SP Flash Tool: a description of the program for smartphones

Surely everyone noticed how the topic of smartphones is being discussed in the current media. Their advertising goes everywhere, the release of the machines began to engage firms initially initially as far from it. For example, not so long ago was announced a smartphone from Mozilla, and Mark Shuttleworth, whose company is engaged in the release of OS Ubuntu, did not stay aloof.

Such a hype simply could not help attracting the closest attention of Chinese manufacturers, who for centuries have been famous for the ability to create clones of the best-selling electronics. After all, once with this began even the famous Lenovo, whose chairmen recently bought a whole unit of IBM!

So today no one is surprised to see someone holding a Chinese smartphone, whose manufacturer is hardly widely known anywhere except China itself. However, there is nothing strange in the behavior of customers: often this kind of devices are coping well with their direct duties, and the number of "glitches" steadily decreases from year to year.

But there are problems with them. Most often there is a need to replace the firmware, as the "native" program is sometimes not very well translated into Russian (and there are some problems with English too), and therefore the comfortable use of the smartphone is under big question.

With a similar problem, the Sp Flash Tool can help you.

Remarks

Important! The utility successfully flushes only devices, the architecture of which is built on the MTK chip. So before using it, look in the specifications of your smartphone, in order to make sure its suitability for "ennobling". Since the firmware of Chinese Noname gadgets sometimes even bothersome users, we recommend you read our article before starting work.

What do you need to have before starting the firmware?

In order to get started with the Sp Flash Tool, you must first charge your smartphone at least 60%, because during this operation, a lot of energy will be spent. Then from any technical site you need to download the MTK driver, since without it your computer is unlikely to interact normally with the gadget.

Of course, you will need the Sp Flash Tool itself. Next comes the turn of the firmware. Please note: never and under no circumstances do not download programs, the effectiveness and convenience of which has not been verified by at least a few users! No matter how attractive the firmware on the screenshots from the site looked, the reality can be very deplorable.

This is especially true if you do not have any experience on "russification" of Chinese devices. It may be that you put your hands on your smartphone some specific Chinese firmware, which you can not manage on your own later. In addition, it is possible to corrupt the device in a useless way, since programs are not always written by really "straightforward" people.

Begin!

After reading all the terrible warnings, you can start work. First, in the root of the system disk, extract from the ZIP-archive with the program all the files that are there only. Important! What is the root of the disk? Suppose that you have opened your system partition "C". Actually, further anything it is not necessary to do, as the root is he and is. In the literature this concept is denoted as "C: \".

Then drop all the contents of the archive with the firmware. Now run the utility Sp Flash Tool. To do this, right-click on the file with the same name, then select "Run as administrator". It is very important to run the application with administrator privileges, otherwise it may not work.

We work with the program

In the dialog that appears , click the Scatter-Loading button. A kind of "Explorer" opens, in which you need to tell the program the path to the folder with the firmware. In it you are looking for a file of the form: "UUU ---- ems.txt". Here, the UUU is the number of your MTK chip. For example, "5674 --- emms.txt.

Specifying the program directory, do not close it, but start installing drivers on the device. How to do it?

First you need to unpack the archive with them. Where to move them - the tenth question, because the root location in this case is not required. Then you need the Windows Device Manager. To start it, right-click on the icon "My Computer", then select the "Properties" item in the context menu. A dialog box opens, in the left part of which there will be the item we are looking for. Click on it with the left mouse button.

Speed is the guarantee of quality!

And now - attention! Remove the battery from its NoName, quickly insert it back, and then connect the device to the computer. A " question mark " appears in the "Device Manager" window , because the system is not able to find the necessary drivers.

To do this, click on the line with the question mark with the right mouse button, select the item "Update drivers". Then quickly click on the button "Run a search on this computer," and then point the system folder with the desired drivers.

Important! During their installation, various warning messages may appear, which you do not need to pay attention to: this is due to the general instability of the Sp Flash Tool itself. The firmware could not be completed? Then again take out the battery and reconnect the smartphone to the computer.

Why do we rest on the speed of connecting the gadget to the computer and indicating the location of the files? The fact that the nameless Chinese phones are unpredictable, but because of the slightest delay, a smartphone can be identified as a completely different device. So it's better to act faster!

We put the firmware

Again we return to the main window of the Sp Flash Tool. How to use the program further? Very simple!

In its upper part there is a Firmware | Upgrade button, to which you need to press the left mouse button. After this, it remains only to wait. The signal that everything went well is the window with the image of a large green "bagel". Apparently, this is a Chinese synonym for "OK".

Problems on the way

Unfortunately, everything can happen far from the first time. We have already said that Chinese devices are very wayward, so you should not relax. What problems can arise on the path of a person who has decided to install the firmware on his own smartphone? Now we are discussing the version of the Sp Flash Tool 8038, but all of this is quite true for other releases of the application.

The most common situation is when the process of filling the new version of the program continues for hours, and no progress is visible. If this is the case, try to cancel everything by closing the program, and then restart the operation by checking the "DA DLL ALL ... Check sum" check box in the main utility window. In this case, its role will be played by disabling checksum checks on downloaded files. That's only this way to eliminate the message "Sp Flash Tool error" is not too good.

Note!

Try to flash the phone with the verification function turned off at your own risk. The fact is that the checksum (more precisely, its coincidence) ensures that the file is really what it claims to be. Simply put, under its guise, you do not slip any sophisticated Chinese virus, which instead of flashing the phone decides to erase the BIOS of the motherboard.

The only problem is that programs of this kind are extremely rarely created by more or less serious companies. That's why the checksums do not coincide much more often than they could have thought about. In any case, it is with this that some of the errors in version 8038 are related. Sp Flash Tool error can often be prevented. True, this requires a clear understanding of the essence of all the operations you perform.

If you are absolutely sure of your actions and you know which specific sections are required to be stitched, you can remove the checkboxes from those items that you simply do not need. It is possible that the problems with the firmware process are just caused by the "broken" unimportant file.

This is how the Sp Flash Tool works. How to use the program, if you try to install a new shell constantly pops up some one error? In this case, you need to know the most common problem codes by which you can determine the cause of the problem.

1003s_com ... .Fail

This error indicates some problems with USB-ports. To get rid of it, you can try switching the cable to another port. Tip: Do not connect the device to the ports on the front of the desktop! This is due to their frequent refusals, and simply disgusting quality.

Companies that produce typical cases, most commonly used by computer assemblers, rarely differ in detail. Often they use frankly defective components, which leads to a large number of failures.

On the contrary, when working on a more or less new laptop, you do not need to connect the cable to the USB 3.0 port, since the Flash Flash.exe is a fairly conservative program, and the Chinese smartphone itself can for some reason resist the attempt to use the new standard.

If this does not work, try all the steps on the other computer. It happens that the firmware stubbornly does not want to be installed on Windows 8, whereas on the old "seven" everything passes without problems. Finally, look for another cable. The same Chinese, who sometimes make very ambiguous smartphones, often produce wires with "floating" quality. They are inexpensive, so you will not spend a lot of money to buy a new cable.

1013s_com ... .Fail

The root of the problems is the same. First, try all the above solutions, and in case of failure, download and install a more recent version of the program. It often happens that the problem is also eliminated in the case of using an older release of the application.

1011s_com ... .Fail

If you see such a message, this indicates that the firmware file is too large. The internal memory of the device simply can not completely place it, and therefore will have to search for something more compact. Generally speaking, Android in this regard is a curious system. On a flash drive can be at least a dozen gigabytes, but with a shortage of at least a couple of hundred KB in the internal memory to do at least something you will not succeed.

1011s_Unsupported ... .Ver_of_DA

The appearance of this type of error indicates the incompatibility of the versions. In this case, the firmware via the Sp Flash Tool will be successful only after installing the new version of the utility. In some cases, failures occur due to some problems with the OS, so try to do all the same on another computer.

1040s_Unsupported ... .Operation

Such a message can be interpreted in two ways: on the one hand, sometimes it appears when the firmware version and the phone do not match. In addition, it can also indicate the need to update the version of the software used.

1011s_DA..Error

In this case, you also need to look at the USB ports used. As we mentioned above, this problem constantly occurs if the user tries to use the front ports to install the firmware. Among other things, they can be tried with compressed air and cleaned with cotton swabs soaked in alcohol. Of course, the computer at this time should be turned off.

This decision is associated with an underestimation of the negative role of dust, and in fact it is very great! This material is an excellent dielectric, so that signals from the device can simply not enter the computer. This remark is true not only for the error just described, but for almost all cases of some problems with gadgets connected to the computer via USB.

3012 Nand_Flach_not_Found

This error indicates the need to download the firmware file again. When saving a message, try using another version of it, since the program detects it as corrupted. The update of the program itself can help.

To date, the most stable is the Sp Flash Tool V.3.1344 and other releases of the third family. As a rule, they get the most optimal results with their help. For relatively old phones, use the versions from the second family, because they contain support for even quite "relic" chips.

Finally

That 's what the Sp Flash Tool is. The instruction turned out to be quite voluminous, but we simply could not point out many of the moments. The success of the firmware can be greatly influenced by both the operating system version and its immediate state. In particular, if it is heavily infected with viruses, then hope for the normal operation of the utility is not worth it.

Once again, we draw your attention to the consumables used: buy USB-cables in normal and trusted stores, and not from dubious suppliers. Sometimes such a trifle as a faulty cable can spoil a lot of nerves.