Firmware Update Guide for Smartphone or Tablet with Mediatek SoC

Today we present a guide to updating, restoring, or recovering from a brick any device with a Mediatek processor.

In this guide, we explain how to install the necessary drivers, where to download the firmware for your tablet or smartphone, and how to perform the update process from a Windows PC. This process is compatible with all Mediatek Dimensity, Helio, or older MTK processors.

Table of Contents

Basic concepts to install a Mediatek Firmware

As it is always recommendable to use OTA updates before trying to flash a device that works with a firmware from a PC, we advise using this guide as a resource to recover our tablet if there is no other option.

!ATTENTION !

If the device works well for what we need it for, DO NOT UPDATE.
If we don’t know what we’re doing, DO NOT UPDATE.
If the device doesn’t work well and is still under warranty, MAKE A CLAIM TO THE STORE.
AndroidPC is not responsible for any problems that may arise from this process.

Install Mediatek Firmware with PC

Requirements

Mediatek drivers: So that the system detects our device.
SP Flash Tool v6: Version suitable for modern Xiaomi, Redmi, Poco, and other devices.
SP Flash Tool v5: Version to use if the previous one does not work.
Have the firmware downloaded.
USB cable to connect to your phone or tablet.
A PC with Windows operating system.

Points to consider

Disconnect any other Android device that we have connected.
You always have to use a USB 2.0 connector (higher compatibility).
Use a PC that does not have previous drivers of other Android device or similar
During the update process you will not see anything on the screen of the tablet or phone

Update process

Install the Mediatek Drivers.
Unpack and run the SP Flash app.
First use the “Scatter Loading” button and load the .TXT file of our firmware
Press Download and the PC will be waiting to connect our phone or tablet
Disconnect the tablet from our PC and turn it off completely
If you have a phone that can take out the battery make this for a few seconds.
Connect the data cable to our PC, if we have disassembled the battery in the phone, we reconnect it.
The update process will start and the bottom bar will be completed up to 100%
Once finished we will have an OK message and we need to reboot our device.