Lack of custom roms - Honor 8 Questions & Answers

Why are there such a lack of custom roms on the Honor 8? Will this always be the case?

From what I understand Huawei is not releasing the binarys or repositories or whatever it is that developers need to build a custom ROM off of and have everything working good. I came from the honor 5x and this phone has been a big let down to say the least with its crappy software and terrible battery life plus the fact that there are no custom ROMs I'm about done with this phone. 5x was not as fast but at least you could load CM and get rid of honor software and the battery life on 5x would last like a day and a half before I needed to charge.

polystation12 said:
Why are there such a lack of custom roms on the Honor 8? Will this always be the case?
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If you read the ROMs thread you will see that there are a few Devs that are working on a lineage 14.1
They have a few things to finish before releasing it.
Once they have that working the other ROMs will follow as they always do.

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Should we have hopes for a custom rom for the Mate 7

Its still kind of early to loose hope I guess, but since everything is opensource with this phone (downloadable on Huawei's site), should we be hoping for a custom rom for the Mate 7? I'm scared it won't get popular enough for a developer to make one, even though it is an amazing phone.
Maan
I was hoping for some love from cynogen.
Extornia said:
Its still kind of early to loose hope I guess, but since everything is opensource with this phone (downloadable on Huawei's site), should we be hoping for a custom rom for the Mate 7? I'm scared it won't get popular enough for a developer to make one, even though it is an amazing phone.
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I don't want to sound pessimistic, but the phone is already more than 3 month old. I think they're will be no international custom rom for this phone. But i will be happier if I'm proven wrong.
Custom ROM's would be nice, but I'm afraid we'd lose the fingerprint scanning ability and what not.
You'll never know though! Personally, I can't wait to get mine in a few days (shipping from HK is a *****), I miss xposed framework.
When you open the boot loader and it rootest, then does the here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/mate-7/themes-apps/xposed-modules-t2957769
I hope for CM.
Extornia said:
Its still kind of early to loose hope I guess, but since everything is opensource with this phone (downloadable on Huawei's site), should we be hoping for a custom rom for the Mate 7? I'm scared it won't get popular enough for a developer to make one, even though it is an amazing phone.
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What for ?
What's problem with EMUI 3.0 ?"?!??!
We just need lollipop base, EMUI is just fine. I would like to see some camera improvement, 4k support, better gpu thermal throtling... No need for custom rom if you ask me...
Mr.Nice.ba said:
We just need lollipop base, EMUI is just fine. I would like to see some camera improvement, 4k support, better gpu thermal throtling... No need for custom rom if you ask me...
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no we don't need lolipop sht.. it is worse.. 4.4.2 is best..
Probably a better outlook for the HAM7 than the HAM2.
Why the negativity? 3 months, really?
Newer android doesn't necessarily mean better, if it ain't broke?
The HAM2 was stuck on 4.2.x since its release. It got one update (4.4.2 on their Chinese portal). The HAM7 might get an update too, but there are 3 model versions out there so far (one that works in NA only), and they aren't interchangeable (different radios), so hopefully XDA has a Chinese translator for when they do update. Don't see why they wouldn't post at least an official update to 5.x.x somewhere down the line.
Are they going to do to HAM7 what they did to the HAM2? 'Here's some free phones and source, develop'. :cyclops:
Rumour mill: There's supposed to be a proper North American model released sometime.

Most stable custom rom for daily usage

Hey everyone,
I am bit confused with all these custom roms available for Honor8.So I would like to ask you which rom do you think is stable enough for daily usage and why?Are there any problems/bugs?
Thanks in advance
makiscfu said:
Hey everyone,
I am bit confused with all these custom roms available for Honor8.So I would like to ask you which rom do you think is stable enough for daily usage and why?Are there any problems/bugs?
Thanks in advance
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There's no stable custom roms for H8 at all. A lots of bugs, like cameras not working. You should stay on stock
Sheldd said:
There's no stable custom roms for H8 at all. A lots of bugs, like cameras not working. You should stay on stock
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As they said.
I've tried almost all of them and the closest to stable i got was AOSPA which crashed and rebooted randomly when using the GPS.
The Remix Resurrection/Lineage based ROMs would lock me out whenever I had a passcode turned on. What ever it tried to do after unlocking would crash and spit me right back out to the lockscreen.
Hopefully, the Oreo update comes soon, and, hopefully, it comes with Treble so that the Devs will be able to get the ROMs working flawlessly.
I don't know what these guys are talking about, but I've been using CarbonROM as a daily driver for several months now. I have working Magisk, working cameras, working basically everything - except for VoLTE. Though I've heard the VoLTE bug is only applicable for my model (FRD-L04), so you might not even have that. Give it a shot if you want, it's worked fine for me other than the VoLTE.
Gannondalf said:
I don't know what these guys are talking about, but I've been using CarbonROM as a daily driver for several months now. I have working Magisk, working cameras, working basically everything - except for VoLTE. Though I've heard the VoLTE bug is only applicable for my model (FRD-L04), so you might not even have that. Give it a shot if you want, it's worked fine for me other than the VoLTE.
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You failed to mention the camera is sub par on that, and every single custom ROM because it only uses one of the back cameras. All the nougat ROMs have simple bugs that the "developers" have failed to fix because they give up.
agraceful said:
You failed to mention the camera is sub par on that, and every single custom ROM because it only uses one of the back cameras. All the nougat ROMs have simple bugs that the "developers" have failed to fix because they give up.
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Well yeah, it's a custom ROM - of course the devs don't have access to Huawei's proprietary camera drivers. That's not a bug, it's just the nature of custom ROMs. If OP wanted the best of the best camera quality, they would stick with stock, but since they asked for the most stable ROM that people knew of, I recommended one whose developers had indeed worked out the majority of the issues to where I could only identify one minor one from my months of use.
I used customs roms for the shortest amount of time as daily drivers because the battery life really was bad, sound quality didn't flash me (not even with V4A) and the camera is truly sh*t on custom roms too.
If you aren't one of those people who really can't live without stock Android then stay on stock, we'll probably get Oreo or at least EMUI 8 soon.

Will xiaomi mi mix 2 roms work on 2s?

I haven't gotten my phone yet ordered it Saturday shipped today so 3 weeks I wait. As I wait I was wondering if the roms that are available on the 2 would work for the 2S and vice versa? (I have the 2s coming) I heard mostly same hardware just different cameras and wireless charging not sure much more has changed. Thanks for your input can't wait to root this phone and use it daily
No they wont work. However most of the project treble Roms work for our phone
Nope - use the available MiMix2s ROMS
Thanks to both of you I'll look into Project Treble Roms when I get the phone. I want the phone to function as intended and have root and a decent skin from the looks I'm not liking miui maybe i'll change my mind when i get it. Probably use Nova launcher but will want to root it anyway so thanks for your help.
spriteboost said:
Thanks to both of you I'll look into Project Treble Roms when I get the phone. I want the phone to function as intended and have root and a decent skin from the looks I'm not liking miui maybe i'll change my mind when i get it. Probably use Nova launcher but will want to root it anyway so thanks for your help.
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I've had the most success with the Benzo Treble ROM, but I've heard others talk about Arrow, Havoc and Pixel Experience.
spriteboost said:
I'm not liking miui maybe i'll change my mind when i get it.
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You won't! Trust me!
I'm dreaming of a pixel experience pie rom. This would fit my needs the best. I don't really need all the customisation some of the roms offer although I must admit they are great and the ideas behind them are really cool.
The treble roms are pretty stable by now and daily driver ready IMHO but the MiMix2S isn't very popular as it seems so not too many devs out there building for this device. Maybe this will change in the future, until then I'll stick with the benzo and pixel experience roms.
I agree
Miui should die
I don't agree with you both I owned a 1+1 for more than 3 years and flashed a new rom every month or even more often. When I got the Mi Mix 2s I had to use it with miui for 2 weeks because of bootloader unlocking time(this is the most stupid thing I ever encountered). I'm on miui since then because I LOVE the gesture control and mostly it just works. As soon as we got a rom with gcam that supports slowo videos I will flash an aosp based rom too to test it but to say MIUI should die or he will hate it is too much. It's working fine and is full of features.
Flatric said:
I don't agree with you both I owned a 1+1 for more than 3 years and flashed a new rom every month or even more often. When I got the Mi Mix 2s I had to use it with miui for 2 weeks because of bootloader unlocking time(this is the most stupid thing I ever encountered). I'm on miui since then because I LOVE the gesture control and mostly it just works. As soon as we got a rom with gcam that supports slowo videos I will flash an aosp based rom too to test it but to say MIUI should die or he will hate it is too much. It's working fine and is full of features.
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I think it depends on your individual needs and what you expect from a rom.
I too think that miui should die. Xiaomi is producing great devices regarding the hardware. But if you force your customers into using your own ROM (even if it is only the bootloader unlocking time) then this should work perfectly fine and fluid. Read the comments section in the miui forums or here on XDA. It's full of bugs. Every time they release a new version something else is broken.
If I'd like the look of iOS so much I'd get an iPhone. It's neither looking original nor behaving like a finished ROM. For me it felt like a developer version. So many bugs and not even the simplest features worked correctly.
I couldn't care less for navigation gestures or slowmo video (although this is really a nice feature), but I'd like to have working Bluetooth hands free, stable network connections and the possibility to connect to an airports WiFi. None of this worked with miui. At least not for me. And that's the reason I switched ASAP to a GSI. Those were the longest 15 days of my life.
Of course the 8.1 versions worked much better as Pie was just released and many things had to be sorted out. But some of the Devs here did a much better job in developing stable and well functioning roms than the miui team.
So in my opinion MIUI should just die or at least they should reduce the stolen/copied functions and concentrate on the main features and make them perfect.
To me it seems they concentrate more on the looks of their OS than the functionality.
But I don't want to start a debate of principles. If you like it use it, I will never return to this abnormality of an OS.
Whats this about waiting 15 days or 10 days for unlocking bootloader? Going to do some googling about it but figured I'd ask that sounds annoying if its the case.
spriteboost said:
Whats this about waiting 15 days or 10 days for unlocking bootloader? Going to do some googling about it but figured I'd ask that sounds annoying if its the case.
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Yes it is and you can't do anything about it. It's Xiaomi's way to prevent their phones from being delivered with malware infested roms as it's too much of a hassle for the shops to unlock and install it.
I hated it too. You're lucky that it's only 15 days and not 720hrs like some have.
I don't understand it because if you get the phone with a not certified or custom ROM from a shop that looks suspicious you could simply install the original Xiaomi firmware without the headache.
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Yes it is and you can't do anything about it. It's Xiaomi's way to prevent their phones from being delivered with malware infested roms as it's too much of a hassle for the shops to unlock and install it.
I hated it too. You're lucky that it's only 15 days and not 720hrs like some have.
I don't understand it because if you get the phone with a not certified or custom ROM from a shop that looks suspicious you could simply install the original Xiaomi firmware without the headache.
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Well that's the ones that know a lot more about phones. I can see how this makes sense well guess I'll have to test out xiaomi's rom for the duration. The phones expected delivery is Friday but only a state away so hoping FedEx will be nice and deliver it a couple days early lol.
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Well that's the ones that know a lot more about phones. I can see how this makes sense well guess I'll have to test out xiaomi's rom for the duration. The phones expected delivery is Friday but only a state away so hoping FedEx will be nice and deliver it a couple days early lol.
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In the meantime you can set up your Xiaomi account as you will need it for unlocking you phone anyway and request the unlock permission.
As soon as you get the device, bind the account to your phone so the time starts counting down immediately. Then it's only 15 grueling days using MIUI but then there's a whole lot of roms which make the device what it should have been from the start. A stable, fast, reliable and good device!

Xiaomi Mi MIX 2S is not that popular?

Well, I got this device but I fail to see, roms, twrp recovery and other things that have official support.
Tbh this feels weird comming from OnePlus One device(gave it to my gf). I have 2S since summer and wondering if we ever get anything official(roms, recoveries etc).
Afaik source is released quite a while ago, any thoughts? It's a popularity thing or what?
evronetwork said:
Well, I got this device but I fail to see, roms, twrp recovery and other things that have official support.
Tbh this feels weird comming from OnePlus One device(gave it to my gf). I have 2S since summer and wondering if we ever get anything official(roms, recoveries etc).
Afaik source is released quite a while ago, any thoughts? It's a popularity thing or what?
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waiting for P sources...proximity sensor doesnt work until source published, phone is great..
Sent from my MIX 2S using Tapatalk
evronetwork said:
Well, I got this device but I fail to see, roms, twrp recovery and other things that have official support.
Tbh this feels weird comming from OnePlus One device(gave it to my gf). I have 2S since summer and wondering if we ever get anything official(roms, recoveries etc).
Afaik source is released quite a while ago, any thoughts? It's a popularity thing or what?
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I had the same impression but what surfaced in the last months is really great.
Some of the devs here have provided everything you're asking for. I was a little nervous if I had made the right choice buying this phone and the first releases were a little buggy but so far all of them work.
Maybe there's some tweaking and repairing necessary, but I use Arrow OS and MiPa kernel version 3.5 by @palaych and TWRP v13 by @notsyncing and everything is working great. It's my daily driver now and it's stable, fast and reliable.
Except the proximity sensor, but that's not the devs fault. Maybe Xiaomi should stop their buggy miui releases, release the pie kernel sources and repair their own system. Meanwhile the Devs here could provide ROMs that really rock. But maybe that's what Xiaomi is afraid of :silly:
And just because something isn't official it doesn't mean it can't work really well. It does and I'm happy to have such people here on XDA that provide such great work for free.
And who knows, maybe their work gets appreciated and things become official some day.
Give it a try and you'll be stoked!
I also came from the 1+1 one and used miui from launch of mi mix 2s until one week ago. Now I'm on aosip and it works great, community becomes bigger and bigger and our devs are great and active in our telegram group. Currently, there's not that much to choose but everything works flawless and additionally we have the GSIs there'll be more in the future
Is there a time limit when Xiaomi might release the P source? I never was a fan of MIUI, I bought the 2S thinking about use custom ROMs, but stay without a fully working custom ROM sucks pretty bad, I'll stick to MIUI until we have those sources.
FabricioGS said:
Is there a time limit when Xiaomi might release the P source? I never was a fan of MIUI, I bought the 2S thinking about use custom ROMs, but stay without a fully working custom ROM sucks pretty bad, I'll stick to MIUI until we have those sources.
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Well if you want a fully working rom, get rid of miui. The bug reports are longer than the extended lord of the rings trilogy!
Just kidding. The ROMs you find here work pretty good, only thing I can say is that the proximity sensor isn't working. Which is a a little annoying sometimes but nothing that bothers me too much. And I'm sure as soon as Xiaomi releases the source codes the problem will be gone!
I use arrow OS for Polaris now and this rom and aosip are really great. Pixel experience has an official branch on their website for our device but no files uploaded at the moment.
So we'll get to see more custom ROMs in the future which is great!
Edit: with the latest fixes in Arrow OS and Pixel Experience the proximity sensor works perfectly fine! And meanwhile pixel experience has uploaded a file and the ROMs really works well!
Well until I see some official TWRP recovery and won't mess with the phone. I mean it's more powerful than my previous(1+1) device which I was good but my gf needed a phone so I upgrade mine instead heh
evronetwork said:
Well until I see some official TWRP recovery and won't mess with the phone. I mean it's more powerful than my previous(1+1) device which I was good but my gf needed a phone so I upgrade mine instead heh
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Even being unofficial we have two TWRP variants fully stable.
I never faced any issue with TWRP.

Different stock rom or custom rom for better overall experience?

Hi guys,
I’ve been using google pixel devices on and off over the years and finally got a second hand Pixel 4a last week. I immediately flashed latest stock 12 thinking that it’s the best with battery life which is apparently not. So I’m thinking of flashing a custom ROM or downgrade to different stock android version. I’ve seen that stock android 11 is overall good for 4a. Is it true? Or is there any good stock/custom ROM that is good with device? As I said, I don’t mind downgrading
TIA
crazykas said:
Hi guys,
I’ve been using google pixel devices on and off over the years and finally got a second hand Pixel 4a last week. I immediately flashed latest stock 12 thinking that it’s the best with battery life which is apparently not. So I’m thinking of flashing a custom ROM or downgrade to different stock android version. I’ve seen that stock android 11 is overall good for 4a. Is it true? Or is there any good stock/custom ROM that is good with device? As I said, I don’t mind downgrading
TIA
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To each there own when it comes different ROMs, I just started using this phone and I stayed on 12 so I've used all the 12 ROMs available, some have a lot of features available and others not so many, u can usually tell from the op post what your getting by reading the description,, iam currently on lineage 19 which I like for its simplicity, ,( i dont use alot of the features) you will probably find your own bugs in each ROM, everyone's different it seems, so my advice is to try them all,
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To each there own when it comes different ROMs, I just started using this phone and I stayed on 12 so I've used all the 12 ROMs available, some have a lot of features available and others not so many, u can usually tell from the op post what your getting by reading the description,, iam currently on lineage 19 which I like for its simplicity, ,( i dont use alot of the features) you will probably find your own bugs in each ROM, everyone's different it seems, so my advice is to try them all,
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Are custom roms overally more snappy and smooth compared to stock at this time?
Ra2rd said:
Are custom roms overally more snappy and smooth compared to stock at this time?
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Not really, to be honest some ( not all ) are bad as far as response , smoothness, gestures. But most are quite good. I think the biggest selling point is the vast amount of new features they offer such as CR Droid. What makes it for me is if I get bored with one I can switch , right now I am on beta 3 and it's pretty good. Once again the only way to know is to start flashing. Hth

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