[Android] ShadeTreeBiker:
SO sorry this is so long, but the more detail I give the better, right???

I've had this phone only 2 months and managed to get myself into a pickle, but no crying...I KNEW this was possible. Here's what I have, and managed to get...

ZTE Quest 5 (MT6739, government phone,)

Android 9, (Magisk Rooted, more below,)

I did a lot of research, and managed to get a temp root shell and then (from freshly flashed system,) did a dd for all the partitions in .img files, (except userdata, it was huge,) there were 38 of them, I'll list those below. Then I went for the Magisk systemless root solution, which worked very well with the Magisk on the recovery partition. Rebooted 4-5 times to make sure everything was all right, on to the next step...

THEN I installed a couple of Magisk modules...the DeBloater, BusyBox, Termux, and a backup module. I uninstalled the bloat using the Termux (with root) and the DeBloater in the Magisk Manager, Then used the BackUp module which made copies of the same partitions I'd done before...and I still have them. THEN, Rebooted...

The unit rebooted to fastboot....and I wasted 30-45 minutes trying to get it to reboot back to the system, or recovery, or even EDL mode (not sure if it has that though,) BUT it kept going back to fastboot....

SO, I went to work, (I'd unlocked the bootloader while Magisk rooting,) I used the original system.img and fastboot erase system....THEN fastboot flash system.img...good, still no reboot back to system, only fastboot...DAAAAMMIT!!!

SO

Fastboot erase recovery...ok...fastboot flash recovery.img....okay.

STILL nothing, back in fastboot...SO fastboot erase boot...okay...PHONE TURNS OFF, BATTERY DIED!!!!!

I didn't realize that in fastboot mode the unit wasn't charging!

NOW the batter y is chargable, I managed to get something figured out...and the phone turns on, shows the ZTE logo a few seconds and then turns back off....

FOLKS, my wife is beyond P&^*ed! So I GOTTA fix it... Here's the partitions I have dd'ed (I assume the MM backup DD'ed too, but that BU was after the system was modded...)

boot

cache

carrier

dtbo

expdb

flashinfo

frp

gz1

gz2

lk

lk2

loader_ext1

loader_ext2

logo

mcupmfw

md1dsp

md1img

metadata

nvcfg

nvdata

nvram

para

persist

proinfo

protect1

protect2

recovery

Recovery-from-boot.p (don't ask why I did that,)

sec1

seccfg

spmfw

system

tee1

tee2

vendor

ztecfg

I'm not sure how to proceed now, I've been trying in Windows 7 AND Linux tp build a ROM, but this is seeming to be difficult.

Non-A/B, but is supported. It's in the build.prop...

System-as-root?!? Not sure, but when I extracted the boot and recovery images the boot ramdisk was empty, and the recovery ramdisk had a bunch of stuff in it. I've also extraxted the system.img...LOADS od stuff in there to play with, but first...

I NEED help (guidance, and I already have several unpacking/packing and kitchens...but coan get others if they are better suited, nothing I've built so far is recognized by the WwR_MTK tool, (it's supposed to be able to extract a scatter for the SP Flash Tool from a ROM,)

ANY help with getting the scatter would be massively appreciated too!!!