"Damn it!" Elara slammed her fist on the desk. "The UBOOT partition size is wrong. The scatter file lied about the block size."
"Here goes nothing." She hit the 'Read Back' button. "Damn it
Elara, a firmware archaeologist, stared at the cryptic line of text on her screen. Elara, a firmware archaeologist, stared at the cryptic
| Partition | Function | |-----------|----------| | PRELOADER | 1st-stage bootloader (proprietary MediaTek) | | PRO_INFO | Production info, hw config | | NVRAM | IMEI, WiFi/BT MAC, calibration data | | MBR | Master Boot Record (if legacy) | | EBR1 , EBR2 | Extended Boot Records for data & internal_sd | | BOOTIMG | Linux kernel + ramdisk (boot partition) | | RECOVERY | Custom recovery image | | SEC_RO | Secure ROM region (signature checks) | | ANDROID | /system partition | | USRDATA | /data partition | | CACHE | /cache partition | Older MT6575/MT6577 used scatter
MT6589 (a Quad-Core processor widely used in older devices like the Micromax Canvas 4, Gionee Elife E3, and various Sony Xperia clones). Storage Type: EMMC (Embedded MultiMediaCard).
Older MT6575/MT6577 used scatter.txt . MT6589 adopted scatter_emmc.txt to differentiate the storage type.