yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ChrisJP23:
Ok thanks for the tutorial,

Some questions: will the system.img.bz2 backup contains any sensitive/personal info (eg: google account referential)?

Should I do a factory rest before proceeding with the backup??? If yes, please confirm the steps.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ChrisJP23:
I've done a factory reset, then end up with a 1.07GB file...

PM sent
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
thanks [MENTION=2707713]aslezak[/MENTION]

followed the restore directions , stuck at the cricket logo for now. Going to leave it for an hour and see if it fully boots.

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well that didnt work, still the same ATT xt2 firmware. Guess I will just have to deal with this and stick with it, thanks for all your help guys.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
For next time, the system backup does not contain any user specific/personal information so factory reset was not necessary.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
Nice. Thanks for that. I just learned something new.... :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
xposed

Which version of exposed works on the H1711. Went to the xda offical site, went to the download https://dl-xda.xposed.info/framework/sdk27/arm/ and there are like 5 or 6.

Can someone point me to the install zip that will install xposed on this phone? (Using a magisk rooted phone). I want to install xPirivacyLua and gravity box.

I've been debloating the phone, by copying the directory to my sd card, then deleting it. Qualcom-access-logkit is now gone. Don't know what Qti-logkit is.

access-logkit apparently logs a lot of data that shouldn't be logged in my opinion. I killed com.carrierqq.iqagent (known as Device Health Application" and is a logger....

Got rid of google.android.videos. Looking at killin instantshare. Killed and removed qualcom.location. Thinking about killing mirrorshare, but need to figure out what it is first. Killed huawei.geofence. I'm trying to kill the GPS permanently on this phone.

Took it apart, and there is no antenna to cover like there is on the Y538. On that one, a thick piece of pastic trapped between one of the pressure pins and the case, will disable the GPS. That is the only one that I am using for a phone. All I need to do is kill the gps on this phone, and I'll start using it.

So I'm making some progress on privatizing the phone as much as I can. Always copying the folders to the sd card. Singce I have a system.bin I can always get it back to the state it was when I got it from aslezak.

On a slightly different topic, once you have built a KERNEL for the phone, how do you go about REPLACING the current kernel with the new one? Step by step instructions would be appreciated.

Looks like /system/emui has a bunch of junk. china, china_honor oversea oversea_honor none of which would apply to this phone. So they probably can be killed.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dany0808:
As we have Android 7.0 our SDK is 24, so you should be able to flash xposed-sdk24 by TWRP recovery, I think this one should work fine https://dl-xda.xposed.info/framework/sdk24/arm/xposed-v89-sdk24-arm.zip

What do you mean by copying to SD card and then delete it? You must not delete any folder from /system if you dont want to brick it....

What's that about privatizing? To be clear nothing of personal data is in /system NEVER.

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@ scrungydoolittle

if you don't know what are you doing then you should not suggest to remove anything from /system , besides, free space on /system is USELESS

If anyone want to uninstall system apps, just try system app remover app, this app would make a backup in SDCARD in case you want to restore any app
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
There is just to much tracking, recording and snooping going on in the android OS. Google and the carriers want to get anything they can. The only thing the need is my imeid so my phone can connect. By privatizing, I mean eliminating anything that can track, derive information or otherwise record and transmit data that I don't specifically want transmitted. There is absolutely no reason that Huawei, ATT or Google should install a key logger on your device, and that is exactly what iqagent, qualcomm-access-logkit, do. geofence and qualcomm location log your location, and in the case of qualcomm location, it attempts to pinpoint your location by a combination of tracking not only gps, and cell towers and wifi to pin point your location when you have bad gps reception.

None of that is necessary.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] x3mm3x:
well. according to this ([IMG="cortex architectures"]https://s10.postimg.org/urif3hert/cortex_a53.png[/IMG]) , our processor architecture (Cortex A53) is based on a 64bit type processor application. so, do we need to flash the 64bit type or sdk24 to our phone?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Edited:

Based on x3mm3x post, H1711 is 32-bit architecture

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75508702&postcount=538

==

For Android 7.0 arm:

xposed-v89-sdk24-arm.zip

https://dl-xda.xposed.info/framework/sdk24/arm/xposed-v89-sdk24-arm.zip

Allow 30 minutes for phone to finish booting after Xposed Framework installation.

Above is what I believe the H1711 needs needs for rovo89 Xposed Framework System installation to system partition, going by the OP image showing Android 7.0 and assuming arm is correct.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_version_history

Always download the corresponding Xposed Uninstaller zip and have it handy as insurance.

https://dl-xda.xposed.info/framework/uninstaller/

These zips should be flashed from TWRP after installing the Xposed Installer app from

https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811/

This is for rovo89 System Xposed installation. Systemless topjohnwu method is a whole different set of files.

I don't have a H1711, so please feel free to correct this post :) .

I do have the H1611 running Systemless Xposed:

https://xdaforums.com/huawei-ascend-xt/help/xposed-huawei-ascend-xt-t3536003/

You guys might want to create a separate H1711 Xposed thread :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] x3mm3x:
---EDITED FOR CORRECTIONS-----

Thanks for the hint about the uninstaller.

BTW. i tested these xposed frameworks and it seems H1711 will be ok with sdk24 arm version and not the arm64
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
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[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] x3mm3x:
To answer that question. Here's a detailed picture.

[IMG="xposed"]https://s10.postimg.org/ekgq19kbd/Screenshot_20180210-081806.png[/IMG]

Hint: it's ARM. Not arm86 nor arm64
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Does this app

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.inkwired.droidinfo

show ARM or ARM64 (like H1611) on your H1711?

My Xposed Installer app Framework screen on H1611 also shows ARM64 vs your screenshot for H1711 showing ARM.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] x3mm3x:
It doesn't show wether it's arm86 64 or plain arm.

But it says armv7 for cpu architecture and for instruction set: armeabi-v7a, armeabi
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Okay, so H1711 is definitely 32-bit from all your posts.

Arm7 = 32-bit

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/136407/is-my-linux-arm-32-or-64-bit
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] x3mm3x:
Question.

Isn't there 3 flashable zip? The arm, arm86 and arm64?

And isn't arm86 same as 32bit? Or is that just a Microsoft's thingy?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
https://www.androidauthority.com/arm-vs-x86-key-differences-explained-568718/

It's just x86 (without ARM) for Intel. Not sure how many bits for Xposed x86.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] x3mm3x:
oh i see. i think i will make a thread concerning rooting of this device. but i forgot the while process i took. haha i'll try my best. is there already such thread?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dany0808:
Do not suggest other pepople to do things on their phones if you are not sure what you are doing. This thread quality is getting very poor
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ChrisJP23:
Yes, here
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] x3mm3x:
oh okay. thats good. i am really not sure what i did though to have my phone rooted. i tried so many ways until i read that i need to fastboot then theres the bootloader unlocked and so much more . so if im going to make a tut. oh man. everyone will suffer.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
[MENTION=2707713]aslezak[/MENTION] do not suppose you know a command to pull the update.app from [MENTION=8898971]ChrisJP23[/MENTION] cricket elate?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] aslezak:
It should be in /cache he would need to be rooted to be able to look in there. Alternatively you can get the direct download link for the update.zip from logcat using adb https://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2270429&page=1
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
Well i just looked and thats not what I needed, I am still struggling to get a factory image of the elate to install. I read online (clutching at straws now) that the UPDATE.APP holds all the images, boot, recovery, system etc. the bz2 backup of system would install but doesnt change the firmware itself, i am still stuck on the ATT xt2, any other ideas? [MENTION=2707713]aslezak[/MENTION]
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] aslezak:
What you really need is for someone with a stock Elate to flash the TWRP we created, boot into recovery, dd backup boot to boot.img, then provide that boot.img to you. They need to do this before rooting!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
Dang, so [MENTION=8898971]ChrisJP23[/MENTION] couldnnt do it? he is still running the correct cricket firmware but with root. Me on the other hand have somehow managed to get the ATT firmware (which is different) on my elate.

Is it worth a shot him trying a twrp back up and then me trying, all I need is to get off the ATT xt2 version and back to Cricket version, I am fine with root etc which is what i wanted in the first place.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] SuperBrolySSJ:
Moved on to a Galaxy S5. Still have my ascend xt2 though
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I *think* anyone with a bootloader unlocked Elate could use dd via TWRP to dump all the generic partitions (those that are don't have personal information or phone unique information like the IMEI number).

I'm not sure which partitions that list would consist of. You can maybe look at some of the H1611 ROM update zip files [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION] created to update H1611 ROM versions in order to get a list of partition names which get updated. I *assume* you'd want those same partitions dumped from a working Elate to restore your broken Elate.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
right, ill start looking at the partitions and files, its jsut weird that his system.img.bz2 backup didnt overwrite the att xt2 version from the brick method, im thinking there is more information on a different partition maybe
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Are you positive it did not write the new system.img.bz2 file to your phone?

Are you able to use the dd command to dump a copy of your current system.img via the previously specified dd command used to initially create the system.img.bz2 file? Then you can do a md5sum on both files and compare the checksums to confirm if they are the same or not to be sure.

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@aslezak,

Thanks for sharing your post.

One suggestion/tip I have for anyone who has the microSD storage space and is in a hurry, is to skip using the bzip2 or other compression commands and just store the file uncompressed as bzip2 takes a while to do the compression. Of course this additional compression time is insignificant for small files - but it adds up for larger files like system and data partition backup.

So dumping system from phone without compression becomes:

dd if=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system of=/external_sd/system.img

I also like to generate the file checksum using md5sum and save it using

md5sum /external_sd/system.img > external_sd/system.img.md5

That way one can use the .md5 to be sure if copying/sharing the image file that there were no copy errors after copying or downloading it by running the "md5sum <filename>" on the copied file and comparing it to the saved value in the the .md5 file.

And flashing system partition from uncompressed image becomes:

dd if=/external_sd/system.img of=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system

Again, using bzip2 makes good sense to save storage space if necessary and time isn't a big issue. :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ChrisJP23:
Unfortunately, I'm already rooted (according to your instruction - thanks a lot for that) :good: )
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Why wouldn't the boot.img after rooting be usable?

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Don't have any TWRP backups made with TWRP prior to rooting?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ChrisJP23:
No, didn't think/know about doing a TWRP backup prior to rooting...:p
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] aslezak:
That's ok, it just would be better to start with a stock Elate boot.img

Since you still have the Cricket setup, your system.img should be enough, but it's not working for others right? It's showing as AT&T XT2?

There is a bunch of stuff stored in the aboot & oem partitions (that could identify the device) but if those were never flashed, no reason to look there..
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Harrison85:
IM pulling the system.img now and will run checksum and see if for sure its different.

also considering going to buy a new elate and pulling all the info from it and returning it (yeah i know thats bad)

but i actually love this phone and want cricket firmware back.

any tips?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
xposed

downloaded and flashed xpose version 89. Downloaded xposed installer. rebooted. xposed installer says Xpose framework version 89 is active, when I go to xposed installer.

Then it says could not load available zip files. pull down to try again.

I downloaded gravity box, copied it to the sdcard, and installed it. v707_4af... Gravity box [N] (version 7.0.6)

Do an install. hit open says GravityBox ssystem framework not responding. Exiting.

Trying to get a pi control on this phone.....

What am I doing wrong?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Abdawan:
Sim unlock

Hey guys,

has anyone managed to find a way to simunlock this phone? I bought one on blackfriday for $49 and since then its been sitting in my closet because it does not accept any other network's sim.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Get a Cricket Sim or use AT&T
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Even AT&T based SIMs from MVNOs like TracFone, Straight Talk, NET10 etc will work I suspect, since they work with the H1611.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] SuperBrolySSJ:
I know this is totally unrelated to rooting but would anyone mind posting their Geekbench 4 results?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
I will eventually.

What I need now, however is an original system.img

The 32 gig flash chip that I had that on, died in the phone, so I currently don't have that. I'd appreciate someone posting the default

system.img for our phone....
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Thanks for sharing this..... It's a good reminder to us why we should copy backups to another location like a PC as insurance against microSD going bad.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
yeah. Don't trust them forever.

I don't know what happened. on this last card, I was using TWRP to make a system.img of my phone like it was. The boot.img did just fine, but

the 1688 mb system image just set there forever. Eventually it said it was done, and I rebooted the phone, only to get a message that the

sd card was bad. There ere 27 gb free. The first one that went dead was also when I tried to copy a large file to it.

I was able to back the entire emmc (all 15.8 gb of it, and pulled that to a computer, but I was trying to do something, maybe backing the system up, and boom, it went away.

Maybe the only way to get the system backed up is to do a pull from adb.... dunno... But I do need a copy of a system.img
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
What brand were these microSDs and where did you get them? Did you try reading or formatting them while installed in a PC?

I've had good luck with Samsung microSDs and buy them from Amazon vs eBay to try and minimize fakes and always run h2testw on them (full write/verify test) to verify they are not fake before even trying to use them.

I recently dumped all partitions on my H1611 to microSD from TWRP, then used "adb pull" to get the files to my PC. It would have probably been faster if I pulled the microSD out of the phone and put it in my PC to copy the files to the computer.

About h2testw:

https://fightflashfraud.wordpress.c...ld-standard-in-detecting-fake-capacity-flash/
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
Thanks for the link.

They are EVO. I bought 5 and one burned up literally.... https://www.ebay.com/usr/li-lang-da-full?_trksid=p2057872.m2749.l2754

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Class-10-3...-Phone-/152790638374?var=&hash=item2393081f26 Basically I bought a total of 10 of these. 2 have gone bad in the ATT phone. 1 literally caught fire in my rca tablet, 2 others went dead as well. So not a very good track record...
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I've been using genuine Samsung Evos for years - only after testing them - and never had a problem. The eBay prices in that link are way too low and indicative of fakes - thus the high rate of failures. Test any remaining devices you have. I'm betting they will all fail - so back up anything important you have now :) .

Edit: Those eBay Evos are confusing knockoffs of real Samsung Evos - confusing people with the name and color of the genuine Samsung Evos.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
flashable system for H1711

Well, I think I might have found a system image in a file in the directory where I copied the memory from aslezak's phone. There is an sustem.img.bz2 After extracting the image, and doing fastboot flash system system.img I get

target reported max download size of 531628032 bytes

Invalid sparse file format at heater magi.

and it hangs.....

hmm. Any ideas and help? The image is 2,506,752 kb as reported by windows 7. properties give 2.39 gb (2566914048), i.e. 2.5 gigs.

I really don't want to jack this one up.

And really funny thing, I bought a flash card tonight 32 gb sandisk, and it reports 27 gig...

SO, *HOW* can I flash a system image?

It looks like I have to do it via twrp, but the .img file is not of the correct format. it doesn't have the meta_inf etc.

Can anyone walk me through getting this done?

Right now I am sitting in fastboot.

I need to restore the phone to stock, so I can re-root it with phh super user.

I assume that requires flashing the original boot.img, then the super user zip.... But that will install it into the system folder, and I want to be able to get that restored to original state first.

Soooo... how do you convert a .img file to a proper flashable zip?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ChrisJP23:
Deleted
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Use TWRP to flash system.img

Install/install image/system

Be sure the file is named system.img and on the ex_sdcard
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
hmm. yup.. So where to find them?

I believe that I have system.img.bz2
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Try renaming the file by removing the.bz2

TWRP should flash it
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
I got the system restored, and the funny thing is, it lists supersu as the root solution and everything seems to work well.

making a system image of my new configuration with pi controls installed, apex etc This is an uncompressed 2.39 gb image.

The gps is working on this one. I also will be creating a bz2 version. yet titanium bacvk up says

your SU binary (version 15.3:MAGISKSU (topjohnwu)" is functional but might not work reliably, so it looks like I am still stuck with magisk.

I thought restoring the system would remove magisk..
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Magisk installs Systemless - doesn't touch the system partition :)

How did you eventually manage to flash system.img since you initially reported difficulties?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] scrungydoolittle:
Well, I found that I had copied the sdcard to my office computer. I went and bought a sd card and installed it, and flashed it via fastboot.

HOWEVER, it appears that this was a backup of my phone, so am not sure.

I bought this phone from aslezak, and asked him to put the source, etc on it.

I copied the file he put on the phone, off to my computer. Fortunately.

They are all dated 1/31 and the twrp_source tarbal is dated 1/26

I pulled a system image Feb 1 and the entire flash also feb 1

So I have a H1711_system.img file that is 2.5 gig. I had issues trying to push it using adb, but

after reading a tut, I booted to recovery, then did an adb shell and did a dd copy of the system.img file back to the phone.

But it is not the stock system image. So it has a su installed. from all appearances it is chainfire su a.

Rootcheck says /sbin/su 15.3:MAGISKSU (topjphmwu) Joey krim root checker basic just says it is installed. Titanium Backup complains about 15:3 magisk. MAGISK can be installed either systemless or in system. Titanium backup is saying use super su, but I don't want it.

The system image still has some issues, when I attempted to use nandroid backup I got a pot load of errors, mostly with it trying to access raw.github.com, among other things, because this phone is not connected to anything at the moment.

So I am still on a quest for the system.img from a H1711 that was dd. There was a link to one here in this thread, but now the links are expired.

I want toget rid of magisk, by:

1. roll system back to original

2. roll boot back to original (I have that one)

3. flash phhsuper su.

That should allow me to install xposed.

Right now, exposed is installed, and gravity box is installed.

so looking for stock H1711 system image.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
AT&T has made it difficult to get unlocks for current and new devices if you are not a customer.

The DC unlocker route is still working for the Ascend XT. Can anyone check to see if it works on the XT2? The phone is not listed yet but would be worth a try. Worse case you get your money back or ask first but here are the instructions. When this phone goes on sale may buy it.

This phone can be unlocked for $5 via dc-unlocker. This is a true unlock as the software actually reads the unlock code from the phone itself (which is pretty impressive).

go https://www.dc-unlocker.com/buy and make a account, deposit 4 euros = 4 credits. Download Hisuit on your pc which will download all the drivers. Plug in your phone, on your phone in the dialer type *#*#2846579#*#* and go into Background settings/USB port settings and switch it to Manufacture Mode.

Back on the computer, Download the DC-Unlocker and open it and set it to "Huawei Phones". Click auto detect and it will show your phone information. Login to your account and click "Read Unlock codes". It will display all the unlock codes for your device instantly(it reads them off your device). The NCK is the network unlock code you are looking for.

**Follow instructions here:

https://www.dc-unlocker.com/huawei-id-unlock