[GUIDE][ROOT][MT6735] Root Blu Studio Energy 2! (No sketchy root-tools) - Android General

Hello, and welcome to a short and sweet guide on the way I have found to successfully root our device, the blu studio energy 2!
DISCLAIMER - I am not a developer, and any knowledge I have has come from reading forums and tinkering with android devices I have owned. If you are reading this, you should know that I do not guarantee these steps will work for you, and will not be responsible for any damage this causes your device.
THINGS YOU WILL NEED
1. MTK VCOM Drivers Installed (Guide on XDA)
2. SP Flash Tool
3. Scatter file (modified from Gionee M4 version to match our partition table, attached)
4. TWRP Recovery ported to M4 by Hanuma50
5. SuperSU Flashable ZIP
PROCEDURE
1. Open SPFT, and load the modified scatter file
2. Click the Download Tab, and edit the settings as follows:
A. Make sure 'Download Only' is selected
B. Only Recovery Partition box is checked
C. Make sure correct scatter is loaded​3. Double click in 'Location' field next to recovery partition(screenshot highlighted in blue), and select Gionee M4 TWRP recovery.img
4. Click "Download" Button
5. Download/Copy SuperSU zip to phone
6. Power off phone
7. With "Download" button clicked in SPFT, connect phone to USB without powering on (VCOM DRIVERS MUST BE INSTALLED FOR THIS TO WORK)
8. Wait for SPFT to flash, popup with green check-mark will display when complete
9. Disconnect phone from USB, hold power + volume-up keys until boot into TWRP Recovery
10. Install SuperSU zip from TWRP
11. Reboot into system, you are now successfully rooted and with custom recovery!
From this point on, you can install any app needing root, and also perform full nandroid backups using TWRP on Blu Studio Energy 2.
TECHNICAL INFO
For anyone interested in what I have done, it is all very simple, and any credit should go to Hanuma50 at Needrom for porting TWRP to Gionee M4!
The reason we can use Gionee roms/recoveries on our device is because Blu devices are just rebranded (usually Gionee) phones sold in the US. So, all that I have done is use SP Flash tools to load an M4 recovery on our device!
The only real change needed was to change the scatter file, because apparently Gionee uses some different partition sizes than Blu does. Don't worry though, the recovery partitions are exactly the same, and the scatter changes are only to avoid errors that show up without them.
I changed the scatter to reflect the partition sizes/locations found in /proc/partinfo on our Blu phones. This is very easy and if someone is getting 'PMT changed' error in SPFT trying to do this on another MT6735 device, try changing the scatter hex values to match your partinfo file :fingers-crossed:

Just followed your instructions and seems to be working flawlessly!
I didn't have to first flash the drivers because I had already done that previously. When you connect the blu studio energy 2 to your computer via usb, it popus up with a cd of the drivers which you can install.
Thank you! This will make this phone so much better. Also, I must have been using an old version of twrp, because this version has a beautiful UI!
Any suggestions for programs to free or remove, now that we have root access? I am looking forward to messing with this phone now.
I tried installing xposed but was unsuccessful. Have you tried this? Thanks again.

Glad it worked out!
Have just been starting to mess with I thyself to be honest, I actually have gotten xposed to install, haven't gotten gravity box working yet. I installed xposed arm-64 sdk 21.
On a friend's phone I have flashed gionee m4 stock rom, which works really well and seems nicer in some respects to the Blu stock, but I am hesitant to flash it since I haven't found a foolproof way to backup the stock before flashing.
EDIT - I actually got gravity box working, using sdk21 arm64 xposed installer. Everything works really well surprisingly I've had more luck than on my old nexus 4 running stock 5.1. Everything works fine for me, except for power menu, and i think that's just about it for everything else I've tried. QS remapping and navigation button remappiny works great, hope it works for you too!
Outer then that, I have installed adaway and some other apps needing root and they work well. Hopefully we can start getting some nice development for this phone or the m4 in the near future!

danageis said:
Glad it worked out!
Have just been starting to mess with I thyself to be honest, I actually have gotten xposed to install, haven't gotten gravity box working yet. I installed xposed arm-64 sdk 21.
On a friend's phone I have flashed gionee m4 stock rom, which works really well and seems nicer in some respects to the Blu stock, but I am hesitant to flash it since I haven't found a foolproof way to backup the stock before flashing.
EDIT - I actually got gravity box working, using sdk21 arm64 xposed installer. Everything works really well surprisingly I've had more luck than on my old nexus 4 running stock 5.1. Everything works fine for me, except for power menu, and i think that's just about it for everything else I've tried. QS remapping and navigation button remappiny works great, hope it works for you too!
Outer then that, I have installed adaway and some other apps needing root and they work well. Hopefully we can start getting some nice development for this phone or the m4 in the near future!
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Thanks, I thought I tried that version of the installer but I guess not. I'll give it another shot. Can't wait to see what kind of further dev work we get!

I flashed the 78 sdk21 64 zip for xposed but when I reboot it says optimizing apps and then reboots.
Any idea what I might be doing wrong?

portezbie said:
I flashed the 78 sdk21 64 zip for xposed but when I reboot it says optimizing apps and then reboots.
Any idea what I might be doing wrong?
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Mine did that too, you have to let it do it's thing. It will say optimizing, and keep rebooting, but after every reboot it SHOULD have 1 or 2 fewer apps listed that it says its optimizing. Pretty weird, but afterward it does seem to have installed correctly. It took my phone about 25 minutes of the rebooting, but afterwards I haven't noticed any issues with xposed/gravity box LP.

danageis said:
Mine did that too, you have to let it do it's thing. It will say optimizing, and keep rebooting, but after every reboot it SHOULD have 1 or 2 fewer apps listed that it says its optimizing. Pretty weird, but afterward it does seem to have installed correctly. It took my phone about 25 minutes of the rebooting, but afterwards I haven't noticed any issues with xposed/gravity box LP.
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Oh weird. Thanks for the explanation!

Just curious, have you had any trouble playing music on your phone? I have problems playing through aux and Bluetooth.

danageis said:
Just curious, have you had any trouble playing music on your phone? I have problems playing through aux and Bluetooth.
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What kind of problems are you having? I've only used my energy 2 with headphones and once briefly with a bluetooth speaker just to test it. I've had no trouble with headphones and my brief test with bluetooth audio seemed fine.
If you tell me what problems you're having I can try and test it.

portezbie said:
What kind of problems are you having? I've only used my energy 2 with headphones and once briefly with a bluetooth speaker just to test it. I've had no trouble with headphones and my brief test with bluetooth audio seemed fine.
If you tell me what problems you're having I can try and test it.
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Ok thanks!
The problem I'm having with aux connection is that the phone thinks the connection is lost/reconnected every few seconds. So after a while, the music will either keep pausing itself, or cut out every few seconds. I have only had this problem with aux cables into stereos, but I have tried multiple cables with the results.
With Bluetooth, there are stutters in the audio.
I have actually returned the first phone I got to amazon because of this problem, and the second one did the same thing, but maybe I really did just get two duds in a row?
Thanks for your help!

danageis said:
Ok thanks!
The problem I'm having with aux connection is that the phone thinks the connection is lost/reconnected every few seconds. So after a while, the music will either keep pausing itself, or cut out every few seconds. I have only had this problem with aux cables into stereos, but I have tried multiple cables with the results.
With Bluetooth, there are stutters in the audio.
I have actually returned the first phone I got to amazon because of this problem, and the second one did the same thing, but maybe I really did just get two duds in a row?
Thanks for your help!
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So I just used the bluetooth speaker in my shower for 20 minutes to listen to pandora. I did not notice any stuttering. I will try hooking up the phone to my stereo tomorrow and seeing what happens.

portezbie said:
So I just used the bluetooth speaker in my shower for 20 minutes to listen to pandora. I did not notice any stuttering. I will try hooking up the phone to my stereo tomorrow and seeing what happens.
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Hmmm, weird... well thanks for your help!

danageis said:
Hmmm, weird... well thanks for your help!
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Connected it to my stereo with a standard 3.5mm cable and listened to a podcast with pocketcast. Didn't experience any problems.

portezbie said:
Connected it to my stereo with a standard 3.5mm cable and listened to a podcast with pocketcast. Didn't experience any problems.
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Hmm... Well, thanks for checking. I'm not sure why I'm having so many problems...

danageis said:
Hmm... Well, thanks for checking. I'm not sure why I'm having so many problems...
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I'm trying to think what could be different. I haven't installed xposed on my phone, maybe it is something related to that, or some other change that you have made and I haven't?

portezbie said:
I'm trying to think what could be different. I haven't installed xposed on my phone, maybe it is something related to that, or some other change that you have made and I haven't?
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I'm not sure, I have tried it out with the same problems on both phones, right after I got them from Amazon, before I made any changes

danageis said:
I'm not sure, I have tried it out with the same problems on both phones, right after I got them from Amazon, before I made any changes
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Crazy. I have no idea then.

I received this phone yesterday and have been playing around with it. My previous phone was a Samsung Blaze 4G (yes, really old but still chugging along) that was rooted and running Cyanogenmod 10. I am planning on rooting this phone, but was curious if anyone had tried using Kingoroot to do so?
Apologies if this doesn't belong in this thread, I was just curious about the various methods of rooting that might be available.
Cheers!

Update: Kangoroot does not currently root the Blu Studio Energy 2 phone (sorry, I was impatient). I will have a crack at it using your method listed by the OP.

Vinotas said:
Update: Kangoroot does not currently root the Blu Studio Energy 2 phone (sorry, I was impatient). I will have a crack at it using your method listed by the OP.
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I have tried all the one click root methods I could find and none of them worked. Just use the ops method, it is quite easy and works like a charm.
On an unrelated subject, I tried installing xposed and after reading ops description it worked fine for me. Have had no issues since installing xposed although gravitybox didn't seem to work properly, but I think that is due to the phone's rom. Amplify works great and so does greenify. I am currently testing out powernap, and it seems to work so far.

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[Q] TF101 lost sound. Using KatKiss-4.3

Hello All,
I want to raise a question here because I don't seem to find any help about it.
I am using a nice TF101 tablet with great joy. Now with less as yesterday while watching youtube the sound has gone and did not return after a reboot or using the DSP Reinit in the Kat Tools.
Now this has happened with me already a week before. Then I was using Jousteink's unofficial room. Then I've changed to KatKiss 4.2.2 and the sound reappeared again. Later to give it a whirl I have then upgraded to KatKiss 4.3 and everything was wokring like charm for 3 days then the sound went to Honolulu again.
Does anyone have any idea how can I get the sound working again or what can be the cause? Or simple share the same experience?
Thanks for the help.
Hate to ask, but is your volume up?
I had issues with the hangouts/talk notifications muting my volume when using the cascade option in the KAT tool.
frederuco said:
Hate to ask, but is your volume up?
I had issues with the hangouts/talk notifications muting my volume when using the cascade option in the KAT tool.
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Thanks for the reply.
Yup, the volume is as high as it can go
szilasz said:
Thanks for the reply.
Yup, the volume is as high as it can go
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So, you are saying that the sound works sometimes and then cuts out. Intermittently? Maybe hardware related - but I'd leave a proper diagnosis to the experts here.
I know that I have the volume toolkit installed on my TF101 and to be honest - it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of difference when listening thought the tablet's speakers.
Ziggy
Theziggy said:
So, you are saying that the sound works sometimes and then cuts out. Intermittently? Maybe hardware related - but I'd leave a proper diagnosis to the experts here.
I know that I have the volume toolkit installed on my TF101 and to be honest - it doesn't seem to make a whole lot of difference when listening thought the tablet's speakers.
Ziggy
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Nope, it is gone. Totally. It is OK on bluetooth and through jack but the speakers are deaf. From one point to another and remains so even after reboot and reflashing with a /system format.
On ICS based roms there was a problem similar to this where restarting the tab fixed it for some time and you could have save this reboot with the KAT tool. You could just reinitalize the sound. I agree on the quality part though
I hope it is not HW related, this was always a popular problem with the TF101. I just hope to find someone who encountered this and can give a fresh idea of a fix.
Which build are you using? The latest one I have the same issue, but if I go back a few it's working fine.
Lethe6 said:
Which build are you using? The latest one I have the same issue, but if I go back a few it's working fine.
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Hello there,
I am using the latest #020 build. Which one are you on? I would like to give it a whirl to see if will I get my sound back.
Thanks in advance!
szilasz said:
Hello there,
I am using the latest #020 build. Which one are you on? I would like to give it a whirl to see if will I get my sound back.
Thanks in advance!
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I'm using 018 right now because with 019 and 020 the back button stops working. I was also unable to control the sound through the device itself but if I would start, say, a movie on MX Player then I could hear and adjust volume.
Lethe6 said:
I'm using 018 right now because with 019 and 020 the back button stops working.
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That's because you forgot to flash the gapps after the rom zip.
Follow exactly the instructions from the 1st post and it'll work fine.
timduru said:
That's because you forgot to flash the gapps after the rom zip.
Follow exactly the instructions from the 1st post and it'll work fine.
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I'll take your word for it, but I'm fairly sure I did, twice.
Lethe6 said:
I'll take your word for it, but I'm fairly sure I did, twice.
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I know I had no sound, or GPS when I 1st flashed this. I had flashed it from TWRP 2.5.00, and I got it updated to TWRP 2.6.100, and reflashed it, and now everything is working. I would make sure your TWRP is up to date.
C0BRA01 said:
I know I had no sound, or GPS when I 1st flashed this. I had flashed it from TWRP 2.5.00, and I got it updated to TWRP 2.6.100, and reflashed it, and now everything is working. I would make sure your TWRP is up to date.
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There is no 2.6 for the tf101 ... what did you install exactly? The title says 2.6 but the files are 2.3. http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/109
It was fixed after just flashing the newer one.
Edit: Yeah, not touching unofficial cooked recoveries with a 1000 foot pole.
Then you will be waiting a long time, as there have been no new "Official" TWRP recoveries for a long time now for the tf101.. His is working fine.
You take similar risks every time you flash a ROM.
Lethe6 said:
There is no 2.6 for the tf101 ... what did you install exactly? The title says 2.6 but the files are 2.3. http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/109
It was fixed after just flashing the newer one.
Edit: Yeah, not touching unofficial cooked recoveries with a 1000 foot pole.
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Lethe6 said:
There is no 2.6 for the tf101 ... what did you install exactly? The title says 2.6 but the files are 2.3. http://www.teamw.in/project/twrp2/109
It was fixed after just flashing the newer one.
Edit: Yeah, not touching unofficial cooked recoveries with a 1000 foot pole.
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I agree with @C0BRA01. The only reason that joesteink's build were not official is because no one from the TWRP team approved them. I have not heard of any issues of anyone bricking or having issues caused by any of the 2.5 or 2.6 builds for the TF101. I am running sidneyk's 2.6.1.0-c build right now and have had zero issues, other than the superuser nag screen at reboot when running KatKiss 021. It has to do with the supersu app even though root is working fine in the ROM.

On rooted Samsung SM-J710FN, camera & other hardware don’t work

I’ve recently been trying to root my Samsung SM-J710FN. I managed to find a sequence of actions that consistently produces a rooted phone. I found TWRP 3.0.2 (I know that later versions exist, but this is the latest I could find for this model) and flashed it using Odin. I then use it to wipe the data partition (because, apparently, TWRP doesn’t work well with encryption). I use adb push to copy SuperSU 2.79 (downloaded from here) and no-verity-opt-encrypt-6.0 (in accordance with instructions in this thread, downloaded from here) to /data, then I install both of them using TWRP and reboot.
While the phone does appear rooted, it does end up having some serious problems. Here are some that I managed to find:
The camera doesn’t work. When I try to start the Camera app, it just crashes after a few moments.
The flashlight doesn’t work. When I try to turn it on using the button in the quick settings panel at the top, I get a message saying that the Camera app is using the flashlight (and the flashlight doesn’t turn on, obviously).
The phone does not automatically change orientation as I rotate it (in apps that are supposed to support it, such as Google Chrome), even though the appropriate settings are enabled.
The brightness controls do not affect the screen’s brightness in any way.
(I also can’t manage to re-encrypt the phone after rooting it, but that’s probably better left for a different thread.)
Has anyone else encountered similar problems? What can I do to solve them?
Have you tried to reflash stock ROM again?
I have. In fact, I did so many times before I figured out the exact steps to successfully root the phone (and then a number of times more while troubleshooting these issues). Everything works fine after restoring (unrooted) stock firmware, but stops working again after rooting.
I finally figured it out. Looks like I should have used a different SuperSU version. I repeated the process using SuperSU v2.82 SR5 and the problems stopped.
(I’m still trying to get the phone to be both rooted and encrypted, but that’s a separate story…)
EDIT: I gave up on SuperSU and used Magisk instead. It’s much easier and seems to work perfectly even with encryption!
Can you give me link to download a Android system and Magisk. Which one you used. I have the same problem :c
Here’s Magisk: https://forum.xda-developers.com/apps/magisk
As for “Android system”, do you mean stock firmware? In that case, I’m really sorry but I haven’t really kept a link to the place I downloaded it from Besides, you need stock firmware that matches your specific phone (based on the part of the world where you bought the phone, I think? I’m not quite sure), which may not be the same as mine.
I've already done it, I downloaded all the necessary files from sammobile.com
But thank you for your willingness to help
voidphantom said:
I have. In fact, I did so many times before I figured out the exact steps to successfully root the phone (and then a number of times more while troubleshooting these issues). Everything works fine after restoring (unrooted) stock firmware, but stops working again after rooting.
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Can you give me the link of the Stock ROM?
When twrp install j7 max then phone go to bootloop problem please tell me how I fix this problem
dealiyo said:
Can you give me the link of the Stock ROM?
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As I said before, unfortunately, I have not kept a link to the stock firmware. Further, judging by your other posts, you don’t seem to have a device of the same model as mine (I have SM-J710FN, you said you have SM-J710GN), which means my stock firmware isn’t going to be useful to you anyway.

Lineage 17.1 is available now

So this morning I went to check on lineage OS news oh, and I found out that they released today for all pixels. I am running it with no issues although I would recommend to download the micro gapps package cuz if you do the Nano or anything below it will give you issues with your phone reading SIM card. Aside from that I had successfully running the rom with magisk installed.
Which versions of gapps did you try? Only nano/micro? I was thinking of selecting pico. Also, can you update via their in house ROM updater app while rooted?
Sent from my Pixel 4 XL using XDA Labs
bradical711 said:
Which versions of gapps did you try? Only nano/micro? I was thinking of selecting pico. Also, can you update via their in house ROM updater app while rooted?
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Will there still wait to check to see if the updater works but it looks like everything is fully functional within it and right now, take a look at the picture that I'm going to attach to this that is her updater and it looks like it is completely 100% functional but I cannot be sure because there is no updates to test it with.
As far as the gapps go, don't use anything smaller than micro. There is something pixel 4 needs in telephony to work that is in micro+ but not in nano or pico ... If you flash rom without gapps , your phone will work to make calls, if you flash any gapps before micro, you will get a " insert SIM, emergency calls only " message.
After you flash rom, MAKE SURE TO REBOOT AND THEN FLASH GAPPS,! otherwise if you try to do it in the same session that you flashed ramen you will get a message telling you that you have insufficient storage to flash and it will fail to flash gapps!
A few things that I wish and I hope they do fix would be the 90 hertz implementation switch as of now there is no switch for it and the screen flickers at low brightness.
Soli gestures would be great, I know DU has them working so it's a matter of time before lineage does as well.... Same goes with the squeeze for assistant,.... It is also not working ..
Not working :
Soli gestures
Squeeze
Smooth display
this is the first release so I did expect it to not be fully fully functional but I know that within time it will be one of the best roms out there
i42o said:
this is the first release so I did expect it to not be fully fully functional but I know that within time it will be one of the best roms out there
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Thank you for the detailed response!! I greatly appreciate all the info and I'm sure others will as well!:highfive: I will probably try it when the ROM becomes more stable. Currently on DU myself and I don't mind waiting until the project improves further. Would you mind letting us know in the thread how your first update goes while rooted? Thank you again for trying the legendary ROM and letting us know it was released!
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bradical711 said:
Thank you for the detailed response!! I greatly appreciate all the info and I'm sure others will as well!:highfive: I will probably try it when the ROM becomes more stable. Currently on DU myself and I don't mind waiting until the project improves further. Would you mind letting us know in the thread how your first update goes while rooted? Thank you again for trying the legendary ROM and letting us know it was released!
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Yeah, so after I installed it and set it up, I then adb sideloaded magisk canary on its stock kernel, it went thru like knife thru butter.
I then rebooted into android, finalized the magisk set up, rebooted and voila... I was rooted.... I then tried Kiri Kernel, since it has the necessary things for TWRP, flashed it within ex kernel and then tried to boot TWRP in bootloader only to get stuck on TWRP splash screen...
I was honestly trying to have lineage working with a working TWRP but unfortunately it did not work as such. So I gave up on the TWRP and I've been running the ROM with magic and modules installed with no hiccups The boot time is amazing battery life is really really good...
Viper worked first try... This has has to be one of three good roms out there with little to no issues.
DU
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i42o said:
Yeah, so after I installed it and set it up, I then adb sideloaded magisk canary on its stock kernel, it went thru like knife thru butter.
I then rebooted into android, finalized the magisk set up, rebooted and voila... I was rooted.... I then tried Kiri Kernel, since it has the necessary things for TWRP, flashed it within ex kernel and then tried to boot TWRP in bootloader only to get stuck on TWRP splash screen...
I was honestly trying to have lineage working with a working TWRP but unfortunately it did not work as such. So I gave up on the TWRP and I've been running the ROM with magic and modules installed with no hiccups The boot time is amazing battery life is really really good...
Viper worked first try... This has has to be one of three good roms out there with little to no issues.
DU
PIXEL DUST ( CAF )
LINEAGE
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Is 90hz working??
ahoslc said:
Is 90hz working??
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Read just one or two more posts above the one you quoted to find your answer.
bradical711 said:
Read just one or two more posts above the one you quoted to find your answer.
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Smooth display is auto switching between 60hz and 90hz that's why I asked if just 90hz was working
i42o said:
Will there still wait to check to see if the updater works but it looks like everything is fully functional within it and right now, take a look at the picture that I'm going to attach to this that is her updater and it looks like it is completely 100% functional but I cannot be sure because there is no updates to test it with.
As far as the gapps go, don't use anything smaller than micro. There is something pixel 4 needs in telephony to work that is in micro+ but not in nano or pico ... If you flash rom without gapps , your phone will work to make calls, if you flash any gapps before micro, you will get a " insert SIM, emergency calls only " message.
After you flash rom, MAKE SURE TO REBOOT AND THEN FLASH GAPPS,! otherwise if you try to do it in the same session that you flashed ramen you will get a message telling you that you have insufficient storage to flash and it will fail to flash gapps!
A few things that I wish and I hope they do fix would be the 90 hertz implementation switch as of now there is no switch for it and the screen flickers at low brightness.
Soli gestures would be great, I know DU has them working so it's a matter of time before lineage does as well.... Same goes with the squeeze for assistant,.... It is also not working ..
Not working :
Soli gestures
Squeeze
Smooth display
this is the first release so I did expect it to not be fully fully functional but I know that within time it will be one of the best roms out there
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90hz works, 70% plus brightness on coral gives 90hz, below is 60hz. flame has some different tunings percentage wise, but same concept.
RefreshRate will work as soon as we have an official R image I can steal a single APK from.
We won't be implementing Squeeze or Soli most likely - it's RE, and given scrutiy over large projects and reverse engineered code, we likely won't see it unless it's reimplemented OSS (DU reverse-engineered it, but didn't clean room re-implement).
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Smooth display is auto switching between 60hz and 90hz that's why I asked if just 90hz was working
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It works.
ok well i went back to stock aug firmware and then flashed the img file, then sideloaded the rom, rebooted right into recovery and flashed gapps ... stuck on the lineage boot animation .. do i need to let it boot up then reboot into recovery and flash gapps?
tried again, flashed the image then rebooted to start menu, rebooted to recovery and flash mini gapps and rebooted ... still stuck on the boot logo
what am i missing?
somehow i got it to boot and had a trebucket error, installed a different launcher - FIXED.
can not finish setup, keep getting data transfer crash
anyone get TWRP to load? im using fsociety kernel and it worked on another ROM
Madjax2020 said:
ok well i went back to stock aug firmware and then flashed the img file, then sideloaded the rom, rebooted right into recovery and flashed gapps ... stuck on the lineage boot animation .. do i need to let it boot up then reboot into recovery and flash gapps?
tried again, flashed the image then rebooted to start menu, rebooted to recovery and flash mini gapps and rebooted ... still stuck on the boot logo
what am i missing?
somehow i got it to boot and had a trebucket error, installed a different launcher - FIXED.
can not finish setup, keep getting data transfer crash
anyone get TWRP to load? im using fsociety kernel and it worked on another ROM
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You're going to have to skip that by disabling the app when it force closes . It should let you proceed from there on. TWRP won't work and idk why... Trebuchet launcher will FC as well but since Google home launcher is installed via gapps it should be a fail safe. As far as kernel, I am running kirisakura and it has the necessary things to work with TWRP but I won't. Trust me I tried.... Make sure to root with magisk canary .
To fix cts mismatch in magisk download termux
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And select option 2 forced basic key attestation
Select y for yes and proceed... Reboot and you should pass safety net checks...
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You're going to have to skip that by disabling the app when it force closes . It should let you proceed from there on. TWRP won't work and idk why... Trebuchet launcher will FC as well but since Google home launcher is installed via gapps it should be a fail safe. As far as kernel, I am running kirisakura and it has the necessary things to work with TWRP but I won't. Trust me I tried.... Make sure to root with magisk canary .
To fix cts mismatch in magisk download termux
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And select option 2 forced basic key attestation
Select y for yes and proceed... Reboot and you should pass safety net checks...
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thank you sir for the reply. However i could not get it to be stable. The initial setup failed no matter what i tried. The error of data tansfer tool would fail. I want to run this as it seemed very smooth, however i think i need to wait for another update or something. i followed the OP to the t and nothing seemed to work properly for me.
I use this daily, and am entirely unsure what you're doing here.
Are you using the wiki guide? If not, follow that to the tee, use nano opengapps preferably, and everything works like a charm.
npjohnson said:
I use this daily, and am entirely unsure what you're doing here.
Are you using the wiki guide? If not, follow that to the tee, use nano opengapps preferably, and everything works like a charm.
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I'll try again thanks for the info
Seems the wiki says you can sideload gapps right after sideloading the OS, the OP said doing that causes issues lol. But he'll I'll try it anyway
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I use this daily, and am entirely unsure what you're doing here.
Are you using the wiki guide? If not, follow that to the tee, use nano opengapps preferably, and everything works like a charm.
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Got this running great, with gapps. Was wondering if you're getting the issue I am with google assistant. It seems to freeze up and not be usable.
followed the wiki directions and used full gapps not nano ( missed that 1 bit of info ) im STILL getting data tansfer tool keps stopping when trying to finish the setup going to try a reboot and see what happens. it shows just a sec then saying looing for updates then installing updates and crashes ... then back t connect to wifi . does this have to do with the gapps?
SO ODD ... reflashed and used nano. asked to connecto to mobile data, nothing as showing up, hit skip, tried wifi and nada .... hit skip then same damn error for setup .... insane. maybe ill just cancel the setup and do everything manually
retied all steps and got the no space error when doing gapps, switched to slot b and tried again and it worked ... waiting to see the data tansfer error ... i dont think my phone wants to play nice lately, or ever.
went back to stock firmware, loaded the 9/6 lineageos and have NO mobile data with nano gapps loaded. doing the update currently and will update shortly what happens
i can officially state i am up and running with so far NO issues, i have mobile data, wifi sent texts and made a call. now going to root and swiftbackup restore all my apps and blah blah
Anyone tried the new 13th nightly? Hopefully they fixed the screen flicker.
Madjax2020 said:
followed the wiki directions and used full gapps not nano ( missed that 1 bit of info ) im STILL getting data tansfer tool keps stopping when trying to finish the setup going to try a reboot and see what happens. it shows just a sec then saying looing for updates then installing updates and crashes ... then back t connect to wifi . does this have to do with the gapps?
SO ODD ... reflashed and used nano. asked to connecto to mobile data, nothing as showing up, hit skip, tried wifi and nada .... hit skip then same damn error for setup .... insane. maybe ill just cancel the setup and do everything manually
retied all steps and got the no space error when doing gapps, switched to slot b and tried again and it worked ... waiting to see the data tansfer error ... i dont think my phone wants to play nice lately, or ever.
went back to stock firmware, loaded the 9/6 lineageos and have NO mobile data with nano gapps loaded. doing the update currently and will update shortly what happens
i can officially state i am up and running with so far NO issues, i have mobile data, wifi sent texts and made a call. now going to root and swiftbackup restore all my apps and blah blah
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You do remember I said micro right? I specifically explained that by using nano you would have no cell phone connectivity and upon transfer tool just put no transfer
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Anyone tried the new 13th nightly? Hopefully they fixed the screen flicker.
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Yes it is still there but much less now
Face unlock working?

TWRP 3.6.0-11

Here a updated recovery.
All credit goes to @UnlockLG
TWRP 3.6.0-11_v60.img.7z
drive.google.com
Twrp touch input doesnt work for the verizon v60. but you can still use keyboard and mouse.
Tried on V600TM. Twrp touch DOES work on this firmware. Cannot backup data though, even after formatting:
Can not create '/data/media/0/TWRP' folder (Required key not available).
Edit: turns out the v60 encrypts /dev/media even if there's no login password. After trying to backup to SD card instead I'm now getting extractTarFork() process ended with ERROR: 255
Edit 2: After trying a few things, it appears the issue is with TWRP not asking for a password. Manually running twrp decrypt <PASSWORD> always says the password is incorrect. Removing screen lock and using default_password does not work.
How to install?
Edit: installed with fastboot
Fastboot flash recovery twrp.img
Fastboot flash recovery_a twrp.img
Fastboot flash recovery_b twrp.img
To enter twrp power off phone
Hold volume down and power until v60 screen appears
Release power for a second, continue holding volume down, and tap power button
Select yes on factory reset and twrp should boot
Is it ok for v60 demo?
is there any custom roms yet ?
dEFLASH said:
Is it ok for v60 demo?
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yes it should work no issues, but if you wanna make a full working home instead of a demo phone install CA open firmware via LGup and have to follow guide to the letter.
Cuonglla117 said:
is there any custom roms yet ?
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I starting to doubt there will ever be any custom roms for any phones now that GSI is mostly compatible with alot of devices just do your research for GSI roms if the devices started with anrdoid 8.0 then is most likely is compatible use the treable apk to make sure.
Tell me one a12 gsi rom that is actually working with this phone???
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I starting to doubt there will ever be any custom roms for any phones now that GSI is mostly compatible with alot of devices just do your research for GSI roms if the devices started with anrdoid 8.0 then is most likely is compatible use the treable apk to make sure.
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Have you flashed the latest official a12 gsi? I have it up and running. Its super fast and has sound, bluetooth and everything seems to be running find except for the phone app. The included dialer doesn't seem to work but google dialer from play store does. That being said, the fly in the ointment is that there's no sound on the call. Been trying it on various customer service 800 numbers and can see that the call is connected and logging time but no freaking sound.
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Tell me one a12 gsi rom that is actually working with this phone???
Have you flashed the latest official a12 gsi? I have it up and running. Its super fast and has sound, bluetooth and everything seems to be running find except for the phone app. The included dialer doesn't seem to work but google dialer from play store does. That being said, the fly in the ointment is that there's no sound on the call. Been trying it on various customer service 800 numbers and can see that the call is connected and logging time but no freaking sound.
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No im strictly staying with A10. I had one gsi that worked but no audio via usb to hdmi which is a deal breaker since this is only for gaming
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No im strictly staying with A10. I had one gsi that worked but no audio via usb to hdmi which is a deal breaker since this is only for gaming
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SO are you currently using an A10 gsi or android stock?
FC06 said:
SO are you currently using an A10 gsi or android stock?
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i was but c-type hdmi out had no audio so i went back to stock A10
Anybody foud a fix for the no functioning touchscreen? i wanna try flashing this one but im not sure if mine will have a functioning touchscreen
Based on the minimal interest in this thread I guess there is something wrong with the TWRP. What it misses at the moment? Just the touchscreen support? Apart of this is it already stable? Is it still being developed or abandoned for some reason (no posts here for over a month)?
I've kinda dropped mine because android 11 has so many software bugs it makes it too annoying to bother with. My twrp seemed to be stable except when in the custom recovery screen I didn't have touch support but I was still able to plug a mouse in and work around it. I also wasn't able to get system write access a member was helping me but I think he got busy and hasn't responded in a while.
Assasinx54 said:
I've kinda dropped mine because android 11 has so many software bugs it makes it too annoying to bother with. My twrp seemed to be stable except when in the custom recovery screen I didn't have touch support but I was still able to plug a mouse in and work around it. I also wasn't able to get system write access a member was helping me but I think he got busy and hasn't responded in a while.
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touchscreen is there, its just weird when rebooting directly into it. You have to do the "button dance" when the phone is off to have full touch support
This is for the V30 but its the exact same method
I'd certainly like to see someone build a case as to why twrp is relevant anymore? I installed it on my v60am only to see it create more problems than is solved. I can do everything with qfil at the partition level and the rest with adb/fastboot n fastbootdd. I for one don't believe that there will be any v60 specific roms for any of various models going forward. There's just not that many v60s out there. Treble is here both with a12 and a13. The only question is; can/will someone fix the qdaq, multi-screen and hidden menu problems (presently on a gsi rom you have no access to *#546346##600#). Were those to be solved It would off to the races.
Imho TWRP is dead, at least on the v60.
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touchscreen is there, its just weird when rebooting directly into it. You have to do the "button dance" when the phone is off to have full touch support
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can confirm. touch works on my v600TM a12. Thank you!
I tried flashing a zip and got error that the unzip is missing. Seems some versions where missing unzip and it was fixed on later versions.
Code:
Installing zip file '/data/unencrypted/systemrw_twrp .zip
Welcome to systemRW Installer v1.05
Installing systemRW v1.32 by lebigmac
Extracting /data/unencrypted/systemrw_twrp.zip to: / data/local/tmp/systemгw 1.32/
There was an error extracting the file. Please install unzip and try again
Updater process ended with ERROR: 255
Error Installing zip file '/data/unencrypted/system_twrp.zip'
Updating partition details...
...done
Can @UnlockLG upload a newer version or give some details on building the twrp image so I can try.
is another version of TWRP available?
Is this TWRP working with A12?

Question Any Magisk Module that can replace system audio files (/media/audio/ui) ?

Hello! currently running Dr. Ketan S09 on SM-S908B/DS and was wondering if there are any modules that can replace system audio files for customization?
I tried older method with this flasher tool that @alessio89g created some years ago. I used my favorite Metal Gear Solid sounds in this pack. however when flashing it complains that magisk needs to be updated to 13 or something.
It's a long shot but maybe someone is knowledgeable enough to fix up this zip and get it working so we can all enjoy?
Thanks for any help and input on this
C3R741N said:
Hello! currently running Dr. Ketan S09 on SM-S908B/DS and was wondering if there are any modules that can replace system audio files for customization?
I tried older method with this flasher tool that @alessio89g created some years ago. I used my favorite Metal Gear Solid sounds in this pack. however when flashing it complains that magisk needs to be updated to 13 or something.
It's a long shot but maybe someone is knowledgeable enough to fix up this zip and get it working so we can all enjoy?
Thanks for any help and input on this
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Try this
dr.ketan said:
Try this
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I will update how this goes soon, I unfortunately have to triple wipe and re-setup device. Google Fi support had me boot into safe mode when trying to get my 5g service to stay on (it kept staying on 4g) and doing so wiped the rom when booting back in so I'm going stock , getting my 5g to work correctly, then setting up rom again, and then I will flash this nice module you linked for me and let you know how it goes. Thanks Doc
(as it turns out it was googles network acting up for some devices and is being fixed, made me screw up phone for no reason)
alessio89g also responded in another thread and gave me these also haven't tested them yet but said they can be used in roms, the apk might be helpful for selecting sounds in roms that can't access /media
I will update as soon as I get a chance to test all this stuffs
dr.ketan said:
Try this
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IT WORKS ALMOST 100% PERFECTLY THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!!!! the only thing I need to adjust is the volume for unlock and lock because it's a tad quiet and the only sound I can't get to play is when using the navigation bar buttons(S_HW_Touch.ogg). I had a sound set to the right file but it's not playing anything.
I realized this file was used back on Note 5 when we used to have physical buttons on the phone but now we have UI integrated buttons on the screen, so not sure if this file even activates a sound for that anymore, or why its still in the system files, but I also don't understand how that's all linked together so maybe we can't assign a sound to those anymore?

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