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[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f606/vf-895n-smart-prime-6-stock-rom-flash-tool-2033867/

This should help with setting up sugar. The only difference here is to update it and you also need a username and password that I don't have on me at the moment. It will be a few hours until I get home but I will update asap.

Edit: nevermind lol, good luck friend. You may need a decent battery percentage as well
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] pauljulian:
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OK... apparently I'm an idiot... Running Windows 10 Pro, and the installer says it's going to install to an appropriate folder on C:\... yet, trying to find it, it really is weird.... I'm going to try on a VMWare Win 7 virtual PC, and see if I'm able to find it there, and move it to my actual C: drive...

If it works, I'll be grateful for your contribution and praise you to the highest heaven! :laugh:
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Hey everyone, sorry about the confusion. I installed on Windows 10 pro with no issues. As far as the page I linked you can disregard everything but the app itself. The update that downloads is marshmallow, and I've had no issues overwriting the latest version. I may have gotten sugar from a different location though, as soon as I get a chance I will do a better write up with everything. A helpful way to find the install directory would be right click on the shortcut from the start menu and click find Target / open file location. If it brings you to the folder with the shortcuts do it again and you will have the install directory. The app should be in (install dir)/tool and the downloaded updates go in (install dir)/bin under a folder that only shows up once you start the process within sugar. I will try to compile the information into a more user friendly format tonight but I can't make any promises on that.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Also just to clarify, I didn't use any chm file
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Asadullah:
I'm wondering if you could upload your version you have on your pc. I just spent the last month in jail here in Orlando fighting a case and the only proof I've got is on my phone on a phone that I deleted my videos on. I really need the videos back too get a not guilty if I gotta pay for it it's cool but I'm out on bond and all the recover videos apps require root
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] woodi5359:
I got this to work last night. Typed up some instructions but didn't get them posted. They're on my PC at home and I'm at work.

Basically use the copy of sugar in the download package in this thread and then start it and let it update https://xdaforums.com/android/development/recovery-vodafone-prime-tab-7-t3548560

Those are the basic instructions too except we don't need to swap out bout and use the TWRP from deckersu thread.

Once flashed it'll automatically reboot. I found you had to make sure you caught this and booted into TWRP right away don't let the phone boot. Then transfer SuperSU in TWRP and flash.

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FYI this root method wipes your phone so I don't know if this will help your situation or not.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
In sugar there is an option to not wipe, it's under session settings or something to that effect
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] woodi5359:
Wish I had noticed that!! Oh well, stoked to have root and it's good to start fresh. Got Xposed installed today and finally got that annoying charging light turned off. Working on getting wifi tetherng working. Then if I can figure out how to get the dialer to be friends with Google voice this phone will have all its annoyance fixed

Thanks so much for figuring this out and sharing!!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Asadullah:
Appreciate the help
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Thank you for finding this thread, it is the same one I found but I couldn't remember where it was the other day when I started this thread. Hopefully this will help the people who have been having issues, although I will admit a more painless method would be preferable. I'm currently working on modifying a dirtycow exploit to simply flash the recovery and reboot into twrp, if I get it to work I will zip it all up and post it here.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Asadullah:
I got wifi tethering working I did a lot of things but I believe that did it was adding net.tethering.noprovisioning=true to my build.prop then I went into system/app and changed serviceentitlement.apk into serviceentitlement.oat using es file Explorer
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
I just tested this and it indeed does work. Great find friend!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] woodi5359:
Thanks for figuring this out!!! I'd been messing with it for a few days. The renaming the apk to .oat was the piece I was missing. That and a reboot got it working!!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] TheMadScientist:
so im getting ready to purchase this device so there is root and twrp for it or no
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Dude, did you read the thread at all? I don't mind helping but you gotta do your part. Yes there is TWRP and Root
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] link22534:
do you hold volume down when it reboots
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
It's volume up and power
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] link22534:
IDK what i'm doing wrong i'm using an idol 4 not a s and i replaced the file that start with an r in 3 places under bin/download

bin/data and bin/6055U-2ARKUSC the bin file is under C:\Program Files (x86)\SUGAR QCT_SP_Gotu2\bin but it boots up to android recovery and i'm using the twrp recovery img file from the thread you said to go to to get it

(Sorry i'm new at this switched from apple because android was better)
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
It will be the one in 6055u-xxxxxxxxxx, and make sure you hit volume up and power as soon as it starts rebooting. It also may overwrite that file some time during the process so do it a couple times to be safe. Once it says downloading and gets past that file name it's sent to the phone already. It may take a couple tries to get right. If you miss recovery during the reboot process it will be overwritten with stock
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] RuWoytsek:
Need a little help if you would be so kind. Not my first time rooting or installing TWRP, but it is my first time using

Sugar. Everything is ready to go, but pressing the upgrade button does nothing but hang. Driver for the phone is already installed and is read properly (have had that issue with LG phones in the past). I'm not exactly sure why it's hanging and thought you might have an idea.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Not sure, try manually entering download mode. I believe it's volume up+down+ power
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] woodi5359:
It sounds weird but try a different USB port on your computer. I went into download mode manually but for some reason only one port on my computer would make it through the whole process
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] RuWoytsek:
Thanks, I'll try that. I did actually go into download mode manually before I posted earlier, but it was still hanging. I bet changing ports would fix the issue (hopefully lol).

Update: it was the port, so I got TWRP installed on there, and flashing Chainfire's SuperSu is causing a bootloop so now to figure that out lol.

Update 2: after some sleep and hunting down my SD card reader, I realized the copy of SuperSu I had was corrupt, so all is well. Thanks for instructions!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] ace0603:
Found and have used Sugar. Does anyone have a link to TWRP that they are using?
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Thedarkwolf123:
The Twrp is in the DeckerSu Thread. I've gotten sugar and updated, but for some reason the username and password that came with the download don't work anymore. Can someone tell me the credentials so I can finally root my phone? Plus What Xposed should I get once I do root? I want to see if I can make a rom for it too, so as to help with the overheating, default vr launcher, etc. Will start a thread for ideas once I achieve root.

https://xdaforums.com/idol-4s/help/howto-idol-4-6055-installing-twrp-t3486077/page3

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So I figured out that the first time the sugar update didn't update fully somehow... ? I got it to work and started the process of flashing twrp, hopefully I do everything right... and my computer doesn't run out of space in the process. When replacing the R files in the /bin folders do i have to rename the recovery? and should I keep these files when making a custom rom?

--update--

After sugar crashing 3 times I go double check to have oem unlocking enabled(of course it wasn't) and i start the process again. this time I'm not sure if the twrp recovery got applied. When the phone reset I immediately push power and volume up and it gives me a fastboot menu. I turned the selection to recovery and it resets and boots back to the fastboot menu. So did i do something wrong? I tried sugar again and it said device had root so i didn't do the whole process again cuz I knew i did it wrong so I'm going to wait and start from the beginning tomorrow.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
I think you're on the right track, try to go straight into recovery instead of fastboot. You should be renaming the recovery to match the file you're replacing.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Thedarkwolf123:
To go straight into recovery it's volume down and power? doing that normal booted the phone
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
No, it's volume up and power for this phone
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Thedarkwolf123:
That is what I had pressed and it takes me to this fastboot menu.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Ok. I'm thinking you wrote a bad recovery then. Just do it again, you may have to overwrite the file at a different time in the process. If it was writing the file while you did it it will end up partially overwriting it I think. I copy and pasted over it like 3 times during the whole process to make sure it was completely covered. May take a few tries to get it right
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Asadullah:
Can you write just a boot.img with sugar qct
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Yeah, I believe it's the file with the b as the first letter.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Asadullah:
I think if I get an opportunity I'd like to build a modified boot.img and flash only that without the system images

on another note I mega upload made me wait a long long time the other day unless I paid the 4 dollar charge (I'm broke) so I uploaded the qct to here on google docs. It has a new function called remove ks anyone know what that means? Also they added some new phone support
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
My best guess is key store, might be something to leave alone
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Thedarkwolf123:
Every time I try this, whether I rename the file in the iso, rename the iso, do it while it's downloading and all the mbn files have a number after it or right before it installs onto the phone while consisting the package, it always ends with either it redownloading the .mbn_randomnumber or it gets all the way to installing yRandomnumber.mbn.zip file and crashing. what exactly am I supposed to do and when exactly? do I extract the iso and rename it? do I rename the iso? do I do it while it's consisting or do I do it while it's downloading the files onto my computer? am I being punked?
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
You do it after they've been downloaded and moved to the folder. There should be nothing after .mbm when you replace the file, and you should be renaming the boot.img to be identical to the r********.mbm you're replacing. I'm sorry it's so complicated, I just don't know of any way to make it easier at this point in time. I promise you it does work, at least a few others have managed to pull it off. Just keep it up, I'll try to write up a better guide, but it's not really my strong suit
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Asadullah:
Maybe I'm in the wrong place but on my Alcatel idol 4s 6055u I first plugged it in let it download everything I grabbed the whole folder now that part confused me because there are two folders with identical images you grab the one that appears after you start the process. Move it to your desktop but only after it has finished downloading. Then I removed the file that starts with an r. Let the program do it's thing and finish next download the recovery image from deckersu make sure it's an.img file rename it recovery.img and place it in the folder. Now copy paste out where it needs to go start the program it won't
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
You've got it wrong, you don't rename it to recovery.img you should be renaming it to match the file that starts with r you removed. It helps if you rename it then overwrite the file after it's created in the sugar folder. The file has to end in .mbm, if it doesn't then it's a temp file and you should not mess with that.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Asadullah:
That's just how I got it to work remove the.mbm file that starts with an r then replace it with recovery.img
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Oh sorry I must've misunderstood your post. That's awesome that it works like that.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] Hostile Robot:
Underneath the Google search bar it will say "Showing results for sugar act, did you mean sugar qct?" Then click link that says sugar qct.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] pauljulian:
Well, 6055U is now just a standalone music machine for the car....

I went with the ZTE Blade X Max, Z983, which, of course, like the 6055U as yet has no root method... (been searching XDA and pretty much every other similar set of fora, but since it's only been out for a month, I'm not expecting a dev to have worked it out yet.

Found the sugar Windows app, thanks, but never seemed to be able to make it work for me to root the 6055U... might be my pc's configuration (I've got a fairly complex setup, for everything I use it), USB config, or any other possible cause... Glad that others seem to have made it work, though.

I tend to need root due to Titanium Backup, Apps2SD Pro and a few other legit apps that I paid real money for, have great use for, but can't use them on an unrooted device. Custom ROMS are neat, and I dug playing with them on my Idol 3, until the screen broke, but these last 2 devices have caused me to be irritated with Cricket Wireless... I get making it difficult to do, as we see plenty of noobs as well as experienced folks inadvertently making paperweights, but the corporate office seems to be intent on making their devices near-impossible to unlock.

<sigh> so it is.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] ThaHaloMilitia:
Help!

Sugar QCT isn't wanting to work.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] NeonWhitey:
Finally got this working! It took me almost 10 hours, half a night and half a morning. This is the steps I used:

1. Plug phone into pc

2. Place supersu.zip onto phone

3. Turn phone off and place into download mode (phone must be plugged in to allow download mode)

4. Open sugar with phone plugged in. Set to 6055u, go to options, select save user data. Now press upgrade.

5. While sugar is dowloading overwrite the r****.mbn in bin/6055-****

6. Overwrite again while files are being written (do this as many times as you please)

7. Before sugar has completed fully (but after files are written) turn phone on and enter recovery mode (power + volume up)

8. In the custom recover menu tap install and install the superuser from the directory you placed it in.

9. Give it a couple of seconds (mine took 30 or so)

10. Allow phone to be rebooted and its now rooted!

This was a pain, it seems sugar runs one final download that overwrites everything again or something. Or maybe you just need to catch the phone before it actual boots up again, and fixes the recovery. Now my phone is rooted and i am a happy camper!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] dbgr:
Yep, that's it! You did a much better job at writing it up than I did. Congrats on getting it working!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] NeonWhitey:
Thanks, but i really couldn't have done it without you! I thought all was lost and that i wasn't going to be able to root my phone until i found your post. It really helped out a lot getting me on the right track!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] nicknamepending:
First and foremost, thank you to the OP for the post, and for the quoted for putting it so neatly arranged. I got the phone yesterday, 6055u cricket variant with free vr, and got it rooted it right away (after a several hours searching for the correct sugar qct and working login code among the jumble of posts and links, so to assist others I have attached the install for sugar qct at the bottom of the post. Simply download the attached file and update to Sugar QCT SP v11.30 (aka: sugar qct sp gotu2).

A few small variants to the info from my experience, you only replace the twrp bin recovery file with the r* file only after it finished downloading the upgrade file (sugar qct download the files to bin/downloaded and have the files started with an underscore, followed by a sumcheck for verification). Only after it created the temp folder named 6055u-xxxx , then you may replace the R*** file with the recovery file only inside the 6055 folder.

Additionally, the software copies over the R file in two points, initially for allocation, and then again after actually parsing said file from the temp files. So, for clarification, leave the underscored file intact, and only replace the r*** file in the 6055 folder any time after it parsed it but prior to the software flashing said file.

Having said that, I only want to emphasize the importance to interrupt the process and boot recovery prior to finishing the upgrade process or nearing completion. I have found that otherwise you have unexpected errors, such as lack of support to touch screen on TWRP, or losing the TWRP recovery entirely to the original. However there is no issue repeating the process again if need be to get it right.

Flash super user took less than 3 minutes and the boot after less.

Wifi Tether fix worked perfectly as well after erasing the delvik cache/cache .

Xposed framework was the only thing that required 10-15 minutes to boot after install.

USEFUL LINKS:

Still a new user so cant post links (assistance please) -- however:

Sugar QCT SP V8.2. 1 Install & Upgrade (ufile.io/c19r9)

Sugar Working User/Password (ufile.io/nc68u)

Deker's 6055k TWRP Recovery (ufile.io/6s9zr)

All in all, root works perfectly. Thanks to the OP for the root!
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] TheMadScientist:
im pretty sure i have followed instrucs pretty good and no go always stock recovery this is for crickets idol 4 rite
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] nicknamepending:
Yes it is. 6055u cricket idol 4.

Did you replaced the recovery file in the created 6055 folder inside sugar's folder? And if yes, Are you sure you booted into recovery after it flashed the r*** file, but before it finished flashing? On my first attempt I allowed sugar to finish the entire process, and the recovery went back to stock. Hence the need to boot into TWRP prior to finishing the download process.

In essence, after it copied over the replaced r**** file (you will see sugar name that file in the process), as i recall after it starts to count from 0% to 100% -- I'd say between 1-50%, you must interrupt the download process of sugar, and boot into TWRP recovery right away. Otherwise, sugar replaces the TWRP recovery for stock recovery sometime during the 100% count.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] link22534:
shoot

im in a bootloop now help
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] nicknamepending:
Id suggest to try running the download using the original sugar download files. Also make sure you selected your phone version only. It should restore normal mode with stock recovery. (Simply erase the replaced r**** files)

Just be sure not to touch any other file other than the r***** file when u try to root. Then boot into recovery.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] link22534:
sugar thinks im rooted and promps me lol it still lets me do it tho

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also i found when i did not fully reset my phone but used the reset thing in the TWRP menu i could boot and it would start apps and then freeze and i could do this over until it got to 3 and then it reset back to 24 apps

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btw will any super su file work with tis phone i read somwhere that some pepole are in a bootloop becase of a wrong super su file

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rip my phone reset even tho i ched the box but at least my pone is working now thanks

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it found my old device and i restoring the data
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] nicknamepending:
I supplied the correct superuser but as I recall I simply downloaded the latest version. And if sugar prompt you about phone being rooted or if your back on stock recovery, simply repeat the process to boot into twrp. Flash the super user, ease cache + delvik and ur good to go. Just give it a few minutes on the first load to do its thing.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] link22534:
Thanks it worked I ended up switching to magisk because my games wouldn't work
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] TheCapesCrew:
Root and Rom deployment

Alright guys, hope all are doing well. As most of you know, development for the IDOL 4S - 6055U is slow. I've been on XDA for a long time but hadn't posted in years. I decided to create a new account solely because I've taken interest in this device. With the 6055U several FOTA firmwares have been released. The current version is 3CCJUCJ0. The previous version CCFUCF1, had major issues and in my opinion unstable. So your probably wondering where I'm going with all this... Well... I've going to start releasing some flashable zip-roms based off 3CCJUCJ0. You will have to use Sugar QCT to get to the latest version first. They made numerous different changes within the kernel, modem, and etc. therefore flashing my roms over a previous version could cause major issues. So... what do I have so far??? So far I've modified our TWRP recovery to reflect our device and not the 6055K, I have worked the bugs out of a flashable zip for our device. I have a fully STOCK (minus the recovery) flashable zip for our device. I have good base started so things can go smoothly. Keep your eyes out for my official release and thread.
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] blanquitoman1984:
Would you be so kind as to repost the useful links that are on post #50? THey are no longer available, It looks like that is all I am missing to give it a try. Thank you
[Alcatel Idol 4S Guides, News, & Discussion] nicknamepending:
I believe I still have everything on my laptop. I'll check tonight and link if yes.

Update. Found it. Will upload in few