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[Mate 8 General] altaz:
Has anyone else found that when you remove phone manager, you also loose access to the notification and battery setting screens in the Settings menu?
[Mate 8 General] ItsMunday:
The phone will still not show the original green locked bootloader message, so they will know its voided warranty?
[Mate 8 General] duraaraa:
Yes. That's why it's best not to remove it.

If you're having issues with notifications (I'm sure you must be, as everyone is) when the screen is off, it has to do with Doze settings.

I used Doze Setting Editor to set the idle timeout to 60 and the max idle timeout to 600 seconds. That made it so that even if I wasn't using my phone for a long time, I would receive push notifications from gmail, etc. within ten minutes. Those numbers can obviously be adjusted.

I found that if you disable Phone Manager, you get a lot of wakelocks and a lot of battery life lost. That being said, you can use one of the shortcut apps to launch the battery action and see the battery status even without phone manager.
[Mate 8 General] thomascook:
Idle timeout is 3600 and max.idle timeout 21600 seconds here.... are these settings part of the choosen mode (power save, intelligent and performance)?
[Mate 8 General] duraaraa:
It's basically how often your phone will let non-priority push messages (gmail, etc) through and wake up to do other work (from my understanding). If you lower the numbers, you get more frequent wake-ups and more frequent push emails. As it is default, you may need to wait up to 6 hours to get the notifications (but the phone will stay asleep, saving you battery power)
[Mate 8 General] chu222:
Can't flash TWRP recovery successful....

My mate8 is AL-10 version, and I already unlock my bootloader.

But when I try the flash tool, it just enter EMUI recovery again and again.

It seems TWRP recovery not flash correctly in my device.

Anyone can help me?
[Mate 8 General] churchino:
Rooting successful, but..

Hi folks,

I rooted the mate successfully and the phone works pretty good.

The only thing I have often "self reboot" during normal use and when calling I often have to dial a number twice before the call is successful.

Am I the only one having those "problems" or not?

Cheers.

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Try to boot the phone normally, enable USB debugging, connect USB and press the 4th button (the "SomethingInChinese fastbooting" button).

That should reboot your Mate in fastboot mode and from there try again the TWRP installation. (2nd button).

Cheers..
[Mate 8 General] thomascook:
As explained on page 4 of this thread, use the Mate8 Root KIT Tool

Boot your phone normal with USB debugging activated and pess the 5th button (boot custom recovery). Your phone should restart and boot into TWRP

Any apps you deleted with root uninstaller or something? Can´t tell that i ever had this problem. If you followed the instructions by "install decrypted Boot Image, then tap right top button in twrp to format DATA partition, then go back and flash decrypted Boot Image again" it should be fine here...
[Mate 8 General] chu222:
Hi thomascook and churchino,

Thanks your reply. :)

I can read the Chinese, so how to use the tool is not a problem.

I know how to enter fastboot by adb command or the tool.

I can flash official sec_boot, sec_recovery.img with fastboot cmd successful, but I just can't let the TWRP recovery be installed in my device successfully.

When I try to reboot recovery, the screen always show the EMUI recovery.

Is there any individual TWRP image?

Maybe, i can try to flash recovery directly as other device...
[Mate 8 General] thomascook:
Ahh now I got it. Yes, it's the same here, on power + volume UP there's the eRecovery boot. I will leave this because this might be the easiest way to recover back to stock if needed. For all other needs, I just connect my mate to PC and start via tool for the moment. I guess there will be better solutions soon. I also uploaded the current stock firmware for further development. We also need to increase system partiton(partner setup) because at the moment only the opengapp micro is flashable because of the small size of 150megs
[Mate 8 General] bottom:
How I can unlock bootloader huawei mate 8 Europe version

NXT-L29
[Mate 8 General] iamjohn0815:
How to change fonts of my Mate 8?

Hi guys. Its my first time here and I am not really sure if I am the right page to post this question. Anyway can you pls help me how I am going to change my fonts. I downloaded applications like the Hifont and Ifonts but all of the fonts that I downloaded do not transfer to the Theme Manager under "customize".

Pls help...thank you in advance guys..
[Mate 8 General] quynh2v:
Dear

Whos success to root new c00b137 Firmware please share
[Mate 8 General] churchino:
Anyone tried 129SP02 decript version on B137?

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Thanks TomasCook for your answer.. Will try.. Cheers.
[Mate 8 General] quynh2v:
Hi

I was rooted new C00B137 with old method. All is normal
[Mate 8 General] thomascook:
Yes. B137 and also NXT-L29_C900B133 (international Rom) can be rooted with that method, once the bootloader was unlocked...
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
great stuff, looks like ill be all set once my mate 8 arrives next week and can start twiddling around right away :D
[Mate 8 General] RedCriwx:
Hi.

Just used the ERecovery to flash the original Chinese rom to my Mate8. It automacally downloaded an flashed the C00B137 version.

After the initial configuration, I entered FastBoot mode and installed the TWRP and, from here, installed SuperSU 2.66 beta. I haven't flashed the decripted boot and root is working fine (I installed titanium backup and used it to restore apps an settings).

What is the point of flashing de Decripted boot file?

Thanks.
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
usually u need the unlocked bootloader in order to be able to use twrp to in turn flash supersu for root access
[Mate 8 General] RedCriwx:
Thanks jbmc for answering.

Of course I needed to unlock de bootloader first. What I didn't need was to do flash the decrypted Boot Image.

Had some serious troubles getting Google Play Store to work, but I don't think it was related to the decryption. Finally I have everything working fine and still haven't used de Decrypted zip file.

Thanks again.
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
ah sorry, i misunderstood u there concerning decrypted boot image vs. unlocked bootloader :)
[Mate 8 General] churchino:
Works Great also on B137

Just wanted to leave also my feedback/procedure:

1) Downloaded B137 with E-Recovery

2) Activated Developement and USB Debugging on phone

3) Entered fastboot with recovery-tool (4th button)

4) Installed TWRP

5) Copied "decrypt boot B129SP02.zip" and "SuperSU-v2.56.zip" on SD card

6) Entered recovery mode with recovery-tool (5th button)

7) Installed "decrypt boot B129SP02.zip" (with top left button)

8) Wiped "data" (with top right button)

9) Installed "SuperSU-v2.56.zip" (with top left button again)

10) Rebooted

11) Installed Google Play with apk (you can download com.android.vending.apk on several apk site)

12) Installed TitaniuBackup

13) Had to "fixpermissions" in order to access my TB Backups.

14) Restored my programs

15) Rebooted.

Everything works great and without problems!

Thanks to all for the documentation and tools. Great job!

PS: at first attempt i didn't wiped data after installing decrypt boot. The system was extremely unstable and keeping on "self-rebooting". If you have this kind of problems it's probably because you missed this step! ;)
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
awesome,more and more happy campers here as it seems :)

my phone is most probably arriving in the UK today, one step closer to daddy! :D
[Mate 8 General] thomascook:
In case that somebody would need them ... : LINK

ZIP File contains

GoogleCalendarSyncAdapter.apk

GoogleContactsSyncAdapter.apk

com.google.android.dialer_2.2-20200_minAPI23(nodpi).apk (in case that you would not want to use any chinese dialer, this is the Google *Marshmallow* Dialer)

com.android.vending_6.0.5-PlayStore(nodpi).apk (play services will be downloaded automatically before you can start playstore first time)

Doze_Editor_v6.apk (in case you have trouble with notification from push service, you may change the idle timeout to 60 and the max idle timeout to 600 seconds)

Please use playstore or HiApp to update the apps once they´re installed, because they may not be the latest release anymore. All tested succesfully with mate8/android 6
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
TWRP image file ?

Hi,

I tried to read everything but I did not find my answer. Hope I did not miss something.

I would like to use "fastboot boot twrp.img" to load twrp with unlocked boot-loader.

Is there a twrp.img for Mate8 ? The windows app should have one somewhere ... but I am under Linux and would like to avoid running some .exe file.

Can someone tell me where to find or post just the twrp.img image file for the mate8 ?

This would be great ! So far with google I did not find any twrp for Mate8 :(

Tormen

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just to precise: I don't mind it being a chinese TWRP image ;)
[Mate 8 General] fvdiaz:
hi!

same as you, RedCriwx, I didn't needed to flash the boot image.

some warnings with data partition in twrp, but supersu, appears to install ok..

and root in the mate 8 seems ok..

sdmaid and others apps are ok with root..

anyone tried Afwall? looks like it's not working.. not filtering the traffic..

sorry with my english.. and thanks!

solved: conflict with adguard (ad filter app)
[Mate 8 General] yevgeni.raber:
Hi all . where can i download the files for rooting (boot,twrp) and where i need to pay for unlock code whithout wait 14 days ? Thanx

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[Mate 8 General] raimondomartire:
For all question my tool in alpha stage

http://xdaforums.com/mate-8/development/rayglobe-italian-knife-t3295526
[Mate 8 General] churchino:
Complimenti Acer73 bel lavoro! ??
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
Acer73: Great work !

Hi,

To answer my own question:

This is the TWRP (English) that works with my Mate-8 NXT-AL10:

copy.com/EJLFhDM7gyCOBrqn/TWRP_6.0.zip?download=1

If you want I could also join the TWRP in Chinese from the windows tool.

... but it is 2MB larger... ;)

This means: 3 simple steps (for people knowing what they do ;)) to root (use at your own risk):

1.) Get your Unlock code XXX:

Login with your Huawei ID on your phone, wait 14 days then use official Huawei unlock page emui.huawei.com/en/plugin.php?id=unlock&mod=detail

... or use some service and pay some money (not my recommendation)

2.) Unlock the boot loader:

Enable Debugging mode (...), connect your phone via USB, start your phone with volume down + power button, check with "fastboot devices" that you see your phone, fastboot oem unlock XXXX

3.) Flash custom recovery to "recovery" partition. Note: This leaves intact the Huawei sec_recovery (launched with volume up + volume down + power)!

Connect your phone via USB, start your phone with volume down + power button, check with "fastboot devices" that you see your phone, fastboot oem flash recovery YYY.img (YYY.img being the recovery img of your choice)

4.) Boot into the custom recovery partition (launch with volume down + power button) and install superSu (needs to be either within your recovery img OR on a microSD card as by default all data/system partitions are encrypted).

[

5.) optionally: re-lock the boot loader: (not tried yet)

fastboot oem relock XXXXXXXXXXXXX

# XXXXXXXXXXXXX = your Unlock Number

]

Maybe that can help some people.

Question : Does anyone know of a a tool similar to play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.segv11.bootunlocker but for the Mate-8 ??

Cheers,

Tormen.
[Mate 8 General] RedCriwx:
Hi Tormen2.

Thank you so much for your tutorial, and also thank you for the english version of TWRP for the Mate8.

I think there is an error in the fastboot command to flash the .img. The command I used is "fastboot flash recovery (PATH TO)\TWRP_6.0..img" (without the "oem" command). If you include the "oem" part, you get the error "command not allowed".

Greetings

PD: Tried and the recovery works prefectly. Thanks again!
[Mate 8 General] stesteste:
Can I install twrp and don't root is that possible
[Mate 8 General] raimondomartire:
Hi this is my twrp. I don't want use without my tool. Please more respect for other work
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
Dear Acer73,

I did not meant to disprespect you :(

That's why I titled my post "Acer73: Great work !" :))

But I should have been more explicit on explaining that the link to the English TWRP is indeed from your tool (forum.hdblog.it/index.php?/topic/49051-italian-knife-tool-by-hdblogit-huawei-mate-8/) !! - Please accept my apologies.

I rather wanted to propose a non-windows based solution.

--------------

* the "oem" in the fastboot flash command is indeed wrong ;)

* yes you can install the recovery without installing supersu and by this rooting ;)

Tormen
[Mate 8 General] raimondomartire:
No problem man . I respect you. I have idea forma non windows tool but for now i want hybrid chinese and international ROM. I'm studying framework-res
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
re-locking Huawei bootloader ?

Hi,

I finally gave it a go and tried :

fastboot oem lock
fastboot oem lock <UNLOCK CODE>

But it only gave me a "FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)"

:((

1.)

Does anyone now a way to relock the boot-loader ?

I guess if you would flash the original boot.img this would do the trick ?

Google provides all images for download... can you download the images from Huawei somehow ??

2.)

Does anyone know what commands are possible with the Huawei boot loader ?

Tormen
[Mate 8 General] yevgeni.raber:
Maybe fastboot oem relock ?

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[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
Hi.

Yes, thanks a lot :))

fastboot oem relock <UNLOCK-CODE>

Does the trick !

But this AGAIN wants to reformat the data partition!

I'll test if supersu v2.66 beta will stay or not and report back :)

Tormen
[Mate 8 General] yevgeni.raber:
After unlocking and rooting . how i can revert to 100% stock ? I mean in all huawei phones i was just flashed full stock rom and thats it . but here is no option for that in update menu ... So what should i do ?

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[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
use italian knife tool in development section and reflash stock rom, together with locking the bootloader that should do the trick...
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
... you said "together with locking the bootloader that should do the trick... "

I locked the bootloader using "relock".

Now the bootloader says "PHONE Relocked" ! So it does not say "Locked" but "Relocked". Does anybody know any way to make it say "Locked" again ?

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I AM IN SERIOUS TROUBLE :((((

*** THE PROBLEM ***

When I "adb reboot bootloader", then I see the HUAWEI recovery "FASTBOOT & RESCUE MODE" with "Phone Relocked".

When I call fastboot devices -l, I see:

VKN5T15C07003424 fastboot usb:2-1.2

So everything seems normal.

But *ANY* fastboot command I tried so far always ended with "<Waiting for device>" forever.

I tried to replug, different cables. I tried to enter eRecovery from Huawei and downloaded and reseted phone. Still same problem :(((

F*ck. What can I do ??

*** HOW I GOT THERE ***

Here is what happened before this problem ( I don't see anything wrong ) :

I had a nicely rooted phone (TWRP installed, supersu installed) and was trying the relock (see my former post)!

The SuperSu 2.66 beta did not survive the relock. Also there was a "Device could not be verified" red error message during the boot-up of the relocked device (similar to the Device unlocked, cannot be trusted error message, on an unlocked device during bootup)!

I think (not sure though) it installs itself in boot and system and the system part got lost during the "relock"...

I then unlocked it again, and it seems that the TWRP recovery did NOT get lost during the relock and unlock!

So I rebooted right away and did a "relock" again to see if I am able to access the TWRP recovery in the locked state !

... but NO!

when you "adb reboot recovery" in the "relocked" state, then you get to EMUI recovery screen with 3 options:

* Reboot system now

* Wipe data/ factory reset

* Wipe cache partition

I tried all three, but the problem still persists !

Unfortunately now (2nd time relocked) when I "adb reboot bootloader", then I see the HUAWEI recovery "FASTBOOT & RESCUE MODE" with "Phone Relocked".

When I call fastboot devices -l, I see:

VKN5T15C07003424 fastboot usb:2-1.2

So everything seems normal.

But *ANY* fastboot command I tried so far always ended with "<Waiting for device>" forever.

I tried to replug, different cables.

I tried to enter eRecovery from Huawei and downloaded and reseted phone: Now the red warning "Device can't be verified" during boot-up process is gone.

So now I have a device that when "adb reboot recovery" shows me the EMUI screen with the 3 options (reboot, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache) and when "adb reboot bootloader" does NOT accept ANY fastboot command :(((

F*ck. What can I do ?????

I really hope someone will have an idea what to do / to try.

Could someone potentially help me in getting a chinese email out to huawei asking for help ?? :(((
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
if i understood correctly, u were still able to unlock the bootloader, right? do that again and see if that helps any with the fastboot commands...
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
I need help !!!

Thanks for your reply !!

I will try to be more clear with my problem description:

My device is now locked.

(I unlocked it, relocked it, unlocked it and reIocked it again, see my above post for the full history)

My boot-up of Android is "vanilla" means: NO messages appear but right away the Huawei flower appears!

I did a eRecovery factory reset.

I did an "adb reboot recovery" and wiped the cache, wiped data/factory reset.

But still:

Whenever I do "adb reboot bootloader", then I see the HUAWEI recovery "FASTBOOT & RESCUE MODE" with "Phone Relocked".

When I call fastboot devices -l, I see:

VKN5T15C07003424 fastboot usb:2-1.2

So everything seems normal.

But *ANY* fastboot command I tried so far always ended with "<Waiting for device>" forever.

So now I have a device that when I do

* "adb reboot recovery" shows me the EMUI screen with the 3 options (reboot, wipe data/factory reset, wipe cache) and when I do

* "adb reboot bootloader" does NOT accept ANY fastboot command ((

F*ck. What can I do ?????
[Mate 8 General] yevgeni.raber:
As i understand you have normally working phone just relocked . do the unlock again to see if fastboot commands works in unlocked status . thats all . you can do locked it again . only relock

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[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
> As i understand you have normally working phone just relocked . Do the unlock again to see if fastboot commands works in unlocked status.

Maybe I am missing something obvious here, but in order to unlock the phone, I would need to issue "fastboot oem unlock <UNLOCK CODE>", no ??

But as all fastboot commands fail, this one does too :(
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
so the fastboot commands only failed you after you relocked the phone for the SECOND time, but not the first, correct?
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
> so the fastboot commands only failed you after you relocked the phone for the SECOND time, but not the first, correct?

Yes.
[Mate 8 General] yevgeni.raber:
Did you tried reinstall usb and adb drivers ?

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[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
I am under Linux.

Drivers are in the kernel.

-->

All good and the software works fine, because when I do

fastboot devices

lists me the device !!

VKN5T15C07003424 fastboot

It is really a problem *in* the device :((

What can I do ?

... rooting the device without unlocking ?

Anyone : Is that possible e.g. with kingroot or others ?

... some other way to reflash / reset the bootloader ??

When I run "adb reboot bootloader" what partition or img is loaded ? "boot" "sec_boot" ???

Tormen
[Mate 8 General] ajsmsg78:
Have a look at our X2 forum. A lot of these things are discussed there and may be of help to you guys. I'm sure a lot of things are the same on the Mate 8 as they are on the Mediapad X2. I make the ROM, "Simply Google" for the X2. My Mate 8 arrives this week and I plan on unlocking the bootloader and rooting when I receive it and hopefully in the near future bringing Simply Google here to the Mate 8. See my unlock bootloader and root thread on the X2 forum. Those methods may also work with the Mate 8.

http://xdaforums.com/mediapad-x2/general/mediapad-x2-unlock-bootloader-root-guide-t3212325
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
Dear ajsmsg78,

thanks for the hint. Simply Google sounds interesting and I might consider it.

Also asking Google or looking around on the X2 forum for the answers to my follow-up questions is certainly fine :))

Just: Do you have every heard / seen the problem that when you started your device in the bootloader (aka "adb reboot bootloader") the "fastboot devices" shows your device so the computer SEES and recognizes the phone, but when trying to give a command to the phone via fastboot, ANY command, like "fastboot reboot" or "fastboot oem unlock <XXX>"... then the process just sits there telling you "< waiting for device >" ... which is well connected and well recognized by "fastboot devices"!!

So to me that sounds like the daemon / process within the bootloader that would listen on fastboot commands and execute them is broken / not running within the bootloader image.

But how am I supposed to fix that if I am NOT able to unlock the phone, if I have only a stock recovery partition from Huawei that only allows me to "wipe data/factory reset", "wipe cache" and "reboot" and I already tried all of that : STILL BROKEN.

Do you have any idea ???

Tormen
[Mate 8 General] ajsmsg78:
That sounds like a driver problem. When I first got my X2 I had the same issue. It ended up being that the driver wasn't right so I had to manually update the driver and then it worked.
[Mate 8 General] tormen2:
But it was working fine ! ( I unlocked, relocked, unlocked and relocked with the exact same setup on my linux machine! I always like to think in probabilities when trouble shooting and I'd say 10% chance that it's a problem with the drivers...)

But fair enough!

I will at some point try with a windows ... but I really don't think it is the source of the problem :(

As I said: Under linux "it just works" so you don't need to install a driver. The driver is built in the kernel. The kernel did not change on my machine. And the userland tools like adb and fastboot did not change either.

Plus the fact that "fastboot devices" DOES show the connected device as it should (!)

... not that really all points to a problem within the phone.

If we consider this to be a problem WITHIN the bootloader / phone ... any idea how to resolve this ?
[Mate 8 General] birleytweet:
How did you get it to work? I've tried and just keep getting phone not found. I've tried installing multiple Huawei drivers and searching when in DC Unlocker and still not getting anywhere.
[Mate 8 General] jbmc83:
have u followed this procedure step by step?

https://www.dc-unlocker.com/how-to-read-huawei-bootloader-unlock-code
[Mate 8 General] thomascook:
I´ve noticed that not all USB Ports and cables do the trick. My choice was a USB Port from Motherboard with the original Mate8 Cable, because my extended/front-USB were not found for the procedure. I also installed the HiSuite once before switching to Debug-Mode on the device.

As for DC-Unlocker, they offer a Driver Package "Huawei Android phone drivers.rar" on their site.
[Mate 8 General] Wartoon:
hey t´s up guys? little question. anyone tried to relock the bootloader on mate 8 with adb and the unlock code? think thats interesting for warranty! ;) and sorry i´m new here and my english is pretty bad...