[Android General] FijiWaterDrinker:
Yea I won't, lol.

Yea that's what I determined when I was looking for what my device is initially, TCL owns the Alcatel name. So it's really TCL who makes the devices but they use the Alcatel brand name for selling them.

It has fasboot but they hid it? What do you mean by hid? How can they hide it, and why would they? Why do manufacturers not want you to be the administrator of your own device that you own anyway? Imagine if you bought a new computer and microsoft or apple says oh by the way you don't and can't have administrator / root access on your computer, only we have that. And if you try to uninstall windows/macos and install linux your computer will be bricked... LOL WTF? I look at it like this, if I don't have root on my own device that I own and paid for, then somebody ELSE does that isn't me... So who really owns the device then? Not me, somebody else the person who has root on 'my' device is the true owner of it! (Even if that's just a system app, and not an actual person or company). I need to be the highest privileged person on my phone , NOT SOMEBODY ELSE!

user@Linux:~$ su
Password:
root@Linux:/home/user# ifconfig wlan0
wlan0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 10.0.0.122 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 10.0.0.255
inet6 XXXX::XXXX:XXX:XXXX:XXXX prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 4889 bytes 3115149 (2.9 MiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 4993 bytes 699954 (683.5 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0

root@Linux:/home/user# ifconfig wlan0 up hw ether 11:22:33:44:55:66

How can I do that on android (yea you have to add 'busybox' before ifconfig I know) and without root? Well you can't use busybox without root so maybe modifying a file or something that you still have access to without root?

Ok, well I have tried it a few times already, but on separate occasions (thinking they might have updated their root method and might work now, etc. And also updating the app itself even though it seems to pull the root method from its servers, still an updated version might have better luck)

I'll try it a few times in a row though with the latest version of Kingroot just to be sure :)

Oh and chainfire has a guide for that? What is that in relation to? How to keep trying Kingroot until it works or did you mean changing the mac address without root? :D (I'm pretty sure it's not the first one since chainfire has his own CF-autoroot which actually is what worked on my main device :))

Well they're liars then when they say they have a root strategy if they really don't... I can't get more people to request!! lol The people just have to be out there with the same device and they have to request on their own free will! lol

Yeah I thought of it when I lost my good device and went out a purchased this one as a quick get back in business despite it being much less cost and at this point even unrootable. That would've been a real bummer losing my good device and not even being able to root this no where near replacement but a temporary hold-me-over until I bought a new good one device. (lol) Fortunately though the person who found it wasn't a thief and found a way to contact me and let me come and pick it up! So now I have two devices, one good one with root, and this acceptable quality throwaway without root.

Yea I'm going to get to work on that app though with my rooted one, and see how many of those features I thought of that I can actually implement. If I release it public though, I'll have to make my private version a bit different so there isn't a way to easily bypass it... Probably by making it stored and hidden in a custom location, and changing the CRC of the binary so they can't just do a binary search and remove it either. They'd have to actually dig deep into it and find it to remove it, and by that time I should've already had the location and beacons and any other useful data sent out!

No it was a best buy store... no scratch that actually I'm pretty sure it was walmart... yea walmart, and the selection was very limited and decided to just chance it with one of them which happened to be this one called the Pixi4 lol... I had gone in there with a particular model in mind that my brother had which is able to be bootloader unlocked, recovery flashed/booted and superSU dropped (because I already did it to his device lol) But it was a last years model and they didn't stock it anymore, so I had to just take my chances with one they had, there was only like 2 or 3 to choose from and they were all pretty similar (all alcatel)...

Well I'm confident we will figure out a way to root this device, and what's stopping us from modifying the system partition in marshmallow anyway? LETS NOP THAT ****T :D

CheckSystemSignature:
call CalculateSignature
cmp [ValidSignature],eax
jne BootLoopEmBecauseWereAssholes
jmp BootProperly

NOP THAT JNE to bootloop!!!

Well it's probably not that simple, but there's gotta be somewhere in the code somewhat like that!