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Cherry Mobile Omega Spectrum gets KitKat 4.4 upgrade

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To all lucky Cherry Mobile Omega Spectrum owners! The KitKat 4.4 update for your smartphones are now available. Upgrading your Omega Spectrum will take a little bit of elbow grease (and a relatively fast internet connection), as this has to be done manually. Luckily, they have provided a link (here) on how to do this. But I’ll also post it here all the same.

Omega Spectrum Software Upgrade:

Important: During the process, all files (pictures, music, applications, etc.) will be deleted please be sure that all important files is already backed up to a different storage other than your Internal storage of your phone and your SD card.

Procedure:

  1. Download Omega Spectrum upgrade (335MB) here: http://www.cherrymobile.com.ph/phoneupdates/spectrum/H600_Kitkat4.4_ota.zip
  2. Insert your SD card to your Omega Spectrum.
  3. Copy the H600_Kitkat4.4_ota.zip to your SD card using a micro USB cable plugged in to your computer.
    NOTE:
    a.   Please do not unzip the file. Just copy and paste it to your SD card.
    b.   Please make sure that is the only .zip file that is on the SD card ( to be sure have your SD card formated and delete the folders and files on your SD card except the H600_Kitkat4.4.zip ).
  4. Turn off your Omega Spectrum.
  5. When the Omega Spectrum is turned off. press the power button + volume up button for 5 seconds you will feel a vibration.
  6. Choose english. To navigate, use volume up to scroll up and down to scroll down and press the power button to confirm.
  7. Navigate again using the volume up or down button to select “apply update from external storage”. Press the power button to confrim.
  8. Navigate again using the volume up or down to “H600_Kitkat4.4.zip” and press the power button to confirm
  9. The upgrade will start, there will be yellow phrases. the last phrase will be “Install from sdcard complete”.
  10. Navigate again using volume up or volume down to select reboot system now press power button to confirm.
  11. There will be a prompt that ” Android is upgrading” please wait until it is finished. Upgrade to Kitkat 4.4.2 version of omega spectrum is now completed.

And there you have it. Upgrading to KitKat 4.4.2 will bring with it numerous bug fixes and performance updates. Please share in the comments below if you have upgraded, and what improvements you have noticed.

Source Cherry Mobile

Bryan is a geek at heart and a tech enthusiast by choice. He has a strong background in corporate communications, marketing services, and customer relations having worked in the telecommunications and banking sectors for over two decades. In his spare time, he enjoys watching clips on YouTube and binge watching shows on Netflix.

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