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[Hans Gruber]

I notice on the Chinese Huawei site they have a phone called a C8812 which specs wise looks very similar to the U8815. The difference being that it's CDMA rather GSM. Interestingly in the download section it has ICS. Can any of the devs get anything useful out of it?

http://www.huaweidev...eeId=3677&tab=2

[Frankish]

Is it msm7227a?

[Hans Gruber]

It is according to http://www.aliexpres...holesalers.html

Looks like it also has a front facing camera and the rear one is only 3.2mp without a flash but other than that the cpu and ram and bits look the same. I'm no expert I just thought maybe there's something that could be used on the G300

Edited by Hans Gruber, 23 May 2012 - 07:00 PM.

[KasioPC]

Looks quite interesting. I'll see if I can rip it apart and check for any differences. I just hope it uses the old Huawei update process. The new one doesn't work with the unpacking script, and I doubt it will flash on our phones.

[Frankish]

Yeah a rom dump may be of more use than the stock rom!

[Hans Gruber]

There looks to be a few custom roms for the phone @ http://bbs.anzhi.com/forum-655-1.html so get your google translators out

[Hans Gruber]

The download link for the rom @ http://bbs.anzhi.com...147045-1-1.html is http://115.com/file/bejm058j

No idea what the rom is about but it was the first one I could get a download link for

It's very slow...

Please nobody mistake this for a G300 ROM! Don't flash it to your phone.

[Hans Gruber]

"ro.board.platform=msm7627a" from the build.prop so maybe not any use to us?

I made a mirror in case anyone is still interested http://www.multiuplo...o.uk/BPZ7SKFEIO

Edited by Hans Gruber, 23 May 2012 - 09:21 PM.

[omegamoon]

I'm on it, and will give this one a try as well. Download is slooow

[Hans Gruber]

Did you have any luck?

[omegamoon]

No, unfortunately not. This once again is a UPDATE.APP image, which cannot be extracted with any available tools (yet). I'm looking on some chinese forum with the help of Google Translate It seems there are other custom ROMs available. I'll try to get one

Update: Ok, I got an image from here. This has a "normal" image. I'll try flashing it

Edited by omegamoon, 25 May 2012 - 10:27 PM.

[haxxbaxx]

http://bbs.anzhi.com...159934-1-1.html

[bumps]

if you look at his sign it says it supports u8818

[bumps]

just googled miui u8818 quite a few good links dont know if anyone wants to try a rom

[Hans Gruber]

can flashing one of those roms in CWM kill a phone? Or is the worst that can happen it just won't boot?

[bumps]

just won boot afaik but someone who knows more could say to be sure

[jikobutsu]

Hans Gruber, on 26 May 2012 - 07:40 PM, said:

can flashing one of those roms in CWM kill a phone? Or is the worst that can happen it just won't boot?

I think it is most likely that it will not flash at all or will flash but not boot.
Flashing is recoverable TPT is not,a tpt could easily brick your device if you used wrong one or one that was corrupt.

Edited by jikobutsu, 26 May 2012 - 07:47 PM.

[Davidoff59]

What happens if they change your partition sizes, then your a bit stuck if you want to go back a la B888

[jikobutsu]

To change partition sizes it would have to be a tpt or official update which would be tpt also,flashing cannot change partitions.

Edited by jikobutsu, 26 May 2012 - 10:59 PM.

[Frankish]

bumps, on 26 May 2012 - 07:43 PM, said:

just won boot afaik but someone who knows more could say to be sure

If the zip only contains a selection of the following...

System
Metainf
Boot.img
Data

Then there's no chance of bricking. Only boot loops or hangs at Huawei logo. But its been confirmed roms are interchangeable between 18 and 15 variants.