Huawei has officially started its lollipop upgrade program for MediaPad X1 4G (7D-503L) by pushing the first OTA updates to beta testers (3G or 501u's updates will come in a few days time).
If you are not one of them but would still like to give it a swirl, ROM files and update instructions as below.
Please note MHL (HDMI) function is not available in this ROM, if you require this function, do not update.
The usual 'be careful, do it at your own risks' caveats apply, do take note that everything on the phone's internal memory (the 16GB part) will be wiped, your microSD card will not be affected though.
Have fun!
Steps:
1) Ensure your X1 is on the latest EMUI 3.0 B011 ROM, if not, kindly update to it (ROM can be downloaded from Huawei's website)
2) Download the 2 necessary ROM files (the smaller 30+MB one is an update for modem / radio etc; the larger near 1GB file is the ROM proper)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9e...08B011SP05.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/7o...1SP05_Main.zip
3) At the root of your microSD card, create a folder named 'dload', rename the 30+MB file to 'update.zip' and copy that into 'dload' folder
4) Go to 'Settings', 'Updater', 'Menu' and 'Local update'. Perform the update.
5) Phone will reboot and update will run, when you see the green color 'OK', eject the microSD card and the phone will reboot again (if it doesn't, simply long press the power button to force shut and restart it).
6) After the phone has rebooted, re-insert the microSD, navigate to 'dload' folder and erase the update.zip file
7) Unzip the near 1GB ROM file and copy the update.app file into 'dload' folder
8) repeat above steps 4) to 6) (delete update.app instead at step 6)
9) Resetting or restoring the phone to factory settings is recommended after you have successfully upgraded it to 5.1.1
10) If you are prompted for a PIN code when the phone reboots after a flash, fret not, simply force shut it by long pressing the power button, then enter Recovery by pressing the vol+ & power button simultaneously, and choose to clear cache. The PIN code request will be gone when the phone reboots
To obtain root access on this ROM, use the latest KIngroot PC (Win) program to root it.
:)
If you are not one of them but would still like to give it a swirl, ROM files and update instructions as below.
Please note MHL (HDMI) function is not available in this ROM, if you require this function, do not update.
The usual 'be careful, do it at your own risks' caveats apply, do take note that everything on the phone's internal memory (the 16GB part) will be wiped, your microSD card will not be affected though.
Have fun!
Steps:
1) Ensure your X1 is on the latest EMUI 3.0 B011 ROM, if not, kindly update to it (ROM can be downloaded from Huawei's website)
2) Download the 2 necessary ROM files (the smaller 30+MB one is an update for modem / radio etc; the larger near 1GB file is the ROM proper)
http://www.mediafire.com/download/9e...08B011SP05.zip
http://www.mediafire.com/download/7o...1SP05_Main.zip
3) At the root of your microSD card, create a folder named 'dload', rename the 30+MB file to 'update.zip' and copy that into 'dload' folder
4) Go to 'Settings', 'Updater', 'Menu' and 'Local update'. Perform the update.
5) Phone will reboot and update will run, when you see the green color 'OK', eject the microSD card and the phone will reboot again (if it doesn't, simply long press the power button to force shut and restart it).
6) After the phone has rebooted, re-insert the microSD, navigate to 'dload' folder and erase the update.zip file
7) Unzip the near 1GB ROM file and copy the update.app file into 'dload' folder
8) repeat above steps 4) to 6) (delete update.app instead at step 6)
9) Resetting or restoring the phone to factory settings is recommended after you have successfully upgraded it to 5.1.1
10) If you are prompted for a PIN code when the phone reboots after a flash, fret not, simply force shut it by long pressing the power button, then enter Recovery by pressing the vol+ & power button simultaneously, and choose to clear cache. The PIN code request will be gone when the phone reboots
To obtain root access on this ROM, use the latest KIngroot PC (Win) program to root it.
:)
