Huawei has finally released an official Android upgrade for the popular U8800 model, which has been sold in the UK as the Huawei U8800 Titan and is also known in some places as the IDEOS X5.
Whatever you call the thing, it’s just got a bit better, thanks to an official update to Android 2.3 appearing courtesy of the maker. The 192MB file you need is over on Huawei’s site. It didn’t make the “end of November” deadline, but it’s here now.
On its Twitter feed, Huawei warns that owners who’ve installed custom ROMs on the popular little hacker-friendly phone might encounter difficulties when upgrading. But then that’s all part of the fun, eh?
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Chris
/ December 29, 2011This 2.3 release is full of bugs!
Look on the XDA Forums and you will see how bad it really is. Things like the IMEI number changing to 0, Random Reboots and GPS/Wifi Problems.
This is a complete fail release from Huawei, I am gutted I really want to update.
Ben
/ December 30, 2011Really? I was thinking of updating my X5 to android 2.3, but after seeing your comment, I’m a bit frightened cause theres no way of reverting back to android 2.2 once the update is complete!!
Chris
/ December 30, 2011You can downgrade easily, check out the XDA Forums.
It has a locked Bootloader but this can be bypassed and the 2.3 can also be Rooted too.
Hope this helps :)
Willem
/ January 1, 2012Hey how long will it take to update? Because the screen of mine is pink and i dont know if this is the upgrade mode! But what i do now is that it takes forever!!
Ben
/ January 5, 2012Oh wait, my wifi suddenly stopped working after a week!!! HEEEEELLLP!!!!
Anurag
/ April 2, 2013I downloaded the new 2.3 from official website and upgraded my phone and now it just sucks. touch is screwed, aplication doesnt open properly and phone is almost hung all the time…
Can anyone get me out of this mess, I want to downgrade it back to original. I dont have the previous backup.