Ultimate Backup, Root, CWM Tutorial: Make a scatter, create CWM, flash CWM, root from recovery

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Stage 2: ROM Read Back

Requirements:

MediaTek Based Phone
Latest Version of SP Flash Tool
Properly Installed ADB VCOM Drivers*
USB Data Cable
Windows PC
Scatter File From Stage 1

*If ADB VCOM Drivers were properly installed in the previous stages, there is no need to reinstall. If your PC is having trouble detecting your phone, you may need to clean out the current drivers and do a fresh install.

Preparation:

Extract SP Flash Tool Program.
Switch your phone off and take the battery out.

Procedure:

1. Run SP Flash Tool as Administrator. If a warning about a missing scatter file appears, ignore it and click OK.

2. Click on Scatter-loading.

3. In the File Explorer pop-up window, locate and select the scatter file you created in Stage 1.

4. Look at the Cache line and take note of the Begin Address.

5. Go to the Read back tab. Click on Add.

6. Double click on the new read back item. A File Explorer pop-up window will appear. Choose a location where you want to save the ROM read back and click Save. (The file will be named ROM_0 by default.)

7. A pop-up window will appear. You will need to indicate the length of the read back. Leave the Start Address as 0x0000000000000000.

Recall the Cache Begin Address from step 4 above and remove the eight zeroes after “0x”. (i.e. If the recorded Begin Address was 0x000000003D800000, removing the eight zeroes will leave you with 0x3D800000). Enter the new value into the Length field and click OK.

8. Click on Read Back.

9. Insert the battery to your phone but do NOT switch it on. With the phone switched off, connect it to your PC. The read back should begin.

10. Wait for the read back to finish. The blue bar will take around 20 minutes to reach 100%. After the read back, a pop-up window with a check mark will appear, saying “Readback OK”.

You now have a complete ROM read back. You may move on to Stage 3 to process the read back into a more usable form.

After you’ve done the read back in Stage 2, you will now need to process the ROM read back file to a more usable form.

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12 responses to “Ultimate Backup, Root, CWM Tutorial: Make a scatter, create CWM, flash CWM, root from recovery”

October 7, 2014

bennyceria

Hi Damian
I have thl t200 as root phone and have touch recovery
I have backup by touch recovery but I just want to try this tools
I try to use mtkdroid tool to backup my rom
Turn off and plug thl after start mtkdroid tool.exe
My phone information not appears on mtkdroid tool
Why? THL T200 is MTK6592
Can you tell me whats wrong?

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1. October 7, 2014
  
  Damian Parsons
  
  Do you have adb drivers installed and USB debugging enabled?
  
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  1. October 8, 2014
    
    Bennyceria
    
    Ofcourse, adb driver installed and usb debugging is enabled.
    
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    1. December 22, 2014
      
      bennyceria
      
      Hai Damian,
      edit for my comment above.
      Yes you right mtkdroid not detect my phone because usb debug isn’t enabled.
      After I enabled it my phone informations is shown there.
      
      But you have to add your tutorial such like this: ” click the ROOT button at the bottom of mtk droid tool and granted permission from superuser then wait until the yellow turn to green. After that you can bakup your MTK phone.” (for anyone who want to backup they phone).
      
      I am sorry for my very noob.
      Thanks in advance for your tutorial that is very helpfull and easy way to backup mtk phone.
      
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      1. December 22, 2014
        
        Damian Parsons
        
        Hi Benny, It’s not added because that’s not the purpose of the tutorial. The tutorial is only for making the scatter. There are multiple things you can do with the scatter after you have it.
  2. March 11, 2016
    
    JG
    
    Can you port Twrp for Dooge F5 please?
    
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December 21, 2014

brokenhearted

Hi,somehow I think my comments doesn’t show up so let me post again,please.
I love this tutorial very much and like to follow as it shows but after part 1,I can’t find further post.
Please,after creating scatter file,how do I proceed?
I would like to create cwm and then root my phone.
My phone is Huawei G750-T20 V100R001CHNC00B122 on Android 4.2.2 EMUI 2.0.
Thank a lot to everyone and love to hear from you very soon.

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December 29, 2014

castor paul

i have trouble making scatter file for my CloudFone Geo 402q.
MTKDroid Tools only created this:

“MtkDroidTools\MT6582_Android_scatter.txt”

it did not create “MT6582_Android_scatter_emmc.txt”

what seems to be the problem or is it ok withou the emmc.txt?
TIA.

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March 1, 2015

mohit rathor

sir when i click on mtkdroid tool for saving scatter file there no highlight scatter option and block map not show any address or lenght please give me solution

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September 18, 2015

gilbert

how can i create scatter file? my phone is deadboot

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September 23, 2015

tyuce

hi damian
i have a problem. i think readback didnt start. because i waited one hour. but it didnt finish. i did all of your writen. what could be the problem?

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October 3, 2015

akash

When I try to click on recovery and boot a error is displayed ERROR:not read block :bootimg

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