yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
Where is the R1 HD device tree
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
If you can get into Android.

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You're right, my bad. I should have verified that before posting. It appears the SPFT site is doing some odd shenanigans to keep me from downloading the file through the server's CLI. Guess I'll have to do it the hard way.

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There are some device trees floating around, but we are unable to successfully build any Android so far. I have posted kernel source at https://na.mirrors.coltondrg.com/coltondrg/r1hd/, if that's what you're after.

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(Derp, thanks, XDA)

[MENTION=6782683]emc2cube[/MENTION] any chance your bootloader is unlocked?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
It was. No idea what is its current status now.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Probably not. Your best bet would be to call Amazon/BLU and claim that it stopped booting after taking the OTA (since that appears to be true, at least in part). Should be covered by RMA. They're the ones ****ing us over, they can take the hit.

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Well, if you manage to get into fastboot and it is still unlocked, please let me know. I have a plan.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Any clue on how to do so? I tried the buttons, the echo FASTBOOT > COM5, but nothing.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I just want to air a couple thoughts on this whole situation. This is really frustrating to me. I was hoping that this was impossible (I had evidence suggesting it was, too!), and beyond that, I was hoping that Amazon would just leave us alone, but of course not. That would be way too simple. This is Amazon we're talking about here. I hope that we can find a way to reverse the damage, both in phones that are unlocked and those that aren't (aiming for the first right now, he second is more of a stretch goal). I also hope that this doesn't hurt our community. So far we have a great little thing going here, and I would hate if Amazon takes that away from us. Those of us who are here and know not to take the update will always be here, but Amazon **** blocking us like this could very easily stifle growth of our community. I hope that we continue to thrive despite this, and Amazon's efforts to stop us only make us stronger. As I've said a few times in a few threads, I will be investing time into ways to reverse the damage, as well as ways to get some of our awesome stuff working in ways that don't require SPFT. Thanks to everyone who is a member of this community, and super thanks to anyone who have been willing to risk their phones so we can investigate the effects of this horrible OTA. Ultra thanks to anyone who is willing to risk their phone further by testing out my upcoming collection of experimental fixes before I'm comfortable unleashing them upon the public (by the way, if you would like to help in this way, please let me know via PM or reply to the thread. Hangouts also might not be a bad idea just for more efficient communication).

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Nope. If you happen to have ADB enabled and your computer authenticated (I know, it's a long shot) you might try `adb reboot bootloader` while it's trying to boot up, but I severely doubt that will work. Keep brainstorming.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jacewt:
They are not f...ing over anyone. They offered us an amazing phone in exchange for ads. They try to protect that in order to make money and continue offering cheap phones. I don't know why you are so upset or surprised. I am appreciative of amazon, this is the best phone for the buck, I have ever owned. I recommend it to non techies even with the ads.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
LOL i can't fastboot oem reboot-recovery cause security its so insecure :laugh:

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They gave us a good phone and filled it with so many ads you can't see
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainofOranges:
They are not "offering" a phone to us out of the goodness of their hearts. They are selling a product to make money which we bought. Once the phone is physically in our hands, they should not be able to control what we do with it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Sizzlechest:
FWIW, I did the conversion from Prime to non-Prime an a brand new phone before ever powering it on. If you're buying a new one of these phones, there's no reason not to attempt the conversion right out of the box.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Not this argument again...

No, the ads aren't actually that bad, but I'm not here just to remove ads. Sure, that's certainly part of it, but I would want this phone rooted either way.

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Agreed

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Agreed

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It's fixed now (it was actually fixed a few hours ago, apologies for the delay in letting you know). The website that was distributing the tool was pulling some hokey nonsense to prevent me from downloading the file directly on the server's CLI (it's almost like some bizarre form of hotlink protection - very annoying). I probably could have worked that out and downloaded the file directly from the server CLI anyway, but it seemed like too much effort, so I just downloaded them locally and re-uploaded them to the server. My server also doesn't have any such hotlinking protection, so if anyone else wants to mirror that SPFT, getting it from my server would save your time. :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainofOranges:
So just to get all this straight:

The 6.6 OTA re-locks the bootloader. If your bootloader was previously unlocked, your phone will boot loop after installing the update.

To fix this, you power off the phone and power back on while also holding volume up. Then select fastboot mode and plug your phone into your computer. Personally, I haven't had any luck with Windows seeing the phone while it's in fastboot mode, so I used Linux for all this. Then unlock your bootloader again with the command "fastboot oem unlock". This wipes all your data on the phone. Your phone should boot fine after that.

Does running fastboot oem unlock work on a phone that never had it's bootloader unlocked before updating to 6.6?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
Agree
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
What? No. As far as I know, V6.6 does not relock the bootloader. It just disables SPFT. fastboot oem unlock just wipes your memory if your bootloader is already unlocked.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainofOranges:
For whatever reason I couldn't get anything custom to boot before I ran the command again. It might have been my own stupidity, it was pretty late at night. Maybe you're right, but I don't know how to check.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Really? That may change things. I'm not willing to find out myself (sorry)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainofOranges:
It's okay, I don't really want to find out for myself either. I'm trying to figure out if there's any way to re-enable SPFT flashing, but not having any success.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I'm working on a way. Sorry for being so slow on it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
If it is the preloader it will hard, if we don't have a backup, but we do.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Agreed, the ads aren't that bad, I admit I removed mine, and if an update came along that prevented removing ads so be it.

With above said, if it's true the preloader in fact disabled splash tool that is another story all together.

I work away from home so no computer to test, I did call my wife 20 minutes ago, had her call Amazon and request another phone, will be at my home Sunday.

When I get home I will send them the phone I have now and not update the new phone to 6.6 if indeed my current phone can't connect via splash tool.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] josuedumas@gmail.com:
R1 HD experiences

the kernel don't support swap on /data and /cache partition neither f2fs, I see some improvement changing the DPI (along with some build.prop tweaks) from 320 to 240 at cost of sight, but for me are fine. App2SD does a pretty job. Any ideas about replacing Recents ? I have tried gravitybox, substratum, theme manager, and some scripts but neither of them work.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzzy_:
I am beginning to get a little nervous about taking the non prime update (whenever they put one out). I converted to the OEM version but did not root or install TWRP. I am liking the phone without being rooted but it is a little different not being rooted and removing some of the apps I don't really want and having control over if and when I take an update.

I may be getting a little paranoid but I am wondering if they can use the chipset id numbers to update to prime software rather than just update to the new OEM update if the phone shows it being sold as a prime version. I really don't know if that is even possible or if BLU would even bother with such a thing. Just random thoughts I had.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Honestly, I don't see them ever checking the phone for Prime vs Oem, other than a simple check for rom version. I really don't see BLU putting forth any effort to maintain a phone home script, nor a desire to maintain a database for the sake of verification. I seriously doubt BLU cares about cross flashing the ROMS
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
They could if they chose to, your update will be zip format, you can look at it before you install it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mohsinkhan35:
Just got my R1 HD and to be honest this seems like a true successor to Nexus 4 device, more so than what google have been releasing. I kept my Nexus 4 from launch until a month ago when it gave up. I've tried Honor 5x, Lumia 650 and now R1 HD. It is stock, has SD card, slightly bigger battery than nexus 4 and dual sim. I am surprised by how smooth this device is. Also, I want to mention that when updating apps and installing new ones, SD S4 pro and SD616 both used to overhead, I didn't notice any overheating or lag so MediaTek has been performing very well in this device.

The only thing missing is FP sensor but it is not a deal breaker. I must say I am very happy with the stock performance but I will root and install xposed to get rid of some amazon apps (i have the oem version but there are still some amazon apps), and to install amplify/greenify to increase battery life.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Unscedeo:
TWRP .img FIle?

Where can I find a download to lopestom's TWRP file? I know there is a scatter file but SPFT doesn't work on v6.6, so flashing a .img would solve the problem.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
The twrp.IMG is in the same spot as the scatter file.

(Edit)

Best place to start looking is always here

http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/index-blu-r1-hd-amazon-oem-variants-t3426087

This is the index for the forum. Look under device tools. But so far specific directions have not been laid out for the 6.6 version. (/edit)

The same image can be flashed in fastboot, but only if your bootloader is already unlocked..
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Tracerlx:
Is anyone seeing a big slow down in performance? I am on 6.4 rooted.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] californiarailroader:
Isn't Band 12 support supposed to come in a future ota? I got mine (2 GB RAM, 16 GB storage, ad supported) in the mail today from Amazon, and there was an update for it out of the box, it's now on the July 7th build. Here's the version I have after the update-

BLU_R0010UU_V.6.4_GENERIC 10-07-2016 00:10
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] branik:
i haven't got mine yet, but try going to engineering mode (download from playstore) and scroll to the right on log and debugging and press user2root and then root. Lastly you have to root with kingoroot. If user2root is grayed out then it means that we can't root this way, but it's worth the shot, it worked on an older mtk phone i had.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I don't even see that option.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] branik:
Then they must have deleted the option, damn...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Leathco:
I picked up one of these to replace my aging Galaxy Grand Prime. So far I've been happy with it, however noticed it being very glitchy when using my 64 gig SD card as internal. After reboots, apps would remain missing even after an hour of uptime. Doing a factory reset to start over, keeping my SD as standard storage this time. Hoping someone roots this soon so I can use FolderMount again! I got the 16 gig version, but still would like to install some of my large game files over on SD.

Also, has anyone toyed with the second SIM option? I am on an ATT GoPhone plan, the 45 dollar one, but I am tempted to drop a FreedomPop SIM in the second slot for backup data for months I am short on cash and drop my phone to the no data plan, so I at least have 200 MB to check my email and FB Messenger.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kostar:
I went to Settings-Apps, forced stop and disabled all Аmаzon apps. Installed Apex Launcher, F-Droid, Adblock Plus. Аmаzоn apps still did not appear After a few reboots! Yet "Аmаzоn Offers" service is still running. Lockscreen ads can be hidden by installing a third party lоckscreen. I used Next (by micrоsoft) Also Yandex Store has AVG Pro for free! -- grabbed that :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
That was my plan, but I discovered that you must do it the other way around. As best I can tell, Slot 2 doesn't won't provide the hsdp+ the Freedeompop gsm sim needs, but it will handle 2g and sms. FP works fine in slot 1.

My main number is Google voice which forwards both to my Idol3 with a T-mobile sim and this backup R1 HD. They ring simultaneously. GV handles sms and transcribed voicemail. The Ting sim just does 2g voice which is very cheap. If you have the Voice/Data variety of FP sim, then you can run their messaging app to get another VOIP line. I don't bother because FP VOIP isn't very good (ping for these sims is 300ms). FP data is great though.

Don't let FP usage get within 100 mb of your limit or they will start charging (read the fine print). FP friends will add a painless 500 mb of free data, see: http://slickdeals.net/f/5276432-freedompop-friends
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Can someone try hooking this phone up to MTKDroidTools to get a scatter file and share it on here? I can use that when trying to port TWRP when I get mine (which will hopefully be tomorrow)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Okay so I've never used this tool before, Its giving an error about "Total Bytes Per Chunk Not Found"

Block map is just showing 1 thing and create scatter file is greyed out.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Probably because it's not compatible with the chipset. Thanks for trying anyway.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
What isn't in the R1 HD

Gyroscope

Magnetometer

5 GHz Wifi
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Interesting... I thought someone mentioned 5GHZ wasn't supported. Was it later enabled in an update?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
What isn't in the R1 HD

"What isn't in the R1 HD"

(are message titles visible on all xda platforms?)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Oh my apologies, I misinterpreted the title. I thought you meant those things were included, and I interpreted the title as meaning "look at all of these features... what ISN'T included in the R1?":silly: I couldn't load the screenshots either, my network is being slow.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
I'm using the XDA labs app now and titles are *not* visible. I'll stop using them.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] joesee:
This is KILLING me. I purchased this phone to use in a pinch, and I'm in a pinch now, but the problem is When I put my Cricket SIM in, it welcomes me, registers on the network, but I get no data. (phone and text work great). So I go into APN settings to make sure they are correct, and I find out that it's not your typical apn type text entry box where you typically type this stuff in. Instead, I've got a drop down menu list and I can check things off like "default", "supl", etc.. but "fota" isn't in the list. Before I claim the phone is defective and return it, does anyone know how I can manually enter fota into the apn type list on this particular phone? I don't know if that's what's keeping me from getting data on this phone or not, but I've tried the sim in another device and it works without issues, so I'm at a complete loss.

Hope someone can share their wisdom!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I'll look into this tomorrow when I get mine in the mail, but for now I don't have any definite solutions. Maybe you can try looking up other Cricket APN settings, because for me I've had different sources tell me different APNs for T-Mobile, and despite some having different settings they've all worked fine. If that fails, maybe try moving the SIM to the second slot and try again? You'd only get 2G but if it works somehow, at least it'll be something...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
That update was to fix people being able to hide the ad server app. At least SOME things will get fixed right away! :)

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Has anyone tried the light flow app on this phone yet? It has a multicolor LED, right? Motorola removed the LED on the Moto G. Active Display is NOT a replacement for a multicolor LED!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Do you get to this screen:

The + lets you add a new APN.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
If someone else want to open and and analyze the OTA file, the phone download it from http://hwfotadown.mayitek.com/ota/root_data02_oversea/TINNO/tinno6735_6.0/R1_HD_R0010UU_GENERIC/en/other/BLU_R0010UU_V6.4_GENERIC_6.0_20160710-0015/BLU_R0010UU_V6.1_GENERIC_6.0_20160617-1456-BLU_R0010UU_V6.4_GENERIC_6.0_20160710-00151468612925207.zip

As we can perform a local update, maybe someone can figure out if we can improve this file to get root access.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
If you have a crap ton of apps that all run in the background I can see a slowdown being possible. I'm on stock V12 vanilla rooted and xposed and I'm fine, even with the moderate apps I have (all bloatware removed, btw).
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
need a volunteer who has 6.6 update to test a meta mode flash to see if we can get around the blockade.

very experimental and results are unknown. that's why it's called a test.

edit

im not making progress in my own testing this meta mode. Im not getting flash tool to recognize the device is connected. I think i might have over estimated the possibilities.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
SPFT didn't recognize the device in meta mode for me either, fwiw
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
You tried, not everything works as expected.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
From what im reading meta does not load standard vcom driver. I know you use linux so not sure how you check. If I have time tonight ill try to see what shows up in Windows 10 device manager for both modes
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It's udev rules and **** like that, I'll have to look through my dmesg.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
Meta requires preloader driver and cdc serial driver
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I think most people have the preloader, but don't know what CDC serial driver is.

Perhaps not available in Linux?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
this is the driver name loaded
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
Thats good
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Looks like normal splashtool driver.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
well normal would be preloader vcomm. like the two above the one circled
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
OK, thanks.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] munsosl:
Just bought this phone and I've been fiddling with it. Didn't even notice 6.6 had downloaded/installed now I've been trying to unscrew it up.

I've gotten the phone recognized on my Win10 laptop again. Had to go into device manager->locate unidentified device->update/install drivers->browse my computer->pick from device drivers->android phone->MTP USB Device. this isn't a great way to do this, but it got the device to show up and fail splash a few more times.

splash still doesn't work, but I'm hoping this might get it registering on other peoples devices. and any tips/downloads to previous images to unlock bootloader would be appreciated
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
That is a common issue people report having experienced with this phone. The 6.6 issue is being worked on,hopefully a solution presents itself soon. If you can't/don't want to wait, I would initiate an exchange request with amazon immediately.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I've been trying to get a software tool to work on this phone. According to the hovateh support chat tech rep i was talking to this phone chip is supported by software they recomend. IE I am talking about mirrilce box.

https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-13347.html

i think maybe with more heads working on it will be able to get progress sooner.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
I strongly disagree also. They say not to put all of egg in single basket but nowadays with each tick of Amazon stock to the upside its also a tock up on the migraine in my sleep at night
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I get this on your link.

This bulletin board is currently closed. The Administrator has specified the reason as to why below.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
just checked and the whole domain is currently off line for maintainance.

i guess give it a few hours. or os
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
If you already downloaded the tool and drivers, can't you upload them somewhere?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
that thread its back up already, and there is such a good pictorial howto . its better to see it than just a file
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
I got my second R1 HD the other day - another 16 GB, of course. I charged up the battery but didn't turn it on or let it do any setup or updating - no phone sim and no network configurationl. Never even turned it on! Used SPFT to flash the OEM ROM, rooted, twrp, xposed, gravitybox. Everything works fine. I am glad that I knew not to take any updates before doing this!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Ok seems to be working.

App is backing up phone, I had app backup everything but data.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Really. Then my problem is just driver. I could not get it before, please a screenshot or something, and did you have to change drivers or did it just work with what you had already installed from spft?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I don't know nothing about windows, just followed the guide, had to disable signed drivers first did it on Windows 10 64 bit, also had to disable something called windows defender it kept deleting stuff.

Used the windows 7 64 bit drivers the site supplied.