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Android 2.3 !!!

http://getsatisfaction.com/huaweiindia/topics/android_2_3_when_for_ideos_x5

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http://getsatisfaction.com/huaweiindia/topics/android_2_3_when_for_ideos_x5
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Huawei Cares (Customer Support) 1 day ago
Not any specific date, but it will be by September end or in October.
Cheers!
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good news...So we wait some weeks more!

Arent the custom roms already running 2.3? so.. why such a big deal haha?

Because the official 2.3 it's supposed to have all the bug fixes that are much needed (low volume in calls, low mic recording, crappy BT audio in calls, screen-lag issue fixed, sensor lag fixed, wifi tethering etc etc)

katu2006 said:
Because the the official 2.3 it's supposed to have all the bug fixes that are much needed (low volume in calls, low mic recording, crappy BT audio in calls, screen-lag issue fixed, sensor lag fixed, wifi tethering etc etc)
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Also lets hope for fixed wifi and data connection dropouts and USB tethering

i think the earliest we get it will be december
classic "you can expect this on ...." "we re working on it" patterns

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=el&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=el&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Ftechblog.gr%2Fmobile%2Fhuaweix5-android-2-3-9882%2F&act=url
techblog.gr has infos for the update too. says will have the update on upcoming months.

I would suggest you to forget about official 2.3 Cause they have NO interest in making it cause it's stupid to work on things that are already on sale and they have newer models..they just don't give a damn about customers or their older phones. They may do 2.3 if they release or have any new model with similar hardware - so then maybe.. I don't see any reason why they should want to release 2.3

I believe they are going to release it as some models already have the upgrade.
Just be patient.
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Blefish said:
I believe they are going to release it as some models already have the upgrade.
Just be patient.
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which ones have UPGRADE? not just 2.3 but upgrade from 2.2 ?

Tommixoft said:
I would suggest you to forget about official 2.3 Cause they have NO interest in making it cause it's stupid to work on things that are already on sale and they have newer models..they just don't give a damn about customers or their older phones. They may do 2.3 if they release or have any new model with similar hardware - so then maybe.. I don't see any reason why they should want to release 2.3
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They HAVE TO DO coz google says so. There has been some problems on giving support to the old models with htc, samsung etc so google make some deals with them.
Eventually there would be an update but sure they dont give a damn to us so we would wait alot for this.
Sent from my Desire HD

It can't come soon enough, sad to be reading about this new deLay. Totally sucks. How come they don't use some of the code already made available by DZO/Stockwell/geno on their Oxygen/CM/Miui ROMs?

I don't think HW by themselves will make 2.3 for U8800, coz they launched U8800 pro. Maybe we can take ROM from it in a future.

i hope they really gonna release it!

I highly doubt that there is going to be any offical 2.3 update.

It will come belive me. They said in the end of the year. So be a little patient.
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I think companies will soon realise that some customers will no longer purchase their tech if there is an insufficient upgrade path.
I wont be buying another Huawei soley due to the slow/lack of support for almost all models within a few months of their release.
Why would I buy a new computer if it wont be upgradable to the next OS within a few months?
A computer running early ubuntu can still easily be upgraded to the lastest no problem, most companies nowadays worry about support first and about the tech later and i'm starting to get that way about phones, dont want to constantly change tech only because the support is ****.
Sure i understand the profit motive to make people buy new phones every 6 months, but its just getting a bit ridiculous when your talking about $500 phones especially in these economic times, if they put a big sticker on the outside of the box saying 'NO SUPPORT AFTER 6 MONTHS' i'm sure they wouldnt sell as well, everytime I see a Huawei box I just imagine that sticker on the front now

droiduser said:
I wont be buying another Huawei soley due to the slow/lack of support for almost all models within a few months of their release.
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I'm agree with you on that part!

I've been saying the same thing...I'll NEVER buy a Huawei product again! No matter how cheap it will be...Now I know why it's cheap...

Huawei CMO said 2.3 ROM would be released.
according to Huawei CMO's official weibo (chinese twitter), 2.3ROM will definately be released, but still, no specific date.
weibo.com/1100856704/xpo1BuZgt
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New phone coming Huawei Honor

Yet another huawei phone that im sure will never get the next Android update
and support will be non-existent after a couple of months of sales
From engadget...
Huawei's four-inch flagship has appeared at a rigorous FCC screening, and this one comes with several radio band changes since its formal reveal. This new CDMA 800/1700(AWS)/1900 variant, making it through the Commission as the M886, indicates the Honor will be making a showing in the US on Cricket as the Huawei Glory. You can expect to see the Gingerbread-running device come with a 4-inch FWVGA (854 x 480) screen, a 1.4GHz single-core CPU, 512MB of RAM, a sizable 1,900mAh battery, an 8 megapixel rear camera and a 2 megapixel front-facing cam.
After having such a long time with a U8800 and no offical updates to 2.3 but continued promises from non-existant huawei tech support, upgrading to the new Samsung Nexus/Galaxy Prime as soon as its out as the specs for it just kick ass on anything else out there,
At least the Samsung will come with the latest OS and im sure the updates will be much quicker than anything huawaitforanupdate... could ever come up with

You bet Samsung or any other manufacturer will provide updates. Just changed to HTC Inc S and received 2 OTA updates in the last few days. Next to come is Sense 3.0

katu2006 said:
You bet Samsung or any other manufacturer will provide updates. Just changed to HTC Inc S and received 2 OTA updates in the last few days. Next to come is Sense 3.0
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and probably one of them is to deal with the news-mentioned bug in HTC's own software when collecting user's information and storing them non-securely..

iamelton said:
and probably one of them is to deal with the news-mentioned bug in HTC's own software when collecting user's information and storing them non-securely..
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I've heard about that, but at least HTC cares about that and what users think... God knows what happens on the Huawei phones...

that makes me think of the linux-windows analogue..
with linux (huawei?) u r on ur own.. u can make the best of it, and u can also live in hell with it..
with windows (htc? samsung? etc?) u r well taken care of, and can live happily ever and after..
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btw, did u realise that by buying a htc or samsung phone, u r also contributing to the m$ empire's wealth and health?
anyway, not that many ppl care about that i guess..

droiduser said:
Yet another huawei phone that im sure will never get the next Android update
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I think they promised ICS for Honor (probably like 2.3 was promised for Ideos X5)
Anyone betting on it?

Somewhere was said that Huawei's main focus is on ICS and if they have time they'll do a 2.3 upgrade. Not sure if its true though.
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Sure the U8860 Honor will get the update... but the M886 Mercury in America probably wont. Same phone just a cruddier FFC and its CDMA not GSM. Cricket is a "unlimited everything for one low rate" provider and I doubt will care to update it's customers. But you get what you pay for... a $250 phone with service for $55 a month.
I'm buying the phone today and I will go on a killing spree if it breaks with in the first few months. By then I'm sure they will have lowered the price though :-/

I read somewhere that google's force company's to have last android updates on recent models. that means even x5 have to be updated to ICS because its an 2008+ model. and so on.

I don't know much about this, I tried to search for anything about that quickly and came up dry. Recent models will be updated I'm sure, but if your phone is a year old then too bad.
Also, On Google's site it says that old Android versions can be shipped on any device, since it's open srouce, but can not carry the name Android and will not be part of the Market ecosystem.
Baiscally, I think its up to the manufacturer if they want to spend the time to get the new OS updates to work with a phone even though Google tries to make it easy. Low-end models will suffer and get lost in the dust.
Now about carriers pushing updates OTA... I think that will only last about a year to 18 months. Why give you the latest OS when you can come back and spend more on a new phone?
Food for thought: A year ago I bought the Samsung Galaxy-S from T-Mobile, it didn't have the latest Android version. T-Mobile said they weren't planning on pushing the update OTA when it came out. Instead said to use Samsung's Kies which failed miserably. At the time I wasn't the only one who had trouble with the software. So I loaded up a custom ROM with a newer Android OS and a sleek dark look.

Looks like a cool phone. Happy with the x5 for now though.
Guess the moral is you get what you pay for really. Huawei package good hardware into a reasonably nice phone and they sell it cheap, why do we expect updates to next version of Android? You pay an extra couple of hundy for a sammy or htc with the same specs, you can start to expect updates. Buy an Iphone and it is a part of the deal for a generation or 2.
It is the biggest problem with android that there is no central control. Google makes a new version, phone manufacturer has to update everything to support it, carrier has to decide to push it and then customise it and then you have to update it using any of a bunch of methods. It is too messy and nobody has control to make sure phones are good and functional before being shipped out the door.
Also ICS has bumped up the minimum specs so everything down in spec from a nexus s should not expect ICS any time soon if ever.
I love xda for making cheap phones completely usable and awesome with custom firmwares and great devs.

Currently from Huawei official BBS there is no plan to release ICS version to X5. The new model Honor already have the ICS pilot version.
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XDA-J said:
Currently from Huawei official BBS there is no plan to release ICS version to X5. The new model Honor already have the ICS pilot version.
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So if the Honor has it, the Mercury should too. Only difference is CDMA and FFC....
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PaulMilbank said:
Looks like a cool phone. Happy with the x5 for now though.
Guess the moral is you get what you pay for really. Huawei package good hardware into a reasonably nice phone and they sell it cheap, why do we expect updates to next version of Android? You pay an extra couple of hundy for a sammy or htc with the same specs, you can start to expect updates. Buy an Iphone and it is a part of the deal for a generation or 2.
It is the biggest problem with android that there is no central control. Google makes a new version, phone manufacturer has to update everything to support it, carrier has to decide to push it and then customise it and then you have to update it using any of a bunch of methods. It is too messy and nobody has control to make sure phones are good and functional before being shipped out the door.
Also ICS has bumped up the minimum specs so everything down in spec from a nexus s should not expect ICS any time soon if ever.
I love xda for making cheap phones completely usable and awesome with custom firmwares and great devs.
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the above about min requirements is far from true.. If you have a phone that will run 2.2 or above it WILL RUN ICS Better. The biggest improvements in ics is in how it handles memory and cpu cycles.It all uses a whole new ui called render script. that threads the ui thru the gpu Hardware rendering. This makes ics run even better on older hardware.
This is all over the net check it out. and YOUTUBE as well..
I to am wondering about ICS ON The mercury. Unless we can gind a very good DEV that can port the u8860 rom to the M886 . from gsm to cdma .
Anyway just my opinion. I went from honeycomb to ics on my icionia a500 and its like a new device
Erica Renee

Phone looking great, but after many problems in the past with x5, i will never buy huawei again.

Does anyone here own the Huawei Honor? I plan to buy this phone. What are your impressions with it?
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By the way, what are the differences between Ideos X6 and Honor?

I got the Honor 10 days ago !
For what it is, this phone is great, getting it was a very last minute decision (duty free shop in the Airport), but I'm happy I did.
I was able very easily to put ICS on it and it runs great every thing is better about the phone (except for the camera which is horrible), the ICS room is from HUAWEI and its called Cambodia Demo but it works great including Google play.

I heard they was updating 07/13/12
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For those thinking in buy Huawei, make your savings and buy some other brand.
Huawei = ZERO client support updates that makes the phones even worst, so you will be on your hands.

agree with last user.
huawei makes good specs for money... but has the worst development and costumer care I know...
I probably wont buy this brand again, my good impression from x5 capacities exist thanks to DZO, nothing more !
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[Q] ideos x5 supports android ice cream sandwich?

You think the ice cream sandwhich android system supports ideos.x5?
or can be supported with custom roms ?

The next version of Cyanogen will be based on ice cream sandwich!

Maybe we could not get the ICS, because Huawei will not creat the 3.0.1 kernel for X5.
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With custom ROMs, sure! About official, not sure yet.
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I highly doubt there will be official ICS. Huawei doesn't seem to be the best company at giving updates to our phones. Still no gingerbread and you guys are talking about official ICS.
EDIT: People should also read the forums rules. Development forum is only for rom, kernel etc development. So if you are not developing anything you should put these in the general section of the forum.

What is needed to be done to get the 3.0 kernel to this phone?

with custom roms supported.... k?

It's too soon to know.Source ain't out yet, right?
u8800,cm7,[email protected]

PlanDreaM said:
It's too soon to know.Source ain't out yet, right?
u8800,cm7,[email protected]
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yes, right...

Then, as soon as the code comes we will be able to know which phones can take it.
It is my assumption that the U8800 will have some minor problems with it, if ram is an issue.I find no problems with the hardware though.If ICS has hardware acceleration on the browser and UI, our GPU can take it.I find no reason not tofcourse we will have to see what happens with the drivers, and what we need to change.
I am positive though.

Huawei Forums;
Senior Vice President of Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. Yu Chengdong: I see some friends who use the old product U8800 asking if 2.2 can upgrade to 2.3 version as their expectations and concerns. Huawei's mobile phone R&D focus to a more leading ICS 4.0 version, with the fastest speed for the main products directly to upgrade to 4.0, for which cannot be upgraded to 4.0 will also be upgraded to 2.3, unless some of the hardware capabilities are limited. However, Vision Honor and other new models provide the first public version 2.3, and then will be the fastly upgraded to version 4.0!
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Vague bull***t... :/ Whats that suppossed to mean? After all these months of waiting for the "october relase of gingerbread" now we'll have to wait for a (probably fictional) upgrade straight to 4.0?
They just keep reminding us why they sell their phones so cheap dont they?....

There are none ice cream sandwich release yet. They just lies..
http://twitter.com/#!/HuaweiDevice/status/90736282896052224 => "2.3 will be coming."
http://getsatisfaction.com/huaweiindia/topics/android_2_3_when_for_ideos_x5 = > Will be in october.
CMO says: 2.3 is not coming. 4.0 will be coming.
Are they kidding? 4.0 even not launched yet.

Özgürce said:
There are none ice cream sandwich release yet. They just lies..
http://twitter.com/#!/HuaweiDevice/status/90736282896052224 => "2.3 will be coming."
http://getsatisfaction.com/huaweiindia/topics/android_2_3_when_for_ideos_x5 = > Will be in october.
CMO says: 2.3 is not coming. 4.0 will be coming.
Are they kidding? 4.0 even not launched yet.
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I think most of the companies have the ICS SDK already for faster releases - at least that's my imagination of a perfect world lol

franciscofranco said:
I think most of the companies have the ICS SDK already for faster releases - at least that's my imagination of a perfect world lol
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Samsung has it,for sure
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Samsung has ICS SDK because the Google Galaxy Nexus Prime will be launched next month and will have the first phone with ICS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM9RO-GAKjE

i think it will

i think it wont..

On this site, it says all newer devices HAVE to have the latest update for the first 18 months after they go on sale. I think our u8800 is new enough. (In Estonia available at August, announced in December 2010 worldwide?)
And, Open Handset Alliance members are here, as you can see, Huawei is there.
And I read somewhere that ICS should support >1 year old devices, so even if we don't get the official port, we'll get a custom one hopefully.

would be great to have ICS to x5

Plannin to buy x5 pro??

Hey guys, am planning to buy x5 pro,, am satisfied with the specifications(in this price range).. jus need your suggestions. whether i can buy this model.. Is it outdated?? jelly bean update?? any common hardware probs??
BTW , am coming from lg p500 community..
Posted already in Q&A section, but no response.. thats why am posting it here.. Sorry...

good choice
carrthee89 said:
Hey guys, am planning to buy x5 pro,, am satisfied with the specifications(in this price range).. jus need your suggestions. whether i can buy this model.. Is it outdated?? jelly bean update?? any common hardware probs??
BTW , am coming from lg p500 community..
Posted already in Q&A section, but no response.. thats why am posting it here.. Sorry...
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I thinks the X5 or X5 pro is the good choice for this price.
JB now is not available yet for X5 or X5 pro .
And let buy it if you want, don't hesitate )
I'm from VietNam and i will buy the U8800 in the end of this week , just wait for the transporter
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hung.ngomanh said:
I thinks the X5 or X5 pro is the good choice for this price.
JB now is not available yet for X5 or X5 pro .
And let buy it if you want, don't hesitate )
I'm from VietNam and i will buy the U8800 in the end of this week , just wait for the transporter
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Please guys don't go for U8800, instead go for U8800 PRO. It has got more ROMs here at XDA, better configuration. Also has Official ICS update. Its not there for U8800. M using Pro and there r many ROMs both of GB and ICS to try out this phone. and JB is soon going to come out for Pro and not for simple U8800, since a developer is developing it and going to release it for u8800 pro only. So go for U8800 PRO, not U8800.

If you can get the g300 (8815/8818) where you are, go for that one. Upgrade to ICS available now, bigger screen, nicer build. Just better all round. Otherwise get the x5 pro. The regular x5 has not even got an official gingerbread running on it let alone ICS or jellybean.

Thanks all,
But who say the ICS or JB can not available on U8800 ?
We have many dev and i believe nothing we cant do !
I will try on U8800 and waiting for the "best ROM" for it !:victory:

It works fine but the firmware that Huawei made is very glitchy, I keep asking them to fix it but they don't seem bothered about it
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Hi Need Some Help

Hi let me introduce myself to you guys..I am A Galaxy Mini user..well thinking of upgrading my device while Searching over Google i came over Huawei ideos X5 Pro..well I am now thinking of Buying this device
My qwestions are -
1)Is this Device Very durable? i basically drop phones in marble floors that is in my home
2)Is this Device ArmV7?
3)And Last one..How is the Service from Huawei Service Centres
Guys Need some help fast
Am confused between Xperia Tipo and X5..well stats wise this Phone beats Tipo fair and Square...But I need ArmV7 architrcture..and so thats a must
I am gonna buy a phone in next week..so just confused between these 2..Guys help
Thank You
Fellow XDA'n
Rik[Rittik]

umm no one?..
Rik[Rittik]

Good and versatile phone.
You won't find a device for same price with same specs.
Worst or basically non client support from Huawei.
This you can get only from the store you bought itand here you will have all the assistance needed.

it wont break screen easily rite?
Rik[Rittik]

The screen might be a bit difficult to brake, since if I am not mistaken there is some space between the plastic and the screen. But the device is made of plastic so if you drop it frequently it might have some problems. Noone can quarantee that your phone will be OK after a drop....
Official support sucks.
Its a armv7a.
Sent from my U8800

You should probably look elsewhere. This phone is now getting on a bit and will most likely never have a working jelly bean ROM. Huawei has released some new phones like the Ascend G300 and the recent G330. They are better built, the G330 is much faster and they have official ICS. Might even get jelly bean at some point.
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yea my other option is,g300
..but no official xda support still..well ita bad for a developer like me..but why are u guys waiting for official JB update? Use CM10 or Aokp..much better according to me..
Rik[Rittik]

Rittik said:
yea my other option is,g300
..but no official xda support still..well ita bad for a developer like me..but why are u guys waiting for official JB update? Use CM10 or Aokp..much better according to me..
Rik[Rittik]
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check ebay.in it have 10.5k deal for xperia U. Dual core,better build quality,good screen and resolution.

No SD slot
Rik[Rittik]

Rittik said:
..but no official xda support still..well ita bad for a developer like me..but why are u guys waiting for official JB update? Use CM10 or Aokp..much better according to me..
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Official XDA support - that's an oxymoron
By Jelly Bean I meant any Jelly Bean. The new Ascend models have a good chance to receive an official update at some point.

riDDimann said:
Official XDA support - that's an oxymoron
By Jelly Bean I meant any Jelly Bean. The new Ascend models have a good chance to receive an official update at some point.
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Devs can easily port CM10 i.e 4.1.3 To X5 easily..it has enough horsepower to run it smoothly ...my galaxy mini runs CM10 smoothly..with Oc upto 768mhz only..
Rik[Rittik]

Save your money and don't but Huawei. Go for a Samsung our something

Its armv7... It is dependant on whether model it is. You don't want to have the U8800H since it has limited support.

My honest opinion is if you can't afford the very cheap nexus 4 then there is no doubt that this is the phone you definitely want. It is really durable especially the scratch proof screen (Mine has never been scratched) but dropping any phone on a marble would do some sort of damage. Yes its arm 7 and the service center varies between country as one is located in each I think? The one in my country (New Zealand) is extremely good. Mine got hard bricked and they had it back to me within a week of me taking it into the store I bought it from and they gave me a free micro sd because the first time they sent it back the camera told me it couldn't be found. And if you are wanting to get into developing yourself then I 100% recommend this phone to you. Hope this has helped your decision.

Yea Ty guys..Got my x5 pro
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