U8230 ROM on the Pulse... YES YOU CAN! :) [now with download!]

[Guest Paul]

I got it working! When I roll MCR 1.4, it will be based on this, the ROM from the U8230 on Bouygues in France! :D

Improvements...

- NO PINK! No branding at all!

- new ROM core

- new TouchPal version

- very slim and fast

- updated roadsync and documentstogo

Pics below! :(

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Edit: now with ROM download!

Download superceded - details in this topic

[Guest mapero]

Sounds great :D

I hate "MyGroups" and i am happy that it is gone from the desktop on ur screens :(

Edited December 1, 2009 by mapero

[Guest joners]

Wow thats great news, thats what everyone has been after!

Not sure if its just me but the links to the screens dont seem to be working, they fail to load for me (could be my corporate webfilter though).

[Guest Paul]

Just realised it's the stock launcher, not the Pulse specific one!

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[Guest mupra]

You are my hero!! (not the htc one)

(and when will the MCR 1.4 comes out? :D)

[Guest bounty123]

Thats great news! I would vote for a very sleek, minimalistic custom ROM, where users can decide what apps to install and what not, just the bare necessary ones are included in the ROM. i don't need roadsync or the stupid block breaker, would be glad to see them gone.

[Guest Paul]

Gets my vote too! Unfortunately the Pulse is now my missus' main phone, so I have to try and prise it out of her hands... :D

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[Guest McSpoon]

Très bien monsieur Paul. So how did you get it to install?

[Guest Paul]

I'm uploading something for you all to play with now! Basically I...

- downloaded the update from huaweidevice

- extracted the update

- hexedit the update file to extract the boot image and system partition

- unpacked the system partition and repacked it into zip format

- booted it and it didn't work

- replaced the boot image with the MCR one (until I have time to find the problem)

- booted and it did work

- made it into an update zip for you guys to check out

- uploaded it (in progress)

:D

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[Guest Paul]

Pondering buying another Pulse just for ROM dev now...

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[Guest klutsh]

Pondering buying another Pulse just for ROM dev now...

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At the current bargain price can you really afford not to?

[Guest superl]

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

how did you manage to do that !!!!!

I try this morning and I failed!!!!!!!!!!!

explain me please i'm very interested!!!

and give me the link !!!!!!!! :D

thanks !!!!!!

[Guest Paul]

At the current bargain price can you really afford not to?

It's still technically a phone I don't need... :D

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[Guest superl]

i try to change some infromation from the rom file but it did not work!

I suspected that the app file is a whole boot.img and zip but I do not know where the cut!

[Guest Paul]

Added download in first post! :D

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[Guest superl]

thanks Paul !!

do you explain how you do that ?

thanks

[Guest stupidm4n]

Does the camera have gps tagging now ?

[Guest Paul]

Haven't played with the ROM, you guys tell ME what it has! :D

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[Guest mapero]

This is stock, unrooted, use at your own risk etc. etc., posted only to let you guys have a look!

When its unrooted, i can still get back to recovery rom via bootloader and flash back my nandroid backup?

If yes, ill give it a try this evening.

[Guest Paul]

Yeah, you can just put it in bootloader (vol down and end then power) then fastboot the recovery image to restore your nandroid backup. I did exactly this. :D

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[Guest McSpoon]

Well it fixes the barcode scanner and shopsavvy camera issue.

I just did a nandroid backup; then installed it; played around for a few minutes; switched to recovery mode using "adb shell reboot recovery" and restored my nandroid backup and everything is back as exactly it was before the install.

[Guest Paul]

Any reason you can see not to use it for the next MCR? Is the Camera app OK?

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[Guest stupidm4n]

has anyone got the pc suite drivers so i can test this out please

[Guest xangma]

why aren't we just going to use it? Does wifi not work?

Can I install it using adb?

EDIT: I flashed it by selecting the zip in the recovery mode thing. I hope this is right =/ Rebooting now.

Edited December 1, 2009 by xangma

[Guest McSpoon]

Any reason you can see not to use it for the next MCR? Is the Camera app OK?

It's fine. It does seem better unbranded. Might take a bit of getting use to at first. There is a Bouygues app which could be removed and update the OpenGL-ES library (as it has the slow one). But I completely agree, it's probably more stable than the T-Mobile version.