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[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
No. You would then have their IMEI in theory.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skipped:
And is there any further problem? Because whats the matter with having the same IMEI?

But the restore wont brick my phone right?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
Your guess is as good as mine. These u8800's come with different hardware (screens etc) so it might work, it might not. Having an IMEI that doesn't match your phone hardware might mean you can't use any cell services, or it might mean that you receive phone calls and SMS messages that are supposed to go to the other phone. I don't really know. It also might be completely illegal in some countries. ???

It will certainly void your warranty, and mean no support at all from the manufacturer.

It is defiinitely against XDA rules to share information about how to change your IMEI.

Maybe you should ask for some help with whatever your problem is...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] skipped:
Thanks for all!

I have two final questions:

The phone has to be rooted to make this backup?

If I restore my u8800-51 with someone else u8800-51 backup, and then I apply (restore) my clockworkmod backup of u8800-51, will I have the IMEI from the CWM restore?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
Hi

No you don't need root, as the OS isn't running.

CWM won't put your IMEI back, it isn't part of the data the CWM backs up (if it was, we wouldn't need to use dd to back up the IMEI..)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] forumber2:
Thanks for this guide but if you dont have a Linux;I'm using RAW Bacup program on Windows and working:cool:.Link:http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=12
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Restoring works too?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] peixotorms:
... delete
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] MtG92:
I'm a total linux newbie but I'd like to make this backup. I'm trying to follow the instructions carefully, but when I type the necessary command to do the backup, the terminal says "Permission Denied". I tried typing "sudo" before the command but it says "dd: opening ` /dev/sdb' : No medium found".

Can anyone help me with this? I'm missing some of my good old .32 kernel ROMS but I'm a little afraid I'll loose my IMEI when going back to .35. I heard the loss of IMEI is related to custom partitions, and I did that a while back and recently reverted to the stock partition. Is there a danger of losing the IMEI even if I went back to the stock partition?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] G0dscape:
thank you for your tut its very helpful. :))
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Triflot:
Is your device really named /dev/sdb in dmesg? Do you have a space in the if=/dev/sdb part, because there shouldn't be.

No idea about your partitioning question, though I'd imagine you'll be fine if you've reverted.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
This backups the partition table and IMEI, so you are fine with this backup. It literally backups the full EMMC card and restores it the same way.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] MtG92:
Thanks for the responses. It ends up I was making a stupid mistake. When I connected the phone to the computer, instead of unmounting the devices that showed up I actually ejected them...-.-' I guess it's because english being a second language I didn't really know the difference between the two (and didn't really care much, the two words seemed related enough to have a similar effect...or so I thought).

So know I made the backup and downgraded to try ezet's acclaimed CM7, which for some reason I had never tried before...I guess I tried .32 MIUI and just didn't feel like I needed to try anything else :D. Anyway, enough off-topic. Thanks again.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] MikeO69:
With the command: ls -l /dev/disk/by-id/usb* i found that my phone was on /dev/sdc

When i try: dd if=/dev/sdc of=u8800.img bs=512

I get /dev/sdc Permission denied error.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Ponder Stibbons:
Ok, let me something explain for you. Under Linux the first harddrive ist called sda, the second is called sdb and so on. Which name your U8800 get depends on the number of physical harddrives in your computersystem. On my system I have two harddrives (sda and sdb) so U8800 get the names sdc and sdd (I think that sdd is for the sd-card). After connecting your U8800 with your computer (wait some seconds) you can run "dmesg" and you will get an output like this.

dmesg

3487.719714] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 5 using ehci_hcd
[ 3487.845371] scsi9 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 3488.899573] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access Android Adapter 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 3488.903235] scsi 9:0:0:1: CD-ROM Android Adapter 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 3488.904060] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3488.911565] sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
[ 3488.911778] sr 9:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2
[ 3488.913294] scsi 9:0:0:2: Direct-Access Android Adapter 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 3488.916184] sd 9:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3490.760954] usb 1-1: USB disconnect, device number 5
[ 3490.764832] cdrom: issuing MRW background format suspend
[ 3491.023023] usb 1-1: new high-speed USB device number 6 using ehci_hcd
[ 3491.148063] scsi10 : usb-storage 1-1:1.0
[ 3492.150449] scsi 10:0:0:0: Direct-Access Android Adapter 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 3492.151940] scsi 10:0:0:1: CD-ROM Android Adapter 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 3492.155680] sd 10:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
[ 3492.156048] sr2: scsi3-mmc drive: 0x/0x caddy
[ 3492.156561] sr 10:0:0:1: Attached scsi CD-ROM sr2
[ 3492.157813] scsi 10:0:0:2: Direct-Access Android Adapter 0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[ 3492.164053] sd 10:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk

The important lines are this.

...
[ 3488.904060] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdc] Attached SCSI removable disk
...
[ 3488.916184] sd 9:0:0:2: [sdd] Attached SCSI removable disk
...

Now type the following command and after "d" press tabulator key. You get an output like this:

dd if=/dev/sd

sda sda1 sda2 sda3 sdb sdb1 sdc sdd

Now you can complete the command with your correct device name, i.e. in this case it is "sdc".

dd if=/dev/sdc of=u8800.img bs=512

It is important to execute the command as root!

Hth,

Ponder.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] MikeO69:
@Ponder Stibbons

Thanks for the info. Problem solved. It was the last info you put down.

I forgot to start the command as root.

So with: sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=u8800.img bs=512 is is now runnig

thanks you :good:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Ponder Stibbons:
No problem. Please press the "Thanks" button...
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] s91066:
I want to go back to a previous backup I have. It is somewhat old (over 2 months) but I want to go back to an older version. Anyway, the size of my backup is 3959422976 bytes. Do you think that this size is OK to proceed and restore it back to the phone?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Yeah, that size is completely normal.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] s91066:
When I tried to mount the backup file with the

mount /home/s91066/backups/android/2.2.2.img /mnt/olddsk -o loop -t auto is failed with "mount: you must specify the filesystem type"

That doesn't sound good. Is it normal NOT to mount the image file?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] MikeO69:
You don't need to mount the image.

Place the backup on your phone or sd

Start CWM

Choose backup/restore

Choose restore

find the backup and klik on powerbutton to confirm

Restore wil start.

Whene done restart phone.

That is al you need to do for a restore.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Ignore mike, he doesn't know anything about this.

You can manually mount only parts of the image, because the image is not one big ext4 fs.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] s91066:
DId you read the Thread title? Anyway, this is not what I talk about.:mad:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] ms9580:
I am upgraded my device to 2.3.5 and the wifi connection constantly dropped. So i reverted back to 2.2 using an official stock rom. I turns out that the rom that I originally had was Arabic enabled but the one that I restored doesn't. Now reading this post I thought of backup a friend's phone and restoring it on mine. But the catch is of the IMEI. Any pointers or ideas on how to retain it?

Thanks.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] kilroystyx:
Every owners of U8800 that play with roms must have a backup of IMEI, you never know when it will be useful.

In your case, I'd give a try a backup from cwm first, a full backup should be my last option.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
Preferably find a different stock ROM. There used to be all versions around, not sure if the links are still valid with MegaUpload and associated sites being taken down. You might be best to post a request in the Q&A forum, perhaps someone can upload one to a dropbox public folder or something.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] eyeconic:
I haven't tried it but why not simply do:

yum -y install android-tools (RH based distros - adapt to your flavor of Linux)

adb pull / ~/mybackupfolder?

The first command installs the package that includes /usr/bin/adb.

adb is recursive. Thus, the second command should copy the entire root directory structure to a directory in the user's home.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Mahdial:
In the terminal emulator I wrote "dd if=/dev/sdX of=u8800.img bs=512" (X=b,c,d...) but it said "Permission denied"

al-saydali@alsaydali-System-Product-Name:~$ dd if=/dev/sdb of=u8800.img bs=512
dd: opening `/dev/sdb': Permission denied

how can I do it correctly? Please help me.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
Make sure the directory you are in is writable, out specify a full path to the output file.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] AceDroidX:
I think you need to type su first.

Sent from my U8800
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Mahdial:
As you can see the permission is denied so don't you think if I write "sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=u8800.img bs=512" will start the copy?is there any risk?

★HUAWEI IDEOS X5 U8800H★

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su or sudo which one?

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[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] AceDroidX:
Its been a while since i was playing with linux, but if i remember well, sudo and the rest of the command, executes the command as root. By just su, i meant you write su ( or was it sudo su, cant recall sorry :P ), hit enter, then type your pass and you have root access, so u just paste the command. :D
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] jeremysherriff:
Correct. Do:

su

dd ....
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] net.beans:
very useful

Now i can backup a full img of my phone, and restore it when necessary, even if i was running an ICS rom, right?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Yes, it's a FULL copy, it contains modem partitions with Android and bootup logos etc. When you restore, you get the phone state exactly as it used to be before.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Mahdial:
I wrote "sudo dd if=/dev/sdX of=u8800.img bs=512" and it worked. :)

★HUAWEI IDEOS X5 U8800H★
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Mahdial:
Can this backup return the previous phone state in the flowing situations:

1.Changing data partition's size.

2.Updating to the official gingerbread but it failed and the phone bricked just the pink screen.

3.IMEI is nulled.(I know about 5IromToolBox)

Thanks for any help.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Mahdial:
If there is any help I'll be grateful.:)

★HUAWEI IDEOS X5 U8800H★
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] hung.ngomanh:
Thanks for your tut !!:cool:
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Yes, this backup has full Android dump, with modem partitions (IMEI and such), also the bootloader and splash screen images.

As long as you have pink screen access, you can restore the backup and your phone will be just like it used to be before.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Idexius:
This line gave me a ton of problems. If you unmount everything you can't dd the phone. You should probably fix that line.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] forumber2:
No,It don't restore. I have a question; Can I switch 2.6.35.7 to 2.6.32.9 kernel,or 2.6.32.9 to 2.6.35.7 with "dd" (restore) command without any dload (UPDATE.APP) installation?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] kilroystyx:
If I understood right you're saying that is not possible do a restore with Roadkil's?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] forumber2:
Yes,it isn't possible.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] kilroystyx:
I have done it many times.

If your problem is Error #5 it possible manage with LockDismount
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Uglamugla:
Hello, with power button + - scheme appears the pink screen in my phone but nothing happens in win or ubuntu, i've already checked dmesg and gparted and there isn's any other volume, i'll show a print screen.

This is the last part of dmesg command result:

what can i do???
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] forumber2:
Which Bxxx did you use when install a offical firmware?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] bhaweshintouch:
tools required to flash firmware from computer or to detect internal storage

after pink screen i connect it on ubuntu 12.04 , but in dmesg the device is not showing as a block device(storage device).

problem: at the time of presssing (power on &vol+&-) button not installing the official firmware 2.3.5 present in the sd card(\dload\update.app).

its goes to the pink screen. normally it should install the official firmware(present in the sdcard) while pressing (power on and vol+&-) button.

present condition:

my ideos x5 u8800 can only enter in:

1. blue screen (default power on)

2. pink screen (power,vol+,vol-), not detects as a mounted block device(storage device) by the computer to replace the /image/boot.img and recovery.img(cwm)

past condition:

1.i had upgraded it to official 2.3.5 firmware from 2.2 using (copy dload folder to sdcard and powering on with vol+&- button)

2. rooted with superoneclick

3. replaced .cust_backup/image/recovery.img with recovery.img (cwm5.0.2.7), by remount and es file explorer

4.now started with cwm 5.0.2.7 to install custom rom

5. i wiped cache, system, dalvik cache, after that formatted /boot , /system,/cache,/data

6. i think after upgrade to 2.3.5 , the computer not detects as a storage device in pink screen mode

is there any tool(windows or linux) to

1.to flash firmware from computer or

2.to detect internal storage (for replacing /.cust_backup/boot.img and recovery.img)

sorry for bad english

plz help me
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] bhaweshintouch:
bs=512 means

what does it means to write bs=512
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] AceDroidX:
If I am not wrong, it ignores the first 512bytes which contain boot and partition table.

Sent from my U8800
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] kilroystyx:
BS - Block Size

Default value is 512 bytes
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Shanava:
Hi

My U8800 is 8GB...

Phone dead after some playing with partition magic,,,so,phone was hard bricked

---

after repair via jtag,,,Now,Phone is hang on logo

and pink LCD when hold vol+- and Power key

--------------------------

My question :

i did download "HUAWEI_U8800_FullFlash.rar"

This file readed from 8800(4GB) But My Phone is 8GB....So,Can i Use This File...???

Also:

Anyone Can Explain step by step for restore backup...???

i need know about copy "HUAWEI_U8800_FullFlash" in Which Address....?

and need know about Write Command

========================================================================

EDIT:

Finally i did restore 4GB Full flash and my phone back to alive

But i have only 2GB as mass storage....How can i back to stock(8GB ).........?

Thanks
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] j0a0:
Thanks for the who to... Will do it
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] j0a0:
With Pink Screen, connected over USB my windows not show any folder/mass storage

So i presume that my GB have bootloader locked!

Any solution for this, or just DLOAD folder with GB unlocked bootloader?

I know this information is out there, bur what GB version have bootloader unlocked and SIM unlocked?

Thanks
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] kilroystyx:
Hi j0a0,

Yes go ahead with dload.

B517 – Bootloader and SIM unlocked

B518 – Bootloader unlocked

B522, B526 and B528 – Bootloader locked
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Teg8:
Thank you for the tutorial, it's great.

But I have a question. Is this possible to mount this image back? To see if everything is correct or, just in case, to copy only one partition, or... I don't know, change anything in it, swap files etc. Right now I have 4GB file and I can not access it in any way.

If it's silly question for people with linux familiarization - I do apologize. I did my research on the "mount" command and I didn't understood what exactly I have to do.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
This 4GB image contains all the phone 14 partitions (by default). I'm mounting my partitions using something similar to this tutorial: http://major.io/2010/12/14/mounting-a-raw-partition-file-made-with-dd-or-dd_rescue-in-linux/

It's possible to extract partitions from it too. This might do it: http://nerdnotes.wordpress.com/2008/04/18/disk-image-wizardry/

I haven't done any modifications myself, but I read that it should be possible after mounting the partition (http://askubuntu.com/questions/85741/how-do-i-mount-edit-and-repack-an-img-file).

Make sure to have the /mnt/xx directory before mounting, otherwise it fails. You likely need to have superuser too.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] manoysos1175:
I tried using Linux (Mint) to create the backup image but unfortunately the device refused to be mounted properly. I know I have unlocked bootloader, as it mounts fine under Windows when I have booted the phone in the pink screen and I can see the files. I guess it didn't work in Linux because i was running it on a VM and probably something didn't work as it should when i tried giving it access to that USB device. I don't really know. Anyway, I finally did a backup while using Windows and Roadkil's Disk Image program that was mentioned earlier in this thread. My backup .img file is 3,959,422,976 bytes in size.

So here are my questions:

1) Has anyone managed to restore an image created by that program successfully?

2) Are everyone else's images the same size?

3) And finally, when i get the time and patience to install Linux properly on a pc, will I be able to use that image file to perform a restore on my phone using the dd command of the first post?
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Blefish:
Did you use root user when you tried it in Linux? It might require that.

I'd imagine the Roadkil program makes full dump too, which should be identical (but still worth comparing the two).

2) My backups made in Ubuntu using dd are always 3,959,422,976 bytes, so it's same size.

3) I have restored using dd images only, it worked nicely for me.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Lihis:
1) Yes. used it couple times when I had Windows.
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] manoysos1175:
I tried again just now, and yes this time I was logged in as the root user, but still the same result. I've attached a picture bellow showing the result of dmesg.

Thanks [MENTION=5480761]Lihis[/MENTION] ! I guess my backup is fine then! :)

Also [MENTION=4223446]Blefish[/MENTION] , I've been using your CM 12 for a couple of days now, and I've got to say you did a fine job! I really appreciate your work mate!! Cheers!! :)
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Lihis:
It should automatically mount pink screen partitions out-of-box at least in Mint Qiana. Does enabling or disabling virtulbox "USB 2.0 (EHCI) Controller" make a difference? That's all what I know..
[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] manoysos1175:
Nope, enabling or disabling that option didn't do anything. But it doesn't matter anymore. I made a knoppix live cd, booted my old laptop with it and voila! Everything worked as it should! My X5 was mounted correctly, and dd just finished creating the .img file in an external HDD!!! :) :victory:
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padsmcnulty:
Hi,

Iam trying to un USB Brick my sisters phone. I s-off ed with Revolutionary, installed clockwork recovery, and unzipped Superuser. But now the SD card (I've tried 3) aren't recognised at all.

All the instructions for USB UNbricking start with the command ' 'fastboot oem enableqdm 0' from the cmd (I have the android-sdk-windows/tools folder in the C directory;and just in case downloaded Android SDK - but that doesn't seem to do anything, just hang in cmd window when I launch it).

The thing is when I ever I type 'fastboot oem enableqxdm 0' I get "FAILED status malformed (1 bytes))". I also tried another fastboot command 'fastboot reboot-bootloader' but again got "FAILED.. status malformed (1 bytes))"

I just can't find a solution to this anywhere - if there is one and you know that'd be great, or a link would be excellent.

I'm going crazy here - what can I do to get the fastboot command to work - and then recoginse an sd card. Any ideas? And, my sister is supposed to gettinga train this evening! Doh, why did I try and root her phone...

Help please!

Chees
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
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[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padsmcnulty:
Ah, getting there...

So, got the fastboot oem enableqxdm 0 command to work.

Said OKAY.

Tried the fastboot oem eraseconfig

Said OKAY.

Went into Recovery, tried to flash update.zip; no sd card! Ah damn. (file shows up when exploring sd card on laptop)

So,, thought I try the CID version and I get this info:

INFODevice CID is Super CID

INFOCID is Super CID

INFOBackup CID is ORANG001

INFOSetting->cid::ORANG001

So, now I am confused, what the hell is my CID now?

And can I use the CID Gernerator as in that post.

If it helps, I could see the SD Card fine until I partitioned it (with Easeus - then wiped - then tied again with Mini Tool - both times the parition worked, everthing worked fine when exploring with laptop, just the Desire seemed to throw it and alas, no more sd card recognised - have tried a couple of others too.) Blimey, I've rooted, flashed, etc so many times without a glitch, just didn't think this would happen. Sod;s law it happens to my sister's phone when Itrying to help (she has no tech knowledge!)

SO, again, any help would be great.

Cheers
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] bortak:
Just remembered you can try something else..

fastboot oem enableqxdm 0
fastboot oem eraseconfig

(this has to enable SD.. if it doesn't then I dunno.. I mean 60% of the time it works every time)

Then flash RMD Recovery (link on my guide), and use the built in USB brick function.

If you're S-OFF flash the recovery.img via fastboot

If you're S-ON fakeflash the recovery.zip via recovery

Also in these situations, try to actually give us the errors recovery shows etc.
[Desire Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] padsmcnulty:
Alas, tried both of those commands and nothing happened (said OKAY both times, but when booted into Recovery it still did not recognise SD card, and when booted normally still no joy...)

What next, well I'll get a cheap 1Gb SD card straight out of the box and see if recognises it -not holding out much luck though. After that, try flashing the RMD Recovery via fastboot? and trying the USB Brick option (what do reckon?)

Oh well, we'll see. Would it help if I could flash a new ROM? Can this be done without an SD Card being recoginised? If so, which ROM, and how would I do it (from fastboot?) - had run Insert Coin 1.1.14 on another Desire (still running fine) - flash that even though Sd won' be paritioned, would ot work? Out there at the moment...

P
[General Questions and Answers] HummerMan3:
Just wanting to see when/if xda-developers plans on creating a sub-forum for the Motorola Admiral. I know the phone isn't immensely popular (it should be though; this is a sweet device!), but I know several people who would love some custom ROMs for it as well as a place besides the Motorola support forums to get bug fixes and whatnot.

If the mediocre Droid Pro gets its own sub-forum, why no love for us Admiral folks? :p
[General Questions and Answers] eain:
I'll second this. I'm glad that it's been rooted, but I'd love to see a custom ROM or two. :)