yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
AT&T is "We have great coverage, but you can only use it for so much". T-Mobile is "If you can actually find signal, you can use as much data as you want". Each has their own benefits and drawbacks. I personally chose T-Mobile because their coverage is GOOD ENOUGH where I am, and I can leave my phone torrenting things all day on LTE.

My R1 won't even encrypt now. I tell it to start the process, and it hangs on a black screen. I have to force it off and on again.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
I get unlimited talk, text, and data (up to 3GB of LTE) for $40 a month. AAAAND I get to keep my unused data and roll it over to the next month. So I had 4.5GB of LTE data this month. It's a great deal.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
T-Mobile's coverage has been getting a lot better recently, especially with the new Band 12 LTE stuff. I often have service in areas where my family's AT&T phones could never dream of getting reception.

Again, not looking to turn this into a flame war, but just speaking from experience and stories from others, AT&T has a lot of really shady business practices (the whole "LTE SIM" ordeal here being one of them) and does whatever they can to lock down branded devices (which T-Mobile never does, I haven't had a T-Mobile device where the factory unlocking mechanism wasn't intact and working). As an Android enthusiast. I just can't get behind a company like that.

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I'll admit that it's competitive with other offers, but I don't think it's the best. And even if it was, I would much rather get a competing offer from MetroPCS or i-wireless and be with a carrier who doesn't have such horrible business practices.

And that's all I'll say on AT&T. I didn't realize that poking them with a stick would warrant such a response. :P
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
T-mobile has worse reception in Philly and their plans cost the same amount of money. Not to mention rollover data is a lifesaver. But if you like T-mobile better, to each his own. Just know, if you flat out say it sucks, I'd have to disagree. I don't like postpaid AT&T, but their prepaid is 10/10. :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ase1590:
Apparently just a fix to prevent people from using adb to disable ads. Also I think the kernel build number changed. Not sure beyond that. It's not worth updating for as far as I can see.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Tomsgt:
can someone link me that scatter file. also are we sure that it is fully working and setup correctly? :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Fair enough. In northern areas of Colorado and rural areas around the Denver metropolis area, T-Mobile has much stronger coverage. Even in northeast areas of Colorado (and southwest areas of Nebraska) where T-Mobile has no coverage, my phone is able to roam on to Viaero Wireless (a local carrier) with full data and voice access, where an AT&T phone is restricted to emergency calls only. And fwiw, T-Mobile has rollover data for postpaid, but MetroPCS doesn't. I never come anywhere near my 2.5 GB data cap anyway, so it doesn't bother me.

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I think there were a couple other caveats too, but I don't remember what they were. I took advantage of Amazon's return policy to get a new one just before we got root, because I was worried that taking the OTA would have impaired my ability to tinker with things later on. I think that isn't the case now, but I still don't regret doing it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
Not that we need it anymore, but this was BLU's response to my request for a scatter file:

Hello,

?*

Thank you for contacting?*BLU Products. We?*are happy to help you!

?*

At this time we do not provide any ROMs, software, scattered files or firmware for any of our devices. If you need software assistance for your device, you will need to send your device to our service center so that a certified BLU technician may perform the repair.

?*

Should you have any additional questions please contact us at?*1-877-602-8762?*(Monday-Friday 9:30am-5:30pm EST).

?*

Thank you for choosing BLU!

?*

Best Regards,
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Isn't that illegal? They HAVE to give us the sources. The GPL requires them.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
I attempted to install Viper4Android and had to install busybox as a prerequisite. Well I don't know which one of those it was, but one of them made my phone unusable. It was unresponsive and took minutes to respond to touch. I uninstalled both and my phone is back to normal. Anyone know of a way to increase volume? It's my only main complaint, mine is too quiet.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] choder:
I have 2 r1's. Both have busy box and Xposed installed and I have no slow downs. But I would like to find a way to boost the volume. I have not tried viper4android. I will try and install it and see what happens.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Mine did that too. you have to unroot first.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Shawn_Everson:
There is a setting in engineering mode -> hardware -> audio. I had the same complaint, now it isn't too bad.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
Can you elaborate?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Shawn_Everson:
Sure, Get MTK engineering from the play store. Run it and go into MTK settings -> Hardware testing -> Audio -> Normal mode.

On that page select type = Sip (should already be set) then set max volume to 160.

Hope that helps
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] krchi:
Instead of normal mode I changed it in the loudspeaker mode which seemed to work better.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Shawn_Everson:
Interesting, once I set it in Normal mode, it had the same settings in all modes. I'm assuming that this sets a persistent register in the audio chip that is the same for all modes. I noticed that this setting persists across a data wipe, and power down.

Could you elaborate why you think it works better? Perhaps a test that compares setting max volume on the various modes would be in order.

Cheers,

Shawn
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Oscar_david:
So..... About Pokemon Go....

This isn't a big deal but I have Huawei Honor 5x, which like the R1, doesn't have a gyroscope. However, someone figured out how to emulate it in software.

I wonder if this could be done on other phones in general, but for this one in particular.

(Without the gyro, Pokemon Go's "augmented reality" feature won't work.... so I can't take pictures of Pokemon on my coffee table.. :P . )
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I just tried the Honor 5x's method, it doesn't work on this phone though. I'm pretty sure thats because the Honor 5x actually has a gyroscope but they didn't enable it. If you look at the XML file its literally just saying to enable the hardware gyroscope.

<!-- Feature for devices with gyroscope. -->
<permissions>
<feature name="android.hardware.sensor.gyroscope" />
</permissions>
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Oscar_david:
Well ... Everywhere I looked with regards to the 5x suggested it's strictly emulation, without an actual gyro.

After I posted about this, I did a google search and it turns out there's an Xposed module for this. But i just tried it and it's not working.... So there's that. No big though. I still think this phone's a beast the more I use it.

Edit: Xposed module: VurtualSensor
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Does anybody happen to have/know where the OTA files for the non-prime version are?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
The emulation methods require a magnetometer (compass) which our phones don't have either.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
No gyroscope, huh? That only affects stuff like pokeman go, photosphere, and google cardboard. I can live without those in a $60 phone, LOL! Motorola had no gyro in the G3 but I guess they added it back in the G4, but no colored notification light - just active display - NOT the same! ( and the "hidden" charge LED inside the speaker - WTF????)

I think that having the mult-icolor notification LED in the Blu is much more useful for me. Has anyone tried out lightflow on this phone yet?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] viktorfk:
I haven't installed the recovery yet, or unlocked the bootloader, should I install the OTA?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kostar:
Debloating worked!

Worked On OTA'd v.6.4 16GB Prime :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I'm trying to figure out the part/model numbers for the Index thread. The BLU support page when you choose the R1 HD 16+2 the options it gives are:

R0030UU

R0031UU

When you choose 8+1 you get:

R0010UU

R0011UU

Now I'm looking in the build props for my phone, amazon 16+2, and the only one coming up is the "R0010UU" in the build versions and ota sections. BUT that directly contradicts what their own support side says.

If anybody has the Amazon 8+1 or the OEM 8+1 or OEM 16+2 could you please tell me what R00 is listed in Settings>About Device>Custom Build Version.

Thanks

EDIT: also could somebody with the v6.4 update give me the build number?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
No. It doesn't make much of a difference when it comes to rooting, etc, but it doesn't add anything worthwhile either, so don't bother.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
found this old thread which says loudspeaker setting is the way to go:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2248396
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Shawn_Everson:
Ok, I read the thread, but one good test is worth a thousand expert opinions. Do you have any data to support your position??
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] PolarX:
Also installed the latest update last night. Haven't found any difference.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] besweeet:
Not hard at all, thanks to Amazon's return policy. Can return it and buy a new one. I'll just hold onto this one for another week or two to see if anything improves. Still waiting for the VoLTE + B12 LTE update. Would be a nice gift if that update also includes Wi-Fi Calling, but that probably won't happen.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sala164:
Nova Launcher and Ac Display lock screen and ads are gone.

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Nova Launcher and Ac Display lock screen and ads are gone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Next Lock Screen

Just installed this:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.next

Doesn't eliminate the ads, but really improves the phone. Swipe down and then up and you are home.

Microsoft has some suprisingly good Android apps. For example:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.office.officelens
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] JShan:
Will try Nova and see what results I get. One more bug: Nextradio crashes the phone, sends it into a restart. The specs say there's an active FM tuner, but without Nextradio, I can't get at it. (Submitted a help ticket on Nextradio's website). Other Play Store apps (like Motorola's FM radio app) are not compatible. Anyone get FM radio to work?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Use the stock radio app. If there isn't one, either they didn't enable it like they didn't enable certain T-Mobile bands or the tuner doesn't actually exist. I'd be surprised if a tuner didn't exist, as 99% of foreign phones, even lower end ones, have them.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jacewt:
I found this microsoft lockscreen app, does a better job of eliminating the ad:

Picturesque Lock Screen
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] flipkidflash:
Where are people finding the Windows driver for the Blu R1 HD?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Cool. Microsoft has two Android lockscreen apps. Both of them cover the ads.

Picturesque lock screen goes away with a swipe up which seems to affect the ad as well.

Don't know if you can get rid of the bing search bar.

The Next app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.next

uses a swipe down, so swipe down and up is required to get past the ads.

Very configurable, but I think the swipe has to be down.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
If you mean a usb driver for file transfer, I didn't seem to need one with Win 10.

If you mean ADB drivers, whatever I had installed seemed to work...don't know what they are...probably the ones that are frequently recommended on xda.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] K5LK:
Had mine for a few days. Really like it. Had Nexus 6 as daily driver, but moving now to the R1 HD for a while. Hope we can get a separate forum and find some root options soon.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Hope so too. Dual SIM makes this a good choice for an inexpensive backup phone. My main number is Google voice, so my Idol 3 and this R1 HD both ring and have gv sms and transcribed voicemail.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Just to see if this is a consistent issue, does anyone else notice the first 25% of the battery draining faster than the rest? Let's see if this is just [MENTION=2236817]besweeet[/MENTION] device or if it affects more.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] besweeet:
Another observation: At least on T-Mobile, it does seem to fall back to HSPA+ from LTE a bit too fast. The iPhone is notorious for doing something similar, so I was hoping the R1 would fare better. In some spots, it's actually worse. For example, at Costco in the freezer, my 6+ would still hang onto working LTE, whereas the R1 fell back to HSPA+. I'm hoping the VoLTE update will have more optimizations.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Here's a record of the last few hours. I'll fully charge, run awhile, and do this again later today.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
That's probably it. Switching from HSPA to LTE can kill the battery over time. Why only the first 25%, well that's anyone's guess. My Studio X+ screen brightness would flicker upon touching the screen, but only if plugged in or if the battery life was in the 80s or 70s.

If you could do that and report back that'll be great! :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] besweeet:
The battery concern isn't when I was moving, though. No switching was happening during the initial 20-25% drain.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] PolarX:
The same happened to me this morning. It drains much slower after 75%.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] besweeet:
More battery observations: My battery % seems to be going down in batches. One minute it says 23%. A short while (<10 minutes) later, it's down to 16%.

Overall, this is some abnormal battery life to me. Can't recall the last time battery has been so up and down using an Android phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Well I guess we all have to be sending back to amazon then. Maybe if enough people do, they'll fix whatever hardware defect is causing this.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] waingro808:
Zero data points. I'm not the original person that suggested that. Will play around with it when I get home.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] nyder:
Mine hadn't even drained 15% in 1.5 to 2 days. Light using, no phone calls. When I play Pokemon Go though I can drain the battery in about 5-6 hours.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
How long should it take to get a response from Blu? They haven't gotten back to me yet.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Thanks, they kept the same build number through the update...

Also Now I'm really getting confused about these model numbers. The Amazon listing list them as following:

OEM 8gb: R0011UU

OEM 16gb: R0031UU

Amazon 8gb: R0010UU

Amazon 16gb: R0030UU

Yet on the amazon 16gb phone itself it says the R0010UU and Amazon's listings are different than BLU's listings.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] zipsulman:
root before unlock?

I can't use the scripts listed for unlocking the blu r1 hd because I am a linux user. I have tried fastboot oem unlock and fastboot unlock_critical and when i press the volume up for yes, it fails. A look at the script for windows might help.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I got a response today. Sent my first email off about 3 days ago.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Is there actually different hardware? Why? What's different?

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Read the Windows script and just follow the commands that are done with adb and fastboot. Make sure adb and fastboot are installed on your machine. I could write up a quick Linux/Mac script too to make things easier.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I personally don't think so other than the 8gb+1/16gb+2 but it would be very useful to find out especially when custom ROMs start being made.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Yeah, and if there is no difference, why the hell are there different model numbers? Are the model numbers actually different on the hardware, or is is strictly a difference in the OS?

The model number in About Phone is just "R1 HD", so that's not helpful. By the way, does anyone know what the codename for this thing is? That'll come in handy when we're building ROMs.

The model number physically on my phone is R0030UU, fwiw. The model number in the "Custom build version" section of About Phone is R0010UU. It seems like they all use the same OS? Can someone with a non-Prime model confirm their model numbers?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I think the bigger questions is why is there a different model number listed on the phone, Amazon and BLU's support page for the same version of the phone.?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Earlier you said your 16/2 phone said R0010UU. Mine both say R0030UU physically on the hardware, which matches the description. In the OS in Custom build version, they both say R0010UU, which matches Amazon's description of the 8 GB version. I'm thinking this is simply because they use the same OS. Now we just need someone with the other variants (16/2 non-Prime, 8/1 Prime, 8/1 non-Prime) to confirm/tell us what their numbers are, both under the cover and in the OS.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Tomsgt:
A Mac and Linux script has been added to the bootloader unlock tool just download it again to get the new script ;) updated it last night.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Oh. My. God. I didn't think at all of looking at the physical hardware for the model number. I am an idiot...

Yeah we just need a non-prime variant to match up one of them and then we know the others.

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I just got a response from Blue about the kernel source code.

Welp...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] benutne:
Has anyone done a teardown of their phone yet? I'm not willing to take apart my daily driver yet...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Oh, nice. I'll give the script a read and see if there are any improvements I can make. ;)

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No, I don't think anyone has done that yet.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] docangle:
I thought there is a method to remove a file in data to remove lock-screen wallpaper? I have searched but can't find it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Oscar_david:
You can use gravity box in Xposed to change it.

Cheers
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I suspect such a file exists, but I am unable to find it. I might be able to look for it by this time next week when I have another new R1 to play with. Use GravityBox for now if wiping data is not an option.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
They realize this means war, right?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Wtf. I sent them an email and the reply was basically "lol, **** off".
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Tomsgt:
I am adding some cool stuff to the developer section of the Blu R1 HD forum you should check it out
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kostar:
AdAway from f-droid market works great!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
Just wanted to point out that all of the hard work has made Android Police, http://www.androidpolice.com/2016/0...ted-bootloader-unlocked-twrp-support-debloat/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
And to get a nand backup of the Non-Prime to try flashing this firmware over the Prime one!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Tomsgt:
android authority also http://www.androidauthority.com/blu-r1-hd-rooted-de-bloated-twrp-706101/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Nice!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I'm willing to do a teardown later tonight. I'll disassemble as far as I can figure out how.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
I'm LOLing at the people in the comments saying it's morally wrong to remove the ads from the device. Like stfu, we're like 2% of the people buying the phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yumcax:
way less than 2%
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
I was aiming high there just to cover my bases. :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Its the #1 best selling smartphone on Amazon right now, and like literally 10 people have gotten rid of the apps. I don't even think we are the .001%
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yumcax:
from AP:

lmao this guy is crazy... you telling me I don't own this phone?

yeah, like they'll stop selling it because us nerds have root... 99.99% of users won't care enough to figure out how to do so.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
He contradicts himself anyway since you didn't pay for a rooted or xposed phone either.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Oscar_david:
To be fair guys, if it was only ten of us we wouldn't have a dedicated forum on XDA.

But my phone, my property, I do what I want. :D

Tbh, not sure if it's all in my head, but I feel like this thing runs so much smoother after i debloated it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
FTFY. But really, look at the views on these threads.

IKR? That's who I was referring too and I just LOVE the guy on there who thinks it's a blu/amazon sponsored article.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
These must be the same folks who feel honor bound to leave the bloat on their carrier subsidized phone that they have surely had. Not to mention, for a certain population it makes this phone even more attractive and will boost sales.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Tomsgt:
LMAO People are crazy. I bought the hardware. Just like any computer you buy its your device not the manufacturers. if i want to hit it with a hammer i can do that if i want to flash a custom rom thats fine also. I am sick and tired of being told what I can and can't do with something I own. its BS. if it was up to the carriers we would all rent the phones.