Android mobile phone stuff

On this page you will a collection of short notes regarding android phones.

All comments, suggestions etc. are welcome. Please contact me at wf-hp@gmx.net.

THL 5000
Oukitel U11 Plus
Doogee DG310 Voyager2
Useful apps

Oukitel U11 Plus

Volume up -> menu how to boot
select Fastboot (go there with volume_up, select with volume_down

run
fastboot oem unlock
phone: question to unlock bootloader?
press volume up
then the fastboot oem unlock runs and unlocks the bootloader

fastboot oem unlock
< waiting for device >
...
(bootloader) Start unlock flow

OKAY [ 42.465s]
finished. total time: 42.465s

phone does not react
power switch 10 seconds
Orange state
Your device has been unlocked and cant't be trusted
Your device will boot in 5 seconds
phone switches off

switch on again, press volume_up for boot menu
select fastboot

run
# fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
< waiting for device >
target reported max download size of 134217728 bytes
sending 'recovery' (13534 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.668s]
writing 'recovery'...
OKAY [ 0.333s]
finished. total time: 1.001s

phone does not react
power switch 10 seconds

press volume_up to get to TWRP

see this video how to change the TWRP language if you don't understand Russian and downloaded a default Russian version https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxPeYJYsUYU No is a good time to insert a micro SD card and backup all partitions in TWRP, especially the nvram

Phone is always rebooting into TWRP Recovery, no matter what reboot option you choose. therefore we try to lock the bootloader again

reboot to bootloader, at the same time run
fastboot oem lock
question on the phone
lock bootloader?
confirm with volume_up
fastboot oem lock
< waiting for device >
...
(bootloader) Start lock flow

OKAY [ 7.943s]
finished. total time: 7.943s

10 seconds power button to switch off
reboot system
no warning State Orange

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Wipe
Dalvik / ART Cache
Cache
)notwendig?

flash supersu from SD card
reboot

Where to find the OTA update file in Android 7? here it was downloaded to /data/data/com.adups.fota/files/adupsfota/update.zip

How to uninstall superSU? https://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=63615067&postcount=2459

Links
https://www.androidweblog.com/root-oukitel-u11-plus-4g-install-twrp-recovery/
https://forum.xda-developers.com/android/general/oukitel-u11-plus-development-support-t3627905

K9 mail stops syncing after some time, as caldav seems to do. It seems to help to deactivate battery optimisation go to Settings - Battery - menu: battery optimization select 'All apps' tap on K-9 Mail, select 'Don't optimize' confirm now syncing should work all the time

THL 5000

rooting

Rooting works with baidu root, version 2.4.6 (at the moment available only in Chinese). I tried framaroot and towelroot, none of them worked.
The root is permanent and stays after a reboot.
After rooting install SuperSU instead of the Chinese root Permission program. Then you can remove all the Chinese programs (one of them displays Chinese ads in the status bar).

installing custom recovery and ROM

Connect the phone to your computer and install adb and fastboot
apt-get install android-tools-adb android-tools-fastboot

Test the connection by running adb shell, you should get a shell on your phone.

The first problem is that several tools for installing a recovery recognize the recovery as TWRP, but cannot update it or install the correct recovery.

# fastboot flash recovery recovery.img
sending 'recovery' (9542 KB)...
OKAY [ 0.337s]
writing 'recovery'...
FAILED (remote:
partition 'recovery' not support flash)
finished. total time: 0.346s


The only solution that worked for me was installing the recovery.img by hand on the phone itself. But a recent custom recovery is needed to install the custom ROM, wipe the dalvik cache and other things.

# fastboot update Cyanogen-VX.zip
archive does not contain 'android-info.txt'
archive does not contain 'android-product.txt'
error: update package has no android-info.txt or android-product.txt


reboot to bootloader adb reboot bootloader

when the phone has booted into fastboot unlock the bootloader (I don't know if this is really necessary, please give feedback)
fastboot oem unlock
and follow the instructions on the screen (so obviously it was locked before and unlocking was successful)

connect to the phone
adb shell

become root
su

Download the TWRP archive from the linked page on .... and extract the recovery.img).
Next get the recovery.img for TWRP to the phone.

On one of the pages I found on the net they use
adb push recovery.img /destination-folder/
but for me this did not work, because when becoming root with su I could not read the contents of the folders where I could push the file to.

So the quick and easy way for me was to download the recovery.img from a server after becoming root
wget http://my.server/recovery.img
This way I had the file in a directory that I could access.

Then write the recovery.img directly to the necessary device (you are root, you can write anywhere, but you should know what you are doing!)
dd if=recovery.img of=/dev/recovery
If that is successful you just made it. Now you have installed TWRP.

reboot recovery

If everything worked you should get into the TWRP recovery you just installed.

Now you can flash the ROM that you have copied to your SD-card, wipe all necessary memories/caches and enjoy your new ROM.

Links:

http://www.needrom.com/category/thl/thl-5000/ http://www.needrom.com/download/marchmallow/