yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Xperia Z3v General] leptoid:
I've seen support on other sites. It caused me to hard brick my phone. haha

The real issue is that there are posts for the Z3 as well as Custom Roms for it. Sometimes they apply to the Z3V, but nobody comes flat out and says it. I for one am not willing to brick another phone just to perform a test. Of course, I don't think that is possible because the replacement phone I received has a locked bootloader... my old one definitely unlocked. I'm pretty sure it wasn't supposed to though.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] lsvet1:
Disclaimer:

#include <std_disclaimer.h>

/*
* Your warranty is now void.
*
* We are not responsible for bricked devices, dead SD cards,
* thermonuclear war, or you getting fired because the alarm app failed. Please
* do some research if you have any concerns about features included in this TOOL
* before flashing it! YOU are choosing to make these modifications, and if
* you point the finger at us for messing up your device, we will laugh at you.
*
*/

Credits:

All the credits go to user gaguga and the people from the 4PDA. The contents of this guide are not my work - I merely translated it.

Requirements:

1. For this method to work you first need to unlock the bootloader or at least obtain the unlock code. That is explained in threads Unlock bootloader HONOR 9 and [Guide] How to get Bootloader unlock Code easily through Chinese site.

2. Owners of non-Chinese models have to disable FRP. Read about what that is and how to disable it here.

3. Enable the USB debugging mode in the Developer options.

MOD EDIT: Updated HWOTA found here thanks to [MENTION=6125914]gaguga[/MENTION]

Steps:

1. Download the file HWOTA.zip and unpack it to the root of your system. For instructions in English instead of Russian replace the hwota.sh file with this one.

2. Make a backup of all the important files since all the data will be erased during the process (consider this as a warning!).

3. Check if the USB debugging is enabled and the FRP disabled.

4. Download the three zip-archives from here if you wish to flash the EU version of ROM. Otherwise download the files of the desired region using Firmware Finder.

5. Move the downloaded files to folder "HWOTA\Update" and rename them in this way:

- update_data_full_public .zip to update_data_public .zip

- update_full _... .zip to update_all_hw .zip

- update.zip remains as is

6. Launch the file named update.bat which is located in the folder HWOTA and follow the instructions.

7. As a mode of update first choose the Rebrand option, then go to the Recovery and wipe all the data (including internal storage). If you only want to update the firmware to the newest version you can skip this step and go directly to the next one.

8. Run the batch file again and select Change the firmware option this time.

9. If you experience bootloops after flashing go to the Recovery and perform a factory reset (including wiping internal storage) then flash the firmware again.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] lsvet1:
Reserved.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] RobertHarkness:
Any idea why this keeps happening?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] lsvet1:
@RobertHarkness It seems to be an encoding problem. Check out this thread.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] RobertHarkness:
I'm still running into trouble
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] lsvet1:
Did you run it as admin?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] RobertHarkness:
Yeah, No luck.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] jerryhou85:
This looks promising... but we have to conqur language barrier first... Hope Honor 9 owner best of luck!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] RobertHarkness:
I got this to work, but back button no longer works :S
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] gaguga:
At 130 firmware does not work

For 120 works
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] RobertHarkness:
Yeah I worked it out, All is working now and my phone is running perfectly :D:D:D:D:D
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] gaguga:
it's good

Here in English

https://yadi.sk/d/-EIIGunq3LqChX
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] lsvet1:
Thank you, I updated the guide.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] gaguga:
7 point is only needed if you change China to eu

This is a file change oeminfo
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] lsvet1:
Okay, added the explanation.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] tnotb1:
it works! thx a lot!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] sitarumadalincosmin:
I have updated my L09 phone through DNS from FF

So far everything is working fine

I've seen that my battery is much improved
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Ring0h:
Nice guide. I'm just wondering, if I have the STF-AL10 model (6gb ram/64GB), could I flash to the STF-L09 firmware? From what I've seen, the European firmware is 4gb ram, so the hardware is slightly different to my Chinese 6gb variant.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] lsvet1:
You can, that's the whole point of rebranding.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] PalakMi:
One more question, does it cover every variant of honor 9?! Or there's a variant which can't be rebranded
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] yash989:
It's stuck after device enter twrp connect to USB cable.

I am already in twrp and its not going further please help me guys
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
[/COLOR]

Is this https://yadi.sk/d/Y2yuM--73Lb9Kk B120??
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] gaguga:
Hey . I picked up the instrument. Look at here .

http://4pda.ru/forum/index.php?showtopic=833645&view=findpost&p=69940847
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
How did you fix this ?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] bigcreator:
I think I had to put the file into the system root and open directly with cmd line to solve this.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] nasenbaertennis:
Have you tried to run as admin?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] TASON42:
Since HWOTA is not working properly with some regions,

I think We need oeminfo.img directly from people and need to flash it in manual.

first I tried renaming oeminfo/STF-L09C432 to STF-L09C432.bin and use ADB push command,

no luck.

renaming it to STF-L09C432.img, no luck again.

dd if=/dev/block/platform/hi_mci.0/by-name/oeminfo of=/storage/sdcard1/oeminfo.img

this command will copy your oeminfo directory to external sdcard in .img format(since internal is encrypted)

personally I need C432B120, wish you guys can help.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
Check https://xdaforums.com/honor-9/help/soft-bricked-honor-9-trying-to-root-t3737967
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] TASON42:
Super thx for the exact solsution, but I already fixed this problem. I was just too sleepy to edit the reply.

dunno why but after several retry I managed to flash oeminfo.bin manually with adb shell command.

now I'm successfully in STF-L09C432B183, from B120, passed B150.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
I fixed it by running it from my computer drive where Windows was installed, I have no clue why it fixed it.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
honor 9 stf-al00

I have a honor 9 stf-al00 (Chinese). I used the gms core to successfully install the google play store. By upgrading the mobile to android 8 the play store has stopped working and the gms core does not help ... Is there anything that can help me? Is rebrand in my case a good choice?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mopps9:
At my system the update.bat also closes immideatly after starting, running admin dosen't help and I haven't figured out how to start it from my system root folder yet.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
Try running it from a dfferent drive or maybe put in on a USB and then run it. Disable antivirus before extracting the zip maybe some auto-runs are being automatically blocked by the antivirus.:confused:
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mopps9:
Running it from a different dive dosen't help and I don't use any antivirus, apart from the build in windows one.

If I understand this correctly I need to run the hwota.sh in the android shell on the phone. Could It bee, that my phone isn't rooted yet, although the bootloader is unlocked.

Or is it, because I already have the chinese version of EUMI 8.0 installed?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
You cannot access the root path of your phone, if you don't have root access, what you are seeing in your file browser would /storage/emulated/0/ but you want to go to / and you need root for that.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
I tried to rebrand my honor 9 stf-al00 but I can not continue because it makes the following error. Please help!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
Seems like there is no recovery folder. Try moving the HWOTA folder to your desktop or redownload it:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F7fGAgaRl6tP_2cOJD2qGDHQE9dFfE2o/view
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mopps9:
I now have done a rollback adn installed twrp. If I now try to install the rebrand via twrp i get an error 9 message and the installation fails.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] angelobiz:
put HWOTA directory in root of your hard disk, have to be C:\HWOTA
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mopps9:
Found a fix for running the .bat. I launched it from a user folder with admin acess ("Default").
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
Why is this happening?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Midhon58:
You probably tried to flash a nougat TWRP on a device running Oreo. If you want to return to nougat you need to use a rollback package (it will erase your data).
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
Yes. My device is running Oreo.

I ll try it.

Thanks!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Suibian:
Perhaps the noobiest question in the thread:cowboy:but why do we need to rebrand instead of just flashing in FF?Thanks in advance!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
You don't need to rebrand to flash firmware of same brand, please check step 7 and read carefuly.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Suibian:
Thank you for the quick reply:)Sorry for my poor comprehension,but I am still unable to understand completely?

Does it means if I want to flash desired version firmware I don't have to use this?And why is it mentioned in OP "If you only want to update the firmware to the newest version you can skip this step and go directly to the next one"?Why use this method if I am just willing to update to the newest version?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
This is a guide to rebrand but it could be used to just upgrade or downgrade firmware by skipping step 7.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Suibian:
So there seems to be nothing different that I upgrade/downgrade the same model firmware via either FF or this method:D Really appreciate it!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
All I've done is to lose the navigation buttons, the flashlight and I do not know what else.

After selecting 2 rebrand from al00 to STF-L09C432, the message "can not open '/ tmp / oeminfo': No such file or directory" appears.

Then trying to install the upgrade files without success ...

I repeated the same procedure from the beginning, the previous error did not appear, but then stopped in (upload files do not press any key). I took about 10 minutes and removed the cable. The restart did not seem to change anything ...

I tried again by selecting 1 upgrade with same model, but the model that appeared was al00 again and I did not move.

Please help!

And one more question. The wipe described in step 7 is done with the TWRP, after shutting down the cell phone and pressing power + vol?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
I think there is a bug when rebranding, check the following link to solve it:

Check https://forum.xda-developers.c...onor-9-trying-to-root-t3737967

---------- Post added at 13:18 ---------- Previous post was at 13:16 ----------

https://xdaforums.com/honor-9/help/soft-bricked-honor-9-trying-to-root-t3737967
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
The second is ok.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
ok so [MENTION=8915499]mitsos1147[/MENTION] wasn't using the hwota provided at end of the OP.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
After what appears in the first picture in the mobile appeared in green "phone locked and frp lock" and does nothing.

---------- Post added at 05:31 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:28 PM ----------

and now the mobile is so...

My phone is dead...

Please help!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] kac222:
You must flash boot.img and kernel.img from Update.app.

Wysłane z mojego STF-L09 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
how can I do it;
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
Open the update.app with HuaweiUpdateExtractor and select the images you want to flash and go to fastboot

and type fastboot flash name name.img

for Example: fastboot flash recovery RECOVERY.img
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] cacun1:
Good Night!

HWOTA :

said

writing 'recovery'...

FAILED (remote: partition length get error)
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
I tried it. Not done.

In fastboot writes "phone locked frp lock".
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Mostar088:
U can use Dc Phoenix to unbrick your phone with locked FRP.

https://www.dc-unlocker.com/DC-Phoenix-flash-repair-tutorial
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lukalion:
Yes this is the only way wo recover your phone is by trying it with dc phoenix
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
I decided to use dc phoenix, but I have the following question.

According to the first picture, the model changed to STF-L09C432 or remains al00?

I ask why I have to choose the right firmware.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Mostar088:
As it says in the guide.

If flashing ended successfully, but phone still does not boot up - means you have flashed incorrect file - must use original Full Stock ROM that was in phone when it was purchased to have highest chance of repair.

U have 72h to try different Options.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] syaif fabian:
Recovery2 not complete with ramdisk kernel

Error extract image load failed

Not working dd if

Change script installation recovery flash using fastboot

Or backup recovery2 stock 64 mb

Working extract image dd if=/dev
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] long144000:
No need of dc phoenix DC Phoenix

No need of dc phoenix

DC Phoenix is a paid service

I have method to solve your problem
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
Please share
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Jack$:
Hi guys,

I'm trying to rebrand my honor 9 with oreo installed (sadly it's in bootloop, I can access only at fastboot and recovery...)

It this method works with Oreo? Because when batch try to install the recovery it says "partition too large"

I'm also tried to comment this step (with TWRP for Oreo installed) but not working, batch wait infinitely

Has someone some suggestion?

Thanks in advance,

Jack
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mutahharbashir:
Install oreo again,

Then rollback to Nougat*

Then rebrand
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
Eventually my problem was solved!

I was not able to achieve anything by myself.

I asked for help at

http://ministryofsolutions.com/

and everything is all right. My phone is now rebrandet.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
It seems this paid service use teamviewer ; Did you look what was done during the repair ?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] mitsos1147:
Yes through team viewer.

The money I paid is very little for such a service.

The process was complicated for me. He used a variety of tools and I can not describe them safely.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] angelobiz:
someone can update the HWOTA method to rolloback to b321 from other version of oreo? whit b321 you can have again button and flash,

not easy every time rollback to nougat b120 from oreo...
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] kac222:
Here is solution:

https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=75084955&postcount=17

Use update 8 to 8.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] angelobiz:
not woek for me,,, if i flash this twrp recovery.... i cannot use it, because touch no work in twrp on my phone :(

but i will try again-----

i have repach b120.... but whene i try to upgrade, recovert stock say that file isnt good.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] kac222:
You must reboot phone and touch will be working.

Wysłane z mojego STF-L09 przy użyciu Tapatalka
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] paulopcf:
This method work for me.

I got my buttons and flash back.

Thank you for your help.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] angelobiz:
from which version of oreo you started and which version yuou finidh?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Dervisk:
Sorry if this question already has been answered in the thread but does this procedure effectively turn a Honor 9 AL00 / AL10 / TL10 into a L09 model ? I suppose this is a prerequisite for flashing any custom ROMs in the future.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] angelobiz:
thanks to Gaguga!

new version of HWOTA, now for 7 and 8 and so many new function

i have traslate from russian.... but be carefull to use it ... my translate can be bad.

https://mega.nz/#F!MoUgVTyZ!ylR893J9QI0BOZwd3-JtWg
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] paulopcf:
OK, i now have firmware B36a rooted and with working touch keys and flash light.

This is how I did it:

1- I followed the HWOTA8 instructions (oreo 8 to 8) and downgraded to B321

2- Rebooted to system. The touch keys and flaslight were working now. Turned phone off and rebooted into fastboot.

3- Installed Twrp. Went into Twrp and on the first screen, I chose "keep read only".

4- Installed SR5-2.82-supersu_ramdisk.zip. Rebooted into system. Buttons and flaslight still working and got root.

5- Rebooted into fastboot and installed Recovery No_check. Rebooted into system and still had root, keys and flashlight working.

6- Used Firmware Finder with proxy to install firmware B360a.

7- After installing B360, lost root but keys and flashlight still worked.

8- Went into fastboot and installed Twrp again.

9- Rebooted into Twrp. On the first screen, I chose "keep read only". Installed SR5-2.82-supersu_ramdisk.zip again.

10- Rebooted into system and everything was working including root.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] angelobiz:
very good!!! thanks.... now a last question....

which TWRP you used? :))))))
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] paulopcf:
I used the one included in the HWOTA8 folder.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] erimin5:
where did u guys download all the 3 files?

i went to FF and can only managaed to download 2 ?? i am missing the update_data_full_public.zip.

pls help!
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Midhon58:
You probably chose a rollback package. These only contain two files. Just choose another firmware.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Lef.Mykonos:
Thanks

Thanks man
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] pasha321:
Hello. I was looking for firmware for my Huawei Honor 9 and did not see any firmware for the American region. I saw the European, Asian, Russian, eastern regions, but I did not see the American. Here's my question: when you buy Huawei in a store (not in an online store) what region does your firmware have?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
[MENTION=9000213]pasha321[/MENTION] what's your honor 9 region ? STF-XXXCYYYBZZZ

XXX=L09, AL00, AL10, AL20, TL10 or L09S ?

YYY= ?

ZZZ= ?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] pasha321:
STF-L09 but it does not matter. I'm just interested. I read the news about the Huawei company and the US government policy, about espionage from China, plus I have never seen information about the firmware with the American region, and on this I ask this question. I have everything right with my Huawei

---------- Post added at 06:03 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:59 PM ----------

are you from the USA? what is your region? I mean Europe, China, East, etc.
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
So do I, I didn't saw any canadian or US firmware for honor9. There no honor9 on US huawei/honor site but there is a canadian honor9 site.

So i wonder what their region will be, maybe C900 as 'global'.

---------- Post added at 18:20 ---------- Previous post was at 18:13 ----------

C00 rebranded to C432 for now
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Mostar088:
There is a Firmware for US Version but not yet realesed for US, it's STF-L14.

When and if they realese it im not sure?

https://xdaforums.com/honor-9/how-to/honor-9-stf-l14-model-t3709084
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Laur_0309:
syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator ; System 5.1.0.78(0T8C)

Hello.

I am trying to change my Honor 9 from AL00 to L09432.

Managed to do rebrand part, then, when i try to do change firmware, i get this :

* Update ZIP Source: *

* 1. SDCard HWOTA directory *

* 2. Script update directory *

****************************************

Select: 2

****************************************

* Update Type: *

* 1. Same brand update *

* 2. Rebrand *

****************************************

Select: 1

****************************************

* Model: STF *

C:\Users\Admin\Desktop\HWOTA\/hwota.sh: line 126: 5.1.0.78(0T8C): syntax error: invalid arithmetic operator (error token is ".1.0.78(0T8C)")

* *

* Source: SDCard HWOTA directory *

* Update: Same brand update *

****************************************

Press ENTER key to continue...

Please wait for upload files and do not press any key.

Copy update.zip file, please be patient and wait....

[ 46%] /data/update/HWOTA/update.zip

The process goes on, installation complete, but model number is still STF-AL00 and Build number is System 5.1.0.78(0T8C).

I have working buttons, i can see google play and it works... But it seems stuff is missing.

I am trying to flash B183.

I tried to factory reset and do the upgrade again... many times, with same result.

Any hints ?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
As your rebrand 'kind of' started to worked :

Did you try to flashed full service repair nougat firmware C432B130 with an usb-otg or sdcard EXFAT formated ? (3 times in firmware mode aka 3-buttons modes with service repair updates.app)
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Laur_0309:
Hello.

I did the full repair guide, everything went OK, but i'm still stuck with model number STF-AL00 and Build number System 5.1.0.78(0T8C).

Any idea how to get rid of that ?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
About your service repair flash, did you flash big update.app, then little update.app then big uodate.app again ?
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Laur_0309:
Yes, i did that, with factory reset between small app and second big app .
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] oslo83:
So do this:

https://xdaforums.com/honor-9/how-to/guide-honor-9-t3653719/post75240744#post75240744

And/or try with translated updated tool:

https://xdaforums.com/honor-9/how-to/guide-honor-9-t3653719/post75662105#post75662105
[Honor 9  Guides, News, & Discussion] Laur_0309:
I did the build.prop thing, but as far as i can see, that only modifies the way that build is shown, right ? does not help me ( or at least i did not find a way to help me, after i modified the line ).

ATM i am downlaoding the full repair for AL00 model... because it seems that even though i have google play and stuff like that , model number is still STF-AL00 ... I think i tried everything in this guide, i just can't find a fix for Build number : System 5.1.0.78 ( besides that build.prop thing )

---------- Post added at 10:24 AM ---------- Previous post was at 10:11 AM ----------

And BTW, i dont have the blue loading screen, i have Google and then android, on black background loading screen ... Does that ring any bells ?