[Honor 8 Guides, News, & Discussion] Dominikrod:
Installing B360(Nougat)+Root on the FRD-L14 using TWRP

If you're using the steps of this guide in a different Honor 8 model make sure you use the specific update.zip and update_data_full_hw_xx.zip files built for your phone.

For your convenience here is [MENTION=6058922]yalokiy[/MENTION]'s guide on How to find beta update.zip and and update_data_full_hw_xx.zip click here: Guide

I'm linking [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION] 's post as reference, which has the links to the recovery and the SuperSU zip since those are what I used.

Note: I do recommend and can't stress enough that you should have microSD card installed with a copy of the full B162 UPDATE.APP inside the "dload" folder. Some would say: Why should I have extra storage in a 64Gb phone? Well, this is your phone's best safeguard in case something goes pretty bad like soft bricking the phone (actually this has happened to me many, many, too many times with this phone). By having this microSD card installed and the full B162 UPDATE.APP you can easily bring back to life your phone by using the 3-button-hold method, this will re-format and erase the phone to its original state. The only downside is that you'll lose your unlock and root but it doesn't matter because you already know how to get it back once again. In case you have to factory reset your phone, as I mentioned above, and after rebooting from the 3-button-hold method your screen gets stuck in the blue-Honor screen, press and hold power key a few seconds to shoot down your phone. Then power on + volume up to get into stock recovery and press on factory reset or so it says. After that the system will reboot itself and everything should work like new after the system finishes booting up.

Disclaimer of responsibility: I'm not responsible or liable for the steps and links I'm providing to you in good faith. Do it at your own risk.

Now the steps I took (this is assuming you have your phone unlocked and these files are saved in your microSD card: update.zip , update_data_full_hw_usa.zip, and the SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815-EMUI5.0.zip):

1. Coming from B162 make your phone reboot to the bootloader. For this you can open your Administrator: Windows Command Prompt terminal and use this ADB command

adb reboot bootloader

Make sure you have USB debugging enabled in your phone.

2. Once in bootloader use the fastboot command

fastboot flash recovery twrp-3.0.2-0-frd.img

to flash the official TWRP recovery for the FRD from [MENTION=6110200]tabletmen[/MENTION] thread.

3. Reboot recovery using the fastboot command

fastboot reboot

Immediately hold volume up + volume down to get into the TWRP recovery, you'll see a "Device is rebooting" message before taking you into recovery.

Note: I've noticed that if I use power + volume up it takes me to the "Huawei eRecovery."

4. Once in TWRP recovery you'll see the "Keep System Read only?" screen, here make sure you swipe the "Swipe to Allow Modifications" slider.

5. Once in the TWRP home go to "Install" then "Select Storage", select "Micro SDCard", and click OK.

6. Select the files to be installed in this order: first the update_data_full_hw_usa.zip and second by clicking on "Add more Zips" the update.zip. Or you can do it individually if you like just follow the order.

Note: If you get some "failed to mount" and "unable to mount" errors messages just ignore them. Just make sure it doesn't say "Failed" in the upper-left-bar.

7. Reboot system.

8. Once the system has finished booting up enable USB debugging again. Reboot once more to "Bootloader" following step #1.

9. In Bootloader, make sure your device is still unlocked, it should but just in case. Use this fastboot command

fastboot flash recovery frd-twrp.img

to flash this TWRP Nougat compatible recovery.

10. Reboot into the newly flashed recovery by following steps #3 and #4.

11. In TWRP press "Install" to install the SuperSU-v2.79-201612051815-EMUI5.0.zip file. You might get a couple of error messages about "unable to mount" or so, just ignore as long as it doesn't say "Failed" in the upper-left bar.

This will let you get root once you boot up your phone and install the SuperSU_v2.79.apk from the playstore or if you have it already the better.

12. Reboot System.

13. Let the system boot up. .

14. Once boot up is finished you can go to "About phone" and double check that your Build number is now FRD-L14C567B360. Remember to install the SuperSU_v2.79.apk to get superuser privilege.

I haven't use the phone much since the update, but so far it feels fast and smooth.

Update: I have updated these steps to make them more accurate to what I had to go through to make it work for me. I did the whole process of factory resetting, unlocking phone and reflashing updates like 10 times until I got it working for good.

Update 2: Screenshots

Hope this works for you FRD-L14 owners. Special thanks to [MENTION=4435346]LastStandingDroid[/MENTION], [MENTION=2155806]hacker007[/MENTION], [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION], [MENTION=220328]paulobrien[/MENTION] aka MoDaCo, [MENTION=3834159]spotting[/MENTION] and many other members that have contributed to making this possible. Without them we would have nothing.