How To Update Ideos X5 U8800 With Aurora Ice Cream Sandwich

How-To

Good news for Ideos X5 U8800 users, now they can taste Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on their Ideos X5 U8800 with a ROM “Aurora”, it based on Qualrom Code Aurora for that you can expect some bugs, but it’s stable for daily use, see below guide to install but first take a look its some requirements, your device must be rooted with CWM recovery installed, below procedure will wipe device data so make a backup of your device data, its battery should be charged, and turn the USB Debugging on, by tap Menu> Settings> Application> Development. Then, make sure that USB debugging is checked.

DISCLAIMER: The below method is bit risky and we will not be held responsible if you lose data or your device gets damaged in the following of this guide so please proceed at your own risk.

Instructions To Install

Step #1: Download the aurora_1.10.zip on your computer.

Step #2: Connect your device to the computer using your USB Data Cable and copy the zip file you downloaded earlier to the root directory of your SD card.

Step #3: Now disconnect your phone to the computer and turn it off.

Step #4: Reboot into CWM recover mode, in the recovery, do a nandroid backup by selecting backup> backup and restore> then backup to start saving your old ROM. (This will make a full backup of your existing ROM, and save it to the SD card. You can restore from this backup, if something gets messed up with the installation.)

Step #5: Now do a full wipe by selecting Mount and Storage then wipe the following:

Format System
Format Data
Format Cache
Go back to main menu and select advance then wipe dalvik-cache.

Step #6: From the main menu select install zip from Sd card> choose zip from Sd card>then select the aurora_1.10.zip to start flashing the Aurora ICS ROM.

Step #7: Once the flashing done, go back to main menu and select Reboot system now. That’s it enjoy!

Source: XDA – via: androidauthority

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Abdur Rehman

15 comments

suleyman

March 5th, 2012

i did what is prescribed above its installed but searched for network for a long time then it would not activate and asking for restart and skip did both but the same,,,going back to miui for now
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sam

March 14th, 2012

i use a U8800H RBM i installed all of above works 99% only 2 probs i have battry is not detected and phone make is not detected any way i can fix this????
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- Abdur Rehman
  
  March 27th, 2012
  
  it’s a bug…
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Arun yadav

April 1st, 2012

while i try to install ics 4.0.3 using cwm recovery…. there is a error e: can’t mount sd card.
What should i do now?
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- Abdur Rehman
  
  April 1st, 2012
  
  dear you’ve problem in this step,”Connect your device to the computer using your USB Data Cable and copy the zip file you downloaded earlier to the root directory of your SD card”
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harsh savla

June 10th, 2012

Do u need Android 2.3
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- Abdur Rehman
  
  June 11th, 2012
  
  No…just device should be rooted with latest ClockworkMod recovery installed
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ricardo

July 5th, 2012

after clockworkmod work and reboot , apears only the aurora logo but does nothing after that . what do i do ? i want to my phone to work again . Please help me im getting mad
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- Abdur Rehman
  
  July 6th, 2012
  
  I don’t know what happend to the device,however you should put the device in recovery mode, then wipe with step 5, and turn on the device….
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Khaqan Babar

July 21st, 2012

I tried to install ICS Aurora, follow all the above mentioned steps, once .ZIP instalation completed from SD card appear I reboot my device but after that no progress shown. there is Huawei sign on the screen and it is not proceeding further more. I have restarted after waiting so long but result remains the same. Kindly guid me what should I do now.
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- Abdur Rehman
  
  July 22nd, 2012
  
  wipe device with step 5 and turn on again..if it doesn’t work restore the backup of step 4
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HF

March 1st, 2013

hy!
Are we talking about the u8800 or the u8800 pro???
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- Abdur Rehman
  
  March 1st, 2013
  
  u8800
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Patrick

March 19th, 2013

Hi Abdur, I followed as above but didnt take a backup and now its just giving the the Huawave logo…. please help I tried reflashing aurora but no luck
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- Abdur Rehman
  
  March 20th, 2013
  
  Dear you need to install an official firmware to get the phone back in working position…..
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