yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] helpsulaiman:
https://cdnorg.d.miui.com/OS1.0.1.0.TKEMIXM/fleur_global_images_OS1.0.1.0.TKEMIXM_20240220.0000.00_13.0_global_b7004d72a7.tgz
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] _skill.04_:
I want to ask do I need to unlock again or I skip that part. When I try to unlock, this happens

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[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] helpsulaiman:
Haven't you already unlocked? You don't need to do this step. Also how are you rooting? Just flash the patched boot.img through fastboot.
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] _skill.04_:
Im doing right now but there is this thing I cannot figure out why. I put the mp.img in the platform tool locations file, and I also try to patch it by paste the link but it just said this.

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[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] helpsulaiman:
this is not how you root.... This is how you do it.
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] _skill.04_:
yeah I already did that part, I put the boot.img into magisk and get the file. I just name it into mp so that its easier for me. However, when I try to flash, it just pops up that thing.
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] _skill.04_:
oh nvm, I think I find the problem, my command is wrong
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] helpsulaiman:
the command you're using to flash is wrong. its "fastboot flash boot mp.img"

To make sure you flash both slots, use "fastboot flash boot_a mp.img" and "fastboot flash boot_b mp.img"
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] _skill.04_:
ok thank you. It's working. Sorry for bothering this much time
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] helpsulaiman:
No worries mate. Is your wifi and network working now?
[Redmi Note 11S 4G / POCO M4 Pro 4G (fleur)] _skill.04_:
Yes, it works normally now
[OnePlus 12] easyrider77:
So as the title states it a na us variant.

Backstory:

I JUST bought this thing and 2nd day I rooted it with success. I got all the modules and apps and such working great, I was happy.

So day 3 I decide I'd tray a gsi ROM, why not right what can it hurt? Yeah boy was I wrong!!

So part of that day I tried getting it unbricked and working like normal, possibly getting stock ROM back on, but had no luck

Today I spent from roughly 10am - 9pm working on it with someone helping me more experienced than I was with more in depth rooting, and all I accomplished was getting a bootloop. We had it in a state where I could get to fasbootd (not fastboot) and flashed and just made it worse.

So now I'm at a state where I can't get into fastbootd, nor recovery at all, all I can get into is fastboot. Anything else just sends me to a bootloop from the "your unlocked" boot screen then reboots.

If I go to fastboot and type fastboot reboot recovery, or fastboot reboot fastboot which then is suppose to boot to fastbootd, all those commands do is restart and the bootloop starts again. I've looked tirelessly at a lot of tutorials and tried them but sadly it didn't fix anything just made matters worse.

There is no stock firmware img file to use to flash, at least not that I've found yet. Everything I've seen and have are stock firmware ota zip files.

I'm not sure exactly what I screwed up at this point because of all the things I've tried to fix it, so couldn't begin to tell you what is what right now. All I know is I could desperately use some help

I am not exactly new to root, I've done it before but I am definatly not an experienced vet at it either, far from it. I probably know just enough to get me in trouble like I am currently.

I have 2 stock firmware ota zip files, nd inside those zip files are just the files, like meta folder build.prop and etc....no img flashable files foemfastboot at all. I also have ADB updated and installed as well as USB drivers so that's all covered. I obviously know some commands because I got this far, albeit it is not where I'd like to be right now.

So my ears and eyes are open for suggestions, maybe some of the seasoned rooters could help a semi newb out. I use newb because I'd not be in this mess if I were more experienced.

In the words of princess Lea, "help me ob1 your my only hope.

I really like this phone and would love to get it in working order again, but I'm losing hope of any fix. Perhaps I'm past the point of fixing it, even though it's soft bricked, is that a thing being soft bricked and not being able to fix it? I dunno.

Hard ROUGH lesson to learn bricking a $699 phone the 3rd day and not being able to fix it, but lesson learned none the less.

Sorry for my ranting I'll leave it here in hopes someone can help me out.
[OnePlus 12] flandolf:
Ask mvikrant97 here for help as a last straw.

There are firmware images that you can download, I have them in my COS to OOS thread here

I'm not sure how you've managed to brick fastbootd. What partitions have you flashed?
[OnePlus 12] ToruTora:
Fastboot > unbrick tool >Stock Firmware- Region Change > Convert Global> Downgrade-OP12

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This may be able to help. I was stuck in a similar situation and saw the fast boot screen and it stayed there.

And i just got it today as well, a heart attack and a fix in less then a few hrs.
[OnePlus 12] easyrider77:
Treied that with no luck

I am not sure either, but....I happened to get fastbootd back now.

My progress thus far is now I don't have a bootloop but I have a boot to nag screen, then the screen goes black and nothing. So progress? I dunno, sorta maybe since I got fastbootd back, but not so much now since I went from bootloop to back screen LOL
[OnePlus 12] flandolf:
Well since you have fastbootd, you should download the NA firmware from my thread here

and also download my flash pack and follow the guide to hopefully get your device back, my DMs are open if you need any further help.
[OnePlus 12] easyrider77:
I did that. There are 2 flash packs, one thats an exe and one that is a bat file. I tried both, they didn't work
[OnePlus 12] flandolf:
What could you have possibly done to your device lmao, did my bat file run correctly?
[OnePlus 12] easyrider77:
Yep it did. It failed on some of the bigballs folder but ignored the errors.

And yeah I'd like to know myself ROFL!!

Hey, as I heard denzel washington say once, if your gonna fail, fail big..........well I took it to heart because I failed BIG on this one ROFLMA!

So yeah i've currently tried every method out there and still no luck.

I'm on disscord and ya feel like helping send me a pm I'll give ya the channels I'm andwecan pm there.......should you decide to accept this mission.....this message will self desturct, like my phone LOL
[OnePlus 12] flandolf:
Yeah hit me up, usernames flandolf on discord.
[OnePlus 12] easyrider77:
So what server? We have to be in the same chat I think to do pm
[OnePlus 12] flandolf:
sure
[OnePlus 12] easyrider77:
What server are you on and what chat? discord doesn't have a person find feature, so need the server info to joind the server as well as the chat your currently in
[OnePlus 12] UshieKane:
easyrider77 and I am hanging out in the [ReVanced general voice chat](https://discord.gg/93f6UhAT) if you'd like to want to join @flandolf, trying to help but not much experience on my side​
[OnePlus 12] flandolf:
You can send a friend request to me at flandolf, If not, I'm in the realme discord and I'm an admin so it should be easy to find
[OnePlus 12] Canuck Knarf:
Just remember if still can get to fastboot...not all lost don't need to edl
[OnePlus 12] Bhargav97:
Sounds good! Also, it might be helpful to share with the community the root cause of your problem (eg. Why wasn't flashing in fastbootd working?) and how you managed to fix it, for someone else's future reference :)
[OnePlus 12] flandolf:
He was trying out a GSI, and flashed the image to the entire super partition, breaking it.

I tried to rebuild the super partition along with a few others, but it didn't work, a solution would be manually creating a super.img with all the logical partitions, but that would require Linux and a lot of time. Would've been easier to pay the $3.5 for the EDL flash.

What you can do to prevent this is to:

1. Once rooted, backup ALL partitions - Either through TWRP or using dd if=/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/partition of=partition.img on a root shell.

2. Don't do silly things :)
[OnePlus 12] Ajudia:
I have been trying to flash gsi from day one but this is my first op so i am learning and improving further,

my exp:

for gsi flashing you need to get space,

you can not touch other partition otherwise no booting,

open FastbootEnhance.exe choose boot fastbootD you have to delet cow partitions larger like cow_my_bigball_ a or b, cow_system_ext a or b cow_ larger , or even bigball without cow.

for returning to stock , you will get error that certain partition are not available so open FastbootEnhance.exe reboot to fastbootd and create non available logical partition 0 space,

now return to flash to stock you will not get error and phone will be back to stock,

now whoever facing network in gsi or after gsi in stock, goto settings reset network of both sims,

dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose network mode you required, reboot,

after so many try and efforts i have gave up gsi as lots of restrictions put by op for gsi,

back to stock and debloated some 180 apps through shizuku and canta.
[OnePlus 12] easyrider77:
Oh come on, I can't do silly things? Where's the fun in that! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

Yes, we had like 4-5 people working on trying to get it fixed.

You're correct, it would have been faster to EDL, would have saved be 2 days of headaches lol.

I will say though, I have refreshed my root days info again, as well as learned stuff and still learning, thanks to you and others being patient enough to teach me while I learn more stuff. Helps so you all don't have to babysit be next time.

Not the most ideal way to learn stuff, but yeah 🤷😋

I will be putting twrp on today, and hope it works. Last time it stalled at twrp logo, so had to reboot. Probably due to me hosing my recovery and couldn't get the correct recovery.img file to flash, but I have it now so it's all good.

I'll try and remember to come here and post results of success or not.
[OnePlus 12] binary**#:
hey mate, could you shed some light on how exactly could we create non-available logical partition 0 space? Thanks.
[OnePlus 12] binary**#:
I guess executing this command in the FastbootD Mode should get the job done as well: fastboot create-logical-partition partition_name 0
[OnePlus 12] Ajudia:
yes it should be but i could not do in cmd.

if you cant unbrick by tools as well as non available partition were not replaced.

i was doing some experiments than found we can do create partition(error found in unbricking flash part) were in fastboot enhance tool by clicking it and next menu create logical partition size 0 one by one, than run again fastboot enhance or other cmd based unbrick tools, it unbrick successful
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] plylerdc16:
Is straight Talk TCL ion 5 it has no bootloader no recovery mode and I can't find root nowhere I didn't try kingo
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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thorinodinswolf:
Oswald greetings I have been searching the site and this is the only thread that mentions this particular phone and I am in the same boat. This TracFone being my secondary phone being for my "hobby/other job". I want it rooted but am curious if it's even possible. If you come across anything let me know or anyone else for that matter. My email is theonlysolutionsrcreative@gmail.com Thank you
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Machiia:
Ayo so as of this, I believe in my research that I am typing from this very phone now. There "Is always a way" 😄.

I have become too lazy to continue my work so here is what I know, that is in plain English:

- The TCL Ion V does respond to amd,

- The TCL Ion V gets "system updates" from Android or Google I suppose

- The folder location for this must be sleuthed out, if you know Linux folder searching then it will be like this.

- Replace said folder with your own android root without the bloat or just make the bloat folders epicly more suitable to your tastes.

- Check out the Chinese, in communism some chink might have found armor. Mediatek exploit maybe?

- Use apks to work inside out like a tapeworm your mother probably has right now after birthing such a drain on life force. Like termux maybe?

By the way rooting your TCL Ion V is good for like duplicating exact copies so until a program is made for this to be faster than searching for the Holy Grail then you might be better off doing software changes using the application glitches and exploits that we all know you have in every phone if you say... Are able to disable Google first and all the system updates... Maybe you can manage this... I hope you can do this... I believe e ve?

For instance, like use a firewall app to remove WiFi ability to Google services and never once add an account to the firmware.

If I posted all the exploits, how the hell would they still exist?

Also for duping androids regardless of "version" you may consider just bluetoothing apks folders stock with "essentials" and boom crack slam = less time than asking for root if you are stuck in Nevada with bilbo the clown 🤡 asking for a innie or outie.

Just some thoughts.

Thank you for your time! 👍
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
Just unlocked the bootloader now, on my Windows 11 machine. Here's a writeup how to do so. This will PROBABLY WORK with other TCL phones, but no guarantees. You will need a Windows PC to do this.

1) Ensure you have Developer Options on, and you checked the Allow Bootloader Unlock box in the dev options, then unplug the phone and power it off

2) Download and install the MediaTek drivers for Windows (unzip the attached ZIP and run the Driver Installer 1632 setup). You will need to reboot your computer afterwards.

I should note too, I don't know the origins of these drivers or the tool. Run these with caution, and at your own risk. I didn't notice any adverse side effects on my own computer after running it but you should still be cautious.

3) Download the MTK Boot Mode Selector tool (also in the zip)

4) Start the boot mode selector tool, ensure it's on fastboot, and click the button to run it. You might want to unplug all other phones from your computer as well if you have others plugged in

5) With your phone off, plug it into your PC

6) In a few seconds your phone will boot to Fastboot

7) Go into your ADB/Fastboot prompt on your Windows PC and run a "fastboot flashing unlock" command to unlock the bootloader

8) I did a fastboot erase userdata afterwards as well and then rebooted the phone

Thank you PizzaG on Telegram for sharing this tool with me. He's a part of the A-Team Digital Solutions group, go check them out HERE.

Thank you as well to the mVirus Team for developing this tool.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
EDIT: I got dumps of the stock images. See post below. Deleted this post as it's no longer necessary.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] luridphantom:
if you dont trust a shady exe heres a cmd line tool that does the exact same thing with more steps

Alcatel TCL A502DL/A501DL root/custom recovery/custom roms?

Is there any way to get root/custom recovery/custom roms on the A502DL or A501DL? If so, how?

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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
Uploading stock firmware dumps that I acquired by using DSU Sideloader to load a pre rooted GSI temporarily onto my device. These firmware dumps are for firmware UHB9 which is the latest as of initially posting this message.

The GSI I used is AndyYan's Lineage 20, arm64, bvS: https://sourceforge.net/projects/andyyan-gsi/files/lineage-20-td/

Heads up, the System image is 3GB uncompressed and the Super image is 8GB uncompressed. Holy crap.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
Okay well I just bricked my TCL Ion V by trying to flash a GSI the incorrect way, and flashing back the stock system partition didnt seem to work. Oops. It was fun while it lasted I guess.

EDIT: My phone is working again. Let me outline the steps I took to fix it, in case one of you guys soft bricks your phone with a bad GSI as well.

fastboot flash super super.img

fastboot flash product product.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta vbmeta.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vendor vendor.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vendor_boot vendor_boot.img

fastboot erase userdata

fastboot -w

fastboot reboot
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
Just flashed the Lineage 20 GSI linked above to my phone permanently. Lineage-TD 21 also worked. With some fiddling in the phh treble settings and installing MTK IMS, everything seems to work EXCEPT LTE Data. This is a known issue and has been reported on the phh treble github.

If you want to flash a GSI here are the steps I took:

(If you've never done these steps, OR you overwrote the partitions below with non-verity-disable partitions, do these steps. Otherwise you can safely skip to the next block of commands)

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta vbmeta.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vendor vendor.img

fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vendor_boot vendor_boot.img

fastboot flash system gsi.img

fastboot reboot recovery

once in recovery do a factory reset and then reboot to OS

first boot will take a really long time, as long as it's not bootlooping just leave it go
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
I'm currently running THIS TOOL to try and automate the TWRP device tree creation process. TWRP device tree is located HERE. Source builds just fine but output image fails to boot on the phone. Need to diagnose why it does this.

Yes, this phone's internal codename is "boratf". The F at the end is probably just a carrier or country delineator. Like how Motorola has SofiaR and SofiaP.

Wa wa wee wa.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc-8925:
@jasonmerc PizzaG has been working at tools for MTK for a while, haven't they? I have used similar tools with a pepperoni smell on them for a few different obscure devices (like the "Vortex" series). I just fully unlocked and am about to locate boot.img to magisk root my TCL Ion V, any luck with that TWRP yet?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc-8925:
@jasonmerc Odd, I got a flash failed error in terminal but device said success flashing the magisk modified boot.img but no joy on booting into rooted state...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
No luck with TWRP. None of us, Pizza included, know why it isn't booting. It's something with the phone or maybe the stock prebuilt kernel image, because he couldn't otherwise find anything wrong with the TWRP image I built. It should at least be booting, but it's not.

MTKClient doesn't seem to work with this device. It needs an auth file or something. That's what pushed me to discover the Fastboot tool mentioned above actually.

Were you able to figure out your boot image issue? What stock firmware version are you running? Did you disable-verity flash all of the Vendors and VBmetas before trying to boot your modded boot image?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc-8925:
of course i didn't. had a super late night and wasn't thinking clearly at all. honestly surprised myself being able to even unlock the bootloader first shot. gonna try again now. doesn't twrp depend on verity being unbroken on first boot?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc-8925:
@jasonmerc I keep getting the same error: command failed when attempting to flash disable verity and such. Im still on FW v 8?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jasonmerc:
Lol just use the reply button to reply, no need to @ me every time

I don't know what command you're using, you'll have to post it here.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] htc-8925:
im copy-pastiing YOUR commands, and also free-typing them and I get same issues. im updating to 9 now and ill try again
[Redmi 9 / Poco M2 Questions & Answers] Jatin Verma x821:
I see that both phones have same codename, and since redmi 9 prime doesn't have its own thread I wanna ask which rom can I flash on it? It's my friends phone and I just wanna install an aosp rom on it and get rid of the miui.
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] exxi:
Hey,

Firstly, I would like to thank all the developers for making efforts to develop a decent rom for the Xperia. I have tried every single one of them.

Unfortunately I couldn't fall in love with any of them.

Somehow I sense that it must me me that is doing something if other older HTC devices seem to be running way faster on customized roms than the experia with so much hardware potential.

Anyone has the same feeling?

Kind Regards
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chalid:
no.

:)

EDIT: For the sake of order: I've used an HTC Trinity before, which was MUCH slower - even with ultra light roms and maximum free RAM. I compared with the TyTn II, which has just awful landscape-switching speed and was overall slower. Compared with the Touch Pro, I don't see any big differences - and if, with slight advantages for the X1.

So, no, I don't think the X1 is slow or not smooth enough. It just depends on what you're running. TouchFlo3D just slows the system down significantly - even on the (original) HTC devices (like Diamond, Touch Pro or Touch HD).
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] itje:
this is the same comments coming everytime there is a new device.

Look at in.ex polaris...ok device, a bit slow. Now it have optimized 2d and 3d drivers, its damn fast compared to what it used to be...but that didnt happen with a snap of our fingers..

we are just in the beginning of working on x1

So please, be as unimpressed as you want.

have a nice day

cheers
[XPERIA X1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] chalid:
Well, one should not forget, that the x1 has 25% more pixels than Diamond or Touch Pro and even 400% more pixels than Tytn II & Co ...
[Fire TV Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Bullet Saloon:
I have a 2nd gen 4K Ultra stick that needs the eMMC reprogrammed. I was getting an message in kamakari while trying to run gtp-fix and bootrom.sh.

"eMMC appears to be broken...Hit ctrl C to cancel, or enter to continue" Never seen that before? Then I hit continue and it failed at "injecting micro-loader".

I was messing around in MTK GUI and wiped boot and apparently preloader, now it won't register at all in kamakari..."Waiting for any device"...

If somebody can recommend the correct eMMC adapter to buy, and how to fix "Broken eMMC' and get the preloader back, it will be very much appreciated.

Thanks
[Google TV General] parkduck52:
When it turns on I can see TCL logo and google TV logo... and just showing black screen..

Does it firmware problems? do I need to USB firmware update?

Thank you I am such a newbie..