Alcatel TCL Flip 2 (T408DL)

Tech_Boy I think unlocking the bootloader automatically wipes the phone

Jumptoheaven Actually, the sspanak version does work on the TCL, albeit with a few bugs. Firstly, even when not typing a t9 word, it still takes over the "ok" button. This means that i cant click "send" directly (in messages), or "save" (in notes). Additionally, it takes over the left softkey. This means that i cant press a contact shortcut number and use the left softkey to "send message". But it does work. And it has the ability to add words to the dictionary.

So @sspanak and others have done a lot of work on his tt9 keyboard, and the OK to send along with many other bugs have been fixed. Also, support for Hebrew predictive texting has been added. This is a great keyboard for this phone. The latest release (v20.0) is [Login to see the link].

XanderXF thank you. I'll try it when I get a chance.

Many thanks to everyone here who made it possible for me to have a flip phone again! I have the 4058W and use it on cricket/att. I'm a triple amputee and only have one hand with fingers so I wanted a smaller phone for pocket real estate.
I did neutronscotts root and can install APKs, but mainly I wanted to keep my streaming music services. Amazon Music runs just fine on the My Flip 2.
Has anyone found a better launcher experience? If I could put apps to scroll through on the home screen that would be great! Also, this gone doesn't come stock with a voice to text, so could someone suggest a voice typing that might work?
I'm 50, and back in the day I could T9 text a paragraph driving in the work truck and never look at the phone. Excited to daily drive a phone that doesn't ding every 3 seconds.

smoakeater Good luck on your flip phone journey. To see your apps you can dial *#*#217703#*#*. You can also install ListLauncher and set it as a shortcut key in settings or the launcher from [Login to see the link].

And as ZTEGuy said, you can use "Voice Access" for voice to text. If you need to install a (virtual) mouse, you can use [Login to see the link] by [Login to see the link].

whynot Thanks

whynot As an alternative I found a really nice launcher called Niagra Launcher that works great with this. It requires some touchscreen setup so i used the scrcpy screen control command thing and set it up and im very happy with it.

Here is the [Login to see the link]

Here is [Login to see the link]

Ppotecha > whynot

Is there any way to install apks without root, i cannot really follow?

DABEAR In short, no

I have been in contact with tracfone and tcl and it seems they will not give the the original AOSP rom/firmware to the phone because, well, because they don't want to. Does anyone have the original phone firmware that I can get so I can flash my phone back to original state? It seems that following the steps to do everything here WITHOUT updating to the KEEZ update breaks things so my phone is stuck in the setup phase and cannot move forward. It is clearly a software issue so flashing the original firmware would fix it and I could start over. As it is, I cannot get into the operating system since I cannot pass the 'enable wifi' step in the setup.

EnriqueMcquade
Is the firmware for unlocked phone or locked Tracfone? Is there a difference? Can I load your firmware into a locked tracfone?

Okay I finally did it! I was able to go through all the steps and sideload some apks. Next step for me is getting this mouse to work. I saw some of the instructions for doing it, but I seem to be stuck with magisk. I have it on my phone and can open it fine. However, am I supposed to update the app right away within my phone? If so, when I do this it says:
! /dev/block/mmcblk0p33 is read only
! Installation failed

Is there a developer setting I can enter to make this possible?

Ppotecha try running:

adb shell su -c /vendor/bin/write_protect 0
adb reboot

Then open Magisk and try again