The question is can you get to a fastboot prompt?
I know and the answer is no as of now. ;-/
Holy cow…I flashed again with spflash5 and selected Firmware Upgrade instead of Download with all boxes checked and now I have a regular Volla OS that can go into fastboot mode. Because I rock!
@ flinkevend You might find this interesting!
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Hah! You rock!
So, to make it clear for everyone:
- have bricked rephone (probably also GS5)
- have firmware you tried to install in
~/.cache/ubports/mimameid/firmware/unpacked/ - have ~/bin/SP_Flash_Tool_v6.2228_Linux/ (or other os version?)
- choose scatter file from above firmware folder
- Check all,
- Firmware Upgrade
that about right?
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Minor edit:
- before flashing use mtkclient with “mtk payload” command and connected Rephone with USB by pressing Vol/Up+Vol/Down+Power. mtkclient then delivers a payload to set the phone into BROM mode without authentication for flashing.
- I used spflash version 5
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Ah, cool to know the all buttons method works. And you used the older version of Spflash. Interesting.
@lispy @poetaster YEEHAA!!! My Rephone is working again. I followed your steps @lispy. SP-Flash tool grumbeld at super.img (to large). But recovery-mode worked. I tried to install volla.zip by adb sideload. And here we are again. Thank you so much!!!
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Great news! I hate it, if stuff gets wasted…
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Good news! Congrats!!
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Hi
i have bricked my rephone too. But i am on windows, so i don´t have the (there is no) firmware in ubports folder.
Were else can i download the firmware?
And which is the scatter file?
regards
Could someone please post the needed files to make the rephone… Restore 
on my linux mint laptop i dont find the files from ub port installer:-(
Did you use Ubports previously ? If so, the files are in: ~/.cache/ubports/mimameid/firmware/unpacked/
the ~ being path to home (/home/you).
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If you used the Ubports installer to do an install, the files are there ‘somewhere’. Maybe search for specific files like : preloader_k69v1_64.bin that should show where the files are (including the scatter, et. al.)
yes i have found it
the path is C:\Users\myusername\AppData\Roaming\ubports\mimameid\firmware\unpacked
i tried to load the scatter file MT6768_Android_scatter.txt but i fails.
the flashtool needs ./download_agent/flash.xml but i dont have that file because i have not taken a backup bevor flashing.
can you send me the flash.xml?
You need to follow the steps that @lispy followed.
- Get spflash5 for windows
- before flashing use mtkclient with “mtk payload” command and connected Rephone with USB by pressing Vol/Up+Vol/Down+Power. mtkclient then delivers a payload to set the phone into BROM mode without authentication for flashing.
- download with the scatter file, but the upgrade firmware action with all boxes checked after loading the scatter file. @lispy, sound about right?
EDIT: GitHub - bkerler/mtkclient: MTK reverse engineering and flash tool
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Yeah now it works
i had the wrong version of flash tool. With version 5 as @lispy said, it works.
btw i did not use mtkclient with “mtk payload”.
thx for your help.
ps: the volla boot logo loooooooks nice
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Ah, cool. So you only did the ‘firmware upgrade’ with the files from ubports and the version 5 flasher. That’s really easy! Thanks!
yes i did “only” install volla 22 with ubports. That resulted in the phone no longer starting up (black screen and white LED).
Then i did firmware update with the version 5 of the flasher.
At the retrospect it was realy very easy
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As soon as I plug in my rephone only red lights up
LED…nothing else happens :-(((( screen black…
no connection to the flash tool
trotzdem DANKE
bekomme heute oder morgen neues Rephone (Projekt Jugend forscht)
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Did you try with the spflash tool in version 5? That sounds really simple if you only need to point it at
~/.cache/ubports/mimameid/firmware/unpacked/ (the MT6768_Android_scatter.txt file) and choose to ‘upgrade firmware’.