You will need : 1. Windows PC (Windows 7 tested, may or may not work with others) 2.

Smart Phone Flash Tool (get it here) 3. Smart Phone Flash Tool USB Drivers (get it here) 4. A good quality micro USB cable and a working USB port on your Windows PC Step by step guide : 1. If your phone is not already soft bricked, back up whatever you want. Externa l SD card is fine. If your phone is soft-brick then say goodbye to your data and skip this step. 2. Uncompress all the files you downloaded from this thread into a directory whe re you can remember. Including the ROMs. 3. Shutdown your phone if its not in a bootloop. If it is skip this step. 4. Open "Device Manager" on your Windows PC. 5. Plug in your phone through the micro USB cable. A device will show up for a f ew seconds in "Device Manager". After that, it will disappear again! 6. Recognize the device tree where it appeared, and wait for it as you unplug an d plug in your phone again (if bootloop, its automatic!) 7. Catch it with a right click as it appears! Then choose "Update Drivers" and p ick the directory where you uncompressed the drivers you downloaded above. Its ok if after catching it the device disconnects. You on ly need to install the drivers now. 8. Assuming the drivers are correctly installed, run the Smart Phone Flash Tool. 9. Click on scatter-loading and choose the scatter file "MT6589_Android_scatter_ emmc.txt" of the ROM you want to flash. 10. Make sure the checkbox "DL DA All With Check Sum" is CHECKED 11. Click on "Firmware->Upgrade" button. 12. Plug in your powered down phone via the USB cable again. See it flash. 13. When a big green circle appears on the screen, your are done! How do I flash a custom ROM after this? -First of all, always allow your phone to boot up at least ONCE after a fresh fl ash. Otherwise flashing from custom recovery will fail by some partition errors. After that, shutdown your phone, then power it up with both up and down volume b utton press, releasing the power button after the screen lights up. That is TWRP. Happy flashing! My signal has become very bad after switching base! -According to some Russian forum, phones from China has a different GSM module, and switching base may affect the signal strength since you flash also the modem image in the process. Lucky for us, the Russians have us covered. Pick a modem of your choice and try them until you find one that works well for you: