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[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freakshow11582:
As for cases my huawei Y7 case came in today fits like a glove and everything lines up right. Speakers line up mic lines ups buttons on the side lines up.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jeffsrawr:
black friday walmart at puts xt 2 at $49
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] sncrws:
Phone will be $50 at Walmart in Black Friday. Can’t beat that price...

ww.walmart.com/store/5452/evansville-in/weekly-ads?sent_time=1510210623499&e_pgcid=QIh7pBCk0zxgwOF6SiD0gc%20bPW3vTXcH7afalylwGH1dJZTcu0SP0D6gc1NtE9F%20&flyer_run_id=206811&adid=1500000000000041630010&veh=eml&e_id=d588962db9479e4eef02e2878d0495e6&flyer_type_name=ad&campaign_id=110817-BAT-ACT-XCT-STR-BFTAB_1--0
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Insane Soul:
Hi there guys, can anyone can how much of Internal Space is there to use out of 16GB?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] kel1677:
Cricket?

Does anyone know if this will work with cricket? When I click will this work in your zip code on the Walmart site it says no. They sell it at my store though. Which sim does it take?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
See one of the screenshots in post 1. Total is 9.06GB - not sure what's free out of the box.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] xaneth201:
does anyone know if anyone is working on twrp and roms root otg for the h1711 and is there a dedicated page for this phone
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freakshow11582:
I would assume so since att owns cricket. And cricket has a version of this phone called huawei Elated 4g
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] askthiru:
have ordered one from walmart. Planning to try the dc unlocker for this. If it works, then its a quality phone for my mom.. if not, its a backup phone for my son's prepaid ATT..
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Kindly let us know if it works.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] mustafu:
I own a Ascend XT 1 which had a Snapdragon 615 and Adreno 405, I'm surprised the SoC was downgraded for this iteration. Interested otherwise
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
These are $49 on Walmart.com right now

I ordered 2 and I'll be working on them in the coming weeks

[MENTION=6065620]divineBliss[/MENTION] [MENTION=7934375]madvane20[/MENTION]

case's and screen savers > https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_...scend+xt2&rh=n:2335752011,k:huawei+ascend+xt2

Support page > http://consumer.huawei.com/us/support/phones/tor-a1/ (firmware would normally be found here)

or Here from AT&T > https://troubleshoot.att.com/devicetroubleshoot/index.html?model=HuaweiH1711&make=Huawei&s=DS#home

Huawei bootloader unlock > https://emui.huawei.com/en/plugin/unlock/index

AT&T Service Unlock > https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/?#/
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] webosFTW:
Ordered the xt2 as well to check it out. Anyone else think it's a downgrade compared to the original xt?(lower screen size,slower processor) only good thing is the camera and the bigger battery.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] RaggyD:
This makes or breaks the phone for me. Everything else is a major upgrade to my little Galaxy Amp 2 (bleagh) for not very much money, and better looking than the LG options from Cricket it seems like for similar amounts of money (nevermind the awful $25 upgrade fee...wtf. If I'm buying a phone from you Cricket why are you charging me a $25 fee AGAIN?...I will be complaining heavily to them to see if I can get around it but GL with that I guess).

Can anyone confirm this specifically? The phone does or does not have an option to format SD card as internal storage? And if not, how easily will ADB detect the Cricket Elate (I mean, will I have to go through tons of stuff to get it detecting. My Amp 2 refuses to detect at all) and will the commands to format the SD card as internal storage work here? force-adoptable-true etc.

I'm pretty much sold on this phone to replace my amp2 except for this question. Otherwise will go with the LG. Don't care about root capability etc too much for a phone like this.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Alpha7d:
I've been able to successfully unlock the bootloader of the Huawei Ascend XT2, through their website. For $50 at walmart, this was a steal. Hopefully someone will be kind enough to port TWRP to this device. I can try to help in any way that I can.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] m0000:
Link to tutorial or create one would be great!

TIA
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] mustafu:
IMO Ascend 1 was a hair too big. While on paper the CPU was downgraded, the GPU is upgraded, Adreno 505 IIRC. Performance is great and I like EMUI 5.1. Touchscreen seems improved also
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Instructions are right on their site

Huawei bootloader unlock

for Service Unlock you have to go through AT&T here > https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/?#/

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First step to get TWRP ported would be listing the partition info

from Terminal Emulator you would use a series of commands to determine the partition layout

I would first use > cat /proc/mounts (once you see the path this is what you use in the ls -al command)

then use that path with the > ls -al /dev/block/platform/msm_sdcc.1/by-name (the part in red may be different on your device)

on my LePro3 it's > ls -al /dev/block/bootdevice/by-name

your output should look like this when you get it right

feel free to post that info here, it's the same on all H1711
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] faxanidu:
Got my boot loader unlocked. Having dinner trouble getting a working twrp together
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Abdawan:
I'll be travelling

I'll be soon traveling abroad and while I am still here I don't wanna use expensive ATT plans.

I'll appreciate if someone can find a way to unlock it.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
There's not going to be a way to SIM unlock this phone without getting a SIM unlock code from AT&T (after 6 months of service on AT&T Prepaid) or an eBay SIM unlock code seller. If someone finds a reasonable eBay unlock code seller for the H1711, they will probably post here - has not happened yet.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] InfinityXDA:
Is this a good phone to buy before I get it???
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
Pretty hard to beat for the price.

It is a great phone, and I love it.

I only have one real issue with it, and that is the gps antenna is not defeatable without major surgery. As soon as I get a second one back, I will dig into my first one and find that sucker. (I will NOT use a smart phone as a phone, as long as it has a working GPS.) A personal goal is to be able to rebuild the stock kernel from scratch and be able to replace it. Then I'll go hunting for the section that supports gps and kill it, recompile and have a GPSless phone kernel. But that is just me.

A second project is to find a way to periodically run a job, say every 100 ms or so, that goes into the log directory, recursively goes through the directories and deletes all log and db files. I don't want this phone tracking what I do, where I go, who I call, what apps I run or don't run, how long they ran, or any other big-brotheresqe logging.

I'd love to know how I could do that on a stock, rooted system. Being able to fire off a shell script on a regular basis would do this, but other than being able to do a chron job (which I don't know how to setup on android), this will require some hook or call back from the kernel on a regular basis.

I suspect the gps lives on one of the I2C ports or Uarts, but I don't know.

I *do* know that on the Y538, disabling it is as easy as putting a piece of plastic between the antenna contact and the case where the antenna is. The XT2 is a different beast altogether....
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] memoramm:
Need help.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
I agree
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] SuperBrolySSJ:
Unfortunately I no longer have the ascend xt2, now I'm with ZTE's blade z max.. great phone but I don't expect to see root anytime soon
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
rotflmao!

Puzzling, I put some links up to files yesterday on this thread and don't see the post anywhere....

Someone asked for mmblk0p0. the entire phone image. I have it. 15 gigs. But I can't find a place to put it for transfer. nofileio limits to 10 gigs. Trying to copy it to a sim card on my phone that has 19 gigs free says the file can't be copied because it exceeds the size limit.... Anyone have any ideas?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I am puzzled by why you would even consider sharing mmcblk0.img - which is the image of the phone's entire internal storage and contains all of the partitions including the partitions that set the phone's unique data such as the IMEI, serial number, WiFi MAC, Bluetooth MAC, the data partition, and possibly other private unique data that I would not want to share for security reasons and because I would not want my phone to be cloned by someone else who has that image. :confused: .

You have a typo in your post. They requested mmcblk0 not mmblk0p0. ;)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
[MENTION=8314364]scrungydoolittle[/MENTION],

You have a typo in your post. They requested mmcblk0 not mmblk0p0. Big difference.

Yes, IMEI, etc is held in non-volatile memory - the EFS partition which is part of mmcblk0.

Okay, for the rest of the people who use their cell phones on a cell network, beware of what partitions you share. You don't want to share mmcblk0.img - the image of the entire internal storage.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] goesham2:
any luck with a stock system.img? ive formatted my system partition on accident and am now sitting on a bricked phone
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
you posted the links in the unbrick method thread. but the system.img is no longer working, the rest are.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
Here [MENTION=8723424]goesham2[/MENTION] I managed to find the system.img.bz2 I had downloaded forever ago on old laptop. Give this a shot, i put the link below to my google drive.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1M5p6rfuTokBMZoh28MFtg8IitO2Rc7S4
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jakestew:
Works with the MVNO (AT&T Reseller) AirVoiceWireless.com

$20/mo. = unlimited calls and texts... 100 MB of data

If ANYONE knows of a cheaper service PLEASE let me know! I've searched high and low and can't find anything cheaper on GSM, without some sort of family plan.

Service from them is pretty good. Switched a lot of friends and family to them. Porting numbers is not too difficult, and payment is easy. You can also get 5 days for $5, if you're looking for the short term.

One nice thing is that you can use an unactivated AT&T SIM card with them. So you can use the one it comes with and be up and running in no time at all! Using an ATT SIM it will also say "ATT" instead of "AIRVOICE WIRELESS" in the top left of your screen. No big deal, but it saves some screen real estate.

;)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Well it looks like AT&T just pushed a system update to my phone. I haven't installed it yet because I don't wanna lose root. Hopefully someone will provide a new patch? ;)

Anybody know if before I install the update should I flash the stock recovery back to my phone first? Just wondering cause I don't want the update to brick my phone..
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
If you unlocked the bootloader theirs a good chance all updates will fail even with stock recovery

the 1611 was never upgradeable after unlocking the bootloader
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
Is this for the H1711? If so can you somehow make it available?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] SuperBrolySSJ:
You may need to relock your bootloader first
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Correct. The Huawei Ascend XT2. I just zipped it and am uploading it now.

I am guessing the update is located in cache/fotapkg folder? anyway there was 2 files in there so I went ahead and zipped them both.

I will update in a few minutes.

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Ok thank you. So yea flash the stock recovery and re-lock the bootloader first then before updating. Got it.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Even after relocking the bootloader, etc, the update probably won't install if it's goes like the H1611. I'd make a full backup just in case.

Updating the H1611 always required getting a TWRP backup from someone with the latest ROM who had never unlocked the bootloader until after they installed the OTA update first. Yes, do save any update files you find, as they will possibly help with the update process for others. Look in /dload too.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
ok I think what i will do is just post all the files up on here and one of you experts can mess with them first before I do any updating lol

I found update_huawei_dload.zip in the /dload folder too. So I am uploading that right now also. Thanks for pointing that location out.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Alright. Here is the update files that At&t pushed to my phone. Hopefully one of the experts around here can figure out how to apply it for those of us who have already rooted our phones.

These 2 files inside the zip were found in /cache/fotapkg. I just went ahead and zipped the entire folder.

omabackupdd.dd & package_temp.app

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_fLu5N_u2fI8kk1Rakxg7urQTFiiuz_N

This zip file was found in the /dload/ folder.

update_huawei_dload.zip

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1CsJW790R3YAPqpVOFGA1IXz9HP2Lf_v2

Let me know if there is anything else you all need.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
[MENTION=5715050]freedomwarrior[/MENTION],

For the H1611, [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION] was the expert who figured out how to make a flashable ROM zip to update the H1611 from the captured files and TWRP backup. I don't own a H1711 and I don't think he does either. I believe someone with an updated H1711 will have to unlock their bootloader, make and share a TWRP backup before someone can make a flashable zip for others like you to update from.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Well every device is different

Their is a chance that the phone can be updated with the dload flash (with stock recovery).

search the honor 5x forums for instructions on dload flashing.

Basically you put the update.app

In a folder named dload on your ex_sdcard

And force the update with a dialer code ( I don't remember it) if your system partition is untouched the update should work.

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Thanks for sharing the files

Unfortunately I didn't keep this phone and theirs not much I can do to help other than tell what works with other Honor / Huawei phones
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Crap. I have a problem. I was just sitting here and out of nowhere my phone automatically restarts and goes into twrp to try and install the update. Ofcourse it fails, so I reboot my phone and when I get into android it says my phone has an update and will reboot in 10 seconds. I cant stop it from rebooting so now my phone is stuck in trying to keep booting to recovery. Anyone know what I should do??

Would it be safe to just go ahead and use this guide if I aint to worried about loosing a little data?

https://xdaforums.com/huawei-ascend-xt/help/huawei-ascend-xt2-stock-image-fix-brick-t3736925/
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Try deleting the files from /dload and /cache/fotapkg using TWRP

Then reboot and see if that stops the update loop.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Ok I went into TWRP and deleted the 2 files in cache/fotapkg. But the /dload folder is nowhere to be found inside TWRP.

Still stuck in update loop.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Well I wiped user and system data and re-flashed them. I also went into developer settings and unchecked "automatic updates". I am hoping that will stop the AT&T update for now.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
might have been easier to just flash stock recovery and try and take the update

here's whats in your uploaded files

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\data" (just updates vendor info)

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\META-INF" (unfortunately this includes a verify-script along with the updater-script)

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\patch" (just patches firefox)

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\cust.new.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\cust.patch.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\cust.transfer.list"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\product.new.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\product.patch.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\product.transfer.list"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\skipauth_pkg.tag"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\system.new.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\system.patch.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\system.transfer.list"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\UPDATE.APP"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\vendor.new.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\vendor.patch.dat"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\vendor.transfer.list"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\version.img"

"E:\fotapkg\package_temp\VERSION.mbn"

The update.app is the only thing really important it contains the firmware the other files patch your existing partitions after a verify-script check

"E:\fotapkg\update app\ABOOT.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\AMSS_VER.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\AMSS_VERLIST.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\APDP.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\BOOT.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\CMNLIB.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\CMNLIB64.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\CRC.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\DEVCFG.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\DSP.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\ERECOVERY.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\GPT.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\KEYMASTER.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\LKSECAPP.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\MDTP.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\MODEM.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\MSADP.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\PACKAGE_TYPE.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\RECOVERY.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\RPM.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\SBL1.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\SHA256RSA.img"

"E:\fotapkg\update app\TZ.img"

the problem is the same as with the H1611 it's missing the actual system.img

flashing the above files without the accompanying patched cust.img / product.img / system.img and vendor.img (pulled from an already updated phone)

would most likely leave you with no wifi or worse because of a firmware mismatch.

The good news is you now have a stock boot.img and recovery.img pulled directly from the update.app

the file pulled from dload seems to just be some kind of check it doesn't contain any real files

this is the the updater-script it contains
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Glad you were able to recover :cool: .

If you want to see if the OTA will work, like [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION] wrote, flash the stock recovery, then re-enable the settings for automatic updates and wait a few days for it to get the update again. I'm assuming if the update fails you phone will still be usable - but don't know for sure.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Should it be tried with an unlocked bootloader? Because I was actually going to do this lastnight when I was stuck in the update loop but when I got to my last step of relocking my bootloader using fastboot, I got an error in my cmd window saying something like failed due to root risk... So I backed out and just did the wipe of user and system instead.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I suppose if you can't lock the bootloader, then you can only try with it unlocked. I would make a full backup in case you need it - especially the data partition.

It would be interesting to know what that message says if you run into it again and can screeshot it to post here.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Well being that I am bored. I am going to mess with this. (after a full backup ofcourse) . I will report back.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
I am assuming you are talking about the *#*#2846579#*#* dialer code, then Software Upgrade > SDCard Upgrade method.

I just tried that. It reboots into recovery and begins "Installing Update..." but hangs at 5% for a few seconds and then the Update Fails..
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Yeah ..I hope you didn't try just flashing the update.app

you can end up with a firmware mismatch and loose wifi or even worse

all you need to do is flash stock recovery (pulled from the update)

and let the phone take the OTA

if it works great if it fails it could be a number of things

If you let twrp modify the system partition it will fail (restoring an untouched system.img will fix this)

the update could check for the unlocked bootloader and fail (not normal but re-locking the bootloader may or may not help)

the update could check any number of partitions as untouched and fail (boot.img or the cust partition )

update fails at 5% usually indicates a system partition failed the verification check

The alternative is a TWRP flashable ROM of all the files in the update.app plus an already updated system.img / cust.img / product.img and vendor.img pulled from a freshly updated phone.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I was suggesting/thinking you were going to let your phone re-download the OTA update via AT&T after restoring recovery back to stock.

What exactly did you try? Copying the files back into /dload and /cache/fotapkg?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
I'm still waiting for my phone to re-download the update but so far nothing has happened yet. I even went into Settings > AT&T Software Update > Check for updates. But it says my phone is up to date. So not sure what is going on.

I was curious about that dialer code method to force install via External USB Card using a folder named /dload/ so I thought I would try it. Didn't work though. Oh well..

Has anybody else around here been pushed an update or am I the only one? :confused:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
You could try manually setting the clock ahead one day or just wait until it gets pushed the update again. Is WiFi, calling, mobile data all working on your phone currently after the last update attempt failed?

The update server tends to not let the phone try and update until a few days after the previous attempt.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] freedomwarrior:
Yep WiFi and everything else is working normal. I will try that time setting trick out. :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
I'll include [MENTION=8898971]ChrisJP23[/MENTION] in this post

no need to buy another .. I just got one and I'm uploading all the partitions I pulled from it now

I'll be starting a new thread with a roundup of this thread and info on rooting the Elate sometime this weekend

I'll post the url to the Stock Elate files --> Here

Uploading the Stock TWRP Backup H1711z now ->> https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=257468

Be sure and only use twrp_xt2_v3.img to restore these backups
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madmike0408:
I am in trouble I think guys, hopefully someone can help me.

I was rooted with Magisk, but was unable to sign into snapchat. My solution was to try to relock the bootloader, which didn't seem to work. It constantly boots to factory recovery. I was able to unlock the bootloader again, and flash my patched_boot.img and the phone boots, however I am still unable to use snapchat and I cannot lock the bootloader back to a factory state.

Any ideas what I can do?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dany0808:
Yes you can boot to TWRP restore stock system and boot
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dany0808:
[Ascend XT2][H1711][ATT] StockXperience ROM

Mi new custom ROM, light modds, try it!