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Small guide to rooting your Alcatel OT-918

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01) Copy the file Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.zip to the root of your SD card.
02) Make sure your battery is fully charged and turn off your phone.
03) Head to the directory SP_Flash_Tool_v2.1134.00 and start FlashTool.exe.
04) Make sure the menu Options->USB Mode is checked.
05) Select Scatter-loading and select Android_2.3.6_MT6573_Android_scatter_918.t
xt.
Warnings/Errors like this can be safely ignored:
[Warning Hint] Get BMT block count fail, default BMT block count is used!
[Hint] Bootloader files are lost when automatically loading by scatter file.
Please make sure you want to go through anyway.
DSP_BL is unchecked, which may result in a boot failure
06) Check the entry with name "RECOVERY" and double click it.
07) Select the recovery.img file and again make sure ONLY one entry is checked.
08) Click the Download button and plugin your phone with the USB cable.
* Wait some time (untill the recovery file is loaded to your phone) *
09) Unplug your phone and press the volume and power button at once
10) Select "Flash Zip from SDCard" and choose the Superuser-3.0.7-efghi-signed.z
ip
11) Confirm the update and reboot your phone. Everything should be done.
Actual tutorial made by others. I only try to make it a bit more clear.
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Small guide to making a correct scatter file for your phone...
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If you have an Alcatel OT-918 that came with the v2.3.6 firmware this should not
be needed. You can do it anyways...
Just run the following commands:
adb wait-for-device
adb shell "cat proc/mtd"
You will see something like this:
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00040000 00020000 "preloader"
mtd1: 000c0000 00020000 "dsp_bl"
mtd2: 00080000 00020000 "pro_info"
mtd3: 00300000 00020000 "nvram"
mtd4: 00020000 00020000 "seccnfg"
mtd5: 00060000 00020000 "uboot"
mtd6: 00600000 00020000 "boot"
mtd7: 00600000 00020000 "recovery"
mtd8: 00120000 00020000 "secstatic"
mtd9: 00060000 00020000 "misc"
mtd10: 00300000 00020000 "logo"
mtd11: 000a0000 00020000 "expdb"
mtd12: 07300000 00020000 "system"
mtd13: 09100000 00020000 "custpack"
mtd14: 03c00000 00020000 "cache"
mtd15: 09fa0000 00020000 "userdata"
Now state that preloader has the address 0x0...
Because preloader's size is 0x40000 the next entry (dsp_bl) should be at 0x40000
Out of this follows that pro_info (which is not downloaded) should be at:
0x40000 + 0xC0000 = 0x100000
Open the old scatter file and simply veryify everything... don't change the name
s,
some entrys have the __NODL_ prefix, meaning that they should not be overwritten
using the flash tool. Notice that the "__NODL_BMTPOOL" can be ignored. It's not
downloaded anyways.