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[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] its the peanut:
Okay, everything works perfect (except the minor battery, not a huge problem)

Now the only problem i face is a bug in the system causing some apps to eat RAM like candy, as example, snapchat is mostly one of those apps and currently the only app is getting this and it affects other system (and launcher too). see screenshot to see, normally this should not appear but this also shows in recent apps and with icons on home screen.

Had this problem on b313 seems its not fixed yet.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ayesse:
Help me please... I can't set any theme, even an icon pack... Can someone tell me any solution? Thanks...
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Errol246:
Is it really worth it to install the update locally? It seems that people have nothing but problems with it. Does anyone know when the OTA will be available worldwide? I really don't want to risk bricking my phone
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
only problem i faced with this firmware is only the battery life, out of that everything works perfect
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] magnetz:
Does Marshmallow have continuous focus when recording video (not just in preview)? In 5.0 the only way to refocus is to touch.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ferryckp:
GRA-L09C469B160 version, from Colombia

Hello! I am from Colombia. If I have the version GRA-L09C469B160, can I update to this version? If not, what should I do?

I have seen that some people say that it is needed to update to B200 version before this B317.

I want to update. If you can help me, I will be very grateful.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
yes you need to update to b200, you can't update from b160
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] neoarnet:
Firmware Details

Device: Huawei P8

Model: GRA-UL00

Android: v6.0 Marshmallow

EMUI: 4.0

Firmware: B315

Build: GRA-UL00C636B315

Region: Asia

Country: Việt Nam

Status: Official (stable)

Type: Full firmware image

Release Date: 2016-02-25

File Name: GRA-UL00C636B315.rar

Download Link: Official Mirror | Mega Size: 1.25 GB
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ferryckp:
I am new in this matter. I mean about updating phones. Can you help me? How can I update to B200 without causing damage on my device, keeping in mind that I am not in Spain, but in Colombia.

Thanks a lot!
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
You need to flash the European b170 first.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ferryckp:
Please, how could I do it?
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fieldop:
Hello,

I recently purchased a P8 (GRA-L09) from Taiwan factory unlocked and brought it over to Canada. Everything works great and I'm loving it. But I have a silly question, would I still be getting OTA updates now that I've brought the device overseas? Sorry, I don't know how OTA updates work. And if I can't get OTA updates, can I flash to B200 and then B317 from my current ROM? Any information would be much appreciated!

Current:

GRA-L09C470B180

CUSTC363D001

Android 5.0.1

EMUI 3.1
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
i think you first need to flash european b170 then b200 and after that b317, you can try on your own responsibility to flash directly b200 but i can't guarantee that will work, you probably will get softbrick
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] its the peanut:
I think youll get ota updates from the country your in or the provider you use. As when you first boot (or factory reset) your device it will get a location (country) and will give you acces to those ota updates. I tested this with my P7 (maybe they have changed the policy) but whenever i factory reset and first boot without sim card (or internet) i never got ota updates even after boot and setup inserting the sim card, thinking huawei uses location given by sim card.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fieldop:
Oh ok, I see. So I'll have to perform factory reset and try to check for updates? I don't even know if I'll get it since the P8 is not sold in Canada...:confused: Thanks for the info btw.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] its the peanut:
Uhm, i dont know if there is an ota out then so a factory reset would not even help.

But you can always manually flash the updates

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[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
You do not need b200.

B170 is a zip file that contains 2 folders, each folder has 'n update.app in it. You need to copy the cust folder to your sdcard and rename the folder to dload. Do a local update. When that's done copy the dload folder from b170 onto your sdcard and overwrite the previous one. Do a local update. Do the same for b317 (full version only)
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fieldop:
Thank you very much, I'll give that a try. I read on another thread that the region numbers (the 3 digits before Bxxx) has to match? Mine is 470 and the B170/B317 are both 432 because Taiwan vs Europe. Does that matter or not really?
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
That's correct. C432 is the European cust number. The update.app in the CUST folder will change yours to C432.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] christo29800:
DO any one here using GRA-UL00. I have problem in singing in to huawei cloud+.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] silverblack:
How can i rollback to Lollipop ?

I was on B200 before in the UK.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
Download b300 and b200. First flash b300(is a 200 mb file that only change bootloader and build version of your b317 firmware) then flash b200.... Do all the installations with three button method("vol+","vol-" and "power" in the same time)
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] preclajsz:
Hi guys, how can i downgrade to b196 please? Thanks
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fieldop:
I tried to update the phone multiple times today, no success. The CUST app.update file ran and updated but said factory reset failed. But when the device booted up, looked like it did perform the factory reset, everything was reset to stock w/ the initial setup screens and everything. So I went ahead and tried to flash the dload folder and that failed @ 19% every time.

Now the CUST info doesn't show up in the about phone screen so I'm not sue what happened there.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] MrBitton:
TWRP vs Forced Update button selection

Good afternoon,

I am wondering how to make my Huawei P8 GRA-L09 B151 distinguish between a boot into TWRP recovery and a Forced Update as they both seem to use the same button combination?

Something else I have failed to see for myself and hope to be proven wrong, is the infamous "UPDATE.APP' or "Update.zip" file.

I have searched high and low for them to no avail....:crying::crying::

I would be eternally grateful if anyone can point me in the right direction, as the wrong direction is getting costly and lonesome....

Am i on the right track suspecting that the "update" file is not a singular file, but perhaps a group of files collectively forming the Update?

Regards,

Johan
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
What version number does your phone show? We can try to rectify it from that point.

---------- Post added at 08:53 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:50 PM ----------

To do anu update, you need to have a stock recovery. You can't do any stock update with a custom recovery. What is your phones cust version?
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fieldop:
It's currently still on GRA-L09C470B170. As far as I can tell, nothing changed apart from factory reset. I tried to update the CUSTOM update.app again, it'll run the circle till about 94% and then say "incompatibility with customization information "
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
It's a bit strange that the update doesn't work. I would probably try to flash the recovery.img, boot.img and cust.img of b170, then flash b170, then flash the cust update. There is and update extractor on xda that will help. Let us know if you have questions.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] fieldop:
Silly question, do I need to unlock the bootloader for these local updates? And does the order matter, CUSTOM folder first or dload folder first? Thanks for your help!

Update: I decided to try and flash B200 full, it worked! And simply updated to B317 from there, all is well now. Testing out the new ROM now. Thanks for all the help again!
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ericmky:
For me the battery life is amazing.

I was in B200 and update to B317, twice because the first time give an error at the end but reboot in B317.

Then make a full wipe and everythings work like a charm.

This weekend i had 38 h with 3:30 h screen and put to chargue with 20% left.

Now i have 64% battery with 10:30 h and 1:50 h screen on.

I use 4G and Bluetooth all day, Mail, Gmail, Twitter, and calls.

I don´t have Facebook or games in my P8.

Regards.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
[OTA UPDATE GRA-L09] Android 6.0 Marshmallow &amp; EMUI 4.0 Download

For me lasts 4-5 hours with screen on on b317.... On b200 around 6-7 hours screen on..... And is bcause even in iddle on b317 only 1-2 cores are sleeping on b200 on iddle 4-5 cores sleeping(for me)... I tested twice this thing..
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] paul_jigolo:
Phone Bricked and in Bootloop

You are allowed to laugh at me but i had moved away from Huawei for a while and i forgot how these updates work. First its worth mentioning that i have barely had my GRA-L09 LTE & NFC model more than 2 weeks when this happened. Stupid thing i did i never took a screenshot of the About Phone window before i attempted this so i have no info on what build i was running before (only that it had B200 somewhere and it was Android 5.0.1) and what my model number is. :p

I downloaded the updateold.zip and extracted it and placed it in a /dload folder on the SD Card root. I seriously dont know what i was thinking. This means in the /dload folder i had the UPDATE.APP (62,876KB) file, system, patch, META-INF, cust Folders. When i went back to the update phone menu it detected the update and asked to reboot to install and i clicked yes. When it did it went straight in bootloops. After researching i realized i wasn't meant to extract the zip and that the only recovery is to download the B200 firmware which i did in form of "GRA_L09_Europe_GRA-L09_C432B200.zip" and "Huawei P8 Firmware(GRA-L09, Android 5.0, EMUI 3.1, C432B200, Greece, Channel-Others).zip" and extract the boot.img and recovery.img from them using HuaweiUpdateExtractor and flash via fastboot.

Now it turns out my bootloader is locked as the Phone Rescue screen says "Phone Locked" :crying: hence i am failing to flash the extracted .imgs. I have written to Huawei but for them to give me the unlock code they say i need to log in to their website using the phone for atleast 14 days and then apply for the bootloader unlock code and when i do i need to have the Product ID.

I have downloaded several firmwares and used the 3 button flash but most are saying "Incorpatible Update".

PROBLEM: I cannot use the phone as its dead so i cant use the Huawei 14 day use to prove i own the phone. I also cant unlock the bootloader without Huawei giving me the unlock code so i flash the imgs. I also cant flash any firmwares using the 3-button method as i dont know what firmware version of the B200 was on the phone originally. Please assist. :crying:
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] danielterci:
:eek: That's quite misfortunate. If the Europe version it's "incompatible", try to find a Chinese one. It's trial and error, because otherwise I do not think you can "unlock" the bootloader in the official way via Huawei.

Check here for guidance on the available FW versions, not updated but you just need to find the right region.

http://xdaforums.com/android/help/firmware-huawei-p8-t3140838

I would try China first.

Later edit: I guess it would not be GRA-L09 if it's for the Chinese market so.... :confused:
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] joostvmourik@gmail.com:
I had the same behavior when the update was crached te first time. It looked ok but battery life was terrible. Did the update again it gets me trough the day easy
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
On b317 when day ends haved like 4-5% on b200 at end of day i have almost 25-30%.... There is a huge diference
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
For me b350 is the best rom so far, for battery and speed. I would go back if it wasn't such a mission.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mnazzama:
bootloop after update

so i got a p8 today because my Z2 died and got home and thought id try update to marshmallow. long story short i have no idea what i'm doing and have had my phone less than 24 hours and seemed to have bricked it. can anyone suggest how i might fix it?

I cant access recovery mode or anything other than fastboot and I have not enabled usb debugging. I managed to figure out how to successfully unlock my bootloader using fastboot and as far as I can tell from what happened in command prompt also managed to flash CWM using fastboot but phone still refuses to do anything other than load the huawei logo and then reset unless i plug it into the PC and put into fastboot mode.

also adb isn't recognizing the device i dont think when i run fastboot devices it comes up with my phones serial number however when i run adb devices it doesn't list anything.

any and all help would be so great as im now without a working phone but in possession of a brand new $400 brick
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
Do you know what version your phone was on and the cust number before you flashed? What country are you from? Do you have a branded phone like vodafone for example? Is your phone an L09? If you flashed marshmallow, you need to download a few roms to fix your problem, but we need more information before you start.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] joakim1988:
Anybody know why Huawei has taken away that you can change out background on case with window ?
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mnazzama:
Do you know what version your phone was on: not really. i think it was android 5.0 because i remember thinking it was weird there were no updates available after 5.0 (OTA)

cust number before you flashed?: no idea

What country are you from?: Australia

Do you have a branded phone like vodafone for example?: though i did not purchase this through vodafone it did have vodafone software preinstalled on the device when i purchased it.

Is your phone an L09? phone model is GRA-L09
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] silverblack:
Has anyone recieved the OTA version yet in the UK ?
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
I'm on spain and i didn't recieved any update till now.....
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maringer:
Nothing here yet for me either. (UK also).

I seem to recall that it was a few weeks after it was available in Europe before b200 was pushed by the update app in the UK. Hopefully available sooner rather than later as I'm beginning to get the upgrade itch! The Xiaomi MI5 is sending meaningful glances in my direction though I've got more important things to spend my money on at the moment! ;)

Marshmallow will hopefully keep me interested for a few months yet...
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] silverblack:
Also looking at the Xiaomi Mi5.Have you tried MM upgrade on here ?

I tried it but it stopped it notifications for gmail so im back on lollipop.

Will wait for others to try the OTA first,thats if i dont succumb to the Mi5 :D
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Maringer:
I'm holding off until the OTA comes, in case it is slightly modified to fix any minor issues. Unfortunately, don't have the time to muck around with different roms these days (young baby!) so haven't tried out the version for download on this forum.

Heck, my phone isn't even rooted when it used to be the first thing I did when I got a phone!

Doesn't help that my wife is on the cusp of upgrading her phone and is trying to decide between an iPhone 6s (her probable choice) and an SGS 7 (which it think is the better phone!)

Hopefully, the OTA will be with us shortly.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
It will definitely come with more fixes.... I think this month we will receive that OTA update.... B317 is not final release of MM firmware, i'm sure of that...
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mnazzama:
splash.img?

ok so i managed to use Huawei update extractor and flash everything using fastboot except there was no plash image included when i extracted the update.app

this has seemed to fix the bootloop issue for the most part. i am at least now loading past the Huawei Logo and the animated splash image starts and can boot into Huawei recovery and Factory reset mode (the one with both volume and power button pressed) however have not been able to restore as i'm not sure what to do next.

About half way through the boot animation freezes, the sound it makes when turning on glitches out and the phone reboots. I ended up giving up last night after making it to this point but i was wondering if simply finding the correct splash screen image and flashing the splash.img (is that what its normally called?) via fastboot is likely to fix my problem?

Im still not able to turn the phone on so USB debugging is still off.

Bootloader is unlocked and is running stock recovery as i couldn't manage to flash a custom recovery using fastboot and have it actually take (normally it would just make it so i could no longer enter recovery mode at all)
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
Follow post #201. Download b170 European version and follow the same procedure #201 describes for b170. B170 should have instructions inside it.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kice:
Two days ago I installed European B317.

My phone was T-Mobile branded and I debranded it with European B170, then via OTA I update it to B200. After that I installed full image B317, since when trying only the update it failed.

Everything is perfect, except my GPS applications, Here maps and Mapfactor: Navigator. For them I had maps on SD card and I didn't format the SD card during B317 update.

Now after installing again both applications there are issues. Here maps won't even start. I touch the icon and I have initial screen and after that it gets out of the application. Mapfactor: Navigator on each start gives me info that The navigator folder is set as read-only and I can't update maps since I don't have privileges to write in the folder.

Has anyone had similar issues? Should I erase all data from SD card and then try? Since I have also camera to save pictures to Sd card etc. if I erase everything will I cause problems to other applications that have information written to SD card?
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
Have you tried clearing the data of these apps? I just deselected all the 4 permissions that maps has and I can still load it.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] TopperBG:
May be its just b Android restriction of third party app to use sd card. Use to had Sygic on sd card for a long time.after update I have to upgrade to work and it auto moves to internal storage. Other way it hasn't work.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Kice:
Clearing data helped me with Mapfactor: Navigator. Navigator is ok now. I still have problems with Here maps. I reinstalled it and it says there is 0 data, so there is nothing to clean. But again Here maps fails to start. I rebooted the phone, but again same issue.

Anyone has a clue what to do? Anyone has the same problem?

---------- Post added at 02:15 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:11 PM ----------

here maps does not even let me in the app, so I can't select do I want internal storage or SD card. When I tap the icon it just gives me Here maps welcoming screen and after several seconds the app just shuts down. At the moment it seems that there is no data either on internal storage or SD card.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ralfbergs:
It's not strange that it fails, as the order is wrong: first ROM, then customization.

---------- Post added at 10:27 PM ---------- Previous post was at 10:26 PM ----------

No.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] gsiant:
Please help

I try to install the b317 but i unzip the folder and then i put it in the load directory,i went to local update it find the update,i install it and then it told me that it has updated and that it will restart.The device turn off and when it reaches the huawei screen after some seconds it turns off and restarts and this is happening all the time.Can you help me?I have bricked it?
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Grof26:
b160

I got one GRA-L09C150B160 and I cant update. Is there any1 that can help me? Or tell me how to flash to b170.... anything

Thanks
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] djg269:
I just read on a german forum that Huawei just recalled the final release status of MM to preview.

http://www.huawei-info.de/huawei-p8-erhaelt-offizielles-android-6-0-marchmallow-update
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ionutzpaul61:
I already knew that b317 is not final version.....
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] ferryckp:
I am in the same situation. If you find an answer, please let me know! Thanks!
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] mnazzama:
thanks this kind of worked however im still stuck at the the boot animation and cant seem to get past it. last night i managed to find a a firmware version and instructions that afte i flashed with fastboot allowed me to boot up provided i pressed the volume buttons randomly as the boot animation played. the only thing is the animation wasnt the huawei logo like normal it was a pulsating "android" logo. the phone would just reboot again as soon as i tried to do anything on the device but without that i could look at the lock screen pull down the notification menu no problem.

now i have tried installing a custom recovery which took and tried installing a custom rom (idk why i thought it would work but was running out of options. this reverted the phone back to bootloop (no boot animation)

the fix you suggested allowed me to get to boot animation again but now i still cant flash using recovery and i cant find the firmware i managed to use last night to fix the issue as i was sleep deprived and eleted everything once i thought i had it working.

im thinking of just taking it into a repair guy and hoping for the best. i have had the phone for almost a week now and its been bricked for like 4 days
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] matze0611:
No, Volume+ and Power is for TWRP, but if you don't have a update file on your SD, it will boot into TWRP also when you press Volume+- and Power.
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] rodlane:
You need to put a stock recovery back and then start the b170 flash again. You can use this tool to extract it from the b170 update.app.

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2433454

The command is:

fastboot flash recovery recovery_file_name.img
[Huawei P8 Guides, News, & Discussion] AeonSL:
I am not able to flash anything? Every .img file i try to flash gives me "FAILED (remote: command not allowed"

Can anybody help me with this problem.. My bootloader is unlocked.

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