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.
Does an allview e4 lite Mtk 6735 work to obtain root using your method?
You must try this: How to root any Android through PC in single click & for rooting through phone try this: Root any Android through phone
Can i install cwm on my intex Aqua power plus using this method.. my phone is mediatek mt6582…please tell me please
Yes it will work well for your device. 😉
hey,thanks for this but just asking,i have a htc desire 816G mt6592,i have cwm installed,can i just directly flash custom roms(meant for mt6592) with cwm or do i have to do this porting processes am hearing about?
Hey Htc Desire 526g+ users this dont work with our device, if you use this you will end up in Soft brick.
i do it now what can i do
Hello admin can you help me getting a custom recovery for my mictomax bolt d303 (a mt6572 chipset with kitkat 4.4.2 os).please help sir I can’t find any …….
after installing the recovery my htc dsire 526g+ got stuck in bootloop ,won’t boot into recovery or fastboot plz tell me what to do
thangs………..for cwm
Can I apply it on my intex aqua i5 HD mobile
Plz give the link to download recovery. img of Karbon a50s
Just follow the above procedure to Install CWM in your A50s
guys i need some urgent help!!!!!!!
my htc desire 526g+ got bricked after installing the recovery,its has mtk6592
it crashes everytime i try to boot it. plz tell me what to do
(p.s. i tried booting in the recovey and fastboot mode)
You have hard bricked your device. Don’t worry, it hardly takes few minutes to fix this. Just follow the guide here: Unbrick Mediatek device. Please let us know if you are stuck at any point.
did you able to solve your problem because it same happen with me
this thing dont work with 526g+ may be
who ever created this HELL YEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
its working whatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt
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Cheers mate!
plz help me to find recovery IMG of karbonA50s
Worked like magic, in seconds, something I’ve surfed the web for days and couldn’t get answers… God bless u man, if only there was a donate button somewhere…
Hey,
Pleasure to hear it worked for you. We don’t accept any donations. But, thanks for the kind offer. May god bless you too!
Does this work for the Infinix Hot 2 (X510) please?
Hey,
1. Root your device.
2. Enable USB Debugging mode & follow the above procedures.
3. Once its done, you’ll be able to root your device in recovery mode. You can also install the small app Rebooter to reboot into recovery.
can you pls tell me how to use it on iball andi 4.5k6+..
It couldn’t reboot into recovery