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[Android General] xdadeem:
Using the format--> download, I am assuming my phone must be off as usual? or not?

and shd I connect the usb to phone before clicking of after clicking?

NB) I have turned off my phone with and without usb cable connected, clicked the format->download and nothing is happening just searching, so I assume it is searching for the phone but cant see it becos it is switched off, so the phone must be turned on in order for this to work? Correct... I am just being very careful here. pls reply soon.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
Ah, I think using just the Download button only caused all of your problems.

It did not wipe all the old data and probably messed things up.

It is very important while flashing a new recovery that all existing data is fully wiped. So formatting is really needed!

Since I did not use the flashtool myself, I can only guess that the phone should be switched off, battery removed for a short time, battery in again and push the Download-format button.

And then quickly connect the USB cable!
[Android General] xdadeem:
Thanks, I think I agree with your ideas, I shd use the format->Download button for new firmware,... fine but my little challenge is that normally using the download button only it tells me to insert usb within few seconds but now with format->download, it just says nothing.

I really need a step by step guide for this, maybe balamu knows but right now as I type the SP flash tool only says searching, I connected my phone and it only gave me the windows sound that it recognised my phone, nothing changed in SP flash tool.

I read somewhere that says to unckeck the preloader box.

NB) Unchecking the preloader does not even allow it at all until it checked but the only challenge I that I click on format-> download and nothing happens, just staring at me with the tiny word searching and no count down for inserting the usd, even when its already before I click same thing.

I am thinking the phone has to be turned on for this to work... (since I have turned off phone, connected usb, disconnect usd and nothing is happening) but I need to confirm this before I damage something else.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
But I really think you should first reflash your recovery using download-Format!!
[Android General] balamu96m:
connect your phone and then click format-->download.......it would help......
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
@Balamu96m: Don't you think he should first reflash his custom recovery?

I think that was the base of all his problems in the first place.

A howto here

But now with using Download-format to fully wipe the not functioning recovery he has now.

Please correct me if I'm wrong
[Android General] xdadeem:
Ok, my main qustion is, should the phone be on or off, I have tried it off, connect usb, click format-> download but nothing seem to be happening, so what of turn on phone, connect usb and then try.

I just wanted so expert advice here

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Thanks... This procedure is what I have always done... to reflash recovery but its never seemed to work.

Here is a quote from the link you put up saying ''With phone completely switched off, press F9 (or hit Download button - the third one with an arrow) to start download and when the countdown starts connect the USB data cable into your phone. To make sure your phone is completely turned off, remove the battery and replace it after a few seconds.'' and thats what I have done.

However note that this is for reflashing (which I have done, I already have reflashed using the file balamu showed me and thats what is running on my phone now, but the recovery isnt working and screen still goes blank on any boot process, either normal boot or boot into recovery), but its not for a firmware /ROM flash as he has asked me to do using the format-> download button (which is the second from left)

Back to the trial... I have used the formal->download but nothing seem to be happening (except it could take minutes before the first action kicks off), so I am asking if the phone must be off or on, I have tried it off and cable connected but nothing, so the only other option is to try it with phone on and cable connected.

Hoping this is a safe try.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
If I was in your situation, I would press Download-format and then switch the phone on.

That should trigger the format procedure and you should see a red progress bar.

The process is the same as in this tutorial, only the cable is different.

That should give you a fresh recovery with all old data fully wiped.

Almost forgot, write your IMEI number somewere.
[Android General] balamu96m:
That can be tried.....but format->download can't be used for single files (i believe i'm right!, you can even test it, there you'll get an error!)

basically when you connect your phone to just 'Download' in flash tools without battery, how does your pc detect your phone(with a sound)??

Do you press any key/keys for that ???

Anyways, try this version that i use: http://www.mediafire.com/?bhe1e4p203zt6y6

Just extract it and run Flashtool.exe....select 'MTK_AllInOne_DA.bin' as download agent....then the select the scatter file where your firmware is located..........then connect your phone - switched off (with battery) - with the steps that you follow so that when you connect your switched-off phone (with battery), the pc recognizes with a sound.....now click 'Download->Format'...........................if you were pressing some keys for your pc to recognize your phone, then keep pressing them till the the RED process completes........

try n reply whether it works !!
[Android General] xdadeem:
PC detects phone just like when yu plug in a usb device, so makes a sound from the pc speakers and yu hear that something is connected or disconnected.

Like I said, phone off with battery in, format ->download, it says searching and nothing happens, no red bar or anything, so as a last resort I am going to do the same thing hit format->download press the power button to turn on my phone and hope something positive happens...

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Sorry guys, nothing is happening, phone off, phone on, battery in or out... format ->download is just searching... and no red bar or any bar at all.

I have tried all the SO flash tool version too, on the 3rd one now.

Here is the picture of what going on, you can see that bottom part saying searching and the top part gives me only the option to stop... that is after I clicked on format->download.

What about doing format first and download later...
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
The phone is in debug mode yes?
[Android General] xdadeem:
yes... always in debug mode by default

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Ok... maybe I shd ask you guys for the right drivers for windows 7 usb... that might be the issue, although I think I have the correct driver but share if you got the right one
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
That is possible, there are more people that had to got to an XP machine.

I dont have the drivers, but they are easy to find.
[Android General] xdadeem:
I am pretty sure thats not the issue tho, my pc recognises the phone when plugged in and when pulling it out.

Then when i go to eject device I see the phone and click on eject (in windows).

I am just a bit frustrated that I am so close to the solution yet I cant seem to reach it... I just need to boot recovery, if that was possible then all these talks would be over, not to use SP flash tool to flash firmware same is happening, I think its because the recovery isnt there thats why the tool isnt seeing it when I click on format->download, so it brings us back to getting the recovery installed.

Well, I think scorpions is gonna release a ROM this weekend and see how it goes, although I know I cant flash without recovery but... I think I have to give up here now.

By the way did you see my attached image, to show what is going in with the tool, when it says searching... here it is attached again.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
Very annoying, I can fully understand.

I understand that you can run mobileuncle tools yes?

If so, did you tried to flash a fresh recovery with it?

It has that option, so I like to see what happenbs when you do that.

What exactly is the result after that action.

The flashtool is not working, that is clear now.
[Android General] xdadeem:
You see, the challenge is this, even when I use the mobileuncle either I click on update tool or recovery update options nothing happens... it just boots into the blank screen and after a while it continues normal booting still with blank screen but when booting is complete then I press the power button and then I have a visual normal screen.

I may have to explore fastboot/adb/sdk process... I shd be able to do that in Linux although I tried before but got complicated along the line.

I know I can also do fastboot process in Windows, not to get the procedure right.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
Here is a small howto to flash a rom using fastboot via adb

1 Obtain a ROM of your choice, and note the location on your computer.

2 reboot your device into fastboot mode via one of the following options.

# adb reboot bootloader (requires USB debugging to be turned on).

power off the device then back on with 'vol up' + power button.

3 Wipe your device.

# fastboot -w

Update your ROM.

# fastboot update </path/to/your/RomFile.zip>

Your phone will update and automatically reboot into the new ROM.
[Android General] xdadeem:
Thanks for this, I treid something like this yesterday but my little challenge was that after installing sdk-linx and co, in terminal I ran adb devices and fastboot devices and neither of them say my phone... which is strange, they saw it in the past... and at some point when I ran adb shell it said I do not have sufficient permission to do that even tho I was sudo.

I will just take my time to do the s4t up again and once they can see my phone then I can follow your lead successfully, alternatively i can try it in windows command, that one also saw my devices easily.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
Something completely different, did you tried with another usb cable?

I noticed that the cable that came with my phone is a crappy one and only good for charging.

Sometimes my pc did not find the phone, after switching the cable i never had that problem.

So use a good data cable for flashing.
[Android General] jbctiong:
B63M user

Hi all, just saw this thread. I'm also a B63M user for quite a while.

May be I can share a little here on what I have gone through.

Bro balamu96m posting #78 ROM 1205 is the most stable stock ROM for B63M I have tried.

I used SP Flash tool to flash this ROM with the first 2 options unchecked and click "Download" then plug in USB cable within 14 secs. Before that make sure your phone is off by turning off and removing the battery and replacing it back.

(this is on the basis that I'm in good running condition. Not sure does this method works on you)

After flashing the stock ROM, with the same scatter file keep only the Recovery option. Double click the "Recovery" option to enter the location of your new recovery592zn.img file. Repeat above (click "Download" and enter YES if there is any prompt pop out) to flash the recovery file. DONE!

You should be able to get all you want. Next you can proceed to flash other custom ROM with the new Recovery592zn. Hope it helps.

Do keep a copy of this ROM as it is the most stable stock ROM.

The Black screen is caused by the boot.img(screen driver) compatibility.

P.S. My latest kernel version is Dec 05. I have tried a new ROM dated Jan 14 but failed. It could be due to my B63M hardware compatibility as it was bought in Oct 2011. I faced the black screen problem when I flashed the Jan 14 ROM. So I stay put at 1205. There is no further ROM update for me since then. I have moved on to MT6575 new phone.
[Android General] degogar:
for me to get into recovery need to turn the phone off ,connect to computer ,wait until you see the charging icon, then press power and volume up ,until the first boot screen, wait a bit and should then go into recovery mode
[Android General] xdadeem:
Thanks man, the challenge here is a bit robust and not as easy to fix as using the key combi.

I flashed rom once and after the flash, the screen has not been responding at all, its all blank so I could not get any visuals on the phone even though it is working still, after a bit of time I managed to flash a a boot.img using SP flash tool and this gave me a hope as I still do not have any visual during boot but after boot is complete, I have to tap the power button twice and I can see my home screen (which is the same situation till now)

Because I cant see anything, when I try to boot into recovery using any method, it just reboots normally after a while (so I cant say if it even went into recovery at all, because I cant see anything on the screen during boot process so I dont know what is happening)

This is my situation, I know I need to probably reflash rom but if I cant even get into recovery either becos there is no recovery or I cant see what the screen is showing, how then do I get to flash a new rom.

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Thanks jb... in my opinion I have done exactly what yu suggest here and I have done it over and over with the Sp flash tool, I always get the green circle which mean all is ok and the text table that tell you your were successful but the situation has always remained the same afterwards.

With the tool I was able to flash a boot.img, flash the ROM balamu mentioned but the screen isnt working no matter what I do, so I cant even get into recovery or see if the phone goes into recovery or not.
[Android General] petw:
language

hi all!

here comes another proud B63M owner :)

I ordered my phone from DX and I use it since end of march with no errors or issues yet. :)

I came into this topic to ask if it was possible to install other languages onto the device.

I like and speak english quite well, but I like my native language a bit better. :D
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
@petw

You can install an app called "locales" and choose your language.

It is still under development, but a lot of options are translated correctly.
[Android General] jbctiong:
Some Tips:

To ensure you are able to go into recovery mode after flashing, plug in the USB cable to a power source either PC or power point and wait for the battery charging sign to go off before applying the key combi.

Key Combi = Hold Vol+ follow by Power Switch and then release the power switch upon Logo appear and keep holding the Vol+ switch till entering into the Recovery mode.

On executing Flash Tool, sometimes unplug & re-plug in the USB cable when restarting the phone will activate it to turn on the phone straight away

Hope it helps.:)
[Android General] petw:
unfortunately it doesn't translate the OS environment (menus etc.), useful inside apps only... :(

and to be precise there is no such app called "locales", however there are many others for this purpose.

edit:

my device runs 2.3.5 which basically should contain my language, but still it's missing (I think, because it is not in the settings menu...).

are there any language files which could be injected into the ROM or installed, so the device would use it as normal?
[Android General] xdadeem:
You havent got the whole picture... I cant even get visuals on the screen during any type of boot, either logo appearing on screen or battery charging sign on screen, I cant even see anything at all, its a BLANK screen.
[Android General] jbctiong:
As previously mentioned, Blank screen is caused by the incompatible boot.img.(Is your kernel version still on Jan 10 2012 as stated in your previous posting? If yes, revert back to Dec 05 2011 should work).

Please try to re-flash the 1205 stock ROM again as provided by bro bala completely (using SP Flash Tool). It should work. That's how I always recover from damage.

This phone is unbreakable. Don't worry.

P.S. boot.img stores the kernel. You can't run Jan 2012 Kernel on this phone.

I hope we are talking about the same version as it comes with 2 different versions.

Attached my phone pic.
[Android General] xdadeem:
yeah my phone says

Kernel Version

2.6.35.7

user@linux-user #1

Tue Jan 10 20:15:01 CST 2012

Build Number

pulid_F1 20111205-193323

Attached is a picture of the About Phone

If you have any of the files you have mentioned pls send to me or point me to it.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
@xdadeem

In one of my earlier replies I have attached my boot.img, wich is kernel build 2.6.35.7 dated 5-12-2011.

@jbctiong: it is indeed just "locale" and is not a complete translation set.

Don't know if it is possible to inject the Android language files in a simple manner.
[Android General] jbctiong:
Hi Henkdrenth, what is the kernel version of the ROM are u running without problem now?
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
I'm running : kernel 2.6.35.7 Mon Dec 5 19:31:39 CST 2011
[Android General] jbctiong:
Thanks n sorry for missing ur last post.

Dec 05 the latest kernel that I run without problem too.
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
@xdadeem

This is causing the problem!!

Indeed I did not realized it, but jbctiong is correct, you are running an incompatible video driver.

Since after power-on the boot.img is loading first, your screen is as blind as a bat.

You should re-flash the boot.img that I posted in #53, that is the boot.img from my Nandroid backup, wich is boot.img from 5-12-2011.
[Android General] solebox:
im a b63m user as well and i can't seem to be able to flash a recovery.img using sp flash tool following bruno's tutorial:

bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.com/2011/10/mt65x3-flashing-tutorial.html

i already rooted it and dumped it according to the russian tutorial using the ghostscript script... and tried mobile uncle as well but it seems like the wrong way to go according to brunos tut....

i get the following error:

16008 : partition size changed
[Android General] xdadeem:
Ok at least now I know the challenge. How to sort it out is next?

Can anyone give me the best steps to follow now... flash boot.img yes, but which scatter text do I load into SP flashtool?

But since you also say I am running an incompatible with the 2012 build, I am correct to think that the boot.img you gave me is not going to work still?

If thats the case then what is the solution? I remember I have tried the boot.img you gave me once but maybe I used the wrong scatter file so it did not work, right now I have too many roms, scatter tx, boot images and I am not sure which is working or not, so any help now should pls point me to the working files and scatter.txt

Once I have the screen then I will like to go flash recovery and possibly flash a good rom but first things first... how do I sort out the boot.img if there is an incompatible video driver?
[Android General] jbctiong:
@xdadeem

The answer is right beginning from my first post on.

Extract the rar file provided by bro bala and flash it completely.
[Android General] xdadeem:
Now I am realising something strange, my computer does recognised the phone as a usb but does not actually instal the android phone driver, so when I connect the phone it sees it and makes the sound but as a removable storage only.

SO I have gone on to put extract the driver that SHOULD work for the phone but I al notice that anytime I go into the device manager and search for the driver by pointing to the location of driver manually it seem to find it and install but because I need to turn off my phone to use the SP Flashtool, once I turn off and try to connect within 14 seconds, the phone computer cannot find the MT6573 drivers anymore but I am not sure I can flash the phone when its turned on with the flashtool, phone has to be off.

Hope you get what I am trying to drive at here... phone only sees driver location when its on but once switched off, the location is lost and 14seconds is not enough to find it.... any ideas how to really install the MT drivers (on windows 7 33bit)
[Android General] Henkdrenth:
I think the best solution is to use XP for it.

There are more people out there with problems with Win7 or Vista.

Since I noticed you are running on Linux as well, maybe you can install XP in a virtualbox under Linux...

Your problem is a hard nut to crack :eek:
[Android General] solebox:
i am sorry but the best way is to make the scatterfile urself...

just like bruno shows in the rom dump tutorial here...

bm-smartphone-reviews.blogspot.com/2012/04/creating-rom-dump-of-your-mt65x3-device.html

1st step:

adb shell

cat /proc/mtd > /sdcard/firmware.info

adb pull /sdcard/firmware.info <some folder on your comp>

2ed step:

open the firmware.info file you copied to the <some folder..> using "MT65xx ROM Studio"

save scatter file

p.s

i hate this capcha
[Android General] solebox:
feverall

i managed to flash the recovery.img on to my b63m after getting the scatter file using the way i explained in the post above... but i still boot up into factory mode...

am i pressing the wrong buttons?

when i use power+vol_up i get a black screen

when i use power+vol_down i get factory mode

:confused::confused::confused:

(if vol_up+power is the right way and i have a buggy recovery.img which recovery worked eventually for the guy with the same issue?)

UPDATE

: i flashed this recovery= depositfiles.com/files/vjk7keolo that Henkdrenth talked about with my own phone specific scatterfile at the beginning of the thread and now instead of getting my screen black vol_up+power doesnt seem to have an effect, android just pops up and thats it...
[Android General] xdadeem:
You must be referring to me right?

Well all I can tell you now is that I dont have a working recovery right now but I have been suggested to go back to one of the previous post and use the recovery suggested by another responder called balamu.

If yu dont have a buggy recovery but you got recovery troubles what I have seen in videos is to plug in your usb, wait till the battery charging indicator shows on screen, then you volume up and power button and thats way it goes into recovery except there is no recovery in your B63m, this is a common trouble with B63M, they dont seem to have a stock recovery.
[Android General] solebox:
i had that error 2 , its because his scatterfile does not show the same partition sizes he has on the phone :)

i think you can save it using sp flash tool + rom studio , just read brunos tutorials.... i reflashed my recovery without a need to interact with the phone using those tools and i can give u my original recovery partition if you want , i run 2.3.5 as well and if its the same size as your recovery partition maybe itll work... :)

oh i see...you already tried all that... well any .img u need i can give u , it might work if we have the same phone and the same fw version...
[Android General] solebox:
@xdadeem can you please give me the post number you are reffering to...

i cant seem to find it . thanks :)

are you reffering to this one? http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=25612520&postcount=78

i am using w690 and i am dling this baby, so i am optimistic about it :)

just tried it:

same result as always:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukPkjyl2gio
[Android General] xdadeem:
See post #100. and yes it refers to post #78 but read the #100 first.

I just saw yur video now and i see what you mean... is your phone working at all, I mean do you have visuals later or thats how the phone remains and you cant really use it.

I will make a video of mine and post here soon but besides the fact that I dont have the battery charge image and android image at all even in normal booting and when I boot to recovery it just doesnt go into recovery at all.
[Android General] solebox:
no i only have this issue when trying to boot into the recovery mode, all the rest works flawlessly... including factory mode

(and it gets stuck that way untill i remove the bat...and then boots up normally)

where is this new recovery592zn.img he is talking about...
[Android General] xdadeem:
here is my phone video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNQ5_Z_Wgj0