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Upgrade Huawei Ascend P7-L10 to EMUI 3.1(Android 5.1.1)

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Note: In 2017, all ROM images were removed on the official website. Huawei says it will provide a “more convenient and satisfactory update service”. Since then, all user must rely on over-the-air (OTA) updates. Reference

Finally 40 days after Huawai announced the EMUI 3.1 images for P7 in China on Oct 17, I found the official EMUI 3.1 image for P7-L10 in Huawei Germany Support(search “Smartphones” and “P7-L10”, and check the item “HUAWEI Sophia-L10 Firmware(Android5.1.1, EMUI3.1, C900B839, Europe)”.

Based on the official doc in the EMUI 3.1 image file, HUAWEI P7-L10C900B839 SD card Software Upgrade Guideline(For Service).doc:

If your phone is not in the scope, please check my previous article to get P7-L10V100R001C00B621(EMUI 3.0/Android 4.4.2) installed at first.

Downloaded it, uncompressed it, copied it to a MicroSD/TF card(better 4G or larger). After backup the data on the phone, use Settings->System Update->Local Update, the mobile will restart and use the image from MicroSD/TF card.

And it’s better to do a wipe after the upgrade. How to wipe:

  • Shutdown the mobile
  • Press “Volume Up” and “Power” at same time, in this mode, you can use “Volume Up” and “Volume Down” as “Up” and “Down”, “Power” as click.
  • You will get a menu with three buttons, “Reboot Sytem”, “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” and “Wipe cache partition”.
  • Choose “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” and click it
  • Choose “Wipe cache partition” and click it
  • Choose “Reboot Sytem” and click it

Then it should be EMUI 3.1(Android 5.1.1) now. Good luck!

Note:

  • Version Number: P7-L10C900B839
  • Custom Version: CUSTC432D001

Upgrade Huawei Ascend P7-L10 to EMUI 3.0(Android 4.4.2)

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Note: In 2017, all ROM images were removed on the official website. Huawei says it will provide a “more convenient and satisfactory update service”. Since then, all user must rely on over-the-air (OTA) updates. Reference

Yes, I am still using it as the second mobile. The software is Android 4.4.2 + EMUI 2.3 when I bought it. And I am in Norway, didn’t get any OTA update for it.

Recently I joined a QQ group of P7 sub-forum on Huawei Fans Club. One friend there told me there is an EMUI 3.0 image available on Huawei Germany Support(search “Smartphones” and “P7-L10”, and check the item “Sophia-L10_V100R001C00B621C432D001_Firmware_Germany_Channel_Android 4.4_EMUI 3.0_05012HCE”).

I downloaded it, uncompressed it, copied it to a MicroSD/TF card(better 4G or larger). After backup the data on the phone, use Settings->System Update->Local Update, the mobile will restart and use the image from MicroSD/TF card.

And it’s better to do a wipe after the upgrade. How to wipe:

  • Shutdown the mobile
  • Press “Volume Up” and “Power” at same time, in this mode, you can use “Volume Up” and “Volume Down” as “Up” and “Down”, “Power” as click.
  • You will get a menu with three buttons, “Reboot Sytem”, “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” and “Wipe cache partition”.
  • Choose “Wipe Data/Factory Reset” and click it
  • Choose “Wipe cache partition” and click it
  • Choose “Reboot Sytem” and click it

Then it should be EMUI 3.0(Android 4.4.2) now. Good luck!

Note:

  • Version Number: P7-L10V100R001C00B621
  • Custom Version: CUSTC432D001

BTW, they started to do a public test of EMUI 3.1(Android 5) for those P7 models in China.

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Will not buy Huawei Mobiles any more

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I and my wife used iPhone 4S and iPhone 5 before. We think iPhone 6 is too expensive and want to have a try with Android.

There were some deals about Huawei Ascend P7 near 2015 new year. We got it at 1999NOK(the cheapest price should be 1699NOK). My wife used it a few weeks and decided to switch back to iPhone 5. Then I started to use it.

It is a flagship phone which was released on June, 2014. Huawei’s Richard Yu introduces the Ascend P7 in Paris on May 7, 2014. The software is Android 4.4.2 + EMUI 2.3.

And Google released Lollipop(Android 5.0) at November, 2014, and now it is June, 2015. I still can’t find any from System Update, it’s always “No updates found”. After some googling, I found “Huawei Fans Club“, and there is a sub forum for P7. I got more knowledge about P7. There are several models: L00 for China Unicom, L07 for China Mobile, L09 for China Telecom, and L10 for European area(which I am using) and etc.

L00/L07/L09 models got EMUI 3.0 update, but it is still Android 4.4.

There is a plan from Huawei to have some kind of public test release of Lollipop on P7 on July, 2015, but L10 is not included. So I think my P7-L10 will not have that update in a short period, I mean several months.

P7 was one of flagships from Huawei, and still in current status, can’t catch up the latest release of software in more than half year.

I will try more with my LG Nexus 5, but the GPS on it is some kind of crap when I played Ingress.

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