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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdm6389:
I have rooted phone but not able to unlock bootloader, so that we can go for TWRP.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
I just got this phone about a week ago to cheaply replace my Moto E 2nd gen that I sent through the washing machine:crying: It was running RessurectionRemix and was so cool, but anyway... I've used Kingroot 4.5 to root it long enough to debloat and I'm interested in how this thread develops but I'm a little skittish yet to try c627627 instructions post #32, and since xenium1024 questioned about line 17 post #73. I don't use link2sd either, I have few apps. It's an ok phone but if anyone knows what to edit to turn the freakin notification light off at 15% I'd like to know. I'm a big fan of ES File Ex 4.0.2.2. It's not even that big of a deal if I'm permanently rooted, just miss Viper a little but VLC will do.. Here's a screen:)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
Well so I managed to softbrick mine as others have by pushing my luck screwing around with a failed attempt replacing root, probably cause I didn't uninstall Kingroot before rebooting, whatever. Got another one at BB for $20 luckily right away.

I started experimenting with the dead one with adb command window in sdk tools (I don't know anything about this stuff I only had to use it briefly on another phone). With that said I was able to at least communicate with it. This is pretty much what I've done so far, and this is given that all that works is recovery and the boot logo forever.

Phone plugged in, in recovery I go to enable adb, then I rock the volume slowly back and forth a few times and it pops up mounted /system (I don't really know if this is necessary?) then hit reboot system now. With it on the boot logo I open command window and type (adb devices) and it shows up (device doesn't show up when in recovery for me) then for example I typed (adb pull /system/app) and it will copy everything in there to (C:\Users\[user]\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Program Files (x86)\Android\android-sdk\platform-tools\)to the computer. This allowed me to confirm that Kingroot is in (/system/app/kinguser/kinguser.apk) What I wanted to see if I could do was delete Kingroot maybe allowing me to boot normal. No luck doing that so far if I try (uninstall) it tells me could not access package handler, is the system running? If I try (adb root) and then (adb shell) it says (shell@pop445:/ $) but then the device ends up not being connected.

So, again I don't know enough about this stuff but maybe it's too big of a problem anyway?

edit: also wanted to mention that in Windows 10 every adb driver I've tried installing (including Alcatel Android ADB Inerface) won't install properly for me. Hmm
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] madmrt:
So I rooted this phone and got everything to work but I deleted the stock browser and was wondering how to get i t back if someone could please help me
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NotKaoDoro:
Well, assuming that one can port a TWRP CBL, there are a number of devices that have the same chipset (i.e., MSM8909).

Some phones include, but are not limited to:

Huawei Honor 4A Play

Acer Liquid Z330

Huawei Y6+

Huawei Ascend Y5

Huawei Y6

Archos 50e Helium

Microsoft Lumia 550 (Irrelevant to Android, just noting that it uses the same chipset.)

ZTE Blade A470

iRULU V4

HTC Desire 530

ZTE Blade A460

Alcatel Pixi 4 (6) (Note: ALL Pixi 4 (6) models have the same motherboard, but different storage capacities.)

Acer Liquid M330 (Same story as the Microsoft Lumia 550 here.)

Alcatel Pop 4+

Alcatel Pop 4

Archos 45c Helium

Wiko Rainbow Lite

TP-Link Neffos C5L

Wiko Freddy

ZTE Blade A506

LG K3

Lenovo K10 (Note: 2GB RAM model may cause issues if a TWRP is ported from that model.)

TP-Link Neffos Y5

LG K4

Those are the most common phones [worldwide] with the MSM8909 chipset. Whether or not they share the same bootloader, I cannot be sure, however I am willing to bet that Alcatel, being the rather lax company that they are, just copied and pasted the bootloader from the Pop 4/4+ to the Ideal. It's just a hunch though. They do share the same chipset and are from the same company/manufacturer, so I figured that I'd try and shine some light on this situation.

Also, and I'm adding this minutes after the actual post, but since the phone is so cheap, I also figure that they are, and in the most literal sense, stuffing old tech into a phone and shipping it as new. This is just speculation on why the price is so cheap. Aside from some minor buildprop edits, I highly doubt that Alcatel is going to put tons of time and money into R&D to make such a budget oriented device. Just my two cents that I felt like stuffing in there.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
Wow NotKaoDoro you sound like you could do something about this if you cared lol. But you're right about old tech, what I notice is the crap screen but otherwise my needs are few and I'm poor so it's good enough for now.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dingolo:
I got and have kept root without a PC using this method. https://xdaforums.com/general/paid-software/supersu-please-t3110954/page64
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dingolo:
Thing is still a piece of crap tho. Lol. I'm about to work on the bootloader. You guys watch me.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheFinalAct:
My brother has this really crappy phone lol mind if I help you, I have worked with root and chipsets before and maybe we can fork TWRP
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Dingolo:
I might have pasted the wrong link. If I did then use use the Experian 3 root method.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trapezious:
For those of you with a bricked 4060a, and a spare (and a little bit of programming experience):

Firehose protocol should still work on the device, just put it into emergency download mode, upload the firehose file and you will have complete access to the emmc. I beleive it is one of the bootloader partitions that causes a brick after rooting. To fix it, you need to dump the partitions from a working unit and then flash them to the bricked unit
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
I have both if you care to try walking me through something. I already have Qfil app install already if that's what you're talking about? No programming experience here tho
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdm6389:
i need costom recovery twrp so that i can resize my /system partition size from 2.7gb to 0.8gb

but no twrp, no unlock bootloader.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Ch3if-0f-Skull5:
Could someone pull their Contacts apk from the system/priv-app folder and post it here? I deleted mine. Thx
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
I just picked up one of these the other day simply because I was bored and enjoy a challenge and doing the impossible. I spent a full 24 non stop hours tinkering with this thing and learning it inside and out. I managed to unlock the bootloader and flash a custom made CWM but there are a few issues. The biggest issue that I have is what I had to use to unlock the bootloader. I have a proprietary program that I use to repair phones and tablets and its very expensive but it did unlock it so their is potential there for me to figure out exactly how it did that and make a standalone for everyone to use. The second problem witch is a lot more minor is the new recovery it self. I have a few bugs to work out of it to make it stable and I still have to test all the features of it to make sure they work properly. My first flash left me with a soft brick because of one little mistake. I based the CWM on this device it self and not another device with the same chip set so that should make it more stable and since I did all the work my self I can figure out the issues faster than dissecting someone else's work. Good news is I will most likely have a working all in one in the next few days and then I plan on following that up with at least one ROM to give use MM but I am honestly going to try to give us all some flavors and I am also going to shoot for 7.0 but if it doesn't preform well enough than I will never release that. So thats the good news for now, I will post a link and all that once the recovery is ready to go!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
I've already figured out an easier way to root it. I have twrp on mine (with some graphical issues) flashed Xposed framework, and got the native hotspot working.

See post #98
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
[MENTION=7591200]ejwith9953[/MENTION] that sounds great! Think it's possible for all of us to fix our soft-bricked phones?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Yes

I have all the blocks dumped ready

Ready for flashing, recovery, system, boot. As long as your phone still can su. Otherwise have to go other route
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
faxanidu, this is all over my head but if you read post #76 on page 8 I tried a few things one day not really knowing what I was doing and I suspect my softbricked phone doesn't have su anymore (not sure).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
I am currently in the process of putting together a recovery ROM, I will try to have it by tomorrow morning. Fun part is getting the OEM system to agree with it lol but not my first rodeo
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
That's good to know, then I'd have 2 working phones. I've redone my computer not to long ago for Creator update, so I suppose I'd have to reinstall Android sdk then? Also for some reason I'm not able to (thank) any posts right now or I would :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
If you want me to test it my phone's Semi brick proof now link it to me to test before we throw it out there.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
I'm working on a soft brick fix now
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
That's a good idea, I will do that for sure. BTW I just thought to if you can send me what you have with TWRP maybe I can compare to what I got and then we will have both TWRP and cwm
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Good idea. Mines not perfect just jumbled together and hex edited from pixi4. 90% of the time it white screens and can't see it but I know where the buttons are and it still flash zips. Fixed posting pics check attachments.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
Working Custom Recovery

I only take partial credit for this recovery, it is a port from the Alcatel 5054x and the recovery image and ideas of faxanidu who without him this would have taken much longer. So now onto the meat of the matter. This is TWRP 2.8.7 and everything is working. Of course I only have the one device but still seems to be effective but you flash this at your own risk and if your device gets bricked I didn't do it. You must be rooted to flash this far as I know, you can get root with kingroot 5. Flash with nandroid manager from the market and enjoy!! Now onto custom roms!!!

If the screen locks in twrp swipe from left to right in the middle of the screen, only thing I don't like.

TWRP 2.8.7 for Alcatel Ideal 4060A

https://mega.nz/#!su5CnYxA!jtzoLcoxX2XYfG_zSoTl5yfht8WskYhk7zrOyXNhZpI
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
HELL YES. You fixed it custom ROMs will come easy now. And I'm finishing the soft brick fix.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
I need someone with a soft bricked phone to help test as I'm not going to undo all the hard work on my phone. Or someone donate to my PayPal and I'll grab another one
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
Thank you so much ejwith9953 and faxanidu! This phone was pretty much written off for a long while and then all the sudden boom. There's a lot of folks that have this phone now on account of the low price, and soon when everybody starts catching on to what you 2 have done you'll be giving multitudes an answer to their wishes! Some reason I can't use the thanks button still, don't know why?

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Sent you a pm
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
The soft fix also auto roots the phone. I USB sniffed kingroots **** so I can get it done. Gimme a few days on it cause work. But spread the word though. When I know the soft fix works going to make new post with all instructions including exposed and enabling the internal hotspot getting rid of that call att crap.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
Sounds good, can't wait to try. Will be good to have Xposed again too.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
What happened when you uninstalled Contacts?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Says contacts has cr

Everytime I reboot says contacts has crashed. Use Google contacts instead.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
Could you still use contacts from Call app? I've already uninstalled some of the att bloatware and when starting up it says that contacts has crashed already.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
No you can't says missing app.

Download 3C system manager. Uninstall the other contact app and install this one.

Google contacts

And install it to system with 3C and reboot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androhacker666:
So the twrp posted Is safe to use and stable right?? Just asking because I'm trying not to brick this phone, tight on money at the moment...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Yup check our attachments for proof

Use nandroid manager
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
Can you uninstall all the overlay apk?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
I didn't. But freeze them first then reboot just to be safe. And for the love of god Please backup up your system partition in twrp
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
I rooted with kingroot and use ES file explorer to do the dirty work (ver. 3.2.5). ES won't uninstall them, kingroot said it did but ES still shows them. Only tried one, phasebeam overlay, since I already got rid of phasebeam.

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Does anyone have the download apk? Uninstalled mine cuz it usually isn't a problem, throwing me an annoying toast pop-up and ES downloader won't take over.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Use 3C es is worthless or use root explorer. What app you need?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androhacker666:
Thanks for the recovery it installed great; do u know of any compatible Roms for this phone as of yet?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Yes click the box and change to sdcard lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androhacker666:
Lol sorry I just figured that out a minute ago.. I've never used twrp always cwm
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Ahh i see. Lol. I had cwm on an old phone once. Now it's TWRP all the time. Seems to be the go-to now.

EDIT: [MENTION=7591200]ejwith9953[/MENTION] is working on a custom ROM, I'm trying to get a soft brick fix. Lots of HEX to go through. 53mb of text basically
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NotKaoDoro:
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The "com.android.xxxxxx.overlay" are for 'stability', or at least that's what it should be. What it really does is stop one from uninstalling the application that the overlay is on. Thus, an inability to uninstall system apps that are "critical/crucial".

This also is like an added feature because the app that is being overlayed doesn't have permission to the Draw On Top Permission(s). This is something common in cheap Chinese phones; a result of poor understanding of Android.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
Anyone one care to put up a flashable file from a stock ideal? :(
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
What partition you need.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
Hoping for a twrp backup.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
I have one for every block do you need system? Boot? Data? What's the phone doing exactly?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androhacker666:
I also need a full backup, my phone's is wiped somehow when i started tweaking it and says there is no os, but I have twrp recovery still, if you could post a link to a full backup I would greatly appreciate it
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
First of all always do a full backup before tweaking -.-

2nd a full flash image will take me a bit to make. Plus it will be close to a 2 gb image

3rd how are you guys messing up so bad when I'm there one doing risky brick crap on purpose and doing ok? Lol.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Androhacker666:
Thing is I did do a backup, but for some reason when I started modding, my sdcard formatted and it got wiped, the phone rebooted into recovery and I tried to reboot back into the system and it said "no os do you really wish to reboot??" I can't find a stock flash file anywhere for this phone, so could you please help?? Otherwise ill have to wait until a custom Rom is out that's compatible, problem is I can't be with out a phone for too long lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdm6389:
Good

I am going to test it today night

1) on-fly boot recovery

2) can't replace (since unable to oem unlock)

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One more important request, the initial upload should be more then 1 upload like Google drive, one drive, etc ...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
1. Are you rooted?

2. Are you flashing with nandroid app?

3. Will upload to other sources ASAP

4. Let me know your build number. Settings > About Phone on the bottom

also, turn on developer options (click 10 times on build number ins settings > about phone) and then in developer options turn on the option Enable OEM unlock
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdm6389:
1) yes i m rooted my phone.

2) i have removed some of /system and added few.

3) what u want me to upload, i did not understand

4) my build no is M5KUAK2

I did try oem unlock from developer menu, but not successful so far

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this is working 100% :laugh::good: using command

$fastboot boot this.twrp.2.8.7.img

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wonderfull

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i would like to see a page for 4060A https://xdaforums.com/alcatel_4060a
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdm6389:
How did you guys unlocked oem?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
also, turn on developer options (click 10 times on build number ins settings > about phone) and then in developer options turn on the option Enable OEM unlock
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GensHaze:
Sup, I'm randomly barging into this thread after just registering to the forums (love XDA, always use stuff from here)

Thing is I have been stupid and soft-bricked my Alcatel 4060a too :C

To describe it more thoroughly, I bought this phone just a couple days ago, I was doing fine and dandy with all the tweaks, in fact, I had already done the root and TWRP from this thread as well successfully, all cool. But I was trying to install an equalizer, I found ViPER4Android which requires root and gives you more control over stuff, one of the installation steps is installing BusyBox so I went ahead and gave it a whirl. After granting it root access, I let it install some drivers, but after the reboot, I just get a black screen after the Alcatel logo shows up.

It didn't really occur to me to do a backup after the recovery installed successfully, or that it would brick right away just by trying to get the equalizer to work. :C well, I know I was stupid either way for not doing the backup and it's on me lol

As other people have mentioned, it seems there really aren't any resources available on the internet on where to download the stock ROM or recover the brick. Regular factory reset doesn't work, as I'd expect, so I think I'd need the system partition, since BusyBox installed there (I think the ViPER drivers also went there). I can still easily get into TWRP so all I would need is just that. Any chance you can give us a hand with that faxanidu? I know it's not easy but we would be super grateful

If possible I can help with testing or whatever, I have a little bit of experience flashing things but not much. Anything I can give a hand with... I'm even thinking of buying another one so I can recover the brick on this one, but I think that'd take a bit more
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
Here is a link to a backup for TWRP of my system partition. Unzip the files and put all 3 files where you can install them with twrp. This zip is NOT flashable as it is!! https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2KYu2zzRdrTaU83N1ctY0RpdU0/view?usp=sharing
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GensHaze:
Thanks for the fast reply! I just gave it a shot but it seems the issue hasn't gone away...

Here's what I did - since you said right away the files aren't flashable, I was wondering what was the right way to install them, what I did in the end was doing a backup of my current system partition with TWRP, and then replacing the files with my PC for yours - after that restoring that backup. It doesn't do a black screen anymore, but now it only hangs on the Alcatel logo.

Should I do something different with the files, or do I need to restore other partitions as well? I'm thinking boot but I really don't know. Good thing recovery remains untouched. I'm afraid I have to work soon so I won't be able to test it until tomorrow. Thank you all!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ejwith9953:
erase system, cache and dalvik then install the system files i gave you. if you do that and it still dont work then we can go from there
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forgottenhacker:
Wow, stuck this phone in my drawer and pulled it out a few days ago and do I hear a working twrp? So someone did achieve bl unlock...or are we able to only boot it? What are our limits on flashing....looks like backups and restores are working fine, good one of my bricked ones can breathe again! Great work
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] GensHaze:
That shows my lack of expertise in this area. Yeah, that did the trick, huge thanks!! It's all good now :) :D

Lesson learned, always do a backup as soon as you get working recovery, don't install root thingies if you're not sure what you're doing and wipe the partitions you're going to restore beforehand.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] forgottenhacker:
I finally took the time to read through what I missed...Has the full twrp backup been made? I'm looking for /system is it possible to get my hands on it? I screwed up my /system partition before twrp was out
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
How did you install them? I'm trapped in a boot loop.

Nevermind, just took forever to boot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
Anyone figure out how to get to fastboot?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Hey guys I'm still here. Work at hospital. So my hours are crazy. I got a soft brick fix that auto roots the phone. ADB and computer required though. There's not even a fastboot partition they took it out it looks. Also have flashable stock .zip
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ilmcgee:
I'd take a stock.zip

Please and thanks
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] faxanidu:
Ok any body have a mostly unmodified phone they can do a nandroid backup on and upload it.. so I can get this **** finished. My phone is way too modded and tested and bunch of **** done to it to use it as a rom
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scohut:
Does the soft brick fix require reflashing rom or can you post that now separate?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kdm6389:
To enter in fastboot

Activate devloper mode

Use and then

$ adb reboot bootloader

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It says remote command failed when I use $fastboot oem unlock