swagmastuh The list will only say Magisk. It may take a reboot for it to show.

Recovery is entered with "adb reboot recovery" or holding volume down while restarting the phone.

neutronscott WOW!!!! The reboot worked. I can't believe I never tried that. I rebooted and sure enough Magisk showed up. I knew I was just being dumb. Many thanks!

neutronscott Hello again, I have one last question. How do I enable APK installation? Or do I need to install APKs via adb? I've enabled developer options, removed write protection on emmc and enable PackageManager via my super user adb shell cmds. However, trying to install APKs that are on my SD card are still not allowed. Thank you in advance.

swagmastuh hmmm should. reboot again? heh. I noticed today it doesn't launch in time if you break stuff but not sure what's going on with yours. I have only used adb myself. Some apps have no signature and those won't install

swagmastuh I've been rebooting a lot today and it seems more often the APK installations fail. I might make a new boot.img that runs the command earlier in the init process but until then you can resolve it by resetting the parameter and restarting the Android system (as long as Magisk got installed and setup):

C:\>adb install Launcher3.apk
Performing Streamed Install
adb: failed to install Launcher3.apk: Failure [INSTALL_FAILED_INSUFFICIENT_STORAGE: Failed rename]
C:\>adb shell su -c resetprop -n ro.vendor.tct.endurance true
C:\>adb shell su -c setprop ctl.restart zygote
C:\>adb install Launcher3.apk
Performing Streamed Install
Success

neutronscott No, his issue is he is trying to install apps from the file manager. Either do adb or send files through bluetooth and install through notifications. (If you install another file manager app it will let you install apks)

anyone know the wallpaper gallery location?

sawlw embedded in the Launcher3 apk resources

Long delay but I ended up just installing apps via adb. I installed F-Droid which can install the APKs it downloads without issue.

darth How did you disable it?

Does anyone know if this phone has nfc?

Can anyone explain me exactly how to install apps on that phone I think that there is no clear instructions in this whole thread I tried to follow His instructions I installed mtk meta and when I press on reboot fast boot mode it pops back no device found (usb Debugging is on)

Hi1 You need to first click reboot fastboot mode, then plug in your powered off phone into the computer, then it should work. It will not work if you dont have mtk drivers installed, and fastboot commands wont work without fastboot drivers installed.

flipphones123 thanks for that info, the usb option needs to be on a specific setting like transfer files or charging? ( I don't have midi option on this phone)

flipphones123 I installed mtk drivers and I'm still getting the same error basically I get the error when press reboot fast boot mode and I plug in the device and it's loading for a while and it pops up no device found

lgexalter1 right I'm just thinking y it's not working

Hi1 Which drivers did you install?

Flippy I don't know I just Google searched mtk drivers and downloaded it, can you please send me the specific version?

I had that issue here:

Never got the right answer.
I extracted all of them and then installed 2 of them (if I remeber correctly) The second one of them did some very scary-looking CMD prompt window stuff with tons of words scrolling.... After a while it finished, and I guess it worked, beacuse after that it was able to find the device.

As a help to the forums, please take note of which one(s) you install and let us know back here what worked 😊

Think my vMouse is ready for testing: https://github.com/neutronscott/flip2/releases/tag/v1

I installed it with adb shell (like I do everything) but should work using the Magisk app as well.

adb push vMouse.zip /sdcard
adb shell
su
magisk --install-module /sdcard/vMouse.zip
reboot

• Activate/Deactive: Tap * (the top one for favorite contacts)
• Scroll wheel: 7/*, 9/#, volup/voldown (scroll up/scroll down respectively). The volume buttons don't send repeat codes so they need to be pushed a lot, the others can be held down.
• Left click: OK
• Right click: 3 (untested)

Well right click won't work well I didn't stop the 3 key from being passed through so it'll dial 3 oops

Flippy

I used the 1632 driver and it worked for me.

jackmicron
I still think a driver issue is stopping us from modifying the nvram.

Hi, I installed neutron.img when I'm trying to install the full version of magisk I get a message /dev/block/mmc... is read only. any help?

neutronscott This is awesome, keep it up!

Hi1 run su
/vendor/bin/write_protect 0

You shouldn't have to unlock write to /system unless you plan to modify the ROM

Biden2020prez i treid that but adb replies permission denied

Hi1 Are you rooted? Is magisk installed?

Biden2020prez I don't know if I'm rooted but all I did is I followed
His instructions and yes it installs magisk for me (I unlocked the bootloader as well)

Hi1 so you need to download full magisk from github?

Biden2020prez in His instructions are the last 2 steps this
Dial *#*#217703#*#* to bring up list of appsLaunch Magisk (stub downloader) download full version.
Launch Magisk (Press down for recent apps) and allow to reboot.

So when I launch the app and I wanna install the full version it says read olny

Hi1 and su says permission denied? It doesn't show a dialog on your phone?

Biden2020prez what do you mean a dialog?

neutronscott installed and it shows the installed module but nothing happens when i try to toggle. edit: you meant the favourite contacts key! sorry! btw - the mouse does toggle off. but it won't dissapear. any suggestions?

Sometimes the app unlock command doesn't run right. Try rebooting

@"NEC"#p82212 wait ten seconds

Biden2020prez so how do I root this phone?

Hi1 If magisk is installed you are rooted.

If you are stuck you can email the email in my bio and ill try to help.

Few things that'll be easy to add/fix are making pointer disappear, having horizontal scroll, and maybe have volume keys adjust speed. Oh and right click will be fixed.

Edit: and maybe changing it to a double/long tap to engage mouse mode so favorites can still operate.

Edit 2: Darn disconnecting the mouse and reconnecting it doesn't seem to do anything for having the pointer disappear and location reset

v2 ready for testing. probably it for awhile:

https://github.com/neutronscott/flip2/releases/tag/v2

Activate: Long press * (fav contacts not number pad)
Deactivate: Press *
Left click: OK or 1
Right click: 3
Increase speed: vol up
Decrease speed: vol down
Horizontal scroll: 4/6
Vertical scroll: 7/* or 9/#

Power button is always passed through and will deactivate the mouse.

I'm using a Windows 10 machine. I open MTK Meta, select "Reboot Fastboot Mode". Plug in the turned off phone, the phone vibrates and acts like it's turning on (i.e. shows TCL and then the battery) but MTK Meta never shows the phone connecting and it times out. What is going on? Am I missing a step?

purpleicing Perhaps the driver is wrong. In device manager select View > Show hidden devices. Do you see the MediaTek Preloader VCOM under Ports (COM & LPT)?

~_Hi @neutronscott

wrt your steps below, I am unable to get to fast boot after steps 1 & 2. In MTK META utility, the status is "usb device inserted(\?.......) In the device manager I see that the "MT65xx preloader" device briefly appears & goes away. What additional steps are required?

TIA,~~

Resolved - COM drivers are required for MTK tool to boot up into fastboot mode.

neutronscott I don't even see a Ports (COM & LPT) option in Device Manager. This led me down another rabbit hole of why I don't see those and I wasn't able to get it working. Any tips are appreciated but I feel you have already helped enough.

My instructions left out drivers. Please check the first post for Darth's thread that has links and more detail

I also discovered that the reason why most MTK tools don't work, is because the Media Tek 6739 chip is running a different firmware then most chips, which is patched against most payloads and requires the correct, modified driver agent.

neutronscott Is it necessary to first do this https://github.com/neutronscott/flip2/wiki#remapping-keys-using-magisk-module ?
EDIT: Just tried it without and it worked without remapping!

Also, can you give some instructions on how to remap the keys?
I tried just running all the listed commands, but I got an error
Gflip6_TF:/ $ su
Gflip6_TF:/ # PATH=$(magisk --path)/.magisk/busybox:$PATH
Gflip6_TF:/ # mkdir -p /data/adb/modules/mymodule && cd $_
Gflip6_TF:/data/adb/modules/mymodule # /data/adb/modules/mymodule # vi module.prop
/system/bin/sh: /data/adb/modules/mymodule: can't execute: Is a directory
126|Gflip6_TF:/data/adb/modules/mymodule # data/adb/modules/mymodule # vi module.prop
/system/bin/sh: data/adb/modules/mymodule: inaccessible or not found

techy Try his new MouseV2. It should superseed these instructions (https://github.com/neutronscott/flip2/releases/tag/v2) I have verified that new mouse works with adb access, But I dont know a way to run the mouse binary from the UI which makes this whole setup tethered atm.

pasus once installed as a magisk module and rebooted it should always run.