Prerequisites:

Caution: These instructions are valid only for the openSUSE linux and may not work on other Linux distributions.
  • We ran this test on the openSuse Leap 15.2
  • Download latest SP Flash Tool
  • Install SP Flash Tool (details see below).
  • Download Android 10 firmware & extract it.
  1. First take a backup of your existing data
  2. PC and phone are not connected via USB.
  3. Device is switched off.
  4. Open SP Flash Tool.
  5. Go to Download tab (choose “Download Only) and select scatter file “MT6763_Android_scatter.txt” inside the extracted firmware
  6. Press Download.
  7. Plug in the device.

The process of downloading the firmware will immediately begin.

Tip: In case you face an error BROM ERROR at step #7.

Solution

Remove modemmanager from your openSUSE PC via Yast2

Reboot the PC and run SP Flash Tool again with the steps 1 to 7

Note: After successful installation you can reinstall modemmanager on the PC.

How to install and run SP Flash Tool on openSUSE

Prerequisites:

  • Verify if libpng12-0 is installed, if not install libpng12-0
  • Download latest SP Flash Tool for linux and extract to a folder of your choice

Run in bash (inside the folder of your choice)

chmod +x flash_tool flash_tool.sh
sudo adduser <username> dialout
newgrp – dialout

Click here to return to continue the installation of /e/OS