yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Phereo 3D instructions

Phereo is a cross-technology 3D photo-sharing platform. Go there to download Phereo TV and Android apps. Browse through the biggest collection of 3D photos. :o

http://phereo.com/

Phereo 3D Photo app does not have native 3D support for TAKEE 1. Only for well-known brands like HTC and LG. Therefore, TAKEE will be assigned with Anaglyph 3D viewing mode by Phereo´s automatic detection mechanism. Do not worry!

Go to Phereo Settings and switch 3D view mode from Anaglyph to Side-by-Side. Do not forget to switch Content from Only Safe to All. Then go back to the Main menu and click Explore. A galery opens with lots of 3D image thumbnails. Click to open a Side-by-Side image. At the bottom left there is the author and title. Click there to open Comments and Photo Info. A red button for Save Photo is available after Photo Info tab is selected.

Click in Save Photo to download an image to your storage/sdcard0/DCIM/Phereo/

Do you have a Micro-SD card? The image will be stored there with a JPS File Extension. To retrieve it use File Manager. Click on the file and complete the action with 3D Gallery. Wait a few seconds for the auto-stereoscopic photo to come in focus. Voilá! :o

Some 3D images have narrow viewing angles and may take up to 30 seconds to adjust to your inter-pupilary distance.

If for any reason there is a need to edit the 3D image with auto-alignment buy the 3DSteroid Pro version or do it manually in the free app. An alternative is to use Phereoshop software.

http://phereoshop.com/

You can also try the QuickPic app.

Have fun!
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
I just checked. Still the 3 choices
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
I downloaded a few as JPS files while they showed SBS 2D in the app and they work perfectly in the viewer. Got a headache from trying to focus on a few but it seems to work. Can't really verify if it was true SBS because JPS can't be opened in a gallery.

[MENTION=4358937]Oldpapa49[/MENTION] if you follow these steps from the first post this should show up as well. You don't have to do anything with it but it can be unlocked and is a download mode so to speak.

4)	Unlock your bootloader look here: how-to-unlock-your-android-phones-bootloader-the-official-way in short:

a.	Make yourself developer (settings/phone/tap the image info 6x)

b.	In the developer tab choose: “Allow unlocking the bootloader”

c.	Shutdown phone

d.	Press and hold Volume UP and ON for five seconds

e.	Choose the bootloader by using the Volume Up key

f.	Press Volume down to activate
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Will this method work for the iRULU GeoKing 3 Max?
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
It depends on how and if the vendor implemented this as a feature or not but if there is a OEM lock switch in Dev mode it should.

I know for sure Elephone added it because they rather see us build ROMs with the features and updates we want and need then have a team of coders work on it while they could work on the next 10 models with mediocre stock ROMs.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
Still only 3 with oem settings in dev.

I will try playing around.

Can you double check
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
Ok try and play around with the first part of the root guide in the first post. I'm sure you'll get in there :)
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
I'm sure I will. I hope.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
Pressing vol down and power from off brings up a selectable menu in Chinese.

I saw 1 selection with letters MMC

Accidentally hit 1 and I think it started a test of the phone. Checked Sims and tones ask to insert headphones . I powered off.

Again it was like a header with 8 or so choices
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Watch this video, please. It has a translation for all Chinese options in recovery mode.

How to Factory Reset every China phone with Chinese Recovery

[youtube]Tdc5SnSmx1I[/youtube]

Can you run this new app in Elephone P8 3D ?

Get it from the Google Play link, please.

Augmented reality doodling tool Just a Line hit the Play Store today

https://www.androidpolice.com/2018/...les-new-ar-experiment-just-line-apk-download/

Just a Line - Draw Anywhere, with AR 1.0

By Google Creative Lab

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arexperiments.justaline
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Removal of chinese malware by aleunge method

Removal of chinese malware by aleunge method

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75952717&postcount=79
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
Just a line is not compatible with this phone.

My LG v30 is fine with it
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
What is the minimum requirement for Just a Line - Draw Anywhere, with AR 1.0 ?

LG v30 - Snapdragon 835, GPU Adreno 540 and Android 7.1.2 (Nougat)

ELEPHONE P8 3D - MT6750T, GPU Mali-T860 MP2 and Android 7.0 (Nougat)

What is the minimum requirement for Just a Line - Draw Anywhere, with AR 1.0 app by Google Creative Lab?

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.arexperiments.justaline

Do not forget to report your findings to the app developers in order to fix the bug!
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
That was most likely the bootloader. I think [MENTION=8990807]pdegraaf[/MENTION] has more experience with what the layout of the bootloader means since you need to use that to root.

If anyone knows any Mandarin and is able to translate the options that might be useful.

The only Mandarin/Cantonese I speak is "take-out menu Chinese" so I'm not much help there ?
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Translation of chinese commands in recovery mode

Translation of chinese commands in recovery mode... watch this video.

How to Factory Reset every China phone with Chinese Recovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdc5SnSmx1I
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
YuriRM to the rescue! :good:

I wonder if the P8 3D/MAX has an extra feature putting it in download mode, like Samsung's and such have or used to have, to make it Odin accessable since you OEM unlock it and the software, according to the, very limited, documentation, has the ability to flash any ROM. I remember them explicitly mentioning LineageOS and similar somewhere on the site.

After checking just now I noticed this, which doesn't make much sense:

How to Root My phone

Use HideRoot function of SuperSU or other tool.

How to download and use SuperSU ? Check there http://bbs.elephone.hk/forum.php?mod=redirect&goto=findpost&ptid=2411&pid=23686&fromuid=5411

And this

Flash a ROM via TWRP Recovery

Official tuto from Elephone http://bbs.elephone.hk/thread-2792-1-1.html

Along with this

https://bbs.elephone.hk/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=3353&extra=page=1&mobile=2
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
I tried to see if I can get this on my other phones. No go.. The LG Aristo and my LG tablet are not compatible.

So it is very limited to devices. I see even the Samsung S8 will not load..

After reading and looking, If I went to recovery, and select bootloader, it goes to fastboot. Thus fastboot is the bootloader.

I guess.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
Adb shell will work most of the time but it doesn't solve the main issue which is, if someone with no prior computer skills buys a Chinese phone they can't and won't use adb shell out of fear, better yet 9 out of 10 people will not bother to run a virus scan. They don't do anything weird so how could they possibly have, or ever get, a virus.

Since I got my P8 3D I've seen several people out of this fairly common group and all of them had Chinese malware from Adusfota that phones home to China with a DES encryption to modified wireless updaters and all sorts of junk.

There is no simple way to get rid of it other then to disable it or firewall it. I was able to stop most things but people using P9000 Elephones, cubes and similar had over 30GB of transfered data! This is one of the reasons MediaTek has gotten official warnings from the US.

What needs to be done is someone, or rather a group of coders with or without Chinese phones, needs to write a universal debloater, root tool and unroot tool.

This is priority one compared to writing custom ROMs.

For the safety of users the use of ADB shell debloating and rooting, scatter files, ROMs and anything else has to be centralized in a GUI environment that safely downloads the required files from a completely open source repository. Once created antivirus companies and google need to be contacted, who will be more then helpful because forums of antivirus software are filled with Chinese phone questions but they can't help them without root and can't guarantee security with root, so a root, debloat, unroot function is required. Once proof of concept is there and binaries have been build the binaries can be signed and verified so people with no computer skills can debloat their phone without antivirus programs going off on them.

That's the only way to securely and safely let the "average person" get rid of this mess and continue to buy Chinese models.

Adding support for flashing ROMs is possible, which have to be downloaded separately from here to keep the average person away from a possible brick.

Once the groundwork of the code is complete new models can easily be added to the directory once exploits are found.

This would make it a multipurpose tool with priority of people's basic safety and advanced features for permanent root and/or flashing.

That said, this would be a perfect solution for any phone or tablet (including major brands) but finding coders willing to put the effort into it.. that's a different story all together.

You most likely have to enable USB debug, plug it into a computer which recognizes the phone then instead of fast booting it will load up ADB/Download mode.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
"When I get that message I usually download it to a device which is compatible, then transfer the apk with a file transfer app (I use Share-it) and install it that way. Usually works without issue."

Therefore, get it from the LG V30...
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
Nope. It installed on the LG v30 and crashed when starting up. I see reports on this for my phone. I will watch to see when they update again.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
You can try to email the developers and present the issue. I do it all the time, they often prefer that method over having somebody 1 star the app with a small rant about how much the app sucks, not that you would do that but a lot of people do lol, they often take your issue more seriously that way as well :)
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
[MENTION=5880620]Feligres[/MENTION] you speak Spanish right?

Actualmente existe una versión modificada de TWRP disponible que podría ser necesario modificarlo.

Un Scatter file está disponible usando la versión Mini. Esto puede no ser perfecta, pero puede ser utilizado.

El bootloader pueden ser desbloqueados mediante el modo de programador y puede ser alcanzado durante boot.

No hay actualmente ningún método disponible para la raíz sin eliminar todo. Esto tiene la máxima prioridad para las personas con limitados conocimientos de informática puede eliminar las cosas malas, pero continúan utilizando su dispositivo.

Actualmente no hay ninguna ROM oficial del fabricante disponible pero parece similar a la mini. Que usted ya tiene.

La mejor idea es crear una herramienta que puede root/debloat/unroot su dispositivo de forma segura con opciones avanzadas a permanente root y flash ROM.

Disculpen mi español, yo no soy bueno en ello, pero espero que esto sea útil.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
I googled your Spanish and it looked good. :)
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
Haha I had some online translators help too ?

I was trying to make things a bit easier by listing what we currently have, what we can do and what we need to make progress.

Once we have a functioning way to automatically root without wiping data the first security problem will be solved for the average user.

After that we can start moving towards Oreo ROMs that give us the same battery life as we have now and overclocked ROMs with kernel tweaks for the future :)
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Is this 3D app from NASA compatible with Elephone P8 3D?

Spacecraft AR

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=gov.nasa.jpl.spacecraftAR
[Other Tools & General Discussion] Oldpapa49:
Nope. Not even on the lg
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
Nope same here. I don't see why not. It might require a minimum of 6GB RAM for the 3D rendering.

All other Jet Propulsion Labs apps are compatible.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
[MENTION=4358937]Oldpapa49[/MENTION] I found a well written ADB shell guide on here. If you want to remove beautysnap before we get root access this is by far the easiest way to do it.

I'm not going to bother since disabled is disabled and even turned on it's a minimal security risk but either way it's a good read to get the basics of ADB ?

https://www.xda-developers.com/uninstall-carrier-oem-bloatware-without-root-access/
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Camera quality - Laser Auto Focus

How do you rate the cameras of Elephone P8 3D?

Can you provide samples of photos with front and rear cameras in day light and low light, please?

"Elephone P8 3D has 5.0 Inch Ultra narrow screen, with 1920 x 1080 pixels, supports JDI LTPS capacitve touch screen OGS. It owns 16 MP front camera and 2M+13MP rear camera, supports Laser Auto Focus."

Reviews of Elephone P8 3D

http://www.elephonestore.com/elephone-p8-3d-4gb-ram-phone-red-64gb.html

Do you agree with the opinions in the review?
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
Backside camera:

Rear camera is excellent. Flash mechanism is very good for the price. More then enough settings to tweak. Auto focus works well out of the box and standard filters are good enough for standard use. Multishot works very well.

Front camera (selfie cam)

Above expectations. Facial recognition works very well, light is captured correctly even in a darker room. No led so no flash of course but you don't need one either.

Front 2MP untested (see below)

Conclusion

Picture quality is good to very good, Video quality is good, the sound could be better but that's a codec issue not a hardware issue.

The biggest issue is the fact that it doesn't recognize the 2 MP camera, just the 13 MP, that makes automatic 3D impossible.

Next to that, pretty big, issue I would have switched the 13 MP with the 16 MP in design ending up with 16+2MP rear and 13 MP front.

Reviewed based on "first glance" testing. I'll do light tests and mess around with ISO in my friends photo studio soon and will compare the pictures with a few phones and Nikon cameras using similar settings.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] ProfessorKnox:
Hi,

being back from a business trip: Does the issue/problem how to (easily) root the P8 3D still exist? See post #38 using Magisk as root app. If this is still to complicated for Newbies I can try to describe it in more detail.

BTW. I'm a little bit sad, that the discussion in this thread distracted into various directions, making it difficult to find the information the thread initially was created for and to deal with: "Rooting the Elephone P8 3D with TWRP".

For all other issues/topics, e.g. 3D apps, removal of malware, and other items arising in the future etc. own dedicated threads - having "Elephone P8 3D" in its title for easy identification - should be created and these items then discussed in these threads.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
A script has been requested by TheMarchHare and Oldpapa49. Is it feasible by you?

I will try to find in the XDA forum a 16 or 17 year old Indian guy that loves writing scripts. He may be willing to help us.

Regarding the scatter file of Elephone P8 Mini that you adopted does it support the 3D features of Elephone P8 3D?
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Hello [MENTION=7424515]KP@2016[/MENTION]! We need your skills to write a single click script for the new Elephone P8 3D.

The rooting procedure with TWRP and Magisk is difficult for newbies. Can you help us, please?

Have a look at this script developed by KP@2016... it has everything that we have been asking for!

Coolpad Toolkit [Utility][Open Source]

By KP@2016, Member on 20th May 2017

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/utility-coolpad-toolkit-t3609653

Maybe you prefer this version with GUI

Le Eco & Qualcomm Toolkit

https://kpstvhub.com/blog/2017/04/06/le-eco-qualcom-toolkit-toolkit/

KP profile

https://kpstvhub.com/support/about-me/
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
First of all welcome home, hope you had a nice trip :)

The rooting process is still too complicated for newbies. I always give the instructions to 1 person with good computer skills 2 people with reasonable computer skills and flash experience and 1 complete newbie, all of them found the amount steps too much work (could be solved with a script which auto performs a few tasks) and all of them found the risk of bricking too high (no real scatter file etc). The fact that it's currently a root strategy which requires backup processes (not everyone had an empty microSD, including myself) and factory wipes might have caused the most distress in my small focus group which ended up with none of the 4 people rooting (5 including me because my Samsung Evo 128GB microSD is being sent by pidgeon or something ?).

So in this case I don't think the tutorial is the biggest issue but the stability (brick chance), method and approach of rooting. Which might be solvable through automation and automated MTP dump/backup & restore if reset is unavoidable.

Personally I think the new Elephone series could use their own sub category, judging the number of items in stock at vendors and amounts of comments and minimalistic reviews found online of the new flagship and budget models I expect the amount of users to opt-in on XDA Elephone conversations to increase drastically, you can say what you want about the malware, quickly squished together ROMs and bad service but the phones themselves are above expectations for me and the people I've spoken to, especially given the prices.

I might send Brandon a mail about that, see what his thoughts about the subject are.

The topic branched off topic much too far (I am as much to blame for that as others) but it's understandable that minor off-topic questions arise while messing with the phones, given the fact that you, OP and Ferligres (see #93 I gave a full summary of the current status in Spanish) have been absent in the discussion and since this is the only current topic read by owners of P8 3D's it is pretty understandable. Not a good excuse but understandable nonetheless.

I globally suggested a root/deboat/unroot tool with permanent root as an advanced option (since "the average user" is often fine with stock 7.0 as long as it's secure and debloated) but end of the line automation is most likely the key with this particular problem.

Followed by what YuriRM said :)
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Script developed by KP@2016

Have a look at this script developed by KP@2016... it has everything that we have been asking for!

Coolpad Toolkit [Utility][Open Source]

By KP@2016, Member on 20th May 2017

https://xdaforums.com/android/software/utility-coolpad-toolkit-t3609653

https://kpstvhub.com/support/about-me/
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
Perfect! Now all we need is a script to call this and perform the correct steps in order as set out on the first post to avoid any chance of bricking. This is easy enough for more experienced users but we have to keep in mind that most newbie users run a virus scanner, see a virus in their new phone and go "OMG help!?" when the virus scan mentions root requirement.
[MENTION=7424515]KP@2016[/MENTION] very well done :) do you think you could write an init script for this tool and a template for this model that meets all requirements and maybe verify it against the P8 Mini ROM?

That way it's easy to adapt for other China models already available and new models in the future.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] ProfessorKnox:
c.f. "Another pertinent question is the suitability of the scatter file of Elephone P8 Mini. Does it support the 3D parallax screen and Eye-Tracking features of Elephone P8 3D?"

I don't understand, the link between scatter file and 3D parallax screen and Eye-Tracking features of Elephone P8 3D?

The scatter file describes (amongst other details) how the flash memory is partitioned (address ranges), the file system of each partition and the partition's name.

The 3D parallax screen and Eye-Tracking features is related to software drivers and applications and has no direct relationship to the scatter file - apart from the fact, that this software is located in one of these Partition. Highly likely the system partition conatining the Android system.

Please correct me if I'm completely wrong!
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Reporting method on partitions

If the partition containing the 3D parallax screen and Eye-Tracking features has the same size and matching start address and endpoints on both devices then you are right!

I am uneasy about the reporting method on partitions for the foundation of your work on scatter files of Elephone P8 3D and Elephone P8 Mini.

This is what I would like to see in order to avoid mistakes:

Find attached a screenshot of partitions by Device Info HW (this is an example for the Takee 1 smartphone). This view is needed for ROM development too.
[Other Tools & General Discussion] KP@2016:
Okay, I will create a script as per your requirement. It would be a my pleasure to help other developers over web. If you have to contact me about this message me on telegram https://t.me/KP2015
[Other Tools & General Discussion] ProfessorKnox:
Do you use PRO version of Device Info HW?

I get just physical partition names "mmcblk0p[n]" and partition size in decimal format, e.g. mmcblk0p8 12768
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
Partitions tab with Device Info HW

I am using the free version!

Give us a screenshot of the Partitions tab with Device Info HW by Andrey Efremov (@ANDR7E) for Elephone P8 3D (Mediatek MT6750T), please!

My advice is to submit both screenshots to the official thread. The developer of the app will explain the reason for such discrepancy of reporting methods for Partitions between two Mediatek devices, Elephone P8 3D (Mediatek MT6750T) and Takee 1 (MT6592T). A copy of your recovery file or ROM may be requested. It is useful to get Partitions reported with Name, Start address and Partition size to build a reliable scatter file for Elephone P8 3D.

https://xdaforums.com/android/apps-games/app-device-info-hw-t3558335

Older Version 4.6.2 of Device Info HW

Partition names are also supported. How it works:

1) Get partition block path from /proc/mounts by key system or cache

If found it is printed in the log

2) Get mapping list like on your screenshots (some devices need root)
[Other Tools & General Discussion] TheMarchHare:
I've been trying to figure out what partition is used when the eye tracker is in use but I think Knox was right and it's just baked into the main sys partition. I can't properly monitor mounts at this point but I think they didn't make a special partition for it.

The funny thing I can't seem to find is anything that turns on the secondary ("3D") 2MP camera. I think they just forgot to add drivers for that ?
[Other Tools & General Discussion] YuriRM:
It is not a 2MP camera!

sp0a20yuv

The SP0A20 is a 1/10 inch 0.3-megapixel color image sensor by SuperPix

http://www.superpix.com.cn/en/xiazai/SP0A20.pdf

Smartphones and tablets with this camera are:

BLU ADVANCE 4.0 L2

Elephone P8 3D

TCL 9010X

Vodafone Vodacom Power Tab 10

http://deviceinfohw.ru/devices/inde...0&brand=brand0&filter=sp0a20yuv&submit=Search