[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] Gunny007:
Hi all,

Need help with my phone... :\

So I wanted to install ICS on my phone today (http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1492957) and I looked at the instructions, obviously you have to have a stock ROM installed first before going for the ICS update. At this time I had CM7.1 installed. So I chucked the files on my SD Card to install (the ICS and Stock) and went ahead into clockwork recovery to try and install the stock ROM first. This didn't work, as at the time I didn't know you have to install it via the pink screen and extract the zip folder and put the dload folder in the root of the sd card. So when I tried to install it, it said starting installation, and then would say installation aborted, I had no idea why, so I tried another couple of times, still didn't work. I then updated my clockworkmod recovery to the latest version for the U8800 and it still didn't work (as I was obviously doing it wrong...). I also happened to have an update for CM7 on the SD card that I never got around to installing (7.1.0.1), and so I tried to install that and again it said installation aborted (not sure why that didn't work, should of...). So then I thought, that's odd, nothings working, betcha the ICS ROM won't install either, see if something else is wrong, so I pressed install... and it started installing... not exactly what I wanted or was expecting. So it seemed to install alright with no errors, so I did a reboot out of recovery. It then stuck on the white Huawei logo screen and just stayed there... some folders got created on my SD card (apps that I had installed on CM7), no idea why, it didn't seem to boot, left it for 5 minutes and still just the white logo screen.

So I then did some more reading and learnt that I needed to put the official ROM's dload folder to the root of the SD card and install it via the pink screen. I tried this, unpacks it fully and completes step 1, but it gets to step two, and 5 seconds later after it starts attempting to install the ROM it says, Installation Failed.

So I was looking around for people who had a similar problem as me, and found some, they found a way to fix it which was to put the dload folder in the root of the internal SD card, unfortunately I have no idea how to get to that when the phone doesn't boot up into the OS. I tried putting it in the internal storage via the pink screen, but that's only 200-250MB in size, and the file needs around 300MB, so there wasn't enough room. I tried repartitioning the storage hoping this would increase it, or return it to normal (as I had partitioned it before to the 1.42GB/1.12GB partition that others had posted up previously) and it didn't change a thing. So I have no idea how to get to internal storage D:

Not having fun so far... so I thought I might try and install CM7 again, and then go to stock, and then to ICS, or maybe just leave it on CM7 and give up for now. Unfortunately the version of CM7 I had isn't available anymore, and the newer version you have to have stock ROM installed first, so I decided to grab oxygen instead. Downloaded it and chucked the zip folder onto my SD card and tried to boot into recovery (Power+VolUp) and now it won't even go into that! It goes to the pink screen (Power+VolUp+VolDown) without any issue and I can connect to the computer and access the files on there.

So basically, I've bricked my phone and I would love it so much if you could help me get it back, I really don't want to have to go back to my old Nokia 2760 (http://www.gsmarena.com/nokia_2760-1975.php) where the speaker doesn't even work, so if I make/receive a call, I have to put it to loud speaker or headphones to actually hear their voice... would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Gunny