[Q] Star S5 MTK6589 Root

[henkpeters]

Hi all,

Just got my Star S5 in the mail, while I'm in the process of removing all chinese bloatware, I'm hitting a wall here. To remove baidu I need root (which i want anyway, actually), but I can't seem to boot into cwm-recovery after creating my own with smart phone flash tools and mtk droid root & tools. None of the other options listed online work either! Is there a secret button combination or something to get into recovery or does smart phone flash tools SAY it flashed the boot.img and recovery.img but doesn't it actually do it?
Pressing vol+ and power, then when green android pops up on screen releasing power but holding vol+ doesn't work (it just continues to boot regularly)!

Edit: ninonirvana's solution below worked to get into CWM.. however, flashing the superuser-binary doesn't work on android 4.2 and up. I had to use SuperSU, everything works now!

 

[ninonirvana]

Hi all,

Just got my Star S5 in the mail, while I'm in the process of removing all chinese bloatware, I'm hitting a wall here. To remove baidu I need root (which i want anyway, actually), but I can't seem to boot into cwm-recovery after creating my own with smart phone flash tools and mtk droid root & tools. None of the other options listed online work either! Is there a secret button combination or something to get into recovery or does smart phone flash tools SAY it flashed the boot.img and recovery.img but doesn't it actually do it?
Pressing vol+ and power, then when green android pops up on screen releasing power but holding vol+ doesn't work (it just continues to boot regularly)!

Hello, I have accessed the recovery as follows, nexus4toolkit in this reboot options menu No. 21 No. 4 after reboot recovery and already

 

[ninonirvana]

Hi, you can put a link of recovery and how to root? thanks

---------- Post added at 01:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 12:36 PM ----------

http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2215393 you can use this tool to restar in to recovery

 

[henkpeters]

I can't seem to find the tutorial I used yesterday (it was today, actually, 2.30am) but I read back the original scatter-file and rom with mtk droid root & tools, afterwards I used spflashtool SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1304.0.119 to read back the original rom (cache-HEX as endpoint) and used mtk droid root & tools again to create my new boot.img and recovery.img. Lastly, i followed this <<USE SUPERSU INSTEAD OF SUPERUSER>> tutorial, flashing only my newly created recovery.img and boot.img, after using your nexus toolkit to get into cwm. I backed up my rom now AND rooted, so all is well

NOTE: as stated above, using superuser doesn't work on android 4.2 and up, you should flash superSU instead!

 

[Whyzor]

I know this phone is new and I may get it in the future, once the rooting process is is figured out for MT6589, it may be useful for other phones with the same chip. Can someone write a simple step-by-step instructions on how to root it for others so there won't be a bunch of scattered threads and questions about the same thing. Thanks in advance!

 

[ninonirvana]

I know this phone is new and I may get it in the future, once the rooting process is is figured out for MT6589, it may be useful for other phones with the same chip. Can someone write a simple step-by-step instructions on how to root it for others so there won't be a bunch of scattered threads and questions about the same thing. Thanks in advance!

One +

 

[cellphonemic_com]

It is no one key root tool for android 4.1 or android 4.2. I think the best way for root the phone is flashing the phone with rooted ROM if it exists

 

[guapon]

I can't seem to find the tutorial I used yesterday (it was today, actually, 2.30am) but I read back the original scatter-file and rom with mtk droid root & tools, afterwards I used spflashtool SP_Flash_Tool_v3.1304.0.119 to read back the original rom (cache-HEX as endpoint) and used mtk droid root & tools again to create my new boot.img and recovery.img. Lastly, i followed this <<USE SUPERSU INSTEAD OF SUPERUSER>> tutorial, flashing only my newly created recovery.img and boot.img, after using your nexus toolkit to get into cwm. I backed up my rom now AND rooted, so all is well

NOTE: as stated above, using superuser doesn't work on android 4.2 and up, you should flash superSU instead!

pls write instructions step by step.and is it possible to give us scatter file and recovery.img?

 

[ninonirvana]

pls write instructions step by step.and is it possible to give us scatter file and recovery.img?

:good::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::good:

 

[misokralj]

Hi..
can someone who already own Star S5 tell some info about camera, and can this phone record 1080p video?

 

[guapon]

Hi..
can someone who already own Star S5 tell some info about camera, and can this phone record 1080p video?

no it records 720p. max

 

[guapon]

ı manage to root S5...ı found correct recovery with scatter file link below.But its china language but not ımportant ıt works..

first intall super su and copy to sd card after flash recovery.img with flash tool
to flash the the supersu to the phone you must enter the recovery (that you flashed with flash tool...) but power and volume + is not working so we can enter the recovery with a program like nexus 4 toolkit or Android Toolkit

http://download.chainfire.eu/315/SuperSU...-v1.25.zip
http://www.4shared.com/rar/PzQiYFxi/CWM_Recovery.html
http://www.4shared.com/rar/m33fLNgf/MTK6...30401.html

 

[yulypis]

S5 Root - windows 8 preloader driver problem

ı manage to root S5...ı found correct recovery with scatter file link below.But its china language but not ımportant ıt works..

first intall super su and copy to sd card after flash recovery.img with flash tool
to flash the the supersu to the phone you must enter the recovery (that you flashed with flash tool...) but power and volume + is not working so we can enter the recovery with a program like nexus 4 toolkit or Android Toolkit

http://download.chainfire.eu/315/SuperSU...-v1.25.zip
http://www.4shared.com/rar/PzQiYFxi/CWM_Recovery.html
http://www.4shared.com/rar/m33fLNgf/MTK6...30401.html

Hi,

Just came back, wanted to flash the recovery - but I can't seem to the MT65xx Preloader to install (I'm on windows 8 64 bit) - is there something special I need to do to install them? (I used the ones from GizBeat Combo for the H7500+ MT6589 drivers) - it just won't install the VCOM even if I select it by myself - it says it has not signtature - what am I doing wrong?

 

[ninonirvana]

ı manage to root S5...ı found correct recovery with scatter file link below.But its china language but not ımportant ıt works..

first intall super su and copy to sd card after flash recovery.img with flash tool
to flash the the supersu to the phone you must enter the recovery (that you flashed with flash tool...) but power and volume + is not working so we can enter the recovery with a program like nexus 4 toolkit or Android Toolkit

http://download.chainfire.eu/315/SuperSU...-v1.25.zip
http://www.4shared.com/rar/PzQiYFxi/CWM_Recovery.html
http://www.4shared.com/rar/m33fLNgf/MTK6...30401.html

the recovery is in chines :victory::laugh:

 

[yulypis]

the recovery is in chines :victory::laugh:

Hi again,

I've managed (finally to trick windows 8 into installing the vcom...) to flash the chiniese green recovery - but I have no idea how to navigate and what option to choose - since I saw SD I went to that one and clicked with the power button - writes something in chinese in white and does nothing? Am I doing something wrong in here? Is there a special way to navigate that recovery?
Shoud I have placed the supersu zip in a specific folder? rename it perhaps to update.zip or something like that?

Thank you again for all your help

 

[Whyzor]

Hi again,

I've managed (finally to trick windows 8 into installing the vcom...) to flash the chiniese green recovery - but I have no idea how to navigate and what option to choose - since I saw SD I went to that one and clicked with the power button - writes something in chinese in white and does nothing? Am I doing something wrong in here? Is there a special way to navigate that recovery?
Shoud I have placed the supersu zip in a specific folder? rename it perhaps to update.zip or something like that?

Thank you again for all your help

If you post a screenshot of the recovery menus, then we could get someone who understands Chinese to do a line-by-line translation. Or maybe even Google Translate

 

[yulypis]

Hi again,

I've managed (finally to trick windows 8 into installing the vcom...) to flash the chiniese green recovery - but I have no idea how to navigate and what option to choose - since I saw SD I went to that one and clicked with the power button - writes something in chinese in white and does nothing? Am I doing something wrong in here? Is there a special way to navigate that recovery?
Shoud I have placed the supersu zip in a specific folder? rename it perhaps to update.zip or something like that?

Thank you again for all your help

It works - thank you all that helped and got us here

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If you post a screenshot of the recovery menus, then we could get someone who understands Chinese to do a line-by-line translation. Or maybe even Google Translate

Thank you, but I already managed to flash the supersu - thank you anyway.
After rooting the device I pushed the NetworkLocation.apk into system/app - but to no avail - I still can't get any google location.
Does anybody know what can be done?

 

[Myrothas]

Would someone PLEASE be so kind to put up a 100% secure tutorial?
I really dont want to get an expensive brick to throw out of the window...
Maybe with video, or much screenshots... That would be great!

 

[misokralj]

Would someone PLEASE be so kind to put up a 100% secure tutorial?
I really dont want to get an expensive brick to throw out of the window...
Maybe with video, or much screenshots... That would be great!

+1
I just ordered one, so if someone can write tut for root..
Thanks..

 

[IzeCold]

I would like also a guide, maybe even with a non Chinese (english) recovery and rom..

I just got the the phone - and its sweet And I must admit I did like the price also