Official Huawei Ascend Thread

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ubercajun

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Rooted Ascend

** BenchmarkPi **
13041

** Benchmark **
Total Graphics Score: 82.30088
Total CPU Score: 177.27144
Total Memory Score: 159.03178
Total Filesystem Score: 48.28937
 

Ben's

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People people people....leave the Google items alone! LOL. You will end up with a bricked phone...yes, I know our phones can be buggy and slow at times but the essentials must remain on the phone in order for it to function properly.

As of today, I have started working on an OS rom for our phones. It will be accustomed to what my phone is right now, cleaned up and 100% working without all the bloat since that is what I have to work with. That should give us a base to start from. I am enrolling the help of my brother who is an IT grad so, it shouldn’t be to long before I get it uploaded. :)

Only thing is, if Android 2.2 comes out before the ROM is released, I will more likey stop work on 2.1 and start on 2.2. It's to much work and 2.1 will be outdated.
 
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Ben's

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Rooted Ascend

** BenchmarkPi **
13041

** Benchmark **
Total Graphics Score: 82.30088
Total CPU Score: 177.27144
Total Memory Score: 159.03178
Total Filesystem Score: 48.28937

Looks like our score are similar since we have cleaned up Ascends. Thanks for the reply!

Let's see some more folks!
 

selfinflicted1

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ok so i put the apk file and the odex file in the apps area of system but when i try from there the install fails. I know the files are there they are side by side like the others. So why wont it install. It changed somethin cuz now i dont fc at boot it hapens every time i use market or other gapps?

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Ben's

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I needed the gtalk storage and got it. Now have the new market and i can download.

Sent from my M860 using XDA App

Is that a file within the apk download? It would be nice to explain what steps you took to correct it so that way other can look back and see if your method could work for them. Just be short and to the point. I would even like to know, good job! :)
 

joenathane

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http://www.androidtablets.net/forum.../3607-porting-clockwork-recovery-tablets.html

If someone who has a huawei ascend could do what it says on that page and post here or there?

I don't mind working on recovery and it'd be better as well if you can pm me your gtalk/msn/aim/skype, so I can have someone as a tester.

# cat /proc/mtd
cat /proc/mtd
dev: size erasesize name
mtd0: 00500000 00020000 "boot"
mtd1: 00500000 00020000 "recovery"
mtd2: 00140000 00020000 "misc"
mtd3: 00060000 00020000 "splash"
mtd4: 0aa00000 00020000 "system"
mtd5: 04600000 00020000 "cache"
mtd6: 0bda0000 00020000 "userdata"
mtd7: 01400000 00020000 "userdata2"


mount
rootfs / rootfs ro 0 0
tmpfs /dev tmpfs rw,mode=755 0 0
devpts /dev/pts devpts rw,mode=600 0 0
proc /proc proc rw 0 0
sysfs /sys sysfs rw 0 0
tmpfs /sqlite_stmt_journals tmpfs rw,size=4096k 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock4 /system yaffs2 rw 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock6 /data yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock5 /cache yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
/dev/block/mtdblock7 /data/HWUserData yaffs2 rw,nosuid,nodev 0 0
hwvefs /data/hwvefs fuse.hwvefs rw,nosuid,nodev,user_id=0,group_id=0,allow_other
0 0
/dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard vfat rw,dirsync,nosuid,nodev,noexec,uid=1000,gid=
1000,fmask=0000,dmask=0000,allow_utime=0022,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,s
hortname=mixed,utf8 0 0
#

Recovery

http://www.sendspace.com/file/cg3dsj

boot

http://www.sendspace.com/file/zituzm
 

brandnewlow

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Sad day. I haven't been able to get around to redoing the g talk thing and now apps and updates no longer want to download from the market. Now I need to do it, So how do I go about getting root explorer or sufbs if I can't download them from the app store?

Sent from my M860
 

joenathane

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Sad day. I haven't been able to get around to redoing the g talk thing and now apps and updates no longer want to download from the market. Now I need to do it, So how do I go about getting root explorer or sufbs if I can't download them from the app store?

Sent from my M860

The only way I can think of is getting pirated versions or flashing back to stock...
 

joenathane

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Hmm. How would I go about flashing it back to stock? I don't think I'd lose anything too important


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http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwi...3&attachmentName=M860V100R001C153B251SP03.zip

download that unzip it, take the dload folder and put it on the root of your sdcard, turn your phone off, hold the volume up button and the hang up button and then tap the power button, once it says unpacking let go of the volume up and hang up buttons...
 

brandnewlow

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download that unzip it, take the dload folder and put it on the root of your sdcard, turn your phone off, hold the volume up button and the hang up button and then tap the power button, once it says unpacking let go of the volume up and hang up buttons...

Cool, thanks. And when the phone reboots will I still have my service or will i need to reactivate it? I appreciate your help.

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selfinflicted1

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everything you need is in the apk file. load the g talk apk and the odex file back into the system apps file. Then go back and extract all the apk files to an extracted file in your sd. Then i used astro to install service provider file and gtalk storage file. You gotta check them all with astro for the ones that give a prompt for install. (I think they are labeled funny) hope this works for you too.

Rooted M860 selfinflicted
 

joenathane

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Cool, thanks. And when the phone reboots will I still have my service or will i need to reactivate it? I appreciate your help.

Sent from my M860 using XDA App

You'll have to reactivate, really painless, your phone will walk you through it, should take less than a minute, it'll dial up cricket and download some files and you'll be good to go.
 
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    Ladies and Gentlemen...

    We now have CyanogenMOD 6.2.0-RC0 (Froyo)!

    See the attached pictures below :)

    1) Home screen of CM6
    2) About phone for proof :D

    Everything built okay, but the signed package failed on me. I'll have to look at that. There are soooo many things not working yet, but I'm looking into now. These are the things not working (and they're important):

    1) Network service is not operational
    2) Wifi
    3) Bluetooth
    4) Camera

    What matters is that it's possible at this point. Now that I have an idea, it'll be easier for me to fix what's broken. :D
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    I thought I would go ahead and make a general thread for the Cricket Huawei Ascend until something more concrete comes along. My apologies to the Mods if the word “Official " is not approved. I just want a section where people can post anything and everything about thier Android Ascends since, well, as we all know, XDA rocks and people are more inclined to look here first then any other development website!

    So, post up folks! There are a few of us who have these phones and are pretty well versed when it comes to the ins and outs! I will post up some small write ups and what you can do to get a little extra bang for the buck in the speed department of things and I am sure a lot of others have valuable and up to date information!

    I’ll start by posting what I have said about this phone in another thread.

    Rooting this phone and removing some of the pre-installed apps and files is a must.

    z4 root works great with this phone. Nothing towards Superoneclick but lets face it, its way to complicated for the average user and even then, it's hard to get working. z4 root is a total win in this case, I have managed to delete half the junk the phone came with and have noticed a slight performance boost although it's not much to brag about with a 600Mhz processor. A custom kernel is almost a must as well. I can not play non market games, it's slow if you try to multitask and is all around slow coming from an expert Droid user.

    Lastly, the Swipe keyboard. Who ever would want to use that! What a slow nightmare it is to try to type with Swipe in my opinion, I deleted it. The stock keyboard is not much better. Get " Better Keyboard ", it's not nearly as laggy and it can actually keep up with fast texting.

    BUT, there is a bright side to all the cons ( almost all the cons )

    Rooting, deleting junk and downloading Better Keyboard makes this phone an awesome entry level phone that can hold it's own with the mid range phones. It's no Evo by any means, but, it's a step closer to becoming an affordable real “smart phone ".

    The ability to overclock would make it 100% indeed a smart phone and more then capable of holding it's own vs. $300+ phones. It's a project phone, you get what you pay for but, if you have a little time and patience, you too can own a get Android device with no contract, low monthly payments and hours of entertainment from the Android platform. I, am sold on this phone. I have owned other Android type phones and I can honestly say, this phone can be some competition.

    Sure it has a poor quality LCD screen and can be buggy out of the box, but like I said, a little patience and determination is what makes this phone enjoyable. And, after all, it's not like it needs constant maintenance. Just a few steps to take out of the box and your set. For $150, I can't complain now that my phone is working like an Android phone should work.
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    Hey guys,

    If anyone of you feel like I'm holding back, please don't. For Cricket users, I can understand your excitement because you've had this phone for months and it wasn't until 2 weeks ago did anything really good start happening. I would say that CWR is about 95% working (as far as I can tell), but it's generic build. A very dirty generic build. If anything should happen to your phones, I don't want to be responsible.

    Also, I don't want to side-step Koush. I attempted the build and got lucky. I gained the necessary information to help Koush get the recovery. However, since joenathane sent him the phone, he can now build a PROPER build for the phone. One that is worthy to be in rom manager. He's a big dog in the android-dev world, I wouldn't want to give him a bad name, ya know?

    The recovery is a big step for us, yes. But my big goal is tackling CM6 for the Ascend. Means to an end, if you will. Once Koush gets back from CES, he'll have it in there and hopefully, I'll have something worthy for you guys to flash. Good things are coming people, it'll just take a little more time. The people that do this stuff do it for fun. :)

    If CWR is not put into Rom Manager within a reasonable amount of time, I'll go ahead and release what I got. If that happens, I want to have a separate thread for because I don't want to post something 50+ pages deep into a thread.
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    How do we get cyanogenmod

    Sent from my M860 using XDA App

    At this point, you wouldn't want it. Until it's fixed, you can't even make phone calls...
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    Off topic:

    http://ipodify.net/ - I'm working on a site for us Ascend users. If you would like to join, let me know! ipodify.net is a temporary home until I get the domain purchased. Thanks