Comments on: Unbrick Root Vodafone Smart 4 Mini (Vodafone 785)

By: mcmonkeys1

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 07 Jun 2017 20:00:31 +0000

In reply to andrew. Like i said before, I no longer have them. If someone can speak Portuguese and request them from the original forum, it would be great to have another copy of them.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 06 Jun 2017 11:21:32 +0000

please i cant download the file. please can you send me the link to download it? thanks

By: Mmaduabuchi Ugochukwu

Mmaduabuchi Ugochukwu — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:23:18 +0000

In reply to samuel. yeah need the file too wanted to try eg1

By: mcmonkeys1

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 06:15:57 +0000

Hi guys. Yes, it looks like the files are no longer available from the original location (https://www.androidpt.com/topic/57034-unbrick-smart-4-mini/). I had a copy of them on a server, but that server has now broken down and is in another country.

Could someone who speaks Portuguese, go to the original Portuguese forum and request they be reuploaded? I’m sure people here would be very grateful if you could share the link back here, and I’ll make an additional backup on Google drive.

By: Mmaduabuchi Ugochukwu

Mmaduabuchi Ugochukwu — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:00:18 +0000

pls can i still get a working link for this rom at ugohemma@gmail.com

By: Shannon

Shannon — Thu, 29 Sep 2016 00:35:16 +0000

In reply to Andrzej. When I clicked the link to download the files it brought me to a page with a 404 not foung error could someone please send me updated links! much appreciated thank you!

By: samuel

samuel — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 04:56:04 +0000

Pick MT6572_Android_scatter_text???? Not be found…. Where is its location? Thanks

By: Andrzej

Andrzej — Wed, 23 Mar 2016 23:52:44 +0000

my problem solved, batery was not fully charged and the phone did not want to start after flashing, I put battery from other phone and its works perfect, thanks for your help

By: mcmonkeys1

mcmonkeys1 — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 19:27:19 +0000

In reply to Atman. drivers. check the example. if you have not checked the example. check it again. this took a long time to figure out because other methods would not work.

By: Atman

Atman — Sun, 06 Mar 2016 13:37:50 +0000

My computer does not detect the telephone in recovery mode therefore I cannot advance of this step

By: mcmonkeys1

mcmonkeys1 — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 21:06:30 +0000

I am not sure if that memory test writes over what you have just flashed.

My understanding is that when you flash your ROM it creates the partitions. You cannot arbitrarily create, move, and delete partitions like on a laptop or desktop. If want to mess with partition sizes you must create a new custom ROM. So I’d forget about that line of investigation, and try and flash it properly. If it’s not booting something must have gone wrong. The method I have detailed above worked for me. It took such a lot of messing around that I thought I’d let others know about it. It’s a pretty decent ROM as well and leaves you with CWM recovery and a rooted phone. Unrooting is easy with the SuperSU app if you do not want that.

By: Andrzej

Andrzej — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 16:19:47 +0000

Hi
Thank you very much for reply, My phone is Vodafone Smart 4 mini , (vodafone 785)and that’s why I put my coment here, My story is: I updated soft just by unsing setup in my phone and WiFi internet, after that phone worked very bad, have to wait 10 min , to load android and almost everything was not working, I found here http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f317/alcatel-vodafone-785-dead-after-format-1935259/
how to go back to oryginal rom, I followed the instruction , using SPFlash, got green circle at the end, but the phone did not start any more, just short blink after pressing power buton. After many hours of searching I found your blog and here I am. I think my phone comunicates with computer by “Media Tech PreLoader USB VCOM (com3) ” Everythink looks fine when I use SPFlash, green circle after flashing and I can do memory test , so I have the partition information from SPFlash, there is a screen
https://onedrive.live.com/redir?resid=19F52ED1BDCA3C07!2069&authkey=!AN4Oy5XibX1_lVA&v=3&ithint=photo%2cjpg

I have full backup done by Titanium Backup, but my phone has to work to restore it
That’s all the story, I almost lost hope to get my phone back working, but I belive that for some people it is very easy to fix it, I’ll be greatfull if you can help.
Thanks

By: mcmonkeys1

mcmonkeys1 — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 14:41:14 +0000

Hi friend,

Some questions:
What type of phone do you have? This unbricking solution is for the Vodafone 785 a.k.a. Alcatel vf785. It will not work with any other type of phone. How did you end up with this configuration of partitions??

After flashing this particular ROM here you should end up with 2GB between system and “custom pack” partitions, and a very clever union partition shared between /data and internal user sdcard.

So what happened when you tried to flash?

As for repartitioning, what tool did you use to get that partition information, and how did you end up with this configuration? It looks like you need to reflash the whole system, I hope you still have a copy of your NVRAM!

Just in case, if you do not have this particular phone http://www.xda-developers.com is the best resource for individual phones and resources for creating custom ROMs, unbricking, rooting, etc., etc. However, they do not do some phones up there for various reasons, be it phone obscurity or phone illegality (i.e. Chinese clones of major phones).

Let me know if you need more help :-)

By: Andrzej

Andrzej — Wed, 02 Mar 2016 00:14:48 +0000

hi,
I was hoping that it can fix my phone but unfortunetely didn’t, I think I have some problem with partition table, EMMC_PART_BOOT1 size 4 mb, EMMC_PART_BOOT2 size 4 mb. partition size 4 mb, next EMMC_PART_PPMB 0 mb, the same as GP1, GP2,GP3 and GP4, only PART_USER size 3728 mb, almost all memory in user part,
could you please be so kind and give me some instructions how to repartition my phone,
Thanks