[Android General] toxic94400:
Hello everyone ,

This is my firt's tutorial !

Today i'm going to teach you how to root your phone ( in my case it's a Ulefone Germini Pro ) and restore IMEI's.

/!\ATTENTION/!\ i don't take any responsability for anything that happen to your phone ! So do it at you own risk ! /!\

Before starting , my phone as a MTK chipset , so i don't advise you to try this if your chipset isn't a MTK ! And you need a OTG cable with a mouse !

Lets go :

TO ROOT [WORKS FOR ULEFONE GERMINI PRO] :

Important be sure to download PDANET it will solve alot of problems with the drivers !!

0-Enable USB DEBUGGING

1- Download the stock rom of your phone and check if is the same version as your phone ! ( exemple : my phone is an android 7.1.1 so i need to download the stock room version 7.1.1)

2- Download the drivers : http://www.devfiles.co/download/0InO9P5m/MT65xx_USB_VCOM_DRIVERS.zip and install them !

3-Download twrp (recovery.img) : https://mega.nz/#!8f43VYLa!o-elPp74o35tm3AdtcW1wVbFnBHIGi_dUP7skWWGmOM

4-Download Modified Boot (boot.img) : https://mega.nz/#!sHQxySJL!MRqtD6-VoZMLyEpr-ym7LlktiMR0GXYKUuLZlpbxhE0

5-Download latest version of SPFlash Tool : http://spflashtools.com/category/windows

6-Now you need to download SuperSu , but this one as to be downloaded with your phone directly on you need to put it on a sdcard , as you want !

here's the link : https://download.chainfire.eu/supersu-stable

7- Run Flashtool.exe

8- Choose scatter file ( it's on your downloaded Stock Rom )

9- Untick everything

10- Tick recovery

11 - Click on location to choose the custom recevery.img ( you downloaded before )

12 - double check only recovery is tick

13- Turn off you phone and plug it one time and check if the pc detect's it

14 - Unplug it

15 - So now the phone stills off , on sp flash tool click download

16- Plug your phone and wait few seconds

17 - the flashing should start

18 - if all go well you could see a green arrow on the program

19 - now untick recovery

20 - tick boot

21- click on location and find your custom boot.img

22 - and flash it the same way as recovery.img

23 - Now as a said before if you have downloaded SuperSu direclty in your phone , just turn it on by pressing power + volume UP

24 - You should see a little menu , use volume up to choose recovery and volume down to confirm it

25-TWRP should appear

26 - Put the otg cable on your phone and plug a mouse on it

27 - you should get a message asking to modify system , with the mouse slide to authorize

28 - after that click on install

29 - choose the superSU.zip where you download it

30 - slide to flash it

31 - Reboot and you should get rooted

32 - Enjoy

TO RESTORE YOUR IMEI'S :

You need :

-PC

-The Program

-The Stock room you downloaded before

- The drivers

- The box of your imei's

Let's go :

0- Download the program

http://www12.zippyshare.com/v/UafLqKD2/file.html

Important be sure to download PDANET it will solve alot of problems with the drivers !!

1- Start the program

2- Go to help about sn and check that you have a new version mine is : 1.1604.00

3- Comport : select USB VCOM

4- Target Type : Select SmartPhone

5- click on system config

6- tick imei and dual imei ( if you have 2 imei's else tick only imei )

7- click on MD1_DB and choose a file in your stock rom that the name start like this :

MDDB_InfoCustomAppSrcP_MT6797_S00_MOLY_LR11_W1603_MD_MP_V62_4_P3_1_ulwctg_n.EDB

Be sure to check that and the end of the file is a .EDB

8- click on AP_DB and choose a file in you stock room that the name is start like this :

APDB_MT6797_S01_alps-mp-n1.mp9_W17.18

Be careful you stock room can contain to files choose the one that end with a number and not with a ENUM

9 - click on save

10 - power off you phone and disconnect it from the pc

11- press start

12 - put you imei's

13 - press ok

14 - connect your phone

15- if it's all okay you should see a message with passed on it ! IF it fails try again one time because my firts time failed too

16 - After getting the message passed , disconnect your phone and turn it on !

17 - You should get your imei's back !

18 - ENJOY !!

Credits :

Annubiis : For helping with my phone.

RAMANDEEP SINGH from androidweblog.

dodos from bbs.elephone .

If it helped you click on say thank's and if you need help comment this post !