So I picked up the Huawei U8100 and I have to say it’s pretty snappy. For a phone with the same CPU speed as my HTC Dream (T-mobile G1) it performs much better.
I did break down and download Celestial Teapot in a bid to fix an annoying bug however. There’s a problem where if you plug in headphones and you don’t have music playing when you do, it halves the bitrate of the sound output or something. Basically everything sounds muffled.
You can fix this by simply going into the music player before plugging in your headphones.
With Celestial Teapot I am running my phone at 672Mhz, so a full 100Mhz overclock I believe. Even with this overclock the phone lasts a few days on a single charge. Oh, did I mention it uses the exact same power battery as the Dream? Somehow with pretty much the same components Huawei has managed to save a ton of battery life, and I certainly appreciate it.
In fact that’s pretty much the only reason I went for a new phone. My HTC Dream could barely make it through a day anymore. That and the price was right. At $160 without a contract or free with, you can’t go wrong there.
Normal Bogomips: 594.73 (The HTC Dream gets 421.72)
Overclocked CPU Info:
$cat /proc/cpuinfo
Processor : ARMv6-compatible processor rev 2 (v6l)
BogoMIPS: 666.10
Features: swp half thumb fastmult edsp java
CPU implementer : 0x41
CPU architecture: 6TEJ
CPU variant : 0x1
CPU part: 0xb36
CPU revision : 2
Hardware: HUAWEI U8109 BOARD
Revision: 0000
Serial : 0000000000000000
Update: Somehow Celestial Teapot locked my phone’s network down so I couldn’t connect to Wind anymore. So I installed the proper Wind ROM and have been using that since. I get better battery life running at stock speed anyway, and the built-in WiFi tether app is better than the free ones I’ve found.
Where did you get the original wind ROM from I flashed mine with zodiac fresh fruit ROM, but would like to have a copy of the original just in case…….. 😉
Unfortunately I don’t have a link to the version which came on your phone, but the first upgrade that came out soon after I bought the phone is available both on Huawei’s and Wind Mobile’s website: http://www.huaweidevice.com/tcpsdownload/downLoadCenter?category=&flay=software&fileName=101105110802.zip&attachmentName=U8100-9%20V100R001C98B239%20(Canada%20wind).zip
Were you ever able to connect to wifi Enterprise WPA2 secured networks with stock/Wind ROM? That was my main problem as the wifi application would crash when I entered my credentials. This is the reason why I had to go with third-party ROM. Unfortunately, now other features don’t work as good (wifi theter, bluetooth device recognition).
I’ve never had an issue with normal WPA2 networks but with any network that uses the credential storage system, meaning ones which use RADIUS or other auth servers cause the crash to happen.
This pretty much means I can’t connect to the WiFi at work.