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[royden yates <royden.yates@xxxxxxxxx>]

(Sigh)
I now see by following a link that he has a 5 Pro and not an mx4.
On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 15:25 +0200, royden yates wrote:
> Hi,
> AFAIK, a mx4 with Flyme has a locked bootloader and one must use the
> mtk flashtool to go to anything else.
> R
> On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 11:35 +0200, NeoTheThird wrote:
> >     No idea how the flashing from different OSs works, we only
> > tested
> >       the flashing from Stock Canonical Ubuntu Touch, but afaik it
> > also
> >       works from stock android, not sure about that. I don't have a
> >       meizu to test right now, sorry.
> > 
> >     
> >     
> > 
> >     On 15.06.2017 01:34, Stephen wrote:
> > 
> >     
> >     
> > >       
> > >       I enjoyed using (and donated to) Ubuntu Touch. However, now
> > > that
> > >       UT is end of support (soon), I changed over to Revolution
> > >         Remix (Android 7). 
> > > 
> > >       
> > > 
> > >       I've since tried to flash
> > >         the ubports image, but the RRemix sets up a weird root
> > > that
> > >       doesn't seem to allow the flash to complete.
> > > 
> > >       
> > > 
> > >       Presumably I have to flash the old beta recovery/Flyme
> > > version
> > >       that enabled root?
> > > 
> > >       
> > > 
> > >       Can anyone suggest what's needed to flash the Flyme beta
> > > (link,
> > >       step by step process), then hopefully to ubports.
> > > 
> > >       
> > > 
> > >       
> > >       
> > > 
> > >     
> > 
> >     
> > 
> >   
> >