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.
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thanks alot sir! it worked so fine on my Huawei G730-U10 as well. you saved my phone’s life and my money, cause I’d been decided to change my phone with a brand new one because of Huawei poor supporting my G730. you’re the Best. keep going. Bests, M. Emami
Glad to hear it! Have a good day! 🙂
Can I ask you can update os kitkat to huawei G730-U10 by this..
awesome!!!!! its worked like charm….!!!! thanks u so much. im using micromax canvas colours 2 with kitkat, i was finding a method to flash custom recovery for last couple of hours (6hrs) and finally this method worked!!!!! its working 99999999%!!!!!!!!!
I followed every step carefully still i get this error
” ERROR :Recovery doesn’t match by the size
— task is complete — ”
I got a Xolo Q1200
Plz help me.
I really need a custom recovery for this phone.
Thanks in advance
MTK doesnt work on my Blu studio C mini please help 🙁
My device is MT6735 (Xolo Era 4K). MTK Droid donot yet supports these Higher Chipsets. Do you have any other method to make custom recovery and i am unable to root my device as well.
Please write a post for it.
This procedure doesn´t work with Alcatel One Touch Fierce 7024n at end you got message “Error 101: the phone has been flashed with unauthorized software & is locked” and keep in a loop
Nice!Thanks man,it worked for my phone!haha!
Ooops….
doesn’t it work on HTC phones
I tried it on my HTC Desire 526g+ and bricked my phone.
A 1000% success? Hell no, I have a mediatek 6572 device known as mpie s960 wich claims to have an octacore mtk6752 anyways I got the error no find kernalgz and no split boot image. I run a windows 7 computer and I followed your tutorial to the letter and yet I got this error, what can I do to solve it? Am I screwed?
good
How to install recovery for my micromax sliver 5 ( Q450) and then CM rom , please guide me , thanks in advance !!!
what about mtk6735 soc devices like coolpad note 3 lite?
How can i root and recovery install on htc 626g+
does it will work in karbon a51 . but i dont have pc or laptop.is their another way…?