Hi
I intent to update my Huawei Ascend P6 from B508 to B512 and I've read that in order to properly install a given firmware you have install another first, so I was wondering if this is the case for B508. Also, the bootloader in my phone is locked, does that prevent me from updating to B512?
EDIT: I read in this thread that I need to install B132 before installing B512. I also read someone implying that the bootloader needs to be unlocked for this but it wasn't really clear, so I remain in doubt.
If it is necessary, can anyone tell me or point me in the direction of guide on how to do it? In
This thread a method for doing this is described, but I'm not sure If I can trust it.
I don't have TWRM or any other custom recovery. The phone is rooted (I think - Root Checker Basic says It's not, but I can navigate through system folder and assigned permissions and the rooting applications say It is) but that's it. Nothing else has been done.
Thanks in advance.
Anyone?
I tried flashing B132 since I was told that the bootloader doesn't have to be unlocked in order to install official firmware, but I couldn't do it. It says "Huawei SD card update fail". I also tried the method I mentioned above for unlocking the bootloader but it didn't work. I suspect that's the reason I can flash anything.
Can someone please help me get on track here?
Thanks.
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Hi guys. Im not going to lie, im a noob when it comes to rooting, so I turned here to ask for help. Now, let me explain my whole issue. Lets start with, i cant unlock my bootloader. I also cant get into flash mode on flashtool which would allow me to downgrade, and and then root my phone from there. So yeah, I cant do anything honestly. I would love it if someone would be kind enough to help me with a step by step instruction guide, or even live assistance?. I already google'd for about 2-3 hours now, and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
white5pirit said:
Hi guys. Im not going to lie, im a noob when it comes to rooting, so I turned here to ask for help. Now, let me explain my whole issue. Lets start with, i cant unlock my bootloader. I also cant get into flash mode on flashtool which would allow me to downgrade, and and then root my phone from there. So yeah, I cant do anything honestly. I would love it if someone would be kind enough to help me with a step by step instruction guide, or even live assistance?. I already google'd for about 2-3 hours now, and can't find anything. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Mention 'EveryThing' about your phone. You can Take a screenshot of 'About Phone' and post it here.
Thanks for the reply!
I have attached a screenshot of what the window looks like.
"prntscr DOT com/8ffqdz" Sorry for the link, but I wasnt able to post it through the img tag.
Oh I also forgot to mention, just this morning I could root my phone with Kingo Root, but reading some negative stuff about it, I would still like to root it with the standard, old method of flashing etc, and I can't do some things I could on standard root.
white5pirit said:
Thanks for the reply!
I have attached a screenshot of what the window looks like.
"prntscr DOT com/8ffqdz" Sorry for the link, but I wasnt able to post it through the img tag.
Oh I also forgot to mention, just this morning I could root my phone with Kingo Root, but reading some negative stuff about it, I would still like to root it with the standard, old method of flashing etc, and I can't do some things I could on standard root.
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Well, it's Xperia M2.
Let me clear that,
There are two types of Rooting methods available.
1. Permanent root
(Root access is available for ever, untill you unroot manually)
2. Temporary root
(Root access is gone, when you restart phone)
So, if you have successfully rooted your phone with Kingo Root, you no need to flash rooted kernel or firmware (its same with already root access available).
After rooting, you must have seen a app SuperSU or SuperUser or anyother that manages root permissions requested by apps that needs root (you need to grant permissions to let app work). If you do not see such any app, download it from play store.
I usually suggest Xperia users to root their devices with TowelRoot app. It is smart and simple and it does not contain any preloaded app for permissions (that means you can switch with SuperSU or Superuser)
Also, what things you could not do? let me know. I'll help you out
Regards,
hitman-xda
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Well, it's Xperia M2.
Let me clear that,
There are two types of Rooting methods available.
1. Permanent root
(Root access is available for ever, untill you unroot manually)
2. Temporary root
(Root access is gone, when you restart phone)
So, if you have successfully rooted your phone with Kingo Root, you no need to flash rooted kernel or firmware (its same with already root access available).
After rooting, you must have seen a app SuperSU or SuperUser or anyother that manages root permissions requested by apps that needs root (you need to grant permissions to let app work). If you do not see such any app, download it from play store.
I usually suggest Xperia users to root their devices with TowelRoot app. It is smart and simple and it does not contain any preloaded app for permissions (that means you can switch with SuperSU or Superuser)
Also, what things you could not do? let me know. I'll help you out
Regards,
hitman-xda
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Again, thanks for the reply. Yup, I saw the SuperUser app, and the problems I have might not be phone breaking and such, but I would like to be able to do things like, change permissions of certain folders, which i cant do with the Kingo root, as it somehow denies the access to the folder, even tho I allowed root browser/es file manager root access. Overall, i think the problem is with the permission system Kingo has. I'd also like to mention that i would love to install Cyanogenmod on my device, but I will look into that myself @edit: Also, I would prefer to have a premanent root, instead of the towelroot and such.
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Again, thanks for the reply. Yup, I saw the SuperUser app, and the problems I have might not be phone breaking and such, but I would like to be able to do things like, change permissions of certain folders, which i cant do with the Kingo root, as it somehow denies the access to the folder, even tho I allowed root browser/es file manager root access. Overall, i think the problem is with the permission system Kingo has. I'd also like to mention that i would love to install Cyanogenmod on my device, but I will look into that myself @edit: Also, I would prefer to have a premanent root, instead of the towelroot and such.
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You could just press the 'thumbs up' instead writing 'thanks' everytime.
Well, why do you want to change the permissions of the folders? You could mess-up your device if you change permissions for the root folders.
The problem looks strange. If you have rooted successfully and GRANTED permissions for ES file explorer through SuperUser, you should not get any problem changing permissions. Check in SuperUser app that you see ES file explorer.
Also try using other explorer app. I use 'Solid Explorer' and its great.
If you have temporarily rooted your device as I mentioned in above post, try using TowelRoot app for rooting your device permanently and manually download SuperSU.
If you want to use CyanogenMod (it'll be pre-rooted) you need to carry below steps;
1. Unlock your Bootloader
(Wipes everything)
2. Install recovery.
3. Take stock ROM backup.
4. Flash ROM.zip
5. Flash GApps (optional)
6. Wipe cache+dalvic+factory reset
7. Reboot
Regards,
hitman-xda
Problem is that my bootloader can't be unlocked. I guess there is literally no way in which i can unlock it then?
white5pirit said:
Problem is that my bootloader can't be unlocked. I guess there is literally no way in which i can unlock it then?
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If your bootloader status says
'unlock bootloader allowed = NO'
Then you can't flash anything on your phone. Almost every ROM needs an unlocked bootloader. There will be some ROMs that can be flashed over locked bootloader but they will be stock based.
EDIT: You have a good Luck, you can flash recovery on Locked bootloader
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-m2/development/d2303-clockworkmod-6-0-4-6-t3011821
If you flash recovery successfully, that means you can flash ROM
Check below link for ROMs Available;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-m2/development
Regards,
hitman-xda
Yup, my bootloader says it can't be unlocked. Anyways, i tried the link yo usent me, but it comes up with an error, saying "device not found". I went into recovery mode on my phone, but i assume it might be the adb driver issue? I will try to reinstall it, and get back to you.
@edit: I reinstalled the ADB drivers, and now CWM is stuck on "daemon succesfully started", but it will not do anything else. Any clue as to what could I do to fix this? @edit2: Actually, disregard what i said. It still comes up as" Device not found"
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Yup, my bootloader says it can't be unlocked. Anyways, i tried the link yo usent me, but it comes up with an error, saying "device not found". I went into recovery mode on my phone, but i assume it might be the adb driver issue? I will try to reinstall it, and get back to you.
@edit: I reinstalled the ADB drivers, and now CWM is stuck on "daemon succesfully started", but it will not do anything else. Any clue as to what could I do to fix this? @edit2: Actually, disregard what i said. It still comes up as" Device not found"
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It can be a drivers issue. Install PC companion and connect your phone, let PCC install essential drivers and after that follow the same steps for installing recovery.
If you post any screenshot, that would be better.
Mkay, it worked now after i reinstalled the device in Sony PC companion. Heres a screenshot of what the CWM cmd window looks like: "prntscr DOT com/8fth1u". I assume this is good? So, all i have to do now is just download Cyanogen Mod and flash it, right?
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Mkay, it worked now after i reinstalled the device in Sony PC companion. Heres a screenshot of what the CWM cmd window looks like: "prntscr DOT com/8fth1u". I assume this is good? So, all i have to do now is just download Cyanogen Mod and flash it, right?
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Yup! Everything looks good. Just try to enter into recovery before downloading CM.
1.Switch off your phone and wait for 10 sec
2. switch on
3. When you see LED, try pressing either of vol buttons.
Hate to rain on the parade, but CM and CM based roms don't work with locked bootloaders for that phone, despite having CWM. It should say in the title of the thread whether it'll work with locked bootloaders.
es0tericcha0s said:
Hate to rain on the parade, but CM and CM based roms don't work with locked bootloaders for that phone, despite having CWM. It should say in the title of the thread whether it'll work with locked bootloaders.
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Yeah you are right! Purely CM doesn't work on locked bootloader. But there must be any ROM available that is based on CM or even other ROMs that has some CM features.
I went through a few threads in that forum, Omni, CM, PAC, etc and all mentioned needing unlocked bootloader. Best bet is a good stock rom and Xposed to enable other features.
es0tericcha0s said:
I went through a few threads in that forum, Omni, CM, PAC, etc and all mentioned needing unlocked bootloader. Best bet is a good stock rom and Xposed to enable other features.
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Z4 experience looks great ;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/xperia-m2/development/rom-z4-experience-locked-unlocked-bl-t3079811
Your xposed idea is great. Plus there must be GravityBox
Apparently there is no root for this phone, it's a Boost ZTE Prestige 2 N9136. I've tried kingroot with no success and I'm too sketchy about trying one of those random one click root BS that keep coming up on my Google searches. Any help would be MUCH appreciated! Thank you.
Hi dude
You can root your device by this
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1an0i2ZsTGvUOWW4HNOtD4ujCxU5c5qX6
mbairaq said:
Hi dude
You can root your device by this
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1an0i2ZsTGvUOWW4HNOtD4ujCxU5c5qX6
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Is this legit? Anyone try it yet?
Hmm... It could be valid but when I see rar files inside of rar files inside of zip files it sure smells bad . OTOH the batch file does seem focused on this phone so who knows?
If you unlock the bootloader and download the stock rom, you can use magisk to root the device. There are plenty of guides on using magisk to patch stock images, but if you need help or have questions I will do my best to help you.
man i have tried for a solid month to root this thing every day after work. I've done just about anything you can do with the files mentioned above. But the problem I keep facing is the locked? bootloader. i can't figure out how to access fastboot, if there even is a fastboot. i've checked all the drivers a million times, etc. If I could just get fastboot i could flash twrp and be good from there, but I can't even get the flash software I've got to break through. Any help would be greatly appreciated, by my family too. I can't give it up lol
I cant seem to find anything on this thing. My searches keep bringing up other Alcatel devices or the Oneplus 3T. I got this tablet from tmobile for free and I was only planning on using it to mirror in my cars android auto.
I have tried kingroot and the process just sits at 1%
Please let me know if you need any other tablet information.
its running android 8.1.0
model 9027W
If for some reason this cant be rooted does anyone have any cheap tablet suggestions that can be rooted easily?
I have tried every method suggested to root mine and nothing. There is an update that i need to charge tablet up so i can install and will attempt them all again. I am running a samsung SM-T357T that is rooted and twrp installed till I can root this tablet . Hope to be soon.
CaptainJager said:
I have tried every method suggested to root mine and nothing. There is an update that i need to charge tablet up so i can install and will attempt them all again. I am running a samsung SM-T357T that is rooted and twrp installed till I can root this tablet . Hope to be soon.
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I would like to see this as well. T-mobile really locked this device down and even took away the built in call kit as it's VOLTE.
Would SP Flashtool work as it's a mediatek device ?
Likewise searching for a means to root my Alcatel 37 9027W. T-mobile seems to have modded the android 8.1.0. in such a way
making it impossible to remove or otherwise stop google news feed running constantly in the background.
Sure would be nice to root this puppy.
pls have anyone found a solution to root this phone?. i'm trying to unlock. but everytime i use sigmakey,once its get to 'unlocking', it shows phone servicing has stopped and the software exits its self. or do anyone know any other solution for unlock that does not include rooting?
Same!
Interested in a way to get rooted for the device.
mariojohn said:
Interested in a way to get rooted for the device.
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stephan6 said:
pls have anyone found a solution to root this phone?. i'm trying to unlock. but everytime i use sigmakey,once its get to 'unlocking', it shows phone servicing has stopped and the software exits its self. or do anyone know any other solution for unlock that does not include rooting?
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moonhop7 said:
I would like to see this as well. T-mobile really locked this device down and even took away the built in call kit as it's VOLTE.
Would SP Flashtool work as it's a mediatek device ?
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Guys please, I need urgent help, I tried flashing gsi, but they didn't boot, I forgot to take a backup earlier, and the device is kind of bricked now, can anyone please provide me with the stock rom, it's a request please..
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/development/amazing-temp-root-mediatek-armv8-t3922213
This works but we need a custom recovery or rooted boot image.
I was able to get a permanent root through a link to a reply on that thread.
Follow the instructions here: https://forum.xda-developers.com/an...atek-armv8-t3922213/post79626434#post79626434
I haven't fully tested the extent of the root, but I was able to get a prompt, root checker confirmed root, and Magisk is reported as installed. Obviously this will not unlock the bootloader or allow for a custom recovery (that I know of) so we will have to wait until someone can get fastboot working on this device for that.
Concur. Root works!
I used this tablet today . Very slow and laggy. Defiantly needs a new rom. Has anybody been able to flash any modules through Magisk or remove any of the T-mobile bloat ?
Found this thread looking for a root method for my Joytab. I just disabled the "Modify system settings" and " Draw over other apps" settings for Smart Manager and my Joytab is definitely way less laggy. No root required.
no twrp for 3t8?
Need some info and help with the TCL A502DL phone, i would like to know if its root-able, and can use TWRP as well as if i could install XDA modules on it, can't find any info on the site about it, thank you for any help with it.
Festerpus said:
Need some info and help with the TCL A502DL phone, i would like to know if its root-able, and can use TWRP as well as if i could install XDA modules on it, can't find any info on the site about it, thank you for any help with it.
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Still need help rooting this phone
Festerpus said:
Still need help rooting this phone
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I have the same phone, googled root/bootloader unlock instructions for it, haven't tried them yet since in my experience Straight Talk phones usually suck
I also have this phone and would like to root it does anyone know anything about it
Same here.. Hopefully someone can figure it out!!
Im trying to figure out how to root my TCL A501DL... they are like the same phone... cant figure it out. used every one click root tool... dont want to flash a random alcatel custom recovery or rom... idk what to do
Mdk easy root
try mediatek easy root
Mediatek easy root says it's successful, but doesn't actually give root access.
You have to find the build number of the phone. Once you do that tap it 6 times and it will take you into developer mode. THEN download kingo root and Whoop there it is!
As posted by Viva La Android in another thread about the tcl a501dl:
The TCL A1 (A501DL) cannot be bootloader unlocked. Although the OEM Unlocking option can be enabled in the Developer Options menu, fastboot mode has been made inaccessible by TCL. Because the bootloader cannot be unlocked, it simply is not possible to flash a custom recovery or a patched boot image for systemless root support. System-wide root is not possible due to TCL's secure boot chain configuration and dm-verity. Until an exploit is found to bootloader unlock this device, rooting is not possible.
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chrispaulmhd said:
Im trying to figure out how to root my TCL A501DL... they are like the same phone... cant figure it out. used every one click root tool... dont want to flash a random alcatel custom recovery or rom... idk what to do
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I have bootloader unlocked on mine and a working Team Win Recovery, but I still have to fix the recovery being overwritten and I will post a step by step with all the tools etc, so be expecting it.
Not sure if the stuff I'm working on will help the 502, but I have tested it the 501 successfully. I don't have access to a 502 in order to build anything for it.
djdubyah said:
As posted by Viva La Android in another thread about the tcl a501dl:
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Use the boot mode tool from here for the a501dl. It definitely is unlockable! You can grab the TWRP.img I compiled for the a501dl from this link.