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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Greyjoe:
This page https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient/blob/main/README.md has a full description of how to unlock bootloader and root

The only issues i had when following that guide was when it came to entering the commands in the GIT CMD window. for some reason after every command i had to disconnect my device then enter the command then plug tablet back in while holding vol up and vol down then disconnect after the command ran then plug it right in after entering the next one. Maybe it was the way i installed python or something not sure but i got it unlocked and rooted hopefully you all are just as successful.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Metconnect2000:
Anyone has any luck with sim unlock on this device?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ClintSan:
Hi all! It seems I'm a little late to the game here but I'm hoping somebody is still able to get notifications related to this post because I would absolutely be thrilled to be able to finally root this device! I've been keeping it put up, just hoping somebody out there was developing or working on it and ends up sharing the root or unlock and I'm so glad I checked today!

Firstly, to whomever ever put in all the hard work and no doubt loads of trial and error and found the root method, YOU ARE AWESOME!... BETTER THAN AWESOME ACTUALLY, YOU ARE EPIC! Way to go! If you happen to see my posts here, could I maybe bug you to also share it with me via email? I've been searching relentlessly for the firmware but I have only come across to seemingly safe firmwares and they are both linked to Google drive and both of them say that they're Max downloads have been reached and to try again after 24 hours :/

In case you don't mind sharing my email address is below. Thank you so much, and if anyone has a copy of the Joy tab 2 firmware, or nose a trustworthy site to get it from, would you please let me know? I would be very grateful to anyone that might have some helpful advice on that as well. Alternatively I think it's probably just the loader, the boot image maybe even the recovery image that I need to get a hold of because it's in a constant boot loop right now. Thanks to everyone participating in this form in this post and thank you for letting me chime in to request the software as well 😁
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] DerpyTails:
I tried to root with MTKClient using the LiveDVD option and after I flash Magisk's Patched Boot Image. It just Bootloops. Any suggestions?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Alain+:
Did you also try to flash patched vbmeta? Without this, you will most likely continue to get a bootloop.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Xedis2:
I know it's been some months but if you still happen to have that stock rom and scatter? Here's a drive link it can be uploaded to https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JaM2wfUZNTgPFFRJCqqoYv9KcKLx5Q7S?usp=sharing or can you email/share it with me? rahlxedis@gmail.com

Much Appreciated.

Xedis
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Python618:
I will happily take a look through the dusty catacombs. I don't remember trashing it so it's likely to turn up.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tofor:
You guys probably figured this out already but if you simply unlock the device using the carriers network unlock tool the option to unlock the bootloader will appear in the developers menu... iust throwing that bit of information out there.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Python618:
Oddly mine is forever old and the carrier unlock doesn't seem to work. But I've had the bootloader option in the dev settings since post # 1..
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tofor:
that is weird. the option was not there when i got the device.. first thing i did was try to root lol. but it appeared later after i did my network unlock... maybe it was added in a firmware update
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Google Geek:
I'm having a lot of issues with Alcatel tabs 1 and 2 the seamless updates is blocked by admin and Alcatel or T-Mobile swear there not doing it.liars..liars..liars I'm with you on rooting..sorry I'm just learning n can't help you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Google Geek:
If you have plastic card the sim came on it has the PUK code on it.i unlocked all mine myself cause metro couldn't after stalling me 3 mo
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Google Geek:
Having similar issues my first tab won't update it's Sept 2021 my other 2 are current as of 2023 but seamless updates is blocked by admin and no one will own up to it.but all major apps are current just not android system..I'm sooo mad.i even unlocked them myself.im a determined man....
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Google Geek:
I'm going thru it to.i used a app Device info n read thru the activities of certain apps and B part of a b system updates is blocked by admin so that's what you need to correct..I'm still at it too.im gonna use computer n flash the darn thing I been at this a long long time I'm over it but I'm not wasting my money. Shame on alcatel
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Python618:
What's this??? Another madman in our presence?? Welcome aboard GEEK and let me know anything I can do to help.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NaruHaxor:
Do you still have that backup or at least access to the tablet
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] NaruHaxor:
i could use some help trying to recover a tablet from a bad update PRELOADER IS STILL INTACT bowever all partitions are GONE
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Python618:
Here's that. Sorry for the delay. If it has trouble uploading here I can shoot it to you via email.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffix420:
Could you send a copy of this to graffix.420@gmail.com? I have one of these that I accidentally deleted everything on a while ago, and it's been sitting in the box forever. Thanks!
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffix420:
Could you reupload this please?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] TheUndermind:
Anyone trying to bypass the google auth, Follow this guide.

Remove FRP Alcatel Joy Tab 2 Bypass Previous Account Android 10

Remove FRP Alcatel Joy Tab 2 Android with the help of changing language, and add few keyboards by following below steps, afterwards, we will be able to

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffix420:
I would really like a dump of this, I have my dump, and after spending the entire day today, I still can't get it working. I did manage to get the screen to turn on by pushing a preloader image from another version, and even unlock the bootloader. Now, however, I can't get it to turn on at all, I've created a scatter file for it, and restored my images from my original dump, still no love. I think I may have borked my preloader?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Tofor:
My advice when it comes down to this. If you got the screen to turn on after restoring one of the devices preloaders then it was probably the correct preloader to be using. Try formatting the entire storage again and flash only that preloader. If it worked before then it should work again to get the screen to turn on. If it does then your next step would be to look up the information on that preloader and check to see what the latest version of ROM it is used with for your device. I have seen MTK use a different preloader for a newer version of android on the same device before. If you were to flash a ROM that is not compatible with that preloader then you would get the same result you have now... same thing if you were to flash a bootloader that is not compatible with the preloader... MTK devices can be the easiest to recover from a brick but also the hardest... they are touchy sometimes... I have 2 different ONN Walmart tablets that are at the same spot you are. One won't do anything like yours. And the other changes it's preloader in an OTA update and I can get it to turn on but no matter what I flash to it in regards to the available firmwares we have on XDA, I have not been able to get it to boot up into anything but the stock recovery and fastboot which are glitchy and it reboots randomly... however I also have a Lenovo tab 8 that I have been able to re-flash a million times over and fix without any issues and no matter how bad I screw it up... When it comes to MTK. I wouldn't even attempt to root one unless you have an official stock firmware for it and you know the exact version of SPFT it is designed to use. They are in my book as a pain in my a**.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] graffix420:
Thanks for the reply, these particular devices seem to be really finicky, to say the least lol. I've had this thing in a box for two years or so. I bricked it when I first got it, and, even though I had unlocked the bootloader, and had a backup of everything except the preloader, I was unable to get any response from it. I even created a scatter file for it at this time, no luck.

Fast forward to a few days ago, I was on a little sprint unbricking stuff I had laying around for ages, I had gotten lucky on a few devices, and decided to dig out this tablet and give it another go. I remembered that I could always get a response via USB, so why not? I used mtk client to push the preloader that I found in this thread. and, astonishingly, it turned on! This was, however, short lived. I formatted everything and attempted to restore the full dump again. No success. The screen, was now back to completely black as well. I tried to push the preloader again, no display, nothing. I've always been baffled that I can have a full backup of this device, and no way to restore that backup.

Luckily, in my backup, I had an unlocked seccfg. I kept getting security errors in MTKdroidTools, I found that if I first flashed my unlocked seccfg, using mtk client and passing the --preloader=(preloadername) variable, that I could then use MTKdroidTools without any protection.

So that's what I did, I restored my complete backup, from two years ago, with a 32gb userdata partition. it took forever, but it worked!! Booted up with the "orange mode" warning or whatever, then booted straight to where I took the backup from. AFAIK it's fully functional, but, due to fully formatting it during my recovery efforts, I don't think cellular works, but I'm not entirely sure, as I don't have a sim that's working on the network it's from.

I've tried several avenues to produce a working TWRP for this device, but have thus far been unsuccesful.

TLDR: If you're having a problem recovering this device with a full backup, first restore seccfg using mtk client, then restore the full backup with MTKdroidTools.

EDIT** If anyone else comes across this thread and needs my firmware dump, message me, I'll send it to you.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macs18max:
Did anyone manage to root or get twrp working?

I just got a 2 of these junk..

Edit: Ok. Got rooted with bkerler's MtkClient
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] macs18max:
OK after two days of struggle, manage to compile and boot twrp.

### Not working

* Reading/Writing Internal data storage (encryption / decryption garbled text issue)

### Working

* Display

* Touchscreen

* Sdcard - External Storage (Read/Write)

* USB OTG (Read/Write)

* USB MTP (Read/write on Sdcard works. Internal storage will open but appear garbled due to encryption issue)

* Mounting/Reading of System, Vendor and Product partitions

* ADB for debugging

* Battery percentage display

* CPU temp display

* Screen timeout

### Untested

* Installation of roms/kernel/magisk

* Backup / Restore

After successful root using mtkclient, I manage to flash twrp recovery using mtkclient.

Attaching the twrp recovery here.

If you are trying this plz, plz, plz do a full dump of your firmware using mtkclient using command.

Note: may require 32GB of disk space for dumpling all partition on your PC

I am not responsible for any brick, data losses, damages.

Another note: the kernel and libs used in twrp are still of the older firmware 1C74UM40

Sources are here if anybody want to fix data encryption | other stuff

GitHub - maniacx/android_device_alcatel_apollo84gtmo

Contribute to maniacx/android_device_alcatel_apollo84gtmo development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mushbox:
0cool.mp4

drive.google.com
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BroJac5246:
Any updates on Magisk or custom ROM compatibility?
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
I am not sure if you guys know that you can now connect to WiFi and get better phone service. These new phones are called WiFi phones.

I was just wondering if there is a way to get the Dash to be a WiFi phone because I tend to get poor service in my area. Thank you.
[HTC Excalibur] swaney:
wat do u mean wifi phones
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Like phones that are able to connect to wifi and speak over wifi, for example instead of connecting to a tower you can connect to your wireless router and the router will act as a tower.
[HTC Excalibur] gixxum:
isnt that just SIP? like VIOP? is that what you are talking about?
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Looks very similar to the post i was going to leave earlier but phone crashed.

Even the ? ? ? :D
[HTC Excalibur] swaney:
oh i never heard of it.. lik maybe if theres a way ill check it out
[HTC Excalibur] pfunkside:
Swaney no offense dude but you are a bozo! I'm contributing to the fact by posting this but I have to enlighten you. Do me a favor and look at your last 10-12 posts and ask yourself if any of them are relevant or helpful. Instead of adding more work to the mods just think about what your posting please. Your killing me brother.
[HTC Excalibur] swaney:
man w.e thanks for the tip i guess... but ill lay off cuz you are right
[HTC Excalibur] goraps:
Rogers here in Canada offers it on certain phones. They call it Talkspot. You can use your cell phone normally but then when at home you use your wifi network to make and take calls that don't count against you minutes. currently here it is only compatable with 2 phones. BB Pearl and Nokia 6086. You could also just use somthing like Skype on you phone.
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
3 do one via Skype http://www.three.co.uk/personal/products_services_/skype_phone.omp

BT do it that allows you to have an internet no. and if @ connected via a HUB\Router you can recieve and make calls via internet, the only problem is can't use it with WM6.1 since the software is not compatable.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Yah I know the Pearl does it because I work at tmobile, but what I was mainly wondering was if there was like a third party application program that would allow the dash to do it since it already has the wifi built in...
[HTC Excalibur] stylez:
Yes Skype, Fring and numerous others.

This may prove interesting? http://www.avecmobile.com/index.php?id=900

The BT one mentioned earlier is for Dash.
[HTC Excalibur] RussianSolja:
no there aint a way...

i know exactly what your talking about and to answer your question no you cant use the dash as a wifi phone t-mobile offers that service here in NYC where i live its called "T-Mobile Hotspot@Home" ive had that service setup at my house. they send you a router and a phone and you pretty much use use your cell phone like a house phone with unlimited call to anywhere in the USA and Canada for a flat rate of 20 dollors a month. its like you said you use your mobile phone to connect to your router via wifi and you get good signal strength and you can take your phone to any Hotspot places (e.x Starbucks) and use your phone. but your limited to how far you can walk away from your router. anyways make a long story short.. when i was ordering the service they asked me what kinda phone i would like and they offered me some crappy Nokia flip phone and offered me the blackberry curve. i told them well i have the TMO dash that can also run on wifi and they told me the dash cant be used as a wifi phone i was pretty much pissed cause i had to pay for a new phone. well sorry for the long story but no the dash was not built to be used for that.
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Yah thats true, well hopefully someone might come up with a program that will allow you to do that... never know...
[HTC Excalibur] RussianSolja:
i know you got your hopes up...

but it will never happen. i believe its more hardware then it is software so pretty much its gotta be built into the dash motherboard then again i can be wrong.
[HTC Excalibur] Do0zman:
It would be nice if we can get skype on 6.1
[HTC Excalibur] spikey911:
LOL, just install it.... I did
[HTC Excalibur] RussianSolja:
yeah i also got skype installed
[HTC Excalibur] jdoggraz:
Ummm so the skype works on the new 6.1 rom. I thought that it did not work.
[HTC Excalibur] RussianSolja:
yeah works just fine... u need help locating the file? if so let me know ill PM u the link
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] oae08:
So before getting a samsung and the s21u i was using huawei and in the huawei calendar app they had some nice feature where when you clicked on any date it would write how many days from today . I didn't find such thing on the samsung calendar. Is there any way to get such a calendar app or one that has similar feature since im so accustomed to it.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] oae08:
Bump////\\\\
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] derekdauzat:
i have 2 different sets of bluetooth headphones over the neck.. one is bluetooth 4.2 other is 5.0 evertime i go to use them its at 50% volume.. i have checked and recheck ever setting pertaining to volume audio and bluetooth. 🤷🤦
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Sonin66:
It's to protect what ever your connect to. Have you turned on your car and your radio is still atthe volume you left the car previously at and it scared the crap out of you?! Having it set at 50% saves both speakers and your ears.
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Sukrith:
There's a thing in android nowadays where it'll learn the volume preference per device you connect and next time you connect also it'll start from there! I don't have this problem for my car and I've not noticed on my earphones as well... When my phone is connected to the car, it's at 100% always!
[Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra] Maddmatt:
You could use Bixby Routines to set a pre-defined volume level when you connect to specific devices, as well as any other changes you'd want.

I have it max-out the volume when it connects to my car, since the car has separate volume control.
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] NullBat4:
Hello, how are you? I would like someone to tell me how to install TWRP on my Samsung Galaxy A21S (A217M), and if you are kind enough to pass me the download links and the installation step by step, thank you very much and I await your response!
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] thatha:
Twrp is not working until now for A21S
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] Mrinmoy purkait:
Please send Samsung a21s stock rom
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] oli231:
Download Galaxy A21s SM-A217F (XEO) A217FXXS7CUL2 in Samfw - Samsung firmware download

Galaxy A21s SM-A217F (XEO - Poland) A217FXXS7CUL2 R(Android 11) samsung firmware download all model, lastest, fast update, completely free and fast speed in Samfw.com ✅

samfw.com
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] HippieT32:
Hello i was needing the stock firmware to my s21 SM-A215U A215USQS6BUL1 TMK im actually try to downgrade it for android 11 to android 10 and if possible put TWRP on it if anyone could help me out i would really appreciate it thank you
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] thatha:
You can't downgrade. You can downgrade only if your phone firmwares android 11 & android 10 have the same binary. You can visit here to find firmwares: https://samfw.com/
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] m_sami9:
Dear,

I forgotten the pattern lock of samsung a21s, please help me
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] V0latyle:
QUESTIONS do not belong in DEVELOPMENT forums.

Thread moved.
[Samsung Galaxy A21s Questions & Answers] ElyasAbdulhadi:
Check out my thread to install custom recovery and roms in the guides section for a21s!
[Google Pixel 4a 5G Questions & Answers] JohnLynchSF:
Since the Feb update, the 4A 5G works on standalone 5G (which doesn't require a simultanous LTE connection). For many place, on T-Mobile, that is 600Mhz for SA 5G which gives better signals inside buildings.

But I've noticed that outside, in areas with low signal for 5G, I get really poor connections, but if I go into settings and switch the preferred network ttpe to LTE from 5G, I have no problems.

Has anyone else noticed similar problems where the phone becomes unusable on 5G and won't switch to LTE?

You can tell if you are on SA 5G if you go Settings->About Phone->SIM Status and you'll see "NR SA" for Mobile voice network type and mobile data network type (see attached JPEG). (if you are on "non-standalone" 5G those will probably say LTE and "NR NSA".

I am wondering if the sensitivity for switching from SA 5G to LTE isn't set correctly - hopefully they will fix this since it's annoying to have to manually switch things (and impossible to do that if driving).
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Questions & Answers] thenetvines:
I miss my Note 8 so much; this Note 10 plus seems to be an annoyance. On my Note 8 non rooted, I used to be able to:

Double tap to wake directly into Home screen, the double tap made it hard to accidentally wake the phone inside my pockets.

I used to be able to avoid fingerprint features, and awful password management by Samsung, which forces me to use fingerprints reading that are very dodgy, and annoying. I loved that my Note 8 used Google to manage my passwords super easy.

Is there any way to bring these features back into my Note 10 Plus? SM-N975U

Thanks for any help in advance.
[Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Questions & Answers] demize!:
I hear you and it doesn't seem to make sense. The best recommendation I can give you is trying gravity screen, which may or may not relieve some of your frustration. I agree that removing this ability was stupid af.
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] dhodgson1980:
Hi All,

I have just got a HTC Touch Diamond on T-Mobile UK (MDA Compact IV). Obviously in the true fashion of Network Providers the Standard HTC User Interface as been replaced with a ghastly looking one customised by the network.

What I would now like to do is replace this with the user interface HTC designed to go with the phone.

Does anyone know where I can get this interface?

Kind Regards
[Touch Diamond, MDA Compact IV General] Mar'Cel:
The search function should help you a lot.

But here some possibilities:

1. Update your ROM to the newest one from HTC. (Loss of guarantee)

2. Use Diamond TF3D Config and download the black HTC theme (that should be what you are looking for) So you keep your warranty!
[Xiaomi 6X (Wayne) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] afonso14401:
For me, this is the best looking rom. Well organized and will test the rom and will report here if there's a bug. It has a good chance for my daily driver 😁
[Xiaomi 6X (Wayne) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] afonso14401:
Can you fix night light please?
[Xiaomi 6X (Wayne) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Flower Sea:
Is this maintained by you?

View attachment 5310055
[Xiaomi 6X (Wayne) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Mkdablu:
1- can you fix Bluetooth audio problem ,when bluetooth device connected to phone calling ringtone not ringing , this problem also i mantioned on telegram group but no one response .

2- Another problem i'm facing blur in lockscreen when notification panel draged its also blured.

3- ui sometime lagging and not proper mature.
[Xiaomi 6X (Wayne) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] afonso14401:
The download link is the old one. Please update it so new people don't think you are mocking with them XD
[Xiaomi 6X (Wayne) ROMs, Kernels, Recoveries, & Oth] Wasiur Shah:
can't install anything in TWRP after flashing the ROM

is there any fix for this problem?