Flash rom using Smart Phone Flash Tool (SP flash tool)

Hi,

If you are a frequent rom changer, no need to tell you the ways in which rom can be flashed. Either through custom recovery (mobile method) or through Smart Phone Flash Tool (PC method).
This post is intended at newbies who need a guide to flash rom through Smart Phone Flash Tool.

It is good to disable anti-virus solution if any in your PC before doing this because it may block flash tool opening attempt sometimes.

Requirements :

Unite2 device

Stock Rom of Unite2  (extract it)

PC

Smart Phone Flash Tool   link to download :sp flash tool 

Compatible USB cable

Connect your Unite2 to PC through USB cable and let it install the software.  Now unzip SPFT. Run flash tool exe as 'run as administrator'.

Now  you can see a 'scatter loading' button at the top right side.  Click on it.  You will be asked to select the location.  Select the 'MT6582 scatter file' txt  which can be seen in the extracted Stock Rom zip.  Select it.  Now you can see that all the first column items in the flash tool box are ticked. Make sure that location column of each item is not left empty.

Now select firmware upgrade option from the drop down menu
Switch off your device, remove battery.
Connect USB cable to the PC port. Not connect device now. wait....

Now click on download in the flash tool. Then connect device to the cable.
Flashing process begins now.  You can see the progress at the bottom.

When the flashing completes, you can see a green tick mark on the flash tool screen.

Now detach device from USB cable, insert battery and switch it on.  It will take some minutes to boot. So wait.
Done.

Note:  If you want to flash a custom recovery,  do the following just after flashing the rom

Download your required recovery (CTR, CWM, etc)
Disconnect phone from PC.
Untick all the boxes except recovery column.  Click on the location column of recovery and select the recovery file from where you have kept it.
Select download option from the drop down menu.  Click on 'download' button at the top.
Now connect phone through USB.
Just as in rom flashing, you can see the progress bar below and a tick mark at the end of flashing.

Done. Disconnect the phone and restart.

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Boot animations for Unite 2

Here are some cool bootanimations for Micromax Unite2

Procedure to flash:

Both recovery flashable zip  as well as direct zip file provided.

Recovery flashable zip procedure:

Put the zip file in your SD card, go to your phone's custom recovery, choose ' install zip from SD card' and select the zip.
Reboot.

Direct zip procedure:

You should have enabled root permission in your device.  Install es file explorer/root explorer app.  Then go to device/system/media folder.  Rename the present bootanimation zip there as bootanimation1.  Now copy the downloaded boot zip and paste in device/system/media folder.  Move the bootanimation1 zip to SD card.  Now reboot your device.  Done.

Download links below:

WELCOME BOOT

SAMSUNG BOOT

RR BOOT

CM BOOT

CM BOOT

UNITE2 STOCK BOOT

GOOGLE BOOT

SPINNING ANDROID LOGO BOOT

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Porting guide for Unite 2 ( Kitkat and Lolipop)

Hi,


Our device Unite2 is blessed with hundreds of custom roms. Developers have ported every possible roms to test on A106. 


Here, I share my guide to port roms to Unite2.


Well, before start, remember that Unite 2 has Mediatek 6582 chipset,  So porting from the same chipset is comparatively easier.  Lets check the procedure.


KITKAT ROMS

Keep the stock rom of your device in your PC.

Most of the port roms are Smart Phone flash tool versions.  So in order to make it recovery flashable, we have to make some changes first.

1. Find out the 'system.img' in the downloaded port rom folder.

2. Extract system.img using  extractor

3. After completion of extracting the contents to 'system' folder, check inside folders like apps & priv-apps.  You have to delete not so required apps for reducing size.  You can delete items like Youtube,Chrome, Opera etc.  Care must be taken not to delete critical apps like Playstore etc. Delete only apps the functions of which you clearly know.

4. Now copy Meta-inf folder from any custom rom of your device.  If you wish, you can add your rom details in the updater script xml file (inside Meta-inf/com/google/android)


5.Copy  pq and vold files from stock rom's system/bin folder and replace it to port rom same folder.

6.Go to port rom etc folder, delete Bluetooth, Firmware and Wifi folders. Take these folders from stock rom and paste in port etc folder.

7. Copy all libaudio files (10 items) from system/lib of STOCK and replace it in PORT sys/lib.

8. Copy  ' Generik.kl' file from STOCK sys/usr/keylabout and replace it in PORT ( not always necessary, do only if keyboard not working when testing the rom)

9. Delete Vendor folder in PORT and take it from STOCK rom.

10. Open 'build prop' xml file in system folder.  Search for rotation and make its value 180. Change language and region according to yours. Check 'density' and make it 210 or 230 or 240.

11. Go to system/media folder of PORT rom, There you see bootanimation zip file.  Extract it somewhere in your PC and check image size.  If it suits your device, it can be used otherwise replace it with STOCK bootanimation.

12.  Take the boot image and logo.bin of STOCK rom and replace them with PORT boot.

Now select META-INF, SYSTEM FOLDER, BOOT and LOGO.BIN together and make zip.

DONE.  Flash the zip through recovery.


LOLIPOP ROM PORTING

1. Take Meta-Inf and boot img from stock 5.0 LP rom

2. Extract system.img into folder just as described in KK porting guide above.

3. Go to ETC folder, delete & replace FIRMWARE, BLUETOOTH & WIFI

4.Go to PORT system/lib/ and delete EGL and HW folders. Take it from STOCK  lp rom.

5.Delete VENDOR folder in system and take it from STOCK rom.

6. Bootanimation and  buildprop edit just as mentioned in KK port above.  If the port rom is of single sim device, do changes to make it dual supported.  Search for  these lines and make like this.

 persist.gemini.sim_num=2  
 persist.radio.multisim.config=dsds
 ril.current.share_modem=2


Build prop edits:
Check rotation value and make it 180
Check density value and make it  220/230/240 any one of these.


Done.  Make all folders into a zip just in KK port and flash through recovery.

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Rooting your Unite2

In simple terms, rooting means getting access to the root of your phone's android operating system.
It is generally understood that android system is open source so it is more user friendly than its rival OSes.


Why and when one need rooting ?


Android phones come with inbuilt features and manufacture defined settings.  Customers are expected to choose a device that satisfies their requirements.  People have different tastes. Some need high quality sound, camera, more application memory, higher size ram etc.

What if you buy a phone which fits your budget and later come to know that it lacks some features you like to use ?  Some features like OTG, more app memory etc may be missed in it which will surely affect you sometimes.   Do you know that these features can be added to your phone without spending more on another phone ? yes !  we are coming to the benefits of rooting.

As this blog is exclusively for Micromax Unite2, lets see how to root it and enjoy hidden features...

Ofcourse Unite2 is a wonderful low budget phone with all needed features for daily use. It has 1 gb ram, 8 gb internal memory, 1.3 ghz processor, 5 mp back cam, 2 mp front cam etc.  But majority of its users have one complaint; its application memory is too low ! you will get less than 1 gb space for apps whereas 8 gb is available for media.  We feel this as awkward as we can use a good SD card for media storage then why this 8 gb / 4 gb is set aside for storage ? Also, lot of stock apps are there which eat out the app memory already.  Nobody going to use these apps but we cannot delete as they are system built.

Another issue is whenever you connect a pendrive, it will keep on showing external usb is connected, checking for errors' but it will never display the usb! (kitkat version only)

Though it has a 2000 mah battery, it may drain out well within a day.  Mainly because apps like Facebook, Whatsapp etc running in the background and eating the juice.

Here comes the benefit of rooting.By rooting your Unite2, what you can do is..

1) Delete unnecessary system apps there by freeing up more space.
2) Can take  backup of your current rom so that you can reflash it anytime u want. You dont need to       install all apps again.
3) OTG support
4) Significant savings in battery charge by killing background running apps
5) Customize the interface like changing network signal, wifi indicator, battery indicator style, clock..
6) Experience latest versions of android through custom roms ie; Unite2 stopped its android updates with Lolipop 5.0 but lot of stable custom roms available to enojoy Cynogen Mode, MIUI, Hive UI, Octo OS,....
7) and a  lot more....!



Interested to try all these ?  come on ! lets root !

KITKAT users:

If you are using the factory version of Kitkat 4.4.2, you can root your phone using kingroot apk.

Procedure:

Go to Settings/Security- tick ' install from unknown sources'
Download kingroot apk from here  kingroot apk latest version
Move the downloaded apk to your SD card.
Open the apk file from file manger, install it according to instructions shown in the screen.
After installing, open the app
Click on 'start'
In a few minutes you may see the message ' root successful'.
You can also check the success by downloading 'Root checker' app from Playstore.
After successfull root, supersu will be installed. Now you can uninstall kingroot app
Done !  you have got the superuser access!!  by opening supersu, you can select unwanted system apps and delete it.

You can download & enjoy custom designed rom from here :
 unite2explorer blog

custom rom list for Unite2


LOLIPOP users:

First, you need to install a custom recovery in your phone like CWM, TWRP, CTR etc.

Guide  here : guide by the legendary Qamrul Haque

Download supersu zip from here : Supersu by chainfire

Put the downloaded zip in your SD card
Enter the already installed custom recovery by pressing vol up+ vol down+power bottons simultaneously.
Select install zip from SD card option
Select Supersu zip and flash.
After completing, reboot your phone.  DONE !
Confirm root access by downloading 'Root Checker' app from Playstore.

What apps can be used exclusively in a rooted phone ?

Greenify, amplify - to save battery juice
Xposed modules like Gravity box, Xstana, Flat style bar indicator etc to customize your phone
Increase system and media sound through hardware acceleration option in Xposed modules


Thank you for reading... drop ur questions in the comment section.

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RECOVERY FLASHABLE OTA LP FOR A106

Note: do not copy my blog contents and my works to any other blogs without giving proper credits.

Hi,


Lolipop OTA version for Micromax Unite 2 is already available but  in order to flash the rom, you need PC.  Many users like OTA because it is a stable stock rom.  There are hundreds of custom roms available but  no one can beat stock rom features especially in camera, sound clarity etc.  Myself ported 13 roms so far but I could not find any rom with better sound and camera to beat stock rom.

So I have made the OTA version into a recovery flashable zip.  

For 4 gb users, shared rom is not suitable if they use lot of apps.  For Unite2, there are not so many partition roms available.  Even if you flash OTA through SPFT, it is phone storage default, not SD card.

So I have made it suitable for all ! 

Both versions available !  - Shared storage version as well as Partitioned Storage version. 

Features :

Stock OTA rom

Removed MMX ad (MAD) app
Replaced Reverie keypad with normal keypad
SD card default storage.
Light in size : Only 350 mb 
Pre-added Xposed installer 3 alpha apk and Gravity Box. So you just need to flash the zip only.
Superfine camera quality and sound.
Pre-rooted.
Recovery flashable made by : Manoj Thoomannil
Rom Links :

OTA LP partitioned zip

IMPORTANT: (Use philz recovery only to flash partition version)

OTA Recovery Flashable (RF) Shared zip

CTR V3 recovery : CTR V3 recovery
(Better to flash all shared LP roms using this recovery)

OTA LP SP flash tool version-customised (removed all bloatwares) :
SP flash tool version OTA LP A106


Patch files:

Stock system ui with no 3G E icons : No 3G E icons

Transparent Quick settings :Transparent quick settings

Stock Browser apk :Stock browser apk

THEMES:

RED-BLACK THEME

Procedure to flash :

I recommend to use Philz stable / TWRP recovery 

Philz stable recovery flashing details : Droidgyan link Philz stable for LP

Put the zip files in your phone's SD card

Enter custom recovery, wipe cache, dalwik cache & do factory reset.

Now flash the rom by selecting the zip placed in your SD card.

Now reboot  

(please wait for some time, first boot will take around 10 minutes as it is deodexed rom)





Screen Shots :

                                                              Shared Storage SS

Paritioned Storage SS 

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Doogee Voyager Rom for A106

Hi All,

I have ported another lolipop 5.0 rom for our Unite2
It is ported from Doogee Voyager model MT6582

What is special  in this rom?

Both partitioned and shared versions available.

Themed dialer, settings and system ui.

Awesome feature :-'Smart Motion' ...for unloack, call answer, etc.

Wake Gesture feature for Contacts, Gallery, Messages etc

Privacy Protection option for locking your desired apks.- Guests cannot see your gallery, messages etc.

Black themed Dialer
Blue&Black themed quick settings panel
Blue themed settings

Deodexed 
Rom Size - 353 mb
Rom credits: Manoj Thoomannil


Shared rom Link :Doogee Voyager for A106
CTR V3 recovery : CTR V3
(Better to flash shared LP roms using CTR V3 recovery)

Partitioned Link : Doogee Voyager Partitioned 
( Attention: Use Philz stable 6.53 recovery only.

If you use CTR V3 kk recovery to flash partition version, you may lose IMEI).

Full Black theme (new) : Media fire link

Stock Launcher apk (white) :Stock launcher Doogee rom

(system themes apk will work only with stock launcher)

Full stock theme : Full stock theme Doogee

Procedure to flash

Put the zip in your external SD card

Enter your phone's recovery  ( For partition version, use Philz)

Wipe cache & factory reset

Select 'install zip from SD card'

Select the zip, flash 

Reboot after flashing completed.  Booting up will take some time.  Wait till completed

Screen Shots :

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How to back up & restore IMEI using MTK Droid tools

Hi All,


If you are a frequent rom changer/porter, there is a good chance that you might lose your phone's IMEI sometime.  However, there are so many options to restore it.  It is always advised to take NVRAM backup before flashing new roms. 

NVRAM back up :
 NVRAM back up can be taken by entering your phone's custom recovery.  If anything goes wrong after flashing rom, you can simply restore the same.

Tools for fixing IMEI

Most people use 3G Meta tool for permanently fixing IMEI.  


However, I feel back of IMEI through MTK droid tools is the best.  I had to face IMEI loss issue several times  when testing some roms !  but once when I tried to restore IMEI through the MTK tool, the restore option was not active in the tool so could not restore it.

Later I found a solution to restore the IMEI without any issue.  I will share it for you.

If you face such an issue, first download one file named adbd insecure (link is at the bottom).

Make sure that your phone is rooted then only this app will work.  I have successfully tested it on both KK and LP roms.

Install the adbd insecure apk in your phone. Then tick 'enable adbd insecure'. 

 Now open MTK droid tools app in your PC and connect phone through USB.  Phone must be ON. A pop-up message will come on phone screen seeking permission. Just click 'allow'.   

When phone is detected by the MTK tool, details will be displayed on the tool.   

Now click on IMEI box in the tool.  You can then see two options there; Back up and Restore. 

 You can take back-up or if already a back up is stored in the PC, you can restore it.   When you restore IMEI through MTK droid tool, you will not face 'nvram warning' error when WIFI is switched on.

adbd insecure apk link :   adbd insecure apk

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THEMED-STOCK ROM

Hi all,

Here is a different rom !

Themed Stock
Based on Flash Tool based Stock rom SC
Themed rom

Shared storage
3 Different themes options  : Red-Black theme, Blue-Black theme & Transparent Quick Settings.

(RB is default, you can flash other theme zip files over it)
Preadded quickboot apk, xender, xposed apk and gravity box

Eleven Music Player added as default 

All necesarry tweaks for the best performance

Changed stock default wallpaper

Its 4G !! Placed 4G icon instead of usual 3g !

Bugs : not expected any as it is stock rom

Credit: Manoj Thoomannil (me)

 ROM LINK 
Themed stock Rom shared version

Themed Stock Rom Partitioned version

Red-Black Theme: Red-Black Theme for ThemedStock Rom

Blue-Black Theme: Blue-Black Theme TSR Rom

Transparent Quick Settings : Transparent QuickSettings TSR Rom

Default Stock Theme : Stock Theme

Flashing Procedure:

Put the Rom zip in SD card 

Enter recovery,clear cache,dalwik  cache & facotry reset

Install rom

Reboot

Xposed framework apk is preinstalled but will work only after flashing Xposed zip. (If you dont have the zip file, download from  LovelyPop rom post in this blog itself).

Thanks for reading.....Enjoy!

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