How To Upgrade Stock Firmware On Mediatek Devices Using Smartphone Flash Tool

MediaTek company is one of the famous Taiwanese fabless semiconductor company that provides chips for various devices such as television, smartphones, computers and tablets. Also, they provide chips for fields such as  Digital subscriber line services, consumer multimedia equipment, wireless communications, navigation systems, and optical disc drivers. The headquarters of Mediatek has been located in Taiwan and they hold the third place of fabless IC designers in the world. They provide products such as Helio X, P and A series smartphone and the number of product always displayed by  MTxxxx and RTxxxx for Wi-Fi products. If you are using an Android device with Mediatek IC you can use Smartphone flash tool which has been created by XDA Developer to flash your device easily.

Download Smartphone Flash Tool

The latest version of Smart Phone  Flash programme supports chips belong to Mediatek MT62xx, MT65xx and MT67xx family. It means if your device uses one of the above-mentioned chips you can flash your device using the programme. Visit androidbug.com to read the latest news.

Features

• Flashing  scatter based Android stock-ROM
• Flashing pre-sources files such as  Boot.img, Recovery.img etc.
• Flashing  scatter based Custom ROM 
• Unbricking bricked smartphone
• Check and verify external memory RAM
• Reading / Writing parameters
• Erasing, Formatting, Resetting Mediatek devices

 Requirements

• Download the latest smartphone flash programme ( Windows XP to Windows 10)
• A Windows computer or a Laptop / Linux computer
• A recommended USB cable for the device
• USB drivers
• Correct Scatter based Stock ROM file for the device

USB drivers for Mediatek devices are available in two types

• ADB USB driver
• Preloader USB driver (Compatible with 32/64bit  Windows XP to Windows 10)

USB MediaTek Preloader driver is the latest version and includes both ADB & preloader driver and does not require to disable drivers when signing in Windows.

How to install Preloader USB driver 

• Download drivers file and decompress
• Run the .exe installer file as administrator
• Follow the  on-screen instructions and install drivers
• After installation restart the PC
• Now, drivers are available on the PC

How To Flash A Mediatek Device 

• Get a complete back of your device
• Enable USB debugging mode and Developer Mode
• Launch the programme and click the scatter loading option
• Then search for downloaded stock ROM file and select Stock ROM scatter file
• Click firmware upgrade from the drop-down menu
• Click "Download" button and connect your device to the computer after switching off it
• When the process is done a Green colour ring with a check mark will be displayed by  tool and you can disconnect your smartphone

Note: Charge your smartphone fully before starting the flashing process