How To Backup Unrooted Stock ROM on Mediatek Devices

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Many Android devices are being launched in the market to meet the demands of the ever
hungry Tech-savvy people. The manufacturers are releasing devices with much greater
specifications and compactness. Even in the recent months, we have seen a lot of Octa
core and Hexa core devices, we also witnessed devices with processing power which can
put a low-end and mid-end laptops to shame. But manufacturers always try to restrict
users from accessing the full power of the device to make sure the devices life time gets a
boost.

But the true power of the device can only be enjoyed once the user is in full control of the
device, not the manufacturer. So many developers and hackers developed scripts and
tools that can exploit the Android devices and give full permissions to the user, which is a
popular process known as Rooting. Once user gets full access, he can play with the entire
power of the device but this may damage the device. So we need to make sure to take a
backup of the device in case we run into situations where we cannot boot the device or
some other issues.
Mediatek chipset is the most common chipset that is available in the budget devices to
cut the costs. Taking a backup is easy once we have a custom recovery, but if the device
isunrooted the process is not a straight road. However, by following this detailed guide
you can take a backup of your mediatek powered device using this simple process.
WARNING!

Warranty may be void of your device if you follow the procedures given on this page.
You only are responsible for your device. We wont be liable if any damage occurs to
your device and/or its components.

GUIDE: BACKUP UNROOTED STOCK ROM OF MEDIATEK DEVICES

Before you begin with guide instructions below, make sure your android device is
adequately charged at least 50% battery of the device.
STEP 0: CHECK THE CHIPSET

To make sure that this process works perfectly for you, ensure that your device is
powered by a mediatek chipset. Usually all mediatek chipsets are represented as
MTXXXX where the XXXX denotes the model number of the chipset.
STEP 1: BACKUP YOUR DEVICE

Back up important data and stuff before you start playing around here as there are

chances you might lose your apps and app-data (app settings, game progress, etc.),
and in rare case, files on the internal memory, too.
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below.
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STEP 2: INSTALL LATEST DRIVER

You must have proper and working driver installed on your windows computer to be
able to successfully backupfirmwares on your device.

You can use the device drivers provided by your device manufacturer or you can
follow the below link to install drivers for any device using PDANET.
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STEP 3: INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
DOWNLOADS

Download the file given below and transfer it to a separate folder on your phone and
remember the location.
SP FLASH TOOL

DOWNLOAD LINK (https://mega.co.nz/#!mRpD1BSB!PMXa5Q9wvrRGu4Aw9hTgnWzWdTny0BjcqQCJ65IaOs) | File name: SP Flash Tool 3.1352.01

(5.1352.01).rar(23.4 MB)

MTK DROID TOOLS

DOWNLOAD LINK (https://mega.co.nz/#!TZYyyJCb!IEQnsjajDaSp8zcHZh96zVQBeMdgupF5dvfhTcJt4k) | File name: MtkDroidTools_v253.exe(9.21 MB)

STEP-BY-STEP GUIDE

Important Note:Backup important files stored on internal SD card of your device,

just to be on the safer side. You dont want to format your personal files, right?
STEP 1 : GETTING THINGS READY

1. Extract/Unzip the SP Flash Toolfile, SP Flash Tool 3.1352.01 (5.1352.01).raron your

computer (using7-zip free software (http://www.7-zip.org/download.html),
preferably) to get the files similar to the screenshot below:

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2. Double clickthe MTK Droid Toolfile, MtkDroidTools_v253.exeon your computer
which is a selecting extracting package and will extract the files to your PC.You
should get the files similar to the screenshot below:

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3. Make sure that proper drivers are installed on your PC and the Adb is working fine.
Without proper driver setup, it is impossible to carry on with this guide.
STEP 2 : CREATING SCATTER FILE

1. The next step is to extract the Scatter file of your device which contains the
addresses of the blocks, necessary for the SP Flash Tool program.
2. To createthe Scatter file, navigate to the MTK Droid Tools folder and double click
on the MTKdroidTools.exe. This should open a window similar to the screenshot
below:

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3. Prepare your phone:
Enable USB Debugging: Open phones Settings select Developer options

Tick the USB debugging checkbox (under Debugging section).

4. Connect your phone to PC with a USB cable and if a pop-up screen shows up on
phone asking you to Allow USB debugging for the computer, make sure youtick the
checkboxand tap OK.

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5. Now the tool should recognize your device and display the device details which
looks similar to the screenshot below:

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connected.png)
6. Now click on the Blocks Map button at the bottom of the tool. This should give you a
window displaying the addresses of various partitions present in your device.

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7. Now click on Create scatter file button to create the scatter text file on your PC. It

will be automatically named something likeMTxxxx_Android_scatter_emmc.txt,

where xxxx is the chipset model number.
STEP 3 : READ BACK USING SP FLASH TOOL

1. Navigate to the SP Flash Tool folder and double click on the flash_tool.exe file which
will open a window as shown in the screenshot:
sp-flash-tools-console
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2. Now load the scatter file which is created earlier by clicking on scatter-loading
button on the right side of the tool. This will show the partition table as shown in
the screenshot below:
sp-flash-tools-console-table
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3. Click on the Readback tab and press Add button. Double click the mouseon the

appeared line. You can choose a file name, thatbegins with ROM_ xxxxxx (Or leave
it as Rom_0 which is default).Remember path and the name of ROM_ file.
sp-flash-tools-console-read-back
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4. Now it asks for the rom size. So select hex and enter the values with respect to your
scatter file. The starting address will be0x0000000000000000 by default, dont
change it. Change the end address as the cache address of your device.

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5. Click on Read Back button and connect the switched-off phone to PC.On some
devices you have to hold volume button or camera button in order to initiate the
process.

6. Once completed you will see a green circle saying Download OKindicating that the
process is successfully completed.

STEP 4 : PROCESS ROM FILE FOR SP FLASH TOOL

1. Open the MTK Droid Tool and click on the root, backup, recovery tab (With the
device powered On and connected).
2. Click on To process file ROM_ from FlashTool button and choose the ROM_* file
saved in the earlier steps.

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3. If everything is successful, the tool will askto choose CWM from similar phone.
Click Ok.
4. The chosen CWM is checked for the compatibility to the device and if ok it will
create the CWM recovery file as well.
5. You can find the entire firmware package of your device in the backup folder of the

MTK Droid Tools directory.

Thats it. Its a bit lengthy process but at the cost of brick-proofing your device, this guide
is worth it.
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NITINKUMAR CHOBHE

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This is a very good step-be-step tutorial @Naveen. Thanks a lot for this.
I was able to extract the stock ROM of unrooted Alcatel OneTouch 6042D
using this tutorial. It has also created the CWM recovery. Ill try that and see
if it works!
Thanks once again!

ZINGER MIRXA
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Excellent narration. just one question, mine device has mt6582 processor
whose scatter file is lot difference from yours. in cache i have 3 different
numbers with linear start address, physical start address and partition size.
can you please tell me which i should use to successfully backup my bootable
stock rom?

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Hi does anyone have a stock rom for Blu advance 4.0l my phone is stuck in a
boot loop thank you

D H A N VAT E
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THESE TOOLS ARE OUTDATED FOR THIS PROCESS WHEN USING 64 BIT
MT6752.3235ETC

G A A R A TA G A L A

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The information above is NOT correct. You said How To Backup Unrooted
Stockrom but your screenshot shows that the phone is rooted.
Unrooted/Untouched stockrom Only shows a Blue Indicator,Yellow for
rooted,Red if no phone is connected and Green if the phone is in root shell
condition. When the phone is not roored,it shows color blue indicator,when
you click the Blocks Map,the Create Scatter From File is UnClickable.

JESSE
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This is a great how to for DIY. Im having an issue with creating a scatter fie,
the phone is hooked up but the MTK is not reading the IMEI and it is not
allowing for the creation of a scatter file. How can you make the scatter file if
the phone is not allowing you to do this?

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