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[Miscellaneous Android Development] lipe082:
lol I was speaking with him he is just a boy yet lol maybe he can make it but for me now is the same I broke my phone :( now I only have my htc explorer and lgp500 :(
[Miscellaneous Android Development] [.::MDT::.]:
Hi,

I've got an Australian locked (with Telstra) Huawei Ascend Y201, model U8666E - 51.

I don't think this is the Y201 Pro though... does this guide apply to my phone as well?

Tx a lot.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] fastestrunner:
Quote:

No this wont work for yours
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dicamarques:
Hello, my father has this phone and the other day he had a boot loop, i found on the web how to access the default recovery and did a factory format. All was fine except he lost some apps but no problem, he also noticed he didnt had gplay, I installed to and apk of it and was working.

Today everytime he opens GPlay it stops working, tried several apk and formating it again without any success. So since he already had root I thought about installing some custom roms. So I googled and every guide would point our to here our to myhuawei.net, which is offline.

So I come here to ask help for how to fix the GPlay or how to get the files to unlock the bl. Thanks.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
Try the 4pda thread, its Russian but you can find there everything that was on myhuawei.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dicamarques:
Thanks for the reply, and already tried, their links to downloads are 404 errors T.T
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
Try this for now

http://rapidshare.com/files/1939199185/gplay.zip

Clear Google play data and uninstall any updates of gplay.

Copy phonesky.apk (its google play ) to system/app, set permissions rw-r--r-- and owner/group as root/root and install the other app, its the Google play services. (Both apps are the latest)

Reboot and try google play

tomorrow, i'll upload the unlockbootloader and drivers. Can't do it now because i don't have those here
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Try to search in androidPT forum. I have there the links for the CM10.1 ROM, guapos and latest CWM recovery.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dicamarques:
Thank you, it's working again :)

It's this post you are talking about? http://www.androidpt.com/index.php?/topic/42335-huawei-ascend-y201-pro/page-2#entry525101

I didnt even find it on google :P and when I was on that forum looknig for links.

Thanks to both of you.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Yes. Let google help you with translating, it helped me a lot with the german myhuawei! :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] dicamarques:
No need for google translate, i'm also portuguese ;)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
hi, i am stuck and need help..

i was able to sucessfully root the phone (confirmed with super user app also able to SU in terminal emulator)

Was also able to unlock the bootloader ( no errors received.. not sure how else to confirm this)

If i connect the phone to WinXP lappy while phone is on, it installs all the drivers fine and i see the Android Composite ADB interace (no Yellow Exclamation etc).

now Stuck on trying to install CWM. I disconnect phone from lappy, power off phone, then bring it to the huawei logo (by pressing vol down + power + home). once phone is ON & stuck on Huawei logo, i connect it to the lappy, , but at this time there is no drivers being installed.. nothing in device manager (not even an unknown device with yello exclamation). it appears that lappy is not seeing the device in that state.. i still went ahead and tried the fastboot command but as expected.. its stuck on "waiting for device"

Please advice..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Try on another USB port. That's very odd!
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
thanks for your response.. but that did not help.. i tired differnt port, different cable as well as different laptop (this time Win 7) but still no luck..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
i just can get my phone to be recognised while in the Huawei logo mode.. is there any way else i can do this? any way to bypass that?

i can do an adb shell and become root whle the phone is ON and connected (not in the bootloader mode). can i do the install from there?

i know there is another mode where it displays a blank pink screen, my laptop detects the phone in that mode.. can the CWM install be done while in that mode?

Please advice..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Try deactivate your antivirus and firewall. Also try to run CMD as administrator.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
thanks.. but that did not help either..

do you know what mode the phone is in while its in the huawei logo? and what mode is the pink screen?

i was researching this and in some other forum (for another phone type ppl have suggested putting recovery in the SD card and

Open terminal emulater

su

cd sdcard

flash_image recovery recovery.img

do you know if i can use this for my phone? also worst case situation what can happen? how do i protect myself from a brick?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Well, I'm not an expert. I only follow the instructions! :)

Did you enable USB debugging (Settings > Developer Tools) and disable fastboot (Settings)?

Did you unlock the bootloader?

Please read the first post carefully, I think you are missing one step, because i'ts the first time that one person cannot flash the CWM recovery.

Are you flashing the recovery from the first post? That one is outdated. Here you can find the 6.0.4.4 version https://mega.co.nz/#!GVMijLQQ!a3_TWX4BCy_6Y4NyGY9_mEjKavFHd6tkmIxhGwbUmcE
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
yes enabled USB Debug and disabled fastboot, completed the first section of rooting and unlocking bootloader.. i was able to confirm root was sucessful.. but even though i followed process for unlocking bootloader (which is just clicking the unlock bootloader button), and i did not get any errors, i am not sure how to confirm / double check that bootloader is unlocked.

i have not yet come to the point of flashing recovery because for that i have to bring the phone to the huawei logo and then connect it to the PC and my PC does not detect it at that stage.. really cant figure this one out..

do you know of any other way of making a backup of the phone OS before attempting something drastic like i mentioned in my previous post.. (by placing recovery in SD card on phone and flashing it from phone itself and not from PC)?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Well, my last advice. Did you performed the commands in CMD even with the phone not appearing in the device manager?

When I flashed the recovery to my phone I didn’t get any advice of drivers installing when I plugged the USB cable to the phone stuck in the Huawei logo. So I performed the commands in CMD and all went well. Try.

In the device manager the phone is shown? Or do you have an unknown devide? If you have an unknown device you could try to install the drivers manually. Try.

And I think that I don’t have any other solution! :)

Flashing the recovery placing it in the SD and flashing that way, if it works will not damage your phone, the result is the same as flashing using a PC. And if the commands don't work I also think that will not damage the phone (it's like put a wrong command in CWM, just don't work!). :)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
in my case there is no unknows device.. the device is just not detected..

Yes i did try to run the flash command even though the device was not detected.. but the command hangs at "waiting for device"

i am thinking of trying to flash revocery while phone is on via the terminal emulator.. but before i do that.. does any one here know what my options are if somehting goes bad? how can i create a backup? and how to i restore the backup atfer creating it.. if required?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
Just a question which drivers did you installed? The ones that come with the phone or the one that come with the unlocker program?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
i tired the one that came with the phone its called Handset WinDriver. Since nothing was working i googled for drivers and found some at the "dc-unlocker" site and i installed those as well.. but still no luck..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
Try the second one, if still no device appear in adb, use the first to update the drivers.

http://www.solvusoft.com/en/download/driverdoc/Huawei_Ascend_Y_201_Pro_Driver_Update_02-2014.exe

https://drive.google.com/uc?id=0Bw8B2a85Qa1jMjFVNDljZTBXNFE
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
hi, i tired the 2nd link, and that did not help..

the first link is some driver doc software that asks me to buy licenses.. i did not go ahead with that..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
sorry, posted the wrong first link

one of these (inside the rar file) is the one i used but i cant remember which one is right one.

download this

http://rapidshare.com/share/D3446CB24334088E8C8B53DA5F6740E9

try the adbdriver.exe first. (almost sure is this one)

the UniversalAdbDriverSetup6.msi is a universal adb driver used by a universal unlocker.

the Handset WinDriver.exe is the official huawei universal adb drivers for huawei's phones.

the unlockphone1setup.exe is a universal phone unlocker but it installs also universal adb drivers.

-just to be sure that it is working as it should, the phone must be powered up (normal boot), dont put it in recovery mode or the fastboot mode.

install with the phone not connected to the computer.

after the installation ends, plug the phone to the computer and let windows search and install the drivers.

after that, try adb with the command

adb devices

if it isnt recognized then unplug the phone and install other driver and repeat the steps.

if it adb recognized the phone, try it with the phone in fastboot mode (Volume Down and power button simultaneously)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
THanks Luizbraz & NAZUnlimited for your time and patience so far with my issue,,.

The issue still persisits..

[MENTION=4311850]NAZUnlimited[/MENTION], i am downloading these drivers now.. will report back on how it goes..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
Hi,

I had no luck with this either... i have a feeling i am doing somthing wrong somewhere.. below are the details.. can you please check and let me know:

1) i installed the drivers fine (no errors)

2) connected phone in ON mode to PC, phone is detected.. adb devicces shows the device:

List of devices attached

4C8BEF367571 device

3) unplug the phone, powere it off, remove battery, put battery back in, press and hold the power button + volume down button + home for 10 seconds, phone is stuch at red HUawei logo with black background screen

4) Phone is not detected in this state

there are 2 other phone stat i noticed:

1) press and hold power button + volume UP button, this brings me to "recovery" it has the green android in the backgroun with options to reboot, apply update from sd card, factory reset , wipe cache, and update touchscreen firmware ---- this i believe is the recovery mode, my PC is able to detect the phone while its in this mode..

2) Press and hold power button + volume UP + Volume down button - this brings the phone in a blank ping / purple screen and phone is stuck in that state --- this i belive is hte fastboot state, my PC detects the phone in this state too

Question:

1) so for applying the recovery.img, what mode do i need to be in? what mode is the phone in when its stuck at huawei logo?

2) the steps that i am trying to perform for applying recovery, can i do it using the above mentioned revocery mode using the option "apply update from sd card"?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
Looks like i am completely out of luck..

I tried to flash recovery from terminal emulater by puting image on sdcard, but no luck.. i get "error scannin partition..

every tried from CMD on PC using ADM, and get same error..

from adb, i tried to adb reboot bootloader.. and the phone just reboots fully.. not to bootloader..

is there a way to check if the bootloader is really unlocked or not?

Also i am no longer able to get the phone to the PINK screen.. if i press vol up + vol down + power button it nolonger goes to pink screen (like it used to before).. it just boots up.. Since my phone is detected in the pink screen mode i wanted to try and flash it in that mode..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Like I said before, I'm just a user that reads instructions and act using that instructions. I dont know what else you can do! Sorry and good luck.

Try here: http://www.android-hilfe.de/huawei-ascend-y201-pro-forum/ (use google translate to read/post)
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
all checked (though the red huawei logo is weird but some vendors modify the screens, so it may vary unless you are talking about the normal huawei logo then that is right also)

1- yes, recovery

2-fastboot mode is the one that gets stuck at the splash screen (normally an image put by the vendor or the huawei logo). pink(ish) screen is the bootloader mode. to boot to bootloader is to hold both buttons vol up + vol down at the same time and then press power button and hold the 3 keys down

1-normally fastboot, unless you have CWM recovery.

1b-answer above

2- yes but it needs that the recovery "knows" which is the recovery partition (its weird but its more a stock hardware limitation to protect the phone, its more like the recovery knows where is the partition but it doesnt allow flashing on itself", unlike the clockwordmode recovery, here you can flash recovery above recovery just like flashing a rom) and a update.zip with the script instructions set flash the recovery.

3-i dont know any except trying to flash a kernel or a recovery

try this

http://rapidshare.com/share/7E1FA1663087056BA49A32CAB99C61EB

Turn off your Phone, unplug the battery for 5 seconds to really turn off the phone (just powered off wont do because the phone hibernates in that option, it doesnt really turn off. that is why we turn off fastboot in settings)

plug the battery

Hold Volume Down and Power and keep these pressed for about 15 Seconds, phone should be frozen in logo after that

Connect your phone via USB

open a cmd window in the ClockWorkRecovery_6.0.4.4 folder

type install-recovery-windows.bat and press enter

you should see something like this

give 5 seconds for the script to finish and unplug the cable and the battery.

5 more seconds and insert battery and power up the phone pressing the recovery keys (vol. up and power)

if all is ok, you should have a new rcovery if not try that with the bootloader screen

if still nothing try other unlock bootloader program and unlock again bootloader, it could be still blocked.

btw, dc-unlocker is a program to sim-unlock the phone, it removes the sim restrition, allowing a sim-locked phone to use other sim cards besides the one from the company that comes with it.

"Also i am no longer able to get the phone to the PINK screen.. if i press vol up + vol down + power button it nolonger goes to pink screen (like it used to before).. it just boots up.. Since my phone is detected in the pink screen mode i wanted to try and flash it in that mode.."

did you removed the battery before trying that?
[Miscellaneous Android Development] luisbraz:
Try this multitool taken from myhuawei (when the forum was on!). I didn't use this tool, and i don't remember what it does... :) Install and see.

http://abelhas.pt/lmlbraz/y201+Pro/MultitoolSetup,13787334.rar
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
I already used this tool.. its an adb interface.. but adb works fine when phone is ON.

---------- Post added at 03:43 PM ---------- Previous post was at 03:29 PM ----------

THank you for your details response.. really really appreciate it..

yesterday i was willing to risk my phone and tried whole bunch of stuff.. i've had some progress but maybe i am in a worse situation.. not sure..

i think you were right baout the boot loader.. even though i got success error, my boot loader was still locked, which is why pc could not detect it while i was in bootloader mode..

my phone is actually a Huawei inspira h687G, there is no infor abot this phone even on huawei sites (i even spoke to them)..plus no development.. and i really need to put in a new ROM on this phone. (i have 2 of these phones).. While researching, i found a "readme on the phone itself" and the readme stated hte model was u8666E. I believe tracfone took the u8666E and rebranded it as hte inspira and locked it down..

Anywho..that is how i came on this forum. Yesterda after all your guidance nad ofcourse googling i downloaded the app "huawei bootloader unlock" in that app they had a bunch of models (other than mine or the u8666e), i randomly selected one (i know its a really dangerous thing to do .. but still i was out of ideas). the phone rebooted and instead of the inital splash screen with the huawei logo, it came up with a brigh green screen with a blue box and a red box.... the Tracfone splashscreen was also gone, and the whole appearance of the phone when it booted was differnt..

now i once again tried to do the booloader mode (power + vol down), this time the screen was stuck in that same gren / red / blue screen. I hooked it to a PC and now my phone was detected!!!

i did the rest of the stps to flash CWM.. in the process i think i erased my stock recovery...

So now i am stuck with a phone that boots up fine, and i am able to get it to the booloader mode as well as the fastboot mode (pink screen), BUT NOT into recovery.. I tried flashing twrp as well as differvt versions of CWM.. but i think i cant boot to recovery...

I installed nandroid backup app and made several backups of the phone before and after my venture.. (so i do have backups on my sdcard as well as PC) I also have anover phone that is exact same model..

Any suggestions what i can do from this point on? my final goal is to get a new rom on the phone..

thanks again..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
Rebranding, don't you just love that? its a PITA (pain in the @ss).

probably you also erased the /cust partition when tryed to unlock the bootloader, most rebranding stuff is placed there, splash screen, bootanimation, etc. most Huawei phones had 10 partitions tops but the last two years, they increased that number alot (why?! No idea), so not all phones have the bootloader partition at the same address.

Not out of luck completly, you have two backup options, so you can restore the phone to the previous state. Out of luck is ending with an expensive brick.

First step in "de-branding" is find out which model you really have.Example : It exist the u8666, u8666e, u8666e-1, u8666n, u8666n-1, u8666e-51 (so far but i heard of an u8666e-78(?!), not sure if it really exists). The n version have a circuit that acts like a credit card, its used by the south asian countries, they have a "place-phone-on-the-sensor-to-pay" system. Anyway, not all have the same android version or even stock android (emotion ui), or kernel version.

In build.prop you can find out which base phone you have. In about phone (settings), take note of the firmware version and kernel.

A custom recovery is nothing more than a modified stock recovery. There are tools to decompile that and ways to modify it. But even if you flashed the wrong recovery, you would be able to boot to it, probably get stuck after but still booted... unless that partition is empty. for now, flash the stock recovery back and /cust partition.

First thing first, find out the base phone. Then Google for it, if nothing, then search in the Huawei websites, not just the .com but the .co.au, .fr, etc, for the kernel source, find which phones use that and limite the list to the ones with almost the same hardware as yours.

I did that to my u8500 before there was a rom for it.

this way you can find compatible custom roms. If the base is a u8666e-1, allmost everything about it, is at the link that luisbraz wrote some posts back as most of other Huawei phones stuff.
[Miscellaneous Android Development] indgirl6:
WOW! i had no clue about all this.. really good to know..

the good thing is my phone is not yet briked or unbootable.. i am still able to boot it to full system mode.. and its usable.. only issue is the blank splash screen and not being able to boot to recovery.

So now to find the actual model of the phone.. in the settings it shows Hwawei Inspira H867G. Can you tell me where i can finf the build.prop file? i have erminal emulator.. can look for it and see what that file says..

Also how do i flash stock recovery to /cust? i mean where do i get image of the stock recovery? as i mentioned i have one more untouched phone of the same make / model.. anyways i can pick it up from the other phone?

I am amazed at your detailed knowledge you have of Huawei phones.. i am hoping u can help me with my main reason for going through all this hassle for a new ROM. I am basically trying to Unlock the phone (carrier Unlock). I purchased the unlock code and have the code.. but due to tracfone locking down the phone, it does not even give me the option to put in an unlock code when i put in a foreigh sim.. i am hoping a new ROM can help solve that..
[Miscellaneous Android Development] NAZUnlimited:
it is just stuff i picked off the web (and do trial-error tests on the phones) over the last 4/5 years.

i am afraid to say this but new roms dont solve the sim-lock problem (carrier Unlock), the sim-lock system files are in a hidden partition, flashing new or stock roms wont unlock the carrier or mess with the unlock code screen.

it should appear a screen asking for a code if the phone boots with a foreign sim card... unless the wrong unlock code was inserted 3 times in a row, making the sim-lock permanently locked and if that happens you'll need a... i dont remember the right name now but its a second unlock code used to unlock a locked unlock screen.

the guys in gsm forum or the dc-unlocker can give more detailed info on that.

recovery goes to recovery partition

/cust partition is a different partition and, usually, have the vendor customized system (apps, apns, launcher wallpaper and shortcuts, splash screens, bootanimation, etc)

in the backups you made wasnt there a file called recovery.img and a cust.img?

you just need to flash that back or restore the phone using the full backup made earlier. the cust.img is flashed like the system.img. the web got lots of tutorials of how to restore backups.

like the recovery

Just put the system.img file somewhere on your PC, connect your device via a USB cable, reboot into your bootloader's fastboot mode and then:

fastboot flash system /path/to/system.img

example:

fastboot flash system d:/backup/system.img

or, if system.img is in the same folder as the executed adb (fastboot)

fastboot flash system system.img

replace system with cust and system.img by cust.img

if you dont have a backup, you can make one from the other phone and use it to restore the other. there is tutorial here on xda of how to make backups without root.

build.prop is located in /system folder.

in terminal you type

cat /system/build.prop

to see the full file and locate these lines

ro.build.id

ro.build.version.sdk

ro.product.model

ro.product.name

ro.product.device

ro.product.board

ro.board.platform

ro.build.description

ro.build.fingerprint

ro.build.display.id

ro.confg.hw_appsbootversion

ro.confg.hw_appversion

ro.confg.hw_appfsversion

or type getprop before each line, like this:

getprop ro.product.name