Preparing the Explay Vega smartphone for firmware.

11.07.2021

Good day, by the name of the topic it is immediately clear what we will be doing with you next. The installation of the firmware can be divided into several stages, which we will describe in detail to you in this topic. The firmware file itself will be located under the entire description. All other files will also be re-attached below under the description of the instruction itself. The files are uploaded to Yandex disk.

Instructions:

Create a new folder on your desktop and name it whatever is convenient for you, it is desirable to name it for a mobile device " Vega". After that, download the file with the firmware itself and unpack the archive into a folder. If you give the folder name in Russian letters, then your program will not see this folder, the name should be written in English.
Now that the firmware has been downloaded and unpacked into the folder we need, you need to make sure that the necessary and necessary drivers are installed on your computer for further work. All files to work at the end of the topic... If you do not know how the drivers are installed or are simply not sure of yourself, then simply install all files in exe format from the archive driver.rar... There will be separate drivers for windows 8, also at the end of the description. Only for the eighth version, you will have to specify the path to the drivers manually. Go to Control Panel and open the device manager, device marked yellow triangle, this is your device, click on update and specify the path to the drivers that you will place in a convenient place for you.
Download the program named " Flash tool 3.20.zip"and unpack the archive with the program on your desktop, in a separate folder.
Disconnect your smartphone from your computer and run the program Flash tool 3.20... Run this program as administrator.
In the Flash Tool click on "" a new window will open in front of you. In the browse window, select the firmware, file " MT6582_Android_scatter.txt", it is in the folder I called" Vega".

The choice of the firmware has been made, then the program will load all the components that are necessary for further work with your device. Your task is to check all the boxes on the items in the program window.

All checkboxes are checked, now you can go further. Remove the battery from your smartphone and connect it to your computer. When the smartphone is connected to the computer via a USB cable, put the battery back in. You will see scrolling lines in the program, which means that the flashing process has started, wait until it is completed.
When the firmware is installed, a new window will appear in the program with a green circle and the inscription OK.

4.4.2? Step-by-step, detailed instructions for flashing a Vega phone to a new version of the Android OS or custom firmware, as well as obtaining Root superuser rights.
In order to install android 4.4.2 you need to follow simple rules.

1. Preparing a smartphone for firmware

1.1 The very first thing to do is download the drivers for the phone (for Win 7 or for Win 8) to your PC and then install them.

1.2 After successful installation of the drivers, download the Flash Tool 3.20 programmer program for flashing the Vega phone

1.3 Then download the firmware for the Explay Vega phone to your PC, official 4.4 or custom (recovery for Explay Vega)

1.4 We connect the phone to the PC using the supplied USB cable. The computer should automatically start the process of installing and debugging additional drivers to connect your smartphone to the PC. Upon completion of all processes, we disconnect the smartphone from the PC.

2. Firmware Explay Vega

2.1 Run as administrator, flasher program, SP Flash Tool 3.20. a window like this should appear

SP Flash Tool FirmWare-> Upgrade

2.2 In the upper left corner, we find the inscription "Options", click on it and select "USB mode" in the drop-down menu, that is, work through the USB port

2.3 Next, in the SP Flash Tool, click on the "scatter-loading" button, and select the "MT62 ** _ Android_scatter_emmc" file in the firmware folder
2.4 Make sure that we do not have a tick on "DA DL All With Check ...." and click "Firmware-upgrade"
2.5 Turn off the phone (for reassurance we distort the battery), connect off Explay Vega smartphone to a computer using a USB lanyard and do not touch anything, the firmware will start automatically. At the bottom of the program, you can watch the progress of the firmware of your animal in the form of a strip

2.6 We are waiting for the appearance of a square with a green circle (this means that the firmware was successful), close it, disconnect the smartphone from the computer.

3. Getting Root on Explay Vega

3.1 download the root.rar archive on your PC
3.2 We also need the official firmware 4.4.2 (v1.10) and flash tool (clauses 1.2 and 1.3)
3.3 Open the downloaded archive from paragraph 3.1 with any archiver, take the file recovery.img and upload it to the archive with the official firmware, with the replacement of files. After that, we are stitching according to the instructions from paragraph 2 of this manual.
3.4 Next, upload the file 4.4Root.zip on the USB flash drive (the one in the phone), turn off the phone, press the power (power) and + volume keys (upper sound key) at the same time, get into the recovery, press install zip then Choose zip Sd card, we push it over the USB flash drive, we are looking for our file 4.4Root.zip click on it, agree to wait. All now your Explay Vega smartphone has Root superuser rights.

If you are not confident in yourself, I do not advise you to take any action.

Explay vega

How to flash Explay Vega on android 4.4.2? Step-by-step, detailed instructions for flashing an Explay Vega phone to a new version of the Android OS or custom firmware, as well as obtaining Root superuser rights.
In order to install android 4.4.2 you need to follow simple rules.

1. Preparing the Explay Vega smartphone for firmware

1.1 The very first thing to do is download the drivers for the phone (for Win 7 or for Win 8) to your PC and then install them.

1.2 After successful installation of the drivers, download the Flash Tool 3.20 programmer program for flashing the Explay Vega phone

1.3 Then download the firmware for the Explay Vega phone to your PC, official 4.4 or custom (recovery for Explay Vega)

2. Firmware Explay Vega

2.1 Run as administrator, flasher program, SP Flash Tool 3.20. a window like this should appear

SP Flash Tool FirmWare-> Upgrade

2.2 In the upper left corner, we find the inscription “Options”, click on it and select “USB mode” in the drop-down menu, that is, work through the USB port

2.3 Next, in the SP Flash Tool, click on the "scatter-loading" button, and select the "MT62 ** _ Android_scatter_emmc" file in the firmware folder
2.4 Make sure that we do not have a tick on “DA DL All With Check….” and click "Firmware-upgrade"
2.5 Turn off the phone (for reassurance we distort the battery), connect off Explay Vega smartphone to a computer using a USB lanyard and do not touch anything, the firmware will start automatically. At the bottom of the program, you can watch the progress of the firmware of your animal in the form of a strip

SP Flash Tool - Flash

2.6 We are waiting for the appearance of a square with a green circle (this means that the firmware was successful), close it, disconnect the smartphone from the computer.

3. Getting Root on Explay Vega

Explay vega runs under the operating system Android 4.2... Its performance is rated 0 out of 5 (in its segment). This smartphone is in need of additional evaluation. Here are the characteristics of the device, instructions on how to reset the settings, flash the device and, of course, how to get root-rights to the Excel

Characteristics

Standard: GSM 900/1800/1900, 3G
Type: Smartphone
Operating system: Android 4.2
Case type: classic
Body material: plastic
Control buttons: touch
SIM card type: regular + micro SIM
Number of SIM-cards: 2
Weight: 159g
Dimensions (WxHxT): 71.9x138.5x10.7 mm
Screen type: color IPS, touch
Touchscreen type: multitouch, capacitive
Diagonal: 4.7 inches.
Image size: 480x800
Pixels Per Inch (PPI): 199
Ringtone type: polyphonic, MP3 ringtones
Vibration alert: yes
Camera: 5 million pixels, built-in flash
Video recording: yes
Front camera: yes, 2 million pixels
Video playback: 3GP, AVI, FLV, MKV, MP4
Audio: MP3, AAC, WAV, FM radio
Dictaphone: yes
Headphone jack: 3.5mm
Interfaces: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 4.0, USB
Internet access: WAP, GPRS, EDGE
Protocol support: POP / SMTP, HTML
Processor: 1300 MHz
Number of processor cores: 4
Built-in memory: 4 GB
RAM: 512 MB
Memory card support: microSD (TransFlash)
Additional SMS functions: text input with dictionary
MMS: yes
Battery type: Li-polymer
Battery capacity: 2000mAh
Battery: removable
Book search: yes
Exchange between SIM-card and internal memory: yes
Organizer: alarm clock, calculator, task planner
Package contents: phone, battery, stereo headset, micro USB cable, USB adapter 220 V, instruction
Features: color options: green, blue, red, orange, yellow, black and white
Announced date (ym-d): 2014-04-17

Firmware for Explay Vega

If a custom or official firmware has not been added here yet, then create a topic on the forum, in the section, our specialists will promptly and free of charge help, incl. with backup and manuals. Just do not forget to write a review about your smartphone - this is extremely important. This page will also show the firmware for the Explay Vega. Please note that this Expla model requires an individual ROM file, so you should not try firmware files from other devices.

What custom firmware are there?

CM - CyanogenMod
LineageOS
Paranoid Android
OmniROM
Temasek's

AICP (Android Ice Cold Project)
RR (Resurrection Remix)
MK (MoKee)
FlymeOS
Bliss
crDroid
Illusion ROMS
Pacman ROM

Problems and disadvantages of the smartphone from Explay and how to fix them?

If Vega does not turn on, for example, you see a white screen, hangs on the splash screen, or the notification indicator only blinks (possibly after charging).
If it freezes when updating / freezes when it is turned on (needs a flashing, 100%)
Doesn't charge (usually iron problems)
Doesn't see the SIM card (SIM card)
The camera does not work (mostly hardware problems)
Sensor does not work (depending on the situation)

For all these problems, contact (you just need to create a theme), specialists will help for free.

Hard Reset for Explay Vega

Instructions on how to Hard Reset on Explay Vega (factory reset). We recommend that you read the visual guide, which is called on Android. ...

Reset codes (open the dialer and enter them).

*2767*3855#
*#*#7780#*#*
*#*#7378423#*#*

Hard Reset via Recovery

Turn off the device-> go to Recovery
"Wipe data / factory reset"
"Yes - delete all user data" -> "Reboot System"

How do I log into Recovery?

hold down Vol (-) [volume down], or Vol (+) [volume up] and the power button
a menu with the Android logo will appear. Everything, you are in Recovery!

Factory reset on Explay Vega can be done in a very simple way:

Settings-> Recovery and reset
Reset settings (at the very bottom)

How to reset your pattern

How to reset the pattern if you have forgotten it and now you cannot unlock your Explay smartphone. On the Vega model, the key or PIN can be removed in several ways. You can also remove the lock through a factory reset, the lock code will be deleted and disabled.