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[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] lakini18:
Been following this guide, but when I try to update from B130 to B140, seems like I am stuck at B130?

When I get to this spot, after I flash the B140 stock Rom it just loads 130, and I still have no wifi.

I tried just continuing with this:

When I flash the H1611.B140.Stock.Rom it still shows B130

Also confused about the B140.Stock.recovery.img, as the download is a .7z file and TWRP doesn't see it when you Install /Install Image / B140.Stock.recovery.img / Recovery
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
so you just skip the part that says "And (Extract and copy to the ext_sdcard) B140.Stock.recovery.7z" ?

how are you checking if the phone is on B140 after flashing the B140 stock rom ?

Are you sure your not just flashing the B130 stock rom ?

you seem to not grasp the method at all

New Way (Flash B130 Rom -> Flash Stock B130 recovery -> Update B140 Firmware -> Flash B140 Rom -> Flash SuperSU -> Done)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] lakini18:
Thanks for your response and help :)

So I did look at the contents of this compressed file, and it looks to not be a .img file

If I extract this to my sdcard, it will create a new folder called B140.stock.recovery with 5 files inside.

I guess it is throwing me off as the B130.recovery is truly a .img file and TWRP seems to want an img file

I am checking the version by going into Settings -> About Phone -> Build Number

It is currently listed as H1611C07B130

I am thinking that this should end in B140 when the B140 ROM has been flashed, please correct me if I am wrong or if there is another way to check.

The file that I am flashing is H1611.B140.Stock.Rom, and also looking through the thread once B140 has been flashed, wifi should work again. But mine is still grayed out.

I do understand the method, and I did see the first EMUI update, just doesn't seem that I can get past B130 as from what I see it still says B130 and no wifi.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
B140 stock recovery.img > https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=164278

Have you done the dload / update.app to B140 yet ? Did it complete ? or just reboot after 5% ?

Did you boot to TWRP after the flash and Mount cust - system - data and flash the B140 stock rom ? did it complete of fail ?

Did you have to format data to mount data after the firmware flash ?

Did you flash SuperSu after flashing the Rom ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] sxu0920:
unzip B140.Stock.recovery.7z you will not get *.img file but a twrp backup folder. You can restore the recovery using twrp.

[MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION], downloaded the B140 stock recovery.img from the link, but it looks like the file size is exactly the same as B130.recovery.img. Is it supposed to be so?

I have done the dload / update.app to B140? but just reboot after 5%, what I should do to fix that?

Thanks!
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
If the dload flash does not complete it's because your B130 system is not stock. That's why the guide begins at flashing Stock B130

And yes all recovery.img are the same size regardless of version
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] sxu0920:
[MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION]

Thanks for the quick response. Some backgrounds about this phone so you can help me out.

I bought this phone from someone on CL who said it was bricked. After briefly checking I found the phone was bootloader unlocked and TWRP installed but stuck on boot screen. After flashing SuperSU I was able to start the phone normally and the found build was B130.

Then I followed what you instructed:

boot to TWRP

mount cust, system, and data

flash B130.stock.rom.fixed

format data

flash B30.recovery.img (check recovery)

flash SuperSU

reboot

dial *#*#2856579#*#*

flash update.app, but failed at 5%

Now it looks like I did not restore the phone to factory B130, what I missed?

Is it possible that the phone was really not B130 when I bought it, might be B140 or B150 but just showing B130 ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
could be your sdcard / bad download / or any number of things

try the old method by restoring the stock TWRP backup of B130 then do the dload flash
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] sxu0920:
Thanks [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION], the build is now at B140.

Fowllered the recommendation from clsA, I used the old way.

TWRP restore 2017-01-26-H1611.B130.stock.complete (all partitions)

Restore B130 cust partition

adb shell

dd if=/external_sd/OldWay.custPartition.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p23

Phone dialer > *#*#2846579#*#* to flash B130-B140 firmware

EMUI again failed at 5%, but I neglected the error and moved on.

TWRP restore B140.Stock.system.recovery.boot (system and boot, no recovery)

Restore B140 cust partition

adb shell

dd if=/external_sd/custPartitionB140.img of=/dev/block/mmcblk0p23

TWRP flash SuperSU

When rebooting, it went directly to EMUI and finished the firmware updating (took 5~10 minites)

The build is B140!

What happened? The previous owner had flashed B140 firmware already? Or some other reasons? [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION] explain to us?

[MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION], I am ready to flash B150, just want to make sure the following steps are correct for rooted B140 to B150

dial *#*#2856579#*#*

flash B140-B150 update.app

TWRP mount cust, system and data

flash H1611.B150.Stock.zip

Or, I should use the old way to do B140 to B150?

Thanks!
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Yeah follow the instructions
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] sxu0920:
I used new way, updated rooted B140 to B150

dial *#*#2856579#*#*

flash B140-B150 update.app

TWRP mount cust, system and data

flash H1611.B150.Stock.zip

[MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION] appreciate your help!
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] lakini18:
Yes, I did update.app B140 to 100%

I started over and went back through the process again. I recorded video as I made my way through. I will pm you the youtube links as it will not let me post them here yet.

Not sure what part I am doing incorrectly.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
why don't you just proceed through the guide till your at B150 ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] lakini18:
Thanks! I continued with the next step and now have B140 and wifi is working again.

The part that messed me up was:

I kept thinking I did something wrong as I could never get B140 at this point. But after the next steps it did.

I am debating on weather to continue to B150 now, or just rename the entitle folder to get Tmobile hotspot to work.

Any good reason to update to B150? Anybody figure out a way to install apps to the sdcard yet?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] Zm0DY2du:
Downgrade firmware

Is there any way to downgrade the Firmware?

On b130, could disable apps using the debloater over adb.

I borrowed an att sim and OTA'd up to b150 and now cannot disable entitle, etc for hotspot to work.

I rooted, but still cannot get any of the app disablers to work.

This phone needs to be able to run pokemon go, so either install root to debloat, then unroot, or downgrade and go back to stock with adb debloater. What options do I have?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Try setting SELinux mode to permissive using adb, then run your app disabler apk (or possibly try the debloater app again), then if the apps are successfully disabled reboot the phone and confirm apps are still disabled.

You can't downgrade, but you should be able to disable apps with root for sure even with B150.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
You can boot TWRP and use the built-in file manager and just rename the stuff you want to disable.

Mount System and look in apps and priv_app

Most of the att stuff is in cust

I'm not sure you'll be able to un root easily thought
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
u could always flash the b130 cust etc boot and all everything will still work even though u have b150 firmware i been doing it on my phone for awhile as for hotspot b150 works fine just tried it all i did was uninstall the huwei entitlement what ever apk as for stock like i said u can try a b130 stock see if that works for pokemon go i dunno dont play it
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] irritateduser24:
I followed ALL instructions EXACTLY. My phone is now in a boot loop! I was on B130, following steps in order after installing the B130 recovery image I rebooted, but was never able to get past the "your device is not trusted" screen. I rebooted, only to get to the stock recovery. Adb would not recognize my device so my only option was to restore from within the stock EMUI recovery, and now it's stuck on 99%. Each restart leads back to "Factory Reset" showing up and then counting from 1% UP TO 99% but never finishes. Feel so screwed, any help please? I cannot boot into fastboot, adb does not recognize..

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Can anyone help me?! I have no phone now, I trusted these instructions and followed them EXACTLY. I cannot get into fastboot..
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
I'll help in a bit
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] irritateduser24:
please help bootloop

Can anyone help me?! I have no phone now, I trusted these instructions and followed them EXACTLY. I cannot get into fastboot..

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Thanks, my bad im just freaking out right now, I'm not a new user I just needed to make a new account. Not quite sure what happened but I tried factory resetting from the stock recovery (EMUI) and I wiped the cached and tried to factory reset through it. It did not work and now it just keeps booting to get stuck at 99%. Wish I could force recovery somehow

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Thanks, my bad im just freaking out right now, I'm not a new user I just needed to make a new account. Not quite sure what happened but I tried factory resetting from the stock recovery (EMUI) and I wiped the cached and tried to factory reset through it. It did not work and now it just keeps booting to get stuck at 99%. Wish I could force recovery somehow. Sometimes when I restart it and try to get to Fastboot, it comes up with "Installing Update but stops at 5% after it verifies the package.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
nothing to worry about...

first remove the sdcard and plug the phone into the pc and hold volume down and power till you get to the bootloader

Next step after your in the bootloader is fastboot devices

if your drivers need fixed to get fastboot working use the minimal_adb_fastboot_v1.4.1_setup
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] irritateduser24:
I got to TWRP but it says I have no OS installed now, should I restore from backup?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
what are you trying to do exactly ?

sure restore your backup it will get your phone booting again
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
B140 recovery IMG file-- 7s? How are we supposed to install an image file that isnt

So I need the b140 stock recovery and it's upload as 7s, cant install the img file or install it as a zip (which i think might work but I don't want to try it and brick my phone yet again with this tutorial)

Wheres the img file?!!

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So how has anyone done this successfully if the img file is a 7zip? Even if i tried installing it as a zip I couldnt unless I converted it from 7s to .zip. Doesnt make any sense to me.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
what was wrong with this one ? https://www.androidfilehost.com/?w=files&flid=164278

and just so you know when you encounter a 7z file you unzip it to your pc and copy the appropriate file to your phone

in this case the 7z was from a TWRP backup

inside the folder you would find

boot.emmc.win

boot.emmc.win.md5

recovery.emmc.win

and recovery.emmc.win.md5

boot.emmc.win = boot.img

recovery.emmc.win = recovery.img

you can simply rename the file and copy it to your phone

after their on your phone you can use TWRP / Install / Install Image and choose the .img you want to flash
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
Well somehow after all this time my phone is screwed again. No wifi and after following every instruction precisely my phone wont boot after using the "magic code" to flash the firmware update for B150. Never went into the EMUI update screen and now I'm just trying to get a working firmware so I can use wifi again.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
after following every instruction you would have a working B150 phone

if you can't follow instructions you should stop messing with your phone

Sorry if this sounds rude but with over 8500 page views and only 3 or 4 users that can't seem to get it no matter what ..I'm kinda at a loss on how

I can explain it any easier
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
No offense but I'm not an idiot and I know how to follow instructions. I literally printed out the instructions and went STEP BY STEP because I don't know why it's not working. Not my first rodeo with basic TWRP functions, they're basic as hell but it's just not working for me. I'm not the only one having problems bruh.

Either way I just want a working phone with wifi. So I flashed the B130 stock rom and stock recovery again but no luck with wifi. I have searched through the forum but haven't seen any clear fix for the broken wifi. Format data did not restore wifi after reflashing B130 rom & firmware.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Then explain it

you booted to TWRP and then what
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
After flashing B140.Stock.Rom, B140.Stock.Recovery and SuperSU I rebooted.

Phone booted into setup and I continued to the dialer to enter the "Magic Code"

**I made sure the upgrade file for B150 was in the dload folder while using TWRP previously

Through the ProjectMenu I initiated the software update,

*I expected the phone to reboot to the EMUI screen but it did not.

When the phone booted it became stuck on, "booting now" (or whatever it says, the 'warning' screen that first comes up)

I was unable to enter fastboot until I connected it to my computer, and from there I just decided to flash B130 rom and recovery because I just wanted a working phone with wifi.

I still do not have wifi nor an idea of how to obtain it again.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
you can't keep going back to B130 thats your mistake

once you have b140 firmware you have to stay at b140 to have wifi

If the phone did not boot to the EMUI update screen you did something wrong

you have to be on stock b140 rom and stock b140 recovery .. thats it

and have update.app in the dload folder on your ext_sdcard
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
I understand that but even after following all steps my phone still showed/shows B130, it never changed. I went though all of them until the last EMUI update and it never went through.

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Alright so it could actually be on B140 but still show B130? I'll try flashing them again hopefully I'll have wifi again.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
I already explained this also

flashing the firmware does NOT change what the phone version reads in the about screen

Flashing the B140 stock rom is what changes it
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
Yeah I understand that HOWEVER even after flashing the rom my version never changed..
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
did the rom actually flash ? did you mount system and cust and data before flashing it ? did you have to format data before flashing it ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
Each time I had to install a rom or .img file I checked to make sure system, cust and data were mounted. I did not have to format data before flashing. All roms and images flashed successfully with no error messages. I couldn't find anything in the logs that showed what might have gone wrong. My phone is stuck on "booting now..." after my device restarted following the B140-Stock rom flash that followed the EMUI update. Only difference between this situation and earlier was that I had gotten up to the last step for B150-after a successfully installation of the update files it restarted and got stuck on the same screen.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
the phone won't boot if you don't flash superSU after each rom flash

So you have actually flashed both dload/update.app now ? and flashed B150.stock rom and superSU and the phone won't boot ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] aedelman24:
That is what happened but I restored from backup and it booted afterwards - it showed B130 then.

So today I decided to try it yet again, completely fresh format with SuperSU and TWRP

I formatted the phone and installed TWRP and SuperSU afterwards.

Then started from step one of installing stock B130 up until the B140 rom installation,

after completing the EMUI update I used fastboot to boot into TWRP,

I then installed the B140 rom, I am now stuck on the "your device cannot be trusted" screen.

***When reading through instructions, I did not realize that after each rom install I needed superSu reinstalled. I just noticed it in your comment. My apologizes,

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I cant seem to get it off on B130, did everything again with no hiccups. After B140 rom flash with SuperSU after it still shows B130...
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
ok I'll flash it again just to be sure nothing got renamed
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Well I have no idea what your flashing but everything works as it should here

see the screen shots
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
I did the new steps word for word and now my Wifi doesn't work and it shows 140b still. I don't understand what is wrong.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Your already on b140 ?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Yes, I was already on b140 before I rooted.

I did your guide word for word. Yes, I used your b140 stock recovery as well. (Just in case you was going to ask that question.

I reflashed b140 with your stock recovery and trying over again.

Wifi is still broken after flashing your H1611.B140.Stock.Rom
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Did you do the dload / update.app flash to b150?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
yes I did. Was I to put the full zip (All the files from the zip) into that folder or just the Update.app? Because I only placed the update.app.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Did it update
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Yes, it said successful reboot device.

It wouldn't boot past Device is Unlocked screen .
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Yep and that's when you flash the B150 ROM glass root and reboot and your Wi-Fi will be fine
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
I just re update about to put my phone into fastboot. Should I flash TWRP?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Sure it doesn't matter if you flash it or boot it
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Alright I'm flashing b150 right now again. Lets see what happens.

should I wipe anything after flashing b150?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
You can actually flash any of my B150 ROMs then the phone will boot and be rooted with working Wi-Fi
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Is it normal that it doesn't show the AT&T logo but the android logo?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Yes
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Just reflashed b150 now it's showing AT&T logo....
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
You are mounting the system custom at data partitions before you flash the ROMs right
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Yes, I am..

Now I'm on b150 with Wifi working...

AT&T Logo shows on boot. Is that not normal?

Also whenever I first flashed b150 I had a small 4glte logo now its the big 4g
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Yeah that's the stock ROM

Once you flashed one if my other Roms that goes away
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Alright going to try and flash your stock unrooted rom now
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
his stripped rom should be working he used my b150 stock backup with unrooted bootimage did u root ur rom after u installed
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Nope, I just installed the rom.

SuperSU Folder is still showing in TWRP.

I did a full whip (System, Data, Cache, Internal, Ect) and deleted SuperSU with TWRP (It's not flashed still have stock Recovery) and installed your Stock Unrooted Backup. I'm updating my apps right now
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
try flashing my stock b150 pokemon rom if it works then his rom should work he has the unrooted boot image thats from my rom. then reflash his stripped rom if pokemon go works. supersu will show up i think its part of twrp
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
I edited my post you quoted. Ive flashed your backup updating apps and going to download Pokemon Go and test. As I said in my other post SuperSU Folder still shows up in the file manager on TWRP. I tried to delete it than flash your backup.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
TWRP creates that folder its gone when you boot the phone
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Used your Backup and it worked. Kids are going to be very very happy that I can go play with them now. Im not really sure why cisA didn't work for me.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
wonder why ur rom is failing clsa wonder if they did something wrong urs should of worked just as well as mine did
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Rom works fine ..User Error
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
maybe we need to make a whole video guide on youtube lol
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Yeah well I'll be playing on the Pro3 and you'll be on the Kiwi soon so I hope someone steps up to help these guys
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
u care if i make a video guide for this thread and u can add it. and yea looks so much easier to make roms for xd
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Be my guest .. I told you I'm about finished here

When I got here in Feb you were all using a broken version of TWRP (no backup of cust)

you had no way to get to B150 after the phone was rooted on b130 and had virtually no Stock Roms .. I fixed all that ;)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
and i fixed for a stock b150 no root we done so much and not much appreciation xd
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
you also had the only real B130 backup and the debloating guide

This guide is an excellent example of no appreciation 9100 views and 6 thanks
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] madvane20:
yea i dunno how i got the only good backup of boot xd. after i try again for wifi on rr. if i fail im gonna make a video guide from twrp to upgrade

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i added my thank you to the post
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dabadguycr:
Well I for one am. Thank you and [MENTION=2895182]clsA[/MENTION] I have liked every post y'all have made. I got b150 and Pokemon Go back for the kiddos. Thank yall again!