TECH CORNER:A COMPLETE GUIDE FLASH & UPDATE ANDROID MTK FIRMWARE USING SP FLASH TOOL

TECH CORNER:A COMPLETE GUIDE FLASH & UPDATE ANDROID MTK FIRMWARE USING SP FLASH TOOL

With the economic recession, it is fair to say that any chance you get to save a few bucks, it would be wise to save it. Today we talk about flashing and upgrading firmware of our android devices. You really don’t have to be a geek to flash your phones ROM in the case of a malware or virus attack. All you need is:

1.    Your laptop

2. 

USB VCOM driver

3.  An SP flash tool

4.  Your phone’s stock ROM

5.  And of course your phone.

I can guess what you’re thinking, what is a stock ROM? Basically to avoid using much tech jargon, we can just say it is an official software of your phone. Every function a phone can carry out, is coded in the ROM during the programming.

Enough talk let’s get to the business. If you customize your phone very often, chances are that you’d be stuck with a firmware issue that’d probably soft brick(make your phone unable to start up) and you’ll need to flash the phone’s ROM.

It is possible and easy to find any phone’s stock ROM all you need to do is ask!

STEPS TO STRICTLY FOLLOW:

1. After downloading all the files, create a folder on your desktop screen and extract them to the folder.

2.Turn off your phone

3. Open the sp flash tool, find the flash_tool.exe right click and run as administrator

4. From the main screen of the SP flash tool, click scatter- loading button and trace the scatter file inside the stock ROM you previously downloaded.

5. Now, you would see a list of files marked, in the case of an upgrade, you can unmark the usr data and cache otherwise leave every file marked. 

6. Click download, then insert the USB cable into the already powered off phone while holding the up/down volume button. Do not release the volume button until you see a red progress bar on the screen.

7. It would change to a yellow progress bar then you can release the volume button and wait for the progress to complete.

8. A large green mark would appear on the screen when the process is complete.

9. You can then boot your phone into recovery mode and do a factory reset then boot up the phone. You’re done.!

Phone repair shops would charge you from 1500 to 2000 naira for this. Imagine what 2k would do for you in this recession. Hmm personally, I know a thing or two I could do with 2k now. Keep the fire burning starz…

                                                                        Peace!