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.
Please can anybudy tell me that how to create custom recovery manually through an android app? I mean any android that’s create custom recovery manually and can I install custom recovery of another device in my device with the combination of specifications?if yes then which kind of combination will required?like:Android version,screen resolution.which combination of specification will required please tell me.
Please can anybudy tell me that how to create custom recovery automatically through an android app or can I install custom recovery of another device in my device with the combination of specifications?if yes then which kind of combination will required?like:Android version,screen resolution.which combination of specification will required please tell me.
Don’t try other recoveries. You might end up bricking your device & can’t be fixed. Try the above method, it works for Mediatek devices.
Sir my karbonn titanium s5+ says mtk tool install busybox and then adbd not installed also ur link is removed for downloading tool
Works great on my ALPS V3+…. Thanks bro. I mistakenly clicked “yes” to “install patched boot to phone?” Is it going to ’cause me any problems?
Nope, it won’t cause any issues. Let us know if you find any issues, we’ll help you solve it! 🙂
Everything went fine i got root access and got backup but this tool is not asking me to make CWM recovery automatically after selecting my boot.img .
Please help?
it shows cant support mtk6572 on my lava iris 465 admin help plxxx
may I proceed to next step, if I have this message:
—>>> Connect to device <> Connect to device <<<—
ATTENTION! File /system/recovery-from-boot.p which restore factory recovery in case of phone switching on in a normal mode Is Found!
please help?
Symphony p6 pc shathe conect hosena
hollo, am not getting twrp/cmw for intex aqua i7. and i want to install it without pc.. may anyone help???
Comment: Like Joshi said this problem below
mt6572 i got error:
error: no find kernelGZ
eroor: no split image.
is really bugging us please help.
Hello i bricked my tecno m3 in this process how can i unbrick it…. regards
Hii,,,Bro Iam Using a Datawind Ubislate 7cz Tablet!!Is This process works for me also??? plz rply,,URGENTLY…
Thanks.. 😉
Yes, it will work for your device. Let us know if you need any help! 🙂
Any custom rom availabe for karbonn a25+ plz give and also give recovery cwm or twrp plz thank
bro when i try to cwm recovery in my mt6572 i got error:
error: no find kernelGZ
eroor: no split image.
pls bro reply me n help me..
THANX.
Bro when I try to install recovery I got following error message.
Error: No Find kernelGZ
ERROR : NO SPLIT BOOT IMAGE
PLS HELP ME BRO.
THANX pls help me.