[Huawei Honor Note 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] jdantow:
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This is my first walkthrough so I will do my best to do this properly. The Honor Note 8 does not have a forum yet, and this is the third thread for this phone. Hopefully we can get a forum up soon.

PLEASE NOTE THAT UNLOCKING BOOTLOADER WILL WIPE YOUR DEVICE AND POSSIBLY VOID YOUR WARRENTY!!!

I'M NOT RESPONSIBLE IF SOMETHING DOESN'T WORK. :)

Unlock Bootloader

Follow the steps here to begin the Bootloader Unlock process:

https://www.dc-unlocker.com/how-to-read-huawei-bootloader-unlock-code

1. a) Install the application

1. b) Follow the steps on the above page to put phone into "Manufacture Mode"

1. c) Under "Select Manufacturer", choose "Huawei Phones" and under "Select Model", choose the model of your phone

1. d) Click on "Buy Credits". You should end up being emailed a username and password, return to the Unlocker Client, and input those two

1. e) The Unlocker Client should return the bootloader unlock code

2. a) Enable Developer Options by clicking on the build number multiple times

2. b) Turn on USB Debugging

3. Prepare TWRP custom recovery before preceeding further. You can get it from here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4xzs81XsmURVTRnUDJHdl9CQlE

3. Prepare and install ADB and Fastboot tools. I used this one http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2588979

4. Go into the folder with your recovery and open a CMD (if you used system-wide ADB as linked above, otherwise place recovery in your ADB folder)

5. Put the phone into Bootloader mode with:

adb reboot bootloader

. This will take you to the bootloader mode (white screen with some small text)

6. Now type:

fastboot oem unlock <UNLOCK_CODE>

where

<UNLOCK_CODE>

is the bootloader code that the Unlocker Client gave you

Loading TWRP Custom Recovery

7. Your phone may reboot when the process is complete. We want to go back into Bootloader mode, so follow Step 5 again to go back to bootloader mode

8. Now type:

fastboot flash recovery <NAME_OF_YOUR_RECOVERY.img>

The recovery will flash over to your device. We want to reboot into the recovery mode.

9. Now type:

fastboot reboot

but just before you hit ENTER on that command, start holding VOLup and VOLdown at the same time (as explained below)

This phone has two recoveries on it, which is great since it makes it really hard to brick. In order to access custom recovery, you need to hold down both VOL buttons during boot process (from the very beginning) in order to access the custom recovery.

Once you have entered TWRP, you will most likely notice that it is in CHINESE. If you don't read chinese, follow the steps below to change to English UI in TWRP:

Change to English UI in TWRP

10. TWRP has two columns of 4 buttons, 8 buttons total. I have labeled the buttons as per their position as below:

1 2

3 4

5 6

7 8

11. Click button 6 to go to the Settings, then click on the "Globe" icon, then switch to english and click the button in the bottom right corner.

BACKUP!!

12. I highly recommend you now do a TWRP backup and place the backup on an External SD card (not the internal memory). This will save your ass if you mess anything up or it doesn't work for you. Do a full backup (select ALL of the options).

Installing Xposed

Grab the Installer APK here: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=3034811

and the Framework zip here: http://dl-xda.xposed.info/framework/sdk23/arm64/

Put both files onto your SD card.

13. Boot into your rom, install the APK file (you may need to enable "unknown sources")

14. Then boot back into TWRP. Do this by restarting the phone, and just as the screen goes black, hold down both VOL buttons until you see text on the screen.

15. Install the framework, wipe cache/dalvik and reboot the phone

ROMs

There are several roms, all of which can be found here: http://xdaforums.com/general/general/huawei-honor-note-8-roms-t3487575

I will try to update this post with instructions on how to install them once I have the process down properly.

Thanks to:

[MENTION=1206355]benmeroff[/MENTION] for his posting of all of those ROMs and his work on the original thread.