There's an available custom recovery TeamWin(TWRP) for all variants of Alcatel PIXI 3 which are
- Alcatel PIXI 3 3.5 - 4009 model
- Alcatel PIXI 3 4.0 - 4013 model
- Alcatel PIXI 3 4.5 - 4027 model
Alcatel PIXI 3 above variants are powered by MTK6572M dual-core CPU but there's some other variants with qualcomm CPU, also this TWRP not applicable for them.
For what is needed this one: With custom recovery You can install custom ROMs, Tweaks, mods, etc.
Installation of custom recovery on Alcatel PIXI 3 MTK6572M:
There's two ways of installation or flashing recoveries
1.From device
- You need to have root access on your Alcatel PIXI 3 to install directly on the device, check out this post tutorial How to Root Alcatel PIXI 3 oneclick Root or here's the video of rooting Alcatel PIXI 3.
- So let's suppose you have now Rooted Alcatel PIXI 3.
- Open the Flashify app.
- Download TWRP img for your model below and copy to Internal memory or SD Card.
- Download from Play Store Flashify app.
- Go to recovery flash like on picture.
- On next screen choose file
- Choose file explorer from right appearing menu.
- Navigate to /mnt/sdcard (internal memory) or /mnt/sdcard2 (external card) depends on where you transfered twrp img file.
- When you find img file press it and confirm flashing!
- Once TWRP recovery flashed successfully it will ask you for rebooting into recovery!
- That's it for this method of flashing custom recovery on Alcatel PIXI 3.
Here's the video tutorial of flashing TWRP recovery thorught Phone
2.From PC
- You need to download following files:
- Once you've downloaded all files
- Extract Sp flash tools to somewhere of PC
- Open flash_tool from folder of Sp Flash Tool
- Go to scatter loading on left top corner
- Find the scatter file which you previously downloaded txt file
- After that go to recovery line which on empty space as you see on picture
- Find TWRP img file and open it
- Finally turn off your Alcatel PIXI 3 completely then click Download button on top and plug USB cable to phone then to PC
- Once img is flashed successfully you can reboot into recovery by pressing Vol Up + Power button for 5seconds
Here's the video tutorial of flashing TWRP recovery throught PC
Files TWRP & Scatter for Alcatel PIXI 3:
- Alcatel PIXI 3 (3.5) 4009:
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v2.8.7.0
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v3.0.0.0
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v3.0.0.2
- STOCK RECOVERY
- DOWNLOAD SCATTER MTK 6572M
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v2.8.7.0
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v3.0.0.0
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v3.0.0.2
- STOCK RECOVERY
- DOWNLOAD SCATTER MTK 6572M
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v2.8.7.0
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v3.0.0.0
- DOWNLOAD TWRP v3.0.0.2
- STOCK RECOVERY
- DOWNLOAD SCATTER MTK 6572M