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====== Android ZTE Blade A610: a Rooting Review ====== | ====== Android ZTE Blade A610: a Rooting Review ====== | ||
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===== How to enter the stock Recovery ===== | ===== How to enter the stock Recovery ===== | ||
- | **Power-off** the device, then power-on using **VolumeUp + Power**. You will enter the **Boot mode select menu**, choose Recovery using VolumeUp, confirm with VolumeDown. You will be presented with a **Broken droid image**; press **VolumeUp + Power** (sometimes it is required to keep them pressed for about 10 seconds) to enter the Recovery menu. | + | {{ .: |
+ | **Power-off** the device, then power-on using **VolumeUp + Power**. You will enter the **Boot mode select menu**, choose | ||
===== Rooting ===== | ===== Rooting ===== | ||
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If you don't install Magisk when you run TWRP and you **allow system modifications**, | If you don't install Magisk when you run TWRP and you **allow system modifications**, | ||
- | - Enable **Developer options**, **OEM unlocking** and **USB debugging** | + | - Enable **Developer options**, **OEM unlocking** and **USB debugging**. |
- | - Restart | + | - **Optional step**: restart |
- | - Reboot | + | - Copy **Magisk-v20.3.zip** and **MagiskManager-v7.5.1.apk** to /sdcard. |
- | - Copy **Magisk-v20.3.zip** and **MagiskManager-v7.5.1.apk** to /sdcard | + | - If you did the optional step #2, restart |
- | - Restart | + | - Boot in TWRP recovery, allow modification, |
- | - Boot in TWRP recovery, allow modification, | + | - **Wipe Dalvik cache** and reboot. |
- | - **Wipe Dalvik cache** and reboot | + | - Install **MagiskManager-v7.5.1.apk**. |
- | - Install **MagiskManager-v7.5.1.apk** | + | |
Here some more details. | Here some more details. | ||
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=== OEM unlock === | === OEM unlock === | ||
- | Now you can actually unlock the bootloader; once unlocked, you can boot the phone from a custom operating system image (we will use TWRP because it can install Magisk). Beware that OEM unlocking implies a **factory | + | It turned out that performing this step **is not strictly required**: if you flash the TWRP Recovery using the **SP Flash Tool** graphical software, you don't need to issue the '' |
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+ | Otherwise, if you wan use only the command line, now you have to actually unlock the bootloader. Once unlocked, you can boot the phone from a custom operating system image (we will use TWRP because it can install Magisk). Beware that OEM unlocking implies a **factory | ||
Start the phone in **fastboot mode** and execute the following command from the attached PC: | Start the phone in **fastboot mode** and execute the following command from the attached PC: | ||
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Once rooted, the **On-The-Air updates will fail** because almost certainly a new kernel with dm-verity enabled is insalled. This will detect the modifications to the system partition, **freezing the bootstrap at the ZTE logo**. Your chance is to perform a restore once notified that an update is available. Restore the **boot.bin**, | Once rooted, the **On-The-Air updates will fail** because almost certainly a new kernel with dm-verity enabled is insalled. This will detect the modifications to the system partition, **freezing the bootstrap at the ZTE logo**. Your chance is to perform a restore once notified that an update is available. Restore the **boot.bin**, | ||
- | ===== Removing Useless Apps ===== | + | ===== Removing Useless Apps ===== |
This device includes by default some **useless apps**, following the bad habit very much in vogue in these days. Some can be removed simply by **uninstalling them**, others require **root privileges** to be removed. | This device includes by default some **useless apps**, following the bad habit very much in vogue in these days. Some can be removed simply by **uninstalling them**, others require **root privileges** to be removed. | ||
- | ^ AccuWeather | + | ^ AccuWeather |
- | ^ Facebook | + | ^ Clean Master |
- | ^ WPS Office | + | ^ Facebook |
- | ^ Clean Master | + | ^ Twitter |
+ | ^ WPS Office | ||
^ ZTE Cares | ^ ZTE Cares | ||
^ MiFavor Desktop | ^ MiFavor Desktop | ||
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reboot | reboot | ||
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+ | FIXME: What are the following? Should them be removed too? | ||
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===== Installing the MS-Windows ADB Drivers ===== | ===== Installing the MS-Windows ADB Drivers ===== | ||
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+ | ===== Obsolete MTK Droid Tools ===== | ||
Despite the ADB drivers are correctly installed, the **MTK Droid Tools** does not work because the smartphone runs Android 6.0. The error message is: **Unknown ROM structure, backup NOT possibile!** | Despite the ADB drivers are correctly installed, the **MTK Droid Tools** does not work because the smartphone runs Android 6.0. The error message is: **Unknown ROM structure, backup NOT possibile!** |
doc/appunti/hardware/zte_blade_a610.txt · Last modified: 2024/08/23 09:40 by niccolo