Update 7-1-2013

Custom ROMs For BLU Quattro 4.5 

Disclaimer: These ROMs/Recoveries are only intended for the BLU Quattro 4.5, or the K-Touch v9(which is the chinese version) These WILL NOT work on the 4.5HD or 5.7HD devices(I will release ROMs/Recoveries specifically for your device at a later time)

Drivers: https://copy.com/BUMmsS9rhLJe

English Recovery: https://copy.com/XZxTDht2lQiz

Gapps(4.2) https://copy.com/utkbZgwRpsVB

Gapps(4.1) https://copy.com/pSd8SsqU9pdI


NOTE: These ROMs are quite old now. If you would like more ROMs/Frequent updates, please join my Google+ community: https://plus.google.com/communities/117846429749085694805

ROMs With Less Bugs:
MIUI v5 (4.1) https://copy.com/sbmcN6PHwFfi
CM/AOKP Hybrid? JB (4.1) https://copy.com/VeLz1VLbkNNI
Shendu ROM 4.1(Modified/Tweaked by me) https://copy.com/NwiFnlO8JAek

ROMs With More Bugs:  
Cyanogenmod 10.1 (4.2) https://copy.com/8kt2EAU2ll8y



1- Download the drivers from link posted above, and extract it to the folder of your desire. Now turn the phone off, and hold Vol+(volume up button) and Power button at the same time until you see a green screen, then release both buttons immediately. You should now be in APX mode(nvflash) it will be a black screen

2- Connect phone to computer via usb cable. Now you should get a pop-up window about installing drivers, you're going to want to choose to browse computer for driver software manually. Then choose let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer, and click have disk. Now you're going to browse to the location where you extracted the drivers to, and click on it(Ignore warning if it pops up, and choose install)

3- Assuming everything went as planned, now download the recovery and extract it to the location you desire(must be in a directory that you can issue adb commands from) inside of that folder, locate a file named recovery.bat. Double click on that file and a command prompt with a bunch of chinese pops up. Give it a second and press enter, it will go through the process and flash a recovery onto your phone

4- After everything is done, hold down the power button for about ten seconds(until the device powers off) Power the device back on normally, and download the ROM/ROMs if you haven't already and place them on the internal or external sd card(your choice) With device connected to pc, open command prompt and type in "adb reboot recovery" (without quotes) and the device will boot into recovery mode

5- Now that we have an English recovery, the translations below aren't really needed. However, I'm going to leave them up for a few days, just until everybody can transition to the English recovery. They will be deleted after that!

Recovery Main Menu:
-Reboot
-Install zip from SD card
-Wipe Data/Factory Reset
-Wipe Cache partition
-Backup&Restore
-Mounts and Storage
-Advanced

Install From SD Card Menu:
-Install zip from external SD
-Apply /sdcard/update.zip
-Toggle Signature Verification(Needs to be verified)
-Install zip from internal SD

Backup&Restore Menu:
-Backup
-Restore
-Delete(Needs to be verified)
-Advanced Restore(Needs to be verified)
-The rest need to be confirmed

Advanced Menu:
-Reboot Recovery
-Wipe Dalvik Cache
-Report Error(Needs verification)
-Key Test(Needs verification)
-Show Log(Needs verification)
-Fix Permissions(Needs verification)

To install ROM- In recovery mode, Factory Reset/Wipe Cache/Wipe Dalvik Cache. Then choose install zip from sd card(then choose internal or external and locate the ROM you want to install) After that you need to do the same thing to install the gapps package(you need the gapps package for google apps to function) once all is done, reboot and wait(it takes a while to boot the first time after flashing new ROMs, it has to rebuild the Dalvik cache)

NOTE: (Chinese Recovery) In case you aren't familiar with flashing ROMs, once you click on something( "backup" for example) a menu pops up pretty much asking you if you're sure you want to do that. It will have a bunch of lines of the same thing(which is no) and then one of the lines will have a bunch of writing beside it(which means yes). Also BEFORE you flash any ROMs, make sure you factory reset/wipe cache/and wipe dalvik cache, then you can flash the ROM and gapps package

***I no longer have this device, but I constantly do my best to provide ROMs and updates, and I'm always around and willing to help people out. The Google+ community will be updated/checked MUCH more frequently, so please join the community if you would like to stay up to date, or if you have any questions/concerns

Tool-Kit For BLU Quattro Lineup

                                                                                         
                                                                                           Tool-Kit
                                                                       https://copy.com/oGiSz8x3wKOE

This is a tool-kit that I made to automate the process of removing junk files from the system/app folder. It will work for Linux and Windows users. The kit will also replace some of the deleted apps, with better alternatives, and provide some extra goodies as well.

Disclaimer: For this to work, your device must be rooted, and you must have ADB working properly!

Connect phone to PC using USB cable
Now we can begin


1- Extract the toolkit to somewhere easily accessible on your computer. If you didn't set ADB up to be ran from any location, I suggest you read over my tutorial on setting up ADB and Fastboot again, and set it in your path. With that said, if you're having trouble with setting your path for ADB, then just extract the toolkit to the same folder you extracted the ADB and Fastboot drivers.

2- Windows users should be able to just double click on BluMod.bat and it will automatically run(assuming it is in the same directory as adb,or you have your path set up correctly) If that doesn't work then open command prompt and navigate to where your ADB drivers and toolkit are (Example:  type in  cd c:\  and press enter) if they are in the root of C drive.

3- Now type in  adb devices  and press enter. You want to make sure your device is listed as attached, if it is then continue on with the next step.(If you have trouble on anything at all please contact me here or on Google+)

4- (Linux users) will navigate to the correct path that they have the toolkit extracted to using the Terminal, and type in  adb devices  to  make sure you're device is connected. Then type in  BluMod.sh  and press enter(if that doesn't work type in  ./BluMod.sh  and press enter)

5- (Windows users) Assuming everything went well and you are in command prompt, in the path you extracted ADB and toolkit to, type in  BluMod.bat  and press enter.

Note: After everything has ran it's course, the device will reboot. Check everything out and let me know what you think! And if you run into any problems, please contact me through this blog, or google+

What's removed:                                                                                   MagneticTest.odex                Email.apk                   Music.apk
BackLightTest.apk                 Email.odex                 Music.odex
BackLightTest.odex           FlashLightTest.apk         NoiseField.apk
BatteryInfoTest.apk          FlashLightTest.odex        NoiseField.odex
BatteryInfoTest.odex         Galaxy4.apk                PhaseBeam.apk
BatteryTemperatureTest.apk   Galaxy4.odex               PhaseBeam.odex
BatteryTemperatureTest.odex  GenieWidget.apk            QmaxTest.apk
BLU_Default.apk              Gmail.apk                  QmaxTest.odex
BLU_Facebook.apk             HardwareInfoTest.apk       TestApp.apk
BLU_GOLauncher.apk           HardwareInfoTest.odex      TestApp.odex
BLU_kingsoft_office.apk      HoloSpiralWallpaper.apk    TYFileBrowser.apk
BLU_Twitter.apk              HoloSpiralWallpaper.odex   TYFileBrowser.odex
Browser.apk                  HTMLViewer.apk             VibratorTest.apk
Browser.odex                 HTMLViewer.odex            VibratorTest.odex
ButtonLightTest.apk          MagicSmokeWallpapers.apk   YouTube.apk
ButtonLightTest.odex         MagicSmokeWallpapers.odex
DIDIMTest.apk                MagneticTest.apk
DIDIMTest.odex

What's added:                BSPlayer.apk          Galaxy.apk       MxBrowser.apk               CustomWallpapers.apk  Gmail.apk        QRDroid.apk
AdAway_2.0.apk    Dropbox.apk           GoogleDrive.apk  Reader.apk
Apollo.apk        ESFileExplorer.apk    GoogleVoice.apk  SkyAtDawn.apk
AquaMail.apk      FileManager.apk       Keyboard.apk     SysAppMover.apk
AtomLauncher.apk  Flashlight_4.9.4.apk  LGCamera.apk     Translate.apk
AtomWidgets.apk   FlashPlayer.apk       Music.apk        YouTube.apk

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Configuring ADB & Fastboot for Windows

 1) Download the SDK package you need from the following link: http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html

2) Extract the file's contents to your hard drive

3) Within the unzipped "sdk" folder, you need to locate the platform-tools folder, and place it somewhere convenient on your hard drive. I usually rename the folder Android-adb for convenience, and place it in the root of drive C. So it should look like this C:\Android-adb

Disclaimer: As of right now, ADB and Fastboot are set up, but to use it, you would have to navigate to the appropriate folder every time through command prompt. We're going to go ahead and add this location to Windows system path variable, that way you can issue ADB commands from wherever you want

4) Right click on the computer icon you have on your desktop, and go to properties

5) In system properties, go to the advanced tab, and click on environment variables. Use following picture for reference:

 


6) In the lower pane of the window are the system variables. In that location, locate Path and highlight it, then click the edit button. Use the following picture for reference:

 7) There will already be a set of locations here; just navigate to the very end of it, and add the following text:    ;C:\Android-adb     (Now that is assuming you did like I recommended, and renamed the file to android-adb and put it at the root of your c drive) If not, then enter the path you stored the folder at. Once all is done, click ok.

ADB and Fastboot are fully configured and ready to use now. You should be able to issue ADB commands from any location within command prompt now. To verify everything worked, hook the device up to the computer via usb cable. Make sure USB debugging is enabled on phone, open command prompt, and type in adb devices. If you followed instructions correctly, it should display a list of all connected devices, and your device should be on there

Root method for Entire Quattro Lineup

The following method is for Windows/Linux users who wish to root their device.

1) Set up ADB and Fastboot on your computer

2) Download and extract the following file to the root of your hard drive(C:\) https://copy.com/7RUwl

3) Hook your phone up to the pc, via usb cable

4) Open command prompt/terminal, and type in adb devices. This will ensure that your phone is successfully recognized by the pc. You should get a message showing the list of devices connected, with your device listed. If it's not listed, then you did not set up your paths to adb correctly

5) If all went well and the device is recognized, type in RunMe.bat(Windows) or RunMe.sh(Linux) and press enter

6) Now press 1 for normal root, and let it work it's magic

7) The device should reboot a couple times during this process, once it is completed you should be fully rooted