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[Honor 7 General] piskr:
There is still a lot of false information around about Honor 7 specs. Almost all of them except some from official Chinese traders are totally wrong. Including those from Gsmarena. Especially information on basebands, bluetooth and NFC are false.

The truth is that all models with possible exception of PLK-AL10 are without NFC. I'm not sure for PLK-AL10 (instruction included in the box of my phone are about PLK-AL10 and there is clear picture of NFC position attached). It would be nice if someone who possessed it enlightens us.

It seems that Chinese either don't care much about NFC or had troubles to assemble it due to the full metal body of the phone. First option is more realistic as a lot of flagship Chinese phones lack NFC.

I'm rather busy right now but I'm planning to issue an user experience review of Honor 7 when I find a time. Otherwise there are some good news: HONOR 7 CAME TO EUROPE. From yesterday is it on sale in many European countries (more to come) with 24-month EU warranty for €350 (and you get €50 coupon if you buy it by the end of this month): https://www.vmall.eu/uk/

There is no clear specs showing any difference from the Chinese model though.
[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
I wasn't talking about the battery, the battery is more than ok .I was talking about RAM almost half of the 3Gb is used with no apps running in background
[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
Have the same here but you can check the keep WiFi on during sleep option to always but don't know anything about the push notification issue
[Honor 7 General] guezs:
I flash back the original emui recovery. Root is still there so am happy with it.

Try to do a system update, phone reboot but failed.

Any idea?

Also where is the update file store? If I cannot update I might as well delete away.

I do not want to do a rom flash like I did yesterday as I have to spend 4 hour to setup my phone. So I will make do without the ROM update unless it is critical. As always I prefer to be on the latest but wouldn't mind being on 5.0.

Plenty of headache now

so my latest update

Phone on 5.0 (not the latest update)

Phone is unlock mode (Did not manage to get it lock have a error when I try to relock it)

Root : yes

Recovery : flash back to EMUI recovery planning to stay on that

Wonder if I do a factory reset any problem. I got no intention to do it
[Honor 7 General] trijethero:
PLK-AL10 has NFC, I can activate in settings and NFC shows in statusbar.

Dual Sim works in Europe.

Not able to get an unlock code, emailed Huawei with necessary info, hoping to get an answer soon.

Have the latest 162 ROM, but have some problems as well with google disappearing, looks now that it happens when you visit chinese websites, hopefully will be fixed in future updates.

Waiting for a multi-tool!!
[Honor 7 General] jasonlim197:
last update by me

Successfully updated to B162 using local update.

Instruction to have a perfect version.

Not rooted yet. Brand new phone

Perform a update to the latest firmware which is B162.

Get unlock code. Flash TWRP recovery. Install Super user.

Flash back B162 recovery.img

Now you can do a factory reset and root (super user) is still there

Already been using Honor 7

Backup your phone. Huawei has a internal backup tools call backup

It will backup to this directory HuaweiBackup. Copy out this directory to your Harddisk

if you have rooted flash back recovery.img and do a local update follow earlier post.

Do a factory reset.

Uninstall any apps you do not need. I uninstall all the Chinese apps.

you may or may not lose root. if you lose root. flash TWRP recovery and do a root from there.

Flash back recovery.img

after reset put back the HuaweiBackup back to your internal storage.

Go to backup tools and do a restore. you should get back 70 - 80% of the setting including your home position and most of the apps should work. if it doesn't work you have to go to manage apps and clear data.

That it guys

the most important to me is to flash back recovery.img (original emui img)

then you can do a factory reset anytime and root is still there

If you however need twrp as you backup the whole system then do not follow my post.

Good luck guys I am getting more and more better with this root restore recovery backup.

Latest rom download from

http://www.needrom.com/download/honor-7-plk-ul00/

I have only test this on PLK-UL00 that is the only version I have
[Honor 7 General] mkriso:
Hello,

I am new user of Honor 7, version which I bought is PLK-UL00.

I was wondering if it is possible to change ROM to PLK-L01 (european version).

Has anyone already tried this if it is possible?
[Honor 7 General] piskr:
Porting a different ROM is always risky. You should know that they have different basebands and likely there are other differences too. You may end up losing the signal or in worst case having the bootloop.
[Honor 7 General] erik_bies:
Did anyone try this approach with Super-Root.apk or is this FAKE?

http://www.howto-root.info/2015/07/huawei-honor-7-7269.html

Seems much simpler without the hassle?
[Honor 7 General] piskr:
It really looks promising except - it's a virus. Don't download any file from that site.
[Honor 7 General] bettuccio:
Hello everyone, I have an honor to 7 gold from 64gb to 4.5 days and only now I realize that does not work l`OTG. I entry of the last version of the official rom Chinese(162) but I italiano.for Can someone please check if it works the OTG?
[Honor 7 General] erik_bies:
I have the European version from vmall. It is the PLK-L01

Can confirm it is without Chinese apps, normal gapps. I can also confirm unfortunately it has no NFC

firmware build PLK-L01C432B100
[Honor 7 General] wuri:
Thank you very much
[Honor 7 General] bettuccio:
Hello ,you work OTG function? To me when I connect the cable alone function power bank to charge other smartphones. I have the Chinese version 64 gb.
[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
I've used OTG for printing and its working fine with me
[Honor 7 General] Tylonhh:
Why is this thread not in the honor section?

http://xdaforums.com/announcement.php?a=81
[Honor 7 General] bettuccio:
Also I'm interested in the root and recovery but first I need to fix my OTG. Thank you all.
[Honor 7 General] mru55:
International PLK-L01 with 16GB does not have NFC. The 64GB is supposed to have NFC, probably only in gold.....

BTW The international version has more LTE Bands:

Frequency bands : 2 SIM, GSM 1800, GSM 1900, GSM 900, GSM850 (GSM800), LTE FDD BAND 1, LTE FDD BAND 20, LTE FDD BAND 3, LTE FDD BAND 7, LTE FDD BAND 8, WCDMA FDD Band I, WCDMA FDD Band II, WCDMA FDD Band VIII
[Honor 7 General] autokiller677:
Cant find unlock code as well.
[Honor 7 General] pappapishu:
Does anyone with the european honor 7 (PLK-L01) tried to root it? Does it work the same way as with the chinese one?

Thank you
[Honor 7 General] bettuccio:
I solved the problem OTG. It was that the cable was not working on this cable telefono.Ho changed and now it works. I found this procedure on an external website .According to you reliable?I trust only xda.

http://www.gizdev.com/rooting-huawei-honor-7-unlockbootloader-root-install-twrp-recovery/
[Honor 7 General] piskr:
I haven't tried it yet but a t first sight it looks reliable. It's just a tool which helps to install recovery easier.
[Honor 7 General] duky_duke:
I've emailed for unlock cado and I had the following answer :

Unfortunately when trying to flash TWRP recovery, I've got a "PHONE Locked" message... :(

I've followed this tutorial for TWRP the gizdev tutorial.
[Honor 7 General] bettuccio:
we have to wait some wizard who invented a simple and effective way to make root and custom recovery. So the method of that site does not work?

---------- Post added at 02:53 AM ---------- Previous post was at 02:51 AM ----------

For your information I have the Chinese version gold 64 gb and also "NFC" and is multilangue
[Honor 7 General] piskr:
I regret to hear that European Honor 7 can't get the bootloader unlock code. In my opinion is a Huawei's step in the wrong direction. What about others? Is there any specific Chinese model, which couldn't obtain the code yet? Has anyone managed to get the code via web application? Or is there anybody, who's been waiting for the code more than 2 weeks? Share the experience, please.

And there is no way to void the warranty in Europe on solely ground of unlocking bootloader as long as the original system is completely restored.

You can't flash TWRP recovery if the bootloader is locked, at least for now. There are bypasses for some phones, but not for Honor 7.
[Honor 7 General] duky_duke:
Good news !

I replied to support explaining that my phone is locked and that I can't flash my own recovery as they said.

I've just received the new answer with my unlock code ! :good:

So, I'll try to root it when I'll be back at home.
[Honor 7 General] duky_duke:
I've finally rooted my phone PLK-L01 following piskr tutorial !

But not without trouble...

The recovery from piskr tutorial is originally for another device, and if it has successfully added SuperSU, I was stuck in a recovery reboot loop.

Happily, I've managed to find a stock honor 7 recovery rom and I've been able to reboot into stock ROM with root !
[Honor 7 General] Tylonhh:
So, please share with us that source of rom.
[Honor 7 General] piskr:
Is this accurate? Every model has different TWRP? From the original Chinese site, which has first published instructions for rooting, it doesn't look like every model needs its own custom recovery. Can anybody confirm or deny this? What about PLK-AL10? Has anyone successfully installed TWRP?
[Honor 7 General] duky_duke:
I found the stock recovery in a link from here in this post http://www.gizdev.com/rooting-huawei-honor-7-unlockbootloader-root-install-twrp-recovery/ :)

It's provided in an archive in a link of this tutorial (with adb, batch scripts and TWRP).

http://www.gizdev.com/rooting-huawei-honor-7-unlockbootloader-root-install-twrp-recovery/

I've not tested the TWRP provided in this tutorial but the stock ROM worked for me even if it's not exactly the same as the original one of my phone.
[Honor 7 General] philipcraig:
Great news as I'm in the same boot loop after flashing twrp and super su. What exactly did you flash next? Just recovery, or was it more? Did you flag from within twrp, or use the update on sdcard method, or how did you do it?
[Honor 7 General] duky_duke:
See my answer here :

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62737969&postcount=17

I hope it'll work for you too.
[Honor 7 General] Raimund1:
[Request] TWRP for Honor 7 in English

The TWRP recovery is installed in CHINESE LANGUAGE

Have everyone TWRP v2.8.7.0 or v2.8.7.1 for Honor 7 in English?
[Honor 7 General] trijethero:
YES!

The published method of getting your unlock code works http://xdaforums.com/honor-7/general/bootloader-unlocking-t3196243, you'll need to use facebook account

Unlocked the phone

Downloaded the package from http://www.gizdev.com/rooting-huawei-honor-7-unlockbootloader-root-install-twrp-recovery/

But ran in to problems, TWRP did not insttall.

Instead downloaded the TWRP from http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62176723&postcount=5

Installed manaully as mentioned in the original post

Used the batch tool to go in to recovery, now TWRP showed up

Installed SU, first post has the right sequence

than back to fastboot mode

manually flash recovery_stock.img and reboot

Brings up normal recovery, select reboot and yoru in business

Thanks to all you guys providing detailed instruction!!
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
Did you tried to flash also xposed?
[Honor 7 General] kjettern:
OMG! I'm having the TWRP bootloop, but the only problem is that i can't get back into fastboot... I've tried rebooting to fastboot via TWRP and also by holding volume down, but still no go :(

Anyone have a good solution for this kind of trouble?
[Honor 7 General] philipcraig:
Don't panic. It happened to me too. Unplug the USB cable. Try long power press rebooting and then holding down both volume keys. Doing that or something similar for me into a safe mode boot from which I installed ROM manager etc as in my earlier post.
[Honor 7 General] kjettern:
I finally managed to boot normal.. Don't know how I did it, guess I just rebooted and pushed whatever.. From main os I could get into fastboot so I successfully managed to flash stock recovery from there! I must admit that I was a bit worried for some time there!
[Honor 7 General] mamboboy:
Rooted but two problems...

1. Navigation bar is no longer transparent /hideable with apex launcher

2. Can't install xposed framework

Anyone know how to fix?
[Honor 7 General] chato.pl:
This installing TWRP recovery to achieve root, is really necessary?

I'm asking 'coz getting root in Heawei P8 Lite doesn't require TWRP ... :confused:
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
Which version are you trying to flash?
[Honor 7 General] mamboboy:
Haven't tried any, but xposed says it "is not yet compatible with Android SDK version 21 or your processor architecture (arm64-v8a)"

Didn't go any further as I picture myself being stuck in a bootloop and having to mess about recovering it
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
There should be an xposed version for arm64. I need to check, but v74 should have 3 different zips: arm32, arm64 and intel

EDIT: checked yet, v74-arm64-sdk21 should work flawlessly, maybe you tried to flash an older version. ;)

Keep an eye onto the official thread for the download link
[Honor 7 General] mamboboy:
Knew I shouldn't have tried, stuck in an infinite boot loop now... even after running the uninstaller. It rebooted fine after uninstalling initially, but when I went back to wipe the cache it become stuck in a loop. Haven't got a clue how to fix it, sigh.

Any help would be appreciated as I need my phone. Can't seem to find the stock firmware to flash...
[Honor 7 General] blackrome0:
Will this work gravity box in xposed?
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
Flashed v74-arm64 but still bootlooping, flashed the uninstaller and it rebooted flawlessly (luckily)

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[Honor 7 General] El Philou:
To have in english ;)

http://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=62856109&postcount=5
[Honor 7 General] lippol:
Thank you so much, I was trying for the whole day!

I had the device off and then long pressed power and both volume keys. It booted into recovery - but didn't give up.

Then while it was on, I long pressed power and volume down until the colored shining honor logo appeared.

Then I booted into bootloader via

adb reboot bootloader

Finally I was able to flash stock recovery again! - as it can be found in previous posts on XDA.

before I always just did one of the things, but I guess putting them in Sequence did the trick.
[Honor 7 General] beber75:
Hi,

correct me if I badly understood:

There is no way to stay with TWRP installed (it's bootlooping into recovery).

The original recovery image has to be restored after rooting the computer.

Currently, I'm stuck with that scenario. For me there is no way to stay with TWRP installed. I had to restore my original recovery.img

Regards.
[Honor 7 General] Icetea:
removed
[Honor 7 General] Icetea:
since i have seen how long the people they have rooted has to wait for downloading the new updates i stop thinking about rooting! Maybe later.:D
[Honor 7 General] gsxr2001:
It doesn't work with PLK-L01C432B121 update! I unlocked bootloader; installed TWRP with fastboot with no problems. But when I reboot, and enter into recovery, it is stock!
[Honor 7 General] Icetea:
please try a factory reset and than reboot to recovery again
[Honor 7 General] ismtz:
I trying to unlock bootloader of my TL01H from Huawei site, but i receive message: "Huawei cloud application accounts for the unlock code is not on this phone log more than 14 days!" (translated from chinese)

please help, what does it mean?
[Honor 7 General] mluminski:
Does means you have to wait 2 weeks
[Honor 7 General] Lucki_X:
It doesn´t work. I´m waiting for more than 3 weeks with the same result. :(
[Honor 7 General] mluminski:
You can try code generator
[Honor 7 General] pappapishu:
does anybody help us with this?

bootloop after OTA B121: http://xdaforums.com/honor-7/general/bootloop-b121-ota-t3214537

sorry for crossposting
[Honor 7 General] Gordon437:
Can someone confirm this? After a factory reset with this update installed, can you boot the phone?
[Honor 7 General] evilmumi:
any1 with b121 rooted?
[Honor 7 General] Icetea:
rooting seems to work like for the B100 version the users on Android-hilfe.de forum wrote.

so: yes it works!
[Honor 7 General] greybot:
How do I root this thing??

I keep getting into "Huawei eRecovery" after writing the twrp image file to the phone via fastboot (where it says I am unlocked)!

Am holding volume + and power on reboot

(PLK-L01..... B100)
[Honor 7 General] greybot:
Ok after much trial and error I finally got twrp to load after fresh installing the rom, then holding power with BOTH volume buttons. Just pressing Up volume was taking me to the huawei boot recovery. Now have a full rooted device :) Happy for now. Anyone had any luck rooting the latest update? B121??
[Honor 7 General] Icetea:
see 2 post up!
[Honor 7 General] greybot:
Yeah thanks. YEsterday was a massive stress trying to get it all to work. First couldn't boot into twrp, then whenever I tried to flash the stock rom it would hit 90%, freeze then chuck me into a dreaded boot loop. Ended up having to educate myself a bit more on android devices and discovered a wipe of cache, system, data etc using twrp (when I finally got into it!) would increase my chances of a fresh install of the stock firmware. Once I had the whole process completed for B100 it was relatively easy to carry out for B121 albeit time consuming.

I love a rooted android device (mostly so i can take advantage of true fullscreen mode) and was dreading my day off to get it all working but got there in the end. No more updates for a while huawei and I'm a happy bunny :D

Does anyone know if we will get a custom rom like on other smartphones? There is so much bloatware on the stock it's a bit annoying. All those toggles under notification are massive overkill too.
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
So did u managed to root B121 as well with the same method, right?

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[Honor 7 General] greybot:
Yep. Downloaded the whole B121 rom and put the 3gb update.app file in a folder I created, called \dload\ on the internal memory. Booted the phone by holding both volume buttons with power button (after huawei stock recovery image file was put back via fastboot) and it did the installation process. Took about three attempts before it finally installed it all (had to go back into twrp and do a 'clean wipe', then back to huawei stock recovery). Then it was just a case of following the rest of the guide for installing root.
[Honor 7 General] ashensii:
Ok, flashed root over ota 121 today. Everything went by the guide without any problem.

So now I have SuperSu running what if I reinstall stock recovery, will my SuperSu stay active so I could receive otas and have root at the same time?

Has anyone tried xposed for now, does it work?

Can supersu be updated to the newest version?
[Honor 7 General] piskr:
There are custom roms already, but for the Chinese models. For now all of them derive from stock roms, but they have Chinese apps removed, there are optimized, modified, zipaligned and therefore the size is reduced below 900MB. Root is included and Gapps option as well. You can find them on this site: http://search.ydss.cn/cse/search?q=...A%E8%8D%A3%E8%80%807%E8%AE%BA%E5%9D%9B&nsid=0.

ROM is not directly flashable on the European model but someone who possesses it may want to play and extract the system (AFTER MAKING NANDROID BUP) according to the instructions: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2433454 and flash it.

The other method to get rid of Chinese apps is simply to uninstall additional (some of them are not in the list of installed but in all) and remove the system ones. I did it many times but then I got tired to flash entire rom after every new release and adjust apps and settings. Now I only disable them. Waiting for the stable Marshmallow to perform final settings.

If someone is interested, you can replace the most horrible stock system apps with more convenient like dialer, contacts, calendar. You can find original Google apps on: http://www.apkmirror.com/apk. I'm attaching the inverted ones. I just hate this flash bright color of lollipop Gapps. And what is a real bummer - Google canceled its plan to issue the dark Marshmallow.

To install these apps just create (with root explorer or similar) appropriate folder and push the app in either system apps or priv-system apps, wherever the original is. Change permissions (folder rwxr-xr-x, apk rw-r-r). In the first zip you have sync apps which are needed for synchronization and in the second are contacts and dialer. Do not delete stock dialer or phone apps. The new dialer is just an interface. Well, nice interface, you won't have to bother selecting between sims every time you want to call and you'll have a useful Google tool - seeking online numbers as a bonus. Calendar could be download from http://www.apkmirror.com/apk or get from Team Blackout app.
[Honor 7 General] thijseend:
Fix twrp bootloop

Hi guys,

Found a fix for the twrp bootloop.

Just plug in your charger when in twrp and then turn off the device. (button next to reboot)

When you see that it is charging with the normal charging logo you can turn the device on.

This works for me i hope it works to for you guys.

Good luck:fingers-crossed:
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
Do you think that stock .img recovery file could be flashed also from an app like Flashify?

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[Honor 7 General] mgolder:
Why do they make this so difficult to actually do. You go through it all then it says you need to register via a phone account. So you try to do that, except that the uk code +44 is not on their list, so you can't register that way. Am I missing something?
[Honor 7 General] ashensii:
If you mean getting unlock code, the simpliest way to get that was logging in with facebook
[Honor 7 General] tampiss:
Currently on B100 with TWRP and rooted. What is the easist way to flash B121 without wiping the phone? Do I need to flash stock recovery first? Do I need to unroot first? Please, advice. Thank you, tampiss
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
For sure u need to flash stock recovery and unroot, update and root back again. But I'd like to know as well how to proceed. Does anyone have the .img stock recovery file?

Would try to flash it from the phone (flashify), but don't have the right file

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[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
I've tried every way to get the unlock code but no success- is there anyway to run twrp even for once without unlocking boatloader?
[Honor 7 General] Icetea:
No! No unlock = No TWRP = No root = "No" for anything!
[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
Finally managed to get unlocking code, the problem was that you have to log in with the Facebook account made by the same e-mail address you've made your Huawei id with
[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
Here is B173 recovery if anyone has a bootloop https://mega.nz/#!Hpd2TTCY!OydIpsAfCZyhb1ORfzmwfVkzJVmKjhIrOkf9emvy7Es
[Honor 7 General] evilmumi:
what is B173?
[Honor 7 General] Piemo:
I think is for the chinese firmware, which was at B162 when H7 was released in EU with B100..

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[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
You are right , B173 is the last OTA update for my Chinese version ,I have PLK-TL01H
[Honor 7 General] mamboboy:
Are we ever going to get Xposed framework? Getting bored of waiting now...
[Honor 7 General] deadko:
:(I was bored to try login with facebook, when click in login only refreshes the page and nothing change, there's no other way? thanks
[Honor 7 General] joe60x:
there is now of TWRP a english version for the Honor 7 (PLK-L01) ?

(not the mod China)
[Honor 7 General] ASMstudent:
I've found an update (b708) which is finally 5.1 on emui website, I am not willing to wait for the OTA update so I have already began downloading it write now , do I need to back up my apps before applying local update?