(Must Read) How to know if your phone is an MTK device

What does MTK stand for?

In relation to this topic, MTK stands for MediaTek, and MediaTek is a well-known chip manufacturing company based in Taiwan that mostly outsources their products, hence they are regarded as Fabless companies.

They specialize in manufacturing the Central Processing Unit (CPU chips) for wireless telecommunications, HDTVs, DVD etc. Their largest demands come from the Chinese mobile tech market.

From that little description of MTK, you can deduce by now that when we say MTK phones, we are talking of phones that make use of MTK chips.

Since MTK are largest suppliers of their chips to the Chinese mobile tech markets, it now tells us that most of the mobile devices produced in China are MTK devices.

Note: I said most and not all, because there is other notable semiconductor companies aside from MTK that also serve the Chinese market and other mobile tech markets across the globe. For example we also have other notable one like SPD (Spreadtrum).

But we are focusing on how to detect MTK devices when you are on hand with them. Since these chips are hardware components and with models embedded inside the devices, it will be difficult to tell if they are MTK devices, SPD and others by looking at or handling the device without uncoupling.

It is a common idea that most ranges of Chinese phones like Tecno, Gionee, Infinix etc. are MTK devices. But as we mentioned above, you can’t categorically tell by mere seeing or handling them.

In-fact what I want to tell you now will even go a long way helping you in differentiating original Android devices from fake ones. In other words, cloned phones from other manufacturers mimicking original manufacturers like Samsung, hTC, LG and the rest can easily be detected with this method.

Now for you to really determine whether your android devices are MTK devices or not, follow the simple steps below;

= =>With your android device on hand, just head to Google Play Store.

= =>Search for and download this simple and free app CPU-Z

= =>After installation, launch the app and you will see all your phones and hardware components models.

When you swipe your screen to the left Or click on System you see informations about your phone such as;

Phone Model

Manufacturer

Hardware

Android Version

Screen Size

Screen Resolution

Screen Density

Total RAM and Available RAM

Internal Memory and Available Space

And if your phone has Root Access too!


On the Third Page Battery you see stuffs about your battery like;

Battery health (What state your battery's in)

Battery Level (how many percent you battery's at)

Battery Status (If your battery's charging or not)

E.t.c

Must read: Lists of MTK Android Devices

You can use this app to detect other models and chipsets of any android device. Now for those cloned Samsung devices, when you use this app and find out that the chipsets are MTK, it should tell you that it is not from signed Samsung original products, as Samsung have their self-manufactured chipset as in the Exynos and aside from theirs, they also prefer using American chipsets like Qualcomm Snapdragon, Nvidia etc to MTK chipset.

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