No Lollipop for Wind Mobile Ascend Mate 2

It was recently announced by Huawei that the preview version of Lollipop was available for the Ascend Mate 2, complete with instructions and a link to downgrade.

I was super excited when I heard the news, went right to the site and downloaded the 1gb B309.zip from the site to my SD card ready to finally have something different from the same OS I have had since I bought the phone from Wind in October 2014.

Unzipped the file and made the nearly 2gb dload folder and quickly powered off my device so I could go into TWRP to make a backup of what I had before I leave Jellybean (actually did this twice because your phone will not boot into recovery with a folder named dload present). 

Once backup was complete (and dload folder renamed)  I restarted my phone. I saw the update screen,  was feeling good for a half second and then 'Software install failed!'.  I thought maybe it had something to do with the download so I tried the download again,  but no change.

As it turns out,  with the little bit of information on the internet since the release of the update, there is only for the US version of the phone,  any variant other than the US phone does not get this update.  The Huawei site actually says as much, if I had taken the time to read and compare, the build numbers for the phones that can update are:

* MT2-L03 V100R001C00B126
* MT2-L03 V100R001C00B148

My phone from Wind has a different number:

* MT2-L03V100R001C113B128

Huawei confirms here that my specific model does not have an update at this time.

Hopefully they will have an update for the rest of us some time soon, I can't imagine the devices could be so different that they would not update the others. Hoping that they release to all devices when they move from preview to final.