

You cannot just download some easy-to-use app, you cannot really ‘root’ the phone like on Android, and you cannot just edit a few files to make groundbreaking changes. If it is not obvious from the length of the page and the amount of technical terms in the descriptions, hacking these phones is not easy.

The hacks focus on watch phones, but the principles are the same for all phones based on the same hardware platform. This page is intended to explain how to hack pre-Android Chinese phones based on the Mediatek MT62xx platform, running the ‘Nucleus’ operating system. How to Hack Chinese (Watch) Phone Firmware
