Here’s a clear, practical guide to understanding and using the scatter file. 1. What Is a Scatter File? A scatter file ( .txt ) is a partition table + loading address map for MediaTek SoCs (like MT6768). It tells tools like SP Flash Tool , Odin (not for MTK) , Mi Flash , or custom recovery installers exactly where each partition (boot, system, vendor, userdata, etc.) lives in the eMMC/UFS storage.
# General Setting preloader 0x0 pmt 0x0 partition_index: 0 partition_name: preloader_a file_name: preloader_mt6768.bin is_download: true type: SV5_BL_BIN linear_start_addr: 0x0 physical_start_addr: 0x0 partition_size: 0x400000 region: EMMC_BOOT_1 partition_index: 1 partition_name: boot_a file_name: boot.img is_download: true type: NORMAL_ROM linear_start_addr: 0x8000000 physical_start_addr: 0x8000000 partition_size: 0x4000000 region: EMMC_USER mt6768 scatter file
