How To Backup / Restore Stock ROM with SP Flash Tool

There are lots of MTK smartphone users out there most 

especially on local-branded smart phone users who have 

lots of worries on damaging their devices from tweaking it. 

Why? Lack of developers corresponds the number of development 

available for the device and we know for the fact that without 

backup such as ROM or a stock ROM, fixing most android problems 

such as soft bricks, boot loops, or even hard bricks are too 

difficult to handle.

Create your own Stock ROM for your 

MediaTek (MTK) Android Smartphone

Thanks to XDA members who contributed to MTK development, 

Mediatek smartphone users can now be able to create their own 

Stock ROM and use it as a backup whenever serious matters 

occur to their loved devices. With the use of prepacked tools, 

MTK android users no longer needs much developer for their 

device because they can be one.

How To Make, Backup and Restore 

Stock ROM Flashable with SP FlashTool

On this article, I will be guiding you how to 

make your own Stock ROM, use it as your own backup 

and restore it through flashing from SP Flash Tool. Why 

from SP Flash Tool? With SP Flash Tool, even a corrupted, 

hard-bricked android device can still be revived and fixed 

which was considered the best method of repairing any android 

software problem. 

On this tutorial, we will be using SP Flash Tool and MTK Droid 

Tools to successfully make a flashable Stock ROM for our MediaTek devices.

Requirements:

• Any MTK android device running a Stock ROM. 

   (Note: if your device was rooted, then you'll get a rooted 

   Stock ROM, otherwise if your device does not have root 

   access, you'll get unrooted Stock ROM):

MT6595, MT6592, MT6589, MT6582, MT6577, MT6575, 

MT6572, or any MT65xx

• Computer with Windows operating system
• USB Cable
• At least 500 Mb free phone storage
• MTK USB Drivers - Download it here (credits to 

          the developer of this tool)

• MTK Droid Root and Tools - Get it here
• SP Flash Tool - Get it here (download the 

          recommended or latest version)

• ClockworkMod (CWM) Recovery

            ==>For unrooted device (follow how to flash CWM Recovery without root)

Preparations (Please Read):

Make sure to prepare all the necessary requirements before 

proceeding or else, proceeding below is just a waste.
You must have the device in hand with CWM recovery. 

Download and install the MTK USB Drivers in your computer, 

it contains 6 other USB drivers needed to detect your device. 

Also, you must download MTK Droid Tools and SP Flash Tool, 

extract them to any location or folder you are comfortable of accessing. 

If all are ready, let's proceed to the instructions.

 Instructions:

Creating Stock ROM Backup

First, reboot your MTK android device into 

CWM Recovery and connect your device to your 

computer using USB Cable.

 

From your computer, Open MTK Droid Tools.exe, run 

it as administrator. Wait for your device to be detected 

since you have installed the USB drivers. You will notice 

that color on the lower-left corner of the tool will turn cyan-blue.

On MTK Droid Tools, click on root, backup, recovery tab 

and click the Backup button to start full stock ROM backup.

Wait for the tool to backup your whole Stock ROM. 

You can see that the ROM backup will be saved on  

\MtkDroidTools\backups.

Wait until a prompt will appear asking you "Pack-up the backup" 

or something like that, press NO, it will just compress the backup 

you have made and what we need is the uncompressed ROM backup.

Check the status message and check is the task is completed. "Task ended".

It is not done yet, we have to prepare this backup to make it 

flashable through SP Flash Tool. To do it, click on To prepare 

blocks for Flash Tool.

A new windows will appear asking fol a .md5 file of the backup. 

So navigate to the MTK Droid Tools folder where your backup 

is found. Open the backup that your have created earlier and 

select the files.md5 click OPEN.

Wait for MTK Droid Tools to copy the files for 

SP Flash Tool, check the status messages until the copying is complete.

When the tool is done, you have now created 

the Stock ROM backup of your device!

How To Restore the Stock ROM of your MTK device?

Open SP Flash Tool.exe, run as administrator. 

Load the scatter file (click scatter-loading) which 

you have prepared from MTK Droid Tools to be 

flashable through SP Flash Tool. It can be found in 

the !Files_to_FlashTool folder of your Stock ROM 

backup (only if you have just made a backup) or from 

where you have saved or placed the Stock ROM. 

But in my case, I saved it on !Files to FlashTool folder.

After you loaded the scatter file, it will look like the 

image below. All must checked except for Cache and  

User Data, and most importantly, do not check  

Preloader and DSP_BL or else you'll brick it. Those 

checked partitions will be restored, make sure not to 

touch or move the backup files so that your phone will 

be restored in your previous stock ROM, also to avoid 

boot loops and bricking.

As you can see, the Stock ROM partition backups are 

found on its specific locations under location column. 

If the locations do not appear (except for CACHE and  

USRDATA), the backup stock ROM is not in the proper 

place. To fix that, you must move the files of the stock 

ROM to the same location where the Scatter file is stored.

To restore or flash the Stock ROM backup, first, turn OFF  

your MTK android device and remove the USB cable. If your 

phone was already turned OFF, click Download from SP Flash 

Tool, a prompt will appear, just click YES. Immediately 

connect your turned OFF device to your computer via USB Cable.

 

Wait for the tool to detect your device and restore the Stock 

ROM that you have made. An alert with a green circle appears 

after successfully downloading the ROM.

  You have successfully restored the stock ROM.

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