Thread: Article: Huawei Mercury - ICS 4.0.3+Beats Audio by Dr.dre (ROM)

Nightly builds



"Huawei Mercury"

ICS 4.0.3



Thanks to jqnorman!!! Without him this rom wouldnt have been up and being worked on!!! Posted here for faster updates.
HUGE credits to jqnorman!!!
You can find his original thread here:
Mercury ics rom!!!


That being said, Welcome to ICS!!!


Things to know about Nightly Builds:

• Not Stable releases
• Will have bugs / issues
• Not intended to be used as main everyday ROM
• Are not Fully Supported like Stable Releases
• Should not be used by people that are not Masters of ADB
• You Should be comfortable enough to recover from soft bricks On your OWN
• 90% chance you will be wipping your data (factory reset) at some point and time

Recovery Required!!!
Need Recovery? Go here:

Custom Recovery by Salas


Make sure you have at least 66% battery!!! (Risk if not followed)

1. MAKE A BACKUP BEFORE YOU INSTALL ANY ROM!!!!!

2.Flash the rom via recovery

IMPORTANT
3. After booting wait 10 minutes to let the rom settle in.

4.Enjoy testing!


*******Links*******
Link down
Will upload v7 beta once data is fixed.





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If anyone wants to look at the "U8860" open source kernel you can go to tinyurl.77hurt3

Using Linux

ex.C8860
If you want to extract the "UPDATE.APP" thats in the dload folder you can try this.

To extract a UPDATE.APP from a Huawei device using linux;

Note: Put everything in the same folder

1.Rename "UPDATE.APP" to "updata.app"
2.Download these files
a.
http://www.zebadger.com/android/scri...lit_updata.txt



b.
http://www.zebadger.com/android/binary/crc



3.Rename "split_updata.txt" to "split_updata.pl"
4.Open Terminal and "cd" to the folders directory
5.Run in Terminal "perl split_updata.pl updata.app"

All done. Everything will be in a "output" folder.


You can then use the system.img and/or the recovery.img to play with.

To extract a system.img you need to have "unyaffs" and to recreate .img file "mkfs.yaffs2"

Open terminal and "cd" to the directory of the files.

Run "./unyaffs system.img" to extract the image to a new folder called "system"

to remake the image:

Run "./mkfs.yaffs2 system system.img" to rebuild the image.


I noticed that one Mercury's on 2.3.5 have alot of problems when rooting or gettings the custom recovery to stick.
While 2.3.6 has had no problems "to me so far".

I been trying to create a stock replacement but data is still a no go , also the keyboard will Forceclose even with the correct Permissions..
You can uninstall the keyboard and install an new one if you have it in you sdcard. Talk and text and everything else works.

BUT if you want to play with it then here you go:
Gingerbread Reinvented





Sorry if i dont post much anymore, reason:Job hunting is a pain here -_-

Originally Posted by asuddendeath

Wait its working now? Most of the bugs worked out?

Sent from my M886 using Tapatalk

Alpha means that has lots of bugs that are being worked on.

Beta means most bugs are fixed and the rom is semi stable.

I havent been able to test these but i have been fixing errors as i go through everything. But thats why its in the alpha stages so that testers can play with it and report what and what doesnt work so it can be fixed in the next release.

We will get a full working rom soon(;

Originally Posted by JoeStat

You are our hero!

<3

lol thanks but dont only thank me ^^ thank jqnorman as well because without him starting it this wouldnt of been in progress.

Originally Posted by asuddendeath

Phone calls in and out work, any boot issues, text and email problems?

Sent from my M886 using Tapatalk

Have you tested it alpha 3? if you could list what youve tried and also screenshots would be awesome.

Originally Posted by android4ever91

When ever I tried installing the alpha 3 I got 4 syntax errors and it aborted installation

If you could, can you post the errors?

Originally Posted by android4ever91:53714

Sorry for the poor quality it was taking from my buddy's windows phone lol

Lol i cant see anything