yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwentyFoursWorld:
I also had the stream limit. Are you sure it read? Mine says the same when I try to read phone.

Now to revise the whole steps.

1. Connect USB to phone while OFF.

2. Open the tool on PC.

3. Enter HS_USB MODE. (Remember

Power + vol- AND vol+.) Hold everything. Screen should flash once! And let go.

4. Let the tool connect.

5. Read the phone and uncheck SPC!! do not have it checked while reading phone!.

6. Check the spc now, and enter the code from imei. And read again.

try this^^^^^^^^^^ I made it up to see if it would work.

ALSO CAN SOMEONE SHOW ME HOW TO ENTER THE SECRET CODES???

now I'm not sure if it will make a difference. I'll check when I get home from school.

UPDATE: couldn't connect, says device has been lost :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
I tried this method yesterday when I was messing around with my phone. Problem is I can't connect to the phone with it on in the first place. You would push the code through the GUI. Where by default it has 0000 which as we know is the original SPC code upon build. Then it is changed to the device unique SPC.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
4 should be enter your spc in box in tool then unchecked send spc.Then connect with tool.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
Well now, I wonder if a brute force running *#*#000000#*#* through *#*#999999#*#* would achieve the SPC.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
000000 spc from what I read is a one time code used by store and can only be used one time.just a thought to could be the tool not compatible with phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwentyFoursWorld:
Actually it is very compatible with phone, I've connected once. Had the phone read, and had options to back up NV. And other stuff....

If the one time use is true then im Starting to regret that I should have done it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
I've recently acquired a new bit of information from a programmer, I was informed that upon submission of your MEID or ESN code that I can with 100% accuracy achieve your desired SPC code.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
this prob a noob question but where can i find the MEID OR ESN and are they obtainable from a bricked phone
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
Open the case of your phone, there is a large sticker over your battery. Look on the bottom of the sticker there is IMEI.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
i have already used imei to generate a spc and it let me connect to the phone as long as i dont check send spc. its connecting

also side note when you discconect tool from phone u will need to restart phone and put it back in qualcome hsusb 9008 mode before you can connect again.has anyone with a non brick phone tried to connect with tool to phone to see if it properly read phone and not giving a end of stream

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in phone mode it only letting me change reset,online mode and download mode are working

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To help clear up how i am connecting to the phone here the steps i used using the tool EFS Pro qualcomm NV Tools.

1.Start up efs pro too

2 plug usb into phone

3.put in qualcome hsusb 9008 mode by holding volume + and - at same while power it on it should a alcatel screen with blackbackground then it will got black.

4.on EFS Tool click refresh next Avalible COM Ports box then switch to your alcatel com port

5.Then enter yor SPC in box under connect button and uncheck Send SPC

6.the click connect button

also once you disconnct to reconect you will need to restart the phone and put back in qualcome hsusb 9008 mode
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
Does your code work when you check send spc
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
I can't get it to connect in any sense, in hsusb mode or when it's on. On port 3 it seems to connect, the disconnect button remains active, I've tried connection mode, like online, offline, Phone off, download mode. It told me ok your phone is rebooting now but it never did. I still tried to send spc one error is end of stream, one is phone not found.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nickalick:
Ok so efs does not work exp in 9008 mode i have know this since day one this thread started dont waste ur time in other news i have gotten it to read with qpst

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Does anyone have this phone they would like to donate i have a jtag id like to try trying to find the bootswitch for this phone for 9006 mode but if anyone does id prefere it to not be factory reset and adb on that way i can also give a tut on
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
PM me for possible phone donation ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
At some point I'm going to buy another jtagulator and riff box again, just not sure when. If I still had my old set I'd buy a test phone, break it down to the board, and test on it. But now that I think about it, I would hope a riff would support qualcomm msm8909 chipset and our ARMv71 pricessor.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BethTech:
Stock Apps for Android

Can someone make a download for the stock Tmobile apps that come with the android version of this phone? I want to install Android on the Windows version, but keep some of the Tmobile apps.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
Wow, please share with us how you're gonna do that?

And I think most of us have metropcs.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
you prob could use Titanium Backup to back up the apps
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BethTech:
I think just have to install an .img file in recovery settings. I found a file for another version of Alcatel, I just have to figure out how to get into Recovery Mode.

No point in backing up Windows apps for Android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mrnmcII:
Has anyone tried online nandroid backup app it appears to actually backup the entire device through some sort of script and terminal
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwentyFoursWorld:
NEW ANALYZE for 5054N

just a quick thought, Everyone is running with questions and we need to slow down, and stay on track.

from my knowing i realized there is a diagnose mode. but i am not sure how to unlock/boot in? this daig mode.

for our Alcatel one touch fierce xL (5054n) ----JUST TO CLARIFY ANY NEW COMERS READING THE

FORUM ____PLZ STOP WITH OTHER MODELS.

i have gotten 50 messages about people asking me to unbrick their phone -_-

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i have found our phone drivers. for PC.---(not sure if we need them anymore :()

http://www.skyneel.com/2015/05/download-latest-alcatel-usb-drivers.html

******NEW GOAL******* is to see if we have DIAG MODE!

UPDATE::::::::

It's necessary to enable Diagnostic port in order to perform unlock procedure in some cell phone models. Here are few of them: Vodafone Smart 4 turbo / Smart Tab 4G / Smart 4 max / Smart 4 / Smart Prime 6 / VF-895N / V889N / V890N, TCL 5042X / 5042A, Orange Roya / Nura

Root your smartphone

Select "Android ADB" platform from the tab menu in the upper left side of the software.

Go to "Qualcomm" bookmark

Press "Enable Diag Port" button

http://sigmakey.com/en/supportedfeatures/help?phone_id=1

once we have them, we can manually back up using the QPST tools. (i hope)

TO ANSWER OTHER QUESTIONS AND IDEAS, WE NOTE: YES YOU CAN USE AN APP FOR BACKUP, BUT THERE IS NO WAY WE WILL BACK THEM UP FOR BRICK!!!!

pppplz, no repeats........ :(:crying::(:crying:

SORRY!!! that software Sigma isnt really worth it.... S- card is needed to run the program. what ever that is. :/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
We've already mentioned that ?

Have in mind, that the more repeat questions/post - the harder for newcomers to read through and find things in the thread.

Please read through and search the whole thread before you post guys ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
When I suggested titanium backup I though you talking about.the apps on the phone

The spc seem be one big problem in getting into this phone what we need is a program that connect to phone and brute force the spc and don't think it lock you out if get the spc wrong so many time
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
Continuing to repeat that people are asking repeat questions is in and of itself making the thread longer. Parsing the thread would be beneficial.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwentyFoursWorld:
Lol oops......
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
it might not work with this phone but the did with another alcatel phone they patch i think the bootloader to allow it to be flash also the was a comment that a corrupted bootload is not locked.

toward bottom of this page is simular patching technique that i was talking about

http://www.droidsavvy.com/unbrick-qualcomm-mobiles/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
This is just a little bit of helpful information to anyone on this thread that might be confused or maybe doesn't fully understand what we mean by adb into your device or fastboot.

I grabbed the adb/fastboot portion of Android Studio, being the full application suite that sucks up anywhere from 4 to 8 gigs of space when fully installed. Which is COMPLETELY unnecessary if you aren't developing Android apps to put on the market. Then you definitely don't need the entire suite. The adb/fastboot portion of the tools is somewhere around 101 mb I believe.

Just follow this guide EXACTLY as instructed and you will have a much better understanding of how to do this.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0ccUcPR2Mko

http://dl.google.com/android/android-sdk_r24.4.1-windows.zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
[MENTION=5515628]kirito9[/MENTION] or anyone with experience ?

(this is if fastboot is hidden. If it doesn't even exist, this will be useless)

"One possible way to get into fastboot is to nuke the boot or recovery partition, so that when aboot search for a kernel, it doesn't find one, and boots into fastboot."

This is working on LG phones. Just a thought that if we can delete boot or recovery partition to make fastboot work, and flash deleted partition back (or custom recovery via fastboot if success) when ready, then maybe we could do the same? Obviously we need to be able to do this via adb, if it's even possible?

To delete I think it's something like:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/block/platform/xxx/by-name/xxx

And to put the partition back (if I'm not wrong):

adb push recovery.img (something)

Or flash with fastboot command if we succeeded...

Pic from:

https://developer.qualcomm.com/qfile/28821/lm80-p0436-1_little_kernel_boot_loader_overview.pdf

Then of course, some brave person needs to take a leap of faith and try it, hehe ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirito9:
I think this is what [MENTION=2614663]shabbypenguin[/MENTION] was talking about when he said LG devices had a similar issue and they found a way to access fastboot. I can't say more on this unless someone is willing to try it.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] shabbypenguin:
someone said they were getting a device to test it on, i dont have alerts for this thread and i havent been keeping up with it so im unaware of any changes in that plan. im going to guess no one flashed the repacked recovery?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kirito9:
I don't think anyone did flashed the repacked recovery. As for the second device to test, I don't think they got it or maybe they did and haven't flashed the repacked recovery.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
I posted this, aimed at Nickalick, but no response?

That phone is softbricked though, so adb is not available (unauthorized) ?

Thinking about buying one more to try this out, he he ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
I've posted a request regarding zeroing out a partition (on any Android phone) to trigger fastboot, in a lg forum on this subject :)

Let's hope that one of their brilliant developers can give me a hint...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
Here's the guide based on the "master"

http://androidforums.com/threads/forcing-fastboot.704668/
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
Also invalidating boot partition. Destroy boot partition signature, issuing on the device (in either Linux or Android command line)

dd if=/dev/zero of=/path/to/boot/partition bs=1 count=1
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
So MikeGunn answered the question how he accessed fastboot...

He can't remember exactly, but he mention taking out the battery for a few seconds and then he don't remember the button combination. So he must have disassembled the phone?

I know this works on certain Sony phones...

Either this is what needs to be done or he's talking about another phone, I don't know?

Make sense that this might be one of the reasons we're not allowed to remove the battery.

Anyways, I will disassemble my softbricked phone and let's see if there's any luck ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Nickalick:
emmc all missing partitions and mem start and end locations

check it

41 partitions

this is the first 100 megs of this phone i had asked a fellow member to back up

with this we maybe we can force flash
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
So taking the back off and screwing off the back of the house and taking the metal cover off the battery, it's now a phone with removable battery :)

I will post pics in a bit :)

Haven't tried anything (possible fastboot) yet, will do it as soon as I can...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwentyFoursWorld:
Interesting , so nothing horrible will happen to our phone if we do this? No brick ?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
Brick from removing the battery?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwentyFoursWorld:
Yes
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
No, nothing bad happened ?

But guess what? I broke my sdcard holder ?

So remember to take the card out before removing the rear house!

Think I can fix it though...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
I believe that discharging of the battery have some effect on RAM memory, emptying it and possibly cache, but I might be wrong? And I know it's part of accessing fastboot in some phone's (when put back after a few seconds and button combo while connecting USB)...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TwentyFoursWorld:
Perrrrfffect.

Back at it again with the nice HACKS.

I'll keep an eye out for anything on the web. If you guys need help, give me the word! ☺☺☺☺☺

I'm glad we're getting close again...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
Compatible Models (battery): TCL Y900 Y710 OT 8000D e OT 8008D and maybe more...

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So if you want a removable battery, just glue the back of the house inside the back cover..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
just a thought but taking battery out might be how to get into this phones diagnostic mode. we will see if you get into fastboot. or could be how to get in diagnostic mode try using on tools like qpst and seeif it stil says if its in download mode or not while you got battery out
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Psych0Smil3s:
With qpst he'll also need a 9 pin to 25 pin adapter, and would need to break the phone down to the board, and one port 1-9 needs to be open too communicate with the device.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev199505:
I keep getting a "system ui has failed" message every now and then the screen turns off then back on like nothing happened. Has anyone else had this issue?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
Yes, but only after I made changes to the system, used another launcher (froze alcatel launcher before factory reset) and after editing layers...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev199505:
All I've done is under clocked the CPU and gpu
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
How much did you underclock?

The graphics and system might need more?

Why do you underclock?

I have mine on 800-1100 and my battery last 18-24h...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dev199505:
My battery didn't seem to be lasting very long
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Rc1289:
alcatel.ot.fXL.5054n

so i extracted the boot img i made before i bricked my phone. the model is for metropcs alcatel onetouch fierce xl 5054n 5.1.1...i also have the system.romdump that i also complied myself.

hopefully one of u guys can put a way to restore this phone im bricked locked out of my phone. not one but 3phones. . If any of u guys can repair this bad boy. . you'll really be saving my ass 3x.. lol well reach me at

monkies9514@Gmail.com if u want a copy of this email me .i can't post links just yet as im New to site... make sure to put **shoot.me.a.copy** as subject so i know what the request are. ..

If i can be any help..

Holla

march. 13 , 2016
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
You've done all that work like some of us done already :)

I wish there was a way by now, but sadly enough, nothing yet :(

Hopefully there will be a solution soon...

BTW, I'm on my third phone too, hehe :)

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Sadly enough I don't think it's possible to execute those combos he recommended?

I've been trying and I will keep trying...

To combine connect battery and a button combo is almost impossible, when you have to do it with the back off (almost impossible to reach those tiny buttons?)

And I have tried qualcomm hs-usb qdloader 9008 without battery, but no success yet? My win 8.1 did react once but then nothing? When I have time I will reinstall qualcomm drivers again to see if anything changes...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
I've been snooping around here since htc desire (2010) and been amazed by all the hard working developers. But I have to say that since then, things have really changed. I got the impression that back then, developers were more interested in trying to make a low and mid range phone much better, while today it's all about grabbing those flagships out there and to be honest, many of them are so good so there's really no need for root or improvement. It's kind of sad that so few developers feel the excitement today to challenge budget phones :(

Anyways, I'm very thankful for all they've done to improve my HTC, Nokia, LG and Samsung phones.

Seams like we have to settle for what we've got here for a while, but I'm still hoping :)

BTW, I'm really happy with my rooted alcatel, snappy and a battery that lasts for up to 30h...

Now when I have a second phone for parts I'm actually thinking of paralleling those two batteries so it will last for at least 3 days :)

If we ever get tired of this phone why not go for a monster with 2.0GHz MTK MT6795 Turbo, octa-core, 64bit - 6gb ram and 128gb rom?

Hehe...

http://www.oppomart.com/phones/vernee-apollo.html
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
I think it's going to last 34h this time :)

Have in mind I'm a average and normal user, so no gaming on the phone. But I'm fairly much online when I'm awake...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
So I paralleled 2 batteries. I cut out the size of the battery of the back of the house and the black plastic/rubber case still fits perfectly :)

Just a tiny bit thicker were the battery is placed. And believe it or not, after 21 hours it's on 86%...

I'll keep you updated about long term average...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
5000mAh

Here we go :)

Anyone who's got 2 phones or planning on buying another extra battery, this is great :)

Almost 44 hours and 44% left...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
Maybe I should put in a little warning regarding Li-Polymer batteries. Don't parallel if you're not sure what you're doing! Google it properly and you will see that mostly they will advise you to not do it. It's very important that those batteries are exactly the same voltage, amp, age, and brand and they should both either be charge fully or drained to the same point when pairing. Solder them together plus to plus and minus to minus and then to the pcb/IC chip. Don't break any protection cover. It's also recommended that you don't quick charge and instead, try to use a bit weaker charger. I've been doing this several times and I never had any problems.

But please Google and learn as much as possible first...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] void513:
Don't know if it will help but there's an app on Google play called Apps2SD All in one that a

Has feature in to reboot into fastboot mode . https://play.google.com/store/apps/...2sd&pcampaignid=APPU_1_3GT0VrPPA8HGmwG1sJyABg
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] :
Safe Apps to remove

is there a list of apps that are safe to remove, and once i root the device could i use titanium back up pro to back up the apps and reinstall them if necessary. also will rom toolbox pro set the cpu govenor
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexx421:
Did you ever get a hold of the kernel source Nik?

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I don't know of a list of bloat that's okay to remove but with everyone's current issues with the devices system I'd be careful and definitely make a titanium app backup. Personally I haven't had any real issues. Backed up apps can be sideloaded as well if titanium can't be accessed
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
Ok, just sharing another softbrick, and again, it's probably thanks to me fiddling with system files...

This time I changed the layers (vendor/overlay)... Worked for a while, made some stock apps transparent and stuff. Cool, yeah, right?!

One of those files must have been evil for this phone, cause now I'm stuck on boot, where the metropcs ball rolls :(

Tried adb from the built in recovery, but it's useless... Also tried MtkDroidTools and SP FlashTool to create scatter files, but with no success. My own fault, but I'm aiming for another fierce xl, not giving up yet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexx421:
Has anybody found a working xposed? Trying to hide root for an app
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
I do believe, after my experience (softbricked twice) that any tampering with system files (which xposed does) will be risky. I will NOT try exposed before the bootloader is unlocked and we have a working custom recovery.

If you're prepared to risk a soft brick, you could try the 3c Toolbox built in one. I haven't tried it on this phone, so I really don't know what I'm talking about regarding xposed yet. But I did tamper with system files (permissions and layers) and both times I softbricked.

I also wonder if anyone tried to grab the scatter file from this phone? I tried both MtkDroidTools and SP Flash Tool, with no success?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] psycho_deth6:
Don't try to manually install XPOSED. Point blank. I hard bricked my last phone doing that. When we get a recovery, we should make a flashable stock ROM just in case we mess up
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nyttliv7:
+ 1

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Don't know, but here's a more complete list of the "inside" than I could find anywhere else, not even with MtkDroidTools or SP Flash Tool... Maybe helpful for some...

http://www.androiddevice.info/submission/30498/show
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Vexx421:
Was that for latest xposed rev 79? Apparently a lot of people had brick problems with the 78 rev.