[General Questions and Answers] VirginIdeos:
I would prefer to ask this in the [ROM][NIGHTLY] CyanogenMod 7.2-RC3+ for Huawei U8150 (June 11th) thread but I can't post in there since I am a noob.

I have a Huawei Ideos U8150 which I bought from aldi, locked to the virgin mobile network.

Today I decided to try and install a third-party firmware to get extra performance, because as stock the phone is very sluggish and drives me bonkers. Well... I have been at it for hours and have run into a hurdle that I can't get over. Hence me posting here.

I've tried with three different builds of Cyanogenmod 7.2, one build from june, the latest build, and the stable build.

I've tried to follow the instructions in the above mentioned thread as close as possible, had to do it slightly differently since I can't figure out how to

access the phone after doing the 3-button combo (some Android 1.0 driver I need to install, googled it, nothing specific to my phone).

I downloaded and installed z4root, and successfully obtained root access.

I duplicated the problem just before for the purposes of this post, attempting to install the Cyanogenmod 7.2 stable build.

I downloaded and installed clockworkmod rom manager, opened it, pressed Flash ClockworkMod Recovery to install that, and I think this might be part of my problem, it says: Confirm Phone Model and the only option is Huawei U8160, I figure close enough.

Let it do its thing, pops up with the root access confirmation screen, I hit Allow, then it says successfully flashed clockworkmod revoery! I hit OK, then I hit reboot into Recovery.

I let it do a backup, then I do wipe data/factory reset as well as wipe cache partition as per the above mentioned thread (except doing it inside clockwork recovery instead of doing it using the 3 button method), then hit install from sdcard zip, hit choose zip from sdcard, browse to the cyanogenmod zip file (cm-7.2.0-u8150.zip), say Yes, and it ****s itself. Great, I wiped all my data, now I have to set my phone up again from scratch with the stock rom. Grrrr!

The important part of the log:

-- Installing: /sdcard/cm-7.2.0-u8150.zip
mtd: successfully wrote block at fffffd6800000000
I:Set boot command "boot-recovery"
Finding update package...
I:Update location: /sdcard/cm-7.2.0-u8150.zip
Opening update package...
Installing update...
script aborted: assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "u8150" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "u8150" || getprop("ro.product.board") == "u8150" ||
getprop("ro.product.device") == "ideos" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "ideos" || getprop("ro.product.board") == "ideos" ||
getprop("ro.product.device") == "U8150" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "U8150" || getprop("ro.product.board") == "U8150"
assert failed: getprop("ro.product.device") == "u8150" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "u8150" || getprop("ro.product.board") == "u8150" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "ideos" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "ideos" || getprop("ro.product.board") == "ideos" || getprop("ro.product.device") == "U8150" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "U8150" || getprop("ro.product.board") == "U8150"
E:Error in /sdcard/cm-7.2.0-u8150.zip
(Status 7)
Installation aborted.
result was NULL, message is: assert failed: install_zip("/sdcard/cm-7.2.0-u8150.zip")

I have put the whole log into a pdf as well as a doc and attached it.

In one of my several attempts to do this, I made sure I ran the "Fix Permissions" tool before trying to install the ROM in the hope that would make it work but it made no difference (same error).

I have no idea what I've done wrong, it seems like I have done everything correctly but it just won't work because it hates me. Maybe it's because it is a Virgin Mobile phone, maybe it is because clockworkmod thinks it is a U8160 when it is really a U8150? Who knows.

Hopefully somebody can think of some trick I can apply to try and get around this issue.

Sorry for such a long post, I just wanted to make sure I was as thorough as possible to make sure there isn't some tiny little thing I am doing wrong that is screwing it up for me.

Should I try installing Cyanogenmod 6.x.x tomorrow to see if it likes that any better?

Should I try downgrading to an earlier version of Clockworkmod ROM manager (if that is even possible)?

Is there some other straight-forward way of installing Cynaogenmod on my phone other than Clockworkmod?

Thanks very much,

VirginIdeos