[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] unrootablebastard:
Howdy everybody. I got this phone yesterday. If you look it up right now, at this very second, you will see a plethora of guides and instructions that supposedly tell you how to flash the A6L.

They are all wrong. 100% of them. They are all cap, no brim anywhere in sight.

Some of them reference the one-click apps of yesteryear, so naturally none of those work.

One says grab the firmware file from Hisense and simply extract the boot.img and load it up in Magisk. Well, that's kinda impossible because Hisense's firmware is meant to be plopped on the SD card and is split between two eparate bin files. Conjoining them doesn't siolve this issue either. On top of this, some just mention to "find it online" but it's literally *nowhere online*

Even when it comes to just unlocking the bootloader there are problems. Running "fastboot flashing unlock" it returns the error FAILED (remote: 'Unlock is not allowed!') even if you have OEM unlocking and USB debuygging enabled on the phone.

I'm so lost. I have no idea how these articles and blog posts exist and yet, none of them are...true? There's not a single mention anywhere like, "hey, this actually doesn't work at all" it's just bot comments and random characters mashed next to other ones.

Does anyone have any ideas at how to root this phone -- the A6L, not the A6?

fake edit: I saw someone in another thread ask for the output of fastboot getvar all so here's that. Maybe it'll aid in finally getting some solution towards how to root this thing.

(bootloader) hw-revision:10000
(bootloader) unlocked:no
(bootloader) off-mode-charge:0
(bootloader) charger-screen-enabled:0
(bootloader) battery-soc-ok:yes
(bootloader) battery-voltage:4356
(bootloader) version-baseband:
(bootloader) version-bootloader:
(bootloader) erase-block-size: 0x200
(bootloader) logical-block-size: 0x200
(bootloader) variant:SDM EMMC
(bootloader) partition-type:grow:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:grow: 0x1400
(bootloader) partition-type:userdata:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:userdata: 0x1AB2CFA800
(bootloader) partition-type:reserve2:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:reserve2: 0x40000000
(bootloader) partition-type:databackup:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:databackup: 0x3200000
(bootloader) partition-type:rawdump:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:rawdump: 0x8000000
(bootloader) partition-type:sti:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:sti: 0x200000
(bootloader) partition-type:logdump:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:logdump: 0x4000000
(bootloader) partition-type:kdebuginfo:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:kdebuginfo: 0xC800000
(bootloader) partition-type:phonelog:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:phonelog: 0x6400000
(bootloader) partition-type:frp:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:frp: 0x80000
(bootloader) partition-type:devcfg:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:devcfg: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:keystore:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:keystore: 0x80000
(bootloader) partition-type:misc:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:misc: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:persist:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:persist: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-type:cache:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:cache: 0x10000000
(bootloader) partition-type:vendor:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:vendor: 0x44C00000
(bootloader) partition-type:system:ext4
(bootloader) partition-size:system: 0x180000000
(bootloader) partition-type:dtbo:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:dtbo: 0x800000
(bootloader) partition-type:reserve:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:reserve: 0xA00000
(bootloader) partition-type:metadata:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:metadata: 0xA00000
(bootloader) partition-type:prospecfg:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:prospecfg: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:logo:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:logo: 0x6400000
(bootloader) partition-type:kdebug:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:kdebug: 0x6400000
(bootloader) partition-type:diag:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:diag: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:flag:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:flag: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:modemst2:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:modemst2: 0x200000
(bootloader) partition-type:modemst1:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:modemst1: 0x200000
(bootloader) partition-type:ssd:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:ssd: 0x2000
(bootloader) partition-type:fsc:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:fsc: 0x400
(bootloader) partition-type:recovery:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:recovery: 0x4000000
(bootloader) partition-type:boot:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:boot: 0x4000000
(bootloader) partition-type:logfs:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:logfs: 0x800000
(bootloader) partition-type:vbmeta:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:vbmeta: 0x10000
(bootloader) partition-type:storsec:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:storsec: 0x20000
(bootloader) partition-type:bluetooth:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:bluetooth: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:sec:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:sec: 0x4000
(bootloader) partition-type:ddr:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:ddr: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:toolsfv:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:toolsfv: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:limits:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:limits: 0x1000
(bootloader) partition-type:splash:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:splash: 0x20A4000
(bootloader) partition-type:dpo:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:dpo: 0x400
(bootloader) partition-type:msadp:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:msadp: 0x40000
(bootloader) partition-type:apdp:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:apdp: 0x40000
(bootloader) partition-type:devinfo:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:devinfo: 0x1000
(bootloader) partition-type:dip:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:dip: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:abl:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:abl: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:dsp:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:dsp: 0x1000000
(bootloader) partition-type:modem:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:modem: 0x6E00000
(bootloader) partition-type:mdtp:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:mdtp: 0x2000000
(bootloader) partition-type:mdtpsecapp:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:mdtpsecapp: 0x400000
(bootloader) partition-type:cmnlib64:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:cmnlib64: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:cmnlib:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:cmnlib: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:keymaster:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:keymaster: 0x100000
(bootloader) partition-type:fsg:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:fsg: 0x200000
(bootloader) partition-type:pmic:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:pmic: 0x80000
(bootloader) partition-type:hyp:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:hyp: 0x80000
(bootloader) partition-type:rpm:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:rpm: 0x80000
(bootloader) partition-type:tz:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:tz: 0x400000
(bootloader) partition-type:xbl:raw
(bootloader) partition-size:xbl: 0x380000
(bootloader) secure:yes
(bootloader) serialno:9c2b9
(bootloader) product:sdm660
(bootloader) max-download-size:536870912
(bootloader) kernel:uefi
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