yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] travlock:
I highly doubt it would allow oem unlocking. It would have to enable the oem unlock option in dev settings via a ota. Theres a slight chance that it would change which ota to grab but my guess is it chooses which build to grabbed based on IMEI or MAC address so it would probably stay on the amazon based build. Although considering the ads can be disabled com.amazon.pheonix. If the method amazon uses to disable ads then it could be possible to disable it unofficially.:)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Would it matter that the HT7 Pro has Android 5.1 instead of 6.0? Plus the camera is different as well.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] travlock:
Austin Evans just made a video about the Blu R1 HD and the moto G4 so that should help boost the phones popularity. Hopefully it will get its own subsection soon :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Even if the option to remove the ads does exist (I couldn't find it, but I didn't register my phone), I think you still will have the Amazon version of the ROM and the bootloader unlock will remain impossible. If you have had the phone for 6 months and the ads are really getting to you, maybe it's a viable option, but if you just got the thing less than a month or two ago, just return the phone and buy the ad-free version. Amazon's got an excellent return policy, and you'll be better off with the normal non-Amazon version of the ROM, especially since that version allows bootloader unlock.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kesaratma:
Thanks for the info! My understanding was that Band 12 won't work with T-Mobile without VoLTE, is that an automatic thing once you enable Band 12 in Engineering Mode? Apologies for my ignorance here, I've been reading through this thread over the past few days and don't recall anyone anyone confirming that they got Band 12 w/ VoLTE working on T-Mobile and just wanted to make sure. I believe that enabling Band 12 in Engineering Mode allows a T-Mobile phone to connect to Band 12 but you drop from LTE to HSPA when you actually make a call.

Please feel free to educate me. :angel:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Band 12 support is apparently coming soon. They have to get the device VoLTE certified first to avoid being in violation of various E911 regulations. Theorhetically they could just enable it anyway and T-Mobile couldn't do anything about it, but that would eliminate any chances of BLU or Amazon working with T-Mobile to sell devices in T-Mobile stores, which they probably don't want to do.

EDIT: All that said, you can enable the Band 12 LTE using the MTK Engineering package. I think you can find a launcher for it in the Play Store. I've tried it and verified that it works for mobile data, but be careful, because you will be unable to make or receive phone calls (including 911) in T-Mobile Extended Range LTE areas.

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There are no cutouts. The case molds over the buttons. I can post pictures of what the button area looks like on the inside and outside, if you like.

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Just added a little annoyance to my list of reasons we need to get this thing rooted. The touch sounds (which sound like awkward bleeps instead of taps) are super annoying, and I hate the dead silence of having them turned off. The screen lock sounds are alright, but they're too quiet to even hear, and I miss the good old knocking sound of the AOSP screen lock. The keyboard sounds aren't horrible, but they're too long and occasionally skip when you're typing quickly. If we could get these things replaced with AOSP or other more pleasant sounds after getting rooted, that would be awesome. ;)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
So I just tired a root method from the Kindle fire here

the command:

fastboot oem append-cmdline "androidboot.unlocked_kernel=true"

says it worked

C:\Windows\system32>fastboot oem append-cmdline "androidboot.unlocked_kernel=true"
...
(bootloader) APPEND KERNEL CMDLINE

OKAY [ 0.007s]
finished. total time: 0.007s

but when the device reboots adb shell doesn't have root.

I'm on the original shipped update, if somebody has the new OTA update could they try it and see what happens?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
so far no luck for me getting mkt tools to backup phone. Phone not seen on pc while in recovery mode. Build prop has ro.adb.secure = 1 and ro.debuggable = 0 . which will not allow adb while in recovery as I understand these settings.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Could be something in the build.prop or the /dev/__properties__ file that reverses the effect on boot. If we can flash our own boot.img, could we re-direct it to our own build.prop? Maybe we could also keep it from mounting /system as read-only if it does (it did on my previous BLU). But I honestly have no idea how boot images work. We'd need a working scatter file to do this, but boot image replacement can be done. Then again, with a working scatter file, we'd have root anyway.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I'm going to assume the answer is going to be no, but is there any way to manually create a scatter file?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Nope, that didn't work. But nice try.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Guys, you can totally opt out of the ads on Amazon's website.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
... For $50
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Still, it's an option if you change your mind later on. (I live in Collingdale too btw.)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
It involves MTKDroidTools which doesn't work, even the 2.5.3d one that has 64 bit support.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
I'm going to see if you can unlock the bootloader if you unsubscribe to ads tomorrow. (Worth a shot.)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
If you do and get an OTA update from it you should see if you can capture the OTA url.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jimberkas:
i just ordered this one:

edit: can't post a link since I'm a newbie. just go to amazon and search "Abacus24-7 BLU R1 HD Case", its $7.99 and a slim TPU case

this has the cut outs for the buttons, at least according to the pics. I think the buttons are good quality on this phone so didn't want to hide them
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
No clue how to do that. What would I need?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
http://www.androidsage.com/2016/01/21/how-to-capture-ota-update-url-for-your-android-device/
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jimberkas:
did you register your phone with your amazon account? i bought two phones but skipped the amazon registration and neither of the phones are showing on my Devices list. I don't mind the ads for now so not interested in paying to remove them, but if it comes to being able to install custom ROMs, I would most likely reconsider.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
You're a brave man. We salute you.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Well I'll know tomorrow. :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Amazon might have some sort of IMEI checking utility to ensure that ONLY THAT PHONE gets the OTA. They may specially code the signature for each device individually to include some sort of device-specific verification. I'm not saying not to try, you should capture the OTA by all means. I'm just saying to not get your hopes up, as this seems too good to be true.

Or maybe I'm just paranoid and this'll work after all. Let's hope this is true.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
stock recovery

just throwing this out there.

I see that the stock recovery has option to backup and restore user data. wouldnt this mean that the backup file would have a scatter file in it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Ok, but this will...

A. Not allow you to unlock the bootloader (I'm fairly certain, but not 100% positive)

B. Not remove the Amazon bloatware

C. Require you to register your phone. Not only now, but every time you reset it. I don't want to register my phone at all, let alone every time.

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No, I don't think you'll get an OTA for removing ads on your device. I'm positive that all this does is add a flag to your Amazon account that says the device is authorized to have ads disabled. Once your phone is registered to that Amazon account, that flag is read by the com.amazon.phoenix package, and it doesn't show ads. This is how it works on Kindles. I don't think it will be any different on the phones.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Whenever I went into recovery I couldn't do anything, it was just a blank screen that read text as if it was waiting for an external command. How did you get to do anything in recovery? Or maybe you have the old OTA? And now that I think of it, I probably could've used that to push root files to system or to flash another recovery. Oh well, I'll wait another few days and try again. But to answer your question, no, userdata doesn't include a scatter file. That's just pretty much backing up the /data partition.

EDIT: Isn't this like the 7th time a post of mine started a new page
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
I'm not sure exactly what a scatter file is supposed to look like but is the one present in the OTA not sufficient?

When everything is unzipped it's in:

BLU_R0010UU_V6.1_GENERIC_6.0_20160617-1456-BLU_R0010UU_V6.4_GENERIC_6.0_20160710-00151468612925207/update/scatter.txt

preloader 0x0
pgpt 0x0
proinfo 0x80000
nvram 0x380000
protect1 0x880000
protect2 0x1280000
lk 0x1c80000
para 0x1d00000
boot 0x1d80000
recovery 0x2d80000
logo 0x3d80000
expdb 0x4580000
seccfg 0x4f80000
oemkeystore 0x5000000
secro 0x5200000
keystore 0x5800000
tee1 0x6000000
tee2 0x6500000
frp 0x6a00000
nvdata 0x6b00000
metadata 0x8b00000
system 0xb000000
cache 0xb2000000
userdata 0xcb000000
flashinfo 0xFFFF0084
sgpt 0xFFFF0004
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
While that is a scatter file, that doesn't look like an SP Flash Tools compatible scatter file. The SPFT ones have a lot more info in them for each partition. I'll edit this post later with an example.

Also, I discovered something that can replace MTKDroidTools for getting an SPFT scatter file from this phone. It is called SpaceMTKTools and I believe it is currently in a beta stage (but it might still work). It's designed to work with newer 64-bit MTK chipsets. If someone can download this and give it a try, maybe we can get a proper scatter file for this device:

https://plus.google.com/+StefanDanut/posts/Fr6XK1XjyJw

EDIT: Here's the usual SPFT scatter file I'm used to seeing. As you can see, there's a lot more info for each partition than the OTA's poor excuse of a scatter file.

[IMG="dank memes"]https://androidmtk.com/main/MtkDroidTools-Blocks_Info.png[/IMG]
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
am i thinking too simple here(or at least too old version of android), but if the ota is an update.zip file. can't the update script be used and changed to reload a modified build.prop. one that has flags set to allow oem unlock and adb in recovery. thenonce adb was allowed in recovery you should have root shell
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
That's definitely possible to do, but it would mess up the checksum-type signature verification they have, and it wouldn't flash then.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] travlock:
My guess is that there's some md5 checksum in order to make sure none of the files have been tampered with.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] guy theawesome:
I remembered using this to root my Samsung s4 when no other method worked. It has a free trial and I was wondering if anybody has successfully rooted their blu r1 HD with it or if anyone could try and tell me seeing as how I don't have a blu r1 and am considering buying:

http://mobilego.wondershare.com

Hope it helps!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
i couldnt get this to work.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Could you post some screenshots of the errors when you try to get a scatter file?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
there is no scatter create option. And the img. backup doesnt work as you can see in photo 3 first command is su. so its another catch 22

it also only goes to android version 5
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
When you press volume up to bootloader unlock does it freeze? My Studio X+ did that.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] thatrez:
No, it produces a message. It says something along the lines of "failed, access denied" checked in dev opions on phone to see if there is an additional setting needed like "allow OEM unlock" on the Nexus, but there was no such option.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Its "adb shell" then "pm clear [package name]" then "pm hide [package name]"

I actually have every amazon app disabled right now. The phone works fine afterwards. No lock screen adds except the "ask alex" one but it doesn't even let you tap the try now part it basically becomes a wallpaper.

Yeah bootloader isn't unlockable. the dev option to allow the unlock is missing and when you run the fastboot oem unlock command and hit up it says it failed because unlock isn't enabled.

I'm actually kind of surprised this phone doesn't have its own XDA sub forum especially considering the new $50 Kindle got its own. I would have though more people would have been hyped for a $50 phone that has decent specs.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
This is the exact reason I made this thread. I wanted to see how many people would get one of these, and if enough people posted I could request for a sub forum.

I remember back with the Verizon Moto E (the one that was $10 on black friday) in order to unlock it for use with GSM carriers you had to issue some ADB commands to show the cellular APN menu, a menu intentionally hidden by Verizon to most likely prevent users from easily switching the phone's network to work with other GSM carriers. I bet there's an ADB command to "enable" or show the OEM Unlock option in Developer Options. When I get my device I'll be researching this more, it should be arriving at my door sometime today.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] JShan:
Got mine on Wednesday. Its performance exceeds my low expectations... I had read somewhere that a third-party lock screen app would remove the ads, but I've found this not to be the case consistently. Sometimes the ads are there, sometimes not. My solution was to activate a persistent notification. When there's a notification, the add on the lockscreen becomes a small card (like an additional notification) rather than a full screen wallpaper. Makes it almost barely noticeable.

+1 on creating a sub-forum. I'm now waiting on my Freedompop sim, so I can use this as a truly free backup phone/something I travel with so if I lose or break it I'm merely annoyed rather than enraged.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] lordmorphous:
+1 on a subforum. In the days of my Dell Streak, I participated in some rom development, but haven't done much since. I would love to get this thing unlocked and rooted, and start playing again.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mlingley:
I'd really like to be able to flash the stock firmware over the amazon prime version.. hopefully somebody figures it out. All in all a great phone for $60 even with the ads. Pairing this with a $1 sim from freedompop and my 12 year old little sister is golden.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] limpet:
Got my R1 HD yesterday. Freedompop sims only work in sim slot 1. It appears that slot 2 is 2g only. I ended up putting a Ting sim in slot 2 which gives T-mobile quality phone and sms. Free data comes from Freedompop sim in slot 1. No need to use the Freedompop messagiing app or deal with VOIP using a sim with a 300 ms. ping.

Remember to downgrade FP plan and services and stay at least 100 mb below data limit to avoid charges. Use FP friends to get another free 500 mb.

Ting sims are still a dollar at https://ting.com/shop/gsmSIM.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] JShan:
Good to know. Thanks! I may well have spent many hours of frustration trying to get the Freedompop sim to work in slot 1.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
hey, id like to know what drivers you have installed on your computer for adb since whenever i tried to do the commands you listed in fastboot, i get

"C:\adb>adb shell pm clear com.amazon.phoenix pm hide com.amazon.phoenix

error: device '(null)' not found

C:\adb>adb shell pm clear com.amazon.phoenix pm hide com.amazon.phoenix

* daemon not running. starting it now on port 5037 *

* daemon started successfully *

error: device '(null)' not found

C:\adb>adb devices

List of devices attached"

and stuff like that, however i can still attempt the bootloader unlock thing with the right command. I would love to get rid of the amazon apps functionality via you method. If you could i would really appreciate it thanks.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I didn't install any driver my computer just found the phone like normal, I use this adb from here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=48915118#post48915118

since is has a system wide installer. and sorry maybe I didn't explain the commands right.

When your pc can find the phone with "ADB devices" it should be like this:

adb shell

you'll get a $ then do

pm clear com.amazon.phoenix
pm hide com.amazon.phoenix

Replete that for every app you want to disable, then do:

exit
adb reboot

I'm not any expert with android modding or anything but I assume pm clear is deleting the app data/cache and pm hide is disabling the app. I only know those commands because thats what had to be done on the $50 Kindle.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] calm_depression:
I tried that and it seems like it didn't change anything, was I supposed to do it in fastboot mode or just when it's on? Also thanks for the response.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
Sorry I also forgot you need to reboot the phone afterwards.

Also I'm personally not sure which app is the ads, I just disabled every amazon app along with a few other preloaded ones. And like I said, it still loads what looks like a wallpaper for the ask alex thing but it doesnt do anything else, which i can deal with.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] BereiBlue:
Yeah I did the same thing last night. Funny mine is stuck on the wallpaper with the women and the telescope. Maybe just maybe if we factory reset the phone and quickly(fast as possible) hide the phoenix package and reboot we could not have to deal with the wall paper issue. I say this because when I first got the phone it took awhile for the normal lock screen wallpaper to get replaced with the ads. Other wise I'm trying to find the package that holds the wallpaper and lock screen wallpaper data and clearing it to see if it makes a difference.

http://www.imgur.com/afEUetu

also +1 on subforum
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
I couldn't find any package name that might have been a wallpaper or ad related with

pm list packages -f

of course after hiding all amazon ones
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
+1 for subforum.

To completely remove the ads, even the Alexa / Kindle ones (this one will be back after reboot):

If ads are disabled right now, enable them again with

pm unhide com.amazon.phoenix

Lock your screen, be sure the ads are back.

Wait for a notification to pop up (easiest way, send an email to yourself on your gmail account).

When the notification is displayed on your lock screen and you have your wallpaper as a background and the ad as a notification too then:

pm hide com.amazon.phoenix
pm clear com.amazon.phoenix

Ads are now completely gone BUT the alexa / kindle one will come back after reboot. It's probably a file somewhere on the phone automatically loaded at boot.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] BereiBlue:
Honestly chances are root or the wallpaper will be fixed eventually by those with more experience . For now I'm happy that its not draining battery or network data.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] besweeet:
Is anyone else getting questionable standby time? 20% down after 11 hours isn't very good IMO. The screen was off 100% of the time, too.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] djrbx:
I honestly was thinking about getting this phone when it was released on Amazon but held back since it was only going to be a secondary device. I'd still like to get one but I think I'd rather wait and see if this phone is rootable before buying it.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] besweeet:
Honestly, I'd buy it anyway. We don't know how long the promotion on Amazon will last. Even if you get it at $50/$60 and it's never rootable, it would still be a good backup as you said. Could probably hold some sort of resale value as well if bought at the lower prices.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kostar:
my log for disabling Phoenix:

MAK:~ k$ adb shell

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

Success

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

Package com.amazon.phoenix new hidden state: false

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

Error: java.lang.SecurityException: Permission Denial: attempt to change component state from pid=6785, uid=2000, package uid=10040

1|shell@R1_HD:/ $
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] californiarailroader:
I can confirm that.

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Any updates on that?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Oscar_david:
I'm still hoping someone will post the scatter file for the no ads version. Seems to me that's one of our best shots at making progress as far as root goes.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] bullet25:
The first set has way more info with it but the address look the same like boot on both are 0x1d8

Between these two sets of info couldn't it be modified to work for this device?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Jstame:
Yes your exactly right the next step is figuring out how to pull the image for each partition. The second one is what is used on the SP Flash Tool. If we can figure out how to pull the recovery image we could port twrp and flash the recovery partition with the SPFT using the scatter file. From there rooting is as easy as flashing the SuperSu.zip. once rooted pulling the rest of the partition files is no prob. Just not sure if we can pull recovery.IMG without root. Prob a good next step is figuring that out. Great work so far everyone!!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
I am not familiar with scatter files but. I have another blu phone Life one X (MT6753) I used droid tools to pull its scatter file and compared it to the file listed on the link you posted and they do not match, So I don't think that's right "that any MT6735 scatter would do". My S.W.A.G. (scientific wild a** guess) shows they might be different
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] samijam:
MT6735 and MT6753 is not the same thing :)

http://system-on-a-chip.specout.com/compare/1069-1166/Media-Tek-MT6753-vs-Mediatek-MT6735
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jasonmerc:
Universal scatters are what gave me trouble before. I can try, but it probably won't work.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Jstame:
The scatter file just tells each partition image/bin file where to load. Without the actual partition image/bin files to flash to each partition the scatter file has pretty much zero use.