Use a pair of metal tweezers to short-circuit the Test Point to the shield of the motherboard.
: Ensure the firmware package matches your phone's region and exact hardware variant. brom disabled by efuse 0x146
If you are seeing this error in your SP Flash Tool, UBoot logs, or UART terminal, you have encountered MediaTek’s most aggressive anti-rollback and anti-exploit mechanism to date. This article explains what this error means, how it works at the silicon level, why 0x146 is significant, and whether there is any way to bypass it. Use a pair of metal tweezers to short-circuit
The trend is clear: more manufacturers, especially Chinese brands like Vivo and Honor, are moving to fuse the BROM. The error codes vary (e.g., 0x102, 0x10F, 0x142, 0x14E, 0x307), but the underlying mechanism is the same. Each code likely corresponds to a different eFuse address or configuration, but the effect is identical: BROM disabled. This article explains what this error means, how