Note: this was originally posted on the XDA Developers forum, where it is undergoing active development/testing by several people. I’ve re-posted a version of it here so it can both gain more visibility as well as be a sort of mirror. –Alan, Sept 21, 2011 Note 2: The U8150 was merged into the official CyanogenMod […]
This is the first in a series of posts about rooting the Huawei IDEOS U8150. I’ll focus on the Huawei U8150 because it’s cheap, hacker friendly, and extremely popular in Kenya. Having said that, this information is really about rooting Android in general; all Android devices are more or less the same, with a few […]
Now that I’ve gotten the hang of compiling custom kernels for U8150 stock ROMs, I wanted to experiment with the dev builds of CyanogenMod* 7. To my surprise, with a little bit of hacking I was able to get a custom kernel to boot up on the latest nightly build of the IDEOS Dev team‘s […]
Note: Since I posted this I’ve learned a lot more about this problem. There’s a lot of misinformation going around, so I’d like to set the record straight: Android supports SIM Toolkit. Period. The code for Stk.apk is in every single copy of the Android Open Source Code repository, go look for yourselves (for example, […]
For the hell of it, I’ve decided to play with the kernel that runs on my Huawei U8150. Like most other Android devices running Froyo, the U8150 comes with a kernel based on Linux version 2.6.32 (to be specific, it’s actually 2.6.32.9-perf). In traditional Linux version numbering, the farther the number is to the right, […]