yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] audi.rs4:
The mtk-su version worked. I was able to get the bootloader unlocked and TWRP installed.

I tried to install a custom ROM (LineageOS 14.1), but was met with an error upon install:

Target: BLU/lineage_p6601/p6601:7.1.2/NJH47F/966e453302:userdebug/test-keys could not detect filesystem for /dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.msdc0/by-name/system, assuming ext4
mount: failed to mount /dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/11230000.msdc0/by-name/system at /system: No such file or directory unmount of /system failed; no such volume
Patching system image unconditionally....
E1001: Failed to update system image
Updater process ended with ERROR: 7
Error installing zip file '/sdcard/lineage-14.1-20171023_024104-UNOFFICIAL-p6601.zip'

Any ideas why it failed to install? Do I need a different version of TWRP?

Thanks.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Posting a mirror of all my R1HD crap from way back when. XDA allows us to post large files now, and I need to clear up some space on my Mega account. Old links within the thread will soon be broken, but I'm going to post EVERYTHING in my R1HD repo in the form of a zip file. Everything I've ever linked to in my Mega will be located within this archive. Last edited 7/25/2016.

The chances of anyone needing this are low, but I want to do this anyway for archival purposes. I didn't have much to begin with, but worth preserving just in case. 5 years later, I still look back at this community and how much fun it was being in the 'thick of it' with everyone here.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bob24260:
Well I read it anyway. Those days were fun. Seems like all the fun is out of it now. Thanks for your efforts.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Sucks it took Blu so long to release the kernel source, or else this would've gotten more traction for sure. I don't want to take all of the credit either. It was a group effort really: @bullet25, @coltondrg, @mrmazak were part of it too (there might be others but I've honestly forgotten). Hope those guys are doing alright.

EDIT: crap, looks like colton deleted his account.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Battery Calibration

We were discussing battery calibration. Coincidentally, an old BLU Studio 5.0 LTE started to behave strangely. This shows the symptoms, procedure to force recalibration, and the result.

Sunday afternoon wouldn't charge above about 65%. Around 5pm removed charger and played some long youtube videos. Three hours later it shut itself off. Plugged in charger without turning on the phone. A tap on the on/off switch displayed charge level (with the phone off, the app didn't know that the charger was connected so the graph is grey). 100% at 11pm, removed charger and turned on the phone overnight. Used it a bit in the morning and at 11am charged it back to 100%. Working fine ever since.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
There's even the possibility of the phone bootlooping after doing something like that. Sometimes OTA updates rely on certain versions of certain apps being there on first boot after the update to work right.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] JShan:
Bummer. If anyone has any luck with FM Radio, please post about it here. Strange that BLU/Amazon are advertising the phone as supporting FM Radio but with no pre-loaded app and not having enabled NextRadio...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] magicphone:
I'm sorry I didn't read all 20 pages

I'm not from North America, which OEM makes this phone, under which name I can order it directly from China, what is the price? Anyone has figured this out?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
This is a BLU phone, the BLU R1 HD. The non-Amazon variant goes for about $100 US dollars for the 8gb model, or $110 US dollars for the 16gb model. I'm not sure if Amazon has the Prime variant for other countries, but if they do, take off $50 USD for each price listed, and add Amazon advertisements to the lock screen.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
For anyone with the latest OTA, what security patch date do you have? My firmware is 6.1 and mine is June 1st.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
same
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
Unlike other Blu phones, this one doesn't appear to be a re-badged China phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] krchi:
So I factory resetted the phone and tried another router of the same model(which my other devices have no problem with) So either i got a defective model or that something in the Dlink DIR 615 B2 mixed modes with N and just N doesnt work with the phone, it can surf the web for like 10 seconds then stops working and works when I disconnect and reconnect, I'm gonna get a replacement from Amazon and see what happens.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Last item different.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
OK thanks. I was worried the security patch would increase in date, making it harder to root. So, that means OTA should have no affect on rootability when an exploit is found, since it's the same security patch.

EDIT: Installed the OTA, as established nothing changed except kernel build date (which could be trouble if root were to use kernel exploits)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] nyder:
The lockscreen is ran by an app called Amazon Offers. You can disable it's updated in Googles Play store, and you can download the update. I don't know anything about redoing the packages, but my thought was this: Re do the update to change/remove the adds in it. Apply that update, then turn off all further updates. Then either we have no ads showing, or something else.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Did a test from Zimperium for the StageFright exploit. This device with the latest OTA is in fact vulnerable. If someone were to make a root method using StageFright as an exploit, it would work on here.

I'll be looking in on how to root using StageFright.

EDIT: Oops, did more research and apparently StageFright doesn't actually give root access. Still interesting to note that a device with 6.0 marshmallow and 3.18 kernel is vulnerable. We'd have system permissions at most (a level below root), all we'd need then is the jump from system to root.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Wouldn't be suprised if it was manufactured by Gionee who make many BLU phones. However, I doubt it will be sold as anything but BLU.

http://www.gizchina.com/2014/09/10/rebranded-chinese-phones/

This one may have the same display and cpu, but it is very different:

http://www.phonearena.com/phones/compare/BLU-R1-HD,Gionee-Pioneer-P5W/phones/10169,10015
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I'm not sure what I did but every time I turn on my phone I find Firefox was uninstalled. Anyone else have this problem? It could be a virus from a root app I tried...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jacewt:
You need to install it and move it to internal storage. It doesn't like the sd card for whatever reason. Once I moved it, it stuck.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Maldonian:
Hello.

I just received notification of an available Wireless Update. Disabled Wireless Updates and the notification disappeared.

Are you saying that it would be O.K. to accept the update?

Thank you.

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Maldonian
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
So i did this, here is what my cmd output looks like

C:\adb>adb shell

adb server is out of date. killing...

* daemon started successfully *

pshell@R1_HD:/ $ pm clear com.amazon.phoenix

pmSuccess

shell@R1_HD:/ $ pm hide com.amazon.phoenix

Package com.amazon.phoenix new hidden state: false

i also made sure to sign out of my account as well yet the option to disable it is greyed out, any ideas? Seeing this Package com.amazon.phoenix new hidden state: false seemed kinda iffy, did you have the most recent ota installed when you did this?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Hmm... I don't remember if I installed the OTA before or afterwards... That does seem odd. I also used either macOS or Linux for the ADB shell (again, don't remember, but I know it wasn't Windows), but I don't think that could make any difference.

Update: Got an idea, but first, a question. Is the Force Stop button also greyed out? Try "pm disable com.amazon.phoenix" in ADB shell. I look forward to hearing the results.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Jstame:
Anyone else lose access to stock recovery after applying the v6.4 update?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
We already know about this and it doesn't work. Once you reboot the phone, the ads will be back. Also, if you take the OTA update, this won't work anymore. You should probably edit/delete this post just so people don't get confused.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I've rebooted the phone many times. The ads are not back. It works for me.

Clarification: I have also taken the OTA. Still no ads. That said, I don't remember if I completed the process before or after taking the OTA. I suspect it was before.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
Request for Forum submitted

I did not see that anyone had submitted a request on the official thread for device forum requests, so I took the liberty of doing so. You can find the request here: http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67832533&postcount=20819 (should you want to express your support for its creation :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
You did not look very well then :]

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=67778033#post67778033
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
Is this your first update out of the box, or did they release another (2nd since launch) update today? I have the phone at home, so can't tinker with it and check.

---------- Post added at 01:42 PM ---------- Previous post was at 01:40 PM ----------

Clearly....... I was not thinking someone would be so on the ball as to request the forum that quickly, so stopped checking the page prior. Great!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
A moderator of the New Device Forum Requests thread has written:

>Not a discussion thread folks. Device section requests only please.

>Let's not muddy the waters here. A couple posts removed. You can use private messaging to pass info along.

>Cheers!

Do no reply to messages in that thread.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Maldonian:
This would have been the first update for me.

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Maldonian
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Stupid phone trick:

Start camera, click on selfie button (rightmost), click on settings (leftmost), click on Smile Shot.

Make faces at your phone.

(not planning to share the result)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
Okay I take my words back :o Let's see if others can replicate, but I think most don't want an Echo lockscreen! By the way, others have reported ACdisplay lockscreen app works well.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DillPo313:
OMG thank you! It completely removed the ads and still looks really nice!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Update on this: I tested AcDisplay on the newest update and it still works! :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
The Echo lockscreen doesn't bug me that much. Like I said, it's mildly annoying, but it's much better than a third party lockscreen, which are easily bypassable and inherently insecure.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] goldblot:
Didn't work for me but that's fine since I'm just waiting for root. I'd gladly help in any way that I possibly can but I doubt that I can do much.

I also ran these commands after "adb shell" in case anybody wants to disable other amazon/google apps or whatever; just hope it helps.

pm clear com.amazon.phoenix
pm clear com.amazon.clouddrive.photos
pm clear com.imdb.mobile
pm clear com.adups.fota.sysoper
pm clear com.adups.fota
pm clear com.amazon.kindle
pm clear com.amazon.widgets
pm clear com.amazon.now
pm clear com.amazon.mp3
pm clear com.amazon.dee.app
pm clear com.amazon.drive
pm clear com.mediatek.providers.drm
pm clear com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient
pm clear com.goodreads
pm clear com.amazon.mShop.android
pm clear com.audible.application
pm clear com.amazon.device.information.provider
pm clear com.amazon.alphafirstrun

pm clear com.google.android.gsf.login
pm clear com.google.android.talk
pm clear com.google.android.backuptransport
pm clear com.google.android.music
pm clear com.google.android.apps.docs
pm clear com.google.android.gm.exchange
pm clear com.google.android.gsf
pm clear com.google.android.partnersetup
pm clear com.google.android.videos
pm clear com.google.android.feedback
pm clear com.google.android.apps.photos
pm clear com.google.android.calendar
pm clear com.google.android.gm
pm clear com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
pm clear com.google.android.onetimeinitializer

pm hide com.amazon.phoenix
pm hide com.amazon.clouddrive.photos
pm hide com.imdb.mobile
pm hide com.adups.fota.sysoper
pm hide com.adups.fota
pm hide com.amazon.kindle
pm hide com.amazon.widgets
pm hide com.amazon.now
pm hide com.amazon.mp3
pm hide com.amazon.dee.app
pm hide com.amazon.drive
pm hide com.mediatek.providers.drm
pm hide com.amazon.avod.thirdpartyclient
pm hide com.goodreads
pm hide com.amazon.mShop.android
pm hide com.audible.application
pm hide com.amazon.device.information.provider
pm hide com.amazon.alphafirstrun

pm hide com.google.android.youtube
pm hide com.google.android.gm
pm hide com.google.android.music
pm hide com.google.android.apps.docs
pm hide com.google.android.gm.exchange
pm hide com.google.android.gsf
pm hide com.google.android.partnersetup
pm hide com.google.android.videos
pm hide com.google.android.feedback
pm hide com.google.android.apps.photos
pm hide com.google.android.calendar
pm hide com.google.android.gsf.login
pm hide com.google.android.backuptransport
pm hide com.google.android.talk
pm hide com.google.android.googlequicksearchbox
pm hide com.google.android.onetimeinitializer
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
It works just fine even on the latest update. Make sure you gave it all the permissions it needed (and set it as admin) and these settings are on:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
The developer has a thread here:

> Android Development and Hacking > Android Apps and Games > [APP][4.1+] AcDisplay | v3.8 | 11.07.2015 by AChep

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2641557

---------- Post added at 06:06 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:59 PM ----------

If I had it, I don't anymore. Just reboots.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] nyder:
Now if I could only get ADB working on my phone. Might have to borrow my buddies mac laptop. or set up linux.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I emailed BLU about trying to get an SP Flash Tools image, but a couple days later I still got nothing back. You guys should contact them about this as well, if several people ask about it we're guaranteed to get some sort of response. A Flash Tools image is key to modding this phone as it shows us where partition mounts are (and a way to restore in case things go horribly wrong).

As a side note, just tell them that you have an R1 HD. If possible, don't get too specific about what kind. ;)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Just tell them you have the ad free version. They can't prove you don't and they should have the same hardware.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] PolarX:
Give it both permissions and still get the ads. Am I missing something?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Ecabral:
I tried out all those commands, they all cleared fine, BUT com.amazon.phoenix, com.amazon.widgets and com.amazon.alphafirstrun do not hide. (hidden state stays as FALSE).

I'm on the OTA update. 6.4 generic. I have another BLU r1 HD that is not updated, I'll check if it works on that one. :good:.

edit: Just checked and they do work on the version 6.1 generic. So do not update OTA if you want to be able to hide ads. for now.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
That's what I hinted at in the last sentence. I remember seeing a place to fill in an IMEI in the form to submit a support request, but recently when I went back it wasn't there. Then again they do give an email address to directly send to as well, so I guess that would be the best bet.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
See:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67806453&postcount=168
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
anyone have problems with missed calls like this guy?

http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...-eleven-the-slowening-begins-i-take-a-hiatus/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
I had good luck with these drivers on win10:

https://github.com/koush/support-wiki/wiki/Android-ADB-Drivers

First I uninstalled everything I could find in my program list that appeared to be USB driver related.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] nyder:
Yep, used those, use others. My computers sees the R1, but adb doesn't see it. I've had no problems with adb on my fire tablet, fire tv or a generic tablet. Just having problems with this. Now kingroot didn't seem to have a problem connecting to it, as far as i can tell. Though honestly, it is time to wipe my SSD over and install a fresh copy of Windows 7. Maybe I should just do that.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Maybe your device is unauthorized and the RSA popup is not getting triggered. This showed up trying to get Helium to work.

A long-winded workaround:

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=67813317&postcount=183

Free update to win10 deadline is July 29. Reviews vary, but I like it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] nyder:
Okay, cool, I will check that out. thanks.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
force stop is grayed out as well, trying your second command i get

shell@R1_HD:/ $ pm disable com.amazon.phoenix

Error: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: attempt to change compone

nt state from pid=23853, uid=2000, package uid=10040

also im certain the reason is does not work for me is because i installed the update asap because i thought it was band 12. oh well hopefully we find some sort of root.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
They disabled the ability to hide or freeze the amazon apps in that first update.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bob24260:
Have you tried.....

In command prompt:

Adb pull /system/build.prop

Edit the file and restore the changes

Save the file

Adb shell mount Adb –o remount rw /system

Adb reboot
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Magic Crotch Rocket:
Since I haven't gotten mine in the mail yet, I checked the currently own BLU device box to "No" which gets rid of the IMEI box. It does look like the IMEI is needed if you currently have one. I'll let them know how useful an SP Flash Tools image would be for when it does come in.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Editing or remounting /system needs root permissions, or perhaps at the very least system permissions... Which can be where StageFright comes in.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bob24260:
Logically I know this but I think we are all grasping at straws.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I found a YouTube video called "hacking android with Stagefright exploit", going to watch it to see if we can make anything of it.

EDIT: The video gives instructions on how to craft an MP4 to allow a backdoor, but not how to actually use the backdoor from the host with the specified IP address. Here's the video:

[youtube]sQnGyIoNjr8[/youtube]

I'll continue looking through videos, but if anyone knows what to do at the point where the video ends, please let us know.

EDIT 2: The video, along with another, points me to use something called nectat in Kali Linux. This allows shell access on a remote machine, which the videos do not specifically tell you. So I assume nectat gives ADB-like access to the victim's phone, or in this case my phone when I do it tomorrow.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] samijam:
Also, "sys.oem_unlock_allowed" is not in build.prop anyway
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bob24260:
I hadn't looked at it yet.I was going by what the other post said.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
If it's not and I can gain access to edit the build.prop I can add it to there.

Also, when I tried to do a fastboot oem-unlock, my phone didn't give any sort of "not allowed" message, fastboot just got stuck in a waiting prompt and nothing changed on the phone's screen. Does anyone else get this?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Oscar_david:
Catch 22. You need root to mount read/write.

Plus after ota that particular line is gone from my build.prop

Interesting idea though.

Edit: of course prior response updates AFTER mine. Lol
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] samijam:
"sys.oem_unlock.allowed" is in /dev/__properties__

This is a dbf type file. I was able to adb pull this file, copy it to another phone and view it with the Solid Explorer text editor. (If you try this, it will open as Japanese characters(i think) and you can change the encoding to UTF-8 to see English.)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Anything else of use in the properties file? I'm not sure if Stagefright "system" permissions can access /dev/ files but I can try.

EDIT: How did you find out about this file? I can't do an ls in /dev/.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Maybe there is a way to modify this file through the OTA update by changing the .zip contents?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Would that mess up the signature verification then? If they work like checksums do then that may not work, and according to the OTA program it may brick our phone if unverified images are flashed. I don't know if that's just warning us about custom ROMs or if it will intentionally brick our device if we try anything unverified.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] samijam:
I searched google for "sys.oem_unlock_allowed" and it led me to http://xdaforums.com/android/software-hacking/enable-oem-unlock-developer-options-t3369084

then i just used adb pull /dev/__properties

you can't ls in /dev but you should be able to ls that file:

ls -al /dev/__properties__
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
OK guys, I just changed the allow OEM unlock thing in the properties file to 1 using Solid Explorer text editor, and when I pressed save a green check mark appeared. Did it actually just let me save that?

EDIT: Nevermind, that was the copy I made on my sdcard.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] samijam:
it's permissions are read-only (for this file):

1|shell@R1_HD:/ $ ls -al /dev/__properties__
-r--r--r-- root root 131072 2016-07-20 19:48 __properties__

but the /dev partition is mounted rw (which probably has to be for things to work), while /system is mounted ro

I don't know if I'm helping any. I hope I'm not throwing out useless information that distracts people from where they need to be going with this. I'd love to see a bootloader unlock!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Believe me, your information was anything but useless. Now we know exactly what file to target when trying to OEM unlock for newer firmware. And of course, for all of us R1 users this officially means DO NOT APPLY ANY MORE OTA UPDATES.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Not sure how it works, but yes either we will have to modify the checksum, or bypass it. Good thing about bricking it, for a few weeks / months it's easy to return it and get a fresh one ;)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] samijam:
Hey, just saw your edit to the original post. I haven't installed the OTA on my phone. I'm still on V6.1_GENERIC 17-06-2016