[Android General] 1966zippy:
How install custom recovery and root ZTE T815

DISCLAIMER:

Rooting your phone and using custom Recoveries and ROM's have risks and may result in bricking your device, and has nothing to do with Google or the device manufacturers. In case of any mishap I am not responsible if you brick/ruin your phone in any way.

Basic computer skills are required and minimal knowledge about the phone and phone utilities also.

Make sure that whatever you do, you are doing it at your own responsibility.

I have been able to port PhilZ Touch Recovery V6 (6.59.0 - based on CWM 6.0.5.1) to the ZTE T815. To flash this recovery to your device you will need the following:

- USB VCOM Driver - Installation tutorial and download of driver here (Don't worry that it says MTK6577, it works fine with MTK6572 based devices)

- Smart Phone Flash Tool - Download for all versions can be found here - scroll to the bottom of the list to find latest version

- Scatter file and custom recovery image - download here

- PC and USB cable

Method:

1. Follow the tutorial and install the USB VCOM driver.

2. Install SP Flash Tool - once installed, run as administrator.

3. On the "Download" tab page, click the box on the right hand side named "Scatter-loading". Browse to the location where you saved the downloaded "MT6572_Android_scatter.txt" file, select it and click "Open".

4. In the lower section of SP Flash Tool screen, tick the box next to RECOVERY. This is the ONLY box that is to be selected.

5. On the RECOVERY line, go across to the to the blank cell under the "Location" heading and click on it. Now browse to the location where you saved the downloaded "recovery.img", select it and click "Open". The line should now show the location of the file.

6. Turn off your phone and remove the battery.

7. On SP Flash Tool, click the "Download" button at the top of the page and THEN connect your phone to the PC via the USB cable (battery still out).

8. All going well, you should now see the download progress being displayed across the bottom of the screen. Once completed, you will see a big green tick displayed in the middle of the screen. Success! Your phone now has PhilZ Touch Recovery installed.

To access Recovery Mode, from power off hold down the volume up button and power button together for around 6 seconds (press and hold volume up first then press and hold power). You will now see the recovery main menu.

Root:

(after you have your custom recovery installed)

1. Download supersu.zip (latest version) here - thanks to [MENTION=631273]Chainfire[/MENTION]

2. Send zip file to your SD card.

3. Boot into recovery and install zip from SD card.

4. Reboot - your device is now rooted.

Important:

Make yourself a backup. (Note: the external SD card is /storage/sdcard1 - if you try to backup to sdcard0, you will run out of memory.)

To bring this PhilZ Touch Recovery to you, thanks and credit must be given to the following:

- Phil3759

- Koush for having created and maintaining cwm

- Cyanogenmod for making all this possible

- Tallustus from Team Skyfire for his great support over IRC: MAJOR CREDITS

- Dees_Troy from TWRP team for pigz source and many great ideas in their recovery + source for backups compatibility

- Chenglu for his unpacking tools and porting i9505: Huge credit

- kbc-developers for the base semi-touch code and much more

-Gokhanmoral@Siyah for his great job / support

- sk8erwitskil for his recovery source, a great place to start learning

- shoe63 for his help from the start across many devices

- DooMLoRD for his work and help with Sony

- [NUT] for his ports to Sony

- wanam for compiling sensors-free kernels for N71xx/i317M, i9500 and i9505 to fix boot delay for custom kernels, exfat support and much more

- dougiebee for his work on fixing time on many Qualcom devices

- ausdim for all the support in developing kernels for i9505

- dr.ketan for his precious help in porting to the N7000 & N7100 (I don't own one) and all the support in threads

- Chainfire for his support (stock recovery flash) and all his work for the Android community

- 1966zippy for bringing it to the ZTE T815!