yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
well. good. but im still not getting it to connect. so onto other pc then.

but the reason i was doing this was to get to see that scatter that in makes. could you share?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I will uploaded it this evening, on road now.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
my fault. i got it working now.

i had a signed driver installed and it kept taking over not letting there driver work. I made backup and the scatter is different than what we have been using. also the hex bits of the reaadback files do not match what spft readback made.

the file that spft made was very different than what was in ota update. That is what made me look hard into an other way to get backup. I think this new method is easy and now would like to find out if this works on the 6.6

only change is the scatter it makes has

"- general: MTK_PLATFORM_CFG

info:

- config_version: V1.1.1"

and it needs to be

"- general: MTK_PLATFORM_CFG

info:

- config_version: V1.1.2
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
The guide shows it does two different backups, one with scatter file one without, I wonder if second backup method would write back over 6.6 preloader?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
Yeah, I keep Windows Defender permanently shut down and use 3rd Party Anti-Virus. Seems any sort of root exploit applications, even totally legit ones, are blacklisted. I remember the old days where Defender would strip zergrush out of every one-click software package downloaded to the PC. Either had to download to the device directly, or make sure you disabled Defender, otherwise you would USB the exploit over to the device only to have it fail......
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Oh wait. Vampirefo did you do this with your R1 replacement phone or the updated 6.6 one
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
No this was on my new phone, I sent old phone back to Amazon.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
well the testing continues. I just flashed the backup I made back to the phone with the newly found tool. (miracle). it was selected to flash the preloader but i don't know how to check if it worked or just skipped it. the flash finished with confirmation and gave a check sum verification, so i think it did.

Need to find out if the 6.6 preloader phone works with it. I'm tempted to try updating my test phone to the 6.6 so I can try it. Unless someone else is willing to try that already has it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Vanilla firmware?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Flyinace2000:
Anyone have a way to install Android Pay on this phone. I know NFC won't work, but trying to add my google wallet info to Uber for a promotion.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] theredbaron1834:
I too wish it would work, used it as a card wallet. Sadly, even if installed it won't run. tried backing up the apk from my old phone and installing it on the R1. It installed fine, then on start up it says unsupported and exits.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Jstame:
Does anyone happen to have the pre v6.6 preloader.bin? Haven't been able to locate it myself. Would be very much appreciated if someone doesn't mind sharing....
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I wouldn't recommend it, what if it doesn't work? Then what? My guess it won't work.

Had we found this app, before I exchanged phones, I would have tested it, but was found after.

Anyway if you do upgrade, it's possible if all else fails to dd or twrp preloader from any version prior to 6.6, so in theory your phone could be fixed.

Until miracle box we didn't have a useable preloader, pulling preloader from phone via any other method bloated it beyond use.

---------- Post added at 02:05 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:04 AM ----------

Is your phone rooted?

---------- Post added at 02:13 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:05 AM ----------

[MENTION=5355478]ColtonDRG[/MENTION] provides both prime and non prime ROMs.

Assuming vanilla firmware means unrooted.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Attached preloader, LK, and secro partitions.

****BE ADVISED NO CURRENT METHOD TO USE THESE ON 6.6 IF YOU DO ANYTHING YOU ARE THE TESTER AND RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR OWN PHONE***

current tester had 6.6 phone and could not connect to miricle box....... so thats one fail, but maybe it is driver related and I am not ruling out possibility of it working.

past attempt to DD the preloader gave wirte not allowed error. but that was with old saved preloader. Need to try with new saved preloader.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
just flashed preloader from miracle box backup with spft and bricked phone. Soft brick anyway. Phone would only boot to splash screen and TOOL DL fail message in all modes.(normal, fastboot, factory)

flashed again with miracle box and now phone is back..

fweew wipe sweat''!!

promising result, anyway for brick repair..

I dont like being the OP of new threads as first post anyway, but this is many posts about this topic and probably more to come.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Flash preloader with miracle, then right away jump over to SPFT and flash the stock firmware that corresponds with the preloader you flashed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Twrp will write preloader, if you want to try.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
No, I flashed all with miricle. Didn't need spft.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Miracle box is a spft, it backs up an flashes all by itself.

To bad Linux doesn't have this tool.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
might have gotten cm13 built. can't test it right now though. at work.

http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/development/experimental-cm13-r1-hd-t3462359
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
So my build script fixed your problem?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
'mka bacon' worked. I thought 'mka' and 'mka bacon' did the same thing. Thank you.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Isopropil:
So can anyone confirm Amazon is still limiting orders to one Prime Edition unit per account? I kind of want to grab some R1s for my family but I live outside the US so I can't really find out myself.

Also, do new units ship with the updated firmware?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
1 per account, phones at this time aren't updated, once current stock has sold out there is a chance they will include the update.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chudm:
you could share your prime account with your gf/wife/any other member of your family and buy another one
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
Note that some people that were using accounts that were shared and not the main account had problems with the price not being reduced when they put the phone in their basket. The solution was to put the bundle with the phone and case in the basket - then the phone price was reduced. Then, you could remove the case from the basket and the phone price would remain $60 instead of $100..

I don't know if this is still necessary, but it is what I needed to do to get the lower price when not being the primary prime account holder. Just an FYI. This is how I bought a second phone a week ago. The first one I paid a friend with Prime to buy and ship directly to me. He had a Samsung phone and wasn't interested in the Prime phones.

I converted the second one to non-Prime without ever turning it on using Colton's wonderful method and instructions
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kaykatz:
Link doesn't work (see Edit 2)

Edit 2 link doesn't work.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
You can go to Colton DRG's mirror to get the TWRP links. I'll find the URL.

https://eu.mirrors.coltondrg.com/coltondrg/r1hd/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kaykatz:
Thanks!

Thanks for the alternative link
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] newparadise16:
Preloader v6.5 or previous

Hi, my R1 HD Prime 16/2 was bricked when trying convert from original 6.1 to 6.6 using this method: http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/guide-convert-to-prime-rollback-ota-t3432499

flashing in twrp ended with errors, phone bricked, only red light from led when is connected to wall or usb port

Trying unbrick using SPFT and v6.5 firmware from rootjunky, but unsuccessfully. Want try with preloader from v.6.5 or previous, anyone please can share? :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
You can't flash that method via twrp, it's for spft, perhaps you need to read thread again.

This time try with spft and not twrp.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] newparadise16:
my bad, method used when brick my phone was http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/safe-v6-6-prime-update-via-twrp-t3459257

currently trying to unbrick in SPFT without success...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I don't know anything about that thread, I just commenting on first thread you posted.

The safest way to go from 6.1 to 6.6 is by flash a 6.6 rom, has nothing to due with the thread you linked to though.

I provide non prime, 6.5, and soon 6.6 Roms. They are flashes via my twrp, no patching like the thread you linked to, just flash what ever rom you want.

Of course you need to fix your device some how.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] newparadise16:
fixed! unbricked to v12 using normal_stock_oob from Colton in SPFT and preloader from 6.1 :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
Anyone else getting super slow charge times? I can't even use the phone while it's charging since it just goes at 0% and shuts itself off
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] josuedumas@gmail.com:
Maybe you can help me, i have the same issue with the safe method via twrp, but i dont have the preloader from 6.1 can you tell me where do you find it or if you have a copy of that preloader, can you upload it ?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
No, but I am running non prime, and notice the battery sucks, I got better battery life with 6.5 and 6.6 I am trying to figure that out.

How is your battery life? What ROM you using?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
I'm on prime rooted, unlocked bootloader. Battery has been really bad even though I have greenify Powernap Amplify etc installed. Also how does that screen make sense lol
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
What version prime? 6.1, 6.5, 6.6
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
Neither 6.4 lol
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
LOL OK, thanks haven't seen that version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
If you still want 6.6 you can get rom from below.

http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/developm...d-via-twrp-t3455532/post68543624#post68543624
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Just made an account, so posting here instead of dev subforum/thread. Had a bit of whiskey this weekend and decided to try out adding to this project. Just on an underpowered VM, so I haven't tried compiling yet, but I merged a few commits from upstream. I didn't touch a few things as the merge was too complicated for my state, MTK drivers (wifi in particular) and the hardened usercopy. same username for github, can't link cause new here.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
Just signed the deal with the devil. I'll be receiving the 16 GB/2 GB prime version next week. I'm aware of the limitations but eager about its strong points i'll just pray not to be one of the seemingly numerous users that get a defective phone. Wish me luck.

Bought 9H glass and a case in a bit of worry for the numerous reports on the Gorilla Glass not being very protective.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
assuming you mean a phone w/ firmware version that you cannot reflash another image onto, I just got a 2nd one this last week, it came with 6.1. It would be surprising if they did eventually end up shipping with 6.6+ at least for a while
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] thetruthisalie00:
I convert my PRIME 2GB model to OEM. Battery life went downhill. Was on 6.1 before. I will see if conditioning the battery a bit makes a difference.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
OEM sucks the battery big time.

6.5 and 6.6 give best battery life.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
I don't know WHAT you guys are talking about! I converted mine to non-prime and the battery lasts for days. I suspect it's some app or service you have running. Facebook maybe?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Nope, I run no apps while testing a ROM, OEM sucks battery bad, but if it works great for you, then you are good to go.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Does anybody happen to have a selinux permissive kernel working for the R1HD that I could use?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Never mind.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] burniksapwet:
Driver Problem

Guy, I don't know if this is the right place for this but I would like to root my Blu R1 HD phone but could not even download the drivers for it. I am getting this error. It is saying that MTP USB Device failed to install. Can somebody please help me out. I have tried searching for a fix but I could not which is why I decided to post. Thank you in advance.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
What is are you running, type that and drivers in the search bar if this thread.

On a side note anyone know what the spec of the OEM charger is and why it charges twice as fast as normal chargers?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] l33chpda:
Compared to my regular charger and QC2.0, it charges about 25% faster, but not twice as fast.

I suspect the charger has an internal chip that talks to MTK chips much as QC2 or QC3 talks to certain Snapdragon chips to activate quickcharge.

- Ken
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I haven't used the stock charger, I use a charging station, the phone itself charges faster than my others phone, I doubt charger has anything to due with it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
Speaking of battery. I just received my R1 HD. Do you think is better to use the leftover energy on the phone or is better to recharge it to full first?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
With modern battery it doesn't matter.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
Well, it started bad. The SIM card is not reading. I initialized the phone anyway and it says it's updating so i'll keep hope the SIM will respond by the time it finishes. If the problem persist i guess i'll transfer my number to a new SIM card (gotta admit mine is a few years old) did someone had the same problem upon unboxing?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I use straight talk, no problems at all.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
I tried to activate airplane mode and deactivate it and boom! My SIM is on. It was quite the scare but now i'll check out the other features, so far it feels amazing. Pretty fast and responsive.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
What software version does yours have?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
6.0 at the moment that happened but updated to 6.6 shortly after and the issue disappeared completely. I tested the SIM port with one from a different carrier from a friend and the response was flawless with both that SIM and mine when I put it back.

It's still the first day and so far no issues except the tempered glass didn't fitted well due to the curved glass screen. I'll buy another glass later but only when I know of a brand that have it tested to fit the screen properly. Do you guys know some?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] thetruthisalie00:
I am now getting multiple days of battery life. I let the battery completely drain (full brightness screen run till it hits 1% and shuts off) before recharging. Perhaps that did the trick. 6.5 etc may have better battery life but for me this is fine as is. I will just wait till BLU releases official updates or maybe a stable cyanogen mod rom.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Mfrisch223`:
Phone not starting

I turned off my phone the other night and now It won't turn back on when I try to do the hard start (Holding the up volume button and the power button) it goes to the start options menu with the recovery mode, fast boot mode and normal mode but when I try to select one it just shuts the phone back off
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
What have you done to your phone before this happened?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Mfrisch223`:
Nothing at all. I got the 2 days before this happening other than downloading some apps (Twitter, Snapchat, imgur) I haven't done anything to it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Call Amazon request another phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Just a quick update on our development status:

While our hopes are pretty low, a few of us guys continue to push on with development of CM13. While we are not necessarily any closer to getting a final, flashable zip, we have found out some things that may be of use to us.

There are "tee" partitions on this phone, relating to something called TrustZone. From our research, this is a module that prevents a system from booting if it does not detect that the kernel and ROM/system image contains the necessary trusted environment files. Essentially think of it as a locked bootloader even if your bootloader is unlocked. This environment actually has a kernel of its own, and it is very proprietary and locked down. BLU is in no way obligated to give us source for the TZ kernel. From further research we've found there was a similar implementation on the OnePlus One, and they were able to somehow circumvent it or disable it to get custom ROMs working on their device. I have found mentions of supposed "secret patches" being the key to get Mediatek devices running CM13, and these patches may actually just be a way to bypassing TZ. Unfortunately for us, their namesake "secret patches" comes from the few who supposedly have access to them not wanting to share.

We did find some TZ files in the /system/bin folder (forget what they're called but I know one is a .bin file) and we tried placing them in the same location in a CM flashable zip but it did not get us any further than where we were before.

So the good news here is that now we are like 90% sure we know the reason none of our CM builds are booting past the BLU boot logo, so now we know what we need to do to potentially get this ROM booting and working. The bad news is that bypassing this TZ implementation is going to be hard. None of us guys in my aforementioned group are experts at Android porting or even coding for that matter, so with just us working this might take a while. With that being said, if there is anyone out there who has more experience who would like to help us get CM13 up and running feel free to PM me.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] anbaude:
We are all grateful for what you all are doing. I'm not a linux newb, but I am a fresh android newb. Maybe once I learn more I can help.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Android uses the Linux Kernel to operate, which is where we are focusing right now to get this working. How much experience do you have with the Linux Kernel (compiling, modifying, etc.)?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Are there actual kernel related tasks to do? From what I've been reading it seems like its all CM related at this point, or would you say that's not completely accurate (I guess it all depends on where these secret patches live). I could help with kernel dev, but I have yet to take the compiling CM/AOSP plunge.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Right now we are stuck at the trustzone issue and the kernel. Any kernel we compile with CM bootloops the phone. But the stock kernel gets stuck at the BLU logo.

My current assumption is that the trustzone which looks at the kernel and rom is trusting the stock kernel allowing it to keep booting but it is not trusting the compiled one causing it to reboot the phone. It is also not trusting the ROM causing the stock kernel to get stuck at the BLU logo.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
We need a kernel that gets us to the CM boot animation so we can then take a logcat and move onto CM related issue fixing. For now we just need to get to that point.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Thanks for the info. Been looking for something useful to actually mess with here.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] tawrus80:
Just got the 16GB Prime version today and it has v6.1 software. Should I do the OTA update to v6.6? I want to be able to root this guy some day when the TrustZone thing is figured out and solid ROM's have been developed. Could they make rooting/flashing harder or impossible in the future with an OTA update? Thanks, guys.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
DO NOT UPDATE TO 6.6 it will break everything.

I'd personally say just follow this right off the bat and convert it to an OEM device.

http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/guide-convert-to-prime-rollback-ota-t3432499
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
No, do not upgrade. Stay at 6.1. As a matter of fact, I'm gonna speak to the guys to see if we have a full SPFT image of 6.1 firmware. If not, would you mind going through the read back process to help us make a 6.1 image?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] tawrus80:
It was ats 97% downloaded when I read your replies and cancelled it. I have auto-update turned off but don't trust it. Let me know if it would be worthwhile and I will look into creating a 6.1 image. :good:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Chukie022:
(sorry for my english)

I will buy this Phone, the battery is good? Screen on time average? Thxs
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Javiefs:
for my daily use hitman game, 3g 2 hours, WiFi 9 hours, I lasts 20 hours, almost all day. it normal use some other times 1 hour Google music and I hard enough.

all depends on the use.

(Sorry for my English)

Enviado desde mi R1 HD mediante Tapatalk
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Battery is pretty weak, depends on your use about 5 to 6 hours for me.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
The same here. Battery is actually quite tricky in percentages. It drops from 100 to 80% quite fast but it mantains itself pretty solid from 70 to 30% and the last 30% seems to be the longest part of the line. With normal use it lasts almost the full day but multimedia and gaming drains this phone very fast.

By the way. As i said a couple pages earlier i updated to 6.6 when it seemed it wasn't reading the SIM. Phone has been working just fine for almost 5 days. Should i be worried for something aside of being unable to root? Adds don't really bother me (dynamic lockscreen yo) but i would like to know if there's a significant malfuction/defect coming from 6.6 firmware that i should know off. Thanks again.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
6.6 is the best firmware available, the OTA disables the use of splash tool.

I run 6.6 myself, but didn't install via OTA as I wanted to be able to use splash tool.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
That literally contradicts itself.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Spell check, typing on phones is hard, as spell check thinks it knows what we want to say.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I still say anything that locks the phone down should be avoided.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I am not following 6.6 doesn't lock the phone down, the preloader in the OTA does, I agree the OTA shouldn't be installed nothing wrong with the 6.6 firmware though.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
It also is still a firmware where the bootloader is locked without the option to be unlocked. Plus by what you are saying it is going to lock the preloader to install the update.