How to fix null IMEI by restoring nvram & nvdata in SP flash tool

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This video explains how to fix null IMEI on Mediatek (MTK) devices by flashing / restoring nvram.bin & nvdata.img using SP flash tool

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In this video tutorial, I'll be explaining how to restore

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NVRAM and NVdata to an MTK device using SP Flash tool.

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Usually, you'll have to do this when you have Null IMEI

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and you have tried other methods like a box

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or Maui Meta and the rest and they just don't work

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okay? In that kind of case, you have to resort to

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restoring the NVRAM and NVdata

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using SP Flash tool.

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Now, first off, you need to have installed your VCOM drivers. We have a guide

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on how to do that so check out our YouTube Channel and our Forum

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You also need to have the scatter file for your phone model,

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You can get this from the firmware for your phone

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and also the NVdata & NVRAM

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files which you backed

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up from a working phone. Its very important

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you get them from a working phone of

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the same model because if you flash another model's NVRAM,

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You might corrupt Your NVRAM partition

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so just to be on the safe side, get from a working phone of the same model

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Now, once you have all these in place, the next thing you want to do

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is to modify your scatter file

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Now, I also should mention that you should have installed

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Notepad++. I have that installed on my PC. So

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You open the scatter file using Notepad++

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because that gives you a better view of the contents of the

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scatter file so you don't

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mix things up. Now, you can see the layout is

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very OK visually.

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Now, what you want to do at this point in Notepad++

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is to search for the NVRAM

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so I'm going type Ctrl + F and

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NVRAM

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and then you tap Enter. So that takes me to the NVRAM section

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of the scatter file. Now, you're going to change Two values. You have is_download set to false,

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You change that to true.

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This is so that SP Flash tool can detect the NVRAM

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file when you load the scatter file in SP Flash tool

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okay? because if you just load the scatter file without changing these values

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you'll find out that the list will not contain NVRAM & NVdata okay?

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that's why we're going through this step. Now, the next

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thing you want to do is (still under NVRAM) you want to change

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the file name from none to nvram.bin

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This is the file name here. So, nvram.bin okay? I'm done with NVRAM. Over to

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NVdata so you tap Ctrl + F again,

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and nvdata this time around and Enter. Alright! Great! Now,

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here, You change is_download from false to

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true and then under file name, we have that in place so we don't have to

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make any edit there. So what you want to do is just tap Ctrl + S which is Save

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the scatter file and you can close the scatter file. Now, back

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to SP Flash tool. What you want to do now is to launch SP Flash tool. I recommend using a lower version

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because I tried using the latest version

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and that wouldn't even let me flash NVRAM at all so I just had to go with this

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particular version. Alright! Great! So in SP Flash tool, what you want to do is to click

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on scatter loading and navigate to the location where the scatter file is.

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You highlight the scatter file then you click on Open.

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That's going to load the files so you can see NVRAM is ticked

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here and NVdata is also ticked alright? So if I hadn't made those edits

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You'll notice that once I load the scatter file, these will not be

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on this list okay? That's why we had to do the edits earlier on.

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So, I'm ready to flash.What you want to do at this point is to click on Download.

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Alright! Great! So you power off the device which is having

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null IMEI issue. You make sure the battery is inserted, don't hold any button

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then you connect it to the PC via a USB cord. Wait for detection and flashing. SP Flash tool is flashing...and...

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Yeah, that's done. So you have the Download OK, great! Then you can close

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SP Flash tool, disconnect and power up the device. Once you boot up, you should dial

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*#06# to check IMEI. You should see that it is restored to your device.

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So that's basically how to restore NVRAM and NVdata to fix null IMEI on an MTK device

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using SP Flash tool.

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