Sometimes a new update introduces battery drain. Users often look for older firmware versions to downgrade their phone to a state where the battery life was better.

The ZTE Blade A52 Lite utilizes a MediaTek (MTK) chipset. Therefore, the standard tool for flashing the firmware is the . This Windows-based software allows you to load the scatter file (a text file that tells the software where to write the data on the phone’s memory) and flash the ROM.

Firmware is the permanent software programmed into the device’s read-only memory. For the ZTE Blade A52 Lite, the firmware includes:

This is the most critical step. The ZTE Blade A52 Lite has different regional variants. Flashing a firmware intended for a different region (or a different model number entirely, like the standard A52) will likely result in a hard brick.

Click on the button (usually represented by a gear icon) in the top left corner. Navigate to the folder where you extracted the firmware and select the .pac file. Wait for the tool to load the image. 4. Prepare the Phone