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[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
No.

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Thanks mate. I've finally gotten around to mirroring the OTA. As always, you can find all OTAs for the phone on my mirror.

https://eu.mirrors.coltondrg.com/coltondrg/r1hd/stockota/prime/

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Non-Prime doesn't have any updates (yet?). You will have to convert your phone to Prime if you want it. As of right now, it's probably not worth it, but you can make the determination on what to do for yourself.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Prime (debloated) has the clock on the lock screen at the top rather than in the middle, but it also supports full device encryption. If you're a security junkie, id say convert and debloat. If not, it's not really worth it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
OEM supports encryption too, it is just hidden from the menus.

Also, I'm working on a way to fix the lock screen on Prime.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
How do I trigger or enable it then
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] zipsulman:
two charachters
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
http://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/guide-convert-to-prime-rollback-ota-t3432499/post68048954
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
OK, so confusing when you get quoted but the poster edits there comments into your quote.

Your welcome. But I guess I should say hit the thanks button. Or is that what I should do, anyway good to hear we have yet another successful convert.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Maynard46:
I am running into driver issues on both my windows 10 PC. I have already rooted and debloated/removed ads from my Prime version of this phone.

But when I hook the phone up via USB the device is not recognized by either of the W10 PCs. If I goto the dev options on the phone I can change the USB options to camara and then the phone shows up, but on as a camera and only then shows the DCIM folders.

Interestingly enough, my second PC which did not do the debloat...when I plugged in the USB cable the phone was seen and I was able to move music to the phone. While this was going on W10 was installing drivers and got about half way done when all of a sudden the phone vanished from "This PC" on the computer and no longer is seen by the PC.

I have tried to install the CDC and Medwhatever its called drivers and neither of these work after uninstalling/restarting/installing.

I know others are having this issue. Anyone know a work around to get this phone drivers working on W10 PC?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I will suggest on the device manager screen up top select show all devices(even disconnected ones) then removeall reference to android, adb, r1hd, bootloader, etc.

Then install the google drivers. That's what I did.

at one point i also used these drivers

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...taller&usg=AFQjCNFWqZB6T0ngnGDuHKR9CSNLo9GhgQ

ymmv
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
Yes, I noticed this. Sometimes I wake up the phone, I can see it reconnecting to wifi. Of course, if there is an active download, it won't disconnect.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Alex19Gam:
I don't think so, it doesn't keep wifi active when is downloading, the first night when I get this phone, updating apps, I lost like 1gb of data, in my county the data is too much limited and is expensive :(
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] zipsulman:
After installing SuperSU the phone went into a boot loop. It would boot into recovery mode and it would read the cache and then reboot. After I lot of effort I was able to get it to turn off by pressing and holding the power button just at the right time. wonder what would be the next best step in getting it to be usable again? It would be nice to get it to boot into the twrp recovery and then I could delete the cache and the davlik cache. I'm not sure I can get it to boot into recovery. In lieu of that, I could start from scratch and use the SP_Flash_Tool to reflash the boot system and recovery images.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] goldblot:
Does anybody else have the problem with being unable to access the internet on "4G" (not LTE)?

I can on 3G, H+, and on 4G LTE but not 4G. Maybe it's my location but I don't really know and cannot test it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
What carrier do you have? It works on AT&T.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] goldblot:
A MVNO of T-Mobile, Ultra Mobile
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Nougat officially out, now let's see if we got an update for either/both prime and regular phone.

I bet we won't, I even doubt we will get the promised band 12 update.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
It's BLU, I'm not holding my breath on them. But hopefully someone will fill the void with some custom Roms. If not though, I am still grateful for the work that has been done so far, allowing me to debloat and custimize to my liking. Additional features and Roms will be nice, but for everything that has already been done with this $60 phone is amazing. Thanks to all those who have made this possible!! Especially [MENTION=5355478]ColtonDRG[/MENTION], who has already answered more questions about this phone than I ever expected!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It works for me on T-Mobile. Can you go into the SIM Status and take a screenshot of that screen while you're having the problem. Please blur out your phone/account number and IMEI before posting the screenshot.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] onlykhaz:
:rolleyes: :eek:

These two phones are pretty similar in my opinion the nexus is a little better right? (only because there are devs working on roms and kernel)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
If you're suggesting Nexus 4 ROMs will work they won't, as the chipsets are completely different. It will have more support, because it's a nexus and it's been out for a while.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] onlykhaz:
No, I was not suggesting that. I was only was comparing them. So the nexus is better right? :confused:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Studio has better battery and a card slot, other than that they are really similar. If you don't care about that stuff above and want preexisting dev support go with a nexus 4.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Contacted BLU about Kernel source for nom R1 devices and they gave me instructions to an ftp server they have set up. Not necessarily relevant to the R1 as of now, but they could be putting their future stuff in here if they are to ever release N with a new kernel.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] RainofOranges:
I just tried in Filezilla and couldn't connect to the server.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
Happens to me a lot, no idea why T-Mobile 30$ plan btw
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] goldblot:
That should be it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Interesting. So HSPA+, UMTS, and LTE works fine but HSPA doesn't work? I suppose it could be a provisioning issue.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] goldblot:
Is there a way to solve such a problem?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
If it is a provisioning issue, you need to contact your carrier. There are other possibilities too though. Can you make calls and send/receive SMS while on HSPA?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] goldblot:
Generally, yes. Could it perhaps be just my area too?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
No. HSPA should carry data in any area.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] goldblot:
I'll just have to call them then. Glad it isn't the phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It could be, I just think it is unlikely. It seems odd that it would carry voice over HSPA with no problem but no data. It could also be an outage of the network in the area, but I think that is unlikely as well, especially sustained over a long period of time.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Anyone know the build code for Nougat? I know Marshmallow is MRA58K but the N stuff isn't on the AOSP site yet
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
It'll be a bit until it's made available. Maybe a few weeks to month.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] TheLoonyRebel:
This right here, right?

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/build/+/android-7.0.0_r1
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzzy_:
I found this video (and read) interesting. It is short and not very technical but I am glad I watched it. I learned a little from it.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/mobile/4g-vs-lte/

Things started getting interesting around the 1:00 mark and

the statement at 1:22 was enlightening to me and may help explain the situation. I am not sure.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
LTE downstreams and the IoE

I'm constantly studying this information with the intention to one day work in the provision of advanced LTE and 5G services (dreaming still legal where i live) and I wouldn't mind if the folks on unlimited data posted some of the effective speeds they got on what is... (what class LTE does the MT6735 support) so we can see just how much potential this thing has :cool::good::highfive:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
It supports Band 2,4,7,12,17 LTE. On LTE I've averaged about 3 Mbps download where I live, which is about 2 bars from T-Mobile.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzzy_:
I am on t mobile network via ting

At home I have seen as high as 5.20 Mbps down and 1.36 Mbps up.

At home I have seen as low as 1.35 Mbps down and .12 Mbps up.

Most of my at home test have normally been around 3.8 or so down and about 1 up.

I went out around my town yesterday for a little testing and it varied a lot depending on location. The highways as expected had the best numbers, as high as 12.25 down and 3.29 up near the interchange of a few major highways. Other parts of town it got as low as .18 down but with a .79 up on that particular test. Haven't figured that out but since I was moving while doing that test, that could be part of it. I did see as low as .12 up.

I did all my town test yesterday while driving around...yeah I know it isn't a great idea and I won't be doing much of it anymore but I guess it was just my day to be an outlaw. :)

I did do a couple of test inside of banks (no the outlaw in me didn't make me rob them) and one bank had mobile data jammed but I left and went out in the parking lot and it was pretty poor out there, in the 1 down range.

I went to the next bank and was doing a test inside and it was really bad but I finally got another very low reading. The girl working there started talking to me while I was doing it and I asked her if they had the signals jammed and she said no, it just seems like it with t mobile. :laugh: She told me that she has had t mobile for a while in my area and the service is terrible. She told me she could get reception if she went to a far corner of the bank in one particular office. She said she could get some reception on the roads in town but any rural areas and she gets nothing. She said AT&T gets much better reception in our area, especially out in the more rural parts, but the guy at the T Mobile store didn't mention that when she was buying a phone. :rolleyes:

I did not check rural areas yet but I am not expecting very much there which is kind of a bummer because it would be nice to have reception while I am out riding my bicycle in the country, but I do have a Sprint phone thru Ting as well and it will suffice for bicycle duty I guess. If I go to a large city I will do some testing there as well.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
!!! This is promising

Awesome, 2 bars? You can probably get much more but then.... the almighty chart is also relevant, let me see if i can pull a '*.svg' one moment

This means that for the US and my carrier that got LTE less than 2 months ago, I should be able to get 7-10 mbps (in demo they showed 50-60 but....... that's demo and they not tricking me with that :cowboy: )

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Excellent.

On paper this device is capable of achieving some of the best real-world speeds that we can get in the US, especially if the write disk is is ram (DDR2/3?) (I... can't wait to do emmc benchmarks and such)

That is awesome so far tmo looking good. Pity verizon uses trash band 13 which no one likes and now everyone will be forced to sp flash their v2w note 7 out of box :D:D:D

As long as the existing oem kernel manages modem switching and ram management like a true marshmallow i can easily own this phone for a year (or until time comes to teardown and replace li-ion battery)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
AT&T
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I see your fast.com and raise you 2 fast.com's! The first result was 6.1 Mbps then the next was 2.2.

But as you can see, coverage in my area is very volatile. I took these two tests consecutively, literally one right after the other, and the speed difference is big. On average, I'd just say somewhere in the 3's for Mbps here.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] wh00p:
Is Ting still super bad news for data hogs ($$$-wise)? Seems like the last MVNO I'd go back to for that reason alone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzzy_:
Data

Nationwide

No usage	$0

100MB $3

500MB $10

1GB	$16

2GB	$20

more?

$10/GB

I don't use data very often when I am out. I don't really use my phones very much at all, even for calls. All the data intense things I do are at home on WIFI with much faster speeds. I almost always use under 100 MB but this month with the new phone and checking things out with it, I got very close to going over 100 MB. My service month closes out today and I did manage to get data turned off before it went to the next usage level.

I also text with Hangouts and use google voice and hangouts for home phone via WIFI with a blacklisted LG G4 I picked up cheap. I didn't know it was blacklisted when I bought it but I held on to it because I like the phone and it makes a nice home phone. Plan was to put it on ting but that didn't work out so here I am with an R1 HD to replace one of my OG EVO 4Gs that is ready for retirement.

I do enjoy the rooting and playing around with programming but in reality I am not a big cell phone person. I have large computer monitors and TVs so I don't care much for getting my news and social media fix on a cell phone size screen. The bright side of that is that my two lines cell phone bill normally cost about 20 dollars a month, this month playing with the R1 HD that has made it skyrocket to 24 dollars. ;)

ting isn't for everyone but it suits my needs just fine.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
So for those of you with windows 10, what drivers did you install? I just installed this http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48915118 and now the phone isnt recognized and auto search doesn't work because " a service installation section in this INF is invalid" i realized this has probably been asked here before but i cant find anything via a quick search. Any help would be appreciated.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
fast.com is not accurate for T-Mobile since it uses Netflix's connections (thanks to Binge On)

By the way, I raise you a Google search for "Internet speed test" (apparently that brings up their own little speed testing widget. Neat!) on 2-3 bars of T-Mobile LTE in Denver, Colorado.

Edit: Apparently not, XDA won't let me upload my screenshot. Have an imgur link instead.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Go into device manager u will see the driver (probably under portable devices) anyhow it will have an exclamation mark on the device, just double click it to bring up properties windows, click the driver tab, then update driver, choose browse my computer for driver software, then click let me pick from a list.... It should come up with several driver choices, select MTP USB Device, that should do the trick, under device manager you should now see R1 HD in device manager, and the device will now show up in explorer.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] udis:
I ordered one for my buddy and can't get it to connect to metro pcs. Any ideas, the APN settings pull off the sim fine but no signal of any sort.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
If it's defective, I think Amazon will just ship a new one. Click on "return or replace items" in order history. Will probably provide a prepaid shipping label as well.

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I'm not sure that's the criterion. : -)

In any case BLU has announced at http://www.bluproducts.com/r1-hd/

"4G LTE band 12(700 MHz) will be available via OTA (Over-the-air) update shortly after launch."

I expect the delay is VoLTE and E911 certification by t-mobile.

The band 12 story is interesting:

http://www.fiercewireless.com/story...ur-network-must-support-volte-e911/2015-08-28

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The easiest way is to send the phone and $50 to Amazon.

Alternatively, try the Picturesque lockscreen...the same swipe that removes the lockscreen seems to remove the ad. However, I wouldn't count on this working forever.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Who cares when BLU releases it, we already enabled it ourselves. Besides, calling the cops is so overrated anyway. Some of the members of LG L90 ROM development (months and months before I got mine and joined) apparently had touchscreen bugs that would dial the emergency dialer on the lock screen when woken from sleep... they had the police show up in front of their house multiple tines from that (I forget who it was, I just remember hearing this story). XDA has had enough with police encounters, and I'm sure it's true the other way around as well.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
We didn't expect this phone to be bootloader unlockable, right? I mean, it is a subsidized phone being sold at half price. Amazon would have to be pretty technically inept to allow getting rid of the apps that subsidize it. If they did, they would lose money on every one of the phones that they sold. That first update they pushed out fixed the ability to hide the ad server app, I read.

For $110, there's a version without the ads. It might make sense that Blu would make a bootloader unlock available for that version (while voiding the warranty) like Motorola does. But I don't expect that there will ever be a bootloader unlock available for the amazon ad supported version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
12 hours of battery

Wifi off throughout. HSPA+ connected sim1, 2g connected sim2.

View attachment 3815281
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] besweeet:
New complaint of mine: It doesn't matter if I set my audio mode to silent / meeting / outdoor, it will *always* go back to general mode. I kept hearing notification sounds and vibrations all night because the phone kept kicking itself out of the other modes -- even do not disturb mode... WTF?

Battery update this morning... All I'm doing is checking email and loading a few web pages... Lost 2% typing this post since uploading the screenshot (down to 94%). I've never had an Android battery experience this bad before.

Do some research on VoLTE and you'll find out why band 12 is important.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
i cant speak for others but personally i saw a guy from AP post that the bootloader could be unlocked easily then bought it instead of the moto g, didn't find out it can't be unlocked till i tried myself. and yeah hopefully it will get unlocked soon, its a pretty good value proposition.

Also even though the phone is on silent every 1 minutes it gives out a small notification sound that is really annoying, any idea how to fix that?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
A few mentions of Metro PCS in Amazon reviews:

https://www.amazon.com/product-revi...o&search-alias=community-reviews&tag=rnwap-20

(scroll down)

One guy says, "you have to get a special plan if you are using an unlocked phone." If this is true, I'd look elsewhere. Check out Ting or the T-mobile 5gb/100 minute $30 plan.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
dang, that sucks. Dual SIM was the whole reason I bought this phone :crying:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] udis:
Thank you! I did some more digging seems you might have to provide the imei number to them over the phone too, I'm gonna have him call
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bynarie:
The bootloader is unlockable on the amazon ads version phone. All you have to do is boot to bootloader and type "fastboot oem unlock". It worked for mine just fine =]
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] pixelatedtorch:
Did you try the whole process?

Other people tried that same method and claimed that it wouldn't work, even if you get the "Unlock bootloader?" screen, it would fail if you pass that screen.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bynarie:
i guess i just assumed it would work. my mistake. i didnt want to unlock it yet until we had some recovery method
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bibikalka:
Root ?

So no root yet ?

Something crafty will be required, but hopefully one can borrow from the experience with other Amazon devices based on MTK. But first and foremost, attempt to avoid OTA updates (if at all possible) !!!

Tasks :

1) get UART logs, for example, as per the following instructions (by connecting a FT232RL USB-to-TTL-Serial adapter to a 5-pin micro USB plug):

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65585385&postcount=16

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65587440&postcount=17

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=65588189&postcount=18

2) try to see if AFTV2 tools would work in general:

http://xdaforums.com/fire-tv/general/root-amazon-fire-tv-gen-2-4k-t3245407

If they do work, one could patch Supersu into /system, determine the blocks that became different, and copy them to the device thus gaining root !
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Anyone try PingPong root that was made for Galaxy S6? Maybe it'll work since it was made for such a new Android version.

EDIT: Added a "What We Know So Far" compilation to the first post of the thread for quick reference, let me know if I missed anything.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] rakave:
Got my phone a few days back and I have to admit...the specs are definitely impressive. Thanks for creating this thread. A friend of mine has ordered the no-ads version of the same phone. I m gonna wait till his arrives and try to see if we can flash that firmware over the ad-version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
Just tried ping pong, no dice
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] udis:
He just called me, they took the imei number over the phone and it's working like a charm! Thanks limpet!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jacewt:
You should add the info on how to enable band 12
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
So if you go into adb shell and do a getprop near the bottom there is a prop for "sys.oem_unlock_allowed" and it is set to 0

In theory if anybody knows how to change that either after root is obtained or through adb then you could change that to a 1 and be able to unlock the bootloader.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
This post has both the signed and unsigned drivers: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67927242&postcount=23

I am on Win10 64 Bit, and installed the unsigned drivers, which work fine for me, but on 64 bit, you have to disable Signature Verification to be able to install. Sounds like from what [MENTION=5919159]Tzul[/MENTION] says, the signed drivers also work as well, and save you having to go through disabling Driver Sig Verification.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Lol, I get like 5.5Mbps on Sprint. Granted, I only have two bars right now and I'm on an MVNO.