New U8230 ROM on HuaweiDevice.com - analysis

[Guest Spooke]

Do tell what you find, but all I have seen of the newly released Swedish ones (unboxing vids on youtube) ... they have 1.5 on them =[

What should I be looking for, and how do I open the files lol

[Guest xangma]

What should I be looking for, and how do I open the files lol

What do you mean? It's a zip. As long as it doesn't stop downloading randomly like mine did and you have a complete file, you should just be able to flash it.

[Guest meinnit]

Mine stopped at 66.6MB! It's an imcomplete file :D

[Guest Spooke]

What do you mean? It's a zip. As long as it doesn't stop downloading randomly like mine did and you have a complete file, you should just be able to flash it.

Mmm, I dont want to flash it tbh :D, Il let someone else do that lol :D

Edited February 15, 2010 by Spooke

[Guest xangma]

Anyone else think these were pulled? =/

[Guest HugoQueiriga]

Anyone else think these were pulled? =/

Still downloading mine, slowly but downloading!

[Guest Spooke]

Anyone else think these were pulled? =/

What do you mean?

[Guest McSpoon]

Yes, their website is very unreliable. The downloads often stall. But the files are still there.

If it's a ROM there will be an 'updata.app' file somewhere within the zip. In which case, it might be best to extract the system image and either flash that or create a new ROM from it.

(for anyone wishing to extract the system image, there is a perl script to unpack the updata.app file and then you can use unyaffs to unpack the system.img file.)

[Guest HugoQueiriga]

Yes, their website is very unreliable. The downloads often stall. But the files are still there.

If it's a ROM there will be an 'updata.app' file somewhere within the zip. In which case, it might be best to extract the system image and either flash that or create a new ROM from it.

(for anyone wishing to extract the system image, there is a perl script to unpack the updata.app file and then you can use unyaffs to unpack the system.img file.)

The swedish h3h is a rom, just checking the files, unfortunately i'm to new to this to flash it on my phone, I will do it as long I can go back to the MCR!

[Guest klutsh]

U8220_HD1U822M29V100R001C125B249SP01_Sweden_H3H.zip is a generic 1.5 build.

ro.build.version.sdk=3

ro.build.version.release=1.5

ro.build.date=Thu Jan 14 00:29:02 CST 2010

Plus side no operator branding, although the pink is still in the dialer.

Also framework-res.apk still has T-Mobile branding.

This is not looking very good on Huawei, they dont seem to be able to make a new rom, instead just keep on patching the original Pulse ROM and fail to do it correctly.

The large size is because the rom was packed twice in the zip

Edited February 15, 2010 by klutsh

[Guest Harash!]

This was taken at MWC, hope it'll go official soon. :D

[Guest HugoQueiriga]

U8220_HD1U822M29V100R001C125B249SP01_Sweden_H3H.zip is a generic 1.5 build.

ro.build.version.sdk=3

ro.build.version.release=1.5

ro.build.date=Thu Jan 14 00:29:02 CST 2010

Plus side no operator branding, although the pink is still in the dialer.

The large size is because the rom was packed twice in the zip

Yeah, they packed it twice! You just saved me installing Swedish ROM! lol

[Guest McSpoon]

It's another cupcake :D Oh well. Hopefully one day we'll get an eclair.

[Guest xangma]

And the other U8230 one?

EDIT: no. Still 1.5

Edited February 15, 2010 by xangma

[Guest bonzy_13]

The ROM is NOT rooted... :D

[Guest Jan M]

There are another 2 new files on the Huawei site.

U8220 HD1U822M29V100R001C125B249SP01(Sweden H3H)

http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/down..._Sweden_H3H.zip

U8230 HD1U822M06V100R001C00B250(Normal)

http://www.huaweidevice.com/worldwide/down...B250_Normal.zip

how did you find those?

for me this page shows these as the latest:

Normal	  CDMA-PC Suit-C08B135SP01		 	2010-02-11		 22065KB

U8220-6 	U8220-6 HDHOST027V100R001C00B0 02（Normal） 	Normal	  2010-02-11	  65167KB

U8230 	HOST-U8230V100R001C00B002(Norm al) 	Normal	  2010-02-03	  65169KB

[Guest McSpoon]

how did you find those?

Hehe. :D They don't always list them on the website - but there are other ways to discover what's there (hint: using a trick similiar to 'fuskering'). I'm keeping a close eye on it in case an Android 2.x ROM is uploaded. :D

[Guest Josh04]

The ROM is NOT rooted... :D

Rooting a pulse ROM is painfully easy, as far as I can tell. You unpack boot.img, open the ramdisk, edit system.props, done :D

[Guest xangma]

Hehe. :D They don't always list them on the website - but there are other ways to discover what's there (hint: using a trick similiar to 'fuskering'). I'm keeping a close eye on it in case an Android 2.x ROM is uploaded. :D

Would like a PM about this please =P Want to know how to do myself haha.

[Guest Jan M]

Would like a PM about this please =P Want to know how to do myself haha.

Yes please include me as well =]

[Guest Glycerin]

Rooting a pulse ROM is painfully easy, as far as I can tell. You unpack boot.img, open the ramdisk, edit system.props, done :D

And what should i edit in the system.props?

[Guest Josh04]

ro.secure = 0, or something like that.

[Guest rjm2k]

Hehe. :D They don't always list them on the website - but there are other ways to discover what's there (hint: using a trick similiar to 'fuskering'). I'm keeping a close eye on it in case an Android 2.x ROM is uploaded. :D

In that case is there any hidden source where they normally put kernels?

eg

http://forum.huawei.com/jive4/servlet/Jive...rnel.part04.rar

[Guest McSpoon]

In that case is there any hidden source where they normally put kernels?

Not that I know of. I wish there was.

[Guest rjm2k]

Not that I know of. I wish there was.

and what about the tmobile download site? anything hidden there?

eg http://support.t-mobile.co.uk/library/TMOB...th_Userdata.zip