Three of the most asked questions at www.chinaphonearena.com are “how do I make CWM for my phone?”, “how do I root my China phone?” and “how do I backup my China phone?” Today I’ll be showing you how to do all of them in one fell swoop. Often the problem is how to root without CWM and how to make CWM without root? A somewhat chicken or the egg type question.
NOTE: We now have an updated thread on how to create TWRP custom recovery for the newer SoC China phones such as MT6735 MT6753, MT6755. This method does not require root. Please see the thread linked here. If you’ve got an older phone, you can continue on with this tutorial.
There are several quick one-tap one-click auto roots available. Then at that point you can usually make CWM with MTK Droid Tools. Or if you have a stock ROM already for your phone, you can use boot.img to create a CWM as well. When all else fails or you don’t have access to a stock ROM for your phone, or if you just want to do it the old fashion way for the heck of it, this tutorial is where it’s at.
By the end of this tutorial series, you will be able to:
- Create a scatter for your MTK phone
- Read back your ROM
- Make a backup from your read back
- Create custom CWM recovery from your read back
- Flash CWM via several different methods
- Root your phone via several different methods
Part 1 – Create a scatter:
What you will need
- An MTK MediaTek China phone
- ADB VCOM Drivers
- Latest version of MTK Droid Tools
- A USB Cable
- A PC (Preferably Windows 7)
Preparation stage
- Install ADB VCOM Drivers
- Extract latest version of MTK Droid Tools to somewhere on your PC where you can find it easily
Action stage:
- Run the latest version of MTK Droid Tools.
- Turn your phone on and connect the data USB cable to your phone and wait about 10 seconds. Eventually you should see the phone’s information come up.
- Click ‘blocks map’. A new window should open with all your phone’s block information and where each portion of your firmware is stored on ROM.
- Click ‘create scatter file’. Navigate to where you want to save it. If you need it for flashing firmware, save it in the folder of the firmware. If you need it for flashing a recovery, save it in the folder with the recovery. For the purpose of this tutorial just make sure you save it somewhere where you’ll know where it is.
The second part of the Ultimate Backup, Root, CWM Tutorial is performing a proper read back of your ROM using SP Flash Tool. You will use the scatter file from Stage 1 to configure the ROM read back. For a complete backup, you will perform the read back beginning from the Preloader all the way to the Android partition.
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