How to root Huawei Sonic / U8650

**DND** · 10-09-11, 12:19 PM

The Mrs's has the X1 u8180 and it has heeps of optus crap on it that you can't uninstall unless its rooted. Anyone know if this will work on that one?

**DND** · 10-09-11, 01:37 PM

Just came across this hidden menu *#*#4636#*#* I don't know if it works on all Huawei or not. But has some good info in it.

**DND** · 10-09-11, 03:27 PM

Originally Posted by DND

The Mrs's has the X1 u8180 and it has heeps of optus crap on it that you can't uninstall unless its rooted. Anyone know if this will work on that one?

Ok bit the bullet and it rooted the U8180 without any problems

**chris.leeg** · 15-09-11, 04:37 PM

Just bought a Sonic from Dick Smith for $188.00 unlocked.
Ran your root method which worked flawlessly!!!
Installed "Bloat Freezer" app & got rid of "Documents To Go" app which clawed back a huge 10mb of precious internal storage. Lets face it, this phone has only a very modest amount of space available and every bit saved helps.
This phone has very little bloat but getting rid of that one huge useless app was sooooooo satisfying

Now that I have root what other devilment can I get up to?

I was one of the many suckers who bought a Samsung Galaxy S for an insane amount of money based on its dazzling hardware specs only to find it was a ridiculously sluggish and buggy waste of money. Trying to get it rooted was the most frustrating and ultimately unsucessful thing I have ever had the misfortune to try.

Huge thanks for sharing this!
Gonna have great fun plying with this little Sonic

Chris

**admin** · 15-09-11, 05:17 PM

Good to see a few people have used the method I posted

There is nothing worse than Googling and trawling a heap of sites that supposedly have the answer, only to find pages full of ads and popups and getting no where.

**chris.leeg** · 16-09-11, 11:27 AM

Just a follow up..

I have a U8150 Ideos (Virgin Mobile carrier unlocked) laying around and tried this updater. It worked flawlessly also.
A previous poster reported success with a U8160 (X1) and I have confirmed it worked perfectly on my U8650 (Sonic).

Caveat Emptor:
Just to clarify to anyone arriving at these pages from other countries, these are all AUSTRALIAN market firmware phones. Your mileage may vary if you have a handset from another country.

Chris

**DND** · 17-09-11, 01:28 PM

You should make this a sticky Sanity..

anyone know how to change the permisions on the root files,, I'l trying to get rid of the optus boot screen.

**Nicko26** · 19-09-11, 09:49 PM

Hi i was just wondering if anyone knew the internal memory of this phone apart from the sd card

**Roberto** · 22-09-11, 04:08 AM

Originally Posted by DND

Ok bit the bullet and it rooted the U8180 without any problems

Good to hear! Because me, 24 hours after purchase, I bit the bullet and failed to root the U8180 - with many problems.

My own problems were with SuperOneClick, Can you remember which version of which rooting program you used, please

**DND** · 23-09-11, 10:41 PM

Originally Posted by Roberto

Good to hear! Because me, 24 hours after purchase, I bit the bullet and failed to root the U8180 - with many problems.

My own problems were with SuperOneClick, Can you remember which version of which rooting program you used, please

What do you mean which rooting program,,? I used the one saintly posted up. (first page of this thread)

I got one of these phones for myself too

rooted it also no problems

**DougieDoesIT** · 27-09-11, 11:32 PM

hey thanks for the info but in your first post in step 1 it says download this file but there is no link to the file that needs to be downloaded as im wanting to root my fone and this forum has ben helpfull other than i dont know what file to install on my sd card to updated to am i able to downlaod it from the android market at all

**DougieDoesIT** · 27-09-11, 11:35 PM

sorry for my last post i didnt see the link as i was not yeat a member now that i am i can see the like fine thanks heaps for the help

**DougieDoesIT** · 27-09-11, 11:37 PM

the only question do i nee to save the file on the sd card into a folder or just anywhere on the sd card

**slick1** · 30-09-11, 08:04 PM

Originally Posted by Sanity

I had to go through a bit of trial and error to do this, so I thought I would post up how to do it very easily. Several methods dont work at all due to Gingerbread version.

Stolen from another link, reasons to root your phone

I have sucessfully done this on my own phone, however do it at your own risk

1. Dowload this file

2. Transfer it on to your SD Card

3. Turn your phone off. When turning it back on, hold the volume up botton and power button together for a few seconds. This will boot it in to recovery mode. You will see this on the screen, if it didnt happen, turn your phone off, remove the battery, replace it, and do it again.

4. In the menu, select update from SD card. I had to use my volume buttons for selection and power button to select it on the screen.

5. Follow the progress on the screen. Reboot your phone and its done.

I've also been looking to free up some space on my HTC desire because the low memory icon has come up even though I dont have a great deal of apps on there. My biggest app is 'touchdown' which is my email program. For some reason, the option to move it to SD Card is greyed out but other apps can be moved to SD Card.

Has anybody succesfully and easily rooted a HTC desire?

Thanks

**admin** · 30-09-11, 08:12 PM

Start a new thread please, I would like to keep this one on (sonic) topic.

I am sure someone can help you out.

**slick1** · 30-09-11, 08:37 PM

Consider it done.

Thanks

**rayray** · 02-10-11, 05:12 AM

Originally Posted by Sanity

1. Dowload this file

Hi the file located in Megaupload is no longer valid. Please help provide with new valid URL.

RayRay

**admin** · 02-10-11, 08:23 AM

Originally Posted by rayray

Hi the file located in Megaupload is no longer valid. Please help provide with new valid URL.

RayRay

Works fine for me, can someone else confirm ?

**DND** · 02-10-11, 09:44 AM

Originally Posted by Sanity

Works fine for me, can someone else confirm ?

Still working fine

**nagual** · 03-10-11, 10:16 AM

THANK YOU, THANK YOU THANK YOU!!!
I've been looking for a rooting solution since I got the u8650 last week. It was looking like I wa going to have wait a while till I could root this sucker.

Stumbled on this thread, signed up to the site, tried the method posted here and bingo. Rooted u8650!

Now to get the butt wipe carrier to un-lock the danm thing and I take it traveling with me. Thanks again for the info.