[Miscellaneous Android Development] bigrammy:
First things first Read this entire post before you do anything!!

Backup Backup!​

I cannot stress enough the importance of getting a full backup of your phone's stock ROM before you begin flashing tweaking or anything else :rolleyes: Generally there is no, zero, none, manufacturer support for these devices so unless the seller made a full backup of your device you are screwed if something goes wrong :crying: SO getting a backup should be your very first step.

As said earlier there are many many variations of this phone I am sure with all kind's of different hardware configurations such as CPU, RAM, ROM, CAMERA and SCREENS so it's important to get your phones factory ROM Backed Up the most important things are the uboot.img boot.img it's also a good idea to have a stock recovery.img :good: The uboot and boot.img are what contains your phones specific hardware configuration such as the list above so providing you maintain your stock uboot and boot.img you will always be able to get these things working correctly. :highfive:

Caution: Not all is as it may seem I purchased two phones from different sellers on ebay both phones claimed to be the exact same specification MTK6589 1GB RAM 8GB ROM 720 x1280 screen res.

When the phones arrived they looked identical and I was very impressed with the general quality and the quick, smooth & responsive ROM.

So I set about getting them both rooted.

MTK Droid tools reported one phone as MTK6582 :confused: so after backing up and rooting I looked through the rom and found a script called "agold_cheat_evaluating_software.xml" This script fools all benchmark testing softwares into reporting any MTK6582 and even an MTK6572 device to be reported as an MTK6589 with a CPU frequency of 1.2ghz the rom also affects mobileuncle. :mad: This just demonstrates that you must proceed with caution

I was in middle of writing a tut to show Noob's how to best achieve a full backup when I came across this most excellent Tutorial by [MENTION=4940526]rnovino[/MENTION] on pinoyscreencast.net. :highfive: http://pinoyscreencast.net/get-stock-rom-romdump-mediatek-mt6582-via-mtk-droid-root-tools/

Please follow his instructions according to your true CPU type the MTK6589 is in the video and some extra steps are required for the MTK6582 version which he explains in post :victory: I thank him for saving me so much time and effort :laugh:

He has also linked and listed the tools and drivers required

MTK Droid tools will show the true CPU you have in your phone so a massive thanks to [MENTION=4223648]Rula1[/MENTION] for his awesome work on this tool Please hit his thanks button. Here

Posting on this thread:​

Please do not QUOTE large posts in full :crying: only QUOTE the relevant part and delete the rest. Use The Hide button when posting large amounts Code or text if someone has requested it. As one guy said on xda after someone quoted a large TUT “Dude you owe me a new mouse wheel” LOL

Thanks:​

Use the Thanks button if someone has helped you. :highfive:

Manners:​

Being British most of us are polite and I expect you to be too. My Mother always said “son remember manners cost nothing but they will get you a long way in life”. :angel:

Helping yourselves:​

Please try to help yourself as much as you can. Google Search is your Best Friend so please use it in the first instance. :highfive: I will do my best to help where I can but I am no top developer so try not to get too techy on me. :o I will try to explain things in plain English for the less experienced and experienced to understand. :eek: