Rooting a CONSUMER CELLULAR Huawei u8800-51

[cabreco]

Has anyone successfully rooted a CONSUMER CELLULAR Huawei u8800-51?
If so what did you use?

The reason I am so specific is I recently had a bad experience updating using Huawei's own file. It appears the U8800-51 is a different animal than the U8800 or U8800-PRO. Huawei has not update for the U8800-51 AKA Impulse as these are made ONLY for the USA market. So updating rendered my wifi, mobile data & BT DEAD, and Huawei said the warranty was now VOID!

Consumer Cellular did replace it under warranty because I called them 1st & ask if the update would cause issues or void the warranty. They told me "no problem" so they ate it.

I'm not interested in modding it just rooting it so that I can use Titanium backup to remove bloatware & to be able to freeze some apps.

So if anyone has successfully rooted the CONSUMER CELLULAR Huawei u8800-51, I would appreciate some insight!

Thanks

 

[cabreco]

 

[stevenr1950]

I did yesterday. I used the following:
http://androidforums.com/huawei-imp...53049-guide-root-cwm-recovery-impulse-4g.html
everything worked except the link to the cwm was bad. It restarted just fine, still have all functions. I downloaded ROM manager from the play store and superuser from the play store. I installed the cwm that came with rom manager. Everything is working, but I'm kinda 'now what do I do with it'. My goal was to be able to delete the crap that came on it. So far I haven't figured out how to do that but it seems a little peppyier.

 

[jkeuclid]

I did yesterday. I used the following:
http://androidforums.com/huawei-imp...53049-guide-root-cwm-recovery-impulse-4g.html
everything worked except the link to the cwm was bad. It restarted just fine, still have all functions. I downloaded ROM manager from the play store and superuser from the play store. I installed the cwm that came with rom manager. Everything is working, but I'm kinda 'now what do I do with it'. My goal was to be able to delete the crap that came on it. So far I haven't figured out how to do that but it seems a little peppyier.

Hi Steven, so what I'm gathering and from what I read, it's not so much Consumer Cellular installing some custom boot loader that prevents rooting but rather the phone itself? I also have CC and a Huawei U8652 Fusion 1 phone which it seems is unrootable but I'm looking at a Moto G which does seem to be rootable but it does concern me a bit about CC and hope the phone turns out to be rootable and from Google it appears indeed to be very rootable.