[ONE Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] thunderay:
Hello once again!

Maybe you're right, I'll give that software a try! I'll also provide flashing the device manually then, I'm taking notes of everything from your replies to me, from the F.A.Q., from your Guide, this forum rules too, and even took a noob quiz and rules here. I'm really trying my best to make sure I'm ready to do this. :) But I'm sorry I didn't got the point of that bootloader unlock story. ;_; Is it safer then to unlock the bootloader once and let it unlocked then? Is it safe? Or should I lock it after all of this update thing? Won't I have to unlocked it again if I need to update it again in the future? Sorry for so many questions ;_;

Yes, I get what you're saying... To be honest all of this started last week because I was unable to play a game I was waiting to be released for a while now was, finally, released, but my phone installed the app and only opened a black screen. Forever. Nothing. I was so disappointing because I always played on my OPO for 5 years now and never got troubles (maybe some lag but that's probably because of saving to many images and having too many games/apps. That's also why I'm backuping) and now it's like reaching the end of an era (also because I was waiting for the game to come for so long but that's another thing). I was already dealing with notifications not working on some sns apps, not getting newer apps and updates for the existent, restarting out of nowhere while I'm working on it (but I don't have hope on this one, I think it's really just the phone saying: I'm almost dead and you need to switch devices) for example.

I'm an art college student and although I love to know how computers and phones work, programming and that stuff, it's just not my area so I have no experience at all. I do research for fun, but now I'm feeling like I really need to learn this and do it and it's kind of overwhelming, which sites do I trust for example? Currently I'm only trusting this forum because someone I trust recommend it to me, and also because I'm being treated very nicely even if my device is old, and because of your wonderful and helpful guide (thank you once again!!).

I know that but I still don't understand what are the risks, and the more I search more confused I get. But since you are/were a person that dealt with the OPO before, and did such a wonderful guide and I assume job at the OPO community before, I trust you :) And you have my thanks, I'm sure you helped a lot of people with OPO before I even think about the idea of upgrade it/root it/use another MOD(?) or ROM, so even if 5 years later the OPO community is a single still a OPO user from a tiny country like Portugal, I thank you a whole lot :o :o

Whipping everything means to make the phone go back to the factory default? Or there's another way? Just clean the files and all the apps is enough?

Good news though, my dad gave me his old Huawei Ideos X5! He says the phone is too slow, but doesn't have any apps. I'm gonna try to upgrade it first to learn how to do it, then adapt to my OPO after backuping. That way it makes me feel more safe since I'll learn through doing it and not damage my dear OPO :) I still need some research tho because I understood I don't understand some basic stuff that I need to learn before doing this like:

-What root access means

-What you're changing when you unlock your bootloader

-What is actually flashing the phone

-What you're replacing when you flash a custom ROM or kernel (I don't even know what kernel means)​

(Took that stuff from this post on how not to noob)

That post also suggested Android Forums, but is it safer than xda tho?

Based on that post I also realize I don't have a good understanding of what I'm doing. I just want to upgrade my phone BUT I also don't want to skip over important learning processes nor avoid learning thing I ready need to know. I'm having difficulties, yes, but I really want to understand everything. Maybe I'm just being a little too hard on myself and trying to learn/understand everything in three days. It's a lot of information that I need to process. And I still have to research about doing the reverse effect and undoing stuff just in case something goes wrong.

That post also stated:

6. You May Kill Your Phone

So basically after that quote I thought: "if I had another phone, I was willing to take the risk for the sake of learning, but I can't afford to deal with the consequences, so I should just leave anyway. I'm too scared to brick my phone or something like that." But now I found an old Android device to test, I'd follow the tutorials, have guides and trying to make at least 3 backups before everything. I think I need time to process the all the info and research research research before going on the OPO. I will do it eventually and if it doesn't trouble you, I'd appreciate your help. I'll be here on this post, so if you can take some time to check it, I'd be very grateful.

Also if you happen to read everything I wrote, sorry for talking so much about the same thing lol I'm just scared about this whole new thing. I'd also like to know what you think about trying on the Huawei Ideos X5 before anything. I'm still on backuping mode, so I have time to wait for your answer and advice (which once again I appreciate a lot!).

Thank you for everything, I hope you're doing fine :)