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[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] commandlinegamer:
Looking for recommendations for an alternative camera app which doesn't have any icons on the top-right-hand side of the screen.

I recently got a clip on lens, but currently can't use it as the bit whether it attaches is right over the settings icon of the default camera app on my Honor 8S.

Any suggestions gratefully received.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] matina42:
Hi,

I'm on an Honor 8 FRD-L09 and want to install a Custom ROM. I have progressed so far as to unlocking the bootloader and flashing a TWRP image (twrp-3.6.2_9-0-frd.imp) in fastboot mode. What I can't figure out is how to boot into it? Whatever I do, it just boots either into eRecovery (where I only have the options of reinstalling a stock ROM, shutting down or rebooting) or it boots straight back into its normal system.

I have tried using fastboot to get it into TWRP, but that just gives me an error I can't figure out

c:\Honor8\twrp>fastboot boot twrp-3.6.2_9-0-frd.img

downloading 'boot.img'...

FAILED (command write failed (No error))

finished. total time: -0.000s

I tried renaming my TWRP image to boot.img which didn't change the error message.

Any suggestions would really be appreciated!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] jatx:
HI !

newbee here, I,ve got an FRD-L19 reseted with compilation C432 B120 emui 4.1 . Can someone tell me the compilation I can use to upgrade it to android 7 o 8? I.ve tried severals and allway got error at 5% on any attemp. All the servers are down where to get the firmwares? never unlock bootloader and now seems to be imposible...

Thanks so much!!!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] amlets:
Hi, sorry for my language but unfortunately I have to use google translate. Also i am newbie and i have stock rom designation in phone FRD-L09C432B131 (android version 6). Answering my colleague's question above, if I read it correctly, you need to update B320->B360. The FULL versions are clear. Can someone put here such roms for L09 and L19 because the fact is that they are no longer on the servers due to the passage of time? For me, someone neglected the update issue because I am not the owner from new. Now when I need an active dual sim I need at least android 7 and that's my goal. Can anyone help?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Pondator:
Hi guys! Is there any image out there which brings at least Android 9 to my Honor 8 (FRD-L09C432B416)?

From an external site I came across this link: https://xdaforums.com/t/9-0-gsi-pixelexperience-p-unofficial.3833294/ but I'm not able to find out whether it's compatible with my phone or not. I'm totally new to the custom rom world. Thanks in advance and happy new year :)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ajoseph333:
Honor 8 Dual sim unlock??

Is it possible to enable dual sim on Honor 8 with a different ROM or something.I read somewhere about Huawei p series phone getting unlock for dual sim.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Extinguished:
By default honor 8 works with two SIM cards, or are you trying to find which custom roms you can use with a dual SIM?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] LePomps:
Possibly bricked honor 8

Had a rooted honor 8 using twrp with EMUI 4.1 working just fine. Decided to update to android N and lost TWRP and root, so I tried to install it again, I was able to install the twrp and root the phone but couldn't erase system or flash roms because of twrp errors. I searched online on how to fix it and found out that I had to format /data and change it's architeture, or something like that (kinda noob with phone stuff), so I did it and it didn't work at all, I was able to erase some stuff like cache and system but couldn't erase the rest neither flash roms, so I downloaded the stock firmware and tried to flash it using fastboot. It didnt' work so I tried to flash it creating a dload folder on SD card and pressing power button + volume up + volume down, but also didn't work. At last, I tried to use Huawei's eRecovery, but phone is booting since yesterday. REALLY need help here, I don't have much money to buy a new phone and I LOVE the honor 8.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] raza3434:
find a rollback package of your version flash it with sdcard+dload the flash the MM firmware and it will work, and if u can still access twrp ghen goto wipe>select data and change its data type to f2fs, i dont remember exact steps but it will be there if in wipe, after selecting data.

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use firmware finder app or charles method(search on this forum) if u didn't recieve OTA update to upgrade..
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] LePomps:
Solved the problem on the Honor 8. Installed twrp from a lineage OS install tutorial on XDA and flashed lineage OS. Had some encryption problems but changed the /data format to F2FS, reinstalled the OS and now the phone is working just fine. Thank you for your help anyway
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] qtoo941:
Hello guys, I have really important question. A friend of mine bought Honor 8 but his model is strange af.

First of all his Honor 8 is the one for India - L02

And second he is running EU firmware - C432

L02C432

When I enter in bulgarian's honor site I can find only L09/L19

When I enter in indian's honor site I find only L02 but with firmware C675 or smth like that.

He cannot get updates and he is pissed off. Is there Nougat for this model because I could not find? Is there anybody else with such a model? What can he do now? He wants to sell it now because if this strange number/region combination. Give him an advice please.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] tuxo87:
I tried firmware Finder but cant find b380/b360 full package. Should I download b131 and try to flash It, then OTA ugrade? I am on B120 dunno even why
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] raza3434:
yes first install b131 then install b360.. in which region u r? didn't recieve any ota?

guess u know how firmware finder works, if dont then search for firmware finder tutorial, bcz i upgraded with firmware finder
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] tuxo87:
I'm in Italy, I had an OTA update once but dont know which One... I'll try with firmware finder and flash 131 if i dont get an OTA in the next few days. Thanks
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Al-Jalodi:
Hello sir i wanna ask about when the developers release the new TWRP and su root for new Huawei 2017 devices like GR3 2017 , Honor 8 lite 2017,Nova lite 2017 and p9 lite 2017 ?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Alok Bajaj:
Well the firmware for FRD-L02 is B160/310 C675. Download it from honor India website and flash on FRD-L02.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] qtoo941:
The strange thing is that B160 and B310 are C675 while the phone of my situation is L02 C432 B120. LOL :D
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Alok Bajaj:
That's very old firmware (b120). The strange thing is why hasn't he got any updates yet? :eek:
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] YSFYoussef480:
What About Honor 8 Lite/GR3 2017/P8 Lite 2017 (They're All The Same) Can I Install The Original Honor 8 TWRP Recovery On Them ?!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Al-Jalodi:
This is the same my question I wanna root my device GR 3 2017
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ocultos:
Hi folks,

I'm afraid I might have bricked my L09. I had upgraded to B360, flashed custom recovery and was following instructions on how to root it. Made the rookie mistake of not backing up first...

Sure enough, somewhere along the way I effed something up and was stuck without a keyboard, only voice input. Tried to flash back to stock recovery but found (probably me effing it up again) FRP was now locked. I was unable to unlock it as Google won't let you type your password using the voice keyboard. So... I tried Lineage OS instead... which won't let me boot without an encryption password I can't remember setting.

Basically the only thing I can do on my phone is boot into TWRP. I able to access the SD card from the PC, but I only get errors when trying to format the /data partition. Any ideas?

Could restoring a TWRP backup sans the /data partition from a different L09 running B360 work? And if so, does anyone know where I might be able to download such a backup?

Thanks!

Edit:

I managed to get FRP unlocked and got Lineage up and running:

- Vol Up + Power with(!) USB connected (if not connected, it will boot to TWRP)

- eRecovery > repair damaged /data partition

- Flash Lineage + gapps

- Boot up Lineage and run through setup

- Enable Dev options

- Enable OEM unlock

- Boot to bootloader

- Flash stock recover (extracted from stock B360)

A bit surprised it was actually that easy to bypass FRP in the end.

Now... I'm sure this has already been explained elsewhere, but I'm slightly drunk and very fed up at this point (or is it the other way around?). Could anyone please tell me how I can go back from Lineage to stock when I didn't have the wherewithal to create any backups? :)
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] thierrybla:
No bluetooth and NFC on my Honor 8 FRD-L09

The title says most of it I used TWRP to get it to root but after factory reset I lost keyboard, bluetooth, nfc and much more system apps.

Has anyone an idea on how to fix this ?

My end goal is to get root and all my functions working + system apps.

Kind regards,
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] JXulo:
Return the device ASAP.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] chris181rt:
All you have to do is flash the EXACT "original" firmware .. L09
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] rafaelcantarela:
Hi, I got my Honor 8 International Version (or UK Maybe) at Gearbest and it came with the version FRD-L19C636B130

I heard it should have already received the EMUI 5 and Android 7, but I search for updates and nothing happens.

Can you explain if I can get Nougat and EMUI 5? Download a firmware or force update anyway?

And another help... How are EMUI 5 on Honor? Worth the update?

Enviado de meu FRD-L19 usando Tapatalk
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PoseidonKing:
Hi

First things first, never quote the entire OP ( original post). If you want somebody to personally look upon your issue, you can mention them with an @ symbol before their usernames.

Secondly, about your question, I don't personally own the device. I've created the thread to reduce garbage threads in the Q/A section and keep it as clean as possible. About your last question, one of my friend recently updated his Honor 8 to EMUI5. I haven't personally handled it, but my friend told me that there are some minor bugfixes, camera improvement, etc.

Hit Thanks if I Helped You!

Regards,

PoseidonKing
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] brownd7380:
I can't get Bluetooth audio to work in my car. Honor 8 l04 on nougat. All I get is the the Android auto screen. Any suggestions?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] slayerdiabolus:
I managed to get TWRP 3.1, and Root working on my Nougat/B360 Honor 8 FRD-L04, but is there an Xposed version available that works with Nougat?

Thanks so much in advance!!!!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] FreeLineTM:
Just for next time, when there is no keyboard you can just download an apk for something like Google keyboard on your computer and install it via adb. That's what I did. You can just skip the Google login.

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Download an apk for a keyboard like Google keyboard and install it via adb. That's at least fixing the keyboard.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] tuxo87:
Can you explain what you did exactly? Did you manage to install B380?

I'm still on B120 and I tried everything, firmware finder doesn't download anything though I have managed to download the .zip update file of b131 stock package but the phone just won't flash it. Even ERecovery doesn't work. Says: "Getting package info from server" then "Getting package info failed". :/

Charles' method doesn't work either. My phone is rooted and my bootloader is unlocked and I don't really know what to do. Just don't wanna flash one of the unofficial 7.x roms without camera working :rolleyes:

Please help!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] umair07:
I was trying to install gta sa in my honor 8 FRD-L02 bt it is showing download failed even though I have copied the data file in android data folder ( external sd card ).

Can u please tell me how to install this kind of games??
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] seanicca:
I read the camera reads QR codes but mine doesn't seem to, is there a setting I need to change? I can using a 3rd party app
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PoseidonKing:
Hi

Most devices that support QR scanning provide a separate app in the Menu which is specially for QR Code scanning. Look for an app called Scanner. Maybe Huawei also gives a separate QR scanner app.

Hit Thanks if I Helped You!

Regards

PoseidonKing
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] PussLover:
Hey everybody !

Since my Honor 8 is on 7.0, all my messages from messenger disappear.

I receive my text messages and my Facebook Messages, all on the Facebook Messenger app, and everytime I type a new text message, it stays for a few minutes, sometimes a few seconds, and the thread disappears, and I have to type the name of the person I texted to find the thread back, or to wait for an answer from them.

Do you guys have any solutions for that ? When I was on 6.x it didn't happen, it just began after I made the update.

Thanks a lot, and have a nice day.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] DaveG46:
Afternoon all, anyone tried the gallery widget? I'm trying to put a pic on a blank home screen but all it does is leave the standard widget icon on the screen and not the image or gallery I've selected.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] jorgentemos:
Hello everyone. I bought the device 2 days ago and i have noticed that both the cameras are zoomed in when i use the facebook messenger or the instagram. That is not happening when i use snapchat or the camera app? Does anyone know why that is happening and how to fix it.

Thanks.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] timwelter:
Hi guys, this might've been asked before somewhere else but: Does the Honor 8's DAC support 24 bit/192 khz audio output? I saw someone asking customer support and they did say that it does support 24 audio output, but I've also read a few reviews that state that it doesn't. Can anyone confirm?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] YaddaSwamy:
Currently have the US model of Honor 8 (FRD-L04) on Android 6.0 that I unlocked and rooted. My understanding is that I can't upgrade to Android 7 via OTA because it needs the bootlocker to be locked. Is that correct?

If so, how do I updated to Android 7? And will I lose TWRP, Xposed, etc. that I have currently installed?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] honor8lovers:
Can we change the honor 8's emojis without root ?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
I've noticed that too. Snapchat and the camera app produce a normal image but messenger produces a magnified one. I haven't found a way to get over the issue so what I do is take the photo from the camera app and then post it on messenger.

I'm not really sure on how u should update but if u r updating to Nougat u will lose Xposed.

No u can't without root.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] jorgentemos:
I have upgraded my phone to Android 7 and now the problem with the camera (zoomed in pics) on Instagram is fixed but on Facebook messenger is still there..
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Ephixi4:
I'm planning on getting the Honor 8 soonish. Have a couple of questions, would be grateful if someone could give me an answer.

- How is the state of the EMUI 5 on H8 atm? Will it receive any updates / bug fixes soon? Maybe 5.1 update? Any info on this? Is it going to be still worked on or just left in a semi-finished state and forgotten?

- I've read a YT comment (yes I'm VERY skeptical about this one) that someone got an Honor 8 with a 3900 mAh battery. anyone anything ?? The person said that it might be a freshly produced Honor 8 using the Honor 8 Pro battery.

- Anything I should look for when getting the phone? (EU) Like a specific model number or smth?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
- I'm loving EMUI 5.0 so far. Except for the auto brightness issues everything about it is pretty good. I'm a fan of stock android and so I installed this theme called SimpleUI and I also installed Nova launcher with the pixel launcher pack and now I'm pretty happy and satisfied. Also one more once u get ur phone and install the latest EMUI 5.0 update please do remember to factory reset it to avoid battery and performance issues. Honor has promised 2 years of updates so i think the future of this phone is looking kinda bright in regard to software updates.

- The phone has a 3000mah battery but as shown by me in the screenshot below most apps think the phone has a 3900mah battery and no fast charging. This is absolutely not true. The phone has a 3000mah battery with Huawei's quick charge technology.

- I didn't quite get the last question.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Ephixi4:
Awesome, thanks a ton for this answer. Luckily I don't use auto-brightness, just do it manually. Cheers for the info, will remember to update first and then factory reset.

Ah that is probably what happened. The person also said the app was showing 3900 mAh.

(BTW how is the battery life? I'm a moderate user, mostly some messaging apps, social apps, reddit and music)

Also can you use the finger print scanner to scroll up-down in apps or browsers?

Ah just making sure, because sometimes a certain model number has something like a different part maybe from one manufacturer and it is better than in the other model number etc.

Just nevermind about it!
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
The battery life isn't as good in EMUI 5 as it was in EMUI 4.1 but this is going to be fixed by Honor in a future software update. I get maybe around 4-4.5 hours of SOT and I use social media apps and I do quite a bit of music streaming as well. This SOT dips if I play any sort of 3D game of course. Also when u first get ur phone u will find extremely inconsistent battery life like sometimes it lasts for a long time and then sometimes it dies really quickly. When this happens don't worry and don't wipe ur phone just wait for maybe 5 days and after that the battery life should become consistent. Also despite the fact that I wiped my data after the Nougat update I had to do it again because for some reason I was having severe standby drain.

No u can't use the fingerprint sensor to scroll in browser pages or apps but u can use it in the default gallery apps to scroll between images.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Ephixi4:
Is there maybe an app for scrolling or any info if scrolling in apps / browser will be implemented / possible ?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
I've read about this app called fingerprint gestures which achieves the same by using root. Unfortunetly I'm not rooted right now so I can't test this out but if it is something u really need u might have to root ur device.

Here's the link to the app: https://goo.gl/XaCuwi
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Ephixi4:
Cheers! Maybe it isn't a go to goal, but I'd definitely use it if there is such an app with swipe scroll action available.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
Have u ordered ur phone?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Ephixi4:
No, I'll probably get in in the store this month. Why?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
No nothing I read ur previous post again and saw that u said that u were going to get the phone soonish so I was just curious.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] bacgangster:
Hi guys,

Is there any way to root a Huawei Honor 8 Lite?

Thanks in advance

bacgangster
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Ephixi4:
Here - there is TWRP + Special instructions for rooting.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] bacgangster:
The TWRP is for the FRD version bro. Honor 8 Lite is PRA
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] thelieisajoke:
will there be download links for firmware?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Ephixi4:
Oops sorry guys
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] famandeggs:
Can't seem to get USB Debugging to stick. Will enable it, but when it reboots it turns off. Anyone else have this problem or can point me to a solution? Thank you in advance!

Edit: not rooted, completely stock, was trying to flash twrp, will fastboot into bootloader, but when it goes into bootloader, adb devices isn't found anymore.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
When u r in the bootloader u r supposed to u the command fastboot devices not adb devices.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] famandeggs:
Correct, my mistake for mistyping. If you "fastboot devices" after your have gone into bootloader via adb reboot bootloader, it will not show any device nor take and flashing commands. I'm assuming its because of USB debugging not sticking with reboot. I could be wrong though.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ayush rao:
The fastboot and adb commands are completely independent. Even if USB debugging isn't enabled fastboot commands should always work.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] famandeggs:
Oh, well I wonder why none of my fastboot commands aren't working. Guess I'll try redownloading them. Thanks for info!

*edit* turned out to be wrong drivers for fastboot, thank you for your help.
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] NGRaziel:
Hi everyone, my wife's Honor 8 is on B130 (frd-l19c636). Rooted & TWRP 3.1 flashed.

Whats the best method to get it to B380 ? Firmware Finder ?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] valk791:
Hi guys I installed twrp (by surdu) and CM13 on my Honor 8. Now I want go back to stock rom but with twrp. Can I just flash the backups done with twrp? Is there any problem due to the encryption? Thanks in advance.

Inviato dal mio HONOR-8 utilizzando Tapatalk
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] ale_xan_der:
My girl is cheating and I managed to wipe OS

In the middle of wiping my Honor 8 (FRD-L09) to reset to factory default, I found out that my girlfriend is cheating with a (now ex) friend of mine.

Being quite flustered by this discovery, I blanked out and managed to wipe everything, using the Advanced Wipe in TWRP. Including OS and the backup I had made earlier.

I haven't dared to turn the phone off, so I'm still in TWRP.

I was in the middle of trying to root it, so at the moment I have twrp-3.1.0-2-frd.img installed, but not SuperSU.

What do I do now? How do I fix my phone?
[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Extinguished:
Does the unlock code stay the same after updates/rollbacks?

Edit: checked. Yeah it sure does.
[Moto Z Guides, News, & Discussion] enetec:
This has already discussed in other posts here BUT I continue to see A LOT of people waiting for Nougat OTA like Santa Claus should bring to them... (or, even worse, trying to push it in their phones... :rolleyes:)

So, I make this post just to give more visibility to all...

I'll try to write it clear...

Don't update your Z to Nougat by OTA!

Is it clear enough? :laugh:

Now some explainations...

Over the the common generic motivations (difficulties when not in full stock conditions, risk to brick it during process, OTAs that are the Evil... :p), there is a strong one in this case: Nougat OTA for Moto Z (silently...) upgrades your bootloader too, from v. 90.xx to v. 91.xx...

This isn't really needed (Nougat runs flawlessly on v.90.xx too... :rolleyes:) BUT it introduces some tighter rules on what you can and what you can't anymore boot on it, limiting hacking and upgrading (to developed third part ROMs...) possibilities...

One of this rules is that with v. 91.xx bootloader you can't anymore boot to MM ROM! :(

Considering that as of today it seems that bootloader can't be donwgraded (some have soft/hard bricked their Z trying to downgrade it...:rolleyes:), Nougat upgrade by OTA is a one way process. :(

If you consider that stock Nougat seems to have some bugs and issues (and, as of today, no Xposed available...!) and that some (all?) third part Nougat ROMs requires "MM" (v. 90.xx) bootloader to work, it seems not to be a great idea leave that Motorola upgrades silently your bootloader... :rolleyes:

So?

So, at present, the best method (IMHO...) to upgrade to Nougat is that one which is described in OP of this thread: you will have a full stock Nougat BUT with older bootloader and the possibility to easily return to MM or to whatever ROM you want...;)