[Android General] kirito9:
Alcatel Pixi 4 (3.5) Root & Custom Recovery

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.

Requirements

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- PC running Windows 7/8/8.1/10 | You can use linux but I cannot guide you as how to setup adb drivers or preloader drivers.

- USB cable

- CTR or TWRP recovery

- SP Flashtool ( SPFT)

- MT6572 scatter file (see below)

- MT65XX preloader usb vcom drivers

- SDcard - if you do not have this, do not worry continue reading.

Creating your scatter file

1. First enable USB debugging on your device by going to Settings -> About phone -> Tap on the build number 7 times -> Go back -> Developer options -> enable USB debugging and OEM unlocking (if it is present).

2. Install the adb drivers

3. Download MTK Droid Tools and extract it anywhere on your PC.

4. Navigate to where you extracted the files and locate MTKDroidTools.exe and run it as administrator.

5. Once it has been opened, connect your device to the PC and wait for MTKDroidTools to detect it.

6. Go to the Blocks Map option and select it.

7. A new window will pop up and you will see an option Create scatter file. Click on it and save your scatter file anywhere you please (as long as you can find it back).

8. Profit.

Flashing CTR 3.3

1. Download the MT65XX preloader drivers from here and follow the guide on how to install. Download all other files attached.

2. Download the new SPFT from here and extract it anywhere.

3. Open the SPFT folder and locate flash_tool.exe and run as administrator.

4. If it says anything like cannot locate scatter, press ok and ignore that message. Go to scatter loading and select your MT6572 scatter file you downloaded.

5. Download CTR-3.3 recovery from the attached post and rename it to recovery.img and place on desktop.

6. Select the recovery by pressing the little box next to it and then move over to location of the recovery and choose the recovery.img

7. Power off your phone, wait 1-2 minutes and then connect your usb cable to your PC. Press Download at the top and then connect your phone to your PC. If you have the battery in and it doesn't work, wait until the logo of the phone shows up then try again. If that doesn't work then try again without the battery.

8. Wait until the download is finished (you will see a red bar, then a green bar to confirm) and then reboot your phone.

Rooting

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1. Download SuperSU from here and place the file on your SD card. If you do not have an SD card then don't worry. Install adb drivers for your phone from here. Install adb and fastboot drivers system wide.

2. Reboot your phone to recovery using the command "adb reboot recovery" or do it via external buttons.

3. Navigate using volume buttons and select using power button, or touch if you want. Go to install zip, then choose zip from SD card. Select the UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip you downloaded before. After flashing you will reboot your phone and there you go. Root :D

4. If you do not have an SD card then do the following. Reboot to recovery( if you are not already there) and then go to install zip, then install zip via sideload. Open up command prompt on your PC, connect your device (you may have to wait a while for drivers to install) and type the command "adb sideload UPDATE-SuperSU-v2.46.zip"

5. Reboot your phone and enjoy root. :D

PMT Error while flashing

Instructions:

1. Open SPFT folder and run flash_tool.exe as administrator.

2. Enable advanced mode by pressing "CTRL+ALT+V".

3. Click on scatter-loading and select your MT65xx scatter then click on the preloader.bin checkbox but don't load the file (it's not necessary).

4. Go to Window>Write Memory.

5. Select the CTRrecovery.img where it says File Path: and set the Begin Address to your recovery linear_start_addr (search the scatter).

6. Click on Write Memory and plug in your phone.

7. Wait until flashing is complete then boot to CTR.

Credits

[MENTION=4141407]haydent[/MENTION]- For testing and opening this thread.

Snoop05

AndroidMTK

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