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[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
by the way if u activate these phones on at&t's go phone service then they will make u wait 6 months of service if u never activated on the att service then should only be 2 to 3 days could be up to 5 depends
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
That is a good sign, usually within a few hours after that notice you will get your unlock code. Unless the rumors are true since the past 2 weeks.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
[IMG="so far progress"]https://i.imgsafe.org/0b4d1efffe.png[/IMG]i know theres some warnings if it compile boots i will work on the errors if i have too
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Thanks madvane
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
its been a long 2 weeks i think its been something like that alot of google reading got alot of headaches but i learned. i usual just browsed xda for roms people built for my phones lol. now im going to be working on porting. if i learn enough im gonna build a rom from the ground up maybe android maybe my own custom os still learning. btw its at 60% now
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Awesome. I will donate to your cause for your efforts and I am sure many will once complete. Is the source code that Huawei released helping?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
honestly atm i started this with source from honor x5 and have been modding it to work for our phone. i may at the end have to use the kernal source to fix boot issues we will see. btw if anyone donates let me know so i can check my paypal to make sure it make it there lol. as well a thank you for those who donate. the thank you is for now and for future lol. heres my google hangouts group i made so anyone who needs help or wants to check for updates faster etc join my group :)https://hangouts.google.com/group/M4RoqjvEwu4iYSsz2im also working on twrp to get one that works right trying to make cust able to be backup and restored. after lineage im gonna see if i can fix the stock b130 to be complete stock to be able to ota for those who like stock lol. as well what should i port next if i get lineage working and stable?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I know others who got that same line, then finally received the unlock code, so probably soon :) .

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How does the XT compare to your Huawei built Nexus 6P?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
lol ran into a snap didnt give my vm enough hdd space so now time to increase the size it had a 100gb partition but i will increase to 2oogb and start compiling again. gonna take a break for the night my back hurts to bad to sit here and do this. might have to goto er. but i will get back to it tomarrow
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
The 6p is in a different class. It's a very good phone. My Honor 8 is also a very good phone but I prefer the Nexus Pure Android experience over the EMUI 5 or 4.1. The Nexus also has superior sound and AMOLED display.

I think I mentioned before that I'm in a beta test group for Honor / Huawei. I'm hoping to get a P10 or a Mate 9 to test soon.

The Ascend XT is OK for the market it's targeting. It has some major flaws because of the reliance on AT&T for firmware. And no direct way to return to Stock like all other Honor, Huawei phones have.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Website now shows $79, so looks like sales is over now.

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Wow! With all those higher end Huaweis in your collection, why do you bother fooling with the XT?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
It's a hobby. I'm here to share what Ive learned from the other devices i have. All the Huawei / Honor phones have things in common

The Honor 5x is nearly identical to the XT hardware wise but as [MENTION=7934375]madvane20[/MENTION] is finding out theirs enough differences that porting software to this device is not so easy. We really need a more experienced developer like [MENTION=6355400]gopinaidu77[/MENTION] or [MENTION=4478781]yuweng[/MENTION] or [MENTION=6674731]jsbeyond[/MENTION] [https://jsbeyond.github.io/] to come on board to really get things going.

I'm confident this would be and amazing value phone with a lightweight Slim or beanstalk or RR rom on it.

I'm not a True "Developer " per say ...I can dump and build a stock based rom but that's about as far as I go

I have used many versions of cyanogenmod and other roms to know whats possible when it's going right.

And I can clearly spot when things like TWRP are not quite doing all they should and need improvement.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
In the dev thread JamesHasty was just about to release his SLIM rom before he got a new device. I am not sure if he would be so kind as to release it so the finishing touches could be put on if any. He said he had about everything working, dark theme, stock debloated SLIM.

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70820362&postcount=10
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
yeah but this is not much different than the one's i posted

It's simple enough to strip out all the junk that the phone ships with, it's another thing to actually get a Lineage (CM) base rom built

which is what I'm talking about with Beanstalk / Resurrection Remix / or a AOSP rom for this phone
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
For it to be themed I would imagine it is actually a SLIM based rom that was complied not a (slim) debloated stock rom. He also freed up 2GB of storage space. As we know with stock EMUI the system partition is assigned and cannot be freed up. But I am not sure. He has moved on but it sounded like the ROM was ready for primetime once made into a flashable zip.

I did not ask him for it but maybe someone else could. ROM development is not my thing.

Here it is:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=70794922&postcount=968
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
I agree it would be nice but he pretty clearly stated it's EMUI based, so that's just a fancy debloated rom

EMUI already has a Theme support and plenty of custom themes.

the only post i saw with a compiled booting rom was the Resurrection Remix post that's over 2 weeks old now

with no working speaker / camera or WiFi
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Sorry, edited my post above and provided the link. If he freed up 2GB of the system partition then the ROM had to be complied. Some members deleted the cust partition and deleted useless apps through TWRP. It will work to delete the files but the system partition remains at 8GB so it's basically the same as debloating. Again not sure, but pretty sure it was compiled.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
look here > https://huaweiemuithemes.blogspot.com.eg/2016/11/black-theme-by-ota-30314041.html

and his last picture here you can't compile that >> https://xdaforums.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=4022384&d=1485759717
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Guess that answers that. Wonder how he freed up storage space when we are locked. Ah well, hopefully Lineage or RR will come soon :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Yes but we need help, I may send a phone to [MENTION=6355400]gopinaidu77[/MENTION] and see if he'll help

I have another friend who built me a copy of Beanstalk for my 5x

I'll see if he can work us in too
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] yuweng:
Without the kernel source, i'm afraid nothing can be build except for porting compatible ROMs... :cowboy: And i wonder, not even one person tried flashing cm-14.1 to see if it boots, edits required & do make a backup first !

assert(getprop("ro.product.device") == "kiwi" || getprop("ro.build.product") == "kiwi" || abort("This package is for device: kiwi; this device is " + getprop("ro.product.device") + "."););
assert(kiwi.verify_trustzone("TZ.BF.3.0.C3-00025") == "1");

Delete the above first two lines at /META-INF/com/google/android/updater-script & this will by-pass the TZ checks & you shall be able to flash it
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Huawei released the source code, link is a couple pages back so I think devs have what they need now.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] gopinaidu77:
Just thinking. We can atleast boot the rom with stock kernel just like our devs did for Honor 8 .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Thank you I'll try CM 14.1 and CM13 later today if I get time

The Source code we have so far is here > H1611 -	Huawei Ascend XT, Texas-A1(H1611), Android6.0, EMUI4.1 Thanks [MENTION=6207209]pekcle[/MENTION]

One other thing .. the Version of TWRP we are using is missing the ability to backup and restore /cust

and no one has been able to return to stock and do OTA updates by flashing their Stock backups created with the current version of TWRP we are using. If you could look into this it would be very helpful to us all.

here's a list of the partitions

lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 DDR -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p4
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 aboot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p7
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 boot -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p10
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 cache -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p22
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 config -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p25
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 cust -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p23
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 erecovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p12
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 fsc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p19
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 fsg -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p9
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 hyp -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p2
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 log -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p17
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 misc -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p16
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 modem -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p14
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 modemst1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p26
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 modemst2 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p27
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 oeminfo -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p15
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 pad -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p21
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 pad0 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p8
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 persist -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p18
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 recovery -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p11
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 rpm -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p5
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 sbl1 -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p1
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 sec -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p3
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 sgb -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p13
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 ssd -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p20
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 system -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p24
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 tz -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p6
lrwxrwxrwx root root 1969-12-31 21:59 userdata -> /dev/block/mmcblk0p28

And here's the backup partition images thanks to [MENTION=3248490]RN_ReFlux[/MENTION]

https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=153797

Anything else I can do to help just ask.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
tried different versions none worked even messed with bootimage didnt have no luck and i may not be a developer guys but i find that offensive. i will have lineage soon ive learned enough as for virtual machines. using virtualbox virtual hard drive. i used this site for referencehttp://derekmolloy.ie/resize-a-virtualbox-disk/anyways it should be released today hopefully or i will at least have a version to test myself for bugs. since im not a real developer:)

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i have did something like that it was like half lineage half stock rom but wasnt working right

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i flashed all kinds of different ones even modified the boot image. i even tried flashing lineage from the xaomi that has same hardware and editing some stuff. so far what im doing seems to have the most promise.i will test myself to make sure theres no bugs that are major and need fixing right away then i will release test version. if my compile doesnt boot i will use the source code to fix boot image etc.

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also by the lol im using bbqlinux saw your avatar. also guys have faith lol i have spent 2 weeks or so and alot of hours into this. im sure i can get it working 1 way or another unless a dev has better luck they can go for it. atm seems im the only one who has really put effort towards it 1 person had one bootable but didnt have all the files right graphics crashed and was alot more errors. the error i had on space was my vm ran out the virtual hard drive space so compiling made it to 70% fixing that issue now
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
I'm sorry if you took offense to me asking others for help. I'm very happy your working your butt off on this phone for us :)

I'm just trying to bring in some more ideas. The guys I ask in are all very good at fixing stuff and can really help you if you let them.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
[MENTION=6355400]gopinaidu77[/MENTION],

Hello and thanks for visiting the XT section and to clsA for luring you over here :) .

Since you're an expert experienced ROM builder, being that I'm new at Android ROM development, which ROM do you suggest I start trying to build that would be the simplest and mostly likely successfully build with minimal modifications required.

Thanks for your help and advice over here. :)

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@clsA,

You did a good thing. We need some expert experienced guidance over here based on our progress or lack thereof so far :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
i just ran out of space on my vm to finish my compile once i fix that i will have one compiled then if bugs can work them out

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it was just we need real devs yes we needed some along time ago. i saw that noone else was making any or saw any progress so i took it upon myself to learn cause i want a working rom too lol
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
I'm just here to help my friend ... I have made many good friends in the H5x and Honor 8 forums

their good people and love to help as much as you and I do.

I have a CleanRom.EMUI build uploading now it looks pretty nice

I'll post it shortly
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] gopinaidu77:
You can try crdroid , it requires zero modifications from source side . all u have to do is modify 2 files in device tree to point the right path of make files .

by the way , All credits to my master yuweng again.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
More choices = a good thing, so keep going.

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Thanks! Wondering why I've never heard of it before :) .

What is your favorite ROM, if you have one - or name your top three :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
what version of android is it? and do u have a link to the one your talking bout
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] yuweng:
Many think TWRP must be build from source to support new partition but in actual fact Teamwin has made it so easy, all you have to do is edit the recovery.fstab or twrp.fstab, in fact i think it can even make a back up of the whole device Factory ROM with the correct fstab specified thought i didn't try it myself :cowboy:

/tz_image	emmc	/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/tz	flags=flashimg=1;backup=1
/modem_image	emmc	/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/modem	flags=flashimg=1;backup=1
/cust_image	emmc	/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/cust	flags=flashimg=1;backup=1
/system_image	emmc	/dev/block/bootdevice/by-name/system

Extract the zip, copy to sdcard & flash it with your existing TWRP.

Install => Install Image => Select recovery.img => Select recovery partition

Kernel source is the single most important thing in porting AOSP & since you guys already have the kernel source though i'm no kernel expert & both is using the same SoC, you can refer to the commits starting from Honor 5X OpenSource (KIW/KII Android 6.0_ EMUI4.0_kernel_overseas)

Android N uses alot of memory to build, advisable to dual-boot since you mentioned VM, my Build-Box native-boot, use to work ok building MM, jack is now complaining Out of memory error & the solutions is to add swap & below script

cd ~/5x/LineageOS
prebuilts/misc/linux-x86/ccache/ccache -M 100G
export USE_CCACHE=1
export LC_ALL=C
export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/default
[COLOR="blue"]export ANDROID_JACK_VM_ARGS="-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -XX:+TieredCompilation -Xmx4G"[/COLOR]
source build/envsetup.sh
brunch kiwi 2>&1 | tee ~/5x/LineageOS/compile.log

No worries, we don't own a XT H1611, we can only give pointers only, you still have to do all the dirty job yourself... :laugh:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
i didnt run out memory was the virtual hard drive space lol extending it now my vm is set for 8 gb of ram and 4 cores at 4 ghz. thanks for the twrp dont have to worry bout that now. also we have the source code for the xt
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] yuweng:
And i thought you ran out of memory though dual-booting do build much faster & i got a 4TB HDD last year just for building ROMs & i'm still running out of space... :laugh:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] clsA:
Fantastic job my friend thank you for this .. I just flashed it and it's everything i had hoped for

you make this stuff look so easy
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
i couldnt find the fstab in the recovery image unless he built it from source

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wish i had the money to do so although i have another 8 core machine i could boot up with bqqlinux and do the compileing etc on with 12gb of ram should be enough right? it has a 1 tb hard drive in it

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did u set twrp to allow backup of all partitions of the phone or just ones u listed.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] yuweng:
You are most welcome my friend, as you said it yourself, we are all here for the same passion, learning & sharing knowledge for our favorite toy, Android ! :laugh:

all this made possible by RD osm0sis, a simple drag & drop utils to unpack/ repack boot/ recovery image... :good:

Mine is a 3 years old Celeron PC, 16GB RAM, 60GB SSD for BBQLInux & a 4TB Home & still constantly running out of space from building custom ROMs... :laugh:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
xd
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
[MENTION=4478781]yuweng[/MENTION],

Thanks for coming by to help/advise us also! Please feel free to give your opinion on any questions I previously asked. :)

You are running out of disk space, but how many tens of ROMs do you build/support and for how many different phones ;) . We probably won't come close :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
gonna fire up my other pc it has 8core as well and 12 gb of ram and 1 tb hard drive should be alot faster and no disk issues lol anyone who wants to help assist in building rom or roms i can install teamviewer for remote access to the pc
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Uh, oh! Breaking out the big guns :) ........ Fresh XT ROM by tomorrow ;) ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
hope by tonight and i welcome anyone who wants to help. join my hangouts group i posted if u want to help
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] yuweng:
Only one, we have fifty over custom ROMs built for our honor 5x & i alone built forty of them, our device is booting ROMs meant for the Nexus, OPO, Motorola & many more ... All Thanks to our device tree bring-up team crpalmer & BadDaemon... :good:

Having said that, device tree bring-up is no easy task, even i don't have that knowledge, unless crpalmer is willing to help out on your kernel source... :fingers-crossed:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
im modifying the source code for honor 5x lineage to work with the xt. building on my vm til i get my other pc put back together. i gave my vm 10 gb dont know if it will need it or not lol
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] yuweng:
Trust me, its not that easy... :cowboy: Suggestion : pm & ask crpalmer if he is willing to develop for this device & if he agrees then poll a fund from everyone here & donate it to him, i've seen these many times here on XDA... :cool:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
if i fail at it i will
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Flaco05:
Thanks! I was able to pick one up at $49.99 at my local store. Price went up to $79.99 today.

:good:
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] CyberManiaK:
Please excuse me if i say something out of whack lol, I'm not familiar with android development.

I tried to enable Double Tap to wake, by editing this files, https://www.xda-developers.com/enable-double-tap-to-wake-on-huawei-and-honor-devices/ And sure, the menu pops on the XT (screenshot attached) but it's useless, after more research I found that this feature should be enabled on Kernel. So the question is, can this be done on the XT and how hard it is ?

Thanks.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
My favorite app for this phone is Gravity screen. I use swipe to wake and as soon as I put the phone down it turns it off. Great app.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] guest_2011:
I like it, similar to LG phones. How does it compare to CM13/14 sensor hand gesture? I tried one simple free app and it worked ok with XT except i often accidentally put my finger over the sensor and turned the screen off. Very annoying. It was when i first started using the phone so i didn't pay attention to battery drain. Native CM gesture seemed to drain battery faster in my galaxy S3 but not much in moto G3. I personally prefer not to tap on the screen but it seems like a better solution for this larger phone. My smaller phones i don't have a problem with sensor gesture. Wonder which one is easier on the battery.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] CyberManiaK:
Thanks for the suggestion, i will try it. I have tried a lot of apps of this kind, however most of them only use a black image to make it look sleeping so they are hard on battery.

This feature is something I miss from my bootlooped LG G4, which app you tried ? I haven try CM hand gesture.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I use Gravity Screen too and feel that it uses more power (too much power) than double-ta would use if implemented properly the way LG does it.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Affordable:
I just got this phone and I'm going through the root process and I wanted to ask if it is necessary to format data before I flash SuperSU? If I don't formate data before flashing, would anything bad happen?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
If you don't format the data partition, when you get to step 9, the phone won't boot up. It will just sit at "...your phone is booting now..." (don't recall the exact wording).

If that happens, you should then go back into TWRP, restore your TWRP boot partition backup, then repeat step 8. Delete the step 8 TWRP backup from the failed attempt once you have the phone rooted and booting up in step 9.

Let us know what happens.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] madvane20:
got some family problems going on and doc apts so sorry for delays i did get the other pc fired up and os installed will try to get to it after apts and figure out how to get rid of or deal with the personal problems etc
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] sweetboy02125:
Huawei unlockbootloader not working anymore??? It keeps asking me username and pw then loop back to the MIUI main page
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ckckckck1:
As much as I hate to say it... use IE / Edge. I had the same issue in chrome.