How to Flash a Custom Recovery on the Huawei Ascend
There’re only a few devices which haven’t got the ClockworkMod Recovery. Either in the official format or in ported format, CWM is available for almost all the devices and the Huawei Ascend is one of them. Whether you’re looking to install custom ROMs or want to have a custom recovery because everyone else does, this guide will be useful to you. Here we have all the required steps to install ClockworkMod Recovery on the Huawei Ascend, follow all them carefully.
I. Before You Begin:
1. You must have rooted your device before doing this procedure. Please head to our How to Root the Huawei Ascend procedure first, finish it, then return to this procedure and continue.
2. This will replace the stock recovery on your device with the custom recovery.
II. Downloading Required Files:
1. ClockworkMod Recovery Image (Download link’s given in the first post)
2. Terminal Emulator App (Google Play Link)
III. Installing ClockworkMod Recovery on the Huawei Ascend:
1. Place the ClockworkMod Recovery Image file on the Desktop of your PC.
2. Extract files from the Recovery archive to your Desktop.
3. Download and install the Terminal Emulator App on your device from Google Play Store. The app link is given in the above section.
4. Connect the device to your PC using the USB cable.
5. Transfer the two files you extracted from Recovery archive to the root folder of your device’s SD card.
6. Disconnect the device from your PC after the files are successfully transferred.
7. Open the Terminal Emulator App on your device from the Main Menu.
8. Type in the following commands into the app, pressing Enter after each line:
$su
#mount -o remount,exec /dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard
#cd /sdcard/
#./flash_image recovery recovery.img
9. After you have executed all of the above commands, reboot your device.
Great! The CWM Recovery is successfully installed on your device, that even without needing PC tools.
IV. Flash a Custom ROM (Optional):
1. If you are ready to flash custom ROMs on your device, head to the How To Flash a Custom ROM on the Huawei Ascend to learn how to do that.
If this procedure helped you please thank/donate to the original developers here.
If you need help with this procedure, please ask in the comments below or in the forum.
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does it work with g610-u15?
It should only work for the device mentioned in it.
its saying file not found
Did it say in step-8?
yes, i went through all the steps. did it about 6 times now, its still saying “file not found’
Either you haven’t put the file on the root of your SD card OR the recovery’s file name isn’t recovery.img. Are you sure both of these are correct on your side?
help please!!
$su
#mount -o remount,exec /dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard
#cd /sdcard/
#./flash_image recovery recovery.img
after it said access denied
Is your device rooted? Please confirm whether you have root-access on your device or not, using an app like Root Checker from the Google Play.
Thanks!
would this work on Huawei y511 ?
yes
it says flash_image not found? what to do?
ClockworkMod Recovery sadly doesn’t support Y220 firmware yet, sadly. So that won’t help.
is this working in Huawei Y220-U10?
I get this error ‘error scanning partitions: Invalid Argument’
Help anyone?
#mount -o remount,exec /dev/block//vold/179:1 /sdcard
Simply said: Invalid parameter!
What I did wrong?
By this way, Is there need to unlock boot loader?