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[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
I've seen many of you guys who probably are new to Android and the adb/fastboot world so I decied to create a simple understandable guide to flash custom recoveries or kernels through such tools...

First off we'll start with the basics...

[B][COLOR="Red"]I'm not responsible if anything goes wrong.
If your phone turns into a beautiful and useless brick.
The procedures described below have been tested by me since several years ago and never had an issue,
never the less remeber
YOU ARE DOING THIS BY YOURSELF AND TO YOUR PHONE, NOT ME.[/COLOR][/B]

You need the Following:

Huawei Ascend P6

Your phone needs to be on either KitKat Beta, B118CN or B120CN

Drivers for the Phone Installed

Huawei PC Suite installed (This is only to have the Fastboot driver that comes along with it)

abd&fastboot.zip (attached to this post)

USB Debuggin Option enabled in "Developer Options"

Gutts to play along with your phone internals...

Utilizing both ADB and Fastboot to flash​

Assuming your phone boots just fine and it is being recognized by the computer go to the place where you have decompressed the adb&fastboot.zip file.

Pressing both "Shift Key" + Right click should bring a menu like this:

Click on "Open command window here"

You should see a CMD window pop up in front of you, now the fun will begin:

1.- Connect your phone to the PC and then type in the Command Window:

adb devices

2.- You should see an output stating your device as online.

3.- Type:

adb reboot bootloader

4.- Your Phone now should be "stuck" on Huawei Ascend Logo, don't panic we are in fastboot mode now.

5.- Here we can erase or flash anything we want to the phone you be extremely careful with what you are doing.... To flash kernel and recovery we can do as follows:

Flashing a Kernel:

fastboot flash boot boot.img

Flashing TWRP Recovery:

fastboot flash recovery recovery-twrp.img

Flashing Stock Recovery:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

Once it finish you'll see an output like the following

Now just do:

fastboot reboot

Your phone will boot into system, to go to recovery while having the phone connected to the Computer do:

adb reboot recovery

KEY NOTES​

For all of this to work your Phone needs to be on either latest KitKat Beta, B118 or B120 CN firmwares. International firmwares do not support flashing custom kernels or recoveries.

If you are flashing a Kernel make sure the kernel is named as "boot.img"

If you are flashing TWRP recovery name it as "recovery-twrp.img"

If you are flashing stock recovery name it as "recovery.img"

Any file you are flashing (either kernel or recovery) must be placed inside the folder abd&fastboot

I'll create another Post or Thread with information and usage of each TWRP item....

More to come...
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
Reserved...
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
Last one for further updates...
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] husen4u:
Such A Nice Guide. It Will Help Lots of users. Thanks A Lot
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Superwitschi:
Thanks for the great post

Gesendet von meinem HUAWEI P6-U06 mit Tapatalk
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] skyp6user:
thanks for this! Its easy to follow and understand especially for someone like me who's new to android
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
I'm glad to help! If you think anything else can be added or something else you guys need assistance let me know and I'll update this post or create a new one with the info needed :)
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] PulseDroid:
Finally someone did it :D
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] benna:
Super cool!!

Waaaaaaaaaat! Thank you SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much !!:good::good::fingers-crossed::fingers-crossed::victory::victory::victory::victory::laugh::laugh::highfive::highfive::highfive::silly::good::good:

I used this verry cool guide and it worked. i went from zero to hero. you are my hero
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] mark manning:
Thread Stuck

Nice guide!!
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] PulseDroid:
Added to the Index thread. Really well done mate.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] ricardose:
Nice guide. Thanks dude!

Enviado desde mi HUAWEI P6-U06 mediante Tapatalk
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] lauwie007:
Thanks to this guide I am now happily running LightningKat. :D very easy guide. thank you!
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] javak810i:
Hi,

I also successfully managed to get the Lightningkat ROM working. But I have a small problem. Whenever I shut down or reboot the phone, it automaticaly boots into the TWRP. Can this be disabled?

Also one question for those who have Lightningkat RC01 - my Anutut score is only 11k, Am I doing something wrong (with B125 I got something like 15k). I also noticed there is no power manager in this rom.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] lauwie007:
I had the same problem. Always booted in TWRP, but it solved itself after 4/5 reboots. I have no idea what I did to solve it :/

I got 13k, but remember antutu does not say a lot. A high antutu score means you can play better games. It gives a indication. The only game I have on my phone is flappy bird :eek: and it did run better on android 4.2 but on kitkat i have much more ram available and I think the ui runs a lot smoother.

-edit-

also. try to delete some root apps. most of the tweaks run in the background and lower your antutu score. Same goes for normal apps.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] javak810i:
Yeah I know the benchmark doesn't say alot, but on B125 I was constatly getting 14-15k and with LightningKat the score should be higher, not lower. At least in the screenshots there is something like 17,5k points in Antutu. The battery life and fluentness of the UI seem to be also better on B125.

I'm moving back to B125 and wait for an official Kitkat release.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] bettanoom:
Hi

Hi my friend.

how can I remove twrp recovery from my P6?because when I want to reset my phone from Backup and reset it goes to recovery mode and doesn't reset at all.

Beside that I want to instal B125 but then again it goes to recovery mode.How do I have to remove the recovery mode :(?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] NicholasMarzio:
I will test it when I have to flash again :)
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
Download stock recovery and flash it using this very same guide.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] thex24:
thanks

thanks a lot for this guide!! was really helpful:good:
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jura-akm:
tried everything. i connect, have all the sht mentined above... so i open this cmd sht, type adb devices, it blinks, and nothing happens anymore..
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
Is you phone turned on and recognized by the computer? Have you enabled or toogled USB Debuggin options under "Settings>Developer Options"?

If so, can you please share a screenshot of what is prompt on your CMD?

Thanks!
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
Hi all.

Kit Kat beta i think is a rom. What is B118CN or B120CN??

Is stock rom version? if so, where i do check that?

I just brought a P6 but i found batery drain to fast and im considering flash KitKat rom because i road it improvises lot better power consumption.

Thanks in advance.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
B118CN and B120CN are Chinese oficial stock Rom releases. If you are not based in China most likely you don't have this firmware on your phone.

I recommend you to use the kitkat beta update app and once you are there use this tutorial to flash twrp
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] warea:
For best battery, better to go for B125 firmware.

The KK beta aint bad battery wise (im happy with it and use it) but its not the best seen on p6. Being a beta firmware, its understandable.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] vagraxy:
thank you very much.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
Help me

I get a problem when flashing p6,

what should I do?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] richish:
more info PLS

what rom u was

whatn u tryed to flash ?

we need more info to help u !
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
http://tinypic.com/m/i2lks2/2

my rom 125 Int

i can't upload image

adb can't detect my phone
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] richish:
MORE

tell a storry how did u tryed to do that !

We need symtoms, what whent wrong.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
at the time i wrote" adb reboot bootloader" in cmd my phone stuck on Huawei Ascend Logo,..

and i wrote "fastboot flash boot boot.img" in cmd (waiting for devices) very long time no respond

as well as i wrote "fastboot flash recovery recovery-twrp.img" (waiting for devices) very long time

ty
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
First, your phone needs to be on either Kitkat Beta, B118CN or B120CN, those firmwares are the only ones with the hability to flash a custom kernel or recovery.

If cmd is telling you waiting for device, it means you don't the fastboot driver installed. Have you installed Hisuite in your PC?

If not please install it, reboot your PC, connect your phone and let the computer install all drivers then you can try again to do the procedure.

BTW if you are attempting to flash TWRP there is no need to run the "fastboot flash boot boo.img" command that is just in case you need a custom kernel.

Regards,

Jimbo
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Ottomaani0:
The phone is in bootloader mode when it shows the Ascend Logo...

Lähetetty minun P6-U06 laitteesta Tapatalkilla
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
Oooo.ooo.oo.. so the firmware 125 can not in flashing? means i have to downgrade to B118CN or B120CN?

yes i have Hisuite in my PC

so i'm just type "fastboot flash recovery recovery-twrp.img" and "fastboot flash recovery recovery.img" not Flashing a Kernel fastboot flash boot boot.img. on cmd

thanks for all

i'm try asap
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] richish:
u can boot your phone !?

Yes u must downgrade to B118CN or B120CN or upgrade to KK B014

IF u can boot your phone do it with local update. and the repeat your commands on adb tp flash TWRP recovery image, but u no need to flash bootloader.img, beacuse u will get unlocked bootloader with some of these official roms.

Better use KK B014 Beacuse B118CN and B120CN have chanse to brick phone !
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
Yes i'm

So whether at the worst possible kitkat Rom to brick it still exist?

And if after installing twrp, can i still install Rom besides B118CN and B120CN?

Ty
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] richish:
I dint hear that KK rom can brick phone, but i hear it with B118 CN and B120CN

after installing TWRP u can install any rom what is for Ascend P6
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
guys

i'm success to install TWRP.. and i have problem again because when i wipe, i chose all wipe so that my OS not found at the time of going to boot,

how to restore my OS?

because i'm tried to instal, but failed rom, whats up?

This is called brick phone?

at boot time only to ascend logo

ty

Sorry my english bad
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
Download any firmware that is installable through TWRP or install back stock recovery and use Update.app to install a stock rom to your phone...
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] richterlevania3:
This is exactly where I'm lost. Where is the B120 stock recovery for download?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] benna:
Remember that "Fastboot" should be DISABLED in phone settings
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
why I can not do the Charging hp when powered off?

if hp in the Off state, then I connect the charging hp suddenly went into TWRP menu

there is no indication in the battery charging, such as before installing twrp
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
1st, this is not an issue related to this thread. You need to update your TWRP to the latest version to fix that issue.

Go to TWRP thread and download latest version, then flash it to your phone following the procedure stated here.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] imheran:
I'm sorry,

Ok... i'm try it
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] keatster:
Stuck

Hi,

I followed all your instructions above (great work), and I can reboot into TWRP. This is where the fun starts:

So TWRP loads, but my phone is permanently vibrating, constantly. It allows me to select advanced, but at the next screen i cant press anything and my back key doesn't work.

I can long press the power button and reboot the phone as normal, but when i try 'adb reboot recovery' again, the vibration starts and i can only select one option of the main menu in TWRP before the screen seems to freeze.

Any advice please?

I am desperately trying to flash the KK ROM
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] alek92:
B125

Can I unlock the bootloader on B125 and then flash a custom recovery ?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
First you need to flash the KK Beta UPDATE.APP then go to KK TWRP thread and download latest version. I have done this in the past and haven't had the issue you mention. Try and if that doesn't work I'd ask Surdu if he can lend you a hand here since the issues is when you are in TWRP.

B125 can't be unlocked, you'll need to flash either B118, B120 or KK Beta. Once you do that, just do a "System update" to B125 again and you bootloader will be open and you'll be able to flash kernels and custom recoveries...
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] alek92:
B125

Correct me if I am wrong but I think it can be unlocked via this method
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
Yes, but the issue is that the BL unlock will not help you. See, the phone makes a signature check in each partition (Kernel, Recovery, System etc...) before booting and if the signature is not Huawei's signature the device will not boot at all.

This signature verification is disabled in the firmwares I mentioned. Of course you can unlock the BL with that process but chances are that your phone will not boot if you flash another kernel or recovery aside from Stock.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] warea:
As you can read from the thread, that method did work. A person installed TWRP after unlocking through that method, and TWRP requires full unlock (including signature) to be capable of flashing successfully. So that method does unlock the signature

Since the person in question here has an locked device, i guess it would be worth a try to use that method first.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] lootjelo:
Some people have had issues with this method (the permanent vibrating in TWRP), so I think it would be safer to just flash TWRP from KK Beta
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] awakened77:
I flashed KK beta over B125 and then reverted back to B125. After this I was able to flash a permanent recovery (TWRP for B125) without any issues.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] huaweichina:
Great

:)
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
i brought my P6 in portugal so i guess im on an international rom, so im not either in a kitkat beta or B118CN or B120CN.

how can i flash a recovery so i can backup my stock rom and be able to flash for example HYD52ROM v7??

thanks for help!
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Cocagy:
is that possible to install TWRP on B132 or not ?

Update :

I installed TWRP on B132 and it worked normally then installed init.d also worked very good

Thnx :)
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Bladrim:
Great Job!

Really great !

It was a little scary, once in fastboot I've realized to not have the recovery .img -:eek:

"fastboot reboot" and then "adb reboot bootloader", "flash recovery ..." and here we go :D

Ten minutes later my P6 had TWRP and a Custom Rom.

Sorry for any grammar mistake.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
Guys, i've noticed a strange 3 pixels iluminated when i turn on my P6 and it is in bootlogo "ASCEND P6"

I think that 3 pixels didnt apeared before i did root, (or before i flashed TWRP), i realy dont remember, but when i brought this phone i remenber that this pixels were not there...

here it is the image > LOOK AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT of the screen.

there are 3 pixes iluminated when phone is booting showing "ASCEND P6"

I have a friend that as a P6 and in his phone that iluminated pixels are not there.

Should i unroot? what can i do? is my phone with some kind of issue? realy want to take that pixels out XD.

i used root method 1 in root thread of this forum.

then installed kitkat beta

then flashed twrp (for kitkat version)

then flashed OMNI rom KitKat

i have GLTools instaled and this script: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2580436
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
i flashed stock recovery. the one posted here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2566453

now wen i go to stock recovery my phone gives an error and keeps vibrating all time. i can only select top option - to reboot.

i had before: twrp_2_6_3_7_recovery.img (to flash omni kit kat)

how to fix this? i want to flash oficial B132 rom., realy need help...
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
I've heard about this issue when people used the procedure to unlock bootloader... Have you done so? I mean unlocking bootloader with an international version and then flashing twrp?

If so I think there is nothing I can do to help you out..
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
Jimbo, thanks for reply.

i didnt used any procedure to unlock bootloader.

i guess my bootloader as been unlocked when i flashed kitkat beta by method: place UPDATE.APP in DLOAD folder in sdcard,then VOL+&VOL-&Power to flash stock beta kitkat rom.

after flash beta oficial kitkat bootloader unlocks, thats a fact.

then i flashed TWRP 2.6.3.7

then i wiped all except internal and external memory, then flashed OMNI ROM KIT KAT.

the 3 pixels iluminated apeared by the time (i guess...) when i did root using method 1(when i was using stock 4.2.2 rom). i dont know if was because the root method or if it was coincidence.

Yesterday i tryied to revert my phone to stock to send it to guarantee... but i need a working stock recovery to then flash rom B132.

My original stock Rom was: (i took a screenshoot) P6-U06V100R001C00B606 , so i think is B606 right ??? where i can get it??

Yesterday i flashed this stock recovery: Stock_Recovery_B118.zip but when i went to recovery, inside recovery my phone gave me an error (i dont remenber what it said) and kept vibrating all time. I Booted again to my rom (omni rom) then i flashed the same recovery that was working - TWRP 2.6.3.7

Now its working fine but i want to revert my phone to stock to send it to guarantee.

I apreciate realy some help :)
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] taaeem:
Try to flash KK stock recovery from TWRP 2.6.3.7 thread there are the instructions and I think you must also flash the boot.img from the KK beta but look in the thread there it is explained.

Gesendet von meinem P6-U06
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Curcio:
thanks
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] spaykerek:
Thanks for the posting how to make those flases, but I do have a one question. A user surdu_petru from this topic:

says that this Rom is rooted, how come that he rooted it? I updated it straight from the B125, downloaded the official chinese room and flashed straight to it, what can I do to root it? Sorry for asking here, but I can't post there since I do not have 10 posts.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] yeMagic:
Having this problem..

when the device goes to bootloader, it wont show up in adb devices.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
i think that is a device driver issue.

try installing HISUITE first (reboot your pc then). It will install drivers needed to your P6.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
If you already have installed the latest Kitkat official CN update, just use this guide to flash TWRP, after that you just need to reboot in recovery and from there it will auto root your device once you re start it.

It is not a drivers issue, when you are in bootloader mode adb will not work. If you want to check if your device is recognized in bootloader mode type:

fastboot devices

if you a funny output like a lot of ? signs then you are good to continue with the guide,

If you already have downloaded the TWRP image you need to flash just do:

fastboot flash recovery nameofyourfile.img - replace the "nameofyourfile.img" by the actual name of the recovery image you downloaded.

Good Luck!

Jimbo
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
I have this strange issue with my P6, Please take a look: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=51609931

i think i must flash boot.img to try fix that bootanimation bug...

im runing stock B506-CN rom with TWRP 2.6.3.7

Can i flash boot.img that is attached in downloads in the first post of this thread or i need a specific boot.img?? WILL I BRICK MY DEVICE?

thanks for help!
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
I don't think you can fix that with boot.img

boot.img does not contain that bootloader animation. I haven't seen anything like that before, have you tried flashing back to stock FW by UPDATE.APP method using the 3 button combo?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] yeMagic:
i already got TWRP installed, i want to revert back to stock.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
Then just download stock recovery and when in fastboot use the same command:

fastboot flash recovery recovery.img (rename stock recovery to "recovery.img")

and then from there you update through UPDATE.APP
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] RicardoA:
"...I haven't seen anything like that before", lol , i lucky i am...

Jimbo, thats the only test i didnt..

ill flash back to stock when oficial kitkat comes to europe!, then if problem persists ill take device to warranty. thanks for reply.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] yeMagic:
now i get this:
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] huaweichina:
great work

Great
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Falcifer:
Please also add instructions on how to downgrade from 4.4 KK to 4.2 JB, it looks as if many people are having issues with this process.

You can perhaps use this: hottp://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=51694739&postcount=6
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] edward0181:
Make sure that fastboot has been started before. adb reboot bootloader only then you can use fastboot...
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] kangvip:
Thanks a lot! KitKat stable Version is coming

Thanks a lot! KitKat stable Version is coming
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Raff1234:
I just downloaded the only kitkat i could find online because huaweinews download page is down for some reason its p6-u06 ........B506 will this work for the rest of the tutorial?

Sorry if this is a noob question, im a noob.

People have said i can just update to this rom through system update, i would just go through USB storage update via my pc right?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jimbo77:
It should work fine with that system update. TO update put the UPDATE.APP file inside a folder named dload (this can be done in either the internal or external storage) then just go to settings and do the system update.

Regards,
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] sirias:
Changing from B506 to Kitkat Beta (B014)

Hi,

Does anybody know if it is possible to change from the Official Kitkat (B506CN) firmware to the Kitkat Beta (B014)?

I'm on B506 and would like to try different roms etc, but B506 just seems to have to many problems as far as rooting and flashing is concerned.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jmdxhsn:
Hello Every One

i am new on Androis OS

and i want to understand if i can upgrade my Huawei Ascend P6

this is the specs :

Huawei p6-U06

Android Version 4.2.2

Emotion UI version : 1.6

Kernel Version : 3.0.8-00795-g35bf4a (andoid@localhost #1 )

Number Build : P6-U06V100R001C00B128SP01

Can i Upgrade my Huawei P6 to kitkat ??
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] tileeq:
Yes you can
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] somsomers:
If I update to Kitkat beta from international B125 with locked bootloader and then downgrade back to B125 through "local update", will bootloader remain unlocker after Kitkat beta?
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] Superwitschi:
Yes!!

Von meinem HTC One, powered by MIUI v5.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] somsomers:
Just tried. No, it does not. Got "Flash failure ErrNo:2" :(
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] tileeq:
To revert on 4.2.2 flash first that: http://dl.vmall.com/c01l4l4a2y# via local update, after that you can flash 4.2.2 without issues again via local update.

Another link for the download in case it is slow from the first one https://mega.co.nz/#!9oEHUTiR!uVKEq6...QZ5yrnedx4rug4

This should work if you are on KK and you will have unlocked bootloader after that.
[Huawei Ascend P6, Mate] jmdxhsn:
ok i will try to update it :)

thank you a lot