I have decided to upgrade my Huawei U8800Pro stock ICS 4.0.3 to CyanogenMod 10.2 JB 4.3.
Quickly I realized that this is easily said than done. Tutorials I have found on the Internet are not good. They lead me to brick my phone twice during this process, so I've decided to share my experience with community. Here are step by step instructions:
Prerequisites:
I didn't bother to write any hyper-links, because they will probably be dead by the time you read this. Instead I wrote name of the files you can search in google.
When you have all those in place, you can start with procedure:
If all went well you should have CyanogenMod upp and running on your phone.
I'm not responsible If you brick your phone. I did it twice before I finally succeeded :laugh:.
How to unbrick u8800pro:
You can always get back to good old Android 2.3 folowing this procedure:
List of useful key combinations:
Assuming your phone is turned off.
Quickly I realized that this is easily said than done. Tutorials I have found on the Internet are not good. They lead me to brick my phone twice during this process, so I've decided to share my experience with community. Here are step by step instructions:
Prerequisites:
I didn't bother to write any hyper-links, because they will probably be dead by the time you read this. Instead I wrote name of the files you can search in google.
- Root_u8800pro.zip containing unlockbootloader_u8800pro.exe
- AndroidHandsetUsbDriver_v1.zip containing DriverSetup.exe
- gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip
- cm-10.2-20130929-U8800pro-VIDEOPLAYBACK.zip (here the ROM thread: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2409681)
- recovery6.0.3.3.img (I recomend non touch version)
- HUAWEI_U8800P_Android_2.3_V100R001C00B521_Oversea_Normal_05010TXB.zip, containing dload folder (link)
- 404029_4.0_BasebandCWM.zip
When you have all those in place, you can start with procedure:
- Install USB drivers for your phone. Run DriverSetup.exe
- Connect your phone to USB and wait to get detected. Then run unlockbootloader_u8800pro.exe (chose first button and wait).
- Optionaly download Root Checker from Google Play to see if your phone was rooted. You can skip this step.
- Copy dload folder to root of your SD card
- Unplug USB cable and turn phone off
- Press Volume up + Volume down + Power on at the same time. Hold them till you see that your phone started with firmware update procedure. Wait for procedure to finish. Now you should have stock GB 2.3 rom on your phone.
- Turn off your phone
- Press Volume up + Volume down + Power on at the same time, and wait till you see pink screen
- Connect USB cable and wait till Windows detect your phone and show you image folder. Go to that folder and backup original recovery.img.
- Copy recovery6.0.3.3.img to image folder and rename it to recovery.img
- Turn off your phone
- Press Volume up + Power on at the same time and hold till you see recovery console
- Chose factory reset
- Chose clear cache
- Chose advanced/clear dalvik cache
- Flash 404029_4.0_BasebandCWM.zip
- Flash cm-10.2-20130929-U8800pro-VIDEOPLAYBACK.zip
- Flash gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip
- Reboot your phone
- Wait till setup wizard of CynogenMod apears
If all went well you should have CyanogenMod upp and running on your phone.
I'm not responsible If you brick your phone. I did it twice before I finally succeeded :laugh:.
How to unbrick u8800pro:
You can always get back to good old Android 2.3 folowing this procedure:
- Copy dload folder from HUAWEI_U8800P_Android_2.3_V100R001C00B521_Oversea_ Normal_05010TXB.zip to the root of your SD card
- Turn off your phone
- Hold down Volume up + Volume down + Power on and let firmware update do it's job
List of useful key combinations:
Assuming your phone is turned off.
- Go to pink screen Volume up + Volume down + Power on
- Go to recovery console Volume up + Power on
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