How to use Miracle Box to backup Mediatek (MTK) firmware

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In this video tutorial, I'll be explaining how to backup a Mediatek Android phone using Miracle Box.

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Make sure you have your Mediatek USB VCOM drivers and of course your Miracle Box. I had dropped a guide on

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how to readback using SP Flash tool, you can check that out, but this is a much easier method.

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First, install your Mediatek USB VCOM drivers. These drivers help Miracle Box communicate with your phone

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its very important you install these drivers. Launch your device manager. I want to install the drivers

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Now, in device manager, you tick any item. If you're using a Windows 8 or 10 PC, disable signature verification

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We have a guide at the Hovatek Forum on how to disable signature verification on a Windows 8 or 10 PC

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so see that guide because this driver you're about to install is an unsigned driver. If you don't disable,

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you will not be able to install it. Back to device manager, select any item then click on Action -

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Add Legacy Hardware - Next - Install.... - Next - Next - Have Disk.. - Browse - Navigate to the location

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of the VCOM drivers and select your driver. Don't forget to disable your antivirus when using Miracle Box

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because it might see Miracle Box as a malware. I forgot to explain something here. I'm using a Windows 10 PC

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you can see (from here) I cannot find Windows 10. I'm going to use drivers for Window 7 (same for Windows 8)

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Now, this is for 32, this is for 64 bit. So its very important you know your PC's architecture.

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To find out that, go to My Computer or This PC, right-click it, select Properties then it appears. Mine is 64 bit

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I'm going to be selecting the 64 bit version, select Open - click OK - Next - Next. So I standby

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Alright! The following hardware was installed, Mediatek DA USB VCOM Port. You can see I have a Code 10 error

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This is nothing to worry about, the reason you're getting it is because you installed an unsigned driver

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So its nothing to worry about.You might also see some yellow triangles here, its also nothing to worry about.

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You've installed an unsigned driver and Windows thinks it might not work but it doesn't mean it won't work

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I assure you (if you follow this guide), its definitely going to work. So I've installed drivers, next

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is Miracle Box. I open the Miracle Box folder and launch it. It might take a bit to come up, be patient

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Alright! Miracle Box is up. Click on MTK since you're backing up a Mediatek Android phone. Tick Read

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Select the chipset type for your phone. I will be selecting MT65xx, that is my phone's chipset.

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Now, at this point, you have 2 options, you can choose to backup as scatter format i.e SP Flash tool format

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or backup the entire firmware as a (single) bin file. If you want to backup in scatter / sp flash tool format

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so that you can flash using sp flash tool, click on Save as scatter file. I'll still be showing you the other method

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you click on save as scatter file, click on the Start button. Now, you can see Waiting for USB port

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At this point, you switch off the phone, still with battery inside and connect it via USB cord. Don't

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press anything (button), just standby. Next thing is you'll get this box here asking you to select what

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blocks you wish to backup. You can choose to tick everything if you want. I'll be backing up just boot

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I'm still going to show you the bin method. I click on OK. I'll select the location where I want the file saved

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[Car horn] Alright! So you have something like this. Once that is done, You'll have the Done message.

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Go back to the folder you selected and you should see it backed up. You might see it (boot) in .bin format

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If you want to flash the boot in SP Flash tool, just rename from .bin to .img but I will not be doing that

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For the second method, you backup the entire firmware as a single .bin file. You won't tick save as scatter file

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so I'll be unticking this then disconnect the phone (from PC). Still leaving it switched off with battery inside

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I click on Start button. Next I connect. You're going to get a prompt asking where you want to save the

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firmware to. Its going to be in .bin format. I Click on Save. This process can take quite some time

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You have to be patient. Its very important you do not interrupt the process. It has started backing up

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I'll wait a few seconds to see that its loading (1%). If the USB cord gets disconnected, you just have to