Alcatel TCL Flip 2 (T408DL)
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].
JumptoheavenLevel 5 - Gold Elite Member
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.
ZZTEGuyLevel 3 - Gold Member
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smoakeater Use voice access for voice to text
WwhynotLevel 5 - Gold Elite Member
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Kgr Here is an [Login to see the link] from [Login to see the link]. It will launch when you press the up key from the Home Screen, or you could install it as a system app and it will show up in the regular app menu as browser or att unlock depending on which version you use.
Biden2020prezLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member
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].
AanonymousLevel 1 - Junior Member
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Kgr Can you pls post the link to where to where you found it?
KKgrLevel 1 - Junior Member
Here is the [Login to see the link]
Here is [Login to see the link]
FliphoneBochurLevel 5 - Gold Elite Member
Is there any way to install apks without root, i cannot really follow?
FliphoneBochurLevel 5 - Gold Elite Member
DABEAR In short, no
PPpotechaLevel 1 - Junior Member
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FliphoneBochur These instructions are great thanks!
For step C, I plugged in my powered off phone and ran autoboot, but after saying 'Running MTK Fastbooter on COM4,' its just outputting a bunch of dots. Has been for about 10 min. Is this normal? Do I just wait for it to finish? How long should it take? Sorry, just new to all of this. Thanks!
Also, when I run adb, it just opens and closes super fast...
PphonesyLevel 1 - Junior Member
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?
PPpotechaLevel 1 - Junior Member
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?
Biden2020prezLevel 6 - Platinum Elite Member
Ppotecha try running:
adb shell su -c /vendor/bin/write_protect 0
adb reboot
Then open Magisk and try again