How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Celkon A98
Not all the smartphones in this world get blessed with a custom recovery, but the Celkon A98 has been fortunate enough to get ClockworkMod Recovery port and seems like the custom ROMs aren’t too far to get up and running on the device. This guide teaches how you can flash a custom recovery — the ClockworkMod Recovery — on your Celkon A98 smartphone.
I. Before You Beign:
1. You must have done our How to Root the Celkon A98 procedure.
2. This procedure works on Windows based PCs only.
3. You should have appropriate drivers installed on your PC.
II. Downloading Required Files:
1. CWM and Scatter (Download link’s given at the end of the first post)
2. SP Flash Tool (Download link’s given at the end of the first post)
III. Flashing a Custom Recovery on the Celkon A98:
1. Place both the files you downloaded to your Desktop.
2. Extract files from both the archives over to your Desktop.
3. Double-click on the Flash_tool.exe file and it’ll launch.
4. Click on Scatter-loading option and select the Scatter file you extracted earlier from the archive.
5. You’ll now see some options on your screen, uncheck all of them except RECOVERY.
6. Click on RECOVERY and select the CWM Recovery file you’ve downloaded to your Desktop.
7. Hit Download button and a prompt should appear on your screen, hit Yes.
8. Now plug in your device to your PC using the USB cable.
9. The tool will now flash the recovery on your device.
10. And you’re done!
Great! You’ve successfully flashed a custom recovery on your Celkon A98. If you were wanting to flash custom ROMs on your device, you can do so now!
IV. Flash a Custom ROM (Optional):
1. If you are ready to flash custom ROMs on your device, head to the How To Flash a Custom ROM on the Celkon A98 to learn how to do that.
If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.
If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.
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The cwm+scatter compressed file is corrupted, can you please repost a proper file. thanks in advance. any help is highly appreciated.
not working. The status bar showing 0/0bytes for a very long time
Hello ch,
It’s not supposed to take a long time. Fortunately, there’s an alternative way that you can use to flash a recovery on your device, it’s available here – http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=40467291
Go ahead and do it and let us know if it worked for you.
Thanks!
I had tried using spflash tool it not worked for me after that when I tried to enter into recovery mode my mobile just showing a blank white screen
Hello ch,
There’s another method on the XDA forums (link given above) that uses MobileUncle tool to flash the recovery. Try doing that and see if it works for you.
Thanks!
I tried using mobile_uncle.apk. when I tried to flash recovery using mobile_uncle.apk my mobile goes in to recovery mode then to a white blank screen
any way thanks for your reply
Hello ch,
Something’s probably wrong either with your PC or the files (maybe the files have been changed since we did the procedure). We’ll get into this and see if we can come-up with something to help you out.
Thanks!