The is a quad-core ARM Cortex-A53 SoC commonly found in tablets, POS devices, and industrial Android boards. When working with low-level firmware flashing , the scatter file ( .txt ) is the essential map that tells the flash tool how to write raw data to the eMMC/NAND partitions.
- partition_index: SYS0 partition_name: PRELOADER file_name: preloader.bin is_download: 1 type: PRELOADER linear_start_addr: 0x00000000 physical_start_addr: 0x00000000 partition_size: 0x00020000 region: EMMC_BOOT1 storage: EMMC
partition_index: SYS8 partition_name: LK file_name: lk.bin is_download: true type: NORMAL_ROM linear_start_addr: 0x1F00000 physical_start_addr: 0x1F00000 partition_size: 0x60000 region: EMMC_USER storage: HW_STORAGE_EMMC boundary_check: true is_reserved: false operation_type: UPDATE d_type: FALSE reserve: 0x00
partition_index: SYSx partition_name: custom_name file_name: custom.img is_download: true type: EXT4_IMG linear_start_addr: 0x[START_HEX] physical_start_addr: 0x[START_HEX] partition_size: 0x[SIZE_HEX] region: EMMC_USER
: Sites like Scribd and GitHub often host text-based scatter files for specific MT8163 configurations.
Do you have an MT8163 scatter file you want analyzed, or need help recovering a bricked tablet? Share your scatter.txt (anonymized) and I can decode the layout.
Below is a minimal, generic MediaTek scatter file template for the MT8163 (Helio A22/A32 family) to serve as a starting point. Replace partition addresses, sizes, and file names with values specific to your device firmware.
partition_index: SYS16 partition_name: FAT file_name: fat.bin is_download: false type: NORMAL_ROM linear_start_addr: 0