darth If you disable through settings on the phone, I assume you can re-enable it the same way?

      Techgen I had the same thoughts. And uninstall seems to not work on all TCL (and probably Alcatel, maybe even Nokia, I can check if someone cares), including smartphones.

      I really think this would be a great phone.... if it had root access.

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            Biden2020prez I agree that root access should definitely be the goal here. I just cant get the phone into download mode. Does anyone here have experience shorting pcb boards into download mode?

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                Biden2020prez
                darth
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                So I guess that's not really a great option. Sounds like Suspend is a better option. I've never heard of suspend, what does it do, is it similar to disable-user? Can it be "unsuspended" through adb?

                      lgexalter1 Yeah yeah, I wasn't knocking it that it can be undone with adb (on the phone itself is a much bigger problem) I was just trying to figure out what the suspend command is for.

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                        lgexalter1 ah i see. That's right. Although it was backported to 4.14, it's not expected to work before 5.8. I bought this on accident thinking it was the KaiOS phone but hopefully if we get apps or root it'll be better.

                            Apps4Flip-Admin what was used to decompile? I'm only getting bytecode back for preparePackageLI which makes it hard to follow. was trying to see what is going on with mIsMPBranch as well.

                              [Login to see the link] so I was using jadx-gui and I checked off the box in preferences titled "show inconsistent code". If you don't check that box then you can't view the code properly of the preparePackageLI method

                              looks like all the good stuff is read-only. after poking around for a day I did find one useful thing:

                              settings put global hotspot_entitlement_check_mode 0

                              That let me turn on hotspot.

                              *#*#9663223#*#* enables editing APN

                              Biden2020prez the kaios phone had google assistant, maps, facebook, youtube, and some info already found. This had none of that. but if i get root this will be better. I haven't messed with mediatek before. I'm not sure if it's had it's usb values changed either but don't think I am getting into preloader.. It's more than I bargained for but at least can hotspot once 60 days unlock is an option..

                                  neutronscott I hear. It's funny because in back of the phone (by the battery), it says spd, but the phone is really mediatek.

                                    I got home from vacation and could open this phone up.

                                    Bad news is none of the test pads booted into brom when grounded. I don't have a magnifying glass to reliably probe the SMD components near the CPU.

                                    Good news is the phone still works after prodding it.