How to Install Recovery on Huawei Ascend P1 U9200 B113 and B115

Huawei U9200 AKA Ascend P1

Try this at your own risk, I am NOT responsible if you brick your phone.

This is mainly for Huawei Ascend P1 U9200 with B113 or B115 firmware but will work on any version with the right recovery image :) 

 

Step 1 - Download Android Control here (mirror) or here (XDA thread) and extract to a folder on your hard drive root (eg. c:AndroidControl)

Step 2 - Download one of these Recovery images -
recovery-new.img (the one included in Onekey)
or
recovery-off.img (the one that Onekey is based on)
or
cwm_touch_recovery_viva_beta.img (A new one which is in English :)

Note: As far as I know, the first two are both Chinese language but based on ClockWorkMod so should be easy enough to navigate around, the last one is a beta but is in English and uses the touchcreen to navigate rather than the volume and power keys :)

Step 3 - Put whichever image you choose into the AndroidControl folder ready to be flashed over.

Step 4 - Make sure USB Debugging is enabled on your phone and then switch it off. Hold volume down and power key (I think lol) to boot into download mode (phone should boot to logo and then stop) then plug it into your PC.

Step 5 - Open a command prompt and navigate to your Android Control folder, run the following command depending which one you chose.


fastboot flash recovery recovery-new.img

or

fastboot flash recovery recovery-off.img


or



fastboot flash recovery cwm_touch_recovery_viva_beta.img


Step 6 -  Once finished type - fastboot reboot to reboot your phone.

Step 7 - Turn off your phone once rebooted and then hold the volume up and power keys to boot into recovery.

Enjoy :)

How to Restore stock Firmware on Huawei Ascend P1 U9200

Huawei Ascend P1 - U9200

WARNING - This will completely reset your phone and erase all data, custom rom and any custom recovery partition you have installed such as ClockWorkMod and replace it with Huawei Stock recovery etc. It will also remove any rooting on the phone and restore it to its unrooted state.

Method 1 – Forced Update

Step 1 - BACKUP everything on your phone.

Step 2 - Download the stock firmware

• Huawei Ascend P1 U9200 - Firmware List

(These are the only ones I have available at the moment so you might need to pick the closest match for yours)

* - This may or may not be the correct country, Ive had to guess with some of the firmwares so if not it will probably be close or a general/normal version.

Step 3 – Download all parts of the firmware into the same folder.

Step 4 - Open one of the downloaded .rar files in WinRAR or other archive manager.

Step 5 - Select the dload folder inside the main folder and drag it onto your desktop.

Step 6 - Open the dload folder on your desktop and check that the file update.app is inside.

Step 7 - Copy the whole dload folder accross to the root of your phones SD card (you may want to use a blank SD for this)

Step 8 - Turn your phone off then press and hold the volume up and volume down keys together and then press the power key.

Step 9 - The install process should start automatically so just wait until its finished.

 

Step 10 - Your phone will reboot automatically after the firmware has finished installing and will take some time to load, this is normal so just leave it to do its thing.

Step 11 – Check that the update has worked by checking the Firmware version by navigating to - Setting->About phone->Build number

Note: The [Firmware Version] should match the last 7 characters of the firmware you downloaded eg C00B213.

Method 2 – Normal Update

Step 1 - BACKUP everything on your phone, I cannot stress this enough :)

Step 2 - Download the stock firmware

• Huawei Ascend P1 U9200 - Firmware List

(These are the only ones I have available at the moment so you might need to pick the closest match for yours)

* - This may or may not be the correct country, Ive had to guess with some of the firmwares so if not it will probably be close or a general/normal version.

Step 3 – Download all parts of the firmware into the same folder.

Step 4 - Open one of the downloaded .rar files in WinRAR or other archive manager.

Step 5 - Select the dload folder inside the main folder and drag it onto your desktop.

Step 6 - Open the dload folder on your desktop and check that the file update.app is inside.

Step 7 - Copy the whole dload folder accross to the root of your phones SD card (you may want to use a blank SD for this)

Step 8– If your phone is on, switch it off and then back on again. Otherwise switch on your phone and wait for it to boot up fully. Navigate to Settings->Storage->Software Upgrade->SD card Upgrade->Confirm->Upgrade

You should then see the following - 
 

Step 9 – Check that the update has worked by checking the Firmware version by navigating to - Setting->About phone->Build number

Note: The [Firmware Version] should match the last 7 characters of the firmware you downloaded eg C00B213.

Done, you should now have a phone thats back to factory fresh :)