Not just the likes of Google brewed phones can enjoy the goodness of ICS 4.0.4 as the other phones like Huawei U8120 too can taste the ICS 4.0.4 firmware. All thanks to the Cyanogen mod which makes this possible with its CM9 release. In the due course of this article we will be checking out the same with the help of a detailed pre requisites and tutorial. Please note that this is not an official firmware version released by Huawei and also we don’t have any ETA on by when there will be an official ICS update. Also, be informed that since this is a beta update, there are some things which won’t be working in this build but in the coming versions, the same will be worked upon. We have mentioned below a list of things which work and which still doesn’t work.
Note: Huawei U8120 and Vodafone 845 are both the same phones.
Working:
- Touchscreen
- audio
- Wifi
- Launcher
- Sms and Call -2g/3g
- Bluetooth
- Accelerometer
- Data
- Gps
- Signal Strength
- Virtual keys
- Lights
- Keys
- SD card mount
- ADB
Bugs/Not working/TODO:
- HW accel
- Missing FM
- Camera
- D-Pad
- Built-in Wireless Tether (other apks work)
- some APPs force close
- Lots of bugs and work to do
In the process of this firmware update, you will be required to root the device and once the device is rooted, the warranty will get void. The only way with which you can reclaim he lost warranty is by re applying with factory default update. We will try to come up with an article on the same but for this we would like to know the exact factory firmware version which you need to mention in the comments section.
Disclaimer: Neither we, nor developer should be held responsible for any damage happened to your device in the process of following the instructions mentioned in this article. It’s very unlikely that there will be any issues but just in case if at all there are any issues then we are committed to help you in solving the same.
The only thing you need to ensure is you need to back up the data by using the below mentioned things so that just in case if the data gets lost or corrupted, the same can be restored easily.
SMS – Use “SMS Backup & Restore app”,
Contacts – Sync with the Gmail application,
Call Log – Call Log and Restore
Images, Songs, Videos, Files – Copy to internal / External SD Card,
APN and MMS Settings – Note down from the path “Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names”
- Enable the USB Debugging in your Huawei U8120 from the path “Settings > Applications > Development > USB debugging”. The USB Debugging option should be ticked as shown in the below screen capture.
- Minimum charge left in the device should be at least 60% so as to ensure that device doesn’t get turned Off in the middle of firmware update.
- Disable all the antivirus suites in your computer and uninstall the same in your device as these tools generally tend to interrupt the process of firmware update.
So assuming that you have followed all the above mentioned instructions, you can now proceed to the next page where we have summed up the detailed procedure.
