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[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I'm not sure what you mean. I have not tried any of these steps because I'm not clear on how to format the data partition so it becomes accessible.

Can you clarify that step on formatting/making the data partition accessible so that TWRP can back it up? Formatting the data partition will blow away my internal storage data, correct?

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Can you gives some vague hints on what you did to format the data partition ........ I'll try googling on that. Thanks!

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Also if you can give us a directory listing of your TWRP backup, then we know what to aim for before starting to try and flash SuperSU. Thanks! :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
I formatted in twrp.

1. Boot into twrp

2. Select wipe

3. Select advanced wipe

4. Select just the data

5. Slide to wipe

6. Reboot recovery and should be good.

And yes this will wipe all your data to the point of no return.

"Mvno Master"

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So we have 2 users that are bricked correct? One bricked bricked and one is soft bricked correct?

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Did you guys unlock your bootloader before trying to flash TWRP or root the phone? I would assume this is a requirement before anyone does anything.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Good point.

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
Yup, i have a bootloader unlocked, btw when i did the data format i changed the file type from ext4 to ext2 amd returned to ext4. Btw the phone's data shows 0mbs to backup and when i check the data i see that of the 8,758mb i have free 8,730mb but 0mb are used. Is the Data partition broken?? If that happens im going to kill myself XD. I dont think that affects or breaks the data partition. Since i returned it to it's old filesystem name. But who knows. The system shows the correct amount of data used. And if my data partition got damaged, if there is some file or somethingvto fix it?? Btw im thinking about someone that back ups the data and uploads it so i can use it to restore the data partition. Can you do it plz?? Thanks people. I hope my phone can return to life.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] MT2-User:
When you changed file system, it should format your data partition.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Data is encrypted because of two reasons, under developers options OEM unlock must be enabled and Lock screen to access phone must be turned off. Whenever lockscreen is enable, encryption on data partition is silently enabled. Most of the time. Some manufacturers allow you to control encryption via security settings, others make in mandatory. Look under dev options to turn of lock screen. I believe its Huawei's way of turning on/off encryption. Why would it be under dev options anyway.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
I am soft bricked. i was bootloader unlocked. i booted twrp via fastboot and tried to flash supersu and ended up not booting. tried to restore from backup and it wouldnt get any further. i am able to access stock recovery fastboot mode and twrp via fastboot.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
Im in the same state as him, im going to try to do the same thing on a old samsung phone, I'll let you know if the data partition doesn't work, and BTW i never made a backup of the data. So yeah.

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Enigma, can you do a backup of your data and make a link for us to download it?? Maybe that way we can fix the brick issue
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Someone needs to factory reset their device, enable developer options, then enable OEM unlock, and make sure Lock Screen to Access phone is disabled. then reboot. Make a backup after this. Encryption on data will be disabled allowing you to restore.

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Been through this with my Blu R1 HD and old Zenfone 2.

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Also erase cache from fastboot helps also.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Ya give me time

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
Ok thx bro, that will be the only way to know if the data partition is still working. If it doesn't work, well guess I'll have to use a pc to repartition that specific area which is not easy but i hope i can. Well enigma thx for saying yes to my question. Have a good night.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
A golden master backup. This will give all of us something to revert to as we try new things and continue the unavoidable soft bricks.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Just got home. Time to get to work

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
I'll be back in a hour to check any progress, after that i gotta sleep XD. See ya in a hour. Enigma, good luck!!!. Btw if using the data doesn't work someone will have to rush a alpha rom of lineage os or candysix rom, btw i think you have a headstart since the honor 5x has the same specs as this phone except for the screen res and size. Something like this happened to my asus zenfone 2e, Thank God that i revived him lol.:D
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Hope you guys heed my advice or else your sharing an encrypted data partition with one another which is useless.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
This might sound dumb has anyone tried to flash back the stock recovery and doing a factory data reset?

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
I have, did nothing new for me.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Just realized that uploading a 2gb file might take awhile with my upload link. Are you guys flashing using just the Fastboot boot method or is twrp actually flashed?

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
I don't have TWRP installed. However I can if instructed how to permanently do so. If that makes it easier
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
In the meantime let's try the command: Fastboot format userdata

"Mvno Master"

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Place the twrp in the folder where you have adb and Fastboot then rename it to recovery and run the falling command:

Fastboot flash recovery recovery.img

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
okay i have completed both of these steps and when i hold volume up and power i now boot directly into twrp
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Now try to backup the data partision.

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
my data partition shows as 0mb, when i backup i get "unable to find partition for path '/sdcard'" however it appears to run normally beyond that without any errors for mounting /data

EDIT: it did indeed backup data (however there wasnt anything to backup)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Did you get any errors?

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
Are you using the link on the first page to unlock the bootloader? I didn't know there was a option in developer mode that says allow OEM bootloader unlock. Make sure that is checked and do everything in the guide.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] svysik:
Jumping in to say development for this device would be radical. I feel like it has some potential but miui feels like garbage. If anyone has tricks to increase performance I'd love to hear them.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] guest_2011:
This phone would be smoking hot if rooted. CM would be amazing. EMUI is actually much better than last year. Nova helps. Looking forward to root and CM. While unsuccessfully trying king and kingo came across other rooting sites. This may be too old http://forum.gsmhosting.com/vbb/f810/guide-all-huawei-mobile-phones-root-1671714/
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Yes Nova should help and I think you have the ability to make the icons smaller for those saying icons are too big/washed out.

Need to debloat this thing, has 16G but only 9G available, there has to be 5-6G of bloatware so it's going to slow it down for sure.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] guest_2011:
less than 8gb available out of the box. It's actually surprisingly fast even after i loaded many apps. I don't have a problem with icon size or color. Everything looks just right for me and i can even see the screen in landscape with polarized glasses, unlike my LG and motorola phones. I can't wait to root.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Doubtful about 5-6GB bloatware. 2GB tops is my guess, unless you consider Google apps to be bloatware and not just AT&T added stuff.

Try Debloater PC tool by GatesJr on XDA to freeze/disable the bloatware so it doesn't try to update on Play Store and use more internal storage, since I doubt we'll see root for this phone anytime soon.

http://xdaforums.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294

+1 on Nova Launcher Prime - it goes on every device I have. Author usually puts it on sale for $0.99 during December and other random times.

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What kind of screen on time are you guys getting on a charge? Or better yet, approximately how much does the battery drop percentage wise per hour of screen on time?

How much internal storage free out of the box? I'm seeing the last few poster saying 9GB and less than 8GB?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
I will look into that tool, thank you. I am not sure how much bloat ware in on there but one thing is for sure out of 16GB only about half (give or take) is usable. There's lots on there that should be removed for better performance and battery life.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] guest_2011:
^ i tried debloater but not sure if it actually does anything. Had to manually stop and disable apps afterwards.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
http://xdaforums.com/android/software/debloater-remove-carrier-bloat-t2998294

The Debloater Tool is very powerful. Doesn't require root, but can disable your phone, so read up on it in the thread and don't disable anything like system apps if you are not sure it's safe to do so. I would also export your current settings from the tool before disabling anything. Happy Debloating! :)

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For reference, the AT&T GoPhone LG Phoenix 2 which also comes with Marshmallow has 9.7GB free internal storage / 16GB total out of the box. Since this is a Huawei phone, that could contribute to part of the free storage difference.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] svysik:
Nova was the so worth the few bucks I spent on it a few years ago.

hereis what my battery stats are looking like, 5 and a half hours screen on time apparently (edit: 5.5 hours of SOT brought the phone to 49%, sorry I worded that poorly). I haven't done anything too battery conscious. Gps, data, wifi have been most of the day.

here is my storage, I've installed a decent amount of apps. It supports sd cards so I'm going to throw 32gb in.

Lemme know if you want to know more.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] MT2-User:
IMO, Nova Launcher Premium is one of the must have app to be installed.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
+1 and for those who are unsure, try the free version. It's definitely worth trying and will make you want to support the author by buying the Prime version :)

I wonder if the Ascend XT is similar to any other Huawei that has been rooted already?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
Imma have to say I think it's more around 7 to 8 hours screen time. I am at 28℅ with 5hrs 30mins that includes an hour of playing Pokemon go with the kids.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Sloogle_Flugelmann:
Well I do notice SRSRoot supports build 130 and ever since the update the build is now 140. I'm guessing the update AT&T sent out was because of that reason?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Cjalmighty:
Loving this device as a mini tablet alongside my daily driver Nexus 5x. Root and roms would be awesome.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] RN_ReFlux:
Well, I attempted my root with srs before my phone updated to 140, didn't work. Of course the bootloader wasn't unlocked at that point, but I don't think that would have made a difference.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] guest_2011:
Can this phone get its own thread?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
What would that make this thread? Not sure what you mean.

BTW, you guys can can check out this Huawei Ascend XT thread on HoFo:

http://www.howardforums.com/showthr...cend-XT-AT-amp-T-GoPhone-on-TracFone-GSM-BYOP

Please post if you know of other useful threads related to this phone.

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[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] dabadguycr:
I have a question. It says 2gb or ram but whenever I looked at the specs with an app it said 1.76gb also 8.44gb normal for storage?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Part of the RAM and internal storage are reserved for Android use, so not reported by most apps.

See apps named Storage Truth and RAM Truth on Play Store by scary alien. ;)

8.44GB out of the box seems low. Is that free space after you updated apps and installed more or right out of the box?

What does Storage Truth say for /data? On my Lollipop phone with 32GB internal storage, ST says /data size is 22.73GB.

What about Settings - Storage - for internal storage?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
no not for being able to mount data. just three identical ones about mounting the sdcard even though it backed up my data partition just fine

Edit: after a reboot it no longer shows any error whatsoever. backup and restore work as they should. i just dont have a full rom image to work with to get me running again.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
I did the same as the guy that has his phone bricked, no results neither, so i will have to wait later to flash the data since you are uploading it. I gotta go for this while, its 1am in Puerto Rico. See ya later friends. I hope that enigma's data works!!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
OK. Do you have a backup to try to recover your device? Also I started a hangout to help in real time

Join the conversation on Hangouts: https://hangouts.google.com/group/2hX4F5PewUpo6GJk1

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Change your backup path to your external SD card and perform a backup that way.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
Thanks you devinebliss.

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] fido14dido:
Looks like this **** just got real!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Is this System or Systemless root?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shane2157:
This is systemless root. I just got it to work on mine, as well.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Quick way to remove Bloatware junk from Rom for good. Here's what I did.

NOTE RESPONSIBLE IF YOU SCREW UP. MAKE A COMPLETE BACKUP FIRST BEFORE PROCEEDING.

1. Boot into recovery, and go into mount options.

2. Remove check from System Read Only option.

3. Go under advanced and into file manager.

4. Look for "cust" folder.

5. Now proceed to preinstalled, public, app.

6. Inside there will be individual folders for every bloatware app. Go into the folder for each app.

7. Once the apk file is visible select delete.

8. Once deleted you will be back one directory where the other apps are. Just repeat previous step for each app you want to remove or just delete the public folder all together.

I kept Huawei Swype Keyboard and AT&T Voice Mail app, removed everything else.

Also go into cust/hw/default/xml folder and delete xml file that say Del and Inst. Keep the other files, other files start with "hw_" keep those. There are only 5 files keep the 3 "hw_" ones. Remove the other two. Reboot and all bloatware is gone for good, not just disabled.

**** If you want to retain OTA then skip this all together. ****
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
The entire /cust folder is only 288MB... We need to find more bloat to gain more internal user storage.

/cust is its own partition, so I'm just going to disable those apps since deleting won't buy user storage.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] RN_ReFlux:
For the record, if you make backups of your apps and app data with the Huawei backup app bundled with the phone prior to wiping data in TWRP, the app data seems too restore after su access is available.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
I can see the "cust" folder but it is empty (it appears). All the apps can be found under system/app and system/app_priv. Have to goto sleep, you have to be careful what you delete in those folders but looks like most of the apps are there. Did not get to it yet.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Download Rom Tool Box and use the app manager. Try to uninstall the AT&T junk, it fails. Now do what I said. And you will see it is gone. Your not going to reclaim that space, partitions are already partitioned in that way. Read up on Linux partitions. If you want to repartition go right ahead. Partition sizes are already pre-allocated.

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I'm not trying to reclaim space, I'm trying to keep bloatware from loading during boot and staying in memory. If you look at device storage 8.55 GB is partitioned for data only. That's all you are given, don't know where you going to get more than what is partitioned.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
So do i have todo the same as you and chck if the phone boots?? Mine is softbricked for the moment.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Sloogle_Flugelmann:
To remove system apps I just downloaded ES File Explorer and went to /data/apps/ and just deleted all the folders with the system app apks in them.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] shawnchalfant:
Did you reboot afterwards?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Sloogle_Flugelmann:
Yes. Then I also went to /data/data and deleted the app data for the bloatware.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] Sloogle_Flugelmann:
Curious, since the Honor 5X has the same processor. Would it be possible to flash a custom ROM made for it on the XT?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
They are the same tho, just we need to modify some of the code related to the screen, everything else i think is compatible. Plz someone check for that cause i need a way to boot up my phone.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Remind me what you can do currently do with your phone. Can you get to recovery or fastboot?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] powerserge1:
Does anyone know how to apply a theme?

Tried putting the .hwt file and the extracted files and folder to the appropriate HWtheme folder on the SD card but it just shows the 4 default themes. So I put theme in the system/theme folder as well. It won't see the new theme for EMUI 4-4.1. Not sure why it's not working.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Google Apps taking up space in /data = user data space that can be freed.

Freezing/disabling apps outside data partition if possible will prevent them from running or using RAM.

I'll wait for someone more qualified to blaze the reparationing trail :) .

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Are you looking at it with a rooted file manager? It's not empty for us.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
Yeah i can boot to both partitions, recovery is working and fastboot too. So as long as i need that tell me, btw if you make a alpha build send it to me so i can test if it boots:)
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
Are you able to get through my step 8c? What happens if you try to TWRP backup the Data partition?

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Anyone know from doing it on the XT what the button sequence is for getting into fastboot mode from phone off state?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
Ok since i never activated the stock recovery when flashed the data stayed normal and it mounts. When i backup it does it correctly, even the internal storage is working, and i did the sane stuff with a old samsung phone i had, and when i flashed the rom again and did the stuff the phone show 20mb used, on the huawei since there is no data backup i can't know if that partition gor broken but i don't think so cause i can see tge internal storage on the pc properly and i can copy and paste, now i want to tell something. When i try to delete the supersu folder that is out of the system it deletes it but when i reboot to recovery the folder is there again. And yeah now that i remember, the data partition has some files on it since i accessed it via the twrp file manager. So idk what is happening. Can someone plz do the backup of their data and publish it?? I need that phone operational again as soon as possible. Or do a full backup and send it to me plz. I need it urgently.

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Btw to go to fastboot press and hold the power button + the vdown button
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] divineBliss:
I thought someone was working on uploading a full backup last night and had started. Check for their post on that.

What happens with your phone now if you reboot? Did you get through all of the process steps I wrote?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] enigma2446:
I uploaded a full backup and posted it in my hangout. But I'll post it here to.

https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0B12_sZzJAt2qOEN0bTAzU0F2Q2c

"Mvno Master"
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] xx_iamxanderman_xx:
TWRP

Hello, I flashed the current released TWRP for this device and it seems to work properly. I see that there is a bug where you have to format the data partition. However, I think that that is related to how the device's operating system works and that it is not a TWRP problem. I was wondering if there is anything I can do on the TWRP. Any other bugs? Anything I can do to help at all, just let me know. Anyways, I should be home late tonight, then I will start on the compilation of a custom ROM. Maybe enigma2446, you can tell me what ROM you are compiling that way we can work on different ROMS?
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] jarrettsuydam:
Maybe it was just me, but if you try to download this as one zip file google drive will leave out files. make sure you get all the files. Im in the process of testing this now. Thanks again enigma!
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] ensol52:
im just downloading the data files. i think the system is ok. so i recommend to download what you need individually.
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] xx_iamxanderman_xx:
Sailfish OS ROM

Hello, I was wondering if you all would take a look at Sailfish OS for me and tell me if you like it. I believe it can run most Android apps and is based on Linux. I discovered the operating system awhile back, before I had a phone that can run it. If ya'll like it that is what I will compile. :)

Wikipedia link to Sailfish OS: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailfish_OS
[Huawei Ascend XT Questions & Answers] vvti:
I have 2 of these phones, one is my daily driver and the other is new in box, never been used. I don't know much about rooting phones and such ...but if I can be of assistance with 2 of these devices, let me know. Thanks!