yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Yes, I believe the non amazon version gets locked down as well, for some reason. Ask mazak about this since he bought the vanilla version, but I'm pretty sure they're the same when it comes to not being able to mod software.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
It's official, that bootloader analyzer thing is a PITA to get working. Unless someone better at this than me wants to try, I can't figure out how to get it working
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Appreciate you trying.

I looked at it and , said , "nope, nope, not for me"

At least you were able to try a litle bit more.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
The walls are closing in, i'm getting a UMT dongle and going to try a lot of things
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] 0xd0gf00d:
Can we have LTE on both Sims? Right now I have a talk and text SIM in slot one and a Tmobile broadband SIM in at two. The slot two is used for data and so uses LTE. The slot one sim falls back to gprs. However if I disable slot two, then the first slot gets LTE. Any way to force both to use LTE? I need LTE for the first sim since 2G coverage is terrible in my area and I would rather have voLTE
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Youre talking about trying to root it right? If so we need to set up a private group chat for this, like we had before. If you manage to find a way to crack the software, i don't want Amazon being able to read how it's done and thus patching it (but all of us R1 owners can still see how its done obviously)

Unfortunately you can't. Someone I know tried this and it didn't work
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
For anyone who's willing to potentially risk their phone (running the 8.X or V21 firmware where SPFT is blocked and you can't DirtyCow back to older versions), I have two ideas for how we may be able to get this connected to SPFT.

1) Disassemble the phone, disconnect the battery from the motherboard, plug the phone in, then reconnect the battery and see if you can do anything with SPFT. I know that phone with non-removable batteries are supposed to be able to go into preloader mode without removing the battery, but maybe this is a way into "tricking" the phone into accepting firmware downloads. Here's a video explaining how to do a whole screen replacement, but for this to work, you'd just need to get to the part where you disconnect the battery, then you can stop there.

2) If that didn't work, there's a MUCH RISKIER method that just might do it, if you're REALLY desperate (or REALLY don't care). This is supposed to only be done with completely dead MTK phones, but just maybe it'll work on the R1 here and force it to accept downloads from SPFT. Here's a link to the tutorial on Hovatek Forums. You'll need some thin wire, a soldering iron, and knowledge where the ground and KCOLO points on the motherboard are.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
going to have to try method 2 soon, because for some weird reason right now on amazons rom, i cant get any reception for lord knows why
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
That is odd, about your reception problem. Just yesterday there is other user who posted they are having reception problem too.

Don't know if your problem is related or similar .

Here is other thread describing there problem

https://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/development/update-6-5-t3717984
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
many locals are reporting that their BLU device recognize sim, but will not show signal strength, search for carrier or recognize on network. im guessing it's a timebomb hidden in the firmware to force people to upgrade to 9.0 or R1 HD+ :confused:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Please let me know if you can get my suggested method to work, and let me know how you got it to work if it DOES actually work. Random signal dropping would either mean something's wrong with the phone, or your local carrier is taking down cell towers for some reason. I doubt the second one is true, and I wouldn't put it past a company like Amazon to try something slimy like a software timebomb to get people to upgrade phones (after all, they don't even sell Prime Subsidized R1HD's anymore). If they are trying to mess with R1 owners, I'd love to see you/us screw them over one more time... for old time's sake :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
yeah i'm getting what i need tommorow, an 8.7 is on my workbench. the issue i have with two phones is that the status bar clearly shows NO SERVICE and fails to register on the network or find carriers with a sims that are verified active and working. so... hard to diagnose if it's some IMEI related issue or otherwise.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
If we can get SPFT working again (by some miracle from God) you can try rewriting/changing the IMEI on your R1HD to see if that works, if it's legal in your country. I can tell you that here in the USA it's illegal to do that for some reason, but in other countries it's perfectly fine.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I don't think you need root to use maui-meta to change imei
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I am excited to get the results of weather or not the hack works to get sptf to work or not, but I have uploaded modified V9 which has been updated RIL from manufacture.

New firmware base.

so you could see if V9 fixes the missing data connection you have.

link will be in stock rom thread

https://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/development/modified-8-3-stock-rom-t3602672
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Real quick, when you modify something to be SPFT safe, do you just replace the preloader, or do you do other stuff as well?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I read your question as having too many directions. (Wtf did I say there)

Not sure how you mean to be spft safe.

If you mean an update that preserves the ability to use spft. Than , the answer is I simply do not touch and other partion other then /system and /boot
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
That's what I meant. Thanks for that.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
[MENTION=5825582]Gizmosis350k[/MENTION] were you able to do anything with the 8.7 R1 you had?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
About to try it now, well eventually
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I hope you know what you're doing. Praying to Torvalds you can get it done.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
SpongeBob narrator: 5 hours later...
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
What did you do so far? Is it working?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
No progress so far, same error for me smh

From.i had to connect the battery I knew I was screwed ???
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I don't think you disconnected the battery. The battery should be the fat yellow cable in the middle there. Try doing that before you mess with soldering stuff.

EDIT: I take that back, that's actually the screen pin, you can leave that one in
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Take a look by the camera in this picture. Rx and Tx. These are the ports you need to make a COM connection to your computer. All you need now is a ground port, and I believe some sort of power port as well, and you might be able to solder some wires to those ports and make your own UART connection to this thing. Once you're in (if you can get in), you might be surprised at the kinds of commands you can run through a UART diagnostic session.

EDIT: By the GND I also see some DM and DP ports. I believe these do something similar to what I was describing above, but in a different fashion
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Tester needed.

I have been following up on a different topic, and ran across a method to unlock bootloader on an "Asus zenphone 3 Max", (mt6737 soc , enhanceed 6735)

They have success flashing an unlock allowed "ftp" bin with fastboot even with bootloader unlocked.

The plan is to test with an updated device that has locked bootloader.

adb reboot bootloader

fastboot flash config frp.bin

fastboot reboot-bootloader

If it flashed , then verify unlock

fastboot flashing get_unlock_ability

If result is greater than 0, it worked.

Frp.bin will be taken from the unlock tool files.

(Right now I only have my Mobile, so I cannot add file here now)

Source thread for this method.

https://xdaforums.com/zenfone-3/how-to/zenfone-3-max-zc553kl-bootloader-unlock-t3691837
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I'd love to know if this works too. I have a 6738 soc phone that this might work on as well. The only problem with THAT is that it won't boot to fastboot, but if it does this might do the trick. Good find mazak
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
sad face, :(

I have tried it on my unlocked device, and it just gives unknown partition fault. (not exact error message)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] JayG30:
Hello. I've got a older Blu R1 HD that I removed the debloated the Amazon ads from and rooted a while back. And it looks like at some point I managed to get it to run 6.6. For good measure I just ran through DirtyCow unlock scripts HERE. Performed all steps, including rollback and everything appears to have worked.

Now I'd like to get onto the latest builds. It appears ROMs are still not fully functional (Lineage seems closest). So I'm guessing my best bet is to just run the latest modified Blu ROM based on Android 6.0? What is the latest and where can I download it? And do I just flash it via TWRP? Anything I need to watch out for?

I'm hoping the latest ROM will at least have enabled Band 12 (VoLTE) without manually enabling every boot.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Check out [MENTION=5312578]mrmazak[/MENTION] and his "safe" builds of newer firmware. They're TWRP flashable, and preserve the ability to use SPFT.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] wilderjds:
So please correct me if I am wrong; as of today there is no known way to obtain root access on a R1 HD with build number

BLU_R0011UU_V21_GENERIC 05-05-2017 17:42

Is this correct?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Unfortunately you're correct, yes
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] wilderjds:
there is another thread in which the OP claims to have unlocked the bootloader on the same build.

https://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/how-to/blu-r1-hd-unlock-bootloader-install-t3713171

Is this bogus?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Oh wait I completely forgot, V21 is the non-amazon version. You won't have access to SPFT but you should be able to unlock the bootloader and flash TWRP through fastboot the normal way.

My mistake, you should be good rooting a non-prime R1 on V21.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] zombie_ryushu:
Best value for the money?

I currently run the DirtyCow TWRP LineageOS 13.x Rom, and I am concerned about future BLU Devices such as the BLU Life One X3. I don't want to go back to the BLU Stock Rom under any circumstances. I don't even run GApps. I can't run the LineageOS 14.x Rom because of the Requirement the camera work and I have a Bluetooth headset.

I got lucky and picked up refurbished R1 HD. to Replace my Studio 5.x. It had not been updated and used the older Rom that could be unlocked to load LineageOS... More than 6 months have passed and here I am debating another handset because unless I move back to the Stock Rom, I have no means to patch against KRACK.

So the question becomes: Where do I go from here? Do I buy a BLU R2 or BLU Life One X3 now, stick it in a Drawer, and wait some months until a LineageOS Build is made for it?

XDA Developers Forum doesn't even organize the new devices. News about them is scattered around other forums. I'd hate to have move manufacturers because we are constantly battling BLU's Bull**** on this.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] wilderjds:
Any pointers to how to do that? The bootloader is locked apparently. Fastboot oem unlock fails and no option in the dev options is the to allow that
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Well crap, looks like I was right all along... Not sure what you can do without root access, but maybe there's a way to "force enable" the unlock switch in settings through an ADB shell script or something. I remember we did something similar with hidden network settings on my Verizon Moto E a while ago, so maybe that same concept can be applied to different menus in different places. At the moment I'm not aware of one myself, but I wouldn't be surprised if one existed already.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] evan8:
The same thing happens to me, I do not have root and I have the bootloader blocked and they installed a different rom to my r1 hd blu_r0030uu

fastboot does not have permission to format or change partitions.

Some of you know where the DP, MP, VBUS, that I can not find them.

the device enters fastboot and recovery and factory mode, but I can not install a correct rom.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] tejashpatel:
Does anyone have a Blue R1 HD they'd like to sell. Mine got stolen from my car (was using as a dedicated GPS) and looking to replace it. Thanks!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Check on Swappa or eBay, you'll probably find a decent deal for a used one
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Look what XDA Front Page has to offer us:

https://www.xda-developers.com/download-amazon-offers-remove-lockscreen-ads-amazon-fire/

So if all you care about is getting lockscreen ads off, go for it!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Is anybody on the latest OTA update that could do an adb pull of the entire system folder, zip it, and upload it to gdrive or somewhere for me?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
which is the lastest?

I have put V9 up on the "stock" thread

https://xdaforums.com/r1-hd/development/modified-8-3-stock-rom-t3602672
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Not, sure, Haven't been following the phone for a while I manly want to just look over the files from a new OTA.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
V9 has Nov 5, 2017 security update. And i think is latest.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Vulnerability:
V9 is the latest at this moment, yes.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
You should start a new thread about this official ad removal process so people can easily find it - even better if it can be pinned. It will be a big help to those with locked phones - luckily mine aren't.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Not sure if someone else did it already, but if no one else did I'll make it a separate post tomorrow. Not sure who to contact about getting it pinned though.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] maxitronco:
Glass

Does anyone know of a tempered glass from other phone that can fit in a blu r1 plus? There's only one vendor in my country and he isn't shipping. Thanks in advance
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Jaclo:
I'm on V8.4 no root and I debloated via adb script. Is there a way to update since ota is gone?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Jstame:
Did you ever find one?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] tejashpatel:
No I didn't find one
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
How much you willing to spend on it. I have 3 that i am not using. Only using to patch updates for community with.

Not sure how many more updates will come anymore.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I was honestly surprised V9 firmware even came out. I feel like unless there's another "Chinese spyware scandal" within the next few months, this phone's days are numbered.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Just read up on a kernel level exploit that leads to privilege escalation. The CVE website said any Linux kernel before 4.13.11 was affected, so I'd assume that would mean anything in the 3.18.X line as well. Poking around lead me to a github page, where apparently someone already made a C script for it:

https://github.com/SecWiki/linux-kernel-exploits/tree/master/2017/CVE-2017-16939

[MENTION=5312578]mrmazak[/MENTION], not to put you on the spot or anything, but since you made the script before for DirtyCOW on 6.6 firmware and above, maybe this is something you'd want to take a look at if you're interested. If the R1 Plus also uses the 3.18 kernel, it might work on there as well.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Of course i make no promises, but will look.

Too bad it mentions up to 4.4.13,

My current new phone(Blu vivo X) has 4.4.20

Sad face
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Wait a minute, I realized I messed up. The CVE site actually says any kernel before 4.13.11. This should work on your phone as well!

https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-16939/

(I edited the previous post as well)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I read the cvedetails page as saying it is linux exploit , not android. Sorry
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Android runs on the Linux kernel. This should work, as far as I know.

The CVE page is talking about versions of the Linux Kernel that are vulnerable to this attack. The R1 lineup (and your phone) have an older Linux kernel than what is advertised as being "not affected", so this theoretically should work.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] wilderjds:
I think he is saying that the *exploit* is for Linux, not for Android (not the vulnerability). However I might be wrong here. Perhaps [MENTION=5312578]mrmazak[/MENTION] will correct me
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] tejashpatel:
How about $20?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Haha,

No.

Here is current used value according to eBay listing.

See photo. (Not my. Listing by the way)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] tejashpatel:
Oh wow I didn't realize these had gone up in value! I was just going off off retail price minus depreciation! I guess these really were an amazing deal back when Amazon had them.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I'm guessing all vulnerable ones are worth more, simply because of what you can do with them. I'd ask the eBay dude what firmware it's on.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
Mrmazak, although I currently have six BLU-R1HD, one BLU-R1-PLUS and two BLU-VIVO-8 cellphones, after seeing all the new and improved things on the new BLU-VIVO-X, I'm really thinking about acquiring one to get a cellphone with faster processor and with better cameras.

However, as my BLU-VIVO-8 have a full HD 1080p screen, I am a little concerned that such a big 6" screen of this new BLU-VIVO-X will not have the same sharpness, contrast, details of the colors and multitouch sensitivity.

As you mentioned that your current phone is the new BLU-VIVO-X, would you greatly appreciate it if you could tell me if this phone is really as good as advertised, and how good are its 4 cameras and its Display of 6.0" HD+18:9?

Thanks in advance for your help!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
To be honest, i do not care for the phone and i am sending it back.

I must root any phone i get. (I'm weird like that)

And this phone is locked down right from day one.

Bootloader has been programed to not recognize any unlock command.

Sp flash only works with an authentication file. Which is out on the web.

But then it also only takes "verified" images. Ones with signature baked in.

The phone is a clone of a "Gionee sw17w08", there is also a rusian "BQ-Mobile" version, and i think it is Italian "weiwei"

Vivo X is one of three known clones

==>clone comparison

I have flashed the stock rom from gionee and it works completely, didn't try phone calls though.

Have no method yet to root.

/Side note here.

Blu had the kernel source up right away for this phone , now i know why. There is no way to use custom kernel, until able to root, but even then maybe boot , because the bootloader can't be unlocked

/

The second d camera on both front and rear seem to only work for the bohekn . You can cover one of the lens and still take normal photo.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
Thanks Mrmazak for your quick response.

Like you, I would have also wished that this new BLU-VIVO-X could be rooted, but unfortunately as you already said there is no method to root it, bad news.

However, as you have probably used and tested this phone for several days, I would like to know what positive or negative things you have noticed in this new BLU-VIVO-X, how good or bad is its 6.0" Screen (HD + 18: 9), and if you noticed any pixelization or lack of sharpness, while you used this phone for playing games or for watching videos?

Thanks again for your help!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
cant say. I have not really used it. All i have been doing with it is is trying to flash it.

took few pics, camera has lots of settings and modes,. takes good pics when you use right filter/ setting.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ulises.rodriguez:
Thanks for the information.

I do not know if you know it, but I've noticed that BLU is starting launching new cell phones with Android 8.0 Oreo:

BLU Vivo XL3 -5.5” HD+ 18:9 Display Smartphone with Android 8.0 Oreo

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B079Z9P4LD/ref=ox_sc_act_title_3?smid=AZLYIIMUNEUHN&psc=1
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Morning my beautiful people, yep, never thought we would see the day when Mediatek SoC has semblance to Apple's A series with signatures and phone home blah blah.

My question today, can we capture things like downgrading/unlock of bootloader in a twrp backup, or somehow integrate a script that does these before flashing a debloated v9.0 to an r1? let me know
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
You can thank the Amazon™ Overlord for turning Mediatek into the monster we see here.

We could theoretically pull a bootloader partition with SPFT, but even then we wouldn't be able to flash it on newer phones since they don't use SPFT.

I haven't checked back on this in a bit so I need a refresher... Are you saying that flashing debloated V9 locks up your bootloader? If so then that spurs about a whole new set of problems
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
LOL yeah Bezos at it again

No i'd want for any phone i can install twrp on to be able to flash a cureall zip, but as im typing this i see where it would be impractical as bootloader unlock invokes wipe of entire flash
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] sturmfalken01:
Hopefully it's the correct thread to ask. Do you know if the new Version numberBLU_R0010UU_V9.2_GENERIC_6.0_20180326-1520 update is a real improvement? I'm a bit wary since the R1 HD is almost 2 years old and I've heard of companies sabotaging older devices through updates.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Vulnerability:
Yeah it's fine, been running it for a week now no issues.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] renzofronte:
hi! what is the point kcol0 on the motherboard? I'll try
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
I really wish I could tell you, but I have no idea myself. I don't think all the pinouts are actually labeled on there
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] 0xd0gf00d:
I had converted my Prime variant into non-Prime variant (version v17) some time ago. I haven't seen any firmware updates appear for the non-Prime variant so wanted to go back to the Prime variant (especially since it is now ad-free). What steps would you recommend I follow to do so safely? FWIW I am on the non-rooted stocket v17 non-Prime ROM at this time.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] d3adbroke:
Was running the rooted v8.3 and tried the unroot method and now the phone will not boot up at all and can't get into recovery