Database Info

Can't OTA fromL29C432B560 to b581 because of TWRP. How to go back to stock recovery ?

Hello all.
I think it's all in the title. I am on L29C432B560, with root and TWRP installed.
Recently, I got the OTA notification for B581. But when I tried it, the system dowloaded the package, then rebooted to recovery. Except my recovery is TWRP, and won't auto-install the package.
Could I just use fastboot to re-flash stock recovery, OTA update, and maybe re-root with magisk ?
If yes, where to download the stock recovery for nougat ? I've been searching for 2 hours, but it seems my google-fu isn't strong enough :/
Alternatively, any suggestion is welcome as to the best way to go from rooted b560 with TWRP to b581 ...
Thanks in advance for your help !

Aaaaaand I just found it.
There seems to be something magical with me, where I look for something for 2 hours, then decide to ask for help, and figure out the solution 5 minutes later.
I just needed to use HuaweiUpdateExtractor to get the recovery.img file from a full b 560 update. After that I flashed it with fastboot, and the OTA .... well, the OTA failed. But it got through to standard recovery and started.

@kaceps
Here the stock recovery of your firmware.

Reverting to stock [SOLVED]

I have been trying to revert to stock with no luck. What I want to do is install the latest update, but I can't because I had twrp installed. I flashed the original recovery. The problem is when I try to use eRecovery I get "Getting package info failed" error. when I try to download the b385 full update for the FRD-L04 I get a dead link. I was able to download the rollback package, but will I be able to get back to the latest version after I install the rollback package? when I try to use other update packages for my phone I get "Incompatibility with current version" error. Do I need to lock my bootloader in order to update? The good news is that my phone works fine, bad news is that I can't up date.
build number: FRD-L04C567B385
Thanks

this link will help you
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/how-to/to-emui5-custom-roms-tested-openkirin-t3638445

alimir98 said:
this link will help you
https://forum.xda-developers.com/honor-8/how-to/to-emui5-custom-roms-tested-openkirin-t3638445
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks for the link, I just been to heck and back with this phone. first I uninstalled Magisk. After that my phone wouldn't boot, it would just hang on the blue screen after the initial boot screen. I tried to find a stock boot Image for my version. Once I installed that my phone would boot loop so I managed to get into fastboot and flash TWRP. Once in TWRP I restored my B360 backup and got my phone working again. Then I flashed the stock recovery. Tried to boot into the stock recovery but that wouldn't load. Some how I got it to install the rollback package and now i'm at version B300. Good news is I'm back to stock and can boot int the stock recovery. Time to see if I can update to the latest version.
Edit I think I might have a problem. It won't let me update also it shows my phone as "FRD-L04C900" not "FRD-L04C567" is there any way I can fix this?

srgrusso said:
Thanks for the link, I just been to heck and back with this phone. first I uninstalled Magisk. After that my phone wouldn't boot, it would just hang on the blue screen after the initial boot screen. I tried to find a stock boot Image for my version. Once I installed that my phone would boot loop so I managed to get into fastboot and flash TWRP. Once in TWRP I restored my B360 backup and got my phone working again. Then I flashed the stock recovery. Tried to boot into the stock recovery but that wouldn't load. Some how I got it to install the rollback package and now i'm at version B300. Good news is I'm back to stock and can boot int the stock recovery. Time to see if I can update to the latest version.
Edit I think I might have a problem. It won't let me update also it shows my phone as "FRD-L04C900" not "FRD-L04C567" is there any way I can fix this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I think you will have to restore you oeminfo partition backup through twrp.

On mr FRD-L09, I had to relock my bootloader, then get the rollback package and put the .app on my SD card and hard flash it, then do the same with the rom .app file. Thet got me back to stock marshamllow, and I just let all the updates run through until I'm now on the latest.
Stock is missing some bits, and has some irritations, but the camera is sooo much better than custom roms, and GPS works, as does Android Pay etc. I've not bothered rooting, AdGuard does the ad-blocking and the rest is liveable.

Well I think I'm my phone is screwed. I can't boot into recovery and when it boots it bootloops once and then it is stuck on the "your device is unlocked and can't be trusted. Fastboot still works fine I can lock and unlock the bootloader. I can flash Recovery and TWRP in Fastboot but neither one will boot. I think I might have flashed the wrong update or it happened when I flashed the rollback package. I want to try DC Phoenix but they won't let me buy credits because my PayPal account is unverified. I have downloaded the "Honor 8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_C567B122_United States_Nonspecific" from the hihonor.com site. I extracted it and flashed the recovery, boot, and system image through fastboot. The phone still won't boot into recovery or boot into the OS. Is there a way to fix this or is it time for a new phone.
Thank you everybody for your help.

Ok my phone is fixed. What I did was buy 15 credits for DC Phoenix and flashed the "Honor 8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_C567B122_United States_Nonspecific" package. When I rebooted my phone it automatically went into ERecovery and downloaded and installed the B162 update. I was able to fully boot after that It updated to B360 and then B388.
Thank you everybody for your help.

srgrusso said:
Ok my phone is fixed. What I did was buy 15 credits for DC Phoenix and flashed the "Honor 8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_C567B122_United States_Nonspecific" package. When I rebooted my phone it automatically went into ERecovery and downloaded and installed the B162 update. I was able to fully boot after that It updated to B360 and then B388.
Thank you everybody for your help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
How did you flash the file you mentioned above? Did you put it on the SD card and used TWRP?
Also, what is so special about that file?
I have the L14 (64gb US version) and just about the same exact problem you describe.
If you have any extra steps that would help me recover mine that would be great.

anosis said:
How did you flash the file you mentioned above? Did you put it on the SD card and used TWRP?
Also, what is so special about that file?
I have the L14 (64gb US version) and just about the same exact problem you describe.
If you have any extra steps that would help me recover mine that would be great.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Sorry for replying so late, hopefully you fixed your phone if not here is a link with some more information.
https://www.dc-unlocker.com/DC-Phoenix-flash-repair-tutorial
I followed the instuctions for the honor 7. I would recommend finding the full update firmware for your phone. It took me a lot of googling to find it. Make sure it is the correct firmware, you need to match the numbers before the B-- for me it was (FRD-L04C567) and for you it would be (FRD-L14????) I hope this helps.

hi sir
srgrusso said:
Ok my phone is fixed. What I did was buy 15 credits for DC Phoenix and flashed the "Honor 8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_C567B122_United States_Nonspecific" package. When I rebooted my phone it automatically went into ERecovery and downloaded and installed the B162 update. I was able to fully boot after that It updated to B360 and then B388.
Thank you everybody for your help.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
hi sir
I try to install "Honor 8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_C567B122_United States_Nonspecific" this package in my honor 8 with dc phoenix but its not working, its flashing but its not booting, please help me.
my mobile model number is honor 8 frd-l04

sunneellkumar said:
hi sir
I try to install "Honor 8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_C567B122_United States_Nonspecific" this package in my honor 8 with dc phoenix but its not working, its flashing but its not booting, please help me.
my mobile model number is honor 8 frd-l04
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
After you flash the firmware, you must format data with emui recovery, and it will boot up

After trying different methods, this one works
Download
1 .Honor 8_FRD-L04_Rollback_Package_from_Android7.0 to Android 6.0_C900B300
2. Honor_8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android_6.0_EMUI-4.1_C567B122_United_States_Nonspecific
Put on dload (sd card) #1 after shutdown the phone and put on the folder dload (Sd card) #2. after reboot your phone starts with android 6.0

Try this
sunneellkumar said:
hi sir
I try to install "Honor 8_Firmware_FRD-L04_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_C567B122_United States_Nonspecific" this package in my honor 8 with dc phoenix but its not working, its flashing but its not booting, please help me.
my mobile model number is honor 8 frd-l04
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Ok so i had the exact problem, im not sure if this will help but what I did was flash my cust recovery system and boot through bootloader, I then put the dload folder on my sdcard with the update.app in it, from there I put my phone into download mode so hold all 3 buttons until it goes into download mode. Once there it will automatically install the update.app, and you should be good to go. If not than go to recovery mode do a factory reset and wipe the cache and see if that works.

Trying to Restore Phone to Stock (and a few other questions)

Hello!
I want to make my phone completely stock again. (Or as close as possible if completely stock isn't possible)
I unlocked, installed TWRP, and then rooted my phone yesterday (thanks to shashank1320's guide which made it very simple), but quickly found out that safetynet will prevent me from downloading and playing certain games on the Google Play Store.
After poking around online, it seems that even switching over to Magisk instead of using SuperSU will leave intermittent gaps in time where the app will be inaccessible due to the new workaround eventually being blocked.
So I want to go back. But like a derp, I forgot to create a backup beforehand.
So far I've unrooted through the SuperSU app itself, and flashed the BOOT.img and RECOVERY.img from Dazed No More's links in the Honor 6x Repository here.
After this is where I'm not sure what to do.
I think I need to find a factory system image to flash (and the vendor.img)?
I've seen a few threads saying that putting the UPDATE.APP in a dload folder into the phone and have the phone run the update worked (This did not work for me, although I'm not sure I have the right files; I downloaded it through a tech guide site here). I extracted the system.img and vendor.img from the update.app off that website using the Huawei Update Extractor, but I am afraid of flashing them in case they are the incorrect ones. But what if they are correct? Would I be able to recover if they are not?
Also, should I download and use unSU?
I know there is this guide on the front page right now. I've downloaded the Huawei Firmware Finder, but I... don't know how to use it. I narrow it down to the model number and that is where I get stuck. How... do I use it?
Some other basic questions I have in addition to this are:
Would I just have to flash the system.img and vendor.img through adb and then it will be stock again?
Would there still be leftover SuperSU files in my phone? I want to remove every trace of it. Would flashing be enough?
Am I even on the right track? And if not, where should I go from here?
Is the term "ROM" here firmware? Are the two terms interchangeable?
Ultimately, I would want to flash stock and then lock the bootloader again.
Thank you very much in advance. I appreciate it.
Edit: Wow I forgot to put any information, sorry about that.
Honor 6x
Model Number: BLN-L24
Build Number: BLN-L24C567B360
EMUI version: 5.0
Android version: 7.0

If you have unrooted, foashed stock boot and stock recovery rhen you are stock completely. For safer side, you can just dload the current firmware whch will lock your bootloader also and remove those device unlocked and cant be trusted message on boot.

shashank1320 said:
If you have unrooted, foashed stock boot and stock recovery rhen you are stock completely. For safer side, you can just dload the current firmware whch will lock your bootloader also and remove those device unlocked and cant be trusted message on boot.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thank you! Currently it's still tripping safetynet, but that may just be due to the phone still being unlocked.
Would it be fine to just lock the bootloader through adb now?
And are all traces of SuperSU gone like this?

Faifie said:
Thank you! Currently it's still tripping safetynet, but that may just be due to the phone still being unlocked.
Would it be fine to just lock the bootloader through adb now?
And are all traces of SuperSU gone like this?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Nope. Locking the bootloader will just do it and reset but wont change the boot.img which root modified.
You need to unroot, flash stock recovery and stock boot.img to get rid of it.

shashank1320 said:
Nope. Locking the bootloader will just do it and reset but wont change the boot.img which root modified.
You need to unroot, flash stock recovery and stock boot.img to get rid of it.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Okay, since those have been flashed with stock, that means I'm set to re-lock the phone! Will get around to it sometime tomorrow c:
Thank you so, so much ^^

Honor 8 (FRD-L09) brick help.

Hello.
I need a help with my Honor 8, it's been bricked and I honestly don't know if there is much to do in my current situation.
So the phone has locked bootloader and stock recovery.
Fastboot always returns 'Command not allowed'
What exactly happened:
I was running Stock ROM, rooted, TWRP Recovery with unlocked bootloader.
An official OTA update popped-up on my phone, I was in a rush and I missclicked (don't even ask lol) and the update started installing, I knew I'm screwed.
So I was about to play with fastboot, but it always returned 'Command not allowed'.
And probably the worst mistake happened a few minutes ago (6:00 am trying to fix it half a sleep), I was reading some posts about the dload method, >>FASTFORWARD I installed an official update using the dload method and locked my bootloader by doing this.
QUICK SUMMARY:
So I'm stuck on a bootloop.
The 3 button combo works.
Stock Recovery works as well.
Fastboot does NOT work. (I tried flashing, unlocking, temp-booting.. but nothing)
adb always returns error:
Code:
device unauthorized.
This adb server's $ADB_VENDOR_KEYS is not set
Try 'adb kill-server' if that seems wrong.
Otherwise check for a confirmation dialog on your device.
Is there ANYTHING I can do in my current situation? :crying:
Thanks in advance for any help.
Have a nice day.

Hello, as long as you have an official recovery, a proper BOOT.IMG and the dload method is working there is still a chance( i hope), the only thing you need to know is that if the firmware is the wrong for your phone it will deny it. It means that is if you try to install an android 6.0 based stock ROM over a 7.0 ROM , it will say software upgrade failed or something like that.
You need to know under which Android version you were and install the same or maybe a more recent one but not to far away from your actual ROM, try the next one. You can also try to downgrade USING a rollback package that you can download on honor official site. Make sure that's the the correct file for your phone.
Hope you'll make it bro, let me know how the situation evolve
(sorry for any language mistake, english isn't my native language.)

Rayan19997 said:
Hello, as long as you have an official recovery, a proper BOOT.IMG and the dload method is working there is still a chance( i hope), the only thing you need to know is that if the firmware is the wrong for your phone it will deny it. It means that is if you try to install an android 6.0 based stock ROM over a 7.0 ROM , it will say software upgrade failed or something like that.
You need to know under which Android version you were and install the same or maybe a more recent one but not to far away from your actual ROM, try the next one. You can also try to downgrade USING a rollback package that you can download on honor official site. Make sure that's the the correct file for your phone.
Hope you'll make it bro, let me know how the situation evolve
(sorry for any language mistake, english isn't my native language.)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Woohoo, after a few tries & factory resets I was able to boot my phone again using the dload method :victory: The TWRP recovery has vanished and it seems like there is no sign of root(?) either, I'm gonna redo everything again, thanks so much for your help, you saved me bro <3 Have a wonderful day.

I am really glad that you get your phone back on track ! And yh the dload method bring you to stock everything, stock recovery,stock system etc etc.
Have a nice day

crepnik said:
Woohoo, after a few tries & factory resets I was able to boot my phone again using the dload method :victory: The TWRP recovery has vanished and it seems like there is no sign of root(?) either, I'm gonna redo everything again, thanks so much for your help, you saved me bro <3 Have a wonderful day.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi Crepnik,
Even I am facing the same issue. Can you please tell me which ROM did you download.
My phone was update to Nougat EMUI 5.0
Thanks

[email protected] said:
Hi Crepnik,
Even I am facing the same issue. Can you please tell me which ROM did you download.
My phone was update to Nougat EMUI 5.0
Thanks
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Try to flash the rollback package and then an EMUI 4.x ROM. They're both available on honor official site

Rayan19997 said:
Try to flash the rollback package and then an EMUI 4.x ROM. They're both available on honor official site
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Hi Ryan,
Thank you so much for responding.
I could see two ROM in the official site http://www.hihonor.com/in/support/
HONOR 8 Firmware (FRD-L02, C675B130CUSTC675D002, India)
HONOR 8 Firmware (FRD-L02, Android 6.0, EMUI 4.1, C675B160, India Channel)
I tried with both the ROMs but no luck
I placed the update.APP file inside sdcard but the update stops at 5% showing that it has failed.
I also tried flashing the recovery.IMG in fastboot mode.
I have lost all the hopes in my new phone
In the rescue mode it says UNLOCKED.
Please guide me with some detailed steps.
Thanks

Flash the stock recovery of the ROM that was previously installed on your phone , then with dload method flash the rollback package downloaded from honor site , and finally flash one of the two ROM, it may resolve your issue because the phone won't accept a lower firmware without flashing the rollback package first. As long as you can use dload method it should be fine.
If it doesn't work try to flash boot.img , recovery.img, cust.img, vendor.img and system.img extracted from a clean firmware downloaded on honor official site
Let us know how the situation evolve

Developers options missing

Hello y'all, i issued a problem tomorrow by rooting BLN-L21C432, i unlocked bootloader with no problem, when was time for flashing recovery, i flashed the boot into the recovery and issued a problem in the dev options and security. Cuz of that, i can't access to adb, hisuite hdb to backup, and can't install extern apps without autorizations.
I tried all night long to resolve but no way, add to that the fact i've got a very very low connexion so 3-4h to load an update.zip.
So i downloaded b370, no way i can't use the dload method, fail at 5%. Same issue with b369. Tried to flash manually system boot and recovery by extracting update.app, no result, it's same. Tried to Unbrick via multi-tool, i use it on honor 7, but there's no cust image in update.app.
Build number is normal, C432B365.
I don't know what to do now, it's 10 hours i'm losing my minds with that phone. Please heeeelp :crying:

From which firmware ? Is it good if i flash boot and recovery from B360 ?
Edit : Actually the phone is in B365, it would be better if i try to dload from it right ?

I read that unlocked bootloader could block an update, is that true ?

Rommco05 said:
No u need to flash boot and recovery from actually firmware. After when u flash right boot and recovery (from B365). Now u try installing this firmware us it B360. http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/data/files/p3/s15/G753/g104/v82485/f1/full/update.zip
http://update.hicloud.com:8180/TDS/...-L21_hw_eu/update_data_full_BLN-L21_hw_eu.zip
You can use dload method or over Firmware Finder
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I'm gonna download it and come back later, thank you very much

Hi guys I came over the problem by only flashing the original boot that was B365, it was si obvious, thanks to you for helping me bro, real thank ?