Huawei Ascend Y530 (huawei-y530)

Features
Flashing	Partial
USB Networking	Works
Internal storage
SD card
Battery
Screen	Works
Touchscreen	Works
Multimedia
3D Acceleration
Audio
Camera
Camera Flash
Connectivity
WiFi	Works
Bluetooth
GPS
NFC
Modem
Calls
SMS
Mobile data
Miscellaneous
FDE	Partial
USB OTG
HDMI/DP
Sensors
Accelerometer
Magnetometer
Ambient Light
Proximity
Hall Effect
Haptics
Barometer

Huawei Ascend Y530
	; PostmarketOS running
Manufacturer	Huawei
Name	Ascend Y530
Codename	huawei-y530
Released	2014
Type	handset
Hardware
Chipset	Qualcomm Snapdragon 200 (MSM8210)
CPU	Dual-core 1.2 GHz Cortex-A7
GPU	Adreno 302
Display	480x854 TFT
Storage	4 GB
Memory	512 MB
Architecture	armv7
Software
Original software	Android
Original version	4.3 (Linux 3.4.39)
postmarketOS
Category	testing
Pre-built images	no

Contributors

drebrez

Device info

Full phone specifications

Additional info

Entering "Fastboot mode"

Hold the Volume Down button, and then press the Power button

Entering "Recovery mode"

Hold the Volume Up button, and then press the Power button

Flash system

Right now flashing the system with fastboot fails with the FAILED (remote: Unknown chunk type) error.

As a workaround it's possible to write the system partition using netcat.

The procedure is explained here => https://gitlab.postmarketos.org/postmarketOS/pmbootstrap/-/issues/456

The partition to use in step 5 is

/dev/mmcblk0p23

Wifi

In order to start the wifi you have to load the kernel module and bring the interface up with the following commands:

sudo modprobe wlan
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Setup WiFi with iproute2

Partition layout

~ # fdisk -l /dev/block/mmcblk0
Found valid GPT with protective MBR; using GPT

Disk /dev/block/mmcblk0: 7634944 sectors, 3728M
Logical sector size: 512
Disk identifier (GUID): 98101b32-bbe2-4bf2-a06e-2bb33d000c20
Partition table holds up to 28 entries
First usable sector is 34, last usable sector is 7634910

Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)  Size       Code  Name
   1              34            1057        512K   0700  sbl1
   2            1058            1121       32768   0700  sdi
   3            8192            8255       32768   0700  DDR
   4           16384           17383        500K   0700  rpm
   5           17384           18383        500K   0700  tz
   6           18384           29567       5592K   0700  aboot
   7           29568           31615       1024K   0700  pad
   8           31616          162687       64.0M   0700  oeminfo
   9          162688          170879       4096K   0700  modemst1
  10          170880          179071       4096K   0700  modemst2
  11          180224          376831       96.0M   0700  modem
  12          376832          385023       4096K   0700  fsg
  13          385024          385025        1024   0700  fsc
  14          385026          385041        8192   0700  ssd
  15          385042          450577       32.0M   0700  log
  16          458752          589823       64.0M   0700  bkbootup
  17          589824          606207       8192K   0700  persist
  18          606208          630783       12.0M   0700  boot
  19          630784          663551       16.0M   0700  recovery
  20          663552         1187839        256M   0700  cust
  21         1187840         1581055        192M   0700  cache
  22         1581056         1589247       4096K   0700  misc
  23         1589248         3686399       1024M   0700  system
  24         3686400         5783551       1024M   0700  userdata
  25         5783552         7634910        903M   0700  grow

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