No Custom recovery for your device? As Mediatek smartphone chipsets have gained its popularity in the market not only due to its performance but also for its affordability, many users tend to buy these smartphones. However, most MediaTek devices nowadays are produced locally. The problem is the limits bound to these devices when it comes to tweaking such as rooting, installing custom recoveries and more, due to lack of developers for their device. But no worry there are many ways to get things done.
Today I’m sharing this method of installing ClockworkMOD which works for all Mediatek device. We will use MTK Droid Tools for the process.
Note : This works only for MTK based android device. If you are trying this on any other device then do it at your own risk. I am not responsible if you brick your phone or if u make any other damage to your phone.
What Is Clockworkmod?
ClockWorkMod or CWM is an android and tablet tool developed by Koushik Dutta. You can perform several advanced recovery, restoration installation which you normally wouldn’t be able to perform on your android and tablet devices. This tool is also commonly used to gain root access, backup data and and install custom ROMs. This website will provide you with all the help you need, if you are confused about what to do.
How To Flash ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery on Any MediaTek (MT65xx) Android Device :
Required Tools:
- A MediaTek android device (MT65XX)
- Your phone must be rooted already. How to Root
- USB Cord.
- Windows PC/Laptop.
- Download ADB Drivers : ADB Drivers.
- Download MTK Droid Tools for Windows : MTK Droid Tools for Windows.
What Is MTK Droid Tools?
MTK droid tool is a software that allows you to perform various tasks such as rooting, backup data, create scatter files and write IMEI on Mediatek devices.
Steps To Flash ClockWorkMod
1. Download necessary files from above links.
2. Install the downloaded PDANet to your computer. It contains ADB Drivers.
3. Turn on your android device and connect it to your computer using USB Chord. (Make sure to Enable USB Debugging, go to Phone Settings — Developer Options — Enable USB Debugging.)
4. From your computer, open MTK Droid Tools that you have downloaded above and extract it to your desired location.
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5. Open MTK Droid Tools.exe from the extracted folder (Run as administrator). Wait for the tool to detect your device. (If UBIFS warning appeared in the status message, this process will not work for you. Only ext4 supported.). Notice on the bottom-left part of the tool, a YELLOW color indicator means that your android device is does not have root shell yet. If it is GREEN already, proceed to step 7. How to ROOT your Mediatek Device or proceed to Step 6
7. Now, select the Root, Backup, Recovery tab and and further choose To Use Boot From Phone from the selections. Click Recovery and Boot, a message prompt will appear “To make CWM recovery automatically”, click YES.
8. Wait for the tool to build the CWM recovery and another prompt will appear “install patched boot to phone?” select NO, wait a little bit more and another prompt will appear again “install created recovery to phone”, now select YES.
9. When the tool ask you to reboot your phone to recovery, click Yes and it will reboot to CWM recovery shortly. Check out your new custom recovery.
Congratulations! You now have Installed ClockworkMod custom recovery on your MediaTek android device. You can now enjoy apps that requires Superuser rights, mods and ROMs that requires flashing from CWM. You can also check how to flash recover in mediatek devices using the twrp method.
Pls Ajinkya sir provide custom recovery for karbonn a35 4.2.2 android mtk6572 1.3ghz processor
Hello Ajinkya,
I found the MTK Droid tools from. another source. I followed the instructions above but while rooting the MTK Droid tool reports:
— ERROR :system it was not remounted on ReadWrite!
— ERROR : file adbd not install !
I do have the Pdanet installed.
Please help.
Thanks,
Deepankar
Dear Ajinkya,
The GDrive is refusing to download of MTK Droid Tools, saying it is infected. Please check and revert
Regards,
Deepankar
it says error : no find kernalgz and error : no split boot image.I have karbonn A14 device
I have a upside down recovery, can you tell me how to fix it, a have a mt6572 (Universal5410 it's fake)
MTK droid tool LINK is dead brother…
Google found error so only owner can download that file….
Sir plz help
Hey mate, i did the steps and in the end it says it succeeded, but it doesn't ask me to boot into recovery, and when i did it myself, nothing changed… thanks
file adbd not install !
i could not download MTK tools, it says "Sorry, this file is infected with a virus
Only the owner is allowed to download infected files."
I want a cwm for Karbonn A26
hi, m using titanium octane plus n hw cn i install cwm?
Bro i have karbonn a35 mobile is there any custom roms for this model and how to install cwm for this model am very irritating with this os so plsss give me instructions for install custom roms
Hey vijay can you please contact me here for custom roms for Karbonn A35 KarbonnROMS. Just message me on the page.
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This error message is coming so how can i contact you
Sorry for the wrong link contact here : KarbonnROMS.
Thank for giving reply to me bro i will contact you there
thanx for giving a great method of installing recovery and rom. But still will u tell me how to increase internal storage on karbonn a25 plz.
Hey Ruturaj,
I'm glad that few of this posts helped you increase your A25's performance. For increasing your A25's internal memory you can refer this post : Increase internal memory of android. If you can't find a post, use the Sitemap page or simply search for the post using the search box. Good day !
I'm glad that this method worked for your A7*. Hope to see you soon !
when connected to mtk droid tools it shows a message
ATTENTION! File /system/recovery-from-boot.p which restore factory recovery in case of phone switching on in a normal mode Is Found!
what should i do??
I think you are trying this on some other chipset phone this only works for Mediatek.
My mobile is Lava Pixel V2. MT6735 64bit. I have the same problem.