[Tutorial] How to back up Mediatek firmware using Miracle Box
[Tutorial] How to back up Mediatek firmware using Miracle Box
(28-10-2016, 12:15 PM)djtetei Here's another issue:
I know that there was another method to obtain a scatter file for a device within SP Flash Toll itself.
For that purpose you could obtain a SPFT ROM that is known to be good for any phone, preferrably with the same chip as yours.
Make sure that scatter file loads into SPFT without error. SPFT checks the PRELOADER and if it is not present in the scatter directory, it will fail and maybe crash.
Close SPFT.
Now modify the MT*_Android_scatter.txt file and introduce a few errors in the partition names, but don't change PRELOADER.
For example, instead of "SYSTEM" replace it with "MYERROR". You would do this to make SURE that the "Download" feature fails. You DON'T want the "Download" to actually work and write your random SPFT ROM to your new device. After loading the freshly broken scatter file, click "Download" and hook up your MTK device in preloader / META Mode. It will say your PMT block does not match the scatter file and it will fail with an ERROR.
Then browse to "C:\ProgramData\SP_FT_Logs" and find the latest date. Open the BROM_DLL*.log in a text editor and look for a text line like "CMD_ReadPartitionInfo()". You could you the data from here to create your own scatter file.
Just make sure that you find the partition dump from your device and not the dump of the broken scatter (the one that contains the "MYERROR" partition name).
Is it still possible to do that in the latest versions of SP Flash Tool?
