thanks for the quick reply.
So I used that tool -
Everything goes ok in the install.
after install reboot to recovery goes into boot and hangs.
I take off battery and reboot and it boots up fine to original ROM.
Holding Power and Volume up down after shutdown take me to the original factory mode.
For one brief time as I was playing around with different combinations of Power and Volume i was able to see a recovery menu with only Recovery, Fastboot and Reboot (power was disabled and only Vol up down - no touchscreen) - fastboot did nothing - hangs, same with recovery. when i rebooted i could not get that menu again.
I am essentially having problems mounting 2nd partition on my SD Card so can't use Link2SD.
Got conned into buying a 512MB ROM (128MB RAM) when i thought it was 4GB/2GB. the file system seems to be UBIFS.
I cannot install any kind of recovery and cannot mount partition even though I see it when i use "mount" in in terminal as mmcblk0p2 (mmcblk0p1 is the FAT32 that is the main parition).
The phone is pretty useless unless I can mount ext2orext4 on SD Card.
Here are the specs i could pull. (I am pretty handy but at a loss here - any help would be appreciated)
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Hardware : MT6572
Model : D8
Build number : ALPS.JB3.MP.V1.37
Build date UTC : 20140611-090556
Android v : 4.2.2
Baseband v: MOLY.WR8.W1315.MD.WG.MP.V15, 2014/04/01 03:04
Kernel v : 3.4.5 (user@lyue) (gcc version 4.6.x-google 20120106 (prerelease) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Wed Jun 11 17:03:23 CST 2014
Uboot build v : ----- should be root shell
LCD Driver IC : 1-otm8018b_fwvga_dsi_vdo_dx
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############################################################################################################
#
# General Setting
#
############################################################################################################
- general: MTK_PLATFORM_CFG
info:
- config_version: V1.1.1
platform: MT6572
project: MTDTtest
storage: NAND
boot_channel: NONE
block_size: 0x40000
############################################################################################################
#
# Layout Setting
#
############################################################################################################
- partition_index: SYS0
partition_name: PRELOADER
file_name: preloader.bin
is_download: true
type: SV5_BL_BIN
linear_start_addr: 0x0
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x100000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: BOOTLOADERS
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS1
partition_name: PRO_INFO
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0x100000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x200000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: PROTECTED
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS2
partition_name: NVRAM
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0x300000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x300000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: BINREGION
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS3
partition_name: PROTECT_F
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0x600000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x300000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: PROTECTED
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS4
partition_name: PROTECT_S
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0x900000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x300000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: PROTECTED
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS5
partition_name: SECCFG
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0xC00000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x40000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: INVISIBLE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS6
partition_name: UBOOT
file_name: lk.bin
is_download: true
type: NORMAL_ROM
linear_start_addr: 0xC40000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x80000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: UPDATE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS7
partition_name: BOOTIMG
file_name: boot.img
is_download: true
type: NORMAL_ROM
linear_start_addr: 0xCC0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x600000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: UPDATE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS8
partition_name: RECOVERY
file_name: recovery.img
is_download: true
type: NORMAL_ROM
linear_start_addr: 0x12C0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x600000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: UPDATE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS9
partition_name: SEC_RO
file_name: secro.img
is_download: true
type: NORMAL_ROM
linear_start_addr: 0x18C0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x40000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: UPDATE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS10
partition_name: MISC
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0x1900000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0xC0000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: INVISIBLE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS11
partition_name: LOGO
file_name: logo.bin
is_download: true
type: NORMAL_ROM
linear_start_addr: 0x19C0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x100000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: UPDATE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS12
partition_name: EXPDB
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0x1AC0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x200000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: INVISIBLE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS13
partition_name: FAT
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: UBI_IMG
linear_start_addr: 0x1CC0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x1400000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: INVISIBLE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS14
partition_name: ANDROID
file_name: system.img
is_download: true
type: UBI_IMG
linear_start_addr: 0x30C0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x10E00000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: UPDATE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS15
partition_name: CACHE
file_name: cache.img
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0x13EC0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x3C00000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: INVISIBLE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS16
partition_name: USRDATA
file_name: data.img
is_download: true
type: UBI_IMG
linear_start_addr: 0x17AC0000
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x70C0000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: true
is_reserved: false
operation_type: UPDATE
reserve: 0x00
- partition_index: SYS17
partition_name: BMTPOOL
file_name: NONE
is_download: false
type: NONE
linear_start_addr: 0xFFFF0050
physical_start_addr: 0x0
partition_size: 0x1400000
region: NONE
storage: HW_STORAGE_NAND
boundary_check: false
is_reserved: true
operation_type: RESERVED
reserve: 0x00
thanks much
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