Guest McSpoon Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 This may be of interest to the U8800 devs. Huawei have a Gingerbread device called the C8800. It has a 480x800 screen resolution so it *might* be similar to the U8800 ?? (although they could be completely incompatible with just a similar name and screen res). The firmware is available on their website. http://www.huaweidevice.com/cn/downloadCen...C92B821SP03.zip Please do not flash that update.app file to your U8800 as it will probably brick your phone. The only reason I am posting this link is so the devs can extract the system.img to see if they can adapt it to work on the U8800. The attached Perl script will unpack the update.app file and extract the system.img and boot.img to a subfolder called 'output'. Usage: perl split_updata.pl UPDATE.APP I don't have a U8800 so I can't try it. My biggest concern is the C8800 is based on msm7627 and I believe the U8800 uses the msm7630 chipset so I'm not sure if they'll be compatible. And it looks like this firmware is in Simplified Chinese only. But maybe it will be of some use?? Here is a snippet of the build.prop: ro.build.date=Sat May 21 05:45:54 CST 2011 ro.build.date.utc=1305927954 ro.build.id=HuaweiC8800 #ro.build.display.id=msm7627_surf-eng 2.3.1 GRH78 eng.wangyali.20110110.112612 test-keys ro.build.version.sdk=10 ro.build.version.codename=REL ro.build.version.release=2.3.3 # ro.build.date=2011-01-10 Mon. 11:34:17 CST # ro.build.date.utc=1294630457 ro.build.type=user ro.build.user=wangyali ro.build.host=huaweisrv07-desktop # ro.build.tags=test-keys ro.product.model=C8800 ro.product.brand=Huawei ro.config.hw_contact_customer=C92 ro.config.hw_browser_ua3g=http://wap1.huawei.com/uaprof/HW_HUAWEI_C8800_1_20110222.xml ro.config.hw_browser_ua2g=http://wap1.huawei.com/uaprof/HW_HUAWEI_C8800_1_20110222.xml ro.config.hw_use_browser_ua=true ro.product.name=C8800 ro.product.device=hwc8800 ro.product.board=C8800 ro.product.cpu.abi=armeabi ro.product.manufacturer=HUAWEI ro.product.locale.language=zh ro.product.locale.region=CN ro.wifi.channels= ro.board.platform=msm7k # ro.build.product is obsolete; use ro.product.device ro.build.product=msm7627_surfsplit_updata.pl.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Soup Thief Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 (edited) There's some discussion of this at xda developers Looky here too It suggests the C8800 supports CDMA while the U8800 supports WCDMA It also mentions that the phone has a 500 mega-pixel camera, so maybe it's not 100% reliable... Edited June 11, 2011 by The Soup Thief Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest McSpoon Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Cool. I usually ignore the XDA forums but it's good to see they're aware of the C8800. I really hope the U8800 and C8800 have similar hardware but it begs the question why haven't Huawei released a Gingerbread update for the U8800 if they've done it for the C8800? I'm starting to think the answer might be because the hardware is vastly different. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest papatsonis Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 (edited) here it states has same hardware, but if you enlarge the picture enough, you can see that C8800 version comes with 256ram, and God knows what other differences.. Edited June 11, 2011 by papatsonis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest That-Guy Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Looking at it I think we would have more luck getting a working version of CM7 :P Still worth keeping an eye on ;) Maybe if we all donate money to a dev they would consider buying the phone to work on it lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Soup Thief Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 Looking at it I think we would have more luck getting a working version of CM7 :P Still worth keeping an eye on ;) Maybe if we all donate money to a dev they would consider buying the phone to work on it lol I thought flibblesan had one - could be wrong He'd be yer go to guy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest That-Guy Posted June 11, 2011 Report Share Posted June 11, 2011 I thought flibblesan had one - could be wrong He'd be yer go to guy No he currently has a Desire after selling his Blade I believe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rockglass Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 C8800's CPU is 7627T Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Poulsen8r Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 I doubt this is going to make it any easier to get a Gingerbread ROM fully functional for our phones, since it is running on the 7227 (Last Gen) processor with 256mb ram, no EMMC, the list goes on. Screenshots for the lolz: If anyone wants the launcher or other apps just reply and I'll see what can be done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ahmad Zuman Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 I doubt this is going to make it any easier to get a Gingerbread ROM fully functional for our phones, since it is running on the 7227 (Last Gen) processor with 256mb ram, no EMMC, the list goes on. Screenshots for the lolz: If anyone wants the launcher or other apps just reply and I'll see what can be done. the launcher seems really good , i would like to give it a try if it was available Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest That-Guy Posted June 12, 2011 Report Share Posted June 12, 2011 Think that Launcher looks Naff myself but thats just my opinion ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest hecatae Posted June 28, 2011 Report Share Posted June 28, 2011 is it a wqvga resolution? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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