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[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
That's volume up and power

You need volume down
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Looks like you are trying to go into recovery and that screen is the stock recovery. You need to do the button sequence for bootloader/fastboot mode.

Go to the original rooting instructions for button sequence if you are still having problems.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
I'm dumb. :eek:okay, fastboot detects the phone. So what should I do to get the phone operational again? Should I go into TWRP and restore the backup I made? Thanks
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
No just flash the b140 rom

I trust the dialer firmware update was ok

Being you have stock recovery
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
it says failed to mount DATA. It is greyed out in TWRP when I try to mount. When I try to restore my backup it says failed to mount. Any ideas?

just fyi: After I installed B130 stock from TWRP, It never booted back into the OS. The phone was just stuck at AT&T logo and would not boot into OS.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Sounds like you have to format the data partition.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] Marlon177:
Do this.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
Thanks for all the help by the way. I'm learning lots.

Data is mountable, should I proceed with installing the B140 stock?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Yes
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] Marlon177:
U can try. But I Restore it back to B130 first before going to B140, but I'm not expert, just an user. Lol
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Yes sense you did the firmware update

Flash b140
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
thanks, I'll try that, if it doesn't work i'll try to restore to my backup and start over.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
He flashed the b140 firmware is how he lost TWRP
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] Marlon177:
Didn't read the previous post. My bad.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
After b140 boots up you can continue to

The b150 firmware and b150 rom

The whole process from b130 to b150

Shouldn't take more than 30min
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
I actually never flashed B140 firmware, I was never able to get back into the operating system. So I never went into secret menu. but I just installed B140 and it's not booting. stuck at you device is booting. Do I need to reinstall SU in TWRP before it can boot?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
That makes no sense

How did you loose TWRP?

The b130 ROM boots fine and cannot remove TWRP
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
I got to

"In TWRP choose Mount and be sure /cust system and data are all checked (Note: you should do this with any Rom flash on this Phone)

then choose Home / Install / select storage / B130.Stock.Rom / swipe to flash

When it's done hit wipe cache / and then reboot

You now have a Stock B130 Phone choose Reboot / System"

and phone would not boot and got stuck at AT&T logo.

after that I tried to restore my TWRP backup. but it still would not boot.

right now, i'm trying to restore my backup again. Do I need to wipe before I restore? Or just restore from TWRP
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Start over

The b130.stock rom boots fine

I tested it on both my phone's
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
The only way to lose TWRP is to flash or restore the stock recovery :confused: . There should be an explanation of which was done.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Yes unless he had never flashed it

Just booted it each time
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Rooting instructions specifically say to flash it.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
First boot after B130.stock flash takes about 2 min did you wait long enough ?

if it doesn't boot go back into TWRP and Flash SuperSU
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
I would note any waiting periods like that in your OP if there's no clear indication of progress on the screen.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
no I flashed the recovery. and it was on there. I just restored back to Rooted state on B130. followed instruction again on mounting all the partitions and then installing B130 stock. Wipe Cache. and rebooted. It's stuck at AT&T logo again.

I don't know, maybe it doesn't like my phone.

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it's been well over 5 Minutes, no response. stuck at AT&T logo. I'll go back into TWRP and install SU and try to boot again.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
format data and flash supersu

I'm not sure why it's stuck
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Just so you know, there are instructions where you have to wait 20-30 minutes without any indication of progress - like installing Xposed on XT - and it is nice to be aware of that in the instructions. That's not applicable here, but just letting you know.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
yeah I'll check it again tomorrow

format data and reflash superSU should work for right now
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
thanks for the reminder, I've rooted and flash a few phones already and I'm very good at following instructions. Normally I don't even reply because everything just works, but this one indeed has been giving me some trouble. If I can't get it to go to B150 firmware. I'll just wait for a Custom firmware to come out. Appreciate the help from the both of you.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
no theirs a problem

do like I said

format data and flash supersu after the rom flash

it booted here

I'll have to check the b130 rom and upload it again .. sorry it didn't work as I intended
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
That did the trick, it booted. maybe you can add to main instructions for others. Thanks
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
do the firmware and b140 rom and let me know

if any of the roms get stuck like that always try format data and re flash supersu

but I'm pretty sure the other 2 roms boot just fine
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
Wife is hungry. Will continue after dinner and report back. Thanks.

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When I try to flash update in magic menu, the phone reboots and goes into TWRP instead of the EMUI updater. I extracted all the files into the dload folder in ext sd. Am I only suppose to have the update.app file on there?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
You need to have the stock recovery flashed in order to do this step. Yes, only the single .app file in /dload unextracted.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Go back into TWRP and restore the stock recovery only, then do step 5 again :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] datder:
Everything is running fine but when running the adb commands to enable adoptable storage, the settings show the sd card as corrupt. Anyone successfully enable adoptable storage on this device through the adb commands?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
finally, got everything to work. Got it to B150. from B140 to B150 I didn't have any problems. I guess now I am more experienced. Thanks clsA and divinebliss for the help. Really appreciate it. now to flash the B150 Cleanrom
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
If you followed the rooting process completely, the first TWRP backup you make contains the stock recovery for the B1xx version ROM installed at the time.

You should make another TWRP backup of your working B150 now before messing with Clean ROM just in case you run it problems again. :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
I updated the Guide ...sorry for the inconvenience

I had never flashed TWRP so I forgot to add flashing stock b130 recovery back to the phone

the format data and flash supersu steps are really not suppose to happen ...I'll see If I can fix that this week

And yes for sure make a backup of your clean B150 setup before trying any Roms

I hope you enjoy the CleanRom :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
Yup, already did that for both B140 stock and B150 stock. Thanks :) Tried the CleanRom, i'm a minimalist, is titanium backup the best way to remove unwanted apps?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
What are you trying to remove? Have you tried disabling it first?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
I guess I can just disable it, since the Data Storage on the user doesn't increase anyhow and that stuff is stored on the system partition. thanks, I'll just do that so I don't mess things up.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Exactly! :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] ogre177age:
one more question. Anyway to get rid of the bootloader warning when starting up phone. Just wondering because it looks unsightly, but if no easy way to do it, no worries. thanks
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Not that I've seen.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] JSquare:
I want to un-root my device which is already on B150, do I need downgrade to B130 following all the steps from 1st post or simply install H1611.B150.Stock.zip from TWRP menu?

Once un-rooted, does the boot up warning goes away?

Thanks!
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Why are you un-rooting? You could try the full un-root option from the SuperSU app. Once the bootloader is unlocked, no known way to get rid of the boot warning messages at power up.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] JSquare:
I want to sell it, already tried SuperSU app and gave me an error.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
This phone is actually worth more rooted than not.

No one has successfully relocked the bootloader so it is what it is
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] JSquare:
Thanks, I'll just keep as it's now and maybe try some custom or de-bloated ROM since the battery drains really fast on this phone, even with some apps disabled.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
I forgot about this guide, Phone rooted. Downloaded upgrade and now the phone reboots. Can i locate and delete the downloaded upgrade file in recovery to stop the boot loop?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
It should have deleted itself

Flash SuperSU and your phone will boot
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
Last time i used SR2 2.79 is it still good?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
Flashed supersu. Same thing - att software available > phone will reboot> twrp. Reboots automatically. Possible to locate and delete the update file and the file that detects upgrades?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Just use the guide and do the update
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
I prefer not t o update. Waiting for custom roms. Any way to restore the phone by disabling the update file/process in TWRP?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Not that I know of
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
Wiping seemed to work. Back to clean phone but at least i don't have to go through the update process. Don't really need 150 if custom roms are on the way. Waiting for Lineage. Do you know the name of the 140 update zip file? I want to get rid of it in case wiping in TWRP didn't.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
What makes you think a custom ROM will work better on old b130 firmware?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
ON? isn't fw update part of the stock rom and custom rom completely replaces stock? Custom may have updates integrated.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
No

Firmware is completely separate from the software (ROM)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
Also if the update is for ATT service only what good is it for unlocked rooted debloated roms? I don't understand how firmware can be different from ROM. It's not like fw runs on boot partition where recovery is installed. For all my phones i dumped stock roms and flashed CM in the past, now switching to Lineage. Nobody ever mentions firmware separately. CM either had generic security or whatever updates integrated or didn't, depending on phone model. There was never separate fw updates for CM, which i preferred and only rom i used.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Firmware includes modem images and other low level functions. The OTA updates include firmware changes as well as security updates and app updates.

Usually custom ROMs don't update low level functions, but custom ROMs do assume you start with a certain stock build/firmware revision, and I hope that would be B150 - the latest stock build version.

I hope this clarifies things.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Good example is the Honor 5x

CM13 required firmware updates or no finger sensor support
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
In the case of XT and the clean/debloated roms available, yes. For my other phones doesn't make sense to me. Unless custom rom is based on stock and installed without factory reset/ wiping stock in recovery

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Hmmm cm13 for honor5 needs fw updates which are integrated in CM13 or installed after cm13 installation? Or do you dirty install CM13 on top of the stock rom, with huawei UI and other bloat?

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When/if lineage is available for this phone, the stock rom with all the fw updates will have to be wiped? Thats clean install? No traces of old will remain?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
You are missing the point that there's more to the phone than what you install with a custom ROM. All partitions on a phone don't get wiped/reinstalled when you install a custom ROM.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
You seem to be missing the point

Firmware flashes partitions that are not software related. If you stay on the b130 firmware my CleanRom will have no wifi.

And Any ROM based on b150 will be the same..
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
Maybe. Assumed updates from google/android get integrated into custom roms for a reason and have nothing to do with stock and past updates.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Operational software/OS and firmware are two different things. Custom ROMs don't usually touch or update the firmware, but they require/assume you are on a specific version of firmware based on starting with a certain stock (rooted or not does not matter) build like B150 before you start flashing the custom ROM - and if you ignore that, your phone may not work correctly.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] eshunne:
Now I feel like the dummy. Thank goodness you guys are here.

I was on the step "In TWRP choose Mount and be sure /cust - system and data are all checked

then choose Home / Install / select storage / H1611.B140.Stock.Rom / swipe to flash" going from B130 to B140. But in TWRP it won't allow me check the data box. I press it but nothing happens.

I did the step "and go to wipe / format data / type yes / and then go to

Install / SuperSU / let it finish and reboot" before I flashed the firmware to B140 from the dialer....

UPDATE: I restored my original backup and started all over again. Now I am stuck at exactly the same place as guest_2011 below...more work to do in this I guess.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
"...the phone reboots to the EMUI update screen and flashes the firmware you put in the dload folder.

When it's done it will reboot the phone" after this step how long does it take to reboot? Phone appears to be stuck in "device booting now..." screen.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Should be 10 minutes, but wait up to 30 if necessary.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
I thought i did something wrong so i rebooted manually and now it's installing the update again. I'll wait 30 min after this.... screen showed 5% progress then phone rebooted, but 5% took a long time so i assume it went through 100%. Rebooting... 30 min...

Doesn't seem like it's going anywhere. Definitely stuck. Since i lost recovery and root wouldn't it be easier to restore stock and go through OTA to b150 with an active sim, then root or flash clean roms?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
You probably have to wipe/format the data partition. Search backwards where others had to do that. And, yeah, if it shows the

booting now... " for more than 3 minutes, it's stuck. If it's on the AT&T logo, then wait up to 30 minutes.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
I don't think i can backtrack at this point. Lost twrp. Can boot only to stock recovery. Bricked :( ...looking through the older posts to get twrp back.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Boot to the bootloader

power Plus volume down

then fastboot boot TWRP

then Flash the b140 ROM reboot and you're done

But, If the b140 firmware Flash stopped at 5% and Rebooted you did not Flash the firmware

that is why it is necessary to flash the B130 stock ROM first so the b140 firmware does not fail

go back and try and read the guide and start over
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] guest_2011:
Again it happened while i was doing 140 > 150. While rebooting phone started updating, 5% hangs a while, then finished, tried to reboot. I just continued. Finally on 150. Now to the reason why i bothered with this in first place. One of the clean debloated roms. Which one is better?
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dkbyond:
just got the unlock code, current status - carrier unlocked, not rooted, bootloader locked and on b130.

Should i root and unlock the bootloader and then proceed with the guide? or can proceed without it as it is going to get rooted at the end of the guide?

Thanks .
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
0. Why can't you OTA update to B150? Assuming you can't, then. .. .

1. Unlock the bootloader

2. Follow root instructions

3. Follow this thread guide to get to B150.

If you can OTA update to B150,

do that, then 1 and 2 only.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dkbyond:
don't have active at&t sim, checked with t-mobile sim in it, doesn't prompt for any updates. thanks so much for the quick reply.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
You can thank us by hitting the thanks button for each useful post :) .

If you can borrow an AT&T/AT&T MVNO active SIM, it's well worth it to buy your friend a beer and save from a big hassle of doing it manually. :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] dkbyond:
okies will heed to your advise. shouldn't be hard to get hold of someone. :)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
Cheap way to OTA update if you live in an AT&T SERVICE AREA and you have NOT ROOTED yet:

1. Go to Dollar General, Target, or Best Buy and buy a TracFone BYOP SIM kit for $1.

2. Activate the GSM nano SIM from 1 with $10 service plan and you will be able to OTA. Keep mobile data off and use WiFi.

https://www.tracfone.com/direct/Purchase?payGo=true&app=TRACFONE&lang=en

You guys who followed this guide feel free to comment on if you would have rather paid $13 for a month of to have OTAd to B150.

NOTE: OTA method above will only work if you are NOT ROOTED.

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You can request the bootloader unlock code, but don't unlock until you OTA update - not sure if unlocked bootloader prevents the carrier OTA update or not.
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Do all the updates and skip the guide is my recommendation
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] divineBliss:
The guide is still useful/necessary for people who rooted already. I partially used it to go from rooted B140 to rooted B150 on my 1st XT :) .
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
Thanks for reminding me ;)
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] clsA:
If you decide to go ahead with the Guide, You can skip the beginning part of restoring to stock B130

just start by dload / update.app updateing the Firmware to B140

then continue by booting TWRP and format data then flash the B140 rom and flash SuperSU

then continue to the B150 firmware update
[Huawei Ascend XT Guides, News, & Discussion] Dougmeister:
1) How do I tell if I have stock or not? My build # is H1611C07B140

2) I tried following the instructions and put the update.app in a folder named dload in the root of my ext_sdcard. When I tried to apply it as per the instructions, it said something about "file not found"...
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] S7 Edge:
Has any one been able to flash an Indian firmware on the carrier free USA variant?
[Samsung Galaxy S7 Edge Questions and Answers] Pichulec:
Nobody will try to do it as it will result bricking a phone. US S7 Edge is snapdragon, International one is exynos. THERE IS NO WAY TO DO IT.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tigat2000:
Android version: 7.1.1

LineageOS version: 14.1-20170207-NIGHTLY-m8

Need help rooting it. Can't find anything useful or that is exactly what I need.

Please help. Thank you!
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmed.ismael:
first you can flash the latest supersu.zip to root any non rooted rom

second you can follow what LOS developer said about rooting ( flash addonsu-arm-signed.zip ) from the official website

here

https://download.lineageos.org/extras
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] redpoint73:
Its already rooted. But you need to "enable" root in Settings>Developer options, just like in CM.

Although I'm confused why the Lineage website says the same; but then also gives instructions on flashing SuperSU (which isn't really necessary)?

http://www.lineageosrom.com/2016/12/how-to-enable-root-in-lineage-os-using.html
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmed.ismael:
i think the root option is totally removed from LOS based rom ( make it optional for users )

and a lot of roms now shipped non rooted some of them came with magisk as root manager with it's features
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] jeanmichel0404:
Hello

This morning, a friend installed this Custom Rom on my HTC One M8.

I just saw that I can not move an application to the micro SD.

Is this a bug in this Custom Rom?

Is there a solution to correct this?

Thank you

Jean Michel
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Leon:
This is how is it on the last few version of androids.. I don't remember if it was possible on Lollipop also ? Android 6,7 you cant move apps to sd card. There is other way to do it , "kind of" but its buggy.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] revamper:
Flash the zip then enable in developer options.
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] theobjr:
Does Lineage OS 14.1 and the nightlies on the download page apply to the verizon htc one m8 as well?
[One (M8) Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] ahmed.ismael:
Yes all m8 variants ( the regular m8 ) have one build

That's the case with all aosp roms