yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
Recommended before flashing make a back up of imei with mobile uncle tools

http://mobileuncletools.com/download.html

Open the app go to imei backup/Restore then backup imei to SD card 1 it will save it to your internal storage as imei.back and go to your file explorer and make a copy to the external SD card in case anything goes wrong you can still restore your imei.

If after first boot imei you don't have imei install the app do same process and do restore imei from SD card
[Device Reviews and Information] andrewstas:
Can anybody help me?

Just let me know what is the proper way to root my device without losing/erasing anything.

Cheers
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Does anyone who has tasted this tried, the camera?

I'll be trying this tonight and posting feedback tomorrow, probably.

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There is no way to root this particular phone to my knowledge without wiping the phone in the process.

I suggest you backup your internal storage, link all your contacts to a Google account, and root your phone.
[Device Reviews and Information] andrewstas:
Oh really? Damn, I had no idea and I did not expect that!

It is very inconvenient to wipe everything and start all over :(

Thank you for your feedback.
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Rom works really well. Finally have 7.0 Nougat on our little Blu. Some bugs i found tho, if you turn on the option in the camera setting to allow the power button to snap a picture, the app crashes and you would need to clear the camera's app data to get it working.

Xposed works on nougat now so thats a plus.
[Device Reviews and Information] andrewstas:
well, if I go ahead and wipe everything in order to root my BLOX, then what is the easier and with the least problems method to do it?

On the other hand if anyone knows how to root without erasing everything, then I am all ears. :)
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Go to 2nd post on this forum.
[Device Reviews and Information] andrewstas:
Thank you.

However, this post is a bit old, this is why I am hesitant. Is this one of the best approaches for rooting this phone?
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Yup nothing's changed for the past 2 years
[Device Reviews and Information] andrewstas:
Can you please explain me what the last 2 sentences mean at the second post =>

Engineering Mode

Note: If I were you I would not change anything unless you absolutely know what you are doing!

I cannot seem to get the phone codes to work. You can install the MTK Engineering Mode app from the Google Play Store.

The rest instructions I understand as long as there will not be any unexpected problem or step not described there in.
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
More BLOX Development

Hello everyone here sharing some xda threads that will help our device and all clones/variants thanks to asfand2k16 and emogangstaafan for starting to support our device.

This thread is of the Micromax Canvas 5 general discussion again any custom ROMs created for this device using kernel 3.10.65 Lollipop will be compatible with our device.

https://xdaforums.com/android/development/guide-qmobile-z10-clones-lollipop-t3689114

This thread is all clones/variants if anybody want to help/contribute are welcome to do so just post or contact the proper dev.

xdaforums.com/android/development/guide-qmobile-z10-clones-lollipop

Hope this is helpful.

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Apologies this is the link for the Micromax Canvas 5 general discussion

https://xdaforums.com/t/micromax-canvas-5
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Its fine, you can ignore that. You won't be getting into Engineering Mode during the rooting process.
[Device Reviews and Information] andrewstas:
Ok thank you.

Well, fingers-crossed I hope it works. If I encounter any problems I will let you know. Most probably I will do the rooting procedure on the next month.
[Device Reviews and Information] Awanonimik:
Anyone else having problems with custom ROMs from any of the clones not registering SIM cards, or did I do something to my system files?

EDIT:

I've only tried ROMs for the Micromax Canvas 5 so far, trying one for the Elephone P8000 now. If that doesn't work I'm gonna try something Marshmallow instead of Nougat.
[Device Reviews and Information] Awanonimik:
I appear to have bricked my phone, if I try to boot it it just bootloops on the "BLU, BOLD LIKE US" screen. This happened after installing a version of LineageOS 14.1.0 for the P8000.

I can boot to bootloader, but selecting any option inside it just shuts the phone down again. Any help would be appreciated.
[Device Reviews and Information] Awanonimik:
Damn, no responses. I fixed my phone, randomly managed to boot into recovery, however, the SIM cards are still not registering. Don't want to risk flashing another P8000 ROM, as I'm not sure what caused the problem with the bootlooping. Could just have been that I didn't wipe dalvik before flashing.

Maybe flashing opengapps will fix it? Also, will downgrading to stock Marshmallow be alright, since I'm running Nougat right now? I might try doing that and then reflashing my current ROM if all else fails.

Thanks for the nonexistant replies,

Awanonimik.
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
Are you flashing roms based on lollipop or marshmallow keenel?
[Device Reviews and Information] Awanonimik:
See this post for more details. All the ROMs I've flashed are based off Nougat.
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
Follow this link and download the blu life one x 2016 file is a patch for the sim card.

https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/0B5O_pmzCrGHfWUlFYUNhZVo3WGs?usp=sharing

Go to TWRP

wipe

System

Data

Cache

Dalvick cache

Flash

Rom

Gapps

Blox sim patch

Reboot

Your sim card should be detected

This is for Micromax Canvas 5 Nougat Roms based on Kernel 3.10.65
[Device Reviews and Information] Awanonimik:
If this works I'll be incredibly grateful, but are GApps necessary? I couldn't get them to work when flashing OpenGApps with Aroma, I know I had the right device OS stuff. I also prefer not to have it on my device.
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
Gapps not necessary just flash rom and sim patch it should work

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To make it clear sim patch not my work thanks/credit to Pakrett-bm at Micromax Canvas 5 xda thread for supporting our device.
[Device Reviews and Information] Awanonimik:
Okay, thanks. Trying it now.

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Didn't work, SIM card still not being detected. Gonna try again.
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
Are you flashing from stock lollipop or marshmallow? Just verifying
[Device Reviews and Information] Awanonimik:
My backup is broken, or I'm doing something wrong, so I was just wiping what you said, after booting recovery from the Nougat ROM I'm using (Resurrection Remix), and then doing what you said.

I actually did manage to get it working, not sure how. I did your instructions and then restored part of my backup, namely the Tee, NVRam, and NVData.

Thanks for your help, I'm pretty sure that kernel fixed most of it.

- Awanonimik
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
How did it go with the camera? Did it work for you? Nothing I have tried has ever gotten the back camera to work with any app other than the stock one and it really isn't a very good camera. I don't use front cameras so I can't say anything about that.
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
I think I'm completely stuck.

My PC won't communicate with the microSD card which it says it can't write to without formatting it. So I can't copy SU to the phone. So I tried flashing it via adb. Then when I rebooted, superuser was there so obviously I guess it had worked. But something isn't right with those instructions. I have another one to do and I don't want to get stuck on this inability to copy over SU again.

I have to ask, is there some more specifically updated way to root this phone because I sincerely believe the steps as laid out in the first post do NOT work as written.
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
What version of Android is Ur Blu running? Lollipop or Marshmallow? The instructions on the first post have worked for 2 years now for nearly everyone.

Ur SDCARD try formatting it with Partition Master or inside another phone with Android marshmallow. If that doesn't work then it probably got corrupted and write-protected. So U can only read data off it. Just throw it in a bin somewhere if it is.
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
The Android was on MM. I had enough and went back to Lollipop. I HAD once rooted it but for some reason THIS time the SD card impeded me from over copying the superuser or the recovery to it during the whole process. That's when I first noticed something wrong. I'm thinking now it could be related to having formatted the SD in MM to be an expansion of the onboard memory.

I'll try the formatting things you said. Thank you!! I've been so lost.
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
Partition Master didn't help but formatting it in another MM phone did. I just popped the sd card in my wife's phone (that I will also flash with lollipop and it formatted properly and then worked fine in my phone. So weird, but understandable. Thanks for the idea!!

By the way, if people have been doing it the way of the instructions for 2 years and not having problems, there wouldn't be instructions later in the thread about holding down volume up, down, and power to boot into the newly flashed recovery, there wouldn't be the problem of Android recovery booting instead and that you can't flash SU from there. It's just not as simple as following those instructions. It needs editing and updating for precision.
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Yeah you have a point but glad to hear the SDCARD is working.
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
I seem to have a problem I'd never noticed before, though. Every time I install a new app and interact with it for the first time, it causes a reboot. Just had it happen with xposed. Every heard of that?
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Nope, might be a problem with Ur rom firmware itself. Wipe your cache in the recovery. If that doesn't work, U may have to reflash the firmware or another rom.

I'm using the CrDroid Nougat rom, runs extremely smoothly.
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
But I'm using the stock firmware. Like the basic default stock firmware that the phone came with. I guess I could try wiping cache in recovery, that's usually a good fixer.

On a slightly separate note, my wife's phone won't let me connect via usb cable. Just doesn't do anything but charge. And obviously the sdcard can't be read by Windows. It also was formatted by MM to be an extension of the system memory. I was going to just copy the photos to my cloud storage but do you think that means the usb port is damaged? Because if that's the case, I don't know how I'm gonna flash the stock firmware to go back to Lollipop again.

Update: This port isn't responding. Is it possible in any way to go through the root process without using the USB port?
[Device Reviews and Information] joshhalterman1:
Updated root tutorial for MM?

Is there anything different with the root process since the original tutorial? Having trouble finding a anything in this 130 pg thread. If someone could just repost a previous comment or something that would be great.

BLOX 2016 running stock 6.0 update. Last time I rooted anything was my HTC M7 in 2015 so please excuse my ignorance, lol.

Thanks!

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Nvm, looks like nothing changed in the past two years. Found some recent posts.

Are there any recent issues I should be aware of? Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
Read this post... https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70443790&postcount=1086
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
I'm trying this on a second phone, can you or anyone else help me understand why something keeps happening to me? I get through the first step, but then when I go to reboot the phone I get stuck in a bootloop where TWRP throws up a bunch of errors of things in red that I can't read in time and then it just loops this over and over. Can someone take a guess at why this might be happening? Obviously I'm getting TWRP on there correctly, it's not booting to the 3e recovery, but what the heck is wrong??
[Device Reviews and Information] Froid:
I wish I had a good answer for you, but I haven't used the phone in a very long time. This definitely would happen to me too. In order to get it to stick with TWRP, I believe I would continuously hit the power button as soon as I saw TWRP splash screen. It was hit or miss, but eventually, it would stick. I would then format data and it wouldn't happen again. I have to be honest, this phone is a bit of a nightmare. I ended up grabbing a Xiaomi Redmi 4X for my daughter and haven't looked back.
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
It's funny though, because back when you helped me last year, it didn't happen to me once. Only since I started doing the thing you told me about rebooting with power up and down held that TWRP seems to have this issue. Is another recovery any different, did you ever try?
[Device Reviews and Information] Froid:
I didn't ever try another recovery. There may be a CWM recovery available, but not 100% sure. Maybe I did use a button combo to get TWRP to stick, but it's been so long, I don't remember.
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
Ok... I think I've got it. I mean, I got it to work, but I think I got what the problem was. It's using the instructions on the first page but incorporating the button combo you mentioned. I think I'll post it here just in case. You never know, could come in handy. Thanks again for replying, anyway!
[Device Reviews and Information] kirbur:
Hello. For the last several days I have been trying to root my Blu Life One X following instructions given in the PDF file (Blu_One_Life_X_TWRP_M_by_Jorensanbar.pdf) link to which was given in this topic. Unfortunately, I was not able to do it. Everything goes well until I get to the stage where TWRP is supposed to load, but for some reason it does not load. I read every single post of this topic and tried different things (including instructions from this post - https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70443790&postcount=1086), with no success. I am still not able to load TWRP. I also tried CWM, with the same result.

Not sure if this is important or not, but after I perform command "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" the following message appears:

target reported max download size of 134217728 bytes

sending 'recovery' (11912 KB)...

OKAY [ 0.957s]

writing 'recovery'...

OKAY [ 0.349s]

finished. total time: 1.312s

Thank you very much for your help!
[Device Reviews and Information] kirbur:
Many thanks for so detailed instructions, tinpanalley! I carefully followed them. On step 14 of Install Custom Recovery the same thing happened again. The phone did not get into screen that asks "if you want recovery press volume up". Instead, it booted into white screen with Blu logo and tiny letters in the middle "Meta mode". I waited for 10 minutes, and since nothing happened I powered it off and back on. It booted into regular screen.

Seems like I should forget about the idea to root my phone :(
[Device Reviews and Information] kirbur:
If anyone has any other advises, I would very much appreciate it.
[Device Reviews and Information] lopestom:
FOR WHAT ROM, Lollipop or Marshmallow?? You have correctly custom RECOVERY version??

CWM is to lollipop!

You don't followed the instructions!

First confirm if your device has bootloader UNLOCKED.

If yes so, the device made a erase/reset data? You made a wipes?

If yes so, after flashing TWRP you can press POWER and VOLUME UP together to appear TWRP logo. So your decision of TWRP modifications... bla bla bla
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
Listen, the only other thing I would tell you is to start fresh by refusing the stock ROM to your phone. So a factory flash of the stock ROM. Then you'd know for sure nothing else is in the way of being able to follow instructions.
[Device Reviews and Information] kirbur:
Thank you. I will probably try this a little bit later.
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
Hey all

From what I hear... This Blu is a clone of the wiko fever right?

Good news then... A little bird told me, this device will soon be mad.ify :p

And join our others MTK's with O 8.1.0

Could you guys tell me if you can run wiko's stock ROMs without issues?

(Just to see if there aren't any major HW differences )

Cheers
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
This device is a direct clone of the Micromax Canvas 5 there is a wiko fever marshmallow stock ROM that has been modified so everything works with the BLU because there are HW differences, sensors and LTE bands
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
Yeah LTE is expected , that's normal

US & EU bands need different modems, that's no bother (just a modem change required)

What exactly do you mean by sensors?

Did you rebuilt your BLU kernel to work with wiko's MM ROM or do you mean just some binaries changes?

Cheers
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
It is not my work there are developers of the micromax that took the blu kernel and modified it so all sensors worked because some sensors were different like auto rotate compass where not working only proximity sensor worked
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
Umm OK I see

Well we'll need to bring up a custom kernel like we always do to support Oreo..

Should be no bother then to incorporate all sensors on kernel side

Thanks for the help

Cheers
[Device Reviews and Information] gilby2704:
I posted a guide on how to make LTE work on lollipop custom ROMs any custom ROM made for the micromax that uses kernel 3.10.65 lollipop everything would work sensors and LTE
[Device Reviews and Information] tinpanalley:
Just as long as it doesn't make the camera malfunction like the official MM ROM did.
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
First O-8.1.0 builds

everything seems fine so far :)

still needs polishing in some stuff & tests

Just to let you know ;)
[Device Reviews and Information] mrmazak:
Well , excellent.

I picked the right day to pull my lox 2016 off of my expired phone pile.

I was no longer using this phone , but decided to charge it and see what development has taken place while I was gone.

I see I missed an OEM version update, now read that M.A.D. is working on adding this device to there build device list.

can't wait.

Thanks
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
Yeah, [MENTION=4196889]DerTeufel1980[/MENTION] is the only one that haves this device, I'm hopping to get an second hand one as well to help him out

So far seems nice, all of our mad features seems now all working ie: off screen gestures are fully working , etc

Shouldn't take long hopefully
[Device Reviews and Information] andrewstas:
compatible battery for BLU Life One X (2016)

well, just something I would like to share since it took me some time to get a replacement battery for this phone.

I bought a battery that is made for the Wiko FEVER 4G. Both phones are identical and so I did not have a problem using the other one's battery to my BLOX. the only difference is that it is 3000mAh instead of 2900mAh (not bad to have extra 100mAh) and that it is Li-Po instead of Li-ion.

You may search for such a battery by entering the keyword WKF200SL at Amazon or the keyword TLP15J15 at eBay.

Maybe there are more out there, but this is the one I found that does the trick.

Cheers
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
Android Oreo released

https://xdaforums.com/android/development/rom-official-mados-wiko-fever-clones-t3762804
[Device Reviews and Information] Jorge_007:
For the baseband, what files from a working stock rom need to be copied. Previously I used this to fix baseband "Modem-Fix-Blu-Life-One-X.zip" on other custom roms. On the oreo rom it does nothing to fix baseband. I attached the zip in case it helps with anything. In case you wanted to know, light sensor does not work; adaptive brightness. Surprisingly auto-rotate works out of the box without patching the kernel.
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
Yes, DerTeufel1980 fixed some sensors from the original kernel, accelerometer ( auto rotation) was one of them. So alsps ( auto brightness ) isn't working on blu?

Do you know what's the used sensor on Blu?

Cheers

About your modem .zip

PS: have you tried manually pushing your modem to vendor/etc?

This is Oreo, we moved accordingly everything into /vendor ( pre-oreo is under system/etc) now its on vendor/etc

Your zip, is pushing to /system/etc, so obviously won't work
[Device Reviews and Information] Jorge_007:
Do you mean /system/vendor/firmware? That's where I see the built-in modem files. I couldn't find /vendor/etc in the root directory as a folder. It was just a file called vendor. I pushed to /system/vendor/firmware and /system/vendor/etc and baseband is still unknown.

Yes, the light sensor is broken and brightness cannot be controlled unless adaptive brightness is turned off. How would I go about finding what sensor is used? I have a working stock BLU backup to pull files from. Thanks.

Also, offline charging seems broken. It will show a battery with lightning then a blue circle with battery percent, flash a few times and reboots back to offline charging and the process repeats. The screen completely shuts off and comes back on along with the charging LED.
[Device Reviews and Information] superdragonpt:
Sensors should fine on the new release now

Cheers
[Device Reviews and Information] Jorge_007:
Yes, light sensor and compass are working. Only thing left is baseband. ZRAM should be an added option under MadOS extras in performance section. This phone really needs it... 2GB RAM. It cannot run more than two apps without freezing and becoming unresponsive; DI Radio + Google Maps. Snapchat on this phone is unusable it took 5 minutes for the app to respond after taking a picture. You also have to use expanded desktop because Snapchat UI overlaps with navigation bar. It seems that the GPU cannot handle Oreo; recents screen has lag when scrolling. Amazing work by the way. I never would of imagined Oreo running on this phone. :good:
[Device Reviews and Information] Harishwarrior:
Official Support And Development For L5460 Devices

Wiko Fever 4G - France

Wiko Fever SE - France

My Phone My36 - Philippines

Q Mobile Noir 4G - Pakistan

Micromax Canvas 5 E481 - India

Blu Life One X(2016) - America

Casper Via M1 - Turkey

Telegram:

https://t.me/teammaxmtk

Facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/673560846179945/
[Device Reviews and Information] yourrealking:
Solved.
[Device Reviews and Information] elbastardo1:
If anyone is interested I have two of these devices (one black and one white) up for sale. They are in good working condition. They have TPU case and screen protector.
[Device Reviews and Information] daveburnt:
So how screwed am I if I didn't save my IMEI before nuking to TWRP and Oreo? lol
[Device Reviews and Information] Teblakuda4o4:
Not very... Go back to stock and put twrp on it. There is a twrp backup of a stock rom that was linked in the early pages of this thread. Flash that and you will get working IMEIs.
[Device Reviews and Information] daveburnt:
All good, just ended up using chamelophon after rooting MM. The obstacle was not using fastboot reboot, but powering down and jumping right into TWRP after flashing. Was so many pages to go through before finding that! lol

I'd do oreo, but it seems like there's still features broken apparently?

edit: I lied. MTK Engineering did it.