[DEV/HELP] First Custom ROM to Alcatel 4033X - Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

I bought this phone some months ago, I was excited with it because is very useful and has a good performance. I was looking for a custom ROM because stock ROM is not so pretty, I'm not a developer but I know a little bit about it, I wanna create the first ROM based in Stock ROM, just for begining. I need help for it, I know that there's many people with this phone and a lot of them know much than me, if someone want to help me or wanna learn with me about development, please contact me or write in this post.
To begin, I only extract system folder and kernel IMG from stock ROM, my problem is with the META-INF folder, because kitchen create that, but it's not useful if I don't modify updater-script file (when I try to flash it with CMW I get status 0 error). Please help me, even if you are a DEV for another Alcatel phone, maybe you know what I can do to fix error.

Great to hear somebody cooking rom for Alcatel One Touch C3 4033X!
Seems I cannot find any custom ROMs for it online, the nearest I got is a discussion on the phone albeit different model.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2546705
And I found this 4.4.2 Kitkat ROM, not sure it's valid one, and dunno for which model
http://www.442kitkat.info/mp3-0/alcatel-one-touch-pop-c3-5687.html

navilink said:
Great to hear somebody cooking rom for Alcatel One Touch C3 4033X!
Seems I cannot find any custom ROMs for it online, the nearest I got is a discussion on the phone albeit different model.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2546705
And I found this 4.4.2 Kitkat ROM, not sure it's valid one, and dunno for which model
http://www.442kitkat.info/mp3-0/alcatel-one-touch-pop-c3-5687.html
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Yes, it's difficult because I'm not a developer, but I'm trying, even if I found something to get th phone better and not just scripts, I will post it here.

Alcatel 4033A
hey am interested in making a rom for this phone and i want to know how to extract the system folder

Are you a developer?
DMD567 said:
hey am interested in making a rom for this phone and i want to know how to extract the system folder
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Also I want, but I'm not a developer, I only learn to make that, but if you want to develop a ROM I can send you boot.img and system folder. If you want to extract it by your own way, I extracted it making a backup, then I copied the backup to my PC and uncompressed system.ext4 file.

Alcatel 4033A
i don't have a Linux computer so can't do it and am not a Dev.

giovann134 said:
I bought this phone some months ago, I was excited with it because is very useful and has a good performance. I was looking for a custom ROM because stock ROM is not so pretty, I'm not a developer but I know a little bit about it, I wanna create the first ROM based in Stock ROM, just for begining. I need help for it, I know that there's many people with this phone and a lot of them know much than me, if someone want to help me or wanna learn with me about development, please contact me or write in this post.
To begin, I only extract system folder and kernel IMG from stock ROM, my problem is with the META-INF folder, because kitchen create that, but it's not useful if I don't modify updater-script file (when I try to flash it with CMW I get status 0 error). Please help me, even if you are a DEV for another Alcatel phone, maybe you know what I can do to fix error.
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Hi!
I have the same phone, and I would like help you to develop :laugh:
In this days I working on this phone and I'm trying to port this rom for this phone, but with no success.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2687487
PS. If you want to create a Rom,first flash the CWM recovery for this phone...
Edit: Maybe, Today, I'll public my first rom...do you have Meta-Inf Folder?

We got a lot of roms
Hey guys just wanted to tell you we already have lots of roms for the Alcatel OT Pop C3 .
popc3.hol.es/roms.html
romspopc3.blogspot.com
alcatel-onetouch-popc3.blogspot.com

You may read these guides
http://www.gsmarena.com/alcatel_pop_c3-5687.php
http://en.miui.com/thread-20482-1-1.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2701283
:good:

Juandr0ide said:
Hey guys just wanted to tell you we already have lots of roms for the Alcatel OT Pop C3 .
popc3.hol.es/roms.html
romspopc3.blogspot.com
alcatel-onetouch-popc3.blogspot.com
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Hi. Which custom ROM works on 4033x ?

All of them
Sent from my A1-840 using XDA Free mobile app

hi...please help me to update alcatel one touch magic to latest version

http://alcatel-onetouch-popc3.blogspot.co.nz/

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Newxx said:
Anybody with this phone please help by uploading the ROM back up for cwm. I am surprised because more than 50 people have visited this thread but no one is replying. any one please help me.
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I'll soon upload it, I just don't get the time. Also, there are many useless apps in the Stock ROM, which make the whole backup quite (well very) large in size.
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Root for Cubot HAFURY UMAX?

I recently bought a HAFURY UMAX made by Cubot and i've been trying to find a way to root it and install a custom recovery. I've tried most of the methods that I could find on google like Kingroot, etc.
I haven't been able to find anything compatible because its a pretty obscure phone.
Any help would be awesome!
No information yet
I have been searching for this since my phone arrived and there's no clue about rotting it yet. Maybe installing another ROM but I'm not into cooking ROMs yet.
root software -- Cubot max <-> Hafury Umax
You can find a rooting software for Umax here. It woks on Max and Umax (URL is without :// for I am not allowed to submit URLs)- http guideroot.net/cubot-max-download-android-8-0-o-firmware-nougat-7
Best regards
Axel
I also need root for this device. Is there any kind people who can port twrp? Any help would be most appreciated thanks
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Axel Arnold Bangert said:
You can find a rooting software for Umax here. It woks on Max and Umax (URL is without :// for I am not allowed to submit URLs)- http guideroot.net/cubot-max-download-android-8-0-o-firmware-nougat-7
Best regards
Axel
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Virus mate.
stumbag said:
I also need root for this device. Is there any kind people who can port twrp? Any help would be most appreciated thanks
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Virus mate.
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TWRP: https://www.needrom.com/category/cubot/max/
After flashing TWRP you could then install Magisk which will give you root.
Have you managed to unlock your bootloader (although it is not necessary to install TWRP using SP Flash Tool) ?
Thank you for your help however the link you posted is for a cubot Max and I need twrp for cubot hafury umax. I don't think the twrp would work for the umax? As I think they have different chips mine is MT6580 and the max is MT6753A
Tried every app for rooting with no success.
I have downloaded every app and program that claimed to root nougat devices (RootKHP too, but it's just a bad coded virus) and I haven't been lucky yet. I have also done the "manual method"(adb push and then moving those files to /system) but this phone it's not exploitable in that way either. Maybe, compilling TWRP and installing it is the key, but HAFURY doesn't give any help to do so (as usual). I sent them emails, asking for help because of the bugs and also asking for the ROM itself. No luck. They claim to be preparing an update or something that will be released in the official cubot forum... but in that forum there isn't any entry about this phone.
Looks like HAFURY will not give a damn and, probably, will shut down in a time. They KNOW that this phone works faulty ( touch-screen problems, Wi-Fi unstable), but they are not doing anything.
I will not buy another phone from them nor from a chinese manufacturer. I have learnt.
I will try to buy a One Plus One as soon as I have money.
I too sent an email asking about an update and this is the reply I received. Dear Sir/Madam,
Sorry there is no update in the near future, the schedule of it has not been connected, you can keep an eye on our forum, thanks!
So it looks like cubot don't care about there customers
There is an update ROM on cubot forum.
Now we have access to ROM an recovery maybe we cud compile twrp?
What I found so far about the Update
As Stumbag said a couple of days ago, Cubot released an update for the HAFURY UMAX. I downloaded it as soon as I found it and, first of all, don't expect nothing. The only change I noticed is the build name, everything else is like the older version. The Wifi is still unstable, the touchscreen still requires to lock and unlock for working fine when it doesn't detect the touches and still, no root for this phone. I searched for a way to root a ROM before installing it but no luck yet. Also, I extracted the system.img and I haven't found weird packages, as I said, there's nothing different from the older build. What I noticed is a weird file called "recovery_rootcheck.bin" allocated in /data/ that contains other 3 files but I cannot read them properly. Screenshots included:
The location of the file: //i.imgur.com/FW9VAKi.png
The code of the file: //i.imgur.com/mNSpCgW.png
I dumped the older ROM before installing the new, but I am not sure I have done it well but, anyway, I have the dump file.
I will keep searching a way to compile TWRP but I have zero experience on compilling so I don't think I will archieve it.
So, CUBOT has released the ROM as an Update.
Guys. I did it. I compied a TWRP Recovery for the HAFURY UMAX. It works but the stock recovery is being reinstalled after a reboot. Tomorrow I will fix it and I will write a tutorial for installing TWRP and a rooted ROM I did. It's slightly different from the stock ROM (I removed bloatware, deodexed every package, zipaligned, changed the bootanimation and a few more things for making the phone truly free). The ROM is being uploaded to my GDrive right now.
Expect a new Thread tomorrow about installing TWRP and this Custom ROM.
Well done nekuake ?
Could you point me in the right direction for the twrp? Thanks
It doesn't work yet.
It doesn't work. The TWRP I compiled doesn't recognize the phone's partitions. I'm waiting for the reply of HAFURY/CUBOT, because if they send me the device tree, it would be quite easy because I know what to do next.
Nekuake said:
It doesn't work. The TWRP I compiled doesn't recognize the phone's partitions. I'm waiting for the reply of HAFURY/CUBOT, because if they send me the device tree, it would be quite easy because I know what to do next.
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any luck on a response from HAFURY/CUBOT? i just got this phone today and im abit curious myself
ElectricDevil said:
any luck on a response from HAFURY/CUBOT? i just got this phone today and im abit curious myself
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They didn't give a damn. Now, I am working in other things (university and that stuff). As soon as I have time again, I will try to use another device tree and adapt it to this phone.
Also, you shouldn't have bought this phone. You will see a lot of bugs that WON'T be fixed. HAFURY/CUBOT have a ridiculous support.
Nekuake said:
They didn't give a damn. Now, I am working in other things (university and that stuff). As soon as I have time again, I will try to use another device tree and adapt it to this phone.
Also, you shouldn't have bought this phone. You will see a lot of bugs that WON'T be fixed. HAFURY/CUBOT have a ridiculous support.
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that sucks,yea i kind of regret getting this phone,and i hope you make some future progress with it when you have the time.I'm wondering is there any way to access the internal storage from explorer? i can only see the sd card for some reason and the mobigo app it comes with has the option to root but doesn't do anything but restart the phone
ElectricDevil said:
that sucks,yea i kind of regret getting this phone,and i hope you make some future progress with it when you have the time.I'm wondering is there any way to access the internal storage from explorer? i can only see the sd card for some reason and the mobigo app it comes with has the option to root but doesn't do anything but restart the phone
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They released the phone ROM while ago: forum[dot]cubot[dot]net/viewtopic.php?t=1495
You can extract the system.img and take a look inside the System partition.
Nekuake said:
They released the phone ROM while ago: forum[dot]cubot[dot]net/viewtopic.php?t=1495
You can extract the system.img and take a look inside the System partition.
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If you did any progress please let me know if you manage to either use TWRP or Magisk, actually any root will be nice :good:
I've tried to use ported 6580 TWRP 3.1.1 and TWRP from Cubot Rainbow 2, it doesn't cause any bootloop but doesn't seems to work either
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/twrp-unofficial-custom-recovery-mt6580-t3505687
https://www.needrom.com/download/twrp-3-1-0-jemmini/
Both use the same mediatech however, I have no ****ing idea how to boot in TWRP, I've tried the **cubot max (DO NOT TRY)** that used something else then MT6580 and it gave me a bootloop, soo whoever said Max equal with UMax **** him
I'm trying other TWRPs
Well, i haven't tried to compile TWRP again because Cubot/Hafury doesn't want to give me any of the files I requested (as I though). I will mirror the repo of OMNI and, well, pray a little the next time I try to compile it.
For the moment, I have tried to use any of the TWRPs there are in the Internet of similar phones. They haven't work. The phones I tried were Infinix Hot 5 and Infinix Hot 5 Lite. Please, people, try things like I'm doing and we will have TWRP and Root soon.
Hi IV tried doogee X5 and some others but haven't worked I will keep trying come on peeps we can do this

ZIP to FTF? is possible?

Hello first of all, I'm new for this thing to customize cell phones, so please be patient XD. Well, to the point.
I want to know if there is a way to convert rom files (ZIP) into firmware files (FTF). I saw some tutorials on YouTube about changing the name to the file extension, but it does not work for me, the flash tool does not recognize it.
Well, to all this, I wanted to try the new rom that was released in the development section, and for that reason I have realized that I have this problem.
PS: I could not unlock the bootloader, it tells me that my device is not allowed.
Thank you all.
Hey, anybody is there?

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