yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] TimSykes:
I don't know, the rep I talked to read me the sipping report from her PC. Maybe they are getting a few shipments in before they release it. But its just odd the first date I was given was the 3rd. We will just have to see.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] iservealot:
Ok here is an update. I called back and spoke with this really awesome rep.

She checked her system, and at first glance her system showed that the phone would not be released until "mid-late sept". Then she checked her warehouse inventory, and it showed they are in fact gonna receive the phones on Sept 3rd.

She was then sort of confused and figured that they might be getting the phones early, but not actually start selling them until a later date.

I for one am very excited for sept 3rd because after continuing to talk to her, they will be sending me a free 8925 (tilt) with free shipping and taxes waived. I have been having multipul problems with my phone, and she got it approved to be sent out to me as soon as the warehouse gets em. :D
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] TimSykes:
Wow that is nice. And its great to get confirmation on what I was told.
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] DeniaL:
Ok wow, I officially hate you!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mikeeey:
wow, what did you have to say to convince them of that? how much did your current phone cost? was it much less than the kaiser and they still will give you the kaiser completely free?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] mr_nonshalant:
getting mine on sept. 3rd

yeah, i too am getting my 8925 free with no shipping cost sent out to me on the 3rd, or so im told. due to the fact that i have had 4, yes 4 8525s sent to me becfuase everytime i dl i cooked rom it shuts out my internet and cingular cant fix it, and im to lazy, they just kept sending me some. well i finally went trough about 10 differtent people and said i want the 8925 when it came in after turning down about 150 $ in credit they agreed. after they told me they would be getting them on the 3rd. yay me
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] iservealot:
I have also had about 4 8525's. They have also credited my account hundreds of dollars already because of issues with the phone, and my account in general.

hopefully this 8925 will solve all my issues!
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] sharmahw:
getting my 8925 free

Friends, I have the same situation..exchanged 8525 3 times already due to bad quality, lock-ups while charging etc. etc. I called AT&T Customer Service and after many transfers to all places including data exchange department, I was told people who are posting that they'll get 8925 is NOT accurate. I am NOT trying to imply here anything at all except expressing my frustration with 8525 and AT&T. Those who succeeded..did you call any specifc tel no. spoke to any particular department? any pointers will be appreciated. The people I spoke to including their supervisors had NO clue about AT&T Tilt/8925 ..frusrtated user...
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] over2land:
I called today. First time, no record of that unit in the computer. Second time, same thing, but at least they had heard about it. Third time... third person...no dice... didn't hear about the phone, don't know when its due in, no way to check the record of what may or may be in a warehouse.

Went down to the store, following a post made in the hermes forum. Talked to the manager. Manager was a phone geek. Knew about the phone, liked the fact that I had the kaiser home plug in on my 8525. But, he couldn't confirm or deny when the phone was going to be in, as he said it simply wasn't in his system yet. I told him some of the things that have been posted here "my friend said they are on a list for shipping when it comes out" yadda yadda yadda.

End result, some total of 3 hours later, nothing.

So, as sharmahw above said "Got any pointers or anything"?
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] dwella:
We will now know in less than a week......one way or the other

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[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] rsolomon:
LOL!!!! 8525 release anyone? Heck, 8125 release anyone?

(Both phones went through this same multi-month experience of "It's gonna ship on MMMM, DD!!! - I heard it from the CEO/President/Brother-In-Law/etc")

I'd love to be wrong, but I'm not holding my breath for any sort of confirmation!

Richard
[Tilt, TyTN II, MDA Vario III General] vpoet:
I talked with 2 reps today, both in-store. One, from Cornelius, NC, said to check phonescoop.com. Yeah, I thought the same thing as you upon hearing that.

The second rep, from Charlotte, NC, knew of the phone, and was pretty much just repeating that she'd heard the 3rd of September, but only from websites, and not from anyone within the company.

Kind of funny, but, eh, wouldn't the reps be demoed the phones no shorter than a week before they hit market? Some regions may be demoing them, but the NC stores have no clue.
[LG V10 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cpurick:
Trying to use Light Flow to manage repeating notification sounds for text messages and missed calls. Also for voicemail received. But I'm not having any luck getting it to detect the notifications. Any ideas?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
UPDATE:

Hey guys,

One of our Romanian fellows has found an article with a much easier ROOTing method, in case you're wondering: http://www.androidvillaz.com/2015/11/how-to-root-gionee-m5-and-install-twrp-recovery.html

This one should be pretty easy and straight forward. ( thanks ovi_jer! )

The BACKUP part of the tutorial is stil valid and can be used to fully backup your STOCK ROM before you start rooting your device.

Best of luck!

Backup

Before doing anything, I strongly recommend that you perform a full backup in case something goes wrong along the way and you manage to brick your phone (I've bricked mine several times until I found the right method).

Once your drivers are installed you'll need to connect your phone to your PC

Drag down the notification bar and click on the "Connected as a media device" notification

Make sure "USB debugging is on"

Open "SP_Flash_Tool_exe_Windows_v5.1528.00.000\flash_tool.exe"

Click on the "Download" tab

Click on the "Scatter-loading" button on the top-right

Select the "Allview_P8_Energy_0102_V6063_STOCK_scatter.txt" scatter file from the "ROM_Allview_P8_Energy_0102_V6063" folder that was created when you've unzipped the kit

Now click on the "Readback" tab

Click the "Add" button on the top-left

Once the new entry is added in the list below, double-click it and a file dialog will open

Now give your ROM BACKUP a name (you will need this later on in case you want to perform an emergency recovery)

Select the folder where you wish to place your new backup and click Save

A new popup will open allowing us to set the readback block start address - make sure Type: Hex is selected

Make sure start address is 0x0000000000000000

In the Length box, put this: 0x00000000d7800000

Click on OK

And now, to begin the readback (backup) procedure, you'll need to click on the Read Back button (top-center)

Now reboot your phone (long-press the Lock button on your phone until the Power Off/Reboot dialog appears and select REBOOT)

Once the phone reboots the SPF app should start saving the phone memory to file, and your backup is created

Once you see a green success message, you can safely turn your phone back on (unplug USB and long press the Lock button until the screen turns on)

Good luck!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] criszz:
downloading :)), finger crossed :)), thank you

next thing to try is xposed :))

step 1 : flashed, no errors

step 2 : booting , optimising app ; probably did not format my old data partition ?
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
Glad to hear it. I might have noticed some issues with the network settings (for some reason my 2G network doesn't seem to work but it might be because I've overwritten something with the Gionee versions and forgot to restore it from the Allview version) - I'll investigate this further and come up with a solution.

Cheers!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] criszz:
step 3 : launcher stopped first second after boot, looping

step 4 : restart to recovery, here surpiseeeee : stock recovery, i flashed with twrp one :))

step 5 : i will flash again, if factory reset not solve it

step 6 : fixed with factory reset , next step is to flash twrp

i don't have any problems with sim or network signals, except my imei are reversed, imei 1 are in imei 2 slot :))), checked with *#06#

edit 7, tried to flash twrp again, same thing , stock recovery are present :)), flashed both file, flashed my twrp file, the same stock is always present :)))

NOW WORKING !! FULL ROM, ROOT &TWRP
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] mathy007:
Do you think allview firmare will work on M5? Am asking so that people will not go and end up with bricked phones
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] criszz:
YES, i came from your rom who worked on mine, now working allview rom , rooted
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] glbsolutions:
I flashed with the TWRP scatter and TWRP wasn't installed just stock recovery. So did you flash the TWRP recovery manually?

EDIT - To say I manully flashed the TWRP recovery and worked fine
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
Spare parts for Energy P8 :)

As a quick update: I've hard-bricked mine :eek: . I then went for the battery (to do a hard reset) then while putting the screws back, I've accidentally put a longer screw in the wrong place and pierced my screen :silly:

So now I have spare parts for the Allview Energy P8 :cowboy: But nevertheless, it's still an awesome phone and I've already placed an order for another one.

Can't wait to get my new Energy P8 :crying: :eek:

Cheers!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] criszz:
Damn, sorry to hear that :((((((((((((((((((((((((((((
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
Oh well, that happens. It's funny that it had nothing to do with the rooting itself :)) It was just me playing around... Anyway, I've decided to cancel my order and just call Allview - maybe they can change just the case & screen, which should be cheaper than getting a new one :D fingers crossed.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
I'll post the questions I receive in private just in case there are other people who could use the answer.

The files that I've used to root it are all present in the Preparation section: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B4y-lCr0oBtjcV9WcDJEb2hkcFE/view?pli=1

WARNING: I have not tested this for the Gionee Marathon M5 (only for Allview Energy P8 which is a rebranded version of the M5).

I recommend that you follow all the steps: Preparation, Backup, Flashing TWRP/STOCK (this is the part where it replaces your ROM with a rootable one) and then the activation of Root.

I believe you got stuck at the Flashing part. The trick I did was to use my STOCK ROM files but I've replaced the recovery.img file with the TWRP recovery (which also has rooting ability).

Simply get a copy of your ROM (see this post for links - don't forget to give thanks! - http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63816091&postcount=68 )

Replace the recovery.img file in your Gionee Stock ROM with the recovery_twrp.img you find in the Allview ZIP (ROM_Allview_P8_Energy_0102_V6063/recovery_twrp.img)

Make sure ONLY recovery and system are checked!

Don't forget to wipe the cache and user data - maybe [MENTION=1163516]criszz[/MENTION] has a few tips here?

You should now have your stock ROM with TWRP recovery installed. Once you have that, simply follow the steps in the ROOT section above and you should be fine.

Cheers!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] criszz:
My phone is Allview branded but before to put this rom was with gionee stock rom. I flashed allview rom and with allview scater i put twrp, with whole rom, not just twrp. Flashed 3 times before twrp to work ))

Sent from my P8_Energy_M5_Marathon
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
I think mine worked on the first run because I did an OEM Unlock before starting :)

WARNING: Performing an OEM Unlock will prevent your phone from booting, so make sure you have everything ready for flashing before doing that!

To perform the OEM Unlock you'll need to:

Enable OEM unlock from Developer options

Connect your phone to your pc via USB

run: adb reboot bootloader

then to unlock run: fastboot oem unlock

Cheers!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] criszz:
don't do that like me, after putting the rom, you will have bootlop and twrp bakup doesn't help. Now i'm flasing again with bootloader unloked :))

hmmm, after flash im still not able to restore my data :)), maybe it must be unlocked again, are you sure you flashed with bootloader unlocked?

locked bootloader again, still not working, i will flash gionee stock rom and again after allview rom with twrp :))
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] glbsolutions:
My phone is a Chinese Gionee M5 and I've had both the stock Gionee Amigo ROM with TWRP and now the Allview ROM with TWRP running on it

---------- Post added at 11:22 AM ---------- Previous post was at 11:19 AM ----------

[MENTION=1163516]criszz[/MENTION] I flashed all files from the Allview ROM, rebooted and went into the ROM to check it was working, I then rebooted into recovery but it was stock recovery. I then just flashed the TWRP recovery (by choosing same scatter file but only ticking recovery). I then booted into recovery and TWRP was there
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] criszz:
after some work i concluded : is not worth to unlock bootloader, so stay away of that.

Finnaly i restore my twrp bakup back right now.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] glbsolutions:
For anyone who has 'Invalid IMEI' after flashing (as I did). Here's how I solved:

1. Download 'MTK Engineering Mode' from the playstore

2. Open app and select 'MTK Settings', scroll to 'Connectivity' tab then select 'CDS Information'

3. Select 'Radio Information' then SIM 1

4. Type AT +EGMR=1,7,"INSERT YOUR IMEI HERE", then Send AT Command

5. Select 'Radio Information' then SIM 2

6. Type AT +EGMR=1,10,"INSERT YOUR IMEI HERE", then Send AT Command

7. reboot and all was OK
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] adamyd:
<MOD EDIT - QUOTE REMOVED>

Hi tipuban, thank you sooooooooooo muuuuuuuuuuch for this tuto. I have a question for you if you may. But first a little notification to help you (You will need to download the Allview_P8_Energy_0102_V6063.zip file and unpack it somewhere you can access the contents.) i tried to download but the link don't work for me :). Before asking my question, i want to tell you that i have a gionee marathon m5 with androide 5.1 but with the memory leak issue problem, that's why i posted a thread here to ask help to dowgrade to kitkat. Now my question for you is : if i follow your tuto flash the TWRP, root my phone with the stock Rom gave, will this androide problem disappear or it still gonna be present? Thanks :D
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
Hi adamyd,

Unfortunately it seems that somebody reported the file and Google has taken it down, which means that either Allview or Gionee do not want the software online for public access. Makes you wonder why wouldn't they want that tho... I feel this issue requires a bit of paranoia here so I'll investigate this as soon as I'll have some free time. Could it be collecting personal data? Usage patterns? Just wondering...

Aaanyhow, until some official from Allview or Gionee gives us green light to post their ROM online, we will have to do this manually.

Regarding the memory leak, I'm not aware if the Gionee ROM or the Allview ROM have this issue fixed - haven't had any problems with it so far.

Now, if you still want to root your phone the manual way, here is a suggestion of how it could be done (that's how I did it):

First, you will need to follow the steps mentioned in the Backup section of the tutorial and then generate your own ROM, which means you'll have to:

Download the SPFT application from the web (try searching XDA or simply use Google).

Get the scatter file for the Gionee Marathon M5 device ( try googling for "MT6735_Android_scatter.txt" ).

Follow the rest of the backup procedure described in the tutorial.

Dice the backup file (resulted from the BACKUP operation) into actual partition images, replace the recovery image file with the TWRP_recovery one and finally flash the entire MODIFIED ROM to your phone's memory.

Let me know if you choose to go the manual route, and I'll post a tutorial on how to accomplish #4 in the list above.

Cheers!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] adamyd:
Hi tipuban. Thanks for the quick answer. Of course i'm interested in rooting my phone manually so it would be awesome if you do that tutorial on the 4th step. Thanks so much for your time ??
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
New and improved ROOT method

Hey guys,

One of our Romanian fellows has found an article with a much easier ROOTing method, in case you're wondering: http://www.androidvillaz.com/2015/11/how-to-root-gionee-m5-and-install-twrp-recovery.html

This one should be pretty easy and straight forward.

Best of luck!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dim4x4:
Method from here http://www.androidvillaz.com/ does not work. It boots into stock :(
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] dim4x4:
I have a brick! Please help!!! That is somebody else's phone!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] vali.cheche:
Friendly warning (applies for majority of MTK devices) !!!

I see everybody advises to "reflash everything" in SP. :rolleyes:

From the experience I had with MTK phones in the last 3 years, I urge everyone to NOT FLASH THE PRELOADER PARTITION.

This partition is the preloader that exposes the vcom interface just before boot, the one SP works with.

This is the portion of code that makes MTK so cool, allowing you so easily to recover a bricked phone, flash custom recoveries at ease, make bit level ROM backups etc.

If this portion gets damaged, THEN you have a real MTK brick on your hand, with no real possibility to bring it back but take it to the manufacturer.

Afaik, the official warranty providers also use this, they have no other flashing method available. If this is not working, they will change the board and RMA the brick. Sidenote: This, IF they handle reflashing, I've seen service ppl billing clients for a new mobo, when all that was needed was just a reflash with the good official image.

This partition contains no ROM specific info (afaik) and can be kept unchanged across all ROMs.

I flashed it myself numerous times and nothing happened, but it is not worth the risk.

One time for me the data in that partition was damaged due to a bad ROM image and that phone never got resurrected again.

Just uncheck the box for the PRELOADER partition before flashing (also always use a confirmed, sane, scatter file, btw) and you should be safe with most MTK smartphones (meaning worst case scenario will be a soft-brick, recoverable via SP with a stock image).

Direct preloader corruption due to flashing is maybe the number one reason for Mediatek hard-bricks, in my experience.

You've been warned.

Flash smart, flash safely. ;)

Cheers.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] tipuban:
Hi Vali!

Totally agree with you. I didn't know any better when I wrote the first post. I've tried to edit out the "flash all" parts off of my posts but unfortunately there are a few quotes where those instructions still appear in, so I'll probably have to delete the entire topic.

FYI, in case people are wondering, I'm working on porting Cyanogenmod to Allview P8 Energy (and the Gionee Marathon M5), so if anybody has any experience in porting devices or already has a device tree that's similar enough (mine is currently based on the Elephone P8000 device tree) then feel free to PM me and we'll open a new topic on this.

Cheers!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] jmecheruss:
help

Hi guys, does anyone have radio img file from this rom? I have ben searching but no succes till now!:(

Multumesc, Thanks:)
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] Lakunle1love:
Allview P8 Energy mini firmware

Please i need the stock firmware of this phone
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] panda822:
Hi

I don't find any twrp for my phone Allview P7 Pro but I see twrp for Allview X2 Soul Xtreme (x2xtreme).

Someone told me that it will work any All view twrp because its the same functionality. Is it true? Is it safe to install this twrp for Allview X2 Soul Xtreme (x2xtreme) on my phone Allview P7 Pro?

Thanks!
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] AstroLaur:
Need files and instructions

Please help me root my phone by uploading the files and instructions. All links from this topic, this one and others are old and became broken.

Thank you very much.
[Android Software/Hacking General [Developers Only]] AstroLaur:
Nvm, I found on softpedia the way.

install Kingroot;

install Super-Sume Pro (witch remove kr and install SuperSU);

uninstall Super-Sume Pro (and his bonus prep);

install SuperSU again manually (because Super-Sume Pro took him with it in the void);

:)
[LG V10 General] justice26:
I don't know if it's posted but if not this video helped me connect both my gear watches to my phone.

https://youtu.be/VrXwHh7EVnI
[LG V10 General] Zugshad:
Yeah thanks I'm sure some might use. However the downfall for this with the gear s Is you are severely limited. At this point why own the gear s? You might be better off getting the gear s2 at this point. That or just get another cheaper smart watch that doesn't have 3g s2 capabilities.

There is a forum on the gear s part that they have been able to get it dang near fully functional but I and a few others haven't gotten it to work on the v10. It sucks as I prefer the gear s but if I can't get it fully functional with the v10 I might just try out the s2

Sent from my non-Mega loved v10 H901.
[LG V10 General] jwmcfadden1:
Can't get my Gear 2 neo to connect... I think the gear manager app on the play store only woks with gear s versions
[LG V10 General] KOLIOSIS:
I did just this,switched from the Gear S to the Gear S2.

As you,I actually liked the Gear S,but,I'm glad I made the switch,works well w/the V10.

My preference is the square/rectangle form factor,but,the S2 has quickly grown on me.They finally got the watchband right,flows right in w/the body of the watch & the clasp isn't clunky when doing desktop work.

I still have the Gear2,which is still my favorite watch by far & holding out hope that someone can get it to work w/Marshmallow.
[LG V10 General] justice26:
Do u have the link if the forum that they are working on.
[LG V10 General] KOLIOSIS:
Here's a couple threads on the topic,sounds like some progress may have been made for Lollipop devices since I last gave it a shot:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2723862

Last post from above thread:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63363023&postcount=822

Link to new(ish) tutorial for GearS on non-Samsung devices (& other Gear devices Pre-GearS2,YMMV,I haven't tried this out myself):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=63248411&postcount=451

Again,these are for the Gear2 & GearS,mods are NOT necessary for non-Samsung devices with the new GearS2.
[LG V10 General] justice26:
Thank u
[LG V10 General] justice26:
http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2934307
[LG V10 General] justice26:
I got it to work with my gear 1. Gear manage, pictures, everything just like if I had a samsung phone. Cannot get it to pair with my neo 2 though.
[LG V10 General] toastido:
Is your gear 1 on tizen?
[LG V10 General] justice26:
No I believe it's jelly bean

v700xxubna6 firmware
[LG V10 General] toastido:
Damn.. Ok. I was hoping you got it to work with nf1 or oa2. I can't stand the black background and not being able to install watch faces.