12-02-2016, 12:16 PM
When a Mediatek device goes totally dead, grounding by soldering gold mount points on the Motherboard (PCB) could help revive it. There are 3 known scenarios that could cause your Mediatek Android phone to go dead and not even respond to charging or the power button. We have so far dropped guides on fixing two scenarios which are:
The phone could go totally dead when preloader.bin gets corrupted on its own, you flash a wrong preloader.bin, or format in SP flash tool without flashing back the firmware to the phone. See this guide for how to fix this by flashing the firmware for your model and build number.
Scenario 3 is different from 1 & 2. Some users of Tecno D5 and Infiinx Not 2 X600 would be familiar with this. In this case, the phone goes totally dead after successfully flashing an incompatible firmware. The fixes for scenario 1 and 2 do not work for scenario 3.
Warning!
Ensure you have properly tried the fixes for scenario 1 and 2 before considering scenario 3 as you could damage your phone for good if done wrong
Summary
To fix scenario 3, you'll need to join 2 points on the phone's Mother Board then connect the phone to PC via USB cord for flashing.
Credits to Benzalf for sending in the video clip
Scenario 1: Corrupted, wrong or missing Preloader.bin:
The phone could go totally dead when preloader.bin gets corrupted on its own, you flash a wrong preloader.bin, or format in SP flash tool without flashing back the firmware to the phone. See this guide for how to fix this by flashing the firmware for your model and build number.
Scenario 2: Interrupting SP flash tool during flashing:
The phone could go totally dead when there's some kind of interruption during SP flash tool flashing. This could be as a result of you shaking the USB cord, disconnecting due to a slow flashing or SP flash tool popping up an error. See this guide for how to revive the device.Scenario 3: Flashing a wrong variant
Scenario 3 is different from 1 & 2. Some users of Tecno D5 and Infiinx Not 2 X600 would be familiar with this. In this case, the phone goes totally dead after successfully flashing an incompatible firmware. The fixes for scenario 1 and 2 do not work for scenario 3.
Warning!
Ensure you have properly tried the fixes for scenario 1 and 2 before considering scenario 3 as you could damage your phone for good if done wrong
Summary
To fix scenario 3, you'll need to join 2 points on the phone's Mother Board then connect the phone to PC via USB cord for flashing.
How to join motherboard gold / mount points on a Mediatek Android device
Follow the steps below to revive a totally dead MTK device by soldering mount points
See the video tutorial below or @ https://youtu.be/jPn4FBAHib0- Install Mediatek USB VCOM drivers on the PC
- Loosen the phone till you get to the Mother Board (The procedure varies with phones so lookup yours)
- On the Mother Board, locate two golden points named GND and KCOLO (see the two red arrows in the image below )
- Solder a thin wire to the GND point then join it to the KCOLO point
- Connect the phone to the PC via a USB cord just to test; the PC should now recognize it and make a sound.
- Disconnect the phone then flash the right firmware using SP flash tool
- Disconnect the wire from the Mother Board after flashing
Credits to Benzalf for sending in the video clip
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