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The short answer to your problem For me, the principal joy of the N7000 hardware is that I can change its battery in seconds. I never leave the house without a fully charged second battery and, therefore, I never run out of juice. Get yourself a second battery, they don't cost much. Secondly...

Xposed Xposed is working with alpha 1. Get it from here:- https://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=3034811&nocache=1 Follow the links and download xposed-v90-sdk27-arm-beta3.zip (and xposed-uninstaller-20180117-arm.zip in case you need it). Flash beta3 from recovery, but do a full...

bemolx https://github.com/BemolxDevelopment

It's not for our phone, take a look at the image of the phone at the top left of this page - http://www.blu-dev.com/roms

Many thanks for this installer, it worked like a charm. My phone is an Allview X2 Xtreme (A.K.A. Blu Pure XL and Gionee Elife E8), which is a Helio X10 (MT6795) octa-core arm64 device, running an Allview Android 5.1 stock ROM, with TWRP-3.0.2 recovery. 1) Full TWRP backup! 2) Updated my...

For the benefit of users looking for recent activity in this thread, I have just installed TWRP-3.0.2-0-x2xtreme recovery partition image from the official TWRP page (https://twrp.me/devices/allviewx2soulxtreme.html) using the fastboot method from my Microsoft Surface 4 Pro onto my Allview. It...

Time and what its worth That's the point. All we really possess is time, and the gift of time is the most precious gift we can give. An hour of my life is worth as much to me as an hour of your life is worth to you. I gave gladly of my time and my reward is a rooted phone. As for the...

I agree - acheron1502 has done a great job and richly deserves the full bounty. I hope he will forgive me for an email from my crazy old man persona, which I sometimes use to discourage replies!:):):)

I suffer from clinical depression and am liable to disappear for a few days from time to time - sorry, but there's nothing I can do about it. It's good to know that someone else is willing to have a go at this. I've put together these notes which I hope will cut down the time needed to get up to...

TWRP Sorry, I can't do this - it's outside my skill set. Best of luck to you all.:(

Thanks again. Question answered.:)

Thanks for your patience. So there are 2 types of flags, build flags and filesystem flags (there a lot of those in the first post). I don't know if you're familiar with the Richard Feynman Universal Problem Solving Algorithm. It goes like this :- Step 1) Write down the question. Step 2) Think...

Thanks for the reply. I'm sorry to seem slightly dim about this. If I make a mistake (a typo say) in writing a TWRP command it will show up in the build as an error. But how does the build know that it is an error. Surely it could only do that if it has an internal database of valid commands? I...

So if I asked you for a list of all known English words, your advice would be to read everything ever written in the English language. My question was: "Is there an English dictionary".

Does anyone know if there is a comprehensive list of TWRP flags anywhere? If there is I can't find it.

TWRP (2) The story today - I tried a build this morning, but all I could get from "lunch" was "invalid combo". After searching a dozen or more pages for info. on the lunch command I finally came across the command "choosecombo". This allows you to enter lunch options one by one. Why was this...

New patches on their way soon Nexus Security Bulletin—November 2015 Published November 02, 2015 "Partners were notified about these issues on October 5, 2015 or earlier. Source code patches for these issues will be released to the Android Open Source Project (AOSP) repository over the next 48...

TWRP I'm making some progress with compiling a TWRP recovery. It's taking time since I'm having to learn a lost of things as I go. The BoardConfig.mk I'm making has 4 major sections - cpu/platform entries, kernel entries, file system entries and TWRP specific flags. The cpu/platform entries are...

EXPERIMENT: Root without modifying /system Not immediately useful, but very interesting. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63197935&postcount=2

My MediaTek X10 Helio (mt6795) SoC is also cortex-a53 based. I found this page (https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9O9_6wNQG3DbnZtT0p4d0FMQ2M/view) while looking for recovery info for my phone. The Xiaomi Redmi Note 2 and the HTC M9+ are also X10 Helio based. The HTC BoardConfig.mk entries for...

I'm in the earliest stage in the (mis)adventure of compiling a TWRP recovery for my phone, which is an Allview X2 Xtreme (in Europe), a rebranded Gionee Elife E8. The phone is also available in the US as the Blu Pure XL 2015. It's a Mediatek X10 Helio (mt6795) device. As the first post...

Fair enough, but would you mind dropping in to this thread from time to time. I'm making some progress with compiling a custom TWRP recovery. If I can build one that's no bigger than the existing recovery all(?) I have to do is flash it with fastboot. The build environment I first used turned...

I'm sorry to see that you couldn't stay the course.

Compile custom TWRP recovery Has anyone given some thought to the alternative method of rooting the phone? If we could build a custom recovery image we should be able to flash supersu.zip from it. This link ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1943625 ) seems to be the goto...

My apologies. I forgot to read before posting.

Here's some info. that might help. At least it clarifies the problem. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2593581

There's an interesting story behind this. Many phones have had the ability to support FM radio for years. But the major carriers have insisted that it be disabled during negotiations with phone manufacturers. From their point of view they would prefer users to be streaming their music (and...

See my edit to post #57.

What are your thoughts on using fastboot? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1752270 I forgot to mention that the blocks map screenshot I posted was taken BEFORE the OTA update arrived. I flashed it, so now we are on DIFFERENT machines.

We only need boot and recovery to use SP Flash Tool. Are they different from the OTA?

Example MT6795 scatter file This is the scatter file for the Xiaomi Note 2 (Helio X10 based) phone.

Custom recovery Once we have root we could try one of these "magic" recovery installers http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2798257 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2748169

Here is a screenshot of the Allview blocks map. How does it compare to the Blu Version?

Wow! So much happening - well done everybody. There appear to be two ways to proceed from now. Either change the boot image and/or create a custom recovery. Changed boot image This looks more difficult than I first thought. We are going to have to de-compile the kernel, then make changes and...

I'm sorry, I should have said. On my Allview it's in the root directory of the device.

abd & rooting Here's some stuff you're not going to want to hear. The problem boils down to this. The /system directory (where you would like to place the superuser apk) is read only and cannot be easily converted to read/write. If you look in the root directory of your phone you should see a...

Have look at post #108 http://forum.xda-developers.com/pure...6#post63383416

My build is: X2_Soul_Xtreme_0301_V5403 Last week I switched the phone on one morning to find a notification saying: "System update available ". I D/Led it and it flashed itself and rebooted. The only differences I could find were a new tool app and a higher build number. It would be nice if Blu...

That's what I thought when I unboxed my Allview. However, after using it for 6 weeks I've come round to thinking: "Why aren't all phones this size?" Can I ask you to have a look in Settings -> About phone, and let me know what version your kernel is? It's 3.10.72+ on my Allview and it would be...

Then I found this: http://techricity.org/2015/10/everything-you-need-to-know-about-the-upcoming-oneplus-mini/

I found this on a Spanish language site that may explain that disappearance. http://mobile.hdblog.it/2015/09/16/mediatek-codice-sorgente-helio-x10/

I can resist anything except flattery! In my Allview build.prop there's a line that says "ro.gn.gnromvernumber=GiONEE ROM5.0.16". I'd be very interested in knowing what your Blu build.prop has to say.

This is probably where I stop being useful since I'm a "monkey see, monkey do" kind of guy as far as rom development goes, although I'm up for testing stuff. Is this any of use to you? http://www.mediafire.com/download/dx698xy19xg5xq8/MT6795.kernel-master.zip...

USB OTG I forgot to mention that my Allview phone came packaged with a nice short usb OTG cable, so if your box doesn't have one complain to Blu. BTW, what do you hoard? With me it's music. I enjoy the comfort of knowing that I've got the collected works of Bach, Beethoven, Zappa and The...

128GB My Allview works with a SanDisk Ultra Class 10 128GB. The same card also works in my ancient Galaxy Note v1 and Galaxy Note 10.1 v1, which supposedly only support 64GB. I suspect that some vendors are a bit lazy in keeping their spec. sheets up to date. The very early reviews of the...

New Blu owners Now that some of you look like your'e about to get your hands on this device I'll post a few of the resources you might need. The MediaTek X10 Helio (mt6795 based) is only now beginning to appear in phones; there is little help from devs as yet (Hey! Your'e An Early Adopter). The...

Bootloader unlocked Have look at post #108 http://forum.xda-developers.com/pure-xl/general/buying-dev-friendly-t3197751/post63383416#post63383416

Bootloader unlocked Bear in mind that what follows applies to my Allview and might not apply to the Blu version. You're going to need adb and fastboot to try this: http://lifehacker.com/the-easiest-way-to-install-androids-adb-and-fastboot-to-1586992378 First thing I did was have a look in...

Flashing SU from recovery fails and although I haven't tried the other option I'm fairly sure that that would fail too, due to /system being a secure read only partition. It is going to take someone with the necessary skills to extract boot.img, make the needed changes and re-packing it. I've...

Fastboot See attached pics. showing the Allview X2 Xtreme (the European version of this phone) Recovery/Factory/Fastboot screens. I'm sorry about the quality, but on a quad HD screen the text is tiny!