Huawei Ascend G300 Firmware and ICS Update

There's no tweaking or rooting needed it works perfectly and is not Vodafone branded. Or even Huawei branded for that matter it's pretty much stock Android. If you just want to update to ICS just install and forget about rooting if you're worried about warranty.

stevek93 wrote: »

Adyx wrote: »

stevek93 wrote: »

Confused with all this here :P going to ask them send me out the B893 version just to be on the safe side.

Edit: Just had a brain wave these B893 B927 numbers ect are these hardware related or software related like a build number for each higher number is a newer build?

So if I buy the phone of vodafone i can flash it and install this correct. www.modaco.com/topic/355583-guide-how-to-install-ics-403-b926/page__pid__1982861__st__20#entry1982861

Haha, it's all software. There's no hardware difference. You can indeed install that if you want. The only reasons to wait for an official ics update is to avoid voiding your warranty and because Huawei have promised full hardware acceleration will be included.

Phew, was getting worried there lol. Why does that rom not have hardware acceleration? Also will this new update be vodafone branded. Hopefully well see this update on modaco with a few tweaks and a root.

Richard Dower wrote: »

It dosen't bleedin' work! :mad:

I tried standard + forced upgrade, both methods twice....both failed. Formatted the SD card, placed the dload folder on the SD card with the 608mb file inside the folder.

Tried both methods detailed in the .pdf file.....Update failed is what it reads!

Well it worked for me. Try downloading it again I had problems unzipping it the first 2 times as the file seemed to be corrupted. Also make sure you're updating using Settings>Storage>Software Upgrade

Did you verify the checksum? And also make sure you redownload the ROM as it might have changed?

eamon234 wrote: »

It does work I'm using it!

Download file unzip copy dload folder to sd card. Settings>storage> software upgrade and that's it. Just backup everything first.

Alright, I'll give it another shot now!

Last time it failed on step 2 and the only thing that could be done was pull the battery to get it going again, tried that 3 or 4 times from the menu and another 2 or 3 times by pressing the 2 volume buttons whilst powering on... All failed at the same moment, just before step 2!

Edit: Still nothing

So only one person has successfully updated from stock (exactly as bought in shop) to the official ICS update given on previous page?

purple hands wrote: »

Not exactly from stock, I was on b892 but followed the guide below as well and worked fine. Haven't gone through step 3 yet. EDIT: No problems here either. I would note that the 'middle package' mentioned in Section 2 wasn't in the toolkit, but it is available elsewhere on modaco.

I might for the craic try install the official update linked, see if I'm lucky and if it works.

Its not my own phone, only want to update it once be it official ICS or if I have to go down root route. I hope I get away with the official ICS, will save a lot of hassle!

Has the latest Huawei ROM been pulled?

I always get a zero byte file when I try
HUAWEI Ascend G300 firmware(U8815,Android 4.0，V100R001C00B934,General Version)

Richard Dower wrote: »

^ yes....as you need to new the new/updated Baseband version which B926/7 has....in order to update the B934/6 from there.

The rooting/CWM process is long and a pain in the arse....it's not hard, just alot of steps and if you don't read the instructions or miss a step it takes ages, like i did

Haha, the exact same thing happened to me. Then when I done the brothers phone after it, reading all the steps, it took me like 10% of the time. Lol.

B936 seems to be working fine. It took me half a day to go from stock Vodafone gingerbread to B926 as described by Modamco and after re-rooting and reinstalling Clockwork Mod took it to B936.

Then a lot re-installing again. But everything seems to work. Phone feels faster, especially booting.

Only thing left is installing a different kernel and changing the boot animation, but sofar thumbs up for B936.

Chuck Stone wrote: »

Two questions lads.

1. Will there be an official 'painless' ICS update released by vodafone that doesn't involve rooting and all that stuff?

2. Will I have have to put the vodafone SIM card back in to receive it?

Thanks.

1: There will be an official 'painless' update supposedly on Friday, but that could change. Vodafone handed the update over to Huawei 3 weeks ago, why it's taken them this long to roll out the OTA update, I do not know, but they are saying they'll do it on Friday. So Settings > About Phone > Online Upgrade should work on Friday.

2. I really don't know, you may need to, but it would only be if vodafone put something into the update to make sure you were a customer, which I don't see why they would (although they have been acting dickish in that manner lately). As long as your phone is set to receive updates from the same place as it was when you got it (as in you haven't rooted it with any 3rd party updates) you should be able to get the update fine, but then again, since it's an exclusive deal with vodafone, for the time being, the update repo might be synced using credentials from your vodafone account. Once again, I don't see a reason they'd do that, but they're being dicks, so expect the unexpected.

M cebee wrote: »

do i have to install the minor ota update that came out a while back first, or just the ics
thanks

I don't know how Vodafone worked it, but as far as I remember the firmware upgrade B893 which was released a while back is required. I think it's main purpose was to allow ICS. Only phones with B893 would be able to receive the update.