yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[General Topics] Handymanpro:
Alright back to the xi+ (since I'm totally sure a ton of people kept the Amazon 6gb/128 version), another task ill hopefully be fiddling with and also hopefully get some good results, (the whole deal with using a treble rom on the xi+ was just too time consuming and pain in the neck "literally - my neck was killing me after messing around with the Treble ROM that was already modded from a different phone").

So, the Blu Vivo XII (V0610WW) (aka the g9pro with android 10) is also just an upgraded XI+ with a 48mp cam and 128/4gb

ended up getting someone one of these phones and i was impressed with the xii especially at $130 on Amazon.

It is still the helio p60 chipset.

Now to the point. Since this is basically the same phone as the Xi+ with exception of screen (6.3") and camera (48mp rear) _ (battery is also larger and it has quick charge but i don't think that's too important as far as where I'm going with this) i think modding the xi+ firmware with the xii firmware (system partition, boot and recovery partitions), we may be able to bring the xi+ to Android 10 stock. I could be wrong and would love to hear some feedback before i dig an xi+ phone a part box grave 😁. So please throw me a bone if you have already thought about this or even have already been poking around with this idea, Thanks 👍.

There is some time (probably a lot) before i jump into this Xi+/Xii firmware smushing theory since I'm currently doing some work on some Samsung A51 (sm-a515f) and Huawei nova 3i (INE-LX1r) phones.
[General Topics] ineedroot69:
I'm making TWRP for Blu Vivo XI so far it's 80% done .. i already have bought POCO F3 but since i have this phone might as well use it as practice for creating TWRP :D
[General Topics] Handymanpro:
As i understand your referring to the (Xi _ 3gb/64gb best buy version) not the (Xi+) correct ? I'm not too familiar with poco phones, I think i just changed a DC charging jack 1 time with a poco ... i don't think i even turned it on 😅, just confirmed it was charging then gave it back, that's a free no cost repair with a 10/10 warranty (10 minutes or 10 steps😋)
[General Topics] kiseki_necro:
Hi

new to here, love this phone so much that I actually own 2 of them

Really wish someone able to find a way to have them upgrade to android 10.

Greatly appreciated
[General Topics] psychofad:
Yeah I stupidly just installed mine day one thinking a root solution would be laying about, if only I had of taken a breath lol
[General Topics] Techguy777:
I did that with my Samsung tablet I got it if I would have waited I could have rooted it easier but I did figure out how to root a couple days later so don't be hard on yourself it'll happen your phone is supposed to get pie so don't install it grap the zip maybe we root that. I've never updated my devices again with ota I always wait to see what happens then I usually hear nothing good came from the update except more security and no root so I've learned updates aren't usually good.
[General Topics] MicroMod777:
Just got this phone yesterday. So where can I load up TWRP and custom roms????
[General Topics] KingKelley:
Hate to say this but as if right now everythings is i the works. Last I read TWRP could be at any time. I havent even a site for Stock ROM to dowmload.
[General Topics] MicroMod777:
Hope we get it soon.

BTW, anybody know how to turn on the AOD (Always On Display)?
[General Topics] KingKelley:
:silly:

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i use StayAwake in the developer's menu
[General Topics] Techguy777:
Hey boss if the update hits your phone download it but don't install it yet. We need to find a way to get the zip and pull the boot img. If you use es file explorer find the zip and extract the boot.img or get the whole zip on to pc or cloud and link. We can patch boot and get magisk. Then if we also have recovery we can try to Port twrp from stock. We can't do it without the firmware.
[General Topics] MicroMod777:
Well, wish I could as I did the update after I unboxed it yesterday. If I would of read this thread before hand, I would of. :(((
[General Topics] Techguy777:
I Know everyone jumps on to the update the second it hits like it's going to be a new Android when really it's a security patch update that does nothing you'll notice or need. Along with maybe a couple bugs fixed at least in this case you guys got camera fixes and stuff.

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If anyone buys this phone and reads this before updating download firmware and try to pull it off to your PC. When you think about it even if you don't want to root it's still better to have a stock rom on hand for problems in the future.
[General Topics] MicroMod777:
Well, just ordered the 128gb version from Walmart online with their extra 3 year warranty that was only $34. I currently have the 64gb from Best Buy I'll be returning next week when the phone gets here.

This time I'll try to get the update.zip!!! :))
[General Topics] Techguy777:
Awesome but I got an email from someone last night that was able to pull the firmware update zip I'm going to wait for them to announce it or see if they get root before I say who. If it was me I'd post it for everyone else and then maybe everyone could try to root it and something would happen faster.
[General Topics] psychofad:
Is this someone you trust or some random user? I also would post the update online and link to it here, the more people poking and cracking at it the better, no time for fame, let's unlock this device to it's fullest!:D
[General Topics] Techguy777:
I trust it I looked through the zip it's definitely for Blu vivo xi+ with 6771 chip. Where do you think I should post it? I posted here I totally agree let's get as many people we can together to figure this out that's why I posted the links so everyone has them.

You can download and post links yourself to I don't understand where I should post it xda is the only place I know.

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Sorry guys my bad I posted the update zip in a different thread hold on here you go that's my drive it's not full firmware look you'll see boot I'm going is a patch. But it does have scatter file and preloader bin.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1v9DspVLki7gEzIfq6PxOunC1l_a5t1bB/view?usp=drivesdk

Here's the link to the ota url to download it from them thats how I Know it's official. It's official download seriouslynot Dave is the guy to thank for this.

https://android.googleapis.com/pack.../9b39890a1202ae46c13d30d6f32ccd12969c1994.zip
[General Topics] psychofad:
Yeah, took a look at it myself, boot.img.p is just a patch file, scatter.txt is not compatible with sp flash, no recovery.img, we may be waiting for pie to crack this egg:(
[General Topics] Techguy777:
I was thinking that to. When pie does show up read how to get the ota you have to use adb and get a logcat text file and find the url and download it from the url on to a pc or other device otherwise the update goesin cache/ recovery/ .map or something that's why it can't be found you'd need root.

What do you mean scatter file is not compatible did you try it?

What happened?

If you guys tries stuff feel free to say what you tried so we know what doesn't work thats very helpful to.
[General Topics] psychofad:
the format of the scatter.txt is not the same as the sp flash tool uses, opened them both up in notepad++ and there are quite a few details omitted in scatter.txt some actual important info like size of partition if the addresses listed in it are beginning of partition address, I would try to extrapolate enough to get at the recovery/boot.img if I knew I could bypass the fact that SP Flash is saying I need and auth file to read from the firmware. I have a thread open on Hovatek asking for help with a DA file that can give me auth, feel free to follow https://forum.hovatek.com/thread-25922.html

If they can help me then perhaps we can get our own boot.img and recovery.img, not to mention a backup of Stock Rom since someone gonna break it.:o
[General Topics] Techguy777:
I signed up for the thread I asked last week on YouTube comment section if they come across a DA file to let me know. If you had the da file I think you could use the scatter file because it doesn't need to know the partition size to pull or dump the firmware I wouldn't think. As long as it pulls the boot from the right place it'll be the size it is. I believe the partition size would be more for flashing but really you wouldn't need that either other phones flash without it. It's weird I wonder why they need?

Edit maybe it's for when the phone is off to flash firmware because it can't read the phone and Know the size of partitions.
[General Topics] SeriouslyNotDavid:
Just reposting from the MT6762 Vivo Xi thread.

AFAIK, There is absolutely no (public) app that has support or ability to dump rom for MT6771 or MT6762 as of this moment. There are ~20 or 30 devices with similar hardware and the one or two that have root only have it because the manufacturer provided it and device had more support. And even if a program were able to do a read back/rom dump it would require an MTK provided DA and auth file. So I don't think dumping the rom is the answer. In my findings however, I figured out that the OTA was being provided by MediaTek directly and not Blu. I figure that the devices with the MT6771 and MT6762 are developed and manufactured by a subcontractor of MediaTek and licensed to the various companies. So it may be possible that the TWRP port of another device with the same hardware and root would be able to used with this device. Unfortunately since we don't have a recovery or boot.img, there wouldn't be a way to safely test it without risk of brick. Perhaps fastboot boot recovery.img would be less risky as ROM would replace recovery.img after reboot but again what works with Qualcomm may not work with MTK. Long story short, I think this is a weird time for android as a lot of solid mid range devices are being overlooked and support is being added exclusively to flagship/semi flagship devices like Honor, Huawei, Xiaomi, OnePlus etc. Anyways my friends, I think if you guys want this phone rooted before 2019, the answer will lie in the similar mediatek devices.
[General Topics] donnasbrt1:
Has anyone tried this flashtool

GN_MTK_SP-Download_Tool_Fac_MPKeySZ2.0-MT6755-57_V5.1720.00.200.zip

It is a factory tool and has an auth file with it

https://www.mediafire.com/download/8apdec2baghxo3d
[General Topics] mrmazak:
Blu has responded to me. Your vivo xi kernel source s are uploaded.
[General Topics] KingKelley:
Where are you going to posting these little beauties at?? Or where we can find them at
[General Topics] mrmazak:
https://github.com/mrmazakblu/BLU-VIVO-Xi-kernel
[General Topics] psychofad:
Ok, so I am not sure how to validate this as the actual code for the kernel, but assuming it is, don't we need additional info (source code) to compile this to make it useful? Not trying to be sarcastic, I truly am interested to find out and a lot of the info out on google assumes that some magical fairy being has already rooted and made twrp for everyones phone before they jump into the how-to's, which, honestly is annoying to say the very least. How about a how-to for the truly locked out, assume nothing, from the start, unlocked bootloader - check, ok, now what...what things should I being looking for to discover a path into my phone without using a magical one click root. Personally, I have started by noting which files are not locked down, what information I can glean from looking at the update files with a hex editor. Perhaps I can then build a twrp from source with said info, just an idea. Any devs out there got any tips for a beginner? I will say, reading over source code endlessly since I got this phone has made it start to make sort of sense and its getting easier to follow, been a while since I coded anything and that was on a TI-99A/4a when I was a kid, ah basic programming, so easy.
[General Topics] mrmazak:
Well in the attached pdf you will see the instructions to download the source directly from Blu if you would like to.

And we appear to still be missing something here. I have built the kernel and put it into generic ported twp but still it fails to boot. (this method has work on many other devices)

Sorry this might have been in wrong thread. These are the sources for VIVO Xi NOT Xi+

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[General Topics] Techguy777:
I feel you its always the same thing once you have root and twrp installed then you can do the things that you need to be able to do to get root and twrp. Lol its crazy it makes my head hurt. Same with backup your system before installing twrp? Its like what the ?.

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I have heard that oem are giving out encrypted source codes to follow the rules but at the same time its not good for anything. I also have heard other devs say oem are giving out fake sources codes that dont boot like Samsung Galaxy smt350 tablet kernel for nougat ashyx cant get it to boot.

Edit obviously they didn't lock it down for nothing it sucks they do that. Reminds me off apple.
[General Topics] psychofad:
Sorry if I sounded a bit skeptical, but I had not seen you other posts in the non plus thread before I posted, so it looked like *Poof* magical source code deposit lol. Looks pretty legit, I am sure other would still like to get their hands on source from the older Blu phones that are listed there as it seems to be all of them. Maybe consider creating a new thread with that link to the pdf with a title like Blu Kernel Source Code FTP Site if you haven't already and maybe we get some feedback on what is/is not working out of the box? Maybe someone can shed some light on what may be missing to compile our Kernel? Just a few thoughts, thanks for the contribution!

Edit: I am fairly certain that the differences between the XI and XI+ are not that much as far as software goes, from what I have noticed from what info is out there for the two phones so far.
[General Topics] psychofad:
Also, was doing a bit of reading and found this on a random github, not sure if it is helpful but the note the author had at the bottom caught my eye so figured it better to share just in case its helpful

https://github.com/SMTDDR/BLULifeOne/blob/master/README
[General Topics] psychofad:
Just a side note, I noticed we have the recovery-from-boot.p file on our phones, so from what I have read this will prevent permanent flashing of recovery until the file is renamed or removed. Not sure how this would affect fastboot boot recover.img if at all but thought I would share what I found from casual filesystem browsing using X-plore app (lets you have some access to root folders without root but limited)
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
Hi everyone,

I am Thanh from Vietnam

My friend in mobiistar provide me flashtool for mobiistar X, Blu Vivo XI clone, hope everyone can use this flashtool for backup Blu Vivo XI+ sw, it also have auth inside SignDA folder.

Please download SP_Flash_Tool_exe_Windows_v5.1812.00.000 I attached on link below

https://we.tl/t-AhQDCrnoK1
[General Topics] mrmazak:
YES!!!!!!

this worked.

Thank you

details to come if needed
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
It great!

So good for heard that, if it worked, pls help share the stock sw for everyone :)
[General Topics] mrmazak:
Of course I will, I needed to go to work though. Tonight will upload.

But I have the VIVO-XL4.

So I will detail the steps I used, so you can do same with vivo Xi
[General Topics] mrmazak:
Because I have different device, I will post the guides (keep on mind I do not like writing guides, so bear with me)

in the thread for BLU VIVO XL4

https://xdaforums.com/android/devel...u-vivo-xl4-t3877294/post78383140#post78383140
[General Topics] KingKelley:
This was shared to BLU Development Team on Google +. If this works (or if it doesnt) a BIG THANKS TO PsychoFab!!

1st off, I AM NOT A DEVELOPER OR GUIDE! I AM NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR YOUR DEVICE IF ANYTHING GOES WRONG! YOU ARE ENTERING AT YOUR OWN RISK!! IF YOU HAVE A CLUE AND YOU KNOW WHATS GOING ON PLEASE HELP THOSE WHO DONT AND REMEMBER NOT ALL HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE OF DEVELOPMENTS, ROOTING, OR ANYTHING OUTSIDE THE SPECTRUM!!! Thanks

BOOT AND RECOVERY IMAGES POSTED:

https://desktop.firmware.mobi/device:2011/firmware:18848

Downloadables:

Boot image: .IMG / .ZIP

Recovery image: .IMG / .ZIP

Boot + Recovery Images: .ZIP

CF-Auto-Root

If URL Link is not working you can also use these for downloads:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bJ92hctNEZqLSVBllxyA0TwViGow7efy/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YKZ2JBswdfZmSC_S9G6uq_jdzw8Ep4Qc/view?usp=drivesdk

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YO_XaMg5M1RIgAUVyDG-RkdrWmykA4vD/view?usp=drivesdk
[General Topics] KingKelley:
Pay no attention to the Old English T at the bottom!!

Lol I have no clue what I did there!!
[General Topics] psychofad:
yeah no problem lol, but really was a group effort and this is one of the three threads we collaborated on to get this far, I have zipped up my stock Rom and uploaded it to my Gdrive, Mr Mazak will be pulling a copy and hosting on his android file host account as I am sure the Gdrive isn't designed for long term sharing of this type of file. feel free to grab a copy, this is for the Blu Vivo XI+ (I have the 6Gb/128Gb version but it should be the same firmware as the Best Buy edition with less ram and space).

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1cFbnJtlviiApoQ36gcErAJ8nzBvP0pi5

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Also [MENTION=5210252]hanuma[/MENTION] posted TWRP for our device https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=78498431&postcount=95 I haven't tested it yet, but he made the one for Mr Mazak so I expect it will work as intended, as always, flash with caution, and download the stock rom in case anything goes south!;)

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Oh and before I forget, DM-Verity will overwrite recovery every time until it is disabled, so Magisk Root first, disable DM-Verity, then flash recovery to save yourself the headache of it all.
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
Can not open with SPFlashtool, the screen show this?
[General Topics] hanuma:
TWRP 3.2.3

Patched Boot

Firmware BLU_V0310WW_V8.1.04.04_GENERIC

Download

Install TWRP:

1. Copy to Micro SDCard the file "Magisk-v18.zip"/ "remove_encryption.zip"

2. Flash the "recovery.img"

3. Enter into TWRP and Install the patch "Magisk-v18.zip"

4. Install "remove_encryption"

5. "Format Data"

6. Reboot to the System
[General Topics] psychofad:
Yeah did not realize my scatter was broken, I have only been using Fastboot since I put root on here, but check out hanuma's post, it has a valid scatter and well, everything really, TWRP, pre-magisked boot, and all the files you need to make it work! Thanks hanuma for taking the time to put this all together in one place for us, you rock!:laugh::highfive::cool:
[General Topics] mrmazak:
Link copied.

https://androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=287703
[General Topics] hanuma:
These are different firmware!!!
[General Topics] mrmazak:
That was the firmware psychofad shared. I will have to verify the version then.

Do you also have Xi+ ?
[General Topics] psychofad:
yeah, not sure how he came up with all the img files, I used the same software and had those files, some of them are .bin, some have no extension, my scatter file is not correct tho, was unclear on the instructions on how it was finally generated and must have done something incorrectly ( I was very sleepy), I would really like to know the method used though to get such a pretty collection of img files and after he posted these files, I just didn't bother fixing my scatter yet because I need some direction in that I think.

Also not sure if the difference could be between 64Gb and 128Gb models, I have 128Gb

And where do you get the APDB files that he has?

I am all ears to anyone that is willing to help me learn, if it is a mistake on my end, where did I go wrong? So far I can tell you my boot image does in fact work as I have rooted it (well before his was posted) and I have extracted the system.img in one of the rom kitchen packs to toy around with some rom porting. Thanks
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
The flashtool have issue like this when flash, how to solve?
[General Topics] mrmazak:
i know on mine , I only had tried to flash after unlocking bootloader, which will disable verified boot.
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
U mean it need to unlock bootloader before flash?
[General Topics] mrmazak:
Yes, I did it two times(2 ways)

fastboot oem unlock
fastboot flashing unlock

and flashing all images, especially if not needed, is generally not good idea.

If bricked or something is different situation.

As most repair guides, suggest to not flash preloader. It offten leads to loosing IMEI
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
I have tried many times, the flashtool show error after flash md1img like photo below, if no flash this one, the phone hang on logo.
[General Topics] mrmazak:
How long does it hang?

It might be trying to redo encryption, that takes few minutes.

Also can you boot holding volume up, to get to boot menu. Select fastboot, try unlock again

Those are modem file.

md1img, md1dsp,md1arm7, md3img

For Android M, MD image have switched to MD standalone partition, all Modem images will be load from the partition: md1img, md1dsp, md1arm7 and md3img

Taken from

http://bbs.16rd.com/thread-271262-1-2.html
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
Still cannot work, the phone hang on logo more than 20 minutes and nothing happen
[General Topics] mrmazak:
Sorry,

before I go into some list of try this, try that stuff. Lets start with a simple question to you. Was your phone working before you flashed that stock backup?

If you can boot to boot menu, (hold volume up while turning on)

First try to boot recovery and do a reset.

If that does not help do these things:

Then -open to fastboot

- flash twrp

- boot to menu again

- open recovery

- flash magisk

If cannot get to boot menu.

- use sp flash tool

- flash patched boot.img
[General Topics] trevorsmailbox:
SIM Slot 2 Gone

Hi everyone. I've got a Blu Vivo Xi+ and received an OTA for a security patch dated December 5th (got the OTA push last night though). After updating (system update via settings - my wife just clicked it and didn't ask if she should first), it looks like it has completely removed sim slot 2 from every menu. I have two of these phones and on the one that I did not get the update from when I go to settings it shows 2 sim slots with 2 different IMEI numbers, on the one that DID get the update it now only shows sim slot 1 and IMEI 1. I can only use sim slot 2 (my sim card is tiny and only fits in slot 2, sim slot 1 is for the larger sim cards). Has anyone else had this problem or have any clue where I should start looking for a fix?

Android Security patch level - Dec 5th 2018

Baseband MOLY.LR12A.R3.MP.V22.1 2018/12/03 16:13

Kernel version 4.4.95

build number O11019

Customer Build version BLU_V0300VV_V8.1.05.05_GENERIC 03-12-2018 22:13

Hardware version P3.2

I'm new to the phone but not new to rooting and installing twrp and things like that. If anyone has any questions I should be able to answer them with no issue. I'm sorry if this is the wrong place to post this, if it is just let me know and I'll remove it. Thanks in advance.
[General Topics] keweminer:
I think this is a great place to post info on our phone. I started the thread, so I'm biased :D
[General Topics] tuantranpro:
I have follow your guide but nothing happen, maybe it need certificate file from BLU so that it can reflash the sw, using the backup one cannot flash back.