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SP Flash Tool Setup for MediaTek devices

Introduction

SP Flash Tool is a powerful utility for flashing firmware, recovery, or custom ROMs on MediaTek devices. It's widely used by developers and enthusiasts for device customization and repair. This guide covers the setup process.

Prerequisites

You'll need a Windows PC, SP Flash Tool, MTK USB VCOM drivers and MTK Bypass Utility. This utility is required to disable secure boot protection on newer MediaTek devices, allowing SP Flash Tool to access and flash the device successfully.

Installing MTK Drivers

MTK usb drivers
Extract the downloaded .zip file, Run the installer(MTK Driver Setup.exe), follow prompts, and restart your PC.
MTK usb drivers installation

Downloading SP Flash Tool

Get the latest SP Flash Tool from its official site or a verified forum. Save the ZIP file to your PC.

Setting Up SP Flash Tool

Extract the SP Flash Tool ZIP to a folder. Double-click "flash_tool.exe" to check if it launches without any error.
SP flash tool

Setting Up Bypass Utility

This utility is required to disable secure boot protection on newer MediaTek devices, allowing SP Flash Tool to access and flash the device successfully.
With newer devices you may encounter errors like:

STATUS_BROM_CMD_SEND_DA_FAIL (SP Flash Tool v5)

BROM said that Needs AUTH file (SP Flash Tool v6)

ERROR: STATUS_SEC_AUTH_FILE_NEEDED

MTK Auth Disable(SLA/DAA) error!

Disable device security fail!

To avoid such errors we will use original scripts. Download MTK Bypass Utility .zip. Then extract the ZIP to a folder.

MTK Bypass Tool

Now follow these steps to run the bypass tool:

STEP 1: Install Python
STEP 2: Check if it's installed properly by typing python in command prompt
STEP 3: Run `pip install pyusb==1.1.1 json5` in command prompt
STEP 4: Install UsbDk_1.0.22_x64.msi to PC.
You are all set!
Double click mtk_bypass.bat if everything is OK You should see waiting for device in command prompt.

🎉 Congrats on setting everything up!


To use SP flash tool with MediaTek device, connect your smartphone in BROM Mode.

Watch video tutorial on youtube:


You can watch this video for more info about this bypass script.
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