Wanting to try to break out from
the imposed dependence by mobile vendors wanted to try experimenting with rooting.
I currently owned Alcatel Flash 2 device which had a screen problem. As you can
see from the image, the screen was a little broken. 😊
So then started the quest for the
perfect mobile that could be used for my experimentation. For that started
using OLX. The process was simple. Find a sale post within budget (10K), then
find the original cost of the mobile to see if the deal is realistic, then find
the features are to be satisfying, and finally browse XDA-Forum to find if
there is enough support for this model so as to be able to root and flavor it
differently.
People on OLX are sometimes very unrealistic. They ask an amount close to the new one when it is clear that on OLX one is always looking for seconds. Sometimes it feels like a shop guy is selling a new mobile as "box-piece" on OLX. Anyways after lots of scouting, messaging, negotiating, calling and rejecting (reducing in number in that order) finally decided to visit one of the seller. It was OnePlus One. Though the cost was a little more than what was in my mind but still decided to give a visit. Several factors, including the fact that I was tired of further looking etc. I decided to get it.
After initial usage figured that there was hell lot of bloatware in this mobile. There was Cortona installed as a personal assistant, which was not corresponding with OnePlus. A Chinese company with Google OS adding Microsoft software as personal assistant!
So the first task that I embarked upon is to root it using this. Now the installation of custom recovery went smooth, but from there when choosen to install the SuperSu inbuilt in the TWRP the mobile would boot no-more. Only recently discovered that if we unroot things will move back to working state and then we can go ahead and root again with a different software. But at that time \ thought it had gone into a boot-loop and tried different solutions like running makefs command, which actually sent it into a boot-loop. After lots of failed experimentation of trying get recover it back decided to install stock-ROM got from OnePlus website. Directly working with TWRP did not work and hence had to run the script given with the bundle and ended up loosing the custom recovery.
More than loosing custom recovery the fact that the original OS of the mobile was lost was a little disheartening. Mainly because the stock-ROM got from OnePlus website was nothing like the first original one. It had none of those huge bloatwares and no Cortona. It looked like the stripped-down version of original software made consciously for those who tinker with their mobile OS.
People on OLX are sometimes very unrealistic. They ask an amount close to the new one when it is clear that on OLX one is always looking for seconds. Sometimes it feels like a shop guy is selling a new mobile as "box-piece" on OLX. Anyways after lots of scouting, messaging, negotiating, calling and rejecting (reducing in number in that order) finally decided to visit one of the seller. It was OnePlus One. Though the cost was a little more than what was in my mind but still decided to give a visit. Several factors, including the fact that I was tired of further looking etc. I decided to get it.
After initial usage figured that there was hell lot of bloatware in this mobile. There was Cortona installed as a personal assistant, which was not corresponding with OnePlus. A Chinese company with Google OS adding Microsoft software as personal assistant!
So the first task that I embarked upon is to root it using this. Now the installation of custom recovery went smooth, but from there when choosen to install the SuperSu inbuilt in the TWRP the mobile would boot no-more. Only recently discovered that if we unroot things will move back to working state and then we can go ahead and root again with a different software. But at that time \ thought it had gone into a boot-loop and tried different solutions like running makefs command, which actually sent it into a boot-loop. After lots of failed experimentation of trying get recover it back decided to install stock-ROM got from OnePlus website. Directly working with TWRP did not work and hence had to run the script given with the bundle and ended up loosing the custom recovery.
More than loosing custom recovery the fact that the original OS of the mobile was lost was a little disheartening. Mainly because the stock-ROM got from OnePlus website was nothing like the first original one. It had none of those huge bloatwares and no Cortona. It looked like the stripped-down version of original software made consciously for those who tinker with their mobile OS.
