yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] inaudible101:
I'm having some problems. I'm trying to use SPFT after downloading everything, but nothing happens when I plug in the phone. It may show the charging battery icon on the screen, but SPFT does not do anything. I've tried different cables and USB ports. I've also reread the directions several times to make sure I didn't miss anything. I click the download button then plug in my turned off phone and nothing.

I was hoping someone might have some suggestions since I seem to be the only one with this problem so far.

edit

You might want to add that people will need this driver here if the program wont detect their phone.

http://xdaforums.com/elephone-m2/help/windows-10-mtk-vcom-usb-drivers-32-64-t3267033
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I don't use Windows, so drivers are not a problem for me. I honestly don't know what you're doing wrong. You are clicking the download button in SPFT BEFORE plugging in the phone, correct? And the phone is turned OFF before plugging it in, correct? If you're doing these things correctly and drivers are confirmed not a problem, I don't know what could possibly be wrong.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] burnanator:
HI,

I did all the above and it worked great. My phone is now the non prime oem version

But I have an issue. I use a straight talk sim and after doing the conversion... I am not getting data or cell service. It work beautifully when I first bought the phone. Just popped in the sim and off I went.

Any idea what the issue may be? The app settings on the sim have not changed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] missileman72211:
FYI, I also use Straight Talk. I have done the conversion procedure twice........and I have had 4G LTE cell service and mobile data after both times with no issues. Maybe it is a physical sim issue?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] viktorfk:
Is it possible to make this a flashable .zip? in case we already have TWRP installed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] burnanator:
Actually, I think tower In our area went offline right after I got done flashing this. My son lost service too. Couldn't be coincidence. Works fine elsewhere!

Stupid thunder storms! ??????
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
No

Clarification: It should be theorhetically possible, but that will take a lot more effort than it's worth for me, plus the whole point of this is to convert/restore the phone to completely stock, which TWRP would be unable to do.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Quick question sorry if wrong forum, attempting to restore a TWRP backup, it fails with cannot restore system -- mounted read only, im sure its something simple. At first i thought it was due to backup being on an adoptable storage formatted SD, but then I thought, that shouldn't matter thats not where everything is being restored, but then I remembered first time I ran TWRP leaving system as read only and checked box never ask again, so thats probably it(i hope) anyhow how cani fix it while in TWRP to restore my backup?? And a side question can i restore directly from pc if plugged in via usb? Thanks for help, I'm just smart enough right now to be dangerous -_-

UPDATE -- Figured it out, simply uncheck Mount System Partition Read-only under MOUNT Option

UPDATE 2 -- Once I rebooted it appeared all my apps stored on SD, formatted as adoptable storage were gone, I went to storage in settings, clicked on SD Card, then when I clicked on apps it took a few moments but once it populated they were all there and were once again in the app drawer.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark_Balor:
Hello [MENTION=5355478]ColtonDRG[/MENTION],

Two questions for you :

1. Can I change from Prime to non-Prime when the device is already encrypted ?

2. Are you sure that putting TWRP is not blocking the OTA ? The OTA need the BLU recovery to apply, without it, I don't think TWRP is able to apply the OTA updates.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
1. I can't see why not.

2. I never said it wouldn't... This restored original recovery too.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark_Balor:
I'll give it a try then :) Thanks.

I must have misread then, maybe that should be clearly said in the first post that keeping root + twrp = no more OTA.

If I understood correctly, unrooting the device, rebooting, and the BLU recovery is back, right ?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Not necessarily. If you want to take OTAs, running the first guide to make sure you have completely stock boot image, system, and recovery is the best way to do it without fail.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ferrojm:
Just finished installing the non-prime version on my two R1-HD (both, 16/2 and 8/1).

I have followed your post step-by-step, works perfect on Windows 10, files extracted using 7-zip.

Thanks a lot for your dedication man , greetings from Argentina!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jimberkas:
:crying:wtf. i followed instructions and got the check mark and thought i was golden. but no phone won't even power on! it was 95 percent charged. what could I have possibly done wrong?? glad this isn't my main phone and i bought it mainly to tinker with it.

i flashed prime to OEM and it was stock prime prior to flashing

Edit: i just reflashed using the same method and all is good again. very slick.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] krchi:
If I unlocked my bootloader then convert to non prime will my bootloader still be unlocked after conversion?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Well, I just received 8/1 R1 and followed this guide to the t after TWRP backup of all partitions.

Just like a fellow member i thought something was screwy with the amazon apps preinstalled but yeah, everything seems to be dandy i attached a few pictures.

Thank you so much ColtonDRG you are saving lives good sir.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
Just curious, why did you buy the 8/1 version? Double the storage and RAM is only $10 more.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It works fine on 8/1? That's great news!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Sorry to hear something went wrong, but glad it worked out in the end. Must have had a faulty flash the first time. Anyway, yeah, this device is theorhetically unbrickable as this guide can unbrick damaged boot/system/recovery, and other SPFT backups can unbrick anything else. :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It *should*, but no promises. I have had it stick sometimes, but not stick other times. I *think* the only time it didn't stick was when flashing from non-Prime to Prime, but I haven't actually confirmed this.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] dba415:
FYI you lose the ability to encrypt once you convert to the OEM version. Not sure why but the encryption option only exists when you are on the Prime version. Converting an already encrypted prime version to non-prime won't undo your encryption though.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Dark_Balor:
I confirm that I kept the encryption and I had no issue whatsoever with the change Prime -> OEM.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] hopsizzle:
I've followed every step in this guide and I can't at all get SPFT to read my phone when it's off.

I also tried installing the drivers someone else supplied here in a previous page of this discussion with still no luck.

Is there something I need to activate on the phone first or on my Win 10 PC to get this to work? I'm So close yet so far!

Any help would be appreciated. TY.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] The Android Attorney:
thank you so much. this ads to the best $60 i've ever spent. too bad i cant use it on sprint :/ but makes a great Music player, since my S6 has limited storage.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I was already aware of that. There is a workaround that isn't a filthy hack. Thread search exists...

Already knew that too.

Hmm... I don't know, but I would guess it is a driver problem. My suggestion is to give it a shot on Linux.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] luscious1588:
blu device stuck at a black screen

my phone is stuck at a black screen but it is charging and when i try to reflash it keep getting error when i press the power button i cant get the phone to come back on can someone help me please
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] yaconsult:
It sounds like you're doing it wrong. In SPFT, you select the config and the file to flash while the phone is NOT plugged in and turned off. Then you will see that SPFT is waiting for the phone. Now, you plug the phone into the computer while it is still turned OFF. Then, SPFT sees the phone and flashes it for you. Wait until SPFT says it is done. You never turn the phone on before the flashing is done. It is actually quite easy to do but you have to follow the instructions exactly. I have never used SPFT before this but it worked exactly as described.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] luscious1588:
ive used it before im stuck on a black screen but i know the hasnt power down yet so thats why i keep get errors i think
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
Let it die completely and then give it a try. Remember that you need to select the files and hit Download in SPFT BEFORE you connect the phone to the computer.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
I did this on Win 10 too and I never had to install any drivers. I just plugged it in and it worked.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] qwer777:
Will converting to the OEM version mean any OTAs offered will be the non prime one?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] hopsizzle:
I wonder why mine isnt being read then. I plugged it in and then battery shows up on the screen when i plug it in for the process. Does that battery pop up for you? Do you have usb debugging turned on on the phone?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
You want to plug it in after clicking download. The phone has to be completely off.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] hopsizzle:
I am indeed doing that. I had the phone powered off by clicking the side button until I see shutdown and let it completely go black. Next I clicked download on SPFT, and plug it in.

However, nothing happens on spft. it just sits there as if nothing is plugged in. However, my phone does end up getting a battery icon on it to indicate it is charging and it shows me the percentage. Is that what happens to yours when you plug it in?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Try a different cable?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] triggerlord:
No. The the light turns red but the screen stays off on mine.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] hopsizzle:
I've tried a variety of cables. The one in the box and a couple other's I've always used to connect phones to my PC.

Even tried this all on another machine where I had never plugged my phone in, just in case some drivers were causing the issue.

Could this be because I've already installed an OTA from amazon that maybe disabled this? Idk just a though. Also I've tried this with USB debugging on and off and still nothing.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
These are the drivers i used maybe try thrm

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=68715
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] hopsizzle:
Interesting that mine lights up with the battery percentage then. Wonder if it's something I need to turn off on the phone itself. :/

---------- Post added at 07:35 PM ---------- Previous post was at 07:02 PM ----------

Not sure if it was these drivers( since I had tried a while back, but retried them with this link) or something else I did, but it finally worked!

One thing I did do differently was hold the power down with the volume down and then it instantly started to be read by the computer. Maybe that was just conicidence. Either way, I'm all booted up and currently on the "android is upgrading" part of the set up.

Fingers crossed. Thanks guys for all the help, happy to potentially be ad free now!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] retrocactus:
I successfully installed the OEM version on my 16/2 Prime phone but I haven't been able to get Android File Transfer to recognize my phone on my MacBook. Has anyone else experienced this and/or have a solution? I've tried different cables and different phones (Note 7 and S7 Edge) which are recognized no problem.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chudm:
i converted my 2/16 gb r1 to the oem version, but when i try to use the ota it says i have root and cant be updated, the weird thing its im not, i received the phone from amazon and i even wont powered on, just did what the guide says
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Make sure the phone is set in FTP mode. ADB being enabled might also help.

This doesn't make any sense.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chudm:
Yep i know it doesnt make any sense, i think ill reflash it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] terragone:
I think I've bricked it right out of the box, but I'd like to brainstorm before it goes back.

First attempt at SPFT shot a "BROM" something error immediately on connecting the device; I should've screenshot it. Progress bar hadn't started yet (still white). From that point forward, phone plugged in has a red light (into computer or into wall), otherwise nothing. Windows and Linux both show some variation of "USB device is faulty" when plugged in. I've tried several MTK drivers on Windows across two computers, three known-good cables, several USB ports, holding down various buttons for 1min+, and rootjunky's images and scatter file (though I know the problem is lower level than that). No dice. Red light plugged in, screen off.

Dmesg output:

[ 2313.418264] usb 1-1.5.5: new high-speed USB device number 28 using ehci-pci
[ 2313.518287] usb 1-1.5.5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 2313.722121] usb 1-1.5.5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 2313.898117] usb 1-1.5.5: new high-speed USB device number 29 using ehci-pci
[ 2313.997857] usb 1-1.5.5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 2314.201650] usb 1-1.5.5: device descriptor read/64, error -71
[ 2314.377612] usb 1-1.5.5: new high-speed USB device number 30 using ehci-pci
[ 2314.792942] usb 1-1.5.5: device not accepting address 30, error -71
[ 2314.865143] usb 1-1.5.5: new high-speed USB device number 31 using ehci-pci
[ 2315.280544] usb 1-1.5.5: device not accepting address 31, error -71
[ 2315.280797] hub 1-1.5:1.0: unable to enumerate USB device on port 5

Any suggestions before I fold? Is it possible that I received a newer software revision in response to this exploit, or is SPFT so low-level that it shouldn't matter?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
I don't see how they could have plugged this "exploit" SPFT works before anything else is initialized during preload, unless they have changed the block addresses in the scatter, which is way ahead of my skill set. Still though, i can't imagine that bricking it, I would guess SPFT would abort. Volume up and power won't get you into recovery??
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] terragone:
No recovery best I can tell.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
If you plug it into charger, do you get the battery charging animation?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] terragone:
Nope, just a red light. Battery was full when I started this process, so I don't expect it's just empty. Waiting for it to discharge would be the next step, but that could take a damn long time.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
That was my next thought letting it drain, but with no screen on, that may take longer than getting a warranty replacement from Amazon!!

I seriously doubt they have changed anything, it was probably just some freak accident, although I saw a post earlier where they released an OTA to 6.5, so maybe they are trying to close everything up -_-
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ariesgodofwar:
I have a hard time believing that an OTA update could patch a pre-boot exploit. Very interested in what may have possibly happened here.

I did find this on Mediatek BROM errors which might be helpful: http://onlinejobwithoutanyinvestment.com/sp-flash-tool-errors-fix-brom-error/

Are you certain that you have the proper USB driver installed? Did you try removing and reinstalling driver, and then try reflashing to see if SPFT may detect device on reconnect?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jherbold:
Major kudos to the OP for this guide. Worked perfectly and without question is one of the best written and formatted guides I've seen on XDA.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] terragone:
I should've looked at those BROM errors when it happened! I was just expecting that flashing never works on the first try, rinse and repeat.

I'm not entirely sure that I had the right drivers, but I tried a few different MTK driver downloads from XDA. I just uninstalled them with pnputil and tried again, no change. It's not working on Linux either, that would be a strange coincidence.

Model number under the back cover is the same as everyone else's, I didn't think to check the software version before flashing. I'll be sure to check on the next one, and I might wait around for a few days to see if anyone else has issues before trying to flash.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Confirmed v6.5 on converted Prime? :cool::cool::cool:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Non Prime has no OTA update that I am aware of yet.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] fanakendor:
Not what I expected...

Well, I got this brand new phone last week and two days later the problems started:

-Moved for a while to south america so it's imposible to find any case/screen

-Amazon ads are not as annoying as expected, but drain the battery and mobile data as hell!!

-The phone started rebooting endlesly (I couldn't do anything but watch) after an "optimization"

After contacting support the stated I needed to "hard reset the phone", so let's recover it!! But SURPRISE!! There is no a recovery function on the android (the option exist, but there was no command). Blu support was a complete disaster and useless, so I checked google-sama. Finally found this thread and a chorus of angels played on the background!!!!

After doing this simple step-by-step guide to do a completely different thing, it downloaded the recovery partition to the phone, wiped the ads and improved lifetime to the battery and mobile data.

Now this phone is just perfect (still looking for a case, but still....)

So all this bla bla bla is only to say thanks, you saved my phone!!!!! :D
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ibleo02:
I am having the same issue. I have not been able to get android file transfer to recognize my phone. I have it set to FTP and debugging enabled but nothing comes up on my mac. When i change it to PTP my iPhotos pops up and lets me transfer photos. I can also run adb with no problem. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I will look into it when my computer is fixed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
So here is the million dollar question, it seems the prime variant has already received 2 OTA updates, one no doubt to fix early lockscreen hacks, second to update security. The OEM variant none. BLU is notorious for not updating products, or following through with promises. Would it be worth it to revert to prime and apply ad removal( a pain everytime they update to go through the motions) or wait for custom roms to fill the OEM void. I wonder if Amazon has their own team working on OTA and firmware, or if BLU is just commited to keeping their Amazon contract alive, thus devoting minimal time and resources just to Prime variant.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
In my country things that cost more than $50 are immediately slapped with taxes starting at $45-50 so in case customs was feeling as if they could buy buckets of chicken off me, i decided that the pricing on 8/1 was perfect :cool:

(i'll eventually ask friend to send a 16/2 masked as 8/1 :highfive:)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I have a proposition... I'll get to that at the bottom of this post.

Oh, cool.

So, we seem to have come to an impasse. The Prime version is receiving security patches (as well as Amazon dicking patches) while the regular version seems frozen. I would like to gauge interest in a mish mash ROM, that will effectively give you the lower level system of the Prime version for those patches, while having all the higher level components of the non-Prime version. Depending on how general reactions to this post go, I will probably open a poll or something. So, do you think a criss cross ROM with some prime components and some non prime components is a good idea, or should we keep focusing on custom ROMs like Composite and building CyanogenMod?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
...I can't decide in the end whatever is most stable
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] movielover76:
I think the question is kind of moot until we get a meaningful update on the Prime version and not on the OEM version.

If the updates to the prime version are just working to make it harder to remove the lockscreen ads, then these updates might simply not apply to the OEM version.

I don't expect much in the way of updates on the phone, the only update I really care about is if we get the proposed update to enable band 12 and VoLTE on T-mobile. (Which I'm really hoping for)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
False. The 6.5 update for the non prime version brought the July 5 Android security patch level. To most people, security is not insignificant.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] movielover76:
Point taken, I didn't realize that. I thought you were talking about security updates to make it harder to work around Amazon apps, I didn't think that through. Security patches aren't insignificant.

In that case maybe working on roms that remove the Amazon stuff from the Prime rom is the most beneficial.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
That sounds like a great idea, merging the two roms, it's a shame BLU has done nothing, with OEM, but that is to be expected based on their past. Any chance of incorporating the enhancements 6.0.1 brought other manufacturers M builds? I need to get my hands wet and figure out how to do these things myself. But until then, I'm grateful for you more experienced folks. :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
If there is an OTA update for the Prime or non prime versions bringing Android 6.0.1, we will get those features, but that seems unlikely. There may be a handful of things that we can back port, but I'm really not too sure about it. Our best bet for getting future Android versions at all is either a big push from Amazon, which seems unlikely, or custom ROMs, which we are working on now that we have kernel sources. We are incredibly fortunate that we were able to harass BLU into giving us the kernel source, because most MediaTek devices kernel source never sees the light of day, and most MediaTek OEMs are notoriously bad about any kind of updates.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chudm:
guys im expecting a new 16 gb/2gb ram tomorrow, but im kinda of worried about the last 2 updates from 2 people here, should i be worried about converting prime to non prime?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Keep focusing on CyanogenMod or other alternative ROM.

Merging both prime and non-prime will probably not bring much more than a debloated/ads removed version and will be harder to maintain on the long term.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] 36dbldz:
strock oob zip is empty when i open it