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How to flash UMI Z ?


Why reinstall the firmware?

Errors constantly appear in the Android OS.

Some installed applications stop opening.

Many programs from the Play Market do not work.

The phone restarts for no reason.

The phone began to slow down a lot.

You are not satisfied with the possibilities of the stock firmware.





Where can I find the firmware?

On the phone manufacturer's website.

On sites where developers post custom or official OS.


What should be done before installing the firmware?

Back up your phone's user data.

Insert your SD card into your phone. An SD card is needed to write firmware to it.

Determine your smartphone model.

Fully charge your phone. If the battery runs out during boot, the device will no longer turn on.

Download archive with Firmware. Place it on the SD card.





Installing TWRP Recovery

Download the Official TWRP App from the Play Market. And install it.

When you start the application for the first time, you need to give consent to future manipulations, as well as to give consent to granting the application Superuser rights and click the 'OK' button.

Going to the next screen, select the item 'TWRP FLASH' and provide the application with root-rights.

TWRP

On the main screen of the application, click 'Select Device', and select your phone model.

After selecting a device, the program redirects the user to a web page to download the corresponding image file of the modified recovery environment. Download the suggested *.img file.

After downloading the image file, return to the main screen of the Official TWRP App and press the 'Select a file to flash' button. Select the file downloaded in the previous step.

Click the 'FLASH TO RECOVERY' button and confirm your choice, click 'OK' in the question window.

When the message 'Flash Completed Succsessfuly!' appears. Click 'OK'. The TWRP installation procedure can be considered complete.

Write the firmware to the SD card. Using a PC or laptop card reader.

Insert a memory card into the phone.

To reboot into recovery, you need to enter the menu accessible by pressing the button with three stripes in the upper left corner of the main screen of the application. Select 'Reboot' and then click on the 'REBOOT RECOVERY' button.





Firmware via TWRP

TWRP

Before flashing, you need to delete all user data from the phone, this will avoid errors in the software, as well as other problems. Press 'WIPE' on the home screen.

You can start flashing. Click the 'Install' button.


TWRP

The file selection screen appears. At the very top there is a 'Storage' button for selecting an SD card.

Select the location where the files were copied. Press the 'OK' button.



TWRP

Select the firmware file and click on it. A screen opens with a warning about possible negative consequences, as well as the item 'Zip signature verification'. This item should be checked by placing a cross in the check-box, which will avoid using damaged files when writing to the phone's memory sections.

The procedure for flashing the phone will begin, this is accompanied by the appearance of inscriptions in the log field and the movement of the progress bar.

After the firmware installation procedure is completed, the 'Successful' message appears on the screen.





Summary: Operating system: Android 6.0 Marshmallow; Chipset: MediaTek Helio X27 (MT6797X); CPU: 2x 2.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A72, 4x 2.0 GHz ARM Cortex-A53, 4x 1.6 GHz ARM Cortex-A53; GPU: ARM Mali-T880 MP4, 875 MHz; Sensors: Proximity,Light,Accelerometer,Fingerprint; Messaging: SMS,MMS,E-mail; Browser: HTML,HTML5,CSS 3; Radio: Yes; GPS: GPS, A-GPS, GLONASS; Java: -; Colors: Gray,Gold; More Feature: -; Display size: 5.5 inches, 1080 x 1920 pixels, (~401 ppi); Display type: IGZO capacitive touch screen 16M color; Multitouch: Yes; Memory card: MicroSD, microSDHC, microSDXC; Memory internal: 32 GB, 4 GB RAM; GPRS: Yes; EDGE: Yes; Bluetooth: 4.0; USB: 2.0, USB Type-C; WLAN: b, g, n, n 5GHz, ...

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