yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] raderator:
Mine never gets warm but I'm not a gamer. Charges normally and lasts all day. But some Amazon reviewers have said theirs caught fire.

One odd thing about this phone, the screen is polarized the wrong way. That's means it goes black if you are wearing polarized sunglasses. I use mine in the car for turn-by-turn and vertically is by far the best way. Oh well, I've been meaning to get new sunglasses that go over my RX glasses. Just ordered these. Non-polarized and not too dark. $6 on eBay. Made in Taiwan.

At least the GPS and Here WeGo free offline maps work great. Sound is loud enuf with volume at max. Also turn brightness to max since it doesn't automatically do that in a car. Charges well when in use.

Still, you might want to charge the phone on a fireproof surface at night. I have a piece of glass I saved from an old refrigerator. It's going on my night stand. Also using v6.6. I never see my lock screen except on reboot. The phone never lags or reboots itself.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Well I couldn't see the review for myself so I don't know how legit this is, I'm just going off of other's words (I can't view the review as the R1 has been completely taken down from Amazon--prime and vanilla versions, so I assume it's legitimate). Sure mine was warm before from using it a lot but I'd never say mine got DANGEROUSLY HOT. What firmware was this user on when his supposedly caught fire? Did he root and remove the kernel setting to under clock when overheated? Was it overcharging or overuse that made it catch fire? I assume that whatever it was, if Amazon took the R1 down completely that the incident was not his fault, I.e. his was not rooted or in any way modified.

The Note 7's caught fire from being overcharged (if I'm wrong please correct me), so I'd say just to be safe now to make sure you don't leave your R1 plugged in too long. I've left mine plugged in to charge overnight and I've been fine using mine for 2+ months, but now that this is going around I'll be more careful about it.

In conclusion, while I am a bit more cautious for the time being, I'm not really worried about it. I don't think you should be either, especially if you've had yours for a while and nothing was wrong.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Never had an issue with phone getting hot, unless someone removed the thermal governor, but even thats a stretch.... Im calling BS.... My guess is they are fed up with BLU, or tired of all the returns from their botched 6.6 fiasco. Either way my guess is they move this subsidized lock screen ad gimmick to another manufacturer, one who will jump when they snap. Well hopefully with all the hype this phone generated it proves Mediatek SoCs are viable options and peaks interest in playing around with other China phones, they are priced nice. So if we take what we learned here maybe we can find another hot item and turn it into what this phone could have been(without Amazon strong arming us).... Rant over
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I'm skeptical as well, as I couldn't see the reviews for myself. This would be too much of a coincidence with all the Note 7 crap going on.

...but on the other hand, if it were just because of something like 6.6, why would Amazon take down not only their variant but the non-Amazon variant as well?

Even if it isn't the fire thing, something seriously wrong is happening with this phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Unless it's just a supply issue.... BLU has never had a phone as successful as this.... Maybe their deal with Tinno didn't cover a production level to support demand, Tinno pops out many other phones maybe its simply a supply issue and Tinno is backlogged....
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Link doesn't work for me.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I'm thinking if it was a supply issue the product page would still be there but it would just say "currently unavailable". Taking it down entirely seems to symbolize that they don't even want to make it seem like it exists anymore. Why would they do that to their best seller?

But hey this is all guesses, yours is as good as mine.

And [MENTION=2472806]vampirefo[/MENTION], the link works for me but I just get greeted with a dog rather than the product. So at least where I am, it's like it never existed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
I get this on reorder screen...

Removing it does hide all the negative feedback... Maybe they need a few days to censor the campaign....
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Tiggam:
Canadian version is still up. Link
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] rcboosted:
I have this issue with many phones. the easiest way I found was sticking those cheap plastic screen protector on the screen. it unpolarizes the screen. the glass ones might do the same too, but I haven't tried.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Link works for me now, I guess Amazon is sold out.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] californiarailroader:
It's still available here in the US, but only used (very good condition) from Amazon Warehouse Deals.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Sold out for all models at the same time? Seems very unlikely to me.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Just guessing, I don't know what's going on, perhaps Amazon is waiting for all phones to be updated before releasing them.

I think 6.6 update caused a lot of returns.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Whatever it is I hope they don't stop selling these, they're such a great deal. As much as I want these to be ultra rare collectors items, I'd like everyone to be able to experience them. Who knows, maybe an iOS user whose iPhone broke gets one of these because they're so cheap, and then gets converted to an android junky because of it.

...or maybe Amazon gave up because us XDA nerds beat them. Just like I predicted after we got root. Now THAT would be something for all of us to brag about!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Just a small update; We now have CM booting to a logo, but that's it, and can't get a log pulled because regardless of what we do we can't get adb to get out of unauthorized mode.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] littlalex:
SIM slot 2 is not...

Only 2G. Have an AT&T SIM in slot 2 with 4G LTE working just fine and no other SIMs Installed...for the record.

Littlalex

---------- Post added at 05:20 AM ---------- Previous post was at 05:15 AM ----------

Received an OTA update and it did not in any way inhibit "AcDisplay" lock screen from hiding Amazon ads.

Littlalex

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Same here.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
"SIM slot 2 is not..."

Thanks, that's helpful. I think the limitation may be that only one sim may have a data connection at a time.

If so, a sim like Freedompop, which requires a hspd+ connection, will limit the other slot to 2g.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] littlalex:
SIM slot 2 is not...

I would guess that would be the case, as many phones have that limitation.

Littlalex
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] joesee:
Yes, the APN ended up being correct. This is the second time this problem has kicked my butt. After you insert a SIM IN 6.X Android, you have to go into mobile data and enable the connection. Once I did that, we were golden. Sorry for the rant, just wanted everyone to know my problem is resolved.

Hell of a phone for $59 (I got the 2gb version). I'll be eyeing this forum on root access. That would make this phone a great little thing to have!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] rakave:
Thanks dude. Been looking for this :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] 32square:
I really like the triangle wallpaper from this phone. Is there anyone who has been able to extract the image from the ROM? If so, could you post it in the thread?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
When you open the gallery do you see a folder called wallpapers? My Studio X+ would save them there, in that case just send it over email or something from the gallery. If that doesn't work, you could just Google where android wallpapers are stored and use a root browser to access it. I'd tell you myself but I'm waiting on getting a tooth filled at the dentist... At least my priorities are straight.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] 32square:
I haven't yet purchased this phone, but I know that with other phones, the stock wallpapers usually end up on XDA. I am likely capable of making a reasonable facsimile but I was hoping the file could become available here.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
Anyone know what Meta mode is? I stumbled across it yesterday and didn't know if it would be helpful in our ventures.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainbowMagicMarker:
Has anyone had any luck restoring backups to this phone using Helium Backup? I just want to restore my app data from my previous phone without rooting either of them but I can't seem to get Helium to recognize my R1 HD, the desktop app doesn't see it and the phone app asks me to put my phone in PTP even though it already is. Seems to be some kind of driver issue but Blu doesn't offer drivers 8/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Can you mount the phone as a CD ROM? There should be drivers available when you do that.

Meta mode is for apparently flashing stuff without a preloader. From my research, the preloader is what mounts a MediaTek as a CDC Serial Device (through USB) which allows flashing through SP Flash Tools.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Wi-Fi Hotspot

Has anyone tried the R1HD Wi-Fi hotspot? I connect but get "Wi-Fi has no internet access" with Freedompop sim, haven't tried a full service sim.

Hotspot from my Idol3 works fine with the 5GB/100minute $30 T-mobile plan.

It even allows free (resolution challenged) streaming of Netflicks, Amazon video, YouTube, Spotify, etc.

http://www.t-mobile.com/offer/binge-on-streaming-video.html

Quality is fine on a 7 inch tablet, don't know about a larger screen.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] danieljenkin:
I got mine today. I like it so far. I don't even notice the ads. I won't even attempt to remove them. Battery is draining about 4% per hour with the same use as my Droid Turbo that's about 2% on that one. Although that battery is huge.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] benutne:
Got mine over the weekend. Great phone for $60. So far so good on the battery. Unplugged it around 8AM. It is now almost 4PM and the battery is at 64%. Connected to WiFi all day though.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainbowMagicMarker:
Is mounting it as a CD ROM somehow different from plugging in the usb cable? I am... very dense when it comes to phones for some reason.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
When you plug it in via USB, does a menu come up on the screen of the phone (notification area) allowing you to pick from things like MTP, PTP, Charge Only connection? If there is a CD ROM option, select it to install phone drivers.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Update: Mine finally came in the mail. Pretty impressed by the look and feel. Going to let the battery charge to 100% before turning it on to get my glorious Amazon experience.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainbowMagicMarker:
No there doesn't seem to be, just Charging, MTP, PTP, RNDIS, Audio Source, and MIDI.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Hmm... I'd just try the generic Android ADB drivers that come with PdaNet. Google it and you'll find them.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
I get the same thing. Might be a Helium win 10 problem. If your previous phone has removable storage, I think Helium can backup and restore via sd card.

....update....

Nope, the problem seems to be in the R1HD. Plugged in an Idol3 (also running Android 6) and as soon as I switched to PTP everything seemed to work.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
You need to modify boot.img to allow it.

ro.adb.secure=0
persist.service.acm.enable=0
ro.secure=0
ro.allow.mock.location=0
ro.debuggable=1
ro.zygote=zygote32
dalvik.vm.image-dex2oat-Xms=64m
dalvik.vm.image-dex2oat-Xmx=64m
dalvik.vm.dex2oat-Xms=64m
dalvik.vm.dex2oat-Xmx=512m
ro.dalvik.vm.native.bridge=0
debug.atrace.tags.enableflags=0
ro.sf.lcd_density=320
persist.sys.usb.config=mtp,adb
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
that still didnt work :/

but doing a dirty flash over old /data does allow adb.

and the logcat seems to be hung at the is error

the screenshot of this webpage {https://wiki.cyanogenmod.org/w/Doc:_adb_intro} below answers the reason why

01-01 21:23:22.714 817 817 F AEE/DEBUG: Abort message: 'art/runtime/jni_internal.cc:497] JNI FatalError called: Native registration unable to find class 'com/mediatek/libcore/MTKStringFactory'; aborting...'

logcat from modified (permissive=1) boot.img is logcat2.txt

logcat from stock 6.1 boot.img is logcat4.txt
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
its seems like its back but for tripple the price

https://www.amazon.ca/BLU-R0031UU-BLACK-HD-16-GB-Black/dp/B01H2E0KVA
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
That's Canadian dollars, I think USD is 0.75 of 1 CAD, so that's probably about $110-120 for us. Still, no more Amazon ones.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] tsgeek:
Emailed Blu and just got a reply.

The intrigue continues.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
My bet is that amazon wants them to update all the phones sent to amazon to have at least 6.6 so that SP Flash Tools won't work on them. A couple of weeks ago, the phones were still shipping with 6.1.

So we will see it back on amazon at the same price, but you won't be able to flash or root them.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] n3kf:
Well, here is the no ad version. No indication when our if it will return. They lowered the price of the Moto with ads??

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product?r...redirect=true&ASIN=B01F9N5QXI&pldnSite=1&th=1
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
Any update? Also does the new Moto Amazon dells have any way to root yet?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I assume no root. Running marshmallow like ours is, so no android or kernel exploits yet probably. No SPFT access for the moto so no root. For a VERY short time (like when these first came out) they could be bootloader unlocked from the Moto website but after a few days Amazon pulled the plug on that.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
There is absolutely no way to root the Prime Moto G. All Prime Moto G phones are marked in the Motorola database as being ineligible for bootloader unlocking, so you can not request the unique unlock key from Motorola. And none of the paid unlocking tools work on it either. If you want to be able to root it, you need to pay the extra money for the non-Prime version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
[MENTION=2330015]fallenleader[/MENTION] and I were discussing a kernel exploit we can potentially use for temp root on 6.6 (Dirty COW) when it occurred to me: has anyone tried using SunShine for temp root? Yes, it is an app for paying to unlock the bootloader of phones, but the app lets you temp root for free. Version 3.4.9 changelog says it has "MediaTek Fixes" anyway, so why not give this a try?

http://theroot.ninja/download.html

To anyone that has 6.6, install this app and try to get temp root. If you can get it, from there you should be able to flash TWRP recovery via Flashify or something similar, then (assuming bootloader doesn't get in the way) reboot to TWRP and flash SuperSu from there, achieving permanent root.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
app gave me error that phone is not an htc and willl not go further
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
It says right under the download link that Sunshine only supports Motorola and HTC phones. And it's only old Motorola phones running, I think, no later that the first kitkat release. The kitkat update killed the exploit they were using and there hasn't been one found since.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
My friends Turbo is eligible, even with the latest update, which I believe is marshmallow. Its definitely at least 5.1.1. I figured I'd give it a try, as the 3.4.9 changelog on their website stated it contained MediaTek Fixes.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I think HTC sometimes uses mtk, but this exploit won't work on any mtk other than HTC's mtk devices.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Well update on this. I have (by accident) been able to fully relock bootloader and warrenty status back to yes.

One of the other files / partitions must be keepin tract of the status. I was working on methids to recover from someone doing format in spft, and i restored all partitions. (I made full back yp on day one before making any of the changes.)and after the flash completed boot loader was already locked and getvar all returned warrenty=yes.

So if anyone needs to return phone for warrenty and it is still somewhat working , well , without saying it , you know where im going.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] KazuDante:
off topic question but.......can a 64bit rom be converted to a 32bit without recompiling the whole rom from source?

To be direct , i ported a rom to the R1 but havent been able to fix the camera yet (still working on that) but theres other roms from that same device but most of them are in 64bit....so i wanted to know if theres a way to make them run in 32bit mode instead so that the r1 could run them?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] theredbaron1834:
While it is possible (check out this star craft poet to the pandora:http://repo.openpandora.org/?page=detail&app=package.starcraft) it would be best to try something else. It is is a hell of a job, and requires some real extreme skill, as well as some big luck, so much so that the star craft one is the only one I know off.

I wish you luck either way, would love to see more roms ported. Hell, even just a real ASOP rom would rule (the stock is pretty asop, but still issues).
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] KazuDante:
The thing is that the ROM I ported is an also an aosp ROM , I found it downloaded it and flashed the system.img file using spflashtool and it booted , the only mod I had to do is adb push the r1 firmware folder to get sim cards working and edit build.prop to get softnav on since the device it came from had hardware navigation, so far I've fixed the codec issue in it but still can't get the camera to work , sadly it's an 6.0 ROM and not a 6.0.1 but it's way better thenbthe stock R1 HD rom . I wanted to find more people to add to the team but strictly for kernel development because compiling a 64bit kernel using that device sources and a 64bit tarp would allow me to port nougat to the R1 but a while ago I read that Blu said the R1 will get nougat, I have not seen any really proof or statement that verified that but I'm not going to get my hopes up since Blu usually fall short in that department.

The only problem this aosp port rom has is camera can't connect error message and some other times it states that it's being used by another application.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kb3wmh:
Did anyone see this?

https://liliputing.com/2016/10/blu-...-possibly-another-amazon-prime-exclusive.html
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] n3kf:
Well that would explain it. Amazon probably felt that this phone was too easy to hack to get rid of the ads. Without ads it does not serve their purpose. So they will attempt again with a better locked down phone. Maybe even with Nougat. So with the small numbers of the original sold, guess the phone won't get to much attention for ROMs.

Wonder what Blu will do with all the stock Amazon is returning.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
https://vvdveen.com/drammer/drammer.apk

Someone with 6.6 please download, install, and let the test run to see if it is vulnerable to Rowhammer root exploit (you will get Google security warning upon install). It is stated that it works/is vulnerable on devices made between 2011-2013, yet will not be patched in Android in general until the November security update. If it happens to be vulnerable we can write a root app using this exploit to root 6.6 R1's.

It's a longshot, but worth a try.

Thanks for letting me know. Was gonna pay to repair my R1, but now I think I'll just wait for this!

Probably gonna be next to impossible to root and hack but worth the try. Only thing is with this one looks like we may not have a Vanilla version to work alongside with (article only showed Amazon version).
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
The phone actually sold quite well. It was the top selling "Unlocked Android Phone" and "Unlocked Cell Phone" for a few months. The issue is the mediatek chip makes it almost impossible to devolve for. So it will be the same with that phone too. Plus I'm sure that phone will have a patch pre-loader to stop SPFT access. If its cheep enough when its release I'll pick one up and at least try and help with root again.

Also its literally the same phone. Other than the newer mediatek chip, clocked at the same speed, I don't see a difference.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Maybe we'll get Band 12 for this one...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Wonder who BLU picked this model up from, lol Tinno probably got tired of getting a new request every month to fix this.... The Chinese manufacturers love spitting out new phones, they don't have the same affinity for new software upgrades.....
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
R1 Plus Specs?

http://www.gsmarc.com/blu/r1-plus/

Looks like a mix between R1 Plus and R1 HD specs, as I doubt the Plus will have a 5 inch display like the R1 HD, that thing is noticeably bigger than the HD. But most of it seems like new stuff. MT6737V (clocked at 1.5GHz instead of the HD's 1.3 with the 6735), 4100mAh non-removable battery, Gorilla Glass 3 (finally a carpet won't scratch my screen), Proximity Sensor (didn't the R1 HD lack this?), Bluetooth 4.1. Hopefully it's somewhere within the $70-80 range for Amazon subsidized, if so I'll be seriously considering this.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
...This is pretty annoying -_-

I guess amzn makes for half of the page veiws smh
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] raderator:
May just be they same phone with higher clock speed, bigger battery, new back panel and less hackable software.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Still very annoying bro. The new mtk is welcome but this distraction may take away from full potential of existing mt6735 but ok.

lets see if they sell back the originals
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Called BLU about replacing the glass in front of the rear camera. They said they'd get back to me later about the price. Physical damage is NOT covered under warranty, by the way.

Figured I'd post my findings here in case anyone else needs to do this.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Meanwhile in BLU Headquarters:

"Guys somebody wants us to fix the $50 phone."

"Just tell them to buy a new one, its going to probably be more than $50 to fix it."

"Amazon stopped selling it, sir."

"****. Um. Just tell him we'll call him back."

*After call ends*

"Quick unplug all the phone."

Edit: Apparently XDA has a language filter. I did not know this...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Actually they did get back, said their repair department is open 9AM-5:45PM, so I actually just called them too late today.

It's not like it's prying teeth for kernel source, but I'm prepared for the situation you listed.

EDIT: Technically a $110 phone, that's worth like $30 for repair at most.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Guys its $30 to fix, im very torn what do i do?????
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
Fix it, that's cheap