Welcome again to Technology sage and today we are looking at How to Unbrick a dead itel 1353 smartphone. If you have this particular model and it is soft-bricked or dead after flashing a new ROM, then this article is going to help you recover your Itel 1353 smartphone. Many Android smartphones operate on an MTK chipset or also known as Mediatek chipset. Every phone operating on a different chipset is flashed using a specific chipset developed to flash that particular chipset. For MTK chipsets, it has been easy to flash a ROM using an MTK flashing tool known as Smartphone flash tool or also known as SP Flash tool.
The flashing tool for SPD smartphones is called the Upgrade Download tool. Remember that a chipset is different from the Operating system. If you are using an MTK smartphone, all you have to do is to load a scatter file on your SP Flash Tool. For more information on MTKs, kindly read our article on How to flash a new Android ROM/firmware using SP Flash tool. It gives full details on how you can achieve that with an MTK supported smartphone. Let us now look at How to How To Flash Spd Smartphones Using Upgrade download Tool. You can also read my article on How to Flash D light M100 smartphone and remove Pay Joy lock. Otherwise, let us continue.
Also Read: How to flash a new Android ROM/firmware using SP Flash tool.
Unbrick Itel 1353 Smartphone
Now, there are several reasons as to why you should want to flash a new ROM on your Android Smartphone. I highlighted those reasons in our previous article about How to flash a new Android ROM/firmware using SP Flash tool. You can that article on this website. It is inclusive and has very vital educational information that can really be of more help. So, whichever reason you have for flashing your ROM, first, you will need to download the ROM for your specific phone.
Requirements needed to Unbrick Itel 1353
- Windows PC
- Download Itel 1353 firmware file
- SPD drivers
- Factory Download tool/Research Download Tool v 2.9.9015
Step 1
Make a note of your model number and write it down somewhere and search the internet for your ROM or firmware. You have to be very specific. And remember you might brick your phone by trying to flash a firmware that doesn’t belong to that particular phone model. After you have confirmed your phone’s model number, you can download itel 1353 PAC file from this link.
Step 2
After you have successfully downloaded your firmware on your PC, now unzip to a folder on your computer. If your firmware requires a password to extract, find the password on the site where you downloaded it. If the password isn’t on the website, then contact the website through the contacts given on the website. In most cases, people will not give these passwords because they want you to purchase.
Step 3
At this point, you are on the right track. Now, it is time to get the downloading tool. In some cases, you will find the flash tool zipped within the firmware. If it is included, extract (if it comes as a zip file), open the folder you have extracted and run. Upgrade Download.exe file. If the flashing tool isn’t included in the firmware, don’t panic. Simply search and download the UpgradeDownload tool. Extract and run as I have directed above.
Step 4
After you have run UpgradeDownload.exe, it is time to load your firmware. Click on the first gear and choose a pack file within your firmware bearing in mind that you remember the folder you extracted your itel 1353 firmware file. Navigate to that folder where you extracted the firmware, and chose the pack file normally a notepad with “.pac” at the end. Click on “Open” you will see a progress bar at the bottom of the Upgrade Download tool showing your firmware being loaded to your SPD flash tool. Now, wait until the firmware loads fully.
Step 5
This is the final step now. After your firmware has been successfully been loaded, you will see the name of the firmware at the top of the flash tool. Now, remove the battery from the phone, put it back again. Click on the play sign on the Upgrade Download tool, then, connect your SPD smartphone to your computer. Having properly installed SPD drivers, your phone will be detected and flashing will automatically be initiated. You will see the progress in the progress bar. After 100% download, you will see “PASSED.” unplug your smartphone and power it on.
Be patient for the first boot always takes a long time.
Conclusion
Kindly make sure that before you decide to flash new firmware or upgrade, you really have a good reason to do this. This method will work only if you have the correct firmware and the proper tools. If you are not sure which chipset your phone is using, Google your phone’s specifications.
