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@Rinmawia Too badly this is just the stock rom as my phone isn't officially supported anywhere and I don't have money for a new one right now :/. But I really want root access though :(
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@nbamaral The brand is Oukitel haha!
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@linuxxx use king root
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@Rinmawia
I made a script to cleanup after kingroot, it leaves way too much crap running behind for my taste.
su should be the only new binary, even that one I replaced, just don't really trust it.
But yeah, it's practical for weirdish phones... -
@nbamaral flashtool. Iremeber it being bad during sony Ericsson days. I use the XZ now and it's simple. Just like a Nexus/pixel.
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@Rinmawia King root and Kingoroot both aren't working too badly :(
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@flag0
Yes, flashtool is great. I owned a few Sony, currently on Z.
How do you find yours? I'll probably "upgrade" to Z3 soon.
Wish tools for mediatek chipset were just as good, sometimes I need to mess with cheap phones -
@nbamaral amazing! The only thing I don't like is that don't removed the strap/lanyard hole. That and the speakers. I don't use speakers for anything. (Listen to music on earphones and my phone is mostly on vibrate or silent. Plus it's not that bad. Just not very loud). Battery life is good. I can get a day of heavy usage. My previous Mi3 & Nexus combined would crap out before end of day. It's getting monthly security patches, even before nexuses and twice before pixel. I have 64GB modem which is amazing. Was cheaper than the base model pixel and is more feature rich.
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It all makes sense now...
So this happened a few days ago. I always want to root my smartphones for that little bit more control.
*Put's new smartphone into fastboot mode*
*Tries to flash root zip onto it*
"You have to OEM unlock the bootloader first"
*OEM unlocks the bootloader*
*Tries to flash but fails*
*Tries to reboot*
Phone: "The bootloader has been tampered with, the device will boot in 5 seconds".
*Screen just hangs there for ages*
FUCK.
*Tries to enter fastboot again to OEM re-lock the bootloader*
*Fastboot appears to startup RIGHT AFTER THE FUCKING ERROR MESSAGE so can't boot into that anymore*.
FUCKING FUCK.
Hmm... TWRP is still installed...
*Tries to flash some stuff through TWRP*
"The zip file you are trying to flash is corrupt".
FUCK MY FUCKING LIFE.
*Connects phone to Linux for adb flashing*
*Nothing happens after half an hour of trying*
*Connects phone to ancient windows 7 laptop*
*Laptop doesn't even RECOGNISE the phone although all drivers are installed*.
*Le me about to completely lose my fucking mind*
*Connects phone desperately with Linux again*
*Phone is recognised right away but the SPL flash tool can't detect it*
*Tries to put it into fastboot again*
*Fails for about an hour*
*phone in charging mode again*
*Presses the power button for a last, desperate attempt*
*SPL flash suddenly recognises the phone*
FLASHING
FLASHING
FLASHING
DONE.
*Android boots again like nothing happened*
I can use it again like normal but the No-Root firewall is draining my battery like crazy.
That was one hell of a journey though!
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