[Honor 8 Questions & Answers] Agatha_honor 8:
I have totally failed to rebrand my FRD-AL10 (EMUI 5, Nougat) to FRD-L19 (because I was hoping to get rid of all the apps/functions/messages in Chinese) by following the steps listed on another thread.

I did eventually manage to get it to identify as FRD-L19 but when it did boot up it had no stock keyboard only voice commands and the phone was unusable . it said it was Android 7, model FRD-L19 and build number was nrd90m test keys?

I tried to update with the latest FRD-L19 update.app by copying it into the dload and vol up+vol down +power buttons press but the update failed and since then I am stuck with the phone refusing to boot, or to boot into twrp recovery.

It hangs at the booting now orange letters screen (It says "Your device is booting now...." and nothing more happens.

If I hold vol up and power up, it hangs at "Your device is booting now...."

If I wait until it says I can press vol up for Erecovery it goes into Huawei erecovery and that tries to download latest version update by wifi, it connects to wifi but says "Getting package info failed".

If I go to reboot from erecovery it goes back to the Your device is booting now.... and stops.

I can shutdown from erecovery (but if its still plugged in it goes straight back to "Your device is booting now...")

From shutdown (and unplugged from USB) - if I hold vol up+ vol down + power it goes to EMUI Installing update then Software Install failed. The update package does not exist. Please download the package again. Reboot system now.

I don't know how to put an alternative update package into dload when I can only use fastboot mode and nothing else?

I can do that by shutting it own from erecovery shut down page and holding down volume and power up.

I assume I need to go back to stock firmware for FRD-AL10 like this one from another thread FRD-AL10_C00B135_Firmware_China_Nonspecific_Android 6.0_EMUI 4.1_05013LBP

and not version 7.0 stock rom for FLD-L19???

Anyway, I unzipped that and use Huawei extractor tool to extract Boot.img, cust.img, recovery.img and sys.img as suggested on this thread.

I can fastboot flash 3 of those but the cust.img fails to flash with "partition error"

I also tried to fastboot format user data but the command failed FAILED (remote: Command not allowed)

I don't think its possible to use the unbrick function of huawei multitool because I can't get into recovery mode?

I don't think I can get a different copy of update.app file into the dload folder internal memory and use the vol up+ vol down +power buttons because I can no longer get the phone to boot to system.

The fastboot screen says PHONE Unlocked

FRP Unlock

Would be very grateful for suggestions on what I should be doing to unbrick this, please. Sorry for being a stupid newbie.... and I honestly have been reading these threads day and night for 2 days but am still stuck!!

Thanks

Edit: is part of the answer to try to flash a different version of twrp again? So I have to put the right version of twrp.img into my adb folder and then fastboot flash recovery twrp*****.img ? Then I might be able to fastboot boot recovery ? Or if twrp works I can flash the right stock rom? (which one? given I was trying to rebrand)

Or if I could somehow get back system to boot, I could use adb push to put the correct update.app into dload on internal memory and use the vol up+ vol down +power???