yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It doesn't matter. Disabling (or freezing as I'll call it) is fine as long as you freeze both Wireless update and FotaProvider. You must freeze both or they will unfreeze eachother at boot.

Sure, as long as you don't want to load up your system partition with naughty pictures in /system/pr0n (in more seriousness, some people might actually value the free space in /system)

Yeah, there is plenty of space. (Why did I select this post to respond to? I'm too tired to be doing this.)

normal-stock-oob is the OEM version. That's the one you want to install.

prime-stock-oob is the Prime version. I have it for the sake of complete-ness (and any other reason people might want it)

Bingo

No. Unplug your phone, make sure it's off, restart SPFT, and try again.

Posting lone signatures is productive, friend.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Missed one on my last run-through.

You either did it wrong or flashed the wrong image. You probably downloaded prime-stock-oob, which is the Prime image

You want normal-stock-oob. Read the OP carefully. All of this was explained.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
I posted something stupid so i deleted it
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
k

I just don't get why you left the signature there by itself, it just looks odd. Personally I would have just replaced the post with (deleted) or whatever.

But I usually don't delete posts anyway.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
So people know what device i am using :laugh:
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
They can see if from any of your other not-deleted posts. Anyway, please try to stay on topic. :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
Scripts are perfectly safe, even on non-prime but original scripts from the OP will leave some bloat on a non-prime.

Please give a try to the "beta" scripts on http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=68557388&postcount=19. These were updated and tested tonight to also efficiently debloat non-prime versions (Blu help, Opera, etc).

This version is also safer as it don't erase apps anymore, just rename them, providing an easier way to customize ad troubleshoot if needed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
My bad, I manually remove most my stuff, but I really didn't pay attention to the question of non prime, im so used to saying OEM now.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] SqueezyCheez:
I figured it out... I assumed that because I could plug and play with the phone that the drivers were installed. I was wrong. I had a pending driver install in my Windows 10 updates (MediaTek USB drivers). I forced it to install and then it worked great.

Thanks for the reply regardless!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Manucr:
I cant find the way to uninstall or delete amazon app complete.

I have my Blu ri hd, NON PRIME, unlocket and rooted but still i dont find the way to get rip of amazon apps, help please! Thanks a lot!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] SqueezyCheez:
Use an app like Link2SD... It'll let you uninstall them with root access.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
You're right. I should have been more clear. It *should* be safe, but that script doesn't target that ROM, so there is always some danger (and possibly things not working how they should) involved. Great to see those non-Prime targeting scripts out there.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Ah, yeah, the two are interchangeable in my mind. I have been trying to say OEM whenever possible lately just for accuracy.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
You have to use a root app to remove them. Titanium backup is good, but I actually just remove them manually because I know where they hang out.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Manucr:
I just try with it but they still remains in my phone :(

Can you tell us where are they located to remove them manual?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] fuzzy_:
I am no expert but I know removing some things can affect other apps and functions of the phone. Careful what you remove and ..... backup first.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] guliver365:
Quick question my bluetooth connection is pretty weak specially with Bluetooth speakers how is your?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Absolutely love the new tutorial, boy Amazon seems to be trying to end this once and for all lol
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] s33m33:
[MENTION=5355478]ColtonDRG[/MENTION]

Thanks for the clear words .. converted to OEM, installed TWRP and rooted easily.

Disabled Wireless Updates and Fota Provider as well. Phone's working as prescribed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] jffwarner0:
Did you do it from straight out of the box, or did you manage to get it to work after the 6.6 update?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
They're in /system/app and /system/priv-app. If you get there and you don't know what any of that stuff means, don't touch it. It's dangerous if you don't know what you're doing.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
We're working on finding a way to...

Flash the old preloader if your bootloader is unlocked

Flash this without SPFT if your bootloader is unlocked

Flash the old preloader if your bootloader is locked

Root without SPFT if your bootloader is locked

Flash this without SPFT if your bootloader is locked
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Yeah there's no question about that bro

RMA rate for BLU is usually 5-7%

But recently it dropped with the MT6735 being better all around (while Exynos improved security and Snapdragon is just looking at MTK like, sup bro) but yeah

You're very unlucky sir.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
....I am convinced that you were sent by the gods to save us from damnation sir

Yeah I wanted to do that but i remember somewhere I probably asked you if it could work or someone else and i got a somewhat mixed response, but the footprint of the few apps isn't that bad so I let them remain.

Uhm.

So, Windows 10 destroyed my laptop and now I'm considering to fix it but not only that, but to convert it to Linux.

I tried doing your process on the 8/1 at first on Linux methinks but it didn't work on Xubuntu (highly reccomend by my friend) I thought it was possibly a driver (or my dying board) or both that cause the issue but I'm not sure.

So firstly 1) run terminal as root?

2) sudo get android-tools?

3) use either Arch Linux

or 4) Zorin OS

What suggestion is the best Linux for not only SP Tools but also writing school reports and Steam :(
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
I like Arch Linux, but it's probably not the best for a newbie Linux user. Ubuntu MATE or Debian MATE would be my pick for that.

As for SPFT, make sure you have adb and fastboot installed.

- sudo apt-get install android-tools

- sudo apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Which command it is depends on your distribution.

Don't run your terminal emulator as root, but you should run SPFT or fastboot as root...

- sudo ./flash-tool.sh

- sudo fastboot [command]

As for drivers, there are no drivers (at least not in the same sense as Windows) on Linux. There could be some missing udev rules, but this should not be a problem on Ubuntu 16.04 or Debian 8 Jessie.

If you cannot get SPFT working by following this guide on Linux, you might be missing those udev rules (you can find a link to a thread explaining how to fix that somewhere earlier in this thread) or you might just need to reboot (you would be surprised). It could also just be faulty hardware, but I always like to hope that's not the case.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Gizmosis350k:
Excellent, my new mainboard and ...I need an SSD on /r/hardwareswap (this won't end well!!!!!) should arrive within a week or so.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] Flyinace2000:
When i open SPFT and load the scatter file it won't let me select the lines for Boot, Recover, or system (or any line). Anyone deal with that bug?

Not a bug, me being tired. File locations did not auto populate. Pointed them at the right spot and the check boxes worked. Updating now.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] FerociousAndroid:
8Gb/1Gb version

Hi,

Can anyone confirm this works with the 8Gb/1Gb version?

Thx
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ramious2012:
Just a quick question , Is Systemless Root all we can get or is there a work arount for full system root?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
I am sure you could symbolic link sbin su to system bin su, but why would you want to?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
You can always force SuperSu to install "normally".

You need to create a text file named ".supersu" with "SYSTEMLESS=false" in data.

You can do this from a file explorer, from TWRP terminal, or from adb.

Ex for adb this should work:

adb shell echo "SYSTEMLESS=false">>/data/.supersu

Non-systemless root can softbrick your phone so look on google first to be sure you know what you are doing.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
That's why it's better to use symbolic links, but I don't see why anyone would want system root.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ramious2012:
I am having trouble with uninstalling some apps that i really don't want , such as Google play movies. I have used different programs like Rom Toolbox Pro. All in One toolbox . The all say the uninstall was successful yet the app remains and functions normally , I figured it was due to the system-less root. am i wrong?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Just delete the apps folder.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ramious2012:
Yes , this how i ended up on this thread last night , I Soft bricked my phone trying to get the app uninstall to work. So I huge Thank you to all involved with this method of prime conversion, I dont have the prime version , I spent the money for the OEM Verint , but this process fixed that version very nicely, so Thank You one and all.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] emc2cube:
If you have TWRP or can boot on it ou can also give a try to these guys http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=68557388&postcount=19 ;)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ramious2012:
Seriously ? that's all i needed to do? Wow!!!!!!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
What do you think uninstall does?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
So, I am going to try this during the weekend. I hope all goes well. I am on v6..1.

Just a quick post to save on my panel.

Thanks for this!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] gamergomer:
I have 6.0 rooted. How do I get to 6.1?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ytsejam1138:
You have Android 6.0, not Build Version 6.0. These posts are referring to Blu's Custom Build Version 6.1. You can find your version in Settings > About device > Custom Build Version
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
You are wrong. system-less root would not cause this. I don't know how those particular apps are going about removing the apps, but they're probably doing it wrong. Removing them manually with a file manager is probably the best way.

Please don't.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
You converted... TO Prime? WHY?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
No. Just... No.

This refers to the custom build version, not the Android version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ramious2012:
No i didn't convert to Prime. I bought the OEM variant, the back up i made when first rooting the device failed. so ended up here to get the stock OEM Rom.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
A couple users have reported success. I can't think of a reason it wouldn't work, risk is not 0.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Oh, I understand. Yes, this duals as a conversion and restore guide. I've actually used it many times myself to just restore my phone to stock. I have converted back and forth many a time for... Certain reasons as well.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ramious2012:
I ended up with OEM device just because amazon ticked me off. I went to apply the discount for the prime device just to pushed to filling out a credit card app. Like no frickin way, so i just bought the oem, and was happy to do so . After two years of no root do to buy carrier branded devices , I so happy with the Blu they have a customer for life. The plus is seeing on dev work being done for this phone, really hoping they get that CM13 going on this one.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
For the life of me I cannot get this to work. I've never had such a hard time with the phone! LOL

The phone is red when it is on. It says R1 HD and I can see the sd card and internal. But for some reason it just won't read it when I run flash tool.

At this point I would be happy just rooting the phone and using titanium backup to freeze certain things.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
Double post... Today is not my day...

Let me take advantage and post a picture of what it looks like in Windows when I plug the device as it is on.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Phone needs to be off.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
It's off. Google voice inputted wrong "read". Windows recognizes when it's on. I'm assuming that means driver is good.

Edit:

I have no idea what I did but I see the phone flashing. It's currently passed 60%. I am excited now! LOL I am hoping it goes through fine. I don't see anything on the phone screen. I only see the flash tool bar filling up. I thought I saw somebody say they would be letters on the phone screen.

Edit 2:

Pic shows how I had folders set up when it worked.

Edit 3:

I'm done. Te-dious! Don't recall taking so long in the first Moto X but that was years ago. Haha. Let's see how she purrs now.

Thanks!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Was having issues with the unlocking portion. The SPFT part seemed to work as I went from V6.1 to V12, but when I attempted the unlock it just failed on the "fastboot oem unlock" command. I tried re-flashing your OEM and even back to PRIME and then back again to OEM.

I eventually gave up and used Blu R1 HD Remove Amazon Ads and OTA Updates for good CUSTOM STOCK SYSTEM which at least let me unlock the bootloader. Haven't messed with it since getting "fastboot oem unlock" to work.

Anything worth trying (or maybe I missed a post in this thread as to why I couldn't unlock)?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
When you went to v12 and tried to bootloader unlock, did you go to developer options and flip the switch to "OEM unlock " ?

That's the part missing from the prime version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
Wow, yeah totally missed that step, Thanks! Guess I glossed over that too quickly since I had developer options already turned on.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mrmazak:
Also when it does unlock it does a fill system wipe, to factory. You must let it complete and do its reboot before you do anything else. Then you can install recovery. Or just use the fastboot boot option if you would rather.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] burnanator:
I put a tutorial on here a few weeks ago, gotta find that link...

The long and short of it:

Shut phone off

Go into recovery

Use recovery commands to shut phone off

Plug phone into pc

It will flash

I think when powered off normally, its not fully off. Powering off from recovery = fully off.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MahmudS:
I can confirm. I flashed both of them (2/16 and 1/8 version), all steps were the same
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] FerociousAndroid:
Thanks for the replies and confirmation!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ojmh7:
bootloader unlock steps

Hi, Thanks a lot for the guide.

I've already converted my phone to non-prime steps on windows, and now I want to do the bootloader unlock steps but I'm very lost with the following steps.

what is a terminal emulator (or Command Prompt with ADB access)??

how or where can I find it?

Is there any other guide with images or maybe a video I can watch to know what I'm supposed to to next??

Thanks in advance
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
click Start and run "cmd.exe"

You can get adb and fastboot from here Minimal ADB and Fastboot. I've never used this as I have the full Android SDK/NDK installed.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ojmh7:
Thanks a lot, I used Minimal ADB and Fastboot and now the bootloader is unlocked!!!

Now on the root part I'm lost again.

"On your computer, cd to the folder where you downloaded twrp-3.0.2-1-r1hd-lopestom.img and do `fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-1-r1hd-lopestom.img`."

Cd to the folder??? do 'fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-1-r1hd-lopestom.img' ... what is that ?? do I need another program??

Thanks again and sorry for the dumb questions.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] mumbel:
'cd' is change directory. When you open cmd.exe and it would look like "C:\Users\ojmh7>"

Most likely you downloaded twrp-3.0.2-1-r1hd-lopestom.img in Downloads, so type "cd Downloads"

You can type "dir" and look for twrp-3.0.2-1-r1hd-lopestom.img

then you can do the fastboot commands
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] ojmh7:
Thanks a lot for all your help, now my phone is converted to a non-prime, Bootloader Unlock and root!

But I think I have a problem with the encryption because every time I reset the phone all the apps (that are stored on the sd card) dissapear from the home screen and in some of them I have to sign in again. If i decide to do a factory reset to remove the encryption, do I need to Unlock the Bootloader again??
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
I got it done btw haha

Personally, if development ends here I am happy. I just use gravity to open band 12 and a few tweaks and I am food. I am going to try and use it as a primary phone for the sake of it.

This post was a blessing!
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] AardvarkSagus:
Out of curiosity, has any progress been made for those of us who didn't discover this until AFTER we had the V6.6?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
Right now there is no safe way of undoing OTA 6.6.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
If you don't know what cd is you should not be using a terminal emulator on your operating system.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
Wrong. Powering the phone off normally is fully off. If powering the phone off from recovery works and from system doesn't, you must be doing something wrong. I can't think of any other explanation. :P
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
No. The driver for the virtual com port and the driver for MTP within Android are not the same.

You probably let the driver install. I think recent versions of Windows auto-install it from Windows Update. It's also possible that it wasn't properly enumerating before and it is now.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
We're working on it. [MENTION=5312578]mrmazak[/MENTION] has some excellent work so far.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] burnanator:
i

I value your opinion, but this worked both times i flashed. I am also not an average schmoe. Been flashing/hacking/programming for years. :)
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] :
It's not my opinion, it's a fact. I never boot to recovery before flashing.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] burnanator:
Ok, well maybe my particular hardware config is different...it WORKED for me. If it helps someone, great! If not, no sweat as well. Its all good.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] daboxa17:
Hangs trying to sync with target

Hello, thanks for this excellent guide and your efforts.

I am trying to convert to OEM. Followed the guide step by step but it just hangs trying to sync with target:

I am on Ubuntu 15.10.

Here's the log from my terminal:

USB port is obtained. path name(/dev/ttyACM0), port name(/dev/ttyACM0)

USB port detected: /dev/ttyACM0

BROM connected

Downloading & Connecting to DA...

connect DA end stage: 2, enable DRAM in 1st DA: 0

COM port is open. Trying to sync with the target...

Any help is truly appreciated.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] AardvarkSagus:
Excellent! I'll keep my eyes open for news.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
sudo
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] daboxa17:
Thanks for your comment but I am already sudoing, I even gave the file execute permissions.

chmod +x flash_tool.sh

sudo ./flash_tool.sh

Keeps hanging.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] YouKittenMe:
Might have bricked cause I'm dumb

If I flashed twrp after doing fastboot oem unlock without rebooting am I permabricked or just softbricked. Will using spft and flashing stock rom unbrick?

Edit: Fixed myself, if you do the same here is how I fixed

1. I locked the bootloader "fastboot oem lock"

2. used spft to flash stock recovery boot and system partitions

3. went into recovery and wiped data and cache

4. booted up and was fixed

hope this helps anyone else who does the same mistake as me
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
Does anyone have Viper Audio Working? I do not want to try again and have to do a factory reset! haha
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] MC FLMJ1G:
For those having an issue with the Blu driver this worked for me!!!

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...r/9f3c2e6e-36e7-4daa-9918-d237e249e6d1?auth=1

MTP USB Device.

How to CD to folder:

http://www.wikihow.com/Change-Directories-in-Command-Prompt
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] loboxkilla92:
friends which is the most recent version for non-prime version? i convert to the non-prime version and I get the version v12, check for updates from the phone and tells me I'm in the most recent.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
V12 is the only version.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kyawmaw:
cannot go back to version 6.4 after updating to 6.6. when i use sp flash tool is said "fail to obtain DRAM"

I need help.

Now it will not even boot.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chas0039:
Bricked

Is there any hope if I followed the SP instruction and changed it to Format+Download?

Thanks
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] DarkBlood.:
Another guy bricked by the 6.6 firmware no fix yet but you can return it to amazon for an exchange
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kyawmaw:
Are they not going to know that I unlock the bootloader or rooted?
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] vampirefo:
In theory you could flash 6.1 preloader via twrp and fix your phone, problem is this theory hasn't been tested by anyone.

Several things could happen.

1. It works.

2. Bricks your phone.

3. Does nothing.

4. Bricks your phone, but allows splash tool to work, then you can use splash tool to fix your phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chas0039:
.

Thanks for the help, but I cannot even power up so no TWRP. SP Flash sees nothing. PC sees nothing
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] kal250:
Only option at this point is to send it back to amazon or if beyond return period a warranty claim. The 6.6 update disabled SPFT access. Not sure why its not booting though, I believe SPFT just fails without making changes....
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chas0039:
The phone is 1 day old but I think I'll get in touch with Blu and see what they would charge to fix it.

Unfortunately, it looks like SPFT did the format and then crashed leaving me with nothing.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] n3kf:
The prime exchange process will not cost you anything if phone is only a day old. Pretty much no hassle. They will ship new phone and give you prepaid label for old phone.
[BLU R1 HD Guides, News, & Discussion] chas0039:
As mentioned before, that would not be fair to Amazon as this is partly my fault. They have backed me too often before.

I stated in the repair request to BLU that I had been attempting to flash a newer firmware and it froze which is accurate so I'll see what they charge. If I get it back I'll be following the procedure here as it will give me what I want and only goes through a single flash.

Thanks