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[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12andy:
Got JB up and running late last night!

Please see my notes below.

ROM download:

make SURE that the ROM you download is in ZIP format; the recovery does NOT recognize 7z files (as expected)

for this reason, I downloaded version B

use Flashget to grab the file (saves a lot of time and grief in the event of network disconnections)

Flashing Custom Recovery:

the phone's drivers MUST be installed first

I think the program must be run first as well, prior to plugging the phone in (the procedure would only work once I toggled my phone from Mass Storage to Hi, and back to Mass Storage again)

Flashing GApps:

I flashed GApps right after flashing the ROM, but my phone sat at the Huawei logo even after multiple reboots

I went back into Recovery and performed a wipe, which fixed the problem

upon booting, I only had to install Gmail; Play Store was intact, and might've been included with the ROM already

ROM Impressions:

language selection was one of the first screens shown, so that part was very straightforward

don't know if it's a JB thing, but scrolling performance has improved irrespective of performance setting - smoother, with less input delay (say, scrolling up and down very quickly)

camera UI slightly changed (cleaner, perhaps?); continuously auto-focuses as you move the phone, so hitting the shutter "button" results in near instantaneous response (cool!)

more notification bar toggles - can be rearranged to a certain point

themes implementation - not really a fan of this, as I prefer the stock Android look/ feel for the most part; choice of vanilla Android is available

lock screen shortcuts can only be modified if using a theme

stock SMS client isn't vanilla Android - looks nicer, but isn't as responsive IMO

menu/ submenu background is near white - probably a bug, as white text on a near white background is just painful; probably not great for battery life either, and is not consistent with ICS+ Android colours

Dropped by the Chinese forum (yay for Chrome auto-translate!) to see if I can decipher any pending updates, but to no avail, lol. Looks like these ROM authors are also focusing on optimizations as well - happy to see that.

REALLY hoping this phone gets more popular very soon, and receives the Cyanogenmod 10 treatment.

Many thanks, Simon! Any chance you could convince the ROM authors over there to volunteer to become CM10 maintainers for our phone? :)
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonfzhao:
Hmm, what browser are you using? I noticed that my Chrome sometimes had problems loading the site because of the extensions I was using, maybe try it again in IE?

Great to see that everything worked! I hated their custom UI too, that's why I opted for HOLO Launcher HD for the stock JB feel :D

Supposedly Huawei will be working with genokolar to fully unlocked the bootloader and release a full custom recovery sometime this week so that should open up doors for other developers :)

And I don't even think they'll need any convincing, this thread here is a member of their development team releasing CM10 for the Ascend P1, so it's just a matter of time!

You're welcome :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -AdMiRaL-:
I tried to download via firefox however with using flashget as pointed out by Andy the download started immediately, for whatever reason.

I am also sure that this phone gets most popular soon because of a successfull compromise - strong battery, most compact size ( one-hand operation), 4,5" IPS+ display, quad core cpu and microSD. So keep your fingers crossed that our phone gets their own forum. :D
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
I do hope we get our own page but the thing that is stopping this phone from getting popular are

1) Hard to get your hand on one (BIG ISSUE)

2) Too late to join the quad core market (most people on S3 already and another big issue i mean who in their right mind is gonna give up s3 for this? and you can get a used S3 or BNIB for almost the same price of this phone if you try to import it...)

3) Try to ask anyone if they know what Huawei is ... most-likely they will be like `"what and where" ;p

4) This phone seems to be more appealing to the minority which are us who like to mess around and install Roms... and mess around during the day and runs out of battery (one reason why I choose GNex over many other great phone and one time i flashed 2 different Rom in one day at school because i was bored and then ending up running out of battery).

Yeah i hope their next phone would really make a dent in the market! But for now they already missed their chance to speak up and choose to forever hold their peace...

Well anyways while I am blah blah ing i just finished Downloading the Rom using Chrome, No Problem and took me less then 30 min. Well report back after i flash... which I should be studying for finals but... just cant stand the temptation you guys are posting....

Edit: Rom option 2(b)

So I got the rom to install but are faced with a few issue

1)*solved* Boot animation sound, I am ok with the boot animation but i dont like having sound... Would fast boot wolve that? or it takes the whole boot animation off? (Apparently if you turn the phone off in silent it will not make a sound when you turn it on!)

2) Play store not showing any image... I am not quite sure why... (Google it and did everything possible and still no avail...)

3) Messaging app when i type the keyboard cover the messages, like the message doesn't auto move above the keyboard and when i scroll the keyboard goes away. ** minor issue but its frustrating...

4) I just noticed I can't access YouTube from both the apps and the browser. Does this have to do with the rom?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12andy:
I agree, this phone needs to be marketed much more here; bit of a dark horse, if you ask me.

Your S3 claim: I would have to slightly disagree with you on that one. Most people I know are still rockin' the iPhone and/ or Blackberry (this is a dying breed, however), but the tides are slowly changing now, as people are starting to take notice of Android. I only know three people with S3s, one person with a Note 2, and another recently obtained a Nexus 4 (had his Blackberry for awhile).

Boot animation sound:

I had my phone on silent (well, vibrate) last night, but the sound played still upon rebooting(?). Will test further.

Play Store images:

At first I thought it was my internet connection messing up, but turns out this is not the case. The first Google result pointed me to this, which indicates that using SetDNS (and choosing an appropriate DNS server - I like Google's/ OpenDNS', personally) solves the problem. I'll try this over lunch time at work.

Messaging and keyboard issue:

Swiftkey is typically one of the first apps I install, so can't comment on this.

Youtube:

Haven't tried the Youtube app/ site yet. I'm thinking this MAY tie into our DNS issue.

Further impressions:

stock browser isn't vanilla based, and isn't hardware accelerated, so it's a tad choppy (forcing 2D acceleration doesn't seem to work, either)

stock browser has a neat feature whereby if you swipe from the right bezel going left, it'll reveal the tabs; pretty intuitive in that regard, IMO
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
I tried the DNS level 3 and that didn't work.

One question did you set external sd to main storage? It doesn't seem to save apps on it?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12andy:
Aw boo. :(

And yeah, I have external SD as main. AFAIK, that setting is only for things such as pictures/ videos, and not for apps.

Apps will always default to the internal storage, which is where the App 2 SD program comes into play.

EDIT: Hmm, I wonder if LUV's version (option C, per this thread) is any better than B. Simon, have you tried this one as well?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
Hmmm weird bc without setting it my pics and video already saves on external.

Can we not just flash a stock 4.1.2 and flash the radio? I'm guessing gps and camera won't work properly? I don't like the Huawei 4.1 to be honest :s I'm back to 4.0 haha just can't stand the setting menu.

By the way I'm just curious on how you guys got this phone? Through windmobo?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12andy:
Hmm, maybe the camera app itself ignores the system settings, and defaults to external SD on its own...

I don't think flashing a stock 4.1.2 would be that simple, otherwise we wouldn't need to go through these loops (via Chinese ROMs) just to obtain JB. :) Hence, my anxiety for a CM10 release.

I myself am pondering flashing back to stock, but the touch responsiveness of JB would be hard to let go of. Granted, it's a bit of an improvement only, but still. :)

Might try LUV's ROM later tonight.

And yes, I got this through Wind (on a TAB, nonetheless). I don't think this phone is available anywhere else at the moment, as far as Canada is concerned?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
Sighhh I miss flashing roms I do it so much it's like I'm addicted haha. I still got my GNex to mess with.

Have anyone compiled their own rom before from free sources?

I guess we can try to learn to do that and cook up a rom for this phone :) that would be cool.

I'm having an issue with wify on ics I cannot connect to my school secure wifi. I had all my credential set up but it won't even attempt when I press connect.... You guys experiencing this too?

By the way have you tried the DNS to fix the market? I read somewhere that the app doesn't seem to work on jb?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12andy:
I only enjoy flashing when the ROMs bring about new, practical features, performance improvements aside. :) I always get a chuckle out of Apple fans who jump for joy whenever an update is released. My response? "Yeah, remember how you felt when Apple released that update? Now picture that feeling, but almost every day... welcome to Android."

I'd love to get into ROM compiling, but programming is anything but my forte. :D I'll leave it to the Linux-heads and the guys behind Cyanogenmod, SlimBean, etc., hehe.

Odd. My wifi worked perfectly fine on the stock ROM, connecting to my home router (WPA2 Personal).

I ran across someone that said that if you attempted to use SetDNS without root, that you could possibly hose your wifi. Considering we are rooted now, I haven't the idea as to why you can't connect to the school.

SetDNS set to Google's DNS didn't work, unfortunately. Might be a glitch between the app and the ROM itself, perhaps.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
(My school uses 802.1xEAP. I know I set it correctly because my GNex connects fine.) ** solved

Yes I do rmb the days when I had the iPod touch 2g and I hated how things look soo boring and function so limited so modified the crap out of it through Cydia. They had pull down menu already many years ago in Cydia and apple didn't pick it up till recently lol.

Is Huawei working on 4.1 for global firmware? I hope they keep the stock lock screen and stock menu.

Can't wait for someone to release 4.1 AOSP!

By the way compiling shouldn't be too hard? There are many tutorial and program to auto compile I rmb I had a program like that few years ago...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 12andy:
Per this thread, it seems that we'll be getting JB officially very soon. Bit late IMO, but better late than never. :)

Bit surprised about what Telco wrote about the XL's reception though, as it's quite the contrast to what Howard found with his.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
Battery life

Hi I just wondering if any of you on the 4.1 can compare the battery life with me. I think I read it somewhere that the 4.1 improves battery life significantly. Here are my results

4.0.4 ICS, Screen brightness on auto. On battery save mode most of the time

By the way anyone fixed the play store/ you tube issue?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
About the reception i have to say i agreed! My GNex never looses signal completely (just down to no bar but still barely connected) but the ascend drops to no service. At school too I noticed I get drop signals in some areas that i didnt notice before. Maybe that have to do with the battery saving mode? I will try putting on performance mode to test it out in those areas.

The way you grip I do notice some drop in signal. Probably the architecture and location of the antenna
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -AdMiRaL-:
No problem to get the phone in my country. More than 10 different shops.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
Yes but I'm not sure maybe my root didn't install properly? I mount the sys as rw but it keep saying cust is read only

Sent from my HUAWEI U9510E
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergsinger:
nvana, what did you do to get root?

I'm just put "Superuser-3.2-RC3-arm-signed.zip" into microSD and use mod. recovery to get root.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
I flashed that through recovery

OK I tried changing other system files and fold and it works but the cust will just not work at all... don't know why. Have root have mount as RW and every other change works except cust folder... anyone know why?

Sent from my HUAWEI U9510E
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghardwick:
When using Root Explorer, go to the root of the file system.

What does say near the top of the screen ?

Mounted as r/o

Mounted as r/w

If it says Mounted as r/o tap the greyed Mount R/W button to change it to read/write.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
I was using es and the fx explorer both didn't work so I downloaded root explored and it worked.

Now i didnt wipe data and it didn't work so I might have to go through the trouble to wipe data.

Sent from my HUAWEI U9510E
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lukweihong:
Huawei Quad D1

Can this be used for Huawei Quad D1? Not XL
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergsinger:
lukweihong, it was not necessary to copy all the top of the thread in your post. If you really have Huawei Ascend D1 Quad you can use these instructions.

But remember: "**IT IS NOT RECOMMENDED FOR YOU TO ATTEMPT THIS IF YOU DO NOT HAVE A PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE WITH FLASHING PHONES. IN THE CHANCE THAT YOU BRICK YOUR PHONE, I CANNOT BE HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR IT**"

What is the model of your phone shown in "About phone"? U9510E?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
OK so I wipe data and everything but still no tool bar. My custom.bin is wind/ca

And so renamed cust/wind/ca and still not working. Anyone did this and had it fixed?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergsinger:
nvana, at first you have "cust/channel/cn", now you have "cust/wind/ca" and after two wipes in stock recovery you haven't buttons in notification bar?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
Yes that's right and by the way the custom.bin file has disappeared... lol did anyone tried this and worked?
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergsinger:
nvana, if it is not hard for you - try to update once again to 551 firmware. And then - restore buttons in notification bar.

I didn't have any problems with restoring of buttons in notification bar on 542 & 551 firmware.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonfzhao:
I'll be flashing to 551 tonight, and I'll let me know what's going on lol
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simonfzhao:
Release Note Translation:

Anything in italics are my comments

EDIT:

After reading the comments on their forums, I would definitely suggest holding back flashing 551 until they fix the bugs which exist in it right now. Download link in OP removed.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] nvana:
Do you mind elaborating on the bugs that you are referring to? Because you make it sound really bad and I am scared something would randomly happen to my phone and not knowing what it is.

---------- Post added at 06:14 AM ---------- Previous post was at 06:13 AM ----------

Sadly I'm quite busy. I have time for small things like changing folder name so I might have to wait till next release.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ghardwick:
I'm using B551 and haven't had any bugs.

The bugs might be in the Chinese apps.

My phone has been heavily modified.

All the Chinese stuff, like yin pin, was deleted.

The launcher was replaced with Nova and the original deleted.

The Huawei input was replaced with Swiftkey, and the original deleted.

Same with the browser, news/weather and music player, etc. The originals deleted and replaced.

Problems... none that effect the phone's use.

The only bugs I have are the buttons not displaying (I just use the Power widget instead) and the weather widget won't automaticall detect the current location.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] -AdMiRaL-:
Hey Simon,

You know there are different ways to get a higher software version. One the on hand you can install the complete software package like B542, B5551, on the other hand you can install an incremental package which is a smaller package that replaces some software parts only (such as bugfixes, new functions...)

Btw: Thank you for translating the Chinese notes.

I would kindly ask you again if there is any chance to get the Geno mod recovery in English? Did you get a response from developer? I asked the TWRP recovery team to support our device however they have not answered yet.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athiril:
Been at this for about 10 hours now, just trying to recover my phone from my own foolish mistake.

So, can someone please spoon feed me on what I have to do next?

I can only get into the recovery software, Android will not boot up into a working OS (I installed Chainfire 3D with EGL ticked, screen stays blank unless going into recovery menu, so I cannot do anything more via phone, only recovery and ADB etc)

I finally managed to get two .zip's copied across (one stock, and one b534 with EMUI) to the internal /sdcard (actually /data/share when trying to use adb push but /sdcard everywhere else, and has to be chmod'ded and then remounted into adb shell to actually let you write a file -.-').

When I select either of the zips with the Geno Mod Recovery (using the first option in the flash zip menu, then pointing to the file, and selecting the 2nd option about recovery auto update) nothing happens, it just goes back to the menu. And nothing happens when restarting, just back to blank screen.

Can someone confirm that's normal when trying that one, and that I do actually need to use that 4th option and put it on a physical microSD for this to work?

I wanted to flash over the stock zip without erasing the data folders, so I haven't erased those either yet, though I guess I can pull them all over and then try erase etc.

This is driving me banana's.

I also tried using the stock .zip file from Huawei and extracting the update.app file and putting it in the dload folder on the /sdcard and going back to official recovery and holding both buttons down, but that doesn't work either.

Tried fastboot update, but it says they're not update files (ie: missing some .txt files iirc).

:crying:

Edit: Also, I have the D1 Quad, not the XL, (Ie: U9510, not U9510E), as far as I can tell, it's only a difference in the battery as far as I can tell, would this make a difference?

Also when I use adb reboot-bootloader, it stays on the Huawei Ascend logo, and adb then just says device not found.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergsinger:
Athiril, have you tried to flash the phone with fastboot?

I advise you to use this instruction only if nothing else helps and your phone is "dead."

Turn off the phone from the computer.

1) Download from "strawberryperl.com" distribution for your system and install it.

2) Download the archive from attachment ("Heal.zip").

3) Put your firmware file "UPDATE.APP" to folder "dload" to the root of the local disk (Disk C).

4) Put three files ("split_updata.pl, split_updata.pl.bat, split_update.pl.bat") from "Heal.zip" to the same folder.

5) Run "split_update.pl.bat" (or "split_updata.pl.bat" if your firmware file is "UPDATA.APP").

6) After some time you will have a folder "output".

7) Copy "AdbWinApi.dll, AdbWinUsbApi.dll, fastboot.exe" (from "Heal.zip") to the "output" folder.

8) Open the "Windows command prompt" (Win + R -> cmd).

9) Go to the directory "output" (cd C:\dload\output).

10) Write in the command line: fastboot flash system version.txt (eventually your line would look like this: C:\dload\output>fastboot flash system version.txt).

11) Press "Enter". The message about waiting the phone to connect will appear.

12) Holding "Vol+ and Vol-" switch the phone on (until you see the logo "Huawei Ascend").

13) The process has started, on average, it takes a minute.

14) When the console will report about the completion of the flashing you must manually reboot the phone.

Original post is from 4pda.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Athiril:
Thanks for the info! I didn't know how to use flashboot other than to flash the recovery images manually, and to reboot the phone.

Anyway, following the instructions to the letter from the first post doesn't work, nothing happens after telling to use x.zip etc with the custom recovery, and nothing happens after rebooting then either, unless I'm missing a step to make it all work.

I used the Huawei U9510E rom off Huaweidevice dot com and got an error part way through (attached)

I'm flashing it anyway since version.txt is 900mb and looks like the bulk of the package and possibly can overwrite the problem areas of my system.

I managed to get a microSD card 4GB, put it on my credit account at work since we sell them, since I found my microSD to SD adapter I could transfer files to it easily.

Looks like flash just finished and rebooted after I started writing. It finally booted into -some- kind of system (even if something might be missing, I can probably do a new flash/update!) :D

Thanks for the help so far! I owe you one, If you need any translation done, I can ask my gf to do some, but she did translate format data/system as "simplify system".

edit: updated again internally using update.app on the phone itself to make sure everything is in the system.

When I try to use the custom recovery and install one of the rooted roms and say no do not forbid update of autorecovery, nothing happens just returns to the screen of where to choose the zip from.

edit2: I'm an idiot -.-"

I was choosing no do not flash, not confirming to flash the said file, thinking it was the autoupdate of recovery option, since it was the option to come up after choosing the zip file and it's not mentioned at all the instructions and I dont read chinese. If I had realised this at the beginning I would have had JB an hour after borking my ICS.

Updating to JB now

edit3: Now I just have to figure out how to make it look like/use the launcher from 4.0.4 (I dont like this white look).
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] sergsinger:
Athiril, it is hard for me to understand your english...

May be some one from this thread will help you :)

P.s. I haven't such error (like in your attached screenshot) when I flashed my phone with fastboot.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] catalogna:
help

can you tell me how to install the update.app from sd I can not, it starts the update, but when the phone restarts it as before. if I press vol+ vol- and power for 3 seconds the phone just goes into recovery .... help ...
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] verntechguy:
Make sure you're on stock recovery and the update.app is under dload folder on SD.
[Android Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] austkosh:
I dont why I keep getting an error flashing the english cwm recovery. FAILED <remote: flash failure, ErrNo :2> always appears. I am on official B802. I should be able to use it here, right? I cant even flash U9510E_EmotionUI_1.6_V100R001CHNC00B611 assembly from SithMaul. Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong? I just want to be on official B802 with working notification panel, rooted with gapps and none of the Chinese apps. Help please. :(

EDIT:

Fixed it by installing official B610.