How
To Backup and Restore Stock ROM in a Mediatek Device
With SP Flash Tool, a hard-bricked
android device can still be revived and fixed which was considered the best
method of repairing any android software problem.
In this tutorial, we will be
learning how to backup with mktdroidtools and how to flash or recover our
device in an event of failure or brick using SP Flash Tool.
Download and install the MTK USB
Drivers in your computer, it contains 6 other USB drivers needed to detect your
device. Also, you must download MTK Droid Tools and SP Flash Tool, extract them
to any location or folder you are comfortable of accessing. If all are ready,
let’s proceed to the instructions.
Creating
a Stock ROM Backup
Pre-requisites: Vcom drivers
to enable pc see your tablet, Mktdroidtools – Download here, Usb cable, A PC or Laptop
First of all, Make sure usb
debug is checked under our settings menu. Connect your device powered on to
your computer using USB Cable.
From your computer, Open MTK
Droid Tools.exe, run it as administrator. Wait for your device to be
detected since you have installed the USB drivers. You will notice that color
on the lower-left corner of the tool will turn cyan-blue.
On MTK Droid Tools, click on root,
backup, recovery tab and click the Backup button to start full
stock ROM backup.
Wait for the tool to backup your
whole Stock ROM. You can see that the ROM backup will be saved on \MtkDroidTools\backups.
Wait until a prompt will appear
asking you “Pack-up the backup” or something like that, press NO.
Congratulations, we have just gotten
our backup files unde
It is not done yet, we have to
prepare this backup to make it flashable through SP Flash Tool. To do it, click
on To prepare blocks for Flash Tool.
A new windows will appear asking fol
a .md5 file of the backup. So navigate to the MTK Droid Tools folder where your
backup is found. Open the backup that your have created earlier and select the files.md5
click OPEN.
Wait for MTK Droid Tools to copy the
files for SP Flash Tool, check the status messages until the copying is
complete.
When the tool is done, you have now
created the Stock ROM backup of your device!
How
To Restore the Stock ROM of your MTK device?
Pre-requisites:
Spflashtool – Download here
Usb cable
A PC or Laptop
Open spflashtool and click on
Scatter loading and the locate the file under the ifiles_to_flashtool folder as
seen in the diagram below
After you loaded the scatter file,
it will look like the image below. All must checked except for Cache and
User Data.
The Preloader and DSP_BL have
to be checked if your device is not longer booting. But if you are installing a
custom rom on your device, then you have to uncheck it or else you’ll brick it.
Those checked partitions will be restored, make sure not to touch or move the
backup files so that your phone will be restored in your previous stock ROM,
also to avoid boot loops and bricking.
As you can see, the Stock ROM
partition backups are found on its specific locations under location column. If
the locations do not appear (except forCACHE and USRDATA), the
backup stock ROM is not in the proper place. To fix that, you must move the
files of the stock ROM to the same location where the Scatter file is stored.
To restore or flash the Stock ROM
backup, first, turn OFF your MTK android device and remove the USB
cable. click Download from SP Flash Tool, a prompt will appear,
just click YES. Immediately connect your turned OFF device to your
computer via USB Cable.
Wait for the tool to detect your
device and restore the Stock ROM that you have made. An alert with a green
circle appears after successfully downloading the ROM.
Done! You have successfully restored
the stock ROM.
If you have any comment, Let me see
it in the comment box
Update
If your pc cannot see your
device, then use this driver here
pdanet especially for those using Windows 8 and 8.1
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