[Huawei Ideos X5 U8800] erw2:
Great detail, but I still need help

Thank you very much for that detailed explanation on the steps required to update my Huawei u8800-51.

This is my first foray into an Android update, so please forgive these notes that may appear obvious to you, but they were not, to me.

I tried to follow your instructions, but I did not get very far. I hope that my notes will also help others in the same situation as me..

Huawei's model names seem to be the first real problem. My phone is the Huawei Impulse Model U8800-51.

This is different from the Huawei Ideos X5 - U8800 Your instructions seem to be specifically for my phone.

Here are the steps that I took,including some that you did not mention, probably because they were too obvious for you, but for me, that wasn't the case. Perhaps my

presumptions were incorrect, which would explain why I was unable to proceed very far.

1) The first step should be to download the files from your dropbox account, and unzip those files onto a directory on your computer's hard drive.

2) In order to run your step 0.a (Back up IMEI using ToolBox5irom) you have to first transfer the extracted file 0.a ToolBox5iromV1.0.4.2.apk

to your phone. You connect your phone to your computer, enable USB storage on your phone, and then and then copy the file from the folder on your computer to a

folder on your on your phones memory card.

3) Go to the Google play store, find the Apk Installer app. and install it on your phone, as you would install any other app from the Play store.

4) Go to the settings app on your phone and select applications. Check the box to allow installation of non-Market applications.

5) Run the APK installer app on your phone. It will find the 0.a ToolBox5iromV1.0.4.2.apk file that you loaded on your phone and from that file, it will install another

app named 5IromToolBox

6) Run the 5IromToolBox app.Select IMEI Backup.

Here is the first point where I ran into trouble: When I try to backup the app responds with: Backup fail. Check your root privileges!

Is there some other setting on the phone that I need to adjust to get root privileges?

The 5IromToolBox app also has an option called Mount Pink screen Partition.

I presume that I will need to do that at some point as your later instructions refer to a Pink screen,

but I could not determine when I should do it from your instructions.

Since I was not even able to back up IMEI I didn't dare proceed to mounting a partition. Please elaborate on when (or if) I should do that.

Since the next step in your instructions was also a backup, I figured that I could safely try that step.

I ran DiskImage_1_6_WinAll_Setup.exe to install Roadkil's Disk Image on my PC. My PC runs Windows 7.

You noted that there may be trouble installing this on Windows 7. I did initially get an installation error, but I was still easily able to install the program by

selecting Run As Administrator (an option that you get by selecting the file with your right mouse button).

I then ran run Roadkil's Disk Image on my PC, following your instructions

The next step talks about getting to to the pink screen by holding the volume rocker buttons and the power button on the phone.

Trying this was nothing. I presume that at some earlier point, I needed to have done something else (with the 5IromToolBox app) to make a pink screen available? What did

I miss with this step? I never seen a pink screen before,

Even though I did not see a pink screen, I do see both of my phone's disks; my 32 GB SD card, and the internal phone storage.

You note that the partition should be about 3.6gb. My phone's internal memory is 1.56gb. That was far too much of a discrepancy. I still backed up the internal image,

but it is at this point that I decided to stop and ask for your help and further information before I proceeded any further.

Are there any missteps that I took?

Thanks very much.