For rooting your China clone, there are always several methods. Whether you are rooting your China phone through MTK Droid Tools, or you are doing it with a quick root tool. The ADB USB drivers are usually required for these processes so that your phone can communicate with the PC. (more…)
Category: MediaTek
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MT6572 Schematics and MT6582 Full Tech Manual
Released as “confidential”, Gizbeat has gotten their hands on the tech manual for MT6582 and a schematic diagram for MT6572. Those who are into getting geeked out may be interested in perusing these documents. (more…)
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Ultimate Backup, Root, CWM Tutorial: Make a scatter, create CWM, flash CWM, root from recovery
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?” (more…)
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NFC Competitor HotKnot & Amoi Big V A918T
Amoi has been an interesting company to watch. They normally make a solid mobile, but haven’t caught on quite like Doogee, Jiayu, THL, Zopp and iNew have. They’ve also been relatively quite recently with not much released over the last several months. (more…)
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LinkIt and Aster from MediaTek
Along with the MT7681 and MT7688 SoC for wearable and home devices, MediaTek will also be releasing “Aster” SoC and “LinkIt” development platform. LinkIt development platform will be mainly geared towards working with Aster.LinkIt is especially designed to develop for wearable networking equipment operating systems and supporting touch GUI infrastructures. LinkIt platform will support development for Android and iOS devices.
From J.C. Hsu, General Manager of New Business Development at MediaTek:
“MediaTek is now in a unique position to assume leadership by accelerating development for wearables and IoT, thanks to our LinkIt platform,”
From MediaTek:
“The launch of LinkIt is a part of MediaTek’s wider initiative for the developer community called MediaTek Labs™ which will officially launch later this year. MediaTek Labs will stimulate and support the creation of wearable devices and IoT applications based on the LinkIt platform.”
According to MediaTek, the key features of MediaTek Aster and LinkIt:
- MediaTek Aster, the smallest SoC in a package size of 5.4×6.2mm specifically designed for wearable devices.
- LinkIt integrates the MediaTek’s Aster SoC and is a developer platform supported by reference designs that enable creation of various form factors, functionalities, and internet connected services.
- Synergies between microprocessor unit and communication modules, facilitating development and saving time in new device creation.
- Modularity in software architecture provides developers with high degree of flexibility.
- Supports over-the-air (OTA) updates for apps, algorithms and drivers which enable “push and install” software stack (named MediaTek Capsule) from phones or computers to devices built with MediaTek Aster.
- Plug-in software development kit (SDK) for Arduino and VisualStudio. Support for Eclipse is planned for Q4 this year.
- Hardware Development Kit (HDK) based on LinkIt board by third party.
The purpose of LinkIt is to provide a turnkey reference software development kit (SDK) for developers to help bring products to market as quickly as possible.
Aster SoC aka MT2502, comes in at a tiny 5.4*6.2mm, but is a full on SoC with CPU and RAM, and configurable by manufacturers to include Bluetooth, 2G and GPS modules.
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MediaTek To Release SoC for Wearable and Home Devices – Review MT7688 MT7681
People love making things as simple and easy as possible and I can see a big market for smart home devices being operated via your smartphone. (more…)
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Tegra K1 Review CPU/GPU/SoC – MTK Time To Step Up The Game
Competition is getting very stiff. There was a time when the only mobile SoC outside Apple Land that could be considered quite decent was created by Qualcomm. (more…)
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MT6595 MTK6595 Review Specifications – MHL, USB 3.0, eMMC 5.0
The rumors have been flying the last couple months and as we come closer to the MT6595 release, the rumors are turning to facts.
A few days ago I wrote about a release date for MT6595 and we are still in line with those expectations.
This post has a lot of geek info in it, but there is plenty for the non-geeks as well. (more…)
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How To Fix Repair Generate Invalid IMEI Tutorial On MediaTek / MTK Phones
Repair and fix IMEI MT6752, MT6732, MT6753 64-bit SoC phones as well as IMEI on MTK / MediaTek MT6589 MT6589T MT6592 MT6595 MT6572 MT6582 MT6577 MT6516 phones, (more…)
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Official MT6752 64-bit SoC Specifications & MediaTek Marketing
Mouth by Alisha Vargas MediaTek is expecting to surpass Q1 revenue in Q2. Their target is 90 million units for Q2 with a revenue of 18.2 billion USD. Products with LTE are expected to sell 15 million units. (more…)
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MT6290 LTE 4G MT6595 MTK & 64-bit Timeline Update
by Jonathan Kos-Read One area MTK has lagged behind in is frequency support. The WCDMA 3G frequencies supported often are 850/2100 900/2100 and occasionally 2100 only. That all may change when MT6290 is released. (more…)
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MT6588 vs MT6592 vs MT6582 – Similarities and Differences
Way back in 2012 the SoC name for what is now MT6589 was to be MT6588. MediaTek did a switcharoo and MT6589 is what we ended up with. Now in 2014, MTK has taken the MT6588 name off the shelf and applied it to their just released SoC – (more…)