[Alcatel Idol 4S Questions & Answers] DeckerSU:
Seems we have a small incomprehension here. Show me please, where I said "donate and will get"? Or get back your words immediatily. Sahara & Firehose Test (Alcatel Flasher) is a FREE app, you can download it from thread on a link above and use it as you want and when you want. You don't need to pay something to use it. Current release of Alcatel Flasher supports only two phone models:

Alcatel Idol 3 OT-6039

Alcatel Idol 3 OT-6045

I never promised that it would support all other Alcatel phones, but write a post to my blog that i'm add a support of my Idol 4 6055 in this and shoot a proof video, also i build a device tree for compiling TWRP for Idol 4 6055 and release source to public (everyone can compile TWRP for it). Adding full hardware encryption support in this TWRP tooks a lot of days, writing flasher tooks a lot of months ... Some peoples ask me in PM when i'm plan to release next version of app with Idol 4 6055 support. I'm fair answer that it will be released in my blog and on XDA for free over some time. And and if someone wants to come faster release date, he can make some donation (as i know in english can is not equally to must), because i need a lot of money to buy test device 6055 and test device 6070 (317 USD + 476 USD here at current exchange rate). Test devices needed because t's impossible to flash / reflash / erase data / brick / unbrick my own Idol 4 again and again. First of all it's a phone, not a test device. And i should use it as a phone, receive and make calls, make photos and other things, instead of making from it "flashable testing toy". I think you understand.

There is no proposals to pay for the app, or pay for work ... app is free, but to make it better and add another devices - first of all i should get it in hands, but i'm not a millionaire to buy every Alcatel top phone to add it to support. Also, i haven't to much time to develope the app, and some donations - is a good motivation to do this.

For clearly understanding things i say this words only once:

Sahara & Firehose Test (Alcatel Flasher) is it free app. It distributed only as free with no pay. There is no scheme "pay and get a private build" and it will never be. sebbync showed interest in the project and i make one exception for him. We can call this action as beta test, nothing more.

Latest news and latest versions you can get in this thread, no need to ask me in PM something like "where it will be?" and "what is about my phone model?", you can ask all of this questions in app thread here and if possible i reveal my future plans. In anyway - latest version of app will be available in thread. If you don't see any updates there, there is a only one reason - it does not exist.

I don't like to participate in flood threads about things like "to get money you should work" or "bla-bla-bla, this world must give free benefits to everyone", because everyone of devs can say something like "if you wanna to get root or new firmware on your device, you can leave your current work and learn android programming, reverse engineering and other things ... and everyone can do with their device all of he wants ... nobody forbids" ;)

Once more time. App is free, latest versions is available here. There is no private bulds for money. Donations - is absolutelly free initiative too. Want to support project - make it, don't want to do anything - no additional actions required, wait for next release and keep silence. Donate is no guarantee of anyting, it's only your decision to support developers.

Think you understanding me ...

p.s. If somebody get deal with MTK devices, they must remember MTK Droid Tools app, that is used by many people today too. It universal, it's free, it's perfect. But it doesn't support any new MTK device, because new devices have other partition structure, other format of scatter file, other methods to get partition structure and other things. No new versions past last few years. I think this is because developers loose their interest to this app, all world using it (in every guide to do something on MTK phone, make backup or get root, for example, authors using this app), but nobody wants to support. This is wrong approach, as i think.