, The Huawei Ideos X5 U8800 Blog: Installing Custom Roms

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Installing Custom Roms

Custom rom means an os which is specially customized for your phone to give you the maximum performance.
Installing a custom rom means replacing your stock rom with the customized one which is obviously better. Custom rom gives you a better interface and you can also overclock your processor. Ther roms whicch work bets with Ideos X5 are Miui, Cyanogenmod, Oxygen. I perfer Miui and also using it right now because of its better interface. It get a benchmark score of 2800 with overclock of 1.6ghz 
The updated roms can be easily acquired from xda forum huawei idoes x5 (even i get if rom from here).
Download your desired rom from here and copy it to your sd card. Try making a separate folder for the rom so that its handy while installing.




Installing custom rom will erase all the phone data so backup your data to sd card or anywhere you like. Download Titanium Backup from marketplace to backup your apps so that you can restore them in your custom rom too. Read all the steps, understand them amd only then proceed if you are new to this.




Installing Custom Rom:

  1. Copy the zip file of your custom on your sd card.
  2. Turn on your phone in recovery (Volume up + power)
  3. Run "wipe data", "resotre factory settings" and "wipe delvik cache" (wipe delvik cache is in advanced option)
  4. Once this is done select "install zip from sd card" and browse it to the zip file of your custom rom.
  5. Once the installation is done, slelect "reboot system now"
  6. Your phone will now boot in your custom rom.

Feel free to post queries.  

12 comments:

  1. where did the internal sd go??i cant find it,help me please.

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  2. hi,
    i'm assuming that you are using miui rom.
    you can't access both of them at once, there is an option in the x5 settings app (from where you overclock your processor)to switch between then.

    i'll be posting how to repartition your internal sd so that there is some fix to this.

    Regards

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  3. My new post should sought you out a bit

    http://huaweiideosx5u8800.blogspot.com/2012/01/re-partitioning-idoes-x5.html

    let me know how did it fare with you.

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  4. Hai sharotri...
    I interested to flash my ideos x5 with costum rom. But if i have flash with custom rom, could I flash back with GB official stock rom?

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  5. i try to install a custom rom a wipe data and cache and then update the rom from sd but it doesn't work and after that i roboot back to the old rom but i have a problem with the wifi.it turn on finds an available connection but it fails to connect.i try factory reset but the problem still appears.if i erase the whole sd card and unroot the phone the problem will be gone?

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  6. i tied to do this but i get stuck at ideos splash screen...

    what should i do?

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  7. while install zip from sdcard, signature verification failed, using miui2.4.20

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  8. i installed oxygen 2.3.2 using cwm recovery but am unable to boot ma phone its suck in boot loop. plz help

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  9. what is the most stable custom rom for huawei u8800

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