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[PROJECT CLOSED] Horsing around
#1
while I wait for my fastboot adapter to arrive, my "play" phone has arrived from GearBest

[Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register]

I plan to soft brick this phone and not my phone in signature.

Firstly I enable developer mode to enable USB debugging

Now to check it attached to Linux PC via NORMAL data cable, not a FACTORY data cable

Code:
Aug 13 09:03:52 asus kernel: [ 4008.475132] usb 2-1.2: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci-pci
Aug 13 09:03:52 asus kernel: [ 4008.567752] usb 2-1.2: New USB device found, idVendor=1782, idProduct=5d24
Aug 13 09:03:52 asus kernel: [ 4008.567760] usb 2-1.2: New USB device strings: Mfr=2, Product=3, SerialNumber=4
Aug 13 09:03:52 asus kernel: [ 4008.567765] usb 2-1.2: Product: Spreadtrum
Aug 13 09:03:52 asus kernel: [ 4008.567769] usb 2-1.2: Manufacturer: Spreadtrum
Aug 13 09:03:52 asus kernel: [ 4008.567772] usb 2-1.2: SerialNumber: 51153374112069

We will need this info .....idVendor=1782 to make an udev rule for adb later.

Someone has already registered this vendor with [Only registered and activated users can see links Click here to register] as per
Quote:1782 Spreadtrum Communications Inc.

Notice its not a mediatek device

Initially I did not have a sim card inserted and google app = Spec device shows phone appeared to have only GSM which is not what seller shows.

So I removed my micro-sim from Iocean and used an adapter to plug into M-Horse
and its all good as per image and phone call.....antenna says 3G as well

[Image: ngsu1d.jpg]

No further tests to follow for phone calls as its a pain to insert the adapter

Altho its not mentioned as a supported device lets try to root it with framaroot
[Image: 2gy7xv9.jpg]
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#2
oh man, that spreadtrum chipset really sucks.
why not go for a cheap mt6577w?

i even found a cheap Qualcomm phone -> Phicom C230w for about 56 USD
for that price quite interesting, as it has a Qualcomm MSM8210 1.2Ghz Dual Core, half a gig ram and 4Gig rom.
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my phones current and past:
Brand phones:
  • Samsung Galaxy Apollo/Leo/3 - retired, 2x Samsung Galaxy S - gone, Samsung Galaxy Note - stolen Sad , Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos - retired
  • Samsung Galaxy S3

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 black edition (work issue)
China phones:
  • Pinphone 3 (never received), Smarty A8 (MTK6515 HTC Chacha clone), iNew V3 - sold
  • Xiaomi Redmi 1s - Wife's daily driver
  • Xiaomi MI3 64GB with MagicSim on dual bootMIUI v5 (4.8.22) /CM11
Others:
  • ZTE Open (FirefoxOS) - now running ICS! -retired from duty.
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#3
yes well I should explain I needed to keep the price as low as possible plus
3g 850/2100
wifi

but my RAM is what makes it really suck but I did not buy it as a working phone.
I bought to to soft brick it.

mediatek are fairly easy to root using framaroot.
I intend to use fastboot to root it.

but I need to have some system images, boot images etc so must wait for my fastboot/factory adapter first.

thanks for caring tho
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#4
i am currently also searching for a cheap backup phone, as the ZTE Open just doesn't cut it.
the Single core CPU and 256MB RAM make it barely usable.
that's why i was interested in the Phicomm one, seems to be a decent backup phone for cheap.
i might buy an Elephone P6i though just to piss off some Apple fans Big Grin

and now utterly off-topic -
i just *love" your choice of thread title.
made me laugh so hard when i saw the phones name...
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my phones current and past:
Brand phones:
  • Samsung Galaxy Apollo/Leo/3 - retired, 2x Samsung Galaxy S - gone, Samsung Galaxy Note - stolen Sad , Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos - retired
  • Samsung Galaxy S3

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 black edition (work issue)
China phones:
  • Pinphone 3 (never received), Smarty A8 (MTK6515 HTC Chacha clone), iNew V3 - sold
  • Xiaomi Redmi 1s - Wife's daily driver
  • Xiaomi MI3 64GB with MagicSim on dual bootMIUI v5 (4.8.22) /CM11
Others:
  • ZTE Open (FirefoxOS) - now running ICS! -retired from duty.
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#5
while waiting for my fastboot adapter to arrive time to play with udev

I initially tested my iocean as I have a new PC running Xubuntu
iocean works great

spreadtrum device not so
here is the solution after a bit of google

1) Create a text file with contents
Quote:0x1782
save as /home//.android/adb_usb.ini

2) Create the udev rule with contents
Quote:#m-horse
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="1782", MODE="666", GROUP="plugdev"

use root powers to save as (the name can vary)
/etc/udev/rules.d/55-mh.rules

3) restart your udev service, for *buntu thats
Code:
service udev restart
others can try
Code:
sudo udevadm control --reload-rules

4) Android debugging on
insert normal data cable
Code:
adb kill-server
adb start-server
adb devices

Now the fun begins......you have to go back into your Android and you will see a security popup box asking if you accept interactions with your PC and remember the option as YES

[Image: 20ru5h2.jpg]

b) in that area ....system settings -> developer you will also find an option called
"revoke USB debugging authority"

in case you swap PC

5) now back to PC
Code:
adb devices -l
List of devices attached
51153374112069         device usb:3-2 product:c935w_jhm_e08plus_UUIhvga model:S51 device:c935w_jhm_e08
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#6
well I am not so great

just tried the Linux stuff using m otochopper and we get only so far

Code:
adb push pwn /data/local/tmp/
4656 KB/s (1283460 bytes in 0.269s)
adb shell chmod 755 /data/local/tmp/pwn
adb push su /data/local/tmp/
7482 KB/s (366952 bytes in 0.047s)
adb push busybox /data/local/tmp/
6385 KB/s (1867568 bytes in 0.285s)
adb install Superuser.apk
5889 KB/s (1578585 bytes in 0.261s)
    pkg: /data/local/tmp/Superuser.apk
Success
adb shell /data/local/tmp/pwn
[+] This may take a few minutes.
[-] Failure.
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#7
i assume the pwn script/program remounts the system folder rw?
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my phones current and past:
Brand phones:
  • Samsung Galaxy Apollo/Leo/3 - retired, 2x Samsung Galaxy S - gone, Samsung Galaxy Note - stolen Sad , Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos - retired
  • Samsung Galaxy S3

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 black edition (work issue)
China phones:
  • Pinphone 3 (never received), Smarty A8 (MTK6515 HTC Chacha clone), iNew V3 - sold
  • Xiaomi Redmi 1s - Wife's daily driver
  • Xiaomi MI3 64GB with MagicSim on dual bootMIUI v5 (4.8.22) /CM11
Others:
  • ZTE Open (FirefoxOS) - now running ICS! -retired from duty.
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#8
Code:
strings pwn | grep remount
mount -o rw,remount /dev/block/system /system

but I am struggling with this wonderful device

Code:
adb reboot recovery
gives me
[Image: o0ntdu.jpg]

not a good sign however by pressing the volume up button I get into recovery
and only tested the reboot function

[Image: 2dtvg43.jpg]

I will look at doing those m-chopper commands manually only if my fastboot cable fails to give me what I want.....and what I need
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#9
i see, also you are very thorough it seems, since mount -o rw,remount /system is sufficient ;)
well, nothing to add really, hope it works out for you.
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my phones current and past:
Brand phones:
  • Samsung Galaxy Apollo/Leo/3 - retired, 2x Samsung Galaxy S - gone, Samsung Galaxy Note - stolen Sad , Samsung Galaxy Grand Duos - retired
  • Samsung Galaxy S3

  • Samsung Galaxy S4 black edition (work issue)
China phones:
  • Pinphone 3 (never received), Smarty A8 (MTK6515 HTC Chacha clone), iNew V3 - sold
  • Xiaomi Redmi 1s - Wife's daily driver
  • Xiaomi MI3 64GB with MagicSim on dual bootMIUI v5 (4.8.22) /CM11
Others:
  • ZTE Open (FirefoxOS) - now running ICS! -retired from duty.
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#10
kind words but I have tried it manually but
Code:
adb shell mount -o remount,rw /system
mount: Operation not permitted

and pwn won't work with a Linux script as I just discovered for this device
Code:
adb shell ls -al /dev/block/system
/dev/block/system: No such file or directory

Code:
adb shell ls -al /system
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 14:30 app
drwxr-xr-x root     shell             2014-06-26 14:23 bin
-rw-r--r-- root     root         4228 2014-06-26 13:23 build.prop
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 14:31 etc
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 13:59 fonts
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 14:31 framework
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 14:31 lib
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 13:44 media
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 14:29 priv-app
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 13:44 res
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 13:44 user_fonts
drwxr-xr-x root     root              2014-06-26 13:48 usr
drwxr-xr-x root     shell             2014-06-26 14:20 vendor
drwxr-xr-x root     shell             2014-06-26 14:22 xbin

my brain hurts so I shall linger no longer

I hope my fancy fastboot cable will resolve all permission issues as it should allow me to put me into "insecure" mode etc

cheers for now
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