[ROMs] [Guides] TCL Idol X s950 / Alcatel One Touch Idol X

[nutcracker33]

Did it flash it properly? I've used this utility maybe 5 times on my device, each time restored.

Try again.

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About beta 4.4, I got it from chinese forum. If you interested, I can explain you how to get your version.

I have probably flashed 5 different roms, each time it gave me the "you have already have the latest version"

sigh

 

[laguiam]

helpppppppppppp!!!

i tryed to flash the recovery and my idol x+ got stuck in a boot loop i tried to download a stock rom for my 6043d and it says it's missing build.prop wich is situated in /system

 

[Defaultgame]

Boot loop Fix

IF YOU GET BOOTLOOP OR ANY OTHER STUCK READ THIS

HOW CAN U GET BACK YOUR PHONE READ THEM


ok i have this problem boot loop i cant enter recovery etc.. i can only use sp flash i try to flash many roms i thik i try two weeks
Now my phone back to life

i write what you need to do

First Download this 2 Roms

http://www.needrom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/TCL_S950T.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/m...No_Root_01002_ITA_Multilanguage_Flashtool.zip Link Changed


1 - First use Sp Flash to Format your phone
2 - USe Sp flash flash this rom ( TCL_S950T.zip ) when this finish open your phone check this roms work or not. if this rom not work no problem.
3 - USe Sp flash flash this rom Alcatel_Onetouch_6040d_Original_Stock_Rom_No_Root_01002_ITA_Multilanguage_Flashtool.zip (dont use format this time ) flash this roms and open your phone you see its working


4 - Anyone know how can i change s950 phone imei i try MtkDroidTools, mubileuncle, imei writer and and etc... but i cant change pfff

 

[laguiam]

ok but how did you get your phone to connect to your pc if it is in boot loop????

 

[acca]

Another tip about boot loop :

Sametimes bootloop occures because one has just installed a rom but didn't wipe data before rebooting

I have had this problem when flashing using cwm as well as SP flash tool.

The solution :
Plug the phone to your charger
Press the power button, the screen will turn off and the notifiaction led will light
As soon as the led turns on, unplug the charger (one has to be very quick)
wait a bit to be certain that the phone stays off
Plug the charger again and wait some seconds that the screen turns on, as soon has the screen is on, unplug the charger.

Now you should be out of boot loop
start the phone in recovery mode (power + Vol+) Wipe data/factory reset

Hope it will help

 

[RemoWilliams]

Another tip about boot loop :

Sametimes bootloop occures because one has just installed a rom but didn't wipe data before rebooting

I have had this problem when flashing using cwm as well as SP flash tool.

The solution :
Plug the phone to your charger
Press the power button, the screen will turn off and the notifiaction led will light
As soon as the led turns on, unplug the charger (one has to be very quick)
wait a bit to be certain that the phone stays off
Plug the charger again and wait some seconds that the screen turns on, as soon has the screen is on, unplug the charger.

Now you should be out of boot loop
start the phone in recovery mode (power + Vol+) Wipe data/factory reset

Hope it will help

Interesting. Can someone confirm this? Laguiam: did you try this method yet? (I don't have bootloop, but it's handy to know this information for possible future use).

 

[postadelmaga]

Interesting. Can someone confirm this? Laguiam: did you try this method yet? (I don't have bootloop, but it's handy to know this information for possible future use).

I confirm it works as described

 

[fishboy11]

KitKat

There is a stable release of KitKat out now, all idol X+'s(6043a) sold in canada now come with KitKat installed version 4.4.2

if someone explains how i can make a rom of it from my X+ if people still want it

 

[acca]

There is a stable release of KitKat out now, all idol X+'s(6043a) sold in canada now come with KitKat installed version 4.4.2

if someone explains how i can make a rom of it from my X+ if people still want it

You are talking about Idol X+

this thread is about idol X (without +)

 

[El_Che92]

Idol X Camera doesn't works

Hey guys! I have a big problem! I changed my TCL rom to a MIUI and when i flashed the stock rom back, twice, the back camera no longer works. It's just not works...Do you guys have an idea how can i have back my sweet camera? NEED HELP :crying:

URGENT

 

[El_Che92]

Hey guys! I have a big problem! I changed my TCL rom to a MIUI and when i flashed the stock rom back, twice, the back camera no longer works. It's just not works...Do you guys have an idea how can i have back my sweet camera? NEED HELP :crying:

URGENT

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Even with this rom camera's still not working...any help?

 

[skoolished]

how to disable capacitive button on idol x 6040D

i need to disable capacitive button....can someone tell me how..please..i want to use on screen button...so i'm going to disable capacitive button..but i dont know how....

i already edit this file
Generic.kl
Mtk-keypad.kl
Hid.Keyboard.kl
qwetry.kl

but nothings work...

please help me please.....

 

[nlooooo]

I ended in a bootloop after instaling gravitybox on stock rooted rom (6040D), I can't get the charger trick to work and I need an urgent solution, help is needed, please!!!

EDIT:
Charger mambo jumbo did the trick, data reset done, now waiting...

EDIT2:
And done.

 

[Cordial Humanoid]

Help restoring a TCL S950 that does not turn on

Hi all,
I have a TCL S950 which has recently went "dead": it does not power up in response to power button.

If I plug it to a charger, the white indicator light turns on; after a few moments the screen turns on and the white "Idol X" text appears, then the screen turns off again (indicator light stays on), then after a few moments "Idol X" appears again... and this keeps repeating. The phone was running Lewa OS 5 but the Lewa logo never appears, only the "Idol X" logo.

If I plug it to a Windows 7 computer (after installing the USB driver), "adb devices" does not list the TCL S950.

What can I do to diagnose and fix the problem? Thanks for any help.

 

[acca]

Hi all,
I have a TCL S950 which has recently went "dead": it does not power up in response to power button.

If I plug it to a charger, the white indicator light turns on; after a few moments the screen turns on and the white "Idol X" text appears, then the screen turns off again (indicator light stays on), then after a few moments "Idol X" appears again... and this keeps repeating. The phone was running Lewa OS 5 but the Lewa logo never appears, only the "Idol X" logo.

If I plug it to a Windows 7 computer (after installing the USB driver), "adb devices" does not list the TCL S950.

What can I do to diagnose and fix the problem? Thanks for any help.

Did you try to flash it wich SPflashtools ?

 

[dikirill]

Hi all,
I have a TCL S950 which has recently went "dead": it does not power up in response to power button.

If I plug it to a charger, the white indicator light turns on; after a few moments the screen turns on and the white "Idol X" text appears, then the screen turns off again (indicator light stays on), then after a few moments "Idol X" appears again... and this keeps repeating. The phone was running Lewa OS 5 but the Lewa logo never appears, only the "Idol X" logo.

If I plug it to a Windows 7 computer (after installing the USB driver), "adb devices" does not list the TCL S950.

What can I do to diagnose and fix the problem? Thanks for any help.

Try to start the phone by holding Power + VolumeUp. Use Mobile Upgrade from official site, it will install proper version to your phone. I do it each time I brake my phone.

 

[Cordial Humanoid]

Hi all, and thanks acca and dikirill for your help.
At the time when I wrote my original question my phone did not respond to the power button and could not enter recovery mode. However, I was able to restore the phone using SP Flash tool as suggested by acca.

In detail, Installed SP Flash tool and the USB driver on my computer, and I followed the steps from Post 643 by Defaultgame.

Things that I did not know and found out during the process:

- For SP Flash tool, you must uncompress the ROM archives onto directories on your computer before you can use them in the tool.

- The tool requires a "scatter-loading file" even to do the initial format of the phone; I took that from the uncompressed archive of the first ROM "TCL_S950T.zip" in post 643. You have to do this for the initial formatting, and then for every ROM you try to install.

- When you choose the scatter-loading file in the Download tab in the tool, you have to manually uncheck "PRELOADER" and "MOBILE_INFO", and manually check "CUSTPACK", and manually choose the path for the custpack (it should be in the same directory where you got the scatter-loading file).

- The tool works so that you must keep the phone powered off and unconnected, and start the ROM installation process (called "Download" in the tool, and only then connect the phone to the computer - otherwise the tool does not detect the phone properly. I think the same applies to the initial formatting step too.

- The "TCL_S950T.zip" in post 643 has a Chinese recovery, I could not read it so I just pressed the power button until the phone powered off and then I installed the second ROM.

- You really do need to enter recovery and do the wipes mentioned in post 643, otherwise the phone will not start if you try to start it straightaway (for me it went into a bootloop, and would not enter recovery mode; I had to reinstall the second ROM using SP Flash tool in order to be able to enter recovery mode again).

- After installing the second ROM I was able to boot up; however, the camera app did not work. Maybe it was because my phone was a chinese model (TCL S950, not Alcatel One Touch Idol X)?

- I tried downloading the "Official , STOCK 1006 Flash with MKT tools, NOT with CWM recovery" ROM from the first post on the thread, and installed it with SP Flash tool. This ROM had a working camera, but no Google apps.

- I looked at some ROMs posted in this thread, but it looked like they had unsolved issues or did not have the "transparent status bar" which I like visually; so I searched elsewhere too. I eventually found a ROM by Manowarcero from needrom.com.

- In order to install the ROM by Manowarcero, I was not able to use SP Flash tool; instead, I had to install a new CWM recovery using the instructions in the first post of this thread (this was possible because at this point I already had a mostly working ROM installed in the phone).
---- In short, I downloaded and installed Mobile Uncle Tools onto the phone by downloading the APK with the phone's own browser and installing it.
---- I then downloaded the image for CWM recovery to my computer, connected the phone to the computer, and copied the ZIP file to the phone's root storage directory (it seems it had to be in the root storage directory, Mobile Uncle Tools did not find it otherwise), and unconnected the phone.
---- I then installed the CWM recovery using Mobile Uncle Tool, and after that was done I rebooted the phone back up.
---- I then downloaded the ROM by Manowarcero to my computer (it is a ZIP file), connected the phone to the computer, and copied the ZIP file to the phone's root storage directory, and unconnected the phone.
---- I then rebooted the phone into the new CWM recovery, and used it to install the ROM. In the end I did the usual wipes, same as mentioned in post 643, and finally rebooted the phone into the new ROM. (Manowarcero's description for the ROM also mentioned some other steps regarding root and post-installation tips, but so far I did not do them or need them.)

- Currently the ROM seems to be working correctly, it has a working camera and Google apps.

 

[postadelmaga]

New Thread for Android 4.4

Since:
- @RaNd.gr dismiss this thread and I think he is the only one who could update the first post on this thread
- This thread is becoming very long and messy.

I think would be a great idea to open a new thread with info for 4.4, somebody like @BZzzz3 could be a good person to maintain it ...

What do you think ?

 

[dikirill]

Since:
- @RaNd.gr dismiss this thread and I think he is the only one who could update the first post on this thread
- This thread is becoming very long and messy.

I think would be a great idea to open a new thread with info for 4.4, somebody like @BZzzz3 could be a good person to maintain it ...

What do you think ?

Totally agree. Following this thread now http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=596944 [russian]

 

[enzobelmont]

tcl s950 kk4.4.2

Totally agree. Following this thread now 4pda(dot)ru [russian]

in those russian forums they are discussing, about issues with the chinese beta ROM, in multiple times some users had asked for the rom file but bzzz and the other experienced users have declined to the petition.

The rom file is hosted in bbs (dot) tcmobile (dot) com, but is very dificult to a non chinese language speaker, donload it. If you guys can get it and post it for us to experiment on it, I will appreciated it much.

Thanks :good: