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Started by darth · Jun 26, 2022 · Page 10 of 26

it says "Secure Boot failure! dm-verity corruption!"

Flippy

darth Yes it is advisable to have updated to the KEEZ update

Where do I see if I have the KEEZ update?

lgexalter1 How do I disable dm-verity?
Update: I figured it out, thanks

darth

ZTEGuy Thank you for trying, Sorry I bricked your device.

lgexalter1 It was pulled directly from device (and flashed fine on my device before I shared it)

Flippy Settings>About Phone>Software information>Software version

ZTEGuy Did you get your phone back working? I can share an unmodified super. vbmeta.zipis a zip with all the vbmeta.

Just out of curiosity, does anyone know how to change the splash screen when the phone starts up?

darth

ZTEGuy Its located in product>media>bootanimation.zip I tried changing mine but for some reason I was only able to delete the current one and unable to put in a new one in that directory. There are plenty of guides online on how to make a bootanimation.zip. You can also pull out the current one and just place new pictures instead.

darth Can you share the unmodified super?

how do you get su access on this phone

darth

ZTEGuy Follow @neutronscott guide on his github. I linked it in the Original Post of this thread

okay got it

I keep trying to push my new bootanimation.zip using the command "adb push bootanimation.zip /product/media" and it keeps responding "remote couldn't create file: Read-only file system", even though I did @neutronscott's instructions

darth

ZTEGuy Your not going to have root access unless you are in shell. You can try pushing it to /sdcard/ and then in a root shell try copying it to /product/media. Good luck!

darth I just disabled dm-verity

darth

ZTEGuy Ok good to know, I will add that to my zip...

darth how do you copy in shell

Biden2020prez

On the cricket and tmobile versions, all 4 dpad keys can be customized.

Flippy

darth Settings>About Phone>Software information>Software version

Yes I know how to find the software version. My question is what is the newest version? Mine says "Software version 03"

does anyone know how to move files within the device with adb

I tried to add my boot animation but it doesn't work

SamFried

I heard that TAG is already filtering the phone...

Biden2020prez

SamFried yes, This was discussed upthread (please read all 570 posts before posting 🙂 )
disclaimer: that was a joke

SamFried I heard that this filter isn't so reliable.... (I can't say anything else on this forums)

lgexalter1 yes but for obvious reasons I won't elaborate

I wasn't suspecting you I just thought it would be highly irresponsible to post it on a public forum

Does anyone know the commands to permanently remove email and video? I was having some trouble finding where the apps are located....

lgexalter1 Where is the gallery3 apk located?

I followed all the steps to remove Browser/Chromium. I didn't get any errors but after rebooting, the browser is still there. (Before rebooting, when trying to open the browser, it didn't work)

Try running rm -rf /system/etc/permissions/privapp-permissions-chromium.xml

chaimzalman did you run /vendor/bin/write_protect 0

ZTEGuy everything went smoothly but the browser reappeared after reboot

darth

chaimzalman I did have this issue. I dont know what I did to solve it but eventually it uninstalled fully. If you want you can flash my super that I posted here darth . (I added disable dmverity to my script in the zip so you shouldnt have the issue that @ZTEGuy had when flashing it.

Biden2020prez

darth @everyone
can we be specific which versions it worked and failed on? Post which model you have, which update you have, and which version it is.

Jumptoheaven

chaimzalman It took quite short.

\platform-tools>fastboot flash boot neutron.img
Sending 'boot' (24576 KB) OKAY [ 1.415s]
Writing 'boot' OKAY [ 0.536s]
Finished. Total time: 1.992s

darth

Jumptoheaven I posted a full super.img to flash which takes ~ 30-40 minutes. I did it because I thought it would be easier for beginners.

I changed my super.img (Google Drive link no longer available) that I posted and my new one now has: No browser, Waze, Voice Access, and I disabled the favorites shortcut key so it can now be used to toggle Voice Access. From the t408dl with the KEEZ update.

darth

If anyone here can help make an app that will toggle settings --user 0 put system keyboard_pointer_enable using a key input (It is easy to change the quick dial key code name in /system/usr/keylayout/mtk-kpd.kl) Causing a hardware key to toggle the mouse on the phone it would be greatly appreciated!

Saw one in the store today. Is this still locked to Tracfone for the 60 days or was anyone able to bypass that yet?

darth Can one install other apps after doing this?

NEC I got it working but when I had screen lock activated after doing a successful nohup command then after detaching the phone I initially got the mouse toggled with Quick dial but then when I closed phone and lock screen was activated then I could no longer get the mouse toggle through Quick dial.

However disabling my screenlock solved the problem and the Quick dial mouse toggle kept working reliably even after both disconnecting the phone from the PC and closing the phone. (Note:as has been pointed by @neutronscott at the end here using the power button to toggle the mouse is problematic)

Biden2020prez

If Anyone wants to disable video, you can try adb Disable package/activity, but to disable permanently we may need to mod the Gallery app, unless there is a way to force disable apps Activities.

Biden2020prez

Did anyone else realize the system apps have classes.dex

Biden2020prez I tried to mod the gallery app, but it wouldn't work properly afterwards