{"id":3349,"date":"2016-04-23T22:25:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-23T21:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hovatek.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2022-08-15T22:11:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-15T22:11:33","slug":"how-to-upgrade-tecno-camon-c8-to-android-6-marshmallow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-upgrade-tecno-camon-c8-to-android-6-marshmallow\/","title":{"rendered":"How to upgrade Tecno Camon C8 to Android 6 (Marshmallow)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/bpyeki\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Howto-upgrade-Tecno-Camon-C8-Marshmallow.png\" alt=\" Android 6 Marshmallow upgrade for Tecno Camon C8\" width=\"718\" height=\"541\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Tecno finally released Marshmallow for the Tecno Camon C8. The Marshmallow update was taken down shortly after it was released because it had a lot of bugs but we have the download link for those who want to try or Mod it anyway. We&#8217;d released a guide on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-upgrade-tecno-camon-c8-to-hios\">upgrading Tecno C8 to HIOS<\/a>\u00a0so you might want to give it a shot if the Marshmallow update is way too buggy for you.<\/p>\n<h3>How to upgrade Tecno Camon C8 to Android 6 (Marshmallow)<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>If you have rooted the phone then unroot it using the guide at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-unroot-a-mediatek-android-phone-in-order-to-successfully-install-an-ota-update\">https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-unroot-a-mediatek-android-phone-in-order-to-successfully-install-an-ota-update<\/a>. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-root-android-easily-without-pc\">how to root Android<\/a> if you don&#8217;t know what rooting is<\/li>\n<li>Download the Tcard \/ SDcard format of the Tecno C8 Marshmallow update at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/hovatek.com\/redirect.php?link=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/uc?id=0B0NGrHFUF1GbeFBmdkd2MV9EMFk&amp;export=download\">https:\/\/hovatek.com\/redirect.php?link=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/uc?id=0B0NGrHFUF1GbeFBmdkd2MV9EMFk&amp;export=download<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Save the zip file to the root directory of the SD card i.e, copy directly, do not place inside any folder, do not unzip<\/li>\n<li>Switch off the phone then boot the phone into recovery mode using Volume up + Power button (See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/forum\/thread-479.html\">https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/forum\/thread-479.html<\/a> )<\/li>\n<li>In recovery mode, you use the Volume up buttons to scroll and Power button to select<\/li>\n<li>Select Install Zip from SD card<\/li>\n<li>Select the zip file you downloaded and Yes to confirm flashing<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the phone once done and confirm that the update was successful under Settings &gt; About<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Questions<\/h3>\n<h3>Do I have to unroot before flashing the zip file?<\/h3>\n<p>Its highly recommended to unroot before flashing such zip files<\/p>\n<h3>Is this the long awaited Marshmallow (Android 6.0) update for Tecno C8?<\/h3>\n<p>Yes, just might be a bit buggy<\/p>\n<h3>I got an error while updating in recovery mode, what do I do?<\/h3>\n<p>Ensure the phone has been unrooted, is running on stock recovery<\/p>\n<h3>This update has bugs \/ I don&#8217;t like it, how do I revert?<\/h3>\n<p>The guide at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-downgrade-a-mediatek-android-phone\">https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/how-to-downgrade-a-mediatek-android-phone<\/a>\u00a0will help with that<\/p>\n<p>Hovatek&#8230;.just a button away!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tecno finally released Marshmallow for the Tecno Camon C8. The Marshmallow update was taken down shortly after it was released because it had a lot of bugs but we have the download link for those who want to try or Mod it anyway. We&#8217;d released a guide on upgrading Tecno C8 to HIOS\u00a0so you might [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3365,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[818],"tags":[20,65,85,95,115,116,126,134,135],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tutorials","tag-android","tag-how-to","tag-marshmallow","tag-ota","tag-tecno","tag-tecno-c8","tag-tutorials","tag-update","tag-upgrade"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hovatek.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}