Rooting Huawei U8860 Honor ICS ROM B935

Just upgraded my Huawei U8860 Honor Non-camera phone to Ice Cream Sandwich 4.0.3 (ICS) yesterday. Everything seems fine. No battery issues or whatever so except that I no longer can remove advertisements in applications, reduce CPU speed to conserve battery life or perform full backup through applications like AdFree Android, SetCPU and Titanium Backup respectively. All of these applications requires you to have root access to the ROM.

The good thing is, it appears (to me that )the mempodroid offset for Huawei U8860 Honor ICS (B923) works for the Build 935 (B935) for Huawei U8860 Honor (Singapore) ICS firmware! Hence, I decided to give it a try and it works! My Huawei Honor Non-camera phone now has a rooted ICS ROM (Singapore official) + locked bootloader.

Want to root your phone? It is quite straight forward with the scripts made by tri_zet (xda-developers – rooting ICS ROM B923) for Huawei ICS ROM B923.

Required Files

• Huawei Honor Root Tools 

Setting your phone to the right mode (non-ADB)

1. On your Huawei Honor, navigate to Home –> Settings
   The Settings program should launch
2. In Settings, navigate to “{ } Developer Options”
3. In “Developer Options”, ensure that “USB debugging” is unchecked

Installing ADB drivers

1. Connect the Huawei U8860 Honor to your computer via the microUSB cable
   The Huawei Honor phone should get recognised and a drive should appear
2.  Install the ADB drivers from the newly recognised drive
3. Wait for the ADB installation to complete
4. Detach (safely remove) the Huawei U8860 Honor from your computer

Enabling ADB on your Huawei U8860 Honor

1. On your Huawei Honor, navigate to Home –> Settings
   The Settings program should launch
2. In Settings, navigate to “{ } Developer Options”
3. In “Developer Options”, ensure that “USB debugging” is checked
4. Attach the Huawei U8860 Honor to your computer’s USB port
   It should recognise new ADB interfaces and drivers should install. Wait for the drivers for the ADB interfaces to be installed completely before proceeding to the next section

Extracting the Huawei Honor Root Tools

1. Ensure that you have downloaded the Huawei Honor Root Tools
2. Extract the archive (zip) to your computer disk drive (e.g. C:\huawei_honor\)
   A new folder “HuaweiHonor-root-tools” should appear in C:\huawei_honor

Rooting the Huawei U8860 Honor ICS

1. Navigate to the HuaweiHonor-root-tools directory
2. Execute the file “root-me.cmd”A command prompt window should appear 
3. Follow the instructions in the command prompt
4. On your Huawei U8860 Honor, you should see a new application call “Superuser”Note: You can also install Root Checker to verify whether your ICS has been rooted
5. Congratulations. You have rooted your Huawei U8860 Honor ICS

Calibrating the Huawei U8860 Honor battery

It is always a good practice to recalibrate the battery when you have flashed a new ROM. This is required if you feel that your battery is draining faster than usual.

To recalibrate the battery, you will need to have a rooted ROM (in this case, you have) and the battery recalibration software – Battery Calibration.

A final note

Have fun with your rooted Huawei U8860 Honor ICS. Do check out the useful applications:

• AdFree Android
• SetCPU
• Titanium Backup
• Battery Calibration

 

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