[Honor 5X Guides, News, & Discussion] khat17:
This came up on one of the 5X's that I have. Updated and forgot to put back stock recovery. Don't be like me and forget to do that. Now it won't work properly and I can't get to start any apps to try and fix it. I can put back TWRP and wipe it, but I don't want to lose my data. I also have that problem now where it keeps telling that the SD card is corrupted. I backed up the data and scrubbed the card in the phone but it keeps coming back with the same thing.

If someone did an actual successful update properly (with stock recovery) then please update and say if everything is working. If not, I'm going to have to find some way to backup the data and then scrub it.

*EDIT*

I believe something like this happened to me before. I was on B151 and went to B331 with TWRP installed by accident. What happened was that the OS was still running EMUI 3.1 but the build was saying B331. After fighting with it (and community support) I managed to get it to B331 fully and EMUI 4.0 - since then and a few custom ROMs I'm back on B151 EMUI 3.1 due to stability. Games and some apps just didn't work on the new one. The second phone was on B331 fully though - then I made the same mistake and it went to B351. This time though, the phone seems screwed. No apps will load. I can get into settings and the file manager, but no Titanium Backup and no Flashify. Going to put back TWRP and try to flash GAPPS and see if it will help me get into Play Store. From there I'll try to reinstall Flashify and flash the ZIP of the update. Will post back once done.

*EDIT*

Well that didn't work. Even after going back and trying to root the device again - then checking the option for it to not detect the dirty flash - still didn't work. Kept complaining that stock apps are already present.

I'm going to try and get some files off the device, but keep having issues. Not sure why. May just have to scrub. Will update again.

*EDIT*

With TWRP on I used "ADB PULL" to get certain files from the root system which I couldn't access otherwise for some reason. Then copied the other things (photos and such) and will now be using the UPDATE.APP to get it working. For this I formatted the SD from within TWRP and created the DLOAD folder (with no caps - so that's

dload

- but I'm not sure if it matters) and will be copying the UPDATE.APP. Not sure which version yet, because there was some problem with one I had downloaded before. So I need to double-check and re-download.

*EDIT*

So I've successfully flashed the UPDATE.APP from the SD card (same one the phone was claiming is corrupted). Just for reference, here is the file information and hashes.

File Name: Honor 5X_Firmware_KIW-L24_Android 6.0.1_EMUI 4.0_C567D003_United States.zip

Size: 1762266487 bytes

ADLER32: 27cb0c31

CRC32: 1d9379b9

MD2: 6517c34dc9bac0cd8680e3c4fd09d8d9

MD4: 4a803765c0ed54cb5d6853a9f365cd3b

MD5: 04f60b067d546ad71f556e44a7934dc7

SHA1: 8d2718568ac6509a40c95e42857d400395eb88d2

SHA256: 82975923172b3800d3f09f76691f2a694ab98110e3f909084a02bd566448386f

SHA384: da53b58b8e20395595590fd0cec30e56fa6a62e638ec53e46a74ebf58d051fdd7576602019bd3130ca5c00cc432715a0

SHA512: 806e0e8969c293ca8b497a786699ee306352ad6ef434552f2d23decff8a5279c7fd605e046c13f11c2f87947f5a2bdf23d78fdec6263661e68f023fd72bf4381

RIPEMD128: 9d963e5d51c9df9554fa3422da84dd27

RIPEMD160: a1e5b8f08b65dd2bb08e04d62db270ad8f4cf51a

TIGER128: 66fb4e4e4ce11cb30626aea807355f83

TIGER160: 66fb4e4e4ce11cb30626aea807355f8345f1dd79

TIGER192: 66fb4e4e4ce11cb30626aea807355f8345f1dd79dbb39488

GOST: 93774537f6ca49d4406f9d3a0316d014e1e099b34fc1cd9b968dacc870700827

The file name may be different, but as long as you got the right one you should be OK. If you have issues when copied to an SD card - verify that the file on the SD card has the correct hashes. To make it faster use CRC32. For more surety, use MD5. You can get a tool like WinMD5 to check. It's free.

So now that it's done, I'm going to set it up as a new phone and wait to see if the update comes back on. If it does, I'll get it down and upload the B351 recovery. After that I'll need to remember that I have to put back the stock recovery before running any updates. Flashify FTW.

BTW - during the initial setup after connecting to wireless it came back with the update. Pics to follow.

Files will be uploaded here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzqEmGyNP_v6aTZTZDN6bWo2ZEk

*EDIT*

So the files are uploading to the folder. The screenshot is attached. Had one issue where after the update I couldn't get back into the phone. Had to wipe/factory reset. I've used FASTBOOT BOOT TWRP.IMG to take the backups of the BOOT and RECOVERY. Hopefully one of the gurus can use that and give the IMG files. I'm going to try root and get FLASHIFY to backup the stock recovery and add to the folder.