yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Sorry, the phone I had with cracked screen got tossed in garbage, if I still had it, I'd send it to ya. I wasn't going to toss it, since it was unlocked and all, but after I swapped mine with the brats he just threw it away before I even realized it. :(
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
^^^better customer service than we all expected!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
As long as you don't ask them to do something they don't want to do, they get things done ;)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
To be fair, isn't that most people?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
The concept itself applies to most people, but where that concept applies within the company is what makes BLU different. Namely, following the law and releasing kernel source, so as not to be sued.

I'll be sending it out soon, and making a special note in my email to them to NOT TOUCH FIRMWARE.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] willdoyle22:
Has anyone had any luck with the row hammer exploit on the r1 ? Currently running drammer on my phone... The hours and counting. If so, has anyone heard of an API to actually attain root using it? Thanks!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
From reading row hammer is about as useless as dirtycow, perhaps even more useless as people aren't even working with it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I believe Rowhammer is only SUPPOSED to work with phones from 2011-2013 (and some 2014) anyway.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
That could be.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Okay, update. So I can't get CM working. I can't get CM to build a boot.img file that works to boot the ROM past the BLU logo, and on a boot.img that does boot to the CM logo I can not make heads or tails out of the logcats. I cam going to build one more time with ENG variant of CM and post it for anybody else to mess with. I'm officially done. I will post again build is complete.

At the current state what appears to be the issue is, assuming I understanding everything correctly, CM really doesn't like the blobs from the phone and it would have to be AOSP based ROM. I did try building a pure AOSP build but made even less progress with that than CM. I really don't have the experience/knowledge to do this.

Like I said before, assuming the next amazon BLU phone is cheap again I will pick it up and try and help with root, hell I'll even try again with CM on that phone and maybe figure something out there. But for now I am done.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
:( :( :(

Amzn may have won this round but not the war
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Here is the last build of the broken CM build that I am uploading if anybody who know what they are doing can get it working. The boot.img file inside it does not work, you will need to flash the CM-BOOT.img file.

Again:

####THIS DOES NOT WORK ONLY DOWNLOAD IF YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING AND ARE ABLE TO RESTORE YOUR PHONE! DO NOT LOOK AT ME IF YOU BREAK YOUR PHONE!####

Broken CM Build.

CM-BOOT.img
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Give it another day who know what will turn up.

Look what one more day brings

http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/blu-r1-hd-v6-6-dirtycowed-f-amazon-root-t3490882
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] raderator:
Got no option to block calls, only SMS. Called Airvoice to see if it needed to be enabled on their end. They say no. Anyone else? Using an app called Call Blacklist. Quite nice, simple, material design, ads unobtrusive.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Unexperienced:
Where do I get the SP Flash Tools V. 1628 ?

I found the download, but is it ok to use the most recent .1640 version?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
6.6 roll back

The roll back is ready for public use.

http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/r1hd-update-6-6-bootloader-roll-t3491096
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I think it's safe to say we've conquered the R1 HD completely. I highly doubt there will be any more firmware updates, especially with the R1 Plus coming out. You guys rock.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I agree no upgrades for this phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Not sure if this have been posted before, but I do remember at least seeing a request for it (or similar). I don't know the feature parity compared to other implementations as I've never used it before, but looks like this phone does have tap2wake.

shell@R1_HD:/ $ su
root@R1_HD:/ # echo 1 > /proc/tgeseture_config

Turn the screen on and off and you should be able to tap it awake after that. Echo 0 if you want to disable tap2wake.

shell@R1_HD:/ $ su
root@R1_HD:/ # echo 0 > /proc/tgeseture_config
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ytsejam1138:
Great find!! Thanks
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
it sounds good but , there might be more to it than that. I just tried and all it did for me was disable touch screen.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ytsejam1138:
Works great for me. I'm running vampirefo's safe v6.6.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Thank you sir you are the best :crying:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Like [MENTION=5366975]ytsejam1138[/MENTION] was saying, I'm guessing its dependent on kernel version and there is a driver bug/lock in the source they released or earlier fw versions. I'm running v6.6 as well (Linux localhost 3.18.19+ #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Aug 23 20:22:55 CST 2016 armv7l), which kernel are you on ATM?

I'll build from source after work and try with that, see if I can reproduce your issue maybe.

EDIT: I built from source and it worked, not sure what happened with your system at this point
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzzy_:
I don't have Call Blacklist on my R1...yet, I got a new number for it and haven't started receiving any unwanted calls so far. I have been using Call Blacklist on a couple of my other phones for quite a while. I really like it and would hate not having it.

Nice work getting the latest update Rooted guys. :good:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] n3kf:
Thank you. Also on the 6.6 no ad and it worked great for me.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ytsejam1138:
The tap2wake doesn't seem to survive a reboot.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Nope. Sorry should have mentioned that, but changes to procfs are not persistent across reboots. A startup script would need to be included/flashed that would toggle this bit
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Now unlock method has been updated to one click method

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=69387472&postcount=5
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Hello everybody. Today we have an exciting math lesson to learn.

A+B+C=BRICK

A= 6.6 preloader (force installed for testing reasons)

B= locked bootloader (locked for same testing)

C= custom recovery (forgot to replace with stock before reboot)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Thank you based Mr.Mazak ?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Blu will probably fix for $30 or $40, if you think it's worth it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
How do I contact them. I would probably do that if I can get any where with fastboot -c
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I think it's service@bluproducts.com but you can check on their website. They have a form to fill out on their website for repairs and such.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Thanks

I did do that and got a response already. They said to do a factory reset in recovery. DUH. Oh wait recovery will not boot. :(

Waiting for second response.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
They're just running through their script. It's a tech support thing.

Anyway I doubt your fix will cost much, I'm guessing $30 at most. It doesn't involve replacing hardware, just reimagine software and shipping it back to you.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
they told me 10-15 days plus time to inventory. So more like 20 days. I asked if anything i can do before sending it in because that seems like a long time without my phone. There response was that they already did all diagnostic testing and determined it was hardware issue and only option was to send it in.

lol. all testing done. lol . so if youre in a boot loop and cannot get into recovery its a hardware issue and must be replaced. hahahahahaha .

so i cannot develop for about a month. and by then there will be a different phone to pawn.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
I wonder if they will do a 6.7 now that dirtycow has been patched with November Security Update?? If so get the word out early!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
I would be pretty surprised with we get a v6.7 considering amazon dropping R1 from the store. v6.6 is only the 8/5/16 patch, so we've yet to receive 9/1/16, 9/5/16, 10/1/16, or 10/5/16 patches (and like you say 11/1/16 and 11/5/16 which hey hopefully is a tipping point). This covers a lot of privilege escalations that are still not patched. Though dirtyc0w has received the most attention, there are still a lot of exploits possible that would result in a simple PoC giving a root shell.

edit: obligatory I'm back-porting all the upstream kernel patches to github. Haven't noticed any hiccups yet. I don't use my phone for much more than phone/texting/music, but haven't seen any breakage so far.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Probably not, considering the R1 Plus is coming out soon. Amazon needs to just throw in the towel and let us have this one.

After all, if they don't, well hack the R1 Plus as well.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] theredbaron1834:
So kernel compiling works? I thought there was issue with that. I really want a kernel with loop device support. Is that doable? If you don't mind , what would be involved in compiling?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
I think most of this in the kernel source code thread, but here's what I'm using

First you will need a Linux host (going to assume this is all done in a directory called workspace in your home directory ie /home/mumbel/workspace).

For compiling I am using gcc 4.8, so something like this:

git clone https://android.googlesource.com/platform/prebuilts/gcc/linux-x86/arm/arm-eabi-4.8
cd arm-eabi-4.8
git checkout ndk-r13-release

To build the boot.img I'm using abootimg. on debian/ubuntu

sudo apt-get install abootimg

Get kernel source and build

git clone https://github.com/mumbel/android_kernel_mediatek_mt6735.git
cd android_kernel_mediatek_mt6735
export ARCH=arm
export PATH=$HOME/arm-eabi-4.8/bin:$PATH
SRCROOT=$HOME/workspace/android_kernel_mediatek_mt6735
DRVS=$SRCROOT/drivers
MISCMTK=$DRVS/misc/mediatek
export CPATH=$MISCMTK/base/power/mt6735/:$MISCMTK/btcvsd/:$MISCMTK/cmdq/v2/mt6735/:$MISCMTK/ext_disp/mt6735/:$MISCMTK/fingerprint/gfx1xm/:$MISCMTK/gpio/mt6735/:$MISCMTK/i2c/mt6735/:$MISCMTK/m4u/mt6735/mt6753/:$MISCMTK/power/mt6735/:$MISCMTK/uart/mt6735/:$MISCMTK/video/mt6735/dispsys:$MISCMTK/video/mt6735/videox/:$DRVS/mmc/host/mediatek/mt6735/:$DRVS/pinctrl/mediatek/:$DRVS/spi/mediatek/mt6735/:$DRVS/watchdog/mediatek/wdt/mt6735/
mkdir -p tools/tools
make p6601_defconfig
make -j4

After that's finished, grab a boot.img from a previous firmware to pull out ramdisk/initrd and then rebuild boot.img with the new kernel image

abootimg -i boot.img
abootimg --create myboot.img -f ./bootimg.cfg -k ./android_kernel_mediatek_mt6735/arch/arm/boot/zImage-dtb -r ./initrd.img

Then just fastboot with new boot.img, i'm just booting off the new here, not flashing

adb reboot-bootloader
fastboot boot myboot.img

edit: As far as I can tell loop is already enabled in these kernels, so you are likely running into android/userland issues, but honestly couldn't tell you one way or the other how to figure this out (the config has the driver enabled and I can see them in /dev/block/loop[0-7]).
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] theredbaron1834:
Hm, point, it is there. Why the world can nothing use it? Trying to run some linux installers, but no go, and loop support checker says no too. I can get debian to work, but it is a pretty full xfce install. Plus, not a fan of apt-get.

Still, if this gets no more updates, at least I can stay some what better with the kernel. Also, since I run Arch and use the AUR, already have a linux with easy access to an arm compiler. Thanks. Going to have to try this once I get home.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
Hello guys. So far my BLU is still working but has been accumulating an interesting numbher of issues that may have an easy solution that i haven't considered yet.

1.- The phone ringtones stopped working altogether. I tried max volume, changing between tones and nothing. Vibration and sound notifications from apps work fine, it's only the phone ringtone.

2.- The clock at the top of the active screen stops updating. It updates only when i rotate the screen. Lockscreen clock works fine.

3.- Most recently, today i get a "can't connect to the camera" anytime i try to access the Camera App or from any other app like Whatssap.

I anyone knows solution or links to guides on how to solve any of these problems it'll be awesome. Thanks again for keeping up this thread.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Never had these on my R1, but ive had clock issues on other devices. For me a reboot worked, but if it didnt for you id say backup and factory reset. If that still doesnt work, do an SPFT switch to different firmware.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] 0xd0gf00d:
I converted my phone to the non Amazon version using the guides here. Can someone point to detailed steps to move to the 6.6 version with the option of keeping boot loader unlocked and preferably no ads? Tia
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ytsejam1138:
http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/development/prime-stock-rom-6-5-flashed-via-twrp-t3455532
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
And what is the advantage of going to 6.6? A couple of security patches? Or is there something more?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
two security patches, nothing else
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Hello. It's been a while since I've been here.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
Hardly seems worth it. Think I'll stick with the non-Prime version on my two phones - bought a backup before they pulled it. It does everything I need and then some - especially after Colton's excellent instructions for root and installing Xposed and gravitybox.

Blu has shown that update promises mean absolutely nothing. That's their track record, but we had hoped that it would be different if it was the amazon model.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Chukie022:
How to install Xposed?, Normal with download sdk 23 arm?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] KazuDante:
Is there anyone here that knows how to use a different kernel source of the same platform/soc as our R1 HD to compile a 64bit kernel? Blu has confirmed that Amazon opted with a 32bit version instead of its native 64bit nature, meaning the kernel source they chared is no good to us(in light terms) but a while ago we did post a kernel source of a device wich its rom i ported to the R1(ported around 5-7 roms already) wich worked nearly flawlessly except for the camera not working and software keys not enable since that device had hardware keys instead. I have found many suitable cm13 roms and even a Nougat rom that i really think i could port over the R1 but the big issue is the fact that Amazon built the kernel in 32bit and not in 64bit wich stops me from porting the many other roms I found. This is the 1 rom i ported that everything including the camera that worked and the funny part is the its also a p6601_defconfig, i will share the link : https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzU6b7lzLmttUHlqUHpTNWpIRzQ/view?usp=sharing its not that pretty tho but it does have double tap to wake and other gestures and its not stock R1 firmware so thats a plus i guess...... So Im putting out an S.O.S to any devellopers that are familiar to compiling kernels from source for mtk devices , if any are reading this please help us achieve this milestone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
Use Colton's most excellent guide: http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/guide-installing-xposed-stock-rom-t3426100
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
Update?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] dorkydroid:
Hey, any chance one of you figured out how to make the front flash led work with snapchat instead of that white screen crap?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ase1590:
Very odd. Got an email from Amazon today alerting me to a info breach with some Blu third party app. Can anyone figure out what app exactly is pulling all this data?

Site from email:

www.bluproducts.com/security
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
This is the terrible app supposed to check and install OTAs.

Good news is that if you debloated your phone this app was disabled and unable to collect any data anyway.

FYI this app was already known to silently install apps and ads a while ago (source) but this is a new one.

It will check and eventually silently download (tested on a converted non-prime V12) http://hwfotadown.mayitek.com/ota/r...11UU_GENERIC/en/other/2016103020010214776.apk and update itself. This update is installed on /data and do not replace the /system version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
Here is more info: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/16/us/politics/china-phones-software-security.html
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] n3kf:
From Blu

http://www.bluproducts.com/security/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] SonicPower:
Source? How do we know if this statement is true?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] damnmachine:
Sneaky
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Because while debloating the app was disabled to prevent any OTA update that may lock the phone back or disable root.

Easy to check by yourself, if you debloated and follow http://www.bluproducts.com/security/ instructions you will not see the app in step 5, because it's disabled.

If the app is enabled it's also quite chatty with baidu (but to its defense it's probably just using their api as almost every other one do with google) check and download OTAs without encryption an on some weird servers.

But hey that's why an ASOP rom is what everyone want on their phone, to be free of all this crap!

Maybe it will force BLU to ship a real update soon (of the system to at least patch / remove the app) and also release the now long promised band 12 update? Or Nougat?

Maybe we should just all complain about this issue and email them asking for such update, just saying.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] SonicPower:
I installed the stock V12 ROM. Is that the same as debloating?

I noticed it has update 5.4, so was it never affected?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
No. This is debloating: http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/guide-ad-removal-debloat-block-ota-easy-t3429555
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] SonicPower:
I noticed the wireless update version is 5.4.

According to the website, 5.4 users are unaffected.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kb3wmh:
This was in the news! Apparently these phones were sending every text message to a Chinese server, where they were saved.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jimberkas:
yes, i noticed that as well. I wonder if that is true.

should we force stop and disable Wireless Update?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] FernandoRocker:
Amazon told me that this is a "feature". :eek:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] n3kf:
Sigh..... Did they answer that last question?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Lmao!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kb3wmh:
I'm thinking of abandoning ship...

Does anyone know of any smartphones that aren't made in China?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] raderator:
Just got the v7.4.2 update. Has that band for the Tmo people. No nougat. Wireless Update is now v5.5
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
You didn't happen to have wire shark running when you took the update, did you? That way you would know the IP address of the download.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Javiefs:
Today I have a new update V7. 4.2

Enviado desde mi R1 HD mediante Tapatalk
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kb3wmh:
Is this only for the Prime version? I don't see it on my non Prime converted phone
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
It would be nice to catch this update, can you make a backup of your boot.img and upload it.

---------- Post added at 07:33 AM ---------- Previous post was at 07:30 AM ----------

Most likely Prime, I doubt nonprime will get any updates.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
It should be available by this afternoon, I assume. One user told me he had the update and can download and/or pull it. But not while at work.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I can pull it this evening, just rolled my phone over to 6.6, and the update is available, but it's 375mb that's to much to download via carrier, I need to wait til I can get WiFi.

Still would like anyone that has already installed it to upload their new boot.img.

---------- Post added at 08:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 08:22 AM ----------

I did just downloaded it, it contains preloaded, lk.bin similar to last update.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
WHAT THE F___.

The update was expected to also remove or fix the security spying issue with Chinese adopus app. Whether it is or not, that have now added /system/vendor/operator/app/Baidu_location. Isn't that a Chinese spy-ware program too.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
This was always included on the phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Oh,. I didn't see it on my v12, I assumed it was new addition.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
It's not present on V12, only on the prime variant.

I'm hoping we will get a V12 update too, but else I will switch to 6.1 this week end to capture the combine 6.1 to 7.4.2 OTA file if no one get it before.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I don't see that app in my update.zip, my update.zip is from 6.6 to 7.4.2.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
In my update.zip. I'm looking at I do not know what version is was from.

In the zip /patch/system/vender/operator/app/

DO NOT INSTALL THIS. IT IS THE FULL UPDATE WITH ALL THE CHANGES TO PRELOASER THAT BLOCK THE USE OF SP FLASH TOOL

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByJNKJ8bGC50czNvSEV2MVh4Ukk/view?usp=drivesdk
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
That is just patching existing file, a new file won't be in patch.

If you look in system/app you will see a new app called Gba now this is a new app.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
It seems to me you got a 6.1 to 7.4.2 OTA:

ui_print("Source: BLU/R1_HD/R1_HD:6.0/MRA58K/1466146428:user/release-keys");
ui_print("Target: BLU/R1_HD/R1_HD:6.0/MRA58K/1478669896:user/release-keys");

Probably the Generic Bootstrapping Architecture required for VOIP authentication (but I'm just guessing based on the app name, coud be a GameBoy Advance emulator if we are lucky ;))