The Meizu PRO 5 used for the tutorial is borrowed from the editor-in-chief. If it is not restored to the Android system, this phone cannot be returned.
In this tutorial, the IT Home editor will demonstrate how to restore the Meizu PRO 5 that has Ubuntu Touch installed back to the Android (Chinese version Flyme) system.
Before You Start
Before starting, we need to prepare the following materials:
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The factory system flash package for the Chinese version of Meizu PRO 5
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The latest flash package for Flyme for the Chinese version of Meizu PRO 5
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Fastboot tools
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SuperSU
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Busybox
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RootBrowser
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Flashing the Factory Version of Flyme for Meizu PRO 5
In the factory system flash package for the Chinese version of Meizu PRO 5 (a zip format compressed file), find recovery.img, extract it, and rename it to FlymeRecovery.img (it can also be kept as is if there is no file with the same name as recovery.img in the directory where the Fastboot tools are located), then throw it into the directory where the Fastboot tools are located.
Open the folder of the Fastboot tools, right-click in the file explorer window, and select “Open PowerShell window here.”
Execute the following command:
./fastboot flash recovery FlymeRecovery.img
The execution result is as follows:
Press and hold the volume up key and the power key on the phone at the same time, wait a few seconds until it restarts into Recovery mode.
Connect the phone to the computer, and you will see a drive named “Recovery.” Rename the factory system flash package for the Chinese version of Meizu PRO 5 to “update.zip” and place it in the root directory of that drive.
Click the “Start” button on the Recovery interface to flash the factory system and wait for it to boot.
Everything is going smoothly and simply, isn’t it? Don’t be in a hurry; we still need to do some things.
Changing International Version Meizu PRO 5 to Chinese Version
Do you remember when we flashed Ubuntu Touch for Meizu PRO 5, we modified its device properties to the international version to unlock the Bootloader and then flashed the international version of Flyme?
Although the international version of Meizu PRO 5 has temporarily flashed the Chinese version of the system, its device properties are still the international version. We can find the file “proinfo” in “/dev/block/platform/15570000.ufs/by-name/” to confirm this.
If your device is the international version, when you flash the Chinese version Flyme, if there are OTA updates in the future, the installation of the update may fail.
So we need to change its device properties back to the Chinese version.
In the tutorial for flashing Meizu PRO 5 to Ubuntu Touch, we have explained in detail how to change the device properties of the Chinese version of Meizu PRO 5 from the Chinese version to the international version, so the method to change it back is very simple; we just need to reverse the operation.
Here’s a brief overview.
Step 1: Enable system Root permissions in “Settings – Fingerprint and Security.”
Step 2: Install SuperSU and update the binary files. The purpose of this is to hand over Root permissions to SuperSU.
Step 3: Install Busybox (during the installation process, Root permissions need to be granted through SuperSU).
Step 4: Install RootBrowser and open it, navigate to: “/dev/block/platform/15570000.ufs/by-name/,” use RB Text Editor to edit the file “proinfo” (Root permissions need to be granted to the editor via SuperSU), change “machine_type=” followed by “M576_intl_official” to “M576_mobile_public,” as shown below:
After editing, please restart the phone and check the status of proinfo again in RootBrowser. If the text after “machine_type=” is “M576_mobile_public,” it means our operation was successful.
At this point, we can flash the latest version of the Chinese version Flyme for Meizu PRO 5.
Flashing the Latest Version of Chinese Version Flyme for Meizu PRO 5
The method for flashing is very simple. Press and hold the volume up key and the power key on the phone at the same time, wait a few seconds until it restarts into Recovery mode.
Connect the phone to the computer, and you will see a drive named “Recovery.” Rename the flash package for the latest version of the Chinese version Flyme for Meizu PRO 5 to “update.zip” and place it in the root directory of that drive.
Click the “Start” button on the Recovery interface to flash the latest version of the Chinese version Flyme, and then wait for it to boot.
At this point, we have completed everything we needed to do.
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