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.
MTK Droid Tool can’t detect my phone. My device is Cherry Mobile Zoom, MT6735, running on Android Lollipop 5.1. Any other ways to get this recovery installed on my phone? I badly need to backup my ROM. I need to modify the boot.img. Please help. Thanks.
Sir, I have Intex aqua Freedom (Lollipop 5.1) running on MT 6580 chipset.
I followed above procedure but Mtk droid tools is unable to detect my device.
please help Sir, Please.
Connect cable to your phone, start MTK Droid tools, restart your phone and wait 🙂
Thanks bro!…it has worked perfectly for my phone
Worked great on HTC 620g great tut
Nice Nice !!! Working Thanks
MTK Droid Tools is not Working for all MT6580. Not for lollipop Phones!
MTK Droid Tools is for JB KIK only!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Greeting from Germany
hey bro. did you extracted the RAR files of mtk droid? was it locked like my downloaded files? please tell me it’s password.
please contact me.
[email protected]
How can it be a .rar file? It’s a .exe file!
You are right sir. But the .exe file is in .RAR file. And after downloading the .RAR file from above we have to extract it. I downloaded all versions many times. But it was .RAR file and it was password protected.
So can you help me using “google drive” ?
Share with me the extracted .exe file. My drive ID is [email protected]
It doesn’t have any password. I tried with all the versions. Everything is working perfectly fine!
It didn’t worked on my Asus Live G500TG / Z00YD too.
Maybe because i use magisk i don’t know.
Please help
Not working on a M8 MT6580
its showing error: zero file,no space left on device error: not read block on my xperia e4g dual (e2043) please help
its work all mtk
dude I have a doubt ,it works on mt6571 devices
my mobile is restarting repeatedly after installation,what to do pls help me
This message is showing??
Is there any solution??
Sorry, this file is infected with a virus
Only the owner is allowed to download infected files
Pls help me create a cwm for my Alcatel pop star 5022D 5.1 lollipop as mtk droid tools doesn’t connect to root shells here
After following the whole process to install CWM recovery in my HTC Desire 526g+ MTC droid tools shows the text Task is complete but my phone is switching ON and OFF continuously. I am worried please give some suggetions as soon as possible.
hey buddy, how to root your mobile(htc desire 526g+) ???
I have MT6572 chipset with a KitKat Kernel.
when i try this method it says
error: no find kernelGZ
eroor: no split image.
What should i do? Is there another way of getting any other custom recovery?