[ot][spam] log: trying to take control of my free government phone

Undiscussed Horrific Abuse, One Victim of Many gmkarl at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 10:23:51 PDT 2022


so, the windows flasher i tried needs a .pac file for the phone . it
needs two partitions from it, and won't do much of anything without
them, including apparently downloading data from the phone. i'm not
sure where to find this factory image for this phone, but could look
more places.

another thing i found is that there are of course a handful of
hardware dongles for working with this chipset and phones directly.
this idea is inspiring. if the dongle approach works, then i might be
able to bypass any lock restrictions on the device by simply treating
it as a new device i am building.

it looks like the partitions it needs, fd1 and fd2, may simply be the
user and system partitions. i found a janky instruction guide for
generating a .pac file from backup images of a rooted phone. they
actually use the windows flasher tool, to pack the files into a .pac
file.


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