Last Updated on April 12, 2022 by Mathew Diekhake
These are the guidelines to download the smartphone flash tool (otherwise known as the SP flash tool) for Android 5.1.1 operating systems and MTK-based devices.
The official smartphone flash tool in this guide lets everyone flash a stock ROM back on the device you are using. Further, it allows you to flash a new recovery back on the device. You may also use the flash tool for installing a custom recovery and then going back to your stock version.
In addition to installing a custom recovery and a stock ROM, the SP flash tool is useful for a memory test, parameter settings and formatting or hard resetting a device.
Stock ROMs
A stock ROM is the same firmware that comes on your MTK-based Android device when you open it out of the box. Sometimes a stock ROM can have severe bugs and they can be an issue with no OTA updates in site. Other people choose to customize their device with a custom ROM and might be wanting to return to the stock ROM. The SP flash tool lets you flash a stock ROM over a custom ROM. Flashing a stock ROM is also useful if you have bricked your device, or if you want to unroot your device.
Recoveries
A stock recovery is the independent bootable partition every Android device comes with. You use the recovery mode to apply OTA updates, wipe data, factory reset and wipe the cache partition. A custom recovery is far more advanced. With a custom version, you can take complete backups with the NANDroid option, restore those same complete backups, install zip files which can contain your custom ROMs or custom kernels and a great deal more. The SP flash tool lets MTK-based devices flash a custom recovery so you are wiping the stock version and replacing it with a custom version.
Download the smartphone flash tool for Android 5.1.1 Lollipop software updates from this page.