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[Root] [Rom] [Dev] [Recovery] Archos 50 Platinum Dev Topic (Gen11)

Tweeks:
Camera Tweek (You need busybox installed for this), or you can unpack the zip and apply the patch manually/setting the permission corectly.
It will improve the overall video recording quality, by increasing the size limit cap of the video (old setting 600 Kb vs new 1200 Kb)

Custom Firmwares
Reserved

Recovery
CWM WITH ACCESS AT THE SYS_BOOT PARTITION ======>>>>> Bigger chance in bricking your device if you sleep while you flash something.
CWM NON TOUCH / NO ACCESS TO SYS_BOOT
Way to flash:
Version 1)
- enable usb debugging
- install adb drivers
- use the command adb reboot bootloader
- use the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Version 2)
- shut down the phone
- press the volume key minus and power key
- use the command fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
Do not forget to unpack the zip files.
Please have in mind that with the no_sys CWM, you cannot restore the phone to stock using an official update.

Unbricking
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Here's a small tutorial for people who bricked their phone while formatting the sys_boot partition in CWM Recovery. When you format that partition, nothing works except a screen shows up saying "RESET FOR ENTRY QPST DOWNLOAD". This screen is also known as the Qualcomm Diagnostic Mode.
Requirements:
A linux distribution (Ubuntu)
sys_boot.img (https://docs.google.com/file/d/0BxJJu-wXKdltTE90SGtEMmFQZHM/edit)
Follow the steps to restore the sys_boot partition:
1. Connect your phone to a pc using the cable
2. Install the drivers if necessary:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/17562266/USB Modem Driver.rar
3. Open your terminal
4. Type "lsblk" (without the quotes).
You should see a list, showing every connected disk and partition. Look for a partition with a size around 50M. This is the partition we need, so remember the corresponding name under the 'NAME' column. It can be "sdc", "sdd" or "sde" followed by a number.
5. Cd to the directory you placed sys_boot.img in
cd [filename]
6. Type "sudo dd if=/dev/NAME of=sys_boot.img bs=512
Replace NAME with the name you got from lsblk, and press enter.
The output should look something like this:
3959420000 bytes (3866621 KB) copied, [ time spent], [KB/s]
7. Remove the cable from your device, do a battery pull and try to boot your device
Normally, it should boot correctly. If you formatted the /system partition too, you have to get into recovery mode by holding the upper volume button while booting, until a red screen appears.
If you have any questions, or if this doesn't work for you – let me know in the comments.
Thanks a lot to Adonis K. and globula_neagra for the sys_boot image and pointing me in the right direction.
Credits to DieterHolvoet from arctablet for putting it together.

THX! Much appreciated!
I own this device since today and you Sir made me very happy with your cwm and ability to root.
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I can confirm. Touchversion of CWM does not work.
File for non-touch CWM seems the same as touch btw. Could you please fix the link? Thx!

Yes, the touch version doesn't work.
The no-touch no-sys version works fine.
Here is the link for the no-touch/no-sys version (taken from the arctablet forums): http://globula.arctablet.com/ARCHOS_50_PLAT/CWM_A50_Plat_NoTouch_No_SYS.img.zip
globula must have misstyped it

IN CWM I cannot mount the sdcard. So I can't install any Zip-Files this way

Nash123 said:
IN CWM I cannot mount the sdcard. So I can't install any Zip-Files this way
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I will fix these issues tomorrow.

Thank you!

GEN 11 ?

cajl said:
GEN 11 ?
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Yes the Archos 50/53 Platinum and Archos 80 Xenon are Generation 11

NO !
it will be announced at IFA and I would see in Berlin

cajl said:
NO !
it will be announced at IFA and I would see in Berlin
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I could try to convince you that they are Gen11, but you will have to trust me, the update page does not lie.

OK Archos 53 also ...

Anyone know if it's possible to partition the internal memory and internal sdcard together? I'm getting really low in internal space intended for app installations (180mb left, getting insufficient space errors)

Updated the third post with a new touch cwm, test version, i don`t have a platinum to test it.
Adonis, i don`t think is possible, tough you can use directory binder
I need some help with some file from the Archos 50 Platinum, I want to test if the phone function works on Archos 80 Xenon (it should in theory as this is not the first tablet made by Archos/Arnova that has a crippled phone function, my 7C G3 is capable if doing/receiving phone calls)

Hmmm, i see. In my previous phone the developers found a way to repartition the device and play around with them so we could balance the phone and internal memory to our advantage. Could really use the /storage/sdcard1 as part of my /data and /system partitions.
http://i.imgur.com/MJkdLS9.png
Never heard of directory binding, is it like symlinking?
I will test touch version in a few mins, gotta watch something first.
edit: Nope, touch still not working. Same results as the previous one.

Adonis K. said:
Hmmm, i see. In my previous phone the developers found a way to repartition the device and play around with them so we could balance the phone and internal memory to our advantage. Could really use the /storage/sdcard1 as part of my /data and /system partitions.
http://i.imgur.com/MJkdLS9.png
Never heard of directory binding, is it like symlinking?
I will test touch version in a few mins, gotta watch something first.
edit: Nope, touch still not working. Same results as the previous one.
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Then it will be no touch for the moment, tough is strange, on the Archos 80 Xenon is working fine.
Not having the phone is a big impediment for me to test things, and I have the Xenon only till 28`th, so this is my main platform for testing for now (identical spec with the 50 Plat, even the partition layout is identical , that`s why i believe that the phone function should work)
I will do another try with the touch version from the Xenon in the next days, maybe with will work with that one.
Yes, the directory binding is the same as simlinking

Does anyone know a fix for the incompatability with older routers? (Non Wifi-N support).
Sorry for the OT btw.
Edit: Second question. How do I revert back to stock firmware or stock mode [without root and CWM-recovery]? I used the non_sys-version.
Edit2: Tomorrow I will flash original firmware. Hopefully the alterations will be gone.

Nash123 said:
Does anyone know a fix for the incompatability with older routers? (Non Wifi-N support).
Sorry for the OT btw.
Edit: Second question. How do I revert back to stock firmware or stock mode [without root and CWM-recovery]? I used the non_sys-version.
Edit2: Tomorrow I will flash original firmware. Hopefully the alterations will be gone.
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I think you will need the sys_boot recovery for that, or the stock one, the non_sys boot will not allow you to flash stock firmware.

2016 version (new fingerprint scanner, combined sim/sd)

Hey guys,
It seems more and more people are receiving the new version of the P8000:
- Stock Android 6
- New fingerprint scanner that is moved slightly higher and is able to unlock phone from screen-off (I confirm this is working)
- Sim 2 is combined with the micro-sd (I haven't tried whether you can have them both in at the same time)
- Somethings new about the display, since people are reporting errors with it after flashing older roms.
Warning: do NOT flash other roms. We have no way to unbrick the soft bricks yet!
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Other topics that refer to this version:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-p8000/general/rom-p8000-t3431571
http://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-p8000/help/stock-rom-p8000b-t3434477
http://forum.xda-developers.com/elephone-p8000/general/p8000-version-announced-t3346848
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For development:
- The phone does not come pre-rooted. We have no way to flash custom recovery yet. Any tips for getting root? I've tried such tools as Kingo and vRoot, they don't work.
- We need the blocks file (scatter file) for SP Flash Tools. MTKDroidTools reports "unknown rom structure". Any help? Would love to start working on this.
Looking forward to hearing from others who have this version/who can help me with these questions.
Thanks!
Emile

Nice! Can you provide a dump from /system and /boot maybe?

BlueFlame4 said:
Nice! Can you provide a dump from /system and /boot maybe?
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I would, if I knew how to. Any pointers?

Emileh said:
I would, if I knew how to. Any pointers?
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Sure thing. On a rooted device, go into adb shell.
Then use "mount" command to check which partitions are mounted. One should be "/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system" or similar. Use "dd if=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system of=/storage/emulated/0/system.img bs=1M" to dump the system to the internal sdcard to the file "system.img". If adb complains that bs=1M is an invalid option, try again without that one. A system dump can take some time where you will not get any feedback, so be patient there
Do the same for boot. So "/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/boot" should be the way to go for the path. I cannot tell the definite pathes on Android 6.0 but I am rather sure they are more or less like this.
If you run into troubles, just ask

BlueFlame4 said:
Sure thing. On a rooted device, go into adb shell.
Then use "mount" command to check which partitions are mounted. One should be "/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system" or similar. Use "dd if=/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/system of=/storage/emulated/0/system.img bs=1M" to dump the system to the internal sdcard to the file "system.img". If adb complains that bs=1M is an invalid option, try again without that one. A system dump can take some time where you will not get any feedback, so be patient there
Do the same for boot. So "/dev/block/platform/mtk-msdc.0/by-name/boot" should be the way to go for the path. I cannot tell the definite pathes on Android 6.0 but I am rather sure they are more or less like this.
If you run into troubles, just ask
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Thank you for your great instructions! The problem is that we've yet to achieve root on this device. We don't have a custom recovery for this version of the P8000 yet and other 'standard' methods of rooting don't work for me.
(I'm pretty solid in shell, so I'll do this afterwards, but I guess root is actually the first step).
// Edit to say: it does not come pre-rooted

Since the elephone support on facebook didn't realize there are two different versions of the P8000 available, I still need a ROM to unbrick my phone.

flo1k said:
Since the elephone support on facebook didn't realize there are two different versions of the P8000 available, I still need a ROM to unbrick my phone.
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Ok, we know that, but doesn't really help us
Can you write them an e-mail?

I will do
Edit: OK, see if there will be an answer.

Thank you flo1k!

I have e-mailed as well, and would like to post on the Elephone forum, but don't seem to have access (because of minimum post count, I guess)
Anyone willing to ask for a ROM for the new P8000 on the forum there?

ROM Dump
@BlueFlame4
I can provide ROM dump in two versions:
1) a dump from adress 0000 0000 to 9d80 0000 (apr. 2.5 GB in one file)
2) a readback generated with the scatter.txt of the 'old' 5.1 stock ROM (apr. 2.8 GB seperated in 23 files)

FrauHofrat said:
@BlueFlame4
I can provide ROM dump in two versions:
1) a dump from adress 0000 0000 to 9d80 0000 (apr. 2.5 GB in one file)
2) a readback generated with the scatter.txt of the 'old' 5.1 stock ROM (apr. 2.8 GB seperated in 23 files)
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The second choice looks promising

Maybe a stupid question
where shall I upload the files - any preferred webspace?
I'm uploading the files - because they contain my NVRAM I send the link as PM as soon as the upload is finished

FrauHofrat said:
Maybe a stupid question
where shall I upload the files - any preferred webspace?
I'm uploading the files - because they contain my NVRAM I send the link as PM as soon as the upload is finished
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Are you sure we're talking about the same version of the P8000? Cause as far as I know there isn't 5.1 available for this version... Right?
Just checking thank you for your help in any case!! Really looking forward to it.
// edit: ah, you just used the old scatter file. But does that one work for this version?

Emileh said:
Are you sure we're talking about the same version of the P8000? Cause as far as I know there isn't 5.1 available for this version... Right?
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No, there is only one Firmware available - the mysterious P8000_6.0_20160516.
Btw, this Phone contains a new mainboard model "K06TS-L-V2.0.3" - the 'old' mainboard is moder "K05T...."
// edit: ah, you just used the old scatter file. But does that one work for this version?
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No, it doesn't work resp. the phone boots with this firmware, but the LCD-driver is the wrong one - the display only shows coloured lines and blurry spots. And there are probabely some more bugs ....

FrauHofrat said:
No, there is only one Firmware available - the mysterious P8000_6.0_20160516.
Btw, this Phone contains a new mainboard model "K06TS-L-V2.0.3" - the 'old' mainboard is moder "K05T...."
No, it doesn't work resp. the phone boots with this firmware, but the LCD-driver is the wrong one - the display only shows coloured lines and blurry spots. And there are probabely some more bugs ....
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But if the phone boots with the firmware, doesnt that mean that the scatter file of the regular P8000 works? Since it flashes the firmware correctly.

The problem is that I was not able to flash the 'readback files' to the faulty phone.
When selecting 'Only Download' at SP-Flashtool I got the error "PMT... must be download"
When selecting 'Firmware Upgrade" I got some BROM error code
In both cases I used the same scatter,txt which I used to 'readback' the firmware from the working phone
Actually I have to correct my statement in post #15:
I flashed the faulty phone with the last 5.1 stock ROM (160711) - with this stock ROM the phone boots up but LCD (and probably more things) is not working.

I have actually gotten alot further
You have the use the scatter.txt from Android 6.0, which works perfectly fine. I have been able to extract boot.img, system.img and recovery.img that way (using Readback in SP Flash Tools)
Which ones do you need?
They probably flash fine (only thing I've flashed so far are custom recoveries, and although my ported PhilZ starts, I havent gotten it to mount anything.)
A little warning: don't use anything that has anything to do with Android 5.1. Those scatter files don't work

These are great news!
"Which ones do you need?"
Probably all of them

Ok this contains the scatter file, preloader, system.img, boot.img and stock recovery.img
https://ehaffmans.stackstorage.com/index.php/s/uKGKCir0BociydU
You need SP Flash Tools v5, select the scatter file first, then deselect everything, and only select these 4 and manually select the correct files.
Btw, the name of the preloader file is wrong, don't worry. It came from this phone
I am of course not responsible for anything!
Can you guys please confirm this doesn't contain anything personal? Like personal files or IMEI or something. Thanks!

partition.xml needed for unbricking hardbricked 5X devices!

Could somebody provide us with a full eMMC backup of a 16GB and 32GB model so that we can build partition.xml and extract rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml from it to unbrick our devices with QFIL/QPST?
(this issue is rather specific, you cannot access the phone by ADB,fastboot or LGUP, but Windows recognizes it as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 so it's fixable with the appropriate files)

qb74 said:
Could somebody provide us with a full eMMC backup of a 16GB and 32GB model so that we can build partition.xml and extract rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml from it to unbrick our devices with QFIL/QPST?
(this issue is rather specific, you cannot access the phone by ADB,fastboot or LGUP, but Windows recognizes it as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 so it's fixable with the appropriate files)
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I have no idea to make such a backup since I cannot access the device's emmc in Linux.
I've used this method on another phone but there I could access the emmc directly as external storage by using a key combo on boot.
Skickat från min Nexus 5X via Tapatalk

Nicktheprofessor said:
I have no idea to make such a backup since I cannot access the device's emmc in Linux.
I've used this method on another phone but there I could access the emmc directly as external storage by using a key combo on boot.
Skickat från min Nexus 5X via Tapatalk
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here
it's for another chipset, but the same process applies for all chipsets.

qb74 said:
here
it's for another chipset, but the same process applies for all chipsets.
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Can't help you with that one then since I'm running Linux on all my machines. Too bad, I wouldn't mind having a complete backup.
Skickat från min Nexus 5X via Tapatalk

Maybe the people with Linux machines and free time would wanna try this?
https://androidforums.com/threads/guide-how-to-create-partition-xml-gpt.1125433/

gogozombiii said:
Maybe the people with Linux machines and free time would wanna try this?
https://androidforums.com/threads/guide-how-to-create-partition-xml-gpt.1125433/
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@Nicktheprofessor Try checking this out, if you got the time! You would help the community out a ton!

qb74 said:
@Nicktheprofessor Try checking this out, if you got the time! You would help the community out a ton!
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I'll need an OTG storage device to do this. I can backup the entire thing using dd but it can't be written to the internal storage (for obvious reasons, it would then backup the backup and the backup of the backup and so on).
If I could access it on the computer or send it to the computer then that would work but I'm not aware of any way to do that without storing it locally first (which, as previously mentioned, is impossible to do).
[EDIT] I wonder if it's possible to use adb root pull from TWRP to pull /dev/mmcblk0, I'll try that after cleaning it up. If that works then it's a piece of cake to do this on any phone. [/EDIT]

qb74 said:
Could somebody provide us with a full eMMC backup of a 16GB and 32GB model so that we can build partition.xml and extract rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml from it to unbrick our devices with QFIL/QPST?
(this issue is rather specific, you cannot access the phone by ADB,fastboot or LGUP, but Windows recognizes it as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 so it's fixable with the appropriate files)
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OK, so I managed to do a complete backup via adb pull /dev/mmcblk0
For future reference, this is the easiest way:
From a fastboot boot twrp:
adb root
adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img
Now, that's 13GB worth of data that you don't need, I can give you a part table on this (using part) or whatever you need but It's a bit too big to upload as is.
I can run an emulator and mount it as is and that works too but all I can extract from there is data.
Now, shutting down your device and inserting your USB cable while holding vol + AND vol- seems to mount emmc as portable storage, that should mean that you can dd the entire thing right onto the device?

Nicktheprofessor said:
OK, so I managed to do a complete backup via adb pull /dev/mmcblk0
For future reference, this is the easiest way:
From a fastboot boot twrp:
adb root
adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img
Now, that's 13GB worth of data that you don't need, I can give you a part table on this (using part) or whatever you need but It's a bit too big to upload as is.
I can run an emulator and mount it as is and that works too but all I can extract from there is data.
Now, shutting down your device and inserting your USB cable while holding vol + AND vol- seems to mount emmc as portable storage, that should mean that you can dd the entire thing right onto the device?
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Maybe? Not entirely sure if the dd method could work since this kind of hardbrick literally bricks your phone if you don't have the right files. Great job on the backup though! Mind telling me the steps for dd-ing the entire thing onto my device?
Or better, create partition.xml and extract & upload rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml so that I can use myself as a test dummy.
its a guide for linux systems, hopefully you can help us get one step closer to fixing our devices!

qb74 said:
Maybe? Not entirely sure if the dd method could work since this kind of hardbrick literally bricks your phone if you don't have the right files. Great job on the backup though! Mind telling me the steps for dd-ing the entire thing onto my device?
Or better, create partition.xml and extract & upload rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml so that I can use myself as a test dummy.
its a guide for linux systems, hopefully you can help us get one step closer to fixing our devices!
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Yeah, that doesn't help since it's made for extracting a partition.xml from a .KDZ where these partition files exist.
In a copy of your disk that doesn't exist, there isn't a file to copy and paste into that.
I can do the partition table and partition sectors if you want that but without knowing what is actually needed (as in the source code in the tool used to fix the device) I can't really help.
I'll check if i can put a device in that state and see what happens with the emmc connection.

Nicktheprofessor said:
Yeah, that doesn't help since it's made for extracting a partition.xml from a .KDZ where these partition files exist.
In a copy of your disk that doesn't exist, there isn't a file to copy and paste into that.
I can do the partition table and partition sectors if you want that but without knowing what is actually needed (as in the source code in the tool used to fix the device) I can't really help.
I'll check if i can put a device in that state and see what happens with the emmc connection.
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Get the partition table and partition sectors, that's a start! (even though I got no clue how to continue after that )
Do you mean the source code of QPST/QFIL? That's a rather impossible task though

qb74 said:
Get the partition table and partition sectors, that's a start! (even though I got no clue how to continue after that )
Do you mean the source code of QPST/QFIL? That's a rather impossible task though
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I'm talking about the source code of the programming tool but I might not need that either if i can just examine it on my own and I have one of those devices on hand come tuesday.
I'm fairly confident that I can build a programmer to rewrite the emmc with whatever I want it to if i can just get a hold of the system calls.
Do you want to work together on this? It seems to me that it would be worthwhile even in the long run as QC are unlikely to change this procedure.

Nicktheprofessor said:
I'm talking about the source code of the programming tool but I might not need that either if i can just examine it on my own and I have one of those devices on hand come tuesday.
I'm fairly confident that I can build a programmer to rewrite the emmc with whatever I want it to if i can just get a hold of the system calls.
Do you want to work together on this? It seems to me that it would be worthwhile even in the long run as QC are unlikely to change this procedure.
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Absolutely! Even though I don't have the necessary knowledge with Android/Linux, I do have basic Windows knowledge. I'd be glad to help out the community as a whole!

bump!

qb74 said:
Could somebody provide us with a full eMMC backup of a 16GB and 32GB model so that we can build partition.xml and extract rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml from it to unbrick our devices with QFIL/QPST?
(this issue is rather specific, you cannot access the phone by ADB,fastboot or LGUP, but Windows recognizes it as Qualcomm HS-USB QDLoader 9008 so it's fixable with the appropriate files)
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i just found for the nexus 5x the lg tot firmware u can use it to make the partition.xml
lg h791 16g
drive.google.com/uc?id=0B89Fk5GHkvZqb3I3bV9rTksxZFE&export=download
lg h791 32g
cloud.mail.ru/public/G1bp/vhoVk1MwW
i used BoardDiag to extract the frimware
drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw1P9EP0d9nZY0FUall1VWVvc0k/view
and here is how to build partition.xml and extract rawprogram0.xml and patch0.xml from it
youtube.com/watch?v=BmAuzbG9re4
now we need prog emmc firehose 8992.mbn to use with QFIL/QPST
i hope u can find a solution i'm stuck with a dead nexus 5x for the moment

do you need h798 16G version dd image? if you need I can dump to you
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Nicktheprofessor said:
OK, so I managed to do a complete backup via adb pull /dev/mmcblk0
For future reference, this is the easiest way:
From a fastboot boot twrp:
adb root
adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img
Now, that's 13GB worth of data that you don't need, I can give you a part table on this (using part) or whatever you need but It's a bit too big to upload as is.
I can run an emulator and mount it as is and that works too but all I can extract from there is data.
Now, shutting down your device and inserting your USB cable while holding vol + AND vol- seems to mount emmc as portable storage, that should mean that you can dd the entire thing right onto the device?
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adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img
this command does not work
first there no device /dev/mmcblk0 but in /dev/block/mmcblk0 second adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 emmc.img does not work.
F:\BaiduNetdiskDownload>adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img
adb: error: remote object '/dev/mmcblk0' does not exist

youxiaojie said:
do you need h798 16G version dd image? if you need I can dump to you
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adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img
this command does not work
first there no device /dev/mmcblk0 but in /dev/block/mmcblk0 second adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 emmc.img does not work.
F:\BaiduNetdiskDownload>adb pull /dev/mmcblk0 emmc.img
adb: error: remote object '/dev/mmcblk0' does not exist
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You need to reboot to a TWRP (or whatever recovery that supports unencrypted storage) that supports unencrypted devices before you attempt it.
You have to do this through fastboot boot recovery.img and not through flashing it. You are correct about /dev/block/mmcblk0 though. My apologies for the confusion caused by that.

I got it
Nicktheprofessor said:
You need to reboot to a TWRP (or whatever recovery that supports unencrypted storage) that supports unencrypted devices before you attempt it.
You have to do this through fastboot boot recovery.img and not through flashing it. You are correct about /dev/block/mmcblk0 though. My apologies for the confusion caused by that.
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after formatting data partition, I removed whole disk encrypt and success run "adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 emmc.img" command.
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bpcvqV1
and do I used "adb push emmc.img /dev/block/mmcblk0" to recover whole emmc when my phone soft bricked?

youxiaojie said:
after formatting data partition, I removed whole disk encrypt and success run "adb pull /dev/block/mmcblk0 emmc.img" command.
https://pan.baidu.com/s/1bpcvqV1
and do I used "adb push emmc.img /dev/block/mmcblk0" to recover whole emmc when my phone soft bricked?
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file is not working, getting a error when unzipping it

qb74 said:
file is not working, getting a error when unzipping it
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https://mega.nz/#!Oo9DxJyL!rzFl_s2ie1frCr79TpYTYKoeXNwg78d5dc-a71bkInE
try this again

Razer is bricked, please help. Need complete emmc image.

Bricked my razer a while back reinstalling the stock firmware. The cable unplugged from the phone and corrupted the storage. Cant enter recovery or bootloader. But according to some resources that i came across while doing some research, im able to interface with the device using the qualcomm hs-usb protocol. With that im able to directly access the devices storage. If anyone is willing to help, what id need is for you to wipe your device clean, and run these commands
Adb shell
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dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/storage/sdcard1/backup.img bs=512 count=30535646
From there id be able to delete the partition table, and copy the devices storage config from the backup. Once thats established id be able to access bootloader recovery and system.
If anyone is able to help, id really appreciate it
Thanks

i too have done the exact same now stuck with a brick hope someone can help

slavix66 said:
Bricked my razer a while back reinstalling the stock firmware. The cable unplugged from the phone and corrupted the storage. Cant enter recovery or bootloader. But according to some resources that i came across while doing some research, im able to interface with the device using the qualcomm hs-usb protocol. With that im able to directly access the devices storage. If anyone is willing to help, what id need is for you to wipe your device clean, and run these commands
Adb shell
Su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/storage/sdcard1/backup.img bs=512 count=30535646
From there id be able to delete the partition table, and copy the devices storage config from the backup. Once thats established id be able to access bootloader recovery and system.
If anyone is able to help, id really appreciate it
Thanks
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hi any look on finding emmc or a work around for this?.i been at it all day i even resorted to opening device up to disconnect battery...nothing

parky169 said:
hi any look on finding emmc or a work around for this?.i been at it all day i even resorted to opening device up to disconnect battery...nothing
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Nope nothing yet, we need either emmc development files for the phone, no likely to find. And with the qualcomm tools the corrupted storage can be re partitioned and again be written to.
However if someone with a working razer was to wipe the device clean, and dump partition info. Then the images can be written to the device, over writing the damaged partitions.

Black screen on my razer phone. can't access download or recovery. any help will be greatly appreciated. the computer makes a sound when I plug in the razer phone.

sinkoo1979 said:
Black screen on my razer phone. can't access download or recovery. any help will be greatly appreciated. the computer makes a sound when I plug in the razer phone.
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Your razer is in a state known as EDL. I5s the qualcomm Emergency Download mode. Used to program your emmc storage. That is exactly what the few of us are experiencing, however with no owners of the device willing to share a default wiped image of their emmc, there is no way for us to remap the partitions appropriately in order to once again flash and access the bootloader.

If you could let me know how one would do it I might be able to help you before I sell my razer phone

Thank you, if you restore your phone back to factory settings, connect to pc via adb and run the command in the initial post. That command should (from what i read elsewhere) create a full backup of the partitions on your device. If you are successfull and are able to share through some cloud storage such as dropbox or something of the like, i should be able to restore my razer.

slavix66 said:
Thank you, if you restore your phone back to factory settings, connect to pc via adb and run the command in the initial post. That command should (from what i read elsewhere) create a full backup of the partitions on your device. If you are successfull and are able to share through some cloud storage such as dropbox or something of the like, i should be able to restore my razer.
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im guessing i will need root to run those commands, atm i am performing a full nandroid backup of everything before i do the reset, my phone is rooted and has twrp installed on both a and b partions

extracted the files, the img is 13GB so gonna compress it before i upload it, hopefully it should work but will have to be tomorrow now

uploading the file now

ok done, heres the link
http://www.mediafire.com/file/j3j6pp3ym161t0q/backup.7z/file
you will need 7zip to extract it which you can get from here for free www.7zip.org

slavix66 said:
Bricked my razer a while back reinstalling the stock firmware. The cable unplugged from the phone and corrupted the storage. Cant enter recovery or bootloader. But according to some resources that i came across while doing some research, im able to interface with the device using the qualcomm hs-usb protocol. With that im able to directly access the devices storage. If anyone is willing to help, what id need is for you to wipe your device clean, and run these commands
Adb shell
Su
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/storage/sdcard1/backup.img bs=512 count=30535646
From there id be able to delete the partition table, and copy the devices storage config from the backup. Once thats established id be able to access bootloader recovery and system.
If anyone is able to help, id really appreciate it
Thanks
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hi xda member dtronics has very kindly uploaded a complete back up approx 13gb
file.do you know how to use this to restore/repair our phones?.

Excellent, i will take a look and see if i can push it to the device in edl mode. The thread has been dead for a while, so it may take a while for me to review all the previous resources that led me to the point where i had posted this thread.
Thank you so very much!

This is the article I was using to attempt salvaging my phone.
https://www.droidsavvy.com/unbrick-qualcomm-mobiles/
Unfortunately I am in the EDL mode where my device storage is not recognized, so I am unable to tamper with it until the razer phones flash programmer or firehose files have been leaked.
Hopefully someone else may have success resurrecting their device using dtronic's backup and or with the information provided in the link.
Thank you any and all of you who have contributed or followed the thread. But my trail ends here unless the flash programmer files are somehow made available.

Unfortunately sadly I too couldn't work out a way to flash or recover razer phone with the upload from dtronics.thank you to all involved,but I think it's time to chuck the old razer in the bin.this is my first ever failure or perm bricked device since I started rooting etc with the HTC wildfire.
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Tried Klinik handphone medan (google search). They have firehose for msm 8998 but I removed the usb cable when it was flashing (didn't look like it was flashing anything) now the computer don't even recognize the phone....
getting this message "Unknown USB Device (Device Descriptor Request Failed)".

parky169 said:
Unfortunately sadly I too couldn't work out a way to flash or recover razer phone with the upload from dtronics.thank you to all involved,but I think it's time to chuck the old razer in the bin.this is my first ever failure or perm bricked device since I started rooting etc with the HTC wildfire.
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is there any way to pull the firehose and xml file from working razer phone? getting another one for cheap.
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slavix66 said:
This is the article I was using to attempt salvaging my phone.
https://www.droidsavvy.com/unbrick-qualcomm-mobiles/
Unfortunately I am in the EDL mode where my device storage is not recognized, so I am unable to tamper with it until the razer phones flash programmer or firehose files have been leaked.
Hopefully someone else may have success resurrecting their device using dtronic's backup and or with the information provided in the link.
Thank you any and all of you who have contributed or followed the thread. But my trail ends here unless the flash programmer files are somehow made available.
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is there any way to pull the firehose and xml file from working razer phone? getting another one for cheap.

sinkoo1979 said:
is there any way to pull the firehose and xml file from working razer phone? getting another one for cheap.
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is there any way to pull the firehose and xml file from working razer phone? getting another one for cheap.
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I wouldnt know for sure. But my understanding is the programmer files (firehose or sahara files) arent stored on the device. They are used by programmer interface to identify the processor as well as the storage media, possibly all harware for the device. If this were a more mainstream device the programmer files may have been available to us through a leak. Only way to fix it at this point would be to bring it to a shop, they should have access to the files one way or another.

I don't know, I don't have my razer phone any more, went and got myself a OnePlus 6t, the emmc file is still available to download from my post and still looking for people to mirror the file

One of the BEST things you can do to Moto Z Play XDA Community (Takes a while! ;) )

EDIT: THE DEVDB PROJECT HAS RISEN UP!
https://forum.xda-developers.com/moto-z-play/development/project-real-unbrick-hard-bricked-moto-t3927107
This is so easy to do, and can be sooo helpful if one day You will end with hard-brick.
If you have any questions send me a private message. :good:
Hey! My name is Jacob and I must tell you that there is one common problem with Moto Z Play - OTA after downgroading results in hardbrick :silly:
I have also bricked my device some days ago, since then I have gathered interesting info, probably all old and not so old blankflash files (these were used in the past to unbrick, but don't work now) and two tools, that allowed me to make proper rawprogram0, patch0 and gpt_main0.bin needed for making files, that will allow everyone to unbrick.
But this can be worth nothing without your help. Problem with unbricking, is that last OTA, updated chip security making unable to flash older chip firmware rendering all flashfiles useless. To make new one, I must get some files that are not present in the internet, but are present in ALL working phones. All I need is full mmcblk0 backup. If you want to help follow these easy-peasy instructions:
INFO: Procedure bellow excludes EFS, MODEMST1, MODEMST2, FSG, BACKUP partitions from backup. These are your phone specific partitions, that contain sensitive information like IMEI, serial numbers etc, but this guide shows how to avoid them while backing up so you don't have to worry about it
Prerequisites:
1. Your phone might be rooted (but doesn't have to be), definitelly should be working and not messed up too much.
2. You must have at least 32 GB micro sd card
3. Any ROM, even custom will be good, but if you have stock, you get +1 point
Steps:
1. If you have TWRP recovery, boot into it and go to step 2.
If you don't have, here is official one https://eu.dl.twrp.me/addison/ - rename it to "twrp.img" and boot to it with
Code:
fastboot boot twrp.img
2. Backup your /data partition and keep it in safe place
3. Format sdcard in ext4 (it is more robust and failsafe) or FAT32/exFAT (if you are on windows).[/URL]
4. Wipe /data on your phone and insert sdcard. Under "Mount" tab in TWRP, check box next to SD-CARD.
5. Open TWRP terminal emulator (It is in advamced tab), type "su" and run these command:
If you trust me that I won't do bad things with your IMEI:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/[U][I]"Ext sd location here"[/I][/U]/Loader.img bs=4096
This just makes full-backup of your all partitions from Qualcomm chip.
OR
If you don't trust me:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0p[B][COLOR="Red"]X[/COLOR][/B] of=/[B][COLOR="DeepSkyBlue"]Y[/COLOR][/B]/mmcblk0p[COLOR="Red"]X[/COLOR] bs=4096
Where X is number of partition from 1 to 54 BUT NOT: 27 (modemst1), 28 (modemst2), 29 (fsg)
and Y is location of your SD-CARD. This will only back up partitions without IMEI, and other phone-specific info.
6 Generated files will be HUGE (~27GB). Copy them to pc and upload to cloud. Maby https://mega.nz/ - probably only they have enough space for that file for free.
7 Post link here or send it to me via Private Message.
8 That's all! If you managed to get here, all comunity is grateful, :highfive: you will be included as biggest contribuor to the new thread I will make in near future!

If I find the time I will throw my old Z Play back to stock and try this. But can take a while before I have that time. Especially uploading that amount of data which would take me at least 12 hours. So if I do that, I will most likely get it into a split archive

Unfortunately I don't have a 32Gb sdcard. If there's another way to do this, I'm willing to help

Camarda said:
Unfortunately I don't have a 32Gb sdcard. If there's another way to do this, I'm willing to help
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The only other way I know would be a USB C OTG adapter and a USB stick...

Artim_96 said:
If I find the time I will throw my old Z Play back to stock and try this. But can take a while before I have that time. Especially uploading that amount of data which would take me at least 12 hours. So if I do that, I will most likely get it into a split archive
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Camarda said:
Unfortunately I don't have a 32Gb sdcard. If there's another way to do this, I'm willing to help
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Thank you very much guys! You don't even know how much did you motivated me to continue research when I got your responses. If you will have any problem, ask me for advice - I will try to help. :highfive:
In case of Artim_96, you probably know this one, but to split dd image, you can use (obviously) "skip" parameter, for example:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_1.img bs=4096 count=10GB
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_2.img bs=4096 skip=10GB count=10GB
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_3.img bs=4096 skip=20GB count=10GB
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_4.img bs=4096 skip=30GB
In case of Camarda: ...
Code:
adb -d shell su -c busybox dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 bs=4096 > D:\mmc.bin
... should do the job, where "D:\mmc.bin" can be any other valid location on your pc.
To make this work, you must have root and busybox installed.

Bobernator said:
In case of Artim_96, you probably know this one, but to split dd image, you can use (obviously) "skip" parameter, for example:
Code:
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_1.img bs=4096 count=10GB
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_2.img bs=4096 skip=10GB count=10GB
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_3.img bs=4096 skip=20GB count=10GB
dd if=/dev/block/mmcblk0 of=/sdcard/mmcblk0_4.img bs=4096 skip=30GB
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that would be a solution, but I guess it's way easier to create one image, zip it and let it get split to about 5 GB chunks, and probably creating a check sum for each before upload
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but what I don't get: I should make a backup of /data, for what? And then I should connect the phone to my PC, but the following commands look very much like linux commands, so the connection to PC seems unneccessary. Plus, for what reason does the SD Card need to be ext4? the commands should work with exFAT too plus no windows system can read ext4. And there is no program to read it for Windows that's slow as hell

Artim_96 said:
that would be a solution, but I guess it's way easier to create one image, zip it and let it get split to about 5 GB chunks, and probably creating a check sum for each before upload
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but what I don't get: I should make a backup of /data, for what? And then I should connect the phone to my PC, but the following commands look very much like linux commands, so the connection to PC seems unneccessary. Plus, for what reason does the SD Card need to be ext4? the commands should work with exFAT too plus no windows system can read ext4. And there is no program to read it for Windows that's slow as hell
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Sorry, I was in a bit hurry when I was writing tutorial. I have just corected misteakes in it. :silly:
That part with backing up /data and wiping it is just for Your comfort - You probably don't want to include all you photos, videos contacts etc, in the backup, I am wrong?
EDIT: You are right, solution with splitting archive is clearly better, becouse of smaller size and auto merging archives

Bobernator said:
Sorry, I was in a bit hurry when I was writing tutorial. I have just corected misteakes in it. :silly:
That part with backing up /data and wiping it is just for Your comfort - You probably don't want to include all you photos, videos contacts etc, in the backup, I am wrong?
EDIT: You are right, solution with splitting archive is clearly better, because of smaller size and auto merging archives
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Would it help you to get /data too? It's my old phone, screen is quite damaged so there is nothing worth looking for on it. Plus it was completely wiped twice by flashing the firmware with flashfile and unlocking the bootloader again since flashing the firmware locked it.

Data partition is absolutely not needed, but thanks for asking!

zip compressing was totally worth it. It went from 29.1 GB to just 2.58 GB?

Artim_96 said:
zip compressing was totally worth it. It went from 29.1 GB to just 2.58 GB?
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Thanks for support!
@Camarda - You are from Brasil, so you probably have different version of software, so if you will upload it, phones outside of Europe can be safed too. Do you still want to help?

Bobernator said:
Thanks for support!
@Camarda - You are from Brasil, so you probably have different version of software, so if you will upload it, phones outside of Europe can be safed too. Do you still want to help?
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I just sent you the file, tell me if everything is ok

Thank you! Artim's backup is not working on my phone, and I suddenly realised that my exam ending my school are in less than month (!), so I didn't have time neither to write a thread, nor to reverse engineer the file, but I will try to find time and test your backup!
Ps. Don't worry about me beeing temporiarly inactive, this thread is my current target and I won't give up!

Bobernator said:
Thank you! Artim's backup is not working on my phone, and I suddenly realised that my exam ending my school are in less than month (!), so I didn't have time neither to write a thread, nor to reverse engineer the file, but I will try to find time and test your backup!
Ps. Don't worry about me beeing temporiarly inactive, this thread is my current target and I won't give up!
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Bobernator, I'm just posting to let you know that I am very thankful for your efforts and to take as long as you need. I have a LATAM XT1635-02 that got bricked by an automatic update quite a few months ago. It's in fastboot state. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know.
I now own a XT1710-06, so if you think the files from it could be useful, let me know.

Welcome again! My exams have just ended (I hope they went well) I am temporally at my uncle's house so I don't have access to files and info I've gathered, but I will return to home at friday and even Easter will not stop me, becouse I have decided to start DevXDA project!
Stay with me guys

Fulcano said:
Bobernator, I'm just posting to let you know that I am very thankful for your efforts and to take as long as you need. I have a LATAM XT1635-02 that got bricked by an automatic update quite a few months ago. It's in fastboot state. If there is anything I can do to help, let me know.
I now own a XT1710-06, so if you think the files from it could be useful, let me know.
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I think I you can easly fix your phone, since fastboot works. You will need factory update zip, it is pinned somewhere in this forum, but if you feel unsure (you can brick phone even harder with this method if it goes wrong), I can assist you during the weekend and share a link with correct zip.
And thanks for support!
Device which you have is Moto Z2 Play (albus) that have next version of the chip in Moto Z Play (addison). My plan is to fix addison by combining some of the firmware from it and albus, but these files are available freely and you don't need to send them.

Bobernator said:
I think I you can easly fix your phone, since fastboot works. You will need factory update zip, it is pinned somewhere in this forum, but if you feel unsure (you can brick phone even harder with this method if it goes wrong), I can assist you during the weekend and share a link with correct zip.
And thanks for support!
Device which you have is Moto Z2 Play (albus) that have next version of the chip in Moto Z Play (addison). My plan is to fix addison by combining some of the firmware from it and albus, but these files are available freely and you don't need to send them.
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Thanks for the reply! Sorry, i've been quite busy with exams as well.
It's been a while since the phone is bricked, and i think fastboot was the wrong word. When it is plugged in it appears as a qualcomm device and the LED blinks, but other than that the phone does absolutely nothing. I remember being unable to unbrick it because of needing a `programmer.pem` file specific to the version of android that was installed.
The phone had an unlocked bootloader, twrp and supersu. It got stuck during an OEM update from 7.1.1 (i think) to 8.0.0. It was stuck for over four hours, I turned it off by force and then it never turned on again .
With regards to the Moto Z2 files, that's fantastic to hear. If there's anything else I can do to help, please say so. I've configured email alerts now so i'll get notified when you reply .
Thanks for the effort!