[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Rashad83:
Hi guys, this is a tutorial on how to hide the navigation bar for all firmware, just one consideration you need to take after the following process you can later update only up to Version B150 (confirmed) and up to "Marshmallow, only if you update to Marshmallow from a rom that has the navigation bar hide toggle activated" and still be able to maintain the ability to hide the navigation bar. If you update to version B170 or B180 you risk losing the ability to hide.

Update (15-4-2016):

In the latest Marshmallow update B320 you cannot hide the navigation bar the only way is to go to an old version that has the suspend button like version B120 or B132 then you need to activate the hide toggle afterwards update to Marshmallow B320 rom directly, now the hide navigation toggle will stay but if you make a system reset it will disappear and you cant't have it back unless you do the whole process again

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Update (16-10-2015): If you're able to get version B200

If you are in the European region or in China and manged to get the update, it seems touchplus is back so simply skip to the

How to part.

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What you will need?

1. vB120 stock firmware or any firmware with Touch plus which you can download from Huawei support page

http://consumer.huawei.com/en/support/products/index.htm?pname=P8(GRA-UL00)&pcode=GRA-L03

in the link up replace 'en' with your country page short code ...................example: Singapore -> 'sg'

you should be able now to see the base stock firmware vB120 or any base firmware with Touch plus option and download it.

2. SDcard

** Use Hisuite from the PC to backup you apps and contacts if you don't want to lose them, which you can restore them later after we finish with the process.

How to:

A. If you are on v B120 or v B132 or v B200(not sure all regions)

please follow the instructions exactly in order to hide the navigation bar

1.Go to settings->under Smart assistance heading:

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-Select touch plus

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-Tick 'Touch plus' radio button.

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Go back to settings-> under Smart assistance heading:

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-Select 'more' -> Select Suspend button -> Tick 'Suspend button'

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Go to settings->under Smart assistance heading:

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-Select touch plus

-Tick 'Use film navigation keys'.................. the navigation bar will disappear.

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-Touch the suspend button and select back

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Go back to settings-> under Smart assistance heading:

-Select touch plus->untick 'use film navigation keys'.

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Now the navigation bar will reappear with the hide icon in the navigation bar in the left side.

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-If you want to disable the suspend button -> Go back to 'more' and turn off the Suspend button.

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2. If you want to update your firmware it is ok to do it up to version B150 u will still be able to maintain the ability to hide the navigation bar

"But make sure you don't reset your device after the update or you will lose the ability to hide"

, if you can update to v200 you will have to redo the How to part i guess.

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B. If you are on version B140+,B150,B170,B180,B320

1. Download vB120 or vB132 firmware it will be in .zip format, extract the firmware which will create a folder called 'dload', copy that folder to the sd card "you need to have an SD card to be able to do this".

2. Go to settings->updater->click the menu to update locally...... it should see now the update package you placed in your SD card.

3. Select it and let it install.

4. After the installation reset the phone from settings in order to have a clean rom without bugs.

5. Follow the instructions outlined up for hiding the navigation bar for version B120 or B132.

6. You can update later on only to version B132 or B150 or B320 and still be able to hide the navigation bar.

7. Use Hisuite in your pc to restore your apps and contacts if you want to.

Check the Pictures attached for clear understanding. Enjoy:good:

P.S: To other Huawei device users there is a guide to enable touchplus on your device written by [MENTION=4250720]kuhno[/MENTION] Thx. http://xdaforums.com/gx8/how-to/disable-navbar-activate-touchplus-t3390358/post67122095#post67122095 . Please check it out.