Thread: 1490T stuck in reboot loop, unable to flash in pre-boot mode

i'm not sure it is ok to flash mtk firmware. the bootloader claims it has hwid=972, and i would believe it. but anyway, ramloaders from mtk and non-mtk 13xxs have different base addressess, thus flashing the wrong one won't brick the device.

as i remember bootloader always displays "loader loading" while flashing any regions. other captions are displayed by boot.bin. so, nothing unusual here.

zeroj, did we meet at gpspassion.org? if you are zerojj there then you are probably clever enough to create a firmware with an infinite loop at the very beginning and flash it without boot.bin. this way you can check if the device still accepts new firmwares.

also i suggest flashing a firmware with wrong format (for example, with the ending 5a a5 ff ff erased). this is one more way to check if firmware is being really flashed (you should see system software missing).

a few weeks ago i've seen a device with similar "software missing" on this forum. as i remember we didn't recover it.