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[General Questions and Answers] Raztan:
Dollar General is suppose to have these going on sell for $1.00 on thanksgiving.

Im hoping to snag a few, Can you confirm the rumor that the phone does not allow rotation to landscape?

I wasn't able to find a stock firmware, nothing on alcatel's website except it is mentioned about some sort of hearing aid support.

Couldn't find anything on tracfone's website either except user guide and tutorial, have'nt looked at the guide but I don't expect much useful in it.

If you google "alcatel ftp" a alcatel-lucent ftp server comes up: ftp.alcatel-lucent.com.au

But it does not allow anonymous/public connections.

Try running https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.backessrt.appintegrity&hl=en

on it, this will show certain vulnerabilities, I've used it a few times when scouting out devices that impactor will work on.

But I heard Tracfones are usually pretty buttoned up.

BTW could you run cpu-z and post the screen shots? im really curious what SoC it's running I haven't been able to find out online.

this phone is like a ghost.. it sometimes gets mentioned in the same breath as the pixi 3 (3.5in) but that phone is a bit different.. 3g vs gltiz 4g

and slower clock.

I'd feel a lot better if we could find a stock firmware but I plan on poking mine either way, assuming I get some for a dollar, wont even be the end of the world if I don't get root but who doesn't like that?

Tracfone product/tutorial page: http://tracfone.deviceanywhere.com/tracfone/home.seam?custId=TFALA463BG&locale=en_US
[General Questions and Answers] durb4him:
I can confirm that the device doesn't have auto-rotate.

As to the rest of your post, I will download the app you suggested, and let you know what I find. but I probably will wait to try anything till someone smarter than me figures that stuff out so I don't brick myself. ?
[General Questions and Answers] Raztan:
Ok these phones are running mediatek mt6582..

Only problem is specout.com & MTK says the 82 should be a quad core.

http://system-on-a-chip.specout.com/l/464/MediaTek-MT6582

http://www.mediatek.com/en/products/mobile-communications/smartphone1/mt6582/

So did CPU-Z get it wrong? Or is alcatel using low bin 6582 that had a bad core?

Do they even do that with SoC's meant for the entry market anyway?

Im pleasantly surprised how snappy it is for the price.

Was able to emulate PS1/N64 nearly perfect with the exception of the occasional sound glitch, This could be due to the weird 48hz refresh on the screen.

Anyway neither CPU-Z nor AIDA64 report any sensor data, so if it has a gravity sensor it's not working in software.. either way this is why it does not auto rotate which is weird cause this is the first android device i've encountered that did'nt have one.

On The Go support is disabled on these phones :/

I tried USB HID gamepad, thumb drive, hub, nothing.. not even power.

Might be able to fix once rooted, or it might be a physical limitation.. like diode on the port preventing the device to give power.. that would really suck.

Another weird thing.. I can't get the phone to accept wifi 64charactor (hex) wifi key's

The field seems limited to 8~63 ASCII passwords... Might make a post somewhere about this as I doubt it's phone specific.

none the less I had to setup a virtual AP with a ASCII pass to get this thing connected.

Not a huge deal for most people as 64hex key's are pretty rare to see used, but I do.

phone reports it self as pixi3-35tf

But It seems the pixi 3 (3.5) uses a mt6572 which has a few variants but I think none over 1.2ghz, so not sure how close the two devices are.

Even though It seems like the pixi 3 and glitz both come from earlier this year feb/march 2015

and share other similar stats / look alike.

Root's tried:

- Towel Root, no go, kernel is too new (july/2015)

- Farmaroot 1.9.3

Roots not tried but wont work

- Impactor won't work either, it's not vulnerable.

I've got ADB working but no easy root access.

You can get the ADB drivers by connecting your computer and then setting the phone to operate as "cd-rom"

so the phone has onboard copy of the win32/64 adb drivers in a self extracting rar file.
[General Questions and Answers] TechnoDaft:
anyone find a root method for the A463BG yet? just got 1 from Kroger cause my kid broke my screen on my rooted N900V and i really would like root back
[General Questions and Answers] Raztan:
Something else I noticed weird about these phones, Tethering is disabled, despite the fact that you would normally pay per megabyte of data.. nothing is free.

Wifi direct is still intact however.

The phones come with crappy little 550mah chargers, if you put them on 1 or 2 amp chargers the phones will still only charge at 500mah.. so having a better charger wont get you any faster a charge :/

My android 'fu is pretty damn weak but it seems like a pretty buttoned down phone.

EX: I was trying to dump some of the partitions and I couldn't even read them kept getting errors and permission denied.

Hopefully one of the guru's on xda picked up one cheap this last week and will figure it out.

I thought about trying Iroot or Kingoroot which are suppose to have like 90% success rates even on difficult to roots..

but I hear of some shadiness with those 2 roots and frankly am scared to touch them.

Blue's and SRT security scanner show no known vulnerabilities.

Im hoping to get a usable dump and maybe root with MTK tools.

But im trying to read up on the tool since it's new to me, has the potential to brick, and it's my first mediatek deivce.
[General Questions and Answers] AndyADD:
Hey guys just came across this thread in hopes for a answer, I will say kingoroot does work, BUT if you reboot your phone it removes root access. Could it because super su is having problems on this? I tried superuser instead but no luck.
[General Questions and Answers] Raztan:
Did'nt I read that kingoroot normally installs it's own "SU" gateway app and binary?

is the temporary root a functional one? can probably install su/apk by hand if so.

otherwise maybe we could flash something like CWM recovery with teh temporary root and then instal su/apk via zip update from recovery?
[General Questions and Answers] AndyADD:
When I root the phone, I use root checker and says my phone is rooted, I can launch apps and give them rood access. As soon as I reboot the phone, the root is gone. So, something is keeps removing it.
[General Questions and Answers] Dantrpan:
After running kingoroot, have you installed supersu from the playstore and updated the su binary?
[General Questions and Answers] Dantrpan:
kingoroot not working

So I tried kingoroot. I had to use the PC version. It states that it works, but it does not. It's not even a temp root. It installs some binaries and when running certain apps you will get prompted to allow superuser access, but it doesn't do anything.
[General Questions and Answers] AndyADD:
It was hit and miss for me, when I was able to get root on there, I went into terminal typed in su, and prompted for root. From what I have been reading, the reason it removes root after reboot is because the bootloader is locked, afaik there hasn't been a way to unlock the bootloader.
[General Questions and Answers] Raztan:
I got vcom drivers installed and was going to try and backup the rom with sp flash tool but I got a error

"BROM Error: S_Auth_Handle_Is_Not_Ready (5000)

This is a secure Base-band chip! Please Secect the authentication file first."

Im guessing you need some sort of a key file just to interact with it?

First time using sp flash tool.

Might be a while before we find a solution was hoping some guru's would have picked one up at DG when they was a dollar on thanksgiving :/

BTW has anyone gotten a bluetooth gamepad or keyboard paired with it? I've got a T3 pad that it can see, says it's paired but then just gets stuck "connecting"

Maybe the phone does not support input profiles? works fine on my galaxy s4

Oh and might wanna make your self a screen protector, it's plastic touch screen is super easy to scratch.

Im planing on making one out of economical (very cheap from china on ebay) ipad screen protector.
[General Questions and Answers] jimdon44:
I purchased the Alcatel Onetouch Pixi Glitz and have been able to get rotation or orientation control by installing "Set Orientation" from the Google Play Store. I haven't used it in all situations but it works with an ereader app.
[General Questions and Answers] kinglou0:
Jumping into this thread in hopes that someone has made progress towards rooting this phone. Just had 2 show up today from the Dollar General Sale. These would make great mp3 players for working out with (A Note 5 is a little too big). I guess they'll still pressed into service with a microSD card and a missing SIM but like pissinguoff247, I would prefer to strip the whole thing down to just the basics.

I should add that it's been a few years since I've been here.........

I like what the site has morphed into. Very nice.
[General Questions and Answers] krol13:
Updates?

any updates on this? I need to unlock it :(
[General Questions and Answers] joshumax:
I purchased several of these for $4 at Fred Meyer yesterday... The SoC is a MediaTek MT6582, which is rather odd considering it claims to be quad core, yet only 2 cores are available according to cpu-z and DroidSpec. Perhaps they set a maximum of 2 CPU cores in the kernel config...? Attempting to root it using KingoRoot proved unsuccessful and it appears the bootloader is locked as well, preventing reading from the NAND using my generated scatter file. I'm looking for a workaround so that I can create a patched version of CWM for the device, so hopefully I'll be able to dump the internal flash soon. It's also probably futile to ask, but does ANYONE know of a place where I could find a factory image for this thing, or am I O.O.L?
[General Questions and Answers] joshumax:
So, after poking around the filesystem a bit, it looks as if I can use CVE-2015-2231 and CVE-2015-2232 in conjunction to gain permanent root perms on the device... I'll see if I can whip up a quick PoC for one of my test devices.
[General Questions and Answers] krol13:
Any updates yet?:confused:
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
Any update ??

This at all why do I always buy a phone that it can't be rooted every time the phone cost me $4.89 so I'm willing to risk breaking it if anybody's got any weeds I mean leads:o

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I'm willing to be a guinea pig if you have any leads or any information on a way to flash something to it
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
locked bootloader is bad news. Do you have any additional information about the bootloader? Is it permanently locked? If not, there may be a way to unlock it. Turn on USB Debugging. You can always try to use ADB to attempt an unlock if possible.

Adb reboot bootloader

Fastboot oem unlock

Unlocking your bootloader (if it is even possible with this model), will usually factory reset the device.
[General Questions and Answers] wizardknight:
I don't suppose anyone has found a way to root these things yet?

I have tried every rooting program I can find and none will work on it.
[General Questions and Answers] hemiSound:
I Rooted Alcatel onetouch Pixi Glitz, A463BG

Hi Guys, my first post on this site. I bought a Alcatel onetouch Pixi Glitz, A463BG, my first Android phone.

***I ROOTED IT TODAY***.

I used Kingo Root over a USB cable to my Win XP laptop. I tried unsuccessfully for the last two days, some time the app said the root succeeded but it hadn't as reported by the *CPU-Z* app. Today I uninstalled and reinstalled Kingo Root. At first it failed a couple times and my virus scanner, 360 Security, reported an infected file "MTK Camera", but I never found the app on my phone. Then I got to thinking, "what if some app on my phone was screwing up the root process?" Yeah, like the virus scanner or some other running process. I used *Greenify* to hibernate all background apps and tried it again and it worked! Verified with CPU-Z. I installed *Root Browser* and was able to access the root directory, protected storage. Running the virus scanner again did not show any infected files/apps. All of the apps mentioned (except for Kingo Root) are on Google Play. In summary:

1. Download and install Kingo Root for Windows and the Kingo Root v1.6 USB app on the phone.

2. Connect phone USB to Windows computer.

3. Turn on USB Debugging in Developer Options. To enable Developer Options: Settings -> About Phone -> scroll down to Build Number and tap three times. You will see Developer Options in the Settings. USB Debugging is an option in there.

3. Use Greenify to hibernate ALL other apps.

4. Run Kingo Root on Windows. Ignore any dialogs that may appear on the phone as Kingo Root Win can get confused and stop the progress.

5. If Kingo Root fails, completely uninstall the app, reinstall and try it again.

Root persists over multiple power on/off reboots.

This is the most fun I've ever had for $10! Hopes this helps you guys. Let me know if this works for ya.

hemiSound
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
you were able to intall su binarys?...

says rooted but when restart su binarys not intalled ...

yeah root explorer will let u see the file dir but u cant mod it.. or even go to anything stared...

EDIT :: I HAVE TEMP ROOT ITS A START I THINK
[General Questions and Answers] hemiSound:
I never installed a SU Binary nor did I do anything with the Boot Loader. I've never seen an error message concerning SU Binary (except with other root software). Do you have other root software installed other than Kingo Root? If so, you would want to uninstall it. As an aside, I just ran CPU-Z again and it indicates I DON'T have root. I ran it just after I rooted and it said I did so I guess that may not be a definitive app for root indication. Just now with Root Explorer I was able to copy a video file from //storage/sdcard1/DCIM/Camera to sdcard0.

What do you mean by "temp root"? You could simply try to root again. Perhaps you could reset to factory and try it again also.

Good luck!
[General Questions and Answers] wizardknight:
Could you try installing titanium backup, and see if it shows having root access?

If titanium backup works, then we can use it to remove all the crapware on the phone.
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
Temp root.....

ok so temp root is where u have root untill u reboot the device ... its because the bootloader is locked the only way to get past this is to modify some system files ... i had a galexy note 10.1 that had a locked bootloader what i had to do was change the name of a file called bootp in system files when i did that i had perm root and could back up my rom and install a custom recovery port roms and everything .. im not a developer but .. ALL info and peoples input helps .. its just trial and error .. i had root access to system files then i restarted my phone now i cant even get temp root anymore ive tried 20 times..... pretty crapy... from my understanding if you can get to the prop build file in data/ local.prop file read this

http://technotif.com/rooting-locked-boot-loader/
[General Questions and Answers] wizardknight:
Maybe you could try a factory reset? That could undo whatever is blocking you this time.
[General Questions and Answers] lonewanderer1:
Any confirmation of people using the above method from hemiSound to reproduce the root for the Pixi Glitz? Love to try it!
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
Bootloader Still Locked!!!

even if it does temp root once restart device root gone untill we unlock the bootloader.....

yes you can access certin parts of the internal system files i bet u cant access *data Or sys Files or folders so nope untill we can get a dev to help us with this bootloader we are SOL:crying:
[General Questions and Answers] wizardknight:
Are you saying that you know this for sure, or are you guessing?
[General Questions and Answers] Weeeeeb:
I tried hemiSounds method. It works, but does not persist after reboot. Supersu says the su binary is out if date, and asks to update, which doesn't work. Titanium backup does not recognize root, so I'm lost from there.
[General Questions and Answers] _ck_:
Justin Case has found a backdoor in MediaTek chipset based phones, which includes the Pixi Glitz.

http://www.slashgear.com/android-mediatek-devices-open-to-de-bugging-hacking-aplenty-29424891/

(glitz uses the same MediaTek 6582 chipset demonstrated in that article)

But not sure if it would work since the kingoroot method doesn't seem to "stick".

However if you can consistently temp root the phone, an autoloading app can be made to re-root the phone after each reboot. Then you can use xposed to enhance features.

I also recommend you try kingroot (note the lack of O, not kingoroot) since it is actively updated and phone based.

http://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/one-click-root-tool-android-2-x-5-0-t3107461

there are tools to swap out kingroot for supersu if it works
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
Key file

So i know where the key file is i ran across it when searching thru the file system but cant rember excatly where it was i will find it tonight ;/......

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@ weeby ... can you get the system file remounted into R/rw To be able to write to the system/local build . prop file ?,.,.. in AdB?...

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Any headway or help would be useful!!! you say your a developer then help us please !!!

can you get write permissions to change the system/local build.prop file

or anyway to get actual Temp Root on device because as of now it says even when these guys are saying its rooted {temp rooted) its not really cuz you cant write to the system files or even update binnarys .. its a fake temp root .,.I cant get mtk tools to reconize my device ... trying to dump system but cant ...
[General Questions and Answers] blakegriplingph:
Besides the locked bootloader, has anyone come up with a way to enable access to the two other cores? 'Tis odd for TCL to use the MT6582 when there's the 6572 if they want a dual-core SoC for the Pixi.
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
So there's four cores in this chipset and were only using one I'm guess you would have to something with the prop file we cannot modify that without root maybe have to mess with the kernel idk
[General Questions and Answers] Pixi43:
four cores and we can only use 2?
[General Questions and Answers] Alldayismokebomb:
Cannot believe there is not an actual way to reduce device yet no way to actually root this device yet

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Found a file named OTA key upon opening it there's a 182 just random letters and numbers
[General Questions and Answers] GuyInDogSuit:
Would love to install CM 13 on this.
[General Questions and Answers] Dogin..hygdJj9:
Hardware is split ;like two phones..old back oriface type..real machine is inaccessible.. what come to device context is virtual machine in ram.. needs hard ROM wipe.. big electromagnet..heh heh. Then adb push new virt machine hash.. but is gone if reeboot;( best yet)

Olddoginmansuit::;
[General Questions and Answers] GuyInDogSuit:
Any news on this?
[General Questions and Answers] UserOS:
Looks helpful.
[General Questions and Answers] GlitzFan:
Anyone have some new information? I really love these things. Great loud speaker, functional GPS (works well with google offline maps). I'd really love to use my longtime prepaid t-mobile sim in it. Any suggestions?
[General Questions and Answers] UserOS:
I figured there's no point. I got a Moto E from Verizon
[General Questions and Answers] CaelThunderwing:
anything yet on this phone?
[General Questions and Answers] Yonathantop:
Tengo uno alcatel a463bg y necesito hacerle un simlock es traicfone quien me ayuda por favor
[General Questions and Answers] XTheGhostX:
I have an Alcatel one touch pixi Avalon I've been trying for hours to root it but absolutely no rooting program works on it any that I install and run get at most to 90% before giving an error message I've ran both English and Chinese programs does anyone know how to root this piece of crap I can't find anything on it like it only gets mentioned to be sold but nothing after that
[General Questions and Answers] Jduke32:
This may or may not be useful or known but there is a website dedicated to alcatel root and installs and flashes

www.alcatelroot.com
[General Questions and Answers] Redeclipse1:
I tried KingRoot on my Pick Glitz and it said that it was rooted and through the app I was able to uninstall system apps. However, I can't give apps root access and root checker says rot access isn't installed properly.Any ideas on how to actually get it rooted?
[General Questions and Answers] Jduke32:
Be careful using kingoroot on Alcatel phones lots of reports on device bricking

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I have an Alcatel 4060a running Android 5.1.1 and was able to successfully perma root using kingroot and then successfully replace with SuperSU and remove kingroot all together and add the Xposed framework
[General Questions and Answers] NonStickAtom785:
Bootloader unlocking could be possible

You could be on to something. I mean its 2017 and i'm fourteen years old. I know a lot more than I should know for my age.:laugh:

I'll see if I can figure out if this is like an oem unlocking situation where you download adb and fastboot tools and do what you said but use fastboot devices to see if the Alcatel is recognized.

Ok so i was able to allow adb debugging with developer options. There was a little trouble with showing adb devices though because i had a password. It said the device was unrecognized. But i change the security to none and rebooted my device and retried the command again. It popped up the box prompting access to device from computer this time. At least we can use adb. I'll get back to this thread when i figure out what works.
[General Questions and Answers] CalebS.T:
Kingroot will root this phone. I've done it.

It's not on the play store. Search online for "Kingroot Apk Download".

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Keep rerooting until the message that says "This model restricts root authorization" is gone.

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You're wrong. My phone is in landscape orientation right now. I did use a third party app, though.
[General Questions and Answers] GlitzFan:
After rooting the device, can you use any SIM card, or is the device still locked to tracfone?
[General Questions and Answers] NonStickAtom785:
Unfortunately the Sim card is still locked too TracFone. Ill look for an exploit though so stay in touch.
[General Questions and Answers] GlitzFan:
Thanks for the info. Darn. I was hoping to use it with the xfinity mobile free service (if and when they allow BYOD devices).

I was able to easily root the glitz with kingroot, but it gets reset after reboot. Even some tracfone programs that I deleted are restored. I could live with that if you or anyone can unlock the sim.

Thank again!
[General Questions and Answers] NonStickAtom785:
NO PROBLEM:) There might be a unlock already out there if you go searching through Google.
[General Questions and Answers] zswielder:
Has there been any progress on this?
[General Questions and Answers] Qwerty Uiop Keyboard:
Hmm... I should get one of these. A lot has happened in the last six years, namely: MTKClient!

What's this device's model number? Alcatel really loved releasing different models under extremely similar names.

Hopefully I can get one for a GOOD price on eBay. Hell, I'd prefer to not even spend $10. But if I must? Well, I might.