Thank you @neutronscott for making this possible! Thank you @lgexalter1 and @Biden2020prez and @yeti and @sdmde for helping me figure out different things about this phone. If anyone has any other ROMs they would like to add to this list please email me at t408dl@gmail.com Prerequisites: ADB , Auto Booter , MTK Drivers , ( Fastboot Drivers ), brains. Warning you are flashing custom firmware and can potentially brick your device! This process will delete everything on your device and there is no way around this! Make sure you are choosing a ROM that is for your specific device! 1. Setup: Download and install all of the prerequisites listed above Download a ROM from the list below and extract the super.bin Download VBmeta files and extract them Place all your files in the ADB folder 2. Unlocking bootloader and disabling AVB: Run Auto Booter Plug in your phone into the computer while it is powered off Once your phone screen says: =>FASTBOOT mode... on it run in adb: fastboot flashing unlock Press 'volume +' key to unlock the bootloader Once bootloader is unlocked run the following codes to disable avb: fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta vbmeta.bin fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta_system vbmeta_system.bin fastboot flash --disable-verity --disable-verification vbmeta_vendor vbmeta_vendor.bin 2.5 Flash Boot.bin for Roms with apps that need a cursor Download this boot.bin : Run: fastboot flash boot boot.bin 3. Flash Super While phone is still in fastboot mode run: fastboot reboot fastboot When the phone is back in fastbootd mode run: fastboot flash super super.bin (If you see "Invalid sparse file format at header magic" you can ignore it safely.) Once completed, to restart your device run: fastboot reboot You now have a kosher rom! Here are links to ROMS: THESE ROMS DO NOT ALLOW APP INSTALLATION (Even if you try the methods posted on the other thread!) Tested on t408dl, 4058E and 4058L: Talk Only Removes: Browser, Texting, Email, Gallery, Camera, Music, Recorder. Talk Only-Basic : Removes: Browser, Texting, Email, Video. Talk Only-With Apps Op 3 : Removes: Texting, Browser, Video , Email, and Hotspot. Includes: Waze, Weather, and Siddur. Talk&Text : Removes: Browser and Email. Includes: Voice Access. Talk&Text-NO Video : Removes: Browser, Video, and Email. Includes: Voice Access. Talk&Text-With Apps Op 1 : Removes: Browser, Video, Email, and Hotspot. Includes: Waze, Weather, and Siddur. Talk&Text-With Apps Op 2 : Removes: Browser. Includes: Waze, Weather, Siddur, and Hotspot. I will be posting more as I make them If you previously installed my mouse boot.img and you are updating to a newer version of my rom you should update to this boot.img as it is the one that goes along with my updated rom. Helpful Tips: To set up Voice Access: Go to notifications, activate VoiceAccess by clicking on the VoiceAccess notification, say: "Open voice Access Settings", once in settings you can go to 'configure activation key', then to 'activation key', click on the key you want to set (quick dial on back of phone or message shortcut), say: "touch ok", you should be all set! Also in settings you can toggle 'Activation button' to turn off the on screen button. To toggle mouse press the favorites key (star icon). When mouse is on keys 7 and 9 scroll up, and keys * and # scroll down, key 3 opens options/right clicks. Once deactivated the mouse icon remains on screen for around 10 seconds.

Updating Roms Here is a guide for updating Roms. This means you already installed one of darth Kosher Roms, and want to switch to a different one. If you follow these steps you shouldn't lose your data. This guide assumes you already did all the steps to install a kosher Rom, and you are working on the same computer (so you already installed mtk drivers, flashed vbmeta, unlocked bootloader, know how to use fastboot, etc) Step By Step Instructions: Download the rom of your choice from the top post on this thread ( darth ). (make sure its named super.bin - I didn't check all them). You should probably download this boot.bin because you might have an old one. Run fastboot flash boot boot.bin to flash it. Run fastboot reboot fastboot , and wait for your phone to boot to the screen that says "Android Fastboot" among other information. Run fastboot flash super super.bin . When it finishes flashing super, run fastboot reboot , or press "reboot system now" on the phone. Great Job! All Done!

darth Thanks, the more clear we can be on providing instructions, the less questions we'll have to field (hopefully). Too bad you can't provide a link to brains... 😆

Techgen I don't think we should spend too much time on instructions because hopefully we will have a kosher firmware which will be preferable.

Biden2020prez True. BTW I just looked on Amazon, and it seems like its sold out 😦 EDIT: Just got one on ebay

Techgen A few frum cell phone store owners said they are going to start stocking up on the tcl flip 2 now that a good free kosher option looks doable. I’m not sure if that’s why Amazon’s out of stock but you never know. I plan on working on a simple thorough guide for the main apps4flip site but I plan on waiting until we have the full kosher rom to do it so I don’t have to write the guide up twice

What happens when you initiate recovery mode?

chaimzalman Want to explain your question?

Biden2020prez if you remove the browser you can still reset the phone?

Yes. We are working on a way to allow Factory reset but keep browser removed.

Darth your link for drivers was removed because of violation of google drive terms. I had the same issue when i uploaded. Try putting it in a zip

Instructions for installing a kosher ROM on TCL Flip2/Classic T408DL

dovwcom

Flippy hotspot has not been blocked in the two ROMS posted and since the browser/email/text depending on the ROM are not present at all (as opposed to them being present in the ROM but just suspended or disabled from settings) so after a reset which just wipes user data and restores all default system settings but doesn't install anything new there still won't be a browser etc and so resets are allowed. However updates which do install system apps have been blocked.

Biden2020prez

dovwcom your instructions have flashing the super.bin which by default may take 35-45 minutes - is there any reason that you haven't updated your instructions to suggest first flashing [Login to see the link] 's recovery.bin which cuts flashing the super.bin down to less than two minutes?

yes because that was not released when he wrote this guide. I am sure he will include it when he updates his guide (stay tuned)

dovwcom

Biden2020prez maybe it wasn't so obvious to you but my question was why he didn't update the OP to include the information on recovery.img so I don't know how literally you meant to point out the obvious that when he originally wrote the guide the image had not yet been released. As far as your comment that you are sure that he will when the guide gets updated - you've been around here longer than I have so there's a good chance that you're right... my own personal doubt is because a relatively small edit of less than several minutes could save people 35-45 minutes - so I am wondering whether there is some other issue...

Biden2020prez

dovwcom I understand. It would help people, its possible he is planning on updating it, but he is busy and is probably pushing it off.

Are you interested in writing a guide? He would probably more than happily pin it to his top post.

dovwcom

Biden2020prez I understand - I could also try and figure out what he wants and why but it's simpler for me to ask him first - which is what I did initially and wait for when he has a chance to reply and see what he says then...

neutronscott

dovwcom is there any reason that you haven't updated your instructions

[Login to see the link] told me this morning that he plans to take a few weeks off from this.

ru4real

Anybody have a safe place to download MTK and Fastboot drivers?

Flippy

Flippy I had that issue [Login to see the link]

Never got the right answer.
I extracted all of them and then installed 2 of them (if I remeber correctly) The second one of them did some very scary-looking CMD prompt window stuff with tons of words scrolling.... After a while it finished, and I guess it worked, beacuse after that it was able to find the device.

As a help to the forums, please take note of which one(s) you install and let us know back here what worked 😊

jackmicron I used the 1632 driver and it worked for me.

jackmicron

Flippy

The best driver that i found is here: [Login to see the link]

Biden2020prez

Drivers that were in top post originally [Login to see the link]

ru4real

Biden2020prez
Thank you! Are you able to edit the op with the updated link?

Biden2020prez

ru4real

Biden2020prez Drivers that were in top post originally [Login to see the link]

Download and run this, then restart your computer and try again.

cymbal

darth Thank you so much!! I used the Talk only Rom. First I downloaded ADB (I used this tutorial [Login to see the link]), then I followed the instructions. Worked perfectly.

I used Biden2020prez for MTK Drivers.

darth I want to block camera, music, and recorder. Can I remove it through ADB?

mg5077

Biden2020prez the link has expired

Flippy

jackmicron Thats a whole list. Which one specifically?

pasus

Flippy USB VCOM (Android) - thats the one I installed & works with MTKMetaUtilityV52

Flippy

pasus Would you mind uploading it so others can have access to the file directly?

ru4real

Reboot Fastboot Mode isn't working for me.
I can't get past "Waiting for mtk usb device... " in the MTK Meta Utility. It ends up at "device not found!"
I enabled usb debugging successfully, I tried with USB storage enabled and disabled.
When I start up the phone, MTK Meta Utility status bar at the bottom says usb device inserted(\?\USB#[VID]&[PID]#00018d

But then it just times out after 1:20.

Flippy

darth Can you have a choice of Hotspot/no hotspot?
Also will you be able to update the solution so that it will be quicker to flash instead if 45 min?
Thanks so much for a great job!

Apps4Flip-Admin

Posted this guide on the main site - [Login to see the link]. Let us know if there is anything in the article that can be improved.

Thank you to everyone who made this happen!!

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[Login to see the link] Can we get a kosher version that includes talk and text and the apps from apps4flip but without the browser?

Flippy

Apps4Flip-Admin Nice! In the 'Setup' section, I would mention that it is recommended to first update the phone to the latest software version.

SamFried

Apps4Flip-Admin Maybe you should post a video tutorial too...
ita a bit complicated for simple people!

Reifam

Apps4Flip-Admin Posted this guide on the main site - [Login to see the link].

btw the link needs to be updated to [Login to see the link]

darth

Apps4Flip-Admin I added more Roms with apps. Feel free to update main site. Also I dont think there is any mention of fastboot drivers in your guide.
A couple points: Zipped with the Roms is a boot.img which contains the mouse binaries, based off of [Login to see the link] mousev1 binary. Which has the favorites key activate and disable the mouse. I also disabled the messages button so it can be used to activate voice access.
Again if anyone has any questions or ideas or their own Roms please share!

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