Rooting Huawei Ascend P1 U9200

[JohnnyParanoia]

Good News - New tutorial

All Now Fully Working

How to install Root and Recovery on Huawei Ascend P1 - U9200 for firmware versions up to B110

On MadModder here and Johnny Paranoia's Other Blog here.

Enjoy


Updated tutorials for firmware versions B113 and B115

The first is a rooting tutorial here Johnny Paranoia's Other blog or here on MadModder

The second is how to install a recovery image here Johnny Paranoia's Other Blog or here on MadModder


Please leave feedback on my blogs or here so I know if I need to tweak anything.

Thanks

 

[123hero123]

Both tools failed

Hej,

First of all thanks for your great effort, but both tools are failed for me.

1- How to – Root Huawei Ascend P1 – U9200

first restart, it says daemon started successfully but failed on '/data/local/tmp' permission denied. link failed file exist

second restart, adb server is out of date, daemon started successfully, remount failed, failed to copy 'su' to '/system/bin/su' : Read-only file system, Unable to chmod '/system/bin/su' : No such file or directory and same error all for :
'busybox' to '/system/bin/busybox' and
'Superuser.apk' to '/system/bin/Superuser.apk' and
'RootExplorer.apk' to '/system/bin/RootExplorer.apk' and
rm failed for /data/local.prop No such file or directory
rm failed for /data/local.tmp Permission denied,

2-How to – Install Recovery on Huawei Ascend P1 – U9200

If you choose phone booted it says that successfully installed but nothing happened just says like that
If you choose phone not booted it says that waiting for device(device in debugging usb mode and huawei ascend log on screen) but nothing happen, cant recognize the phone.

If you choose fastboot option it says that waiting for device(device in debugging usb mode and huawei ascend log on screen) but nothing happen, cant recognize the phone.

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I installed this firmware U9200-1 V100R001CHNC00B113(China General), it works for me but still I can't use the googleplay. Android market doesn't support my device and If I installed the googleplay.apk manually it auto closed after 2 seconds.

Do you have any idea how can I use android market on Huawei ascend p1. Thanks.

 

[Muckael]

123hero123, I have exacly the same result. Also, I realized that the root program is only working on Chinese computers (can you confirm that?), because the cmd.exe does not read the Chinese characters.

Did you do the update? It could be that only the old version is rootable.

It's a very nice phone, bought it for around 400$ but without Google and root it's quite useless right now. Hope that more developers are getting interested in this phone

 

[123hero123]

Yes, I installed the new version B113.

JohnnyParanoia shared me the B109 rooted custom rom and it works fine for me, but still can't use the android market, when I installed the googleplay.apk, it is closed after 2 seconds and says that Unfortunately Google Play Store has stopped.

 

[Muckael]

How did you manage to downgrade?

There's a rooted version of B113 by Lesong here (Chinese):

http://bbs.anzhi.com/thread-5222332-1-1.html

 

[123hero123]

With support JohnnyParanoia I can easily installed the B109 rooted custom Rom and flashed the gapps ICS pack, now I can use the googleplay as well.

 

[Muckael]

I managed to install Lesongs B113 now, working like a charm.

 

[limestar]

Hi I just got the P1 in the UK. Is anyone able to write a guide in english and host the files here too?

 

[JohnnyParanoia]

English guide

Hi I just got the P1 in the UK. Is anyone able to write a guide in english and host the files here too?

I'm actually on this now lol. It'll be up shortly on my blog's so I'll post a link here when I'm done

 

[JohnnyParanoia]

Good news everyone

The new guides up

English translations and all.

Here on MadModder - How to Install Root and Recovery on Huawei 9200 - Ascend P1

and

Here on Johnny Paranoia's Other Blog - How to Install Root and Recovery on Huawei U9200 - Ascend P1

They are both the same guide its just that MadModder suffers from 'Free Hosting Syndrome' sometimes (It sometimes drops off-line for extended periods lol)

Enjoy

 

[limestar]

Hey, Brillllliant. Going to try it on my P1 XL now

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Do you by chance have any way to flash the original recovery. The earlier guide you had up flashed a recovery that doesn't work. Just bootloops but I can still use the phone itself.

 

[kobire]

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this method does not work on the version: V100R001CHNC00B115

i can't attach link.
copy this:
" 华为Ascend P1固件（U9200-1, Android 4.0,V100R001CHNC00B115, 中国区通用） " to google enter to first link.

what can i do?

thank you.

 

[JohnnyParanoia]

Version B115

this method does not work on the version: V100R001CHNC00B115

i can't attach link.
copy this:
" 华为Ascend P1固件（U9200-1, Android 4.0,V100R001CHNC00B115, 中国区通用） " to google enter to first link.

what can i do?

thank you.

I think if 123Hero123's experience is anything to go by, then you need to downgrade your firmware first to U9200 V100R001CHNC00B110 available here - Johnny Paranoia - U9200 Firmware list

Then run the root and recovery installer, then upgrade to lesongs B113 Pre-rooted firmware.

As yet there is no rooted B115 firmware out yet.

Hope this helps

 

[kobire]

I think if 123Hero123's experience is anything to go by, then you need to downgrade your firmware first to U9200 V100R001CHNC00B110 available here -

Then run the root and recovery installer, then upgrade to lesongs B113 Pre-rooted firmware.

As yet there is no rooted B115 firmware out yet.

Hope this helps

Thanks for your response, i tried to install the version V100R001CHNC00B110 but it failed (Image attached).
By the way, the global firmware V100R001C00B213 also failed.
What should I do?

 

[JohnnyParanoia]

Recovery Boot-loop

Do you by chance have any way to flash the original recovery. The earlier guide you had up flashed a recovery that doesn't work. Just bootloops but I can still use the phone itself.

You could either try the new guide but not install the rom to see if it installs a working recovery for you or you could restore your phone to stock (B110) and then use the new guide to root and install recovery that shouldn't boot-loop.

Also what firmware are you currently using?

 

[hadyhosny]

Dear All,

My question might be very silly (please ignore my ignorance), I supposedly have a rooted P1 phone (gave to somebody who supposedly rooted it), when i install superuser from market, or any other application that requires root nothing happen as if i do not have root access...

I tried root checker, it says that i do not have su binary or Sudo (I think Su binary is important)

I tried adb, and using adb shell i was root, this is the hash: "1|[email protected]:/system/bin #"

I copied su binary (from file Superuser-3.1-alpha1_su-3.1_Busybox-v1.19.4-wraithdu-signed.zip) to system/bin, rebooted, but still nothing happens with superuser.

when i try running su from adb shell the below message occurs:
"/system/bin/sh: su: cannot execute - Permission denied"

when i also tried chown or chmod for su it says permissions denied..... what should i do?

Hady

 

[limestar]

You could either try the new guide but not install the rom to see if it installs a working recovery for you or you could restore your phone to stock (B110) and then use the new guide to root and install recovery that shouldn't boot-loop.

Also what firmware are you currently using?

Hi,

Version I have is U9200EV100R001CHNCOOB300

It says it's installed the recovery successfully but when I try and enter recover I get the green recovery screen flash up for 1 second and then it reboots.

Will try flashing stock I found on your site.

 

[JohnnyParanoia]

STOP!

Hi,

Version I have is U9200EV100R001CHNCOOB300

It says it's installed the recovery successfully but when I try and enter recover I get the green recovery screen flash up for 1 second and then it reboots.

Will try flashing stock I found on your site.

STOP!

Don't flash any firmware from my site, you will probably brick your phone

Your phone has different firmware to the U9200 Ascend P1.

U9200-E. I think your phone is so new that there is no firmware downloads for it at the moment.

When it becomes available I'll be able to tell you how to re-flash your stock recovery but until then you will need to wait because anything you do is likely to brick your phone because all the firmware and recoveries here are for the U9200-1 and not yours.

 

[***DiMaC***]

Hello all,

I have the same problem as Kobire.

I cannot upgrade or downgrade with my firmware V100R001CHNC00B115, it fails al te time.
It doesn't matter if i use forced updating in recovery mode or software upgrade in menu!!
Therefore i also cannot perform de method for rooting described by JohnnyParanoia .
Maybe one of you can find a solution.

Many thanks for all your hard work helping us.

GRTZ DiMaC

 

[Nixing]

OK, there is no way putting on the rooted ROM if the phone is with B115(Android 4.0.3 as in my case too!). I had tried to downgrade from B115 to B110 via coping the "dload/UPDATE.APP" and updating it from the menu but received the same as kobire's pic - "Version list verify fail!" & "Huawei SD card update fail......".

Is there something major that we are missing or we have to try downgrading to B113 with the same method, or I don't know... Any help will be appreciated!

Thanks for this method JohnnyParanoia and again special thanks for the translation!