yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Considering the R1 plus is Android 6.0 as well, we may be able to reuse some stuff from the R1HD, at least in terms of accessing hidden menus. If I recall correctly we made a script that allowed Prime R1HD users to check "enable OEM unlocking" in developer options where it previously wasn't available. I believe that required root though, so the first priority will be getting root on your R1 plus.

It looks to me like both phones you listed (and from what I'm gathering both that you now own) have the MT6737 chipset. I'm not sure what variant of the 6737 each has... one might be a 6737 and the other a 6737M which I don't believe are compatible with one another in terms of SPFT... but if both of them truly are the same chipset you should be able to use the scatter file for the XL2 for the R1 Plus in SPFT and vice versa. This would also mean (again, if the chipsets really are identical) that a TWRP recovery image built for one would work on the other. If we can confirm that these are EXACTLY the same chipset, you can use an XL2 scatter file to potentially modify the R1 plus through SPFT, assuming the R1 plus allows you to connect to SPFT (I wouldn't get your hopes up). If not, just look for another mediatek based phone that has the same chipset as the R1 Plus and use that scatter file.

Since there really are no other root methods available, I'd say we should start here by trying to get SPFT to work with your phones. My focus is the R1 Plus, but even if SPFT is blocked on there and it ultimately doesn't work out, you should still be able to get SPFT access on your XL2 and at least have TWRP/root on that.

Just as a note, in case you aren't familiar with SPFT, to my understanding it is a tool that allows you to write directly to hex memory addresses of a mediatek smartphone without the phone even needing to be turned on. I'm not 100% sure how the technology works or why it works, but all I know is if SPFT works on a certain mediatek phone you're able to flash custom recoveries on that phone without needing to get your bootloader unlocked first. Then of course, you are a simple SuperSU flash away from having root access, and root access will furthermore help you in turn unlock your bootloader.

EDIT: Completely off topic, but while researching specs for the R1 plus I discovered there was actually an R2 released as well! Look at the horrible trend we've started!

http://www.gsmarena.com/blu_r2_lte-8773.php
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Not really off topic.

I can't seem to find that phone actually for sale any where yet. But it sounds good.

Android 7

Fingerprint sensor

2 -13mp cameras

3000 ma battery

http://www.bluproducts.com/devices/r2-lte/

I'm hoping that if we get lots of traffic going to Blu s page maybe it will become available soon.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Looks to me like the R2, R1 Plus, and XL2 all have the same base MT6737 chipset (although RAM differs in each), so a TWRP for one should work for the rest. To save us some work, [MENTION=221537]iatepee[/MENTION] you can download this recovery made for a Homtom HT17, extract the .zip, and use the scatter from the zip to first back up your stock recovery image, then flash the recovery.img in the zip to see if you can get a working TWRP on your devices to at least be able to flash a zip for root access. If you aren't sure how to do this let me know, I'll guide you through it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lopestom:
Warning!!

Nor file should be flash on R1 plus if is not same specs!!

Obviously if user have security so have basic files to more security like STOCK boot.img and recovery.img files so the attempts is valid. But if user haven't that without basic files so its can brick phone and no start stock ROM!

For my experience is better open other thread to R1 Plus than writing here to no confusion...

P.S.: [MENTION=221537]iatepee[/MENTION] is Rough Neck from G+??

If yes so I'm writing the instructions for he have stock recovery from phone!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Thanks for that, I wasn't aware the specs had to be 1:1 identical. The homtom has a 6737 like the R1 plus, but it looks like the RAM can differ. But if you say you're in the process of making a recovery for the R1 plus anyway, then just go with that. I'd like to know how it works out, though ;)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
We had a seperate thread for R1-Plus. At the time it came out I bought one first day.

No "oem unlock" option in settings and trying to unlock without fails, just like the r1 Prime version

Not able to connect to sp f;ash tool or Miricle box. In fact mine locked up in a brick when I tried to hold different button combo (i think it was volume down) when plugging into flash tool.

https://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/enhanced-model-blu-r1-hd-called-blu-r1-t3598552
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Aren't there any other tools available besides SPFT and Miracle Box? Surely the manufacturers themselves have to have one that works, the only question is it any of them were leaked...

EDIT: Came across something called CSTOOL, would you be able to try that with the R1?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I dont have the plus anymore. But found a download of cstool to keep in archive for next device
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
Maybe also off topic, but I hope that as the Android-7 Nougat has been announced in two upcoming BLU Cellphones:

http://bluproducts.com/devices/tank-xtreme-pro/

http://www.bluproducts.com/devices/r2-lte/

That now and after almost three months of waiting for the Nougat update since its launch, the BLU R1-PLUS would finally receive the promised Android-7 Nougat update very soon!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
If you want to have any hope of root for the R1 Plus at all, for the love of god DO NOT UPDATE YOUR R1 PLUS TO NOUGAT. Better yet, don't update it at all to anything. Period.

We could maybe utilize the new Nougat kernel source for the r1 plus for building our own ROMs from source if we can get its bootloader unlocked, but in my opinion that's the only useful thing I'd see coming out of a nougat firmware update... Either that or maybe we capture the OTA and make a "safe" version of the upgrade which retains root (and hopefully bootloader unlock if we can get it) like Mazak did with R1HD firmwares
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
I just wanted to mention that as BLU was announcing some new cell phone models that would come with Android Nougat installed, maybe the BLU-R1-PLUS could soon receive the promised Nougat7 update.

But maybe you are right, and it might be better not to upgrade our BLU-R1-PLUS to the upcoming NOUGAT update, or to any update at all...

Thanks for your suggestion and great recommendation!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I agree with you though, nougat to this phone would be a fantastic update. R1 Plus just have to make sure they don't take the OTA as it is. If we're able to root and unlock the bootloader, a Plus user can capture the OTA zip and one of us cam and modify it to be "safe", as in preserve our unlocked bootloader. It would give all the advantages of the update without the disadvantage of losing access to any exploits we may find. A win-win for us... but even better, a lose-lose for Amazon :D

I'm glad that at least the Plus guys might be getting nougat though. Unfortunately us R1HD users are stuck on MM for the time being (as far as stable firmware goes anyway) :(

Oh by the way, if you or anyone you know owns an R1 Plus let us know here. Although access to SPFT and Miracle Box are blocked (for flashing TWRP to get root), we found a different tool that just might work.

EDIT: That reminds me, we need to start harassing BLU for them to release the kernel source for the R1 Plus. The kernel is under GPLv2, so legally they have to give it to us
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
I totally agree with you, as the BLU-R1-PLUS is already an excellent cellphone, a nougat to this phone would be a fantastic update!!

Meanwhile, I hope that BLU releases a correction fix to the annoying problems and errors messages, that the BLU R1-PLUS is having with Android6, while we move APPs to the SDCard:

"Unfortunately settings has stopped"

"Not enough storage space"

https://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/help/blu-r1-plus-blu-r1-hd-errors-messages-t3614457#post73007266

I would like to point out that, although all these problems I have described are always manifested in my new BLU-R1-PLUS, as well as in all my six (6) BLU-R1-HD, these are not apparently exclusive to phones manufactured by BLU, because I read that there are also serious problems with Android 6, when moving all the APPs from the internal to the SD memory, no matter the brand of mobile cellphone used!

Although I have searched a lot for a solution to solve these problems when moving all the APPs from the internal memory to the SD, I have not found any solution yet...

In order to continue using my cell phone, and not getting a Settings/APP crash and latter the "settings has stopped" error messages, I have been forced to start to uninstall always more than 10-20 APPs (usually the largest ones or recently installed), so that my phone returns to normal again.

As I said before, I have always had these problems not only with my NEW BLU-R1-PLUS, but also with all my six (6) BLU-R1-HD with 32GB or 64GB microSD installed, so I would like know if someone has had the same problems or has found some way to fix them.

P.D.

Please excuse if my post is a little off topic, but I wanted to mention this problem I have whenever I move all my APPs from internal memory to the SD memory.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
There's a fix for this in Xposed framework, if we were to get root access and TWRP on the Plus you could easily fix this issue. Unless your surprising amount of HD's are already at the newest firmware you could get TWRP/root/Xposed on those and fix the problem there

EDIT: You say you own a Plus yourself. If you're willing to see if this CSTOOL we found can connect to your R1 Plus for potential flashing of TWRP recovery, i'd really appreciate it!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
Thank you jasonmerc for your quick reply!

As you may already know, unfortunately my new BLU-R1-PLUS can not be bootloader unlocked or rooted yet, so I would have preferred a simpler (non-root) way of solving this annoying behavior, when moving all my APPs from internal to SD memory.

As I already have mentioned in my long post at xda-developers, I already have tried some patches and app that supposedly fix these problems, and also as recommended by some sites and YouTube video, I disabled the "Google" APP, but none have worked for me.

https://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/help/blu-r1-plus-blu-r1-hd-errors-messages-t3614457#post73007266

Since I am using 64GB MicroSD memory cards as system memory and default write disk, I currently have more than 455 APPs installed, downloaded from the Amazon APP Store and also from the Google Play Store...

But, this problem has happened to me with both the New BLU R1-PLUS and the BLU R1-HD, and never manifests if I install less than 300 APPs, it always manifests itself when I install more than 350-400 APPs!

So, I'm starting to believe it's a problem of the APP's listing in "Settings/Storage & USB/APPs" and "Settings/APPs", or maybe some kind of low memory cache.

I hope that maybe with the upcoming NOUGAT update, the problem would likely be fixed.

Does anyone, that is currently using nougat, knows if these problems when moving all the APPs to the SD memory are also manifested in the Android7 Nougat?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I can say that Nougat allows me to move apps to the SD card just fine on my Motorola g4 play, so I'm guessing with nougat your problem will be fixed.

And I'm aware there's no way to root or unlock the bootloader on the Plus yet, that is why (if you're willing) we can test to see if CSTOOLS can root your R1 Plus
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
Thanks again jasonmerc for your quick response!

I don't know if it is too much to ask for, but since you said that you are currently using Nougat on your Motorola G5 Play, and that it always allows you to successfully move the APPs to the SD card, I would like to know how many APPs in total you have installed on your cell phone?

I am asking because, as I said before, currently I have more than 455 APPs installed, and have noticed that this problem has always happened to me, if I install more than 350-400 APPs, and never shows if I install less than 300 APPs.

Maybe Android-6 has some limitations as to the maximum number of APPs that can be installed, regardless of whether you have a large 32GB, 64GB or 128GB microSD card installed, where to move the APPs?

I also hope that with the Nougat-7 update, this problem will be fixed once and for all.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
It must be an app limit then. I only have about 15 downloaded, at most 25. Must be some sort of app limit like you said
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
The R2 is getting closer to available. Still no price listed and at time of this post was still listed as not available at this time.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0741JJ49D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Screen isn't big enough for me.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Meanwhile, R1 HD (and others) is back in the news thanks to good old Adups OTA software.

Glad I disabled that on mine.

https://www.cnet.com/news/these-cheap-phones-are-costing-you-your-privacy/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
AFAIK, not an Amazon subsidized phone, so it may still have SPFT access enabled!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
This seems to be some late information. But anyway. We all know sp flash tool can readback (save) the images off our R1 device(most any mtk device). But it was allways a pain to manually enter the partition information. Well there is another way. In the program folder there is a file "option.ini" open it in text editor and scroll down to the readback section

change it to this

[ReadBack]
ShowByScatter=true

It is not available in version SP-Flash-Tool-v5.1532.00

but i have version SP_Flash_Tool_v5.1548 and SP Flash Tool Version 5.1712 , with that option line available.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] blcistheking:
Amazon has stopped selling it again.

https://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-suspends-sales-of-blu-phones-due-to-privacy-concerns/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
This has gotta be the second or third time they've done this

They should unlock the bootloader and allow people to flash their own safer custom firmware... for safety
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
Have any of the folks posting modified ROMs here been able to figure out how to remove this spyware, or has it already been removed from the latest 8.5 modified ROM? Perhaps this issue that got their phones pulled from Amazon is why they went from 8.4 to 8.5?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kb3wmh:
The R1 HD isn't affected by the latest spyware. It's on other BLU phones.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Modified ROMs should get rid of the spyware, unless the nodded ROMs are also somehow infected, I.e. the ROMs we port that are stock firmware from other MTK devices. Your "normal" custom ROMs like lineage and slim should be virus free.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Cheapo2311:
If that is the case, is it only the R1 that is capable of custom ROMs? I have a Blu Advance 5.0 and I have custom TWRP (ported from Lopestom), but I haven't been able to find any compatible ROMs or themes for my Advance 5.0. Do you know of any modded ROMs for my phone? Or would it be safe to simply install Xposed framework and modify like that?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I believe all devices can run a custom rom. But it needs to be made for the device. ROMs are not "one size fits all". Each hardware part in the device needs drivers, these drivers need to be in the ROM.

There is good chance you can get exposed to work for your phone. Make sure you have the exposed uninstaller zip already on the phone before you try though. Sometimes installing causes a bootloop.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I have read on the internet about an "adb uninstall" code that allows removing even system apps without needing root.

I thought I read it in this thread too, but doing a search I could not find it.

Anyway, I put together a script that will remove ads and some amazon bloat from phones even if not rooted. So it can be used on new 8.5 were there is no root available.

check it out and let me know how it works for you.

Thread that I posted it in is here:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=73550248&postcount=12
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Why would you think R1 is the only phone capable of custom roms? every phone that can be rooted and bootloader unlocked, can use custom roms.

The name of your phone means nothing, the processor, and hardware is what matters, there are many guides about porting roms.

You can port roms to your phone,by following the guides, but first you need to know what's inside your phone, the processor and OS is the most important two things to know before you begin.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Cheapo2311:
Oh, I know that. It's just that... I have tried flashing a custom CyanogenMod ROM to my MT6580 (the ROM creator said it was for that chipset), but the download options were for other phones with the same chipsets. After I wiped my Dalvik and Cache and wiped System, I flashed it and it gave a warning it would bootloop, and not to be alarmed. Well, it did bootloop. But not for a couple minutes as it said. It did it for a whole 10 minutes. I then hooked the thing up and flashed the original firmware to it again and created a backup just in case it happened again. I need help installing a custom ROM, based on my first try.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Flashing a rom isn't porting a rom, read guides about porting roms, then port the rom to your device.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Cheapo2311:
I know it is not porting if I flash... But finding one that works is the hard part.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
You aren't going to find one that just works, you find one that is close to your phone then you port it to your phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Cheapo2311:
What is in this picture is what I am talking about. It gives a little forewarning, but nothing good comes of it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Chukie022:
i can't edit build.prop, bootloop, any solution? :(
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Restore your backup.

Then details on what or why you edit build.prop.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Chukie022:
i restore my phone, but when edit build.prop again bootloop

i need this app xd

EDIT: swype navigation

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-swipe-navigation-navigation-bar-t3272478
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
So you are trying to hide the nav bar with the build.prop line ?

qemu.hw.mainkeys=1

Did you edit it correctly. Can you show your modified file?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] LordDandy:
"BLU_R0010UU_V8.7_GENERIC_6.0_20170805-1450" (received this today sept 13th) release date2017-08-05

25.04 MB
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Checked from v6.1 install and get the update notice to V8.7 also. But larger update size as it has more changes from 6.1 to 8.7 than whatever version you were on.

I will do same conversion to this update as the ones in the recent past. And upload twrp installable update for all.

my update delta address from V6.1 to V8.7 is

http://hwfotadown.mayitek.com/ota/root_data02_oversea/TINNO/tinno6735_6.0/R1_HD_R0010UU_GENERIC/en/other/BLU_R0010UU_V8.7_GENERIC_6.0_20170805-1450/BLU_R0010UU_V6.1_GENERIC_6.0_20160617-1456-BLU_R0010UU_V8.7_GENERIC_6.0_20170805-14501502381586226/update.zip
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Dang, I just switched from 8.5 to your Lineage 13 build, looks like I might be switching back...

If you're going to flash the safe 8.7 on your device first, can you let me know if it supports switching wireless authentication to something else besides EAP? My college WiFi needs TTLS and phase 2 PAP but unlike Lin13, 8.5 doesn't let me switch from EAP for some reason (even though android phones with 2.3 gingerbread even have this option to switch...)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I dont see any menu for switching
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I just realized, I don't think you can even see this option unless you try to join a WiFi network that supports it. Ah well, I'll switch and test it when you finish up and upload it. Thanks for checking anyway :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Its already up. In the "stock rom thread"
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Any other differences you see off hand? I'd imagine there's a newer security patch but I'm not sure if anything else would change
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Really not sure, I dont use this phone anymore.

I just keep them (3 now) around for flash testing. I am still poking at it, trying to do an initrd root on it. No luck on that by-the-way,
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Have a look at the tool they talk about, this seems promising at a bootloader level:

https://m.slashdot.org/story/330841

EDIT: Source for BootStomp on GitHub, maybe we can use this to our advantage?????

https://github.com/ucsb-seclab/BootStomp
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
can i flash preloader from the downgrade script onto 6.7+ using miracle box to then downgrade system?

Can miraclebox bypass preloader and write system.img to nand <<
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
no, not quite. Miricle still needs the preloader that allows connection. It does not bypass it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
okay, so there's no low-level tool that can revert preloader then :crying:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I was talking about this in an Alcatel A30 thread: I wonder if we can use that open source bootloader analyzing tool to find some exploits we can use on the bootloader for this thing. We'd need an appropriate bootloader "file" and probably some extensive knowledge to get it done, but I wonder if we could make anything of it :confused:

This wouldn't reverse your preloader if it did work, but at least you'd have a bootloader unlock in a best case scenario.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Well, the preloader can be flashed with recovery, once (if) an unlock can be hacked with analyze tool you mention.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
It disappoints me to see amzn trying to close down such a great platform at this price point. It's amazing and only gets bogged down with all this locked bootloader ********* :crying::crying::crying:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
https://github.com/ucsb-seclab/BootStomp

Looks like this program is gonna be a PITA to get running. Plus it looks like the results it spits back at you are really cryptic, so this might not be as useful as we thought it would be. Either way, later on I'll see if I can get it working, then regardless if I can understand its output or not I'll post it back here just to archive it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
But the great price point is because of the Amazon ads! The locked bootloader prevents bypassing or removing the ads. Doesn't that make sense?

Does the non-Amazon version allow for unlocking the bootloader? If not, then it's an issue with Blu, not Amazon.