Alcatel Idol 3 5.5" (alcatel-idol3)

Contributors

 * Vknecht

Maintainer(s)

 * Vknecht

How to enter flash mode

 * Recovery: Power on the device with both and  buttons.
 * Fastboot: Power on the device with both and  buttons.

Stock fastboot was removed on update from Android 5/Lollipop to 6/MarshMallow. Installing lk2nd is required to run mainline kernel anyway.

Installation

 * 1) Install lk2nd (alternative bootloader that provides a standard fastboot interface) to boot partition using either:
 * 2) * Alcatel Flasher tool
 * 3) * emmcdl with Idol35_5_NPRG7627.bin or edl.py
 * 4) * dd command from TWRP
 * 5) Follow Qualcomm_Snapdragon_410/412_(MSM8916).

Touchscreen
There are two touchscreen variants: Currently, only the edt-ft5x06 one is enabled. If you have the Synaptics one, you'll have to edit the DTS file to disable edt-ft5x06 and enable synaptics, then rebuild the kernel package. This shall be solved in lk2nd in the future.
 * edt-ft5x06
 * synaptics / rmi4