[Android General] micfogas:
I have this phone. Someone from assurance wireless came knocking on my door and I didn't like truconnect anymore. 😂

Anyway I searched and found your post. Bingo! Currently rooted.

Mine came with .18 on it and I had almost updated. I got mtk client working (used python mtk_gui) and backed up all partitions except the user data. Enabled dev mode. OEM unlocking. Went to the flash tab and did unlock bootloader. Installed magisk 26.1 on phone, adb pushed boot.bin to boot.img, patched file, adb pulled it, back into preloader, wrote the boot partition, don't know if it was necessary since I did a factory reset from the recovery menu, but I used mtk reset. I noticed that every time you use the cli mtk file you have to re enter preloader. Anyway, I did that, set it up, working great.

Now I want to remove the assurance wireless (T-Mobile lifeline mvno) subsidy lock, can mtkclient do that by erasing partitions like I've seen for some other phones? It's not a big deal right now and eventually it'll pass the auto unlock.

This is my first MediaTek root that worked. I have a Lenovo tab m8 tablet I tried it with before and didn't work but I didn't put much time into it. Was a few years back. Also I have a cloud stratus c7 which is also a mt6761 but the app I tried didn't work. But that was an on phone app. I'll have to try mtkclient with it.

Couple of questions. I used mtkgui and generated keys. No idea why or what I might use it for but I like to click things 😂 does it serve a purpose with this phone?

When I first ran the magisk patch install, after installing magisk 26.1 on the chilaca unrooted, there was a checkbox option for something about vbmeta in the boot image? I had checked it the first time but didn't use that image. But it doesn't show up anymore, so.. 🤷 should I have used that?

Lastly, is there a way around the bootup having to press power to boot the phone or it'll shut off? Untrusted device message.

I've done plenty of rooting and jailbreaking and hardware hacking tinkering and such, but I owned a couple Samsung Galaxy s5s, then s7 edge, s8, then went to pixels. Got a pixel 3xl and 6 pro and Google makes everything super easy. I know that on the pixel you get a warning message that goes away after a few seconds (or you can press power to pause/unpause the warning) when bootloader is unlocked. I haven't tried it yet myself but I'm also aware of the ability to sign a rooted boot image (pixels are a/b devices if that matters) and relock the phone with it. Would that work on the chilaca you think? I can give it a shot.

I'm about to do the update to .20 right now. I restored the image through magisk manager so it'll patch the it's fine, just gotta reboot. Bootloader will remain unlocked you said? I'll find out 😂

I'm gonna look into finding a kernel source for the mt6761 and see if I can't get a functional source tree up. Then it'd be nice to patch in sdk 32 (a13) pixel experience source tree will be useful for patch pulling guidance. Also I'm curious if twrp can be built, I started to read up on it and saw something about MediaTek and Qualcomm handling things very different, so we'll see.

Anyway thanks for the thread!!