between http: and //www.... in the link ;)
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Dude you're the best! I'll look into it ASAP
[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
Thx, i also have found out something new.

The bootloader is allways unlooked - there is nothing to do. The "fastboot getvar all" do nothing, he only shows the variables.

Therefore it is also possible to flash a own recovery.img

So far so good, but the device have a script that at every reboot the stock recovery is flashing back automatic :(

That's the reasson why the bootloader is unlooked by stock...
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
You have the Allview device correct? You have the same system UI named amigo ui?
[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
Yes

Yes

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Btw, the script for the stock recovery by reboot is to find here: system/recovery-from-boot.p
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Update - Scatter files from your backup do not match the scatter file from my Pure XL. I'm trying to be as cautious as possible when creating this custom recovery.
[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
Mate you can't do something wrong there because as i write it gives a script into the device that flash back the stock recovery at any restart.

Also have a look into this files

- factory_init.rc

- factory_init.project.rc
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Just some updated screens of the rom decompiled from the OTA [MENTION=5751414]schorsch9999[/MENTION] provided.
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
Correct. I'm not afraid of flashing the recovery made from a recovery.img. Just iffy that the scatter files are different so I'm not going to use MTK droid tools to make the recovery.

Edit : Are you positive you uploaded the complete ota? I'm unable to locate the firmware.zip which contains the recovery.img
[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
Well it's possible that the OTA file isn't complete because the update was about 1,4X GB and the zip file have only 1,37 GB...

I save the file after complete download before i start the update but i also was wonder because of the diffenent file size.
[Blu Pure XL] FuMMoD:
If you could please get me the img it would help a lot. I'm trying right now to edit the boot IMG and modify it to disable ro.secure=1. If i can repack it modified then I can root it. Since the system doesn't modify the bootimg to default only the recovery.
[Blu Pure XL] schorsch9999:
Sorry but i can't because the update file was deleted automaticly from the device after the update...