Hello Shagerty.
I have the Huawei U8652 from Consumer Cellular. I found all kinds of threads relating to rooting the U8652 from AT&T, but no threads specifically for the U8652 from Consumer Cellular.
Hoping the two carriers set up the phone close enough, I tried your steps.
First, though, I did try your fast boot/recovery boot and did confirm my android did have a fast boot recovery screen before any root attempts. (I have a total of 3 identical phones for my family. All did identical recovery boot screens.)
When following your steps, and I get to step 11, fastboot only returns a question mark and the words fastboot next to it.
I went ahead and finished all the steps (biting nails and crossing fingers).
When I tried step 15, the phone never goes beyond the consumer cellular boot logo... ever. (prior to rooting attempt, a recovery boot got me an Android menu screen in about 4 seconds). Now it just sits there. I even tried holding the volume up and power for a full two minutes.
Luckily I was able to remove the battery and reboot the phone normally. But subsequent attempts to recovery boot now just get me a locked screen.
So, it would appear that AT&T and Consumer Cellular have just enough sublte differences for your instructions here to not work.
Would you have any ideas on how I can root the Huawei U8652 from Consumer Cellular? (I have three phone I want to root)
Any help is appreciated.
TF.
I don't think this method will work for you sorry. I don't know of anywhere that has the info you're looking for. Try whatever method exists for the u8652 AT&T. That should work.