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[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] justg0towned:
Fair enough... I'll hold out on flashing supersu until I get an sdcard big enough to create the backups. I'd like to thank everyone for their help and patience...you guys have been awesome.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Best way is with the thank you button below each post.

If you just can't wait, you can skip the backup, but you assume all responsibility for doing that if things go wrong ;) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] justg0towned:
mate, ive spent most of my life making risky decisions that left me afterwards going, my god what have I done... I think now that I'm finally a bit older and just a tad bit more wise, Ill just wait until I back everything up. Besides, that feeling that you've just bricked your phone is not a good one :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Wise words that can only come from experience and maturity :) .

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AT&T site updated with B150 information now and states:

"What's new: Android device security updates"

https://www.att.com/devicehowto/tut...ystep_KM1133944?make=Huawei&model=HuaweiH1611
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] justg0towned:
Guys I have two more questions...

A. Is it possible to freeze the Att update service without root and if so would you mind telling me where I could find that? I've been poking through apps but I cant seem to find the update service specifically..

B. Is there a way to enable USB OTG again, without root.

Thanks for all the support once again... You guys are great...
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
Ok so if you need the super su forced systemless root file tell me, i think i can now publish links to actually help people make this easier. I rooted with that zip. btw i wanna ask to a dev something. Can someone make a kernel or whatever thing is needed to enable the hotspot with another carrier and not At&t. Is annoying that i can't share internet even if the carrier im using uses the At&t cell towers.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
If there's more you want to share that's not covered in post #1, feel free to share :) .

Did you look at the existing posts for making hotspot work?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
I tried xtether and some other **** but i can't make it work. Btw if you can give me a link to a actual fix for that i will appreciate it.

Here is the link to the supersu forced systemless zip, is not new tho but it works which is important and avoids bricks of phones and nuclear wars XD

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?fid=24591000424939898
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
The SuperSU link in post 1 is a newer version and got us systemless root.

You'll have to search for the hotspot posts in the thread.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shane2157:
Does anyone that is developing or porting a ROM have a META-inf or boot.img that they're using? I'm trying to port cm to our device, but I keep getting stuck on the boot logo, which leads me to believe that one of those 2 files is probably the issue. If the 140 update has a META-inf file in the zip, that would work too.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
You didn't take the free unlock code route through AT&T unlock web portal?

What carrier are you using it on now that it's unlocked?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Oh sorry I was meaning the Bootloader.

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
There is currently no known way to root this phone and no custom recovery.

It can be carrier unlocked free through AT&T unlock web portal and the bootloader can be unlocked through Huawei.com.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
This is from the Open Source Agreement found under Legal for our phone.

Written Offer

This product contains software whose rights holders license it on the terms of the GNU General Public License, version 2 (GPLv2) and/or other open source software licenses. We will provide you and any third party with the source code of the software licensed under an open source software license for a charge no more than our costs for physically performing such distribution on a medium customarily used for software interchange (e.g. CD) if you send us a written request by mail or email to the following addresses:

mobile@huawei.com

detailing the name of the product and the firmware version for which you need the source code and indicating how we can contact you.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Centora:
Firstly, I must say great job on all the work for this device thus far. I also picked up this phone for Black Friday/Cyber Monday on sale. Phone is comparable to the Motorola G4 currently listed for $199 (give or take some features). So getting it for $49 is a steal!

Secondly, in regards to firmware. Doesn't the service provider usually offer the firmware and updates? I might be confusing firmware and source as the same thing here. Since after all, each service provider has their own unique versions and software.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Source code was compiled to produce the firmware which was flashed/programmed into the phone ROM at the factory.

Future source code updates will result in new versions of firmware that will get flashed to our phones through OTA(over the air = WiFi or mobile data) updates.

So source code is not firmware, but is required to create/build the flash firmware file - loosely speaking. :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] guest_2011:
There's no accessories thread so i'm posting here. I'm puzzled why this is probably the only phone on the PLANET that does not have cheap TPU cases and glass protectors available on ebay. Paradox.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
The phone is like 2-3 weeks old. It takes time before they start making cases.

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https://mobile.twitter.com/srsroot/statuses/798056872200859652

SRS root says it works if you didn't update. Has anyone tired?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Sloogle_Flugelmann:
According to SRSRoot they posted 5 hours ago it works on the new build I'm going to try it right now
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jg1210:
I'll probably try to root my mines later tonight or tomorrow. I only took mines out the box to do the ATT unlock. I haven't touched it since, just patiently waiting for cheap cases and screen protectors to become available lol. It might be time to do some playing with it.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
SRS, not working at this point.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
Awesome let me know if it worked. Imma return and exchange if it does.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
If you get your XT rooted, you'll be the first I've heard of.

No cases, etc on eBay because I'm guessing this phone is no/low volume or just came out. You know about the overpriced almost impossible to find $20 TPU cases by Body Glove for it that Walmart has in store? Yes, $20 for a $49/$99/$149 phone. Search HowardForums H1611 thread for a picture. Saw someone selling one on ebay for about $40 if I remember correctly.

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...cend-XT-AT-amp-T-GoPhone-on-TracFone-GSM-BYOP
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
DOES NOT WORK! Was on 130, and now 140. Same error on either firmware.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jg1210:
Yes, I know about the Walmart case. I haven't even bothered to look for that case at my local Walmarts. I'm not willing to pay $20 for a case for a phone that only cost me $50 lol. I'll take a look at the picture from the forum you mentioned. Maybe if I like what I see, I might head out to Walmart and drop the $20 for it lol.

Damn, bad news. I guess mines can stay in the box a bit longer.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
There's good screen protectors here

http://www.ebay.com/itm/142197105254

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
I purchased the Body Glove, fits very well and textured for good gripe. I ordered 6 pack of matte finished Kleancut screen protectors from Amazon about 6 bucks. I just got rid of the Blue R1 HD when I saw this one at Wal-Mart. My days of expensive phones is out the door, the power you get now for 100 bucks, man how times have changed.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
The way I see it is I won't be able to replace the XT with another 6" phablet for $49, so unless there's a cheaper option of similar quality, I'm paying the $20 for the Body Glove ripoff case :) . Thinking of it as a $5 case and $64 phone - still a bargain.

Matte screen protectors block too much light and make the screen look too dull based on my past experience. Will be interesting to hear how you guys like the protectors you ordered.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
I've always preferred the matte finish to clear. I'm 39, so the softer tone is easier on the eyes. Age will get the best of you.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I keep my screen intensity as low as possible and even have to use apps to dim the screen below 0% at night and use a color filter app on top of that for late night screen usage :) . Clear or no screen protectors, though, for my eyes.

PS: your are still a young lad - it's all relative :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
You can pull the boot.img off your phone using "adb shell dd" command - Google it. Also a previously shared folder before root in this thread has it IIRC.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shane2157:
Thanks. Yeah, I already did that. Not sure why I can't get it to boot. I let it sit on the boot logo for a little over half an hour. I'll have to do that again tonight and pull a logcat to troubleshoot. I'm trying to port from an honor 5x ROM. If I can get that working, I'll have to compile from source.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Did you have to customize files like BoardConfig.mk specifically for the XT hardware?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shane2157:
Yes, but I didn't have to change much. The hardware is pretty similar. Of course, that could be why it didn't boot. Maybe I didn't get everything exactly right. I'll have to take another look at it.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] justlovejoy:
[MENTION=3142686]shane2157[/MENTION]

There's proprietary files in use on every device, even some phones that are just for different carriers but same brand and model have different proprietary files, Wi-Fi, modem, camera, all of these need to be included when porting a Rom and stuff can be tricky if you don't do your homework. If you're porting, you didn't use a boardconfig.mk if you built, please share any device folder you remade, I can scan in tomorrow on break for things to get it going. And if anything you don't or didn't please share a log cat via pastebin.com and post a link please.

If anyone can share the update files I'll scan those tonight before bed. I'm on cricket and doubt I'll see any update, still on b130. Lol-Thanks!!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
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I searched all posts omg and it still doesnt work. Can someone just please try to make a way to disable the ****ty locking?? It triggers me that i can't hotspot with my phone.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Anyone who is interested, I've installed OpenGapps, with app permissions tab intact and normal dialog box to grant app permissions. What I did was download Aroma Version of OpenGapps. I first removed all Huawei apps via ROM Toolbox. Then I rebooted and checked through on more time. I rebooted into recovery and ran Aroma installer. I installed most critical apps, Calc, Calendar, Camera and so on. DONT INSTALL GOOGLE CONTACTS OR DIALER WITH FRAMEWORKS, ALSO DISABLE OPTION TO REMOVE STOCK LAUNCHER. These seem to be intergraded heavy into EMUI. I also did a force clean install option on 3 or 4th screen. Rebooted and BAM. Pixel launcher, stock Google apps, with exception to dialer and contacts. Permissions still work, and no semi transparent black screens for permissions. If anyone is interested, let me know and I'll complete guide this for all. If not, then OK.

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One more tid-bit. Anyone wanting to At&t purify the phone, I discovered an effective fix. PLEASE MAKE A BACKUP OF YOU "cust' PARTITION FIRST. Once this is done go into the partition and rename each folder with an "_" Example "_att". Do this for each of the 4 folders. Look at picture below. Then reboot. You will notice an EMUI percentage circle doing something you have not seen before. What happens the ROM defaults to Huawei default minus AT&T customizations. ROM runs butter smooth after this. You may note I am missing one folder, this is because I deleted the extra apps they hide here in cust partition. You can always rename folders back. But trust me, the performance will win you over. Have fun.:good:

NOTICE THE 4G LTE ICON IN THE PICTURE!!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Go into Developer menu, look at pic below. Now that you looked at the picture. Select the 3rd option down, Screen lock and toggle it off like the picture. Now download 3rd party lock screen app and install. It will ask you for permissions. And you now will have a lock screen of your choosing.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
Doesn't work

It will turn itself back on and lock it where you can't change it. That's what happen to me.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Then go into this screen and make the changes like mine. If this does not work then make sure your not using Xposed with any modules. Maybe something with that could be causing it to turn back on. Remove those protection apps At&t has installed, and the Phone Manger app also. Think they may have security options that prevent the lock screen from being deactivated. Not sure just speculation. I removed all of that bloatware have not had problems with lock screen turning back on.

And don't say it "doesn't work"! I don't have that issue as along with others that don't. Be wise and check your setup. We all started off with the same phone and firmware when we made the purchased. We managed.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
I don't have Xposed on my phone and honestly I didn't even know we were able to have it. I heard earlier it wouldn't work with the phone.

It's not just whenever I rooted I've always had this issue with this phone. I would go inside developer and shut it off. It would stay off for a few weeks then it would turn itself back on and override my 3rd party lock screen and then turning it off would be blocked. There's post all over about Huawei phones not allowing you to turn off lockscreen it's not just me nor is the problem only dedicated to the H1611 but Huawei phones out the past year and a half.

It maybe something with power manager but I don't know if I want to remove it since it does tons of things. Battery, RAM, storage monitor all in one app. Is there any code I can change to stop it?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Don't know what else to tell you. I don't have this problem.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
Bro thanks for such a great tip, the phone now performs like a charm, and my battery life is even better too which is amazing. Phone got completely stockified XD.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I've had systemless Xposed working on my XT basically since we got rooted :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] phooldu:
I did a little bit of digging regarding the lock screen and I found that you can download an app from the store called EMUI Theme Editor. This will allow you to create your own personally themed lockscreen. However, this will stop the notifications from showing up or turning on the screen. That's where NiLs Lockscreen Notifications comes in.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
What's better about the 3rd party lockscreens aside from eye candy :lol: ?

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Answering my own question :) ....

"What's the best lock screen app for Android?

For most folks, the standard Android lock screen is just fine. For some, however, it's not quite customizable enough. For those people, there are lock screen replacement apps that allow you to tweak the way you see the time, notifications, the layout, and much more."

http://m.androidcentral.com/best-android-lock-screen-and-lock-screen-replacement-apps
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
My main thing is it won't allow me to have music control from the lockscreen. Also I like having weather on my lockscreen so I can just glance at it without the need to unlock.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Nextlock screen by Microsoft is a good alternative, will give you what you seek.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
4.2/5: Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.microsoft.next&hl=en
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Good save!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] guest_2011:
I assume i have the old 130B out of the box. I remember getting some ATT update notifications but not sure what it was. It never went through, unable to update. Root could be the reason or something else. I guess at this point 150B is irrelevant in my case and i should wait for custom roms?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
I've been using Hi Lock. It's good but does have ads... I'll check out next thank you!

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I wouldn't mind a guide but why can't we have contacts or dailer? What do we replace them with? I'm using Nova Launcher pro right now is Pixel better?

As for the last part how do I back up cust? Can we just move it to an SD card or does those files need to be on the phone?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] djetal01:
Can't get into fastboot mode

I successfully unlocked my phone, but I can't get it into fastboot mode. I have tried by pushing the bottom volume and power buttons and through adb, but all I get is a screen that says "You device has been unlocked and can't be trusted." If I take my finger off the volume down button it boots normally. I can get into stock recovery or download mode fine.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Search my post where I describe how to do it using buttons and look at post 1 where adb method is documented.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
Can we start posting in separate threads? There's so many new things that we can do that are easily getting lost inside this 81page thread. Like I didn't even know we could get Xposed or we can get Google pliex. I don't know how to do ether but it would have been easier to find if we used the main H1611 board.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Not sure what you mean by the main board. Post a link to it, and there are separate threads. Up to people to create them and post a link here to let everyone know and also use the existing threads first if they fit your concern.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
https://xdaforums.com/t/huawei-ascend-xt

I'm talking about posting new things here so we can easily find them.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Are you suggesting to create a new thread for the quoted post? What would you title it?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
Like how your guide is copied over to the first page. It should be a thread by itself. So people can see it more easily from google searches and what not. So if people are having issues or trouble they can post into that thread instead of cluttering up this one.

Then a thread about how to do other things like how to install xposed and what you can do with it.

And other users post threads about things they have found out. Like someone a few pages back found out how to turn off charging pop ups and turn off other things that will help your phone or remove annoying things. Like you did with the debloater thread.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
So

1. a separate thread on how to "unlock and root" the XT based on information from post 1 and other materials in this thread.

2. Add more information to the existing Xposed thread.

3. A new thread on disabling charging pops ups. Whoever figured this out can feel free to create a new thread on it.

Same thing with any other threads that need to be created. We should just try to avoid duplicating threads.

What else?

Any ROM progress out there :) ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
So I disabled Swap and my performance has doubled. I have never seen 1.3gb free of RAM. Now when I run Chrome Beta I run at around 950MB free before it was around 600-700mb free. No longer lagging typing on some of the internet message boards. Thank you so much

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Yes, I think Help people find out what they are looking for easier.

Maybe name it something a normal person would search for trying to root this phone.

If you do start a thread with your guide will you please add how to unlock bootloader? I've notice a few people missing it on the front page. I think that's will help people and cut down on it being asked in the future. Also whenever I was rooting I had an issue with your guide understand what was and wasn't coding for adb. Maybe bold the command lines or even add some pictures. It will help out the ones that have no clue what you are talking about... Lol like me.

I think it would be a big help.... It would be easier for you to get the credit you deserve.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Disabling swap caution - no free lunch

YMMV :) . I jump between a lot of open apps. When I disabled swap, sometimes one of my critical apps would get killed because of RAM running low. The reason for swap is so Android doesn't have to kill apps if you have a lot of them open. Instead they get paged into swap space to make room in RAM. If you notice weird behavior after disabling swap, re-enable it like I did :) .

If having swap off works for you, that's great. Not working out for me.

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Without TWRP, we would not have root and I would not have had any instructions to write, so we know multiple people were working on TWRP, but enigma2446 got there first :) . Also we would not be flashing without the boot loader unlock instructions. I used the link strtrcr_87 posted for that.

In the OP Sloogle_Flugelmann credited various names including (enigma2446, divineBliss, xx_iamxanderman_xx, unque9, dolph8886, mi7chy, jarrettsuydam, ensol52).

So again, thank you to everyone, including others not mentioned who contributed later with other things for getting us here. :)

Now how are the custom ROMs coming along? :)

I'd love to work on a custom ROM for the XT, but need some pointers. Maybe we need a thread for that too. :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Zram swaps programs into a RAM swap vs to the SD. Just because you get 1.3 makes no difference. The system will take what it needs. Weather you using RAM swap (zram) or 1.3 gigs free either way it's all stored in RAM vs SD swap. The key is latency, RAM vs SD.

ZRAM IS YOUR FRIEND!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
I see what your saying it was running great but it did start to act funny so I changed it back.

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Yep, I notice a few hours later that it's better to keep it on
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I'm restoring/unfreezing Power Genie too. I don't think freezing it made my phone better.