Flash ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery on Any MediaTek Android Device

In the previous article, Sanxynet featured MTK Droid Tools which
are able to backup, and flash recovery on any MediaTek Device.
To proceed, this article will be presenting a tutorial on how to easily 
flash ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery on any MediaTek Device.

Some of you maybe having a hard time looking for a ways to
tweak your phone. Previously, this blog already posted a tutorial
on how to root any android device particularly with newly released
ones or locally branded and budgeted android smartphones or
tablets mostly inbuilt with MediaTek chipset. The fact that there
are only few android developers, most of them are developing
international branded android devices.


So here it is. A complete guide to properly install or flash
CWM Recovery to your MediaTek android device. Please
follow carefully the steps to successfully apply this to your
android device without any problems.

Things you need:

A MediaTek android device (MT65XX)
Your phone must be rooted already. How to root?
USB Chord
Windows PC/Laptop
Download ADB Drivers
Download MTK Droid Tools for Windows

How To Flash ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery 

on Any MediaTek (MT65xx) Android Device

1. Download necessary files above.

2. Install the downloaded PDANet to your computer.
   It contains ADB Drivers.

3. Turn on your android device and connect it to your
   computer using USB Chord. (Make sure to Enable USB 
   Debugging, go to phone Settings -- Developer Options -- 
    Enable USB Debugging.)
4. From your computer, open MTK Droid Tools that you
     have downloaded above and extract it to your desired location.

5. Open MTK Droid Tools.exe from the extracted folder
    (Run as administrator). Wait for the tool to detect your device.
    (If UBIFS warning appeared in the status message, this process
    will not work for you. Only ext4 supported.). Notice on the
    bottom-left part of the tool, a YELLOW color indicator means
    that your android device is does not have root shell yet. If it is GREEN
    already, proceed to step 7.

6. Click ROOT button to enable root shell your device.
    Wait for the progress bar on the Status, see
    your phone to Grant Superuser access. If the color
    indicator turns GREEN, then you have successfully enabled
    root shell for your device.

7. Now, select the Root, Backup, Recovery tab and
    further choose To Use Boot From Phone from the
    selections. Click Recovery and Boot, a message prompt
    will appear "To make CWM recovery automatically", click YES.

8. Wait for the tool to build the CWM recovery and another
    prompt will appear "install patched boot to phone?" select NO,
    wait a little bit more and another prompt will appear again  
    "install created recovery to phone", now select YES.

9. When the tool ask you to reboot your phone to recovery,
    click Yes and it will reboot to CWM recovery shortly.
     Check out your new custom recovery.

Note: Read carefully the messages that appears on the status bar.

Congratulations! You now have ClockworkMod custom recovery
on your MediaTek android device. You will now enjoy apps that
requires Superuser rights, mods and ROMs that requires flashing
from CWM.


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