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While trying to build custom roms for one of my cell phones, I managed to soft
brick the phone. It was a Cat S42G, and I somehow managed to get it stuck in a
preloader boot loop while attempting to change a stock kernel to have a TWRP
recovery image. Fortunately for me (Praise God!) I was able to get it fixed
with a tool called MTKclient.
https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient
While this tool has some pretty good instructions, I just couldn’t make it work
on my Ubuntu distribution. It has several python dependencies that just don’t
seem to mesh up with my system. No matter what dependencies I installed or
changed version of, I couldn’t make it work.
Again, fortunately for me, the author also released a live DVD of Ubuntu with
all of the proper dependencies installed. I burnt the live DVD to a thumbstick
and booted it up in no time! Here’s the link to that:
https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=15664248565197184488
My first attempt to fix the phone using the payload from the Android 12 OTA
update zip didn’t work at all, so I decided instead to clone my working CAT
phone to the non-working one. That worked flawlessly, though it did take a long
time to copy down the entire contents of the first phone, and then upload the
files to the non-working phone.
The GUI worked really well on the MTKclient tool, and I am pretty impressed
with the program overall. If you try it out, feel free to leave a comment with
your results.
Linux – keep it simple.