[Guide] Huawei Ascend Y300 Unlock & Root

janeczku · Apr 9, 2013

Huawei Ascend Y300 Unlock & Root [How To / Tutorial]

This great little Android 4.1 smartphone has been released to the German market a week ago. At a price tag of merely 150,00 Euro, it's a steal.

But no fun without root, right ?

Now, Huawei locks and secures the bootloader, which makes flashing a custom recovery impossible without messing with the bootloader code itself.

Luckily, i found out that you can request a bootloader unlock-token on the Chinese Huawei website. After unlocking with

Code:

fastboot oem unlock XXX16-digits-codeXXX

we can flash a china-made (aka chinese-language only) ClockworkMod v6.1, that has been compiled for the Y300. After installing SuperSU from CMW, you GOT ROOT.

I have written an extensive dummy-style tutorial on my tumblr blog. Unfortunately, the forum wont let me post outside links. Please go to this URL:

huawei-y300.tumblr.com

Have fun!

al_0621 · Apr 9, 2013

is this working on Huawei Y300-0100 or U8833-1??? pls help me how to root my phone, thank you so much!

BioVipah · Apr 13, 2013

I'm going to buy this phone for my mother, it's good?
Good signal? for US$ 130 is kinda'right?

BBQsBest · Apr 14, 2013

BioVipah said:
I'm going to buy this phone for my mother, it's good?
Good signal? for US$ 130 is kinda'right?

For you it would be around 190$ in comparison to 150€. 1€ equals 1,31$ at the moment.

The signal is way better than my SGS+ I used before I got my Y300. And I can recommend it to everyone who is not searching for something too expensive. It runs at an average speed and the OS is nearly up-to-date with 4.1.1. The only thing which is disturbing for me is the EmotionUI 1.0 which Huawei uses. But besides that it's perfect for that price! :victory:

cena191 · Apr 14, 2013

can anyone provide the stock rom of this device

Wmbruckner · Apr 16, 2013

cena191 said:
can anyone provide the stock rom of this device

look at the tumblr page in the first post, you'll find a link

corelx · Apr 18, 2013

janeczku said:
This great little Android 4.1 smartphone has been released to the German market a week ago. At a price tag of merely 150,00 Euro, it's a steal.

Same goes here, this great handy appeared about a week ago in The Netherlands for only € 119,-

it is truly a steal

And yeah, it's really need the rooting because of the whole bunch of bloatware which comes preinstalled and without
the root half of them are not possible to remove. So thank you very much for the solution! My code is on the way, at least i hope so

I hope it's going to have a section here on xda-developers, because there is a lot possibilites in this phone!

trion · Apr 23, 2013

corelx said:
Same goes here, this great handy appeared about a week ago in The Netherlands for only € 119,- it is truly a steal

And yeah, it's really need the rooting because of the whole bunch of bloatware which comes preinstalled and without
the root half of them are not possible to remove. So thank you very much for the solution! My code is on the way, at least i hope so

I hope it's going to have a section here on xda-developers, because there is a lot possibilites in this phone!

Yesterday my Galaxy note broke

won't charge anymore.

So i bought this as a replacement till i find something better.

Works good, only gps is acting strange sometimes more then 100meters to the right or left.

but maybe an update wil fix it. was only happening this morning, this afternoon it worked great

corelx · Apr 24, 2013

There's plenty of gps fix or speedup topic here on xda
After rooting it's possible one of them is going to work

trion · Apr 24, 2013

Today it was working just fine

Waiting for my unlock code, they send the email to another department.

ermoas · Apr 25, 2013

There is a new rom posted in the huawei website:
http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwi...=toDownloadFile&flay=software&softid=NDcxNDI=

Is it possible or recommended to flash this rom? (fone current build: V100R001C00B169)

Thanks!

corelx · Apr 25, 2013

trion said:
Waiting for my unlock code, they send the email to another department.

I've received the answer from Huawei yesterday but they sent me back some totally different phone imei, s/n, etc
with a of course wrong unlock code

come'on whats going at huawei?!

hope it's going to arrive this week again with the proper code :fingers-crossed:

ermoas said:
There is a new rom posted in the huawei website:
http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwi...=toDownloadFile&flay=software&softid=NDcxNDI=

Is it possible or recommended to flash this rom? (fone current build: V100R001C00B169)

There's no description about it, maybe just some small fixes.
If you try it, please share your opinion about it!

trion · Apr 25, 2013

my version is: V100R001NLDC150B171

still waiting for mail, hope you didn't receive mine haha

BTW, my settings menu has changed, I now have to click more settings to get to the normal settings, but it never said it was updated.

FurryTauren · Apr 26, 2013

Bought the phone 3 days ago. So far absolutely flawless performance unbelievable for that price....

Just the problem with the stock software that`s taking 3 out of the 4 GB internal storage... so should we expect more ROMs to come soon?

drmilosh88 · Apr 26, 2013

Can somebody please post some details for this new build? What has changed etc.. I was searching everywhere and could not find anything

.. Thanks guys..

rocker86 · Apr 27, 2013

Can anyone ..pls post the screenies of the phone..means the phone image in hand...I am planning to buy this one..

trion · Apr 27, 2013

Shiv Prajapati said:
Can anyone ..pls post the screenies of the phone..means the phone image in hand...I am planning to buy this one..

Ever tried google? There is exactly what you are asking for

Got a reply from Huawei, but they totaly changed the imei and they couldn't give me an unlock code, does their translation system change the imei number? damn, now i have to mail them again and hope they reply the correct number now.

And since I'm not the first here I'm getting a bad feeling

rocker86 · Apr 27, 2013

trion said:
Ever tried google? There is exactly what you are asking for

Got a reply from Huawei, but they totaly changed the imei and they couldn't give me an unlock code, does their translation system change the imei number? damn, now i have to mail them again and hope they reply the correct number now.

And since I'm not the first here I'm getting a bad feeling

i know brother what google is for..but on XDA if some one can provide those real images taken by himself that is more reliable...

trion · Apr 27, 2013

sorry, only camera I got now is in the phone itself.

corelx · Apr 27, 2013

trion said:
Got a reply from Huawei, but they totaly changed the imei and they couldn't give me an unlock code, does their translation system change the imei number? damn, now i have to mail them again and hope they reply the correct number now.

And since I'm not the first here I'm getting a bad feeling

Exactly this happened to me few days ago.

EDIT: just received a bunch of mails from Huawei, like 8-9

most of them is with the wrong details, but there is a right one also!!! waiting time was like 1 week and 2 emails

Sent from my HUAWEI Y300-0100 using xda app-developers app

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