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Mediatek Flash and Repair Utility

5 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 5 comments · first 2023-06-30 · latest 2025-12-09

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  1. …else entirely. Last year I collected some UART logs on the device during bootup in a zip here: https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient/issues/1289
    comment by enthdegree · 2025-12-09 · in Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
  2. …an exploit to get BL1 to boot an arbitrary BL2, nor an authorized BL2 image to upload. See here: https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient/issues/1332 Kobo devices have root exposed but don't let users boot their own kernels (and the kernel…
    comment by enthdegree · 2025-12-08 · in Let's put Tailscale on a jailbroken Kindle
  3. …bypass methods do not work as a for all Xiaomi (or at least did not for my device). Thread: https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient/issues/110
  4. …backups), and there may be no support for your specific chipset/device/software revision at all. 0. https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient
  5. …through a built-in service mode [1]). 0. https://sourceforge.net/projects/andyyan-gsi/files/ 1. https://github.com/bkerler/mtkclient