Friday, February 26, 2016

[TUTORIAL] Change region/ID to International in Meizu Pro 5

Great thanks to Darek Z. from MeizuPolska.pl for preparing this tutorial, I am only translating it (with his agree).

Original thread (POLISH) can be found here: http://ift.tt/1T1op5w

So, first some theoretical basics. I found, that each Meizu Pro 5 phone has written information in it's proinfo file and discovered, that each Pro 5 region has own version:

Code:

machine_type=M576_unicom_custom - U version = China Unicom (my phone)
machine_type=M576_mobile_public - A version = Chinese
machine_type=M576_intl_official - I/G version = International

In normal case, access to this partition in phones with locked bootloader is not available, but thanks to BusyBox v1.24.1-meefik, its cp aplet is some kind of exploit, that allows us to get there.

So, let's begin!
What we need at the begining:

1. Working root (Logged to flyme account, settings -> security -> root).
2. Installed SuperSU by Chainfire (with root privillages) - http://ift.tt/1h91r6r
3. Installed BusyBox by meefik (with root privillages) - http://ift.tt/1RtJkes
(steps 2 and 3 are very important, you must use exactly those 2 apps)
4. Installed Android Terminal Emulator (with root privillages) - http://ift.tt/1ha75pJ
5. Modified proinfo file (http://ift.tt/1RtJkeu). We unpack it and move .img file to our sdcard.

When all steps from 1-5 are ready, we run Android terminal and type those commands (all command we confirm with ENTER):

Code:

su
id
dd if=/dev/block/platform/http://ift.tt/1T1orKJ of=/sdcard/proinfo-MeizuPRO5-backup.img
/system/xbin/busybox cp -f /sdcard/proinfo-MeizuPro5-M576_intl_official.img /dev/block/platform/http://ift.tt/1T1orKJ
cat /dev/block/platform/http://ift.tt/1T1orKJ

Everything should look similar to this: http://ift.tt/1T1orKP

After that we reboot our phone, and to make sure everything works, we open terminal again and type commands:

Code:

su
id
cat /dev/block/platform/http://ift.tt/1T1orKJ

If we see there machine_type=M576_intl_official, than everything is fine, and we can use international firmware :)

After that, we can unlock bootloader using this thread: http://ift.tt/1T1op5H


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